A farmout occurs where a a permit owner or farmor exchanges partial exploration rights or working interests for benefits in the form of exploration activity commitments to be under-taken by the incoming party (farminee). Not surprisingly, farmouts are very popular with smaller, resource constrained oil and gas industry participants who own exploration permits that are expensive or difficult to develop. One of the main factors motivating the use of these cooperative arrangements is the increasing presence of small oil and gas exploration and developement firms, a sign of vibrant competition in the upstream oil and gas sector. Industry participants suggest that "without them (farmouts), some oil fields would simply remain undeveloped due to the high risks facing any single operator" (OilNow 2020). Currently, there is only limited descriptive evidence on these important contractual arrangements. Applying the widely used event study method, we investigate three theories and provide empirical evidence in relation to stock price reactions to farmout announcements. First, resource pooling theory argues that participants conduct alliances to combine complementary resources, which in the oil and gas setting can be either financial or technical in nature. Second, certification theory assumes that characteristics of the farminee conveys quality signals on the prospect or the farmor. Lastly, we test real options theory, which considers investment projects as real options due to their sequential nature. Using a large sample of Australian farmouts, we find that farmout announcements generate a positive cumulative average abnormal return of 3.60% for farmors and 1.90% for farminees over a 3-day event window. Cross-sectional analysis of farmors' event returns provides results consistent with the resource pooling hypotheses. We also find that farmors' announcement returns are sensitive to the underlying oil price volatility, consistent with the real options view of farmout arrangements.


Biochip device are analytical devices integrating with biological sensing element. Recently, biochip based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has attracted considerable attention due to the nano-scale, excellent physical properties, unique chemical properties, and remarkable biomolecular recognition of CNT [1]. Successful realization of carbon nanotube based biochip sensors requires appropriate control of their surface functionalization and biomolecules immobilization. Plasma technologies, compared to the conventional chemical treatment, have the advantages to functionalize carbon nanotubes such as little damaging effects, low temperature and non-polluting process. However, for patterning surface of CNTs, conventionally low-pressure plasmas driven by RF or microwaves require physical masks that make the process cumbersome, expensive and time consuming. Among the numerous plasma technologies, atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) are of intense interest due to the advantages of no need vacuum conditions, technically simple and maskless functionalization [2]. In this work, we study micropattern immobilization of biomolecules onto dot-arrayed CNT functionalized by ultrafine APPJ. An ultrafine APPJ with a micro-capillary was utilized to functionalize amino groups onto dot-arrayed CNTs. Additionally, CNTs with a spacing of 50 μm and a dot size of 5 μm were synthesized by a combined thermal-plasma CVD devices, and constructed in dot array form for realizing the development of biochip device. We used biotin-avidin system and antibody-antigen reaction of E. coli to assess the feasibility of biomolecule immobilization onto dot-arrayed CNTs. Fig.1 shows comparison between untreated and treated APPJ obtained from CNT dot-array of 4×50 μm spots performed biomolecules immobilization. The green areas in Fig.1b correspond to fluorescent dye of avidin (FTIC-avidin) connected to biotin and amino functionalized CNT dot-array. The black areas in Fig.1a indicate that fluorescent dye of FTIC-avidin is not connected to amino functionalized CNT dotarray. Biomolecules immobilization is also confirmed by fluorescence intensity line profile across CNT dot-array of 4×50 μm shown in Fig.1d. The possibility of this technique for biochip device applications was demonstrated by successfully functionalized CNT using ultrafine APPJ and selectively immobilized biomolecules onto dot-arrayed CNT.


AIMS
The circadian clock oscillates in a cell-autonomous manner with a period of approximately 24 hours, and the phase is regulated by various time cues such as light and temperature through multiple clock input pathways. We previously found that osmotic and oxidative stress strongly affected the circadian period and phase of cellular rhythms, and triple knock-out of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase (ASK) family members, Ask1, Ask2, and Ask3, abolished the phase shift (clock resetting) induced by hyperosmotic pulse treatment. We aimed at exploring a key molecule(s) and signaling events in the clock input pathway dependent on ASK kinases.

RESULTS
The phase shift of the cellular clock induced by the hyperosmotic pulse treatment was significantly reduced by combined deficiencies of the clock(-related) genes, Dec1, Dec2, and E4bp4. In addition, LC-MS/MS-based proteomic analysis identified hyperosmotic pulse-induced phosphorylation of CLOCK Ser845 in an AKT-dependent manner. We found that AKT kinase was phosphorylated at Ser473 (i.e., activated) in response to the hyperosmotic pulse experiments. Inhibition of mTOR kinase by Torin 1 treatment completely abolished the AKT activation, suppressed the phosphorylation of CLOCK Ser845, and blocked the clock resetting induced by the hyperosmotic pulse treatment.

CONCLUSIONS
We conclude that mTOR-AKT signaling is indispensable for the CLOCK Ser845 phosphorylation and consequently elicits the clock resetting induced by the hyperosmotic pulse treatment. Immediate early induction of the clock(-related) genes and CLOCK C-terminal region containing Ser845 also play important roles in the clock input pathway through redox-sensitive ASK kinases.


Developing highly conductive, stable, and active nonprecious hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts is a key step for the proposed hydrogen economy. However, few catalysts, except for noble metals, meet all the requirements. By using state-of-the-art density functional calculations, herein we demonstrate that 2D MXenes, like Ti2C, V2C, and Ti3C2, are terminated by a mixture of oxygen atoms and hydroxyl, while Nb2C and Nb4C3O2 are fully terminated by oxygen atoms under standard conditions [pH 0, p(H2) = 1 bar, U = 0 V vs standard hydrogen electrode], findings in good agreement with experimental observation. Furthermore, all these MXenes are conductive under standard conditions, thus allowing high charge transfer kinetics during the HER. Remarkably, the Gibbs free energy for the adsorption of atomic hydrogen (ΔGH*0) on the terminated O atoms (e.g., Ti2CO2) is close to the ideal value (0 eV). Our results demonstrate terminated oxygens as catalytic active sites for the HER at these materials and highligh...


The most apparent feature of arteries is that, under normal conditions, they are subjected to the pulsatile blood flow. Apart from monitoring and understanding the periodically changing blood pressure and its effect on vascular wall, blood vessels can be treated as tubes. Thus, they can be studied from an engineering and mathematical point of view. Determining the mechanical properties of blood vessels, and especially for the arteries, where the most dangerous diseases of the vascular system occur, is of great importance. Hopefully, the improvement of models, will lead to a better understanding of the way the vascular tree reacts to stimulus (normal or pathological). Solutions, which are essential in the mathematical process, in the form of waves, represent the normal condition in which arteries function. The wave propagation can be monitored in vivo, for example on a human hand, providing an excellent tool for the mathematical modeling of the vascular wall material.


"An Executive Looks At" the new developments—in the use of the computer, communications, convenience, credit, and conglomerate mergers—which will alter the course of marketing.


PALIGA, A. R. Three dimensional modeling of segmental prestressed concrete bridges considering a finite element method approach. 20015. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia) – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, UFRGS, Porto Alegre. The use of precast concrete segments has become the predominant technique in bridge construction for medium to long span bridges. However, economic factors have continually claimed refinements in these construction practices to increase of productivity and reduction of construction time. The main innovations that have been developed are: the use of multiple shear keys, which are characteristic ledges in the joints between segments; the use of external prestressing and the use of dry joints, without epoxy glue. Otherwise, few studies exist about the behavior of this type of structure. This paper aims to present a study about the behavior of segmental concrete structures with external prestressing. The computational model developed for three-dimensional non-linear physical and geometric analysis of these structures is based on a finite element formulation. In this model concrete is represented by hexahedral finite elements and prestressing cables through linear elements. The joints, between the juxtaposed segments, are modeled through quadrangular plan elements . The finite element model is capable to represent the structural behavior during loading process and provides structure responses in terms of force, stress and displacement, using non-linear incremental analysis. The beams prestressed externally, both monolithic and segmented, have shown higher stiffness after reaching the proportional limit. This is due to the proposed model which does not consider the slip free of prestressing cables in the deviators. Comparisons with experimental data from the literature have shown good results for displacement values and stresses. Therefore, the computational program developed is able to analyze sections with external prestressing, segmental or monolithic, enabling further study of this type of structure. Key-words: external prestressing; segmental structures; finite elements.


In Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 60 of 2013, early childhood is a newborn to children who are not even 6 years old. From an educational point of view, this early age is a golden period in the development of a child's brain so that the Little One must be given the right stimulus or stimulus. Usually most children, especially children in the age range of 4 to 6 years, get knowledge from their parents or attend kindergarten. The background of this research is because there are still very few learning media that can be used for early childhood learning. The purpose of this study is to design a ui/ux application for early childhood where the method used is the prototype method using figma, and it contains material that will be learned by early childhood such as material on hijaiyah letters, hadith, prayer readings, selected letters, daily prayers, numbers, alphabets and themes. In the theme there are five materials that will be included, namely professions, colors, fruits, animals and transportation. This prototype is a reference for building early childhood learning applications.


Introduction The financing of research is passing through an era in which the assessment of priorities has become a crucial and often painful exercise. When resources are restricted, for whatever reason, the importance of care in their deployment is exceeded only by the need for good judgment and good fortune. Most of the dental research carried out in the United Kingdom is done in academic institutions. Most of it is supported by public money expended through the Department of Education and Science or the Department of Health and Social Security. Most of the scientists who engage in research do so in a part-time capacity in conjunction with other duties relating to the functions of dental schools. Subvention from government agencies reflects public awareness of the enormous cost to the nation of dental disease; but for the development of the National Health Service it is inconceivable that this drain on material resources would have been so clearly recognized. Various reasons, such as imprecise records, changes in accounting systems, and, most of all, the lack of comparability between the pound of today and its pristine namesake, make it impossible to chart the growth in support for dental research in terms of money spent. Over the past 17 years there has been a trend towards an increasing number of Medical Research Council grants given for dental research projects. The rise is certainly not as steep as one could wish, but it is important to bear in mind that over this period two dental units-one in Bristol and one in London-and one programme grant have been provided by the MRC, all of which is equivalent in money spent (and work carried out) to a substantial increase. Before this period dental research was heavily dependent on support from charitable foundof Dental Science,


AbstractIn order to ensure the comparability in the standards and quality of the higher education qualifications of all European countries' educational systems, the ministers of education of the European countries signed the Bologna Declaration in 1999. The establishment of a modem, competitive and specific European management vision is the new philosophy behind the education system promoted by the reform of the European higher education through the Bologna Process. Among its key guidelines we find quality assurance in education, excellence in research, a higher degree of performance, raising the level of competitiveness, student-centered learning, new strategies and approaches to teaching, fostering creativity and innovation, focus on the learning outcomes, the pragmatism of education, the close relationship between education and the labor market.Keywords: higher economic education, bologna process, university, performance, quality, knowledge.1. IntroductionThe objectives and principles established and undertaken with the signing of the Bologna Declaration implies each country's responsibility to reform its own national education system so that the level of acquired knowledge of the students, their ability to put this knowledge to use and the degree of involvement in research activities is achieved at the highest standards.This article aims to render a complete picture of the higher education systems in Europe and Romania through the numerous changes already generated following the application of the Bologna Declaration and focusing on those changes that have occurred in the higher economic education system.The Bologna Process is a major reform whose goal was the creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA); the current article presents the measures and actions already taken by the European countries for the reconciliation of the different education systems.We emphasize that the particular challenges of this century - the economic and financial crisis and Romania's quest to find viable solutions to control this reality - place education and especially higher education among the fundamental concerns of the country's strategy to solve these issues and to achieve progress in the future.The performance of universities is the main challenge that has been launched internationally and that Romania's higher education system has to cope with.The Romanian higher education system - whose foundations were laid 150 years ago - has permanently evolved towards achieving objectives that have become more demanding and quality standards that are advancing more rapidly. For the following two decades, higher education is viewed as one of the areas with the highest growth potential and interaction on a global scale and considered an important tool with multiple meanings.All facts considered the transition that universities face - to cross over their national borders and relate to the global education market - is one of the major steps that Romanian universities need to make in order to succeed and attain the level of notoriety required by the new global pattern.2. The Bologna process * megaproject of the European statesStarted in the early 2000s, the Bologna Process represents with its goal and objectives, the strongest reformation current ever manifested in the European higher education system. Named after the town where the European Education Ministers first signed the formal agreements to launch the reform, the Bologna Process aims to increase the international competitiveness of the European higher education.The Bologna Process defines the achievement of a coherent and compatible university system. Achieving this goal means having to develop in Europe a competitive knowledge-based economy, which would have the potential to provide better jobs and create greater social cohesion. The essence of the Bologna Process is the realization that the Europe of knowledge is an indispensable factor for social and human growth and an essential component of the process of strengthening and enriching the European citizenship. …


— In this article the numerical and experimental study on different brick blocks for masonry structures or infill walls is developed. The blocks are rectified ones and are shaped in the way to get a better behavior with respect to out-of-plane forces such as the seismic ones. In particular the distribution of the forces in the cross section is defined in function of the shape of the holes. The stress state in the block is investigated by a finite element analysis and the results are compared with the experimental tests carried on individual blocks.


In cement raw meal calcination process, there are three conditions (i.e., easy calcination condition, difficult calcination condition, and abnormal condition), however it is difficult to be estimated in time by operators. To solve this difficult problem, a prediction model has been proposed by combing local linear neuro-fuzzy model (LLNFM) with rule-based reasoning (RBR). The LLNFM was applied to the model to predict the output temperature of the preheater C5 using input variables. Rule-based reasoning decided conditions according to predicting output valve. The proposed model has been successfully applied to calcination process of Jiuganghongda Cement Plant in China, and the application results showed its effectiveness.


Quantitative assessment of possible linkages between skin's firmness and water content is useful for cosmetic and clinical purposes and to better understand features of advancing age.


boundaries of a simileme should be drawn, it is not clear that categorizing similes by vehicle is always the best strategy. Since lion similes are about heroes' courage and power, it does not matter so much whether we categorize them by tenor or by vehicle, but birds can be used as comparanda for a variety of human actions and situations. In the final chapter, Scott imagines the process by which the poet constructs particular similes, while acknowledging that the poet would surely have worked intuitively, instead of making the series of choices he posits. The approach is again reductive. Scott demonstrates how similes indicate to the audience where the plot is going and who has more heroic power, but surely they do more than that. RUTH SCODEL The University of Michigan firstname.lastname@example.com


Serra-Pereira, B., Farias, I., Moura, T., Gordo, L. S., Santos, M., and Figueiredo, I. 2010. Morphometric ratios of six commercially landed species of skate from the Portuguese continental shelf, and their utility for identification. - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 1596-1603.European skate landings have traditionally been reported under a generic landing category, because of problems with species identification. To address this data deficiency, the ICES Working Group on Elasmobranch Fishes compiled conversion factors, including the relationships between different body measurements, for the main elasmobranch species. Size conversion factors for six common NE Atlantic skate species, Leucoraja naevus, Raja brachyura, R. clavata, R. miraletus, R. montagui, and R. undulata are compiled, and the capability of morphometric data to assist species discrimination is evaluated, highlighting the case of similar species such as R. brachyura and R. montagui. The estimated size conversion factors displayed some variability between areas and sexes for most species, the allometric relationship between weight and total length did not differ significantly between sexes, and some morphometric ratios proved adequate in discriminating between rajid species (misclassification error 0.12). Leucoraja naevus was fully discriminated from the remaining species. Species with a similar dorsal colour, e.g. R. brachyura and R. montagui, showed good discrimination based on their morphometry, with just 6-11% misclassification between the two.


The research is one of the main components of the national priority research project "Sharing Forest Resource Information" (97-925-02-03) of the "9th Five-Year" plan. The project has run for 3 years starting from the end of 1997 and ending at the end of 2000. At present, the network framework for Sharing Forest Resource Information has been established and started to publish data on the Internet. The main techniques involved in the process of sharing information have been discussed from four aspects of network system、database structure、information publishing and management、security control. At the same time, based on practical applications, detailed demonstrations were also provided.


In the present issue of Revista Española de Cardiología, Stöllberger et al analyze the relation between gender and clinical, and morphologic characteristics in one of the broadest-ranging series of patients with left ventricular noncompaction in the literature. From 36 933 transthoracic echocardiograms performed over a period of 10 years, they identified 100 patients who fulfilled pre-established diagnostic criteria. In their laboratory, left ventricular noncompaction was diagnosed in 2.7 per 1000 studies (which cannot be considered equivalent to the prevalence of the disease in patients undergoing echocardiography because it includes repeat studies of individual patients). Men accounted for 70% of patients, a figure similar to that reported elsewhere. Essentially, their findings are that the condition is more frequent in men, but hypertrabeculation is more prominent in women. Based on this observation, they formulate the following hypotheses to explain this greater frequency of the disease in men: a) that hereditary forms linked to the X chromosome exist; b) that more women die in the early stages of the disease and more men develop acquired forms; c) that remission is more common in women; and d) that there is a selection bias towards less indication for echocardiography in women with heart failure. Although all these hypotheses are valid, one further option should be seriously considered, namely that the diagnostic criteria used may be wholly inadequate, or inadequate for men, or for women. In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy something similar occurs. Despite being an autosomal dominant disorder of hereditary genetic origin, men dominate practically all series, representing approximately 60%-70% of cases. However, women with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Left Ventricular Noncompaction: A Disease in Search of a Definition


Removal of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in N2 by the pulse intense electron beam irradiation was investigated. The pulse electron beam (kinetic energy; ≤160 keV, current; ∼140 A, current density; ∼2 A/cm2, pulse width; ∼700 ns and the electron beam energy in one pulse; 12.6±0.4 J) was injected into a gas cell filled with 1 atmospheric pressure N2 with an initial concentration of 200 ppm of NO. The NOx decreased quickly and only a small amount of NO2 was produced by the electron beam irradiation. Electron impact dissociation of N2 and the subsequent chemical reduction of NO by nitrogen radicals was occurred. The typical removal ratio in the gas cell of 1.7 l was about 20% for the first shot and reached to 95% after 8 successive shots. This removal ratio corresponds to the removal efficiency of 220–300 nmol/J. The NOx removal ratio and the efficiency which depended on the length of the gas cell, the filling pressure, the initial concentration of NO, the electron beam energy in one pulse and the axial magnetic field were investigated.


This study aims to determine the effect of entrepreneurial intention, individual competence and venture capital on business success in the Bamboo Weaving Craftsmen Group in Padukuhan Mertelu Kulon, Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta. The research was conducted with a quantitative approach using a questionnaire as a data collection method. The population in this study were all members of the local woven bamboo craftsman group, amounting to 75 people. The sampling technique uses a saturated sample, which means that the entire population is used as a sample. The location of this research is Mertelu Kulon Hamlet, Mertelu Village, Gedangsari District, Gunungkidul Regency, DI Yogyakarta Province. Then for data analysis using multiple linear regression techniques which are then processed with the SPSS 16 application. The results of this study conclude that entrepreneurial intentions do not have a positive and significant effect on business success, individual competencies have a positive and significant effect on business success, business capital has a positive and significant effect on business success, and entrepreneurial intentions, individual competencies, and business capital have a significant effect on business success. simultaneously to business success.


The closed-loop speed control for a high speed switched reluctance machine (SRM) is studied in this paper. A speed-and-current dual closed-loop control scheme is selected for speeds as high as 50 krpm. The novelty of the proposed control method is inclusion of the inductance profile selection for a flux-bridge rotor. In this paper, the nonlinear SRM is modeled in a linearized form by small signal equations, and then transfer functions are used to calculate the appropriate controller coefficients. The proposed control scheme is designed and its performance is evaluated using Matlab/Simulink.


INTRODUCTION
Initially, COVID-19 was typically concerned with respiratory symptoms and had a mild and asymptomatic to critical clinical course. Over time, many atypical presentations related to cardiac, hepatic, gastrointestinal, renal, musculoskeletal, and neurological features have been reported in COVID-19.

CASE PRESENTATION
We present three confirmed cases of COVID-19 who developed acute pancreatitis without any other obvious discernible cause. One middle-aged patient of 48-years old male presented with severe abdominal pain with mild symptoms, COVID-19, later diagnosed as acute pancreatitis with a positive outcome. Another 40-year-old male, hospitalized due to moderate COVID-19, developed acute pancreatitis and managed successfully. The third patient of 58 years old with control diabetes and severe COVID-19 developed acute necrotizing pancreatitis. Unfortunately, he succumbed due to multiorgan failure while on the mechanical ventilator.

CONCLUSION
Acute pancreatitis is uncommon in COVID-19. Although, it should be kept as a high index clinical suspicion if abdominal pain is reported. Early diagnosis and prompt management can significantly impact the patient's outcome.


The explosive growth of malware variants poses a continuously and deeply evolving challenge to information security. Traditional malware detection methods require a lot of manpower. However, machine learning has played an important role on malware classification and detection, and it is easily spoofed by malware disguising to be benign software by employing self-protection techniques, which leads to poor performance for existing techniques based on the machine learning method. In this paper, we analyze the local maliciousness about malware and implement an anti-interference detection framework based on API fragments, which uses the LSTM model to classify API fragments and employs ensemble learning to determine the final result of the entire API sequence. We present our experimental results on Ali-Tianchi contest API databases. By comparing with the experiments of some common methods, it is proved that our method based on local maliciousness has better performance, which is a higher accuracy rate of 0.9734.


Calcium has been implicated as a factor regulating the motility and proliferation of cultured fibroblasts. Since lit- tle is known about how the intracellular concentration of calcium is regulated in cultured fibroblasts, we have charac- terized the microsomal calcium transport activity of Balb/c 3T3 cells, an established line of mouse fibroblasts. Calcium uptake by the microsomal fraction is enhanced by oxalate, but is unaffected by azide, oligomycin, or antimycin A, substances that inhibit mitochondrial calcium uptake. In these respects, the microsomal activity is similar to the skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump and the microsomal systems described in other nonmuscle tis- sues. In growing cultures, the specific activity of the micro- somal calcium transport system increases up to &fold as a function of cell density. When confluent cells with high calcium transport activity are replated at a low density, activity falls rapidly to a low level, but if replated at a high density, it does not. Serum concentration also affects cal- cium transport. Cells propagated in 2.5% serum have in- creased calcium uptake. Some transformed cell lines have diminished calcium uptake, whereas others do not. The addition of calcium or CAMP derivatives to the culture me- dium produces a small increase in microsomal calcium up- take. The addition of methyl xanthines to the culture me- dium inhibits microsomal calcium uptake. Therefore, these compounds cannot be used to enhance the effect of CAMP derivatives. We suggest that microsomal calcium uptake may serve as a regulatory mechanism to control cytoplasmic calcium levels and thereby modulate fibroblast proliferation and movement. Calcium ions have an important role in regulating a num- ber of cellular activities. In muscle, the ion serves as the intracellular signal to couple excitation and contraction (1). In skeletal muscle, calcium acts through the troponin . tropomyo- sin complex to regulate the interaction of the contractile pro- teins actin and myosin. The cytoplasmic level of ionized cal- * The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. $ Supported by National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award I F32 CA 05380-01 from the National Cancer Insti- tute. cium in skeletal muscle is regulated by a calcium pump the sarcoplasmic reticulum (2,3). A similar function is postulated for endoplasmic reticulum of cardiac muscle (4, 5) and certain smooth muscle tissues (6-8). The widespread occurrence of actin and myosin in cultured cells and other nonmuscle tissues has led to the suggestion that these proteins participate in the movement of nonmuscle cells (9) and a variety of experiments suggest that the activity of these proteins may be regulated by calcium. Oscillations of calcium ion concentrations have been observed in several non- muscle tissues (10, 11) and also in


The invention discloses polyester with an extensive amorphous region. The components of terephthalic acid, m-phthalic acid and dihydric alcohol and a dihydroxy compound with an ether bond are used as basic raw materials, an acid component contains 10-30 percent by mol of m-phthalic acid and 70-90 percent by mol of terephthalic acid, total acid and total alcohol are prepared into uniform slurry inthe mol ratio of 1.05:2.0, and the polyester which does not have an obvious melting peak under a DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) and has the extensive amorphous region and low melting point is generated by the reactions of esterification and polycondensation. The method can utilize a traditional semicontinuous and continuous polyester production line to realize industrialized production. The polyester produced by utilizing the method provided by the invention is used for preparing a packaging film, a sheet, a hot melt adhesive and the like. The invention is especially suitable for being prepared into a thermal contraction film used for a packaging purpose or a tag purpose so as to replace a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) thermal contraction film used in the market at present.


TRANSLINGUALISM IN POST-SECONDARY WRITING AND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Nancy Bou Ayash April 17, 2013 Drawing on text-oriented data from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, this study examines how writing teachers and students constantly negotiate tensions between translingual sociolinguistic realities on one hand and monolingualist assumptions about language and language relations on another that dominate curricular and pedagogical designs in first year writing courses. The study involves a multiplicity of data sources, such as official institutional documents, individual instructional materials, classroom observations, structured interviews, and a method of "talk around texts." Writing teachers in this study sensitively grappled with tensions between the constant political pressures of generating the status quo and their ideological orientations towards keeping up with rapid sociolinguistic changes on the ground. As multilingual student participants in this study continued to grow more worldly with English, this study demonstrates the relevance of a translingual approach to their specific personal, social, linguistic, and cultural affiliations in addition to their academic and professional aspirations. By taking a translingual approach to writing instruction, this study puts forward strategies of ideological and pedagogical change aligned with translingualism that pays special attention to the diversity and complexity of linguistic and discursive resources already flowing into the writing program and classroom.


Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were functionalized with biotin at the ends and sidewalls of the nanotubes in a series of chemical reactions. Streptavidin-coated gold nanoparticles were attached to the biotin-modified SWNTs in solution in a self-assembly process. Gold nanoparticles which connected two SWNTs were selected and contacted for transport measurements. At low temperatures, Coulomb blockade oscillations were observed as a function of gate voltage. The size of the nanoparticles can be enlarged by catalytic deposition of gold leading to current increase through the SWNT–nanoparticle–SWNT junction.


The last decade witnessed a gradual shift from cloud-based computing towards ubiquitous computing, which has put at a greater security risk every element of the computing ecosystem including devices, data, network, and decision making. Indeed, emerging pervasive computing paradigms have introduced an un-charted territory of security vulnerabilities and a wider attack surface, mainly due to network openness, the underlying mechanics that enable intelligent functions, and the deeply integrated physical and cyber spaces. Furthermore, interconnected computing environments now enjoy many unconventional characteristics that mandate a radical change in security engineering tools. This need is further exacerbated by the rapid emergence of new Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that target critical infrastructures and aim to stealthily undermine their operations in innovative and intelligent ways. To enable system and network designers to be prepared to face this new wave of dangerous threats, this paper overviews recent APTs in emerging computing systems and proposes a new approach to APTs that is more tailored towards such systems compared to traditional IT infrastructures. The proposed APT lifecycle will inform security decisions and implementation choices in future pervasive networked systems.


This experiment was conducted to breed the Boxthorn varieties with resistance to Anthracnose, good quality and high yielding potential in 1984 to 1986(3 years). The character of "Yu seong 1" with resistance to Anthracnose and "Yu seong 2" with good quality and high yielding potential are fellows; 1. The plant type of "Yu seong 1" was semi-elect type but became to elect type after 60C 0 rediation and yield was decreased because of the number of flowers. 2. The yield of "Yu seong 2" was the highest of all varieties. 3. The quality(Extract and Betain contents) of "Yu seong 2" was the best of all varieties and visible character was good. The results of this experinent showed that "Yu seong 1" should be promising lines in south area because of resistance Anthracnose and "Yu seong 2" should be promising lines in north area.


Transmissible Venereal Tumor (TVT) is one of the most uncontrolled spreading tumor via mating between dogs observed in both sexes. The clinical findings are less remarkable and are usually located in the caudal part of the penis and may include preputial discharge, licking of the region, dysuria, phimosis or paraphimosis (occasionally). In this study, the incidence of TVT and the relations of tumor with some factors were investigated in 145 male dogs, in Eskiºehir, Turkey. TVT's diagnosis was based on location of the tumor mass and mainly exfoliative cytological findings. Smears of caudal part of the penis were painted with Giemsa staining method. The cells in the smears were identified as typical transmissible venereal tumor cells, polymorphnuclear leukocytes (PMN), erythrocyte, parabasal, intermediate, nucleated and anuclear superficial cells. In exfoliative cytological examinations, TVT cells were observed in the smears of 17 dogs (11,72 %), but only four of them (2,76 %) had TVT lesions clinically. Thirteen (8,97 %) of dogs had TVT cells but not having TVT lesions . It was found that the ages, weights and breeds of dogs had no effect on the TVT lesions and TVT cells. TVT positive animals were determined to have more erythrocyte and intermediate density than negatives and no association with other cells were found. PMNs were significantly different and high in the TVT cell positive cases compared to the negatives. In dogs with negative TVT cells, parabasal, intermediate, nuclear/anuclear superficial cells were more than those positives. As a result, the male dogs having no lesions could be infected with TVT. Dogs should be examined not only clinically, but also cytologically, to determine whether TVT cells are present. This method can be an easy way to find and treat TVT lesion-free but infected dogs at an early time.


This paper introduces major active principles of antifungal agent of leather which are used at present and summarizes the development and tendency of researches into environment-friendly antifungal agent of leather under the new situation in which rules of environment and health protection are more rigid.


The toxicity of chlorpyrifos to three Iranian populations of two-spotted spider mite, collected from Isfahan (ISR), Yazd (Yz) and Guilan (GUS2) Provinces were surveyed using the residual contact vial bioassay. The bioassay results showed that resistance ratios of ISR and Yz populations were 176.90 and 9.78 fold compared to the GUS2 population, respectively. Determination of esterase and glutathione-S-transferase activity and their kinetic parameters showed that ISR population had the highest specific activity and specificity constant among the studied populations. Besides, the content of mixed function oxidases in ISR population was the highest. However, synergistic effects of Piperonyl Butoxide, Diethyl Maleate and Triphenyl Phosphate showed that metabolic enzymes did not play an important role in resistance to chlorpyrifos in ISR and Yz populations and enhanced activity of esterase, glutathione-S-transferase and content of mixed function oxidases in these populations were probably due to resistance to some other acaricides. To determine the role of acetylcholinesterase insensitivity in resistance mechanisms, kinetic parameters and inhibitory effect of chlorpyrifos-oxon on this enzyme were investigated. The Km value of acetylcholinesterase was determined as 0.036, 0.04, and 0.050 mM using acetylthiocholine iodide for GUS2, Yz, and ISR populations, respectively. In addition, the insensitivity ratios of chlorpyrifos-oxon on acetylcholinesterase activity were estimated at 23.30 and 2.96 for ISR and Yz populations, respectively. These results confirmed amino acid substitutions in active site of this enzyme and also indicated that resistant population possed qualitatively altered AChE.


Recently, control volume methods have been developed for fluid flow and heat transfer on unstructured meshes. This approach has been extended here to implement the enthalpy based solidification algorithm on an unstructured mesh. A range of two-dimensional test problems are solved using triangular and quadrilateral cells (or elements). The accuracy of the CV-UM algorithms compare favourably with the structured-mesh algorithm, though the former algorithms require 1.5-3 times as much CPU as the latter


Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection was associated with respiratory illness during pregnancy and postpartum in women. Vaccination during pregnancy against RSV could benefit the mother, primarily against nonfebrile illness, and her infant.


The submitting of the new-type urbanization means the dilemma of the traditional urbanization in China. While there are two kinds of the traditional urbanization: one is to copy the Euro-American model and the other is from China's practical experience of the large and small urbanization. The former is not sustainable and the latter should be needed transferring type and upgrading. However the middle-sized town mode is submitted on the base of the Chinese urbanization. The different situation, which is the reflection of the unsustainable Euro-American type and the breakthrough of the traditional management mode that is the third road of exploration of the Chinese urbanization based on the development of the former two modes that explore the road of the Chinese urbanization.


The objective of this study is to identify types of interior design styles recently appearing in model houses as well as characteristics by type. The study has been conducted based on both literature reviews and case studies. Research methodology includes the initial review of literature for interior design styles and the analysis of those interior design styles being applied to model houses. An expert group then classified the pictures of interior design of model houses into seven concepts to identify the traits of each style. The research is a fundamental study to review different perception of interior design styles between designers and the general public, which, in turn, is expected to provide a basic tool not only for understanding interior design styles, but also for guiding the future path of design.


Abstract Interface defects in a-Si: H/a-Si3N4: H superlattices have been investigated by photothermal deflection spectroscopy measurements. In combination with results from electron spin resonance measurements, we conclude that most of the interface defects are not paramagnetic. We propose that defects other than neutral silicon dangling bonds are dominant at the interfaces.


The performances of cooperative spectrum sensing with equal gain combination over Nakagami channels are analyzed in cognitive radio networks.The series form of detection probability is derived by transforming the multiple integral to a single integral and using the equivalent representation of generalized Marcum Q-function.Simulation shows that the correctness of the theoretical analysis results are validated,and a group of practical parameter settings is given.Parameter selection for designing cognitive radio networks can be provided by expressions of detection performance.


Reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-supported Pt nanocrystal composites have wide applications in catalysis and electrocatalysis. In this work, we successfully synthesize guanidine-functionalized graphene oxide composites and phosphonate-functionalized platinum nanowires (Pt-NWs). Based on self-assembly and NaBH4 reduction, RGO-supported Pt-NW composites (Pt-NWs/RGO) are obtained successfully. The as-prepared nanomaterials are detailedly characterized using various physical techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, element mapping, etc. Physical characterization results demonstrate that the guanidine functionalization of graphene oxide is crucial for the generation of Pt-NW/RGO composites. Electrochemical results show that both the phosphonate functionalization of Pt-NWs and the introduction of RGO contribute to the improved electrocatalytic activity of Pt-NW/RGO composites towards the hydrazine oxidation reaction.


DURING acceptance tests of aircraft, one of the basic data required is the rate of descent. The required information is a vertical component of the rate of descent just prior to touch‐down on a landing surface. These data are used as an aid in determining the impact imparted to the landing gear, as well as to other structures of the plane. Rate of descent information is also used during training of both military and commercial pilots. A pilot is interested in knowing immediately after touch‐down the rate of descent of his aircraft, so that he can associate his control settings and his psychological attitude with the data given him. The touch‐down rate of descent information is also important when hard landings aboard an aircraft carrier are considered. The deck of the carrier presents a second moving object with which to contend; therefore the rates of descent will be even more unpredictable and, in most cases, of higher values.


This paper proposes a Secure and Lightweight Hierarchical Cluster-based Routing protocol (SL-HCR) for WSNs. It is designed to ensure both authenticity and confidentiality during the data routing based on an efficient ID-based Authenticated Key agreement scheme. As a result, the number of keys stored by each node is reduced to a single permanent secret-key. The nodes could use this key to generate an authenticated session secret key with any other node during the routing process without involving the BS. Simulation results highlight the efficiency of proposed scheme compared to current works.


WHEN SHE WAS TREATED for breast cancer in 2003, Janet B. suffered the typical side effects of chemotherapy: nausea, fatigue, and hair loss. Subsequent radiation treatments barely fazed her, apart from causing some additional fatigue. But after her cancer treatment ended, when she was struggling to regain her strength, she noticed another problem. Her short-term memory was shot. "I'd always been a little absent-minded," she says, "but that got a lot worse. If I start a load of laundry and the phone rings, I'll forget I was doing laundry and I'll go do something else." Janet also finds it harder to concentrate now. "I'm more distractible," she explains. "It's like suddenly I have attention deficit disorder." Janet's sense of direction is no longer reliable. Nor can she plot a driving route in her head anymore. "Sometimes when driving in a familiar area, I get a little disoriented and can't visualize what landmarks are coming next," ...


Proofs of Correctness for Three Decentralized Authentication Protocols Using Strand Spaces Pavan Kumar Vankamamidi Department of Computer Science, BYU Master of Science Security is a major concern is today's online world. As online activities become increasingly sensitive, service providers rely on security protocols to ensure confidentiality, integrity and authentication of their users and data. Greater assurance is provided when these protocols are verified to be correct. Strand Spaces is a method to formally analyze security protocols. The arguments are based on the messages being transmitted and received while assuming that the underlying cryptographic primitives are secure. This thesis demonstrates that the protocols Luau, pwdArmor and Kiwi are secure using Strand Spaces methodology.


With the ease of carrying out an auction through internet, the electronic auction market is expanding rapidly. In online (i.e., continuous) eBay-like combinatorial auctions, bidders are allowed to join and leave the auction at any time, and in the process, bidders can repetitively bid on packages of items of their choice. In such multi-agent e-business systems, the seller is compelled to provide information feedback to the bidders after every bid on the current state of the auction to help them place more informed bids. This requires provisional winners be computed for every package of items after each bid by solving Winner Determination Problems. In multi-unit online combinatorial auctions where the number of bids can be significantly large, the paper presents for the first time dynamic programming approaches which can incrementally solve winner determination problems for every package after each new bid. We propose two dynamic programming algorithms to solve the multi-unit winner determination problem. While our first algorithm computes and stores the optimal values for all packages on arrival of a new bid traversing the packages in a reverse order, the alternative algorithm stores the optimal values only for packages that can fit into available memory but can find out the optimal solutions for every other package. We discuss the salient features of the algorithms, and demonstrate our approach through experiments. We also propose a bottom-up approach to dynamic programming for effective use of memory.


By analysis of the former research works on Karst forest ecology in Maolan Karst forest,Mulun Karst forest and Nonggang Karst forest etc.,the characteristics of Karst forest ecosystem,community regime and stability,ecotourism and ecological rehabilitation are summarized and re_studied.Furthermore,some problems in the former research works,and further research items in the future are put forth in the treatise.


MONG the various current methods of adrenocortical bio-assay, the stress-survival" type has been recognized for some time (Dorfman, 1949). This approach makes use of the adrenalectomized animal which is subjected to some form of stress after having been pre-treated with measured amounts of a substance known to possess adrenocortical activity (the so-called "reference standard"), to be compared with similar animals pretreated with the material to be tested. The relative degree of protection against death, expressed in terms of percentage survival, is used to compute the potency of the test-material based upon the responses observed in the reference-standard groups.


The influence of solvent, ring substituents, and tertiary carbon atom substituents on the decomposition at 423–473 K of some N-arylcarbamates of tertiary alcohols (p-XC6H4NHCO2C(CH3)2R, where X = C...


Objective To understand the different hepatitis C virus in Henan region HCV genotype distribution,and on the condition and to predict the efficacy of anti - virus.Methods Reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction(RT - PCR) technique for quantitative detection of hepatitis C patients HCVRNA,60 cases of HCV - RNA positive samples were applied to HCV genotyping PCR.SPSS10.0 used for statistical analysis.Results 60 cases of HCVRNA positive hepatitis C patients,1b -type 46 cases,accounting for 77%,2a - type for the 14 cases,accounting for 23%. Conclusion Henan infected with HCV mainly type is 1b,of HCV infection before treatment effectively predict the efficacy has important clinical significance.


Modern technical communications is an incredibly important subject because, without it, no commercial business would be able to survive in today's marketplaces. Communications in the technical sense ranges from links between computers in the commercial data processing world as a management tool, i.e. office communications, to communication between a number of machines in the production and manufacturing sphere, i.e. factory communications. An important aim is to overcome the schism that still exists between the two "worlds" of office and factory, because that is the only way in which available capacity can be fully utilized and the necessary flexibility achieved.


The right of self-determination to teach is a power that teachers can share interests and perform by themselves in teaching. Under the traditional education, the right of self-determination to teach walks toward two ends: on one hand, the right of self-determination to teach almost dies out fully; and on the other hand, it is common that teachers abuse their power in teaching. To give teachers the right of self-determination fully is not only the demands of the construction of the law and rule of education in our country, but also the demands of teachers' specialization and the reform of the new curriculum.


Two microfungi collected from plant debris in cloud forests during a survey of the fungi associated with leaf litter in Veracruz are described and illustrated. Digitella rigidophora gen. et sp. nov. is distinguished by polytretic conidiogenous cells having a successive sympodial but rectilinear or geniculated proliferation and with discoid to papillate- perforate thickened conidiogenous loci and digitate solitary dark brown to brown conidia. Redbia inflata sp. nov. is characterized by alternate, curved to coiled, slightly echinulate branches that possess a distinct ampulla at the ends and by coarsely verruculose, subhyaline, 0-1-septate conidia.


Using the Wolynski-Taylor diagram we can give a more accurate age of Teide-1. It is about 350 million years old, not 120 million as claimed by the dogma. This means it is almost 3 times as old. It should be obvious to the reader that astronomers do not understand that stars are young, hot and big planets. This means that any age determination they use absent this understanding will be inaccurate, inconsistent and invalid.


Until I read Stolzenberg's (2004: 82) review, I had not realised I had really misread Bricmont and Sokal's argument: I thought they were just 'nitpicking'. I'm still not so sure, but I'll leave that to readers of the book. I'll concentrate on the more substantive question of 'alternation' discussed in his last paragraph. Stolzenberg (2004: 86) points out that he has been told that good sociologists acquire the skill of alternating between world views during their training but that he is suspicious:


The paper concerns application of hybrid linear-bilinear models for time series coming from economical, biological or medical events. The aim of the paper is to assume an attitude towards some contradictory statements about reasonableness of application bilinear models in time series modeling and analysis.


Abstract Already K. Sethe supposed that the north wall of Teti's burial chamber (T/F/N) once was covered with offering spells, whose continuation is still preserved on the adjoining east wall. But it took nearly 100 years until a first provisional reconstruction was undertaken by E. Bène, which led to an overall conclusive and rewarding outcome. Nevertheless, some minor questions yet remain unanswered, which concern details of text sequences and the exact position of several fragments showing remnants of spells in columns and lines of nearly totally destructed parts of the wall T/F/N. In this article, some of these questions are treated on the one hand by including the text sequences of Teti's corpus into the evolutionary line of Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts, on the other hand by reconsidering and correcting some details in the current proposal of reconstruction.


On the basis of works of Adygh enlighteners of the early twentieth century the article researches one of the main problems of the Adygh historiography: the history of religious beliefs of the Northwestern Caucasus' highlanders. The author assesses contribution of the enlighteners in the formulation and development of the scientific issues concerning the problem.


Performance-based mix design (PBMD) is a comprehensive system of designing pavement mixes, adapted to the unique traffic and environmental requirements of a specific site. The resulting mix design procedure makes it easier to select and combine bituminous binder, aggregate, and any necessary modifier to achieve the required pavement performance. PBMD enables the use of available materials to prepare a mix design for a pavement with adequate performance and durability. The international status of current bituminous mix design procedures is reviewed. In 1987, the USA's Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) began to develop a new system for specifying asphalt materials, which eventually led to the Superpave system. The physical properties of binders are measured by the dynamic shear rheometer, rotational viscometer, bending beam rheometer, and direct tension tester. Two new performance-based testing procedures were developed: the Superpave Shear tester and the Indirect Tensile tester. Three levels of Superpave mixture design were developed. Further research is needed on the effect of PBMD specifications on rut depth and fatigue cracking, the development of a suitable economic blend of bituminous binder and aggregate, and the development of a PBMD for India's different climate and traffic conditions.


This study presents the warpage analysis for products through the combination of the genetic algorithm (GA) method and finite element method (FEM) in multi-cavity injection molding parts; it simulated and analyzed the warpage through controlling the conditions of various parameters in primary processes – filling, packing, and cooling. After 50 iterations of calculations. These results demonstrate that the maximum warpage of the products was 0.5052 mm for multi-cavity injection molding parts. In comparison with the orthogonal array, the maximum warpage could be reduced by approximately 7.24%. It is shown that the GA method can obtain the optimum process conditions for warpage deformation in multi-cavity injection molding parts.


Pre-storage dry seed invigoration treatments of freshly harvested gram (Cicer arietinum L.) with chemicals (common bleaching powder at 2 g/kg of seed; calcium carbonate at 3 g/kg of seed and iodinated calcium carbonate at 3 g/kg of seed), pharmaceutical formulation (aspirin at 50 mg/kg of seed) and crude plant materials (finely powered dry red chilli fruit, at 1 g/kg of seed) showed significantly improved post-storage germinability as well as field performance of the resultant crop over untreated control. Among the dry treatments, bleaching powder, aspirin and red chilli powder has shown better results in improving storability and field performance of gram seeds. But pre-storage wet treatments did not show any improvement on germinability and field performance over control, probably due to soaking injury in harvest fresh (high-vigour) seed. On the basis of the result, dry treatments in high-vigour gram seeds with bleaching powder @2 g/kg of seed, aspirin @50 mg/kg of seed and red chilli powder @1 g/kg of seed are suggested for improved storability and field performance of gram.


A method of transmitting pilot signals multiplexed by time division, TDM, in a communication system (100), comprising: identifying a first sequence of pseudo-random number, PN, between a first set of possible PN sequences to a first TDM pilot (222); generating the first TDM pilot (222) with the first PN sequence; identifying a second PN sequence from a second set of possible PN sequences for a second TDM pilot (224) signal, wherein the first set of PN sequences is different second set of PN sequences and the pair of the first PN sequence and the second PN sequence is associated with an identity of a transmitting entity (110); generating the second TDM pilot (224) signal with a second PN sequence; transmitting the first TDM pilot (222) signal into a first part of each transmission slot for TDM pilots first and second (222, 224); and transmitting the second TDM pilot (224) in a second part of each said transmission interval.


When designing ballistic shields, it is of significance to know how materials behave at high strain rates. The paper presents results of the experimental investigation into the influence of the strain rate on the dynamic yield point of 40HM chromium-molybdenum steel. The behaviour of a material differs depending on impact speed, even if the impact energy remains the same. Dynamic tests were conducted on two specimens using two testing stations: a station equipped with a rotary hammer for testing at a speed reaching 40 m/s and a station accelerating the specimen to a high speed (160 to 270 m/s) and launching it to impact a hard, non-deformable shield. The dynamic yield point was determined by using the Taylor theory. To determine the impact speed, an optical measurement method and a digital high-speed camera were used. The impact speed was determined on the basis of the analysis of recorded images using a specialized software program. The impact speed was adjusted experimentally depending on the behaviour of the specimen material. The basic criterion for selecting the impact speed was that the requirement was fulfilled that the cylinder – as a result of the impact – succumbs to an evident plastic deformation without a visible material integrity infringement. The questions of plastic deformation, temperature influence, strain rate and stress–strain relation require an analysis of the formation and effects of dislocations. The unified constitutive law called Johnson-Cook's law describes the relations between the material's tension and strengthening ratio, and between strain rate and temperature. The tests indicated that a strain rate increase considerably improves strength properties of 40HM steel.


As an allied nation, it appears logical and Malaysia faced various problems which are similar. Some time ago, Indonesia was tested with a variety of horizontal conflicts and other violence or irregularities are not moral values such as corruption, violation of ethics and moral, liberal democracy that went too far so that violate moral values as a nation and akhlakul karimah East and religious nation . The problem that is almost the same but in a smaller scale and still in control also occurs in Malaysia. These problems then raises questions about the role and contribution of the Islamic Religious Education in the form of social ethics. Despite the growth variable is actually a very complex problem, but often directly or indirectly connected with the failure of religious education in schools. Questions like these are considered legitimate because the source of many problems is due to ethical and moral crisis, while the role of religious education is to form students have a morality and a noble moral character. This study aims to: First, get an overview and analysis of core beliefs and the core values are extracted from the formal curriculum and the hidden curriculum of Islamic Education (PAI) in Senior High School in Indonesia and Malaysia. Second, get an overview and analysis of how implementation of the PAI and its influence in students mindset and commitment to social ethics and peace. Third, get an overview and analysis of the implementation of social ethics and a culture of peace that was developed at the school, especially in relation to the implementation of the PAI. The research was conducted in two schools / madrasah in Malang, Indonesia and the three national schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


The online social networks slowly incorporate economical competencies toward empowering the use of virtual and real currency. They provide as novel platforms to host an assortment for business exercises, where clients might potentially get virtual cash as rewards by taking an interest such occasions. Both business and OSNs accomplices are fundamentally worried when attackers instrument a group of accounts to gather virtual money from these events that settle on these occasions Insuffcient and result in important fnancial loss. It gets to be of extraordinary vitality with proactively identifiying these pernicious accounts when the web advancement exercises and consequently abatements their necessity with a chance to be rewarded. In this manuscript, we recommend a new system, in particular Pro Guard, with fulfll this target toward effciently coordinating Characteristics that describe accounts starting with three perceptions incorporating their recharging patterns, their all behaviors, and the use about their particular cash. We have executed broad examinations dependent upon information gathered from Tencent QQ, a worldwide heading adrift OSN for inherent fscal administration exercises. Test comes about need showed that our framework could fnish a secondary identification rate about 96.67% at a low false positive rate of 0.3%.


This experiment was increased account for 1% compound premix deal in day in foundation food that implied The plentiful No.1 in milk to prepare the premix. Through 30 days′on trial result enunciation:the milk of Average Experiment set is more than matched set 2.66kg,The amount of milk increases 13.9%。Every of experiment set increases 4.39RMB than matched set in every day.


An organic light emitting display device and a method for driving the same are provided to reduce a motion blur phenomenon generated in an active driving method by maintaining a black screen for a short section in a frame unit by controlling a voltage supply of a voltage supply unit. A controller(210) generates a frame identification signal identifying the starting of a frame and the video data of a frame unit by corresponding to an input video signal. A display unit(200) is composed of a plurality of pixels including an organic light emitting diode and displays an image corresponding to the video data. A driving voltage supply unit(240) applies the driving voltage to the display unit. A switching unit(250) controls the driving voltage supply from the driving voltage supply unit to the display unit according to the frame identification signal.


The aim of this paper is to show that John McDowell's approach to perception in terms of "openness"remains problematically vulnerable to the threat of scepticism. The leading thought of the openness view is that objects, events and others in the world, and no substitute, just are what is disclosed in perceptual experience. An account which aims to defend this thought must show, therefore, that the content of perceptual experience does not "all short" of its objects. We shall describe how McDowell defends the openness view with reference to the disjunctive analysis of appearances (sections II and III); argue that his defence includes features which are both inconsistent with and unnecessary for the openness view (section IV); and show how those features call into question the success of McDowell's route of response to sceptical arguments (section V). Finally, we sketch an alternative approach to openness and conclude that the explosive effect of letting loose the conception of experience advanced by the openness view has yet to be felt in the English-speaking world (section VI).


With advances in biotechnology, genomics, and combinatorial chemistry, a wide variety of new, more potent and specific therapeutics are being created. Because of common problems such as low solubility, high potency, and/or poor stability of many of these new drugs, the means of drug delivery can impact efficacy and potential for commercialization as much as the nature of the drug itself. Thus, there is a corresponding need for safer and more effective methods and devices for drug delivery. Microspheres having particle size in range between 0.1-200 µm, can be delivered by several routes like oral, parenteral, nasal, ophthalmic, transdermal, colonal etc. In future by combining various new strategies, microspheres will find a central place in novel drug delivery, particularly in diseased cell sorting, genetic materials, safe, targeting and effective drug delivery.


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The JAK2V617F mutation is found in most patients with polycythemia vera (PV) and 50% to 60% of those with essential thrombocythemia (ET). JAK2V617F -homozygous precursors arise through mitotic recombination, form larger clones in PV compared with ET,[1][1] and may play a causal role


For a given evapotranspiration (ETr), both soil evaporation and plant transpiration (Tr) would induce soil suction. However, the relative contribution of these two processes to the amount of suction induced is not clear. The objective of this study is to quantify ETr- and Tr-induced suction by a selected tree species, Scheffllera heptaphylla, in silty sand. The relative contribution of transpiration and evaporation to the responses of suction is then explored based on observed differences in Tr- and ETr-induced suction. In total, 12 test boxes were used for testing: 10 for vegetated soil with different values of leaf area index (LAI) and root area index (RAI), while two were for bare soil as references. Each box was exposed to identical atmospheric conditions controlled in a plant room for monitoring suction responses over a week. Due to the additional effects of soil evaporation, ETr-induced suction could be 3%–47% higher than Tr-induced suction, depending on LAI. The significance of evaporation reduced ...


OBJECTIVE To study the relation between antithyroid drugs propylthiouracil(PTU),methimazole(MMI) and the occurrence of antineutropil cytoplasmic antibody(ANCA) in sera from patients with primary hyperthyroidism.METHODS One hundred and ninety-nine patients with primary hyperthyroidism,from Jinhua Central Hospital,were enrolled in the current study.They were divided into four groups: untreated patients(n=30),patients treated with PTU(n=61),patients treated with MMI(n=65) and patients treated with both PTU and MMI(n=43).Indirect immunofluorescence(IIF) assay was used to detect P-ANCA and C-ANCA.Antigen specific ELISAs were used to detect anti-MPO antibody and anti-PR3 antibody in sera from all the patients.Every ANCA-positive patient was screened for urinalysis,renal function,ESR,chest X rays and ophthalmology.Those ANCA-positive patients treated with PTU were informed to change to MMI.ANCA was detected during follow-up.RESULTS Among the untreated patients,none was ANCA positive.Eight sera from patients treated with PTU(13.11%) were P-ANCA positive,and three of the eight patients had anti-MPO antibodies.Only one(1.53%) was P-ANCA positive in sera from patients treated with MMI.In patients treated with both PTU and MMI,seven(16.28%) had P-ANCA,and four had anti-MPO antibodies.The prevalences of ANCA in sera from patients treated with PTU and treated with both PTU and MMI were significantly higher than those in MMI group and untreated group,respectively(P0.05).Seven out of 16 patients with positive ANCA had mild clinical evident ANCA associated vasculitis but without immunosuppressive therapy.Eight patients were followed up for more than one year,serum ANCA changed to negative in six patients and remained positive in two.CONCLUSION PTU might be related to ANCA production in patients with hyperthyroidism.Some patients with positive ANCA developed clinical vasculitis.


Abu Bakr Effendi was a distinguished, yet controversial figure. The article endeavours to ascertain the context and consequences of his coming to the Cape of Good Hope. At a certain stage of his life he was namely chosen by the sultan of the Osmanli Devlet, after a request by the monarch of great Britain, Queen Victoria, to come to the Cape. Why was he selected? What were the circumstances of the request both abroad and in the Cape? Finally an evaluation will be attempted of Abu Bakr Effendi's contribution with regard to various fields: legal, cultural-educational, political and as far as his family is concerned.


Biochar has a relatively long half-life in soil and can fundamentally alter soil properties, processes, and ecosystem services. The prospect of global-scale biochar application to soils highlights the importance of a sophisticated and rigorous certification procedure. The objective of this work was to discuss the concept of integrating biochar properties with environmental and socioeconomic factors, in a sustainable biochar certification procedure that optimizes complementarity and compatibility between these factors over relevant time periods. Biochar effects and behavior should also be modelled at temporal scales similar to its expected functional lifetime in soils. Finally, when existing soil data are insufficient, soil sampling and analysis procedures need to be described as part of a biochar certification procedure.


Much aggregate production in the next fifty years will likely come from very large quarries or "megaquarries." Remote megaquarries served by low-cost ocean or rail transport are an attractive solution to meeting aggregate demand in large urban areas that have depleted or sterilized local aggregate sources. Megaquarries, however, present challenges for land management and reclamation. Only a few geologic, geographic and economic settings are suitable for megaquarry development. Societal resistance to mining is the single most important obstacle in their development. Megaquarries will affect aggregate cost, operation of transport systems, and the types of aggregate available to customers.


Abstract: Synchronizer is an essential element in the system on chip (SOC) whenever it deals with clock domain crossing and asynchronous inputs. Lower τ (metastable resolution time constant) can provide a better synchronization capability. In this paper, we demonstrate the effect of process variation on standard D flipflop. The effect of process variation has been observed for 180 nm node in CMOS planar devices using UMC process for all process corners. All the simulation for obtaining metastability has been performed in Cadence Virtuoso Design Environment.


This paper demonstrates the use of the convex optimization to localize the transverse magnetic field in regions of interest for recently proposed multi-sectioned alternating impedance coils and the traditional transmission line coil. An approach based on different axial slices to identical RF coils except upper stripline structure is investigated. Electromagnetic simulation results are compared for RF coils and discussed in detail at 7.0 T.


The industrial structure evolution of a metropolitan is represented in three aspects: self-renewal of content and structure,industrial structure sophistication and industrial structure rationalization.The spatial structure evolution of a metropolitan includes scale structure,spatial structure and functional structure.World experiences proved that evolution of industrial structure and spatial structure was a synergistic and mutual promotional process.From the perspective of systems theory,this paper proves that evolution of industrial structure and spatial structure is a coordinated development system.Besides,it also summarizes the internal coordination mechanisms in the system.


11 cases were found from the various sources mentioned above. This is the first case report of CD of the greater omentum to be described in India. Preoperative diagnosis of CD is difficult and most cases are diagnosed after surgical treatment. A high index of suspicion is required for diagnosis and the condition should be included in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours. After complete resection of the tumour, the prognosis of unicentric CD is good. However, long-term follow-up is recommended because the occurrence of malignant lymphoma or recurrence of CD has been reported.


The practical application of what is known about the grieving process is discussed in connection not only with obvious grief‐laden situations, but also with situations in which the grief content is more subtle. It is proposed that learning to identify the less traumatic situations in which an expression of grief can help obstetric patients and their families cope with the childbirth experience is also a part of optimum nursing care.


Determination of embedding dimension based on symplectic geometry. Let X be lag matrix of y, A=X'X, and A(n) is (n-1) times transformed form of A by Householder matrix. If descending sorted eigenvalues A(n) tend to be constant for dimension d+1 then d is the proper embedding dimension. let sigma be square of eigenvalues of A matrix, sigma1=(lambda^2)max,÷,sigman=(lambda^2)min,where n is the dimension of X. If sigma1>sigma2>÷>sigmad>sigma(d+1)>=...>=sigman, then d is the embedding dimension of the reconstruction system(Lei et al. 2002). The dimension before horizontal section of log(sigmai/tr(sigmai))plot is the proper dimension.


The silicon microstrips tracker for CMS at LHC demands fast, radiation-hard electronics. An original solution was proposed for the processing of signals from silicon detectors. This technique allows precise reconstruction of the arrival time of the particles, even with a 'slow' shaping time and a limited power budget. This idea was already implemented in the APV6 circuit, designed in a bulk CMOS technology from Harris.In this paper, we present the version (APVD) designed in the CMOS SOI radiation hard technology DMILL by a French-British collaboration. The APVD is a 128-channel mixed analogue-digital: each channel includes a low-noise charge preamplifier, a CR-RC shaper with a peaking time of 50 ns, an analogue pipeline where the signal is sampled at 40 MHz, an analogue pulse shape processor and a current output multiplexer. The circuit integrates an 12C interface for easy control of the operating parameters. All the control current and voltages as well as a calibration pulse are generated internally by dedicated blocks. The design and first experimental results from the first version of the 128-channel APVD, will be presented in this paper. They show the circuit is fully functional and can be used for the CMS experiment.


By the research of Simingshan mine roadway, the use of numerical simulation software FLAC support mechanism under the bolt and anchor their combined effect is analyzed to obtain roadway stress variation for bolting to provide design and site construction technical guidance.


A novel overmodulation strategy for space-vector pulsewidth modulated (PWM) inverters is proposed. The method, which increases the range of linear control of the output voltage by 10%, is based on Fourier series representation of the reference voltage.


Many animals exhibit contrast between their dorsal and ventral coloration. If selection acts differently on dorsal versus ventral coloration, these body parts should evolve as independent modules of trait evolution, irrespective of ancestral covariance. Here, we compare the evolution of feather color across 11 body regions for a clade of Australasian songbirds (Meliphagoidea). We find evidence for three modules of covarying color regions: dorsal, ventral, and flight feathers. Among these modules, ventral feathers had color that was highly labile, evolving at 3 times the rate for dorsal plumage and 20 times the rate for flight feathers. While both dorsal and ventral plumage tend to be correlated with precipitation or the degree of vegetation, we find that dorsal plumage is twice as similar to colors of background substrates in satellite photos. This finding, which a direct effect of climate in Gloger's rule does not predict, adds support for background matching as an explanation for geographic gradients in animal color. Furthermore, it suggests that selection for background matching has had a greater effect on dorsal plumage than ventral plumage color. Overall, differential selection on ventral and dorsal colors likely maintains these as distinct modules over evolutionary time scales – a novel explanation for dorsoventral contrast in pigmentation.


Since he was the patron deity of ascetics, hermits, and other 'outsiders,' worship of the Hindu God Śiva often evokes a vision of antinomian practices: naked mendicants with matted hair, who spend their days stalking cremation grounds, human skulls in hand. While such activities were the purview of certain specialists, early medieval literary and material sources, in fact, present a socially supported, even domesticated, body of religious practitioners whose concerns for prosperity and well-being were expressed through the veneration of images, monuments, and places associated with Śiva, and other deities affiliated with him. Far from rejecting the established norms and hierarchies of the social worlds in which they operated, these sources reflect a desire to make a Śiva-centered religion compelling to the uninitiated or lay practitioner. Attention to these modes of Śaiva devotion permits a more pixilated vision of community that is attuned to the social complexity and diversity of premodern religion in practice. Rather than occupying a realm of norms, prescriptions, or beliefs, the worship of Śiva in the lived world of Early Medieval India (c. 6th–10th centuries CE) constituted a repertoire of spatial and material practices. The central concern of this study is to recover these practices and better understand how religion operates through landscapes by exploring the sites, memorials, and monuments where early Śiva religion was practiced and by discerning possible connections between these places. For worshippers of Śiva, community was inherently localized and belonging was something recorded tangibly in space. Interventions in the built landscape varied greatly in scale—ranging from a single memorial shrine to a monumental temple—but the social functions of these spaces display clear parallels. In the surviving literary, epigraphic, and material sources, sanctified spaces emerge clearly as loci of interaction capable of catalyzing remarkable social synergies between members of disparate groups: from kings and priests to horse traders and potters. By exploring the ties between the practices of Śiva devotees and the locales in which they were embedded, this study reflects critically upon the ways in which community building is coincident with place-making. The places that occupy the heart of this study were sanctified spaces embedded within political and economic networks in which they served multiple purposes. Evidence of these uses is preserved in the material and textual records, the enduring and tangible marks that people and communities make on


This paper considers the design of univer- sal delayed Kalman fllter for the networked tracking sys- tem with arbitrary random delay. Firstly, an equivalent Weighted summation form of the conventional Kalman fll- ter (WSFKF) is given to provide a novel frame to more efiectively solve the delayed flltering or Out-of-sequence measurements (OOSMs) estimate. In nature, this form makes perfectly use of the properties of o†ine parameters computation for Kalman fllter and weighted summation of initial state estimate and the ordered measurements, which are respectively from Linear time invariant (LTI) system and Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estima- tor. Secondly, by combing a replacement with global mea- surement prediction and a compensation operation based on the innovation of delayed measurement and adaptive on- line weighted coe-cient matrix, a novel universal delayed Kalman fllter which is applicable to the arbitrary random delay is designed under the WSFKF frame. Compared with the current delayed fllters or OOSMs update meth- ods, the proposed delayed estimator has not only more con- cise algorithm structure and better estimate accuracy but also stronger application range. The example is demon- strated to validate the proposed delayed estimator in this paper.


Due to the concerns associated with Direct Recording Electronics (DREs) and the limitations of the proposed verification method, such as Voter Verified Audit Trails (VVATs), an alternative scheme known as End-to-End (E2E) cryptographic voting was proposed. E2E cryptographic systems aim to resolve the conflict between secrecy and accuracy, two fundamental requirements of the electoral process. Additionally, the use of cryptography introduces several other advantages over conventional voting methods. On the other hand, cryptographic voting systems have various limitations that stand in the way of their adoption. In this paper we will discuss and analyze common E2E cryptographic voting systems, then we will suggest improvements on the cryptographic schemes, which address their limitations.


India's information technology (IT) strategy started 5000 years ago when an Indian scientist Aryabhatta invented the digit zero. The use of this digit for positional notation in the decimal system, together with the consistent use of zero, proved to be the final solution of an important computational difficulty, and the world by and large has used it ever since. Had Indią taken the copyright for this discovery, almost 50 percent of the inventions in the computer industry would have been Indian. However, Indian philosophy preaches that by sharing knowledge one's own knowledge gets enhanced. This is proving to be true in today's knowledge-based society. India, after having missed the industrial revolution, is on the threshold of the information revolution. A combination of factors, some global and some of our own doing have created an environment suitable for making India an economic superpower in the 21st century.


Abstract With the rising interest for renewable power source and ecological security, anaerobic digestion of biogas technology has attracted a considerable attention among researchers. This study proposed a new technique for producing biogas from rice mill wastewater (RMW) by utilizing an anaerobic digester. An anaerobic digester was packed with RMW and distillery anaerobic sludge at a mesophilic temperature for 15 days for stabilization. After that the effect of the organic loading rate (OLR) and hydraulic retention time (HRT) on the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of RMW was examined. The OLR of the anaerobic reactor was increased stepwise from 0.25 to 3.91 kg COD/m 3 /day, and the HRT was varied from 1 to 32 days. The total chemical oxygen demand utilized was >75%, and the CH 4 percentage of the biogas was 62% – 63% for the OLRs studied. The efficient working volume of the digeste rwas maintained as 25% of the distillery anaerobic sludge and 75% of RMW loaded at a mesophilic temperature for the study purpose. By changing the conditions of the OLR and HRT, biogas production, methane yield, and percentage of chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction were examined. This enhanced the biological treatment of the effluent with the anaerobic sludge in a continuous activity mode. The observed results showed that the proposed technique exhibited in prominent biogas production with maximum COD reduction when compared with existing approaches.


THIS collection of short but illuminating essays commemorates the life and work of Jean Carroz who, at the time of his death in November 1985, was Assistant Director-General for Fisheries in the FAO. Many of the essays reflect Carroz's concern for the role of fisheries in assisting development in the Third World and the fact that he presided over the FAO's Fishery Department at a crucial period of transformation in the law of the sea. The essays in this volume are written in English, French and Spanish, but each is prefaced by a succinct and accurate summary in English. The essays by Bennouna (Morocco's Permanent Representative at the UN) and Nandan (Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Law of the Sea of the UN) are both concerned with maritime delimitation; the former writing on general issues of delimitation in the Mediterranean, the latter analysing the development of the Exclusive Economic Zone. Most of the remaining essays are concerned with aspects of fisheries management. Levy (Director of the Office of Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea at the UN) examines the adoption of marine policies for developing countries, using the differing approaches of India and Sri Lanka as potential models for other States. Messeguer (Professor of International Law at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid) subjects international management co-operation in Atlantic tuna to analysis, while Miles (Director of the Institute for Marine Studies, University of Washington) examines the evolution of fisheries policy in the north Pacific following the development of extended coastal State jurisdiction. Moore (Chief, Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Legislation Section, Legal Office, FAO) provides some illuminating insights into non-forcible enforcement of fishery laws against foreign fishing operations, and Roche (Legal Counsel, Legal Office, FAO) explains the development of INFOFISH, a new inter-governmental organisation brought into being in 1987 to facilitate the exchange of information on fish marketing throughout the State parties.


This paper had studied on different drought resistance of eleven oil sunflowers by the experiment of indoor germination and outdoor pot experiment,14 identification indexes related to drought resistance,such as relative germination index,sprout index of drought resistance and plant height were determined.The product of seeds sprout index of drought resistance and seedlings survival rate under reference number series X0 of grey relational grade analysis,according to analytical result of gray relating degree,relative germination rate,relative germination index,relative growth of bud and root,height in seeding stage,fresh weight,relative conductivity,relative water content and so on,8 drought-resistance indices were identified to estimate seedling drought-resistance characteristics.By subject function method,every identified index was able to evaluate the drought resistance strength of oil-sunflower seedlings.This research provided a scientific method for drought-resistance evaluation and identification in seedling emergence stage of sunflower.


We investigated the relationship between the emotional states of gratitude and indebtedness in two studies. Although many have suggested that these affects are essentially equivalent, we submit that they are distinct emotional states. Following Heider (1958), we propose that with increasing expectations of return communicated with a gift by a benefactor, indebtedness should increase but gratitude should decrease. The results of two vignette studies supported this hypothesis, and patterns of thought/action tendencies showed these states to be distinct. In addition, we found that with increasing expectations communicated by a benefactor, beneficiaries reported that they would be less likely to help the benefactor in the future. Taken together, we argue that the debt of gratitude is internally generated, and is not analogous to an economic form of indebtedness.


Yugoslav policies of domestic adjustment to world economic changes during 1973–85 are the result of two sets of constraints imposed by the strategy of the ruling communist party for retaining its power:(1) an open international strategy for economic growth and national autonomy, chosen in the 1940s, that includes extensive use of foreign capital resources, and (2) the coalition of competing political and economic interests gathered within the party, which has been maintained by granting autonomy to producers, limits on the economic role of the state, and successive devolution of financial and administrative authority. The first imposes external budget constraints, the terms of which are defined by foreign creditors and supported by domestic economic liberals; the second imposes domestic political constraints that narrow the policy alternatives, limit their effective implementation, and require compromises that encourage further borrowing and political reform. The policy result is central party determination of policy orientation; macroeconomic stabilization policies that have continually given priority to maintaining the external balance and that combine orthodox deflation with administrative controls; periodic alternation in structural adjustment policies between a developmental, redistributive emphasis and an exportoriented, liberal, market emphasis, depending on the external constraints; and political and institutional flexibility in response to each policy shift and in order to maintain political order.


India has the world's third largest higher education systems with over 50,000 higher educational institutions. However, quality concerns continue to plague the education sector in the country. The growth of management education in India has been phenomenal, with more than 2,000 B-schools, 19 IIMs, six other premier management institutions, more than 200 university management departments, registering a growth of 800% since 1991. Management education has been a leading candidate for integrating technology tools for scholarship and research. Business schools have been under constant pressure to provide students with the skills and experience needed to effectively use emerging technologies that are used by businesses to gain competitive advantage. This chapter attempts to examine the current state of management education, identify its quality concerns, highlight the need for leveraging emerging technology, illustrate the use of emerging technology in management education, and suggest a balanced technology-based action plan in imparting quality management education.


Dense and highly ordered titania nanotube was fabricated by anodic oxidation.SEM was used to characterize surface and structure of titania naotube.The diameter of Ag particles were between 100 to 500 nm.Photo-electrochemical and photo-decomposition experiments of Ag particle-covered titania nanotubes under UV and visible light were tested.Data indicated that performance of modified titania naotubes were enhanced under UV,but not under visible light.


The present invention provides a method of forming a dense memory array of contact pads and wire pattern. The method of forming a dense lead wire contact pads and the pattern comprising: a pattern formed in parallel on a base substrate, and then trimming each base pattern. Then forming spacers on the sidewalls form the trimmed base line patterns and line patterns derived transverse patterns derivative, wherein the derivative transverse patterns formed on and adjacent to the end of the trimmed end of the baseline between the derived pattern of line patterns, then removed trimmed base line patterns. Then removing at least the end portions of the derivative line patterns, line patterns that are derived from each other, and all or part of the pattern becomes derivative transverse pattern of contact pads, wherein each of the contact line pattern is connected to a line pattern is derived.


Introduction: The ~3.8 km Steinheim impact structure, hosted by a thick suite of Triassic to Upper Jurassic sedimentary rocks of the Swabian Alb plateau (SW Germany), counts among the best-preserved small, complex impact structures with central uplift on Earth [1;2]. Although studied for decades and intensely drilled since the 1960s [3], no impact melt lithologies were known from this impact crater until the recent report of melt-bearing suevitic impact breccias in the B-26 drill core [2]. We newly investigated this core drilled in the western central annular basin of the Steinheim Basin in the search for potential new carbonatic melt lithologies (compare [4]). Samples and Analytical Methods: The B-26 drill core analyzed in this study was recovered from the western annular moat of the Steinheim Basin (48°41'13''N, 10°03'27''E) in 1979. Polished thin sections of B-26 drill core material were examined by petrographic microscopy. Backscattered electron (BSE) images were made on a CamScan SC44 scanning electron microscope (SEM) in order to characterize microstuctures. Chemical analyses were carried out using a CAMECA SX-100 electron microprobe (University of Stuttgart). Results: An optical and SEM-based reinvestigation of microscopic impact melt particles (Fig. 1 a) in the B-26 core (carbonatic suevitic impact breccia at depth 76-77 m) revealed numerous minute, dropletto diapir-shaped, partially fluidal, and rarely honeycomb-textured Ca-carbonate domains (Fig. 1 b, c, d) accompanied by monomineralic, fluidal silica patches, and spinifex-textured Fe-Ni-Co sulfides), embedded in melt particles largely transformed into phyllosilicates [2]. The silicate-calcite contact is sharp but locally intented showing curved menisci and extensions budding into the silicate melt. SEM-EDX analyses yielded an essentially pure calcite composition of the monomineralic Ca-carbonate melt patches. Similar impact breccias were encountered in shallower, coherent parts of the B-26 core (46-48 m and 52-53 m, respectively). At a depth of 78-79 m, closely beneath the structural crater floor of the Steinheim Basin, the B-26 drill core consists of fractured and brecciated parautochthonous Upper Jurassic limestone of the subcrater target rock. Macroscopic fractures in the limestone are filled with brownish, partially fluidallytextured veins of Ca-Mg-carbonates (Fig. 2).


This paper presents a study on the analysis of impact responses taking into account sensor dynamics. The contact force between impacting bodies is modelled by using Hertz force-displacement law and linear damping function. Since the real impact force and acceleration at the contact surface of two colliding bodies are measured indirectly by the sensors, the measured outputs can be a little different from the real impact responses. Therefore, in this study, the importance of consideration of sensor dynamics in the impact problems of two colliding bodies is emphasized. In order to verify the appropriateness of the proposed contact force model, the drop type impact test using two kinds of sensors is carried out. Through the numerical analysis and experiment, the effect of sensor dynamics and characteristics on the contact force model is investigated.