All-Digital-Phase-Locked-Loops (ADPLLs) are ideal for integrated circuit implementations and effectively generate frequency chirps for Frequency-ModulatedContinuous-Wave (FMCW) radar. This dissertation discusses the design requirements for integrated ADPLL, which is used as chirp synthesizer for FMCW automotive radar and focuses on an analysis of the ADPLL performance based on the Digitally-Controlled-Oscillator (DCO) design parameters and the ADPLL configuration. The fundamental principles of the FMCW radar are reviewed and the importance of linear DCO for reliable operation of the synthesizer is discussed. A novel DCO, which achieves linear frequency tuning steps is designed by arranging the available minimum Metal-Oxide-Metal (MoM) capacitor in unique configurations. The DCO prototype fabricated in 65 nm CMOS fulfills the requirements of the 77 GHz automotive radar. The resultant linear DCO characterization can effectivelly drive a chirp generation system in complete FMCW automotive radar synthesizer.


A study of the effectiveness of a contraceptive gel (Lanesta Gel) used in conjunction with a vaginal diaphragm is presented. During the course of the study 72 of the test group of 142 women dropped out primarily for asthetic reasons though there were no unplanned pregnancies. The 75 remaining women participated for a total of 1257 months. The method was acceptable to the women and no pregnancies were reported.


In this work, a series of polymer composites was prepared by in situ polymerization of methylmethacrylate (MMA) as a monomer and sonicated nanographite particles (∼400 nm) as conductive fillers. The concentration of nanographite particles was changed in the step of 0.25 wt% in the monomer and five composites having a filler concentration of 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1, and 1.5 wt% respectively were prepared. The composites were characterized for their morphology, thermal, and dielectric behavior. Room temperature dielectric behavior of the composites was studied at six different frequencies of 100 Hz, 1, 10, 100, 500 kHz, and 1 MHz. Temperature-dependent dielectric properties was studied in the temperature range from 30 to 150°C at the above frequencies. It was interesting to note that at room temperature dielectric constant (e′) decreased with increasing concentration of nanographite and reached a minimum at a filler concentration of 0.75 wt%. Dielectric relaxation behavior was observed in the temperature versus tan δ curves. The dielectric peak shifted to higher temperatures with increase in frequency and vice-versa. POLYM. COMPOS., 2012. © 2012 Society of Plastics Engineers


Provided are a solid fuel combustion method and a combustor. In the combustion method, a solid fuel (5) is continuously fed to a dry distillation pyrolysis chamber (1), a fuel (52) after volatile content (51) is separated enters a lower portion of a mixing combustion chamber (2) for combustion, a combustion supporting gas (6) enters from the dry distillation pyrolysis chamber (1) at the same time and is mixed with the separated volatile content, and the gas mixed with the volatile content enters from an upper portion of the mixing combustion chamber to reach above a combustion flame to perform complete combustion of the volatile content. The combustion method and the combustor are applicable to combustion of a fuel having high volatile content, so as to perform complete combustion of volatile content, improve combustion efficiency of the fuel, and reduce emission.


PUBLIc HEALTH. The reports of the district medical officers show steady inmprovement in the health conditions of their districts. Educational efforts have been continued, and the diminished prevalence, more especially of-the graver forms, of malaria indicates a more general and intelligent appreciation of the subject of prophylaxis and treatment. Many of the district medical officers direct special attention to the increasing prevalenee of ankylostomiasis and the high infantile miortality. An ordinance has recently been introduced in the Legislature giving larger powers of control over the former disease, and a scheme for the provision of district nurse midwives in certain districts, submitted by the Medical Board, for dealing with the latter condition, is under the consideration of the Governmeent. The deathrate in Port of Spain was 28.52. In the different hospitals and asylums in the coLony 13,649 patients were admitted during the year, and there were 17,677 out-patients.


In order to overcome the problem of the the tracking accuracy of the correlation filter is reduced when the target is occluded. We propose a validated background-aware filters and re-detection tracking algorithm to improve the robustness of target tracking. Firstly, the maximum response value and the average peak-to correlation energy are applied to judge the occlusion degree of the predicted target with the background-aware filters. Then, we used the high-confidence target that matched by SiamFC to replace the occluded target, or discarded to update the model of the low-confidence targets. The TB-50 Benchmark is used to compare the experimental results. Our proposed algorithm can obtain the success rate of 55.7% and the accuracy of 78.0%. Compared with the background-aware correlation filters algorithm, the proposed algorithm improves 4.3% and 1.1% respectively. By updating the target model in terms of validation and re-detection, the background-aware filters algorithm can achieve higher tracking success rate and accuracy. In general, the proposed algorithm shows more stable and accurate tracking performance in the case of occlusion, fast moving, background clutter, etc.


ALTHOUGH annual data on national advertising expenditures do not -L~L suggest much cyclical variability, examination of quarterly data shows that advertising is quite responsive to swings in general business activity. For the postwar period, in fact, conformity between business cycles and cycles in advertising is very close. There is a general tendency for peaks in national advertising to follow business-cycle peaks by several months, although the amount of this lag has shortened in recent years. On the other hand, troughs in national advertising at cycles seem to have preceded troughs in business in earlier periods, but this response of national advertising to changes in general business activity has slowed somewhat in the most recent period and is now about the same at cycle troughs as at cycle peaks. The typical length of expansions and contractions in advertising is about the same as that for gross national product. The expansions in advertising have been perceptibly larger than those in gross national product and in industrial production, except for 1958-60 when advertising increased only about as much as industrial production. Contractions in advertising typically exceed those in gross national product but are more modest than are those in industrial production. Outdoor advertising and radio spot, whose rates of growth are the smallest of the media under study, have cyclical characteristics most typical of mature, slow-growing industries. On the other hand, network and spot television are characterized by cyclical behavior of the sort associated with rapidly growing industries. The three print media (business papers, magazines, and newspapers), whose rates of growth fall between the other two groups, also have cyclical characteristics that fall between the slow-growing and the fast-growing media.


Weather is known to play an important role in the management of air traffic. Using an existing traffic flow optimization environment, the impacts of different weather perturbations on the airspace are analyzed. Simulations to optimize traffic flows using estimates of controller taskload in the degraded environment are run and their results are compared with ETMS data. They highlight the discrepancies between nominal and perturbed conditions, and point out further promising research topics.


Recent advances in the development of photonic switching and transmission systems that exploit hybrid integration technologies are reported. Experimental results using micro-ring resonators, silica interferometers and hybrid integrated wavelength converters for amplitude and phase modulated signals are first evidence of the important role of integrated photonics in developing the next generation optical communication hardware.


In recent years, the rapid development of pilot rural small loan companies in Heilongjiang has increased the financial supply to rural areas, improved the income of rural residents, accelerated the rural economic development, and provided new financing channels for employment difficulty to a certain extent. These companies still have some issues in terms of fuzzy status and ambiguous subject positioning, lack of follow-up funds and limited financing channels, no effective external supervision, incomplete risk control mechanism, and weak anti-risk capability. In order to ensure the sustainable development of small loan companies, the government should define the nature, identity and legal status of these companies, help expand financing channels, increase government support, enhance risk management, and improve tax incentives and risk control mechanisms.


The thesis are considering to possibilities of using financial support owners of the historical monuments, which are located in the Zlin area, namely by the public support and allowances from the owners. The theoretic part contained characterization and categorization historical monuments, law in the field state care of historical monuments, and characterization particular possibilities financial support. The practical part of the thesis contained description particular action historical renewal realized in the Zlin area within using different financial support by owners.


The present invention discloses a plurality of brewed bean-based material production process, according to Chinese traditional and modern processing techniques soybean enzymatic approach combined homogeneous and basified spray agglomeration granulation technique, after peeling, a base treatment, enzyme inactivation deodorization, grinding, plus accessories, sterilized, homogenized, spray drying, granulation, drying cooling and other process steps, this process does not solve the slag removal, is still exquisite taste lubrication, to keep the product in the original ingredients nutritional factors, promote absorption; improve and solve the instant effect on the product to a certain extent. It has a high flour yield, able to keep the aroma of the product itself.


This paper is concerned with the application of linear parameter-varying (LPV) methods. Its purpose is to investigate the interest of a new information structure for the LPV controllers. The proposed improvement consists in extending the traditional information structure by introducing, beside the signals usually measured, special signals supposed available for control. This enhances the design in two directions: first, the performance of the obtained controller is improved by a more accurate adjustment to the LPV system parameter value; second, this structure enables the implementation of a controller of reduced complexity in relation to the LPV system parameter. The advantages of the proposed structure are illustrated on the single-axis missile control problem proposed by Reichert which has been intensively studied in the existing literature.


Objective To compare the difference of two heart failure models established by constriction of aortic arch and abdominal aorta,and to explore an effective method to establish an animal model of heart failure.Methods Ninety healthy adult male Wistar rats were randomly divided into three groups.The rats in the group 1 had cervical operation to contract the aortic arch,the rats in the group 2 were operated on abdomen to contract the abdominal aorta,and the rats in the group C had surgery but no aorta constriction.All the rats were fed for 4 or 6 weeks.The heart function of the rats was detected with ultrasound and heart intubation.Results At 4 weeks after constriction,ultrasonic results showed a significant increase of the left ventricular wall thickness and internal diameter of the left ventriclular cavity in the aortic arch constriction group,and not significantly increased in the abdominal aorta constriction group,compared with those of the control group.At 6 weeks after constriction,both the left ventriclular wall thickness and internal diameter of the left ventricle were significantly increased in the abdominal aorta constriction group,while only the internal diameter of the left ventricle was significantly increased and without change of the left ventriclular wall thickmess in the aortic arch constriction group.Hemodynamic detection showed that LVESP,LVEDP,LVDP and ±dp/dtmax in the aortic arch constriction group were significantly lower than those of the abdominal aorta constriction group at 6 weeks after contraction.Conclusion The progression of heart failure caused by aortic arch constriction in the rats occurs obviously faster than that developed after abdominal aorta constricction.


Abstract Land Use Law & Zoning Digest (LUL&ZD) has been covering the twists and turns in American land-use law since April 1949. In honor of these 50 years, this and following articles will present some looking back over the 50 years in land-use planning law and some looking forward into the future.


seated on a basis of two steps. Probably suggested by an original in sculpture. No. 9. An electrum stater of Cyzicus (fifth century, late) type, Herakles holding club and horn. No. 11. A new silver coin of Neandria in the Troad showing a ram biting the leaves of a branch. No. 16. A bronze coin, of the first century B.C., of Hydisus, a Carian town to which no money has been previously assigned. No. 22 (PI. VII. 15). A unique electrum stater (of Miletus ?), showing two lions standing on their hind legs and each resting a forepaw on the capital of a column between them, a type recalling the Lion Gate of Mycenae and early Phrygian monuments. This coin can hardly be later than B.C. 650.


Objective To study the sterilization effect and residual level of ethylene oxide. Methods The microbiological sterility test and gas chromatography are adopted. Results and Conclusion Inner stoppers of plastic bottles after sterilization with ethylene oxide can meet the aseptic requirement and the residual level of ethylene oxide can also meet the requirement. Ethylene oxide can be used in the sterilization of thermolabile inner packaging material in the production process.


The plant extracts Curcuma longa, a perennial herb is a member of the Zingiberaceae (ginger). The aqueous extract was investigated for its anti-inflammatory activity in animal models. The extract at different doses used showed good anti- inflammatory activity which has been done significantly, by the formation of paw edema induced by carrageenan, formalin induced paw edema and xylene induced ear edema model. Anti-inflammatory effects of plants were monitored every hour after carrageenan injection. These results were also comparable to Indomethacin, the reference drugs used in this study. Indomethacin a well-known anti-inflammatory agent was used as a positive control. Anti-oxidant activity was also measured at different extract concentration. Inflammatory mediators were also measured accordingly. The results from present study indicate the efficacy of the extract as a therapeutic agent in acute as well as chronic inflammatory conditions. Thus it could be concluded that Curcuma Longa extracts possess significant anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. These useful effects can be resulted from inhibitory interaction of plant extract with cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme and subsequently reduction in prostaglandins production.


A new way of lowvelocity bullet detection is mentioned,which with Infrared source can eliminate the impact of sound All the setting is designed, and based on the static trial data, the feasibility of this way is proved


In spite of breastfeeding being almost universal in Nigeria, exclusive breastfeeding rate is low. Poor practices remain a major cause of neonatal and infant mortality. Community Integrated Management of Childhood illness (CIMCI) is a programme that employs the use of community based counsellors to address these challenges. The study assessed the effect of community based counsellor on breastfeeding practices of mothers and factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding in Ile-Ife, South-west, Nigeria. A comparative cross sectional study was conducted in two Local Government Areas (LGA) of Osun State, Nigeria. The study enrolled 722 mothers of index under five children through a multi stage cluster sampling techniques. Data was collected using structured questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. Approximately 94% of children in the CIMCI implementing LGA were exclusively breastfed compared to 76.1% in the non-implementing LGA (p<0.001). Maternal age, maternal education level, family size, Initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth and residence in CIMCI-implementing LGA were significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding. It was concluded that community based counselling has a positive effect on breastfeeding practices. Community based 'baby friendly' breastfeeding initiative is suggested.


Zhu Yuanzhang's selection of Linhao as his capital, his construction of the mid capital, and his abandonment of the huge construction project are all significant political events in the early Ming Dynasty, but Mingtaizu Shilu, an essential historical document, only gives us a very brief account of these events. Through a comparative study of relevant documents, we found that in order to maintain the positive image of the emperor the book doctored some important facts of his abandonment of the construction of the mid capital by papering over his mistakes in decision-making for the construction of the capital. In fact, the abandonment of the construction project of the mid capital and the re-structuring of the palace in Nanjing in the eighth year of Hongwu Reign were both caused by Zhu's superstitious suspicion that the builders of the palace had spoiled the fengshui of the palace and thus would undermine his monarchical rule.


Objective: To investigate the clinical features and treatment experience of Kawasaki disease. Methods:Analyse the clinical data from 12 cases with Kawasaki disease according to its diagnosis criteria. Results:The 12 cases all showed high fever(39 ℃-40.5 ℃)and skin rash, ten cases with conjunctive bulbar conjestion and limb sclerosis (83.3%),11 cases with oral mucosa lesions (91.6%). All cases were cured by the high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin. Conclusion:Kawasaki disease remains a clinically significant and intriguing childhood illness, the current recommendations for treatment of Kawasaki disease is intravenous immunoglobulin. The clinical trial has shown high-dose IVIg be of dramaticly proven benefit.


Abstract (analytical)This article proposes the concept of Generation ₿ or Blockchain to analyze youth movements in the era of semantic web. Starting from previous conceptualizations about Generation @ or At sign and about Generation # or Hashtag, the signifier, meaning and traits of the Generation ₿ are presented, which are illustrated with the analysis of the 2019 protests, in the context of the mobilizations of the last decade. The concept of Blockchain or chain of blocks serves to reflect on the type of youth movements that emerged after the 2008 crisis, that are chained in blocks as a tactic of resistance against state and corporate powers and as a collaborative way of producing value in the face of the prevailing social anomie.
Keywords: Youth, generations, information society, youth movements, social media.
Author Keywords: Generation @, generation at sign, generation #, generation hashtag, generacion ₿, generation blockchain.


In this paper, the phenomenon of abnormal jitter of the left rear door is studied, while a certain SUV of domestic brand driving on the washboard pavement with the speed in between 11 and 13km/h. The abnormal shaking of rear door is caused by the excitation of four tires by the preliminary test. The inverse sub-structuring analysis method was introduced to analyze the vibration transmission path between spindle head and the left rear door. The advantage of the method which can obtain the dynamic parameters of the interface between chassis system and vehicle body system, the frequency response function of substructures without decoupling the system. Then excitation transmissibility from each spindle head to the attachment point (the passive side) and non-coupling FRF of each substructure are calculated. The contribution of vibration transmission path is further analyzed. In final, the higher excitation transmissibility of the attachment point is found.


Recent trends towards integrating traditional and formal seed supply systems are analysed. The authors stress the need for sound national seed policies and describe case studies in Africa, Latin America and Asia illustrating the complexity of supply systems.


Objective To explore the similarity and difference between cardiac neurosis (CN) and cardiac syndrome X (CSX). Methods The clinical data of 57 patients with CN and 25 patients with CSX were retrospectively analyzed. Results There were no differences between the two groups in age, gender, smoking rate, the complications of primary hypertension or diabetes, BMI, TG, HDL-C, UA and Fib levels(P0 05). The levels of TC, LDL-C and apoB in the patients with CSX were significantly higher than those in the patients with CN(P0.05), and the concentration of apoA1 presented a increased trend in the former(P=0 07). The main symptom of the patients with CSX was typical chest pain (56%), while that of the patients with CN was atypical chest pain (82 5%). The patients with CSX had relatively higher positive rates of treadmill test or myocardial perfusion scintigraphy compared with the patients with CN. There were not significnat differences in abnormal chest film, electrocardiographic or echocardiographic changes between the two groups. Conclusion Compared with the patients with CN, it is more possible for the patients with CSX to suffer a disorder of lipid metabolism, which might contribute to the dysfunction of cardiovascular endothelia, and the patients with CSX may benifit from lipid-lowered therapy.


A matching technique, similar in principle to that employed by Ashley (1970) has been adopted, to evaluate equal sensation levels between sinusoidal and wide-band random vibrations. The technique employed improved methodology, better facilities, and all the three translational modes. A series of two experiments were conducted. In experiment 1, subjects were exposed to four levels of sinusoidal vibrations, corresponding to ISO's (1974) FDP 16 min. 25 min, t h and 2-5 h boundaries at 6 Hz in the vertical mode (azaxis), and at 2 Hz in the back-to-chest (axaxis), and right-to-left side (ayaxis) modes. Subjects were asked to rate their vibration sensations on a ten point scale and to categorise their sensations on a four point category scale, while taking into account the FDP durations. They were then asked to match the random vibration to sinusoidal vibration for an equal sensation effect if exposed over such durations. In experiment 2, the four matched random vibration levels were employed as reference level...


ABSTRACT Research has found that ethics are most likely to be integrated throughout the curriculum rather than taught as a stand-alone course in public relations. However, this study identified substantial differences in the types of content taught in the two formats on the basis of survey research with 96 educators. Some of the topics that are less likely to be taught outside of an ethics course included other codes of ethics beyond those of the Public Relations Society of America, classical theories by philosophers, decision-making models, the effect of organizational culture and values, and global perspectives on ethics. In addition, few educators reported that they discuss raising ethical concerns in their courses.


Privacy uncertainty manifests itself when a customer's personal information is part of a technology mediated interaction. Theoretically and empirically, in context of mobile apps, we show that privacy uncertainty is different from seller uncertainty and product uncertainty. In addition, we explore the antecedents of privacy uncertainty, where we focus on how prepurchase and post-purchase information asymmetry about privacy information effects privacy uncertainty. We empirically test our hypothesis and find that post-purchase information asymmetry leads to more pronounced privacy uncertainty. Uncovering Privacy Uncertainty in the context of Mobile Apps Proceedings of the Ninth Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Auckland, New Zealand, 2014 2


and 'Nilo-Hamitic' peoples, and their culture, which has assimilated a good deal from the Dinka, illustrates the way in which the spread of language, ideas, and practices—in other words 'social change'—operates in traditional society. The existence of other major studies of the thought and life of peoples in this region (for example, Evans-Pritchard on the Nuer, Lienhardt and Francis Deng on the Dinka, Middleton on the Lugbara) gives Jean Buxton's work added interest, especially for students of the history and comparative sociology of the White Nile basin. But beyond the ethnographic and general value of Jean Buxton's study, is the originality of her analysis. She has given us a sensitive consideration of one of the most elusive questions in the study of belief and the intellect in society. Too often, we face descriptions of traditional belief which appear unintelligible to us and therefore founded on simple-minded credulity; or at the other extreme, they appear so rational and well-worked out that they no longer convince, for there is a limit to the logic-chopping proclivities of most ordinary people. Jean Buxton has attempted to explore the relation between the permanent, given framework of assumptions concerning the universe and the nature of man for the Mandari on the one hand, and the areas of rethinking, experimentation, and the construction of hypotheses by ordinary men and specialists on the other. Thus, for example, the existence of the Creator spirit in the sky, as the ultimate explanation of the source of life and death, is unquestioned; but the many ways in which illness may be ascribed to manifestations of spirits from above, or to intrusive Dinka Powers, are open to dispute, to change of mind, and to deliberate experiment. Rivalry between styles of diagnosis differentiates the older (traditional Mandari) diviners from the younger (Dinka-influenced) doctors. In her discussion of the theory and practice of rain ritual, Jean Buxton gives a fascinating account of the doubts, uncertainties, and adjustments which may be made in a field where understanding so rarely seeps through the hard-and-fast descriptions of belief and rite.


In the article the satisfaction with dentures and the life quality ofpatients in one and five year time after prosthetic treatment in cases of total adenthy, using 5 variants of implantological treatment (including 3 types of removable dentures, bridges and dentures fixed on special implants), are analyzed. The noticeable advantage of all types of implantological treatment against ordinary total removable dentures is figured out. Comparing to single implant-fixed crowns, the results of using removable implant-fixed dentures are less favorable. There is no certain difference between the analyzed criterions of bridge prosthetic treatment and cases of special implants use.


A wireless mobile station, comprising: a plurality of branching means for performing spreading demodulation downstream signal transmitted from the base station via a transmission channel; and a RAKE unit for combining each extend from the branching unit outputs the demodulated the downstream signals, wherein the branching unit and the RAKE unit and performs arithmetic operations common to downstream channel compensated signal spreading demodulation estimation.


Exposure to highly stressful events in early life can impact gastrointestinal (GI) function and increase an individual's probability of developing an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as an adult. For example, exposure to trauma early in life induces visceral hypersensitivity and increases gut permeability in adulthood. The mechanism for this change likely involves the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, as individuals exposed to stress show an enduring hyper-responsiveness, and GI changes have been found to be closely mediated by corticotropin releasing factor, as well as nerve growth factor and mast cells (Theodorou, 2013). Gut–brain axis signalling in inflammatory diseases likely involves serotonergic signalling, as levels of 5-HT are elevated in inflamed mucosa from Crohn's disease patients and in animal models of other IBDs. A mouse model deficient for the expression of tryptophan hydroxylase 1 – the enzyme responsible for the production of 5-HT in intestinal epithelia – shows a protective effect from developing colitis in two different chemical models. Mice deficient for serotonin reuptake transporter (SERT) develop more severe colitis in both chemical and transgenic animal models of the disease (Levin & van den Brink, 2014). Nucleotide oligomerization domain 1 (Nod1) is a cytosolic receptor responsible for triggering an innate immune response to antigens present within the cytoplasm. An


Recent empirical evidence from vector autoregressions (VARs) suggests that public spending shocks increase (crowd in) private consumption. Standard general equilibrium models predict the opposite. We show that a standard real business cycle (RBC) model in which public spending is chosen optimally can rationalize the crowding-in effect documented in the VAR literature. When such a model is used as a data-generating process, a VAR estimated using the artificial data yields a positive consumption response to an increase in public spending, consistent with the empirical findings. This result holds regardless of whether private and public purchases are complements or substitutes.


Presented at the ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America) 38th Annual Conference, "Revolution and Innovation: At the Hub of Discovery," Boston, Massachusetts, April 23rd - 26th, 2010


This paper discusses historical clarinets held by The Royal College of Music's museum of instruments. It is an earlier version of item #683.


Tribals in general are a segregated group of people living in isolation as a community and it is generally recognized that as a result of extreme poverty and pattern of living, intake of various essential constituents of food may be inadequate among the tribals of India. Today, many a measures are underway in bettering the lot of these communities Undoubtedly, self-reliance alone can bring in lasting measures in any developmental activity and this is especially true of tribals because inspite of all the invasions by outsiders in general they prefer to live and practice their own way of life. Food habits probably is the most difficult habit to change in any community and all the more so in a tribal set up.


John Fowles, one of the most significant post-war English novelists, produced remarkable postmodern novels in which he combined fiction with history. Dealing with the concepts of internal exile, individual isolation and loneliness, he dwelt on duality, fragmentation, discontinuity, the combination of the past and the present and the search of the individual for whole sight. His novel, Daniel Martin, portrays these features, however it not only includes these aspects of postmodern novels, but it also acquires the significant characteristics of the Victorian Bildungsroman, one of the remarkable types of realistic novels. Thus, the aim of this study is to identify the combination of realism and postmodernism in Daniel Martin in the light of the struggles of the protagonist, who tries to eliminate his fragmented identity and to achieve a sense of wholeness, so in this paper the characteristics of postmodern novels will be analyzed together with the traits of the Bildungsroman by concentrating on the relationship between history and fiction.


This letter introduces a new method for simultaneously singulating and picking objects from clutter. The method can lead to effective robotic bin picking, which still remains elusive despite its importance in many industrial and domestic applications, especially for objects with a thin profile. We leverage planar quasistatic pushing manipulation as a way of standardized physical interaction between a robot and the object to pick. A gripper designed with digit asymmetry, realized as a two-fingered gripper with different finger lengths, is suggested as the key to successful singulating and picking through the controlled pushing maneuver. A detailed account of the manipulation process and design principles will be presented. An extensive set of experiments validate the effectiveness of our approach in three-dimensional bin picking tasks. Beyond picking, more complex manipulation capabilities such as autonomous pick-and-place/pack will also be presented.


For many years, the internationalization of the markets, caused by the convergence of the tastes across borders, was thought to result in very large multinational enterprises. But, with the devel ...


The paper analyzes the principle of the switched reluctance drive(SRD) system and the non-linear mathematical model for switched reluctance motor(SRM).On the basis,Simplifying the model,and in Simulink,the non-linear mathematical model of SRM under chopped current control is modeled,chopped current control proves to be effective by simulating,proving the model calculation is simple and can satisfy certain accuracy.This simulation offers a valid tool for designing and debugging actual switched reluctance drive.


Revised version of a paper presented at a workshop as part of the programme
Mapping frontiers, plotting pathways: routes to North-South cooperation in a divided island, Newman House, University College Dublin, 17 January 2005.


We compare the performance of stochastic models for HPSG parse-ranking under variations in the textual domain, the type of features used, and the learning algorithms. We investigate how unsupervised training methods can help to improve disambiguation accuracy. We suggest ways how the improved approaches given in this document can be integrated into a framework that combines disambiguation accuracy with parsing speed.


According to the evaluations made by Isabetli-Fidan and Şeker in terms of inequality between 2007 and 2018, it has been determined that Istanbul has the characteristics of being a monopoly city. While Günay and Bayraktaroǧlu's study titled "Analysis of the Effects of the Central Bank's Interest Announcements on Tourism Index Returns "is the fifth study;Çelik and Bayrak's paper on democracy, terrorism, and foreign direct investments for both developing and developed countries is the sixth study of this issue. Küçükkambak and Süler's study that establishes a relationship between the fear of Covid and purchasing enters the issue as the ninth study;The study of Demirtaş and Ilıkkan-Özgür, which also draws attention with its emphasis on health, which analyses the effects of information communication technologies and air pollution on public health expenditures, is included as the tenth study in the issue. The thirteenth study, Aydoǧdu-Baǧcı, and Sever aim to investigate the effect of taxes on income, wealth, and expenditures, which are tax types according to their sources, on economic growth by Panel ARDL analysis since it allows the evaluation for both stationary and non-stationary data.


The invention relates to a semiconductor light emitting element. According to one embodiment, the semiconductor light emitting element includes a stacked body and an optical layer. The stacked body has a major surface and includes a light emitting layer. The optical layer is in contact with the surface and includes a dielectric body, first particles, and second particles. The optical layer includes a first region including the dielectric body and the first particles and does not include the second particles and a second region including the dielectric body and the second particles. A sphere-equivalent diameter of the first particle is not less than 1 nanometer and not more than 100 nanometers. A sphere-equivalent diameter of the second particle is more than 300 nanometers and less than 1000 nanometers. An average refractive index of the first region is larger than a refractive index of the stacked body and smaller than a refractive index of the second particle.


Pascal's Wager is one of the most interesting and original arguments for the existence of God. It does not invoke advanced metaphysical concepts; instead, it employs the methods and concepts of probability calculus. Its argumentative power mainly rests on the appropriate interpretation of the determinants of human existence, which are taken to include our cognitive, moral and physical limitations. The article discusses different aspects of Pascal's reasoning. In particular, it examines the wager in the context of Grace as something that Pascal himself believed in.


Teachers are playing a new role in this information age.Now"facilitator"is considered as the teachers' new and most important role.Development of this new role needs conditions of teachers' education,and then influences teachers' education.


We demonstrate how to match pre-equilibrium dynamics of a $0+1$-dimensional quark-gluon plasma to second-order viscous hydrodynamical evolution. The matching allows us to specify the initial values of the energy density and shear tensor at the initial time of hydrodynamical evolution as a function of the lifetime of the pre-equilibrium period. We compare two models for pre-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma, longitudinal free streaming and collisionally broadened longitudinal expansion, and present analytic formulas that can be used to fix the necessary components of the energy-momentum tensor. The resulting dynamical models can be used to assess the effect of pre-equilibrium dynamics on quark-gluon plasma observables. Additionally, we investigate the dependence of entropy production on pre-equilibrium dynamics and discuss the limitations of the standard definitions of nonequilibrium entropy.


To determine the frequency spectra of radio sources the flux densities of these sources should be measured at the widest possible frequency range. The use of different telescope types, methods of measurements and calibrations led in a number of cases to the considerable difference in the data of various observatories. At the present time for frequencies above 400 MHz the scales of flux densities — S for — S ≥ 1 Jy = 10−26w m−2Hz−1 presented by different authors coincide accurate to 5%. Up to now for frequencies below 200 MHz a single scale of fluxes recognized by all radioastronomers is absent. We attempted to determine such a scale for frequencies 180-10 MHz. We used both analysis of the published data and the results of the new measurements obtained with the UTR-2 Radiotelescope in the declination strip 10°–20° at frequencies 10.0; 12.6; 14.7; 16.7; 20, and 25 MHz. The method of these measurements and the obtained results are described in detail in [1]. The UTR-2 Radiotelescope has 5 beams in declination with half power beam width in a zenith direction 20' × 20' at 25 MHz [2]. The absolute values of the flux densities of all observed discrete radio sources are defined during the experiments. Minimum flux density measured at frequency 25 MHz — 15–20 Jy, with a signal-to-noise ratio equal to 3–4. During measurements about 300 radio sources were found.


This paper develops the properties of a stochastic learning model first reported in [1] and [2]. Some mathematical problems that appear to be interesting in themselves have arisen in the analysis of the limiting behavior of this stochastic model. Because of this these problems will be examined in a framework that is broader than that strictly required for model analysis.


Longidorus barsii sp. n., from Mt Tara in the Balkan Peninsula, is described and characterised by using a polyphasic approach. The species has numerous males. The female body is 5-7 mm long, rather stout and resembles a large Xiphinema. The lip region is wide, with rounded sides continuous with the neck, frontally flattened and depressed around the oral aperture, amphids are pouch-like and distinctly bi-lobed and the odontostyle is moderately long. The nuclei of the pharyngeal glands are in the normal position, the dorsal nucleus located somewhat posterior to anterior third of bulb. The uteri are long, the distal inner epithelium densely covered with papilla-like outgrowths. The tail is rounded, bluntly conoid and very short. Alpha-numerical identification codes: A4/5, B45, C3, D3, E2, F3, G 1(2), H1, I2, J1, K67. The morphologically most similar species are L. kheirii, L. polyae and L. profundorum. Additional observations are provided on the anterior body region and genital organs in L. barsii sp. n., L. piceicola, L. silvae, and L. uroshis. Selected features are discussed from the taxonomic and functional points of view. The D2-D3 expansion domains of the 28S rRNA gene and the ITS region of L. barsii sp. n. were amplified and sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis using the D2-D3 expansion domains of the 28S rRNA gene revealed close evolutionary relationships with L. polyae, L. athesinus and three unidentified Longidorus spp.


Today, after continued development and extensive field and laboratory testing, nonceramic insulators are in use through 765 kV. At transmission voltages, nonceramic insulators have become very popular from 69 through 345 kV. Above 345 kV some nonceramic insulators are in use; however, their usage has not yet become significant. At distribution voltages, confidence in nonceramic insulators is high, so much so that many utilities purchase only nonceramic type insulators. In other utility owned and operated equipment (transformers and their bushings, potheads, surge protective devices, etc.) it is safe to say that the industry has rapidly converted from porcelain to nonceramic wherever the opportunity has presented itself.


Malignant Hyperthermia is a compilation of original articles on the general subject of malignant hyperthermia. The editors ". . .attempted to comprise all the important contemporary aspects of MH." With 67 contributors, this book gives an overview of many areas of interest concerning malignant hyperthermia. The book is divided into 13 sections, with 45 chapters and 3 appendices. Many European and North American investigators are represented in the book. The aim is to give an overview, not necessarily to review comprehensively each specific area. Standard texts are still needed as an introduction to the clinical presentation, pathophysiology, and treatment of malignant hyperthermia. However, this volume needs to be read because it goes well beyond standard texts, particularly in the areas of improved diagnosis, future directions for the field, and alternative available hypotheses. One of the best features of the book is that each chapter has a few "key sentences" as a summary. As in any work by so many authors, the quality varies from chapter to chapter, and some overlap is inevitable. The best chapters discuss the controversies, have some evaluation of the references, and indicate where further work is needed. (See especially the chapter on masseter muscle rigidity.) The chapter on modern genetics is a good quick reference, but does not go into log odds ratio (LOR) scoring; as this chapter has no references, a recommended reading list might have been useful. Communication between authors or through the editors might have improved the book, e.g., the chapter on genetics does not define cDNA, and the term is used without definition in the following chapter. The only area clearly left out is the unique diagnostic approach used by Japanese investigators, including the skinned fiber CA-induced CA release test. There are differences in writing style that should have been picked up by the editors. Thus references in some chapters are by order of appearance and in others alphabetically by first author. The book has a good index that picks up most of the topics covered, but the table of contents does not contain chapter subheadings and some citations are left out. Thus when one looks for creatinine kinase (CK), one finds citations to many of the chapters but misses the topic "idiopathic elevated CK" as a risk for malignant hyperthermia on page 56 in the chapter on rhabdomyolysis. In those areas that are moving rapidly, the references are dated (few if any after 1999, not unexpected for a book published in 2000). Thus the total number of mutations in the ryanodine receptor has increased since publication, but the general information is correct and up to date. Special mention should be made of the section on malignant hyperthermia-related disorders, particularly the chapters on neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and heat stroke that are good sources of information on these topics. While not malignant hyperthermia, these disorders may involve anesthesiologists and may be difficult to differentiate from malignant hyperthermia. This book is certainly worth reading and will bring the anesthesiologist up to date on the present focus and progress in this uniquely anesthetic disease.


Longitudinal administrative data generated by public education systems in the United States have become increasingly available and have tremendous potential to inform policy research. While it is tempting to take the accuracy of administrative data for granted, there are reasons why researchers should approach these data with a degree of caution. We illustrate this point using detailed teacher compensation records from Washington State to examine the issue of salary spiking in public pensions, where end-of-career increases in salary are used to boost the value of retirement benefits.


Two adult sisters have vermian hypoplasia, ataxia, nystagmus, pontine divergence insufficiency, and mild to moderate intellectual disability, with an arrest of cerebral myelination resembling the pattern of a 4-month-old infant. Other abnormalities include high myopia, optic nerve hypoplasia, decreased bone density, hypoplasia of the secondary teeth, and amenorrhea. We did not find matching patients described in the literature. The sisters could represent a variant of one of the described syndromes of the cerebellocerebro-oculorenal spectrum, such as a variant of Joubert's syndrome, or a disorder sui generis within the spectrum. (J Child Neurol 2003;18:755—762).


Remote ischaemic conditioning (RIC) is the cyclic application of non‐damaging ischaemia leading to an increased tissue perfusion, among others triggered by NO (monoxide). Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is known to have vascular alterations such as increased blood shunting and decreased NO blood‐levels, which in turn lead to decreased tissue perfusion. We therefore hypothesized that RIC could improve tissue perfusion in CRPS.


This thesis is concerned with the study of certain metabelian groups which can be viewed as split extensions of a free abelian group Q by a finitely generated Q-module A. In particular we want to know which cohomological finiteness properties these groups possess in order to shed further light on the Bieri-Groves conjecture.


The present invention, DPP-4 to induce neutralizing antibodies to, SEQ ID NO: of amino acid sequence or non-human mammal, indicated by 2 SEQ ID NO: of diabetes using a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence corresponding to the second antigen provides an agent for preventing and treating diabetes comprising a DPP-4 neutralizing antibody that recognizes a partial sequence of a prophylactic or vaccine and the DPP-4 amino acids for the treatment.


In heat stress conditions, E. coli will produce EF-Tu protein abundantly under the regulation of str promoter. The str promoter from E. coli is known to have sequences that are recognized by two sigma factors (σ70 and σS). The aim of this research was to isolate and characterize str promoter from E. coli DH5a using reporter gene AmilCP. The str promoter from E. coli DH5α (289 bp) had been isolated by Colony PCR using specific primers. Bioinformatics analysis of str promoter showed high conserved areas (100%) for some kinds of E. coli strains. The str promoter was constructed in pSB1C3 vector by modifying OEPC to regulate reporter gene AmilCP. Qualitatively, the ability of str promoter constructs in regulating AmilCP gene was observed as purple-blue colonies of E. coli. Quantitative analysis was performed by measuring cell extract of E. coli at a wavelength of 588 nm after treated at different temperatures (4, 24, 37, 45, 50, 55 and 60 °C) for 1 hour. The ability of str promo ter to express reporter gene AmilCP was compared to one powerful promoter which is the lacUV5 promoter. The results show that both promoters are functional promoters and can be induced by temperature (50 °C).


Aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) (individual diameter ~ 15nm) have been grown within a silica gel film using catalytic nickel nanoparticles. The surface electrical resistivity shows a variable range hopping mechanism to be operative between them.


Yunxiang Zhang , Jiajie Diao **, Karen N. Colbert, Ying Lai , Richard A. Pfuetzner **, Mark S. Padolina **, Sandro Vivona , Susanne Ressl , Daniel J. Cipriano **, Ucheor B. Choi **, Niket Shah, William I. Weis , and Axel T. Brunger ** From the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Structural Biology, and Photon Science and the **Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305


Based on the long time series data from Zhanghe Irrigation District,Hubei,China,this paper investigated the production function model and technical non-efficiency model of irrigation water use efficiency(IWUE) and irrigation water productivity(WP) besed on stochastic frontier analysis(SFA) methods.The estimated parameters and assumptions test result show that WP model has a stronger explaination than that of IWUE.As a whole,technical efficiency of IWUE is higher than that of WP;but technical efficiency of WP has a big increasing ratio than that of IWUE.The estimated parameters of the non-validity indicate that the rainfall has greatest influence on IWUE;and the second is ratio of adopting water-saving irrigation area;the third is ratio of rice cultivation and annual ET0.Rainfall in cropping season,ratio of adopting water-saving irrigation area and ratio of rice cultivation shown the significant pertinency with the technical efficiency of WP.Annual investment of rehabilitation reconstruction and ratio of canal linning have no significant influence on the technical efficiency of IWUE and WP because their data series is too short.


The present work approaches the behavior of the soy producers in regard to the stock exchange derivatives. One tries to contribute to the growing literature about hedge and the management on agricultural risks when carrying out a revision of literature of how the farmers behave in many regions of the world in regard to the use of derivativos in order to get protection from the variation of the price of the product, trying to innovate when researching a construct not often approached: hedge in soy in Brazil. One revised the literature by using theoretical predictions as well as empirical works in order to create a model of regression which could explain which variables could impact in the non use of stock exchange derivatives. Besides the regression, a set of hypothesis were tested with the aim of observing whether there was a difference between soy producers who do not operate from the one that operate with derivatives. A survey have a sample of 358 soy producers that do not operate in bolsa were used to carry out the regression called general linear models (MGL in Portuguese) and the total sample with 412 answers was used for this test of hypothesis Kruskay-Waills. After the use of this statistical tests, one concluded that state variables that have impact in the non-use of the share market with the purpose of hedge are: size of the property and state experience All of this is a producer perception of who should operate time and dedication perception from who should operate the aversion to risk. In regards to the states of hypothesis one realize that there was a significant difference to the variables: experience, schooling, size of property an excess of confidence.


Introduction To achieve the objectives of food security and sustainable agriculture, effective role in strengthening national independence requires fast and accurate transition from production stage of traditional livelihoods to the industrial production and trade stage. On the other hand, the pursuit of sustainable agriculture today as an approach to agriculture made it possible to begin commercial production and food security of rural households. Family uses, accounted for about 80% of total agriculture uses. Therefore, the relationship between their tersest is collected and food security in rural is of utmost importance. In this regard, this study also analyzes their relationship between the food security and sustainable agriculture. Generally, this study consisted of three parts: theoretical perspective, methodology and hypotheses testing.


The requirements in diversified application domains like Engineering, Scientific technology, Multimedia, Knowledge management in expert systems etc shift the momentum of current trends in designing database models to an innovative concept of Object Based fuzzy Database Model. The ongoing research concentrates on representing the imprecise information by taking object modelling methodology and fuzzy techniques through different levels of class hierarchy and abstractions. Still, a formal definition of fuzzy class is not yet given by which we can represent all standards of fuzzy objects and attributes. In this paper, we redefine the fuzzy class in an efficient manner and propose the structure of the fuzzy class using more effective generalized techniques to develop a new object based fuzzy data model in order to manipulate imprecise information and exposed to wider range of applicability. Also, we define a formal framework for generalized fuzzy constraints which can be applied effectively to fuzzy specialized classes in fuzzy class hierarchy.


The author has developed a th三n film ther 皿 o −couple made by evaporating process in combination with a D . C. galvanometer tD function as a detector or a device for measuring intensity of sound field, The author calculated the temperature rise ef the thermo −couple assuming that the mechan 三sm is a kind of hysteresis  loss  caused by the delay of alternating heat conduction between air medium and rigid surface in analogy to Dr. 」. Saneyoshi ' s theory on the heat conduction damphlg of puIsating gas bubbles which resonate to ultrasonic Wave in liquid. It is proved that the value of temperature rise measured by the thermo − couple is coincident w 量th the value theoretically calculated . The te皿 perature rise is proportional to the square of the sound pressure and to the square root of the sound frequency according to this theory. The fact that this detector has the same characters is. also ascertained by this experiment .


In recent years, Location-Based Services (LBS) have been widely applied in people's life with various localization technologies. Because outdoor localization methods are not suitable for indoor environments, various indoor localization methods have been developed. Among the existing indoor localization methods, Wi-Fi fingerprinting localization has attracted great concerns because of its wide applicability, simple deployment, and comparable performance. This paper proposed an interpolation method for radio map establishment based on RSS clustering and propagation model optimization. Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm is used to cluster the Received Signal Strength (RSS) samples collected at Reference Points (RPs). In each cluster, propagation model parameters are optimized. Then RSS samples are estimated at select locations for radio map establishment. With the radio map after interpolation, more accurate localization results can be computed using K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) fingerprinting algorithm.


EGovernance is a way for Universities to use the new technologies to provide students with more convenient way to access University information and services. EGovernance provides tremendous opportunities to move forward in the 21st century with better quality, cost-effective University services and a better relationship between students and their affiliated Colleges. A Secure exam system is developed in .NET framework, to computerize all the examination processes, pre-examination data capturing, processing and declaring of results of all courses offered by the university including both under-graduate and post-graduate courses. The Developed software should have suitable security and integrity mechanism. Developers should impart training to officials of the University and Colleges for the optimum utilization of the software.E-Governance offers a new way forward, helping to improve University processes, connect Students and build interactions with and within a Student Community. Three basic change potentials for good governance for development are Automation, Informatisation and Transformation.


Objective: To investigate the changes of vitamin C concentration in gastric juice and plasma in patients with H. pylori (Hp) and probe the pathogenesis of Hp. Methods: The concentrations of vitamin C in gastric juice and plasma were studied in 40 patients with colorimetric methods, and pH levels in gastric juice were measured with electrode. Results: Gastric juice vitamin C concentrations in 20 inpositive patients were significantly lower than those in Hp negative controls. There was no difference of plasma vitamin C levels between the Hp positive patients and the Hp negative patients. The concentrations of vitamin C in gastric juice and plasma were significantly lower in those with hypochlorhydria (pH4) compared with those with pH4. Conclusion: Hp infection causes a descent of gastric juice vitamin C concentrations and the levels of vitamin C in gastric juice and plasma is correlated with pH levels in gastric juice.


Abstract Carboxylic acids react with a mixture of N-chlorosuccinimide, triphenylphosphine and sodium azide at -30°C to form acyl azides in high yields. When two equivalents of triphenylphosphine are applied and the temperature allowed to raise, the reaction yields directly α-carbonyl stabilized iminophosphoranes via Staudinger reaction of the phosphine with the intermediate acyl azide.


By introducing a new tortoise coordinate transformation, we investigate the quantum thermal and non-thermal radiations of a non-stationary Kerr–Newman–de Sitter black hole. The accurate location and radiate temperature of the event horizon as well as the maximum energy of the non-thermal radiation are derived. It is shown that the radiate temperature and the maximum energy are related to not only the evaporation rate, but also the shape of the event horizon, moreover the maximum energy depends on the electromagnetic potential. Finally, we use the results to reduce the non-stationary Kerr–Newman black hole, the non-stationary Kerr black hole, the stationary Kerr–Newman–de Sitter black hole and the static Schwarzshild black hole.


: In this paper we compare the "dangerous dyad" approach to identifying conflict-prone contexts (Bremer 1992) with strategic rivalry research. In highlighting the differences and similarities between the two approaches, we specify several testable hypotheses relating to rivalry initiation and escalation. Building on previous work by Thompson (1995), we theorize that different types of rivalries will have distinct causes and effects. Conventional predictors of conflict such as contiguity and major power status, among others, are expected to have differential effects depending on whether a rivalry involves spatial or positional issues. Similarly, we expect spatial rivalries to be more likely to initiate a war, while positional rivalries will be more likely to join an ongoing war. Using discrete time event history techniques, we find considerable support for these distinct causes and effects of spatial and positional rivalries. The results illustrate the bias that may result when researchers treat all rivalries as equal.


A practical experimental system for two-centre recording by angular multiplexing and 90° geometry is designed with red and blue light.The erasure mechanism of lithium niobate crystals double doped with copper and cerium for two-centre recording is discussed and a modified decremental recording schedule for angular multiplexing is proposed subsequently.Finaly,50 nonvolatile holograms with almost the same diffraction efficiency are recorded.


The defined chronological limits (7 th –10 th centuries) cover the entire 'Slavization' and its subsequent Christianization process within the Transylvanian space. Both phases have influenced the shaping of a cultural Transylvanian distinctiveness. Cultural and religious features belonging to the autochthonous population were caught up by those belonging to local ethnic groups. The archaeological research between the 1960's and 1980's was interested in finding the necessary tools that were able to force the archaeological object to reveal information about the ethnicity of its 'maker' or 'master'. This assumed archaeological objects' ethnic load theory became a postulate of the Romanian history. Therefore, the Romans and later on the Daco-Romans are archaeological traceable by means of their holding onto a certain funerary rite 'conservatism'. The ancient society was characterized by its bi-ritualism. The latter was documented within the empire's Danube provinces starting with the I st century B.C. The bi-ritualism was given up starting with the III rd century A.D. during the rise of barbarian kingdoms within the former Roman provinces: Moesia Inferior, Dacia and Pannonia. The re-birth of this funerary rite was acknowledged during the rise of the Avars' authority within the Pannonia plain and the emergence of Slavic populations within central and south-eastern Europe. The proportion of inhumation and cremation burial grounds in Transylvania favours the first ones (the cremation burial grounds). The proportion expresses a different point of view in Moldavia or Wallachia where the number of inhumation burial grounds is higher than the number of cremation ones. Therefore, one can conclude that the political influence of the Byzantine Empire was always of high importance in the Lower Danube region and was emphasized by the religious influence after the 8 th century. This century marks the rise of the eastern Christian communities.


The invention relates to a polyester film with thickness of 4-23 microns, which contains polyethylene terephthalate as the main component 2-20 wt .-% polyethylene naphthalate (based on the mass of the film) and having less than 30 pinholes per 100 m Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of making such films and their use in packaging laminates.


This article describes the geophysical site investigations carried out between 1986 and 1988 to confirm the alignment of the Channel Tunnel. Techniques developed during the exploration for North Sea oil in the 1970s were used to improve on the information obtained from earlier studies. Phase I involved seismic surveys up to 150m and 800m below the seabed to determine the geology in the line of the tunnel and below. In addition geophysical well logging and Vertical Seismic Profiling were used to correlate the data. Phase II involved the study of 3 specific areas - the UK Undersea Crossover, the Fosse Dangeard and the French Undersea Crossover. The results of the investigations are outlined. Features identified in the earlier studies were located with greater accuracy and the alignment of the tunnel optimised.


Rx is a homeobox‐containing gene that is critical for vertebrate eye development. Its expression domain delineates a field of cells from which the retina and the ventral hypothalamus develop. The 5′ upstream regulatory sequences of the medaka fish Rx gene are functionally conserved during evolution to a degree that they direct gene expression into the Rx‐expressing field of cells in mice. Using these sequences, we made a Cre line that can be used for inactivation of gene expression in the developing retina. genesis 44:361–363, 2006. Published 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


This paper presents the application of a six-axis force sensor and a novel optical three-axis tactile sensor to humanoid robot navigation system which is based on contact interaction towards supporting visual-based navigation. The force sensors are mounted on humanoid robot arms to perform grasping in self-localization task to define the robot's position and orientation. The grasping results guided the robot locomotion and avoid it from collision. Meanwhile the optical three-axis tactile sensors are mounted on cooperative two-finger system for object handling tasks. The tactile sensor is capable of acquiring normal force and shearing force. Experiment with hard and soft objects are performed which results revealed good performance of the integrated robotic fingers and tactile sensor system to recognize and grip the objects. The presented control algorithms for both sensors are capable of preventing the probability of damage to the sensors and objects during robust grasping and object handling tasks.


This work addresses, in an experimental and theoretical way, the influence of different oxygen pressure values on the physical and electronic properties of thin conductive and transparent oxide films of Al‐doped ZnO, with different thicknesses. A series of characterization techniques, which include X‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), optical spectrophotometry, and Hall measurements are conducted. All films have a hexagonal wurtzite structure characteristic of ZnO, with preferential orientation along the plane (002) and transmittance values, in the visible range, greater than 80%. The increase in flow oxygen up to 25% provides an increase in the film's density resulting in a decrease in electrical resistivity from 9.58 × 10−3 Ω cm to 8.14 × 10−3 Ω cm. The ab initio calculations allow to observe the distortions in the microstructure of the films attributed to the presence of impurities and to obtain the values of the total and formation energies. The values of the Mulliken population and chemical bond length are notoriously influenced by the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. The displacement of the valence band (VB) and the Fermi level, together with the decrease in the gap energy, reinforce the influence of oxygen gas on the electronic structure of the films.


The invention relates to a production process of a functional heat-emitting spinning fabric. The production process comprises the following steps: weaving dyed WARMPLUS moisture-absorption heat-emitting fiber yarns, wool-polyester-viscose blended yarns and low-stretch polyester yarns on a circular double-knitting machine to obtain a functional heat-emitting gray spinning fabric, and carrying out fulling milling and softening finishing on the gray fabric sequentially to produce the functional heat-emitting spinning fabric. The WARMPLUS moisture-absorption heat-emitting fiber is soft, smooth and sticky, has good moisture absorption property, can emit heat and keep warm, has good skin affinity and has a function of promoting blood circulation; and the functional heat-emitting spinning fabric produced by the weaving process is soft in handfeeling, is comfortable and attractive in wearing, has good moisture-absorption heat-emitting and warm-keeping effects and has high market promotion value.


The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the muscle activation in differences of foot stance during bridging exercise in healthy adults. The subjects of this study were 18 healthy adults who were students of the department of physical therapy. We measured EMG activity on trunk and lower limbs with differences of foot stance during bridge exercise. The results of this study are as follows: First, in trunk muscles, erector spinae showed statistically significant difference on plantar stance(p<.05). Second, in lower limbs muscles, gluteus maximus showed statistically significant difference on plantar stance, semitendinosus on plantar (p<.05), toes stance and soleus on plantar & on heels stance. According to the results of study, bridging exercise posture with plantar stance can be suggested as an effective training method to strengthen trunk muscle activities. In addition, It is also effective in lower limbs during bridge exercise on heel toes. However, for heel stances, there was no difference in the trunk and lower limbs activation of muscle.


The residual flux in transformers iron cores leads to a distortion of short-circuit current occasionally. And some considerable distortion may have effect on the validation of the test results. To avoid the substantial distortion, a suitable pretest is performed before the actual test. In case of applying this method there must be excessive overvoltage due to switching of an unloaded transformer and chopping of an excitation current. The purpose of this paper is estimate that the effect of the overvoltage results from this phenomenon on insulation performance of short-circuit transformer.


The pore structure of a simulated washcoat layer was evaluated using the Mean Transport Pore Model (MTPM). The MTPM provides the mean diffusive pore radius (rm) of a simulated washcoat layer from the experimentally measured effective diffusion coefficient (De). However, data previously published in the literature indicated that the value of rm depended on the choice of diffusive gas for the measurement of De. Therefore, a new, more efficient method was developed to estimate rm. To obtain base data, De was measured in a binary gas diffusion system using a modified Wicke-Kallenbach diffusion cell at room temperature, 473 K, and 673 K. The diffusive gases tested were H2, He, CH4, Ne, N2, O2, C3H6, CO2, and C3H8, and a simulated washcoat layer was used. The results confirmed that the value of rm depended on the type of diffusive gas used. However, many measurements of De are required to avoid problems. In the catalytic R&D process, the measurement of many De values for every experiment is impractical. To balance validity against efficiency for estimating rm, a combination of experimentally measured De and predicted De was used. This method is effective for predicting De using the mean molecular speed instead of a porous structure, and is more efficient than the conventional method of using MTPM. This method also can contribute to investigations of automotive catalysts.


The French thinkers who influenced the American social activist Dorothy Day through Peter Maurin are representative of French progressive thought connected with the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum and its 1931 successor, Quadragesimo Anno. This article discusses the influence of Kropotkin, de Foucauld, Maritain and Mounier on Day. In France itself, this thought was often frustrated but Day provides an example of the implementation of Roman Catholic Personalism in the American setting. Day was both a popularising journalist and a tireless practitioner of the threefold platform deriving from Maurin's philosophy of Roundtable Discussion, Farming Communes and Houses of Hospitality. By the early 1950s, the tangential nature of Day's interest in the worker priest movement, when the question of its suppression had global prominence, shows that Maurin had been successful not in interesting her in his French influences for their own sake but in bequeathing to her a workable synthesis as a framework for her own efforts.


The difficulties and problems New York State faced in fulfilling training for an ambulance attendant population of over 31,000 are discussed. A program is developed that would raise the level of pre-hospital emergency care on a broad base as an expedient measure, followed by a progression of steps to insure effective and efficient emergency care to national acceptable standards.


Written to address the contemporary crises of violence and the exhaustion of the symbolic capacities of literature in Mexico, Cristina Rivera Garza's La muerte me da (2008) puts together a self-effacing narrative that crumbles in its attempt to give words to the reality that it faces. This article offers a close reading of La muerte me da so as to argue that the novel's reflection on violence and literature operates by recurring to an engagement with, and through, the literary tradition which allows for both a critique of the representational ethics of literature and for an ethics of literature. It goes on to show how this literary investigation recuperates a previous aesthetic and ethical operation from the literary tradition which, when articulated with the contexts of contemporary violence, yield novel ways of thinking this relation. We might begin this essay playfully by asserting that Cristina Rivera Garza's La muerte me da (2008) is a bad detective novel. It is bad in that it fails to celebrate the detective as agent of social justice, "as the original poetic figure", and in that it is incapable of offering a glimpse of redemption in a dark world, as G.K. Chesterton and Raymond Chandler, two masters of the craft, respectively wrote (Chesterton 645, Chandler 989). But also, and more importantly, it is bad in that it does not seek to "tell the whole story," a normative role which, according to Mario Vargas Llosa, is the inherent tendency of all novels ("The Art of Fiction no. 120").1 In fact, from the beginning of its respective narrative, and within its specific diegesis, it sets itself in relation to the classic, "good" detective novel as a genre and a normative tradition against which to "act out" and "fail." In that sense, we might conclude that it is bad for all the good reasons. Written to address the contemporary crises of violence, the literary tradition, and the exhaustion of the symbolic capacities of literature in Mexico, La muerte me da puts together a self-effacing narrative that crumbles in its attempt to give words to the reality that it faces. Interestingly, Rivera Garza's reflection operates by recurring to an engagement with and through the literary tradition, which allows for both a critique of the representational ethics of literature and for an ethics of literature. In this essay, I will focus on Rivera Garza's ethical engagements by putting the emphasis on the textual. That is, this article studies how Rivera Garza's approach to the relationship between literature and violence in La muerte me da very much depends on an investigation into the literary tradition and the form of the novel carried out from within its novelistic diegesis.2 As we will see, this literary investigation recuperates a previous aesthetic and ethical operation from the literary tradition which, when articulated with the contexts of contemporary violence, yield novel ways of thinking this relation. 1 Emily Hind has characterized Rivera Garza's heterodox novelistic practice as "non-consumable ("El consumo textual" 36). Hind extrapolates and develops the concept from Rivera Garza's earlier novel La cresta de Ilión (2004), and explains that "el término 'no-consumible' intenta describir el opuesto de una literatura que lleva a una asimilación o 'digestión' fácil; esta literatura no-consumible resiste a la memoria y al dominio de los lectores" (36). 2 For other readings of Rivera Garza's use of intertextuality see Zavala, Abreu Mendoza.


AbstractA dual-station high-frequency (HF) Wellen Radar (WERA) transmitting at 16 MHz has observed near-real-time surface currents over an approximate range of 100 km across the Florida Straits since July 2004. During a 10-day period in April 2005 (15–25 April), a pair of 12.6-MHz SeaSondes (SS) were deployed south of the WERAs sites by NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). The resulting SS grid overlapped the southern portion of the WERA domain. During the same period of time, a bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) acquired subsurface current measurements within these HF radar grids starting at 14 m below the surface in water of 86-m depth. The interoperability of beam-forming (WERA) and direction-finding (SS) HF radar technologies was examined. Comparisons of radial and vector currents for an 8-day concurrent time series suggested good agreement in current direction over both domains, where the surface currents' magnitudes were a maximum of 1.2 m ...


The Langevin method using system‐size expansion is applied to the growth of voids in irradiated metals. The evolution of the mean vacancy cluster size is calculated to the first two orders in the ''system‐size'' inverse e, for supercritical clusters. The system size is taken to be the vacancy cluster concentration. To the lowest order, the fluctuations of the cluster size are Gaussian and the mean satisfies the growth law used for swelling calculations. The non‐Gaussian correction is shown to be negligible except for arrival‐rate ratios DiCi/DvCv on the order of unity. The two‐time cluster size correlation Φ (t,t′) is then evaluated near the critical size y*, which is an unstable equilibrium point. It is found that Φ (t,t′) is exponentially increasing, with an e‐folding time τ*, which is within a numerical factor of the nucleation time‐lag estimates using multistate kinetics. This suggests a definition of the time lag based on the cluster‐size fluctuations. The supersaturated vapor is also discussed.


AbstractTo study the antifatigue performance of Q690 high-strength steel in the ocean splash zone, indoor accelerated corrosion tests and high-cycle fatigue tests were carried out, and the S-N curv...


Objectives The aim of this study was to determine whether there were differences in mental health specific to regions in Korea, and the factors that affected mental health status. Methods Data from the 2016 Community Health Survey in Korea were used; 224,421 health survey participants provided responses on mental health issues, demographics, and health behavior, and were included in the study. Results A statistically significant difference was observed in the incidence of mental health status between different regions of Korea. Independent variables that affected mental health were sex, age, marital status, household income, economic activity, whether living with dementia patients, self-reported health status, smoking, alcohol drinking, sleep time, and chronic diseases. Risk factors associated with symptoms of depression were gender (female), bereavement or being divorced, low household income, family member with dementia, poor self-reported health status, currently smoking, level of physical activity, insufficient hours of sleep and suffering from chronic diseases. Conclusion This study suggests that a standardized healthcare policy is needed to reduce regional variation in mental health. In the future, similar studies that include medical expenses for mental healthcare and relevant variables according to regions of Korea should be conducted.


The concepts of multiresolution analysis(MRA), wavelets, and biorthogonal wavelets in Sobolev space over local fields of positive characteristic ( H s ( K ) ) are developed by Pathak and Singh [8,9]. In this paper, we constructed biorthogonal wavelet packets in Sobolev space H s ( K ) and derived their biorthogonality at each level by means of Fourier transform.


Viscosity, density, and the undercooling ability of the Zr-based bulk glass forming melt, which was manufactured in two different degrees of purity, have been studied. Investigations have been carried out by means of Couette rheometry and electrostatic and electromagnetic levitation with the latter under microgravity conditions. We found that oxygen and impurities present in industrial grade metals do not significantly alter the melt viscosity and density, while they clearly affect the undercooling ability. Comparing container based and containerless results showed that Couette rheometry can be applied in the temperature range between 1150 K and 1375 K, where it provides reliable data, but only at a rather low oxygen content. Higher oxygen contents, as in the case of the industrial grade alloy, cause measurement artefacts. In the case of Zr59.3Cu28.8Al10.4Nb1.5 alloys, these findings allow a better localization of the key factors dominating the glass forming ability.Viscosity, density, and the undercooling ability of the Zr-based bulk glass forming melt, which was manufactured in two different degrees of purity, have been studied. Investigations have been carried out by means of Couette rheometry and electrostatic and electromagnetic levitation with the latter under microgravity conditions. We found that oxygen and impurities present in industrial grade metals do not significantly alter the melt viscosity and density, while they clearly affect the undercooling ability. Comparing container based and containerless results showed that Couette rheometry can be applied in the temperature range between 1150 K and 1375 K, where it provides reliable data, but only at a rather low oxygen content. Higher oxygen contents, as in the case of the industrial grade alloy, cause measurement artefacts. In the case of Zr59.3Cu28.8Al10.4Nb1.5 alloys, these findings allow a better localization of the key factors dominating the glass forming ability.


On the afternoon of December 27, just fifty years ago, forty gentlemen assembled at Columbia College, New York City, for the purpose of discussing subjects pertaining to modern language study. Thirty-five of them were from New England and the Middle Atlantic States, two from the South (Virginia and Tennessee), two from Michigan, and one came across the Mississippi—from the city of St. Louis.


The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contrasting moderating effect of a firm's exploration on the relationship between the two types of long-term incentives (stock options/stock ownership) for the chief executive officers and a firm's long-term performance. Even though the two types of incentives are designed to improve long-term performance, the degrees of impact on long-term performance differ. Based on behavioral agency theory, this study theoretically and empirically examines the role of a firm's exploration on the above relationship.,This study used three archival sources to obtain data on stock options, stock ownership, patents and exploration, financial measures, and others. Based on a sample of 1,963 firms in various industries from 1995 to 2006, this study tested the moderating effect of a firm's exploration on the relationship between stock options/ownership and a firm's performance.,This study reveals the contrasting moderating effect of a firm's exploration on the relationship between stock options/ownership and a firm's long-term performance: a positive moderating effect on the relationship between stock options and performance and a negative moderating effect on the relationship between stock ownership and performance. In addition, empirical evidence was added on the inverted U-shaped relationship between stock ownership and a firm's long-term performance.,There is little research on a firm's internal characteristics that strengthen or weaken the effects of stock options and stock ownership on firm performance. This study demonstrates the differential moderating effects of exploration on the relationship between stock options/stock ownership and long-term performance. Such effects of exploration come from the different risk features of stock options and stock ownership. The key implication is that stock options could be more effective than stock ownership to enhance a firm's long-term performance when a firm has a strong exploration orientation.


The specific heat C p of the ordered Pr 3 Tl has been measured between 0.4 and 4 K. It is expressed as C p =0.25 T +0.530 T -2 J/mole K at low temperatures. The second term gives the square average of magnetization 1/2 =1.3 µ B /Pr. The spontaneous magnetization of the same sample has also been found to be 0.75∼0.8 µ B /Pr. Pr 3 Tl is thought to have a canting type ordering with the common ferromagnetic direction on the [111] axis. The canting angle is determined to be 45∼48° from the [111] direction to the [100] direction.


almost periodic coefficients. The author developed a method of reducing these equations to integro-differential equations and a simplified means of obtaining stability criteria. The treatment in the book is analytical, but the results find wide applications in technology and science. After an extensive introduction, Chapters 1-3, related to the analytical methods, analysis of vibratory motion, effects of damping and stability criteria, the book deals with the concept of resonances and their stability, in Chapter 4. In Chapters 5 and 6 the author presents combination resonances. Application to beams and columns are found in Chapter 7; torsional vibrations of shafts in Chapter 8 and vibration of plates and shells in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 contains topics related to rigid body motion, and flow motion encountered in physics and technology. The book is expertly written and constitutes a milestone in the world literature in mechanics. It is an indispensible tool for a person dealing with up-to-date problems in vibrations.


In our study, we analyse some reflections contained in the education thought of John Dewey, Paulo Freire and Peter McLaren. The three thinkers, with mutually different methods, have, in our opinion, as common point the intention to show that no education system is neutral in relation to the way in which societies are organised: all systems of education aim at the constitution of a particular kind of society through the formation of a corresponding mentality in the individuals. The ethical and political foundations of a society are mirrored in the education system: any reform of the society should, therefore, begin with the reform of the education system; furthermore, any reform of the society cannot be effective unless it is founded on the reform of education. As regards Dewey's observations, we concentrate our attention on his criticism of any education system based on the passivity of pupils and on the massification of students: Dewey steadily pleads for a system of education aiming at the individualisation of pupils. As regards Freire's meditation, we point out Freire's uncovering of the oppression exercised against the subaltern classes through the traditional education systems: the constant relegation of pupils of the oppressed classes to a condition of total passivity, which is the aim of the system of education described by Freire as the banking concept of education, destroys any sense and aspiration to autonomy in the pupils themselves. Self-depreciation of pupils is the result of the traditional system of education. McLaren points out that a correct system of education should have as its own aim the self-transformation and the empowerment of the students: educators ought to uncover the relations holding between knowledge, which is always a social construct, and the interests of the dominant class. 1 We would very much like to thank Prof. Dr. Carlos Sousa Reis of the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Coimbra, for his precious observations and his interesting suggestions. 2 aka / Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse, Universität Wien – Working Group Cultural Analysis, University of Vienna. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. 3 President of the International Mariinskaya Academy named after M.D. Shapovalenko, Moscow, Russia. Email: email@example.com. Recebido a 05-08-2020 e aprovado a 14-12-2020


Laws have the task of influencing the behaviour of the respective addressees in such a way that the legislator achieves their intended goals. A (new) law would not be required if existing framework conditions were already designed such that regulatory goals could be achieved. In this case actors would already have sufficient incentives to behave in a targeted manner. But this is not usually the case; on the contrary: legislation has the task of addressing "non-conforming" behaviour and of getting actors to participate in the implementation of regulatory goals. This is a demanding task and applies even in cases where compliance can be assumed. However, it is even more difficult if evasive behaviour is to be expected or it is feared that the addressees could develop and implement individual or collusive counter-strategies.
The present contribution and the underlying simulation games on the EIA Amending Directive were funded by the German Federal Environment Agency in the research project "Further development of the EIA instrument – solution proposals and simulation game for the implementation of the EIA Amending Directive 2014/52/EU" (duration 2015 – 2017) within the environmental research plan.
This essay is split into two parts. The first part primarily regards the experience from the simulation game on the EIA Amending Directive, which was aligned with the new version of the German Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIAA). The second part of the essay, which will be published in the next issue of the elni Review, deals with experiences from other simulation games and, based on this, describes more comprehensively the possibilities and limits of simulation games for the purpose of regulatory impact assessment.


In recent years Green Chemistry has become a central area of research for chemists working in both industry and academia. The fundamental concepts of sustainable chemistry are, among others, atom efficiency, waste prevention, use of renewable materials and innocuous solvents, as well as design of safer products. Within this context, microreactor technology offers, on the one hand, safe, environmentally benign, and high throughput processes typically intensified by a fast postreaction phase (workup and purification) and direct scalability; on the other hand, asymmetric organocatalysis allows for new and unique opportunities towards efficient and highly stereoselective metal-free catalytic syntheses.
In the first part of this thesis project it has been carried out the synthesis of new heterogeneous organocatalysts for their ultimate utilization in continuous-flow processes. Precisely, proline-like mimetics and thiazolium salt pre-catalysts have been immobilized on silica and polystyrene macroporous supports, respectively; next, these functionalized solid materials have been employed as packing material for the fabrication of fixed-bed microreactors in the form of either packed or monolithic columns. During this research, it has been demonstrated that operation of this type of organocatalytic microreactors results in flow processes with levels of stereoselectivity comparable to those of the corresponding homogeneous batch processes, allowing at the same time productivity enhancements thanks to the higher long-term stability of the heterogeneous organocatalytic species in flow regime.
In the second part of this thesis project, the same techniques of support functionalization have been employed to prepare perfluorinated stationary phases for the determination of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). These are emerging pollutants widely spread in the environment. They can be found in soils, sediments, superficial waters, particulate matter, as well as in animal and human tissues or organs. PFC are characterized by environmental persistence and have negative side effects for the biota where they accumulate. The chromatographic behavior of perfluorinated acid pollutants have been investigated on the basis of the specific fluorine-fluorine interactions (fluorophilicity) occurring between these analytes and the perfluoroalkyl groups of the newly prepared stationary phases. It has been demonstrated that the retention profile of perfluorinated acids is dependent on the composition of the mobile phase, thus permitting the use of the prepared fluorinated stationary phases as means of pre-concentration of PFCs from environmental and biological matrices.


Michajlo Lukic wrote his Slavo-Ruthenian Grammar ( Grammatica slavo-ruthena seu veteroslavicae ) during his stay in Lucca, where he had been invited by the Duke Carlo Ludovico di Borbone in 1829. The following year the Grammar was published in Buda. The purpose of this Grammar, which was written in Latin, was to give a cultural opportunity to people living in the Sub-Carpathian regions of the Austrian Empire and, at the same time, to highlight the Slavonic component of the Ruthenian spoken language.


This work reveals a function for autophagy in Arabidopsis hypocotyls after germination. By delivering peroxisomes and other cytoplasmic components to the lytic vacuole for degradation, autophagic machinery may help plant cells clean up old organelles for cell remodeling. Plant peroxisomes play a pivotal role during postgerminative growth by breaking down fatty acids to provide fixed carbons for seedlings before the onset of photosynthesis. The enzyme composition of peroxisomes changes during the transition of the seedling from a heterotrophic to an autotrophic state; however, the mechanisms for the degradation of obsolete peroxisomal proteins remain elusive. One candidate mechanism is autophagy, a bulk degradation pathway targeting cytoplasmic constituents to the lytic vacuole. We present evidence supporting the autophagy of peroxisomes in Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyls during seedling growth. Mutants defective in autophagy appeared to accumulate excess peroxisomes in hypocotyl cells. When degradation in the vacuole was pharmacologically compromised, both autophagic bodies and peroxisomal markers were detected in the wild-type vacuole but not in that of the autophagy-incompetent mutants. On the basis of the genetic and cell biological data we obtained, we propose that autophagy is important for the maintenance of peroxisome number and cell remodeling in Arabidopsis hypocotyls.


Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a method of reducing crime through the design and manipulation of the built environment. Based upon the Opportunity Theories of crime, CPTED focuses upon blocking opportunities for criminal behaviour through subtle techniques to maximise informal surveillance, guardianship and maintenance, to minimise through movement and to set standards of physical security that are proportionate to crime risk. This chapter will discuss the principles of CPTED and the theories from which it evolved. It will explore the effectiveness of these principles, both individually and combined, in reducing crime, before exploring how CPTED is applied in practice.


The paper analyzes the dilemma of legal education in current medical colleges by stating the significance of legal education.Meantime the paper mentions several effective methods to strengthen legal education in medical college students from several angles,including knowledge of the law,doctor-patient communication ability,legal practice ability,and the construction of the legal education environment.


This study was designed to investigate the differential effects of experimenter verbal instructions based on P and M leadership patterns in PM leadership theory on subject's psychomotor performance and blood pressure.Sixteen senior high school girls were divided into two groups randomly. Mirror drawing test was tried ten times, and at the same time blood pressure was measured. Two groups were tested with P or M instructions: P instructions emphasized the speed and accuracy of mirror drawing test, and M instructions were intended to reduce the subject's tension and anxiety.The main results were as follows:1. As regards task performance, it was found that speed was accelerated by P instructions, but accuracy was not improved. M instructions accelerated accurate performance.2. In blood pressure, it was increased by mirror drawing test. But under P instructions an increase in Systolic and Diastolic blood pressure was greater than under M instructions. Especially, its difference was conspicuous in Diastolic blood pressure.


The paper proposes an algorithm of point cloud splicing based on 3D-Harris operator. First, it extracts 3D interest points efficiently according to the combination of 3D-Harris operator and normal vector. Then it calculates the fast point feature histogram (FPFH) of all 3D interest points, as a result of which the initial transformation matrix is calculated through FPFH. Last, ICP algorithm is used to realize the accurate registration. At the last part, experiment shows that the method has high efficiency in point cloud splicing and performs well in scenes with more corners.


Water can deteriorate the compositional properties of rock through softening and dissolution. The water content rate of rock has a certain effect and can cause changes in rock properties caused by the water action. In this research, to study the effects of the water content rate on the strength and brittle plasticity of limestone, uniaxial compression tests with different water content rate states were conducted, and the form of limestone damage under different water content rate conditions was analyzed. The effects of the different water content rates on the modulus of elasticity, uniaxial compressive strength, brittleness index B value, and brittleness correction index BIM value (BIM: the ratio of dissipated strain energy to releasable elastic strain energy at the peak point of the specimen) of limestone were investigated. It was found that as the rate of water content in the limestone increased from 0% to 0.27%, the penetration shear surface on the limestone's damaged surface decreased. The modulus of elasticity decreased from 8.85 to 6.76 GPa, the uniaxial compressive strength decreased from 74.11 to 57.60 MPa, the brittleness index B value decreased from 1.17 to 1.04, and the brittleness correction index BIM value increased from 0.09 to 0.26. As the rate of water content on the limestone increased, the rock's modulus of elasticity and uniaxial compressive strength decreased. Additionally, the rock's brittleness decreased, and the percentage of plastic deformation in the total deformation increased.