Abstract : In model-based development of reactive systems, statecharts are widely used for formal design of system behavior, and provide a sound basis for analysis and verification tools, as well as for code generation from system models. We present an approach for dynamic analysis of reactive systems via run-time verification of code produced with Statemate C and MicroC code generators [10], [15]. The core of the approach is automatic creation of monitoring statecharts from formulas that specify the system's behavioral properties in a proposed assertion language. Such monitors are then translated into code together with the system model, and executed concurrently with the system code. This approach leads to a more realistic analysis of reactive systems, as monitoring is supported in the system's actual operating environment. For models that include design-level attributes (division into tasks, etc.), this is crucial for performance-related checks, and helps to overcome restrictions inherent in simulation and model checking.


Flight activity in the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera (Walker), is influenced by feeding activity (Clark 1971; Lambert 1972) and an understanding of the normal feeding behaviour of the insect is necessary for a full appreciation of flight activity. The observations on feeding presented here are the results of investigations made mostly in the field in Australia with this in view.


Mathematical creative thinking ability is essential to be mastered by students to create good learning results and achievement. To install creative thinking in students' minds, they are highly requested to apply an innovative learning model. Among innovative learning models, project-activity-cooperative learning-exercise (PACE) is the one to be considered suitable for improving the students' mathematical creative thinking. This study is an experimental research using a pretest-posttest control group design. It was conducted in three classes of IKIP Siliwangi students by applying different learning models. The first class was given the PACE model treatment with Geogebra, the second class was given the PACE model treatment, and the third class was given direct learning. The instrument used tests. Based on the data analysis, we can conclude that there are differences in improving creative thinking abilities among the students who get the PACE model learning with Geogebra (PACE-G), the PACE model, and direct learning (DL). The improvement of creative students who get PACE and PACE-G models is better than those who get DL. The progress of students' mathematical creative thinking abilities obtained from PACE and PACE-G models is a high category. In contrast, improving students' creative thinking abilities who acquire DL is categorized as a medium.


We examined rates of C, N, and P mineralization in soils from 16 northern Minnesota wetlands that occur across an ombrotrophic–minerotrophic gradient. Soils were incubated at 30°C under aerobic and anaerobic conditions for 59 wk, and the results were fit with a two-pool kinetic model. Additionally, 39 different soil quality variables were used in a principal components analysis (PCA) to predict mineralization rates. Mineralization of C, N, and P differed significantly among wetland types, aeration status (aerobic vs. anaerobic), and their interaction term. Despite low total soil N and P, there was a rapid turnover of the nutrient pools in ombrotrophic sites, particularly under aerobic conditions. On a volumetric basis, C and N mineralization increased in a predictable manner across the ombrotrophic–minerotrophic gradient, largely due to increasing soil bulk density. However, P mineralization per cubic centimeter remained relatively high in the bogs. The higher total P content of more minerotrophic soils a...


Presentation provides an overview of the process to generate aerothermal databases for the Orion MPCV usingcomputational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools.


Bankers owed 800 million pounds meet this morning to consider a breathing space for the tottering Maxwell empire, as Ian and Kevin Maxwell struggle to hold their inheritance against potential buyers eyeing assets such as Mirror Group Newspapers.


Indium arsenide quantum dots are of great interest for next-generation telecom optoelectronics if their emission wavelength can be red shifted into the correct range. One method to achieve this is the deposition of a surfactant, such as bismuth, during quantum dot growth. Here, we present a series of indium arsenide quantum dot layers grown using several bismuth fl uxes and two di ff erent growth temperatures. The e ff ects of bismuth fl ux on quantum dot morphology and optical properties are studied by atomic force microscopy and photoluminescence measurements. Bimodal distributions of quantum dots are seen at low growth temperature, while at high temperature, a single dominant distribution is seen in most of the layers. A medium bismuth fl ux was seen to produce the highest integrated photoluminescence intensity at high growth temperature, whereas intensity saturates between medium and high fl uxes at low growth temperatures. A signi fi cant increase in uncorrected aspect ratio seen for the layer grown with a low bismuth fl ux at high growth temperature presents a new opportunity for control of quantum dot morphology using bismuth.


The after effects of a fire can be a severe as those of the fire itself. The cause of the deterioration which occurs in buildings and equipment days after the fire has been extinguished is corrosion, and this corrosion can be prevented.


Model Development and Implementation of Class Design for Family and Resource Management Using Problem-Based Learning: Focusing on Case Study of "Leisure Culture and Life Management" Class Kyoung A Kim·Mee Sok Park Leadership Competency Development Center, Department of Family and Resource Management, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea Fam. Environ. Res. Vol.52, No.6, December 2014: 669-682 http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/fer.2014.056 Original Article ISSN 2288-3541(Print) ISSN 2288-355X(Online)


Beginning with her work in Budapest, Hungary, and continuing in the United States and Canada, Katinka Scipiades Daniel (b. 1913) has been involved with the Kodaly concept of music education for over sixty years. (1) A tireless educator and reformer, she has been a pioneer in curriculum development and music literacy for children and adults since her immigration to the United States in 1960. Her work, and that of her students, has changed the course of music education and given rise to Kodaly organizations and teacher training programs in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Daniel was born and raised in Hungary. Her formal musical training began at age five in Budapest at the Liszt Ferenc Zenemuveszeti Foiskola (Franz Liszt Music Academy), Preparatory Division. Admission to the preparatory program was by audition, and lessons were given twice a week. The students attended many concerts, not only of pianists, but also of other soloists and ensembles such as vocalists and symphony orchestras. Daniel credits her rich experiences at the academy and in her home for her lifelong interest in music. (2) For the two piano preparatory levels, Daniel studied with Istvan Thoman, who had also taught Erno Dohnanyi and Bela Bartok. Thoman supervised the lessons given by a student teacher at the academy. After completing the preparatory division, Daniel continued to study piano at the Music Academy throughout her elementary and high school years. Hungarian students entering the Gymnasium, or high school, choose either a vocational or classical course of study and are admitted by passing exams in the subject area. Daniel's father encouraged her to study elementary education in order to earn a living. Because of the rigors of the Gymnasium, she had only one year of study to complete her elementary education degree from the Notre Dame Teachers College in Pecs, Hungary. She then studied music education at the Franz Liszt Academy and was awarded the degree in 1932. As she continued her study at the Franz Liszt Academy, Daniel planned for a career as a concert pianist, having the security of two education degrees as her father suggested. She studied the next six years for a degree in piano performance, graduating in 1938. Although Daniel did not become a concert artist as she had planned, her training was thorough and rigorous. She describes one of her first lessons as follows: When I went to my first chamber music class, I was prepared to play a trio by Mozart. When it was my turn to begin, Professor Weiner asked me if I knew all the Mozart trios. I humbly answered that I did not. He told me, "Go back home and learn all of them so as to truly know Mozart. Then, come back and I will tell you which one to play!" Without question this is what I did. (3) When Daniel graduated in 1938 with her piano performance degree, Antal Molnar, her solfege and theory professor at the academy, asked what her plans were. She told him of her desire to begin a concert career. The professor advised her to consider continuing her education because there would be little chance during the war for a successful performance career. Daniel applied for a music teaching position in the public schools and began pursuing an advanced degree from the Pazmany Peter University in Budapest. Because of the public school schedule, Daniel attended class at the university in the morning. During the afternoon she taught solfege and piano in the Szekes Fovarosi Zene Iskola [Municipal Music Schools] in Budapest and general music classes in the Budapest City Schools. She also maintained a private piano studio in her home. In 1943 Katinka married Dr. Erno Daniel, professor of piano at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. The wedding party included Dr. Erno Dohnanyi, conductor, pianist, composer, and then president of the Liszt Academy, and Ede Zathoreczky, violinist and later successor to Dohnanyi as president of the academy. …


After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's forces re occupied Anqing,they actively carried out the construction of the base ,so that Anqing base became one of its bases with the longest governing period and relatively stable situations.


This study proposes a probabilistic principal component analysis- (PPCA-) based method for online monitoring of water-quality contaminant events by UV-Vis (ultraviolet-visible) spectroscopy. The purpose of this method is to achieve fast and sound protection against accidental and intentional contaminate injection into the water distribution system. The method is achieved first by properly imposing a sliding window onto simultaneously updated online monitoring data collected by the automated spectrometer. The PPCA algorithm is then executed to simplify the large amount of spectrum data while maintaining the necessary spectral information to the largest extent. Finally, a monitoring chart extensively employed in fault diagnosis field methods is used here to search for potential anomaly events and to determine whether the current water-quality is normal or abnormal. A small-scale water-pipe distribution network is tested to detect water contamination events. The tests demonstrate that the PPCA-based online monitoring model can achieve satisfactory results under the ROC curve, which denotes a low false alarm rate and high probability of detecting water contamination events.


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Faniba Idha Nurrachmad, 2018, 50134811 N, "Optimization of cargo operation in improving crude oil discharge process on MT. Gede". Nautical Essay, Diploma IV Program, Semarang Merchant Marine Polytechni Material Adviser (I): Capt. Marihot Simanjuntak, M.M. and as Methodologi and Adviser (II): Vega Fonsula Andromeda, S.ST, S.Pd, M.Hum.
Indonesia is one of the oil and gas producing countries in the world. With the increasing and increasing production of oil fields, oil refineries, and oil depots in Indonesia, the role of tankers in this regard is very important for the transportation of oil and gas. Along with the development of science and technology, the tankers themselves are experiencing changes and developments and renewal, the issue of loading and unloading equipment on board with technological advances, must be balanced with the human resources factor in order to operate the equipment- advanced equipment properly and properly in accordance with existing procedures and manuals.
This research uses a qualitative method. In determining priorities for completion, the researcher uses an approach tool with the SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) method by giving a score of 1-5.
Based on the observation and analysis of the author reads, good communication between all parties in the process of unloading crude oil. Good communication can facilitate and improve the process of unloading maximally. Besides, it is also the maintenance and operational method of unloading supporting tool to minimize.
Key words : Discharge, Optimization, Coordination, MT. Gede


Human rights or what is often abbreviated as HAM in Indonesia have been alluded to in the formulation of the text of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. Human rights are moral norms or principles that describe standards of human behavior that are systematically protected as human rights law. nationally or internationally. Human rights are generally understood as rights that absolutely become basic rights where people inherently have rights because of their position as human beings which include aspects of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnicity, and other statuses. Based on searching the verses of the Al-Qur'an and As-Sunnah, it is concluded that Islamic law has formulated the regulation and protection of human rights for humans.
Keywords: human right, Islamic law


This paper aimed to study the effects of local government role in developing culinary tourism sustainability. By choosing Kedonganan Beach, one of two famous culinary destination at Bali – Indonesia, two types of government role namely regulative role and distributive role, were studied. These roles were positioned as exogenous latent variables in causal relationship with local community satisfaction toward the existence of culinary tourism at their village. Community satisfaction is measured thorough its formative constructs, i.e. communities' safety level, emotional level, economic condition, and social condition. The data were collected from 84 community leaders, both formal and informal leader, using tested questionnaires. The results show the government roles did not prove significantly affect culinary tourism sustainability and to its formative construct. However, three out of four constructs show significant effect to community satisfaction where the most influential construct in this relationship is economic condition of community.
KEYWORDS: Culinary tourism, Kedonganan, Structural model, Sustainability.


Empowerment means enhancement of student's autonomy for decision making. Reports have shown that students who are empowered perform better, and have better relationship with the staff. Therefore this study was carried out to explore the experience of student's empowerment at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Malaysia. Informed by a phenomenological qualitative research design, analysis of various sources of primary data was carried out using semi-structured interviews with international and local students to understand their opinions and perceptions about empowerment. Results obtained were analyzed, transcribed and discussed about their perception of empowerment and the effect on performance. The findings showed a sense of dis-empowerment among the informants was due to lack of motivation and problems associated with integration between the students and the staff. Student's reported that they can be empowered by allowing them more freedom in their studies. However, they recommend that management should assist in sensitizing local student's to feel free to socialize with international students for improved performance.


In this paper we have experimentally demonstrated the viability of a subwavelength focusing screen, formed by placing slot antennas over a ground plane. In a proof-of-principle experiment using only 3 slots, we have focused the x-directed e-field to a FWHM of 5.2 mm (0.17-wavelength) at an image plane 4.5 mm (0.15-wavelength) from the screen at f = 10 GHz. Our measured results indicate that the screenpsilas focusing quality and the electric field intensity at the focal spot are only minimally affected by conductor losses. We have also verified that resonant coupling enhances the peak field intensity at the focal spot to a level comparable to the incident field. The loss independence and high transmitted peak intensity make our subwavelength focusing screen an attractive option for practical subwavelength focusing in the near-field.


Many patients experience side effects from prolonged use of benzodiazepines and analgesics containing codeine. Therefore 66 daily users of these drugs (average dose before intervention 34 DDD/month) were encouraged to take part in a cessation experiment. They were told that a large share of their symptoms which were the indication for benzodiazepines and analgesics might be side effects from this medication. They were also given a cessation plan. Over two years the prescriptions (measured in DDD) for this group were reduced by 57%, and 26% of the patients stopped taking these medicines. A strategy is proposed for cessation of use of benzodiazepines and codeine-containing analgesics in general practice.


Object detection and sub-category recognition play important roles in the field of computer vision. Most of the existing approaches separate detection and recognition into two sequential parts. We argue, however, detection and recognition could share information of each other to achieve a better performance for both of them. In this paper, a new approach to joint detection and recognition based on Deformable Part Model (DPM) is presented. Our approach extends DPM from pure object detection to simultaneous detection and sub-category recognition. A multi-objective optimization function is formulated. It integrates supervised sub-category recognition into DPM training process, using structural SVM with latent variables. The experiments show that our approach achieves a very exciting result in a challenging vehicle data set.


Plasma-assisted Ag and Au subtractive etching was investigated in CH4 plasmas at 10 °C. The etch rate of Ag (29 ± 2 nm/min) was higher than that observed for Cu (17 nm/min), while the Au etch rate (12 nm/min) was lower than that for both Ag and Cu. Etch rates of Ag and Au due to pressure variation decreased as pressure increased, analogous to Cu etch results. However, the specific plasma conditions under which hydrocarbon formation occurred on Cu, Ag, and Au depended upon the metal being etched as a result of variation in surface chemical reactivities. Comparison of etch results using glass slides and Si wafers as etch masks, confirmed the formation of volatile etch products for Cu and Au. Etch product removal for Au and Cu was enhanced by UV photons, while Ag etching showed no effect at wavelengths > 300 nm. These studies demonstrated that in CH4 plasmas, chemical components in the etch process are most important for Cu while Ag and Au etching is more dependent upon physical sputtering.


This paper seeks to shed light upon one facet of the contemporary interest of Azmi Bishara's work Religion and Secularism in a Historical Context, inasmuch as it is a theoretical achievement that has at its disposal new methodological بادلآاو ةغللا يف هاروتكدلا ةداهش ىلع لصاح .سنوت ةنوتيزلا ةعماج يف ةيملاسلإا تاساردلا زكرمب رضاحم ذاتسأو ثحاب * .)رصاعمو ثيدح يبرع ركف( ةراضح صاصتخا ،ةيبرعلا Researcher and Lecturer at the Center for Islamic Studies – Al–Zaytoonah University, Tunisia. He holds a PhD in Arabic Language and Literature, with a specialization in Civilization (Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought). اهتلّايختمو ةيناملعلا تايدرسب ةقلاع يف ،ةراشب يمزع دنع ةنملعلا ةيرظن ةينهارب لغتشي زاجنلإا ديق باتكل ةمدقم ةساردلا هذه ** .برعلا نييملاسلإا دنع 14 Issue 9 / 34 ددعلا Autumn 2020 فيرخ concepts and terminology that makes sense of the outcomes of the religious, and the dynamics of religiosity in contexts of modern secularization, aside from those which have become mainstays of the classical theory of secularization. Bishara applies these terms to an approach to Islamic religiosity and its modern, present–day dynamics, including its most controversial phenomena: Islamic political movements (Ikhwani, Salafi, and Jihadi) and sectarian groups. From the classical perspective on secularization, these phenomena once characterized the rigidity and resilience of Islamic religiosity, as well as the exclusion of Muslim societies from the process of secularization, but in Bishara's theory of the outcomes of piety within secularization they instead represent the dynamics of this religiosity, as part of the particularity of the outcomes of secularization as witnessed by modern Arab states. Therein, this paper finds an opening for new horizons in the study of contemporary modes of religiosity.


Diane looked up, put her pen in her mouth and thoughtabout the question for some seconds, and then lookedat me. "Well...mmm...I will encourage the citizens inmy city to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste. I can prob-ably carry out a campaign to educate citizens about thedangers of polluting the environment. I think...I willmake companies and individuals receive a penalty forenvironmental pollution and I will encourage the useof computers. I will study the successful programs thatother cities are using and see how I can do it in mycity...." (Interview transcript, June 8, 2004)


Solder bumped Flip Chips on low cost substrates with three different epoxy-based no-clean flux liquid-like no-flow underfills a re presented in this study. This paper includes evaluation of three commercial no-flow underfills and characterization of materia l and process parameters. Important materials and process parameters, such as curing temperature and time, thermal coefficient of expansion, storage modulus, loss modulus, tand, glass transition temperature, moisture uptake, solder reflow, and post curing are discussed in this work. Curing mechanism during reflow of no-flow underfills will be illustrated in this paper and a compariso n of noflow underfill and conventional underfill will be also addressed. Also, cross-sections are examined for a better understanding of the effects of these no-flow underfill materials on the interconnects of the Flip Chip assemblies. Shear and thermal-cycling tests and results of these Flip Chip assemblies are reported and analyzed.


At present, people have more needs on health. It is, therefore, necessary for medical professionals to elaborately measure or evaluate health. Health measurement scales for evaluating health abstract outcomes, eg, beliefs, feeling, attitudes, and behavior, has been more and more involved in health assessment. Health professionals, therefore, need competency in selecting health measurement scales, including the feasibility and costeffectiveness of assessment. In doing so, they will be able to convert such abstract outcomes into scores, which can be further computed and communicated. This article describes key issues for consideration in applying health measurement scales in clinical practice or research. Scale users should, fi rstly, consider the scale overview and, then, apply the classical test theory to determine the scale reliability and validity. Knowledge on item response theory can be additionally used with classical test theory and will be helpful to determine item properties. After all properties are taken into account, scale users would be able to choose the scales appropriate for their work.


We introduce the notion of intertwined quantum phase transitions (IQPTs), for which a crossing of two configurations coexists with a pronounced shape-evolution of each configuration. A detailed analysis in the framework of the interacting boson model with configuration mixing, provides evidence for this scenario inthe Zr isotopes. The latter exhibit a normal configuration which remains spherical along the chain, but exchanges roles with an intruder configuration, which undergoes first a spherical to prolate-deformed [U(5)→SU(3)] QPT and then a crossover to γ-unstable [SU(3)→SO(6)].


The marine boundary layer offers a unique opportunity to investigate the electrical properties of the atmosphere, as the effect of natural radioactivity in driving near surface ionization is significantly reduced over the ocean, and the concentration of aerosols is also typically lower than over land. This work addresses the temporal variability of the atmospheric electric field in the South Atlantic marine boundary layer based on measurements from the SAIL (Space-Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions in the marine boundary Layer) project. The SAIL monitoring campaign took place on board the Portuguese navy tall ship NRP Sagres during its circumnavigation expedition in 2020.  Two identical field mills (CS110, Campbell Scientific) were installed on the same mast but at different heights (about 5 and 22 meters), recording the atmospheric electric field every 1-second. Hourly averages of the atmospheric electric field are analyzed for the ship’s leg from 3rd to 25th March, between Buenos Aires (South America) and Cape Town (South Africa). The median daily curve of the electric field has a shape compatible with the Carnegie curve, but significant variability is found in the daily pattern of individual days, with only about 30% of the days exhibiting a diurnal pattern consistent with the Carnegie curve.


The high luminosity e+e− collisions at the B-factory experiments (Belle/BaBar) have revealed rich spectra of hadron resonances in the charmonium region. Many of the newly found states do not fit to the unfilled level of the conventional spectrum. Some of them are thought to be exotic states, having sub-structure more complex than the quark anti-quark mesons. In fact, Belle has found some states with non-zero electric charge, that require a minimum quark content of cc̄ud̄. In this paper, we review the present status of studies on such exotic hadrons at the B-factory experiments.


This study aims to find the concept of Indonesian Islamic moderation from the perspective of maqashid shariah and tries to present forms of Islamic moderation that follow the Qur'an and al-hadith (maqashid shariah). By conducting qualitative research with a descriptive approach through library research methods that focus on observing (examining) previous research studies and analyzing the mils and Huberman models related to conformity with maqashid sharia. This study resulted in the primary forms of Indonesian Islamic moderation, namely: the state of Indonesia, neither a radical religion nor a liberal religion. It is conceptualized in five aspects belonging to the wasathiyah concept, namely: Maintaining Religion (Hifdzu al-din), Nurturing the Soul (hifdzu al-nafs), Maintaining Intellect (hifdz al-aqli), Caring for offspring (hifdz al-nasl). ), Maintaining property (hifdz al-mal). So, the presence of maqashid sharia as a spirit with these five principles in maintaining the integrity of Religion and the State ensures that love for Religion and the State can save humanity and maintain the dignity of Islam itself.


The fabrication of micro-structured films with dynamic porosity is useful in various applications. This article presents fabrication of microcellular films exhibiting dynamic porosity upon applying an external pressure stimulus. Interestingly, we show that the dynamic porosity is in conjunction with an opaque to transparent transition (OTT) that imparts the material with a unique optomechanical behavior. The OTT experienced foams will have a transparency almost equal of the as-cast films. The foaming process used for this study is solid-state foming technique with CO2 gas as physical blowing agent. A styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) triblock copolymer was used as the foaming material. Polystyrene (PS) blocks in SEBS play a key role in this process since CO2 reduces the Tg of PS and enable ethylenebutylene (EB) parts to swell during saturating stage while upon depressurization their Tg increases again that prevents the forming pores from collapse. A custom-made in-situ optomechanical setup was used to characterize the optical and mechanical behavior of the produced foams. Optomechanical tests at different strain rates and loads revealed that the films undergo a gradual OTT behavior indicating their ability to be used as optical pressure-sensitive films. Quenching temperature is of great importance in this process since the foams show various OTT behavior once the quenching temperature changes. Moreover, here we show after pressing the foams, the transparent films can be re-foamed by the same process for many cycles.


In the teaching practice of comparative literature,both teachers and students are puzzled by some problems.Some of them concern the understanding of the discipline of comparative literature and some exist in the arrangement of teaching contents and methods.The paper deals with these problems and advances some countermeasures.


With fast development of scientific databases and web information databases have become terribly immense in size and sophisticated in nature. These databases maintain massive and heterogeneous data, with large amount of relations and attributes. Therefore it is terribly troublesome to design a collection of static question forms to answer various ad-hoc database queries on these modern databases. Therefore there is need of such system that generate Query Forms dynamically in keeping with the user's want at run time. The proposed system Dynamic Query Form i.e. DQF system about to offer a solution by the query interface in massive and complicated databases. In proposed system, the main concept is to capture user interests among the user interactions and to transform the question type iteratively. Every iteration consists of 2 types of user interactions: First is Query Form Enrichment and another is Query Execution. In Query Form Enrichment DQF would recommend a list of query form components to the user so that user can select desired form components into current query form. In Query Execution user fill up current query form and submit query, DQF going to show result and take feedback from user on provided query results. A user would have facility to fill up the query form and submit queries to view the query result at every iteration. So that the query form could be dynamically refined till the user satisfies with the query results.


The literature on the effects of fear of crime has investigated a number of the nuances of this phenomenon; however, how the fear of different types of crime influences communities has yet to be investigated. We hypothesize that the fear–decline model, which argues fear leads to a decrease in solidarity, applies to 'routine' street crimes; however, fearing crimes that attack the collective, such as school shootings, will increase community solidarity. Using two datasets collected in Finnish communities after they experienced tragic school shootings, our results indicate that the fear–decline model receives strong support but the fear–solidarity model does not.


Introduction In vivo P MRS allows direct measurement and quantification of high energy phosphates such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and phosphocreatine (PCr), as well as the inorganic phosphate (Pi) level and intracellular pH. Using magnetization transfer techniques, it is also possible to measure the rate of ATP synthesis and the flux through creatine kinase system. Thus, P MRS provides a unique tool to directly investigate the mechanisms of synthesis, transfer and utilization of the high energy phosphate compounds, which has significantly advanced our understanding of bioenergetics in tissues. However, the efforts of in vivo P MRS have been suffered from the low NMR detectable concentrations of phosphate compounds, low NMR sensitivity due to its relatively low gyromagnetic ratio, limited spectral and spatial resolution. It is known that the optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) depends on field strength (B0), T1, linewidth (Δν1/2), repetition time (TR), the RF coil quality factor (Q) and other factors according to the following relationship (1):


The book of Nehemiah provides a remarkable example of transformation leader motivated by, and acting for, God's ends: God's glory and the good of those served. It also provides an example of the use of godly means: the pursuit of spirituality in leadership, integrity and visioner focus upon achieving desirable results. The Transformational leaders in organization and communication is very important. The formulation of the problems that the author raises in this scientific paper are: First, is the character of Nehemia the most dominant character modeled by the contemporary leaders? Second, which background category most dominantly determines the transformational leadership based on the book of Nehemiah for the contemporary leaders. The writer uses a quantitative descriptive method with a correlational survey type explanation method. From the results of the data analysis: First: "The transformational leadership based on the book of Nehemiah for the contemporary leaders are in the sufficient category" in this research is proven. Second, "The dimension of Spirituality as the character of Nehemiah who is most dominant in the role modeled by the transformational leadership based on the Book of Nehemiah" is proven to be true.


The effect of the moving speed of perma- nent magnet (PM) on levitation force between PM and high temperature superconducting (HTS) bulk is analyzed and described in the PM-HTS levitation system. The PM vibration characteristic in the PM-HTS system is investigated. The PM may collide with the HTS in vibration if the amplitude and frequency of driving force satisfy the relationship Pmin = A f n . When the load of the system is below a threshold, the minimal collision amplitude of the driving force increases with the load increasing, however, it sharply drops to zero when the load exceeds the threshold. With the increase of the initial height of the PM, the threshold load increases, but the minimal driving force which causes a collision between PM and HTS decreases.


These proceedings present the papers and summarize the discussions of a
workshop held in Goa, India, in January 2004, organized under the aegis of the Indian
National Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) and the U.S. Committee on International
Security and Arms Control (CISAC). NIAS is an independent research institute located
on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and CISAC is a standing
committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The two groups have had
an ongoing bilateral dialogue since 1999.
In four meetings held before the workshop, NIAS and CISAC addressed such
subjects as the future of nuclear arms control, nuclear doctrine and operational practices
for nuclear weapons, protection and accounting of nuclear explosive materials, Indian-
U.S. cooperation in science and technology, and security developments in South Asia and
other regions.
From the early planning stages of this project, CISAC and NIAS searched for a
workshop topic that could be explored in greater depth, a topic of relevance to scientists,
experts, and the broader policy communities in India and the United States. In 2001 it
was agreed that the topic of this workshop, how science and technology can be used to
counter terrorism, was of great importance and great timeliness. By the 2003 planning
meeting in Bangalore, terrorism had become an issue of central concern for the United
States, as it had been in India for some time. Terrorism was an issue that deeply
concerned both countries. Workshop organizers therefore decided to attempt something
tangible as a next step in the NIAS-CISAC dialogue by seeking to meet three objectives
during the joint event.


The names of the Presidents change; that of Disney remains. Sixty-two years after the birth of Mickey Mouse, twenty-four years after the death of his master, Disney's may be the most widely known North American name in the world. He is, arguably, the century's most important figure in bourgeois popular culture. He has done more than any single person to disseminate around the world certain myths upon which that culture has thrived, notably that of an "innocence" supposedly universal, beyond place, beyond time - and beyond criticism.(1) So wrote David Kunzle in his 1991 introduction to Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart's daring How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (1968). Kunzle found that little serious analysis of Disney's innumerable and far-reaching cultural productions had been undertaken, save for this work, and a critical but somewhat less contentious volume, also published in 1968, Richard Schickel's The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney. How things have changed. In the mere half-decade since Kunzle's challenge to cultural critics, at least five books and countless essays and reviews have been published with the intent of unraveling the mythic stature of this man-and-mouse team. This is not to mention Disney theme park travel guides, coffee table books on Disney animation, trivia books and biographies of Wait Disney. Disney does appear to be in vogue among left-leaning cultural critics. Without a doubt, there is sufficient fodder for critical analysis. Disney's theme parks, cartoons, feature films, television programs, business practices and marketing strategies provide a curious lens through which to view American popular culture and the politics of gender, race and class. Currently there is no sign that the field of study is yet exhausted. In the publications discussed here, one finds little overlap in the essayists' choice of subject matter. There remain many films not yet selected for study, and Disney's television programs, encompassing both animation and live-action, aimed at children and adults, have hardly been touched on. There is no sign that the steady stream of Disney output will slacken. Although it has not always enjoyed commercial success (and its live-action division is notoriously uneven), the Walt Disney Company has become perhaps the most successful producer of entertainment worldwide. Its film distribution arm, Buena Vista, dominates the feature market with the largest share of box office receipts; Walt Disney Studios' animated movies account for four of the top five best-selling video cassettes; and four of its theme parks rank in the top five in attendance.(3) Disney's recent $19 billion acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC (which includes the ABC Television Network, several local TV stations, the cable sports channels ESPN and ESPN2, half of Lifetime Television and over a third of the Arts and Entertainment Network) has elevated it from a solid force to an absolute leader in broadcast and cable television, and additionally provided footholds in other media (radio, daily newspapers and periodicals including Women's Wear Daily) to Disney's holdings.(4) In New York City the magnitude of Disney's impact on urban culture is just beginning to be felt. Disney (along with other interests ranging from Madame Tussaud to Mariott International) are deeply involved in the city's plans to redevelop Times Square. In 1978 Mayor Ed Koch called for "an urban theme park" to revitalize Times Square, but rejected the earliest proposals as too ahistorical and "white bread." The 1987 stock market and real estate crash delayed revitalization plans until recently. Disney has already claimed central control of Times Square with a long-running live musical version of Beauty and the Beast at the Palace Theatre. With a renovated New Amsterdam Theater as Disney's linchpin, the new project will encompass a huge entertainment complex, a nearly 1000-room hotel, a 29-screen Sony cineplex, enormous new studios for MTV and Home Box Office and miles of retail space. …


Based on the theory of forward backward stochastic differential equations  (FBSDEs), we will introduce probabilistic numerical schemes for solving fully nonlinear second-order parabolic partial differential equations. The based FBSDEs are second-order FBSDEs. Numerical results are given to show the high accuracy of the schemes for solving the PDEs. Some applications are also given.


Besides preventing the hydration of cement, so leading to longer setting and har dening time of concrete, concrete retarter still has auxiliary plasticizing effe ct and auxiliary enhancing strength. In this paper, by adopting the cement paste and concrete experiments, the above auxiliary effects of retarter were investig ated in detail. The results indicate that through superplasticizer motivating th e auxiliary water-reducing effect and auxiliary enhancing strength effect, the cost of compounded additives such as retarting and high water-reducing agent an d pumping agent can be decreased under the same water-reducing ratio, but the s trength of concrete can be enhanced, especially the older age strength.


P hysicists have long wondered whether and how isolated quantum systems thermalize—questions that are relevant to systems as diverse as ultracold atomic gases and black holes. Recent theoretical and experimental advances are bringing fresh insight into this line of inquiry. At one extreme, researchers have shown that disorder can fully arrest thermalization in certain isolated many-body quantum systems [1]. At the other extreme, surprising results from the field of quantum gravity have established that black holes are, in some sense, the fastest thermalizers in nature [2–4]. A common thread running through these developments is an emerging focus on the dynamics of quantum information, in which thermalization is associated with "scrambling," or the loss of accessible information. Two groups, one in China [5] and one in the US [6], have taken a step towards tracking this scrambling of information in systems of quantum spins.


I will analyze here the incoherence in the response of international institutions to the current crisis, and focus on the window of opportunity that this has opened for progressive thinking and policy-making. Things have been bleak for the Left in the past decades, and in this context it is quite understandable for all of us to not recognize change when it presents itself or at least when it becomes possible. This is true for all of us who have railed for so long at the extension of neoliberalism across the developing world at the hands of the IMF, the World Bank, the economics profession, the United States government, and neoliberal reformers in the developing world. All of these agents have collectively been a very powerful juggernaut. It is against that background that those wishing for change failed to recognize, let alone take hope in, any signs announcing it, and I think we could forgive ourselves if the stakes were not so high. But the matter of whether change is underway is so crucial that we can't afford to be complacent at the present juncture.


Leptin resistance leads to obesity and may affect responses to the second messenger cGMP. We tested the hypothesis that the myocardial negative metabolic response to cGMP would be enhanced in leptin-resistant animals. This hypothesis was tested in anesthetized open-chest Zucker obese (n = 16) and age-matched control rats (n = 13). Coronary blood flow (microspheres) and O2 extraction (microspectrophotometry) measurements were used to determine myocardial O2 consumption (VO2). Protein phosphorylation by cGMP protein kinase and cAMP phosphodiesterase activity were also determined. Either vehicle (saline) or 8-Br-cGMP (10−3 M) was topically applied to the left ventricular surface. Body weight was significantly greater in the obese rats (523 ± 17 versus 322 ± 12 g). There were no hemodynamic differences between groups. There was no difference in VO2 between lean (52 ± 13 mL O2/min/100 g) and obese (54 ± 9) vehicle-treated rats. 8-Br-cGMP significantly lowered VO2 in obese (35 ± 6) but not lean (45 ± 7) rats. This was not related to altered protein phosphorylation by the cGMP protein kinase. Cyclic GMP inhibited cAMP phosphodiesterase activity in lean but not obese hearts. Thus, the high myocardial oxygen consumption of lean rats was not significantly affected by cGMP but was reduced in obese hearts. This appeared to be related to a reduced inhibition of cAMP phosphodiesterase activity by cGMP in the Zucker obese rat.


Measurements of the magnetic field angle along the length of collider dipole magnets are discussed. These superconducting magnets were built at Fermilab for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) by Fermilab and General Dynamics personnel. These measurements were made at four stages in the assembly and test sequence. The data show that changes can occur both during installation in the cryostat and as a result of cold testing. Most of the changes during installation are correlated with the welding of the tie bar restraints, but the changes observed as a result of the cold testing can be attributed to changes in the magnetization of the iron laminations.<<ETX>>


Let q_1, ..., q_n be some variables and set K:=Z[q_1, ..., q_n]/(q_1q_2...q_n). We show that there exists a K-bilinear product \star on H^*(F_n;Z)\otimes K which is uniquely determined by some quantum cohomology like properties (most importantly, a degree two relation involving the generators and an analogue of the flatness of the Dubrovin connection). Then we prove that \star satisfies the Frobenius property with respect to the Poincar\'e pairing of H^*(F_n;Z); this leads immediately to the orthogonality of the corresponding Schubert type polynomials. We also note that if we pick k\in {1,...,n} and we formally replace q_k by 0, the ring (H^*(F_n;Z)\otimes K,\star) becomes isomorphic to the usual small quantum cohomology ring of F_n, by an isomorphism which is described precisely.


Context: Chamber studies in adult humans indicate reduced responses to acute ozone with increasing age. Age-related changes in TNFα have been observed. TNFα induced inflammation is predominantly mediated through TNFR1. Objective: To examine the impact of aging on inflammatory responses to acute ozone exposure in mice and determine the role of TNFR1 in age-related differences. Materials and methods: Wildtype and TNFR1 deficient (TNFR1−/–) mice aged 7 or 39 weeks were exposed to ozone (2 ppm for 3 h). Four hours after exposure, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was performed and BAL cells, cytokines, chemokines, and protein were examined. Results: Ozone-induced increases in BAL neutrophils and in neutrophil chemotactic factors were lower in 39- versus 7-week-old wildtype, but not (TNFR1−/–) mice. There was no effect of TNFR1 genotype in 7-week-old mice, but in 39-week-old mice, BAL neutrophils and BAL concentrations of MCP-1, KC, MIP-2, IL-6 and IP-10 were significantly greater following ozone exposure in TNFR1−/– versus wildtype mice. BAL concentrations of the soluble form of the TNFR1 receptor (sTNFR1) were substantially increased in 39-week-old versus 7-week-old mice, regardless of exposure. Discussion and conclusion: The data suggest that increased levels of sTNFR1 in the lungs of the 39-week-old mice may neutralize TNFα and protect these older mice against ozone-induced inflammation.


Precise control of chemical production process parameters based on the purpose,the methods to establish the dynamic mathematical model,the control method cannotonly design the steadystatecharacteristics is process,design and dynamic characteristicsare given process,it will make the design work to a new higher level.Test the water level,temperature control system using the method of control parameters,the accuracy can be increased by more than 20% conclusion.


Cassel reviews Selection of Casualties for Treatment After Nuclear Attack (British Medical Association; 1988), issued by the BMA's Board of Science and Education. The publication contains a detailed set of guidelines for medical triage after a "limited" nuclear attack on England resulting in millions of dead and seriously injured, and an analysis of the ethical issues in triage and treatment choices. Cassel questions the ethical underpinnings of the report's recommendations on selecting persons for treatment according to social usefulness. Her major concern about the BMA document, however, is that it may mislead people into believing that nuclear war is an eventuality that can be planned for rather than a threat that must be prevented.


The phenomena of iron reduction and migration, which are characteristic of gley and podsolized soils, are generally regarded as being caused by the action of the humose upper horizons normally present in these soils.

In this paper are given the results of an investigation of the properties of water extracts of unhumified plant debris; from the results of this work it seems that the relatively simple organic compounds present in such extracts are a much more important factor than colloidal 'humus' in causing migration of sesquioxides and clay.


We report on synthesis of nanoscale graphene oxide(NGO) by modified Hummers'method.Synthesized NGO particles were surface functionalized by attaching carboxylic acid and polyethylene glycol groups to render them soluble in cell culture medium.The structures and properties of functionalized NGO were characterized by transmission electron microscopy(TEM),Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) spectroscopy,and zeta potential analyzer.Cell viability studies show that PEG-modified NGO particles are highly soluble and incur almost no cytotoxicity to A549 cells,which suggest a great potential for the use of NGO in various biomedical applications.


THE 1947 PRESENTATION OF THE ENTITY KNOWN MOST FAMILIARLY AS THE "Posner-Schlossman syndrome,"'' is a highlight in the continuing effort to clarify, differentiate, and understand the variable syndromes and mechanisms of glaucoma. The clarity of the description, differences between it and angle-closure glaucoma and the similarity of patients seen in the subsequent 40 years have reinforced the identity of the syndrome. In spite of the relative conformity of the syndrome, no author has presented convincing evidence for a single etiologic factor or pathogenic mechanism for all or even a significant number of cases. It is the purpose of this paper to bring attention to gastrointestinal, systemic and allergic factors identified by describers of cases in the literature and to present data generated by a retrospective review of the authors personal experience with 32 patients seen over the past 26 years (1961 to 1987). Recognition of multiple etiologic factors has improved the authors management of patients.


On the basis of subordinate function value method,the paper analyzed and evaluated the allelopathy on hot pepper seed germination of the allelochemicals collected by 3 methods,which then extracted and concentrated through 3 different eluants.With the significant allelopathic components determined,they were identified by GC-MS.The results showed that the significant allelopathic component was the soil solution of the planting field which continuously cropped for 6 years,collected by soil in situ collection method,taken methanol as the eluant,and the subordinate function value was 0.150.Alkanes,aromatic hydrocarbons,alcohols,enoates,aromatic esters,and compounds contained N were detected,and the component diisobutyl phthalate(DIBP) had maximum relative mass fraction(47.67%) and higher matching degree(86%),which probablily played an important role on continuous cropping obstacles of hot pepper.


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In article the main aspects, topical issues of social and economic safety of corporations are considered, and also essentially new ways of its providing are shown. The author pays attention to theoretical gaps in studying of social-economic safety. The main emphasis in article is placed on a system and integrated approach in a solution of the problem of social and economic safety.


The treatise contrives a new decision-making flow of bank's loan project,analyses the problems of the rating project's risk in the application.It constructs a new target system of the rating project's risk,and the positive analysis has proven its feasibility.


. Motivated by BICEP2 results on the CMB polarization B-mode which imply primordial gravitational waves are produced when the Universe has the expansion rate of about H ≈ 10 14 GeV, and by deviations from a smooth power-law behavior for multipoles ℓ < 50 in the CMB temperature anisotropy power spectrum found in the WMAP and Planck experiments, we have expanded our class of large field inflationary models that fit both the BICEP2 and Planck CMB observations consistently. These best-fitted large field models are found to have a transition from a faster roll to the slow roll V ( φ ) = m 2 φ 2 / 2 inflation at a field value around 14 . 6 M Pl and thus a potential energy of V ( φ ) ∼ (10 16 GeV) 4 . In general this transition with sharp features in the inflaton potential produces not only suppression of scalars relative to tensor modes at small k but also introduces wiggles in the primordial perturbation spectrum. These wiggles are shown to be useful to explain some localized features in the CMB angular power spectrum and can also have other observational consequences. Thus, primordial GW can be used now to make a tomography of inflation determining its fine structure. The resulting Wiggly Whipped Inflation scenario is described in details and the anticipated perturbation power spectra, CMB power spectra, non-Gaussianity and other observational consequences are calculated and compared to existing and forthcoming observations.


in this issue, the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology initiates the publication of a new Theme series of review articles that focus on the pathogenic role of ion channels and transporters in cancer. Ion channels, as an important family of membrane proteins that are highly expressed in


The study aims to quantify the economic value of the sand and gravel which is deemed as a non-renewable resource. A survey was conducted to extract the consumer surplus of the households, also construct the demand equation for the resource. With the demand equation for sand and gravel at , the consumer surplus was estimated at P8271. Using the economic valuation technique, the economic value of sand and gravel was estimated at P729,568,368. Thus, a very high value imputed on the environmental resource. The survey showed that 82% of the population in Davao del Norte is amenable for a policy to regulate sand and gravel extraction. With the new valuation measure of the sand and gravel, a new price may be introduced at price range between P125-P225 per cubic meter. The new price is set to be used as payment for environmental services and compensation projects at the quarry sites. Also, the cost structures of permitees in Davao del Norte are too low compared to the operators in Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental and Davao City. The cost of operation in Davao del Norte is approximately 18% of the cost in Davao Oriental and 20% of the cost of Compostela Valley. The cost differences are largely due to the permit cost which is cheaper in Panabo and Tagum than in other areas. This is suggestive that the permitees may likely absorb the cost rather than transfer operation given their high producer surplus value.


TSAR2.3 (Temporal Scattering and Response) is a finite-difference time-domain electromagnetics code suite. TSAR2.3 is a software package for simulating the interactions of electromagnetic waves with linear materials through the use of the finite-difference time-domain method. The code suite contains grid generation, grid verification, input-file creation and post-processing utilities. The physics package, written in Fortran 77, can be pre-processed to run on many different architectures including Cray, Vax and many Unix workstations. Tools are provided to easily port the code to new computers. The physics package is an efficient, flexible electromagnetic simulator. A body under study can be represented as a three-dimensional grid of materials with arbitrary linear properties. This grid can be simulated in a number of ways including incident plane waves, dipoles, and arbitrary incident fields. The grid can be terminated with numerous boundary conditions including free-space radiation, electric conductor, or magnetic conductor. Projection to the far-field in both the time and frequency domains is possible. This distribution includes make files for installing and maintaining the entire code suite.


Young adolescents in communities with high rates of early sexual initiation are at risk of multiple negative health outcomes. Although sex education programs for this age group are often controversial, surveys document that many mothers and fathers would appreciate guidance about how to discuss sexuality with their children. This paper presents an innovative strategy for reaching inner‐city parents and helping them communicate effectively with their preteen sons and daughters about the importance of delaying sexual initiation. Input from 38 focus groups with 109 youths and 64 parents was used to inform the development of an intervention, called Saving Sex for Later. This theoretically grounded intervention is designed for communities where adolescents are at high risk of initiating sex prior to or early in high school. It consists of three audio‐CDs that contain dramatic role‐model stories to help parents identify 'teachable moments' to talk with their sons and daughters about their values and expectations, set household rules and respond appropriately to both positive changes in their adolescents' development and warning signs of trouble. In addition to describing how community input informed the stories, a random sample of 133 parents from one school community was mailed the audio‐CDs. Feedback includes examples of how parents applied messages to talk with their children about changing bodies, changing relationships and reasons for delaying sexual initiation. The next steps include evaluating whether the intervention is effective in helping parents convey sexual abstinence messages and in supporting the delayed sexual initiation of their young adolescent children.


The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of machine learning to estimate above-ground biomass (AGB) over dense tropical forests using an L-band SAR dataset. Here, we train and validate three machine learning algorithms, namely Random Forest, Artificial Neural Network, and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) using the airborne polarimetric SAR data acquired during the AfriSAR UAVSAR campaign. From the evaluation of model performance, it is observed that these machine learning models were to retrieve AGB values with reasonable accuracies. The RF performed better estimation with $R^{2}=0.97$ and RMSE=28.52 Mg/ha for training sites, however its computational cost was high compared to other models.


Based on the data of the 4th National S&T Workers Condition Survey, we explored the perceptions of Chinese S&T workers about the academic environment, including the convenience, satisfaction and overall quality of the academic environment. And compare the different perceptions of S&T workers with different attributes, and provide research support for the future optimization of academic environment.


The UK construction industry suffers the largest number of bankruptcies of any sector of the economy, with many companies failing because of poor financial management, especially inadequate attention to poor cash flow forecasting. The financial model outlined in this paper demonstrates the potential application of simulation methods in assessing financial alternatives.


Despite extensive research on the effect of family policies on the labour supply of mothers, little is known about how these policies affect fathers' labour market outcomes. Using European panel data (EU-SILC) from 2003 to 2009 and multi-level models, this study analyses the effect of family policies on fathers' working hours. The results indicate that fathers work less than childless men if they live in countries that offer well paid, non-transferable parental leave for fathers, short parental leave for mothers and generous family allowances. The effects, however, are strongly contingent on fathers' educational levels. Whereas short maternal leaves are associated with shorter working hours among highly educated fathers, generous family allowances and father friendly parental leave schemes reduce the working hours of less educated fathers.


ABSTRACT Background: High prevalence (more than 80%) rates of tobacco smoking have been found both in, opioid-dependent subjects and among opioid-dependent subjects on opioid substitution treatment (OST) with buprenorphine or methadone. Aim: We aimed to explore the efficacy of combined nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and individual counseling (IC) when compared to NRT alone in subjects on OST with buprenorphine. Methods: This study was carried out in a tertiary medical care center. It was an open-label randomized clinical trial. A total of 57 buprenorphine maintained smokers were recruited and randomized into two groups. They were assigned nicotine gum for 4 weeks plus either (1) a baseline IC session, and a second IC session after 1 week, or (2) simple advice to quit. In the first group, 31 subjects received NRT with IC and in the second group, 26 subjects received NRT plus simple advice to quit. The primary outcomes of this study were seven days point prevalence abstinence, biochemically confirmed by carbon monoxide (CO) breath analyzer, and reduction in smoking (mean no. of cigarettes or bidis/day). The smoking behavior during the 4 weeks follow-up period was assessed by the timeline follow-back (TLFB) method and confirmed by the CO breath analyzer. Results: The group of subjects who received NRT with IC showed higher rates of smoking cessation at the end of treatment (51%) as compared to the NRT and simple advice group where smoking cessation rates were around 8% (P < 0.001). Conclusion: A multi-component approach (pharmacotherapy and counseling) enhances treatment outcomes and enhances rates of abstinence from smoking.


Foreign body of digestive tract refers to the noninherent substances retained in the digestive tract caused by various reasons. Foreign body incarceration is one of the clinical emergencies, occurs at all ages, whose incidence is second only to gastrointestinal bleeding, accounting for about 4% of emergency endoscopic diagnosis and treatment. If not treated timely, foreign body incarceration may cause gastrointestinal erosion, ulcer, bleeding, perforation, obstruction and aortic rupture which is life-threatening. According to the characteristics of patients, dietetical characteristic, types of gastrointestinal foreign bodies, retention time of foreign bodies, incarcerated sites, clinical manifestations, complications, treatment methods, average length of stay and expenses, we explore the research progress of gastrointestinal foreign bodies to improve the level of diagnosis and treatment, as well as increase the cure rate and reduce complications. This review aims to summarize the clinical diagnosis and treatment methods of gastrointestinal foreign bodies for clinicians and strengthen readers' understanding of gastrointestinal foreign bodies.


Semivariograms and its parameters have a significant impact on Kriging interpolation and stochastic simulation. This paper used GS+ and ArcGIS to research the heavy metal of Yichang citrus orchard, which used spherical model, Gaussian model, exponential model and linear model to fit the experimental semivariograms and applied these models in the Sequential Gaussian Simulation. The stochastic simulation results of different models show that the average of Hg is over the national standard of soil quality, so there are some pollution. The best model is exponential model which can keep semivariograms isomorphic before and after the simulation, which is different from the model selected by the largest coefficient of determination, so during stochastic simulation, the appropriate model should be selected by the comparison of the simulation results of various model.


Fresh maize bran (MB, 80% moisture) was treated with urea at 0 (T1), 2% urea (T2). 4% urea (T3) and 2 % common'salt (T4) and stored in sealed polythene bags sor 1m. Similarly, MB in combination with paddy straw (1:1) was treated with urea at 0(T5), 2% (T6) and 4% (T7) levels and stored similarly. The MB was also mixed with paddy straw (2:1) and treated with urea at 0 (T8), 2% (T9) and 4% (T10) levels and similarly stored. Physical and chemical characteristics of ensiled materials indicated that urea and common salt were effective for preservation of MB as such. The ammoniation of MB mixed with paddy straw also Improved the chemical characteristics of the combined feeds. Three separate feeding trials each on 6 Murrah buffalo calves (24-26m; 230-290 kg) on feeding either ammonlated (4% urea, 50% moisture, Im) paddy straw (PR-30, freshly harvested) alone (B) or 2% urea supplemented mixture of MB and paddy straw (1:1, C) or 4% urea treated mixture of MB and paddy straw (1:1, D) for 21d each were conducted. It was observed that the DM intake on C was lowest (P<0.01) compared to B and D. Nutrient digestibilities, except CP and hemicellulose were significantly higher on D than those observed on C and that of hemicellulose on B than on other feeds. N balance was negative on B but improved significantly on other feeds. These results indicated that fresh MB could be preserved by treatment with urea (ammoniation) or common salt. Further, the maize bran could be utilized by mixing it with paddy straw In equal proportion and subsequent ammoniation with 4% urea as feed for buffalo calves.


The generation of the fourth and fifth harmonics of the difference frequency between two 28-THz laser lines, by a tungsten-nickel diode, was observed.


Global nitrate contamination in source water poses a threat to both natural ecosystem and public health. This study developed a photo-reductive titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticle with surface-grafted diethylene glycol (DEG)...


The dynamical processing of black holes in the dense cores of globular clusters (GCs), makes them efficient factories for producing binary black holes (BBHs). Here we explore the population of BBHs that form dynamically in GCs and may be observable at mHz frequencies or higher with LISA. We use our Monte Carlo stellar dynamics code, which includes gravitational radiation reaction effects for all BH encounters. By creating a representative local universe of GCs, we show that up to dozens of these systems may be resolvable by LISA with signal-to-noise ratios of at least 5. Approximately one third of these binaries will have measurable eccentricities ($e > 10^{-3}$) in the LISA band and a small number ($\lesssim 5$) may evolve from the LISA band to the LIGO band during the LISA mission.


This paper deals with the influence of feed rate on the quality of the machined surface, especially surface roughness. The experiment was carried at cutting tool HURCO VMX t30 with respect to the following cutting parameters: cutting speeds 250; 350; 450; 550 and 850 m . min -1 , feed 0.1; 0.5 and 1.0 mm/tooth. Machining was performed by five-tooth cutter FF FW D50-22-05 and cutting inserts FF WOMT 060212 TM IC908 on the steel grade 1.2343 (19 552) and 1.1191 (12 050). The evaluated parameters were values Ra - arithmetical mean roughness deviation and Rz - the largest inequalities height profile [1, 2] in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction of machining. As a result will be the structural equations which can describe the character depending on the cut surface roughness parameters.


The physical and chemical properties of soils, as well as climatic conditions, influence the behavior of herbicides applied in pre-emergence. This work aimed to evaluate the residual effect of sulfentrazone, isoxaflutole and oxyfluorfen in three soils. The trial was conducted in a protected environment in a randomized block experimental design, with four replications. The treatments for each soil were arranged in a 3 x 5 factorial, being three herbicides and five sowing periods after herbicide application. Sulfentrazone, isoxaflutole and oxyfluorfen were applied at 0.5 kg ha-1, 0.72 kg ha-1 and 0.113 kg ha-1, respectively, on plastic pots with 250 mL volume, previously filled with the two clay texture soils and the sandy loam texture soil. Subsequently, the bioindicator species Sorghum bicolor was sown at 0, 15, 30, 45 and 60 days after application (DAA). A control with no herbicide treatment was sown at different times for each soil and used as a comparison in the evaluations. At 21 days after sowing in each season, intoxication and plant growth were evaluated by means of shoot dry mass. Sorghum plants in the clay soil with 9.0 dag kg-1 of organic matter (O.M.), submitted to the application of isoxaflutole, sulfentrazone and oxyfluorfen, produced shoot dry mass over the control to 34, 20 and 40%, respectively, at 60 DAA. In the sandy loam soil, it was observed a high residual effect of sulfentrazone and oxyfluorfen, and a decrease in the residual effect of isoxaflutole over time, with 80, 90 and 40% control at 60 DAA, respectively. In the clay soil with 4.4 dag kg-1 of O.M., the herbicide isoxaflutole was found to lose control efficacy over time, unlike oxyfluorfen, which showed practically constant control in all the evaluated periods, and sulfentrazone, which showed high residual effect during the study period. The inherent characteristics of each herbicide, as well as the differences in organic matter content and texture between the soils influence the persistence of sulfentrazone, isoxaflutole and oxyfluorfen in the soil. Greater residual effect of oxyfluorfen was observed in sandy loam soil, and isoxaflutole in clay soil with high content of organic matter, while sulfentrazone presented high residual effect in the three soils.


Process for preparing primary amines by amination of alcohols with ammonia water removal comprising the steps (a) reaction under homogeneous catalysis of a reaction mixture containing at least one alcohol, ammonia, at least one nonpolar solvent and least one catalyst containing at least one element selected from groups 8, 9 and 10 of the periodic table in the liquid phase to give a mixture of product (P), (b) phase separation of the product mixture (P) obtained in step (a) optionally after temperature decrease, pressure drop and / or addition of at least one polar solvent having a gap miscibility with nonpolar solvent to obtain the least one polar phase product (a) and at least one non-polar phase (B) containing at least part of the catalyst used and separation of the non-polar phase (B), (c) reintroducing at least part of the non-polar phase (B) to the reaction in step (a) and (d) separating the amination product phase polar product (A), selected from the nonpolar solvent used in (a) and the catalyst used in step (a) so that the catalyst is enriched in the non-polar phase (B), wherein the alcohols at least one primary or secondary alcohol group and at least one second functional group selected from the group primary or secondary alcohol and amino group primary.


15N-aided investigations were conducted to ascertain the Nj fixation and the nitrogen (N) contribution by mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) and groundnut (Aracbis hypogaea L.) when intercropped with maize (Zea mays). The study involved growing seven genotypes of the above legumes with maize in alternate rows in two separate experiments. A sole crop of maize was used as the reference crop to determine N2 fixation by the 15N methodology. Significant genotypic differences in pod yield and stover N content were observed in intercropped mungbean and groundnut. The percentage N derived from the atmosphere showed a genotypic variation of 31 to 45 % (7 to 10 kg N2 fixed ha−1O in mungbean and 47 to 69 % (9 to 18 kg N2 fixed ha−1) in groundnut. Harvest index for N varied from 58 to 77 % in mungbean and 55 to 75 % in groundnut. In groundnut, the uptake of soil N was significantly affected by the genotype. Assuming that the N contribution to the soil by the helow-ground plant parts was negligible, the removal of seeds at maturity resulted in a negative N balance in the soil in all the genotypes of mungbean. In groundnut, some genotypes produced a positive N balance in the soil. Owing to high N2 fixation capacity and low harvest index for N, groundnut showed a greater N supplementing ability than mungbean.


Long‐duration gamma‐ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be produced by the core collapse of massive stars and hence to be connected with supernovae (SNe). Indeed, for four pairs of GRBs and SNe, spectroscopically confirmed connection has been firmly established. For more than a dozen of GRBs the SN signature (the 'red bump') has been detected in the afterglow lightcurves. Based on the four pairs of GRBs and SNe with spectroscopically confirmed connection a tight correlation was found between the peak spectral energy of GRBs and the peak bolometric luminosity of the underlying SNe. The recent discovery of X‐ray flash 080109 associated with a normal core‐collapse SN 2008D confirmed this relation and extended the GRB‐SN connection. Progress on the GRB‐SN connection is briefly reviewed.


Abstract : The previously reported theoretical consideration of stationary-state conditions in an isothermal polymerization has been extended to cases where the reaction temperature rises linearily throughout polymerization. A solution has been obtained for a criteria for the existence of stationary-state conditions. This work indicates that the stationary-state situation prevails in the differential thermal analysis studies on styrene polymerization within the limits of conditions presently used. Differential thermal analysis studies of the thermodynamics and kinetics of styrene polymerization in solution has yielded thermograms which are reasonably consistent and reproducible over the entire temperature span of the reaction. Rate data appear reasonable for temperatures up to 100 C, but above 100 C the rate slows appreciably. A rather detailed examination of the entire system has not yet yielded a solution to the problem.


We investigate the large intersection properties of the set of points that are approximated at a certain rate by a family of affine subspaces. We then apply our results to various sets arising in the metric theory of Diophantine approximation, in the study of the homeomorphisms of the circle, and in the perturbation theory for Hamiltonian systems.


Extended-DLVO (Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek) theory is applied to calculating the interaction energy between particles in flotation process in the paper. This study investigates and compares the floatability of magnesite, dolomite, serpentine, and quartz in single mineral flotation and artificial mixture flotation with DDA as collector. The results showed that when the pH, dissolved ions, and competitive adsorption had a minor influence on their floatability, fine magnesite and dolomite largely decreased the recovery of quartz. SEM analysis on the flotation products demonstrated severe masking of fine particles on the surface of quartz. The Extended-DLVO theory was applied to calculate the interaction energy between the minerals, and the results showed that the interaction forces between magnesite and quartz, serpentine and quartz, and dolomite and quartz were attractive; therefore, fine magnesite, serpentine, and dolomite particles are easily masked on the surface of quartz. The calculation results agree with the experiment results and explain the mechanism of particles interaction and the reasons for the inconsistency in single mineral flotation and actual ore flotation. The particles interaction behavior is important in flotation process, and the interaction energy calculation is helpful for evaluating this behavior.


This study explores the relationship between using social networks sites (SNS), marriage satisfaction and divorce rates using survey data of married individuals and state-level data from the United States. Results show that using SNS is negatively correlated with marriage quality and happiness, and positively correlated with experiencing a troubled relationship and thinking about divorce. These correlations hold after a variety of economic, demographic, and psychological variables related to marriage well-being are taken into account. Further, the findings of this individual-level analysis are consistent with a state-level analysis of the most popular SNS to date: across the U.S., the diffusion of Facebook between 2008 and 2010 is positively correlated with increasing divorce rates during the same time period after controlling for all time-invariant factors of each state (fixed effects), and continues to hold when time-varying economic and socio-demographic factors that might affect divorce rates are also controlled. Possible explanations for these associations are discussed, particularly in the context of pro-and antisocial perspectives towards SNS and Facebook in particular.


Using on-line programs, sites were selected for obtaining double-stranded breaks in the BLG gene of cattle. The strategy for making double-stranded cuts in the BLG gene was developed taking into account the polymorphic variant of the gene (A-allele): DNA was isolated from bovine sperm used for fertilization of cow eggs in vitro. Four pX330 plasmids encoding Cas9 endonuclease and gRNAs specific to the selected BLG gene sequences were obtained. A strategy was developed for analyzing possible genetic modifications resulting from the operation of the CRISPR/Cas9 system components and the genetic construct microinjected into zygotes (NHEJ, HDR). The pBLGcmvEGFP plasmid containing the green fluorescent protein gene under the cytomegalovirus promoter was proposed as a model genetic construct for replacing the BLG gene. The use of a plasmid containing the reporter protein gene under its own regulatory sequences, flanked by homology arms to the beta-lactoglobulin gene, can be useful for evaluating the effectiveness of site-specific activity of the CRISPR/Cas9 system components in vitro.


The circuit of level-by-level shaping of envelopes with local serial heat of a zone by an IR emitter is considered. The ratio, defining connection between a velocity of winding, voltage on the heater and distance up to a surface of envelope is indicated at constant heating temperature.


For an endomorphism α of a ring R,we introduce(α,3)-Armendariz rings,which are generalizations of 3-Armendariz rings and α-Armendariz rings;prove that if R be a domain,then R is an(α,3)-Armendariz ring for any monomorphism α of R;show that R is an(α,3)-Armendariz ring if and only if so is Ra.Moreover,several examples and counterexamples are included for answers to questions that occur naturally in the process of this case.


Confessors' manuals were the most important genre in which practical thought about lying and perjury was developed during the thirteenth century. This chapter argues that confessors' manuals shared an interest in moral dilemmas with Peter the Chanter's Summa. A comparison of the treatment of a famous dilemma concerning a lie to save a life in Robert of Courson, Raymond of Penafort, and Hostiensis reveals the similarities in their approach. The key difference between confessors' manuals and the practical theologians of the late twelfth century was the degree to which they quoted material from canon law. This chapter investigates this influx of legal material into pastoral writings and explains the reasons for the change. It suggests that engagement with canon law did not mean that the ethics of lying and perjury became indistinguishable from canonical thought on the subject.


World Economic Climate: World economic climate clouds over slightly - Economic Expectations: remain positive - Inflation: Different price trends - Currencies: US dollar expected to rise - Interest Rates: Long-term interest rates likely to rise - Special Topic: Tax administration and tax competition between countries


The organizational principles are described of a database of astrophysical catalogs kept in their native formats. The database system operates with a set of functions (select, match, etc.) working on various observable parameters. The output data can be presented in the ASCII-file, FITS TABLE, X-windows or PostScript graphics format.


The linear title compound [Ni{Ni(N3C6H4)3[N(C3H5)H2]3}2]·2PPh3O has been studied using bulk magnetic susceptibility and magnetisation measurements in the range 2.0–300 K. The molecule has been found to have a spin-triplet ground state from an analysis of the high-temperature (>4.2 K) data and confirmed by the low-temperature (16–1.8 K) magnetisation results. The magnetic susceptibilities have been interpreted in terms of the Heisenberg–Dirac–Van Vleck isotropic exchange Hamiltonian. An antiferromagnetic interaction (J= 10 cm–1) occurs between adjacent atoms bridged by the benzotriazolyl molecules, and a small ferromagnetic interaction between the terminal ions. The mechanism of these interactions is discussed and compared with those found in similar molecules.


In this paper we consider the heat equation with Dirichlet
boundary conditions in a conical domain. We look for a sufficient condition
on the lateral surface of the cone in order to have the optimal
regularity of the solution in an anisotropic Sobolev space when the right
hand side of the equation is in a Lebesgue space.


In order to allow more reliable modeling of coalescence processes in turbulent bubbly flows, detailed experiments in a double loop reactor were performed. Narrow and essentially monomodal bubble size distributions in the range of 2 to 4 mm were created. For simultaneous measurements of bubble size, bubble velocity and liquid velocity a combined system of PIV and PTV was developed and applied. It was possible to determine bubble size distributions and mean, as well as fluctuating velocities for both phases. The spatial changes of the bubble size distribution, due to the influence of bubble coalescence, was analyzed and coalescence rates were calculated.


Introduction: Debris-covered glaciers (DCG) play a unique but important role in the long-term preservation of ice on Mars and Earth. This ice preservation stores information about paleoclimate [1] and it stores significant volumes of water that contribute to hydrological resources in alpine communities on Earth and are strong candidates for in situ resource utilization on Mars due to their large volume, high ice concentration, and relatively low latitude [2,3]. The supraglacial debris layer is a key component of DCG on both Earth and Mars. It provides a thermal boundary that shields water ice in regions where it would ablate at the ground surface. While the supraglacial debris plays a significant role in the preservation of the ice in DCG, the lack of radar sounding detections of the debris/ice interface on Mars leaves many key properties—including the thickness—of this debris layer poorly constrained [4]. Vapor diffusion models constrained by gamma ray spectrometer data indicate depths to ice stability greater than one meter at the mid-latitudes [5], but the theoretical vertical resolution of the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument is approximately 10 m in geologic media [6]. Multiple glacier flow models inverting surface slope with SHARAD-derived basal topography indicate heterogeneities in yield stresses and flow parameters between the poleand equator-facing slopes of a DCG in Mars' southern hemisphere [7, 8, 9]. This trend may also be observed on Earth; change-detection measurements show that a pole-facing DCG in Alaska flows approximately half the speed of its equatorfacing neighbor [10]. Here, we test the hypothesis that topography causes significant variation in solar radiation received between equatorand pole-facing slopes, which may be sufficient to drive variations in surface temperature, ice accumulation, viscosity, or depth to stable ice in either martian or terrestrial regimes. Method – Annual Insolation Ratios: We calculated the apparent horizon from the perspective of individual DCG using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data for Earth (~10 m/pixel) and Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data for Mars (~400 m/pixel). We reconstructed a horizon for each Alaskan DCG lobe shown in Figure 1a and each martian point of view in Figure 1b—one equatorand one polefacing slope at each location. Next, we compared this horizon with the astronomical coordinates of the sun over one orbit and estimated the amount of radiation obstructed by the horizon in comparison with a flat surface at the same latitude. Using this method, we expanded our analysis to include a northern hemisphere site on Mars (Deuteronilus Mensae) and two lower-latitude sites on Earth (Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming, and San Juan Mountains, Colorado). Since annual solar path depends on the planet's spin axis obliquity, and Mars' obliquity varies with high amplitude [11], we estimated the variation in insolation at present day obliquity (25°) and high obliquity (40°). Our estimations produce relative insolation ratios (Qrg/Qflat) at localized coordinates, therefore we do not consider deviations in orbital distance or absolute heat flux.


Using a discrimin ating gradient separation technique combined with careful analysis of lipid and apdipoprotein (apo) composition, serum lipoproteins of 20 chronically uremic patients have been compared with those of 19 normal controls matched for age and sex. In uremic subjects, serum VLDL concentration was markedly increased. These particles were enriched in protein and cholesterol and relatively poor in triglycerides (TG). They contained more frequently apo B-48, and a decreased proportion of apo E. Expressed in percent, total apo C was normal but the ratio of apo C-IJIJapo C-III, was elevated. Uremic IDL, whose serum concentration was markedly increased, were characterized by an increased proportion of protein. Total uremic LDL whose serum concentration was normal, contained less esterified cholesterol (EC) and more TG than normal LDL, their EC/TG ratio being very low. Moreover, the concentration of the mature subfraction of LDL having a mean density of 1.043 g/ml, was markedly decrea& in uremic subjects. Taken together, these anomalies indicate a delayed transformation of VLDL into LDL in chronic renal failure. The decreased concentration of total HDL in uremic subjects was more marked in HDL, (-46%) than HDL, (24%). Both uremic HDL2 and HDL, were relatively enriched in TG, and uremic HDL, were poorer in EC than normal HDL,. The most striking abnormality of uremic HDL was however the marked relative enrichment of these lipoprotein particles in apo C at the expense of apo A-I (HDL,: 25.3 f 7.7% vs. 12.5 f 5.3% for apo C and 56.0 f 11.2% vs. 71.1 f 8.3% for apo A-I; HDL,: 14.9 +_ 10.6% vs. 5.9 + 3.0% for apo C and 63.4 + 11.1% vs. 72.9 + 6.1% for apo A-I). Furthermore, the percent of ape C-II was significantly decreased in uremic HDL, and HDL, by comparison with normal HDL, and HDL, (15.9 _t 5.4% vs. 22.3 f 6.7% and 17.7 + 4.9% vs.. 24.2 f X8%, respectively) and that of apo C-III2 was increased from 24 to 39.2% of total apo C in HDL, and from 20.8 to 36,3% in HDL,. Such structural anomalies of HDL probably play an important role in the disturbed conversion of VLDL to LDL, and also in the interaction of HDL with peripheral tissues.


Nonylphenol polyoxypropylene ether sulfate(NPPS),a candidate surfactant for enhanced oil recovery,was synthesized.Dynamic interfacial tensions of oil-water were examined in the systems of NPPS,Na_2CO_3 and Na_2CO_3-NPPS combinational,respectively,with Zhuangxi crude oil, into which 0.5% NaCl(mass fraction)was added to imitate Zhuangxi formation water.It is found that interfaeial tension of oil-water could not reaeh 0.01 mN/m in the Na_2CO_3-Zhuangxi crude oil system or NPPS-Zhuangxi crude oil system.NPPS was of a good synergistic effect with Na_2CO_3, and only 0.0025%(mass fraction)NPPS was needed to lower interfacial tension of oil water to 10~(-4)mN/m in the system of Na_2CO_3-NPPS-Zhuangxi crude oil when more than 0.35% mass fraction of Na_2CO_3 was added.


Abstract Pseudomorphic structure of fluorinated vanadylphthalocyanine was formed on alkali halides and was analyzed by electron diffraction method using imaging plate and high resolution molecular imaging. The body-centered-tetragonal structure analyzed exhibits peak shifts in optical transmittance depending on the sort of alkali halides used as substrates.


The separation of missile capsule nose cap is the result from the explosion cuttings of linear shaped charge flexible cutting ropes.To discuss the influence of the explosion cuttings on the missile capsule separation,the separate performance of the nose cap was studied by using numerical and experimental methods.It is concluded that the calculated results and the experimental data are preferably consistent and can be used in judging whether the separate performance of the nose cap is up to the required standard.


Purpose – To show how the key to successfully managing alliances is developing and implementing alliance metrics.Design/methodology/approach – The case of "Acme Manufacturing" (a composite of several firms) is used to illustrate the theory and reasoning behind the creation and tracking of alliance metrics appropriate to the life cycle of the partnership. These ideas are then applied to the ongoing Avnet/HP alliance.Findings – Understanding and applying unique metrics at each stage allows management to anticipate alliance challenges and increase flexibility and adaptability when faced with changing economic and market conditions. Across the life cycle stages the partners must learn to monitor two types of measurements – development metrics, commonly employed in the start‐up and high growth stages, and implementation metrics, engaged throughout the professional, mature, decline, and sustain stages of the life cycle.Research limitations/implications – This is a case study produced by a consultant specializin...


The most prevalent subtype of diabetes is Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus which results from an abnormal postprandial increase in blood glucose. Inhibition of the carbohydrate-hydrolysing enzymes (alpha-glucosidase and alpha-amylase) in the human digestive organs can control blood glucose levels, making it an important strategy in the management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. A majority of the oral synthetic drugs which have been developed to treat Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus are expensive and have undesirable side effects. As a result, plant-derived remedies have become preferred alternatives as they are easily available, affordable and less harmful. Angustine (1) the major constituent in Nauclea subdita (Korth.) Steud., and (E)-labda-8(17),12-dien-15,16-dial (2) and zerumin A (3) of Alpinia pahangensis Ridley were evaluated for their α-glucosidase inhibitory activity. (E)-Labda-8(17),12-dien-15,16-dial (2) (IC50 = 39.7 μM) was identified as the most potent inhibitor among all three, followed by angustine (1) (IC50 = 48.1 μM) and zerumin A (3) (IC50 = 53.3 μM). Enzyme kinetic studies indicated that angustine (1) was a mixed-type inhibitor, while (E)-labda-8(17),12-dien-15,16-dial (2), and zerumin A (3) were non-competitive inhibitors. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies were performed to predict the key interactions between the ligands and the target protein, 1AGM (complex of acarbose with glucoamylase from Aspergillus awamori). The results of the study of binding interaction energy suggested that angustine (1) has the potential to be used as a natural drug lead in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.


We describe an entanglement purification protocol (EPP) for multipartite three-level atomic entangled pair using photonic Faraday rotation. In this EPP, the multipartite atomic entangled state can be purified with the help of some single photons. This protocol resorts to the photonic Faraday rotation to realize the function of the controlled-Not (CNOT) gate. The purified multipartite atomic entangled state can be retained and to be repeated to reach a higher fidelity.


In this work on the basis of numerical modeling the fields of plastic stress and deformation into dynamic loading of impact pile driving hammer are determined. These results help to optimizate the design of impact pile driving hammer


The current client server computational model assumes to know where computing and storage power are located. As imposed from the current technological evolution, as well as from the continuously increasing users requirements, it is widely recognized that such a model has to evolve in order to transparently access distributed computing and storage resources, showing the final results directly on the user terminal. Thus it is mandatory to develop a middleware layer that will mediate and manage the access to the distributed resources. Grid technology [7] [6] is a new paradigm which has the potential to completely change the way of computing and data access. Although there is no widely agreed definition what Grid means, the consequences for scientific and research work, but also for the private users, will be severe. Computational Grids are widely regarded as the next logical step in computing infrastructure, following a path from standalone systems, to tightly linked clusters, to enterprise-wide clusters, to geographically dispersed computing environments. Generally speaking, we could consider the Grid as the new enabling technology to transparently access computing and storage resources anywhere, anytime and with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). Although still in its infancy, Grid is already being successfully used in many scientific applications where huges amounts of data have to be processed and/or stored. Some examples include the processing of data coming from physic-related applications, like the data generated in the nuclear accelerator of CERN [1], the data coming from radio telescopes, the data generated in complex simulations [2] and so on. There is no doubt that such demanding applications have created, justified and diffused the concept of Grid among the scientific community, but as a matter of fact such powerful technology is still confined to a very restricted scientific environment. We do think that the time is right for the Grid to reveal its potentialities to a wider audience, which is mainly constituted of users with every day problems and requirements. Obviously such needs cannot directly compete with the highly demanding scientific applications described so far, but, as the amount of potential users is really enormous, the accumulated data processing and storage requirements are at least comparable. One of the possible new application fields for the Grid Computing is the management of multimedia services in wireless environments. In fact the current tendency is to allow mobile users to access


ABSTRACTCalibration of local seismic arrays is crucial to quantify the magnitude of local microseismic events. This is traditionally done by performing a site survey consisting of calibration shots at known locations with known strength. However, when a calibration survey cannot be conducted, alternative calibration methods are required. We have demonstrated the feasibility of magnitude estimation of microseismic events recorded at the CO2 storage site at Ketzin (Germany), by analyzing earthquake signals that have been recorded on the noncalibrated geophone array and on standardized seismometers of a regional seismological network. We estimated a linear calibration relation by fitting three different signal attributes for 10 distant earthquakes. Through extrapolation of the linear fit toward lower magnitudes, we estimated the local magnitude of weak local seismic events. Reported magnitudes of the distant earthquakes show significant variation because there are different methods and constants used to calc...


Taking Ganoderma lucidum and Zizyphus jujuba as the main raw materials,experiment were conducted through a single and orthoganal experiment to define the recipe and production process of compound beverage of Ganoderma lucidum and Zizyphus jujuba.The results showed that the main use of adjuvant on the drink had great effects on the quality,the best formula ratio of Ganoderma lucidum juice to Zizyphus jujuba juice was 1∶2,sugar 6%,citric acid 0.2%.


We consider a simplified model of a trumpet‐like instrument composed of a valve (including the mechanics of the lips), a jet (coupled with the valve dynamics), and an acoustic pipe excited by the jet and radiating in the air. A special care is devoted to the energy balance of the whole system and its dissipative property. This leads us to introduce a model of a non‐stationary jet. In a second step, the problem of the observation of the full‐state (that is, the position and the velocity of the lips, the flow and the pressure in the jet and in the acoustic pipe) from the radiated pressure is analyzed. This problem can be recasted as a problem of control engineering, using a so‐called neutral system (differential system including the delayed state and its time derivative). We show how the energy balance can help to solve this problem and define a naturally well‐posed observator. As a last step, this work is recasted in the context of a more general inverse problem: What control input (pressure in the mouth, parameter of the lips, etc) must be used to feed the model in order to recover a target sound?