Picking up LINEs The genomes of higher organisms are littered with repetitive sequence elements, and evidence for how this came to be is accumulating through a combination of bench work and bioinformatics. Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs or L1s) are retrotransposons that have generated integrated DNA copies of themselves through RNA intermediates. Intact L1 RNAs encode two proteins, ORF1p and ORF2p, which together associate with L1 RNA and direct its nuclear importation, reverse transcription to DNA, and integration at a random site within the host genome [1-3]. Sequence analyses show a succession of L1 families in mammalian genomes, each family expanding over time before being relegated to the status of fixed DNA by host-defense mechanisms and perhaps by direct competition from newer, more competent L1s. In humans, this history is traced in order through the inactive L1Pa5, L1Pa4, L1Pa3b and L1Pa2 families and the currently active L1Pa1 family [4,5]. In the mouse, the A, GF and TF families are currently active. Although typically regarded as genetic baggage, Martin Vingron and his colleagues (Zemojtel et al. [6]) estimate in a recent paper in BMC Genomics, that the mouse genome has approaching 5,000 intact active L1s in the diploid nucleus nearly an order of magnitude more than in our own genome. This is a timely reminder of both the harmful and potentially beneficial effects of L1 elements to cause functional changes in the genome.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the effects of miR-519d on the 5-fluorouracil resistance in colorectal cancer cells and to explore the mechanism.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Colorectal cancer cells HCT116 and SW480 were transfected with miR519d-mimic or siCCND1 by transient transfection. The sensitivity of cells to 5-Fu was assayed by MTT assay. Dual luciferase assay was used to examine the effect of CCND1 on the sensitivity of cells to 5-Fu mediated by miR-519d.

RESULTS
MiR-519d was overexpressed in colorectal cancer cells after transient transfection with miR-519d mimics. Overexpression of miR-519d increased the sensitivity of colorectal cancer cells to 5-Fu. MiR-519d negatively regulated the expression of CCND1 via directly bound to CCND1 3`UTR. si-CCND1 could downregulate the CCND1 expression in colorectal cancer HCT116 and SW480 cells. si-CCND1 increased the sensitivity of colorectal cancer cells to 5-Fu.

CONCLUSIONS
miR-519d inhibits the expression of CCND1 and then plays a role in alleviating 5-Fu resistance in colorectal cancer cells.


The paper presents an optimal control synthesis for curing shell-like composite structures using open dies in an autoclave. The control synthesis is a multi-objective optimization problem where minimization objectives are deviations of temperature and degree of cure within a cured part, considering constraints imposed by thermo-kinetic properties of prepreg and manufacturing requirements. The control should eliminate the formation of early hard skin, resin-rich or resin-dry areas, insufficient consolidation, and uneven cure. Such a purpose can be achieved through uniform distribution of temperature and degree of cure within the cured structure. The optimization procedure, including the formulation of the cure problem and the finite element implementation where correct timing of heating-up and maintaining isothermal, is illustrated by an example of the shell-like composite structure manufactured by means of two-stage curing in an autoclave. The technique developed allows estimating the best achievable quality indicators of composite parts, finding key parameters of the control law, and considering all imposed constraints for decision-making.


The LEP Spectrometer is used to determine beam energy by measuring the bending angle of the beam in a dipole magnet, using six beam position monitors (BPMs), which must have an accuracy close to 10 -6 m. The BPMs feature an Al block with an elliptical aperture and four capacitive pickup electrodes; their response depends on the pickup geometry, the aperture shape and the size of the beam. The beam size varies from BPM to BPM, which may give shifts of the measured position. We have investigated the implications of such shifts on the Spectrometer performance. We summarise our current understanding of the BPM behaviour using both a computer model of their response and measurements.


Solar PV panels are coupled with DC-AC inverters to interface the grid. DC to DC converters are connected in between DC to AC converter and the PV string for extracting maximum power. This makes each string to operate at its maximum efficiency. Conventionally, DC-DC converter utilizes the total string power known as full power processing topology. This tends to increase in the losses and degrading the conversion efficiency. This paper proposes a flyback partial power processing (FPPP) circuit which mitigates the 2nd harmonic component injected by the single phase inverter thereby ensuring the enhancement of maximum power extraction efficiency than traditional DC-DC converters. The suggested scheme was modeled and simulated in MATALB/Simulink to validate its performance


This paper describes a general structure,area-optimized interpolation filter used in the Delta-Sigma Digital-to-Analog converter(DAC) intended for the portable digital audio system.The whole filter system simulation,verilog implement and FPGA verification are processed,the signal-to-noise(S/N) achieves 115 dB and the total area is small enough which has good prospect for the audio applications.


The synthesis and crystal structure of a new triazole-based N-heterocyclic carbene iridium(I) cationic complex with a tetrafluoridoborate counter-anion and solvating dichloromethane is reported. The IrI center of the cationic complex has a distorted square-planar conformation, formed by a bidentate cycloocta-1,5-diene (COD) ligand, an N-heterocyclic carbene, and a tripheylphosphane ligand. There are weak hydrogen-bonding interactions between C—H groupings of the iridium complex and F atoms of the [BF4]− counter-ions.


The traditional Dirichlet process is characterized by its distribution on a measurable partition of the state space - namely, the Dirichlet distribution. In this paper, we consider a generalization of the Dirichlet process and the family of multivariate distributions it induces, with particular attention to a special case where the multivariate density function is tractable.


Changes in the excess Gibbs energy of water at the water/solid interface as a function of the film thickness of water perturbed by the solid surface of titanium dioxide (rutile form) and this sample modified by sequential coating with amorphous Al2O3 (4% w/w) and SiO2 (2% w/w) were determined for aqueous and deuterochloroform suspensions of these solids by means of 1H-NMR spectroscopy with bulk freezing. This modification led to a dramatic enhancement of the total excess Gibbs energy of water at the water/solid interface as well as of the thickness of the interface water layer. The increase of this thickness is related to the increase of the dispersive component of the surface free energy of the parent and the mixed Si, Ti, and Al oxides as determined from the inverse gas chromatographic data for the adsorption of n-alkanes.


In this paper, we compare different-scale ring crater structures on the surface of the Moon and the Earth. Here we show the regular zonal change of craters of different sizes around the largest crater on the Moon and the periodicity of the distribution of craters along the lines according to the wave principle. On Earth, we consider the position of the famous Arizona crater, the relationship with the external environment and structural features that cast doubt on its astrobleme nature. Arguments are given about the possible terrestrial origin of the specific largest iron meteorites found without craters, and the ambiguous diagnosis of explosion products attributed to those associated with meteorite impacts.


The research covers the usage of the random numbers in Monte Carlo simulations for air pollution models. Two new random number generators are developed; their strengths are compared with the existing random number generators. The results in this paper showed that the two newly developed random number generators achieved better results on a basis of failed test, however it extended the time for generating random numbers. In future we plan to use the newly developed random generators for filling the missing values in the measurements.


MOTT, FRANK LUTHER. The News in America. Pp. x, 236. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; 1952. $4.50. Frank Luther Mott, the dean of American academic journalism, has written a very wise and a very useful book, a book which explains the functions and the workings of American newspapers better than almost any book published in the last decade. Dr. Mott, who has been a reporter and editor, a teaching journalist and head of two of the best schools of journalism in the nation, has drawn upon his experience and his wisdom to put the press in its proper political and sociological perspective. So well has he done the job that the book will raise considerable question in the minds of many as to the sense of expending huge sums of money for shoddy reports by such organizations as the Commission on Freedom of the Press.


This is a continuation of a study of how to incorporate recently developed approximations for rough surface scattering into the description of propagation in a waveguide with rough boundaries and rough interior interfaces. Although reflection and transmission coefficients are not directly useful in variable sound‐speed media, it is possible to derive from them an impedance operator that linearly relates pressures on either side of an interface to displacements on either side of the interface. This linear relationship can then be used in a variable sound‐speed environment. It will be shown how the Green's function in a two‐layered duct with a rough interior interface can be constructed from solutions for flat‐surface Dirichlet and Neumann Green's functions. The averaged Green's function can be seen to be the Green's function for a two‐layered duct with effective reflection and transmission coefficients across the mean interface separating the two layers. These effective reflection and transmission coeffici...


Energy production of a pumping kite system can be improved with respect to the kite with better lift-to-drag ratio[1] and/or increased de-power range[2]. Current kite design methods derived from the kitesurf industry rely on trail and error qualitative design process. In search of an improved kite design, this study aimed at identifying shortcomings of current design procedures, with a special focus on the aerodynamics. As a result, little is known of the kite while in-flight, such as shape, angle of attack, and pressure distribution. Knowledge of these parameters is essential for the quantification and identification of design improvements. These values are furthermore crucial for the validation of numerical models. In order to provide a solution for the lack of experimental data of in-flight kites, a system for in-situ measurement of the surface pressure distribution was developed and validated.


The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. © 2010 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. The Deep-space Optical Terminals (DOT) project will provide high-data-rate optical communications from planetary distances. An overview of the architecture of the ground-based receiver subsystem is presented, along with a conceptual design of the subsystem assemblies. Major trades are described along with the selected approach.


This paper describes the methodologies and findings from an industry survey of awareness and utility of Spacecraft Plug-&-Play Avionics (SPA). The survey was conducted via interviews, in-person and teleconference, with spacecraft prime contractors and suppliers. It focuses primarily on AFRL's SPA technology development activities but also explores the broader applicability and utility of Plug-&-Play (PnP) architectures for spacecraft. Interviews include large and small suppliers as well as large and small spacecraft prime contractors. Through these "product marketing" interviews, awareness and attitudes can be assessed, key technical and market barriers can be identified, and opportunities for improvement can be uncovered. Although this effort focuses on a high-level assessment, similar processes can be used to develop business cases and economic models which may be necessary to support investment decisions.


Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum of charged particles produced in Pb–Pb and Xe–Xe collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV and sNN=5.44 TeV, respectively, are studied as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the LHC. Dynamical fluctuations are observed in both collision systems which indicate correlated particle emission. The central Pb–Pb and Xe–Xe collisions show a significant reduction of the fluctuation in comparison to peripheral collisions and are in qualitative agreement with previous measurements in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV. The results are compared with the HIJING model. A clear deviation from simple superposition of independent nucleon-nucleon collisions scenario, where the final state particles are produced from superposition of particle emitting sources, is observed.


A Research Project Report Submitted to the School of Education in Partial Fulfilment of Requirements for the Award of Degree of Masters of Education (Economics of Education) Of Kenyatta University. March, 2017


Deep learning (DL) models have recently been widely used in UAV aerial image semantic segmentation tasks and have achieved excellent performance. However, DL models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which bring significant security risks to safety-critical systems. Existing research mainly focuses on solving digital attacks for aerial image semantic segmentation, but adversarial patches with physical attack attributes are more threatening than digital attacks. In this article, we systematically evaluate the threat of adversarial patches on the aerial image semantic segmentation task for the first time. To defend against adversarial patch attacks and obtain accurate semantic segmentation results, we construct a novel robust feature extraction network (RFENet). Based on the characteristics of aerial images and adversarial patches, RFENet designs a limited receptive field mechanism (LRFM), a spatial semantic enhancement module (SSEM), a boundary feature perception module (BFPM) and a global correlation encoder module (GCEM), respectively, to solve adversarial patch attacks from the DL model architecture design level. We discover that semantic features, shape features and global features contained in aerial images can significantly enhance the robustness of the DL model against patch attacks. Extensive experiments on three aerial image benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed RFENet has strong resistance to adversarial patch attacks compared with the existing state-of-the-art methods.


Passive Corner Reflectors (PCR) are often used in spaceborne SAR interferometry as benchmarks. The main goal of the use of PCRs in DInSAR deformation monitoring is to provide pixels with a high and stable response to be used as reference to estimate the deformation when natural persistent scatters are not available. The use of PCRs at C band is not always suitable, especially in areas as glaciers, snow covered regions, and mountain slopes, where accessibility and PCRs' installation can be very time and cost consuming, or where harsh weather conditions can jeopardize their performance. An alternative to PCRs is Active Reflectors (AR), more compact and lighter apparatus, which need a power source, and are often susceptible to the natural air temperature variations which can affect the stability of their response. The study presented here reports on the use of an AR designed to operate with Sentinel-1 SAR data, installed with some PCRs aimed at comparing the performance of the two approaches. The AR was designed and implemented to provide a fair performance/cost benefit to make feasible the setup of a dense network. Images covering almost one year have been processed to compare the performance of a prototype installed close to our center. A real campaign was also carried out installing an AR together with a network of PCRs in a site, located in a mountain area of Andorra, where a landslide occurred in 2018, and where a monitoring based on DInSAR is ongoing.


; lack of motivation; the need for interaction with people that cause negative emotions; perfectionism; the conditions of the educational process that provoke procrastination namely: boring, mundane unpleasant tasks, long execution period NAV asanti external task, and the only way to reduce the level of this phenomenon is the formation of intrinsic motivation in the presence of favorable conditions. Having designed the pedagogical technology to reduce and overcome the phenomenon of procrastination, it was assumed that attracting applicants for pedagogical specialties to professional activities in order to reduce delays should occur on the basis of a number of pedagogical conditions, among which we consider proper material and methodological support as the priority; step-by-step planning of educational activities; creation of a unified educational and methodological environment; availability of a set of relevant academic disciplines; providing favorable motivational support, using facilitation based on didactic principles will be able to optimize the educational process by reducing procrastination, activate the educational and cognitive activities of higher education applicants, thereby increasing academic performance and the quality of knowledge, and hence the level of professional competence of graduates of higher education institutions. The developed pedagogical technology was introduced into the educational process and its effectiveness was checked. As a result of its application, there was an increase in the performance and quality of knowledge of applicants and positive changes in the results of complex qualification exams, which actually proved the assumption about achieving the desired result, namely, overcoming procrastination on the principles of pedagogy.


The degree of the internet financial reporting (IFR) sophistication differs from an international level, National level and company's level. In the current world of globalised economies environment, the Internet has wide spread as communication mode. Recently most of the companies have practicing to publish their financial results and other relevant information to business on the website. It has been practically observed that the companies information disclosure on their website mainly depends up on the competitors' practices on disclosure and principles of Corporate. This paper studies the disclosure of IFR with comparative study of Indian public and private sector companies on the websites. 252 samples of companies with 217 private and 35 public companies has taken for the study. Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) disclosure index has been prepared and correlated with determinates of the companies to measure relationship IFR disclosure by the sample companies.


The cam's figure is the key part of the design of cam mechanism,it usually designed by using analytical method or graphical method.In this paper,the 3 dimensional solid detail drawing were drawn and the assembly model of cam mechanism were obtained based on Solid Works.Then the constraint and parameter of cam mechanism kinematical models were set separately in COSMOS Motion.With the simulation of cam mechanism kinematical models by COSMOS Motion,the cam's figure was obtained automatically.The method can draft the cam's figure automatically and visually,it has been proved that the method is easier to use and study,also has certain application value in the analysis of cam mechanism.


Abstract Twenty-five persons incurred measurable inhalation exposures during a plutonium fire in 1965. Exposures ranged up to 17 times the maximum permissible lung burden as estimated by whole-body counting. Urine excretion of americium and plutonium was studied for six months following the accident. The ratio of plutonium to americium alpha activity in the urine averaged 1.5-1. The exposure material initially contained an alpha ratio of 11-1 plutonium to americium. There was no apparent change in this ratio with time during the period of study. Typical excretion curves for subjects treated with DTPA and for nontreated subjects are discussed.


Fifteen tanker trucks full of acid whey, the yellowish liquid by-product of Greek yogurt production, left Yoplait's plant in Murfreesboro, Tenn., every day in 2014. The trucks headed to nearby farms, where farmers would spread the whey onto their fields as fertilizer. Similar activity on an even larger scale was taking place in New York, where some of the biggest Greek yogurt makers—Chobani, Dannon, and FAGE—have production facilities. Approximately 771,000 metric tons of Greek yogurt was produced in the U.S. in 2015, representing nearly 40% of the U.S. yogurt market, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture and market research data. In 2004, Greek yogurt made up only 1–2% of the U.S. yogurt market. As the demand for Greek yogurt skyrocketed, so did the amount of acid whey that manufacturers needed to dispose of. For every kilogram of Greek yogurt produced, 2–3 kg of acid whey are left behind. Farmers can


The differences between the older (ending) system of designation of dangerous properties of chemicals and the new system introduced by the Directive CLP (ES 1272/2008) are explained. The differences in definitions of dangerous groups of chemicals and the differences between the system using the R-phrases and S-phrases (the ending system) and system using H- phrases, EUH phrases and P-phrases (the new system) are briefly explained and discussed.


In this paper, the research results of permeability of high-strength concrete subjected to high temperature were comprehensively reviewed, the research status of permeability of high-strength concrete at elevated temperature were discussed, and existing problems were analyzed, finally, main research directions of permeability of high-strength concrete subjected to high temperature were forecasted.


The effects of three types of seed coating on control of the main underground pests of fresh corn and development of seedling growth were investigated to screen out the high efficiency and low toxicity seed coating agents using Jingketian 183 and Jingkenuo2010 as test varieties. The three seed coating agents were 3.5% Manshijin+30% Ruisheng, Fuliang (40% bromoyl thiamethoxazine seed treatment suspension), and 5 billion spores/g Beauveria bassiana. All the pesticide treatments did not cause phytotoxicity, indicating their safety for fresh corn. Seed coating improved the vigor and germination rate of seeds. The germinability and germination rate of Jingketian 183 reached the highest of 91.5% and 92.75%, respectively, when the seeds were treated by 3.5% Manshijin+30% Ruisheng. Jingkenuo 2010 showed the highest germination rate (93.0%) when treated by 5 billion/g B. bassiana, and the highest germinability (91.5%) under the treatment of 3.5% Manshijin+30% Ruisheng. The three coating agents increased plant height and dry matter accumulation, while the 5 billion spores/g B. bassiana had the best control of underground pests in Jingketian 183 (79.67%) and Jingkenuo 2010 (88.67%). Therefore, use of B. bassiana in mixture with low toxicity seed coating agents is expected to promote growth and development of plants and control of underground pests. 32 中 国 生 物 防 治 学 报 第 35 卷


We report on civil engineering applications of wavelength multiplexed optical-fiber Bragg grating arrays produced directly on the draw tower for testing and surveying advanced structures and material like carbon fiber reinforced concrete elements and prestressing tendons. We equipped a 6 m X 0.9 m X 0.5 m concrete cantilever beam reinforced with carbon fiber lamellas with fiber Bragg grating sensors. Static and dynamic strain levels up to 1500 micrometers /m were measured with a Michelson interferometer used as Fourier spectrometer with resolutions of about 10 micrometers /m for all sensors. Comparative measurements with electrical resistance strain gauges were in good agreement with the fiber optic results. We used the fiber sensors in two different arrangements: some Bragg grating array elements measured the local strain while others were configured in an extensometric way to measure moderate strain over 0.1-1 m.


In the first of a series of three articles, the author describres a recent fire test programme which investigated the performance of external insulated cladding systems.


In traditional education, teachers are the initiators, organizers and spreaders of learning, while students are the recipients and learners, where students must rely on the teacher's instructions to learn. In traditional education, the source of knowledge and information is mainly from schools, textbooks and teachers' minds. Teachers then become the embodiment of wisdom of "imparting knowledge and solving doubts", which forms an authoritative knowledge center centered on teachers. However, with the development of network information, the network provides extremely rich educational resources and information resources. Learning resources are no longer kept in schools, textbooks and teachers. In the face of the Internet and big data era, teaching methods should also be actively improved to keep pace with the development of the times, rather than being complacent. It is necessary to actively consider the changes in the teaching mode of college Chinese under the


Abstract : The purpose of the report is to provide the background in tropical cyclone evasion planning and procedures. The report is presented in two distinct sections. The first presents summaries of frequencies and tracks of tropical cyclones in the southwest Indian Ocean. The second section is an edited translation of 'Les Cyclones du Sud-Ouest de l'Ocean Indien'; a subjective appraisal of the synoptic characteristics which influence the formation and movement of these tropical cyclones.


Dish ornament is a skill employed to promote and perfect the exterior quality and to enlarge the aesthetic effect.Proper knowledge of the features of dish ornament,establishment of dish ornament principles,mastery of dish ornament structure and application rule,identification of relevant concerns in dish ornament,will be instructive in correcting show-off ornament and putting dish ornament right on track.


Abstract This study aims to investigate preschool children's relationships with nature through drawings. To this end, a total of 212 preschoolers constituted the study group. This study employed a triangulation design, i.e. one of the mixed-methods approaches in which qualitative and quantitative processes were carried out. As a result of the analyses, it was concluded that the children visually presented and narrated their relationships with nature positively. The age and gender variables were found to have led to statistically significant differences in the activities depicted in the drawings and the tone of the drawings, as well as the settings and people that are drawn in them. In light of the findings of this study, it can be argued that starting environmental education at an early age and enabling children to spend more time engaging with nature are important.


The songs of individually marked male great tits in a nestbox population were recorded over 10 years. The number of songs sung by an individual (repertoire size) did not change with the age of the bird. However, the song types making up the repertoire (repertoire composition) showed change; such changes were the rule in our study. The songs added to repertoires were most similar to those of newly arrived neighbours, suggesting that songs were learned from them. This result suggests that the period for song learning to sing can extend throughout adult life in this species and is comparable in timing to the timing of song learning for discrimination tasks such as neighbour recognition and laboratory operant conditioning. The functional significance of this pattern of song learning is discussed.


This article reviews the origins and development of the metropolitan county PTAs, and outlines differences in organization which have emerged in the six counties concerned. It explains the major changes which have taken place in the provision of passenger transport since the Transport Act 1985, which deregulated local bus services, and then focuses on the way in which accountability and financial arrangements have operated. This article is based on a wider study into the impact of abolition of the metropolitan county council, which was funded by West Yorkshire County Council and concluded in mid 1989.


This paper assesses the diversity of aquatic insects and insects with aquatic larvae used as human food. Over 250 species have been used as food in 48 countries around the world. Coleoptera comprises the largest number of species utilised, followed by Odonata and Hemiptera. All life stages are eaten but primarily larvae and adults. Currently, economic valuation is largely limited to Southeast Asia, although there is considerable potential to expand this. A few species including Lethocerus indicus (Lepeletier and Serville, 1825) have been negatively impacted due to exploitation as a food item coupled with other environmental pressures.


This article proposes a conceptual framework that describes emotional decision making of a product considering the existing structure of Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R). The main proposition of this framework is to explore how emotions are evoked by a product and how emotional words and purchase intention are activated. The process starts when a customer perceives the design features of a product. After the perception of design features, associated emotions are implicitly determined by the appraisal elements such as the Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance (PAD). To describe this implicit appraisal process, an appraisal module which generates PAD values of the current emotional states is required to be added to ACT-R. The above two stages are replicated until all design features which a consumer is interested in are evaluated and the average PAD values are turned over to the next stage. Subsequently, the emotional word which has the highest activation value based on similarity with PAD values is retrieved from a declarative memory. Finally, as a comprehensive result of the emotions evoked by all design features, purchase intention is activated in a goal module.


A decade and a half since the U.S. invasion, Iraq remains affected by complicated and increasingly changing uncertainties. Intrastate division and lack of social stability are expressed in ethnic and sectarian hostilities. In view of different reasons, 16 years after establishing the new Iraq, this paper asks: why has Iraq been marked by instability, transformation, and inability to maintain stability and peace? This paper explains the ethno-sectarian interactions in Iraq with the help of the theory of security dilemma and explores the derailment of Iraq's transformation process and the beginning of a new period of confrontation from a security dilemma viewpoint. The findings suggest that the security dilemma and ethno-sectarian conflict are further intensified by Kurdish, Shiite, and Sunni groups attempting to assess the threats posed not only by enemy militias but also by the presence of all groups in close proximity.


Battery thermal management system (BTMS) is crucial to ensure the safety and performance of lithium ion battery. To reflect the temperature distribution of the battery, an accurate thermal model of lithium ion battery is needed for the BTMS. However, the existing thermal models of lithium ion battery cannot give consideration to both the efficiency and accuracy of calculation. In this paper, a reduced-order thermal model (ROTM) was established to estimate the temperature distribution of lithium ion batteries online. Firstly, the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method was used to extract eigenfunctions from the thermal field of lithium-ion battery. Secondly, the ROTM can be obtained by projecting the eigenfunctions to the thermal equation of the lithium-ion battery using Galerkin method. Finally, the accuracy and efficiency of the ROTM was verified by comparing with the finite element method (FEM). The computational results of the ROTM are in very good agreement with that of FEM, but the ROTM can save more computational time. Thus, such ROTM can be applied to the real-time processing control of BTMS.


We report a new hydrothermal and basic-additive free process for synthesizing a core(single-crystalline HBEA zeolite)-echinus(nickel phyllosilicate) catalyst, which exhibits excellent reactivity and stability for hydrogenation reactions. Desilication and dealumination processes generate substantial SiO32- ions and exposed Si-OH groups to form nickel phyllosilicate on the external and internal surfaces of zeolite.


The global land ice measurement from space (GLIMS) project is a cooperative effort of over sixty institutions world-wide with the goal of inventorying a majority of the world's estimated 160000 glaciers. Data sent from regional center analysts to the GLIMS team at the national snow and ice data center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado are inserted into a geospatial database. The GLIMS Glacier Database now contains outlines of over 58 000 glaciers. As submissions to the database from all over the world increase, we find that we must accommodate a greater diversity in the character and quality of the data submitted than was originally anticipated. We present an overview of the current glacier outline inventory, and examine issues related to data coverage, and data quality. A significant achievement of the GLIMS project is that the database and interfaces to it, as well as the GLIMSView tool, provided to help in the production of GLIMS analyses, are all built from open source software. Issues we've dealt with to achieve a high-quality glacier database include: 1. data submitted without proper metadata; 2. data submitted with incorrect georegistration; 3. varying analyst interpretations of what exactly constitutes a glacier; 4. arbitrary termination of glacier boundaries at political boundaries; 5. arbitrary termination of glacier boundaries at edges of available satellite images.


A new non-data-aided signal-to-noise ratio estimator for QPSK modulations in additive white Gaussian noise is proposed. It uses a simplified structure to achieve a good performance with less computational complexity. Simulation results show that the new estimator has smaller bias than existing estimators. The small bias and low computational complexity make it useful for practical applications.


Objective:We investigate the effect of Malnutrition Inflammation Complex Syndrome(MICS)of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis CAPD patients on the morbidity and mortality.Methods:98 chronic stable patients(47 men,51 women;age 59.1±18.0 years)on CAPD in one PD center were studied and followed over 6 months.The baseline MIS at the beginning of the study and the dates of peritonitis and mortality or hospitalization during the study period were obtained.The MIS and Quantitative Subjective Global Assessment(MQSGA)were assessed simultaneously by two trained physician.The anthropometry,inflammation makers and biochemical assays were measured.The relative risk of peritonitis,hospitalization or death was analysis by the logistic regression and Cox Proportional Hazard Model.Results:Results The MICS morbidity was 57.1% in PD,in which the mild 53.1%,moderate 39.8%,and severe 7.14% respectively.A higher MIS score reflects the elder age,a more worse nutritional status which showed a lower body mass index(BMI),triceps skinfold(TSF)and mid-arm circumference(MAC);and a lower pre-albumin,albumin concentrations,BUN or Scr.On the other hand,there showed a more severe inflammation status including increased high sensitive-C Reactive Protein and Interleukin-6,but the Tumor Necrosis Factor had no difference.The KT/V、nPCR and protein loss in PD liquid over 24 h had no difference.During the 12-month follow-up,12 patients died and 8 patients left the cohort.The MIS were significant positively correlated to peritonitis,hospitalization days,and frequency of hospitalization.The MIS was the independent risk factor of peritonitis and death.For every unit increased in the MIS score,the adjusted hazard ratio for peritonitis was 1.185(95% confidence interval 1.036~1.335,P0.05),for the death was 1.242(95% confidence interval 1.102~1.401,P0.01).Conclusion:The 57.14% PD complicated the MICS which had a elder age,worse malnutrition status,and severe inflammation.MICS increased the risk of peritonitis,frequency of hospitalization,and death events in PD.MIS was independent predictor of peritonitis and death in the multivariate Cox proportional hazard model.For every one unit increased in the MIS,the adjusted hazard ratio for peritonitis was 1.185,for death was 1.242.


There are publications on increase of physical-mechanical properties of coatings by means of modulation of plasma arc and using of additional sources of electric field intensity. The work studies an influence of electric and pulse effect on double-phase high-temperature flow (DHTF), and, as a result, on structure and service properties of electric-arc and plasma coatings. Relationship of amplitude-frequency characteristics of high-voltage electric pulses with microstructure and properties of obtained coatings was investigated. It is shown that electric-pulse effect promotes for reduction of metal drops in DHTF and provides denser structure of plasma powder of PG-19M-01 grade and electric-arc coating from wire Sv-08G2S. 18—30 % rise of adhesion strength, 20—35 % of hardness and 1.7 times increase of wear resistance are observed. 8 Ref., 3 Tables, 5 Figures.


Modeling and computer simulations can give us some confidence, but there's no substitute for proving we can move an asteroid by actually doing it.
NEOShield funding does not stretch to launching a space mission but we aim to provide detailed designs of feasible mitigation demonstration missions, at least of the kinetic impactor and/or gravity tractor methods.
Together with colleagues at ESA (SSA programme), the UN (COPUOS, Action Team 14 on NEOs), NASA, the European Commission, etc. we are working to establish a long-term program, including asteroid deflection demonstration missions.


Under the background of public transport priority,bus rapid transit system(BRT) becomes the first choice to effectively solve the traffic problems in many cities.The rational and effective implementation of bus rapid transit system is very essential.In this paper,the rapid transit evaluation system for bus rapid transit program based on microscopic traffic simulation software Vissim was proposed.Then,the key indexes' calculation methods and significance of evaluation system were described from three aspects including the system's line,station and bus lane.Finally,an example of BRT was described.The simulation analysis shows that the evaluation system has good feasibility and great guiding significance for optimizing the BRT program.


Strategic evaluation includes four elements,of which the information elements and measure elements are the important ones.Information elements include five aspects,namely the external environment information of organization,the strategic feature information of organization,the strategic operational process information of organization,the opponents information of organization,and strategic predictive information of organization.From the macroscopic analysis,we conclude that the measures of strategic evaluation are qualitative measures and quantitative measures.


Objective To approach the feasibility on evaluation of renal tissue ischemia-reperfusion injury in mouse with microbubbles targeted to P-selectin (MBp) and contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Methods Twelve experimental mice were randomized into ischemia-reperfusion group (group IR) and sham-operated group (group SH) to construct MBp via "avidin-biotin " bridging chemistry. All mice were performed using renal contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging (CEU) with general lipid microbubbles (MB) and MBp. After 10 min of intravenous bolus injection of MB or MBp, which were made in random order with 30 min interval, renal video intensity (VI) was determined. Then the kidneys were harvested for examination of immunohistochemisty. Results A significant enhancement was observed in the fist CEU picture in kidneys of group IR-MBp and IR-MB, while there was no marked enhancement in the fist CEU picture in kidneys of group SH-MBp or group SH-MB. As compared to group IR-MB and group SH-MBp, significantly increase in VI was observed in group IR-MBp (P0.05). There was slightly increase of VI in group IR-MB compare to group SH-MB (P0.05). Immunohistochemistry showed that endothelial P-selectin expression in renal tissues undergoing IR was greater than in SH. Conclusion CEU with MBp can effectively evaluate the renal ischemia-reperfusion injury in mouse. Site-targeted microbubbles may be used to evaluate the microvascular inflammation and other endothelial responses with CEU.


Thixotropy is a hot topic in the field of rheology of dispersed systems. Studying the quantitative index and evaluation method for thixotropy of clay is of great significance to evaluate the safety of foundation under long-term load. To explore the index system and classification methods for the thixotropy of clay, unconfined compressive strength tests were carried out on three groups of undisturbed soil and remolded soil that were cured at different times after remodeling of the Zhanjiang Formation in China to obtain the unconfined compressive strength values of the samples and establish the relationship between unconfined compressive strength and curing time of the remodeled soil. The concept of thixotropic sensitivity is introduced to reflect the relationship between thixotropy and structure. According to the relationship between thixotropy sensitivity and curing time and its logarithmic value, two indexes of structural recovery coefficient K and structural recovery index Ke were established to evaluate the thixotropy of structural clay in the Zhanjiang Formation. Following the structural classification method of soil, the boundary values of structural recovery coefficients KI and KII are calculated to classify the thixotropy of soil. When the value of K is less than that of KI, the thixotropy of soil is weak. When the value of K is greater than that of K but less than that of KII, the thixotropy of soil is moderate. When the value of K is greater than that of KII, the thixotropy of soil is strong. The method is used to discuss the thixotropy of soil in the literature, and the rationality of the method is verified. Results show that this method can be used to preliminary classify the thixotropy of soil.


This article considers the effects of the Court of Appeal's recent decision in ILG Capital LLC v Van der Merwe.1


A single unexpected object on the road can cause an accident or may lead to injuries. To prevent this, we need a reliable mechanism for finding anomalous objects on the road. This task, called anomaly segmentation, can be a stepping stone to safe and reliable autonomous driving. Current approaches tackle anomaly segmentation by assigning an anomaly score to each pixel and by grouping anomalous regions using simple heuristics. However, pixel grouping is a limiting factor when it comes to evaluating the segmentation performance of individual anomalous objects. To address the issue of grouping multiple anomaly instances into one, we propose an approach that produces accurate anomaly instance masks. Our approach centers on an out-of-distribution segmentation model for identifying uncertain regions and a strong generalist segmentation model for anomaly instances segmentation. We investigate ways to use uncertain regions to guide such a segmentation model to perform segmentation of anomalous instances. By incorporating strong object priors from a generalist model we additionally improve the per-pixel anomaly segmentation performance. Our approach outperforms current pixel-level anomaly segmentation methods, achieving an AP of 80.08% and 88.98% on the Fishyscapes Lost and Found and the RoadAnomaly validation sets respectively. Project page: https://vision.rwth-aachen.de/ugains


In this paper, we study hypersurfaces in E whose Gauss map G satisfies the equation LrG = f(G+ C) for a smooth function f and a constant vector C, where Lr is the linearized operator of the (r+1)-st mean curvature of the hypersurface, i.e., Lr(f) = Tr(Pr ◦ ∇f) for f ∈ C∞(M), where Pr is the r-th Newton transformation, ∇f is the Hessian of f , LrG = (LrG1, . . . , LrGn+1) and G = (G1, . . . , Gn+1). We focus on hypersurfaces with constant (r + 1)-st mean curvature and constant mean curvature. We obtain some classification and characterization theorems for these classes of hypersurfaces.


Abstract. We determined 40Ar/39Ar ages of buddingtonite, occurring together with muscovite, with the laser-ablation method. This is the first attempt to date the NH4-feldspar buddingtonite, which is typical for
sedimentary–diagenetic environments of sediments, rich in organic matter, or in hydrothermal environments, associated with volcanic geyser systems. The sample is a hydrothermal breccia, coming from the Paleoproterozoic pegmatite
field of the Korosten Plutonic Complex, Volyn, Ukraine. A detailed
characterization by optical methods, electron microprobe analyses,
backscattered electron imaging, and IR analyses showed that the
buddingtonite consists of euhedral-appearing platy crystals of tens of
micrometers wide, 100 or more micrometers in length, which consist of
fine-grained fibers of ≤ 1 µm thickness. The crystals are
sector and growth zoned in terms of K–NH4–H3O content. The
content of K allows for an age determination with the 40Ar/39Ar method, as well as in the accompanying muscovite, intimately intergrown with
the buddingtonite. The determinations on muscovite yielded an age of 1491 ± 9 Ma, interpreted as the hydrothermal event forming the breccia.
However, buddingtonite apparent ages yielded a range of 563 ± 14 Ma
down to 383 ± 12 Ma, which are interpreted as reset ages due to Ar
loss of the fibrous buddingtonite crystals during later heating. We conclude that buddingtonite is suited for 40Ar/39Ar age determinations as a
supplementary method, together with other methods and minerals; however, it
requires a detailed mineralogical characterization, and the ages will likely represent minimum ages.


We combine several mini miracles to achieve an elementary understanding
of infinite loop spaces and very effective spectra in the algebro-geometric
setting of motivic homotopy theory. Our approach combines $\Gamma$-spaces
and Voevodsky's framed correspondences into the concept of framed motivic
$\Gamma$-spaces; these are continuous or enriched functors of two variables
that take values in framed motivic spaces. We craft proofs of our main
results by imposing further axioms on framed motivic $\Gamma$-spaces
such as a Segal condition for simplicial Nisnevich sheaves, cancellation,
$\mathbb{A}^1$- and $\sigma$-invariance, Nisnevich excision,
Suslin contractibility, and grouplikeness.
This adds to the discussion in the literature on coexisting points
of view on the $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy theory of algebraic varieties.


The Kyoto Protocol has failed. Originally agreed in 1997, it went into force in 2005 after Russia acceded to it.1 The United States signed, but never ratified, the treaty, and pulled out in 2001. Canada signed, ratified, and then pulled out of the treaty in 2012 when it became clear that it would not meet its agreed emissions targets. Australia only joined in 2007, and has not met its agreed targets. However, we should not focus on the diplomatic machinations of who was in or who was out—the ultimate judgment of the protocol must come based on how successful the Kyoto Protocol has been in meeting its goals. The goals of the Kyoto Protocol were to begin to reduce the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions, and ultimately to lead to a system that would reduce total emissions to the point where the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere does not lead to dangerous climate change. Under those criteria, then, the Kyoto Protocol can only be judged as a terrible failure—so much so as to question the very assumptions on which the Protocol was built. Since it was agreed in 1997, atmospheric concentration of CO2 has risen from 364 parts per million (ppm) to 396 ppm in 2013.2 Over that time, total annual carbon emissions have risen from 6643 million tons of carbon (Mtc) to 9861 Mtc, an increase of an astounding 48 percent.3 This is a worrying rise, and not just because it shows flawed diplomacy. It means that emissions are on track to meet or exceed the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's (IPCC) worst-case scenario.4 It means that the world could be heading for dangerous, unprecedented, and irreversible change in global climate.


A new genus and species of chrysomeline, Stenaspidiotus microptilus n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), is described from Dominican amber. Diagnostic characters include an elongate, flattened body; small eyes; a narrow, long pronotum with a width/length ratio of 1.6; an irregular pronotal surface with marginated lateral edges; distinct humeral calli; confused elytral speckling; large scutellum; elongated mesosternum; emarginated but non-fissured third tarsomere; and simple claws. On the pronotum of S. microptilus is a macrotype egg characteristic of the family Tachinidae (Diptera). This is the first Chrysomelinae from Dominican amber and the first fossil record of tachinid oviposition.


nicative musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship, ed. S. Malloch and C. Trevarthen, 495 512. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Malloch, S., and C. Trevarthen, eds. 2009. Communicative musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mithen, S. 2005. The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind and body. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Pinker, S. 1997. How the mind works. London: Penguin Books. Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). 2001. Planning for learning in the foundation stage. London: DfES/QCA.


The Urushibara nickel catalysts were prepared by reducing nickel chloride with Zn powder. The structure and composition of the catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction, inductively coupled plasma analysis, and transmission electron microscopy. The optimal preparation conditions of the catalysts were determined. The Urushibara nickel catalysts were applied to the selective hydrogenation of m-dinitrobenzene to m-phenylenediamine and 2,5-dichloronitrobenzene to 2,5-dichloroaniline. The effects of Zn powder, developing agent, temperature of catalyst preparation and reaction conditions such as solvent and pressure on the catalyst activity were studied. The Urushibara nickel catalysts exhibited high catalytic activity and selectivity for m-phenylenediamine and 2,5-dichloroaniline. The optimized content of water in solvent remarkably promoted the reaction. An appropriate quantity of the dechlorination inhibitor in the hydrogenation of 2,5-dichloronitrobenzene evidently increased the reaction rate and the selectivity for 2,5-dichloroaniline. The catalysts could be reused five times without any significant loss in their catalytic activity.


The present invention relates to a radio environment analysis systems and methods in the WCDMA network, which to be used to manage the radio environment state by periodically measuring the parameters of the mobile communication terminal and a base station in a WCDMA network. The configuration of the present invention receives and stores the base station and the mobile communication terminal the parameter value measured by the base station and the mobile communication terminal from the base station controller after transmitting a parameter measurement request message requesting to measure a parameter, and to a base station controller, and the stored parameters calculate statistics on the basis of a predetermined item by analyzing the values, including the radio channel analysis server which transmits it to the operator server, the parameter value analysis in a radio environment analysis system specific cell based on the radio parameter that is collected from the operator side, and to identify the radio environment of the radio environment and the forward and reverse directions of the mobile communication terminal in every cell can be versatile in terms of radio network optimization or cell planning (cell planning).


PCR-RFLPs assay was used to investigate polymorphisms within the cloned introns 5 to 7.A MspI-RFLPs and a TaqI-RFLPs were detected in intron 6.The MspI-RFLPs is common in all the detected breeds,but the TaqI-RFLPs only was founded in Chinese breeds,and allele B(bearing T base) is rare in Chinese breeds.Associations between the founded MspI-RFLPs in intron 6 and carcass traits in the seven beef cattle breeds and two Chinese dairy cattle were tested,no relation between MspI-RFLPs and body fat in beef cattle were founded in present study,but the individuals bearing AA genotype had higher(P0.05)dressing percentage.Individuals with genotype AA had higher milk fat percentage(P0.01)and dry material percentage(P0.05)in Sanhe.For the TaqI-RFLPs in intron 6,the present study only tested the carcass trait's difference between genotype AA and AB in Luxi cattle,but no associations were founded.


In this paper, we show how declarative rules, and declarative programming, are used to control a complex, heterogeneous system where rules from disparate sources must interoperate. We show how imperative codes can be automatically generated from declarative rules to bind with the resources in the execution environment. Our approach shows how declarative programming can be used to effectively compose disparate systems together. We apply our approach to the control and co-ordination of home devices.


Rheologists have expectations for signatures of linear viscoelastic properties, such as shapes of G′(ω) and G″(ω). Medium amplitude (or asymptotically-nonlinear) oscillatory shear (MAOS) provides additional nonlinear rheological information with low dimensional, well-defined material functions [Ewoldt and Bharadwaj, Rheol. Acta 52, 201–209 (2013)]. Here, we develop expectations of signatures (or fingerprints) for the four asymptotically-nonlinear material functions associated with MAOS, [e1](ω), [e3](ω), [v1](ω), [v3](ω). Although the linear fingerprints may be identical for different models, the asymptotically-nonlinear fingerprints may be different in magnitude, frequency-scaling, curve shapes, and sign changes. To perform the analysis, we collect/translate a library of available analytical strain-controlled MAOS fingerprints for seven different constitutive models. Using this library, we identify general trends and highlight key differences of asymptotic-nonlinear viscoelasticity. Asymptotic nonlineari...


By using the density-matrix renormalization group method, the spin entanglement in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with the staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions is investigated. It is found that the staggered DM interactions remove the field-induced second order quantum phase transition of the system at the magnitude of magnetic field H=2, and lead to the vanishing of the anomalous behavior of quantum entanglement. Also, the staggered DM interactions eliminate the divergence of entanglement range. It means the disappearance of the factorizing point in the model studied. Due to the presence of the staggered DM interactions, the system will never come to the state of saturated ferromagnetism under finite magnetic fields, thus maintaining the spin entanglement. The staggered DM interactions favor the tuning of the strength and range of spin entanglement.


Photograph of Kidd-Key College and Music Conservatory in Sherman, Texas. It is a three-story building with a facade of red brick and white stone trim. Arched and rectangular windows of varying sizes appear along the sides of the building. The front of the building, right, has a brick stairway leading up to three double doors topped with white stone arches. Tall white pilasters lead upward from the doors to a triangular stone pediment that bears the words "Municipal Building" and, under that, "Kidd-Key Auditorium."


The so called Slingram measurements form a family of frequency domain elec tromagnetic methods when the transmitter is a vertical magnetic dipole and the vertical component of the magnetic eld is measured at some distance from the transmitter The measured value is usually the imaginary out of phase part of the vertical magnetic eld component Such an equipment was manufactured at the University of Neuch atel Switzerland and supplied to the Geodetic and Geophys ical Research Institute in frame of a Swiss Hungarian co operation supported by the Swiss National Research Foundation As a part of test measurements Slingram pro lings and soundings were carried out for exploration of karstic water reservoirs connected to tectonically weak zones in the Mecsek Mountains close to P ecs Hun gary One dimensional inversion and comparison with other geo electromagnetic techniques as radio magnetotellurics RMT and radiofrequency electromagnetics RF EM resulted in good and interpretable results


The concepts of R-smod and FARsmod were introduced and the relation between R-smod and FAR-smod was discussed by a contravariant functor S and a covariant functor t.Finally,it was proved that FAR-smod was an semiadditive category.


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Electricity markets are experiencing widespread changes that are significantly altering the industry. In this paper, economic load dispatching rules in power systems under a competitive environment are investigated when independent power producers (IPPs) are introduced and analyze the two-level game strategies for the negotiation process between utilities, IPPs and customers. These have been previously recognized as a way to come up with a rational decision for competitive markets, in which players intend to maximize their own profits. The derived operation rules based on competition can be viewed as an extension of the conventional equal incremental cost method for the power system. The proposed approach is applied to several systems to verify its effectiveness.


A theory of ballistic electron emission microscopy is presented that incorporates constant tunnel current feedback and models the band structure and space charge effects on the electron transmission. The computation is beyond the effective mass approximation but short of being from first principles. We compare theory and experimental Au/GaAs(001) dI/dV data and find that the L point does not contribute to an observable threshold and that the corresponding experimental feature is due to band structure effects.


We investigate the static and dynamic properties of bosonic lattice systems in which condensed and Mott insulating phases coexist due to the presence of a spatially varying potential. We formulate a description of these inhomogeneous systems and calculate the bulk energy at and near equilibrium. We derive the explicit form of the Josephson coupling between disjoint superfluid regions separated by Mott insulating regions. We obtain detailed estimates for the case of alternating superfluid and Mott insulating spherical shells in a radially symmetric parabolically confined cold atom system.


Knowledge Management System is a connecting tool that bridges the knowledge or skills needed for work, mainly from tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. The study was conducted in five cities, namely Yogyakarta, Salatiga, Bangka Belitung, Manado and Pontianak. The participants of this study were vocational school students and teachers. Data were collected through interviews, questionnaires, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Preliminary finding before the Pandemic was that students did practical work, which then followed by direct discussion. However, the absorptive capacity of this skill-based knowledge did not result in optimum performance for most vocational school students. Thus it is necessary to develop a theoretical Knowledge Management System (KMS) model that is suitable for supporting communication of knowledge and skills that are generally tacit into explicit. One characteristic of this KMS model is the intense sharing and discussion between students and teachers, and which was a challenge to implement before the pandemic due to time constraints. During the pandemic, however, it was found that by applying online learning methods or via video conferencing, it is easier for students to conduct sharing and discussion. The result of this study is an appropriate learning model through KMS in order to optimize the Absorption Capacity of Vocational School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic.


This study examined changes in sales of low fat/low cholesterol foods targeted in a restaurant menu labeling program. Sales of labeled items were tracked before and after the program was introduced, and a subsample of patrons were surveyed for information on visibility and comprehension of the menu labels. Two of the four restaurants had significant increases in the sales of targeted foods following labeling. Comparisons between patrons dining in restaurants which had an increase in sales (I—increase restaurants) to those dining in restaurants which had no overall shift in sales (NI—no increase restaurants) revealed no differences in patron awareness or compre hension of the menu labels. There were age and gender differences between I and NI restaurants, with I restaurants having proportionally more males, and a younger clientele. Taste was the primary reason given by patrons for their entree choice, regardless of whether or not it was labeled. In all four restaurants women and older patrons were more aware of the program and more responsive to its recommendations. These findings suggest that environmental strategies may be an effective method of encouraging dietary changes in the general population, but patron characteristics such as age and gender may influence receptivity to this type of intervention. Future studies aimed at developing effective point of purchase education programs should evaluate these patron characteristics and include more powerful behavior change strategies.


REPORTING INFORMATION • Class B: Report by the end of the next business day after the case or suspected case presents and/or a positive laboratory result to the local public health department where the patient resides. If patient residence is unknown, report to the local public health department in which the reporting health care provider or laboratory is located. • Reporting Form(s) and/or Mechanism: o The Ohio Disease Reporting System (ODRS) should be used to report lab findings to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). For healthcare providers without access to ODRS, you may use the Ohio Confidential Reportable Disease Form (HEA 3334). o The Ohio Enteric Case Investigation Form may be useful in the local health department follow-up of cases. Do not send this form to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH); information collected from the form should be entered into ODRS where fields are available and the form should be uploaded in Administration section of ODRS. Because all of the fields are available in ODRS, the form no longer needs to be sent to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). • Key fields for ODRS reporting include: sensitive occupation (e.g., direct patient care, child care provider, food handler), sensitive setting (e.g., day care or preschool attendee, long term care facility resident), and date of illness onset.


With advancement in the development of the new laboratory instruments and experimental techniques, the protein data has an explosive increasing rate. Therefore how to efficiently store, retrieve and modify protein data is becoming a challenging issue that most biological scientists have to face and solve. Traditional data models such as relational database lack of support for complex data types, which is a big issue for protein data application. Hence many scientists switch to the object-oriented databases since object-oriented nature of life science data perfectly matches the architecture of object-oriented databases, but there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved in order to apply OODB methodologies to manage protein data. One major problem is that the general-purpose OODBs do not have any built-in data types for biological research and built-in biological domain-specific functional operations. In this dissertation, we present an application system with built-in data types and built-in biological domain-specific functional operations that extends the Object-Oriented Database (OODB) system by adding domain-specific additional layers Protein-QL, Protein Algebra Architecture and Protein-OODB above OODB to manage protein structure data. This system is composed of three parts: 1) Client API to provide easy usage for different users. 2) Middleware including Protein-QL, Protein Algebra Architecture and Protein-OODB is designed to implement protein domain specific query language and optimize the complex queries, also it capsulates the details of the implementation such that users can easily understand and master Protein-QL. 3) Data Storage is used to store our protein data. This system is for protein domain, but it can be easily extended into other biological domains to build a bio-OODBMS. In this system, protein, primary, secondary, and tertiary structures are defined as internal data types to simplify the queries in Protein-QL such that the domain scientists can easily master the query language and formulate data requests, and EyeDB is used as the underlying OODB to communicate with Protein-OODB. In addition, protein data is usually stored as PDB format and PDB format is old, ambiguous, and inadequate, therefore, PDB data curation will be discussed in detail in the dissertation. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Firstly, I want to give special thanks to my advisor Dr. Rajshekhar Sunderraman for his insightful comments, supportive and valuable advice throughout my degree period. The dissertation would not have been possible without his guidance and help. Xiaolin Hu and Dr. Yichuan Zhao for their support and advice. Finally, my heartfelt thanks go …


The purpose of this laboratory exercise is to illustrate some important concepts related to random processes. You will mostly use Matlab to compute and plot various quantities, and then contemplate on the result. The laboratory project is mandatory for the course. To get a pass, you need to hand in a report with your results, and a carefully selected set of plots (there will be several!). The deadline for handing in the report will be posted on the course homepage, but a preliminary date is October 3. You should work in groups of 2 students and send in the report as a pdf-file to firstname.lastname@example.com. Random processes are frequently encountered in virtually all engineering applications. This is especially true when we are dealing with real data, collected by imperfect sensors and/or transmitted of random media. The key to a successful solution is then to understand random signals, or rather models of such processes. In this project we consider some basic concepts used to characterize random processes. Perhaps the most important is the nature of a random process itself. A short introduction is given in Section 4. More details regarding the background theory are given in [1], Chapters 5 and 8.


Based on the database of UMRAO,we collected the emission data of 3C 279 at 4.8 GHz,8 GHz,and 14.5 GHz.Using the power-spectrum method and the Jurkevich method,We have analyzed the light curves and found there a period P=124.4 days in the light curves of 3C 279 that is most likely caused by the helical motion of the jet.


The seismic shear-wave velocity in the upper 30 m of the Earth (hereafter, VS30) is widely used to characterize local seismic site conditions and predict ground-motion amplification. Previous studies have mapped the spatial distribution of VS30 based on its correlation with lithology and topographic slope. While this approach provides a reasonable first-order prediction of VS30, significant discrepancies still exist between predicted and measured VS30 values. Our project evaluated the hypothesis that topographically induced bedrock fracture and weathering patterns influence the spatial variability of VS30 in southern California. We took a two-step approach to examine the controls of local variations of VS30 in southern California. First, we measured and compiled VS30 from P-wave seismic refraction surveys. Second, we calculated elastic topographic stress distribution beneath the topographic profile using a boundary element model. Our initial results showed that the VS30 of the San Bernardino Mountains is slower than the VS30 of the San Gabriel Mountains. In our SGM site, the spatial distribution of stress model proxy shows a similar distribution with the P-wave tomography from our seismic refraction survey. The initial results of this work suggest a potential control of topographic stress on bedrock weathering and VS30, which we will continue to investigate. Our work will provide a systematic understanding of the spatial variation of bedrock weathering in mountainous sites in southern California, which will improve the characterization of subsurface shear-wave velocity and seismic site conditions.


Four types (2D-video disdrometer: 2DVD; precipitation occurrence sensor system: POSS; micro-rain radar: MRR; and Joss–Waldvogel disdrometer: JWD) of sixteen instruments were collocated within a square area of 400 m2 from 16 April to 8 May 2008 for intercomparison of drop size distribution (DSD) of rain. This unique dataset was used to study the inherent measurement uncertainty due to the diversity of the measuring principles and sampling sizes of the four types of instruments. The DSD intercomparison shows generally good agreement among them, except that the POSS and MRR had higher concentrations of small raindrops (<1.0 mm) and offered a better chance to observe big raindrops (>5.2 mm). The measurement uncertainty (σ) was obtained quantitatively after considering the zero or non-zero measurement error covariance between two instruments of the same type. The results indicate the measurement uncertainties were found to be neither independent nor identical among the same type of instruments. The MRR is relatively accurate (lower σ) due to large sampling volumes and accurate measurement of the Doppler power spectrum. The JWD is the least accurate due to the small sampling volumes. The σ decreases rapidly with increasing time-averaging window. The 2DVD shows the best accuracy of R in longer averaging time, but this is not true for Z due to the small sampling volume. The MRR outperformed other instruments for Z for entire averaging time due to its measuring principle.


A display device comprises a mold frame; a backlight assembly arranged in the mold frame; and an LCD panel arranged on the backlight assembly. The mold frame is surrounded by a pedestal, the pedestal supports the backlight assembly, and the pedestal is arranged at the side of the mold frame. The backlight assembly comprises a reflective sheet; a light guide plate arranged on the reflective sheet; a light source arranged at the side of the light guide plate; a wavelength conversion member which converts the wavelength of light generated by the light source; a spacer which separates the wavelength conversion member from the light source; and at least one optical sheet arranged on the light guide plate. When light is generated by the light source, the reflective sheet reflects the light upwards, the wavelength conversion member is clamped between the spacer and the light guide plate, the wavelength conversion member comprises a first surface facing the light source, the wavelength conversion member comprises a tube, a matrix arranged in the tube; a plurality of wavelength conversion particles arranged in the matrix, and an air layer in the tube. The plurality of wavelength conversion particles comprises a plurality of quantum dots. According to the invention, the reliability of the display device can be increased.


Objective The DNA damage induced by 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol(3-MCPD) and the underlying mechanisms were studied in HEK293 cells.Methods As target cells,HEK293 cells were treated at the concentrations of 0,1.25,2.5,5,and 10 mM with 3-MCPD at 37 ℃ for 1 hr.The single cell gel electrophoresis assay(SCGE) was applied for quantitative analysis of DNA damage which was caused by 3-MCPD.We also measured the level of intracellular ROS by use of the 2,7-dichlorofluorescein diacetate(DCFH-DA) assay when HEK293 cells were treated with different concentrations of 3-MCPD(0,2.5,5,and 10 mM) at 37 ℃ for 1 hr.The level of oxidative DNA damage was evaluated using immunoperoxidase staining for 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine(8-OHdG) when HEK293 cells were treated with different concentrations of 3-MCPD(0,1.25,2.5,5 mM) at 37 ℃ for 3 hr.Results The results showed that 3-MCPD at all tested concentrations(1.25-10 mM) caused a significant increase of DNA strand breaks in HEK293 cells.The numerical values for tail DNA% significantly increased compared to the control(P0.05).The level of intracelluar ROS was significantly increased when exposed to 10 mM of 3-MCPD(P0.05).The formation of 8-OHdG was significantly increased at the concentration of 2.5-5 mM of 3-MCPD(P0.05).Conclusion 3-MCPD can induce DNA damage in HEK293 cells.The DNA damage is probably induced by the increased level of intracellular ROS and formation of 8-OHdG,which cause oxidatively generated DNA damage and formation of DNA strand breaks.


Fe, Zn, Cu, Pb, Mn, Ni, Co, Al, P and S have been analyzed by ICP-AES. The levels of elements are compared between the sea sediment and seagrass. Fe is the highest metal found in both sea sediment and seagrass. Considerable levels of Al, Mn, P and S are also found in both. The levels of the elements analyzed can be divided into three catagories: elements that are higher in sediment than seagrass, elements that are equal in both and elements that are lower in sediment than seagrass.


Sparsity based techniques have been widely used for image denoising. In this work we focus on Poisson noise and propose initial stages for a new strategy for its removal. We start with a method that removes the noise by converting it into an additive Gaussian noise using the Anscombe transform, applying a variant of the OMP-denoising algorithm. Then, following the recent work by Salmon et. al., we bypass the need for the Anscombe transform and rely directly on the noise statistics. The new strategy is shown to lead to near state-of-the-art results.


Biochemical studies were conducted on two hundred and thirty, day old broiler chicken experimentally infected with Salmonella Gallinarum and exposed to alpha-cypermethrin. These chicks at the age of 7 days were divided randomly into three groups viz. group A, B and C containing 70, 80 and 80 chicks, respectively. All the birds of group B and C were given alpha-cypermethrin @ 63.94 mg/kg bwt (1/5 of MTD) and @ 31.97 mg /kg bwt (1/10 of MTD), respectively orally through drops throughout the experiment. The group A was kept as control i.e. no alpha-cypermethrin was given. At the age of 14 days, the birds of groups B and C were divided into two subgroups (group B into B1 and B2, group C into C1 and C2) of 40 birds each. Similarly, birds of group A were divided into two subgroups A1 and A2 of 30 and 40 birds, respectively. Thereafter, each bird of subgroup A2, B2 and C2 were injected intraperitoneally 10 CFU Salmonella Gallinarum in 1 ml normal saline solution. Blood samples were collected from six birds of each subgroup directly from heart subsequently on 0, 7, 14, 21 and 28 day post infection in sterile tubes for serum separation for biochemical parameters analysis. Serum samples were stored in aliquots at -20C until its use for different biochemical parameters. Biochemical studies revealed significantly higher mean serum AST, ALT, LDH, ALP activities, creatinine concentration and significantly lower total protein and albumin concentration in all the infected groups as compared to control group.


The structure and its function about a dual-axis rate turntable has been elaborated, its principle block diagram of control system is given. And its electromechanical system's transfer function of the dual-axis rate table has been calculated and simplified reasonably based on experiments and practical situation, then a double loop control system constituted with a speed loop and a stabilization loop is got. Its' correction link of the stabilization loop is calculated, which has a 2-order open loop transfer function. In order to achieve a suitable stability margin, the corresponding digital controller is designed, and its' pulse transfer function response and the three-step iterative simulation results to a same sinusoidal excitation are got and compared, the same results verified the correctness of the design to the correction link.


Main reliability indicators of complicated electromagnetic systems are examined in this paper. Recurrent expressions are worked out for the failure probability in the prescribed availability condition and for the failure frequency in the prescribed availability condition.


The addition of 1,1-diphenyl-2-propyn-1-ol to pentane solutions of the cyclopentadienyl compound Os(η5-C5H5)Cl(PiPr3)2 (1) produces the displacement of a phosphine ligand from 1 and the formation of the π-alkyne complex Os(η5-C5H5)Cl{η2-HC⋮C−C(OH)Ph2}(PiPr3) (2), which affords the allenylidene derivative Os(η5-C5H5)Cl(CCCPh2)(PiPr3) (3) in toluene at 85 °C. The structure of 3 has been determined by X-ray diffraction. The Os−Cα, Cα−Cβ, and Cβ−Cγ bond lengths are 1.875(6), 1.222(9), and 1.344(9) A, respectively, while the Os−Cα−Cβ and Cα−Cβ−Cγ angles are 171.6(6)° and 172.0(7)°, respectively. Protonation of 3 with HBF4·OEt2 leads to the α,β-unsaturated carbyne [Os(η5-C5H5)Cl(⋮C−CHCPh2)(PiPr3)]BF4 (4), as a result of the attack of the proton from the acid at the Cβ carbon atom of the allenylidene. The nucleophilicity of this atom is also revealed by the reaction of 3 with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, which leads to the allenylvinylidene Os(η5-C5H5)Cl{CC(CO2Me)C(CO2Me)CCPh2}(PiPr3) (5). A second C3 + C2 c...


On 8 July 2021 a M6.0 normal faulting earthquake rocked the community of Walker and the surrounding region near the California‐Nevada border. In the 1990s, field surveys of nearby Meadowcliff Canyon identified numerous precarious rocks deemed likely to topple in the event of strong shaking. Despite their proximity (∼6 km) to the 2021 earthquake, the precarious rocks still remain standing. In this work, we combine advanced source and ground motion characterization techniques to help unravel this mystery. High‐precision hypocentral locations reveal a clear north/south‐striking, east‐dipping rupture plane along the southern extension of the Slinkard Valley fault. The mainshock nucleated near the base of the fault, triggering thousands of aftershocks. Bayesian source spectral analyses indicate that the mainshock had a moderately‐high stress drop (∼17 MPa), and that aftershocks with deeper hypocenters have higher stress drops. Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) recordings at regional stations agree well with existing ground motion models, predicting PGA of ∼0.3 g in Meadowcliff Canyon, a level sufficient to topple precarious rocks based on PGA‐derived stability criteria. We demonstrate that despite these large ground accelerations, the pulse duration in Meadowcliff Canyon is too short to supply the impulse necessary to damage these features, observations which support the application of dynamic toppling models that account for the joint effects of pulse amplitude and duration when assessing rock fragility. This study provides a unique vantage point from which to interpret rarely‐observed strong‐motion recordings from close to an active normal fault, one of many that dominate hazard along the eastern Sierra.


Although malaria was described more than 3 000 years ago, it is only by the end of XIX century that plasmodium was identified as a cause, and mosquito as a vector of the disease. During wars, numerous contagious diseases which usually follow wars, become widespread and severe. During the Salonika Front it was malaria, as a true wartime infection, not only within the Serbian Army but also within the allied (French and Great Britain) and the opposing troops (Austria- Hungary and Bulgaria). In spite of the applied measures at the level of medical achievements of that time, and adequate military organization, malaria epidemic was resistant and persisted up to the Salonika Front breach, in 1918. Any omission in military organization of life and lodging of soldiers reduces efficacy in preventing outbreak and influences severity of clinical manifestation of the disease. Malaria turned out to be the disease that reduced combat readiness of Serbian and allied armies, but, fortunately, and opposing armies as well. It is possible that the reason for long periods of combat inactivity on both sides was blockade of combat power induced by epidemic. The total mortality of affected Serbian soldiers was 412 (in French army mortality was 1175), the highest number of deaths occurred in second half of 1916th (261), from July 1st to December 31st 1916th Our country is the stage of eradication (the last autochthonous case was recorded in 1964), but in our study we found continuous importing of disease in Serbia, some 30-40 cases per year, with usually severe clinical presentation, and late recognition and specific antimalarial therapy. Multidisciplinary approach is essential. In primary health care the most important is the early recognition of the disease.


High resolution tomographic inversion has conventionally been preceded by picking of 2nd and 4th order residual moveout of depth migrated gathers. However, this type of picking assumes that the residual moveout behaviour can adequately be characterised with a parametric fit of a simple curve to the form of moveout exhibited by the data. When we have small-scale velocity anomalies (with lateral extent a fraction of the acquisition spread length) this assumption breaks down. Unfortunately, picking the detailed non-parametric residual moveout behaviour can be very difficult, as the moveout trajectories can be obscured by residual noise (often remnant multiple), which can derail a non-parametric autopicker. Here we demonstrate a successful implementation of non-parametric autopicking applied to two diverse data examples, and contrast the results with conventional tomographic inversion of parametrically picked moveout. Introduction Features with a lateral extent much shorter than the recording cable length cause highly irregular moveout behaviour on the recorded seismograms: this irregular moveout behaviour persists even after PreSDM with a smooth velocity model. If these features are only a few hundred metres wide, then it is unlikely that conventional ray-based tomography will be able to invert for them. Tomography based on non-parametric picking has a much better chance of resolving small-scale structure, as this style of picking can capture the complex moveout behaviour in the CRP gathers (Brittan and Yuan, 2005; Jones, 2010, Luo et al., 2014). The first example considered here is from deep water offshore Sri Lanka (Stevens et al., 2014; Fruehn et al., 2014), where the sea floor is incised with deep canyons, and the sedimentary sequence below these shows clear evidence of the presence of buried paleo-canyons with significant lateral velocity variation in comparison to the surrounding sediments. For the vast majority of the study area (perhaps 90%), parametric picking and ray-based hybrid gridded tomographic inversion worked well (Fruehn et al., 2008; Jones, 2012). High-resolution tomographic inversion was able to resolve layering within the basalt and identify trapped sediment units (of about 200m thickness) within the basal flows. Details from these results are shown in Figure 1. However, this conventional 2 and 4 order residual moveout (RMO) picking of CRP PreSDM gathers failed to capture the short wavelength velocity variation associated with the buried canyons, thus limiting the ability of subsequent ray-based tomographic inversion to resolve the required level of complexity. Failure of conventional parametric picking Although the parametric approach worked well for the vast majority of the study area, in the paleo-canyon region, even after several iterations of parametric picking, the tomography was still unable to resolve rapid lateral velocity variations caused by the buried paleo-canyons. Figure 2 contrasts the conventional with the nonparametric results by comparing the remaining residual moveout error (as characterised by a 2 order analysis for both cases, so as to facilitate direct comparison). The CRP gathers from 3D anisotropic Kirchhoff PreSDM from the two approaches are shown in Figure 3. Overall, the CRP gather flatness is significantly improved for the deeper major reflectors by employing nonparametric picking. Gathers after conventional parametric update show sinuous RMO behaviour typical of unresolved overburden short-wavelength lateral velocity anomalies. Following non-parametric update, to a large extent the sinuosity is removed, resulting in simpler RMO behaviour. Figure 4 shows the final Kirchhoff 3D PreSDM image in the zone below the paleo-canyon complexity after several iterations of parametric picking as compared to the: corresponding image after four iterations of non-parametric (generalised) moveout picking. Overall the image is significantly improved for all deeper major reflectors.


With the coming of knowledge economic era, it makes human resources factors exert a tremendous influence to the enterprises-running success and failure. Human resources have become important resource of enterprises and society. Hunan resources information is no longer supplement context of accounting system. Strengthening the study to human resources accounting is more and more important The purpose of this paper is to disscuss how to affirm, calculate and report human resources.


The functions of ultrasonic velocity, density and viscosity for ternary liquid mixtures of 1-proponol, 1- butanol and 1-pentanol with tetra hydro furan are determined by 303.15 K-313.15 K. This data is used to calculate various parameters like the excess free volume, excess internal pressure and Gibb's free energy, which is used to discuss molecular interactions in the ternary liquid mixtures.


RhoA‐activated kinase (ROK) is involved in the disorders of smooth muscle contraction found in hypertension model animals and patients. We examined whether the α1‐adrenergic receptor agonist‐induced ROK signal is perturbed in resistance small mesentery artery (SMA) of Lyon genetically hypertensive (LH) rats, using a ROK antagonist, Y27632. Smooth muscle strips of SMA and aorta were isolated from LH and Lyon normotensive (LN) rats. After Ca2+‐depletion and pre‐treatment with phenylephrine (PE), smooth muscle contraction was induced by serial additions of CaCl2. In LH SMA Ca2+ permeated cells to a lesser extent as compared with LN SMA, while CaCl2‐induced contraction of LH SMA was greater than that of LN SMA, indicating a higher ratio of force to Ca2+ in LH SMA contraction (Ca2+ sensitization). No hyper‐contraction was observed in LH aorta tissues. Treatment of LH SMA with Y27632 restored both Ca2+ permeability and Ca2+‐force relationship to levels seen for LN SMA. In response to PE stimulation, phosphorylation of CPI‐17, a phosphorylation‐dependent myosin phosphatase inhibitor protein, and MYPT1 at Thr853, the inhibitory phosphorylation site of the myosin phosphatase regulatory subunit, was increased in LN SMA, but remained unchanged in LH SMA. These results suggest that the disorder in ROK‐dependent Ca2+ permeability and Ca2+‐force relationship is responsible for LH SMA hyper‐contraction. Unlike other hypertensive models, the ROK‐induced hyper‐contractility of LH SMA is independent of MYPT1 and CPI‐17 phosphorylation, which suggests that ROK‐mediated inhibition of myosin phosphatase does not affect SMA hyper‐contractility in LH SMA cells.


The NAD+‐dependent deacetylases, namely sirtuins, are involved in the regulation of a variety of biological processes such as gene silencing, DNA repair, longevity, metabolism, apoptosis, and development. An enzyme from the parasite Leishmania infantum that belongs to this family, LiSIR2RP1, is a NAD+‐dependent tubulin deacetylase and an ADP‐ribosyltransferase. This enzyme's involvement in L. infantum virulence and survival underscores its potential as a drug target. Our search for selective inhibitors of LiSIR2RP1 has led, for the first time, to the identification of the antiparasitic and anticancer bisnaphthalimidopropyl (BNIP) alkyl di‐ and triamines (IC50 values in the single‐digit micromolar range for the most potent compounds). Structure–activity studies were conducted with 12 BNIP derivatives that differ in the length of the central alkyl chain, which links the two naphthalimidopropyl moieties. The most active and selective compound is the BNIP diaminononane (BNIPDanon), with IC50 values of 5.7 and 97.4 μM against the parasite and human forms (SIRT1) of the enzyme, respectively. Furthermore, this compound is an NAD+‐competitive inhibitor that interacts differently with the parasite and human enzymes, as determined by docking analysis, which might explain its selectivity toward the parasitic enzyme.


We revisit the possibility of detecting an extrasolar planet around a background star as it crosses the fold caustic of a foreground binary lens. During such an event, the planet's flux can be magnified by a factor of ~100 or more. The detectability of the planet depends strongly on the orientation of its orbit relative to the caustic. If the source star is inside the intercaustic region, detecting the caustic-crossing planet is difficult against the magnified flux of its parent star. In the more favorable configuration, when the star is outside the intercaustic region when the planet crosses the caustic, a close-in Jupiter-like planet around a Sun-like star at a distance of 8 kpc is detectable in 8 minute integrations with a 10 m telescope at maximal signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) ~15 for phase angle ϕ ~ 10°. In this example, we find further that the presence of methane, at its measured abundance in Jupiter, and/or water, sodium, and potassium, at the abundances expected in theoretical atmosphere models of close-in Jupiters, could be inferred from a nondetection of the planet in strong broad absorption bands at 0.6-1.4 μm caused by these compounds, accompanied by a S/N ~ 10 detection in adjacent bands. We conclude that future generations of large telescopes might be able to probe the composition of the atmospheres of distant extrasolar planets.


The involvement of neuro-inflammation has been demonstrated in asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR), conjunctivitis and atopic dermatitis. Allergic reaction is associated with local production and release of neuromediators such as Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), substance P and Calcitonine-gene related peptide. Patients with allergic diseases showed increased serum and local NGF levels during inflammation or after allergen challenge. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


ESI 1. Synthesis of Precursors The precursor [In(bipy)(SC{O}Ph)3], 1, was synthesized as follows. Firstly, NaOH (0.06 g, 1.5 mmol) was reacted with 176 l of PhC{O}SH in 15 ml of EtOH to obtain sodium thiobenzoate, PhC{O}SNa. Then, bipy (0.08 g, 0.5 mmol) and InCl3 (0.11 g, 0.5 mmol) in 10 ml of EtOH were added to this clear yellow solution. A creamy yellow precipitate was formed and the contents were stirred for 30 minutes. Light brown [In(bipy)(SC{O}Ph)3] was obtained by filtration and the product was rinsed several times with EtOH, H2O and dried in vacuum. EA (%) found: C, 53.15; H, 3.23; N, 4.00; S, 14.24. Calculated: C, 54.55; H, 3.40; N, 4.10; S, 14.09.


Economic growth rate has reached solid 6 percent plus, inflation has been contained to 5 percent or so, exchange rate has been stabilized, fiscal deficit has been drastically reduced, domestic interest rates have declined dramatically, international reserves have jumped twelve times their 2000 level, debt ratios have fallen significantly and investment is booming. Pakistan's creditworthiness has been upgraded to B+ by S&P. It is one of the few developing countries that has graduated from a successful completion of an IMF program to directly accessing international financial markets.


One of the functions of the press one of them is as informative function of providing information through the media both print and electronic media. In this position the press because of its role as a bridge to effective interaction between government and society, or vice versa.
In this study, researchers used a qualitative descriptive. Qualitative research is descriptive research aimed at presenting a very thorough (accurately and precisely) about a very broad characteristics of a population (Hamidi, 2007:12). Location of research conducted at the company's newspapers (newspapers) Radar Malang is located in Jalan Arjuno 23 Malang.
Population of this research is a journalist journalist Radar Malang with the number of people who represent 4 of 10 journalists from Radar Malang.
The number of informants determined by using purposive sampling technique, ie sampling technique with a data source specific considerations. Consideration of this particular example, the person (informant) is considered most knowledgeable about what we expect, or maybe he's ruling making it easier for researchers to explore objects or social situations that will be examined (Sugiyono, 2008: 53-54).
While data collection techniques using the interview (interview). Use interview techniques are consistent with the purposes of research activity as an exploratory study, which conducted exploration in the study of the respondents (journalists Radar Malang) by using the questions
(interviews) are very common on the views of respondents to express more clearly by their language, so obtained some information that is very complex and diverse. (Hamidi, 2007:11) and the documentary is one of the data collection techniques used to track historical data (Burhan Bungin, 2008:121). Documentary in the study of documents, reports, laws and regulations.
From pelitian researchers have done, there are several inhibiting factors in news coverage is as follows: Code of Ethics of Journalism, internal constraints, Off The Record and the Embargo, speakers, envelopes and free gifts, and deadlines.
While looking at some of the inhibiting factors in the coverage of the solutions to overcome them are as follows: Held rolling or change the field from one field to another, to approach or try to find ways to be closer to some sources, a better understanding of the Code of Ethics of
Journalism and writing accordance with the EYD (Spelling The Enhanced).


The Fiscal Responsibility Law (LRF) promulgation in 2000 was a milestone in the establishment of fiscal rules nationwide. The balance of public accounts and debt sustainability are necessary conditions for prolonged economic growth and, through the expectations of private agents, affect the economy's investment rate. The objective of the research was to verify whether, during the 20 years of the LRF, there is a perception of credibility in the Brazilian fiscal policy. For this, the VAR model was used to ascertain the behavior of private agents' expectations in relation to public debt and the primary result, obtained in the Focus report of the Central Bank (BACEN). As an additional contribution, it analyzed the effects of the expectations of these fiscal indicators on the investment rate. The results showed that these effects are relevant and suggest a compromise in the credibility of private agents in national fiscal policy in the analyzed period.


This chapter presents examples from the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel, and discusses the textual character of the MT in this part of the Hebrew Bible through these examples. The point of comparison is mainly the Septuagint, but in several cases there are also fragments of 4QSam a available. As is well known, there are numerous smaller and larger differences between the MT, on the one hand, and the Septuagint and 4QSama, on the other, in the Books of Samuel. Theoretically speaking, it may be a question of unintentional corruption of the text in one or the other direction or it is also possible that some of these differences have their origin in deliberate editing of one or the other textual tradition. The chapter demonstrates that both textual corruption and deliberate editing, involving theological or ideological tendency, have taken place in the Masoretic textual tradition. Keywords:Books of Samuel; deliberate editing; MT; textual corruption


OBJECTIVE To establish an RP-HPLC method for determining paeoniflorin in Shaoshi Securing capsule.METHODS The samples were extracted by ultrasound and detected by Hypersil C_(18) column(250 mm×4.6 mm,5 μm) with methanol-water(27:73) as mobile phase and detection wavelength at UV 230 nm.RESULTS The calibration curve of paeoniflorin was linear in the range of 0.074-0.741 μg(r=0.99995).The average recovery of sample was 100.7% with the RSD of 2.1%(n=5).Precision of the analytical method was 1.1%(n=5).CONCLUSION The method is reproducible and sensitive.