The hydroxo complex [NBu4]2[Ni2(C6F5)4(µ– OH)2] reacts with H2S or a thiol at room temperature in methanol to give the binuclear complexes [NBu4]2[Ni2(C6F5)4(µ– SR)2](R = H, Me, Et, Pri, Ph or C6H4Me-p). The trinuclear complex [NBu4]2[Ni3(C6F5)4(µ– SEt)4] has been obtained by reaction of an excess of EtSH with the same hydroxo complex in refluxing methanol. The µ–azolato-µ-thiolato complexes [NBu4]2[Ni2(C6F5)4(µ– L)(µ– SR)](HL = pyrazole or 1,2,4-triazole; R = H, Ph or C6H4Me-p) can be prepared either by treating the µ-hydroxo–µ-azolato complexes [NBu4]2[Ni2(C6F5)4(µ– OH)(µ– L)] with H2S or a thiol (1:1 molar ratio) or [NBu4]2[Ni2(C6F5)4(µ– OH)2] with the corresponding thiol and azole (1:1:1 molar ratio). Analytical (C, H, N, S), conductance and spectrroscopic (IR, 1H and 19F NMR) data have been used for structural assignments. An X-ray crystal structure determination of [NBu4]2[Ni3(C6F5)4(µ– SEt)4] has established the trinuclear nature of the anion. The structure has been solved and refined to R= 0.052 and R′= 0.062 based on 3398 observed reflections. The Ni atoms are four-co-ordinated and show approximate square-planar arrangements. The bridge conformation could be determined by S ⋯ S repulsions.


The late eighteenth century in Europe was marked by the dismantling of Old Regime societies. This crisis – caused by the illustrated thonking and its criticism in the areas of morality, religion, politics, society, and economic thought – caused peculiar resonances in the Portuguese Empire.The present study aims to examine the tensions and resistances that reveal the clash between two different world views: the estate and corporate society's typical traditions and behaviors versus the Enlightenment ideals, found especially in governmental attitudes by the known generation of the 1790's. One of the distinguished members of this generation was minister D. Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho (1756-1812), considered by historiography one of the great exponents of the Portuguese Enlightened reformism. His performance at the center of political power, between the years 1796 and 1803, allows the identification of the hotspots of this clash: in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Queen D. Mary I's madness puts the Portuguese monarchy under the turbulent regency of D. Joao. In the backstage of Queluz National Palacem courtesan oppositions and political intrigues emerge, challenging the ideal of a Luso-Brazilian Empire. Between enlightened dinners and reforming politics, D. Rodrigo faces corporate resistances that prevent him from putting into practice the measures he believed were fundamental for the modernization of the Kingdom of Portugal. Cornered, reformism sought asylum overseas, which was found among governors and enlightened elites, although it was not immune to the resistance of local authorities, as revealed by the cases of Minas Gerais, Para and Angola.


The long term tracking of sparse local features in an image is important for many applications including camera calibration for stereo applications, camera or global motion estimation and people surveillance. The majority of existing tracking frameworks are based on some kind of prediction/correction idea e.g. KLT and Particle Filters. However, given a careful selection of interest points throughout the sequence, the problem of tracking can be solved with the Viterbi algorithm. This work introduces a novel approach to interest point selection for tracking using the Mean Shift algorithm over short time windows. The resulting points are then articulated within a Viterbi algorithm for creating very long term tracking data. The tracks are shown to be more accurate than traditional KLT implementations and also do not suffer from accumulation of error with time.


As a particular branch of penal law, administrative law of the Republic of Serbia comprises a series of specific and original solutions regarding the definitions of administrative offences and responsibility for administrative offences. This seems logical because administrative offences may be committed by various categories of offenders: juveniles, adults, responsible persons in legal persons and entrepreneurs, who are responsible in accordance with the principles of personal responsibility, but also by a legal person, liability of which is based upon objective responsibility. Numerous terms related to the definition, elements, types, roles and characteristics of responsibility for administrative offences, as well as for the grounds that exclude this type of responsibility in cases prescribed by the law, will be discussed and analyzed in this paper.


This study aimed to develop a workstation to investigate robotic sanding processes of wooden parts. The applied methodology includes the conceptual design of the station, incorporating sensors for online measurement of process variables. The station is controlled by a computer that enables interaction with the robot, controlling the abrasive tool rotating speed, and acquiring and visualizing the process signals. The implemented workstation was used to investigate the influence of the sanding parameters on the process variables. The results established that the grain size and the rotational speed of the sandpaper produce statistically significant variations in the surface finishing. Finally, equations are proposed for relating the surface roughness with the sanding torque and acoustic emission measured during the operation.

Keywords: wood sanding; industrial robotics; surface roughness; sanding torque; acoustic emission.


The applicability of the frequency distributions had been widely used for the analysis of daily rainfall because the rain had different characteristic according to space and time. Distributions were often used for example gamma distribution, exponential, normal, log normal, Gumbel, and log the third person. This research aims to election statistics for rainfall distribution based on AIC and to determine which one was most appropriate distribution based on the Chi-kuardrat test and Kormologrov Smirnov test. The distributions in this research were searched maximum likelihood value, then evaluated based on the value of the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). Maximum likelihood estimate of the value was used to maximize the distribution parameters in AIC. Distribution which has the smallest AIC value that will be used for the Chi Square test and Kolmogorov- Smirnov test. Research result shows all stations in the Kampar river basin, generate normal distribution that has the smallest AIC value. For Chi Square test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test showed a normal distribution can be accepted in the watershed Kampar. Keywords: Akaike Information Criterion, Chi Square, exponential distribution gamma distribution, Gumbel distribution, normal distribution, log normal distribution, log the third person distribution, Kolmogorov-Smirnov


Coastal zone of Osaka Bay, reclamation continued since Japan's high-growth period has eliminated most of the tidal flats, creating an area in which natural natural purifying effect have become insufficient. Restoration of the coastal environment in such areas requires reduction of flowed-in load, of course, but also necessitates purifying of the water, restoration of the biotic community, and the functions of tidal flats. This study, with the ultimate objective of restoring the coastal environment of the Osaka Bay, built test tidal flats to evaluate the function of such areas. In the inner reaches of Osaka Bay, currents and waves and other means of physical disruption are minimal so we focused on the effect that situation would have on our experimental tidal flats.


Main goal of the bachelor thesis is to analyse what role plays the Committee of the Regions among other authorities of the European Union and recognize its up-to-date contribution for local units it represents. Work is divided in two parts. The first part is dedicated to what preceded establishing CoR and describe its journey since then in short. The second part focuses on where is it now, what its inner structure looks like with emphasis on its personal composition and on the represetatives of Czech Republic and study wide range of initiatives CoR is developing to help regional and local authorities.


Whether an antiviral interferon (IFN)‐based therapy (IBT) after curative treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) improves the prognosis in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)‐related HCC remains to be elucidated.


For genotype 2 chronic hepatitis C (CHC), the efficacy and safety of sofosbuvir plus ribavirin therapy (SOF + RBV) was better than pegylated interferon plus ribavirin therapy (PR) at a greater drug cost. This study investigated the cost‐effectiveness of SOF + RBV compared with PR for treatment‐naïve genotype 2 CHC in South Korea.


Background: The present comparative meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the cardiovascular events of regorafenib in patients with solid tumors. Methods: Eligible studies from MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Clinical key, EBSCO publishing and Ovid, which had reported cardiovascular adverse events potentially caused by regorafenib were absorbed. Data of clinical characteristics and cardiovascular events including hypertension, hemorrhage, thrombosis, and heart failure were extracted from selected literatures for the final analysis. Pooled analysis of cardiovascular adverse events was developed by relative risks (RRs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) with software STATA 13.0 and RevMan 5.3. Results: Thirty studies including 3813 patients were fit into analysis. The incidences of cardiovascular events of all-grade were: hypertension, 36.8% (95% CI, 29.8%–43.8%), hemorrhage, 8.6% (95% CI, 3.2%–14%), thrombosis, 1.4% (95% CI, 0.1%–2.8%), and heart failure, 2.9% (95% CI, 0.3%–5.6%). The incidences of cardiovascular events of high-grade were: hypertension, 9.9% (95% CI, 7.4%–12.4%), hemorrhage, 1.2% (95% CI, 0.3%–2.2%), thrombosis, 1.6% (95% CI, 0.2%–3.4%), and heart failure, 2.9% (95% CI, 0.3%–5.6%). The RRs and their 95% CIs of all-grade cardiovascular events among patients treated with regorafenib were: hypertension, 4.10 (95% CI, 3.07–5.46; P < .00001), hemorrhage, 2.71 (95% CI, 1.45–5.08; P = .002), thrombosis, 1.27 (95% CI, 0.49–3.27; P = .62), and heart failure, 0.79 (95% CI, 0.16–3.94; P = .77). The RRs and their 95% CIs of high-grade cardiovascular events among patients treated with regorafenib were: hypertension, 5.82 (95% CI, 3.46–9.78; P < .00001), hemorrhage, 0.90 (95% CI, 0.50–1.61; P = .72), thrombosis, 1.28 (95% CI, 0.48–3.41; P = .62), and heart failure, 1.15 (95% CI, 0.23–5.69; P = .86), respectively. Conclusion: The present meta-analysis has demonstrated that regorafenib is associated with an increasing risk of hypertension at all-grade and high-grade, as well as hemorrhage at all-grade. Adequate awareness of cardiovascular adverse events of regorafenib should be established for clinicians.


In this paper,a method of design and implement of LKJ2000 Simulation System based on Windows XP Embedded was addressed,and its hardware structure was discussed.Windows XP Embedded(XPE) was custom-designed as the software environment of LKJ2000 Simulation Sysem.On this basis,the LKJ2000 Simulation System was implemented.


Objective To evaluate the value of proteinuria determination with H-500 uria terminator and study the possible causes. Methods The proteinuria quantitative determination of 50 urine samples were detected with classical method. The samples were roled into 5 groups which included normal proteinuria, suspected proteinuria, low proteinuria, mid- proteinuria and high proteinuria group according to their proteinuria concentration. A proteinuria qualitative detection of these samples was also done by Acetic acid-heating and uria terminator. Results (1)The total corresponding rates with theory prediction was 94% in Acetic acid-heating and 82% in uria terminator. Expect normal group, the corresponding rate differences in other groups had statistic significance(P0.05). (2)The difference between the real proteinuria content and which showed in uria terminator was significant(P0.05). Conclusions It is showed that uria terminator may make errors in some diseases despite of its prevalent use, especially in the proteinuria content. It should be noted in the clinical evaluation of uria terminator result.


The objective of this study was to validate the Employment Contract Scale (ECS) for employees in a private security organisation in the Vaal Triangle and to assess variables that influence the social and the psychological contract. The Employment Contract Scale (ECS) as well as a Biographical questionnaire were administered. A cross-sectional survey design with a stratified random sample (N=217) was utilised. The scales confirmed acceptable internal consistencies. Factor analysis of the ECS indicated two factors, namely the psychological contract and the social contract. No practical significant differences were found with regard to gender, age, type of contract, qualification, hours of work per week, supervision and union membership. Significant differences were found between the ECS, tenure and classification of job.


The paper have analysed the basic situation of emmigration refion of Xiao Langdi Project, try to pay attention to theland resources, plant resources, water resourees, public healthy. Also, we have made some researeh about the emmigrations in-fluences on the economy, living, as well as culture, ete. The propose is try to build sustainable environment for the emmigationregion.


Between Sense and Sensibility : Declarative narrativisation of mental models as a basis and benchmark for visuo-spatial cognition and computation focussed collaborative cognitive systems


The objective of this study was to investigate the genotypic characteristics of Campylobacter isolates in Shiraz, Iran. A total of 40 Campylobacter isolates including 20 C. jejuni and 20 C. coli were recovered from both cattle and sheep faeces by cultivation methods. The isolates were identified on the basis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of 16SrRNA and multiplex PCR to determine two species. For confirmed isolates, PCR was carried out for the presence of virulence genes using specific primers. Other than verifying the genetic diversity of thermophilic Campylobacter isolates, flaA PCR-RFLP was performed. Results showed the high prevalence (100%) of the cadF gene and three genes associated with cytolethal distending toxin (CDT). Plasmid virB11 gene was not found in any Campylobacter isolate, and dissimilarities and discrepancies occurred in pldA, iamA, wlaN, waaC and cgtB genes. Among the 40 Campylobacter isolates studied, nine different types were defined by flaA-typing. Results indicated genetic diversity among Campylobacter isolates recovered from cattle and sheep faecal samples. Findings showed the potential ability of C. jejuni and C. coli with cattle and sheep origins to cause infection in humans.


Graphics processing units (GPUs) deploy a large register file (RF) to achieve high compute throughput. This RF, however, consumes a large portion of the total dynamic power in the GPU. Additionally, the RF banks and operand collectors (OCs) are designed with limited number of ports causing access serialization and negatively impacting performance. In this work, we introduce CMRC, a coalescing-aware RF organization that takes advantage of frequent narrow-width data present in general purpose applications to increase performance and reduce energy for GPGPUs. CMRC is a low-cost comprehensive approach to register coalescing capable of combining narrow-width read and write accesses from same or different warp instructions into fewer accesses, reducing port contention and access pressure. On general purpose applications, CMRC reduces RF accesses by 31.8%, achieves a performance speedup of 16.5%, and reduces overall GPU energy by 32.2% on average, outperforming best of class prior work by ~1.8x without the requirement of compiler support.


This study related the Eagle Ford equivalent Harris delta north of the Stuart City shelf edge with downdip Woodbine-Eagle Ford section south of that shelf edge. Together, they comprised one large deltaic complex that divided into two major lobes at an avulsion site near Anderson County, Texas. One lobe prograded southwestward toward Kurten field in Brazos County, the other (now partly eroded) prograded southeastward beside the low-lying Sabine (uplift) landmass into Polk County. The Polk County lobe crossed the Stuart City shelf edge in the Seven Oaks-Hortense field area, and continued to prograde southward into deeper and higher energy water. Such an environment caused this off-shelf Harris delta to oversteepen, resulting in frequent slumps and gravity flows that deposited debris-flow and turbidite sands along with predominantly fine-grained prodelta sediments. More familiar deltaic facies (outer fringe) are present in the uppermost section. Numerous structural and stratigraphic maps and cross sections illustrate the progradation of the downdip Harris delta and its features. The progradation was arrested for a time by deeper water at the older and more precipitous Sligo shelf edge. This progradational hiatus is recorded by a relatively strong reflection that separates two seismic sequences. The younger onlapping sequence appears tomore » represent continued Harris delta sedimentation. among the interesting features mapped seismically and/or geologically are: mounded reflections that represent the largest slumping events, thickness anomalies associated with the carbonate substrate, and erosional( ) channels at the section top. These off-shelf Harris delta deposits appear to interfinger laterally with a genetically different eastern (Tuscaloosa ) sequence in Tyler and Jasper Counties.« less


PURPOSE: To carry out favorable brazing by improving the adhesion of an aluminum material and a brazing filler metal layer and preventing the oxidation of the brazing filler metal under thermal spraying in the process for production of the brazing filler metal clad aluminum material on which the brazing filler metal layer is clad and formed by a thermal spraying method. CONSTITUTION: Metallic powder contg. Al, Si and unavoidable impurities and contg. the Al and the Si at 90:10-70:30 by weight ratio is used. This metallic powder and the fluoride flux are mixed in a range from 99:1-70:30 by weight ratio. Such powder mixture is thermally sprayed. The molten metal particles are sufficiently wetted and spread to the surface of the aluminum material by the effect of the flux, by which the secure adhesion of the aluminum material 1 and the brazing filler metal layer 2 is assured. In addition, the oxidation of the Al and Si under thermal spraying is suppressed and the change in the compsn. of the brazing filler metal is suppressed. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


The DECLIC (Device for the Study of Critical Liquids and Crystalization) Facility was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Shuttle flight 17-A (August 2009) and has been in service for a little over three years. Activity from the three originally planned investigations, the HTI (High Temperature Insert) investigation, the ALI (Alice Like Insert) investigation and the DSI (Directional Solidication Insert) investigation has led to fruitful collaborations among a team of scientists, sponsored by NASA and CNES, to extend the utility of the inserts and the breadth of science beyond its initial scope. These follow-on investigations plan to use inserts that have been returned to earth for refurbishment, two of which (i.e., HTI-R and DSI-R) simply entail changing the test sample and the third (i.e., ALI-R) entails a slight hardware modication to allow for precise changes in sample volume. The first investigation, the Supercritical Water Mixture (SCWM) experiment, uses the refurbished HTI-R, which will accommodate a dilute aqueous mixture of Na2SO4 -0.5% w. This investigation will extend earlier observations of pure water at near-critical conditions. The second experiment uses a modified insert, the DSI-R, with a different concentration of succinonitrile-camphor than the original flight sample. This will allow, among other objectives, a detailed study of dendritic sidebranch formation in extended three-dimensional arrays, with the goal of elucidating whether noise amplication and/or a deterministic limit cycle is the main cause of sidebranch formation. The final experiment, the ALI-R, uses a sample cell with variable density to allow for additional observations of thermo-physical properties on SF6 at near critical conditions. The presentation will provide a discussion of the DECLIC facility's hardware, its modied inserts, and an overview of the extended science that will be achieved through these collaborative activities.


Abstract—The purpose of this work is to develop a mathematical model of Human Cardiovascular System using lumped parameter method. The model is divided in three parts: Systemic Circulation, Pulmonary Circulation and the Heart. The established mathematical model has been simulated by MATLAB software. The innovation of this study is in describing the system based on the vessel diameters and simulating mathematical equations with active electrical elements. Terminology of human physical body and required physical data like vessel's radius, thickness etc., which are required to calculate circuit parameters like resistance, inductance and capacitance, are proceeds from well-known medical books. The developed model is useful to understand the anatomic of human cardiovascular system and related syndromes. The model is deal with vessel's pressure and blood flow at certain time.


Objective To observe the benefits and mechanisms of machine perfusion (MP) for preservation of liver donors. Methods Entopic transplantations were performed using MP-preserved rat liver donors. Serum samples of all recipients were collected at the 4 hours after transplantation and tested for the levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate amino transferase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), serum total bilirubin (STB) and hyaluronic acid (HA). Morphological changes of hepatocytes and sinusoidal endothelial cells were studied under light microscope. Results The values of serum ALT, AST, LDH, STB and HA were significantly lower in MP group than in control group (cold storage, CS) (P0.05). The morphological changes, such as edema, degeneration and necrosis of hepatocytes and sinusoidal endothelial cells, were significantly milder in MP group than in control group. Conclusion MP provided better protection for hepatocytes and sinusoidal endothelial cells of liver donors and resulted in more favorable post-procedural restoration of liver function. Given the same conditions of solution and temperature, MP may have advantages over CS in terms of better and longer protection.


To investigate the capacity of multimodal MR to detect endothelial hyperplasia (EH), which has been linked to the aggressiveness of gliomas and which is so far only detected by biopsy, an invasive technique that prevents repeated measurements and early detection.


This paper analyses the quality of voltage of signal main power, that is 10 kV auto blocking power in Datong-Qinhuangdao Railway, finds out the causes of the quality problem and raises some advices which have been obtaining good results after implementation of those advices.


Abstract : Beaches in arctic regions differ substantially from those in temperate and tropical areas in that subzero air and water temperatures during the largest part of the year cause freezing of the beach sediments and inactivity of normal transporting agents. During ice-free conditions, wave action and nearshore circulation cells modify and change the beach topography in a manner similar to that of nonarctic beaches. Once the temperature falls persistently below 0C freezing of the land and water is initiated, and swash runup on the beach face freezes in place and is contiguous with deposition of sediment. During this period of time the beach face is quite smooth and firm, offering excellent trafficability conditions. The paper attempts to document the processes responsible for the changing topography associated with arctic beaches. (Author)


Biomass-based energy has characteristics that could help Maui Island meet multiple long-term goals, including decreasing reliance on oil for electricity and transportation fuels, increasing use of local resources that do not need to be shipped long distances, and diversifying the island economy beyond tourism by preserving agriculture. Biomass can be used for liquid fuel production and for electricity production. On Maui, sugarcane has been grown at plantation scale for over a century. Accordingly, sugarcane-derived ethanol and combustible sugarcane bagasse have long been of interest as energy sources for the island. State and county level focus on increasing renewable energy utilization on Maui have renewed study of potential crops and available land, with a special emphasis on sugarcane. However, there is some concern about the water requirements associated with biomass-based energy. A primary motivation for using local, renewable energy sources is that Maui is an island with limited resources, fresh water among them: thus, exploring ways to increase energy sustainability without compromising water availability is of interest to many. This work examines the water needs associated with growing sugarcane for ethanol and combustible biomass on Maui Island. Virtually all sugarcane on Maui is irrigated because soil and sunlight resources do not generally coincide with natural precipitation patterns. Growing sugarcane for energy represents a large water demand that is limiting under certain development scenarios on Maui, such as a scenario where environmental streamflows are highly prioritized. By comparing the irrigation demand of Maui's currently grown sugarcane with published figures for ethanol yield from cane, this work finds that 700 to 1,500 gallons (gal) of irrigation water are needed per gallon of sugarcane-based ethanol (from fermentable sugars and fiber; 0.7 to 1.5 cubic meters, m3 , per liter, L). More water is needed for processing. However, combustible waste streams could provide additional energy return per unit of water. This paper discusses how water demand for sugarcane-based energy interacts with other island water demands, given that about 37,000 acres (150 km2 ) of sugarcane land are potentially available for bioenergy production. Though seawater cannot be successfully directly used for irrigation, sugarcane can tolerate some salinity and other contamination, so this paper also considers brackish water and treated wastewater — for which there is little other demand — as potential irrigation resources. Notably, the range of tolerable water quality expands significantly when sugarcane is not intended for human ingestion or when biomass yield, not sugar content, is targeted (as for cellulosic ethanol or combustible biomass production).Copyright © 2011 by ASME


Composite insulator is the key insulation equipment of outdoor transmission line. Hydrophobic cycloaliphatic epoxy resin is a new type of insulation material used in insulators. Ice accretion on insulators is a common phenomenon in alpine regions, which seriously threatens the safety of power grid. However, the anti-icing performance of hydrophobic cycloaliphatic epoxy resin has not been studied. In this work, the effect of polysiloxane content on the hydrophobicity and roughness of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin was studied. Then, the icing drop test and icing shear strength test were designed to analyze the effect of polysiloxane content on the anti-icing performance of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin. The results show that polysiloxane can significantly improve the static contact angle of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin. With the increase of polysiloxane content, the static contact angle increases. Polysiloxane has little effect on the surface roughness of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin, which shows that the change of static contact angle of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin is mainly affected by surface tension. Polysiloxane content is the dominant factor causing the change of surface tension. Polysiloxane modified cycloaliphatic epoxy resin can shorten the icing drop time, reduce the icing shear strength and improve the anti-icing performance. The anti-icing mechanism of polysiloxane modified cycloaliphatic epoxy resin can be described by icing shear strength of water freeze in Cassie state model. The static contact angle is the main reason affecting the icing performance of polysiloxane modified cycloaliphatic epoxy resin.


Scholarly Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Computer Science - Software, grade: 1, , course: ME Computer science, language: English, comment: Guided by, M Regina Bagum, Asst. Prof, dept of Computer science, SBM college of Engineering and technology, Dindigul. , abstract: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a flexible framework for service composition. Using standard-based protocols (such as SOAP and WSDL).There are several constraints meant for selecting the right and appropriate service to be designed as reconfigurable dynamic web services. Those constraints leverage to the following factors availability, response time, failure handling and supports dynamic configuration. Our paper presents the way of predicting the service methods which are really necessary for providing as a dynamic web service. Since all the service methods cannot be used as dynamically as it depends upon the number of users really using the service by the service providers.


Sodium alanate (NaAlH4) is a prototype system for storage of hydrogen in chemical form. However, a key experimental finding, that early transition metals (TMs) like Ti, Zr, and Sc are good catalysts for hydrogen release (and reuptake) whereas traditional hydrogenation catalysts like Pd and Pt are poor catalysts for NaAlH4, has so far received little attention. We performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the PW91 generalized gradient approximation level on Ti, Zr, Sc, Pd, and Pt interacting with the (001) surface of nanocrystalline NaAlH4, employing a cluster model of the complex metal hydride to study the initial mass transport in the dehydrogenation process. A key difference between Ti, Zr, and Sc on one hand and Pd and Pt on the other is that exchange of the early TM atoms with a surface Na ion, whereby Na is pushed on to the surface, is energetically preferred over surface absorption in an interstitial site, as found for Pd and Pt. These theoretical findings are consistent with a cruci...


Eucrites are the oldest basalts or gabbros in the solar system, and record early geologic events such as volcanism, metamorphism, and impacts on the parent body, asteroid 4Vesta. To better understand the impact history of the parent body, we performed mineralogical and geochemical studies of two granulitic eucrites, A-881467 and Y-791195 A-881467 displays a granulitic texture composed of pigeonite, augite, plagioclase, and minor minerals (Yamaguchi et al., 1997). Some plagioclase laths could be relicts of basalt. The REE abundances of A-881467 are 9-12 x CI with a slight positive Eu anomaly. The mg# is within the range of noncumulate eucrites. In contrast, Y-791195 was classified as a cumulate eucrite based on the relatively mg-rich composition and low REE abundances compared to noncumulate eucrites (this work, Mittlefehldt and Lindstrom, 1993). Y-791195 has a coarser grained portion with finergrained recrystallized veins. This indicates that the precursor of Y-791195 is likely to be a recrystallized breccia. Although A-881467 and Y-791195 are strongly recrystallized rocks, pigeonites in these eucrites are not inverted into orthopyroxene, in contrast to those of other cumulate eucrites and highly metamorphosed type 6 basaltic eucrites (e.g., Yamaguchi et al., 1996). This is explained by the rapid cooling from high temperature after metamorphism. The remnant basaltic texture and bulk compositional data imply that A-881467 was originally crystallized on the surface or in a shallow intrusion. In contrast, the bulk compositional data may indicate that the precursor of Y-791195 could be a breccia rich in cumulate materials, probably formed in a deep magma chamber. Although these eucrites may have formed initially in different portions in the crust, the postcrystallization thermal and impact histories are very similar. It seems that the eucritic crust experienced impact events during initial cooling shortly after its formation.


This paper describes the performance of a high efficiency energy management system for a fixed wireless sensor load with a varying energy harvesting input. An in-depth loss analysis of the high efficiency switched supercapacitor circuit with a varying energy harvesting input is described in detail. Efficiencies of up to 94% are shown for the switched supercapacitor system which is significantly higher than that of the existing best performing solution for an indoor solar cell source and an equivalent wireless sensor load.


Material imported from Mediterranean cultures recovered in the excavation carried out at the Achadizo hillfort between 1991 and 1994 is published. They are an amphorae Lamboglia 4, fine pottery of Iberian and Punic tradition and glass beads. Their position in the structures and stratigraphy of the site are analyzed, together with the radiocarbon dates and the general context of the Punic trade in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula.


In the learning process, teachers should pose some questions in order to check what has been learnt and understood, to help them review previous learning, and assess whether students are ready or not to move forward and learn new information. Regarding that statement, questioning section in the learning process is important. The aim of this research was to find out how the teachers use the questioning section in the learning process to promote the students' high order thinking skills which are divided into three skills that are analysing, evaluating and creating skill. This study implied case study research. The instruments used in this research were observation checklist, recording, interview and questionnaire. The main data was the teachers' recording in the learning process. The subjects of this study were three teachers of a religion-based high school in Semarang, Central Java. and the students of that school. The findings of the study showed that the teachers used questioning section in their learning process. The kinds of questions used were mostly open questions and close question or yes/no questions. Those questions were used in order to make the students think more critically. The teachers think that high order thinking skill is so important for the students so they applied those skills maximally in the learning process and by questioning, the teacher could get some advantages such as they could assess the students and also know the students understanding toward the material given. It can be concluded that the use of teacher's questioning could be a tool to promote students' high order thinking skills in EFL learning. It is also suggested for the teachers to use more questioning section in the learning process.


OBJECTIVE
To summarize surgical treatment of lung cancer patients with poor pulmonary function.

METHODS
From 1991 to 1999, 181 lung cancer patients with poor pulmonary function underwent operation. The correlation between the results of preoperative pulmonary functional tests and the postoperative cardiopulmonary complications was analyzed by Chi-square test (chi(2)).

RESULTS
In 181 patients, pneumonectomy was done in 43, lobectomy in 118, partial lung resection in 16 and exploration in 4. The postoperative complication and mortality rates of the resection group were 42.3% (75/177) and 7.9% (14/177). The cardiopulmonary complication rates were 25.6%, 48.3%, 31.3% in pneumonectomy, lobectomy and partial lung resection. The morbidity and mortality rates of 8 patients who received preoperative chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy were 75.0% and 37.5%. The morbidity and mortality rates of 12 patients who had had a previous history of thoracotomy were 66.7% and 33.3%. In the present series, the 1-, 3- and 5-year survival rates were 71.1%, 42.2% and 31.1%. The 5-year survival rates of patients with stage I, II and III lesions were 55.0%, 25.0% and 0.

CONCLUSION
Preoperative spirometry is an important evaluation test for lung cancer patients with poor pulmonary function. It should be evaluated in combination with other pulmonary function tests such as CO(2) diffusion and cardiopulmonary excise tests, etc whenever possible. Patients with a history of thoracotomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy should be carefully evaluated before operation to avoid high morbidity and mortality. Stage I and II lung cancer patients with poor pulmonary function can undergo operation if they have been well managed preoperatively and well taken care of with nursing care perioperatively.


Heuristics are used in the concrete building industry. A knowledge base is developed with heuristics used in the selection of the floor framing system of a concrete building.


INTRODUCTION: The practice of Ballroom Dance (BD) meets the desires of human beings to practice regular physical activity, increase self-esteem, improve cosmetic appearance and develop skills such as coordination, laterality and rhythm. However, no previous studies assessing postural changes generated by it were found. OBJECTIVE: To study the postural effects that the BD promotes in students of a dance school in the city of Bento Goncalves-RS, over the first three months of practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated the static posture in the sagital plane of 18 individuals who had never come into contact with this type of dance, divided into 2 groups (control and experimental) and evaluated by photographic, both pre and post-experiment. The experiment consisted of one weekly class of BD, lasting 75 minutes each, over 3 months. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The results of the postural assessment showed that the practice of BD affected only in the posture of the cervical spine, causing the individual practitioners to provide additional rectified after the first three months of lessons. Regarding other aspects evaluated postural significant changes were not found after comparing the results before and after the experiment, suggesting that three months practice of BD were not sufficient to promote changes in the static posture of individuals.


Measuring displacements in model tests typically involves contact-based sensors such as Linear Potentiometers, where contact between two moving parts occurs at the sensing point. The sensor's finit...


Metal sulfides have been found to be effective in removing organic pollutants from water in environmental catalysis. In this study, a porous graphitic biochar wrapped Co9S8 core-shell composite (Co9S8@N-O-BC) was...


The present work deals with analyzing the legislation of Cybersecurity in the EU context. The European legislator has sought in recent years alongside foreign and defense policy to create an ad hoc order involving all the organs of the Union with the aim of tackling new types of crimes at European and international level. Our analysis seeks to address the new technological challenges and problems relating to cybersecurity by analyzing the acts of a binding or not nature of the Union which certainly show an application by the Member States that seems to be of a decisive nature for the evolution of the coming years of this sector as well as the demonstration that the EU rightly behaves in practice as a global player.


A brief survey is given of the methods for the synthesis of labeled medicines. The pharmacodynamic and chemotherapeutic studies made with labeled drugs are discussed and analyzed. The investigations were made along three courses: study of the distribution of drugs in the organism, study of their degradation and elimination, and study of the mechanisms of their effects. 68 references. (j.S.R.)


The RF control system for the CEBAF accelerator uses calibration tables to calibrate and linearize critical components in the RF control modules. This includes compensation for temperature drifts. Calibration data are stored in nonvolatile RAM on the CPU board in the control module. Algorithms for calibration of components like the vector modulator for the phase reference and the gradient detector are described. The calibration will be performed in a dedicated test stand which will be completely automated. The microprocessor in the control modules allows running of complex algorithms to achieve phase lock and optimize system gains for minimum residual errors for different gradients and beam loading.


6. Continuation Awards: In making a continuation award under 34 CFR 75.253, the Secretary considers, among other things: whether a grantee has made substantial progress in achieving the goals and objectives of the project; whether the grantee has expended funds in a manner that is consistent with its approved application and budget; and, if the Secretary has established performance measurement requirements, the performance targets in the grantee's approved application.


This study discusses Austria's manufacturing competitiveness and its influence on changes in the export market shares of domestic manufacturers. We first analyze price competitiveness over time and then conduct a constant-market-shares analysis in order to attribute changes in the export market shares of domestic manufacturers to their competitiveness on the one hand and international demand patterns on the other. Austria's manufacturing industry seized the opportunity to expand to the east when the markets in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) opened up. Against this backdrop, domestic manufacturers were able to improve their price competitiveness between 1995 and 2004. They also gained export market shares from 2000 onward but lost some ground in 2005 and 2006. Since then, market shares and price competitiveness have remained broadly unchanged, which means that Austria has in fact done better than most other euro area countries. By historical comparison, the impact of the financial and economic crisis on Austrian manufacturers' export market shares and their competitiveness remained limited.


Treatment of patients presenting with a non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) aims at immediate relief of ischaemia and the prevention of serious adverse events, including death, myocardial (re)infarction, and life-threatening arrhythmias. In NSTE-ACS, patient management is guided by risk stratification (troponin, electrocardiogram, risk scores, etc.). Treatment options include anti-ischaemic and antithrombotic drugs and coronary revascularization including percutaneous coronary interventions, or coronary artery bypass grafting. While long-term secondary prevention with aspirin monotherapy is currently the gold standard approach for all NSTE-ACS patients who tolerate the drug, additional medications on top of aspirin such as oral P2Y12 inhibitors or oral anticoagulation have been investigated across clinical trials and their long-term use should be guided by the ischaemic versus bleeding risk status of each single individual patient.


It was suggested by dimensional analysis that there exists a limit called the Planck energy scale coming close to which the gravitational effects of physical processes would inflate and struggle for equal rights so as to spoil the validity of pure non-gravitational physical theories that governed well below the Planck energy. Near the Planck scale, the Planck charges, Planck currents, or Planck parameters can be defined and assigned to physical quantities such as the single particle electric charge and magnetic charge as the ceiling value obeyed by the low energy ordinary physics. The Dirac electric-magnetic charge quantization relation as one form of electric-magnetic duality dictates that, the present low value electric charge corresponds to a huge magnetic charge value already passed the Planck limit so as to render theories of magnetic monopoles into the strong coupling regime, and vice versa, that small and tractable magnetic charge values correspond to huge electric charge values. It suggests that for theoretic models in which the renormalization group equation provides rapid growth for the running electric coupling constant, it is easier for the dual magnetic monopoles to emerge at lower energy scales. Allowing charges to vary with the Dirac electric-magnetic charge quantization relation while keeping values under the Planck limit informs that the magnetic charge value drops below the Planck ceiling value into the manageable region when the electric coupling constant grows to one fourth at a model dependent energy scale, and continues dropping towards half the value of the Planck magnetic charge as the electric coupling constant continues growing at the model dependent rate towards one near Planck energy scale.


Still the Silence: Introductory Reflections on Silence and Power A.C.Rowe & S.Malhotra PART I: TRANSFORMATIVE SILENCES: INTERSECTIONALITY, PRIVILEGE, ALLIANCES Resistant Silences C.Keating Between Speech and Silence: Reflections on Accountability A.Russo Qwe're Performances of Silence: Many Ways to Live 'Out Loud' J.Johnson Silence Speaks Volumes: Counter-Hegemonic Silences, Deafness, and Alliance Work R.Levitt PART II: LEARNING TO LISTEN: ACADEMIA, SILENCE AND RESISTANCE Imposed Silence and the Story of the Warramunga Woman: Alternative Interpretations and Possibilities R.Clair Silence and Voice in a More-than-Human World J.Bile Inila: An Account of Opening to Sacred Knowing S.A.De la Garza Attuned to Silence: A Pedagogy of Presence A.Fidyk Hear I Meet the Silence: The Wise Pedagogue C.Lossie The U.S. Day of Silence: Sexualities, Silences and the Will to Unsay in the Age of Empire G.A.Yep & S.B.Shimanoff PART III: RECOVERING SILENCES: COMMUNITY, FAMILY, INTIMACY Keeping Quiet: Performing Pain D.Pollock '3210 S. Indiana: Silence and the Meanings of Home' F.Royster Fences, Weapons, Gifts: Silences in the Context of Addiction K.Acheson My Monster and My Muse: Re-Writing the Colonial Hangover K.Perez PART IV: LEGACIES OF SILENCE: MEMORY, HEALING, POWER The Silence in My Belly S.Malhotra Standing in the Wake of My Father's Silence (An Alternative Eulogy) B.K.Alexander Stitching Survival: Revisioning Silence and Expression L.Farah Sun Moon Silence A.C.Rowe Index


Richard van Oort, Guest Editor Introduction Benjamin Barber Différance in Revolutionary Representations: Hazlitt's Activist Rhetoric and Wordsworth's Poetic Deferral Ian Dennis Reflections on the Popular/High Art Continuum Sandor Goodhart Difference and Deference: Reading Deferral in Beckett, Derrida, and Gans in a Time of Disaster Marina Ludwigs Epiphany and Closure in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Ken Mayers Deferral, Discipline, and the Esthetics of Failure: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot


OBJECTIVES: To measure the ability of the Observation‐based Nocturnal Sleep Inventory (ONSI) to detect the presence or absence of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) in older adults.


PART I - Setting UpChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Ethics and HackingChapter 3: Hacking as a CareerChapter 4: Setting up Your LabChapter 5: Creating and Using PenTest Targets in Your LabChapter 6: MethodologiesChapter 7: PenTest MetricsChapter 8: Management of a PenTestPART II - Running a PenTestChapter 9: Information GatheringChapter 10: Vulnerability IdentificationChapter 11: Vulnerability VerificationChapter 12: Compromising a System and Privilege EscalationChapter 13: Maintaining AccessChapter 14: Covering Your TracksPART III - Wrapping Everything UpChapter 15: Reporting ResultsChapter 16: Archiving DataChapter 17: Cleaning Up Your LabChapter 18: Planning for Your Next PenTestAppendix A - AcronymsAppendix B - Definitions Find out how to turn hacking and pen testing skills into a professional careerUnderstand how to conduct controlled attacks on a network through real-world examples of vulnerable and exploitable serversMaster project management skills necessary for running a formal penetration test and setting up a professional ethical hacking businessDiscover metrics and reporting methodologies that provide experience crucial to a professional penetration testerLearn through video - the DVD includes instructional videos that replicate classroom instruction and live, real-world vulnerability simulations of complete servers with known and unknown vulnerabilities to practice hacking skills in a controlled lab environment


With greater and greater interest in prevention activities by teachers and counselors, a strategy for systematic development and implementation of preventive intervention was developed based on George Albee's work. It includes these 10 steps: (1) describe in writing the population for whom you wish to plan a prevention intervention; (2) list the organic factors (illnesses, health habits, etc.) that can play a role in causing emotional or behavioral problems in this population; (3) list the social and environmental stress events and circumstances that are likely to impinge on the lives of people in this population; (4) list sources and kinds of exploitation that may occur in the lives of people in this population; (5) list the skills/attitudes that will help this population cope with, and grow in, their particular life situation; (6) list the actions that will help build the self-esteem of each person; (7) list the types of support systems and specify the role of each in promoting the coping, growth, and self-esteem of members of this populaticIL; (8) specify two goals and accompanying objectives for decreasing the organic factors, reducing the stress factors, and eliminating the exploitation in this population; (9) specify objectives and goals for increasing the coping skills, building self-esteem, and developing appropriate support groups for this population; and (10) explicate a strategy for the evaluation of this primary prevention plan and for follow-up with members of this population. A 28-item bibliography, a supplemental bibliography for each step, and worksheets are attached. (ABL) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. **************************************************4******************** A TEN-STEP MODEL FOR TEAM PLANNING FOR PRIMARY PREVENTION


This community service activity aims to participate in empowering mothers who are members of PKK activities in the neighborhood of RT 12 RW 09 Sawojajar. The objectives of this training are enhancing knowledge of Malangan batik, enhancing entrepreneurship intentions through ideas for PKK women to try business opportunities in the Malangan batik, Enhancing knowledge to increase family income, and Enhancing knowledge of family financial management. The method used is a practical and educative training method through lectures, simulations, questions or answers, and the practice of making Malangan batik, fostering entrepreneurship intentions, ways to increase family income, and managing family finances. The result of this training is to gain new insights into the process of making batik Malangan. The training participants are also interested in starting a Malangan batik business as a form of interest in entrepreneurship and an effort to increase family income, and the training participants can prepare household budgets properly and correctly, to realize household financial health.


In this paper, the behaviour of slender axially loaded square and circular CFT columns exposed to fire is modelled using the finite element analysis package ABAQUS. A realistic sequentially coupled nonlinear thermal-stress analysis is conducted for a series of columns available in the literature. By means of this model, a comparison between fire resistance simulations results and experimental tests found in literature is made. Similarly, simulations results are compared to the Eurocode 4 simplified calculation model predictions. Comparisons show that whereas Eurocode 4 predictions are very conservative for both circular and square section CFT columns, the results obtained from the developed numerical model are much more realistic.


We announce with true pleasure the arrival of the Steyermarkische (so called from the Austrian dependency whence they come) corps of musicians, already mentioned, some days past, in our columns. This fine band consists of eighteen performers; each a perfect master of the instrument on which he plays. . . . When you visit the performances of the members of this band, you are struck, at the very beginning, with the signs they show of superior taste—even before you discover, as you will when the first three or four notes are played, their surpassing genius. You see enter some eighteen gentlemen , quiet and at ease in their manners, dressed in plain black; no airs, no clap-trap, none of the little arts so usual in most public performers. The leader steps forward quietly and modestly with an obeisance, not that of the dancing master. He is extremely youthful, and in his beauty you see the intellectual mingling of genius. No flourishing of a wand by the white-gloved hand, no pretension, no melo-dramatic waiting and coquetting, offends you, as in so many other cases. You are saved even the discordant tuning of instru-ments. 33 There are some people in this world of inhabited creation that supposed—vainly suppose— that if children—little immortals in jackets and trowsers—only have a plenty of bread and meat wherewith to cram their stomachs, and a trifle of clothing withal, that the grand totality of parental duty, in all its length and breadth and importance, is abundantly fulfilled. As for the rest—why, the streets and the highways can open wide their arms and receive them. 73


Based on the experiences Shannxi province has got in its trial for carrying out centralized payment system for finance, the paper first expounds on the principles we should observe in carrying out centralized payment system for state finance. Then it discusses the meaning of increasing the efficiency of applying finance, of lowering the cost of managing finance, of avoiding embezzling financial fund and of promoting budget reform.


Forms and methods of excess of power or personal authorities by law enforcement officials as structural elements of criminalistic description are considered. It is noted that use of the terms "form" and "method" to acts of excess of power or personal authorities testifies to complicated structure of these unlawful acts that appear outwardly on the forms, but are implemented in the system of certain deliberate illegal actions of law enforcement officers aimed at achieving a criminal purpose. Form reflects external aspect of actions regarding of excess of power or personal authorities (obviously illegal detention, bringing or arrest, violation of the right to protection, violation of housing inviolability, destruction or damage to another's property, violation of correspondence secret, telephone conversations, telephone and other correspondence, transmitted by communication means or through a computer; coercion to offer testimony and report information; sign illegally written protocols; imprisonment or restriction of freedom of action or relocation) and the method is internal, nаmely how the excess of power or personal authority was carried out, for example, through giving unlawful commands, orders to subordinates; signing of documents on behalf of superior persons; intimidation, blackmail, striking, use of special means, including prohibited; prolonged deprivation of a person food, drink or heat; unlawful placement of a person into a camera for administrative substantiated on the basis of falsified protocols on administrative violations; forced victim detention at certain place; attempts to force the victim to transport by means of official vehicle and physical punishment or extortion of money, etc. Therefore, in the criminalistic description of excess of power or personal authorities by law enforcement officials, information should be reflected both on the forms and their methods.


A 3.4 GHz Phase Locked Loop (PLL) with a Differential Ring oscillator is simulated in a 0.18μm CMOS process with 1.8V power supply. The reference clock frequency is 212.5 MHz with a mod 16 frequency divider the PLL generates a 3.4 GHz frequency. The proposed PLL can be locked from 2.539 GHz to 5.0793 GHz with a lock range of 2.54 GHz with 48.4% of duty cycle. The peak-peak jitter is 8.786ps with an RMS jitter of 1.18 ps and pull-in time 170ns (fast lock-in time). The PLL consumes 18.8mW power from a 1.8V power supply. PLL Blocks are simulated with 1.8V, 0.18μm CMOS Technology using Cadence-Virtuoso tool.


The temporal redundancy of a video signal is always utilized in video image compression. To reduce the channel requirement of a video signal, motion information of the moving object(s) in the image sequence is/are always extracted and represented by motion estimation. The block matching algorithm (BMA) is a popular motion estimation scheme. However the system complexity and compression capability of existing motion estimation schemes are always non-preferable. A novel motion compensation scheme is proposed in this paper. The adaptive searching technique that have been utilized in still image approximation is adopted in the proposed scheme to achieve high compression capability and low complexity. From the experimental results, no bit is required in the proposed scheme to achieved a high visual quality image approximation.


Seasonal fluctuations in the dietary components of Rasbora daniconius inhabiting a perennial eutrophic pond have been studied on the basis of analyses of the gut contents over a period of one year from 1980 to 1981. Modified Points method was adopted for the quantitative estimation of the dietary items. Gut analysis revealed that the fish is predominantly an allochthonous feeder subsisting mainly on terrestrial Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. Flowers and seeds also formed part of the dietary composition of the fish. Allochthonous fauna were preferred at all the stages of the growth of the fish. Females have a greater preference for terrestrial Coleoptera and the males for Formicidae. The feeding intensities of three different length groups and both sexes were also ascertained. This revealed that June, July, October and November are the most intensive feeding periods of R. daniconius. Older and mature fishes were found to be more active feeders than juveniles.


The paper treats parallelisms, the utilization of which results in performance improvement of computing platforms that execute multiple processes concurrently. A new method for processes parallelization on second level is suggested which utilizes the standard Process Pool. The queues are served in a round-robin fashion and processes of the various queues are submitted to the classical Process Pool to insure fairness of service for the processes. The implementation of the method implies constructing a library that distributes the asynchronously incoming work items from batches and places them in the corresponding parallel queues on the basis of specified criteria.


Syntactic structure is an important component of natural language text. Recent top-performing models in Answer Sentence Selection (AS2) use self-attention and transfer learning, but not syntactic structure. Tree structures have shown strong performance in tasks with sentence pair input like semantic relatedness. We investigate whether tree structures can boost performance in AS2. We introduce the Tree Aggregation Transformer: a novel recursive, tree-structured self-attention model for AS2. The recursive nature of our model is able to represent all levels of syntactic parse trees with only one additional self-attention layer. Without transfer learning, we establish a new state of the art on the popular TrecQA and WikiQA benchmark datasets. Additionally, we evaluate our method on four Community Question Answering datasets, and find that tree-structured representations have limitations with noisy user-generated text. We conduct probing experiments to evaluate how our models leverage tree structures across datasets. Our findings show that the ability of tree-structured models to successfully absorb syntactic information is strongly correlated with a higher performance in AS2.


The development of biotechnologies based on beneficial microorganisms for improving soil fertility and crop yields could help addressing many current agriculture challenges, such as food security, climate change, pests control, soil depletion while decreasing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Plant Growth Promoting (PGP) microbes can be used as probiotics in order to increase plant tolerance/resistance to abiotic/biotic stresses and in this context strains belonging to the Pseudomonas chlororaphis group have shown to have potential as PGP candidates. In this work a new P. chlororaphis isolate is reported and tested for (i) in vitro PGP features, (ii) whole genome sequence analysis, and (iii) its effects on root microbiome, plant growth and on the expression of different plant genes in greenhouse experiments. The potential use of this P. chlororaphis strain as a plant probiotic is discussed.


Stock control is an effort made by a company in providing the goods needed for the production process to be fulfilled optimally so that the production process runs smoothly and reduces risk funds that will occur such as shortages of goods. After being evaluated, it turns out that the average demand for motorbikes increases every month, due to the large number of motorbike sales per month, this causes Putra Surya Jaya Raya II Dealer to provide sufficient motorbikes according to their needs in order to support quality service and can add value to investment. for Putra Surya Jaya Raya II Dealer, Ujung Batu Sosa. ABC analysis is a method of classifying goods based on the ranking of values from the highest to the lowest value, and is divided into 3 major groups called groups A, B and C. By calculating safety stock, control of motorbike supplies will be optimal, namely class A 6 motorcycle brands. attention / prioritize. Based on the calculation of the ABC analysis used to determine the priority of motorbikes included in group A as many as 6 types or 8.96% of all types of motorcycle inventories with an investment value of Rp. 973,130,000 or 65.56% of the total investment. There were 5 types of motorbikes belonging to group B or 7.46% of all motorbikes with an investment value of Rp. 338,770,000 or 22.82% of the total investment in motorbikes. Meanwhile, there were 56 types of motorbikes belonging to group C or 83.58% of all motorbikes with an investment value of Rp. 172,450,000 or 11.62% of the total motorcycle investment at the Honda Putra Surya Jaya Raya II Sosa Authorized Dealer.


The first determination of the optical evolution and luminosity function of radio-loud quasars is obtained from the PG sample, the only sizeable complete sample of optically selected quasars with full radio information. The optical evolution of radio-loud quasars is found to be similar to (if the R definition of radio-loudness is applied), or possibly stronger than (if the luminosity definition is applied), the evolution of radio-quiet quasars. The shapes of the luminosity functions for the radio-loud and radio-quiet classes appear to be different in both cases. The relative number of radio-loud quasars is in fact a function of optical luminosity, ranging (locally) from ∼ 20-50 per cent at M B ≤ −24.5 to ∼ 7-8 per cent at fainter absolute magnitudes; in total, about 16-20 per cent of quasars brighter than ∼ − 21.5 are radio-loud


Objectives. To analyze retrospectively the factors of high and low risks of infant mortality in the case of
fetus' Ebstein's anomaly.
Materials. Photos and video materials, and the information from specially designed questionnaires from
the participants of the multicenter study were used. In the paper was presented the comparison of echographic
parameters among 14 fetuses died antenatally and during the first year of life, and among 13 fetuses that survived
during the period of 3 month till 9 years old alive. The ultrasound diagnostics were performed mainly on the
facilities of Voluson hardware (General Electric).
Results. Sensitivity about 100 % and specificity about 100 % to unfavorable prognosis of Ebstein's anomaly
of fetus were in two combinations of 3 parameters: cardiothoracic diameter ratio  0,6 + heart axis (HA) > 60°
+ diameter of pulmonary artery to diameter of aorta (PA/Ao) < 1,0; Celermajer index  0,9 + HA > 70° + ЛА/
Ао < 1,0.
Conclusions. The prenatal diagnosis of Ebstein's anomaly in fetus requires expert detailed echocardiography
to identify and analyze the factors of high and low risks of perinatal and infant mortality. The prognostic risk
factors of infant mortality, discovered in this study, could be recommended for prenatal family consultation and
for the planning of further prenatal care.


It might be said that the most difficult part of building a quantum computer is not figuring out how to make it compute, but rather finding a way to deal with all of the errors that it inevitably makes. Errors arise because of the constant interaction between the qubits and their environment, which can result in photon loss, which in turn causes the qubits to randomly flip to an incorrect state. [16]


The Multi-Purpose Type Research Reactor (MPTRR) control and first shutdown systems consist of six control plates of a Ag-In-Cd alloy. The second shutdown system is given by a liquid neutron absorber, a solution of boric acid, filling the inside of the chimney separating the core from the reflectors. The chimney is composed of four sides (four independent systems), each of them formed by two Zircaloy walls of 0.6 cm, and the empty central space inside (1.8 cm) filled with pure nitrogen during normal operation. The licensing criterion for the second shutdown system (the chimney, for brevity) requires a reactivity worth of {approximately}5000 pcm. The purpose of the work is the analysis of alternative liquid absorbers and the maximum reactivity worth reachable by the second shut-down system.


The nature of relations between ethnic psychology and average consciousness is considered in this article. Historic memory is transmitted to a new generation through spiritual culture and it is realized by every individual of the community during education through psychological qualities common for all people. Ethnic psychology is fastened in an average consciousness, as rules and standards of behavior.


The article presents the analysis of situational factors influence on the realisation of linear- hierarchical thematic models of English business discourse. The material of the research is presented by dialogue fragments, complied by the native speakers of English, taken from authentic modern film scripts. The material is taken by the entire choice. The methods of analysis which have been used in the research are text interpretation, description and comparison. It is established that thematic models that structure the content of English business discourse include the static (hierarchical and linear-hierarchical) and dynamic (probabilistic) models. Linear- hierarchical content organisation is based on two scenarios – monotopical and polytopical ones. On the basis of the identified thematic scenarios and communicative situations of English business discourse correlations between them are defined. It is revealed that variations of linear-hierarchical thematic models are caused by situational factors. The impact of these factors is evident in qualitative and quantitative characteristics of linear-hierarchical model realisation in communicative situations solving production problems, business partners meeting, interview and briefing. Qualitative characteristics concern the completeness of the linear-hierarchical models realisation, which can be full or partial. It is stated that in the communicative situations solving production problems and business partners meeting the linear-hierarchical thematic models are fully realised, in the communicative situations interview and briefing these models are presented partially – only monotopical model is fixed. Thus such correlations reveal the probabilistic dependences of content elements realisations from communicative situation factors, which are formed on the basis of interactional frames. The given results are supplemented with quantitative analysis.


Objective:To explore the effects of epinephrine(E)on spontaneous slow action potentials(APs)of guinea-pig left ventricular outflow tract cells.Methods:By using standard intracellular microelectrode technique to record APs,E was used to investigate the electrophysiological features of left ventricular outflow tract cells.Electrophysiological parameters examined were:maximal diastolic potential(MDP),amplitude of action potential(APA),maximal rate of depolarization(Vmax),velocity of diastolic depolarization(VDD),rate of pacemaker firing(RPF),50% and 90% of duration of action potential(APD50 and APD90).Results:The results obtained were as follows:Application of 100μmol/L E resulted in a significant increase in VDD(P0.05),RPF(P0.01),APA(P0.05),MDP(P0.05)and Vmax(P0.05);a notable shorteness in and APD90(P0.01)in the pacemaker cells.Conclusion:These results suggested that E should excite the pacemaker cells of left ventricular outflow tract.


SUMMARY Outgoing Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second-term record is creditable, measured against the targets he set himself in 2010, but deficient in key areas: economic reform, infrastructure investment, and anti-corruption. Indonesia's 2009–14 parliament has been active in economic policymaking, and will leave as its legacy a raft of protectionist legislation. Both presidential candidates, Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, have appealed to nationalism in their campaigns, calling for Indonesia to assert its sovereignty and increase its self-sufficiency, but Jokowi's economic platform is more moderate and economically literate than Prabowo's. The incoming president will inherit an economy that continues to slow. Growth is now not expected to approach 6% until 2015 at the earliest. Having engineered a reduction in the current account deficit, Indonesian policymakers now face the more difficult problem of structural fiscal adjustment. Energy subsidies are the most immediate problem, but fiscal reform more generally will emerge as an overriding and unpleasant imperative for whoever wins the presidential election on 9 July. Unless difficult fiscal policy measures are taken, Indonesia will face major trade-offs between deficit control and investment in social programs and economic infrastructure. The new president will struggle to restrict the deficit to the cap of 3% of GDP: a balanced budget will likely not be feasible for several years. He will need to increase the ratio of revenue to GDP and eliminate fuel subsidies—through a more systematic approach than the infrequent price increases of the past. He will need to choose carefully between competing expenditure priorities, such as infrastructure and defence. The new president would also be well advised to tread cautiously in implementing the legal mandates he will inherit, and to work with parliament to avoid further and unwind current earmarking of public expenditure.


Literacy is the ability to use language and images in rich and diverse forms for reading, writing, listening, speaking, seeing, presenting, and thinking critically about ideas. Literacy is the ability to use language and images in rich form and diverse to read, write, listen, talk, see, present, and think critically about ideas. The purpose of community service activities is to increase critical thinking in junior high school students in Salafiyah Pondok Pesantren "Cokrokertopati" Magetan District. Target audiences are junior high school students. Khalayak sasaran adalah siswa SMP. Location of devotion activities to the community of Pondok Pesantren Salafiyah "Cokrokertopati" Magetan District. Methods of community service used are observation, pretest and posttest, socialization with presentation about science literacy, and analysis of research articles and others to improve critical thinking of junior high school students. Implementation of science literacy on learning of environmental management materials have an effect on increasing students 'critical thinking ability that: before learning is done students' critical thinking ability from the amount of 40 students class VII with average 32,08, after learning, the average score reached 82.50 so the average score after learning outcomes is higher than before learning. Before the learning is done the critical thinking ability of students with the percentage of 30% fall into the category less. After the learning, the level of critical thinking ability of students with the percentage of 80% reached the good category.


"Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead." A wise ruthless proverb, but no match for nostalgia. On Hollywood Boulevard bones never stop our progress; we congregate over star-shaped names of shadows summoned at the revival house, NuArt or Encore. And at the Chinese Theatre hands inget into cement still abide the reverent claspings of pilgrims. Even a reviewer on routine assignment can be moved with a seizure of piety for immoderate glamor, the elixir vitae of every filmgoer's days. Who in this place would call me mad if I sought out Merle Oberon and easing my palms into hers felt a grasp like Cathy Earnshaw's cold grip of a more passionate world? As a child I loved the hand-hammered gold leaf and hand-woven carpet of the Chinese Theatre, prayed like the thief of Baghdad that by miracle I could vault toward Asia to beard Fu Manchu. And yet be Fu Manchu also, Jewish yellow peril, mastermind, ultimate power of the universe, Superman] How that red-caped muscular titan usurped my God! My lips intoned the manna-like prose of comic books, syntax of a city boy for whom The Daily Planet glowed with unsullied virtue like the American past. And here I am, Clark Kent with no redeeming underwear, Narcissus in hom-rims, revisitant of oriental camp. 0 reader, I was born to review this preposterous film! What is Superman about? One subject only, the desire to rise into the air by human strength. Star Wars confused this with hot rods in space, an impure mixture never my own archaic dream. Like one of those boys commanded by a Renaissance prince to flap weighted arms hour after hour, year after year until his pectoral muscles hardened and he could fly, 1 waited for the irresistible impulse to break free, by downstrokes soar to a rarefied place, and hover. So I understood Lois Lane's ecstasy in this movie's best scene when the comic-strip struts of plot were pulled away and she became airborne on the support of a superhuman arm, to be in flight the secret she had wanted as mere news. What is cinema for if not to suspend us in such hope? And plummet downward in horrifying fall! The wit of Lois's rescue prompted applause, not so that other violation of common sense, the lewd farce of Superman's near-fatal drowning. Kry ptonite is no laughing matter, is the gravity of human nature, green danger of origins, inescapable. Think how much better The Man Who Fell to Earth expressed the star-orphan's bandage to his doomed nest. …


This paper summarizes the application of the µ-LAM process to the fabrication of precision brittle optical components. Predictive optical modeling, and examples of enhancements to conventional diamond machining by the µ-LAM system are introduced.


Objective To study the prognostic factors for patients with sudden deafness,and to provide guidance for clinical treatments.Methods 112 cases(124 ears) with sudden deafness were reviewed retrospectively.SAS software was applied for single factor analysis and multiple factors Logistic regression analysis on the factors of gender,age,lesion side,lateral or bilateral,time duration between onset and treatment,accompanied vertigo or tinnitus,the degree of hearing loss and audiogram type.There were 60 ears completed at least two courses of treatment.The effects after the first and the last course were compared.Results Vertigo(P=0.0454),time duration between onset and treatment(P=0.0015) and audiogram type(P=0.0006) were correlated with the prognosis(P0.05).Ultimate efficacy after the two courses of treatment was found improved significantly in 60 ears in comparison to that after the first treatment(P0.0001).Conclusion Early treatment could improve outcomes of sudden deafness.A better clinical efficacy trended to be observed in patients without vertigo,or with low and middle frequency hearing loss.Continuous treatment could improve efficacy for those who failed in the first course treatment.


We propose a joint multi-camera calibration algorithm based on iterative factorization of the measurement matrix. The matrix is composed of homographies between the model plane and its images. Rescaling and decomposition of the measurement matrix are implemented with series of 3D reconstruction techniques. Since these techniques deal well with the missing data, the model plane disposed in the calibration is not required to be observed by all the cameras simultaneously. The proposed algorithm is a convenient choice for practical use. Both intrinsic and extrinsic parameters are well calculated from the decomposed camera matrix at the same time. The validity of the proposed algorithm was verified through simulation and experiments with real data.


Background/Aims: There have been many studies on the etiology of osteoarthritis (OA) with regard to the function of inflammatory cytokines, the process of cartilage degradation, the function of miR-146a, hypoxia stimulation and autophagy in OA chondrocytes, but there have been no reports on the relationship between miR-146a and autophagy in cartilage, especially under hypoxia. This study aimed to confirm the relationship of miR-146a and autophagy in cartilage under hypoxia. Methods: Chondrocytes were treated by hypoxia gradients, and the main factors including HIF-1α, HIF-2α, miR-146a and Bcl-2 and autophagy markers ULK-1, ATG-5 were detected by quantitative PCR (Q-PCR) and western blotting. The autophagy marker LC-3 was detected by immunofluorescence. The reciprocal effects between miR-146a and Bcl-2 were confirmed by several combinations of shRNAs and adenovirus-gene systems followed by Q-PCR and western blot detection. Results: Hypoxia maintained the chondrocytes phenotype and promoted autophagy and miR-146a expression via HIF-1α, but not HIF-2α, while miR-146a did not reversely affect HIF-1α. The autophagy induced by hypoxia through HIF-1α, miR-146a and Bcl-2. Simply, hypoxia induced HIF-1α, and HIF-1α increased miR-146a, but miR-146a suppressed Bcl-2, an autophagy inhibitor. While Bcl-2 affected neither HIF-1α nor miR-146a. The absence of both HIF-1α and miR-146a or Bcl-2 over-expression inhibited hypoxia-induced autophagy. Conclusion: HIF-1α, miR-146a and Bcl-2 play crucial roles during hypoxia-induced autophagy, Hypoxia, HIF-1α and miR-146a promote chondrocytes autophagy via depressing Bcl-2. We conclude that miR-146a may serve as a novel therapeutic target for protecting cartilage from degeneration in OA.


The synthesis of a variety of kinked oligophenylene building blocks is described. The synthetic strategy is repetitive, utilizes the Suzuki cross-coupling protocol, and involves potentially bifunctional building blocks (modules) which carry one functional group for coupling and one group which serves as place holder. After the coupling, the placeholder is converted into a coupling functionality for the next growth step. The building blocks also carry chloro-substituents which are unaffected by all transformations. For one of the large building blocks it is shown that it actually can be cyclized into an oligophenylene macrocycle with a chloro-substituent at each corner and a pair of hexyl chains at each side.


Fossil localities of the Baynunah Formation are here described, including previously known localities and those discovered by fieldwork since 2002. Site descriptions and coordinates are given, including updated coordinates for previously known localities. Many localities have been damaged or entirely lost to development activities.


Diplopia is a distressing symptom that can greatly compromise a patient's quality of life. Acquired diplopia of unknown etiology may be resolve d in 3 - 6 months. If unresolved in 6 months , patient may require correction surgery. This case study throws light on Ayurvedic management of diplopia due to superior oblique palsy of unknown aetiology. This study explains a case of 37 year old pa tient having diplopia due to superior oblique palsy which was successfully treated by comprehensive Ayurvedic management. Diplopia is treated in lines of treatment of Timira after assessing the dosha predominance based on signs and symptoms. The case resul t confirms that superior oblique palsy of unknown etiology can be managed effectively with Ayurvedic treatment in a short duration of time .


Aim. Studying first impressions meta-accuracy (how accurately we understand thefirst impressions others form about us) is central to enhancing the communication process.It typically requires experimental settings with at least minimal interactions between targets and perceivers. The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered face-to-face laboratory setupsalmost impossible. Fortunately, the Internet offers a virtual environment where the metaaccuracy of first impressions could be studied safely. We review the opportunities andchallenges associated with the Internet study of meta-accuracy and make a call for actionto address them.Concept. In certain ways the Internet facilitates the study of first impressions metaaccuracy. It is simpler and faster online, compared to the lab, to look at fi rst impressionsin asynchronous settings, such as email and social media updates, where targets presentthemselves via images and/or text and perceivers later form impressions based on thisinformation. The Internet research solution, however, also comes with an array of difficulties. Synchronous communication settings, where targets and perceivers exchange information without delay, (e.g., instant messaging), present three major types of challenges tostudy of first impression meta-accuracy—conceptual (e.g., differences between online andoffline first impression situations), technological (e.g., implementation of chat applications inInternet surveys), and policy-driven (e.g., GDPR).Conclusions. The opportunities and challenges presented by the Internet in the studyof first impression meta-accuracy also apply to the larger field of studying human interaction online. Discussing and addressing them has the potential to enhance Internet researchtools and practices for the humanities and social sciences.


Already observed the software of liquid viscosity measurement by using Borland Delphi 7.0 program. This program able to measure and display diverse of liquid viscosity. The program uses the microcontroller output that sent as serial comunication for activing the timer on the computer. The time representet how long tke thing (buchot) was throught in the liquid. The liquid that used is liquid which can be troughted by laser. This measurment use two of light censors and a
microcontroller AT89S51.


This paper presents a novel feature selection method called Feature Quality (FQ) measure based on the quality measure of individual feature values which has very low computational complexity. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method several experiments are conducted on standard datasets and the results obtained show the superiority of the proposed method over the other dimensionality reduction techniques.


The National Inquiry into Employment and Disability was announced in March 2005 to address the inequity in the employment and labour force participation of Australians with disability. The goal of the inquiry was to identify the primary reasons for inequity and to work towards practical, achievable solutions. The interim report (indexed at TD/TNC 83.160) identified three sets of obstacles facing people with disability and their actual or potential employers: (1) information - an absence of easily accessible and comprehensive information and advice that assists in decision making processes and responds to ongoing needs; (2) cost - concern about costs of participation for people with disability and possible costs borne by employers when employing a person with disability; and (3) risk - concern about any possible financial and personal impact on people with disability and their employers, especially if a job does not work out. The purpose of this report is to identify practical ways of ensuring greater participation and more employment opportunities for people with disability in Australia. The primary responsibility for addressing the barriers for people with disability in the open workplace falls on government. It is for this reason that Commonwealth, State and Territory government services and programs are the subject of many of the recommendations discussed in this report. It is also the reason that the report recommends that the Commonwealth government lead the development of a National Disability Employment Strategy for Australia and starts the process by becoming a 'best practice' employer itself.


This paper reports on the determination and distribution of antibiotic drugs in poultry feeds mainly the layers and growers mash obtained from Ogun state in Nigeria. Pulverized feed samples were initially treated with phosphate buffer adjusted to pH 7 and the analytes extracted in an SPE cartridge with ammonium hydroxide and methanol. The extract reconstituted in phosphate buffer was determined with high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection (HPLC–DAD). The analytical column was an XTerra MS C18 column, (4.6 mm x 100 mm, 3.5 µm) with mobile phases consisting of ultrapure water and acetonitrile mixed with 0.1% HCOOH in gradient elution mode. Data acquisition was achieved with AgilentChemStation Version B.040.01 SP1 while the analytes were completely separated under 10 minutes with good resolution and symmetric peaks. The high correlation coefficient (R2) values (> 0.998, excluding sulfadimethoxine) indicate a good correlation between analyte concentration and peak areas. Limit of detection (LOD) and quantitation (LOQ) was between 5.37 and 55.42 ng/g, and 17.91 and 184.74 ng/g, respectively. All the drugs exhibited high mean concentration values in the two feed types, and there was no significant difference between their means (p < 0.05). The results clearly showed that feed millers fortify their feeds with antibiotics mainly sulfonamides in varying amounts without declaring same, thus compromising security of poultry birds and human consumers.


The present invention relates to an E. coli strain DH5α nfi gene knockout mutant and a preparation method and application in addition. The mutant DH5αΔnfi, Accession No. CGMCC No.4236. The preparation process: using homologous recombination techniques nfi gene λred endonuclease V (EndoV) is knockout strain on the chromosome encoding the E.coli DH5α, and confirmed by DNA sequencing products were electrophoresed PCR, the obtained strain is determined knockout mutant gene, designated DH5αΔnfi. With the present invention as a cloning host mutant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa shotgun sequencing of "unclonable fragments" PaP1 phage genome shotgun sequencing splicing again, a result that can be successfully assembled "not cloned fragment" , indicating that the mutant strain can be overcome by using DNA sequencing and / or cloning difficult to solve the conventional shotgun.


Documents of any kind present a wide variety of date and address formats, in some cases dates can be written entirely in full or even have different types of separators. The pattern disorder in addresses is even greater due to the greater possibility of interchanging between streets, neighborhoods, cities and states. In the context of natural language processing, problems of this nature are handled by rigid tools such as ReGex or DateParser, which are efficient as long as the expected input is pre-configured. When these algorithms are given an unexpected format, errors and unwanted outputs happen. To circumvent this challenge, we present a solution with deep neural networks state of art T5 that treats non-preconfigured formats of dates and addresses with accuracy above 90% in some cases. With this model, our proposal brings generalization to the task of normalizing dates and addresses. We also deal with this problem with noisy data that simulates possible errors in the text.


It expounds how to design a fuzzy controller with double input signals and single output signal for the self-loading/unloading mechanism of PLS according to fuzzy control theory and PLS's typical operation conditions.By means of controlling PWM signal from PLC,it is able to adjust movement speed of the mechanism to ensure smooth operation.The test result shows that it is feasible.


This report identifies gaps between the supply and demand for skills, outlines strategies for career development, and proposes structural changes to investment teams to better leverage diverse talent.


The beta-blockers Oxprenolol, Metoprolol, Acebutolol, Atenolol, Propranolol, Pindolol, and Alprenolol were analysed by both UPLC/MS and HPLC/MS using mobile phases containing acetonitrile, TFA and either H2O or D2O. UPLC gave superior separation performance and the quality of the mass spectra were at least as good as those from HPLC.


Theoretical discourse about leadership was traditionally conceived as a rational process of social action emanating from a leader whose traits were deemed largely responsible for the success or failure of the organization. The role of emotions in leadership, when they were discussed at all, tended to be viewed either negatively as irrational dimensions of mind interfering with the rational business of leading or as a discrete psychological category subsumed within emotional intelligence. In this article, the authors conceptualize emotions holistically as an embodied phenomenon that mediates the social process of leadership. They discuss police leadership as a specific organizational context that shapes and constrains emotional expression and suggest ways that emotional intelligence might be construed to aid police leadership development.


With the rapid proliferation of RFID systems in global supply chain management,
tracking every object at the individual item level has led to the generation of enormous
amount of data that will have to be stored and accessed quickly to make real time
decisions. This is especially critical for perishable goods supply chain such as fruits
and pharmaceuticals which have enormous value tied up in assets and may become
worthless if they are not kept in precisely controlled and cool environments. While
Cloud-based RFID solutions are deployed to monitor and track the products from
manufacturer to retailer, we argue that Fog Computing is needed to bring efficiency
and reduce the wastage experienced in the perishable produce supply chain.
This paper investigates in-depth: (i) the application of Fog Computing in perishable
produce supply chain management using blackberry fruit as a case study; (ii)
the data, computations and storage requirements for the fog nodes at each stage of
the supply chain; (iii) the adaptation of the architecture to the general perishable
goods supply chain; and (iv) the benefits of the proposed fog nodes with respect to
monitoring and actuation in the blackberry supply chain.


Then, we build a theory of labor supply with heterogeneous agents consistent with these empirical facts. The key features of the model are life-cycle, incomplete markets, nonlinear wage schedules, an intensive and extensive margin in labor supply, and a social security system. We calibrate the model economy without explicitly targeting the facts on hours worked. First, we find that this heterogeneous agent model, with the above mentioned features, exhibits patterns in the behavior of labor supply that are quantitatively similar to those observed in the data. Second, we use the developed framework to show that in the calibrated model economy there is a disconnect between the theoretical elasticity of labor supply and the one that is recovered from model data using standard econometric techniques. Further, in an experiment which eliminates the social security system, we find that the changes in the aggregate labor supply are unrelated to the individual labor supply elasticity.


Aphids use their visual systems to detect information about the external environment, and visual genes are likely to have a role in host plant searching and environmental adaptation. Yet, there is little understanding of the presence and expression of visual opsin genes in aphids. In this study, we cloned and identified four vision‐related genes (LW‐OPN, UV‐OPN1, UV‐OPN2, and rhodopsin) from a cosmopolitan serious cereal pest, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), and evaluated their expression patterns. Transcription of the four genes was detected at all developmental stages. The inducing conditions (short photoperiod and low temperature) significantly affected the expression of the UV‐OPN1 and rhodopsin genes. The highest levels of transcription of all genes were observed in males, and the lowest in oviparae. The expression levels in wingless virginoparae were markedly lower than those in gynoparae and winged virginoparae. The starvation treatments resulted in a decline in the survivorship of adults. The mortality rates increased with increasing duration of starvation. The four genes tended to be upregulated following starvation for 24 h, and their expression levels were considerably decreased after subsequent feeding. These results are of importance for further understanding the evolution and function of visual opsins in aphids.


Quantum dots have already proven features that can be considered to improve their properties for biological applications. Metal selenide nanoparticles possess semiconducting behaviors that can vary with their structural and optical properties evolving from their synthesis. The copper selenide nanoparticles have been synthesized by aqueous medium through a simple, non-toxic and environmentally friendly colloidal route. The FTIR spectroscopy confirmed the binding of cysteine onto the surface of the nanoparticles via the thiol group. The XRD patterns revealed cubic phase structures of the Cu2Se nanoparticles synthesized at different temperatures. The optical absorption as a function of wavelength for the prepared Cu2Se nanoparticles at different temperature was also investigated. The morphology of the nanoparticles changed from spherical to nanorods as the reaction temperature was increased.


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Wangchang Oilfield was the largest un-compartmentalized oilfield in Jianghan Oilfield.Its water cut was 89.7%and geological reserves recovery level was 41.56%,it was at the late stage of production with high water-cut.Based on research of remaining oil distribution and water flooding potential evaluation,it was considered that the distribution characteristics of remaining oil were " universal existence,local accumulation ",and it had the potential for enhancing the oil recovery further.The technical countermeasures to ensure Wangchang Oilfield keeping stable production and effective development are to insist on the integration of exploration and development,and treat and control according to the principle of classification,carry on fine development on high-permeability reservoirs,implement production by lowing pressure in deep zones,for low-permeability reservoirs,such as Eq4 3 1,Eq4 3 2 and Eq4 3 3 well patterns were reconstructed,countermeasures were set up for different zones.At the same time,matching technologies were developed to reduce the energy consumption.By means of integrated application of many technologies,stable oil production is realized to guide production.


Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the levels of basic biochemical parameters like uric acid, potassium, sodium, bicarbonate and chloride in umbilical cord blood with a view to assess its suitability for stem cell transplantation. Study Design: This i


Haemorrhage‐associated calcium loss may lead to disruption of platelet function, intrinsic and extrinsic pathway‐mediated haemostasis and cardiac contractility. Among shocked major trauma patients, we aimed to investigate the association between admission hypocalcaemia and adverse outcomes.


The analysis of timing variations of transiting exoplanets allows one to discover additional planets in the system. Such bodies can be very low in mass and radius, so that they remain undetected by transit or radial velocity methods.The CoRoT satellite looks back on six years of high precision photometry of a very high number of stars. Thousands of transiting events are detected from which 27 were confirmed to be transiting planets so far. In my research I search and analyze TTVs in the CoRoT sample and combine the unprecedented precision of the light curves with ground-based follow-up photometry. Because CoRoT can observe transiting planets only for a maximum duration of 150 days the ground-based follow-up can help to refine the ephemeris. Here we present first examples.


The aim of this paper is to explore dynamic impacts of a government spending shock on key macro-aggregates by developing a neoclassical model of naivetA©. The main finding reveals that the model of naivetA© delivers much larger present-value multipliers of output than a typical neoclassical model. Moreover, the model of naivetA© can resolve the consumption puzzle of government spending by producing the crowding-in effect on consumption. Dynamic responses and multiplier effects of other variables are also discussed.