A procedure for the optimisation of full-scale marine propellers working behind a ship is presented. This procedure consists of two stages: the actual optimisation and a detailed investigation of a few selected propeller geometry variants. In the first step, an evolutionary algorithm in combination with the in-house panel code panMARE is used to solve the multi-objective propeller optimisation problem. An efficient method for the evaluation of the individuals and a parameterisation strategy for propeller shapes are presented. Proceeding from the results of the optimisation, a set of selected propeller variants is investigated in detail in the second stage of the procedure. The applied algorithm is based on coupling panMARE with a viscous flow solver. An enhancement of this method allows investigating several propeller variants sequentially without stopping the solvers.


Subdural Haematoma. DB. D. G. McKAY showed a male infant, aged one year. The child's birth had been a breech delivery, without difficulty. On the fourth day of life the child had begun to have fits involving the right side of the face, the right arm and the right leg. The fits consisted of tonic and clonic spasms of these areas, and the head and eyes were turned to the right. General examination at that time had revealed that the baby was drowsy and pale and had an icteric tinge. The fontanelle was bulging and very tense. The right arm and leg were slightly spastic. On July 19, 1938, the subdural spaces were explored with a large-bore needle inserted at the lateral angles of the fontanelle. Thirty cubic centimetres of blood were removed from the left subdural space and five cubic centimetres from the right. On July 27 the child had further fits, and five cubic centimetres of blood were removed from the left subdural space and 0·5 cubic centimetre was removed from the right. On July 22, further fits having occurred, three cubic centimetres of blood were removed from the left subdural space. On July 24 the child had another fit, and two or three cubic centimetres of blood were removed from the left subdural space. On July 27, no further fits having occurred, two cubic centimetres of old blood were removed from the left subdural space. On July 31 blood appeared in the child's stools, and 25 cubic centimetres were removed from the left subdural space. On August 3, 15 cubic centimetres of old blood were removed from the left subdural space. On August 4 the child was given a transfusion of 90 cubic centimetres of the father's blood. On August 5 the left subdural space was explored and about one cubic centimetre of blood was removed. On August 8 the fontanelle was fiat and no blood was obtained from the left subdural space. The baby appeared quite normal; the circumference of his head was 14·5 inches. On July 26, 1939, the child was aged one year and was apparently normal. He had mild alternating strabismus. The circumference of his head was 17·5 inches. No spasticity was present, and the child's mental development was above the average.


In the course of a study of fungi isolated from soil in Spain, an ascomycete belonging to the genus Apiosordaria was isolated. It differs from previously described species by much larger and pitted ascospores.


Purpose:The aim of this study was to clarify the characteristics and the awareness of nuclear prevention measures including prophylactic stable iodine (SI) of guardians of 0- to 6-year-old children living in the urgent protective action planning zone (UPZ) of the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant (GNPP), Japan. Methods:Of these 1172 guardians, 973 responded that they wished to receive pre-distribution of stable iodine (PDSI) and 199 did not wish to receive PDSI. Results: Logistic regression analysis showed that the following items were independently associated with guardians who wished to receive PDSI for their children: thinking that pregnant women should take prophylactic SI (odds ratio [OR]=6.57, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.62–9.35; p<0.01); wishing to participate in a lecture about the health effects of radiation exposure (OR=1.99, 95%CI: 1.40–2.82; p<0.01); thinking that SI can prevent exposure from all radionuclides (OR=1.93, 95%CI: 1.24–2.99; p<0.01); awareness of SI before the study (OR=1.91, 95%CI: 1.35–3.00; p<0.01); and anxiety about prophylactic SI for their children (OR=0.33, 95%CI: 0.20–0.55; p<0.01). The GNPP was one of the nuclear power plants in Japan that resumed operations after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2011. Conclusion: These results suggest that some residents have incomplete knowledge about nuclear prevention, including SI. Therefore, it is essential to educate residents and communicate the health risks of radiation exposure with residents living around nuclear power plants. Furthermore, it is important to train specialists to educate and communicate with residents to prepare for a nuclear accident.


AbstractIndependent component analysis (ICA) has the potential to identify anomalies in structural health monitoring (SHM) data due to its non-Gaussian data-processing ability. In order to addition...


Spain's authorities have become more agile since the generalisation of the Internet, the use of which has significantly improved the ways in which they communicate with the country's citizens and companies. The subjects of this study were the websites produced by the Town Councils of Spain's provincial capitals as well as those of the autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla. Their content and the personnel in charge of their creation, development, maintenance and updating were all examined. A questionnaire was designed to study the content of and the services offered by these charged with the technical and content management of these sites were identified by a multiple choice-type questionnaire sent by e-mail and fax to those responsible for these new services. Thirty three of the 52 councils contacted responded. The results show that at the municipal level Spain is still in the phase of making information available, with some local governments moving faster than others towards an 'electronic administration'. Nonetheless, the country is still far from working by 'electronic government'.


The aim of the current study is to examine the role of country-of-origin in consumers' product evaluation as well as purchase intention toward high- and low-involvement product (Car and confectionery) in a newly-industrializing nation. Data were collected from 500 consumers in Malaysia via a survey using self-administered questionnaires. Data were analyzed based on regression using SPSS. The main objective of this study is to explore the influence of country of origin (COO) relative to other product attributes in consumers' evaluation of domestic and foreign products. The Findings revealed that Malaysian consumers preferred products from European brands in case of high-involvement product. However, in case of low-involvement product, consumers evaluated their foreign-made products less favorably than homemade products. Consequently, COO influences consumers' preferences differently in the case of high- and low-involvement products.


Parents' confidence regarding their children's fever is a key factor in its management and there is still unnecessary anxiety and associated antipyretic overuse. The FeverApp application collects naturalistic real-time data on febrile infections and educates parents on fever management. Logistic regression examined the associations between (1) parental confidence and (2) antipyretics use with fever relevant parameters. First entry data of 3721 children (mean age 21 months; SD 22.97) was assessed. A total of 58.0% of parents felt confident upon first fever documentation. Warning signs [OR = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.40–0.61], dehydration [OR = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.52–0.81], fever [OR = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.57–0.80] and having a female child [OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.66–0.90] had the highest negative association with parental confidence. Antipyretics were used initially in 14.7% of children. Fever had the highest positive [OR = 2.58, 95% CI: 1.89–3.50] and well-being the highest negative association with antipyretic use [OR = 0.37, 95% CI: 0.22–0.63). In the first entry data, parental confidence was related to children's health condition in a reasonable medical manner. The use of antipyretics was mostly associated with febrile temperature, but also low well-being. Thus, associations were partly in accordance with recent guidelines.


This article explores the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). These two traditions are particularly important in the Canadian research context. We examine genre and ANT to uncover what we believe is a complementary relationship that promises much to the study of science, especially in the age of the internet. Specifically, we see RGS as a way to account for how objects come to "be" as complex wholes and so act across/among levels of network configurations. Moreover, the nature of these objects' (instruments') action is such that we may attribute them to a kind of rhetorical agency. We look to the InFORM Network's grassroots, citizen science-oriented response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as a case that exemplifies how a combined RGS and ANT perspective can articulate the complex wholes of material/rhetorical networks. Cet article examine Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) et Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Ces deux modes d'etude sont importants dans les contextes de la recherche Canadienne. Nous prennons genre et ANT, pour retrouver une perspective que nous croyons puisse contribuer beaucoup aux etudes de la science dans l'âge de l'internet. On comprend les genres de textes comme une moyenne de rendre compte de la facon dont les objets deviennent des ensembles complexes et donc agir entre les differents niveaux de configuration reseau. En plus, la nature des actions de ces objets (ou instruments scientifique) est telle qu'on puisse attribuer a eux une sorte d'agence rhetorique. Nous voyons le citizen science reponse de l'InFORM Network a la disastre au Fukushima Daiichi comme une example de la puissance d'un perspectif RGS/ANT pour articuler les "entieres-complexes" des networks qui sont material/rhetorical au meme temps.


Anonymised report on some of the issues raised at an international roundtable on collection security of thirteen major research libraries and national libraries from Europe and North America. Recurring themes of case studies included: 1) perpetrator profiling; 2) relations with the criminal justice system; 3) systems; 4) looking out; 5) aftermath.


The meeting of the Insurance Acts Committee on March 11, over which Dr. H. G. DAIN presided in the regretted absence, through illness, of Dr. H. C. Jonas, was very largely occupied with the case for an upward revision of the capitation fee. It was stated that the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland were prepared to receive a deputation on the subject later in the day, and it was resolved that the entire committee should attend at the Ministry with Dr. Dain as its spokesman. The draft statement of the case to be put forward by the Committee was examined paragraph by paragraph. The Committee devoted a couple of hours of constructive criticism to the memorandum, which was, with a few verbal alterations, unanimously approved. One member, in proposing a vote of thanks to the subcommittee whose main work it has been, said that he could not recall a document of this length and importance which had gone through with less alteration. In acknowledging the compliment a member of the subcommittee referred appreciatively to the work of Dr. Hill, Deputy Medical Secretary of the Association, who is secretary to the Committee. A small team, consisting of Dr. Dain, the Chairman of the Conference of Local Medical and Panel Committees (Mr. Elliot Dickson), Dr. Gregg, Dr. Greenfield, and Dr. Hill, was appointed to represent the Committee in the presentation of the case to the board of arbitration which it was anticipated would be set up.


The drug and the review Plerixafor was licensed in the UK in August 2009 to be used in combination with G-CSF to enhance mobilisation of haematopoietic stem cells to the peripheral blood for collection and subsequent autologous transplantation in patients with lymphoma and multiple myeloma whose cells mobilise poorly. The recommended dose of plerixafor is 0.24mg/kg body weight per day (to a maximum of 40mg/day) administered by subcutaneous injection 6 to 11 hours prior to initiation of apheresis following a 4 day pre-treatment with GCSF. In clinical trials plerixafor was most commonly used for 2 to 4 consecutive days (although in some patients it was used for up to 7 days).


Hosting close to half of Italy's oil refining capacity, Sicily is home to four petroleum refineries, one of which ended operations in 2014‐2015. Following an updated outlook of Sicily's oil infrastructure, this study provides both a critical perspective as to where oil refining in Sicily currently stands and a substantial view into its near future. We conclude offering a clue on how the autonomous Sicily's government might act to face the consequences of the undergoing profound changes summarized herein.


The presence of  weak acids in solution can be detected using a potentiometric detector. Platinum was used as a working electrode and Ag/AgCl as a reference electrode. Ascorbic, glutamic and aspartic acid were detected by a platinum electrode in a flow potentiometric system. The influence of pH, flow rate and concentration of phosphate buffers asa a carrier were studied and showed an optimum pH for the detection of ascorbic and glutamic acid at pH 6,5 and pH 7,0 for aspartic acid. Phosphate buffer concentration optimum at 1x10 -4 M and flow rate of 1,00 mL/min. Linear range for ascorbic and glutamic acid at 2,5 x10 -4 M to 5x10 -2 M, with a regression coefficient of  0,974 and 0,958, while for aspartic acid 5x10 -4 M to 5x10 -2 M with a regression coefficient 0,911. Detection limit for ascorbic and glutamic acids were 5x10 -4 M and 1x10 -3 M for aspartic acid. Sensor reproducibility obtained from variation coefficient  (Kv). Variation coeffiecient (Kv) of ascorbic acids 1,32-1,69%, glutamic acids 0,69- 1,57% and aspartic acid 0,54- 1,29%.


More than ten years passed since the relatively lower temperature and pressure theory has been proposed and promoted. It has gained recognition by the industry for its advantages. In order to make the things more clear for some workers,it is summarized four aspects including equipments, technologies, large chamber and energy saving. Some guidelines and relevant measures concerning about the designs of diamond synthesis at relatively lower temperature and pressure have been proposed.


1 The concept of autoimmune epilepsy has gained considerable interest over the last few years. After the detection of a plethora of antibodies in patients with acute and established epilepsy, prospective cohorts started investigating factors of inflammation. In a recent report, Dubey et al. reported neurological autoantibodies (NAAs) among patients with epilepsy of unknown etiology. They investigated 112 patients for various NAAs including anti-GAD and found NAAs in 34.8% of the cases (1). It is most notable that our recent studies showed very similar antibody prevalence and clinical associations as those of Dubey et al. We investigated identical patient groups, namely, focal epilepsy of unknown cause and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) 3 years ago, and published our results of 81 patients (2). We found antibodies to the glycine receptor (GLY-R) in 6.2% of our patients, CASPR2 in 4.9%, NMDAR in 2.5%, and VGKC-complex in 2.5% (2).


This paper proposes a controller design of the Cascade-PI algorithm for A Ladder-Secondary Double-Sided Linear Induction Motor (DSLIM). DSLIMs offer several advantages over their rotary counterparts in many implementations, such as in the position control linear motion. It is caused that some mechanical transmission mechanisms are omitted. However, in controlling a DSLIM, there are some difficulties caused by the existense of entcoupled stated of Motor and inherent characteristics such as longitudinal end effect and transversal ledge effects. This paper studies the high performance precision position control system of a ladder secondary double sided linear induction motor (DSLIM by implement the 2-DOF controller concept and symetrical optimum.


In this article, we overview recent developments of modern computational methods for the approximate solution of phase-field problems. The main difficulty for developing a numerical method for phase field equations is a severe stability restriction on the time step due to nonlinearity and high order differential terms. It is known that the phase field models satisfy a nonlinear stability relationship called gradient stability, usually expressed as a time-decreasing free-energy functional. This property has been used recently to derive numerical schemes that inherit the gradient stability. The first part of the article will discuss implicit-explicit time discretizations which satisfy the energy stability. The second part is to discuss time-adaptive strategies for solving the phase-field problems, which is motivated by the observation that the energy functionals decay with time smoothly except at a few critical time levels. The classical operator-splitting method is a useful tool in time discrtization. In the final part, we will provide some preliminary results using operator-splitting approach.


In this manuscript, Melton et al. employed a machine learning approach, i.e., Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (LightGBM) to predict the coverage of peatland over the whole globe by using climate, soil, terrain and vegetation data. The training data for LightBGM were from high-resolution regional dataset of peatland distribution and coverage. It is found that their approach can map peatland coverage reasonably well compared with existing global products using traditional approaches. As stated by the authors, the results of the study are valuable for prescribing peatland cover fraction in the Earth System models to better explore the impact of climate changes on global or regional carbon and water budgets.


Objective To explore the countermeasures for newborn red buttock early warning and nursing.Method The risk of red buttock was predicted according to the early warning report of red buttock risks and pre-warning stratified intervention of nursing was conducted.The control group was treated by routine nursing.The difference in the incidence of red buttock was compared.Results In the pre-warning intervention group,8 of 400 cases suffered from red buttock,with the incidence of 2%;in the control group,31 of 400 cases suffered from red buttock,with the incidence of 8%;the incidence of red buttock was significantly higher in the control group than the pre-warning intervention group.Conclusion Pre-warning stratified intervention of nursing for newborn red buttock may effectively prevent the occurrence of red buttock.


Three different shapes of Au nanostructures, which are cone, embossed, and wave-like shapes, were fabricated with a high order based on an anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) template and utilized for surface-enhanced Raman scattering system. © 2019 The Author(s)


A restricted cost function is estimated using annual data for western Canadian agriculture over the period 1961–84. Using the parameter estimates, disequilibrium cost elasticities are calculated. The elasticities for the sector indicate that the ex ante market prices of quasi-fixed inputs were higher than their shadow values. That is, quasi-fixed factors were underutilized during the sample period. Excess agricultural land contributed most to the cost of disequilibrium.


The synthesis, crystal structures and magnetic property of an uncommon oxalate-containing copper(II) chain of formula [Cu(L)(Ox)2(H2O)]n (2), where L = 3,5 dimethyl-1-(2′-pyridyl)-pyrazole and a mononuclear Cu(II) complex [Cu(L)(NO3)2] (1) derived from the same ligand, which can be used as the precursor of compound 2 are reported. The structure of 2 consists of tridentate oxalate-bridged (μ1,2,3) copper(II) chains, ligand (L) and crystallization water molecules. Variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements of 2 show the occurrence of a weak ferromagnetic interaction through the oxalate bridge [J = +1.95 ± 0.08 cm−1]. The small J value can be interpreted as a consequence of the almost zero overlap between the Cu(II) ions through the bridging ligand due to the different character (axial and equatorial), giving quasi-orthogonal magnetic orbitals. DFT calculations have been used to rationalize several aspects including the magnetic coupling mechanism and the interesting noncovalent interactions observed in the solid state architecture of compounds 1 and 2.


The present work deals with the synthesis, structural and magnetic characterizations of pure and zinc doped nickel ferrite (NiFe2O4 and Ni0.65Zn0.35Fe2O4) nanoparticles. The Ni0.65Zn0.35Fe2O4 nanoparticles were synthesized by sol-gel auto combustion method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) techniques were used for the characterization of the prepared samples. The structural properties were estimated from X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. The principle absorption bands correspond to octahedral lattice site was observed from FTIR spectra. The average particle size was calculated by using Debye Scherer's formula and the obtained values are of few nanometer. The M-H curves recorded at room temperature exhibits a typical hysteresis loop indicating that the sample exhibits ferrimagnetic behaviour. The large coercivity (Hc) values indicate nanocrystalline nature of the present samples. The coercivity, saturation magnetization, remanence magnetization and magneton number found to be influenced by zinc doping. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 22-06-2018 Date of acceptance: 05-07-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


A congested area of central Seattle is now the site of a no fare bus service experiment. The reaction to the project so far has been enthusiastic with greatly increased patronage on some routes. Data is now being collected on how increased usage has effected automobile use and pollution. The article also describes four types of no fare operations; total no fare, no fare for specific groups, no fare in special locations and examples of each in various cities. No fare transit is becoming increasing popular in light of the energy crisis. The cost of implementing such systems is compensated for by the social, economic and environmental benefits of increased public transit usage.


Abstract Adoption is not a new problem. Since the days of Ignorance, adoption has been done in a way and motivation vary in line with the system and legislation in force at the relevant community. Adoption can be categorized as legal acts due to adopt a child, means someone has taken someone else's child to be a part of his own family and in the end, there will be a legal relationship between the people who raised and raised children. Adopted children have a role as well as proximity to family members adoptive parents, so he sometimes treated the same as their own children. Awarding grants is one way that can be done by foster parents to children adopted as a form of love that has existed between the two. Because Islam clearly confirms that the relationship between the adoptive parents with one child both have adopted do not cause the inheritance relationship heir, thus an adopted child does not inherit from a parent angkatnya.Hibah or testament is one way or effort in terms of transfer of property pursuant -Undang Islam. Grant is the provision of the applicable property during the life of the grantor, while the will is the provision of the applicable property after the death of a will.


Aim of the present work is the investigation of the transport properties (Knudsen and molecular diffusivity, permeability) of 3-dimensional binary domains that represent two model mesoporous materials, namely Vycor glass and alumina membrane. A process-based technique producing a random packing of equal spheres is used for the reconstruction of the alumina membrane, while a stochastic reconstruction procedure is employed in the case of Vycor. The comparison between computed and reported transport coefficients confirms that the random sphere pack represents quite well the porous structure of the alumina membrane, while the stochastic reconstruction technique is sufficient for an accurate representation of the porous matrix of Vycor glass.


The present invention discloses a method of compensating the shipyard fall under the hook radius changing mechanism for a door, comprising: measuring the amplitude of the hook is fixed by default every load change, a corresponding change in lifting height, and calculate the corresponding adjustment curve ; operation, the torque limiter value at the current height of the reference value, the adjustment according to the payload size from the closest curve selected curve; amplitude after the start, the torque limiter determines the reference value and the adjustment of the trajectory curve whether the gap is greater than a predetermined threshold value among, if after, the torque limiter output adjustment command to the door control systems, door control system receives the adjustment instruction, the height adjustment lifting mechanism, until the hook drop below a predetermined level thresholding, adjustment command canceled. The present invention implements intelligent compensation gap between the level of the hook, but the compensation process is simple, high efficiency compensation, so that the gap between the level of the hook to meet stability requirements of heavy lifting.


The work had as objective the water table mapping with GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) method, and seismic refraction with a comparative analysis between both results, once both answers to the presence of interstitial water of vadosa zone are distinct. Geophysical data were acquired in Sao Paulo city, in Brazil. Both methods revealed uncertainties in the determination of water table, but for the studied case, the most common errors were associated to the results of seismic refraction due to the uncertainty in the seismic wave velocity determination in the first layer. Considering the studied case, we find out the integration of the worked methods, always possible, can give rise to decrease related to inversion ambiguities of the data, and contribute to better accuracy in water table mapping.


239Background: Assessment of the clinical outcome and prognostic factors of patients receiving Y90 radioembolization to treat colorectal liver metastases. Methods: Multi-institution retrospective s...


1. Directions for the cultivation of hydra are given.2. The phenomenon of depression, in which there is a shortening and gradual loss of tentacles and column from the distal end proximally, is of common occurrence in hydras and probably represents a lowered metabolic state. It is induced by rich feeding, high temperature, sensescence, fouling of the culture water, lack of oxygen, transfer to clean fresh water. Recovery may be spontaneous or may by induced.3. Irregular adventitious budding tends to occur in senescent, extremely elongated, depressed, and sexual specimens, that is, specimens in a low metabolic state. Under such conditions buds may be retained on the parent far beyond the normal time, giving rise to so-called colonies.4. Abnormalities, such as forked tentacles and forked distal and basal ends arise chiefly in recovery after depression. Forked distal structures may also arise by retention of a bud.5. Longitudinal and transverse fission are probably not normal modes of reproduction of hydra but...


Carbon fibers with high performance are critically important materials for various industries, especially pitch-based carbon fibers including isotropic pitch-based and mesophase pitch-based are app...


Quinoxalino[2,3-b]porphyrins are laterally-extended porphyrins with aromatic ring systems fused to the beta,beta '-positions of a pyrrolic ring of the macrocycle. They are building blocks for coplanar laterally-extended oligoporphyrins with applications in molecular electronics. The electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of four such quinoxalinoporphyrins containing metal(II) ions and one free-base quinoxalinoporphyrin dissolved in nonaqueous media have been investigated and the data are compared to that seen for the same derivatives of the parent macrocycle lacking the fused quinoxaline ring. The investigated compounds are represented as (P)M and (PQ)M, where P = 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)porphyrin, PQ = 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)quinoxalino[2,3-b]porphyrin and M = 2H, Zn, Cu, Ni or Pd. The complexes all undergo two ring-centered reductions and one or two ring-centered oxidations in PhCN, CH,Cl-2, pyridine or THE Additional redox reactions are also seen for the quinoxaline group in THE The fusion of an electroactive quinoxaline group to the porphyrin macrocycle results in an 80 to 270 mV shift of E-1/2 towards easier reductions and the appearance of a third reduction which is assigned as a quinoxaline-centered redox process. The average HOMO-LUMO gap for the (P)M and (PQ)M derivatives is 2.26 0.09 V and 2.14 0.08 V, respectively. Both values are smaller than the average separation of 2.33 0.13 V for the corresponding derivatives of tetraphenylporphyrin. The electrochemistry and UV-visible spectroelectrochemcal data indicate that moderate communication exists between the quinoxaline unit and the porphyrin pi-ring system. Copyright (c) 2005 Society of Porphyrins & Phthalocyanines.


Outcrops of supergene copper mineralization of azurite, and malasite types were found in the Tonra Region, Bone Regency, South Sulawesi Province. Hydrothermal alteration can be used to interpret and understand the origin of supergene mineralization and identify hypogene mineralization. This research includes identification of hydrothermal alteration mineral types and their alteration types. Sample processing using megascopic analysis, microscopic petrography and XRD mineralogy. The results of megascopic analysis show three altered outcrops with physical changes as markers of altered rock. Microscopic analysis of petrography and XRD mineralogy showed the presence of quartz, paligorskit, kaolinite, illite, chlorite, ankerite, calcite, zeolite, epidote, and sphalerite minerals. This research explains that in the research location has two types of argillic and propylitic alteration. The type of argillic alteration is characterized by the presence of quartz-kaolinite-illite minerals, based on the formation temperature in the range of 100-300oC and acidic pH. The propylitic alteration type is characterized by chlorite-epidote-carbonate minerals, based on the formation temperature ranging from 150-300oC and neutral pH.


This essay considers art historical discourses on the work produced during the First World War by two painters born and living in the Iberian Peninsula: the Portuguese Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887–1918) and the Catalan Joan Miró (1893–1983). It considers the dialogues and relations maintained by these painters in their war‐ affected national artistic milieus and with the equally disrupted, international avant‐ garde circles, while discussing historiographical biased assumptions about production‐ places and their meanings, namely how localness was read as expressing isolation, distance, and lack of aesthetic significance. Joana Cunha Leal * Universidade NOVA de Lisboa * Joana Cunha Leal is assistant professor at the Art History Department, and associate researcher at the Art History Institute, of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her recent work privileges the study of Iberian modernisms and the avant‐garde. Resumo Este artigo analisa os discursos da historiografia da arte sobre a obra produzida no decurso da 1a Guerra por dois pintores da Península Ibérica: o português Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887‐1918) e o catalão Joan Miró (1893‐1983). O artigo considera os diálogos e as relações que estes pintores mantiveram nos seus meios artísticos nacionais e nos círculos da vanguarda internacional. Discute, ao mesmo tempo, os pontos de partida das análises historiográficas sobre esses locais de produção e o seu significado, muito particularmente o modo como a pertença local foi lida como expressão de isolamento, distância e falta de pertinência estética. Cunha Leal – Distance and Distortion 31 ARTL@S BULLETIN, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (Summer 2017) Migrations, Transfers, and Resemantization It is only a hypothesis, but it seems possible that the conviction of the historian that he has "found" the form of his narrative in the events themselves, rather than imposed it upon them, in the way the poet does, is a result of a certain lack of linguistic self‐consciousness which obscures the extent to which descriptions of events already constitute interpretations of their nature. ‐ Hayden White1 Cardoso and Miró: Common Traces and Sheer Differences Amadeo Souza Cardoso and Joan Miró are essential cases to address the effect of the First World War in the Iberian Peninsula. Several common traces assert their relevance. Firstly, the fact that they were both recognized as avant‐garde artists during this period. They both exhibited their work as such: Souza Cardoso, who died from the Spanish influenza pandemic a few days before the armistice,2 organized two solo exhibitions of more than one hundred works in Oporto and Lisbon in December 1916;3 Miró showed his 1914–1917 production at the prominent Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona in March 1818.4 Moreover, they both had hostile responses from the general public. Such negative reception matches perfectly the converse appraisal of their work by the sympathetic national avant‐garde intellectual and artistic cliques.5 1 Hayden White, "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact," Tropics of Discourse: essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1978), 95. 2 A thoroughly documented biography of Amadeo Souza Cardoso has been published by M. Helena de Freitas (ed.), Catálogo Raisonné Amadeo Souza Cardoso, Vol. I ‐ Fotobiografia (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007). 3 In Oporto, the exhibition appeared under the generic title "Abstractionism." See the exhibition catalogue Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Porto‐Lisboa 2016‐1916, Ana Paula Machado, Elisa Soares and Marta Soares eds. (Porto: Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Blue Book, 2016). 4 There are 64 paintings referenced in the catalogue; see Enric Jardí, Els Moviments d'Avanguarda a Barcelona (Barcelona: Ediciones Cotal, 1983), 63‐67; Victoria Combalía, El descubrimiento de Miró. Miró y sus criticos, 1918–1929 (Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 1990); and Jaume Vidal i Oliveras, "Josep Dalmau: El primer marxant de Joan Miró," in Miró‐Dalmau‐Gasch l'aventura per l'art modern, 1918‐1937 (Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 1993), 70‐74. 5 The Portuguese writer and painter José de Almada Negreiros, considered Cardoso as "the first Portuguese discovery of the 20th century" in a leaflet‐manifesto distributed in his exhibition in Lisbon. The exhibition put Cardoso in the orbit of the Lisbon avant‐garde group gathered around the Orpheu journal (1915). Cardoso was invited to publish four works as hors‐text in Orpheu's third issue. The issue never came out, but the invitation is mentioned by the poet Fernando Pessoa, who also described him as being "the most famous advanced painter in Portugal;" main documents related to the exhibition were published by M. Helena de Freitas (ed.), Catálogo Raisonné Amadeo Souza Cardoso, I, 248–253; transl. by the author. Miró's exhibition had an enthusiastic review in Troços signed by the Catalan poet Josep Junoy. Junoy had taken the letters of Miró's name in the catalogue cover to compose Secondly, both Souza Cardoso and Miró became key references for the history of modern art in Portugal and Spain appearing as counterparts to the artistic enquiries occurring in the international milieu. Art history writing on Miró has gone far beyond nationally bounded approaches on modernism and the avant‐garde,6 but the fact that Miró's most praised works are firmly linked to his Catalan roots might explain why he did not suffer from the same foreignization process as Pablo Picasso (and to a certain extent, Juan Gris). Joan Miró is bound to Catalonia,7 and Souza Cardoso is identified as Portuguese.8 They are both taken as examples of regional painters triumphing in the strenuous arena of the international avant‐garde. As far as the period analyzed in this essay is concerned, Souza Cardoso and Miró share another distinctive common feature: the fact that some key art historical accounts have portrayed them as carrying out distorted appropriations of the international trends they were in dialogue with during the war. Such dialogue concerns, first and foremost, the reception of cubism, and as we shall see specifically encompasses the invention of collage and Robert Delaunay's defense of a simultaneist alternative to cubism. Delaunay's pre‐ eminence here being certainly associated with his stay in Portugal and Spain between 1915 and 1921.9 a calligram; see Enric Jardí, Els Moviments d'Avanguarda a Barcelona, 63–67. The negative responses of the general public are signalled by the famous episode of these very catalogue letters being changed to produce the word "merda" (shit) by an anonymous visitor, or by the fact that Miró's name "became synonymous with the 'eccentricities' and 'abuses' of modern painting;" see Robert S. Lubar, "Art and Anti‐ Art: Miró, Dalí, and the Catalan Avant‐Garde," in Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí, William Robinson, Jordi Falgás, Carmen Belen Lord eds. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), 339–347. These episodes parallel Sousa Cardoso's aggression by another outraged visitor of his exhibition in Lisbon; see M. Helena de Freitas (ed.), Catálogo Raisonné Amadeo Souza Cardoso, I, 243; and also the recent study on the exhibition's reception by Marta Soares, "A pintura entre o cinematógrafo e a colecção oceonográfica," in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Porto‐ Lisboa 2016‐1916, 53‐ 57. 6 A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at MoMA as early as 1941. Another significant example would be Clement Greenberg's seminal essay on Miró. See Clement Greemberg, Joan Miró (New York: The Quadrangle Press, 1948). 7 Ibid. 8 See José‐Augusto França, "Amadeo de Souza Cardoso," in Amadeo & Almada (Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1985 [1st ed.1957]), 11‐158; and the exhibition catalogue At the Edge: A Portuguese Futurist, Lourdes Simões Carvalho and Laura Coyle eds. (Lisbon: GRI/Corcoran Gallery, 1999). 9 The Delaunays had also been surprised by the outbreak of the war in Spain, and after a period living in Madrid, ended up settling in Portugal from 1915 to 1917; see Paulo Ferreira, Correspondance de quatre artistes portugais Almada Negreiros, José Pacheco, Souza Cardoso, Eduardo Viana avec Robert et Sonia Delaunay (Paris: PUF, 1972), 40–56; Rosemary O'Neill, "Modernist Rendez‐vous: Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and the Delaunays," in At the Edge, 61–77; and Pascal Rousseau, "'El arte nuevo nos sonríe' Robert y Sonia Delaunay en Iberia (1914–1921)," in Robert y Sonia Delaunay, Lluis Bagunyà ed. (Barcelona: Carroggio, Museu Picasso, 2000), 40–70. Cunha Leal – Distance and Distortion 32 Migrations, Transfers, and Resemantization ARTL@S BULLETIN, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (Summer 2017) Finally, there are also major differences between the two painters to be considered in the scope of this essay. Such variance contributes to assert the significance of both painters to my discussion as well. Namely, it is essential to stress the contrast between their specific national contexts regarding the conflict, with Portugal entering the war in 1915, while Spain remained a neutral country all the way through. Furthermore, it is key to consider the differences between their backgrounds, previous artistic experiences, career development stages, international connections, etc. These differences add another layer to the diversity and complexity of the contaminations mentioned earlier. At least they show that, as far as the Iberian artistic milieus of the first decades of the twentieth century are concerned, there is no such thing as a geographical homogenized periphery in Europe's southwest ready to mirror an ideal center, even though passionate representations of Paris did prevail and were fully absorbed by art historical narratives.10 Amadeo Souza Cardoso (1887–


Objective To explore futher the possible action of substance P (SP) fibers (SP) to spinal trigeminal caudal subnucleus (Vc) on the sensory neurotransmission. Methods The ultrastructure and synaptic relationships of the SP fibers were observed by using immunocytochemical and electron microscopical methods. Results The SP axonal terminals, which contain a lot of small clear vesicles?a few of large dense cored vesicles and mitochondria, are distributed among the dendrites. After pretreatment of colchicine, the SP dendrites can be observed. Majority of the SP axon terminals form axodendritic synapses with unlabelled dendrites or with SP dendrites occasionally. There are many converging synaptic complexes in the Vc. In the complexes SP axon terminals form axodendritic synapses with central unlabelled dendrites, some of them belong to type Ⅱ synapses, or unlabelled axon terminals form axodendritic synapses with central SP dendrites, some of them belong to type F. Conclusion The Vc receives different afferent fibers including SP fibers. In the pain mediation activity, there are postsynaptic inhibitory synapses (Gray Ⅱ type) in which SP fibers take part.


We studied changes in plant growth, nutrient absorption, quality of fresh leaves, and the antioxidant enzyme systems of leaves treated with AMF (Glomus etunicatum) in tea (tea cultivar "Xinyang 10") seedlings exposed to 0 and 100 mmol/L sodium chloride (NaCl). The AMF colonization in the tea roots decreased observably by 50.1% after a 5-week soil NaCl (100 mmol/L) treatment. The growth, leaf nutrient levels, and leaf quality parameter contents significantly declined by 18–39% in the 100 mmol/L NaCl treatments. In contrast, these variables exhibited observably higher responses in the mycorrhizal seedlings than in the nonmycorrhizal seedlings. Furthermore, AMF improved the leaves' total amino acid concentrations dramatically, accompanied by the upregulation of the genes of the amino acid synthetic enzymes, such as glutamate dehydrogenase (CsGDH), glutamate synthase (CsGOGAT), and glutamine synthetase (CsGS), while 100 mmol/L NaCl seedlings represented a negative performance. In addition, the 100 mmol/L NaCl treatments dramatically downregulated the expression level of the tea caffeine synthase 1 gene (CsTCS1), the ascorbate peroxidase gene (CsAPX), and the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme gene (CsHMGR) in the leaves, while the AMF seedlings represented positive performances. These results suggest that AMF may play an active role in fresh leaf quality via the partial upregulation of the relevant genes' expression. In contrast, salt stress represented the opposite result in tea. The seedlings inoculated with AMF showed significantly increased antioxidant enzyme activities, by 13.3–19.6%, including peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT), and superoxide dismutase (SOD), over the non-AMF inoculated tea seedlings. Still, they did not affect glutathione reductase (GR), irrespective of the NaCl condition. Further studies indicated that AMF observably upregulated the genes' expressions (i.e., CsCAT and CsSOD) in both the 0 and 100 mmol/L NaCl seedlings. Meanwhile, the 100 mmol/L NaCl seedlings represented markedly lower antioxidant enzyme activities (i.e., SOD, CAT, and POD) and gene expressions (i.e., CsSOD and CsCAT) than the non-NaCl seedlings, irrespective of AMF inoculation. These results imply that AMF has a positive role in strengthening salt tolerance and on the quality of fresh tea leaves.


We study the stellar mass assembly of the Spiderweb galaxy (MRC 1138-262), a massive z = 2.2 radio galaxy in a protocluster and the probable progenitor of a brightest cluster galaxy. Nearby protocluster galaxies are identified and their properties are determined by fitting stellar population models to their rest-frame ultraviolet to optical spectral energy distributions. We find that within 150kpc of the radio galaxy the stellar mass is centrally concentrated in the radio galaxy, yet most of the dust-uncorrected, instantaneous star formation occurs in the surrounding low-mass satellite galaxies. We predict that most of the galaxies within 150 kpc of the radio galaxy will merge with the central radio galaxy by z = 0, increasing its stellar mass by up to a factor of ≃2. However, it will take several hundred Myr for the first mergers to occur, by which time the large star formation rates are likely to have exhausted the gas reservoirs in the satellite galaxies. The tidal radii of the satellite galaxies are small, suggesting that stars and gas are being stripped and deposited at distances of tens of kpc from the central radio galaxy. These stripped stars may become intracluster stars or form an extended stellar halo around the radio galaxy, such as those observed around cD galaxies in cluster cores.


The invention discloses a PD-L1 affinity peptide P1 with anti-tumour activity, which is the polypeptide obtained by phage display peptide library screening, wherein the amino acid sequence thereof is FPNWSLRPMNQM, and the molecular weight thereof is1520.7. The affinity peptide P1 with anti-tumour activity and aiming at a PD-L1 target disclosed by the invention has the advantage of being screened with a high flux by utilizing a phage display peptide library screening technology for the first time; and via an in-vivo tumour-bearing experiment for Kunming mice, the affinity peptide P1 disclosed by the invention is proved to have a great anti-tumour activity, can induce the internal tumour cell apoptosis of mice, and have an extremely high killing capacity for tumour cells. Via the affinity peptide P1 disclosed by the invention, new thoughts and theoretical basis are provided for research and development on medicines based on PD-L1.


Granular Co x C 1-x and (Co/Pt) x C 1-x thin films with different metal-volume fractions x are prepared by simultanious electron beam evaporation of Co or CoPt and C targets.
The films are condensed on NaCl- and quartz substrates.
The structure of the films is controlled by choosing different substrate temperatures T s in the range between 20°C and 350°C as well as by annealing the thin film samples after generation at temperatures T a between 200°C and 700°C.
The structural properties of the films are examined by means of transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction.
Electrical resistivity of the films is measured in the temperature range between T = 4.2K and T = 300K.
In order to reveal the magnetic properties of the granular thin films a SQUID magnetometer is used.
In addition to the measurement of hysteresis loops at T = 4.2K and T = 300K, remanent magnetisation curves are measured in order to examine the magnetic coupling between the particles of the granular films.
Additionally magnetoresistance measurements are performed at T = 4.2K.


Objective:Elevated resting heart rate (HR) has been found to be an independent predictor of cardiovascular and overall mortality. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors associated with raised HR in 25–74-year-old black residents in Cape Town.Design and


The aim of this paper is to illustrate a significant issue introduced by the current Italian normative framework in the field of E-Government concerning digital documents. We focus on the probative value of paper and digital documents and in particular on the problem of digital document copies and duplicates, as defined by the digital administration code, by analysing their status both from a juridical and technical point of view and by hypothesizing possible solutions to overcome their inherent vulnerabilities.


With the development of gigabit network,the users are putting forward more and more requirements on VPN(Virtual Private Network,VPN)equipments.The research and implementation of high-speed VPN equipments influence on the overall performance of information systems greatly.Currently,there are many means to implement the high-speed IPSec VPN,and the processing speed of encrypting the VPN's IPSec protocol is an important factor which affects the overall performance much.In this paper,according to the locality principle of data flow,a new method of concurrent scheduling based on the analysis of traditional parallel encryption method and the way of fast streaming of data packet is introduced.


Speech intelligibility is an important factor for successful speech communication in today's society. So-called near-end listening enhancement (NELE) algorithms aim at improving speech intelligibility in conditions where the (clean) speech signal is accessible and can be modified prior to its presentation. However, many of these algorithms only consider the detrimental effect of noise and disregard the effect of reverberation. Therefore, in this paper we propose to additionally incorporate the detrimental effects of reverberation into noise-adaptive nearend listening enhancement algorithms. Based on the Speech Transmission Index (STI), which is widely used for speech intelligibility prediction, the effect of reverberation is effectively accounted for as an additional noise power term. This combined noise power term is used in a state-of-the-art noise-adaptive NELE algorithm. Simulations using two objective measures, the STI and the short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) measure demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach to improve the predicted speech intelligibility in noisy and reverberant conditions. Index Terms: speech-in-noise enhancement, reverberation, speech intelligibility, near-end listening enhancement


Along with the social economic development,the legal person torts become more and more common.Analyzing from legal person essence admission passage,if we unify the skill of coinage in "the theory that the legal person is virtual" with the solid will in "the theory that legal person is real",we can regard the legal person's will as the will of the legal person institution' natural person and as the will of the administrative officiating legal person employee.Thus we come to a conclusion that the legal person has the ability for torts.Truthfully from the perspective of the principle of pragmatism and the skills of legislation according to infringes upon the right the system design quality judgement standard,the legal person also must have the ability for the abuse of authority.Under this premise,from the angle of the essence of the legal person while adopting the approach of pragmatism,this article offers a detailed discussion of the important components of legal person's abuse of authority.Furthermore,on the basis of the comparative analysis of the legislation of various countries' civil law as regards the infringing upon the right of the legal person,this article holds that China's future civil law code will be supposed to absorb the successful experience of the "General Provisions of the Civil Law",and exert a general command of the responsibility assignment of the abuse of infringing behaviour in the process of administrative officiating of the legal person institution and its bailee or employee.Therefore a "unified model" of legislative pattern is to be adopted for the legal person responsibility for the abuse of legal rights.


A recent news release by the National Endowment for the Arts' characterized an agreement between four federal agencies (Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, Housing and IJrban Development, and the Departinent of Agriculture) aimed at "improving the design of facilities in order that older people may live with dignity in an environment that takes their need into consideration. " While this initiative may not itself produce any major innovations, it is evidence of the increasing recognition of the special needs of elderly persons in the design of their environinen t. I t is apparent that the emerging fields of human factors design, reliabilitation engineering, and others are beginning to refocus some of their attention from space travel and Vietnam veterans to the special needs of the elderly. Physicians and other medical care providers are very aware of the physiologic impairinen ts that occur with acute illness such as respiratory or renal failure, and the need for "environmental modifications" such as respirators or dialysis. They are often less cognizant of the need for environmental modification to compensate for the slow, less dramatic loss in individual function that occurs with the aging process itself or with the chronic illnesses that affect the elderly. It is essential, however, to recognize the iinportance of small, ongoing inodifications in the physical environment that may allow the elderly individual to maintain a level of function despite a loss in individual functional ability. Although some interventions in the physical environment are not directly in the purview of the physician, the physician can and should be an advocate for well-designed physical environinen ts for the elderly. No matter where an elderly person lives, be it at home, in an extended-care facility, or temporarily in an acute-care hospital, the physical environment must always function td maximize, in terms of the activities of daily living, the person's independence, individual choice, opportunities for social interaction or for privacy, and safety and security. We must be sensitive to a whole array of factors in the person-environment interaction such as: 1) reduced physical activity and autonoinic nervous system dysfunction and ambient temperature (eg, sendentary elderly people generally require a higher ambient temperature to avoid hypothe r~n ia )~*~ ; 2) the "senile gait" and other mobility problems and accessibility to buildings and to destinations within buildings (eg, barriers such as side walls, stairs, elevators, curbs, uneven sidewalks, e t ~ ) ~ . ~ ; 3) visual impairment and legibility factors within buildings (eg, room numbers, signs, arrows, lighting, colors, and textures)6; 4) cognitive disorders and orientation to spaces regarding their order and predictability (ie, ease of finding desired destinations)'; and 5) increased physical vulnerability and the need for a building secure enough to keep out intruders or uninvited visitors.s An approach to environmental settings that takes into account certain psychosocial and physiologic concomitants of aging and disease is essential: one recognizing that inany 80-year-old persons cannot handle the same level of environmental coinplexity as most 25 year olds, that sensory impairment may necessitate a different order of stimuli intensification and orchestration, and that one's position on the life span continuuin has a lot to do with the types and amounts of space needed (eg, the very old spend inost of their days within limited interior spaces and thought must be given to what types of environmental compensation can mitigate this limitation). It is clear that we are only at the threshold of whgt should come to be a major focus for research and planning: the design and provision of environments that support and enhance the function of the elderly person.


Super markets are mushrooming in every city as shopping has became a daily activity. An average person goes to shopping 1.6 times in a week and spends approximately 40 minuets there per visit. This sums up to around 60 hours every year. Around 15 of the time spent in the supermarkets is wasted due long billing queues and weighting for the turn. On public holidays and special discount days, there will be a significant upsurge in the number of customers. With the present system it sometimes becomes difficult to manage the rush. The traditional way of shopping in which people put the articles in the shopping cart and wait in the long queues at the billing counter is being followed pretty much since the opening of first supermarket. This paper proposes a feasible and cost effective method to save time and reduce queues at the billing counters with Artificial Intelligence. The goal is to design a shopping cart which uses AI and IoT to scan the product as soon as it is kept in the cart. People have been already developing these carts using RFIDs for years but the proposed project isn't just about RFIDs. It is a complete evolution of a shopping cart altogether using TensorFlow's object detection. This will save time and make shopping easier and better. It'll also help stores to make more profits and help the customers save money at the same time.


A few months ago, I spent sorne time over the rich collection of drawings by Abbott, now in the British Museum. Thinking that some of his memoranda may not be unacceptable to the readers of your magazine. I transcribe the substance of what is written on those butterflies which occur in the North as well as in the South, no copy of the others having been taken. The botanical names of the plants have, in most cases, been inserted in the MSS. by some subsequent student; those which bear the initials A.W.C., are due to the kindness of Dr. Chapman.


This paper aims to present some features of the non-Poissonian statistics of the spread of a disease like COVID19 to a community of chemical-physicists, who are more used to particle-based models. We highlight some of the reasons why creating a 'transferable' model for an epidemic is harder than creating a transferable model for molecular simulations. We describe a simple model to illustrate the large effect of decreasing the number of social contacts on the suppression of outbreaks of an infectious disease. Although we do not aim to model the COVID19 pandemic, we choose model parameter values that are not unrealistic for COVID19. We hope to provide some intuitive insight in the role of social distancing. As our calculations are almost analytical, they allow us to understand some of the key factors influencing the spread of a disease. We argue that social distancing is particularly powerful for diseases that have a fat tail in the number of infected persons per primary case. Our results illustrate that a 'bad' feature of the COVID19 pandemic, namely that super-spreading events are important for its spread, could make it particularly sensitive to truncating the number of social contacts. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


PURPOSE: Tissue for a mouth using chinese medical material is capable of preventing virus disease, bacterial disease, stomatitis and gingivitis, cleaning hands, cleaning the mouths of babies after letting the babies have milk or juice and applying to a patient. CONSTITUTION: Tissue for a mouth is manufactured out of bark of birch, cornus officinalis, a mulberry tree, a chinese matirmony vine and the paper mulberry, and cotton yarn having color. The tissue is obtained by: setting birch pulp on a bottom and non-woven fabric comprised of PE fiber on an upper side; pressing the pulp and the non-woven fabric with a press; and then heating the pressed tissue and forming wavelike wrinkles(1).


This critical essay applies the concept of "presence" as a theoretical lens for explaining the rhetorical efficacy of protest events surrounding a contemporary debate about immigrants' rights in a suburban New York township. Specifically, the protests surrounding the town board meetings regarding Brookhaven's "Neighborhood Preservation Act," a piece of legislation geared toward making rental laws more stringent, are examined. A group comprised largely of white, upper middle‐class citizens voiced their support for the proposed legislation, while a group of day laborers and those sympathetic with their cause characterized the proposed legislation as a form of racial discrimination disguised as a rental law. This analysis focuses on the specific tactics used by protesters on both sides of this issue in their attempts to persuade members of the town board, the news media, and the citizens of Brookhaven township.


The invention discloses a frock clamp for drilling a steel pipe inclined hole, which comprises a clamp base (1), two clamp columns (2), a lower die (3), an upper die (4) and four fastening bolts (5). The frock clamp is characterized in that: the clamp base (1) is a steel plate with a thickness of 30-50mm; the two clamp columns (2) have different lengths and a spacing therebetween, and are vertical to a 16 or 18mm groove steel of the base (1) respectively, and one ends of the two clamp columns are welded and fixed with the base (1) while the other ends of the two clamp columns are set into inclined top ends; a groove is arranged longitudinally in the middle of the lower die (3), a mould of a through hole is arranged at the middle part of the groove, and the two ends of the lower die are welded and fixed with the inclined top ends of the two clamp columns (2) respectively; a mould of the groove is arranged longitudinally in the middle of the upper die (4) matched with the lower die (3), and a drill head inlet hole (6) is arranged at the middle part of the upper die (4); and two of the four fastening bolts (5) are arranged at the two ends of the upper and lower dies respectively so as to connect and fix the upper and lower dies.


A method in a first device to enable the device-to-device radio link, the method comprising: the presence of a second device signal, if received over a first time period - the presence signal of the second device has a boundary time slots to whether or not the detecting; And if the second is not a presence signal of the device is detected, first involves initiating the boundary time slots by the first device, it initiates the time slot boundary for transmitting a first presence signal of the first device in the selected time slot that, the check involves the acknowledgment for a first presence signal.


Cardiovascular disease develops 10 to15 years later in women than in men and is the major cause of death in women older than 65 years of age. The risk of heart disease in women however is still underestimated and many women are not aware of their own risk factors. In a recent report from the European Heart Survey on stable angina pectoris it was found that women are less likely to be referred for functional testing for ischemia, with a lower rate of diagnostic angiograms and interventional procedures. The under-recognition of heart disease and differences in clinical presentation in women lead to less aggressive treatment strategies and a lower representation of women in clinical trials. In the current review we summarize the major issues that are important in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD) in women.


Quantifying capital requirements for operational risk under the Basel Accords remains an open issue in banking practice. In this paper, the impact upon the economic capital of two critical elements when applying advanced approaches (AMA) in the modelling of operational risk, namely, the threshold, and the loss distribution of severity, is analyzed by using a loss database of a Spanish savings bank. This study demonstrates the importance of finding a methodological way to render the various operational risk profiles of financial entities comparable.


Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman's Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation is a collection of narratives written by individuals with a wide range of gender identities and expressions from around the world. The text shows how gender-nonconforming people are changing how society looks at gender. As many of the individuals who are challenging gender norms are youth, the work provides important insights into the experiences of this generation.


N-Acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are quorum sensing signals produced by Gram-negative bacteria. We here report the affinity purification of AHL synthases using beads conjugated with an enzyme inhibitor, which was designed based on the catalytic intermediate acyl-SAM.


Primary Immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are a heterogeneous collection of several hundred disorders, that have in common deficient or dysregulated immunity. This leads to an increased susceptibility to infections, autoimmune disease, or to uncontrolled inflammation; in some PIDs there may be features of all three components. Understanding the pathogenesis of PIDs has led to insights into the immune system broadly, and this knowledge has aided improvements in the treatment of many more common infective and inflammatory diseases.

Many PIDs are monogenic, and advances in technologies that enable the interrogation of the genetic basis of these conditions, have led to a steep increase in the number of diseases now recognized as PIDs. In this project we aimed to establish a cohort of individuals with the most common form of PID, Predominantly Antibody Deficiency (PAD). We sought to characterize the diagnostic and clinical features of these individuals, and apply genomic sequencing methods for more precise diagnoses, as well as to identify new genetic etiologies of PAD.

One of the most striking findings regarding the clinical features of the patient cohort, was the morbidity associated with PADs. In particular we observed very frequent complications of immune dysregulation, that manifest as autoimmune disease, particularly affecting the haematological system as cytopenias, or gastrointestinal tract as enteropathy, or malignancies. These complications are challenging to manage in the setting of PID, hence understanding the mechanism of disease is crucial to improving outcomes. In a group of PAD patients we identified monogenic causes of disease, that led to some individuals receiving precision treatments.

In the realm of gene discovery, we identified several novel genetic variants, two in genes that had not previously been recognized as disease-causing in PAD. The first, NFKB1, is now recognized as the most common genetic etiology of PAD. The importance of NF-kappaB signaling and its regulation was further highlighted by the discovery of other disease-causing variants in the NF-kappaB pathway. The effect of NFKB2 mutations on the immune response was investigated in a kindred with two sisters affected by PAD, who demonstrated disparate clinical and immunological features. Further studies were performed in a mouse model of NF-kappaB2 deficiency, whereby B cell and CD8+ T cell behaviours were studied in a quantitative manner, and revealed the cell-type specific effect of loss of this component on the adaptive immune response.

Finally, an entirely new monogenic PID was identified. In a young man with a clinical diagnosis of PAD, complicated by autoimmune disease, a homozygous, frameshift mutation in NFKBID was identified. The mutation was demonstrated to cause loss of expression of IkappaBNS, an inhibitor of the NF-kappaB pathway, and with that, dysregulated NF-kappaB signaling. The finding of a second patient with PAD and compound heterozygous variants in NFKBID has added further evidence that this is a bona-fide novel PID.


The Algarve province of Portugal is located near the E-W Eurasia-Africa plate boundary. It is characterized by a moderate seismicity, with some important historical earthquakes causing important damage and economical losses. Not only has it suffered the effects of large plate boundary events but also the impact of local onshore moderate-sized earthquake sources. The seismic hazard evaluation and mitigation of the area is therefore of great importance to the local populations and the large number of tourists that frequent the region. This paper focuses the evaluation of the most interesting and useful geotechnical near-surface parameters and a soil classification. The classification based upon the European Code 8 for civil engineering and SPT bedrock data, was carried out for land use planning and design of critical facilities. P-wave and S-wave seismic velocities were obtained through the acquisition, processing and interpretation refraction profiles. Hundreds of SPT parameters from available boreholes drilled for engineering and water supply were used and subsoil classification based on geophysical and geotechnical parameters is presented. Other parameters, such as Vp/Vs ratios and the Poisson coefficient were estimated and were computed to provide information for future site effect studies. The experimental procedure tested here is relatively fast, economical and easy to perform and can be useful to estimate soil microzoning and seismic hazard mapping in the absence of local earthquake records.


The fluorescence spectral and polarized fluorescence spectral characteristics of normal and lung cancer serum solution whose concentrations are from 0.1% to 4% at the band 360~800 nm induced by 408 nm light are reported. The difference between two types of spectra has been studied. The result shows that the fluorescence intensity of lung cancer serum is stronger than the normal one but the polarization of lung cancer serum is obviously less than that of healthy person under the same concentration. The research will gives reference to the diagnosis of lung cancer.


Corneal transplantation is a solution in treating visual disturbances due to corneal opacities, but this procedure is said to be limited. Various efforts have been made in the development of alternative therapies, one of which is by using composite biomaterials. For this reason, this study aimed to analyze the effect of the collagen-chitosan-sodium hyaluronate composite on the inflammatory reaction (flare) in the corneal stromal injury of New Zealand rabbits. The method used was thirty adult male New Zealand rabbits which were divided into three groups. The first group (negative control) was not treated, the second group (positive control) was subjected to intrastromal injuries by making a stromal pocket with the help of a crescent knife, and the third group had a collagen-chitosan-sodium hyaluronate biomaterial implanted in the stromal pocket. The results of this study showed that there were significant differences in inflammatory reactions (flares) in the collagen-chitosan-sodium hyaluronate composite implantation group with the control and positive control groups (p = 0.001, >0.01). Therefore, it can be concluded that the inflammatory reaction (flare) in the implanted group was higher than the control group, this could occur due to the short observation period so that the biomaterial was not completely absorbed.


The purpose of this article is to identify similarities and differences about the relationship between faith and culture in the reflections of three Latin Am...


THE author of this book has adhered strictly to his object of presenting methods of carrying out clinical laboratory work without in any way discussing the interpretation of the results. The volume is therefore essentially a manual for the laboratory worker. The various tests are described briefly, but with attention to every practical detail, and references to original articles are provided with most of the descriptions. The author has limited himself as a rule to one method for each quantitative estimation, apparently with the rather narrow view that one method is suitable in all circumstances. The examination of gastric contents differs considerably from the examination generally carried out in Great Britain, and no consideration is given to the fractional test meal. The illustrations, with the exception of those of blood cells, are very good. Making allowance for slight differences in terminology, the clinical pathologist will find in this book a clear description of the laboratory methods in general use.Clinical Laboratory Methods.Prof.R. L.HadenBy. Pp. 294 + 5 plates. (London: H. Kimpton, 1923.) 18s. net.


The project cost control is exactly the investment control of construction items. In this paper the cost controls in project decision, design and execution stage are introduced. Author points out that the final destination is to limit the final account less than investment norm.


Business class seat is a representative of brand imaging an airlines operator that give premium services for each customer. Meanwhile, availability level and operational functions must be keep in a good way to assure all business class seats are good condition. Business class seat consists of many electrical and mechanical component, if there has a failure so the business class seat will be unavailable to use. Therefore to assure seat availability, maintenance program is needed. This paper introduces a combination of historical data and manufacturer or vendor recommendation in order to obtain an optimum maintenance program that suitable for the business-class seat. The method use Markov simulation based on unscheduled removal parts to gain the predictive time removal, and manufacturer or vendor recommendation as preventive maintenance for business class seat.


According to the idiographic complexion of our country,the article elucidated the connotation of conservation tillage: It's a technology of tillage with minimum tillage or no-tillage so as to reduce the soil's disturbing,using stalk cover the field so as to decrease laboring and tillage's cost,preventing wind water erosion,and improving the fertility of soil and the ability of fight a drought.The paper summarized the functions about crops' growing conditions which improved by the conservation tillage measures: It's can improve the field's water use efficiency effectively,conserve soil water and reduce soil water loss availably,decrease the great mass of fields' removing-sands and soil-nutrient soil-water lost,increase the amount and active of biology microbe in the soil,increase the soil's fertility,improve soil's structure,reduce the temperature of the earth's surface,lessen evaporation.Furthermore,the article recounted the effect of plant diseases and insect pests and weeds by the conservation tillage measures.Finally,it proposed the necessity that the conservation tillage should be put in practice,and advised its emphases.


In this paper, we introduce the concepts of neutrosophic rare α -continuous, neutrosophic rarely continuous, neutrosophic rarely pre-continuous, neutrosophic rarely semi-continuous are introduced and studied in light of the concept of rare set in neutrosophic setting.


Increases in heart rate (HR) and cardiac output, and redistribution of blood flow to the periphery are key cardiovascular responses to heat exposure. We previously observed hysteresis in the HR response to heating in rats, whereby HR was higher for a given core temperature (Tc) during cooling/recovery compared to during heating. In the present study, we evaluated whether this hysteresis was associated with dehydration, and whether specific cardiovascular response patterns were associated with more negative outcomes. Tc, HR and arterial pressure were measured via radiotelemetry in conscious male Fischer 344 rats (n=22; 272.4 ± 4.7 g) during exposure to 37°C (heating phase) and during recovery at 20°C (cooling phase). HR increased substantially during heating. At Tc = 39.5°C, HR was 386 ± 5 bpm during the heating phase and 490 ± 14 bpm during the cooling phase (P< 0.001). HR hysteresis in recovery was coincident with substantial dehydration (7‐8%BW), but returned to baseline after ~20 min despite continued dehydration, suggesting these events were not linked. Independent of hysteresis, rats with the worst outcomes demonstrated a drop‐off in HR at end of heating. These findings provide further insight into multiple simultaneous stressors placed on integrative cardiovascular regulation during and immediately following heat stress.


The methods used to evaluate the quality and appropriate usefulness of psychological tests are discussed with particular reference to the assets and limitations of computerized assessment. An introduction to methods of evaluating and using tests is provided by considering essential questions to address before purchasing/ using a test, additional resources to consult, the use of psychological tests for specific purposes, and assets and limitations of computer software. The implications for business managers are that, before considering the use of computerized psychological testing they should clearly have the knowledge to evaluate them and understand appropriate approaches towards interpreting the results.


This correlational study aims to determine the effect of learning interest forwards in mathematics achievement in Junior High School students PGRI Kota Bengkulu. The sampling in this study used a purposive sampling technique with consist12 student, grade VII, which is 5 boys and 7 girls. The data is collected by using a questionnaire and documentation. Then, the data is analysed using correlation analysis. Based on the results of the analysis, it is concluded that students' interest in learning has a positive effect on mathematics achievement.


Aluminium alloy is the most favourable material based on the various properties and economic factors. Always there are so many researches going on based on the enhancement of the material properties with various combinations and the various materials mixing rate depending upon the availability. These researches were focused on the augmentations of the properties, and then the corresponding properties can be used in the various applications depending upon the results. In this study, the AA6066 aluminium alloy composites were created with the magnesium oxide and coal ash with a variety of grouping. The specimens were named as AAMgOCA 1 to AAMgOCA 6 with respect to the volume concentration composition. Then, the composites were tested to identify the impact on various strengths such as yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, shear strength, and flexural strength. These strengths were compared with the two conditions of the composites such as annealed and heat-treated conditions. AAMgOCA 3 has the greatest results in heat-treated condition when compared with the annealed condition.


This paper presents a content analytic approach to research related to in-service science teachers' professional development. The research under consideration was published in four international science education journals and three international conference proceedings specialized in science education from 2012 through 2016. A total of 204 articles (44 published in journals and 160 published in conference proceedings) were examined to identify the fields of concentration within continuous professional development (CPD) programmes, which are; focus of professional development, Types of Professional development, research purposes, research tools, Types of the data, the context of the in-service CPD programmes. The result indicated that there is increasing emphasis on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), inquiry, problem-solving and thinking. Most of the journals and conferences provide CPD as in-school and long-term training programmes subject to systematic evaluation.


GaMnAs layers fabricated on GaAs(001) substrates by laser ablation technique were studied using the magneto-optical transversal Kerr effect (TKE) (E = 0.5 - 4.0 eV) and spectral ellipsometry (E = 1.4 - 4.5 eV). Obtained spectral, temperature and magnetic field TKE dependences shown that the used technique allowed us to obtain ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As layers, whose composition was close to single-phase one (without MnAs inclusions). Spectral dependences of the off-diagonal components (e' = e'1 - ie'2) of the permittivity tensor and also of the magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) were calculated for ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As sample. The calculated dependences were compared with the published magneto-optical spectra of (Ga,Mn)As layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy.


Primary-produced sea-spray is typically composed of sea-salt, but in biologically-active regions, the spray can become enriched with organic matter which reduces hygroscopicity of sea-spray, thereby having a potential impact on aerosol scattering. This study shows that scattering enhancement of marine aerosol, as a function of increasing relative humidity, is reduced when enriched with organics whose results are used to develop a new hygroscopicity growth-factor parameterization for sea-spray enriched in organic matter. The parameterization reveals a dual state which flips from high-hygroscopicity and high-scattering enhancement to low-hygroscopicity and low-scattering enhancement as the organic volume fraction increases from below ∼ 0.55 to above ∼ 0.55. In terms of organic enrichment, the effect on Top of Atmosphere (TOA) direct radiative forcing (ΔF) is to reduce the cooling contribution of sea-spray by ∼ 5.5 times compared to pure sea-salt spray. The results presented here highlight a significant coup...


The mulberry leaf-roller, Diaphania pulverulentalis (Hampson) is a major defoliator pest of mulberry in sericultural tracts of Karnataka, India. A nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolated from D. pulverulentalis larvae was analysed via its polyhedrin gene, which was amplified from DpNPV DNA in polymerase chain reaction using degenerate set of primers and the sequence was analysed phylogenetically with other polyhedrin genes. The analysis revealed that DpNPV was closely related to Galleria mellonella NPV, Plutella maculipennis NPV and Autographa californica NPV and Autographa biloba NPV and distinct from Bombyx mori NPV.


Regardless of the nature and size of the firm a graduate joins, every candidate attorney should live by a simple mantra: "add value."


A nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) experiment was performed on a 235U target with quasi-monochromatic γ-rays at the High Intensity γ-ray Source (HIγS) facility using a 1733 keV resonant energy. A LaBr3(Ce) detector array consisting of eight cylindrical detectors, each with a length of 7.62 cm and a diameter of 3.81 cm, was implemented in this measurement. Moreover, a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector array consisting of four detectors, each of which has a relative efficiency of 60%, was used as the benchmark for the measurement taken using the LaBr3(Ce) detector array. The integrated cross section of the NRF level, measured with LaBr3(Ce) detectors, showed good agreement with the available data.


Nowadays, the development trend of wind energy has changed from distributed to large-scale wind farms and from onshore to offshore. The special environment of offshore wind energy makes the operation of wind turbines facing more serious challenges than that of onshore wind energy. One of them is the high generator fault rate. The humidity at sea makes the generator failure rate much higher. The maintenance costs of the generator are also high because offshore maintenance usually needs special equipment, such as service vessels. Offshore maintenance is also limited by weather condition, such as wind and wave. At the same time, offshore wind turbines generally have a larger capacity. So the power loss caused by the same downtime is more massive. The wake effect is also a factor that offshore wind farms have to consider. To solve the problems mentioned above, this thesis studies the control and optimization of offshore wind farms with Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG)-based wind turbines under generator faults. The objectives include three points: protection of the faulty generator, reduction of the power loss caused by fault, and the optimization of wind farm power. The specific methods are implemented both at the turbine level and the farm level. The generator faults studied in this thesis include generator cooling system fault and inter-turn short-circuit fault in stator windings. The common feature of these two types of faults is that they are both heat-related. The impact of these two heat-related faults is not very serious at the initial stage. However, ignoring the fault will lead to further deterioration of the fault. Therefore, this thesis adopts derating strategies to protect the faulty wind turbine and avoid excessive power loss compared with shut-down. The contribution of this thesis is to propose reasonable strategies at the turbine level and the farm level for reducing the impact of generator fault on the wind turbine and wind farm, thereby improving the fault operation capability of wind turbines and reducing the Operation & Maintenance costs of wind farms. At the turbine level, there are two ways to derate the power of the faulty wind turbine. One is that the faulty wind turbine reduces the faulty phase


The rapid development of multinational corporations since the second World War is a reflection of the many changes that have occurred in the international economic environment. At this same time, some business firms pursued the conglomerate form as a means of expansion and growth. Opportunities for international expansion were the result of the gradual removal of restrictions that were aimed at the protection of national economies. In addition, improved transport and communication techniques contributed to that move. A major reason for the growth of multinational firms is their desire to diversify their activities over different countries. A firm's expansion in the same country, where positive correlation generally exists between rates of return of several business units, does not facilitate proper diversification, as compared with expansion carried out on an international basis.


Generalized Pareto distribution(GPD) has been the best distribution to fit excesses over a given high threshold.In this paper,use it to measure liquidity risk of open-end funds under the circumstances of accrued payables being shortfall for redemption.We develop a risk model that helps compute the expected shortfall.The parameters of the GPD can be estimated by maximum likelihood.Using numerical techniques we could predict one kind of risk for amount of redemption under the conditions of a certain probability.In conclusion,a new reasonable way to keep away from the liquidity risk is provided to the fund management.


Abstract : While the rapid pace of science and technology (S&T) in the modern world is enabling new capabilities for the Army, the globalization of information, research, and economies poses new challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD) to stay at the cutting edge of S&T research and avoid technological surprise. Previous approaches to forecasting S&T abilities of future allies and adversaries, and to predicting corresponding changes required for Army strategy have had limited success. A method for more accurately predicting the emergence of future scientific discoveries and applications would be instrumental for improving the effectiveness of DoD S&T programs. Recent studies have suggested a more successful forecasting approach: Identify potential confluences or convergences of individual science and engineering fields and then project how those convergences may lead to new capabilities. One recently emerged convergence is between the fields of chemistry and materials science. This revolutionary new field, called mechanochemical transduction, focuses on understanding and harnessing the fundamental processes through which mechanical stress can lead to a pre-designed chemical reaction. In January 2012, the Army Research Office (ARO) sponsored the Mechanochemical Transduction Convergence Workshop as a test case for identifying convergences of disciplines and their potential impact on science and the Army. A diverse group of academic and government scientists were invited to participate in the workshop. The academic researchers were renowned subject matter experts representing a wide range of disciplines, including chemical engineering, organic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, molecular biochemistry, materials engineering, multi-scale theory, metallurgy, and physics. The chief objective of workshop was to identify the most promising research opportunities and interdisciplinary convergences that could lead the field of mechanochemical transduction in new directions.


Insight into the dynamic properties of a-lytic protease (aLP) has been obtained through the use of low-temperature X-ray crystallography and multiple-conformation refinement. Previous studies of a L P have shown that the residues around the active site are able to move significantly to accommodate substrates of different sizes. Here we show a link between the ability to accommodate ligands and the dynamics of the binding pocket. Although the structure of aLP at 120 K has E-factors with a uniformly low value of 4.8 A* for the main chain, four regions stand out as having significantly higher E-factors. Because thermal motion should be suppressed at cryogenic temperatures, the high E-factors are interpreted as the result of trapped conformational substates. The active site residues that are perturbed during accommodation of different substrates are precisely those showing conformational substates, implying that substrate binding selects a subset of conformations from the ensemble of accessible states. To better characterize the precise nature of these substates, a protein model consisting of 16 structures has been refined and evaluated. The model reveals a number of features that could not be well-described by conventional B-factors: for example, 40% of the main-chain residue conformations are distributed asymmetrically or in discrete clusters. Furthermore, these data demonstrate an unexpected correlation between motions on either side of the binding pocket that we suggest is a consequence of "dynamic close packing." These results provide strong evidence for the role of protein dynamics in substrate binding and are consistent with the results of dynamic studies of ligand binding in myoglobin and ribonuclease A.


Objective To evaluate the effect of the pre-hospital emergency care in severe cerebral trauma.Methods All of 178 cases of patients in my hospital from June 2009 to June 2012 were divided into the observation group involved 86 cases and the control group involved 92 cases,the patients in control group were brought to the hospital by the relatives directly,and that of observation group underwent therapeutic methods involved supply of oxygen,respiratory support,anti-shock and bleeding control pre-hospital emergency care.Results The time of emergency care was lessened,the mortality rate was significantly decreased,the cure rate obviously was improved.The two groups had statistically significance(P 0.05).Conclusion The accurate,proper and quick pre-hospital emergency care can decrease the mortality rate of the patients with severe cerebral trauma.


A psychological contract has been defined as the implicit beliefs about reciprocal obligations held by employees and employers. Thus, it would be expected that during an explicit organizational cha...


The innovative activity peculiarities in the sphere of the public and municipal management are revealed in the article. The innovative system structure in the personnel work field is researched, the personnel innovation concept is defined, the distinctions in the functional and innovative activity of the civil and municipal officials are revealed.


We collect some observations on line coding schemes obtained from a subset of a Permutation Modulation signal set. In particular, we discuss design techniques and develop a tool for performance analysis.


Samples from the antrum and fundus of the stomachs of 457 pigs from 22 different herds were screened for the presence of 'Candidatus Helicobacter suis' by pcr, and samples from the antrum and/or fundus of 222 of the stomachs were tested for urease activity. The prevalence of the infection was very low before weaning, increased rapidly after weaning and reached 90 per cent in the adult boars and sows. The agreement between the results obtained with the pcr test and the urease test was very good for some age groups and sampling sites, but poor for other age groups and sampling sites.


Ever since Berger's (1929) discovery that brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram (EEG)) can be measured at the human scalp, it has been assumed that in these voltage fluctuations are hidden the mysteries of the workings of the human mind. While classical neurophysiologists questioned the likelihood that such "simple" fluctuations could be the key to the complexities of understanding, talking, reasoning, imagining and supposing, the past 70 years have proven otherwise. A large body of evidence has shown that electrical and magnetic activity (human or otherwise) encode information about brain states and brain processes and, by inference, about mental states and mental processes. The exact mapping from neural structures to sensory, perceptual and cognitive processes and states is not at all transparent, but all neuroimaging techniques are based on the assumption that such mappings exist and are decipherable. In this chapter we examine the nature of the mapping between perception, movement and cognition on the one hand and electrical and magnetic activity at various scalp locations on the other. In this regard, it is important to remember that the brain's currency at a neurophysiological level is electrochemical activity. It is the pattern of electrical activity at the scalp that doctors and scientists alike take to be a sign of how and how well the brain is functioning. As we will document, electrical and magnetic activity can be used within the context of psychological experiments to assess the brain's sensitivity to various


Pivot-RP is a source of research funding opportunities, facilitating research collaborations, and offering insight into the funding landscape as well as internal benchmarks. Pivot-RP addresses the needs of researchers and research development professionals alike.


The application of the Information and Communication Technologies to everyday life activities facilitates the availability of lots of information and knowledge which can be used for multiple purposes. One of them is learning processes within organizations. However, there are two questions which must be addressed: first, that people do not only learn in organizational contexts; and second, that not all the data gathered from learning systems is useful. This makes it necessary to find a way to gather information about informal learning activities in the workplace and to facilitate visibility of what employees learn outside the organization so that such knowledge may be accessed from within the organization and be used for decision making. In order to do so this study proposes a methodology based on the identification of informal learning instances by the employee and their recognition by the organization. The methodology is supported by a technological framework based on a Personal Learning Network, a Portfolio, a Catalog of Competences and an institutional system which includes tools for optimization of decision making. The methodology has been implemented and evaluated in the context of a pan-European project. The main findings from this study suggest that, although decision making from informal learning instances is possible, both the methodology and tools used should be flexible enough to satisfy the needs of the organization.


During the past few years, we developed and used laser desorption mass spectrometry for biomolecule detections. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) was successfully used to detect DNA fragments with the size larger than 3000 base pairs. It was also successfully used to sequence DNA with both enzymatic and chemical degradation methods to produce DNA ladders. We also developed MALDI with fragmentation for direct DNA sequencing for short DNA probes. Since laser desorption mass spectrometry for DNA detection has the advantages of fast speed and no need of labeling, it has a great potential for molecular diagnosis for disease and person identification by DNA fingerprinting. We applied laser desorption mass spectrometry to succeed in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and several other nerve degenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease. We also succeeded in demonstrating DNA typing for forensic applications.


Ceremonies using live snakes are highly publicized events of many southwestern Pueblos, due in part to the handling of rattlesnakes. Although some of these ceremonies have been described at length, little is known of their antiquity. While informants indicated that such ceremonies are quite old and greatly precede documentation by western anthropologists, no chronological dates were specified. Without written records or clear archaeological evidence, no good assessment of the chronology of these events has been established. Analysis of three Classic Mimbres vessels ostensibly documents the Pueblo snake ceremonies to as early as the eleventh century. These archaeological data corroborate ethnographers' and informants' claims of the antiquity of the ceremonies.