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A detailed computer analysis of the charge-transport process in an MOS transmission line (MOSTL)operating in deep depletion is presented. The mathematical model is developed taking into account time-dependent gate voltages, field-dependent surface mobility, and voltage-dependent depletion capacitance. A distributed transmission line circuit model similar to that obtained in a previous work for charge-transfer devices is derived. The charge-propagation characteristics are discussed and interpreted. The contributions of the physical transport mechanisms are investigated from the standpoint of assessing the influence of the design parameters and operating conditions on the performances of the structure. Several driving techniques which use time-varying gate voltages are proposed and simulated. Special emphasis is directed toward the possible improvements in the performances of an MOSTL used as a bit line in a continuously charge-coupled RAM or as a variable delay line for digital signals. Under some simplifying assumptions, an approximate model which yields closed-form solutions for the operational parameters of interest that compare well with the numerical calculations is developed. To a certain extent, the theory derived in this paper is also valid for charge-transfer devices, in particular for the charge-transfer process in bucket-brigade devices and under the transfer gates of two-phase CCD's.


Water vapour in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) plays an important role for global radiation. A realistic representation of Water vapour is critical for climate model predictions of future climate change. Here, we investigate the effects of current uncertainties in tropopause temperature, horizontal transport and small-scale mixing on simulated water vapour in the lower stratosphere. To assess the sensitivities of simulated water vapour, we use the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS). First, we examine CLaMS driven by two different reanalysis, ERA-Interim and Japanese 55-year (JRA-55) reanalysis, to investigate the robustness with respect to the meteorological dataset. Second, we carry out CLaMS simulations with transport barriers along latitude circles (at the equator, 15 ◦ N/S and 35 ◦ N/S) to assess the effects of horizontal transport. Third, we vary the strength of parametrized small-scale mixing in CLaMS. Also, we relate a change in simulated water vapour to the change in vertical diffusivity. Our results show significant differences (about 0.5 ppmv) in simulated stratospheric water vapour due to uncertainties in the tropical tropopause temperatures between current reanalysis datasets. The JRA-55 based simulation is significantly moister when compared to ERA-Interim, due to a warmer tropical tropopause in JRA-55 reanalysis. Through barrier sensitivity simulations, we have introduced artificial transport barriers in the model to suppress certain horizontal transport pathways. Such transport experiments demonstrate that the Northern Hemisphere subtropics have a strong moistening effect on global


Why assess knowledge? Haven't we gone past the protracted multiplechoice questions of medical school? Surely if we are to assess anything we should assess actual clinical performance? Are we not more concerned with what the doctor actually 'does' in practice and less concerned with what a doctor 'knows'?1 Aren't we properly more concerned with performance than with competence? But just a minute here. You cannot perform well unless you are competent. In Ontario one third of doctors who performed at a substandard level at competence review were found on cognitive testing to be impaired.2 That is an important observation if remedial education is to be considered. There is thus at least a theoretical necessity to assess knowledge before anything else and, indeed, the National Competence Assessment Authority in Britain does just that – it requires NHS doctors who are about to undergo a performance assessment to have a specialty-specific knowledge test at the outset.3 Ian St George is a Wellington general


A case of infected right atrial thrombus is described. Right atrial thrombus is difficult to diagnose and is associated with a high mortality. When it is additionally infected, antibiotics alone are not sufficient treatment and the thrombus should be surgically removed.


An improved method of automatic text clustering is proposed based on latent semantic indexing(LSI) theory and the K-means clustering method.Firstly,the documents


The reliability of a gas turbine engine structure is affected by the uncertainties in the operating environment (speed, temperature etc.) as well as in the structural properties (material properties, geometries, boundary conditions etc.). A computational method for accurate reliability estimation under such uncertainties is described in this paper. Reliability computation for individual failure modes (burst, LCF etc.) as well as overall system failure is addressed. System failure probability is computed through the union of individual mode failures. The method also provides precise sensitivity information about the effect of each uncertain parameter on the individual failure probabilities as well as on the system failure probability. Such quantitative information helps rational design decisions as well as risk assessment and certification.Copyright © 1993 by ASME


ABSTRACT By means of the q-Zeilberger algorithm, we prove a basic hypergeometric supercongruence modulo the fifth power of the cyclotomic polynomial . This result appears to be quite unique, as in the existing literature so far no basic hypergeometric supercongruences modulo a power greater than the fourth of a cyclotomic polynomial have been proved. We also establish a couple of related results, including a parametric supercongruence.


The construction of water conservancy projects in Cao Wei of Three Kingdoms Period was studied.The construction of the irrigation engineering of farmland laid a solid material foundation for the economic recovery and development in Cao Wei.The opening of military water transport projects provided a powerful guarantee of munitions for battling with Wu in Western Jin Dynasty after.Water conservancy projects in Cao Wei had an important impact on the changes of political situation in late period of Three Kingdoms.


Red tides have been increasingly observed in the gulf of Haizhou and considered a serious environmental problem from the beginning of the new century.Eutrophication of water is an important reason of red tide occurrence.This paper used the observation data of the concentration of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) in Haizhou Gulf from 2004 to 2006 and selected MODIS Terra 1B data with 500m spatial resolution in this period of time.We established reflectance factors with single band and multi-bands,calculated correlation between each factor and the concentration of DIN.The correlations between single band factors and DIN concentration are low,but the reflectance of bands (band 2 and 7) near overtones and combination spectral lines of groups which contain nitrogen has a negative correlation with DIN concentration,this indicates the influence on spectrum of these groups.The multi-bands factors F_(11(3,4)) and F_(13(3.4)) have a positive correlation with DIN concentration notably,we chose these two factors to established regression models of DIN.The R~2 of the models exceeded 0.7 and their relative accuracy reached about 70%,the results of the linear model by F_(11(3,4)) were consistent well with the real conditions.These improve the feasibility of this model and the validity of monitoring DIN concentration by MODIS data.


This handbook contains a wealth of information on refractories. The editor is commended for the selection of authors for the various topics presented. These authors come from industry, consultant groups, and academia (USA, Germany, England, and Brazil) providing a nice blend of theory with application. In fact, the theory is minimal since this is a handbook. The book focuses on properties, testing techniques, and data. The handbook contains 17 chapters. The first three chapters cover the fundamentals: basic properties, fracture mechanics, and corrosion. Chapters 4–9 address specific refractories that include: alumina-silica, magnesite, silica, dolomite, and spinel-containing bricks, and carbonaceous linings. Castable refractories are discussed in chapters 10–12. Chapter 13 covers the thermomechanical aspects. Chapters 14 and 15 discuss specific applications. Chapter 17 discusses testing and design. The editor, Dr. Charles Schacht, is a consulting engineer at Schacht Consulting Services, Pittsburgh, PA. He has over 35 years experience in this area. He has numerous publications and has lectured worldwide. Dr. Schacht graduated from Ohio State University, Columbus and Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of ASCE, ASME, and ACS. Chapter 1 briefly discusses refractory properties. The chapter outlines the various industrial applications and the pertinent ASTM specifications. Seventy percent of all refractories are used in the basic metal industry. Some of the other industries include petrochemical and glassmaking. Chapter 2 covers fracture of refractories. This chapter presents a very traditional discussion on strength, relationship between fracture toughness and strength, thermal stress fracture, J-integral, work of fracture, and test developments. Aggregate size has a major role in the fracture toughness and strength relationship. The chapter on corrosion provides the fundamental differences between acidic and basic refractories. Numerous case histories are presented. Some of the basic constituents are CaO, MgO, FeO, and MnO, while acid constituents are SiO2, P2O5, Al2O3, Fe2O3, and Mn2O3. The chapter on alumina-silica brick discusses several case studies and presents information on various compositions, their properties, and their names. These refractories are relatively inexpensive.


In this paper, the despeckling method is to reduce the speckle noise in SAR images, provided that the structural features and edges are not lost using Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) estimator based on curvelet and dual tree complex wavelet transform. And a detailed description and comparison of speckle reduction of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image using transform is presented These transforms are applied to noisy SAR image and respective despeckled images are obtained. Finally these two methods are compared and the performance are verified by quality metric analysis.


This chapter argues that in an unequal, socioeconomically segregated society, strivers, as they travel the path of upward mobility, incur significant ethical costs for themselves, their families, and their communities. Those who grow up in communities in which disadvantages are concentrated must often seek opportunities for advancement elsewhere. If they succeed, their success in all likelihood will take them far from their families and communities. This distance will not just be literal. Strivers, in order to succeed, will have to prioritize their own path over important relationships, over obligations to their family, and over maintaining their ties to their community. In so doing, they risk sacrificing important and meaningful aspects of their lives and identities.


English: Solar eruptive events affect the close neighbourhood of the Earth. They also affect human infrastructure, power grids mainly, due to the induction of electrical currents. Only recently the attention was drawn not only to large flares, but also to estimate the long-term effects of increased solar activity by statistical methods. We analyse the failure rates in the main Czech power transmission system operated by the Czech national operator \v{C}EPS. We show that the effects of solar activity on failure rate in the main Czech power grid cannot be excluded even for central-european country. This is a preliminary study.
Czech: Eruptivn\'i projevy slune\v{c}n\'i aktivity ovliv\v{n}uj\'i bezprost\v{r}edn\'i kosmick\'e okol\'i na\v{s}\'i Zem\v{e} a postihuj\'i prost\v{r}ednictv\'im indukce elektrick\'ych proud\r{u} i pozemskou infrastrukturu, zejm\'ena rozvodn\'e s\'it\v{e} silov\'e elekt\v{r}iny. Teprve v posledn\'ich letech byla v\v{e}nov\'ana pozornost nejen hodnocen\'i bezprost\v{r}edn\'ich dopad\r{u} siln\'ych eruptivn\'ich ud\'alost\'i na za\v{r}\'izen\'i rozvodn\'e s\'it\v{e}, ale tak\'e statistick\'emu zhodnocen\'i vlivu zv\'y\v{s}en\'e slune\v{c}n\'i aktivity. Ve spolupr\'aci s \v{C}EPS, a.s., jsme statisticky vyhodnotili \v{c}etnost z\'avad na za\v{r}\'izen\'ich p\'ate\v{r}n\'i rozvodn\'e s\'it\v{e} \v{C}R v z\'avislosti na \'urovni slune\v{c}n\'i aktivity a ukazujeme, \v{z}e vliv n\'ahl\'ych eruptivn\'ich ud\'alost\'i na z\'avadovost za\v{r}\'izen\'i \v{c}esk\'e rozvodn\'e s\'it\v{e} nelze vylou\v{c}it.


We report herein a novel approach to study allostery which combines the use of carefully selected bioconjugates and hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS). The utility of our method is demonstrated using human cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4). CYP3A4 is arguably the most important drug-metabolizing enzyme, and as such, is involved in numerous drug interactions. Diverse allosteric ligand effects have been reported for this enzyme, yet the structural mechanism of these phenomena remain poorly understood. We have described different CYP3A4-effector bioconjugates, some of which mimic the allosteric effect of positive effectors on CYP3A4, while others show activity enhancement even though the label does not occupy the allosteric pocket (agonistic), or do not show activation while still blocking the allosteric site (antagonistic). These bioonjugates were studied here by HDX-MS, which enabled us to better define the position of the allosteric site, and to identify important regions involved in CYP3A4 activation.


Objective: To examine pressure pain threshold (PPT) on several skeletal muscles in upper extremity, trunk, and lower extremity by using electronic pressure algometer and to evaluate it's interrater reliability, reproducibility, difference between gender and dominance, correlation with body mass index, and comparison among each muscles. Method: Forty healthy adults (male 27, female 13) were examined by two raters and reexamined in the same order after a rest of 10 minute. PPT at the splenius capitis, upper trapezius, infraspinatus, lumbar paraspinal muscle, extensor carpi radialis, vastus medialis, and gluteus medius muscles of both side was measured by medical electronic algometer. Rate of force application was approximately 2 lb/sec. Body mass index (BMI) was estimated from the individual's body weight by the square of their height. Results: There were no statistical differences of PPTs at all muscles between two raters, between two test with time interval, and between dominant and nondominant side, respectively. PPT in man was higher than female at all muscles. There was significant correlation between BMI and PPT at lumbar paraspinal muscle, vastus medialis, and gluteus medius only in male. PPT was highest at lumbar paraspinal muscle and lowest at splenius capitis. Conclusion: Electronic pressure algometer is a reliable tool for evaluation of PPT which has high interrater reliability and high reproducibility and is not affected by dominance and location of muscles. Therefore, it is a useful clinical tool to compare PPT before and after treatment and to study the mechanism of musculoskeletal pain research program. (J Korean Acad Rehab Med 2008; 32: 698-702)


At this stage, the sustainability of human resources in China is becoming more apparent. As vital units of social development, public institutions are facing fierce competitions under the appalling situation of today's market economy, and the problem of human resource management is increasingly significant. In order to improve their potentiality for sustainable development and enhance their core competitiveness, public institutions must pay attention to human resource management. At present, the human resource management of public institutions, whether from the micro level of employees and managers, or the regional differences at the macro level, all show significant problems, such as the flawed employee management system, the serious phenomenon of difference and mismatch, as well as the lack of professional knowledge among managers. Based on this, this paper takes the coordinated relationship between human resource management and sustainable economic development as a breakthrough and proposes several measures for the problems that exist in the human resource management of public institutions, so as to continuously improve the level of their human resource management as well as promote the sustainable development of public institutions and social economy.


Chromosomal translocations result from the joining of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and frequently cause cancer. Yet, the steps linking DSB formation to DSB ligation remain undeciphered. We report that DNA replication timing (RT), mediated by replication origin activity, directly regulates the genesis of lymphomagenic Myc translocations during antibody maturation in B cells. Reduced levels of the replicative helicase, the minichromosome-maintenance (MCM) complex, decreases translocations and globally abrogates the RT program. Ablating a single replication origin at Myc causes an early-to-late RT switch with major loss of translocations, a phenotype that is reversed by restoring early RT. Finally, this novel RT-regulated mechanism occurs after DSB formation and independently of DSB frequency. Thus, RT constitutes a distinct regulatory event in translocation biogenesis linking DSB formation to DSB ligation.


A disposable, crossflow membrane stack suitable for use in an ion exchange unit, the stack comprising alternate dilution compartments and concentration compartments, each compartment being defined by a flat cation-permeable membrane (2) and a flat anion-permeable membrane (1) and at least two edges along which the cation- permeable and an anion-permeable membranes are permanently secured together wherein the cation-permeable membranes and/or the anion-permeable membranes have a textured surface profile which keep said membranes apart and/or from touching each other and wherein the edges secured together define the direction in which liquid may flow through the compartments. Also claimed are ion exchange units comprising the stack, optionally comprising a quick- release securement means to allow facile attachment and release of modular units comprising the stacks.


Nationalism, nation-building and modernization were the main themes of the totalitarian and secular regimes of Ataturk and Reza Shah which replaced the traditional Qajar state of Iran and the prolonged Ottoman Empire. This paper exploring the social and political grounds upon which nationalism developed in two countries of Iran and Turkey between 1920 CE and 1950 CE seeks to identify the influential factors shaping the nationalist ideas in these countries. In this regard, not only the role of Iranian and Turkish governments' efforts to strengthen and consolidate the national identity would be taken into close consideration, but also the role of official cooperation between the two sides would be precisely investigated. Then the national architecture movements in both countries as the obvious results of governmental nationalist policies would be recognized. As the next step, the attention would be paid to these national architecture movements and some of their related projects. Finally, to discuss how governmental policies influenced the rise of national architectural movements, a comparative analysis would be applied. Copyright © AJSSAL, all rights reserved. Keyword: Government, National movements, Architecture, Iran, Turkey __________________________________________________________________________________________ American Journal of Social Sciences, Arts and Literature Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2014, PP: 01 -22 Available online at http://ajssal.com/


The invention relates to a preparation method of antilipemic fenofibrate. According to the method, an esterification reaction between fenofibrate acid and isopropanol is catalyzed by a dual-function catalyst magnetic nano-solid super acid integrating magnetic and catalytic performances; through a magnetic separation technology, the catalyst is separated and recovered from a reaction product, thus obtaining a target product at high yield. The method disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of being simple to operate, easy to separate the product and high in product yield, and the catalyst is non-corrosive, free from pollution, recoverable and recyclable, environmentally friendly, low in production cost, etc.; and the preparation method is of great significance in industrial production.


The final stage of the RADLAC-II linear induction accelerator upgrade is near completion. The upgrade includes improvements in the electron beam energy, current, beam quality, and accelerator reliability. The design goals of 20-MeV (2.5 MV/stage) total beam energy, 40-kA peak current, >40-ns pulse width, >20-ns flattop and a 1-cm radius annular beam have been met by interim configuration tests as predicted by circuit simulations. A description of the new accelerator and a comparison of pulsed-power experimental results with circuit model waveforms are summarized. 11 refs., 4 figs.


Background: Aging is considered a critical period of life, and paying attention to the needs of this stage is a social necessity. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the association between communication skills and mental health of elderly patients who were hospitalized in the south of Iran hospitals in 2020. Methods: The present study is a descriptive-analytical study conducted on 386 elderly patients. The data of the present study were collected through a three-section questionnaire consists of demographic information, interpersonal communication skills, and mental health. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical methods, Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple linear regression tests in SPSS software version 23 and at a significance level of α = 0.05. Results: Elderly patients' communication skills were assessed at a low level (67.01 ± 7.36). The mean score of total mental health among elderly patients indicated mild symptoms of mental disorders among them (177.84 ± 9.21). A significant association was also found between communication skills and mental health disorders among elderly patients (P < 0.001, r = -0.631). The results of multiple linear regression revealed that the components of understanding the message (P < 0.001), emotional control (P = 0.001), listening (P = 0.001), assertiveness (P = 0.005), and insight (P = 0.006) had a positive and significant impact on the mental health of elderly patients. Conclusions: Owing to the correlation between communication skills and mental health, it is recommended to develop and use supportive programs in the form of elderly health programs in medical centers to improve the mental health status of elderly patients.


Purpose Intracavitary brachytherapy (ICB) is a widely used technique in the treatment of cervical cancer. In our Institute, we use different reconstructive methods in the conventional planning procedure. The main aim of this study was to compare these methods using critical organ doses obtained in various treatment plans. There is a small difference in the recommendations in selecting bladder dose point between ICRU (International Commission on Radiation Units & Measurements) -38 and ABS (American Brachytherapy Society). The second objective of the study was to find the difference in bladder dose using both recommendations. Material and methods We have selected two methods: variable angle method (M1) and orthogonal method (M2). Two orthogonal sets of radiographs were taken into consideration using conventional simulator. All four radiographs were used in M1 and only two radiographs were used in M2. Bladder and rectum doses were calculated using ICRU-38 recommendations. For maximum bladder dose reference point as per the ABS recommendation, 4 to 5 reference points were marked on Foley's balloon. Results 64% of plans were showing more bladder dose and 50% of plans presented more rectum dose in M1 compared to M2. Many of the plans reviled maximum bladder dose point, other than ICRU-38 bladder point in both methods. Variation was exceeded in 5% of considerable number of plans. Conclusions We observed a difference in critical organ dose between two studied methods. There is an advantage of using variable angle reconstruction method in identifying the catheters. It is useful to follow ABS recommendation to find maximum bladder dose.


Subclinical mastitis (SCM) is a disease that often infects dairy cow, which then reduce milk production. Streptococcus agalactiae is well known as a dominant causative agent of SCM. An experiment to identify S. agalactiae from subclinical mastitis cases in dairy cows has been conducted. These isolates were examined using presumptive S. agalactiae of Christie, Atkins, and Munch-Petersen (CAMP) test and followed by Grouping test to identified it, which was cultured in soft agar (SA) and serum soft agar (SSA) to observed the capability at surface phenotype expression. Haemagglutination test of these isolates were used 1% cow erythrocyte. Fifty-seven positive Gram and negative catalase of cocci bacteria were isolated from the process of identification, of which 34 were CAMP positive. From the grouping test of these, 14 isolates of S. agalactiae Group B (SGB) were identified. Furthermore, 8 isolates are diffuse cultured in SA, while the remain 6 isolates are compact in SSA. Noncapsulated SGB with antigenic side would be expressed as compact culture in SA and SSA. Haemaglutynine (Hn+) property of SGB have a role in adhesive process at epithelial of mamary gland alveolus.


This paper presents a set of new conditions on the augmented density of a spherical anisotropic system that is necessary for the underlying two-integral phase-space distribution function to be non-negative. In particular, it is shown that the partial derivatives of the Abel transformations of the augmented density must be non-negative. Applied for the separable augmented densities, this recovers the result of van Hese et al. (2011).


Attempt for the information fusion for the same product status,an information weighted method is presented based on the evidence theory and multiple posterior information.Taking full account of the number of the degree of consensus of inspection distributed and combination of dempster-shafer theory,the weight factor is calculated.A comprehensive posterior distribution form is gained using the general idea of the weighted fusion method,the accuracy and confidence degrees of statistical inference is improved,Finally,a numerical example is given and proved the presented method effectiveness and confidence.


The inherently asynchronous nature of the data ow computation model allows the exploitation of maximum parallelism in program execution While this computational model holds great promise several problems must be solved in order to achieve a high degree of program performance The allocation and scheduling of programs on MIMD distributed memory parallel hardware is necessary for the implementation of e cient parallel systems Finding optimal solutions requires that maxi mum parallelism be achieved consistent with resource limits and minimizing communication costs and has been proven to be in the class of NP complete problems This paper addresses the problem of static allocation of tasks to distributed memory MIMD systems where simultaneous computation and communication is a factor This paper discusses similarities and di erences between several recent heuristic allocation approaches and identi es common problems inherent in these approaches This paper presents a new algorithm scheme and heuristics that resolves the identi ed problems and shows signi cant performance bene ts A Communication Ordered Task Graph Allocation Algorithm John D Evans and Robert R Kessler April Abstract The inherently asynchronous nature of the data ow computation model allows the exploitation of maximum parallelism in program execution While this computational model holds great promise sev eral problems must be solved in order to achieve a high degree of program performance The allocation and scheduling of programs on MIMD distributed memory parallel hardware is necessary for the imple mentation of e cient parallel systems Finding optimal solutions requires that maximumparallelism be achieved consistent with resource limits and minimizing communication costs and has been proven to be in the class of NP complete problems This paper addresses the problem of static allocation of tasks to distributed memory MIMD systems where simultaneous computation and communication is a factor This paper discusses similarities and di erences between several recent heuristic allocation approaches and identi es common problems inherent in these approaches This paper presents a new algorithm scheme and heuristics that resolves the identi ed problems and shows signi cant performance bene tsThe inherently asynchronous nature of the data ow computation model allows the exploitation of maximum parallelism in program execution While this computational model holds great promise sev eral problems must be solved in order to achieve a high degree of program performance The allocation and scheduling of programs on MIMD distributed memory parallel hardware is necessary for the imple mentation of e cient parallel systems Finding optimal solutions requires that maximumparallelism be achieved consistent with resource limits and minimizing communication costs and has been proven to be in the class of NP complete problems This paper addresses the problem of static allocation of tasks to distributed memory MIMD systems where simultaneous computation and communication is a factor This paper discusses similarities and di erences between several recent heuristic allocation approaches and identi es common problems inherent in these approaches This paper presents a new algorithm scheme and heuristics that resolves the identi ed problems and shows signi cant performance bene ts Introduction A primary goal of program allocation and scheduling is to minimize program run time The goals of program allocation vary however with the circumstances of hardware and software requirements Memory size limits restrictions on external I O access and processor failure are several considerations that may take precedence over execution time In addition the existence of shared memory distributed memory and the possible duplication of computations to eliminate communication may signi cantly alter the nature of the allocation problem The inherently asynchronous nature of the data ow computation model o ers promising improvement in performance over the control ow programming model Data ow research has focused on developing high speed data ow multiprocessors on recognizing the potential parallelism in sequential programs achieving parallel program performance developing parallel languages Recent research has also ad dressed the extension of data ow concepts to the execution of programs on non data ow architectures The data ow computation model describes computations as a collection of work units called tasks Individual tasks are sequential segments of program execution which can run from start to completion without synchronization Tasks require input data to begin execution and the computational results of tasks are then used as the input to subsequent tasks A task is eligible for execution when all of its inputs are ready Precedence relationships are de ned between pairs of tasks if the results from one task are


During a balloon pericardial window formation we experienced a fracture of the balloon catheter causing dislodgment of the balloon. The balloon remained in the pericardial space. We describe a case report of this uncommon complication and a method for retrieval of the balloon.


This work presents the direction taken in the search for a theoretical and methodological reference that supports a research aiming to establish the existence of a relation between the absence of anthropological studies and the inefficacy of the methods of territorial inclusion in Florianópolis. The legal instruments used for land regularization and the choices made by the Government in the implementation of public policies will also be addressed. In the meantime, the article discusses the main questions about land occupation in Brazil, especially in Florianópolis, drawing a relation between the history of this occupation and the need for an anthropological reflection for the effectiveness of land regularization and consequent territorial inclusion. It proposes, as a theoretical reference, the use of concepts related to the application of urban policy in Brazil, such as land regularization, federative pact, irregular and clandestine settlements, consolidated urban areas, property, territorial inclusion, customary law, planning and management. It is hoped that the study will contribute to a more complete and deep knowledge about the means of land regularization, from the perspective of an anthropological view that considers the specificities of the formation of precarious settlements to better understand the needs of those involved and, consequently, to reach the Effectiveness of existing legislation.


Almost traditionally dental schools are blamed for the wrongs in dental practice. Read this paper to learn how much the schools are doing.


In order to reduce error of commonly used A.H.Wilson coal pillar design formula caused by assumed condition,the paper improved it by numerical simulation and compared roadway displacement under different anchored bolt supporting conditions.A coal pillar design formula for normal condition was put forward.


Apply theory and practice is usually a difficult task to lead in undergraduate courses. Generally disciplines involving development projects are used as an attempt to minimize this difficulty. One way of conducting this kind of discipline is defining a development methodology to be applied. This paper aims to present an approach based on design thinking to develop products and services that involve software, aligned with the best practices of Software Engineering. An assessment of the approach was carried out with students of the discipline, concluding that its use contributed to improve communication, documentation and projects monitoring.


Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) has drawn much attention of many people and becomes the focus research in psychology.It's urgent for the researchers at home and abroad to intervene in IAD.The paper has briefly reviewed the intervention of IAD,pointed out the problems in the current research and discussed the trends in future research.


The prey searching rate of Coccinella septempunctata (L) was evaluated and expressed in terms of searching efficiency, efficacy, and average prey consumption. The morphological plant traits such as the presence, type, thickness of trichomes and the presence or absence of epidermal wax are important determinants of the predator's effectiveness. The plant surfaces upon which the predator search for prey can have favourable or adverse effects on their ability to find and capture prey. Three varities of host plants such as B. campestris, B. juncea, B. oleracea and one variety of wheat crop Margalla, 99 were selected on the basis of their morphological differences. How do the physical factors of host plant affect the efficiency of predator as biological control agents are furnished in the findings of the present study. The confiding factors caused by the plant traits are the predators walking speed, grooming of fore legs and mouthparts, resting and intermittent pause. However, these factors can also cause the changes in quantitative and qualitative attack rate (a2 ) which ultimately influence average prey consumption. The results of the present study can provide a guide line in the selection of crop varities when employing the coccinellid beetles as biological control agents.


A study has been made of the cold adaptation of Kalahari Bushmen under natural conditions at an air temperature of 10°–12°C. A completely 'wild' Bushman had a fall in total heat content, measured b...


This work by the late Ernst Cassirer who taught at Berlin, Hamburg, Oxford, Goetenburg, Yale and Columbia is a masterpiece. It appeared first with Mohr in 'I'ueblngen in 1932. In seven lucidly written chapters the author has analyzed the mind of the Enlightenment and its bearing on the understanding of nature, natural science, psychology, epistemology, religion, history, law, state, society and aesthetics. Cassirer-and here he sides with Albert Schweitzer-saw in this movement a necessary epoch in the intellectual pilgrimage of the human spirit. The men of the Enlightenment broke more or less radically with the presuppositions of the culture into which they had been born. They deeply sensed the impelling force of the age of reason. The latter's powers and resources they exalted, although they were not unaware of its pitfalls and limitations. Belief in intellectual and social progress is characteristic of most men in the eighteenth century, be they rationalists. deists. pietists or men like John Wesley. Men like Condillac, d'Alembert, Voltaire as well as Kant, in this the heir of 17th century science and philosophy, believed that analysis is 'the necessary and indispensable instrument of all thinking in general' p. 12). But from the encyclopaedic Leibnitz they also learned of the need ot gynthesis as the end of analytical reflection. Hence, they tried to apply analysis not only to mathematics and logic, but also to psychology and sociology. Reason, conceived as universal and uniform among all men everywhere, ought to be able to penetrate beyond and beneath the multiplicity of ideas and mores to the core, the underlying laws governing human behaviour. In chapter IV Cassirer discusses how religion fared in the hands of the men of the Enlightenment. Due to their bias in favor of reason all superstition was rejected outright, for superstition 'gnaws at the very roots of faith and dries up the source from which religion springs' (p, 161). Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary looks upon prejudice as the most formidable obstacle to true knowledge. Diderot follows Bayle, holding that superstition is a worse insult to God than atheism, ignorance being not so far from truth as prejudice. Yet, Cassirer points out that while the thinkers of the Enlightenment rejected much of current orthodoxy, particularly the


Clay ceramic materials exposed to a marine environment may be subjected to complete degradation due to the presence of chloride salts in the air. The exposition allows the chloride to penetrate in structural pores causing an internal expansion, which eventually split the ceramic apart. In open air, the solar radiation as well as the rain and wind contribute to accelerate the degradation process. In the present work the laboratory assisted degradation of clay ceramics incorporated with a granite residue from ornamental stone processing was evaluated by synthetic seawater aggression according to standard procedure. The amount of incorporated residues, up to 10 wt % and the ceramic firing temperature, up to 900°C, were variable conditions statistically analyzed by factorial planning. Degradation wetting-drying tests were conducted up to 6 months. The results showed that the linear shrinkage of the residue-free ceramics do not stabilize during the test period for any firing temperature. By contrast, the residue-incorporated ceramics tend to stabilize after 4 months. In addition, a decrease in water absorption and flexural strength was observed in same speciemens.


New features found in Adobe Photoshop CC software cause problems about usability. Because a modern technology that has some automatic function and default setting provides an opportunity to anyone to use that software without learn to operate or understand how it works. Therefore, this research was made for measure the degree of user convenience to Adobe Photoshop CC and the linkage between the ease of using Adobe Photoshop CC and the user's helplessness. The methode used in this research is quantitative with SUS ( System Usability Scale ), developed by oleh John Brooke (1996). SUS contains 10 simple statements about the system and the answer be measured with Likert scale that organized from left to right 1 – strongly disagree, 2 – disagree, 3 – doubtful, 4 – agree, 5 – strongly agree


Nowadays android has become the most popular mobile operating system for mobile users. It is an open source mobile operating system with good user interface that provide various applications making the user smarter. Review made in the year 2017 explicitly states that more than 2.0 billion gadgets which can be summed up to 87.5 %, contributes to the android version in the global market of mobile operating systems. As the numbers do the talking, 2 billion people every month are found active on Android devices according to Google report. Hence, the problems regarding malware is soon to be expected and it has introduced itself in due time. Android threats are increasing everyday that prompts digital security threat. Malware apps are commonly distributed in markets that are operated by third parties. Even Google can't give assurance that all of the listed apps are eligible for safe and secure use. In the global arena, many anti-viruses are available for portable devices but most of them are not capable to identify new and advance malicious threats. Today, a number of analytical techniques have been developed, but precision of detecting new android malware apps are still under supervision and remains to be a questionable issue. This paper is directed to focus on a systematic study of the design overview of android platform, applications, malwares and the techniques used for the detection of android malware. We aim to illustrate and summarize the techniques of static and dynamic code analysis for Android and some existing work in this field, using machine learning perspective.


For many larger organisations, increased globalization means that employees, collaborators and customers are distributed throughout the world. This requires a focus within the organisation on the continuing competence development of people from all three groups, in order to make it possible for them to perform  competently in their daily work.


We analysed capture and biometric data of 2,408 Reed Buntings Emberiza schoeniclus ringed at Carrizal de Villamejor, Tajo Basin, Central Spain. Reed Buntings showed a clear sexual size dimorphism; males had longer wings and were heavier than females. Body condition, as determined from the residuals of a regression of weight on wing length, was highest in males, particularly during midwinter. Mean wing length, especially of the males, decreased over the winter, probably due to feather wear and abrasion, but possibly also due to older and larger males departing earlier. Maximum mean weights were recorded in spring pre‐migratory periods and minimum weights occurred in October, during the final stages of autumn migration. Female:male ratios were 3:1 in the population during winter. The ratio was at a minimum in October and at a maximum in March, which suggests that females arrived and left later than males. The earliest males arrive at Carrizal de Villamejor in autumn approximately 10 days before the earliest females, and also depart in spring 10 days sooner.


We describe how discrete modes of a Fabry‐Perot laser can be selected using a non‐periodic patterning of the cavity effective index. Experimental measurements of a two‐mode device designed in this way are presented and it is shown that an all‐optical memory element can be based on the injection locking bistability of the device. We also demonstrate passive harmonic mode‐locking of a device designed to support four modes and discuss prospects for the extension of our approach to locking of larger numbers of modes over wider bandwidths.


Accommodating weanling horses in loose housing (sleeping hall with deep-litter bed and paddock) environments in winter at northern latitudes exposes the nonhuman animals to low ambient temperatures. We determined the heat loss of nine weanling horses in a cold environment by infrared thermography to assess their thermoregulatory capacity. The rate of heat loss was 73.5 to 98.7 W/m2 from the neck and 69.9 to 94.3 W/m2 from the trunk. The heat loss was higher at -16 °C than at 0 °C and -9 °C (p ≤ .01), indicating that the lower critical temperature may have been between -9 °C and -16 °C. Surprisingly, the heat loss from the trunk was less at -23 °C than -16 °C (p < .05). The frost on the surface of the hair coat at -23 °C probably disturbed the thermographic examination. Thus, thermography is not necessarily suitable for determining heat loss at very cold temperatures. Our results emphasize the importance of taking the housing temperature into account in planning the feeding of cold-housed weanling horses in northern latitudes.


most neglected. Even today, over 140 years on, there is still no single monographic study of all the revolutionary movements to be found in any major European language. Nor is there a real appreciation of their role in European history, so that the July Days for example can be written off as simply 'une insurrection qui dure dix-huit ans'.1 It has not always been thus. Within a few years of the outbreak of the revolutions there was a flood of polemics, documents and histories, many of which are still of value.2 It was the more dramatic revolutions of 1848 and the social and national questions which they posed more acutely, which diverted historical interest away from 1830, with the partial exception of Italy. Little was therefore written until the 1860s and 1870s, by which time historians could write about 1830 both with more detachment and with a wider range of materials at their disposal. So the first major syntheses of the revolutionary movements in the various countries date from this era. These


The genus Martarega comprises 15 species and nine of these have been recorded in northern Brazil. Martarega pydanieli sp. nov. from Rondonia, while Martarega nieseri sp. nov. and M. barcelos sp. nov. from Amazonas are described here. Six known species are recorded in the Brazilian Amazonian Region (Amazonas, Para, Rondonia and Roraima): M. brasiliensis, M. chinai, M. gonostyla, M. membranacea, M. oriximinaensis, and M. uruguayensis. At the outset of this survey the genus Martarega of the Brazilian Amazonian Region held 12 species, but no specimens of M. mcateei, M. hungerfordi, and M. williamsi were collected in the regions sampled. Martarega brasiliensis is newly recorded from Roraima, which comprises the first record of members of this genus in this State. Martarega uruguayensis is newly recorded from Para and Rondonia, while M. gonostyla from Rondonia. Distinct keys to males and females of Martarega occurring in this region, including these new species, are provided.


We investigate the coherent wave packet dynamics of a two-level atom trapped in a symmetric double-well potential in a near-resonance cavity. Prepared on one side of the double-well potential, the atom wave packet oscillates between the left and right wells, while recoil induced by the emitted photon from the atom entangles the atomic internal and external degrees of freedom. The collapse and revival of the tunneling occurs. Adjusting the width of the wave packets, one can modify the tunneling frequency and suppress the tunneling.


Abstract The FT-IR (from 50 to -180°C) and the FT-Raman spectra at 25°C of glutarimide in in the solid state are investigated. The data are compared with recent results of Bienko et al.(J.Phys.Chem.A 101, 7834 (1997) on glutarimide isolated in a low-temperature argon matrix. The vibrational changes induced by hydrogen bond formation in the crystalline state are discussed. The v(NH…O) vibration is observed at 3189 cm−1 at 25°C and at 3163 cm−1 at -180°C. These values correspond to a contraction of the N…O distance of 0.022 A.


Stapp has recently presented a revised algebraic version of his (and others') earlier nonlocality arguments. Stapp's argument would seem to be an improvement over traditional arguments because he assumes only the so-called parameter-independence condition, but neither determinism nor the so-called outcome-independence condition. We show that, in fact, Stapp's argument rests on a logical fallacy.


Recently, the zero-pairing limit of Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mean-field theory was studied in detail in arXiv:2006.02871. It was shown that such a limit is always well-defined for any particle number A, but the resulting many-body description differs qualitatively depending on whether the system is of closed-(sub)shell or open-(sub)shell nature. Here, we extend the discussion to the more general framework of Finite-Temperature HFB (FTHFB) which deals with statistical density operators, instead of pure many-body states. We scrutinize in detail the zero-temperature and zero-pairing limits of such a description, and in particular the combination of both limits. For closed-shell systems, we find that the FTHFB formulism reduces to the (zero-temperature) Hartree-Fock formulism, i.e. we recover the textbook solution. For open-shell systems, however, the resulting description depends on the order in which both limits are taken: if the zero-temperature limit is performed first, the FTHFB density operator demotes to a pure state which is a linear combination of a finite number of Slater determinants, i.e. the case of arXiv:2006.02871. If the zero-pairing limit is performed first, the FTHFB density operator remains a mixture of a finite number of Slater determinants with non-zero entropy, even as the temperature vanishes. These analytical findings are illustrated numerically for a series of Oxygen isotopes.


Unicystic ameloblastoma is believed to be less aggressive than the solid or multicystic ameloblastomas. This report is a rare case of unicystic ameloblastoma of the maxilla that was treated by enucleation under suspicion of a dentigerous cyst related to impacted premolar. The neoplastic nature of the lesion became evident only when the enucleated material was available for histological examination. With this report, the authors illustrate the importance and complexity of differential diagnosis of lesions with a cystic aspect in the anterior region of the maxilla. Relevant diagnostic problems and choice of treatment of unicystic ameloblastoma are presented along with a review of the literature. Annals of Dental Research (2013) 2 Suppl 1, 109-113


Introduction: Leptospirosis is currently one of the zoonoses with the greatest public health impact worldwide. In Colombia, it became part of the diseases of mandatory and individual notification to the Surveillance System, SIVIGILA, of the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS) since 2007 and has gained relevance with the increase in annual cases, mainly associated with rainfall and periodic flooding. Objective: To evaluate associations between the incidence of leptospirosis and meteorological variables (rainfall, temperature) in Colombia between 2007 and 2015. Methods: Ecological temporal analytical study. GLM (Generalized Linear Models) models were adjusted where the explanatory variables were monthly temperature and precipitation, as well as the lags of the number of monthly cases of leptospirosis and of the meteorological variables with the purpose of evaluating autoregression and seasonality. The response variable was the number of cases reported per month. Results: The final model was the one that explains the number of cases of leptospirosis as a function of the number of cases of leptospirosis and the precipitations of the previous month. Discussion: In our objective of making a predictive model of cases of leptospirosis in function of the climatic variables or to establish if the variation of them explains changes in the behaviour of the incidence of leptospirosis, our model was not significant at the national level. Final considerations: This study works as a basis for additional studies that may include climatic variables in the municipal or departmental order, and further analysis as space-time models may be adjusted in the future.


Splices between materials with dissimilar thermal expansion and melting points are particularly difficult to create. We have developed a method for splicing YAG single crystal fiber to silica fiber. Optical losses associated with the splices were measured for multimode fibers to be 0.33 dB. The splices display greater than 50 kPsi of tensile strength with reaction bonding at the interface. Study of the elemental composition at the splice interface showed formation of a stable intermediate material that provides mechanical strength to the splice. This is a major step toward developing very high power integrated and compact laser systems based on crystals and glass despite their stark dissimilarities in physical and material properties.


Mysteries suffuse and surround Citizen Kane.1 There are small puzzles about how to piece together the main character. There is a large mystery about the meaning of 'Rosebud'. There is a question of whether the solution to that mystery, the identification of Rosebud as Kane's sled, solves anything meaningful. Even the film's authorship has played out as a whodunit: was it Colonel Mankiewicz with the pen, Professor Toland with the camera, or Mr. Welles with his bare hands? It's fitting that perhaps the greatest film ever should receive attempts at unpuzzling from one of the most eminent film scholars and from the most powerful man on earth. Laura Mulvey set down her thoughts in the 1992 BFI Film Classics volume Citizen Kane, rereleased in an updated edition twenty years later. Mulvey's slim and incisive book is an underappreciated part of her output, overshadowed by her writing on the male gaze and the gigantic amount of literature that emerged in its wake. Donald Trump shared his comparatively brief reflections on the film in 2002 with Errol Morris for an uncompleted documentary on celebrities' favorite movies, and also in scattered interviews prior to the 2016 election.2 Inveterate viewers of Kane know how second and third and 13 viewings continue to reveal new insights and half-answers. Mulvey discusses the pleasures of unpuzzling the film yet affirms its relative solubility and the ultimate intelligibility of Charles Foster Kane. These answers derive from reading the film with psychoanalysis, 'a code-book key which can at least begin to crack the cipher' (Mulvey 2012, 25). But her piecemeal solutions, though compelling, no more exhaust the film than the final shot of the sled. Trump, too, endeavored to explain Kane. His answers are standard ones: 'I think you learn in Kane that maybe wealth isn't everything, because he had the wealth but he didn't have the happiness'. Trump doesn't pretend that his observations exhaust the film. It is not primarily his interpretation but his interpretive position that is intriguing. Trump obviously identifies with Kane.


Eco-friendly practices are simple, low cost, pollution free techniques and operations that are socially and economically accepted. There is an urgent need to develop farming techniques which are sustainable from environmental, production and socio economic point of view. The means to guarantee sufficient food production in the next decades and beyond is critical because modern agricultural production throughout the world does not appear to be sustainable in the long term. The agricultural community is thus setting its hopes on sustainable agriculture, which will maintain the cycles of inputoutput and ecosystem balance. A Study was conducted in Salem district to find out the adoption of eco-friendly technologies and its relationship with the profile of the respondents and the constraints in the adoption of eco-friendly technologies. The study reveals that 47.50 per cent were found to possess medium level of adoption and 32.50 per cent were found to possess low level of adoption. The education reveals appositively significant relationship with adoption. The study also reveals that farming experience showed a positive and highly significant relationship with the adoption of the respondents on ecofriendly technologies. Lack of knowledge to identify the bio-agents was the foremost personal constraints expressed by majority of the farmers.


While sulfur is often described as a catalyst poison, most of the remarkable catalysts in industri and in nature2 feature metals embedded in a sulfur-rich coordination sphere. Transition metal sulfides are involved in a variety of applications which includes being used as secondary cathodes in Li-TiS2 batteries3 and as catalysts for major petrochemical processes such as MoS2 in hydrodesulfurization (HDS) catalysis. I A recent and popular theory of the origin of life invokes a key role played by Fe-S and Fe-Ni-S species.' A special class of transition metal sulfides are the tetrathiometallates. They are molecular anions cqmposed of a single metal atom surrounded by a shell of sulfur. This configuration is analogous to the metJlI sulfides used as catalysts in industry, but they are soluble which allows for a greater range of spectroscopic techniques for characterization.


Background: The circle of Willis is a large arterial anastomotic ring present at the base of the brain uniting the internal carotid and the vertebrobasilar systems. Branches from the internal carotid and vertebral arteries anastomose to form an arterial circle in the basal cisterns and then distribute to supply the brain. The anatomy of the circle is known to vary significantly; the vessels may be absent or sufficiently narrowed altering the hemodynamics of the circle of Willis and affecting its role as a collateral route. These variant forms can be correlated to their phylogeny and embryology. Prior knowledge of these variant forms is important in pathologies and treatment (e.g. parent artery occlusion for carotid aneurysms) resulting occlusion of carotid and vertebral arteries. Context and purpose: Our study was undertaken to observe and compare the morphology of circle of Willis using two entirely different methods; gross dissection (GD) and Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and to correlate the variant patterns encountered with the possible underlying developmental events. Gross dissection was carried out in 70 human cadavers and equal numbers of MRA's of healthy individuals were studied retrospectively. Results: Only 31 cases (22.14%) presented with a complete circle of Willis, out of which 14 (20%) were cadaveric specimen and 17 (24.18%) were in MRA group. Unilateral hypoplastic posterior communicating artery was the most common variation observed in our study (19.28%). Conclusions: The wide variation in completeness of the circle of Willis in general population is similar to earlier observations. Review of phylogeny and embryology makes us familiar with variant forms which would be otherwise difficult to recognize and may be misinterpreted. MRA and gross dissection findings despite certain variations are comparable.


Aim. To study the relationship of socio-demographic factors with lipidlowering therapy in primary health care.Material and methods. This cross-sectional noncomparative study on the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia (ARGO study) included patients aged ≥0 years who visited primary care physicians and cardiologists in the period 2013-2014 with diagnoses of stable coronary artery disease, hypertension, peripheral artery disease, carotid atherosclerosis, aortic aneurysm or having any type of revascularization or ischemic stroke in history. The study, which was conducted in 59 Russian cities, involved 768 doctors from 217 polyclinics.Results. The analysis included 18273 patients. Of the total number of patients, 7829 (42,9%) people took statins, while 10421 (57,1%) people did not receive it. The maximum percentage of statin use was in the age group of 70-79 years — 52,12%, and the minimum in the age group of 30-39 years — 13,24% (p<0,001). Most often, statins were taken by people with disabilities — 67,67%, and least often, by working people — 32,59% (p<0,001). In terms of marital status, widowed persons were significantly more likely to take statins, 50,36% (p<0,001); least of all in the group, single persons — 32,29%, while in the group of divorced persons, statins were taken by 37,76%, and in the group of married — 43,07%. According to the education level, patients with secondary professional education are the most adherent to statin treatment — 43,75%, while patients with incomplete secondary education were the least likely to take statins — 41,26% (p<0,054).Conclusion. Taking into account the socio-demographic factors that a person has when prescribing treatment will help develop a strategy for interacting with the patient and will help improve the quality and effectiveness of therapy in this group of patients.


What makes a negotiated settlement of civil wars so complicated? This question attracts much scholarly attention. Many existing studies focus on information asymmetry and commitment problems when examining civil war termination or duration. These studies tend to assume conflicting parties as unitary, not grasping the dynamic nature within the conflicting party. This article disaggregates government actors, drawing on the 'veto player' framework, and examines how political relationships among them affect the peace process, using the Mindanao conflict as a case study. The Philippine case illustrates how government actors influence the peace process, shedding light on a neglected aspect of the government influence on civil war termination.


Timbre models of musical instruments were studied in order to recognize sound sources in music and to organize sounds to their sources. The log‐power spectrum of the sounds was modeled using a combination of linear bases, one defined as a function of frequency, and another as a function of harmonic index. Algorithms for initializing, learning, and sequentilly adapting this model are described. In simulations, the model had a benefit over conventional Mel‐cepstral representations, especially in the case of certain instruments, including the electric guitar, the organ, the mallet percussions, and the clarinets. The improvement was observed in supervised instrument classification, but not so clearly in the unsupervised clustering of sounds.


The discovery of anti-VEGF drugs has revolutionized the management of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular oedema and retinal vein occlusion. This paper discusses how the management evolved in the anti- VEGF era, addresses salient yet unresolved aspects of early identification and monitoring but also takes notice of challenges associated with long term care. The paper proposes to increase the role of patient self-management, as this has been shown to be effective in many other chronic clinical conditions, and sets out the requirements making self-management operational.


'Wrong Is the New Right. Or Is It? Linguistic Identity in Russian Writers' Blogs' in Russian Language and New Technologies.


The Tiebout model implies, under certain assumptions, that communities will become increasingly homogeneous by income and preferences, and perhaps by race, land use, and other community characteristics. This article tests the hypothesis of increasing homogeneity with equations describing changes among Boston area communities between 1960 and 1970. The results confirm increasing segregation by income and (much more weakly) segregation by age, but other community characteristics show no distinct trend. The system of equations is used to forecast community characteristics, and these projections confirm a tendency toward greater inequality in public spending. The results imply that the Pareto-optimality of the Tiebout model will not be attained and that any efficiencies may come at the expense of greater inequities.


The underground clpck-room of the Purple Mountain Observatory, build in 1955, is of the form of a vertical well of which the inner diameter is 3.6 meters and the depth is 14.8 meters. The amplitude of the annual variation of temperature is less than 0°.6C,quite suitable for installing astronomical clocks with pendulum made of invar.


ABSTRACT Although the roots of dissociative ability are thought to lie in early childhood, little is understood about how or why children dissociate or how dissociative abilities develop over time. Previous cognitive studies of adults suggest that some dissociative adults use divided attention to keep threatening information out of awareness (DePrince & Freyd, 1999, 2001). This study utilized a divided attention memory task similar to those used by DePrince and Freyd (DePrince & Freyd, 1999), but modified for four-and five-year-olds. Contrary to prediction, children with relatively high dissociation scores did not differ in their memory for charged and neutral pictures under divided attention when compared to children with low dissociation scores. Consistent with predictions, under divided attention, abused children remembered fewer charged pictures relative to non-abused children. The same pattern was found when comparing abused children with high dissociation scores to non-abused children with low dissociation scores. These results are consistent with the idea that some traumatized people use divided attention to keep threatening information out of awareness. Results are discussed in terms of a developmental theory of dissociation.


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limit" when h tends to zero, so excluding the case of an infinite derivative. He can then say (Art. 112) that " if (f>(x) is not continuous for a value of x , then it cannot possibly have a derivative for that value of x " . De la Vall6e Poussin, Gours d'Analyse, Art. 14, defines " tending to a limit " in such a way as to include ± °° • When he comes to define a derivative in Art. 49, he says : " the limit, finite or infinite, as h-+ 0 of {f(x + h) f(x)}jh " . In the same article he proves the theorem : " Any function which has a, finite derivative for a given value of x is continuous at this point " . He does not give an example of a function which is discontinuous at a point but (according to his definition) has a derivative there. Such a function is the step-function, the sum of the Fourier series.


Rotor fixing resin composition of the present invention, the thermosetting resin contains an epoxy resin, a curing agent and, and containing an inorganic filler, and the elongation of a is more than 0.1% and 1.7%, in accordance with the elongation of a the JIS K 7162, test pieces obtained the by temperature tensile test under the conditions of 20 ㎫ and 100 sigan 120 ℃, the test load is, the test piece is, and the rotor fixing the resin composition for 4 time heating-curing at 175 ℃, also a dumbbell in accordance with JIS K 7162 a cured product prepared by molding into a shape.


Nabila Putri Novianti. Evaluation Of The 2013 Curriculum Scientific Learning
Approach In Economic Lesson n 8 State High School Bekasi
Evaluation of the Implementation of the Scientific Learning Approach in the
Implementation of the 2013 Curriculum in Bekasi N 8 High School. This study
aims to determine how the evaluation of the implementation of the scientific
learning approach in the implementation of the 2013 curriculum. This type of
research is qualitative research. This study involved various parties, both
economics teachers, vice principals in the curriculum, and students. This
evaluation uses the CIPP method (Context, Input, Process, Product). Data
collection techniques use questionnaires, observation, interviews, and document
analysis. The results showed that the implementation of the scientific learning
approach in SMAN 8 Bekasi from the aspect of the context covering the
background and objectives had a percentage of achievement of 100%. Input
aspects which include teacher qualifications and learning devices have a
percentage of achievement of 87%. The process aspect which includes the
learning process carried out by the teacher has a percentage of achievement of
94.9%. The last aspect in this study is that the product has an achievement of
58%. Based on the average percentage of achievement, the implementation of the
scientific learning approach can be declared "very good" but there still needs to be
a little improvement to make it better in the future
Keywords: scientific learning approach, curriculum 2013


This piece of prose presents an imagined scenario of a city in ruins and explores the materialistic side of the idea of home. Speaking directly to the reader, this story asks us to consider the role of family within the basic unit of community, in a child's experience, and of course, in survival. The immigrant experience is considered: is purposefully selling everything parallel to losing everything in a disaster? This story also encourages the reader to think about the what-ifs in light of climate change—the rising chance of your home being hit by an ice storm, hurricane, or another extreme weather event—in the Anthropocene.


The Old Testament is clearly a mixture of myths and real historical figures with their events. There is no question about the contribution of mythology, since much of Genesis has been formed from common mythological accounts from all over the ancient Near East. The stories of Creation, the primordial couple, the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Great Flood, and much more, are a commonplace of narratives throughout the region. Although these accounts are mythological, it does not mean that they have not been shaped by real events. Specialists speculate about a great flood that took place in the Near East as a result of rising water levels at the end of the last Ice Age (around 5000 BC). This coincided at a time when the Agricultural Revolution had taken over the Fertile Crescent and Egypt. Various peoples of the Levant adopted mythological narratives and reformulated them to create their own unique and original tales. Some of the main figures of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah, Lot, finally the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) were their own compositions but, as can be seen with the patriarch Abraham, who was not an exclusive figure of the Hebrew people, his conversion to monotheism is, however, something peculiar to the spiritual creativity of the Jews. Here as in the composition of the New Testament, archeology is the necessary aid to locate the reality and the truth of sacred history and its development in human time.


Genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors are powerful tools for studying complex signaling in the nervous system, and now both Ca2+ and voltage sensors are available to study the signaling behavior of entire neural circuits. There is a pressing need for improved sensors to properly interrogate these systems. Improving them is challenging because testing them involves low throughput, labor-intensive processes. Our goal was to create a live cell system in HEK293 cells that use a simple, reproducible, optogenetic process for testing prototypes of genetically encoded biosensors. In this live cell system, blue light activates an adenylyl cyclase enzyme (bPAC) that increases intracellular cAMP [1]. In turn, the cAMP opens a cAMP gated ion channel (olfactory cyclic nucleotide-gated channel, CNG, or the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel, HCN2). This produces slow, whole-cell Ca2+ transients and voltage changes. To increase the speed of these transients, we added the inwardly rectifying potassium channel Kir2.1, the bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel NAVROSD, and Connexin-43. This is a modular system in which the types of channels, and their relative amounts, can be tuned to produce the cellular behavior that is crucial for screening biosensors. The result is a highly reproducible, high-throughput live cell system that can be used to screen voltage and Ca2+ sensors in multiple fluorescent wavelengths simultaneously.


Graph classification is an important data mining task that has attracted considerable attention recently. This paper presents a probabilistic substructure-based approach for classifying graph-based data. More specifically, we use a frequent subgraph mining algorithm to extract substructure based descriptors and apply the maximum entropy principle to build a classification model from the frequent subgraphs. We perform extensive experiments to compare the performance of the proposed approach against existing feature vector methods using AdaBoost and support vector machine.


Given a right exact functor from an abelian category into another abelian category, there is an associated abelian category called the comma category of the functor. In this paper, we characterize when left Frobenius pairs (resp. strong left Frobenius pairs) in abelian categories can induce left Frobenius pairs (resp. strong left Frobenius pairs) in their comma categories. This leads to the construction of recollements of right triangulated categories (resp. triangulated categories) from the stable categories of left Frobenius pairs (resp. strong left Frobenius pairs). Applications are given to complete hereditary cotorsion pairs and Gorenstein projective objects.


Central antimuscarinic actions of dopamine receptor agonists: N,N-dipropylaminotetrain (TL-68) and 2-di-n-propylamino-4,7-dimethoxyindane (RDS-127), were evaluated against oxotremorine-induced tremors in mice. Both TL-68 and RDS-127 inhibited the tremor intensity but were less potent than atropine.


Results: A total of 25481 patients (33.3%) were admitted to high-volume hospitals. Overall access to high-volume hospitals improved over time. However, racial/ethnic disparities in access to high-volume hospitals dramatically worsened for Hispanics (OR, 0.49) and African Americans (OR, 0.62) in recent years. Factors associated with better access to highvolume hospitals included years since 1988 (OR, 1.11), greater countywide neurosurgeon density (OR, 1.66), and higher countywide median household income (OR, 1.71). Factors associated with worse access to high-volume hospitals included older age (OR, 0.34 per year increase), increased countywide poverty rate (OR, 0.57), Hispanic race/ethnicity (OR, 0.68), and higher Charlson Comorbidity Index (OR, 0.96 per point increase). Conclusions: African Americans and Hispanics have disproportionately worse access to high-quality neuro-oncologic care over time compared with whites. Higher countywide median household income and decreased countywide poverty rate were associated with better access to high-volume hospitals, implicating socioeconomic factors in predicting admission to highquality centers.


The continued presence of harmonic frequencies in modern power systems raises the fundamental question of suspected aggravation of ageing or degradation process of zinc oxide (ZnO) varistors under constant operating voltage mode. In this study, the long-term effect of power system harmonics on the ageing of ZnO varistor samples is analysed on the basis of the reference or the varistor voltage and the coefficient of non-linearity, which are measured from the voltage-current charactristic (V - I). The results obtained indicate that for an increase in the total harmonic distortion (THD) from 1.5 % to 8.47 % in the continuously applied voltage, at a constant temperature of 135°C, a decrease of 66.29 % in the reference voltage, and that of 76.92 % in the coefficient of non-linearity are observed in the varistor units exposed to higher content of harmonic-distortion.


The production,composition and quantity of the air conditioning condensate were analyzed and calculated.It describes several air-conditioning condensation water recycling technology.We focuse on how to make use of air conditioning condensate water to cool condensers so that achieve the aim of household air-conditioner energy saving and cleansing.


Introduction Information Literacy is a vital skill to survive in the information era. Today's age is full of ICT enabled services in every field of human life. Information is growing rapidly day by day and being coded in the digital form. Government is also keen to make the citizens information literate about its welfare policies and programmes for various sections of the Society in Bargarh District, Odisha. Agricultural production in the state has increased significantly keeping pace with the population growth of the state. Utilization of improved agricultural technology by the farmers to large extent depends upon the effective source of information channel and channel to which they are generally exposed directly or indirectly. One of the major problems of agriculture development in Odisha is not the availability of improved agriculture technologies but the technology does not reach the rural farmers of Bargarh district in adopted form in time. Adoption of improved techniques and methods in of rural farmers depends upon their socio-economical situation and Information literacy creates awareness of rural farmers in the various fields in electronic environment. Society has been transformed by the rapid development and diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) into fields such as education, business, health, agriculture, and so on. Information users may be bewildered by a variety of digitalized information. The process of identifying and selecting information has become complex. It is critical to promote information literacy (IL) in the digital age. Computers have become a necessary part of this digital society, and skills for computer use are a common prerequisite on many job applications. (Maharana, 2007) Definitions of Information Literacy Information literacy has been defined by different author, scholar, association and organization in different times. Some of the definitions are discussed in the following, though more or less these are similar to each other:  Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand. (www.infolit.org)  "To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." (American Library Association, 1998) US National Commission on Library and Information Science in the UNESCO-sponsored Meeting of Experts on Information Literacy in Prague describes information literacy as  "Information literacy is an understanding and set of abilities enabling individuals to 'recognise when information is needed and have the capacity to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information'." (CAUL, 2004) Agriculture of Bargarh District  Bargarh district comprises of two Sub–Divisions, Bargarh is the headquarters of the District. For this Agricultural District are 12 Tahasils & 12 Blocks. The district is comes under Agro– Climatic zoneWestern Central Table Land and divided into five Agro Ecological Situation (AES). The District experiences extreme type of climate with hot & dry summer followed by humid monsoon and severe cold. The temperature varies between 100C to 480C. The district receives rainfall from South–West monsoon. The average annual rainfall in the district is 1367mm. But the rainfall is not well distributed. The erratic distribution of rainfall very often hampers the Kharif crop production particularly in Padmapur Sub–division & Bhatli, Ambabhona Blocks of Bargarh Sub–division.  Oriya is the main language spoken in the district. It is generally known as Sambalpuri Oriya and is spoken in western parts of Orissa. Among this District depends only sources of Cultivation of Rice. ( http://www.ordistricts.nic.in) Bargarh Distric The Bargarh district lies between 20° 43' to 21° 41' North latitude and 82° 39' to 83° 58' East longitude. It is one of the western most districts of the State of Orissa and came in to existence as a district from 1st April 1993. It is bounded on the north by the State of Chhatisgarh and on the east by the district of Sambalpur, on the south lies the district of Balangir and Subarnapur and on the west the district of Nuapara. Tele: E-mail addresses: firstname.lastname@example.com © 2015 Elixir All rights reserved ARTICLE INFO


Ground-to-space laser uplinks to Earthorbiting satellites and deep space probes serve both as a beacon and an uplink command channel for deep space probes and Earth-orbiting satellites. An acquisition and tracking point design to support a high bandwidth downlink from a 20-cm optical terminal on an orbiting Mars spacecraft typically calls for 2.5 kW of 1030-nm uplink optical power in 40 micro-radians divergent beams.2 The NOHD (nominal ocular hazard distance) of the 1030nm uplink is in excess of 2E5 km, approximately half the distance to the moon. Recognizing the possible threat of high power laser uplinks to the flying public and to sensitive Earth-orbiting satellites, JPL developed a three-tiered system at its Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) to ensure safe laser beam propagation through navigational and near-Earth space.


A nickel(II) complex, [Ni(taetacn)](ClO4)2 ⋅ H2O, where taetacn = 1,4,7-tris(2-aminoethyl)-1,4,7-triazacyclononane was synthesized. The crystal structure was determined by the single-crystal X-ray diffraction method at 293 K. The complex crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pna21 with a = 16.004(2) Å, b = 10.186(1) Å, c = 13.937(2) Å, V = 2271.9(5) Å3, Dx = 1.56 g cm−3, Dm = 1.59 g cm−3 (floatation method), and Z = 4. The R1 [I > 2σ(I)] and wR2 (all data) values are 0.0636 and 0.1672, respectively, for all 4845 independent reflections. The compound is composed of octahedral nickel(II) cation with three 2-aminoethyl pendant groups of taetacn, tetrahedral ClO4− anion, and a water molecule of crystallization. Electronic spectra are consistent with the octahedral geometry. Temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility (4.5–300 K) can be interpreted considering the zero-field splitting of the nickel(II) ion (g = 2.14, D = 3.72 cm−1, and Nα = 300 × 10−6 cm3 mol−1). Cyclic voltammetry in DMF showed quasi-reversible and irreversible oxidation waves (Epa = 0.54 V, Epc = 0.45 V; Epa = 1.16 V, Epc = 0.71 V vs. Ag/Ag+).


Abstract The cyclization of nitroalkyne catalyzed by Hg(OTf)2 to produce the corresponding benzo[c]isoxazole in excellent yields with high selectivity is reported. On the basis of this strategy, a one-pot method to synthesize indole derivatives has been developed. In this transformation, two Hg-carbene intermediates are proposed to be involved.


Those who comment on the use of antipsychotics in 2018 face two challenges. The first stems from rising expectations. The move from incarceration of psychotic people in asylums to care in the community has transformed the lives of many in Western European countries. Undoubtedly, antipsychotics played a major role in facilitating this. Furthermore, there is overwhelming evidence that antipsychotics are essential in acute psychosis and that many patients will benefit from taking them for a period thereafter. However, as care has improved, so expectations of recovery have increased. This has been accompanied by calls for patients and relatives to have a greater voice in planning care. In some countries, their representatives have been incorporated into policy making. In others, patients have been relegated to shouting their criticisms from offstage. One example of the latter is the website "Mad in America" (https://www.madinamerica. com); a brief look should cause any psychiatrist to reflect on why antipsychotics attract such opprobrium from many of those they are intended to help. It is in this context that the prescription of antipsychotics for prevention of recurrence, rather than treatment of active symptoms, should be considered. Drugs intended to be taken prophylactically need to be extremely safe and tolerable; witness the arguments concerning the pros and cons of statins. In recent years, concern has been raised about the risk/benefit ratio of prophylactic antipsychotics. The paper by Correll et al is the second of two responses from the psychopharmacological establishment, and takes a less dogmatic approach than its predecessor. Correll et al accept that most antipsychotics increase the risk of obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Their review addresses, but fails to resolve, the paradox that we clinicians commonly see the adverse effects of antipsychotics on the physical health of our patients, yet mortality appears to be lower in those patients who take rather than do not take antipsychotics (at least for those who receive low or moderate doses). Fortunately, we are now better able to minimize metabolic effects by prescribing antipsychotics with lower propensity to weight gain. The coverage of the worrying issue of the effects of antipsychotics on brain structure is less satisfactory. Correll et al too readily dismiss the evidence that prolonged antipsychotic use is associated with decreased grey matter and fail to cite the monkey and rodent studies in which administration of antipsychotics causes brain volume losses. This is an unresolved issue that deserves intensive investigation rather than bland reassurances. The second challenge to traditional practice comes from the explosion in knowledge about psychosis since the prophylactic use of antipsychotics was introduced in the 1970s. Then schizophrenia was considered a discrete neurodegenerative disease. Now we know that schizophrenia is the severe end of a continuum of psychosis, and that the final common pathway underlying positive symptoms is dopamine dysregulation. We used to think that dopamine blockade addressed the locus of abnormality in the D2 receptor, but it is now clear that the primary problem in most patients is presynaptic: they synthesize excessive striatal dopamine. Antipsychotics block the effect of the released dopamine and thus diminish aberrant perceptions secondary to increased salience. They do little for established delusions; neither do they help negative symptoms or cognitive dysfunction: indeed, there is considerable evidence that high doses impair both of these. We now also know that many of the environmental risk factors for psychosis (e.g., child abuse, migration) increase striatal dopamine synthesis, and that people with schizophrenia show greater dopamine release in response to everyday hassles. Furthermore, as people become ill, the stress caused by the psychosis itself (e.g., by beliefs that they may be harmed) and its consequences (e.g., compulsory hospitalization) likely result in further release of dopamine, and thus more abnormal salience and worsening psychosis. Care must therefore include efforts to minimize stresses and find an appropriate social niche for patients, to facilitate decrease in dopamine synthesis. Psychological treatments, including cognitivebehavioural and cognitive remediation therapies, possibly the newer avatar therapy, and last but not least physical exercise, should also be available. Unfortunately, too often sufferers languish in hostels full of drug takers in the worst parts of town; or they are homeless or in jail, situations that we psychiatrists would have difficulty in coping with, let alone those with increased sensitivity to stress. Advances in understanding the genetic architecture of schizophrenia have demonstrated shared genes with bipolar disorder and also with depression, posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders. This should not surprise clinicians who have noted that many people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia also suffer from mood swings, or find anxiety and depression as disabling as positive symptoms. Mood stabilizers, antidepressants and psychological treatments can ameliorate these and lessen the drive to psychosis. Given that hard evidence for the benefits of antipsychotics extends only to about two years, what to do in the long-term requires further research. Much effort has been expended by pharmaceutical companies emphasizing the importance of adherence to antipsychotics. Less attention has focused on the value of moderate and rational prescribing. As a result, many patients receive excessive doses of D2 blockers for prolonged periods. Correll et al note that many recovered patients are able to remain well on doses


The invention discloses a satellite antenna for satellite communication in motion. The satellite antenna comprises a supermaterial spherical hood and a feed source; the feed source carries out real-time signal scanning under the control of a servo system, so as to ensure that the signals received by the feed source are optimal all the time; the supermaterial spherical hood comprises at least two casing units of which refractive indexes distribution are the same; each casing unit comprises a core layer which comprises a core layer lamina or a plurality of identical core layer laminas; each core layer lamina comprises a lamellar first substrate and a plurality of artificial microstructures arranged on the first substrate; and by accurately designing the refractive index distribution of the supermaterial spherical hood, electromagnetic waves generated by the feed source can be emitted in a plane wave form after penetrating the supermaterial spherical hood, or plane waves generated by a satellite and at a specific angle can gather at the feed source after penetrating the supermaterial spherical hood. According to the satellite antenna for satellite communication in motion, provided by the invention, the supermaterial spherical hood has the functions of an antenna and an antenna housing, the required parts are fewer, and the cost is low.


Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) have been used as biofertilizer. However, considering the specificity of the plant-bacteria interaction, the effect of PGPB inoculation in wheat under water stress is still poorly understood. The aim of this work was to evaluate wheat genotypes under water shortage inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense and Herbaspirillum seropedicae , with and without nitrogen fertilization. Therefore, samples for relative water content (RWC) and membrane stability index (MSI) evaluations were collected at the 1 st and 8 th days of a total water restriction at booting stage. In addition, biomass, total nitrogen (TN) and yield parameters were determined at the harvesting. As results, genotypes showed a distinct performance. RWC and MSI data revealed that A. brasilense and H. seropedicae inoculation are able to lead CD 120 to drought tolerance. In addition, grain index was improved in all conditions where H. seropedicae was present under both different water regimes. H. seropedicae with nitrogen fertilizer also increased grain yield under water shortage regime. Furthermore, A. brasilense with nitrogen fertilizer was also able to improve 1000-grain mass of plants under water shortage. Frontana exhibited the maintenance of cellular integrity and RWC only when H. seropedicae and with both bacteria plus nitrogen were applied, however this cultivar did not present differences in terms of biomass, TN or productivity. These results pointed out H. seropedicae as promising to inoculation in cereals and CD120 as a good plant model to study plant-bacteria interaction.


Part I: Current Issues and Key Themes The Johannesburg Summit and Sustainable Development: The Effectiveness of Mega-Conferences Andrew Jordan and Gill Seyfang The Climate Regime: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead Benito Muller The Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty: A Ten Year Review Davor Vidas Environmental Protection in the South Pacific: The Effectiveness of the SPREP Convention Richard Herr Wetland Conservation: Has the Ramsar Convention Made a Difference? Michael Bowman Friends of the Earth International Keith Suter Part II: Agreements on Environment and Development Part III: IGOs Part IV NGOs Index


For all the AM CVn objects we observe harmonic structure in the FT of their light curves. From recent advances in the theory of accretion discs we now can relate the harmonic structures to physical structures in the discs. Numerical simulations provide us with tools to interpret the pattern resulting from the tidal disc responses and non-linear coupling between response modes. From WET photometry it may be possible to observe the evolution of modes when objects go from low state to high state. This may help us to understand the physics of accretion discs and to test disc theories.


It has been established that the contribution made by vibrational excitation may be appreciable, particularly in the case of molecular polarizabilities, and should be taken into account when determining the temperature and density in nonequilibrium gases. The results are calculated for important molecules such as CO, CO2 and SF6.


This study aimed to determine the effect of the red watermelon extract can affect the number of leukocytes in mice exposed to cigarette smoke. This study was designed with a completely randomized design using a unidirectional pattern 20 male mice (Mus muscullus) were divided into 4 groups. K1 negative controls were given 0.5 ml of distilled water, K2 positive control by exposure to cigarette smoke and 0.5 ml of distilled water, K3 by exposure to cigarette smoke and red watermelon extract were given a dose of 22 mg / mouse and K4 by exposure to cigarette smoke and were given extracts of red watermelon a dose of 44 mg / mouse. Exposure to cigarette smoke and red watermelon extract conducted for 30 days, making blood on day 31. Blood sampling performed at Plexus Retroorbitalis. Furthermore, counting the number of leukocytes. Data were analyzed using ANOVA completely randomized design with SPSS for Windows 16.0. The results of this study showed that the extract of watermelon for 30 days showed their real influence (P 0.05) to the number of leukocytes in mice. It is concluded that free radicals contained in cigarette can cause a leukocytosis, an inflammatory, oxidative stress and red watermelon extract can minimize cell damage.


Humboldt University Berlin, July 14 - 16, 2016 Deadline: Apr 1, 2016 URBAN ART: CREATING THE URBAN WITH ART 14-16 July 2016 – Humboldt University Berlin Keynote: Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt (Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar) The conference deals with Urban Art, a new form of art and activism, that occurs in urban areas worldwide. First known under the label of "Street Art", the term has expanded to include diverse artistic and visual interventions in the exterior space. In contrast to the traditional...


The goal of this study was to determine the level of organizational justice, organizational trust, and mobbing behaviors of primary school administrators based on the perceptions of substitute teachers. The participants of the study were selected using layered sampling method and included 502 substitute teachers studying to receive their teaching certificates in pedagogical proficiency classes at Bulent Ecevit University in Zonguldak. There were three instruments in the study: Organizational Justice Scale, Organizational Trust Scale, and Negative Acts Questionnaire. The data were analyzed according to the research questions using independent samples t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson's correlation and simple linear regression analysis. The findings showed that based on the genders of substitute teachers, there was a significant difference only on organizational justice behaviors of primary school administrators. Based on the years of experience of substitute teachers, there were significant differences on organizational justice and mobbing behaviors of primary school administrators. The results also showed that there was a negative and a significant relationship between organizational trust and mobbing behaviors at a lower rate.


In this paper, the non-linear vibration of a cable-stayed beam with time-varying length and tension in the cable is investigated. A set of non-linear, time-varying differential equations describing this coupling system is derived by Hamilton's principle and the finite element method. According to the results of numerical simulation, the tension of the cable is related to the cable length, which in turn is a function of the longitudinal and transverse displacements of the cable. Furthermore, it is shown that the tension and length of the cable can be considerably different by using linear and non-linear models.


PURPOSE: A composition containing euphobiasteroid is provided to effectively suppress the differentiation of induced adipocytes and to prevent or treat obesity. CONSTITUTION: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating obesity contains euphobiasteroid as an active ingredient. A food composition for preventing or treating obesity contains euphobiasteroid as an active ingredient. Euphobiasteroid is isolated from Euphorbiae Lathyridis semen using a solvent. The solvent is water, anhydrous or hydrous low alcohol of 1-4 carbon atoms(methanol, ethano, propanol, butanol), mixture solvent of low alcohol and water, acetone, ethyl acetate, chloroform, or 1,3-butylene glycol.