Results: In all our measurements we found that the results were within the established tolerances. The value of the isocenter's size is, in our case, 0.27 mm, very close to that obtained by Clivio et al. for the same energy, 0.34 mm. The values of the 6MV beam center shift, MV imager projection offset and absolute gantry positioning are the same that the ones obtained in the mentioned study: 0.04 mm, 0.17 mm and -0.09° respectively. For that same energy the offset of the collimator rotation is, in our case, 0.15°, while the one reported in the study is 0.17°, and the kV imager projection offset, 0.24 mm versus 0.32 mm. The output change in our TrueBeam varies from -0.58% for the 10MV FFF beam to 0.50% for the 6MV beam. In the study these values range from 0.06% for their 15 MV beam to 0.24% for their 6MV FFF beam.


The aim of this study was to develop an affect scale using simple words and facial images in exercise, which can be used in children and people with disabilities to understand verbal expression. This scale consists of simple words and facial images. It is easy to use in an exercise setting and is assumed to be used in combination with other scales in some cases. It is comprised of three items:negative affect, positive engagement, and tranquility. The validity of the developed affect scale was examined by finding the correlation coefficient of each of the three items with affect scale(Arai et al., 2003). The correlation coefficient was 0.66(p<.01)for negative affect, 0.68(p<.01)for positive engagement, and 0.61(p< .01)for tranquility. The practicality of the scale was examined by using it in a setting of comfortably paced running in a physical education class of elementary school children. The results showed that the scale was able to detect the changes before and after the exercise and was determined to have satisfactory sensitivity.


Multicarrier modulation techniques suchasdis- crete multitone (DMT)havebeenusedforreliable digital data transmission invarious applications, i.e. indigital subscriber line(DSL)andWi-Fiproducts. Itisa wellknownfactthat theIFFT/FFTpairinDMT provides poorspectral selectivity duetotheinsufficient sidelobe attenuation ofthesubchannel frequency response. Toremedythisproblem, we propose to useperfect reconstruction DFT filter banks(achieving perfect inter-symbol interference cancellation) instead ofDMT.Inthis case, spectral selectivity canbegreatly improved. Equalization isperformed viaazero-padding technique combined withQR factorization ofthechannel matrix. Experiments indicate that theproposed transceiver exhibits asignificant improvement in termsofachievable bitrates inanenvironment wherenarrow bandnoise dominates. I.INTRODUCTION


The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine vernacular music making in higher education. The participants, undergraduate music education majors (N=23 for Fall, N=10 for Spring), were investigated throughout the course of the 2012-2013 academic year. A constructivist philosophical framework was applied and data were collected using several methodologies including participant observation, journals, interviews, and audiovisual and multimedia methods. Results showed that students were able to successfully learn, create, and share music in a vernacular manner. Participants took a pragmatic approach to making music. Furthermore, students engaged several aspects of music making they had not encountered in traditional music education. This study demonstrates how traditional and vernacular music cultures can be synthesized; the study also suggests that vernacular music cultures should be further examined and should be made part of the music education curriculum.


The chimeric ChiΔH‐L2 gene from human papillomavirus type 16, consisting of structural proteins L1 and L2, was successfully expressed in the cytosol of both Pichia pastoris and Hansenula polymorpha during methanol induction. In addition, a novel approach was employed whereby ChiΔH‐L2 was targeted to the peroxisome using peroxisomal targeting sequence 1 (PTS1) to compare ChiΔH‐L2 yields in the peroxisome vs the cytosol. The ChiΔH‐L2 gene was yeast‐optimized and cloned into plasmids aimed at genomic integration. Levels of intracellular ChiΔH‐L2 accumulation in the cytosol were highest in P. pastoris KM71 strain KMChiΔH‐L2 (1.43 mg/l), compared to the maximum production level of 0.72 mg/l obtained with H. polymorpha. ChiΔH‐L2 targeting to the peroxisome was successful; however, it appeared to negatively affect ChiΔH‐L2 production in both P. pastoris and H. polymorpha. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Through the HUMMINGBIRD framework outlined here, we seek to encourage a novel multidisciplinary approach to biometric analysis with the goal of enhancing both understanding and accuracy of identification.


The surfaces of polypropylene (PP) samples were treated by 800-kHz voltage low-temperature plasma in air, and the effects of this kind of treatment on charge storage in PP were studied. After plasma treatment the PP can store about 43.6% more charge than untreated samples. Infrared absorption spectroscopy, photoconduction and secondary ion mass spectroscopy results reveal that plasma treatment enhances the formation of C=C, C=O bonds and crosslinking; and the crystallinity is increased. All these groups and defects act as deep traps of negative charge; the depth of these traps ranges from 0.96 to 5.0 eV.<<ETX>>


The present investigation was aimed to analyse the water quality from Vaigai reservoir and pickupdam during 2017-2018. Heavy metals such as aluminum, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron,nickel, lead and zinc were analysed in Vaigai reservoir and Pickup dam during 2017-2018. Ironshowed to be high followed by nickel and chromium in Vaigai reservoir while chromium was highfollowed by iron in Pickup dam. The maximum and average value of heavy metals present wasiron followed by chromium at both the sites. Among the heavy metals content, the lowest metalfound in these sites was zinc. In these sites aluminum, cadmium, chromium, iron, nickel and leadwere beyond the acceptable and permissible limits, while cobalt and copper were beyond theacceptable but within permissible limits. The highest average was chromium in Pickup dam andiron in Vaigai reservoir. Aluminium, cadmium, copper, nickel and lead are >5 and so it wasseriously affected based on the categories of water pollution index in both the sites. Metal contentin the study sites were found to be in the order of magnitude in Vaigai Reservoir as -Cd>Ni>Pb>Cr>Cu>Al>Fe>Zn and in Pickup Dam- Cd>Ni>Cr>Pb>Cu>Al> Fe>Zn.


Citing the status and features of rural tourism in our country, the article pointed out that the problem constraining on sustainable development of rural tourism. Such as single product, unprominent feature, poor management and lacking marketing and brand awareness. On this basis, the article proposed that product differentiation and brand strategy. Of course, strengthening the scientific planning, strengthening management, strengthening of personnel training, enhance the competitiveness are important to achieve sustainable development of rural tourism.


OBJECTIVE
The aim of the study was to investigate the clinical value of the peak strain dispersion (PSD) in evaluating left ventricular (LV) systolic synchrony in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

PATIENTS AND METHODS
58 SLE patients without cardiovascular diseases and 60 healthy subjects were enrolled in the study. Both groups were examined by transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography. Traditional parameters were measured by conventional echocardiography. Two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging (2D-STI) was used to analyze the PSD and LV global longitudinal strain (LVGLS). Related ultrasound and blood test results were analyzed and compared.

RESULTS
The PSD was significantly higher in SLE patients than in controls (p<0.05). The LVGLS was significantly lower in SLE patients than in controls (p<0.05). The PSD was negatively correlated with the LVGLS.

CONCLUSIONS
LV systolic synchrony is impaired in patients with SLE disease. The PSD can be used as a new reliable index to evaluate LV systolic synchrony.


Zaozhaung is a city with exhausted natural resources, its economy development must be transformed, but the choosing of the leading industry is the key of the transformation. Based on present development situation of Zaozhuang city, this paper establishes the evaluation indexes, and chooses the leading industries by using factor analysis. Coal mining and dressing, tobacco processing, nonmetal mineral products and chemical raw material and chemical products etc. 29 ordinary machineries are leading industries. The conclusion of the research has great theoretical and practical value.


The influence of an arbitrary spin orientation on the quadrupolar structure of an extended body moving in a Schwarzschild spacetime is investigated. The body dynamics is described by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon model, without any restriction on the motion or simplifying assumption on the associated spin vector and quadrupole tensor, generalizing previous works. The equations of motion are solved analytically in the limit of small values of the characteristic length scales associated with the spin and quadrupole variables with respect to the characteristic length of the background curvature. The solution provides all corrections to the circular geodesic on the equatorial plane taken as the reference trajectory due to both dipolar and quadrupolar structure of the body as well as the conditions which the nonvanishing components of the quadrupole tensor must fulfill in order that the problem be self-consistent.


Reflecting on the anarcho-capitalism of Futerman and Block, this paper presents two arguments — one economic, one moral — against almost any extreme form of libertarianism. First, such doctrines implausibly assume that the transaction costs of allocating goods and services by means of the market will virtually always be lower than those of allocating goods and services by means of government regulation. In reality, the market has a transaction-cost advantage in some situations, and the government has such an advantage in other situations; economic efficiency requires that both mechanisms be used, each in those situations where it is cheaper. Second, when extreme libertarians make strong normative claims (e.g., that it is morally wrong for the government to take a person's property without his consent by means of taxation), they are implicitly adopting some moral system or other, whether it be utilitarian, deontological, eudaimonistic, or otherwise. When these suppressed premises are stated in full, they either become implausible or they no longer support the very strong conclusions extreme libertarians assert.


Purpose

Climate change impacts tend to coalesce with everyday vulnerability and affect different socio-economic groups in different ways. In this regard, this study aims to contribute to studies that make gender critical to understanding the way that climate change is experienced. Socially constructed gender differences have a bearing on the extent of exposure to climatic shocks, leading to various patterns of vulnerability to these shocks.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to collect data.

Findings

The study finds that there is an inherent potential within the study area for equal opportunities for both men and women to address levels of vulnerability to climatic shocks and, by implication, potential to challenge patriarchal structures that tend to characterize these study areas. The contextualization of gender analysis remains elusive in the face of increasingly shifting gender roles that traditionally defined women as victims to everyday vulnerability and more recently in conjunction with climatic shocks.

Originality/value

In this regard, this research contributes to emerging perspectives on the potential role of 'woman as heroine' and challenges the perception of 'woman as victim' in environmental management. Considerations for mainstreaming adaptation responses to climate change do not necessarily have to consider women as a special social group in isolation but, rather, implications for both men and women and caution that embeddedness remains key for gender considerations in any rural context.


Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine has significantly changed the conditions of the educational process at the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine, the worldview of cadets as active participants in the educational process. There was a reassessment of the importance of certain general and special competencies that are formed in them, their impact on learning outcomes. To take into account the above in the educational process of NANGU in the new conditions was conducted a study involving cadets in major 254 "Military acquisition and procurement", educational program "Linguistic support and communication" of bachelor educational level, the results of which are presented in this work. The analysis of the scientific literature conducted in the process of preparation of the work showed that most of these works relate to the training of future officers in peacetime and do not reflect the specifics of training in martial law. However, it is obvious that the consideration of the procedure for the formation of individual competencies of cadets during martial law has some transformations associated with existing realities on the one hand and changes in the minds of cadets on the other, which required a study work. As part of the purpose of this study, 73 cadets were interviewed (88 % of the total number of cadets in this specialty). Standard google tools were used for the survey. The obtained results showed the presence of significant changes in the worldview of cadets regarding their attitude to mastering the chosen specialty. Their views on the future of the world and Ukraine, family relationships, and a reassessment of values have also changed. Particular attention is drawn to the second part of the survey, devoted to the study of the transformation of cadets' views on the formation of general and special competencies in their chosen educational and professional program. The research clarified the position of cadets in all competencies reflected in the educational program. Due to its limited scope, the most important transformations that need to be urgently taken into account when organizing the educational process at the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine under martial law are reflected directly in the work. The full materials of the research will be covered in further scientific works of the author.


Medical residents in Quebec have joined doctors and hospitals to stand against the province's proposed Charter of Values, which would prohibit health workers from wearing religious symbols at work.

The prohibition "constitutes a totally unwarranted restriction on a fundamental right,"


The development of microscopes that can record fluorescence intensity in five and more dimensions in one experiment (e.g. space, time and colour) makes parameters available for the scientific community that were previously beyond reach. A new realm of possibilities is opened by the observation of correlations between these dimensions. The goal of front-end microscopy is the extraction of quantitative information from certain correlations. In fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, for instance, diffusion coefficients are calculated from the correlation of space and time. In FORSTER resonance energy transfer imaging molecular interactions and concentrations are determined, and space and colour correlated. To render the correlations that are determined in these experiments as valid, the recording system needs to be thoroughly calibrated. Otherwise artefacts arise that can lead to wrong conclusions, and the quantitation of the parameters is impossible. The first part of this thesis was determined to alleviate quantitation and optimisation in optically sectioning microscopy. For this purpose the new tool for the assessment of imaging quality in optically sectioning microscopes, the sectioned image property chart (SIPchart), was fundamentally re-engineered obtaining the extended SIPchart (eSIPchart). SIPcharts are created by the analysis of an axial image stack of a thin uniform fluorescent layer. A pixelwise fit to the axial intensity distributions yields parameter maps that describe a certain imaging property in the field-of-view, e.g. field-dependent intensity variations. The eSIPchart routine was developed in the course of this thesis to analyse axial image stacks of fluorescent solutions. It implements the following: a statistical analysis is performed with which arbitrary detector units are converted to real photon numbers. These allow the evaluation of the goodness-of-fit with a reduced chi^2-parameter map. They also enable the creation of concentration calibration curves. The implemented VOIGT-fit gives a weight factor, on whose basis the quality of the illumination can be estimated. Great benefit can be taken from the transition from the recording of thin layers to fluorescent solution: i) the same dye can be used for calibration and for imaging. Hence calibration errors caused by deviating wavelengths and refractive indexes of the test sample, i.e. a thin layer, can be excluded. ii) fluorescent dyes can be found in places where fluorescence microscopy is performed. They are easily available, cheap, and versatile. iii) a fluorescent solution can contain several dyes and thus cover a big spectral range. iv) the refractive index of the solvent can be adjusted so that it matches the refractive index of the immersion medium. With the data obtained from eSIPchart analysis, a thorough calibration can be performed for chromatic and spherical aberrations and those which origin from the setting of the correction collar. Finally, the eSIPchart gathers the characteristics of a particular setting in a microscope in a comprehensive manner. It thus becomes possible to judge upon the imaging properties and the suitability of an optically sectioning fluorescence microscope for a designated experiment at a glance. The second part of the thesis deals with the application of a set of custom evaluation tools for the comparison of three microscopy systems. The ApoTome, a linear grid structured illumination microscope, is opposed to the confocal laser scanning microscope (cLSM), and conventional widefield epifluorescence microscopy. Different parameters of imaging are assessed with different techniques: the axial and lateral resolution is measured with subresolution fluorescent beads and thin uniform fluorescent layers. The field dependency is evaluated with eSIPcharts. The resolution anisotropy is measured by using linear dendrites from cell cultures which were repared from olfactory bulb neurons of the larva of Xenopus laevis. Deep tissue imaging is evaluated eventually by using microinjected mitral cells in the olfactory bulb of the same animal. It was found out that the ApoTome achieves a better lateral resolution than a cLSM in standard imaging conditions, that is with a confocal pinhole diameter of 1 A.U. in the cLSM and the recommended grid ``VH"" in the ApoTome. This is because the ApoTome"s backfocal plane (BFP) is illuminated homogeneously, whereas the cLSM"s BFP is illuminated with the clipped GAUSSian intensity distribution of a laser. The axial resolution is better in the cLSM than in the ApoTome with one exception: the ApoTome exceeds the cLSM in the resolution of low spatial frequencies recorded at optimal resolution conditions (cLSM pinhole = 0.4 A.U. and ApoTome, ``VL""-grid). The axial resolution in the cLSM has a central-symmetric distribution over the field-of-view, mainly due to scanning-related aberrations, whereas the ApoTome"s axial resolution appears to be homogeneously distributed over the field-of-view. Grid-structured illumination microscopy features anisotropic resolution and selective enhancement of structures in the sample that have the same orientation and frequency as the grid. Structured illumination microscopy is restricted to thin specimens because POISSONian noise contributions from out-of-focus fluorescence cannot be removed. In addition to that, the sample needs to remain stable for at least some seconds since the acquisition of the raw data for one optically sectioned image lasts approx 1 s.


The road reference network state valuation allows to provide transport accessibility for population in a municipal district. At the present time, the parameters such as network density, Engel coefficient, Goltz coefficient, and etc. are often used at the road network valuation practice in the Far North districts. The main disadvantage of such valuation methods is that the level of road reference network development and transport accessibility across the district have not been supplied with the complex valuation practice. The author's method on basis of multi-criteria additive modeling has been proposed to support objective valuation practice. Such model usage is based on weight coefficients. The assay was performed by the authors, and weight coefficients were chosen on basis of expert and formal weight coefficients definition methods. Using the first conducted examination reliability method, the factors such as numerical composition of the expert group, the experts' competence level, the list of demands presented by the experts, and etc. have essential influence there. With the second method based on the information about the quality of separate road network quality marks (criterium) value, the weight coefficients values of additive model are identified. On the results of the two methods, weight coefficients statistical parameters were determined. The method developed with the multi-criteria additive model usage is more cross functional and allows to holistically evaluate road reference network in combination with other transport routes.


Abstract Accuracy of land cover classification in remotely sensed images relies on the utilized classifier and extracted features. Texture features are significant in land cover classification. Traditional texture models capture only patterns with discrete boundaries, whereas fuzzy patterns should be classified by assigning due weightage to uncertainty. When a remotely sensed image contains noise, the image may have fuzzy patterns characterizing land covers and fuzzy boundaries separating them. Therefore, a fuzzy texture model is proposed for the effective classification of land covers in remotely sensed images. The model uses a Sugeno fuzzy inference system. A support vector machine (SVM) is used for the precise, fast classification of image pixels. The model is a hybrid of a fuzzy texture model and an SVM for the land cover classification of remotely sensed images. To support this proposal, experiments were conducted in three steps. In the first two steps, the proposed texture model was validated for supervised classifications and segmentation of a standard benchmark database. In the third step, the land cover classification of a remotely sensed image of LISS-IV (an Indian remote sensing satellite) is performed using a multivariate version of the proposed model. The classified image has 95.54% classification accuracy.


Abstract : The Feature-Aided Tracker (FAT) system was developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as an addition to a simple kinematic tracker. The goal of FAT is to use high resolution information about a target's characteristics to aid both in the tracking and identification of targets.


A qualitative analysis algorithm for system architectures is proposed based on a specifically adopted kind of causal networks with fuzzy influence weights It allows for an interactive assessment of system architectures and identifies side effects of architectural changes as well as possible optimiza tion in order to achieve specific system properties Design constraints and invariant conditions are considered and checked for violation


While the practice of "screening" financial investments to eliminate those inconsistent with one's philosophical or religious convictions was common back well into the nineteenth century, the modern socially responsible investing (SRI) movement can be said to have begun in the 1960s, when a range of political, social, moral, and environmental issues began to factor into how many concerned investors chose to put their money to work. No longer merely screening out stocks of companies that made objectionable products, concerned investors increasingly sought out opportunities to further social and ethical goals–such as sustainability, justice, and economic parity–while they earned on their investments. The expanding interest in SRI was met, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, with a range of mutual, micro-lending, and community investment funds ready to help the conscientious investor place his or her money. The burgeoning movement needed guides, and one of the first was the GreenMoney Journal, a bi-monthly newsletter begun in 1992 by Cliff Feigenbaum to be a clearinghouse of information on SRI. In 1995 Feigenbaum launched the Web site Greenmoney.com, which became GreenMoneyJournal.com in 2000. It is one of the oldest and largest socially responsible business and investing Web sites.


Drawing on interviews with key international informants across sixteen countries, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.


Hypoglycemia is a condition commonly experienced by patients with diabetes undertaking insulin treatment. Although the body releases epinephrine in an attempt to counter‐regulate hypoglycemia, the neural mechanisms underlying this physiological response still remain to be elucidated. In this study, we report that a specific subpopulation of medulla‐projecting neurons in the perifornical hypothalamus is excited by systemic hypoglycemia and probably modulate the counter‐regulatory release of epinephrine. First, in urethane‐anensthetized Sprague‐Dawley rats, we describe an electrophysiological approach for locating these neurons. Secondly, we demonstrate that the majority of them are activated by insulin‐induced hypoglycemia and project directly to the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) where the adrenal sympathetic premotor neurons are found. Finally, we show that OX2‐Rs in the RVLM mediate the increase in adrenal sympathetic discharge in response to hypoglycemia. Based on the findings here, we propose a neural mechanism that facilitates the counter‐regulatory epinephrine release following hypoglycemia.


Humans are selective social learners. In a cultural landscape with many potential models, learners must balance the cost associated with learning from successful models with learning from accessible ones. Using structured interviews, we investigate the model selection biases of Congolese BaYaka adolescent boys learning to hunt with spears (n = 24; mean age [mage] = 15.79 years; range, 12–20 years). Results from social relations models suggest that adolescents nominated accessible adult men (closely related kin and neighbors) as preferred spear hunting models. Direct cues for success were not strong predictors for adolescent nomination in the statistical models, despite learners justifying model selection according to teaching and spear hunting skill. Indirect cues including body mass index, age, and cross-domain prestige were weak predictors for adolescent nomination. We interpret these findings as suggesting that BaYaka spear hunting knowledge is widely shared in the community, with all adult men participating in spear hunting and therefore having the requisite experience to transmit this skill. This supports previous findings that in egalitarian societies with low rates of role specialization, prestige has limited importance for cross-domain learning.


Let A be an $n \times n$ nonsingular irreducible 3-cyclic H-matrix and let $J^A$, $L_\omega ^A$ and $S_\omega ^A $ denote, respectively, the Jacobi, the SOR, and the SSOR iteration matrices associated with A. In this paper we show that if the spectral radius $\rho ( | J^A | ) \in ( 0,r_0 )$, where $r_0$ is the unique root of the cubic $17r^3 + r^2 - r - 1$ in the interval (0, 1), then there exists a neighborhood $\Omega _{\omega ( A )} $ of $\omega ( A ) : = 2 /( 1 + \rho ( | J^A | )$ such that \[ \rho ( S_\omega ^A ) < | \omega - 1 | \leqq \rho ( L_\omega ^A )\quad \forall \omega \in \Omega _{\omega ( A )} . \]


ABSTRACT This study investigates how the public's perceptions of nuclear power, one of the modern technologies at the center of public debate on risk issues, are influenced by gain versus loss framing in the volatile context of nuclear energy applications in South Korea. Drawing upon prospect theory as its conceptual framework, this experiment using 566 adult participants found that loss-framed messages (i.e. emphasizing the negative outcomes of not using nuclear power) were more effective in increasing participants' message credibility perceptions as compared to gain-framed messages (i.e. emphasizing the positive outcomes of using nuclear power). Additionally, the results found issue involvement to be a significant moderator of the framing effect, by demonstrating that the advantage of loss framing was stronger for participants who were highly involved in nuclear energy issue, as compared to those who were less involved in the issue. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.


Concrete pumping is to use pump compression force to transport concrete along the pipeline to casting point. The concrete of to be pumped to 173m height is the first class concrete, different from other ordinary concrete. It hasspecial requirements for raw materials, more requirements for mix ratio design and construction than ordinary concrete.


Biofabrication is a rapidly growing research field encompassing imaging, modelling, and printing technologies to produce personalised medical devices for patient anatomies [1,2]. Current cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment personalises physiotherapy and medications based on patient symptoms, genotype, and lifestyle [3]. Biofabrication could further individualise these treatments to CF's unique anatomical presentations, conveniently captured during routine medical imaging. For example, digital biofabrication models may prove useful to simulate and plan treatments, such as calculating dose and delivery of aerosol medications needed to reach the targeted airways. ...


This paper focuses on the energy recovery within a supercritical water oxidation process. Such a process might be used for the treatment of aqueous waste or directly for the processing of liquid biomass to recover energy. In the first section of this paper, the main features of such a process are given. It leads to the conclusion that the use of a Rankine's cycle is necessary if electricity production is looked for. In the second section, the technical constraints linked to the use of water at high pressure and high temperature are presented and translated into operating limits that should not be exceeded. Finally, the software ProSimPlus© is used to compute an optimal set of operating parameter, maximizing the electrical efficiency of the whole process. The optimal value of 1.75% was obtained for this parameter, leading to the conclusion that electricity cannot be produced from such a process, but instead, the energy released by the oxidation of the organic compounds should be recovered as heat.


Ports are more and more planned directly facing the ocean. Breakwaters are built to protect the berths against ocean waves. However, protection against long waves, mainly associated with wave groups at the ocean, is much more difficult. Calculations should be performed in the design stage of the port to verify whether the motions of the moored ships are vulnerable to waves from the ocean. In this problem it is not only required to have a good description of the waves in the port, but also a proper description of the interaction between these waves and the moored ship is needed. Two methods have been developed and are described in the thesis. The first solution focuses on the long waves with an infragravity wave model and a strip theory method for the forces on the ship. The second solution combines a Boussinesq-type wave model with a time-domain panel model. The first method is especially suitable if the berth is sufficiently sheltered for short waves, but if e.g. low-frequency harbour oscillations are expected. The method has the computational advantage that a large domain can be treated. The second method considers also forces due to short waves including second order wave drift forces and is therefore suitable for more exposed berths. The methods are verified against model test experiments and prototype measurements carried out in a port in Japan.


Like individuals, colleges and universities can cultivate characteristics that guard against inhumane behavior. A director of counseling outlines what campuses can do to create and strengthen the campus features that protect against violence.


Myositis ossificans is a benign ossifying process in the musculature presenting a typical zonal pattern of mineralization. It is difficult for diagnosis at early stage because of atypical imaging finding. CT scan examination is more sensitive than radiography for detection of ossification. However, MR imaging presentation of the early lesion is non-specific, which makes it difficult to distinguish from a sarcoma since no ossification can be detected. We present a case of early myositis ossificans in posterior shoulder proven by biopsy.


Autonomic logistics seeks to automate the data collection function and enable automatic logistics decision-making in direct response to the activities of a system. The dynamic range of system "activity" can impose demand fluctuation on logistics support resources. The goal is to automate sensing of the change in activity far enough in advance to elicit a corresponding adjustive response from the logistics support system. The physiological analogy from which the autonomic logistics concept is derived is the human autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS is a complex sense and response system that functions to maintain physical equilibrium. This paper addresses developing an autonomic logistics implementation approach for an existing military weapon system. It outlines a system analysis approach that investigates an end item and its design, support and maintenance systems in order to identify the candidate system elements for sense and response automation


The present work centres around the question of the virginity imperative, a social contract and regime of power that regulates women's bodies through disciplinary devices surrounding the socially constructed notion of female virginity. Through participant observation and interviews with young people of Iranian origin residing in Montreal, I explain why the virginity imperative persists among this population. Through description of women's social navigation (Vigh 2006) of marriage and education, I argue that women's apparent collusion with restrictive norms does not undermine their agency, but indicates their ability to make decisions that maximize social benefits given their particular circumstances. The argument extends to women's performance of virginity, which is a face-saving tactic and instrumental in the practice of hypergyny among women I interviewed. Nevertheless, I argue, the virginity imperative operates to categorize women according to a virgin/whore dichotomy, rendering unliveable the lives of those who do not adequately perform virginity. Attitudes that define sex as defiling to women contribute to a gendered politics of knowledge resulting in women's limited expression of sexuality as compared to men's, which, along with the patriarchal bargain (Kandiyoti 1988), plays a role in women's lack of expression of dissent. I argue that men's preference for virgin women is incompatible with the love marriages they claim to aspire to, and that men lack reflexivity of the consequences for women of attitudes that reinforce the virginity imperative. Bringing an end to these painful consequences requires public discussion to replace their relegation to, and management within, the private sphere.


Application, the formula (I) (Wherein, R is H or F, R Compounds and the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the salt of formula (I) inhibit gyrase and / or topoisomerase IV in bacteria, useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. This application is directed to a method of preparing acceptable salts thereof are useful compounds and pharmaceutically as a gyrase inhibitor and antibacterial agent.


According to one embodiment, the fetched instruction FIG. Its sole source operand specifies the number of vectors from a single write mask register the instruction format and its destination a single general-purpose registers. In addition, the format of the instruction comprises a first field and a second field, the first field of the contents of the selected single vector register write mask, while the contents of the second field select the single general-purpose register. The source operand is a vector comprising a plurality of write mask writemask elements, a plurality of the write mask vector element corresponding to a different multi-bit data element positions within the framework of the vector register. The method further comprises: in response to execution of the single instruction single occurrence, the data stored in the single general-purpose register, so that the content of the single general register write mask elements in the source operand based on a plurality of vectors It indicates whether the all-zero first or second scalar constant.


The social, economic and philosophic aspects of aging have been discussed since the stone age. In 48 B.C., Cicero in his De Senectute emphasized the effect and inequalities of withdrawing old men from employment. Despite the longtime recognition of the problem concerned with aging, only recently has medicine applied the principles now known as geriatrics. The phase of medicine in which this application is most necessary-in fact, obligatory-is industrial medicine. Yet the implementation of a sound geriatric program in industry is going to be most difficult. In presenting the reasons for this I must necessarily be highly critical of those who intentionally or unintentionally create road blocks.


As the ecological crisis deepen, new environmental controversies emerge. Whereas traditional environmental conflicts mostly concern socio-economic interests clashing with environmental protection, recent conflicts are increasingly pitting different environmental considerations against each other. These green conflicts have received scattered attention in the scholarly literature, mostly in the form of case studies in relation to renewable energy plants, such as wind turbines and solar panels. However, there is a need for more systematic approaches to conceptualize the green conflicts. This article embarks on that task by developing a typology of green conflicts as they appear in public discourse and mediated communication. We test the model on public debates on four different topics: national parks, organic farming, wind turbines, and nuclear energy. Our data suggests that green conflicts can increasingly be found across a wide range of environmental and climate change issues. However, green conflicts are not simply replacing traditional environmental conflicts, but are rather adding new layers to environmental controversies by reconfiguring conflict lines, actor positions, spatial scales, and temporalities.


An electromechanical actuator design is presented in this paper. DSP controller TMS320F240 from TI is introduced to the system, and high performance DC motor and gears are used. For working under water the actuator has seal structures between parts connected to each other. The test results confirm that the design scheme of DSP controller based electromechanical actuator is feasible and the seal structures meet the requirements.


I n this volume on Jane Addams, Maurice Hamington successfully brings together theorists covering a large spectrum of Addams's work. Themes probed include Addams's theology, aesthetics, literary style, political thought, and ethics. At the same time, aspects of life at Hull House, such as Addams's community organizing, her intellectual influences, and even her sexuality are explored in interesting and often revealing essays, which convey a rich sense of who this iconic persona of the settlement era was, how she came to be seen, and how we might benefit—or not—from her work today. These questions of identity—Who is Addams? How is she perceived?—are perhaps also integral to her inclusion in the "Re-Reading the Canon" series, for one might ask why a feminist theorist requires further feminist interpretation. C anon reconstruction functions not only by seeking to redress the largely skewed theorizing on women, but also serves to reinsert women philosophers into a historiography of canonical work, from which they have been omitted. As Hamington notes in the introduction, "'re-reading' takes on the added dimension of exploring a corpus of texts that until recently was relegated to the dustbin of American history" (1). Indeed, several Addams scholars have drawn attention to the fact that Addams is frequently maligned as a serious


PROOF. Let us assume that 0 E f(T) is the image of p different points (zk}P on T. Then there existp disjoint regions (Qk}P" all with 0 as a boundary point, such that f (0k) is a neighborhood in U of Zk, k = 1, 2, ... . p. We can also assume that the boundary of Qk is contained inf(T) U {w: lwl = R}, k = 1, 2,. . ., p, where R is a small positive number. Let u be the harmonic measure of the circle { w: I = R } with respect to the set f(U) n (w: lwl < R}, i.e., the function which is harmonic in the set, 1 on f(U) n {w: lwl = R} and 0 onf(T) nf {w: lwl < R} except possibly on a set of capacity zero. For 0 < r < R, we define ok(r) = sup u(re"'), re"' E Elk. We now use a deep result of M. Heins (cf. (4.1) in [1, p. 111]) which implies that there exists an absolute constant C such that


Franck-Condon factors (FCF), which are proportional to peak intensities, were calculated as the square of the overlap between the initial and final state wavefunctions in order to calculate of molecule Be 9 Cl 35 their overlap using numerical Integration for the vibrational band ('v =0 - 4) to (v"=0 -4) of the electronic transition A 2 ∏ - X 2 ∑ and by using an appropriate Potential for each of them .for vibrational ground and first excited states.this new vibrational level must be instantaneously compatible with the nuclear positions and momenta of the vibrational level of the molecule in the originating electronic state. In the semiclassical picture of vibrations (oscillations) of a simple harmonic oscillator, the necessary conditions can occur at the turning points, where the momentum is zero. This leads to, in general, an increase in the "allowed'' vibronic transitions and hence greatly influences the observed spectrum. For all but the simplest models for the electronic potentials, one must resort to a numerical calculation of the observed spectrum.


When we think about the serious accident, it could change your life- and not for the better. As of now most of the research and implementation on with mechanical behavior of the car, its safety and passengers. But before any new car model can ever go on sale to the public, it must first undergo a battery of testing to make sure it'll be safe, reliable and reasonably in tune with the demands of the motoring public. The government demands some of this testing to ensure they meet specific standards for performance, fuel economy, comfort and other measures. Today's systems are not sufficient to avoid accidents so there is need of new technologies in public transport. Proposed system gives some of the new technologies that are really helpful to reduce accidents. This System not only deals with component monitoring, does even more than that like weather condition, heart beat monitoring ,person verification, steering activity monitoring, vehicle condition monitoring, Notification. Heart beat Sensor & RFID Technology ,engine heat sensor, fog sensor, temperature sensor steering movement detection are the vital and of great importance from the perspective of passenger safety and traffic safety.


Although the explanation, made by Hu Zhengheng, Fen Hao, Cheng Mengxing, about Li Shangyin'sThree Poems about Bi City is relatively reasonable, it still has something unconvincing. Besides, they have not discussed about the subtle meaning of the portry. The article is an attempt at exploring into the above two problem.


Wailbri is a tribe inhabiting the western part of Central Australia. Their closer limits will be defined below. During the period of Professor Elkin's expedition to Northern Australia in 1952 I was able to spend a little time with two divisions of the Wailbri. My chief object was to record the language, but I proceeded on the principle that a language is best recorded as it is daily used by its speakers, and for this reason I concentrated on getting as many texts involving scenes of daily life as the time and the contacts permitted. This is the reason for the title chosen for this article. Most of the subjects dealt with are given in text form with commentaries. The texts were given by various informants, and the commentaries were then evolved in course of discussion and explanation of the texts. This, of course, was not possible until I had gained a general idea of the structure of the language and a certain amount of vocabulary, but the more strictly linguistic side is touched on only incidentally in this paper. The language is a very interesting cross type, and the details of it are reserved for a possible future contribution. Many of the informants knew little or no English, but it was always possible to work with interpreters whose knowledge of English was at least passable. It is to these that I owe both the groundwork of the language and the detailed interpretations of the myths recorded. At the outset I want to thank not only Professor Elkin, who made possible the two special visits that resulted in the gathering of this material, but also Mr. T. Wake, Superintendent of Phillip Creek Native Settlement, and Mr. D. Allum, teacher at the same settlement ; and at Yuendumu Mr. W. Langdon, the Superintendent, and Mr. C. J. Stafford, the teacher. In addition I thank Mr. L. Newby, of the Commonwealth Office of Education, for the provision of transport that made my stay at Yuendumu possible, and Mr. McCoy, Native Affairs Officer at Alice Springs. There is also Mr. B. Greenfield, cadet patrol officer at Alice Springs, whose cooperation helped to make my visit to Yuendumu possible.


Company control right is a key question in corporate governance.This paper selects ROE and Tobin's Q as proxy variables of the corporate governance's effects,classifises the sample into two groups according to their concentration in control right,aims to revealing the influences of the difference in control right on the corporate governance by empirical analysis.The results show: ROE is negative correlative with the concentration of control right,in the high concentration sample,ROE is positive correlative with the net asset per share when the control right is high concentrate,and ROE is positive correlative with size of broad when the control right is nonconcentrate.


To determine the energy values of high moisture corn silage (SGUM), 120 Cobb Slow male broilers from 21 to 31 days old, with an initial average weight of 765.0±1.7 g, were used, distributed in a completely randomized design, with five treatments (reference ration-RR and replacement levels of SGUM 10, 20, 30 and 40%), in six replicates of four birds each. The experimental period lasted for ten days, five for adaptation and five for collection. The method of analysis was the total excreta collection for the subsequent analysis of its apparent metabolizable energy (EMA) and nitrogen corrected EMA (EMAn) of SGUM. To determine the amino acid values, the technique of forced feeding was applied in 12 cecectomized Leghorn roosters, with an average weight of 1912.10±133.73 g. Six animals received SGUM and the other six were fasted. At the end of the excreta collection period, the essential amino acid profile was determined, as well as, the true digestibility coefficients and the true digestible content of amino acids in the feed. SGUM presented average values of EMA and EMAn of 2283 and 2272 kcal/kg, respectively, and the energy values were negatively affected by the inclusion levels of SGUM. Cystine presented the lowest digestibility coefficient, whereas leucine and glutamine showed the highests digestible amino acids values.


Currently the controlled supply of drugs or active substances, in biomedical applications, has reached a high scientific and technological interest, mainly due; to the ability to maintain the optimal concentration of an active substance in the desired location, the greatest attention is directed towards biopolymers and bioceramics, due to the various qualities they exhibit such as: biocompatibility, bioactivity, biodegradability, etc. On the other hand, it is well known that the release profile depends crucially on the surface of these biomaterials. To enhance the advantages of the use of these biomaterials in the controlled dosage of drugs, they can be treated by non-thermal plasma, thus improving their surface characteristics (greater functionality and porosity), without altering the integral properties of the biomaterial. The plasma treatment for surface modification of materials is; green, economical, fast and efficient, by varying the parameters in plasma reactors can be adjusted physical and chemical characteristics in treated materials. This review highlights the most recent approaches to the treatment of plasma applied to different biomaterials, which aims to elucidate the outlook that exists regarding its potential application in the area of administration of drugs or active substances, so that this review can be used as a general guide for the selection of future biomaterials treated by plasma with application in controlled dosing.


Integration of complex socio-technical networks is the goal and challenge for today's organization. Surprisingly, such a central term 'integration' is highly ambiguous and has multiply meanings. In this paper we expose the ambiguity of the term 'integration' and propose an interdisciplinary analytical perspective how integration activities can be analysed and explained. We conclude that further interdisciplinary research on integration activities is required.


Circulation and use of narcotics and illegal drugs are massive crimes and can be categorized as "extraordinary crime" and become common enemies of this nation and even other nations in the world. Campaign and the formation of public opinion about the dangers of drugs must be done massively on all layers of society. This is part of the handling of drug crimes in Indonesia. Communities must be given a proper understanding of the negative effects of drugs both for users/users, dealers, who produce and store. This understanding starts from several phases namely what is the phase of drug prevention in society? What is the phase if it is already using drugs and putting drug users as victims? what is the phase of law enforcement against drug crimes? These phases must be campaigned on a massive scale so that people understand that things related to drugs have more negative impacts than positive effects. Collaboration with the international community in dealing with the dangers of drugs must also be carried out because drug trafficking networks to enter Indonesia cannot be separated through inter-state lines. Countries in the world must have the same perception and understanding that narcotics are a serious crime and need to be taken seriously by law enforcement agencies between countries.


Abstract Cancer is one of the most pressing issues in public health, one that places that carries a large burden on society, governments, and healthcare systems. Without strong action, cancer incidence in Europe is expected to increase by a fifth in 2040, translating into more than 5 million cancer cases (5,328,323) (IARC,2020) . While over 40 % of cases are preventable, 3.9 million people in the EU are diagnosed each year, and 1.9 million deaths are cancer-related. In an effort to tackle cancer, the European Commission (EC) launched two major initiatives: Europe's Beating Cancer Plan (EBCP), and the Mission on Cancer. The EBCP, launched in 2021, is a policy-driven initiative aimed at supporting Member States in addressing every stage of the disease: prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment. The EBCP is supported by a research driven initiative which is the Mission on Cancer. The ambition of these initiative is to reduce the burden of cancer in Europe and save 3 million lives by 2030. Knowledge exchange and capacity building between member states are essential to create a common understanding of the challenges and opportunities in cancer prevention and control, as is facilitating exchange and collaboration between the plethora of actors within each national context. To guarantee the successful implementation of the EBCP and the Mission on Cancer, one must consider the diversity of national contexts. The aim of the workshop is to explore how countries evaluate their needs in the field, through engaging public health actors and community members, with a participatory approach, to implement the EBCP while taking into account the diversity of contexts within countries. In this workshop, we seek contextualise the EC's EBCP and explore implementation strategies from different Member States, with a particular focus on participatory approach to public health initiatives and policy design and implementation. More specifically, a panel will share experiences and discuss examples from Belgium and other European countries in supporting the national implementation of cancer initiatives. The panel will lay the foundation for a discussion with the audience on the opportunities and challenges in various EU countries on participatory public health policy design and implementation, using cancer policy related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and research, as a case study. Key messages • Europe's Beating Cancer Plan should be contextualised taking into consideration Member States and their citizen's heterogeneity and needs, while also adapting to health systems characteristics. • Knowledge and capacity building between Member States is essential to create a common understanding of the challenges and opportunities in cancer prevention and control in Europe. Speakers/Panelists Jinane Ghattas EUPHAnxt Anabela Isidro Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica, Lisbon, Portugal Linda Abboud Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium


In this first contribution to the study of virgin olive oils from the area assigned to the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) "Aceite de la Alcarria" (Spain), both monovarietal oils obtained under ideal conditions in a pilot plant, as well as blend oils made in the oil mills located in the study area, were characterized. Special interest was focused on the influence of the ripening state of the fruits. The oils from the Castellana variety, the main variety found in the study area, were characterized by a high content of tocopherols, medium oxidative stability and high content in palmitic, palmitoleic and linolenic acids. As the ripening process progresses, the oils lose fruitiness, bitterness, pungency, stability, and some organoleptic defects appear, to the point of lowering the category (from extra virgin to virgin) in some of the Castellana samples. Thus, early collection of olives of this variety is recommended.


Early diagnosis of dementia helps in finding suitable treatments that reduce or even prevent future cognitive dysfunction of patients. In this paper, we use a convolutional neural network to classify the brain positron-emission tomography (PET) image of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a normal control (NC). The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the data increment method and the number of data for the best accuracy in the convolutional neural network (CNN) by using the AlexNet algorithm with amyloid PET images. All subjects had an intravenous injection of 300 MBq of F-18-Florbetaben (F-18-FBB, Piramal Imaging, Berlin), and PET acquisition was started 90 min after the radio-tracer injection. The image data were classified into NC, MCI and AD based on the findings of the neurologist. We performed data augmentation using a method such as flip, rotation, and GAN, in addition to pre-processing and data augmentation for AlexNet, in order to supplement a number of deficient data. Artificial intelligence (AI) learning was simulated using the Mini-batch Stochastic Gradient Descent (MSGD) algorithm, and the learning rate was 5e-5, and the epoch was 100. Using a CNN and the 'AlexNet' architecture, we successfully classified F-18-FBB PET images of AD from NC where the accuracy of the test data on trained data reached 98.14%. In this work, the CNN, which is a deep learning neural network architecture, was used in order to distinguish AD and MCI from the NC. Accuracy was 98.33%, NC recall was 99.16%, MCI recall was 95.83% and AD recall was 98.16% after learning the data by using rotation and LR flip to increase the number of data. The accuracy was increased by 4.96%, NC recall was increased by 10.68%, MCI recall was decreased by 0.23%, and AD recall was increased by 9.65% after learning the data by using DCGAN to increase the number of data to 4020. Accuracy and recall were improved when data were learned through data augmentation by rotation and by left and right reversal. However, the effect of learning data by increasing the data by using up-down reversal and data augmentation through DCGAN was almost insignificant.


Elfis, Titisari PW, Suharni N, Khairani, Janna N, Permatasari T, Chahyana I. 2020. Ethnoornithological study in selected villages of Riau Province, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 1645-1652. Riau Province, along the central-eastern coast of Sumatra, is an area of high bird diversity. The purpose of this study is to document and analyze the ethnoornithological local wisdom of some selected villages and use it to develop a strategy for biodiversity conservation in Riau. The method used in this research involved direct observation of some areas that have local accumulated natural history knowledge and interviews with selected informants of the local community. Some bird species were found to be central to the local culture, and these included the Punai Saluang/Sumatran Greenpigeon (Treron oxyura Temminck), Serindit Melayu/Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot (Loriculus galgulus Linnaeus), Bubut/Greater Coucal (Centropus Sinensis Stephens), and Rangkong Gading/Helmeted Hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil Forster). These bird species are used in traditional medicine, rituals and symbols in Riau Province. Serindit Melayu/Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a symbol of the Malay community in Riau and averts evil in the village of Gema. Rangkong Gading/Helmeted Hornbill body parts are used in ritual treatment to cure various diseases by the TalangMamak Tribe in Rantau Langsat. Punai Saluang/Sumatran Green-pigeon is used as a metaphor in folk literature of the Malays in the Pelalawan area, and Bubut/Greater Coucal (Centropus sinensis Stephens) body parts are used as traditional medicine by the Malays in Kuok Village. There are several aspects that need to be studied further to conserve these birds, including the ecology, reproduction, and behavior aspects. Through preservation of these ethnoornithological rituals and education of the younger generation, these and other species of birds can be better sustained in and around the culture of Riau society.


【Objective】Grain hardness is an important characteristics for processing quality in common wheat,and Puroindoline genes Pina and Pinb have been reported to be closely related with the grain hardness and end-use quality of wheat.The study of it can provide useful genetic information for seeds breeding.【Method】Altogether 105 Xinjiang wheat landraces were examined with Single Kernel Characterization System(SKCS),specific primer PCR amplification and modified SDS-PAGE of Triton X-114 extracted protein to investigate the distribution of grain hardness and its puroindoline alleles.【Result】 The results indicated that hard wheats were the most popular phenotype in Xinjiang wheat landrace.The percentages of hard wheat,soft wheat,and mixed wheat were 69.5%,5.7%,24.8%,respectively.The average value of SKCS hardness index for Xinjiang wheat landraces is 63.5.The whole nine puroindoline alleles were revealed in the surveyed wheat.Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1p、 Pina-D1k(null)/null、Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1ab、Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1a、Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1b、Pina-D1l/Pinb-D1a、Pina-D1r/Pinb-D1a、Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1ac and Pina-D1b/Pinb-D1p with detected numbers of 62,13,12,13,1,1,1,1,1 were present in Xinjiang wheat puroindoline types.Among them,Pina-D1r/Pinb-D1a was a newly found genotype in hard wheat.And the percentages of Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1p with 59.1% were the highest in Xinjiang wheat landrace.The two types: Pina-D1k(null)/null and Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1ab have close relationship with their locations and ecotypes.They are mainly in winter wheat of southern Xinjiang.The hardness of Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1a(wild type) was obviously weaker than the mutants.Pina-D1k(null)/null has the highest hardness in the nine puroindoline alleles,but the difference between Pina-D1k(null)/null、Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1p and Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1ab is not so great.【Conclusion】The study of grain hardness and distribution of puroindoline genotypes provided useful theoretical basis for improving the wheat quality and breeding seeds.


Introduction to programming is one of the main challenges of the didactics of computer science since programming is usually difficult for novice users. Different teaching approaches are studied aiming to stimulate the interest of novice programmers as well as to release students from the mental burden of memorizing syntax and grammatical rules. A teaching approach in this direction is learning basic programming structures through the creation of digital stories. Kodu, Scratch and Storytelling Alice are digital environments which support the creation of digital stories for the learning of programming. This paper presents a supporting framework for the creation of digital stories and learning of programming within the aforementioned digital storytelling environments. The aims of this framework are twofold: (a) to help students in their attempts to form the appropriate programs resulting these narratives and (b) to encourage the development of basic cognitive and metacognitive skills which may be developed through the creation of digital narratives by the students.


utmost importance. 5-8 The primary purpose of this review is to highlight the key imaging findings for an array of cystic pancreatic neoplasms. These include the relatively common masses: intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN), serous microcystic adenoma (SMA), and mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN), as well as less common lesions including cystic endocrine tumors, solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT), cystic metastases, and lymphangiomas. Finally, this article also provides a comprehensive management algorithm based on lesion size and patient's symptoms, with recommendations when to reimage patients with those lesions.


Many traditional societies still lack a strong social security systems for the elderly people. They generally view elderly people living with family as dependent on the family structure for social support, health and wellbeing. However, widows lack privileges and protection even when they live in traditional joint families, with at least one child and grandchildren. In reality, their resilience plays a significant role in their health and wellbeing as they age. To identify research gap about resilience among elderly widows, this study assessed the situation of 25 elderly widows aged 65 and above residing with their families in Kathmandu district , Nepal and identified key factors bringing about resilience in their day-to-day life. The resilience index comprised of four dimensions: psychological, physical health and fitness, food and nutrition and life support. The findings indicate that financial independence and education are two critical factors that best support resilience in elderly widows. This has far-reaching impacts on vulnerable groups like elderly people, especially elderly widows. The resilience index will be helpful for policy makers, stakeholders and other researchers to study the wellbeing and resilience among older widows.


The hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) offers superior fuel economy (FE) compared to the conventional counterpart; yet, it is costlier. To optimize an HEV design, both energy storage cost-one of the major contributors in overall cost-and FE are often set as objective functions in optimization processes. The techniques applied to manage the power flow between powertrain energy sources and sinks significantly affect the results of this optimization. In this paper, an advanced bandwidth-based control strategy teamed up with a duty ratio control strategy is applied and a Pareto Frontier, including energy storage system (ESS) costs and FEs, for a series HEV (SHEV) with limited all-electric-mode is introduced. The bandwidth-based control allows the SHEV's advantage in engine efficiency management to be extended to the lighter ESS as compared to the ESS sizes in vehicles available in the market. To produce the Pareto Frontier, a vehicle model created in the powertrain modeling environment Autonomie is customized and used in parallel-mode multiobjective genetic algorithm (MOGA) optimization. It is noted that the approach proposed here is not claimed to be a global optimal solution but instead is an improvement over typical solutions used in real vehicles based on constraints such as the need to implement on a practical real-time controller.


High-order harmonics generated by bicircular laser field have helicities which alternate between $+1$ and $-1$. In order to generate circularly polarized high-harmonic pulses, which are important for applications, it is necessary to achieve asymmetry in emission of harmonics having opposite helicities. We theoretically investigated a wide range of bicircular field component intensities and found areas where both the harmonic intensity is high and the helicity asymmetry is large. We investigated the cases of $\omega$--$2\omega$ and $\omega$--$3\omega$ bicircular fields and atoms having the $s$ and $p$ ground states, exemplified by He and Ne atoms, respectively. We have shown that for He atoms strong high harmonics having positive helicity can be generated using $\omega$--$3\omega$ bicircular field with a much stronger second field component. For Ne atoms the helicity asymmetry can be large in a wider range of the driving field component intensities and for higher harmonic orders. For the stronger second field component the harmonic intensity is higher and the helicity asymmetry parameter is larger for higher harmonic orders. The results for Ne atoms are illustrated with the parametric plots of elliptically polarized attosecond high-harmonic field.


Reaction of brucite [Mg(OH)z] with COZ produces various metastable hydrous magnesium carbonates, which will eventually mature to the only thermodynamically stable phase, ma,gnesite (MgC03). Natural analog systems suggest that, at ambient temperatures, the transformation from a key metastable phase, hydromagnesite [4MgCOseMg(OH)zc4HzO], requires hundreds of years. A suite of experiments were conducted to elucidate mechanisms of transformation of hydromagnesite to magnesite by varying ionic strength and concentrations of magnesium and sulfate, and reacting hydromagnesite at temperatures between 110, 150 and 200°C. Arrhenius equations were used to extrapolate rate information collected at elevated temperature down to 25°C. An "induction" period, an interval of minimal transformation, was observed in all experiments. At 25"C, the induction period is estimated to require 18 to 200 years, with longer times attributed to higher magnesium concentrations. Once the induction period is completed, and more rapid transformation begins, the corresponding "half-lives" of hydromagnesite are about 4.7 and 73 years. Activation energies for the rapid transformation period were estimated to be between 81 and 100 kJ/mol. Transformation rates increased with increased ionic strength and decreased magnesium concentration. Sulfate concentration indirectly affected rates, by reducing magnesium activity through complexation. Two mechanisms for the transformation are supported. In brines with low magnesium concentration, hydromagnesite dehydration with concomitant formation of brucit e and magnesit e is favored. In brines with high magnesium concentration, a hydromagnesite dissolution – magnesite precipitation process is favored. Those mechanisms are also supported by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) observations of reaction products.


A "portfolio," as used in this article, is a collection of writings by a single authorwritings of the same or different kinds gathered over a period of time, or from roughly the same time. This essay argues that for purposes of assessment portfolios are superior to multiplechoice tests and to time-limited essay tests. The essay also discusses the possible contents for a portfolio (which can include evaluative comments by the student on his/her own work); ways of gathering a portfolio; ways of reading portfolios; and precautions that faculty need to observe before using portfolios for assessment.


This article reports on how the Vancouver International Airport Authority (YVRAA) and Transport Canada have approved Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights for use on taxiways. LEDS are still not approved for use on runways as they dont meet the required light intensities. LEDs can help reduce energy requirements and costs, as well as increase the reliability of aeronautical ground lighting. On the average, use 30-40% of the power that an incandescent light uses. In addition, LEDS are known for their longevity. While tungsten-filament light bulbs need to be replaced every two years, LEDs typically have a replacement interval of five years. The article also discusses some of the standards in place for taxiway and runway lighting at Canadian airports.


There are over 1,400 volcanoes on Earth that have either erupted or shown signs of volcanic activity (e.g. fumaroles or hot springs) in, approximately, the last 12,000 years. Of these, around 40-50 are erupting at any given time (Global Volcanism Program, 2013; Siebert et al., 2010). Volcanoes provide a range of economic benefits, such as fertile soils, geothermal energy or valuable mineralisations, create a strong sense of belonging among local populations, and fascinate visitors. However, volcanic systems can also generate hazardous phenomena, which may threaten local inhabitants, tourists and infrastructure at distances of up to tens or hundreds of kilometres.


The start-up of Biological Aerated Filter (BAF) was compared by different raw water. The filter was filled with activated sludge, and oxygen was supplied by the air compressor, and the primary clarifier effluent and the secondary clarifier effluent of a wastewater treatment plant were fed to the different BAFs, with incremental flow rate of feed water, until the media of BAFs were covered with stable biofilm. The results show that the start-up by the primary clarifier effluent is quicker than by the secondary clarifier effluent, but the biofilm formed by the secondary clarifier effluent is more stable with effective operation.


In the design of a capacitive accelerometer, good mechanical sensitivity is desirable. A study of the optimization of flexure geometry in out-of-plane capacitive accelerometer for mechanical sensitivity enhancement is presented in this paper. The movable proof mass is suspended over the stationary electrodes by means of flexures anchored onto the substrate. The smallest possible spring constant of the flexures that will give the desired displacement was determined. Based on the spring constant's value, various combination of flexure length and width were selected and simulated using CAD software. The spring constant and displacement variations with the flexure dimensions at an applied acceleration was observed and analyzed. The modal and harmonic analysis were also simulated to ensure the linearity and the stability of the dominant mode of the device operation. Optimum results of the flexure geometry are presented and discussed.


This hexennial report covers the activities of IAU Commission 36 -- 'Theory of Stellar Atmospheres' -- during the years 2009 to 2015, and will be the last report from this Commission, being replaced by Commission C.G5.
After outlining the composition of the Organization Committee(s), we list the scientific meetings held between 2009 and 2015 that were of relevance for our Commission members, and comment on the establishment and objectives of the new Commission C.G5 ('Stellar and Planetary Atmospheres') within the re-structuring process of the IAU.
In the main part of the report, we briefly review specific contributions and achievements within our research field during the last six years, concentrating on the theoretical aspect, and dividing between late-type and massive star atmospheres. We also provide a more general overview of primary research areas, and finish our report with a collection of useful web links.


We show that the vertical light rays in almost every periodic array of Eaton lenses do not leave certain strips of bounded width. The light rays are traced by leaves of a non-orientable foliation on a singular plane. We study the flow defined by the induced foliation on the orientation cover of the singular plane. The behaviour of that flow and ultimately our claim for the light rays are based on an analysis of the Teichmüller flow and the Kontsevich–Zorich cocycle on the moduli space of two-branched, two-sheeted torus covers in genus 2.


explored the traditional 'elegant gathering' of guqin music in the early eighteenth-century Chinese court. The group focused specifically on a detailed account of courtier Gao Shiqi's visit in  to the Kangxi Emperor, examining intersections of guqin repertoire and the imported 'Corellian' Italian style. Inspired by the event, the group reimagined its soundscape through arrangements of guqin music, and through works by Teodorico Pedrini, an Italian violinist who arrived in Beijing in , played with silk-stringed instruments. The conference closed with a performance of Quirino Colombani's Il martirio di Santa Cecilia (Rome, ) by the University of Oregon Oratorio Orchestra directed by Marc Vanscheeuwijck. The oratorio featured University of Oregon students Alison Kaufman (playing the part of St Cecilia), Sara Brauer, Matthew McConnell and Dylan Bunten. The sources for this work presented challenges that were addressed by both current and former students, with Emily Korzeniewski (Yale University) supplying the orchestra with modern performance parts based on the manuscript. Secondly, the manuscript copies lacked second and third violin voices (where they would originally have been improvised), so composer Samuel Kalcheim (University of Oregon) reconstructed some of the missing parts as needed. He had also provided an original Sinfonia to open the oratorio, composed in the style of Colombani. The research and creative imagination that had brought the work out of obscurity provided a foundation for a tasteful realization by the performers. The final concert thus encapsulated a spirit of discovery, creativity and boldness that had been present throughout this year's conference. The website for the Musicking Conference states, 'this conference is inspired, organized, and directed by University of Oregon historical performance practice faculty and students who wish to celebrate the connections between musicology and performance. Thanks to the support of local donors and of the [University of Oregon] School of Music and Dance, all Musicking events are provided free of charge to everyone'. It is my hope the conference will continue to balance such valuable community engagement with future experimentation in performance practice. The resulting diversity of events has thus far been exceptionally rewarding.


There is a demand for a complex cultural space of play, leisure and education, a kids cafe, which will replace a playground just for kids as awareness for the need of a space where parents can spend leisure time with their own children and can take a rest grows, Thus, this study aims to find feature...


The purpose of this study to improve students mathematical reasoning with the application of teaching mathematics through problem solving. This models consist of four fase, that is: giving problems, investigation, presentation results, and evaluation results. Method of research is quasi experimental is implemented in class X-A SMA Al Muslimun Pelalawan Riau. Subject of this study were 19 students who divided into groups of 4-5 students with the capability of high, medium, and low. The instrument used was a test and observation. In the pretest result there were 10 students with sufficient reasoning and good criteria. While on the posttest there were 19 students with the criterion of mathematical reasoning is good. No students obtains criterion of mathematical reasoning is very good in two test.


The pandemic has sharply actualized the digitalization of higher education, when all students were transferred to distance education. This period turned out to be very specific for students. On the one hand, these are new forms of education, new opportunities. On the other hand, limited experience of interpersonal communication with classmates and interaction with teachers. The purpose of this article is to assess the attitude of students to distance education and to highlight the conditions that determine the effectiveness of such education. The empirical basis of the work was the data of the monitoring 8th students monitoring in the Middle Urals, carried out under the leadership of Yuri Vishnevsky for 25 years. The sample consisted of 2,000 students from 13 universities in the Sverdlovsk region. The results show that the opinion of Ural students regarding distance education is not uniform; there are both its supporters (12%) and opponents (9%). Most students are ready to combine distance and classical forms of education in one proportion or another. They consider about 50% of distance education to be acceptable. The educational profile, attitude to the profession and the level of responsibility are the main factors that determine the attitude towards distance education. These factors determine the effectiveness of both distance and traditional education. However, in the case of distance education, higher requirements are imposed on the level of responsibility and awareness of the student. Otherwise, distance education is accompanied by various deviations. In the current reality, when a third of the Ural students do not represent the content of their chosen profession, more than half do not have any professional goal, it is important for the university, and, first of all, for teachers, not only to provide new educational opportunities, but also to help students' professional socializing so that they can be successful in the future. To do this, it is important to maintain a healthy balance of distance and classical education, which ensures the greatest efficiency.


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Pancreatic cancer is the eight most common form of cancer in Europe with 96.000 new cases
yearly. This incidence closely matches the mortality rate, thus revealing the aggressive behaviour
of this tumour. Five-year survival after diagnosis is only 5% with a median overall survival of 2-8
months. For the patients undergoing surgery, the 5 year survival rate increases to 5% to 25%
with a median survival of 12- 15 months. At presentation only 15-20% of the patients have
a resectable, and thus possibly curative disease, while the majority of the patients already has
locally advanced (i.e. unresectable) or even metastasized pancreatic cancer. The retroperitoneal
location of the pancreas plays an important role in the absence of specific complaints. Obstructive
jaundice, caused by obstruction of the distal common bile duct by tumours located in the
pancreatic head, is a late symptom. This lack of evident clinical manifestations frequently results
in a delayed diagnosis and is one of the reasons why pancreatic cancer is usually detected in late
stages where curation is no longer an option.
In the pancreatic head a variety of tumours can be found, all with its own biological behaviour.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma originating in the pancreatic ducts is the most common and
most aggressive tumour resulting in the shortest survival.
Periampullary tumours are also often encountered in the pancreatic head. Several definitions of
periampullary cancer co-exist.6 Most authors include cancers originating from distal common
bile duct, ampulla of Vater or duodenum nearby the ampulla. Some also include cancers located
within 2 cm of the ampulla of Vater. This definition may even include "periampullary" cancers of
pancreatic ductal origin.
Furthermore cystic lesions such as mucinous cystic neoplasms and intraductal papillary mucinous
neoplasms (IPMN) occur in the pancreas. Even if malignant degeneration is present in these
lesions, survival is beneficial compared to ductal adenocarcinomas (5 year survival 24-74%).7 Less
frequently pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PNETs) or metastasis especially from renal cell
carcinomas could be localised in the pancreatic head. In this thesis we have studied several clinical
aspects of only patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas and periampullary tumours and
performed experimental in vivo studies using human pancreatic cancer cells.


Since its discovery in the United States in 1930, Dutch elm disease has killed thousands of native elms. The three native elms, American, slippery, and rock, have little or no resistance to Dutch elm disease, but individual trees within each species vary in susceptibility to the disease. The most important of these, American elm, is scattered in upland stands but is more abundant on wetter sites and along river bottoms.


Using auminum nitrate nonahydrate and titanium dioxide nanowires as the main raw material, Al2O3/TiO2 composite powers were prepared by the hydrothermal method at 200 oC for 24 hours. And the samples are characterized by XRD, nitrogen adsorption and desorption. The results show that the samples are corundum and rutile, and specific surface area is nearly 155 m2/g. Otherwise we tested samples for adsorption capacity of Congo red at different times, temperature and initial concentration under visible light irradiation. We found that it is the maximum adsorption efficiency (~107 mg/g) at the temperature of 50 oC, within one hour to reach the adsorption saturation.


In this paper, a study of Silica is presented using a novel X-ray probe. The value of this X-ray source will be clearly defined, and diagnostic results will be presented.


Graphics processing units(GPUs) have been increasingly used to accelerate general purpose computations. By exploiting massive thread-level parallelism (TLP), GPUs can achieve high throughput as well as memory latency hiding. As a result, a very large register file (RF) is typically required to enable fast and low-cost context switching between tens of thousands of active threads. However, RF resource is still insufficient to enable all thread level parallelism and the lack of RF resources can hurt performance by limiting the occupancy of GPU threads. Moreover, if the available RF capacity can not fit the requirement of a thread block, GPU needs to fetch some variables from local memory which may lead to long memory access latencies. By observing that a large percentage of computed results actually have fewer significant bits compared to the full width of a 32-bit register for many GPGPU applications, we propose a GPU register packing scheme to dynamically exploit narrowwidth operands and pack multiple operands into a single fullwidth register. By using dynamically register packing, more RF space is available which allows GPU to enable more TLP through assigning additional thread blocks on SMs (Streaming Multiprocessors) and thus improve performance. The experimental results show that our GPU register packing scheme can achieve up to 1.96X speedup and 1.18X on average.


The yeast Saccharomyces cereoisiae produces a cytochrome P-450 enzyme which is thought to catalyse the Id Yoshida & Aoyama, 1984). Thus oxygen may have an important role in regulating cytochrome P-450 biosynthesis. S . cereoisiae (NCYC 754) was grown at 30°C in an orbital shaker at a series of different shake speeds. The growth medium consisted of 20% (w/v) glucose, 2% (w/v) mycological peptone, 1% (w/v) yeast extract and 0.5% (w/v) sodium chloride. Yeast was inoculated with a wire loop into IOOml of medium in 250ml flasks. Dry weight estimates were obtained by removing samples from the culture, washing the yeast with distilled water and drying at 70°C to constant weight. Cytochrome P-450 was determined directly on whole cells using its reduced carbon monoxide difference spectrum (Omura & Sato, 1964). Fig I shows the effect of growing S. cereoisiae in batch culture at a series of shake speeds on the accumulation of cytochrome P-450 and the growth of yeast. A clear maximum cytochrome P-450 level is observed at 120rev./ min, with the enzyme level per g of yeast decreasing at both slower and faster shake speeds. The maximum yield of cytochrome P-450 occurs at the same shake speed as the maximum growth rate and also the maximum yield of yeast biomass. This suggests a close link between a high yield of cytochrome P-450 and a high growth rate. These interesting findings with the orbital shaker are related to the known effect of agitation in giving enhanced transfer of solutes between the microbial biomass, the bulk medium and the associated gas phase. Transfer rates generally increase with increasing agitation, and an optimal agitation intensity may be expected to correspond to the optimal level of a particular solute. In parallel work, using stirred-tank fermentation (Salihon et al., 1985), cytochrome P-450 yield from S. cereoisiae NCYC 754 showed a clearly defined optimum for agitation. With growth conditions optimized using air as oxygen source, growth under identical conditions, but using air mixed with either nitrogen or oxygen, gave severely reduced enzyme yields, indicating that the agitation optimum found in this work indeed corresponds to optimal dissolved oxygen availability. Blatiak et al. (1983) have previously reported that small h


Oblique penetration/perforation of metallic plates by rigid projectiles with slender bodies and sharp nose shapes is studied in this paper.The mechanism of ductile hole enlargement dominates in whole penetration procedure.In the present model,the directional change δ is assumed to take place near the front surface when the projectile heading into the target and being subjected to asymmetric resistance.It clearly shows that the perforation of metallic plate is dominated by four non-dimensional numbers,i.e.,the impact function I,the geometry function of projectile N,the non-dimensional thickness of target χ and the impact obliquity β.Explicit formulae are obtained to predict the penetration depth,ballistic limit,residual velocity and directional change for the oblique penetration/perforation of metallic plates.The proposed model is able to predict the critical occurrence of ricochet.The predicted results are verified by comparing with available and independent experimental data and existing models.


A technique to determine experimentally induced thrombocyte aggregation continuously in circulating rat blood is described. The blood pressure is measured before and behind a microfilter which has been placed in continuity with the arterial circulation. Aggregation is induced by infusing adenosine diphosphate (ADP). The aggregates partly obstruct the filter, thus causing the blood pressure before and behind the filter to change. The degree of aggregation is calculated from these changes.


An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt's Blue", John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and he also presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Though born out of visual encounters with art, these poems also examine weaponry and domestic and ritual objects - artifacts that evoke a violent encounter. Here, Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has called his "unfree verse," that reaches into new and unexpected territory in both style and theme. This combination of sensual beauty, intellectual ambition, and political acuity is like nothing else in contemporary English-language poetry.


1. General observations Elisabetta Ježek is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities at the University of Pavia. She has published articles in specialized journals like Linguistical Investigationes [2004], Folia Linguistica [2009] and Lexis [2010]. The Lexicon An Introduction was first written in Italian and published by Il Mulino in 2005 under the title Lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni. The English revised translation was released by Oxford Univers...


This paper presents an approach for handling uncertainties arising mainly from ignored or misrepresented processes in physically based models. The approach is based on the application of a parallel artificial neural network (ANN) model that uses state variables, input and output data, and previous model errors at specific time steps to predict the errors of a physically based model. Concepts from information theory are used to discover the relationships between the variables and the model errors, which also serves as a mechanism to detect the predictability of the errors. The resulting information is used to select the best related input data for the error prediction model. The error prediction model is then trained and applied to improve the forecasts made by the physically based model. This approach was applied to a routing model of a 70 km reach of the River Wye, United Kingdom. The results demonstrate that errors from the physically based model show a consistent trend governed by some dynamics of their own, which can be modeled with learning algorithms. Errors were forecasted at different lead times. In all cases the forecasts made by the combined application of both models were more accurate than those made by the physically based model alone. From this it was concluded that, along with proper information analysis techniques, the use of ANN models to predict the forecast errors of physically based models can help to improve significantly the prediction and therefore to reduce the associated uncertainty.


Process for concentrate esters of EPA and DHA comprising contacting marine oil with alkali and water, contact with organic solvents, mixing the raffinate phase with aqueous solution of acid, mixing the non-aqueous phase with an alcohol and catalyst, removing the catalyst and desolventizar, and distilled; said concentrate.


The variable-speed electrohydraulic drive, which can achieve similar energy efficiency as volume drive system, has some good features. But the slow response and poor low-speed performance limit the development of the variable-speed electrohydraulic drive. The energy regulation based variable-speed electrohydraulic drive is a good solution to solve these problems by adding an energy regulation device and a throttling valve into the system. The sine simulations of energy regulation based electrohydraulic variable-speed drive are carried out. The simulation results have showed that the energy regulation system can not only achieve the goal of a good response, but also keep a good energy-saving performance.


Allah sent His messengers to reform people with a pure belief monotheism, some of people believed in them and some of them disbelieved. Moreover, some of them stray from the true way of divine religion, diverged from, and made changes in it. All praises to Allah who has honored this Islamic nation with a blessing that was not for other nations, and it is a blessing to complete the religion and protect it from distortion and alteration until the Day of Resurrection, as almighty said. Since the spread of the Islamic missionary call, many people have tried to challenge and question it even they accused the Messenger of Allah Muhammad - may God's prayers and peace be upon him - of lying, witchcraft and other false and shameful accusations. Among and law among the Sunnis, so we have to highlight some of these deviations and their criticality. There is no doubt that the means of modern technology today are essential institutions that have beaten all other institutions. Through it, you can broadcast the beliefs and ideas whatever you intend to. Shiites have exploited this medium and have published many private and public pages on the Internet. Shiites were keen to distort the image of the Sunnis among the societies. Therefore, thought the topic of the research should be Shiite activity through their online channels.


The concept of human talent is defined first in view of the problem existing in the present evaluation,followed by the analysis of factors affecting talent's quality and of the defects of current evaluation on human talents.And then the new evaluation method-fuzzy decision is put forward with its feasibility explained by examples,thus offering the methods of recruiting human talents to enterprises.


Introduction:

Objectives: High School level is an important parts of the education in every one's life whils this period comes along with overriot periods of the adolescent and
if effective causes on formed personality of this period helpe him to identity and determining the suitable way of the life, he will be face to lesser problems and can be come successful.The most important difference between Gifted and Normal student is in their educational success. The studi of the comboultz (2011)howed that the more interior the Achievement Motivation the more attempt to getting to success,therefore the aim of this study was to the comparison of achievement motivation,locus of control and imposter syndrome between gifted and normal 3rd grade high School students with gender differentition in zahedan.

Methods: This is a carried out research. This research 160 high school girl and boy
3rd Grade High School Students of zahedan were selected according to cluster sampling and they completed the rotter locus of control questionnaire(1995),
and achievement motivation hermens(1970) Findings were analyzed by use of ANCOVA method, ANOVA concurrent regreesion of analysis.

Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between Achievement Motivation in gifted and normal (p≤0.05).And there was a significant difference between Achievement Motivation with gender differentition (p≤0.01). Also there was not a significant difference between locus of control in two group(p≤0.05).There is difference between locus of control in gifted and normal student in girls & boys(p≤0.05).
Conclusion: The Results showed that the level of Achievement Motivation in normal students is more than the gifted students,also there is difference between girls & boys . And there is not difference between locus of control 0f the two group.


ABSTRACT Two different combustion models are analyzed for the prediction of an acetone turbulent diluted spray flame. Simulations are conducted in the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) framework, coupled with the Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) chemistry reduction method. To represent the polydispersed spray the Eulerian-Lagrangian specification is applied. Both combustion models consist of the Artificially Thickened Flame (ATF) and the presumed PDF approach. Effects of the evaporative cooling and the presence of droplets into the combustion modeling are accounted for. Results achieved with both models are validated against experimental data. These consist in statistical data of droplets velocities, liquid volumetric flux, a characteristic diameter, and temperature. A general good agreement with experimental data is observed. Analysis of simulations results allow deeper interpretation of additional flame features, for instance the double flame structure. As an outcome, the concept of the burning potential is introduced in this paper to assist the interpretation of the underlying mechanisms to the occurrence of different flame modes.


In this paper, some new fixed point theorems for condensing mappings are established based on a well known result of Petryshyn. We use several Leray-Schauder type conditions to prove new fixed point re- sults. We also obtain generalizations of Altman's theorem and Petryshyn's theorem as well. 1. Introduction and preliminaries Condensing mappings are arising extensively in differential and integral equations. Hence study of such operators are important part of nonlinear anal- ysis and fixed point theorems related to condensing mappings are very useful in the study of existence of solutions of differential and integral equations. In 1971, W. V. Petryshyn introduced several fixed point theorems for con- densing mapping satisfying Leray-Schauder boundary condition. Leray-Schauder boundary condition is formulated as follows: A mapping T : B → X is said to satisfy Leray-Schauder boundary condition if T(x) 6 �x, ∀x ∈ @B, � > 1 , where B is the open ball about the origin (see (1)). The following theorem is due to Petryshyn: Let B be an open ball about the origin in a general Banach space X. If T : B → X is a condensing mapping (and, in particular, a k-set contraction with k < 1) which satisfies the boundary condition T(x) = �x for some x in @B, � ≤ 1, then F(T), the set of fixed points of T in B, is nonempty and compact.