Application of 2 kg a.i. Thimet 10 G [phorate]/ha increased the NH4-N content and decreased NO3-N content in red soil during the first 3 wk; thereafter nitrification was increased up to the 8th wk. Application of 1 kg atrazine/ha had no effect on contents of any form of N in soil. Interaction of phorate with levels of applied N (0-100 kg/ha) showed that nitrification inhibition with phorate was more pronounced at the lower N levels than at higher levels. The N uptake and DM production by sorghum were not affected by changes in soil nitrate levels up to 20 days after sowing, but at 60 days they were significantly increased in the phorate-treated plots


Introduction The meaning of a communication is transmitted not only by what is said but also by how it is said and by the speaker's mood and attitude toward what is said. The speaker's tone of voice and facial expressions often provide a listener with as much information about the speaker's emotional state as does the semantic content of the utterances (Schiff & Thayer, 1974), helping listeners to better understand the speaker's intent. Thus, the ability to communicate the emotional content of spoken stimuli is an important factor for successful everyday communication. Failure to communicate these nonverbal affective aspects may create misunderstandings and poor social interactions (Rieffe & Terwogt, 2000). Although speakers may differ in their ability to express emotions, research has demonstrated that accurate judgments of emotions and feelings can be made from wordless vocal messages (Hammermeister & Timms, 1989; Siegman & Feldstein, 1987; Wallbott & Scherer, 1986). The clearest, most consistent auditory factors in signaling the speaker's emotional state were found to be the mean value of the fundamental frequency (F0), its range, and its rate of changes. Duration of production and changes in voice intensity were also described as important parameters (Scherer, 1982, 1986; Siegman & Feldstein, 1987). Neutral utterances, for example, showed changes in F0 that were relatively slow, with a smooth and continuous contour shape throughout each utterance, and length was relatively short. In contrast, the contour shapes for angry utterances showed high F0, with a considerably greater range of F0 compared to the range for neutral utterances. Also, angry utterances demonstrated a higher intensity and rate of speech (Scherer, 1986; Williams & Stevens, 1972). Visual transmission of emotions is considered to be even more efficient. Visual cues regarding emotions are clear, and observers can reliably identify different emotions based on them (Fridlund, Ekman, & Oster, 1987; Hess, Kappas, & Scherer, 1988; Most, Weisel, & Zaychik, 1993; Wallbott & Scherer, 1986). Researchers have suggested that anger, disgust, happiness, fear, sadness, and surprise are each expressed visually in a universal way (Ekman, 1982). Previous Research on Children's Production of Emotions Young children's ability to produce emotions has been a focus of previous research, but mostly emphasizing the development of facial expressions rather than vocal output (Plutchik, 1994). Ekman and Friesen (1976) as well as Ekman and Oster (1979) claimed that even young infants (a few months old) exhibit 24 different recognizable facial expressions in response to various stimuli. Among 8-12 month olds, Young and Decarie (1977) identified 42 different facial expressions and 10 different vocal outcomes. Ekman and Oster (1979) summarized some of their conclusions in reference to infants' facial expressions as follows: 1. Facial musculature is fully formed and functional at birth. 2. Expressions similar to those of adults already appear in early infancy. 3. Infants aged 3-4 months show different facial expressions in response to exaggerated expressions of their caretakers. 4. Imitation of some facial expressions of the caretaker was seen among infants at age 2-3 weeks. 5. Preschool children know how most common facial expressions look, what they mean, and what kinds of situations typically elicit them. 6. Facial expressions play a role in social communication. As reported above, emotion, like other communicative intentions, is sometimes expressed through prosody alone, with no other cues (Gerard & Clement, 1998). Research has shown that young children already produce correct intonation, which means that they have acquired some prosodic elements. Nevertheless, the various typical prosodic patterns that are expressed during the production of specific emotions appear only later in life (Gerard & Clement, 1998). …


The effect of root and shoot competition and the application of fertilizer on the growth of Siratro (Macroptilium atropurpureum) and green panic (Panicum maxinzum var. trichoglume) seedlings under supplementary irrigation in an existing native grassland dominated by Heteropogon contortus was studied. The seedlings were grown in both the presence and absence of root competition and varying levels of shoot competition. Root competition was prevented by the use of steel tubes while shoot competition was varied by: clipping the native pasture to a height of either 3-5 cm or 10-15 cm every 7-10 days, leaving the native sward unclipped, and unclipped sward with wire-netting guards fitted around each seedling to prevent overtopping and facilitate light penetration. Seedling growth was assessed by determining dry weights after 29 days and also by measuring plant heights, leaf and tiller numbers and the leaf widths at 7-day intervals during this period. Application of superphosphate and nitrogen fertilizer increased the growth of both species, the initial effects being evident within 1-2 days of seedling emergence. However, at both fertilizer levels the growth of both species was primarily affected by root competition for nutrients. Where fertilizer was applied and no root competition was present heavy shading in the lower 5-10 cm of the sward canopy restricted seedling growth by reducing tiller and leaf production. The removal of shoot competition increased seedling yields fivefold whereas the removal of root competition and the removal of both root and shoot competition increased yields by 25- and 45-fold, respectively. Siratro and green panic yields were the same in the absence of root competition but Siratro yields were 11 times those of green panic where root competition was present.


Particle dampers' dissipative characteristics can be difficult to predict because of their highly non-linear behavior. The application of such devices in deformable vibrating systems can require extensive experimental and numerical analyses; therefore, improving the efficiency when simulating particle dampers would help in this regard. Two techniques often proposed to speed up the simulation, namely the adoption of a simplified frictional moment and the reduction of the contact stiffness, are considered; their effect on the simulation run-time, on the ability of the particle bed to sustain shear deformation, and on the prediction of the dissipation performance is investigated for different numerical case studies. The reduction in contact stiffness is studied in relation to the maximum overlap between particles, as well as the contacts' duration. These numerical simulations are carried out over a wide range of motion regimes, frequencies, and amplitude levels. Experimental results are considered as well. All the simulations are performed using a GPU-based discrete element simulation tool coupled with the multi-body code MBDyn; the results and execution time are compared with those of other solvers.


The Greigston diary was written by Thomas Graham Bonar between 1824 and 1833. It is mainly a record of happenings on the small family estate of Greigston in east Fife, which comprised two farms and subsidiary holdings for much of the diary period. Besides farming matters, it records visits and visitors, and a note was kept twice-daily about the weather, including a temperature reading for part of the period. This electronic book comprises an introduction to the diary in four chapters, the transcript of the diary itself (274 pages), and a postscript. There are extensive footnotes, a glossary, maps, tables, photographs and a bibliography. The text is searchable throughout. On the face of it, this farm diary is a rather repetitive account of the mundane practices that characterised the farming and gardening day and year. Though some detail is noted, no explanation or opinions are offered just bald facts. However, stories emerge. The diarist's daughter Mrs Cowan was the lady of the house at Greigston, staying at home to look after her father as well as her growing family; her husband comes and goes, as he was in the service of the Honourable East India Company. Her friends the misses Bell and Brown were frequent visitors, while others dropped in to see the diarist, en route to Cupar or St Andrews. Dr Graham from Cupar visited often to deal with family ailments; in the period, smallpox, measles and cholera were all present threats. The diarist's son came home to work on the farm, moving into Westmains next door when the family took it over. The reclamation of a moss occupied much time and effort in the early years, many trees were planted, some new-fangled implements were introduced and experimental crops grown all part of the farming improvements still being made in the earlynineteenth century. The farm servants who worked at Greigston are named, and some become familiar, Ballingal, Brown and Laing family members for instance appearing throughout the diary. The first three chapters of the introduction are concerned with setting the diary in its geographical and historical context. Sources used most extensively were the weekly local newspaper, the Fife Herald, the New Statistical Account (volume 9, Fife and Kinross), and Henry Stephen's The Book of the Farm. In Chapter One, major issues of the time are considered, including the national cholera epidemic, and the passing of the British Reform Bills, both in 1832. The family of the diarist is introduced. The landscape of the time is the theme of Chapter Two, especially the communications and land-use: farm fields, drainage and buildings, and woods and plantations. In the third chapter, various farming and related topics are discussed in greater depth, including crops, stock, mills, harvest, markets, coal and limestone. In Chapter Four an attempt is made to summarise the diary under the headings 'family' and 'farm' for each twoyearly period. In the Postscript, Chapter 5, further genealogical detail about the Graham Bonar family is given, based on local Old Parochial Register and population census records and other sources of information, beyond the diary itself.


The commenter asserts that the above-titled paper by G.M.R. Winkler (see ibid., vol.79, no.7, p.1029-39, July 1991) perpetuates a fairly widespread fundamental error by using a semipopular explanation for the dissemination of time in rotating frames of reference. The misconception that one must employ general relativity to describe kinematic phenomena (synchronization, Sagnac effect, etc.) in accelerated systems, even in flat space-time, is exposed by the commenter, who proposes a way to resolve the problem. Winkler replies that he shares the commenter's concerns but does not necessarily agree with the way he proposes to resolve the issues, and he presents arguments to support his position. In a further comment, the commenter disagrees and offers further discussion. >


The characteristics of Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO), especially over the equatorial western Pacific, during the boreal winter (November to March) have got a further investigation based on the reanalysis data. The MJO activity prevails over the equatorial Indian Ocean and western Pacific and its main active centres are in the Southern Hemisphere. The MJO also has the highest percentage in the atmospheric variability and strong interannual variability here. The MJO over the equatorial western Pacific shows a prominent interannual variability with a period of 2–8 years and an interdecadal variability with a period of 12–16 years. These variabilities of MJO are closely related to the intensity and duration of strong discrete MJO events over there. During the equatorial western Pacific MJO activity strong winter, the MJO is intensified throughout the tropics and its eastward propagation is more continuous, more coherent, and further east. Anomalous ascending motion and moisture convergence over the equatorial western Pacific could enhance the Walker circulation over the equatorial Pacific and favour the activity of MJO over the equatorial western Pacific. The further eastward propagation of MJO in strong MJO activity winter is mainly due to the strong moistening at the lower troposphere to the east of the MJO convection centre. This moistening is dominated by the vertical advection of moisture. In weak MJO activity winter, the above characteristics are reversed. Furthermore, the MJO activity over the Indian Ocean and Pacific has undergone several interdecadal changes in both of its intensity and propagation during the past 150 years.


This paper empirically assesses the effects of the winner's curse in auctions for road concession contracts. First, the paper will investigate the overall effects of the winner's curse on bidding behavior in such auctions. Second, the paper will examine the effects of the winner's curse on contract auctions with differing levels of common-value components. Third, the paper will investigate how the winner's curse affects bidding behavior in such auctions and the paper will account for the possibility for bidders to renegotiate. Using a unique dataset of 37 worldwide road concessions, the paper will show that the winner's curse effect is particularly strong in toll road concession contract auctions. Thus, the paper will show that bidders bid less aggressively in toll road concession auctions when they expect more competition. Besides, the paper observes that this winner's curse effect is even larger for projects where the common uncertainty is greater. Perhaps more interestingly, the paper shows that the winner's curse effect is weaker when the likelihood of renegotiation is higher, i.e. bidders will bid more strategically in weaker institutional frameworks, in which renegotiations are easier.


Cumulative incidence has been widely used to estimate the cumulative probability of developing an event of interest by a given time, in the presence of competing risks. When it is of interest to measure the total burden of recurrent events in a population, however, the cumulative incidence method is not appropriate because it considers only the first occurrence of the event of interest for each individual in the analysis: Subsequent occurrences are not included. Here, we discuss a straightforward and intuitive method termed " mean cumulative count, " which reflects a summarization of all events that occur in the population by a given time, not just the first event for each subject. We explore the mathematical relationship between mean cumulative count and cumulative incidence. Detailed calculation of mean cumulative count is described by using a simple hypothetical example, and the computation code with an illustrative example is provided. Using follow-up data from January 1975 to August 2009 collected in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, we show applications of mean cumulative count and cumulative incidence for the outcome of subsequent neoplasms to demonstrate different but complementary information obtained from the 2 approaches and the specific utility of the former. In many clinical studies, it is of interest to estimate the cumulative probability of developing an event by a given time. The complement of a Kaplan-Meier (KM) product limit estimate has been widely used to estimate this cumulative probability. However, when there are competing-risk events, which are events that either preclude the occurrence of the event of interest or fundamentally alter its probability of occurrence (1), the method of cumulative incidence (CumI) should be used. The KM method is not appropriate when competing-risk events are present, because it does not distinguish competing-risk events from censoring, which can result in inflated cumulative probability estimates. The CumI method properly removes individuals who had a competing-risk event from the risk set for the event of interest. The CumI approach estimates the cumulative probability of the first event of interest over time: Subsequent occurrences of the event of interest are not included. When examining the probability of event occurrence within subpopulations of subjects defined by different treatments or other risk factors (i.e., etiological inference), it may be sensible for the analysis to consider only the first occurrence of the event in each subject, particularly if the occurrence of the first event changes the underlying risk and/or …


Planar antimony (Sb) containing compound semiconductors are used in a broad range of optoelectronic devices. The optical properties of these devices can be tailored by the Sb concentration. In the case of Sb containing nanowires (NWs) the high surface-to-volume ratio can affect the Sb composition control during the NW growth. In previous studies on both Auand Ga-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown GaAs1-ySby inserts in GaAs NWs, a reduction in the Sb concentration towards the outer surface was found [1, 2]. The radial composition variations could be caused by i) As-Sb exchange at the surface and/or ii) radial GaAs overgrowth during NW growth.


THIS REPORT was prompted by the circumstance that both the patients reported had unusual clinical histories and that in both communicating hydrocephalus developed as a result of meningeal meningiomatosis. In addition, attempts were made to control the increased intracranial pressure in each instance by the use of drainage through a polyethylene tube. The character of the lesions was not revealed until necropsy. Necropsy also afforded an opportunity to study the effects of the various operative procedures which had been employed in the hope of controlling increased intracranial pressure and the communicating hydrocephalus. It is not within the scope of this presentation to discuss the cause of hydrocephalus 1 or the merits or demerits of procedures employed in attempting to control hydrocephalus of the obstructive 2 or communicating type. 3 Russell 4 discussed the pathologic changes in this condition, and Davidoff 5 reviewed the literature concerning various operative methods of treatment.


The paper presents a generic framework for designing and implementing multiuser virtual exhibitions that adapt visitors' preferences and goals and foster the emergence of communities with common interests. A user-oriented platform for designing and executing virtual exhibitions has been presented in which implicit generation and adjustment of user profile allows exhibition to dynamically adapt content presentation to users' interest and preferences. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.33.4604


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M ENANDER is the beginning of the long line of social comedies which runs through Plautus, Terence, Shakespeare, Goldoni, Moliere, Sheridan, Pinero, Belasco, Milne, Lonsdale, Eliot and beyond, with many others whose names I do not knowthe comedy which held the English stage in my youth: middle to upper class households well equipped with butlers, maids and nurses, in which after surmounting a number of obstacles true love found its way. This is Menander's interest for students of comparative literature.I Until 1907 Menander was known only from something like 1,000 quotations in ancient authors, seldom more than five lines long and mostly much shorter, and from the adaptations of four plays by plautus and four plays by Terence. In 1907 a papyrus text was published which contained rather over half of Menander's Arbitrants and rather over a third of The Samian Woman and The Girl Loses her Locks (Perikeiromene). From that time on Egypt has produced more and more papyri of Menander, including the first virtually complete play Grumpy (or Dyskolos). The play which I shall discuss now, Woman Hates Soldier (Misoumenos), is in a thoroughly unsatisfactory state. The sources are seven papyri, fourteen quotations in ancient authors, and a picture of the last act on a mosaic, which helps very little. The papyri preserve (1) the opening 13 lines, (2) about 75 lines, very badly preserved, of the second act, (3) 328 lines, very badly preserved but in places reinforced by three other copies, of the third and fourth acts, (4) then after a gap of 160 lines, the last 50 lines of the play. We have something like half


One' s awareness of the sexual division of labor would usually be judged by his/her attitude toward the allotment of roles based on sex. However, the study conducted in this paper makes the following two points clear: while objecting to the idea of sex-based role allotment, women think that, because women have an instinctive affection for their family, women should assume the reproductive role, which is the second dimension of the sexual division of labor; men agree to this second dimension of labor division even when their wives are employed. Therefore, the awareness that women are innately affective seems to greatly determine the gender roles.


The efficient use of phosphorus (P) in agriculture has been the main focus of research on this macronutrient. Phosphites, which have been considered plant stimulants, can contribute to increase the efficiency of the use of P by corn. The objective was to evaluate the influence of phosphite via leaf on the growth and accumulation of corn phosphorus in the initial growth phase under doses of P. An experiment was installed in a completely randomized design, in a 5 x 2 factorial scheme with four replications. At 45 days after planting, the plant height and stem diameter, shoot dry matter, stem and roots, contents, accumulation and P and the efficiency of using P (EUP) were evaluated. Phosphorus fertilization of corn, cultivated in chromium Luvisol in the initial stage is essential to increase its growth and the production of dry mass and accumulation of P. The phosphite applied via leaf did not produce additional benefit in growth, biomass production or phosphate nutrition of corn , but increased EUP at the intermediate dose (200 mg dm -3 ) of this nutrient.


Abstract For Thai migrant women in the Netherlands, sending remittances is a crucial way to uphold their relationships with their kin and communities in Thailand. This article makes the case that the impacts of remittances on migrant women's families and their sending communities are uneven. Apart from the economic and political determinants, underscored in previous studies, this article suggests that the imagination of affl uence in Europe, the cultural idea of saving face and family norms signifi cantly infl uence how remittances are deployed and interpreted by the women and their natal families, and to some extent their Dutch spouses. 'Social remittances'—ideas, identities and cultural practices—are also transmitted to the receiving country. These social remittances expose non-migrants to global cultural diffusion and cause to a degree a transformation of their social values and their life styles.


by eArly 2013, isrAel's populAtion was close to the eight million mark. The country, which is based on a market economy, with an estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita (PPP) of about $32,000, is considered the only democratic country in the Middle East. During the last decades, Israel has emerged as an important global center of innovation and entrepreneurship. Knowledge-intensive industries, as well as private and public venture capital (both Israeli and international), have allowed for industry and service sectors to flourish, including that of tertiary education.


The lack of fund often becomes a problem for realization of priority programs
in the strategic plan of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong. Several
other basic problems participate in the implementation of main tasks and functions of
the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong. Even, serious development and
management of culture and tourism in Sorong City is an absolute precondition for the
progress of Sorong City as a whole. Facing those problems, a question on
organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong and
decisive factors toward organization effectiveness emerge. This research aimed at: (1)
understanding to what extent organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan
Pariwisata Kota Sorong in implementing it�s tasks and functions in the
decentralization of culture and tourism and (2) finding out decisive factors for
organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong.
This research is important to do because Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota
Sorong has been established in 2004. Since 2004 till now, special research analyzing
organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong have
not been conducted yet.
Research method used description qualitatively. Data were collected
ordinarily by considering data normality. Primary data were obtained through
interview and observation. Secondary data were obtained through literature study and
documentation. Informants were specified with purposive sampling method. Object
of research is Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong. Subjects of research
are all individuals at the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong and other
relevant organizations. Data validity used data triangulation technique. Researcher
used source and theories triangulation, using data sources and theories to collect the
similarity of information. Data analysis technique used inductive method.
It is assumed that productivity, flexibility, and job satisfaction are indicators
directly determine organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan
Pariwisata Kota Sorong. Meanwhile, human resources, organization structure,
internal and external likelihood, and leadership are decisive indicators for supporting
or barrier factors for organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan
Pariwisata Kota Sorong. Research results have shown that: (1) productivity and
flexibility are supporting factors to organization effectiveness of the Dinas
Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong and (2) human resources is barrier factor for
organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong,
while organization structure, internal and external likelihood, and leadership are
supporting factors for organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan
Pariwisata Kota Sorong.
It is expected that organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan
Pariwisata Kota Sorong increase. Hence, productivity, flexibility, and job satisfaction
indicators should be improved. In other side, the improvement mainly in human
resources sector is absolutely stressed in the light of it is barrier factor for
organization effectiveness of the Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Kota Sorong.


INTRODUCTION
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prophylaxis in general practice, especially in rural areas, is a major organizational challenge.

OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of CVD risk factors in the studied population, and to identify the effect of the number of planned prophylactic consultations on selected clinical parameters, risk factors, and total cardiovascular risk on the SCORE scale (Systemic Coronary Risk Evaluation).

MATERIALS AND METHOD
The study included patients of a rural general practice, aged 35-55 years, with at least one modifiable CVD risk factor. Medical history was obtained, a physical examination performed, blood glucose levels, lipid profile, BMI, waist circumference and blood pressure measured and the SCORE cardiovascular risk at baseline and at the end of the study calculated. All participants were provided with targeted specific education. Analysis was performed in two groups of patients (1 and 2), where group 1 had one more prophylactic consultation than Group 2.

RESULTS
The results at baseline and a year later were compared in pharmacologically untreated patients, 26 in Group 1 and 34 in Group 2. In Group 1, which had had more prophylactic consultations, a statistically significant decrease was found in the mean systolic blood pressure: 131.000-124.782 (p= 0.02721), mean diastolic blood pressure: 86.846-83.462 (p=0.01111), and a statistically significant decrease in total cardiovascular risk on the SCORE scale (p=0.0478).

CONCLUSIONS
The higher number of preventive consultations had an impact on a statistically significant decrease in mean blood pressure and mean SCORE value. The year-long cardiovascular disease prophylaxis programme proved less effective than expected, and neither a decrease in body weight nor an improvement in lipid metabolism was achieved in any of the groups.


Words cannot express how thrilled I am to be instructed to address such an honorable audience as members of the Hong Kong Paediatric Society, and how honored I am to be able to be recognised as a comrade in striving for the advancement of children's holistic well-being in Hong Kong. Since the Society's 2007 initiative of using a medalist orator to highlight a key theme in paediatrics in Hong Kong, assertions have covered integrative child health, moving adolescent and child health work into community, and the education of children with dyslexia. The identified theme for 2011 is "Eradication of childhood poverty in Hong Kong". I believe my current position as teacher and administrator in social work and social administration in The University of Hong Kong has enabled me to be considered for sharing my views on this issue, which brings social and medical health professionals alike to share and work together. To invite curiosity and facilitate conceptualisation, I have expanded the topic of my presentation to include a few acronyms, which I will systematically elaborate in my presentation.


Essential oils and their components are becoming increasingly popular as naturally occurring antimicrobial agents. In this work the chemical composition and the antibacterial properties of the essential oils of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), lemon (Citrus limonum), oregano (Corydothymus capitatus) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris) were determined. The essential oil components were identified by GC/MS analysis. The antibacterial activity of the oils was investigated in order to evaluate its efficacy against a panel of standard reference strains, using disc diffusion and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) methods. The GC/MS analysis showed that the major constituents of the oils were monoterpene hydrocarbons and phenolic monoterpenes, but the concentration of these compounds varied greatly among the oils examined. The results of the antibacterial assay showed that Corydothymus capitatus and Thymus vulgaris have the strongest antibacterial activity against all microorganisms tested. The MIC values obtained in the presence of Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella arizonae were ≤ 0.25% (v/v) for oregano and thyme essential oils.


We have developed a simple miniprep procedure for the isolation of genomic DNA from the ascomycete Magnaporthe grisea. This pathogen of many grasses, including rice, has a moderate growth rate and produces intermediate to low numbers of conidia when grown in culture. Thus, in our previous DNA preparation procedure we inoculated swirling liquid cultures with mycelium that had been fragmented in a blender rather than with conidia. The mycelium obtained from these cultures was ground in liquid nitrogen for DNA extraction. Though the quantity and quality of DNA obtained by this method is satisfactory, the technique is too laborious for analysis of many strains. We developed the procedure described below to eliminate the need to fragment mycelium in a blender to inoculate cultures and to eliminate the need to grind mycelium in liquid nitrogen for DNA extraction. The new procedure, which relies on the enzymatic removal of cell walls and the lysis of protoplasts, should be readily adaptable to other filamentous fungi with growth characteristics similar to those of M. grisea. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. This regular paper is available in Fungal Genetics Reports: http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol37/iss1/28 A miniprep procedure for isolating genomic DNA from Magnaporthe grisea A miniprep procedure for isolating genomic DNA from Magnaporthe grisea Sweigard, J.A., M.J. Orbach, B. Valent and F.G. Chumley Central Research and Development Department, DuPont Experimental Station, P.O. Box 80402, Wilmington DE, 19880-0402 We have developed a simple miniprep procedure for the isolation of genomic DNA from the ascomycete Magnaporthe grisea. This pathogen of many grasses, including rice, has a moderate growth rate and produces intermediate to low numbers of conidia when grown in culture. Thus, in our previous DNA preparation procedure we inoculated swirling liquid cultures with mycelium that had been fragmented in a blender rather than with conidia. The mycelium obtained from these cultures was ground in liquid nitrogen for DNA extraction. Though the quantity and quality of DNA obtained by this method is satisfactory, the technique is too laborious for analysis of many strains. We developed the procedure described below to eliminate the need to fragment mycelium in a blender to inoculate cultures and to eliminate the need to grind mycelium in liquid nitrogen for DNA extraction. The new procedure, which relies on the enzymatic removal of cell walls and the lysis of protoplasts, should be readily adaptable to other filamentous fungi with growth characteristics similar to those of M. grisea. 1. Inoculate a mycelial plug into complete medium (3 g yeast extract, 3 g casamino acids, 10 g glucose/liter) in wells of tissue culture plates (24-well dishes, six columns with four rows, Corning #25820, Cell WellsTM, 16 mm diameter wells). Using 1.5 ml of complete medium per well, grow each strain in three wells in the dark at 24-28°C without shaking until a mycelial mat covers the well (4-6 days for M. grisea). 2. Remove the mycelial mats from the wells, blot them on a towel to remove excess medium, and place all three mats in a well containing 1.2 ml of osmotically-stabilized enzyme solution [0.7 M NaCl, 3.3 mg NovoZymTM 234/ml (Novo Industrias, Bagsvaerd, Denmark)] for two hours at room temperature. Perform this step in a well in the same column as the one that was used for mycelial growth, thereby eliminating sample numbering for the enzyme step. 3. Pipette the digested mycelium to a microfuge tube. (The mycelial mat disintegrates with pipetting.) Pellet the protoplasts for two minutes in a microfuge at full speed. Decant the supernatant. 4. Resuspend the pellet in 600 μl of lysis buffer (50 mM Tris.HCl, pH 7.5, 100 mM EDTA, 0.5% SDS, 0.3 M sodium acetate). Heat the lysed protoplasts at 65°C for 30 minutes. 5. Extract the lysed protoplasts with 600 μl of phenol equilibrated with TE (10 mM Tris.HCl, pH 8.1, 1 mM EDTA). 6. Remove the aqueous phase to clean microfuge tubes containing 500 μl of isopropanol. Mix several times by inversion and spin immediately for 5 minutes in a microfuge. 7. Wash the pellet in 70% EtOH and air dry. 8. Dissolve the nucleic acid pellet in 100 μl TE containing 1 μg RNAse A/ml (Sigma, St. Louis). We have successfully used this procedure to analyze several hundred transformants. One person can easily complete fifty minipreps in one day. Ten microliters of the DNA obtained (1/10 the preparation) cuts readily in 25 μl reaction mixtures with all enzymes tested (including BamHI, EcoRI, HindIII, PstI, SstI and XhoI). This quantity provides a strong signal on Southern blots when 4 mm gel lanes are used. The small variation in the quantity of DNA obtained from different samples allows preliminary screening without DNA quantification. Central Research and Development Department, Du Pont Experimental Station, P.O. Box 80402, Wilmington, DE 19880-0402. Published by New Prairie Press, 2017


In the load balancing problem, introduced by Graham in the 1960s (SIAM J. of Appl. Math. 1966, 1969), jobs arriving online have to be assigned to machines so to minimize an objective defined on machine loads. A long line of work has addressed this problem for both the makespan norm and arbitrary $\ell_q$-norms of machine loads. Recent literature (e.g., Azar et al., STOC 2013; Im et al., FOCS 2015) has further expanded the scope of this problem to vector loads, to capture jobs with multi-dimensional resource requirements in applications such as data centers. In this paper, we completely resolve the job scheduling problem for both scalar and vector jobs on related machines, i.e., where each machine has a given speed and the time taken to process a job is inversely proportional to the speed of the machine it is assigned on.
We show the following results. For scalar scheduling, we give a constant competitive algorithm for optimizing any $\ell_q$-norm for related machines. The only previously known result was for the makespan norm. For vector scheduling, there are two natural variants for vector scheduling, depending on whether the speed of a machine is dimension-dependent or not. We show a sharp contrast between these two variants, proving that they are respectively equivalent to unrelated machines and identical machines for the makespan norm. We also extend these results to arbitrary $\ell_q$-norms of the machine loads. No previous results were known for vector scheduling on related machines.


The paper describes a novel hashing method suitable for lookup functions. Traditional methods are either of lower hash quality or inferior performance. In this paper, we show how to compute a high-quality hash digest at extremely high performance on Intel ® processors using the crc32 instruction. Our method also generates multiple 32-bit hashes of an input data buffer, which have low correlation. This paper describes a novel hashing method suitable for lookup functions, based on the crc32 instruction. We show how to compute a high-quality 64-bit hash digest at extremely high performance on Intel ® processors. For large data buffers, the performance of our hash function tends to ~ 0.44 cycles/byte on a single thread of an Intel ® Core™ i5 650 processor. Even for small buffers (~24 bytes), the performance is better than 1 cycle/byte. The Intel ® Embedded Design Center provides qualified developers with web-based access to technical resources. Access Intel Confidential design materials, step-by step guidance, application reference solutions, training, Intel's tool loaner program, and connect with an e-help desk and the embedded community. Design Fast. Design Smart. Get started today. Overview This paper describes a novel hashing method suitable for lookup functions. Traditional methods are either of lower hash quality or inferior performance. In this paper, we show how to compute a high-quality hash digest at extremely high performance on Intel ® processors using the crc32 instruction [3]. Our method also generates multiple 32-bit hashes of an input data buffer, which have low correlation and is useful in contexts such as network processing applications.


This article interrogates a number of facets of Lesotho literature in English and Thomas Mofolo's role in it. We are deliberately focusing on literature written in English and not in Sesotho, as the latter has been covered substantially by others (see Swanepoel; Ntuli and Swanepoel), and we find it necessary to stake claims from Lesotho on the English literary map of southern Africa. Historically, the emergence and evolution of literature in Lesotho has been closely linked to the evangelical mission of the church and the dominance of Sesotho as a sole linguistic vehicle for communication, catechistic instruction and creative imagination. This scenario has meant that, for years, literature written in the vernacular—Seso- tho—has tended to take pride of place at the expense of literary writing in English or in any other language. With time, however, translated works and original literature written in English have arisen and developed, though with almost imperceptible gradualism. This article sets out to describe, anatomise and judge (Hoffman 199) Lesotho literature in English since the days of Mofolo. The paper also attempts to define the identity of this literature.


Excavation at Sardis in 1994 and 1995 further exposed a Late Roman suburb, with houses and colonnaded streets of the fourth-seventh centuries A. D., and a massive defense wall of the seventh-sixth centuries B. C., together with destruction debris of the latter and associated weapons that evidently belong to the Persian attack of the 540s B. C. Foundations for a crepis wall that curbed one of the largest tumuli in the Bin Tepe cemetery were also found. Geophysical resistivity and magnetic surveys were conducted over a total of 2.4 ha of the city site and at Bin Tepe, and results were checked by excavation in two locations. Ancient quarries in the environs of Sardis were sampled in an attempt to identify sources of limestone and marble used in buildings of the seventh and sixth centuries B. C. at Sardis and Bin Tepe. Drilling/coring inside a large tumulus at Bin Tepe indicated that anomalies previously detected in a ground-penetrating radar survey do not represent a burial chamber.


Analysis of power systems is normally executed using either phase coordinates or symmetrical components. In most cases, the decision on the selection is based on the type of the network and its loading. Most of the approaches use symmetrical components only in cases of a balanced network with a balanced loading for the calculation of the electrical power flow. In all other cases, phase coordinates are typically used. This paper derives a new approach for the description of a network which is based on Fortescue's transformation, which is the general description of polyphase-systems. This approach generalizes the use of symmetrical components for network applications in power systems with one phase-, two phase- and three phase-components.


Primary open angle glaucoma is one of the leading causes of clinical irreversible blindness.The pathologic features of glaucoma injuries have been studied extensively at the level of retinal ganglion cells and optic nerves.Recent studies have showed that upper visual pathway,such as lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex of occipital lobes are with injury,which indicate that glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease.Early neuroprotective treatment for glaucoma can help to slow down the apoptosis of ganglion cells and to inhibit the further damage on visual function.This article reviews the pathologic mechanisms of central visual damage,clinical diagnosis and neuroprotective treatment for glaucoma.Recent advances on glaucoma are also explored.


This paper elaborates on the study of the use of sparsity aware algorithms in the identification of models pertaining to time-series generating systems. Furthermore, the changes in forecasting performance, resultant of the addition of said algorithms to the predictor, are analyzed and a thorough comparison between sparseness seeking methods and others that do not share this objective is performed to validate each of the choices. Additionally, an alternative model identification approach is considered, based on a representation of the system behaviour as a Markov process. In this work, a separation of the prediction process in two parts is suggested, to allow for an independent analysis of distinct aspects of the data. These two sections deal with the stationary and non-stationary aspects of the data separately. The main application of this work is the forecasting of time-series associated to the motion of objects, hence the separation of the signals in a more general signal correspondent to the motion of the target and the non-stationary part of the data, and the stationary signal representing the noise of the observations. A linear prediction of the future coordinates is obtained through the long division of the autoregressive model that dictates the stationary signal behaviour, whereas a discrete grid-based solution to the Fokker-Planck equation of the objects is sought for multiple target tracking. An acceptable method for short-term predictions is presented in this report, in hopes that it contributes to the pursuit of faster and more reliable forecast methods.


Objective This study was performed to estimate the prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin M virus capsid antigen (EBV IgM VCA) among healthy blood donors and to confirm the real risk of transfusion transmission by detection of virus load using PCR quantification. Materials and methods A total of 860 apparently healthy Egyptian blood donors were enrolled and tested for EBV IgM VCA. Quantitative PCR was performed for reactive cases for EBV IgM VCA. Results An overall 38 patients were reactive for EBV IgM VCA, constituting 4.4% of the sample. Reactivity of Epstein-Barr virus did not differ significantly as regards sex distribution, blood grouping, Rh factor positivity, and hemoglobin level, but it was significantly higher among upper Egypt participants than among those from other regions (P = 0.006). There was a very high statistically significant positive correlation between the titer of EBV VCA IgM reactive cases and age in the studied group (P = 0.0001 and r = 0.6). PCR was negative for all of the reactive cases. Conclusion Routine screening for Epstein-Barr virus in blood bags is not economical. Screening is highly recommended only for immunocompromised and pretransplant patients. Viremia is not the role in individuals with EBV IgM positive sera, which in turn changes some concepts in organ transplantation.


Specification of an appropriate relationship, or division of labor, between sociology and philosophy, remains a sensitive issue. Anthony Giddens offers a distinctive variant in his concern, in structuration theory, to develop an ontology of the social without participating in epistemological debate and without articulating and justifying a normative theory (whether a philosophical anthropology or a political philosophy). Both omissions impair the wider reception of structuration theory. The second is the more serious, however, insofar as the postempiricist community of inquirers may make a virtue of the ethical and political factors that inform social science, but it does not yet have any settled means of assessing different, and contesting, values; even if it did, it could not invent Giddens's position for him. There are signs that Giddens now recognizes the need to formulate and justify models of the good society and of the actualized self.


The broad objective of the study was to understand better anxiety among adolescents in Kolkata city, India. Specifically, the study compared anxiety across gender, school type, socio-economic background and mothers' employment status. The study also examined adolescents' perceptions of quality time with their parents. A group of 460 adolescents (220 boys and 240 girls), aged 13-17 years were recruited to participate in the study via a multi-stage sampling technique. The data were collected using a self-report semi- structured questionnaire and a standardized psychological test, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Results show that anxiety was prevalent in the sample with 20.1% of boys and 17.9% of girls found to be suffering from high anxiety. More boys were anxious than girls (p<0.01). Adolescents from Bengali medium schools were more anxious than adolescents from English medium schools (p<0.01). Adolescents belonging to the middle class (middle socio-economic group) suffered more anxiety than those from both high and low socio- economic groups (p<0.01). Adolescents with working mothers were found to be more anxious (p<0.01). Results also show that a substantial proportion of the adolescents perceived they did not receive quality time from fathers (32.1%) and mothers (21.3%). A large number of them also did not feel comfortable to share their personal issues with their parents (60.0% for fathers and 40.0% for mothers).


The problems associated with the reassignment of students to schools, whether the result of closures, expansions, grade reconfigurations, or district desegregation, are some of the most difficult problems that school administrators must face. These problems are compounded with the political backlash that can result whenever parents sense a loss of control over their schools. An increasingly popular approach to reassignment, however, is to allow 'choice'. When parental choices are honored, the otherwise adversary relationships between parents and administrators are diminished and community support for schools is strengthened. In this paper is a series of mathematical programming formulations which can enable administrators rapidly to generate alternative assignment schemes that maximize choice. In addition, these multiobjective frameworks allow the explicit analysis of the trade-offs between a variety of important but competing objectives.


This paper reports the influences of the post-sintering annealing in argon and uniaxial compressive pre-stress on the giant dielectric properties of the CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramics sintered at 1100 °C in air for 6 and 16 h. The CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic sintered at 1100 °C for 6 h exhibited high ε′ of ∼1 × 104 whereas the CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic sintered at 1100 °C for 16 h possessed one order of magnitude higher dielectric constant (ε′∼2 × 104). The dielectric behaviour of both samples exhibits Debye-like relaxation, and can be explained based on a Maxwell–Wagner model. Post-sintering annealing in argon for 5 h leads to a significant increase in ε′ for CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic sintered at 1100 °C for 16 h but a slight decrease in ε′ for the CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic sintered at 1100 °C for 6 h. The ε′ of the 16 h sintered CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic after annealing in argon increases with increasing temperatures, and exhibits a peak at about 150 °C, which is closely related to the oxygen vacancies. The dielectric behaviour of this argon-annealed sample follows the UDR law. The dielectric properties of the argon-annealed samples change significantly with the applied compressive stress (the absolute change can reach 25% at a maximum stress of 130 MPa). However, the changes in dielectric properties with the stress in the samples subjected to different sintering times follow opposing trends. The mechanisms responsible for this difference are discussed.


This research analysed the factors contributing to lecturer ICT phobia in classroom instruction at Mutare Polytechnic, Manicaland in Zimbabwe. The researchers observed that most of the Institution of Higher and Tertiary Education (IHTE) in Zimbabwe had Information Communication Technology (ICT) departments but rarely or never used E-Learning at all in their delivering of their services. E-Learning was defined, in this research, as distribution of learning materials, assignments, tests and discussions using the computers by lecturers. Students on the other hand uploaded learning materials, assignments, and tests and discussed on the computer using the internet. The researchers used the qualitative research paradigm using Mutare Polytechnic staff members and students as target population. The researchers collected some data through observations in different computer laboratories, head of division offices, staff rooms and selected lecturers' offices using a digital camera. The documents analysed were the institution master asset register, enrolment statistics register and staff establishment records. Questionnaires were distributed to purposively selected participants for their expertise in the use of technology considering their special areas in the ICT department. Out of the thirty- four (34) questionnaires distributed to lecturers, thirty-one (31) questionnaires were returned which constitute a ninety-one percent (91%) return rate. Out of forty-five (45) questionnaires distributed to students, forty (40) questionnaires were returned which constitute eighty-nine percent (89%) return rate. Findings of the research revealed that there was inadequate hardware and software to facilitate E-Learning. There was also lack of the required competencies to facilitate E-Learning. To a lesser extent, lack of understanding the benefits of using E-Learning was another factor. Unaware of the existence of E-Learning and negative attitudes of lecturers were identified factors which militated against the use of E-Learning at Mutare Polytechnic.


Relevance of article is caused, first of all, by what is in scientific and practical turnover several complementary and crossed categories allowing to consider a work resource from the high-quality and quantitative party. Such concepts as «labor resources», «economically active population», «labor potential», «human potential», «human capital», «human resources» belong to the similar categories. However the interrelation of these categories is studied not fully. The author's campaign to a problem of structuring a resource of work which is understood as a renewable inventory of capabilities which in case of desire can be used in the course of work is provided to article. According to the author, intensity of application of these or those capabilities depends on that, how often the person performs operations in case of which they are necessary. Therefore during life a part of capabilities can be not opened at all and/or isn't used. In work as the author the external and internal factors determining extent of manifestation of labor potential of the person are selected. The author researched interrelation of such categories as «the labor potential», «human potential», «human capital», and also the main aspects of their forming are determined. Structuring components of a resource of work from the high-quality and quantitative party is carried out.


The invention discloses an environment-friendly type steel slag based sludge curing agent. The environment-friendly type steel slag based sludge curing agent is mainly composed of steel slag, cement, lime, sodium silicate and gypsum. The environment-friendly type steel slag based sludge curing agent is composed of the components in percentage by weight: 45.0%-60.0% of the steel slag, 14.0-25.0% of the cement, 6.0-18.0% of the lime, 0.5-5.0%of the sodium silicate and 7.0-11.0% of the gypsum. The environment-friendly type steel slag based sludge curing agent is simple in material composition, scientific and reasonable and easy to implement; a lot of the raw materials are the steel slag which is difficultly consumed and utilized in current industry; the raw materials are abundant in source, low in cost, and environmental friendly and pollution-free; compared with a traditional sludge curing material, the performance cost ratio is high, the energy is saved and the consumption is reduced, and the cost is saved.


Upon opening package 9975-01819 following approximately 5.5 years storage in KAMS, it was observed that the fiberboard was moldy, and the total height of the fiberboard assemblies was less than normal. Observations and measurements have since been made on three subsequent occasions. The available information indicates that the package contained approximately 2.5 liters of water in excess of what would normally exist within the fiberboard. This excess moisture led to a significant loss of fiberboard strength, the subsequent compression of the bottom layers, and the growth of mold observed on both the upper and lower fiberboard assemblies. In its current state, the fiberboard from this package retains a density (related to the criticality control function) within the range measured in other packages. The amount of excess moisture present is modest throughout most of the fiberboard, and its effect on thermal conductivity should be small. The thermal conductivity should increase significantly only near the bottom of the lower fiberboard assembly where the majority of excess moisture was found. The impact absorption capability is affected, and the ability of the fiberboard to perform this function in the current state must be evaluated. The longer such a condition persists, the greater the impactmore » on fiberboard mechanical properties.« less


In the article the content of the concept "paroemia" within the framework of paremiology a sub-section of phraseology is revealed. In the work linguistic terms associated with the concept of phraseological unit are specified, its typical characteristics are given. The author focuses on the consideration of phraseological units paroemias (proverbs and sayings), which have both common and distinctive features, and notes a possibility of the formation of pupils' communicative competence by the material of the paremic fund of the English language, as proverbs and sayings being phraseological units often contain culture-specific vocabulary as well as give an idea about the culture, customs and traditions of the country of the target language being a fragment of the linguistic view of the world.


A distributed hydrological model that simulates water, nutrients and organic matter flow in a watershed including a paddy field area was developed to analyse the effects of paddy farming on water environment. The model considered biochemical reactions, by simplifying them to be of 1st kinetics, in ponding water in a paddy field and in water in a river. This model enabled estimates to be made of the contributions of paddy agriculture, irrigation water intake, domestic sewage and rainfall to the amount of nutrients discharged as a result of each land use. The model was applied to the basin of the highly eutrophicated Lake Aburaga-fuchi. The calculated values agreed well with the observed data. The calculated results indicate that river water quality was improved by irrigation water intake and paddy farming, and that nitrogen removal in paddy fields plays an important role in watershed nutrient circulation.


Ethnic assertion in North East India is widely known political phenomenon. Bodos are one of the largest ethnic groups in North East India, who have asserted for Bodo homeland in Assam for a long time. This paper is an attempt to make a critical analysis of various stages of the Bodo assertion, the rise of Bodo identity consciousness, sub-nationalism, evolution of the Bodo politics and simultaneous participation in electoral politics since Colonial era under different organizations and leadership of the time. Beginning from the first generation Bodo leaders in the first half of the 20th century to the post Independence era and beyond. The study is limited and emphasis only the Bodo assertion and their electoral participation within the limited political and territorial framework of BTC/BTR. BTC/BTR comprises of four districts of Assam i.e. Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri. It is administered under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India. It enjoys limited jurisdiction of legislative and executive power under the constitutional framework.This study is analytical in nature includes an observation and critical analysis of the secondary sources. The study has also referred the primary sources for electoral data and statistic from various official sources and records.


:The FFT estimating principle and implementation of uniaxial magnetic anisotropic constants, as well as the periodic recognition of the torque function, the determination of sample size and the choice of FFT coefficiences etc are introduced. At last, a practical computing example is given.


The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and the Electronic Design Interchange Format (EDIF) are becoming industry standards for hardware design and documentation. Potential users of these standards are interested in understanding the application range of each standard and the way each standard relates to the other. This paper presents scenarios in which VHDL and EDIF can contribute to different aspects of the design process, as well as the technical issues in providing a design interface between VHDL and EDIF. Both standards are currently being reviewed and revised [1] [2]. In this paper we have used VHDL Version 1076/A [3] and EDIF Version 1 1 0 [4].


Available evidence for the electron-donor properties of the pyridine and pyridine 1-oxide rings is briefly reviewed. The positions and intensities of the CN stretching band in cyano-pyridines and -pyridine 1-oxides confirms that electron availability in the pyridine ring decreases at the nuclear positions in the order 3≫4>2 and in the pyridine 1-oxide ring in the order 4 ≫ 3 ∼ 2.


The dynamics of a railway bogie are investigated by utilizing methods of nonlinear dynamic as system theory. The railway bogie model is that introduced by Cooperrider and further developed by Kaas-Petersen. "Principal" and "secondary" attractors are defined and periodic and chaotic attractors are described. A "qualitative" distinction of secondary attractors is introduced according to the robustness of the attractors with respect to random perturbations. The results suggest the possible existence of an optimal axle distance between two wheel sets.


We investigate the approximation of high-dimensional target measures as low-dimensional updates of a dominating reference measure. This approximation class replaces the associated density with the composition of: (i) a feature map that identifies the leading principal components or features of the target measure, relative to the reference, and (ii) a low-dimensional profile function. When the reference measure satisfies a subspace $\phi$-Sobolev inequality, we construct a computationally tractable approximation that yields certifiable error guarantees with respect to the Amari $\alpha$-divergences. Our construction proceeds in two stages. First, for any feature map and any $\alpha$-divergence, we obtain an analytical expression for the optimal profile function. Second, for linear feature maps, the principal features are obtained from eigenvectors of a matrix involving gradients of the log-density. Neither step requires explicit access to normalizing constants. Notably, by leveraging the $\phi$-Sobolev inequalities, we demonstrate that these features universally certify approximation errors across the range of $\alpha$-divergences $\alpha \in (0,1]$. We then propose an application to Bayesian inverse problems and provide an analogous construction with approximation guarantees that hold in expectation over the data. We conclude with an extension of the proposed dimension reduction strategy to nonlinear feature maps.


Simbol‐X is an X‐Ray telescope operating in formation flight. It means that its optical performances will strongly depend on the drift of the two spacecrafts and its ability to measure these drifts for image reconstruction. We built a dynamical ray tracing code to study the impact of these parameters on the optical performance of Simbol‐X (see Chauvin et al., these proceedings). Using the simulation tool we have developed, we have conducted detailed analyses of the impact of different parameters on the imaging performance of the Simbol‐X telescope.


This thesis is divided into 3 papers: dynamical low-energy electron- diffraction investigation of lateral displacements in topmost layer of Pd(110); determination of (1{times}1) and (1{times}2) structures of Pt thin films on Pd(110) by dynamical low-energy electron-diffraction analysis; and structural determination of a NiO(111) film on Ni(100) by dynamical low-energy electron-diffraction analysis.


The case of a young woman is reported who after injury to the left leg was three times hospitalized for diagnosing the cause of her lower limb edema. It took two months to verify its artificial origin. Scintigraphy showed an intensive acceleration of the lymphatic outflow from the left leg.


This paper is a brief overview of the sociology of a national division of the Red Army in the early days of its formation in Kyrgyzstan, as described in two documents about soldiers of Kyrgyz nationality in 1927 and 1928. At that time the Soviet Army was not seeking to substantially increase its numbers but rather recruiting in line with the intentions of the nationality policy, by integrating ethnic groups and regions that had been ignored by the high command. Kyrgyzstan is a striking exampl...


Subsets and submultisets without universe and other common concepts (level, spectrum, altitude, power, dimension, fuzziness and softness indexes) are defined. Theorems are presented.


The general objective of this correlational-descriptive study was to analyze the relation between antineoplasic treatment's secondary effects, quality of li...


The 1950's saw the introduction of guided interceptor missiles and the launching of Sputnik I. Questions on pursuit and evasion were suddenly in everyone's mind. What is the best strategy to intercept a moving target? How can friendly planes best avert midair collisions? Thus the theory of Differential Games is permeated with the theory of military pursuit games. Dr. Rufus Isaacs, who was then with the Mathematics Department of the RAND Corporation realized that no one guidance scheme can be optimal against all types of evasion. An intelligent evader can deliberately maneuver to confuse the pursuer's predictions. Thus optimal pursuit and evasion must be considered equally. Consider a stochastic linear pursuit-evasion game described by a linear stochastic differential equation of the form d dt x(t;ω) = A(ω)x(t;ω)+B(ω)u(t;ω)−C(ω)v(t;ω) (2.1.1)


The invention concerns a wavelength multiplexing optical fiber transmission device comprising multiplexing means with optical combiner (16) consisting of a series of n optical couplers CO1, CO2, CO7 with asymmetric cascade distribution over several stages A, B, C for combining the optical signals received from the optical transmitters (14) of different wavelengths (lambd1 to lambd8). The last coupler CO7 routes the multiplexed optical signals to a main transmission line (18) and a standby transmission line (20). The coupling ratio of the various couplers is adjusted at the channels to compensate spectral gain variation of the optical amplifier (26), which is arranged on the receiver side before the optical demultiplexer (28). The invention is applicable to metropolitan area telecommunication networks.


The study explored a key objective of the biodiversity conservation strategy delivered through Regional Forest Agreements (RFA), which we paraphrase as: forest-dependent species should be able to persist throughout their range, equally in landscapes dominated by production-forests as in landscapes dominated by reserves. We focused on the mature-forest element of biodiversity, because mature forest is more likely to be in short supply in production-forest landscapes than is younger forest. Our assumption is not that production forest must support mature-forest biodiversity in all places at all times, but that any local losses arising through forest harvesting should be temporary, with all areas of native forest at least retaining the potential to regain over time those lost mature-forest species. In this respect, species dynamics after forest harvesting and regeneration can resemble species dynamics after wildfire and forest regrowth.

We developed two hypotheses to test the extent to which the RFA is achieving this 'persistence' objective. They were:

 (i)   the biodiversity in mature eucalypt forest would be independent of the intensity of disturbance in the       surrounding landscape;
(ii)  that the recolonisation of silvicultural regeneration by mature-forest species would be independent of the       intensity of disturbance in the surrounding landscape.

We then used the findings from testing these hypotheses to suggest some simple metrics and other planning tools that could guide future management and planning in relation to the spatial and temporal arrangement of mature forest in production-forest landscapes.


Abstract This study sought to establish whether differences in gender-based (coeducational versus single-sex school) and socioeconomic status-based (working-middle versus upper-middle class) contexts would be associated with differences in dieting status among female adolescents. A second goal was to determine whether those differences would be independent of body mass index (BMI). Girls attending four separate high schools completed the Dieting Status Measure (DiSM; Strong&Huon, 1997). They were also weighed and their height was measured. Although girls who said they had never dieted were equally distributed across coeducational and single-sex girls' schools, there were significantly fewer seriously committed dieters in single-sex schools. More of the never dieters attended upper-middle than working-middle class schools; the reverse was true for serious dieters (those who often or always diet). Body mass index was found to interact with those effects. Specifically, girls in the normal range were less likely to diet seriously if they attended a single-sex upper-middle class school. The findings of this study highlight the importance of specific aspects of the social context in which committed dieting appears to breed.


Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs) observed from space appear to be generated after a few milliseconds of optical activity and before the onset of a main optical pulse. The pre-activity is thought to be from a propagating leader and the main optical pulse the emissions from the ensuing stroke. Scattering of photons in the cloud increases the rise time and durations of the pulses and thus allows for estimates of their optical path from their sources.

In this presentation we estimate the depth inside thunderclouds of pulses associated with more than 100 TGFs observed by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station (ISS). The observations are in narrow bands at 337 nm, to include the strongest line of N22P and 777.4 nm of OI, considered a strong lightning emission line. With the assumption that the sources are instantaneous and at single points within a cloud, we find optical paths for the events by using typical cloud properties. Combined with cloud top heights from a recent study on TGF producing thunderstorms, this gives an estimate at which altitude the optical detections are produced.

Data from VAISALA’s lightning location network GLD360 and NASA’s Lightning Imaging Sensor on the ISS (ISS-LIS) will be used to assess the results from the optical analysis. This includes investigations of the correlations between TGF durations, detected peak lightning current and optical path in the cloud.


It is shown how to obtain recently-proposed two-zero Majorana mass textures in models with three Higgs triplets with small VEVs and a sufficiently massive triplet Majoron by using abelian discrete symmetries. It is briefly discussed how in SU(5) grand unification where the triplets occur in {\bf 15}'s the neutrino textures can be related to up- and down- quark mass textures.


1,3-Disubstituted-4-thioxoimidazolidin-2-one derivatives with various substituents at N1 and N3 were synthesized with high yields and excellent purity by the reaction of various N-arylcyanothioformamide derivatives with isocyanate derivatives. The activity of these products as antibacterial and antifungal agents was studied to through some light on structural activity relationship. Some of synthesized compounds showed significant antibacterial and antifungal activities. Most of the imidazole derivatives possess significant antifungal activity aginst S. cerevisiae (MIC 1–10 μg mL–1). As comparision with ketoconazole, most of the imidazole derivatives showed activity ranging from 50 % less activity to fourfold activity.


Platelets are the most abundant blood source of CD40L, a proinflammatory and prothrombotic costimulatory molecule implicated in atherosclerosis. Agonist stimulation results in the secretion of a soluble form of CD40L (sCD40L) and GP IIb/IIIa receptor inhibition blocks secretion of sCD40L in vitro. However, the effect of GP IIb/IIIa inhibition on sCD40L levels in humans is unknown. Plasma sCD40L and inflammatory markers were measured (t = 0, 0.5, 2, and 24 hr post‐PCI) in a cohort of patients receiving abciximab (n = 15), eptifibatide (n = 15), or no GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor (n = 15). PCI in the absence of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor was associated with a small but measurable rise in sCD40L and the platelet‐derived chemokine RANTES. In contrast, eptifibatide significantly lowered baseline sCD40L (P = 0.018) and RANTES (P = 0.006) levels. This effect was not observed with abciximab. GP IIb/IIIa inhibition with eptifibatide lowers levels of sCD40L and RANTES post‐stenting, possibly conferring anti‐inflammatory as well as antithrombotic effects. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2004;61:185–189. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The gamma activity of U/sup 235/ fission products is compared with the gamma activity of a simultaneously irradiated Na/sup 23/ target by means of a gamma counting tube which is equally sensitive within a wide gamma energy range. Irradiation took place in the Russian D/sub 2/O reactor. The order of magnitude Q(t) (summated activity) is calculated. (TCO)


Quality of care optimization is essential in modern healthcare environments and particularly in elective cancer surgical settings, as adverse events are frequent among patients who undergo invasive procedures. This is particularly true today, as the evolution of anaesthetic and surgical techniques is pushing the boundaries of operability, and an increasing number of elderlies with a wide variety of comorbidities can benefit from minimally invasive operations. Besides, the advances of targeted therapies are expanding the range of treatment options, proving to be valuable alternatives to surgery. Therefore, with the advent of personalized medicine and tailored therapies, several predictive models have been developed to support surgical decision-making, thus offering surgical candidates the most appropriate treatment. According to the latest National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for the diagnosis and management of lung cancer, the preoperative assessment of elective surgical patients should include a global risk scoring system to estimate the risk of death (1). In this regard, a prominent example is the European Society Objective Score (2), that allows us to determine the risk of in-hospital death following lung resection. Similarly, the Thoracoscore (3) helps to predict 30-day mortality after thoracic surgery and has received both internal and external validation (4). The reproducibility of these models, however, is unclear, as several studies have reported inadequate performances when they are employed in different geographical populations (5-7). More recently, Brunelli and colleagues (8) elaborated two prediction models for risk-adjusting morbidity (EuroLung1) and mortality (EuroLung2), based on an extensive database of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery, including almost 48,000 patients undergoing anatomical pulmonary resection. They proved to be reliable tools for internal audit of performance when employed in three different European centres (9). However, in a Japanese single-centre analysis (10), the EuroLung scores overestimated both morbidity and mortality and could not be directly applied to the study population. Similarly, Chinese researchers reported promising results with a novel nomogram prognostic model forecasting lung cancer-related death rate, another cancer-related death rate, and non-cancer-related death rate after pulmonary resection (11). Lately, the emerging landscape of immune therapies has prompted researchers to construct lung cancer immunerelated prognostic indices, that showed high accuracy in survival forecasting, particularly for the squamous cell histotypes (11,12). In conclusion, prognostic risk scores are being increasingly used in thoracic surgery, especially in patients undergoing pulmonary resection. They are valuable tools for improving patient quality of care and designing personalized treatment strategies. However, such complex models need to be established on rigorous methodology and both internal and external validation. Editorial Commentary


A study was conducted in five fish farm ponds in Southern Ivory Coast from December 2007 to November 2008. Overall, 79 taxa belonging to 35 families and 8 orders of aquatic insects were identified. Hemiptera and Coleoptera dominated qualitatively aquatic insect community. Taxa richness is higher in Banco and lower in Layo. Three taxa of Coleoptera (Pseudobagous sp., Bagous sp., Macroplea sp.), one taxa of Hemiptera (Valleriola sp.) and one taxa of Megaloptera (Corydalidae) have been recorded from Cote d'Ivoire for the first time. The SelfOrganizing Map (SOM) was used to analyze patterns of insect assemblages. Samples were classified into three clusters. Samples from Azaguie, Anyama I and Anyama II were mainly gathered in cluster I while clusters II and III were respectively characterized primarily by samples from Banco and Layo. Salinity and conductivity were the most dominant variables governing aquatic insect distribution. This study allowed to know the community structure of aquatic insects and the distribution of samples based on environmental parameters and taxa assemblages.


There are nowadays three major challenges for aerospace composites: (1) continuous enhancement of performance profiles of existing materials for mass application, (2) development of cost-effective manufacturing technologies in conjunction with textile technology and liquid molding methods, particularly resin transfer molding (RTM), (3) research on function integrated design, manufacturing and simulation methodology of composite aircraft components. Having recognized these challenges and their importance for aerospace industry, the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Composites (LAC) at Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials (BIAM) takes its responsibility to carry out numerous national R & D projects, especially the National Key Fundamental Research Program (973-Program) to fundamentally study the multiscale and multi-dimensional relationship between structure and property of composite materials.


Rare earth Er-doped ZnO nanorods were prepared by a simple hydrothermal method in order to search for a new functional for potential application in optoelectronic. Nanorods were deposited onto glass substrates with zinc nitrate, hexamethylenetetramine and Erbium chloride as starting materials. The results obtained by XRD spectrum indicated the presence of hexagonal (wurtzite) structure for both pure and Er doped ZnO NRs with additional cubic phase of Er2O3 that appeared in the doped sample. The size and lattice strain of particles have increased after doping with Erbium. The increase of their sizes can be explained by the incorporation of Er atoms into ZnO lattice.


Worsening congestion, developments in electronic road pricing technology, and increased awareness of energy and environmental effects of automobile travel have heightened interest in congestion pricing in the US in recent years. Looking to the future, congestion pricing has been specified as a long-term solution to reducing congestion. In the US, the types of congestion pricing that have been implemented with success are high-occupancy toll and express lane type systems. An important process when beginning to consider these systems is to evaluate what toll prices are feasible. A significant step in this evaluation is a stated preference willingness-to-pay survey. The results of these surveys can vary significantly by region. A willingness-to-pay survey was conducted in Indianapolis, Indiana, a large Midwestern city where travelers would likely be unfamiliar with toll facilities. It was found travelers, on average, would be willing to pay $0.60 to save 10 minutes and $0.26 to save 3 minutes for work trips. For non-work trips, travelers would be willing to pay $0.36 to save 10 minutes and $0.14 to save 3 minutes. These values show non-linearity in willingness to pay and are lower than results from other surveys from around the country. The effect of travel time reliability on willingness to pay, an area where research is needed, was found to be significant. The results of an ordered probit model showed willingness to pay to be significantly impacted by whether a traveler uses transit, their income, age, perception of congestion, and travel time with respect to rush hour.


ABSTRACT This writing aims to define and examine 'femagogy' and the transformative potential for an inclusive intersectional feminist teaching practice in Fine Art education in the context of the contemporary Irish art school. This writing will trace the influence of linguistic power structures and the influence of broader institutional patriarchy in an educational setting and outline the inspirations and genealogies of femagogy. This writing provides situated embodied examples of femagogy in practice. It proposes the femagogical model of teaching as one that situates itself outside prevailing patriarchal models and proposes strategies to reimagine knowledge production and navigate the prevailing structural patriarchy in the academic systems of the contemporary art school.


The measurement of power is a prerequisite for the analysis of the distribution channel as a behavioral system. This article presents a model for power measurement and the results of a first attempt to empirically measure power relationships within a specific channel of distribution.


Aim Therapeutic hypothermia is performed to improve the OHCA patient's neurologic outcome. It is unclear whether the effect size of therapeutic hypothermia differs according to the baseline kidney function. Method OHCA patients transported to ED from 2013 to 2015 in South Korea were analysed. OHCA Patients due to cardiac cause at age 15 or older, and who survived to admission were included. Those who did not get CPR or without information about neurologic outcome (CPC) at discharge were excluded. Main Exposure was whether therapeutic hypothermia was done at the hospital. Primary and secondary outcomes were hospital survival and CPC score. Multivariable logistic regression was used to calculate the adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals. To compare the effect size of the therapeutic hypothermia by underlying kidney dysfunction (CKD-nonHD, HD) and normal kidney function, interaction term (hypothermia*CKD) was added to the final model. Results Totally 8170 patients were analysed. 4655 (56.98%) patients died and 3515 (43.02%) survived to discharge. Only 2118 (25.92%) had good neurologic outcome. The AOR of hypothermia were 1.70 (1.50–1.9) for the survival rate and 1.00 (0.88–1.18) for the favourable neurologic outcome. In interaction model, the AORs for survival rate of hypothermia were 1.76 (1.54–2.02), 1.27 (0.59–2.74) and 1.8 (0.60–1.96) in non-CKD, CKD-nonHD, and HD group respectively. Also, the AORs for good neurologic outcome of hypothermia were 1.08 (0.93–1.25), 0.37 (0.10–1.42) and 0.26 (0.09–0.73), respectively. Conclusion Therapeutic Hypothermia on OHCA patients with underlying kidney dysfunction was less effective than with normal kidney function. Conflict of interest None Funding The study was financially supported by the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).


Only through a painful and usually protracted process of reconstruction, ideological and practical, can the crisis be resolved—as, in the end, it must be. This means that crises are inherently political. As Gamble puts it, they 'create the conditions for new forms of politics' and for the 'rebalancing of power' between states. The eventual resolution is political too. It emerges from contestation between interpretations and opposing narratives, whose outcome is always uncertain. (Marquand 2009: 46).


Standard patterns for monostatic sonobuoy fields were developed during the Cold War for deep, uniform underwater environments, where a simple median detection range defined a fixed spacing between sonobuoys (usually along staggered lines). Oceanographic and acoustic conditions in littoral environments are so complex and dynamic that spatial and temporal variability of low‐frequency signal and noise fields destroys the basic homogeneous assumption associated with standard tactical search concepts. Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been applied to this problem to produce near‐optimal, nonstandard search tracks for monostatic mobile sensors that maximize probability of detection in such inhomogeneous environments. For the present work, a new capability, SCOUT (sensor coordination for optimal utilization and tactics) was developed to simulate multistatic distributed‐sensor geometries and to optimize the locations of multistatic active sonobuoys in a complex, littoral environment. Both standard and SCOUT‐derived t...


Abstract: Effect of xylanase (Xyl) and live yeast (LY) supplementation on gut microbiome composition, growth performance, and nutrient digestibility of weanling pigs was determined. A total of 180 weanling pigs were assigned to five treatments from weaning to market. Treatments were designated based on whether Xyl, LY, or their combination were fed in the first 2 wk postweaning or thereafter until finishing at day 141 postweaning. Treatments were (days 1–15; days 15–141): control–control, control–Xyl, Xyl–Xyl, LY–Xyl, Xyl + LY–Xyl. Xylanase was added at 16 000 BXU·kg−1 and LY at 1 kg·t−1. Pigs fed with LY and LY + Xyl from days 0–15 had greater body weight and average daily gain at day 15 compared with control (P < 0.05). Glucose transporter 2 mRNA was higher in LY and LY + Xyl groups on day 15 compared with control (P < 0.05). Xylanase supplementation from week 2 postweaning increased apparent total tract nutrient digestibility of gross energy, nitrogen, and phosphorus on day 43. Live yeast with or without Xyl improved growth performance in the first 2 wk after weaning; Xyl + LY–Xyl and control–Xyl groups had improved overall feed efficiency. In conclusion, LY and Xyl supplementation improved performance of weanling pigs in the first 2 wk after weaning with no effects on long-term growth performance.


Administration of intra-articular joint medication with hyaluronan and/or cortisone on the same day as performing intra-articular anesthesia does not pose a substantial risk of joint sepsis. It is not necessary to delay intra-articular therapy when lameness has been localized to a joint using intraarticular anesthesia. Authors' address: Oakridge Equine Hospital, P. C., 6675 East Waterloo Road, Edmond, OK 73034; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com (Zubrod). © 2006 AAEP.


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A deliver-upon-request secure email system is provided to prevent unwanted email messages from consuming resources of a receiver by determining whether complete contents of an email message are collected or not before the email is delivered to a mailbox by examining a part of basic information of the email. A sender transmits intend-to-deliver including the basic information of the email message to the receiver. In case that the receiver determines reception, the receiver returns the intend-to-deliver having request-for-mail-content including a command sent to the sender. The sender returns the request-for-mail-content having the email message to the receiver. The receiver can refuse the reception of the email message by sending no request-for-mail-content.


THIS PAPER AIMS TO ACCOMPLISH A CRITICAL READING OF THE WORK POEMS (1961), BY THE ANGOLAN POET ANTONIO JACINTO, BASED ON FRANZ FANON'S POINT OF VIEW ON VIOLENCE, ESPECIALLY IN HIS BOOK THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH (1961). IT IS POSSIBLE TO RECOGNIZE THE SOCIAL TENSION REVEALED ON JACINTO'S VERSES AND WORDS IN THE LIGHT OF FANON'S WORK AS HE TREATS, IN A SHARP WAY, THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE EUROPEAN COLONIALISM IN AFRICA.


The results of the structural studies of mechano-activated disperse fillers are presented. An increase in a complex of the physico-mechanical properties of polymer-elastomer composites modified by mechano-activated disperse fillers is established.The results of the structural studies of mechano-activated disperse fillers are presented. An increase in a complex of the physico-mechanical properties of polymer-elastomer composites modified by mechano-activated disperse fillers is established.


The significance of international trade in the world has been generally contemplated and furthermore examines the job of international trade in the different issues. Mainly my paper focused on the connection between Economic Development and international trade, detriments of international trade additionally talked about. International trade is an action of procedures significance in the advancement procedure of a developing economy. International specialization implies that various nations of the world have practical experience in producing various merchandise. Trade arrangement definition and execution covering issues, for example, levies, incentives, quantities, assessments, customs and administration, sponsorships, rules of origin, open acquisition systems, help and investment, send out advancement, trade assistance and expansion. The job of remote trade in achieving a snappier pace of monetary advancement is consequently all around perceived. Consequently, planning of outside trade can't be separated from the technique of by and large advancement. The burden of international trade is that the welfare of the individuals in countries that produce merchandise and enterprises is here and there overlooked for benefits. In end it very well may be said that, international trade prompts monetary development gave the approach measures and financial infrastructure are accommodative enough to adapt to the adjustments in social and financial situation that outcome from it.


Laprolate-803 (L-803) was used as the model cyclocarbonate resin for reactivity and kinetic studies of non-isocyanate-based solventless polyurethanes derived upon the reaction of amines with the 1,3-dioxolan-2-one (dioxolanone) rings of L-803. It was shown that the reaction could undergo either acid-, base- or metal-type catalysis yielding polyurethanes with 100% conversion of the dioxolanone rings at approximately half the time needed for their uncatalyzed counterparts. The activation energy of the reaction of L-803 with diethylene triamine in the presence or absence of a catalyst was determined via Arhenious studies. The reactivity of amines towards the aforementioned model resin was correlated to their chemical structure. A model non-isocyanate-based polyurethane displayed Tg of -1°C (DMA), fast gel time (390 min) at room temperature and good elongation (∼70%).


Obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) was first described by the Scottish obstetrician William Smellie in 1779 who described, in a newborn, a case of unilateral arm paralysis which rapidly recovered. He attributed this palsy to compression of the axillary nerve against the humerus, probably wrongly in light of subsequent knowledge. The main risk factor for OBPP is high birth weight (>4000 g) and intrapartum shoulder dystocia causing traction on the brachial plexus. It has been demonstrated in cadaveric models that traction on the arm with the neck laterally flexed in the opposite direction causes rupture or avulsion of the brachial plexus. Upper roots are more likely to rupture due to strong ligamentous attachment to the spine whereas the lower roots are more likely to be avulsed. For unknown reasons, however, in the rare circumstance of small babies born breech, upper root avulsion is common. Other risk factors for OBPP include a previous child affected, prolonged labour, instrumented delivery, and multiparity, although each of these may be a surrogate for large birth weight.


This Bachelor's Thesis focuses on compiling of a business plan for establishing a cat cafe in Uherske Hradistě. The theoretical part defines the entrepreneurship and division of the enterprises of both natural person and legal entity in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part also includes a description of a business plan and its parts. The practical part focuses on compiling of the business plan for a cat cafe in Uherske Hradistě. The business plan consists of a description of the company, marketing research, marketing plan, operation plan and financial plan. The aim of the thesis was to find out whether or not the concept of a cat cafe in Uherske Hradistě is realizable.


"This is a remarkable book. Jeffrey Miles clearly explains and synthesizes 40 major theories of management and organization in an easily accessible and engaging style. Well researched, comprehensive in its coverage, thorough, balanced, and fair in its analyses of theories, the book is destined to be a major authoritative reference in the field. It is one of the most readable, informative, and useful books I have read. I strongly recommend it." #Shaker A. Zahra, department chair, Robert E. Buuck Chair, and professor, Strategic Management and Organizations Department, University of Minnesota


The invention shall therefore the rotation circle around the center of rotation of the magnetic disk of the magnetic head positioning method and a magnetic disk apparatus for positioning a magnetic head, while correcting the eccentricity of a magnetic disk to prevent vibration of the magnetic head. Of the magnetic head 13 and the magnetic disk 14, the magnetic head 13 to the magnetic disk 14 that has the servo information, the rotation to the center of rotation as the center, reads the information of the magnetic disk (14) position control means for positioning in the radial direction 10, and a control means 7 for controlling the positioning means 10 in accordance with servo information. Head position control method includes a magnetic disk 14, the rotation frequency component (R0) and a step of separating the high-order frequency component of the frequency higher than the rotation frequency (R1) to the measurement and, following the rotation frequency component (R0) to the high-order frequency It has a step of controlling the positioning means 10 so as to eliminate the component (R1).


Mouse ova degenerate in medium containing untreated bovine serum albumin (BSA) when incubated for 18—24h with highly motile human spermatozoa not completely freed from a seminal plasma component. The human seminal plasma component also has a detrimental effect on the motility of human spermatozoa in the presence of untreated BSA, but both mouse ova and human spermatozoa are unaffected by human seminal plasma when the culture medium contains purified BSA as a protein source. The active component from human seminal plasma is most probably spermine. This polyamine reacts with the untreated BSA with a component that is pronase sensitive, heat labile and only partially dialyzable. The BSA component is not precipitated by trichloroacetic acid but is soluble in ethanol. Although the nature of the seminal plasma-BSAinteraction suggests that the effect of BSA may be due to amine oxidase activity, attempts to assay endogenous amine oxidase activity in the untreated BSA have failed to detect it.


The summer of 2008 witnesses the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Yancheng Teachers University.We here retrospect the past,and outline the development strategy for the future on the basis of the past achievements in the following areas: scale enlargement and condition improvement,discipline and faculty development;research and service capability upgrade;and Party construction and campus culture cultivation promotion.We will carry out the following four development strategies in the coming years: molding our own characteristics;empowering the school with talents;abiding by quality-first guideline;and advancing the school in line with the harmonious policy.


This guide connects researchers with library resources that provide information on the nature and meaning of conflict, conflict management techniques, and the assessment of conflict situations from a cross-cultural perspective.


The aim of this paper is to provide a brief analysis of the
application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in
the Federal Republic of Germany, in particular the application
of the Articles 4 and 9, and outline certain parallels with the
Czech Republic. The paper deals with the status of the Charter
under the German legal order, its impact on practice and the
reservations made by Germany.


ZnO thin films were epitaxially grown on c-plane sapphire substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. A low temperature homonucleation ZnO layer was found crucial at the interfacial region to absorb the defects formed by the lattice mismatch between the sapphire and ZnO, resulting in a smooth surface that enables smooth 2D epitaxial growth. High quality ZnO films were achieved after careful optimization of critical growth conditions: the sequence of Zn and O source shutters, growth temperature for both the ZnO nucleation and growth layer, and Zn/O ratio. Oxygen plasma pretreatment was not applied prior to the growth, thus shortening the growth time and reducing oxidation of the metallic sources. Resultant epitaxial ZnO films on sapphire demonstrated a root-mean-square surface roughness of 0.373 nm for 1 μm × 1 μm atomic force microscope images with clear hexagonal structure and terrace steps. The x-ray diffraction full width at half maximum (FWHM) for ω and ω-2θ ZnO (0002) triple-crystal rocking curves were measured to be 13 and 26 arc/s, respectively. This FWHM value is lower than any reported to date in the literature, with ω and ω-2θ values indicating excellent coherence of the epitaxial layer along the interface and the growth direction, accordingly. These x-ray diffraction and surface roughness values are lower than those obtained using common nucleation layers such as MgO, indicating that growth with ZnO nucleation layers on sapphire may lead to higher quality electrical and optical devices.