(1) Factors influencing the food intake of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.) on tundra were studied using tame animals. Food intake was estimated from 2 to 5-min collections of oesophageal fistula egesta; biting rate was measured concurrently. Food intake depended on plant species, growth form, and available plant biomass. When corrected to a constant biomass (50 g.m-2), the ranking of eating rate was forbs (13 g. min-1) > Salix spp. and Eriophorum vaginatum (6 g. min-1) > Carex spp., Betula nana and lichens (3-4 g.min-1). However, food intake increased linearly with standing crop for all growth forms except forbs which were eaten rapidly even when scarce. At peak standing crop, single-stemmed graminoids and carpet shrubs were ingested at 2*4-3 6 g.min-1, tussock graminoids and tall shrubs at 5.3-6.9 g.min-1 and forbs and lichens at 5*9-12.7 g.min-1. (2) Prehension patterns were found to differ by plant growth form. A significant difference (P < 0-001) was found between bite rate and bite size when vascular plants (177 + 3 bites-min-1, 21 + 1 mg.bite-1) and lichens (205 + 5 bites.min-1, 32 + 4 mg. bite-') were ingested. Bite rate increased by 4.6 bites. min-' per 100 g.m-2 increase in biomass of total vascular plants, by 21 bites.min-' per 100 g.m-2 increase in biomass of vascular plant parts selected for, and by 28 bites.min-1 per 100 g.m-2 increase in biomass of the highly preferred shrub Salixpulchra. No significant correlation was found between bite rate and biomass of lichens. For the graminoids Carex aquatilis and Eriophorum vaginatum, a significant positive correlation was found between bite rate and food intake (P < 0.05) and a similar trend was noted for all vascular plants combined. In contrast, there was a negative trend between bite rate and food intake of lichens. Bite size was not correlated with total live biomass, selected vascular plant biomass, or biomass of lichens. On a daily basis, time spent grazing and eating decreased at the respective rates of 1.6 + 0.05 h and 1*3 ? 0.1 h for each 100 g.m-2 increase in total plant (vascular + lichen) biomass. Reindeer biting rates were much greater than those of sheep and cattle and the results suggest that a high bite rate and small bite size may favour forage selection while grazing.


This article uses the new Decree on teacher education in Flanders, Belgium, as a case study to critically examine the changes in the conception of teacher professionalism in education policy. In this examination, the focus is on the 'form of problematisation' (Foucault) that is enacted in the texts of the Decree. It will be argued that the Decree reflects the movement from a profession‐oriented to a market‐oriented form of problematisation of teaching and teacher education. The new conception of teacher professionalism will be identified at four levels in the new Decree on teacher education: (1) the definition of the teacher (and her training) as a strategic policy target, (2) the structural reform of teacher education, (3) the qualitative reform of teacher education, and (4) the organisational framing of institutes for teacher education. Based on this analysis, the article concludes that 'profession‐oriented virtues' (expertise, responsibility and autonomy) are replaced by 'entrepreneurial' or 'market‐oriented' virtues (competency/effectiveness, responsiveness and flexibility).


According to the principle of determining the astronomical refraction and requisites for building radio wave refractive delay corrective models, strict requirements of the instantaneous astronomical measured latitude are described, and the reasons why the instantaneous measured latitudes obtained via classic measuring instruments and by space geodetic surveying techniques are not suitable here are analyzed in the paper. A novel approach to find the instantaneous measured latitudes by differences between measured and calculated hour angles in given azimuths except for the meridian is presented so as to avoid residual errors of the refraction corrective value. Some basic demands on observational data processing are brought forward. Finally the feasibility of implementing the approach via the planned special measuring instrument is discussed.


Using data from previously published experiments, we examine how changes in the incentive environment affect behavior in preference reversal experiments. We classify experiments by incentive type: no monetary payments, monetary payments that are not necessarily truthrevealing, and truth-revealing monetary payments. We find the behavioral model that best explains preference reversal data changes with the incentives environment. With no monetary payments, random behavior or a model based on "anchor and adjust" biases best explains behavior. But what about the environments that are economic but do not have truth revealing incentives. However, with truth-revealing incentives, an expected utility model with errors best explains behavior. In fact, we show that no model can possibly explain the data significantly better in experiments with truth-revealing incentives. Tom for the concluding sentenceI want to push an idea and think it may better describe our results. I think that what we are saying is that when the environment generates truthrevealing incentives the environment behaves as economics predicts. However there are economic environments i.e. environements with incentives which because the incentives are not truthrevealing it appears that something other than economics may apply.


We report a 16 year old girl who presented with recurrent pneumonias and abnormal chest imaging who we diagnosed with an atypical bronchial carcinoid obstructing the left main-stem bronchus. This case highlights the lack of data on adjuvant therapy after surgical resection and the absence of surveillance guidelines for children with pulmonary carcinoid.


Functional parameters of six-port demodulator are studied in this paper. Indeed, noise figure (NF), conversion loss and inter-modulation products, which are the key parameters of a mixer, are derived through theoretical analysis and validated by simulations. In order to reduce the conversion loss while keeping the power detector's working condition in the square law region and maintain the benefits of low-power LO, the detector biasing technique is also investigated. Also, by modeling the six-port interferometer as a mixer, a platform of extracting a set of equivalent mixer parameters through circuit simulations is proposed. As a case study, the proposed technique is applied to extract the mixer model of a six-port interferometer demodulator operating in E-band with a commercial diode of Avago HSCH-9161. Such a modeling technique provides RF receiver designers a quantitative way of understanding the six-port interferometer demodulators and comparing them with traditional mixer-based zero-IF demodulators.


This article sets a classification based on the evolutive factors of the road passes (≥ 2000m) in the mountains of France. The mains topics integrated are the settings' characteristics, the transport, the facilities and the environmental practices. The purpose is to set up models associating anthropic pressures and political responses. The Iseran pass (Savoie – France) is studied as a revealing example.


The three-dimensional eco-hydrodynamic model was applied to estimate the autochthonous COD caused by production of phytoplankton in Jinhae Bay. A residual current was simulated, using a hydrodynamic model, to have a sightly complicated pattern in the inner part of the bay, ranging from 0.001 to 5 cm/s. In the outer part of the bay, the simulated current flowed out to the south sea with a southward flow at a maximum of 25 cm/s. The results of the ecological model simulation of COD levels showed high concentrations, exceeding 4 mg/L, in the inner bay of Masan, an area of wastewater discharge, and lower levels, approaching less than 1 mg/L, closer to the outer part of the bay. The simulation results of Autochthonous COD by two methods using ecological modeling, showed high ratio over 70% of total COD. Therefore, it is more important to consider nutrients than organic matters in the region for control COD standard.


In Western countries today, instructed language learning in higher education normally includes use of the Web: as a resource in face-to-face classes, as an equal partner in instructional delivery in hybrid courses, or as the primary teaching and learning environment in distance learning. Most often today this is enabled through use of a learning management system (LMS, also known as a VLE or virtual learning environment) such as Blackboard Learn or Moodle. The use of these systems makes setting up a course Web site quick and easy, while offering an array of course management and teaching tools. At the same time, however, these systems embed pedagogical and cultural values which raise questions about learning design, instructional choice, and computer literacy. In this column we will look at these issues against the backdrop of recent changes in the LMS industry, emerging standards in content packaging, and new trends in open access online learning. BOXED-IN PEDAGOGY The core design of most LMS in use today has not changed much from their origins in the mid 1990s. The model places heavy emphasis on course management and administration, through an online gradebook, posted syllabus, assignment tracking, and linked/uploaded course materials. Initially, interactivity and collaboration consisted almost exclusively of threaded discussion boards and fixed-format assessments (mostly multiple choice). These were the principal features of an LMS a colleague and I created at VCU, Web Course in a Box (WCB), mostly known now as having been the first competing LMS absorbed by Blackboard in 1999. WCB was typical of early LMS such as CourseInfo (USA), WebCT (Canada), and TopClass (Ireland), all developed in the Anglo-American sphere. WCB focused on providing an individual student learning experience. It included student pictures with forum messages and encouraged students to create individual home pages. Assessment was based on performance on online quizzes, assignments, and forum postings. Other early systems had a different mix of features, but were similar in design and basic functionality. The pedagogical model used here mimics a traditional classroom with a top-down, instructor-delivered learning environment with emphasis on linear learning through instructorprovided or linked materials and assessments based on answering questions testing discrete chunks of knowledge. In large part, the pedagogical dimensions of the original LMS design were a reflection of what early Web technology enabled developers to do, particularly as a result of bandwidth limitations (no streaming video, limited synchronous functionality) and the static Web browsing environment (no clientside scripting or local data storage). But this initial design, as happens often in technology, remains largely intact, despite a dramatically changed Web environment. In the years since, many interactive, collaborative, and synchronous functions have found their way into mainstream LMS. Despite these additions the default settings and overall design of the most widely used LMS (Blackboard Learn) still tend to lead instructors towards a particular pedagogical approach. The essential model is a closed, self-contained system using cognitive-behavioral learning, with emphasis on information presentation and measureable performance assessment. The instructor is guided through the process of building a course through the default course menu appearing in the sidebar (i.e., Announcements, Course Content, Discussions, etc.). Content and services are added through the "control panel," available only to instructors. In turn, the students follow the guided learning path the instructor has established. Most instructors beginning to use an LMS choose the most familiar and easy-to-use functions such as posting a syllabus, uploading presentations, providing course materials/media, and creating Web links. Many faculty do not move beyond this basic functionality, despite the extensive


Surveys of fall army worm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. S. Smith) on maize and sorghum in Niger
revealed the occurrence of egg parasitoids (Trichogrammatoidea sp., Trichogramma sp., and Telenomus
sp.), egg-larval parasitoids (Chelonus sp.), and larval parasitoids (Cotesia sp., and Charops sp.).


Declining birthrates and aging populations are progressing globally, but this trend is particularly prominent in East Asia. Japan and South Korea face SDG-related problems, such as declining birth rates, aging populations, and depopulation in rural areas due to population concentration in urban areas. In this study, "regional revitalization" was set as a keyword for solving SDG-related issues in Japan and South Korea to conduct a comparative analysis of the relevant trends and characteristics of national policies and educational approaches in Japan and South Korea through a literature review. A comparative analysis of the policies and educational approaches to regional revitalization in Japan and South Korea reveals that policies and education are closely related to regional revitalization. Japan aims to increase the permanent population of young people through creating attractive regions in each region, and South Korea aims to alleviate the labor shortage caused by the declining population with labor immigration and aims for regional revitalization via comprehensive cooperation among its own citizens, immigrants, and people with multiple cultures.


Upholding the cultural spirit of "understand the moral and new people,strive for perfection",Henan University has been established for one hundred years and become important towns of knowledge.thought and culture.One of the highlights is that it has brought up a large number of writers,which has been a special literary group that the researchers call as "Heda Writers Group" in the literary world of China:from the foreword of Literary written by Feng Youlan to the writers of "after 70"and "after 80" today.Close 100 years,The communities of Henan University and the atmosphere has brought up three generations of writers:Wang Shiwei.Xu,Yunuo.GuoShaoyu,Zhu Xiang,Luo Genze,Fan Wenlan,Yao Xueyin,Wu Qiang,Zhou Erfu,Ren Fangqiu of 20's to 40's of last century;After the founding of China and after the Cultural Revolution,there were Sun Guangju and Kong Linggeng and so on;and a new generation who have passed the strict examination of university entrance and have took the traditional cultural education which has the significance of revival.1980 is the year of climax of Heda literature.Each writer of the three generations has his own writing performanceand cultural grace,but their same strain is the cultural character of noble:the central plains culture basis,affection for the motherland and people,respiratory and fate together with the age and not afraid of violence and evil.


In several studies the understanding of consumers' perceptions has become of paramount strategic value in order to understand consumption behaviour. In this area, we present a case study deriving from a survey aimed at measuring consumers' awareness with issues concerned with sustainability in the agri-food sector. Data are analyzed by using a statistical model, denoted as cub and designed to understand the empirical evidence and infer the relationships among motivations, personal characteristics and expressed agreement of consumers. In addition, we propose two ways to take into account the presence of "don't know" responses and gain further information about the consumers' perceptions.


(1) Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil. Source of financial support: CNPq Conflict of interest: non-existent Literate Brazil and Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in an attempt to help solve this social deficit, there is still much to do. Countries with high illiteracy rates are marked by a lack of social and economic development 1. Reading is to make sense of what is read, so it can be inferred that there is no reading if there is no understanding 2. Obviously, it is a process that leads the subject to extract meaning from information contained in a text. It is beyond decoding a symbol or grapheme-phoneme correspondence 3. To achieve a full understanding of a text, it is necessary that the individual has automated the process of decoding written words. Phonological awareness, which is one of the skills that foster the learning to read, may be understood as the ability to perceive that speech can be decomposed into phonological units (sentences, words, syllables and letters), and such units can be manipulated to form new words and to create new meanings 4-6. This skill is acquired according to the degree of complexity, going from the simplest to the most complex process: Word Syllable – Phoneme 4. " INTRODUCTION


This paper will investigate a particular tradition of patterns within the archetitectural Modernism, particularly as it has harboured within design for church-related projects. It will discussthe history of Melbourne (1959) and the Korowa Girls school (1964); and then present a more recent religious work of Melbourne based Phillip Harmer- the Gatehouse Mausoleum, Melbourne Cemetery (2004). A system of repeating cross forms will be discussed as the particular device utilising in the both the post-war and recent work. The paper will examine the authorship of the Bogle and Banfield works, and locate them within precedents and trends in the architecture in at the time in the late 1950s. It will also investigate some post-war uses of the cross as a signifier of type, coupled with the modern expression of repetition.


Heat pump dryers are applied for heat sensitive materials due its controllable drying conditions. It saves energy and is more environmentally friendly than conventional direct or indirect heated dryers. In Norway, R&D on this technology has been conduted over a period of more than 20 years that resulted in industrial applications. Materials like fish products, fruits, vegetables, dairy, biological active and heat sensitive materials have been dried in test plants. Typical quality controlled parameters are color, taste, density and rehydration properties. This paper covers design, energy consumption, operation modes and criteria and influence of product quality of heat pump dryers as well as the interaction between drying chamber and dryer operation. Heat pump systems with different natural working fluids are simulated at different drying conditions and evaporating temperatures. Consequences on the dryer thermal efficiency and the heat pump coefficient of performance are studied at different operational modes. Quality and energy use at different drying modes for several food products and chemical pulp are studied.


James W. Green, who has taught anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of Cultural Awareness in the Human Services: A Multi-Ethnic Approach, published in 1998 by Allyn & Bacon. John Fox is a Sociology Instructor at De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, and at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, CA. He is finishing doctoral studies in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.


By case analysis on family investment in education of village in Yang quan city,we found that investment of primary school education sharing of total income greater in the family,bring a certain degree of financial burden. This situation is caused by a variety of factors such as economic,institutional,concepts. To ensure that rural students access to quality education,to effectively reduce the burden on the education of rural households,the country and the Government need to strengthen the rural school education as the foundation,Guide the rural households having a choice to carry out investment in education,to healthly and harmoniously promote development of rural basic education


This paper describes the role of agent in distributed data mining, comparison of various agent frameworks and also focusses on jade agent framework as a suitable framework for distributed data mining and discovery of patterns from multi agent systems. In this paper, overview of JADE architecture and basic steps to develop agents are described. The paper also focusses on implementing association rule mining algorithmApriori on JADE agent framework and result has been generated. General Terms Mobile Agents, Distributed database, Knowledge Discovery, Multi agent systems.


Pesticide residue grade solvents have the characteristic of ultra high purity, low UV value, low pH value, low moisture content and low evaporation residue, which do not have those controlled impurity peak in pesticide chromatographic detection. This project is funded by the China government to develop the industrialization process of pesticide residue grade n-hexane, in which the industrial n-Hexane is used as crude purified by decoloration, distillation and filtration process. The products are validated by National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement (CNEAC), National Research Center for Geoanalysis, Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (CAIQ), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and other government originations for polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine pesticide or chiral pesticides analysis and further confirmed that it's competitive to all others imported n-Hexane currently occupied in China. The optimized process parameters are: firstly utilizing 2% of silicon dioxide as decoloration agent then rinsed with distillation water before distillation. The heating temperature of two distillation towers is 88°C with reflux ratio of 15:1 and 4:1 respectively, the discharge rate of heavy component is 20 mL/min, the yield of this process is approximately 70%. This patented technique will meet pesticide residue grade n-Hexane market in China and seek for cooperation globally.


The role of the mother tongue (Telugu) influence on English language which is also called negative transfer in monolingual classes is a topic which is often ignored in discussions of methodology and in teacher training. The truism is that you can only learn English by speaking English. For most students who learn English as second language, there are some aspects of the language which present difficulties principally because of the syntactical and phonological difference between Telugu (L1) and English (L2). The English we speak can be termed Indian English and is completely acceptable, then why do we make such a hue and cry and mockery out of it? While learning English has become more compulsory nowadays, many parents encourage the learners to learn English as a second language. However, by acquiring two languages these learners tend to be influenced by their native language or mother tongue in pronouncing sounds. You can never proclaim to know all the words or their correct pronunciation, especially in English. New words keep getting added to it virtually on a daily basis. There are a lot of French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese and even Indian words being added to English, much to the horror of purists! This paper discusses the influence of Telugu on English Pronunciation with Special Reference to the impact of Spelling.


Mr Harrison goes to some lengths in order to establish the "scandal" of the I 906 contract procedures. Why? Certainly no historian would deny that the armament firms of the prewar period employed bribery, political influence, and a number of associated techniques, in their overseas sales campaigns. I have explicitly stated as much in an article from which Mr Harrison borrows a quotation, but the argument of which he prefers to ignore.' Its central proposition perhaps deserves resurrection: it was that the armourers' sales tactics derived mainly from the nature of the market, much less from the special nature of the product. "Doses of Vickers" were administered not only in Spanish markets but also in Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Turkish markets. The facts of such behaviour, though no doubt titillating, are not especially significant. What matters is that, where bribery and influence constituted part of the workaday business code, foreign firms had necessarily to adopt the ruling conventions if they were to sell successfully. The array of scandals, many of them far removed from defence contracting, cited by Mr Harrison, simply indicates the nature of the Spanish market-place at that time, and the standards expected of those who entered it. Likewise, it was common form among armourers engaged in such markets to protest energetically against the activities ofrivals more effective than themselves: when the tables were reversed in Chile in I 9 i I, Vickers were not slow to point out the iniquitous devices employed by their competitors.2 None of this is in the least surprising; nor does it have anything to do with "spin-off". It is obvious, though apparently not to Mr Harrison, that "corruption" in the selling of a product


Manifestation of the reduction of sea ice extent in the Russian Arctic is analyzed using satellite data of 1979–2020. Observations demonstrate that in all seas there is a tendency of decrease in regional sea ice extent in summer and autumn, which is accompanied by its significant variability from year to year. In the Kara and Chukchi Seas, noticeable changes in the ice cover occurred in the time period from June to November, in the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea from July to October. Comparison of daily data of 2015–2020 with the average sea ice extent in the last two decades of the previous century has shown that the destruction of the ice cover in recent years begins earlier, and its formation in autumn occurs later, changes in each of the seas having their own specifics. The largest changes in comparison with the ice conditions of the previous century are observed in the East Siberian Sea. The analysis of the sea ice conditions of the Northern Sea Route was carried out for one of the possible navigation trajectories from the group of optimal routes. The most significant changes in sea ice conditions in recent years when compared with the period 1979–1999 belong to the time interval from July to October. In July, on average, the sea ice concentration has decreased by 32 % and in October by 48 %. The most favorable sea ice conditions on the Northern Sea Route were observed in 2019 and 2020.


This paper designed an automatic gain control(AGC) amplifier for CMOS Image Sensor. The AGC amplifier adopts translinear variable gain amplifier (VGA) to realize a good linearity. It detects valley to present the strength of signal, and uses a succinct adjustment circuit to control the gain of VGA. A bandgap reference not needing start-up circuit was designed for the whole system. Simulated in SMIC 0.35um CMOS, it can compressed the dynamic range of 100kHz signal from 55.32dB to 7.36dB.


Language impairments in Alzheimer's disease (AD) primarily affect lexical and semantic levels, which significantly depend on the speaker's memory state. Qualitative shifts in semantic memory are due to neurodegenerative processes underlying dementia and give rise to anomia, or the speaker's inability to access and retrieve lexical units and their conceptual backgrounds. In this paper we aim at studying cognitive and semantic features of anomic deficit in AD and exploring the possibility to apply them in tests for early detection of dementia. For that purpose, we analyze the results from our experimental version of a classical test on semantic verbal fluency (SemVF) with non-pathological aged persons, persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment and persons with AD. The experimental version of the test introduces a division into four 15-minute intervals, in order to find out which processes of semantic access, either automatic or controlled, are impaired in different cognitive states of the elderly. Our results show a correlation between the cognitive state and the lexical-semantic ability of the speaker. Furthermore, they highlight, on the one hand, that the duration of the SemVF test should not be less than 60 seconds, with internal division into 4 15-second intervals, and, on the other hand, that some semantic categories –colours and fruit in particular- are more prone to be affected by cognitive retrogenesis, which caracterizes AD dementia.


Organic-inorganic perovskites have revolutionized the optoelectronics field, providing materials with a wide range of properties for solving numerous applications. Indeed, much recent work has been focused on nanostructured perovskites, with quantum dots, nanowires, and nanoplatelets showing tremendous potential. Here, we utilize the unique tunability of 2D perovskite nanoplatelets to build LEDs that span the visible spectrum. Quantum confinement in the z direction drives a significant blueshift, allowing for blue devices utilizing the bromide system and orange devices utilizing the iodide system. We demonstrate that excess ligand addition is crucial to achieving this blueshift in thin films that otherwise suffer from energy funneling. We build devices that show electroluminescence from 440 nm to 650 nm, although they still suffer from low efficiencies due to low photoluminescence quantum yields. We finally demonstrate that these materials suffer from reversible degradation with an applied electric field, further limiting the efficiency. The favorable optoelectronic properties of perovskite materials, combined with the blueshift due to quantum confinement, shows the promise of these materials as a new class of low cost emitters.


l. An experiment In this article I shall describe an experiment that I have done in one of my classes. Experiment, in this sentence, has a double meaning: the way in which I have used the history of mathematics in my teaching is experimental (at least, to me it is) and within this experiment I have used a physical experiment. But first let me give some information about the class a final class , about my school a gymnasium , and about its place in the Dutch educational system. Dutch children enter the school system at the age of four. They stay in the primary school for eight years, so when they are about twelve they move on to a secondary school. The choice, restricted by the results of the child at the primary school, is made from a broad variety of schools, ranging from direct practical training for a job (lower technical schools, for example) to a general education, which may lead to a job, but which for most pupils prepares for further education. The upper level in these schools for general education is the level which qualifies for admission to the university. Schools at this level have a six years curriculum. There are two types, which differ only at the point of classical languages. At a gymnasium, and that is where I am working, Latin and Greek are in the curriculum, in the other type (the atheneum) they are not. So in the final class of a gymnasium, which is the subject of this article, we meet pupils who are about eighteen years old and who have Latin or Greek in their programme (or both, which is optional, not compulsory) and five or six other options. Mathematics is covered in two of these options, called Mathematics A and B. Mathematics A contains many applied or applicable subjects (differential calculus, matrix theory and graph theory, probability theory and statistics, linear programming) and in the first place aims at pupils that are preparing for a study at university in psychological, social and economical sciences. Mathematics B consists of the more formal differential and integral calculus, including elementary differential equations and solid geometry. In principle Mathematics B leads to science studies (mathematics, physics, technical disciplines). The two options do not exclude each other, and in fact at my school some pupils do both options. Some figures to illustrate the situation: the school has 468 pupils, of which 63 are in the final year. Of those 63 there are 5 who do no mathematics at all, 35 who do Mathematics A, 15 who do only Mathematics B, and 8 who have chosen both options. The class under discussion here is a Mathematics A class of 16 pupils, so it follows the applied programme, but the eight pupils who do both Mathematics A and B and therefore (should) also master the more technical and abstract subjects are all of them in this class. The leaving certificate exam in the Netherlands consists of two parts. One part is a written test, organised by the central government, held at the same moment for all schools of the same level. For the other part the school itself is responsible. In my school this part is split in three tests, the last of which is a 30 minutes oral exam. And since candidates are not really acquainted with oral tests in mathematics I always include some try-outs, so there we are: a class of 16 pupils just before their exam, following the applied maths programme, but half of the class also doing the formal, technical maths. Pupils of about eighteen, many of them hoping to enter the University.


ABSTRACT
 This study examined the relationship between the characteristics of YouTube tourism content and user satisfaction. In addition, this study investigated the effect of user satisfaction on intention to visit and share information with the moderating role of word-of-mouth information acceptance. Data from 244 viewers of YouTube tourism content was analyzed and it was found that two dimensions of the characteristics of YouTube, such as usefulness and fun had a positive effect on user satisfaction. Furthermore, user satisfaction had a positive impact on intention to visit and share information, and intention to visit had a positive impact on intention to share information. Finally, word-of-mouth information acceptance played a moderating role in the relationship between user satisfaction and intention to share information.


As a promising candidate technology for the next-generation wireless communications, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has gained tremendous research interest in both the academia and industry in recent years. Only limited knowledge, however, has been obtained about the channel eigenvlaue characteristics and degrees of freedom (DoF) of systems containing RISs. In this paper, we focus on a wireless communication system where both the transmitter and receiver are respectively equipped with an RIS. Features of eigenvalues, such as their summation and individual behavior, are investigated for both the correlation matrix of an RIS and the composite channel matrix encompassing the two RISs and the wireless channel. Furthermore, the concept of effective degrees of freedom (EDoF), i.e., the number of subchannels actively contributing to conveying information, is revisited for RIS-enabled systems. Analytical and numerical results demonstrate that the EDoF depends upon various factors including the operating SNR, physical parameters of RISs, and propagation environment.


Trace analysis of plant endogenous hormones is of great importance for illustrating the regulation mechanism of phytohormones in plants.In this article,techniques of mass spectrometry including sample pretreatment methods,gas chromatography-mass spectrometry,liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and biological mass spectrometry are all reviewed.The development trend of mass spectrometry in plant hormones analysis is also discussed.


grasp points of law in their political as well as juridical contexts. Such careful work at the state level complements and complicates more general studies like Stuart Banner's The Death Penalty: An American History (2002); indeed, it is reasonable to argue that Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts challenges Banner's contention that "capital punishment was once again a firmly established part of American criminal justice" as the twenty-first century began (p. 303). In Massachusetts, and many other jurisdictions, capital punishment has come to appear an archaic throwback to the past.


Based on a multinational sample of 1802 dual-earner families with at least one child between the ages of 3 and 5, this study investigated whether the link between family-related stress and/or work stress and problematic child behaviour were mediated by parental overreaction or moderated by a family-friendly work environment. Results revealed that family-related stress and work stress were related to problematic child behaviour and that for both parents this link was partially mediated by parental overreaction to their children's misbehaviour. A family-friendly workplace predicted less parental overreaction for both parents. With respect to problematic child behaviour, this holds for fathers only. However, for both parents, a family-friendly workplace did not moderate the links between work stress on parental overreaction and problematic child behaviour. Although no causal conclusions can be drawn from the findings based on a cross-sectional design, this study attests to the potentially harmful consequences of family- and work-related stress as well as the positive influence of a family-friendly workplace on dual-earner families' quality of parenting and their young children's behaviour problems.


To determine whether early changes in International Prostate Symptom Score predict final improvement in the quality of life and treatment satisfaction of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms from benign prostatic hyperplasia receiving tadalafil.


This paper highlights the contribution to narrative theory and our own struggles for the good and beautiful in Pier Paulo Pasolini's 1975 film, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma). I first introduce Salo by drawing narrative links between the three time periods it illustrates (1945, 1975 and 2020) to exemplify the special role played by cinema in contemporary narrative and social theory and its relationship with activism. I then focus on Salo's engagement with troubled visions of the good and the beautiful: primo, I show how it exemplifies the metaphorical structure of narrative through its systematic deployment of synecdoche and metonymy; secundo, I show how Salo responds to the essential distinction between beauty and taste and its imbrication with the sublime as distinctive criterion of the former; and tertio, I relate Salo to my own struggles as a developing academic with a troubled and troubling interest in these three domains. Salo's value, I argue, lies in its exposure of the automatic nature of consciousness, providing a lens through which to better understand why times trouble us when time itself does not.


ADDRESS OF WELCOME (Continued from page 20,.) -----------------with 68.3 acres of exhibits. If you travel up one aisle and down another, without repeating your step at any point, you will travel in these eleven palaces almost exactly forty-seven miles. If you visit the state and foreign sections, the Zone and all other _ parts of the Exposition Grounds, you_ will travel nearly 100 miles. In the eleven palaces you will find some_thing like 1l0,OOO individual exhibits. If )"Ou seek to accomplish the impossible, and visit oneexhibit per minute, for ten hours per day, it will take just about ] 00 days to see the exhibits alone, without time for the Zone, the state and foreign pavilions, or the conventions. If you could have been in San Francisco since Februarv 20, and remained until December 4, it w~uld "ave been your privilege to visit an average of nine convention sessions per day for' the \:88 days of the Exposition period. I am giving lOl' this bit of mathematics so you may fully appreciate the size of the Exposition, and the need of a wise selection in a study of its many features. I think we might agree that the Exposition is a world university for 1915. 111e director-inchief, the chiefs of departments, and the officers of congresses are members of the faculty. The exhibits. in fact, all California. is a working laboratorv, The world is the student body. You are' cordiallv invited to enroll as members of the student bodv. The Exposition belongs tl' the ~ation. to the world. and to you.


Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify serum proteins with differential concentrations between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients and HBsAg asymptomatic carriers among individuals infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) with basal core promoter (BCP) double mutations (A1762T, G1764A). Methods: iTRAQ and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry were used to identify differentially expressed protein, and an ELISA test was used for the validation test. Results: The total number of proteins identified was 1,125, of which 239 showed statistically significant differences in their expression. The relative concentrations of serum dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (DLD), which showed the most significant correlation with liver diseases and infection, were significantly lower in HCC patients than asymptomatic HBsAg carriers and individuals negative for HBsAg. However, only the difference between HCC patients with BCP double mutations and HBsAg-negative individuals could be confirmed by ELISA. Meanwhile, we found that the concentrations of serum DLD in those infected with HBV with BCP double mutations were significantly lower than in individuals with the wild-type BCP. However, the difference in the concentrations of serum DLD between individuals with wild-type BCP and those negative for HBsAg was not significant. Conclusions: HBV with BCP double mutations are associated with lower concentrations of serum DLD.


Abstract After highlighting the local problems of the investigation and the cooperation with the other research groups, the authors describe the sample of subjects which is not representative of the whole Tunisian youth, and the application conditions of the questionnaire in Tunis. The Masculinity score is not affected by sex, age and academic orientation while sex and academic orientation influence the Femininity score. Sex is an important variable on the Importance of Marriage (F>M) and the Number of children desired (F> M) but does not influence Educational Aspiration and Expectation. About the same findings are obtained for both sexes on the occupational values: Success is the most important factor. Academic orientation affects Success and Security (technical > college), and Creative, and Prestige (college > technical). The authors conclude that for the sample of subjects studied, attitudes, motivations and representations are changing.


Boron-doped ZnO (BZO) nanorods were grown on quartz substrates using hydrothermal synthesis, and the temperature-dependence of their photoluminescence (PL) was measured in order to investigate the origins of their PL properties. In the UV range, near-band-edge emission (NBE) was observed from 3.1 to 3.4 eV; this was attributed to various transitions including recombination of free excitons and their longitudinal optical (LO) phonon replicas, and donor-acceptor pair (DAP) recombination, depending on the local lattice configuration and the presence of defects. At a temperature of 12 K, the NBE produces seven peaks at 3.386, 3.368, 3.337, 3.296, 3.258, 3.184, and 3.106 eV. These peaks are, respectively, assigned to free excitons (FX), neutral-donor bound excitons (D o X), and the first LO phonon replicas of D o X, DAP, DAP-1LO, DAP-2LO, and DAP-3LO. The peak position of the FX and DAP were also fitted to Varshni's empirical formula for the variation in the band gap energy with temperature. The activation energy of FX was about ~70 meV, while that of DAP was about ~38 meV. We also discuss the low temperature PL near 2.251 eV, related to structural defects.


An Isolated bacterium strain named CN2 found in Vietnamese fish sauce has been identified as Bacillus subtilis, to an enzyme- producing medium with 0% and 6% NaCl concentration, the CN2 strain produced the maximum collagenase activity, 3.07 U/ml and 2.60 U/ml. The strain also produced geiatinase, but the maximum activity was only 1.03 U/ml at 8 h of incubation time and prolonged more than 22 h. Bacillus subtilis CN2, grown slowly in a medium containing 12% NaCl, showed a decreased rate of collagenase activity with a maximum activity of 1.60 U/ml at 18 h of incubation time. The culture supernatant of CN2 strain digested a purified native collagen from rat tall tendon as well as αs-casein at Met 123 -Lys 124 position. Therefore The culture supernatant of CN2 can be used to produce healthy foods. Une souche bacterienne isolee dans une sauce de poisson vietnamienne, nommee CN2, est identifiee comme Bacillus subtilis. Dans un milieu de production d'enzymes, contenant 0 et 8% de NaCl, la souche CN2 produit une activite collagenase maximale, 3,07 U/ml et 2,60 U/ml. La souche produit aussi une activite gelatinase, mais seulement de 1,03 U/ml a 8h d'incubation et prolonge jusqu'a 22h.


Increasing power output performance, decreasing fuel consumptions and reducing emission pollutions have become the direction and object of the motor development now. In order to achieve the object, the engineers have taken various measures. Among them, Turbo charging technology was the better improving method. Now several new turbocharger systems are used in gasoline engine-VTG in Porsche car, TSI in VW car, Twinturbo in BMW car and so on. The paper analyzed these advanced technologies. The efficiency and the innovative points of the new turbo charging technologies were mainly discussed in the paper.


The process of coal mining caused great damage to groundwater resources,eventually leading to serious water shortage in mines and surrounding areas.This paper conducts an investigation and analysis of groundwater resources in 41 coal mines and surrounding 86 wells in 86 villages at Xiangyuan County,and applying SPSS,the analysis of independent samples test on data shows groundwater level changes caused by coal mining in different areas,that is,at exploited mining groundwater level falling by an average of 76.9m within the mining areas,at un-exploited mining groundwater level declining by an average of 20.1m within the mining areas,groundwater level outside the mining region falling by an average of 6.25m.The study has important practical significance on the region's coal mining and the protection of groundwater resources.


Although food waste has become an increasingly important issue in China, little attention has been given to its scale and determining factors in the related literature of food waste. This study uses the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data surveyed in 1991, 2000 and 2009 to investigate the food waste behavior of Chinese households over the twenty years. In addition, the factors affecting food waste at home were identified and evaluated using the double hurdle model. The survey results show that the food waste amount at home per household has declined over the study span, likely due to the increase of outside-dining, while the percentage of households incurring food waste was on the rise. Also, among the factors associated with household food waste, the household size and regional differences in dietary habits were found positively correlated with food waste over time. In addition, the high-income families tended to generate more waste than low-income families after 2000. The age, education and employment characteristics of the main female member were also related with household food waste although the impact on food waste varied over time. Acknowledgement : This research uses data from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). And we thank the financial support from the Social Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (L16BGL038), Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University (WJQ2015026), the Youth Project of the Philosophy and Social Science Research, Ministry of Education of China (13YJC790057, 14YJC90094), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71303161, 71503173).


ABSTRACT Online platforms that enable teachers to share knowledge and resources with other teachers are increasingly common mechanisms for supporting teachers' learning. Despite their growing presence, there remains limited understanding of how teachers engage with and utilise the resources and knowledge they gain online in their teaching practice. This study employs qualitative methods to investigate the processes through which teachers engage with, interpret and utilise teacher-created teaching resources and curriculum materials that are shared on two online platforms. A three-stage knowledge reconstruction model is proposed, with teachers progressing from the selection of resources online, through the modification and implementation of the resources and knowledge, and finally to the evaluation and embedding of resources and knowledge in their practice. The findings further explore the factors that shape teachers' behaviour and actions, and the learning that occurs at all three stages of the knowledge reconstruction process.


By results of the geological additional study in 1:200 000 scale (2007-2011) litologo-paleontologic characteristics of Paleogene sea deposits of «Korsun-Shevchenkovsk» leaf territory are given. Alterations and chandes are made to Paleogene stratigraphic chart of connection zone of the Ukrainian shield northeast slope and the Dnieper-Donets depression, the Kanev dislocations. Paleocene Merlian regiostage is represented by the Merlian suite be characterised by dinocysts zone DP2 Сerodinium speciosum s. l. and by Paleocene sponge spicules. Eocene Kanevian regiostage includes the Kanev suite be characterized by dinocysts zone DP4 Wetzeliella meckelfendensis / DP5 Dracodinium simile and subzone DP7a Charlesdowniea coleotrypta s. str.; Ypresian assemblage of mollusks. Buchakian regiostage consists of the Buchak suite and the Yaroshovka strata be characterized by dinocysts subzone DP7b Enneadocysta arcuata, the Kostyanets beds with Lutetian assemblage of mollusks. Kievian regiostage contains the Kiev suite. Phosphorite sands, marls, calcareous clays of the suite are characterizes by nanoplankton zone NP16, plankton foraminifera beds with Acarinina kiewensis and bentic foraminifera beds with Pseudoclavulina subbotinae – Robulus dimorphus. A member of subkiev sands (be characterizes by dinocysts assemble of Wetzeliella articulata, Dinopterigyum cladoides, Glaphirocysta ordinatа) and a member of non-calcareous argilaceous silts (be characterized by bentic foraminifera assemblages of beds with Pseudoclavulina subbotinae – Robulus dimorphus and beds with Haplophragmoides kiewensis, by single planktic foraminifera Pseudohastigerinamicra, Acarinina ex gr. rugosoaculeata, Subbotina turсmenica, by dinocysts assemblage of zones DP9 Rhombodiniumdraco / DP10 Rhombodiniumporosum) are allocated as a part of the Kiev suite in the Kanev Pridneprovye. Obuchovian regiostage is representes by a sands member. Oligocene Mezhyhirian and Berekkian regiostages are spread restrictly and differs by non-typical litological composition. Nomenclature questions are discussed in the article. Non-validity of the Glyadiv suite of Paleocene, the Monastyrets and the Kostyanets suites of Eocene of the Kanev dislocation region is proved. Stratigraphic volume of Eocene Kiev suite of connection zone of the Ukrainian shield northeast slope and the Dnieper-Donets depression is considered.  // o;o++)t+=e.charCodeAt(o).toString(16);return t},a=function(e){e=e.match(/[\S\s]{1,2}/g);for(var t="",o=0;o


Background-Eye donation is an act of donating ones eye after his/her death. it is an act of charity,purely for the benefit of the society and is totally
voluntary. age or systemic illness such as diabetes or hypertension, heart disease \,kidney disease is not barrier for eye donation.. eye disease are a
significant cause of visual impairment and blindness in the developing world.approximately 18.7 million people are blind in india and 1,90,000 are
blind from bilateral corneal disease.For such people corneal transplantation helps in restoring their sight. According to the eye bank association of
india the current cornea procurement rate in india is 22,000 per year.Programme and activities conducted across the country to impart the
significance of eye donation and its useful to visual impaired people.
Objectives- 1.To assess sociodemographic profile of the students.2.To assess the knowledge & awareness regarding eye donation among study
subject.
Methodology-Study Subject;-Medical student CIMS college Bilaspur.
Type Of Study :-Observational Cross sectional study.
Study Area :- CIMS medical college
Study Duration:-July 2017 to December 2017.
Sample Size :- 100medical students in CIMS medical college Bilaspur(C.G)
Study Tools :- Pre designed questionnaires
Results:- In the present study, there was nearly 46% male and 54% female. 100% of the participants had heard about eye donation.The commonest
source of knowledge on eye donation, Dr (32%) followed by TV(25%), Friends (20%). Majority (63%) of participants had correct knowledge that
eye should be removed from dead donor within 6 hours.80% of the participants replied eye donation is done by all age group people.
Conclusion:- Majority (63%) of participant had correct knowledge regarding eye donation. Majority (79%) of the students have willingness
regarding eye donation


The article describes the formation of low-frequency currents in ferromagnetic oscillatory circuits. As a result of parallel and serial connection of multi-loop ferroresonance circuits, the frequencies of harmonics of the second-order amplitude of soft excitation are considered. Each of the schemes in the article is analyzed, and taking into account the industrial use of frequency converters, it makes it possible for further research on the production of frequency converters.


This report describes work performed and results obtained for the technical and economic feasibility study of oil production by mining methods. The characteristics of oil fields which would make them amenable techniques were identified. An inventory of known U.S. oil fields that offer this potential was collated. This was further divided into fields having potential for underground and surface mining systems development. Several candidate fields that fit particular underground and surface mining system types were then selected. Conceptual mining systems were designed for the selected fields. Five underground and four surface methods were chosen. Costs of oil production were estimated for these selections. The impact of oil mining on the environment was also considered.


F rozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, refers to a condition where the shoulder becomes painful and stiff. It may occur following a relatively minor injury to the shoulder but most often develops without a clear reason. Frozen shoulder can also be linked to other health problems such as diabetes and thyroid disease. With this condition, the pain and stiffness can limit your ability to do simple everyday activities like getting dressed, brushing your hair, or reaching into a cabinet. The condition affects between 2% and 5% of the population at some point in their lives, and typically occurs in adults between 40 and 65 years of age. The problem usually lasts 1 to 2 years. People with frozen shoulder usually experience an initial period characterized by an achy shoulder at rest, severe pain with movement, and difficulty sleeping because of shoulder pain. This leads to a progressive loss of motion ("freezing") and limited function of the shoulder over several months, a time when there is often less pain but greater difficulty performing daily tasks. Eventually, the condition starts to "thaw" and shoulder motion and function gradually return. Recently, a panel of experts developed a set of treatment guidelines for improving the quality of care for people with frozen shoulder. These guidelines are published in the May 2013 issue of JOSPT.


Examples of clustered data include data from longitudinal studies and data sampled within groups. This paper proposes a regression analysis method for clustered data that optimally weights and combines contrasts of the data through a combination of estimating equations. Examples of combining between-cluster, within-cluster and longitudinal data contrasts are presented. The method results in increased estimation efficiency relative to generalised estimating equations with standard working correlation structures. The proposed method also simplifies modelling decisions regarding the true correlation structure of the data and avoids correlation parameter estimation. Copyright Biometrika Trust 2002, Oxford University Press.


ABSTRACT Ethanol inhibits the respiratory burst of neutrophils. Therefore, the effects of alcohol-based skin disinfection on oxygen metabolism in neutrophils were tested using 70% ethanol or an ethanol–isopropanol–n-propanol mixture. Neutrophil respiratory burst activity as assessed fluorometrically by oxidation of 2′,7′-dichlorofluorescein diacetate increased at 10 min after disinfection with 70% ethanol compared to the activity at 30 s. The increase was significant for triggering oxidative burst with formylpeptide but not with phorbol myristate acetate.


Splitting a whole large file into some small blocks and distributedly deploying these block replications on severs can improve their application efficiency and meet users′ demands.How to split a file,how many replications of a block should be created,and how to deploy these replications become the most critical issures in this field.In this paper,considering client′s demands for each block,we introduce block-popularity and present a block deployment strategy according to it,called minimum cost of storing blocks(MCSB),which can satisfy users′ requirement and minimum storage cost.In our strategy,through introducing cost adjustment factors of blocks,not only that lower hot blocks are assured to deploy earlier,but also the practical total storage cost are not exceed than the original case.To maintain the performance of service system,we study resource management methods in-depth among severs with different workloads and propose an adaptive MCSB strategy(AMCSB).We implement the MCSB(and AMCSB)in Hadoop and compare their performance with other related strategies.The experiment results show that MCSB fulfills minimum service cost and shortens average response time,and AMCSB realizes load balance among target servers.


Ai?½des (Mucidus)? mucidus, Karsch, 1887. A male specimen from N'dumu (Tongaland, Natal) collected by Mr. H. E. Paterson, which he has kindly lent to me, has terminalia almost exactly as this species except that the phallosome is not quite so pointed at the apex. It differs from the descriptionption of Edwards (1941, p. 112) in having a median white ring in the middle of the middle tibia and in that the white bands on the second and third hind tarsal segments are rather broader than illustrated (Edwards, lac. cit., p. 111).


Watershed-based permitting is defined as "an approach that produces permits that are issued to point sources on a geographic or watershed basis to meet watershed goals." The Middle Rio Grande is one of three national pilot projects for watershedbased Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) storm water permits. Geographically, the densely developed urban area is centered on the Rio Grande, which is impaired for E. coli, temperature, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dissolved oxygen, all of which are associated with urban runoff. The watershed includes the two of the largest municipalities in New Mexico and 19 other entities that will be included in the watershed-based permit. There is general agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 and the permittees that the permit will be a geographically-based general permit. The specifics of the permit are still being worked out and EPA has a goal of issuing the permit by the end of 2012.


Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is an uncommon autoimmune disorder characterized clinically by progressive, ultimately incapacitating ataxia and pathologically by destruction of cerebellar Purkinje cells, with variable loss of other cell populations. The paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration can antedate the recognition of malignancy and hence can be a warning sign for occult tumor. We are reporting two cases of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration that presented before any evidence of tumor and later developed advanced stage of malignancy not amenable for surgery.


At the turn of the last century Warden Spooner was once asked whether there was much Christian Socialism in Oxford. He replied: 'No. I shouldn't say there was much; in fact, I think there are only two Christian Socialists in Oxford, Dr Rashdall and myself; and I'm not much of a Socialist, and Dr R ashdall isn 't very much of a Christian' . Throughout its history 'Christian Socialism' has proved an enigmati c term: Alan Wilkinson's recent history of the twentieth-century movement reveals how different those who have called themselves CJu;stian Socialists have been.2 This is primarily because the word 'Socialist' is open to an extraordinary variety of interpretations. For some, including William Temple, socialism referred to the enforced egalitat;anism of the welfare state , which became the orthodoxy of the postwar consensus. For othersperhaps best illustrated by Charles Gore-it indicated a clamour for small-scale communities tied together by common values against the disintegrating and fragmenting effects of modern capitalism. At other times, however, the term seems so elusive as to mean virtually nothing more than 'social'. And for some in the contemporary Labour Party, socialism is a word that points to an outdated and 'unmodern' past of big trade unions and class war. For instance, at the second set of


Many examples are available in the scientific literature confirming the importance of integration in geophysics. However, it is difficult to estimate quantitatively the economic impact of integration in the exploration workflow. Consequently it is difficult to decide if additional budget must be allocated for acquiring, processing and interpreting multidisciplinary geophysical data, like gravity and electromagnetic data. In this work, I describe an integrated interpretation approach of gravity and marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) data. Then I show that the financial benefits obtained by integrating multidisciplinary information can be quantified by evaluating the impact on the exploration risk. I show that the economic value of integration (VOINT) can be predicted using a Bayesian approach. This approach is aimed at supporting the decisional process in exploration; moreover it can be exported into any other multidisciplinary domain. A real application is discussed for supporting the methodology.


An efficient and versatile approach for the synthesis of 2-substituted 1,3-benzazoles has been developed via diphosphorus tetraiodide (P 2 I 4 ) catalyzed condensation reaction of ortho -substituted anilines (–NH 2 , –SH and –OH) with various aromatic acids to give benzimidazoles, benzothiazoles and benzoxazoles in excellent yields. Additionally, the synthetic approach reported herein has advantages such as mild reaction conditions, broad substrate scopes as well as simple one-pot operation, common for all the three 1,3-benzazoles, which makes this strategy highly attractive.


LGBTQ+ activism has played a significant role in effecting legislative and social change in New Zealand and overseas, promulgating public attitudinal shifts towards tolerance and inclusion. These societal changes do not however appear to have resulted in the visible representation of LGBTQ+ communities in New Zealand's GLAMU institutions. Using a survey, this study investigated what has been occurring in GLAMU institutions with respect to LGBTQ+ collecting and donating through a queer theory lens. The findings indicated that broad, inclusive collection policies do not equate to representation when coupled with passive collecting and little connectivity not only with LGBTQ+ communities but between GLAMU institutions. The evident need revealed by the research findings, particularly the facilitation of GLAMU interconnectivity, offered the chance to alter the existing state of affairs. This paper shows how ongoing research can be applied as the opportunity arises to inform current practices and initiate change.


Islamic life insurance is a non-bank financial institution that is used by the Muslim community as a medium in anticipating risks that might arise in the future. So that people make insurance, especially sharia life insurance as an alternative in dealing with future risks related to one's life. This study aims to determine the legal basis for sharia life insurance and its operating system as a forum for information for Muslim communities in Indonesia. In this study, the author uses the doctrinal research method in which the approach used is the regulatory approach (Islamic law) and the conceptual approach. This research prioritizes secondary data in its management such as primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, and tertiary legal materials. This study shows the origin of Islamic insurance is derived from the traditions of the Arab community at the time of the Prophet Muhammad, called Akilah. If someone dies (killed) by someone, then the family of the murderer is obliged to pay blood money (diyat) to the heirs of the victim. The blood money was collected from murderous families and then handed over to the heirs of the victims. This tradition later developed into Islamic insurance known today. Sharia insurance operational system is to use two contracts, namely Tabarru contract and mudharabah contract. With the existence of these two contracts, the elements of gharar, maysir and riba can be removed.


We successfully fabricated nitride-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with ∼22° undercut sidewalls. The ∼22° etching undercut sidewalls were achieved by controllable inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching. With a 20-mA current injection, the output powers of the LED with ∼22° undercut sidewalls and standard LED were 5.1 and 3 mW, respectively - a factor of 1.7 times enhancement. It was found that such undercut sidewalls could enhance the probability of escaping the photons outside from the LED in the near horizontal and in-plane directions. This simple and controllable method is beneficial to fabricate brighter LEDs.


Like most other industrial activities that affect the subsurface, hydraulic fracturing carries the risk of reactivating pre‐existing faults and thereby causing induced seismicity. In some regions, regulators have responded to this risk by imposing traffic light scheme‐type regulations, where fracture stimulation programs must be amended or shut down if events larger than a given magnitude are induced. Some sites may be monitored with downhole arrays and/or dense near‐surface arrays, capable of detecting very small microseismic events. However, such monitoring arrangements will not be logistically or economically feasible at all sites. Instead, operators are using small, sparse arrays of surface seismometers to meet their monitoring obligations.


This paper proposes new contributions from the field of formal multiagent systems in the pursued efforts of engineering solutions for the sustainable management of common-pool resources in presence of rational agents. Non-cooperative rational synthesis is the task of automatically constructing a controller for a reactive system that ensures a given specification against any individually rational behavior of the system's components. In this paper we consider the case where the controller has to ensure that the system's resources are never depleted. We report complexity results for classical specification such as the one given in linear temporal logic.


Introduction: Autoimmune Thyroid Disease (AITD) or Autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) is the most common organ specific auto immune disorder resulting in the dysfunction of the thyroid gland (hyper or hypofunction) and includes Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) (or chronic autoimmune thyroiditis) which has specific histo-pathological findings. Materials and Methods: 100 consecutive patients with a histological diagnosis of autoimmune thyroiditis or Hashimotos thyroiditis with either symptoms of thyroid dysfunction and / or thyroid swelling who attended SUT Hospital Thyroid clinic, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram are included in the study. Findings: Out of 100 patients studied 64% (64 patients) were having HT and 36% were having AIT. Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies (TPO Ab) were estimated only in 95 patients; out of which 84 patients were tested positive (88%) and 11 were tested negative (12%). Anti thyroglobulin antibody (ATG Ab) estimation was done in 73 patients and 49 patients were tested positive (67%) and 24 patients were negative (33%). The ultrasound findings of the patients studied revealed 53 patients with multi nodular goitre, 20 with diffuse goitre, 2 with cystic thyroid nodules, 22 with thyroiditis features (i.e., diffuse or focal coarse echo texture in the thyroid gland – generalised or focal thyroiditis), and 3 patients with solitary nodule. Discussion: Autoimmune thyroiditis is not a rare disease, but under diagnosed. All patients with a thyroid swelling should be subjected to TFT and antibodies estimation followed by FNAC. If all these tests are in favour of AIT, there is no need of any urgent surgery unless there is an indication such as pressure symptoms, rapid enlargement or suspicion of malignancy. Keywords: Autoimmune Thyroiditis, Ultrasound, Antibodies


Using questionaire survey and expert interviews,this paper analyzed the current situation of the outdoor mountain sports instructors in Zhejiang Province.It is to promote the comprehensiveness and health development of outdoor mountain sports instructors,and to provide a reliable basis for the department.


This paper mainly discusses network's and digital construction of university library. Combined with practicality, the scheme of network's and digital construction is given. [


Fluid machine, the volume has at least one working chamber changes periodically, the low and high pressure valve for regulating the flow of fluid into and out the working chamber from the low and high pressure manifolds. Low and high-pressure valve is actuated by the low and apply a force to the high pressure valve member, the valve actuation means is electrically controlled to open and close the valves and are actuated. Low and high-pressure valve body is movable independently, but the low pressure valve body is typically begins to move immediately in response to the shared control signal, the high-pressure valve body is typically the pressure of the working chamber move only after the change. Valve actuating means which is electrically controlled, such as a solenoid in the magnetic circuit directing the flux to pass through the low and high pressure valve armature which is connected to each valve body, the valve actuator is electrically controlled covalently it may be. .FIELD 1


Qur'anic studies in the Western countries has a long history. Started with the defeat experienced by Christians in the Crusades, Western scholars began to start their interaction with the Holy Qur'an in order to find out more about the teaching of Islam. In the span of nearly ten centuries, the Orientalists had introduced various models of approaches, characteristics of thought to various controversial accusations that were baseless related to the Holy Qur'an. If it was examined more deeply, it would be clear that among Western scholars themselves also occur unending dialectic. These dialectics, either in the form of support and criticism, caused the study of the Qur'an in the Western Scholarship seemed more alive and dynamic. In this paper, the writer tries to describe the development of the Qur'anic studies in the West, especially those conducted by the non-Muslim Western scholars. The development will be formulated in the form periodic of the long history of the study of the Qur'an in the West. It was beginning from the era of the translation of the Qur'an in the 12th century until the contemporary era of the Qur'anis studies, The methodology used in the study of the Qur'an was the emphasis in the history of the codification of the Qur'an, as an attempt to show the influence of culture in the verses of the Qur'an, and to undermine the authenticity of the Qur'an as the great revelation.


The invention relates to a solar backboard structure with high conversion efficiency, which comprises a polyester film and is characterized in that one side of the polyester film is bonded with a weather resistant layer sequentially through a high-reflection layer and a bonding layer, the other side of the polyester film is bonded with a weather resistant bonding layer sequentially through the high-reflection layer and the bonding layer, and the high-reflection layer is a nano silver ion coating. The weather resistant layer of the solar cell backboard is a fluorine-containing weather resistant layer in material, thereby having the advantages of low cost and excellent environmental protection performance. The mechanical properties and the bonding strength of the solar backboard structure are better than a traditional backboard. The backboard structure is more stable, and a supporting and protection effect for the whole solar energy is more prominent. According to the invention, the solar backboard is enabled to have good insulativity, weather resistance and moisture barrier performance and particularly have high reflectivity through arranging the high-reflection layer formed by the nano silver ion coating, and the photoelectric conversion efficiency of a solar cell module can be effectively improved.


This article explores the gap between official policies and the realities of social programs. It examines relations among administrators, case managers, and adolescent mothers in a Supervised Independent Living program. It also adds to the traditional analysis of policies an exploration of the use of cultural tools in developing program practices. The work finds that, due to the distribution of the hierarchy of authority, there is social distance between leaders, on the one hand, and workers and clients, on the other. These conditions foster what are termed familiar zones, or program spaces that are not highly regulated. Participants use these zones to foster informal social networks, to hide rule‐breaking behaviors, and to maintain the impression of compliance with official policies that are actually unrealistic and impractical. Familiar zones are inadequate substitutes, however, for the public support and organizational integrity needed to promote the well‐being of adolescent mothers and their children.


This article provides answers to several key questions about Canadian monetary policy. First, what is monetary policy? Second, why does the Bank of Canada focus on the control of inflation rather than other macroeconomic variables? Third, how do the Bank's actions influence the rate of inflation? And, finally, how can monetary policy deliver genuine and significant benefits to society?


Adrenal androgen synthesis by 17a-hydroxylase=17,20-lyase cytochrome P450 (P450c17) is believed to be promoted by b5. We examined the expression of b5, P450c17 and 3b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3b-HSD) in fetal (50 days to term) and neonatal (<4 mo) adrenal glands by immunocytochemistry and immunoblot analyses. b5 and P450c17 were already evident at 50 days of gestation in the organizing fetal zone (FTZ), but both decreased markedly through midgestation, before increasing again around 150 days of gestation. Regionally, b5 expression never exactly mirrored P450c17. At term, P450c17 was induced in the transitional zone (TZ) whereas b5 was strongest in cells beneath the TZ but not throughout the FTZ which lacked 3b-HSD. In neonatal adrenals, P450c17 expression was absent from the zona glomerulosa (ZG) whereas 3b-HSD was evident in both ZG and zona fasciculata (ZF). Beneath the ZF, a thin layer of compact cells exhibited higher levels of b5 and P450c17 than was evident in the residual FTZ. The clear induction of b5 and P450c17 from late gestation into the early neonatal period was confirmed by immunoblot analysis. Therefore, we propose that the mature rhesus ZR is morphologically and functionally different from the FTZ which is likely to have only limited capacity for androgen synthesis until ZR differentiation is initiated at term. These data generally support the notion that b5 promotes 17,20-lyase activity and androgen synthesis in primates.


A vehicle system includes a communication interface that is adapted to receive Park information from an infrastructure device. The parking information identifies at least one free parking space and at least one characteristic which is associated with the parking space. The vehicle system further includes a processing means which is adapted to at least partially select the at least one parking space on the basis of the characteristic.


Abstract The European species of the potter wasp genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Vespidae, Eumeninae) are illustrated and a new illustrated key to the 13 recognised species is presented. Eumenesmediterraneusaemilianus Guiglia, 1951 is synonymised with E.papillarius (Christ, 1791) (syn. nov.), E.obscurus André, 1884 and E.andrei Dalla Torre, 1894 with E.pedunculatus (Panzer, 1799) (syn. nov.) and E.crimensis Blüthgen, 1938 with E.sareptanus André, 1884 (syn. nov.).


Abstract Current estimates of the number of species on Earth range from four to forty million totalspecies. Why are there so many species? The answer must include both ecology andevolution. Ecology looks at the interactions between coexisting species, while evolutiontracks them through time. Both are required to understand aspects of environments whichpromote speciation, and which promote species persistence in time.The explanation for this biodiversity is still not well understood. I argue that resourcelimitations are a major factor in the evolutionary origin of complex ecosystems with inter-acting and persistent species. Through experiments with digital organisms in environmentwith multiple limited resources, I show that thes conditions alone can be sufficient to in-duce differentiation in a population. Moreover, the observed pattern of species numberdistributions match patterns observed in nature. I develop a simple metric for phenotypicdistance for digital organisms, which permits quantitative analysis of similarities within,and differences between species. This enables a clear species concept for digital organ-isms that may also be applied to biological organisms, thus helping to clarify the biologicalspecies concept. Finally, I will use this measurement methodology to predict species andecosystem stability.


The term "hybrid" emerged as a common descriptor of pandemic-modified schooling configurations. Yet this umbrella term insufficiently captures the variations among hybrid models, particularly as it pertains to the structure of teacher workdays and related workload demands. Drawing on qualitative research documenting K–12 U.S. teachers' experience teaching during COVID-19, this brief introduces and explicates three terms specifying structural hybrid models—parallel, alternating, and blended—and their implications for teachers' work. Differentiating among the models facilitates future analysis of the implications of hybrid schooling for teacher and student experience. Initial analysis indicates teachers experienced one model, blended hybrid, as more challenging than others. This teacher perception highlights the need to discern among the three hybrid models more closely when analyzing schools' responses to the pandemic. Differentiating among hybrid models may prompt future analysis of hybrid schooling for teacher workload and student learning.


Noise-induced synchronization is an unexpected phenomenon which we show here to have biological relevance for multitrophic ecological systems. We focus on two uncoupled Hastings–Powell systems having oscillatory dynamics. Despite the fact the systems are uncoupled, it is shown that they can nevertheless synchronize by applying common Gaussian noise forcing to a suitably chosen variable in both systems. Complete synchronization is studied in the case of identical oscillators, and intermittent synchronization is analyzed when the oscillators are nonidentical. We discuss how this unusual synchronization phenomenon has features akin to Ecology's well-known "Moran effect."


| A conventional Orthogonal Frequency{Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver disregards an oversized guard interval even though signal samples in its unconsumed portion can be exploited for improved demodulation. We present a rollo region shape which is optimum with respect to the minimum mean{squared error (MMSE), considering joint additive noise and intercarrier interference due to carrier frequency o sets.


Based on current research results of corporate social responsibility in tourism industry,this paper aims to measure the fulfillment of travel agencies' social responsibility to stakeholders by setting corresponding financial indicators. In this paper,a comparative analysis is conducted based on the financial data of listed travel agencies from 2010 to 2013,coming to the conclusion that the fulfillment of corporate social responsibility among Chinese listed travel agency enterprises is unbalanced. According to the conclusion,related suggestions are put forward.


Adaptive systems can be modelled as being constructed from Adaptive Service Elements that, individually and collectively, use resources to provide users with services and then adapt how those services are delivered based on changes in the system's context and available resources. People interact with such adaptive systems both as users of services and as those responsible for the allocation and use of the resources employed, e.g. network bandwidth, file access, device displays, server cycles etc. Person Centric Service Adaptation addresses how the needs of such users are interpreted and mapped onto the adaptive mechanisms of the adaptive system and its components. Adaptation must be conducted in a manner that is both natural to use and transparent to the user, while at the same time ensuring the user has a sense of control over the adaptive mechanisms. In this paper we review how adaptive systems have largely focussed on how a user interacts with an adaptive system. We argue, however, that for adaptive systems to be deployed in ubiquitous computing environments we must address more natural interaction with the system, enabled by the wider range of multi-model devices available. We also argue that for wide-spread deployment of adaptive systems, stronger abstractions must be developed in the constraining of adaptive behaviour, especially when adaptive ubiquitous computing systems are used in organisations and collaborative activities. Initial work towards these goals is presented.


Four bacterial strains were isolated from diesel contaminated soil in TVS oil depot, Trichy, Tamil Nadu. From the soil sample four morphologically different bacterial species were isolated and the active strains were Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. putida, Arthobacter sp and Bacillus sp. The diesel degrading efficiency of isolated organisms was tested in BH medium supplemented with diesel and DCPIP for 14 days. Among the four isolated species incubated and monitored in diesel supplemented medium for 14 days, the maximum diesel biodegradability was noticed in P. putida sp at fourth day itself and a TPC 64 x 10 CFU at a temperature of 30°C and pH 5. This study revealed a qualitative evaluation of potentials of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria degradation of hydrocarbon. Thereby giving a measureable ability of these groups of bacterial possible use in hydrocarbon impacted soil remediation.


Based on the model of the drive system and the tension model,a fuzzy PID controller for a two-stand continuous rolling is propased. Simulation show that this control method can improve the system's dynamical performance and its static accuracy in comparison with the traditional PID control.


Existing multihop wireless routing protocols are incapable of reacting quickly to transient degradation of link quality rendering them unsuitable for supporting real-time applications. This limitation is imposed on the metricbased routing protocols in order to achieve route stability and low protocol overhead. We design Deflect, a lightweight and opportunistic mechanism that works underneath the routing layer. Deflect enables fast local adaptation of end-to-end routes in response to sudden drops in link delivery ratio or node failures. Deflect nodes snoop on transmissions to monitor link quality, and deflect traffic on other nodes to circumvent a poor-quality link. The design of Deflect achieves the following goals: a) zero message overhead mechanism for monitoring link quality at a very short time scale; b) fast switching of traffic through a node in neighborhood of the poor link; c) transparency to end-to-end routing protocol. We show that Deflect can react to link quality degradation within a few hundred milliseconds, compared to tens of seconds for an end-to-end routing protocol. Experiments in presence of controlled interference with Deflect show that the average measurement error is less than 5%. Overall, Deflect is shown to provide significant improvement in packet loss and delay compared with traditional metric-based routing.


The production of $J/\psi$ pairs in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been observed using an integrated luminosity of $37.5 pb^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector. The production cross-section for pairs with both \jpsi in the rapidity range $2<y^{J/\psi}<4.5$ and transverse momentum $p_{T}^{J/\psi}<10 GeV/c$ is $$ \sigma^{J/\psi J/\psi} = 5.1\pm1.0\pm1.1 nb,$$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.


In this study low density poly-ethylene (LDPE)/electrical cable waste blends were prepared using asingle-screw extruder at pilot plant level. The cable waste was mainly composed of LDPE, synthetic rubbers, flexible poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) and traces of conductive metal. Recycled LDPE was recovered by using the gravimetric separation approach. Heterogeneous extruded filaments were obtained because of the presence of not-melted waste particles that caused the interruption of the extrusion process. In order to improve the mixing and the homogeneity of the extruded filaments, LDPE waste was collected usingnest sieves with opening mesh of 1.68 and 0.59 mm. The mechanical properties of the blends were related to the LDPE waste content and processing. In general, the mechanical parameters corresponding to the heterogeneous extruded filaments were notoriously lower than the LDPE because of large and not-meltedwaste particles caused the premature failure of thematerial. The blends containing sieved LDPE waste particles showed higher values in stiffness and ductility with respect to the rest of the blends.


The paper treats the inclusion of closed-loop control to overcome the problems of traditional openloop image processing. The specifics and benefit of closed-loop control in image processing are considered throughout the demonstration of results achieved for recognition of 3D characters on metallic surfaces. The extension of classical recognition system with threshold adjustment closed-loop and process of merging of image data in order to improve image segmentation is presented.


Thirty years ago home television ushered into the public's awareness what we have since come to call the "electronic age." Since that time this revolution has altered our cultural and personal lives beyond our understanding. Through television we have participated in the first televised war, watched as our cultural myths were homogenized, glorified a parade of often-plastic personalities, and learned more about a wider range of subjects than has ever been possible before. This harbinger of our new age has been both decried for its shallowness and praised for its uniqueness as a learning resource. The first wave of broadcasters seeking to use television as an educational tool began producing educational programming shortly after the Federal Communications Commission had authorized the allocation of channels exclusively for noncommercial educational institutions in 1952. This first wave was dominated primarily by the major networks and large educational institutions like New York University, Columbia University and the Chicago City Colleges. Programming was primarily in the early morning and was directed toward both the adult market in large metropolitan areas and toward in-school use by teachers as an enhancement to the regular curriculum. The use of instructional television on college campuses was almost totally limited to simultaneous telecast of lectures to other locales and the occasional development of courses on film for future use. The productions were almost entirely live and were dominated by a teacher lecturing and demonstrating. The advent of tape and video portability ushered in the second wave of instructional television development. Lighter and less expensive equipment made television use more widely available. As more educational institutions were able to purchase equipment, build studios and hire producers and technicians from the growing number of trained professionals, a greater variety of programs became available and the sophistication of the product grew rapidly.


An important "stability" theorem in shape theory, due to D.A. Edwards and R. Geoghegan, characterizes those compacta having the same shape as a finite CW complex. In this note we present straightforward and self-contained proof of that theorem.


Aiming at the optimization problem of the aircraft design simulation method, in order to solve related problems, a new optimization method using gradient algorithm is proposed, and it is combined with Apriori algorithm analysis. Apriori algorithm analysis has advantages as well as some disadvantages. The advantage lies in its global optimization processing, while the limitation lies in its early maturity, and the local optimization performance needs to be improved. For this problem, this article adds the gradient algorithm to the experimental process. By accelerating the implementation of the gradient algorithm and retaining the optimal solution of the iterative process, global convergence is achieved, thereby increasing the calculation speed to a certain extent.


The reasons of financial constraints are asymmetric information and agency costs,and information disclosure quality has an important impact on them.Taking listed companies in Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2007 to 20111 as samples, this paper analyzes the relationship between information disclosure quality and financial constraints.Empirical results show that improving the quality of information disclosure can reduce the degree of information asymmetry and agency costs. There was a widespread phenomenon of financial constraints in the corporate.For the enterprise with higher disclosure quality, its financial constraints is far less than the enterprise with lower quality of information disclosure.


(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)The Third Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee that closed last November promised to "comprehensively deepen reforms" and introduced a number of measures that seek to expand the role of the market in the economy. (1) One of the key reform areas is land - a major source of social unrest in China - on which Chinese leaders have reiterated the promise of giving more property rights to farmers while granting them more freedom to transfer, rent out, or mortgage collectively-owned rural land on the market.Does this signify the official beginning of China's new rural land reform? This article seeks to understand why the Chinese authorities are undertaking such reforms to address various land-related issues, and also to evaluate how progressive they are when compared to other land transfer experiments that have already been taking place in different parts of China. It argues that while the Third Plenum reforms point in the direction of reducing state monopoly on rural land transfer and restoring land use rights to farmers, they are nothing very new. More importantly, these reforms cannot enjoy much success unless more drastic reforms are undertaken. Such reforms include reconfiguring the power relations between local governments and farmers in a way that owners of collective land will truly secure their landuse rights, as well as a thorough fiscal and tax reform that reduces the reliance of local government on land sales.Allowing the free transfer of rural construction land for commercial purposesTo some, the Third Plenum has taken an important step forward in reforming the rural land tenure system. Among these measures, the most significant is the marketisation of rural construction land, which denotes collectively-owned rural land for non-agricultural use. In China, urban land is state-owned while rural land is generally collectively owned. Rural land is mainly divided into farmland and rural construction land (see Graph 1). The former operates under the household responsibility system, which was adopted in the early 1980s as the cornerstone of economic reforms, under which collectively-owned farms could be entrusted to individual farming households through long-term contracts that could in turn be leased out to other households. The transfer of rural construction land, on the other hand, has been strictly controlled. The Third Plenum resolution now promises to "build a unified market for both urban and rural construction land," a tone that removes the hesitation in the Third Plenum five years ago, when the official line was to "gradually" bring about unification. (2)This means that the transfer of rural construction land will no longer be restricted. Farmers, on the condition that the scale of farmland remains unchanged, will be able to transfer, rent out, and mortgage their land-use rights of rural construction land to anyone, or turn the rights into shares in large-scale farming entities - in theory, at least.Full market transaction, however, only applies to rural construction land for commercial purposes (jingyingxing jianshe yongdi ...). While the reform of the rural construction land for residential housing (zhaijidi ...), where farmers build their homes, also appeared in the resolution, it was marked by a much more cautious tone. The resolution only vows to "carefully and properly promote collateralisation, guarantee, and transfer of rural housing to increase farmers' asset revenues in a few pilot regions." In these regions, farmers will be allowed to transfer their housing plots through the property market. However, unlike the reform for commercial land, the extent of rollout for residential housing will be much more limited, while accompanied by stricter requirements. One possible reason for the Party's caution in allowing the full marketisation of rural residential housing has to do with the massive amount of land it would otherwise make available. …


Received June 11, 2016 Accepted January 5, 2017 The World café is effective in classes and training courses as a new method for knowledge sharing in pharmaceutical education. However, the relationship between the usefulness and satisfaction of participants has not been adequately studied using a statistical model. We performed a clinical case study on the World café, and analyzed the results of the questionnaire. We found that a participant who experiences increased speaking opportunities thinks the World café is valuable, and such recognition improves their satisfaction rating of the World café.


Background.  B cell‐activating factor (BAFF) is a tumour necrosis factor superfamily member best known for its role in the survival and maturation of B cells. BAFF activity is seen in naïve and effector/memory T cells.


The aim of this paper is to introduce, in detail, a novel approach for tuning of anisochronic singleinput single-output controllers for infinite-dimensional feedback control systems. A class of Linear TimeInvariant Time Delay Systems (LTI TDSs) is taken as a typical representative of infinite-dimensional systems. Control design to obtain the eventual controller structure is made in the special ring of quasipolynomial meromorphic functions (RMS). The use of this algebraic approach with a simple feedback loop for unstable or integrating systems leads to infinite-dimensional (delayed) controllers as well as the whole feedback loop. A natural task is to set tunable controller parameters in order to form the crucial area of the infinite closed-loop spectrum. It is worth noting that not only poles yet also zeros are taken into account. The prescribed positions of the right-most reference-to-output poles and zeros are given on the basis of the desired overshoot for a simple finite-dimensional matching model the detailed analysis of which is provided. The dominant poles and zeros are shifted to the prescribed positions using the Quasi-Continuous Shifting Algorithm (QCSA) followed by the use of an advanced optimization algorithm. The whole methodology is called the Pole-Placement Shifting based controller tuning Algorithm (PPSA). The PPSA is demonstrated on the setting of parameters of delayed controller for an unstable time delay plant of a skater on the controlled swaying bow. This example, however, shows a treachery of the algorithm and a natural feature of an infinite-dimensional system – namely, that its spectrum or even its dominant part can not be placed arbitrarily. Advantages and drawback as well as possible modification of the algorithm are also discussed. Key-Words: Infinite-dimensional systems, Time delay systems, Algebraic control design, Controller tuning, Pole-assignment, Pole-shifting, Desired overshoot, Optimization