Since the mid-70s, there have been advances in the development of models to better understand how earthquakes affect buried pipelines. These natural events can cause damage due to two phenomena: seismic wave propagation and permanent ground deformation. The combined effect of both phenomena in pipeline damage estimation is a subject still complex to address, especially if the objective is to estimate damage due to future earthquakes. In this chapter, the damage assessment methods only consider the impact of seismic wave propagation. The effects of permanent ground deformation phenomena, like ground subsidence, landslides, and ground rupture, are omitted. The exceptional damage caused by the 1985 Michoacan earthquake in Mexico City has encouraged researchers to develop sophisticated tools to estimate ground motion in the Valley of Mexico from Pacific coastal earthquakes, including the important site effects largely observed in the city. These tools have helped to better understand how earthquakes affect buildings and other structures like pipeline systems. The most remarkably case of pipeline damage caused by the 1985 seismic event is the extensive damage suffered by the Mexico City Water System (MCWS) that left almost 3.5 million people without water, and caused water service disruptions over a period of two months. The 1985 MCWS damage scenario has been extensively analyzed for developing models to better understand how seismic wave propagation affects buried pipelines; some of those models are employed in the future damage prediction methods described in this manuscript. Fragility functions are typically the tools most used to assess seismic damage in buried pipelines. These functions relate pipeline damage with seismic intensity. Pipeline damage is generally expressed as a linear pipe repair density. Seismic intensity is usually quantified through a seismic parameter. There are many seismic parameters used as arguments of fragility functions; the most important of these are described in Section 2. Section 3 describes the most important fragility functions proposed until now, including the two employed in the seismic damage estimation for the MCWS presented in Section 4. Finally, Section 5 contains a summary of the most important conclusions of this work.


The invention relates to bi-component epoxy acid-resistant finishing paint, which is characterized by consisting of a component I and a component II, wherein the component I consists of the following components in parts by weight: 20-30 parts of epoxy resin, 10-20 parts of titanium pigment, 0.5-1.5 parts of carbon black, 0.5-1.5 parts of middle chrome, 10-20 parts of precipitated barium sulfate, 0.5-1.0 part of bentonite, 3-10 parts of dimethyl benzene, 1-5 parts of butanol, 5-10 parts of 100-micron glass flake and 5-10 parts of 200-micron glass flake; and the component II consists of 15-25 parts of a polyamide curing agent. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: adding the raw materials into a bowl in sequence, and dispersing at a high speed for 20 minutes; feeding into a grinder for grinding till the fineness is less than or equal to 30 microns; pumping into a thinning tank, adding glass flakes of different particle sizes, and stirring at the speed of 300-600 revolutions per minute for 30 minutes; and mixing dimethyl benzene with butanol, adding a mixture into the thinning tank, and stirring for 15 minutes. The bi-component enamel paint has the beneficial effect that: the paint is suitable for producing special chemicals such as polycrystalline silicon and fluorides and for factory workshops and equipment of petroleum chemical enterprises.


Soil-dwelling tenebrionid larvae have developed in three evolutionary lines and are pests in all faunal regions. Description of and keys to most of the important species are available. However, revisional studies, on both adult and larval characters, are needed in many groups. The basic number of non-sex chromosomes appears to be 18, but the number and type of sex chromosomes are variable. Host ranges of both larvae and adults are usually extensive but usually only include plants. Development rates are related mainly to temperature, with life-cycles of one, two or three years. Larval development periods are rather long, and adults are long-lived. The number of instars is high, often above ten and frequently variable within a species. Sampling is best carried out by direct counts and pitfall trapping. In the species studied, mating follows a regular pattern and pheromones are involved. Species show definite temperature, moisture and soil-type preferences and these influence both spatial and temporal distribution. Recorded parasitoids include Diptera (mainly tachinids), Hymenoptera, mites, bacteria and fungi. Birds, carabids and a variety of other vertebrates are the main predators, but abdominal secretions and postural mechanisms provide some defence. Cultural control was formerly widely practised but has given way to chemical control.


This paper considers the concept that the owner-managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (referred to as SMEs) develop networks during the life of their businesses and that these networks by necessity, change over time. Some evidence from an exploratory empirical study carried out simultaneously in Northern Ireland and Australia is presented to examine the principal issues. The main themes of the article are as follows.

The examination of owner-manager networks and how they are used.

How and why SME owner-managers use networking at different periods in enterprise development as a means of adding value to their management activities in attaining and sustaining strategic advantage.

The difficulties experienced by SME owner-managers in handing over their networks to other managers in delegating control or retiring from the enterprise.

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We present contemporary, historical, and literary evidence of civic learning and action in senior citizens' lives and suggest a framework for understanding seniors' various levels of involvement in civic activities. A seven-stage civic involvement continuum emerged from real interviews with living older adults and simulated interviews with fictional and historical older adults. The continuum began with the fulfillment of basic needs through volunteering and ended with becoming an advocate of a specific cause. Implications for adult education practice are suggested.


In this study,Mitsubishi SP700 resin with high performance of adsorption and desorption was selected from 7 different types of macroporous adsorption resins.In static state,the highest adsorption capacity was up to 131.0mg saponins/g resin;Langmuir isothermal adsorption equation was suitable for describing the adsorption process of saponins on SP700;90%(v/v) EtOH solution was used as desorption reagent and desorption efficiency was over 95%.In dynamic state,expanded bed was adopted for uploading,the average adsorption capacity of the SP700 resin was 15mg saponins/g resin;the highest recovery ratio(over 95%) was obtained by gradient elution with 50% and 90% EtOH;the content of saponins in eluent was 4 fold as that in sample solution.As media for purifying the total triterpenoid saponins in Zizyphi spinosi semen,SP700 resin had excellent performance and value for application.


Abstract Background The effects of small-scale disturbances, such as monsoon, are understudied in tropical regions. The storms associated with monsoon events not only modify the local macroalgal community structure, but also reveal the continuation of short-term recolonisation. Thus, this study aims to determine the variation in species, assemblage and cover of macroalgae during the monsoonal cycle from 2015 to 2016. This paper presents data on the spatial and temporal distribution of benthic macroalgae along the coastline of Johor, Malaysia. The information is presented as raw and partially-processed data, which summarises the cover and frequency of macroalgae at the respective study sites. This paper describes an important set of data that can be used further for in-situ experiments on the effects of environmental disturbances towards pioneer and climax species in tropical areas. New information This study provides a description of the east coast shore of Peninsular Malaysia, specifically in Johor coast in 2015-2016. The spatial and temporal distribution and abundance of a total of 41 taxa were assessed at four monsoon-exposed locations. These data provide a comprehensive baseline against disturbance and recolonisation of macroalgal community can be effectively and objectively evaluated.


In this paper, a unified virtual synchronous control (UViSynC) is proposed for multiterminal voltage-source converter (VSC)-high-voltage dc (HVDC) (MTDC) systems, which can: 1) realize grid synchronization of the VSC stations by mimicking the rotor behavior of synchronous generators with the dynamics of dc grid and dc capacitor considered and 2) ensure the stable operation of the MTDC system that interconnects very weak ac grids. Unlike conventional master–slave control strategies that assign one master VSC to control the dc voltage, the UViSynC is capable of involving all VSC stations in dc voltage regulation. In this manner, each VSC station plays an equal role to control the dc voltage, which is a better way for dc voltage regulation compared with conventional master–slave control strategies. Grid synchronization mechanism for VSC station with UViSynC is particularly analyzed. Small-signal model of the MTDC system is developed to perform stability analysis and investigate the dynamic performance when interconnecting very weak ac systems. Simulation analyses based on MATLAB/Simulink and hardware-in-the-loop platform are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the UViSynC using a four-terminal VSC-HVDC test system.


Background: A growing body of literature suggests that deficits in motor skill performance exist in the learning disabled population.10 Subjects: 30 learning disabled children, 30 normal children Method: Gross motor skills of the learning disabled and normal children were assessed using Motor Skills Inventory. A comparison of the gross motor skills was done between the two groups. Conclusion: The children with learning disability seem to have a delay in development and maturity of gross motor skills.


A survey of 76 wheat and 12 barley crops was conducted during 1999 and 2000 to determine the importance of root lesion (Pratylenchus spp.) and cereal cyst (Heterodera spp.) nematodes as potential risks to cereal crops in south-west Victoria, Australia, a rapidly expanding high rainfall cropping region. During the growing season, crops were sampled and inspected for symptoms of infestation by cereal cyst nematode. Root lesion nematodes were extracted from roots and quantified. The results showed that cereal cyst nematode was of minor importance to cereal crops in this region. Even though root lesion nematodes were either absent or present at low levels within the roots of most wheat and barley crops, they were present at potentially damaging levels in 16% of crops, and the data showed higher nematode densities following two consecutive crops than following 2 years of pasture. This suggests that with the increased intensification of cropping within the region, root lesion nematodes may become increasingly important and further studies are required to establish their importance. The root lesion nematodes Pratylenchus neglectus, P. thornei, P. crenatus and P. penetrans were all detected during this survey.


KEYWORDS Information and Communication Technology. Higher Education. Education for Sustainable Development. Teaching and Learning. Learning Outcomes ABSTRACT This study examined from a theoretical perspective the importance of ICTs in education, in the context of education for sustainable development (ESD). More specifically, it also focused on the system of analysing intended learning outcomes (ILOs) as a means of improving teaching and learning. The study suggested that with advanced technology, cognisance has not been taken of the demands placed on the Faculty members, who as academicians are increasingly involved in administrative tasks, rather than the core business of teaching and learning, community engagement and research. It concluded that the application of ICTs does not necessarily add value to the maxim of Education for Sustainable Development, or education in general. The focus has to be on technology that adds value to the education experience, and Faculty needs to guard strongly against administrative processes and procedures that threaten to overwhelm and detract from the value of teaching and learning.


The similarity hypothesis is that the seasonal pattern of deviation from mean CO2 mass in each cap is of the same shape, with an intercap phase difference of half a Martian year. We thereby decompose the annual pressure variation into separate components of CO2 exchange with each cap. Sublimation at one cap and condensation at the other tend to occur simultaneously. The annual fluctuation of CO2 mass in the two caps thus greatly exceeds previous estimates based on treating each cap in isolation. Inferred behavior is generally consistent with optical data on cap recession. The seasonal pattern of meridional mass flux of CO2 is estimated.


Against the backdrop of major reforms in education development in the 21st century, in the run-up to the adoption of China's new 14th Five-Year National Economic and Social Development Plan (the 14th Five-Year Plan), plans for education development in rural China have been announced again and again. However, it is no longer just a question of ensuring quality basic education, but also of developing other segments of education as an essential component of the country's continued economic growth. The authorities are now taking a more comprehensive approach to the development of the country's rural areas, so the most pressing issues in this regard are included in the agenda: ensuring the quality of education, training personnel in rural areas, creating conditions for improving the skills of those employed in agriculture, as well as issues related to the social features of regional development, creating favorable living, working and social security conditions for the elderly, whose numbers are increasing every year. Such a comprehensive approach to solving the problems of socio-economic development of rural regions will be one of the most important points in the implementation of the new five-year plan.


The 2.5mts telescope designed for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a mechancial structure that presents five degree- of-freedom. Azimuth, altitude and the instrument rotator axis are fitted with servo controls. The low frequency dynamic are dominated by the bearing friction. Several mathematical models have been presented in the literature to include its effect into the dynamic model of mechanical structures. The model employed in this paper includes consideration of the Striebeck effect, dynamic behavior at very low velocities and the pre-sliding at near zero- velocity. Result of the parameter estimation of the friction model of the three principle axes are presented as well as the behavior of the structure when different torque stimuli are applied. The mathematical model used to include the friction phenomena into the telescope dynamic model is simple. It does a good job of describing the friction over a wide range of velocities but particularly at or below sidereal rate. It is a straight forward process to determine the parameters and, in simulations, does not require large amounts of computer time.


Few studies have measured the effectiveness of sexual assault programming is in decreasing acceptance of rape myths. This study examined two research questions. First, would students in a class that included a sexual assault education component be more likely to demonstrate a change in degree of rape myth acceptance than students who were not in a class that included sexual assault education? Second, within the treatment group, would males demonstrate a larger change in rape myth acceptance than females? At the end of the course, the treatment group showed a significant decrease in rape myth acceptance; there was not a significant difference in rape myth acceptance by gender. The findings suggest that college students" support of rape myths can be significantly decreased through brief, inexpensive sexual assault education and prevention programming. Implications and future research regarding rape myth acceptance are discussed. EFFECTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT EDUCATION


The provision of openings in serviceable reinforced concrete beams may result in a substantial decline in the beam's capacity and integrity, indicating the necessity of opening strengthening. The present study investigates the experimental response of reinforced concrete T-beams with multiple web-strengthened openings disposed in shear span to static and impact loads. Fourteen RC T-beams were tested in two groups, each of seven beams. The first group was tested under static loading up to failure, while the second group was tested under repeated impact loading until the width of shear cracks reached 0.3 mm. The residual static strengths of the beams subjected to impact loading were then determined. The test variables considered were: number of web openings, the method used to strengthen the member at openings and the height of drop during impact tests. All beams were simply supported with load applied at mid – span. Static results indicated that T-beams with four and six un-strengthened web circular openings whose diameter is 48% of the web depth have strength capacities less than those without openings by 30% and 41%, respectively. However, strengthening of webs results in an increase in the strength capacities ranging between 27% and 92%, depending on the type of strengthening. Impact results indicated that the beam with four openings did not show a remarkable increase in the maximum mid-span deflection compared with the solid beam, while that with six openings showed an increase in the maximum mid-span deflections by about 75% greater than the maximum mid-span deflection of the solid beam. Strengthening of specimens could overcome the increase in deflections.


Introduction, Yong-Jin Cho Instrumental Techniques for Measurement of Textural and Rheological Properties of Foods, Osvaldo H. Campanella Sensory Evaluation Using Artificial Intelligence, Seung Ju Lee Application of Computer Vision Systems for Objective Assessment of Food Qualities, Patrick Jackman and Da-Wen Sun NIR Spectroscopy for Chemical Composition and Internal Quality in Foods, Sukwon Kang Quality Measurements Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Michael J. McCarthy, Sandra P. Garcia, Seongmin Kim, and Rebecca R. Milczarek Ultrasound Systems for Food Quality Evaluation, Ki-Bok Kim and Byoung-Kwan Cho Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging Technique for Food Quality and Safety Inspection, Moon S. Kim, Kuanglin Chao, Diane E. Chan, Chun-Chieh Yang, Alan M. Lefcourt, and Stephen R. Delwiche Electronic Nose for Detection of Food Flavor and Volatile Components, Bongsoo Noh Biosensors for Evaluating Food Quality and Safety, Namsoo Kim and Yong-Jin Cho Nanotechnology in Food Quality and Safety Evaluation Systems, Sanghoon Ko, Jae-Ho Kim, Bosoon Park, and Yong-Jin Cho Index


Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome was sequenced in Levanidov's charr Salvelinus levanidovi. The genome sequences are 16,624 bp, and the gene arrangement, composition, and size are similar to the charr genomes. The level of divergence between S. levanidovi and charr belonging to the genus Salvelinus was in the range from 4.80% to 3.65%. Molecular phylogeny provides new evidence that S. levanidovi is closely related to the common ancestor of the genus Salvelinus. The present study confirms that S. fontinalis, S. levanidovi, S. leucomaensis, and S. namaycus form a basal group of taxa, each of them belongs to an independent evolutionary line.


DUMAS is a 1.2M ECU project with 10 partners from nine countries. It started in January 1997 and is scheduled to end in December 1999. The project brings together European experience and expertise on Urban Safety Management (USM), including practical examples from 10 towns. It considers the value of a town-wide strategic approach when considering safety and its integration into other urban strategies. The project falls into two parts, the Research Phase and the Town Studies. The initial task within the Research Phase was to produce a comprehensive summary of the current knowledge on Urban Safety Management. The project then considered four specific topics - Speed, Accident Data, Vulnerable Road Users and Traffic Management. The Research Phase has shown that while the concepts of USM are widely known and understood, their implementation has been limited. The DUMAS vision is that safety should be integrated into urban management. Virtually all urban activities have safety implications and these need to be understood. The importance of the interactions need to be made clearer to politicians and town managers, so that safety can be considered during the planning, and not just as an afterthought. The Research Phase has enabled us to develop frameworks that will give guidance to town planners and managers. These will provide a checklist of relevant issues which need to be addressed as part of the programme, with guidance as to how the processes need to be managed. For the covering abstract see IRRD E101938.


"Nothing endures but change." ~Diogenes Laertius (3rd century, AD) In spite of an inherent desire for stability in our lives and in our professions, the only thing about which we can be absolutely certain as agricultural educators is that our profession will change. Those who do not embrace change and move with it are destined to be overrun by it. I wish that I knew what the future for our profession will be like. While predicting the future is not really possible, it is possible to examine some parts of our profession's history, both recent and more distant, that are likely to affect our future, as well as some of the conditions in which agricultural education operates today and consider how those conditions might affect our future. Where did we come from? The national system of vocational education (career and technical education as we know it today) was established by the SmithHughesActof 1917 after a heated and rancorous debate between two opposing factions of educational reformers. One group, led by John Dewey, saw vocational education as a means of humanizing education and making it relevant to students' lives and as a means of helping students become "industrially intelligent." Essentially they saw a focus on occupations as general education and as a means of improving instruction in the traditional academics. The other group was led by David Snedden and Charles Presser and sought to position vocational education as a means of preparing skilled workers for the burgeoning American industrial and farming economies (Wirth, 1972). To the Dewey faction, vocational education was a means of strengthening schooling for general learning, while the Snedden and Presser faction saw it as a means of training workers for social efficiency and economic development. Eventually, the social efficiency faction won the debate and vocational education, including vocational agriculture, were codified in the Smith Hughes Act as a program intended to train entry level workers to meet the needs of America's factories, trades and farms. What many people don't realize is that agricultural education in America actually predates the Smith Hughes Act by over two centuries, and in fact it predates the nation itself. Informal agricultural education goes back to the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s when Native Americans taught the colonists how to grow indigenous crops (Moore, 1988). Some of the earliest formal agricultural education in this country began in the colony of Georgia as early as 1732, when Englishman, James Edward Oglethorpe, arranged for agricultural instruction in an attempt to bring silk and wine production to the New World (Wheeler, 1948). By 1915, fully two years before the passage of the Smith Hughes Act of 1917, 90,708 students were enrolled in agriculture courses in 4,666 US schools (Moore, 1988). Nevertheless, it is critical to remember that agricultural education as a formal program and as we know it today became a part of the career and technical (vocational) education family in 1917 (Wirth, 1972) and remains so today. Where are we today? It has taken almost 90 years, but under the four pieces of Perkins legislation and the much maligned No Child Left Behind act, career and technical education is now becoming more like the Dewey group's vision and less like Snedden/Prosser's job training program. To those of us who have witnessed these changes firsthand, this is not a trivial matter. As late as the 1960s, at the end of each school year the single most important requirement for every vocational agriculture teacher in Georgia (where I taught) was the dreaded annual report. In that report we were required to provide the number of graduates from our programs and indicate their job placement. "Placement in field" as it was called then was the percentage of our graduates from the previous year working in a job for which the vocational agriculture classes had prepared them. …


Abstract A highly stereoselective annulation reaction of 2-cyano-2-cycloalkenones with the Nazarov reagent catalyzed by 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU), leading to densely functionalized bicyclic systems, is developed.


Along with the increase of people's dependence on network,the security and secrecy work of network information has been given more and more attention.This paper probes into the current situation and challenges faced by the security and secrecy work of network information,analyzes some problems existing in security and secrecy work of network information and their reasons,and puts forward some measures for perfecting and guaranteeing the security and secrecy work of network information.


Contemporary technologies, knowledge, and suitable equipment for forest operations are both important and necessary. In this regard the private forest owners should not be left out. They conduct various works in their forests by applying their own machines and equipment and often insufficient knowledge. It must be pointed out that their technology, equipment, knowledge, and safety are on considerably lower level than it is the case with professional forest workers. This fact should be especially regarded in the countries with extremely prevalent share of private ownership of forests. This article deals with the typical situation of prevailing ownership structure in Slovenia on the selected case. This situation is definitely not satisfactory. What are the solutions? Definitely the answers point to the education and cooperation of forest owners: the lectures in the field of harvesting and other forest works as well as integration of forest owners clearly lead to better information, knowledge, and equipment for forest operations. In this article the example of personal protective equipment shows the benefits of such cooperation and integration. The additional example shows that the better qualification causes easier, more efficient, and especially safer work.


Physiological characterization of a mouse model of cachexia in colorectal 1 liver metastases 2 3 Kate T. Murphy, Adam Struk, Cathy Malcontenti-Wilson, Christopher Christophi and 4 Gordon S. Lynch 5 6 Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of 7 Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 8 Liver and Pancreas Research Group, Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, 9 Austin Health, Heidelberg 3084, Australia 10 †Recently deceased 11 12 Running Head: Cachexia in colorectal liver metastases 13 14 Author Contributions: K.T.M. conceived and designed the study, performed passage 15 injections, biochemical and molecular biological assays, analyzed the data and prepared and 16 revised the manuscript. A.S. performed passage injections, animal monitoring, dissections, 17 grip strength and rotarod analyses, and immunohistochemistry. C.M.W. performed passage 18 injections and intrasplenic injections. C.C. and G.S.L. participated in the design and 19 coordination of the study and helped draft and revise the manuscript. All authors read and 20 approved the final manuscript. 21 22 Correspondence to: Kate T. Murphy, Ph.D. 23 Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory 24 Department of Physiology 25 The University of Melbourne 26 Victoria 3010 Australia 27 Ph: +61 3 8344 0065 28 Fax: +61 3 8344 5818 29 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com 30 31 Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (March 13, 2013). doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00057.2013


The need to estimate the age of living individuals becomes more frequent, because of the increasing number of immigrants (illegal or otherwise) without acceptable identification documents and with missing or uncertain birth dates. In the recent years, evaluation of cervical vertebrae has been increasingly used to determine skeletal maturation. Aim:The aim of this study was to establish two new formulae for objectively evaluatingskeletal maturation of cervical vertebrae inmale and female Egyptianchildren usinglateral cephalometric radiographs. Methods: The cases were selected from patients attending the clinics of the Faculty of Dental Medicine for girls, Al Azhar University, in Cairo. They were assessed into two groups. The first groupincluded 100 children; 50 males (aging from 8.45 to 15.75 years oldwith a mean age of12.41years) and 50 females (aging from 8.2 to 15.5 years oldwith a mean age of 11.9 years). The cervical vertebral bodies of C3 and C4were traced and measured.Regression formulae were developed to determinecervical vertebral bone age. The second group of lateral cephalometric and hand-wrist radiographs of 50 children; 25 males (aging from 8.25 to 15.85 years old with a mean age of 11.7 years) and 25 females (aging from 8.5 to 15.65 years old with a mean age of 12.12years) was used to verify the reliabilityof these developed regression formulae.Results:The results indicated that there was a statistical significant positive correlation between estimated cervical vertebral bone age (CVBA) and chronological age (r = 0.976 in males and 0.931 in females). Also there was a statistical significant positive correlation between estimated cervical vertebral bone age (CVBA) and estimated hand bone age (HBA) (r = 0.960 in males and 0.942 in females). Conclusion: These results suggest that cervical vertebral bone age reflects skeletal maturity because it approximates hand bone age, which is considered to be the most reliable method for evaluating skeletal maturation. Using cervical vertebral bone age may be helpful to estimate age in a detailed and objective manner on cephalometric radiographsforEgyptian children.


Abstract : An observational study of tropical cyclone spin-up is performed using dropsondes and satellite imagery from Supertyphoon Jangmi and Hurricane Georges. Additionally, ELDORA data are analyzed in Tropical Storm Jangmi. The dropsonde analysis shows that the peak tangential wind occurs persistently within the boundary layer and suggests that significant supergradient winds are present there. However, as a result of data limitations arising from asymmetries and irregular placement of dropsondes in both time and space, a strongly conclusive statement about the presence of supergradient winds in Tropical Storm Jangmi is not possible. A dense deployment of dropsondes across the RMW is recommended to resolve the pressure gradient with sufficient accuracy to validate that supergradient winds exist at the tropical storm stage. An examination of ELDORA data in Tropical Storm Jangmi indicates that multiple rotating updrafts are present near the eye underneath cold cloud tops of less than or equal to 65 deg C. Analysis of the infrared satellite imagery from both storms suggests that rotating updrafts are omnipresent before and during rapid intensification. The findings of this study support a new theoretical model positing that spin-up of the maximum winds occurs within the boundary layer and rotating deep convective cells are predominant during tropical cyclone intensification.


Background: Maternal mortality ratios (MMR) are still unacceptably high in many lowand middleincome countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Background Data for the causes of maternal deaths are needed to inform policies to improve maternal healthcare and reduce maternal mortality. Objective: This study sought to determine the magnitude and trend in maternal mortality and the causes at a tertiary hospital over a seven-year study period. Methodology: This was a retrospective review of maternal mortality and causes from 2012 to 2018. Data on number of maternal deaths, deliveries and causes of death were retrieved from the departmental annual reports and hospital records and entered into Microsoft Excel 2013. Data were presented as line graphs, charts and frequency tables. Results: One hundred and ten (110) maternal deaths occurred out of 17,080 total births during the study period giving an overall MMR of 644. The MMR increased progressively from 580 in 2012 to 785 in 2018 with a sharp rise to the highest and subsequent decline to the lowest, values at the Original Research Article Awoyesuku et al.; JAMMR, 32(1): 103-109, 2020; Article no.JAMMR.54617 104 midpoint. The commonest causes of maternal deaths were Pre-eclampsia (PET) and Eclampsia 44(40%), Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) 25(22.7%) and Ruptured Uterus 13(11.8%). Conclusion: The maternal mortality ratio is high and the trend is worsening. The leading causes of maternal deaths were PET/Eclampsia and Postpartum haemorrhage accounting for about twothirds of all deaths. Efforts must be geared towards improvements in the management of these cases, if this trend is to be reversed.


The main object was to perform simulations using a realistic model of a truck and trailer passing over a flexible bridge structure. The bridge structure was simplified to a flat surface modeled using shell finite elements. Tire normal, lateral and longitudinal forces were applied to the bridge. Three driving cases were considered: straight forward driving with and without braking and a lane change maneuver. In the braking case control logic was used to distribute the braking torques to the wheel axles. A general multibody dynamics program, DADS, and its tire subroutines were interfaced with FEM routines in order to create a vehicle/structure interaction computer program. Different time stepping algorithms from the multibody dynamics and FEM disciplines were integrated into a " common " time integration procedure. The program ANSYS was used for postprocessing of bridge stresses.


The critical thermopower in the vicinity of Tc of single crystal Gd along the a‐ and c‐axes shows different temperature dependence. From the a‐axis thermopower the contribution to the specific heat of ferromagnetic ordering from charge carriers is estimated. The transport specific heat is about 1/14th of the bulk specific heat, showing that the transport specific heat arises from the itinerant electrons with little or no contribution from the localized 4f electrons.


when a Cu-Zn-Al single crystal is stressed at a temperature above Af, the pseudoelastic effect takes place. The phase transformation 8 M which appears on loading/unloading shows irreversible effects which become more evi dent after a certain number of cycles (1 2). In each pseudoelastic cycle de fects are created (dislocations, point defects); dislocations are accumulated in bands parallel to the habit plane of the transformation and to the basal plane of the formed martensite (3). These defects alter the following transfor mation cycles. In this work the evolution of deformation curves during cycling is analyzed for Cu-Zn-Al single crystals of e/a = 1.48. Calorimetric measurements with simultaneous detection of acoustic emission are performed before and after mechanical cycling. Changes in thermal hysteresis and in thermodynamics of the transformation become noticeable.


Sumary The growth of the international market of the horticultural products is made possible by the globalization of an intensive mode of production in synthetic products which mobilizes salaried workers. In the Antilles changes in technological trajectories enables the consideration of other modes of production. This article brings to light how the technical innovation allowing a decrease in the necessity to use pesticides is dependent on an adaptation of the coordination in the mobilization of the salaried work. For this purpose we compare two systems of the use of manual labour between Martinique and Guadeloupe by widening on certain aspects in the transnational. The comparison is based on the characterization of these systems in which manual labour is used and the indicators of performance of the sectors of banana as well as on the adaptation of the technical changes.


A ring binder includes a substantially rigid curved upper plate supporting a pair of hinged leaves. A plurality of ring members are secured to the hinged leaves for engaging corresponding holes in sheets of material retained by the ring binder. An actuating lever is located at each end of the curved upper plate for actuating the hinged leaves to open and close the ring members. Each actuating lever includes a tab having a cushion member formed thereon, for example by molding. The tab has an aperture therein, and cushion material enters the aperture during molding to secure the cushion member onto the tab. The cushion member is engaged by the fingers of a user to pivot the actuating lever in order to move the ring members between the open position and the closed position. The cushion member is a soft pad of material such as plastic. The cushion member provides improved tactile characteristics to the actuating lever, making the actuating lever comfortable to use. The cushion member also minimizes the feedback of undesirable shock forces produced by the snap action of the rings when opening and closing the rings.


It is known that some key elements of modern consumer credit were originally developed in department stores. However, almost no attention has been given to new developments in this area. This paper studies the case of retail credit in Chile. Special attention is given to a particular technique known as "to sow" (or issuing small loans to risky consumers that are made to grow by carefully following and classifying purchase and debt behaviour), whose success has been enabled by the development of a wide quantitative datascape. Following the practice of "sowing" helps to understand not only how consumer credit is mediated by market devices, but how it practically works as a device of marketing on its own.


The magneto-impedance (MI) effect was observed in a sputtered FeCoB thin film of 1.7 μm thickness, 1 mm length, and 10 μm width when a very sharp pulse current was applied to the film. A CMOS multivibrator was used to obtain a sharp pulse. The pulse width at half the magnitude of the pulse applied to the film was around 2.5 ns, voltage change ratios of - 1 mV/Oe and 120 mV/Oe were obtained in films annealed in transverse dc fields of 60-70 Oe and 100 Oe, respectively. The conditions for generation of the skin effect were analyzed with respect to the pulse shape, pulse frequency, and critical sinusoidal wave frequency.


A brave, moving and unflinchingly honest YA novel about a young girl's life in Mozambique, where poverty, exploitation, HIV/AIDS and the legacy of war are constant problems. This book continues the story of Sofia, from Secrets in the Fire, who lost her legs after a landmine accident.


Embedded and fan-out wafer level packaging (FO-WLP) technologies have been developed across the industry over the past 15 years and have been in high volume manufacturing for nearly a decade. This book covers the advances that have been made in this new packaging technology and discusses the many benefits it provides to the electronic packaging industry and supply chain. It provides a compact overview of the major types of technologies offered in this field, on what is available, how it is processed, what is driving its development, and the pros and cons.


A crude extract of Crypthecodinium cohnii and its main component, dimethyl-beta-propiothetin, significantly and dose-dependently protected the gastric mucosa against HCl.ethanol-induced lesions in rats. Since indomethacin pretreatment reduced the protective effect to some extent, endogenous prostaglandins might be partly involved in the mechanism of action. Both the crude extract and dimethyl-beta-propiothetin significantly increased gastric secretion.


Real world engineer problems sometimes involve high dimensional spaces. It makes them hard to compute. A common approach to tackle such challenges is to apply swarm based or evolutionary algorithms. Fish School Search (FSS) is one of such techniques that excels on difficult search problems. As FSS is a recent technique and only output results were investigated so far. This paper analyzes the influence of the FSS operators on the performance of the algorithm in six benchmark functions. We assessed the influence of each swimming operator separately. We found that the volitive mechanism is the operator that affords most of the exploration abilities during the search process. The carried out assessment has also shown that, in average, the best results are obtained only when all the FSS operators are actived. It means that all operators are fairly relevant and complementary. Moreover, we compared FSS results with some PSO variations and showed that FSS outperformed these PSO algorithms in some cases.


Food security, as defined by the United Nations'
Committee on World Food Security, is the condition in
which all people, at all times, have physical, social and
economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food
that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for
an active and healthy life. Over the coming decades, a
changing climate, growing global population, increasing
incomes, changes in food choices, rising food prices, and
environmental stressors, such as increased water scarcity
and land degradation, will have significant yet uncertain
impacts on food security. There are different aspects
having direct links to meeting food security at the global level, including globalization of markets...


ABSTRACT This paper explores sound at the intersection between urban environments and conflict, specifically extracted from a particular case of aerial bombardment that occurred during the 2006 war on Lebanon. To formulate an argument on the long-lasting and traumatic sonic repercussions during military operations; sound studies and architectural environments would coalesce to unearth the unseen, yet extremely sensed assaults during this war. Here, I look at Reverberations as the product of both sound and the built surrounding, where it operates as a method to read the subtle, extended yet affective impacts of contemporary military conflict. I therefore argue that the initial impact's sound is rather bypassed, and the auditory focus shifted on its tail as a sonic phenomenon that is amplified and channelled by the urban morphology. This research relies on multiple analytical, theoretical, and practical resources spanning from spectrograms to sonic mapping. Those means serve to illustrate the behaviour of sound during conflict in a compressed urban environment. Paired with its cognitive and visceral responses, this method offers greater accounts on the victims that weren't directly targeted by aerial assaults.


Abstract. 1. The larvae of four swallowtail butterfly species, Papilio polyxenes Fabr. in the Papilionini, Parides bunichus (Hübner) and Battus polydamas (L.) in the Troidini, and Eurytides marcellus (Cramer) in the Graphiini, were grown on host leaves to which test compounds had been added.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational leadership in a traditional, non-western country where citizens' happiness drives the practices of the public administration managers.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) to examine leadership in a traditional, non-western country where organizational change dominates the public sector. Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods is used.

Findings

Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods reveals that the way managers respond to organizational change leads to utilizing an adaptive leadership style; a mixture of dynamic and rigid practices. Organizational change creates peculiar circumstances that make it thus imperative for managers to mix transformational and transactional practices in order to not only survive, but also excel. While some of the findings conform to those of previous studies, they indicate that the MLQ does not seem to adequately reflect the impact of organizational change on leadership. The study also provides evidence that adaptive leadership is driven by cultural and organizational necessities.

Research limitations/implications

The limitations of the study can be avoided in future research. In particular, the number of interviews has limited the ability to better reflect all dimensions of the adaptive leadership style. Due to time and resource availability, the inability to focus more on the individual level of the cultural factor and its impact on leadership style may have limited the scope of the analysis. Finally, the present study did not examine the cultural variations within the United Arab Emirates universal culture especially in relationship with region, age group, and gender of the managers.

Originality/value

The paper examines leadership in the Middle East context where rare studies in leadership have been conducted. The study also examines the usability of MLQ in Arab context where organizational change persists.


A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements leading to the award of the Degree of Master of Arts in History in the Department of History, Archaeology and Organisation Studies of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts, Makerere University.


Aims : To define the causes and associations of mucosal iron deposition in upper gastrointestinal biopsy specimens and to describe the morphological features of iron‐related injury.


The cold and steam bending properties of six selected lesser-used timber species of Ghana have been studied, with a 'uiew to providing technical data for the furniture and glulam industries. Differences between timber species and thicknesses of bending lamella have been found to be statistically significant in cold bending of the six species (P=O.05). Denya (Cylicodiscus gabunensis) has been found to have superior cold bending qualities for all thicknesses studied, followed by Essia (Petersianthus macrocarpus), Ceiba (Ceiba pentandra), Awiemfosamina (Albizia ferruginea) and Kyenkyen (Antiaris toxicaria) in order of decreasing performance. Although in 9 mm thickness, Celtis (Celtis mildbraedii) is next to Denya, its peJjormance in 12 and 25 mJ1lthickness is very low. Thickness factors derived indicate that thickness effect is severe in all the species, with Celtis and Ceiba showing the most severe effects. High densihj species also seem superior in cold bending properties to low density species. For steam bending, however, Celtis has best qualities, followed by Kyenkyen, Awiemfosamina, Denya, Essia and Ceiba in decreasing order. Whereas Ceiba's weakness under steam bending may be attributed to its brittle wood fibres and high porosity, Celtis' superior qualihj may be due to its fine texture, low porosity and straight grains. Density does not seem to influence steam bending qualities of the six species. Apart from Kyenkyen and Awiemfosamina, all the species studied may be recommended for cold bending, and only Celtis for steam bending in the furniture and glulam industries.


The present study examines how the desirable ideals of femininity for the ethno-nationalist project are framed in populist radical right media in contemporary Romania. The study examines the editorials of populist radical right party leader (Corneliu Vadim Tudor) published at election times between 2000 and 2012 in the weekly party publication. It explores the inventory of media frames, which provide the panopticon of femininity performances coming forth in Tudor's editorials, and the disciplining endeavours these depictions enable. In the first step, the femininity performance of Romanian women seen as nationalist ideal of submission and childbearing is juxtaposed with the portrayal of women who forsake such expectations, and that of Roma women described as promiscuous and overly fertile. In the second step, the roles afforded to women in the public arena are evidenced, either as selfless heroines or their antithetic depiction, the power-hungry women.


THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION arose from clinical experiences with hormonal therapy of acromegaly carried out in the last five years at this Institute (Hutton & Reiss 1942). Several results of this treatment could not be explained, notably the very quick reaction several patients showed after the onset of treatment with oestrone and testosterone. Particularly noticeable in this connection was a patient who developed acute acromegaly after male climacteric changes had begun. His predominant pathological symptoms were—apart from the usual acromegalic symptoms—a very marked growth of the costal cartilages (the patient could not close his coat) and the growth of the thyroid cartilage, causing almost complete aphonia. After having daily injections of 50 mg. testosterone propionate for 10 days the patient's speech was almost completely normal, and the cartilaginous overgrowth of the ribs not only stopped, but regressed sufficiently to enable the patient to. again button his coat. Such rapid regression could not pos...


"If a horse in its elation should say 'I am beautiful' it would be bearable" [Epictetus 289]. Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher, doesn't go on to say that if a human were to utter the same sentiment, it would be unbearable: only that the horse's owner shouldn't try to take credit himself for the gratuitous beauty of his animal, or try to bask in those equine good looks which, if owned by him, aren't his. The horse, though, in its jubilation can get away with boasting. There's a noticeable awkwardness in any mention of human physical beauty; its embarrassment can include a fear of lapsing into that vanity deplored alike by the Old Testament and by some feminisms. This hesitation isn't simply the wish to steer clear of laying arrogant claims to distinction; for someone can say, not boastfully but in the spirit of mentioning a contingent fact, "I used to be a strong swimmer," without the same sheepishness. But there does seem to be something especially stubborn, unmentionable, about beauty's independence. The fact that, as a lost thing, it was never owned isn't enough to characterize faded beauty's discursive peculiarities. For the same holds true, for instance, of youth. It's extremely difficult to feel yourself to be young at the actual time when you are. Certainly I was never a child. These pages skip all but one small aspect of this matter of who or what can claim beauty. They'll look only at an extremely common sentence of regret for lost physical beauty: at the strange bending of time implicit in saying inwardly, "Yes, I suppose in the past I must have been beautiful, as people used to say, although at the time I never saw it." To meditate on this very ordinary thought is by no means to despise it; and it would be foolish to tut over such retrospective self-shaping. This is how the language of selfcharacterization often operates backwards.' It would be vacuous to condemn our attempts at a little distraction from the approach of death with sentences like "After all, I suppose I must have been something of a beauty when I was young," or at least, where you know you can't make such a claim, the ever-reliable lament "Compared to what I am now, they should have seen me then!" (Indeed such slipping into the retrospective-fantastic mood may be positively benign in another content: for instance, a compensating refusal to treat anyone now as harshly as I was myself treated then. And there could be far riskier contents to a sentence of retrospective "realization" than mere vanity, such as revelation and enlightenment: "now I see that all along I was a favored son of God, though formerly I was blind to this shining truth.") Meanwhile timor mortis is ever at hand, and will only intensify:


Two-phase semiconducting eutectics are potential device materials. Of these, the SnSe-SnSe/sub 2/ eutectic was chosen for studies in detail because it consists of multi p/n layers of SnSe and SnSe/sub 2/ semiconductors. Since plasma frequency has not been detected in its infrared reflectance spectrum up to 40 micrometers of wavelength, it suggests that the SnSe-SnSe/sub 2/ eutectic is a nondegenerate semiconductor. As-grown SnSe/sub 2/ single crystals have hexagonal crystallographic structure and show n-type conductivity. Polycrystalline SnSe and SnSe/sub 2/ films have been successfully prepared in vacuum using a close-space-vapor transport technique.


Nonlocal interactions play a prominent role in the optics of inhomogeneous systems. Classical discrete dipole descriptions take into account only electro-magnetic nonlocality. This is insufficient to describe correctly the inhomogeneous optical response (e.g., reflectance anisotropy) for covalently bonded systems like semiconductor surfaces. For those systems also a prominent quantum mechanical nonlocality exists. In a cellular description this can be understood easily from the behavior of the wave function. For strongly bonded systems the wave function extends across cell boundaries and when cells are polarized, neighboring cells get polarized as well. This quantum induction introduces nonlocal polarizabilities in the description. The technical details how discrete dipole models have to be adapted to use nonlocal polarizabilities in finite systems and crystalline slabs and surfaces are given in this paper. The modified method is called discrete cellular method.


The blocking behavior of video advertisements has become a relatively common behavior in Internet competition, but whether such behaviors are unfair competition behaviors has always been disputed in the academic and practical circles. The identification of advertising blocking behavior cannot be limited to the traditional identification thinking, but to use dynamic competition to look at such issues, sum up the identification thinking that has been put forward by the academic and practical circles, based on the local foundation, and draw on the identification thinking outside the territory., Follow the path of "consequence elements-oriented + reasonable analysis principle" to judge and consider the illegality of advertising blocking behavior.


It is shown that magnetotransport properties of bismuth cannot be interpreted without taking into account the concomitant diamagnetic magnetostriction which implies a change of carrier density as well as a change of symmetry. Here, we emphasize the lack of consistency of the usual phenomenological theory of magnetotransport effects based on space-time symmetry restrictions, which implicitly assumes the conservation of crystallographic symmetry under magnetic field. This is demonstrated by Hall voltage measurements exhibiting an unexpected asymmetry when the magnetic field lies in the bisectrix direction.


This study is to investigate increase immunomodulatory activity of Chungkukjang added with Dendropanax morbifera extract. There are four groups divided that Control, Dendropanax morbifera extract group, Chungkookjang group and Chungkukjang added to Dendropanax morbifera extract group which of five mouses each group. Their immunological characteristics were compared with either general Chungkukjang or non treated group in the tested male ICR mice. There were no significant difference in body weight and organ weight. In the plaque forming cell assay, Dendropanax morbifera extract 250 and 500 mg/kg groups measured significant increase over the control group. The values of lymphocytes were significantly increased in the Dendropanax morbifera extract 500 mg/kg group campared with the control group. In the general Chungkukjang 400 mg/kg added with Dendropanax morbifera extract 500 mg/kg group, total serum immunoglobulin G concentration was significantly higher than the control group and their spleen tissues observed proliferation of white puls. These results demonstrated that Chungkukjang Added with Dendropanax morbifera extract was provided enhance of immunomodulatory activity and suggest that it can be used as various functional foods, based on foods promote immune system health.


The COVID-19 pandemic has developed to be more than a bio-crisis as global news has reported a sharp rise in xenophobia and discrimination in online and offline communities. This commentary discusses the deterrence policies and automated content moderation technology to curb the spread of online xenophobic behaviors. We suggested some potential exploration areas where multiple stakeholders can come together to address the online xenophobic issues amid the COVID-19 pandemic.


The invention relates to a method for the injection computation for an internal combustion engine, in particular for a gasoline range extender engine. The method includes the following steps of ascertaining an adaptation factor (5), which represents fuel aging, from a model (2) of the fuel and a fuel outgassing (31) via a tank vent and adaptation of a fuel injection quantity and/or a fuel injection time using the adaptation factor (5).


In a box of unpublished Aramaic papyri from the 1906–1907 German excavations of Elephantine there is a small fragment (p. 23141) that uses scribal marks in a margin or vacat to identify a textual edit. This is the first example of Aramaic editorial marks of this type from the Persian period, and demonstrates a previously unidentified scribal practice.


This work was done when I was visiting University of Bayreuth, and was supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. I am very grateful to Professor Schittkowski for providing excellent facilities. I am also grateful to an anonymous referee for his detailed comments on revising the original draft.


We consider quadruples of matrices (E, A,B,C), representing singular linear time invariant systems in the form Ex(t) = Ax + Bu} y = Cx with E,A ∈ Mp×m(C), B ∈ Mp×m(C) and C ∈ Mq×n(C) under proportional and derivative feedback and proportional and derivative output injection.

In this paper we present a canonical reduced form preserving the structure of the system and we obtain a collection of invariants that they permit us to deduce the canonical reduced form.


is paper discusses the effects of adhesive wear and thermal degradation on the dry frictional characteristics of paper-based frictionmaterials against steel material. Some commercial paper-based frictionmaterials typically used for clutch applications were subjected to adhesive wear and thermal degradation and the dry frictional characteristics were then measured at different states on a rotational tribometer. e experimental results reveal that both adhesive wear and thermal degradation have opposite effects on the frictional characteristics, where the static and kinetic coefficients of friction increase due to adhesive wear but decrease due to thermal degradation.


The British government only agreed to Nigerian independence once the colonial secretary and the minister of defence had secured a Nigerian commitment to a defence agreement in 1958. But by setting a date for independence, Britain lost a substantial degree of leverage. Meanwhile, the Nigerian government came under pressure; indirectly from the rise of pan-Africanism and non-alignment, and directly from the emergence of an opposition following the elections of 1959. The negotiations for the actual defence agreement thus became more arduous for the British. The combined strength of the ruling parties, the Northern People's Congress (NPC) and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), eventually assured its safe passage in the Nigerian parliament. But simultaneously, it exposed the Balewa government to criticism that it undermined Nigeria's independence and declared foreign policy of non-alignment.


Cluster analysis has been widely used in the fields of mathematics and health sciences. This study aims to classify distance-based data which are divided into several clusters. Accurate prediction from


Soil dissolved organic matter(SDOM)plays important roles in carbon cycling and transports of organic and inorganic contaminants in a riparian buffer zone. Here we measured soil organic carbon(SOC)and soil dissolved organic carbon(SDOC)contents, excitationemission matrix(EEM) fluorescence spectrum of SDOM and optical indices in the samples collected across the typical riparian zones in Chongming Island, China. Soil organic carbon in the surface layer(0~30 cm)accounted for 40% of that in the whole soil profile(0~80 cm),and SDOC was 5% of SOC and increased from the upland to the buffer zone. SDOM contains humic-like and protein-like substances, mainly derived from recently dead plant debris. Ground water might also contribute to the SDOM in the riparian zone. Most of humic-like substances were adsorbed on soil minerals.


Simulation is an important technology in a spacecraft's whole lifecycle. To better facilitate spacecraft modeling and simulation development as well as model integration and reuse, a flexible cooperative modeling and simulation framework which is based on data driven methodology and DEVS (discrete event system specification) is proposed. To verify its effectiveness, a concrete realization of this kind of system was developed and its use in our digital spacecraft design platform indicates that it has good simulation adaptabilities and is suited to improve model composabilities


Abstract In this work, we introduce a class of convex sets, LCSC F (X), of a locally convex separated and not necessarily separable topological vector space X. They are called the lower CS-closed sets. This class contains the CS-closed sets, satisfies the property core(C) = int(C), ∀C ∈ LCSC F (X) when X is metrizable barrelled, and is stable under many operations. Among them, the projection and the denumerable intersection. We characterize the lower CS-closed functions (i.e., the functions who have a lower CS-closed epigraph) as marginal functions of CS-closed ones and show that they are very stable too. We establish an open mapping and a closed graph theorem for the lower CS-closed relations. Finally, we show that every real extended valued lower CS-closed function defined on a metrizable barrelled space is continuous on the interior of its domain. This result allows us to extend classical theorems of convex duality by replacing lower semicontinuous functions by lower CS-closed ones. More than that, it systematizes and extends some methods of convex analysis.


Extreme event impacts on coastlines and infrastructure is often driven by a combination of processes and factors. In cyclone (hurricane) prone coastlines, wind, rain, storm surge, tide and waves can all contribute to damage and loss of infrastructure. With increasing value of coastal assets, hazard and risk management is increasingly assessing multi-hazard impacts from extreme events, and cumulative damage from multiple events within short time frames. A novel multi-hazard model system has been developed to assess cyclone hazards on the Australian coastline from a combination of wind, rain, tide, storm surge and wave impacts. The model system is capable of deriving return period hazard levels for single and combined hazards, and also long-duration, for example 10,000 year duration, event sets to analyze cumulative impacts. The hazard model system is comprised of high-resolution, calibrated process models addressing the various physical processes that contribute to the overall hazard.


Dairy products are promoted to lower fracture risk. However, milk contains d-galactose, which induces oxidative stress and chronic inflammation in


cases of CLL with DM were reported, and one patient received methotrexate with cyclophosphamide. The skin rash in DM does not mean malignant skin involvement; therefore, DM treatment should be initiated separately, as in our case. However, DM with associated malignancy responds poorly compared to idiopathic cases [5]. Long-term outcomes of CLL with DM are unknown, and so are data regarding the use of chemoimmunotherapy in such patients, although rituximab has shown efficacy in DM [6]. It is prudent for the overworked clinician to not overlook neurological or musculoskeletal symptoms in CLL patients, and a keen search for hematological malignancy is justified in known cases of inflammatory myopathies.


A set of small model and UAV propellers is measured both in terms of aerodynamic performance and acoustic noise under static conditions. Apart from obvious correlation of noise to tip speed and propeller diameter the influence of blade pitch, blade pitch distribution, efficiency and shape of the blade is sought. Using the measured performance data a computational model for calculation of aerodynamic noise of propellers will be validated. The range of selected propellers include both propellers designed for nearly static conditions and propellers that are running at highly offdesign conditions, which allows to investigate i.e. the effect of blade stall on both noise level and performance results.


An account of the Medieval and Roman coins in the Society's collections, including the king or emperor depicted on each coin and their scarcity.


Growing old should be the golden years of your life, being able to do whatever you want to do. Instead these years are often combined with both physical and psychological illness. Neither the body ...


Adrenal lymphoma is a rare diagnosis in subject presenting with bilateral adrenal masses. Adrenal insufficiency is a common complication of this disease. Most cases of primary adrenal lymphoma (PAL) present with adrenal insufficiency and huge bilateral adrenal masses. These are very aggressive tumors with poor prognosis. We, hereby, report two subjects of adrenal lymphoma presenting with bilateral adrenal masses. First case is a 50 years old male presented with features of adrenal insufficiency like anorexia, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, and generalized hyperpigmentation. Routine investigations revealed hyponatremia, normal serum K; serum lactate dehydrogenase was moderately elevated. Primary adrenal insufficiency was confirmed by low basal and cosyntrophin stimulated cortisol. CT abdomen revealed huge bilateral heterogeneous enlargement of adrenal glands. Lymphoma was confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry, diagnosis of PAL was made after further staging. He was treated with Rituximab-CHOP regimen. Second case, 50 years old lady presented with fever, anorexia, weight loss. She had generalized lymphadenopathy. On imaging found to have bilateral adrenal mass, and histopathology from lymph node, breast mass and adrenal mass was suggestive of non-Hodgkin�s lymphoma.


The daily variation of the lower and upper tropospheric wind field for the monsoon seasons of 1972 and 1973 is investigated, It is shown that the changes in the large-scale rainfall are directly related to those in the large-scale vorticity above the frictional boundary layer on a day-to-day basis throughout the two seasons, large cyclonic vorticity being associated with active spells and anticyclonic vorticity with weak monsoon spells. In the upper troposphere, the regional average of the anticyclonic vorticity is generally found to increase in active periods, decrease slightly in breaks and spectacularly towards the end of the break and increase again during revival. The maximum value of the kinetic energy of the easterlies during a season is found to occur during the break or weak monsoon spell for the seasons studied. The major difference in the upper tropospheric circulation of the two seasons is in the meridional component which is southerly over large regions over India in 1972 and northerly over the entire region on most days in the season of 1973. The contribution of the meridional advection of vorticity in determining the upper level divergence is found to be significant and its variations are found to be correlated to those of the lower-level convergence.


Background:Despite receiving identical reimbursement for treating heart disease patients with bare metal stents (BMS) or drug-eluting coronary stents (DES), cardiologists' use of the new technology (DES) may have varied by patient payer type as DES diffused. Payer-related factors that differ between hospitals and/or differential treatment inside hospitals might explain any overall differences by payer type. Objectives:To assess the association between payer and DES use and to examine between-hospital and within-hospital variation in DES use over time. Methods:We conducted a retrospective analysis of 4.1 million hospitalizations involving DES or BMS from 2003 to 2008 Nationwide Inpatient Sample. We estimated hybrid-fixed effects logit models and calculated the adjusted within-quarter, cross-payer differences in DES use. Results:Coronary stent patients with Medicaid or without insurance were significantly less likely to receive DES than were patients with private insurance throughout the study period. The differences fluctuated over time as the popularity of DES relative to BMS increased and decreased. The within-hospital gaps paralleled the overall differences, and were largest in Q3 2003 (Medicaid: 11.9, uninsured: 10.9% points) and Q4 2008 (Medicaid: 12.8, uninsured: 20.7% points), and smallest in Q4 2004 (Medicaid: 1.4, uninsured: 1.1% points). The between-hospital adjusted differences in DES use by payer were small and rarely significant. Conclusions:We found substantial differences in DES use by payer within hospitals, suggesting physicians selected the new technology for patients in a manner associated with patients' payer type.


National education in border areas in China differs from that in other regions.Due to the fact that the young people do not spontaneously generate national identity and the special need of education in border areas,the key to protecting stability of border areas and promoting unity of ethnic groups and coordinate development of multi-cultures lies in enhancing national identity education.


The invention provides a semitrailer hydraulic braking energy regeneration device based on a hydraulic transformer and a pump/motor. Kinematic energy recycled in the braking process is provided for a semitrailer in the vehicle accelerating process, and specifically, a speed reducer/the hydraulic transformer, the fixed-displacement hydraulic pump/motor, a hydraulic control check valve, an overflow valve, a high-pressure energy accumulator, a low-pressure energy accumulator and a hydraulic transformer control angle control unit are included. By adjusting a control angle of the hydraulic transformer, the pump/motor can recycle kinematic energy during braking, and hydraulic energy is stored in the energy accumulators to be used for next time of acceleration. The device utilizes the beneficial effect of high power density of hydraulic transmission, most of the kinematic energy can be recycled during braking, the part of recycled kinematic energy is used for driving the semitrailer in the accelerating process, and not only is the power performance of the whole semitrailer improved, but also energy for driving the semitrailer is saved.


46 The contents of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the food web organisms 47 included in the diet of brown trout from a remote mountain lake have been investigated. The 48 preferential habitat and trophic level of the component species has been assessed from the 49 signature of stable isotopes (δC and δN). Subsequently, the patterns of accumulation and 50 transformation of these hydrocarbons in the food chain have been elucidated. Most of the food 51 web organisms exhibit PAH distributions largely dominated by phenanthrene, which agrees 52 with its predominance in atmospheric deposition, water and suspended particles. Total PAH 53 levels are higher in the organisms from the littoral habitat than from the deep sediments or the 54 pelagic water column. However, organisms from deep sediments exhibit higher proportions of 55 higher molecular weight PAH than those in other lake areas. Distinct organisms exhibit 56 specific features in their relative PAH composition that points to different capacities for 57 uptake and metabolic degradation. Brown trout shows an elevated capacity for metabolic 58 degradation since they have lower PAH concentrations than food and they are strongly 59 enriched in lower molecular weight compounds. The PAH levels in trout highly depend on 60 organisms living in the littoral areas. Fish exposure to PAH may therefore vary from lake to 61 lake according to the relative contribution of littoral organisms to their diet. 62 63


In recent years, virtualization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has become very popular for many reasons including efficient resource management, proper sharing and using the same WSN physical infrastructure by multiple applications and services. Semantic applications are very much pertinent to provide situational awareness to the end-users. Incorporating semantic applications in the virtualized WSNs can play a crucial role in providing contextual information to understand the situation, increase usability and interoperability. However, provisioning of semantic applications in virtualized WSNs remains as a big challenge. The reason is the data collected by the virtual sensors needs to be annotated in-network, and the pre-requisite of the data annotation process is to have an ontology that needs to be provisioned, i.e., developed, deployed and managed. Unfortunately, annotating sensor data and ontology provisioning in virtualized WSNs is not straightforward because of limited resources of sensors, on-demand creation of virtual sensors, and unpredictable lifetime. As the existing researches do not consider data annotation in virtualized WSN infrastructure level, these solutions are domain specific and lack of providing support for multiple applications. Moreover, the major drawback of the current ontology provisioning mechanisms requires domain experts to develop, deploy, and manage the ontologies in WSNs. This thesis aims to propose a solution for provisioning of multiple semantic applications in the virtualized WSNs.
The main contribution of this thesis is twofold. First, we have proposed an architecture to annotate sensor data in the virtualized WSN infrastructure and defined an ontology in sensor domain to perform data annotation. Second, we have proposed an architecture for provisioning ontology in the virtualized WSNs that consists of an ontology provisioning center, an ontology-enabled virtualized WSN, and an ontology deployment protocol. The proposed architectures use overlay network as a foundation. We have built a proof-of-concept prototype for a semantic wildfire monitoring application in the cloud environment using the Google App Engine. In order to evaluate the viability of the proposed architecture, we have made performance measurement of the implemented prototype. We ran a simulation to justify our proposed ontology provisioning protocol.


Payment for Environmental Services (PES) incentive need be applied to ensure the promotion of soil and water conservation.  It's pro conservation attitude should be soon adopted by sharecroppers in various protected areas.  Likewise the sharecroppers in Protected Forest Management Unit (KPHL) Batutegi which their area has been degraded.  Based on the paper plan of Unit Pelaksana Teknis Daerah (UPTD) KPHL Batutegi (2014), there were critical area of 14405.10 hectares (24.77%) and very critical of 45.56 ha (0.77%).  The value of the willingness to accept (WTA) for the water PES for upstream community as a provider of environmental services was necessary to be studied towards to increase willingness of people to apply soil and water conservation.  The purposes of this study were to determine the water PES WTA value of Datar Lebuay Villages and establishment of influenced factors.  The methods used in this research were WTA survey include gathering data as follows education, income, age, acreage (land tillage), number of trees and stay duration.  The data was analyzed by double linear regression to examine the effect of these variables the WTA value.  Based on the analysis, it could be concluded: a. The estimated water PES WTA value Datar Lebuay Villages was about 4119.05/tree/year averagely and the total water PES WTA value was Rp 14,033,050/year when the 3,682 trees belong to the communities, b. Factors that significantly affected the WTA value were age, stay duration and level of education.  According to research results, it's suggested to scalling up this research to another village included add socio-economic factors  such as gender, ethnicity and the other social variables. Keywords:  Datar Lebuay Villages, payment for environmental services, Way Sekampung   Sub-Watershed, WTA


This is the third part of a series of papers concerning Prosperous Development. The paper includes 3 parts: an eternal target of human beings, discussion and graphic analysis of objectives of prosperous development, theoretical basis of prosperous development. In this paper, a discussion is made on the theoretical basis of prosperous development.


We report the synthesis of ABA' triblock peptide-polysarcosine-peptide conjugates featuring two complementary phenylalanine-histidine pentapeptide strands A/A'. These sequences encode for antiparallel β-sheet formation into folded conjugates, which promote the self-assembly into polysarcosine-shielded core-shell nanorods. These do not cause aggregation of serum proteins in human blood plasma underlining an enhanced stability.

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Recent developments and reforms in the Russian payments system are discussed from the perspective of their impact on monetary policy. The large and highly variable payment float in the balance sheet of the Central Bank of Russia has complicated the conduct of monetary policy. However, reforms in late 1992 and early 1993 have been effective, as judged from their impact in reducing the level and variability of float, and have set the stage for medium-term reforms of the payments system. Rapid progress in the implementation of these reforms, and their appropriate coordination with monetary operations, remain critical to meet the emerging needs in money and foreign exchange markets, and to support the transition to Indirect methods of monetary control.


The invention provides a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) band-gap reference voltage generation circuit for output of the reference voltage, comprising a first CMOS, a second CMOS, a third CMOS, a first triode, a second triode, an amplifier and a fourth CMOS. The base electrode of the fourth CMOS is connected with the output end of the amplifier, the source electrode of the fourth CMOS is connected with the source electrodes of the first CMOS, the second CMOS and the third CMOS, the base electrode and the connecting electrode of the third triode are grounded. The emitting electrode of the third triode is connected with the drain electrode of the fourth CMOS. The CMOS band-gap reference voltage generation circuit, by adding a branch and a plurality of resistors, eliminates the second-order temperature modulation effect of the triode in the original circuit effectively and improves the stability of the band-gap reference voltage generation circuit.


The change to practice-oriented training is caused by intensification of applied and practical character of higher education. Practice-oriented approach allows students to acquire necessary professional skills and competence, to obtain experience of organizational work, the system of theoretical knowledge, ability to work in a team and to take responsibility for the decisions made. All these correspond to Federal State Educational Standard, qualification profile of a specialist and make the university graduates competitive. The present article considers the process of implementation practice-oriented approach as the basis of competitiveness of the university. The article also contains the analysis of basic principles of practice-oriented approach. As a result of the research, the authors have revealed practiceoriented approach advantages for each of the participants: the university, business and a student. The conducted research was based on such general scientific methods as: observation, description, and modelling. In the process of turning students into competitive, highly qualified specialists active and interactive forms and methods of teaching play an important role. By means of the present-day educational technologies, systematic knowledge contributes to better apprehension of academic subjects. Thus, realization of practice-oriented approach improves the existing educational programs and technologies of creating conditions for training future employees of branch and regional markets of services. These employees will have professional competence of a new level and will be prepared to conduct professional activity under the current conditions.


Organic apple orchards often suffer great yield losses due to pests. Perennial flower strips can increase the occurrence of predators in the orchard and thereby reduce fruit damage.


In article questions of priority formation in modern conditions of training of students, acquisition by them competence for the subsequent employment on a speciality are considered. Psychological and professional aspects of employment of students solved at the expense of application of cases-techniques both in the course of noegenesis, and at employment.


Based on MM5,POM,and WW3,a regional atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled system is developed in this work under the environment of Message Passing Interface.The coupled system is applied in a study of two typhoon processes in the South China Sea(SCS).The results show that the coupled model operates steadily and efficiently and exhibits good capability in simulating typhoon processes.It improves the simulation accuracy of the track and intensity of the typhoon.The response of ocean surface to the typhoon is remarkable,especially on the right side of the typhoon track.The sea surface temperature(SST)declines,and the ocean current and wave height are intensified.In the coupling experiment,the decline of SST intensifies and the inertial oscillation amplitude of the ocean current increases when the ocean-wave effect is considered.Therefore,the atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled system can help in the study of air-sea interaction and improve the capability of predicting and preventing weather and oceanic disasters in SCS.


The invention provides a method for pre-treating inverted trough water of electroplating pre-treatment. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: combining acid out and three-dimensional electrolysis technologies; slowly adding concentrated sulfuric acid into the wax-removing inverted trough water, regulating pH to be 2.0, stopping adding, standing, and demixing; taking supernatant; slowly adding the concentrated sulfuric acid into oil-removing inverted trough water, regulating pH to be 2.0, stopping adding, standing, and demixing; taking subnatant; and mixing two clear solutions, and feeding the mixture in a three-dimensional electrolysis device for electrolysis treatment. According to the method, waste oil and waste wax in the inverted trough can be effectively reclaimed, catalytic decomposition of organic matters in the waste water can be improved, and the biochemical performance of the waste water can be improved.


A portable radio communication device, comprising: a housing (78); an antenna means for transmitting and receiving RF signals; transmission and reception circuit, disposed within the housing; at least a conductive portion; antenna feed means; and a user interface. The antenna device comprises a transmitting antenna (60, 61), and a receiving antenna (60,61,65,78). Transmit antennas and receiving antennas having radiation characteristics relatively orthogonal to each other. Transmit and receive antennas may be an electric dipole type or a magnetic dipole type. Also discloses a transmitting and receiving antenna of the antenna system.


Although not a panacea, management of mycorrhizae and associated organisms is an important reforestation aid. Its three major components are protection of the indigenous soil community and evaluation of inoculation needs, integration of inoculation programs into existing reforestation technology, and research. Clear-cutting frequently results in reduced mycorrhizae formation, particularly when reforestation is delayed and no other host plants are present to maintain fungal populations. Implications of such reductions for reforestation vary with environmental factors and tree species. Adequate mycorrhiza formation is especially critical for ectomycorrhizal trees growing on poor soils or in environments where seedlings must establish quickly to survive. It may also be important where early successional, noncrop plants do not support the same mycobiont as the crop. In such circumstances, a self-reinforcing trend may develop, with poor mycorrhiza formation reducing seedling survival and poor tree stocking lea...


This research focuses on the development and feasibility of an online grain size estimator for a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), based on the mass balance within a hopper, and using hopper settling models. The idea of the grain size estimator is to use existing hopper settling models iteratively for a certain time window with 'online' sensor input and different soil inputs. The resulting loading graphs are compared to the measured loading graphs, after which the most probable soil type is indicated. This research is a continuation of the research of Strooker (2017) where not only the mass balance within a hopper, but also different occurring processes were taken into account. The grain size estimator developed for this research, is solely based on the mass balance within a hopper, and is focused on selecting a suitable hopper settling model, simulating a great amount of trips of various projects and interpreting the results. The research shows that the Modified Camp model performed well in validating the hopper settling model and was therefore chosen to be implemented into the grain size estimator. After determining the limitations of the estimator, two projects and two vessels were used to simulate 1500+ trips in total with the available sensor data. The results are presented visually in different ways and compared to the measured soil model of the considered project. It is concluded that at one project (Liverpool), there are multiple areas where the results of the grain size estimator clearly matched the soil model. The second project (Kaohsiung) showed less conclusive results. It seems that the results of both the first part of each trip as well as the whole trip, produces results where the areas of soil are best distinguishable. The time window for where the soil type is determined also affects the accuracy and reliability. Longer time windows mean less accuracy, but a more reliable result. The accuracy was found to be only changing slightly between time windows of 30-600 seconds, but the reliability of the model is difficult to quantify.


The way we legitimize to others or to ourselves the need for social analysis in development interventions creates a structure of expectations that becomes compelling. In other words, if we argue just the pragmatic, short-term operational benefits' side of using anthropology, we will end up playing a very mundane fix-it-here-and-fix-it-there role. If, however, we convincingly construct the argument for a theoretical applied anthropology, we lay claim to having voice over the substance of development paradigms and policies. The rigid dichotomy between applied and theoretical anthropology is a simplistic representation that must be rejected. The practice of anthropology can generate value-added for society only if it is practiced as theoretical applied anthropology. What has to be applied through applied anthropology is our theoretically generalized knowledge about societies and cultures. What else would anthropologists have to apply? They use the research methods. What they apply is the storehouse of knowledge. Anthropologists bring to their work the knowledge about what is general in individual local societies (cross cultural commonalities) and proceed to uncover what is unique in that individual society. An alternative model which, represents the strongest way of arguing the case for, and actually practicing, applied anthropological and sociological analysis is to focus on the patterns of social organization within which social actors act.


This paper explores the use of Visual Saliency to Classify Age, Gender and Facial Expression for Facial Images. For multi-task classification, we propose our method VEGAC, which is based on Visual Saliency. Using the Deep Multi-level Network [1] and off-the-shelf face detector [2], our proposed method first detects the face in the test image and extracts the CNN predictions on the cropped face. The CNN of VEGAC were fine-tuned on the collected dataset from different benchmarks. Our convolutional neural network (CNN) uses the VGG-16 architecture [3] and is pre-trained on ImageNet for image classification. We demonstrate the usefulness of our method for Age Estimation, Gender Classification, and Facial Expression Classification. We show that we obtain the competitive result with our method on selected benchmarks. All our models and code will be publically available.


Molybdenum oxide based catalysts promoted with other transition metals are active for the selective oxidation of propene in the presence of gas phase oxygen at temperatures above ~ 600 K. Crystalline (Mo,V,W)5O14 constitutes a three-dimensional model system for the more complex molybdenum based mixed oxide catalysts that are employed industrially for various partial oxidation reactions. In the mixed oxide system little is known about the cooperation of the different metal centers and their role for the stabilization of the active phase [1,2,3]. Here we report in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and in situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies on the structural evolution of a precursor for bulk (MoVW)5O14 during calcination and under propene oxidation conditions


In the paper, we describe a de array feeding by a substrate integrat resonator. The structure operates at th in proximity of a human body. The stu matching and radiation properties of t array and transmission properties of an can be influenced by interactions of el with the conductive human body.


Identifying changes in the spatial structure of cities is a prerequisite for the development and validation of adequate planning strategies. Nevertheless, current methods of measurement are becoming ever more challenged by the highly diverse and intertwined ways of how people actually make use of urban space. Here, we propose a new quantitative measure for the centrality of locations, taking into account not only the numbers of people attracted to different locations, but also the diversity of the activities they are engaged in. This 'centrality index' allows for the identification of functional urban centres and for a systematic tracking of their relative importance over time, thus contributing to our understanding of polycentricity. We demonstrate the proposed index using travel survey data in Singapore for different years between 1997 and 2012. It is shown that, on the one hand, the city-state has been developing rapidly towards a polycentric urban form that compares rather closely with the official urban development plan. On the other hand, however, the downtown core has strongly gained in its importance, and this can be partly attributed to the recent extension of the public transit system.


Summary form only given, as follows. Two regimes of a capacitively coupled radio frequency (ccrf) discharge operating in methane are studied with a combined PIC-MCC algorithm for gas pressure P=(O.OOI-I)Torr. This new combined PICMCC approach is developed for accurate and fast simulation of a radio frequency discharge at low gas pressure and high density of plasma. The electron and ion kinetic equations (three dimensional over velocity and one dimensional in space), the transport equation for electron and ion densities and fluxes and the Poisson equation are solved selfconsistently. Both kinetic and liquid models are used during one rf cycle simulation and, therefore, the approximation of kinetic coeficients by analytical expressions is not needed. Test calculations of heating mode transition in the ccrf discharge in helium and argon showed a good agreement with experimental data. In methane ccrfdischarge the transition betwen a volume dominated mode and an active sheath mode takes place with changing the discharge current or the gas pressure. The hysteresis occurs, when the dischare current increases and decreases. A phase diagram is constructed to show the location of different discharge modes for various currents and gas pressures. We demonstrate high efficiency of the combined PIC-MCC algorithm, especially for the collisionless regime of electron heating.


Disclosed are an electronic device to provide a blood sugar management service and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the method for providing a blood sugar management service in the electronic device provides: a step of periodically acquiring blood sugar information measured from a user; a step of generating a blood sugar profile based on the blood sugar information acquired for a preset time unit when the blood sugar information is acquired for a preset time unit; a step of setting a blood sugar profile close to a normal blood sugar range as a target profile by comparing the generated blood sugar profile with a previously generated blood sugar profile; and a step of providing the blood sugar state of the user based on the set target profile. Therefore, the electronic device can provide a customized blood sugar management state suitable for each user by considering the blood sugar state of each user.


As warehouses, storage facilities and factories become more expanded and equipped with smart devices, there is a substantial need for rapid, intelligent and autonomous detection of unusual and potentially hazardous situations, also called anomalies. In particular for Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) that drive around these premises independently, unforeseen obstructions along their path—e.g. a cardboard box in the middle of a corridor or bumps in the floor—and sudden or unexpected actions executed by personnel—e.g. someone walking in a restricted area—make it hard for AGVs to navigate safely. We therefore propose a novel approach to detect such anomalies in an unsupervised manner by measuring Bayesian surprise: whenever an event is observed that does not align with the agent's prior knowledge of the world, this event is deemed surprising and could indicate an anomaly. This paper lays out the details on how to learn both the prior and posterior models of an AGV that drives around a warehouse and observes the environment through an RGBD camera. In the experiments we show that our Bayesian surprise approach outperforms a baseline that is traditionally used to detect anomalies in sequences of images.


GI-cat ideal users are data providers or service providers within the geoscience community. The former have their data already available through an access service (e.g. an OGC Web Service) and would have it published through a standard catalog service, in a seamless way. The latter would develop a catalog broker and let users query and access different geospatial resources through one or more standard interfaces and Application Profiles (AP) (e.g. OGC CSW ISO AP, CSW ebRIM/EO AP, etc.). GI-cat actually implements a broker components (i.e. a middleware service) which carries out distribution and mediation functionalities among "well-adopted" catalog interfaces and data access protocols.


One of the major issues in novelty detection for video and image analysis application is how to recognize objects that are not in full view. As the camera pans, tilts and zooms, image objects within a scene are never in full view and enter and exit image frames with time. These objects with partial view do not contain enough number of pixels that can generate robust color, texture and statistical features, and therefore result in classification samples that are often not representative of that class, e.g. outliers. From a data analysis point of view, it is impossible to known which samples are truly outliers because of partial view as opposed to outliers because of mistakes in object labeling. This can cause serious problems in novelty detection tasks using neural networks. In this paper we propose a novel methodology for automatically detecting image objects with partial view and discuss how to use this knowledge to improve novelty detection results.


Prior to nasotracheal intubation (NTI), topical nasal vasoconstrictors are used to prevent NTI‐related epistaxis (NTIRE). Since we learned that there is no significant increase in NTIRE among hypertensive patients undergoing NTI with adequate lubrication but without vasoconstrictors, we initiated this randomized controlled study to assess the necessity of vasoconstrictor use in reducing NTIRE.


We study numerically magnetic $G_M(p)$ and electric $G_E(p)$ gluon propagators and their dependence on the choice of the lattice gauge field $\caa_{x\mu}$ in SU(2) gauge theory, especially, in the low--momentum limit. We find that two different $\caa_{x\mu}$ definitions are equivalent up to a trivial renormalization of the propagator, at least, in the main approximation.