The loading problem of multiple-type flatcars is an important task in railway transportation,which is described as loading a set of equipment of different sorts into flatcars of the given types.Firstly,the basic technical conditions of flatcar-loading are is analyzed.Secondly,the loading problem of multiple-type flatcars is described.Thirdly,the decreasing algorithm,a heuristic method for the bin packing problem,is introduced into the simple genetic algorithm,and a iybrid genetic algorithm is proposed for solving the loading problem of multiple-type flatcars.In the hybrid genetic algorithm,the idea of the simple genetic algorithm is used to search the solution of the flatcars sequence,and the idea of first fitting the decreasing algorithm is used to load the equipment into the flatcars sequence obtained by the simple genetic algorithm.Fourthly,the method for judging and adjusting the chromosome validity is proposed to improve the ineffective chromosome,and the method for calculating,judging and adjusting the diversity of population by calculation of the locus information entropy is introduced to control the diversity of population.Finally,the effectiveness of the hybrid genetic algorithm is convinced by the computational results of an example.


On the lake around since the late Pleistocene sediments,pollen,14C age,ancient culture,such as a large number of archaeological data analysis,and TM satellite images using image processing,extraction of the vegetation and soil moisture conditions and other characteristics,combined with the layout of ancient ruins point distribution and the relationship between the ancient river of information complex,and information according to historical records,the fall of Chaohu Lake is due to faults formed lakes.Determine the lake from the scope of the original formation and evolution of the process to form the present lake,Chaohu Lake from the formation,the area gradually expanded,due to climatic,tectonic and sediment siltation and human in modern times a large number of reclaiming land from lakes and shrinking current shape.


This volume presents papers exploring some current lacunae in scholarship on the formal and functional features of clause linking in the major Semitic languages and offers several promising avenues for future research. The stated emphasis of the 2012 conference for which these papers were produced was "ways of combining clauses other than through relative clause and compliment clause constructions." Specific areas of interests in the papers include the interaction between, on the one hand, discourse type, main-line, and non-mainline clauses, and on the other hand, various strategies of clause linking, including the use of conjunction, asyndetic linking, and gram-switching. The papers are grouped into sections on Arabic dialects, written Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, Ethio-Semitic, and East Semitic, and each paper helpfully begins with an abstract and most end with a short summary/conclusion section, giving the volume a user-friendly quality.


Abstract. Future Internet consists of a wide spectrum of applications with different bit rates and quality of service (QoS) requirements. Prioritizing the services is essential to ensure that the delivery of information is at its best. Existing technologies have demonstrated how service differentiation techniques can be implemented in optical networks using data link and network layer operations. However, a physical layer approach can further improve system performance at a prescribed received signal quality by applying control at the bit level. This paper proposes a coding algorithm to support optical domain service differentiation using spectral amplitude coding techniques within an optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) scenario. A particular user or service has a varying weight applied to obtain the desired signal quality. The properties of the new code are compared with other OCDMA codes proposed for service differentiation. In addition, a mathematical model is developed for performance evaluation of the proposed code using two different detection techniques, namely direct decoding and complementary subtraction.


Discloses a mobile wireless device using sliding mechanism having a metal member, it is possible to prevent deterioration of antenna performance. In the mobile wireless device, the second housing (102) slidably mounted to the first housing (101). A circuit board (105) has a slit (110), the slit (110) provided on the first housing (101), and extending in a direction intersecting the sliding direction of the first housing (101), and in the open state it is located further than the lower side of the feeding portion (109). A circuit board (108) disposed on the second housing (102), and a first housing (101) to become slidable in the open state, viewed from below when the circuit board (105) focused engagement. The antenna (107) disposed above the second side of the housing (102). Near the feeding portion (109) of the antenna (107) to the antenna (107) feed.


MECHANISMS OF BUREAUCRACY IN THE WIRE SERIESThe aim of the article is to illustrate policy considerations on bureaus, presented in the TV series The Wire. We plan to show that significant theoretical contributions to the economics of bureaucracy have been well presented by the creators of the show. It could even be stated that this series is the first TV treatise about social institutions, bureaus in particular. The first section describes inherent causes limiting implementations of political plans. The second section focuses on the series' most significant contribution, that is portraying the hyperparametrization of bureaus. The third section relates methodological individualism to the context of bureaucratic determinism.


Mallotus repandus (MR) is used in Thai traditional medicine recipes for anti-inflammation and adaptive homeostasis. Bergenin is the bioactive constituent in MR stem. This study evaluated the in vitro antioxidant activity of bergenin and the methanol, ethanol, and water extracts of MR stem prepared by maceration and Soxhlet extraction by assaying 2,2-azino-bis-(3ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt (ABTS), hydroxyl (OH), superoxide (O2), and nitric oxide (NO) radical scavenging activities and ferric reducing antioxidant power. Bergenin had the highest ferric reducing power and all the MR extracts showed concentration-dependent ferric reducing power. Methanol and water extracts showed superior radical scavenging activities compared to ethanol extract. The water and methanol Soxhlet extracts demonstrated the highest ABTS and OH radical scavenging activities, respectively, and the macerated water extract had the lowest O2 and NO IC50 values. Therefore, MR stem and bergenin are promising natural candidates for developing antioxidant supplements.


ObjectiveThe objectives of the study were to examine the prevalence of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), anorexia athletica (AA), and eating disorders not otherwise specified (ED-NOS) in both male and female Norwegian elite athletes and a representative sample from the general Norwegian population. DesignA 2-step study including self-reported questionnaire and clinical interview. Setting/ParticipantsThe entire population of Norwegian male and female elite athletes (n = 1620) and controls (n = 1696) was evaluated for the presence of eating disorders (EDs). Main Outcome MeasurementBased on the results of the questionnaire, all athletes and controls classified as at risk for EDs, and a representative sample of athletes and controls classified as healthy participated in the clinical part of the study to determine the number of subjects meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV criteria for EDs. ResultsMore athletes (13.5%) than controls (4.6%; P < 0.001) had subclinical or clinical EDs. The prevalence of EDs among male athletes was greater in antigravitation sports (22%) than in ball game (5%) and endurance sports (9%; P < 0.05). The prevalence of EDs among female athletes competing in aesthetic sports (42%) was higher than that observed in endurance (24%), technical (17%), and ball game sports (16%). ConclusionsThe prevalence of EDs is higher in athletes than in controls, higher in female athletes than in male athletes, and more common among those competing in leanness-dependent and weight-dependent sports than in other sports. A collaborative effort among coaches, athletic trainers, parents, physicians, and athletes is optimal for recognizing, preventing, and treating EDs in athletes.


Participation and interest in risky sports have become popular worldwide, Rock climbing, hang gliding, parachuting, and skydiving are examples of risky sport activities. These risky sports differ from most sport activities by posing elements of real or pe


This paper examines y deletion in Seoul Korean on a large sociolinguistic database. It first shows that Seoul Korean has two distinct processes y deletion: categorical y deletion, which occurs after a palatal consonant, and variable y deletion occurring only before the vowel e. The first part of this paper examines variable y deletion. The examination of the process reveals that it is conditioned by such internal factors as the existence of a preceding consonant, the nature of the preceding consonant, and word-internal position where y occurs, i.e., whether y appears in the word-initial or non-word-initial syllable. This process is also affected by external factors such as the speech style, social class, and age of the speaker. The difference in the deletion rate of y among the three age groups (and among the social class groups, additionally) is taken to suggest that y deletion before e, i monophthongization of ye to e, is a change in progress. This paper then attempts a phonological account of two different process of y deletion, proposing two OCP (coronal) constraints. The two constraints are proposed as having rather different strengths: the stronger one triggers categorical deletion and the weaker, variable deletion. A phonetic explanation of the ongoing y deletion change is also attempted. It is shown that ye has the shortest perceptual distance between its component segments among all y diphthongs of Seoul Korean. It is suggested that a relative lack of perceptual distinction between the two segments of the diphthong ye is responsible for the ongoing loss of y in this diphthongal sequence


Drs. J. Brunet, R. R. de Mowbray, and P. M. F. Bishop in their paper on the management of the undescended testis (Journal, June 14, p. 1367) use the terms " retractile testicles " and " superficial inguinal pouch," but neither define them nor give any reference to the paper in which they were first defined.' The statements in this paper are either incorrect or else they destroy the whole basis of hormone treatment. Perhaps some day the anatomists will investigate them, and if they are found accurate, rewrite their accounts of the region.-I am, etc.,


Many natural language applications, like machine translation and information extraction, are required to operate on text with spelling errors. Those spelling mistakes have to be corrected automatically to avoid deteriorating the performance of such applications. In this work, we introduce a novel approach for automatic correction of spelling mistakes by deploying finite state automata to propose candidates corrections within a specified edit distance from the misspelled word. After choosing candidate corrections, a language model is used to assign scores the candidate corrections and choose best correction in the given context. The proposed approach is language independent and requires only a dictionary and text data for building a language model. The approach have been tested on both Arabic and English text and achieved accuracy of 89%.


Wood nondestructive detection technology is a new interdisciplinary technology, which has been successfully applied in wood production, wood processing, wood structure detection and many other fields. In the paper, ultrasonic nondestructive testing for wood defects is studied based on the energy spectrum variety of the ultrasonic signals by means of wavelet transform, coefficient of wavelet node and the artificial neural networks. The original signals of different elm specimen are dispelled by wavelet packet, and the signal energy variety of crunodes in the 5th layer wavelet bundle of both defect specimen and normal specimen without any defect is obtained. The experiment results show that the energy change of defect wood specimen mostly depends on the degree of wood defects. And the defect degree is proportional to the energy change. By comparing the energy variety of every signal crunode in the 5th layer wavelet bundle, it is explicit that the variety of the crunode (5,0) among 32 crunodes is the biggest. And the crunode contains defect character information mostly. The energy varieties of 32 crunodes in the 5th layer and wavelet radix of (5,0) crunode are respectively regarded as the character inputs of the artificial neural networks (ANN). Two ANN networks are analyzed according to the ability of identifying wood defect patterns through training network. The identifying results show that taking wavelet radix of (5,0) crunode as the character input is more effictive in recognizing the defect patterns of wood inner defects.


Roger Masters promises that efforts to bridge the gap between the social sciences and the life sciences will clarify our concept of human nature. He presents a number of propositions derived from his own work during the past 15 years in order to explore the scientific meaning of human nature, of political thought, and political leadership.


In the last three decades or so there has been a great deal of discussion about the origin of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. Most contributors to the debate agree that the early eighteenth century is crucial. In Britain in this period the systematic philosophical engagement with art as we know it today emerged. The philosophical controversy has mainly been about which aesthetic category or categories most adequately characterize the appearance of philosophy of art: Should we opt for "disinterestedness," "taste," "aesthetic attitude," "beauty," or something completely different in our efforts to understand this development? In this essay I suggest a more wide-ranging, cultural historical or social historical framework wherein the emergence of aesthetics in the early eighteenth century can be understood, and on this basis I give an interpretation of aspects of Hutcheson's Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.' Most interpretations of the emergence of aesthetics proceed from the assumption that the early theoreticians, such as Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, carved out an independent, specifically "aesthetic" realm for art, which could then become the domain of their theoretical efforts.2 The interpretation to follow shows that the opposite was the case: Hutcheson wanted (as did his predecessor Shaftesbury) to give moral legitimacy to the contemplation of art, a task that was forced upon him by the social and political circumstances of the early eighteenth century. Early contributions to the philosophy of art must be understood as part of a complex redrawing of social and cultural boundaries. The late seventeenth century into the early eighteenth century in Britain was a time of profound political, economic, religious, and cultural transformations. The cultural transformations are manifest in the emergence of an extensive periodical press, the rise of the novel as a literary genre, greater availability of theatrical and musical performances, an enlarged interest in painting, and the growing public criticism of artistic creations, as well as in the increased prestige of experimental and empirical approaches to many areas of inquiry.3 The period was also one of an increased preoccupation with dress and the moral consequences of fashion. Expanding imports as well as increased domestic production of textiles for the first time made it possible for a large number of people to have a choice in dress. Though many found this and similar developments morally and politically reprehensible, the economic significance of fashion and conspicuous consumption was quickly discovered by contemporary observers.4 Many of these developments reflect the fact that social status had become more ill-defined. The old communal view of the social order had gradually dissolved, and forms of accomplishment characteristic for those on top in this social order had lost much of their validity. Particularly the opening of the upper ranks of society to anyone with enough money, and the possibility of dressing and appearing as a gentleman (even if, strictly speaking, one wasn't) gave cause for concern. I can find no better way of characterizing these new social groups than the imprecise "middle class," or what in the contemporary


Compared to the overnight fasted state, a high carbohydrate (CHO) breakfast 3-4 hours
before exercise enhances endurance performance. However, the optimal type or
composition of the pre-exercise meal to be consumed is less clear. Glycaemic and
insulinaemic responses to a meal play a key role in subsequent metabolism during exercise.
The investigations described in this thesis focused on the influence of I) the composition
and 2) glycaemic index (GI) of CHO breakfasts 3 hours before exercise on postprandial and
exercise metabolism and endurance running capacity [continued]…


Talent points to the ability to learn and evolve in the light of new challenges. Talent is about potential from the past, not about past performance. Talent tends to take risks and be willing to learn from mistakes, measured in terms of having certain traits, such as reasonable (but not so high) ability to focus on the level of ambition and competitiveness, issues' big picture '. Awareness of your strengths, limitations and influences on others. Different talent management processes must be on a strategic level to be successful. These processes /strategies include talent validation, recruitment and evaluation, competency management, performance management, career development, learning management, compensation and succession planning.

Keywords: Tourism, SME's, Dual Economic Structure, Travel Agency, Retail Tourism Production.


Studies on the cracked plates have shown high variations in thestress values around the crack tip. On the other hand, micro-cracks are observed in man-made pieces. Thus, analysis of stress fields as well as displacement at the crack tip will be inevitable and very important. Mesh-free methods are new techniques that do not require applying the communication-based concept on what is presented in the finite element method. The discretization of the problem domain is done by a set ofnode points. In the present study, the Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) method was used to analyze the problems of linear elastic stress field in cracked bodies. Two important and essential measures (steps) were done for increasing the accuracy of the results obtained from the analysis of the problems. In the first step, the standard moving least squares shape function was enriched for capturing discontinuity, using some extra basis functions obtained from analytical solutions. In the next step, some consideration was applied in the case of confronting non-convex paths and discontinuities. For this purpose, the diffraction method was used to generate suitable shape functions. Finally,the accuracy of the results and proper efficiency of the proposed extended EFG method were assessed by the standard problem analysis and the results of numerical analysis were compared with the theoretical results.


China Abstract: Sugar content is an important factor affecting the flavor and processing characteristics of peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.) kernel and the sucrose content accounts for more than 90% of the total sugar content in peanut kernel. High-efficiency detection approach for sucrose content is crucial in developing high sucrose peanut varieties. In this study, 185 peanut genotypes with di-versified sucrose contents were scanned in wave length of 1100–2500 nm for constructing a near-infrared spectrum of naturally dried seeds. The sucrose contents were determined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with standard curve method. A near-infrared calibration model of peanut seed sucrose content was established by partial least square method (PLS). For sucrose content, the coefficient of determinations ( R 2 ) was 0.962 with mean square deviation of 0.383. The coefficient of correlation between the predicted values and chemically tested value were 0.947 in 20 external samples, indicating that the model could predict sucrose content of peanut kernel. Six new sweet peanut lines with sucrose content over 7%, oleic acid over 78%, oil content less than 48% and desirable agronomic characters were selected among the hybrid progenies of "Jihua 02-1-4 × Zhonghua


In the article the author examines the main eschatological motifs in the Russian poetry of the Silver Age. Russian culture creators of the Silver Age showed that one of the most important features of their worldview was its eschatology and a sense of catastrophism of Russian and world history. The aujor considers key works of Russian poetic tradition containing deep eschatological motives – the comprehension of history as a catastrophe. This aspect of the poetry of the Silver Age makes it possible to see more clearly this special facet of the world signifi cance of Russian poetry.


Biogeographia vol. XXIV — 2003 (Printed October, 31st 2003) Marine biogeography of the Mediterranean Sea: patterns and dynamics of biodiversity Shaping the biogeography of the Mediterranean basin: one geologist's perspective MARCO TAVIANI Istizuto dz' Scienze Mzzrine—Sezz'one Geologizz Marina, CNR, zzizz Gobetri 10], ./340129 Bologna (Italy) e—mzzi[: mam). tzzz/z2zm'@b0. ismrzr. mr. it Keywords: Mediterranean basin, paleobiogeography, geology. SUMMARY The present Mediterranean biogeography is the transitory result ofclimatic and geological events suffered by this semi-enclosed basin throughout its history. The potential consequences over stenoecious marine ecosystems of the late Miocene "Messinian Salinity Crisis" are discussed. In particular, postulated frankly-marine sanctuaries at the time of evaporite deposition and periodical intra-Messinian inunclations are not considered sufiicient in maintaining stenoecious ecosystems throughout the entire Messinian time. The biogeography of the Mediterranean deep—sea benthos is strongly affected by the geodynamic evolution of dte basin and in particular by the post—Messinian establishment of a shallow sill (Gibraltar); since the Pleistocene at least, the sill acts as a filter biasing the flux of potential Atlantic deep—sea invaders. Finally, the Mediterranean basin boasts a remarkable history ofdeep—sea cold seep chemosynthetic ecosystems from the Oligocene up to Present. These peculiar biota, however, show a distinct evolution through time. The pte—Messinian ones are typically oceanic in affinity hosting, among other, large chemosynthetic bivalves (e.g. Calyptogena, Modiolus etc.) and tubeworms, while the post—Messinian and Modern ones are strongly impoverished. This trend is mainly controlled by the geological history of the Mediterranean region. INTRODUCTION In a recent paper I offered my personal perception of the history of the stenoecious marine benthic biota of the Mediterranean basin, Neogene to Present (Taviani, 2002). To my View, it was the interplay between global climatic signals and concomitant geodynarnic evolution of the Tethys—Mesogean—Mediterranean basins (e.g., Biju-Duval et al., 1977; Krijgsman, 2002) that moulded the biogeography of the modern Mediterranean Sea. Arguments and data supporting this Vision are reported in Taviani (2002) and are not repeated here. However, one of the major issues for Mediterranean biogeographers was and is the significance of the late Miocene "Messinian Salinity Crisis" (MSC


Diarrhoea is the condition shows frequent passing of loose or watery stools with high amount of mucus and undigested foods, sometimes blood and bile also accompanied by stomach cramps abdominal pain, flatulence and fever. Acute and chronic diarrhoea are the only cause of childhood death. According to recent report of WHO approximately 3.5 million deaths each year contributed by diarrhoea among children under 5 years age. Children are more susceptible to the complications of diarrhoea because a smaller amount of fluid loss leads to sever dehydration, compared to adults. Deaths of children among 5 years age associated with malnutrition (54%) reported that 15 per cent contribution by diarrhoeal diseases in developing countries.


This work describes Seismic Data Mapping (SDM), its definition, properties, applications, limitations and goals. A variety of problems such as offset-continuation, azimuthal-continuation (AMO), layer replacement and datuming can be cast as special cases of SDM. In general, this process is a cascade of prestack migration and inverse migration (demigration). We find a simplification of the operator that requires less computational effort than either the individual prestack migration and demigration processes that generated it.


A boiler with an initial capacity of 10 BHP was designed, expandable by the incorporation of modules up to 25 BHP. To provide a more adequate alternative to micro and small companies, to attend to an eventual increase in the demands of steam, as a consequence of the growth of the demands of their products and / or services, or the implementation of new productive processes. To achieve this objective, boilers and their operating mechanisms were first thoroughly studied, with emphasis on pyro-tubular boilers. In order to design a product that is adapted to the needs of the Colombian market, a market study focused mainly on micro and small companies that could use water vapor in their production processes. Thanks to this research, the operating parameters such as working pressure and fuel type were established, in addition to identifying the tastes and preferences of the consumers. With this information were presented and evaluated design alternatives on the operation of the equipment in general and on specific systems of this.


Several papers and many references in other manuscripts have dealt with the relation of growth of the tops and growth of the roots of plants. These generally present data showing the effect of soil types, moisture or mineral elements upon top-root ratio (2, 4, 10). The idea is quite prevalent in some agricultural circles that the relative amount of roots on a plant is determined, if not controlled, by the soil. On the other hand, there are several other factors which can be shown to modify greatly the top-root ratio. Among these are variety, light intensity (10), photoperiod, partial defoliation, girdling, fruiting, and growth substances (14). For example, the amount as well as character of the root system of piece-root grafted apple trees varies with the variety of scion used (5, 9). The type or amount of reserves accumulated in perennial plants as the apple has marked effects upon the subsequent top-root ratio (fig. 1). It has been reported in the literature that plants grown in short days have relatively few roots (1, 11). This conclusion may be strengthened if the plants are not grown to maturity. Also, having few roots in short photoperiods is an effect which may be incidental to the fact that the plants under observation come to flower in short days. Plants which blossom in long photoperiods have been seen to have fewer roots in long photoperiods (6), indicating a correlation between flowering and limited root development. This was found to be the case by Withrow, who used nitrogen supply as a variable with photoperiod (13). She states: "... plants, for the most part, were able to form proportionately larger tops as compared to roots under that photoperiod which brought about flowering as compared to that photoperiod under which the plants remained vegetative. Nitrogen supply did not usually alter the direction of this response, although under either photoperiod there were proportionately larger tops as compared to roots at high nitrogen levels than when the nitrogen supply is limited. ' ' Nitrogen is generally credited with increasing the top-root ratio (2, 4, 10). The data presented in this paper were collected to measure to what extent the ratio of top to root is influenced by some factors in the environment of the top ; also, to see if the relative amount of root formation is consistently related to the function of flowering and fruiting regardless of whether a plant has a greater ratio of roots in short photoperiods, long photoperiods, cool temperatures, warm temperatures or other specific cultural environment.


Abstract : German SOF have been operating in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2002. A controversial discussion about the transparency and control of German SOF was triggered by the events on 4 September 2009 when a NATO air strike at Kunduz, in response to a request by German forces, killed scores of Afghan civilians. Although the air strike was not the specific consequence of German SOF involvement, the strike dominated political debates in Germany for several months and in November 2009 led to the resignation of German labor minister Franz Josef Jung, who was defense minister during the attack. During the debates that followed, the German SOF role in Afghanistan was questioned with the above in mind, the British SOF experience in Oman during the 1970s can serve as a useful model for the future of German SOF in Afghanistan.


Objective – To examine the correlation between fatigue and health‐related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Patients and methods– Sixty‐six patients with idiopathic PD. The patients did not have a depressive mood disorder or cognitive impairment. Fatigue was measured by the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). HRQL was measured by the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ‐39) and the Short‐Form 36 (SF‐36). Results– Thirty‐three (50%) of the patients had significant fatigue. Patients with fatigue had a more advanced disease than those without fatigue, measured by the UPDRS scale, including a higher Hoehn and Yahr stage and lower Schwab and England score. Patients with fatigue reported more distress in the dimensions of emotional well‐being and mobility (PDQ‐39) and also had a significantly higher PDQ summary index. On the SF‐36 patients with fatigue reported more problems in the areas of physical functioning, role limitation (physical), social functioning and vitality. Correlations between the FSS and the HRQL scales were highest for the summary index of PDQ‐39 and in the dimensions of ADL, mobility and emotional well‐being (PDQ‐39) and physical functioning, role limitation (physical), social functioning, general health and vitality (SF‐36). Conclusions– PD has a substantial negative impact on HRQL. We found a strong correlation between fatigue and high distress scores on HRQL scales in a population of patients with PD who were not depressed or demented. The diversity of symptoms and high prevalence of non‐motor features, including fatigue, is important to take into account in our efforts to optimize treatment and care for this patient group.


Scholarship across the humanities is being radically and rapidly transformed through digital access to archival sources. Through the development of online scholarly editions, digital archives such as the Walt Whitman Archive and online repositories such as HathiTrust Digital Library, among many others, a wealth of archival data—textual and graphic, quantitative and qualitative—have become electronically available. With this new digital wealth of materials for humanities scholarship has come new ways of looking at the archival record, new ways of interpreting historical information, and new standards for accounting its value and authority as knowledge. The fact that archival records are finding new life in digital environments does not, however, necessarily mean that they are accessible, let alone meaningful, to students, scholars, and citizens searching for evidence about the past and telling new stories about it. Single-search boxes of Internet browsers, online catalogs, and search engines offer a narrow window on to a vast landscape of digital data, organizing and retrieving results with the efficiency of machine reading and automation. They do so at the expense of kinds of attention and content expertise by which librarians and scholars have processed our cultural inheritance for hundreds of years at a human scale, using skills of eye and hand. Digital images of manuscripts, graphic material, and newspapers can make crucial information about provenance and format harder to find than when such artifacts are encountered in person, in traditional settings of archival research, in repositories, libraries, and other sites that collect, organize, and preserve cultural heritage materials for future use. Historical records have to remain old before they can be made new. We owe our search results to librarians, collectors, catalogers, information scientists, and scholars, as well as the invisible labor of countless, nameless individuals who have cared for historical records by


As the result of market competition shift,resource shortage and environmental pollution,current competition is not between individual organizations,but between the supply chains they are part of.In order to keep core competence,enterprises need develop the lean thinking from manufacturing to supply chains under the observance of environment code.Based on the interpretation of lean thinking,lean supply chains and lean logistics,this paper introduces lean thinking into supply chain management in the principle of sustainable development,then sets up the model of lean supply chains,and finally analyzes the common criteria to construct lean supply chains.


A giant sculpture by Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri lies stranded on the sandy shores of the Gulf like a meteorite from an unknown future in the photograph (fig. 1.1). It has the form of a blown-up drill bit and sits within the premises of the Shindagha Heritage Village in Dubai. Made of fiberglass and then carefully coated with layers of iridescent varnish, the sculpture's smooth surface shimmers mysteriously, oscillating between orange and petrol-blue depending on the angle of the light and the spectator's position in relation to the sculpture. From the rounded body reclining on the sand, the voluminous sculpture's three narrowly connected arms stretch into the air. Each arm ends in a revolving, spiky drill bit. The tri-cone drill bit displays its flower heads to the sky like a thistle. From the ground, however, only the sharply pointed crowns are visible. Immersed in an alienating interplay of blowing-up, decontextualization, and color change, Al Qadiri's sculpture Alien Technology alludes to the strange shapes of some of the most vital technical components of oil production. Despite the crucial importance of drill bits, which are used to bore holes (wellbores) into the Earth's crust for the extraction of petroleum, such technical objects remain unfamiliar and often hidden from view due to the fact that oil companies carefully control access to their operations. The title of the artwork also refers to the fact that, until their nationalization, the extractive industries in the Gulf were initiated and run by foreign companies and governments. The artwork's futuristic aesthetic is suggestive of the alien(ating) nature of the built environment of the Gulf cities (and elsewhere) as a consequence of petro-capitalism and the accelerated building booms it spawned. Most importantly, the artwork reflects the acknowledged challenges of petroleum's (in) visibility, its fluctuating aesthetic that facilitates but also disguises its material omnipresence. In this way, the sculpture investigates the visual and material complexity of petro-modernity through the phenomenon of iridescence.


Abstract : Indonesia, the largest archipelagic country with a population the fourth biggest in the world, is now in the process of development. It needs a large quantity of energy electricity to meet the industrial and household demands. The currently available generating capacity is not sufficient to meet the electricity demand for the rapidly growing industries and the increasing population. In order to meet the future demand for electricity, new generating capacity is required to be added to the current capacity. Nuclear electricity generation is one possible alternative to supplement Indonesia's future demand of electricity. This thesis investigates the possibility of developing nuclear electricity generation in Indonesia, considering the political, social, and economic cost and benefit to Indonesia. (MM)


The paper offers an overview on the electoral process in the Banat between 1861 and 1918, by analyzing the statistical evolution of the results and the composition of the province's parliamentary elite. The highly mixed ethnic and confessional structure, together with the low level of economic development made this particular geographical area suitable for electoral frauds, gradually transforming it into a traditional election ground for the deputies of the government party, regardless nationality. It is not by chance that one third of the Hungarian prime ministers, along with other members of their cabinets and close relatives, won some of their parliamentary seats in the Banat. Regarding the body of representatives sent into the Hungarian Parliament, while a large majority (ca. 50%) were only elected once, resuming afterwards their bureaucratic careers, there were also prominent local personalities who held their seats for decades. Overall, the mixture between nationalism, government influence and family/group interests makes the region of Banat a most interesting case-study for the election process in the Kingdom of Hungary.


Theoretical investigations are made for elastic scattering and vibrational excitation via a vibrationally excited transient ionic state, following the reaction e + A B → A B -** (υ')→ A B (υ)+ e . Restrictions on the electronic wave number k and on the resonant partial wave angular momentum l are such that k ≪1 and l ≧1. A threshold law is proposed: a resonance width between the vibrational υ and υ' states, Γ υ υ' , is proportional to k 2 l +1 multiplied by a square of the Franck-Condon factor F υ υ' . This is an extention of the usual Wigner rule, Γ υ υ' ∝ k 2 l +1 . The results of semi-empirical calculations are presented for O 2 and NO. By using only one calibration parameter, satisfactory results are obtained. Resonance widths of the transient υ' states and energy integrated vibrational excitation cross sections are calculated. For the life time of O 2 -** (υ'=4), 7.2×10 -11 sec is obtained. This value is consistent with all available experimental data.


A healthy lifestyle based on an organic diet appears to be a growing trend among young adults. Organic soybean oils are an alternative to conventional oils, but they can be the subject of fraud that worries consumers, traders, and producers. The results obtained indicate that the combination of steady-state fluorescence techniques, considering mainly the characteristics of the spectra obtained with excitation at 320, 340 and 460 nm and time-resolved fluorescence with excitation around 403 nm, demonstrates the potential to differentiate oils conventional from organic soybeans oils.


The moisture content and curing condition affect the compressive strength of the interlocking compressed brick (ICB). Higher strength of ICB can only be achieved when the moisture content is at the optimum level and under proper curing method. However, the moisture content of soil is varied and difficult to be identified. In addition, there is no standard of curing method was established for ICB. Therefore, this study investigates the effect of moisture content and types of curing on the compressive strength and water absorption of the ICB samples. Two (2) different moisture contents were investigated, which are the 11% and 18%. All ICB samples were cured under three (3) different curing conditions and tested for the compressive strength, water absorption and density tests. The findings showed that all ICB samples containing 18% of moisture exceeded the minimum requirement of compressive strength (7 N/mm2) based on MS76:1972. Meanwhile, ICB cured under Curing B condition has shown the highest compressive strength and lower water absorption. This indicates that sufficient moisture and proper curing method can produce good ICB brick for use in the building construction.


Aiming at the issues currently existing in the teaching of"digital electronic technology"course at the college,the application of Proteus software in"digital electronic technology"course is introduced in detail through some examples. This method not only strengthened the teaching intuition and vitality,and inspired the students' learning interests,but also cultivat ed the students' creative thinking,and improved the efficiency and quality of teaching. It provived a new attempt to teach"digital electronic technology"course.


By the data fountain from TM remote sensing images,the percentage of water surface(w﹪) in Dongguan City is obtained by using the spectrum characteristics of representative ground objects,and land surface temperature(LST) is inversed by taking the thermal infrared band TM6 as data fountain.The relationship between w﹪and LST with the spatial scale 500 m×500 m is discussed,and it is found that there is obvious negative linear relationship between them,the correlation coefficient is-0.72,which show that w﹪ can reflect LST.In order to analyze the water body alleviation effect on urban heat island,two rivers with different width in the city are taken as important analysis objects to explore the effective range of river influence on urban inner heat environment by using spatial analysis method.The results show that the rivers have some alleviation effects on urban heat environment,and effective range is about 200 meters;the wide river contributes much more alleviation effect to urban LST than the narrow.


A simple and efficient crystallization, preferably the substrate for the crystallization which can produce biopolymer crystals, crystallization vessel, the crystallization apparatus and to provide a method for producing crystals. A crystallizing substrate characterized by having a noble metal film on a surface having an absorption in the wavelength range of 500~1,000Nm, as well as preparation step of preparing a substrate for the crystallization, and the noble metal film method for producing crystals comprising a contact step of contacting a target crystallization substance solution, a. The manufacturing method preferably further includes a light irradiation step of irradiating light to the noble metal layer in contact with the crystallization agent solution. .The


Droughts and flooding that have impacted Texas have decreased surface water availability, while draining the limited number of non-saline groundwater sources. Therefore, desalination of saline groundwater would be able to supplement the increasing demand of water for industrial and domestic uses. The process would have to be affordable and capable of meeting WHO1 standards for drinking water. Of the current desalination options available, the methods analyzed are reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, and nanofiltration. Of the three options, it was determined that reverse osmosis was the best solution for the desalination of saline groundwater for both industrial and domestic uses. Reverse osmosis filters saline water to meet WHO standards for sodium and chloride ions. Although both RO and electrodialysis processes were effective enough for eliminating total dissolved solids in the sample saline waters, only RO yielded potable water. If this system is successfully implemented, it could supplement the nonsaline groundwater being used for human consumption, as well as yield RO discharge water for residential or industrial uses. As a result, the severe impacts of the reoccurring droughts in Texas can be reduced, while lessening the drainage of the non-saline groundwater reservoirs in Texas. Keywords: Desalinated Groundwater, Reverse Osmosis, Electrodialysis, Nanofiltration, cost- comparison, potable water, brackish water desalination


Mass data are usually collected and processed in large and ultra large-scale wireless sensor networks, and this will greatly affect the life of intelligent sensors and the performance of network. In this paper, we propose an approach to reduce the collected data from wireless sensor networks by using compressed sensing method. Compressed sensing is a new sampling method that the data sampling and compressing can be done simultaneously. Compressed sensing can significantly reduce the collected data size by lowering the sampling rates of sensors, but it is non-adaptive and its algorithm has high computational complexity as well. We put forward and achieved the parallel processing of compressed sensing algorithm for improving algorithms execution speed. Experiment results shows that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms existing solutions in terms of reconstruction accuracy.


Of the thousand and one questions that can be addressed to the conditions of production of that phenomenon or "data" called photography, the plenary semiotics chooses only this one: what does it mean and what does a photograph mean? Once the question has been asked, attempting to answer it has supposed to pose previously a new object of knowledge that, in the first place, relocates the general problematic of the photographic meaning, moving it towards an unpublished point of view: that of the intentionality and the motivation of the enunciator that produces it. to relate the sensitive qualities of a particular visual signifier, the frame (level of expression of the photograph) and certain intelligible or meaningful qualities that make it possible to perceive it.


This report summarizes the points of order currently in effect under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended, as well as related points of order established in various other measures that have a direct impact on budget enforcement.


Objective To study the effect of selective COX-2 inhibitor upon HGF induced proliferation of hepa-tocarcinoma cell line and the expression of MMP-2 and TIMP-2 mRNA,and to verify the relationship between drug interference and cancer metastasis.Methods HepG2 cells were cultured in 2%FBS enriched DMEM medium with or without 30ng/ml HGF addition.MTT test and RT-PCR were employed to demonstrate the influence of NS-398 upon cell line proliferation and MMP-2 and TIMP-2 mRNA expression,respectively.Results 30ng/ml HGF benefits proliferation of HepG2 cells growing in 2% FBS enriched DMEM.NS-398 had no effect on HepG2 cell proliferation at concentrations below 60μmol/L,but did inhibit the expression of MMP-2 and TIMP2 mRNA,while when its concentration was above 90μmol/L,the proliferation of HepG2 cell was obviously reduced.Conclusion Selective COX-2 inhibitor can up-regulate TIMP-2/MMP-2 mRNA ratio of HepG2 cell,and may probably have the potential to reduce the mobility of cancerous cells.Further,selective COX-2 inhibitor may have inhibitory effect upon cancerous cell proliferation.


Epidemiological data predicts a dramatic increase in the prevalence of diabetes and of diabetic retinopathy. The aim of the study it to assess the role of vitamin D in diabetic retinopathy. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out over the period of January 2021 to April 2021. Non-probability (Convenience) sampling was done by using a pre-prepared questionnaire. Two groups of patients were selected: 50 and 45 patients with and without retinopathy, respectively, as assessed by an experienced ophthalmologist. Subjects with advanced late diabetic complications were excluded to avoid confounding biases. Vitamin D concentrations and vitamin D deficiency was associated with the presence of diabetic retinopathy. Data was presented in the form of percentages, frequency and tables using the SPSS 26.0 for MacBook Pro. Patients with more advanced stages of retinopathy (grades 2–4) had lower concentrations of vitamin D and were more frequently vitamin D deficient as compared with patients not carrying this eye complication. To conclude, this study confirms that a positive correlation or association exists between vitamin D levels and the presence/severity of diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes.


The purpose of this study was to determine leisure motivations for college club swimmers in the United States, and to examine differences in motivation by swimmers' gender, university affiliation, ethnicity, and frequency of participation. College club swimmers from a nationwide sample completed the Leisure Motivation Scale (LMS) to assess the strength and differences of varying motivational factors for club swimming participation. Results indicated that social and competency-mastery motivational factors were the most important for this participatory group, and that motivational differences existed based upon respondent university affiliation, ethnicity (White/non-White) and frequency of participation.


The C50 self-compacting steel tube concrete is prepared successfully with active TH powder developed together with other groups. The influence of TH powder on the workability of concrete is discussed, and the regulars of compressive strength and shrinkage are studied. The results show that the TH powder has better active, water reduction and micro-aggregated effect rather than the grade Ⅰfly ash, furthermore, it is beneficial to reduce mixture viscosity, improve the workability, increase later strength and decrease the 28 days shrinkage ratio to 1.5 ×10-6. Meanwhile, it is the quality mineral admixture for preparing high-strength pumping self-compacting concrete. The preparation technology is applied for Wuhan central culture district and the six-star hotel project after successful pilot testing.


This paper considers the consensus problems for complex dynamical network systems. For the dynamical network systems, more than one interconnections are considered in view of the fact that the subsystems of networks may be multiple interconnected. Sufficient and necessary conditions for consensus are given for the linear dynamical networks with state interconnections and controller interconnections. Moreover, a static output controller design method based on a parameter-dependent Lyapunov function is provided. Furthermore, multiple interconnected nonlinear dynamical network system is investigated, and the subsystems are Lure systems. Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov (KYP) lemma and the Schur complement formula are applied to get novel criteria, which have the forms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). And the test of the consensus of a network with Lure systems as its nodes is separated into the test of the absolute stability of several independent Lure systems. Finally, numerical examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency and applicability of the proposed methods.


There is little empirical data addressing the important and controversial question of how prairie dogs (Cynomys spp) affect livestock weight gains in western rangelands. This is particularly relevant in the short-grass steppe, where the area occupied by prairie dogs has increased substantially in recent years, exacerbating conflicts with livestock producers. In our 6-year study, livestock weight gains decreased linearly, but at a rate slower than the rate of colonization by black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). This decrease in livestock gains resulted in lower estimated economic returns. For example, pastures with 20% of area occupied by prairie dogs reduced the estimated value of livestock weight gain by $14.95 per steer (from $273.18 to $258.23 per steer) and by $2.23 ha−1 (from $40.81 to $38.58 ha−1). In pastures with 60% occupancy, reduced livestock weight gain lowered estimated value by $37.91 per steer and $5.58 ha−1, or about 14%.


Wehavedeveloped atwo-photon microscopy system based onanaxicon. This optical component canprovide afocal line with agoodtransverse resolution andahighdepth offield that speeds updata acquisition. )2005 Optical Society ofAmerica OCIScodes: (170.2520) Fluorescence microscopy; (170.0110) Imaging systems -* ~ ~ ~~~~~z-


Nanotechnology education is being offered by more and more universities around the world as the field of nanoscience is growing exponentially. This paper explores students' needs on a mobile app based interactive self-learning for undergraduate nanotechnology education. The objective is to find baseline characteristics required to transform traditional instructor-driven and, lecture-intensive teaching to more engaging student-driven interactive learning based on mobile devices. In order to identify students' needs on the proposed concept, a content analysis and a prototype exploration were conducted with 80 undergraduate students.


The invention relates to an intelligent image type fire alarming system for a highway tunnel. The fire alarming system comprises a camera for acquiring field data; the camera is connected with the input end of a video image acquiring and transmission module, and two output ends of the camera are respectively connected with a video monitoring module and an image fire detector; the image fire detector is respectively connected with a fire alarm controller and an image fire alarming management module; the image fire alarming management module is used for respectively receiving video monitoring information from the video monitoring module, and fire information from the image fire detector; the image fire alarm management module is connected with a database; the fire alarm connector is connected with the image fire detector; the database is arranged in a computer. With the adoption of the fire alarm system, the smoke detecting function, flame detecting function and the video monitoring function can be carried out synchronously, thus the fire can be accurately determined, an alarm signal can be sent, and as a result, the report error rate can be greatly reduced, and the interference resistance of the alarming system can be improved.


Stochastic models are extensively used in quantifying the reliability of safety critical systems. These models use the state‐space model for reliability quantification. Markov chain is comprehensively used in describing a sequence of possible events of any system in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. Markov chains are convenient to model the software system of the SCS with the help of Petri Nets, a directed bipartite graph widely used for the verification and validation of real‐time systems. However, the stochastic model suffers from the state‐space explosion problem. In this paper, we proposed a technique for reliability analysis of safety critical systems, excavating into the coherent optimization of Markov chain. The approach has been validated on 17 safety critical systems of nuclear power plants.


In this article, we incorporate a jump process into the original Lee–Carter model, and use it to forecast mortality rates and analyze mortality securitization. We explore alternative models with transitory versus permanent jump effects and find that modeling mortality via transitory jump effects may be more appropriate in mortality securitization. We use the Swiss Re mortality bond in 2003 as an example to show how to apply our model together with the distortion measure approach to value mortality-linked securities. Pricing the Swiss Re mortality bond is challenging because the mortality index is correlated across countries and over time. Cox, Lin, and Wang (2006) employ the normalized multivariate exponential tilting to take into account correlations across countries, but the problem of correlation over time remains unsolved. We show in this article how to account for the correlations of the mortality index over time by simulating the mortality index and changing the measure on paths.


This paper uses the familiar, neoclassical theory of capital accumulation to show how complex behavior can emerge from quite simple economic structures. Indeed, when sufficient nonlinearities and a production lag are present, the interaction alone of the propensity to save and the productivity of capital can lead to growth cycles that exhibit a wandering, sawtooth pattern not unlike those observed in reality. These fluctuations need not converge to a cycle of any regular periodicity so they are not quasi periodic. Because such "chaotic" trajectories are unstable, errors of estimation in parameters or initial conditions, however tiny, will accumulate rapidly into substantial errors of forecast. Moreover, periods of erratic cycling can be interspersed with periods of more or less stable growth. Evidently, the "future" behavior of a model solution cannot be anticipated from its patterns in the "past," a situation that seems to mimic experience. Apparent structural change and unpredictability is explained in the present theory by a deterministic, single equation model. Random shocks play no role. So the reader can visualize just what it is we are are talking about, a noteworthy simulation is presented in Figure 1 for GNP in a growth model that is described below in Section III. A period of relatively rapid growth is followed by a period of cycles. Then, remarkably, for a considerable time (about twenty "periods") apparently "steady-state" growth occurs. Wandering cycles, however, emerge. Another brief period close to the steady state appears again toward the end of the series. I establish conditions of savings and productivity that lead to results of this kind. This analysis makes use of the mathematical theory of "chaos" which, in the form exploited here, originated in the work of Edward Lorenz. A formal definition of chaos and sufficient conditions for chaotic trajectories were provided in a seminal paper by T-Y Li and James Yorke. A survey of these related contributions is found in Yorke and Evelyn Yorke. This theory was introduced into economics by Jess Benhabib and myself (1981), where we showed that sequences of rational choices can be erratic when preferences depend on experience in a certain way; by Michael Stutzer, who provides a detailed analysis of Trygve Haavelmo's growth model; by Benhabib and myself (1980) in an application of the overlapping generations model; and in my forthcoming study of the classical growth model.


The invention discloses application of a composite active edible film prepared from peeled shrimp processing leftovers, relating to application of an edible antioxidation outer coating of food or health food. The outer coating can increase the nutrients. The technique comprises the following steps: preparing proteins in the peeled shrimp processing leftovers, preparing enzymolysis polypeptides in the peeled shrimp processing leftovers, preparing chitosan in the peeled shrimp processing leftovers, preparing a film-forming solution from the peeled shrimp processing leftover proteins, enzymolysis polypeptides and chitosan, an antioxidant and a plasticizer, pouring the prepared film solution on a polyvinyl chloride crystal plate, scraping, drying, and peeling to obtain the composite active edible film. The peeled shrimp processing leftovers used as the main raw material open up a new way for high-value utilization of the similar leftovers. The composite active edible film has the obvious characteristics of rich nutrients, high oxidation resistance and the like, and has favorable market application prospects in the field of food packaging.


Twin correlations and cross-twin cross-trait correlations were estimated using OpenMx9. • Genetic, common and unique environmental influences on childhood overlap well-being and self-control • Only genetic and unique environmental influences in adolescence and adulthood overlap on well-being and self-control • In the future: bivariate Cholesky decomposition to quantify proportion of variance explained by genetic and environmental influences. Results


* Violence Prevention and Reduction in Schools presents an extensive analysis of the evolution of school violence in the United States. The chapters are authored by experts in special education and behavioral disorders. This book is an essential resource for both educators and parents, providing a balanced combination of theory and practice. As violence escalates in educational settings, teachers and parents struggle with strategies to make life more secure in schools. The overview of the critical issues and potential solutions provided in this book is ideal for educators and parents who want to be better informed about the social and educational developments in America's schools and the characteristics of school disturbances. Chapter One offers a comprehensive introduction to the parameters of school violence and the available options for its regulation. Bender emphasizes that both violence against students and violence against teachers affect the climate of a school. While searching for causal factors of school violence, the author stresses the concept of connectedness, seen as the degree to which students are positively emotionally, academically, and socially involved with others in the school and/or home environment. Addressing the parameters of violence, he emphasizes the importance of same-sex role models for healthy emotional and social development. Bender believes that connectedness and same-sex role models can be addressed by teachers to a certain degree. Nevertheless, the primary influences on the occurrence of violence (i.e., the availability of guns and drugs in society) go beyond the potential influence of teachers at school. The chapter closes by providing an extensive description of general types of violence prevention and reduction strategies (e.g., behavior management approaches, collaborativeinterpersonal strategies, school security approaches) and training for nonviolence. Chapter Two focuses on cooperative discipline as a factor in the reduction of classroom violence. Throughout the chapter, Kyle discusses The Cooperative Discipline Program developed by Linda Albert. The program is designed for the classroom teacher who intends to reduce violent and aggressive behaviors. It focuses on immediate classroom responses to violent and aggressive behavior. In addition, long-term encouragement strategies for reconnecting the problem student to the teacher and the school are presented. Also included are strategies for regulating violent behaviors and other types of misbehaviors, and for dealing with student lack of motivation. The focus of Chapter Three is on a mentoring strategy that can be used for treatment of children who are at risk for violent behavior. Clinton and Miles suggest that mentoring is a successful strategy for enhancing resiliency. Resiliency refers to a child's ability to prevent the negative outcomes that may be associated with his or her social and/or emotional surroundings. The authors emphasize mentor training-whereby experienced mentors become resources for the training of new volunteers-and describe criteria for the selection of students who should attend mentoring programs. The description includes matching of mentors and students based on the degree of choice afforded to participants and the degree of similarity between mentor and student in terms of ethnic background, gender, and class. Chapter Four focuses on conflict resolution strategies that address group violence and gang or gang-like activity in school. The common rule is that students need to have clear limits for their behavioral choices and consequences that hold them responsible when they do violate the school code of conduct. …


Small radius of mountainous highway is most likely to be the accident black spot.This paper is through the analysis of observed car path and driver's sight information,integrating the road perspective,to conclude that bad vision information is the main cause leading to accident to small curve.Hereby this paper researches the likely issue in curve widen,horizontal slope and center traffic line,and presents correspond advice of road safe design.


Purposes : optimization of the choice of anaesthetic maintenance at patients with diabetic foot by means of prolonged blockade of sciatic nerve. Materials and methods. 107 patients are included in this open prospective research with syndrome of diabetic foot. In the next 72 hours indicators of humeromalleolar index (HMI) and other vital indicators were observed. Results. Comfortable course of postoperative period: decrease in requirement of additional introduction of narcotic substances. At the patients who received prolonged blockade, decrease of HMI indicators (p


The deterioration of concrete due to alkali-aggregate reaction is
dependent on the total alkali content per unit volume of concrete.
 It was reported that the expansion of high alkali concrete with the
 reactive aggregate increased easily due to high alkali of concrete
 with the reactive aggregated increased easily. And it has been
 confirmed that the addition of pozzolanic material prevents the
 concrete with reactive aggregate from deterioration caused by
alkali-aggregate reaction.
It is the aim of this study to provide the fundamental data on the
possibility of alkali-aggregate reaction of high strength concrete
 and its preventing and repair technic.


Software development effort estimation (SDEE) is a significant activity in project management and serves as the basis for project bidding, planning, staffing, resource allocation, scheduling, and cost estimation. The accuracy of SDEE techniques varies from project to project, which makes them rather unreliable. In this backdrop, we propose a foundation centered ensemble-based SDEE approach. The primary goal of this approach is to design an ensemble consisting of different machine learning methods for improving the prediction accuracy of SDEE. In recent times, several research results have been reported on machine learning based ensemble design, but extreme learning machine (ELM) and least square support vector regression (LSSVR) have not been used to develop an ensemble. We chose three machine learning techniques, namely ELM, LSSVR, and multilayer perceptron (MLP) as the base techniques to build an ensemble. We investigated the performance of a homogeneous ensemble design using a linear combination rule with standardized accuracy as a weight factor. The performance of the ensemble model is validated and compared with root mean square error (RMSE) based weighted average ensemble model with equivalent configuration. The experimental study was conducted using publicly available PROMISE repository test suite. We achieved promising results for SEET model compared to base learners and RMSE ensemble model.


We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the porous media equation in an exterior domain, Ω, which excludes one or several holes, with zero Dirichlet data on ∂Ω. We prove that, when the space dimension is three or more, this behaviour is given by a Barenblatt function away from the fixed boundary ∂Ω and near the free-boundary. On the other hand, if we scale the solution according to its decay factor, away from the free boundary and close to the holes it behaves like a function whose m-th power, H, is harmonic and vanishes at ∂Ω. The height of such a function is determined by matching with the Barenblatt solution representing the outer behaviour.


This paper presents an implementation of Sentiment Analysis module that works in an Affective Intelligent Tutoring System. Later, we show the results of evaluating this module and some experiments we made with students. We consider that the main contribution of this work is that with this module, the system will be able to analyze the student's feedback using sentiment analysis techniques and provide useful information to the course administrators teachers for improving the teaching material.


Particle size distribution of fine granules produced by agitation granulation was investigated as a function of the concentration of starch paste. The time course of granulation was investigated in a high speed type mixer using 5% starch paste having a good fluidity and 15% starch paste having no fluidity at all, like a gel. In agitation granulation, aggregation and deaggregation of particles and/or granules occurred simultaneously.At a low concentration of starch paste, massing of the granules, namely the growth of granules, occured mainly during the agitation granulation, since the relatively large amount of free water was available from the paste. Therefore, in this case, only the mean size shifted toward a larger measurement without any change in the width of the granules during the granulation.At a high concentration of starch paste, rapid deaggregation of granules by shear force applied occurred following the formation of large granules immediately after the addition of paste. Since a small amount of water exudes from the paste during the agitation, massing proceeds slowly. This means that in the case of granulation using a high concentration of starch paste, deaggregation proceeds predominantly, so that the size distribution of the granules becomes more narrow. Fine granules may be produced by agitation granulation when a high concentration of starch paste is used and when granulation is executed under sufficient shear or rotation speed that guarantees satisfactory dispersion of the gel.


The"Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution(the revision,in 1996),gives the supervisory office of fis hery the power for investigating and handling the contam-ination accident to fisheries areas and the order No.13of the minisiter o f the Department of Agriculture makes the definition about the contamination accident to fisheries areas.This definition can define the dead fish accidents easily,but it is too difficult to define the no dead fish accidents.Based on relevant the laws and regulations,andWater Quality Standard for Fisherie sandMarine Water Quality Standard",revision of the definition of pollut ion accident will facilitate to investigate and handle the accidents more sc ientific,accurate and prompt for the orga-nization of law enforcement.


FASharpSim is a didactic simulator for deterministic and nondeterministic finite automata meant to be used in the laboratory classes. It allows, before simulation, building these automata in an intuitive easy manner, by means of a simple friendly graphical interface. This application explains the concept of finite automaton by clearly simulating it. The paper describes the application development, the algorithms which provide its functionality (compilation, simulation), as well as some eloquent examples of designing and simulating some automata using FASharpSim. The purpose of the simulator is to clearly illustrate the notion of finite automaton and draw a sharp line between the two types of finite automata: deterministic and nondeterministic.


A drag reduction for 3-dimensional body is attempted by microbubble injection. Two models with different lengths are used for experiments to distinguish the resistance due to on microbubble injection itself and the skin friction affected by microbubble covering. A reformed Wigley model is used to investigate the effect of microbubble injection on wave making. Measurements of the resistance and the longitudinal wave profiles are performed. The covering by microbubbles is realized by injected air through a porous pipe with pore size of 15 μm. The flow of microbubbles is obsered and the bubble sizes are estimated based on the rising velocity of a bubble in still water.The results show that it is possible to reduce the resistance of a 3-dimensional body by use of microbubbles if the body is well covered by microbubbles. Although the resistance increases where microbubbles are injected, the local frictional resistance is reduced more than 20 % where microbubbles cover the body. The total resistance is reduced more than 5 %. Based on a wave analysis, it is found that injecting microbubbles into water does not affect on wave making resistance.


Charging electrochemical devices by light irradiation may bring an essential change in energy-storage technologies. Herein, nickel copper mixed oxides (NiCuOx) based bifunctional photoelectrodes for integrated energy conversion and energy storage...


The invention relates to the field of optics and especially provides a polarizer, a liquid crystal display screen and an electronic apparatus. A touch control function is integrated in the polarizer, so that the thickness of the liquid crystal display screen with a touch function is reduced. The polarizer comprises a surface layer, a first base body layer, a polarizing layer and an adhesive layer and further comprises a touch sensing layer arranged between the polarizing layer and the adhesive layer.


This essay uses critical transnationalism to place planning in the world. It examines two types of transnational practices: the enforcement of the global border in the Americas, and the transnation...


It is known that a planar graph on n vertices has branch-width/tree-width bounded by alphasqrt{n}. In
 many algorithmic applications it is useful to have a
 small bound on the constant alpha. We give a proof of
 the best, so far, upper bound for the constant alpha.
 In particular, for the case of tree-width, alpha<3.182
 and for the case of branch-width, alpha<2.122. Our proof
 is based on the planar separation theorem of Alon,
 Seymour & Thomas and some min-max theorem of the graph
 minors series. Based on these bounds we introduce a new
 method for solving different fixed parameter problems on
 planar graphs. We prove that our method provides the best
 so far exponential speed-up for fundamental problems on
 planar graphs like Vertex Cover, Dominating Set, Independent Set
 and many others.


Imbalances in the corticosteroid millieu have been implicated in several neuropsychiatric disorders and neuronal damage. Administration of the high therapeutic doses of the glucocorticoids also induces neuronal damage. We investigated the early electrophysiological manifestations of neurotoxic action of the glucocorticoids. Administration of the toxic doses of dexamethasone (7 and 20 mg/kg) per 24 hours before the electrophysiological studies of rats hippocampal slices induced a dose-dependent decrease of reactivity of the glutamatergic synapses in CA1 pyramidal and granular neurons of dentate gyrus. This neurotoxic action of dexamethasone (at the dose of 7 mg/kg) was reinforced by a co-agonist of NMDA receptors glycine (50 mg/kg) and a administration of single dose of antidepressant imipramine (25 mg/kg). The neurotoxic effect of studied glucocorticoid was decreased by a noncompetitive blocker of the NMDA receptors ketamine (30 mg/kg), an inhibitor of tyrosine phosphoprotein phosphatases sodium ortovanadate (15 mg/kg) and chronic over two weeks administration of imipramine (25 mg/kg). It can be supposed that dexamethasone neurotoxicity is a result of the glutamate accumulation in brain extracellular spaces and intensive activation of NMDA receptors as well as of the inhibiton of providing survival of the neurons tyrosine phosphorilation of the neuronal protein substrates, which produced by the different activators of tyrosine protein kinases. Chronic administration of imipramine probably decreases the both components of dexamethasone neurotoxicity.


We study the magnetic-field-induced breakdown of superconductivity in nm-scale metal grains having a mean electron level spacing d{approx_equal}{tilde {Delta}} (bulk gap). Using a generalized variational BCS approach that yields good qualitative agreement with measured spectra, we argue that Pauli paramagnetism dominates orbital diamagnetism, as in the case of thin films in a parallel magnetic field. However, the first-order transition observed for the latter can be made continuous by finite size effects. The mean-field procedure of describing the system by a single pairing parameter {Delta} breaks down for d{approx_equal}{tilde {Delta}} . {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}


The perceptual simultaneity range, within which two asynchronous pure tones are perceived to start simultaneously, and the gap detection threshold are known to be wide when the frequency separation of the tones is large. It is generally said that the accuracy of the relative timing for different frequency channels deteriorates. However, there is no clear explanation of why such deteriorations are necessary. This study aimed to show that a simple mathematical model leads to the deterioration of relative timing accuracy for two tones with different frequencies. As a result of the calculations, the model simulated the deterioration of the perceptual simultaneity range not only with the increase of the frequency separation but also with the decrease of the frequency region of two tones. The model also simulated the behavior of the gap detection threshold for two different frequencies (across-channel) with its asymmetric deterioration. Further, the model simulated the behavior of the gap detection threshold for two identical frequencies (within-channel). These results suggest that one simple mathematical model may explain the mechanisms underlying perceptual simultaneity, within-channel gap detection, and between-channel gap detection for two tones.


The author narrates some kinds of definition of number sense,and discusses the meaning of number sense.Number sense is the sensitivity to mathematics prombles,which is on the basis of the understanding of numbers.It belongs to intuition category,and has different levels.


Four-, 6-, and 10-year-old children were tested in a forced-choice procedure about their beliefs on the inheritance of physical characteristics. They were presented with pictures of two biological parents, and then asked to select the most likely descendant out of three alternatives: a father look-alike, a mother look-alike, and an alternative representing the combined influence of both parents. In several question pairs, additional information was given about the parent–child relationship that was clearly irrelevant to the principles of heredity to examine the extent to which domain confusions were likely to occur. The majority of the 10-year-olds consistently preferred the alternative in which the combined influence of both parents was shown and domain confusions hardly ever occurred. Four- and 6-year-olds, in contrast, were still influenced by information from alien domains, although even their reasoning about inheritance seemed to be theory-like. Overall, the results suggest that with age, children develop a more restricted and better-defined conception of the principles of heredity, in which the combined influence of both parents is acknowledged.


Alloys containing up to four multi-principal elements in equiatomic ratios are referred to as medium entropy alloys (MEA). These alloys have attracted the interest of many researchers due to the superior mechanical properties it offers over the traditional alloys. The design approach of MEA often results to simple solid solution with either body centered cubic; face centered cubic structures or both. As the consideration for introducing the alloys into several engineering application increases, there have been efforts to study the corrosion behaviour of these alloys. Previous reports have shown that some of these alloys are more susceptible to corrosion when compared with traditional alloys due to lack of protective passive film. In this research, we have developed AlFeTiV medium entropy alloys containing two elements (Ti and Al) that readily passivate when exposed to corrosive solutions. The alloys were produced in vacuum arc furnace purged with high purity argon. Open circuit potential and potentiodynamic polarisation tests were used to evaluate the corrosion behaviour of the as-cast AlFeTiV alloy in 3.5 wt% NaCl and 1 M H2SO4. The corrosion performance of the alloy was compared with Ti-6Al-4V alloy tested under similar conditions. The results show that unlike in Ti-6Al-4V alloy, the open circuit potential of the AlFeTiV alloy move towards the negative values in both 3.5 wt% NaCl and 1 M H2SO4 solutions indicating that self-activation occurred rapidly on immersion. Anodic polarisation of the alloys showed that AlFeTiV alloy exhibited a narrow range of passivity in both solutions. In addition, the alloys exhibited lower Ecorr and higher Icorr when compared with traditional Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The traditional Ti-6Al-4V alloy showed superior corrosion resistant to the AlFeTiV alloy in both 3.5 wt.% NaCl and 1 M H2SO4 solutions.


The present invention method for controlling access of the memory system and the dual-port memory to improve performance of a memory is disclosed. Claim that is accessed by the first processor first local memory area, the memory cell array comprising a shared memory region to be accessed by the second local memory area, and the first and the second processor accessed by the second processor, the shared memory in the dual-port memory containing the semaphore controller for providing respective access state of the first processor and the second processor for the area at the first and second processors, the shared memory area to the semaphore access control unit in the first processor writing data, and second, by the first processor from the second processor to access a semaphore control data written in the shared memory area are copied to the second local memory area. Therefore, additional hardware can be improved by reducing the number of synchronization overhead system without performance, and efficient use of the shared memory area. Dual-port memory, a shared memory, the first processor, the second processor, the semaphore, DMA


Recuperative liquid-liquid heat exchange experiment is one of most important unit operation in chemical industry production,and its understanding,cognizing,mastering and developing also are important researches in Chemical Engineering.Some basic issues in Chemical Engineering have been discussed using experimental data and Computer Aided Simulation for this unit operation in this paper;simultaneously,the effects of Lorentz force on convective heat transfer had been discussed for the macroscopic fluid.


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Abstract. The relationship between the work behavior of crew members on hemoglobin levels, with unhealthy work behavior variables, can cause a decrease or increase in workers' hemoglobin levels. The research was carried out at the Nusantara Port of Parepare KM. Queen Soya. Data processing using Chi-square test. The results of the study of P < 0.05 was 0.36, indicating that there was no significant effect on Hb levels. Keywords: Blood, Hemoglobin, workers


An analysis of a rail passenger truck which includes nonlinear wheel/rail geometry and creep forces is formulated for determining truck stability and response to rail alignment irregularities. Digital simulation studies using the analysis have illustrated the large amplitude flange to flange response which occurs in operation of a truck below critical speed on a track with significant alignment irregularity, of a truck near critical speed and excited by irregularities and of a truck operated obove critical speed. The variations in temporal waveform, probability density and power spectral density of vehicle motions for these conditions are described. The influence of vehicle suspension parameters and wheel/rail geometry on truck stability and tracking ability is discussed and related to operating conditions.


For several centuries, alchemists searched for the Philosopher's Stone-the elusive substance that could transmute common lead into gold. Over the past 50 years, a new kind of alchemy has emerged. Its Philosopher's Stone is the computing technology that can transmute ordinary individuals into singular experts in a specific domain. Editor in chief George Cybenko looks at this phenomena in the security field.


In March 2020, with lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic underway, the Francis Crick Institute (the Crick) re-geared its research laboratories into clinical testing facilities. Two pipelines were established one for PCR and the other for Serology. This paper discusses the Cricks Flow Cytometry Science Technology Platform (Flow STP) role in setting up the Serology pipeline, pipeline here referring to the overarching processes in place to facilitate the receipt of human sera through to a SARs-CoV-2 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) result. We examine the challenges that had to be overcome by a research laboratory to incorporate clinical diagnostics and the processes by which this was achieved. It describes; the governance required to run the service; the design of the SOPs and pipeline; the setting up of the assay; the validation required to show the robustness of the pipeline and reporting the results of the assay. Finally, as the lockdown started to ease in June 2020 it examines how this new service affects the daily running of the Flow STP. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


The study aimed to discover the effectiveness of training for trainers of peer counselors to improve gender awareness at two Islamic Universities in Banjarmasin City. The study employed a qualitative approach with the true experimental design in the form of a Pre-test Post-test Control Group Design. The study object was gender awareness. Data were collected using the gender awareness scale. The study was conducted in Banjarmasin on students of the Counseling Department of UIN Antasari Banjarmasin and Islamic University of Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjary. The data were analyzed using a T-test. The study discovered that training for trainers of peer counselors is effective to improve gender awareness observed from the significant test difference between the experiment and control groups.


In this article we reflect about the dissemination of economic ideas among international organizations by looking at the case of the OECD and its views on education from the early sixties to the mid-eighties. Although previous studies have tended to present the OECD as an early supporter of human capital ideas, our analysis will highlight the strong and persistent resistances of this organization throughout the 1960s and 1970s to human capital theory. The analysis of major institutional events, projects, and reports of that period point out to an institutional context dominated by other views about education that reflected in its policy recommendations. This text will provide an interesting example about the dissemination of economic ideas within a certain type of political institutions and the role of economists in influencing the agenda of international organizations, which are important (yet understudied) aspects in the relation between economists and economic ideas and power in the second half of the twentieth century.


Given the lack of head-to-head studies of systemic therapies in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD), network meta-analyses (NMAs) can provide comparative efficacy and safety data to inform clinical decision-making. In this NMA, eligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published before 24 October 2019 were identified by a systematic literature review. Short-term (12–16 weeks) efficacy (Investigator's Global Assessment [IGA] and Eczema Area and Severity Index [EASI] responses), patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and safety data from each trial were abstracted and analysed separately for monotherapy and combination therapy (systemic plus topical anti-inflammatory therapy). RCTs were analysed in fixed-effects and random-effects Bayesian NMA models. Overall, 19 phase 2 and phase 3 RCTs of abrocitinib, baricitinib, dupilumab, lebrikizumab, nemolizumab, tralokinumab and upadacitinib were included. In monotherapy RCTs, upadacitinib 30 mg once daily (QD) had the numerically highest efficacy (83.6% achieved ≥50% improvement in EASI [EASI-50 response]), followed by abrocitinib 200 mg QD (74.6%), upadacitinib 15 mg QD (70.5%), dupilumab 300 mg every 2 weeks (Q2W) (63.4%) and abrocitinib 100 mg QD (56.7%). Similar trends in EASI-75 and EASI-90 response were observed. In combination therapy RCTs, abrocitinib 200 mg QD had the highest EASI-50 (86.6%), followed by dupilumab 300 mg Q2W (82.4%) and abrocitinib 100 mg QD (79.7%). Similar findings were observed for IGA response and PROs. In monotherapy and combination therapy RCTs, the probability of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) was higher among all active treatments than with placebo (except for dupilumab 300 mg Q2W [odds ratio (OR), 0.96; 95% credible interval (CrI), 0.45–2.18] and abrocitinib 100 mg QD [OR, 0.95; 95% CrI, 0.35–2.66] in combination therapy RCTs), although active treatments did not significantly differ from one another. Abrocitinib, dupilumab and upadacitinib were consistently the most effective systemic therapies in adult and adolescent patients with AD, with no significant TEAE differences in short-term RCTs. Received: 22 December 2020; Accepted: 2 April 2021 Conflict of interests J.I. Silverberg has served as an investigator for Celgene, Eli Lilly, F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Menlo Therapeutics, Realm Therapeutics, Regeneron and Sanofi; as a consultant for Pfizer Inc., AbbVie, Anacor, AnaptysBio, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Dermavant, Dermira, Eli Lilly, Galderma, GlaxoSmithKline, Glenmark, Incyte, Kiniksa, LEO Pharma, Menlo Therapeutics, Novartis, Realm Therapeutics, Regeneron and Sanofi; and as a speaker for Regeneron and Sanofi. J.P. Thyssen is an advisor/investigator or speaker for Pfizer Inc., AbbVie, Eli Lilly, LEO Pharma, Regeneron, and SanofiGenzyme. K. Fahrbach and K. Mickle are employees of Evidera Inc., which received research funding from Pfizer Inc. J.C. Cappelleri, W. Romero, M.C. Cameron, D.E. Myers, C. Clibborn, and M. DiBonaventura are employees and shareholders of Pfizer Inc. Funding sources This study was sponsored by Pfizer, Inc. At time of analysis. © 2021 Pfizer Inc. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology JEADV 2021 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17351 JEADV


The methodology of Six Sigma originated at Motorola in the early 1980s is nowadays proved to be an effective way in improving the quality. Many companies find adding Six Sigma to their current business system gives them all or almost all the elements of total quality management (TQM) . However most companies where Six Sigma is implemented confront many difficulties in non-manufacturing parts such as transactional and administrative processes. In this paper we discuss distinct aspects of such non-manufacturing process, and investigate activating scheme of Six Sigma in those parts of industry.


This paper deals with the biochemical effects of propyl gallate in mice and rats with liver acutely injured by orally administrated ethanol. The results showed that propyl gallic acid inhibited lipid peroxidation, maintained normal status of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in injured liver tissue. This compound was also shown to be protective for the structural integrity of liver mitochondria. These findings are helpful in elucidating the mode of biochemical-pharmacologic actions of the traditional Chinese drug herbaceous peony.


Analysis of the product resulting from the equilibration 25 g of zeolite A with 50 cc of unstirred 20% titanium chloride solution for 1 h at ambient temperature indicated that 75% of the potassium cations are replaced by titanium cations on the surface of the /sup 1///sub 16/ in.-diameter Linde 3A particles; the cages probably remained intact since little aluminum leaching occurred. Approximately 0.4 cc of gas (40% hydrogen, 60% air) per g of zeolite was collected after direct exposure to strong illumination (> or = 8000 ft-c) for >5 m followed by a 45 m period without illumination. Ti exchanged zeolites X and Y did not evolve detectable H/sub 2/ under similar conditions. The authors concluded that a photoformed radical composed of a Ti(IV)-oxygen complex in which four oxygen atoms surround the Ti atom in a perfect tetrahedron with the unpaired electrons shared by the oxygen atoms is the precursor of H/sub 2/ formation in water submerged titanium-zeolite A. Partial regeneration was accomplished by heating the inactive material to 275/sup 0/C at 3 x 10/sup -2/ Torr for 4 h.


We thank Dr Ishido and colleagues for their interest in our article and comments concerning a rare case of fetal TAPVC with low post-left atrial (LA) space index. As they suggest, we also think that the presence of common pulmonary vein (CPV) is the reason why the post-LA space index in fetal TAPVC is high. Therefore, it seems reasonable that the post-LA space index of their case is low, as the CPV is above, not behind, the LA. As we mentioned in our article, the post-LA space index may be lower in the case of severe TAPVC or pulmonary vein atresia, because in such cases the CPV is likely to be small. 'Sensitivity of 100%' applies only to the results of our retrospective study of eight cases of TAPVC and 101 normal fetuses. The updated ISUOG guidelines for fetal heart screening stipulate a standard for pulmonary venous screening without the use of color flow Doppler1. Thus, we think that the post-LA space index is 'novel, simple and valuable' for 'primary screening' of the fetal heart, not for total detailed diagnosis of fetal TAPVC. Therefore, if a fetus is suspected to have TAPVC with high post-LA space index in primary screening, the case would then be referred to a specialized hospital for TAPVC diagnosis using detailed fetal echocardiography with color flow Doppler. In practice, even though the sensitivity of the post-LA space index of fetal TAPVC screening may not be 100%, we still believe that it is a simple and useful index. With further reports at various gestational ages2, as well as reports of rare cases, such as that of Ishido et al., we expect that a realistic cut-off value for the post-LA space index in TAPVC will become apparent in the future.


OBJECTIVE
Evaluate capillary zone electrophoresis for analyzing beta proteins for concentrations of transferrin and complement.

DESIGN
Thirty normal sera were used to establish expected ranges for these proteins by re-gating on the specific peaks from the original histograms. A total of 61 sera with elevated beta proteins were evaluated by this method. An additional 50 sera with an acute phase reaction were evaluated.

SETTING
All tests were done at Baptist Regional Laboratories on a Beckman CZE/1000 2000 instrument.

PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Sera were taken from excess sera used for clinical testing. Thirty normal serum donors were tested. The 61 sera with elevated beta proteins were evaluated on a prospective basis following clinical testing. The 50 sera with acute phase patterns were evaluated retrospectively following clinical testing.

INTERVENTION
None

RESULTS
Among the 61 sera with increased beta protein, 34 (56%) had elevated transferrin but 57 (93%) had elevated complement levels. In the 50 sera from the acute phase reactant group, 24 sera had elevated complement.

OUTCOME
The study showed that capillary zone electrophoresis could effectively be used to evaluate specific levels of transferrin and complement without further testing.

CONCLUSIONS
These findings show that with this method, transferrin and complement can be quantitatively measured without further analysis and that the majority of beta protein increases are due to elevated complement levels in our population.


Objective:To compare the contents of prim-O-glucosylcimifugin and 4'-O-beta-glucopyranosyl-5-O-methylvisamminol in Saposhnikovia divaricata(Turcz.) Schischk.from different habitats of Daqing.Methods:The sample was analyzed on Inertsil ODS-SP(4.6 mm×150 mm,5 μm) column,methanol-water(40∶60) was used as mobile phase with the flow rate was 1.0 ml/min,the detection wavelength was 254 nm and injection volume was 10 μl.Results:The samples from different habitats of Daqing were all complied with quality standards in Chinese Pharmacopoeia(2010 Edition),and the higher was in the Duerbote and Zhaoyuan.Conclusion:The samples from Duerbote and Zhaoyuan are better than others.


The difference between the economic overheating and the normal growing is whether the growth is sustainable. The investment of normal growth comes from voluntary saving, which may lead to sustainable growth. The investment of economic overheating comes from forced saving, which may lead to a business cycle from boom to depression. Chinese economy is not overheating because the investment does not exceed the saving and lead to the forced saving. But there still exists the overheating hazard because of the credit expansion, which demands the structural economic policy.


FML, a high-level function modelling language developed and used at Bell-Northern Research (BNR), is described in terms of its features, structure, timing capability and manner of execution. The language is presented, not in its full syntactic details, but by way of more helpful illustrations and examples. FML is fully integrated with BNR's functional simulator, FUNSIM, and thereby allows accurate timing and concurrent fault simulation. FML is a register level language with sub-register scheduling and tolerance timing, and it features an efficient mechanism for unknown state processing. To the user, FML is a circuit-designer-oriented, highly readable, easily applied design tool for both IC and PCB design.