At Astronomical Observatory of Valencia University (OAUV), CCD observations of asteroids and big planets satellites are obtained since 2001 with a big format camera and several telescopes. Software has been developed,including accurate ephemerids calcula- tion,stellar maps presentation,automatic measuring and reduction pro- cess of film plates and CCD frames. Software for special conditions is under development,including dis- torted images from differential tracking and images with spikes. Treat- ment of regular nets on old plates ('Carte du Ciel') is under development. Software for comparison of single and overlapped CCD fields obtained at different epochs has been developed.


With the development of computer science and geographic information system (GIS), the graphic-attributes integration system which depends on graphic data and structured data is applicable to aviation accident investigation. Combined with graphics, text and multimedia, Web GIS technology is the core content of Web GIS graphic-attributes integration system. This article is on the basis of clarifying the concept of Web GIS graphic-attributes integration, and introduces the characteristics and framework of system of Web GIS based on B/S mode, and focuses to discuss the function integration, implementation process and key techniques, which provides a guarantee for analyzing aviation accidents.


Objective Expression of the human sodium/iodide symporter (hNIS) in the thyroid gland provides for effective imaging and treatment of thyroid cancer using radiolabeled iodide. Transfer of hNIS gene into other tumors would expand the utility of this treatment to tumors of nonthyroid origin. The human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is overexpressed in tumor cells, but is not expressed in normal cells. The aim of this study was to construct a recombinant adenovirus containing the hNIS under the control of hTERT core promoter to express specially on tumor cells, and to investigate the feasibility of radioiodine therapy mediated by hNIS gene controlled with hTERT promoter. Methods The recombinant adeno- virus Ad-hTERT-hNIS was constructed by AdEasy system. In addition, a positive control of adenovirus Adcytomegalovirus (CMV)-hNIS containing the CMV promoter followed with hNIS gene and a negative control of adenovirus Ad-CMV not containing hNIS gene were created by AdEasy system. The cell-specific transcriptional activity of hTERT was examined by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in transiently transfected A549 cell lines. Iodide uptake assays were used to confirm hNIS expression and function. Toxic effects of ^131I on tumor cells were studied by in vitro clonogenic assay. Results Recombinant Ad-hTERT-hNIS was correctly constructed and confirmed by restriction enzyme analysis and PCR. RT-PCR showed that hNIS cDNA could be amplified by the transfected cells. A 23-fold and 31-fold increase in iodide uptake was observed in Ad-hTERT-hNIS and Ad-CMV-hNIS infected A549 cells, respectively. No significant iodide uptake increase was detected in cells infected with the negative control virus. The iodide uptake in transfected cells was inhibited by sodium perchlorate. In vitro clonogenic assay revealed that approximately 70% [ (31.2±1.45 ) % A549 cells alive ] of Ad-hTERT-hNIS and 80% [ (23.6±4.08) % A549 cells alive ] of Ad-CMV-hNIS transfected A549 cells were killed by exposure to ^131I, respectively, while only about 10% of NIS-negative control cells were killed [ (89.0±2.99)% A:549 cells alive for Ad-CMV group and (91.2±4. 63)% A549 cells alive for no-infected group ]. Conclusion Radioiodine therapy following tumor cells transfected with recombinant adenovirus Ad-hTERT-hNIS may likely be a successful entity benefited by this novel gene targeting therapy strategy.

Key words:
Lung neoplasms;  Human sodium iodine symporter;  Radiotherapy;  Iodine radioisotopes;  Tumor cells, cultured


In order to shorten the wake safe separation, numerical simulation technology with aerodynamic response models and strip models have been combined to calculate wake hazard zone. As a realistic case, a medium aircraft ARJ21 following a heavy aircraft A330-200 is considered, and the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method is used to explore the wake vortex evolution process of the leading aircraft at the decision height. A strip algorithm is proposed to calculate the rolling moment coefficient and overload increment of the ARJ21 after encountering the wake of the front aircraft in the three-dimensional space. The proposed algorithm identifies the area where the wake of the front aircraft can cause risks to the following aircraft and analyzes the evolution process of the hazard zone of the section where the decision height is located. The minimum safe separation of the ARJ21 following the A330-200 is 1.32 nmile, which is 26.4% of the ICAO separation standard of 5 nmile. When the average runway occupancy time (ROT) is reduced to match the separation of 1.32 nmile, the capacity of runway 02R/20L in Tianfu International Airport could theoretically reach 102.37 sorties/h under this aircraft pair combination. Compared to original 27 sorties/h, the runway capacity can be improved up to 279.14%, which will increase the airport operation efficiency.


arrhythmia; inducible ischaemia or intolerable functional symptoms). Exercise and perceived symptom scores by BMI are given in the Table 1. Perceived symptoms during exercise, when assessed by waist hip ratio, did not show any difference statistically. (Data not shown). Conclusion: Generalised obesity associated with high BMI is associated with increased perceived breathlessness during standard exercise regardless of ischaemia or known LV systolic function. This clearly increased perceived breathlessness does not apply with obesity as related to WHR, which is known to be a more sensitive marker of coronary disease.


shopping centers, and the provision of energy to run everything. The next looks outward to the establishment of U.S. international hegemony through foreign aid, technology transfer, efficient management techniques, arms sales, and a capitalist emphasis on profit. Addressing the rise of applied science, Pursell surveys the linked extension of rocketry and the atom bomb into the arms race, nuclear power, the space program, and a dream of ''planetary engineering'' (39). A chapter on labor examines the impact of automation in factories and the effects of mechanization and mass distribution in agriculture. Turning back to the domestic realm, Pursell next explores hedonistic postwar consumerism manifested in everything from the automobile and television to the contraceptive pill. The final two of these parallel narrative chapters reveal weaknesses in a seemingly monolithic postwar technological system, with one discussing competitive industrial challenges from Europe and Japan and the other the rise of an antitechnology orientation extending from cold war fear of nuclear annihilation to Rachel Carson's environmentalism and the generalized antisystems thinking of the counterculture. The final four chapters trace themes that emerge later: technology assessment, the appropriate technology movement, and consumer revolt in the late 1960s; computerization from mainframes and microprocessors to personal computers, the Internet, and cellular phones; the resurgence of a muscular nationalist protechnology position during the Reagan administration; and aspects of globalization ranging from labor outsourcing and suppression of agricultural diversity to climate change and the decline of American hegemony. Skeptical of the tendency of promoters and detractors to regard technology in the abstract as the savior or destroyer of humanity, Pursell dismisses the concept of technological determinism that drives many theorists and philosophers. Instead, he regards particular technologies as socially constructed, maintaining that they reflect the social and cultural contexts in which they arise and in turn influence further transformations. Pursell also avoids the detailed minihistories of particular machines, techniques, or processes that historians of technology refer to as ''internalist'' narratives. Even so, a generous array of specific details grounds the text, from factory-made subassemblies speeding construction of suburban houses in the late 1940s, to industry's reliance beginning in the 1960s on immigrant engineers trained in American universities, to entrepreneurs who recognized in the 1970s the potential of individual computing. While employing primary research, in particular government reports and newspaper and magazine articles, Pursell cites an impressive bibliography of secondary sources, including technological histories and works by such social and cultural historians as Lizabeth Cohen, Dolores Hayden, Karal Ann Marling, and Michael L. Smith. So broad are the contexts in which Pursell considers postwar technology that his work could almost serve as a general social history of the period. Although Pursell expresses a degree of pessimism, he admits to being an active participant in the technological society whose recent development he traces. His tone is reasoned and objective throughout, permitting a reader to test alternate scenarios. He concludes with a long passage from Mark Twain's cautionary tale about technology, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), which admits ''We had conquered; in turn we were conquered'' but looks forward, in the last word of Pursell's book, to ''Tomorrow––'' (230). Listing topics and themes conveys the specificity of Pursell's balanced, all-inclusive approach but cannot do justice to his book. Readers who tend to regard technology as an inscrutable black box or an irresistible demonic force will come away with a complex understanding of our reliance on and our complicity in a multiplicity of specific technological arrangements at all levels of daily life. Although Technology in Postwar America operates at one remove from the focus of most material culture studies, it provides essential background for anyone concerned with the material culture of the postwar period. Pursell succeeds in that nearly impossible goal of every author of a historical survey by providing an interpretive narrative that is basic enough for an undergraduate text but insightful enough to be indispensable for anyone already familiar with postwar technology.


. Breast cancer must be detected early to reduce the mortality rate. Ultrasound images can make it easier for the clinician to diagnose cases of dense breasts. This study presents a deep vision transformer-based approach for predicting breast cancer malignancy scores from ultrasound images. In particular, various state-of-the-art deep vision transformers such as BEiT, CaiT, Swin, XCiT, and Vis-Former are adapted and trained to extract robust radiomics to classify breast tumors in ultrasound images as benign or malignant. The best-performing model is used to predict the malignancy score of each input ultrasound image. Experimental results revealed that the proposed approach achieves promising results for the detection of malignant tumors of the breast on ultrasound images.


In order to avoid signal collision occurs when more than one mobile tag send the recognition information to the base station with function of personnel tracking system in mine,an adaptive algorithm based on search matrix is proposed.In this algorithm,the information of collision bits is used effectively,by constructing a search matrix for reading,the stack through the introduction of the collision,and adaptive adjustment of status based on the search path slot ways,the probability of collision is reduced sighificantly.Theory and computer simulation results show that this algorithm can resolve the problem of collision of many tags.


Abstract Introduction: Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is being used to identify traumatic intracranial aneurysms (TICA) in patients with findings such as skull fracture and intracranial haemorrhage on initial Computed Tomography (CT) scans after blunt traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the incidence of TICA in patients with blunt TBI is unknown. The aim of this study is to report the incidence of TICA in patients with blunt TBI and to assess the utility of CTA in detecting these lesions. Methods: A 10-year retrospective study (2003–2012) was performed at a Level 1 trauma centre. All patients with blunt TBI who had an initial non-contrasted head CT scan and a follow-up head CTA were included. Head CTAs were then reviewed by a single investigator and TICAs were identified. The primary outcome measure was incidence of TICA in blunt TBI. Results: A total of 10 257 patients with blunt TBI were identified, out of which 459 patients were included in the analysis. Mean age was 47.3 ± 22.5, the majority were male (65.1%) and median ISS was 16 [9–25]. Thirty-six patients (7.8%) had intracranial aneurysm, of which three patients (0.65%) had TICAs. Conclusion: The incidence of traumatic intracranial aneurysm was exceedingly low (0.65%) over 10-years. This study adds to the growing literature questioning the empiric use of CTA for detecting vascular injuries in patients with blunt TBI.


Based on the photometry of 10 near-UV, optical, and near-infrared bands of the Chandra Deep Field South, we estimate the photometric redshifts for 342 X-ray sources, which constitute ∼ 99% of all the detected X-ray sources in the field. The models of spectral energy distribution are based on galaxies and a combination of power-law continuum and emission lines. Color information is useful for source classifications: Type-I AGN show non-thermal spectral features that are distinctive from galaxies and Type-II AGN. The hardness ratio in X-ray and the X-ray-to-optical flux ratio are also useful discriminators. Using rudimentary color separation techniques, we are able to further refine our photometric redshift estimations. Among these sources, 137 have reliable spectroscopic redshifts, which we use to verify the accuracy of photometric redshifts and to modify the Based on observations performed at the European Southern Observatory and observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities of Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555 Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686, USA Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany Max-Plank-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse Postfach 1312, D-85741 Garching, Germany Department of Physics, Denys Wilkinson Building, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, United Kingdom Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via G. Tiepolo 11, 34131 Trieste, Italy Department of Astronomy, Leiden Observatory, P. O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands Associated Universities Inc., 1400 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036, USA


In this paper we described the role of interleaver in turbo codes, analyzed the drawback of random interleaver. Then we presented a new class of deterministic interleavers, which have simple analytic expressions and are easy to be realized in applications. By simulation results, this kind of interleavers performed better than the average performance of a set of random interleavers.


A model of moisture transfer in the atmosphere based on a stochastic interpretation of the components of the velocity vector is proposed. Explicit formulas of the mathematical expectation and the second-moment function of the solution of the moisture transfer equation without sources and drains with random coefficients are given. In contrast to previous works, the two-dimensional case of the moisture transfer equation is considered. The results can be used in microscale hydrodynamic models of local forecasting of dangerous weather phenomena.


BACKGROUND: Kucha (Camellia assamica var. kucha) is a novel wild tea resource grown in China and a tea plant containing a sizable amount of theacrine (1,3,7,9-tetramethyluric acid). High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of purine alkaloids and catechins in young leaves of Kucha has been reported previously. However, the compositions of purine alkaloids and catechins in other parts of the plant remain unknown, and more information about the chemical constituents of Kucha is also necessary for further research and development of this new tea resource.

RESULTS: Using HPLC with diode array detection coupled with electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD/ESI-MS/MS), three purine alkaloids, seven catechins and four non-catechin phenolic compounds were identified or tentatively identified in Kucha. Purine alkaloids and catechins in leaves at different developmental stages, flowers, stems, pericarps and seeds of the plant were also quantified for the first time by the HPLC method, which was fully validated. Recoveries of the quantified compounds ranged from 96.67 to 104.33%.

CONCLUSION: The results showed that the total contents of purine alkaloids and catechins were highest in young leaves of Kucha. Theacrine was detected in all parts of the plant and found to be most abundant in pericarps. Copyright © 2009 Society of Chemical Industry


The non‐invasive monitoring of extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling and degradation processes is a great challenge for biomedical research. Although multiphoton imaging is suitable for ECM state identification in various tissues and organs, multiphoton‐based imaging modalities are associated with very high costs. Raman spectroscopy provides a less expensive, non‐contact, real‐time method for in situ applications. Here, we employed Raman spectroscopy for the detection of heart valve ECM. We obtained porcine hearts (n=6) from a local slaughterhouse and dissected the aortic valves. Valve leaflets were measured either directly as non‐treated controls or the tissues were enzymatically treated with collagenase for 15 and 30 minutes at 37°C as well as 17 hours at room temperature before analysis (each n=30). In our experiments, we focused on the collagen‐rich layer of the leaflets (=fibrosa). Comparing the fingerprint region (400–1800 cm‐1) of the Raman spectra of control and treated valve leaflets, we detected no significant differences based on Raman shifts. However, interestingly and similar to multiphoton microscopy, we identified significant changes in the signal intensities based on the stage of ECM remodeling. Increasing collagen degradation translated into decreasing Raman signal intensities. Our data demonstrate that Raman microscopy is a promising non‐invasive tool to probe ECM state in situ.


This paper describes a product realization exercise tailored for undergraduate aerospace engineering students. The project is a new component of a design course incorporated recently into the Aerospace Engineering curriculum at the University of Missouri-Rolla offered during the sophomore year. This component is designed to extend learning opportunities that apply the fundamentals of design along with hands-on experiences. The students are required to analyze and solve open-ended design problems, test and experiment with different concepts, and use engineering process skills such as teamwork and development of technical reports. An emphasis is placed on the connection between theory and design applications, comparisons of analytical work with test results, reporting, and working with peers. Details on this effort and organization of the developed material are given. Introduction In recent years, there has been remarkable changes in methodologies by which aerospace companies develop their products. As a result, the length of the design/prototype/manufacture/market/support cycle has been reduced dramatically. As a consequence of these changes, engineers need considerable breadth to function well in this rapid product development cycle. This includes understanding the interplay between various engineering fields; understanding the relationship between design and market considerations; and being able to communicate well. Perhaps one may recapitulate the most attributes desired of an engineer by listing the following ten attributes affirmed recently by Boeing: 1. A good understanding of engineering science fundamentals. 2 . A good understanding of design and manufacturing processes. 3. A multi-disciplinary, systems perspective. 4. A basic understanding of the context in which engineering is practiced, including economics, history, the environment, and customer and societal needs. 5. Good written, verbal, graphic, and listening communication skills. 6. High ethical standards. 7. Critical and creative thinking, both independently and cooperatively. 8. Ability and self confidence to adapt to rapid and major change. 9. Curiosity and the desire for lifelong learning. 10. Understanding and commitment of team work . Page 338.1 These attributes require the university to alter its engineering curriculum and place more emphasis on combining engineering skills & disciplines, communication skills, and business knowledge. Further, since engineering curricula moved away from a design and hands-on emphasis to a more "engineering science" orientation in recent decades, universities are now encouraged to move back to curriculum relevant to applications. With this focus, most universities are incorporating new courses aimed at 1) Teaching applied as opposed to purely theoretical sciences where design, not analysis, is emphasized, 2) Providing opportunities for hands-on, testing, and experimentation with different design concepts, 3) Giving students opportunities to use intuitive thinking as a basis for concept development, and 4) Enhancing engineering process skills such as teamwork and technical writing skills. What is being emphasized in these courses is product realization: design, manufacture, test, and correlate product performance with analysis results. With this motive, this article describes a product realization exercise integrated recently into a new design course. This course is introduced as a part of a restructuring of the aerospace engineering curriculum at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The primary goal of this new course is to introduce students to open-ended problems and to the processes of engineering design and to provide an environment that encourages students to interact with each other at early stages of their study program. The students are required to design a small radio-controlled model, analyze its performance, and construct it. Once the model construction has been completed and preflight check has been conducted by students, models are flown by experienced pilots for final flight demonstration. Project Mission, Tasks, and Required Deliverables First, the students are given a project package that describes the project mission, tasks, and required product/documentation needs to be delivered. A brief description of this material follows: a. Project Work Statement: A memorandum describing the problem is first given to the students. The format of the memo is designed to put students through experiences that simulate real world engineering. The memo asks the design engineer (student) to design a product that must meet 4 specified requirements. The student is expected to respond back in a technical memo format to his/her superior in the company with a completed design. As an example, the students are asked to complete the design and development of an aircraft model with a given engine (a 0.049 cubic engine with a 5.7" x 3.0" two-blade propeller) and a fuselage. A given set of performance is requested. The following list is an example requested during the 1998 Spring Semester: Maximum empty weight < 1.35 lb Stall speed < 22.5 ft/sec Wing Loading < 0.72 lb/ft 2 Maximum speed { 60 ft/sec Rate of climb { 300 @ 30 ft/sec Static margin { 80% of the chord The students are required to demonstrate their model can climb to 150 ft from a given station A, and cruise 300 ft to station B, make the trip at least four times, and monitor the time of flight for Page 338.2 each leg. Knowing the distance between the two stations and the time of flight, they calculate the average speed of the model and show they achieved the requested maximum speed. b. Required Tasks (1) Provide wind tunnel measurements of drag generated by the given fuselage. (2) Calculate and measure engine performance and available thrust. (3) Provide conceptual design of wing along with calculations. (4) Compute optimum aircraft performance based on the conceptual design. (5) Iterate conceptual design and generate final wing design. (6) Construct designed wing. (7) Assemble wing and fuselage and perform longitudinal stability analysis. (8) Conduct preflight testing of engine and flight controls. (9) Flight test the produced design and present comparison with predicted calculations. (10) Assemble technical report with all details compiled in the above nine tasks. c. Required Deliverables (1) Complete assembled model ready for flight testing. (2) A technical memo presents a summary of tasks conducted and results achieved. (3) Complete technical report including detailed design and flight test results . Project Activities A ten-step guide is given to the students to help them conduct the required project tasks. The information covers all applicable material needed to accomplish each step, equations needed to process data, sample graphs of what the output data should resemble, and any pertinent background information relating to the task at hand. These steps are designed to break down a complicated project into components which help the students handle the project and make various tasks more manageable. Each step consists of three to four sections: 1) Resources, 2)Theoretical Considerations, if needed, 3) Required Tasks, and/or 4) Required Deliverables. The "Resources" section includes a list of material and equipment that will be made available to the students. This arrangement provides the students with information on types of tools and technology available to them to achieve a given result. The " oretical Considerations" gives background information on the material presented. It may cover the derivation of a key equation or the theoretical aspect of what is done in a given laboratory test. Under the "Required Tasks" section, a few guidelines on how to utilize the given resources in accomplishing the required tasks of a given step is discussed. The information is sufficient to set the students in motion and is not intended to provide instructions on how to fully complete the required design/hands-on tasks. The "Required Deliverables" section shows the students what is expected of them after successful completion of the required task. This may include several items such as a technical memo, plots of produced data, test results, etc. In previous projects , the process outlined above 2 has proven quite successful. The students know from the beginning how the design project will progress to completion. Due to space limitations, the full details of each step can not be included in the paper. However, the information provided on each step should be sufficient to develop similar projects . For more details, the reader may refer to the technical report by Finaish . A brief overview of each step 3


Abstract High-performance modeling of interfacial phases is a challenge because of the low scalability of first-principle methods. Here we present a data-driven approach based on using the machine learning potential to address this problem. The developed model quantitatively reproduces the formation energy of Bi films on selected Ni grain boundaries. This scheme allows us to model arbitrary grain boundaries, preserving chemical accuracy of the reference method. The suitability of the interatomic potential is also confirmed by the construction of a grain boundary phase diagram. This approach opens the door for the accelerated study of the full configurational space of interfacial phases.


Stability of the ground around shield tunnels in earthquake was analized by Elasto-plastic Finite Element Method. Defining the intensity level of earthquake when the plastic zone of the ground spreads from the crown of the tunnel to ground surface as the unstable condition of the ground, the sensitivities of tunnel depth, stiffness of tunnel structures, the coefficient of deformation of the earth and the coefficient of side pressure to the intensity level were studied. Analysis shows that the earthquake resistance of the ground around tunnel was greatly influenced by the cohesion of the ground and that the coefficient of deformation affects the suitable stiffness of tunnel structures but has little effect on the stability of the ground.


Summary form only given. The processes of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in cell membranes modify effectively the lipid structure of biomembranes, which in turn have an effect on the activity on the lipid-dependent membrane-bond enzyme complexes. Experimental and clinical data show that the pathogenesis of eye disease, i.e. cataract, increases the level of LPO-products. LPO is a complex process, including the generation of different products-primary products such as conjugated diens and secondary products such as malondialdehyde (MDA). The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of low-intensity laser irradiation (He-Ne laser, Karl Zeis-Yena, 1=632 nm) on the processes of LPO in experimental diquat-induced cataract of rabbit eyes. The laser treatment was carried out for 3 minutes daily for 5 days before and 14 days after diquat administration. The irradiance on the rabbit eye was 0.1 mW/cm2. The development of cataract was followed for 9 weeks-the time for a full darkening of the lens. After enucleation the eyes were subjected to analysis of LPO-products. Our results show that the experimental model of cataract provokes an increase of the level of conjugated diens in humor aquosis by 20% and in lens homogenate by 60%, and of the content of MDA by 34% and 96%, respectively. The laser therapy did not influence the followed parameters significantly.


Expressions are presented for calculating the effects of bond-stretching and rotational modes of vibration on the temperature dependence of quadrupole coupling constants in crystals. Contributions to the motional averaging of the electric field gradient tensor arising from point charges, point dipoles, and overlap of closed wave functions are evaluated and the resulting expressions applied to analyse the temperature variation of the 59Co quadrupole coupling constant in K3Co(CN)6. Both stretching and rotational internal modes of vibration of the Co(CN)6 octahedron had to be taken into account to analyse the data. In particular, an intermediate frequency mode of wavenumber 414 cm−1 has been found to make a substantial and positive contribution to the shift in coupling constant arising from the low (~ 100 cm−1) and intermediate frequency (~ 400 cm−1) modes. The remainder of the shift (~ 90%) has been attributed to a rotary mode of wavenumber 26 cm−1. The extracted temperature dependence of this mode points t...


Data of Iridium Ice tracking buoys Oceanetic Model 703 deployed on drifting ice in the marginal ice zone and on interior drift ice of the West Barents Sea are analyzed. Mean drift velocities are compared with mean wind velocities and prevailing sea currents in the region. Functions of distributions of absolute ice drift velocities, drift directions, volumetric and shear strain are constructed for different intervals of the ice trackers trajectories and analyzed. The trajectories of ice trackers are compared with ice drift trajectories reconstructed by satellite data provided by IFREMER.


School self‐evaluation is receiving increasing attention in England, partly as a result of changes in the Ofsted inspection framework giving greater prominence to what schools can do to speak for themselves. The relationship between internal self‐evaluation and external inspection was a theme in a high profile policy speech made by the Schools Standards Minister, David Miliband, at the North of England Conference in January 2004. As part of a 'new relationship with schools' heralded in the speech, Miliband articulated critical friendship in terms of a 'school improvement partner'. This article draws upon a number of research projects to critique these proposals, especially in respect of the role of a critical friend in school self‐evaluation. Issues discussed include different models of self and external evaluation, the importance of context, and the various ways in which a critical friend can support school self‐evaluation.


The"three modes of thought "are referred as to the education of th e world outlook,the outlook on life a nd values,which is the kernel matter in the ideological and political education of the college student s.In view of the double effect result ing from the moral education in the changing period of the society and th e importance of the education of"three modes of thought ",we must correctly hold the principl e to unify the reality and transcendency,subject ivity and standardization,practic ality and scientificality,wholeness and openness in the guidance of the education of the"three modes of thought ".Besides,we should not only strengthen the guidance in the aspects of goa l,content and method,etc.,and brin g into full play the teachers' role as well.


By inputting the five groups:the environmental factor,plant function group, the vegetarian animal function group,the carnivorous animal function group and the disintegrator function group,this research establishes the complex fuzzy neural network modeling of the complex ecosystem stability with artistic fuzzy parameter automatic control,it also appraises the stability of the complex ecosystem.Through computer simulation,it has confirmed the method which proposes to have the advantages of high study efficiency,high appraised precision and strong popularization ability.


We report the detection of an excess in dust continuum emission at 233~GHz (1.3~mm in wavelength) in the protoplanetary disk around TW~Hya revealed through high-sensitivity observations at $\sim$3~au resolution with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The sensitivity of the 233~GHz image has been improved by a factor of 3 with regard to that of our previous cycle 3 observations. The overall structure is mostly axisymmetric, and there are apparent gaps at 25 and 41 au as previously reported. The most remarkable new finding is a few au-scale excess emission in the south-west part of the protoplanetary disk. The excess emission is located at 52 au from the disk center and is 1.5 times brighter than the surrounding protoplanetary disk at a significance of 12$\sigma$. We performed a visibility fitting to the extracted emission after subtracting the axisymmetric protoplanetary disk emission and found that the inferred size and the total flux density of the excess emission are 4.4$\times$1.0~au and 250~$\mu$Jy, respectively. The dust mass of the excess emission corresponds to 0.03~$M_\oplus$ if a dust temperature of 18~K is assumed. Since the excess emission can also be marginally identified in the Band 7 image at almost the same position, the feature is unlikely to be a background source. The excess emission can be explained by a dust clump accumulated in a small elongated vortex or a massive circumplanetary disk around a Neptune mass forming-planet.


m-Anisidine was hydrogenolyzed to an extent of 92.5% in hydrogenation with a palladium catalyst in acetic acid at 60 °C and 90 kg/cm2. The amount of hydrogenolysis in o- and p-anisidine was only 2.1 and 2.5%, respectively. This great difference in hydrogenolysis between the isomers was not observed with rhodium and platinum catalysts. With m- and p-anisidines, selectivity at the initiation of hydrogenation was studied for the formation of N-cyclohexylanisidine intermediates and for other products by an extrapolation method. Extensive hydrogenolysis of m-anisidine and slight hydrogenolysis of o- and p-anisidines over palladium result from a high selectivity in the formation of the enamine or imine intermediates. The hydrogenation pathways leading to hydrogenolysis and secondary amine formation over the three platinum metals are discussed.


By examining the text of the Chinese classic, I Ching (spelled as Yi Jing in Chinese pin yin, and also known as the Chinese Book of Changes), this paper attempts to reveal I Ching's dialectical views on the functionality of conflict. Through analyses of the concepts of "yin," "yang," and "contradiction," the author explicates, first, the existence of conflicting forces in all things; second, the yin and yang of all things, and the universality and particularity of contradictions; and third, the idea of "unity of opposites" in the universe. From I Ching's viewpoint, the writer further demonstrates the functionality of conflict in the process of bringing forth changes to the universe and, finally, he concludes the essay with a discussion on the dialectical relationship between opposition and fellowship via conflict. All of us are living now in a period of opposition: it is important that we may hope for the transformation of opposition into fellowship. In fact, this is precisely the importance of the world-view described in the Book of Changes: there is no situation without a way out. All situations are stages of change (Wilhelm & Wilhelm, 1988, p. 176).


Introduction We report the first findings of functional magnetic resonance imaging of the auditory cortex in a young woman with a bilateral cochleovestibular deficit as first manifestation of Brown–Vialetto–Van Leare syndrome. The patient had no open speech discrimination, even with hearing aids, and is depending on lip reading for communication. Methods To evaluate the possible efficiency of a cochlear implantation, we investigated hemodynamic responses within the central auditory pathways using an auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm. Results Blood oxygen level–dependent correlates were detected bilaterally along the auditory pathways after exposure to intermittent clicking tone stimulation at 2 kHz. Conclusion These results suggest integrity of the central auditory pathways and represent a positive argument to propose a cochlear implantation with the aim to restore hearing.


Effective Strategy formation, execution capability is a complex organizational resource capability that should lead to superior performance. Empirical research on strategy has examined the strategy formation capability from many perspectives. However, no study has examined a comprehensive model of strategy formation in the


In his article on CQI in health care, Dr. Stern makes a number of observations about difficulties in implementing and sustaining Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in health care settings. Based on those observations, he raises a number of important questions about the ultimate prospects for CQI beyond some possible success in time-limited, small-scale programs. I will argue in this commentary that, although Dr. Stern may ultimately be proven right about the difficulty of sustaining CQI, his concerns are based on some misapprehensions about both the CQI philosophy and the current state of CQI in health care. He has been led to a more gloomy outlook than I believe is appropriate. Only time will tell, of course, but I believe that there is reason to be optimistic about both the impact and the staying power of CQI in health care. In making this argument, I will highlight two significant aspects of CQI that relate to both current status and future prospects. One is its status as an "organizational philosophy" or "organizational culture" rather than a discrete program. The other is its applicability to clinical process as opposed to only the administrative or support processes of "support" departments.


Given three types of tensile price claims (TPCs; Save 30% or more, Save up to Y%, and Save 30-Y%), when Y is a plausible discount (60%), the results showed that max expected price discount (EPD) was lower and perceived savings and price fairness were higher for the TPC stating a min savings than one that states a max or a range of savings. In contrast, when the Y% is implausible (90%), the consumers' EPD was not adjusted depending on the TPC, resulting in no difference in perceptions of price discount across the different types of TPCs. If high and plausible discount percentages are used in a TPC and only a few products are discounted at that high level, this may decrease overall sales per customer for the majority of the products with lower discounts. Thus, marketers should select appropriate price promotion ads carefully.


To explore factors influencing post‐natal health behaviours following the experience of gestational diabetes, and to elicit women's views about the feasibility of lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes during the first 2 years after childbirth.


A problem of stability of parametric vibrations of a shaft driving the mechanisms spaced in a row is considered. Investigation is limited to the case of four identical mechanisms exhibiting continuous motion with the period equal to that of the shaft. Spacing of the mechanisms is assumed to be the same as in a I.C. fourstroke engine with a flat crankshaft. The vibrations are being forced parametrically by the torques induced by the inertial forces of the driven mechanisms. Two main regions of instability of the vibrations are determined. The danger resulting from the even harmonics of the parametric forcing has been indicated.


Based on the context of higher life expectancy and lower pregnancy rate, ageing society is unavoidable. Technological response is necessary. Hormone Couture exhibition presents two wearable technologies that aesthetically respond to women's reproductive hormone and body temperature changes. The designs address how technology creates a biopolitical issues whether the wearable technology empowers women by giving her access to biological information, or creates gendered oppression by having a technology that monitors, controls, and influences sexual behavior on the body. Both of these arguments cannot be separated as they altogether exist at the same time as two sides of the same coin. This contradictory relationship between technological advancement and gender politics was materialized into the work aiming to criticize and speculate the future of wearable technology, and how it reinforces dynamics of gender tension in society.


The decoherence speed limit (DSL) of a single impurity atom immersed in a Bose‐Einstein‐condensed (BEC) reservoir when the impurity atom is in a double‐well potential is studied. It is demonstrated how the DSL of the impurity atom can be manipulated by engineering the BEC reservoir and the impurity potential within experimentally realistic limits. It is shown that the DSL can be controlled by changing key parameters such as the condensate scattering length, the effective dimension of the BEC reservoir, and the spatial configuration of the double‐well potential imposed on the impurity. The physical mechanisms of controlling the DSL at root of the spectral density of the BEC reservoir are uncovered.


Correlative laboratory studies were developed in a phase I trial to evaluate the safety of intracoronary injection of escalating doses of bone marrow (BM) CD133+ cells in patients with chronic coronary ischemia. Concurrent with patient cellular therapy, CD133+ cells were phenotyped and tested functionally with endothelial cell colony formation and in vitro and in vivo transmigration. BM (194 ± 11 ml) was isolated from patients meeting study inclusion criteria. CD133+ cells (20 ± 13 x 10 6 , 84 ± 7% purity and 76 ± 7% viability (7AAD)) were isolated using the CliniMACS device (Miltenyi). Contaminating cells following the CliniMACS selection were: neg /CD56, CD19 (immature/mature), CD14, and CD71 cells with 5% CD61, 8% CD13+ SSC high . BM, PB (peripheral blood), cord blood (CB)-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) were assessed by a culture assay (StemCell Technologies) scoring early outgrowth CFU-EC. SEACOAST patients yielded significantly less colonies compared to controls of matched PB and BM (donors 28–48 yrs) and CB: normal donor (ND) PB, 65; ND BM, 40; CB, 43; SEACOAST patient PB, 2, SEACOAST patient BM, 1. Transmigration assays were used to evaluate the functionality of selected CD133+ cells to chemotactic agents stromal derived factor-1 (SDF-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Selected CD133+ cells were recovered, resuspended in DMEM/1% HSA media and after a 37°C incubation for 16–20 hrs, 5 x 10 4 CD133+ cells were added to transwells (5 mm) for 3 hours. Transmigrated cells were quantitated by flow cytometry using anti-CD45, anti-CD133 antibodies, and Fluorosphere beads. Surface expression on ND BM CD133+ cells of CXCR4 and VEGF-R2 was 0–16.4% and 1.2–4.3%, respectively. Transmigration was effected by 200 ng/ml (range of 16–62%) but not to 10 ng/ml VEGF. For CD133+ cells devoid of the expression of CXCR4, SDF-1-induced transmigration was absent. Expression of CXCR4 and VEGF-R2 on clinical trial patient-selected CD133+ cells was 0–5% and 0–2%, respectively, and transmigration was 5–19% to 200 ng/ml SDF-1 but not to 10 ng/ml VEGF. Patient selected CD133+ cells or PB mononuclear cells (PBMC), ND CD133+ cells, or a vehicle control were injected via a left intraventricular route into NOD/SCID mice with a femoral artery ligation immediately after injury. Doppler flow measurements were obtained weekly for 6 weeks comparing the perfusion ratio of ischemic/healthy limbs. At 28 days, perfusion ratios were statistically higher in study groups receiving ND CD133+ cells (0.51 ± 0.06) compared to controls (0.37 ± 0.03, p=0.025). Mice receiving patient CD133+ cells (0.46 ± 0.04) or PBMC (0.37 ± 0.08) did not show statistically significant improvement over control animals (p= 0.07, p= 0.94, respectively). BM was harvested to assess human engraftment by cytometric analysis. Mice injected with 0.5 x 10 6 patient BM CD133+ cells showed 70% purity and >70% viability) to chronic ischemic patients via an intracoronary route, important correlative in vitro and in vivo assays has demonstrated the diminished potency of BM-derived CD133+ cells as compared to CB and ND PB and BM-derived cells.


My dearest Mammy. I must write you a line, and kiss my dearest old Mother, though we differ ever so much about the Old Testament. (Thackeray, Letters 3:168) 1 In The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis declares "`Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity,' except to love God and serve Him alone."(1) Vanity Fair ends with the same words from Ecclesiastes: Vanitas Vanitatum (689).(2) However, Thackeray was no admirer of the Imitatio Christi, for he wrote to Jane Brookfield on Christmas Day, 1849: The scheme of that book carried out would make the world the most wretched useless dreary doting place of sojourn ... a set of selfish beings crawling about avoiding one another, and howling a perpetual miserere. (Letters 2:616) It may seem perverse to attempt to describe a theology of a novel as skeptical and worldly as Vanity Fair, and certainly Thackeray concerns himself much more with the vanity of existence than with the love of God. Twentieth-century readers are more likely to agree with Robyn Warhol that the narrator of Vanity Fair is only playing preacher, as he is playing historian, and as his characters are playing out the play. Readings of Vanity Fair informed by more recent literary theory have suggested that Thackeray's text expresses profound doubts about the ability of narrative fiction to do more than play....(3) Similarly, Barry Qualls does not treat Vanity Fair at length in his study of secular pilgrims in Victorian fiction, arguing that Thackeray does not provide a narrative of natural supernaturalism, but rather a parodic treatment of the secular world.(4) I would agree with Qualls's overall distinction between Thackeray on the one hand and Eliot, Bronte, and Dickens on the other. However, I will argue that there are in Thackeray's novel hints of a realm of existence beyond that of the world of vanity, and it is from those hints that the implied theology of the novel can be constructed; I will further suggest in conclusion that this implied theology is in some ways closer to an Augustinian orthodoxy than it is to the Broad Church position with which William Makepeace Thackeray the historical individual can be identified.(5) Thackeray's religious beliefs can be inferred from his letters and journalism, though the evidence must be handled carefully, because it is somewhat ambiguous.(6) It is certain that he went through phases of skepticism, which have been documented by his biographer.(7) He struggled throughout his life with the powerful influence of his Evangelical mother, trying to distance himself from aspects of her creed and yet at the same time trying to show her that he did believe in what he considered to be the essential truth of Christianity. "My dearest Mammy," he begins one letter, "I must write you a line, and kiss my dearest old Mother, though we differ ever so much about the Old Testament" (Letters 3:168). A quick survey of Thackeray's strongly expressed religious opinions may help to place him on the Victorian ecclesiastical map. He particularly disliked the Evangelical creed in which he was raised, and he rejected its belief in the historical accuracy of the Old Testament narratives. As his Christmas letter to Jane Brookfield already quoted suggests, he disliked any attempt to revive medieval devotional practices. On the other hand, he admired and respected Thomas Arnold, and greatly admired Stanley's Life of Arnold, which he reviewed favorably in the Morning Chronicle and which he recommends to anyone who wants to know "how great, and good, and noble" a country parson may be.(8) He was well aware, from his youthful visit to Weimar, of German biblical criticism, and he no doubt distressed his mother by writing from Weimar: "the doctrine here is not near so strict as in England--many of the dogmas by [w.sup.h]. we hold are here disregarded as allegories or parables--or I fear by most people as fictions altogether" (Letters 1:140). …


When conflicts are depicted, men are often seen as primary actors, both regarding the military as well as the political sphere, which entails that women are excluded and merely seen as victims. The conventional theories concerning war therefore solely encapsule half of the population. This essay seeks to explore the relation between military and social agency within the purview of a critical feminist theory, emphasizing the necessity of unveiling gender coded dynamics. By assessing and synthesizing existing theoretical arguments within critical feminist theory of war, this essay aims to lay the foundation for a new theoretical framework. This theoretical claim will reveal the necessity of contemplating conflicts in a holistic manner. Methodologically we study the medial depiction of the narrative surrounding the Kurdish YPJ militia in Syria, which vindicates the main theoretical approach. The theoretical claim is named totius bellum and serves to envelop the pertinent concepts that constitute a holistic perspective on wars. The essay finds that wars need to be observed as a complete spectrum of events - including both military and social dimensions - and not as individual components independent of each other. By acknowledging that the agency given during the war is directly conjoined to the agency afterwards, totius bellum implies that if women are to adopt meaningful social agency, formal and individual embrace of an independent mind in a moral sense is needed. (Less)


GLOBOID-CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY (GLD) has been reported as a familial, progressivelv degenerative disease in children (1, 18, 20, 28, 29, 30), dogs (9, 10, 12, 19, 25, 27), and kittens (15). In dogs and cats the disease has also been reported under the names globoid leukodystrophy (2, 15, 23, 27), and globoid cell leukodystrophy ("Krabbe type") (10, 12, 19). Although most cases of GLD in dogs have been reported in Cairn Terriers (10, 12, 17, 19) and West Highland White Terriers (8, 17, 23, 25, 27), the disease has also been reported in one Miniature Poodle (31) and


This paper examines the locational impact of Gasoline service station along Abuja- Keffi road. Primary data was collected using Site Analysis Report (SAR) and Questionnaire, seventeen (17) gasoline service stations were sampled out of a total of fifty eight (58) service stations using the systematic sampling technique while 150 copies of well structured questionnaire which were administered to the respondents Questions regarding the perceptions of respondents on the impacts of the locations of gasoline service stations in the area, and the respondents suggestions towards mitigating such effects. The study result reveals, that the establishment and location of these service stations in various parts of the study area is going on without due regard to planning criteria, safety and without considering the environment service stations in the area are built with little or no compliance to planning regulation and standards, these therefore remain a source of concern to all. There is a need therefore for plans and actions to tackle the situation for today and the future. Suggestions were made so that any change introduced into the environment should not facilitate its destruction and consequently hazardous to human. copyright@ 2012 cepa J Contents lists available at


The purpose of this note is to point out some corrections to the paper: A. Boccuto and X. Dimitriou, \Some new types of lter limit theorems for topological group-valued measures", Real Anal. Exchange 39 (1) (2014), 139-174.


Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is thrombotic disorder caused by immune complexes containing antibodies to an antigen composed of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and heparin or cellular glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). The structure of these immune complexes and how their composition might contribute to the difference between pathogenic and non-pathogenic anti-PF4 antibodies are unknown. To address these questions, we solved the crystal structures of human recombinant PF4 in complex with Fabs derived from KKO (a murine monoclonal HIT-like antibody that competes with pathogenic human HIT antibodies) and RTO (an isotype-matched non-HIT anti-PF4 antibody) combined with the crystal structure of PF4 complexed with the heparin-mimic pentasaccharide fondaparinux as a model sugar. The PF4 tetramer is asymmetric and is capable of accommodating only two fondaparinux molecules. Fondaparinux binds between monomers A, B and C or between monomers A, C, and D, which stabilizes the AB/CD and AC/BD associations and the resultant tetramer. KKO-Fab binds to the PF4 tetramer by making contacts with now identified residues within each of three PF4 monomers, indicating that tetramerization of PF4 is a critical initiating step in antigen formation. Mutations in the putative KKO epitopes in PF4 abolished antibody binding.Unexpectedly, RTO-Fab binds to the PF4 monomer between the AB dimer interface. Importantly, the amino acid sequence recognized by RTO and KKO show considerable overlap. However, the epitope for RTO is obscured upon tetramer formation, in direct contrast to binding of KKO, which requires tetramer formation to bind. Binding of RTO to the PF4 monomer prevents formation of AB dimers and subsequent tetramerization. In support of these findings, preincubation of PF4 with RTO inhibits KKO induced platelet activation and platelet aggregation in vitro. Based on the analyses of crystal lattices, we propose a new model of the heparin/PF4 complex, in which PF4 tetramers cluster around a semi-rigid linear heparin subunit. Clustering of PF4 on heparin might be required for apposition of sufficient HIT antibodies to induce persistent activation of cellular FcgIIA receptors. Heparin and pathogenic HIT antibodies collaborate to stabilize the ternary immune complex, which leads to the disappearance of binding sites for at least some non-pathogenic HIT antibodies. The balance between anti-monomer and anti-tetramer PF4 antibodies may help determine the probability of clinical disease. This model also helps to explain why RTO-like anti-PF4 antibodies are found so commonly in asymptomatic patients exposed to heparin and why fondaparinux may be antigenic but rarely causes HIT, whereas longer heparin fragments and GAGs extend and render the holo-complex more stable and thereby foster the formation of pathogenic immune complexes. In summary, these crystallographic studies lead to a new model to explain the formation of pathogenic immune complexes that lead to HIT. The inhibitory effect of the anti-PF4 antibody RTO provides a structural basis for the development of new diagnostics and non-anticoagulant therapeutics. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


This paper presents a 3-level neutral-point-clamped high boost transformerless dc-ac converter for dual photovoltaic applications. General operation waveforms and operation principles are described. Basic processes involved and converter dimensions result from the steady state analysis and the calculation of general component values. Theoretical assumptions are verified by PSIM. Simulation results show the general operation principles and waveforms of the proposed converter. Finally, main areas of application of the converter and the efficiency achievable are discussed.


Thermal compacting of previously prepared ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber laminates can raise its melting temperature and crystallinity. In this article, thermal shrinkage and the effect of post hot compaction on a commercial UHMWPE fiber laminate at various temperatures was investigated. The temperature range of post hot compaction was between 115 and 145°C, while other processing parameters like pressure, time, and cooling rate were kept constant during compaction. The shrinkage of the fiber laminates increased slowly up to 138°C; as soon as the temperature passed 140°C, the shrinkage increased rapidly and reached its maximum value very quickly. The crystallinity of the fiber laminates increased with rising temperature up to 135°C, then decreased at 145°C.


A point at issue in the judicial decision of the crime of medical malpractice is how to identify the degree of injury involved in the crime, particularly the legal term of "grievous injury to the health of the patient". The paper argues that "grievous injury" identification should not be based on the criteria of serious injury in Criminal Law; rather criminal technical appraisement should be conducted on the basis of Regulations by the State Council and Criteria for Identifying the Degree of Medical Malpractices by the Department of Health. Specifically, the identification should be associated with first-degree medical malpractices and second-degree grade-A medical malpractices by those fully responsible for their negligent acts. "The judicial interpretation of the term "grievous injury" should be made by the Supreme People's Court in a limited and scientific way.


The microphase separation in a linear ternary block copolymer consisting of three immiscible components, namely, polystyrene, polybutadiene, and poly(methyl methacrylate), gives rise to the formation of a chiral supramolecular assembly in which the chirality is not defined on a molecular (or macromolecular) level but only by the assembly of the linear triblock copolymer molecules. The polybutadiene midblock (7 and 12 wt %) forms helical strands surrounding the polystyrene cylinders (25 and 26 wt %) which are embedded in a poly(methyl methacrylate) matrix. This chiral mesoscopic assembly can be recognized by transmission electron microscopy. The formation of this structure is controlled by the relative incompatibilities of the three polymeric components in the block copolymer.


In view of the existing problems in semantic segmentation, such as insufficient utilization of information at different scales, excessive computing costs for generating redundant information, and ignoring spatial information. In this end, we propose a multi-scale convolution and ghost attention head. The former is inserted into the encoder, which increases the receptive field of the network and makes the network more effective to obtain context information. At the same time, a Ghost Attention Head is designed in the process of decoding, which adopts cheap operation and separable attention to guide the network, so as to solve the problems such as computational cost and ignoring spatial information. Experimental results on CamVid show that the mIoU of the proposed module reaches 71.32%, which is 9.7% higher than that of the traditional semantic segmentation network FCN. Ablation experiments were also carried out to further verify the effectiveness of the added module.


My advisor professor HAN Jing-xian has proposed the correlative theory of "Senescence due to dysfunction of Sanjiao" and created the acupuncture method of "YiQi TiaoXue,FuBen PeiYuan".In order to stress the idea of recuperating Sanjiao,we have changed the name to "Sanjiao" acupuncture.The used points are Tanzhong(CV 17),Zhongwan(CV 12),Qihai(CV 6),Zusanli(ST 36) Xuehai(SP 10),and Waiguan(TE 5).The aim of "Sanjiao" acupuncture is through smoothing and regulating Sanjiao to generate and spread Yuan Qi,to exercise ZongQi,to remove YingQi,WeiQi and to generate blood QI and to tonify and regulate Qi and blood,to strengthen the primary root of human body through recuperating Sanjiao,to regulate spleen and stomach strongly,to regulate and tonify Xiajiao,to control the inborn and the acquired simultaneously."Sanjiao" acupuncture has some positive implications for anti-aging.


Why are molecular models intrinsically conducive to learning, how can molecular models be used to teach chemistry effectively and which is the best kind of molecular model to use ?


An Inconel loop circulating fluoride fuel (62 1/2 mole % NaF, 121/2 mole % ZrF/sub 4/, 25 mole % UF/sub 4/, 93% enriched) was operated at 1485 deg F with a temperature difference of about 35 deg F in the Low-Intensity Test Reactor for 645 hr. For 475 hr of this time the reactor was at full power, and fission power generation in the loop was 2.7 kw, with a maximum power density of 0.4 kw/cc. The total volume of fuel was 1290 cc (5.0 kg), and the flow through the irradiated section was 8.6 fps (Reynolds number 5500). The loop has been disassembled and has been examined by chemical and metallographic analyses. No acceleration of corrosion or decomposition of fuel by irradiation was noted, although deposition of fission-product ruthenium was observed. No mass transfer of Inconel was found, and the corrosive attack was genenal and relatively light. The average corrosive penetration, in the usual form of subsurface voids, was 0.5 mil; the maximum penetration was 2 to 3 mils. (auth)


Keeping tunnels equipped with the latest safety technology accounts for 25% of the total tunnel investment. Yet, the life time of these systems is approximately five times lower than the tunnel infrastructure itself. These Life Cycle Cost Aspects (LCC-Aspects) have become an important subject for tunnel owners and operators, private or governmental. As such, efforts need to be made in the early stages of designing a system to keep operation costs down. A survey of World Road Association (PIARC) countries was conducted to evaluate typical road tunnel technical systems, showing that factors such as temperature, humidity, mechanical stress and environment all influence the life expectancy of such systems and need to be considered.


Cervical cancer is the most common cancer affecting several Latin American countries, causing high mortality for women living in poor economic conditions. It represents a major public health problem in Latin America and is of major economic impact on society. Cancer treatments are expensive and not


The purpose of the present study was a direct comparison between simultaneous recordings of skin conductance and skin resistance. Sixty male students received a series of 30 white noise stimuli, while measures were taken continuously from four sites on the palmar surfaces of the fingers. Evaluations were made for response amplitudes, recovery, and for an approximate area measure. Magnitude of reactions and reliabilities were compared using ANOVA procedures. Behavioral concordances were estimated as correlations with the subjects' ratings of stimulus intensities.

Conductance and resistance measures do not differ in amplitude, in area, or in strength of their reliabilities and behavioral concordances. No differences in any respect are found between sites. Skin conductance yields significantly (p < .01) shorter recovery times than skin resistance, which is discussed in terms of membrane permeability change.


Fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) rods are used as reinforcement (prestressed or not) to concrete. FRP composites can also be combined with steel to form hybrid reinforcing rods that take advantage of the properties of both materials. In order to effectively utilize these rods, their bond behavior with concrete must be understood. The objective of this study is to characterize and model the bond behavior of hybrid FRP rods made with epoxy-impregnated aramid or poly-vinyl alcohol FRP skins directly braided onto a steel core. The model closely examines the split failure of the concrete by quantifying the relationship between slip of the rods resulting transverse stress field in concrete. The model is used to derive coefficients of friction for these rods and, from these, their development length requirements. More testing is needed to confirm this model, but in the interim, it may serve as a design aide, allowing intelligent decisions regarding concrete cover and development length. As such, this model has helped to explain and predict some experimental data from concentric pull-out tests of hybrid FRP rods.


This research attempts to explore the impact of banking competition on financial stability employing a more precise measure of market power. It was found that Islamic banks are less stable and are ...


Flexible tactile sensor is a preferred alternative in the development of human-machine interface (HMI) and robotics, which directly influences how we understand and interact with physical world. High density and high sensitivity tactile sensor array are urgently desired to assist people acquire tactile information of multi objects. However, although the existing researches exhibit great perception of tactile signals with different magnitudes and frequencies, they also expose limitation in the retrieval of relative position relationships. Herein, we report a wearable and high density (96 sensors on the fingertip) tactile sensor array based on tertiary leaf-vein inspired piezoresistive film. Particularly, a tertiary microstructure in the direction of height, including mid-vein-mimicking wrinkle (MVW), lateral-vein-mimicking wrinkles (LVW) and minor-vein-mimicking wrinkles (mVW), has been demonstrated an effective method to fabricate rough surface. The highly surface-controllable piezoresistive film dramatically enhances the durability (over 5000 cycles) and improves the sensitivity from 8.44 kPa−1 to 25.80 kPa−1 under 2 kPa. Accordingly, we propose an innovative position-encoded algorithm aimed at high density tactile sensor array, which has been demonstrated an excellent encode capacity of translating the multi-location tactile information caused by Braille characters into human-readable outputs. This study not only provides a map scanning method for Braille recognition, but also has significant implications for position-based information exchange or tactile encryption.


ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS. DNA fi ngerprinting, genetic diversity, cultivar identifi cation, A. chinensis, A. deliciosa ABSTRACT. Forty-eight kiwifruit cultivars and selections, representing more than 90% of total world kiwifruit production, were investigated using nine SSR markers to establish genetic identities, and evaluate genetic diversity and relatedness. These nine SSRs were polymorphic and a total of 213 alleles were detected, resulting in a mean number of 23.7 alleles per locus, ranging from nine to 38 alleles. One hundred and thirty-three alleles were found to be common to both A. chinensis and A. deliciosa, while 33 and 36 were specifi c to A. chinensis and A. deliciosa, respectively. In addition, 34 alleles were specifi c to one single genotype and provided a set of valuable alleles for cultivar identifi cation. A single SSR locus UDK 96-414 could differentiate all 48 genotypes except two presumable clones. Mean number of alleles per locus (A), percentage of polymorphic loci (P), and direct count heterozygosity (Ho) assessed for each genotype over all loci revealed considerable differences among these 48 genotypes. On average, A = 2.6, P = 89.4% and Ho = 0.546 were found in A. chinensis cultivars, while A = 3.5, P = 97.0% and Ho = 0.671 in A. deliciosa cultivars. Consensus fi ngerprint profi ling using SSR markers is a useful and reliable method for establishing genetic identities of kiwifruit cultivars and selections. It also improves evaluation effectiveness of genetic diversity and relatedness compared to RAPD markers. Commercial kiwifruit production is based on two Actinidia species, A. deliciosa C.F. Liang et A.R. Ferguson and A. chinen- sis Planch. The genus Actinidia Lindl. comprises 66 species and about 118 taxa with a remarkably wide natural range extending from the tropics (latitude 00 ) to cold temperate regions (500 N). All these species occur naturally in China except four species that are native to neighboring countries: A. strigosa Hook & Thoms. in Nepal, A. petelotii Diels in Vietnam, A. hypoleuca Nakai and A. rufa (Sieb. et Zucc.) Planch ex Miq. in Japan (Huang et al., 2000). Since the fi rst seed introduction of A. deliciosa was made from China into New Zealand in 1904, the economic potential of kiwifruit has been extensively exploited (Ferguson and Bollard 1990). Currently, the international kiwifruit industry has achieved more than 100,000 hectares with annual production of one million tons (Huang and Ferguson, 2001). China has a long history of local consumption of the Actin- idia as fresh fruits and Chinese herbal medicines for centuries (Cui, 1993). The successful development of kiwifruit industries, fi rst in New Zealand and then in other countries, has stimulated China's interest in the potential of native Actinidia species for commercial production. A government organized nationwide selection program was initiated in China in 1977. This program had two missions: 1) to conduct a national germplasm survey and inventory of natural resources of Actinidia; 2) to select genotypes superior to the 'Hayward' cultivar developed in New Zealand, the single cultivar planted worldwide during the 1970s. As a result, more than 1400 genotypes were selected from wild populations of A. chinensis, A. deliciosa, and A. arguta. Most of


The purpose of this paper is to analyze the financial impediments facing by the women entrepreneurship, especially in the rural areas of Sindh province in Pakistan. It is believed that rural women in Pakistan is living under despondency, powerlessness and voiceless and they don't get much opportunities of doing businesses though having talent as well. This research was conducted to have an overview of the present conditions for female entrepreneurs based in Sindh. It was also conducted to come up with recommendations / suggestions to address existing problems to promote entrepreneurship in Sindh. This is a descriptive paper, which will provide the guidance for the empirical research further.


In the last decade, several different structured illumination microscopy (SIM) approaches have been developed. Precise determination of the effective spatial resolution in a live cell SIM reconstructed image is essential for reliable interpretation of reconstruction results. Theoretical resolution improvement can be calculated for every SIM method. In practice, the final spatial resolution of the cell structures in the reconstructed image is limited by many different factors. Therefore, assessing the resolution directly from the single image is an inherent part of the live cell imaging. There are several commonly used resolution measurement techniques based on image analysis. These techniques include full-width at half maximum (FWHM) criterion, or Fourier ring correlation (FRC). FWHM measurement requires fluorescence beads or sharp edge/line in the observed image to determine the point spread function (PSF). FRC method requires two stochastically independent images of the same observed sample. Based on our experimental findings, the FRC method does not seem to be well suited for measuring the resolution of SIM live cell video sequences. Here we show a method based on the Fourier transform analysis using power spectral density (PSD). In order to estimate the cut-off frequency from a noisy signal, we use PSD estimation based on Welch's method. This method is widely used in non-parametric power spectra analysis. Since the PSD-based metric can be computed from a single SIM image (one video frame), without any prior knowledge of the acquiring system, it can become a fundamental tool for imaging in live cell biology.


Objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of a known monthly water balance model in Ndarugu river basin in Kenya. The model is slightly modified to suit hydrologic conditions in the basin. The study apart from establishing relevant model parameters has recommended optimum length of period for continuous simulation to reduce effect dynamic changes in the basin. Journal of Civil Engineering, JKUAT (2001) Vol 6, 55-66


Based on the citation database of CNKI(China National Knowledge Internet),the cited papers published in Journal of Environment Entomology were studied by means of citation analysis from 2001 to 2010.The results showed that there were 343 cited papers in the total of 504 papers published,a ratio of the former to the latter is 68.06%.And the total citation frequencies are 1904,in which the highest citation frquency is 40 and each paper was cited 5.55 times.The papers cited below 5 times accounted for 63.57%.The cited periodicals were 262,in which cited below 3 times accounted for 74.81%.Then the authors distributions of cited papers are analyzed,especialy detailed information was given for the highly cited papers.From the statistics of presented high cited papers and research focus,it was put forword to strengthen contributions,prominent characteristic column,and improve the publication of high quality paper.


This paper presents a novel method which takes advantage of the K-means clusters and effective degree of clustering to recognize the abnormal data of electricity consumption by PLC communication. The novel clustering method was used to supervise the abnormal or missing data by the badly quality of PLC communication effectively. Firstly, we extract good historical data as the basic cluster according to the selected characteristic numbers. Then, the current moment of electricity consumption data take clusters analysis with the basic cluster to identify whether the data is abnormal or not. Finally, the paper conducted simulation to verify the method and the result of simulation showed that the method can verify the abnormal data effectively. Therefore, the method is beneficial for the supervision for data.


Offshore pipelines and risers are designed to different codes leading to different reliability targets, and different wall thicknesses. Pipeline design codes also differentiate between areas where people are present and those with no population or less environmentally sensitive. As a result, the offshore section of the pipeline (with "thinner walls") could be considered to work as a structural fuse during an unforeseen pressure surge; if the pipeline bursts first, then the occupants of platform would be exposed to less risk than if the riser or pipeline in the vicinity of the platform were to fail. This implies that differential burst pressure could act as an Independent Protection Layer (IPL). This paper explores conditions that sections of a pipeline must satisfy in order to be considered as an IPL. A first order reliability method is outlined for determining the required target reliability. The application of this approach is described in a case study.Copyright © 2011 by ASME


Previously in this journal, we discussed how to summarise the results of primary studies (Cipriani & Barbui, 2006). It is of interest to note, at this regard, that there are many ways of providing estimates for the relationship between two binary ("yes or no") variables. These ways have become increasingly popular in medical reports and nowadays clinicians need to clearly understand the meaning of these values in order to better inform daily clinical practice. The risk (or absolute risk AR) is the probability that an individual will experience a specified outcome during a specified period. The AR lies in the range from 0 to 1 and can be expressed as a percentage. In scientific literature, the word "risk" may either refer to adverse events (such as side effects) or desirable events (such as improvement of symptoms). If we have two comparisons, the ratio of the AR for each group is the relative risk (RR). In other words, the RR is the AR in the intervention group divided by the AR in the control group, that is the number of times more likely (RR greater than 1) or less likely (RR less than 1) an event is to happen in one group compared with another. The closer the RR is to 1, the smaller the difference in effect between the experimental intervention and the control intervention.


There is no doubt that Africa today is confronted with many economic,
 political, social, and developmental problems. The big question and the basic
 challenge is therefore how best we can tackle these problems especially as we
 begin and forge ahead in the third millennium. This paper attempts to
 elucidate a fundamental role that philosophy can play in this regard. It
 holds that philosophy, as a discipline in the humanities, can help shape
 fresh ideas that are humanistic in nature in the sense that they encourage
 free enquiry and social agreement which are vital pillars for a fair and
 prosperous society; for a society without such genuine humanistic values will
 show many of the symptoms which are present in contemporary African
 societies.


Cesarean scar pregnancy is rare type of ectopic pregnancy. It is associated with severe complication if it is not diagnosed early in pregnancy. We present a case of difficult first-trimester diagnosis of Cesarean scar pregnancy. In this paper we discuss the incidence of this condition, the antenatal diagnosis, the prognosis and management and the importance of 2D and 3D ultrasound technique as a diagnostic tool.


DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) produced by ionizing radiation are considered to be particularly malignant DNA lesions, with experimental evidence suggesting that misrepaired or unrepaired DSBs are the lesions leading to cell killing, mutations or carcinogenesis [1, 2]. DSBs production is determined by the spatial distribution of ionization events, dependent on the physical properties of the radiation and the chemical environment of the DNA. Differences in severity and complexity of the induced DNA damage depend on the radiation quality – the high LET radiation (ions) inducing more severe lesions compared to low LET radiation (X-rays) due to the induction of multiple lesion in close proximity [3]. Differences in the DSB yields induced in the DNA by ionizing radiation can be studied by fragmentation analysis. The conventional method to evaluate the fraction of fragmented DNA but not the fragments distribution is the gel electrophoresis. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is a direct method allowing the detection and length measurements of individual fragments with a nanometer resolution. Here we report on the fragmentation induced by X-rays and 3.5 MeV/u Ni ions in linear ΦX174 DNA diluted in 20 mM Hepes. The irradiation was done in a dose range of 0 – 3000 Gy. After irradiation the DNA samples were diluted in a cationic solution (28.6 mM MgCl2 and 50 mM KCl) to the final concentration of 3 ng/μl. A drop of 10μl of DNA was deposited onto freshly cleaved mica and dried in the exccicator to enhance adhesion. The scanning was performed using AFM in liquid environment to provide physiological conditions. The DNA images (3 x 3 μm) with the scanning step 10 nm were collected for each dose and radiation quality (Fig. 1).


Our laboratory has reported data suggesting a role for T4 phage gene 32 single‐stranded DNA‐binding protein in organizing a complex of deoxyribonucleotide‐synthesizing enzymes at the replication fork. In this article we examined the effects of gene 32 ablation on the association of these enzymes with DNA–protein complexes. These experiments showed several deoxyribonucleotide‐synthesizing enzymes to be present in DNA–protein complexes, with some of these associations being dependent on gene 32 protein. To further understand the role of gp32, we created amber mutations at codons 24 and 204 of gene 32, which encodes a 301‐residue protein. We used the newly created mutants along with several experimental approaches – DNA‐cellulose chromatography, immunoprecipitation, optical biosensor analysis and glutathione‐S‐transferase pulldowns – to identify relevant protein–protein and protein–DNA interactions. These experiments identified several proteins whose interactions with DNA depend on the presence of intact gp32, notably thymidylate synthase, dihydrofolate (DHF) reductase, ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) and Escherichia coli nucleoside diphosphate (NDP) kinase, and they also demonstrated direct associations between gp32 and RNR and NDP kinase, but not dCMP hydroxymethylase, deoxyribonucleoside monophosphate kinase, or DHF reductase. Taken together, the results support the hypothesis that the gene 32 protein helps to recruit enzymes of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates synthesis to DNA replication sites.


PURPOSE:To provide an acoustic effect generating device and method by which a virtual sound source can be moved to an arbitrary position. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with a position signal outputting device 2 which outputs a position correction signal 15 of a value between the position of the virtual sound source and the appropriate position of the virtual sound source, and signal detector 3 which detects the signal, and outputs it to a digital signal processor 1. The digital signal processor 1 operates the processing of the phase and amplitude information of an input signal based on the position correction signal 15, and moves the position of the virtual sound source to the appropriate position of the virtual sound source. When the virtual sound source is moved to the appropriate position, the position signal outputting device 2 outputs a position decision signal 16 to the signal detector 3, and the signal detector 3 outputs the position decision signal 16 to the digital signal processor 1. Thus, the digital signal processor 1 decides the position of the virtual sound source.


Background— Agonists of G-protein–coupled receptors (eg, adrenoceptors and angiotensin receptors) signal, at least in part, through matrix metalloproteinases (such as matrix metalloproteinase [MMP]-7) that transactivate the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Focusing on adrenoceptors, we examined whether the MMP-dependent signaling pathway depends on reactive oxygen species (ROS). Methods and Results— In isolated rat mesenteric arteries, selective stimulation of α1-adrenoceptors with phenylephrine induced MMP transactivation of the EGFR, mitochondrial ROS production (detected by MitoTrackerRed-CM-H2XRos-fluorescence and dihydroethidium-fluorescence and high-performance liquid chromatography [HPLC]/MS assay) and vasoconstriction. Inhibition of the synthesis of either MMP-7 or EGFR with anti-sense or siRNA oligonucleotides, respectively, decreased mitochondrial ROS production in response to phenylephrine. Targeted mitochondrial ROS scavenging with MitoTrackerRed-CM-H2XRos inhibited adrenergic vasocons...


This paper adopt the idea of Modern Substance Flow,analysed various aspect included merchandise character,group packaging and package goods protect,carry through packaging design to heighten productivity of Substance Flow.


Preface This essay was submitted in January, 2000 to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future which was commissioned by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). The purpose of the essay was to convince the Committee to include a recommendation for research into the likely role that diet plays in MS onset and progression.


[Objective] The aim was to provide the reference for the application of entomogenous fungi in pest control.[Method] With the isolated entomogenous fungi Ekks1 from the surface of infectious sect as the tested strain,its morphology was identified and its ITS sequence was amplified with ITS4 and ITS5 as primers,and the amplified ITS sequence was detected by electrophoresis and was analyzed.The insecticidal effects of Ekks1 on Plutella xylostella and Cowpea aphid were determined.[Result] Through morphological identification,Ekks1 was Beauveria.bassiana,Beauveria Bassiana,Hyphom ycetaceae,Hyphom ycetales,Hyphom ycetales,Feuterom ycotina.Through PCR amplification,the ITS1-5.8s-ITS5 rDNA sequence of Ekks1 strain was successfully obtained.After analysis,the length of ITS1-5.8s-ITS5 sequence was 555 bp,the homology of Ekks1 strain and B.bassiana(EF672309) in GenBank was 99%.When the concn.of Ekks1 was 1.5×107 spores/ml,the corrected mortality of P.xylostella was 76% after 8 d of infection and the corrected mortality of C.aphid was 61% after 72 h of infection.[Conclusion] Ekks1 was Beauveria fungi,and it had certain lethal effect on P.xylostella and C.aphid at 1.5×107 spore/ml.


We report on particles and fields observed during Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F9 and DE 2 crossings of the polar cap/auroral oval boundary in the evening MLT sector. Season-dependent, latitudinally narrow regions of rapid, eastward plasma flows were encountered by DMSP near the poleward boundary of auroral electron precipitation. Ten DE 2 orbits exhibiting electric field spikes that drive these plasma flows were chosen for detailed analysis. The boundary region is characterized by pairs of oppositely-directed, field-aligned current sheets. The more poleward of the two current sheets is directed into the ionosphere. Within this downward current sheet, precipitating electrons either had average energies of a few hundred eV or were below polar rain flux levels. Near the transition to upward currents, DE 2 generally detected intense fluxes of accelerated electrons and weak fluxes of ions, both with average energies between 5 and 12 keV. In two instances, precipitating ions with energies >5 keV spanned both current sheets. Comparisons with satellite measurements at higher altitudes suggest that the particles and fields originated in the magnetotail inside the distant reconnection region and propagated to Earth through the plasma sheet boundary layer. Auroral electrons are accelerated by parallel electric fields produced by the different pitch angle distributions of protons and electrons in this layer interacting with the near-Earth magnetic mirror. Electric field spikes driving rapid plasma flows along the poleward boundaries of intense, keV electron precipitation represent ionospheric responses to the field-aligned currents and conductivity gradients. The generation of field-aligned currents in the boundary layer may be understood qualitatively as resulting from the different rates of earthward drift for electrons and protons in the magnetotail's current sheet.


Scientific advances due to conceptual or technological innovations can be revealed by examining how research topics have evolved. But such topical evolution is difficult to uncover and quantify because of the large body of literature and the needs of expert knowledge from a wide range of areas in any field. Here we used machine learning and language models to classify plant science citations into topics representing interconnected, evolving subfields. The changes in prevalence of topical records over the last 50 years reflect major research paradigm shifts and recent radiation of new topics, as well as turnovers of model species and vastly different plant science research trajectories among countries. Our approaches readily summarize the topical diversity and evolution of a scientific field with hundreds of thousands of relevant papers, and they can be applied broadly to other fields. Significance statement Changes in scientific paradigms are foundational for the advancement of science, but such changes are difficult to summarize, quantify, and illustrate. These challenges are exacerbated by the rapid, exponential growth of literature. Applying a combination of machine learning and language modeling to hundreds of thousands of published abstracts, we demonstrate that a scientific field (i.e., plant science) can be summarized as interconnected subfields evolving from one another. We also reveal insights into major research trends and the rise and decline in the use of model organisms in different countries. Our study demonstrates how artificial intelligence and language models can be broadly applied to understand scientific advances that inform science policy and funding decisions.


The problems of disturbance attenuation and almost disturbance decoupling play a central role in control theory. In this paper, by employing a recently discovered structural decomposition of multiple input multiple output nonlinear systems and the backstepping procedures that were developed based on the structure of the decomposed system, we show that these two problems can be solved for a larger class of nonlinear systems.


Generally, this project aims to perform a preliminary investigation into relationship between emotional intelligence (EQ) which comprises five (5) characteristics namely; self-awareness, selfregulation, self-motivation, social awareness and social skills and leadership styles (laissez-faire, Iran actional, transformational and autocratic) among leaders. Emotionally intelligent leaders are thought to be happier and more committed to their organization, achieve greater success, perform better in the workplace, take advantage of and use positive emotions to envision major improvements in organizational functioning and use emotions to improve their decision making and instill a sense of enthusiasm, trust and co-operation in other employees through interpersonal relationship. Therefore, research examining the utility of emotional intelligence in predicting effective leaders is gaining its momentum. A case study was conducted in Sarawak Contingent Police Headquarters using a sample of 80 leaders (ranging from position of Assistant Police Commissioner (APC) to Chieflnspector (C/Insp» from various units namely; Communication Unit, Information Technology Unit, Traffic Unit, Transportation Unit, Criminal Investigation Unit, Commercial Crime Unit, Special Branch Unit, Department of Recruitment and Department of Administration And Managerial. Level of emotional intelligence is measured by questionnaire adapted from adapted and modified from the emotional competence framework, which distills findings from MOSAIC competencies for professional and administrative. Leadership styles for transformational leadership were determined by questionnaire modified and adapted from Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) by Bass and Avolio, 1990 as used by Warren Aris in doing the thesis entitled "The Development Of Transformational Leadership Amongst The Iban Community Leaders In The Three Area In Kenowit District Sarawak " and leadership styles of transactional, laissez-faire and autocratic were designed from definitions of leadership styles by Bryrnan (1992), James (1991), Edwin (1991) and Batemen and Snell (1999). The results of the study show that emotional intelligence is associated with two (2) components of leadership styles being studied -transformational and laissez-faire leadership. In contrast, transactional and autocratic leadership were not associated with emotional inte\Jjgence. In other words, there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and laissezfaire and transformational leadership styles whilst there is no significant relationship between emotional intelligence and transactional and autocratic leadership styles.


Abstract : The work covered by this report extended the knowledge of blast interactions with two types of targets and achieved a fuller understanding of the requirements for protecting personnel exposed to stored explosives. The specific targets were a 1/4 inch plate glass window and a bus. Plate glass windows were exposed to blast pressures of 0.65 and 1.09 psi peak incident pressure from a surface burst charge. Bus vehicles were exposed, side on to the blast wave, to provide maximum opportunity for overturning at blast pressures of 7, 8, and 9 psi peak incident pressure. It was shown that plate glass fragments as large as 1500 grams (3.3 lbs.) are produced under threshold breakage conditions and that approximately 40 percent of the window may break into fragments, each weighing a pound or more. The only velocity vector of importance, under these conditions, is the one provided by the force of gravity. Bus vehicles were shown to be more resistant to overturning by blast than a simple model had indicated. It was concluded that window areas do not effectively transmit blast energy to the bus for overturning and that the suspension system acted to inhibit overturning in these tests.


The moments of the hadronic spectral functions are of interest for the extraction of the strong coupling alpha(s) and other QCD parameters from the hadronic decays of the tau lepton. Motivated by the recent analyses of a large class of moments in the standard fixed-order and contour-improved perturbation theories, we consider the perturbative behavior of these moments in the framework of a QCD nonpower perturbation theory, defined by the technique of series acceleration by conformal mappings, which simultaneously implements renormalization-group summation and has a tame large-order behavior. Two recently proposed models of the Adler function are employed to generate the higher-order coefficients of the perturbation series and to predict the exact values of the moments, required for testing the properties of the perturbative expansions. We show that the contour-improved nonpower perturbation theories and the renormalization-group-summed nonpower perturbation theories have very good convergence properties for a large class of moments of the so-called ``reference model,'' including moments that are poorly described by the standard expansions. The results provide additional support for the plausibility of the description of the Adler function in terms of a small number of dominant renormalons.


To promote the reform of the application oriented personnel training system in national colleges and universities is the need of the times. According to national colleges and universities has been carried out the practice of cultivating applied talents, based on the analysis of the main trends of development of national colleges and universities of applied talents training and existing problems, put forward the national colleges and universities of applied talents training system reform ideas and suggestions: focus on policy guidance from the macro-level, school-running orientation and training goal from medium-level, school behavior from micro-level.


Adhesive Properties of Tall Oil Pitch Modified Bitumen, 449-465 Age Hardening Potential of Tall Oil Pitch Modified Bitumen, 467-481 Analysis of Aggregate Shape Characteristics and its Relationship to Hot Mix Asphalt Performance 317-350 A New Algorithm for Determination of Crack Growth Path in HMA Materials, 47-60 Assessment of Fracture Properties of Emulsified Asphalt Mixtures, 87-102 A Unified Model to Describe the Time-temperature Dependency Characteristics of Several Bound Road Materials, 551-577 A Yield Strength Model for Partially Saturated Unbound Granular Material, 423-448


Abstract This paper presents the equipment, methodology, procedure and the experimental results obtained, in the determination of the heat transmission coefficient, U, of a thermal solar collector of low temperature used as vertical enclosure. The tests have been carried out by using a PASSYS test cell in the "Laboratorio de ensayos Energéticos para Componentes de la Edificación (LECE)", laboratory that belongs to CIEMAT and is located at the "Plataforma Solar de Almería" (PSA). The test procedures used are the ones developed, adapted when necessary to these components, by the Net of European Laboratories PASLINK (which include Laboratories for each community country that have the same characteristics that the Spanish LECE) along several European projects carried out since 1988. These experimental results will be used for the simulation of the energy behaviour of buildings with these components in different climatic conditions and location, applying simulation models in order to predict their energy behaviour in real conditions of use. The simulated results will be contrasted with measures of these systems in real conditions.