Abstract. A local convergence result is provided for the continuous ana-log of Newton's method in a Banach space setting. The radius of conver-gence is larger, the error bounds tighter, and under the same or weakerhypotheses than before [12]. 1. IntroductionIn this study we are concerned with the problem of approximating a locallyunique solution x ? of equationF(x) = 0; (1)where Fis a Frechet{di erentiable operator de ned on a closed subset Dof areal Hilbert space Xwith values in a Hilbert space Y.A large number of problems in applied mathematics and also in engineeringare solved by nding the solutions of certain equations. For example, dynamicsystems are mathematically modeled by di erence or di erential equations, andtheir solutions usually represent the states of the systems. For the sake of sim-plicity, assume that a time{invariant system is driven by the equation _x= T(x),for some suitable operator T, where xis the state. Then the equilibrium statesare determined by solving equation (1). Similar equations are used in the caseof discrete systems. The unknowns of engineering equations can be functions(di erence, di erential, and integral equations), vectors (systems of linear ornonlinear algebraic equations), or real or complex numbers (single algebraicequations with single unknowns). Except in special cases, the most commonlyused solution methods are iterative{when starting from one or several initialapproximations a sequence is constructed that converges to a solution of theequation. Iteration methods are also applied for solving optimization problems.In such cases, the iteration sequences converge to an optimal solution of theproblem at hand. Since all of these methods have the same recursive structure,


We discuss concurrent multiscale simulations of the dynamic and temperature-dependent behavior of sub-micron MEMS, especially micro-resonators. The coupling of length scales methodology we have developed employs an atomistic description of small but key regions of the device, consisting of millions of atoms, coupled concurrently to a finite element model of the periphery. This novel technique accurately models the behavior of the mechanical components of MEMS down to the atomic scales. This paper addresses general issues involved in this kind of multiscale simulation, with a particular emphasis on how finite elements can be extended to ensure a reliable model as the mesh spacing is refined to the atomic scale. We discuss how the coupling of length scales technique has been sued to identify atomistic effects in sub-micron resonators.


The shapes of quartz and feldspar grains in metamorphic rocks are among the most reliable criteria for determining parental rock-types. Rational faces and elongate crystals of feldspar, especially with oscillatory zoning, indicate an igneous precursor, and residual faces and embayments in quarlz indicate a volcanic precursor Simple twinning in K-feldspar indicates a magmatic origin, and aligned crystals of feldspar indicate magmatic flow. Quartz and plagioclase inciusions are useful for distinguishing between phenocrysts and porphyroblasts of K-feldspar in metamorphic terranes. K-feldspar phenocrysts are characterized by zonally arranged inclusions, whereas K-feldspar porphyroblasts are characterized by spherical inclusions ofquartz and plagioclase, either at random or arranged in ffails that reflect an overgrown foliation Inclusions of quartz and feldspar tend to be spherical in metamorphic porphyroblasts (e.g., staurolite), even where the boundary between the porphyroblast and quarlz or feldspar in the matrix is a rational face, which may be due to absence of fluid along the hosrinclusion boundary, compared with its accumulation along the advancing porphyroblast-matrix boundary The following microstructural criteria, preserved best in less deformed migmatites,indicateanatecticleucosome (1)CrystalfacesofK-feldsparorplagioclasemayoccuragainstquarlz (2)Inclusion trails are absent, in contrast to grains of the same minerals in the mesosome (3) Overgrowths free of inclusion trails may occur on minerals with inclusion trails (a.g., K-feldspar, cordierite). (4) Simple twinning may occur in K-feldspar, which appears to be diagnostic of crystallization of K-feldspar in a melt, rather than in the solid state.


In this paper, a flipped staired equilateral triangular pyramid DRA is presented. The proposed antenna is placed on rectangular slot of a ground plane and excited by a microstrip line to give a wide 10-dB impedance bandwidth of 36% between X-band and Ku-band. The antenna has an average gain of 7dbi with a variation of 2dBi across impedance passband. Also, the antenna exhibit broadside radiation pattern as expected. This study was done using CST Microwave studio software.


jF any member of the profession were to ask the age at which one is most likely to find gall-stones in a patient, the answer would probably be, "Possibly between forty and fifty, but most cases occur in old people, i.e., in those over fifty or even sixty." Mayo Robson,I says, "Although gall-stones may occur at any age, they are rarely found under the age of twenty-five or thirty." Schroeder has it that under the age of twenty the percentage is 2"4; from twenty to thirty, 3'2; from thirty to forty, 11P5; from forty to fifty, 111; from fifty to sixty, 9'9; over sixty, 25*2 per cent. Mayo,2 in the article on gall-bladder in Keen's "System of Surgery," says, "Nearly 50 per cent. of all the cases are people above forty years of age." Rolleston3 thinks that, "The majority of patients with cholelithiss are over forty years of age, and it is rare before thirty," while A. 0. J. Kelly, in Osler's4 "System of Medicine," says, "Seventyfive per cent. or more of the cases are found in persons over forty yea of age, and less than 1 per cent. in those under twenty years." Being under the impression that gall-stones were rare in the young, I was somewhat surprised when I had two cases in one year in my expenence at the Toronto General Hospital, in girls, eighteen and seventeen years of age, respectively. Briefly the history of these cases was as follows: The first case, M. E., aged eighteen, was admitted to the hospital on September 4th, 1909. Acute appendicitis was diagnosed, and an immediate appendicectomy was performed by the writer. Seventeen days later her acute symptoms increased again, and a cholecystotomy was performed, and ten gallstones were removed. She made an uneventful recovery. The second case, E. D., aged seventeen years, German, was admitted on September 2nd, 1910. Here, again, the diagnosis of acute


Coherent optical interconnects with up to 400-Gbps transmission rates and distances exceeding 80 km have been proposed to meet the increasing capacity demand of inter-datacenter communications. The interplay between the fiber Kerr effect and the receiver noise posses an upper-bound to the transmission distance. In this paper, we used numerical simulations to find the maximum achievable range of 400-Gbps unrepeated singlewavelength links with single and dual polarization. Simulations reveal that, for a forward error correction code limit of 10-3, the maximum distance is 145 km for dual-polarization, which can be used as a benchmark to assess the transmitter/receiver-induced penalties. Keywords— Optical interconnects; Digital coherent optical communications; Kerr effect.


The strong demand for complex and high performance multicore system-on-chips (MCSoCs) requires quick turn around design methodology and high performance cores. Thus, there is a clear need for new methodologies supporting efficient and fast design of these systems on complex platforms implementing both hardware and software modules. This chapter starts first with an introduction about MCSoCs systems. Then a scalable core-based methodology for systematic design environment of application specific heterogeneous MCSoCs is given. The last part describes a high performance and low power synthesizable Queue core (QC-2) targeted for application specific multicore systems.


improve the performance of 75 of the state's lowest performing schools. These efforts followed two prior rounds of school reform—the first in response to a court order and the second initiated as a part of Race to the Top (RttT) funded efforts. This research brief summarizes the effects of NCT on student achievement growth, teacher turnover, and principal turnover, and concludes with some lessons learned that may be applicable to the state's plans to support low-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). IMPACT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TRANSFORMATION (NCT) INITIATIVE TO REFORM LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS 2015-16 through 2016-17


Erwinia amylovora [(Burr.) Winslow et al. 1920], the causative agent of fire blight disease, threatens some species of the Rosaceae family. In chemical control, preparations based on copper compounds are most frequently applied, but these can be phytotoxic and not effective enough, hence other alternatives need to be considered. In our experiment, thirty-four essential oils obtained from different plants were tested for their antimicrobial effectiveness against the fire blight pathogen. Screening was conducted in vitro on agar plates contaminated by E. amylovora. The strongest inhibitory effect (i.e. complete bacterial inhibition) was shown by essential oils from Mellisa officinalis, Mentha arvensis, Origanum compactum, O. vulgare and Thymus vulgaris. An inhibitory effect more than 50% higher than the standard was shown by essential oils from Eugenia caryophyllata, Mentha pulegium, and Nepeta cataria. An inhibitory effect up to 50% higher than the standard was found in essential oils from Artemisia absinthium, Citrus aurantifolia, Lavandula latifolia, Melaleuca quinqunervia, Mentha citrata, M. spicata, Ocimum basilicum, Pelargonium graveolens, P. roseum, Rosmarinus officinalis, Salvia sclarea, Thuja occidentalis and Tsuga canadensis. An antimicrobial effect comparable to the standard was found in essential oils from Amyris balsamifera, Citrus limonum, Juniperus communis, J. virginiana, Origanum majorana, Salvia officinalis, Tagetes bipinata and Thymus matschiana. Standard employed was oxychloride-Cu 84% (0.84 g/ l), it had a weak inhibitory effect. The essential oils from Acorus calamus, Lavandula angustifolia and Zingiber officinale had a lower inhibitory effect than the standard. The essential oils of two plant extracts from Abies siberica and Pogostemon cablin had no effect on the growth of E. amylovora. Five of the most effective essential oils appear promising for the development of potential bio-pesticides. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________


A method of forming a graphene (G) by the graphite delamination, method, to provide a graphite sample (10) having an atomic layer of carbon (11); salt space (9) between the atomic layers ( 12) and a solvent (14) introducing a; separating the atomic layer by using and driving force (45); solvent and using ions and organic molecules from the salt, widen the space between the atomic layer comprises forming the one or more graphene sheets. Forming a solar cell (70) using the graphene that is created by the method, it is carried out DNA analysis, and other electrical, can be used optically, and biological applications. .FIELD 1a


To advance the storage performance in grids,it is needed to study the load balance strategy.A new load balancing strategy based on data access is presented for grids of heterogeneous storage units.The energy model is developed to describe the data access load on storage units.The new placement method coupled with data access is used to minimize the load migration cost.Making and reclaiming duplications optimizes data accessing.Simulation results showed that the efficiency of the new strategy is higher than that of the disk cooling strategy by 20%.


Light does not nourish men. —Johann Herder1 I. Introduction In The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism, Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt elaborate on the concept of "culturalism." In Telos 163 (Summer 2013), Eriksen continues to analyze its intricacies under the heading "Culturalism: When the Culture becomes Political Ideology."2 Horizontal class divisions are out, vertical cultural barriers are in. Seemingly, culture has squeezed out all other concepts. The present essay shall broaden this discussion by asking the question: What is the relation between the Counter-Enlightenment of the early nineteenth century and today's culturalism? Culturalism refers to two opposite and yet surprisingly similar…


The electro-optical device substrate is provided with a TFT for switching a pixel connected thereto, and pixel electrodes on the substrate. The TFT is a P-channel type TFT of the SOI structure having no body contact. Thus, by establishing the appropriate at the same time a relatively high-performance transistor to widen the aperture region of each pixel in each pixel, and to perform a bright image display of high quality.


This paper is concerned with the time variation of the RF magnetization of a ferrite biased to resonance and subject to a first-order spin wave instability. Two methods of a fully experimental measurement of the spin wave relaxation rates are derived from the theoretical results. Experiments are given which were performed in a nonresonant device in order to avoid spurious transient signals. The experimental results of the two methods are shown to be in very good agreement. These results, together with the measurement of the critical field, allow experimental determination of the spin wave-uniform mode coupling constant. In addition, some results of a computer analysis of the entire process are presented and compared to experimental results.


The analysis of data from social media sites can provide useful decision-making information for businesses; however, can small businesses with limited budgets and limited technical expertise compete in this new social media driven market? This study provides a proof of concept for increasing a company's competitive knowledge through the use of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) framework model by gathering qualitative data about the use of social media from employee interviews. By increasing the competitive knowledge through evaluating the results of the SWOT analysis, this small start-up company will have a strategic plan for increasing their competitive advantage. The authors present the results of the study in the form of practical recommendations for short-term and long-term implementation. Several of the shortterm and long-term recommendations are substantiated through prior research studies. Future research could include a follow-up study of this company using a SWOT framework tool or other methodologies to indicate what social media tools and strategies provide the most beneficial competitive knowledge for a small business, and why. Additionally, comparing the results from this study with a similar study of a different small start-up business could lead to the design of a model for other small businesses trying to increase their competitive knowledge through the effective use of social media.


OF DISSERTATION UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING LITHIUM ION BATTERIES THROUGH MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS There is an intense, worldwide effort to develop durable lithium ion batteries with high energy and power densities for a wide range of applications, including electric and hybrid electric vehicles. For improvement of battery technology understanding the capacity fading mechanism in batteries is of utmost importance. Novel electrode material and improved electrode designs are needed for high energyhigh power batteries with less capacity fading. Furthermore, for applications such as automotive applications, precise cycle-life prediction of batteries is necessary. One of the critical challenges in advancing lithium ion battery technologies is fracture and decrepitation of the electrodes as a result of lithium diffusion during charging and discharging operations. When lithium is inserted in either the positive or negative electrode, there is a volume change associated with insertion or de-insertion. Diffusioninduced stresses (DISs) can therefore cause the nucleation and growth of cracks, leading to mechanical degradation of the batteries. With different mathematical models we studied the behavior of diffusion induces stresses and effects of electrode shape, size, concentration dependent material properties, pre-existing cracks, phase transformations, operating conditions etc. on the diffusion induced stresses. Thus we develop tools to guide the design of the electrode material with better mechanical stability for durable batteries. Along with mechanical degradation, chemical degradation of batteries also plays an important role in deciding battery cycle life. The instability of commonly employed electrolytes results in solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation. Although SEI formation contributes to irreversible capacity loss, the SEI layer is necessary, as it passivates the electrode-electrolyte interface from further solvent decomposition. SEI layer and diffusion induced stresses are inter-dependent and affect each-other. We study coupled chemical-mechanical degradation of electrode materials to understand the capacity fading of the battery with cycling. With the understanding of chemical and mechanical degradation, we develop a simple phenomenological model to predict battery life. On the experimental part we come up with a novel concept of using liquid metal alloy as a self-healing battery electrode. We develop a method to prepare thin film liquid gallium electrode on a conductive substrate. This enabled us to perform a series of electrochemical and characterization experiments which certify that liquid electrode undergo liquid-solid-liquid transition and thus self-heals the cracks formed during deinsertion. Thus the mechanical degradation can be avoided. We also perform ab-initio calculations to understand the equilibrium potential of various lithium-gallium phases.


A novel Pd capillary membrane microreactor for one-step hydroxylation of benzene to phenol was synthesized and investigated to showcase the effectiveness of 'Niwa concept'. Reaction parameters including H2/O2 ratio and temperature were systematically studied for their effects on benzene conversion and phenol yield. A detailed examination of different membrane reactors, feed mode and long-term reaction stability was also conducted. Pd capillary membrane displayed good stability for low temperature separation and reaction due to the excellent anchorage of Pd layer into the porous α-alumina support. An optimum H2/O2 ratio was identified at 473 K with the benzene conversion of 19.6% and phenol yield of 18.1%. An increase in reaction temperature caused not only an increase in benzene conversion but also a decrease in phenol selectivity. A comparison between our work and the literature results was also made to discuss the feasibility of the membrane reactor concept. Experimental results proved that narrow flow channels and larger Pd membrane surface area-to-volume ratios provided more effective area of Pd interface and promoted the radial diffusion of reactants, enabling the reactive species more opportunities to react directly with benzene resulting in high benzene conversion.


. The article states that the methodology of tax administration is an important aspect of any tax system, and its continuous improvement is important in ensuring the effective collection, compliance and fairness of taxes. This article examines the main problems encountered in the methodology of tax administration and suggests a strategy for improvement. In order to solve these problems, several strategies for improving the tax administration methodology are proposed. By addressing these challenges and implementing the proposed strategies, tax administrations can improve their efficiency, encourage voluntary compliance, and optimize revenue collection. The improved methodology of tax administration helps to create a fair and efficient tax system that supports economic growth and sustainable development.


The increased popularity of the label "cultural" within science studies, especially in relation to "cultural studies, " invites consideration of how it is and can be used in historical work. A lot more seems now to be invested in the notion of "cultural history. " This article examines some recent historiography of science as a means of considering what counts as cultural history in that domain and attempts to coordinate it with the sociologically informed studies of the past ten orfifteen years. The label "sociocultural" seems a more useful term by which to capture recent developments.


This paper analyses the weakness of common pressing line plate ,introduces designation and application effects for a kind of pressing line plate for a special use mainly to repair opening trough like motor stator.


A sufficient condition for the cartesian product of a finite family of equipotent finite sets to have elements without repetitions is given, and some application is discussed.


Factors comprising the metabolic syndrome occur with increased incidence in post‐menopausal women. To investigate the effects of ovarian failure (OF) on the metabolic syndrome female B6C3F1 mice were fed a high‐fat diet (HF) and treated with VCD (which causes OF by selectively destroying ovarian pre‐antral follicles). After 12 weeks, HF/VCD mice gained more weight than cycling HF mice (HF/VCD 46.8±1 vs HF 41.3±1g, P<0.05), had an impaired glucose tolerance (AUC HF/VCD 17378±1140 vs HF 13455±643 mg/dl*min, P<0.05), had significantly higher insulin levels (HF/VCD 10.1±1 vs HF 5.4±1 ng/ml, P<0.05) and were more insulin resistant than HF cycling mice (HOMA/IR HF/VCD 113 ±20 vs HF 56 ±17 mg/dl* μU/ml, P<0.05). Both HF groups were hypercholesterolemic (HF 255±6, HF/VCD 258±10, vs Con 148±4 mg/dl). In addition, even when on a normal diet, ovarian failure alone induced an impaired glucose tolerance which was reversed with estrogen replacement (AUC VCD 141444±937 vs cycling 11160±1101 mg/dl*min, P<0.05). The VCD model of menopause provides a physiologically relevant means of studying the effects of ovarian failure on the progression of the metabolic syndrome.


The effect of different doses of synthetic antioxidant b-(4-hydroxy- 3,5-ditertbutylphenyl), propionic acid (phenosan) and savory essential oil on the development of spontaneous leukemia was studied. The drug efficiency was determined from the survival curves, animal life spans, and the incidence of leukemia. Phenosan is characterized by clear antitumor activity in therapeutic (10 -4 mol/kg) and ultra-low (10 -14 mol/kg) doses. The dose of 10 -14 mol/kg increases the life span. The savory essential oil in low doses mixed with drinking water (150 ng/ml) or food (2,5 mg/g) increased the average lifetime of mice by 20-35 %. The low doses of these drugs seem promising as preventive drugs.


Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a very common malignancy especially in male in Sarawak. Majority of the patients presented late and were diagnosed late with very poor prognosis. As early diagnoses help improve survival, a retrospective studies was done on the NPC patients treated in Sarawak General Hospital (SGH), Sarawak, over a period of 4 years form 1999 to 2003. This included 213 patients, 145 males and 68 females. 85% had late presentation and 61% survived up to 4 years at the time of interview. Among many factors identified, the main ones were related to patients themselves being unaware of NPC and its seriousness, the relative painlessness of the NPC, and the inclination of the patients seeking traditional medicine first. Other factors though relatively minor in percentages of the patients are however significant as they are so many and do have cumulative effects. These are therefore equally just as important to be addressed. Source of support: Short Term Grant, University Malaysia Sarawak INTRODUCTION Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common cancers in Malaysia1. It tops the list of common male malignancies in Sarawak2,3,4. Preliminary studies of ENT patients seen in the ENT Department of Sarawak General Hospital (SGH), Sarawak, over the past few years indicate that majority of the NPC cases tend to present late in the advanced stages5,6 which are stages 3 and 4 in the TNM staging. These late presentations have greatly affected the patient survival7. The five year survivals for stages 3 and 4 are 55% and 45% respectively whereas those for stages 1 and 2 are 95% and 85% respectively7. As with all cancers, the best way to improve the survival is early diagnosis and treatment. It is therefore important to know the factors of late presentation and diagnosis with the hope that these factors once identified could be corrected towards early diagnosis. Therefore a retrospective studies was done in NPC patients diagnosed and treated in SGH over the 4 years from 1999 to 2003. METHOD The study was concentrated on the patients residing in the 2 districts Kuching and Serian and diagnosed and treated in SGH Sarawak. Their clinical records were examined for clinical history, physical findings, histology diagnosis, staging, treatment and progress. This was followed up by telephone calls to the patients or their relatives or close friends. When sufficient data were not available on their records and telephone calls, personal interviews with the patients and or their relatives or close friends, or interviews with their relatives of the deceased patients, were conducted. Moreover, health care providers who consisted of the local doctors and medical assistants who referred the patients to the ENT Department SGH were also telephoned or personally interviewed. Subsequently some staff of the pathology and radiotherapy departments were also called or interviewed for clarification of the delay factors. The NPC histology was classified according to World Health Organization into the three histology types (WHO I, WHO II, and WHO III ) and the staging according to TNM staging system UICC (1987)9. Early presentation is when the staging is TNM stage 1 or 2 (early stages)and late presentation TNM stage 3 or 4 (advanced stages). The patients qualified for this studies were the ones who had definite histological diagnosis during the period 1999-2003, residential addresses in the districts of Kuching and Serian, and sufficient clinical data from clinical records and interviews. Factors Of Late Presentation And Diagnosis Of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma In Sarawak Malaysia 2 of 5 During the period of data analysis, some patients' clinical notes were re-examined for defaulters and other possible delays in diagnosis and treatment. Some questions of concern on delay in histo-pathological diagnosis and initiation of NPC treatment with radiotherapy and or adjunctive therapies were directed to the appropriate staff members concerned as well as checking on patients' clinical records. RESULTS 213 NPC patients were found qualified in this study. 116 of them resided in Kuching and 96 Serian. There were 145 males and 68 females. 15% (32/213) had early presentation and 85% (181/213) late presentation. 61% of them (130) having been diagnosed up to 4 years ago were alive at the time of interview. The various findings in relation to many factors are shown on the figures presented below. Figure 1 showed the duration of presenting symptoms at the time of presentation to local professionals (medical attendants or doctors), duration of appointment time to see ENT Specialists in Department of ENT SGH, duration from biopsy taken to histo-pathological diagnosis made in SGH and in non-SGH (private) laboratories, and duration of histopathological diagnosis made to commencement of radiotherapy (RTX). Figure 1 Figure 1 shows in days the durations of presenting symptoms, appointment time referred to SGH ENT Department, time when histo-pathology diagnosis known after biopsy (by SGH and Non-SGH pathologists) and time to start radiotherapy when histo-pathology diagnosis known. Bx: biopsy, Dx: diagnosis, RTX: Radiotherapy. Three major factors in late presentations in large percentage of patients were found in this series. They are: 153 patients being unaware of the seriousness of NPC (72%) 64 patients having no pain (30%) 51 patients seeking traditional treatment first and therefore the delay (24%) Minor factors of late presentation in few percentages of th patients are: Patient unable to travel as no one able to bring 1. Patient going overseas on business but told of 2. seriousness on return Patient no money to travel for referral 3. Patient knowing cancer but not knowing cancer 4. could kill Factors Of Late Presentation And Diagnosis Of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma In Sarawak Malaysia 3 of 5 Patient thought symptoms due to usual sickness 5. Patient not feeling sick 6. Miscommunication despite urgent on referral form 7. Patient thought symptom due to old age 8. Patient wished for traditional treatment despite 9. advice otherwise Patient defaulted despite early appointment 10. Patient refused referral due to fear of operations 11. Patient not believing in western medicine 12. Patient fear of going to hospital 13. Patient too busy of occupation despite advice 14. otherwise Local doctor referral not urgent 15. Local doctor not aware of seriousness 16. Medical attendants not aware of seriousness 17. Serian NPC Clinic too long waiting 18. SGH ENT Clinic too long waiting 19. Relatively longer time biopsy to histo-pathological 20. report in SGH Cytology/histology uncertainty report and 21. therefore repeating and delaying Patient no money for private biopsy 22. Local medical attendants and doctors being 23. unaware of the seriousness of NPC Local medical attendants and doctors making 24. wrong diagnosis or referrals initially Overloading or understaffing of Pathology 25. Department SGH Overloading or understaffing of Radiotherapy 26. Department SGH Breakdown of laboratory equipments and 27. radiotherapy machine DISCUSSION Duration of presenting symptoms from onset ranged from 2 to 1460 days (mean 176 days). It is disappointing that patients had waited on the average of 6 months before seeing the medical professionals (Medical attendants and doctors). There are many factors of this late presentation and the 3 major ones are (1) patients being unaware of NPC and the seriousness of NPC (72%), (2) patients having no pain (30%), and (3) patients seeking traditional treatment first instead of going to medical professionals and therefore the delay (24%). Duration of appointment time to see ENT Specialists in Department of ENT SGH ranges from 0 to 249 days (mean 19). The mean duration of less than 3 weeks is reasonable. The longer durations up to 8 months are of concern, and many of these were due to defaulters that repeated appointments had to be made due to patients inability to come for the reason mentioned in the minor factors described above. Noted in the results is the duration from biopsy taken to histo-pathological diagnosis ranging from 1 to 113 days (mean 10) in SGH and from 0 to 7 days in non-SGH (private) laboratories. The relatively longer durations in SGH are mainly due to the minor factors mentioned of overloading or understaffing of Pathology Department SGH and breakdown of laboratory equipments. Similarly noted is the duration of histo-pathological diagnosis made to commencement of radiotherapy (RTX). The reason for the long delay periods noted is also similar, mainly overloading or understaffing of Radiotherapy Department SGH and breakdown of laboratory equipments and radiotherapy machine. There were a couple of primary care doctors trained overseas in countries with minimal exposure to NPC that being unaware of NPC prevalence in Sarawak referred the patients late to ENT Department SGH after prolonged treatment with no patient improvement. There happened a case referred to non-surgical specialist as the condition was further delayed in diagnostic referral. A few patients interviewed were not satisfied of their treatment by their medical professionals and sought opinions from the radiologists who made the diagnosis of NPC. Studies in 126 NPC patients in Singapore by Leong et al8 reported in 1999 the factors in late NPC diagnosis were more on the doctors than on the patients, saying that the doctors Factors Of Late Presentation And Diagnosis Of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma In Sarawak Malaysia 4 of 5 not considering NPC as a diagnosis, they were misled by results of investigations though NPC was suspected, and patients refusing investigations or defaulting follow-ups. In Sarawak interestingly the factors are to large extent different. In Sarawak, NPC being a very common malignancy especially in male need the have the above factors addressed so as to improve the early diagnosis and patient survival. These factors are to large extent preventable by public educat


This research is based on participant observation fieldwork at a special daycare unit for children, aged five to thirteen, with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties. The Unit is part of a leading London mental health clinic. The anthropological point of departure is the literature on comparative ethnography, and in particular the increasingly sophisticated comparisons made between western and non-western kinship and concepts of the person. The Unit is seen as an opportunity to study the relationship between intellectual theories of personhood, exemplified by the different strands of professional treatment rationale directed towards the children, and the intense practical experience of defining and working with personhood, exemplified by the daily life of the Unit with the children. It is argued that 'difficulty' is a significant organising principle for both the practical and intellectual work of the Unit: it is used as a descriptive term for the children; it characterises the problem of reconciling the competing treatment rationales; and it dominates the experience of everyday life in the Unit. The Unit is described in sections which divide the work done with the children into three phases: the period of referral and admission in which the Unit becomes acquainted with the child; the period in which the child becomes fully recruited into the internal life of the Unit; and the final period in which the child's progress is evaluated and a decision is made about the next placement. The differing nature of the Unit's relationship to the child in each of these phases is described in terms of the central organising principle of difficulty.


This volume reports on the Negro protest in the United States at a time when that movement is in full action. It considers the background of the movement, the social forces affecting it, the specific conditions and problems which created it, the underlying changes in the society which are moving it along, and the specific manifestations and techniques of the protest. To do all these things comprehensively would take a volume many times the length of the present one, and even such a volume could have no more perspective on the relevant changes, for the Negro protest is in process and is not yet history. Yet it is useful to have an assessment at this time of the most serious domestic issue facing the United States.


To solve the difficulty of low accurate efficiency of Diagnosis of Transformer Fault with Dissolved Gases Analysis (D GA ) ,this text establishes a model of BP neutral network with better learning ability , generalization ability ,and adaptability by adopting artificial neural network method and an momentum BP neural network algorithm. It proves that the neutral networks can diagnose transformer fault by doing MATLAB emulation experiment, which has certain value of application and expansion.


The invention provides a light absorbing and heat accumulating composition. The composition is prepared by melting and extruding a mixture composed of a composition containing light absorbing and heat accumulating micro particles and polymer. The composition containing light absorbing and heat accumulating micro particles comprises at least one light absorbing and heat accumulating micro particle and a dispersant that coats the light absorbing and heat accumulating micro particle. The diameter of the light absorbing and heat accumulating micro particle that is dispersed in the polymer is in a range of 10 to 800 nano meters. According to the structure mentioned above, the provided light absorbing and heat accumulating composition can effectively absorb near infrared to achieve the goals of light absorption, heat insulation and heat accumulation. Moreover, the light absorbing and heat accumulating structure prepared from the light absorbing and heat accumulating composition has the advantages of good light transmittance, high near infrared shielding rate, and excellent light absorbing and heat radiation performance, and thus the buildings or vehicles that use the provided structure can maintain a good temperature balance.


Abstract This year, Canada's federal government passed significant amendments to the Investment Canada Act (ICA), Canada's foreign investment law. This paper argues that, though the amendments generally liberalize important aspects of the country's foreign investment review regime, they also include a broadly worded national security test that allows the responsible Minister to review proposed investments in Canada on national security grounds.


In questions concerning ethnicity and cultural identity in prehistory, there is a great divide between the conclusions maintained on a theoretical level of discussion and the interpretations given ...


This paper examines the aspectual features of two types of imperatives that are marked by "V zhe!" and "V le!" respectively in Mandarin and their influences on the negation of these sentences. Although they share the same negative marker "bie V le!", yet its meaning varies with different sentences of different aspects and different kinds of verbs. So "bie V le!" is not a polysemy but a homonymy.


The purpose of this study was three folds: to explore whether there were relationship between academic procrastination and positive and negative self-oriented perfectionism of college students with learning disabilities, the extent to which positive and negative self-oriented perfectionism of college students with learning disabilities predicts academic procrastination, and whether level of academic procrastination tendency among college students with learning disabilities differs according to demographic variables. The research is based on a convenience sample of 80 undergraduate students from a variety of departments at Zagazig Faculty of Education, Egypt.. Findings indicated that there was a positive correlation between academic procrastination and Positive Self–Oriented Perfectionism, while no significant correlation was determined between academic procrastination and Negative Self –Oriented Perfectionism. According to the multiple linear regression analysis results, Positive Self –Oriented Perfectionism, and Negative Self –Oriented Perfectionism account for 22% of academic procrastination. Positive Self –Oriented Perfectionism made a positive contribution to the model, Negative Self –Oriented Perfectionism made no significant contribution, which indicated that The only significant predictor was Positive Self –Oriented Perfectionism. The independent t-test showed that undergraduates' academic procrastination scores did not differ significantly according to gender. One-way ANOVA showed that undergraduates' academic procrastination scores did not differ significantly according to grade. The independent t-test showed that undergraduates' academic procrastination scores did not differ significantly according to Specialty.


The capitalist production and the development of modern science have brought about enormous crises to the ecological system and since the 1960s considerable attention has been paid to the combination of the Marxist humanism and ecological ideas with the criticism of capitalism with the view of providing solution to the ecological crises and achieving a sustainable development of global economy.


Inoculated with riparian sediments, aerobic sludge and anaerobic sludge respectively, six sequencing batch reactors(SBR) were started-up with two operation modes, aerobic nitrification-anammox and direct anammox. The results show that using the way of aerobic nitrification-anammox, reactors inoculated with riparian sediments and aerobic sludge, respectively, achieve the anaerobic ammonia oxidation reaction after operation for 110 d and 165 d. The reactor inoculated with riparian sediments is started-up more rapidly than that for the aerobic sludge, and its NH4 +-N and NO2--N removal efficiencies reach 94% and 99%, respectively. The NH4 +-N and NO2--N removal efficiencies of aerobic sludge reactor are just 53% and 67% at most. However, the reactor inoculated with anaerobic sludge fails to start-up. Under the condition of direct anammox, three reactors are not able to culture anammox bacteria after operation for 190 d.


Lazarus proposed that defensive behaviors may be detrimental to long-term stress management to the extent that they interfere with direct stress-coping strategies. Two studies considered this proposal for four cognitive defenses—projection, repression, rationalization, and denial—as well as the role of internal scanning as a moderator variable. Projection and denial were positively related to stress level over a 1-yr. period supporting the Lazarus view, but rationalization was inversely related. More specific effects considering breadth of scanning demonstrated all three defenses that function by evasion of information (projection, repression, and denial) showed positive relations with stress for narrow scanners but not for broad scanners. Rationalization presented the opposite pattern. Subjects combining rationalization with broad scanning were uniquely free of stress. An interpretation of these findings was proposed bearing upon the amount of information available to individuals regarding stressors that might influence direct strategies for reduction of stress.


Warren I. Cohen, America's Response to China: A History of Sino–American Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), fourth edition, 270 pp. Bill Gertz, The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2001), 280 pp. David M. Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing US–China Relations, 1989–2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 497 pp. John Bryan Starr, Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), 356 pp.


For women, the perineum is very important stretching and lubricating the perineum during labor can weaken the pelvic floor muscles in the vaginal wall, trauma to the perineum also causes discomfort and pain during sexual intercourse and an estimated 85% of maternal mothers experience birth canal lacerations (Kettle and Tohil 2008). One of the fears that are often felt by pregnant women, especially third timers, is fear of being torn and afraid of sewing. Especially for mothers who have experienced it, this can make their own trauma when facing the birth process later (USU, 2006). The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of parity to the degree of laceration of the birth pathway in Jetis Lor Polindes, Nawangan District, Pacitan Regency.
The design or design in this study is correlation analysis, with the "retrospective" approach. This study analyzed the relationship of parity with the degree of laceration of the birth path in Jetis Lor Polindes, Nawangan District, Pacitan Regency. In this study, the population was all mothers giving birth at Jetis Lor Polindes, Nawangan District, Pacitan Regency. The samples in this study were all mothers giving birth at Jetis Lor Polindes, Nawangan District, Pacitan Regency. In this study by looking at the last 1 year data. In this study the independent variable is parity. In this study the dependent variable is the degree of laceration of the birth canal. Based on the calculation results of SPSS 11.5 for Windows, it was found that there was no relationship between parity and laceration degrees in the Jetis Lor Polindes, Nawangan Subdistrict, Pacitan Regency, from the results of probability (sig. 2-tailed) 0.22 <0.05.The researcher hopes that the mother will seek information and increase knowledge about the labor process, so that with good knowledge will reduce lacerations on the birth canal


First theoretical analysis is conducted to study the influence factors on counter-current and the result shows that factors,such as the outstanding strength,ventilated pressure,ventilated resistance, can influence greatly the size of the counter-flow length.Based on the theoretical analysis,the corresponding numerical model is constructed by fluid mechanics software Fluent,to conduct numerical simulation studies on broken area change of underground tunnels and different explosion of gas concentration.The simulation can shows the effects of air volume and return air of roadway on the length of the upstream and pressure and temperature changes after gas explosion.


As the mobile communication systems develop from 2G to 3G, people require a uniform-spectrum, uniform-architecture. Software radio provides a key solution to the interconnection of various communication architectures and radio standards with different spectrum, poor cooperation capability and so on. Sample rate conversion based software radio is a key technology to implement the interconnection. According to different requirements for the bandwidths and rates of various standards in 3G mobile communication systems, we designed the corresponding sample rate conversion schemes for CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and compared the sample rate conversion schemes for five standards in 3G with each other. Experimental results show that our designs can effectively reduce the computing cost and memory cost in filtering.


Mythology is a set of mythological stories, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition. In A Glossary of Literary Terms , the term 'mythology' is defined as "a system of hereditary stories of ancient origin which were once believed to be true by a particular cultural group, and which served to explain why the world is as it is and things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which people conduct their lives" (Abrams & Harpham 230). However, myth plays an important role as the foundation of many societies and cultures. It reflects the traditions, beliefs, customs, etc. of a society. Devdutt Pattanaik defines myth as "a cultural construct, a common understanding of the world that binds individuals and communities together…if the myth is an idea, mythology is the vehicle of that idea" (Pattanaik xvi). Myth and mythology are relevant for the development of a community. It has been the source of inspiration for artists and writers all over the world and now myth has emerged as one of the popular genres in literary fiction as well as in non-fiction writings. In India, such mythological stories are largely found in Hindu religious texts, particularly in two great epics: The Ramayana and The Mahabharata . These two great epics are not only considered as religious texts but as social treatises also. It still has a tremendous influence on Indian life and culture. These two epics have been considered the most widely adapted works in literature.


Advocates of the Person-Centered Healthcare (PCH) approach say that PCH is a response to a failure of caring for patients as persons. Nevertheless, there are many human subjects falling to fulfill the requirements of a traditional philosophical definition of personhood. Hence, if we take, PCH seriously, a greater clarification of the key terminology of PCH is urgently needed. It seems necessary, for instance, that the concept of the person should be extended in order to include those individuals with insipient or immature levels of consciousness, as well as those who are severely and permanently mentally handicapped. In this article, we will depart from some well-known philosophical concepts of what it means to be a person and try to offer a broader and more inclusive meaning.  We suggest that persons are human beings with a socially recognized biography, which implies to recognize as persons individuals with necessities, but also with narratives about their interests and claims, expressed sometimes by other people related to them. This is particularly the case of individuals that suffer from severe disorders of consciousness. For those, is not only care that matters; respect matters too. Caregivers should therefore not only sympathetically care for the well-being of these people; they should also be concerned to respect their interests and claims by interpreting them empathetically, in the light of their biographical story. Our conclusion is that, in order to be coherent, PCH must consider individuals with severe disorders of consciousness as persons and we think that our revised concept of personhood fits with this requirement.


Recently some physiological - based models have been proposed to predict the diameter distribution of a forest. The objective of the present work is verify the prediction skills of the Simini et al. (2010) functional model. First several biometrical parameters have been collocted in a 4 ha permanent plot in the latemar area (bz); then the allometric relationships have been applied in other permanent plots in the eastern alps and in the carpathians.


A glycopeptide fraction was isolated from a digest by proteolytic enzyme of β-parotin by cellulose column chromatography using a mixture of n-propanol, ethanol, acetic acid and water as solvent.The glycopeptide fraction obtained in 8, 15 and 24hrs. digestion had no effect on the number of peripheral blood leukocytes in rabbits. Mixture of carbohydrate-free peptides was active. Therefore, it was suggested that the carbohydrate component was not concerned with the leukocyte activity of β-parotin. The glycopeptide contained approximately 35% of carbohydrates and its peptide moiety had seven amino acids. N-terminal amino acids of the peptide moiety were aspartic acid and glycine, and its C-terminal residue was aspartic acid.


The joint-less track, as one of safety critical infrastructure in railway transportation, directly affects safe operation and operating efficiency of trains. However, there exist the limited existing monitoring conditions and laggard maintenance methods for track circuits, which easily lead to traffic accidents or lower traffic efficiency. This paper establishes the fault mechanism merging the four-terminal network and the six-terminal network with the consideration of the influence of outdoor environment parameters especially on the health state of track circuits. This paper focuses the simulation of mapping relationship between outdoor fault cause and indoor monitoring parameters through the transmission mechanism model based on operating environment, and then determines the feasibility of judging and identifies the outdoor fault cause by existing indoor monitoring parameters. At last, this paper verifies the accuracy of the model by analyzing cases in the field.


A study of the genus Diaphnidia Uhler showed that D. debilis Uhler, the type of the genus, was markedly different and not congeneric with the five other species hitherto included. A new genus, Diaphnocoris, is described for four of these: pellucida Uhl. (type), capitata Van Duzee, crockeri Van Duzee, and provancheri Burque; the fifth species, heidemanni Knight, is considered to belong to Brachynotocoris Reuter. Following are descriptions of the three genera of this group as now considered.


2 Abstract: The wall of the ventricle bears septomarginal trabeculae (moderator band) which extend from the interventricular septum to the opposite wall. These are partly muscular and partly tendinous and vary in different subjects. For study of the moderator band, 12 hearts of the ostrich were collected and the right and left ventricles of each heart were opened. This study revealed that moderator bands found in both right and left ventricles in the ostrich heart in different location. Two types of these bands were encountered: fibrous and fibromuscular. The right ventricle presents one fibro-muscular moderator band about the base of ventricle and small multiple strands as network near the apical region of ventricle. In the left ventricle some present between trabeculae carneae and some extend from interventricular septum to parietal wall. For histological study, specimens of moderator bands from both ventricles were separated. Routine paraffin sectioning with special staining and transmission electron microscopy method were performed. Histological examination showed that fibro-muscular band is composed of cardiac muscle in different ratio, blood vessels, connective tissue and purkinje cells. A fibrous moderator band was like fibro-muscular, but lacks cardiac muscle. These bands are suggested to be radiation of the His bundle. Purkinje cell was pale oval cells which have little myofibrils, cellular organelles and glycogen. They had intercellular junction with each other.


Highly preferred Al[111] films suitable for high-frequency Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices have been deposited on an ultrathin metal underlayer by means of an ion beam sputtering technique. The [111] texture was obtained for Al underlayered with ultrathin metal films such as Y, Ti, V, Cr, Co, Ni and Cu, on a substrate that is being used for SAW devices. The region in which the texturing occurred was dependent on the metal element and the thickness of the underlayers. The [111] textured films exhibited a very smooth film surface. The reason why the [111] texturing took place within the limited thickness range is discussed from the viewpoints of phenomenological wetting and a rotational symmetry mismatch between Al and metal underlayer texture


According to the trend towards high-resolution CMOS image sensors, pixel sizes are continuously shrinking, towards and below 1.0μm, and sizes are now reaching a technological limit to meet required SNR performance [1-2]. SNR at low-light conditions, which is a key performance metric, is determined by the sensitivity and crosstalk in pixels. To improve sensitivity, pixel technology has migrated from frontside illumination (FSI) to backside illumiation (BSI) as pixel size shrinks down. In BSI technology, it is very difficult to further increase the sensitivity in a pixel of near-1.0μm size because there are no structural obstacles for incident light from micro-lens to photodiode. Therefore the only way to improve low-light SNR is to reduce crosstalk, which makes the non-diagonal elements of the color-correction matrix (CCM) close to zero and thus reduces color noise [3]. The best way to improve crosstalk is to introduce a complete physical isolation between neighboring pixels, e.g., using deep-trench isolation (DTI). So far, a few attempts using DTI have been made to suppress silicon crosstalk. A backside DTI in as small as 1.12μm-pixel, which is formed in the BSI process, is reported in [4], but it is just an intermediate step in the DTI-related technology because it cannot completely prevent silicon crosstalk, especially for long wavelengths of light. On the other hand, front-side DTIs for FSI pixels [5] and BSI pixels [6] are reported. In [5], however, DTI is present not only along the periphery of each pixel, but also invades into the pixel so that it is inefficient in terms of gathering incident light and providing sufficient amount of photodiode area. In [6], the pixel size is as large as 2.0μm and it is hard to scale down with this technology for near 1.0μm pitch because DTI width imposes a critical limit on the sufficient amount of photodiode area for full-well capacity. Thus, a new technological advance is necessary to realize the ideal front DTI in a small size pixel near 1.0μm.


The ER-Force Logistics League team was founded and participated the first time at RoboCup Logistics League Worldcup in 2016. The paper gives an overview over the used hardware and software. The hardware contains the robots and their components like sensors and grippers. The software setup is based on open source software packages, mainly from the Robot Operating System, with additional self-programmed software packages for special tasks required in the RoboCup Logistics League.


Respiratory care is an important site for climate action, given that common treatments for conditions such as asthma and COPD produce significant greenhouse gas emissions, even as respiratory health is negatively impacted by climate change. Clinical guidelines provide key information for healthcare professionals and can promote approaches to healthcare that can mitigate negative environmental impacts, and optimise patient treatment, care delivery, and equitable outcomes, and bring awareness and legitimacy to sustainable healthcare practices.

Twenty national and international clinical respiratory guidelines were purposively selected and screened for inclusion of four principles of sustainable clinical practice: prevention, patient empowerment and self-care, lean service delivery, and low carbon alternatives. A screening framework specific to respiratory care implications was developed and used to review each guideline for mention of relevant topics, recommendations, and explicit links to sustainability in relation to each principle.

Sustainable clinical care principles were evident in most guidelines reviewed, environmental sustainability was mentioned infrequently. Many guidelines emphasised prevention (more secondary than primary) and support for patient preference and streamlining care, yet there was rarely mention of how these recommendations could contribute to lowering the environmental impacts of health systems. Low carbon alternatives were mentioned in only three guidelines.

While many clinical respiratory guidelines make recommendations in accordance with the principles of prevention, patient empowerment and self-care, and lean service delivery, reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare was rarely mentioned in the guidelines. Including explicit attention to the environmental impact of clinical care in guidance could support efforts to reduce the wider harms of healthcare, meanwhile, noting the clinical benefits of sustainable approaches could promote the uptake of recommendations.


A brief review of the clinical and lymphographic features of giant follicular lymphoma is presented. Nine patients with this disease, seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital, were studied. At the time of diagnosis, there was widespread lymph node involvement, and 4 of the 9 patients had splenomegaly.


The implants biomechanical analysis using finite element analysis (FEA) was evaluated with arbitrary friction coefficient (FC) values. This analysis does not represent a better condition to simulate immediate loading. In addition, different bone types and titanium surface treatments can change the FC on bone-implant interface. Therefore, the aim of this study was determine the FC of bone-titanium interface with surface treatments and analyze your influence on biomechanics of unit short implant with different surface treatments. For this, the study was done in two phases: in vitro and in silico. On in vitro study, the FC was determined with tribological analysis. Bovine cortical and cancellous bone (10 mm x 40 mm x 3 mm) and titanium as counterpart, with different surface treatments (MAC = machined; SB = sandblasted; and SB + AE = sandblasted followed by acid attack) with diameter of 5 mm were used as tribological pairs (n = 13). Titanium balls was mensured our roughness by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to analyse difference between the surfaces. A load of 10 N was applied on titanium counterpart during the horizontal displacement on bone blocks (1 mm/sec). For in silico study, a first molar was rehabilitated using a three-dimensional short implant model (4.1 x 7mm) inside bone block representing a jaw with cortical and cancellous bone. The results of the FC obtained in vitro study were used to simulate the biomechanics behavior of short implants with different surface treatment. The force applied was 49 N on occlusal of the crown and divided into 5 contact points. Statistical analysis was realized to roughness and FC determination, for both analysis the statistical test was ANOVA One-Way, post-hoc Tukey. The values were evaluated for shear stress (max) and maximum principal strain (σmax maximum standard) to cortical and cancellous bone. Von Mises forces (vM) was evaluated for implants. Surface roughness on SEM of titanium balls shown the values of SB (0.89 μm) and SB + AE (0.98 μm) with no statistical difference. The surface treatment SB + AE for cortical and Cancellous bone was numerically greater, respectively,(0,415 ± 0,05)(0,442±0,05) than SB (0,358 ± 0,03)(0,382 ±0,03) and MAC (0,0314 ± 0,04)(0,362 ±0,03). The surface biomechanics was modified according the surface treatment and SB + AE showed the highest compression (495.47 MPa) and shear (197.46 MPa), but in deformation and tension was lowest (10.65 m) compared to surface SB on cortical bone. On cancellous bone, the surface SB + AE presented lowest in the biomechanics evaluations. Therefore, we can conclude the surface treatments alter FC of titanium-bone interface and interfere on biomechanics of unit short implant with immediate loading.


In this paper, we let $\Hecke$ be the Hecke algebra associated with a finite Coxeter group $W$ and with one-parameter, over the ring of scalars $\Alg=\mathbb{Z}(q, q^{-1})$. With an elementary method, we introduce a cellular basis of $\Hecke$ indexed by the sets $E_J (J\subseteq S)$ and obtain a general theory of "Specht modules". We provide an algorithm for $W\!$-graphs for the "generic Specht module", which associates with the Kazhdan and Lusztig cell ( or more generally, a union of cells of $W$ ) containing the longest element of a parabolic subgroup $W_J$ for appropriate $J\subseteq S$. As an example of applications, we show a construction of $W\!$-graphs for the Hecke algebra of type $A$.


This paper discusses the perennial problem of poor requirements and summarises an attempt to mitigate the problem using an object‐oriented approach by developing and using a software tool named Tiger Pro. Next the early results of using Tiger Pro in the classroom are discussed. The major outcome was the transition of the classroom discussion from a focus on the structure of the requirement sentence to a focus on the difficulty of writing a good requirement, or a focus on the content of the requirement sentence.


Lysate to provide activated iontophoretic device at the time of use can be supplied in an amount corresponding to the amount of the drug before use. The use when activated iontophoretic device comprises an absorbent material 11 made of a material capable of absorbing liquid as well as containing a dry drug 10, an adhesive layer 12 on the lower surface is disposed around the absorbent 11 the wall material 13, absorbent 11 and the wall member 13 and the support 15 having an opening 14 arranged central on a support 15 electrode 25 disposed on the lower surface, the diaphragm 20 placed on the support 15 When, and a dissolution liquid reservoir 18 having a protrusion 17 for the solution to dissolve the drug is placed on the diaphragm 20 to destroy the diaphragm 20 by the holding pressed between the diaphragm 20. Protrusion 17 has, for example, a linear distal end portion is placed in contact or in proximity to the diaphragm 20. Liner 19 is attached removably to the lower surface of the absorbent 11 and the adhesive layer 12.


To quantify aircraft engine emissions with respect to their impact on the upper and lower atmosphere, remotely working systems are required. The combination of passive FTIR gas concentration measurements with LDA gas velocity-data from exhaust plumes leads to an absolutely remote determination of emission rates of several molecule species. The combined system was tested at the Munich-North power plant where the obtained fluxes of CO2, CO, NO, and HCl showed good agreement with the in-situ measurements. In case of aircraft emissions of CO2, H2O, CO, and No, data shall be determined. First tests of the system with the DLR-Falcon aircraft in October 1994 will be discussed.


The aim of this study is to investigate the disparities between different types of consumers with respect to their mobile shopping (m-shopping) attitude, shopping motives, and media usage behaviour when practising online shopping. Thus, this study is the first to combine three different consumer viewpoints to provide an enhanced consumer picture. The findings are as follows. First, non-m-buyers' attitude towards m-shopping is crucially formed by function-orientated aspects, and they prefer to engage more in exploring stores than in certain m-buying activities when they use smartphones. In contrast, m-buyers strive for more flexibility in meeting their recreational needs, since they have a hedonically compelled attitude towards m-shopping. Second, both groups regard m-shopping convenience as a basic requirement that must be fulfilled; otherwise, m-shopping is not useful to them at all. Moreover, contrary to non-m-buyers, the empirical outcomes suggest that m-buyers are multi-device shoppers because they engage heavily in online shopping and use portable media to a large degree, meaning that they are not restricted to a local environment.


This special issue is concerned with how and why certain visual images picturing protest events and social movements are rendered visible or invisible in the public sphere. 'Picturing Protest' responds to the growing interest in a new protest culture and new ways of 'doing politics', ranging from Arab revolts to the Occupy Movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests in Europe. Since 2011 these new activisms have gained momentum in media and scholarly debates. Contemporary activisms are seen as powerfully tied in to the possibilities that social media platforms and Web 2.0 technologies offer to those involved in practices of dissent in physical squares and streets as much as in virtual environments. Of special interest here is how new forms of political participation and the practice of dissent go in tandem with the widespread use of visual images and internet memes facilitated by technological devices with documentation facilities (e.g. smartphones, tablets) and social network technologies (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012). Iconic images such as the image of dying Neda, a 26-year-old Iranian woman killed by a sniper bullet during a protest event, go viral on social media platforms and have the power to galvanize the attention of global publics. Hence, this new protest culture demands a different approach in the study of how protest images are constituted, analysed, interpreted and circulated in both old and new media environments. Taken together, the different contributions ask how and why activists, photojournalists, citizen journalists and journalists use protest images – ranging from maps and posters to amateur and professional photographs – to communicate with a range of audiences within and beyond nationally704633 VCJ0010.1177/1470357217704633Visual CommunicationRovisco and Venet


A preparation method of CaO-Y2O3 composite materials and its sintering property and hydration resistance were investigated in this paper. The CaO-Y2O3 core-shell structure powders were obtained by precipitation, after calcination, pressing and sintering the CaO-Y2O3 composite materials were prepared. The obtained powders and composite materials were characterized by crystalline phase formation, thermodynamic property, density, hydration resistance and microstructural analysis. The results showed that the prepared CaO-Y2O3 core-shell structure powders had good coating property, the sintering property and hydration resistance of composite materials were excellent. As the molar ratio Ca to Y was 1:1, the relative bulk density was 95.68%, the apparent porosity was 1.28%, and the hydration weight gain rate of the sample after 21 days in the atmospheric environment was 0.45%.


In this paper,shrimp and crab waste was used as raw material for extraction of astaxanthin.The subcritical fluid extraction process was optimized by method of single-factor and orthogonal experiments.The results show that the best extraction reagent,temperature,pressure,static time and static cycle were dichloromethane,100 ℃,9.31~11.72 MPa,15 minutes and 2 times,respectively.Under the above optimum condition,the extraction ratio is 0.037 3%.Compared with the results of the traditional organic solvent extraction process,the extraction ratio in the subcritical fluid extraction process is 33.2% higher than that of the traditional process,and the processing time is reduced by 82.8%.


Large fiscal consolidation packages aiming at reducing budget deficits and debt levels to
prudent levels have been designed to overcome the Great Recession in Europe. This paper
investigates how fiscal consolidation is conducted in four sample countries in order to
comply with the respective limits under the Excessive Deficit Procedure of the Stability
and Growth Pact. The subsequent macroeconomic analysis reveals that the consolidation
measures do not only fall back behind their aim of reducing the public debt-to-GDP ratio,
but lead to overall devastating economic consequences, especially in the peripheral
countries. The central argument of the thesis claims that restrictive austerity measures are
currently self-defeating and harmful for economic growth. Moreover, the reluctance to
induce a change in these measures will drive the economies even further into a state of
recession instead of stabilizing their economic positions. The main finding of this paper is
that the negative outcomes would have been predictable much earlier if policy makers had
based their decisions on standard macroeconomic theory. The underestimation of fiscal
multipliers and the misinterpreted crowding out effect are only some factors that indicates
the need to loosen up the tight budget constraints and refocus on a more growth-friendly
consolidation process.


A physical investigation of 140 kVp radiation is described. Absorption measurements in copper have been made and the half-value layer and equivalent wavelength of the radiation with tube filters of 0·25 mm. Cu and 0·10 mm. Cu determined. Measurements on the variation of depth dose with filtration indicated that 0·25 mm. Cu was a suitable thickness of filter for use in treatment. The variation of percentage backscatter with field size has been measured, and central axis depth dose curves for different field sizes and with F.S.D.'s of 15·5, 20 and 25 cm. are given, together with some complete isodose curves. Measurements of the stray radiation near the tube are also described.


The summer of 2006 saw the University ofVictoria's (UVic) archaeological research investigations range across nearly the entire coast of British Columbia. On the south coast, in Nuu-chahnulth territory, the University of Victoria was invited to participate in the Huu-ayaht Archaeological Project at the site of Huu7ii near Barnfield, British Columbia. The project was funded by the Huu-ay-aht First Nation, and was directed by Denis St. Claire (Coast Heritage Consulting) and Alan McMillan (Simon Fraser University). Fourteen UVic undergraduate students spent six weeks at the village of Huu7ii, where they work~d with members of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation, professional archaeologists, and volunteers (Fig. I) to excavate 18 two-by-two meter units within the largest site. Students earned credit for two courses; one of which focused on field methods in archaeology, and the other which examined the history of archaeological research in Nuu-chah-nulth territory. Both courses were instructed by Nicole Smith. The Huu7ii archaeological site possesses clearly defined house platforms and is the village from which the Huu7ii7ath (Huu-ay-aht) derive their name. Preliminary excavations in 2004 indicated that people had been living within the immediate vicinity from approximately 5,000 years ago until AD 1600. The main village component was occupied during the most recent 1500 years of occupation. Today, ten flattened rectangular platforms along the rainforest floor indicate where the most recent houses stood. Excavation units were placed within the largest house (measuring 35m long by 17.5 m wide), which is believed to have been occupied by high status individuals, including the chief. Numerous features and artifacts were found over the summer which will allow for spatial reconstructions of household activities. In addition, artifacts previously unseen on western Vancouver Island were recovered within the house floor deposits. Such finds will allow for interesting comparisons between household and traditional midden excavations on the west coast. In addition to the household excavations, one two by two meter excavation unit was placed on a raised beach terrace behind the recent village site. Previous excavations indicated that this area was occupied at times of higher sealevel between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago. Significant finds in this location included the presence of a lithic technology not found in the more recent village deposits, and numerous whale skeletal elements. In addition to the daily excavations and course work, the UVic students heard lectures from St. Claire and McMillan, as well as other prominent researchers working on western Vancouver Island including: Dr. Gay Fredrick (Pacific Identifications Inc. and Malaspina University College); Alexander Mackie (Archaeology Branch); Russel Markel and Spencer Wood (Ph.D. candidates, Department of Zoology, UBC); lain McKechnie (M.A., SFU, 2005); Dr. Marlow Pellatt (Parks Canada); and Dr. Audrey Dallimore and Dr. Randy Enkin (Geological Survey of Canada). St. Claire also led an ethnographic and archaeological tour through the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound, and a separate trip to the nearby


Melting/freezing curves are studied for the single-component Ga and bimetallic eutectic alloys Ga–In, Ga–Sn, Ga–Zn and Ga–Al in small-size cells. These phase-transition studies were conducted at VNIIOFI and SDL in order to design small-size fixed-point devices for metrological monitoring of temperature sensors on autonomous platforms. Our prime objective is to develop technology to improve the long-term performance of in-flight blackbody calibration sources of space-borne radiometers. The repeatability of the melting temperature of Ga and the eutectic melting temperatures of Ga–In, Ga–Sn and Ga–Zn fixed points were studied. Our results show that small cells containing Ga and some Ga-based eutectic alloys can be used as melting fixed-point standards.


We present the characterization of the dielectric permittivity and loss tangent of germanium telluride (GeTe) and germanium antimonium telluride [Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST)] phase change thin films (less than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1 \mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> thicknesses) in the millimeter-wave (mmW) domain. The dielectric permittivities in the amorphous (insulator) state of GeTe and GST were measured using two independent differential methods: a wide bandwidth characterization based on the measurement of the propagation constant of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) and a single frequency characterization based on the measurement of the resonant frequency of a planar resonator. This differential approach allows addressing the challenges linked to thin-film dielectric characteristics estimation at mmWs without the need of an absolute knowledge of other parameters of the measurement circuit like the conductivity and the thickness of the metals as well as the permittivity and losses of the substrate. The extracted mean values range between 20 and 22 for the GeTe and 30 and 34 for the GST. These values are rather constant over the frequency range from 10 to 60 GHz. Additionally, the loss tangent at 30 GHz of both compositions was extracted giving values of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.4\times 10^{-2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.2\times 10^{-1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> for the GeTe and GST, respectively. These values are among the first reported ones regarding the electromagnetic (EM) properties of GeTe and GST in this frequency band.


In this thesis, we mainly study two topics: the first one is chemical turbulence in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems with global feedback, and the second one is noise-induced turbulence in nonlocally coupled oscillator systems. First topic: A new type of phase transition in chemical turbulence, which is characterized by the emergence of small-amplitude collective oscillations out of the strongly turbulent background, is shown to exist in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with global feedback and also a realistic dynamical-system model for the catalytic CO oxidation on a Pt surface. Second topic: When a dynamical system is driven by external noise, its effective dynamics generally changes. We usually expect that the system tends to be more random and statistically uniform, because the noise destroys the spatiotemporal structures of the system. In this thesis, we give a counter-example to this intuition. Specifically, we demonstrate that nonlocally coupled limit-cycle oscillators can undergo a noise-induced transition from uniform states to turbulent states through effective dynamical instabilities, with the induced turbulent fluctuations far larger than the intensity of the driving noise.


ScatterFactory2 is a model-driven eclipse-based framework for the new generation of our WSN platform ScatterWeb The already deployed Modular Sensor Boards (MSBs) can be configured, programmed and tested at the same time. This is made possible by the combination of plug-ins for ScatterFactory2. Apart from the high grade of automation, the focus of ScatterFactory2 lies with the aspect of human-computer interfaces for WSN. ScatterFactory2 provides the opportunity to examine different characteristics and properties of WSN-applications illustratively and interactively. The plug-in oriented architecture encourages the enhancement of the tool, when new questions concerning WSN arise. ScatterFactory2 is based wholly on open source components, which are available at no extra cost.


Nowadays, the global climate change has important impacts on many aspects of human life such as agriculture, economy, health and energy consumption. The issue of climate change has concerned the scientific community as the solutions have to be direct and effective. Studies on energy demands under a climate change environment are particularly useful as they improve our understanding of the impacts of changing climate on energy sector. This research focuses on a very responsive to climate change area, the Mediterranean, and attempts to analyze the climate and energy demand trends, processing historical temperature records from weather stations at seven Mediterranean cities (Nicosia, Athens, Rome, Palma, Montpellier, Madrid and Seville) for the period of 1970 – 2018. Consecutively, cooling degree days (CDD) and heating degree days (HDD) have been estimated according to the given climatic data. These simple indicators are very useful as they point out the amount of energy demand, according to the deviation of a standard temperature value (threshold).

The research has shown a statistically significant increase in the ambient air temperature at all cities, ranging from 0.37 to 0.50 0C per decade on annual basis, but with notably higher increasing trends in summer compared to winter.  Consequently, the energy demand for cooling interior spaces has increased as well.  On the other hand, there is a significant decrease of heating demand. Annual CDDs have increased at rates reaching up to 65 degrees per decade over the study period (Nicosia), while the rate of decrease in HDDs ranges approximately between 55 and 110 degrees per decade at the selected cities. The analysis has been conducted on different timescales (monthly and annual) in order to approach the optimal accuracy.

Further, our results will be used to validate simulations of CDD and HDD from Regional Climate Models downscaled over the areas of interest for a reference period, while future simulations will be realized to find projected trends in CDDs and HDDs at the Mediterranean cities by the end of the century.


Quality control (QC) is a prerequisite for clinical MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) to avoid that bad spectra hamper data interpretation. The aim of this work was to present a simple automatic QC for prostate 1H MRSI that can handle data obtained with different commonly used pulse sequences, echo times, field strengths, and MR platforms.


In this study, it is aimed to address the problems that arise with the development of the digital economy thanks to the digital transformation experienced with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), and to explain what needs to be done by suggesting solutions in order to support the digital economy with a sustainable development model. Since 1996, when the concept of digital economy was first introduced in the literature, the concept of digital economy has been used as a keyword in studies (more than 130) published in the database (ScienceDirect, Wiley, Taylor&Francis, Springer, SSRN, DergiPark) and in many scientific papers. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, which emerged in 2019 and was effective on a global scale, the fact that individuals meet their basic needs and many needs through digital platforms has led to the acceleration of digital transformation and entrepreneurship, the development of new production models, and the diversification of digital marketing and digital economy tools. With the acceleration of the digital transformation process, positive developments have been experienced in the context of the digital economy. However, this situation has brought along some problems such as unemployment concerns, digital security problems, tax, audit and financial reporting problems, problems in the supply of qualified personnel, difficulties in protecting intellectual property rights, and selling low quality or counterfeit products. In addition to the benefits provided by the digital economy that develops with digital entrepreneurship, it makes the work unique by addressing the problems that will arise in social and economic terms and offering solutions for them.


The increasing economic importance of education and human capital in regional and global competition causes demands for better management in education. The links between education levels focusing on the secondary education in Slovenia are analysed by the number of children and adults entering and finishing different types of secondary schools. The secondary education is oriented towards further higher education or towards acquiring vocational qualification. The key driving forces of demand for the secondary education are econometrically tested to provide implications for management in education.


Drug development is a complex and extremely risky process. It involves developing knowledge of the relevant biology at a variety of levels of detail in order to piece together a coherent model of the disease process and the potential point(s) of intervention. Ultimately, this model must be complete enough to support the prediction of effects and the explanation of clinical trial results. Unfortunately, such models of a disease process have been primarily developed and maintained in human minds. Consequently, such models are limited by a human's ability to store all of the needed information, structure it properly, and reason about its consequences involving both complex feedback and time dependencies. The following paper describes a knowledge-centered approach to the development of biological models that support the drug development process. This technique focuses on a multi-level, hierarchical approach that models various levels of the related biology using appropriate representation techniques based on both the type and availability of the knowledge.


Dental lasers work utilizing a beam of light. This beam is amplified light energy. Energy, produced in the resonator and directed through mirrors and a fiber-optic system, moves to the tip of the laser handpiece precisely to the site of interaction at the speed of light. Different dental lasers are operated at specific wavelengths of light. This gives me different effects on gingiva and other soft oral tissues, bone, teeth, and certain restorative materials.


The cutaneous stigmata of aging may affect an individual's mental well-being, body image, and quality of life. Before proceeding with treatment, the dermatologist should take into consideration the patient's overall life situ- ation and evaluate whether or not there is severe psycho- pathology and body image distortion ) Dermatol Surg Oncol 1990; 16:902 - 904. The most important clinical implications of aging skin are psychosocial rather than dermatopatholo- gic.' Yet, the psychosocial concerns associated with an aging appearance tend to be ignored by physi- cians.',* This is reflected by a relative paucity of pub- lished studies on the psychocutaneous aspects of aging. This paper presents an overview of the litera- ture, including some recent studies, and discusses an approach for the assessment of the aging face from a psychocutaneous perspective.


We have developed a general purpose use and modular architecture of an embodied conversational agent (ECA). Our agent is able to communicate using verbal and nonverbal channels like gaze, facial expressions, and gestures. Our architecture follows the SAIBA framework that sets 3-step process and communication protocols. In our implementation of SAIBA architecture we focus on flexibility and we introduce different levels of the customization. In particular, our system is able to display the same communicative intention with different embodiments, be a virtual agent or a robot. Moreover our framework is independent of the animation player technology. Agent animations can be displayed across different medias, such as web browser, virtual or augmented reality. In this paper we present our agent architecture and its main features.


The CIC among Brazilian researchers refers to the activity of providing information and knowledge that enables the joint work of experts for the resolution of problems and development of new ideas or theories, which usually result in joint scientific publications. Thus, the objective of this article is to elaborate a model that relates the factors that influence the diffusion of the CIC among Brazilian researchers in the modality "productivity" of CNPq, as mechanisms for generating innovations and new knowledge, measured by scientific production. As for the method, in a first moment a bibliographic research was carried out to evaluate existing models in the literature regarding the determining factors of the ICC on the capacity of innovation and generation of innovations in the HEIs, especially in the research groups. Next, the structural and measurement model was elaborated and validated using an online questionnaire for data collection, with five-point likert questions, sent to researchers in the productivity modality in research, levels SR, 2, 1A, 1B and 1C of CNPq.  The questionnaire was answered by 262 researchers and the collected data were analyzed using the SEM analysis instrument based on PLS. The results found indicated that the hypotheses of the model were accepted. The results revealed that the individual characteristics of the researchers, the organizational characteristics and the technology contribute to the CIC, which in turn favors the generation of publications and promotion of knowledge. In addition, individual characteristics and publications contribute to the advancement of innovation.


The Stark effect of the sodium D/sub 2/ line was investigated by use of high-resolution laser-atomic-beam spectroscopy. The shift and splitting of the hyperfine components of the line could be obtained and compared with theoretical calculations. This allows the determination of the scalar and tensor polarizabilities with high accuracy to be 49.28(15) and -21.97(10) kHz/(kV/cm)/sup 2/, respectively. These values are compared with semiempirical calculated polarizabilities. Additionally, the behavior of the relative intensity of the components could be studied. In fields greater than 100 kV/cm, the two groups of components with M/sub J/ = (1/2 and (3/2 are widely separated and the pattern of each group is independent from the field strength, showing an ''electrical'' Paschen-Back effect. The relative intensities agree satisfactorily with the computations.


Introduction: Getting full personal health information especially from people living with HIV/AIDS has a great challenging due to fear of stigma and discrimination in developing countries like Ethiopia. Lack of knowledge, attitude, practice and willingness of people living with HIV/AIDS to share their health information may affect the quality of their life. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, practice and willingness of people living with HIV/AIDS to share their personal health information to their community.
Materials and Methods: A hospital based cross -sectional study was conducted from December, 2013 to May, 2014. All information's were collected through interview using structured questionnaires. The data was entered, processed and analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical software. The 95% confident interval and the p-value were used to check for association between the dependent and independent variables. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: Out of the total 422 participants included in the study, only 43 (10.2%) of respondents were knowledgeable and 379 (89.8%) were none knowledgeable. Moreover, 12 (2.8%), 408 (96.7%) and 125 (29.6%) of the participants were with a favorable attitude, good practice and favorable willing to share personal health information, respectively.
Conclusion: Majority of study participants have inadequate knowledge, none favorable attitude and willingness but significant proportions of them have good practice on sharing of their personal health information to others. So that new strategies should be established in health facilities to develop knowledge, attitude, practice and willingness of people living with HIV/AIDS to share their personal health information to their community, this will bring a radical change in prevention and control of HIV/AIDS transmission.


Determining the radiative effects of aerosols is one of the most important areas in climate research. There are observational evidences showing that aerosols can affect the radiative balance of the earth indirectly as the number of aerosols increases, water in the cloud spreads over many more particles. Large concentrations of small droplets not only make the cloud more reflective, but also reduce the probability of rainfall and prolong cloud lifetime, because small droplets have less efficiency of coalescence (e.g., Albrecht 1989, Rosenfeld 2000). Since precipitation is a key component in determining the lifetime and extent of clouds, understanding to what extent that drizzle is suppressed in the polluted cloud in global scale is essential to assess this aerosol indirect effect. Global measurements require satellite observations, which cover much broader area and much longer time period than aircraft or surface based measurements. However, there have been very few studies on detecting drizzle from satellite. In this study, we present a satellite-measurable drizzle index (DI).


Smoothing and prognosis belong to the main problems, which we deal with when process various time series. Unlike the typical approaches related with lineal regression on polynomial and trigonometric functions we consider local procedures. We describe algorithms that resolve these problems and present results of experiments using data of the Russian State Statistical Committee. All procedures are realized in the Excel-VBA.


White grubs, the root-feeding larvae of various native and introduced scarab beetles, are the most widespread and destructive insect pests of lawns and golf courses in the United States. Collectively they account for hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and control costs every year (1). White grubs traditionally have been controlled with soil insecticides. However, pesticide usage in suburban areas is increasingly restricted due to perceived hazards and environmental concerns such as groundwater contamination. These issues, and the 1996 Food Quality


This thesis focuses on the conformation and flexibility of oligosaccharides around the glycosidic linkage. The methods employed for the elucidation of the three-dimensional structures of biomolecul ...


The development of counseling theory can be seen from the findings made by researchers who I am to be able to solve human problems in accordance with the times. Ranging from classical to contemporary theory continues to add to the list of discoveries made by thinkers in the field of counseling. Criticisms and inputs made by current researchers on the theories of previous scientists are a scientific activity that has a positive impact on the development of science. This study aims to develop a contemporary counseling method, namely Motivational Interviewing from William R. Miller. This research method uses a literature review by reviewing various literatures including literature found in libraries, google books, and google scholar. So that the motivational counseling interviewing counseling method can be developed and relate it to the Islamic approach with the concept of the piety model from Syafiq Falah Alwaney's theory then an effort and tawakkal approach is added to perfect the concept of developing this counseling method. We hope that by developing a contemporary counseling method from the West, namely Motivational Interviewing using the Islamic approach, the Takwa, Ikhtiar, and Tawakkal model or abbreviated as MIMTIT can be applied by counselors in the counseling process so that the counselee is able to make efforts to change with the motivation that has been found in him, then put his trust in Allah SWT. to the provisions that will occur during the transformation of the changes made.


Lu Yao's fictions focus on "cross-urban and rural areas",which reflects the local Chinese community's doubt and confusion in the conversion of the modern society.In the escaping and returning reincarnation,Lu Yao's moral criticisms is called "reasonable but not fair" to the "modern" behaviors.This reflects that the local writers were anxious about social modern changes in essence.


Target associated with a disease (e.g., there are useful as inhibitors of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), disorders (e.g., useful for treating proliferative disorders mediated by HSP90, sulfamoyl-containing compounds have been disclosed and using the preparation of which. the present compound of the disclosure are described in. in another aspect, the present invention is useful for treating or preventing cancer that occurs in an animal or human patient, wherein I, V, VI or novel organic compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid having the general structure VII, bases, salts, polymorphs, solvates, esters, tautomers, to a stereoisomer or prodrug.


CPI is currently developing several broadband, high-power, W-band gyrotron amplifiers for radar applications. A wide-bandwidth gyro-traveling-wave-tube (TWT) amplifier will be used as the driver for an array of higher-power gyrotwystron amplifiers. The gyro-TWT amplifier, which recently demonstrated 2 kW peak output power at 40% duty factor with a full-width-half-maximum bandwidth greater than 6.5 GHz, has been delivered to and installed at a radar site. Several gyrotwystron amplifiers, each of which has produced at least 55 kW peak output power at 10% duty factor with a bandwidth in excess of 1.6 GHz, have also been delivered to the radar facility. Key design features and the results of experimental demonstrations for both the gyro-TWT and gyrotwystron amplifiers are presented below.


The present application scenarios of the Internet of Things (IoT) often require the equipment to be adaptable, the resource allocation to be efficient, and the signal monitoring and transmission to be effective. However, the existing algorithms cannot solve the problem of system capacity reduction caused by the mutual interference between regions in data rates. Aiming at effectively improving the performance of the IoT monitoring system and ensuring the fairness of each monitoring terminal, this paper attempts to explore interference suppression and resource allocation strategies based on IoT monitoring. First, the paper established an IoT monitoring network model, and elaborated on interference suppression strategies for inter-layer interferences of "Macro Base Station (BS) – Micro Cells" and "Micro BS – Macro Cells" and for intra-layer interference that include the interference between local monitoring networks and interference between terminals in local area networks; then, the paper proposed a sub-carrier resource allocation scheme for IoT monitoring system with multiple inputs and outputs and a water-filling strategy of system channel power; at last, experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed interference suppression and resource allocation algorithm.


Temperature detection is widely used in industrial and agricultural production and people's lives in all areas.This paper introduces design process of multi-point temperature detection and alarm function based on DS18B20 and AT89C52.It describes the basic components and hardware and software design process,and completes system function test in the laboratory.The results shows that the system can realize multi-point temperature detection and alarm function in the small region.It can be used for ward,room,office,small storage and so on that to be strict in environmental temperature.