OBJECTIVE
Examined how individual differences in disposition among pediatric cancer patients predict their later psychosocial functioning.

METHODS
Patients aged 8-17 years (N = 223) reported on their disposition at baseline. One and three years later, self-reports and parent reports of patient psychosocial functioning were obtained. Latent profile analysis was used to identify subgroups that differed on baseline disposition and to compare them on later outcomes.

ESULTS
Three groups were identified: The "Positive" group (59%) had high optimism and positive affectivity and low pessimism and negative affectivity; the "Moderate" group (39%) had a similar profile, with less exaggerated scores; a small, "Negative" group (2%) had the opposite profile (low optimism/positive affectivity; high pessimism/negative affectivity). These groups differed in psychosocial functioning at follow-up, generally in expected directions.

CONCLUSIONS
Most patients have a disposition that may be protective. A small minority at high risk for maladjustment is distinguished by their disposition.


The list presents in alphabetical order c300 theses submitted in Australian geography and related fields during 1981 and 1982. It includes all honours, research masters and doctoral dissertations, as well as coursework masters and postgraduate diploma theses which were considered to constitute the equivalent of at least six months full-time work.-Authors


In the twenty-first century, transportation services and infrastructure will play a central role in the logistics systems of corporations competing in the global market. As transportation and logistics systems continue to integrate, their impact on the physical environment will become a major issue. This study investigates the antecedents and outcomes of green technology innovation adoption in transportation companies in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey on the green technology innovation adoption of Malaysian transportation companies was conducted, in which 252 samples were analysed. Based on the survey results, this study finds that the quality of human resources, customer pressure, and environmental uncertainty significantly influence green innovation adoption for transportation companies, while the influence of organizational and governmental support is not significant. In addition, the findings of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between green technology innovation adoption and environmental outcome. The practical implications of the research findings are discussed.


Air emissions from the Map Ta Phut petrochemical complex in southeastern Thailand were studied. One focus of the research is the development of an emission inventory of the volatile organic compounds, benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX). Emission sources were identified and the loading from all mobile and stationary sources were compiled. Based on this data set, the Industrial Source Complex Short-Term version 3 (ISCST-3) was used to predict the contributions of the BTX species, which then were compared with the field measurements. The methodology of the emission inventory is described and evaluated with the shortcomings and areas of uncertainty. The relative importance of point, line and area sources and the influence of the local meteorology on the timing and place of concentration impacts are discussed. The coincidences and differences observed highlight the relative importance of source type and location, and of fugitive emissions and episode events. In particular, this research highlights the importance of area emissions from the petrochemical and petroleum industries, such as the oil refineries and tank farms, and identifies them as potential major contributors to the ambient BTX concentrations.


Does the interstate cooperation in the CIA rendition programme imply the anti-torture norm was severely degraded in the war on terror? Most scholarship currently suggests yes, pointing to the widespread cooperation of dozens of states, including many liberal democracies, in a programme designed to facilitate torture. This article argues that this conclusion is driven primarily by a focus on outcome, that states cooperated, and ignores the process through which cooperation happened. Using the data provided in the Senate report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme, this article demonstrates that studying the process of cooperation instead of merely the outcome allows us to see that the anti-torture norm had continuous causal effects that are currently unrecognised in the literature. This finding not only provides a counterpoint to much of the literature on the United States rendition programme that focusses on the negative human rights outcomes, but also builds on research which has argued that fundamental international human rights norms were not as damaged by American conduct in the war on terror as many scholars and activists had initially feared.


The invention discloses a management method for a cache in a solid state storage device. The management method comprises the following steps: when a garbage collection operation is determined to execute in the solid storage device, dividing the storage space of the cache into a plurality of parts; setting a first part of storage space in the cache as a garbage collection application; and setting a second part of storage space in the cache as a writing application.


. For determination of mechanical parameters of CFRP we propose the use of a method based on the resonance of Lamb waves generated by Hertzian contact. In this paper are presented the theoretical base of the method, following the observation that in CFRP only A 0 and S 0 modes are propagated, observation obtained through experimental construction of dispersion curves of the phase velocity of the two fundamental modes. The comparison of the results obtained by classical tests and those obtained with the proposed method shows that, for the determination of in-plane properties (elastic modulus, shear modulus, Poisson coefficient), the resonance of Lamb waves generated by Hertzian contact is an available nondestructive method, having the advantages of not requiring coupling fluid.


Cardiovascular diseases, particularly hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia in recent decades become a major cause of the increase in morbidity and mortality is a major problem in health systems around the world. Despite the gradual improvement of quality of health care, the pursuit of increased awareness of the professional and general public do not achieve the expected results in improving the health status of the population. The causes are manifold, one from the most important is the non-adherence that WHO has identified as a major problem of population health, and important modifiable factor that reduces the effectiveness of treatment and negatively notes the health status of the population, is a significant increase in costs. Kľúčové slová/Klíčová slova


Recent advances in hardware and software have generated a remarkable enhancement in the image quality and have broadened the obtainable information spectrum. Acoustic Surface Wave (ASW) is a naturally occurring phenomenon in surface of materials under load (force, temperature, etc). Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave (SASW) condition monitoring is related to the identification of certain vibration parameters due to surface waves and their measurement with a view to diagnose underwater part of concrete structures. Condition monitoring of subsea concrete structure of Shahid Rajaee Harbor using SASW is discussed in this paper. The paper also pays some attention to methods for underwater nondestructive testing of concrete and detecting of faults. Proposed method refers to the determination of the propagation times between the transducer sample and imapctor by determining the frequency dependent on the material.


he question of whether compensation could be awarded for raising a healthy child born as the result of a doctor's negligence was recently examined by the High Court of Australia in Cattanach v. Melchior (2003) (hereafter 'Melchior'). the case involved litigation brought by Kerry and Craig Melchior, a married Brisbane couple, against an obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Stephen Cattanach. In 1992 he had performed a tubal ligation on Kerry Melchior. She sought the procedure because, having given birth to two healthy daughters, she and her husband had decided they did not want more children. Four years after the sterilisation procedure, at age 44, Kerry Melchior became pregnant. This happened because both she and her doctor mistakenly believed she only had one fallopian tube, and he had only clipped that tube in the operation. Kerry Melchior carried the pregnancy to term and in 1997 gave birth to a healthy son, Jordan. Kerry and Craig Melchior initiated legal proceedings in both tort and contract in respect of the failed sterilisation, against Stephen Cattanach and the State of Queensland, as the authority responsible for the public hospital where the procedure was performed. The action in contract was not pursued, but the trial judge agreed the doctor had been negligent in respect of his provision of advice about the risks of further conception. She awarded around $103 000 damages to Kerry Melchior in relation to the pregnancy and birth, $3 000 to her husband for 'loss of consortium' associated with the pregnancy and birth, and around $105 000 damages to both plaintiffs for the cost of raising Jordan to age 18. The defendants appealed unsuccessfully against the last component only of this damages award — compensation for the cost of bringing up the child — to the Queensland Court of Appeal, and then to the High Court. By a majority of four (Justices McHugh, Gummow, Kirby and Callinan) to three (Chief Justice Gleeson and Justices Hayne and Heydon), in July 2003 the High Court upheld the original award of damages. Before the High Court's decision Australian legal authority on whether damages could be awarded in these circumstances was limited and inconclusive. Two Queensland cases had allowed recovery for the cost of raising a healthy child born as a result of medical negligence — Dahl v. Purnell (1992) and Veivers v. Connolly (1995). The NSW Court of Appeal subsequently addressed the question in CES v. Superclinics (1995), denying recovery by a 2:1 majority. The High Court of Australia granted special leave to appeal against this last decision, in Nafte v. CES (1996), but did not ever hear the case as the parties settled out of Natasha Cica is a Lecturer at the School of Professional Communication, University of Canberra and a Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University.


While explaining the idea of a copyright, many scholars refer to a property law model. The question is, however, whether such approach is really accurate. The idea of defining copyright law with reference to property law originated in the eighteenth century. The term 'property' was at that time very broadly interpreted. It covered a range of claims on assets, including a person, considered to be its own property. However, towards the end of the nineteenth century it became clear that there are structural differences between property and copyright. This led to a new category of rights, the 'immaterial goods.' This distinction was quite plausible and has remained such until today. Unlike property law, copyright is not a right in a thing but merely a 'quasi right' in a thing. The difference between both rights is also confirmed by an economic analysis which shows that the exclusivity of copyright law does not necessarily follow from its subject, since the limitation of an access to a work is not an effect of its nature. Thus there need not necessarily have to be a rivalry for the work, since it can as such be reproduced in an unlimited number. This, in turn, leads to a conclusion that an inconsiderate adoption of the property pattern in the field of copyright is unfounded and may bring about undesirable consequences.


To write a music, we arrange that surrounds us to our mind. We can start with objects that make noise. While listening to a music, it is then possible to think about an object or an idea. It inspires the creation of a personal song. Then you type the keys of a piano, to invent a story, having in mind the differences between the notes. Or we create music on paper, thanks to music theory, which consists to write music to play. After singing a song, the music will have a way of growth, (...)


Purpose: We report a case of optic neuropathy in a patient who was treated with pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR TB) treatment with linezolid. Case summary: A 61-year-old male patient with no other underlying disease was diagnosed with pre-XDR Tb 6 months before and took the TB drug at another hospital. Ethambolol was not prescribed because it was resistant from the beginning of TB treatment. Threrefore, linezolid was included for treatment of pre-XDR TB. The patient's best corrected visual acuity was 20/400 in both eyes at the time of outpatient visit. In Ishihara color vision test, both eyes showed complete color blindness. There was no detectable relative afferent pupillary defect, and fundus examination showed hyperemic optic discs and visual field examination showed both central visual field defects. Linezolid induced optic neuropathy was suspected, the drug was discontinued. After one month, the patient's best corrected visual acuity recovered to 20/20 in both eyes, and visual field and color vision returned to normal at 3 months. Conclusions: Linezolid is a broad spectrum antibiotic and is a useful drug for the treatment of broad-spectrum tuberculosis. However, since long-term use may cause optic neuropathy, the possibility of optic neuropathy should always be considered. If optic neuropathy is suspected, prompt drug withdrawal is required and reversible clinical changes can be expected. J Korean Ophthalmol Soc 2019;60(12):1363-1368


Using the self-consistent density functional method, we investigate the structural and electronic properties of cubic Hf3N4 with Th3P4 structure at ambient and high pressures. The lattice parameters, cell volume, bulk modulus, and pressure derivative at ambient pressure are obtained, which are in excellent agreement with the available measurements. The change of bond lengths for two different types of Hf–N bond with pressure suggests that the tetrahedral Hf–N bond is slightly less compressible than the octahedral ones, which agree well with the Zr3N4 and Zn3N2 results. The band gap pressure coefficient for c-Hf3N4 are fitted, which are 8.5 × 10−2 eV/GPa and –7.0 × 10−5 eV/(GPa)2, respectively. Based on the density of states analysis, band structure suggests that the investigated material can be used as a semiconductor optical material. Mulliken population analysis shows that the charge density of the Hf atom is less sensitive to pressure variation than that of the N atom. At last, the defect formation ent...


In OFDM system exist many methods for reduction of PAPR,and the partial transmit sequence method(PTS) is one of the major categories.This paper discusses the reason for a fairly high peak-to-average-power ratio(PAPR),focuses on the results of PTS PAPR reduction algorithm,and gives the simulation and comparison descriptions.Based on the existing PARR reduction algorithm,an in-depth study on the combined algorithm of the improved PTS algorithm and the clipping algorithm.Experiment indicates that the improved PTS-Clipping algorithm could reduce computing complexity,and is simple in engineering and is of certain practical value.


We show some results for the L2 curvature flow linked by the theme of addressing collapsing phenomena. First we show long time existence and convergence of the flow for SO(3)-invariant initial data on S3, as well as a long time existence and convergence statement for three-manifolds with initial L2 norm of curvature chosen small with respect only to the diameter and volume, which are both necessary dependencies for a result of this kind. In the critical dimension n = 4 we show a related low-energy convergence statement with an additional hypothesis. Finally we exhibit some finite time singularities in dimension n ≥ 5, and show examples of finite time singularities in dimension n ≥ 6 which are collapsed on the scale of curvature.


This chapter focuses on the suspects who exercise their right to remain silent, that is, to say 'no comment' in response to questions concerning the offence, but without presenting a prepared statement. It notes that this approach can cause interviewers to lose focus and control of the situation. The chapter details the effective, ethical, and professional conversation management of this scenario, by first examining the logic behind the decision, how it will be presented and then how to proceed, to ensure that a legally compliant interview product is obtained that can still advance the case. It also offers a detailed discussion about responding to the suspect who unexpectedly switching to answering questions and the suspect who is not legally represented and exercises the right to silence.


The city of Semarang is one of the cities in Indonesia that experiences the phenomenon of heat stroke due to climate change. These conditions cause an increase in the average surface temperature of the city to 22-40 ° C which is included in the category of discomfort for outdoor activities. This is certainly very disturbing for various forms of outdoor activities, such as pedestrian activity. The Old City of Semarang is included in the public area which in the last 5 years seeks to improve the arrangement of the area through the development of pedestrian ways. However, the development that has been carried out is considered not able to create a comfortable climate for pedestrians due to high regional temperatures, especially during the day. For this reason, this study aims to examine how to create a comfortable pedestrian ways to climate change, especially in the Old City Region of Semarang. The method used in the form of analysis of the level of thermal comfort using the ArcGIS application and pedestrian ways analysis using vegetation distribution and building shadow analysis. The result will be found elements of city design that can create pedestrian comfort in the Old City Region of Semarang.


By use of 1948—2000 monthly Northern Hemispheric sea level pressure data,the North Pacific oscillation index(I_(NPO)) and East Asian winter monsoon index(I_(EAWM)) are calculated.Results show that the winter I_(NPO) anomaly bears a close relation to the weather/climate of winter over the mainland of China.When a strong I_(NPO) occurs,the EAWM will become weaker,and China will experience an extensive high temperature,less rainfall in the middle-lower reach of the Yangtze River;and higher temperature and more rainfall in South China in winter.While a weak I_(NPO) occurs,EAWM will become stronger,and China will experience an extensive lower temperature and less rainfall in winter.It is also found that when the North Pacific oscillation is strong,the atmospheric circulation shows the weak WP pattern and strong EU teleconnection pattern,and vice versa.


Biotreatment of spent sulfidic caustic with different dilution ratios was investigated in this study. The results show that the domesticated activated sludge has an effective biodegradability in the treatment of the spent caustic with a dilution ratio of 3. The sulfur compounds were completely biodegraded within one cycle period. The degradation of sulfur compounds was a process of alkalinity consuming. Sulfide was mainly bio-oxidized to sulfate under the conditions of low sulfide load and sufficient dissolved oxygen. The conversion of sulfide to sulfate decreased by 24% as the dilution ratio reduced from 10 to 3. Meanwhile, the activity of sulfur bacteria recovered quickly after impact.


This volume contains the Sather Classical Lectures at the University of California for the year 1933. Its eight chapters include a description of the political institutions of the Athenian democracy, and more particularly the way in which they worked, with brief references to their historical origin. The greatest amount of space is naturally given to the citizen assembly and the courts, the latter being the key to popular control over the magistrates and therefore the center of the democratic system. In addition to this description of institutions, the author discusses such essential aspects of democracy as freedom of speech and the meaning of citizenship, and also the effects of democracy upon Athenian literature and religion. The emphasis of the book is throughout on the practice of democracy at Athens and not upon its theory, Plato and Aristotle and the Funeral Oration in Thucydides being used as they throw light upon the operation of the institutions, but not particularly to show what philosophically-minded Greeks thought about their government.


Innovation and learning come together in a vibrant manner during dynamic arts education classes led by teachers who understand the importance of collaboration and student improvisation.


In Robotics, Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance (PPOA) have turned out to be a significant research domain. PPOA entails planning a smooth obstacle-free path from start to finish in minimal time and cost. As the complexity of the map or problem increases, many approaches become unreliable and inefficient. In this paper, a comparison of Simulated Annealing (SA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Firefly Algorithm (FA) are made on MATLAB 2018a for PPOA problem in robotics based on three different environments. The objective of the paper is to practically demonstrate a comparison of the algorithms mentioned above on three maps with varying levels of complexity to obtain a collision-free optimal path through simulation on MATLAB 2018a. Simulation results depict that one algorithm is not suitable for all types of environments.


Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence displays vividly the social landscape of the upper class in Old New York and thus she is listed as a realistic writer. However, sensitive readers could recognize the characters' artificial innocence and exquisite pretense behind the realistic depiction. This paper would reveal and unmask its deception and hypocrisy through Slavoj Zizek's psychological criticism. The aim is to expose the purposes of Wharton's writing — a calling for returning to the nature, the essence of reality.


For many modern readers this quotation from an early 16th-century book about Christ's Passion would seem to go far beyond the realms of sensibility. Even for a researcher specialized in the world of religious experience of the late medieval Netherlands and used to heartrending descriptions of Christ's Passion and Mary's compassion, this evocation of Mary's suffering is unusually crude. Historians, art historians and literary historians generally reach for the term 'realistic' to describe late medieval texts which employ dramatic anecdotal digressions to raise the sympathyquotient in a Passjon story which appeared rather short and unemotional in the Bible. It is clear, especially since the publication of Marrow's book on late medieval Passion iconography, that this kind of anecdotal embellishment of the Passion story is nct so much the product of the 'natural' propensky of the Dutch towards a often extravagant realism. It is more the late, or perhaps overripe, product of a long exegetic tradition harking back through the Middle Ages in which the Bible principally, but also the Church Fathers and all manner of theological writings were minutely examined for passages and motifs that might be interpreted as metaphorical indications of specific events in the life of Jesus about which the Gospels said nothing. In late medieval devotional literature these motifs selected not for their theological profundity but more for the graphic portrayals of the suffering crystallized to become part of the 'historical' narrative of the Passion itself. The motivation behind this search for and use of non-Gospel Passion motifs is the need to provide believers with a story of suffering to stimulate their compassion with Jesus and Mary. This need is rooted in the idea that the believer's ability to empathize and identify with the Virgin and her Son in the present is a guarantee of their intercession at the Last Judgment and a ticket to everlasting life. In the Middle Ages meditation on the various events of the Passion became, not least for lay persons, one of the principal ways in which to obtain this salutary empathetic condition of fhe soul. The compassion, the deep inner emotion, with which Mary accompanied the suffering of her son is presented to the believer as the great example.'' From the 13th Century all manner of descriptions emerged of the life of Christ, often in the vernacular, in which the Passion story was told in


Based on the spiral of silence and cultivation theory, this study developed and tested a model of social media use, opinion congruence, fear of isolation, perception of reality and opinion expression behaviors on a controversial social issue under social media context. Results reveal that the spiral of silence theory is partly applicable. The findings from a survey of Weibo users show that social media use is a significant predictor of perception of reality, while it doesn't predict opinion congruence. And neither perception of reality nor opinion congruence has mediation effect on the effect of social media use on opinion expression. And opinion congruence will positively predict opinion expression, while neither fear of isolation nor perception of reality predicts opinion expression. Keywords: spiral of silence, cultivation theory, social meida, metoo movement ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This document is downloaded from Outstanding Academic Papers by Students (OAPS), Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. Online Opinion Expression and Me Too Movement 3 Online Opinion Expression and Me Too Movement: Testing Spiral of Silence under Social Media Context The spiral of silence theory states that individuals will be altered their opinion by the factors such as mass media and interpersonal networks, these factors indicate individuals fear to be socially isolated (Noelle-Neumann, 1974). According to this theory, people would change their willing of sharing their opinion according to the opinion of the majority. If they have the same opinion of the majority, they are more willing to speak out. On the contrary, they would be silent to avoid being isolated. In the opinion of Noelle-Neumann, it is a spiraling process that someone tend to speak up and the other to be silent, which increasingly establishes one opinion to the prevailing one. (p. 44.) In 2017, there were more than 3 billion social media users globally. In the second season of 2017, there were 1 million new SNS users emerging per day. SNS has already became a vital part of modern society. It plays a role of communication, entertainment, and also as a channel for the younger generation to express themselves. Especially in these years, social media has become an effective way of collecting public sentiment. The Me too movement (#metoo) was started in October 2017 by famous actress Alyssa Milano to encourage the sexual-assaulted girls to release their assaulted experience, in order to fight back the violators and protect other girls. This movement started from Hollywood, America and generally became influential globally. Similar movements also taken place in other regions and countries including China. In January 2018, a female graduated from Beihang University named Luo Xixi released her experience of being sexual assaulted by her tutor, associated dean of Postgraduate School of Beihang University, Chen Xiaowu when she studied in Beihang ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This document is downloaded from Outstanding Academic Papers by Students (OAPS), Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. Online Opinion Expression and Me Too Movement 4 University. After several days of online discussion, this event got very famous in Weibo, the most popular SNS in mainland China. As a result, the violator Chen Xiaowu was dismissed from the university and his membership of Yangtze Scholar was also cancelled, but no criminal penalties were adopted. Just after the Chen Xiaowu event, in a short period of time, several female victims were encouraged to released their experience of being sexual assaulted by their tutors, teachers and male leaders. Many of these girls had graduated for a long time, and many events released happened even a decade ago. The positive climate of opinion that supports the assaulted girls encouraged them to show their experience to the public. The purpose of this study is to find factors that will alter online expressions on Chinese social media like Weibo. When we do the literature review, we find there are limited researches studying Spiral of Silence theory under the circumstances of Chinese social media. Nowadays, since new media fast develop in China and everyone has the right to voice his or her views via social media (Zerback, T., & Fawzi, N. 2017). We find it is valuable to study the rapid growth of the Chinese social media users. The study of worldwide movement will give better understanding to public opinion expression on gender equality which can be applied to other social issues in the future. Literature Review Spiral of Silence and Opinion Expression under Social Media Context The spiral of silence theory was originally introduced by Noelle-Neumann in 1974 for explaining the influence of perceived climate of opinions on individual opinion expression and eventually forms the public opinion (Noelle-Neumann, 1993; Scheufele & Moy, 2000). Because of the fear of isolation (Glynn, Hayes, & Shanahan, 1997), people are more likely to stay in silence when their approval opinion is opposed by the majority. As a result, the spiraling effect to boost the voice of the majority and inhibit the voice of the minority will be ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This document is downloaded from Outstanding Academic Papers by Students (OAPS), Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. Online Opinion Expression and Me Too Movement 5 observed, which eventually leads to the form of public opinion. A key proposition of this theory is that individual's perception that the majority supports his or her opinion is positively associated to the willingness of opinion expression behavior(Noelle-Neumann, 1974). However, some researchers checked the relationship between perceived support and willingness to express to be weak at best (Glynn, Hayes, & Shanahan, 1997; Shanahan, Glynn, & Hayes, 2007). This has increased skepticism of the spiral of silence and a renewed interest in augmenting the theory was inspired. After that, researchers began to study on different variables that might affect outspokenness. Some scholars pointed out that people do not participate in all the conversations as they are perceived to turn to the topics that they care about more often than the others. That refers to the extent to which a person pays the most attention and shows a certain attitude''(Krosnick, Boninger, Chuang, Berent, & Carnot, 1993, p. 1132). In addition, Moy, Domke, and Stamm (2001) found that individuals are more willing to express their opinions about the topics they consider more important. As the use of social media is showing an increasing trend of becoming more popular , there is a controversial debate among scholars about if the spiral of silence theory can be applied under social media context. Some hold the opinion that it cannot be used because of the anonymous character of online opinion expression while others believe that the main opinion can still exist to be the norm when people express themselves on the Internet even though there are less limits for them. Some researches found that the effect of individual communication is much weaker than that of traditional media on the Internet. Ho and Mcleod(2008) demonstrated their findings that the theory can still predict individual will after comparing the consequences of people expressing their opinions in face-to-face chat room and Internet chat room. Meanwhile, the fear of isolation on the Internet is weaker than that in real world. Roberts , Wanta and Tzong-Hong (2002) conducted a research about people's ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This document is downloaded from Outstanding Academic Papers by Students (OAPS), Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. Online Opinion Expression and Me Too Movement 6 online opinion expression in 1996 American election debate, which proved the theory is still applicable. They also noticed in the research that people tend to consider the side which media report more on to be mainstream during a controversy. Besides these moderating effects social media have on spiral of silence theory, it is shown that the use of social media is positively associated with climate of opinion (Hampton, Shin, & Lu, 2017). Social media tend to show users prioritized content (Hamilton, Karahalios, Sandvig, & Eslami, 2014). Users on Weibo will be exposed to the content which is congruent to their favor. Though this way, users will get a high perceived opinion congruency on Weibo. Cultivation Theory and opinion expression under Social Media Context Apart from the spiral of silence theory, our research also uses cultivation theory(Gerbner & Gross, 1976) to analyze "perception of reality" as a mediating variable in the research. The primary point of cultivation theory states that the more time people spend on watching television, the more likely they are to believe social reality aligns with reality portrayed on television. Messages and pictures from television media can largely influence the way people perceive the real world, especially those who rely heavily on TV. While cultivation theory originates in television related research, many scholars are skeptical about whether cultivation theory would be applicable with the raising significance of new media. "Media technology has never been static, and that there will always be new forms of media." Some researchers (Morgan, Shanahan & Signorielli, 2015) applied cultivation theory to the study of new media by suggesting to take up a big data approach rather th


pendular system device (13) for a chuck or the like with a pendular element (16) and unelemento base (30) the tilting element being connected by a connecting element formaaxialmente pivotably to the base element may be limited a range of α rotation pendulum element through undispositivo limitation (39) being connectable base member by a connecting device with unamordaza (25) of a chuck (10) and can be return the pendulum element at a central position delalcance rotation by a return device, characterized in that the pendulum element can be fixed in elalcance of α rotation by a locking device (23) and that the pendulum element has a desubjugation device with two fasteners (20) changeable, which may be displaced and fixed.


With the increasing popularity of cellular telephony service, providers are having to support more and more users with limited infrastructure. Nowhere, is it more apparent than the limited resource of "spectrum". With the amount of money being spent in acquiring the rights to use pieces of spectrum, it is imperative that this resource be used in the most cost-effective manner to provide excellent quality of service to as many users as possible. We address the classic spectrum utilization problem of frequency planning. We present a new and novel method for solving this problem for TDMA systems such as GSM and North American cellular systems. The past work in this area has focused on either: (1) using an idealized hexagonal grid system or (2) using an idealized modeling of the RF environment. In our approach we make no assumptions about the size, shape, configuration, or the position of the cell sites. Also we use direct drive-test data that reflects all the non-uniformity and unpredictability of the real RF environment. We develop new algorithmic techniques that can handle the complexity of the actual terrain and drive-test data and take advantage of the existing non-uniformity in arriving at the solution. Using direct drive-test data and avoiding idealized assumptions guarantees a good in-field performance of the frequency plan generated by our technique. Our results show significant improvement over solutions obtained from classical reuse patterns and frequency planning techniques. Using our techniques we have created frequency plans that have 75% more RF capacity with little or no degradation in C/I and C/A performance compared to an existing reference plan.


Increased milk production has boosted the market of milk-driven products, and as a result, the by-product production has also increased, which is a challenge to dispose of. Whey, a cheese by-product, is also increasing yearly, and its disposal in water bodies is responsible for water pollution and thus is an issue for the dairy sector. In this context, extensive research has been going on to valorize this by-product and create alternative ways to remove the organic load in whey rather than disposing of it. Recently, exciting developments have been made to convert whey into value-added commodities such as biofuels (bioethanol, biodiesel, and biohydrogen), bioplastics, bacterial cellulose, food colors and flavors, bioprotective solutions, bioactive peptides, and single-cell proteins. In this review, we aim to comprehend the recent developments and challenges in producing a whole range of value-added ingredients with whey as feedstock through microbial fermentation. Particular focus was paid to the potential of novel genetically engineered or adapted microbial strains to valorize bovine whey economically and sustainably.


The amendments to the Law «On personal data protection» were inured on 27.07.2011. Article gives the amendments to the Law state-of-the-art review. It considers a number of the positions most interesting to application in healthcare information systems.


The invention discloses a production process for a biphenylnitrile type liquid crystal material. The production process comprises the following steps: firstly, reacting 4-N-alkyl halogenated benzene or 4-N-alkoxy halogenated benzene and metal magnesium powder in tetrahydrofuran under the protection of nitrogen gas to obtain a corresponding tetrahydrofuran solution of a Grignard reagent; secondly, dropping the tetrahydrofuran solution of the Grignard reagent into the tetrahydrofuran mixed solution containing a coupling reaction catalyst and 4-halogen-substitued cyanophenyl; after the reaction is ended, filtering and recovering metal salts; distilling to recover the solvent; carrying out rectification under vacuum and clay bleaching; and respectively recrystalizing with normal heptane and ethanol as solvent to obtain the biphenylnitrile type liquid crystal material. The production process disclosed by the invention has the advantages of low-priced and easily-accessible raw material, simple reaction, high yield, favorable quality of products, low production cost and the like, and is suitable for industrial production of biphenylnitrile type liquid crystal products.


The feasibility of the inversion of laser diffraction data for size and shape distributions by a constrained regularization method (Contin) has been investigated by computer simulation. Diffraction data are simulated for particles with elliptical projections. An iterative procedure is proposed to calculate the size and shape distribution. This method was able to recover both the size and shape distribution from simulated diffraction patterns of elliptical particles with different sizes and aspect ratios.


: This article is based on the Hedonic model and selects 36 sets of price related characteristic data and 12 characteristic variables from Zhengzhou City in 2019. Linear models, logarithmic models, semi logarithmic models, and other functional forms are used for regression analysis and continuous optimization. The conclusion drawn in this article is that the distance from CBD and property fees have a significant impact on residential prices.


An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on the topics including big events in the dental nursing calendar on the International Team for Implantology Dental Nurses Day;and financial help available to aspiring dental hygienists and therapists.


With Ultrasonic CT technology(UCT), we can gain velocity distributing, identify location and dimension of abnormal concrete regions, conclude the type of defect and the intensity of defect. The program of testing pile foundations with UCT is used in a segment of a pile, the result including isoline, chromatogram and three dimension distributing of velocity is presented.


This essay responds to a challenge posed by Alexander G. Weheliye in his article " 'Feenin': Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music" to "turn the critical dial on our radio to those lower frequencies" found within contemporary R&B music (39). In that article, which appears in a special issue of Social Text devoted to the emerging field of inquiry called Afrofuturism, Weheliye makes the important observation that current R&B music garners relatively less critical consideration than other black popular music, such as jazz and blues or even hip hop. Weheliye suggests that contemporary R&B music has suffered as an object of critical inquiry mostly for its association with the devalued site of urban radio?its pop sounds and artistic banality?but also for its tenacious hold on a kind of critically problematic and theoretically pass? black humanism. Though black folks have strategically altered humanist rhetoric and ideals in our freedom struggles, humanism has never been a benign sign. It has generally and rightfully come under suspicion for its hegemonic assertion of Enlightenment ideals of the liberal white male subject. As an alternative, the idea of the post-human has been posited as a remedy by those within and outside of black cultural studies, particularly in the space of futurist studies. As some would have it, in a post-human universe governed by zeroes and ones, the body ceases to matter, thereby fracturing and finally dissolving ties to racialized subjectivity, positionality, and "self." The rising specter of the post-human as a theoretical model to explain and analyze past and future black Atlantic expe rience is connected to the advent of "post-soul" or "post-black" aesthetics, through which contemporary artists and writers strate gically reject blackness as a unitary subject position. While the Mario David McKnight Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Florida. Her research attends to 20th century African American lit erature and culture, African diaspora literatures, and gen der and sexuality studies. Her current research project addresses mothers in con


Hospitals require a wide range of specialist electrical systems for their normal operation. The modern hospital demands complex system inter-relationships which combine systems of normal electricity supply, standby supply, reticulation generally, special lighting requirements, monitoring and call systems and the leading edge of communications technology encompassing information management systems, data highways and local area networks, building telecommunications and PABX. This paper attempts to identify the range of electrical systems incorporated within a modern hospital complex as generally outlined above and provide an awareness of design considerations that should be made by the design engineer in planning of hospital electrical systems. Factors under consideration include capital and operation/maintenance cost comparison, capacity of systems to adequately service current and future hospital requirements as well as redundancy, reliability and maintenance. Details included in this paper are indicative rather than related to a particular hospital and are gathered from non-specified sources and observation by the author over recent years. The objective of this paper is to present the composite systems under consideration in the form of a model, made up of system elements represented by boxes with key words and relationships that exist represented by connecting lines.


Objective To investigate the correlation of high sensitivity C reactive protein(hsCRP) and nonalchonic sulfatide hepatitis(NASH).Methods A total of 47 patients with nonalchonic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)were divided into simple hepatic adipose group(n=19)and NASH group (n=28).Serum level of hs-CRP was measured in all subjects.Results As compared with that of simple hepatic adipose group,the serum level of hs-CRP was significantly higher in NASH group(P=0. 0048).The serum level of hs-CRP was significantly higher in patients with NASH and advanced fibrosis than that in patients with NASH and slight fibrosis(P=0.0384).Even after rectification of multiple indices(including age,gender,HDL-cholesterol,triglyeride and LDL-cholesterol),there were significant differences among several groups.Conclusion This is the first report that NASH patients keep significantly higher serum level of hs-CRP compared with patients of simple hepatic adipose.The results show that hs-CRP not only distinguishes NASH and non-progressive fatty liver diseases,but also reflects the severity of hepatic fibrosis in NASH patients.


Social dissonance games can be used to study peer influence, social contagion, and results of opinion polls. In this class of games, agents' payoffs are determined by the intrinsic utilities of their own actions and social dissonance, which is the negative effect of disagreement with others. The equilibrium set is characterized in a general class of two-action social dissonance games with agents of many different intrinsic utilities for the two actions. Action profiles that can be equilibria are restricted to those that follow a monotonicity property: if one agent chooses an action, any agent who intrinsically likes the action more will also choose it. Two-action social dissonance games are supermodular. Applying methods of monotone comparative statics for supermodular games, changes in dissonance functions or intrinsic utility can lead to shifts in the set of equilibria toward action profiles where more agents choose a specific action. ∗I thank my advisor, Jan Werner, for his patience and constant support of this paper. I also thank Beth Allen, David Rahman, Aldo Rustichini, and Kim Sau Chung for their many helpful comments and suggestions. I am grateful to my friends and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, notably Andrew Dust, Ruchika Mohanty, Rene Schwengber, Minesh Amin, Ramses Armendariz, Michael Maio, Eric McDermott, and Kelvin Wong, as well as the participants of the Math Econ workshops, and everyone who took the time to listen to my ideas.


In this paper the issue of Gated Communities in Latin America is presented through the study of cases in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. After forty years of a strong influence of this foreign model that permeated this type of urban formations, this article seeks to answer the question: how did this model come to these countries and which common features are found in its approach? As a consequence the actions of private entities are recognized which for their construction and sale have defined common patterns that are characterized by multiple infrastructures, equipment and a high level of self-sufficiency. This groups one type of community to whom a family life is offered with the amenities and safety related to the purchasing power of the highest class inside the city, but that in turn deals with high levels of social exclusion. Thus, cases such as that of Palmares Urban residential complex set in Mendoza, Argentina, Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico City, Hacienda Fontanar in Bogota, Colombia, and Alphaville in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are typical examples of this urban model.


The transportation system and its technology in Malaysia continues to evolve over time to meet the challenges towards fulfilling the aspirations of the people. The rapid development in the transportation system is of concern due to its significant effects on the environment and human health. Almost all human activities including traffic and transportation contribute to pollution such as noise and it has become an inevitable issue.


On 1st October 2011 a new Romanian Civil code has been enacted, which has included therein the regulations of commercial law. This new regulation meant not only taking some provisions from the former Commercial Code, thus repealed, but also redefining some institutions of business law and placing them in another context. Thus, the notion of trader, respectively professional, has been redefined, some contracts of a commercial nature have been introduced or regulated differently, new institutions have been introduced and a unitary regulation has been accomplished, in which the business law has been included in the larger sphere of civil law.


Posthumanism locates, progresses, and asserts knowledge in the openings for interconnection. In this article, we undertake a collective biography using an interconnected arts-based practice that affords us complex relations with each other and material ways of thinking and being together. With a shared interest in posthuman theory and memory work, the authors connected online from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa to address the question: What can we learn about the perplexities, paradoxes, surprises, and frustrations associated with our academic work during COVID-19? Using an arts-based methodology and a cartographic analytical approach for our critical posthuman research, our assemblage charted the power relations operating in and immanent to the construction and circulation of academic knowledge during COVID-19.


The purpose of content management tools is to offer an infrastructure for creating and managing dynamic, evolving web sites. The A. examines how four leading products live up to this requirement : One-to-One Enterprise, DynaBase, Site Server, StoryServer


Objective To investigate the effects of acute hypoxia on the rheologic properties of leukocytes in mesentery microcirculation of rats. Methods Intravital microscopy and computer image analysis system were used to determine the rheologic properties of leukocytes in mesentery microcirculation of rats in vivo . Results Compared with normal condition, the number of adhesive leukocytes and rolling leukocytes in venules were significantly increased in acute hypoxic condition, rolling velocity of leukocytes was obviously decreased and total leukocyte endothelium contact time(TLECT) was significantily prolonged ( P 0.05).Conclusion Acute hypoxia had a significant effect on the rheology of leukocyte. The significant proeongation of TLECT reflected the aggravation of leukocyte endothelium interaction, and may be an important mechanism of endothelium damage induced by acute hypoxia.


Japan's military campaigns in Asia during the Second World War were taboo, especially during the 1950s and the 1960s in Japanese society. After the Second World War, Japan experienced a political and social transformation, which unfortunately could not 'eradicate all the elements of militarism' still present in the society of the time. Instead of repenting for their misdeeds, many conservative leaders and people who experienced the war chose to identify themselves as the actual victims of the war. Consequently, they ignored the suffering of the inhabitants of the Japanese‑occupied territories during the Second World War. I will not dwell, however, into the reminiscences of the past present in the Japanese society of the time nor discuss the issue of war responsibility, but instead look into the case of a noteworthy attempt of coming to terms with the past, the case of Kobayashi Masaki's trilogy, Ningen no Joken. The trilogy was not the first attempt at reconciling with the past. However, it is one of the most ambitious and well‑acclaimed attempts to acknowledge Imperial Japan's misdeeds. By using Kobayashi's movies, I will endeavor to sketch a portrait of the Japanese war experience and those who lived in the Japanese‑occupied territories of the time.


The EPR linewidths of polycrystalline samples of antiferromagnetic ferric metaphosphate (Fe${\mathrm{P}}_{3}$${\mathrm{O}}_{9}$) has been measured in the range $0.01 \ensuremath{\le} T\ensuremath{-}{T}_{N} l 100 \mathrm{K} ({T}_{N}=9.3 K)$. The widths were fitted to a power-law form ${(T\ensuremath{-}{T}_{N})}^{\ensuremath{\gamma}}$. In the reduced-temperature range $0.03 l \ensuremath{\epsilon} l 0.7 [\ensuremath{\epsilon}\ensuremath{\equiv}\frac{(T\ensuremath{-}{T}_{N})}{{T}_{N}}]$, the best fit gives $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\cong}\ensuremath{-}0.67$. For $\ensuremath{\epsilon}l0.02$, the change in linewidth is very slight. At high temperatures such that $\ensuremath{\epsilon}g1$, far above the critical regime, we obtained $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\cong}\ensuremath{-}1.65$. These results are quite similar to some recent results of Birgeneau on Ni${\mathrm{Cl}}_{2}$. Spin-flip transitions have been observed from individual crystallites in the polycrystalline samples at 4.2 and 1.6 K. By cycling the magnetic field and temperature we obtain a signal at 4.2 K which exactly mimics the EPR signals for $T g {T}_{N} ({T}_{N}=9.3 \mathrm{K})$ with no sign of the spin-flop transitions. This implies a striking hysteresis in the $H\ensuremath{-}T$ phase diagram.


Using panel data, which consist of stocks listed on the Chinese stock market during the period May 2005 to December 2012, this study examines the impact of the introduction of CSI 300 index futures on stock market volatility. A multi‐period difference‐in‐difference (DID) approach is used to check whether the volatility of the underlying CSI 300 stocks increases relative to a matching set of non‐CSI 300 stocks after the introduction of index futures. This study finds that the spot price experiences a long‐term trend of diminishing volatility commencing in 2009. Although volatility initially increases several months after the introduction of CSI stock index futures, the difference does not seem to persist as there seems to be little long‐run impact on spot price volatility from the introduction of index futures trading. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 34:282–297, 2014


The objective of this work is to build an Indonesian morphological analyzer named Aksara that conforms to the Universal Dependencies (UD), especially UD v2. Many works had developed Indonesian morphological analyzer, but as far as we know none conforms to the UD annotation guidelines. In building Aksara we use the same approach with MorphInd, another Indonesian morphological analyzer, that uses finite state compiler named Foma. Aksara has capability to perform four tasks: 1) word segmentation, 2) lemmatization, 3) POS tagging, and 4) morphological features analysis. To evaluate the quality of this tool, we used an Indonesian dependency treebank that conforms to UD v2 as the gold standard. We also compare the performance measures of Aksara with MorphInd, by mapping MorphInd output to CoNNL-U format. The experiment results show that for all the four tasks Aksara outperforms MorphInd. For word segmentation task, Aksara has accuracy of 96.9%, for lemmatization with case-sensitive it has accuracy of 94.83%, for POS tagging it has F1-score of 88.2% and finally for morphological features analysis, among 18 feature-value tags already implemented, nine tags already have F1-score more than 80%.


The unintentional leakage of natural gas from oil and gas wells into the surrounding subsurface—known as fugitive gas migration—is a major environmental concern that can lead to groundwater contamination and the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. "Currently, subsurface gas migration is monitored using infrequent or short-term location-restrictive measurements," said Olenka Forde, a geological sciences Ph.D. student at UBC and lead author of the study published in Scientific Reports. "Our study shows that the magnitude of gas emissions to the atmosphere can depend on atmospheric pressure before and during the time of monitoring, so short-term, one-time measurements may not be representative of average emissions."


The purpose of this study is to explore the role of Home Economics Education for low fertilityㆍAged Society. Hence home economics educational contents for low fertilityㆍAged Society was established extracting the contents from both Revised 2007 Home Economics Curriculum and government, policy for low fertilityㆍAged Society. Also home economics educational contents for low fertilityㆍAged Society("Home Economics Class for both parents and Children") implemented in Healthy Family Support Center. The main results of the study are as follows. Firstly, Home Economics Education for low fertilityㆍAged Society should be emphasized with the contents such as marriage of one's choice, family life reinforcement, healthy family culture and neighborhood living together. Secondly, the goal of home economics education is very similar to the action plans of Saeromaji Project 2010 which are 'social responsibility reinforcement for marriage, birth and child rearing', 'balancing family and work', 'family-friendly culture' and 'security for the aged with health and care'. It has also much in common with the project plans by Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education 'family-friendly culture and filial duty education reinforcement', 'school education reinforcement regarding Low Fertility-Aged Society' and 'values education reinforcement for gender equality society'. Thirdly. "Home Economics Class for both parents and Children" applied in Healthy Family Support Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. This ensures home economic education can playa leading role in the social education filed.


Code that is scattered and tangled as a result of orthogonal concerns seriously hinders software maintenance and reuse. As OO decompositions are unable to cleanly encapsulate such orthogonal (cross-cutting) concerns simultaneously, new ideas and languages were devised to capture and encapsulate them. In this paper, we argue that the current leading approaches (AOP as it is understood in AspectJ and MDSOC), although a step forward in the right direction, have some serious limitations. We, then, propose a new conceptual model for encapsulating concerns identified in existing OO code, which we apply to an example taken from the Java Swing library. Our case study shows that our approach is able to capture cross-cutting concerns in a cleaner and more elegant fashion than current state of the art approaches.


Abstract.
 Three species are added to the orchid flora of Guyana, one of which, Aspidogyne steyermarkii is a new record, whilst A. reddenii and A. tulamengensis are proposed as novelties.


Previously we found that, after temporary cerebral ischemia, microvasculogenic secondary focal cerebral cortical ischemia occurred, caused by microvascular obstruction due to compression by swollen astrocytic end‐feet, resulting in focal infarction. Herein, we examined whether mannitol infusion immediately after restoration of blood flow could protect the cerebral cortex against the development of such an infarction. If so, the infusion of mannitol might improve the results of vascular reperfusion therapy. We selected stroke‐positive animals during the first 10 min after left carotid occlusion performed twice with a 5‐h interval, and allocated them into four groups: sham‐operated control, no‐treatment, mannitol‐infusion, and saline‐infusion groups. Light‐ and electron‐microscopic studies were performed on cerebral cortices of coronal sections prepared at the chiasmatic level, where the focal infarction develops abruptly in the area where disseminated selective neuronal necrosis is maturing. Measurements were performed to determine the following: (A) infarct size in HE‐stained specimens from all groups at 72 and 120 h after return of blood flow; (B) number of carbon‐black‐suspension‐perfused microvessels in the control and at 0.5, 3, 5, 8, 12 and 24 h in the no‐treatment and mannitol‐infusion groups; (C) area of astrocytic end‐feet; and (D) number of mitochondria in the astrocytic end‐feet in electron microscopic pictures taken at 5 h. The average decimal fraction area ratio of infarct size in the mannitol group was significantly reduced at 72 and 120 h, associated with an increased decimal fraction number ratio of carbon‐black‐suspension‐perfused microvessels at 3, 5 and 8 h, and a marked reduction in the size of the end‐feet at 5 h. Mannitol infusion performed immediately after restitution of blood flow following temporary cerebral ischemia remarkably reduced the size of the cerebral cortical focal infarction by decreasing the swelling of the end‐feet, thus preventing the microvascular compression and stasis and thereby microvasculogenic secondary focal cerebral ischemia.


It is a privilege to be taking over the editorship of History and Technology (H + T). The stakes are high in following former editors, most recently John Krige and Martin Collins, who have made the Journal into a unique venue through which to experiment with and enlarge the scope of history of technology. We rely in large measure on their previous efforts in our aim of expanding the intellectual relevance of the field. This expansion is especially challenging at a moment when, as has happened before, the place of humanities in our societies is under intense questioning. History as an investigative field faces particular scrutiny from many of those who control its teaching and funding globally, and in numerous public forums complex critical historical accounts of science and technology face newly stiff competition from selective and deterministic narratives. Simplified accounts of this kind are, crucially, coming both from those who would promote a triumphal capitalism, unhindered by inconvenient facts, and those who defend ostensibly objective techno-scientific activities against all comers. No more helpful are simplified stories of science and technology as unalloyed sources of violence or oppression. What role can and should History and Technology assume in such an atmosphere? Our vision for H + T is of a journal promoting scholarship able critically to reflect on its own conditions of production. The specter of global authoritarianism that is currently before us would probably be reason enough for a more defensive posture asserting the value of rigorous scholarship in the age of 'alternative facts', whether as ideological commitment or as last resort. But we think we would diminish ourselves as humanities scholars if we did not ask what counts as rigorous knowledge and what doesn't, or who gets to define what is a legitimate inquiry and who does not. We are convinced that this demanding position in which we would like to place H + T has fidelity to the role of the humanities in maintaining and expanding an open democratic society. Historically and across cultures, technology – as knowledge, practice and material – has been cast as integral to human health, happiness, welfare, labor and violence. Or we might better say, it has been integral to the enactment of social goals and the adjudication of social conflicts. In the twenty-first century, the settings and objects probed by historians of technology can credibly include pre-modern or modern subjects, either industrial or pastoral, in local context or amidst imperial territorial ambitions, found in an oasis in the Sahara or in a data center in the Mojave Desert, inside bodies or inside parliaments. While this empirical openness indicates a welcome new agility in the field, it also compels questions about the categories of history and technology. We want to create with this forum the expectation that historians of technology will ask of themselves: 'How am I constituting the category of "technology" through my historical labor?' After all, it is through the conditions of our own history writing that our historical subjects are brought into being. As a map produces the activity for which it provides a means of completion, so a historical narrative produces the set of sociabilities for which it is a representation. As historians of technology have made clear over the last few decades, those sociabilities constitute things and landscapes, along with social relations. Our aim for H + T is to consider what can be technology in our twenty-first century accounts of a particular past episode of human experience, rather than to imagine that we are conduits of past technological behaviors.


As e-commerce continues to develop, many colleges and universities have reformed their talent training accordingly. In particular, Shenzhen Tourism College of Jinan University has conducted continuous and in-depth exploration of the training mode established for e-commerce professionals. By interviewing previous graduates and tracing their career trajectories, this paper explored the adaptability of the existing talent training model to social demand, and summarized the talent training approaches that meet market demand. With Shenzhen Qianhai Patozon Network Technology Co., Ltd. as a study case, e-commerce graduates and the top management were interviewed to obtain insights into the professional knowledge and skill learning experience of senior executives at college. In addition, the influence of undergraduate talent training on the formation of innovation and entrepreneurship consciousness was discussed. Finally, corresponding measures and suggestions were proposed for enhancing the talent training plan and reforming the e-commerce major.


Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of anorexia nervosa.


The objective of the research was studying the pharmacological compositions created by means of technology of electron beam pegylation of granulocytic colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and hyaluronate -endo-β-N-acetylhexosaminedase at different ways of introduction of preparations. Dynamics of preparation content in bloods and confocal pictures in tissues was investigated. It is established that investigated preparations demonstrate high bioavailability at peroral, rectal and inhalation ways of introduction.


We report a study of the mean spin on finite clusters with 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 spins in a linearized spin wave model for the dilute antiferromagnet on a square lattice due to Thorpe and Alben. For 2 and 3 spin clusters, the results are compared to the exact results and to the exact solution of the linearized Green's function equations. We find that, as expected physically, the model treats this property of the small clusters in a manner which is neither self‐consistent nor in accord with exact results. We discuss briefly how these results affect the validity of the use of the Thorpe and Alben model for other more global quantities.


Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have taken worldwide attention in recent years. Several PFCs are being used in manufacturing food contact materials, including non-stick coatings (polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) or Teflon) for cookware and also their use in paper coatings for oiland moisture-resistant. PFCs are suggested as a new class of Persistent organic pollutant (POP), where they are chemical stability and do not degrade well naturally hence may accumulate in the body and poses problems for human safety. Thus, it is necessary to assess the migration of PFCs from food contact articles to food under typical cooking conditions. The main objective of this investigation was to study the effect of cooking at prolonged use (repeating for ten times) in household Tefal utensils on leaching PFOA and PFOS compounds from the Teflon layer which coats the inner surface of utensils to food-contact such as tomatoes fruit as the acidic food and white dry beans as the non-acidic food without and with adding of table salt. Also, measurement the surface morphology of Tefal layer before and after cooking by using small shapes as a pattern of Tefal cookware which analyzed by X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Microanalysis (EDX), as well Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM). The obtained results indicated that, when the repeat of cooking increased from 1 up to 10 times, the amounts of Perfluorinated compounds (PFOS and PFOA, especially PFOS) were progressively increased in the food contact (tomatoes paste or white dry beans) from the Tefal cookware. On the other side, the addition of table salt to the tested samples at all repeats of cooking (1, 5 and 10 times) caused a highly leaching of perfluorinated compounds from the Teflon layer to food-contact more than the same tested samples at the same conditions without salt. Therefore, the acidic food such as tomatoes paste was more effect on the amounts of both PFOS and PFOA in the food-contact than the non-acidic food. Before that, the ESEM images of coating surface of Tefal layer after repeat of cooking exhibited some damage.


ABSTRACT. The ability of male cockroaches, Nauphoeta cinerea and Periplaneta americana, to respond directionally to tactile agonistic acts was tested using stimulation by artificially manipulated appendages. Responses by Nauphoeta included turning towards the stimulus at preferred angles of c. 40°, 90° and 180°, apparently relying on internally‐stored directional sensory information. This turning responsiveness depended in part on the social status of the receiving individual, since subordinate individuals often retreated or failed to respond. Periplaneta males reacted to tactile stimuli by quick movements away from the stimulus or by kicking towards it. The leg used in kicking was that nearest to the part of the body which was stimulated.


Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is defined as farmer driven, ecologically based pest management that has the aim of reducing reliance on synthetic chemical pesticides. Globally, the technology has received much research and promotion effort since the early 1970s and is still regarded by many as the optimum pest management strategy (FAO, 2017). Nonetheless, adoption of IPM in developing countries remains low, despite some successes against particular pests, and efforts to promote its use via farmer participatory approaches. Several reviews to assess adoption of IPM were made in the early 2000s (Maredia et al., 2003; van den Berg, 2004) that subsequently led to many studies on successes and constraints to adoption. However this effort has been scattered, with divergent methods and views often expressed. A recent review of obstacles to the adoption of IPM in developing countries focused on the analysis of responses from IPM professionals and practitioners from 96 countries (Parsa et al., 2014). The main obstacle identified by IPM professionals was "insufficient training and technical support to farmers", although these views differed between key informants from developed and developing countries. In this paper, we report on an on-going meta-analysis of published literature on the CAB Direct (2017) platform that was undertaken to identify validated evidence of sustainable smallholder IPM implementation. The paper focuses on the uptake of IPM programmes in Africa and Asia, the factors contributing to its successes and failures, as well as the particular role of biological control (biocontrol) activities in these programmes.


The article examines theoretical and legal approaches to defining the concept and features of territorial communities in Ukraine, as a set of residents united by permanent residence within a certain village, town or city, which are independent administrative and territorial units or a voluntary association of residents of several villages. which have a single administrative center. It is noted that there is an urgent need for decentralization in Ukraine, which involves the transfer of a wide range of powers, as well as finances, from the state power to united territorial communities and local self-government bodies created by them. The first stage of the reform (2018-2019), which provided for the voluntary unification of settlements into one UTG (united territorial community), showed that residents formed about 40% of UTGs across the entire territory of the state on their own initiative. Therefore, in 2020, the organization of new OTG took place centrally. The introduction of martial law in Ukraine changed the functioning and development of the OTG, a large part of which ended up in the war zone. It is noted that according to the current legislation, during the period of martial law, military administrations exercise the powers of local self-government bodies in united territorial communities.
Despite the steps taken in the direction of reforming the territorial organization of the authorities, the system of the OTG and the functioning of the newly elected representative bodies in them require both legal and institutional support. However, in the conditions of martial law, the implementation of the tasks of the decentralization reform is quite limited. At the same time, the created OTG and their representative bodies must ensure the provision of a basic package of social and administrative services to the residents of communities. Taking into account that military actions are being conducted in Ukraine and in order to ensure the provision of necessary assistance to the citizens of Ukraine, it is proposed to provide emergency (crisis) social services (if it is impossible to apply the general order of organization and provision of social services). Existing problems in the field of administrative and legal regulation of OTG in Ukraine require further scientific analysis, research, generalization and solution.


Abrasion is the physical wear of a surface due to cyclically recurring dynamic forces and shifts. Therefore, abrasion resistance can be defined as the ability of a surface to resist wear due to friction. The paper deals with the issue of the resistance of concrete surface layers to the effects of abrasion. The research focused on monitoring the influence of different types of aggregate on increasing the abrasion resistance of concrete surfaces. Concrete surfaces with three different types of aggregate were tested: amphibolite, granodiorite and psammite. The concrete class was C35/45. Abrasion was tested using the Böhme method. The highest abrasion resistance after 28 days of maturation was found in concrete surfaces with amphibolite aggregate.


Simple Summary Radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer (LSBC) can lead to cardiovascular complications. Cardiac-sparing approaches such as deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) have been developed to reduce heart exposure. In this in silico study, the cardiac substructure exposure of DIBH three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT), free-breathing (FB)-3DCRT, and FB helical tomotherapy (HT) were compared. Ten patients with left-sided breast cancer who underwent hypofractionated DIBH-3DCRT were selected. DIBH-3DCRT and FB-HT demonstrated a significant dose reduction in the heart, specifically the left anterior descending coronary artery and ventricle, when compared to FB-3DCRT. DIBH-3DCRT was found to be a highly effective cardiac-sparing technique, but in some cases, it did not offer sufficient protection. FB-HT may be an alternative for patients with cardiovascular risks who cannot perform DIBH. These findings suggest that precise delivery of radiation therapy is crucial in reducing cardiac exposure for patients undergoing LSBC radiotherapy. Abstract Left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy can lead to late cardiovascular complications, including ischemic events. To mitigate these risks, cardiac-sparing techniques such as deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) have been developed. However, recent studies have shown that mean heart dose is not a sufficient dosimetric parameter for assessing cardiac exposure. In this study, we aimed to compare the radiation exposure to cardiac substructures for ten patients who underwent hypofractionated radiotherapy using DIBH three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT), free-breathing (FB)-3DCRT, and FB helical tomotherapy (HT). Dosimetric parameters of cardiac substructures were analyzed, and the results were statistically compared using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. This study found a significant reduction in the dose to the heart, left anterior descending coronary artery, and ventricles with DIBH-3DCRT and FB-HT compared to FB-3DCRT. While DIBH-3DCRT was very effective in sparing the heart, in some cases, it provided little or no cardiac sparing. FB-HT can be an interesting treatment modality to reduce the dose to major coronary vessels and ventricles and may be of interest for patients with cardiovascular risks who do not benefit from or cannot perform DIBH. These findings highlight the importance of cardiac-sparing techniques for precise delivery of radiation therapy.


A study was conducted with chickens to establish the content of metabolisable energy (ME) and the content and apparent digestibility of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AA) in cassava root meal (CRM) enriched by the fungus Trichoderma harzianum. The ME content of this enriched CRM was found to be about 9.1 MJ kg−1 dry matter (DM). This value was significantly lower (P<0.05) than that of non-enriched CRM (12.2 MJ kg−1 DM). The CP content of the enriched CRM product used was 37.6 on DM basis. The non-protein nitrogen content accounted for about 30% of the total CP value. The mean apparent digestibility coefficient of the CP was about 66% whereas that of AA was about 81%. Data from this study indicate that fungal enriched CRM could be used in chicken diets.


According to phenomenon of imbalance between the heat ejected from soil and the heat absorbed from soil in southern area,a method to eliminate the imbalance that make use of excessive heat to produce domestic hot water is presented.The work principle of system is introduced.And experiments on characteristics of system are conducted under summer condition.The results indicate that the average water temperature of up to 50 ℃.Simultaneously,soil temperature around buried tube heat exchanger of ground source heat pump system is recovered.In addition,the system can also expand the scope of application of the ground source heat pump system and improve the performance of the system coefficient.


The last few years have seen a rapid democratization of things to the extent that they have become omnipresent in our surroundings and daily lives. Many buzzwords like smart cities, smart homes, and smart wrists exemplify thing democratization. Unfortunately, Internet of Things (IoT) adoption is slowing down due to first, the nature of things being usually "passive" and second, the multiplicity of things' development tools and communication standards. Both are impacting the quality of IoT applications and undermining the capabilities that these applications could offer to users. In this position paper, we discuss the "agentification" of things, using norms and commitments, as a means to address their passive nature. At the conceptual level, norms ensure that things operate in accordance to users' best interests. Also, at the operational level, commitments ensure that things will not deviate from the prescribed norms and hence, avoid violations that could lead to penalties. An architecture supporting thing agentification along with some ongoing efforts are discussed in this paper.


A feedback class-C VCO with constant amplitude control is presented in this letter. Its dual-loop topology helps to stabilize amplitude and ensure startup robustness over process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. Besides, this VCO facilitates a direct amplitude calibration method to find optimal point for different applications. A prototype VCO is implemented in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. Measurement shows the VCO has a 4.55-5.16 GHz frequency tuning range and a phase noise of -123.3 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from a 5 GHz carrier with a 2.78 mW power consumption. The FOM is -192.8 dBc/Hz.


In this paper we describe the propagation of the coherent component of an electromagnetic wave in a colloidal system with large inclusions using an effective-medium approach. We show that the effective medium is nonlocal spatially dispersive and derive expressions for the nonlocal longitudinal and transverse components of the dielectric response, L and T . Numerical calculations of the wave-vector dependence of these response functions are displayed. The dispersion relation for the transverse modes is calculated and compared with the results obtained using well-known approximations for the effective index of refraction. It is also shown that some of these approximations have actually a nonlocal nature, explaining why it is not possible to use them to calculate, for example, the reflection properties of the colloidal system using conventional continuum electrodynamics. We also calculate the effective nonlocal electric permittivity and effective nonlocal magnetic susceptibility and show that this more traditional description is equivalent to the one using L and T .


We present the results of detailed spectroscopic abundance analyses for 18 elements in 31 nearby stars with planets (SWPs). The resulting abundances are combined with other similar studies of nearby SWPs and compared to a sample of nearby stars without detected planets. We find some evidence for abundance differences between these two samples for Al, Si and Ti. Some of our results are in conflict with a recent study of SWPs in the SPOCS data base. We encourage continued study of the abundance patterns of SWPs to resolve these discrepancies.


This article is studying the contradiction of legal provisions provided by the Saudi Companies Regulation (No 6/M/1385H), and its amendments, and the Jordanian Companies Act (No 22/1997M), and its amendments, with the special nature that the solidarity company is characteristic with. The dilemma of this study appears in the case that there are some sorts of provisions that are stipulated in the Saudi Regulation and in the Jordanian Law concerning the special nature of the solidarity company regarding the responsibility of its partners in addition to the situation 'where a partner shall grant a merchant or trader title'. Moreover, the application of these provisions is seen - in some cases – to lead to a critical situation that concludes to the existence of partners in the company who their responsibilities are not solidarity or personally for the company's debts and commitments, the matter that is seen contrary to the special nature of this company. This article is divided into three sections; the first dealt with the identification of the special provisions related to partners in the solidarity company; while the second is dealing with the responsibility of partners in the company and the acceptance of new partners; finally, the timeframe of partner's responsibility. This study has uncovered number of crucial results, where – for example - we concluded that both of the Saudi and Jordanian legislators have stipulated some provisions that do not correspond with the special nature of this company - such as the characteristic of a partner and his entry to the company. In addition, this study reached to number of recommendations, the most important of which were attributed with modification of some special rules in order to be corresponded with the special nature of this company, whether in regard to partners' characteristics or the number of partners in the company, in addition to the conditions required to the entry of new partners and their responsibilities. Keywords: Solidarity Company, Solidarity responsibility, the role of a partner in the company, the entry of new partners, the withdrawal of partners, the joining of heirs.


Laser polarization imaging using streak tube laser imaging system is an extension of the existing streak tube laser 3D imaging. Adding polarization information to the intensity and range information, highly accurate detection and identification of targets can be achieved. The primary study of streak tube laser polarization imaging was experimentally demonstrated. The two measurement methods had been proposed. By processing the streak tube images of several special targets, intensity image and degree of polarization image could be obtained and compared. The results show that the degree of polarization image has better contrast than intensity image, and overcome the drawback of the irradiation nonuniformity. Polarization imaging was proved to be available in the streak tube laser imaging system, which has a good performance. The combination of intensity image and degree of polarization image would be a choice for more accurate detection.


An intense electromagnetic field makes possible the process of the neutrino decay into electron and W boson that is kinematically forbidden in a vacuum. The exact formula for the probability of ultra high energy neutrino decay in a superstrong magnetic field via the representation for the propagators of the charged particles expanded as sums over Landau levels is derived. The obtained function clarifies previously known approximate formula. The neutrino mean free path is estimated. It is shown, that the resonance peaks present in the decay width for certain neutrino energies correspond to the electron and the W boson creation at specific Landau levels. Some interesting possible manifestations of the process in the conditions of the Early Universe are briefly discussed.


2ðÞ 3 ar 2 gHD 5 hkk , where f is the ratio between the inner and outer radii of the shell. Our experiments show that the scenario proposed by Parmentier and Sotin (2000) to describe convection in volumetrically heated 3D-Cartesian boxes fully applies in spherical geometry, regardless of the shell curvature. The dynamics of the thermal boundary layer are controlled by both newly generated instabilities and surviving cold plumes initiated by previous instabilities. The characteristic time for the growth of instabilities in the thermal boundary layer scales as RaVH 1/2 , regardless of the shell curvature. We derive parameterizations for the average temperature of the shell and for the temperature jump across the thermal boundary layer, and find that these quantities are again independent of the shell curvature and vary as RaVH 0.238 and RaVH 1/4 , respectively. These findings appear to be valid down to relatively low values of the Rayleigh-Roberts number, around 10 5 .


Lead-free tetragonal tungsten bronze Sr2LaTi2Nb3O15 ceramics were prepared and its crystal structure determined. Dielectric response of Sr2LaTi2Nb3O15 was investigated in a broad frequency (100 Hz–90 THz) and temperature range. The observed relaxor-like behavior can be generally described in the framework of polar nanocluster dynamics concept. However, some peculiarities in the dielectric response, relaxational, and crystal lattice dynamics (e.g., hardly resolved Vogel–Fulcher part of the relaxation, reduced dielectric strength of the cluster flipping mechanism, absence of ferroelectric phase under electric field, absence of the polar soft phonon, etc.) were revealed. Therefore, we claim that Sr2LaTi2Nb3O15 is more alike to dipolar glasses than lead-based perovskite relaxor ferroelectrics.


We examined the effects of the silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4 ) passivations on the electrical characteristics of 0.1 pm pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs). DC and RF characteristics are investigated before and after the Si 3 N 4 passivations. After the Si 3 N 4 passivation, we observed significant degradation of f t and noise performance and clear increases in drain-source saturation current and extrinsic transconductance with no significant variation in pinch-off voltage. We propose that these variations in DC and noise characteristics are due to the positively charged surface state after deposition of the Si 3 N 4 passivation. Also the degradation of RF performance is associated with the increase of gate-source and gate drain capacitance due to the high dielectric constant of the Si 3 N 4 . The hydrodynamic device model simulation is performed based on the proposed mechanisms for the change in electrical behavior, and the calculation results show a good agreement with the experimental result.


Perhaps a more simplistic approach would be to see compensation as the key goal and then to look at the full spectrum of potential means of consumer redress as a continuum. Ann Marie Galvin (3M Europe)


With the development of society,students' psychological problems in regular institutions of higher learning have become increasingly prominent;Violence is common occurrence and has become a social concern and the focus of discussion.This article starts from analyzing the causes that lead to college students' increasingly prominent psychological problems,puts forward the countermeasures of thoroughly developing college students' psychological health education.


Our previous studies demonstrated that recruiting and/or activating dendritic cells (DCs) enhanced the immunogenicity of recombinant rabies viruses (rRABV). In this study, rRABV LBNSE with a small DC-binding peptide (designated as rLBNSE-DCBp) or a negative control peptide (designated as rLBNSE-DCCp) fused to the glycoprotein (G) was constructed and rescued. As expected, significantly more activated DCs were detected in rLBNSE-DCBp-immunized mice than those immunized with rLBNSE or rLBNSE-DCCp. Subsequently, significantly more generation of TFH and GC B cells were observed in rLBNSE-DCBp immunized mice than those in rLBNSE or rLBNSE-DCCp-immunized mice. In addition, significantly higher levels of virus neutralizing antibodies (VNAs) were observed in mice immunized with rLBNSE-DCBp than those immunized with rLBNSE or rLBNSE-DCCp, resulting in a better protection of rLBNSE-DCBp immunized mice against the lethal challenge. Taken together, our results suggest that rRABV with G fused with DCBp is a promising rabies vaccine candidate.


TNF‐α has been shown to induce the expression of adhesion molecules in rheumatoid arthritis and contribute to inflammatory responses. Here, the roles of mitogen‐activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and NF‐κB in TNF‐α‐induced expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)‐1 were investigated in human fibroblast‐like synoviocytes (FLS). TNF‐α‐enhanced expression of VCAM‐1 and phosphorylation of p42/p44 MAPK, p38, and JNK were attenuated by inhibitors of MEK1/2 (U0126), p38 (SB202190), JNK (SP600125), and transfection with dominant negative mutants of MEK1/2, ERK1, p38, and JNK. Furthermore, TNF‐α‐induced VCAM‐1 expression was blocked by a selective NF‐κB inhibitor helenalin and transfection with dominant negative plasmids of NF‐κB‐inducing kinase (NIK), IKK‐α and IKK‐β. Consistently, TNF‐α‐stimulated translocation of NF‐κB into the nucleus and degradation of IκB‐α was revealed by Western blotting and immnofluorescence staining, which was blocked by helenalin, but not by U0126, SB202190, or SP600125. Taken together, these results suggest that in FLS, activation of p42/p44 MAPK, p38, JNK and NF‐κB pathways is essential for TNF‐α‐induced VCAM‐1 gene expression via transcription and translation processes.


The present invention is a sharp bending of the cable according to the submarine cable and reliability, and a water-tight operation, tide flow and vessel anchor teller ball inlet end of the box, and maximize the convenience of the grounding, connected to the main body of the connection of the work in the field. It relates to an AMO clamp used in a straight line, and a switch connected to termination of the submarine cable to prevent. In the AMO clamp for securing the AMO that aside when a straight, longitudinal, switchgear, GIS connection of underground or submarine cable for this purpose, consists of a reverse conical circle sea floor is a side cross-sectional diameter larger so as to face the connection portion of the submarine cable coupled to the end of the cable, and that the submarine cable with a through inside provided with a cable hole hole is configured in the axial direction, that AMO is aside as contact the curved surface protruding from the one side to the connecting direction formed so as to be reverse in the one side cone AMO provides a clamp that includes; Accordingly there is an effect that AMO is securely fixed at the connection of submarine cables.


This work presents an integral methodological approach to assess the environmental potential hazards posed by metals and metalloids hosted by spolic technosols derived from old tailings from a mining operation for galena (PbS, with high Ag contents)-sphalerite (ZnS, with a varied cohort of trace elements contents) in central Spain. We studied the total and soluble concentrations and spatial distribution of Pb, Zn, Cd, As, and Fe and the mineralogy of these soils, as well as an ecotoxicological evaluation by means of bioassays. The indices assessing soil contamination such as pollution load index (PI) and natural mobility index (NMI) have been calculated. Furthermore, the phytotoxic effect of the soil samples has been determined and a chronic sediment toxicity test using the benthic ostracod Heterocypris incongruens was applied. The geochemical study of 33 spolic technosols samples indicates large to extremely large metal and metalloid total contents: up to 48,600 mg kg−1 Pb, 34,000 mg kg−1 Zn, 500 mg kg−1 Cd, and 1000 mg kg−1 As. Given that sphalerite is usually the most important host mineral for cadmium in hydrothermal mineral deposits, there is a high correlation (R = 0.75) between this element and Zn. On the other hand, despite being two metallogenically intertwined elements in ore deposits, Pb and Zn show a less significant relationship, which can be attributed both to heterogeneities in the mineralogical composition of the veins, and to the complex history of the mineral concentration process: In the older process, the interest was only for Pb, meanwhile in the late period, the interest was focused in Zn. The Phytotoxkit® bioassay showed that soils with high PTEs presented very high toxicity, particularly the inhibition germination is related to Pb, As, and Cd content and root inhibition with Pb content. Both indexes were correlated with pH and electrical conductivity; samples with lower pH and higher soluble salt content are those with higher seed germination inhibition and root growth inhibition. On the other hand, the Ostracodtoxkit® bioassay showed very high sensitivity, with 100% mortality. The applied bioassays confirmed the soil toxicity and it is highly recommended to complement the results from environmental chemistry with results from bioassays, in order to provide a more complete and relevant information on the bioavailability of contaminants and to characterize the risk of contaminated areas.