In this paper, we examine a form of garbled (or encrypted) circuit introduced by Beaver, Micali, and Rogaway as part of their design of a constant-round secure function evaluation (SFE) protocol [5]. We show that a subtle flaw in their construction allows even a simple passive adversary (also known as an "honest-but-curious adversary") to discover private data when evaluating such a garbled circuit. In particular, information leaks from the garbled circuit at places where multiple gates share a common input wire, and is extracted by exploiting dependencies between the gate labels of the multiple gates that share that input wire. In addition to showing how this flaw manifests itself and how it can be exploited, we pinpoint the errors in the corresponding security proof [19]. Finally, we introduce a new type of gate called a "splitter" which corrects the security flaw by removing all instances of shared input wires, and using this we can correct the problems in the proof as well, giving a secure garbled circuit. This corrected circuit can be substituted for the original construction in applications such as the constant round SFE protocol of Beaver, Micali, and Rogaway and secure mobile agent protocols such as described by Algesheimer et al. [1]


Carrier element (2) for mounting a fan (1), particularly an axial fan, with a wall ring (4) for receiving the fan (1), wherein the wall ring (4) on its outer periphery has a hinge (20), which consists of an the wall ring (4) connected to the first hinge part (22) and a relative to the first hinge part (22) about a hinge axis (X) pivotable second hinge part (24), and wherein the two hinge parts (22, 24) (in the direction of the hinge axis X ) aligned bearing receptacles (28) on the one hand, and bearing journals (30) on the other hand, have the parallel in (to a central axis of the wall ring 4) the joining direction are joined together, wherein the bearing housings (28) open bearing shells are formed as corresponding to the joining direction, characterized in that the joined hinge portions (22, 24) via latching means (40) are fixed against loosening.


With commercial generation Huoyan geese as animals for experiment,experimental diets assigned with 9.61,10.45,11.29,12.12 and 12.96 MJ of ME/kg,each containing 140,160,180,and 200 g/kg CP respectively,a 5×4 factorial arrangement was adopted,and the effects of dietary ME and CP concentrations on growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler geese were analyzed.The result showed that:(1) Dietary ME concentrations had no significant effect on daily average body weight gain of broiler geese aged from 5 to 8 weeks(P0.05),but significantly affected daily average feed consumption and feed gain ratio(P0.01).CP contents produced no significant effect on daily average feed consumption and daily average body weight gain(P0.05),but had significant effect on feed gain ratio(P0.05).Ideal growth performance could be obtained by ME 12.12 MJ/kg and CP 160 g/kg.(2) Dietary ME and CP levels had no significant effects on eviscerated carcass weight rate and breast muscle rate as well as leg muscle rate and liver relative weight(P0.05),but ME affected abdominal fat rate and sebum rate of broiler geese significantly(P0.01),CP affected abdominal fat rate significantly(P0.05),but had no significant effect on sebum rate(P0.05).A strong positive correlation existed between ME concentrations and indexes of abdominal fat rate and sebum rate.Through the present experiment and combining production practice,the optimum requirements of ME and CP were 12.12 MJ/kg and 160 g/kg for broiler geese aged from 5 to 8 weeks respectively.


The enterprises of the industrial complex of Moscow potentially represent one of the most significant segments of the industrial market for innovative products of small enterprises.
From the point of view of priorities in the implementation of support for innovation, this significance is as follows:
• industrial enterprises are able to produce high-quality, highly profitable products with high added value, which ensure expanded reproduction and the formation of the city budget through tax deductions;
• In addition, stable jobs are created for city residents from various social strata.


ABSTRACTThe pulse-discharge electroporation system HPES-3 has been used to transfer the bialaphos acetyltransferase gene of plasmid pDM302 into three commercial spring wheat cultivars T2003, Huanong No. 400 and Qu an Mai No. 1. These three cultivars are widely farmed in South China. The immature embryos, collected at 12–15 days after anthesis, were electropo- rated and exposed to phosphinothricin-containing medium. Phosphinothricin-resistant embryogenic calli were induced and from these a plantlet of cultivar T2003 was recovered. PCR analysis and DNA dot blot hybridization showed that the bialaphos acetyltransferase gene was present in the cells of the transgenic plant.


It is shown that the rationalized M.K.S. system of units when adopted in presenting the subject of electromagnetism, supplied the need for a single system of units with the least possible disturbance to current practice. The informative natures of the formulae and dimensional expressions arising from the use of the system are stressed and the case for the general adoption of the system in physics is examined. Some units and conversion factors are tabulated. Difficulties arising from the historic development of magnetic units are discussed.


Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an extremely rare disease associated with tissue infiltration by pathological cells which are phenotypically similar to normal Langerhans cells. Standard therapy of LCH in adults has not been developed so far, due to the lack of sufficient evidence base for different treatment methods. In clinical practice, cytostatic treatment is applied along with new approaches using signaling pathway inhibitors involved in LCH pathogenesis. This literature review covers currently existing methods of LCH therapy in adults and their feasibility in clinical practice.


Schwabach, April 2012. Unified Automation announces a new family of products that accelerate the use of the communication standard OPC UA on Windows based systems having a .NET environment. For the trade show HMI in Hannover, Germany the first product—the ".NET based OPC UA Client SDK"—will be shown as Technical Preview. Following its tradition of professional OPC UA toolkits Unified Automation now offers a solution for the large area of .NET applications. The final release date of the Client SDKs is planned for end of April. In fall this year the second product, the Server-Edition, will follow.


This is a clear, well produced, research text showing the acknowledged influences of Peter Gould, David Lowenthal and Colin Clarke. Perhaps, for the non-technical reader, it would have been helpful to have raw figures of sample populations as well as percentages and explanations of the areal sampling frames. There were commendably few typographical errors. The only important one that I noted was on page 13 where the date for controls on immigration to the United Kingdom was given as 1952 instead of 1962. The text is helpfully signposted with sub-headings and there is a useful summary and conclusion at the end of each chapter. Maps and photographs add to the attractions of the volume. The Department of Caribbean Studies at Warwick University should be congratulated on producing this stimulating, scholarly series of monographs.


The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) envisions a workplace markedly different from the one that organized labor has long endeavored to construct. Labor has traditionally considered one of its primary missions to be protecting employees from the arbitrary treatment that employers can inflict under the common-law rule of "at-will" employment. For only by curtailing such treatment can labor realize its more familiar policy objectives — enhanced job security and predictability, higher wages, more generous benefits, and better working conditions. To shield employees from arbitrary treatment, labor has advocated workplace policies — such as for-cause termination and seniority rights — that limit employers' decisionmaking discretion and require employers to treat all their employees equally. The ADA, by contrast, necessarily requires employers to exercise significant discretion. Like other employment-discrimination laws, the ADA seeks to ensure that employers treat employees as individuals. But whereas other employment-discrimination laws promote individualized treatment only indirectly, the ADA directly mandates such treatment for individuals with disabilities by affirmatively requiring employers to accommodate such individuals based on an assessment of each person's unique needs and capacities. Employers cannot provide this kind of individualized treatment without exercising significant discretion to depart from or modify generally applicable workplace policies.By exposing the tension between labor's goal of limiting employer discretion and the ADA's accommodation requirement, this Article offers a new take on the perennial debate among scholars over the nature of that requirement and its relationship to prior antidiscrimination mandates, particularly Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It also develops a distinctive analytical framework for understanding the relationship between labor law and employment-discrimination law and for addressing controversies arising at the intersection of labor goals and antidiscrimination norms. It specifically applies that framework to one such controversy: whether the ADA can ever require an employer to reassign a disabled employee to a particular position in violation of the employer's competitive-assignment policy. Normatively, the Article offers a number of reasons to reconcile the ADA's accommodation requirement to labor's goal of limiting employer discretion, rather than vice versa. And amid calls by scholars to extend the ADA's model of individualized treatment to other employment-discrimination laws and workplace regulation more generally, this Article sounds a note of caution, suggesting that we should consider alternatives — such as disparate-impact liability — that accommodate difference in the workplace without subverting labor goals.


In this paper, we provide a fairly general self-reference-free proof of the second incompleteness theorem from Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth.


Increased penetration of the distributed energy sources in the grid and the growth of complex electrical power networks can increase the short-circuit current level of the power system. This increased current level requires upgrading circuit breakers, switches, and other equipment, which can be expensive and cause high copper and switching losses. Fault current limiters are designed to address the impacts of high fault currents. This paper investigates a strategy to limit the fault current using a saturable reactor and dynamic voltage restorer. By employing the magnetic saturation of the core with DC bias control, the reactance inserted into the system is varied based on the fault. Fault current limitation through a saturable reactor is implemented and compared with a dynamic voltage restorer. The case studies are performed on 1) a radial system and 2) CIGRE-IEEE low-voltage system for both balanced and unbalanced fault conditions. For the radial system, fault current limited by saturable reactor has significantly less magnitude than the DVR, but for a complex system, there is only a small difference in line current magnitude. The simulation studies performed in the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation environment show that as a fault current limiter, the saturable reactor limits the fault current in less time than the DVR.


FIELD: information technologies. SUBSTANCE: suggestion refers to test captions decoder (42) which comprises text captions processing unit (411), text viewer (412) and representation controller (415). Text captions processing unit (411) decomposes text captions flow retrieving text data and representation control information. Herewith, text data comprises captions text to be represented in text caption area. After the text captions flow has been decomposed, text viewer (412) visualises text data into raster data using representation control information. Representation controller (415) controls operations of text captions viewer (412) processing unit (411). EFFECT: providing possibility to detect special information of representation control in text captions flow so that text data for text captions included into text captions flow could be represented in standardised manner. 24 cl, 13 dwg


The present invention discloses a surgical stapler (450), which includes an anvil assembly (100), anvil shaft (104), a driver (62), the actuating arm (86), the safety switch (451,851) and the security feature (488,888). Anvil assembly (100) and the anvil shaft (104) is coupled. Drive (62) driving a plurality of staples into tissue. Actuating arm (86) associated with surgical stapler and can drive the actuator to drive a plurality of staples into tissue. Safety switch (451,851) is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. When the safety switch is in the locked position, preventing operation of the safety switch actuator arm. When the safety switch is in the unlocked position, allowing operation of the safety switch actuator arm. Even when the safety switch is in the unlocked position, a safety feature (488,888) can be prevented operation of the driver or to prevent the operation of the safety switch.


Research on Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS) in Indonesia has been studied to identify the characteristics and distribution of MCS. Persistent Elongated Convective System (PECS) is one of the MCS types that can cause extreme weather. However, identifying the spatial and temporal variations of PECS in Indonesia has not been studied further. This study examines the Persistent Elongated Convective System (PECS) in Maritime Continent from 2010-2014. MERG Dataset with brightness temperature is used to identify PECS and input Grab 'Em Tag 'Em Graph 'Em (GTG) tracking algorithm to gain a better understanding of spatiotemporal variation in Indonesia. Flood data from BNPB in Indonesia is used to find out the correlation between flood and PECS events in Indonesia. PECS events in 2010-2014 are 5574 events, which the transitional period (MAM and SON) has the most PECS events and longest duration of life. The PECS spread in the early morning on land and sea, while on day and nighttime, it is concentrated on land for the area of Java, Papua, and Southern Kalimantan. Java and Papua have the largest concentrated PECS events. The life phase of the PECS has two peaks or semidiurnal cycles, in the morning and nighttime. There are differences in peak times for each phase of the PECS on land and sea. In Indonesia, PECS has the smallest average maximum area than in the USA and China but has the longest duration and largest eccentricity. Based on flood data from BNPB, during 2010-2014, Java has the most flood. According to flood data and PECS events in Java, there is 6.72% of flood coincided with PECS events during the period.


2Faculty of Environmental Studies, Nagasaki University, 3 AIDS Medical Center, National Hospital Organization, Osaka National Hospital Background and Objective : Patients unknowingly infected with human immunodefi ciency virus (HIV) comprise a strong potential source of transmission. Therefore, minimizing the time that patients spend between infection and diagnosis in the source is important. Obtaining suffi cient information about such patients was diffi cult in Japan due to the small population of individuals who were HIV-infected. Therefore, we tracked such individuals over the course of 8 years. Subjects and Methods : Of HIV-infected patients registered at Osaka National Hospital, 492 who had been untreated for at least 30 days were enrolled. A Cox proportional hazard regression analysis was performed using the time between the initial diagnosis and the initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) as a response variable. The annual rates of decrease of untreated patients with HIV infection were also calculated. Results : Kaplan-Meier survival curves were drawn for patients with HIV who had average, high or low CD4 + cell (CD4) counts and HIV RNA loads. Risk ratios were


The present study proposes a numerical model to analyze the effect of four dimensional parameters on performance characteristics such as Coefficient of performance (COP), of the Inertance-Type Pulse Tube Refrigerator (ITPTR). The numerical model is validated by comparing with previously published results. The detail analysis of cool down behaviour, heat transfer at the cold end and the pressure variation inside the whole system has been carried out by using the most powerful computational fluid dynamic software package ANSYS FLUENT 13. The operating frequency for all the studied cases is (34 Hz). In fact, to get an optimum parameter experimentally is a very tedious for iterance pulse tube refrigerator job, so that the CFD approach gives a better solution. Finally, an artificial neural network (ANN) based process model is proposed to establish relation between input parameters and the responses. The model provides an inexpensive and time saving substitute to study the performance of ITPTR. The model can be used for selecting ideal process states to improve ITPTR performance.


A solution of an alkali metal in a fused halide of the same metal is discussed in terms of the mixing of the two negative species, halide ions and F- center-like electrons in cavities, within the irregular lattice of positive ions. The positive energy of mixing is related to the excess energy of a hypothetical metal comprising an ionic lattice of F-centers and positive ions over that of the true metal. The theory predicts substantial positive excess entropies of mixing. The solubility data of Bredig and collaborators are shown to be consistent with this model and certain parameters are evaluated for each system.


Landsenses ecology is a scientific discipline mainly focusing on land⁃use planning, construction and management towards sustainable development based on ecological principles, with natural elements, physical and physiological senses, social economy, as well as processes and risks in consideration. Unreasonable resource utilization and land development often bring various ecological risks, which leads to problems in ecological security. The main research content of landsenses ecology involves land⁃use, and its goal is human vision and social needs related to sustainable development. To some extent, landsenses ecology consists with ecological security researches especially in their goals, basic principles, study scales and contents, so it is necessary to combine landsenses ecology with ecological security research. Based on the brief analysis of the connotation and main characteristics of ecological security, we discussed how to apply the idea and method of landsenses ecology into ecological security researches in this paper. Therefore, the primary methods in landsenses ecology, like melioration models, mix⁃marching data, and Internet of Things can also be adopted in data acquisition, evaluation and


This report summarizes the staff development provided to secondary teachers at four dioceses schools in the North and South Pare of Tanzania in 2014.  Included is information supporting the need for a seminar on English conversation and teaching strategies, overview of the ELCT schools educational system, the seminar curriculum including past training experiences, the dioceses project proposal submission, and the staff development interest survey.  The report also discusses project goals, scheduling and attendance by participants in the seminar at the schools, information about the teachers' subject content areas of instruction, and reported years of teaching experience.  Discussion of classroom visitations and observations and the use of technology are presented.  A Post-Evaluation: Staff Development Implementation Survey discussing potential use of the strategies with students is also presented.  A teacher evaluation of the seminar and a proposal with further recommendations are provided.  This is the fourth on-site seminar provided to the schools since 2006, 2008 and 2011 by the author.


In this paper, we propose a 3D shape indicator device driven by Ionic-Polymer-Metal-Composite(IPMC). In the device, there are multiple actuators which can be driven continuously. Since IPMC is a soft actuator, it is expected that the device is human-friendly. Firstly, we describe the conventional control method of IPMC, then we describe the concept of the device and propose a control method with a Hammerstein model. The effectiveness of the proposed control method will be shown by an experiment.


Salts of the active ingredient clopidogrel with polyanions are described. The salts are predominantly in amorphous form, and the polyanions have at least 4 negative charges, but preferably more than 7 and very particularly preferably more than 10 charges.


A comparative study on the antiepileptic effects of Ethanol Extracts of Scorpion(EES) and Valproic Acid(VPA) in epileptic rat model induced by Lithium Chloride-Pilocarpine(Licl-Pilo). Of 186 adult male SD rats,6 served as normal controls(control group),the others were injected with Licl-Pilo as the epileptic rat model.The model rats were randomly assigned to the Licl-Pilo group(n=36),the VPA group(n=36),the low-dose EES group(EESL,n=36),the middle-dose EES group(EESM,n=36),and the high-dose EES group(EESH,n=36).Rats in control and Licl-Pilo group were intragastrically administrated with isometric Sodium Chloride.The other model rats were intragastrically administrated with VPA 120 mg/(kg·d),EES 290 mg/(kg·d),EES 580 mg/(kg·d),and EES 1160 mg/(kg·d) respectively.The model rats were observed for 30 days on the severity and frequency of chronic spontaneous seizures(SRS) which were also compared among groups. The success rate of the epileptic rat model was 85.65%.The mean incidence of SRS in all model rats ranged from 5 to 15 times per week.After treatment,the severity and frequency of SRS were significantly different between the Licl-Pilo,EESM,EESH and VPA group(P 0.05).No significant difference was observed between the EESL and Licl-Pilo group(P 0.05). EES can significantly reduce the incidence of SRS.There is an obvious dose-effect relation between EES and SRS.Those results provide behavioral evidences for the antiepileptic effect of EES.


This study was carried out to investigate the quality properties of pomegranate concentrate with different sterilization conditions and storage temperature during storage. Total microbe level detected in non-sterilization pomegranate concentrate and the multiplication rate of total microbe level were higher at a storage temperature of than at . Coliform was not detected in any of the samples. The pH was gradually increased but and total acidity were gradually decreased. Changes in a color values were gradually decreased but that of the sterilized pomegranate concentrate at (30 min) wasn't changed after storage at . The sterilization of pomegranate concentrate at (30 min) could be useful for preservation.


Using a pulsed‐laser stimulated field desorption time‐of‐flight spectrometer, known as the pulsed‐laser atom probe, surface atoms and atomic layers of one's choice can be mass analyzed one by one. In addition, it is an ion kinetic energy analyzer with which the binding energy of surface atoms can be measured. We have developed a high‐resolution system which measures flight time of each ion with a time resolution of 156 ps. With a flight path of ∼778 cm, this system has a resolution and accuracy of about one to two parts in 105 in mass analysis, ion kinetic energy analysis, and ion reaction rate measurement. This system has been used to study the binding energy of surface atoms in well‐defined sites, formation of cluster ions and their magic and critical numbers, compositional variation across the interface of silicon and silicide layer, field induced surface states, field dissociation of compound ions, and other desorption phenomena. We describe here this high‐resolution system, how it is calibrated, and ...


This paper is concerned with demonstrating that the twistor realization of the ladder representation of U(p,q) can be generalized to super representations of U(p,q‖N). This is achieved by considering the generalization of twistor elementary states to a super algebraic category. Unitarity of these super representations follows from the positive definiteness of a super twistor scalar product constructed in this paper. Although generalizations of the ladder representations have been well studied by other means, it will be shown that the super twistor generalization is especially natural and merits special investigation.


Quality of life (QOL) is a broad multi-dimensional concept that usually includes subjective evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of life. This study was done to understand the QOL of patients with Unipolar Depressive Disorder, before and after treatment when compared to that of the normal population.55 patients with Unipolar Depressive Disorder (UDD Group) and 54 Controls were studied using WHOQOL-BREF scale. It was administered once at the time of recruitment in the study and again after treatment for 3 months and once to the Controls. The comparisons of QOL were made before and after treatment, in terms of degree of improvement in QOL after 3 months of treatment,to discern how close to the normal bench mark they bounce back, with treatment.The Mean scores of the Overall-QOL on the WHOQOL-BREF scale, were severely lowered in the patients in UDDGroup, before starting the treatment. After treatment for 3 months the QOL scores of the UDD group raised close to the QOL levels of the normal Controls.This indicates that the early recognition and prompt treatment of Depression is important in improving the Quality of Life of the patients.


The author analyzed the possibility and necessity of community nursing initiated by third-class comprehensive hospital, and stated nurses of third-class comprehensive hospital played many roles as educator, consultant, severer, coordinator, observer, researcher in community nursing. The author also brought forward roles of nurses of third-class comprehensive hospital in community nursing, which included: (1)experienced nurses graduated from college were sent to community in order to improve community nursing quality. (2)teachers and research base were supplied for cultivation of community nurses.(3)Daily care ward was set up so as to supply convenient treatment and nursing for patients.(4)two-way clinic community health service network was set up to supply good service for community continuously.(5)Community nursing research was developed.


In recent years, the sudden success of "tactical" modes of urbanism has begun to challenge the traditional parameters of public space design by requiring new tools and methodologies of "place–making" within cities. In this regard, interior architecture and design could provide a fundamental perspective to address this new issue if they were not constantly in need of theoretical framing to legitimize their interest in the field. In many cases, in fact, the conjunction between the terms "urban" and "interior" is still seen as a provocation, and the history of the different attempts through which interior disciplines have developed a design approach about the city, although now consolidated, is little known in its complexity. Therefore, this paper offers a critical and historical reading of the concept of "urban interiors," both from a theoretical and an operative point of view, in order to trace the evolution of this line of investigation and envision its possible future developments. In doing so, it first analyses the different concepts of "interior urbanism" and "urban interiority" and describes the emergence and the evolution of the urban interior design approach. Then, it points out some shared features that characterize contemporary practices of "interior–making" within urban situations to eventually focus on the progressive disciplinary convergence with urban planning and design. The objective is to lay the foundation of a unified theoretical framework that could highlight the methodological contribution of interior disciplines to the urban construction.


In order to limit global warming to less than 2°C, the EU has committed itself to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by 20% compared to 1990 levels and as part of the plans for reducing emissions in industrialized countries to cutting them by 2050 by 80–95% compared to 1990 levels [EU-Rat, 2009]. Buildings are responsible for 40% of total energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in Europe [EU-COM, 2008]. Improving energy efficiency and an increased use of renewables are therefore decisive measures to ensure a decrease in the EU's Abstract


Abstract : This monograph traces the development of British incendiary bombs during World War II, 1939-1945. It is written throughout from the point of view of the design of the bombs. Modifications to fillings or change of fillings are noted only briefly unless such changes caused changes in the design of the bomb case or other components. For convenience, however, the bombs are classified according to their type of filling. Brief outlines of the operational use of incendiary bombs and the choice of incendiary bombs for a particular target are included. A statement of the general principles of design of incendiary bombs to meet operational requirements is provided, and the application of these principles is described in the detailed examinations of the bombs that have been developed to date. The detailed survey of the work carried out on the individual bombs includes investigations that were fruitless as well as those that gave successful results. The monograph is divided into six sections: Section 1 -- General, Section 2 -- Magnesium-Thermite Type Bombs, Section 3 -- Non-Magnesium Type Bombs, Section 4 -- Jet Type Bombs, Section 5 -- Dust Type Bombs, and Section 6 -- Appendices and Bibliography. Each section is divided into chapters, each of which focuses on a specific bomb.


J agree with 'Head Occupational Therapist' that the appearance of some Occupational Therapists whilst on duty is slovenly and compares unfavourably with that of other professions working in the hospitals. However, there are two points which I feel should be considered before such a statement is made. Firstly, most other professions have the advantage of a uniform which is an asset to smart appearance. The Occupational Therapist has to do her best with an unattractive, outdated, poor quality outfit. It is therefore hardly surpnsing that her appearance falls short of that of her more fortunate colleagues. Secondly, in any service where a common uniform is worn. slovenliness in appearence is usually a reflection not so much on the individual, as on the tone of the department which should. of course, be controlled by the person in charge.


The analysis scheme and meteorological applications of the GEMPAK data analysis and display software system developed by NASA are described. The program was devised to permit objective, versatile, and practical analysis of satellite meteorological data using a minicomputer and a display system with graphics capability. A data area can be selected within the data file for the globe, and data-sparse regions can be avoided. Distances between observations and the nearest observation points are calculated in order to avoid errors when determining synoptic weather conditions. The Barnes (1973) successive correction method is employed to restore the amplitude of small yet resolvable wavelengths suppressed in an initial filtering pass. The rms deviation is then calculated in relation to available measured data. Examples are provided of treatment of VISSR data from the GOES satellite and a study of the impact of incorrect cloud height data on synoptic weather field analysis.


ppm on a wet weight basis, or approximately 38 ppm on a lipid basis. The murres of the Farallons, with a 13 per cent decrease in shell thickness, might be expected to experience lowered reproductive success. A reduction in shell thickness of 13 per cent in eggs of Mallards (Anus phty~hynchos) induced by dietary DDE under controlled experimental conditions was associated with increased numbers of cracked eggs, reduced hatchability of eggs with untracked shells, and increased embryonic mortality (Heath et al. 1969). Studies of the effects of marine pollution upon the Common Murres and other marine avifauna are continuing at the Farallon Island Station of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. The study was supported by NSF grant GB 11649 to the Institute of Marine Resources, H. S. Olcott, principal investigator. We thank H. S. Olcott, D. W. Anderson, and personnel of the United States Coast Guard and the Point Reyes Bird Observatory for their assistance.


To provide reference for treated colorectal carcinoma in reason,this article discuss a several of measures about detection method of lymph node metastasis of colorectal cancer.


Ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radio is an attractive technology for ad hoc sensor networks due to enhanced interference mitigation, lower radiated power and accurate ranging capability. In the IEEE 802.15.4a standard, a time-multiplexed half-duplex ranging protocol between two distant nodes has been proposed to provide accurate ranging through time-of-flight measurements. To account for the crystal drift, the explicit ranging mode requires the receiving node to estimate the relative drift and to report it back to the initiator node. In this paper, we derive the maximum-likelihood (ML) drift estimator for an UWB pulse train signal. An estimation accuracy of 0.2-0.8 ppm can be achieved with a trellis-based ML design in severe multipath environments, where a sliding windowing scheme is implemented to keep the trellis memory to a minimum


1946; Srinivasan 1946; Krishnamurty 1954; Prasannavarma 1959; Misra 1960). In the present study an attempt has been made to collect information on the seasonal changes in the marine environment, the algal flora and the vertical zonation of the different intertidal organisms growing on the Visakhapatnam coast over a period of 3 years. Some experiments were also conducted in the laboratory on four intertidal algae, by exposing them artificially to air, with a view to finding out their ability to withstand different periods of exposure.


A uni ed statistical learning approach called Bayesian Ying Yang BYY system and theory has been developed by the present author in recent years In a sister paper this BYY system and theory has been shown to function as a general theory for unsupervised learning and its extension called semi unsupervised learning such that not only sev eral existing popular unsupervised learning approaches are included as special cases but also a number of new theories and models are provided for unsupervised pattern recognition and cluster analysis factorial en coding data dimension reduction and independent component analysis In this paper the basic system and theory in is further theoretically justi ed and extended into a general system and theory with a gen eral implementation technique such that not only those results are kept as special cases still but also it works for supervised learning and temporal modeling on parameter learning regularization structural scale or complexity selection and architecture design Particularly temporal modeling and regression based on Hidden Markov Model HMM and the linear and nonlinear state space model are discussed in detail with an adaptive algorithm proposed for various speci c variants of HMM model and state space models Moreover the criteria for deciding the number of hidden states in HMM and the order of state space are also proposed In another sister paper of this proceeding several speci c models and algorithms as well as model selection criteria will be given for dependence reduction data dimension reduction independent com ponent analysis supervised classi cation and regression In addition the Supported by the HK RGC Earmarked Grants CUHK E and CUHK E and by Ho Sin Hang Education Endowment Fund for Project HSH The basic ideas of the BYY learning in my previous papers started the rst year of my returning to HK As HK in transition to China this work was in transition to its current shape The preliminary version of this paper and its sister papers are all completed in the rst month that HK returned to China and thus I formally returned to my motherland as well I would like to use this work as a memory of this historic event relation of the BYY learning system and theory to a number of existing learning models and theories has been discussed in Basic Bayesian Ying Yang System and Theory As shown in Fig the BYY system consists of seven components The rst four components form the core The other three surrounding components are added for the purposes of supervised learning The core itself functions as a general framework for unsupervised learning as shown in In this section we understand the basic idea of the core As shown in unsupervised perception tasks can be summarized into the problem of estimating the joint distribution p x y of the observable pattern x in the observable space X and its representation pattern y in an invisible space Y In the Bayesian framework we have two complementary representations p x y p yjx p x and p x y p xjy p y We use two sets of models M fMyjx Mxg and M fMxjy Myg to implement each of the two representations pM pM x y pMyjx yjx pMx x pM pM x y pMxjy xjy pMy y We call Mx a Yang visible model which describes p x in the visible domain X andMy a Ying invisible model which describes p y in the invisible domain Y Also we call the passage Myjx for the ow x y a Yang male passage since it performs the task of transferring a pattern a real body into a code a seed We call a passage Mxjy for the ow y x a Ying female passage since it performs the task of generating a pattern a real body from a code a seed Together we have a YANG machine M to implement pM x y and a YING machine M to implement pM x y A pair of YING YANG machines is called a YING YANG pair or a Bayesian YING YANG system Such a formalization compliments to a famous Chinese ancient philosophy that every entity in the universe involves the interaction between YING and YANG The task of specifying a Ying Yang system is called learning in a broad sense which consists of the following four levels of speci cations Item According to the nature of the perception task the Representation Domain Y and Its Complexity k are designed For example we have either y R or a binary vector y y y k T y j f g Item Based on the given set of training samples some previous knowl edge assumption and heuristics Architecture Design is made by specifying the architectures of four components pMx x pMyjx yjx pMxjy xjy and pMy y First with a given set Dx fxig N i from an original density p x pMx x is xed at some parametric or nonparametric empirical density estimation of p x It should be Yin in the Mainland Chinese spelling system However I prefer to use Ying for the beauty of symmetry Furthermore strictly speaking we should use P u to replace p u when the corresponding random variable u is discrete However we simply use p for both the cases Readers may identify the di erence according to whether the involved variable is real or discrete Representation Space Y Symbols, Integers, Binary Codes Reals Input pattern space X Output Action Space Z 1


Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of Zhen qi fu zheng capsule combined with Cimetidine on treating flat wart.Methods One hundred and seven patients were randomly divided into treatment group(58 cases) and control group(49 cases).The treatment group treated by Zhen qi fu zheng capsule and Cimetidine,the controls only by Cimetidine.Results The cure rate and the effective rate is 55.4% and 91.1% for the treatment group,34.8% and 76.1% for the control.The effective rates of the two groups had significant difference(χ2= 4.288,P 0.05).Conclusions Combining Zhen qi fu zheng capsule with Cimetidine is one of the safe and effective method to treat flat wart.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION 1. Ayodhya and the Politics of Religion 2. Economic Liberalization and Its Discontents 3. Regime Change and Working the Coalition 4. Two-Power Centres and Government-Party Relations 5. Coping with Inequalities 6. Defending Livelihoods 7. Co-opting the Minorities 8. India-US Nuclear Deal and Great Power Ambitions CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX


This study is to investigate the performance and emissions of diesel engine operating with butanol/diesel fuel blends, injection timing vatiation and exhaust gas recirculation. Using injection timing variation and exhaust gas recirculation may deteriorate the smoke emission, therefore the diesel particulate filter was used to assess the reduction in smoke. Engine experiments were conducted at steady stateat four conditions, including mode 1(idle), mode 2(100%load,1650rpm), mode 7(25%load,1650rpm), and mode 11(25%load,1950rpm). The results reveal that the maximum torque decreased with the use of the butanol/diesel fuel blends,injection timing retarding, and exhaust gas recirculation. Use of butanol/diesel fuel blends slightly increased BSFC, but BSEC remained the same. Retarding injection timing and use of exhaust gas recirculation caused increase in BSFC and decrease in BTE. It is noted that butanol/diesel fuel blends may decrease the exhaust temperature significantly. However, adjust injection timing and use of exhaust gas recirculation almost have no effect to the exhaust temperature. With the use of butanol/diesel fuel blends, NOX and exhaust opacity decrease with the increase in the percentage of butanol. However, retarding injection timing can lower NOX, but has no effect to opacity. Advancing injection timing can reduce opacity, but increases NOX emission. Using exhaust gas recirculation can diminish NOX effectively, but smoke emission gets worse. In summary, using advancing injection timing or exhaust gas recirculation, as well as the diesel particulate filter, can improve both the emission of NOx and opacity as much as 80% in smoke and 20%~70% in NOx.


Services have become an increasingly important part of traditional manufacturing businesses. Manufacturers integrate various services with their product offerings to meet different kinds of customer requirements. In order to retain a competitive advantage of service quality, service cost and customer satisfaction, manufacturers should make as much efforts to service planning as to product planning. A good understanding of architectural perspective and representation technique of service is imperative to facilitate the planning. In this paper, a proposal of service planning is firstly presented, the new architectural perspective of service is provided and an ontology-based model is finally proposed, which enables sharing and reusing of the concepts and knowledge among people during service planning.


Through the chemical experiment, the de-sulfur-r egeneration reaction action and thermodynamic tendency was studied for complex iron-multi-phenol type of liquid phase de-sulfur catalyst, the result indicates that both the de-sulfur reaction and the regeneration reaction belong to oxidation-reduction reactions, the variation rule of potential-pH in reaction process reflects reactive speed reactive degree of oxidation-reduction reaction; the relatively suitable acid-alkali degree of catalyst solution is: 8.25≤pH≤8.50.


Already, soldiers from different Member States are jointly deployed on certain missions. An EU army does not exist, however. Proponents of this idea consider it an indispensable element of an…


Fe/Si multilayer thin films with different sublayer thickness ratios ( RFe/Si) were prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering on Si( 111) and quartz substrates. The films have the same total thickness of 252 nm while the RFe/Si is 1 nm/3. 2 nm,2 nm/6. 4 nm and 20 nm/64 nm,respectively. After annealing at 850 ℃ in Ar atmosphere for 2 h,all the multilayer films on Si ( 111) substrate completely formed β-FeSi2 film. For the same RFe/Si,β-FeSi2 phase and a small amount of e-FeSi phase were formed on quartz substrates. By increasing the thickness of Si sublayer in the Fe/Si multilayer films to Fe ( 2 nm) / Si ( 7. 0 nm) ,a film with single phase of β-FeSi2 was obtained on the quartz substrate. The optical gap of the sample is 0. 87 eV and the surface root mean square roughness is 2. 34 nm.


Complete deconvolution analysis for bulk RNA-seq data is important and helpful to distinguish whether the differences of disease-associated GEPs (gene expression profiles) in tissues of patients and normal controls are due to changes in cellular composition of tissue samples, or due to GEPs changes in specific cells. One of the major techniques to perform complete deconvolution is nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), which also has a wide-range of applications in the machine learning community. However, the NMF is a well-known strongly ill-posed problem, so a direct application of NMF to RNA-seq data will suffer severe difficulties in the interpretability of solutions. In this paper, we develop an NMF-based mathematical model and corresponding computational algorithms to improve the solution identifiability of deconvoluting bulk RNA-seq data. In our approach, we combine the biological concept of marker genes with the solvability conditions of the NMF theories, and develop a geometric structures guided optimization model. In this strategy, the geometric structure of bulk tissue data is first explored by the spectral clustering technique. Then, the identified information of marker genes is integrated as solvability constraints, while the overall correlation graph is used as manifold regularization. Both synthetic and biological data are used to validate the proposed model and algorithms, from which solution interpretability and accuracy are significantly improved.


Background: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an established risk factor for stroke and is a component of the Framingham Stroke Risk Score (FSRS). It is unknown, however, if LVH detected by the...


A flowing electrolyte reservoir system (500) for a flowing electrolyte battery. The system (500) comprises an outer electrolyte tank (515) and an inner electrolyte tank (510) placed under a battery cell stack (640). The inner tank (510) is transversely positioned between opposite corners of the outer electrolyte tank (515), and beneath opposite corners of the battery cell stack (640).


To model the benefit accrued due to limited rate feedback on the information transfer of optimal 'input covariance matrices' from a channel-aware receiver to the transmitting users in a multiple-access channel, we study the distortion-rate tradeoff of a source uniformly distributed over multivariate generalizations of P<inf>F</inf>(n,p2) (the set of positive semi-definite matrices with a trace constraint) and V<inf>n,k</inf>ℂ (the classical Stiefel surface) manifolds. Using sphere-packing and random coding arguments, the distortion-rate function is bounded within asymptotically tight limits.


To evaluate the physicochemical changes induced during processing, silver carp fillets were cooked in different methods (grilling, frying and steaming). Steaming had no significant influence on protein content of fillets whereas after frying and grilling protein content was increased significantly (P<0.05). Decrease in moisture and increase in fat contents was the most prominent changes in proximate composition. After cooking, protein solubility of fillets decreased as grilled sample showed lower solubility compared to steamed samples. All cooking processes reduced L * value and increased b * value. a * value increased significantly in grilled and fried samples compared to raw samples but there were no significant differences between steamed fillets and raw fillets. Using sensory evolution by trained panelists, the fried samples gained higher acceptability compared to other cooking methods (P<0.05).


Platinum group metal (PGM) miners and recycling facilities are losing ~$2 billion (~10% of the total market value) of PGM annually in wastewater and tailing. The membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) is a modular biotechnology which contains a microbial community that can reduce and recover PGMs and potentially precious metals inclduing gold (Au) at mining, refining, or manufacturing sites at concentrations between 0.04 and ~500 ppm. The biofilm employed in the MBfR naturally accumulates PGMs, particularly palladium (Pd) and platinum (Pt), as nanoparticles that have high economic value due to their high specific surface area and superior catalytic capability. In addition, when recovered as nanoparticles using an MBfR, PGMs have ~6x more value than bulk PGMs. In contrast, conventional physical and chemical processes for PGM recovery are costly and introduce contamination into the environment. Thus, MBfR technology is a relatively low-cost and benign alternative to conventional PGM recovery techniques.


Employment generation is one of the major priorities drawing the attention of the governments and economic planners all over the world. India is no exception. The focus on social development and economic growth were viewed as essential for improving the employment situation. Thus, in the Five Year Plans, the generation of employment was viewed as part of the process of development. Successive plan strategies, policies and programmes were, therefore, re-designed to bring about a special focus on employment generation as a specific objective.


Objective To explore the influence of abdominal sacral resection of cylindrical technology on recurrence and metastasis of advanced medium-low rectal cancer after comprehensive treatment. Methods 100 patients with advanced mediumlow rectal cancer and feasible surgical treatment were randomly divided into the observation group and the control group,50 cases in each group. The observation group was treated with abdominal sacral resection of cylindrical technology,chemotherapy in operation and postoperative radiation and chemotherapy,while the control group was treated with anus local excision,chemotherapy in operation and postoperative radiation and chemotherapy. All the patients received postoperative 5-year follow-up. Curative effects,recurrence,metastasis rates and disease-free survival rates postoperative 6-month,1-year,3-year and 5-year of the two groups were compared. Results Significant treating effect and treatment efficiency rate in the observation group were 40% and 96%,respectively,which were higher than 22% and 84% of the control group,and the difference was statistically significant( P 0. 05). 6-month,1-year,3-year and 5-year recurrence rates in the observation group were 2%,2%,6% and 2%,respectively,which were lower than 6%,8%,6% and 18% of the control group,and 6-month,1-year,3-year and 5-year metastasis rates in the observation group were 2%,4%,10% and 4%,respectively,which was lower than 6%,10%,6% and 22% of the control group,and the differences were statistically significant( P 0. 05). 6-month,1-year,3-year and 5-year disease-free survival rates in the observation group were 100%,96%,90% and 82%,respectively,which were significantly higher than 88%,80%,68% and 54% of the control group,and the difference was statistically significant( P 0. 01). Conclusion Abdominal sacral resection of cylindrical technology can effectively reduce the recurrence and metastasis rate of advanced medium-low rectal cancer after comprehensive treatment,and improve disease-free survival rate,it is worthy of clinical promotion.


Alectoria jubata was extracted with organic solvents, Alectoria jubata polysaccharide (ALJ) was isolated and purified from water extract of residue.Sephadex G 75 gel chromatography showed that ALJ was shown to be single substances.By gas chromatography analysis,periodate oxidation and Smith degradation,and IR analysis,it can be concluded that ALJ is a heteropolysaccharide,the main chain is composed of α(1→3) and α(1→6) linkage.


ABSTRACT The task of regulating emissions from merchant ships has become more stringent than ever, particularly given the effectiveness of Sulphur Cap 2020. States are not only empowered but also obliged to take emission abatement actions within the framework set by several international instruments. The effectiveness of these international instruments depends very much on their implementation by the states. This paper aims to reveal and evaluate the implementation of emission abatement measures (EAMs) in China as a flag, coastal and port state, through the exercise of its prescriptive and enforcement jurisdiction under international law. After an extensive review and consultation with experts, this paper finds that China has sufficiently exploited its prescriptive jurisdiction through the processes of legislation. Yet, the both provisions of the Chinese laws and the empirical evidence suggest the need of a more detailed protocols to enforce the Chinese EAMs to achieve the desired deterrent effect. Currently, technological restrictions of the emission detecting devices remain to be a significant hurdle to enforce jurisdiction over vessel source emissions.


Replacing fossil energy with the high proportion of renewable energy power in the field of enduse energy is the main way to reduce carbon emissions from energy combustion. Building heating is an important component in the field of end-use energy. The thermal storage electric heating system could use wind power during low power load periods at night for building heating. On the one hand, it helps to solve the problem of wind power accommodation, on the other hand it helps to achieve carbon emission reduction in the field of building heating. Based on the background of the thermal storage electric heating system for wind power accommodation, the influencing factors that affect the efficiency and benefits of electric heating system is analysed, and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is used to construct regenerative electric heating system operation management evaluation system.


Until not so long ago, the evolution of different economical phenomena used to register a certain continuity, generated by the dynamic pulse magnitude, inertial to processes, reflected by increases and decreases, mainly characterized as being constant, linear and predictable for a specific period of time. In this situation, the managers were able to predict the future of the company with sufficient accuracy, based on one hand on intuition or experience, or, on the other hand, on the traditional methods for strategies substantiation and program elaboration. At present, the business environment, including tourism, is confronting with a series of major challenges, higher in number and amplitude, more profound and accelerated than ever,such as an increase of competitiveness and competition, amplification of globalization, and others,but also an increase of unpredictable shocks regarding the economic and financial crisis, socialpolitical crisis with negative impact on tourism activities. In this context, the forecasting activity becomes more and more difficult, unable to define future trends, as an effect of past evolutions. This forecasting activity has encompassed the role of detecting events that could influence the future of organizations, to issue warnings and alerts in case of negative events, to notify and exploit the opportunities in case of positive ones. Therefore, a complete picture of the company's future can be accessible, by underlining the possible and desirable scenarios, taking into consideration not only the technical aspects but also the financial one. This study constitutes a plea for utilization of forecasting instruments and techniques, in order to have a more clear image over the company's future trends and, as a result, the ability to take the best decisions.


The invention discloses a double-layer aluminum gutter greenhouse, which is composed of a main body structure, a cover material and an ancillary facility, wherein the main body structure comprises upright columns, composite beams, water troughs and wall beams; the ancillary facility comprises a ventilation system, a heating system, a power distribution system and an automatic control system; the water trough adopt aluminum gutters, and the aluminum gutters are aluminum structure devices which have the functions of rainwater collection, condensate collection and drainage. According to the double-layer aluminum gutter greenhouse, the anti-bending performance is strong, the sectional dimension is smaller than that of a steel gutter, the shading area is small, and the problem of condensate collection in the greenhouse is solved; a middle cavity is used for separating air inside and outside the greenhouse, so that the heat loss of the steel gutter is reduced; and besides, the double-layer aluminum gutter greenhouse has the properties of dew collection and heat insulation and provides a good growing environment for seedling breeding.


Background: Modic changes (MC) are among the pain generators in the lumbar spine and could affect back pain treatments. Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the effect of MC on the treatment outcomes of low back pain (LBP) patients who underwent conservative treatments. Methods: This prospective cohort study was performed on 166 nonspecific LBP patients presenting to 501 Hospital receiving conservative treatments. The patients were categorized based on their MC status, which was determined using a magnetic resonance imaging scan at baseline. Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score was considered a measure of back pain and disability using a valid and reliable questionnaire for each participant. The data were collected on the age, gender, and duration of pain for each participant. The follow-up JOA score was also calculated for each patient after 6-month conservative treatments. The patient was considered improved if the JOA change score was higher than 0. Results: The average baseline JOA score in MC patients was 14.3 (2.2); however, it was 14.4 (2.0) in patients without MC (P = 0.750). After 6-month conservative treatments, the average JOA score reached 16.7 (3.4) and 17.1 (2.9) in patients with and without MC, respectively. No statistically significant difference was observed in this regard (P = 0.540). The proportion of improved cases was 70.7%, 82.8%, 63.4%, and 50.0% in no MC, MC type I, MC type II, and MC type III, respectively, with no statistically significant difference among the groups (P = 0.561). Conclusions: A 6-month conservative treatment was a safe and effective approach to improving the clinical condition of patients with LBP. However, there was no association between the presence of MC or any specific type of MC and treatment outcomes.


For this application is for use in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, relates to a synthetic composition comprising one or more human milk monosaccharide or human milk oligosaccharides.


To the Editor: Dr Krab and colleagues investigated the possible benefit of statin therapy in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic disorder associated with learning disabilities. In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, it was found that simvastatin, a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, did not improve cognitive function in children with NF1. The motivation for this clinical trial came from the beneficial effect of lovastatin (another HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor) on cognitive function in the Nf1+/− mouse model NF1. These mice are heterozygous for a null mutation in neurofibromin, exhibit behavioral disorders that resemble those found in humans, and display deficits in physiological correlates of memory. However, the potential mechanism for an effect of statins on cognitive performance in the Nf1+/− mouse is not clear. Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs, but neurofibromin is not involved in cholesterol metabolism as it is a tumor suppressor protein. Mutations in neurofibromin are associated with enhanced activity of RAS, an oncogene that promotes tumor growth and excessive intracellular signaling in neurons. It has been proposed that statins may inhibit the activation of RAS, effectively counterbalancing the enhanced RAS activity associated with neurofibromin. The validity of this proposed mechanism remains to be assessed. In addition, there are important differences between the preclinical trial by Li et al and the clinical trial by Krab et al. The study by Li et al used adult mice, whereas the study by Krab et al selected children as participants for their trial. A different statin therapy was used; lovastatin and simvastatin have similar but not identical pharmacokinetic profiles. The effects of nourishments such as grapefruit juice on the pharmacokinetics of simvastatin were not considered. It is not clear to what extent age and pharmacokinetics may be critical to response. The authors correctly concluded that, based on the negative outcome of their trial, simvastatin should not be prescribed to ameliorate cognitive deficits associated with NF1. It is difficult to develop a productive and theoretically satisfactory animal model for NF1 because the factors that engender the modeled symptoms or signs of the disorder are often imprecise and incomplete. I wonder what the implications of the study by Krab et al are for the translational value of the current experimental Nf1+/− mouse model and for the benefit of statin therapy in general in NF1.


The Convex Recoloring (CR) problem measures how far a tree of characters differs from exhibiting a "perfect phylogeny", and has basic applications in phylogenetics, and some further applications in the analysis of gene expression data. For input consisting of a vertexcolored tree T , the problem is to determine whether recoloring at most k vertices can achieve a convex coloring, meaning by this a coloring where each color class induces a connected subtree. The problem was introduced by Moran and Snir, who showed that CR is NP-hard, and described a search-tree based FPT algorithm with a running time of O(k(k/ log k)n). It has recently been shown that the problem belongs to the subclass Poly(k) ⊆ FPT , with a kernelization bound of O(k). We substantially improve on this, showing that the problem has a kernel of size O(k). We also give a short proof that the problem can be solved in linear time for fixed k. Topics: Algorithms and Complexity, Bioinformatics


Although the torque and radial force ripples are two important causes of unwelcomed vibration in switched reluctance machines, the suppression of these ripples is usually contradictory. To address this issue, we propose a model predictive torque and force control (MPT&FC) method. First, the torque and force sharing functions are constructed based on the flux-linkage curve, following which the sharing functions are optimized online by tuning the turn-on angle to minimize the torque and force ripple. Finally, the MPT&FC method is applied to complete the sharing function tracking control. For balanced control of the torque and radial force, we optimize the candidate-voltage-vector table. Experiments were done on a three-phase 12/8 switched reluctance machine to verify that the proposed method suppresses vibrations.


In conclusions, based on surveillance reports, the current situation is still involving various difficulties causing reduction of efficiency. Therefore, this procedure is not cost effective in all over the country. It is strongly recommended to have some national referral laboratories in those areas with a high incidence rate at least. These referral laboratories must be enabled to apply all available methods, including a new automated system in parallel with routine laboratories. All those extremely suspected cases having negative results expected to be sent for these laboratories for further experiments. These centers should enable to do all diagnostic methods; serological tests (agglutination‐based ones, ELISA, Brucella immunocapture, and atc), molecular technique, and culture.[8] Obviously equipped these laboratories with automated system provide satisfactory results for the blood specimens.


Copper ion deposition behavior on Zircaloy cladding surfaces under simulated BWR conditions was investigated. The results indicated that Cu ion deposition rate on the fuel surface increased and deposited particle size decreased as pH increased. Oxidation of Zircaloy, especially by nodular corrosion, enhanced Cu ion deposition. The Cu deposits were concentrated on the nodular cracks. Copper ions were deposited in the form of CuO. They did not depend on iron crud coexistence.


The effective protecting the rights of farmers is a fundamental way to solve the problems concerning agriculture,countryside and farmers.At present,the rights protection for farmers is inadequate in political participation,real property,education,social security and other aspects.The deficiency of farmers' rights originates from the discriminatory dual structure of urban and rural areas,the absence of constitutional and legal protection,lack of statutory farmer rights keeping organizations and their poor consciousness and capacity of rights safeguarding.In order to efficiently protect farmers' rights,the government needs to reform the urban-rural dual structure with household registration system as the core,strengthen the legal protection of farmers' rights,establish farmer rights keeping organizations and cultivate their right consciousness.


Ministry of Transportation Republic of Slovenia 2007. year began with the execution of the project of integrated public passenger transport system (the Project IPPP), which aims to establish an integrated system of supply of public passenger transportation in the railway, bus line or the regional transport and urban bus traffic. Integration will be established at several levels, namely at the level of integration of timetables, the level of integration of tickets and at establishing the conditions for spatial integration. The integration of timetables of compliance includes the timetables of rail, bus line and bus city transit system in flight with one type of transportation to another, which will provide shorter travel times of passengers and their greater comfort. Integration at the ticket means the introduction of a single ticket, valid within certain zones, which will enable the traveler, in case of transfer from one or different types of transportation within the zone or zones for which the ticket is purchased, it can use the same ticket at no extra charge . The basis of the spatial integration refers to the systematic determination of the solutions in the field of spatial planning documentation of municipalities, who need to plan development activities in space in a way that will direct the development of village and region to ensure the spatial conditions for the efficient execution of the PPP (thickening of settlement and activity along the corridors of the PPP, editing of flight (the cells and stop), regulation of P + R (park and rides) in the space in a way that will allow passengers quickly, safely and comfortably transfer all in one place.


The shear and cleavage tests of cement concrete combining pavement have been done, the fatigue test of the full size slab has also been done. The result indicates that YJ 302 bond has the interface felt more strongly than the cement slurry and the 107 glue cement slurry when the old pavement is not chiseled. The YJ 302 provides the pavement to be bond well and makes the pavement be combine entirety. That YJ 302 is used in combining pavement is more economical of money and YJ 302 is good bond at present.


Multisensor electroand magnetoencephalographic (EEG and MEG) as well as electroand magnetocardiographic (ECG and MCG) recordings have been proved useful in noninvasively exctracting information on bioelectric excitation [2, 6]. Since the body affects, i.e. filters, the electromagnetic signals measured outside of the body, the anatomy of the patient need to be taken into account, when excitation sites are localized by solving the inverse problem. Boundary element method (BEM) is a widely adopted technique, where the body is modeled as an inhomogenous volume conductor presented by surfaces, such as scalp, skull and brain in encephalic applications, or thorax, lungs and heart surfaces in cardiac applications. The anatomy of the patient has to be individually modeled, if accurate high-quality inverse solutions are desired. Modern medical imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and computerized tomography (CT), provide detailed three-dimensional (3-D) anatomic information. MR imaging has established its position as a standard method to retrieve anatomic information for bioelectromagnetic modeling. Nevertheless, various solutions to the model construction, in the context of bioelectromagnetic problems, are not widely reported. A few procedures, more or less automated and flexible, have been, however, described [1, 9, 10]. This work presents a methodology to construct individualized boundary element (BE) models for bioelectromagnetic inverse problems. The objective of the work was to develop methods and software, which construct boundary element models as automatically and fast as possible. This work focus on cardiac problems, but the modeling of the head is also addressed.


Based on the satellite imagery,surface observation data,sounding data and NCEP reanalysis data(resolution 1°×1°),the large-scale persistent severe precipitation on the main landing field from 25 to 28 June 2012 is analyzed.Results show that the severe precipitation occurred when the cold air met southwestly warm and humid air.There was southwest current ahead of the trough at 500 hPa and the northeast-southwest shear line at the 850 hPa.The surface cold front turned to ground trough.The temperature and humidity of atmosphere were high with convective instability.The invasion of severe cold air took place in the lower levels.The cold air met warm,damp air so as to form the convergence and updraft meanwhile the ascending movement of the warm,damp air was strengthened and the precipitation increased.Owing to the severe warm and damp currents,the cold air weakened during moving southward and the velocity slowed down.The Okhotsk blocking ridge was dynamically stabile so that the cold air and warm air confronted each other for a long time in the lower reaches of the main landing field,therefore,the severe precipitation maintained persistently leading to an abnormal precipitation event.


This invention relates as indicated to treated carbon blacks and more specifically to acidic carbon blacks that have been treated with salts of heavy metals and weak organic acids. The paint, ink and rubber in dustries make considerable use of carbon blacks and specially developed properties of the carbon blacks are very useful in improving their performance in paints, ink and rubber. The color intensity and tint, the struc ture and electrical conductivity, the surface acidity and amount of volatile matter, the fineness and adsorptive capacity of particles of carbon blacks are all properties of carbon blacks which affect the tone, flow, viscosity, tack, drying time, flooding and floating of inks, paints and lacquers, and also affect the heat build-up, reinforc ing ability and hardness of vulcanized rubber stocks. The term "carbon pigments' or "carbon blacks," as used herein, will be understood to include the wide groups of black pigments which include channel impingement blacks, furnace blacks of thermal and combustion type, and all the lamp blacks. Acidic and neutral carbon blacks, in general, may be


SUMMARY The nutritive value of Australian winter wheat varieties for broiler chickens was assessed in a series of conventional energy balance studies each of 7-days duration. Across all samples, the mean and standard deviation for apparent metabolisable energy (AME, MJ/kg dry matter) were 14.29±0.36 (n=25) and ranged from 13.68 to 15.02. For individual varieties, means and standard deviations were 14.80±0.03 for Declic (n=2), 14.31±0.33 for Lawson (n=16), 13.97±0.34 for More (n=4) and 14.20±0.09 for Paterson (n=3). In conclusion, winter wheats were consistently high in AME but, nevertheless, were responsive to endo-1,4-xylanase added to the diet. Uplift in AME of wheat due to enzyme supplementation averaged 0.7 MJ/kg (4.9%) and ranged from 0.22 MJ/kg (1.5%) to 1.13 MJ/kg (8.2%).


This investigation was carried out to research on the actual states for bycatch and discards of catches caught by funnel net from December, 2007 to June, 2010. Fishing grounds were Manheung-dong and Ocheon-dong in the coastal waters of Yeosu. The number of the investigation was 21 in Manheung-dong a...


The severe drought frequently occurred in Qinghai China during severely interferes the wheat growth and development. To better understand drought resistance at the protein expression level , differential proteomic analysis was carried out in PEG-stressed and re-watered spring wheat ( Qingchun38 ) young leaves. The seedlings with two leaves were treated with PEG6000 for 72 hours and re-watered for 24 hours , proteins were extracted , separated by IEF / SDS 2D gel electrophoresis and stained with Coomassie brilliant blue G-250. More than 650 reproducible abundant protein spots that were detected on each 2D-gel within pI 4 ~ 7 by PDQuest software. Of these proteins , 43 of which varied quantitatively or qualitatively each 2D-gel in 8 sample repeats. A total of 24 differentially expressed proteins were subjected to mass spectrometry , 22 of them were identified in the NCBInr database. The functional categories of the identified proteins were photosynthesis , protein biosynthesis , energy pathway ,


Abstract : This report documents the efforts of the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Centers Sustainability/Logistics-Basing -Science and Technology Objective-Demonstration to analyze the results of modeling and simulation of materiel and non-materiel options to reduce Fuel, Water, and Waste in 50, 300, and 1000 Persons Base Camps. This analysis report captures conclusions, insights, and recommendations to assist the Army Leadership in making informed decisions regarding the implementation of materiel and non-materiel options to save fuel, water, and waste in base camps.


Menstruation is a taboo subject in the Indian context and considers it as unclean where socio-cultural restrictions keep girls and women ignorant of the scientific facts and hygienic practices that result in adverse health outcomes. This study has assessed the knowledge, practices, and perceptions of the adolescent girls both in rural and urban and compared the same. This is a cross-sectional study that has been conducted among 309school going adolescent girls who were selected randomly from the selected schools at Karur District, Tamil Nadu covering both rural and urban. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data obtained was compiled and analyzed using the SPSS version 22. This study shows that urban adolescent girls have better knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene than rural adolescent girls. But most of the negative perceptions found to be similar among both rural and urban girls. However, there is a change in perceptions in certain aspects among urban girls than rural girls. Majority of the respondents (88%) are using sanitary pads at the time of menstruation and only 12% of respondents use cloths which is a good indicator for hygienic practice. However, the frequency of changing pad is more important hygienic practice. One-fifth of the girls do not practice it which is found to be more among the rural girls compared to the urban girls. The findings on the knowledge, practices, and perceptions among the adolescent girls show that rural girls need more information /facts on menstruation compared to urban girls. It is the need of the hour that we need to integrate all the stakeholders viz the health, education and community professionals both private and state to work together for the promotion of menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls.


Restoration eeology is a new braneh of eeology. lts praetitioners seek to devise and test eeological ideas that can guide and assist the development of a seientifie understanding to the praetiee of restoration. The ideas may be new to eeology or they may be established prineiples of eeology that ean be applied to restoration. In Australia there has been a rapidly inereasing drive to restore streams and rivers. However, this ~urge in projeets has not been aeeompanied by an equivalent inerease in knowledge of the eeological restoration of streams and rivers. Many of these projeets have been 'stakeholder' driven, small-scale projeets that are poorly designed, inappropriately monitored, and have not been evaluated or reported satisfaetorily. Henee, they have not added knowledge to stream restoration eeology. There has been an emphasis, largely politically driven, to carry out projeets without any prior data eolleetion and a minimum of planning and monitoring. This situation, whereby reliable knowledge is not gained, endorses the view that seleeted restoration projeets should be properly designed experiments to gain seientifie knowledge: Only in this way can restoration eeology develop as a seientifie endeavour (CHAPMAN & UNDERwooo 2000, DoWNES et al. 2002). In the development of restoration eeology, there are five major impediments: four are eorreetable and the fifth, eoneerning spatial and temporal scale, needs to be reeognized and fully ineorporated into any projeet. The four eorreetable impediments eoneern the exeeution of projeets and are (l) poor designs without clear goals, (2) laek of hypothesis testing, (3) inadequate monitoring, and (4) a laek of adequate reporting. The issue of scale is paramount in restoration. lt is generally aeeepted that with eeological phenomena, from population growrh to eeosystem sueeession, there is a positive eorrelation between the spatial scale of a phenomenon and its temporal scale (WIENS 1989). Thus, smallscale restoration projeets may be eompleted quite rapidly whilst large-scale projeets may take decades. In terms of meeting short-term ends and of gaining knowledge, small-scale sitespeeifie projeets may be desirable. However, in terms of the scales of resouree management and of patterns of degradation, restoration is needed at the large scale. Large-scale projeets require long-term eommitment with adequate funding and monitoring. They also pose interesting ehallenges; given the large spatial and temporal scale, rather than using aetive restoration ( with deliberate human manipulations), it is usually neeessary to rely on passive restoration (by natural proeesses), sueh as eolonization and sueees-


ACCORDING to Melber's Index, there is but one quotation from Homer in the whole of Polyainos outside of the two pages indicated above; and, as Professor Dorjahn, who has recently written upon the subject,' apparently knows no others, the completeness of the Index may be assumed. These two pages, with their allusions to many scenes of the Odyssey and their quotation of thirteen heroic hexameters, form then a section that contrasts like a purpureus pannus with the rest of the work. It is sharply marked off, closing with the transition:


The RC shear wall with bi-directional single row of steel bars is applicable for multistory residential building.In order to measure the seismic performance of shear walls,a low-frequency quasi-static cyclic loading experimental study on four medium-height shear wall specimens was carried out.Two specimens were medium-height RC shear walls with bi-directional single row of steel bars,one specimen was medium-height RC shear walls with bi-directional single row of steel bars and concealed bracing,and another one was medium-height RC shear wall with bi-directional double row of steel bars.Based upon the experimental study,load-carrying capacity,stiffness and its degradation,ductility,hysteretic behavior,energy dissipation and failure phenomena of the shear walls were contrastively analyzed,and the effects of concealed bracing on the seismic performance of this shear wall were discussed.It is shown that the medium-height RC shear wall with bi-directional single row of steel bars will be able to meet the requirements of seismic design for multistory residential building through rational design.


1,2,3,4 U.G. Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BNMIT, Banashankari IInd stage, Bangalore, India 5 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BNMIT, Banashankari IInd stage, Bangalore, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Composite structures are constructed using the mechanical joints comprising of either bolted, bonded or hybrid joints. For heavy loading cases, bolted joints are preferred. The main objective of this work is to investigate the influence of geometric parameter (edge distance to diameter ratio), fastener parameter (washer type and the effect of bolt pre-tightening) on the strength of counter sunk bolted joints in GFRP composites. The mechanical properties ultimate strength, toughness and fracture strain of developed GFRP laminates have been determined experimentally. Taguchi's design of experiments is used to determine the optimal joint using Minitab. The experimental results revealed that, optimal joint (for ultimate load) was obtained when e/d ratio = 5, tightening torque = 5 N-m along with thick washer and for toughness optimal joint was obtained when e/d ratio = 4, tightening torque = 5 N-m along with thick washer. Mixed failure modes were observed for most of the cases with higher e/d ratio which reduces the sudden catastrophic failure. For lower e/d ratio shear out mode of failure was witnessed.


Stenobasipteron is a long-proboscid genus of Nemestrininae endemic to southeast Africa (South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi), Swaziland and Mozambique being new country records. There has been recent research interest in Stenobasipteron by pollination biologists, and a pollination guild centred on a species reputed to be S. wiedemanni is now established in the literature. Consequently an urgent need has developed to provide accurate identifications of all described species. A provisional generic diagnosis is provided, and problems with distinguishing Stenobasipteron from Prosoeca Schiner are discussed. In addition to the markedly narrowed wing base (a character state traditionally used to identify the genus), the following combination of character states are included in the revised generic diagnosis of Stenobasipteron : striking body markings absent, ocellar protuberance not prominent in profile, proboscis subequal to or longer than body length, wing usually appearing mostly brown infuscate (infuscation sometimes paler towards posterior margin) and abdominal T3 and T4 with short recumbent vestiture (longer erect hairing nearly always absent). The revised generic concept of Stenobasipteron is now found to include only three named species: S. arnoldi Bequaert, 1925 (Zimbabwe), S. gracile Lichtwardt, 1910 (Zimbabwe) and S. wiedemanni Lichtwardt, 1910 (Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). A notable fauna of undescribed Stenobasipteron species occurs in the Mpumulanga and Limpopo Provinces (northeastern South Africa), Mozambique, Zimbabwe and probably Malawi. Two species are transferred to Prosoeca and the following new combinations are established: P. difficile (Bequaert, 1925) (Zimbabwe) and P. minimum (Bezzi, 1924) (Western Cape, South Africa). An annotated key to the accepted species of Stenobasipteron s.s., largely based on type material, is presented


Wide income differentials, the threat of increased illegal immigration from developing countries, and sub-replacement fertility in the developed countries are some reasons for the recent reassessment of the relationship between migration and development. New theoretical models have emerged to identify migration's role in transitional sequences of economic and political evolution. The task of government is to integrate migration into its program for socio-economic development. The model presented in this article proposes different roles for permanent immigrants, contract workers, professional transients, illegal migrants and others according to the stages of modernization of the sending and receiving countries. The model was found consistent with the experiences of Mauritius, Seychelles, Singapore and, to a lesser extent, Malaysia.


it has remained detected that record of separate data-communicating policies y involves uncertain facts level. However, message broadcasting frequently have advanced bandwidth. By way of per result double interactive situations do not occupy the volume of a data association. Therefore multiplexing remains to clear method that permits concurrent the broadcast of numerous indications through distinct statistics association. Actual contracted group of the bright signal from dissimilar have mutual to create an extensive group of bright. The handset indications have divided through de-multiplexer. By way of with Synchronous TDM, statistical multiplexers similarly must numerous input/ output positions through defense connected toward every of them. Throughout response, multiplexer images contribution defenses, gathering statistics awaiting structure has occupied combine structure. FDM distributes the network into numerous, then lesser rate series to put up more consumers, though TDM distributes a network through assigning a period historical for every network. TDM offers to improved elasticity associated toward Frequency Division Multiplexing. Keywords— Analysis, Frequency, Frequency-division multiplexing and Statistical Time-division Multiplexing


Association of unilateral severe pulmonary hypoplasia or agenesis and esophageal atresia (EA) with or without tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is an exceedingly rare and highly lethal combination. We report a case of full term male baby who had EA with TEF and right lung hypoplasia, managed at our centre. He is alive and doing well at 10 years of age.


MRI has a high resolution for soft tissues,it can distinctly identify differences in muscles,tendons,fascia,fat and so on.All organs in pelvic cavity and the tiny anotomic structures of pelvic floor can be manifested by MRI.The advantages of MRI in guiding treatment of female pelvic floor dysfunction can't be replaced.MRI is recommended to be used in the females with symptomatic organ prolapse in foreign hospitals.This article reviewed this examination technique and its application in evaluating pelvic floor structures and lesions.


A novel peel is proving to be very effective in the treatment of comedonic as well as mild-to-moderate acne lesions. This approach could spare acne patients from repeated antibiotic therapies for considerably benign cosmetic lesions.


Reminders generated at the beginning of each consultation can help health care workers to provide appropriate preventive care to their patients reliably, thoroughly, consistently and efficiently.


Hybrid transaction in blockchain enlarges the application domain of smart contracts by enabling off-chain data access. In support of the hybrid transaction, blockchain oracle is an indispensable middleware responsible for receiving data-request tasks and pushing the result back to chain. Though solutions supporting hybrid transactions do exist, they are less featured or applicable for both contract and application developers. On one hand, the racing-condition among several concurrent hybrid transactions should be manually resolved by contract developers. On the other hand, application developers have to associate each individual task with its parent hybrid transaction in order to obtain the result. In this paper, a novel block-chain oracle platform with a set of simple but unified API for both hybrid and traditional transactions is proposed. Firstly, we design and implement a transactional storage layer and a transaction scheduler for transaction preservation and ordering. Secondly, with the help of an automatic result tracing mechanism, application developers are able to acquire transaction results transparently without awareness of oracles and underlying task execution. Experiments are conducted on one of current prevalent permissioned blockchain platforms, RepChain, and the result shows that all of the system design goals are fulfilled with merely an acceptable loss of performance.


This paper seeks to clarify the nature and significance of structuralisms. The doctrine of structuralism is regarded here as synonymous with that of holism. It transcends the traditional dichotomy between form, or the static configuration of a system's components, and function, or the process of dynamic change in that system. Viewed from the broader holistic perspective, the relationship between form and function is of a mutually causal nature. The thesis is advanced here that the emergence of structure lies in the process of self-organization. Conversely, it is the structure of the system which makes it self-organizing. The origin of a wide variety of technological, organizational, and social innovations is to be found in the interplay of structure and self-organization. The theory is developed and illustrated at several levels of systems. Its implications for a transdisciplinary synthesis of knowledge are discussed.


AFTER the defeat of the senatorial opposition and the forces of King Juba in Africa, Julius Caesar appointed his friend Sallust, the historian, as governor of the newly annexed province of Africa Nova.' He himself proceeded to Utica to settle the affairs of the old province and deal with the partisans of Cato and the Senate. The property of those who had held leading positions under Juba and Petreius was sold, and the cities of Thapsus and Hadrumetum, as well as the groups of Roman citizens resident in those cities who were organized into conventus civium Romanorum, were subjected to heavy monetary fines on account of the aid they had given his opponents.2 Thysdrus, on the other hand, was forced to make a contribution in grain, perhaps in part because of its more modest resources, as the writer of the Bellum Africum suggests,3 but more probably because of its location in the midst of an agricultural area from which most of its citizens must have derived the major portion of their income. Nothing could have been more useful to Caesar at that time than the delivery of a considerable quantity of grain, for he still had soldiers to feed and campaigns to wage. Upon the city of Leptis, Caesar was said to have imposed an annual contribution of three million pounds of olive oil,4 presumably because the wealth of Leptis was derived mainly from the production of olive oil and the trade in that commodity. It is clear that the city which the


We present a complete census of RR Lyrae stars in a halo field of the Andromeda galaxy. These deep observations, taken as part of a program to measure the star formation history in the halo, spanned a period of 41 days with sampling on a variety of timescales, enabling the identification of short- and long-period variables. Although the long-period variables cannot be fully characterized within the time span of this program, the enormous advance in sensitivity provided by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope allows accurate characterization of the RR Lyrae population in this field. We find 29 RRab stars with a mean period of 0.594 days, 25 RRc stars with a mean period of 0.316 days, and one RRd star with a fundamental period of 0.473 days and a first-overtone period of 0.353 days. These 55 RR Lyrae stars imply a specific frequency SRR ≈ 5.6, which is large given the high mean metallicity of the halo, but not surprising given that these stars arise from the old, metal-poor tail of the distribution. This old population in the Andromeda halo cannot be clearly placed into one of the Oosterhoff types: the ratio of RRc/RRabc stars is within the range seen in Oosterhoff II globular clusters, the mean RRab period is in the gap between Oosterhoff types, and the mean RRc period is in the range seen in Oosterhoff I globular clusters. The periods of these RR Lyrae stars suggest a mean metallicity of [Fe/H] ≈ -1.6, while their brightness implies a distance modulus to Andromeda of 24.5 ± 0.1, in good agreement with the Cepheid distance.


By applying repetitive and high-voltage pulses across a specific medium like a reactor or a chamber, a transient plasma is generated which can be used for various applications including water treatment, air purification, and food sterilization. In order to generate the aforementioned pulses, in this paper, a modular high-voltage pulse generator (HVPG) based on cascaded full-bridge sub-modules (FB-SMs) and transformer-based charging is proposed. By utilizing transformer-based charging, the need for a complex balancing circuit with numerous sensors is eliminated and all capacitors are charged incessantly via an uninterruptible charging circuit. The proposed topology has a high boosting gain and is able to charge all capacitors from a low-voltage dc input through the use of an inverter, transformer network, and voltage multiplier circuits. The FB-SMs can provide bipolar and variable voltage pulses, as well as modularity, both benefiting the efficient and cost-effective generation of plasma.The operation principle and the modulation strategy of the proposed HVPG is analyzed and verified by the simulation results using PLECS software.


The processing of soya bean seed into several by-products such as soya-meal, flour, edible oil, confectionary, akara, moi-moi, dawadawa etc requires diverse processing sequence. While the soya conversion to edible oil and flour require toasted condition, the production of soya milk, confectionary, akara, moi moi, dawadawa etc require direct wet processing. The rural dwellers in Nigeria are more in tune to the soya wet processing sequence. The operations here are mostly manual, requiring much labour and time resulting in low productivity in processing. In order to mechanize this processing sequence to some extent, a wet soya bean de-coating machine was conceptualized, designed, fabricated and tested. In this machine, the wet soya bean seeds are decoated in between two padded rollers (dynamic and static rollers) that sandwiches an abrasive fabric material. The static roller has vertical and horizontal adjustment which helps to create a vertical angular displacement between its axis and the axis of the dynamic roller immediately above it. The machine was tested at several angular displacements of the rollers ranging from 5 -35 0 with optimum angle being 20 0 . 5kg of wetted soya bean seeds of moisture content 65% in each case was used for the test runs. The results of the test runs were tabulated and analysis showed 90% de-coating efficiency. It is expected that this machine would help improve productivity soya bean wet processing. Its cost of N80, 000 ($516.16) also encourages development of Micro scale industries in Nigeria.


When we consider five-dimensional warped Taub-NUT/Bolt AdS black string with minimally coupled massive scalar field, we calculate entropy by using the brick wall method. It is found that they are proportional to being quadratically divergent in a cutoff parameter. In particular, we show that the entropy of warped Taub-NUT AdS black string holds for an area law in the bulk as well as on the brane. Furthermore, when the negative cosmological constant is treated as thermodynamic pressure, we calculate the thermodynamic quantities and investigate their extended thermodynamic properties. Interestingly, we obtain a thermodynamically stable range as a function of the temperature for warped Taub-NUT AdS black string. Finally, we also study a proportional behavior of the thermodynamic quantities along a warp factor, and find that an entropy, a specific heat, a Gibbs free energy, and an action difference increase as a warp factor grows up.


In the present paper, well known piston alloy (LM13) reinforced with ZrSiO4 particles was developed and studied as wear resistant material. The particle reinforced aluminum metal matrix (PAMC) was developed by stir casting route. Composite was developed by reinforcing 10 wt. % of ZrSiO4 particles into LM13 alloy. Wear behavior of LM13 alloy reinforced with ZrSiO4 particles have been carried out with different applied load. Micrographs of worn surfaces after wear test were examined by scanning electron microscope. These micrographs indicate the presence of the adhesive and abrasive wear mechanism, and transition from mild to severe wear at higher load.


Quality of software systems is highly demanded in today's scenario. Highly testable system enhances the reliability also. More than 50% of test effort-time and cost are used to produce a highly testable system. Thus, design-for-testability is needed to reduce the test effort. In order to enhance the quality, productivity and reduced cost of the software organizations are promoting to produce the reuse-oriented products. Incorporating reuse technology in both aspects-software development process and test process may payoff many folds. Keeping this view, our study focus the testability of the object-oriented framework based software systems and identify that flexibility at the variable points of the object-oriented framework, chosen for framework instantiation, greatly affects the testability of object-oriented framework based software at each level of testing. In the current paper, we propose a testability model considering the flexible aspect of the variable point to estimate testability in the early phase, requirement analysis phase, of development process of the framework based software. The proposed model helps to improve the testability of the software before the implementation starts thus reducing the overall development cost.