Growing conditions and seasonal fluctuations are critical factors affecting fruit and vegetable nutritional quality. The effects of two partially overlapping cropping seasons, early (ECS; January–May) and full (FCS; March–July), on the main carpometric traits and bioactive components of different watermelon fruits were investigated in the open field. Four watermelon genotypes, comprising of three commercial cultivars 'Crimson Sweet', 'Dumara', 'Giza', and the novel hybrid 'P503 F1', were compared. The carpometric traits varied significantly between genotypes. Soluble solids and yield were higher under FCS than ECS. The variation affecting colour indexes between the two growing seasons exhibited a genotype-dependent trend. The antioxidant components and radical scavenging activity of watermelon fruits were also significantly affected by differences in received solar energy and temperature fluctuations during the trial period. The average citrulline, total phenolics and flavonoid contents were 93%, 71% and 40% higher in FCS than in ECS. A genotype-dependent variation trend was also observed for lycopene and total vitamin C between cropping seasons. The hydrophilic and lipophilic radical scavenging activities of the pulp of ripe watermelon fruits of the different genotypes investigated varied between 243.16 and 425.31 µmol Trolox Equivalent (TE) of 100 g−1 of fresh weight (fw) and from 232.71 to 341.67 µmol TE of 100 g−1 fw in FCS and ECS, respectively. Our results, although preliminary, show that the functional quality of watermelon fruits is drastically altered depending on the environmental conditions that characterize the ECS and LCS.


According to the DNA polymerase gene data of du ck plague virus (DPV) , a set of primers was designed and used for a polymerase ch ain reaction (PCR) with the vaccine DPV strain. A specific 563 bp DNA product w as amplified , which was cloned into pMD18-T vector ,and the positive recombina nt clone was selected by the Amp/IPTG/X-gal agar plate and characterized by HindⅢ and XbaⅠenzyme digestion . The r ecombinant plasmid was sequenced and compared with published sequence. The homog eneity was 99.3%. The DPV specific DNA product was also amplified from the infec ted brains,livers and spleens from 4 experimentally infected ducks and 2 outbrea k samples of DPV, but not from the goose parvovirus and other avian virus . As little as 0.22 pg of DPV DNA was detected by the PCR. The result suggested that the PCR is a specific and sensitive method which can be used for detecti on and diagnosis of latent and subclinical DPV infections.


In this article we show the latest results on the characteristics of the MRS (metal/resistor/semiconductor) photodiode. They include measurements of noise vs. threshold characteristics, noise frequency and signal amplitude dependence on the applied voltage and temperature and irradiation dose, and stability as a function of time. The photoelectron separation for this sensor is measured using a signal from a light emitting diode (LED). The response of the photodetector to light from the extruded 5 mm thick long strips of scintillator is studied using cosmic ray muons. Also, fiber-sensor alignment effects were studied. The results are promising and illustrate the potential use of MRS as photosensors in wide range of detectors.


Abstract : A convenient method for the sterile preparation of plasma (or other body fluids from small animals using a millipore filter system is described. Aged rat plasma is no more effective in the therapy of rat tourniquet trauma than freshly collected rat plasma. Frozen rat plasma seems to be also as effective as freshly collected plasma. None of the rat plasma preparations are as effective as aged or lyophilized human plasma. Recently collected single donor or pooled human plasma allows no survival when infused after the standard rat tourniquet trauma. Shelf-stored, pooled human plasma (6 months at room temperature) is as effective as reconstituted lyophilized human plasma (highly effective) in the therapy of this trauma. At the time significant protection is first achieved, electrophoretic studies show the appearance of a band not present in the fresh material. This band is also present in the lyophilized reconstituted plasma. Reconstituted human plasma is significantly more effective in the therapy of rat tourniquet trauma than human albumin when both are adjusted to the same total protein concentration. This observation questions whether the resuscitative effect of the human plasma is due to its oncotic effect only or to some property of the plasma present in the non albumin fraction.


In the title compound, [Zn(C7H4O5S)(C13H14N2)(H2O)2]·C3H7NO, the ZnII atom is coordinated by two N atoms from two 1,3-di-4-pyridylpropane molecules, two O atoms from one 2-sulfonatobenzoate dianion and two aqua O atoms, in a distorted octahedral geometry. The 2-sulfonatobenzoate dianions function as chelating ligands and the 1,3-di-4-pyridylpropane as a μ2-bridging ligand, forming a chain. O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link neighbouring chains into a three-dimensional network.


Hospitals are reacting to health care reform by forming collaborative physician/hospital organizations and other ventures. The success of these new partnerships depends on what shape the reformed system takes and establishing trust between all players.


ABSTRACT
A five-strain rifampicin-resistant Listeria monocytogenes cocktail (ca. 3.0 log10 cfu/g) was introduced as a postpasteurization contaminant in queso fresco (QF) that was manufactured using a commercial procedure. L. monocytogenes was either inoculated into (IN) the curds before forming the cheese block or onto (ON) slices (52–66 g), individually vacuum-packed and stored at 4 and 10C. Growth was monitored for up to 35 days. Gompertz analyses showed small differences in lag time because of temperature, but growth rate and generation time were faster at 10C than at 4C. After 20 days for both the IN and the ON treatments, the maximum population density was 7.80 ± 0.17, regardless of the storage temperature. These results indicate that QF manufacture must be conducted using Good Manufacturing Practices and under hygienic conditions, and that the use of antimicrobials and/or postprocessing interventions is necessary to prevent the presence and growth of L. monocytogenes.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Queso fresco (QF) is a popular, rennet-set, Hispanic-style fresh cheese made from pasteurized milk known for its crumbly texture and nonmelting properties. However, its high moisture content, near neutral pH and moderate salt content provide the ideal conditions for growth of various spoilage and pathogenic bacteria, notably Listeria monocytogenes. Past studies have examined the growth of L. monocytogenes on QF but were typically conducted using retail cheese of unknown manufacturing, handling and storage procedures. In this study, the growth of L. monocytogenes was monitored in and on QF made according to a commercial procedure used in the U.S.A. These data and a primary model that was created from the data can be used as the basis for food safety assessments and process and formulation improvements, or to monitor the effectiveness of antimicrobials and process interventions in preventing the presence and growth of L. monocytogenes associated with QF.


On the basis of an expression for the (time-averaged) radiated power comprising the radiation sources at the retarded time, an exact expression relevant to the emission by reducible multipoles is obtained, which, along with the emission from independent multipoles, accounts for the emission from the interaction between multipoles of different order. Whereas the former contribution is known in literature, at least for the lower-order multipoles, the latter contribution so far appears to have been overlooked. The result thus obtained is discussed in reference to the treatment of multipole emission in terms of irreducible multipoles, generalized to non-monochromatic sources.


A method of produce containing niobium HRB400 reinforcement which process flow includes: electric furnace smelting, refining, billet casting, casting blank solidification and cooling, putting it into heating-furnace, hot-rolling, air cooling, sizing and hoping. The characteristics are: control the chemical composition range of molten steel (weight%): Ceq =950DEG C, casting blank heating temperature is 1100 ~ 1250 degree C, soakage temperatures is 1150 ~ 1230 degree C, cut temperature is 1050~1100 DEG C, free air-cooling mode. The method can be used to produce Nb microalloy and Nb,V composite microalloying HRB400 reinforcement which Ceq(carbon equivalent) <=0.45wt.%, and has high intensity, seismic behavior and weldability in the electric furnace- continuous casting-tandem rolling process.


Background: Triplotaxis stellulifera and Crasssocephalum bougheyanum are two medicinal plants used in traditional medicine but little information are available on them. The objective of this study was to evaluate oral acute and subchronic toxicity of methanol extract of Triplotaxis stellulifera and Crasssocephalum bougheyanum.

Methods: Acute toxicity was evaluated in mice by administrating a single dose of 5000 mg/kg body weight of tested extract. The sub-chronic toxicity was conducted by orally administering methanol extract of Crasssocephalum bougheyanum and Triplotaxis stellulifera at doses of 7.93, 23.8, 71.4, 214.2 mg/kg b.w respectively for 28 days in four groups of mice. Toxicity signs, Body and vital organ weights; serum, hematological and biochemical parameters were monitored during and at the end of the study period and histological cut was done.

Results: In acute toxicity, no death and other signs of toxicity was observed in mice. No significant difference on biochemical parameters, vital organ and body weight of mice were observed as compared to the control animal. Significant difference was observed in Granulocytes%, WBC% and MCV. In sub-chronic toxicity, mice treated with Triplotaxis stellulifera showed a significant decrease in Liver and Spleen weight as compared to control. Hematological parameters also showed significant increase in LYM% on mice treated with both extract. But Triplotaxis stellulifera treated mice also showed significant increase in PLT, GRAN% at the highest concentration and decrease MID%. Significant decreased was also observed on ASAT with both extract.

Conclusion: The data revealed that DL50 of Triplotaxis stellulifera and Crasssocephalum bougheyanum is greater than 5000 mg/kg b.w. The oral administration of tested plant extract did not produce any toxic effect on Swiss albino's mice. However these extracts have been shown to stimulate immune response. We therefore conclude that Triplotaxis stellulifera and Crasssocephalum bougheyanum can be used safely for oral administration.


This paper introduces the characteristics of steel structuure resident buildings and compares steel structure with others through the first testing district of steel structure resident houses in Hebei province. This paper shows the future of the development and puts forward the matters needing solution in steel structure.


We report on a new type of cladding-pumped neodymium-doped fiber which enables strong ASE emission at the wavelength region of 940 nm with a highly reduced emission in the four-level transition at 1060 nm when is pumped by an 806 nm source. This ASE source delivers a total emission power of 60 mW from 500 mW of absorbed pump power. The arrangement setup consisted in a pump diode emitting at 806 nm with a total output power of 1.5 W, a collimated and focused lenses and a dichroic mirror. The broadband of the neodymium source was measured to be 25 nm. Moreover, a numerical simulation for the ASE source is also discussed.


Although only representing 0.05% of global freshwater, or 0.001% of all global water, soil water supports all terrestrial biological life. Soil moisture behaviour in most models is constrained by hydraulic parameters that do not change. Here we argue that biological feedbacks from plants, macro‐fauna and the microbiome influence soil structure, and thus the soil hydraulic parameters and the soil water content signals we observe. Incorporating biological feedbacks into soil hydrological models is therefore important for understanding environmental change and its impacts on ecosystems. We anticipate that environmental change will accelerate and modify soil hydraulic function. Increasingly, we understand the vital role that soil moisture exerts on the carbon cycle and other environmental threats such as heatwaves, droughts and floods, wildfires, regional precipitation patterns, disease regulation and infrastructure stability, in addition to agricultural production. Biological feedbacks may result in changes to soil hydraulic function that could be irreversible, resulting in alternative stable states (ASS) of soil moisture. To explore this, we need models that consider all the major feedbacks between soil properties and soil‐plant‐faunal‐microbial‐atmospheric processes, which is something we currently do not have. Therefore, a new direction is required to incorporate a dynamic description of soil structure and hydraulic property evolution into soil‐plant‐atmosphere, or land surface, models that consider feedbacks from land use and climate drivers of change, so as to better model ecosystem dynamics.


Electron microscopic observations revealed that there were at least 4 types of plasmodesmata existed in the cell walls of wheat young leaf tissues:(1) Straight channel of plasmodesmata with an appressed endoplasmic reticulum (ER, central desmotubule);(2) "neck type" plasmodesmata, e.g. both ends of the ER-contained plasmodesma appeared to be constricted, showing a "neck region", and even forming an "abdomen" phenomenon; (3) branched plasmodesmata with appressed ER;(4) Lastly and most interestingly, a simple plasmodesma, that only is a plasmalemma-lined channel, without ER was found, which demonstrates that the ER-contained plasmodesma is not the unique characteristic in higher plant. The plasmodesma without ER might be a more effective pathway for macromolecules intercellular transport, particularly, for the intercellular movement of protoplasm, chromatin and nucleus.


As usual, when Jordanian politics touch the Palestine issue, both the official rhetoric and the actions of the government left several questions unanswered. At first the controversy centred on whether the King's move had been tactical or strategic.5 Was the decision a genuine withdrawal by Hussein from involvement in the West Bank? Or was it a manoeuvre designed to show up the inadequacies of the PLO in relation to the Occupied Territories? Other questions also surfaced. How was the timing of the move to be explained? Was the decision and the policies which followed part of a coherent and evolving train of thought? Or was it an intuitive and emotional decision accompanied by a series of piecemeal policies? Finally, and perhaps most crucial, there was the conundrum of whether the whole process was reversible. These were the questions which most exercised the minds of those following events. And these will be the questions which this paper seeks to address. The paper will begin, by way of background, with a survey of the events and trends against which the King's decision was made. It will be followed by an examination of the lead-up to the decision so that one may judge the extent to which there was an evolving policy. The focus will then switch to the actual changes which have been made. The next section will look at the various motives attributed to the moves. By way of conclusion the study will end with a consideration of the consequences of the King's decision in so far as it is possible to judge their impact some five months after they were made.


Hollow nanostructures, especially hollow carbon nanostructures with adjustable inner space and large surface area, have attracted increasing interest because of their potential applications in catalysis, energy storage, and drug delivery [1]. To better control the morphology of hollow nanostructures, template based synthesis approach is of interest [1]. ZnO nanostructures can serve as appropriate templates since various morphologies can be synthesized [2]. Moreover, the ZnO template can be removed by using reductive gas treatment at moderate temperatures. Here we report the synthesis of hollow carbon nanofibers (HCNFs) from ZnO nanowires (NWs) by using ethanol as the carbon source.


Vector comparison is essential in pattern recognition. Numerous methods based on distance computation are available to carry out such comparison. Unfortunately most of them are applicable only if the vectors are of the same length or do not take into account components misalignment. This paper presents a new distance between two representations called the elastic distance and based on the dynamic programming technique. Properties are studied. We show that it leads to a variant of the least vector quantisation technique that learns the best representants of a group of prototypes. A new centroid computation algorithm is proposed. Finally, the learning scheme algorithm has been successfully applied on an online numerical handwritten character recognition problem using a previously computed centroid of a set of prototypes.


Worldviews of people are constituted through complicated structures granting that they are not uncivilised. Levi-Strauss demonstrated a possibility to indicate similarities among cultures of primitive societies by means of investigating their potential structures. In the process of his arguing, he employed "the game" and "the ritual" in order to account for structures in human behaviours. The game, in his text, conditions symmetry in advance. A match played according to rules of the game, for example, would be symmetrical owing to a rule of probability. Before the match, there is no hierarchy among players; however, the consequence of play re-composes players in a hierarchy and turns the relationship between them into asymmetry. By contrast, a match played according to the rules of a ritual has determined which side should win before the ritual is played. Therefore, it is an established asymmetry as if it were a drama or scenario. Additionally, this asymmetry allows for both a winner and a loser to be winners as actors. Then, it turns into symmetry. In short, in his text, a game of can be interpreted as a conversion from symmetry to asymmetry; on the other hand, the ritual would be as a conversion from asymmetry to symmetry. By means of introducing Levi-Strauss's terms, this work sets out to investigate the structure of urban houses in Kyoto as a case study. Recent investigations on urban houses of Kyoto have demonstrated characteristics that can be summarised in four words: Touri [street], Omote [face], Ura [Back] and Oku [Depth]. These concepts can have tight links with boundaries. This interpretation may appear oversimplified. However, examination of the words in the light of a structuralist approach is a prerequisite for interpreting Japanese worldviews. In this study, the main stress falls on decoding the structure of Japanese culture with a view to the sense of boundaries. For the purpose, three types of urban houses in Kyoto have been analysed in terms of spatial layouts. A Space Syntax approach reveals the spatial configurations of these houses and the results are of use in setting them in order. Based on the results collected from the analyses, it may be presumed that the established senses of "face" and "back" in Japanese houses provide a dual system in space. The introduction of hierarchy of visitors and the complexity of ceremonies supply more rules in spatial configurations. The concept of "Face" is the side for guests, and "Back" is for the 'host' side. In the houses, there are more than two systems of social configuration. From viewpoint of "Back", the most influential configuration is of daily life. This has a tight connection with the results of spatial analysis, and it


The author guides managers through the patent process and provides detailed examinations of famous patent battles to illustrate his points. Useful sections show how to read a patent, file outside the United States, and document an invention while it's being invented; the difference between buying and licensing patents; and the hard economics that govern such decisions as whether to contest a patent rejection. This book focuses on the business side of patents and can help managers decide whether an innovation is worthy of a patent filing in the first place.


This report is an overview of our work on transfer in reinforcement learning using advice-taking mechanisms. The goal in transfer learning is to speed up learning in a target task by transferring knowledge from a related, previously learned source task. Our methods are designed to do so robustly, so that positive transfer will speed up learning but negative transfer will not slow it down. They are also designed to allow human teachers to provide simple guidance that increases the benefit of transfered knowledge. These methods allow us to push the boundaries of current work in this area and perform transfer between complex and dissimilar tasks in the challenging RoboCup simulated soccer domain.


The period from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty is important on the inheritance of "the Book of Songs ".And "HanShu·YiWenzhi" and "SuiShu·JingJizhi" are important documents about the recording of "the Book of Songs" in that period.On the basis of comprison between them,we can examine the characteristics and changes during the period of inheritance and also show the changes of academic atmosphere and the research of the "the Book of Songs".


To investigate whether intravitreally applied haemangioblasts (HB) derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are helpful for the repair of vascular damage caused in animals by an oxygen‐induced retinopathy (OIR), by an induced diabetic retinopathy (DR) or by an induced retinal ischaemia with subsequent reperfusion.


The sex determing region Y‐box 4 (SOX4) gene is a critical developmental transcriptional factor that is overexpressed in prostate cancer (PCa). While we and others have investigated the role of SOX4 overexpression in PCa, the molecular mechanism underlying its aberrant expression remains unclear.


CONTEXT
Collision tumors are very rare entities composed of two or more distinct tumor components, each separated by normal tissue. Perhaps due to technical advances in the last decade, the incidence of collision tumors has been on the rise. To the best of our knowledge, collision tumors featuring mantle cell lymphoma and pancreatic adenocarcinoma have not been previously described in the scientific literature.

CASE REPORT
For the first time, we describe herein the clinical course of a collision tumor between pancreatic adenocarcinoma and mantle cell lymphoma.

DISCUSSION
We hypothesize several aspects in the pathogenesis of a such event and review the existing literature on collision tumors.


The text Tablettes sumeriennes de Shuruppak presented in this chapter was published by R. Jestin with 302 copies in 1937. The text contains a list of local, personal, and professional names of gods and the semicircular counting signs. It remains to be clarified whether the mention of Uruk or Irigal at end of the text allows the conclusion that this text were not compiled in Shuruppak but in Uruk 3S 302 would be an import board from Uruk. This would mean that the eight sections were put together in Uruk, each separated by blank lines that are related to people who are in front of it or behind it called, without semicircular signs. The original text of the chapter is in German. Keywords: Gods; Shuruppak; Uruk


The Neo-Assyrian Empire was a complex political entity that controlled most of the Near East from the 9th to the 7th centuries BCE. This empire has been described in recent scholarship as having made a unique imprint on the regional landscape. This thesis is a re-examination of the archaeological evidence that explores the changes in settlement patterns that have been noted in surveys carried out in various parts of the Near East. It also examines excavation evidence from a number of sites in former Assyrian provinces in order to obtain a clearer picture of the rural landscape of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and to consider whether the Pax Assyriaca hypothesis provides a valid interpretative framework for the survey and excavation evidence. The thesis will reconsider the survey data from the Tigris-Euphrates Archaeological Reconnaissance Project, which was used to support the 'agricultural colonisation' hypothesis proposed by Bradley Parker, and compare this with evidence obtained from other surveys conducted in Syro-Mesopotamia and the southern Levant. It will then examine excavation evidence from a series of sites – a medium-sized tell in the upper Euphrates region, four small sites in the Upper Tigris valley, four other small sites in Syro-Mesopotamia and two small sites in the southern Levant. These sites have been selected to provide a sample of the different kinds of settlements that were established in the Assyrian countryside. The examined evidence will show that there was a definite increase in settlement in the Neo-Assyrian period, which means that these changes are likely to have been the result of Assyrian policy. The thesis will then conclude with a discussion of the different roles (either agricultural or military) played by these sites, and of the potential function of the larger buildings discovered in some of them. These findings will provide a better understanding of the countryside during this period, and a more elaborate picture of the landscape of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.


PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to compare the spatio-temporal gait parameters between paretic and non-paretic limb while stepping over the different obstacle`s heights in subjects with stroke. METHODS: Nine subjects with stroke were participated in this study. Subjects were asked to step over obstacles with a different height. 8 camera motion analysis system(Motion Analysis Corporation, Santa Rosa, USA) was used to measure spatio-temporal parameters. The two way repeated measurement ANOVA was used to compare spati-temporal gait parameters between paretic and non-paretic limbs while stepping over a different obstacle`s height(0cm, 10cm, 20cm). RESULTS: Step width, velocity, single supoort time, and double support time were not different among obstacle`s height(p>0.05) but stride length, step length, and cadence were significantly different(p>0.05). In stride length, cadence, and double support time, the interactions between obstacle`s heights and limbs were not different(p>0.05) but it was significantly different in velocity, step length, and single support time(p 0.05) but step length and single support times were significantly different between paretic limb and non-paretic limb(p<0.05). CONCLUSION: These RESULTS show that there are differences with spatio-temporal gait parameters among obstacle`s heights and between paretic and non-paretic limb during obstacle crossing in subjects with stroke.


Abstract Given the commonly-cited "research-practice gaps" and nascent status of the dissemination and implementation (DI) field as it relates to psychological science, a multidisciplinary synthesis of the literature relating to DI efforts is an important addition. This is particularly true given that one prominent criticism of the DI field is that efforts to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice (EBP) lack their own empirical foundation.


RESULTS Of the 3.65 million patients in the NTDB over our study period, 322 patients received a stent during their hospitalization which was primarily for trauma with a mean age of 68.1 [SD 12.8] years. 62.7% of them are females. Most [81.7%] of the patients had mild injuries [injury severity scores (ISS) less than 15]. Overall, 42 patients [13%] of the patients had a prior history of myocardial infarction (MI) among whom 23[7.1%] of the patients had their MI during the 6 months preceding their trauma admission and 3% reported angina in the 30 days before their hospitalization. Most [68.9%] of the patients had their stents placed in the first 72 hours of their hospitalization [early stenting] while the remainder was after 72 hours [late stenting]. There was a statistically significant difference in the total length of stay among the early vs late groups 11.8 days vs 12.9 days [p1⁄40.010]. There was also a statistically significant difference in the length of ICU stay between those that underwent early stenting as compared with the late stenting group [ 7.2 vs 5.6 days ; p1⁄40.044]. In multivariate regression there were higher odds for early stenting in patients with peripheral artery disease [OR 1.1] , in those with a prior MI in the 6 months before their admission [OR 1.3] and in those with an admission systolic blood pressure <70mmHg [OR 4.4] with p1⁄40.931 ; p1⁄40.693 ; and p1⁄4 0.317 respectively.


Polycrystalline diamond films were obtained at different temperatures in a newly developed cylindrical MPCVD reactor,using H2-CH4 as source gas.Gas pressure,input microwave power and methane concentrations were fixed at 30 kPa,6kW and 2%,respectively.Surface morphologies,phases and preferred orientation of the diamond films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction technologies.The results show that the temperature of substrate has a significant effect on preferred orientation of diamond films at high gas pressure.As temperature increases from 800℃ to 900℃,the(111)orientation of the diamond film gradually turns to(100)preferred orientation.However,the(100)orientation changes to(111)preferred orientation when temperature increases from 900℃to 1050℃.


The most basic way to keep comfortable indoor environments for a building's occupants and save energy for space heating and cooling in residential buildings is to insulate the building envelope. Among the building materials to be used, thermal insulation materials primarily influence thermal performance. In particular, the type, thermal conductivity, density, and thickness of heat insulator, are important factors influencing thermal insulation performance. We investigate the design status of residential buildings which were designed in accordance with the building code of Korea and selected the type of thermal insulation materials applied to the walls of buildings. The present study aims at measuring the thermal conductivity of thermal insulation materials used for building walls of residential buildings. In this study, after collecting the design documents of 129 residential buildings, we investigated the type and thickness of insulation materials on the exterior wall specified in the design documents. As the thermal insulation materials, extruded polystyrene (XPS) board and expanded polystyrene(EPS) board are used the most widely in Korea when designing residential buildings. The thickness of thermal insulation materials applied to the exterior wall was 70mm, most frequently applied to the design. We measured the thermal conductivity and the density of XPS board and EPS board. When the density of XPS and EPS was 30~35 kg/㎥, the thermal conductivity of XPS was 0.0292 W/mK and it of EPS was 0.0316 W/mK.


Language is the most important communication tool that has various functions to be used in people's interaction. It is essentially utilized in every aspect of life in which there will be no good movement without a language. The same language used differently by some people is known as language variation that also takes place at an exceptional school (henceforth called as ES) in Gorontalo City, particularly the students with a physical disability. For that reason, this study aims to describe the use of language variation by the students with a physical disability at ES in Gorontalo City. Sociolinguistics theory about the use of language variation becomes the guideline of this study, and it refers to the speaker's language variation viewed by (1) lexical choice; (2) sentence; (3) intonation and (4) plot suitability.  The result finally shows that the use of language variation by the students with a physical disability is based on the speaker's lexical choice, sentence arrangement, intonation, and plot suitability.


Proposes two systolic architectures for computing 2D N/spl times/N discrete cosine transforms (DCT), which are based on the CORDIC techniques. First, it is shown that the 2D DCT can be mapped onto a systolic array directly by using row/column decomposition algorithm, where each processing element (PE) requires a ROM module of N words. Second, a new systolic algorithm using the indirect computation method is presented, in which Homer's rule can be used. Correspondingly, the improved array has the advantage of only requiring to store two words in one ROM module of each PE. The two resulting systolic arrays are fully pipelined and composed of only two linear arrays of N CORDIC processors.<<ETX>>


The way educators are operating as well as the degree by which their educational needs are satisfied, affect the proper exploitation of career counseling activities and guidance schemes in schools. The main objective of the following dissertation is to investigate the educational needs of KESYP's (Center for Counseling and Guidance) SEP (School Career Counseling) personnel in Greece as well as to record their opinions on the proper organization of relevant training programs.

The investigation of such educational needs is following the perspective of adult education as SEP's personnel is composed by adults. At the same time, the dissertation, in order to offer a more comprehensive view on the issue, is reviewing older relevant research papers. Research findings highlight the importance of education for KESYP's personnel and indicate useful policy recommendations and guidelines for the education policy makers so as to assist the educational actions and create the necessary conditions for the successful design and implementation of relevant educational schemes on SEP and counseling issues.

 For the realization of the research, the quantitative research method was followed while the research tool used was the questionnaire.


IIn this work, the design and manufacture of Pin-On disk and Ball-On disc wear testing device was carried out. Worn-out parts lost in machinery manufacturing are taking an important place nowadays. Material losses due to erosion have an important place in the economy of the country. Many scientists are working on this subject in order to reduce the material losses due to wear in machine manufacturing to the lowest level.

Wear is defined as undesirable surface deterioration resulting from the separation of small particles from the surface by mechanical agents in the presence of other materials (solid, liquid, gas) in the materials used ".

Wear and friction tests were standardized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), American Societies of Standards and Materials (ASTM) and ISO and DIN standards.

In this study, a pin-on disc and a ball-on disc wear tester measuring the friction coefficient between two parts were designed and manufactured.

The materials used are 1,5kw 900 rpm triple motor. 5kg capacity loadcell, loadcelden data is used to get the display AD-4406 brand and the engine speed is adjusted delta brand inverter is used.

Keywords: Wear, Wear Test Machine


Nigeria is presently facing a food crisis, which is compounded by the oil glut in the international market reducing in effect the country's economic capacity to finance further food imports and the capital intensive agricultural projects. The consequence of this debacle can only be an application for more loans from international lending agencies, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, thereby reinforcing economic dependence. Agricultural produetion in Nigeria has been declining in the past decade due to a variety of reasons, amongst which are structural impediments like inadequate marketing systems, myopic and paternalistic official policies and the shortfall in oil revenue. The Sahelian drought of the early 1970s also affected agricultural production in the northern part of the country. The official response of the goveTlUilent has been to embark on high teclmology and capital intensive agriculture in a predominantly peasant society. The Government has also turned to the World Bank to supply loans for agricultural projects which will soon cover all the nineteen states of the country. However, rather than increase food production in the country and thereby improve the standard of living of the poverty-stricken peasants, these projects are gradually incorporating the agricultural sector into the international capitalist system. The shortage of food persists as President Shagari recently acknowledged:


The investigation conducted in this paper aims to study free vibration and buckling behaviors of size-dependent functionally graded sandwich nanobeams. In order to take into account the small size effects, nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen's is incorporated. Material properties of the functionally graded sandwich beams are supposed to change continuously through the thickness direction according to two forms of the volume fraction of constituents by power law functionally graded material and sigmoid law functionally graded material. These rules are modified to consider the effect of porosity, which covers four kinds of porosity distributions. Two types of sandwich nanobeams were provided: (a) homogeneous core and functionally graded skins and (b) functionally graded core and homogeneous skins. Third-order shear deformation theory without any shear correction factor in conjunction with Hamilton's principle is used to extract the governing equations of motions of porous functionally graded sandwich nanobeams and then solved analytically for two hinged ends. The effects of nonlocal parameter, length to thickness ratios, material graduation index, amount of porosity, porosity distribution shape, on the nondimensional frequency and critical buckling load of the functionally graded sandwich nanobeams made of porous materials are exhibited by a parametric study.


. The article describes the effect of additives – sulfates on the basic properties of foams (stability, multiplicity, uniformity, syneresis) for their further use in the production of non-autoclaved foam concrete. Accelerators of cement setting are chosen for the research in order to intensify the injection molding technology of cellular concrete. The solution to this problem lies in the evaluation of main parameters of mixing, the choice of raw materials, the availability of additives and the overall process of production. The article clarifies the influence of setting accelerators together with additives, foam matrix stabilizers, on stability, multiplicity and syneresis. The influence of pH-medium on the primary characteristics of foams obtained on the basis of foaming agent "Penostrom" is considered. The effects of the additive hydrolysis constant on the multiplicity of the foam are identified; the possibilities of changing the pH of the medium on the stability of the foam matrix and primary syneresis are evaluated. Recommendations on the use of some sulfates together with foam thick-eners in the technology of non-autoclaved foam concrete are given.


ABSTRACT Limnological reconnaissance data were collected during summers 1992–93 and 1995 from 16 major lakes within Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska (GAAR) located above the Arctic Circle. In GAAR the southern lakes (~67°N) and those in the Brooks Range foothills are in watersheds with taiga and tundra vegetation. The northern lakes (~68°N) are at higher elevations in the Brooks Range in watersheds that lie wholly beyond the treeline. Average sum of the cations for all lakes matches the world average for fresh waters and the average for drainage from tundra and taiga landscapes. Local lithography explains the measured decrease in calcium equivalents and silica, and an increase in magnesium with altitude because of more calcareous rock in the southern basins at low altitude and shale/conglomerate in northern mountain catchments. In most low altitude lakes Secchi depth was located in sub-surface algal peaks at temperatures averaging ~8.5 C cooler than the surface, typically with double the surface chlorophyll value. Mineral turbidity, and less so color, controlled transparency in several high altitude lakes where turbid inflows were a factor. Lakes were oligotrophic based on nutrients and algal chlorophylli, but a doubling of TP and concurrent halving of TN was measured in GAAR lakes with altitude. Both patterns were correlated with the decreasing density of terrestrial vegetation with altitude, resulting in a sharp decline in the TN:TP ratio. This pattern suggests sources of these nutrients change across the landscape continuum within GAAR described by altitude and vegetation zones. Nitrogen fixation associated with terrestrial vegetation most likely accounts for greater TN in lakes within the taiga and moist or wet tundra, whereas TN levels approximated the N content of regional rainfall in high elevation lakes with predominately barren land and prostrate shrub in the catchments. Ratios of TN:TP and Nutrient Stimulation Bioassays suggest P limitation was likely among low altitude lakes and N limitation increased in importance in lakes at high altitude. The particulate composition ratio (as C:N:P molar ratio) of these lakes averaged ~200:20:1.


A rapid, simple and inexpensive method has been devised to determine the proportion of colonies of ureolytic organisms in cultures of complex microbial populations. Spiral plated cultures displaying well separated colonies are tested for ureolytic micro‐organisms by imprinting the colonies onto filter papers impregnated with a solution of 1 mol/l urea and phenol red (0·1% w/v) in 0·1 mol/l phosphate buffer (pH 6·8). A rapid colour change indicates ureolytic activity. The proportion of ureolytic colony‐forming units in cultures of saliva specimens from 90 school children ranged from less than 1% to 40% (mean 9·9%± 7·7). Saliva and dental plaque specimens from 16 adult subjects were also tested and the occurrence of urease‐positive organisms was substantially less in plaque (3·6%± 3·7, range 0·1–12) than saliva (18·7%± 13·8, range 1·3–51). The predominant ureolytic oral species was Streptococcus salivarius, 75 (54·7%) of 137 tested isolates being urease‐positive.


According to Fine (among others), a nonbasic factual proposition must be grounded in facts involving those of its constituents that are both real and fundamental. But the principle is vulnerable to several dialectically significant counterexamples. It entails, for example, that a logical Platonist cannot accept that true disjunctions are grounded in the truth of their disjuncts; that a Platonist about mathematical objects cannot accept that sets are grounded in their members; and that a colour primitivist cannot accept that an object's being scarlet grounds its not being chartreuse. The Finean might try to defend these implications, but it generates further problems. Instead, the principle should be rejected. An important upshot is that the principle cannot be relied on to distinguish robust realism from anti-realism about a propositional domain, for the principle obscures ways of taking features to be both real and fundamental.


Due to the continuous increase of power applied in electric device, the growing demand on cooling systems have led with using various cooling device to conduct the thermal management. As a new cooling device, a Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) system has been taken notice recently. The performance of the LHP systems depends mainly upon the operating performance of the wick structure should possess flow properties such as permeability, maximum capillary pressure and so on. However, expressions on packed metal spherical particles are not related with various particle shapes. In this work, therefore, an experimental apparatus was set up to measure the flow properties of sintered porous metal wicks manufactured with spherical, needled, and corn shape particles. The results of the such experiments gave very accurate and consistent.Copyright © 2008 by ASME


During the processes of software implementation for assistance a maintenance management activity, there will be a lot of barrier whose like manager you must see overcome, with risk of a appearance a situation, that after finishing implementation a system don't provide expected results. reasons will be most often a different from company to company. Offender will be wanted in chosen software package or in education assistance which provide salesman of a computer system for maintenance management. This are mainly just some of a excuses from system user side for failure of a effective and efficient service a software system. In this paper work is presented some of a measurement which can enable a management to manage a project this kind to the end successful, as well as thru which phase we must pass in goal of a realization a necessary activity and a carry out a transition in management concept which a critical on a long path of a successful exploration a software system.


Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications, An International Journal seeks to provide a central vehicle for exchange of basic ideas in the mechanics of composite materials and structures between the research workers and engineers located throughout the world. Only those papers that convey original unpublished research of permanent interest will be accepted for publication. In all cases, the highest priority will be given to those contributions which increase our basic understanding of the mechanics of composite materials and structures and of its application to computational and engineering problems. The subjects covered in this journal include, but are not limited to: the mechanics of structured, homogeneous, and heterogeneous media with complex rheological properties and phase transitions; thermody-namics, physicochemical mechanics and micromechanics of composite materials; the properties of fibers, matrices, and of an interphase layer; methods of averaging; numerical methods in the mechanics of heterogeneous media and composites; computer simulation of the behavior of composites; diagnostics and accumulation of faults; strength, rigidity, durability, and mechanics of disintegration of composites; composite plates and shells; methods for calculation of composite structures; static and dynamic problems; interaction with the environment ; intellectual (active, adaptive) materials and structures; natural composites and bio-composites; technological mechanics of composites; methods of experimental study of composites and composite structures. subscription rate for 2010 is $681.00. Add $10.00 per issue for foreign airmail shipping and handling fees for all orders shipped outside the United States or Canada. All subscriptions are payable in advance. Subscriptions are entered on an annual basis, i.e., January to December. For immediate service and charge card sales, please call (203) 938-1300 Monday through Friday 9 AM — 5 PM EST. For those organizations that have been granted a photocopy license by CCC, a separate system of payment has been arranged. The fee code for users of the Transactional Reporting Service is [ ISSN 2152-2073 $35.00 + $0.00 ]. The fee is subject to change without notice. Begell House, Inc.'s consent does not extend to copying for general distribution, for promotion, for creating new works, or for resale. Specific permission must be obtained from Begell House, Inc. for such copying. This journal contains information obtained from highly regarded sources. Reprinted material is quoted with permission, and sources are indicated. A wide variety of references are listed. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the editor and the publisher assume no responsibility for any statements of …


The scheme for IP phone terminal was put forward after the principle and structure of IP phone were analyzed,which is based on LAN and can transmit both speech and data.In the scheme,the core of speech processing was a special coding and decoding DSP chip CT8020 with low data rate for compressing speech.The CT8020 was controlled by AN2131QC,which is a microprocessor EZ-USB chip AN2131QC with USB interface.Then it was connected to LAN using the Ethernet controlling chip,at the same time,the peripheral equipment was equipped,such as PCM coding and decoding chip,keyboard and LCD display.During the research work,the transmission of speech IP package with high quality in LAN was accomplished firstly because of the solution of the key technology of IP phone,and the IP phone terminal with transmission of speech in LAN was achieved at last.


A 45-year-old woman underwent a total thyroidectomy and was subsequently treated with 1110 MBq of radioactive iodine-131 ablation therapy for papillary thyroid cancer. A post-therapy iodine-131 whole-body scan revealed a focal uptake in the mid-pelvic area. To identify the exact anatomical location, SPECT/CT images were taken. The SPECT/CT fusion images revealed that the uptake was in the uterus, which was considered as radioactive iodine-avid ectopic thyroid tissue in the uterus.


The salt 1,1′-butane-1,4-diyl-dibenzimidazolium picrate, in the form of an methanol solvate, is reported. The compound was crystallized in the triclinic system, space group P1 with a = 6.9285(6)A, b = 10.8287(9)A, c = 12.9941(11)A, α = 100.000(4)°, β = 104.942(3)°, γ = 94.865(4)° and Z = 1. The molecule of the title compound, which lies on the crystallographic two-fold axis in the unit cell, contains half of the molecule and one picrate ion. Also, the 1,1′-butane-1,4-diyl-dibenzimidazole cation units are linked by π-π interactions to give infinite two-dimensional (2-D) supramolecular layers, which are further linked by the intermolecular hydrogen bonds between the 1,1′-butane-1,4-diyl-dibenzimidazole cation and the picrate groups to form a three-dimensional (3-D) network supermolecule.


This article reports on the results of tests on the impact of hot dip galvanizing on the strength of B500SP reinforcing bars. The bars were hot-dip galvanized in baths with different process parameters. Following each hot dip galvanizing, the structure of the coatings obtained was inspected and tensile tests were conducted. Tensile testing results were compared with the properties of non-galvanized reinforcing bars. It was established that, regardless of the parameters set for the hot dip galvanizing process, zinc coatings slightly increase the mechanical properties of B500SP reinforcing bars.


Abstract The archer's loose, used as protection for the thumb while drawing the bow, is traditionally associated with the Asiatic style of archery and regarded as a response to the introduction of the composite bow. Little attention has previously been paid to looses found in ancient Nubia, and this paper presents a more comprehensive typology of this material. It confirms a divergence between purely functional forms and a later ceremonial tradition that existed alongside the functional looses. This ceremonial tradition is discussed as a marker of an elite military identity, demonstrating the cultural impact of conflict.


Time temperature indicators are devices which integrate the exposure to temperature over time by accumulating the effect of such exposures and exhibiting a change of colour (or other physical characteristic). TTI's are commonly used in food, pharmaceutical and medical products to indicate exposure to excessive temperature abuse. TTI's help in assure the cool chain of food products, they are expected to reduce the amount of food waste, as well as reducing the number of food borne illnesses. The mandatory regulations on pharmaceutical cold chain logistics by international and national associations like WHO are influencing the demand for TTI labels. Global time temperature indicator labels market is expected to witness rapid growth during the forecast period. This growth is expected to be primarily driven by growing concern about food wastage and its impacts on economy.


The predictions of the MSSM are discussed in the light of recent LEP and SLD precision data. The full supersymmetric one loop corrections to the effective weak mixing angle, experimentally determined in LEP and SLD experiments, are considered. It is demonstrated, both analytically and numerically, that, potentially dangerous, large logarithmic sparticle corrections are cancelled. The relative difference factor \Delta k between the mixing angle defined as a ratio of couplings and the experimentally obtained angle is discussed. It is found that \Delta k is dominated by the oblique corrections, while the non-oblique overall supersymmetric EW and SQCD corrections are negligible. The comparison of the MSSM with radiative electroweak symmetry breaking to the LEP+SLD precision data indicates that rather large values of the soft breaking parameter M_{1/2} in the region greater than 500 GeV are preferred.


Through the expounding of concepts and the analysis of literary texts of the epistemology of metaphors by Paul Demann, this article analyzes metaphor in literary texts, expounding the continuity, the dynamic feature, and the ambiguousness of metaphor in literary texts. The continuity of metaphor in literary texts refers to its working state in the text as a mechanism, and therefore it is the active correspondence of concepts. The dynamic feature of metaphor refers to the transformation of concepts, an Abstract process from one concept to another or a process of meaning changes. Besides, in literary texts, if metaphor is taken as a reference, the real meaning of the metaphor is probably ambiguous, and there is no consistent reference between fact and language. In this case the metaphor will probably destroy the gist of the text.


AtSUC9 (At5g06170), a sucrose (Suc) transporter from Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) L. Heynh., was expressed in Xenopus (Xenopus laevis) oocytes, and transport activity was analyzed. Compared to all other Suc transporters, AtSUC9 had an ultrahigh affinity for Suc (K0.5 = 0.066 ± 0.025 mm). AtSUC9 showed low substrate specificity, similar to AtSUC2 (At1g22710), and transported a wide range of glucosides, including helicin, salicin, arbutin, maltose, fraxin, esculin, turanose, and α-methyl-d-glucose. The ability of AtSUC9 to transport 10 glucosides was compared directly with that of AtSUC2, HvSUT1 (from barley [Hordeum vulgare]), and ShSUT1 (from sugarcane [Saccharum hybrid]), and results indicate that type I and type II Suc transporters have different substrate specificities. AtSUC9 protein was localized to the plasma membrane by transient expression in onion (Allium cepa) epidermis. Using a whole-gene translational fusion to β-glucuronidase, AtSUC9 expression was found in sink tissues throughout the shoots and in flowers. AtSUC9 expression in Arabidopsis was dependent on intragenic sequence, and this was found to also be true for AtSUC1 (At1g71880) but not AtSUC2. Plants containing mutations in Suc transporter gene AtSUC9 were found to have an early flowering phenotype under short-day conditions. The transport properties of AtSUC9 indicate that it is uniquely suited to provide cellular uptake of Suc at very low extracellular Suc concentrations. The mutant phenotype of atsuc9 alleles indicates that AtSUC9 activity leads to a delay in floral transition.


Abstract : Analog computer techniques were applied to the analysis of the performance of a shipboard power system such as is found on the SSN-588 class vessel. The major components of the system, such as the ships services turbine generator set, the regulators and controls on the turbine and generator, the 300 kilowatt ac-dc motor generator and its controls, and the coolant pump drive motors and a pulsing sonar load were included in the simulation. The performance of the system was investigated for the application of the load disturbances of starting the coolant pump induction motor and the application of a sonar load for various combinations of system parameters. The results of the study were obtained in the form of analog strip chart recordings of the system variables of voltage, load current, system frequency, generator torque, etc. The results of the study showed that the initial changes in system voltage are determined by the magnitude of the disturbance and the characteristics of the generating equipment. The transient recovery from the initial voltage change is a function of the magnitude of the disturbance and the adjustments of the regulator and control equipment. (Author)


As a prime contractor to DOE, Washington River Protection Solutions LLC (WRPS) is requesting expressions of interest as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to demonstrate capability to perform human health and environmental risk assessment and performance assessment modeling and documentation of work associated with the waste removal, tank closure, waste processing, and disposal for the Hanford Tank Farms' 149 single-shell tanks (SST) and associated ancillary equipment. Waste is currently being removed from individual SSTs. Human health and environmental risk assessments/performance assessments are required to support evaluation of the long-term impact of closed facilities, including tank farms and waste disposal facilities. Work will be performed under a blanket master agreement, with separate subcontract releases issued for specific work. WRPS anticipates work duration to begin October 1, 2021, and run through FY 2022, with four option years. Interested firms are invited to submit an expression of interest and capability by 4:00 PM PT on November 12, 2020. The RFP process likely will begin in April 2021. The assigned NAICS code is 541620. https://beta.sam.gov/opp/5df8c0ef4474470ebdf94bcb034fb8f8/view


Abstract Studies on prepositions in Hong Kong English have focused on syntactic issues, most notably on the constituent structures of different prepositions with five transitive verbs (i.e., enter into, discuss about, return back, stress on and list out). As a result, they have neglected the role of meaning in the choice of prepositions that are associated with these verbs. This paper attempts to provide a convincing semantic explanation of the phenomenon from the theoretical framework of Cognitive Grammar. I will argue that the cooccurrence of particular prepositions with these verbs in Hong Kong English is not completely arbitrary, but is in fact semantically motivated to a considerable degree. All corpus uses of these structures evoke some kind of conceptual overlap between the lexical verb and the preposition. More specifically, a certain facet of the verb's conceptual content corresponds in some evident way to an active zone of the associated preposition. The conclusion considers the implications of a highly schematic constructional schema instantiated by these five verbpreposition constructions as a unit entrenched by nonnative speakers.


ABSTRACT Malaysia has long been hailed as a beacon of moderate Islam. Yet, at present, there is considerable support for ISIS amongst Malaysians, and it represents a unique articulation of contemporary violent Islamist extremism. Malaysians who joined ISIS in Syria and its supporters at home are characterized by a sense of Islamic righteousness. Also, they share distinctive features that differentiate them from the old jihadi generation: a diverse occupational background, the lack of either formal or informal religious training, and the growing nexus of criminality-radicalization. Malaysian support for ISIS can be historically and politically contextualized in relation to the Islamization race between the main political parties, the presence of Salafi-jihadi discourse and ISIS's discursive construction of authentic Islam.


The invention relates to a food composition comprising as a vehicle component, a processed cheese formulation, the processed cheese formulation contains at least 2 wt .-% whey proteins, predominantly present in the final food preparation in denatured form. In order to improve such a food preparation so that it constitutes a heat-stable product and, preferably, is also frittierfahig without melt, and can absorb a high proportion of non consisting of processed cheese ingredients containing starting material with which the whey proteins are incorporated into the food preparation , at least 60 wt .-% of the whey proteins in undenatured form, and an aqueous suspension of the starting material containing 10 wt .-% whey protein and at a pH value in the range of 3 to 8 forms after heating to 70 ° C to 110 ° C for 10 min or after heating at 140 ° C to 150 ° C for 5 to 30 sec. denaturation of whey protein under a dimensionally stable gel.


The disciplinary accountability of the personnel from the local public administration is differently regulated, depending on the personnel category. The disciplinary accountability of the civil servants is an administrative-disciplinary accountability regulated by the Law no. 188/1999 concerning the Status of the civil servants and can take place only under the circumstances stipulated by law, while the disciplinary accountability of the persons hired on the basis of the individual work contract is regulated by the Work Law, Law no. 53/2003 and can take place only under the circumstances stipulated by this law. The only basis of the disciplinary responsibility is the disciplinary infringement, that in fact represents a deed related to work, a deed consisting in an action or inaction carried out with guilt by the employee, through which this one broke the legal norms, the internal regulations, the individual work contract or the applicable collective work contract, the orders and the legal dispositions of the hierarchical superiors (Law no. 53/2003, Art. 263, Paragr. 2).


Social and environmental problems attributed to current electricity sector restructuring structures are spelled out. The energy source choices and market power of large industrial and commercial users versus residential consumers are compared. An institutional analytic approach is used to reveal the best option to alleviate the social and environmental problems associated with electricity restructuring. Community aggregation emerges with great potential to achieve meaningful social and environmental improvement.


ABSTRACT Grouping warships for combat has evolved greatly over the centuries. In the early 1940s, the United States Navy began to group its warships for combat in much more flexible task forces than the previous single-type-of-warship formations. This system has evolved and spread to naval forces ashore but remains fundamentally unchanged. It now covers numbers between 1 to over 1000, of which the most prominent is the first 100 or so which U.S. Navy combat forces use. The numbered fleets worldwide utilize the series covering 20-79; 1-19 and 90-99 appear to be reserved for special allocations and Commander, Pacific Fleet; numbers over 80 to the Atlantic; 100-119 for Northern Europe and briefly Tenth Fleet; the 120 series for Second Fleet as a Joint Task Force leader; the 150 series for Naval Forces Central Command; and the 180 series for Atlantic Fleet and now-Fleet Forces Command.


We integrate the mixed gamble perspective with the dynamic-based institutional view to study how different reference points influence family vs. nonfamily firms' scale of internationalization over ...


The importance of phosphatase for plant nutrition has repeatedly been pointed out. In most soils, the organically bound P- fraction is higher than the inorganic. Phosphorus uptake by plants requires mineralization of the organic P- component by phosphatases to orthophosphate. Phosphatases are inducible enzymes that are produced predominantly under conditions of low phosphorus availability. Phosphatases are excreted by plant roots and by microorganisms. Microbial phosphatases dominate in soils. The phosphomonoesterases, so-called phosphatases differ in their substrate specificity and their pH optimum. One can thus diferentiate between acid and alkaline phosphatases in the soil. Phosphatase activities were determined in the 0-20-, 20-40- and 40-60-cm layers of a preluvosoil submitted to a complex tillage (no-till and conventional tillage), crop rotation (2- and 3-crop rotations) and fertilisation (mineral(NP) fertilisation and farmyard-manuring) experiment. It was found that the activities decreased in the order: acid phosphatase activity > alkaline phosphatase activity. Each activity decreased with increasing sampling depth. No-till -in comparison with conventional tillage - resulted in significantly higher soil phosphatase activities in the 0-20-cm layer and in significantly lower activities in the deeper layers. The soil under maize or wheat was more phosphatase-active in the 3-than in the 2- crop rotation.In the 2-crop rotation higher soil phosphatase activities were recorded under wheat than under maize. Farmyard-manuring of maize - in comparison with its mineral fertilisation - led to a significant increase in each activity.


The main objective of this article is to discuss the effectiveness of bottom-up, community-driven approaches in promoting community participation and building local capacity within the post-Soviet social, institutional and political context of Armenia. In exploring this issue, the article examines the nature of local participation and social relations in rural communities in Armenia and the impact of the World Bank-supported Armenia Social Investment Fund (ASIF) project on the existing forms of local social organization. One of the objectives of the ASIF project was to promote the participation of local communities in their own economic and social development. The research finds that the project did not change the existing patterns of local social organization and had no significant impact on the nature of participation in the beneficiary communities. Bottom-up, capacity-building interventions that mainly focus on changing patterns of interpersonal social relations may not be effective in fostering sustainable civic institutions without changes in the nature of a country's governance.


The entry into force of the first European standard dealing with daylight is very good news. However, the objectives set by this standard in terms of daylight provision are quite demanding and the consequences on the design of buildings are far from neutral. Based on simulations conducted with the DIAL+ software, the study focuses on the Daylight Provision criterion and looks at the influence of localization (latitude). The work consists of the evaluation of a 2 case-studies and analyses the results obtained for 4 locations in Europe. The aim is to put in perspective, on the one hand, the daylighting performance and, on the other hand, the induced energy consumption in terms of heating, cooling and electric lighting. This gives a better idea of the consequences of this Standard on the overall energy performance and allows to question the objectives set by the standard


Grey literature takes on new meanings as publishers and individuals create new products and release information in different ways. With several choices of access and delivery usually available in different formats, the difficulty once associated with publishing grey literature and the enormous expenses predicted for a relatively low volume, electronic publishing via html and pdf/Adobe Acrobat options, has created new models and opportunities, in an almost magical way. Information access in the global economy forces the information professional to be more aware of a wider spectrum of information, including traditional grey literature. As the hues change, the literature takes on a new sense of value. Explores different examples of scientific grey literature and suggests how it can be introduced to and by information specialists and how better training and exposure can reduce the obstacles in utilizing it more widely. By concentrating on new modes of publishing and delivery, the capabilities of information professionals are reinforced and grey literature in the sciences gains a more prominent role in a range of information use, access and dissemination activities.


The Philippine Poetic: A Phenomenological Explication of its Definitions by Seven Filipino Critics As a means to harness what Jonathan Culler calls, "literary competence," each teacher of literature is expected to be armed with the capacity to form an efficient framework in reading, one that guides students in their own textual experience.  Each teacher too manages to have his/her own practice of reading depending on individual politics, or institutional positions.  In this paper, the author seeks to create a phenomenological reading to the act of reading poetry.  The author examines selected Filipino texts that explain the practice of reading poetry (as explicated by seven major writer-critics from the Philippines: Gemino Abad, Virgilio S. Almario, Cirilo F. Bautista, Isagani R. Cruz, E. San Juan Jr., Edith L. Tiempo, and Bienvenido Lumbera).  This project envisions to create a cartography of the "landscape" of reading in the Filipino context.  This work is a new contribution to Filipino literature, as it aspires to understand the trajectories, possibilities, and future of harnessing literary competence.  In the end, this paper endeavors to attempt a more "located" reading practice of poetry (a practice based on contexts, time, and history).


Conditions A) are elaborated as the most efficient ones: halogenated nitrogen heteroarenes substituted at the aryl moiety afford moderate to good yields of the desired compounds.


Palestinian fertility has remained little affected by the demographic transition with a total fertility rate of over 8 in the mid-1980s despite an array of factors usually associated with fertility decline. Fertility even increased slightly after the launching of the Intifada in December 1987. A recent survey by the new Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics of Ramallah financed by a contribution from the European Commission was undertaken in 1995 and could indicate whether the September 1993 peace accord affected fertility. Some 20000 housing units in the West Bank and Gaza were covered. The survey data showed a total fertility rate (TFR) of 5.62 in the West Bank 7.4 in Gaza and 6.23 overall in 1994-95 reflecting a slight decline but still a much higher TFR than other Arab countries of the Middle East. The classic fertility differentials were small: the total fertility rate was 5.81 in cities 6.39 in villages 6.85 in refugee camps 6.62 for women with less than secondary education 5.57 for those with secondary education and 4.72 for those with secondary or higher education. Only religion showed a marked effect with Christian women having a TFR of 2.71 compared to a TFR of 6.34 among Muslim women. A reconstruction of fertility levels using the Palestinian data indicates that from 1980 to 1987 a strong trend toward fertility decline occurred with the TFR dropping from 7.67 to 6.84 during the 7-year period due entirely to a 17% decline in the West Bank. The TFR remained nearly constant in Gaza before the Intifada and reached 8.11 in 1988 8.5 in 1989 and 8.76 in 1990. Only 1 year of data is available after the peace accord signing. Survey data suggest that the desired family size remains large at around 5. It appears that Palestinian fertility will not significantly decline until the current political status of neither war nor peace is improved and Palestinian women achieve increased participation in society.


The main aim of this survey is to provide an easy and comprehensive versionof the Brown representability theorem and its dual; and to give a trichotomy of adjoint pairs between compactly generated triangulated categories, whose subcategories of compact objects have Serre functors.


The objective was to determine effects of feed presentation time and dietary forage to concentrate ratio on circadian and postprandial patterns of feed intake in lactating cows. Four multiparous and four primiparous Holstein cows were used in a 4 × 4 Latin square design with a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. A higher or a lower concentrate Total Mixed Ration (TMR) was delivered at either 2100 h or 0900 h. The study consisted of four 21-d periods, each with 14-d of adaptation. A metabolic acquisition system was used to monitor continuous feed intake electronically. Feed presentation at 2100 h vs . 0900 h increased the amount of feed consumed within 3-h post-feeding from 26 to 37% of total daily intake. Dry Matter Intake (DMI) over the 24-h remained similar. Provision of TMR at 2100 h vs . 0900 h increased DMI in primiparous cows but not in multiparous cows. Results demonstrated that evening vs. morning feeding increased eating rate and feed intake shortly post-feeding. Timing of feeding, thus, could be a bioengineer and synchronizer of periprandial metabolic rhythms in lactating dairy cows.


Cerebral activation due to music presentation through headphone with different sound insulation properties, i.e., a regular headphone with -15dB sound insulation and an excellent headphone with -25dB, were examined during fMRI measurement. Ten healthy adults (five men and five women, average age 27.2 years) had participated in this experiment. Music ("Four Seasons" by Vivaldi) was reproduced from CD in block design and presented for 40sec to the subject through either of headphones with an interruption of 40sec without music. Three blocks were done in this experiment. According to introspective reports after fMRI measurement, subjects felt more comfortable due to music presentation through a headphone with excellent insulation property, compared to music presentation through a headphone with regular insulation. Amygdale is a well known structure which serves an important role in emotional experience. Due to the music presentation amygdale was activated regardless of the insulation properties of headphone. However, degree of activations in left and right amygdale was altered according to the insulation properties of headphone through which music was presented. Therefore, left amygdale and right one might serve in different manners according to an auditory experience which was pleasant or unpleasant.


Abstract As part of an effort to improve the stability of the RELAP5-3D computer code, a characteristic analysis of the governing differential equations for a compressible, one-dimensional, two-fluid, nonhomogeneous nonequilibrium model is presented. The study is limited to the case when small timescale relaxation terms can be neglected, and therefore, a two-pressure model can be reduced to an equivalent volume-average, one-pressure model. The primary focus of the work is to consider flow with compressible components and to compare hyperbolicity criteria with the results of commonly used limitations of flow with incompressible phases. Based on a review of current achievements in this area, a generic form of momentum conservation equations that are invariant from the definition of differential interfacial terms is suggested. New analytical criteria of strict hyperbolicity of the governing system for the compressible two-phase-flow model are developed and supported by numerical calculations and comparisons. Furthermore, overrestriction of results of eigenvalue analysis based on an incompressible components model is demonstrated. The derived criteria are applied to RELAP5-3D in the form of modifications to momentum equations. Upon implementing the developed criteria, the simulation results show marked improvement in stability without otherwise affecting the calculations. The importance of well-posedness of the initial value problem for numerical solution stability is demonstrated.


Questions, related to the system of training of personnels outside Ukraine and necessity of introduction of the best experience for the system of preparation of domestic specialists of sphere of physical education and sport, are examined in the article. The system of children's sports school demands from the trainer performance of work at all levels of sports skill. At 30 hour week loading of the student it is necessary to reduce time studying of each discipline. It is necessary to translate up to 70 % of a material on independent studying. This position assumes the decision of many problems, reduces total of hours to each separate discipline.


A third of patients report severe discomfort after anaesthesia, and women are three times more likely to experience it than men, a comprehensive national snapshot of patient reported outcomes has found.

But the study, published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia ,1 found that, despite this burden of perioperative symptoms, almost all patients surveyed were very satisfied with the level of care they …


Forests area that designated as village forest needs to be managed and maintained it's sustainability. Since it is established as village forest , t he people of Dusun Manjau attitudes about the village forest was unknown . By knowing the attitude of societies about the village forests , we'll see the societies's motivations and initiatives to maintain and preserve these area . Th is research aims to knowthe attitudes of the people about village forest in Dusun Manjau. The results of the research is that people who have a positive attitude about village forest in Dusun Manjau are people who respect's the rules that relating to village forest, beside that the y also know with continuing to maintain and preserve the village forest,and also to maintain the life and future of generation. In the other side, respondents who have negative attitude about the village forest is those that don't care about the village forest and its existence. This attitude caused by several factors, among others, lack of awareness about the surrounding environment, lack of information about how importan tto keep the village forest. According to the information from members of LPHD (Lembaga Pengelolaan Hutan Desa / Village Forest Management Council)in Dusun Manjau. T here are education and socialization provided by NGO and stakeholders to the localpeople , but not all the people take participate in these activities. Keyword : Aittude, Dusun Manjau, village forest


Objective: NA Background: Central nervous system manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (CNSMP) are well recognized in the pediatric population. However, the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of CNSMP in adult subjects remains poorly understood. Design/Methods: We present a young adult patient with CNSMP successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), in addition to a systematic review of the literature conducted for studies reporting CNSMP (January 1984 to October 2017). This review utilized pre-specified Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms, Boolean logic, and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Results: A 19-year-old man presented with seven days of flu-like illness, followed by diffuse paresthesias, diplopia, dysarthria, facial droop, and ataxia. His level of consciousness progressively worsened. Brain MRI revealed prominent T2-hyperintensity spanning the medulla and pons, post-contrast enhancement, and scattered supratentorial T2-hyperintensities. CSF was notable for lymphocytic-predominant cells (141 mm 3 ) and mild protein elevation (69 mg/dL). Despite empiric treatment (antibacterials (not sensitive to M. Pneumonia), antiviral, high-dose steroid), deterioration continued. IVIG introduced on hospital day four led to dramatic improvement within four days, and complete recovery at six months. CSF PCR resulted positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae (absence of alternative etiologies). Abstract review identified 153 potential articles (32 excluded; insufficient data). Of the remaining 121 studies: 15 (12%) reported CNSMP in adults, while 6 (5%) reported treatment with IVIG (pediatric cases only). In total 46 adult cases were identified (none using IVIG). Including our patient, all 47 adult cases were entered into a database detailing clinical, radiological, and prognostic features. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the largest review on adult CNSMP and the first reported case of IVIG treatment in an adult patient. IVIG has potential value in treatment of this disorder. Our case supports that a co-infectious autoimmune mechanism may be involved, if not primarily responsible, to explain cases refractory to standard treatment. Study Supported by: NA Disclosure: Dr. Piran has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mathew has nothing to disclose. Dr. Linn has nothing to disclose. Dr. Lu has nothing to disclose. Dr. Salgado has nothing to disclose.


This work presents a blind information hiding method for MP3 compressed bitstreams based on the characteristics of the Huffman coding tables of the count1 region.The proposed algorithm first partly decodes the cover mp3 file to search for the appropriate codewords in count1 regions,and then embeds the secret information by modifying the corresponding codewords in the cover signal.Compared to the famous information hiding software MP3Stego,the proposed algorithm can obtain higher hidden data capacity with lower computational complexity.Furthermore,its imperceptibility is good and it can resist such steganalysis methods proposed to detect MP3Stego steganography.


Aim: The study was aimed to ascertain the damage done by an oil spill on the soils of Ogbia area in Bayelsa State, Niger Delta, Nigeria. Study Design: The study adopted the experimental research design which entailed the use of field measurements and a control site. Three communities which are Elebele, Imiringi and Otuasega were used for the study. At each of the sample locations, three random spots were augered at two depth-levels (Top Sample (T), 0 – 15 cm; Bottom Sample (B), 1530 cm), with the aid of an auger to collect the samples for laboratory analysis. The parameters of interest to the study are TPH, THC, Organic Matter, THF, THB, pH, sand, silt clay and soil texture and these were analysed using standard techniques as recommended by DPR. Results: The study revealed that there is a noticeable effect of oil exploitation activities on soil quality within the study area, In the case of THC, the result revealed that the level of THC in the sampled communities was higher than that of the non spill site, hence the presence of hydrocarbon Original Research Article Chukwu-Okeah et al.; SARJNP, 2(4): 1-9, 2019; Article no.SARJNP.50709 2 which has caused the pollution of the soil. Organic matter content of the soil also reveals that the non-polluted site has more organic content than the sampled communities. Conclusion: The study revealed that there is a statistically significant difference in soil quality of the selected communities and that of the non-spilt site. The study, therefore, recommended complete and total remediation of the soils in the area, as this will enhance the soil for increased


Human are other-driven beings. It is a dialectical process in that the need to construct the other is primarily driven by an urge for self-realisation and self actualisation. It is a universal urge in every individual and social group. It is particularly this urge to construct the other that motivates the human to venture into colonising relentlessly. Initially, colonisation was restricted to nature and its objects, but under capitalism it has become a generalised and universal phenomenon. Today, it has reached its climax after venturing into the last colony i.e. colonisation of life, its forms and processes. Human beings have used various tools and techniques for creating the colonies at different points of time. Census enumerations have adopted the universal political technologies under capitalism for the purpose of colonisation of life, its forms and processes.


The wide application of low-concentration on-line silica analyzers in power plants and semiconductor water production facilities,makes it necessary to check and vreify their measurement accuracies.Three verification methods including silica measurement compensation by laboratory instruments and additon of reference solution are proposed for accurate measurement of silica in different parts of water and steam circulation system to ensure proper operation of power generators..


Colchicine solutions for injection can be sterilised by heating at 115° for 30 min., or by heating at 98 to 100° for 30 min. in the presence of phenylmercuric nitrate 0·002 per cent, or by filtration. Solutions in multi‐dose containers may be prepared using phenol 0·5 per cent, phenyhnercuric nitrate 0·001 per cent, or benzyl alcohol 1 per cent as bactericide. Sterilised solutions are stable for at least six months if protected from light.


A CFD (computational fluid dynamics model) of a heated two-dimensional plate is presented. The model is finely discretised and the resulted order, which accounts to more than 1,000 states is too high for control and optimization design. A model reduction strategy is applied to the model, which allows significant reduction of the original order as well as control and optimization designs. The plant successfully follows the desired trajectory when controlled by an optimal controller based on the reduced order model.


This chapter discusses the large exposure regime. The large exposures regime is one of the two substantial components of the prudential capital regulatory system — the other being liquidity — which did not fall within the Basel 2 regime. Both have now been brought within the Basel 3 regime, although the large exposure rules are expected to come into effect only from 1 January 2019. The essence of the large exposures regime is the idea that banks should diversify their risk. There are three core rules which are relevant for the large exposures regime. One is the rule that any exposure which is sufficiently 'large' should be reported to the regulator; the second is that no single exposure should be permitted to exceed 25 per cent of capital (15% for exposure to G-SIBs).


The first low-temperature difference Stirling engine was presented at the International University Center in Dubrovnik, as early as 1983. During the last 16 years, numerous low temperature difference engines were built all over the world, mostly for solar energy application. However, hot water from flat solar collectors has nearly the same temperature as hot water from geothermal sources. As the engine power depends upon the cube of temperature difference, geothermal wells of elevated temperatures, approaching the boiling point, are particularly suitable for Stirling engines. When compared to the classic Clausius-Rankine cycle, mostly used in the present geothermal plants, Stirling cycle offers many theoretical and practical advantages. From thermodynamic point of view, Stirling cycle is equivalent to the optimal Carnot cycle, having the highest possible efficiency. From the technical point of view, Stirling plant is cheaper, having no condenser and no turbine blades exposed to aggressive influences of geothermal steam. Due to the external, instead of internal heating, there is no need neither for specific materials, nor for tube exchangers. The latest performance of low temperature difference Stirling engine using hot water, was made by Japanese group at Saitama University, showing additional possibilities for use of geothermal sources.


The effect of pulse frequency on the corrosion resistance of the anodizing films was studied.The morphology and the thickness of the films were studied by SEM. The corrosion resistance of the films was investigated by electrokinetic polarization curve and salt spray.The results showed that the thickness of the films increases with the frequency.The corrosion resistance of the films increases with frequency when it was less than 1 300 Hz.The film prepared under 1 000 Hz shows best corrosion resistance.When the frequency was 1 300 Hz,the corrosion resistance decreases because of the formation of cracks.


Objective To explore the clinical value of fine needle aspiration for biopsy on guiding the patients with breast carcinoma to operation or chemotherapy. Methods To retrospectively summarize the process of fine needle aspiration for biopsy,and to analyse the process including patients`position , choose of injection , puncture methods, to puncture the needle into tumour ,move and pumpback the injection to make underpressure and keep the puncture needle some angle, Result The accuracy rating of fine needle aspiration for biopsy was 100% . Conclusion The fine needle aspiration for biopsy is one king of easier method with higher accuracy rating , and higher safety


In order to evaluate the potential risk posed by transporting invasive tunicates away from infested sites it is important to be able to measure the viability of these organisms. A Neutral Red (NR) viability assay was developed using a colonial invasive tunicate, Botrylloides violaceus (Oka, 1927) that could be applied to other species. Unlike some colonial tunicates B. violaceus' mortality can be determined under light microscopy by observing changes in the physiological parameters of filtration and reaction to tactile stimulus making them a good study organism. A total of 32 B. violaceus segments (3 cm) were allocated to treatment and control groups. The treatment group was subjected to acetic acid which resulted in 100 % mortality. Viability was then assessed by comparing treatment and control group responses to NR uptake. There was no mortality in the control that demonstrated a response to tactile stimulus and a noticeable amount of stain uptake inside zooids. In contrast, the treatment groups did not respond to tactile stimulus and no stain was taken in by the zooids. In this study the viability of Didemnum vexillum (Kott, 2002) was assessed under controlled experimental conditions by simulating the air exposure encountered during the normal transportation and processing of tunicate fouled Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793). Clusters containing C. gigas and D. vexillum were collected from an aquaculture lease, in Lemmens Inlet, BC, for an air exposure trial comprised of 9 equally divided treatments (0, 0.5, 1.5, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours). Three segments of D. vexillum on each cluster were removed and evaluated with the NR protocol developed for B. violaceus. Preserved tissues were analyzed and no sign of stain was noticeable, even with the control segments. The NR protocol developed worked efficiently with B. violaceus, but appeared to fail with D. vexillum. The findings are consistent with D. vexillum demonstrating a high tolerance in situations they are not accustomed to reflecting their ability to enter a dormant state during adverse environmental conditions (hence lack of response to clinical or NR markers via lack of filtering). Further studies are required to determine the viability of D. vexillum and potential risk movements pose.


The study was undertaken to find out whether there is a significant relationship between the socio-cultural beliefs held by beginning junior secondary school (JSS) students in Botswana and their attitudes towards school science on one hand and their achievement in school science on the other hand. Seven research questions were formulated. The nature of the study dictated the employment of descriptive research (survey) design. The sample for the study consisted of 395 JSS students randomly selected from eleven junior secondary schools within 120-kilometre radius of Gaborone, the state capital of Botswana. The collection of the data for the study was accomplished by the use of three constructed and validated research instruments. The findings of the study include the fact that Setswana1 (Botswana) mythology has a telling effect, to a large extent, on the thought processes of the average Botswana JSS student. This resulted in significant negative relationships between the students' socio-cultural background and their attitudes towards school science on one hand and their achievement in school science on the other hand. But in spite of the negative effect of the elements of the students' culture on the ease with which they learn school science, Botswana JSS students are found to be positively disposed towards school science in general.


Studies in animals indicate that gastric freezing is often followed by necrosis. As the "freezing" procedure is currently performed clinically however, either none or only a small portion of the stomach actually freezes solidly. Probably for this reason, gastric "freezing" is reasonably safe when performed under carefully controlled conditions with the temperature of the coolant and the duration of the procedure regulated according to recommendations of Wangensteen and his associates. Effectiveness of gastric "freezing" for duodenal ulcer is difficult to assess at present because most of the clinical data available are from uncontrolled studies. In our judgment there is not yet enough evidence that gastric freezing is superior to standard methods of treatment for duodenal ulcer to justify its widespread use, and the procedure should be considered experimental.


We conducted numerical simulations in the coastal region of Sendai Bay for tsunami flood and chemical transport generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and discussed the applicability of the numerical simulations to early determination of spatial distribution of chemical pollution in tsunami deposit. The chemical transport simulation considered the spatial distribution of the storage facilities as the point sources of harmful chemicals. The tsunami-flood model reproduced the observed results of the tsunami waveforms at the wave gauges and the flood depth in the land. The simulated results of the chemical transport could roughly capture the region with the chemical pollution in the tsunami deposit, which implied that the numerical procedure could be useful for early zoning of the chemical pollution in tsunami deposit. The point source information should be improved to determine the chemical polluted area more accurately.


How do writers and filmmakers use repetition? It is useful when accenting an idea, but, in this original and thought-provoking book, Bruce F. Kawin argues that it serves a more important function as a manipulator of our sense of time and of the timeless. Brilliantly pitching the aesthetics of novelty against those of repetition, Kawin shows that the connections and rhythm of repetition offer revelations about literature and film, nature and memory, and time and art.


This article aims to empirically examine the mediating impact of consumer's parasocial interaction on the relationship between celebrity images on the consumer's purchase intentions. It aims to emp...


This case-study discusses the design and development of the UK's new Intercity Express train, to be introduced to the East Coast and Great Western mainlines in 2017. The paper describes the iterative development approach adopted to ensure stakeholder engagement and regulatory compliance throughout the design process. This includes the use of prototype evaluation, from very low to very high fidelity, and the application of human factors tools such as Hierarchical Task Analysis and an innovative approach to glare assessment. The paper highlights how the described multi-method approach considers both the cognitive and physical requirements of the user population, ensuring successful delivery.


This article is dedicated to research of urban passenger flows of the electric transport Yekaterinburg on the example of municipal unitary enterprise "Tram and trolleybus management". Program application is worked out for the analysis of passenger flows of tram-trolleybus network as a matrix of correspondences. This paper substantiates the importance of integrating of the information systems of various kinds of city passenger transport for creating of the secondary unified database of sections between adjacent bus stops. This database is necessary for the implementation of intelligent module for constructing an optimal trajectory of the passenger.


o date, all major mammalian al-lergens cloned and sequenced,with the exception of cat Fel d 1,are members of the lipocalinfamily of proteins. The lipocalin allergens include Mus m 1 (mouse), Rat n 1 (rat), Can f 1 and Can f 2 (dog), Equ c 1 and Equ c 2(horse), and Bos d 2 (cow) (http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/get-prosite-entry?PS00213).Isoforms of these proteins are synthesized inthe liver and in several secretorial tissues;they are found in dander, hair, urine andsaliva, and are spread as aeroallergens. Animportant food allergen, Bos d 5 (b-lacto-globulin of cow's milk), and a cockroach allergen Bla g 4 are also lipocalins.The name 'lipocalins' was proposed in1987 for a group of functionally and struc-turally related proteins (see Ref. 1). Sincethen, the number of proteins fulfilling thecriteria for lipocalins has increased continu-ously; the group currently includes morethan 150 proteins (http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/get-prosite-entry?PS00213). Numer-ous lipocalins function as carriers of smalllipophilic molecules such as vitamins,pheromones and odorant molecules. Exam-ples of human lipocalins include retinolbinding protein (RBP), apolipoprotein D(APD), von Ebner's gland protein (VEGP)and PP14 (Fig. 1).The overall sequence identity betweenlipocalins is usually less than 20%. The so-called 'kernel lipocalins' share three con-served sequence motifs, as opposed to the'outlier lipocalins', which have only one ortwo. The sequence similarities are reflectedin the three-dimensional structural similarityof lipocalins


This article demonstrates the feasibility of scaling-up the technique for particle size selection in the gas phase based on differential mobility analysis. Nano-DMAs used to select the particle size in processes for the synthesis of nanomaterials in the laboratory operate at aerosol flow rates of a few liters per minute. A new DMA capable of classifying nanoparticles of up to 30 nm in size at aerosol flow rates as high as 100 l· min −1 will be presented (HF-DMA). A major advantage of the HF-DMA over current nano-DMAs covering the same particle size is that its resolution is almost unaffected by Brownian diffusion for particles as small as 3 nm. Monodisperse nanoparticles in the 5 to 25 nm size range have been produced at flow rates of up to 90 l· min −1 . The spread in particle size and the particle number concentration were studied with respect to their dependency on the flow rates in the HF-DMA. The measurements reflect the behavior predicted by the theory. The HF-DMA makes it possible to deliver nanoparticles of a well-defined size at yields two orders of magnitude higher than with current nano-DMAs.