The utility model discloses a water treatment filter. The water treatment filter comprises a tank body, a water distributor, a movable filtering plate, a fixed filtering plate, a filter cap filtering plate, an air distributor, a fiber bundle, a fiber ball and a water collector, and the water treatment filter is characterized in that the upper end of the fiber bundle is fixedly arranged on the movable filtering plate, and the lower end of the fiber bundle is fixedly arranged on the fixed filtering plate; and the filter cap filtering plate is arranged below the fixed filtering plate, and the fiber ball is arranged between the filter cap filtering plate and the fixed filtering plate. The water treatment filter has the advantages that two-layer filtering elements are adopted for filtering, filtering precision is high, the filtering elements are easy to clean, and the filter is convenient to run and operate.


Abstract This paper argues that the best way to construct an easy-to-program in and CFR 21 part 11 compliant environment for SAS® programming is by using a version control system, specifically the IBM Rational product ClearCase®. It concentrates on architectural issues to do with protecting data and outputs as well as programs, and stresses the importance of linking an output with its constituent parts. The main reasons for using ClearCase® are explained and illustrated with examples from a successful implementation. Enough information about ClearCase® is included to show why it is uniquely suited, among all Source Code Management Systems, for this task. Although this paper focuses on SAS®, the environment can also be used for other programs with little or no changes.


HIV-infected treatment-naive participants were randomized to tenofovir-emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) plus atazanavir-ritonavir (ATV/r), darunavir-ritonavir (DRV/r), or raltegravir (RAL) over 96 weeks. Insulin resistance increased rapidly and then plateaued and no differences were found with RAL when compared to ATV/r or DRV/r.


The growing increase in computational resources for numerical simulation allows researchers and engineers to generate huge amount of data. The understanding of those data through the use of computer graphics techniques is known as Scientific Visualization. Often, it is necessary to have more than one computer/user accessing the same data set, known as Distributed Visualization This work proposes Scientific Visualization of engineering problems through the use of a Distributed Architecture via Internet (using a browser with VRML Plug-in). The simulated data are obtained directly from a data base and the appropriate information is generated to their visualization. Pre-processing data (such as nodes, elements, lines, areas etc) and post-processing data (such as deformation, stress and strain, from a finite element analysis) are generated. A Distributed Architecture is considered which allows the numerical simulation to be done in a main computer (server) and the visualization to take place in another computer (client), by using a simple, but robust, interface, as is a Internet browser, disposing the access from wherever have Internet. Results obtained with the ANSYS software have proven to be satisfactory when compared with the results visualized through the mentioned software. The proposed architecture can be extended to cope with other solid mechanics software.


Introduction.- Density Functional Theory and the Full-Potential Local-Orbital Approach.- Methods for Band Structure Calculations in Solids.- A Solid-State Theoretical Approach to the Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals.- Simulation of Active and Nonlinear Photonic Nanomaterials in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Framework.- Symmetry Properties of Electronic and Photonic Band Structures.- From the Cluster to the Liquid: Ab initio Calculations on Realistic Systems Based on First-Principles Molecular Dynamics.- Magnetism, Structure and Interactions at the Atomic Scale.- Present-Day Achievements of Molecular Dynamics Simulations.- Computational Materials Science with 'Materials Studio': Applications in Catalysis.- Integration of Modelling at Various Length and Time Scales.- Simulation of Material Behaviour from the Engineering Viewpoint - Classical Approaches and New Trends.- Parallel Implementation Strategies for Algorithms from Scientific Computing.- Multi-Grid Methods - An Introduction.


Abstract The development of multivalent metal (such as Mg and Ca) based battery systems is hindered by lack of suitable cathode chemistry that shows reversible multi‐electron redox reactions. Cationic redox centres in the classical cathodes can only afford stepwise single‐electron transfer, which are not ideal for multivalent‐ion storage. The charge imbalance during multivalent ion insertion might lead to an additional kinetic barrier for ion mobility. Therefore, multivalent battery cathodes only exhibit slope‐like voltage profiles with insertion/extraction redox of less than one electron. Taking VS4 as a model material, reversible two‐electron redox with cationic–anionic contributions is verified in both rechargeable Mg batteries (RMBs) and rechargeable Ca batteries (RCBs). The corresponding cells exhibit high capacities of >300 mAh g−1 at a current density of 100 mA g−1 in both RMBs and RCBs, resulting in a high energy density of >300 Wh kg−1 for RMBs and >500 Wh kg−1 for RCBs. Mechanistic studies reveal a unique redox activity mainly at anionic sulfides moieties and fast Mg2+ ion diffusion kinetics enabled by the soft structure and flexible electron configuration of VS4.


Functionalized lipid membrane, on which enzymatic activity was switched by a lipid signal, was constructed by self-assembling of the following components in aqueous media; a cationic peptide lipid as a bilayer-forming matrix, dimyristoylphosphatidylethanolamine as a lipid signal, lactate dehydrogenase as a membrane-binding effector, and Cu 2 + ion as a mediator between the signal and the effector. Upon addition of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as a signal activator, specific binding of the activator to the lipid signal induced activation of the enzyme.


Background: A pot experiment was conducted to determine the toxic effects of some heavy metals on the plant growth and seed yield of maize (Zea mays L.). Materials and Metheds: Heavy metals Mn, Pb, Cd, Cr and Co individually and in combinations were added as chloride salts in solutions to the pots before sowing. The test plants for were harvested after 80 days of germination and evaluated for nitrogen, protein and heavy matal content was determined. Resalts: Heavy metals caused significant decreases in growth and protein content. Cd was the most toxic metal followed by Co, Hg, Mn, Pb, and Cr. Protein content decreased from 16.0–68.4% in metal exposed plants at metal concentrations equivalent to those found in Conclusion: Metal accumulation by seeds was directly related to the applied heavy metal with greater concentrations of metals found in cases where metals were added individually rather than in combinations. The toxic effects on the plant growth, nitrogen content in different plant parts, and protein content in seeds, exerted by two metals in combination were only as harsh as for the most toxic metal individually probably due to their antagonistic effects.


The report then broadly outlines seven principles on which, in the Director-General's opinion, an appropriate State plan should be based. The first is that the care of the long-term chronically ill should be included in the plan as well as the care of the aged. The second is that the basic approach must be preventive; measures are necessary to postpone deterioration or to delay aggravation of disability. The third is that emphasis must be diverted from institutional care to maintenance of the aged in a domestic or simulated domestic environment. The fourth is that care of the chronically ill should not be divorced from general medical care if the highest standards are to be maintained. The fifth is that the cost of programmes for the care of the aged and chronically ill should be measured in terms of human values and not productivity; the objective is the return of the person as quickly as possible to social adaptations. The sixth is that maximum use should be made of the experience and resources of the many agencies already active in this field; their resources could sometimes be more efficiently used, and they should be represented on any State advisory body. The seventh is that the care of the aged and chronically ill should be considered as an attribute of social welfare with special medical emphasis, and therefore as a public health problem although other State social agencies come into it; there would seem also to be a greater role that could be played by the Commonwealth, particularly in relation to financial assistance.


This paper addresses the issue of the assumed conflicting setting of 1 Sam 20 in the narrative flow of 1 Sam 18-20. It formulates the hypothesis that careful examination of the way the characters of Jonathan and Michal appear in the plot and are portrayed to act suggests a perspective according to which 1 Sam 20 turns out to perform a narrative function relevant to its immediate context.


Tendons are soft connective tissues, which connect muscle to bone forming a musculotendinous unit, whose primary function is to transmit tensile loads generated by muscles to move and enhance joints stability. Adult tendons have relatively low oxygen and nutrient requirements, low cell density, and poor regenerative capacity. The biomechanical properties of tendons are mainly attributed to the high degree of organization of the tendon extracellular matrix, primarily composed of collagen type I, arranged in triple-helical molecules bundles that have different dimensions and which are aligned in a parallel manner in a proteoglycan matrix (Fig. 1).


Abstract A rapid and efficient synthesis of amides via Beckmann rearrangement of ketoximes and dehydration of aldoximes to corresponding nitriles with good to excellent yields has been carried out in the presence of SOCl2/β-cyclodextrin under aqueous conditions. The β-cyclodextrin has been recovered and reused. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


The manufacturing apparatus for a semiconductor device includes: a stage information obtaining portion for obtaining stage information that is information for specifying an exposure stage used in an exposure process of a wafer to be heated from an exposure unit including a plurality of exposure stages on which the wafer is placed; and a temperature setting portion for setting heating temperature of a heating apparatus for heating the wafer to be heated. The temperature setting portion sets the heating temperature based on the stage information individually for each of the plurality of exposure stages.


The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened the macroeconomic outlook for
Senegal's economy. Containment measures to avoid the propagation of the virus, lower
external demand, reduced remittances, and the sudden stop of travel and tourism are
having a significant impact on growth and generating an urgent budgetary and
balance-of-payments (BOP) needs. The authorities have taken strong actions to address
the pandemic by declaring a state of emergency, closing schools, suspending flights,
banning public gatherings, and imposing a curfew. They are implementing a
comprehensive plan to upgrade the health system and contain the economic impact,
including by setting up a national solidarity fund and providing targeted support to
vulnerable households and firms.


Objective Theoretical calculations on the typical antitumor agents Et2SnCl2L (L=phen, Pphen, DMphen and TMphen) 1~4 have been carried out. Method The electronic structures and related properties of these complexes were studied using the DFT-B3LYP method. Results Interaction mechanism of the complex Et2SnCl2 (phen) with DNA is in two modes. In the first mode as electrostatic binding, an electrostatic energy E(subscript e) is to be used to express the strength of electrostatic interaction between Sn(Ⅳ) and Cl(superscript -). In the second mode as intercalation binding, the factors affecting the DNA-binding affinities of complexes are the LUMO energies (e(subscript L)) of these complexes and the charges (Q(subscript L)) on the intercalative ligands as well as the coordination bond lengths (Sn-N) of the intercalative ligands, etc. Conclusion The trend in the antitumor activities of the complexes, i. e., A(4)<A(3)<A(2)<A(1), can be reasonably explained. A new complex 5 has been designed and theoretical calculations have predicted its antitumor activity being higher than that of the above complexes.


A low-speed investigation was made on a highly-swept arrow-wing model to determine the effect of wing leading-edge contour and vertical-tail configuration on the aerodynamic characteristics in pitch and sideslip. The investigation was made with the trailing-edge flaps deflected over a range of angles of attack from 8 deg to 32 deg. The tests were made at a Mach number of 0.13, which corresponds to a Reynolds number of about 3,000,000 based on the wing reference chord.


High proton conductivity in aqueous solutions has been known for a long time and is attributed to the Grotthus mechanism. In this study, we calculated the proton-transfer rate constant associated with prototropic mobility in water as a function of temperature. We found a strong correlation between the proton-transfer rate constant at low temperatures, T < 290 K, and the dielectric relaxation time. The model that we used to calculate the proton-transfer rate constant is based on diffusive propagation of the solvent configuration along a generalized solvent coordinate from the reactant potential surface toward the crossing point with the product potential surface. The proton transfer occurs at the crossing point, and the rate is calculated by a sink term placed at the crossing point. The sink term includes the solvent velocity and the Landau−Zener transmission coefficient. Both the diffusion constant and the Landau−Zener transmission coefficient depend on the dielectric relaxation of the solvent. The calcul...


Considerable effort has been directed to manipulatin, 0 the rumen environment with the aim of improving ruminant production. It has been reported that yeast culture supplement (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to ruminants increased the concentration of cellulolytic bacteria in the rumen (Harrison et al. 1988; Dawson et al. 1990). This study evaluated the effects of yeast culture (YC) supplement on rumen ammonia and on digestibility of low quality roughage fed to sheep. Six mature merino sheep were fed an oaten chaff based ration with (treatment) or without (control) YC (5 g/hd.day) in a 34 day cross-over trial. The ration consisted of 92% chaffed oaten hay, 3.8% chaffed lucerne hay and 4.2% oaten grain and was fed at the rate of 1 110 g dry matter (DM)/hd.day. Ii? vivo digestibility was determined by means of a 10 day preliminary period followed by 7 days of total collection of faeces. On days 17 and 34 rumen fluid was collected, prior to feeding, to determine in vitro digestibility by 4 replicates with or without 10 mg YC in each tube. Rumen ammonia was also determined. It is shown in Table 1 that there were no significant differences between control and treatment in iu vivo digestibility of DM, acid detergent fibre (ADF), nitrogen (N) or in vitro DM digestibility. This contrasts with the report of Wiedmeier et al. 1987 that improved digestibility of protein and hemicellulose was observed when a 75% roughage diet was supplemented with YC and fed to dairy cattle. This might be due to difference in the readily fermentable carbohydrate of the 2 diets with 25% concentrate in the dairy diet and 4.2% in the sheep diet. The sheep diet contained 29.62% ADF and 9.5 MJ/kg digestible energy. Low ammonia concentration in the rumen (54.3 and 49.7 m&L) was associated with low nitrogen content of the feed (0.97% N) and was at a level which Rogers et al. (1986) suggested would be inadequate for microbial growth and protein synthesis.


Potential exports from Indonesia's economy include agricultural products. Red chilies, especially the curly red chili, are one possible horticultural product that might be produced. For the longest time, the process of sorting chili by various firms in the processing sector, chili exporters, and chili farmers has traditionally been done manually and includes several human resources as the decision-maker. The process of sorting chili manually has many disadvantages, such as the long time required, human visual limitations, and the psychic conditions of the observer. The development of machine learning image processing technology makes it possible to sort agricultural products and plantations automatically. One of the deep machine learning methods techniques is VGG16 models from the Convolutional Neural Network method which currently has the most significant result in image recognition is VGG16 models. The classification accuracy value obtained is 93.3% with kernel size 3x3 and batch size 32 at epochs 50 using the RGB input image.


Analysis used perceived value and consumer price value of motor vehicles in Surakarta. The objectives of this research are to know the behavior of consumers in Surakarta base on  valuation percieved used value and percieved price value to the product of Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki. This research took place in the city of Surakarta.The data was collected using a questionnaire. The research sample are 204 respondents using cluster random sampling method  in 51 villages. Data analysis methods used in the research were validity test, reliability test, percieved price value analysis, percieved used analysis. Percieved value analysis result shows that the price value factor and purchase price vehicle become the most important factor in the global dimension as the main price.Used percieved value analysis result shows that the aspect of durability (endurance) performance and service reliabilities as an  important global dimension to the company.In general, performance based on PUV and PPV prominent factor of Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha vehicles are the aspects of performance, durabilty, aspects of the purchase price and maintenance costs. Keywords:price value, used value, Customer Satisfaction


The symbiotic association of alfalfa (Medigaco sativa) with Sinorhizobium melilloti contributes to the production of inoculum to improve plant growth and increase yield. The competitiveness of the introduced strains is a very important factor in the performance of an inoculum which is based on the use of rhizobial strains. This competitiveness is due to the production of anti-microbial substances, among them, bacteriocines. In this study, the totals of 30 rhizobial strains were isolated from M. sativa nodules sampled from sa-line soils of Algeria. Twenty strains were nodulated the host plant M. sativa. The antimicrobial activity producing strains SW16 and SW15 were identified as Sinorhizobium melliloti based on 16S rRNA sequance analysis. Partial puri-fication of this inhibitorys substances by ammonium sulfate were precipitat-ed with 75% saturation. These antimicrobial activitys showed the maximum activity against the strain SW10 estimated at 1800 with the strain SW16 and 2500 AU/ml for the strain SW15. The physicochemical properties of these antimicrobial activitys reveals thier thermoresistant nature and sensitive to protease, but theire were resistant to a wide range of pH and also at differ-ent concentrations of Nacl. This inhibitory agent display primary metabolite kinetics as its maximal production was detected in the growth phase. Antimi-crobial substances produced by sinorhizobium mielilloti SW15 and SW16 exhibited inhibitory activity against the phytopathogen (Aspergillus sp., Fusarium sp., Cladosporium sp. and Alternaria altterna).


Mitri Raheb, Faith in the face of empire, Orbis Books 2014.Mitri Raheb, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and president of the Lutheran World Federation, is a Palestinian Christian. In his latest book Faith in the face of empire, Raheb reflects on the meaning of biblical faith for a Palestinian living in occupied Palestine. How do Palestinian Christians maintain their faith in the God of the Bible when the same Bible is used to justify their oppression?The book is a sustained challenge to our dominant Western cultural mindset. With his family an Intimate part of the long history of the land of the Bible, Raheb sees that history with different eyes. While the present Palestine-lsrael conflict forms the current context, Raheb sees history through what he calls 'the longue duree', the long lens. His ancestors were in the land at the time of Jesus and have experienced life under the long succession of empires that have conquered and controlled this part of the world over the centuries-Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and now Israelis. Each of these empires in turn has negated the history of the local people and rewritten it in order to justify their occupation. He writes: 'The one who interprets assumes power; the one who dominates the story makes it his-story, her-story, literally creating history' (21).Raheb provides a brief account of the way he believes that biblical hermeneutics in Europe and America has been used since World War II to support the occupation and oppression of Palestinians. Christian theologians have provided a 'myth of JudeoChristian tradition' that allows Israel to occupy and oppress Palestine and its people without moral consequence. This hermeneutic consistently interprets scripture in such a way as to dismiss and diminish the Palestinian people. 'On the one hand', he writes, 'we are viewed as the Canaanites or the descendants of Ishmael, which means theologically we are inferiors and politically second-class citizens...On the other hand, our history, our roots, and our presence in the Holy Land are glaringly overlooked so that we become aliens and strangers, and this by divine order' (38). Let one anecdote from the book illustrate the point.I remember vividly a discussion I once had with an American woman. While conversing with me about the situation of the Palestinians in the West Bank, she looked at me and said, I don't understand why Israel is not adhering to the Bible. God told them very clearly to 'take care of the strangers'. It was clear what she was referring to several passages in the Bible, such as Exodus 22:21 and 23:9. I could tell this woman had good intentions. She was truly unhappy with the way we, as Palestinians, are treated by the Israeli occupation. And yet I was angry. I replied: 'This is exactly the problem. Because the most important question is: Who is the stranger here? Is it I, the Palestinian and native of this land, whose ancestors have been living here for centuries, or is it the Israeli settlers being imported from Russia and Ethiopia to ensure a Jewish demographic majority over the Arab population? I'm not the stranger here! Nor are my people! We belong to this land more than anyone else. We were made strangers!' (37)Even calling the region in which Palestine is located the 'Middle East' reflects the Eurocentric world-view. It is seen as nothing but one of the lands east of Europe. Palestinians are seen as a continuation of the pagan Canaanites. Powerful giants who are to be overcome and put out of the land. However, this view of affairs is changing, says Raheb. When Israel brutally put down the Intifada (uprising) in 1987, the world saw that Israel was not David and the Arabs Goliath, but rather it was the other way around. Pictures of a young Palestinian boy with a stone in his hand facing a high-tech Israeli tank did not match the old 1967 myth.Palestine may be at the centre religiously, Raheb observes, but It is never at the centre politically. …


The article deals with the legal problems of legislation, providing for the rejection of a public or local authorities in the provision of land ownership in the event of a decision on reservation lands.


Twenty five normal subjects and 110 patients with peripheral vestibular disorders were examined by these two rotation methods with Contraves' computerized rotary chair on the same day. The following results were obtained: 1) The finding of vestibular asymmetry detected by the two rotation methods agreed in 75.9 % of all patients, while the remainder showed the different results. The abnormality detected by TR test was found in 57.2% of the patients, which was higher than that of SHA test (45.5%). 2) In normal subjects, the maximum slow-phase velocity of per-rotatory nystagmus by TR test was greater than that of SHA test using the approximate value of the angular acceleration. The cause of difference between the results of these two rotation methods was thought to be that the maximum slow-phase eye velocity of per-rotatory nystagmus was more clearly induced by TR test than by SHA test. 3) As to the finding of abnormal VOR-Gain, the results of TR test coincided with that of SHA test in 100% of cases with bilateral vestibular disorders. In cases with unilateral vestibular disorder, however, the rate of the abnormality detected by SHA test was higher than that of TR test. Namely, the abnormality of VOR-Gain in nystagmus directed to the affected side was found in 22.6% by SHA test, and in 11.3% by TR test.


In the reconstruction of high resolution (HR) images from low resolution (LR) image frames, the accuracy in the inter-frame motion estimation is a critical factor. With a motivation that motion estimated over the reconstructed HR frames would have higher accuracy, several attempts have been made to perform motion estimation and HR reconstruction simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a HR reconstruction method, in which a regularized block matching for motion estimation and POCS-based reconstruction are performed in turns. In experimental results, regularized block matching produces reliable motion estimation since the motion of an image pixel is highly correlated with the motion in neighboring region. The improved accuracy of the motion estimation results in higher PSNR of the reconstructed HR images.


PurposeThis study evaluated the bundled impact of high performance work practices (HPWPs) on Generation Y (Gen Y) employee engagement (EE) while considering empowering leadership (EL) as a mediator.Design/methodology/approachThe data for the study are received from 404 Gen Y frontline service employees from three to five star Indian hotels and examined using structural equation modeling.FindingsGen Y employees' perception of HPWPs directly explains their engagement, and EL partially mediates the link between HPWPs and Gen Y EE.Research limitations/implicationsThis study suggests managers to gain from implementing HPWPs and their impact on Gen Y engagement to boost their organizational performance.Practical implicationsThis study suggests managers to gain from implementing HPWPs and their impact on Gen Y EE to boost their employee and hotel's performance.Originality/valueThe present research is one of the few attempts to study how HPWPs can engage the Gen Y cohort in the workplace, especially in developing countries (i.e. India).


In the framework of a contract with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), MATRA DEFENSE - DOD/UAO have developed, produced and tested 36 types LISS 1 - LISS 2 lenses and 12 LISS 3 lenses equipped with their interferential filters. These lenses are intended to form the optical systems of multispectral imaging sensors aboard Indian earth observation satellites IRS 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D. It should be noted that the multispectrum cameras of the IRS 1A - 1B satellite have been in operation for two years and have given very satisfactory results according to ISRO. Each of these multispectrum LISS 3 cameras consists of lenses, each working in a different spectral bandwidth (B2: 520 - 590 nm; B3: 620 - 680 nm; B4: 770 - 860 nm; B5: 1550 - 1700 nm). In order to superimpose the images of each spectral band without digital processing, the image formats (60 mm) of the lenses are registered better that 2 micrometers and remain as such throughout all the environmental tests. Similarly, due to the absence of precise thermal control aboard the satellite, the lenses are as athermal as possible.


In this paper, power spectrum analysis has been used for estimating the depth of geological interfaces. The computer code was tested for synthetic models and implemented to gravity survey data to estimate the thickness of sedimentary cover of several Meso-cenozoic basins of Mongolia. The depth estimation results of the basins' sedimentary cover were in good agreement with other prior geological and geophysical interpretation results of the study areas.


Pot experiments were conduced in a greenhouse, as test plants the dwarf tomato. This study concerns the impact of simultaneous occurrence of saprophytic soil microorganisms: Penicillium frequentons, Streptomyces scabies, Trichoderma viride and Globodera rostochiensis, present separately or together, on the growth of tomato (growth, yield, assimilation, transpiration). The saprophyte who particular decreased the negative influence of G. rostochiensis on tomato was P. frequentans. The presence of that organism caused a significant increase of the average yield and the individual fruit weight.


In order to systematically investigate and utilize present memorial archway resources in Huizhou and to make the researchers more convenient study the related materials,it is urgent to set up Huizhou archway resources database.Based on the analysis of the feasibility of the construction of Huizhou memorial archway resources database,this paper elaborates structure,data collection and platform for the construction of Huizhou memorial archway resources database in order to provide reference for the related research to boost the study and dissemination of Anhui culture.


A Commodore VIC-20 computer has been interfaced with a stepper motor to provide an inexpensive stepper motor controller. Only eight transistors and two integrated circuits compose the interface. The software controls the parallel interface of the computer and provides the four phase drive signals for the motor. Optical sensors control the zeroing of the 12-inch turntable positioned by the controller. The computer calculates the position information and movement of the table and may be programmed in BASIC to execute automatic sequences.


In this work, a Cu/h-BN self-lubricating coating was prepared on cemented carbide by electrospark deposition (ESD). The microstructure and properties of the coating were examined. The results showed that no decomposition of or reactions with h-BN occurred. As the h-BN content and capacitance increased, the number of pores and microcracks in the coatings increased. Additionally, as the capacitance increased, the electrode mass loss increased. However, the specimen mass increased first and then decreased. The coating thickness was affected by the capacitance, deposition time, and volume ratio of h-BN to Cu. The results exhibited were consistent over the tests. The self-lubricating coating exhibited excellent tribological behavior under the test conditions, and the worn surface showed features consistent with shear slippage and abrasive wear.


The present invention discloses a color filter and a color image sensor. A color image sensor array includes a lens, a photoelectric conversion element array and a color filter. Color filter comprising an array of cells consisting of a plurality of filters, a red filter comprising a filter grid cell, a green filter and a blue filter grid cell; regular hexagon grid filter, a filter grid adjacent rows staggered to form a honeycomb array; any three adjacent filter grid lattice necessarily includes a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter grid cell. The arrangement of the lens array and the photoelectric conversion element array and the arrangement of the color filter of the same filter grid array; corresponding to lenses, filters and the photoelectric conversion element grid positioned on the same line perpendicular to the color filter. A color image sensor of the present invention, R, G, and B signals to obtain a reasonable acquisition, the final resolution of the generated image is greatly improved and greatly reduces the consumption of the computer hardware in the image generation process.


The principles of the driving circuit for PDP is introduced.It analyse energy recovery circuit in existence and introduce a new style which is completely syntony.It could reduce the energy wastage and enhance the system performance via the experiment.


Environmental radioactive management is a new field in environmental protection. Through analyzing some cases of environmental radioactive accident, the article discusses the shortcomings in present environmental radioactive management; and points out that we should strengthen the management by the law and make sure of carrying it out.


George Meredith's reputation as the obscure but decorative genius whose work went unread was shattered in 1885 by the publication of Diana of the Crossways. Three editions appeared that first year and the book was hailed as a great novel, "Shakespeare in, modern English."1 However, neither Meredith nor Diana of the Crossways has been well thought of in this century. In 1918 Ezra Pound, whose literary judgments were to prove so influential, dismissed Me-redith as "chiefly a stink."J2 In 1972 Donald David Stone described Diana as a "book whose very weakness in writing and whose facile thematic conclusion could scarcely have convinced perceptive young writers that there was a future in combining old formulas with new subterfuges."3 Stone, and Pound in his fashion, have focused on a crucial issue: what did Meredith offer future writers? Stone argues for what is now an accepted evaluation, that of the two novelists writing more or less at the same time it was Henry James and not Meredith whose fictional strategies created a major direction of modem fiction. Yet at least one attitude of modern literature, the rejection of correspondences between people's inner lives and their external expressions in plot and dialogue, is inherited from Meredith. This discontinuity, a sense that gestures distort feelings, occurs throughout Meredith's work. But it is particularly present in the final four novels, in which Meredith's bizarre, even arbitrary plots express his increasing distrust of any intended form of communication, be it of language or of event, in life or in art. This distrust reflects Meredith's central conviction of the ever-present and everdistorting power of ego in our words and acts. The developing result for Meredith's art was a fragmented and an imagistic style which, despite the


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Statistical analysis of DAPI (A) and PI (B) loading in different solutions.

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PI dye uptake in HeLa cells stably transfected with Cx50WILD and Cx50V44A.

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Mr GU Jie-gang was a well-known latter-day historian in our country,who was the initiator of "Discriminator of Ancient History".He had plenty of achievement,he not only put forward a theory of "Layer Tiredly Resulting in" Chinese ancient history,set up the faction of "Discriminator of Ancient History",but also put forward a lot of original views on the aspect of collection,researching,discerning the false and application of files' historical data.It is still the magic weapon for the researcher of historiography and the files.


Most children interact with their peers during their preschool years and within these interactions, there are arguments. Among the work carried out on children's arguments, Cobb-Moore et al. (2008) and Goodwin and Goodwin (1987), have mentioned that children's arguments are often perceived as being unproductive and negative by adults. To date, there is also little research done with equally little attention given to such arguments. Developmental theorists (Piaget, 1932, 1959; Vygotsky, 1978) have mentioned that arguments can develop children's growth cognitively, socially and linguistically. With that in mind and with the lack of research done, it is thus important to look at how Malaysian children, in their formative years, argue among themselves. This study examined arguments that have occurred naturally among sixteen Malaysian preschoolers during their interactions with one another at a preschool cum day care centre. Specifically, it looked at the types of oppositions they used and in what linguistic forms these oppositions have emerged. A qualitative research design was adopted and data was obtained through observations and audio video recording sessions of these 16 preschoolers interacting among themselves. The data was then transcribed, coded and categorized according to the coding schemes of Eisenberg and Garvey (1981) and Brenneis and Lein (1977). Analysis has found that Reason was the dominant type of opposition used but it was also interspersed with other types of oppositions such as Threat, Insistence and Challenge, among others. It was further found that preschoolers' arguments could be composed of both simple and complex language. Overall, preschoolers' arguments could be said to be logical, persuasive and coherent. This study, although small and with limitations, may be able to illustrate that Malaysian children in their formative years show signs of being competent arguers and they are also capable of holding themselves in conversations.


Objective
To investigate the correlation between vertebral artery tortuosity and posterior circulation ischemia (PCI).

Methods
The patients with PCI aged ≥50 years old and the controls without PCI at the same time were enrolled. CT angiography was performed in all patients. The cervical vertebral artery tortuosity was observed and rated, and the related risk factors for influencing PCI were analyzed.

Results
A total of 112 patients with PCI and 90 controls were enrolled. Univariate analysis showed that the proportions of patients with hypertension (80.36% vs. 54.44%; χ2=15.613, P<0.001), smoking (35.71% vs. 18.89%; χ2=6.974, P=0.008), alcohol consumption (25.89% vs. 10.00%; χ2=8.253, P=0.004), posterior circulation vascular stenosis (54.46% vs. 24.44%; χ2=18.578, P<0.001), and vertebral artery tortuosity (71.43% vs. 48.89%; χ2=10.695, P=0.001), as well as the levels of the total cholesterol (4.96±1.26 mmol/L vs. 4.61±1.04 mmol/L; t=-2.110, P=0.036), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (3.02±0.90 mmol/L vs. 2.69±0.78 mmol/L; t=-2.671, P=0.008), and fibrinogen (3.67±1.69 mg/L vs. 3.25±0.97 mg/L; t=-2.002, P=0.047) in the PCI group were significantly higher than those in the control group. The proportion of bilateral vertebral artery tortuosity in the PCI group was significantly higher that in the control group (30.36% vs. 12.22%; χ2=9.478, P=0.002). The proportion of grade 3 vertebral artery tortuosity in the PCI group was significantly higher than that in the control group (43.75% vs. 26.67%; χ2=6.310, P=0.012). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that smoking (odds ratio [OR] 2.339, 95%confidence interval [CI] 1.037-5.278; P=0.041), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (OR 1.580, 95% CI 1.050-2.377; P=0.028), hypertension (OR 2.631, 95% CI 1.237-5.596; P=0.012), posterior circulation vascular stenosis (OR 3.419, 95% CI1.638-7.134; P=0.001), and vertebral artery tortuosity (OR 2.413, 95% CI 1.212-4.803; P=0.012) were the independent risk factors for PCI.

Conclusion
The vertebral artery tortuosity is an independent risk factor for PCI in the middle-aged and elderly people.

Key words:
Stroke; Brain Ischemia; Vertebral Artery; Cerebral Angiography; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Risk Factors


grass induced for . A pairs of degenerated primers was designed based on the multiply alignment of DREB amino acid sequence from seven other species to amplify the middle fragment . Up special primer was design for 3 (cid:0) race and down special primer was designed for 5 (cid:0) race based on the middle sequence . SMARTTM technology was used to amplify 3 (cid:0) and 5 (cid:0) ends of DREB gene fragment the degenerated primer pairs It the DREB fragment after Blast . on the sequence of the middle segment , primer designed for 3 (cid:0) RACE and a 653 bp segment acquired another primer designed for 5 (cid:0) RACE and a 426 bp cDNA segment acquired full ‐ length cDNA overlapping sequences the analysis of the sequence an open reading frame encoding a protein of amino acid with a predicted molecular mass of 38 . 75 kDa and isoelectric point of 5 . 85 . with DREB of other plants , the amino acid sequence has the best similarity to Cynodon dactylon( AAS 46285 ) ( with 89% ) The the BdDREB


This project explores issues of performing the "exotic Other" in neo-burlesque dance. Using the examples of performers Dita Von Teese's "Opium Den," Jett Adore's "Zorro," and Calamity Chang's "Hello Kitty" acts, questions regarding racial stereotypes, cultural appropriation, subversion, and agency in neo-burlesque are explored, probing the complexity of multi-layered performances of gender, culture, and race.


Background: Nursing is a healthcare profession that is concerned with maintaining and promoting the health of the patients. Because of their work environment and workload nurse are at the very high risk of many occupational health problems. Among all these; musculoskeletal problems are most common especially the low back pain. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used. A sample size of 92 nurses was calculated and questionnaires were distributed among them and information was collected on socio-demographic characteristics, job history, frequency, severity and pattern of low back pain. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23 for windows and Microsoft Excel 2013. Descriptive statistics i.e., percentage, mean were used to interpret the data. Chi-square and P-value were used to find associations between dependent and independent variables. Results: The frequency of low back pain among nurses was 65.1%. 12 months frequency was 57.8% and 7 days frequency was 32.5% with majority of nurses describing pain of Moderate intensity. The frequency of low back pain was high in nurses more than 30 years old, married, overweight/obese and those with more than 15 years of work experience. Conclusions: About 65% of nurses working in Jinnah Hospital Lahore were suffering from low back pain which indicates high prevalence and is in line with prevalence of low back pain in the developed countries. Therefore, it is recommended to maintain the Body Mass Index in the normal ranges and also maintain proper body mechanics and posture and use assistive devices in lifting the patients.


OBJECTIVE
To assess the rate of objective response to pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride (Caelyx) in patients with advanced or refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL).

DESIGN
Prospective, open, multicenter study.

SETTING
Thirteen dermatology departments in France.

PATIENTS
Twenty-five patients with either (1) stage II to stage IV CTCL previously unsuccessfully treated with at least 2 lines of treatments or (2) histologically transformed epidermotropic CTCL requiring chemotherapy.

INTERVENTION
Administration of Caelyx intravenously once every 4 weeks at a dose of 40 mg/m(2).

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
The response to treatment was evaluated by clinical evaluation.

RESULTS
At the end of treatment, we observed an objective response (primary end point) in 56% of the patients (14 of 25): 5 complete responses and 9 partial responses. The median overall survival time was 43.7 months. For the 14 patients who experienced an objective response, the median progression-free survival time after the end of treatment was 5 months.

CONCLUSIONS
This prospective study demonstrates the effectiveness of Caelyx in treating CTCL, with an overall response rate of 56% in spite of the high proportion of patients with advanced-stage disease. Responses were observed in 2 subpopulations of patients in which the prognosis is known to be poorer: Sézary syndrome (overall response rate, 60%) and transformed CTCL (overall response rate, 50%). Moreover, this study shows that dose escalation to 40 mg/m(2) does not seem to improve the effectiveness but increases toxic effects (especially hematologic toxic effects) compared with the dose previously tested of 20 mg/m(2).


We performed a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that scrutinized the oncological benefits and postsurgical complications of total thyroidectomy (TT) plus prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) versus TT alone among clinically node‐negative (cN0) papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients.


Three homologous series of chiral materials derived from (S)‐2‐(6‐hydroxy‐2‐naphthly)propionic acid with a methyleneoxy linking group were synthesized for the investigation of mesomorphic properties. All the materials displayed enantiotropic SmA* and SmC* phases. The spontaneous polarization (P s) and optical tilt angles in the SmC* phase of the chiral materials were measured. The maximum spontaneous polarizations are in the range 12.3–19.1 nC cm−2. No significant difference could be found in the P s values with respect to the various alkyl chiral chain lengths, n. The maximum optical tilt angles are in the range 25–30°. The optical tilt angles decrease with the increase in alkyl chain length, n.


Analysis on the application of project-teaching method in teaching of "3D Design Based on CATIA",Project-teaching method break traditional courses for knowledge structure,teaching content available,teaching work situation,which can prove students' professional qualities and engineering practice ability.


The Boxprop is a high-speed propeller concept intended for aircraft engines, which features blade pairs connected at the tip in order to decrease tip vortex strength, possibly reducing noise and improving aerodynamic performance relative to conventional high-speed propellers. This paper investigates the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance of three aerodynamically optimized high speed propellers; a 6-bladed conventional propeller, a 12-bladed conventional propeller, and a 6-bladed Boxprop. Performance results will be be compared for the three designs, with a focus on sectional performance and wake flow characteristics, and will show that the 6-bladed Boxprop performance lies somewhat in-between its 6 and 12-bladed conventional counterparts. The noise level at various observer positions is presented, and shows that the noise roughly follows the values of efficiency for the three propellers, with the Boxprop noise level being higher than the 12-bladed conventional propeller, but lower than the 6-bladed one. The lower blade loading and higher efficiency of the Boxprop relative to the 6-bladed conventional propeller results in slightly lower levels of noise at cruise.


A method to monitor an output of an APD is disclosed. The method includes steps of (a) measuring dark currents of the APD at several temperatures in advance to a practical opera tion of the APD, (b) measuring an output current of the APD by illuminating the APD practically at a measured tempera ture, (c) estimating a dark current at the measured tempera ture from measured dark currents, and (d) Subtracting the estimated dark current from the output current.


Objective Discussing the curative to treat the upper and posterior nasal septumdeviation.Methods Performing the resection of the upper and posterior nasal septum deviation under nasal emdoscopy,comparing this new method with the traditional one and discussing thesafety and long-term curative effect of this new method.Results The observation of the outcome of 86 patients undergoing this operation after6 months postoperation shows that this techniquecan resect the upper and posterior deviation good effects,improve the nasal respiratory and olfactory function and reduce the occirrence of nasal cavity adhesion and the recurrence of nasal polyp and sinusitis.Conclusion Performing the resection of the upper and Posterior nasal septum deviation under nasal endoscory is a good method for popularizing to clomocoam.


Augmentation and virtualization of resource-poor wireless/ mobile smart things are opening the doors to novel contextaware crowd sensing applications, that allow geographically distributed people/machine users to capture, analyze and share environmental local features of social interest. In order to implement the resulting network of the so-called Internet of Everything (IoE), the emerging technological paradigm of Fog computing (FC) andCloudComputing (CC) are expected to provide the needed network-plus-computing support by allowing the on-the-fly instantiation of software clones (e.g. virtual surrogates) of the physical sensing things onto resource-equipped nearby clouds (e.g. Cloudlets) placed at the edge of the wireless access network. FC essentially involves various types of applications that run both in the Cloud and in smart devices, such as smart gateways and routers, where billions of devices are interconnected using the Internet of Things (IoT). On the basis of these considerations, the creation of dynamic local clouds can lead to a shorter service execution time and provide green computation and communication in order to manage the computation, storage, and communication capabilities of the cloud infrastructures, however, suffer from raising scalability and reliability issues in a highly dynamic environment. Therefore, it is essential to introduce novel techniques to merge the benefits of the CC and makes it applicable in highly volatile IoT devices. As a result, for a highly virtualized platform, where the processing of data and applications execution are no longer performed in the Cloud, FC is emerging as an option of choice with respect to CC. FC is able to handle an increasing number of interconnected devices and an evolving demand of the IoT. By the virtue of its proximity to the end users, FC is able to reduce the data traffic to the Cloud. This makes it timely to investigate new approaches for modeling the new network-aware applications accounts the IoE paradigm. Significant scientific advances on this topic can be made through both in-depth theoretical analyzes and integration of data from related real-world experimental studies. On the other hand, without proper security and privacypreserving mechanisms, FC cannot be adopted despite of its usefulness. Clearly, FC will suffer from the classical security and privacy issues which are inherited from cloud computing. In addition, it suffers from unique threats due to the adoption of Fog devices such as man-in-the-middle attacks. The papers presented in this special issue provides insights in fields related to IoT and Fog/edge architecture, including parallel processing of the smart system, presenting new emerging models, performance evaluation and improvements, and IoT application developments.Wewish the readers can benefit from insights of these papers, and contribute to these rapidly growing areas.


To initiate a scheduled speed change at the correct point in the operating cycle of a machine, a speed change command is subjected to a variable delay. Attaining the commanded speed level too early or too late in one cycle results in the speed change command being correspondingly delayed or advanced in the next cycle. In the preferred embodiment, a low point controller is designed to control the high-to-low speed transition in a multiple spindle bar or screw machine to achieve "feed" speed at the optimum point to decrease cycle time while avoiding damage to the cutting tools.


To meet the DOE`s commitment to operate its facilities in a safe, economic, and environmentally sound manner, and to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local rules, regulations, and agreements, DOE created the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) in 1989 to focus efforts on controlling waste management and cleaning up contaminated sites. In the first few years of its existence, the Office of Waste Management (EM-30) has concentrated on operational and corrective activities at the sites. In 1992, the Office of Waste Management began to apply an integrated approach to managing its various waste types. Consequently, DOE established the Low-Level Waste Management Program (LLWMP) to properly manage its complex-wide LLW in a consistent manner. The objective of the LLWMP is to build and operate an integrated, safe, and cost-effective program to meet the needs of waste generators. The program will be based on acceptable risk and sound planning, resulting in public confidence and support. Strategic planning of the program is under way and is expected to take two to three years before implementation of the integrated waste management approach.


Is there some inherent characteristic of large-scale aggregate econometric models which makes them particularly susceptible or vulnerable to the generation of forecast errors for business fixed investment? Does Keynes's observation concerning the "animal spirits" effect on investment make econometric formation incorrigibly incapable of capturing the subjective variables which enter into investment decisions? And, finally, if those questions were to be resolved negatively, is there some recent evidence to support the earlier conclusions of Jorgenson, Hunter, and Nadiril and of Liebling and Russel2 that business anticipations surveys of spending were at least as successful (and frequently more so) in forecasts of investment in the 1950s and 1960s, and to suggest that some future research efforts might be allocated to the survey approach? The impulse to raise these issues arises from an examination of the forecast record for 1973, 1974, and 1975 of nonresidential fixed investment generated by three well-known large-scale econometric models in the United States; specifically, Chase Econometric Associates, Inc., Data Resources, Inc., and Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc. A second and continuing motive for investigation derives from the availability of a test of econometric forecasting, whose results may be compared with the anticipations survey results-an alternative not usually available for other broad sectors of activity. The major conclusions which emerge from this analvsis are: 1. The relative advantage of using these three large-scale econometric model forecasts is not clearly demonstrated by the experience of 1973, 1974, and 1975. The performance of the anticipatory surveys of the Department of Commerce continued to show a margin of superiority. 2. The forecasts of the large-scale econometric models were in greater error when made in "real" (constant dollar) than when made in nominal


The 10th International Symposium on Toxic Microorganisms, organized by the US–Japan Cooperative Program on Development and Utilization of Natural Resources, Joint Panel on Toxic Microorganisms, was held on 7–9 November 2006 at the USFDA Center for Food Safety and Nutrition in College Park, Maryland. As suggested by the title, longstanding and emerging challenges must be met to protect animals and humans from illnesses arising from feedor food-borne pathogenic and toxigenic microorganisms. These challenges are being addressed on multiple levels, ranging from epidemiological studies to assess exposures in populations, to developing faster, more reliable analytical methods, to toxicological investigations for understanding the mechanisms of food-borne diseases, to elucidating the genomes of the causative microorganisms. The selection of symposium presentations in this special issue of Food Additives and Contaminants illustrates ongoing multidisciplinary research in these and other areas that contribute to protecting the public from the adverse effects of pathogenic and toxigenic microorganisms. Several presentations covered aspects of the epidemiology of microbial food-borne illness. Militotis et al. discussed how Microbial Risk Assessment (MRA) can be used as a systematic tool that allows an evaluation of exposure, the resultant impact of exposure on consumers' health, and potential intervention or control measures. They also discussed the use and limitations of epidemiological data in the development of a valid MRA. Toyofuku focused on the epidemiology of Salmonella poisonings in Japan from 1998 to 2004 and, using these data, looked at the challenges in developing effective risk-mitigation strategies. He further suggested potential improvements in datagathering activities that could contribute significantly to reducing Salmonella food poisonings further. New modelling techniques are needed for rapid detection and response to food poisoning outbreaks. Jaine addressed this need by discussing a computerized model that uses a structured, phased form of pathway analyses to model the entire evolution of food-borne illnesses. From the results obtained from the models, the consequences of various scenarios arising from an outbreak as well as the optimal ways to intervene and control those consequences could be proposed. Microbial resistance to antibiotics has become an increasingly important concern. Two presentations on antimicrobic resistance patterns illustrating two different, but related, challenges for food safety and public health were presented. Igimi et al. reported Japanese data on trends in antimicrobial resistance patterns in Campylobacter and, in this regard, the reported trend in resistance to quinolones in animal and human isolates was of particular interest. Akiba et al. illustrated the changing patterns of antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium isolated from cattle in Japan. Their studies suggested that resistance patterns have been affected by a clonal exchange of S. typhimurium among cattle and that the contemporary strains show a remarkable degree of homogeneity with DT104 at a molecular level. Challenges in understanding the mechanisms of action of virulence factors in specific organisms were discussed by Okada et al., who reviewed the genetic basis for the strong osmotolerance associated with Listeria monocytogenes. While the authors noted that much more genetic analysis is needed, studies using a variety of mutant strains have opened new insights into the osmotolerance of this important food pathogen and it is expected that, as understanding increases, more efficient control methods for L. monocytogenes may be developed. Phillips and Abbott discussed high throughput enzyme-linked immunoabsorbant assay (ELISA) electrochemiluminescent detection of botulinum toxins in foods, a method that addresses the challenges involved in the rapid laboratory analysis for this foodborne toxin and its relevance for food safety and defence purposes. While the mouse assay remains the gold standard test for the presence of botulinum toxins, it has long been recognized that faster, less expensive methods with higher throughput are needed


Microcirculatory failure, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidant generation are thought to be key events during sepsis that lead to multi‐organ failure. Acute kidney injury is a leading cause of mortality in septic children. We developed a clinically relevant cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) sepsis model in rat pups 17‐19 days old to identify and evaluate new therapeutic approaches. Analysis of the renal microcirculation using intravital video microscopy at 18 h post CLP or sham surgery showed a significant decrease in the percentage of continuously flowing capillaries (from 75% to 40%) and an increase in capillaries with no flow (from 5% to 30%). Microcirculatory failure was associated with a 2‐fold increase in mitochondrial superoxide generation in renal tubules. We then performed dose‐response studies to evaluate the effectiveness of the mitochondria‐targeted antioxidant MitoTEMPO to reduce mitochondria superoxide and to improve renal microcirculation. MitoTEMPO was administered at doses of 1, 3, or 10 mg/kg (ip) at the time of CLP or sham surgery. Superoxide and perfusion were measured at 18 h. MitoTEMPO produced dose‐dependent decreases in mitochondrial superoxide and increases in microcirculatory perfusion with 3 mg/kg being the lowest most efficacious dose to preserve the renal microcirculation. These findings suggest a previously unrecognized link between mitochondrial oxidants in the renal tubule epithelium and the regulation of microvascular perfusion. The protective effect of MitoTEMPO in the kidney suggests that agents like it should be evaluated further for their effectiveness at reducing sepsis‐induced multi‐organ failure. Supported by T32 GM106999 and AHA PRE20450050.


One of the most important types of DC-DC converters is Boost converters. They increase the voltage level, stabilizing and reducing the voltage ripples at output. The nature of this system is nonlinear and uncertainty is unavoidable in modeling it. This study presented a fractional order fuzzy PI (FOFPI) controller to control the system. The Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) Optimization is used to optimize the parameters of proposed controllers. The fractional order of integral is achieved by ICA. The results are compared with fuzzy PI (FPI) controller. They show the FOFPI has less fluctuations, overshoot and settling time compared to FPI. Additionally, the value of Power Factor Correction (PFC) is closer to one. In fact, FOFPI has more flexibility and good performance in dealing with uncertainty in comparison with FPI. The results reveal the performance of the proposed method against other methods.


During recent years UAVs have been increasingly used in agriculture and forestry research and application. Nevertheless, most of this work has been devoted to improving accuracy and explanatory power, often at the cost of usability and affordability. We tested a low-cost UAV and a simple workflow to apply four different greenness indices to the monitoring of pine (Pinus sylvestris and P. nigra) after-fire regeneration in a Mediterranean forest. We selected two sites and masured all pines within a pre-selected plot. Winter flights were carried out at each of the sites, at two flight altitudes (50 and 100 m). Automatically normalizing images entered an SfM based photogrammetric software for restitution and the obtained point cloud and orthomosaic processed to get a canopy height model and four different greenness indices. Sum of pine DBH was regressed on summary statistics of greenness indices and canopy height model. ExGI and GCC indices outperformed VARI and GRVI in estimating pine DBH, while canopy height model slightly improved the models. Flight altitude did not severely affect model performance. Our results show that low cost UAVs may improve forest monitoring after disturbance, even in those habitats and situations were resource limitation is an issue.


This work is an investigation of particle deposition and air flow in the human lung. In particular we are interested in how the motion of particulate matter and air is affected by the presence of lung disease. Patients with compromised lung function are more sensitive to air pollution; understanding the extent of that sensitivity can lead to more effective air quality standards. Also, understanding of air flow and particle trajectories could lead to the development of better aerosol drugs to treat the lung diseases. Computational flow models are used to model two different airway diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchial tumors. The presence of disease in the lung has a large effect both on global deposition patterns and on localized airflow patterns. This indicates the need for different protocols regarding susceptibility of people to airborne pollutants that take into account lung disease. It also suggests that treatment should account for changes in airflow in the diseased lung.


The non-uniform temperature load resulted by sunshine of Shanxi Three Gymnasiums under construction in the open air is studied.Shanxi Three Gymnasiums are composed of bicycle stadium,gymnasium,swimming pool and their connecting platforms.Based on the actual geometry,cross-section parameters,thermal physical characteristics of materials,etc.of the structure,the finite element model is set up and the solar radiation,thermal convection between air and the structure,etc.are computed at intervals of half an hour in a day in the modeling.Supposing uniform air temperature at 5∶30 am as the rational initial structure temperature,the non-uniform temperature field resulted by sunshine which sustains 24 hours is computed by transient analysis.The results show that the maximum temperature of the structure reaches 50℃,and the highest local temperature difference goes up to 17℃,under the worst-case weather condition that is in a cloudless day of July 15 in the hottest summer.Finally,the reasonable proposals of the working temperature for closure construction are given,which provides a temperature load reference for the structure construction scheme and error control.


The objective of this research is to analysis of liquidity, profitability, activity andsolvency ratios on investment opportunity set (IOS) in the stages of life cycle ofmanufacturing firms that are listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. The sample of the studyare manufacture firms listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange that distributed dividendsuccessively in 2001 – 2005. Sample size consists of total is 135 firms.This study indicates that on the start-up stage, activity and solvency ratios have effecton IOS. On the initial expansion stage, activity ratio has effect on IOS and on the finalexpansion no ratio has effect on IOS. For mature and decline stages, also no ratio has effecton IOS. Therefore, financial ratios can be used manufacture firm analysis tools at start-upand initial expansion stages, but not at final expansion, mature and decline stages.


Abstract In 2005, the World Health Organisation (WHO) established the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. It is to produce its final report in May 2008, identifying actions to address the vast health disparities that have accompanied global economic expansion and widespread political turmoil. The Commission and its anticipated report are a major part of a new research and policy approach committed to the advancement of global health equity. This paper explores the fundamental goals, principles and concepts of the health equity 'movement', and its relationship to the 'social determinants of health' approach. It argues that such an approach is an instrument for rendering the problem of health inequity real and actionable by institutional authorities and policy practitioners. However, its prevailing frameworks and methods impose significant constraints on its capacity to identify effectively the mechanisms by which health inequities are produced. Accordingly, the actions suggested by the prevailing approach to the problem of health inequity are likely to be less than efficacious. The paper suggests that a more dynamic understanding of the social, as provided by critical sociology, has much to offer in advancing efficacious policy interventions in the field of health and equity.


This research paper introduces a novel algorithm can be applied either, in the area of digital watermarking and steganography, separately or together. This amalgamated algorithm, MP_2, is evolved for enhancement of secrecy level of a confidential message communication and imperceptibility of a watermark in the digital steganography and watermarking domain. The research work has employed matrix transformation technique to evolve embedment and encryption algorithm. This algorithm is classified in the reversible algorithm in the area of digital watermarking technique steganography.


Long after the eclipse of the erotic tenor that medieval theology maintained in connection with divine love, the idea of self-love remains controversial in contemporary theological discourse, chiefly due to the persistence?despite varied criticisms?of a dualistic conception which sees agape as self-sacrificial love in contradistinction to egocentric love, eros. This paper offers an aesthetic perspective on this issue by drawing on two complementary resources: primarily, Hans Urs von Balthasar's Glory of the Lord; secondarily, John Milton's Paradise Lost. First, we examine Balthasar's notion of Gestalt in an attempt to show how perceiving the beauty of Gestalt Christi, which manifests the Triune love, involves the rapture of aesthetic divine eros. Next, our focus is on Balthasar's aesthetics of the Cross, which he sees as the locus where divine eros beautifully coincides with agape, with a claim that only those who are empowered in the aesthetic rapture to perceive the sublime alien beauty of the Crucifixion?which, as the supreme form of kenosis, purifies human eros toward agape?are able to perceive the sublime beauty of the self (that is, authentic self-love), and furthermore the sublime alien beauty of others (that is, altruistic love), both sharing the image of God. Finally, we call attention to Maggie Kilgour's reading of Milton's epic poem as a fresh literary resource for investigating how her novel notion of "holy narcissism"?which encapsulates the self-reciprocal Triune love in reciprocal relation with the creatures?could further illuminate Balthasar's notion of aesthetic eros.


Abstract The magnetic susceptibility and Curie temperatures Tc have been investigated for a series of synthetic samples with solid-solution compositions ranging from pure magnetite (Fe3O4) to hercynite (FeAl2O4). The determined Tc can be fitted by a straight line, which also fits the theoretical values for these end-members. With increasing hercynite concentration, susceptibility curves for one heating and cooling cycle become irreversible, indicating changes in the structural state of the samples during annealing. These changes occur in specific temperature ranges for each composition. For a sample of composition Mag40Hec60, irreversible changes occurring between about 200 and 300°C are likely due to changes in the cation distribution, whereas above 300°C, compositional Fluctuations due to spinodal decomposition are evident. The exsolution mechanism has been investigated using energy- filtered transmission electron microscopy, which has allowed direct imaging of the compositional Fluctuations consistent with the theoretical predictions of spinodal decomposition


Author(s): Shin, JI | Advisor(s): Wang, Dong | Abstract: RNA polymerase II (pol II) recognizes many obstacles during transcription elongation, including DNA damage lesions and modifications, via specific interactions and leads to distinct transcriptional outcomes. We investigate three specific types of modifications/lesions in DNA and how they affect the pol II transcription process: 1) unnatural synthetic nucleotides (dNaM and dTPT3), 2) regioisomeric alkylated thymidine lesions (O2-, N3-, O4-EtdT), and 3) non-covalent minor groove DNA binders pyrrole-imidazole (Py-Im) polyamides. In Chapter 1, we investigate pol II transcription and elongation in the presence of synthetic nucleotides (dNaM and dTPT3), and the ability of pol II to distinguish between natural NTPs and the unnatural triphosphates. Selective incorporation of rNaM by pol II only occurs when dTPT3 is in the template strand, and loses its selectivity when dNaM is in the template. In Chapter 2, we discovered distinct patterns of pol II transcriptional bypass for each of the alkylated thymidine lesions. We found that pol II bypass of O2-EtdT is essentially error free, bypass of O4-EtdT is efficient and highly error prone, and bypass of N3-EtdT is extremely slow. In Chapter 3, we found that Py-Im polyamides bound to the minor groove at sequence specific sites causes prolonged pol II arrest upstream of the binding site, due to two specific residues in the pol II Switch 1 region that contribute to the early detection of the obstruction in the minor groove. Taken together, these studies highlight the importance of pol II recognition of DNA damage and modifications in the maintenance of transcriptional fidelity.


Dealing jointly with species and their environments, geography serves as a fertile bridge between the human and social sciences and the natural sciences. It allows study of areas shared between humans and non-humans, within which the animal is a particularly strong heuristic example. To understand conditions and ways in which areas are shared between humans and animals, the territory(ies) of each must be understood : how they function, their interactions, dynamics, respective adaptations as well as their spatial and cultural associations. This is because the territory of one (human) creates the territory of the other (non-human) and vice versa. In France, recent initiatives have led to the emergence of a "humanimal" geography, strongly influenced by a culturalist approach. This edition of the Annales de Geographie intends to complement this approach by addressing the issue at the interface between ecology and geography. We retrace the animal's place in geography to better understand how it can be a model of our relationships with the environment, especially in a context where areas of encounter between humans and animals are multiplying.


We investigate the phase diagram and the baryon mass (MB) in the color SU(Nc = 3) strong coupling lattice QCD with one species of staggered fermions at finite quark chemical potential (μ) and/or finite temperature (T). In particular, their evolution with the finite coupling (1 =g 2 ) is studied in the next to leading order of the strong coupling expansion. We formulate the treatment of the temporal plaquette effects by introducing some new kinds of mean fields, which lead to the suppression of μ and the constituent quark mass (mq). These energy scale modifications cause the following phase diagram evolution: (1) The ratio of the critical value (μc=Tc) becomes closer to the empirical value. (2) As the coupling decreases, the second order transition at zero chemical potential evolves to the first order, and the critical temperature Tc is found to be consistent with lattice Monte-Carlo simulations. The same suppression mechanism of μ also modifies the analytic relation between the baryon mass MB and the critical baryon chemical potential (Ncμc). We show that the ratio Ncμc=MB grows as the coupling decreases, and this trend may be helpful to form the nuclear matter in the current frame work.


Dried red peppers are a staple agricultural product used in Korean cuisine and as such, are an important aspect of agricultural producers' income. Correctly forecasting both their supply and demand situations and price is very important in terms of the producers' income and consumer price stability. The primary objective of this study was to compare the performance of time series forecasting models for dried red peppers in Korea. In this study, three models (an autoregressive model with exogenous variables [ARX], AR-exponential generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity [EGARCH], and ARX-EGARCH) are presented for forecasting the wholesale price of dried red peppers. As a result of the analysis, it was shown that the ARX model and ARX-EGARCH model, each of which adopt both the rolling window and the adding approach and use the agricultural cooperatives price as the exogenous variable, showed a better forecasting performance compared to the autoregressive model (AR)-EGARCH model. Based on the estimation methods and results, there was no significant difference in the accuracy of the estimation between the rolling window and adding approach. In the case of dried red peppers, there is limitation in building the price forecasting models with a market-structured approach. In this regard, estimating a forecasting model using only price data and identifying the forecast performance can be expected to complement the current pricing forecast model which relies on market shipments.


Martin Rhonheimer is considered one of the most important contemporary writers in philosophical Thomistic ethics. Following his previously published volumes by CUA Press, The Perspective of the Acting Person, Vital Conflicts in Medical Ethics, and, most recently, Ethics of Procreation and the Defense of Human Life. Rhonheimer here presents a significant new resource for moral philosophy, The Perspective of Morality. The appearance of this book represents an epoch for the reception of Rhonheimer in the English-speaking world; readers now have access to a systematic argument for his efforts to advance an Aristotelian-Thomistic virtue ethics for the twenty-first century.


The oxidation of FeS 2 and reduction of MnO 2 are essencial for the preparation of manganese sulfate through the process of co calcining pyrolusite and pyrite. Study showed the effect of multi phase reaction between MnO 2 and SO 2 on the reduction of Mn 4+ to Mn 2+ is critical. Conversion of 91% can be reached by the combination of optimal conditions. A new process is estabished to produce manganese sulfate from pysolusite.


Distributed graph systems are becoming extremely popular due to their flexibility, scalability, and robustness in big graph processing. In order to improve the performance of the distributed graph systems, caching is a very effective technique to achieve fast response and reduce the communication cost. Existing works include online and offline caching algorithms. Online caching algorithms (such as least recently used (LRU) and most recently used (MRU)) are lightweight and flexible, however, neglect the topological properties of big graphs. Offline caching algorithms (such as node pre-ordered) consider the graph topology, but are very expensive and heavy. In this paper, we propose a novel caching mechanism, GraphCache (GCache), for big distributed graphs. GCache consists of an offline phase and an online phase, which inherits the advantages of online and offline caching algorithms. Specifically, the offline phase provides a caching model based on the bipartite graph clustering and give efficient algorithms to solve it. The online phase caches and schedules the graph clusters output from the offline phase, based on the LRU and MRU strategies. GCache can be seamlessly integrated into the state-of-the-art graph processing systems, e.g., Giraph. Finally, our experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed caching techniques in speeding up graph algorithms over distributed big graphs.


The parametric design of the whole structure of overhead traveling crane is studied in this paper,based on the design idea of oriented-object.Open software system of CAD is developed by fully utilizing related technologies such as visualization,parametric drawing,three-dimensional modeling,parametric design specification and so on,both optimum design and visual design can be carried on by this software.


Although the number of heroin users in the United States has decreased in recent years, about 130,000 Americans were using heroin in 1998.(1) The physical and social consequences for heroin users are high. While methadone maintenance is an effective approach to treating heroin addiction, treatment retention has been an issue for all treatment modalities. Fischer et al. present several limitations of methadone treatment including painful withdrawals, craving to use needles, risk of getting hooked on other drugs, and limited time of the high. They cite studies that have reported dissatisfaction among clients in methadone programs. Therefore, Fischer et al. suggest that alternative treatment approaches such as heroin maintenance should be considered for heroin users.


Bibliometric techniques are widely used to study the factors leading to successful research, though this is not without its challenges. One notable problem is that academic data is very diverse, and involves complex interactions between many different entities and players. In this paper, a novel framework for analyzing heterogeneous academic data is proposed. While such a framework would have many different applications, this paper focuses on the design of an academic recommendation system, which is one interesting use case for this framework.


The crystal structure of the title compound, C18H20O2Se, shows that the tetrahydrofuran ring adopts a chair conformation, with the phenylselenyl group occupying an axial position and the 2-methoxyphenyl group in an equatorial position.


Objective: To evaluate the histomorphometric and immunohistochemical changes in interstitial cells and ovarian follicles of rats treated with metformin during and after induction of permanent estrus. Methods: Thirty-two adult-female rats with regular estrous cycle were equally divided into four groups: 1) GCtrl - at estrous phase. 2) GPCOS - at permanent-estrous phase. 3) GMet1 - rats and daily treated with metformin (12.5 mg/Kg) during 60 consecutive days, as preventive form and 4) GMet2 - PCOS rats, which remained exposed to 60 days of continuous illumination and treated with metformin. After that, the animals were euthanized, and the ovaries were removed and processed for paraffin embedding. Sections were stained with H.E. for histomorphometry or subjected to immunohistochemistry for Ki-67 and cleaved caspase-3 (Casp-3) detections. Results: The GPCOS showed lack of corpus luteum and several ovarian cysts, as well as interstitial-like cells. The presence of corpus luteum and a significant increase in primary and antral follicles were observed in Mel-treated groups, which also showed a decrease in the number of ovarian cysts and in the area occupied by interstitial-like cells. The presence of corpus luteum along with an increase in the number of primary follicles in the Met2 group were noticed (p<0,01). A significant reduction in number of cysts and in the area occupied by interstitial cells, as well as a decrease in nuclear volume of interstitial cells, were noticed in the Met-treated groups, mainly in the Met2 group. The percentage of cell proliferation was significantly higher in granulosa cells of the Met-treated groups than PCOS group, mainly in the GMet2 (p<0,01), which was similar to the GCtrl group. On the other hand, the percentage of apoptosis (cleaved-caspase-3- positive cells) was significantly higher in the granulosa cells of GPCOS and Met-treated groups than the GCtrl group, but without significant difference, which showed weak cleaved caspase-3 immunoreactivity in those cells. Conclusion: The ovaries of rats treated with metformin showed a decrease in nuclear volume and in the area occupied by interstitial cells, presence of corpus luteum, in addition to a decrease in the number of cysts.


In the course of the survey of the useful plants of Nepal, 9 species of Swertia have been documented with their indigenous uses from the study areas (various villages and adjoining areas of Rasuwa, Sindhupalchok, Dolakha, Makwanpur, Kathmandu, and Lalitpur Districts in Central Development Region of Nepal). Local people have remarkable detailed knowledge of species identity, characteristics and their specific. At present, these useful plants and their habitats are under serious threat due to anthropogenic pressure. In this paper, an attempt has been made to enumerate these plants and their parts used as raw drugs and also to recommend some strategic agenda for sustainable management of the species.


The training of scientific research ability of university students is an important way to foster personnel with creativity, for it is conducive to the cultivation of thinking ability with initiative, which is the key factor, the forming of an all round knowledge structure and the ability of self study, using foreign languages and information technology. Therefore, it is an important measure to strengthen the construction of mechanism of scientific research abilily; university students; provide then with human resource and financial support, and award them when appropriate.


This article examines the fall of British Conservative party leaders from Neville Chamberlain to Margaret Thatcher. Though the leadership is vested with considerable power and resources, holding on to it is conditional on the ability to deliver electoral success for the party. Previous studies concentrated on one or other of the party's component parts, but neglected the importance of others. Although this article concentrates on Cabinet and especially the parliamentary party, it tries to take a more historic and holistic view. Political crisis management and the leader's style are analysed from a Conservative perspective to create a comprehensive picture of how and why leaders have been explicitly or implicitly forced aside by their own party. The motives and mechanisms that have proved most important in the exercise of the party's will to power are as follows: the leader's electoral image, the leader's handling of crises, the leader's use of patronage, the leader's dependence on party bodies, and most decisively the leader's ability to recognise and defuse discontent within 'their' party by using the significant resources available to a Conservative leader.


The performance of information retrieval systems can be evaluated in a number of different ways. Much of the published evaluation work is based on measuring the retrieval performance of an average user query. Unfortunately, formal proofs are difficult to construct for the average case. In the present study, retrieval evaluation is based on optimizing the performance of a specific user query. The concept of query term accuracy is introduced as the probability of occurrence of a query term in the documents relevant to that query. By relating term accuracy to the frequency of occurrence of the term in the documents of a collection it is possible to give formal proofs of the effectiveness with respect to a given user query of a number of automatic indexing systems that have been used successfully in experimental situations. Among these are inverse document frequency weighting, thesaurus construction, and phrase generation.


The application of catalyst in Selective Catalytic Reduction(SCR) De-Nox technology as well as the selection of TiO2 is introduced in the paper.Combined with the latest research trend,the carrier,active material and promoter used as the main components of the most popular catalyst supported on TiO2 as well as several factors having great influence on catalytic activity are introduced.The effect of different promoters on the catalyst activity and catalyst stability is also summarized in the paper.


Our analysis covers 260 RTAs, of which 200 include at least one provision on TBT. We find that in general disputes on TBT provisions arising under RTAs are not treated differently from other type of RTA disputes. Fifteen per cent of RTAs with TBT provisions include provisions that apply exclusively to the resolution of TBT disputes and do so in general to favour the WTO dispute settlement mechanism over that of the RTA; only in one RTA - NAFTA - do the parties provide under some conditions for the exclusive use of the RTA DSM for certain types of TBT disputes. In the remaining RTAs, the parties do not provide for a specific way of dealing with TBT disputes and apply instead the general dispute settlement (DS) provisions under the RTA. Under the general DS provisions, the parties do not give exclusivity to one forum, with one exception EU-Chile RTA, but allow instead for the selection of the forum in case of jurisdictional overlapping and in accordance with certain rules. RTAs with such a forum-choice clause account for 55% of the RTAs with TBT provisions, while 24% do not provide for any guidelines in the case of jurisdictional overlapping, which can be problematic, and 5% do not have their own dispute settlement mechanism (DSM), so that in the event of a dispute over the same (or similar) obligation under the RTA and the WTO, the WTO DSM would be the only possible forum.


This article describes how packaged water consumption has risen sharply in the world over the past 30 years. It is the most dynamic sector of the food and drink industry. The growth of bottled water sales is the contribution of the marketing activities, promotion, and aggressive sales. Is there a difference between bottled water and tap water? Opinions are divided. Some are for bottled water, some for tap water. World consumption of bottled water in 2013 was 70,371.6 million gallons or more than consumption in 2008 for 6.2%. Kosovo is a small country with a small purchasing power. In recent years, Kosovo has increased the use of packaged water by the population, due to a lack of viable drinking water running to the water network, and also as a result of social changes and the mentality of people. This article will deal with Kosovo's market developments, consumer behavior and factors that affect the behavior of purchases.


Abstract : An equivalent circuit of two orthogonal striplines coupled by a ferrite (yttrium iron garnet) sphere is derived, using the scattering matrix method. This derivation shows that a nonreciprocal phase shifter can be represented by gyrator networks. Based on this analysis, a YIG bandpass filter, electronically tunable over a very broad frequency range (4:1), is designed by coupling two broadband 180-deg phase shift circuits with a small single crystal YIG sphere. The report also reviews some basic principles pertaining to filter considerations, analyzes the filter circuit of two orthogonal striplines coupled by a ferrite sphere, and synthesizes the equivalent filter circuit by a scattering matrix method. These results describe the operation of the filter circuit under various terminal excitations.


Imitation is an important learning process for upgrading technological capability in firms. a literature review on imitation, help us understand research status in this field to build a solid basis for future research. This review highlights imitation is a important research area. Imitation is an important channel for technological capability development in firms. Imitation-based technological learning is untouched upon by previous studies, although rapid research progress has been achieved in the field of technological learning. Few studies address micro-processes of imitation, most of them have focused on the importance and typology of imitation.


The analysis of turbulent flows is a significant area in fusion plasma physics. Current theoretical models quantify the degree of turbulence based on the evolution of certain plasma density structures, called blobs. In this work we track the shape and the position of these blobs in high frequency video data obtained from Gas Puff Imaging (GPI) diagnostics, by training a mask R-CNN model on synthetic data and testing on both synthetic and real data. As a result, our model effectively tracks blob structures on both synthetic and real experimental GPI data, showing its prospect as a powerful tool to estimate blob statistics linked with edge turbulence of the tokamak plasma.


The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918. Rudi C. Bleys.

Sex and Conquest: Gender Construction and Political Order at the Time of the European Conquest of the Americas. Richard C. Trexler


Hemoglobin polymerization develops from a process of condensation, molecular interaction, aggregation, and assembly. Molecular organization of structures formed during polymerization depends on the type of hemoglobin, its specific defect, and its state of oxygenation. Sickling exemplifies hemoglobin polymerization. In the reduced state, sickle hemoglobin (HbS), alone or in combination with other hemoglobins, undergoes condensation, aggregation, and assembly into long rod-like structures. Oxygenated or reduced normal and abnormal hemoglobins and oxy-HbS also polymerize; they form aggregates, microtubules, or crystals rather than rods. Crystals form from aggregates, microtubules or rods, but molecular reorganization of the earlier structures into a new lattice is required. Thus, sickling is due to sol-gel transformation rather than crystallization, and polymers of HbS are unique because they differ in molecular organization from hemoglobin aggregates, microtubules, and crystals.


How to create the integrated circuit and the circuit is provided. Integrated circuit integrated with the circuit element formed from a material that is superconducting, and at least one resistor is connected to the circuit element at a temperature of less than 100 milli-Kelvin. Resistor is formed from an alloy of transition metals which are resistant at temperatures of less than 100 milli-Kelvin. .FIELD 1


Symbiotic organisms search algorithm (SOS) is a new meta-heuristic algorithm based on the symbiotic relationship between the biological, which was proposed in recent years. In this paper, we propose new robust and powerful metaheuristic algorithm called an improved version of symbiotic organisms search algorithm integrated with construction algorithm and mutation operators (ISOS) to solve quadratic assignment problems. The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) considers NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem and has various practical applications. A set of benchmarks from QAPLIB Library are employed to evaluate the performance of proposed algorithm. ISOS is compared to several algorithms in the literature. The comparisons show that the proposed algorithm shows reliable, efficient and promising results.


Affected by the diversity in the cultural ideologies between Chinese and English,students are confronted with three kinds of obstacles in sentence formation.The paper analyzes the cultural and ideal sources for those obstacles,providing students with some correcting devices for overcoming them effectively.


The emergence of data analytics has fundamentally transformed supply chain management strategies in the global marketplace during the past decade. Classification is one of the most popular methods and receives a great deal of attention in the literature, but there are still some questions concerning the performance characteristics of different classification methods. This paper analyzes three different classification methods: classification trees, k-nearest neighbors, and artificial neural networks to determine if there are any performance gaps between the methods. A series of experiments are conducted utilizing the Analytic Solver Data Mining (formerly XLMiner) add-in to Microsoft Excel in an effort to address these issues. The analysis reveals that there may be minor performance gaps, but the methods all perform well in the context of this study.


The political fiasco that recently caused turmoil in national politics has compelled me to give serious thought to the legal doctrine expressed in the maxim presumed innocent until proven guilty.


In the middle of 17 century,the Gelupa sect in Tibetan Buddism joined with Gushri Khan sent a mission to Shenyang meeting with Qing regime,establishing earliest relation bettween Tibet l and the central goverment.As the fourth Panchen Lama,he palyed important role during this historical event.


Modern manufacturing systems require timely and efficient production tasks. Any mistakes can have serious consequences which effect the production process obviously. The supply of goods is the beginning of the production process, ensuring that production can proceed normally. Using mobile robots for transportation and supply of production lines can achieve automatic manufacturing. We studied the use of multiple mobile robots to supply multiple production lines. Robots need to return to warehouse when no goods exist. This problem is called a multi-mobile robots and multi-trips feeding scheduling problem. We constructed a mathematical model describing multi-mobile robots and multi-trips feeding scheduling problem, and the objective function is to minimize the transportation cost and waiting cost. To solve this problem, we proposed an improved hybrid genetic algorithm, where a strategy of mixing improved genetic algorithm and tabu search algorithm is adopted to find robots with reasonable routes. Combining genetic algorithm with tabu search algorithm can improve the route planning effect and find a lower cost solution. In the experimental part, it is verified that the proposed algorithm could effectively find reasonable ways for robots to provide services. We also put forward suggestions for the scenarios of using robots in actual production.


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