Background: Agni (digestive capacity) is an important factor for digestion and metabolism in our body. Ingested food is to be digested, absorbed, and assimilated, which is unavoidable for the maintenance of life, and is performed by the Agni. Agni resides and functions in the body in the form of Pitta (a physiological humor). Wellness and illness of an individual depends on the proper and improper functions of the Agni. Hence, Agni is said to be the Mool (base) of life. Materials and Methods: In this study, 60 healthy volunteers were randomly selected, and their Agni, Koshtha (nature of bowel), Prakruti (physical and mental temperament), and Mala Parikshan (stool examination) were examined through prevalidated Case Record Proforma (CRP), and the results were recorded, and correlation of status of Agni with Koshtha, Prakruti, and Sama-Nirama Mala Parikshan was conducted. Results and Conclusion: The result shows correlation of Agni with Koshtha, Prakruti, and Mala type (Sama and Nirama), which is in tune with the principles described in Samhitas (basic text of Ayurveda), and it is evident that Agni is the most important factor for health as described in the definition of health in Sushruta Samhita.


Thin films of Co-doped BaFe2As2 of similar thickness (~40 nm) were grown with different growth rates (0.4 Å s−1 and 0.9 Å s−1) by pulsed laser deposition on CaF2(001) substrates. Analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was applied to analyze the microstructure and secondary phases. The formation of BaF2 and a high concentration of planar defects (mainly stacking faults) are observed for the sample grown at a low rate. A higher growth rate results in high-quality epitaxial films with only few antiphase boundaries. A higher T c was measured for the sample grown at a low growth rate, which is attributed to the difference in strain state induced by the high concentration of defects. Large crystalline Fe precipitates are observed in both samples. Chemical analysis shows a pronounced O and slight F content at the planar defects which highlights the role of O in defect formation. Electron-beam-induced irradiation damage during TEM measurements is observed and discussed.


Depending on the nature of acylating agents, the reaction of 1-methylpyrrole with 3-aryl-1,2,4-triazin-5-ones leads to either α- or β-heteroarylpyrroles with a high degree of regioselectivity.


Abstract Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla L.) is a halophilic plant, which has increased growth under moderate salinity. The stimulation of total nitrogen (N) concentration was also observed with the increase of sodium chloride (NaCl) levels in previous studies. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the stimulation of N uptake is the result of growth stimulation or the direct effect of NaCl. We compared the effects of NaCl on nitrate (NO3–) uptake and nitrate reductase (NR) activity in halophilic Swiss chard with those in salinity-tolerant barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Both species were grown hydroponically at NaCl concentrations ranging from 0 to 100 mmol L−1. Leaf dry weight of both species was not significantly affected by the treatments. In barley extracted leaf sap, the NO3– concentration was positively correlated with the potassium ion (K+) concentration, but negatively correlated with the sodium ion (Na+) concentration. In contrast, in Swiss chard extracted leaf sap, the Na+ and NO3– concentrations were strongly and positively correlated. High salinity enhanced NR activity in leaves of Swiss chard, but decreased that in barley. Since NO3– is a substrate of NR, increased NO3– uptake may explain the increased NR activity. We found that the effect of NaCl on NO3– uptake in halophilic Swiss chard and salinity-tolerant barley was completely different. We concluded that the NO3– uptake was enhanced directly by Na+ in Swiss chard.


The study deals with the importance of public policies and strategies for tourism in the context of the current situation of insecurity generated by the terrorist attacks. Reviewing the current tense situation, the terrorist threat is growing, thus we identify the effects on tourism and travel. Analyzing the factors that may cause the intensification or reduction of tourism development is carried out through the prism of their coverage under the public policy upon tourism, as well as the influence of these factors relating to their employment with the impact on tourism in the category of stimulating factors or those of constraints, favoring the aspects that determine or brake tourism. In this respect, it is analyzed the influence of public policies of investments in general and touristic infrastructure, of public policies with social component, of public policies with an organizational - administrative component and of public policies with political component. It is analyzed the need of security policies, public policies with a political component, with the organizational and administrative component of government policies to ensure the development of tourism and travel industry. In light of, we focus on the strategies on the national tourism master and marketing plans, in an analysis of the situation at the international level.


A wide range of websites in World Wide Web are deemed invalid as they do not adhere to the HTML standards defined under W3C. Websites which are not well-formed may cause performance degradation for some applications and poses compatibility issues with some browsers. Furthermore, it is harder to render a malformed webpage using state of the art web browsers. To validate a HTML page, a wide range of HTML document validation tools have been developed to validate HTML pages but these tools is not effective in a realm of dynamic web applications such as PHP due to its diversified and complex nature. These tools typically analyze PHP in a static manner which failed to provide meaningful accurate validation on real world applications. In this paper, we present a novel tool for validating dynamic PHP web application in a robust manner which takes into consideration the syntax as well as operation of PHP application.


The aim of this research was to select and identify user influence on Twitter data. In identification stage, the method proposed in this study was matrix Twitter approach, sentiment analysis, and characterization of the opinion leader. The importan characteristics included external communication, accessibility, and innovation. Based on these characteristics and information from Twitter data through matrix Twitter and sentiment analysis, a algorithm of skyline query was constructed for the selection stage. Algorithm of skyline query selected user influence by comparing with other users according to values of each characteristic. Thus, user influence was indicated as user that was not influenced by other users in any combination of skyline objects. The use of MapReduce framework model in identification and selection stage, support whole operation where Twitter had big size data and rapid changes. The results in identification and selection of user influence exhibited that MapReduce framework minimized the execution time, whereas in parallel skyline query could reveal user influence on the data.


A systematic approach to quantifying the weed–crop balance through the flux of solar radiation was developed and tested on commercial fields in a long-established Atlantic zone cropland. Measuring and modelling solar energy flux in crop stands has become standard practice in analysis and comparison of crop growth and yield across regions, species and years. In a similar manner, the partitioning of incoming radiation between crops and the in-field plant community may provide 'common currencies' through which to quantify positive and negative effects of weeds in relation to global change. Here, possibilities were explored for converting simple ground-cover measures in commercial fields of winter and spring oilseed rape in eastern Scotland, UK to metrics of solar flux. Solar radiation intercepted by the crops ranged with season and sowing delay from 129 to 1975 MJ m−2 (15-fold). Radiation transmitted through the crop, together with local weed management, resulted in a 70-fold range of weed intercepted radiation (14.2 to 963 MJ m−2), which in turn explained 93% of the corresponding between-site variation in weed dry mass (6.36 to 459 g m−2). Transmitted radiation explained almost 90% of the variation in number of weed species per field (12 to 40). The conversion of intercepted radiation to weed dry matter was far less variable at a mean of 0.74 g MJ−1 at both winter and spring sites. The primary cause of variation was an interaction between the temperature at sowing and the annual wave of incoming solar radiation. The high degree of explanatory power in solar flux indicates its potential use as an initial predictor and subsequent monitoring tool in the face of future change in climate and cropping intensity.


Objectives: To explore the inter-relationship between 5-HT6 receptor gene polymorphism and persist somatoform pain disorder in Chinese. Methods: The genetic polymorphism of 5-HT6 receptor gene was on 51 patients and 60 controls with PCR-RFLP methods. Then the association between 5-HT6 receptor gene polymorphism and patients was analyzed. Results: There was found to be negative relationship between the C/T genetype of the 5-HT5 releptor gene and somatoform pain inpa tients(OR=0.43,Z=2.05,P0.05).Conclusion:In general,There is relationship betwe en receptor gene and somatoform pain disorder.


The title of this paper is "An Analysis of Kompas Editorial Column on the Issues of Presidential Election". In this paper the writer observed the issues of presidential election on Kompas daily newspaper. Editorial column is important for the reader to know the policy that company of mass media. Editorial called by "Tajuk Rencana" that mean the editorial policy in determine of the press. Tajuk Rencana appears in every their edition except Sunday. It means the readers have six days in a week to know the issues the topic of editorial. In this research the writer tries to analyze kind of the tyeps of editorial and the issues of presidential election on Kompas daily Newspaper. This research use qualitative method to dig up the data, because this research paper categorized as descriptive analytical. The writer use some theories to become foundation her research paper. Goal of this research paper is to find out What types of editorial that explain the issues of Presidential Elections on Kompas daily newspaper and how does the Kompas editorial respond the issues that the presidential Election on 09 of April 2014? The writer use qualitative method in dig up data to find out answer by research question. First the writer analysis text meaning by analyze a point paragraph. Second the writer interprets that data analyze to find out the editorial of Kompas daily newspaper when respond the issues that analyzed. The writer realizes that it wills hard if all issues in editorial column become object her research. So, the writer makes limitation of study in this paper to make the research more focus. The limitation of study is about presidential election. The writer chooses this case because on 2014 in Indonesian country the time for vote the president. Analysis the editorial column is to know the policy of Kompas daily newspaper when explained the issues of presidential election.
Key words: Editorial column, Presidential elections, Kompas daily Newspaper and Indonesia.


Two central questions in medical image segmentation raised by C. A. Davatyikos and J. L. Prince are: will an active contour algorithm converges to a unique solution, and if so, will this solution be near the truth? This paper had showed a way to calculate the second order variation of the energy functional of an active contour, which was used to determine the convexity of the energy functional and partially answered the above questions, because a sufficient condition for ensuring a critical path to be a true minimizer of the energy functional is such that ensures the energy functional to be convex near the path. This paper had also pointed out that a solution to the Euler-Lagrange equation of an energy functional may not be a minimizer of the functional, but it was taken for granted as the minimizer in many papers about medical image segmentations. In addition, this paper had introduced a general formula for the calculation of the Hesse of an energy functional and showed by example how to use it to induce other conditions for the case of normal geodesics.


In the past,the research concerning to driving behavior mainly focused on the car-following process.From the view of the behavior analysis,the car-following models concerning to the human factors based on the cybernetics are reviewed in this paper,such as the GHR model,the collision avoidance model,the AP model,the fuzzy logic model,the neural network model,the desired headway model,and so on.Advantages and disadvantages during the model establishment process are discussed in detail.Some important questions used to characterize the driving behavior,which are usually ignored in the establishment process of the models,are also revealed.With the latest research of the modern traffic field,and also from the specialization of the application field,the diversification of the study means and the practicability of the model establishment,the development direction of the driving behavior simulation models in the future is forecasted.


The purpose of this paper is to share the effectiveness of the word study program Words Their Way (Bear et. al., 2008) to improve spelling retention of first graders in a regular education classroom in the Spring of 2012. After implementing a traditional spelling program and seeing students continuously spell previous spelling words wrong, different word study programs were researched and decided Words Their Way (Bear et. al., 2008) was a viable option. Therefore, Words Their Way (Bear et. al., 2008) was implemented. The data tools used were: spelling pre and post tests, teacher made tests, checklists, Likert scales, anecdotal records, writing artifacts, teacher student interviews, and a teacher journal. . Students were grouped according to their stage in spelling development and instructed accordingly. It was shown Words Their Way (Bear et. al., 2008) allows individualized instruction to meet the development spelling levels of all students Improving Learning and Retention of Spelling Word Study 3 Introduction: Currently, I teach first grade at Oak Ridge Elementary in Royal Oak, Michigan. During the research of this project it was my third year teaching and my second year teaching first grade. Prior to teaching first grade, I taught one-half day of Kindergarten. I have been at Oak Ridge my entire teaching career. Royal Oak is comprised of predominantly middle class families, about twenty miles northwest of Detroit. The School District of the City of Royal Oak is made up of one high school, one middle school and six elementary schools. There are many hospitals, offices and automobile businesses in the area that provide jobs to families in the area. Our Parent Teacher Association is active with 100% teacher participation. I have five regular parent volunteers that work in my classroom or do clerical work as needed. Oak Ridge is a Kindergarten through Fifth grade school and there are 443 students. Of those students, only thirteen are African American and less than forty are Indian, Asian, Hispanic or Hawaiian. Of my twenty-eight students, twenty-six are Caucasian, one student is of Mexican decent and one student is African American. I have fifteen girls and thirteen boys. Three students in my class are eligible for free and reduced lunches. Two of my students are raised in single parent households. Three students are from divorced families but see both parents often. I have two students who receive special education services. These students are mainstreamed into the classroom, but are pulled out of the classroom for academic and speech and language support. They also receive Tier Two interventions from the Response to Intervention coordinator in the building. Tier Two interventions give extra support to students who need more than what the classroom teacher can provide. Approximately ten students are below grade level in reading and receive Tier One interventions. These interventions are provided by myself and are within the Improving Learning and Retention of Spelling Word Study 4 classroom. These support interventions include extra time on the student computer, sight word flashcards, and having access to additional materials. Literature Review: Bear, D. R., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnston, F. (2008). Words their way, fifth edition. Boston. Pearson. Words Their Way is the word study program that I will be implementing during my action research project. The program requires me to give my students a spelling inventory initially. I will then group my students according to their readiness. Instruction will be differentiated determined by their word study groups. Students will begin to explore word patterns and phonemic awareness to successfully learn spelling words opposed to traditional rote learning and drilling. Berninger, V., & Fayol, M. (2008). Why spelling is important and how to teach it effectively. Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development (pp. 1-13). London, ON: Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network. Retrieved from http://www.literacyencyclopedia.ca/pdfs/topic.php?topId=234 Berringer and Fayol believe spelling is a sort of code and there are three different codes for spelling: phonological code, orthographic code and morphological code. In order to become a proficient speller, people must have knowledge and awareness of the three codes. Knowledge of spelling, "may be expressed as rules, statistical patterns, or procedures and these different kinds of knowledge have various implications for instruction" (Beringer & Fayol, 2008, p. 1). Words Their Way is a program that supports teaching students about knowledge of word patterns, therefore Berringer and Fayol's report will support my action research project. Improving Learning and Retention of Spelling Word Study 5 Conniff, A., Crowe, D., Darch, C., Eaves, R., & Simmons, K. (2006, Winter). Teaching spelling to students with learning disabilities: A comparison of rule-based strategies versus traditional instruction. Journal of Direct Instruction, 6(1), 1-16. This study compared two strategies for teaching spelling: traditional versus rule-based instruction. It was conducted on students with learning disabilities. The results from this study indicated the students whom received rule based instruction performed better than students who received traditional spelling instruction. Although my entire class will receive rule-based spelling instruction, the results from this study supports my hypothesis on my action research project. The authors also state that "a major purpose of increasing spelling accuracy is not mastery in isolation on a spelling test but accuracy within the written text" (Conniff, Crowe, Darch, Eaves, Simmons, 2006, p. 14). One of the reasons I chose my action research topic was because I was seeing students spell words correctly on spelling tests, then not transferring spelling skills in daily writing. Cook, J. (2003). The effects of word sorting on spelling retention (Unpublished master's thesis). Retrieved from: http://learningandteaching.org/Research/Papers/Cook.pdf. Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Through Jennifer Cook's research for her thesis, she found an underlying trend from teachers who believe spelling programs are inadequate and retention is poor within students. She states that, " Word study, specifically word sorting, has emerged as one method that meets the challenge" (Cook, 2003, p. 7). The purpose of her study was to determine the effects of teaching Improving Learning and Retention of Spelling Word Study 6 word study to fourth and fifth graders. I will be teaching word study to first graders but the effects should be similar, therefore, this thesis will benefit my action research project. Erdogan, O. (2011). Relationship between the phonological awareness skills and writing skills of the first year students at primary school. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, v11 ( 3), 1506-1510. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ936331.pdf. This article will be beneficial to my action research project because it highlights the importance phonological awareness has on the writing of young students. The students from this article are in their first year of primary school which will support my research on first grade students. This article supports the role phonological awareness has on effectively learning how to spell. With the implementation of Words Their Way in my classroom, hopefully my students will transfer the phonological skills they will gain into their daily writing. Radke, J. (2011). Does word work really work? Investigating the effects of word work vs. traditional spelling instruction during guided reading (Unpublished master's thesis). Retrieved from http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/55791. University of Wisconsin: River Falls, Wisconsin. The author of this master's degree research project, Jessica Radke, conducted an action research project on three students to determine if word study improves reading scores more than a traditional spelling program. She also used a survey asking students if they preferred the word study approach to spelling or the traditional word study approach. I will be using a similar survey to determine if students prefer small group word study instruction or whole group spelling instruction. Radke also has a section in her report regarding why teachers should use word study Improving Learning and Retention of Spelling Word Study 7 opposed to traditional spelling instruction. She believes rote memorization is not an effective way to learn spelling and teaching students about words is a more effective approach. She also believes differentiating instruction and giving developmentally appropriate word lists for student learning is more beneficial. She wrote, "students' learning of spelling and vocabulary is based on their developmental or instructional level"(Radke, 2011, p.7). This portion will be beneficial for supporting my action research project and the presentation for my staff showing the results. Scott, R. M. Word study and reading comprehension: Implications for instruction. Retrieved from: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/research/mcquirter.pdf. Scott suggests word study, reading comprehension and writing are all necessary components of literacy that intertwine. Because three parts of literacy are interrelated, when one area improves, another area also benefits from those improvements. Therefore, if Words Their Way improves knowledge of spelling and is a more effective method of teaching spelling, other areas of literacy should also improve. This reference will support my action research project because the report suggests study and knowledge of words improves literacy rather than teaching spelling through a traditional approach. Sterbinsky, A. (2007). Words their way spelling inventories: Reliability and validity analyses. The University of Memphis: Center for Research in Educational Policy. Allan Sterbinsky conducted a research study on the


This paper documents an increase in the correlation of credit default swap (CDS) spread changes during the credit crisis and investigates the source of that increase. One possible explanation is that correlations increased because fundamental values became more correlated during the crisis. Alternatively, correlations may have increased because of contagion, rather than because of an increase in the correlation of fundamental values. I find that fluctuations in fundamental credit risk account for only a small fraction of the increase in correlation. Furthermore, I find no evidence that correlations increased due to liquidity or counterparty risk. Lastly, I show that a systematic re-pricing of credit risk, as evidenced by variations in the default risk premium, amplified correlations during the crisis.


A scheme of frequency-hopping/multiple-carrier frequency-diversity spread-spectrum multiple-access (FH/MCFD/SSMA/DPSK) wireless communication system is proposed. In such a system, the intra-cell interference is avoided by using FH technology and the inter-cell multiple access interference is averaged by using MCFD technology. In addition, both FH and MCFD can provide frequency-diversity which is effective to lessen multipath fading. The comparison with FH/SSMA systems shows that the performance can be improved greatly through multi-carrier frequency-diversity.


Using the methods of comparison,synthesis induction and documentary,the author makes an exploration thoroughly on the inosculation of the nationality traditional games with national exercise,and the development chance of the nationality traditional games.This paper takes a perspective of the compendium printing for 11 years,surveys the functions and value of nationality traditional games to national exercise under the backgrounds of leisure epochs,and analyzes its mutual promotion and harmonious relationship,aiming to provide some references for traditional games inosculate perfectly to national exercise.


The present invention discloses a high voltage cable inspection robot, including the robot body, the robot body are provided on both sides of the L-shaped arm shaft, the free end of the arm connected to the shaft axis for the robot body forward within the cable duct or reverse roller, the roller and the inner wall of the cable duct abutting; further comprising a drive motor for driving the rollers to rotate; within the robot body includes a control circuit; by providing the cable duct in the robot, the robot forward by the roller, can always monitor the situation within the pipe, within a period of straight pipes can without dismantling the pipeline to see its cable situation.


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Are you a Mac programmer looking for a game development book? Then look no further because Mac Game Programming is for you! This book is a comprehensive guide to programming games on the Mac OS X and Mac OS 8/9 platforms. It teaches the fundamentals of graphics and animation and then moves on to advanced topics like artificial intelligence, multi-platform networking, and physics modeling. It covers basic topics such as graphics, scrolling backgrounds, character animation, dirty rectangle animation, playing sounds, and reading user input from joysticks. The CD includes CodeWarrior Lite, game sprockets, Macsbug, ResEdit, Graphic Converter, Sound App, Spotlight demo, Sprite World, Sprite Animation Toolkit, Crystal Space, Quesa, shareware games, and commercial game demos. Mac Game Programming is unique in that it doesn't cover game programming topics in a vacuum, but rather puts everything together so that you can make a complete game.


Fitri Nur Khaeri. 2018.Teacher's Effort to Overcome Difficulties in Students' Listening Skill of the Twelfth Grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Istiqomah Pekapuran Raya Banjarmasin Academic Year 2017/2018. Thesis. English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: (1) Dr. Hj. Nida Mufidah, M.Pd. (II) Hj. Noor Maulidiyah, M.A.
Keywords: Teacher's effort, Overcome, Listening difficulties.
The research describes teacher's effort to overcome difficulties in students' listening skill of the Twelfth Grade of Madrasah Aliyah Pekapuran Raya Banjarmasin academic year 2017/2018. The problems of the research are: 1) What are students'difficulties in listening skill of the twelfth grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Istiqomah Pekapuran Raya?, 2) What are teacher's effort to overcome students' listening difficulties of the twelfth grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Istiqomah Pekapuran Raya?, and 3) What factors do influence the teacher's effort to overcome students' listening skill difficulties of the twelfth grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Istiqomah Pekapuran Raya?
The subject of the research is one English teacher at the twelfth grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Istiqomah Pekapuran Raya Banjarmasin. The object of the research are difficulties in students' listening skill, teacher's effort to overcome difficulties in students' listening skill, and factors which influence the teachers' effort to overcome students' listening skill difficulties of the twelfth grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Istiqomah Pekapuran Raya Banjarmasin academic year 2017/2018.
To collect the data the researcher uses the techniques of observation, interview, questionnaire, and documentary. All of the data that have been collected are processed using the descriptive qualitative method. The result of the research shows the students' difficulties are students unfamiliarity with the listening lesson, student can not concentrate to study listening, and the condition of tape recorder is not good enough. Teacher's effort are teacher order students' practice to listening to music or news, teacher order students' practice listening anything used English language to familiarize concentration and, and the teacher will be a native speaker instead when the tape recorder is broken.
The factors that influence the teachers' effort to overcome students difficulties the most is the low ability of students' listening.


Snow bedforms cover large parts of the polar regions of Earth. Sintering, the mechanism by which snow hardens over time, clearly influences bedform dynamics. The authors have studied the effects of sintering by adapting a cellular automaton model, ReSCAL, and have discovered that it limits the maximum streamwise length (MSL) of snow dunes. The authors also show a good awareness of the strengths and limitations of ReSCAL. The simulations they use are well designed, and the analysis is appropriate and thorough. Their simulation methods and results both agree well with my field observations, and I firmly believe that the processes they have modelled are real.


The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, concluded in terms o f the Convention on Biological Diversity, regulates the trade, transfer, use and transboundary movement o f living genetically modified organisms. With certain limited exceptions, and despite the potential environmental benefits and benefits for African agricultural development, African nations have not embraced genetically modified crops. The regulatory regime created by Cartagena is also beyond the financial, technical and administrative capacity of most African nations. When analysed in its constituent elements, the formulation of the precautionary principle in Cartagena is seen to be an absolutist formulation equivalent only to the formulation o f the principle used in waste conventions. It is proposed that the costs/benefits analysis used in the Convention on Biological Diversity should also be employed when interpreting the precautionary principle in Cartagena and that objective scientific evidence o f risk should be a precursor to the invocation o f the principle.


Hydrogeologic and geophysical data were collected for six wells and nine springs in the Sheep Range area, southern Nevada. Data collected for the wells include records of drilling operations, lithologic logs, geophysical logs, results of water-quality analyses, water-level measurements, and aquifer-test data. Data for the springs include field locations, flow measurements, and results of water-quality analyses. The five wells that were drilled as part of the Nevada Carbonate Aquifers Program (NCAP) range in depth from 420 to 1,403 feet. All but one of the wells penetrate carbonate rock. Water levels ranged from 158 to 1,330 feet below land surface. Chemical quality of the water from the three sampled wells was similar, and specific conductance averaged about 380 ^is/cm (microsiemens per centimeter at 25°C). The springs were field located and their flow measured also as part of the NCAP. Flows from the springs varied from a low of 0.00027 cubic foot per second to a high of about 0.27 cubic foot per second. Specific conductance of the spring flows varied from 320 to 740 ^is/cm.


An optical modulator for the encoded data in NRZ mode modulation of the intensity of a light signal, comprising means for shaping said luminous signal including shaping means for obtaining a low bandwidth signal (618 ) from the input control signal (635) such as a Bessel filter of the fifth order and an electrical control unit (620), and a laser modulator (610) having a transfer function (630) favoring extinction ratio of the light signal resulting from (640).


AIM: The influence of the seawater on the lipid peroxidation of the muscle tissue wounded by firearm was studied. METHODS: Both two limbs of rabbits were wounded by the steel ball of 250 mg. The wounded rabbits were divided into two group: One is seawater immersed group (SIG), which was dipped in artificial seawater for 30 min. Another is the single wounded group (SWG), which wasn't dipped in seawater. Then, muscle tissues 0.5 cm (A area), 1.5 cm (B area) and 2.5 cm (C area) from wound edge were cut for biochemical analysis at 3, 6, 12, 24 h of post-wound, respectively. The contents of ATP, MDA and SOD activity of all these tissues were detected, pre-wounded muscle tissues were used as control group. RESULTS: The content of MDA in SIG increased obviously at 3, 6 h, respectively, but it decreased slightly at 12 h and increased again at 24 h. The change in MDA in SWG is similar to that in SIG but more slightly. The changes in both the activity of SOD and the content of ATP in two groups is similar to that of MDA. CONCLUSION: Seawater induced more serious lipid peroxidation in the muscle tissue wounded by firearm. [


Abstract To fulfill the requirement of high data rate with variable quality of service, optical wireless communication is a better option in comparison to existing RF system and is a favorable technological candidate for future optical communication. In wireless optical communication, information is transmitted by propagation of optical wave through the atmosphere. The detrimental effects of channel parameters can acutely limit the utility of an optical wireless communication system. The paper first reviews different channel models in the context to outdoor wireless communication. Different impairments that affect the performance of outdoor optical communication systems and different techniques to mitigate these impairments are then investigated. The upper layer protocols for free space optical communication are also discussed.


Integration in all spheres and sectors of the economy is an objective tendency of development of na-tional and world of markets. Researches of the author have shown that it is not always the process is effective. The object of research is Russian shipbuilding which is in the process of integration since 2007. Inte-gration in the shipbuilding industry not decided its major problems. In this article, the author to do study and the choice of method evaluation of the effectiveness of vertical integration characteristic of the Russian shipbuilding. The author formulates conclusions based on their own notions of integration and its essence, and a number of conditions in which it takes place. The integration of shipbuilding and its effectiveness is considered in the following areas: intra-effectiveness of participants integration, corporate effectiveness, effectiveness relations in the domestic market of the integrated structure, the efficiency of interaction with the integrated structure of the outer environment, the effectiveness of the initiator of integration of the state. The paper presents the results of a study of possible approaches to the evaluation of integration methods and indicators to assess overall effectiveness. The author justified the use of evaluating the effec-tiveness of vertical integration on the basis of the synergistic performance index and its calculation based on the idea of integration as a project, the effectiveness of which, by virtue of its specificity, should be evaluated using the real options (Real Option Valuation, ROV).


Computational modeling has been performed to determine optimum operational parameters for a piston-driven molten solder jetting device used to create array interconnects for BGA applications. The device is capable of delivering a 20 x 20 array of 600-800 {mu}m diameter molten 60Sn40Pb solder droplets onto an array of copper pads and primarily consists of an electromechanically driven piston, a heated reservoir, and an orifice plate. computer simulations were performed to determine the relationship between the amplitude and the rate of piston displacement, the onset of fluid ``pinch off``, and the production of satellite droplets. Results show that stable droplets are generated when the volume of the displaced fluid has a spherical diameter that is approximately equal to the orifice diameter.


The orthogonal experiment design method is used based on analysis of lubrication of hydrodynamic journal bearing.The effect of structural parameters ( bearing diameter,wide diameter ratio and clearance ratio) and operating parameters ( linear velocity and specific pressure) on lubrication performance of hydrodynamic journal bearings is studied. The results show that the linear velocity and specific pressure have significant influence on maximum oil film pressure of the bearings.The influence of specific pressure and bearing diameter on load capacity of the bearings is significant.The bearing diameter and linear velocity have significant influence on discharge flow of the bearings.The linear velocity has the most significant influence on friction power loss of the bearings when the low viscosity lubricant is used, and the clearance ratio,specific pressure and bearing diameter have a great influence on friction power loss of the bearings when the high viscosity lubricant is used.


Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double Fruit William R. LaFleur Part 1. The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned 1. Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von Weizsacker Gernot Bohme 2. Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human Experimentation Andreas Frewer 3. Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We Are Rolf Winau 4. The Silence of the Scholars Benno Muller-Hill 5. The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical Experiments Arthur L. Caplan 6. Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized Crimes Kei-ichi Tsuneishi 7. Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National "Forgetfulness" Frederick R. Dickinson 8. Biological Weapons: The United States and the Korean War G. Cameron Hurst III 9. Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century America Susan Lindee 10. Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold War Jonathan D. Moreno Part 2. The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future 11. Toward an Ethics of Iatrogenesis Renee C. Fox 12. Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Today Tetsuo Yamaori 13. The Age of a "Revolutionized Human Body" and the Right to Die Yoshihiko Komatsu 14. Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human Dignity Susumu Shimazono 15. Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in Japan Miho Ogino 16. Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans Jonas William R. LaFleur List of Contributors Index


1. A system for manufacturing a cellular plate of thin layers comprising at least the following parts: a table for assembling a mesh plate; device for crosslinking under pressure, installed in conjunction with a table for assembly, and means for feeding lamellae to the device for crosslinking under pressure. 2. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for feeding lamellae to the device for crosslinking under pressure in the device is arranged for crosslinking under pressom.3. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the device for crosslinking under pressure is arranged movably relative to the table for sborki.4. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the device for crosslinking under pressure comprises at least two means for crosslinking under pressom.5. The system according to claim 4, characterized in that the means for crosslinking under pressure comprise nip rollers and rolls roliki.6. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a device for placing insulation arrangement inside the insulation crosslinked by molding thin plastin.7. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises means for positioning the substance, in the gaps of the insulating seam at least some of the thin plates under pressure before cross-linking of these thin plastin.8. A system according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a device for placing isolation for insulation arrangement inside the crosslinked part by molding the mesh plate member before installation and under pressure following crosslinking plastiny.9 thin. for manufacturing a cellular plate of thin plates, characterized in that the method comprises at least the following steps,


The paper investigates how the alignment of two corporate functions, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and trade compliance (TC) can help companies to take corporate value chain responsibility (VCR). In particular, the authors investigate how evolutionary system theory can explain the coevolution of two distinct VCR functions (SSCM and TC) and the potential and challenges for their future alignment.,The authors introduce evolutionary system theory as a powerful explanatory perspective to the field of VCR, SSCM and TC. By applying evolutionary system theory to the VCR debate, the authors analyze the potential for aligning both functions. They further analyze the inherent challenges of such an alignment by discussing the concept of organizational path dependencies.,The paper spells out a research agenda and formulates testable propositions for further investigating the interplay of environment and system as well as the structural options for a functional alignment of SSCM and TC.,The corporate function of TC has been widely overlooked by supply chain and sustainability scholars. This paper adds the function of TC to the wider discussion on SSCM and corporate VCR. Furthermore, the paper develops a research agenda for a pioneer topic and triggers discussion in academia and corporate practice.


The article contains sections titled:

1. Introduction
2. Traditional Stone-Conservation Products
2.1. Limewater and Lime Wash
2.2. Linseed Oil
2.3. Waxes
2.4. Fluorosilicates
2.5. Water Glass
3. Organosilicon Compounds
3.1. Strengtheners
3.1.1. Tetraethyl Orthosilicate
3.1.2. Flexible Gels
3.1.3. Coupling Agents
3.1.4. Effect on Stone Properties
3.2. Hydrophobic Products
3.2.1. Formulations
3.2.2. Combined Products
3.2.3. Microemulsions
3.2.4. Effect of Hydrophobation on Stone Properties
3.2.5. Durability
4. Acrylates
4.1. Reactive Acrylate Systems
4.2. Polymer Acrylate Systems
4.3. Total Impregnation with PMMA
5. Epoxy Resins
6. Polyurethanes
7. Polyester and Alkyd Resins
8. Polymer Dispersions
9. Conclusions


This article describes an experiment conducted during six years at the Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris based on a Project Oriented Learning approach to teach the fundamentals of Electronics. The proposed teaching framework has a dynamic structure, as it adapts and modifies the terms of annual assessments to foster the motivation and interest of students. Results show the effectiveness and the value of this approach for student motivation.


Amongst the current reforms in early childhood in Australia is the requirement for four year university degree-qualified teachers to be employed to provide a kindergarten program for four-year-old children in the year prior to school entry. The possibility for long day care to provide a funded kindergarten program, with an early childhood teacher (ECT) presents a change for the field. With this change come challenges, though also opportunities to think in new and different ways about what long day care and working in long day care might look like.


: The ideal and belief situation of Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area higher vocational colleges medical students is generally good. However, the ideal and belief education still has much room for improvement. This paper adopts COWS Matrix analytical method, makes analysis from four aspects


SUMMARY A comprehensive model describing drug abuse behavior is presented which incorporates biological, social and psychological domains. Within the structure of this interactive model, specific drug related phenomena are discussed, including inhalant abuse, cultural factors (with an emphasis on Alaskan Natives) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Future research needs are addressed with the presentation of several hypotheses derived from the model.


Methylthio-substituted maleimides are synthesized by a novel annulation strategy from methyl ketones, actetamides, and DMSO in the presence of I2 via an iodination/Kornblum oxidation/amidation/cyclization sequence.


The theory of three-dimensional paraxial electron beams is constructed for the case of arbitrary orientation of the magnetic field on the emitting surface and inhomogeneous density of the emission current. It is shown that, for paraxial flows, a homogeneous deformation of the beam cross section is a necessary requirement rather than a simplifying assumption that enables one to reduce partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations, as in the traditional paraxial theory.


Despite current economic conditions, forecasters predict that the economy will continue to grow and that more jobs will be available in the late 1980s. This article looks at the projected employment trends for the population as a whole and for women—both minority and white. It notes that women will continue to enter the work force in greater numbers and that their occupational distribution will continue to broaden. Thus, job opportunities for women will be more varied, more interesting, and better paying than ever before.


BACKGROUND
 Digital health has been advancing owing to technological progress by means of smart devices and artificial intelligence, amongst other developments. In the field of diabetes, especially, there are many active use cases of digital technology supporting the treatment of diabetes and improving lifestyle. In the innovation ecosystem, new alliance networks are formed not only by medical device companies and pharmaceutical companies, but also by information and communications technology (ICT) companies and start-ups. While understanding and utilizing the network structure is important to increase the competitive advantage of companies, there is a lack of previous research describing the structure of alliance networks and the factors that lead to their formation in digital health.

 OBJECTIVE
 The aim of this study was to explore the significance of alliance networks, focusing on digital health for diabetes, in effectively implementing processes, from the Research and Development (R&D) of products and/or services to their launch and market penetration.

 METHODS
 First, we listed the companies and contracts related to the digital health for diabetes, visualized the change in the number of companies and the connections between companies in each industry, and analyzed the overview of the network. Second, we calculated the degree, betweenness centrality, and eigenvector centrality of each company in each year. Next, we analyzed the relationship between network centrality and market competitiveness by using annual sales as a parameter of company competitiveness. We also compared the network centrality of each company by industry and/or headquarters location and analyze the characteristics of companies with higher centrality. Finally, we analyzed the relationship between network centrality and the number of products certified or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

 RESULTS
 We found the degree centrality of companies was correlated with an increase in their sales; The betweenness and eigenvector centrality of medical device companies located in the U.S. were significantly higher than those outside the U.S; Finally, the degree, betweenness and eigenvector centralities were correlated with an increase in the number of Class III, but not of Class I nor II medical device products.

 CONCLUSIONS
 These findings give rise to new insights on the industry ecosystem for digital health and its requirement and expect a contribution to R&D practices in the field of digital health.


The UK health service has a large annual expenditure related to the purchase of wound management products. As the field of wound management has developed during that past three decades, so the value of this expenditure has increased. It is important that managers work with wound management specialists to obtain the best clinical and economic outcomes for the patient.


Introduction Since any structure has a special function and each special function is rooted in a structure, target of this paper is describe and explain structure and function of participation management in Mashhad. Explain structure and function of participation management in Mashhad need describe structure and function of participation management in Mashhad. So, for explain structure and function participation management in Mashhad, we have to describe Characteristics of structure and function urban management in Mashhad. Some of Characteristics: numerousness of organizations, disharmony among organizations, ambiguity in tasks of organizations and etc.


Nanoflowers are desirable in light driven applications like Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) due to their large surface area and greater light absorption capabilities. An instant, simple, cheap and environment friendly method of preparing titanium dioxide nanoflowers is presented. The nanoflowers are produced in a time as short as 5 minutes in aqueous conditions without the use of hazardous hydrofluoric acid or organic surfactants at 1 atm. pressure and low temperature of 100°C. Titanium dioxide commercial nanopowders are treated with microwaves in an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution for small durations. The resulting powders are annealed at 450°C in air and characterization is performed using XRD, SEM and Raman spectroscopy.


The missile motor plume was numerically simulated under different flight conditions,and the laws of effect of flight status parameters on missile motor plume were obtained so as to give a theoretical reference to designing the hitch place of fighter plane and determining the launch boundary.The results show that plume boundary augment with increase of flight altitude at the same flight Mach number,and reduce with the increase of flight Mach number at the same flight altitude.At the same time,the plume structures change greatly with the variety of flight status parameters.The numerical simulation results agree well with the ground testing results,and the numerical simulation is creditable.


The Article offers a theory of judicial intervention and interpretation in Contracts. It posits that the principal objective of courts interpreting, supplementing, or overriding terms is to ask whether such intervention can serve the broad objective of maximizing gains from trade while minimizing transaction costs and the costs of opportunism, collectively, an interpretive risk. It offers an economic rationale for a broad approach to interpretation It explores several examples from Contract law where courts depart from the parties' textual choices and follow the theory suggested in this Article. These examples directly challenge the theory of the new formalists.


A method for the fatigue lifetime prediction of composite laminates is discussed. The method is based on the use of normalised fatigue curves obtained by an extensive re-analysis on a large number of fatigue data taken from literature. The available data were divided into several groups according to the following parameters: type of fibre, type of matrix, laminate behaviour, reinforcement architecture and load ratio, found to be those having the greatest influence on the fatigue behaviour of laminates. The main parameters of normalised fatigue curve and scatter band are reported for each group. The accuracy of the method was also verified, with good results, by using data sets taken again from literature.


PURPOSE: To assess refractive and visual outcomes five years after surgical implantation
of silicone phakic refractive lenses (PRL®, Zeiss/Meditec. Jena. Germany) in moderate to
high myopia.
METHODS: A prospective clinical study involving 35 eyes of 20 patients (8 men, 12
women, mean age 31.83±8.87 years) implanted with PRLs was conducted. Uncorrected
visual acuity (UCVA), best-distance-corrected visual acuity (BDCVA), objective and subjective
refraction and intraocular pressure (IOP) were assessed before and after surgery.
Mean time post-surgery was 57.34±9.24 months. Mean preoperative spherical equivalent
was -10.25 D±3.19 (range -7.25 to -22.50 D). Target refraction was emmetropia in all eyes.
RESULTS: Preoperative UCVA was 2.40±0.19 logMAR and mean preoperative BDCVA
was 0.19±0.05LogMAR. Mean UCVA changed from 2.40±0.19 to 0.11±0.09 LogMAR
after surgery (P<0.001). Postoperative UCVA was 0.3 LogMAR or better in 34 eyes
(97.14%) and 0.1 LogMAR or better in 24 eyes (68.57%). Mean BDCVA changed from
0.19±0.05 to 0.2±0.09 LogMAR after surgery (P<0.001). After surgery BDCVA was 0.2
LogMAR or better in 34 eyes (97.14%) and 0.1 LogMAR or better in 30 eyes (85.71%).
Overall efficacy index was 1.09. Fourteen eyes gained more than 2 lines of BDCVA. Safety
index was 1.29. After surgery, all eyes were within ±1.00D and 32 (91.43%) within
±0.50D of targeted refraction.
CONCLUSIONS: Present results suggest correction of moderate to high myopia by
means of PRL implantation safe, effective and predictable after five years. Candidate selection
seems crucial for avoiding the presence of undesirable complications such as zonular
dehiscence or cataract.


The vibration signals of rolling element bearings are random and cyclostationary when they are with faults.However,because of the relatively strong background noise in early fault stage,it is difficult to disclose the latent periodic components successfully even using the second order cyclostationary analysis.To overcome this difficulty,the method of central frequency spectrum of cyclic bispectrum(CBS),an alternative approach for defecting localized faults in the outer race of a rolling element bearing based on higher-order cyclic statistics analysis,was discussed.The results of simulation and experiment indicate the feasibility and validity of CBS analysis in rolling element bearing early fault diagnosis.


Various observers have noted the fact that the composition of the blood changes after hemorrhage, but no systematic study has been made of these modifications. The authors have begun such an investigation for the purpose of establishing a more definite basis for comparative blood analysis.


The cause of moon phase is seem to be complicated for student, such that they almost performed misconception when tested. This study investigated the effective of using metacognitive strategies for improving grade 8 student's understanding in moon phase. There are 30 student participated in this study. The framework of the study is interpretive paradigm. The data were obtained from 3 open-ended question about cause of moon phase and interview. Their responses has been categorized into groups by considering to scientific concept. And it could be grouped into 7 categories as following: 1) The moon rotate around the earth. Difference position of the moon cause of difference illuminated. 2) The earth obstruct the light fall on the moon 3) Clouds cover part of the moon 4) The shadow of the earth fall on the moon 5) The illuminated of the sun has difference 6) Earth rotation 7) The moon rotate around the earth and the angle between Sun, Earth and Moon. The post-test had done soon after finished the metacognitiv...


By establishing the mathematical model and using own program based on Fluent software,the combustion process of pulverized coal injection at different blast parameters was simulated,Main consideration blast temperature,blast oxygen enrichment and moisture on gas composition and coal burnout.The model formulation of gas-particle flow and heterogeneous reactions of coal with oxygen,carbon dioxide and steam,was validated by experimental data.The computational results show that increasing blast temperature and oxygen enrichment can improve coal burnout rate in the blowpipe of blast furnace,the blast moisture effects on coal burnout rate is unnoticeable,it can bring forward the temperature field.


This article is based on a certain WCMD of America for hang-glider extended range(WCMD-ER)design,and then make the WCMD can carry out stand-off attack.Using commercial CFD software FLUENT acquire aerodynamic force coefficient and moment coefficient of this WCMD-ER on different Mach number,angle of attack and rudder bias;After processing aerodynamic data with moment balancing methods,then completing the three-degree of freedom trajectory simulation with this WCMD-ER, simulation result showed that the designed hang-glider make the WCMD attack stand-off,and the process of design have some benefit for other aircrafts'hang-glider extended range design.


Water-soluble polyurethane/polyacrylate(PU/PA) interpenetrating network composite emulsion was prepared by in-situ emulsion polymerization method.Influence of the amounts of vinyl monomer on properties of emulsion and film was investigated.The results show that,with the increase of the content of vinyl monomer,the stability of PUA and the film-breaking elongation decrease,the hardness and the water-resistance increase.When mole ratio of monomer/polymer was 35%,the stability duration of PUA was longer than 12 months,the breaking elongation was 482%,the hardness was 0.68 and the water absorption was 18.7%.FTIR analysis shows that PU/PA composite emulsion was successfully prepared.


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The exploration breakthrough of well Fengshenxie 101 once again shows the great potential of sandy conglomerate in deep northern belt of Dongying sag. Based on the oil source correlation, it is confirmed that the condensate oil in this well mainly sourced from the lower part of Es4. The resource of the source rocks are the key factors affecting the exploration of this hydrocarbon system. Based on restoration of original organic matter abundance, the hydrocarbon resources are calculated using genetic method. The total are 4.67 × 108t, indicating that the deep layers of the Dongying sag still have great exploration potential.


To the Editor: We read with great interest the study by Paraskevaidis et al.,1 which confirmed that one year after successful direct current cardioversion, tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) analysis at precardioversion time may be a useful marker to identify a subgroup of patients with increased risk for atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence. The methods and interpretation of the results, however, raise several concerns: In this study, based on a cutoff point of 5.43 cm/s for the negative systolic wave velocity (NSWV), derived by the normal controls, patients with AF were divided into Group I with an NSWV >5.43 cm/s and Group II with NSWV ≤5.43 cm/s, an NSWV higher than 5.25 cm/s at precardioversion time indicates either persistent AF or episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting for >48 h which resulted in persistent AF at 12-month follow-up, and lower velocities indicate either sinus rhythm or episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting <48 h. And then, are there any changes of NSWV of AF patients in Group I or Group II at three months or six months? If yes, are there relations of changes of NSWV to persistent AF, episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting for >48 h that resulted in persistent AF at 12-month follow-up, sinus rhythm, or episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting <48 h? Similarly, are there any differences of NSWV among patients with persistent AF, patients with episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting for >48 h, patients with sinus rhythm or episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting <48 h at three months or six months in Group I or Group II? If yes, are there relations of differences of NSWV to persistent AF, episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting for >48 h that resulted in persistent AF at 12-month follow-up, sinus rhythm, or episodes of paroxysmal AF lasting <48 h? Are the abovementioned factors useful markers to identify a subgroup of patients with increased risk for AF recurrence? They need to be further studied. The negative systolic wave apparently represents the abnormal mitral annulus motion that, in patients with AF, probably causes a transient pressure increase,2 allowing for an early systolic wave on the pulmonary vein velocity flow pat-


Improving service competitiveness in air transport industry is closely connected to expand passage throughput of airport which is linked with increasing passenger traffic volume of their major airlines through improving service quality and decreasing passenger complaint. This paper uses the ordinary least square (OLS) model to analyze the correlation between numbers of passenger complaint and passenger traffic volume of airlines based on the data of China Southern Airlines from January 2012 to August 2018. The results show that there is a significant negative correlation between numbers of passenger complaint and passenger traffic volume of airlines, that is, the more the passenger complaint is, the less the passenger traffic volume of airlines will be. The significance of this study is to demonstrate that increase passenger satisfaction through decreasing the numbers of passenger complaint is a sustainable driving force to enhance service competitiveness in air transport industry in the long run.


This Resource Letter provides information and guidance for those looking to incorporate computation into their courses or to refine their own computational practice. We begin with general resources, including policy documents and supportive organizations. We then survey efforts to integrate computation across the curriculum as well as provide information for instructors looking to teach a computational physics course specifically. An overview of education research into computation in physics, including materials from beyond Physics Education Research, is then provided, followed by suggestions for tools, languages, and environments. We conclude with some emerging topics for which only preliminary resources exist but represent important topics for future innovation.


We proposed in a previous research an explanatory dialogical agentbased tool for explaining a qualita tive simulation algorithm. The main limitation of an age nt in our explanatory system was its incapacity to adapt itself to a changing context. The main reason concerns the agent's inability to share and understand, through its cognitive component, new contextual information not directly accessible for reasoning on it. In this pa per, we present the basis on a new functionality of agents that allows contextual information to be freely distribu ted among agents and we model agent activity by using contextual graphs, a context-based formalism of representation allowing a uniform representation of elements of knowledge, reasoning and contexts.


At a briefing held on Capitol Hill on June 22nd, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (Service) Wildlife Without Borders program and partner conservation organizations debuted a video showing how the Service is working with partners in the Latin American and Caribbean region to create a new generation of conservation professionals.


The statistical descriptor is a robust and useful tool for distinguishing and quantifying the degree of radial or multiscale clustering in objects such as open clusters. is calculated as m/s, where is the mean edge length of the minimum spanning tree and is the mean distance between cluster members, or correlation length. is obtained using only two-dimensional position data. Here, we investigate the performance of in three dimensions, both when true three-dimensional data are available and when the radial velocity of cluster components is used as a proxy for position: this is known as 2dv space. True three-dimensional data offer an improvement in the resolution of and as diagnostic indicators of clustering, a scatter plot of versus proving to be a particularly clear method of interpreting the information. Results are not satisfactory when 2dv information is used, as the data from cluster types which are clearly distinguishable using 2d information alone become overlapping and confused when 2dv information is used. We therefore recommend that the 2d method is used, unless true 3d positions of cluster members are available. The use of the versus plot is particularly recommended, as adding extra discrimination between cluster types, compared with that achieved using alone


summary Blood Services, which, in the UK, spend over 0·5% of the NHS budget, are generally subject to quality, regulatory, economic and political authority. As only persons in good health should give blood, Services have refined donor selection criteria and aim to base them on evidence; but they also have to balance the number of donations collected with product demand. Applying selection criteria inevitably leads to deferrals, which donors experience very negatively. Compared with successful donors, even temporary deferrals reduce return rates significantly, especially of first attenders. In order to encourage donor return and sustain supplies, selection criteria should be optimal. However, a major tool for managing patients – evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) – cannot apply to donor selection, so criteria have to be defined by alternatives, such as clinical studies, epidemiology and even what experts deem to be pathophysiologically feasible. The recommended volume of blood taken from each donor at each attendance (450 mL, which was based on old studies) was increased because of greater processing losses (buffy‐coat derived platelets, leucofiltration etc.). Although faint rates and donation‐induced iron depletion are reduced by lowering bleeding volume and bleeding less frequently, other optimizing strategies including iron supplementation have been trialled and could be enhanced by more RCTs. Better but more complex indicators of donor iron status than one‐off Hb thresholds are possible. Regulators and decision‐makers must encourage more studies. This review does not consider aphaeresis donors of blood components other than red cells in detail, or the prevention of transfusion‐transmitted infections.


The purpose of this research is to ascertain the influence of Quantum Learning toward biology learning achievement of 10
th
grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Surakarta in academic year 2011/2012.
The research was quasi experiment research using quantitative approach. The research was designed using posttest only
control design. Experimental group applied Quantum Learning. Control group applied discussion, classical course and question-answer
method. The populations of this research were all of 10
th
degree students at SMA Negeri 4 Surakarta in academic year 2011/2012. The
samples of this research were the students of 10
th
K as experiment group and 10
th
J as control group. The sample of this research was
established by cluster random sampling. The data was collected using questionnaire, multiple choice test, observation form, and
document. The hypotheses analyzed by t-test.
The research concluded that application of Quantum Learning had significant effect toward biology learning achievement in
cognitive, affective, and psychomotor of 10
th
grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Surakarta in academic year 2011/2012.
Kata kunci: Quantum Learning, Biology Learning Achievement


Agreement of products is one way of trade liberalization. The Agreement of Zero Tariffs on Vegetable and Fruit is one early achievements of CAFTA. This Agreement will not only bring some markets for fruits produced in northern China, but also will create abroad markets, including China and other markets, for Thailand's agricultural tropical products. Furthermore, the agreement between China and Thailand, on a long run, will bring more cooperation and development for not only China and Thailand, but also all over the world, and will quicken the step of World Regional Economic Integration.


Industrial laboratories have traditionally used 4" x 5" (100 x 125 mm) photomicrographs. Polaroid 4" x 5" prints have largely replaced glass plate and sheet film contact prints in industrial laboratories. High resolution 2000 by 3000 pixel imaging systems should be able to match the resolution of the 4" x 5" photomicrographs, typically 6 cycles per mm at a magnification of 500 times N.A., with a significantly larger field size which better utilizes modern, wide field optics. CCD cameras with 1024x 1280 pixel sensor arrays should be able to essentially match Polaroid 4" x 5" photomicrograph prints in field size and resolution.


This Master's thesis aims to examine how study participants reason about what they share on Facebook in order to create a deeper understanding of motivations behind sharing. Another aim is to inves ...


A kind of method of giving the effect of consumer goods physiological cooling is disclosed.This method comprises the compositions of preparing the lactoyl ester that comprises at least a menthyl lactate in described consumer goods.Also disclose a kind of by skin or mucosa are contacted the method that physiological cooling is provided with described lactoyl ester composition.The freshener that comprises described lactoyl ester and other freshener is also disclosed.Described lactoyl ester is prepared easily by menthol and lactic acid.


The Mekong Delta is the water – saturated delta region. There is struggling with extreme consequences of natural disasters and floods are the most serious potential. Traditionally, two parallel-moving factors: earth – high levees, patterns of settlement, roads and dikes and water – rivers and canals have coexisted and developed. This mutual relation not only created city's images but also allowed cities survive from and adapt to floods. Currently, urbanization is taking place in low-lying and flood prone areas. The water-city is transformed into the road-city in which the role of water in city structure seems to be neglected. As a result the cities are losing its unique characteristics and local communications are becoming more vulnerable to floods. By using the 3x3x3 framework (3 layers – natural environment, infrastructural network and human occupation; 3 times – past, present and future; and 3 scales – basin, delta and cities), this paper analyzes the transformation of cities in the Mekong Delta that recognize they as evolving systems responding to fast changes in natural, economic, cultural, and social conditions. Special attention is paid to how cities grow and what the impact of this growth will be on their susceptibility to floods. The discussion is proposed strategies to develop cities in a way that they become more flood-resilient. These strategies can also play an important strategic role to urban development in the Mekong Delta, but also might be relevant for other urbanized deltas as well.


The article analyzes the process of development in the architecture of Old Rus on the basis of transplanted elements of the Byzantine cathedral construction of its own tradition, which is vividly embodied in the original forms of arch-gabled and pillar-shaped churches. The formation of the archgabled church took place in the second half of the 11 th century in Kyiv, where in the early 12 th century, it acquired finally completed forms. Almost simultaneously in Chernihiv and Novgorod in the first quarter of the 12 th century, and later in other cultural centers, there appeared regional variants of arch-gabled church, of which the Chernihiv variant quickly became interregional, spreading in the south-western regions of Rus. The first signs of pillar compositions are recorded in the first decade of the 12 th century also in Kyiv within the newly formed arch-gabled cathedral. In the middle of the 12 th century in Polotsk there existed already a purposeful search for an aesthetic model of a pillar-shaped church, which in the 80's of the 12 th century moved to Smolensk. The crystallization of the completed forms of the vertically oriented composition occurred at the end of the 12 th century, after which the pillar-shaped church took over the role of interregional type, displacing the arch-gabled cathedral, apparently completely until 1240, when the development of Old Rus architecture was interrupted by the Mongol invasion.


This research is aimed to increase the participation and learning outcomes of students in Junior High School Extraordinary Wantuwirawan through the implementation multimedia technologies and Drill learning methods. This research is a classroom action research with a systematic study using two cycles. This research target is to increase participation and student learning outcomes in teaching English. The steps are used in this study is to give material that is taught using multimedia-based and drill learning model on each cycle, then do a quiz at the end of each lesson. Data were analyzed descriptively using percentages. The results of this study indicate that participation and learning outcomes of students has increased each cycle. This could be seen from the increase in average pre-cycle aspects of student participation of 62.5%, for Cycle 1 students who participate by 81.25%, with a passing score of 100% and the average value of grade 90. Cycle 2 of 87 , 5%, with a passing score of 100% and the average value of a class of 100.


This research purpose to get emprical proof about the factors which inluential risk disclosure in the risk management report that is , leverage degree, type of industry, profitability degree, firm size and public ownership structure.
This research use purposive sampling in carry out sample selection. There are 77 non-finances firms which is listed in BEI (Bursa Efek Indonesia) at 2010 is become sample in this research. Stakeholder theory and agency theory is used to explain connection inter variable. Act of risk disclosure in this research use content analysis based on the identification of setences act of risk disclosure in the annual report. Statistic method is use for examine hypothesis is bifilar regression.
The result of this research find leverage degree and firm size are positife related significant with risk disclosure on firm, where as kond of type of industry, profitability degree and public ownership structure does not has significant influence with act of risk disclosure. However that totaly factors has influence toward act of risk disclosure. Other invention in this research is kind of risk wich is more to disclosure is money risk.


In this study, we realize high-resolution (4K-format), small-size (1.43 x 1.43 μm pixel pitch size with a single imager) and high-sensitivity (four times higher sensitivity as compared to conventional imagers) video camera system. Our proposed system is the real time computational camera system that combined long exposure green pixels with short exposure red / blue pixels. We demonstrate that our proposed camera system is effective even in conditions of low illumination.


Asthma among school adolescents has been a major contributor to school absence and teachers can play an important role in supporting students with asthma and their families. The study assessed the knowledge of teachers on asthma-friendly schools, their perceived roles in the control of asthma and also their opinion on school-parent partnership in the control of asthma. A cross-sectional design was used and quantitative data were collected from 380 teachers working in selected private high schools in Nigeria. A majority (70%) of the teachers had a good knowledge of the asthma-friendly school concept. Also, a larger proportion (76.3%) had good perception about their roles in the control of asthma. Marital status significantly predicted the teachers' perception (OR=4.57, CI=1.66–12.60, P=0.003). Most of the teachers (72.1%) opined that there was no partnership between the school and the parents in the control of asthma. Partnership between parents and teachers needs to be strengthened for the successful management of asthma in students.


We present Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data on O VI absorption lines observed toward nine stars behind the Vela supernova remnant (SNR). The O VI observations are compared with International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observations of C IV absorption toward the same stars. All of these stars are B stars, which generally have complex continua, making the extraction of absorption lines difficult. However, four of the stars, HD 72088, HD 72089, HD 72350, and HD 72537, are rapid rotators (v sin i ≳ 150 km s-1), making the derivation of absorption column densities much easier. We present O VI and C IV column densities for the "main component" (i.e., the low-velocity component) for these stars. In the FUSE spectra of three of the rapid rotators (HD 72088, HD 72089, and HD 72537) we find high-velocity components of O VI at ~150 km s-1 that we attribute to the SNR shock. HD 72350 has very strong H2 absorption, which obscures any possible high-velocity O VI absorption. To detect the high-velocity O VI absorption in HD 72088 requires employing a technique for removing the H2 line at 1032.35 Å (121.6 km s-1 relative to O VI). The O VI data are consistent with steady radiative shock models with vs ≈ 150 km s-1, but we do not detect C IV at the same velocities. Instead we find high-velocity C IV at lower velocities (~100 km s-1). We discuss the implications of our results for models of the evolution of the Vela SNR.


Fever in children is suggestive of an underlying infection and is the most common symptom of infection in children. Viral infections, such as colds and gastroenteritis, cause increased temperatures, but generally improve without treatment. Bacterial infections, such as urinary tract and ear infections, are also known to result in fever.


The objective of this work is to improve the precision of extracting the region of hand gesture by using the color histogram of the hand gesture region.


Many business owners are in a cash-crunch at the beginning stages of growing a business.  It's an important skill to always be able to, and to know how to generate an influx of cash when needed.  Though other forms of business building can be created...


In a recent paper, Z. Drezner and A. J. Goldman address the problem of determining the smallest set among those containing at least one optimal solution to every Weber problem based on a set of demand points in the plane. In the case of arbitrary mixed gauges (i.e., possibly nonsymmetric norms), the authors have shown that the set of strictly efficient points which are also intersection points always meets the set of Weber solutions. As shown by Drezner and Goldman, this set is optimal with the l 1 or l x distance but is not optimal with the l p distance, 1 p p distance case, we disprove a conjecture of Drezner and Goldman about the possibility of extending their result to more than two dimensions. The paper contains a different view of the problem: whereas Drezner and Goldman use algebraic-analytical approach, the authors use a geometrical approach which permits us to obtain more general results and also clarifies the geometric nature of the problem.


The study aims to investigate the effect of Al2O3 and Al additions to Nickel-base superalloys as a coating layer on oxidation resistance, and structural behavior of nickel superalloys such as IN 738 LC. Nickel-base superalloys are popular as base materials for hot components in industrial gas turbines such as blades due to their superior mechanical performance and high-temperature oxidation resistance, but the combustion gases' existence generates hot oxidation at high temperatures for long durations of time, resulting in corrosion of turbine blades which lead to massive economic losses. Turbine blades used in Iraqi electrical gas power stations require costly maintenance using traditional processes regularly. These blades are made of nickel superalloys such as IN 738 LC(Inconel 738). Few scientists investigated the impact of Al2O3 or Al additions to Nickel-base superalloys as coating layer by using the slurry coating method on oxidation resistance to enhance the Nickel-base superalloy's oxidation resistance. In this study, IN 738 LC is coated with two different coating percentages, the first being (10 Al+90 Al2O3) and the second being (40 Al+60 Al2O3). Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) were performed on all samples before and after oxidation. According to the results, SEM images of the surface revealed that the layer of the surface has a relatively moderated porosity value and that some of the coating layers contain micro-cracks. The best surface roughness of specimens coated with 60 % alumina+40 % aluminum was 5.752 nm. Whereas, the surface roughness of specimens coated with 90 % alumina+10 % aluminum was 6.367 nm.Results reveal that alloys with both Al2O3 and Al additions have reported a positive synergistic effect of the Al2O3and Al additions on oxidation resistance. Moreover,the NiCrAl2O3 thermal coating has good oxidation resistance and the effective temperature of anti-oxidation is raised to 1100 °C in turn reducing the maintenance period of turbine blades


meat juice and pH measurement and examined for psychrotrophic, lactic acid bacteria and anaerobic counts. The mean psychrotrophic counts were 9.4x10 7 ± 3.8x10 7 , 2.9x10 8 ± 6.4x1o 7 , 1.3x10 8 ±4x10 7 and 10 8 ±3x10 7 /g respectively, while the mean counts for lactic acid bacteria were 1.6x10 8 ±4.4x 10 7 , 2x10 8 ± 4.6x10 7 , 9.1x10 7 ±1.4x 10 7 , and 10 8 ± 3.3x10 7 /g respectively. Also the mean anaerobic counts were 9.7x10 7 ± 1.8x10 7 , 1.8x10 8 ±3.2x10 7 , 2.2x 10 8 ± 4.7x10 7 and 9.8x10 7 ±2.3x10 7 /g respectively. Another thirty samples of packed frankfurter, pastrami, rose beef were examined and compared with the aforementioned vacuum frankfurter, pastrami, rose beef products for detection of S.aureus, L. monocytogenes, B. cereus and Cl. perfringens . S. aureus could be detected in vacuum packed frankfurter and beef bacon samples while in resembling packed samples S. aureus and B. cereus could be isolated.


Considering climate issues, the Kyoto Protocol is the most important worldwide reference aimed at reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change; going further, the recent European Climate and Energy Policy defi nes binding targets for 2020, that include increasing use of renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass, etc.) to 20% of total energy production. In order to identify the most suitable strategies to achieve this objective, an evaluation of some relevant issues that can affect the sustainability of possible renewable energy options is necessary. This study focus on technology sustainability assessment of energy production from forest biomass, defi ning a set of indicators to provide a decision support system (DSS) for local decision makers, enabling them to evaluate the environmental impacts, the resource availability and renewability, the feasibility of the technology in the local context and the social acceptance of the plant among the local community. The case study presented in this article refers to an Italian mountain community (Comunita Montana delle Alpi Lepontine) in northern Italy, where the assessment of environmental, economic and social sustainability of a plant producing electricity powered by Syngas coming from gasifi cation of forest biomass was performed. The aim of the research was to develop a multidisciplinary DSS to assess the feasibility of the application and to defi ne guidelines for sustainability assessment of technologies for energy production using forest biomass, identifying critical issues and potential areas of optimization.


New applications of space tethers (High-Voltage Tethered Satellite System project) are discussed in relation with idea 1 of an active experiment in the Earth's radiation belts. Two conducting strings are supposed to be tethered between the main satellite and two small subsatellites flying through the ERB. A large potential difference ∼1MV is applied between the tethers by means of a generator carried on the main satellite. The tethers effectively scatter the high energy particles into loss cone of magnetic trap, providing a control of particle life time in ERB. The rigorous theory of the sheath layer formed by relatively cold plasma is developed, yielding the electric field profile, which is then used for the treatment of scattering problem. With the help of Fokker-Planck equation the average rate of particle losses, normalized per 1 km of the tether's length is found to be: (2.5 ÷ 14). 10 16 s -1 km -1 for electron belts and 1.8. 10 14 ÷2.5. 10 20 s -1 km -1 for proton belts. New active experiments in space become possible under the joint realization of HVTSS and HAARP projects.


Belief is to credence as circles are to ellipses. The concepts credence and ellipse generalize their counterparts. Beliefs and circles have some special properties that credences and ellipses lack, but they have other properties in common. One member of each pair is a special case of the other. On the picture I'll sketch here, credence is a technical concept introduced explicitly as a generalization of the more ordinary concept of belief. Credence often covaries with confidence (of which we have an ordinary concept), but the two should not be conflated; nevertheless, they often are, sometimes for understandable reasons. So, in §2, I will offer an error theory of how we've come to speak interchangeably of credence and confidence. Before all that, let's start by pinning down the ordinary notion of belief at issue. Later, I'll return to this characterization to explain how, exactly, credence generalizes it. Here are some claims about belief, none entirely uncontroversial, but each quite standard:


PURPOSE: To improve the accuracy and the resolution of a measurement result by changing the operating temperature of a measurement resistor to a different value according to a reference amount and considering the operating temperature when processing the measurement result. CONSTITUTION: A measurement resistor RH heated to a specific operating temperature TB by current flow is cooled according to each air flow rate (m). As a result, the resistance changes so that a bridge is detuned, a signal is generated at an output 8 of an operational amplifier 7, the operating temperature is adjusted via a conductor 10, and the resistor RH is maintained at an original temperature TB. The difference in the temperature in sucked air flow may affect a measurement result, but a temperature-sensitive resistor RK arranged in the air flow similarly can compensate for the influence. Also, the value of a variable resistor R2 can be changed, thus causing a temperature TB of the resistor RH to change also, thus adjusting temperature to a high value TB and increasing a voltage change width regardless of whether the change in air flow rate is small in a measurement voltage U. COPYRIGHT: (C)1991,JPO


1961) fiat 1 in 5 pregnancies in commonly realised how frequent mutations of spontaneous abortion. ~~~~~~i~~~~~~ in this sort are. The natural mutation rate at of these is known to bear a chromosomal each human locus is in the region of 1 : 105, and thus to be due to a failure so that for instance in each human ejaculate of famation of a viable gamete (polani, of 250 million spermatozoa there would be 1969). The frequency of congenital disorders thousand 'perm with defects at any has been found to be much the Same in given locus, and as the human genome has different races (Roberts, 1970), though the been calculated to hold Perhaps 2,000,000 loci incidence of specific defects does show Some (Stern, 1960)* each One Of us may carv at


To the Editor: —There were two interesting communications inThe Journal, Dec. 6 and Dec. 27, 1919, by Drs. Francis Carter Wood and Joseph C. Doane, respectively, relative to the low percentage of necropsies performed in our large hospitals, following the interesting paper, Sept. 20, 1919, by Douglas Symmers. The following report for the year 1919 from the City and County Hospital, St. Paul, shows that there are some hospitals which have a fairly high percentage of necropsies: total number of deaths during 1919, 608; necropsies granted by the coroner, 29; by permission from relatives obtained by the superintendent, 61; by permission obtained from relatives through the house physician, house surgeon and assistant superintendent, 154; total number of necropsies performed, 244; percentage of necropsies performed, 40.1 + per cent.


The Most Wonderful Wonder quickly became one of my favourite podcasts because of it's wonderful blend of history and folk music. Every episode has been a


This paper introduces a new method to estimating the parameters of a noncausal AR model. This method is based on a new formulation that relates the unknown AR parameters to both second- and higher-order cumulants. A genetic algorithm has been used to solve for the unknown AR parameters by minimizing a nonlinear cost function that is defined in terms of model's output cumulants.


Jane Thompson's books and essays have inspired and validated the work of radical practitioners in adult and community education not only in Britain, but also overseas - particularly in Canada and the United States, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. This is a collection of extracts, essays and conference presentations - written over a twenty-year period, on working class and women's education. This volume covers the application of Marxist, sociological and feminist analysis to adult education; connections between the women's movement and adult education, and a collection of writings by women learners whose lives were restricted by poverty and family violence. This book will be useful to students on adult and continuing education courses at university level. It will also be of relevance to staff development activity, conferences and workshops in which matters of curriculum, political education, participatory learning, citizenship and social change are being discussed. Practitioners in adult learning and community education who are concerned about disadvantage and issues of inclusion and exclusion will also find this book valuable.


This paper provides a systematic study on how an interdigitated capacitive (IDC) sensor can be optimized for sensitivity if it is embedded between two 6 mm thick glass sheets. The width of the electrode finger and the gap between adjacent electrode fingers have been varied from 0.5 cm to 2.5 cm to study the sensitivity of the sensor. Human touch experiments have been performed to evaluate the capacitance change during the touch event. A large, well-defined and durable sensing area is provided, making this sensor a good choice for industrial and commercial applications.


---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract– According to previous approaches multiport dc–dc converter for concurrent power management of several renewable energy sources which can be of similar types. The introduced dc–dc converter uses only one controllable switch in each port to which a source is connected. It has simple configuration and minimum number of power switches. The introduced converter is applied for simultaneous maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control of a wind/solar hybrid generation system consisting of one Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) and two different Photovoltaic (PV) panels. With the world oil crisis, dangers of overdependence on oil pushed for the development of alternative energy sources. Current international trend in electricity generation is to utilize renewable energy resources. Solar, wind, biomass, micro hydro systems can be seen as suitable alternatives to conventional power. So far these vast renewable energy resources, wind and solar, are not sufficiently harnessed for power generation. Thus, in this dissertation a hybrid renewable power generation system integrating the available solar wind and hydro resources will be investigated in detail for a specific location.


an essential interlocutor for those reforming Chaldeanism. Last, S.D. Smith brings many of the volume's threads together in his discussion of the Gilgamesh narrative in Aelian's History of Animals, which Aelian assimilates to the myth of Perseus and Akrisios and uses to probe questions of the authority of myth and the relative primacy of Greek, Roman and Mesopotamian cultural traditions. The volume is capped by N.B. Dohrmann's afterword addressing the apparent isolation of rabbinic texts, despite the size of this corpus in the Antonine period. This recusal, with its deliberate elision of Roman authority and political realities, nevertheless reflects many of the same discursive practices as other texts of the long second century and the broader imperial world. This volume embraces a broad range of material, and individual chapters will certainly be of interest to specialists, but the greatest strength of this volume is the carefullysignalled cross-referencing between the essays themselves. Virtually every essay connects with at least one other in the collection in meaningful ways that reward reading extensively, whether through shared authors, cultural discourse or methodological framework. Similarly, the willingness of the contributors to challenge preconceived notions of interactivity and to bring texts from different cultures into dialogue enriches our understanding of the increasingly interconnected world of imperial Rome. While intertextual traditionalists might desire more direct lexical correspondence to be fully convinced by some of the arguments, the more expansive models of interaction on offer provide compelling cases for such juxtapositions. The Roman empire reached its height in the second century, bringing new peoples and ideas into contact within a larger shared cultural system, which in turn generated significant cross-cultural dialogue and experimentation. This volume demonstrates the richness of these exchanges in the fabric of the Roman world, whose strands may be accessed by broadening our approaches to textual interaction. By bringing together scholars working in the different literary and cultural traditions of the second century, the volume illuminates the interconnectedness of the communities in the Roman empire. These communities did not exist in isolation from one another, but instead cross-pollinated in striking ways; taking a cue from antiquity, the volume likewise demonstrates the scholarly potential inherent in crossing disciplinary lines, which will engender fruitful new debates and lines of inquiry.


Electronic wave functions are studied on dilute lattices, at dimensionalities $1l~dl~8$. Generalized average inverse participation ratios are expanded in powers of the bond concentration, $p$. $Dlog$ Pad\'e approximants indicate that these ratios diverge as ${({p}_{q}\ensuremath{-}p)}^{{\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{q}}$, signaling the appearance of extended states for $pg{p}_{q}$. These Anderson transitions occur above classical percolation. No divergence is detected at $d=2$. These results are consistent with the existence of localized states at the center of the band.


A definition of the(r1,r2,…,r6,r7)-corona of the graph Cn⊙k1 has been given.The gracefulness of the(r1,r2,…,r6,r7)-corona of the graph C6⊙k1 are discussed.The graceful labelings are given.


The tests reported herein were made for the purpose of determining the high-speed load distribution on the wing of a 3/16 scale model of the Douglas XSB2D-1 airplane. Comparisons are made between the root bending moment and section torsional moment coefficients as obtained experimentally and derived analytically. The results show good correlation for the bending moment coefficients but considerable disagreement for the torsional moment coefficients, the measured moments being greater than the analytical moments. The effects of Mach number on both the bending moment and torsional moment coefficients were small.


Powered by technology and fuelled by globalisation, both work forms and employment models will see radical changes in the next decade. Temporary workers and part time free lancers will provide expertise based work through a global virtual pool of talent warehouse. All this will bring about fundamental changes to organization structures. In fact organizations will be more "unstructured" in future allowing for forms and processes to constantly morph to suit the unpredictable and ad-hoc needs of times to come. Organization structures will, at their best, support a loose assembly of federated, distributed, virtual, manager-less experts and service providers to come together, render a task and dissolve. All this will call for new skills among leaders and the HR professionals to coach the new leader.


The invention, for example, relates to enhanced search through the trellis related to decoding or channel equalization method and apparatus. Tree for search through the trellis, which processing condition index that is divided at each stage of the trellis to one or more subsets 500, the path metrics of the state indexes are defined in the subset 502, the the condition index of a pre-defined from a respective subset of the number is selected for continuing the metrics based on (504 506).