The Pantai Kerachut Turtle Conservation Centre represents the centre of research study of sea turtles in Penang Island. For the study of nest site selection, 37 nests were located between 10-40m from the high tide line at Pantai Kerachut than at the same distance (10-40 m) from high tide line at Telok Kampi. It is believed that 3 nests were located at a distance of 0-10m from the high tide line because the location is near to the water's edge and the sand which is exposed to high relative humidity (1.6-1.7%) is unsuitable for Green Turtles Chelonia mydas to lay eggs. At locations beyond 40 m from the high tide line, the sand is too dry (30-31°C) and the low relative humidity (0.6-0.7%) makes it unsuitable for turtles to dig nests. For the study of nest site selection in relation to vegetation zone, more nests were distributed within the vegetation zone at both beaches. Green Turtles prefer to land and nest within the vegetation of Merambong (


The kinetics of grain growth associated with a first-order phase transformation is studied with use of the Kolmogorov model (constant nucleation rate within the metastable phase; constant growth rate of the nucleated grains) in one and two dimensions (d-italic = 1 and 2). The time-dependent grain-size distribution function and grain autocorrelation function, G-italic/sub s-italic/(r,t-italic), are calculated exactly for d-italic = 1. For d-italic = 2, G-italic/sub s-italic/(r,t-italic) is estimated by Monte Carlo simulation. Scaling relations, G-italic/sub s-italic/(r,t-italic) = F-italic(r-italic/R-italic(t-italic)), using forms for F-italic(x-italic) which are exact for t-italic..-->..0 are investigated. It is found that while such scaling relations are no longer exact in late stages of growth, they continue to provide accurate simple approximations.


"Survival rational,Safety first"is Law of survival keep by Chinese peasants for a long time.The peasants of Zhejiang province was growing food income limited but spending huge in the 1920s and 1930s.they need Sideline income to balance.The sideline income was"The relief valve"to keep survive of peasants.They disposed sideline resources according market stimulation and chance for the greatest gains to ensure maximization of safety.Market climate index by various against added factors in 1930s,Sideline was declining.The peasants grew worse and the rural economy was bankrupt.


Digital transformation provoked by Industry 4.0 should not be just seen as a technological issue, it causes also fundamental changes in processes and in organizations of companies. Notably a new understanding of leadership can be counted on to them. The so-called "digital leaders" are expected to act rapidly and flexible in networked and distributed organization structures on the one hand and on the other hand they have to manage the digital transformation of the organization. Since most of the companies are still in the beginning of their digital transformation, there is a lack of a common understanding and a standard model of digital leadership. Most of the existing research works are visionary and predict the requirements for digital leadership on anticipated technological, economical and organizational changes; only few of them report about changes in leadership based on implemented cases. The objective of this study is to sum up main characteristics of the leadership in the era of digital transformation by applying content analysis of literature review as the method.


All sorts come to tell their stories. Grudge Wright makes bad jokes about his bad jokes, safe here from hecklerthrown tomatoes. Reverend Dave recounts the day he saved Pastor John from strychnine poisoning, thanks to the Lord's divine intervention, of course. Countless citizens come with conspiracy theories and claims of abduction, waving blurry photos of UFOs, swearing the device in their hands, though it looks like an eggbeater, is actually an alien probe. Sometimes I feel like the personal psychiatrist for the whole town, but no one comes here to lie on a red couch and work out their problems. No one comes here to talk to me.


Over the past decade, the chemical behavior of flavonoids as antioxidants has become the subject of intense experimental research. Plants represent a main source of natural antioxidants that might serve as leads for the development of novel drugs. Malva sylvestris L. known to have various medicinal properties since several decade ago, were evaluated for their antioxidant compounds ,Most of these bioactive properties correlated with antioxidant activity of phenolic compounds found in the plant ,11 phenolic composed were isolated from water leaf extract of Malva sylvestris L. ,the main phenolic acids identified in Malva sylvestris L. leave ' s are gallic , pyrogalllol ,vanillic , synergic , cinnamic and chrisin acid .antioxidant and antiprotozoic activities quercetin is the major flavonoid in the human diet and has been reported for their radical scavenging effect .They have been proved to have potential preventive and therapeutic effects in many diseases . This study involves substitution of the functional group of methyl in the active site of some terpenoids isolated from Malva sylvestris L. with other functional groups such as F,Cl,and Br and calculations by keywords Opt, NMR,and Freq for optimization and chemical shift calculations and drive thermodynamic parameters including Enthalpy ,Gibbs free energy respectively. The quantum mechanics (QM) calculations were carried out GAUSSIAN98 at NMR by using B3LYP methods with 6-31G basis set.


The new methodological approach to the introduction of the notion «probability of an event» with use of the knowledge about the percentage is considered in this article.


PURPOSE: We sought to examine if one week of ketogenic diet (KD) or ketone salt supplementation (KS) feeding versus standard chow (SC) feeding affected the mRNA signature related to de novo lipogenesis in subcutaneous and visceral (mesenteric) adipose tissue. METHODS: Male Fisher rats (4 mo old) were provided isocaloric amounts of KD (5.2 kcal/g, 23.1% protein, 9.6% carbohydrate, and 65.3% fat, n=10) or SC (3.1 kcal/g, 24% protein, 58% carbohydrate, 18% fat; n=30) for 7 days. The SC rats were split into sub-groups whereby one group was provided a moderate amount of KS in their drinking water (SC+MKS ~1.2g/day, n=10), one group was provided a high amount of KS in their drinking water (SC+HKS ~2.4g/day, n=10), and one group was un-supplemented (SC, n=10). RESULTS: The KD group lost the greatest mass (p<0.01). Feed efficiency revealed a group effect (p<0.01) with the lowest values observed in KD. A group effect was also observed for mesenteric (MES) fat (p=0.05). Subcutaneous (SQ) fat mass was not different between groups (p=0.07). In the MES fat pad FASN mRNA was down regulated in KD and both KS groups (p=0.001). HSL and CEBPα mRNAs were not differentially expressed (p=0.16 and p=0.51, respectively). ACCα was down-regulated in KD and KS groups (p=0.001). Regarding the SQ fat pad, only FASN mRNA was found to be differentially expressed (down-regulated in the KD and KS groups; p=0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The KD appears to offer an acute benefit to body mass loss, predominantly acting on visceral fat depots.


Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells have been attracting increasing attention over the last few years as a potent unconventional T cell subset. Three factors largely account for this emerging interest. Firstly, these cells are abundant in humans, both in circulation and especially in some tissues such as the liver. Secondly is the discovery of a ligand that has uncovered their microbial targets, and also allowed for the development of tools to accurately track the cells in both humans and mice. Finally, it appears that the cells not only have a diverse range of functions but also are sensitive to a range of inflammatory triggers that can enhance or even bypass T cell receptor-mediated signals-substantially broadening their likely impact in health and disease. In this review we discuss how MAIT cells display antimicrobial, homeostatic, and amplifier roles in vivo, and how this may lead to protection and potentially pathology. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Immunology, Volume 38 is April 26, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.


Evidence from several research areas suggests that response‐dependent and independent presentation of environmental events have different neurobiological consequences. Investigations of neurotransmitter turnover rates and cholinergic muscarinic receptor densities in brain regions of rats receiving contingent and noncontingent intravenous morphineresulted in the identification of two neuronal networks that are involved in response dependent morphine presentation. These circuits are concordant with brain regions showing increased glucose utilization in animals receiving response‐dependent electrical stimulation of either the substantia nigra or ventral tegmental area. These data indicate substantial differences between contingent and noncontingent presentation of environmental events and suggest that neurobiological investigations of reinforcement that use response independent delivery of a putative reinforcer must be interpreted with some caution.


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Protection of commercial secrets in China has not special legislation.In case of Information Disclosures Law absence,the meaning of commercial secrets and legal protection is of great significance.Meaning by the definition of commercial secrets,key to China' s Administrative Permission Law in commercial secrets protection for the relevant provisions of the object for analysis,discussion the conflict of information disclosures and commercial secrets protection, drawing on relevant judicial precedents and principles in the United States,it put out a proposal to balance the conflict between information disclosures and trade secrets protection.


A theoretical and computational finite element study of modified Navier-Stokes Equations coupled with energy conservation governing the flow and heat transfer in complex domains with hybrid nanofluid$(HNF)$ is carried out. The apriori error estimates providing the convergence analysis for the finite element scheme is derived in the $H^1$ norm. A detailed parametric analysis on the physics related to flow and heat tranfer for different governing parameters such as: hybrid nano-particle volume fraction $(\phi),$ Rayleigh Number $(Ra)$, Prandtl Number$(Pr)$, and the length of heat source has been reported. The use of hybrid nano-particles leads to the enhancement of heat conduction both in L and H shaped domains. While a butterfly flow pattern with a multi-cellular structure is noticed in H-shaped domain, the flow in L-Shaped domain depicts a boundary layer feature with primary, secondary and tertiary co-rotating and counter rotating cells.


Slurry is one of the main concrete pavement damages in our country,some countermeasures and thoughts which preventing slurry damages are put forward from the aspects of strengthening water process,anti-scour ability and weaken the load stress,these methods are worth being researched further and extended.


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CN 12.70 MXIM 35.00 WMAR 10.24 SANM 13.42 COHR 26.90 ASPT 1.69 LTC 31.09 EFII 15.75 NW 0.61 CPN 22.74 TRMB 14.08 CDCO 0.26 ESST 9.95 LSSI 0.14 ONCO 2.08 CMOS 11.15 ASPX 2. LT 16.49 TRID 4.68 OAKT 7.62 STII 3.75 SPLI 17.10 ACTL 16.30 TBP 4.06 EGLS 12.319UT 29 RATL 9.40 SYMM 4.65 DNEX 23.68 ENR 15.89 VVUS 2.92 ASYT 8.44 CRV 0.54 NCDI 0. MDY 29 40 SNDK 10 10 XICO 7 50 VRTS 19 70 SEBL 14 44 SJW 80 25 ISSI 6 70 RSHX 0 45 MC COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM November 2001/Vol. 44, No. 11 51 mation about their financial performance. In effect, they are using Internet technology to market their company to investors. Our study of the financial content of 203 Web sites found evidence that detailed, objective financial data is associated with companies that have more sophisticated financial consumers. On the other hand, less extensive, more subjective financial data is associated with less sophisticated consumers. This pattern is consistent with theories developed to explain product marketing. Maheswaran and Sternthal [5] summarize marketing literature that predicts which types of information are most likely to persuade different groups of information users. Consumers that have substantial knowledge of a product genre tend to respond best to objective information about product attributes. For example, Maheswaran and Sternthal found that computer experts were more motivated to process information and make product judgments when presented with attribute information such as "It has a large memory capacity expandable to 512K by bank switching" [5]. In contrast, novice computer users were drawn to more subjective, less extensive information about product benefits: "It has a large memory capacity adequate to handle heavy duty word processing better than the existing word processors" [5]. Research provides empirical evidence supporting the relation between subject expertise (high versus low) and effective routes to persuasion (attribute versus benefit information) [3, 5, 9]. In the context of financial information, literature from the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) suggests that investor relations officers explicitly view their activities as a means of marketing their firms' securities by disseminating financial information [6]. Furthermore, successful marketing involves identifying and satisfying the needs and desires of specific information consumers. While it is true that Web sites may not be constructed primarily to post financial data, their use for communicating with investors is growing throughout the world. A 1998 survey of investor relations (IR) officers [8] found that launching a Web site was the top priority innovation planned for 1999 for those located in the U.K. and Asia. It was the second priority for those located in ContiA Web Site Design Model for Financial Information Michael Ettredge, Vernon J. Richardson, and Susan Scholz


Correlations were made on experimental data for four New Mexico ore series to determine relationships between ore grade and uranium extraction during leaching operations. Such relationships provide information needed to predict the long-range supply of minerals to meet national economic and strategic needs.


The invention relates to a relay system in a narrow space network. The system comprises voice detection equipment, image sensing equipment, and curve detection equipment, wherein the voice detection equipment is arranged in a narrow place and used for sensing a nearby audio signal, and extracting voice component for the nearby audio signal, and outputting a personnel detection signal when the voice component is matched with the human voice, or outputting a no-personnel signal; the image sensing equipment is used for not performing an image sensing operation when receiving the non-personnel signal, and sensing the nearby environment when receiving the personnel detection signal, thereby acquiring and outputting a nearby environment image; the curve detection equipment is used for receivingthe nearby environment image, detecting the curve with the maximal radian in the nearby environment image, thereby acquiring and outputting the radian corresponding to the curve as the target radian to output. The invention further relates to a relay method in the narrow space network. Through the system and method disclosed by the invention, the situation that the personnel in the narrow space cannot connect the wireless network can be avoided.


This study focuses on comparison of International standards. The chosen standards are Eurocode, IBC (American Society of civil Engineers) and Indian code i.e. IS 1893:2002. The study also helps in understanding the main contributing factors which lead to poor performance of Structure during the earthquake, so as to achieve their adequate safe behavior under future earthquakes. The structure analysed is symmetrical, G+10, Special RC moment-resting frame (SMRF). Modelling of the structure is done as per staad pro. V8i software. Time period of the structure in both the direction is taken from the software and as per the three standards three models are made. The Lateral seismic forces are calculated manually. The Lateral seismic forces are calculated per floor as per different codes in X and Z direction and are applied to the Centre of gravity of the structure. The analytical results of the model buildings are then represented graphically and in tabular form, it is compared and analysed taking note of any significant differences. This study focuses on exploring variations in the results obtained using the three codes i.e. Eurocode, IBC (ASCE) and Indian code. A comparative analysis is performed in terms of Base shear, Displacement, Axial load, Moments in Y and Z direction for selected columns and also comparing Displacement, Axial load, Moments in Y and Z direction Floor wise of different codes for same selected columns. Accompanied by comparative analysis of Displacement, shear Y, Torsion and Moment Z of selected beams on each floor for different international codes.


Background: Enhanced Recovery After Cesarean Section (ERACS) protocol includes every component of the pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative pathway. In the pre-operative phase, the protocol applied to this patient included the shortest possible fasting interval, oral intake of liquid carbohydrate and patient counselling. For intra-operative pathway, the components applied are prevention of hypotension, maintenance of normothermia, optimal uterotonic administration, IONV (intra-operative nausea and vomiting)/PONV (post-operative nausea and vomiting) prophylaxis, multi-modal analgesia and optimization of fluid administration. Post-operatively, the patient was given early nutritional intake, early mobilization, urinary catheter removal, venous thrombo-embolism prophylaxis, multi-modal analgesia and glycemic control. ERACS prove useful for early discharge, improving outcomes such as breastfeeding or reducing post-discharge opioid use.Case Illustration: A 31-year-old woman came with the chief complaint of fluid discharge since ± 3 hours prior to admission to the hospital. Based on the medical history, physical examination, and laboratory findings, the patient was diagnosed with premature rupture of membranes in a gestational age of 37-38 weeks and had a live, single-headed presentation of the fetus. Patient's physical status is ASA II and scheduled for elective C-section procedure with spinal anesthesia.Conclusion: The implementation of the ERACS protocol in this case has been shown to reduce the rate of infection and post operative complications as well as reducing length of stay for the mother.


This article addresses trajectory tracking between two non-identical systems with chaotic properties. To study trajectory tracking, we used the Rossler chaotic and resistive-capacitive-inductance shunted Josephson junction (RCLs-JJ) model in a similar phase space. In order to achieve goal tracking, two stages were required to approximate target tracking. The first stage utilizes the active control technique to transfer the output signal from the RCLs-JJ system into a quasi-Rossler system. Next, the RCLs-JJ system employs the proposed iterative learning control scheme in which the control signals are from the drive system to trace the trajectory of the Rossler system. The numerical results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method and the tracking system is asymptotically stable.


Foreword. Preface. Map: The World of Buddhism. Abbreviations. Introduction. Buddhism in India. 1. The Buddha"s Awakening. 2. The Buddha as Teacher and Power Figure. 3. The Development of Early Indian Buddhism. 4. The Period of the Three Vehicles. 5. Early Medieval Indian Buddhism. 6. Late Medieval Indian Buddhism. 7. Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. 8. Buddhism in Central Asia and China. 9. Buddhism in Korea and Vietnam. 10. Buddhism in Japan. 11. Buddhism in the Tibetan Cultural Area. 12. Buddhism Comes West. An Overview of the Buddhist Scriptures. Pronunciation Guide. Glossary. Select Bibliography. Index.


The liberal government promoted the law of perquisites and parochial rights in 1857 seeking to solve a former problem between the population and the priests for the abuses that they were committing in the collection of the duty, on having administered sacraments and other activities of the worship. The intensity of the conflict and the dispute that the matter originated between the civil and ecclesiastic power in Michoacan's diocese they constitute the principal topic of the present work. To locate the problem in his local reality his precedents are explained in the diocese before the arrival of the bishop Clemente de Jesus Munguia; studying the conflicts that the collection of perquisites provoked in the peoples.


20 years ago, in 1979, a landmark community-wide process was launched to establish notional requirements for integrated software engineering environments. The resulting "Stoneman" document was published in February 1980. Bred of the software engineering research community and catalyzed by the Government Ada sponsor, this "integrated environment movement" branched out and was embraced widely in the software engineering community in the 1980's as a needed, achievable, centrist approach to accelerate the benefits of disciplined software engineering into mainstream practice. The CASE tool industry bloomed as products integrating lifecycle activities and artifacts emerged, and research evolved to environments integrated by support for emerging, maturing notions of software processes. Yet, at the end of the 1990's, this movement appears to have virtually died, and more and more production software organizations are instead (or again) using old-fashioned stand-alone development tools and struggling to match up tools and their outputs and inputs to do software engineering. The purpose of this panel is to explore the reasons why the integrated environment movement has retreated, whether the recent tools and methods are or are not achieving the goals of integrated environments, whether those goals have been superceded by other goals better served without integrated environments, and what these examinations indicate about future requirements and research needs.


Revista de Dialectologia y Tradiciones Populares is Spain's oldest journal of cultural anthropology and folklore studies. Published by Spain's High Council for Scientific Research, the journal appeared in 1944 and has had an uninterrupted history ever since. In a first period, 1944 through 1978, contributions were based on a socially conservative concept of tradition and culture. In 1978, Julio Caro Baroja became director of the journal and opened it to new disciplinary and methodological perspectives in cultural anthropology, thereby inaugurating the journal's current era.


Before Angelina Jolie's 2011 film In the Land of Blood and Honey, about the rape of women in the Bosnian war, was filmed, a group of Bosnian women war rape survivors persuaded local government officials to revoke Jolie's onlocation filming permit. The survivors' objections were based on a rumor, subsequently refuted, that the plot was a love story between a Bosnian Muslim woman and her Serb rapist. This paper analyzes these objections, their subsequent permutations, and the film itself in light of the relationships between gender and sexuality, nationalist ideologies, and the logics of war. I contextualize the objections raised and argue that the film ultimately fails to challenge conventional patriarchal and nationalist assumptions about wartime rape, sex, and gender roles in war, despite its seemingly provocative focus on violence against women in war. Ultimately, as I show, the film reinforces clear-cut ethnonational narratives of victims and perpetrators while leaving the gendered logics of sex and power unexamined.


An analysis of acoustic resonant properties of the human vocal tract including piriform sinuses was done using 1D mathematical model. Resulted changes caused by the lateral cavities correspond to recent findings of 3D computational models. Introduction Lateral cavities of the human vocal tract (VT) play specific role in the speech spectra. It was shown by several authors that piriform sinuses (PS), side branches in the bottom part of the pharynx, decrease formant frequencies in the lower frequency region. Besides, these cavities cause spectral minima in a region of 4 t o 5 kH z as was proved by Dang and Honda in [1]. Detailed computational analysis of 3D acoustical mode shapes done by Vampola et al. [2] revealed that PS additionally contribute extra resonances. In this paper a simplified mathematical model is used to describe this issue. Mathematical Model The acoustical system was described by the wave equation of an acoustical duct with variable crosssection A and viscosity losses (specific acoustic resistance rN)


In order to investigate the effects of four heavy metal tolerant microorganisms, Staphylococcus pasteuri (X1), Agrobacterium tumefaciens (X2), Penicillium chrysogenum (Z1) and Paecilomyces lavender (Z2), on heavy metals uptake by the heavy metal tolerance plant-maize and the cadmium hyperaccumulator plant-Beta vulgaris var. cicla L., a pot experiment with sediments was conducted. Through comparing the overall situations of four microorganisms' role in enhancing maize and Beta vulgaris var. cicla L. to gather cadmium, lead, copper and zinc, plant biomasses, and enrichment characteristics, the combination of bacterium X2, fungus Z2 and these two plants can effectively repair these four heavy metals in sediments.


Employing a semi-Markov model, all-night sleep-wake patterns of 68 full-term, normal infants, 32 at 2 mos and 36 at 9 mos of age, were analyzed. The results are compared to the changes in proportional relationships of sleep-wake states with age and to the time series method of binary autocorrelation. Simulated nights of sleep were also computed using parameters derived from the semi-Markov model.

We conclude that the sleep process in infants meets the assumptions of a semi-Markov model and that using such a model provides information about the maturation of transition and sequencing mechanisms of sleep-wake states. Simulating sleep patterns offers an opportunity to model hypothetical disturbances of sleep and assess the effectiveness of potential interventions.


Sociology textbooks play a central role in educational process of teaching Sociology. This is very obvious in an introduction course. Introduction courses tend to be very large. In major universities, sociology courses attract as many as 500 to 1000 students. The enrollees tend to be drawn from various disciplines ranging from hard core sciences to social sciences. Furthermore, many of the instructors who teach introduction to sociology tend be new, of junior ranks, and lack experience. Thus, instructors who teach introduction to sociology tend to rely heavily upon the textbook to organize their lectures and presentations in order to give an organized overview of the subject matter and present a clear picture of the essentials of the field.

Diversity1 and globalization2 are two important variables that have gained popularity and importance among sociologists, and many social scientists, in recent years. Sociologists use these tools to present and analyze sociological data and information. Thus, these two variables have significantly changed both the coverage and the presentation of introductory sociology textbooks in the last decade or so. Diversity and globalization have increased the coverage of foreign cultures and societies.

The purpose of this paper is to study the coverage of Islam and the Arabs in introductory sociology textbooks. The study will cover 20 textbooks published in the 1995–2000 by major publishing companies in the U.S. which are used at colleges and universities throughout the country. The choice of textbooks at the college level in a given course relies, in most cases, on the instructor who teaches the course. Therefore a given textbook may be used in different parts of the country. Content analysis techniques will be used to analyze and evaluate the coverage of both Islam and the Arabs.

The introductory Sociology texts will be evaluated in terms of whether they give a balanced, measured, impartial, and an objective picture of the Arabs and Muslims.


Wind tunnel experiments are often performed for the identification of aeroelastic parameters known as flutter derivatives that are necessary for the prediction of flutter instability for flexible structures. Experimental determination of all the eighteen flutter derivatives for a section model facilitates complete understanding of the physical mechanism of flutter. However, work in the field of identifying allrnthe eighteen flutter derivatives using section models with all three degree-of-freedom (DOF) has been limited. In the current paper, all eighteen flutter derivatives for a streamlined bridge deck and an airfoil section model were identified by using a new system identification technique, namely, Iterative Least Squares (ILS) approach. Flutter derivatives of the current bridge and the Tsurumi bridge are compared. Flutter derivatives related to the lateral DOF have been emphasized. Pseudo-steady theory for predicting some of the flutter derivatives is verified by comparing with experimental data. The three-DOF suspension system and the electromagnetic system for providing the initial conditions for free-vibration of the section model are also discussed.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conductive resin composition and a molded product thereof, excellent in conductivity of the molded product, having a low contact resistance, and penetration resistance, suitable for highly conductive material such as a separator for fuel cell, etc., even when the filling amount of conductive material is not sufficient. SOLUTION: The invention relates to the conductive resin composition (B) comprising at least a multi-component polymer-type resin binder (A) comprising a dispersed phase and a continuous phase, and having a number-average particle size of dispersed phase of 0.001-2 μm, and a conductive material in the form of powder and/or fibers. In the multi-component polymer system having a micro phase separation form having sea-island structure of the dispersed phase and the continuous phase, the number average particle size of the island phase is smaller than the number average particle size of the conductive material and a high conductivity is realized by using the binder having 0.001-2 μm of the number average particle size, and low contact resistance and low penetration resistance is realized by using an elastomer as a component of the binder. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI


Special Issues of the ultrafast electron transfer dynamics in the following donor/acceptor-systems were investigated: (1) Ferrocenophanone/Oxazine-1 in methylene-chloride. It was shown that the time constants of the fs-time-resolved IR-absorption spectra were identical to the UV/VIS spectra. An alternative method to monitor the charge transfer processes was established which is suitable for the investigation of donor/acceptor-systems containing small molecules whose absorption in the UV is superimposed by other optical transitions. (2) Merocyanine-3/TiO 2 in aqueous solution. The strongly dispersive recombination dyanmics in the ns-ms time window was studied and theoretical models for explanation were discussed. (3) Short acridine-modified DNA-double-strands in aqueous solution. The activation energy of the time-resolved oxidation-dyanmics of guanine was determined for the first time by temperature dependent measurements as a function of duplex sequence.


The memory module (100, 200) with at least one memory device (111a, 111b, 212a, 212b), wherein the memory module (100, 200) a connector means (110, 210) for connection of the memory module (100, 200) to a computing system (1), and additionally a surface-mounted connector means (103a, 103b, 103c, 203a, 203b, 203c) for connecting a memory extension memory module (102, 202) to the memory module (100, 200), wherein a terminal (110a) of the connector means (110, 210) having a plurality of terminals of the surface mount connector means (103a, 103b, 103c, 203a, 203b, 203c) is connected.


Received 30 July 2014; received in revised form 1 September 2014; accepted 1 September 2014ABSTRACTA robotic sapatial augmented reality (RSAR) system, which combines robotic components withprojector-based AR technique, is unique in its ability to expand the user interaction area bydynamically changing the position and orientation of a projector-camera unit (PCU). For a mov-ing PCU mounted on a conventional robotic device, we can compute its extrinsic parametersusing a robot kinematics method assuming a link and joint geometry is available. In a RSARsystem based on user-created robot (UCR), however, it is difficult to calibrate or measure thegeometric configuration, which limits to apply a conventional kinematics method. In this paper,we propose a data-driven kinematics control method for a UCR-based RSAR system. The pro-posed method utilized a pre-sampled data set of camera calibration acquired at sufficientinstances of kinematics configurations in fixed joint domains. Then, the sampled set is com-pactly represented as a set of B-spline surfaces. The proposed method have merits in two folds.First, it does not require any kinematics model such as a link length or joint orientation. Sec-ondly, the computation is simple since it just evaluates a several polynomials rather than rely-ing on Jacobian computation. We describe the proposed method and demonstrates the results foran experimental RSAR system with a PCU on a simple pan-tilt arm.Key Words:Computer vision, Pro-cam system, Spatial augmented reality, Calibration, Kinematics,B-spline surface fitting


ABSTRACT Two new species of Pucciniales fungi on plants of the Fabid clade are described from samples deposited in the herbarium of Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, collected in the state of Amapá, in the Brazilian Amazon. They are Aecidium margaritariae found on Margaritaria nobilis (Phyllanthaceae), and Uromyces amapaensis on Jatropha gossypiifolia (Euphorbiaceae). The microstructures of the specimens were analyzed using optical and scanning electron microscopy. Aecidium margaritariae is characterized by the presence of globose, subglobose to slightly ellipsoid aeciospores with warty walls and smooth areas usually in the basal portion. Uromyces amapaensis is distinguished by the presence of uredinia with paraphyses which are thickened and rounded at the tip, and pedicellate and smooth teliospores. Descriptions, illustrations, and taxonomic comments are presented for each species.


This paper considers a stochastic customer order scheduling problem to maximize throughputs. Customer orders dynamically arrive at a server station that consists of a set of heterogeneous servers. Each incoming order contains multiple product types with random workloads. These workloads will be processed by the servers under two commonly applied production schemes named workload assignment scheme and server assignment scheme. The objective is to determine the optimal assignments that maximize the long-term stable throughputs. The optimization problems under both production schemes are formulated as corresponding mathematical programs whose adequacy is validated through fluid model analysis. It is further proved that the two programs share the same optimal objective value and their corresponding optimal assignments can be transformed into each other. Based on these results, the equivalency of the two production schemes is established with regard to processing time allocation. Optimal assignments of several important special cases are also explored. The numerical experiment shows that the maximum throughputs can be achieved through the proposed mathematical programs, and demonstrates the equivalency relationship between the two assignment schemes.


【Objective】The objective of this study is to analyze the genetic models of traits related to the photoperiod phenomenon of the temperate×tropical crosses in maize. 【 Method 】 According to NCⅡ genetic mating design, 72 temperate-tropical hybrids were made by crossing between nine northern inbred lines and eight southern inbred lines. Then the photoperiod sensitivity and genetic models of related traits were analyzed based on field experiments conducted on Beijing and Ya'an. 【Result】Those hybrids have different strong level of photoperiod sensitivity, most of the genetic models of traits related to photoperiod sensitivity, including ASI, belonged to additive-dominance genetic model, few of them were additive-dominance-epistasis genetic model, most of them have main additive genetic effect, along with the length of sunshine, the additive genetic effect will become more important.【Conclusion】 Additive gene effect should be considered while tropical or subtropital germplasm is utilized in temperate maize zone.


In the case of using a plurality of wireless communication systems at the same time, it is impossible to prevent interference between effectively a plurality of wireless communication systems, in order to solve the problem, the radio communication control apparatus of the present invention, first a first communication method control unit that performs wireless communication by the wireless communication system, the second communication method control unit that performs wireless communication by the second wireless communication system, comprising a second communication mode control unit, the first detects the start of wireless communication by the wireless communication method, during a radio communication period by the first wireless communication system operates not to perform radio communication by the second wireless communication system, wireless communication by the first wireless communication system by the second wireless communication method out period operates to perform radio communication.


A 4.5-year-old, healthy female intact ferret (Mustela putorius furo) was presented with a mass on the tip of its tail. Cytological, histopathological and immunohistochemical features were compatible with those of a chordoma. The present case describes and illustrates cytology findings and diagnosis of chordoma, confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry.


Typical teleoperator display systems to date have relied on standard monoscopic video as the primary feedback link. Research clearly shows that using stereoscopic video (SV) is generally a significant improvement over monoscopic video (MV) for most teleoperation tasks. Abundant as the benefits of SV are, they can be dramatically increased with the superpositioning of stereoscopic graphics (SG) on the SV image. The resulting SV + SG system can greatly enhance the benefits of SV alone in the understanding of a remote world. This combination of media results in an exploration tool uniquely suited for examining different environments, whether remote, microscopic, or artificial. The SV + SG technology can also be used as a command tool that can be used to control manipulators (remote, microscopic, or artificial) in the different environment. A SV + SG system was implemented, and an experiment was performed to determine whether or not SG images were actually perceived as existing at the desired location in the SV view. The experiment compared the performance of a virtual SV + SG Pointer with that of a real-world pointer, and showed that the virtual pointer could be positioned as accurately as the real pointer, with only a slightly higher variance.


Wireless networks are vulnerable to identity spoofing attacks, where an attacker can forge the MAC address of hi s wireless device to assume the identity of another victim dev ice on the network. Identity spoofing allows an attacker to avail network services that are normally restricted to legitimate users. Prior techniques to detect such attacks rely on characteris tics such as progressions of MAC sequence numbers. However, thes e techniques can wrongly classify benign flows as malicious wi th newer 802.11e wireless devices that allow multiple progres sions of MAC sequence numbers from the same device. Several other techniques that rely on physical properties of transmitting devices are ineffective when the attacker and the victim are mobile. In this paper, we propose an architecture to robustly detect identity spoofing attacks under varying operating conditions. Our architecture employs a series of increasingly powerful detctors to identify or eliminate the possibility of an attack, culminating in a powerful, RSSI-based per-packet localizer that reliablydetects identity spoofing attacks. We implemented this architectur e and used it to detect a variety of identity spoofing attacks. Our experiments show that it can effectively detect identity sp oofs with a low false positive rate of0.5%.


The subject innovation relates to a high-rise building construction equipment, and more particularly the construction of the top floor structure and configured so can establish a lower layer successively with self-elevating (Jack-up) in a high-rise building construction equipment. Thus, the jack column (a) to stretch the first stair minutes on the top floor high-rise building construction device structures (A) to be built in the present design is provided in the lower column, the top layer (Fm) consisting of a top floor and the roof (2) Construction is, the construction member and hypothesis on the top floor lower ceiling traveling crane (crane), and the vertical lifting mechanism (c) for supplying the construction member in the assembly device (b), are installed on the above-ground treatment (G) horizontally carrying construction member and a difference horizontal carrier (d) to (car) is running, and the automatic control device (e) for each device. Hence, the distraction the shaft each time to build elevated floor, and the support raised floor to the jack pillar 1 cheungbun elevating and forming the first stairs construction space (K) in the layer below, carrying construction member sequentially from the carrier the keunbo, small beam structure and assembly and concreting installation by the outer wall member (6) by placing and installing the outer wall assembly device (f) the bottom concrete the unit of the upper panel recyclable the plate material consisting of, by assembling the device in a predetermined position by install.


The adsorption of acrylic polyampholytes on fiberglass reinforced plastics (FRP) was investigated using random copolymers derived from (dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DM), methacrylic acid, and t-butyl methacrylate (t-BMA). The effect of the copolymer structure changes on the adsorption and the interactions between the copolymers and the surface were assessed using ζ-potential and contact angle measurements, NMR, and ESCA. The copolymer having the composition of 58 mol % pDM, 38 mol % pMMA, and 4 mol % pt-BMA was adsorbed on the FRP surface at pH 7, and it formed the highest hydrophilic surface among the tested copolymers. An analysis by use of atomic force microscope revealed that the copolymer afforded a uniform 4–6 nm thick coverage on the FRP. We concluded that the interactions between the copolymer's cationic sites and the anionic FRP surface are important as well as the hydrophobic interaction for adsorption. Furthermore, it is suggested that the hydrophilicity of the copolymer's adsorbed surfaces is related to the density of the copolymer's anionic sites. These results indicate that the ampholytic structure of the polymers would be essential for the surface modification on the FRP. The effect of functional groups of surfaces on the acrylate adsorption was also assessed using surface plasmon resonance. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 101: 4454–4461, 2006


Lithium ion batteries with high-rate performance have been demanded since electric and hybrid vehicles are released. It is known that high interfacial resistance between electrode and electrolyte prevents intercalation of lithium ions. We investigated high-rate capability of typical LiCoO_2 cathode with various surface morphologies using epitaxial thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition. As a result, high-rate performance in (104)LiCoO_2 thin films was enhanced by an increase of (110)LiCoO_2 facet density because diffusion coefficient of (110)LiCoO_2 was larger than that of (104)LiCoO_2. Therefore, a control of crystal plane at the surface is a key point for high-rate performance.


Data of the author field researchof 46 species of Potentilla bloodroot genus on eight ecological and coenotic groups in the period from 2003 to 2006 in Primorye and Priamurye are given in the article. Ecological and coenotic peculiarities of the species representatives from each group and the adaptive features corresponding to the conditions of their dwelling are considered.


Migration of young people from Primorsky Krai is not a spontaneous decision in most cases, but a thoughtful and confident choice of young people. The migration of young people outside the region has a stable character and, as a result, creates systemic risks, primarily for the demographic well-being of the region. Today, the Russian Far East occupies a leading position in the outflow of young people – the able-bodied population under the age of 30, both applicants and qualified specialists, as evidenced by the population census. Behavior of younger generation of Primorsky Krai is different in comparison to other regions in choosing a place for further life due to the geographical location of the region. Primorsky Krai borders China and close to the Republic of Korea and Japan, young people choose these countries as a country for migration. Solving the tasks of employment of young professionals, demographic reproduction, viewing one way or another, related to youth policy, based on the formation of strategic priorities in the activities of government and local self-government.


Yeast strains GD9 of Yacai which was obtained by screening and domestication used as objective strain in this study. Based on single factor experiment,the optimized fermentation condition for yeast strains GD9 of Yacai was studied by using Box-Behnken condition and response surface methodology. Result showed that the optimized fermentation condition for yeast strains GD9 of Yacai as follow:inoculation time 22h, fermentation temperature 26℃ and pH 3.7,and under this optimal condition,OD620 of the GD9 strains reached 2.05. Furthermore,the established response surface model could accurately predict the different response conditions on OD620 of the GD9 strains.


We describe our standardized approach to robotic esophagectomy with special emphasis on the technical aspects pertaining to bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph node dissection.


In ancient China, dissatisfaction with the official compilation of histories gave rise, in time, to reflections on what makes a good historian, as well as on such issues as the factuality and objectivity of history-writing, the relationship between rhetoric and reality, and the value of historians' subjectivity. From these reflections arose a unique set of historiographical concepts. With the coming of modern times, the urgent task of building a nation-state forced Chinese historians to borrow heavily from Western historical theories in their effort to construct a new history compatible with modernity. A tension thus arose between Western theory and Chinese history. The newly founded People's Republic embraced the materialist conception of history as the authoritative guideline for historical studies, which increased the tension. The decline of the materialist conception of history in the period since China's reform and opening up in the late 1970s and, with this development, the increasing plurality of theories, have not exactly lessened Chinese historians' keenly felt anxiety when they confront Western theories. For Chinese historians, the current state of affairs with respect to theory is not exactly an extension of Western theories, nor is it a regression to the particularity of Chinese history completely outside the Western compass. Rather, a certain hybridity with respect to theory provides to Chinese historians a way to move both in and out of the West, as well as an opportunity for them to make their own contributions to Western history on the basis of borrowed Western theories.


A cutting tool or surgical cutter comprising a shaft (10) and a rotary cutter (23) driven by the shaft (10) is characterized in that the cutting member (23) is rotatable about an axis (21) which is substantially peirallele and offset from the axis (6) of the shaft (10).


We address the problem of predicting user intentions in cases of pointing ambiguities in graphical user interfaces.We argue that it is possible to heuristically resolve pointing ambiguities using implicit information that resides in natural pointing gestures, thus eliminating the need for explicit interaction methods and encouraging natural human-computer interaction.We present two speed-accuracy measures for predicting the size of the intended target object. These two measures are tested empirically and shown to be valid and robust.Additionally, we demonstrate the use of exact mouse location for disambiguation and the use of estimated movement continuation for predicting intended target objects at early stages of the pointing gesture.


Abstract In the Zr1—xAlx system a polymorphous crystal-to-glass transformation (CGT) has been found in earlier work. The CGT is characterized by a softening of the shear elastic constant as observed in both computer simulation and experiments. In this work we report studies of supersaturated Zr1—xAlx crystalline solid solutions with x = 0·1 and x = 0·16 which have been prepared by mechanical alloying or rapid quenching from the melt. From the specific heat measured at low temperatures, the Debye temperatures of the samples are calculated. A large reduction in the Debye temperature with decreasing grain size is found for both concentrations. It is concluded that the effect of grain size plays a major role in the elastic properties of the Zr1—xAlx solid solutions. The possibility of a local stabilization of the amorphous phase at the grain boundaries and the effect on the CGT is discussed.


Title: Labour's Response to the Closure Experience a Case of the Allen Industries Inc. Plant Closure, Author: Carol M. Mullally, Location: Thode


Species of the genus Physarum collected from Taiwan were critically reviewed. In this paper, we also described and illustrated three new records of Taiwan: Physarum dictyosporum, P. nasuense, and P. tenerum, and a rediscovered species P. flavicomum. A key to the 51 Physarum species of Taiwan is also provided.


FIELD: measurement equipment. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a capacitance reading device to read an electrophysiological signal of a human being. The capacitance reading device comprises a capacitance sensor (2) for capacitance reading of parameters of an object (3) and a body (4) for enclosure of the capacitance sensor (2). The body (4) comprises a contact side (6) for realisation of contact with the object (3) in process of reading, besides, the body (4) and the capacitance sensor (2) are adapted to read parameters of the object (3) by means of the capacitance sensor (2) via the contact side (6) of the body (4). The body (4) and the capacitance sensor (2) may separate from each other for use of the capacitance sensor (2) as a multiple-use device and for use of the body (4) as a disposable device. At least one of the capacitance sensor (2) and the body (4) comprises a retention element (7) to retain the capacitance sensor inside the body, besides, the retention element has a groove for fixation of the capacitance sensor in the body. EFFECT: possibility to perform capacitance reading of object parameters with a new non-contaminated body (4) and a capacitance sensor of multiple use (2), and accordingly, under improved hygienic conditions. 13 cl, 7 dwg


A system with both control and disturbance inputs is constrained input-to-state stabilizable if there exist feedback control laws that render the closed-loop system constrained input-to-state stable (cISS) with respect to the disturbance. Based on a control Lyapunov function, Sontag type controllers to the constrained input-to-state stabilization problem is constructed for a class of nonlinear systems, and it is shown that input-to-state stabilizability implies (arbitrary) constrained input-to-state stabilizability, but the converse is not true. Moreover, the constrained input-to-state stabilizability is both necessary and sufficient for the solvability of an inverse optimal problem. The designed controllers remain cISS against a certain class of input uncertainties, even input unmodeled dynamics.


This paper presents a spatial multi-touch system for the remote guidance of physical tasks that uses semantic information about the physical properties of the environment. It enables a remote expert to observe a video feed of the local worker's environment and directly specify object movements via a touch display. Visual feedback for the gestures is displayed directly in the local worker's physical environment with Spatial Augmented Reality and observed by the remote expert through the video feed. A virtual representation of the physical environment is captured with a Kinect that facilitates the context-based interactions. We evaluate two methods of remote worker interaction, object-based and sketch-based, and also investigate the impact of two camera positions, top and side, for task performance. Our results indicate translation and aggregate tasks could be more accurately performed via the object based technique when the top-down camera feed was used. While, in the case of the side on camera view, sketching was faster and rotations were more accurate. We also found that for object-based interactions the top view was better on all four of our measured criteria, while for sketching no significant difference was found between camera views.


This paper reports the improved microwave (MW) absorption characteristics of some newly prepared bio-silica-barium-ferrite composites (SBFCs) of the form (x)Bio-SiO2:(80-x)Fe2O3:(20) BaO (where x = 0, 2, and 4 wt.%). These composites were prepared using the modified solid-state reaction method with simultaneous sintering at 800 and 1100 °C. SBFCs were studied to determine the impact of various bio-silica concentrations on their morphology, structure, magnetic properties, permittivity, permeability, and X-band reflection loss. Various SBFC thicknesses were simulated to determine the reflection loss curves. It has been established that the MW absorption capacity of the examined SBFCs may be altered by adjusting the bio-silica concentration and sample thickness.


The invention relates to an evaporator device (1) for an air conditioner, - with at least one conduit wall (3) made of a metal, in particular aluminum, - with one on the conduit wall (3) provided for protective layer (5) which 40-90% by mass of zinc oxide (ZnO) has.


....................................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ v LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................... viii LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... ix LIST OF APPENDICES ..................................................................................................... x INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1 MATERIALS AND METHODS ........................................................................................ 5 Study Area ...................................................................................................................... 5 Data Collection ............................................................................................................... 8 Trees ............................................................................................................................ 9 Fuels ............................................................................................................................ 9 Composition .............................................................................................................. 10 Uncertainty .................................................................................................................... 11 Data Analysis ................................................................................................................ 14 Trees .......................................................................................................................... 15 Fuels .......................................................................................................................... 16 Composition .............................................................................................................. 19 RESULTS ......................................................................................................................... 21 Trees .............................................................................................................................. 21 Fuels .............................................................................................................................. 22 Composition .................................................................................................................. 24


This paper presents a new algorithm for solving reactive power optimization problem of multi-area power systems based on approximate Newton directions and generalized minimal residual (GMRES) algorithm. According to nonlinear primal-dual interior-point (NPDIP) method, approximate Newton directions are constructed during iteration and hence the weak coupling system can be fully decomposed. This decomposition method can converge locally to the optimum at a linear rate and is faster than the NPDIP. But strong coupling systems, which can not be decoupled like the weak coupling one, can be further solved by means of a preconditioned GMRES method. The approximate Newton direction and diagonal matrix obtained by decoupling provide initial values and preconditioner respectively for this algorithm. This preconditioned GMRES algorithm is fast and has a good convergence. Furthermore, test cases based on a 354-bus system are used to validate this proposed algorithm. Also, comparative studies for different decomposition schemes are reported. (7 pages)


The senior design sequence at Louisiana State University is a two semester, design, build and test experience. Groups of two, three or four students work together in a team setting to produce a functioning prototype which meets predetermined design goals. One particular project, which had as its goal the requirement to extend the reach of an occupant confined to a standard sized wheelchair, was used as a mechanism to integrate the development of critical and creative thinking skills necessary to solve technical problems into the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum. Special attention was paid to the nature of creativity and exercises were introduced in order to facilitate this historically neglected aspect of engineering education. The result of this effort was a unique wheelchair, which provides the occupant access to shelves located over their head or objects on the floor via an adjustable height seat.


Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) sensors are integrated with suitable signal conditioning unit (SCU) to provide usable output. Though the output of the SCU can be either analog or digital, digital output is often required in many system applications where other components are mostly digital. This work integrates a sigma-delta (ΣΔ) Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) with an analog front-end for capacitive sensor applications. The ΣΔ ADC is designed and fabricated in UMC 180 nm CMOS process along with the analog front-end. Peak SNR of 40 dB is achieved which corresponds to 7 bits of resolution. The entire system can be used up to 1 kHz signal frequency.


A HPLC method was developed for the determination of prochloraz(formulations and technology) using C18 column,DAD-detector and mobile phase of methanol-water(H3PO4 adjust pH 3.5,85:15,by vol).The linear rang was 101-707 mg/L,linear correlation coefficient was 0.99998.The standard deviations were 0.064 for prochloraz 10% ME and 0.151 for technology,the variation coefficient were 0.63% for prochloraz 10% ME and 0.16% for technology,average recoveries were 98.96% for prochloraz 10% ME and 99.12% for technology.


Conceptual design is the most creative part of architectural activity. In the professional work of architects, conceptual design is given great importance. Various architectural and design forums, exhibitions, competitions are dedicated to him. In Soviet times, an interesting example of the formation of conceptual solutions is the work of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin (who signed their works as a tandem of "Brutus"). We have other solutions of interesting concepts - the object of the competition "The World of El Lysytsky" - the Globe Theater in Novosibirsk. Here the authors start from the main idea - that the cube is the main form that characterizes the spirit and style of the Russian avant-garde of the twentieth century. Conceptual design ideas are implemented in the construction of unusual hotels, atypical urban environment, non-traditional building materials. All this allows you to think about life according to other rules. Than those prescribed in building codes. The world around us is more interesting and diverse, so we can, in part, paint it in bright colors.


Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous arc magmatism is represented by volcaniclastic rocks of the Eugenia Formation in the northern Vizcaino Peninsula and by the metamorphosed Cedros-San Andres volcanoplutonic complex, with a dismembered ophiolitic basement, in the southern peninsula. The Vizcaino Peninsula became the site of forearc sedimentation by the Aptian-Albian (late Early Cretaceous), when arc magmatism moved abruptly eastward to the present-day Peninsular Range. On the southern Vizcaino Peninsula, a conformable stratigraphic section, complicated by later faulting, records a gradual transition from a ridged forearc, broken by basement uplifts and grabens (the Aptian-Albian Asunction Formation), to a broadly subsiding, deep marine forearc basin (the Cenomanian Valle Formation). The basal contact of the Asunction formation has irregular relief caused by brecciated basement rocks and talus accumulated along fault zones. An upward-fining sequence several hundred meters thick records abrupt uplift and gradual denudation of adjacent metamorphic basement. Contemporaneous andesite arc volcanism to the east supplied ash and fresh volcanic detritus to the grabens. Angular sand to boulder-size detritus of the Asunction Formation was derived locally, and includes basic to intermediate meta-igneous rock fragments, with epidote, actinolite, and chlorite, as well as serpentine. Abundant calcareous fossils are commonly unbroken, suggesting local sources formore » these as well. Angular to subrounded, sand to cobble-sized, intermediate to mafic volcanic rock fragments were derived from a more distant island arc to the east, which occasionally provided intermediate to felsic tuffs to the basin. This source is probably represented by the Aptian-Albian Alisitos Group, which forms much of the western wall of the Late Cretaceous Peninsular Range batholith.« less


To reduce energy consumption of buildings on heating and cooling,and to achieve long-term stable heating and cooling using solar-ground coupled heat pump system(SGCHPS) in severe cold zone,a method of depending on seasonal solar heat storage in soil was put forward to maintain soil heat balance and increase system efficiency.Long-term experiment of 3 years was carried out relying on a demonstration project of solar-ground coupled heat pump for heating and cooling in severe cold zone.The system configurations were determined according to the building load,and 4 modes were selected to operate alternately.The experimental results showed that SGCHPS with seasonal heat storage could make the room achieve indoor air design temperature,and the guaranteed rate of heating and cooling were 92.0% and 84.1%,respectively.The energy efficiency ratio(REE) of heat pump was more than 4,the annual heating EER including the power consumption of heat storage was about 6,and the cooling EER was more than 20.The system operated stably for a long period,and could meet the heating and cooling demands of a detached house in severe cold zone(e.g.Harbin).Seasonal heat storage took full advantage of solar energy of the whole year,and increased system efficiency.The energy-saving effect was remarkable.


Thinking and re-examining the issue of teaching management in higher education institutions from the perspective of educational ecology is of benefit to the ecological development of higher education's teaching management. The nature of higher education's teaching management is not just about the ways to manage the staff,the students and the courses,but also about a better grasp of the relationships between teachers and students,among teachers,students and managers,and between schools and their environments. Accordingly,it is more helpful to hold the key factors for curriculum management, teacher management and student management in higher education institutions so as to strike a balance in the system of educational ecology. In this way,a mutually beneficial symbiosis might be achieved by activating the main subject of higher education—teachers and students.


Intracranial dermoid cysts are uncommon occurrence. The intracranially located dermoid cyst arises from ectoderm, probably derived from cell nest included during the closure of neural tube. The commonest site of intracranial dermoid cyst is posterior fossa. The more common supratentorial tumours are located on skull base, frontal or temporal or suprasellar region. Intracranial dermoid cyst can be associated with complete or incomplete sinus tract, usually ending in an intracranial location of dermoid, which predisposes to risk of meningitis, locally discharging sinus and even abscess formation and associated morbidity. Although the spinal lumbosacral dysraphism association with congenital spinal dermoid tumors is well known, however, the association of craniocervical spinal anomalies and posterior fossa dermoids has been recognized recently, so paucity of literature. KippelFeil syndrome may be associated with craniovertebral junction anomaly. In addition, it can be associated with diastematomyelia, syringomyelia, agenesis of corpus callosum, meningocele, ventriculomegaly, porencephalic cyst, cervical spina bifida oculta and spinal stenosis. Authors report an 18-yearold male boy with posterior cranial fossa dermoid with basilar invagination. The association of these two discrete pathologies are extremely uncommon. Both these lesions represent embryological disorder. The pathogenesis and treatment modality along with pertinent literature is reviewed. In extensive PubMed search authors could got only one case report by Goel et al. so, current case represents second such association in the literature. Brief embryological development and management of such association along with pertinent literature is reviewed briefly. *Correspondence to: Guru Dutta Satyarthee, MCh, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi, India, E-mail: email@example.com


The data of repeated gravity measurements, the characteristics of the gravity variation and seismicity in Baotou Region are analysed in this paper. The significance of the gravity observation for earthquake monitoring in Yinshan seismic zone is discussed.


To develop a PCR kit for the detection of Cryptosporidium baileyi in poultry,a portion of 18S rRNA and ITS-1 sequence of C.baileyi was chosen as the target DNA for designing the species-specific primers(YJWF5'-ACTGATATACAATACCACGG-3'and YR:5'-GCGGATAAAGTTCAGGTTC-3').The PCR amplification conditions were optimized,and a series of tests were conducted in the specificity,sensitivity,stability,reproducibility,and stored period of the kit,respectively.This kit was specific and there was no cross-reaction with other related protozoa,such as C.andersoni,C.parvum,Eimeria tenella and so on.It was able to detect the presence of C.baileyi in poultry as low as 3.48 oocysts.Repeated frozen-thaw for 50 times had no influence on the activity of the kit.The kit worked well after being stored at room temperature for at least four months.The results indicated that the kit is suitable for the detection of C.baileyi in poultry.


Teaching and learning mathematics should provide opportunity to student to express, explain, and give reason regarding what they are thinking. In addition, teaching and learning mathematics should make student active, creative, efective, meaningful, and joyful. Students are able to think accurately and communicate properly. These are relevant to the essence of teaching and learning mathematics, mathematical thinking and mathematical communication. By teaching and learning matematics student is supported to catch the idea of concepts, rules, and principles of mathematics, and then revoicing all of them. Even they should be able to defence what they assume as rightness argumentatively (mathematical argumentation or mathematical reasoning). Even though mathematical argumentation is one of important mathematical competences, but it has to make student to proportionaly master. However, mathematical argumentation is mathematical creativity with in tolerances to get the real meaning of learning mathematics. Teaching and learning mathematics can use to (i) highlight ideas that have come directly from students; (ii) help develop students' understanding that are implicit in those ideas; (iii) negotiate meaning with students, and (iv) add new ideas, or move discussion in another direction. Key words: mathematical argumentation, thinking, communication, express, explain, reason.


In this study, the design optimization of the automotive side member is performed to maximize the crash energy absorption efficiency per unit weight. Design parameters which seriously influence on the frontal crash performance are selected through the sensitivity analysis using the Plackett-Burman design method. And also the design variables, which are determined from the sensitivity analysis, are optimized by two methods. One is conventional approximate optimization method which uses the statistical design of experiments (DOE) and response surface method (RSM). The other is a methodology derived from previous work by the authors, which is called sequential design of experiments (SDOE), to reduce a trial and error procedure and to find an appropriate condition for using micro-genetic algorithm. The proposed optimization technique shows that the automotive side member structure can be designed considering the frontal crash performance.


We study the drainage of a viscous liquid film coating outside a horizontal cylinder. We first study the evolution of the axially invariant draining flow, initiated at rest with uniform film thickness $\delta$. Non-linear simulations indicate that for each $\delta$, there is a threshold in the Bond number ($Bo$), which compares the gravitational effects with surface tension, above which the draining liquid bulk ruptures. This critical $Bo$ is found to scale inversely with $\delta$, defining the existence of a quasi-stationary pendant curtain sustained below the cylinder by surface tension. The interface of the pendant curtain is unconditionally linearly unstable and is prone to Rayleigh-Plateau-like, capillarity-driven, and Rayleigh-Taylor, gravity-driven, instabilities. The linear stability of the quasi-static state along with an energy analysis of the unstable mode illustrates that while the Rayleigh-Taylor instability is always present, capillary effects dominate the instability at small $Bo$, which promotes the formation of pearls enveloping the cylinder. In contrast, at large $Bo$, capillarity acts in a stabilising way and the instability is purely gravity-driven, forming underside modulations. We present the asymptotic energy repartition representing the different physical mechanisms at play in the instability of the saturated curtains for a wide range of $\{Bo,\delta\}$. The results of the linear analysis agree with the pre-existing experiments of~\citeauthor{Bruyn1997} and non-linear simulations of~\citeauthor{Weidner1997} on thin film and extend the results for thick films. Additionally, based on the volume made available for droplet growth by the development of the most linearly amplified wavelength, we build a tentative regime diagram predicting the final patterns emerging from the pendant curtain: an array of pearls or pendant drops or three-dimensional droplet pinch-off.


The effect of temperature on negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond is interesting owing to their high precision and high spatial resolution. In addition, this thermal effect has many applications, such as in magnetic imaging, materials science, and fundamental physics. Temperature sensitivity varies for different magnetic field directions. In this letter, a temperature working range of 260–500 K and sensitivity of 10 mK/√Hz were achieved. This could be a novel approach to study the thermal processes and thermodynamics of nanostructures.


Staphylococcus aureus, due to its capability to produce and release heat-stable enterotoxins (Staphylococcal Enterotoxins-SEs) in a wide range of foods, is one of the most common agents in bacterial food poisonings outbreaks. Milk and dairy products are frequently contaminated with enterotoxigenic S. aureus, carried by human handlers or by the udder and teat skin of dairy mastitic animals. The aim of this study is to investigate the spread of enterotoxigenic Coagulase Positive Staphylococci (CPS) and S. aureus, in milk and dairy products of Marche region (Italy) and to evaluate the presence of mecA e mupA genes encoding for Methicillin and Mupirocin resistance. In the biennium 2015-2016 14 farms were sampled and bulk tank milk, cheese, milk from automatic milk distributors and environmental samples were tested for the enumeration of CPS. The isolated strains were analyzed by three multiplex PCR targeting the16S rRNA (Staphylococcus genus specific), nuc (S. aureus specific), mecA, mupA and the SEs genes. In the 86% of the farms sampled CPS were found even above the regulatory limits. All the 144 isolated SCP strains were identified as S.aureus. No tested strains were positive for any of the resistance genes. Ninety-one S. aureus gave positive results for at least one of the SEs genes and 85 of them had genes for the classic SEs (A, B, C, D, E), for which the causality with food poisonings outbreaks is known


The journey to Quality World passes through the imperative of upgradation of the Quality of World. Thanks to the Gurus the embryo of good Quality was installed, and it sustains at a pace which though small, continues to accelerate. It must cross a threshold to be noticed.The journey is however subject to some interim assessments. One is the Deming's application prize and its senior versions. The merit list demonstrates the success achievable and achieved by Indian companies. It sustains to continue too. Following such contribution by a not so developed nation (both in terms of Quality and Technology) if each ensemble of the world attempts to contribute harmoniously to the cult of Quality, it is sure that Quality (of) World will be assured. If you are aligned, read on.


The objective of this article is to compare the prediction results of support vector machine (SVM) with linear regression. The data used are secondary data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of the Republic of Indonesia where the percentage of poor people as the dependent variable and the human development index (HDI) as independent variables by province in Indonesia in 2018. The results of linear regression analysis indicate that the HDI value has a sign negative to the percentage of poor people in Indonesia, meaning that an increase in the value of HDI will have an impact on reducing the percentage of poor people in Indonesia. Furthermore, the results of the SVM prediction plot show more points approaching the regression line than the linear regression observation points, besides the SVE MSE value is smaller than linear regression. It can be concluded that SVM prediction is better than linear regression


Computerized tomography demonstrated the evolution of cerebral abscess from cerebritis in three patients. One of these was proven subsequently to be a mixed pyogenic and tuberculous abscess. The time course of this evolution in each case is presented and its clinical importance discussed.


Recent advancement in the printed circuit board (PCB) industry has enabled the production of highly sophisticated electronic substrates at high-resolution and low production cost. These boards make an ideal platform for producing microfluidic devices for lab-on-a-chip and point-of-care applications, since such devices require a high degree of integration, something that is critically lacking in current technology. We propose an alternative approach for fabricating microfluidic devices by using PCB as a substrate to produce high precision, highly integrated microfluidic systems. We report the development of new materials (polyurethane and 1002F polymer) and techniques for successful integration of microfluidics with PCBs. Prototypes of PCB-based 1002F and polyurethane microfluidics were fabricated with electronic components embedded for integration (resistors, LEDs, temperature sensors), enabling on-board thermal control and detection, and optical imaging. In this paper, optical imaging was presented as a demonstration for such on-board functional control. Electroosmotic flow was measured in microchannels made from both materials, demonstrating the suitability of these materials for biochemical and electrochemical applications.


Polymer gels undergoing the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction exhibit autonomous, coupled chemical and mechanical oscillations. The ruthenium catalyst that contributes to the rhythmic swelling and deswelling of the gel is chemically grafted to the backbones of the polymer chains. Using both experiments and computer simulations, we examine films of heterogeneous BZ gels where the catalyst is localized in distinct sub-millimeter sized patches, and these BZ patches are surrounded by a non-reactive polymer network. The photo-polymerization method for sample fabrication permits control over the size of the disk-shaped patches, the ruthenium concentration in each of the disks, and arrangement of the disks in the non-reactive matrix. We first consider two distinct disks of the BZ gel that differ in size or the concentration of catalyst, [Ru]. By varying the separation between the disks, we isolated conditions necessary for the synchronization between the chemo-mechanical oscillations within these BZ patches. We then considered an arrangement of four disks and demonstrated that the two-dimensional propagation of the traveling wave within the film could be controlled by tailoring the size and [Ru] in the patches. Subsequently, we present results on the computational modeling of such heterogeneous self-oscillating gels. We demonstrate that the simulations capture the experimentally observed effects of the catalyst concentration, patch size, and inter-patch distance on the synchronization of oscillations in the neighboring BZ gels. Taken together, the experimental and computational studies reveal how the synchronization effects can be utilized to control the dynamical behavior of the entire system.


Agriculture firms are facing challenges on applying the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (PSAK) 69 which regulates the recognition, measurement, disclosure, presentation and reporting biological assets because of the unique trait of biological assets. This research aims to decide the factors that influence the biological asset disclosure by testing the effect of leverage, profitability, liquidity, firm's growth, biological assets' intensity, firm size, type of auditor, and listing status. The samples used in this research are the agriculture firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) between 2016 and 2018. The data are collected from the auditor financial statement. This research uses a quantitative method with multiple linear regression analysis. The conclusion is that the intensity of biological asset influences the biological asset disclosure, while leverage, profitability, liquidity, firm's growth, firm size, type of auditor, and listing status do not influence the biological asset disclosure. This research contributes as literature for academics, gives knowledge about agriculture firm's problems for the standard compiler, and improving the agriculture firms' obediency in disclosing their biological asset following the PSAK 69


In this paper, we consider a scheduling problem simultaneously with rate-modifying activities and earliness and tardiness penalties on an unrelated parallel-machine setting. We assume that each machine has at most one rate-modifying activity to improve its production efficiency during the scheduling horizon and all the jobs have a common due-date. The objective is to determine jointly the optimal positions of rate-modifying activities, the optimal common due-date of all jobs, and the optimal schedule to minimize the sum of earliness and tardiness costs. We show that the problem can be optimally solved in polynomial time.


Purpose

Drawing on social exchange theory (SET) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the negative consequence of abusive supervision on knowledge sharing. Further, this paper explores the moderating role of organizational tenure in the relationship between abusive supervision and employees' knowledge sharing behavior applying sense-making theory.

Design/methodology/approach

The hypotheses were tested using regression analysis across two independent studies conducted in South Korea.

Findings

The authors found evidence that there was a negative relationship between abusive supervision and employees' knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, the aforementioned relationship was strengthened for those with longer organizational tenure.

Originality/value

This research deepens our understanding of the negative consequences of abusive supervision on employees' knowledge sharing behavior by drawing on SET and COR theory. Through two independent studies, the results demonstrated that employees who receive abusive treatment from their supervisors tend to reduce their knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, this detrimental effect is stronger for key knowledge providers, namely long-tenured employees.


The invention, and selective inhibitors therapeutically active of formula I, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, as well as type 2 diabetes and as obesity, proteins which undergo inactivation by DPP-IV for treating treating diseases associated with, and to the use of said compounds for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of the disease.


Light level measurement is crucial in applications involving lighting control, circadian lighting, and light booths. The paper proposes a unique camera-based approach for measuring illuminance on a work plane. A machine learning-based model is suggested that takes the RAW pixel data of standard neutral colour patches placed on the work plane as inputs and predicts the illuminance level on the work plane. The training data is populated using a DSLR camera, calibrated illuminance meter, standard neutral patches, and controlled lighting in the darkroom. The RAW image files are processed using MATLAB, and the App Designer tool is used to develop the user interface. The model's performance is accessed under various illuminance levels and colour temperatures. The percentage error of prediction during testing by the model was less than 5. Since the proposed technique incorporates the camera as the light sensor, simultaneous illuminance measurement at multiple target points present in the camera vision can be realised.


This paper analyzes innovative technologies in the field of functional nutrition. The authors of the study have built a patent landscape that makes it possible to identify the dynamics of technology development, determine the interest of companies in technology, explore the possibility of new companies entering the market and assess the poten- tial for patenting. The focus of the study is the development of scientists in the field of practical application of the bio- logically active and medicinal properties of mushrooms, which make it possible to compensate for the deficiency of macronutrients in the human body. The study made it possible to assess the interest of market players in this area, to identify preferred patent offices, to study key players in the international market, to identify patenting areas and tech- nology segments. This study acts as a basis for studying the technological area, covering key developments.


This research aims to determine the effect of organizational climate and work ability towards organizational commitment and its impact on the employee performance. Endogenous variable in this research is the performance of employees, while, the exogenous variables are the organizational climate and work ability. This research proposes organizational commitment to be the intervening variable. This research using a 55 samples who are taken from the employees of Perindagkop and SMEs in Pontianak City. The type of research was a descriptive survey research with questionnaire as the  main data collecting media. Method of sampling in this research is census method where the entire population being sampled. Data were analyzed using path analysis (Path Analysis) facilitated by SPSS for Windows 22.0. The results showed that the organizational climate and the ability to work in a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment and the performance of employees. In contrast, the variable organizational commitment has no significant effect to employee performance. It means that organizational commitment to the organization of the Perindagkop and SMEs Pontianak City has no effect on employee performance improvement. Keyword: Organizational climate, work ability, organizational commitment, and employee performance.


The most influential line of reasoning in gerontology is known as Disposable Soma Theory (DST). In brief, the theory states that aging is caused by accumulation of random damage, which is counteracted by repair. Repair is costly and the organism allocates exactly the needed amount of energetic resources. Recently, DST was applied to explain why women live longer than men [1]. Women are less disposable than men, so they need a better repair and thus live longer [1].


Self localization in GNSS denied environments is a key requirement for Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) applications. Indoor environments have an abundant presence of high-level semantic information that can be exploited to improve the environment understanding, as well as their pose estimation. Given that MAVs cannot carry much weight, they can only be equipped with light sensors, such as RGB-D cameras, and processing units with limited computational resources. In this paper, we tackle the problem of realtime visual semantic SLAM running on-board lightweight aerial robotic platforms by using the OAK-D RGB-D sensor. The proposed algorithm is divided into two parts. In the first part, the robot state is propagated using VO/VIO estimation by using low-level features of the environment. Then, to counterpart the accumulated drift of such low level algorithms, we associate high-level sensed objects with previously mapped landmarks. Thus, the second part of the algorithm corrects the estimation and builds a sparse semantic map of the landmarks extracted from the detections.


Face recognition helps in authentication of the user using remotely acquired facial information. The dynamic nature of face images like pose, illumination, expression, occlusion, aging, etc. degrades the performance of the face recognition system. In this paper, a new face recognition system using facial images with illumination variation, pose variation and partial occlusion is presented. The facial image is described as a collection of three complete connected graphs and these graphs are represented as symbolic objects. The structural characteristics, i.e. graph spectral properties, energy of graph, are extracted and embedded in a symbolic object. The texture features from the cheeks portions are extracted using center symmetric local binary pattern (CS-LBP) descriptor. The global features of the face image, i.e. length and width, are also extracted. Further symbolic data structure is constructed using the above features, namely, the graph spectral properties, energy of graph, global features and texture features. User authentication is performed using a new symbolic similarity metric. The performance is investigated by conducting the experiments with AR face database and VTU-BEC-DB multimodal database. The experimental results demonstrate an identification rate of 95.97% and 97.20% for the two databases.


Speaking is a productive skill with requires the interactive and performance process. To be able to improve and represent student's capability in their speaking skill, student also need to drill and practice their speaking as the academic presenter, because if they able to speak academically, their speaking skill will get well improvement automatically. This research is aimed to investigate student's speaking performance while they have academic speaking practice. The population of this research is 4 th semester student of Universitas Muhammadiyah Tangerang, located in Cikokol-Tangerang. The sample is single sample. To find the data, researcher use video record originally from the speaker then doing the analysis with triangulation validity. This research showed that students speaking performance is need to be treating well, especially in their self-confident and vocabulary master, because it will be impossible for them to be a good speaker if they have lots of anxiety.


Mg-Zn-Zr alloy ZK60 with addition of RE elements Y and Nd was hot rolled and then was heat-treated,tensile mechanical properties at room temperature of ZK60 and ZK60RE alloys were tested.Microstructure observations under different states were performed by optical and electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction analytic metheds.The existence form and acting mechanism of Y and Nd elements in ZK60 alloy and the influence of the RE elements content on microstructure and mechanical properties of the ZK60 alloy were investigated.The results showed that Y and Nd can refine as-cast microstructure of ZK60 alloy and improve the fracturing strength at room temperature.The strengthening effects of Mg-5.5Zn-0.7Zr-0.5Y-0.5Nd and Mg-5.5Zn-0.7Zr-0.6Y-0.6Nd are compared with the ZK60 alloy without RE elements,the fracturing strengths of the alloys at room temperature are improved by14.94% and 20.2% respectively.