In this paper, a beam subjected to end concentrated loads has been modeled and analyzed to estimate its flexural response. The beam has been assumed to rest on reinforced earth beds with reinforcing elements having some finite bending stiffness. The reinforcing elements have been idealized as beams with smooth surface characteristics. The foundation system has been assumed to react only in compression (tensionless foundation), i.e. the separation between the upper beam and the ground surface has been taken into consideration. Winkler springs of different stiffnesses have been used to idealize the upper dense and lower poor soils. As the analysis considers the separation between the upper beam and the soil, the weight of the upper beam has been taken into account. The governing differential equations have been derived and presented in a non‐dimensional form. These equations have been solved using finite difference method with the help of appropriate boundary and continuity conditions. The response of the foundation system has been compared with the case when the beam is in perfect contact with the ground surface. The parametric study shows that the response of the model is greatly affected by the length ratio of beams, ratio of stiffness of upper and lower soil layers, ratio of flexural rigidity of upper and lower beams and weight of the upper foundation beam. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Women have higher rates of hypertension at the time of menopausal transition than men. Although elevated systolic and diastolic blood pressures (SBP and DBP) are risk factors for white matter (WM) injury both in women and men, WM hyperintensities (WMH), a marker of WM injury, are more common in women than in men after the age of 60. Thus, women may be vulnerable to the effects of elevated BP on WM integrity during menopausal transition. We investigated the association of BP in recently postmenopausal women with good cardiovascular health with WMH volume assessed 13 years later.


Objective To ensure the quality of drinking water in both city and rural area is the urgent need for the safe guard of people's health and the development of water supply system.Methods Random sampling was applied.The investigation results showed that the qualified rate of city drinking water quality is higher.Results The qualified rate of source water,plant water,pipe network and ending water was 100%,100% and 98.43% respectively.The results showed that the qualified rate of village drinking water quality was rather poor.The qualified rate of source water,plant water,pipe network and ending water,well water was 29.81%,39.69%,31.49% and 47.07%,respectively.The disqualification rate of the free residual chlorine,total bacterial count and total intestinal flora were high in each kind of water sample.Results indicated that the present water quality in Wuhan countryside did not reach the standard required.The value of total bacterial count,total intestinal flora,free residual chlorine,the material visible to the naked eye,and oxygen consumption capacity exceeded the respective limit level of health standards obviously.Conclusion The quality of village drinking water in Wuhan's countryside area needs to be improved.


Leucheria arancioi Jara-Arancio, Ratto & Adr. Bartoli (Asteraceae, Nassauvieae) is recognized as a new species. It was previously known as L. diemii var. purpurea Ratto, Bello & Adr. Bartoli. This is a perennial herb that inhabits the western part of the province of Santa Cruz, Department Río Chico, in the Patagonian phytogeographic province. Evaluation of morphological and molecular differences between the varieties of L. diemii showed that there are discriminating characters that warrant recognition of L. arancioi as a new species.


Pressure−volume−temperature measurements, calorimetry, and dielectric spectroscopy at ambient and elevated pressures were carried out on poly(cyclohexyl methacrylate) (PCHMA) and its blend with poly(α-methylstyrene) (PaMS). Both the glass transition temperature and local segmental relaxation times, τα, go through a maximum as a function of blend composition, plausibly due to a negative excess volume. Using a nonlinear function for the composition dependence of Tg, a value of the self-concentration parameter of the Lodge−McLeish model is determined, which is close to that calculated from the PCHMA chain statistics. For both neat PCHMA and the blend, the τα superpose as a function of TVγ. Since the breadth of the local segmental relaxation dispersion is a unique function of τα, this means that the parameter γ defines both the magnitude and distribution of relaxation times. The thermodynamic scaling for the blend was corroborated by calculating the exponent γ from the isochronal thermal expansion coefficient...


Contributors Preface Outline of the book Transparency, capital formation, and economic growth Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim Economic policy and institutional transparency: The ECB Iain Begg Transparency in competition policy Philippe Gugler Environmental policy and institutional transparency in Europe Thomas L. Brewer and Sarianna M. Lundan Transparency in human capital policy a prerequisite for economic growth Erik Mellander and Christina Hakanson Transparency in bankruptcy law: A perspective on bankruptcy costs across Europe Karin S. Thorburn Economic growth and the governance of the financial sector in the EU: What role for regulatory transparency? Jean-Pierre Casey Bank insolvency procedures and market discipline in European banking Apanard Angkinand and Clas Wihlborg Legal determinants of the return on equity Davide Lombardo and Marco Pagano The European adoption of international financial reporting standards effects on corporate transparency Magnus Bild and Walter Schuster SOX around the world corporate transparency and risk management disclosure of European issuers in the United States Sohnke M. Bartram, Georg Stadtmann, and Markus F. Wissmann Transparency and capital structure in Europe: Evidence of firm, industry, and national institutional influences Raj Aggarwal and NyoNyo Aung Kyaw Multinational enterprises and their lobbying activities in the European Union Amjad Hadjikhani and Pervez N. Ghauri Corruption and FDI: Japanese FDI inflows into the EU, 1996 2002 Andrew Delios, Ram Mudambi, and Pietro Navarra


Abstract Images of abnormalities and aberrations abound in visual culture, and these have recently enjoyed a growing scholarly interest. My article takes as its collective subject this kind of image. Specifically, I discuss Neill Blomkamp's blockbuster District 9 due to its abundance in aberration. Under the label 'aberrant image' I consider an array of previously described visual (and experiential) categories, namely the grotesque, abject, monstrous-feminine and uncanny, because of the characteristic way they destabilise viewers. My hypothesis is that they share a particular kind of image operation, a concept which I borrow from Hans Belting. In aberrant images, this operation incorporates both visual elements and their affects (here understood as emotional and physical sensations experienced by sentient beings). For this reason, I read how these images work and work on us in terms of Georges Didi-Huberman's phenomenological and psychoanalytical delineation of 'the symptom'; an 'incomprehensible sign' which both displays and dissimulates the process of figuration because it reveals the materiality of images. However, I aim to broaden Didi-Huberman's definition of representation with Belting's conceptualisation of the image as operation, by applying it to the cinematic medium and to aberrant images. Therefore, I adapt the concept of 'the symptom' to describe a broader kind of image operation whereby what the image represents is destabilising to the engendering of this image, so that it becomes a 'symptomatic image'.


A spectre has been haunting the public administration of Western countries –the spectre of New Public Management. This has been all too visible for quite a while, and it coincides with the increasi ...


The literature data on the synthesis, structure, and properties of a promising class of polyfunctional polymers — polycarbodiimides — are surveyed. The polymerisation reactions of the carbodiimide groups of the polymers and the reactions involving polyaddition to various functional groups with formation of linear and network polymers are described. Certain aspects of the practical use of polycarbodiimides are considered. The bibliography includes 320 references.


Creat (Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f) Nees) is one of the medicinal plants with a variety of benefits that has long been used by society in traditional medicine. The extract of medicinal plant is needed to be standardized to improve the quality, safety and efficacy products of traditional medicine. The level of the active compounds of medicinal plants can be affected by various environmental factors. This study aims to determine the quality standards parameters value of creat herb extract, to determine the effect of growth place variations to the level of andrographolide in the creat herbs extract from Dlingo, Prambanan and Kalibawang, and to know the areas where produce the creat with the highest level of andrographolide. Creat herb extraction is done by maceration using ethanol 70%. The extract is then standardized and the level of andrographolide is determined by TLC-densitometry method. The level of andrographolide extract were compared based on the effect of growing place altitude, light intensity, pH and soil moisture. The test results were analyzed statistically using SPSS with 95% confidence level. The results showed that the extract standardization meet the requirements except for drying shrinkage and total ash content. There were significant differences in the results of the extracts standardization test of the three regions. Andrographolide concentration of the extract ranges from 27.43 to 28.83 % w/w. The highest level of andrographolide is produced by creat from Prambanan area. The differences in altitude of growth place do not give significant effect on andrographolide level. The difference of light intensity, pH and soil moisture can provide significant effect on level of andrographolide.


Problem Having the apparent distance of the Moon's centre from a fixed Star, or from the centre of the Sun, together with the apparent altitudes of their centres, to find the true distance. Solution The difference between the apparent and true altitudes, and the angles which the Moon and Star make with the zenith and each other, must be known before the several corrections of distance are computed.


The aim of this article is to elucidate the short-circuit failure mechanism of SiC metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors that cause mechanical failure of the interlayer dielectric adjacent to the gate, to find the relationship between the short-circuit withstand capability and short-circuit failure time, and to classify failure modes by the short-circuit failure time. When the short-circuit failure time is shorter than the critical time, the stresses acting on the interlayer dielectric caused by the thermal expansion of the SiC die exceed the fracture stress limit of the oxide films. Therefore, cracks occur at the interlayer dielectric between the gate and the source. In this case, the short-circuit withstand capability can be predicted by thermal theory because the thermal expansion of the SiC die is determined by the temperature rise. However, when the short-circuit failure time is longer than the critical time, the stresses acting on the interlayer dielectric are less than the fracture stress limit of the oxide films. Thus, the failure mode changes to metallization short mode without causing interlayer dielectric cracks. Thermal stress simulations and experiments ascertain that the stress acting on the interlayer dielectric due to the thermal expansion of SiC varies with the short-circuit failure time, resulting in an altered failure mode.


The World Health Organization (WHO) remains the most authoritative actor in global health in the world's history. However, its roles and prestige have reduced over time, and the trend, though dangerous to global health, might not change if practical and radical changes are not put in place. The deficiencies to properly contain and manage the recent Ebola and Zika virus epidemics are fresh and glaring examples (1). Transparency, substandard institutional reform to meet current challenges, funding gaps, and undefined scope of action characterize the WHO of today. This year's elections of the next WHO Director-General could be a unique opportunity for the WHO to undertake reforms to regain the trust it rightly deserves. Epidemics, humanitarian crises, resistance to medication (HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria), explosion of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and cancers are clear indications that the WHO cannot claim to be able to singlehandedly cope with these challenges. Constraints could arise from inadequate funding, human resource and technical management gaps, and lack of coordination and needed expertise in certain areas. The growing involvement of many organizations, research institutions, industry (2), and academia in the health welfare of the world compels institutional reform within the organization to explore and contain collaborations with organizations with proven expertise in specific domains. One of the key unmet ideals in the history of the world, for the high-, low-, and middle-income countries has been under appraisal of social determinants of health, inequities in health care, and disregard of health-care provision as a fundamental human right (3). In the interview report with candidates for this years' WHO Director-General position, this theme was unanimously recognized as a priority action area from all aspirants (4). This must remain a key mandate of the WHO. The health of mothers and children is a top priority, despite the remarkable gains that have been recorded in the past decades. There is growing evidence of increased risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardio-metabolic adverse outcomes in early adulthood resulting from materno-fetal health status (5, 6). The socioeconomic potential of the world is largely dependent on acceptable maternal and child health status and in no way should be undermined. Disaster response and preparedness coupled with epidemiologic surveillance of disease are issues necessitating coordination from an authoritative structure such as the WHO. Creating healthy collaborating frameworks with organizations with proven track records in humanitarian response and disasters could relieve the organization from unnecessary and potentially sub-optimal …


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Growth and development of gametophytes of Polypodium vulgare L. in culture are affected by population density. Increasing population density leads to an increase in gametophyte length and a delay in the transition to two-dimensional growth. Cell number is at a maximum at an intermediate density. On the evidence presented it is concluded that the inhibition of development associated with high population density is attributable to the presence in the medium of a substance (or substances) secreted by the gametophytes. Although other explanations are possible, all the effects could be caused by a single, diffusible, volatile factor. It is suggested that the promotive effect of blue light on gametophyte development is due to the suppression of this factor by blue light.


For more than 30 years, Harvard University scholar Herbert C. Kelman has been working with Israelis and Palestinians to build peace in the Middle East. In the 1970s, Kelman developed the so called interactive problem solving workshop method, an unofficial third-party approach to the resolution of international and ethnic conflicts, anchored in social-psychological theory following a scholar-practitioner model. Throughout his career, Herbert C. Kelman sought to apply psychological theory to major social issues, stressing the moral dimension as the center of his work. Herbert. C. Kelman is Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and was for ten years the director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. This interview was conducted on the occasion of the awarding of the Socrates prize to Herbert C. Kelman in April 2009 in Berlin. The award, granted by the German institution Centrale fur Mediation, honours eminent mediators, who contributed with their outstanding work to the enhancements of mediation science and practice.


In the technologies for preventing environmental deterioration, recycling work is considered as important and difficult. To automate unstructured works to dismantle used products into re-usable parts, new robot technique is proposed. "Integrated limb mechanism" is the concept to include both of manipulation and locomotion. In the complicated work of dismantling, the coordinated motion of locomotion and manipulation should be useful. In this paper, the general concept and total framework for coordinated motion control will be given, first. A mechanism usable to both of locomotion and manipulation will be proposed and analyzed on kinematics, second.<<ETX>>


Food safety is of great concern in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria because of its pollution levels. Shell fish is one of the major diets of the people of Rivers State and they affect a large market and customer target in the region. This study was aimed at assessing the human health risk from consuming oysters bought from different markets in Rivers State namely; Creek Road market Borokiri, Mile 3 Market and Choba Market while Oysters harvested from ARAC (Buguma) were used as control. Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Cobalt (Co) and Nickel (Ni) were analysed in all samples using the Atomic absorption spectrometer. Cobalt had the highest concentration in all the samples from the markets except Mile 3 market, it ranged from 0.011-0.014mg/kg, while Lead ranged from 0.007-0.012 mg/kg, Chromium ranged from 0.008-0.010 mg/kg, Nickel ranged from 0.008-0.021 mg/kg and Cadmium ranged from 0.001-0.007mg/kg .The Estimated Daily Intake (EDI) of these metals were calculated, Target Human Quotient (THQ) and Hazard Index (HI) derived. EDI values were within tolerable limit. THQ and HI calculated indicated likely risk from oyster consumption since the values obtained were above the threshold of one (1) for lead, Cobalt and Cadmium, long term consumption may lead to health risk.


The growth in the number of students engaging in research as part of their studies has increased dramatically, and combined with the need to provide adequate research supervision, the exploration and development of alternative modes of conducting research together with students has emerged. One such mode of research can be called the hyper-structured student research project (HSSRP). This mode represents supervision where the research area, as well as the methodology, is specifically defined, and where students are supported and guided through every step of the research process, with the supervisor making most of the important research decisions on behalf of the students. Although the HSSRP has delivered on the institutional requirements of efficiency and throughput, there is a need to critically reflect on these projects to ascertain whether they meet academic and professional requirements. In this paper, the acceptability of HSSRP projects will be analysed from a utilitarian perspective, considering dilemmas that may arise from, but also within, the projects, and focusing on the public worth which follows from such projects. Several new insights arose from these analyses, and it was found that the level of public worth might be less than when more traditional modes of supervision is used. It may be concluded that the higher level outcomes, such as graduateness and professional preparedness, are not achieved through the HSSRP. This paper presents an evaluation of the HSSRP from a multi-dimensional utility perspective and contributes to a debate often driven by biased and limited utilitarianism. It is recommended that the critique expressed in this paper be used to design structured research projects so as to enable a more even distribution of utility and to enable universities to deliver on their societal higher goals.


According to the high precision technical requirement of millimeter-wave component,the vacuum brazing is applied to solve the problem of the dimension transformation and the controlled of welding fillet.Based on the analysis of the component structure character,the suitable welding fixture is designed,and the vacuum brazing welding parameter of the millimeter-wave component is constituted based on the experiment.The welded component is tested,the result indicates that the vacuum brazing has the obviously technique advantage on the millimeter-wave component manufacture.


This article analyzes the current trends of the research in Social Work in the context of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPd - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). From the data collected by the Social Work representatives in the Advisory Committee, it is noted the unquestionable relation among research, production of knowledge and post-graduation; the link between research and the several demands historically determined by the capitalistic society; and the new CNPq trends showing relevance to Social Work: the training and popularization of Science and Technology, as well as intersectoriality.


With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices to empower their respective workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that can support large user populations is critical. In his third book on mobile development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all your mobile employees. He walks you step-by-step through the process of building a secure, performant, 4-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to thousands of users. You'll also learn how to create occasionally-connected Windows Mobile applications that are designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your organization by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on Windows Mobile infrastructure and development.


The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the degree and the relationship among empathy ability, sense of humor and communication ability of psychiatric nurses and to understand factors which influence on communication ability. Data were collected from 219 psychiatric nurses in B and G city and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression using SPSS/WIN 22.0. The degree of communication ability in psychiatric nurses was 3.59±.43. There were significant differences in communication ability with respect to sense of humor(r=.53, p<.001), and also between communication ability and empathy ability(r=.39, p<.001), with an explanatory power of 34.4%(F=29.56, p<.001). In conclusion, these findings indicate that the higher sense of humor and empathy ability of psychiatric nurses, the higher communication ability. Accordingly, to improve the communication ability of psychiatric nurses, educational programs to improve sense of humor and empathy ability of psychiatric nurses should be developed and utilized


The cells migrating into allotransplants of heart, kidney and skin have been assessed by electron microscopy and related to the physiological activity of these organs recorded at the time of their removal. The migrant cells consisted of macrophages—arriving in the transplants either as early macrophages or monocytes, neutrophils, blast-like cells and erythrocytes. The proportions of these types to the total number of cells varied from one tissue to another and also from one area to another within any given transplant. The overall dominant cell was the macrophage. Owing to their enormous size gained in the course of maturation, the macrophages come to occupy most of the interstitial tissue space and appear to be carrying on their legitimate function of phagocytosis of damaged cells. The only cells which were phagocytosed were "self" erythrocytes and platelets which had become extravasated, and later damaged, in the interstitium along with other circulating blood cells as a result of increased vascular permeability. Macrophages undergoing pinocytosis were more common in heart than in kidney allotransplants but this indicates, in general, that the macrophages were phagocytosing soluble "self" particles contained in the protein-rich extravasated plasma. However, ruffled "angry" macrophages were as much a feature of skin autotransplants as any allotransplant which renders the regulation of pinocytosis even more complex and not just a response to "not-self". There was no evidence which would support claims that lymphocytes caused direct parenchymal damage and so initiate acute rejection or that they are the most numerous cells to be found in allotransplants. The migrant cells are a consequence of an initial inflammatory reaction in allotransplants and not the cause of it. A physiological assessment of function points to a failure of afferent peripheral perfusion due to increased venular pressure as the cause of acute rejection in all allotransplants.


Background: In 2012, International Labour Organization (ILO) noted there was 2 million cases due to occupational illness each year. One of the physical factors that causes occupational illness is noise. Noise at workplace comes from the production machine and / or tools on a certain level may cause hearing problems. The most common hearing problem is noice induced hearing loss (NIHL).
Objective: Study the correlation between workers compliance in using personal protective equipment (PPE) to incidence of noise induced hearing loss.
Methods: observational analytic study with cross-sectional design. Samples of this study is all of workers in production departments of PT Coats Rejo Indonesia.
Result: Chi-square test results on correlation between workers compliance used PPE with incidence of NIHL obtained significant value 0,007 (p 0,05).
Conclusion: There is a significant correlation between the workers compliance in using PPE with incidence of NIHL, age with incidence of NIHL, length of work with incidence of NIHL, There were no significant correlation between time of noise exposure with incidence of NIHL.


Rosemary is a well-known aromatic and medicinal plant whose consumption serves to remedy the number of disorders. Its essential oil (EO) constitutes an important ingredient for well-being feeling improvement through beauty products such as soaps, perfumes, and deodorants. The identification of phytochemical compounds is based on the peak area, retention time molecular weight, molecular formula, chemical structure, and phar- macological actions. It contains chemical constitutions, which may be useful for various herbal formulations as anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, cardiac tonic, and anti - asthmatic. Therefore, this chapter reviews the phytochemical compounds of Rosmarinus officinalis , using methanolic extraction. The phytochemical compound is screened by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method and the evaluation of antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oils. cardiac glycosides, and catechols. Preliminary results of antibacterial study showed in vitro efficiency of R. officinalis and R. eriocalyx on all tested bacteria with minimum inhibitory concentrations ranging from 1.04 to 16.7 mg/ml. The results presented here may contribute to the knowledge of antimicrobial potential of these species. Other studies on extracts activities of these species are needed to compare them with essential oils activity. Rosemary is an exotic evergreen shrub with multiple medicinal and cosmetic properties. It is a popular herb which serves as flavoring agent and spice. Although it is well renowned for all these potencies, the oil of the plant is adhered with many side effects and hence lacks safety data. Therefore, the use of rosemary in pediatrics, as well as in pregnant women, should be always dealt with utmost care. It could be concluded that R. officinalis displays a wide variation in essential oil chemical composition in correlation with the climatic conditions under which it is grown, as well as the genetic variation, thus generating different chemotypes.


Dimethylsulphonium methylide reacts smoothly with o- and p-hydroxybenzylidene ketones giving moderate to high yields of 2-(o-hydroxyphenyl)- and 2-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-2,5-dihydrofurans, respectively; the easy formation of o- or p-quinone methide intermediates accounts for the unusual course of the methylene transfer reaction.


If Julia Child had been a government documents librarian instead of a chef, one can just imagine Dan Aykroyd as Julia in his classic "Saturday Night Live" sketch imploring us to "save the Serial Set" instead of the liver. We can all be pleased that Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., has not only made the Serial Set accessible but easily searchable with the release of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set – Digital Edition.


The article identifies some key findings in pedagogical research over recent decades, placing them within a framework of logical curriculum development and current practice in quality assurance and enhancement. Throughout, the ideas and comments are related to the practice of teaching classics in university.


We identify a series of abrupt changes in GPS site velocities in Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, in late 2004, early 2010, and late 2011. The site motions during each time period are nearly linear. The surface deformations inferred from GPS for pre‐2004 and 2010–2011 are similar to each other, as are 2004–2010 and post‐2011. We estimate the slip distribution on the Alaska‐Aleutian subduction plate interface accounting for upper plate block rotations and interpret this toggling between two deformation patterns as caused by transient slip. We find that by allowing negative slip deficit rates (i.e., creep rates in excess of relative plate motion), the data in Lower Cook Inlet are fit significantly better during pre‐2004 and 2010–2011, suggesting the occurrence of slow slip events (SSEs) there during those time periods. The earlier SSE lasted at least 9 years (observations in that area began in 1995) with Mw ~7.8. The latter SSE had almost the same area as the earlier one and a duration of ~2 years with Mw ~7.2. During 2004–2010 and post‐2011, the inversions result in only positive slip deficit rates (i.e., locking) in Lower Cook Inlet. Slip rates are nearly constant during the Lower Cook Inlet SSEs, and the events start and stop abruptly. Both of these properties contrast with observations of SSEs in Upper Cook Inlet and elsewhere. The Lower Cook Inlet SSEs are consistent with previously proposed duration‐magnitude scaling laws and demonstrate that slow slip events can last as long as a decade.


Internet marketing covers all aspects related to the promotion and sale of a product or service through the Internet. This chapter demonstrates how adequate planning is fundamental in a Small and Mediumsized Enterprise (SME) to increase sales. The objective is to analyze the aspects which must be taken into consideration when developing a good e-marketing strategy and to study some of the different alternatives that the Internet and e-marketing make available to us: e-mail marketing, viral e-marketing, geomarketing, and positioning within search engines. Also the concept of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) will be analyzed. The leap into the global market is not easy and the reduction in budgets has inspired marketing professionals to adopt strategies which can be measured and the results controlled, pointing out that the online tactics and tools used by the vast majority of marketing professionals in their strategic plan are banners, search engines, and e-mail. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1598-4.ch004


The objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of investment growth on the relation between equity value and earnings. Investment growth is measured by ratio capital expenditure to book value of assets. This model is developed by Kallapur and Trombley (1999). Sample in this study is all listed companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2008 until 2011 appropriate to the sample criteria. This study uses regression analysis to test the hypothesis. The result of this research is consisten to alternate hypothesis that investment growth influences relation between equity value and earnings. The result of regression analysis shows that investment growth positively affects on the relation of equity value and earnings.


Two applications each claim compounds described as selective PI3Kδ inhibitors. The first claims 2-amino-3-substituted-8-methylquinoline derivatives. The second, more substantial, application claims a broad range of cyclic amine derivatives of 6-aminopurines. These are the first patent applications from Exelixis relating to its PI3Kδ inhibitor program despite its disclosure of the biological profile of its lead inhibitor XL-499 in late 2010.


Ensuring traceability of field experimental data or laboratory sampling data to conduct reproducible research is a challenge at the present time. Between the time when geolocalized specimens (biotic or abiotic) are taken, and the time the resulting data ends up in analysis published within a study, many manual operations take place and may generate errors. The French LTSER have joined forces at the national level to propose a solution as generic as possible to this problem of monitoring of the samples and the data associated with them. Compared to existing solutions (such as Laboratory Information Management Systems), we target a robust labeling solution adapted to outdoor working conditions, with the management of stocks and movements of samples. We designed and realized a prototype tested from end to end, using an open source software (https://github.com/Irstea/collec), cheap Zebra printers (mobile or not) and raspberries as devices. This solution provides sufficient flexibility for the wide variety of existing protocols. Its strength is the record of all contextual data associated with the samples, which constitute important parameters of the subsequent analyzes. At last, not only traceability is guaranteed, but also a gain of time and a rationalization of the storage of samples that will induce a return on investment.


Managers of global bond portfolios are accustomed to scrutinizing central bank policy because changes in stance are believed to have predictable effects on bond portfolios. The author investigates whether central bank policy really matters in light of the fact that forecasts of important factors like inflation are readily available. Interestingly enough, it seems that central banks bring little to the party.


challenge of existing resource discovery service is the lack of support from task oriented query. This paper puts forward a design of task-oriented grid resource discovery service based on learning automata to enable users to dynamically discover the grid resources which are suitable for their task. The core of this service is learning automata based grid resource classifier, which periodically accesses the Meta computing directory service and dynamically classifier the grid resources into task-oriented categories according to the real-time state of grid computing environment. Users can invoke this service and pass her or his task type as a parameter to discover the current most suitable grid resources. Grid resource allocation manager also can interact with this service to improve its practicability and efficiency.


Simulation system with random factors presents new challenges to the software testing. The random factors in availability simulation system bring the uncertain running path and it is difficult for the test personnel to construct the expected output of the program. In view of this situation, this paper proposes a grey box testing method for availability simulation software based on event tree model. Event tree model is very much in line with the modeling of discrete event simulation, and the grey box testing method effectively combines elements of black box testing and white box testing. We next build the process-level event tree models according to the features of availability simulation and then, the process of method and related standards are explored. Finally, a case analysis is presented to prove the superiority of the method.


In this paper, we will study the calculus of fuzzy- valued functions of two variables and then some properties are discussed,at last we give the solutions of the fuzzy wave equations. Key words: Partial derivative of fuzzy function with two variables; integral of fuzzy function; Differential of fuzzy function; fuzzy wave equation.


In order to meet the demand for emergency resources under maritime perils,and minimize the loss perils causing,a method for scheduling emergency resources to maximize its supply reliability with the constraints of time,capacity and demand,was worked out,which can be used even when the rescue target drifts and diffuses under complex meteorological and sea conditions.Considering the marine environment,the concept of the rescue resources package was introduced.An optimization model for multi-level resources scheduling for maritime perils was built,and verified by an example.The result shows that perils morphology can affect the choice of the assembling points and reliability of scheduling scheme,and that in order to guarantee the reliability and effectiveness of rescue resources scheduling,the scheduling scheme needs to be based on the forecast of perils morphology.


Plants adjust their growth rate to adapt to environmental changes throughout their lives.The growth rate can be regulated by leaf carbon∶nitrogen∶phosphorus(C∶N∶P) ratios;therefore,these ratios reflect the adaptability of plants to the external environment.Seasonal variations in leaf C∶N∶P ratios reflect the seasonal variations of plant growth rate.Consequently,researches on the seasonal variations in leaf C∶N∶P ratios can increase our understanding of plant adaptation strategies.For studies on nutrient lim...


Marrow edema visible on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can have multiple causes and may raise concerns of malignancy or osteomyelitis, particularly when a periosteal reaction is present. Other causes of marrow edema include stress reaction, trauma, or secondary changes from adjacent inflammatory arthritis or tenosynovitis. In young patients, red marrow may mimic or mask marrow edema. The finding of marrow edema should prompt a search for a more specific underlying abnormality. A longitudinal stress fracture of the tibia is a challenging but recognizable diagnosis on MRI and Orthopaedic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Challenge


The existing Searching Model for Similar IT Project Cases can't exactly find the referential cases for new projects. In order to sufficiently use the knowledge of finished IT projects, the character weight was divided into question character weight vector and solution character weight vector. The conception of weight adaptability was introduced, and the maximum adaptability was set as the optimal object of weight algorithm to calculate character similarity among every case. In this thesis, the Searching Model for Similar IT Project Cases based-on GA was established, and subjective biases of designated weight were diminished. Hence, the evaluation for reference similar cases is objective, which can offer references for developing IT projects.


Our study examined the impact of envy on subjective career success and thriving at work with moderating role of self-control in private sectors. The aim of the study was to explore the positive effects of negative emotions at workplace by takingpersonality trait asintensity factor.For this purpose data was collected from 220 employees of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), Telecommunications and Banks of various cities of Pakistan. The convenience and non-random sampling technique was used. Results showed that envy has an impact on subjective careers success and thriving at work, while selfcontrol negativelymoderates the relationship between envy and subjective career success along with envy and thriving at work. The implication of findings for private sector's management and direction for future research was provided.


The total energy requirement for low temperature grinding essentially depends on the solids precooling temperature. In order to determine an energetically favourable precooling temperature the influence of temperature on the energy requirement for grinding and on the result of comminution was investigated experimentally. The test facility consists of a pinned disk mill and devices for cooling the feedstock and the mill gas. Polyethylene (PE) and cellulose acetobutyrate (CAB) were chosen as test materials. The investigation was based on the idea, that a multiple cooling and grinding at less reduced temperatures could result in lower energy requirement than single passage grinding at very low solids precooling temperature Tsub(S,) sub(V). Grinding proved to be feasible only below the glass transition temperature Tsub(g) (PE: Tsub(g) approx.= 190 K; CAB: Tsub(g) approx.= 258 K). The total energy requirement of the test plant is calculated by means of an energy balance, depending on the solids precooling temperature. The results show an energetic minimum at temperatures above Tsub(S,) sub(V) = 77 K.


Objective: To collect and analyze the sensory singnals in the peripheral nerve by longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes (L IFEs).Methods: The longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes were made of 25um Teflon-insulated Pt-Ir wire and threaded into the fascicle of the superficial peroneal nerves of six cats.The sensory signals under peaceful state or stimulating state were recorded.Then the action potential Area,frequency,coefficient of variation(CV)of peak and functional spectrum were handled by MFLab3.01 software package.Results: The sensory nerve action potentials (SNAPs)were 0-2 spikes per second at the peaceful state,the counts increased when stimulations were administered.The SNAPs were 16-24 spikes per second when scraping stimulation were applied.The pulse intervals and the waveform were almost coincident.The SNAPs bursted out by train when stress stimulation was given.The waveform and the wave amplitude were so different.The area,frequency and CV of peak were compared.It suggested that there were statistically significant differences under different states.The functional spectrum analysis showed that high frequency component increased when the stress stimulation were applied.Conclusion:The self-made LIFEs can record the sensory signals sensitively and provide a good interface to collect sensory information from peripheral fasciculi.The information can be used in the control of electronic prostheses.


N,N'-diphenylbenzidine( 1) was obtained by palladium-catalyzed C- N cross-coupling reaction of 4,4'-dibromobiphenyl and aniline. Three novel poly( triphenylamine biphenyl) s,poly( triphenylamine biphenyl) benzene( 3a,88%),poly( triphenylamine biphenyl) sulfone( 3b,94%) and poly( triphenylamine biphenyl) ketone( 3c,91%) were synthesized by palladium-catalyzed C- N cross-coupling reaction of 1 with p-dibromobenzene( 2a),4,4'-dibromodiphenylsulfone( 2b) and 4, 4'-dibromodiphenylketone( 2c),respectively. The structures were characterized by1H NMR,IR and XRD. Their properties were investigated by UV-Vis,TG,DSC,fluorescence spectra and electrochemical cyclic voltammetry. The properties of 3a ~ 3c were as follows: 5% weight loss temperature were 479 ℃,482 ℃ and 355 ℃,Tg were 199 ℃,248 ℃ and 215 ℃,λmaxwere 354 nm,359 nm and 385 nm,λemwere 489 nm,472 nm and 518 nm,EHOMOwere- 3. 96 eV,- 3. 89 eV,and- 3. 94 eV, ELUMOwere- 1. 16 eV,- 1. 17 eV and- 1. 39 eV,respectively.


This article aims to find better alternatives to improve the environmental enforcement in Korea. A particular attention has been drawn to the...


Malachite green is an important industry raw material and effective medicament for treating saprolegniasis in aquaculture. In resent years, however, as much more attention has been paid to food safety and sanitation by international community, and many negative effects have been disclosed, such as high residual, great toxicity, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, mutagenesis and so on, malachite green has been exciting extensive solicitude of the public. This review presents the research state of malachite green in the aspect of the character, toxicity, metabolism, and determination methods, aiming to provide relative information for further inspection of malachite green.


The working principles of brushless DC motor and the method of application were given.The experimental data show that the high precision and good repeatability can be achieved.Brushless DC motor does better in mechanics,resulting in better frequency modulation.At the same time,the size and the weight of the instrument reduced without the heating phenomenon of the motor.


Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) heparin binding hemagglutinin (HBHA) is an Ag known to evoke effective host immune responses during tuberculosis infection. However, the molecular basis of the host immune response to HBHA has not been fully characterized. In this study, we examined the molecular mechanisms by which HBHA can induce the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in macrophages. Methods HBHA-induced mRNA and protein levels of proinflammatory cytokines were determined in bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) using RT-PCR and ELISA analysis. The roles of intracellular signaling pathways for NF-κB, PI3-K/Akt, and MAPKs were investigated in macrophage proinflammatory responses after stimulation with HBHA. Results HBHA robustly activated the expression of mRNA and protein of both TNF-α and IL-6, and induced phosphorylation of NF-κB, Akt, and MAPKs in BMDMs. Both TNF-α and IL-6 production by HBHA was regulated by the NF-κB, PI3-K, and MAPK pathways. Furthermore, PI3-K activity was required for the HBHA-induced activation of ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK, but not JNK, pathways. Conclusion These data suggest that mycobacterial HBHA significantly induces proinflammatory responses through crosstalk between the PI3-K and MAPK pathways in macrophages.


Loretta J. Mester, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2019 Ohio Bankers Day - Ohio Division of Financial Institutions - Columbus, OH - April 4, 2019


Theory-building is a continual, collective enterprise in which success is judged by logical consistency and successful explanation and prediction of specified empirical facts from a minimal set of assumptions. We describe some new attempts to develop Interactionist ideas on how communicated opinions from others can affect face-to-face interaction patterns and definitions of a social situation, including identities of the interactants. Our attempts take the form of developing theoretical models of how others' evaluative opinions are incorporated into existing performance expectations. We show how model-building depends on existing theoretical ideas and empirical evidence. The description illustrates some ways in which contemporary sociological theory develops.


ABSTRACT In this article, we analyse the impact of academic mobility on the construction of knowledge for Chilean scholars who have studied abroad. We conducted 41 semi-structured interviews with Chilean-born scholars in the social sciences and humanities, who accepted jobs at national research universities in Chile after receiving their doctorates abroad. Findings show that international academic mobility allowed these participants to question legitimised ways of doing knowledge, where they can stretch the academic harness that increasingly rules their knowledge construction. Our main argument is that knowledge construction process is neither linear nor unidimensional and it occurs as a rhizomatic process in a multidimensional space.


Assessment of Object Oriented Software Design Quality has been an important issue among researchers in Software Engineering discipline. In this paper, we propose an approach for determining the design quality of Object Oriented Software System. The approach makes use of a set of UML diagrams created during the design phase of the development process. Design metrics are fetched from the UML diagrams using a parser developed by us and design quality is assessed using a Hierarchical Model of Software Design Quality. To validate the design quality, we compute the product quality for the same software that corresponds to the UML design diagrams using available tools METRIC 1.3.4, JHAWK and Team In a Box. The objective is to establish a correspondence between design quality and product quality of Object Oriented Software. For this purpose, we have chosen priory known three software of Low, Medium and High quality. This is a work under progress, though; the substantial task has already been completed.


Photoluminescence (PL) had been performed on n‐type Si‐doped AlxGa1−xAs layers with alloy composition 0.2<x<0.95. By analyzing the PL spectra in various excitation densities, doping levels, and temperatures, the donor‐acceptor pair (D‐A) emissions near band edge are identified as Si donor states of DΓ, D2, and D3 to carbon acceptor transitions. The composition dependencies of energy positions for the donor states and the normalized emission intensities for D‐A suggest that DΓ is a shallow donor state bound to the Γ band, and D2 and D3 are deep donor states mainly bound to the L and X bands, respectively.


The invention discloses a time sequence testing system. The system comprises a testing machine, and the testing machine comprises a test vector storage unit, an information recording unit, a sampling unit and a processor unit; a tested chip is selected; the test vector storage unit is controlled by the processor unit to input an excitation signal into the tested chip; after the excitation signal is received, the tested chip outputs a response signal which is corresponding to the excitation signal and has certain time delay; multiple sampling is carried out on the response signal by the sampling unit according to a fixed sampling frequency; sampling data is stored into a designated address by the information recording unit in real time; and then the processor unit reads the sampling data in the designated address from the information recording unit, calculates delay time T and outputs a result. With the adoption of a time sequence testing method of the time sequence testing system, time sequence testing efficiency can be effectively improved and time can be saved.


The work examined the hydrodynamic situation, which is created by the interaction of reciprocal twisted flows and the distribution of axial velocity along the radius of the primary and secondary flow inputs and the radius of the exhaust pipe in order to create a complete physical picture. Determination of the radius distribution of the static pressure values determined by the height of the apparatus and the static pressure distribution in the exhaust pipe.


Purpose
This study aims to document the impact of an 80-h virtual Spanish language immersion program on four elementary school leaders in Kentucky.

Design/methodology/approach
This study used a mixed methods approach. Each subject participated in three semi-structured interviews with the researcher and a standardized oral language assessment.

Findings
Participants expressed greater confidence when interacting with students and families who do not speak English, greater empathy for students learning English, new cross-cultural understandings and deeper knowledge about the language acquisition process and language instruction.

Practical implications
Training in a foreign language may prove to be a valuable professional learning activity for leaders seeking to develop a stronger skillset and mindset for multicultural education.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the literature by documenting a previously un-researched virtual language immersion program.


The colour properties of resin luting agents (RLAs) can influence the aesthetic of an indirect restoration. This in vitro study aims to evaluate the colour stability and translucency of RLAs cured using two different protocols by means of a spectrophotometer. Six RLAs were investigated: Enamel Plus Flow (MF), Enamel Plus (MH), light-cure Nexus Third Generation (NX3L), dual-cure Nexus Third Generation (NX3D), RelyX Veneer (RXL) and RelyX Ultimate (RXD). The samples were randomly divided into two groups (n = 5) according to the curing protocol used: the traditional protocol (P1), in which the samples were cured for 40 s, and the step luting protocol (P2), in which samples were cured for 5 s. Then, after 20 s, they were cured again for an additional 40 s. Colour changes and differences in translucency were calculated before (t0) and 1 day (t1) and 7 days (t7) after immersion of the samples in distilled water. Data were analysed using one-way ANOVA, Tukey's test for multiple comparisons and a t-test for paired comparisons (α = 0.05). The colour and translucency of the RLAs changed between t0 and t7 (p < 0.05). In particular, only RXD showed a visually perceptible difference in colour and translucency between P1 and P2 (p = 0.00). The results of this study suggest that, except for RXD, the curing protocol does not affect the colour or translucency of the tested RLAs, even if all these materials underwent perceptible changes in colour and translucency.


In this study, the usability of the mixtures consisting of lignite coal taken from Tekirdag region and marble and travertine wastes taken from the marble factory in Gumushane region in local bean (Kelkit) cultivation was researched. First, control samples were created using only humus soil without coal, marble, or travertine dust. Then, for each coal or coal waste, coal/coal waste—waste marble dust and coal/coal waste—travertine dust mixtures were formed. These mixtures were obtained by mixing 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% by weight of coal and 25%, 50%, and 75% by weight of marble and travertine dust. Afterwards, local beans were planted in these mixtures and their development was followed under laboratory conditions. Additionally, temperature and humidity values were recorded at certain intervals, pH and heavy metal analysis measurements were made on the mixtures before and after bean planting, the height and leaf measurement of the beans grown and the number of beans grown in these beans were also followed, and chlorophyll analysis was performed on the bean plants grown in these mixtures. As a result, 50% Coal-3D + 50% Travertine mixture had the maximum length increase, that 25% Coal Waste (Powder)-K3 + 75% Marble mixture had the highest number of beans, and that 50% Coal Waste -AK + 50% Marble mixture had the maximum leaf formation. In these mixtures, maximum 12 beans were grown and maximum 93 leaves were formed. Also, the bean plant was grown in all mixtures. The chlorophyll contents were at least as much as the values of the beans grown only in soil. However, heavy metal values do not exceed the permissible limit values in soil.


Evaluation, devaluation or reevaluation of the high speed train lines ?. - The disappointing commercial results of the northern high speed train, associated with a global crisis of railway transport in France at the beginning of the 90', have led to call into question all the projects of new high speed train lines. All of them have been revalued in the Rouvillois report which concluded to the impossibility of building new high speed lines without public finances support. Given the fact that the most profitable lines are already built, private funding alone is not sufficient. But this obviousness must not lead to abandon all the projects. Some of them have indeed a good financial profitability and even a very good social return. But in order not to penalize the whole high speed train system, priority must not be given to the less profitable lines. And it would be better to avoid a zero sum game between the owner of infrastructure and the running company.


Human Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Monoclonal Antibody (Adalimumab) in Crohn's Disease: the CLASSIC-I Trial Hanauer SB, Sandborn WJ, Rutgeerts P, Fedorak RN, Lukas M, Macintosh D, Panaccione R, Wolf D, Pollack P Background and aims: Tumor necrosis factor blockade has been shown to be an effective treatment strategy in Crohn's disease (CD). Adalimumab is a human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG(1)) monoclonal antibody targeting tumor necrosis factor (TNF). A randomized, doubleblind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial was performed to evaluate the efficacy of adalimumab induction therapy in patients with CD.


Objective To evaluate existing evidence from published systematic reviews for the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions in patients with lymphoma. Data sources A comprehensive literature search was conducted using medical/health science databases up to 1 October 2020. Bibliographies of pertinent articles, journals and grey literature were searched. Data extraction and synthesis Two reviewers independently selected and reviewed potential reviews for methodological quality and graded the quality of evidence for outcomes using validated tools. Any discrepancies were resolved by final group consensus. Results Twelve systematic reviews (n = 101 studies, 87,132 patients with lymphoma) evaluated 3 broad categories of rehabilitation interventions (physical modalities, nutrition and complementary medicine). Most reviews were of moderate-to-low methodological quality. The findings suggest: moderate-quality evidence for exercise programmes for improved fatigue and sleep disturbance; low-quality evidence for exercise therapy alone and qigong/tai chi for improved symptoms and overall quality of life, and an inverse association between sunlight/ultraviolet radiation exposure and incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; and very low-quality evidence for beneficial effects of yoga for sleep disturbances. Association between physical activity and lymphoma risk is indistinct. Conclusion Despite a range of rehabilitation modalities used for patients with lymphoma, high-quality evidence for many is sparse. Beneficial effects of exercise programmes were noted for fatigue, psychological symptoms and quality of life. More research with robust study design is required to determine the effective rehabilitation approaches. LAY ABSTRACT Lymphoma and its treatment cause significant disability and morbidity, often requiring comprehensive rehabilitation. Currently, a range of rehabilitation interventions are applied in patients with lymphoma. This review systematically evaluated evidence from published systematic reviews of clinical trials to determine the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions in patients with lymphoma. The findings suggest that there is moderate-quality evidence for exercise programmes in improving fatigue and sleep disturbance. There was low-quality evidence for exercise therapy alone and qigong/tai chi for improved symptoms and overall quality of life, and very low-quality evidence for beneficial effects of yoga for sleep disturbances. The evidence for association of vitamin D or physical activity and lymphoma risk is limited.


In this paper, we propose an approach of multi-layered feature combination associated with support vector machine (SVM) for Chinese accent identification. The multi-layered features include both segmental and suprasegmental information, such as MFCC and pitch contour, to capture the diversity of variations in Chinese accented speech. The pitch contour is estimated using cubic polynomial method to model the variant characters in different accents in Chinese. We train two GMM acoustic models in order to express the features of a certain accent. As the original criterion of the GMM model cannot deal with such multi-layered features, the SVM is utilized to make the decision. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was evaluated on the 863 Chinese accent corpus. Our approach yields a significant 10% relative error rate reduction compared with traditional approaches using sole feature at single level in Chinese accented speech identification.


In the article the state of investing processes into oil – processing petrochemical and electric – power branches of industry is considered. The author marks out the pecularities and directions of the investing processes in these fields.


The resurgence of interest in electronic podometry, a technique known for many years, has led to its potential use for clinical evaluation. The authors assessed the reliability of the method by examining several patients after triple arthrodesis of the foot. Podometry offered a simple and inexpensive means of localizing and quantifying the areas of increased pressure, even in cases of wart or corn removal, of characterizing the foot type, and of showing the appearance or persistence of varus or valgus of the heel and its dynamic effects on gait. This information may be useful in the follow-up of patients with pain that is difficult to analyze postoperatively, especially in the case of occupational injury with increased subjective symptoms. This preoperative assessment may also give a more precise definition of the surgical indications, especially concerning technical details, as for example in realignment osteotomy of the first metatarsal.


In this article, Dr. Grivetti concludes his three-part series on the cultural, historical, and geographical aspects of breakfast patterns. Part 3 compares and contrasts American and Mediterranean breakfast traditions, with special focus on Italian and Greek breakfast patterns within the context of healthful meal planning.


The primacy of foreign policy centers attention upon Congressional politics with its wonted stress upon local and particular issues. Farm political influence is considerable in Congress where domestic farm policies, often with unfortu nate effects upon foreign policy, are strongly rooted. Farm politicians in and out of Congress must help improve the legis lative process in order to give the emergent national concern in a sound and effective foreign policy its merited support. While some adaptation of present procedures is possible, the needs of the times require a courageous examination of more sweeping proposals for change.


The oxygen and hydroxyl adsorption on MS 2 (M = Mo, W, Hf) monolayers is studied through molecular dynamics simulations. Singlelayer HfS 2 suffers severely from oxidation, leading to the increase of the material's energy band gap and electron effective mass. The oxidation of S-defi cient monolayers acts as a passivation mechanism, both structurally and electronically. Rapid Research Letter ' Phys. Status Solidi RRL (2016) DOI 10.1002/pssr.201600210


The influence of damage on the performance of the lifting surface of an aircraft has been an area of interest to the military for over half a century. Some of the earlier studies of this subject focused on the impact that structural damage resulting in the loss of lifting surface structural strength, stiffness, and mass might have on imparting catastrophic aeroelastic failures to the lifting surface. Discouraging mixed results arose over the next 30 years in these investigations that employed only structural damage models. As time passed, it was finally noticed that if the often neglected, usually second-order, drag term was now included (as aerodynamic damage often creates a high, unsteady, localized drag rise) in the earlier aeroelastic damaged-wing analyses, more encouraging results were obtained. That is, the realistic asymmetric damaged lifting surfaces flutter and divergence analysis did show lowered, and not raised, flutter and divergence speeds over that of the undamaged lifting surface. This occurred both in the presence of or in the absence of structural damage as in the case of icing or external wing stores. In essence, it was determined at this time that the resulting high and unsteady drag rise caused by the damage could do more than just cause an energy deficiency in the aircraft mission. It could, in fact, cause shorter term catastrophic or stiffness failure events in terms of reduced flutter and divergence speeds as well as give rise to limit cycle oscillations embedded within what was shown to be that part of the damaged-aircraft flight envelope free from classic flutter and divergence. The present experimental wind-tunnel study was carried out to confirm these past theoretical findings by employing a one-twelfth-scale F-111 aeroelastic model and (third-order) higher-order statistical signal processing to identify the frequency ordering that occurs in these additional damaged-induced limit cycle oscillations. These limit cycle oscillations were also found to exhibit the classic lock-in/lock-out phenomenon that occurs in the well-known F/A-16 and F/A-18 wing store induced limit cycle oscillations.


Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is acquired during childhood and causes chronic gastritis that remains asymptomatic in most infected people. H. pylori alters the gastric microbiota and causes peptic ulcer disease. Evidence on the relationship between asymptomatic H. pylori infection and children's gut microbiota remains elusive.


According to the requirements of the portable piezoelectric miropump used for drastic drug delivery,a driving power for piezoelectric actuator is developed.The driving power supplied by a 3 V lithium battery provides high voltage(200 V,peak to peak) for the piezoelectric actuator by utilizing a DC/DC circuit and a inverted circuit.It has the characteristics of adjustable frequency,small volume,lightweight,low power consumption,safe,reliable and easy to control.Experiments show that the driving power is suitable for the piezoelectric miropump and other small piezoelectric devices based on the principle of anti-piezoelectric effect in dynamic application.


Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is a common complication and major cause of blindness of ocular trauma. Many cytokines, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), participate in the process of the pathogenesis of traumatic PVR. VEGF competitively inhibits binding of PDGF to its receptor (PDGFRα), enables indirect activation of PDGFRα by non-PDGF ligands, resulting in reduced p53 expression, cell proliferation and migration, which is a key point in the pathogenesis of traumatic PVR.

Key words:
Vitreoretinopathy, proliferative; Vascular endothelial growth factors; Receptor, platelet-derived growth factor alpha; Review


Retrenchment is a framework that allows relatively unrestricted system evolution steps to be described in a way that gives an evolution step some formal content --- unlike model based refinement, whence it emerged, which is inapplicable outside some fairly tightly drawn notion of `progress towards implementation'. In this paper, we introduce a `coarse grained' version of retrenchment, relating to system behaviours in the large, and exemplify it on the requirements issues surrounding a Denial of Service case study drawn from the Mondex Purse. We show that the coarse grained retrenchment framework gives a good account of this case study.


This article suggests that crime and violence are essentially development issues. It contends that crime and violence may be viewed as a cyclical process. The level of poverty or vice versa the rapid economic development in country (which leads to social inequity), the high level of illiteracy, high levels of unemployment, the creation of inner cities and the weaknesses of public institutions, ineffective criminal justice systems and the level of corruption, are to a large extent risk factors which impact on crime and violence within a country. While these risk factors may be responsible for increases in the level of crime and violence within the country, it should be noted that, as a United Nations Joint Report (2007) pointed out, the high rates of crime and violence in the region have both direct effects on human welfare in the short-run and longer run effects on economic growth, social development and by extension citizen security. 1 The first section of this article will provide a brief overview of the scope of the problem as it relates to citizen security in the countries of Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago . It will commence with, by way of background, a brief account of the level of crime in the countries under review and examine the extent to which the more vulnerable in the society are susceptible to crime. The major argument of this paper is that as countries develop economically as a result of globalization and marketization; these factors have had, to some degree, negative influences on the quality of life of its citizenry. In particular, it has been suggested that increased globalization has undermined local cultures, placed intellectual property rights ahead of human rights, contributed to unhealthy dietary patterns and promoted unsustainable consumption. 2 But globalization and marketization did more than increase the gap between the very wealthy and the very poor. In addition, globalization brought with it a rapid growth in illegal drug markets. Indeed, one sociologist documented the impact that the illegal drug markets especially crack markets in the mid to late 1980s had on the increase in violent crimes in urban areas particularly among juveniles. 3 1 See Report No. 37820 March 2007. A Joint Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank: Crime, Violence, and Development: Trends, Costs, and Policy Options in the Caribbean. 2 See Terrance Witkowski. 2005. "Antiglobal Challenges to Marketing in Developing Countries: Exploring the Ideological Divide. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing Volume 24 (1) Spring 2005 :7-23 3 Reflections on the Crime decline: lessons for the Future? Proceedings from the Urban Institute Crime decline Forum. Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul. Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center: Washington DC:13 International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 6 August, 2014 89 While it has been advanced that when the economy is good, crime should go down, in many cases this has not been the case in a number of countries. Rather what was evident was that as the economy of countries grew, in a number of ex-colonial and developing countries, emphasis was placed on the expansion of institutions, expansion in the work force, and, concomitantly the introduction of more regulatory and legislative controls. As it relates to citizen security, in many of these countries, a law and order orientation was maintained and policies, particularly with respect to policing and the judicial systems, were primarily punitive in nature rather than rehabilitative. But, little of no emphasis was placed on policies such as increasing the wage of lower skill workers or introducing programs for juveniles and youth. Policies that would have perhaps would have contributed to the lowering of the levels of crime.


Abstract Although probabilistic risk analysis methods have been available to engineering and construction practitioners for decades, their use is not pervasive in industry today. To determine why their use is not more prevalent, the research team conducted in-depth interviews and administered survey questionnaires. The analysis of these data identified the benefits and barriers of employing probabilistic risk analysis. Engineering managers can implement more formal project risk management approaches by exploiting the benefits and training employees, adopting processes and procedures for risk management, and regularly communicating the results of probabilistic analysis with project stakeholders.


Journal of Physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation (JPPR) has successfully completed 4 years of successful Journey and is all set for the running year. It provides quarterly publication of articles in all the areas related to Addiction Rehabilitation, Alternative medicine, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Clinical Reflexology, Exercise, Hemipelvectomy, Multiple Sclerosis, Musculoskeletal Pain, and Myofascial Pain including all current researches. We are highly glad to mention that during the year 2019, all issues (4 issues) of Volume 4 were published online within the given time frame and print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online. Journal impact factor of 2019 was approximately calculated by dividing the number of articles published in 2017 and 2018 with the number of times they are cited in the Google Scholar citation database. The current NLM ID is 101695557.


There is very little agreement about why so many otherwise intelligent children experience such difficulty learning to read. Up to 10% of children fail to learn to read at the level expected of their age and other cognitive abilities. Some people still believe that their problems are purely linguistic, due to inheriting or acquiring a defective linguistic processor. Others take the view that difficulty with learning to read derives from more basic deficiencies in processing the sensory inputs that are required for reading. According to this view literacy problems are caused by fundamental differences in sensory processing between the brains of good and bad readers, so that in addition to their literacy problems there are many other sensory, motor and cognitive differences to be found in poor readers because the development of the whole brain is disordered. In our laboratory we take the latter position. We study the neurophysiological processes which underlie reading; hence we view reading problems as having a neurodevelopmental basis. In this chapter therefore, I will discuss how normal reading depends on the quality of its sensory input; it absolutely requires both a highly sensitive visual magnocellular system to acquire good orthographic skills and a sensitive auditory transient system to develop the ability to parse the phonological structure of words. Then I will speculate about the genetic and immunological mechanisms that may be responsible for the wide variety of abnormalities that are seen in developmental dyslexics. My overall conclusion will be that reading difficulties are neither specific to reading nor exclusively linguistically based, but a consequence of mildly impaired development of a particular kind of neurons in the brain, magnocellular neurons, so that dyslexia has widespread manifestations, which are not at all confined to reading (Stein & Walsh, 1997; Stein & Talcott, 1999). They are best thought of as individual differences between people rather than a consequence of neurological "disease".


Physiological indices should be included in research on the relationship between affect and physical activity; however, data must be appropriately analyzed, subjects must be randomly assigned or selected, and statistical inferences should provide the foundation for establishing the relationship between physical activity and changes in affect.


Using the Mixed Finite Element Method,the analysis of 5000KN wheel-rail contact problem for wheel track gate of Xiaowan hydropower plant is carried out.Based on the characteristicof local nonlinearityfor this problem,the system of forcesacting on the contactor in this method was divided into two parts: external forces and contact forces.The displacement of contactor was chosen as the basic variable and the nodal contact force in possible contact region was chosen as the iterative variable,so that the nonlineariteration process was only limited in the possible contact surface.Thus the iterative procedure can be easily carried out and much more economical.Firstly,the mechanical model for three-dimensional dynamic contact problemswith friction and initial gaps was presented,and its finite element equations were obtained.And then,the iteration processwas given in detail.It shows that,although the maximum compression stressis much more than the permissible stress,the surficial yield failurewill not be taken place because the region around the contact point is applied by triaxial compression,and the point of maximum shear stressis below the contact point 3.4mm.So we can concludethat the carrying capacityof the wheel can be enhanced.


dary nephrogenic diabetes insipidus is a rare disease in newborns. Renal tubular dysfunction should be considered as a differential diagnosis in babies who fail to thrive with dehydration, polyuria, hypokalemia and normal anionic gap metabolic acidosis. We present here a case of a term neonate with distal RTA and secondary nephrogenic diabetes insipidus who was successfully managed with intravenous fluids, potassium citrate and thiazide.


Color perception varies from individual to individual. It is difficult for a person with defective cones in the retina to recognize the difference between specific colors. We propose a method for presenting color information by using a projector camera system. The system projects border lines or color names on real object surfaces for specific color combinations. Registration of the projected images and real objects is executed by using projected markers. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through experiments.


This Master's Thesis in Media Engineering has been performed at Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden. Advances in technology and new services for mobile systems come with an increased concern for pr ...


Stroke is one of most common cause of death in development countries and the most common disabling neurologic disorder. Diagnosis of the disease is base in clinical exam, history of patient and image techniques like computerized tomography scan (CT scan) and magnetic resonance images (MRI). Evoked potentials, usually not employed in diagnosis of stroke, are very useful in the evaluation of the patient functions and disabilities. For this reason we have a brief review of the utility of evoked potentials in the evaluation of the stroke in acute or subacute phase. Visual evoked potential modality evaluates the visual way, principally at optic nerve and optic chiasm level, or abnormalities of occipital areas. In patients with stroke that affect occipital cortex it usually show enlargements of P100 wave latency or amplitude diminish if there is axonal lesion of the nerve fibers. Brainstem evoked potential is useful to evaluate stroke when it occurs in brain structures that are irrigated for vertebrobasilar system. Somatosensory evoked potential show absence of N20/P25 complex or P40 response or amplitude diminishes of these responses; we can observe increase of the N13-N20 interval, always there is normality of the rest of the wave. Motor evoked potential parameters represent a useful early prognostic marker of motor function recovery in ischemic stroke patients. For other hand endogenous evoked potential such as: P300, N400, Mismatch negativity, Contingent negative variation and Premotor potential are very useful in the evaluation of cortical function in the stroke patients.


Described is an approach to the functional architecture of a telerobot so that autonomy, teleoperation, and shared control can all be supported. The system is hierarchically organized where task decomposition, world modeling, and sensory processing are explicitly represented. Goals at each level of the hierarchy are decomposed spatially and temporally into simpler tasks which become goals for lower levels. The spatial decomposition facilitates control and coordination of multi-arm robots. A description of the lowest level, the Servo Level, is presented, along with the operator control interface at that level.


The unsteady aerodynamic behavior of a bird-damaged fan stage at the inlet of a highbypass turbofan engine is examined with a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) aerodynamic model suitable for use in an aeroelastic response calculation. ANSYS CFX, a commercially available CFD solver, is utilized to perform the steady-state and unsteady CFD calculations for the undamaged and damaged fan. The damaged fan sector consists of 5 damaged blades that correspond to the geometry resulting from a bird strike. An automated mesh deformation scheme using radial basis function interpolation is developed to generate a high quality computational mesh for the damaged geometry. The steadystate calculations of the undamaged fan are verified against those from an industry CFD solver. The steady-state calculations of the damaged fan predict a flow loss of 14.7% with the operating point being near the stall point of the characteristic curve. Furthermore, significant separation and recirculation of the flow results from the damaged blades. The unsteady calculations of the damaged fan exhibit a periodic behavior in which the mass flow rate and total pressure ratio oscillate due to the progression and regression of a region of stalled flow emanating from the damaged sector.


Background and Objectives. Pupillary dilation in response to dermatomal electrical stimulation is one method of determining sensory block level during combined epidural and general anesthesia. Use of this technique may, however, be confounded by systemic absorption of epidurally administered local anesthetics. Accordingly, the effects of intravenous lidocaine on the magnitude and duration of reflex pupillary dilation were evaluated. Methods. Six volunteers were each anesthetized twice with desflurane 3.5-6.0%. During one anesthetic, intravenous lidocaine was administered to a plasma concentration of 5.3 + 1.5 ~g/mL. When the plasma concentrations were stable, a 5-second tetanic electrical stimulus was applied. Pupil size was then recorded for 8 minutes. Results. Lidocaine, at plasma concentrations near 5 ~g/mL, did not significantly alter the pupillary response to electrical stimulation. In contrast, stimulus-induced increase in heart rate was obliterated. Painful stimulation did not increase systolic blood pressure in either case. Conclusions. Typical plasma lidocaine concentrations observed during epidural anesthesia are unlikely to prevent the use of pupillary responses to evaluate sensory block level. Reg. Anesth 1997: 22: 461--465.


Advantages and processing principle of laser surface micro-texturing technology were expounded briefly. The recent research on laser surface micro-texturing technology for improving tribological performance was summarized from the morphology characterization of surface and friction characteristics. Comment on development of laser surface micro-texturing technology, problems and prospects of its were presented.


This article is an attempt to examine Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup (2001) using Homi K. Bhabha's ideas in the main. It takes upon itself to discuss the issues of hybridity, identity, nation, globalization and migration. Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup is a scrupulous study of the life in exile. We might dissociate this particular novel from her earlier work, in that it goes beyond the matters of local politics and nationhood and paints a truthful picture of migration and alienation, which are global issues. In fact, the subject Gordimer picks up is a universal topos (that of migration and identity in exile). We will focus on the idea that identity is liminal; it is neither one nor the other, but a negotiation of the both. The migrant/exile/diasporan has to translate differing cultures in order to sur-vive.


Like most problems in India, child labour in spite of rampant adult unemployment, is a by-product emerging out of socio-economic structure of society. After thorough investigation of the sample study of child labour in district Kulgam, various determents of child labour has been analysed in the present study. Also measures have been suggested for the reduction in the incidence of child labour and for their betterment. We hope that these measures would bring some good results. Keywords: Child labour, demand, supply, income, wages, illiteracy.


The influence of an electric field on metallic single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) interconnects is studied. A voltage-dependent equivalent circuit model is presented for the impedance parameters of single-wall carbon nanotubes that capture various electron-phonon scattering mechanisms as a function of the electric field. To estimate the performance of SWCNT bundle interconnects, signal delay and power dissipation are calculated based on the field dependent model that results in an improvement in the delay and power estimation accuracy compared to the field-independent model. We find that the power delay product of a SWCNT bundle increases with the increase in electric field but decreases with technology scaling showing that at a low electric field, the SWCNT bundle is a potential reliable alternative interconnect for future high performance VLSI industry at scaled technologies.


Pollination biology of the invasive plant sulfur cinquefoil (Potentilla recta L.) and it's native cooccurring congener slender cinquefoil (P. gracilis Dougl. ex. Hook.) was studied from 2002–2004, at four sites in northeastern Oregon, USA The native cinquefoil flowered first for five weeks, followed by the invasive for five weeks, with two weeks overlap in mid-June. Invasive flowers attracted 74 species and 543 individuals; the native attracted 93 species and 619 individuals. The most important pollinators for the invasive, in order of importance, were: Apis mellifera, Ceratina nanula, Halictus tripartitus, Lasioglossum sisymbrii, and Bombus rufocinctus; for the native: C. nanula, Trichodes ornatus, H. ligatus, L. sisymbrii, and L. olympiae. The invasive produced higher numbers of seeds per plant, having greater mass per unit vegetation. Mean seed size was lower for the invasive when pollinators were allowed access to flowers, but seed size increased linearly with more complete exclusion of pollinators; the native showed no such response to pollinator exclusion. Compared to the native, nearly twice as many seeds germinated for sulfur cinquefoil (35.0% versus 19.5%), with seeds germinating over a longer period of time. Results are discussed as they relate to the invasiveness of sulfur cinquefoil relative to the native.


(recall that the X axis is scaled logarithmically), suggesting that scaling is vital when modeling nntp traffic. Given the great variation in originator bytes transferred, we decided to simply use a log-normal model to describe the connections, with the caveat that we do not expect the model to perform well in either scaled or unscaled forms (but we also do not expect empirical models to do well, either). For the LBL test datasets, the log-mean ranged from 10.8 to 12.5, and the log-standard deviation from 2.6 to 3.3. For our fixed model we chose ¯ x = 11:5 and x = 3, respectively. We note that ¯ x log 2 3 KB appears a bit higher than the median nntp article size of around 2 KB reported in [Adams92]. This difference probably means that, when an nntp server has a " fresh " article, it tends to have more than one. Figure 15 shows the performance of the various models. As expected, none of the models does well due to the great variations from dataset to dataset, though scaling the models helps somewhat. In general, the analytic model performs acceptably only when scaled, and the empirical models only on the earlier LBL datasets and the scaled BC datasets. But the analytic model does as well as than either empirical model, indicating that the log-normal approximation is no worse than the inherent variation in the distributions. Figure 29 in Appendix D shows the tail performance of the models. Again we show only the upper tail because with bulk transfer the lower tail is not of much interest. The unscaled models do quite badly, not surprisingly, given their poor overall performance. The upper 10% tail is only safe when scaling the models, and the upper 1% tail only when scaling empirical models. From this figure we conclude that the nntp models must always be scaled, and even then the otherwise somewhat successful analytic model is problematic due to grossly overestimating the upper 1% tail. One final important point regarding modeling nntp originator bytes is that the distribution is not stationary but changes over the course of a day. Figure 16 shows the hourly ¯ x orig for LBL-1 and LBL-4 non-failure nntp connections (this plot was made by constructing " superhours " as discussed in Section 3.11). We see considerable but not consistent variation. The peak-to-peak differences for both datasets is about …


This study investigated policymaker dependence on evidence in education decision making in Oyo State Ministry of Education. The study was conducted under a descriptive survey design, 44 out of the 290 policymakers of the Ministry and Board of Education across the State were purposively selected for the study. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages and inferential statistics of Chi-Square were used to analyze the data. The four research questions which guided the study were answered. Findings revealed that policymakers depend on research evidence in making education decisions. Furthermore, the study also revealed that research-related factors, researcher-related factors, channel-related factors and policymakers-related factors are all determinants to the use of evidence in education decision making. Finally, the study found that policymakers are encumbered to use evidence in decision making as a result of: nature of research, researcher- related, medium- related and policymaker-related factors. Based on the findings, the study thus recommended that opportunities should be made available to practitioners and researchers to collaborate, disseminate findings, co-construct ideas, and set research agendas. Finally, that positive attitude towards commissioning and funding of policy-related research should be given top priority. Keywords : policymakers, research evidence, researcher and evidence-based


In this paper, we present a foundation of formulating human reasoning processes with Kansei representationbased on granularity generated by background knowledge. For the objective, we examine the role of background knowledge and granularity in several kinds of reasoning. We put emphasis on difference between objective and subjective levels of knowledge. We represent subjective knowledge by lower approximation in rough set theory under granularity generated by background knowledge.Then we examine monotonicity and non-monotonicity between the two levels with respect to deduction and non-monotonic reasoning. Next we apply the idea to abduction which gives us which premise is plausible when we are given rules and conclusions. The problem in abduction is how to select one from several possible premises and we solve it by calculating inclusion degree between possible premises and the lower approximation of the given conclusion. Thus we can introduce some ordering into the set of possible premises. Finally we apply a similar idea to conflict resolution typically dealt with in reasoning in expert systems and robotcontrol. When we have plural monotonic rules which can be applied to a given premise, if conclusions are associated with their own action or execution, then we cannot take the conjunction of all conclusions. Again we must select one of the conclusions using the inclusion degree between the premise and the lower approximations of possible conclusions. Thus we can introduce some ordering into the set of possible conclusions associated with actions.


Estonian human-human calls (directory inquiries) are analysed with the further aim to develop a computer-human dialogue system that interacts with a user in natural language. The analysis is based on the Estonian Dialogue Corpus. Linguistic features of clients' requests and agents' grants are studied. A client's initial request sets up a goal which will be achieved in collaboration with the agent. Information is given briefly by agents, using short sentences or phrases. Information-sharing sub-dialogues are initiated by both participants if either a request or a grant needs to be adjusted. A formal grammar of information dialogue is introduced in this paper. The results of the study will be implemented in two dialogue systems which are under development.


This article describes an furnace flame closed-loop control system based on image signal processing. Through the power plant furnace flame image processing, obtained the rate of effective temperature area, the rate of high-temperature area, centroid offset distance. Taking the data as criterion, we used KOHENON neural network to distinguish the state of flame and fused the related signals of sensors such as flame detector. Then proposed the incremental opening adjustment in order to complete real-time control of the furnace flame.


Presentation of Case A 69-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of weakness, cough, and low-grade fever. The patient had end-stage renal disease due to membranous glomerulonephritis (Figure 1 and Figure 2) and a long history of hypertension. Four years before admission, after having undergone extracorporeal hemodialysis for three years, she received a cadaveric renal transplant, which was rejected because of the development of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Transplantation of a second cadaveric kidney was performed 34 months before admission. There were no episodes of rejection, and the creatinine level was approximately 2 mg per deciliter (180 μmol per liter). A chest . . .


Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Bolitophagus cornutus Fabricius, 1801 (currently Bolitotherus cornutus) for a common and well-known North American darkling beetle by giving it precedence over its senior synonym Opatrum bifurcum Fabricius, 1798.


CFDShip-Iowa version 6 is a high-fidelity, highperformance Cartesian grid solver for the multi-scale simulation of two-phase turbulent flows in ship hydrodynamics. In this paper, the recent development on motion prediction using wall-resolved and wallmodeled approaches is presented. First, a highly efficient, non-iterative, fully coupled scheme is developed for wall-resolved two-phase turbulent flows interacting with a solid body. In addition, an approximate domain approach is introduced for improved wall modeling using wall functions. Moreover, to develop more advanced wall models, an orthogonal curvilinear grid solver is coupled with the Cartesian grid solver using an overset grid methodology. Several other techniques, such as an efficient parallel fast marching method for wall distance calculation, a surface force calculation procedure for an immersed triangulated surface, and semi-Lagrangian advection schemes, are also developed. A series of validation cases including an elastically mounted circular cylinder in a free stream, the equilibrium state of square cylinder, laminar flows past a circular cylinder, and surface force for the Wigley hull, have been carried out. Results are compared with reference data to demonstrate the accuracy and applicability of the solver. Further development and enhancement is discussed.


This study aimed at evaluating newly developed hybrids and recently introduced cultivars of French grapes grown in mild tropics of South India for quality wine production. Wines produced from French grapes, viz., Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Ugni Blanc scored 15.0 -16.8 in the Davis Score Card for organoleptic analysis. Wines from red Hybrid 18/10 possessed phenolic content of 2097mg/l, had a brilliant colour and sensory score of 13.1. Hybrid 23/2 gave good quality white, dry table wines with a sensory score of 13.4.


Outlined here are details of DFP members who have been the recipients of various awards and accolades in 2019. These are all great achievements, and as a Division we are very proud of their achievements and the positive way in which they promote the field of forensic psychology.


Measurements were made of the flux distribution and Gd ratios of water- moderated neutrons produced in a thick Li target by the Li/sup 7/(p,n)Be/sup 7/ reaction. A 3-Mev Van de Graaff generator (model KN) was used as the source of high energy protons. The moderator consisted of a 1.0 x 1.25 x 1.5 ft Al tank with a water level maintained at 12 in. Pure Au 1-mg samples were used as neutron detectors. The flux rose from 1.82 x 10/sup 6/ n/sec/cm/sup 2// mu a at the wall adjacent to the Li target to a maximum value of 3.37 x 10/sup 6/ n/sec/ cm/sup 2// mu a at one in. along the target axis; it then decreased to 2.29 x 10/ sup 6/ n/sec/cm/sup 2// mu /sub a/ at 2.5 in. from the target. Similar results were found along other axes, displaced vertically and horizontally from the target axis, though lower in magnitude. The Cd ratio increased from 3.65 at the target wall to 8.8 at 1.8 in., decreasing slightly to 6.7 at 2.5 in., also along the target axis. (auth)


Various aspects of single-phased burst-error-correcting array codes are explored. These codes are composed of two-dimensional arrays with row and column parities with a diagonally cyclic readout order; they are capable of correcting a single burst error along one diagonal. Optimal codeword sizes are found to have dimensions n/sub 1/*n/sub 2/ such that n/sub 2/ is the smallest prime number larger than n/sub 1/. These codes are capable of reaching the Singleton bound. A new type of error, approximate errors, is defined; in q-ary applications, these errors cause data to be slightly corrupted and therefore still close to the true data level. Phased burst array codes can be tailored to correct these codes with even higher rates than before. >