Based on the concept of deserticulture and the main characteristics of desert areas in northwest China, a serious measures and ideas about deserticulture such as construction of forestry and grass, eco agriculture, animal husbandry, environment controlled agriculture, exploitation of famous and excellent products were proposed.And present problemsand solving ways in the process of deserticulture development were analyzed, which can be regarded as a reference for deserticulture development in northwest China.\;


This dissertation explores how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee's fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure. Its central claim is that the child draws attention to how Coetzee's ...


Four grass silages, namely unwilted and wilted silages each with and without bacterial inoculation, were prepared on each of eight harvesting occasions during the 1994 growing season (Yan et al. 1998). The four silages, made at each harvest, were offered ad libitum to 48 lactating dairy cows in a 2 (control v. additive)×2 (unwilted v. wilted)×8 (harvest (period)) change-over design experiment with 3-week experimental periods. The animals also received 6·9 kg dry matter (DM) of a concentrate supplement daily during the first period and then the allowance of the supplement was reduced by 0·43 kg DM at the start of each subsequent period. The supplement was based on barley, molasses and soyabean meal. The data presented are the mean results obtained across the eight harvests. No significant interactions were found between inoculation and wilting for silage intake, performance and silage eating behaviour. Inoculation significantly increased milk yield (2·4%, P<0·05) and lactose output in milk (2·3%, P<0·05) across the unwilted and wilted silages. These increases following inoculation in general arose equally from both the unwilted and wilted silages. However, inoculation of either the unwilted or wilted silages had no significant effects on silage DM intake, milk composition, or silage eating behaviour. Wilting significantly increased silage DM intake (20·1%, P<0·001), milk yield (2·8%, P<0·05) and the concentrations (P<0·001) and yields (P<0·01) of both fat and protein across the untreated and inoculant-treated silages. The increases following wilting derived equally from both the untreated and inoculant-treated silages. Wilting also significantly influenced silage eating behaviour with a significant decrease following wilting in number of meals per day (6·5%, P<0·05) and an increase in eating rate (kg DM per eating hour) (29·7%, P<0·001) across the untreated and inoculant-treated silages. These results indicate that inoculation of the unwilted and wilted silages produced similar increases in milk production. Large positive responses in silage DM intake and performance were recorded following wilting with both the untreated and inoculant-treated silages.


Objective To study the value of scrotal color Doppler sonography in male infertility. Methods Scrotal color Doppler ultrsonography of 486 in fertile men were reviewde and compared to clinical palpation. Result The prevalence of scrotal abnormalities was 39 - 5 % . varicocele was found in 29.0 % ,epididymal cyst in 8.0% ,testicular cyst in 1.0% ,testicular micrloithiasis in 0.8%,testicular tumor in 0.6% ,Conclusions Scrotal ultrasonography frequently detected scrotal abnormalities that were not palpation,it is a valuable method for diagnosing scrotal abnormalities in the infertile men.


Construction industry has become one of the greatest income provider as it has contributed to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Malaysia. However, construction sector has been much affected by unexpected situation such as construction delays. Delays in construction industry is one of the common problems that happened to most construction projects. By considering all viewpoint from various parties that involves in construction process such as contractors, client, consultant and others, this research identified the major factor that contributes to delays in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Questionnaires were distributed among respondents that involved in construction project in Klang Valley. The process of data analysis was conducted by using descriptive statistic that ranked the mean value of factors that contributes to delays. By using the ranking method, financial difficulties were recognized as the most significant factor that caused delays. Thus, by using the same method, some mitigation action has been proposed in order to avoid time overrun in construction


Samples of commercial instant coffee and instant skim milk were exposed to attrition in a tap density tester. Digital images of the projected outlines of individual particles were obtained and the Fractal dimension of their profiles was computed with three different algorithms. Results show that the mean apparent Fractal value of the agglomerates varied with the number of tappings.


Pulmonary sarcoidosis is characterized by an accumulation of immune effector cells and by alterations in parenchymal cells within the lung (the alveolitis) that often result in the derangement of structure and function of alveolar-capillary units. The standard approach in the evaluation of this disorder is to perform biopsies of the lung parenchyma and qualitatively describe the cellular infiltrate by standard histologic methods.'*2 Understanding the pathogenesis of this disorder, however, requires knowledge of the type and function of the cells constituting the alveolitis: information that is not available from the routine histologic evaluation. Immune effector cells that line the epithelial surface of the lung can be obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL).3 Analysis of the type and function of these cells has provided insight into the pathogenesis of this disorder, but information from these studies would be more reassuring if it could be demonstrated that the types and functions of the cells recovered by BAL are representative of the types and functions of the cells within the pulmonary interstitiurn. A previous study demonstrated a relationship between the percentages of the cell types recovered by BAL and those extracted from open lung biopsy specimens in six patients with sarcoidosis! A drawback to this approach is that extraction of cells from tissue may damage them and fail to recover all cell^.^^^ To avoid the problems associated with extraction, we used monoclonal antibodies and a sensitive avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase method to identify and enumerate T cell phenotypes in situ and in lavage fluid?' We found that there was excellent agreement between the numbers of immunostained cells within each T cell subset recovered by lavage and those present in biopsy specimens. These


The phenomenologist believes that behavior is lawful and regular, and that present behavior can be understood through a study of past behavior. The existentialist believes that man is a selftranscending creature and can make of himself what he wants to. When these two philosophies are applied to a teacher's work with a child, they suggest that the teacher can find a study of a record of a child's past performance helpful. The record can shed light on the child's present behavior and can help the teacher plan a program to improve his future performance. The marks a pupil earns as he progresses through school, the comments that succeeding teachers make about his performance in the classroom, his test scores, his school mobility, his attendance record-all combine to form a picture that holds clues to his present performance. The record of a child's school performance and of the social factors that impinge on him during his school years is one of the most vital instruments a teacher has to help her plan a program to fit his needs. A teacher may look at a child's record and say, "Oh, I've seen hundreds like it." This is impossible psychologically and well-nigh improbable mathematically. When all the variables associated with a child are considered, the mathematical probabilities against two individuals' having exactly the same pattern of past performance are astronomical. An individual's behavior pattern is unique. No two individuals, not even identical twins, react exactly alike in all situations. Each behavior pattern reflects these behavior differences. In many school systems the pupil's cumulative record furnishes source material from which a pattern of behavior can be drawn for each child. The cumulative record, a permanent record of the child's school performance from his first day of school, contains such items as home addresses, schools attended, marks and test scores earned, teachers' comments, absenteeism, and tardiness. Each year more information is added to the record. A kindergarten teacher may have only the vital statistics for each child, that is, name, address, birth date, parents' occupation. The first-grade teacher will have that information plus any changes in it plus the kindergarten teacher's comments


The concept of clearance was introduced by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1996 and has proven to be very useful for the management of extremely low-level solid materials generated from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Therefore, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan began setting clearance levels for solid materials generated from nuclear reactors in 1997, and published related reports in 1999 and 2001, respectively. The European Commission has also published several guides to clear metals, concrete, building and other solid materials from regulatory control. Some organizations, including the IAEA and the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, are still discussing how to establish clearance levels. This paper summarizes the present status of clearance in organizations in Japan and other countries. Also discussed information is compiled to realize the concept of clearance and the related problems.


SUMMARY.

1. Infection experiments are described with two spore collections of U. avenae (Pers.) Jens. and U. levis (K. and S.) Magn. obtained from Missouri and from Wales.

2. The results with U. levis indicate that the spore collections under test represent two distinct biological species, thus confirming the conclusion arrived at by Dr Reed(4), working with the same material at Missouri.

3. Forms highly susceptible and resistant to U. levis appear to exist in the sub-species glabrescens of A. strigosa.


In recent years, there has been an increased interest in food grade flaxseed and flaxseed oil consumed directly or used in baked products because of flax's high content of omega-3 fatty acids. These acids are associated with lowering blood cholesterol levels and risk of heart disease, among other health–promoting aspects. Flaxseed meal, used in livestock rations, can supply up to 35 percent protein, and has been used to produce what manufacturers market as "Omega-3 eggs."


Small business growth is down since the recession, which translates into muted demand for loans. But at the same time, growth might be lower because small firms can't get the credit they need to expand.


Background and Aim: Traditionally, Acalypha wilkesiana leaves are used in the management of hypertension, diarrhoea and dysentery. Thus, this study was carried out to evaluate the effects of oral administration of extracts of Acalypha wilkesiana leaves on serum aminotransferases activities and tissues of normal experimental rabbits. Methods and Design: Eighteen adult rabbits of the New Zealand strain, were randomized into three groups (groups A, B and C) of six rabbits each and treated as follows; Group A (Treated with Aqueous Extract), Group B (Treated with Ethanol Extract), Group C (Non treated-Control), and used for the study. Statistical Analysis: Data are represented as Mean ± S.E.M (n = 6). Significance of difference was tested by ANOVA at P < 0.05. Results and Conclusion: Administration of the extracts of Acalypha wilkesiana leaves at a dose of 300 mg/kg body weight to normal experimental rabbits resulted in significantly lower levels of serum ALT and AST activities. Histological studies revealed that administration of the aqueous extract of Acalypha wilkesiana leaves to normal rabbits resulted in moderate congestion of blood vessels in the heart, mild lymphocytosis of the glomerular of the kidney, and no effect on the liver. While administration of the ethanol extract resulted in moderate congestion in blood vessels of the heart, moderate congestion of the central portal vein of the liver, and marked lymphocytosis in the kidney.


Method for correction due to weather or because of temperature indication dimension on an altimeter, characterized in that a height determination performed based on a temperature value of average reference level and a reference value of average pressure at sea level air is carried out by correcting the modification of the reference temperature at sea level, correcting the reference value of the temperature at sea level up to at least approx. 6oK 6 ° C or for determining the height in case the temperature found or measured in a certain height is at least approx. 4 ° C greater than the reference value of valid temperature for this altitude, or, correspondingly, the reference value of the temperature at sea level down is corrected at least approx. 6oK 6 ° C or for determining height found if the temperature measured or a specific alturasea at least approx. 4 ° C lower than the reference value of the valid temperature for this altitude.


15N2 incubation-based N2 fixation rates, nitrate plus nitrite concentration and d15N, sediment trap PN mass flux and isotopic composition from the Eastern Tropical South Pacific, 2010 and 2011


The incidence of dementia increases rapidly with age, thus although the prevalence is only 2% in those over the age of 65 years, it increases to nearly 20% in those older than 85 years, and the most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease. To help patients, their carers and the community more and more drugs are being developed either to counteract the symptoms produced by the disease process or to correct the neurotransmitter abnormalities. The efficacy of these drugs can only be assessed if accurate diagnosis is made prior to starting treatment. At present, although the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can ultimately only be made at autopsy, many Iaboratcrry tests have been developed to help clinicians and researchers diagnose this condition in life. The investigations that have been tried include (i) brain biopsy, (ii) various modes of imaging and (iii) EEG and event-related evoked potentials.


ABSTRACT Quasi-real-time estimation of Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) is a key parameter for many solar energy applications. We propose the use of a deep belief network (DBN) to estimate GHI under all-sky conditions derived from Himawari-8 satellite images with a high accuracy and high efficiency, and a high spatial and time resolution for a large geographical area. The DBN solver for GHI (DBN-GHI) is based upon a radiative transfer model, Santa Barbara Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer (SBDART), to maintain the balance between computational efficiency and accuracy. The computational time of DBN-GHI for one satellite image with more than 400,000 pixels is around 9 seconds. Aerosol was considered as the main attenuation factor for clear skies, while cloud parameters were used for cloudy-sky GHI estimation. The main novelty of this research is that prior to it, there is a dearth of GHI estimations in China at minutely or hourly intervals in all sky conditions. The results of hourly comparison of this with ground-based observations gave a very good Pearson correlation coefficient (r), above 0.95, with a Root-Mean-Square-Error (RMSE) between about 30 to 80 w m−2.


The availability of massively parallel computers makes it possible to apply genetic algorithms to large populations and very complex applications. Among these applications are studies of natural evolution in the emerging eld of articial life, which place special demands on the genetic algorithm. In this paper, we characterize the di erence between panmictic and local selection/mating schemes in terms of diversity of alleles, diversity of genotypes, the inbreeding coe cient, and the speed and robustness of the genetic algorithm. Based on these metrics, local mating appears to not only be superior to panmictic for arti cial evolutionary simulations, but also for more traditional applications of genetic algorithms. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.


Telecom Industry has made a great progress since China put reformation into action.Now,Telecom Industry has changed from the industry limiting economy progress to an advanced industry.However,there are hot competitions in Telecom Industry.In this artcle,author firstly analyzes the features of the service of China Telecom Industry.Then,author mainly discusses the Service Marketing of China Telecom Industry.


The questions of practical application of georadar sounding for the detailed studying of development of a karst were considered in the article. The importance of the problem being solved for the planning of construction and further operation of industrial facilities in karst limestone areas is emphasized. In the last case, the geodynamic control of karst zones is necessary, as operation of objects in these zones is economic. The analysis of the interferences influencing the results of geodynamic control of a karst with use of georadar shooting is carried out. The model of the effect of temperature variations in the geological environment is made, which are the most essential reason of occurrence of interference. It was found that, in accordance with experimental studies with longer exposure to temperature penetration depth is limited to ten meters, and the lag time is one month in average for one meter. The temperature correction algorithm was proposed and tested, which allows to increase the reliability of registering geodynamics of karst processes with the use of georadar sensing.


The utility model discloses a measurer for axiality of a barrel, comprising a safety pole, two upper and lower sets of support positioning mechanisms, a steel wire, and a laser measurement device, wherein the upper support positioning mechanism is arranged on the safety pole; one end of the steel wire penetrates through a center positioning hole in the upper support positioning mechanism and is fastened; and the other end of the steel wire penetrates through each center positioning hole of the laser measurement device, and goes out from a center positioning hole of the lower support positioning mechanism. The measurer for axiality of a barrel has the advantages of effectively shortening the time for measuring, having higher accuracy for measuring a rough blank surface of a forge piece, being simple in structure, and being low in cost for measuring.


Patients with unfavorable stages of lung cancer are rarely cured with local treatment modalities alone. Aim of our phase II trial was to investigate the effectivity of a multimodality treatment. Ninety-four patients with NSCLC (stage IIIA/IIIB) were treated preoperatively with chemoradiotherapy (cisplatin and etoposide, 45 Gy hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy). After repeat mediastinoscopy patients underwent surgery. Complete resection (R0) was achieved in 53% of all patients with NSCLC. Two patients died of sepsis preoperatively and four postoperatively (90-days lethality: 6.4%). The median survival time was 20 months for IIIA and 18 months for IIIB. Calculated survival rates at 6 years were 34% for IIIA and 17% for IIIB. This multimodality treatment demonstrates high efficacy in prognostically unfavorable NSCLC compared with historical controls.


Solid-state lighting based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is a technology with the potential to drastically reduce energy usage, made possible by the development of gallium nitride and its alloys. However, the nitride materials family exhibits high defect densities and, in the equilibrium wurtzite crystal phase, large piezo-electric and polarisation fields arising at polar interfaces. These unusual physical properties, coupled with a high degree of carrier localisation in devices emitting visible light, result in ongoing challenges in device development, such as efficiency 'droop' (the reduction in efficiency of nitride LEDs with increasing drive current density), the 'green gap' (the relatively low efficiency of green emitters in comparison to blue) and the challenge of driving down the cost of LED epitaxy.


Abstract : The report contains two approaches to the problem of infrared-to- visible conversion for thermal imaging--IR-induced luminescence in a phosphor (ZnS) and a semiconductor heterostructure.


With reducing feature size of transistors and increasing number of cores on a single chip, fault tolerance and reliability have become two significant challenges for IC designers. Since chip design is extremely cost-sensitive, the fault tolerance redundancy must be provided at a reasonable cost. In this paper, a fault tolerant NoC architecture with cores linked to two switches instead of one, is proposed. This architecture is able to save cores with a faulty switch. Also, to be more efficient and to compensate this redundancy, a new routing algorithm is suggested that can be dynamically reconfigured to escape faulty switches. According to evaluation of the proposed architecture, latency and reliability are improved.


Irradiation of the crystalline lens with various cataractogenic doses of x rays (900, 1600, 5100 r) caused the same disturbances of cell division in the epithelium as in other tissues of animal origin. After the influence of radiation, proliferation of the epithelium ceased. The period of depression lasted from 3 to 14 days, depending on the size of the dose, after which pathologic mitoseis appeared. The most profound changes in cell division developed after irradiation with a dose of 5100 r. With this dose, during the period of increased mitotic activity and later, karyolunesis was replaced by direct division of the nucleus in the form of budding or constriction. Pathologic division products underwent degenerative, necrotic changes and finally died under the anterior or the posterior capsule of the crystalline lens. The lack of a special mechanism for the removal of the atypical cells, which form as a result of chromosomal aberrations, pathologic karyokinesis, or amitosis can be considered a characteristic peculiarity of cell division pathology attending x- ray injury of the crystalline lens. (P.C.H.)


Female urethral catheterization is a common nursing procedure using during patients hospitalization. Improper insertion can lead to urethral injuries & increase risk of urinary tract infections. Educating and training nurses provide skills based on knowledge and result in minimized catheter associated complications. The aim of the study is to find out the role of training program in improving nurses knowledge and performance skills of female urethral catheterization.The study was quasi-experimental study design was conducted in maternity hospital in Dohuk city-Iraq. A convenience sample of 31 nurses from different units was used to demonstrate the effect of training programs. A knowledge questionnaire & a performance skills checklist were used to collect the data. The study showed that 45.2% of the study nurses', years of experience were less than 5 years and with diploma degree. The low level of nurses' knowledge 74.2% was detected in pre-test while in post-test the good level of nurses' knowledge was increased to 83.9% as effect of training program. Moreover, 96.8% of the nurses scoring a low performance skills level in pre-test, while it was achieved that all nurses scoring good performance level at post-test. No association was found between nurses' knowledge, performance skills and nurses job characteristics; only association was found between nurses' performance skills and years of experience.The training program have positive outcome on nurses' knowledge and performance skills in regards to the female urethral catheterization.


Food processing industry wastewater poses pollution problems due to its high COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) and BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand). Moreover the characteristics of wastewater depict wide variation due to the variation in the type of products manufactured and also the different fruits, vegetables and raw materials used. Many preservatives, colour, salts, oil, sugar, gelatin etc are added as per the requirement of production of various products, this adds to the pollution load. Because of these problems, the load on conventional treatment unit which employ anaerobic and aerobic reactors for the treatment generally malfunctions. It is therefore preferable to provide primary physicochemical treatment, using different coagulant and coagulants aids thus reducing the organic load on secondary biological treatment. Keeping this in view commonly available coagulants like lime, alum, ferrous sulphate and ferric chloride and few different polyelectrolytes as a coagulant aid were studied. Being acidic in nature this wastewater was treated by two stage physicochemical treatment. Results indicated that this wastewater is amenable to physicochemical treatment and can be applied either as pretreatment technology or as a final polishing treatment. Lime dose of 200mg/ L resulted in optimum COD/ BOD reductions of 53.59% and 57.19% respectively. Amount of sludge development was only 25 ml/L at this dose. Alum dosage resulted in very poor removals. This wastewater being highly protinous in nature alum combines with protein and forms dense fine flocs which do not settle easily. At the alum doses between 50 and 300mg/ L COD and BOD reductions varied between 16.8129.97% and 22.81-38.81% respectively. While removals incase of Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric chloride were slightly better between the dosage of 50-175mg/L. But considering the cost of these two chemicals, lime was selected for further studies using different polyelectrolytes. Lime dose of 200mg/ L was found to be optimum. This optimum dose of Lime was kept constant and different anionic, cationic and nonionic polyelectrolytes were tried. Results showed that Magnafloc E-207 was best among the selected


The first broad line of demarcationi is naturally between those surfaces which have a vanishing discriminant, and those which have a non-vanishing one. We shall occupy ourselves only with surfaces of the latter type. The next great division is into ruled surfaces, non-ruled ones, and surfaces whose equations are definite forms. This classification depends upon the signs of the discriminant and its leading minors, according to certain familiar principles. We then come to the metrical properties of quadries. These arise from the various possible relations to the Absolute, so that the next problem is that of the classification of the mutual relations of two quadrics. This has been successfully solved by a number of writers, in particular, by HESSE t and CLEBSCH.1 Yet from the strict point of view of a dweller in a hyperbolic space this last classification is not wholly satisfactory, for it is at once too inclusive and too ill-defined. It is too inclusive, for we are interested only in real surfaces, and must distinguish between real and imaginary curves of intersection. The Absolute has no real generators, so that we must exclude those cases where the two surfaces cut in one or more generators. It is not sharp enough, for if we search for the shape of our surface, we wish to know whether the curve which it cuts from the Absolute-the absolute curve, let us say-and the corresponding focal developable are real or imaginiary; whether there be real vertices to the common self-conjugate tetrahedron; etc. Furthermore, we care not at all for those surfaces, analyt-


In these lines we might trace a precursor for Shakespeare's Coriolanus, the military hero of the early Roman Republic who turns his back on his own city to join forces with its enemies. "First Citizen" speaks the first line of Coriolanus (ca. 1608—9): "Before we proceed any further, hear me speak" (1.1.1).2 The opening lines of the play thus link the shifting status of republican citizenship to rights, and rites, of public speech and popular representation, issues again foregrounded in the election scene of act 2, scene 1. Often considered the most political of Shakespeare's plays, his last tragedy has long provided fodder for those who speculate about Shakespeare's own political affiliations, particularly his attitude toward absolute monarchy, on the one hand, or some sort of protodemocratic populism, on the other. Recently, Andrew Hadfield takes up the issue in a series of books and articles.3 In his latest book, Hadfield identifies his critical task as an exercise in historical "recovery" or "archaeology," com mencing with the provocative query "was Shakespeare a Republican?" Unlike Hadfield, in the argument that follows I do not overtly engage this question. Rather, as A. C. Bradley said nearly a century ago, "I do not propose to join this dance, or even to ask whether any reasonable conjec ture as to Shakespeare's political views and feelings could be formed from


In a method for managing a Certificate Revocation List (CRL), a first device (31, 61) receives the CRL (33, 67) which comprises at least one revoked certificate identifier (SN ). An integrity field (MAC ) associated to an entry of the CRL (37 , ..., 37 ) is calculated using a secret data (K ), wherein an entry comprises at least one revoked certificate identifier of the CRL. The entryand its associated calculated integrity field are transmitted to a second device (32, 62), distinct from the first device and are stored into the second device. The method further comprises checking a validity of a certificate.


8105 Background: The majority of NSCLC patients (pts) with activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations respond to gefitinib, however acquired resistance to this tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) ensues. The secondary resistant T790M mutation has been identified in 50% of progressing pts. The amplification of the MET oncogene occurs in 20% of TKI-resistant pts and sometimes concomitantly with T790M. Very few other secondary mutations (D761Y, L747S) exist. Our goal was to determine the effects of erlotinib 150mg/d in EGFR mutated pts who became resistant to gefitinib 250mg/d, since the EGFR TKI erlotinib is given at a higher biologically active dose than gefitinib. Methods: We followed radiographic responses of 18 EGFR mutated pts from 4 academic medical centers that were given gefitinib and subsequently erlotinib. All pts, but one, had either exon 19 deletion or L858R mutations. 4 pts had tumor re-sampling after becoming resistant to TKI therapy. Results: Most pts achieved a response to gefi...


The solutes used are: a) mixture of all ingredients of a Heavy Duty Detergent with exception of pentasodium triphosphate; b) several water-soluble builders (pentasodium triphosphate, trisodium nitrilotriacetate, trisodium citrate and tri-triethanolammonium citrate). Equations for variations of specific conductivity versus temperature (from 25 to 85°C) and concentration (from 0,5 to 25 g/l) are established


The massive growth of data flux and the quest for energy sustainability definitely push the scientific community to reinvent the concept of microprocessor.[1] The International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductors forecasts the emergence of hybrid microprocessors where different information technology solutions will coexist on a single chip.[2] In particular, photonic on-chip interconnects have early been proposed to replace electric interconnects for links requiring large data transfer or simply to reduce routing-induced power losses. However, such a paradigm shift is still hindered by the efficient integration of laser sources within the microprocessor architecture.[3] While the group IV photonics community is still far from demonstrating a microscale electrically-driven laser source,[4] the III-V on Si bonding approach seems to progressively impose itself as the reference for the integration of a small number lasers.[5], [6] Recent publications[7], [8] show that a third approach may challenge the later: monolithic III-V integration on silicon.
In this talk, we will discuss the potential of monolithic III-V integration on Si in the framework of on-chip information technologies as well as the technological obstacles that the scientific community should overcome. This analysis will be done from the physical level of individual components where performances, lifetimes and CMOS compatibility are the main criteria to the system level where architecture design, production issues and costs then enter into account.

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[3]T. Baehr-Jones, T. Pinguet, P. Lo Guo-Qiang, S. Danziger, D. Prather, and M. Hochberg, "Myths and rumours of silicon photonics," Nat. Photonics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 206–208, Apr. 2012.
[4]Y. Takahashi, Y. Inui, M. Chihara, T. Asano, R. Terawaki, and S. Noda, "A micrometre-scale Raman silicon laser with a microwatt threshold," Nature, vol. 498, no. 7455, pp. 470–474, Jun. 2013.
[5]T. Alexoudi et al., "III–V-on-Si Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser Technology for Optical Static Random Access Memories," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1–10, Nov. 2016.
[6]D. Liang, X. Huang, G. Kurczveil, M. Fiorentino, and R. G. Beausoleil, "Integrated finely tunable microring laser on silicon," Nat. Photonics, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 719–722, Sep. 2016.
[7]S. Chen et al., "Electrically pumped continuous-wave III–V quantum dot lasers on silicon," Nat Photon, vol. advance online publication, Mar. 2016.
[8]Y. Wan et al., "Room Temperature CW 1.3 μm Single Mode Lasing of InAs Quantum Dot Micro-disk Lasers Grown on (001) Si," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (2016), paper SM1G.3, 2016, p. SM1G.3.


It is the product made from meat-producing animals, alone or in mixture, added seasoning and stuffed into natural or artificial casings; It can be fresh, ripe, scalded, smoked or not.
In the sausage meat is greater acceptance pork. The Spanish legislation in accordance with custom; considers sausage that has only pure pork, which does not exclude that sausages are manufactured with other meats, but are those who are called cheap. Based on the generic concept meat, delicatessen points peculiar characteristics in each species and also indicates the most appropriate industrial use depending on the type of each sausage.

Pork is the most important and valuable material of the pork industry; pure type sausages are prepared exclusively with pork, and mixed types are not legally sausages if they contain pork. All pig muscle masses are usable for delicatessen meats
 This industry. of such a variety of types requires different qualities of pigs and meat, well fattened, firm muscles and prominent grain, cattle provide good adult pig meat sausage type preserves, such as chorizos.
 The advantages of pork at the butcher arise mainly from its oiliness. In hard sausages like chorizo, oiliness prevents internal dehydration of meat and sausages are juicy, tender, etc., to eat, plus moisture facilitates muscle fiber fermentations by industrious microbes to reach the sausage seasoned.
The chorizo is a typically Spanish meat product. It can be considered that do not exist in other countries where sausages match as main ingredients paprika and garlic, based on the preparation of chorizo. This product, despite its current disclosure and consumption, lacks a comparable family tree hearth and seniority to other products in the Spanish charcuterie. The traditional sausage making process includes the following phases: Minced meat and bacon, mixed with the remaining ingredients and the dough rest in a cool place overnight; then the dough into hog casing is inserted, tied and exposed to air in a natural environment, ideal locations being chosen based on its characteristics of temperature and humidity.


Magnetoelectric composites of (x) Ni0.94Co0.01Cu0.05Fe2O4 [NCCFO] + (1-x) Pb0.93La0.07(Zr0.60Ti0.40)O3 [PLZT] in which x varies as 0, 0.15, 0.30 and 1 were prepared by solid-state reaction technique. The presence of single phase in x = 0 and x = 1 as well as two phases in x = 0.15, 0.30 and 0.45 composites were confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. Variation of Seebeck coefficient and AC conductivity were studied with changing content of individual phases at and above room temperature. The thermoelectric power measurements indicates the majority charge carries in individual phases and their composites is 'p' type at room temperature and changes to 'n' type around the ferroelectric transition temperature of PLZT.


Speaking plays an important part in both the standard Chinese proficiency test and the daily-life communication. However, many candidates are so nervous in the test that they have nothing to say or make some pragmatic mistakes. As a result, they are not satisfied with their scores, which thus will prevent them from being further improved. In the present paper the author holds that personality-training, more practice, self-control and imitation are the solution to the problem.


Brazil is the second largest soybean producer in the world, with a yield of around 96.2 million tons per crop. This high yield leads to a great amount of waste resulting from soybean cultivation, which can reach approximately 41 million tons of waste per year. This material has lignocellulosic properties, which may enable its use as a raw material for particleboard production. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the use of soybean pods in particleboard production. For particleboard manufacture, wood of the hybrid Eucalyptus urophylla and Eucalyptus grandis was used, added with soybean pods, at proportions of 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. For particleboard evaluation, a completely randomized design was used, with five treatments and three replicates, using linear regression and the ScottKnott test at 5% significance for comparison among the different treatments. The properties apparent density, compaction ratio, water absorption after 2 and 24 hours, thickness swelling after 2 and 24 hours in water immersion, internal bonding, modulus of rupture and modulus of elasticity in bending properties were evaluated. The ratio soybean pod waste and eucalyptus particles in the panels led to an increase in water absorption values and thickness swelling, in addition to a decrease in mechanical properties. The production of panels with approximately 23% soybean pods is feasible.


The paper proposes a part of extended research devoted to application of Lab-Chip devices for real-time monitoring of the water quality in rivers, pools, lakes, etc. The diagnostic Lab-Chip detects hazardous species due to chemical reactions and further detecting. The crucial point is precise heating of the reaction chamber and maintaining stable temperature despite the exothermic or endothermic nature of the reaction. The goal of actual work was modeling, simulation and analysis of integrated precise joule micro-heater for Lab-Chip diagnostic device.


OBJECTIVES
To review the relevant literature concerning follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC) with an emphasis on the heterogeneity of this disorder and to propose a new classification for FVPTC on the basis of molecular diagnostics and apply the classification to a typical case.

METHODS
English-language articles pertaining to FVPTC published between January 1990 and December 2010 were reviewed.

RESULTS
FVPTC is particularly vexing. The criteria for diagnosing FVPTC appear to have changed over the years. Pathologists often disagree about the diagnosis of FVPTC. The clinical behavior of these tumors is variable. Molecular diagnostic studies suggest that FVPTC represents a heterogeneous group of disorders rather than a single entity.

CONCLUSIONS
On the basis of the available data, it is proposed that individual cases of FVPTC be reclassified as papillary thyroid carcinoma, follicular thyroid carcinoma, or follicular adenomas, after appropriate molecular biologic studies have been completed. Long-term follow-up studies to validate this classification are necessary.


In principle, the abstract idea of liveness carried in a work has always been genuine. It is genuineness that makes the spectators totally believe which circumstance they are actually in even at a distance. However, for Walter Benjamin, the genuineness of the thing is a "supremely sensitive core (Benjamin 2008) that cannot be replaced by the medium of reproduction and is not capable of being resurrected by any manual or technological means. With the course of time, technology has made it possible for the spectator to experience some live moments again and again. Such feeling is living within a situation and mostly needs to be actualised by the electric and high-tech applied on the artworks. This dialectically proves that the relationship between the creator and the spectator is interactive though the medium of works, which henceforth lies with the spectator alone when they just participate in that work, which is designed by artists and substitutes for the work's "unique incidence a multiplicity of incidences" (Benjamin 2008) during the process of the experience.


The methodology of actor-network theory has been analyzed. The main purpose of this paper is to justify the relevance of the methodological and categorial apparatus of actor-network theory for social and philosophical research. The following principal concepts of actor-network theory are considered: network, hybrid, translation, actor, techno-social network, and frame. Based on the textual analysis, the conclusion is made that actor-network theory appears as the most effective instrument for social and philosophical research of the modern society, which is characterized by network morphology.


Polymeric phase change material was a new type of energy-storage materials.The crystal structure,thermal property and thermal stability of polyethylene glycol hexadecyl ether(C16En)with various repeat units(n=2,10 and 20)were characterized using temperature variable fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy(FTIR),temperature variable wide-angle X-ray diffraction(XRD),differential scanning calorimetry(DSC),and thermogravimetric analysis(TG),etc.The number of repeat units has significant effect on the crystallization and phase change properties of C16 En.C16En exists in perfect crystal at 0℃.The crystal structure of C16E10 was the same as that of polyethylene glycol.The melting,crystallizing temperature and enthalpy of C16E10 were 33.7,15.0℃and 148J/g,respectively.The thermal stability of C16E10 was about 296℃,which was higher than those of n-hexadecane and 1-hexadecanol.C16E10 was a promising phase change materials.


The spatial structure of resistive pressure‐gradient‐driven turbulence is studied analytically with renormalized two‐point spectrum equations and numerically by multihelicity nonlinear calculations. The wavenumber spectra for the pressure fluctuations and electrostatic potential fluctuations have been calculated with spectral analysis techniques. The least‐squares fit of the numerically calculated wavenumber spectrum to a power law yields a pressure fluctuation spectrum 〈p2〉m∼m−(2.4±0.4) and an electrostatic potential fluctuation spectrum 〈φ2〉m∼m−(4.3±0.3). These results agree with the predictions of the analytic theory. The power‐law decay indexes of energylike spectra show the three‐dimensionality of resistive pressure‐gradient‐driven turbulence, even in a plasma with a strong axial magnetic field. This characteristic of resistive fluid turbulence arises from the important role of the resistivity as an integral part of plasma turbulence and differentiates the resistive plasma turbulence from the homog...


Background The British Columbia Coroners Service implemented a policy in 2010 advising the reclassification of underlying causes of deaths due to falls from 'natural' to 'accidental'. This study investigates whether observed data trends reflect this change in practice, are artefacts of inconsistent reporting, or indicate a true increase in fall-related deaths. Methods Mortality data were analysed from 2004 to 2017 for cases with International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision fall codes W00–W19, occurring among adults aged 60 years and older. Results From 2010 to 2012, accidental fall-related deaths increased among those aged 80 years and older, followed by an increase in natural deaths with fall as the contributing cause. Conclusions Changes in reporting resulting from the 2010 policy change were observed; however, post-2012 data indicate a reversion to previous reporting practices.


A well-known model of two coupled Morse oscillators is studied within the context of box quantization. Two variants are considered: analysis of stabilization graphs or addition of an optical potential. These methods are shown to give efficient alternatives for the determination of unimolecular dissociation rates.


"Dr. Hsieh has done extensive work in earthquake data visualization. After what recently happened in Haiti, this article is timely." - Kwan-Liu Ma, VisFiles editor


Noteworthy is the concern of banking companies about the value to human capital from recruitment and selection process, with the purpose to find talented people to contribute their experience and expertise, as well as providing opportunities for professional growth of its staff from the recently income to the most experienced.


In this work we present the first fully three-dimensional image reconstruction scheme for optical tomography that is based on the equation of radiative transfer. This scheme builds on the previously introduced concept of model-based iterative image reconstruction, in which a forward model provides prediction of detector readings, and a gradient-based updating scheme minimizes an objective function, which is defined as the difference between predicted and measured data. The forward model is solved by using an even-parity approach to reduce the time-independent radiative transfer equation to an elliptic self-adjoint equation of second order. This equation is discretized using a finite element method, in which we apply a preconditioned conjugate gradient method with a multigrid-based preconditioner to solve the arising linear algebraic system. The gradient of the objective function is found by employing an adjoint differentiation method to the forward solver. Initial tests on synthetic data have shown robustness and good convergence of the algorithm.


Salmonellosis is a one of the major food-borne diseases with a high incidence and severity. In recent years, an increase in the occurrence of antimicrobial drug


This article presents a new exploration of the international production capacity cooperation of the China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor. It provides backgrounds on the international production capacity cooperation for the construction of regional value chains, and analyzed the implications and basis for such cooperation as well as provided suggestions for promoting the development of the priority areas of international production capacity cooperation of the Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor. The article concludes that the international production capacity cooperation of China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor will promote the optimized distribution of production factors and industries of the various countries as well as enhance their competence. After the China - ASEAN (10+1) cooperation framework was set up, the economic and trade cooperation between China and the countries along the Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor has developed increasingly closer with expanding scale of cooperation. The construction of China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor will elevate the regional economic cooperation, and promote regional economic integration. The international production capacity cooperation is aimed at building regional value chains. This cooperation is based on the development of the industry and the dominant industry cultivation of the countries along the China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor. It will integrate the production factors and resources in this region to set up a production network with coordinated development of all industries and to achieve complementary and win-win development of the industries in this region. Against the background of the huge Chinese market and the China's transferring of the manufacturing industry advantage, the international production capacity cooperation of China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor will promote the optimized distribution of production factors and industries of the various countries as well as enhance their competence.


Two heavy metal pollutants, viz. lead and cadmium were shown to be highly toxic to the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita. Hatching was inhibited and mortality of 2nd stage juveniles increased with increase in concentration and in exposure time. Lead was relatively more toxic to the nematode than cadmium. Acute effective toxic values (EC[sub5][sub0]) were obtained for both the heavy metals.


Why do organizations adopt information systems? Is it just because of financial reasons, of concerns for efficiency? Or is it due to external pressures, such as competitor pressure, that an organiz ...


In the paper a duel is considered in which Player I has one silent bullet, Player II has one partially noisy bullet, the accuracy functions are the same and players can move as they like. It is assumed that the maximum speed of Player I is greater than that of Player II.


Thermogravimetry was employed successfully in determining the enthalpies of vaporization of some industrially important solvents. The data obtained from the thermograms pertaining to weight loss were used for evaluating the rate of evaporation of the samples and were substituted in a form of the Clausius—Clapeyron equation for such determinations. Values of the enthalpies reported, using the thermogravimetric technique, were repeatable to within 1% and with an accuracy better than ±5% of the true values at the temperatures reported. Comparison with data obtained from other sources appears to be quite satisfactory.


Because of its closed system of governance, Turkmenistan remains one of the most closed societies in the world. Very little is known about political and economic developments in the country and even less information is available about the attitudes of ordinary citizens to various aspects of socioeconomic life of the country. This article attempts to analyze and, where appropriate, interpret the views of the population on the political aspects of their everyday lives using the data of the social polling conducted in Turkmenistan in autumn of 2005 for the AsiaBarometer project. Results of this social polling reveal several trends. First, the nature of relations between the government and the people has not changed much since independence. Second, people's desires and hopes are closely connected to the improvement of their well-being. Finally, the potential for democratization and the desire for change among the Turkmen population are waiting for an opportunity to reveal themselves.


: Using a newly developed multi-physics transport, corrosion, and cracking model, which models these phenomena as a coupled physiochemical processes, the role of HPFRCC crack control and formation in regulating steel reinforcement corrosion is investigated. This model describes transport of water and chemical species, the electric potential distribution in the HPFRCC, the electrochemical propagation of steel corrosion, and the role of microcracks in the HPFRCC material. Numerical results show that the reduction in anode and cathode size on the reinforcing steel surface, due to multiple crack formation and widespread depassivation, are the mechanism behind experimental results of HPFRCC steel corrosion studies found in the literature. Such results provide an indication of the fundamental mechanisms by which steel reinforced HPFRCC materials may be more durable than traditional reinforced concrete and other tension-softening cementitious composites. Finally, these results are extended to provide greater insight into the assessment and design of more sustainable steel reinforced HPFRCC structures.


We characterize the optimal long-term financial contract in a setting in which a risk-neutral agent with limited capital seeks financing for a project that pays stochastic cash flows over many periods. These cash flows are observable to the agent but not to investors. The agent can be induced to pay investors via the threat of the loss of control of the project. After solving for the contract as an optimal mechanism, we demonstrate that it can be implemented by a combination of equity, long-term debt and a line of credit - very simple, standard securities. Thus our model provides a theory of capital structure, capturing both optimal debt maturity and debt vs. equity financing. Equity is issued to investors and is also used for the agent's compensation. In equilibrium, the agent may default on the debt and control of the project may pass to debt holders. The optimal capital structure is robust in the sense that it is independent of the amount financed and under certain circumstances, independent of the severity of the moral hazard problem. We also show how our characterization applies to settings in which the agent undertakes hidden effort, or can alter the risk of cash flows.


This study examines the impact of outsourcing on cleaning service quality in UNILAG. Primary data using questionnaires were collected from 43 members of staff of the institution selected using purposive sampling. Data generated were analyzed using descriptive and inferential (t-test) statistics. The result of the t-test revealed that t = 5.790 and p = 0.000 and since p ≤ 0.05 it thus means that there is a significant difference in cleaning service quality before and after outsourcing. This by implication means that the quality of the cleaning service improved after it was outsourced. With the satisfaction achieved through outsourcing cleaning functions, the study recommends that the university may need to consider outsourcing other not too strategic non-core support activities for improved administrative efficiency and resource appropriation.


Perfused livers obtained from rats fasted for 24 or 48h show a marked impairment of the N-demethylation (substrate aminopyrine) without major changes of the O-demethylation (p-nitro anisol) and hydroxylation (aniline). The infusion with nicotinic acid restored N-demethylation but it inhibited O-demethylation and hydroxylation.


Raman spectra (200-1300 cm-I) were measured for synthesized jarosite-group compounds [MFe,(S04h(OH)r" M+ = K+, NH4+,Na+, Ag+, and Y2Pb2+).The Raman spectra of jarosite-group compounds are characterized by a tendency for the wavenumbersassigned to two vibrational modes of S042-, VI(SOi-) and vj(SOi-), and three vibrational modes of Fe-O bonds, to decrease with increase in the c unit-cell parameter. The wavenumbers assigned to the v2(SOi-) and v4(SOi-) vibrational modes'are independent of the.value.of c. For plumbojarosite, thc peaks corresponding to the VI(S042-) and V,(S042-) vibrational modesare broad owing to two overlapping peaks assigned to two types of sulfate groups, S042- ions adjacent and not adjacent to Pb2+ ions. Raman spectra can serve to identify the specific type of jarosite-group compound in poorly crystalline or low-concentration geochemical samples.


In the 6-position it is known that certain substituted 2-amino-4- (phenoxyethyl) -1,3,5-triazine having herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties; see WO 90/09378 , WO94 / 24086, WO 96/25404. The present invention provides various (I), and salts thereof, wherein in formula (I) of formula R & lt structure at right


The paper outlines the various aspects of the stability of bitumen emulsions, lists some of the factors affecting their behavior when mixed with aggregates, and attempts to explain this behavior. There follows a survey of some of the mixing processes carried out with bitumen emulsions and the paper concludes with a list of the advantages claimed for the use of emulsions in the processes. /TRRL/


Effects of biaxial stress in steel on magnetization in a direction normal to the stress plane were investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The two results, which agreed qualitatively, showed that the magnetization in the normal direction generally decreased with the absolute value of the sum of the two principal stresses. The implication to nondestructive measurements of biaxial stress is discussed.


Non-technical skills (NTS) are important skills in emergency medicine and should be a necessity even at the stage of medical studies. The aim of this study was to assess how increasing the number of non-technical skills hours influenced the results of non-technical competences among medical students. In this investigation, 296 Polish medical students in the sixth year at Medical College in Krakow, Poland were included in the study. The students were divided into two research groups: I in 2018 and II in 2019. The groups differed in the number of total hours that focused on non-technical skills, in 2018: 60 hr, and 2019: 120 total hours. Non-technical competencies were assessed at the Crisis Resource Management station using sudden cardiac arrest scenarios. In 2018, the median was 20 points and the average of the points obtained in this group was 19.53 points (SD 5.39 points). In 2019, the median was 26 points and the average of points was 25.07 points (SD 5.23 points). Students who had more non-technical skills classes (120 hr) scored more points on the OSCE exam than group I (60 hr) ( p < .001). The median of points in non-technical competences depended on the number of teaching hours in which the main emphasis was on the development of these skills. This investigation demonstrates that more teaching hours dedicated to improving the non-technical skills of students corresponded to better results on the cardiopulmonary resuscitation scenarios.


of tubercles generally, but is chiefly confined to the most common of them, those formed in the lungs. The views most generally entertained of the formation and progress of pulmonary tubercles are those advanced by Laennec in his work on Mediate Auscultation, and founded by him on the pathological experience of twenty-five years. But M. Lombard undertakes to controvert several of the most positive and important ofLaennec's statements, and we are inclined to think that in some he has succeeded. Laennec, it will be remembered, maintains that the miliary tubercles or granulations of Bayle are not, as that author conceived, a distinct variety of tubercle, but the commencement or first rudiment of the future white, cheesy tubercle. After a time, according to Laennec, a whitish or yellowish point begins to form in the centre of the translucent grain, it


In the present thesis, data originated from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider and collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2015 was used for the search of pair-produced vector-like quarks T and B decaying to a Z boson and a third generation quark, focusing on the dilepton channel. A strategy built upon the 8 TeV analysis was further developed. Control regions were defined in order to model the Monte Carlo simulation of the background. The data in the considered signal region is not yet unblinded by the ATLAS collaboration and, therefore, the expected sensitivity of the search was evaluated using pseudo-data built under the background only hypothesis. The vector-like B has 95% confidence level expected mass limits of 766 GeV for the singlet hypothesis and 873 GeV for the doublet hypothesis. The vector-like T singlet and doublet hypotheses have expected limits of 687 GeV and 797 GeV, respectively, representing an encouraging improvement with respect to the currently published mass limits. This text is complementary to the dilepton boosted topology analysis being developed by a group at the TU Dortmund, Germany, and the trilepton channel being developed by a group at the University of Arizona, USA. Orthogonality between the analysis presented in the present thesis and the trilepton analysis is ensured by definition, but with the boosted topology analysis it has to be constructed. The first steps in that direction are described at the end of this text, based on the multiplicity of large-R jets.


Summary. Plasma zinc concentration was significantly lower in the maternal blood of 54 women giving birth to congenitally abnormal babies either within 24 h or 24 months previously when compared with control mothers. Cord blood zinc concentrations in 20 congenitally abnormal babies were also lower than in the control babies. We conclude that low plasma zinc may be an associated factor in the aetiology of fetal abnormality.


V centers induced by ionizing irradiation at 80 or 300 K in single-crystal and polycrystalline MgA1204 samples have been studied by use of electron paramagnetic resonance and optical absorption. V, and V, centers, as a result of hole trapping at tetrahedral and octahedral cation vacancies, respectively, have been found to be responsible for two EPR bands centered at g =2.011 and optical absorption bands involved in the complex absorption spectrum at about 3.4 eV. These centers anneal thermally in a very wide step from 220 to 575 K.


─This research aimed to explain the implementation of experimental writing report by using scientific approach on the third grade students at SDN 15 Ulu Gadut, Pauh sub-district, Padang city. This research used qualitative approach. Data were collected by Primary Student Observation Sheet (PSOS). Data were analyzed by inductive analysis. Research subjects consisted of 36 students of SDN 15 Ulu Gadut, Pauh sub-district, Padang city. The results showed that the implementation of the scientific approach in learning to write experimental report motivated the students to learn how to write report in which the data were acquired from the real objects and phenomena happened, students felt challenged exploring of their curiosity about natural phenomena, the activities rose up the student about writing, and students interested in writing because they published the results of their experiments in written form. Keywords─writing report; scientific.


DNA encoding human proton-gated ion channel BnaC4 was marked cloned and characterized. Recombinant protein is capable of forming a protein biologically active. The cDNA was expressed in recombinant host cells, it will produce active recombinant protein. The recombinant protein is also purified from recombinant host cells. In addition, the recombinant host cell utilized to establish a method for identifying modulators of receptor activity, and to identify receptor modulators.


According to Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 70% of Americans are without advance directives (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017). An evidencebased practice project was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a multimodal intervention to increase advance care planning discussions (ACP) and advance directive (AD) completion rates in an urban senior health center. A total of 122 patient records were reviewed to assess for advance directive completion. A total of 64 patients ages 65 and older were included in the intervention. At three-month completion, 23% of patients completed AD's prior to ACP meetings with mailer intervention only, and 13% AD completion with mailers plus ACP discussion and telephone follow up. A total of 17 ACP meetings were conducted, out of which 35% of patients completed AD's without follow up, and 12% completed an AD after receiving a one week follow up telephone call. Findings suggest the need to be proactive and purposely discuss advance care planning with the elderly population.


SUMMARY Over the past decade, active GNSS stations have become increasingly essential for surveying. Positioning services, such as network-RTK, have revolutionized surveying practices and challenged traditional control point networks and the ways of measuring them. A change from a passive to active definition of control point networks would require a comprehensive change in measuring principles. Until now, surveyors making geodetic measurements have been obliged to do the measurements hierarchically relative to the nearest higher order control points. In Finland, the definition of the national ETRS89 realization, EUREF-FIN, is based on traditional passive networks instead of active GNSS stations. Since the average spacing of active stations in network-RTK services is approximately 70 km, and for passive networks much less, the use of active stations would require measurements neglecting the hierarchy of the (defining) passive networks. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy of static GPS surveying through active stations with regard to the official passive control point networks in EUREF-FIN. The results of this study allow us to conclude that the consistency of static GPS surveying from active GNSS stations with respect to the official hierarchical passive control point network is in the order of 1–3 cm (rms). However, some systematic features can be seen. One issue that needs more careful consideration is the determination of ETRS89 coordinates for active GNSS networks. In Finland, the reference frames (i.e. positions of control points) are influenced by postglacial rebound that challenges the determination and maintenance of accurate static coordinates, especially in wide areas and over a long time span. This study suggests that the obtained accuracy can be improved by correcting for the postglacial rebound effect.


Life-history theory predicts that the optimal strategy in the trade-off between egg size and number varies in relation to resource availability and environmental disturbance. We assessed interspecific differences in egg size, fecundity and other life-history traits in a species complex of stream-resident galaxiid fish, which are distributed across a range of contrasting habitat types on the South Island, New Zealand. Oocyte size, fecundity and reproductive effort were measured from gravid females collected immediately before spawning. Proxy measures of stream productivity, flow variability and predation pressure were extracted from modelled data sets. A suite of different egg sizes were identified across species within the Galaxias vulgaris complex, with mean oocyte volume differing by up to 133% between species. The species with the smallest eggs showed mean size-relative fecundities 246% higher than the species with the largest eggs. A significant negative relationship was found between species' mean egg size and size-relative fecundity, suggesting a trade-off between these traits. Species with larger eggs had larger maternal body size, lower reproductive effort and delayed maturity compared to 'small-egg' species. Consistent with the predictions of life-history theory, species with larger eggs, lower size-relative fecundity, lower reproductive effort and delayed maturity were associated with low productivity, stable streams, whereas species exhibiting the opposite set of traits occurred in relatively productive but disturbed systems.


Christian Buil, Jose Prieto , R. Mark Wagner, Thomas Bensby, I. A. Bond, T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett , F. Abe, N. Koshimoto , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram, Grant W. Christie, Tim Natusch, Jennie McCormick, Jennifer Yee , and Andy Gould 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824-2320, USA 2 Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA 4 Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA 5 Astronomy, Physics, and Statistics Institute of Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA 6 CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 7 Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA 8 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 9 Green Bank Observatory, P.O. Box 2, Green Bank, WV 24944 USA 10 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box O, Socorro, NM 87801, USA 11 National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Programs, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Canada 12 Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Yi He Yuan Road 5, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China 13 School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA 14 Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5352, USA 15 Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 16 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 17 Mirranook Observatory, Boorolong Road, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia 18 Castanet Tolosan Observatory, 6 place Clemence Isaure, F-31320 Castanet Tolosan, France 19 Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile 20 Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile 21 LBT, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Room 552, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA 22 Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA 23 Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden 24 Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 102-904, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand 25 Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 26 Laboratory for Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 27 Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 28 Mt. John University Observatory, P.O. Box 56, Lake Tekapo 8770, New Zealand 29 Auckland Observatory, Auckland, New Zealand 30 Farm Cove Observatory, Centre for Backyard Astrophysics, Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand 31 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA


Electronic government - e-government - has become a major area of research for the field of information systems (IS) and a leading area of development for governments worldwide. This study defines e-government as the use of ICT for using and delivering go


Although narratives on patient forums are a valuable source of medical information, their systematic detection and analysis has so far been limited to a single study. In this study, we examine whether psycholinguistic features or document embeddings can aid identification of narratives. We also investigate which features distinguish narratives from other social media posts. This study is the first to automatically identify the topics discussed in narratives on a patient forum. Our results show that for classifying narratives, character 3-grams outperform psycho-linguistic features and document embeddings. We found that narratives are characterized by the use of past tense, health-related words and first-person pronouns, whereas non-narrative text is associated with the future tense, emotional support words and second-person pronouns. Topic analysis of the patient narratives uncovered fourteen different medical topics, ranging from tumor surgery to side effects. Future work will use these methods to extract experiential patient knowledge from social media.


To reflect the problem of Black-odor of the urban river for the qualitative and quantitative,Used in Extenics matter-element analysis to establish Taiyuan urban river Black-odor extension model, refering to "Surface Water Environmental Quality Standard" (GB3838-2002) and other standards, drawing on the experience of a large number of parameters to determine the urban river five Black-odor Rank.Determined by the actual characteristics of the river Black-odor river monitoring indicators, though analytic hierarchy process (AHP) determine the level of the weight of each index coefficient, reflected the lower degree of influence on the upper index.Taiyuan urban rivers in the dry season, water level monitoring period and the wet period that the mian dry season and water level monitoring period with mild and moderate Black-odor,the wet period was mainly in black and stinky critical state. Taiyuan city has been black-odor rating and level of the river black-odor are basically consistent, indicating extenics matter element analysis in the urban river black-odor application is feasible.


The influence of fiber four-wave mixing (FWM) is theoretically discussed for multichannel RZ (return-to-zero) transmissions. The probability of FWM light generation is taken into account as well as the receiver sensitivity. The result shows that the repeater gain in RZ transmissions is larger than that in NRZ transmissions.


The blooms of toxic cyanobacteria are world-threatening situations with negative ecological, social, and economical consequences. These blooms are responsible for decreased water quality, because they cause the reduction of oxygen and synthesize metabolites that produce toxic effects in animals or plants. Among these metabolites are the microcystins (MC) and the cylindrospermopsin (CYN), that cause toxic effects by direct or indirect exposure. More common to observe in freshwater environments, the contamination by MC and CYN may also be detected in estuaries and coastal areas, being the adverse effects on marine and estuarine fauna a real concern that should be carefully evaluated. In this sense the general objective of this work was to evaluate the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa and Chrysosporum ovalisporum, which are identified as emerging microbiological contaminants also brackish and coastal areas of temperate climates, as well to understand which cyanobacteria species is more toxic to the marine mussel and determine the role of depuration in mussel recovery from exposure. For the bioassay, 744 mussels were divided into 8 aquariums. The bioassay comprised to phases of exposure/feeding, each with 14 days of duration. The first phase consisted in the exposure/feeding mussels with non-toxic microalgae Parachlorella kessleri and cyanobacteria M. aeruginosa, which produces the toxin MC, and C. ovalisporum, which produces the toxin producing CYN, as well as a mixture of both cyanobacteria. The second phase of the test consisted in feeding the mussels only with non-toxic microalga P. kessleri, to allow the animals to recover from the exposure to toxic microalga and to depurate. Several physiological (dry weight, filtration rate and byssus secretion) and biochemical parameters (total protein and total glycogen) were measured to assess mussel's condition. For interpretation of the data was used for multivariate statistical analysis. The results obtained suggest that the physiological condition of the mussel has changed along the bioassay. Some of the variations observed are associated to the type of treatment or microalgae that mussels were exposed, however most of the alterations observed were not related with the microalgae used. The absence of changes in dry weight of mussels suggests that exposure to toxic microalgae does not induce severe physiological stress in mussels. However, the filtration rates recorded indicate that the marine mussel filtered and ingested toxic microalgae at similar rates as the non-toxic green microalga. This feeding behavior may be of major concern in the aquatic systems as mussels can be a potential vector of toxins allow the food chain. The ability of the mussel adhere to FCUP Respostas fisiológicas do mexilhão marinho Mytilus galloprovincialis exposto a cianobactérias tóxicas Microcystis aeruginosa e Chrysosporum ovalisporum vi underwater surfaces was evaluated by counting the number of byssus produced. The production of byssus was characterized by a great variation per individual, which hindered the detection of significant variations along the bioassay, and between experimental groups. The biochemical parameters evaluated in the mussels, total protein and total glycogen, demonstrate that there was a clear change in the metabolism of mussels along the bioassay, regardless of the type of treatment. The 4 experimental groups of this bioassay showed a significant increase in total protein at the end of the depuration phase, comparatively to the values of total protein recorded during the exposure phase. On the other side, glycogen decreased in the 4 experimental groups at the beginning of the bioassay (T1), recovering later to initial levels (T0). We speculated that these changes are related to a change in the metabolism of mussels aligned with the phase of the animal's reproductive cycle, and the maturation of the gonads and spawning. In this study it is concluded that Mediterranean mussel is relatively tolerant of the presence of toxic microalgae M. aeruginosa and C. ovalisporum, once the physiological condition of the mussels at the time of exposure was not affected (no decrease in dry weight, filtration rate or byssus secretion was observed) and that toxic microalgae were utilized by this invertebrate as food source. In the absence of symptoms of physiological stress, the depuration phase had little relevance in the study. However, the depuration coincided with a change of mussel ́s metabolism which led to a significant accumulation of total protein in the animal tissues.


800x600 In the current context of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Vietnamese high schools, many practitioners do not care about using nonverbal communication (NVC), which often leads to their unsuccessful instruction. Based on this fact, a library research was conducted with the aim of investigating the merits of NVC in ELT so that the great benefits of NVC over ELT in schools are reconfirmed. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */
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Today many countries are concerned about the Arctic, including ones which are rather distant from it. High prospectively of the region in the context of undiscovered oil and gas resources is the explanation of this interest. Russia possessing the most significant part of these reserves has a fairly low rate of exploration of the Arctic shelf. Arctic hydrocarbon resources play the important strategic role in the development of the fuel-energy complex of Russia, ensuring its energy security. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify effective model of development of the offshore fields in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. The model of the creation of consortia for the development of the offshore fields is analyzed and it is considered in the context of the Russian Arctic. The conclusion about the efficiency of the application of this model is done.


We examine two conditions that can be used to detect bipartite entanglement, and show that they can be used to provide lower bounds on the negativity of states. We begin with two-qubit states, and then show how what was done there can be extended to more general states. The resulting bounds are then studied by means of a number of examples. We also show that if one has some knowledge of the Schmidt vectors of a state, better bounds can be found.


High-precision measurements of the second-sound velocity in /sup 3/He-/sup 4/He solutions with /sup 3/He molar concentrations, X, of up to 0.01 were made in the temperature range form 40 mK to T/sub lambda/(X). From the data obtained below 1 K, values of the /sup 3/He contribution, rho/sub n/3, to the normal-fluid density were extracted. A quasiparticle spectrum was found, using a computer fitting routine, which is consistent with both these rho/sub n/3 data and with previously reported specific-heat results. This spectrum shows significant deviations from quadratic behavior only for wave numbers greater than about 0.6 A/sup -1/ and is not in quantitative agreement with any of the previously proposed /sup 3/He excitation spectra. The effective mass of the quasiparticles determined from the rho/sub n/3 data (X,T..-->..0) is 2.34m/sub 3/, which is in good agreement with other experiments. However, the effective mass associated with the normal-fluid density (T..-->..0) is found to increase with increasing X. This is contrary to the expected result.


Finite element method (FEM) is a widely used method in the simulation of virtual surgery since it can model elasticity behavior of soft tissues accurately. Linear FEM uses constant stiffness matrix that achieves fast and stable simulation but objects increase unnaturally in volume under large rotational deformation. Nonlinear FEM, on the other hand, models large deformation correctly but it is computationally complex. "Stiffness Warping" method is suitable for real-time virtual surgery applications because it updates rotational parts of the large deformations rapidly and stably. It also preserves the volume. Cutting is the main activity in virtual surgery and various methods have been presented to conduct this activity. This paper presents an improved version of the prior cutting methods used in virtual surgery. The test results indicate that the proposed surgery simulation method based on Stiffness-Warped FEM could perfectly be utilized in real-time virtual surgery applications.


Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-β1) is a major cause of tissue fibrosis.In human immunoglobulin A glomerulonephritis(IgAN),TGF-β1 can promote the cells to synthesis and secrete extracelluar matrix.The excessive accumulation of extracelluar matrix will cause glomerular sclerosis.On the other hand,TGF-β1 promotes the renal tubular epithelial cell transform to the mesenchymal cell,which causes interstitial fibrosis of renal interstitium.Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and angiotensin receptor inhibitor cannot block the expression of TGF-β1.Decorin cDNA is transferred into the skeletal muscle in order to prevent the renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis development,which will be a active drug in the future.


Floristic studies were carried out in NE Poland in 2007–2008 in three types of railway areas: operating tracks, tracks abandoned less than 10 years ago, and tracks abandoned more than 10 years ago. In the 41 sections of railway tracks surveyed, 338 species were recorded, including 22 species that occurred at > 50% frequency, 27 species strongly associated with operating railway areas, and 4 species typical of railway areas in Poland. Comparative analysis of the flora of the 3 types of railway areas investigated showed significant differences in the richness and structure of their floras.


Patients with haemophilia experience recurring hemarthroses, mainly involving knees, elbows and ankles, which lead to haemophilic arthropathy, the major chronic complication of haemophilia. With new approaches to haemophilia treatment leading to fewer joint bleeds and, in some cases, no bleeding events, assessing whether current outcome assessment tools provide adequate sensitivity and specificity for management and care of patients with haemophilia is needed.


Background: High-risk pregnancy is one which is complicated by factor or factors that adversely affects the pregnancy outcome (maternal,
perinatal or both). Only 10-30% of the mothers in antenatal period can be classied as high risk but they account for 70-80% of perinatal mortality
and morbidity. Every year nearly 529000 women die globally due to pregnancy related causes. Hence, the current study was to evaluate the
effectiveness of computer assisted teaching on knowledge regarding bioethical issues in high risk pregnancy and its outcome among antenatal
women.
Materials & Method: A quantitative research approach and pre – experimental one group pre-test post-test research design was adopted.
Purposive sampling technique was used to select 30 antenatal women with high risk pregnancy who met the inclusion criteria. Pre-test knowledge
was assessed by structured questionnaire. After implementation of computer assisted teaching post test knowledge was assessed by same
structured questionnaire which has been used in pre-test. The data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics like frequency,
percentage, mean, standard deviation and paired't' test.
Results:The results revealed that in pre-test 30 (100%) had inadequate knowledge and no one had moderately adequate and adequate knowledge.
In post-test 12 (40%) had adequate knowledge, 18 (60%) had moderately adequate knowledge and no one had inadequate knowledge. The pre and
post-test mean knowledge score were 9.13±1.358 and 21.67±3.273 respectively. The improvement of knowledge is statistically tested by paired ttest which was found to be highly statistically signicant at p<0.001 level.
Conclusion:Improving the knowledge on bioethical issues helps to reduce the incidences of high risk pregnancy and its outcomes


A test road consisting of jointed plain concrete pavement divided into 22 sections was constructed by the Korea Highway Corporation to investigate the environmental effects on the development of joint cracks. These 22 sections were observed for approximately three to seven weeks after construction. The pavement placed in the morning presented a higher rate of crack development at the saw-cut joints, due to a positive built-in temperature difference. Additional joint cracking was delayed for a few days after construction because the pavement was exposed to rainfall. For pavement sections placed in the afternoon, drying shrinkage appeared to have a greater effect on crack initiation at the saw-cut joints than temperature did up to three or four days after placement, when tensile creep had decreased sufficiently. The effect of joint crack time on the long-term joint behaviour was also investigated in the test road two years after placement of the concrete.


The Window of Opportunity How the obstacles to the introduction of the Swiss heavy goods vehicle fee (HVF) have been overcome Switzerland This document is a first draft of a paper that is being prepared for the OECD. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the OECD or its member countries.


Experiences of current and career professional development were surveyed for about 3,900 psychotherapists at all career stages in several western countries. Participants included psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health practitioners representing a broad range of theoretical orientations. Measures of experienced development were consistent across professional and demographic categories. As expected, perceived therapeutic mastery increased


Favorable ecosystem of entrepreneurship plays crucial role for successful development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their sustainability. One of preconditioms of encouraging business environment is its' stability, and trust in long-term stability. Meanwhile the global economic crisis has created a state of economic and political instability, what consequently affected trust of business entities, and therefore contributed to increase of social and economic risks. The article discusses the decline of trust in the entrepreneurship of Kazakhstan, examines the causes and consequences of loss of confidence as an important institutional resource.


Multilayer planar waveguides have become increasingly important in modern integrated optic devices. Numerous numerical methods have been devised to address the fundamental issue in multilayer waveguide design and analysis, that is, the determination of the bound modes.


The key to the numerical solution of three dimensional convection problems is to search for a high-precision interpolating function, which can keep the result stable and damping low. Based on the consistence hexahedral element method, an advanced quasi-consistence hexahedral element method for three-dimensional convection problems is developed in this paper. The flow domain is discretized into arbitrary hexahedral elements, which do not change with time. A cubic polynomial based on three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates (x,y,z) is adopted as the element interpolating function to ensure that variable functions and their first derivatives over the entire domain are continuous. The verified results show that this algorithm is more precise than other methods. Introduction The convection-diffusion equation is the main type of governing equations in fluid mechanics. It is composed of convection operator equation and dispersion operator equation and it belongs to the hybrid operator equation. Many numerical methods are presented by many researchers to solve convection-diffusion problem due to their importance in fluid mechanics (Holly and Preissmann 1977, Sobey 1983, Ding and Liu 1989). They try to find out a numerical method for convection-dispersion problems that is of high precision and good stability. However, there are many difficulties to be solved due to the non-linearity of the equation. The convection operator is the nonlinear part of the convection-diffusion equation that usually results in large numerical damping and oscillation. So it is necessary to seek an algorithm for three dimensional pure-convection problems to minimize numerical damping and oscillation. A QUICK Dorthe conve very proble dimen triangl Daoya proble (Ding was metho presen was a includ node were would much C eleme proble the qu eleme use o flow in solutio algorit hexah linear


Plant seed germination involves dynamic water uptakes and biochemical changes which is essential for preservation of plant germplasm resource and worldwide food supply. To understand the germination-associated compartmental biochemistry changes, we quantitatively analyzed the metabolite composition (metabonome) for embryonic axes, cotyledons and testae of mung-bean (Vigna radiata) seeds in three germination phases using the NMR-based metabonomics approach. We found that three structures of mung-bean seeds had distinct metabonomic phenotypes dominated by 53 metabolites including amino acids, carbohydrates, organic acids, choline metabolites, nucleotides/sides, shikimate-mediated secondary metabolites together with calcium and magnesium cations. During germination, all three seed structures had outstanding but distinct metabonomic changes. Both embryonic axis and cotyledon showed remarkable metabolic changes related to degradation of carbohydrates and proteins, metabolism of amino acids, nucleotides/sides, choline together with energy metabolism and shikimate-mediated plant secondary metabolism. The metabonomic changes in these two structures were mostly related to multiple functions for biochemical activities in the former and nutrient mobilizations in the latter. In contrast, testa metabonomic changes mainly reflected the metabolite leakages from the other two structures. Phase-1 of germination was featured with degradation of oligosaccharides and proteins, recycling of nucleic acids together with anaerobic metabolisms whereas phase-2 was dominated by energy metabolism, biosynthesis of osmolytes and plant secondary metabolites. These provided essential metabolic information for understanding the biochemistry associated to early events of seed germination and possible metabolic functions of different seed structures for plant development.


The growing use of teams in the workplace has led to an increasing number of incentive systems designed to motivate team performance. The present paper reviews such incentive systems, including: team gainsharing/profit‐sharing incentive systems; team goal‐based incentive systems; team discretionary bonus systems; team skill incentive systems; team member skill incentive systems; team member goal‐based incentive systems; and team member merit incentive systems. Evidence regarding the effectiveness of each team incentive system is reviewed. Generally, two factors affect the usefulness of a given team incentive system: team interdependence (both within and between teams) and team type (i.e., full‐ or part‐time). Based upon these factors, guidelines for the implementation of each team incentive system are provided.


A finite-element solution of a bending problem has been constructed for a naturally twisted rod (NTR) of a rectangular cross section. The stressed-strained state and rigidity have been analyzed for various values of the relative twisting angle.


For the numerical study of the beam injection process into the LHC, several technical and beam dynamical effects have to be taken into account, e.g. closed orbit variations of the pre-accelerator SPS, ripples on extraction and injection kickers, optics of the LHC itself and the behaviour of its transverse feedback system. Prominent beam dynamical effects are coupled bunch instabilities caused for example by the vacuum chamber resistance. This paper describes a fast approximate calculation of the beam deflection due to the wake field which is built up by the vacuum chamber resistance and caused by a large number of previous bunches and/or bunch passages. The code has been implemented into the framework of the CNGS extraction simulations [1] and the results are compared with measurements [2].


to die to satisfy the requirements of his own myth," that is, of his own understanding of providence. Once again storm and stress overwhelm real historical perspective: deluded or not, More the advocate of absolute deference to Christian consensus was not one to court violent death as an act of romantic self-assertion. Although Fox's account pursues several important new leads, the "third More" still remains in some ways as elusive as ever. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Daniel Kinney


The nanostructures "Pt – TiO – Pt" and "Pt – NiO – Pt" with weak switching properties and memory were studied within the framework of semi-empirical Hückel method. The calculation was implemented in the program Atomistix ToolKit with Virtual NanoLab. The transmission spectra, current-voltage characteristics and differential conductivity of nanostructures are calculated. It was revealed that in the range of voltages –1.3 V÷1.3 V, a hysteresis appears in the form of eight shaped figure on the current-voltage characteristic of Pt – TiO – Pt nanostructure, and in Pt – NiO – Pt nanostructure, the hysteresis appears in the voltage intervals –1.8 V÷0.8 V and 0.9 V÷1.8 V in the form of two oval-shaped figures connected to a segment. The manifestation of the hysteresis characteristic of these nanocontacts shows that they have memory. It was found that a negative differential resistance is observed in the voltage range, where the hysteresis of the current-voltage characteristic is appeared. It is shown that the investigating nanostructures have weak switching properties. The results of the paper can be useful for the calculation of memristic elements of nanoelectronics.


Abstract The new herbage cultivarCeresProgrow is described. It is a diploid Westerwolds ryegrass, selected from a pasture in Marlborough, containing the annual ryegrass endophyte.


Improving the effectiveness of the legal education in higher education institutions must be achieved by building a scientific and legal education mechanism.The scientific mechanism of legal education in universities and colleges includes a sound implementing and security mechanism,a content innovative mechanism and a coordinating mechanism.Only by doing so,can we realize a positive interaction of legal education in policies,institutes,content,methods and administration modes,improve the students' civic awareness and legal quality,establish and develop an education system and atmosphere compatible with the demands of socialist qualified personnel and finally make the students become practitioners and role models of "knowing,abiding and maintain law."


We study a finite element approximation of the initial-boundary value problem of the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system under smooth domains and data. We first establish several important regularities and a priori estimates for the velocity, pressure and magnetic field (u , p , B ) of the MHD system under the assumption that ∇u ∈ L 4 (0,T ;L 2 (Ω)3 × 3 ) and ∇ × B ∈ L 4 (0,T ;L 2 (Ω)3 ). Then we formulate a finite element approximation of the MHD flow. Finally, we derive the optimal error estimates of the discrete velocity and magnetic field in energy-norm and the discrete pressure in L 2 -norm, and the optimal error estimates of the discrete velocity and magnetic field in L 2 -norm by means of a novel negative-norm technique, without the help of the standard duality argument for the Navier-Stokes equations.


Wireless sensor network (WSN) is precisely outlined as a group of exclusively dedicated spatially distributed sensors for recording and processing environmental data like temperature, humidity, wind velocity, air density etc. WSN is a propitious technology because of its cost effectiveness, facile deploybility and flexible size. But, because of several reasons sometimes the WSN changes dynamically and it demands various advanced algorithms and at times, redesigning of the network architecture. ML techniques prove to be helpful in coping up with these disruptive changes. Machine learning is a self-learning approach that enables computing machines to learn from their experiences and respond without the requirement of any human trainer or re-programming [1]. In this paper, we have compared several ML algorithms that work well for fault detection in WSNs.


Since COVID‐19 hit last year, lecturers and professors have been exploring digital and other tools to teach and instruct their students.