This paper is a case study of this 2001 exhibition in Taipei entitled 'Treasures Preserved Abroad: the Dr. Mackay Collection of Formosan Aboriginal Artefacts.' These Royal Ontario Museum owned Taiwan Aboriginal artefacts were originally collected in the late 1800s by the Canadian Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay (1844–1901). The exhibition honoured the centennial of Mackay's death, because Mackay has become something of a modernizing hero to Taiwanese nationalists. The exhibition opened on 2 June 2001 with a nationally televised opening ceremony featuring former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui and other VIPs. This rescue narrative was used despite Mackay's accounts of burning the non-Christian religious objects of converted Pingpu Aborigines, which he referred to as "paraphernalia of idol worship" and his ethnocentric denigration of Atayal Aboriginal culture in his 1896 book "From Far Formosa." Utilizing theoretical approaches from organizational communications, the paper shows how organizing narratives about rescuing Aborigines involve modernizing heroes assisting Aborigines with various difficulties or threats. These rescue narratives allow coordination among disparate agents and personnel who as micro actors speak on behalf of macro actors such as the nation or Aboriginal peoples. The exhibition was translated into several other institutional narratives including Canada nation branding, Taiwan government informal diplomacy, and corporate public relations. The article concludes with an analysis of how York University Centre for Asian Research-affiliated academics used the Mackay hero-rescues-Aborigines narratives to organize the permanent display of the artefacts at the Royal Ontario Museum.


The temperature change status of the hotter and colder fluids along the heat transfer region in spacing heat exchanger in different flow, such as countercurrent, cocurrent, and baffle flow, etc, was discussed. The temperature distribution equations of fluids were obtained as follows.(1) When the fluids exchanged heat by countercurrent in stable state, the temperature distribution equation was T=T 1-T 1-t 21-C h/C c[JB2{]1-exp[JB2[][JB2(]1C c-1C h[JB2)]KA[JB2]][JB2}] and t=t 2-T 1-t 2C c/C h-1[JB2{]1-exp[JB2[][JB2(]1C c-1C h[JB2)]KA[JB2]][JB2}].The temperature change of the two fluids showed simultaneously as straight line when C c=C h,correspondingly, concave curve when C cC h, and convex curve when C cC h.(2)When the fluids exchanged heat by cocurrent in stable state, the temperature distribution equation was T=T 1-T 1-t 11+C h/C c[JB2{]1-exp[JB2[][JB2(]-1C c-1Ch[JB2)]KA[JB2]][JB2}]and t=t 1+T 1-t 11+C c/C h[JB2{]1exp[JB2[][JB2(]-1C c-1C h[JB2)]KA[JB2]][JB2}].The temperature change of the hotter fluid showed as a descending concave curve, while that of the colder fluid showed as an ascending convex one.


This explorative article is an attempt to focus attention on the paradigm shift in science that is occurring at present. The shift is the result of the clash between the traditional Western mechanistic approach and a more holistic world-view which also makes provision for direct, non-in tellectual experiences of reality. In the ordinary state of consciousness, for example, a person is ex pected to identify closely with his or her body image. In an altered state of consciousness (like deep medita tion) a person's identity can expand beyond the body image and encom pass other people or groups of people. Experiences of this kind can bring Instant intuitive knowledge that far exceeds the intellectual and educational background of the indi vidual. While identifying with an other person, one can gain access to that person's thoughts, feelings, physical sensations or memories. This holds implications for the com munication scientist. The possibility of viewing altered states of con sciousness as an additional source of Interpersonal communication knowledge and the implications of such additional knowledge for crea ting shared meaning are explored. It is proposed that the inclusion of al tered states of consciousness as a field of study, should be seriously considered by interpersonal com munication scientists


Three or four centuries BC,human civilization is the awakening of eastern and western cultures.Through this period,there Emerged in a number of thinking,which have never happened before.Confucius of Ancient Chinese and Plato of ancient Greek are the Typical examples.Both of them reflects the common rule of ideal,which is "goodness" principle.Tracing origins,they have the same aristocracy background,which are likely to spy out some human civilization source of spiritual resonance.


Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors have been frequently used as micro-weighing devices, since they have demonstrated to be highly sensitive due to the frequency shifts ought to mass- increments stuck on the sensing film surface of the sensor. This kind of devices are normally used as arrays of sensors in systems known as Electronic Noses, for the detection and analysis of gases, fluids, and biological compounds among others. The sensitivity of the QCM sensors is directly proportional to the resonance frequency of the crystal. Therefore, increasing sensitivity implies using high frequency crystals above 20 MHz. Quartz crystals have been manufactured in two modalities: fundamental and overtone, the latter being used for frequencies between 30 MHz and 200 MHz. In this work, we present theoretical arguments as well as experimental results that describe the characteristics and differences in the performance of 30 MHz sensors in both modalities, in addition to other considerations in the behavior of these devices that cannot be observed from the analytical point of view, but from the point of experimental view.


Career Indecision is a condition when students has difficulty to make career decision that will be pursued. Final years college students, are vulnerable to feel career indecision, it causes students to be unsure of his ability to pursue career after graduation. Self-efficacy known as an important aspect of career decision-making process, which is can help college student to determine his or her career choice. However, previous studies have shown the inconsistent result about relationship between career decision making self-efficacy with career indecision. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine again the relationship between career decision making self-efficacy and career indecision among final year's college students in Indonesia. Method: Using incidental sampling, this study get 328 final year college students as respondents. To measure Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision, this study using Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSES) and Career Decision Scale (CDS). Result: Result of this study using Spearman correlation test shown that, there is significant correlation between Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision (r = -0,143 p = 0,01<0,01). Suggestion: The implication of this study is college student with high career decision making self-efficacy can decrease their career indecision.


Two heat flux transducers of different frequency response characteristics are compared. The sensors are evaluated by mounting them adjacent to one another in the heated intake manifold runner of a motoring spark ignition engine. Their ensemble averaged signals are transformed into the frequency domain. The transfer function for the slower of the two probes is derived from the amplitude and phase relation between the two signals.


(1904). XXXII. On the transfinite cardinal numbers of number-classes in general. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science: Vol. 7, No. 39, pp. 294-303.


verdict of Sanskrit scholars will be that he has attempted the impossible and that even the limited and qualified amount of success which he claims on p. 8 of his second volume cannot be conceded without many reservations. Whether the expenditure of so much time and labour on a task so supremely difficult was justifiable is a point about which an acute difference of opinion is possible. I am afraid that the methods of spelling adopted by the writer, e.g. " enuf", " thru", " profest", and many tricks of style employed by him are not likely to create a prejudice in his favour in the minds of most English scholars.


The dynamic analysis of the behavior of the ship, crane and other structures, consisting of thin-walled cores, at random external impact still remains a subject of the research. The theoretical bases of creation of the mathematical model of the thin-walled core of the closed profile in the local system of coordinates at spatial deformation taking into account a shift of the median surface are given. The mathematical ratios for creation of the rigidity matrix of the thin-walled core of the closed profile, which can be used in the static and dynamic calculation analysis of the structures using the method of finite elements, are received.


Many developing countries have used different frameworks, some ad hoc and some more formal, to develop their national eHealth strategies. There is increasing interest in eHealth strategy in developing countries, as well as a move to a more integrated and less fragmented set of eHealth solutions that contribute to health objectives and outcomes. Developing a national eHealth Strategy from the national health sector priorities should lead to implementation of sustainable eHealth solutions. Some existing frameworks for developing national eHealth strategies can be difficult to implement effectively. This paper presents how an alternative country eHealth Strategy framework was applied in Tanzania to develop the Tanzania eHealth Strategy 2013–2018. This alternative framework begins with reviewing Tanzania's Health Sector Strategic Plan III (2009–2015) priorities and goals, from which the eHealth strategy's priorities and goals are developed. The process is informed by the current state of eHealth and the proposed future state of eHealth. It defines the vision, mission, and guiding principles, well-defined strategic objectives and actions, a high-level roadmap, and an appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework. The application of this alternative eHealth strategy development framework is based on theories of business process re-engineering, strategy development, and complex systems analysis.


This article, based on the analysis of current orientation, theorized an orientation of multiple authorities in curriculum management despite the difficulty from the directed thinking of centralization and decentralization. The new orientation, which is formed in the context of market economy and grounded on the theory of civil society, is based on the decentralization and subdivides the authority in curriculum management. Instead of a general reference to the allocating system of centralized, decentralized or common authority in curriculum management, it proposes that principle bodies should exert their correspondent authority respectively.


This Diploma Thesis is dealing with one of the possibilities how to invest dispensable stock, e.i. trading on the stock exchange. This manner of capitalization of dispensable stock, with the correct selection of securitie´s portfolio, is providing huge profits to the investors. But if the trader does not take into consideration possible risks, he can lose everything. As in Slovakia this area of investment in unknown and used just rarely, We would trhy to make close and to explain any steps leading to the fulfilment of conditions for registration at the stock exchange. In theoretical part We are coming out from knowledges and experiences of professor Jilek, who is employed by the Czech National Bank for a long perion of time. Professor Jilek has been an outstandig specialist in the area of capital markets, banking ang monetary politics. Another expert in tieh area is Andre Konstolany, who is providing advice in his works how to get rich by everyday transactions at the stock exchange. If somebody is willing to be real businessman and an expert in the area of capital markets, he is surely advised to get information from this work and to follow it.


The natural ingredient has been utilized variety of the food and medicine. The aromatherapy well known prevent disease and healthy promotion using the essential oil derived extracted plants. In this work, natural ingredient include herb granulated for application of tobacco filter. That used by gran...


Based on demands of knowledge organizing from knowledge management, a multi-dimension and multi-level knowledge organizing method based on process i s put forward. The method consists of two steps: firstly, constructing 3-dimen sion al multi-level knowledge space and 3-dimensional knowledge citing space to re ali ze organization of knowledge; then clustering in the plane orientation and abstr acting in the vertical orientation to enhance the quality of knowledge organizin g. The organizing method of knowledge can realize knowledge integration, and re f lect some characteristics of knowledge: multi-level, integration of commonnes s a nd individuality, and integration of abstract and concretion.


Fountain Set Limited announced that its branch brand'Fountain Set' was producing 2011 autumn-winter collections on the 2010 Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Trade Fair,displaying new products embraced


NC simulation is a key research subject of CAD/CAM, and at present it is mainly on geometrical simulation. For the development and maturity of the technology of geometrical simulation, physical simulation should be on the agenda for furthering the research of NC simulation. The paper describes the functions that a system of physical simulation should have, including seeing, hearing and feeling, and describes how to implement the physical simulation, by building respective databases of model of tools, clamps, material, roughness and precision, and random events. Difficulties are listed at the end of the paper, as well as the perspective of physical simulation of NC machining.


Anthropogenic pressures on the environment and natural resources have grown significantly in both number and extent over the past  years (Dobson et al., ). But beyond their impact on global biodiversity per se, these pressures also pose a substantial problem for the conservation community. This is because the breadth and complexity of the skills, knowledge and resources required to achieve collective conservation goals have also grown markedly. Calls for urgent transformative change at a societal level (IPBES, ) reflect the need to strategically apply a more diverse set of competences and innovative mechanisms to conserve nature. As a result, identifying, prioritizing and funding the development of conservation capacity is now one of the most pressing and significant conservation challenges of the st century (O'Connell et al., ). It has been widely recognized that as a community we need to develop a more strategic, coordinated and sustainable approach to capacity development at all scales (Campagnaro et al., , O'Connell et al., ). However, although the urgent need for the development of conservation capacity has been identified, until recently there was a paucity of published research to provide guidance on the key knowledge gaps, the effectiveness of different approaches, and future priorities. In the past decade, a growing community of conservation practitioners has attempted to address this range of capacity development issues. It was in response to the need to bring together keymembers of this community that three regional conferences were convened, in Colombia in , Kenya in  and India in , to discuss methods and share solutions and best practice. A fourth conference was held in the UK in  to consolidate the key ideas arising from these previous meetings. The capacity for conservation theme in this issue of Oryx is the principal output from that gathering. It is intended to provide both evaluation and reflection on current practices and provision, and contribute conceptual frameworks for a more strategic way forward. In particular, this collection of  articles reflects on four key thematic areas of conservation capacity development.


1. Functional response models that predict the relationship between feeding rate and food density often include only two behavioural parameters, handling time and searching rate. However, vigilance can occupy a large proportion of foraging time and, consequently, may affect the functional response. Previous functional response models of granivorous birds showed no effect of vigilance on predicted feeding rates; these models assumed that all of handling time is compatible with vigilance and, therefore, overestimated the potential time for cost free vigilance to occur.

2. Here we have derived a new functional response model that incorporates the proportion of time spent vigilant (v) and the proportion of handling time that is compatible with vigilance (p). This model allows for the relationship between vigilance and handling to vary from completely compatible to mutually exclusive, and degrees in between.

3. To determine whether vigilance can affect the functional response of a granivorous bird, grey partridge Perdix perdix L, we measured the functional response and associated behavioural parameters, and used the behavioural estimates to parameterize the model. Any deviation from the feeding rates predicted using a model without vigilance indicates that vigilance is affecting the predicted functional response.

4. We found that vigilance only affected the predicted functional response at very low food densities ( 50% of their foraging time vigilant, and found that even with a high value of p vigilance reduced feeding rates at higher seed densities.

5. This study shows that vigilance can affect the feeding rate of a granivorous bird when either the proportion of time spent vigilant is high or the proportion of compatible handling time is low. This may affect larger scale ecological processes, i.e. spatial distribution of foragers and patterns of resource depletion, as individuals try to mitigate the effects of vigilance by maximizing their feeding rate whilst minimizing their predation risk.


In 1945, the former Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and Upper Silesia were situated on either side of the new border between Germany and Poland. The reorganization of the border line was connected with forced migration. Most Germans inhabiting Opole Silesia were forced to leave their homes and migrate to the remaining German states. The German population of Opole Silesia was partly replaced with Poles from the former eastern territories of Poland, who had been forced or pressured to migrate themselves.
Despite these territorial and demographic changes, there were still several similarities between the two regions: Between 1945 and 1952 both Brandenburg and Opole Silesia were governed by socialist regimes which initiated sweeping [economic] changes such as land reforms and a wave of industrialization. The problems and effects caused by these changes were similar in many respects. The most striking example are the land reforms which in both regions suffered from a lack of farm buildings, cattle and tools, i.e. the structural problems created by a disrupting change from large-scale land-holding to medium- and small-scale farming.
This study concentrates on yet another comparative aspect of the post-war history of Brandenburg and Opole Silesia: The Situation of expellees. In 1950 they comprised about one quarter of the population in both regions. The Polish and German expellees had been moved to the West as a result of the international process in which the Allied Powers had redrawn the territorial and ethnic map of post-war Europe. The expulsions of Poles and Germans were carried out under different legal regulations, but in both cases they caused the pauperization of most expellees. Living conditions upon their arrival in Brandenburg and Opole Silesia were highly unfavourable.
The main [political] goal pursued in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (the later GDR) and Poland was to integrate these expellees into society. The integration policy in Eastern Germany had a strongly egalitarian character, while Poland followed a nationalist course. Until 1952 the level of integration in both regions was still low. This was due to the f ailure of most political measures to foster integration and the misconceptions of both regimes about the character of society: There was no national solidarity among all Poles. Resettlers from Central Poland who had migrated to Opole Silesia dominated the economic and political life. Even more disadvantaged than the Polish expellees was the Slavic-rooted, often Polish-speaking indigenous population in Upper Silesia, which was alienated from Poland and the Polish State. One reason for this alienation was the nationalist expellee policy, which in fact split society. The ruling party in Eastern Germany, the SED (Socialist Unity Party), vastly overestimated the solidarity within society, too. As in Opole Silesia, there were severe conflicts between expellees and the local population.
Only in the 1950s, when many expellees moved to the cities and new industrial centres in both regions, did integration make more progress.


The author, formerly chairman of the editorial board of Hospital & Community Psychiatry, traveled thousands of miles on foot and by camel, raft, and Land Rover to gather the information presented in this paper. His research was supported in part by NIMH grant No. PR1976-100-2076. The editors regret that despite repeated attempts they were unable to prepare an adequate summary of his findings.


Soil samples were taken out from plots of an experiment with manure, lime and mineral fertilizers applied to corn plants. The aggregates were separated into the following size classes: 7.0 to 4.0 mm, 4.0 to 2.0 mm, 2.0 to 1.0 mm, 1.0 to 0.5 mm, 0.5 to 0.105 mm, and less than 0.105 mm. Mechanical analyses were made, as well as determinations of pH and of C and total N and Ca + +, Mg + + and K + exchangeable and capacity of cathion exchange. All of the samples showed similar behaviors; the percentage of clay decreased in a progressive form from larger sizes of aggregates to the size class 1.0 to 0.5 mm, increasing afterwards until reaching the maximum value in the size class "less than 0.105 mm". Finally, the authors studied the influence of different types of fertilizers upon the characteristics of aggregates.


The study investigates some vital courses of the global financial crisis and figured out some important remedies within the context of Shari'ah law. Shari'ah has stipulated market surveillances to ensure strict adherence to the Islamic ethics and trustworthiness in every Shari'ah compatible contractual obligations between individuals and in the public marketplaces.


The experiment was designed to determine the influence of uncertainty orientation (R. M. Sorrentino, J. C. Short, 1986) on compliance with a diagnostic health behavior. Ss (N=155) read 1 version of an education essay on a disease and diagnostic response. Threat and efficacy information were manipulated. Consistent with protection motivation theory (R. W. Rogers, 1983), uncertainty-oriented Ss sought more health-related information as threat and efficacy increased. Certainty-oriented Ss, however, sought more health-related information as threat or efficacy, but not both, increased. Individual differences were also found on adaptive measures and ineffective alternative responses


In this chapter, two theoretical models considered for the prediction of path loss in two different districts at Mosul city, using MATLAB 7.4 program. The propagation of radio wave of built-up area strongly influenced by the nature of environment, Parameters like antennas height, frequency band, interference, polarization etc, have an influence upon channel behavior. Reflection, diffraction and scattering from building add multipath, fast fading and slow fading effects to the signal.


With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT), low-cost resource-constrained devices have to be more capable than traditional embedded systems, which operate on stringent power budgets. In order to add new capabilities such as learning, the power consumption planning has to be revised. Approximate computing is a promising paradigm for reducing power consumption at the expense of inaccuracy introduced to the computations. In this paper, we set forth approximate computing features of a processor that will exist in the next generation low-cost resource-constrained learning IoT devices. Based on these features, we design an approximate IoT processor which benefits from RISC-V ISA. Targeting machine learning applications such as classification and clustering, we have demonstrated that our processor reinforced with approximate operations can save power up to 23% for ASIC implementation while at least 90% top-1 accuracy is achieved on the trained models and test data set.


Although there are a variety of methods for producing graphene, commercialization remains challenging because each method has its own pros and cons. For the wide use of graphene as a next generation material in diverse applications, the process by which graphene is manufactured must be robust enough to overcome barriers to commercialization, as has been experienced in commercializing carbon nanotube products. Here, a recent discovery of a new manufacturing process for efficient delamination of graphite into graphene nanoplatelets (GnPs) via mechanochemical ball‐milling is summarized. In this process, transferring sufficient kinetic energy to graphitic frameworks will crack graphitic C–C bonds, generate active carbon species (mostly carbon free radicals), introduce edge‐functional groups, and delaminate graphitic layers into edge‐functionalized GnPs (EFGnPs). While this process is a method for mass production, it does not involve hazardous chemicals (e.g., corrosive acids and toxic reducing agents) such as those used for producing graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). Owing to its edge‐selective functionalization, the EFGnPs have minimal basal area defects with selectivity of a variety of edge groups by forming edge C–X bonds (X = nonmetals or metalloids) that are tunable.


We study in detail the initial distribution of a parton system that is formed just after relativistic heavy-ion collisions by elastic scattering among the constituent partons and analyze the baryon and strangeness contents of the primary parton system. We present the rapidity and the energy distributions of the system.


Photonic technologies have a large potential to become the key enabler for millimetre-wave and THz application. Despite a number of advantages such as tune ability, high speed modulation and high coherence across the range, a number of issues still remain to be solved in terms of efficiency at emission and detection and power. We propose that photonics integration is key to help solving these problems. We will first present the key advantages of using photonic integration for this particular application, then discuss the different technologies that could be envisaged. Finally we will present recent integration results and discuss the achievements in regard of a few potential millimetre-wave and THz applications.


This paper reviews various type certification schemes of wind turbine in India and in world wide. The wind energy market is undergoing a rapid expansion and is expected to continue this trend over the medium term with support from the market framework, local policies and economic attractiveness. As the wind energy industry continues to flourish, an increasing number of manufacturers are entering the wind generation field. Hence it is necessary to have type certification for wind turbine. Type certification is to confirm that the wind turbine type is designed, documented and manufactured in conformity with design assumptions, specific standards and other technical requirements. Reliability and safety of the wind turbines have to be ensured for the sustained growth of wind industry. Type certification of wind turbines plays an important module for increasing confident among stakeholders including investors, utilities, financial institution, insurance agencies, governmental authorities and such others. Therefore it is important to know about the guidelines and certifying bodies which gives a clear idea of wind turbine certification in India and in world. Certification has been issued based on scope, requirements and depth depending upon the schemes. This paper also gives an insight view of International Electro technical Commission standards (IEC), Dutch type certification and Danish type certification schemes. A detailed review on standards some of IEC standards used for wind turbine certification is also included in this paper. Keywords— IEC, Type certification schemes


In this paper, the method of least squares is applied to the fuzzy inference rules. We begin studying the conditions in which from a fuzzy set we can build another through the method of least squares. Then we apply this technique in order to evaluate the conclusions of the generalized modus ponens. We present different theorems and examples that demonstrate the fundamental advantages of the method studied.


This paper has analyzed and discussed the problems in the protection of intellectual property rights in the process of library services in digital age,and put forward measures for the strengthening and protection of intellectual property rights.


With the importance of religion to many individuals and the legal protections present in various countries, religious expression in the workplace is a phenomenon worthy of greater research and understanding. This study examined several potential antecedents of religious expression in the workplace. Results from a sample of employed individuals suggest that both individual and organisational factors, including individual religiosity, company culture and value congruence, influence the level of workplace religious expression.


Book review of Evans Lansing Smith, Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld, Modern American Literature: New Approaches vol. 62 (New York: Peter Lang, 2012)


The character of money-lending was radically changed some years after the advent of the British rule. Some of these changes affected the agriculturists in various ways. The unrest of the agriculturists collsequent upon these was expressed in the Deccan Riots in 1875. A series of Acts were passed to mitigate the adverse effects of UD~ cted money-lending practices in vogue in 1875. These Acts were mainly intended for the riot affected districts of Poona, Sholapur, Satara and Ahmednagar, then called the Deccan Districts. All these Acts were called the Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Acts. This note tries to summarise the main provisions of these Acts.


Three experiments were conducted to determine the effects of supplementation with whole or rolled drought-stressed soy- beans (DSSB) on performance of beef cows. Experiment 1 involved the inclu- sion of DSSB as a winter supplement for gestating spring-calving cows. Cows grazed abundant dormant native tall- grass prairie pasture and were individu- than calves from supplemented cows at weaning (P < 0.05). No differences among treatments were detected for preg- nancy rates. Dry matter intake was 31% greater for the supplemented treatments compared with NCON (P < 0.05) in Exp. 2. Supplementation also tended to increase total tract apparent DM digest- ibility (P = 0.14) and ADF digestibility (P = 0.10). In Exp. 3, cow BW were not affected by treatment during or after the supplementation period. There was a trend (P = 0.10) for supplemented cows to better maintain BCS during the supple- mentation period. Calves nursing supple- mented cows tended to gain at a faster rate (P = 0.08) during the supplementa- tion period compared with NCON calves. Pregnancy rates were not affected by treatments. This research indicates that DSSB can be an effective winter protein supplement for beef cows, and that the processing of the soybeans does not af- fect cow and calf performance or preg- nancy rates.


In the State of Veracruz, Mexico, citric fruits are among the most important fruits due to their high economic value in national and international markets. However, in the last months, combined symptoms of defoliation, yellowing and terminal-branches death have been observed; these cause gradual deterioration and low yield in the main citric species; these symptoms have been associated to Citrus Tristeza virus (CTV) like VT, and coincide with those reported in the literature: small fruits adhered to the plant, defoliation, and sudden death. By using the RT-PCR technique, plants positive to the VT, considered as severe, were detected. Incidence of positive samples ranged from 7% in Alamo to 43% in Tihuatlan. The fact that this VT isolate was found in seven of the eight studied locations explains the death rate observed in northern Veracruz.


The invention belongs to the technical field of the preparation of titanium powder, and particularly relates to ultrafine titanium powder and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the steps of heating sponge titanium particles inn a hydrogen reduction furnace, preserving the heat under the vacuum state, and reducing the titanium particles; heating the obtained titanium particles until the metal titanium is gasified, and condensating the titanium into spheres by suddenly reducing the temperature so as to obtain the ultrafine titanium powder. The oxygen content of the prepared ultrafine titanium powder is 1 to 5000ppm, the purity is 99 to 99.999 percent, the granularity D50 is 0.1 to 5 micrometers, the granularity D97 is 0.1 to 10 micrometers, and the ultrafine titanium powder is in an aspheric shape. An aero-engine blade coating produced by adopting the prepared ultrafine metal titanium powder has the advantages of large binding force, uniformity in thickness, small granularity, compaction, smooth surface, better corrosion resistance and the like. The ultrafine titanium powder has high crystallinity and good sintering property.


The interaction of Rhizoctonia solani and Meloidogyne incognita Race 3 and Race 4 , was tested on four cultivars of American cotton namely RNR-120, RNR-315, DP-50 and Auburn-634. The obtained data revealed that the artificial infection to the susceptible cultivar DP-50 with the fungus in combination with either nematode races increased the root galling from 25-30% in case of nematode alone to 30-40% respectively. Combined infection also increased the pre-emergence damping-off from 60% in case of fungal infection alone to 80%. At the same time the root necrosis of the same cultivar was increased by 25-30% in the combined infection. The second susceptible cultivar to nematode (RNR-315) gave almost similar results in which the pre emergence damping-off was increased from 40% in fungal infection alone to 80% in the combined infection with either races 3 or 4 of the nematode. However, galling and root necrosis were not affected by combined infection. Both cotton cultivars RNR-120 and Auburn-634 were resistant to nematode infection. On the other hand, the pre-emergence damping-off of the cultivar RNR-120 was increased from 80% to 100%, when the race 3 was combined with the fungus. Galling and root necrosis were increased from 10% to 30% under the combination between the fungus and either nematode races 3 and 4. Also, the results showed that cv Auburn-634 was resistant to both nematode races but susceptible to the fungus. Such data revealed that the synergistic effect is limited to susceptible cotton cultivars to nematodes, whereas the nematode resistant cultivars did not affected much by the combined infection of the fungus plus nematode.


The area of Lokavec in the Vipava Valley, SW Slovenia, consists of Mesozoic carbonates thrust over Paleogene siliciclastic flysch. Overthrusting and tectonic damage of carbonates accelerated their mechanical disintegration. As a result, accumulations of slope gravel and large carbonate gravitational blocks are deposited on the slopes. Based on previous research, basic geological mapping and analysis of the DEM, ten carbonate blocks were identified. The aim of our research was to map lithology, measure and analyse the dip of carbonate strata and to determine transport mechanisms for individual blocks. The displacement of blocks from the source area ranged from 80 m to 1950 m. With the displacement of gravitational blocks, changes in dip direction and dip angle were also observed. The differences between the strata dip of carbonate source area and gravitational megablocks are from 4° to 59°.


The prevalence of loiasis was rapidly assessed based on the World Health Organisation RAPLOA technique in 24 rural communities of the Niger Delta Area of Imo State, Nigeria using 78-82 adults per community. The rapid assessment was based on history of eye worm and Calabar swellings from individual, as well as in-depth interviews of key persons in the communities. The prevalence of loiasis in the study communities was generally low (<10%) with the RAPLOA index of restricted definition of eye worm history (REW). The highest prevalence was observed in Egbema (8.54%). The clinical manifestations was significantly higher (P<0.05) in females than in males. The history of eye worm was more among the age group 25 –34 years (4.25%) and the prevalence of calabar swelling was highest among subjects 74 years (14.11%). Farmers (6.11% {eye worm}and 7.5% {calabar swelling}) reported the highest prevalence of both manifestations among occupational groups. The epidemiological results were discussed in the context of the ongoing community directed treatment with ivermectin (Mectizan®) which can go on in the area. Keywords: Loiasis, Chrysops, Calabar Swelling, Eyeworm, Raploa Nigerian Journal of Parasitology , Vol. 32 [1] March 2011, pp. 25-29


An account is given of a patient who had chronic exposure to nitrobenzene and in whom the metabolites, p-nitrophenol and p-aminophenol, were present in the urine. A method of separative determination of these two substances in urine is described.


: This paper presents the applicability of soft set theory for discovering the preference relation and inconsistency in multi-valued information systems. The proposed approach is based on multi-soft set. An inclusion of objects into value set of decision class in soft set theory is used to discover the relation between objects based on preference relation. Results from the experiment shows that dominance relation based on soft theory for preference relation is able to identify inconsistency data.


Single crystals of hexagonal ferrites up to 1/2 in. long were grown from the system NaFeO2-Fe2O3-BaO-MeO, where Me = divalent Zn, Co, Ni, or Mg. NaFeO2 was the flux from which crystals were grown in platinum crucibles from a maximum temperature of 1250° to 1375°C. More than 150 single-crystal growth experiments were attempted and the reaction products were studied by X-ray diffraction and optical microscopy. Stability data for the principal single-crystal products are given for initial compositions lying in quaternary planes. Such planes were considered for BaO/MeO ratios corresponding to the compounds 1/1 for Ba2Me2Fe12O22(Y) and Ba2Me2Fe28O46(X), 3/2 for Ba3Me2Fe24O41(Z), 2/1 for Ba4Me2Fe36O60(U), and 1/2 for BaMe2-Fe16O27(W)(Me = Zn, Co, Ni, or Mg). A number of adjoining planes were also considered. All the five known structure types were grown as single crystals. A series of four new hexagonal ferrite structures was discovered. These were derived from Z by systematically adding blocks of Y. Magnetization as a function of temperature and field was investigated for crystals of two structure types. The room-temperature ferromagnetic resonance and effective anisotropy were studied for substituted crystals of the same two structure types.


In a recent paper (LAUTERBORN, REFSDAL, WEIGERT, 1971) the central He burning phase of 5 M ⊙ stars was investigated. It was shown that the structure of such stars is very sensitive to the chemical profile in and above the hydrogen burning shell. The loops in the H-R diagram which such stars often make were for instance found to be very sensitive to changes in this profile. It was also shown that an assumed mass loss of about 10% in the red giant region will suppress a loop completely.


This paper presents virtual machines resources scheduling algorithm taking into computing capacity of processing elements and consideration their computational complexity. We apply the improved particle swarm optimization to solve virtual machines resources scheduling problem. The experiments show that the improved algorithms can provide effective solutions that the original algorithm can not provide on cloud systems.


The spring 2011 tornadoes were record breaking in their intensity, severity, and loss of property and life. The Federal Emergency Management Agency deployed a Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) to observe building performance in five states. Critical facilities, such as hospitals, fire and police stations, schools, and emergency operation centers, were a key area of study. The tornadoes significantly affected many critical facilities. Poor building performance resulted in occupant deaths and injuries, and also placed additional burdens on response and recovery personnel as they endeavored to assist their communities. To facilitate improved performance of critical facilities and enhanced protection of building occupants, the MAT developed Tornado Recovery Advisories for owners and designers of critical facilities located in tornado-prone regions. This paper presents the evolution of critical facility tornado design strategies over the past 40 years, with a focus on new strategies that were developed by the MAT in the aftermath of the 2011 tornadoes.


The scholarship of teaching of faculty is the systematic and specialized knowledge in teaching,which means that faculty have a deep understanding of teaching,a good grasp of professional knowledge and educational knowledge,capabilities in teaching activity and achievements from teaching practice and teaching research.Its value is to extend scholarship concept,help faculty to understand teaching rationally,lead them to reflect and research teaching scientifically,enrich their teaching theoretical basis,realize their specialization and quality improvement and direct their teaching practice.


Aim: To test the synergistic effect of Cpl-711 endolysin and antibiotics for antipneumococcal activity. Materials & methods: A combination of Cpl-711 and different antibiotics (amoxicillin, cefotaxime, levofloxacin and vancomycin) was tested in a checkerboard assay against several multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains. Mouse and zebrafish models of pneumococcal sepsis were used to confirm the in vitro data. Results: The activity of Cpl-711 combined with amoxicillin or cefotaxime was synergistic in the bactericidal effect against a serotype 23F multiresistant clinical isolate of S. pneumoniae. Synergy between Cpl-711 and cefotaxime was validated using both mouse and zebrafish models. Conclusion: Combination of Cpl-711 and cefotaxime may help in the treatment of diseases caused by multiresistant pneumococcal strains.


Africa is blessed with an overwhelming population of young people, who in the words of the African Synod Fathers, constitute its "numerical strength" but unfortunately, these have been kept in the cold, marginalized, exploited for selfish aims, manipulated and misled by political demagogues (Mbuy, 2001). Against this kind of backdrop the Gospel of Mark 10: 13-16 offer us a concrete, practical and pastoral way of welcoming the young people as Jesus did and giving them a sense of belonging. When I look back at some experiences I am touched by the attitude of Jesus when he said, 'let the children come to me'… and then I ask, how can the Church be available and say the same, 'let the young people come to me'? Many young people want to encounter the Lord through different forms of apostolate but maybe there are no serious youth apostolates or they are lazy to things of God or they had dreadful experiences of not being allowed to get near Jesus. Why? Perhaps, it is the attitudes of Jesus' disciples. In most of our Churches is this not the common attitude of some of our pastors? But Jesus irrespective of what and who they are said "Bring the children to me."


Summary By employing conventional husbandry techniques and filter-capped cages, a breeding colony of mice from Caesarian-derived stock was maintained free from many infectious agents common to laboratory mice through seven generations. The system described prevented infections with pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites, and PPLO. Mice housed under these conditions remained healthy and fecund while being free of the morphological and physiological consequences of germfree environment. In addition, the expense and restrictions of conventional barrier-type operations were minimized.


In this paper, we propose a generic and simple algorithmic framework for first order optimization. The framework essentially contains two consecutive steps in each iteration: 1) computing and normalizing the mini-batch stochastic gradient; 2) selecting adaptive step size to update the decision variable (parameter) towards the negative of the normalized gradient. We show that the proposed approach, when customized to the popular adaptive stepsize methods, such as AdaGrad, can enjoy a sublinear convergence rate, if the objective is convex. We also conduct extensive empirical studies on various non-convex neural network optimization problems, including multi layer perceptron, convolution neural networks and recurrent neural networks. The results indicate the normalized gradient with adaptive step size can help accelerate the training of neural networks. In particular, significant speedup can be observed if the networks are deep or the dependencies are long.


The photographs of Athens in the collection of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, now in the Library of the University of Birmingham, are catalogued. They are shown to comprise, in the main, two series, one purchased, of which the majority are original prints of William Stillman's photographs of 1869, the second consisting of photographs apparently taken for Sir Lawrence when he visited Athens in the later 1870s. Since the later series often deliberately duplicated views in the earlier series, comparisons can be made. These demonstrate that part of the façade to the west wing of the Propylaia was preserved intact from Antiquity inside the Frankish tower.


Land use and transportation planning are inseparably linked. This article summarizes a recently-revised book on the transportation/land use connection that discusses issues such as how market forces determine transportation and land-use patterns, and how land-use policies can bolster rail transit. It also provides advice for creating a coordinated land-use and transportation policy. The book emphasizes highway travel, particularly the spillover effects of transportation on quality-of-life, but also discusses alternative transportation modes.


This fresh and stimulating book lives up to the ambition of its title. It provides an intelligent introduction to a great breadth of contemporary theory which can be applied to understanding the complexities of urban phenomena. The argument begins with a critique of "big picture" urban theory, where much of urban life is left out" (p. 18). Here the authors take aim at classic theorists such as Wirth and Mumford, as well as more recent pluralist critics like Castells, Harvey, and Michael Dear, for essentialising the city as a product of dominant forces. Amin and Thrift draw instead upon the tradition of such continental thinkers as Benjamin, Lefebvre, and de Certeau, to read urban reality in the details, fleeting impressions, everyday epiphenomena, and to begin to chart the rich complexity of their interrelations. The authors are also critical of "the old territorial stereotypes" (p. 77). They suggest that the great rapidity of flows of information and goods in the modern world redefines urbanity in terms of networks of connections which aren't inherently proximate. They argue that the spatial city has lost much of its importance as a focus of social activity:


Modern international law pays much attention to the legal regime of regulation of GMOs, which determines the procedure and conditions for the use of genetic engineering technologies, as well as the production and circulation of products obtained as a result of their use. The central components of this regime are universal and regional agreements in the field of international trade, as well as individual acts of «soft law». This article is devoted to the review of the international legal regime of regulation of GMOs and a brief assessment of its functioning.


With the rapid development of computer technology, Virtual Reality Technology (hereinafter referred to as VRT) has been applied to a variety of industries, especially industry. With the development of science and technology, people have higher requirements on the structure, quality and accuracy of products, such as aircraft shell, engine blade, mold, automobile complex surface, etc., which requires the application of Five axis CNC (hereinafter referred to as FA-CNC) machine tools. FA-CNC machine tool is the most recognized CNC machine tool in the market, which can achieve flexible pose conversion. Through the FA-CNC machine tool, we can achieve one-time clamping, which will better complete the processing of parts. Through the FA-CNC machine tool processing, we can ensure the processing accuracy, which can greatly improve the production efficiency. At the same time, CNC machining (hereinafter referred to as FA-CNC) simulation is the last verification program, which can verify the correctness of the program [1]. Through VRT, we can make clear the various conditions in the process of processing, which will facilitate the analysis of the processing program. Based on UG platform, this paper studies the impeller programming process. Through the VRT, this paper carries on the simulation verification to the processing technology, which will better complete the impeller and other complex surface structure equipment processing.


A quality educational experience for secondary students involves more than an acquisition of content knowledge; it entails providing students opportunities to develop a variety of thinking skills that enable integration of knowledge and the promotion of student self-directed learning outside of the classroom. One critical skill that is often underemphasized in education is computational thinking. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to discuss the parallels between the processes of computational thinking and self-regulated learning, and the corresponding implications of this integrated framework for instruction in secondary classrooms. Guiding our analysis is the premise that because computational thinking processes can be viewed as goal-directed processes, it is possible to use self-regulated learning theory as a framework for assessing and enhancing computational thinking. Secondary educators have minimal experience with teaching computational thinking in the United States, so not only is a clear definition of computational thinking necessary in the Next Generation Science Standards, it is also necessary to have a learning theory from which to structure this type of thinking.


Soil compaction problems from increased recreational loads in the State's redwood parks are causing increasing concern for the health of these unique forest giants. New highway construction, logging activities and periodic flooding through the groves can also cause conditions detrimental to the trees. Preliminary studies reported here indicate that radical root pruning and replacement of the compacted soil may be a practical method of revitalizing redwood trees after heavy recreational use.


Frequent deletions on 9q34.1‐2 were reported in bladder transitional cell carcinoma. High deletion mapping studies delimited a critical interval between markers D9S61 and D9S66, which is highly susceptible to contain a tumor suppressor gene. Expression level of the 65 genes localized in this region was analyzed by real‐time quantitative RT‐PCR, comparing tumor to normal urothelium. Five genes exhibited a significantly reduced expression level: C9orf9, KIAA0625, ABL1, LAMC3 and KIAA1857‐netrin‐G2, which exhibited the most significant downregulation (p=0.0007). KIAA1857‐netrin‐G2 belongs to the netrins and might then be a tumor suppressor gene in bladder cancer, as netrin1 receptor DCC has been implicated in tumorigenesis. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


A novel magneto-rheological variable stiffness and damping torsional vibration absorber (MR-VSDTVB) is proposed, fabricated and tested. According to the test data, the control model of MR-VSDTVB is established. Meanwhile, the analysis of the multi-degree-of-freedom model of the powertrain system provides the key frequency and the rotating velocity of the torsional vibration control of the powertrain system and further determines the installation position and structural parameters of MR-VSDTVB. Besides, a human-simulated intelligent controller (HSIC) is developed and numerical simulation of the powertrain system with MR-VSDTVB is carried out. Ultimately, the results verify the effectiveness of the powertrain system with MR-VSDTVB and the semi-active HSIC algorithm on the torsional vibration control.


The aim of the present 24‐week multicentre randomized non‐inferiority trial was to compare the efficacy and safety of two insulin intensification strategies in uncontrolled type 2 diabetes despite optimized basal insulin therapy.


The latter decades of the 20th century have seen an increased attention to social issues such as aging, poverty, the environment, civil rights and women's issues. The role of government versus the individual and the community is being redefined. This broad-based 6-volume encyclopedia provides one of the most detailed examinations of today's social issues. By treating these frequently controversial and often contentious subjects in an objective fashion, this reference set can aid in understanding the impact of these issues. The 6-volume set is alphabetically arranged for easy access to a wide array of subjects from Abortion to Zoos and Wildlife Refuges. The shortest entries are brief 100-word biographies or definitions of significant people and terms. Signed entries on major subjects such as racism, sexuality and values contain as many as 3,500 words and are accompanied by suggested further readings. The set contains more than 1,500 articles varying in length from a single paragraph to several pages. It is organized around thirty-four core articles that include such broad topics as: Aging; Business and the Economy; Civil Rights; Crime; Death and Dying; Disability Issues; Education; the Environment; Family and Relationships; Health and Medicine; Immigration; Poverty; Religion and Spirituality; Reproductive Issues; Sexuality; and Work and Labour. Throughout the encyclopedia are nearly 1,000 photographs, maps, charts, graphs and other visual aids. The thirty-four core articles cover the full spectrum of social issues engaging the American public's attention today. From aging to health and medicine, from crime to poverty, from government and politics to business and the economy, the complete range of modern social problems is examined in detail. The editors of "Encyclopedia of Social Issues" have assembled a distinguished group of academics, researchers and scholars. Editor John K. Roth is the author of numerous works on philosophy and contemporary culture, including "American Dreams: Meditations on Life in the United States". He is the Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. All contributors are listed in Volume 1 and all longer essays are signed. A reader can locate topics of interest either through an alphabetical or a subject index. The longer essays include annotated "Suggested Reading" lists pointing to other especially relevant sources of information. The encyclopedia also includes a general bibliography; an annotated "Mediagraphy" that explores provocative books, films, artworks, exhibits and other cultural artifacts; and a timeline of important legislation and court cases. As we head into the 21st century, it is apparent that the wide variety of social issues currently confronting the American public will only increase in importance as well as in intensity. As government platforms are forged around these issues, and battle lines are drawn regarding their resolution, this objective treatment of the debates and controversies that are making headlines will be welcomed.


We report measurements of hydrogen desorption and its effect on the magnetism of pseudomorphic ultrathin films of Fe, Co, and Ni on Cu(001). Hydrogen desorption is measured with thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) and changes in the magnetic properties with saturation hydrogen coverage are measured with the surface magneto‐optic Kerr effect (SMOKE). TDS of hydrogen shows that Co films less than 2.5 monolayers thick do not completely cover the substrate, and that Co deposited at 300 K does not alloy with the Cu(001) substrate. By carefully controlling the thickness of the Ni films, we can tune the ferromagnetic Curie temperature to below the hydrogen desorption temperature. The thermal desorption of hydrogen from the paramagnetic Ni thin film surface is similar to that from bulk ferromagnetic Ni(001) indicating magnetism has no measurable effect on thermal desorption kinetics. Hydrogen is more weakly chemisorbed on ferromagnetic Co thin film surfaces and more strongly chemisorbed on ferromagnetic Fe thin...


Soil erosion is a complex process involving material detachment, transportation (mainly by water, occasionally by wind), and eventual deposition when energy wanes. Human activities like tillage and construction can exacerbate soil erosion. Various forms of water erosion, such as sheet erosion, pedestal erosion, rills, piping, and gullying, are recognized. This pioneering study aims to comprehensively model water erosion across Taiwan at a 20 m spatial resolution, a departure from previous research focusing on smaller scales. Using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model, it seeks to examine the significant issue of soil erosion in Taiwan beyond agricultural areas and enable cross-regional comparisons. A large number of stations and the most recent data were used to establish the distributions of the rainfall runoff erosivity factor and the soil erodibility factor. In addition, we used the Google Earth Engine (GEE) to calculate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and a locally derived empirical equation to compute the cover-management factor. The topographic factor was determined using the System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA). The support practice factor was analyzed using two different methods using datasets on World Urban Areas and Global Urban Boundaries from the literature. The analysis showed that despite the difference in the support practice factor, Taiwan's resulting average yearly soil erosion rates are very similar (200.7 Mg ha−1 year−1 and 207.4 Mg ha−1 year−1). The amounts were validated against five watersheds that were instrumented with erosion pins. With prediction ratios ranging from 1.04 to 1.82 across four of the five watersheds, our findings provide empirical support for the alignment of our model with soil erosion pin measurements, especially within the Tsengwen reservoir watershed. However, it is noteworthy that these results also exhibit a tendency towards conservative estimations in the remaining watersheds. Our calculated estimate, falling within the range of 201–207 Mg ha−1 year−1, plausibly represents the upper limit of mean soil erosion in Taiwan. This assertion is predicated on the deliberate omission of local soil conservation measures from our study, a decision necessitated by the absence of comprehensive and detailed island-wide data. Despite this limitation, our results instill confidence in the robustness of our methodological approach, thereby suggesting that our estimation of soil erosion in Taiwan provides a reliable approximation.


We consider normal waves in multi-layered dielectric rod and Goubau line that are basic types of open metal-dielectric waveguides. The dispersion equations are analyzed using the notion of generalized cylindrical polynomials and methods of calculating determinants of block-diagonal matrices. Sufficient conditions of the existence of symmetric waves are established.


A BPh2-chelated heterochrysene derivative has been synthesized and characterized. Single crystal analysis of its analogous BF2 complex shows that all carbon and nitrogen atoms are almost in a plane, while the boron atoms twist out of this plane with a torsion angle of 28.796° measured between plane OBN and plane C1–C4–C4′. The BPh2 and BF2 compounds emit strong yellow and green light in methylene chloride with high fluorescence quantum yields, respectively. Thermogravimetric analysis results indicate that the thermal stability of both compounds is high. In addition, a photoswitching device was fabricated based on a thin film of the BF2 complex spin-coated onto single-walled carbon nanotubes, which produces a steady and reproducible photocurrent response.


With William of Ockham and John Buridan, Walter Burley is often listed as one of the most significant logicians of the medieval period. Nevertheless, Burley's contributions to medieval logic have received notably less attention than those of either Ockham or Buridan. To help rectify this situation, the author here provides a comprehensive examination of Burley's account of consequences, first recounting Burley's enumeration, organization, and division of consequences, with particular attention to the shift from natural and accidental to formal and material consequence, and then locating Burley's contribution to the theory of consequences in the context of fourteenth-century work on the subject, detailing its relation to the earliest treatises on consequences, then to Ockham and Buridan.


Rate constants for /sup 4/He--H/sub 2/ and /sup 4/He--D/sub 2/ vibrational relaxation are computed using the phase modulated semiclassical sudden approximation and compared with experiments for 100 K


Method of fabricating a part with high mechanical properties, formed by drawing, from sheet steel, particularly hot-rolled sheet and coated with a metal or metal alloy of zinc or an alloy based on zinc ensures protecting the steel surface, wherein - the sheet is cut sheet to obtain a blank, - is carried out hot stamping, from the blank sheet to obtain the part, - it is performed before swaging, a compound of intermetallic alloy surface, ensuring corrosion protection against decarburisation of the steel, can ensure that intermetallic a lubricating function, being obtained it said compound by conversion of the coating in an intermetallic alloy by a rise in temperature to over 700 ° C, - are removed by deburring excess sheet necessary for the op eration drawing.


The most effective measure of suppress harmonic is to use the active electric power filter,(Active Power Filter,APF).Harmonic detecting,an important branch within suppress harmonic,is the foundation in solving other harmonic problems,it is the core technique and the key to APF.Most current Active Power Filters are three-phase,and in fact the damage of harmonic caused by no-line load in single-phase circuit is also very serious.The key technique of single-phase Active Power Filter is also real-time examine of loading harmonics and reactive current,aiming to get instruction signal of competing electric current.In order to meet the demand of detecting harmonic and reactive current of APF in single-phase circuits,a new detecting method for harmonics and reactive current in single-phase circuit is proposed,based on the orthogonality of sine.By respectively decomposing the active and reactive current heft in distorted current,the method computes harmonic and reactive currents through summator,multiplicator and integrator.It can solve the problem of real-time harmonics and reactive detecting of harmonic and reactive current successfully without affecting the real-time detecting result by means of increasing the low pass filter when electrified wire netting's voltage generates abnormal-alteration.The advantages of the detecting method are as the following: the whole operation electric circuit structure is simple,the cost is low;it needs only 4 multiplication machines,2 adders(or subtractors),1 PLL and 2 integrators;and the components used can be realized through emulation electric circuit without delay;the operation method is easy,the complicated matrix and anti-matrix transformation operation is avoided;It can detect not only all the current components in the distorted current,but also the sum of harmonic and reactive currents.Its correctness has been verified by theoretical analysis and simulation.


In the case of multi-roll material distributor,the segregation extents of material are different because the arrangement mode of distributor and the roll rotation direction are different.Taking six-roll distributor as example,the reasons of different segregation of material are analyzed thus the optimum application mode of multi-roll distributor is found out.


Suppose that G is a finite simple graph and w is a weight function which assigns to each vertex of G a nonnegative real number. Let C be a circle of length t. A t-circular coloring of (G, w) is a mapping Δ of the vertices of G to arcs of C such that Δ(x)∩Δ(y) = 0 if (x, y) ∈ E(G) and Δ(x) has length w(x). The circular-chromatic number of (G, w) is the least t for which there is a t-circular coloring of (G, w). This paper discusses basic properties of circular chromatic number of a weighted graph and relations between this parameter and other graph parameters. We are particularly interested in graphs G for which the circular-chromatic number of (G, w) is equal to the fractional clique weight of (G, w) for arbitrary weight function w. We call such graphs star-superperfect. We prove that odd cycles and their complements are star-superperfect. We then prove a theorem about the circular chromatic number of lexicographic product of graphs which provides a tool of constructing new star-superperfect graphs from old ones. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


We have investigated the effects of itraconazole (0·1–10 µm), an antimycotic which is often used prophylactically in primary and secondary immunodeficiency disorders, including chronic granulomatous disease, on mobilization of Ca2+ and restoration of Ca2+ homeostasis following activation of neutrophils with FMLP or PAF. Transmembrane fluxes of Ca2+, as well as cytosolic concentrations of the cation were measured using a combination of spectrofluorimetric and radiometric procedures. The abruptly occurring increases in cytosolic Ca2+ following activation of the cells with either FMLP (1 µm) or PAF (200 nm) were unaffected by itraconazole. However, the subsequent store‐operated influx of the cation was attenuated by itraconazole at concentrations of 0·25 µm and higher. The itraconazole‐mediated inhibition of uptake of Ca2+ was not associated with detectable alterations in the intracellular concentrations of cyclic AMP, ATP or inositol triphosphate, and appeared to be compatible with antagonism of store‐operated Ca2+ channels. Although a secondary property, this anti‐inflammatory activity of itraconazole, if operative in vivo, may be beneficial in conditions associated with dysregulation of neutrophil Ca2+ handling such as CGD.


often competing cultural systems, not in a single cultural system that combines tradition, culture and class. Thus, German ethnicity was a barrier to class solidarity because it offered alternate ways of solving workers' problems. Several of the essays might have been strengthened by systematic comparisons. What is the point of studying Germans as workers or as capitalists or as anything else unless they differed in significant ways from other culturally defined categories? How does one account for the fact that within the German worker class unity rarely prevailed? All of the essays, for example, ignore the fact that a substantial number of the German immigrant workers in Chicago were members of Catholic, Lutheran and other Protestant churches. No doubt few of them participated in the radical working class culture, but it would be useful to know more about the behaviors and attitudes of these German workers, too, many of whom were at best semiskilled. Despite these and other problems, this collection of essays enriches the literature treating German working class persons in America. The essays are generally well written and the book is handsome in design. Although it lacks an index, it will serve as a standard reference for information about immigrant labor history.


[{Mo(η-C5H5)(CO)(µ-SMe)}2] is alkylated in two steps by [Me3O]BF4 to give the stable cations [{Mo(η-C5H5)(CO)}2(µ-SMe)(µ-SMe2)]+ and [{Mo(η-C5H5)(CO)(µ-SMe2)}2]2+. In the latter one carbonyl ligand can be replaced by PMe3 or P(OMe)3. The X-ray structure of [(η-C5H5)(CO)Mo(µ-SMe2)2Mo(PMe3)(η-C5H5)][BF4]2 shows a slightly lengthened Mo–Mo double bond [2.693(1)A] combined with a short Mo–S bond (ca. 2.34 A).


This study aims to show the influence of Islamic finance on financial inclusion. It was done by a comparative study between countries with a good indicator of development of Islamic finance (North African countries) and those without (West African Economic and Monetary Union) over the period from 2011 to 2020. In this regard, a parametric Student's t-test is performed to carry out this comparison. This test compares two independent samples. The results confirm our hypothesis that Islamic finance contributes to financial inclusion. Furthermore, these results show the added value that this financial system can bring to these countries and open up the literature for future research in the same field. As Islamic finance is still in its infancy in these countries, the literature is sparse and the work that has been done on the subject is limited to theory. However, these shortcomings make this study original.


The first-year hand drawing course of architecture is not only to train skills,but also more importantly is to train students to observe and analyze things in depth thinking,innovative capability of synthesising variety knowledge,as well as good capacity of communication with their peers.It is a very important foundation courses,the teaching reform should seek after four directions of process,visualization,integrity and imagination.


SAVELEC (SAfe control of non cooperative Vehicles through ELECtromagnetic means) is a European research project that aims at stopping a vehicle by interfering with its Electronic Units (EUs), yet without any consequences on the passengers or any irreversible damage on the vehicle. Microwave pulse compression (MPC) systems are considered as a key element towards this goal, since they provide high-levels of generated power and a relatively wide spectrum that could efficiently affect vehicle's EUs.


Oocyte quality is one of the main factors for the success of in vitro fertilization protocols. Apoptosis is known to affect oocyte quality and may impair subsequent embryonic development and implantation. The aim of this study was to investigate the apoptosis rate of single and pooled cumulus cells of cumulus cell–oocyte complexes (COCs), as markers of oocyte quality, prior to intracytoplasmatic sperm injection (ICSI).We investigated the apoptosis rate by TUNEL assay (DNA fragmentation) and caspase-3 immunoassay of single and pooled cumulus cells of COCs. The results showed that DNA fragmentation in cumulus cells was remarkably lower in patients who achieved a pregnancy than in those who did not. Cumulus cell apoptosis rate could be a marker for the selection of the best oocytes to be fertilized by intracytoplasmatic sperm injection.


In this study, physicochemical and biological examinations of water samples were performed. These analyses included measuring the pH, EC, TDS, TSS, DO, BOD, and COD. Turbidity was also measured. Along with the primary cations and anions, heavy metals such as Fe, Mn, Zn, Cd, Cu, Co, Pb, Ni, Cr, As, Mo, Hg, Al, Li, Be, Se, V, U, and Sr are included. The study of hydrochemistry incorporates both the geochemistry of the surface water in Al-Kut city as well as the water from the Tigris River that is discharged into the main river. There are a total of sixteen surface water samples that have been collected. These samples have been dispersed as sixteen from the Tigris River portion of the study region separately, which discharged onto the main river. In order to evaluate the quality of the water for a variety of applications, physicochemical parameters of water samples are tested, and the results of those analyses are compared to both Iraqi and international standards. The findings support the hypothesis that the pH of the Tigris River ranges from neutral to slightly alkaline. It is characterized by having slightly brackish water and an abundance of Ca2+ and SO4 =, which are the predominant ions in the water. In the Tigris River, the cations are arranged in the following order: Ca2+ Na+> Mg2+>K+, and the anions are organized as follows: SO4 = > Cl- > HCO3 -. The Tigris River in the city of Al-Kut was contaminated with PO4 3- and NO3. The concentrations of the trace elements Al, As, Sr, Mn, Fe, Li, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Co, Pb, Zn, Mo, V, and Ba in the Tigris River are all within the acceptable limits, with the exception of Sr and b, which both exceed these limits. Trace elements appear to be concentrated in the Tigris River. According to BOD, the situation with the Tigris River is critical. The BOD and COD readings were visibly affected by the various forms of excreta that were not treated in the waste water. Because the water in the Tigris River is high in salinity (both TDS and EC) and nutrients, it cannot be used for drinking. However, the water may be used for irrigation, and its quality ranges from acceptable to outstanding.


It is encouraging to see Atyeo and Sanderson's article [1] demonstrating that alarm sounds intended to support a previous version of IEC 60601-1-8 (ISO 9703-2), developed almost 30 years ago [2], are easier to learn than the current IEC 60601-18 alarms. It is doubly encouraging to see that these results were obtained under very well controlled conditions, using a robust paradigm, and involving nurses, for whom of course the alarms will be relevant. During the design process in 1986, we were already aware of experimental evidence showing that it is easier to remember and distinguish between items the more different they are from one another, that the key feature of auditory stimuli that appears to cause confusion is the sharing of temporal patterns or rhythms between them (the case for all of the current IEC 60601-1-8 alarms), and that if some link between the alarm and its meaning could be engineered, this would make learning easier. We attempted to vary the tonal patterns and number of pulses of the individual alarms in order to maximise discriminability. In some cases, we also fitted words to the patterns, or used appropriate words to generate the pattern of the pulses themselves such as the 6-pulse 'cardiovascular'. Nearly thirty years later, we have learned a lot about the relationship between sound and human response, and advances in technology have made it possible to use virtually any sound as an alarm. Two of the key factors that appear to influence the learnability of an audible alarm is the degree to which it is a metaphor for its referent [3–5] and the degree of acoustic variability in that alarm set [3, 6]. The current IEC set unfortunately represents the 'perfect storm' of both a very low level of metaphorical link, and an extremely low level of acoustic variability within the set. These alarms differ only in terms of their precise tonal sequences. What is clear also is that tonal alarms are relatively difficult to learn in comparison with other possible types of alarm sound, so though the Patterson-Edworthy alarms perform better than the IEC 60601-1-8 alarms, there would be other potential designs that would be considerably more memorable, such as real-world sounds that bear some relationship to the function being portrayed (an example would be the sound of a boiling kettle to represent temperature). Whether such sounds would be acceptable is an interesting question that remains to be addressed. We are pleased to see that Atyeo and Sanderson suggest that we revisit the design of the IEC 60601-1-8 audible alarms, and fully concur with their view. Attempts to reduce the number of alarms and false alarm rates mean that it is now more important than ever to attend to the audible alarms themselves, and to use the best scientific evidence when designing the best sounds for the future.


ASSEMBLY LEVEL PROGRAMMING FOR SMALL COMPUTERS, Walter J. Weller For programmers using the minicomputer and microcomputer , this book provides clear and detailed explanations of operation methods usually acquired only after lengthy experience. Includes discus sion of real-time control, monitoring and data acquisition problems. 304 pp. $14.95 RADAR REFLECTIV I T Y OF LAND AND SEA, Maurice W. Long, Engineering Experi ment Station, Georgia In stitu te of Tech no logy Invaluable analysis of radar characteristics for use in navigation and terrain classification and for determining sea surface characteristics. Though em phasis is on microwave backscatter, dis cussions include forward scatter and longer wavelengths with their effects on radar performance. 400 pp. $22.95


Background: Adiponectin is an adipokine with beneficial effect on vascular function. Although adiponectin levels are decreased in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), it is unclear whether impaire...


Background: The nuclear factor κ-light-chain enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) signaling pathway is a critical regulator of many important adaptive and innate immune responses. The NF-κB transcription factor family consists of 5 structurally related core proteins, one of which is NFKB1. Mutations in the NFKB1 gene has been reported in patients with common variable immune deficiency (CVID) as well as with a large spectrum of clinical features including recurrent viral, bacterial, and fungal infections, autoimmunity, inflammation, and malignancy. Aim: We describe the clinical characteristics of a pediatric patient with a novel mutation in NFKB1. Methods: Patient informed consent was obtained in accordance with approved protocols from the Research Ethics Board at the Hospital for Sick Children. Gene panel testing was employed to identify the immune aberration. Results: Our patient, a previously well 18-month-old boy of Philippines descent, presented with multi-lineage cytopenias (thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, neutropenia), splenomegaly, and lymphadenopathy. He did not have prior history of recurrent infections. Immunological work-up showed normal numbers of T and B cells, normal quantitative immunoglobulins, and adequate vaccination titres. Gene panel testing revealed a novel heterozygous missense variant c.425T>C (p. Ile142Thr) in the NFKB1 gene. Due to persistent cytopenias unresponsive to steroids and IVIG, he was started on Sirolimus with improvement in symptoms. Conclusion: NFKB1 encodes for p105, which is processed to generate the active p50 transcription factor that can interact with different proteins to activate or inhibit downstream signaling. Our patient was found to have a missense mutation in the Rel homology domain (RHD) of p50, which has distinct functions including DNA binding, protein dimerization, and inhibitory protein binding. The clinical presentation described here broadens the scope of characteristics associated with heterozygous NFKB1 mutations. Statement of novelty: We report a novel heterozygous missense variant c.425T>C (p. Ile142Thr) in the NFKB1 gene in a pediatric patient with cytopenias, lymphadenopathy, and splenomegaly. To the best of our knowledge, this variant has not been previously reported.


ABSTRACT In this article I discuss how the experience of our particular landscapes influences the artistic productions that we offer to the world. From the perspective of the audience, looking at the stage, we like to recognize the diversity of different cultures. This is always a rich, healthy and honest exercise. The problem arises when the particularity of a given culture is hijacked by the state and used to support a nationalistic agenda. I will develop these ideas while using examples from Catalonia since the early twentieth century and from our participation in PQ15.


In the article the history and peculiarities of the medieval Russian military rhetoric are studied. The change in heroic inspiration of pre-Mongol period of military oration and its graduated to the religious and national inspiration during the struggle against Mongols-tartars invaders is substantiated. The fact Russian military orations were organized according to the definite military rhetoric rules is observed.


When researchers in Massachusetts used a computer-automated safety surveillance system of clinical outcomes registries for cardiovascular devices, they were able to identify a drug-releasing stent that had significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiac events than similar stents.


2014 Two years ago, on a sunny afternoon, the editors of this special issue met at the beautiful Plainsboro library (just a short distance from Princeton University) for one of our regular scientific gatherings. We discussed what would be most useful to help the bioanalytical community deal with the rapidly changing landscape of bioanalysis, an important and unique discipline supporting drug discovery and development pipelines. We felt that in the last 10 years or so, the technologies and regulations have been frequently discussed and shared at various symposia and meetings, and have also been extensively published in scientific and professional journals. On the other hand, and having observed many different bioanalytical operations in the last 20 years, the editors, with experience in managing bioanalytical laboratories in both pharmaceutical and contract research organizations (CROs), and with over 40 years bioanalytical experience combined, felt that it would be beneficial to share knowledge and stimulate a discussion on how to effectively provide bioanalytical support to drug development pipelines. With efforts of generations of bioanalytical scientists and the introduction of better and faster analytical instruments, such as LC-MS/MS, as well as advancements such as multiplexing made in ligand-binding assays, bioanalysis is playing an increasing important role for drug development programs. Managing bioanalytical laboratories is an art that requires fine balance of many areas. We hope this special issue will bring more discussion in sharing successful laboratory operation models. The landscape change of bioanalysis over the past 20 years has been quite significant (mergers, co-development of drugs, in-licensing, out-licensing, global filings, and so on), along with rapid advances in bioanalytical sciences (better understanding of LC-MS/MS, new products and new modalities, among others) and regulations (global regulations, harmonization efforts, enhanced regulation standards post recent inspections, and so on). Pharmaceutical companies are facing increasing challenges for enhancing productivity while reducing costs. With mergers and acquisitions, internal resizing is unavoidable. Pharmaceutical industry and technology are also advancing rapidly. Technologies and infrastructure used in bioanalysis 10 years ago may have become inadequate to address today's new applications, new challenges and new therapeutic targets. The role of bioanalysis has rapidly evolved. Bioanalytical groups have many tasks and need frequent interactions with groups such as metabolism, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacokinetics/dynamics, among others. Overall, bioanalytical strategy discussion is becoming a routine topic within each organization and this strategy is often modified along with organizational changes. In this special issue on bioanalytical laboratory structure and management, we are very pleased and honored to have industrial opinion leaders, from both pharmaceutical companies and CROs, candidly present their perspectives on various aspects of real world bioanalytical challenges, ranging from scientific issue resolutions, to laboratory management, global outsourcing strategy, global harmonization, and adding value to project teams. Preface to the 2014 special focus issue of Bioanalysis on bioanalytical laboratory structure and management


AbstrcatTo investigate aging-resistance and its mechanism,physiological characteristics and vigor changes of sweet seeds with different moisture contents were studied using artificial aging method.Germination rate,the activity of dehydrogenase activity and amylase and malonadehyde (MDA) content of sweet corn seeds with 39.5-104.0 g/kg of moisture content were studied.The results showed seeds with different moisture content were different in aging-resistance.Sweet corn seeds became more tolerant to aging condition when they were dried to 39.5 g/kg of moisture content.The isozymes of POD were different in sweet corn seeds with different moisture contents.


It took the novel a long time to develop as a genre in Yugoslav literature. While poetry, short story, and drama established themselves at one time or another in the nineteenth century, the novel did not become a full-fledge member of the literary family until the end of that century. Even then, it was a rather weak genre. Poetry and storytelling had their roots in folk literature; the novel had no tradition or sources to draw from. Between the two world wars it acquired greater respectability, mainly through the works of Miroslav Krleïa, Rastko Petrovic, and Milös Crnjanski, but it was not until after the last war that the novel attained full stature. Today it is considered the strongest and the most important genre in all Yugoslav literature.


This article addresses the reasons for the nonresolution of the Cyprus problem and for its legendary intractability. It starts by highlighting three distinct features of the Cyprus problem followed by a historical account, with emphasis on attempts at a settlement. The third and fourth parts examine the window of opportunity of 1999–2004 (Cyprus's European Union accession process and the Annan Plan) and the reasons for its spectacular failure, and the more recent negotiation (2008–10) that was initially promising but is now hanging from a thread. The last part focuses on nine reasons for the impasse that has made the Cyprus conflict impervious to reunification and resolution.


ABSTRACT This research explored how religious coping and religious identity are related to post-pandemic well-being among Chinese university students. The brief RCOPE, Multi-Religion Identity Measure, and post-pandemic well-being scale were administered to 1739 university students. Results showed that religious coping was significantly positively related to post-pandemic well-being, while religious identity was significantly negatively related to post-pandemic well-being beyond demographic variables. The research implicated that university administrators and teachers can use the above inventories to understand religious coping, religious identity, and post-pandemic well-being among university students more comprehensively. Second, professional religious personnel such as Dharma Masters, Preachers, and Imams could promote students' post-pandemic well-being by increasing their religiousness within legal places of worship. Third, the findings can help students understand the associations between religious coping, religious identity, and post-pandemic well-being, which may stimulate them to improve the latter by increasing their religious coping and religious identity. The significance and limitations of the present research are also discussed.


From the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine (D.W.B.), and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital; the Center for Applied Medical Information Systems, Partners HealthCare System (D.W.B.); and Harvard Medical School (D.W.B., A.A.G.) — all in Boston. Address reprint requests to Dr. Bates at the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115, or at dbates@ partners.org.


For a number of years the writer has hoped to present habit data derived from a study of free colonies of Cryptocerus texanus. The need for such a study is apparent if papers previously published in this journal are consulted. Most of the reactions which Dr. R. E. Gregg and I discussed in our 1954 publication (I) were those of captive colonies of texanus installed in Janet or Field nests. The limitations of this type of study are shown by the fact that, after more than a year, during which time some of the colonies had been tested with a wide range of food, it was not even suspected that texanus subsists on pollen. In 1963 (2) after other inconclusive feeding experiments, the writer abandoned the artificial nests and installed colonies in sealed terraria that permitted limited foraging. The responses of the foragers, which at first seemed to be entirely without point, were finally recognized as activities which resulted in the collection of pollen g'rains. While their was no reaso.n to suppose that this pollen gathering was an abnormal response, there was good reason to suspect that the process might show interesting new features when carried on by a free colony. Some of these are discussed in this paper. The period during which the free colonies were. observed extended from late October to the middle of April. It may be objected that the term "free colony" as. used here is a misnomer. The writer has yet to find an undisturbed nest of texanus so situated as to permit easy and continuous observation. The ants are not found in young trees, presumably because these are avoided by the beetles whose abandoned larval burrovs are used as nest passages by texanus. But an undisturbed 1est of texanus in a dead limb well up in the crown ofa large tree is very nearly inaccessible. And, even if one grants the unlikely possibility that the presence of the colony could be spotted from the ground, there would be no practical way to take advantage of the discovery. Since what was needed for the present study were nests at or below eye-level and since, it appears that these are not to be had, a compromise was inevitable. When


ITER is the next milestone towards the development of a controlled thermonuclear fusion reactor. Based on the tokamak concept, among the systems used to heat the plasma, the Neutral Beam Injector (NBI) plays a fundamental role. The particle energy levels up to 1 MeV, the heating power to deliver to the plasma up to 16.5 MW and the steady state condition up to 3600 s, have never been simultaneously achieved before in such kind of device. A Neutral Beam Test Facility has been realised in Padova (Italy) at Consorzio RFX in order to host two experiments (SPIDER and MITICA) and solve the scientific and technological gaps.
The research activity presented in this thesis work has been carried out in the framework of the development of the ITER full scale negative ion source (SPIDER) and of the full injector prototype for the ITER neutral beam (MITICA).
The thesis is focused on two main topics: development of thermo-hydraulic one-dimensional models with 3D sub-modelling, and customization of a finite element code for coupled 1D-3D thermo-hydraulic analyses.
Proper models of the MITICA beam source, neutraliser and residual ion dump cooling systems have been developed since they are required, in support of the design, in order to predict under steady state conditions the flow partitioning, the coolant temperatures and pressure drops in complex and delicate pipework networks; all these results are useful, as boundary conditions, for further detailed simulations oriented to the localised heat transfer coefficients. The hydraulic behaviour of the components have been simulated both with analytical models and detailed 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses. The optimised cooling circuits have been proposed and then implemented for the construction of the MITICA components.
The coupled 1D-3D thermo-hydraulic analyses have been dedicated to the SPIDER beam dump (already procured) made of CuCrZr hypervapotrons as high heat flux elements. Suitable correlations for localised heat transfer coefficients and pressure drop for forced-convection and sub-cooled surface boiling in hypervapotron geometry have been implemented in a new customised FE code to allow coupled thermo-hydraulic analyses in two-phase heat transfer. The customized code has been used to carry out detailed simulations of the local heat transfer mechanisms occurring along the cooling channels under different particle beam scenarios (in terms of divergence, halo fraction and horizontal misalignment). A synthesis of the simulation results has been undertaken by identifying in the model the locations of the thermocouples used during operations. The analysis results characterise the thermo-hydraulic behaviour of the beam dump to be used as a possible beam diagnostic in synergy with tomography and spectroscopy.


Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature. Both Adams and O'Keeffe were aware of manifold currents of mystical thought in the 1930s through personal contact with the theosophical teachers A. R. Orage and Jean Toomer. Treating landscape features as psychological and spiritual phenomena, they shared a lifelong quest for creative development and self‐discovery through the forms of nature.


Introduction The Cantril Scale (CS) is a simple visual scale which makes it possible to assess general life satisfaction. The result may depend on the health, living, and studying conditions, and quality of social relations. The objective of this study is to identify key factors influencing the CS score in Polish adolescents. Material and methods The survey comprised 1,423 parent-child pairs (54% girls; age range: 10–17; 67.3% urban inhabitants; 89.4% of parents were mothers). Linear and logistic models were estimated; the latter used alternative divisions into "satisfied" and "dissatisfied" with life. In addition to age and gender, child-reported KIDSCREEN-52 quality of life indexes were taken into account, along with some information provided by parents – child physical (CSHCN) and mental (SDQ) health, and family socio-economic conditions. Results According to the linear model, nine independent predictors, including six dimensions of KIDSCREEN-52, explain 47.2% of the variability of life satisfaction on the Cantril Scale. Self-perception was found to have a dominating influence (ΔR 2 = 0.301, p < 0.001). Important CS predictors also included Psychological Well-being (ΔR 2 = 0.088, p < 0.001) and Parent Relations (ΔR 2 = 0.041, p < 0.001). The impact of socioeconomic factors was more visible in boys and in older adolescents. According to logistic models, the key factors enhancing the chance of higher life satisfaction are Moods and Emotions (cut-off point CS > 5) and School Environment (CS > 8 points). None of the models indicated a relationship between the CS and physical health. Conclusions The Cantril Scale can be considered a useful measurement tool in a broad approach to psychosocial adolescent health.

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ABSTRACT Forestry service contractors' performance have been found related to how they organize their business. For benchmarking purposes, it is thus of vital importance to have a tool that can capture the relevant characteristics of a firm's business model and structure the information in a useful way. The Business Model Canvas (BMC) is a well-established tool that has frequently been used to describe business models in other industries than forestry. Thus, the aim of this paper was to identify which of the BMC components are the most relevant when comparing business models applied by forestry service contractors and provide a framework for characterizing their business models in a structured and comparable manner. The research process also identified which questions are critical to capturing the relevant content of the included business model components. The adapted framework was tested by interviewing forestry service market experts in Sweden, Finland, Scotland and Ireland about the business model characteristics in their respective countries. The result was a seven-component BMC framework with a number of key questions associated to each component. The paper concludes that the proposed canvas framework is a structured and practical approach for characterizing business models applied by forestry service contractors.


In this research, we present a lightweight approach to identify the impact of requirement changes at the specification level. We use specification information included in Use Case Maps to analyze the potential impact of requirement changes on a system. We propose dependency definitions and algorithms to identify Use Case Map scenario and component relationships. Also, techniques for ripple effect analysis at the scenario, component and element levels of abstraction are presented. Further, we present our tool that implements the proposed approaches showing the possibility of automation. A simple case study makes use of this tool to analyze an existing Use Case Map to show the information that is returned by our approach and its applicability in change impact analysis.