Editor—The systematic review of Ramsay et al makes a valuable contribution to the debate on whether to screen for domestic violence.1 This debate also needs to consider some of the wider cultural issues influencing the acceptability of the existence of domestic violence in society.

The taboo of recognising, acknowledging, and bringing into the open issues surrounding domestic violence has led to resistance by the health profession in dealing with what is increasingly becoming understood as an important influence on the health of women.2–5 Domestic violence is not unique: the recent history of the denial of the existence of child sexual abuse has undergone a major societal and cultural shift in the past 20 years, resulting in a heightening of awareness and recognition by health professionals and society at large.

A similar cultural shift is starting to take place in attitudes towards domestic violence—for example, with its inclusion within the community safety plans of local authorities. Although clear needs exist for research in determining the effectiveness of interventions for the prevention of domestic violence, part of the resistance towards screening for domestic violence seems to be related to negative attitudes held by health professionals.

To address this, more work needs to be done in assessing the training needs of health professionals in relation to domestic violence. Furthermore, the approach to dealing with domestic violence in the health sector may benefit from creating an environment whereby health professionals are seen not to support the use of violence as a means to deal with interpersonal conflict in any setting. A stronger emphasis needs to be placed on becoming a part of the cultural shift towards non-tolerance of violence in relationships in a similar way that health professionals have been able to contribute to the prevention of child abuse.


A Flavobacterium sp. isolated from soil and grown in media containing 4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) butyric acid (4-(2,4-DB)) metabolized 2,4-dichloro-phenol and 4-chlorocatechol without a preliminary period of induction. The initial oxidation of 4-(2,4-DB) was rapid, but the rate declined to a value equivalent to that observed for butyric and crotonic acid oxidation. The bacterium produced 2,4-dichlorophenol, 4-chlorocatechol and butyric and crotonic acids when grown in the presence of 4-(2,4-DB). It is proposed that the initial step in 4-(2,4-DB) oxidation involves a cleavage of the ether linkage rather than β-oxidation of the aliphatic moiety.


This paper concerns the reception of the new logic and logicism of Frege and Russell among the German Neo-Kantian philosophers of the Marburg school. Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer both object to Frege's and Russell's conception of the ground, nature, and demarcation of logic. This objection depends on the distinctive Marburg school philosophy of logic, first articulated by Hermann Cohen: that formal logic (in Kant's sense) depends on a logical investigation of the principles that make mathematical natural science possible. Nevertheless, Cassirer thought that the new logic had profound philosophical implications. First, the new logic provides a technical vindication of some Neo-Kantian theses concerning space and time and mathematical proofs. Second, Cassirer thinks that the new logic allows for a conception of mathematics as the study of relational structures. This conception, in concert with a Kantian notion of objectivity and objecthood, makes possible a justification of modern mathematics.


Examples of foodborne outbreaks traced to fresh fruits and vegetables can be found worldwide. The quantity of produce eaten per capita has been increasing steadily over the past two decades, creating a heightened potential for produce-related foodborne disease. A number of outbreaks identified during this time period were reviewed, with particular emphasis placed on incidents that have occurred in Canada. The collective information highlights the diversity of infectious agents and produce items involved, with a view to the prevention of fresh produce-related foodborne disease in the future.


Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the decisions of judges and that psychological, political, and social factors influence judicial rulings. We test the common caricature of realism that justice is "what the judge ate for breakfast" in sequential parole decisions made by experienced judges. We record the judges' two daily food breaks, which result in segmenting the deliberations of the day into three distinct "decision sessions." We find that the percentage of favorable rulings drops gradually from ≈65% to nearly zero within each decision session and returns abruptly to ≈65% after a break. Our findings suggest that judicial rulings can be swayed by extraneous variables that should have no bearing on legal decisions.


BACKGROUND
There have been reports for over a decade linking serotonin reuptake inhibitors, finasteride and isotretinoin with enduring sexual dysfunction after treatment stops.

OBJECTIVE
To explore the clinical pictures linked to all 3 drugs.

METHODS
We have selected 120 reports to RxISK.org reporting the problem and mined these for data on age, gender, drug of use, and impact of the problem.

RESULTS
The data make it clear that the three drugs show extensive overlap in symptom profile, regardless of sex or country of origin.

CONCLUSIONS
The availability of 120 reports from over 20 countries add to the case for the validity of the syndrome. This is severe and enduring condition can result in death. An understanding of its physiology and an approach to treatment are needed.


Photoexcitations and photoisomerizations due to low-lying n pi* and pi pi* excited states of dimethylpyridines are investigated by density functional theory, CASSCF, CASPT2 and MRCI methodologies. Mechanistic details for the formation of Dewar dimethylpyridines and the interconversions of dimethylpyridines are rationalized through the characterization of minima and transition states on the singlet and triplet potential energy surfaces of relevant intermediates. Our present theoretical schemes suggest that Mobius dimethylpyridine intermediate 14 and azabenzvalene intermediate 10 can serve as possible precursors to Dewar dimethylpyridines and singlet phototransposition products, respectively. The calculations suggest that an S1(pi pi*)/S0 conical intersection in dimethylpyridines 2 is involved in the formation of 14. An azabenzvalene 10 might be formed through S2(pi pi*)/S1(n pi*) interaction followed by an S1/S0 decay in dimethylpyridine 6. Calculated barriers of isomerizations from 14 to Dewar dimethylpyridine 7 and from 10 to 4 are 8.4 and 28.5 kcal mol(-1) at the B3LYP/6-311 G** level, respectively. In the suggested triplet multistage transposition mechanism, an out-of-plane distorted geometry 19 due to vibrational relaxation of the T1(3B1) excited state of 3,5-dimethylpyridine 6 is a precursor of the interconversion of 6 to 2.4-dimethylpyridine 4. The formation of a triplet azaprefulvene 21 with a barrier of 20.7 kcal mol(-1) is a key step during the triplet migration process leading to another out-of-plane distorted structure 27. Subsequent rearomatization of 27 completes the interconversion of 6 with 4. Present calculations provide some insight into the photochemistry of dimethylpyridines at 254 nm.


ABSTRACT Controlled release of corticosteroids may lead to higher bioavailability of the drugs and a dosage control. Here, we investigate the suitability of the framework MIL-101 (Cr) as a drug carrier for a controlled release of five corticosteroids with different therapeutic potencies, namely Desoximethasone and Clobetasol Propionate (strong), Methylprednisolone and Triamcinolone Acetonide (medium), Hydrocortisone Valerate (weak). First, we employ Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations and calculate the storage capacity of the host to be around 1000 mg drug/g MIL-101 (Cr). Then, Canonical MC simulations are performed, which cover different drug loading amounts from high (400 mg/g) to low (50 mg/g). Results suggest a multi-step drug release trend controlled by the interplay between drug–drug and drug-framework interactions at the atomistic level. Then, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations for 50 mg/g loading are used to monitor the evolution of the interactions between the drug molecules and the framework. All results indicate that MIL-101 (Cr) is a highly promising corticosteroid carrier that may also prevent unintentional misuse by patients.


Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted considerable attention and are regarded as a promising alternative for the conversion of solar energy to electricity. Electron acceptor materials are one of the key components of OSCs. During the past decade, acceptor materials for OSCs have made important progress. Fullerenes and their derivatives are the traditional choices and the most successful acceptor materials to date, while new acceptors, such as fused-ring electron acceptors, have become a new hotspot in research on OSCs. This chapter introduces and illustrates the history, development and latest progress of acceptor materials in vacuum-deposited and solution-processed OSCs.


Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly important to monitor the mutations that arise in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, to prepare public health strategies and guide the further development of vaccines and therapeutics. The spike (S) protein and the proteins comprising the RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase (RdRP) are key vaccine and drug targets, respectively, making mutation surveillance of these proteins of great importance. Full protein sequences for the spike proteins and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase proteins were downloaded from the GISAID database, aligned, and the variants identified. Polymorphisms in the protein sequence were investigated at the protein structural level and examined longitudinally in order to identify sequence and strain variants that are emerging over time. Our analysis revealed a group of variants in the spike protein and the polymerase complex that appeared in August, and account for around five percent of the genomes analyzed up to the last week of October. A structural analysis also facilitated investigation of several unique variants in the receptor binding domain and the N-terminal domain of the spike protein, with high-frequency mutations occurring more commonly in these regions. The identification of new variants emphasizes the need for further study on the effects of these mutations and the implications of their increased prevalence, particularly as these mutations may impact vaccine or therapeutic efficacy.


Between 1980-1985, 177 fine-needle aspirations were performed on 139 patients suspected of having recurrent gynecologic malignancy. Suspected sites of recurrence included a pelvic mass (122), peripheral lymph node (39), and a variety of other locations (16). There were 69 positives, 79 negatives, eight suspicious specimens, and 21 specimens inadequate for interpretation. Excluding suspicious or inadequate specimens, the results of the remaining 148 evaluable aspirations were confirmed by histopathologic correlation (35) or subsequent clinical course (113). Because there were no false positives, the specificity of the technique was 100%. The sensitivity was 68%, with an associated false-negative rate of 32%. The predictive value of a positive was 100%; that of a negative was 57%. An analysis of the false-negative results failed to show a correlation with cell type, lesion location, previous radiotherapy, or previous chemotherapy. The complication rate was less than 1%. These data support the conclusion that fine-needle aspiration cytology is a safe, highly specific method for diagnosing recurrent gynecologic malignancy. However, in patients with negative fine-needle aspiration cytology and suspected recurrent disease, it would appear that further evaluation is indicated.


Ubiquitous business processes are the new generation of processes that pervade the physical space and interact with their environments using a minimum of human involvement. Although they are now widely deployed in the industry, their deployment is still ad hoc. They are implemented after an arbitrary modeling phase or no modeling phase at all. The absence of a solid modeling phase backing up the implementation generates many loopholes that are stressed in the literature. Here, we tackle the issue of modeling ubiquitous business processes. We propose patterns to represent the recent ubiquitous computing features. These patterns are the outcome of an analysis we conducted in the field of human–computer interaction to examine how the features are actually deployed. The patterns' understandability, ease-of-use, usefulness, and completeness are examined via a user experiment. The results indicate that these four indexes are on the positive track. Hence, the patterns may be the backbone of ubiquitous business process modeling in industrial applications.


Structured optimization problems are ubiquitous in fields like data science and engineering. The goal in structured optimization is using a prescribed set of points, called atoms, to build up a solution that minimizes or maximizes a given function. In the present paper, we want to minimize a black-box function over the convex hull of a given set of atoms, a problem that can be used to model a number of real-world applications. We focus on problems whose solutions are sparse, i.e., solutions that can be obtained as a proper convex combination of just a few atoms in the set, and propose a suitable derivative-free inner approximation approach that nicely exploits the structure of the given problem. This enables us to properly handle the dimensionality issues usually connected with derivative-free algorithms, thus getting a method that scales well in terms of both the dimension of the problem and the number of atoms. We analyze global convergence to stationary points. Moreover, we show that, under suitable assumptions, the proposed algorithm identifies a specific subset of atoms with zero weight in the final solution after finitely many iterations. Finally, we report numerical results showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.


A simple, sensitive chiral liquid chromatographic method was developed for the separation and quantification of enantiomers Midodrine. A chiral PAK IG-3 (150 x 4.6 mm) 3µm column was used for the separation of the enantiomers. The mobile phase consists of 10 mM ammonium bicarbonate in water and acetonitrile in the ratio of 95:5, v/v with a flow rate of 0.7 ml/min. The detection was done at 290 nm with column temperature maintained at 40°C. The method linear ranged between 10 – 110 μg/ml and 5 – 100 μg/ml for (+) and (-) Midodrine enantiomers.  The recovery of the method was found to be in the range of 99.1 to 101.2 %. The detection limit for the (+) and (-) enantiomers was found to be 4 μg/ml and 1 μg/ml, respectively. A simple validated chiral HPLC method with reverse elusion is described for the separation and quantification of the enantiomers of Midodrine in bulk and formulation.


Conformance checking (CC) techniques of the process mining field gauge the conformance of the events constituting a case with respect to a business process model. Online conformance checking (OCC) techniques assess such conformance on streaming events. The realistic assumption of having a finite memory for storing the streaming events has largely not been considered by the OCC techniques. We propose a novel approach to reduce the memory consumption in prefix-alignment-based OCC techniques that ensures at the same time a minimal compromise in the conformance estimation quality. In alignment-based CC, states are used to reflect the results of the intermediate alignment steps. Our proposed approach bounds the number of maximum states in a prefix-alignment to be retained by any case in memory. It forgets the states in excess to the defined limit and retains its meaningful summary. Computing prefix-alignments in the future is then resumed for such cases from the current position contained in this summary. We highlight the superiority of our proposed approach compared to a state of the art OCC prefix-alignment-based approach with an infinite memory through experiments using real-life event data under a streaming setting. Our approach substantially reduces memory consumption while introducing at times a minor accuracy drop.


We present a microgenetic analysis of the gestures that children produce as they talk about a balance task. Children gesture spontaneously on this task and here their hand gestures are considered in relation to the accompanying speech. By close examination of 21 children's single sessions, and the 163 iconic gestures they produced (a mean of 7.6 gestures per child), it was found that gestures are rarely produced without speech. However, one third of the gestures the children produced conveyed different information to that expressed in their spoken explanations. Furthermore, children were found to convey information uniquely in gesture by expressing ideas in the manual modality that did not appear in their spoken explanations. Finally, in many cases children expressed an idea in gesture before they talked about it. These data suggest that gestures are integrally linked to the child's thinking and are an important and illuminating means of externalising cognition.


Familial resemblance was examined for each of the principal components arising from an analysis of six skinfolds (triceps, biceps, subscapular, abdominal, suprailiac, and medial calf) measured in 1,237 participants of the Québec Family Study. Most of the phenotypic variance among the skinfolds (83%) was accounted for by the first two principal components. Examination of the skinfold loadings on each principal component, as well as intraindividual cross‐trait correlations with other body composition and fat pattern measures (body mass index; total fat mass and fat‐free mass estimated from body density obtained through underwater weighing; the sum of six skinfolds; and the ratio of trunk to extremity skinfolds) support the interpretation of the first component as a general measure of adiposity and the second component as a trunk‐extremity contrast. Parent‐child and sibling correlations for each of the two principal components indicate that familial effects reach 46% (general) and 52% (trunk‐extremity). Although the eigenvalues for the remaining four principal components (accounting for 17% of the variance) are <1.0, it is noteworthy that each exhibits significant familial resemblance (31–60%). Further, the intraindividual correlations for the additional four components with the other body size indicators are quite low, suggesting that they capture somewhat different aspects of relative fat distribution. © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


When developing new types of materials with special properties for the automotive industry, steels with high content of manganese (up to 25 wt. % Mn) were studied. These steels embody increased failure resistance, high level of deformation hardening, plastic response and high value of energy absorption in crash situations [1,2]. The aim of our work was to study an interaction of a FeMn alloy with pure iron from the view of diffusion processes. For that purpose, diffusion joints Fe/FeMn-steel were created and long-term heated at the temperatures of 800, 900 and 1050 °C. Dependences of diffusivities of Mn on its concentration were calculated from concentration profiles of manganese after diffusion heating applying three analytical methods. In the first method, constant values of diffusivities Di, i = 1,2 for both Fe and steel were taken into account. In the second case a modified Matano-Boltzmann method utilizing polynomials was applied, which simplifies solution in numerous cases. The third method performs the solution of the non-linear equation of diffusion on the assumption of a linear dependence of diffusivity on concentration applying a procedure based on perturbation calculus. The results of the solution will be graphically documented in details together with the description of experiments.


In this paper a new class of simplified low-cost analog artificial neural networks with on chip adaptive learning algorithms are proposed for solving linear systems of algebraic equations in real time. The proposed learning algorithms for linear least squares (LS), total least squares (TLS) and data least squares (DLS) problems can be considered as modifications and extensions of well known algorithms: the row-action projection-Kaczmarz algorithm and/or the LMS (Adaline) Widrow-Hoff algorithms. The algorithms can be applied to any problem which can be formulated as a linear regression problem. The correctness and high performance of the proposed neural networks are illustrated by extensive computer simulation results.


During my first weeks as a graduate student in economics, a professor described the Coase Theorem as "nearly a tautology:" Assume a world in which bargaining is costless. If there are gains from trade, the Theorem tells us, the parties will trade. The initial assignment of property rights will not affect the final allocation because the parties will bargain (costlessly) to an efficient outcome. "How can that be a theorem?," I remember thinking at the time.


The present study attempted to confirm the validity of the Foreign Language Grammatical Carefulness Scale (FLGCS) developed by Kusanagi et al. (in press). According to Kusanagi et al. (in press), Grammatical Carefulness (GC) is defined as a personal trait reflecting learners' behavioral and psychological aspects of language use, and it consists of three subscales: phonological carefulness, lexical-syntactic carefulness, and pragmatic carefulness. Although the initial validation concerning factorial, content, and criterion-based validity has been done, the criterion-based validation did not take into account the correlation between the performance focusing on the specific aspects of language use and each subscale under the GCS. In order to examine the validity of the subscales of GCS, this study applied two types of task: a discourse completion task (DCT) and a reading and underlining task (RUT), which are considered to measure pragmatic and lexical-syntactic aspects of learners' performance respectively. It was found that the two subscales (lexical-syntactic and pragmatic) and the scores of the two tasks were weakly correlated, which means that this study found additional evidence showing the validity of FLGCS.


The effects of neutron-irradiation near 80°C on the deformation behavior of hexagonal close packed (hcp) materials, zirconium and zircalloy-4, were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Particular emphasis is placed on the deformation microstructure responsible for the changes in mechanical behavior. Neutron irradiation at low temperature up to 1 dpa induced a high number density of defect clusters, which resulted in irradiation-induced hardening. Dislocation channel deformation is observed for doses greater than 0.1 dpa, and is coincident with prompt plastic instability at yield. TEM analysis suggests that the loss of work hardening capacity in irradiated zirconium and zircaloy-4 at higher doses is mainly due to dislocation channels that are formed under a high local resolved shear stress, leading to the observed localized deformation.


It is well known that the low-energy sector of quantum spin liquids and other magnetically disordered systems is governed by short-ranged resonating-valence bonds. Here we show that the standard minimal truncation to the nearest-neighbor valence-bond basis fails completely even for systems where it should work the most, according to received wisdom. This paradigm shift is demonstrated for the quantum spin-1/2 square kagome, where strong geometric frustration, similar to the kagome, prevents magnetic ordering down to zero temperature. The shortest tunneling events bear the strongest longer-range singlet fluctuations, leading to amplitudes that do not drop exponentially with the length of the loop L, and to an unexpected loop-six valence-bond crystal, which is otherwise very high in energy at the minimal truncation level. The low-energy effective description gives in addition a clear example of correlated loop processes that depend not only on the type of the loop but also on its lattice embedding, a direct manifestation of the long-range nature of the virtual singlets.


We have investigated the variation of the optical absorption induced by pulsed (dose rate >108 rad/s) and continuous (<50 rad/s) gamma-ray exposures in pure-silica-core optical fibers. Tested multimode waveguides, designed with well-defined concentrations of hydroxyl groups and chlorine impurity, are possible candidates for integration in the plasma diagnostics of LMJ and ITER facilities. We evaluated their radiation-tolerance to low dose levels (<5times10 4 rad) in the visible and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. We measure the time dependent changes (10-9-10-1 s) of the radiation-induced attenuation (RIA) at fixed wavelengths and we complete these measurements with a spectral (450-1100 nm) analysis of these losses in the time range from 10-2 to 103 s. We compared the responses obtained under transient exposures with measurements done at same dose levels (5times103 rad) with lower dose rate (<102 rad/s). We showed that the radiation-induced changes are strongly dose rate dependent for this kind of optical fibers. Depending on the hydroxyl group concentration in the silica-glass, different point defects are shown to alter the fiber transmission after both irradiation types. The self-trapped holes play a particular role in the transient responses of optical fibers whereas non-bridging oxygen hole centers are mainly responsible for gamma-ray radiation-induced losses. The consequences of these different behaviors for the integration of optical fibers in the LMJ are discussed


This is a thesis presents a differential gear which is found in a tracked vehicle called BvS10. The tracked vehicle is manufactured by BAE Systems Hagglunds AB in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. The differential gear has a bolted house. The differential meets the requirement specifications, but the problem is that the bolts are sheared off because of the extreme torque that the differential is exposed to resist.Previous report on the differential show pictures of bolts which have been sheared off at the threads. This report is also includes three lists that explain seven different proposals which some are approved and some are not, and the report also presents the force, tensile, and shear stress.In a bolted connection there is both axial tension stress and radial shear stress, which can lead to wear out and broken bolts. To solve the problem, better bolts are need for the differential gear housing halves. The bolts are from M8 to M10 and all bolts are not directly compatible, so geometric modifications might have to be done. This reports proposes several solutions to this complex problem and also analyzes the proposed solutions.The report also describes various theories from a technical and a historical point of view. Two flow charts have been created to show the work towards the presented solution. Although the analysis to welded joints and wedge joints have been included in the proposed solution.The report propose a tight-fit bolt with a tolerance specially made for the differential gear, so the shear stress occurs at the non-threaded part of the bolt. The tight-fitted bolt is recommended to be M8 12.9 UNB because of it's safety factor. Larger bolts may not directly fit in the differential housing halves due to there is no enough material.


Many measures have been taken to counter recidivism into gang criminality, amongst other the efforts to prevent arrested gang members to return to their gangs after imprisonment. Whereas the conditions for successful intervention may be hard to unravel, this article will claim that some efforts may be destined to failure by default, because they do not adequately address issues of social identity as a central part of the problem, e.g. replacing one identity with another when leaving one community to establish a meaningful life in another. This article presents some views on social identity from the standpoint of pragmatism and demonstrates how their application on recidivism into gang-related crime reveals problematic issues for social work. To that end, this article takes departure in outlaw-biker communities as illustrative example and make use of two interviews with former presidents of a well-known club.


Latinas recently immigrated to the United States who work in bars or cantinas are at risk of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) due to the heavy drinking and sex-related expectations associated with their work and the stigmatized nature of their occupation. We explored the influence of demographic characteristics, substance abuse, and sexual risk behaviors on IPV reported by cantineras for primary and nonprimary sexual partners. Results based on interviews conducted with 669 cantineras indicate that length of residency in the United States and current sexual practices predict IPV perpetrated by both their primary and nonprimary sexual partners. There were also partner-specific predictors of violence related to the substance use and working practices of cantineras. Our findings have implications for understanding the partner violence experienced by this subgroup of stigmatized Latina immigrants and for the ability of current IPV research to capture their experience.


Hyperspectral imaging is crucial for a variety of land-cover mapping and analyzing tasks. The available large number of reflected light measurements along a wide range of wavelengths allows for distinguishing between different materials under various conditions. Though, several effects bear an undesired variability within hyperspectral images and increase the complexity of interpreting such data. Two of the most significant effects in this regard are the BRDF and the spectral mixture. Due to the first, the acquisitions geometrical and viewing conditions influences the measured spectral signature of a surface to a large extent. On the other hand, because of the typical low spatial resolution of remotely sensed images, each pixel can contain more than one material. Despite much research addressing either the BRDF effect and ways to correct it or the spectral unmixing, too few works considered these two effects' mutual influence. In this work, we study the BRDF of mixed pixels and present preliminary insights of testing a strategy to correct its undesired impact on the data by incorporating the EMs fractions within an unmixing-based semi-empirical correction model. Experimental results using real laboratory data acquired under controlled conditions clearly show the significant improvement of the corrected reflectance results through the proposed model.


In order to calculate the fracture parameters (Stress intensity factor) in a complicated 3- dimention aircraft model with damage in the aircraft panel, a new two steps global-local hierarchical analysis strategy is used. This paper primarily describes the development and application of advanced computational analysis techniques to determine stress intensity factors for the damaged panels based on the two steps hierarchical analysis strategy from global to 3-D local model, the bulging deformation of crack can be considered in the local model. A fracture parameter calculation programme based on automated global-local procedure to simulate cracked aircraft panel tests is developed for the hierarchical strategy. This programme may create models of two stages, transfer boundary conditions, calculate and obtain fracture parameter automatically. Finally, this paper presents some of the experimental data and the calculated fracture parameters are compared with the experimental results.


A key component of evolutionary models in economics and organizational research, the notion of organizational selection is rarely the object of inquiry. It generally suggests instead a neutral and unquestioned process, a mechanism explaining organizational success and survival. In this chapter, we explore the variation of selection; we problematize the notion of selection and do an exercise in conceptual genealogy. We differentiate between three patterns of firm selection: Darwinian, strategic, and institutional and define the associated ?embedded rationalities? that buttress those different selection patterns. We illustrate how selection differed and evolved through time by exploring two empirical cases ? France and the United States. Building upon our empirical exploration, we stress some important contributions for three theories familiar to strategy scholars ? resource-based view, population ecology, and institutional theory. We also point to some consequences for empirical research and suggest new directions for future work on the dynamics of organizational action.


Ethanol is a polar organic solvent, and frequently used as a fuel in automobile industries, principally as an additive with gasoline due to its higher octane rating. It is generally produced from biomass such as corn, sugar and some other agriculture products. In the present study, impact of biofield treatment on ethanol was evaluated with respect to its atomic and thermal properties. The ethanol sample was divided into two parts i.e., control and treatment. Control part was remained untreated. Treatment part was subjected to Mr. Trivedi's biofield treatment. Control and treated samples were characterized using Gas chromatography-mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). GC-MS data revealed that isotopic abundance of 13C i.e., δ13C of treated ethanol was significantly changed from -199‰ upto 155‰ as compared to control. The DSC data exhibited that the latent heat of vaporization of treated ethanol was increased by 94.24% as compared to control, while no significant change was found in boiling point. Besides, HPLC data showed that retention time was 2.65 minutes in control, was increased to 2.76 minutes in treated ethanol sample. Thus, overall data suggest that biofield treatment has altered the atomic and thermal properties of ethanol.


Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context of German cultural history. And while there is a surfeit of film reviews, interviews, and scholarly articles on Herzog and his work, there are very few books devoted to his films, and none addressing his entire career to date. Until now.
Forgotten Dreams offers not only an analytical study of Herzog's films but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century. It argues that his films re-envision and help us better understand a critical stream in Romanticism, and places the films in conversation with other filmmakers, authors, and philosophers in order to illuminate that critical stream. The result is a lively reconnection with Romantic themes and convictions that have been partly forgotten in the midst of Germany's postwar rejection of much of Romantic thought, yet are still operative in German culture today. The film analyses will interest scholars of film, German Studies, and Romanticism as well as a broader public interested in Herzog's films and contemporary German cultural debates. The book will also appeal to those interested in the ongoing renegotiation - by Western and other cultures - of relationships between reason and passion, civilization and wild nature, knowledge and belief.


Background: Studies have shown that viewing internet pornography is like addiction. Addictions have been implicated in the development of psychosocial issues. It is important to develop an indigenous tool for the assessment of psychosocial issues in individuals viewing internet pornography. Objective: The current study was aimed to develop a scale for the assessment of psychosocial issues associated with internet pornography in male university students. Methodology: Initially, twenty five male university students were interviewed individually and item pool was generated by 40 different psychosocial issues statements explained by them. After the exclusion of dubious and repetitive items, the scale of 37 items with 3-point rating was given to twenty university male students for the pilot study. Finally, the scale with 37 items was administered on 200 university male students. Results: By using Principle Component Factor Analysis through Varimax Rotation the results extracted four factors solution of the scale namely, Anxiousness, Sexual preoccupation, Neurotic guilt and Low self-esteem. Conclusion: The scale has satisfactory internal consistency and concurrent validity. Moreover, the results were discussed in terms of implications of the study and psychosocial issues associated with internet pornography for counseling services.


The issue of family caregiver support is highly relevant to public health. Each year in the U.S., family caregivers provide billions of dollars of uncompensated care to disabled elderly relatives and parents, while at the same time, risking a detrimental impact on their own physical, mental, social, and financial health. Finding effective policy approaches to support family caregivers is a large piece of the puzzle for long-term care in the United States. This essay examines whether innovative international approaches to family caregiver support could inform and advance current U. S. policy. The study focuses on legal recognition of caregiver status in Belgium and the mandatory caregiver assessment in the United Kingdom (UK). Formal legal caregiver recognition would allow U.S. policymakers to leverage the existing policy infrastructure at the state and federal level to support family caregivers, potentially providing a mechanism for greater employment flexibility, tax benefits, and formal recognition of the economic contributions of caregiving. The UK approach to caregiver assessment provides a model for caregiver well-being, goals, and supports to be integrated into long-term care planning in a more structured way.


Autocrine responses to interleukin-6 family cytokines are insensitive to extracellular gp130 signaling receptor blockade. Inside IL-6 inflammation Members of the interleukin-6 (IL-6) family of proinflammatory cytokines, which includes IL-6 and IL-11, stimulate responses by binding to a complex of their cytokine-specific receptor and the gp130 signaling receptor. Both of these receptor subunits can be shed from the cell surface and regulate distinct mechanisms of gp130-mediated signaling. Lamertz et al. engineered a reductionist system to interrogate how cells respond to wild-type and synthetic IL-6 and IL-11 cytokines. The authors found that a soluble form of gp130 blocked responses to IL-6 and IL-11 that were presented in trans by a neighboring cell. In contrast, extracellular blockade of cell surface gp130 had no effect on the response to autocrine IL-6, suggesting that these responses could occur within the cell. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a proinflammatory cytokine of the IL-6 family, members of which signal through a complex of a cytokine-specific receptor and the signal-transducing subunit gp130. The interaction of IL-6 with the membrane-bound IL-6 receptor (IL-6R) and gp130 stimulates "classic signaling," whereas the binding of IL-6 and a soluble version of the IL-6R to gp130 stimulates "trans-signaling." Alternatively, "cluster signaling" occurs when membrane-bound IL-6:IL-6R complexes on transmitter cells activate gp130 receptors on neighboring receiver cells. The soluble form of gp130 (sgp130) is a selective trans-signaling inhibitor, but it does not affect classic signaling. We demonstrated that the interaction of soluble gp130 with natural and synthetic membrane-bound IL-6:IL-6R complexes inhibited IL-6 cluster signaling. Similarly, IL-11 cluster signaling through the IL-11R to gp130 was also inhibited by soluble gp130. However, autocrine classic and trans-signaling was not inhibited by extracellular inhibitors such as sgp130 or gp130 antibodies. Together, our results suggest that autocrine IL-6 signaling may occur intracellularly.


Despite the proliferation of studies on the sales distribution in e-commerce, little is known about how the sales distribution in online markets is affected by the presence of mobile channels, which have become a significant conduit for e-commerce. Using the large transaction dataset from a leading e-marketplace in Korea, this study empirically investigates how the mobile commerce channel adoption affects e-market users' search intensity and their aggregated sales distribution. Our user-level analysis to examine the causal effects of mobile channel adoption by e-market users shows that search intensities are associated with head product sales overall, but the relationship largely depends on the product categories. This is contrary to our previous belief that more search activities lead to more tail product sales. We discuss the theoretical implications of our findings.


Zero-crossing rate (ZCR) is one of the most important acoustic feature that has been widely used in voice activity detection, voiced/unvoiced speech classification, music/speech classification image processing, optics, biomedical engineering, radar and fluid mechanics. The conventional time-domain ZCR measurement is sensitive to nonstationary noise. In this paper, we present a noise robust zerocrossing rate computation method. The number of zerocrossings is computed in autocorrelation-domain rather than in time-domain. The accuracy of the proposed measurement method is evaluated using both sinusoidal and speech waveforms under different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Experimental results show that the proposed ZCR measurement method achieves better accuracy than the conventional ZCR measurement methods in the literature.


MSFRM -- Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Notre Dame University, Louaize, 2019; "A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of the Master of Science in Financial Risk Management"; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-96).


Identical quantum particles exhibit only two types of statistics: bosonic and fermionic. Theoretically, this restriction is commonly established through the symmetrization postulate or (anti)commutation constraints imposed on the algebra of creation and annihilation operators. The physical motivation for these axioms remains poorly understood, leading to various generalizations by modifying the mathematical formalism in somewhat arbitrary ways. In this work, we take an opposing route and classify quantum particle statistics based on operationally well-motivated assumptions. Specifically, we consider that a) the standard (complex) unitary dynamics defines the set of single-particle transformations, and b) phase transformations act locally in the space of multi-particle systems. We develop a complete characterization, which includes bosons and fermions as basic statistics with minimal symmetry. Interestingly, we have discovered whole families of novel statistics (dubbed transtatistics) accompanied by hidden symmetries, generic degeneracy of ground states, and spontaneous symmetry breaking -- effects that are (typically) absent in ordinary statistics.


We combine several surveys at different wavelengths with intermediate-band $ uvby\beta$ photometry to examine the correlation between the location of the OB-stars in the Centaurus star-forming field and the neutral and ionized material in GSH 305+01$-$24 supershell seen in the same direction. Based on homogeneous distances of nearly 700 early-type stars, we are able to select spatially coherent stellar groupings and to revise the classical concept of the Cen OB1 association. We argue that this star-forming field is closer to the Sun than estimated before, at a distance of $1.8\pm0.4$ kpc, instead of the classical 2.5 kpc. The region shows striking similarities between the stellar distribution and H$\alpha$ and H I emission morphologies, suggesting that the observed shell passes a stage through which the number of ionizing photons emerging from the central association is not sufficient to ionize the entire shell. Stellar masses and ages, calculated via the latest evolutionary models are used to evaluate whether these stars can be the energy source for the supershell.


Purpose - This paper aims to investigate an interesting yet mostly ignored distinction within external CEO successions: outside successors who have previous CEO experience and those who do not. It examines stock market reaction, compensation and firm performance prior and post-succession. Design/methodology/approach - The authors used an event study, "Patell Findings - The authors find that the stock market reacts positively to the hiring of an outsider who is an exCEO. Compared with firms that hire non-exCEOs, firms that hire exCEOs had higher debt ratios and greater bankruptcy chances pre-succession, but post-succession, these firms still have worse financial performances. Non-exCEOs come from better performing firms than exCEOs. There is no consistently significant difference in compensation between an exCEO and a non-exCEO, though the compensation for both increases significantly from that of the predecessors and that of their previous positions. Research limitations/implications - Future research could focus on the cost-benefit tradeoff of hiring an exCEO. It would be interesting to examine the role of the board of directors in assessing this cost-benefit tradeoff and determining the optimal choice for the firm. An important aspect that has not been sufficiently examined in the literature is the CEO fit. Hiring an exCEO may not always be the right choice for the firm. Another area for future research could examine how the post-succession performance is affected by exCEO tenure in previous CEO position(s) and whether the exCEO worked in several industries or in the same industry. Practical implications - This paper also has implications for the board of directors. There seems to be a negative transfer of human capital when it comes to hiring exCEOs. The human capital theory suggests that job-specific experience positively relates to job performance. According to Hamori and Koyuncu, prior CEO experience may "lead to the formation of knowledge corridors and decision-making templates that make it difficult for individuals to take in inconsistent information or take actions that are different from past ones in a changed context. This, in turn, undermines performance". Boards of directors should put more effort into considering inside relay successions and should be cautious when hiring an outsider who has prior CEO experience. A best-of-both-worlds scenario may be for boards to hire exCEOs into top executive positions, such as COO and/or president, so as to give them a chance to be groomed for the top position and familiarize themselves with the firm while still benefiting from their prior CEO experience. Originality/value - There is very little research on the distinction between outside CEOs with previous CEO experience and those with no such experience. This paper tries to shed some light on this important issue in corporate governance in order to explain why boards of directors would hire an outsider with or without previous CEO experience.


ABSTRACT Background: Multiple congenital anomalies-hypotony-seizures syndrome 3 (MCAHS3) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the PIGT gene. PIGT encodes phosphatidylinositol-glycan biosynthesis class T, which plays a crucial role in protein anchoring to cell membranes. The clinical presentation of MCAHS3 is variable in expression and severity, but can be characterized by developmental delay, seizures, hypotonia, facial dysmorphism, and other abnormalities. Materials and Methods: Case report. Results: We report unusual ocular findings including bilateral anterior segment dysgenesis, avascular retinal periphery, and tractional retinal detachment in a 1-month-old male infant with compound heterozygous PIGT mutations consistent with MCAHS3. Whole-exome sequencing did not detect any other genetic abnormalities. Conclusions: This case expands the clinical spectrum of MCAHS3 to include anomalies in ocular anterior segment and retinal vascular development. Given the rarity and the genetic heterogeneity of MCAHS3, giving rise to varied non-ocular phenotypes, it is possible that milder intraocular phenotypes could have gone unrecognized in the past.


ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine if providing an intercultural online collaboration experience is beneficial to enhance pre-service teachers' self-efficacy for technology integration, intercultural sensitivity, and communication and collaboration skills. The authors compared the experiences of two groups (intercultural group vs. same-culture group) by using mixed-design ANOVA and content analysis. A total of 115 pre-service teachers from two universities in the USA and one university in South Korea participated. The results indicated that students in both groups significantly improved their self-efficacy for technology integration and technology skills after participation. Although no significant difference between groups was found in quantitative data, qualitative analysis showed that students in the intercultural group demonstrated a more in-depth understanding of effective ways to communicate with people from different cultures online. We conclude that intercultural online collaboration enhanced pre-service teachers' confidence in working with overseas partners and provided them with authentic collaboration opportunities.


Brain tumours are the most common solid neoplasm in children, posing a significant challenge in oncology due to the limited range of treatment. Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) has recently emerged to aid surgical intervention in neurosurgery resection with the potential to delineate tumour boundaries. This narrative literature review aimed to provide an updated evaluation of the clinical implementation of iMRI in paediatric neurosurgical resection, with an emphasis on the extent of brain tumour resection, patient outcomes and its drawbacks. Databases including MEDLINE, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science were used to investigate this topic with key terms: paediatric, brain tumour, and iMRI. Exclusion criteria included literature comprised of adult populations and the use of iMRI in neurosurgery in the absence of brain tumours. The limited body of research evaluating the clinical implementation of iMRI in paediatric cohorts has been predominantly positive. Current evidence demonstrates the potential for iMRI use to increase rates of gross total resection (GTR), assess the extent of resection, and improve patient outcomes, such as progression-free survival. Limitations regarding the use of iMRI include prolonged operation times and complications associated with head immobilisation devices. iMRI has the potential to aid in the achievement of maximal brain tumour resection in paediatric patients. Future prospective randomised controlled trials are necessary to determine the clinical significance and benefits of using iMRI during neurosurgical resection for clinical management of brain neoplasms in children.


The kinetics of the reaction of CH2OO with ozone has been studied by monitoring CH2OO using time-resolved infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy, which utilized the fast chirped IR pulse train from a quantum cascade laser [J. Chem. Phys., 2017, 146, 244302]. CH2OO was prepared by photolyzing a gas mixture of CH2I2/O2/O3 at 352 nm; the photolysis wavelength was chosen to minimize the photodissociation of O3. The measured rate coefficient at 298 K and 30 Torr is (6.7 ± 0.5) × 10-14 cm3 s-1, independent of pressure from 30 to 100 Torr. The result indicates that previous ab initio calculations either underestimated or overestimated this reaction rate by one order of magnitude or more. The result also implies that, the reaction of the Criegee intermediate with ozone may play a role in laboratory studies of ozonolysis of alkenes. However, this reaction would not compete with other CH2OO sinks in the atmosphere.


We study the conditions under which input-output networks can dynamically attain competitive equilibrium, where markets clear and profits are zero. We endow a classical firm network model with simple dynamical rules that reduce supply/demand imbalances and excess profits. We show that the time needed to reach equilibrium diverges as the system approaches an instability point beyond which the Hawkins-Simons condition is violated and competitive equilibrium is no longer realisable. We argue that such slow dynamics is a source of excess volatility, through accumulation and amplification of exogenous shocks. Factoring in essential physical constraints, such as causality or inventory management, we propose a dynamically consistent model that displays a rich variety of phenomena. Competitive equilibrium can only be reached after some time and within some region of parameter space, outside of which one observes periodic and chaotic phases, reminiscent of real business cycles. This suggests an alternative explanation of the excess volatility that is of purely endogenous nature. Other regimes include deflationary equilibria and intermittent crises characterised by bursts of inflation. Our model can be calibrated using highly disaggregated data on individual firms and prices, and may provide a powerful tool to describe out-of-equilibrium economies.


Scholars have suggested that in China centralized environmental policymaking may be decoupled from idiosyncratic local implementation, and thus have questioned the outcomes. This paper fills a gap in the literature on China's environmental governance by assessing the effects of the centralized regime on outcomes and diagnosing institutional deficiencies along the following three dimensions: structure, penetration to multiple actors in society, and persistence in efforts taken. Analyses of panel data from the years 1998 to 2005 find the structure of the environmental governance regime associated with both reduced pollution discharge and enhanced pollution treatment, as measured by COD and SO2. However, the measures imposed from the top had limited penetration to polluting industry and had limited effects on pollution control. The good news is that bottom-up efforts taken by the public and industry have largely enhanced pollution treatment, although not associated with reduced pollution discharge. Thus, China faces the challenge to reduce pollution from the source but not to rely on end-of-pipe treatment. It calls for the centralized environmental governance regime to strengthen its penetration to polluters by rigorous enforcement and empowering the public with adequate informational, administrative, and legal means.


Context/Objective: Medically serious pressure injuries (MSPrIs), a common complication of spinal cord injury (SCI), have devastating consequences on health and well-being and are extremely expensive to treat. We aimed to test the efficacy of a lifestyle-based intervention designed to reduce incidence of MSPrIs in adults with SCI. Design: A randomized controlled trial (RCT), and a separate study wing involving a nonrandomized standard care control group. Setting: Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, a large facility serving ethnically diverse, low income residents of Los Angeles County. Participants: Adults with SCI, with history of one or more MSPrIs over the past 5 years: N=166 for RCT component, N=66 in nonrandomized control group. Interventions: The Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program, a 12-month lifestyle-based treatment administered by healthcare professionals, largely via in-home visits and phone contacts. Outcome Measures: Blinded assessments of annualized MSPrI incidence rates at 12 and 24 months, based on: skin checks, quarterly phone interviews with participants, and review of medical charts and billing records. Secondary outcomes included number of surgeries and various quality-of-life measures. Results: Annualized MSPrI rates did not differ significantly between study groups. At 12 months, rates were .56 for intervention recipients, .48 for randomized controls, and .65 for nonrandomized controls. At follow-up, rates were .44 and .39 respectively for randomized intervention and control participants. Conclusions: Evidence for intervention efficacy was inconclusive. The intractable nature of MSPrI threat in high-risk SCI populations, and lack of statistical power, may have contributed to this inability to detect an effect. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01999816


OBJECTIVE
Childhood maltreatment is a potent risk factor for subsequent aggressive and criminal behavior. A recent study suggested that the relationship between maltreatment and antisocial behavior may be moderated by a genetic vulnerability conferred by a functional polymorphism in the MAO-A gene. The authors investigated whether these findings would generalize to a clinical cohort of adolescents, examining whether there was a stronger association between maltreatment and conduct disorder severity in patients carrying the low MAO-A activity allele.

METHOD
Male adolescent patients (N=247) entering residential or intensive day treatment for persistent conduct and substance use problems were examined. Conduct disorder severity was indexed by a lifetime count of DSM-IV criteria obtained through structured psychiatric interviews. Maltreatment scores were derived from summing neglect and abuse events reported to have occurred before age 11.

RESULTS
Neglect, verbal/psychological abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse were prevalent among patients. Although level of maltreatment and lifetime conduct disorder symptoms were significantly correlated, no genetic-environmental interaction with genotype for maltreatment was found.

CONCLUSION
The results of the current study do not support the hypothesis that a polymorphism in the gene encoding MAO-A contributes to the genetic risk for conduct disorder.


The objective of paper is to assess the efficiency of financial model to capture increasing volatilities across asset class markets of the three investment banks. For which data will be collect to forecast the credit risk, and to know how well our standard tools forecast volatility, particularly during the turmoil that extend throughout the globe. Volatility prediction is a critical task in asset valuation and risk management for investors and financial intermediaries. The paper will focus on Value-at-Risk (VaR) which is a standard model that has been forecasted using both non-parametric and parametric approaches and then Backtesting procedure had been applied to achieve the both outcome. One is to detect the underlying credit risk which is associated with the market as well as portfolio risk, and other is to perceive model which provide more accurate forecasting.


Auxetic material using corner-connected kinematic tiles has been applied to different kinematic designs. However, existing works rely on the connectivity of regular polygonal tilings because of the overconstraining nature of kinematic tiling. This study proposes a new family of auxetic structures based on non-regular and aperiodic rhombic tiling inspired by the Tokyo 2020 Emblems. We convert emblem-like patterns on rhombic tilings into kinematic structures by regarding the rectangular figure as voids and the region between rectangles as rigid bodies. Due to the geometric properties of rhombic tiling, the structure forms a one-degree-of-freedom planar mechanism with a constant Poisson's ratio of −1. The large combinatorial family of rhombic tilings provides design variations of kinematic structures with non-regular topology. Furthermore, we show a kirigami-based method for fabricating the structure as a compliant mechanism. This connection between math and art potentially broadens the range of architected materials based on folding, kirigami, and tessellation.


Electro-optical properties of the polymer-stabilized blue phase (PSBP) liquid crystals (LCs) with different monomer combination and concentration were studied. Kerr constant, voltage-dependent transmittance, response time, residual birefringence and hysteresis were measured for PSBP LCs prepared using acrylate and methacrylate monomer composites. Operating voltages of PSBP LCs prepared by acrylate composites were lower than those of PSBP LCs prepared by methacrylate composites. By contrast, residual birefringence and hysteresis of PSBP LCs prepared by acrylate composites were higher than those of PSBP LCs prepared by methacrylate composites. Faster response and lower hysteresis were observed in PSBP LCs with higher monomer concentration. It was found that monomer combination and concentration strongly affected the electro-optical properties of PSBP LCs.


3D crosstalk is a critical problem in the 3D display field. It appears as the double image and deteriorates the 3D image quality. This paper proposes an image processing algorithm that compensates 3D crosstalk. The proposed algorithm controls the gray level in the pixel area where 3D crosstalk occurs. 3D crosstalk compensation algorithm is implemented and verified on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) merged in 3D PDP. The experimental results indicate an enhancement of 3D image quality by reducing 3D crosstalk1.


To support qualified services at a hospital, it needs to make a planning efficiently and effectively in order to fulfill the necessity of medicines. Planning of medicines necessity at Installation of Tasikmalaya Public Hospital had been made based on the method of consumption and referred to the President's Decree No. 80 year 2003. In fact, number of medicines was not to appropriate with the planning.
Aim of this research was to find out the steps of planning for supplying medicines, to analyze the implementation of Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) in the planning of supplying medicines, and to identify the effect of supplying using EOQ method towards availability of medicines, and to identify the effect of supplying using EOQ methods towards availability of medicines at the hospital. Beside that, this research was to know efficiency of supplying medicines with and without implementing EOQ method, and to describe the factors, which had to be provided more attention if EOQ method was implemented in the planning including inputs for supplying medicines.
This was observational research using qualitative method and cross sectional approach. Collection of data used observation and interview.
Result of this research shows that five types of medicines are used based on implementation of ABC analysis namely Cefotaxim inj, ATS inj, Piracetam inj, Dextrose 5%, Cefriaxon inj which percentages of purchasing consecutively are 22.7%, 20.50%, 13.37%, 10.65% and 9.71%. Furthermore, calculation is performed using EOQ method. Based on the result of calculation, efficiency in the planning of supplying medicines, for Cefotaxim inj is equal to 27%, ATS inj (19%), Piracetam inj (22%), Dextrose 5% (15%), and Cefriaxon inj (17%).

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The actual problem of an adequate mathematical description of the world development global processes trends is studied on the example of the Earth population growth and the production (consumption) of the electric energy. Various models used to describe the past, present and future of the various processes in nature, technology and economics are considered. It is shown that these processes are well described by the equations obtained during solving differential models with exponentially growth rates decaying in time. These models take into account the currently accepted doctrine of sustainable development of the world system using energy saving technologies, preserving environmental safety and using renewable energy sources. The similarity of the studied global processes and the possibility of their description by one criterion equation are established. At the same time their dynamics is characterized by different speeds. The first period is characterized by a rapid growth. After the inflection point the growth rates slow down but the volumes increase significantly and a gradual saturation occurs. The influence of the model parameters on the character of the studied processes on the phase plane is estimated which significantly simplifies their analysis. It is shown that the process of the world population growth passed the inflection point in 1990 and is 29 years ahead of the world electricity production growth. But the growth rates of electricity production and its consumption per capita are significantly higher. Thus, new mathematical models are proposed to describe the dynamic series of the Earth population growth, world production and electric energy consumption per capita. The obtained mathematical models have been in good agreement with statistical data for 60 years since 1960 and have high values of the determination coefficient. The studied processes prediction for the long-term period up to 2050 was made with their help. The results of the prediction do not contradict the results of other authoritative studies using the global processes inertial development model.


A developing country often pegs its exchange rate to a single currency, such as the U.S. dollar, even though it faces a higher inflation rate than the country to which it is pegged. As a consequence, it experiences real exchange-rate misalignments and a series of easily-anticipated devaluations. While the chaotic capital market events surrounding anticipated devaluations are avoided through quantitative capital controls, the country is left with the classic devaluation problem: when should it devalue, and by how much? In this paper, we consider a policymaker who pegs the nominal exchange rate and adjusts the peg periodically so as to minimize a set of costs. The control problem is made difficult by the fact that the future times for devaluations are currently unknown stochastic variables. Characterizing the real exchange rate as regulated Brownian motion permits the cost minimization problem to be solved explicitly. The size and timing of devaluations are jointly determined outcomes of optimizing behavior. The framework yields insights into how changes in the stochastic environment affect both the size and timing of devaluation. These insights provide guidance about the determinants of devaluation episodes even when Brownian motion is not the relevant stochastic process for real exchange rates. Using cross-sectional data on 80 peg episodes from seventeen Latin American countries over the 1957-1990 period, we find empirical support for the model's main predictions.


The study is designed to evaluate the confidence, reliance and the degree of acceptance of laparoscopic surgical procedures among Mosul city population after 15 years of work in this field of surgery. This is a prospective data collection study. Participants were eight hundred persons, all of them from Mosul city with complete normal health at time of evaluation; all of them were above 18 years of age. The main outcome measures: The persons involved were divided into 4 groups according to their literate and educational level, each group composed of 200 persons, the first group (literate medical personnel) composed of medical doctors of various specialties, the second group (literate non medical personnel) composed of persons who were graduated from various colleges, apart from medical one. The third group (partially literate personnel) included those who did not complete the secondary school. the fourth group (low literate personnel) included those who did not completed the primary school. The questioners asked the following questions: 1- Did you know what laparoscopic surgery means? A special information score was used to evaluate the questioner knowledge. To those who answer yes for the first question and the information score was acceptable, the second question was: 2- Do you prefer this type of surgery to be used on you or on one of your first relative if feasible and needed? 3- If the answer for question 2 is yes, please tell us why. 4- If the answer for question 2 is no, please tell us why. The data were collected and comparison was done among the groups. All the medical persons were aware about laparoscopic surgery, 183 agreed to underwent such procedure if needed during the coming time, 160 of the second group knew what is laparoscopic surgery and 123 accepted to be used on them if needed, 118 of the third group knew what is laparoscopic surgery and 80 agreed to be used on them, while 85 of the fourth group had information about laparoscopic surgery but only 42 of them accepted it to be used on them if needed. Those who accepted laparoscopic surgery did so because they think that, it is more cosmetic, less painful and needs less hospitalization time, while those who refused it, did so because they afraid from dangerous instrument, the risk of complication and conversion. In conclusion, laparoscopic surgery is a well known surgical procedure among population in Mosul city, it gained acceptance and confidence especially in literate persons, but it needs more verification for low literate population. Cosmetic, less hospitalization and less post operative pain are the stocks for acceptance while complications, conversion and untrusting instrument and surgeon are the reasons for refusal of laparoscopic surgery.


: This study examines the impact of values on approval of violence. Data was collected from university students with a stratified random sample. The results showed that violence endorsement has a statistically significant positive correlation with tradition, stimulation and power values, whereas universalism, security, conformity, and benevolence values have negative correlations with violence endorsement. The approval of violence did not have any significant relationship with self-direction, hedonism and achievement values. The effects of violence exposure and gender on violence approval were also examined and both were determined to be highly influential. However, the main theme of the research was the effect of values on violence endorsement. Multiple regression analysis showed that the most important predictor values are universalism, stimulation, tradition and power values. The absolute antidotes to violence were the universal values of equality, wisdom, peace, tolerance and nature conservation etc. Greater importance given to these universal values in education policies could help to reduce the endorsement of violence..


Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have shown a powerful capacity of generating high-quality image samples. Recently, diffusion autoencoders (Diff-AE) have been proposed to explore DPMs for representation learning via autoencoding. Their key idea is to jointly train an encoder for discovering meaningful representations from images and a conditional DPM as the decoder for reconstructing images. Considering that training DPMs from scratch will take a long time and there have existed numerous pre-trained DPMs, we propose \textbf{P}re-trained \textbf{D}PM \textbf{A}uto\textbf{E}ncoding (\textbf{PDAE}), a general method to adapt existing pre-trained DPMs to the decoders for image reconstruction, with better training efficiency and performance than Diff-AE. Specifically, we find that the reason that pre-trained DPMs fail to reconstruct an image from its latent variables is due to the information loss of forward process, which causes a gap between their predicted posterior mean and the true one. From this perspective, the classifier-guided sampling method can be explained as computing an extra mean shift to fill the gap, reconstructing the lost class information in samples. These imply that the gap corresponds to the lost information of the image, and we can reconstruct the image by filling the gap. Drawing inspiration from this, we employ a trainable model to predict a mean shift according to encoded representation and train it to fill as much gap as possible, in this way, the encoder is forced to learn as much information as possible from images to help the filling. By reusing a part of network of pre-trained DPMs and redesigning the weighting scheme of diffusion loss, PDAE can learn meaningful representations from images efficiently. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness, efficiency and flexibility of PDAE.


Service composition is an emerging way to provide the value-added service. The existing automatic composition approaches pay little attention to service reuse. In this paper, we propose two kinds service composition patterns to improve the reusability of the composition result and propose an approach to compose services based on pattern. Meanwhile, the composition approach can be done in an automatic manner without any other knowledge. The experiment and analysis show it is effective.


This thesis focusses attention on two institutions in a caste oriented society at variance with the established pattern of behaviour between members of different castes. These are Ritual Kinship and Spirit Possession among ritual specialists. The study was carried out in Dharnu, a village in Himachal Pradesh, India. The first chapter outlines the accepted pattern of inter-caste behaviour and draws attention to the flexibility with which it operates in practice. Their appear to exist in all cases, regularized mechanisms for circumventing caste rules, which axe ritually legitimised. The second chapter provides a general background into the study and describes the peoples in that area and their customs. The third chapter analyses the caste hierarchy in the village with special emphasis on commensal behaviour as the clearest index of ranking. The fourth chapter begins with a discussion of the nature of ritual kinship and presents data on this institution in Dharnu. The data are analysed in terms of the strategic value for individuals and their integrative value for the community. The fifth chapter deals with spirit possession among ritual specialists and examines the institution as a means of different kinds of status achievement by both high and low castes. The concluding chapter contains a summary of the different ways in which individuals manipulate these two institutions and attempts to relate them to the social structure in which they obtain. Probably all societies contain institutions at variance with their basic values. In this thesis I have examined two such institutions in a hierarchical society in order to show that other principles of organization exist in addition to the dominant stress on hierarchy and to analyse the ways in which they are accommodated within the structured relationships which form the basis of the society.


The negative impact on the environment from drill cuttings resulting from drilling wells for oil production is assessed in this article. Environmental hazards are contaminants such as petroleum products, drilling fluid reagents, and chemical compounds of heavy metals that make up drill cuttings. To assess the negative impact, the heavy metal content indicators and chemical analysis parameters of drill cuttings were determined. It has been established that there are no excesses in the standards for the content of heavy metals in drill cuttings. The results of chemical analysis showed that there are excesses in values: MPC (Maximum Permissible Concentrations), COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), oil content, solids, hardness, magnesium and calcium ions, chlorides. Two directions of utilization of drill cuttings were selected: the use of drill cuttings in the construction of the foundation of the road, and obtaining material based on drill cuttings to strengthen slopes. A technoground was obtained in the form of a lumpy material for placement in a barn and further excavation for filling embankments and strengthening soil. In preliminary studies, it was found that theb technoground sample with the following component composition has the most stable strength characteristics: cement - 20%; drill cuttings - 80%; liquid glass - 2% over 100% of the mixture.
Keywords: drill cuttings, negative impact, environment, utilization, technoground


: One of the peculiarities of the health care workplace right now is that while organizations are frantic to hire, they are also quicker to fire. Judging from surveys and reports from headhunters, it's obvious there are some new reasons why--and when--people get fired. The most common cause for firing is the inability to meet the boss's expectations. Three, often-documented, reasons for severance are examined: (1) not being able to produce what's needed with the culture; (2) lacking the level of technical skills required; and (3) not being emotionally committed to the role the candidate was hired to play. What can you do to protect yourself? Do your homework. Don't fall into the trap of being taken in by an over-eager hirer or by the prospect of making an inordinate difference.


In October 2000 the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) was launched. The purpose of the IIRSA is to improve integration of the South American countries and intraregional trade between them. One of the ultimate goals is to promote sustainable growth. The purpose of this paper is to find out if a better quantity and quality of transport infrastructure increases intraregional trade in South America. It is found that the quantity of transport infrastructure increases intraregional trade. On the other hand, there is no evidence for the quality of transport infrastructure increasing intraregional trade in South America. Furthermore, this paper investigates whether economic growth can be obtained through more trade. In other words, this paper examines if trade causes growth. The results do not confirm the trade-growth causality for all countries. The difference between the existence of a trade-growth causal relationship or not could be explained by the core commodities that the different South American countries export.


We present the significant detection of the first extragalactic pulsar wind nebula (PWN) detected in gamma rays, N157B, located in the large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Pulsars with high spin-down luminosity are found to power energised nebulae that emit gamma rays up to energies of several tens of TeV. N 157B is associated with PSRJ0537 − 6910, which is the pulsar with the highest known spin-down luminosity. The High Energy Stereoscopic System telescope array observed this nebula on a yearly basis from 2004 to 2009 with a dead-time corrected exposure of 46 h. The gamma-ray spectrum between 600 GeV and 12 TeV is well-described by a pure power-law with a photon index of 2 . 8 ± 0 . 2 stat ± 0 . 3 syst and a normalisation at 1 TeV of (8 . 2 ± 0 . 8 stat ± 2 . 5 syst ) × 10 − 13 cm − 2 s − 1 TeV − 1 . A leptonic multi-wavelength model shows that an energy of about 4 × 10 49 erg is stored in electrons and positrons. The apparent e ffi ciency, which is the ratio of the TeV gamma-ray luminosity to the pulsar's spin-down luminosity, 0 . 08% ± 0 . 01%, is comparable to those of PWNe found in the Milky Way. The detection of a PWN at such a large distance is possible due to the pulsar's favourable spin-down luminosity and a bright infrared photon-field serving as an inverse-Compton-scattering target for accelerated leptons. By applying a calorimetric technique to these observations, the pulsar's birth period is estimated to be shorter than 10 ms.


: A 'confined space' provides a unique environment to regulate the crystallization thermodynamics and kinetics by confining the reactants in the restricted space dimensions. Solid-state crystal-to-crystal transitions in confined space are controlled by the preassembly of molecules in crystal lattice and occur inside the lattice. Herein we report the first case of construction of crystalline porous polyacetylene frameworks (PPFs) through solid-state cross-linking of acetylenic groups-bridged 2D crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) in spatially limited systems. Specifically, this transformation is thermally induced yielding PPFs with superlative properties like outstanding enhancement in crystallinity, specific surface area and stability. We further demonstrate the PPFs as high conductivity polymers after iodine doping. This work underscores the opportunity in using lattice-constrained solid-state cross-linking to develop more versatile and feature-rich polyacetylene frameworks.


Connectivity and automation are increasingly getting importance in the automotive industry, which is observing a radical change from vehicles driven by humans to fully automated and remotely controlled ones. The test and validation of all the related devices and applications is thus becoming a crucial aspect; this is raising the interest on hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) platforms which reduce the need for complicated field trials, thus limiting the costs and delay added to the process. With reference to the test and validation of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications aspects, and assuming either sidelink LTE/5G-V2X or IEEE 802.11p/bd technologies, in this work we focus on the real-time HiL simulation of the information exchanged by one vehicle under test and the surrounding, simulated, objects. Such exchange must be reproduced in a time-efficient manner, with elaborations done fast enough to allow testing the applications in real-time. More precisely, we discuss the simulation of non-ideal positioning and channel propagation taking into account current impairments. We also provide details on optimization solutions that allowed us to trade-off minor loss in accuracy with a significant reduction of the computation time burden, reaching up to more than one order of magnitude speed increase in our experiments.


Academic library services have begun to apply various knowledge management (KM)
practices in the provision of library services. KM has been developed to enhance the use
of organizational knowledge through practices and organizational learning. KM
practices include the creation, capture and/or acquisition of knowledge, its retention and
organization, its dissemination and re-use, and general responsiveness to the new
knowledge. The focus of this research is the assessment of KM practices, particularly
creation, acquisition, capture, sharing, recording and preservation, and their effects on
Library User's Satisfaction (LUS) in Malaysian university libraries. The objective of this
research is the development of a model to enhance KM processes (i.e. Creation,
acquisition, capturing, sharing, recording, and preserving) and to improve library users'
satisfaction. A quantitative approach in research methodology is employed (e.g.
Questionnaire) for the purpose of generating new knowledge and understanding of
library concerns. The findings of this research show that the overall KM practice at six
Malaysian university libraries is at a high level. The findings from the structural model
indicated that two KM processes, namely knowledge creation and acquisition, are not
supported in terms of KM practices at Malaysian university libraries. Other KM
processes, namely capturing, sharing, recording, and preserving are fully supported
towards KM practices in the library. Hence, the major contribution of this research is a
model, namely KM Practice-Library User's Satisfaction (KMP-LUS) highlighting six
KM processes based on strong Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) fit indices.


In this paper, the design and testing of a novel valve for the intuitive spatial control of soft or continuum manipulators are presented. The design of the valve is based on the style of a hydraulic flapper valve, but with simultaneous control of three pressure feed points, which can be used to drive three antagonistically arranged hydraulic actuators for positioning soft robots. The variable control orifices are arranged in a rotationally symmetric radial pattern to allow for an inline mounting configuration of the valve within the body of a manipulator. Positioning the valve ring at various 3D configurations results in different pressurizations of the actuators and corresponding spatial configurations of the manipulator. The design of the valve is suitable for miniaturization and use in applications with size constraints such as small soft manipulators and surgical robotics. Experimental validation showed that the performance of the valve can be reasonably modeled and can effectively drive an antagonistic arrangement of three actuators for soft manipulator control.


AIM
This paper reports the findings of a study that identified gender specific prehospital care pathway delays amongst Irish women and men with myocardial infarction.

BACKGROUND
Women are more likely to experience a poorer prognosis than their male counterparts following hospitalization for myocardial infarction, yet research shows that women continue to experience prehospital care pathway delays.

METHODS
A 1-year prospective census was carried in six major academic teaching hospitals in Dublin, Ireland in 2001-2002. A total of 277 (31%) female and 613 (69%) male patients with confirmed myocardial infarction were included in the study.

RESULTS
Women were more likely to experience prolonged 'initial symptom-onset to A&E delays' (14 hours vs. 2.8 hours P < 0.0001), and 'intense symptom-onset to A&E delays' (3.1 hours vs. 1.8 hours , P < 0.0001), i.e. arrival at a hospital accident and emergency department. Advancing age was associated with greater prehospital delays (P < 0.0001), whilst patients with private health insurance had shorter delays than public patients (without private health insurance) or those with medical cards (entitling them to means-tested medical benefits) (P = 0.001). Patients who drove themselves by car to hospital had shorter median prehospital times than those arriving by any other admission mode (P < 0.0001), whilst those referred by their general practitioner had longer delays than those who were self-referred (5 hours vs. 1.7 hours, P < 0.0001).

CONCLUSIONS
Female gender, advancing age, referral source, insurance status and mode of transport to hospital are independent factors contributing to prehospital patient delays. Nurses who care for patients with coronary artery disease have a unique opportunity to educate people about the most appropriate action to be taken in the event of experiencing symptoms.


We introduce the novel concept of superdirective nanoantennas based on the excitation of higher-order magnetic multipole moments in subwavelength dielectric nanoparticles. Our superdirective nanoantenna is a small Si nanosphere containing a notch, and is excited by a dipole located within the notch. In addition to extraordinary directivity, this nanoantenna demonstrates efficient radiation steering at the nanoscale, resulting from the subwavelength sensitivity of the beam radiation direction to variation of the source position inside the notch. We compare our dielectric nanoantenna with a plasmonic nanoantenna of similar geometry, and reveal that the nanoantenna's high directivity in the regime of transmission is not associated with strong localization of near fields in the regime of reception. Likewise, the absence of hot spots inside the nanoantenna leads to low dissipation in the radiation regime, so that our dielectric nanoantenna has significantly smaller losses and high radiation efficiency of up to 70%.


When a huge river in an industrialized country drains into a partly enclosed bay, the challenge of improving the water quality in the bay is a big one. In order to reduce the nutrient loading of Chesapeake Bay, USA, by 40 per cent, farmers and local communities in the upper reaches of the catchment are involved in implementing a 'multi-barrier approach'. Education and community involvement play a major part in meeting this challenge


In this paper, we resume the results of electromagnetic radiation measurements performed in the urban environment of the city of Santander, in Spain from radioelectric systems that operate in the area of the city of Santander, in the North of Spain. They include mobile telephony, radio and television broadcasting, police and private communications in the VHF and UHF bands. Four different measuring equipments were used, two of them wideband with isotropic probes and two, narrowband with dipole antennas. Special attention was put in places such as schools and geriatric residences. Furthermore, a wide survey through the urban area of the city was carried out, collecting more than 20,000 samples at street level which were statistically analyzed.


Marine macroalgae are a suitable source of ingredients due to their huge diversity, availability and nutritional and chemical composition. Their high content in proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins, but also in secondary metabolites such as phenolic compounds, terpenoids or pigments, make them great candidates for industrial applications. The cosmetic industry is one of the biggest in the world and the search for new ingredients is constantly growing as the consumer trend now is going back to those traditional cosmetics with a more natural composition. Moreover, the concept of a circular economy is also gaining importance due to the unsustainable situation of the natural resources. Although macroalgae are already used in cosmetics, especially as thickening and gelling agents, they possess an unexplored potential, not only as excipients and additives but also as a source of new active ingredients. In this context, macroalgae are considered in many cases as resources still underexploited and they could even be obtained from the waste of other industrial sectors and be used for recovering active molecules. Therefore, the aim of this review is to compile information about the different macroalgae metabolites and their possible applications in the cosmetic industry, which could employ circular economy models.


Integrated circuit (IC) wafer fabrication systems can be characterized as discrete event systems. Petri nets are tools that have been successfully used to model and analyze such systems. This paper reports a project of applying Petri net methodologies to detailed modeling, qualitative analysis, and performance evaluation of the etching area in a real-world IC wafer fabrication system located in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, To tackle the problem of building a large and complex system model, a synthesis technique is used. The resultant extended net model is checked for important qualitative properties in manufacturing. A simple control policy for deadlock prevention is proposed. To obtain performance measures, simulation is used. The simulation result shows that except a small number of machines, the errors between the simulated and actual utilizations are less than 5%, The validated model can be used to answer many "what-if" questions, such as predicting the maximal throughput and bottleneck machines.


Non-additive (dominance and epistasis) effects have remarkable influences on hybrid performance, e.g., via heterosis. Nevertheless, only additive effects are often considered in genomic predictions (GP). In this study, we demonstrated the importance of dominance effects in the prediction of hybrid performance in bioenergy sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. The dataset contained more than 400 hybrids between 200 inbred lines and two testers. The hybrids exhibited considerable heterosis in culm length and fresh weight, and the degree of heterosis was consistent with the genetic distance from the corresponding tester. The degree of heterosis was further different among subpopulations. Conversely, Brix exhibited limited heterosis. Regarding GP, we examined three statistical models and four training dataset types. In most of the dataset types, genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) with additive effects had lower prediction accuracy than GBLUP with additive and dominance effects (GBLUP-AD) and Gaussian kernel regression (GK). The superiority of GBLUP-AD and GK depended on the level of dominance variance, which was high for culm length and fresh weight, and low for Brix. Considering subpopulations, the influence of dominance was more complex. Our findings highlight the importance of considering dominance effects in GP models for sorghum hybrid breeding.


SIR,-In a letter headed " Trichinosis " in your issue of December 18, 1937 (p. 1249), Dr. S. W. Sutton comments on the failure of Mr. van Someren to refer in his article' to "an outbreak among the boys on the training ship Worcester " reported about 1880 by Mr. Power of the Local Government Board. I find that Mr. Power's report appeared in the Supplement containing the Report of the Medical Officer for 1879 in the Ninth Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1879-80. It is entitled " On an outbreak of ' fever ' that proved to be of the nature of trichiniasis on board the reformatory school ship Cornzwall." The cases were clinically atypical and the "proof " is given in Appendix A: " Memorandum on microscopical examination, two months after death, of muscles and viscera from the body of Richard Pierce," signed by W. H. Power and Robert Cory. The memorandum (No. 6, pp. 47-64) is illustrated by three plates with eight figures. Even from a superficial examination of these illustrations one can say quite emphatically that the microscopical nematodes found were certainly not Trichiniella spiralis. They have a double-bulbed muscular oesophagus of a type common in soil nematodes. This memorandum is immediately followed by a second memorandum (No. 7, pp. 68-77) by Dr. Charlton Bastian, F.R.S., who had been asked to examine and report on the drawings and specimens. Bastian carefully described and illustrated the worms anew, and identified them as males and females of a new species of free-living nematode which he named Pelodera setigera. His article is entitled " On some nematoids found in the body of a boy who had died from an epidemic disease (supposed to be trichiniasis) on board the reformatory school ship Corntwall." From the above facts it is evident that Mr. van Someren would not have been justified in adding this "outbreak" to his list of reported cases of trichiniasis in Britain.I am, etc., London School of Hygiene and Tropical R. T. LEIPER. Medicine, Jan. 19.


This thesis presents the results of an investigation into the effect of surface metallurgy on
the rolling contact fatigue behaviour of rail. The investigation has used laboratory based
rolling/sliding twin disc testing of samples with a surface metallurgical feature simulated
on them. The samples used in laboratory testing have been compared with samples of rail
removed from track. Two surface metallurgical features have been investigated:
decarburisation and white etching layer.
Decarburisation is the loss of carbon from the surface of the rail due to oxidation at high
temperatures, resulting in a softer layer at the surface (180HV compared to 250HV bulk).
The decarburised layer has been simulated in this research by heat treating discs in a
laboratory furnace with an air atmosphere. The results show that by increasing the depth of
decarburisation the growth rate of cracks within the sample, along with the wear rate,
increases. At the maximum depth of decarburisation allowed on rail by the standard
(O.5mm) there was little difference in the wear or rolling contact fatigue behaviour with or
without decarburisation.
White etching layer (WEL) forms on the surface of rail due to the action of the wheels and
is a very hard layer (>850HV) up to 250mm deep. White etching layer has been simulated
in two ways: spot welding and gross sliding of the discs. The results have shown that
cracks initiate preferentially at weak spots at the surface, such as the interface between the
WEL and pearlite or along proeutectoid ferrite boundaries. It has been found that the
growth of cracks below the surface depends on the strain history of the subsurface pearlite.
The results indicate that white etching layer is detrimental to rail life through either the
promotion of rolling contact fatigue and/or wear.


Highly porous platinised titanium substrates are attractive electrode materials for industrial electrochemical processing and electrochemical energy storage. The electrodeposition of platinum on titanium felt was carried out in a divided, rectangular channel flow cell from an alkaline bath without additives. The morphology and spatial distribution of the platinum deposits in the porous material were analysed using SEM and EDS microscopy in addition to X-ray computed tomography (CT). The electroplated surface area was estimated from the charge transfer current ratio for Ce(IV) reduction and related to a theoretical electrosorbed hydrogen monolayer surface area. The platinised titanium felt showed a significant enhancement of active surface area in comparison to conventional electrode materials. Although platinum was present throughout the porous electrode, CT revealed heterogeneous deposits accumulating in regions near the membrane (during electrodeposition), as a result of the potential distribution in the felt material and flowing electrolyte. Uniform platinum coatings are possible on thin titanium felt under 200 µm thick, by either potentiostatic or galvanostatic electrodeposition.Data for the paper Arenas Martinez, Luis, Ponce De Leon Albarran, Carlos, Boardman, Richard and Walsh, Frank (2016) Electrodeposition of platinum on titanium felt in a rectangular channel flow cell. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164, (2), D1-D10. (doi:10.1149/2.0651702jes)