There is now a considerable body of work arguing for the importance of industrial clusters, networks, and linkage to the process of innovation and economic dynamism. Increasingly, as well, this has been drawn on in a policy context with the aim of emulating high-growth/innovative localities. This paper presents a brief review of this work, emphasising the different theoretical and conceptual traditions on which it has drawn. It then presents a critical appraisal of the attempt of the State Government of Victoria, Australia, in the late 1980s and early 1990s to boost innovation and technologically advanced economic development by means of spatially focused 'Technology Precincts'. It looks at the origins, implementation, and aftermath of the initiative, noting both the contingent impacts of economic and political shifts on the initiative but also the more fundamental problems inherent in attempting to emulate high-profile international exemplars of successful industrial districts and spatially focused innovation.


In relation to the study of detailed creative writing methods for Japchesi(miscellaneous style poetry) poetry, the paper was written as part of the study on the search for the various writing methods of Jangdu-che and Okyeonhwan-che which were often used by an umber of authors in the Joseon era. The paper first inquired into the current status of works listed in anthologies named 'Jangdu' or 'Okyeonhw an' in order to confirm in detail the writing methods of Jangdu-che and Okyeonhw an-che, which were used by the poetical circles during the Joseon Dynasty, and found the name in the works of 48 poets and that the writing method could be categorized into four types. First, the method of using apart of the last letter in each phrase for the first letter in the next phrase was the most general writing method, the second involved a method of inserting a particular letter in to the first letter of each phrase, and the third w as to divide each phrase in to two to reuse it in the next phrase, and the fourth was to use apart or the whole of the final phrase at the begininning of the work. Through the writing method of linking the poetic phrase by separation and combination of particular letters, Jangdu-che became the representative poetic style that clearly displays the formation principle of Chinese characters and th eir etymological characteristics. This study is meaningful in that it emphasizes the existence of Jangdu-che in the history of Chinese poetry and establishes the opportunity to reconfirm its status by retracing the its historical value through the research results dealt with above.


The purpose of this study is investigated on the combustion and the thermal characteristics of porous media burners which are many using for a condensing boiler recently. In addition, results of this study will be used the fundamental information to decide the burner type which will be applied to the future development of EGR(Exhaust gas recirculation) condensing boiler. Two flat type of burners made of a the metal fiber(MF) and the ceramic(CM) were selected and examined, experimentally. As experimental results, the emitted CO concentration of CM was higher than that of MF. However, the NO concentration of MF was higher than that of CM. The efficiencies of both burners were increased as increasing the burner capacity. While the efficiency of MF was higher than that of CM, regardless of the burner capacity. In the experimental range, MF is appropriated for the burner material and 0.8 of equivalence ratio is an optimal operation condition, regarding of the proportional control, the thermal efficiency and emitted NO and CO concentration based on the regulations of KS B standard and EN 677 standard.


The 13C NMR spectra of 29 substituted 2‐azabicyclo [3.3.1]nonan‐3‐ones are reported, providing a diagnostic method for the stereochemical elucidation of the relative configuration of these compounds. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The purpose of this study was to determine the difficulties and expectations of foreign nursing students during their nursing practice in the clinic. This qualitative study was conducted with six foreign students studying in the department of nursing at a university in Turkey. The data were collected by using a focus group interview method, and two focus group interviews were held. Two main themes, namely, difficulties during the nursing practices in the clinic and expectations, and related subthemes were determined.  All the students described the difficulties they experienced regarding nursing practices in the hospital. The foreign and migrant students participating in this study experienced difficulties regarding communication, applying treatments, providing training to patients, and applying care interventions to patients during nursing practice in the clinic; they also had expectations from nursing educators to spend sufficient time with them and be present with them in the clinic, and from nurses to assist them for adaptation to the clinic.


This is the last issue of the journal that I put together as Editor-in-Chief. I have been in this position for 25 years, and it is certainly time to pass the baton to someone much younger with exciting new ideas. So a very warm welcome to Cande Ananth. Looking back in time, I remember that I started this journal in 1987 because I felt there was a need for scientists and clinicians in the fields of pregnancy and childhood to read one another's work, and benefit from knowledge of other specialties. To a certain extent this has been successful, although there has been, over the years, a concentration on outcomes of pregnancy such as birthweight and preterm delivery as opposed to fetal abnormalities, child health, psychological and physical development. Nevertheless it is true that various specialties have found a home in this journal, and it has been useful to catch up with the foci of their attention and – often – the lack of information available. A useful focus in the early days concerned documenting the power and achievements of some of the great birth cohorts. At that time there was little interest in such data, and most researchers wanted to collect their own small focused data sets rather than carry out secondary analysis on better data that already existed. Nowadays, the emphasis is much more positive about large birth cohorts, especially those starting in pregnancy or even preconception, and this journal has continued to be a forum for the dissemination of results from these data sets. It is not unusual in any one issue to find papers from such cohorts, and in this issue there are a number. One of the influential supporters of my idea to start this journal was the paediatrician, the late David Baum. When we were designing the first issue, it was his suggestion that we include thought provoking and chatty pieces; he thought [correctly as it happened] that these items would be what our readers would turn to and read – and remember. Thus it was that influential writers like Marsden Wagner and Margaret Ounsted, contributed papers for discussion, Jean Gaffin made [sometimes outrageous] comments on her life in general, and the anonymous author of 'Fumes from the Spleen', later revealed to be Bill Silverman, wrote very thought provoking articles on the ethics of health care. His articles were subsequently published in book form by Oxford University Press, and later won a prize from the British Medical Journal. As one of the reviewers said, it contained 'A feast of quotations, a sense of humour, and pointed but gentle challenges to conventional wisdom.' We have been trying to continue the thought provoking side of the journal, and authors from both sides of the Atlantic have been following the tradition, some anonymous and some named. In this issue, see the piece by David Jewell – he says he started this as a light hearted piece, but gradually as he wrote it, found himself getting angry. Read his thoughts 'on the invention of disease' and see what you think. Better – read it a couple of times, cogitate a while – and then see what you think. Along the years I have enjoyed the challenges to received wisdom that this journal has been able to make. Unlike the journals with great reputations which are often reluctant to stick their necks out and publish something that may be wrong, we are happy to challenge previous certainties. In this issue we publish a paper on polio. This study was carried out against a background of evidence that smaller more growth retarded fetuses are more prone to infections, both viral and bacterial, in childhood. To the authors' surprise, they found that the larger the baby at birth, the more likely to develop polio with paralysis. This could be a true unexpected finding, but may be more a consequence of diagnostic criteria or of other biases. One of the papers published in this issue is by an old friend, William [Bill] James. He first introduced me to the excitement and joy of the detective story that is epidemiology. His academic positions have always been as a research fellow with intermittent funding; he has spent his time in the hunt for pattern and explanation. Most of this time has been spent in medical libraries where he has been a voracious reader of journals of all topics and types. He fills in small index cards and has a system of tying findings together which I have yet to fathom. Sex ratios, and what drives the slight fluctuations in them has driven much of his interest. Here he has put together his findings and theories concerning what influences a boy or a girl to be more likely to be bs_bs_banner


There is no conception more vexatious to lawyers than that of 'automatism' and doctors, including psychiatrists, are prone to be vague and uncertain regarding its exact characteristics. This is due partially to the lack of a generally accepted definition of the term and partially to the ignorance of the legal profession regarding its significance to the medical profession and vice versa. There is need for a proper medicolegal perspective of this phenomenon if it is to receive optimum consideration in the courts. The word 'automatism' refers in the medicolegal sense exclusively to behaviour and indeed is alternatively frequently called 'automatic behaviour'. It may aptly be defined as 'the existence in any person of behaviour of which he is unaware and over which he has no conscious control'. It entails a concurrent unconsciousness and subsequent amnesia for events which occurred during its existence.


Critical thickness hc has been calculated for capped and uncapped lattice mismatched II–VI semiconductor epilayers. Both the old equilibrium theory and the improved theory have been used. The calculated values are compared with the experimental data on epilayers of several II–VI semiconductors and alloys. The observed values of hc are larger than the calculated values, a result similar to that observed with GeSi and InGaAs strained layers. The discrepancy is attributed to the difficulty in nucleating the dislocations. Strain relaxation in layers with thickness h>hc is also calculated. Observed strain relaxation in ZnSe layers grown on (100) GaAs shows good agreement with the equilibrium theory. In other cases, the observed relaxation is sluggish and the residual strain is larger than the calculated value. Many authors have observed that strain near the surface of the II–VI epilayers is small and increases as the depth increases. We describe an improved model to explain this observation. The agreement betw...


University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2013. Major: Work, Community, and Family Education. Advisor: Dr. Rosemarie Park. 1 computer file (PDF); iv, 182 pages, appendices A-D.


The impact assessment of molasses-based distillery-effluent irrigation on groundwater quality around village Gajraula in the district of Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India was studied by sampling groundwater on monthly intervals consecutively for summer, winter and monsoon seasons during 2006–2007 and water quality parameters, viz. pH, electrical conductivity (EC), chloride (Cl−), sulphate (SO), nitrate (NO), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total solids (TS), total dissolved solids (TDS), sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), zinc (Zn2+), iron (Fe3+), and total coliforms (TC) were monitored. Results depicted that the values of all parameters decreased with increasing depth of water table. Sulphate, nitrate and potassium contents were maximal in agricultural site during monsoon while EC, Cl−, TS, TDS, Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Zn, and Fe were maximal in industrial sites during summer. Groundwater samples of residential site harboured maximum coliforms especially during monsoon, highlighting threat to groundwater. Significant positive correlation matrix between coliforms with nitrate, sulphate and potassium ions explained their survival on these nutrients. To overcome this, important measures emphasizing improvement in effluent treatment technology matching site-specific characteristics are recommended for eco-friendly ferti-irrigation.


. ABSTRACT Exotic and traditional food products with supposed health promoting properties are successfully marketed under the global trend of superfoods. Despite the absence of a legal definition and differing regulation under European food law, superfoods are well established in grocery stores. Products labelled as superfoods often exhibit high concentra-tions of macronutrients and micronutrients. Though evi-dence for actual health impacts is rather limited for products without authorised health claims, the assumed nutritional benefits of superfoods are likely to influence the con-sumers ' purchasing behaviour. In recent years, the global superfood trend has increasingly been criticised as related produces have raised concerns for food safety and sustainability issues, highlighting the benefits of regional alterna-tives.


The double fluoride crystals doped with rare-earth ions are well known as active laser media for laser operation in a wide spectral range from 0.325 to 7.2 μm under laser diode pumping including also the cases of resonant up-conversion pumping and non-resonant avalanche pumping.


Bismuth-based visible light photocatalysts has attracted much attention due to its effectiveness in degrading and mineralizing the recalcitrant organic compounds utilizing the solar visible light spectrum.The recently published works of bismuth oxyhalides,bismuth tungstate,bismuth titanate,bismuth vanadates,bismuth molybdates,composite bismuth-based catalysts and so on are reviewed and summarized,and their photocata wtic oxidation mechanism are discussed.Extensive future research will be focused on the development of new kind of visible light photocatalyst and mechanism of photocatalytic oxidation.


ParC) was observed in 10.6% (9/85) of the specimens tested. Mutations predictive of dual resistance (both 23S rRNA and ParC) were observed in 2.12% (4/189) of the specimens. Females 20–24 years had the highest prevalence (18.3%, p<0.001) of infection. In females, M. genitalium was significantly associated with C. trachomatis or N. gonorrhoeae/C. trachomatis (p<0.001) co-infection. The prevalence of M. genitalium in a northern region was statistically significantly higher (p=0.012), as compared to other regions in the province. Conclusions The prevalence of M. genitalium (9.6%) and associated resistance to azithromycin (63.6%) in Saskatchewan is high, suggesting that empiric azithromycin therapy may not be adequate for treating these infections. A potential risk of azithromycin treatment failure could be avoided by performing resistance-guided therapy, as azithromycin is also a recommended drug for the treatment of N. gonorrhoeae (combined with ceftriaxone) and C. trachomatis infections in Canada.


Abstract Pristidia cervicornuta Yu, Zhang & Chen, 2017 is redescribed based on new material from the type locality, Diaoluo Mountains of Hainan Island, China. The female is described and illustrated for the first time. In addition, this paper further illustrates the male, and provides a supplementary description.


One factor that could help the company in maintaining customer satisfaction with services LBPP LIA is purchasing decisions. If the expectations of consumers is reached at the time of purchase, the consumer is not likely to be satisfied and will remain loyal to the product. Word of Mouth is the impact of the provision of consumer information to others about a product or service. Advertising effectiveness is the extent to which conditions the effects of advertising messages delivered by the company to attract the attention and interest of consumers. The company's reputation is an assessment of employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, competitors and the public. Trust is the extent to which consumer trust and confidence in using a product or service. A purchase decision is made consumer selection stage in the decision to use a product or service.
This research uses descriptive method with the type of primary data. The data were obtained from questionnaires to students in LBPP LIA Tembalang. Data analysis was carried out to 100 respondents using SPSS 22. Test the quality of the data using validity and reliability test, classic assumption test using normality test, multicollinearity, and heteroscedasticity test, hypothesis testing using multiple linear regression analysis, the coefficient of determination, statistical test F and test Statitik t.
The results of this study showed that simultaneous purchase decision, word of mouth, advertising effectiveness, the company's reputation and the confidence effect on customer satisfaction. Partially word of mouth, advertising effectiveness, corporate reputation and trust influence on purchase decisions. Partially purchase decision, word of mouth and trust influence oncustomersatisfaction.
Keywords: Purchase Decision, Customer Satisfaction, Word Of Mouth, Ad Effectiveness, Corporate Reputation, and Trust.


Trimetallic systems prepared by the deposition of monolayers of two different metals (Cu, Pd, Ag, and Au) on a Mo(110) single crystal have been studied using x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and ion scattering spectroscopy (ISS). Because the dissimilar second layer can be resolved from the bulk substrate with XPS, this approach allows the core‐level shifts (CLSs) for the first and second layers in the trimetallic system to be measured. ISS was employed to measure the relative surface composition of the sample in order to identify those systems in which no significant mixing of the admetals takes place at room temperature. The Cu/Pd/Mo(110), Au/Pd/Mo(110), and Ag/Cu/Mo(110) systems were determined to exist as segregated monolayers at room temperature. Initial ISS studies showed that a He+ ion beam with an energy of 475 eV was sufficient to induce alloying between Cu and Pd monolayers. The CLSs for the Au/Pd/Mo(110) and Cu/Pd/Mo(110) systems indicate changes in the d‐electron populations of Au, Pd, an...


This paper discusses a program which has been developed for the prediction of steady state and transient performance of a gas turbine driven generator. The gas turbine plant was modelled using the component model principle and is based on the method for continuity of mass flow. The model requires the use of compressor and turbine characteristics together with curves for combustion efficiency. A number of simplifications are made in connecion with transient calculations. The influence of the machines physical volume on continuity of mass flow and effects of heat transfer between the gas and structural components are neglected. The model was used to investigate how component deterioration affects the important condition parameters during load transients and during rapid acceleration or deceleration. Fault conditions were simulated by manipulating the various efficiencies and loss factors for the different components in the machine. Many of the condition parameters that were investigated showed changes during acceleration which were considerably different from comparable changes in a fault free gas turbine.Copyright © 1988 by ASME


The purpose of this bulletin is to communicate the principles and prerequisites for approval of electricity and gas metering devices incorporating new technology (i.e. new or unique design for which Measurement Canada (MC) has no applicable specifications or provisional specifications).


COVID-19 has affected the full range of human rights, though some rights holders have experienced a disproportionate impact. This has triggered debate about the respective obligations and responsibilities of states and business enterprises under international human rights law. Against this backdrop, this article examines critically whether the "protect, respect and remedy" framework operationalised by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is "fit for the purpose" to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. I argue that while the UNGPs' framework provides a good starting point, it is inadequate to bring transformative changes to overcome deep-rooted socio-economic problems exposed by this pandemic. Realising human rights fully would not only require harnessing the potential of states' tripartite obligations, but also move beyond limiting the responsibility of businesses to respect human rights.


In this research we present device control system through wireless signal sensing that aim at utilizing available Wi-Fi signal to control electronic devices. This research has technical contribution as well as social impact in ensuring livelihood of elderly people.


The traditional approach for evaluating seals is based on the conception that a seal, in contrast to a reservoir is a rock in which pore spaces and especially the interconnections are either absent or so small that hydrocarbons cannot pass. The capillary entry pressure that characterizes the pore structure of the seal, must be equal to or higher than hydrocarbon buoyancy forces of the hydrocarbon accumulation. Usually geologists assume that non-reservoir beds over the reservoir form the seal and the spill point belongs to the top surface of the reservoir.


PZT thin films are promising materials for MEMS applications due to their good piezoelectric properties. In this paper, we investigated the mechanism of the PZT wet-etching and propose a modified wet-etching recipe (BHF:HCl:NH/sub 4/Cl:H/sub 2/O=1:2:4:4) to etch PZT thin films.


In a recent issue of theArchives, Nunez et al 1 reported that telangiectatic erythema of cutaneous lupus erythematosus could be successfully treated with a flashlamp pulsed dye laser operating at 585 nm. In a patient with multiple facial telangiectasias without a previous diagnosis of lupus, we observed a case of discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) seemingly induced after thermal injury by overly intense use of an argon laser attached to a computerized scanning device. Report of a Case. A 32-year-old woman with Fitzpatrick type III skin 2 presented for treatment of prominent nasal bridge telangiectasias. She had no significant medical history, photosensitivity, or chronic sun damage. An argon laser operating at 514 nm with a computerized scanning device was used. The input fluence from the argon source was 4.9 W with the power meter displaying 4.4 W. The selected fluence was 22 J/cm 2 (36 milliseconds per pulse) delivered in


Abstract Many experimental investigations into the oxidation or aging characteristics of rubbers have been carried out during the last 30 years. Some have studied changes in physical properties during artificial aging and have linked these with culcanizate composition and with changes occurring during natural aging. Others have studied the kinetics and mechanisms of the chemical reactions involved. Both approaches have contributed much to the general body of knowledge on this subject. In more recent years, serious attempts have been made to correlate rate and extent of oxygen absorption with changes in physical properties, and conclusions drawn from this work have proved to be of considerable interest. In most of the work reported, however, oxygen absorption experiments were carried out on one sample of rubber, using a laboratory absorption apparatus, and deterioration of the physical properties of different samples were determined after aging for appropriate periods in an aging oven. Alternatively, direc...


The very neutron-deficient isotope Pd was produced in fusion-evaporation reactions of a Ca beam on a Ni target. The reaction products were separated at the GSI Online Mass Separator, using ion sources of the FEBIAD type. The β-decay properties of Pd were studied by detecting β-delayed protons and β-delayed γ-rays. The feeding of excited levels in the daughter nucleus Rh and the β-decay half-life of Pd were determined. The experimental results are discussed in comparison to shell model predictions. PACS. 21.10.-k Properties of nuclei; nuclear energy levels – 23.40.-s Beta decay – 27.60.+j 90 ≤ A ≤ 149


Genista Linnaeus (1753: 709) is a large genus of spiny and non-spiny shrubs including over 90 species, mainly distributed in the Mediterranean region but also represented throughout most of western and central Europe, and extending to the southeast of the former USSR, Turkey, Syria and North Africa. The genus is usually arranged into three subgenera and 10 sections (Gibbs 1966, 1968). Among these, Genista subg. Spartocarpus Spach (1844: 240) is widespread in the Balkan Peninsula and the eastern Mediterranean, but has a secondary centre in the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Sicily, north Africa, and southern Spain (Pardo et al. 2004). According to the most recent generic revision (Gibbs 1966), G. subg. Spartocarpus includes four sections: sect. Spartocarpus, sect. Acanthospartum Spach (1844: 247), sect. Fasselospartum Gibbs (1966: 20) and sect. Cephalospartum Spach (1844: 254).


Interest is directed to a moving boundary problem with a gradient flow structure which generalizes surface tension-driven Hele-Shaw flow to the case of nonconstant surface tension coefficient taken along with the liquid particles at the boundary. In the case with kinetic undercooling regularization, well-posedness of the resulting evolution problem in Sobolev scales is proved, including cases in which the surface tension coefficient degenerates. The problem is reformulated as a vector- valued, degenerate parabolic Cauchy problem. To solve this, we prove and apply an abstract result on Galerkin approximations with variable bilinear forms.


Electron ionization (EI)-induced fragmentation was studied in 40 tetrahydro-β-carbolines, tryptamine and tryptophan derivatives. Tryptamine and tryptophan derivatives give the ion C9H8N+· (m/z 130) as the main fragment, accompanied by low-intensity molecular ions. Fragmentation in 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carbolines is dominated by the retro-Diels–Alder rearrangement that provides the ion C10H9N+· (m/z 143). The fragmentation of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carbolines is dominated both by the loss of a methyl radical and by the retro-Diels–Alder fragmentation to give C11H11N++ (m/z 157). These compounds also exhibits an abundant molecular ion. 1-Ethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carbolines lose the ethyl radical (M − CH2CH3) and also show an abundant M+·. N-Methoxycarbonyl and N-trifluoroacetyl volatile derivatives of tetrahydro-β-carbolines and their precursors allow the separation and identification of these compounds by GC/MS. 1,3-Disubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carbolines give rise to two diastereoisomers (1S,3S) and (1R,3S) which are resolved by the GC/MS and provide similar mass spectra. The presence of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid in foodstuffs (beer and orange juice) was demonstrated by GC/MS of its N-methoxycarbonyl methyl ester derivative. It is suggested that diet could be a source of tetrahydro-β-carbolines in mammals. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In 1968, the Tanzanian government inaugurated the Tanzania-China Friendship Textile Mill (FTM) which was built by using a Chinese interest-free loan. Built in the context of import substitution industrial strategy and the policy of socialism and self-reliance embodied in the Arusha Declaration of 1967, the FTM recorded a high productivity in the 1970s and declined in the 1980s. After the adoption of neo-liberal policies in the 1990s, the FTM was privatised to a Chinese company through a joint-venture contract (JVC) and it was renamed Tanzania-China Friendship Textile Company (FTC). In the early 2000s, FTC recovered shortly before it started to decline again until it stopped production in 2018. The extant literature fails to acknowledge interplay of both internal and external forces in FTM decline and they have not assessed the efficacy of joint venture privatisation. In addressing this lacuna, this paper argues that while the failure of government policies coupled with the impact of the global economic crisis of the 1980s to bring the textile industry to stand still in the 1990s, negative impact of economic liberalisation and the investor's deleterious practices after privatisation were the final nails in the coffin.


they give you a lot of information that no social studies book ever tells you ... The social studies book doesn't give you a lot of detail. You don't imagine yourself there because they're not doing it as if it were a person. That would be a very interesting social studies book if they told a few things about the people as if it were from their own eyes ... But textbooks don't like to be interesting, especially. (Jennifer,1 age 10)


After analysis on the trouble in the existing air cooling tower of tank house in Northwest Lead and Zinc Smelter, few points of consideration are given to modification and performance optimization of the air cooling tower for a purpose of providing trains of thought for future reconstruction of the air cooling tower in the tank house.


democracies, even Tocqueville's America in which, as his companion Gustave de Beaumont was to suggest by writing the novel Marie ou de L'esclavage aux Etats Unis, the great man had overlooked the issue of slavery. There are one or two slips: it was Muslims not Sikhs who were killed in Gujarat in 2002 (p. 9), as he clearly states elsewhere; it was William not Myron Wiser, who wrote the Jajmani System (p. 43); and Gujarat is not part of the Hindi belt (p. 133). This said, Bernard has provided us with an original and thoughtful meditation on Indian democracy, which is well-rooted in contemporary political science literature and elevated by his wide learning. Written with great clarity, it would be a useful supporting text for any course on the politics of India, but equally would be an excellent starting point for the intelligent layman keen to know more about how India's democracy works. Readers of this review may wish to access Bernard's website at www.editionsdenface.com.


Our species seems to have a special need to tell stories (GOTTSCHALL 2012), a need which is evident also when the narrative seems impossible for a number of reasons. This paper aims to explore three different cases of impossible narratives: dreams, confabulations and delusions. In dreams, the contents show peculiar characteristics, such as contradictions, incongruities, nonsenses, that seem impossible to be told in a coherent way. When we try to recall the dream and we translate it into a story, we deal with a case of impossible narrative, that transforms a contradictory and illogic content into a coherent narration. In my analysis, I will treat the way we recall a dream as a special case of linguistic game (WITTGENSTEIN 1958), where the meaning of the dream lies in the way we use it, recalling it or telling it to someone else. The second case of impossible narrative is confabulation, or the spontaneous production of false memories. For example, amnesic patient who are asked to talk of something they can't recall because of their amnesia produce completely false narrations, full of invented details, which they seem to believe in. In my view, confabulations appear as attempts to narrate oneself even when anomalous experiences threaten the sense of cohesion and unity of the self itself. Finally, the third case of impossible narrative I'll deal with is delusion. Present in very different mental disorders, the delusion is a false belief firmly held by the subject, who defends it against every contrary evidence (APA 2013). I will try to show that the delusion is a form of paradoxical narrative, where the patient, who has completely lost his autonomy, is totally trapped in without any possibility to escape


The report introduces two different environmental projects involving citizen participation and interdisciplinary research: Reclaiming Waste – a living experiment in Ry (2014–2015) and Permeable Green City Aarhus – Combining Life Politics, Biodiversity, Citizen Empowerment, and Sustainable Urban Drainage to Create an Ecologically and Socially Resilient City (2014–2016). They take the shape of 'living experiments' that explore various processes and phases in democratic participation. Through these projects the report argues in favour of understanding participation as 'interdisciplinary experimentation', which is defined as an experimental practice, creating specific and designed encounters between various groups and forms of knowledge, in order to investigate how to solve or reframe particular challenges. Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Recent publications include Re-Enacting the Past. Heritage, materiality and performance (co-ed Routledge 2016); Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect (co-authored with Carsten Stage, Routledge 2015); Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strategies for the Study of Affect (co-ed, Palgrave 2015); Enterprising Initiatives in the Experience Economy. Transforming Social Worlds (co-ed, Routledge 2015). She is member of the PhD and Post-doc. Assessment Board at the Innovation Fund Denmark (2013-). Carsten Stage is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Previous publications include Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicising Bodily Vulnerability (co-authored with Britta Timm Knudsen, Routledge, 2015) and Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strategies for the Study of Affect (co-ed, Palgrave, 2015). He is co-editor of the journal Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation (http://www.conjunctions-tjcp.com/) and a member of the steering groups of the FKK-network Take Part and of the participation research project Reccord.


Traumatic or stress fractures of the os capitate are highly un- common findings in clinical practice. These fractures should be suspected in insidious and persistent pain in the palm of the hand in persons with high de- mand on this extremity or repeated trauma. This article presents the case of a 16-year-old female tennis player with a 6-month history of selective pain in her right hand.


The purpose of the article is to contribute to the discussion about the relationship between action research with qualitative data and generalization. Working towards this purpose, we look into two other elements of research design. These two are research questions and case study as a research strategy. We apply theoretical concepts about different types of action research, different types of case study and different types of generalization in qualitative research. We also derive various formulations of constructive research questions. By experimenting with compilations of the theoretical concepts and the various formulations of constructive research questions, we promote a possible mindset about how different types of action research can justify ambition or not ambition of generalization.


A Background:  To asses weight changes in patients in the first three months of fixed orthodontic treatment.  Materials and Methods:  53 patients (12 males, 41 females) in test group who needed fixed orthodontic treatment were selected. 50 subjects (14 males and 36 females) with similar conditions were selected as control. The mean age was for treatment group was 17.44±0.75 and was 17.67±0.85 for control group. Weight values of patients recorded immediately before bonding of brackets at beginning of treatment, 1 week after bonding and in orderly 1, 2 and 3 months after bonding. The same values were recorded also for the control group. Results:  According to the results of Repeated Variance Analysis: time dependent changes were statistically significant (p:0.015) but, Time-Group interaction results were not statistically significant (p: 0.051). There was a statistically significant difference between the weight values according to the time intervals between the baseline values and 1.week and 1.month values; while there was not a statistically significant difference between the other time intervals. There was a statistically significant decrease in the mean weight values of treatment group according to the mean baseline values. Conclusion:  Remarkable weight loss was observed in all patients in the first month of the treatment. Patients started to recover weight loss after second month of treatment.


Dissimilar metal welding is a significant metal joining process with an extensive application in industrial domain. The quality of the welded joint is of critical importance in these applications and quite an issue since the base metals are different primarily due to different physical, chemical and mechanical characteristics. In this paper, the challenges encountered in dissimilar metal joining are enlisted with a brief discussion on the corresponding causes. As discussed in the literature, several methods exist to form dissimilar joints. However, arc-based fusion methods are prominently used. Therefore, an overview of these methods is presented along with the applications in which these methods have been used. The study provides a brief account of the materials that have been successfully joined using these methods and the influence of significant parameters including filler materials on the effectiveness of dissimilar joining.


Unactivated alkenes were previously found to be effective carbon nucleophiles for anodic cycloadditions in lithium perchlorate/nitromethane electrolyte solution. Herein, 7Li NMR analysis and calorimetric studies clearly illustrate that the entropic effect is essential for these anodic cycloadditions, which has led to the successful screening of novel effective electrolytes.


With the development of the internet, online career advertising becomes one of the alternative methods that generate faster and effective job opportunities compared to the conventional method. However, there emerge issues of fraud and credibility pertaining to the organization that offers jobs through online career advertising. This matter has somehow undermined the confidence of job seekers who wish to apply for jobs through the internet. Consequently, the authors have tried to understand the effects of beliefs on attitudes towards job seekers reactions in clicking and applying for job via the Internet by using Pollay and Mittal (1993) model. The information  obtained  is expected  to benefit the advertisers and the department of Human Resources to ensure that the information in the career advertisement is trustworthy and capable of attracting potential job seekers to apply for jobs, while saving time and costs of advertising. These are efforts of an organization in facing a market rivalry that's increasingly stiff and competitive.


The purpose of the study is to clarify the social system to be built for achieving restoration work of secondly grassland successfully, through the interview with key persons at 10 areas where grassland has been continuously managed. Focuses in hearing are as follows; key persons or groups in management activities, recognition of grassland as commons, existence of legitimacy with the collaborative management rule, and way of distribution of incentives. The social system in 10 areas could be classified into four types; I. community member keeps traditional way for grassland management to confirm the identity of the community, II. community member can obtain economic benefit through grassland management, III. local government assists the activities through distributing funds to local members and IV. gentle network among members who recognize different worth in the grassland is build by volunteer group as a secretary. It is considered that the framework to achieve successful grassland restoration should involve following four items; i) core organization to form gentle network among various groups, ii) incentive that is acceptable by various groups with different worth, iii) contrivance for keeping the identity of local community, and iv) system to make and distribute funds for supporting continuous work of the secretary.


The WHO has given a pandemic situation alert to world countries due to the Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The COVID-19 is basically has spread four various stages namely appearance of the disease, local transmission, community transmission, Widespread outbreak but still now India staying in the second stage only and trying to avoid the third stage of community transmission via various actions and strategy like effective treatment, lockdown and community distance. Suppose virus affected and house quadrant persons roaming outside and contact with many people's causes of India enter the third stage of community spread and increases COVID-19 positive cases and death rate. The main aim of this research paper is avoided Covid-19 community spared using prevent corona virus affected and house quadrant persons and monitoring high temperature having persons roaming outside with help of drone face identification and thermal scanning mechanisms.


Purchasing over the Internet is not limited to traditional computers, and nowadays a person is able to shop from her mobile equipment. However, identity theft and credit/debit card fraud deter some potential customers, or limit their activity. Customers' privacy is threatened in several ways, including malware that directly targets their computers/mobile equipment and from attacks that target merchant infrastructure and databases. In this paper we propose a new way for a user to pay for goods ordered online, which is based on the use of a Smart Card Web Server (SCWS), hosted either on a phone Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) or in a traditional credit/debit card. It would mean that a customer never submits card details via the Internet and is only required to remember a PIN, and for merchants the responsibility to store/protect customer card details is avoided. Overall the privacy for customer data is enhanced by this proposal.


LANDMAN, M. L. L. Expression of immunohistochemical biomarkers in equine melanocytic neoplasms using tissue microarray [Expressão de marcadores imunoistoquímicos em neoplasias melanocíticas de equinos por microarranjo de tecidos]. 2011. 101p. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciência Animal) – Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2011. The aim of this study was to evaluate the morphological behavior, and expression of the following proteins: S-100, Melan-A, HMB-45, Ki-67, PCNA and p53, in 25 equine melanocytic neoplasms. Clinical (gender, breed, coat color, age and lesions location) and morphological (cellular, pigment, nuclear, nucleoli, melanophages, invasion and necrosis) data were collected. A tissue microarray block, embedded in paraffin, with equine tissue samples and positive controls, was elaborated for protein expression through immunohistochemistry. The evaluation of S100, HMB-45 and Melan-A was based on a score, and for Ki-67, PCNA and p53 it was based on cellular count. Breeds were: Mixed breed (16/25, 64%), Lusitano (6/25, 24%), Arab (2/25, 8%) and Swedich (1/25, 4%). All animals were gray and the majority males (18/25, 72%). Age varied from 4 to 24 years old (mean=13 years). The perianal region (13/25, 52%) was the most common location. Morphological analysis have shown neoplasms with predominantly moderate (52%) and intense (40%) cellularity, diffuse and fascicles distribution (52%), no mitoses figures (96%) and predominance of epithelioid and spindle cells in the same tumor (80%). There was discrete (48%) and moderate (44%) nuclear atypia, round and elongated nucleus in the same tumor (76%), and disperse chromatin (60%). Nucleoli were multiple and prominent in the majority of cases (88%). Tumor cells with diffuse and intense pigmentation, with dermal location (100%) were predominant. High cellularity of macrophages (64%) with diffuse distribution (96%) was mostly seen. The protein expression for melanocytes have shown 44% of moderate to strong expression for S100 protein, 56% of weak expression for HMB-45 protein and 64% of negative expression for Melan-A protein. It was found positivity for more than two antibodies in 72% of equine melanocytic neoplasms. The proliferation antibodies Ki-67 and PCNA had mean positivity of 0,0005% and 15,7%, respectively. The p53 expression had mean positivity of 6,1%. Macrophages cellularity was statistically associated with S100 and p53. In conclusion: 1. clinical data obtain reproduce the biological behavior of equine Macrophages celllularity was statistically associated with S100 and p53. In conclusion: 1. clinical data obtain reproduce the biological behavior of equine melanocytic neoplasms, excepting the animals age; 2. equine melanocytic neoplasms assemble to human cellular blue nevi and dogs melanocytoma; 3. the tissue microarray was shown to be an economic, rapid and less variable technique; 4. using a panel for antibodies for melanocytes is relevant to differentiate melanocytic and not melanocytic tumors, reproducing the diagnosis panel used in human and canine literature; 5. the proliferation index found suggests that both antibodies (Ki-67 and PCNA) could be used in mitotic activity cell count; and 6. p53 protein has more relation with cellular cycle stop than in other equine studies, probably indicating a different biological behavior than the presented in humans and dogs.


We determine an {open_quotes}empirical{close_quotes} kaon dispersion relation by analyzing and fitting recent experimental data on kaon production in heavy-ion collisions. We then investigate its effects on the hadronic equation of state at high densities and on neutron star properties. We find that the maximum mass of neutron stars can be lowered by about 0.4M{sub {circle_dot}} once kaon condensation as constrained by our empirical dispersion relation is introduced. We emphasize the growing interplay between hadron physics, relativistic heavy-ion physics, and the physics of compact objects in astrophysics. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}


Aiming at the staning problem of sensodess pe珊anent magnet b11lshless DC motor(BLDCM),a novel closed—loop 3一step start—up strategy is proposed,which integrates the precise pre-location of initial I.otor·position and the location optimization in accelerating process.When short-width—time pulse Voltage Vectors a托injected into 3一 phase stator windings,the initial roto卜position is locked in a 60。electrical ande range through detecting the cuIIent in the DC link of the inverter.Based on above,the precise pre—location is achieved by detecting t11e cun.ent threshold when constaIlt voltage is applied to the assigned stator windings.After pre—location,location optimization and accelera— tion process pmceeds.In this pmcess,the current threshold is used to ensure the correct commutation,such that the system can be s诚tched to backelectro—motive·force(EMF)mode when the rotor is accelemted f.rom standstill to cer. tain speed.Experimental results show that the proposed closed-loop 3-step start—up method is simple to implement without any sensors,cost-efrective and highly reliable;it can aVoid loss of synchmnization or starting f萄lure,and en— sure the system work in closed—loop state during the whole start—up process.


Here I share with you my 5 favourite things to do in London, enough to keep you busy even if you are only visiting for a weekend break. Even if you have been to London before, some of these experiences might be new to you, or perhaps you have thought "I must do that one day".


M. A. VASSALLI. "Praefatio historica," in Grammatica Melitensis, 1791, pp. 1-53 (see p. 26); and "Discorso preliminare," in Lexicon Melitense-Latino-Italum, 1796, pp. viixlii (see p. 20). In these two lengthy introductions prefixed to the first edition of his Maltese Grammar (= V.I) and to the Maltese Vocabulary (=Lex.), respectively, Vassalli expounds his theory of the origin of Maltese and its Semitic affinities. Maltese, he writes, is a Semitic tongue (Lex., pp. vii, viii) and one of a very great antiquity (V.I, p. 3). Although the Phoenicians were not the first inhabitants of the Island (Lex., p. x), they mingled with the indigenous population and shaped a new language which survived through all the subsequent political changes (V.I, pp. 13 f.). Therefore the Maltese language is derived from Phoenician (V.I, pp. 4 and 25), but it was deeply influenced first by Punic (Lex., p. xii) and later by Arabic (V.I, pp. 15 f.; Lex., p. xii). Despite all such influences and affinities, Maltese is neither Punic nor Arabic but simply Maltese (V. I, p. 24). Much less can Maltese be considered as a Magrebinic Arabic dialect (Lex., p. xv). At the end of the "Discorso preliminare" Vassalli makes the very sensible remark that the Maltese people should learn the Arabic language if they want to obtain a good knowledge of their own (Lex., p. xli). Despite all the Phoenician prejudices common to his age, Vassalli had a clear understanding of the linguistic structure of Maltese, and, by stressing the importance of Arabic, he certainly pointed out the right direction of Maltese linguistic research.


In this paper we consider the parameter space of continuous linear optimization problems with a given decision space and a given index set. We consider difierent partitions of this space, on the basis of the primal, the dual, and the primal-dual status of each parameter. We deflne ill-posedness and relative ill-posedness w.r.t. a given set and absolute ill-posedness w.r.t. a given family of sets. These concepts are characterized for the elements of the partitions considered in this paper. 1. Introduction. Let n 2 N, n ' 2, and a non-empty compact Hausdorfi topological space T be given. We associate with each triple


Microvascular coronary impairment, defined as reduced coronary flow reserve, represents the predominant etiologic mechanism of ischemia in women with chest pain and no obstructive coronary artery disease. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is a noninvasive method for assessing coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). The purpose of this investigation was to define the safety profile, feasibility, adverse events, and rate of complications of the test in women with suspected CAD.


The threat of entry of foreign workers into Indonesia has increasingly narrowed employment opportunities in Indonesia. This also has an impact on the Vocational High School (SMK) as an educational institution that produces middle-level skilled workers, so this institution is required to always improve the quality of its graduates according to the standards needed by the business and industrial world which continue to develop along with globalization. On the other hand, data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows that there is still a high unemployment rate for SMK graduates, which indicates that SMK graduates lack competitiveness in the business/industry world. This study aims to describe Job Readiness as measured by Core Employability Skills (CES) and Technical Competency. (KT) students of Building Skills Vocational School facing global competition in Ciamis Regency. The combination method was used on a sample of 172 students of Class XII Vocational High School Building Engineering Competency in Ciamis Regency, with the instrument scores, questionnaires, interviews, observations, and documentation. From the results of the study, it was found that CES and KT for vocational students facing global competition, seen from the curriculum, ACSF, and SKKNI targets, they reached the competent category.


Tulathromycin is a relatively new semi-synthetic macrolide antibiotic, a
 member of the triamilide group, approved primarly for the treatment of
 respiratory diseases in cattle and swine. Various genotoxicological studies
 indicated that tulathromycin is not genotoxic, but no available published
 data originate from the single-cell gel electrophoresis (Comet) assay.
 Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine whether it can induce
 primary DNA damage using in vitro Comet assay in isolated rat lymphocytes.
 Lymphocytes were treated with a broad spectrum of tulathromycin
 concentrations (from 1 to 100 µ M) and co-treatment with an antioxidant,
 catalase (100 IU/mL and 500 IU/mL) was performed. The highest concentrations
 of tulathromycin (50 and 100 µ M) caused significant increase of DNA damage
 in rat lymphocytes and catalase did not significantly reduce the DNA-damaging
 effect of tulathromycin. The results of this study indicate that
 tulathromycin induces genotoxic effects at high concentrations, that catalase
 does not exert protective effect in this case. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke
 Republike Srbije, br. III 46002]


This report and its accompanying Microsoft Excel workbook summarize water data we found to support efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency s WaterSense program. WaterSense aims to extend the operating life of water and wastewater treatment facilities and prolong the availability of water resources by reducing residential and commercial water consumption through the voluntary replacement of inefficient water-using products with more efficient ones. WaterSense has an immediate need for water consumption data categorized by sector and, for the residential sector, per capita data available by region. This information will assist policy makers, water and wastewater utility planners, and others in defining and refining program possibilities. Future data needs concern water supply, wastewater flow volumes, water quality, and watersheds. This report focuses primarily on the immediate need for data regarding water consumption and product end-use. We found a variety of data on water consumption at the national, state, and municipal levels. We also found several databases related to water-consuming products. Most of the data are available in electronic form on the Web pages of the data-collecting organizations. In addition, we found national, state, and local data on water supply, wastewater, water quality, and watersheds.


This paper discusses the present condition of the multimedia teaching model in the universities and its structure,strategy and the way of realization based on the multimedia teaching method.


We performed constant strain rate deformation and stress relaxation on a poly(methyl methacrylate) glass at Tg – 19 K, utilizing three strain rates and initiating the stress relaxation over a large range of strain values. Following previous workers, we interpret the initial rate of decay of the stress during the relaxation experiment as a purely mechanical measure of mobility for the system. In our experiments, the mechanical mobility obtained in this manner changes by less than a factor of 3 prior to yield. During these mechanical experiments, we also performed an optical measurement of segmental mobility based on the reorientation of a molecular probe; we observe that the probe mobility increases up to a factor of 100 prior to yield. In the post-yield regime, in contrast, the mobilities determined mechanically and by probe reorientation are quite similar and show a similar dependence on the strain rate. Dynamic heterogeneity is found to initially decrease during constant strain rate deformation and then remain constant in the post-yield regime. These combined observations of mechanical mobility, probe mobility, and dynamic heterogeneity present a challenge for theoretical modeling of polymer glass deformation. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2016, 54, 1957–1967


Consider the choice of coating anodes for electrolysis of sodium hypochlorite nizkokontsentrovannogo 3% solution of sodium salt of food and water of the Black Sea. Defined corrosion resistance of anodes with different laying oxides of ruthenium and iridium and their characteristics: yield chlorine-current voltage on the cell growth dynamics of the concentration of active chlorine in the solution.


Introduction: Regardless of whether a child is born by force of nature or by caesarean section, childbirth is a huge effort for the female body. We are talking about physical effort and pain, but also mental. A big dose of hormones that floods the female body makes itself felt within a few to several hours after childbirth. Sadness, loneliness, anxiety, fear are frequent emotions accompanying a woman after childbirth. In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, all visits to hospitals, including gynecology and maternity units, are prohibited. The woman has to rely on herself and on the help of the medical staff. The aim of the study was to assess the occurrence of depression and anxiety disorders in postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Several functions of the animal body can take place in cell or tissue cultures with almost unreduced efficiency and precision. Functions, where only one cell type is involved, often do so, but also some differentiation steps where interactions between two or more cell types are clearly needed can take place in tissue culture (Saxén et al. 1968). Most immune responses require collaboration between two or more cell types (Claman, Chaperon & Triplett, 1966; Miller & Mitchell, 1968; Feldmann & Nossal 1972c). Some of them can be easily induced in vitro but others cannot. Even when antibody responses can be induced in vitro their intensity varies a great deal. With some antigens and under some circumstances a response in vitro can be nearly as strong as one in vivo. A crude comparison can be derived from responses in vitro and in vivo to the same antigen, conjugate of hapten NIP and pneumococcal polysaccharide type III (NIP-SIll, Nakamura, Ray & Mäkelä, 1973).


An active system (AS) is a network of communicating automata. A complex active system (CAS) is a hierarchy of communicating active systems. By inspiration of biological systems, organized in a hierarchy of subsystems, the interaction between automata in an AS gives rise to an emergent behavior at a superior AS, which is unpredictable from a knowledge of the behavior of the communicating automata only. Real systems can be conveniently modeled as CAS's, in order to be monitored and diagnosed by automated techniques. A diagnosis method for CAS's is presented, with viability being a major requirement: despite the complexity of the system, diagnosis shall be performed efficiently. This is supported by lazy techniques, which allow for the sound and complete solution of the diagnosis problem.


From the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita (S.Y., H.O.), the Department of Cardiology, Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka (A.H.), the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University (K. Kaikita), and the Department of General Medicine, Kumamoto University Hospital (K. Matsui), Kumamoto, the Department of Cardiology, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto (M.A.), the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara (J.A.), the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka (T.M.), the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center (M.N.), the Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine (K. Miyauchi), and the Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University (N.H.), Tokyo, and the Cardiovascular Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama (K. Kimura) — all in Japan. Address reprint requests to Dr. Yasuda at the Japan Cardiovascular Research Foundation, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, 6-1 Kishibe-Shimmachi, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan, or at yasuda . satoshi . hp@ ncvc . go . jp.


Nanotechnology has facilitated the applications of a class of nanomaterials called superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) in cancer theranostics. This is a newdiscipline in biomedicine that combines therapy and diagnosis in one platform. The multifunctional SPIONs,whichare capable ofdetecting,visualizing, anddestroying theneoplastic cellswith fewer side effects than the conventional therapies, are reviewed in this chapter for theranostic applications. The chapter summarizes thedesignparameters suchas size, shape, coating, and target ligand functionalization of SPIONs, which enhance their ability to diagnose and treat cancer. The review discusses the methods of synthesizing SPIONs, their structural, morphological, andmagnetic properties that are important for theranostics. The applications of SPIONs for drug delivery,magnetic resonance imaging, andmagnetic hyperthermia therapy (MHT) are included. The results of our recent MHT study on Gd-doped SPIONas a possible theranostic agent are highlighted.We have also discussed the challenges and outlook on the future research for theranostics in clinical settings.


Frameworks are usually large and complex, and typically reusers need to understand them well enough to effectively use them. This research concentrates on verifying applications built on top of OO frameworks. The idea is to get framework builders to specify a set of constraints for the correct usage of the framework and check them using static analysis techniques.


A uniform transmission line is described electrically by a characteristic impedance and a time delay. From the length of the line and the time delay, the effective dielectric constant can be extracted. Two instruments are commonly used to measure these properties, a time domain reflectometer (TDR) and a vector network analyzer (VNA). In this paper, these techniques are reviewed. We show that an important factor influencing the quality of the measurements is the way the structure is probed. When using microprobes, the characteristic impedance and effective dielectric constant can be measured to within 1% accuracy. A collection of tips and tricks to improve the measurement accuracy are presented. Finally, the ability to accuractely measure the dissipation factor of any laminate material up to 10 GHz, with a VNA, is reviewed. Introduction Transmission lines are the key interconnects on printed circuit boards. Measuring their electrical properties plays three important roles: verifying the manufacturing process and that the parts meet specification, intrinsic materials measurements and extracting accurate, high bandwidth models of specific interconnect structures. There are two principle instruments used to measure the electrical properties of transmission lines, the Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) and the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). Surprisingly, both instruments do basically the same thing, just in different domains. In this paper, we describe what the instruments do and offer just a few simple examples of the useful information one can obtain with both instruments. For more detailed information, please see the numerous application notes posted on the www.GigaTest.com web site. Impedance We usually think of impedance as being the ratio of the voltage to the current: Z = V/I. While this is in fact the basic definition of impedance, it can also be defined in terms of how waves interact with a device. If a signal propagates from a region with impedance Z1, and hits a region with an impedance, Z2, the incident waveform will reflect. The reflection coefficient, defined as the ratio of the reflected to the incident voltage, is related to the two impedances by:


Abstract Photochemical reactions of M(CO)6 (M = W, Mo) with C60 in solution yield η:2-complexes of M(CO)5 with C60. The complexes have been characterised by IR, UV/VIS, NMR and DSC. They do not show any orientational ordering down to 12 K and all the infrared bandwidths remain the same down to this temperature. The complexes can be decomposed thermally or photochemically yielding metal fullerides, which show characteristic reduction in peak width in the variable temperature IR spectra due to orientational ordering. Transitions are manifested in calorimetric studies also. Metal → C60 charge-transfer is observed in IR and XPS. A high temperature IR study of the C60-W(CO)5 complex reveals sequential elimination of the carbonyls yielding MC60. The study shows that carbonyl complexes can be used as precursors to make transition metal fullerides.


Metronidazole drug (Flagyl) is widely used in as antiprotozoal drug in bowel parasitic diseases. Bentonite in medicine used as antidiarrheal, suspending agent, and as additives. Drug overdose may treated by adsorbents especially by activated charcoal suspension to prevent further absorption, but usually it is unacceptable to drink. Hence, an attempt was made in this work to estimate the ability of bentonite as adsorbent for metronidazole overdose in vitro as a possible alternative for activated charcoal. UV-Visible spectrophotometry technique was used to follow the quantity adsorbed after incubation of bentonite with a known concentration of metronidazole solutions. The adsorption experiments were repeated at (12, 25, 37.5, and 50oC) to measure the thermodynamical parameters (ΔHo, ΔGo, ΔSo) of the adsorption process. The results showed that, there are small amounts of metronidazole ready to adsorb on bentonite. The thermodynamic parameters values were (ΔHo=18.68 KJ.mol -1 , ΔGo=-10.03 KJ.mol -1 , ΔSo=96.33 J.mol -1 .oK -1 ). The amount of the adsorbed drug was increased as the pH of the drug solution decreased. It can be concluded that the adsorption of metronidazole on bentonite is endothermic process with low thermodynamic parameters values. The adsorption enhanced by increasing temperature and by increasing acidity of the medium.


Requirements off Automotive Tier1s and OEMs Klaus Pietrczak JCET Group, 46429 Landing Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538 firstname.lastname@example.com The automotive market size for power and discrete devices is growing at a rate of greater than 7 percent. Market drivers for this growth include ADAS, Infotainment and Powertrain. Getting an automotive device from initial specification to high volume manufacturing (HVM) can take four years compared to the typical three to six months it takes a consumer device. The requirements for automotive devices are much more complex. Increasing electronic content and zero failure over 15 years of lifetime are the major drivers for the ever increasing reliability requirements. The major document for any automotive device is the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP). This presentation will show the required content for the PPAP and which roles in an organization will contribute to it. There will also be a deeper dive into the three major automotive standards: IATF16949, AIAG and AEC. For each standard covered in-depth looking at the purpose, what the goal of the standard is, and a few examples for better understanding. Also covered will be the fact that even with all of these standards, not everything is covered. The device manufacturer having specific requirement on top of the standard requirements are more the standard rather than the exception. We will go into detail regarding who has to deliver what to which section and how they are all linked and interacting. The content on the standards will be completed by a look at the upcoming ISO26262-11, its intent, scope and expected influence on Semiconductor and OSATs. Finally, a look to some of the less defined but still important pieces of the puzzle. Examples of these include failure analysis procedure, product change/cancellation notification and data retention. While not an exhausting list, more often than not each is an important part of the business. An explanation of the purpose and typical requirements for these will be presented. This comprehensive review will give anyone targeting automotive business an overview of all that is required for automotive devices and the timeline to expect to get to HVM.


The cardiac diseases have been increasing a lot in recent years. As the heart is the important part of a human body, the functioning of the heart is very important to be in regular. The functioning of the heart is called as cardiac cycle. The cardiac cycle is the combination of two phases of the heart i.e. the actions that happen in between the pumping of the heart. This could also be said as two main states of heart, "diastole and systole". The diastole is the process of blood filled into a chamber of the heart and the systole is the process of blood flowing out from the chamber of the heart. The aim here is to identify the states of the heart and the volume during the cardiac cycle function occurs. In this paper the left ventricle is considered for the project. The feature extraction extracts the information about the given image and also differentiates them under the two categories either the heart left ventricle is in the diastolic state or under the systole state. The image here consists of noise and is removed by using the median filter as the first scenario and wavelet transform for the edge detection in the second scenario. To extract the data from the image is the third scenario, the mean and SD has been calculated here. To classify the two states of the heart, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used. This is fourth scenario. By training the Neural network classifiers the heart images are classified as diastole and systole. Index Terms Cardiac cycle, Diastole, Systole, Echocardiography images, Pathology, Median Filter, Wavelet, Anatomical information, ANN, Classifiers


Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is another brick in the wall of human civilization. It is opening up a new era of education along with the changing role of teachers from just as knowledge transmitter to facilitator - a constructivist teaching learning environment. And this has paved the path for proper utilization of ICT in the era of post modern education. ICT has entered the social lives in a big way and society has truly responded to this trend. Back in 1996, UNESCO labeled the situation of teachers around the world a 'silent emergency.' There is a need to identify and develop contextualized teacher and teaching competencies and standards. Professional associations, countries, states, or universities often collaborate within their larger educational community to establish ICT supported teacher standards and guidelines that describe the knowledge, skills, and dispositions teacher candidates are expected to demonstrate upon completion of their teacher education programs. According to the UNESCO's (2002) planning guide on ICTs in teacher education, these accepted standards not only provide guidance to universities and colleges when developing plans for infusion of technology into their teacher education programs, but also establish a measure of consistency among teacher education programs within a region. The teacher is central point of the whole educational programmes and teaching is said to be nation building activity. So the teachers must be skilled in the use of technology for learning and should be avail internet facilities to receive latest information related with education, teaching and training. Online learning is most frequently used to refer to computer-based training which incorporates technologies that support interactivity beyond that which would be provided by a single computer. Therefore, this is an approach to facilitate and enhance learning through, and based on, both computer and communications technology. This paper focuses on the domains and approaches of ICT in enhancing the quality of teacher education in India. In India ICT plays a great role to offer many new possibilities for teacher education if it is properly integrated and implemented.


Method of producing a lanthanum oxide film using the same, and provides a process for the production of MOS field-effect transistor and a capacitor. This method, first, the semiconductor substrate is introduced into the chamber. Injecting a bis-tris-trimethyl silyl amino lanthanum as lanthanum precursor into the chamber on the semiconductor substrate to adsorb the lanthanum precursor chemical. Then, the chamber was purged by the primary causes at least one of the oxidant injected successively chemisorbed on the semiconductor substrate and wherein the lanthanum precursor chemisorbed into the chamber. Next, the purge the second chamber. Moreover the process of injecting a lanthanum precursor into the chamber, and the chamber and purging the primary, and injecting an oxidant into the chamber, purging the chamber are secondary may be repeated sequentially.


Representatives of the major Nordic hunter's associations (i.e., Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) met in February 2010 to identify key challenges for the future of hunting and develop a vision for how hunting would fit within society in the future. Most participants (7) represented national level hunters associations, but agricultural landowners associations (4), national wildlife management agencies (2), and researchers (5) were represented as well. We facilitated the symposium using the Critical Utopian Action Research approach and Future Creation Workshop model (Nielsen & Nielsen, 2006). Participants were asked to explore concerns and visions in the intersection of hunting and society, and propose strategies for achieving their visions. The process included plenary brainstorming, prioritization of keywords, thematic synthesis of keywords, and elaboration of themes in small groups. Participants identified five main themes among their concerns: negative public perceptions of hunting, conflicts between user groups, poor match between governance scale and management decisions, internal degradation of the hunting ethic, and problems recruiting new hunters. The group discussions focused on changing perceptions of the appropriate human role within ecosystems and wildlife management, on the role of hunting in rural socioeconomic development, on how divergent values impacted people's acceptance of hunting, and on the democratic deficit in decisions made at national and European Union (EU) levels. The discussions of hunting ethics examined both negative changes in ethics among hunters and how these changes might create a backlash against hunting among the non-hunting public and the discussions addressing recruitment of new hunters identified challenges such as low levels of practical knowledge about hunting, economic constraints, people's minimal contact with nature, and presentation of hunting in the media. Participants identified three main themes among their utopian visions: no bad press, opportunities for anyone to hunt, and better decision-making. The discussions of these themes focused on need for critical media as well as the need for more transparency within the hunting community and the need for the hunting community to become more proactive in forming new alliances. Also, a better understanding of the internal norms and behaviors of hunters, and society's perspectives regarding the relationship between humans and animals was encouraged. The discussions on better hunting opportunities for everyone focused on improving relations between hunters and landowners, the need for developing better ways to distribute game meat, encouraging diversity among hunters, preventing


We demonstrate that frequency (Kerr) comb generation in whispering-gallery-mode resonators can be modeled by a variant of the Lugiato-Lefever equation that includes higher-order dispersion and nonlinearity. This spatiotemporal model allows us to explore pulse formation in which a large number of modes interact cooperatively. Pulse formation is shown to play a critical role in comb generation, and we find conditions under which single pulses (dissipative solitons) and multiple pulses (rolls) form. We show that a broadband comb is the spectral signature of a dissipative soliton, and we also show that these solitons can be obtained by using a weak anomalous dispersion and subcritical pumping.


In this work the micropatterned CoNbZr films designed for the band stop filter are reported. It was already reported that a 400‐μm-wide coplanar line equipped with a 4‐mm-wide CoNbZr film exhibits band stop characteristics, but practically the width of the film must be about the same size as the signal line. This limited width of the micropattern gives rise to dispersion of the shape anisotropy, resulting in degradation of band stop characteristics. Here we fabricated 150‐μm-wide patterned films with adjusted edge dimensions which widths have been enlarged from 20to40μm that were optimized on the permeability database. The resonance loss profile for the adjusted pattern is compared with that of a film without adjusted edges. The half width is appreciably decreased from 2.2to0.77GHz. In conclusion an improvement of the resonance profile of micropatterned films was achieved by optimizing the edge dimensions. This will enable us to utilize magnetic films for more downsized signal lines.


The present work is the result of a three-year Ph.D. research project carried out at Consorzio RFX on magnetically confined plasmas. Research on controlled thermonuclear fusion is currently being pursued by many countries throughout the world, thanks to its promise of a relatively clean and abundant energy source. The next steps for the international community are the construction and operation of a large device, ITER, considered as the last fusion physics experiment with respect to the tokamak configuration. After ITER, in fact, the first commercial proto-reactor, DEMO, is envisaged to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion as an energy source. The stellarator community, on the other hand, is building a new device, Wendelstein 7-X, which will provide further insight into three-dimensional physics.
Among the various fusion devices, the reversed-field pinch has been demonstrated, if not a viable device for commercial energy production, an excellent tool for plasma physics studies. The RFX-mod experiment situated at Consorzio RFX in Padova, Italy, is the biggest RFP device in the world and the most advanced fusion device with respect to active stabilization of magnetohydrodynamic perturbations through feedback control. The RFX-mod team, further-more, has tackled first theoretically and then experimentally the paramount concept of self-organization in RFPs, which produces enhanced confinement regimes with better transport properties and reduced magnetic chaos. Resonant tearing modes are known to be the biggest players in the dynamo mechanisms responsible for the helically deformed and enhanced regimes.
In such a complex framework, the reconstruction of the tearing modes in-side the plasma through external measurements is extremely important for both modelling and experimental reasons since, for example, the structures influencing the core transport properties of plasmas are in part linked to tearing modes.
The present Ph.D. thesis focuses, in particular, on the development of two-and three-dimensional equilibrium codes. As a first problem, a Fortran algorithm has been developed for the numerical solution of the helical Grad-Shafranov equation, which is a two-dimensional equilibrium equation derived under the assumption of helical symmetry. Such assumption is found to be particularly appropriate for the study of the dominant tearing mode in RFX-mod during routine quasi-single-helicity phases in RFP shots, but it can be applied to tokamak shots as well.
As a second problem, the three-dimensional VMEC/V3FIT code suite for equilibrium reconstruction has been analysed and studied. The helical Grad-Shafranov solver has been tested against the three-dimensional VMEC/V3FIT predictions, carrying out a valuable benchmark. Then, a further step has been taken in the application of the V3FIT code to fixed-boundary reconstructions in RFX-mod by implementing a new virtual diagnostic, which had been previously demonstrated to be able to solve the mismatch in the edge value for the helical safety factor.


Flash memory is widely used in mobile devices due to these features like low consumption and the high performance. Flash Translation Layer (FTL) is the software layer managing the mapping between Flash memory and upper layers, which affects the entire performance of Flash devices. In various FTL scheme, page-level FTL has the flexibility and the high performance, but the size of the page mapping table is a big disadvantage. To solve this problem, Demand-based FTL (DFTL) has been proposed, which only keeps frequently used mapping addresses in mapping table cache. In DFTL, overhead is occurred by Flash memory accesses when the hit ratio of CMT (Cached Mapping Table) is decreased. These problems are common, even in general sequential accesses. Thus, we propose a scheme which predicts storage access pattern and reads referenced entry of CMT in advance. This scheme predicts storage access pattern and puts the continuous mapping address in CMT when these accesses are sequential. In that case, the amount of address entries is managed dynamically. It also determines whether evicted entry is accessed repeatedly for recognizing the occurrence of thrashing. Finally, we propose a replacement policy of CMT. In the experimental results, the proposed scheme reduces average response time by read 25%, write 23% with a little space overhead compared to an existing DFTL.


This paper presents the application of a numerical model specifically developed for the analysis of masonry constructions to the assessment of the capacity of a large openspandrel masonry arch bridge nowadays in service subjected to railway loads. To appraise the behavior of these bridges the 85 m span structure erected over the Soča river at Solkan (Slovenia), just outside the town of Nova Gorica, on the border with Italy, was selected. Preliminary analyses were developed using a simplified axle load along the bridge. After that, Eurocode 1 railway live loads, both vertical and horizontal (braking or starting) loads had been considered. The paper discusses, based on the results achieved in this example, the behaviour and ultimate capacity of such structures, the convenience to take into account realistic distribution of loads when analyzing such structures at service and failure conditions and the influence of horizontal load. 586 ARCH'07 – 5th International Conference on Arch Bridges In this paper, the capacity of the GMF method to deal with complex masonry bridge structures is further shown through its application to the analysis of multi-span or open-spandrel-arch masonry railway bridges. Taking advantage of the use of GMF, the authors assess the response of a large open-spandrel-arch masonry bridge, namely the one over the Soča river at Solkan (Slovenia), subjected to Eurocode 1 railway loads. A comparison is made of the results achieved by different configurations of the railway loads when analyzing large span masonry arches at service and, mainly, failure state.


Within this research, the monitoring of the competition in the market of polyvinylchloride (PVC) profile structures has been carried out and competitive advantages of Mogilev enterprises specializing in this field have been evaluated. Based on the monitoring of competitors and in line with the concept of business development, the enterprise under study has been offered to purchase new equipment to expand the range of services offered in the market. Possible ways of raising funds for the reproduction of long-term assets have been analyzed and the most effective mechanism of funding has been selected by using the costs criterion. To strengthen its position in the market of PVC-profile production and sale, the organization has been offered to get registered at one of auction sites, and to obtain an electronic digital signature, which will enable them to participate in electronic auctions.


Objective To evaluate the sensitivity of colchicine to the G422 glioma cell in vitro with colorimetric MTT assay.Methods In vitro,sensitivities of 6 different concentrations of colchicine were determined by MTT method in G422 glioma which spread generation in the mice body.The G422 glioma cells were plated in 96-well tissue culture plates and incubated for 48h with colchicine.Results The growth of the G422 glioma cell can be restrained by 6 different concentrations of colchicine.The rate of restraining growth of tumour cell increased with the concentrations of medicine.Conclusion The growth of the G422 glioma cell can be restrained by colchicine.


The main aim of this thesis is to try to construct econometric models in order to provide the most exact representation possible of the evaluation of the unit costs for the construction of road bridges in france during the period from 1976 to 1991. It is intended to establish a relationship between the unit cost (that is by square meter) of a road bridge and other factors that could influence and therefore determine this unit cost. The study is essentially based on a sample that is drawn randomly from the data base of setra (the french highway study service), which contains the survey data of road bridges since 1976 in france. The sample consists of the information of 298 bridges that had been constructed from 1976 to 1991. From this sample, the econometric models are estimated using "the multiple linear regression" and "the least square estimator". The explanatory variables that are associated with the models have been carefully selected and strictly controlled according to the statistic principles. The analysis of quantitative and qualitative factors in these econometric models has allowed us on one hand to understand the complexity of the problem of the unit costs, the determinist factors of the costs and on the other hand to construct the models in order to present the evaluation of the unit costs of road bridges. The results of this study give the lights to the evaluation of unit costs of road bridges, and this evaluation is further classified according to the type of the bridge, the material utilized and the owner of the bridge. The study shows that the unit cost of road bridges decreases by 3,5 % in average per year during the period from 1976 to 1991. There are economies of scale in bridge construction. The larger the surface of a bridge is, the'lower the unit cost. These results are strongly related to the progress in technology in the use of bridge-types (pre-defined types), the adoption of new materials and the improvements of the construction methods in the area of bridge engineering.


Objective To optimize the extracting technology of Shuangbai Anshen Capsule. Methods The total saponins of semen ziziphi spinosae(szs) and extract yield used as indices, the extracting technology of Shuangbai Anshen Capsule was optimized by Box-Behnken design and response surface method from the aspects of ethanol amount, ethanol concentration, and extracting time. Results The preferred processing conditions were as follows: add 7 times of 60% alcohol, extracted for 2 h, and then add 6 times of 60% alcohol, extracted for 1.5 h. Conclusion The extracting technology optimized by Box-Behnken design and response surface method is reasonable and feasible.


Simulation training plays an important role in the preparation of future naval surgeons. In this regard, nowadays in the department of naval surgery there is a training simulator, modernized on the model of the most modern diesel submarine. In contrast to the previous simulator it contains necessary devices for solving situational tasks with the use of telemedicine technologies. The simulator is equipped with sanitary stretchers and a tripod with medical melts. It allows to organize a military medical game with the introductory on transporting conditionally sick and injured both inside and outside the ship that improves the quality of preparing future naval surgeons.


This paper presents the application of context vector similarity for the purpose of word sense discrimination during query translation. The random indexing vector space method is used to accumulate the context vectors. Pair wise similarity of the context vectors of ambiguous terms with that of anchor terms indicated the possible correct translation of a query term. Two retrieval experiments were conducted using the discriminated queries and weighted maximally expanded queries. The discriminated queries show a substantial increase in retrieval performance.


This chapter describes optimization of the Pulsed Laser Deposition process to fabricate combinations of ultra-thin LaCoO3 and LaTiO3. Normally, a low O2 background pressure is key in avoiding La2Ti2O7 phase formation in LaTiO3. Since these pressures likely result in oxygen vacancy formation in LaCoO3, a strategy was adopted to grow both materials in an intermediate pressure of 2e-3 mbar. Assisted by the use of a LaAlO3 buffer layer and by keeping the thickness of LaTiO3 fixed at 4 unit cells. With fixed pressure, the other deposition parameters were optimized to yield a low surface roughness and the correct perovskite structure. The samples were monitored during growth by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction and characterized ex-situ using Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffraction.


The objective was to analyse effects of ewe entry order into milking parlour with respect to ewe age and year of measurement on morning milk yield. The measurements (5528) of milk yield mostly in the middle of lactation were taken from 550 ewes of Slovak dairy breed over five years (on average two measurements per ewe and year). Mixed model included fixed factors: milking phase (MP1, MP2 and MP3), ewe age (2, 3 to 10), year (2013, 2014 to 2017) and interaction milking phase x ewe age, and random effect of ewe. Ewes were assigned to milking phases according to their entry order into milking parlour (taking into account batch number and stall number within batch). All fixed factors showed the significant effect on milk yield, except for milking phase: 482 ± 11 ml (MP1), 464 ± 8 ml (MP2) and 444 ± 15 ml (MP3), although ewes with earlier entry order had higher milk yields. Three- to six-year old ewes had higher milk yields than two- and seven- to ten-year old ewes. Significant differences were found predominantly between morning milk yields of three- and four-year old ewes (509 ± 12 ml and 538 ± 10 ml), five- to seven-year old ewes (decreasing from 525 ± 11ml to 471 ± 14 ml) on one side, and milk yields of eight-, nine- and ten-year old ewes (decreasing from 421 ± 17 ml to 311 ± 35 ml) on the other side. According to year of measurement, milk yield increased from 406 ± 12 ml (2013) to 530 ± 10 ml (2015), afterwards decreased and increased again (406 ± 9 ml and 510 ± 26 ml). The significant differences were found only between some years. An interaction milking phase x ewe age showed that milk yields tended to follow patterns found when these factors were analysed individually. Higher milk yields were found in four- and five-year old ewes of MP1 group, lower milk yields were found mostly in nine- and ten-old ewes of MP2 and MP3 groups. Only few levels of this interaction showed significant differences between each other.


(51) Int. Cl. G08B 5/36 (2006.01) The invention relates to a method for evaluation of signals from a LED status indicator of a device, in particular a safety device, comprising the steps detecting a signal emitted by the LED status indicator by means of a camera of a portable evaluation device, comparing the detected signal with signals stored in a database, wherein a status is associated in each case with the stored signals in the database, displaying information about the status which is associated with the detected signal by means of a display means of the portable evaluation device, wherein the emitted signal in the form as emitted by the LED status indicator is not distinguishable or not unam biguously distinguishable by the human eye from other signals which can be emitted by the LED status indica tOr.


Based on the existing research of the ultrasonic cavitation in promoting the tissue processing, this paper proposed a method that can detect the cavitation signal in the pathological tissue processing in real time. Through experiments, we found that the characteristics of the cavitation signal are different in the same position of the container in different tissue processing reagents. When the tissue processing reagents are the same, the cavitation signals at different positions in the pathological tissue processing container are also different. By analyzing the results of the ultrasonic cavitation, it can provide some references and suggestions for the clinical practice to promote pathological tissue processing.


Hydraulic scale models and numerical models, both overall as well as detailmodels, were constructed for the Eastern Scheidt estuary and also for the storm-surge barrier and surroundings (during various stages of construction). Most types of investigations were performed in more than one model. On the other hand several extensive field campaigns were carried out during the construction period of the barrier. The data were regularly used to re-verify the various models. In this way, valuable sets of data, both from prototype and from the various models became available. Together with the experience, obtained from the simultaneous operation of the different models, a unique opportunity was created for a comprehensive quantitative evaluation of water-movement models and their performance, related to specific types of investigations. The main objecti'ves of this evaluation study are: 1. To record and to report on the methodologies that were followed and the various types of models used: to account for experience, obtained from their application, performance and specific merits. 2. To set up an umbrella report, providing information on the main outlines and setup of the water movement studies, as well as their most important results and findings. In this way, the report serves as an entry and directory to the numerous (detail) study reports, produced during the 10-year study period. The report will be particularly important for the coming decades and for those who were not directly involved in the studies. 3. Another important purpose of the report is to provide a reliable inventory of the various types of models and their merits and shortcomings. Such a document will form a valuable basis for the near future to determine and to plan relevant (basic) research topics in this field.


This paper presents analysis, design and simulation of current driven asymmetrical series resonant converter. The state-plane diagram approach was used for the analysis. It can be shown that the analytical results obtained from this approach are very precise. The control characteristics are also obtained from the analysis, and are used for the converter design. The analysis also shows that the proposed converter has the property of zero current switching (ZCS) and uses only one switching device. The computer simulation is given in order to conform the analytical work.


Provided is a pumpless driving fuel cell system, which supplies hydrogen-containing fuel smoothly by supplying carbon dioxide generated by an electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen to a fuel tank without driving a fuel pump, and thus improves a generating efficiency. The pumpless driving fuel cell system comprises: a generator(100) that generates electricity by an electrochemical reaction of hydrogen-containing fuel and an oxidant; and a fuel supplier that includes a fuel tank(120) for storing hydrogen-containing fuel to be supplied to the generator(100). The fuel supplier further comprises a gas pressure applying device(130) that collects gas generated by the electrochemical reaction and applies the gas to the fuel tank(120).


Successful data mining, forecasting and automatic reasoning require vast amounts of high quality domain specific data stored in an easily accessible data store. Here we present a solution for gathering and storing historical data for use by the e-shop subsystem of a model agent based e-commerce system. We discuss the agent communication scenarios feeding information to the system and propose a data mart design for storing data. For each table of the data mart we discuss the way that data stored within it can be used in adapting behaviors of the e-shop.


Aim: There are many problems with insulin initiation though required in diabetes mellitus patients. This study aims to determine why patients are unable to receive insulin treatments on time. Methods: Approval from the ethics committee and consent from the volunteers was obtained for this cross sectional, single center study, in which patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus over the age of 18 years were included. Pregnant women, patients with cirrhosis, and psychiatric disorders were excluded. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 18.0. Results: A total of 1062 patients were included in this study. Diabetes mellitus was regulated in 34% of the patients. The number of patients who did not use insulin even though they should was 105. While physicians did not recommend any insulin treatment to 34 patients, 33 patients did not want insulin treatment due to fear of injection and 32 patients did not start insulin treatment because they had incorrect information regarding insulin. When 36 patients who stopped insulin treatment while they were using were questioned for the reason, it was learnt that 8 patients' insulin treatment was stopped by their physicians. The remaining 28 patients, on the other hand, stopped their insulin treatments most frequently because of the difficulty of injection and incorrect information they heard about insulin. Conclusions: Providing outpatient conditions that increase patient-physician dialogue, ensuring that the injection pen and needle are seen and tested by the patient in person, and conferences for the patients and medical doctors to prevent getting the incorrect information would be the solution of the delay in starting insulin in diabetes mellitus.