Prior research suggests that when very simple event sequences are used, 4.5-month-olds demonstrate the ability to individuate objects based on the continuity or disruption of their speed of motion (Wilcox & Schweinle, 2003). However, infants demonstrate their ability to individuate objects in an event-monitoring task (i.e., infants must keep track of an ongoing event) at a younger age than in an event-mapping task (i.e., infants must compare information from 2 different events). The research presented here built on these findings by examining infants' capacity to succeed on an event-mapping task with a more complex event sequence to determine if the complexity of the event interferes with their ability to form summary representations of the event, and, in short, individuate the objects. Three experiments were conducted with infants 4.5 to 9.5 months of age. The results indicated that (a) increasing the complexity of the objects' trajectories adversely affected infants' performance on the task, and (b) boy...


OBJECTIVE To study the effect of matrine on the apoptosis of retinoblastoma cells.METHODS Retinoblastoma cells were cultured in 0.4 mmol/L matrine for 12 hours,24 hours or 48 hours respectively,and the control group was cultured in equivalence of the standard the nutrient solution RPMI-1640 at concentrations of 10% fatal bovine serum substitute for matrine.The apoptosis rate was evaluated by flow cytometry.RESULTS Apoptotic cells were observed after 12 h,and then developed in a time-dependent manner after 48 hours.The difference was statistically significant compared with the control group(P0.05).Followed by 12 h of matrine treatment,the ratio of viable apoptotic cells to total ones was 89.20%,and then decreased to 78.97% and 76.12% by 24 h and 48 h respectively.CONDLUSIONS Matrine could inhibit the proliferation of retinoblastoma cells though induction of its apoptosis in time-dependent manner.


Evidence of the severe effects of alkylphenols (APs) on different fish species exists in a number of axes including endocrine and non-endocrine as well. Present study demonstrates the non-estrogenic attribution of AP in fish species. Confirming this non-estrogenic action of alkylphenols, zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos were subjected to different doses of APs to study the effect of such class of chemicals on the fish embryogenesis during the first 120 hours of fertilization.


The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical formulation for administration by inhalation medicament. In particular, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical formulation comprising beclomethasone dipropionate and a pressurized metered dose inhaler formoterol salt (the pMDI) in.


Rare diseases are diseases with prevalence of lower than one in 2,000 individuals. Jointly, rare diseases affect many people in the world. Research in rare diseases is more challenging than in diseases that are more prevalent, due to small numbers, heterogeneity and often limited knowledge about the disease course and the pathophysiology underlying the disease. This thesis has focused on two aspects of clinical research in rare diseases. In part one, patient involvement in rare disease research is investigated. Together with a group of rare disease patient representatives, we have developed a tool in which patient representatives together with researchers decide which outcome measures are relevant to patients, and can be added in a clinical trial. In part two, we have investigated a measurement instrument: Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS). GAS is an assessment instrument that is intended for individual evaluation of an intervention. It allows patients to set individual goals, together with their treating professional. The number of goals and the content of these goals may differ per patient, but the attainment of the goals is measured in a standardized way. This makes a standardized evaluation of an intervention possible, even when the patients are all in a different stage of their disease. This can be an advantage in rare disease research, where the population is often small and heterogeneous. We conclude that more research on the validation of GAS is needed, and propose how GAS can be used and validated in the setting of rare disease trials.


Heraldry and local tradition have long attributed the elaborate alabaster tomb surviving in the church at Minster Lovell to a member of the Lovell family, most likely William, 7th Lord Lovell (1397–1455), a prominent baron who substantially re-built the church and adjacent hall. By considering the monument and early modern recordings of its decorative programme in detail alongside biographical and testamentary evidence, this article strongly supports the attribution of the monument to the 7th Lord. It is further suggested that the tomb was most likely commissioned by his widow, Alice, who sought to record the contribution to the Lovell estate brought by her own marriage.


A simple iterative optimization method is developed to improve the exiting light uniformity of the edge-lit backlight module. The method uses the relative deviation of the average luminous flux of the entire light guide plate (LGP) and the luminous flux of each region as constraint criterion and the ratio of the luminous flux of each region to the average luminous flux of the LGP as adjustment coefficient to adjust the density of the microstructures in each region. This process loops until the relative deviations of all regions meet a prespecified threshold value. A LGP based on microprism structure is presented to validate the method. The initial values, which represent the size of the microstructures manufactured on the bottom surfaces of the LGP, -dependent luminous fluxes, microstructure size distributions, iterations of the LGP, and the relative deviation of each region are discussed. The simulation results show that it is a very practical method for the uniformity improvement of the backlight when an appropriate initial value is selected and the final uniformity is better than 90% after optimization.


Despite LDPC codes performing admirably for large block sizes being mostly resilient to low levels of channel SNR and errors in channel equalization small and medium sized codes tend to be affected by these two factors. For these small to medium codes, a new method is presented that helps to reduce the dependency of correct channel equalization, without changing the inner workings or architecture of existing LDPC decoders. This goal is achieved by using LDPC only decoder-side information gathered during standard LDPC decoding that is used to improve the estimation of channel parameters, thus improving the reliability of the error code correction, while reducing the number of required iterations for a successful decoding. This scheme is suitable for application to multicarrier communications, such as OFDM. A PLC-like environment was chosen as the basis for presenting the results.


PT Bank Sumut Syariah was established after the issuance of Law No. 10 of 1998 which provided an opportunity for conventional banks to establish a Sharia Business Unit. Based on this and the commitment of the Bank of North Sumatra to the development of sharia services, on November 4, 2004, Bank of North Sumatra opened a Sharia Business unit which is a work unit of the conventional Bank of North Sumatra that functions as an office that carries out business activities based on sharia principles, or a work unit of a branch. from a bank domiciled abroad that functions as the main office of the sharia sub-branch office and or sharia business unit. Bank Sumut Syariah is one of the banks that operate based on sharia principles by BI principle license No. 62 DPIPPrzMdn April 28, 2004.


Gypsum moisture blocks were calibrated in the laboratory in undisrupted soil cores, in soil cores which had been repacked to field density, and in unpacked soil baskets. Three soil types were used. It was found that the calibration curves obtained in the repacked soil cores and in the soil baskets were different from those obtained in the undisrupted soil cores. This indicates that the disruption of both structure and bulk density influenced the calibration of gypsum blocks. The effects were greater on the fine textured than on the coarse textured soils. The influence of bulk density was not important on a sandy loam soil. The variations in soil moisture obtained ranged from 1 to 6 per cent within the available water range.


Cesarean scar defect, niche or isthmocele represents a poor healing in the anterior uterine wall after performing a cesarean section. The cesarean scar defect can be asymptomatic, or the patient could present abnormal uterine bleeding, chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, cesarean scar pregnancy or abnormal placenta. Abnormal uterine bleeding caused by cesarean scar defect presents as a postmenstrual spotting and has become more and more common among women with a history of minimum one cesarean section delivery. The most studied risk factors are: multiple cesarean section deliveries, single layer suture, locked suture, retroflexed uterus and cesarean section delivery performed during active labor with a cervical dilatation of 5 cm. There have been described several surgical approaches: hysteroscopic, laparoscopic or vaginal. From our experience, we have treated successfully symptomatic patients with cesarean scar defect with the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system. Although the therapeutic indications do not include this specific use, we have obtained significant improvement of abnormal uterine bleeding due to cesarean scar defect in our patients. Our results sustain the necessity of extensive interventional studies.


This study aims to find the correlation the low-molecule fucoidan for cancer prevention with an accelerated formation of cotinine. In the presence of fucoidan, a nicotine to cotinine coversion was studied in established assay, direct mixture method and Hep-G2 cell line method. Fucoidan of showed the potential effect for converting nicotine to cotinine in the direct mixture method compared to control. Increase of conversion rate at the treatment of fucoidan is exhibited as 15 times compared to control. In Hep-G2 cell treatment, fucoidan showed the potential activity for converting nicotine to cotinine as 6 times compared to control. Therefore, fucoidan was shown to be effective in the conversion of nicotine into cotinine even though it is not higher content of polyphenol and flavonoid than its of green tea extract.


The decision of the Brumby government to set up an Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission is more due to the upcoming State elections rather than in response to sustained public pressure and the recommendations of the Proust report. The government has not had much success with earlier attempts at planning, and doubts exist over whether the Commission will actually manage to achieve what it has set out to do.


In this issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Aledort et al. [1] carried out a meta-analysis that evaluated the cumulative incidence of de novo factor (F)VIII inhibitors in previously treated patients (PTPs) with severe hemophilia A. They compared PTPs who, being under regular replacement therapy with various types of FVIII products, switched to recombinant products, either full length (FL-rFVIII) or B-domain deleted (BDD-rFVIII). In the same issue of the journal, Iorio et al. [2] wrote a thoughtful Commentary that emphasizes the many limitations of the meta-analysis and related findings, mainly as a result of the design and quality of the included studies. The main and most important message that as a clinician I get from Aledort et al. [1] is that the development of inhibitors in PTP is a relatively rare event [1.25%, with a 95% confidence interval (CI) as narrow as 0.63–1.88%]. This message is substantially confirmatory of the low risk of new inhibitors in patients exposed to FVIII who switch to other products, in agreement with the results of several previous smaller studies [3–5], which supported the safety of switching when changes are justified by clinical advantages for patients. The most striking and novel finding reported by Aledort et al. [1] is a dramatic difference between brands of recombinant FVIII products for the magnitude of risk of de novo inhibitors, because there was a sevento 10-fold increased risk in patients treated with BDD-rFVIII compared with those treated with FL-rFVIII. These huge differences in risk between the two rFVIII moieties were statistically significant, with Pvalues of 0.0016 for all de novo inhibitors and of 0.0037 for the more clinically relevant high-titer inhibitors [1]. Impressed by these very high hazard ratios (HRs) and corresponding Pvalues, I could not help notice that the CIs of the HRs are extremely wide (2.12–24.9 for all inhibitors, 2.77–53.7 for highrisk inhibitors), giving the impression that results carry some degree of statistical instability and uncertainty. This is probably because of the fact that, in spite of the impressive number of patients included in the meta-analysis (as many as 3012), the whole analysis of inhibitor incidence is based upon a small total number of events (n = 35). Like Iorio et al. [2], I maintain that the issue of different immunogenicity of FVIII products in PTP [as well as in patients at a much greater inhibitor risk such as previously untreated children (PUPs)] [6,7], cannot be tackled by means of a meta-analysis of the data available in the literature. Metaanalyzes provides a meaningful perception of accurate clinical conclusions only when they are based upon randomized control trials (RCTs) (or at least upon parallel cohort prospective trials). None of the 29 studies analyzed by Aledort et al. [1] were randomized, and even although they were all prospective, none compared different concentrates in the same cohort. Finally, the notion that there is rigid hierarchy in study design favoring RCTs should not be dispelled [2]. The authors do indeed recognize that comparison of product immunogenicity should be made in adequately powered randomized trials , but they also state that the barrier to such trials might be formidable [1]. Hemophilia is a rare disease, but RCTs are not unfeasible. For instance, in the early 1980s, a few seminal RCTs have convincingly established the clinical efficacy of bypassing agents in the treatment of bleeding episodes in inhibitor patients [8,9]. More recently, Hay and De Michele (unpublished data) successfully managed to complete a RCT in the context of immune tolerance induction in inhibitor patients. Hence, RCTs are indeed feasible and should be actively pursued in hemophilia and other rare bleeding disorders. However, they need, as for the ITI and SIPPET study [6; CRM Hay, DM DiMichele, Unpublished data], large-scale, international collaboration, because no single country nor hemophilia treatment center is able to enlist the participation of the large number of patients that are needed to design RCTs of an adequate sample size, such as the 600 cases indicated by Aledort et al. [1] on the basis of their meta-analysis.


Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair is a non-surgical treatment option for high-risk patients with symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR) and severely depressed left ventricular function who are not eligible for conventional surgery.

A 55-year-old female patient with dilative cardiomyopathy, severely depressed left ventricular ejection fraction of 15%, and a severe functional MR was treated with percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair by MitraClip® system (Abbott Vascular). The procedure was successful, reducing the MR …


We show by a simple example that in a public goods economy consisting of identical individuals with symmetric Cobb-Douglas preferences the core of the economy does not con-verge to the Lindahl solution when the number of agents goes to infinity. This confirms in an elementary way that the Edgeworth conjecture does not necessarily hold in an economy with a public good.


Grewia gum was extracted from the inner stem bark of Grewia mollis and characterized by several techniques such as gas chromatography (GC), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis of the extracted sample. Spectroscopic techniques such as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), fourier-transformed infrared (FT-IR), solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and H and C 1 13 NMR techniques were also used to characterize the gum. The results showed that grewia gum is a typically amorphous polysaccharide gum containing glucose, rhamnose, galactose, arabinose and xylose as neutral sugars. It has an average molecular weight of 5925 kDa expressed as the pullulan equivalent. The gum slowly hydrated in water, dispersing and swelling to form a highly viscous dispersion exhibiting pseudoplastic flow behaviour. The polysaccharide gum is thermally stable and may have application as stabilizer or suspending agent in foods, cosmetics and in pharmaceuticals. It may have application as a binder or sustained-release polymer matrix in tablets or granulations.


Plankton is most essential for many fishes as food. The growth of plankton feeding fishes mostly depends on plankton dynamics of the water body.In the complex chain of community metabolism, the different trophic strata, and a fraction of which ends up as fish flesh. Therefore, structure of different fish food biotic communities assumes greater significance to reservoir fish management. Ambadi reservoir in Kinwat Taluka of Nanded District of Maharashtra. represents 17 species of zooplankton.These include 6 species of rotifera, 4 species of copepoda, 6 species of cladocera and 1 species of ostracoda.


Introduction: Multiple trials have validated thrombectomy as a viable option in acute stroke patients with Anterior Large Vessel Occlusion (LVO). As a consequence, there has been a dire need for pr...


For intelligent street lamp control system in the presence of complex construction, more power consumption and low intelligence, this paper designed an intelligent street lamp controller achieved by ZigBee network. It use the Doppler detector to obtain the speed of the vehicle and pedestrian, and thus control the lights switch. For the phenomenon of some street lamp appeared to be an isolated during the wireless communication, this paper also proposes an isolated nodes relief algorithm based on node transfer. The result is verified by Mat lab simulation. Through the control and regulation to LED lights, both ensure traffic safety and save manpower and energy.


Mernory-based messaging, passing mes- sages between programs through a shared memory segment, is a recognized technique for efficient com- munication that takes direct advantage of memory system performance. However, the conventional oper- ating system and hardware support for this approach is inefflcient, especially in large-scale multiprocessor systems. This paper describes interface, software and hard- ware optimizations for memory-based messaging that efficiently exploit the basic mechanisms of the memory system to provide superior communication perfor- mance. We describe the overall model of optimized memory-based messaging, its implementation in an operating system kernel and hardware support for this approach in a scalable multiprocessor architec- ture. The optimizations include address-valued signals, message-oriented memory consistency and automatic signaling on write. Performance evaluations show these extensions provide a three-to-five-fold improvement in communication performance over a comparable software-only implementation.


The paper summarizes recently obtained results on mercury chalcogenides high temperature p-T diagrams 1) 2) 3). Differential thermal analysis (D.T.A) was used to determine the melting curves and phase transitions of mercury chalcogenides at gas pressure up to 2 GPa. Melting as well as zinc blende (B3) - cinnabar (B9) transition temperatures and pressures of HgS, HgSe,HgTe were measured. The resulting p-T diagrams are presented and discussed. The topotactic interpretation of the zinc blende-cinnabar phase transformation is presented along with the results of elastic properties of zinc blende HgX, close to transition. The influence of Phillips bond ionicity factor 4) 5) on the stabilization of the cinnabar structure with pressure is discussed.


This observe changed into carried out in the fields of Al-Hawija location of Kirkuk Governorate for the reason of reading the assessment of a few sorts of yellow corn for contamination through the corn stalk insect (Sesamia cretica L) and the impact of the insect infestation on a few traits and boom of yield of a few yellow corn cultivars. The maximum contamination fee of the ZOAN cultivar changed into 7.50% in comparison to the bottom contamination fee with inside the Samuray 34 cultivar of 0.50 % after a duration of 20 days of germination, however after forty days the contamination fee changed into maximum at the ZOAN cultivar 45% and for the nearby range 37.30% in comparison to the Samuray 34 cultivar 4% only, and after 60 days, the contamination fee changed into 25.75% for the ZOAN variety and for the nearby 19%, in comparison to 4.70% for the Samuray 34 variety. The number of caterpillars for each plant ranged between (0.30-2.70) for each plant for the studied cultivars. As for the average number of shoots for each plant, it ranged between (0.30-3) for each plant for the studied cultivars, as it was the lowest for the Samuray 34 cultivar and the highest for Sweetened (local) cultivar. Sweetened (local) cultivar, Wazawan, recorded the highest percentage of shoot lengths for each plant, as it was 9.30% and 7.50%, respectively, compared with the rest of the studied cultivars, as it was the lowest for the Samuray 34 cultivar, 1.33% of the plant, and for the Konstiz cultivar 3.60%, and for the Jameson cultivar 6%, while there were clear significant differences. In the percentage of shortening in the number of seeds and the values of loss in the weight of 100 grains, as well as the percentage of shortening in the crop, as the percentage of loss in the number of grains for the Samuray 34 variety was 12.33%, and the highest was for the Zawan variety by 18%, compared to the percentage of loss in Sweetened (local) variety amounted to 17.30%. The Samuray 34 cultivar recorded the lowest percentage of shortening in the weight of 100 grains, as it was 6% compared to the ZOAN cultivar, 8.60% compared to the rest of the studied cultivars, which was reflected in the percentage of loss in the total crop, as the percentages ranged between (19-24) %, as the Samuray 34 cultivar recorded the lowest percentage. It amounted to 19%, compared to 22.67% for the Zawan variety, and for Sweetened (local) 24%, compared to the rest of the maize varieties. The best cultivar was the Samuray 34 cultivar for use in breeding programs for corn stalk borer control.


The study of bias in language assessment (as in other areas of educational measurement) is bound up with notions of fairness or disadvantage affecting particular groups of test takers.

Keywords:

fairness in language assessment;
statistical analysis of test results;
validation of language assessments;
values in language assessment


To provide an air conditioner using a heat storage device and the heat storage device the heat generated by the compressor can be spread heat across the thermal storage material in the thermal storage tank. A is arranged so as to surround the compressor, a heat storage device for storing heat generated by the compressor, a heat storage tank for accommodating a heat storage material for storing heat generated by the compressor, heat storage and a heat storage heat exchanger accommodated in the tank, that the cross-sectional area of the bottom of the portion of the heat storage material of the heat storage tank, set to be smaller than the cross-sectional area in the vicinity of the liquid surface of the heat storage material, generated by the compressor heat can be a spread of the heat to the entire heat storage material efficiently heat storage tank. .FIELD 5


Solder joining using metallic solder alloys is an alternative to adhesive bonding. Laser-based soldering processes are especially well suited for the joining of optical components made of fragile and brittle materials such as glasses, ceramics and optical crystals. This is due to a localized and minimized input of thermal energy. Solderjet bumping technology has been used to assemble a lens mount breadboard taking as input specifications the requirements found for the optical beam expander for the European Space Agency (ESA) EarthCare Mission. The silica lens and a titanium barrel have been designed and assembled with this technology in order to withstand the stringent mission demands; handling high mechanical and thermal loads without losing its optical performances. Finally a high-precision opto-mechanical lens mount has been assembled with a minimal localized stress (<1 MPa) showing outstanding performances in terms of wave-front error measurements and beam depolarization ratio before and after environmental tests.


We developed Hi-sap, a Web server system that ensures the security in a server and has high performance when processing dynamic content. In existing servers, server embedded programs cannot be used safely in large-scale environments like a shared hosting service. These problems occur because server processes run under the privilege of an identical user. For example, server embedded interpreters are commonly used to improve performance in processing dynamic content, like Weblogs and wikis. However, other customers that share the same server can steal, delete, and tamper with data files of Weblogs and wikis. To solve these problems, we designed a new Web server system, Hi-sap. In the system, Web objects that are stored in a server are divided into partitions. Server processes run under the privilege of different users in every partition. We implemented Hi-sap on a Linux OS and tested the effectiveness of the system. Experimental results show that Hi-sap has high performance and scalability


The effect of the donor atoms in Cd complexes on the determination of R0 values for the bond valence sum (BVS) is reported. A total of 1321 CdXmYn fragments with X and Y = O, N, S, Cl, Br, and I were used to calculate the R0 values for Cd—X bonds from both homoleptic and heteroleptic fragments. The R0 values determined from mixed CdXmYn fragments agree with those determined from the homoleptic species, with no significant differences in the values as a function of either electronegativity or hard–soft character of the atoms. The new R0 values derived from the homoleptic series recommended for use in calculating the BVS are as follows: Cd(II)—O of 1.875(13) A, Cd(II)—N of 1.951(15) A, Cd(II)—S of 2.279(7) A, Cd(II)—Cl of 2.216(17) A, Cd(II)—Br of 2.334(7) A, and Cd(II)—I of 2.525(7) A. These R0 values can be used to calculate the oxidation state of Cd in complexes where Cd is bonded to any combination of O, N, S, Cl, Br, and I donor atoms. Cases where the BVS does not agree with the expected oxidation stat...


Background: Renal disorders are increasingly being recognized as major contributors to morbidity and mortality. Variability in their pattern in different populations and regions of the world and changes occurring with time have been demonstrated. We aimed to determine the current trends in the pattern of severe non-surgical childhood renal disorders at our Centre and compare the findings with previous studies. Methodology: A descriptive analytical study was carried out on consecutive incident cases of nonsurgical renal disorders aged 14 years and below, managed in the Pediatric Nephrology Unit of the Original Research Article Asinobi et al.; BJMMR, 11(12): 1-11, 2016; Article no.BJMMR.21480 2 University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Two separate time periods were studied. Results: A total of 869 incident cases of severe non-surgical disorders were admitted during the study periods. There was an increase in the hospital incidence from 1.5 to 2.2 per 100 pediatric admissions and in the average yearly admission from 43 to 103. The crude annual incidence increased from 42 per million age-related population (PMARP) to 86 (PMARP) at the end of the two study periods. The most remarkable increase occurred with Acute Kidney Injury, which showed a 6.5-fold rise and was the most common cause of renal morbidity and mortality in children encountered in the study. Interventional measures resulted in early detection, prompt treatment and reduced mortality. Conclusion: The study has shown an increase in the incidence of severe childhood renal disorders in Ibadan, with Acute Kidney Injury being the leading non-surgical renal disorder. A significant decline in case fatality rates was demonstrated in recent years.


Greenidea ficicola is recorded for the first time from the Maltese Islands. Distributional, ecological and taxonomic notes are included for this species.


3574 Background: Belinostat (PXD101), a HDAC inhibitor of the hydroxamate class has shown anti-tumor preclinical activity in combination with other standard chemotherapeutic agents. In Ph. I and II...


The peculiarities of superfluorescence in systems consisting of a few neighbor particles (clusters), when exchange or/and electrostatic multipole interactions between particles become significant, are investigated theoretically. It is shown that interaction between particles in the cluster leads to superpuassonian statistics of emitted photons and the intensity I of quadrupole superfluorescence on the double frequency depends on the number N of active centers as I~Nα, where α> 2. In particular, α = 3 , when N >> 1. Possible schemes of cluster construction in nuclei systems are considered and prospects of observation of multipole gamma superfluorescence are discussed.


The endo-β-glucanase Ⅲ gene(eg3) was obtained from the total RNA of Trichoderma viride AS3.3711 by RT-PCR.Sequence analysis indicated that this eg3 gene was composed of 1 257 nucleotides,coding for 418 amino acid residues,and had its own signal peptide.The sequence homologies between this gene with Trichoderma Reesei eg3 were 99.6%.Then it was cloned into the high-copy integrative expression vector pScIKP,generating a recombinant plasmid named pScIKP-eg3,which was then transformed by electroporation into Saccharomyces cerevisiae AS2.489 after linearization.Transformants were detected by SDS-PAGE analysis,Congo Red method and enzyme activity assay.The results showed that transformants could secrete recombinant EG Ⅲ and produced hydrolysis halos on the Congo-Red-CMC plate,indicating that this eg3 gene was correctly expressed in S.cerevisiae.The highest enzyme activity of recombinant EG Ⅲ reached 120 U/mL after 60 h cultivation,and the optimum temperature and pH were 60 ℃ and 6.0 respectively.The genetic stability of transformants achieved 99.17% after 50 generations in nonselective medium.In conclusion,the eg3 gene of T.viride could be expressed in industrial yeast strain stably and efficiently.


The charge weight,charge placement(in profile) and depth of charges are important factors in design of Explosive Compaction for saturated loose sand.Six laboratory tests using detonator as the energy source,including two groups with concentrated charges and four groups with decked or tiered charges,have been conducted to investigate the effects of the three factors on the densification.The measurement of the variation of cone penetration tests and ground profile changes showed that the decked and tiered charges were more effective for ground treatment in explosive compaction,and moreover,the more uniform distrib-ute of energy input,the more effective for ground treatment.But this result can only act as a means of qual-itative evaluation of the uniformity of energy distribution.By now there is no a quantitative evaluation standard available for this purpose..


The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A&M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place , Dean A Google search inquiring about lasting relationships reveals a variety of interesting notions, such as Erich Fromm's humorous insight: "True love is like a pair of socks: you've gotta have two and they've gotta match." So goes one of the many philosophies about what it takes to find and maintain lasting love and relationships.


In recent years, rather intensive regional tourism industry is development is observed in Lithuania. However, all the more urgent becomes the question of its development and relevant aspects of the duality of social and cultural impacts of regional tourism. The purpose of this study is to identify on which level of touristic process development socio-cultural impact appears and evaluate quantitative and qualitative aspects of this influence. Relevance. In order to prepare properly the development of regional tourism and new tourism products strategies in attractive areas and in whole country it is often confronted with problematic and complexity of socio-cultural analysis. Socio-cultural impact of regional tourism impact on the host society and the re-lationship between tourists are the most interest, but also the most problematic area of research in the tourism sector. Properly managed regional tourism promotes appropriate preventive measures by fostering environment, and analyzing socio-cultural impact in terms of duality. Problem. Regional tourism socio-cultural impact evaluation and complexity of analysis reason – socio-cultural impact of duality. For this reason, it is often difficult to investigate and determine what the impact is more relevant – the destination country of the public or tourists. Moreover, this im-pact is assumed negative social and cultural influences occur and lead to the formation of the country's image. JEL code: L830.


Social capital (Coleman, 1990), democracy's wellspring (Putnam, 1993; Tocqueville, 1835/2000), must now accrue within a social fabric that has been changed by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as television and the Internet. Three studies (N = 313) of college students supported a theory of ersatz social behavior, which proposed that: a) the use of technological (replacement/ersatz) alternatives to real social interaction may be less conducive to the skill building and opinion formation that foster social capital; b) ersatz activities involve fewer costs (effort, risk of rejection) than real interactions; and c) ersatz alternatives are regularly chosen, even though real interaction is ostensibly preferred. The results provide increased understanding of when and how mediated interaction can be detrimental to social capital formation.


With the explosive growth of manufacturing services on a global scale, it has become an enormous challenge to recommend optimal manufacturing service in distributed manufacturing environments. Reputation evaluation is a key step to make optimal manufacturing service recommendation. However, the reputation values calculated through conventional reputation evaluation methods are static and local, and have a severe impact on the effectiveness of manufacturing service recommendation. This article presents a novel and effective reputation evaluation method for optimal manufacturing service recommendation in distributed peer-to-peer networks. The main contribution of the proposed approach is that it makes it possible to calculate the global and dynamic reputation values of enterprises by employing a time-aware hyperlink-induced topic search algorithm. This algorithm not only disseminates the reputation value of transaction enterprises, but also takes account of the temporal dimension in the process of computing reputation values. A concrete example demonstrates the feasibility of calculating reputation values of the proposed method, and an evaluation experiment reveals that both of recall rate and precision rate are improved, employing our proposed method for recommending manufacturing service.


The general objective of the study was to assess factors affecting procurement practices in the ministries in Kenya. This study concentrated on the above four indicated variables. This study utilized descriptive survey research design. It was notable that there existed strong positive relationship between the indepedent variables and depedent variable as shown by R value (0.787). The coefficient of determination was between zero and one (Ghozali, 2006). The data showed that the high R square was 0.619. It showed that the independent variables in the study were able to explain 61.90% variation in the procurement practices while the remaining 38.10% was explained by the variables or other aspects outside the model. The standard error was minimal with a value of 0.000 meaning the model used in the study had minimal effects of errors associated with it. The study findings implied that staff competency, ICT, quality management systems and top management support played a significant role on the procurement practices in the government ministries in Kenya. To enhance procurement practices in the government ministries , there is need to have sufficient and qualified procurement personnel with enough training assessment methods to enhance compliance with the rules and regulations. The government ministries should also employ professional trained procurement staff and continuously train the staff on emerging issues on public procurement practices. The government ministries should effectively integrate procurement functions with ICT based systems through application of e-procurement methods, use of automated procurement systems; implementation of supportive ICT infrastructure for encouraging adoption of ICT based procurement systems and training of procurement staff on ICT skills. In the light of the findings and conclusions, the following recommendations were hereby proposed: Efforts must be made to implement those TQM practices which are not being effectively practiced in the study area so as to help improve on procurement practices. The top management should ensure that it gives the public sector the sense of direction and this goes a long way in ascertaining efficiency in the procurement practices. Key Words: Staff Competence, Information Communication Technology, Quality Management Systems, Top Management


The article is devoted to analyzing the difference between discourses about "concept". It is an attempt to reveal the features of these approaches to the problem of understanding and studying of "concept". This term is currently at its peak popularity in the human studies, which is connected with its universality and the process of globalization, which generates an interest to studying cultures though these keywords or concepts. Meanwhile, the discourse about "concept" firstly appeared in philosophical literature. Then at the early twentieth century an interest to "concept" arose in Russian linguistics. Afterwards, the term came from the field of pure linguistics to the fields of cognitive linguistics and cultural linguistics, and then in the first decade of XXI century it was rekindled thanks to philosophy. Nowadays in the modern humaninities there are the coexistence of different approaches to understanding, interpretation and investigation of concept. In terms of linguistics the concept constitutes the meaning of sign, and its investigation focused on the search of different means of representation of it in the language and on the basis on them structuring the concept. Linguocognitive science has its aim in building a cognitive model of representation this term in the linguistic consciousness of a native speaker. The feature of cultural linguistics approach is its orientation on the search of cultural component of concept. And the approach of cultural studies focused on the search of the features and the analysis of the essence of this phenomenon in the general context of culture


The paper analyzes the necessity of the new round reform to collective forest property relations in Fujian Province.The new round reform in 2003 could fully exert the potential of woodland,further deepen the former forest tenure reforms,and meet the needs of construction of a new socialist countryside and modern forestry.The paper also points out the advantage of a new round collective forest tenure reform in Fujian,including unique conditions to improve forestry production,the significant status in Chinese forestry,and the proceeding position and important role in the past successive collective forest tenure reforms in Fujian.


The thesis presents a dental examination conducted 100 patients with a diagnosis of catarrhal gingivitis mild. Patients used the tooth paste out of four series MEXIDOL dent containing mexidol. The analysis of the data and statistical analysis of study results.


In this paper, extending the recent work of authors with Calles Loperena and Dimitrijevi\'c Blagojevi\'c, we give a general and complete treatment of a problem of partition of mass assignments with prescribed arrangements of hyperplanes on Euclidean vector bundles. Using a new configuration test map scheme, as well as an alternative topological framework, we are able to reprove known results, extend them to arbitrary bundles as well as to put various types of constraints on the solutions. Moreover, the developed topological methods allow us to give new proofs and extend results of Guth and Katz, Schnider, and Sober\'on and Takahashi. In this way we place all these results under one ``roof''.


The exchange reaction between M+PQ−• ion-pairs and MeHgCl leads to the formation of MeHgPQ• adduct with a characteristic low g-factor of 2.00052 and a small methyl proton splittings of 0.16 G. The dynamic and equilibrium aspects of the exchange depend upon the alkali cation, the concentration of MeHgCl, and for M+PQ−• also on temperature. The MeHgPQ• is found to be relatively stable at room temperature and in the presence of water. These results may be of potential value to toxicology studies of methylmercury.


1.1. Elementary summary. The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula naturally arises in the context of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Originally the series H = log(ee ) was used to define a multiplication law in a Lie group associated to a given Lie algebra. A simple example of a Lie group is the group SL2 of complex 2× 2-matrices with unit determinant. The corresponding Lie algebra is the algebra sl2 of traceless 2×2matrices with matrix commutator [A, B] = AB − BA. The algebra sl2 is linearly


This paper analyzes the activities, members, and effects of an inter-American expert network for the diffusion of psychometric knowledge, specifically of standardized aptitude testing for university admission in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Within the framework of educational transfer studies, the role of international, nongovernmental, and philanthropic organizations is examined. It is argued that circulation of psychometric knowledge and technologies led to a new governing regime for learning and learners. The paper discusses the effect of convergence and Americanization, in the context of US-promoted "Alliance for Progress," but also of divergence and resistance.


This study aims to uncover the concept of Islamic education according to K.H. Hamim Djazuli (Gus Miek) and discussed the relevance of the concept of K.H. Hamim Djazuli in facing the development of Science and Technology Progress with Islamic education. This research is library research by designing with a biographical and descriptive approach. The purpose of Gus Miek's Islamic education and Islamic education curriculum is very focused on the formation of character and personality of students as the most basic foundation in educational activities. So that not only makes humans have abilities in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor, but also embedded in the character and person who is a pious and virtuous person. Keywords : Concept of Education, Educational Psychology, Islamic Education


Currently most on-campus universities provide an LMS to support teaching and learning. Although most of them gather usage statistics, these are rarely used to improve the quality of education. In this paper, a data analysis methodology is proposed. This methodology facilitates a continuous improvement of the LMS, and includes an inferential analysis which relates usage statistics to educational innovation and quality. This makes it possible to predict the effect of strategic decisions on the different variables considered, assisting on decision making.


Experiments and corresponding numerical simulations with new biaxially loaded specimens taken from thin metal sheets are discussed. Inelastic deformations as well as damage and fracture behavior of the specimens are investigated under different biaxial loading conditions covering a wide range of stress states to analyze the stress-state-dependent damage and failure mechanisms in ductile metals. During the experiments strain fields in critical regions of the specimens are analyzed by digital image correlation. Corresponding numerical simulations deliver information on stress states in tested specimens. The results are used to propose stress-state-dependent damage and failure criteria corresponding to various damage mechanisms depending on stress triaxiality and the Lode parameter. They are validated by series of biaxial experiments with newly developed specimens and corresponding numerical simulations. This demonstrates the efficiency of the new specimens' geometries covering a wide range of stress states in the shear-tension and shear-compression regime allowing validation of stress-state-dependent functions for the damage criteria and damage evolution laws.


P-type Pr1−zYbzFe4−xCoxSb12 skutterudites were prepared by encapsulated melting, annealing and hot pressing, and the effects of Pr/Yb double-filling and Co substitution on the phase stability, the microstructure, and the transport and thermoelectric properties were examined. All specimens were transformed to the skutterudite phase by annealing, and a few FeSb2 phases were produced, but their amounts could be reduced by Co substitution. The actual compositions of the filler (Pr/Yb) were slightly lower than the nominal compositions due to the filling fraction limit and the volatilization of elements, and the lattice constant decreased with increasing Pr and Co contents. The electrical conductivity decreased with increasing temperature, indicating a degenerate semiconductor behavior, and the Hall and the Seebeck coefficients showed positive signs, implying p-type conduction. The electrical conductivity decreased due to a decrease in the carrier concentration with increasing Pr and Co contents, and the Seebeck coefficients increased while the thermal conductivity decreased because of the decreased electronic thermal conductivity. Although the lattice thermal conductivity rarely changed with the filling fraction of Pr and Yb, it had low values due to the relatively high electronic thermal conductivity. As a result, the dimensionless figure of merit, ZT, was improved by Pr/Yb double filling and Co substitution, and a maximum ZT = 0.85 was obtained at 723 K for Pr0.75Yb0.25Fe3.5Co0.5Sb12.


The structure and properties of the dispersions of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in N,N dimethylacetamide with different polymer dispersive agents: polyvinylpyrrolidone, poly(ethylene glycol), triblock copolymers poly(ethylene glycol)–poly(propylene glycol)–poly(ethylene glycol), ethylenediamine tetrakis(ethoxylate–block–propoxylate) tetrol of different molecular weights were studied. Polyvinylpyrrolidone was found to have the best dispersive capacity. It was shown that the dispersion degree and the particle size of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes in N,N–dimethylacetamide depend on the chemical nature and molecular weight of the dispersive agent and the thermodynamic solvent quality in relation to the dispersive agent.


Unique marine sediment cores retrieved from the southwestern slope of the Iceland‐Faroe Ridge (IFR), close to the main axis of the Iceland‐Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW), revealed prominent sedimentary cycles reflecting near‐bottom current dynamics, sediment transport, and deposition, coincident with Dansgaard‐Oeschger cycles and deglacial perturbations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The transition between Greenland Stadials (GSs) and Greenland Interstadials (GIs) follows a distinct, recurring sedimentation pattern. Basaltic (Ti‐rich) silts were transported from local volcanic sources by strong bottom currents and deposited during GIs comparable to modern ocean circulation. Finer‐grained felsic (K‐rich) sediments were deposited during GSs, when Iceland‐Scotland Overflow was weak. Possible felsic source areas include British‐Ireland and/or Fennoscandian shelf areas. A cyclic sawtooth pattern of bottom current strength is characterized by gradual intensification during GIs followed by a sharp decline toward GSs as is documented at core sites along the flank of Reykjanes Ridge. The cores north of the Faroe Channel instead document the opposite pattern. This suggests that the near‐bottom currents along the Reykjanes Ridge are strongly controlled by the flow cascading over the IFR. Heinrich‐(like) HS‐1 and HS‐2, are characterized by the deposition of very fine felsic sediments pointing to weakened bottom currents. Distinct coarse‐grained intervals of ice‐rafted debris are absent from the sediment records, although pebble‐ and gravel‐sized ice‐rafted debris is irregularly distributed throughout the fine sediment matrix. Near‐bottom currents are considered to have a major control on the lithogenic sediment deposition southwest of the IFR and further downstream.


On October 6th, the Los Angeles City Council declared it Scorpions Day. We feel very honored. THANK YOU Los Angeles Californiaaaa….


The intensity‐intensity correlation function measured in a light‐scattering electrophoresis experiment in a three‐component solution is composed of a sum of exponentially damped sines and cosines. Its explicit form is calculated for a concentrated three‐component solution (including the effects of cross diffusion). A form for the electrophoretic mobility of charged species in a three‐component solution in a weak electric field (including the effects of frictional interactions between the Brownian species) is presented. The mutual diffusion coefficient of a species measured in a light‐scattering electrophoretic experiment is not unambiguously related to the mutual diffusion coefficient of that same species as measured with conventional light scattering spectroscopy.


This paper describes a novel FSS which functions as band stop fllter to shield the GSM 1800MHz downlink band. The FSS is designed to operate with the resonant frequency of 1820MHz which is the centre frequency for the GSM 1800MHz downlink band. The novelty is attributed to its unique geometry and the circular apertures endowed with it. The proposed geometry provides shielding efiectiveness of 20dB alongside with 133MHz bandwidth. The structure holds identical response for both TE and TM Modes of polarization. In addition, the geometry with its circular apertures, a hitherto unexplored feasibility serves the purpose of ventilation and heat dissipation. The simulated results are validated using experimental measurements.


The textile industry is very important because its products are widely used by society, however, this activity has a great contribution to the contamination of water resources due to its effluents that contain large amounts of colorants, among which is the blue of methylene (MB) and methyl orange (MO) that can cause damage to the health of living being. For this reason the present study concerned the removal of these dyes by adsorption using Eichhornia Crassipes (Water lily) with different treatments. The results show that the chemisorption removal process using two sites per dye molecule having an exothermic nature for the water-treated lily and for the NaOH-treated lily is endothermic. The maximum adsorption capacities of 228.9 mg/g for MB (60 °C) and 155.38 mg/g (30 °C) for MO with the NaOH treatment were achieved. The SEM analysis shows that there are significant changes in the surface due to the treatments. The XRD patterns indicate that with the pretreatment with NaOH the crystallinity of WL increases while the treatment with water maintains the presence of amorphous cellulose. In the FTIR spectra, the bands corresponding to different functional groups such as lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose that participate in the adsorption of both dyes are observed.


This paper probes into the professional ethics construction of university librarians in the new century from the ethic requirements,professional ethic behavior requirements and ethic influence requirements.


The authors of the paper examine the problem of the participation of post-Soviet Ukraine in the global grain trade basing on a critical analysis and using extensive statistical data. Grain crops have traditionally occupied the most important place in the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine. Ever since Soviet times, the image of the "all-Union granary" has been entrenched in it, which was especially actively exploited in the last years of the existence of the USSR by nationalist elements, becoming a program for them in the fi ght against Moscow. In fact, the Ukrainian SSR only until the early 1930s was the main base for the production of marketable grain in the USSR. Subsequently, larger grain bases were formed in the RSFSR and KazSSR. After the start of the Special Military Operation, the thesis about Ukrainian grain as a central element of global food security again became a popular narrative and was used against the Russian Federation as part of a global information campaign. This strategic disinformation was intended to infl uence Russia's actions in the framework of the "grain deal". The purpose of the study is to fi nd an answer to the question of the extent to which the positions of the Ukrainian side actually correspond to realities. Based on the results of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the decisive role of Ukraine declared by offi cial Kiev and the West in the supply of grain to global markets is exaggerated. The bulk of the grain is not sent to those countries that are experiencing serious problems with hunger and are vitally dependent on Ukrainian supplies.


This review examines the role and limitations of scintigraphic evaluation in acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. A detailed discussion of methods for improving diagnostic outcomes is provided. Techniques and recommendations are offered for optimization of red blood cell scintigraphy for earlier detection and more accurate localization of acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage.


coronary Kommerell's diverticulum is a very rare congenital aortic arch anomaly with an estimated incidence of 0.04-0.1%. Few studies have reported on acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in patients with Kommerell's diverticulum on the right-sided aortic arch. The anatomical anomaly makes coronary artery catheterization difficult. If such a case is suspected during the patient examination before coronary artery revascularization, the appropriate arterial approach site should be carefully considered for revascularization as early as possible.


In this study, the synthesis of nanoparticles and their biological evaluation were carried out. A green synthetic approach synthesized silver nanoparticles (AHAgNPs) using an Artocarpus heterophyllus leaf extract. Parameter optimization was performed using Design Expert Ver. 13. The effects of variables like the concentration on the response, particle size, and entrapment efficiency of synthesized AHAgNPs were monitored via analysis of variance. The optimized AgNPs were characterized using ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy were used to determine the size and shape of nanoparticles. In vitro, antioxidant and antimicrobial potential were determined using standard protocols. The optimized nanoparticles were spherical, with an average 100–110 nm particle diameter. The synthesized nanoparticles showed effective antioxidant, antibacterial, and antifungal activity. In addition, AHAgNPs showed increased biological activities.


bioactive cyclodepsipeptide through a cascade reaction. These conjugates further show improved solubilities, making them promising candidates for a future targeted cancer therapy treatment


Objectives: Diabetes is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and diabetics have a threefold increase in risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared to non-diabetics. Following coronary artery bypass grafting, tight glycemic control improves short-term outcomes, however limited data exist for long-term outcomes. Here we examine these outcomes in diabetics using aggressive risk factor management. Methods: A retrospective review of all patients under-going coronary artery bypass between 1991 and 2000 at a single Veterans Affairs Medical Center was undertaken. 973 patients were included, 313 with diabetes and 660 without. Strict glucose control was maintained for all patients. Additional risk factor modification, including anti-platelets medications, statins, and beta blockers were also used. Survival analysis was performed. Results: The diabetic group was at higher risk, with age, BSA, and NYHA class all being greater (p < 0.05). The mean follow-up time was 6.7 ± 3 years. There were 28 deaths/1000 person-years for non-diabetics, and 48 deaths/1000 person-years for diabetics. Survival rates were significantly higher for non-diabetics (72% versus 58% in the diabetic group, p < 0.001). Cox proportional hazard analysis demonstrated mortality risk was 57% higher for diabetic patients (hazard ratio = 1.57; CI: 1.19 - 2.09; p = 0.002). The mortality risk in diabetics with and without prior MI was similar (HR = 0.83; CI: 0.54 - 1.28; p = 0.40). Conclusions: Diabetics undergoing coronary bypass have poorer long-term survival than non-diabetics despite perioperative glycemic control and risk factor modification. The long-term survival decrease in diabetics with history of MI is attenuated with surgical revascularization.


In order to determine the factors causing Microcystis spp. bloom in the lower Nakdong River (Mulgum), we prepared wide ranges of pH, nutrient(N, P) concentration and the light through an enclosure experiment for 10 days (pH gradient: 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, 9.5; gradient of N, P: 1/2DW+1/2River Water (RW), RW only; four different levels of nutrient addition/day; light: 100, 85, 60, 30, 15% of full sun light). From three days, the difference of Microcystis density in each enclosures was observed. The high density of Microcystis was maintained in the treatments over pH 9.5 and 85% of full sun light. However, in all nutrient treatments, relatively lower cell density than that of pH and light treatments was observed. These results suggested that pH and light input may play more important roles than nutrients in the early development of Microcystis bloom in the eutrophic lower Nakdong River.


The safety and quality of life of an individual, their family members and others can be compromised by compulsive hoarding syndrome. However services and treatment options remain limited despite increased awareness of its effects. The London Hoarding Treatment Group has developed a creative approach to treatment by using visual-method interventions to engage people with the condition. This article provides guidance on how mental health professionals can help people to cope with compulsive hoarding syndrome.


Discussion between the US Secretary of State, US Ambassador to the UK and the British Prime Minister along with FO Official Ivone Kirkpatrick in regards to the rapidly evolving war situation. Reference was made to the situation in Finland, its impact on Soviet-German relations, and the importance of teh French and the British response to the Germans in halting its aggressive poisturing. They also discussed the possibility of the British and French guaranteeing that they would not attack Germany first, the lack of confidence the British Prime Minister had in the political style of Herr Hitler, and teh belief that Il Duce had in resolving any conflict between the countries.


One of the main challenges for optimal designs of two-dimensional (2D) finite impulse response (FIR) filters is their heavy computational load due to the large number of filter coefficients and the high dimensions of the data for model fitting. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful technique appropriate for optimization for big data. In this paper, a relaxed ADMM is presented and then applied in the weighted least-squares (WLS) design of linear-phase 2D FIR filters. It is shown that the relaxed ADMM algorithm converges much faster than the standard ADMM algorithm. In addition, a salient feature of the relaxed ADMM is its highly parallel structure which makes it very efficient if implemented in parallel. Simulation examples and comparisons demonstrate the fast convergence and high efficiency of the relaxed ADMM algorithm.


The difference and the correlation of the protein content, lysine content, (embryo) ratio and (1000-embryo) weight of the grains of 23 barley gene (marked-lines) were analyzed to select whole set of gene marked-lines and to locate nutritious quality gene of different barley. The results showed that there were (significant) difference existed in protein content, lysine content, (embryo) ratio and (1000-embryo) weight among the 23 gene marked-lines. The nutritious quality gene could be located in the barley chromosome with whole set of marked gene-lines selected from 23 ones. The correlation between the protein content and the lysine content, as well as the (embryo) ratio were not (significant), while the positive correlation between (embryo) ratio and (1000-embryo) weight was significant, therefore the saying that the negative correlation between the lysine (content) and the protein (content) was not certain, the conclusion of big embryo as index for the high lysine (content) need to be studied further.


In this research, a new quaternary ammonium polyether blocked polysiloxane (QBPEAS) was synthesized by reaction of epoxy polyether terminated polydimethylsiloxane with tetramethylethylenediamine. The chemical structure of QBPEAS was characterized by IR and 1H-NMR. And then the film morphology on fiber substrates was investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results showed that QBPEAS has a good film-forming ability and can form a macro-smooth Sloane film on the treated fiber surface. In addition, QBPEAS could obviously decrease the bending rigidity and improve the hydrophilicity of the treated fabrics, but has little influence on the fabric whiteness.


Environmental ultraviolet (UV) radiation can be detected passively by a ceramic sensor by measuring the radiation-induced electroluminescence (EL). The phenomenon that metal-oxide ceramic material doped with certain impurities can emit photons under high electric fields after irradiation by UV has been observed in our laboratory. This phenomenon of EL only exists after the sensor has been irradiated by UV radiation. After the emission of photons, the sensor material returns to the normal state, and no more photons win be emitted even though the electric field is applied again. The emitted light may have different wavelengths which depend on the base material of the sensor and the impurity. The peak height of the EL curve represents the number of radiation-induced photons which is directly in proportion to the exposure of the UV radiation; thus the radiation-induced EL can be used as the UV radiation detector. A device for measuring the radiation-induced EL was constructed using a high-vacuum chamber and a facility to supply a high electric held across the UV sensor. A photodetector with its output system is used to register the emitted light from the EL. The UV-induced EL in ZrO/sub 2/ with zinc oxide as impurity has been obtained. Other base materials such as Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/ and MgO are being investigated for the same phenomena.


Although Mufti Rizaeddin Fakhreddin, he did not study under Shihabuddin Marjani, he gained much knowledge through his books. In his fundamental work, "Asar" ("Works"), he dedicated 50 pages to him, which provides rich information about his family tree, personality, children, appearance, mentors, students, books, mistakes, etc. According to Rizaeddin Hazrat, Marjani was the very first scholar among Muslims of Russia who studied the activities of Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiya. Fakhreddin, as a painstaking historian and theologian, always tried to reach the truth. He did not blindly trust Marjani's arguments; instead, he tried to study and analyze every question that he raised. Although the opinion of such a great Tatar scientist as Shihabuddin Marjani was authority for him, he revealed some errors in his works. One such issue was the creed of Ibn Taymiya, whom some accused of asserting God's corporeality and the physical presence of God in a particular place, and the ban on visiting the grave of the Prophet Muhammad. Fakhreddin, having carefully studied his books, found out that the scientist was slandered and misunderstood. He cited his arguments and other scholars' arguments on this issue. According to Fakhreddin, Marjani made some incorrect statements because he did not directly study the works of Ibn Taymiya, but instead relied on the Muslim philosopher Dawwani and included his quotes in his books. Simultaneously, Fakhreddin politely pointed out these errors to Marjani and immediately tried to justify him. Mufti Fakhreddin, like another Mufti Galimjan Barudi, studied the books of Ibn Taymiya, agreed with his views, even set this scientist as an example, and did not allow anyone to stain his name unfairly.


Most L2 vocabulary acquisition studies have emphasized the importance of a 'sub-technical' or 'academic' vocabulary alongside core words and technical terms in academic discourse (cf. Nation 2001: 187-216). A number of word lists have been compiled to meet the academic vocabulary needs of students in higher education settings. The 'Academic Word List' (AWL) (Coxhead 2000) is the most widely used today in language teaching, testing and materials development (e.g. Schmitt and Schmitt 2005). It consists of 570 word families which have a wide range and reasonable frequency of occurrence in a large corpus of academic texts (e.g. 'approximate', 'capacity', 'link', 'presume', 'summary', 'widespread', etc.). Recent corpus-based studies in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), however, have brought to light a high degree of variation across academic texts and led some authors to question the usefulness of a general EAP approach. Hyland and Tse (2007: 238), for example, question the widely held assumption that "a single inventory can represent the vocabulary of academic discourse and so be valuable to all students irrespective of their field of study". They show that the coverage of AWL items in a corpus representing a range of academic disciplines is not evenly distributed. They further argue that "all disciplines shape words for their own uses" (ibid: 240) as demonstrated by their clear preferences for particular meanings and collocations. The noun 'strategy', for example, has different preferred associations across disciplines (e.g. 'marketing strategy' in business, 'learning strategy' in applied linguistics and 'coping strategy' in sociology). The authors thus conclude that "By considering context, cotext, and use, 'academic vocabulary' becomes a chimera" (ibid 250). If academic vocabulary is a chimera, one can wonder which words EAP tutors should teach in international EAP programmes. In our study we use a corpus-driven method to assess whether or not it is possible to identify a common core that can be taught in a general EAP context. As Eldridge (2008: 111) reminds us, "though one function of research is to unravel what distinguishes different fields and genres, another function is to find similarities and generalities that will facilitate instruction in an imperfect world." To date, few EAP corpus-based studies have performed this double function. Our study is based on a new ESP corpus, the 'Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase' (VESPA), which contains scientific articles from top journals in three domains: business, medicine and linguistics. We focus on lexical verbs in view of their ability to modulate the message via tense, aspect, mood and voice, and the lexico-grammatical difficulties they prove to pose for language learners (e.g. Hinkel 2002, Swales and Feak 2004, Nesselhauf 2004, Paquot 2007, Granger and Paquot forthcoming). We compare the three domain-specific corpora with the fiction sub-corpus of the 'British National Corpus' and extract key verbs in business, linguistics and medicine. We then compare the three lists of key verbs with a view to identifying the similarities and differences between them in terms of meaning, lexico-grammar and phraseological patterns.


The development of composite materials is characterized by the improvement of their mechanical properties (stiffness and strength) which have widened their application for structural fields like automobile, aerospace, and naval industries. The mechanical properties of composite materials can be upgraded during the manufacturing process by applying an appropriate load on the fibers and curing the corresponding matrix at certain temperature. For that purpose a machine was designed and built to exert load and heat on a composite of carbon fiber mat or glass fiber mat and matrix. The result is a rig agreed with horizontal tensiometer that can be called a prestress machine. This machine holds a certain tension on the fibers while the matrix is being cured. The main parts of the prestress machine are the mold, pulling crosshead, oven and sensors. This paper presents the steps of constructing and using this machine. Experimental investigations were carried out to determine the complete set of stiffness characteristics Eij, Gij, vij and strength characteristics σi,n, ei,n. The outcome results show that this machine can produce prestressed composite materials with much better mechanical properties comparing to those properties of the non-prestressed composite materials.


This issue of the journal covers a wide range of themes. Ian Greer, Zinovijus Ciupijus and Nathan Lillie explore the effort to create a transnational trade union for migrant workers in the construction sector. Though this attempt to transcend the organizational limits of national trade unionism was unsuccessful, the authors find some positive outcomes in terms of collective support for highly mobile and potentially vulnerable workers within a regime of 'free movement' across national boundaries. Adrien Thomas examines organizational changes in trade unions within two very different national contexts, France and Germany. In both countries, there have been interesting parallels in the adoption of structures and practices more common in business organizations. The result has been significant tension between protagonists of the new approach and those committed to a traditional democratic representative model. Christine Trampusch compares company-level collective agreements on occupational pensions in three Nordic countries, exploring very different employer preferences. In Sweden, employers promoted such agreements; in Denmark, they initially resisted but then embraced these systems; in Norway they have remained opposed. These differences are explained in terms of distinctive configurations of labour markets, public policies and financial markets. Tapio Bergholm and Andreas Bieler compare the withdrawal of Swedish employers from peak-level bargaining in the 1990s with the similar but more recent process in Finland. The differences in the timing and the radicalism of employers' break from the postwar industrial relations framework is analysed in terms of contrasts in union cohesion, the structural power of capital, the political conjuncture and the degree of exposure to international competition. Jason Heyes compares responses to economic crisis in Ireland, the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic. Despite some similarities, there are marked differences in the extent to which these responses have been negotiated and have been directed to cushioning adverse labour market effects: a reflection of contrasts in union strength and in the institutional frameworks of industrial relations. Overall, the experience questions the credibility of the European Commission's enthusiasm for 'flexicurity'.


abstract This study addresses the extent to which county-level poverty, housing affordability, food store availability and access, and average SNAP benefits predict food affordability in Missouri counties using an ordinary least squares regression model. Emphasis was given to the difference between rural and urban counties. Bivariate analysis shows food affordability differs significantly between rural and urban counties. Multivariate analysis reveals the important impact of poverty on food affordability, an impact that is more noticeable in rural households. Additionally, the importance of SNAP benefits is amplified for rural households, whereas access is significant in predicting food affordability for urban households.


Passively mode-locked fiber lasers are stable and practical ultrashort pulse sources. We have been investigating the highly functional wideband ultrashort pulse fiber laser sources using ultrafast fiber nonlinear effects. These novel light sources are useful in the fields of metrology. In this talk, the development of highly functional wideband fiber laser sources and their applications for ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) are discussed.


CONCLUSION: In the nearly 5 years since the original article, research has confirmed that the majority of breast cancer survivors demonstrate a pattern of recovery after treatment. Age, information, social support, degree of symptom distress, and unmet psychological needs remain key factors influencing psychosocial functioning and QOL outcomes. More knowledge has been disseminated about the experience of the transition to survivorship, women's perceived identity, and the potential benefits of survivorship plans to patient outcomes.


China International Famine Relief Commission was a famine relief charity founded jointly by China and foreign countries in twenties and thirties in the 20th century. It was based on ideas of preventing famine rather than relieving famine that working relief was the most scientific and reasonable in all kinds of famine relief. It relieved the victims of a natural calamity by means of project instead of relief during famine days or other common days. The project relief had a large scale, had acquired good effect, and had made lots of influence.


Pigeons were trained to discriminate between four keys, one of which provided food in the mornings, another which provided food in the afternoons, and two which never provided food. Three experiments were performed to determine if pigeons could track food availability over a 24-hr period. In Experiment 1, food was available at one place (pecking key) in the mornings and at a different place in the afternoons. Although the length of time between sessions was much greater than in previous studies (e.g., Wilkie & Willson, 1992), all subjects appeared to demonstrate time-place associative learning . In order to rule out the possibility of an alternation strategy, in Experiment 2 only morning or only afternoon sessions were given. Subjects maintained well above chance performance, showing that they were not simply alternating between the two rewarded locations. In Experiment 3, the length of time between morning and afternoon sessions was varied. The results indicated an increase in errors as the inter-session interval decreased, which provides further support for a timing as opposed to an alternation mechanism. Experiment 4 was designed to investigate mechanisms underlying the timing behaviour. Lights-on time was shifted back by 6 hr and no decrease in performance was found during the first session following this phase shift. This finding rules out an interval timer and suggests that a circadian type of timing mechanism, with a self-sustaining oscillator, mediates timeplace learning over a period of 24 hr. Further support for this notion was found in Experiment 5 in which subjects were tested in constant dim light. In that experiment subjects' continued correct responding provides additional support for a self-sustaining circadian timer. ii


With the growing number of the in-vehicle electronic devices,the weight of vehicle increases,wiring becomes more difficult,EMI(Electronic Magnetism Interfere) affects the quality of transmission.The software and hardware design of MOST-based in-vehicle audio system are introduced.Audio devices can be controlled,stream data can be transmitted,and functions related to transmission can be explored.The experiment indicates that MOST bus has the advantages of anti-interference,low quality,high speed and low cost.So it becomes foundation and theory for applying MOST to in-vehicle multimedia,smart homes,or add other in-vehicle devices to MOST bus afterwards.


The scenario most frequently selected by panellists is entirely oriented towards family and gender roles. It emphasizes the importance of government support and assistance in both family formation process and eradicating poverty. The main goals of the scenario are the improvement in families living conditions, especially young families and the fight against poverty.


12 Increasing attention is being directed at mapping the fractional woody cover of savannahs using 13 Earth-observation data. In this study, we test the utility of Landsat TM/ ETM-based spectral-temporal 14 variability metrics for mapping regional-scale woody cover in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, 15 for 2010. We employ a machine learning framework to compare the accuracies of Random Forest 16 models derived using metrics calculated from different seasons. We compare these results to those 17 from fused Landsat-PALSAR data to establish if seasonal metrics can compensate for structural 18 information from the PALSAR signal. Furthermore, we test the applicability of a statistical variable 19 selection method, the recursive feature elimination (RFE), in the automation of the model building 20 process in order to reduce model complexity and processing time. All of our tests were repeated at 21 four scales (30, 60, 90, and 120 m-pixels) to investigate the role of spatial resolution on modelled 22 accuracies. 23 Our results show that multi-seasonal composites combining imagery from both the dry and wet 24 seasons produced the highest accuracies (R= 0.77, RMSE=9.4, at the 120 m scale). When using a single 25 season of observations, dry season imagery performed best (R=0.74, RMSE=9.9, at the 120 m 26


The study analyses collaborative practice in offsite manufacturing (OSM) housing supply chains, focusing specifically on supply chains driven by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The study's analysis builds on previous work where we argued that collaboration in OSM housing construction comprises nine elements. In this study, the authors demonstrate empirically that SMEs enact these collaborative practice elements in distinct ways, foregrounding key elements over others. One core model and two sub-models of collaboration emerge from our two case studies.,The study analyses two SME-driven supply chains using qualitative case study techniques. Data were gathered through 12 semi-structured interviews conducted in two housing construction supply chains: one in South Australia, Australia, and another in Tasmania, Australia.,A comparative case study of SMEs shows that collaboration in OSM supply chains has a number of common elements, including a champion for innovation, investment in long-term relationships, resourceful use of limited assets and physical co-location. However, SMEs can also enact these elements through a range of diverging collaborative strategies that can be distilled into different models: stable relationality and dynamic innovation.,Findings provide a compelling empirical basis for arguing that SMEs can successfully lead OSM supply chains if key collaborative practice elements are strategically mobilised in ways that are suited to their strengths and limitations. The study therefore interrogates the widely held and often limiting assumption that OSM can only be driven by large organisations with access to capital assets, capacity to invest and undisputed bargaining power.


Members of electronic communities are often unrelated to each other, they may have never met and have no information on each other's reputation. This kind of information is vital in Electronic Commerce interactions, where the potential counterpart's reputation can be a significant factor in the negotiation strategy. Collaborative reputation mechanisms can provide personalized evaluations of the various ratings assigned to each user to predict their reliabilities. While these reputation mechanisms are developed in the context of electronic commerce, they are applicable in other types of electronic communities such as chatrooms, newsgroups, mailing lists etc. Online communities bring together people geographically and sociologically unrelated to each other. Online communities have traditionally been created in the context of discussion groups, in the form of newsgroups, mailing lists or chatrooms. Online communities are usually either goal or interest-oriented. But, other than that, there is rarely any other kind of bond or real life relationship among the members of communities before the members meet each other online. The lack of information about the background, the character and especially the reliability of the members of these communities cause a lot of suspicion and mistrust among their members. When a newcomer joins a chatroom, a newsgroup or a mailing list, he/she does not know how seriously he/she should take each participant until he/she has formed an opinion about the active members of the group. Likewise the old members of the group do not know how seriously they should take a newcomer until he/she establishes him/herself in the group. If the group has a lot of traffic, the noise to signal ratio becomes too high, and the process of filtering out the interesting messages becomes increasingly difficult-3-for a newcomer or an occasional reader of the group. If users did have an indication for the reputation of the author of each message, they could prioritize the messages according to their predicted quality. Similar problems are encountered in other kinds of online communities as well. The recent development of online auction sites, and other forms of electronic marketplaces has created a new kind of online community, where people meet each other to bargain and transact goods. Online marketplaces like Kasbah [1], MarketMaker [14], eBay [4] and OnSale Exchange [16] introduce two major issues of trust: Potential buyers have no physical access to the product of interest while they are bidding or negotiating. Therefore sellers can easily misrepresent the condition …


Chapter headings: Control of Discrete Event Systems. Modelling and Performance of Discrete Event Systems. Hybrid Systems. Applications of Discrete Event System Theory. Scheduling and Control of Manufacturing Systems. Petri Nets in Manufacturing. Systems with Markov Jump Parameters. Control of Stochastic Systems. Continuous-time Stochastic Systems. Recursive Estimation and Stochastic Approximation. Neural Control Applications I. Neural Control Applications II. Neural Networks for Identification. Author index. Keyword index.


In a large federation of learning object repositories, learning object locations or learning object URLs in metadata can become out of date when learning objects are moved or deleted. Regular checking of learning object URLs is essential. However, fully checking across a large federation imposes an unsustainable burden on time and resources while negatively impacting networks and repositories. This paper describes a broken URL handling system with a heuristic model that can provide a sustainable solution for federation service managers while enhancing communication and collaboration among federation stakeholders.


The purpose of the paper is to discuss the testing philosophy of large system EMI testing and some of the methods used to reduce the test logistics and complexity; it is also for Regulatory Agents to consider when writing up EMC rules. Actual test data are given to substantiate the rationales behind the test methods.


Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of nedaplatin plus etoposide for small cell lung cancer. Methods 67 cases of small cell lung cancer patients were randomly divided into 2 groups. The research group received nedaplatin plus etoposide,and the control group received cisplatin plus etoposide. Clinical efficacy,1-year survival rates and side effects of the 2 groups were compared. Results Clinical efficacy of the research group was superior to the control group. 1-year survival rates of the 2 groups were 52. 4% and 51. 6% respectively,P = 0. 365. Vomiting and neurological toxicities,liver and kidney dysfunction of the experimental group were obviously lower than those of the control group,P 0. 05,the difference was statistically significant. Conclusion Nedaplatin plus etoposide for small cell lung cancer is effective with tolerable side effects,and it is worthy of further exploration and research.


HIV/AIDS falls in the top 10 leading causes of death in TT during the 1997–2007 Period. The cumulative total of HIV cases for the country was 20,176 and the number of AIDS cases 6,042 since the start of the epidemic in 1983 to December 2008. The largest increase in newly reported HIV cases occurred in the 20–49–year age group, followed by adolescents (15–19 years) in 2008. This was followed by a decline in new infections and deaths between 2008 and 2011. Unfortunately, there has been an increase in the numbers of new infections since 2012, particularly in the 1519 age group. Hence the new slogan for World AIDS Day up to 2015, "Getting to zero – zero new infections, zero AIDS related deaths, zero stigma and discrimination". The increase was largely due to early sexual initiation, individuals having unprotected sex, using inconsistent protection, multiple partners and/or not using protection/condoms correctly.


14.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Oral submucous fibrosis is considered to be a potentially malignant disease caused primarily due to areca nut chewing. Various theories have been put forth since many decades by many researchers about the pathogenesis of oral submucous fibrosis. Still many controversies do exist and modern concepts have been evolved in the current decades. This review attempts to give a bird's eye view about the various pathogenesis that have been proposed in the past and present.


The environmental concerns of the 1970s led to legislation prohibiting dumping of sewage material into the ocean. The past decade, however, has pointed up both the costs and environmental consequences of land-based dumping. In a swing of the political pendulum, ocean dumping of sewage sludge is now seen as the cheapest and least-damaging strategy currently available. The evidence pro and con is examined here by NOAA's experts on marine-pollution control. The overall health of the open oceans and most of the US coastal waters is good. In most areas the disturbances caused by human activities are far less than the variations caused by naturally occurring phenomena. Nevertheless, particularly in estuaries, there are regions where severe degradation due to pollution exists; in many more regions problems are developing. While we deliberately dispose of some wastes directly in the ocean, ultimately the ocean is the sink for all wastes. It is important that we understand the oceanic and ecological processes which control the distribution, fate, and effects of these wastes in order to preserve our oceanic resources for future generations. 32 references, 3 figures.


In this paper, we are concerned with a class of system of nonlinear singular fractional differential equations with integral boundary conditions. More precisely, we establish sufficient conditions for existence, multiplicity and nonexistence of positive solutions. The results are derived in terms of different values of the parameters. Our approach relies on the Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem. Some examples are given to illustrate our main results.


The educator is a "Translator" ie manufacturer of algorithms for a teaching in the infosphere. The teacher who turns into a robotic mind perhaps of the type R2D2 a research droid, will be the emblem of our future. The work aims to validate the moments of transformation through which, over the centuries, the mathematical sciences, with the help of philosophy, have elevated the languages Natural Language Generation (NLG) to formal models. The starting hypothesis is to corroborate an epistemological statute, which entrusts mental processes with logical-mathematical reasoning following four models: Chomsky (1956), which, with descriptive grammar, marks a new model for the rewriting of languages; Gross (1975), which, with the relationship between linguistics, informatics and mathematics, generates a relation concerning a strongly transdisciplinary domain, in which linguistics


Subjective or perceived control over job-related activities or events is a frequently measured construct in organizational stress research. Karasek (1985) assessed perceived control as both decision authority and skill discretion at work (job decision latitude). Ganster (1989b; Dwyer and Ganster, 1991) developed a multidimensional or general measure of worker control, as well as a specific measure of work predictability. Because little published psychometric data exist for these scales, we investigated the item-level measurement properties of Karasek's and Ganster's measures. We hypothesized two separate, two-factor solutions, decision authority and skill discretion, for the job decision latitude scale, and general control and predictability, for the work control scale. The dimensionality of both measures was assessed in multiple, independent samples using confirmatory factor analyses (LISREL) with maximum likelihood estimation. Simultaneous solutions across samples were used to determine the fit of the factor models to the data. The hypothesized two-factor solutions were confirmed for both Karasek's and Ganster's scales, although item refinement is indicated. We also investigated the relative independence between Karasek's and Ganster's scales and found a lack of independence between the general control and decision authority items in one sample. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present several opportunities that can emerge from using a multilevel approach to study the antecedents of export venture performance, and provide scholars with the conceptual and practical tools for developing multilevel models of export venture success.

Design/methodology/approach

Essay.

Findings

The paper shows the problems which scholars face if they continue to engage in using single venture data to test models that are inherently multilevel in nature.

Research limitations/implications

There may be a need to revisit previous works that utilize samples of single ventures to assess models of export venture performance that are implicitly multilevel.

Practical implications

This paper outlines the practical issues that researchers need to consider when conducting multilevel research in the export venture performance field.

Originality/value

This paper is the first to focus on the multilevel nature of the export venture performance construct.


Screening tree species in tropical rainforest according to their shade tolerance is important to efficiently manage the native trees of economic significance in secondary forest enrichment regimes. The objective of this study was to determine the whole-plant light compensation point (WPLCP) and compare the phenotypic plasticity in relation to growth and carbon allocation of Cariniana legalis and Gallesia integrifolia seedlings under low light availability.

 Seedlings were cultivated for 77 days under conditions of five photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) (0.02, 1.1, 2.3, 4.5 and 5.9 mol photons m−2 day−1) in three replicates. Growth and carbon allocation variables were determined.

 Growth rates of C. legalis were higher and lower than those of G. integrifolia under 1.1 and 5.9 mol photons m−2 day−1, respectively. The WPLCP differed significantly between the two species. In accordance with the criteria of the shade tolerance classification for these two tropical tree species, our results showed that C. legalis had lower WPLCP and phenotypic plasticity in terms of higher growth rates and greater shade tolerance than G. integrifolia. From a practical point of view, we demonstrated that the differential linkage between growth and changing PAR between the two species can become a useful tool for comparing and selecting tree species in forest enrichment projects.


[Objective] To investigate the trace elements level of pregnant women in Jiangmen city, to provide scientific bases for adding trace elements in time for pregnant women and raise awareness of the importance of trace elements detection. [Methods] Zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), and calcium (Ca) detection were conducted in 280 pregnant women, and further statistical analysis was conducted. [Results] The pregnant women in the city imbalances in the ordinary existence of trace elements, especially being lack of Zn, Fe and Ca. [Conclusion] The trace elements level should be closely monitored in pregnant women, and further supplement accordingly.


Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for event messaging over a network. An identification module receives first data identifying consumer devices available to receive event messages linked to a topic. The identification module receives second data identifying a producer device available to provide event messages linked to the topic. A provisioning module links a plurality of values to respective consumer devices that are linked to the topic. A scheduler module accesses a first data message linked to the topic. The first data message includes a key value. The scheduler module provides the first data message to a selected one of the consumer devices based on a comparison of the key value and the plurality of values of the respective consumer devices.


In the paper, the steady-state steering dynamics model of the cars is firstly established. Then, three degree of freedom model of double row angle contact ball bearing is established. Based on the mathematical model and load spectrum, wheel hub bearing unit service life is calculated and estimated. The analysis results of the service life influencing factors have an important guiding significance for the design and use of hub bearing unit.


The invention provides a method for realizing the paperless transmission of a logistics business document on a mobile communication network. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps that: the logistics business document is sent to related operator terminals registered to be bound with the business document by a message type service of the mobile communication network through a verification signing server and a mobile modulator-demodulator after being generated on a mobile logistics information processing platform and related operators process the business according to document requirements shown in message type service information per se; and after the transition of the business is finished, processing results of the document are sent to the verification signing server on the mobile logistics information processing platform through a mobile communication network and the verification signing server confirms the results by signing after verifying the results to fulfill the aim of realizing the paperless transmission of the logistics business document on a mobile network. The invention has the advantage of providing the method for realizing the paperless transmission of the logistics business document, which is low in cost and easy to realize.