The explosion in both the capability of and the number of applications for wireless data systems has allowed both personal and business consumers to become better connected to the world around them. The entire transportation industry is starting to benefit from the resulting improved connectivity, as trucking carriers are now able to communicate with their drivers more effectively. Improved fleet connectivity may result in other potential benefits to the transportation infrastructure as well as to the industry's carriers and shippers. The authors present an overview of wireless logistics systems, followed by the results of a transportation marketplace survey to assess current applications of wireless data systems. Further, they discuss future applications of wireless data systems from the viewpoint of both end users (consumers and shippers) and carriers.


The article deals with robotic autonomous systems in current environment, from military viewpoint. The goal of the article and supposed contribution is to present concentrated, synthetised and via experts discussed known and new data about robotic autonomous systems, which can be used as a booster for following studies. Authors selectively describe current security and operational environment, using various sources, trends, unmanned technologies and possibilities to increase military capabilities. Using deep analysis of large scale of sources and Dolphi method, they present real options to utilise robotic autonomous systems in short and medium-term time horizon according to capabilities. The motivation for creating the article was fact, that in military family are not complexly discussed arguments and circumstances, why to deal and implement robotic autonomous systems. The employment of the article is directed mostly into field of military theory and military art.


Inorganic membranes ,as a new kind separation media exhibit a series of superior advantages to their polymer analogues. Recently, Both of porous and dense membranes have got great progress. This paper reviews the present status of research and development of porous separation membranes and perspectives of the future. Some new progresses of micro-filtration, ultra-filtration, nano-filtration and zeolite membranes are discussed. The emerging application of porous ceramics membranes in gas-solid separation was briefly reviewed.


Living resources directly support the livelihood of coastal communities in Sao Tome e Principe, while oil and gas reserves are needed to improve economic growth. Yet these resources are widely coveted, resulting in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, as well as illegal oil bunkering and theft of crude oil. STP has settled its maritime boundaries with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, but not with Nigeria. Instead, the two countries agreed on a joint development regime in the disputed maritime area, albeit unsuccessfully. This article examines two key challenges currently facing STP: unblocking the STP-Nigeria joint development agreement and addressing IUUF.


Although energy policy literature has extensively discussed the pros and cons of policy instruments, the perspective of the individual investors who may respond (or not) to those policies has been neglected. A few authors have underlined that all investors may not be primarily driven by economic motives and thus respond well to policy incentives. Instead, some investors may be driven by other forces and follow different investment logics. In this paper, we first show that, in addition to economic driving forces, some other driving forces, e.g. sustainability, interest in the technology or problems to solve, influence investors. We show that these driving forces are partly a consequence of economic incentive policies, but also regulatory policies, and other institutional pressures, such as cognitive and normative pressures. Furthermore, we suggest that actors driven by different forces respond to different pressures. We end with a discussion about the implication of our findings on current energy policies.


In this paper, an efficient technique is developed to solve the inverse transform of exact closed form representations of frequency domain surface impedances, without pursuing tedious and complicated mathematical manipulations. This technique is based on the numerical inversion of the Laplace transform and has the advantages of simple programming, computational efficiency and easy error control. The numerical results agree very well with those published in the literature, validating the effectiveness of this technique.


Aims at the loading system of main well in our coal mine,several problems are discussed,such as the great wallop and the maintenance problem existing in the pneumatic system.Besides,the composing,working principle and function of the reconstructed hydraulic automatic loading system is introduced,moreover,after local application,the economic benefit of shortening the cycle time,enhancing the output are analyzed.


In this paper the significance of bilingual teaching in the major course of fundamental of material science is clarified. On the one hand the negative factors which affect the bilingual teaching are probed into and the positive conditions are analyzed as well. On the other hand, multimedia bilingual teaching is carried out in the course of fundamental of material science in the actual condition of specialty teaching. The results prove that it is practical and fruitful to conduct bilingual teaching in fundamental of material science based on excellent English teaching materials, multimedia methods and scientific organization.


We are discussing a compact, four elements with high‐performance ultra‐wideband (UWB) multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) antenna with dual band‐notched traits. The antenna has a partial ground plane and the radiator has truncation to enhance the matching through the frequency range 2.5–12 GHz. The coupling between ports was reduced by assorting the elements of the antenna in an orthogonal manner and applying four stubs between them. The proposed antenna achieves two band‐notched characteristics by introducing a T‐shaped strip etched in the radiating elements and adding an open‐loop resonator near the feeding line. The results, which were simulated and measured, indicate that the proposed design achieved a wideband from 2.5 to 12 GHz with two band‐notched characteristics within 3.3–3.6 GHz (WiMAX implementations) and within 5.2–5.8 GHz (Wireless Local Area Network [WLAN] applications). As well as, the proposed antenna has high isolation >20 dB and a low‐envelope correlation coefficient <0.005 through the band except for the band notches. These outcomes demonstrate the adequacy of the proposed UWB MIMO antenna for UWB MIMO applications.


: The rapid development of information and communication technology is now a factor in increasing needs and changing consumption patterns among students. Consumption activities are no longer carried out rationally and tend to be unplanned. Various internal and external factors trigger these consumptive behaviors. Lack of knowledge related to financial management and planning and the use of social media which are currently increasing are some of the causes of consumptive behavior. This study aims to determine the effect of the intensity of accessing instagram and financial literacy on the consumptive behavior of Economic Education students at the Faculty of Economics, State University of Makassar. This research is a type of quantitative research. The population in this study were 614 students and the sampling technique used the Stratified Random Sampling technique with a total sample of 86 student respondents. The method of data collection in this research used a questionnaire with a Likert Scale and used multiple linear regression data analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that Simultaneously, the intensity of accessing instagram and financial literacy has a significant effect on the consumptive behavior of economic education students at State University of Makassar. Partially, the intensity of accessing Instagram has a positive and significant effect on the consumptive behavior while financial literacy has a negative and significant effect on the consumptive behavior of Economic Education students at State University of Makassar. significant effect between the intensity of accessing Instagram to the consumptive behavior of students in terms of duration and frequency indicators. It is known that the more frequent access to Instagram will affect the consumptive behavior of students. The results of this study also indicate that there is a negative and significant effect between financial literacy on consumer behavior seen from financial knowledge and understanding, and financial management. This shows that the higher the financial knowledge and understanding, the lower the consumptive behavior of students.


This study investigates the effect of two different Mn modifiers [MnO2 and Pb(Mn1/3Nb2/3)O3(PMnN)] on the of phase transitions in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbZrO3-PbTiO3 ceramics. The temperature dependence of polarization derived from measured pyroelectric current indicated change in nature of phase transition with MnO2 doping. This phenomenon was supported by the temperature evolution of the linear softening of low lying hard lattice mode as revealed by Raman analysis. The grain size was found to increase with MnO2 doping (5X) while decrease with PMnN modification (0.5X). Interestingly, the piezoelectric constant of MnO2 modified composition showed negligible degradation (<1%) even after heat treatment very close to the ferroelectric-paraelectric transition temperature.


Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted slug-test characterization at the final, completed BP-5 Remedial Investigation well 699-52-55A near the 200-East Area at the Hanford Site on April 22, 2008. The slug-test characterization was in support of the BP-5 Remedial Investigation. The portion of the unconfined aquifer tested is composed of sediments of the lower Ringold Formation and the underlying Elephant Mountain basalt flowtop. The basalt flowtop unit was included as part of the effective test-interval length for the slug-test analysis because the flowtop unit is hydraulically communicative with the unconfined aquifer. Estimates of hydraulic conductivity for the effective test-interval length represent composite values for the lower Ringold Formation and the underlying Elephant Mountain basalt flow top.


This report reflects on my experience as an instructor with the iFixit Standard Project in the Introduction to Technical Writing course at Texas Tech University. The iFixit Standard project is a service learning project wherein students develop online repair guides for electronic devices. The unique aspects of the iFixit Standard Project entailed a shift in my traditional role as instructor in key ways. My role as a classroom instructor was decentralized, and I acted in part as a project manager, professional technical communicator, and teammate. Implications of the iFixit Standard Project for rubric development, grading, and feedback are discussed. Ultimately, this experience report provides key points of consideration for implementation of the iFixit Standard Project in technical communication courses.


The cesarean section rate in China increased year by year due to medical reasons and social influencing factors. High cesarean section rate could significantly influence maternal and child health, which should arouse great attention from medical field, women in childbearing age as well as the society. Furthermore, medical institutions, women in childbearing age as well as all sectors of society should work together to reduce the cesarean section rate.


This work presents three imaging radar sensor approaches to estimate road courses, needed by intelligent vehicle systems such as active cruise control or collision avoidance. Two of the approaches use gridmap data. A gridmap integrates each measurement in a chronological order. The third approach analyzes moving objects ahead of the ego vehicle. One approach has been published previously, the other two are new. A range estimation is necessary on country roads and completes each approach. All approaches are evaluated using a huge dataset of country roads. The driven trajectory is taken as ground truth for the evaluation. The advantages and disadvantages are determined for each approach. The results show the new approach based on gridmap data performs up to 78% better than the known one. The other new approach using moving objects as input information yields estimations which are about three times more accurate than the ones from the known approach.


There is known a method for electrochemically depositing organic thin films on silicon wafers, having the disadvantage that the silicon surface is roughened by the corrosive action of hydrogen fluoride and is lost as the originally atomically smooth surface. DOLLAR A According to the present method, the substance to chemical etching against a slightly acidic electrolyte is exchanged. The electrolyte is maintained at a potential relative to the silicon wafer which is opposite to the Oxidationspotentail the surface of the silicon wafer and positive with respect to a (macroscopic) hydrogen blistering is negative. the dissolved organic compound is added to the electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte is maintained up to the complete separation of the organic layer at substantially the same potential. DOLLAR A The method is suitable for. As for the deposition of diazonium compounds.


Objective: The definition of "hikikomori" evokes dysfunctional personality pictures already known in the literature and medical practice. The aim is to refute the hypothesis of the need to identify this clinical condition in a new descriptive framework. Materials and methods: Pubmed checklist, clinical interview, and psychometric tests. Results: In the entirety of the selected population, it emerges that the primary disorder is schizoid personality disorder; this is followed by depressive disorder, narcissistic covert disorder, bipolar disorder with depressive prevalence, obsessive disorder, avoidant disorder, and somatic disorder as secondary dysfunctional personality traits. Childhood and/or family trauma, capable of impacting the sexual and affective sphere, is present in almost the entire population. Conclusion: The syndrome should be framed as a specific phenomenon and not as a new psychopathological disorder, as the symptomatological descriptions are similar to the already known schizoid personality disorder; the symptomatological differences among patients should be framed according to a logic of correctives determined by the presence of one or more secondary psychopathological traits that draw a more complex personality picture than the simple nosographic diagnosis of the DSM-V.


Spermatozoa X and Y have different characteristics. Various techniques have been developed to exploit some differences to dissociate spermatozoa carriers of chromosomes X and Y. Technique with cathode-anode in vitro can be expected to be more practical, cheap, easy, and efficient compared to other methods. This research is a pure experimental laboratory with anode-cathode treatment at different time treatments and voltages. The research device is used factorial device with a pattern 2 x 4. The research results indicate that the motilities and viabilities of dissociation of spermatozoa X and Y with anode-cathode by in Vitro are motilities at 30.33% and viabilities at 67%. Result of spermatozoa Y at the cathode with motilities at 33.25% and viabilities at 65.63%. The best quality of spermatozoa Y dissociation in the cathode was obtained by treatment of voltage 1.0 volt for 10 minutes. Time treatment and voltage do not affect the motilities and viabilities of spermatozoa (P > 0.05).


This paper presents a virtual vehicle simulator for testing networked embedded systems. These days a vehicle can include up to one hundred electronic control units. These control units are connected via communication media in order to improve the performance of vehicles. However, it is not an easy process to test electronic control units in real vehicles. Thus, we propose a virtual simulation of a vehicle which is controlled by an embedded network system. The simulator provides the essential requirements necessary to accurately test networked embedded systems. The proposed simulator provides a three-dimensional (3D) modeled virtual vehicle which is controlled by multiple networked embedded systems that transmit information to the simulator via LIN, CAN, and FlexRay communication protocols. This simulator enables us to predict the vehicle's dynamics and communication problems.Copyright © 2009 by ASME


Super-sweet corn single-cross variety Kexiangtianyu No.1 was bred by self-line HT01(female) and self-line HT02(male). It has been demonstrated the characteristics of high and stable yield, early-maturing, good quality, strong resistance and adaptability to Hunan province and surrounding regions in China according to the variety test, regional test, production test and quality analysis. High yield and good quality can be obtained by using matching cultivated techniques with sowing timely(from mid-march to the beginning of April in Hunan province), isolation planting, rational density(45 000 - 54 000 plants/ha), rational fertilization, integrated pest and disease control, intensive farm management and harvesting in the best time (from blooming stage to new ear harvesting stage 19 - 24 days).


Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disorder associated with impairments in social and lingual abilities. Failure in language development is variable in the ASD population and follows a wide spectrum. The autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS) is the current gold standard for diagnosing plus expert clinical judgment. Currently, studies aim to develop objective computer-aided technologies to diagnose autism with brain imaging modalities and machine learning. Task-based fMRI is a discriminating image modality that measures the functional activation of the brain. Computer-aided diagnosis systems aim to classify autistic subjects against typically developed peers despite the fact that autism is defined over a wide spectrum. Here, we propose a novel computer-aided grading framework in infants and toddlers (between 12 and 40 months) dependent on the analysis of brain activation in response to a speech experiment. First, brain activation responses are analyzed for 157 autistic subjects divided into three groups of: 92 mild, 32 moderate,and 33 severe as defined by ADOS calibrated severity score. Increased hypoactivation of the superior temporal cortex, angular gyrus, primary auditory cortex and cingulate gyri is exhibited with increasing autism spectrum severity. Less lateralization is also present when activation of the left hemisphere regions is recorded. Second, only these region of interest (ROI) areas are included for further local and global feature extraction in our ASD grading system. A comprehensive, two-stage system is developed using different classifiers. Four-fold cross-validation is adopted for testing. The first stage discriminates between moderate and the other two groups with an accuracy of 0.83 (sensitivity = 0.73, specificity = 0.83). Subsequently, a second stage classifies subjects as mild or severe autism with an accuracy of 0.81 (sensitivity = 0.81, specificity = 0.76). Finally, two validation techniques of synthesizing for oversampling and e of multiple random training and testing sets were adopted. The validation results proved the robustness of the proposed framework for an early computer-aided grading system to place subjects on the autism spectrum.


The cis-(cyclam) (A-A) chromium(III) complexes (cyclam=1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane with A-A equal to ethylenediamine (en) and diammine were prepared and their photochemistry and doublet properties studied in acidic aqueous solution. The en complex is photoactive with a quantum yield at 436 nm of 0.091±0.003, that is, just over half that for the diammine at 0.160±0.009. In contrast, the room-temperature lifetimes of the doublet states are 8.4±0.2 and 1.7±0.1 μs, respectively, and their temperature dependencies correspond to activation energies for doublet depopulation of 41 and 37 kJ mol −1 , respectively


Vein grafts (VG) account for more than 70% of conduits used in aortocoronary bypass surgery, but have high failure rates by 10 years. We have previously shown in an experimental model that VG undergo marked expansion by 4 weeks, which was followed by increased total LDL retention at 12 weeks. The objective of this study was to determine whether statin therapy would prevent these expansive remodelling changes. Methods and Results Reversed jugular vein-to-common carotid artery interposition graft were constructed in 24 cholesterol-fed (0.5%) rabbits. Rabbits were randomized to either control or atorvastatin (5 mg/kg/day) groups, starting two weeks prior to vein graft implantation and continuing until sacrifice at 1 or 12 weeks post-surgery. Ultrasound measurements of arterial luminal cross-sectional area (LCSA) were done at day 3 and at 4, 8 and 12 weeks post-surgery. Histomorphometric measurements were performed following sacrifice at 12 weeks. Atorvastatin treatment significantly decreased total plasma cholesterol levels at 12 weeks (6.70±4.19mmol/L vs placebo 38.65±10.55mmol/L, p 2 vs placebo 77.6±10.68mm 2 , p 2 vs placebo 9.57±2.43mm 2 , p Conclusion: Atorvastatin prevents expansive remodelling in arterialized VG, likely through inhibition of macrophage infiltration and reduction of tissue proteolytic activity. This may be an important mechanism preventing VG atherosclerosis and late VG failure.


A proof-of-principle for the application of a photoinduced pH jump for delivery of the Hoechst 33258 drug by disassembly of its host-guest complex with cucurbit[7]uril is described.


Background:
 The 2010 guidelines have stressed that systematic post-cardiac arrest care after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) can improve the likelihood of patient survival with good neurological outcome. Especially, the 2010 guidelines recommended that comatose adult patients with ROSC after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest should be induced therapeutic hypothermia (Class I). However, it is unknown whether the post-cardiac arrest care which was recommended by the 2010 guidelines contributed to favorable neurological outcome. The aim of the present study was to clarify the effects of the 2010 guidelines in patients with ROSC after cardiac arrest due to shockable rhythm, using the data of the All-Japan Utstein Registry, a prospective, nationwide, population-based registry of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

 Methods:
 From the data of this registry between 2005 and 2015, we included adult patients with ROSC after out-of-hospital shockable cardiac arrest due to cardiac etiology. Study patients were divided into three groups based on the different CPR guidelines; the era of the 2000 guidelines (2000G), the era of the 2005 guidelines (2005G), and the era of the 2010 guidelines (2010G). The primary endpoint was favorable neurological outcome at 30 days after OHCA.

 Results:
 The 30,518 patients who met the inclusion criteria comprised 24,729 with ROSC before arrival at the hospital and 5,789 with ROSC after hospital arrival without prehospital ROSC. Figure showed favorable neurological outcome at 30 days in the three groups. Moreover, multivariable analysis showed that the 2010 guidelines were an independent predictor of favorable neurological outcome at 30 days after OHCA, respectively (Figure).

 Conclusion:
 In the patients with ROSC after out-of-hospital shockable cardiac arrest, the 2010 guidelines were superior to the 2005 guidelines and the 2000 guidelines, in terms of neurological benefits.


We optimize the intensity of six wavelengths in a supercontinuum by tuning the dispersion of a chirped fiber Bragg grating. The phase stability between wavelengths exceeds that of most optical clocks.


Leaf and pod insect pests are important on soybean (Glycine max L.) in Indonesia, causing loss of seed production. The study was carried out to evaluate the potential of water crude extract mixture of Azadirachta indica seed, Cymbopogon nardus plant and Alpinia galanga rhizome to control leaf and pod insect pests on soybean. The study was conducted in the organic farming system cultivation of soybean and it was arranged with Randomized Block Design. The concentrations of crude extract were 5, 10, 20 and 40% (v/v) applied on soybean. The result showed that crude extract significantly affected on the damages of leaf and pod caused by the insect pest and seed production. The 20 and 40% of extracts concentrations resulted in 16.07 and 14.97% leaf damage caused by insect, pod damage of 5.38 and 5.33% and 7.56 and 6.77% caused by sucking insect and pod borer insect, respectively. Those concentrations yielded 436.0 and 540.6 g of seed production/3m plot size, respectively. This study showed that the mixture of crude extracts has the potential to be used in controlling insect pests on soybean.


This paper presents the results of research about louvre panels with 4 blades, 5 blades, and 6 blades for mechanical and acoustical performance which installed at the outlet of the ducting system. The mechanical performance will show up the airflow velocity and pressure drop, for the acoustical performance will analysed for its ability to reduce noise in the HVAC System. The measurement method used a rectangular linear duct with the inlet of a fan as an airflow source and loudspeaker as a noise source. The ability tested from the acoustic parameters of TL and the directivity of the noise from the outlet section, as well as mechanical analysis performance based on airflow and pressure drop. For the pressure drop parameter value is up to 20 Pa for 4 blades louvre, and about 24 Pa for 5 blades and 6 blades louvre. By using third octave band filter from 20 to 8000 Hz, the highest TL value is at 27 dB at a frequency of 63 Hz. For the directivity used to determine the distribution of sound energy around the outlet, it shows that the highest SPL value is at a frequency of 1 kHz with the difference from the perpendicular angle of the outlet after being given a louvre acoustic panel of 12 dB. So, the installation of louvre panels has small of pressure drop effect, but it can be effective for noise reduction.


The thermally and radiolytically induced chain decomposition of methanesulfonyl chloride (MeSO2Cl) in liquid cyclohexane (RH) was studied at 150°C. The main products, chlorocyclohexane, sulfur dioxide, and methane, are formed in almost equal yields, and a relatively small amount of methyl chloride is also observed. The formation and addition of SO2 strongly inhibit the chain decomposition reaction. By kinetic analysis it is shown that the formation of the main products can be explained only in terms of a mechanism that postulates the decomposition of MeSO2, and that the alternative mechanism of methane and SO2 formation via the methanesulfinic acid is inconsistent with the kinetic behavior of the system. For the reactions Me + MeSO2Cl MeCl + MeSO2(2b), Me + RH MeH + R (4), and Me + CCl4 MeCCl4 MeCl + CCl3 (15b) the following rate constant ratios are determined; k2b/k4=2.17±0.20 and k2b/k15b=2.63±0.52. For the reactions R + MeSO2Cl RCl + MeSO2(2a) and R + CCl4 RCl + CCl3 (15a), k2a/k15a is equal to 1.55±0.05. In addition the equilibrium constant K7 for the reaction R + SO2 ⇄ RSO2 (7) is estimated as being equal to (9.4±3) × 103 mole/l.


Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) is distinct from the broader EJ field, which has been found to exhibit certain limitations when applied to Indigenous contexts. Indigenous scholars have observed, for example, that EJ scholarship generally does not consider Indigenous sovereignty, laws, and governance. Attempts to ensure the relevance and applicability of EJ to Indigenous contexts and realities have resulted in what can be thought of as an "Indigenizing" of the EJ scholarship. Recent scholarship thus recognizes that Indigenous peoples occupy a unique position in terms of historical, political, and legal context, and that this requires specific recognition of their goals and aspirations, such as those outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN General Assembly [UNGA] 2007). Achieving IEJ will require more than simply incorporating Indigenous perspectives into existing EJ theoretical and methodological frameworks, as valuable as these are for diagnosing injustice. IEJ offers a theoretical and analytical framework that goes beyond "Indigenizing" and "decolonizing" existing EJ scholarship and extends to frameworks informed by Indigenous intellectual traditions, knowledge systems, and laws. Indigenous nations and societies are diverse and no single IEJ framework will serve all contexts and situations. There are, however, commonalities among suggested frameworks as evidenced through various international environmental declarations prepared by Indigenous peoples over the past three decades that convey key concepts relating to IEJ. First, Indigenous knowledge systems should be utilized as a theoretical framework for analysis. In this frame, justice applies to all "relatives" in Creation, not just people. EJ is not just about rights to a safe environment, but it includes the duties and responsibilities of people to all beings and, conversely, their responsibilities to people. IEJ is regarded as a question of balance and harmony, of reciprocity and respect, among all beings in Creation; not just between humans, but among all "relatives," as LaDuke 1999 and Kanngieser and Todd 2020 show. Second, Indigenous legal traditions should form the basis for achieving justice. Scholars have noted how Western legal systems continue to fail Indigenous peoples and the environment. In this sense, grounding conceptions of justice and injustice in Indigenous intellectual and legal traditions opens up possibilities for achieving justice. Finally, IEJ must acknowledge the historical and ongoing role colonialism has played in perpetuating injustices.


The radiometric calibration of imaging spectrometer plays an import role for scientific application of spectral data. The radiometric calibration accuracy is influenced by many factors, such as the stability and uniformity of light source, the transfer precision of radiation standard and so on. But the deviation from the linear response mode and the polarization effect of the imaging spectrometer are always neglected. In this paper, the linear radiometric calibration model is constructed and the radiometric linear response capacity is test by adjusting electric gain, exposure time and radiance level. The linear polarizer and the sine function fitting algorithm are utilized to measure polarization effect. The integrating sphere calibration system is constructed in our Lab and its spectral radiance is calibrated by a well-characterized and extremely stable NIST traceable transfer spectroradiometer. Our manufactured convex grating imaging spectrometer is relative and absolute calibrated based on the integrating sphere calibration system. The relative radiometric calibration data is used to remove or reduce the radiometric response non-uniformity every pixel of imaging spectrometer while the absolute radiometric calibration is used to construct the relationship between the physical radiant of the scene and the digital number of the image. The calibration coefficients are acquired at ten radiance levels. The diffraction noise in the images can be corrected by the calibration coefficients and the uniform radiance image can be got. The calibration result shows that our manufactured imaging spectrometer with convex grating has 3.0% degree of polarization and the uncertainties of the relative and absolute radiometric calibrations are 2.4% and 5.6% respectively.


The earthquake damage characteristics of rural buildings in Hanzhong Region was investigated and analyzed. Some countermeasures for improving earthquake resistant capacity were put forward from the aspects of enhancing strength and connection.


Current technological changes in the industry result in a demand for human capital with a high level of employability. The country needs to have a highly skilled workforce to suit the current work environment and needs of an increasingly complex industry. The mastery of industry -based skills can produce skilled workers in line with the needs of the country. Effective teaching and learning help to produce highly skilled manpower in keeping up with current technological changes in the industry. The concept of teaching is an action that can be described as giving instructions or sharing one's knowledge with others. Competent and quality instructors can produce a skilled workforce by using efficient delivery skills to ensure a quality training delivery process. Therefore, this analysis is done systematically to identify the elements of the competence of the teaching staff, which consists of elements of knowledge, elements of skills and elements of the attitude of the teaching staff that influence the practical teaching methods of the teaching staff. This literature review uses several databases such as Australian Research Council (ERA), Google Scholar, Google Search, ScienceDirect and Scopus to obtain refereed materials published in the last ten years of 2010 - 2020. A total of 54 refereed materials were selected using the technique 'snowballing' which is a technique for obtaining articles related to the article obtained. The results of this study found that there is agreement of previous researchers in planning and implementing practical teaching. The selection of elements for the development of an appropriate practical teaching framework in teaching will result in high -impact learning.


Abstract The possibility of a human encounter with extraterrestrials is a fundamental and inescapable feature of the contemporary imagination. Clearly, human beings have longings that elude earthly satisfaction. With the decline of religion, or belief in a providential and wrathful God, our attention remains fixed on the sky, but less on a heaven unseen and more on planets and forms of life undiscovered.


Glass walls,closed glass balconies and big glass windows are widely used for fitment of building.Now cleaning glass becomes people's daily work.Usually,people have a macro-sense on dust adhesion on the glass surface and cleaning effect, but few know the micro-behavior of the dust adhesion procedure on the glass surface and cleaning.By a literature review,little investigation in quality can be discovered.Based on the surface physico-chemistry and aerosol theory,optics microscope system and laser particle size analyzer are used to investigate the dust sediment behaviors and prevention technology on the glass surface with preliminary treatment of contaminant and detergent.Experimental results show that atmosphere humidity plays an important role in the shape,amount and particle diameter of dust which adheres on the glass surface.The procedure of dust adhesion is in acceleration with time increasing.To make cleaning glass surface easier,daily cleaning work has to be conducted.If the coating substance on the glass surface is hydrophilic,the dust adhesion on glass surface is rather concentrated;else if it is hydrophobic,the dust distributed on glass surface is rather homogeneous.More dust of small particle size is adhered on the glass surface with coating substance than that of clean one.Complex detergents are more effective for cleaning hydrophobic substance on the glass surface.Single detergent is more suitable to clean hydrophilic substance.For cleaning kitchen fouling,mechanical force plays a leading role when the concentration of detergent is very low.With the increase of concentration of detergent,chemical function is quickly reinforced.Combining with the power of mechanical and chemical function,the contaminant will be cleaned in acceleration.


This paper is directed at proposing a new technique for building high energy optical components that will permit the use of heat transfer techniques that will remove substantially more thermal load than is presently possible. This paper will describe the use of impingement and nucleate boiling heat transfer in concert with an optical component that is made up of optical cells. The optical component is made up of optical cells which will permit the designer to fabricate an optic of any size. The basic design of the cells and how they are fit together are shown in drawings and schematics. The optical cells may be figured and polished either as a unit or individually. Of particular value is the ability of changing out optical cells without having to disturb the rest of the optical component. The faceplate of the optical cell may be virtually whatever the designer wishes. Of particular interest would be the failure due to damage of a section of the optic. Instead of having to refigure and polish the whole component, one may only have to change out the optical cell(s) as required and replace with a new cell(s). Equations and curves are provided to show how the technique is accomplished and the resulting temperature gradients for various faceplate materials that may be used.


The invention relates to a preparation method of butyl levulinate by use of biomass based furfuryl alcohol, the preparation method uses the furfuryl alcohol as a raw material, a mixed system of n-butyl alcohol and a little added water is used as a reactant and a reaction medium, a ultra low acid (<= 0.01mol/L) is used as a catalyst, a reaction is performed at 100-200 DEG C for 6-10 h; a reaction solution is adjusted to neutral, first a solvent, the reactant and low boiling point substances are evaporated out by two times of atmospheric distillation at the temperature of 120-180 DEG C, and then the butyl levulinate is obtained by vacuum distillation at the temperature of 190-210 DEG C under the pressure of 1000-2000Pa, according to the preparation method, the occurrence rate of a polymerization side reaction of the furfuryl alcohol is less, the target product butyl levulinate is high in yield, after the reaction, waste acid is easy to process, consumed neutralization chemicals and produced waste slag are less, environmental pollution and equipment corrosion are less, the production cost is low, and the preparation method has a good industrial application prospect.


Teachers Observing Teachers: Factors That Contribute to Critical Thinking in Peer Coaching Jessica LaFern Bryan Center for Language Studies, BYU Master of Arts Many university language programs draw on undergraduate as well as graduate students to conduct their courses. These student instructors do not always have adequate pedagogical preparation or experience. Past research suggests that conducting peer observations followed by a group reflection on basic teaching practice would help teachers become more aware of their own teaching. This research aims to investigate whether peer coaching followed by peer reflection meetings increases instructor effectiveness and confidence, as well as whether it is the observations or the reflections that encourage teachers to think more critically and improve their teaching.


With the rapid development of food science and cooking technology, people's demand for the quality of food is gradually increasing. A delicious, safe and healthy diet has become a new goal for people. The emergence and the continuous improvement of Sous Vide Cooked Technology technology helps in catering these needs, which has been attarting the attention from more and more consumers. Chicken is rich in nutrition, high in protein and low in fat. Sous Vide Cooked Technology used in chicken cooking preserves chicken's original flavor and color, which also maximumly keeps the nutrients of chicken. .


The differential pattern and characteristics of completeness in adverse event (AE) reports generated by hospitals/clinics, pharmacies, consumer and pharmaceutical companies remain unknown. Thus, we identified the characteristics of complete AE reports, compared with those of incomplete AE reports, using a completeness score. We used Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management-Korea Adverse Event Reporting System Database (KIDS-KD) between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016. The completeness score was determined out of a total of 100 points, based on the presence of information on temporal relationships, age and sex of patients, AE progress, name of reported medication, reporting group by profession, causality assessment, and informational text. AE reports were organized into four groups based on affiliation: hospitals/clinics, pharmacies, consumers, and pharmaceutical companies. Affiliations that had median completeness scores greater than 80 points were classified as 'well-documented' and these reports were further analyzed by logistic regression to estimate the adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. We examined 228,848 individual reports and 735,745 drug-AE combinations. The median values of the completeness scores were the highest for hospitals/clinics (95 points), followed by those for consumers (85), pharmacies (75), and manufacturers (72). Reports with causality assessment of 'certain', 'probable', or 'possible' were more likely to be 'well-documented' than reports that had causality assessments of 'unlikely'. Serious reports of AEs were positively associated with 'well-documented' reports and negatively associated with hospitals/clinics.


4. Data came from various issues of U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, State Government Finances. The seven states included are Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. This approach resembles that used for parimutuels by Suits, D. B., "The Elasticity of Demand for Gambling," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 93 (1) (February 1979): 155-62.


Some conclusions from the published works about joint development of multilayer objects are given. Results of the comparative analysis of technological parameters of development on an example of more or less partitioned areas of Romashkinskoye deposit are given. It is marked, that even in conditions of the same type collectors, saturated by oils with absolutely close physical and chemical properties, which principles of development are practically uniform, integrated technological parameters for multilayer objects appeared a little bit worse, than for one - twolayer ones.


This is a reference manual for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Cyber Visual System. The manual contains a summary of the operation of the CVS program and describes the hardware requirements. It explains the main features and operation of the program as well as how to communicate with the host computer. CVS is a high performance color graphics system. This system enables color pictures to be generated and edited on a color raster terminal and subsequently output as 35mm color transparencies and grey-scale or black and white hard copies. CVS provides processors for the construct word slides, tables, charts, and sketches. Commands for the creation and editing of images are entered by picking items from menus displayed on the terminal screen. The CVS program executed on a Control Data Corporation (CDC) CYBER 176 computer in a NOS/BE environment. The user interacts with CVS through a color terminal. There is no requirement as to the brand of color terminal. However, only drivers for the AED line of terminals are currently available. As other terminals become available, new driver modules will be added.


Abstract Introduction and Aim To report data on the implementation of alcohol policies regarding availability and marketing, and drink driving, along with ratings of enforcement from two small high‐income to three high‐middle income countries, and one low‐middle income country. Method This study uses the Alcohol Environment Protocol, an International Alcohol Control study research tool, which documents the alcohol policy environment by standardised collection of data from administrative sources, observational studies and interviews with key informants to allow for cross‐country comparison and change over time. Results All countries showed adoption to varying extents of key effective policy approaches outlined in the World Health Organization Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol (2010). High‐income countries were more likely to allocate resources to enforcement. However, where enforcement and implementation were high, policy on availability was fairly liberal. Key Informants judged alcohol to be very available in both high‐ and middle‐income countries, reflecting liberal policy in the former and less implementation and enforcement and informal (unlicensed) sale of alcohol in the latter. Marketing was largely unrestricted in all countries and while drink‐driving legislation was in place, it was less well enforced in middle‐income countries. Conclusion In countries with fewer resources, alcohol policies are less effective because of lack of implementation and enforcement and, in the case of marketing, lack of regulation. This has implications for the increase in consumption taking place as a result of the expanding distribution and marketing of commercial alcohol and consequent increases in alcohol‐related harm.


Organized alphabetically by city name, the selected catalog describes more than one hundred California memorials dedicated to women and men who served and died during World War I. Memorials include flagpoles, fountains, statues, sculptures, plaques, Veterans' Buildings, groves of trees, roads, and bridges. It also includes a preliminary record of seventeen U.S. cemeteries where California's World War I soldiers are buried and nineteen European monuments and cemeteries honoring Californians.


We demonstrate a method for generating desired joint trajectories to obtain repeatable double-support (i.e. bipedal) motions in a high-impedance quadruped robot. Planning such underactuated motions is inherently difficult: the ground contact angle of the foot is unactuated (no ankle torque), and the dynamics are nonlinear and strongly coupled. To approach the problem, we use a simplified model of the dynamics and assume all motion is restricted to the plane perpendicular to the axis connecting the two support feet. We apply the same basic equations used in zero-moment point (ZMP) analysis to this 2D model to calculate the ground reaction forces required to obtain desired rotations and translations of the body, iterating our desired trajectories until a solution exists which is feasible given the kinematic and friction force limits of the system. The inverse kinematic solutions for the corresponding joint angle trajectories are commanded using a low-level PD controller. The high gear-ratio joints ensure low errors in desired joint angle. The resulting motions of the dog are both close to the planned behavior and highly repeatable.


Objective To evaluate the safety and validity of dexmedetomidine combined with target-controlled infusion(TCI) with propofol in painless artificial abortion.Methods One hundred and twenty patients who were undergoing painless artificial abortion were randomly divided into observation group and control group,sixty cases in each group.The initial target plasma concentration(Cp) in control group was set at 4-5 mg·L-1,then increased to 6-7 mg·L-1,but it was decreased to 4-5 mg·L-1 when eyelash reflex vanished.The patients in observation group received dexmedetomidine 0.5 μg·kg-1 before TCI with propofol.Mean arterial pressure(MAP) of preoperative(T1),eyelash reflex vanishing(T2),enlarging cervix(T3),pulling(T4) and the end of operation(T5),heat rate(HR),pulse oxygen saturation(SpO2),the propofol consumption,induction time,awake time,orientation recovery time were recorded,and the rates of patients′ body motion and respiratory depression and postoperative uterine contraction pain also were observed.Results HR at T2,T3,T4 was significantly lower than that at T1 in observation group(P0.05).MAP and SpO2 at T2,T3,T4 were significantly lower than those at T1 in control group(P0.05).Compared between the two groups,MAP and SpO2 at T2,T3 in control group were significantly lower than those in observation group,HR at T2,T3,T4 in control group were significantly higher than that in observation group(P0.05).The propofol consumption,Induction time,awake time and orientation recovery time in observation group were significantly less than those in control group(P0.05).The rates of patients′ body motion,respiratory depression and postoperative uterine contraction pain in observation group were significantly less than those in control group(P0.05).Conclusion The application of 0.5 μg·kg-1dexmedetomidine combined TCI with propofol in painless artificial abortion is safe and valid.


This paper will describe the York University implementation of the APL language, highlighting the version designed to run as a Command Processor under the Time-sharing Option of the IBM System/360-370 Operating System.


Increases in condom use among hetero‐sexual active individuals are crucial to containing the spread of AIDS. A random sample of respondents (N =2,201) completed measures of sexual behaviour, HIV‐related risk reduction, attitudes toward condom use and their experiences with deception when dating covering the previous two months and psychological measures theoreticaily pertinent to AIDS risk. Thirty‐five percent of the sample reported engaping in unprotected anal intercourse, the abysmal high risk behaviour most strongly associated with transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In addition, these data confirm the findings of previous research that majority of women had been lied to by a dating partner. However, it was also noted that sexually experienced men often told a lie in order to have sex and were more dishonest in dating. While women demonstrated greater anxiety/worry and concerns about all STDS, including HIV, because they know they are more vulnerable. These data support the vi...


The authors have analyzed the vibrations of a seismo-isolated system based on kinematic founda tions with accounting the vertical component of seis mic effect. It is shown that in this case the vibrations are described by means of Mattie – Hill equations. The zones of instability of vibrations caused by the vertical excitations have been defined. The value of damping providing the movement stability has been assessed.


Faivel Bentsilovich Getz (Goetz, 1853–1931) is one of the people whose significance for the history of Russian philosophy and culture of the 19th – early 20th centuries is not in doubt, but their life and work, for various reasons, remain almost blank spots. For more than 20 years, Getz was in close contact with V.S. Solovyov, L.N. Tolstoy and a number of well-known Russian thinkers, writers, and politicians. In this article, we set ourselves several tasks. Firstly, we will briefly reconstruct the life path of this writer, journalist and public figure, both in Russia and after his departure from the country after the revolution. Secondly, we examine in detail his creative heritage, analyze his publications in various languages, and also offer a bibliography of books published by Getz in the 1880s – 1920s. Thirdly, the article contains a commented reprint of two publications about V.S. Solovyov, written by Getz in Riga in 1925 and dedicated to the philosopher's attitude towards Jews and the "Jewish question". Finally, we publish an article in memory of Getz himself, written in 1932 by his friend E.K. Keuchel, who published many books about V.S. Solovyov both in Russian and in German. By introducing a significant amount of new information and texts into scientific circulation, we expect to arouse interest both in the figure and ideas of F.B. Getz, and to the study of a whole layer of publications about V.S. Solovyov in various languages that were published at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries still eluding the attention of researchers.


Crab spider of the genus Thomisus Walckenaer (Araneae: Thomisidae), the T. onustus is a potent predator able to hunt prey larger than its own size. This study reports on a predatory event involving this spider, mimicking the Cajanus cajan flower for effective predation of pollinator bee Apis dorsata. The study focuses on the predation mechanism utilized by the spider making use of the plant architecture. The observations reveal that in a papilionaceous yellow coloured corolla of C. cajan, the same-coloured T. onustus is able to colour camouflage and can accommodate itself in a concealed position beneath the standard petal thus predating the prey by deceiving.


This paper, using a three-sector full employment general equilibrium model with segmented domestic factor markets, shows that policy of import restriction using tariffs can be beneficial for a small, open developing economy compared to the policy of import liberalisation, opposite to the conventional results. Also inflows of foreign-owned capital to an export sector within the export processing zone (EPZ) of the economy coupled with labour-augmenting type technology transfer can lead to welfare amelioration, even without the existence of segmentation in labour market. So these seemingly counterintuitive theoretical results support recent empirical findings suggesting that trade restrictions can promote growth and attract FDI for the developing countries, even when foreign capital enters one specific export sector of the economy


Regulatory T cells (Tregs) form an important T-cell subclass that provides protection against autoimmunity and may be used for treatment of autoimmune-like disorders, such as atherosclerosis. Various subsets of Tregs exist, but the best-characterized are CD4Foxp3CD25CD127 cells that comprise 5% to 10% of the CD4 T cells in human blood, lymphoid tissue, and epithelial barrier tissues. A significant fraction of these CD4 Tregs develops in the thymus and are called natural or thymic Tregs. The transcription factor Helios is reported to be exclusively expressed in thymic Tregs although this has been disputed. Tregs exert their immunosuppressive function mainly through secretion of the inhibitory cytokines interleukin (IL)-10 and transforming growth factor (TGF)-β, and cell–cell contact, mediated by membrane-bound TGF-β, cytotoxic T lymphocyteassociated antigen (CTLA-4), and glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor family-related protein. In addition to the natural Tregs, CD4 Tregs differentiate from naïve CD4 T cells in secondary lymphoid organs and are called adaptive or peripheral Tregs, which include CD4Foxp3CD25CD127 cells with a similar phenotype to natural Treg, as well as IL-10–producing T regulatory type 1 cells, TGF-β–producing T helper-3 cells, and CD8Foxp3 Tregs.


The study examines the relationship between post-IPO performance of 306 Indian firms and the changes in insiders' ownership around their IPOs? The results illustrated a curvilinear relationship between ownership and performance. Whereas the negative relationship was found for low and very high ownership level and positive relationship was found for intermediate level. This is an attentiongrabbing outcome as it contrasts with earlier studies on curvilinear relationship between ownership and performance, where the negative relationship was found for intermediate level and positive relationship was found for both very low and very high ownership level.


AIM: To analyze β2-integrin expression on blood leukocytes in liver cirrhosis.

METHODS: In 40 patients with liver cirrhosis and 20 healthy individuals, the evaluation of expression of CD11a (LFA-1α), CD11b (Mac-1α), CD11c (αX) and CD49d (VLA-4α) on peripheral blood leukocytes was performed using flow cytometry. The analysis was carried out in groups of patients divided into B and C according to Child-Pugh's classification.

RESULTS: An increased CD11a, CD11b, CD11c and CD49d integrin expression was observed on peripheral blood leukocytes in liver cirrhosis. The integrin levels were elevated as the advancement of liver failure progressed. The highest expression of integrins occurred predominantly on monocytes. A slight expression of VLA-4 was found on lymphocytes and granulocytes and it increased together with liver failure. A positive correlation was noted between median intensity of fluorescence (MIF) expression on polymorphonuclear cells of CD11a and CD11c and CD49d (r = 0.42, P < 0.01; r = 053, P < 0.01, respectively) in liver cirrhosis stage C. However, no correlation was observed between integrin expression on leukocytes. The concentrations of sICAM-1, sVCAM-1, and TNFα, were significantly elevated in liver cirrhosis.

CONCLUSION: β2-integrin expression on leukocytes increases in liver cirrhosis decompensated as the stage of liver failure increases, which is a result of permanent activation of leukocytes circulating through the inflamed liver environment. β2-integrin expression on circulating leukocytes can intensify liver cirrhosis.


The article discusses approaches to the formation of rules for deciding on the compliance of an object with established standards, taking into account the measurement uncertainty of the tested parameter, recommended by international documents. The features of accounting for uncertainty in each of them are shown. An approach is proposed using an adaptive iterative decision-making algorithm, which is a compromise between risk, effort and cost of the conformity assessment procedure. The algorithm uses the introduction of a guard interval within the limits of the tolerance field, as well as the relationship between the tolerance interval on the parameter, measurement uncertainty and the likelihood of a decision on compliance. The possibility of implementing the proposed algorithm on a specific example is show.


This study of structural determinants of teacher-parent relations is based on observations at different types of preschools and inter views with preschool teachers. A typology of teacher-parent interactions was developed in terms of differences in parent power vis-à-vis teachers. The discussion points up the limited applicability of prior descriptions of teacher-parent relations and suggests implications of this typology for the outcome of school decen tralization programs.


The title of this book is misleading as its scope is much wider than a single medical specialty. 'Hie content ranges from a review of public health and management in the NHS, to the NHS reforms of the 1990s, determinants of health, health policy and clinical effectiveness. The chapter titles are intriguing and challenging: "What is wrong with medicine?' and 'Is the NHS a success?' The text is also challenging - both the language and layout are dense and sometimes difficult, but it is worth the effort. There are bold but well-argued and thought-provoking assertions throughout, such as that the demand for health care could be managed within existing resources. It is a gripping read as much as a useful textbook.


This interview took place on the mellow afternoon of 8 April 1980, during the South African autumn, at Nadine Gordimer's home of many years in Parktown, a lush, old residential suburb of Johannesburg. The setting is familiar to many South African writers, for, although Gordimer avoids coverage of her very private life, her house is always open to those blacks and whites who have a little magazine to launch, a new manuscript to prepare for print, a practitioner's problem to solve. Gordimer is the doyenne of South African English letters. Her concern has always been that the literature should flourish despite the climate of repression that has created a daily struggle with censorship, bannings of books and people, police intervention, and financial hardships. For three decades, now, her firm support of the notion of freedom of expression in literature, a notion alien to the apartheid society, has been an inspirational touchstone to many. Although to her countrymen at large she might seem a remote figure-an intellectual stylist who has accumulated an international reputation, one who brings back home the big prizes no South African has won before-to the few peers she has within the country of her birth, she is reliably at the center of the tender and beleaguered literary scene, on call, ready with a strategy or a statement. A slight and elegant person, a grandmother at 57, Gordimer has in recent years had her inscrutable privacy invaded by the publicity following her joint winning of the Booker Prize for The Conservationist (1974) and the promotional hype attendant on the appearance of her Burger's Daughter in 1979. After a promotional tour for Jonathan Cape and for Viking-she appeared even on the Tonight Show-she was off again, this time to Belgium, to receive an hon-


Monitoring of reservoir production is a potential new application for Controlled Source Electromagnetics (CSEM). During water-assisted production, the water zone within the reservoir will gradually evolve with time, and accurate descriptions of its development would be very valuable for designing good production strategies. We present a sensitivity study on a model reservoir of CSEM model output wrt. changes in the electric conductivity distribution small enough to be relevant for reservoir monitoring. Issues related to instrumentation, data errors, modelling errors, and characteristic physical quantities for the reservoir, are considered.


The absorption of microwaves by both CO and N2O has been measured at a frequency of 9·75 GHz using a resonant cavity technique. The power absorption coefficients were measured at pressures up to 670 bars for CO at 20·5°C, 54 bars for 20 at 25°C, and 121 bars for N2O at 40°C. In all cases the power absorption coefficient was found to increase with density up to the highest pressures reached. The theory of Van Vleck and Weisskopf fails to account for the measured absorption except at low densities. At higher densities the measured absorption was in excess of that predicted by this theory and the discrepancy increased with increasing density. The theory of Ben-Reuven accounts for the absorption up to intermediate densities but at high densities it also predicts values which are smaller than the measured ones. However, it is possible to account for the measured absorption by considering it to be the sum of a resonant contribution, which is assumed to be given by the Van Vleck-Weisskopf theory, and a nonresonant collision-induced contribution which increases with density and is assumed to be the result of collisions so strong that rotation of the molecules is quenched.


INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, it is indicated that the anomaly of miRNAs in the tumor. Previous studies had shown that miRNAs could regulate the proliferation, invasion and migration of cancer cells-related processes. Mean while, current investigated shown that RAB23 also played an important role in cancer cells-related processes. But the potential mechanism was still unclear.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
The SW579 cell was selected and transfected with miR-597-3p mimics. Then the expression of miR-597-3p and RAB23 were measured by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Western blotting, respectively. Subsequently, the abilities of proliferation, invasion and migration of SW579 cell were researched. For further study, the Luciferase reporter assay proved that miR-597-3p could target the expression of RAB23, and the proteins of invasion and migration were also measured to clear the mechanism.

RESULTS
After transfected with miR-597-3p mimics, the expression of miR-597-3p was remarkably increased and RAB23 was significantly decreased. Then the abilities of proliferation, invasion and migration also significantly decreased. The miRTarase Database predicated and Luciferase reporter assay proved that RAB23 was the target gene of miR-597-3p. The expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2, MMP-9 and N-cadherin was down-regulated, and the expression of E-cadherin was up-regulated.

CONCLUSION
miR-597-3p could target regulating the expression of RAB23, and down-regulated the expression of MMP-2, MMP-9 and N-cadherin, the proliferation, invasion and migration abilities of SW579 cell were decreased.


This study aims to seek the defining trait of human nature according to Antonio Rosmini's perspective, comparing his work Del divino nella natura (The divine in nature) with On the Eternal in Man by the phenomenologist Max Scheler. A both methodological and theoretical convergence emerges from the comparison between the two systems of thought. Scheler's framework of thought provides a gateway to Rosmini's thought and it is useful in order to identify the key element of Rosmini's personalism in the «divine».


when faced with death. Can we take a wider view and look at how conception might be affected in the face of denied destructive impulses? Ambivalence of course is universal and currently heightened in the West by increasing women's freedom to pursue higher education and careers. Christie and Morgan treat couples in a group, couples that have failed to respond to individual treatment. In the group, regressive impulses can be played out and destructive impulses explored, understood and integrated. They go on to describe the group with infertile couples. Four couples were able to achieve immediate success with their first IVF treatment after inclusion in the group. All agreed that the group experience had a significant effect on the outcome. Christie and Morgan discuss how their function was more holding than with other groups, that trust grew quickly and their job seemed to be more to listen carefully than to analyse. They found that they did not work as much with the transference as they did in other analytic groups. They wondered if the group and their role is like a pregnancy in which they are required just to hold the baby carefully in order to discover the child within. Facilitating the birth of the mother was the unconscious reason behind their quietness. Christie and Morgan make a plea for all those working in the fields of infertility as well as those exploring psychological and socio-cultural factors to come together more and really listen to each other. 'Mind and body are not separate entities, they constitute a wholeness.' This book is a very good example of how such work in groups can come together with other approaches to infertility.


In modern seismic data acquisition, real-time data collection is a challenging task due to bandwidth limitations in wireless communications. In this letter, we propose a novel compressive data gathering scheme using generative adversarial networks, named GAN-CDG, to improve the efficiency of data gathering. Instead of collecting the originally acquired data, GAN-CDG gathers data projections in wireless geophone networks. Data compression and load-balanced relay transmission are utilized during the projection process. To speed up the formation of projections, the shortest path routing tree (SPRT) is constructed, which achieves the minimum end-to-end time delay. The sparse domain of seismic signals and its reconstruction mapping are learned by sparsity-constrained adversarial networks. The testing results demonstrate that projections with high compression ratios (e.g., 16) are gathered efficiently with the SPRT. Then, original seismic signals can be reconstructed accurately (over 30 dB) from the projections using the adversarial model, which outperforms the state-of-the-art method.


Objective To study the effect of MMP-8,TIMP-2 on protein expression of Ⅰ、Ⅲcollagen after myocardial infarction in rats and the intervention effects of captopril. Methods Rats survived from AMI induced by left anterior descending branch ligation were randomized to AMI control group(12 cases) and captopril treatment group(10 cases,i.g.10 mg·kg-1·d-1 24 h after operation).At the end of the forth week,the ventricular remodeling index,expression of myocardium MMP-8,TIMP-2 protein in left ventricular noninfarcted myocardium were examined by immunohistochemical analysis; type I and type Ⅲ collagen volume fraction (CVF) were analyzed by using polarized light with picrosirius red satining. Results Compared with sham-operated rats,the protein expression of MMP-8,TIMP-2 and MMP-8/TIMP-2 ratio in AMI control group were significantly increased (P0.01),but increasing extent of TIMP-2 was less than that of MMP-8.TypeⅠand Ⅲcollagen in the noninfarcted myocardium were increased subsequently (allP0.01),while left ventricular(LV) end diastolicpressure(LVEDP),relative weight(LVRW),right ventricular relative weight (RVRW) were significantly increased(all P0.01); whereas±dp/dt were significantly reduced(P0.01)at 4 weeks after AMI.In comparison with the AMI control group,the protein expression of MMP-8 ,the CVF of typeⅠ、Ⅲcollagen and MMP-8/ TIMP-2 ratio were in captopril treatment group were significantly reduced (all P0.01),while there were no significantly changes in the expression of TIMP-2.And LVEDP,LVRW,RVRW were lower as well (all P0.01).Whereas ±dp/d was significantly increased (P0.01) . Conclusion Captopril could not only inhibit the growth of typeⅠ、Ⅲcollagen in AMI and NIZ,but also reduce the MMP-8 expression and down-regulate the ratio of MMP-8/TIMP after AMI.


Atrazine, a herbicide used for the control of broadleaf weeds of different crops, was incorporated in ethylcellulose controlled release formulations (CRFs) by using the solvent evaporation technique. Allophanic clays and nanoclays were incorporated as matrix modifying agents. The formulations were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and their behavior was determined in aqueous phase. Dissipation studies and soil columns experiments with CRFs were also carried out, and compared with commercial formulations (CFs). In addition, a short-term bioassay was performed to evaluate the effect of CRFs and CFs on the emergence and growth of field mustard (Brassica campestris L.) under greenhouse conditions. The matrix modifiers (clays and nanoclays) showed little influence on the particle morphology and atrazine encapsulation efficiency. Furthermore, these matrix modifiers had a slight effect on the atrazine release into water, its dissipation and its behavior in soil compared with the formulation without them. All CRFs increased the atrazine herbicidal activity and reduced their loss by leaching in soil. Although some similarities were found in the efficiency to reduce the seedling emergence between CRFs and CFs, a greater death of seedlings was observed in the CRFs, especially when nanoclays were added into the formulation. These facts denote an advantage of CRFs over CFs due to prolonged bio-efficiency, and longer applications intervals will be produced, minimizing the harmful impact on the environment.


There is growing evidence of a significant gap between the designed thermal performance and the actual thermal performance of residential buildings. As heating and cooling energy accounts for approximately 40% of a building's total energy consum


Malinovskaya, AI Peculiarities of Nuclear Safety in the Implementation of Activities on the Use of Atomic Energy in the Republic of Belarus


This paper stresses the history of the Federal Highway Administration commitment to environmental and historic preservation, and describes the professionalization of state departments of transportation cultural resource staffs. The author also touches on changing perceptions of what kinds of properties should be considered historic.


In the rich history of Icelandic literature, the most famous literary genres are undoubtedly the medieval sagas and the contemporary criminal novels. However, those genres are as not as far from each other as one may think, since masterpieces of Icelandic medieval literature are sometimes summoned by contemporary authors, as is shown in The Flatey Enigma (Icelandic: Flateyjargáta), a criminal novel by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson which is built around the story and the contents of the Book of Flatey, a famous fourteenth Icelandic manuscript. The present article provides an analysis of the place and function of the manuscripts and the medieval texts it contains: the results obtained show that their main function is to help the development of the plot, although some intertextual references also have a didactic dimension, whereas others provide information about the relations between the characters and the Book of Flatey.


Professionalization of musicians is an ancient phenomenon that developed intensely from the end of the 17th century, when the opera genre appeared. The French public's taste for women's voices, particularly, and for theatrical truth (which excluded castratos), gave way to true divas, paid accordingly, maybe the first women to have had access to so-called prestigious professions. The Paris Conservatory of Music has welcomed both genders from its creation in 1795 onwards, enabling female singers and pianists to obtain a much relinquished diploma a hundred years before the School of Arts and seventy years before the university. Women's access to the other professions in music proved more difficult, as was the case for profession considered "male territory"; if soloist instrumentalists managed to be recognized over the centuries, orchestra instrumentalists, female directors and composers, first perceived as "exceptions", then as competitors, meet problems of legitimacy and discrimination even today. Women have invested in musical pedagogy at an early stage, though, because of the considerable weigh of recreational art, a necessary step in the education of women from the bourgeoisie, women teaching to women. Musical professions thus turn out to be an ideal observation field of the history of professional discriminations by gender.


The market mechanism of real estate industry is ineffective at present.The government should maintain the housing price on the stable basis,reduce the proportion of real estate tax in the local fiscal revenue,through increasing the coverage of social security housing,and adjusting the policy of structural tax abatement.The government should increase the supply of residential houses according to market demand,and control the housing loans delivery.After the related policies implementing,the housing price will decrease smoothly at a steady rate,and match the disposable income and real purchasing power gradually.


Short Take-off, Vertical Landing (STOVL) demonstrator concepts using a common ATF engine core are discussed. These concepts include a separate fan and core flow engine cycle, mixed flow STOVL cycles, separate flow cycles convertible to mixed flow, and reaction control system engine air bleed. STOVL propulsion controls are discussed.


It was shown in Chapter 6 that a critical size r* and saturation ratio S* must be exceeded for a small solution droplet to become a cloud droplet. Before and after the droplet reaches the critical size, it grows by diffusion of water molecules from the vapor onto its surface. The rate of diffusional growth of a single droplet is analyzed in this section. Later we shall consider the more realistic situation of many droplets simultaneously growing and competing for the available moisture.


A new planar isomer of HNC3 system,H-cCNC-C,is theoretically predicted by means of B3LYP and CCSD(T) methods.The suggested species can isomerize into other five kinetically more stable isomers,which have been experimentally identified,with relatively higher reaction barriers.In view of its higher kinetic stability,we can reasonably believe that the obtained species H-cCNC-C can be experimentally observed in future studies.


Objective:To establish a fast and effective new method for the analysis of the volatile compounds from Illicium verum Hook.f..Methods:The volatile compounds in fruit and leaf from Illicium verum were analyzed by static headspace-GC-MS,then separated and identified by GC-MS.Relative content of each volatile compounds was determined by area normalization.Results:There were 36 and 37 species of volatile compounds were identified in the headspace in fruit and leaf from Illicium verum,97.62% and 99.68% of the peak area were identified from the total volatile compounds peak area in the headspace of fruit and leaf.In the headspace,82.3%-90.2% of the peak area of volatile compounds was contributed by aromatic compounds,7.3%-17.3% of the peak area was contributed by terpenes,and there were only 0.4%-2.4% of the peak area was contributed by aliphatic compounds.RSD of this method was in the range of 2.11%-6.80%.Conclusion:This method has many advantages in analysis of volatile compounds from Illicium verum,with high precision,less sample consumption,no organic solvent extraction,and highly automatic analysis process.It can be applied for fast analysis and distinguish of the volatile compounds in fruit and leaf from Illicium verum,as well as in controlling the quality of materials by extract star anise oil.


Academic journals are mainly rated according to their impact factors. However, considering the enormous worldwide impact of social media, journals and potential authors may want to take social media impact into account.


The project of iodized salt in Yunnan is a national item and it has been began at 1994,for six years now. The project supports the aim of eliminating IDD in 2000 in Yunnan.


The objective of the research was to analyze the sediment dynamic during wet and dry seasons both in subaqueous and subaerial of Barito Delta. Barito Delta is located in southern part of Kalimantan Island. The delta boundaries are Barito River in the East, Kapuas Murung River in the West, Java Sea in the South and PulauPetak River in the North. The decline of forest land in the delta and in the catchment might increase the sediment supply for delta development. The data of the research were collected through field survey both in the subaqueous and in the subaerial. The equipment used in the research was sediment sampler for the subaqueous and hand auger for the subaerial. The sediments taken in both areas of subaqueous and subaerial were treated for grain size, sorting and skewness. The sediment deposition pattern was analyzed through Landsat imageries interpretation. The results proof that sediment grain size in subaqueous delta in wet season consisted of clay, silt, fine sand and medium sand. Sorting of sediment in wet season and dry season was poor-very poor. The skewness in wet season had the positive value in all samples while the skewness in dry season had partly negative value and partly positive value. Tidal and wave came from seaside had important role for sediment redistribution during dry season, especially along the Kapuas Murung River. The texture of sediment in subaerial was dominated by fine sediment with mottles due to the influence of quartz materials and tide fluctuation. Peat ripe status in Barito delta is sapric-peaty soil.


Peter Showler. Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 235 pp. $27.95 sc. There has long been a striking discrepancy between the controversy that surrounds the treatment of asylum seekers in Canada--especially by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), the independent, quasi-judicial body that hears claims for protection against persecution--and the paucity of works that add to our understanding of this policy area. Given his credentials, the author of Refugee Sandwich would appear to be very well-positioned to make an important contribution in this respect, and he does so in a most unexpected and marked way. Showier has worked as an immigration and refugee lawyer, been both a member of the IRB (1994-99) and its chairperson (1999-2002), and currently teaches immigration and refugee law at the University of Ottawa. Through these various experiences he has seen most every aspect of refugee determination in Canada at close quarters. However, rather than write an analysis of that process or a memoir of his experiences working within it, he has instead created a unique insider's account in the guise of a collection of short stories aimed at "illustrat[ing] the profoundly difficult process of communicating the experience of refugees within a judicial context, a difficulty that is shared by all participants" (xv). In taking this approach, Refugee Sandwich challenges any simplistic assessment of the work of the IRB, which tends in public discourse to be condemned for being either too generous or too cruel, and stimulates public debate on how the effectiveness and fairness of refugee determination could be increased. The bulk of the book consists of a baker's dozen of tales, fictionalized composites that draw on Showler's own experiences, which individually and collectively explore numerous complex ethical and procedural questions that can arise in deciding who deserves Canada's protection and who does not. Although the high-stakes nature of refugee determination readily lends itself to a dramatized style, the effectiveness of this approach depends on the author's ability not only to present a compelling and informed narrative, but also to lead readers themselves to experience "the great difficulty and sometimes impossibility of deciding refugee claims accurately" (210). And in this, Showler excels. Consider, for example, "Excluding Manuel." Manuel is a refugee claimant suspected of complicity in crimes against humanity while serving in the police force of an unnamed country. His case has already been heard once but "due to the inability of the Board and Minister to even approximate compliance with their own procedures" (20), his initial rejection has been quashed by the courts; seven years after his arrival in Canada, his case is about to be heard again. …


Anabaena variabilis (ATCC 29413) grown in batch cultures for 2 d exhibited rapid glycogen synthesis upon dilution of the cell suspension. The cellular polysaccharide concentration attained a maximum after 9-12 h growth in fresh medium and decreased thereafter. The growth rate, the rate of glycogen accumulation and the maximum amount of glycogen increased when light intensity was increased. Accumulation occurred with both N 2 and ammonia as N-sources. In cultures grown in the presence of ammonia, the increase in the cellular C-fraction upon dilution caused neither induction of nitrogenase nor heterocyst formation. However, ammonia depletion during subsequent growth gave rise to a second accumulation of glycogen followed by differentiation. Thus, in this phototroph, glycogen is synthesized without subsequent differentiation following an increase in average irradiation as long as the N-supply is mqintained. Glycogen synthesis following N-depletion, however, is accompanied by induction of nit rogenase. A polysaccharide with many of the features of a carbon and energy reserve is stored in cyanobacteria as discrete granules or rods located between the thylakoids. By staining and chemical analysis it has been shown to consist of D-glucose monomers and to resemble glycogen in structure and branching (for reviews see Smith, 1982; Allen, 1984). An accumulation of polysaccharides in microbes usually occurs as a result of limiting growth conditions in the presence of an excess source of carbon. Cyanobacteria accumulate glycogen when growth ceases because of the depletion of a nutrient such as nitrogen (Allen & Smith, 1969; Lehmann & Wober, 1976) or when grown under suboptimal temperature conditions (van Eykelenburg, 1980). However, two phototrophs, Rhodopseudomonas capsulata and Anabaena variabilis, have been shown to accumulate large amounts of glycogen during the exponential phase of growth (Eidels & Preiss, 1970; Ernst et al., 1984). Accumulation of products of photosynthesis is observed before nitrogenase induction (Kulasooriya et al., 1972; de Vasconcelos & Fay, 1974) and was shown to influence nitrogenase synthesis (Rippka & Stanier, 1978) and activity (Ernst et al., 1984). In addition a periodic accumulation of carbohydrates was observed when cyanobacterial cells were grown in a nutrient-sufficient turbidostat in light-dark cycles (van Liere et al., 1979; Kromkamp & Mur, 1984). As pointed out by Mur (1983), little is known about the regulation of reserve material synthesis in phototrophs and the possible adaptation of these organisms to periodic variations in light energy supply during diurnal cycles. This study, for the first time, provides evidence for glycogen accumulation …


Wheat stripe rust, an airborne fungal disease and caused by Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. tritici (Pst), is one of the most devastating diseases on wheat. It is the most effective and economical measure for the diseases control to identify high-level resistance genes and apply in wheat breeding. Chinese wheat cultivar Xike01015 presents high levels of all stage resistance (ASR) to the current predominant Pst race CYR33. In this study, a single dominant gene, designated as YrXk, was identified in Xike01015 conferring resistance to CYR33 with genetic analysis of F2 and BC1 population from cross of Mingxian169 (susceptible) and Xike01015. The specific length amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) strategy was used to construct linkage map in the F2 population. QTL analysis mapped YrXk to a 12.4 Mb segment on chromosome1BS, explaining over 86.96% phenotypic variance. Gene annotation in the QTL region identified three differential expressed candidate genes , TraesCS1B02G168600.1, TraesCS1B02G170200.1, and TraesCS1B02G172400.1. The qRT-PCR results displayed that TraesCS1B02G170200.1 and TraesCS1B02G168600.1 significantly up-regulated and down-regulated, respectively, and TraesCS1B02G170200.1 slightly up-regulated after changed with CYR33 in the seedling stage, which indicating these genes may function in wheat resistance to stripe rust. The results of this study can be used in wheat breeding for improving resistance to stripe rust.


This study aims to research religious education in childhood. The typical youth Christian education includes Sunday school and Children Ministry which exhibit a cradle of Christian culture. Through Judaism historical review, religious educations in their childhood play an important role in Jewish culture, which support they overcome tremendous and inhuman persecution. Thus, Judaism education makes a good example of Christ in their childhood education. This study, thus, explores these activities of Baptist Churches in Chung Hsing New Village (Nantou City, Taiwan) to analyze their social function and position in this social atmosphere. Through 10 month field study, this work finds some important variety which affects religious education in childhood. In terms of the macro environment, the religious education which composes by the missionary, place, follower, and teaching materials were affected by the system of socioeconomic, political, civil education. On the other hands, the micro perspective, the contemporary Christian education should consider the educational theory and training procedure. Therefore, religious education not only cultivates religious faith but also teach the knowledge, value, and attitude. The ministry plays a critical role in this system. The priority of Sunday school to a ministry is a major factor in Christian education. Second, social connection of the church is another factor. More specifically, to arrange or develop some domestic and useful training courses for community are crucial for this educational system. Meanwhile, more than Christian Bible teaching, life counseling of follower is important implantation. Mutual benefit was occurring in this religious community when ministry and follower keep a good connection.


Abstract The densities of N(p-n-pentyloxy benzylidene) p-ethylaniline and N(p-n-hexyloxy benzylidene) p-ethylaniline are measured as a function of temperature from the isotropic liquid to the smectic G phase. Both the compounds exhibit enantiotropic smectic G and nematic liquid crystalline phases. The changes in density across the phase transformations and the thermal expansion coefficient confirm the order of the transitions as of first order. The particular importance of the smectic G to nematic transformation is apparent from the density jump across the transition. An estimate of the pressure dependence of the isotropic-nematic transition temperature is found to be in reasonable accord with the literature data.


The loss of rotational inertia in the future power systems motivate the need to find new technical solutions for this challenge. Many solution have emerged in last years based on power converters with emulation of inertia. In this paper, we explore the concept of distributed virtual inertia (DVI) by investigating a new control method that use the common DC bus capacitors in the DC link of the converter as a buffer of energy to provide an equivalent mechanical inertial response. Using time-domain simulations with a detailed two-stage Photovoltaic (PV) inverter, we observe and discuss the benefits in the grid frequency.


This article is a doctoral thesis cut, which is a case study focusing on the 15th Regional Coordination of Education (CRE) of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The study culminates with the indicative proposition for the elaboration of a proposal of a Math curriculum for the Final Years of Elementary School of the referred institution. This article aims to reflect upon the conception of Curriculum, Competence and Curriculum that prioritizes the development of skills, it also seeks to identify competences that, according to the authors studied, are fundamental for teachers so that they can provide activities that enable students to develop pursed skills, it finally presents the analysis of the activities carried out to characterize the region of the 15th CRE regarding its educational aspect. The survey with 6th to 9th grade elementary school math teachers from 15th CRE, pointed out lack of clarity on the part of teachers regarding the definitions of curriculum and competence, and also that the teaching of Mathematics proposed in schools prioritizes teaches' expository form of teaching and students' individualized instruction and that the most used resources in Mathematics classes are the textbook, blackboard and chalk.


The growth of SrLaGaO 4 and SrLaAlO 4 crystals on (100) and (001) oriented seeds was investigated. Various defects, which appeared in crystals grown on these two orientations, were observed in polarized light and by X-ray diffraction topography. It was found that to obtain a substrate of the best quality, the crystal should be cut along the growth directions. Therefore, crystals pulled along (100) direction are utilized for preparation of (001) substrates, whereas (100) substrates are better to cut from crystals grown on (001) seed. The quality of the prepared substrates was determined by high resolution X-ray diffraction study in terms of rocking curve and mean mosaic angle. PACS numbers: 81.10.Fq, 68.35.Bs, 61.50.Ks


The traditional concept of mean beam length (MBL) and its recommended empirical expression are demonstrated to be inaccurate for general application for the evaluation of multi-dimensional non-gray radiative heat transfer. A new concept, namely Point Mean Beam Length (PMBL), is proposed and the formulation of PMBL is provided. The mathematical properties of PMBL for three common geometries including sphere, cylinder, and slab are presented. Results show that PMBL is more effective in generating an accurate evaluation of radiative heat transfer from a differential area to any finite area at the boundary of an enclosure with an isothermal absorbing/emitting medium. The deficiency of the traditional mean beam length empirical expression is illustrated. A concept of "optimal" point mean beam length (OPMBL) is demonstrated to be a more accurate length scale for practical applications. In contrast to the traditional MBL, a single value of OPMBL is applicable for all gas absorption bands, independent of the strength and shape of the absorption bands. The proposed work provide a mathematically validated approach to efficiently and accurately evaluate the radiation heat transfer within an isothermal, non-gray, multi-dimensional medium.


The article discusses the sacred natural places of Estonia from a regional perspective, outlining the two main regions - sea-oriented and inland. Regionality is most clearly expressed in the distribution of hiis sites - a phe- nomenon characteristic of sea-related areas. There are also other phenomena bound with specific areas, such as the distribution of natural healing places, farmstead offering places, natural offering places related to the cult of Tonis/ Tennus and cross-signed trees. The Orthodox Setomaa region is a distinctive area due to confessional and cultural factors. Besides presenting a general sur- vey of the sources, the article also touches upon the reasons for the emergence of regional differences, outlining geographical, historical, and confessional factors. Regional differences in sacred natural places greatly correspond to other re- gional peculiarities which can be observed in the traditional popular culture. Sacred natural places exist in different parts of the world and have generally much in common (Bradley 2000: 14-32). The concept of sacredness can be con- nected with most different natural objects: trees, groves, forests, boulders, rocks, stones, caves, springs, rivers, lakes, etc. depending on the local natural conditions in the area. In form and functions the sacred natural places are greatly similar in the whole Eastern Baltic area and such is the situation also within Estonia: sacred trees, stones, and springs are widespread all over the country. When investigating deeper into this seeming uniformity, however, a far more diverse picture with more or less clearly expressed regional peculiarities can be observed. In spite of its small area, the territory of Estonia is not homo- geneous in character. Regional differences exist both concerning the appear- ance of the sacred natural places, as well as in their meanings, names and related traditions. These differences are not of random origin and character but are conditioned by certain geographical and natural preconditions, as well as by historical, cultural, and religious factors. The question of regional varia- tions, however, has not deserved much special attention in former research. In the main general works on Estonian folk religion the sacred natural places


For for all zv in the unit disc and all complex numbers av for n = 1, 2,.. zv = z" replace (zv zM)/( f(zv) /(z")) by l/f'(zv). This theorem can be proved by an extension by Goluzin's method [2] of using Löwner's differential equation [4] to prove the Grunsky inequalities. Using (1), it is easy to find the bounds on the coefficients of the inverse function ƒ (w) for all functions ƒ as described in Theorem 1. (This problem was first solved by Löwner [4].) By the same method, the following theorem can be proved.


Arbitrary fractional order integrator can be designed by a method of constructing the rational approximation function in the form of continued product. This paper takes half order integrator as an example to exhibit the design process. The circuit is made up of level-N active operational amplifier network in which the size of N is equal to the order of rational function. Since the rational approximation function in the form of continued product consists of several first order damp elements and first derivative elements, it will greatly simplify the design process of fractional integrator. It only needs four different resistors and a series of regular capacitors. Thanks to the properties, the fractional integrator can be easily manufactured for industrial production and commercial purpose. It shows that the designed fractional integrator based on the proposed method is rational through performance simulations comparison with other methods and the test by Multisim 10.


1. An electric toothbrush comprising a hollow handle in which is located an electric motor, a head with a movable bristle holder, on which the bristles, a neck extending between the handle and the head, and a neck extending through said drive shaft indicating a longitudinal axis and connecting said motor with movable bristle holder, wherein the drive shaft comprises at least one spring element.2. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the spring element is part of the drive vala.3. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the spring element and the drive shaft are made of same materiala.4. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the spring element and the drive shaft are made of different materialov.5. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the spring element is a spring with linear harakteristikoy.6. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the drive shaft is mounted for reciprocating or rotary motion during operation motora.7. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the drive shaft comprises a first spring member and second spring element.8. Electric toothbrush according to claim 7, characterized in that the stiffness of the first spring element differs from the stiffness of the second spring elementa.9. Electric toothbrush according to claim 1, characterized in that the spring element is configured so that when an excessive load on the movable bristle carrier during operation of the toothbrush spring member undergoes repetitive


The article is devoted to the analysis of the current state of financial investments, highlighting the key trends in the development of the financial investment market in Russia. The main objective of the article is to analyze the current situation related to financial investments in Russian enterprises. The methodological basis of the study is based on the use of a systematic approach to assessing the current state of financial investments of economic entities, the application of methods of theoretical analysis and generalization, of monographic description, statistical and graphical analysis. As a result of the study, judging by the types of economic activity, significant structures of financial investments have been identified, and industries, which are more or less attractive to investors, have been revealed.


By using of artificial sample,the influence of different thickness and properties of metallic paintcoat on ultrasonic testing is determined.It is proved that the quantitative relation between paintcoat thickness and assessed increment caused by paintcoat thickness provides accurate fixed data for safety evaluation of hydraulic metal structure.