This article recounts the experiences of the library staff at the University Center Learning Commons at High Point University. Opening the Learning Commons as a satellite library in a residential/recreational building gave staff the opportunity to meet students where they were physically. It also provided the opportunity to launch a Facebook presence for the libraries at HPU and virtual reference with a 24/7 chat service and meet students where they are virtually.


Each year the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), operating under the auspices of UNESCO, hosts a peace education trainingof-trainer's program for teacher-educators from across the Asia-Pacific. In this thesis, I examine through a qualitative case study approach the programmatic design and evaluation of the APCEIU training program, seeking to monitor its medium-term impact on educators. The research is framed within a larger study of peace education programs around the world. Frameworks of peace education conceptualized by Betty Reardon and Swee-hin Toh, and critical approaches to peace and development as animated by Paulo Freire and Johan Galtung, provide the theoretical foundations for the study. Research findings are based on consultation records, documentary analysis, observations, and questionnaire responses from evaluations of the 2009 program. In the medium-term impact assessment report, 14 educators offered data pertaining to their post-program implementation of peace education concepts and practices in their work.


I. The Internet Revolution: Development Opportunities and New Challenges 1. Emerging Opport unities for Development Like all other developing countries, China views the speedy expansion of the Internet as an opportunity, because through networking China can be better positioned to combine its intelligence, knowledge , and creativity for breakthroughs in the creation of economic growth, social development, and human ingenuity. The Internet will create a kind of "latecom er's advantage" helping China to catch up with and surpass advanced technologies and promoting China's modernization. These opportunities mainly involve enterprise business activities on the Internet which


Details in medical images are important for doctors' diagnosis. However, the images processed by current image denoising methods tend to be over-smooth at edges to some extent due to the lack of special attention to details. In order to remove noises and preserve details of medical images, we propose a GAN-based network named SDGAN which focuses on the recovery of details after denoising. The proposed SDGAN contains two subnetworks: one denoises medical images preliminarily, and the other attempts to reconstruct the details missed in the previous subnetwork. Experiments on Wireless Capsule Endoscopic(WCE) images with noises are conducted to evaluate the performance of SDGAN in comparison with other state-of-the-art denoisers. The results show significant gains in terms of quantitative metrics (PSNR and SSIM) and visual effects using SDGAN. SDGAN is able to recover realistic details textures, making it highly attractive for medical image denoising applications.


Cyprus, but not by the presence of 40,000 Turkish troops occupying the northern part of the island. Even more astounding, is his statement that: '(a)lso the Turkish Government was well aware that the absorption of North Cyprus would be a violation of the 1960 Agreements, of which it was a guarantor' (p. 185). Chapter 9, 'The EUCatalyst and theUN1995–2002', and Chapter 10, 'TheRise and Fall of the Annan Plan 2002–2004', describe the Cyprus accession process and the parallel efforts to resolve the Cyprus Problem. In explaining why a solution was not reached and why the prospect of EUmembership did not ultimately prove to be a catalyst for achieving one, Dodd blames the Greek Cypriots. Following the outcomes of the Referenda on the UN (Annan) Plan, perceptions changed and Turkish Cypriots received certain benefits. In Chapter 11, 'After the Referenda', he describes these as well as the various political developments that were taking place, including the resumption of talks. In his concluding Chapter 12, Dodd's major point is that, despite the fact 'that the "ordinary people" of Cyprus on both sides are not very different' and 'it seems possible to bring them together' (p. 277), his recommendation is that 'perhaps a two-state solution would be the best outcome' (p. 276). As a final comment it should be stressed that the author does not do himself justice by openly taking positions or acting as the spokesman of the Turkish side. This is evident not only in his analysis but also in his account of historical developments. He often uses the term 'President' to describe the Turkish Cypriot leader – while even Turkish and Turkish Cypriot academics avoid doing so (given that the UN does not recognize the Turkish Cypriot regime). At the same time, more often than not, he describes the President of the Republic of Cyprus as the 'Greek Cypriot Leader'. Last but not least, although Dodd's rich bibliography reflects the complexity of the issue and the spectrum of opinions about it, these are not reflected in the discussions in the book, and in some cases he completely ignores works that are extensively cited by other authors, such as C. Hitchens, Hostage to history: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger (London/New York: Verso Press, 1997).


We report the first experimental measurements of second-order coherence functions of supercontinuum light. The method is based on measuring separately the quasi-coherent and quasi-stationary contributions using a combination of interferometric and nonlinear gating techniques.


Piping engineers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to control pumping costs. One of the large cost factors in pressure piping is the friction factor of the pipe interior. Economical pipe selection demands that the effects of friction be considered. Smooth-bores such as found in glass-reinforced thermosetting resin (RTR) have demonstrated very good flow characteristics. Tests have shown a Hazen-Williams C factor of 150. New carbon steel is quite smooth also, but when carrying water or other common fluids, corrosion roughens the surface, sometimes almost closing up the pipe. So when the system is designed, this increased friction must be taken into account. Power supply, pumps and piping diameters must be chosen to function even when the flow is restricted. The fact is, systems are often designed for steel even though a different piping material is eventually selected. This is a temptation because much of the experience in sizing pipe are all more or less based on steel. Even a recent book dealing with the economic sizing of pipe bases its premise on an average friction factor. Smoothness of pipe bore and the retention of that smoothness over the years makes a difference. The use of smooth-bore piping tomore » reduce friction is discussed.« less


[1] Flow variability in the Subantarctic Front (SAF) and over the Campbell Plateau, southeast of New Zealand, is examined using data from a current meter mooring array along with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) and satellite altimetry data. These data are part of an ongoing study of ocean climate variability in the region. Contrasting flow regimes were found with very energetic and highly variable flows in the SAF flowing along the Subantarctic Slope and much weaker flows over the Campbell Plateau. Currents up to 75 cm s−1 were observed in the core of the SAF, while flows over the plateau were typically less than 10 cm s−1. Estimates of the total bottom referenced transport from three CTD sections across the SAF varied between 48 and 68 Sv. Transports were also estimated using TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry sea truthed with the CTD data. The resulting 8-year time series exhibited high variability resulting from current meanders and eddy activity. One event in the record appeared to be the result of a cyclonic eddy passing through the mooring array. This event was modeled using an idealized geostrophic eddy. The simulation reproduces the main features observed in the current meter records and the surface topography from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter. Inspection of the TOPEX/Poseidon data suggests that large cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies occur in the frontal region with a frequency of around 9 yr−1.


Inspired by the concept of fully-actuation for second-order mechanical systems, in this paper we introduce the definition of fully-actuated generalized Sylvester equations, which are closely related with the various control designs of fully-actuated systems. It is shown that when a general high-order generalized Sylvester equation is fully-actuated, its complete parametric solution can be obtained extremely simply, yet which possesses a very neat explicit closed form. The primary feature of this solution is that the matrix F does not need to be in any canonical form, or may be even unknown a priori, and thus may be set undetermined and used as degrees of freedom beyond the completely free parameter matrix Z. The results provide great convenience to the computation and analysis of the solutions to this class of equations, and can perform important functions in many control systems analysis and design problems involving second-order dynamical systems.


The application of Rose's (1970) analytical method to the study of a shock wave interacting with a turbulent layer on a blunted compression surface is described. Only those details of the method that specifically apply to the case under consideration are discussed.


ABSTRACT This article establishes that visual displays of sovereignty were central to the escalation and projected legitimacy of a violent non-state actor. Contrary to conventional perspectives, it details that the unprecedented appeal of the so-called Islamic State was tied to a visual projection of statehood. Through an innovative methodology, this study conducts a qualitative, affordance-driven analysis of the global visual politics of Dabiq. It details how photographs taken by Islamic State militants and downloaded from a variety of sources online were strategically utilized as "evidence" of the constitutive criteria of statehood: of a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. It demonstrates that this violent non-state actor utilized the affordances of digital visualizing technologies in order to position itself as a viable and competitive alternative to existing nation-states—as both a destination for migration and a legitimate threat to the established political order. This realization has implications for terrorism studies as well as for the visual politics of non-state actors operating in an era of intense mediatization.


NMR analysis of several Sandia samples of HNS, prepared through air oxidation of DMF solutions of TNT, show the material to be predominantly HNS, with dipicrylethane the major impurity. Work in this area, to be done at Pantex, has been delayed due to late receipt of reagents mandatory to this investigation.


The subject of death can be problematized in countless ways. Virtually all literature approaches the subject, either directly or indirectly, real or metaphorical. Jose Saramago works with death singularly in the novel Death with Interruptions (2005), because it appears not only as a biological event, but also humanized, being a character of the narrative. Death, therefore, occupies the space of protagonist of the novel. Saramago allows reflections on life with and without death. Even to live without death is the ideal that humanity search, the author works with the negative effects of such an event and the picture of these two dimensions makes the fictional story an example of how life would be without death to the real world. As the author transforms the aspect of death into the narrative, he ends up working with different images of it, bringing the known perspective, of death as a skeleton, feared by humanity and, at the same time, humanizing it. In this sense, we seek with this work, to show how the image of death changes throughout the narrative from the three phases that assumes: natural phase, bureaucratic and humanized, analyzing primarily as the plans of the Symbolic and the Imaginary become. Therefore, the main theoretical framework will be to Slavoj Žižek, that in addition to reread the concepts of Lacanian triad (Real - Symbolic - Imaginary), allows other readings and interpretations of the central theme in Saramago romance.


From 1996 until 1999 DLR operated the first 3-line along-track stereo scanner in space. This MOMS-2P camera was mounted onto the Russian space station Mir. It had its own navigation system consisting of GPS receiver and gyros. The orbit and attitude data derived from their measurements had already a very good relative accuracy in sub-pixel range. But absolute biases and drifts of exterior orientation and also some parameters of the interior orientation have to be estimated via bundle adjustment. Ground control points (GCP) have to be provided for this task. This always was a bottleneck of MOMS stereo evaluation. For large areas in Afghanistan, Jordan and Libya geocoded Thematic Mapper imagery was available. On one hand, these data have been used for automated GCP extraction via image matching. On the other hand, they are also used here to check the MOMS orthoimages produced by DLR's MOMS stereo workstation software along with the digital elevation models which are a prerequisite of orthoimage generation. This check is done via automatic image matching. Mean and standard deviations of the shifts are found to be in sub-pixel range. The internal fit of the MOMS orthoimages of the off-nadir looking stereo channels of MOMS is also checked via image matching. The standard deviations of the shifts are in the order of 1/5th pixel which allows color composites of good radiometric quality and the use of the orthoimages in multispectral evaluation.


Adenosine (Ado) triggers several protective mechanisms that may attenuate development of heart failure, both locally and systemically. We developed a procedure allowing sustained increase in endogenous Ado production by the combined application of Ado metabolism inhibitors and nucleotide precursors. We found that our procedure attenuate the development of heart failure induced by adriamycin.


Abstract The neutral volatile constituents produced by shake flask cultured mycelium of Polyporus durus comprise aliphatic and aromatic alcohols, lactones and various carbonyl compounds, and sesquiterpenoids. The occurrence of five 2,3-unsaturated 4-olides (γ-lactones), some of which were identified for the first time in nature, is characteristic of the fungus. The presence of a synthetic triglyceride in the nutrient medium strongly favors the formation of lactones and other volatile flavor compounds.


In this article, we identify ways that Grice's (1975) conversational rules and P. Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness strategies are commonly employed in one-to-one tutoring interactions. We examined two cross-aged tutoring corpora from research methods and algebra tutoring sessions to show how these rules and strategies can potentially enhance and inhibit effective tutoring. Examples of these costs and benefits are presented within a five-step dialogue frame proposed by Graesser and Person (1994). There appear to be differences in the use of these politeness strategies when algebra tutoring protocols are compared with research methods protocols. We suggest that politeness strategies are more prevalent in less constrained domains, even though their use may inhibit effective tutoring.


The optimization of gate valve was performed using Kriging based approximation model. The DACE modeling, known as the one of Kriging interpolation, is introduced to obtain the surrogate approximation model of the function. In addition, we describe the definition, the prediction function and the algorithm of Kriging method and examine the accuracy of Kriging by using validation method.


parameters from cyclic voltammograms were used to evaluate the reversibility of electron transfer, standard reduction potentials, solvation energies, electron affinities, diffusion coefficients, critical scan rates and heterogeneous electron transfer rate constants. Heterogeneous electron transfer rate constants were determined experimentally by Gileadi's method for the Set 2 chalcones only. Computational studies included the use of MO theory with semi-empirical AM1 and PM3 approximations for the determination


As we know, the purpose of National Development Program is to achieve a social justice and prosperous country based on Pancasila. So, it is understandable if Indonesian government invites and attracts foreign investors to do their business in Indonesia through many kinds of incentive, fiscal and non fiscal. However, the non fiscal incentive regulated in PP No. 20/1994 does not seem to work in accordance with the aims of National Development Program itself.


Reaction of sterically hindered copper(II) or nickel(II) imidazolate complexes derived from imidazole-2-carbaldehyde with iron porphyrins results in the formation of monoadducts which are dinuclear complexes. The spin states of the iron atoms in some of the adducts have been determined from variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements to be admixed-intermediate spin or intermediate spin.


A two-channel analog-to-digital converter was used to investigate the noise of the cryogenic quantum Hall resistance. Without applied current, only thermal Johnson-Nyquist noise is present. With applied current, excess noise due to dissipation bursts appears which dramatically increases with the non-integer fraction of the filling factor.


The chapter discusses the three principles of good experimental design-random assignment, replication, and local control-that were championed by Ronald A. Fisher. The chapter also shows how complex experimental designs are constructed from and understood in terms of three simple building block designs: the completely randomized design, randomized block design, and Latin square design. Missing observations and missing cells are common in the behavioral sciences and education. Procedures for dealing with unequal cell n's in randomized block designs and completely randomized factorial designs are illustrated using a regression model and a cell means model. The merits of the two models and the classical model are examined. Researchers sometimes use confounding to reduce the size of blocks or to reduce the number of treatment combinations in an experiment. The advantages and disadvantages of group-treatment confounding in split-plot factorial designs, group-interaction confounding in confounded factorial designs, and treatment-interaction confounding in fractional designs are examined. The chapter discusses a variety of analysis of covariance designs. These designs enable a researcher to (a) remove that portion of the dependent-variable error variance that is predictable from a knowledge of the concomitant variable thereby increasing power and (b) reduce bias by adjusting the dependent variable so that it is free of effects attributable to the concomitant variable.

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experimental design;
analysis of variance;
design of experiments;
cell means model


We are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen. Against a tradition that has endorsed the power of discourse, where warring monologues are mistaken for genuine dialogue, Gemma Corradi Fiumara examines and reveals the other side of language - listening.


committee and other groups, but there is no popular concern. Save British Science tries hard but has limited political impact. Profound popular ignorance of science and economics is one cause of this failure. Even among doctors concern about the underfunding of medical research is sotto voce compared with concern about underfunding of the health service. Yet in the longer term the effect on British medicine may be much more drastic. What is needed is some concentrated, sophisticated, and well funded campaigning. The government must have the message rammed down its throat if necessary; the public at large (also known as the electorate) must be encouraged to care; and those all important "opinion formers" must have the economic importance of research spelt out to them. The British have much to learn here from the campaigning of scientists in Australia. The Federation ofAustralian Scientific and Technological Societies represents 60 000 members, has a budget of $A100 000, and has a full time legally trained executive director. It has used the media and political machinery in a sophisticated way and finally got its message through to the government by an economic analysis explaining how Australia's future depended on scientific research. Meanwhile, the Australian Society for Medical Research, which consists almost entirely of medical researchers under 40, has campaigned tirelessly to raise the public profile of medical research and impress on politicians the importance of being generous with funding. Britain needs an equivalent of both organisations. Perhaps then a British prime minister might slash the amount spent on defence research, hugely increase expenditure on civil research, and make a statement similar to that made by Bob Hawke, prime minister of Australia in 1989, when he underlined how the country's future depended on science.6 He set a national strategy for science and greatly increased funds for research. Leadership from the very top is essential for such a dramatic turnaround. Maybe John Major, who left school at 16, can surpass Margaret Thatcher, the first British prime minister with a science degree, in providing leadership for science. RICHARD SMITH Executive editor, BMJ


Wireless sensor network has been emerged as the one of the most promising area of research. The use is not limited to space research, transport, battle fields, surveillance, military, health but many more. The large number of  deployed nodes need to be efficiently organized to fulfil the need of data aggregation , load balancing and prolonging network life time  Sensor nodes are small power devices so to maintain its long life proper measure is required. Clustering serves this requirement by reducing energy consumption and increasing network scalability. In this article, we highlight the objective of clustering, discuss the different clustering approaches and its classification and finally provide a comparative study of different proposals . Keywords : Base Station (BS), Cell Header (CH), inter-cluster communication, intra- cluster communication.


A simple flow-injection chemiluminescence method with synergistic enhancement has been investigated for the rapid and sensitive determination of antipsychotic risperidone. The synergistic action was significant in the chemiluminescence system of luminol—hydrogen peroxide with risperidone as an enhancer. The increased chemiluminescence intensity was correlated with risperidone concentration within the range from 10 pg mL−1 to 1.0 ng mL−1 with relative standard deviations lower than 5.0 % and the detection limit of 4 pg mL−1. At a flow rate of 2.0 mL min−1, the flow-injection chemiluminescence method exhibited both a high sensitivity and excellent selectivity giving a throughput of 120 times per hour. The proposed method was successfully applied to determine the risperidone content in human urine without any pretreatment. It was found that the excretive amounts of risperidone reached their maximum after taking 2.0 mg of risperidone for 1 h, with a total excretive ratio of 17.37 % in 8.5 h.


We consider the discrete two‐dimensional Gaussian free field on a box of side length $N$, with Dirichlet boundary data, and prove the convergence of the law of the centered maximum of the field.© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


In recent years, recycling and disposal of end-of-life (EOL) electronic products has attracted considerable attention in response to concerns over resource recovery and environmental impacts of electronic waste (e-waste). In many countries, legislation to make manufacturers responsible for taking e-waste at the end of their useful lives either has been adopted or is being considered. In this paper, by capturing different stages in the life-cycle of EOL electronic products (or, e-waste) generated from private or small-entity users, we develop two different formulations of a reverse logistics network, i.e. system-optimum model and user-optimum model, to estimate both economic and environmental effects of take-back legislation. In this system, e-waste is collected through user drop-off at designated collection sites. While we study the whole reverse logistics network associated with recycling and remanufacturing of e-waste in the system-optimum model and obtain an optimum solution from the policy maker's perspective, we split the logistics network into two distinct parts in the user-optimum model in order to derive an optimum solution from the users' standpoint. Implementing the proposed models on an illustrative example shows how they are capable of estimating the economic and environmental impacts of take-back legislation in various stages of e-waste's life-cycle.


Significance How do brains adapt to changing resource constraints? This is particularly relevant in the aging brain, for which the ability of neurons to utilize their primary energy source, glucose, is diminished. Through experiments and modeling, we find that changes to brain activity patterns with age can be understood in terms of decreasing metabolic activity. Specifically, we find that older brains approach a critical point in our model, enabling small changes in metabolic activity to give rise to an abrupt reconfiguration of functional brain networks. Brain aging is associated with hypometabolism and global changes in functional connectivity. Using functional MRI (fMRI), we show that network synchrony, a collective property of brain activity, decreases with age. Applying quantitative methods from statistical physics, we provide a generative (Ising) model for these changes as a function of the average communication strength between brain regions. We find that older brains are closer to a critical point of this communication strength, in which even small changes in metabolism lead to abrupt changes in network synchrony. Finally, by experimentally modulating metabolic activity in younger adults, we show how metabolism alone—independent of other changes associated with aging—can provide a plausible candidate mechanism for marked reorganization of brain network topology.


The salt deposit in China is characterized by more interlayers,these interlayers have negative effect to the salt mining,building and the stability of cavern.The mudstone is the main component in the interlayer,it is difficult to make a complete specimen with weak interlayer,we have done the test to simulate the influence of weak interlayer on mechanical properties of laminated salt rock,the results show that with the increase of strength the elastic modulus are escalated,but the Poissons ratio as an index of the deformability,changes a little;the strength of salt rock with interlayer of mudstone is near to mudstone,but the stress of mudstone is only 20~47% of salt rock strength,it shows that the weak interlayer has mainly effect to the strength of laminated salt rock.Through the analysis of strain-stress of laminated salt rock,it is clear that the different failure styles of mudstone interlayer and rock salt is due to that near the interlayer the tensile and compressive stress change into each other,at the same time,we have analyzed the reason of repeated stress.the result and theory explanation of interlayer rock mass deformation failure are consistent,to verify the theory is a scientific one,at the same time,we have got the ralation between the mechanical properties of weak interlayer and laminated salt rock,this is important to oil-gas storage cavern built in laminated salt rock.


railway affairs; international finance and investment; and, finally, a return to BSA where almost his last act was to secure the chairmanship and managing directorship of the company for his son, Bernard. The foregoing sketch can only hint at Docker's manifold interests and activities: its principal purpose is to tempt those who otherwise might not do so to dip into this book and thereby be seduced into reading the whole. They will find it infinitely rewarding. Among the many subsidiary themes—so superbly illustrated by Docker's career—are the frequently malign effects of government interference on business; the apparently chronic weaknesses of British salesmanship overseas; the grave imperfections of the London money market for the provision of industrial capital; and the fact that money could be made so much more easily in finance than in manufacturing. We see Docker's life in turn reflecting "the economic anxiety, political bitterness and social unrest of the Edwardians; the hyper-nationalism and deformed ideals of the Great War; and the sedentary decline of the age of Baldwin. Docker would have regarded his career as a response to Britain's industrial self-enfeeblement" (pp. 234-35). It is improbable that he recognized that he made his own contribution to that seemingly irreversible decline by his propensity "to treat industry as a vehicle for finance to make money from" and, after 1906, by his restlessness and irresponsible failure fully to exploit the economic potential of his many deals. Richard Davenport-Hines tells us that this book "has been written in the intervals of unemployment which are now the lot of most young historians" (p. x). If it could be guaranteed that work even approaching the quality of this compelling biography would be the consequence of periods "on the dole," the present government's attitude toward higher education in Great Britain might yet be justified.


We identify the families of states that maximise some recently proposed quantifiers of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering and the volume of the Quantum Steering Ellipsoid (QSE). The optimal measurements which maximise genuine EPR steering measures are discussed and we develop a novel way to find them using the QSE. We thus explore the links between genuine EPR steering and the QSE and introduce states that can be the most useful for one-sided device-independent quantum cryptography for a given amount of noise.


Wake-up-word (WUW) spotting for mobile devices has attracted much attention recently. The aim is to detect the occurrence of very few or only one personalized keyword in a continuous potentially noisy audio signal. The application in personal mobile devices is to activate the device or to trigger an alarm in hazardous situations by voice. In this paper, we present a low-resource approach and results for WUW spotting based on template matching using dynamic time warping and other measures. The recognition of the WUW is performed by a combination of distance measures based on a simple background noise level classification. For evaluation we recorded a WUW spotting database with three different background noise levels, four different speaker distances to the microphone, and ten different speakers. It consists of 480 keywords embedded in continuous audio data.


Abstract In recent years the popularity and application of both research- and consumer-grade wearable physical (PA) activity monitors have witnessed substantial growth in large observational studies and clinical trials. For example, the NHANES and UKBiobank, have collected accelerometry data on thousands of participants contributing to the reputation of wearable technology overall as well as in aging-oriented research. As a result, more aging-focused studies including the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, Maastricht Study, Finnish Retirement and Aging study, and the National Health and Aging Trends Study, along with clinical trials have introduced accelerometry protocols into their design. The symposium focuses on challenges in the implementation of the objective measurements of PA into large studies on older adults. We will discuss the design of successful projects held and/or completed in the United States and Europe including: (1) types of devices, (2) size of datasets, (3) steps necessary for the successful device implementation, (4) data management and (5) statistical analyses. We will also present primary, PA-related findings in each study, together with funded or planned follow-up work. Collectively, these presentations will improve understanding of the technology and effort necessary for the successful application of objective PA monitoring and the resulting data analysis, providing a better context for investigators in the field of aging who want to introduce wearable devices into existing and upcoming research. The discussion will focus on the future of these technologies in the context of geriatric medicine and gerontology and the consequent steps essential for their best utilization and further expansion.


The temporal course of the photooxidation of sulforhodamine-B (SRB) in aqueous media illuminated by visible wavelengths in the presence of TiO2 has been examined to determine the nature of the intermediate species produced and to explore the operative reaction pathway(s). Two pathways are described to account for the differences in the final photooxidation products whose nature depends on the different modes of adsorption of the dye on the metal-oxide mediator. In the SRB/TiO2 system, when SRB is adsorbed on the positively charged TiO2 particle surface through a sulfonate group cleavage of the SRB chromophore structure predominates and N-de-ethylation occurs only to a slight extent with the major photooxidation products being diethylamine and carbon dioxide. In the presence of the anionic dodecylbenzenesulfonate surfactant DBS, when SRB is near the negatively charged DBS/TiO2 interface through the positive diethylamine group N-de-ethylation occurs preferentially before destruction of the structure with th...


Abstract Wairau lucerne fertilised with P and K in amounts equivalent to those removed in a crop yielding 20 000 kg/ha dry herbage, and irrigated, was either cut or grazed with sheep at 5-weekly intervals. Annual yields of dry herbage were 15 940 kg/ha where cut and 19 900 kg/ha where grazed. Application of 710 kg N/ha in split dressings to a cut treatment increased the herbage yield to 18 040 kg/ha. Nitrogen yields in cut herbage were 550 kg/ha without N fertiliser and 660 kg/ha with N fertiliser. In grazed herbage they were 680 kg/ha without N fertiliser and 700 kg/ha with N fertiliser. Extracted protein yield from cut herbage was increased from 1790 to 2110 kg/ha with N fertiliser. The relevance of these results to the practices of extracting leaf protein and to feeding protein-extracted herbage to stock on the same area from which the crop had been harvested is discussed.


Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California 95521 USA; philpcapitolo@hotmail. com (PJC); Carter Biological Consulting, 1015 Hampshire Road, Victoria, British Columbia V8S 4S8 Canada (HRC); US Fish and Wildlife Service, San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex, PO Box 524, Newark, California 94560 USA (GJM, MWP); Present Address (MWP): US Fish and Wildlife Service, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, 27820 South Centennial Road, Lima, Montana 59739 USA. Submitted 9 March 2005, accepted 27 July 2005. Corresponding Editor: CJ Ralph.


The Xiangzhong depression is a late Paleozoic sag region developing based on the Lower Paleozoic epimetamorphic rock series.The marine shale series of beds are abundent in organic matter and provides basic geological conditions for forming shale-gas reservoirs.Under the guidance of modern sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy and combined with the regional tectonic setting of the Xiangzhong depression,this study analyzes the depositional environment and lithofacies-paleogeography of the shale series of strata,ascertains the developed shale intervals rich in organic matter and suggests that the shale in the Xiangzhong depression mainly develops in Lower Carboniferous,Middle-Upper Devonian and Upper Permian.The shale is distributed on the top of the transgressive system tract and on the bottom of the highstand system tract and the better shale is laterally relative to the development and distribution of trough rock platform facies.The most advantageous sedimentary facies for the development of the shale are the platform basin facies and seamarsh facies.


You may have had the experience of typing a document in which a specific word or phrase, perhaps a company or library name, occurs repeatedly in the text. To save yourself the trouble of frequent retyping, simply enter a code such as "@1" everywhere the repeating word or phrase occurs. Then, when the whole document is entered, use your word processor's "Find and Replace" function to replace "@1" with the actual text. You can have several of these "macros" in one document by using codes "@2", "@3", etc. (Watch out if you get to "@10". A "@1" is hiding in there!)


The collection of historical memory is very complex and what better way to tell the story through a documentary showing situations, anecdotes characters for people to know about the neighborhood in a before and after; as has been losing its identity over time, captured in a documentary video, lasting approximately 30 minutes.
The structure of the video will be in the following order: It starts with a countdown, there will the title of the documentary "La Loma Grande colonial neighborhood in the modern city" will take a brief introduction of the neighborhood, its history alongside the exhibition image of the neighborhood in colonial times, this will include legends and traditions that owns this place.
A voiceover narration of how to make communication links, the city and culture on this product. Along with the presentation of all the places that are Rocafuerte street as: Liceo Municipal Fernandez Madrid, Casa Cuna Gangotena Posse (health center # 1), Centro Cultural Mama Cuchara, to know that worked in these places in the colonial era and the functionality they have now.
The neighborhood has a strong commercial influence, with very old professions that have lasted through the years as well as new commercial sites that facilitate the daily lives of atleast, residents have also created a more solid coexistence that has joined the neighborhood making it more interesting with all the contributions made in this place.


The stability of W, Mo, and Ta in contact with single‐crystal β‐SiC at elevated temperatures has been investigated using Auger sputter profiling. All three metals were found to form a thin‐mixed layer of metal carbide and silicide upon metal deposition at room temperature. This layer is thought to be the result of surface defects which weaken the Si—C bonds and allow a low‐temperature reaction to occur. Upon heating, the Ta readily reacts with the SiC substrate and forms a mixed layer of Ta carbide and silicide at annealing temperatures as low as 400 °C, however, the W/SiC and Mo/SiC systems are stable and change very little after annealing at 850 and 800 °C, respectively.


In this work, we present a ballistocardiographic (BCG) system for the determination of heart and breath rates and activity of a user lying in bed. Our primary goal was to simplify the analog and digital processing usually required in these kinds of systems while retaining high performance. A novel sensing approach is proposed consisting of a white LED facing a digital light detector. This detector provides precise measurements of the variations of the light intensity of the incident light due to the vibrations of the bed produced by the subject's breathing, heartbeat, or activity. Four small springs, acting as a bandpass filter, connect the boards where the LED and the detector are mounted. Owing to the mechanical bandpass filtering caused by the compressed springs, the proposed system generates a BCG signal that reflects the main frequencies of the heartbeat, breathing, and movement of the lying subject. Without requiring any analog signal processing, this device continuously transmits the measurements to a microcontroller through a two-wire communication protocol, where they are processed to provide an estimation of the parameters of interest in configurable time intervals. The final information of interest is wirelessly sent to the user's smartphone by means of a Bluetooth connection. For evaluation purposes, the proposed system has been compared with typical BCG systems showing excellent performance for different subject positions. Moreover, applied postprocessing methods have shown good behavior for information separation from a single-channel signal. Therefore, the determination of the heart rate, breathing rate, and activity of the patient is achieved through a highly simplified signal processing without any need for analog signal conditioning.


Both theoretical developments and actual state-of-the-art inven- tory datasets related to electricity issues were presented in this session. Visible trends are to establish future electricity production datasets by using dynamic approaches, while for present datasets static models based on country specific parameters may be the more appropriate way. life cycle concepts have for present-day political decision making, and addressed LCA related issues important for both developed and de- veloping countries. As political and thus economic decisions can cause serious consequences, it was recognized that LCA has to be used very carefully for political decision making. Across the speakers it was recommended to use LCA as one out of many other inputs for political decisions, but not to rely on LCA as the sole decision tool. volume per unit of area, and (v) of the colloidal organic matter in water.


In a coalitional game, the coalitions are weakly ordered according to their worths in the game. When moreover a power index is given, the players are ranked according to the real numbers they are assigned by the power index. If any game inducing the same ordering of the coalitions generates the same ranking of the players then, by definition, the game is (ordinally) stable for the power index, which in turn is ordinally invariant for the game. If one is interested in ranking players of a game which is stable, re-computing the power indices when the coalitional worths slightly fluctuate or are uncertain becomes useless. Bivalued games are easy examples of games stable for any power index which is linear. Among general games, we characterize those that are stable for a given linear index. Note that the Shapley and Banzhaf scores, frequently used in AI, are particular semivalues, and all semivalues are linear indices. To check whether a game is stable for a specific semivalue, it suffices to inspect the ordering of the coalitions and to perform some direct computation based on the semivalue parameters.


I have still not lost the sense of satisfaction when returning to the graft site to discover succulent shoots emerging from previously dormant scion buds. It wasn't so many years ago that any concern about my horticultural expertise stopped there. After all, I had successful graft take; I had skillfully performed my role as a grafter. The rest of the job was straightforward: stake and tie, or was it?


The absolute configuration of the asymmetric centers in clarithromycin is the same as that in erythromycin A [Harris, McGeachin & Mills (1965). Tetrahedron Lett. pp. 679-685; Oliver & Strickland (1986). Acta Cryst. C42, 952-956]. The molecular structure is similar to that of erythromycin A. The carbonyl and the hydroxyl groups of the 14-membered aglycone are on the same side of the aglycone ring, and the 6-0-methyl group is in this hydrophilic region


The spread and promotion of renewable energy is a worldwide subject. However, the intermittency of renewables, may cause troubles to power system operation. One of effective countermeasures to mitigate the intermittency is the battery energy storage system (BESS). The accurate forecasting of renewable energy output is also indispensable to reduce the capacity of BESS. In this paper, a new approach to forecast a photovoltaic power (PV) output using hemispherical photograph is presented. The photos are taken by fish-eye lens to get the whole sky cloud image data. The movement of cloud around the sun is analyzed and modeled to forecast the future output of PV. The numerical test results show a potential ability to forecast.


This Working Paper discusses entangled migrations as territorially and temporally entangled onto-epistemological phenomena. As a theoretical-analytical framework, it addresses the material, epistemological and ethical premises of spatial-temporal entanglements and relationality in the understanding of migration as a modern colonial phenomenon. Entangled migrations acknowledges that local migratory movements mirror global migrations in complex ways, engaging with the analysis of historical connections, territorial entrenchments, cultural confluences, and overlapping antagonistic relations across nations and continents. Drawing on European immigration to the American continent and specifically to Brazil in the 19th century, this argument is tentatively developed by discussing two opposite moments of entangled migrations, the coloniality of migration and creolizing conviviality. To do this, the paper engages first with the theoretical framework of spatial-temporal entanglements. Second, it approaches the coloniality of migration. Finally, it briefly discusses creolizing conviviality.


Abstract Most of the M2 internal tide energy generated at the Hawaiian Ridge radiates away in modes 1 and 2, but direct observation of these propagating waves is complicated by the complexity of the bathymetry at the generation region and by the presence of interference patterns. Observations from satellite altimetry, a tomographic array, and the R/P FLIP taken during the Farfield Program of the Hawaiian Ocean Mixing Experiment (HOME) are found to be in good agreement with the output of a high-resolution primitive equation model, simulating the generation and propagation of internal tides. The model shows that different modes are generated with different amplitudes along complex topography. Multiple sources produce internal tides that sum constructively and destructively as they propagate. The major generation sites can be identified using a simplified 2D idealized knife-edge ridge model. Four line sources located on the Hawaiian Ridge reproduce the interference pattern of sea surface height and energy fl...


The overarching objective of this study was to explore the provisions under the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663) for the procurement of innovative goods, services and how the Electoral Commission used the provisions to purchase of the Biometric system for the 2012 General Elections as a case study. Innovative public procurement is when public entities act to procure nonexistent goods or services. The urgent demand for fairer, transparent and credible elections has seen the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in most electoral activities, a development that has considerably improved election administration in many countries. Biometric systems have become the main response to voter impersonation and multiple voting practices. This study used both the stratified and simple random sampling techniques to collect data from twenty-seven (27) key and relevant personnel at the Head Office of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. Using the relative importance index the study found that the main objectives of introducing the BVR were to eliminate multiple registration and impersonation which affect the credibility of the register. The five most important challenges encountered during the procurement of the BVR were the lack of familiarity with procurement rules by procurers and other stakeholders resulting into poor compliance levels; ineffective engagement between procurers and suppliers; bureaucracy; insufficient expertise and complexity of substantive issues involved in public procurement of innovative goods, services and works. Based on the findings of this study especially with respect to the challenges of procuring innovative products, works and services, recommendations made included training of employees/procurers, improving upon the communication channel among procurement entity and suppliers; good record keeping, streamlining the procurement function at the EC and fair compensation and reward.


A relation between the geometric parameters appearing in the bounds for isotropic composites is found, which leads to some new results. Improved upper and lower bounds on the effective shear modulus of isotropic multicomponent materials are deduced, which are expressed in the moduli and volume fractions of the components and reduce to Hashin-Shtrikman bounds in the case of well-ordered composites (i.e., when the extremal bulk and shear moduli belong to the same phases). The respective improved bounds for the subclass of quasi-symmetric composites are given. The shear modulus of Hashin's celebrated coated sphere assemblage is determined. The model also verifies the optimality of the bounds for isotropic two-component materials over a certain range of parameters, including those of the well-ordered case.


But the supreme irony of the situation, not much noted in American political discourse, is that this Frankenstein had been spawned and nurtured by imperialist western powers in their desperate offensive against the Soviet Union. At that time they were not bothered that Islamic salvoes were directed not only against socialism but also against modernity itself. Liberal women reporters sent glowing reports about the Mujahideen's jihad from the Afghan front. It was imperialism that had turned Islamist terrorism into such a menace, very much like robots gone berserk in science-fiction. Ethnic terrorists are less united internationally and they still seek un support from time to time, and the un can be made by imperialism to dance to its tune. Ethnic terrorists so bothersome to developing nation states do not disturb Pax Americana. The author pursues certain red-herrings in this essay, for example, the targeting of non-combatants/civilians by terrorists and the smaller scale of destruction in acts of


The vendor evaluation is a problem of multi-attribute group decision making. Due to the vagueness of the evaluation information,a new method based on AHP and two-tuple linguistic is presented,in which AHP is used to determine the weights of the evaluation indexes and the operators of two-tuple linguistic is used to aggregate the information.Moreover,the calculation steps of vendor evaluation and selection is given.Finally,an example is used to illustrate the validity and simplicity of the method.


The effects of three dose regimens of HOE 8476, a combination of nomifensine (25 mg) and clobazam (7.5 mg), placebo, and a combination of amitriptyline (25 mg) and chlordiazepoxide (10 mg) were compared in a five‐period double‐blind randomised crossover study. Ten healthy volunteer drivers took part in the study, and were tested at weekly intervals preceded by a 48‐hr predosing period and followed by a 4‐day washout period. The sedative activity of amitriptyline/chlordiazepoxide (AMI/CHLOR) was shown on nearly all the subjective and objective measures of behavior employed, while, in contrast, there was a relative lack of sedation and performance impairment attributed to HOE 8476, except with complex tasks at the higher dose level. The results of the study confirm previous results in volunteers that HOE 8476 has psychotropic activity which differs from that of a standard antidepressant/benzodiazepine combination in that it is not accompanied by significant sedation or impairment of psychomotor performance.


Considerable debate has taken place in recent years regarding definitions of volunteering, particularly around the need for a globally appropriate definition. An internationally recognised definition includes a broad range of activities, including civic engagement behaviours such as citizen participation in governance. Citizen participation is certainly seen in democratic societies as a right, and even a responsibility of citizenship; however, if it is included in the definition of volunteering, what might be the implications for governments, for citizens, for governance processes, and for researchers in the field? This paper explores the pitfalls and potential of a complex definitional issue.


We study Floquet eigenspectra of a nonlinear two-mode system under a periodic driving of the off-diagonal coupling. By solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation numerically, we obtain triangular and loop structures near the crossings of different Floquet branches. At lower driving frequencies, we find "ring" and "double-ring" structures which are distinct from the well-known loop structure. The mechanism of the emergence of these structures is discussed and the parameter windows of their existence are obtained analytically. In addition, we study the evolution of the system under the driving with an adiabatic sweep and find there are some dynamically unstable states in the Floquet eigenspectra which break the quantum adiabaticity.


© 2020 Yang TL. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) are two typical inflammatory systemic autoimmune diseases sharing similar pathogenic features. Genetic factors play important roles in the pathogenesis of both diseases1. We have witnessed huge success of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in identifying hundreds of susceptibility genetic variants associated with SLE and SSc, however, over 90% of which are located in noncoding regions. It is challenging and important to translate GWAS findings into biological insights towards clinical applications. Currently, compared with traditional genetic association studies, functional studies characterizing causal functional variants and downstream molecular mechanisms at disease susceptibility loci are still orders of magnitude fewer.


The Relation of Ethnic Identity to Self-Esteem and Academic Self-Concept of African American Students at a Predominantly White Institution Drummond R. Bush Social scientists have challenged professionals and educators alike to develop a better understanding of the influences a predominantly White environment has on the academic and interpersonal experiences of African American college students. This study explored the psychosocial impact of several factors, both dispositional (e.g., ethnic identity, self-esteem, and academic self-concept) and contextual (e.g., racial composition of the institution), for 91 African American college students enrolled at a predominantly White institution in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Pearson correlations indicated the other group orientation sub-factor of ethnic identity is positively correlated with self-esteem and academic self-concept. Multiple regression analyses indicated that grade point average is best predicted by academic selfconcept. Limitations of the present study, implications, and suggestions for future research are presented. Running head: THE RELATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY iii


Codebook design plays a crucial role in the performance of speech signal processing systems based on vector quantization, such as speech codec, speech recognition and so on. LBG algorithm is one of the most effective methods to generate codebooks and is commonly used in multidimensional signal processing. But it has the problem of initialize codebook design. The paper proposed adopting ant colony clustering algorithm to design codebook. But the clustering number of ant colony clustering algorithm is automatically formed, it may not be exactly equal to the codebook size. So the paper put forward solving measures on the basis of nearest neighbor criterion or decomposition method. The codebook design procedures with ant colony clustering algorithm is given in the paper detailedly. Using the proposed method, the paper designed vector quantizer' codebooks of adaptive multi-rate wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec. Simulation results showed that the decoding speech qualities of AMR-WB speech codec were not almost degraded adopting newly designed codebooks. The transparent quantization effect of vector quantization was obtained.


The precessing technology of 18.5rex NewdaL/apocynum/water-soluble vinylon blended yarn is introduced in this paper.On the basis of the new type blended fiber,new-style yarn is produced by new processing method and adopting water-soluble PVA as the car- tier.The new production is of soft handle,moisture absorption,excellent air permeability,antibacterial effect and environmental protection.


In a time of deep changes in curriculum and educational paradigm in the Spanish higher education, where the responsibility for student assessment is partially devolved to the Degree Coordinators, we believe that external evaluation of learning results can be of sufficient interest. This practice collides with the idleness of the university's staft which follows, since long time ago, a difterent path; therefore procedures that are actually applicable to our university must be investigated. In this paper we describe an external evaluation test performed on a single subject of the Degree. Although it has a limited impact, we believe in its usefulness for teachers and university staft. Teachers can find ideas about the need to clarify the learning outcomes of their students, so that an external examiner can set a paper that does not mislead the students, and managers can assess, from these data, costs and potential benefits of a full implementation of the procedure in a Degree.


Since the reform and opening up,China's economy development has brought prominent environmental issues.This paper,on the basis of our predecessors,analyzes the relationship between energy factors and human capital factors in the process of economic development.Through our sub industrial sectors panel data the paper analyzes the situation of the low-carbon economy development.Then,we put forward how to improve China's education services in order to realize the more effective human resource configuration during the development of China's low-carbon economy.


In case of completely submerged floating structure, no change in buoyancy can beexpected with its dynamic motion and the restoring force fully depends on cables. Consequently, it is necessary to seize the relation between structural displacement and restoring force and to evaluate the effect ofnonlinear deformation of cables on the dynamic response. This study aims to evaluate the effect of deformation of mooring cable caused by self-weight, inertia and fluid force on the vibration of the structure. This paper introduces nonlinear equations of motion considering the dynamic behavior of the cables and investigates the effect of dynamic deformation of cables on whole behavior with numerical examples.


This paper analyses the targets of the performance measurement of basic scientific research. It surveys all the major factors affecting the measurement. Then it establishes a reasonable target system of the performance measurement. On the basis of this, it designs a comprehensive statistical table of the performance measurement and constructs a model of the performance measurement of basic scientific research.


Tone language experience has been associated with more accurate and stronger phase locking of neural responses in the brainstem to auditory stimuli. However, whether this neurophysiological advantage translates to better pitch perception remains under debate. Previous studies have yielded controversial results, possibly due to variations in methods and large individual variability. Here we examined tone frequency discrimination (FD) over the frequency range of 250 Hz to 8 kHz in Chinese and English speakers using relatively large sample sizes (N>50). For both brief (7.5-ms) and steady (100-ms) tones, FD threshold showed an interaction between group and frequency: Chinese speakers outperformed English speakers up to 4 kHz, and the advantage was reversed at higher frequencies. The only exception was the 7.5-ms 250-Hz condition, where the stimuli were too short (< 2 cycles) for pitch extraction by phase locking and performance was worse in Chinese than English speakers. Overall, the pattern of FD differences...


This article serves as the introduction for this special issue of Global Governance on international migration. It presents some of the key facts, figures, concepts, and debates on international migration that appear in the articles that follow, and outlines their main arguments. Five arguments in support of greater international cooperation and more formal processes of global governance on international migration are presented here. First, contemporary international migration is now occurring at unprecedented levels and has a truly global reach. Second, international migration can no longer effectively be managed or controlled by national migration policies, and greater international cooperation is required to achieve national goals in international migration. Third, there are growing numbers of migrants around the world who are vulnerable and exploited, and insufficiently protected by either states or international institutions. Fourth, emerging structural features in the global economy, alongside the effects of climate change, are likely to significantly increase the scale of international migration worldwide, and present new management and protection challenges. Finally, momentum for change is slowly developing. KEYWORDS: international migration, global governance. ********** IN CONTRAST TO MANY OTHER CROSS-BORDER ISSUES OF OUR TIME, SUCH as trade, finance, or the environment, international migration lacks a coherent institutional framework at the global level. There is no UN migration organization; rather there is a network of intergovernmental organizations within and outside the UN that focus on specific aspects of international migration. States remain the principal actors in migration governance, and delegate responsibility to regional organizations or international institutions in only limited circumstances. The legal and normative framework affecting international migrants cannot be found in a single document, but is derived from customary law, a variety of binding global and regional legal instruments, nonbinding agreements, and policy understandings reached by states at the global and regional level. Many elements of this framework are not migration specific, but address broader questions of individual rights, state responsibility, and interstate relations. Only in the area of refugee movements, and more recently migrant smuggling and human trafficking, have a large number of governments agreed to binding international laws and norms, but even in these areas implementation remains a challenge. (1) The reluctance of most states to yield national control over international migration is understandable. Sovereign states have the right--indeed, the responsibility--to determine who enters and remains on their territory. And international migration can also impact on other essential aspects of state sovereignty, including economic competitiveness, national and public security, and social cohesion. In addition, some of the challenges to more effective international cooperation on international migration at times can appear insurmountable. In particular, it pits developed economies that want to protect national labor markets and admit migrant workers on only a selective basis against developing countries with rapidly expanding and youthful populations that demand greater and more unrestricted access to those labor markets. At least some of the responsibility for slow progress in developing more global governance on international migration also lies with existing international institutions that are unable or unwilling to extend their mandates, often enter into competition with one another when they do, and fail to cooperate on even the most basic of issues such as common terminology or shared access to data on migration. What is more, even among advocates for reform, there is little consensus on how far-reaching the changes should be. Ambitions range from more effective regional cooperation, through more coherent global cooperation, to the development of a new legal and normative framework and new institutional arrangements to deliver the reforms. …


An experimental format is described in which the "lecture content" for a core junior-level ECE course was delivered via on-line streaming video (referred to as "virtual lecture"), and the regularly-scheduled class meeting times were used for instructor-directed, collaborative problem solving sessions (referred to as "directed problem solving"). A "traditional lecture" division of the course was offered simultaneously, to provide students an opportunity to select the course format they felt best matched their individual learning style. Results, including survey data and comparative performance on common exams, are presented for the initial trials conducted


We propose a Routing and Spectrum Assignment algorithm to address Spectrum Fragmentation, and unfairness among different rated requests in Elastic Optical Networks. Results show that our method achieves desired fairness and reduces blocked bandwidth ratio.


The popular use of medicines containing drugs from vegetal source or medicinal plants is resulting from information, which is mentioned by the collectivity through the years. The population uses this resource believing, very often, that is a natural medicine, so it can not bring bad consequences for them. There is no knowledge about possible drug interactions followed by the use of other medicines simultaneously, and in different levels of gravity, it will compromise the user's health. This paper concerns about the main possible drug interactions resulted from the use of drugs from vegetal origin, such as an extra resource of information to get easier on properly orientations to the rational use of medicines.


Soybean is very useful crop to supply vegetable protein for human. Supply of soybean is increased because it has useful ingredient. Recently, cultivation of soybean in paddy field is increasing due to the increase of rice stockpile in Korea. Hence, in this study, expression of protein was identified regarding different environment for cultivation to investigate the effect of different environment on protein expression. Two-dimensional electrophoresis was performed to investigate the expression of protein using image analysis program to measure degree of protein expression in numerical value. Hannam-kong, Beakcheon-Kong, Hwangkeum-Kong, and Danwon-Kong were used as plant material. 2-DE combined with image analysis revealed that each degree of protein expression of Hannam-Kong and Hwangkeum-Kong in upland field was higher than degree of protein expression in paddy field. However, in case of Beackcheon-Kong, the phenomenon was opposite. In Danwon-kong, the degree of protein expression was not different between up-land field and paddy field. To this end, major protein spots were not different between paddy field and upland field among all cultivars. It could be suggested that protein expression is not severely different by various environment, but different environment affects degree of protein expression.


There has beennumerous documents about Sor luana since luan Camacho published his first volume in Madrid in1689, and more so during 1995, her anniversary. There is no certainty about the date of her birth, it is placed between 1651 and 1653, she died in 1695. The magazines ABSIDE. REVISTA DE CULTURA MEXICANA during the period 1941-1973 published 25 articles, and CONTEMPORANEOS eight articles from 1929 to 1931; the BOLETIN DE LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL published five articles in 1951 and 1960, but none of these deal with her library. The following authors have discussed her library: the writer, Ermilo Abrell Gómez( 1934);Alfonso Méndez Plancarte (1944); the art historian and critic, Francisco de Ia Maza (1952); the poet Octavio Paz (1982); the ex-director of the Mexican National Library, Ignacio Osorio (1986). I think that the 4000 volumes ofthis library played an important part in her writings, and mllch more than companions: objects of her world. This library unfortunately, disintegrated by her at the end of her life, is an example of library collections and libraries of the New World, together with the first academic library built in Mexico City: "La Biblioteca dei Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tiatelolco" ( I 536). To know about the titles of some of these books, whose existence can only be seen in two of the paintings of Sor luana, one by the Mexican artist luan de Miranda, active from 1697 to 171I, owned by the "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México", and the other by the Mexican painter, Miguel Cabrera at the "Mllseo Nacional de Historia dei Castil/o de Chapultepec" in Mexico City, gives us an idea not only of her library, bllt of her world. The XVI/c in Mexico City is a baroque century with its four social entities: the Cow.t, the Church, the City and the Convent in which Sor luana lived. Ifwe take into consideration her writings, there was afifth entity, the Hispanic literary world. Sor luana with her beauty, charm, intelligence and ability to deal with the most important personalities of her time was considered a string between the New and the Old Worlds because of her lite rary contriblltions as a woman, more so as an Ame rican woman ofthe XVI/c. She is pondered by Alatorre( 1995) as the spiritual gold similar to the gold extracted from the New World mines. In a metaphorical way her writings are the reslllt of her intellect and of the contents extracted from the books which represented the world of knowledge contained in her library.


Objective To investigate the therapeutic effect of female benign breast tumor received operation by periareolar incision.Methods To study the 152 cases received operation by periareolar incision retrospectively.Results The average operative time is between 20 to 35 min,all cases are cured and with no subcutaneous effusion.All incisions of the 152 cases are larvaceous.There are no complications or recurrence and the aspect of breast is normal by 3-10 months follow-up.Conclusion The surgical method has many advantiges including simple,safety,better therapeutic efficacy and cosmetic result.it could be a facultative surgical method for female benign breast tumor.


ABSTRACT The 1966–;67 Arizona State Museum Sonora-Sinaloa Project, directed by William W. Wasley, went into the field during an especially turbulent period for both American archaeology and American society generally. This personal account describes how the project unfolded and tries to place its activities, especially its work with the Trincheras culture, within the cultural and historical context of the times.


The cellular systems with 4th generation, Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard have been transmitted the data at higher rates than the 3G, and 2G systems, in an ever-crowded frequency spectrum. This transmission needs more accuracy, high reliability, and throughput with a low area and power consumption. Therefore, it requires an efficient error control coding. Turbo code is used for LTE system for its good error correction ability at low signal to noise power ratio which can approach Shannon limit performance for large frame lengths. This paper presents a simple and efficient modification that can be applied to all present stopping criterion (SC) to achieve the quality of service mentioned previously. It's proved that using a trimmed sequence of log-likelihood values (LLR) instead of the full length in the algorithms of stopping the iterative decoding has a significant impact on the utilized silicon area and throughput without a significant sacrifice in performance. It also presents a comparison of designing the Soft-Output Viterbi (SOVA) decoder using different arbitrary-precision fixed data types that offers by Vivado high-level synthesis (HLS) instead of the costlier float representation to reduce processing time and consumed area. Due to its high flexibility in designing and implementing prototype systems, the FPGA device (Kintex-7, Xilinx part number XC7K325T-2FFG900C) was utilized with different parallelism and loop pipelining directives to ensure acquiring the targeted initiation interval and silicon area.


This research aims to identify the factors influencing Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to adopt Social Media (SM) for marketing communication. The research was conducted through a qualitative study by interviewing SM managers of selected Pakistani HEIs. Data was analyzed using NVivo 11 to identify emerging themes. The findings revealed several internal and external factors encouraging HEIs to adopt SM marketing. Internal factors reflected the internal dynamics or beliefs within the HEIs that encouraged them to use SM for their marketing communication, whereas external factors were environmental changes, not in direct control of HEIs, but believed to contribute towards their decision to use SM. The internal factors included the belief of applicants, increased interest of senior management towards SM, perception of cost-effective promotional tool, induction of young staff, perception of SM as a modern communication tool and move towards paperless communication. The external factors included SM preference as a mode of communication, declining value of traditional marketing communication tools, E-Life inclination, presence of competitors & unofficial SM accounts of HEIs and their self-driven nature. This study draws focus towards the underlying intentions of HEIs for their SM presence and compares these motivations with other organizations. This has enabled filling in the gaps in the literature regarding the roots of SM marketing in the context of HEIs. From a practical perspective, the findings of this study will enable HEIs to compare their SM motives with other industries. A major difference found was the absence of motivation on the part of HEIs to use SM. This is in contradiction to other industries that put relationship building with customers as one of the primary motives to use SM.


The aim of this research is to describe active learning strategy to increase the students' achievement at IV grade in Baitul Jannah SDIT and to describe the implementation of active learning strategy in islamic education lesson in Baitul Jannah SDIT. The kind of this research is quantitative research with data collective isusing observation, interview and documentation. And for data analyze is using qualitative descriptive, that is not in numbers but words form, sentence or paraghraph in descriptive form. Based on the result of the research can be concluded that aplly of active learning strategy in learning process of islamic education lesson in Baitul Jannah SDIT had been run well. When in teaching learning process thathad been done in the clas, such as students are active to ask the question that they have not understand yet, active to do the task  that had been given by the teacher. Between the methodes that had been used in islamic education lesson in Baitul Jannlah SDIT that direct to active learning strategy is asking and answering method, demonstration method, guided teaching, jigsaw learning, sane age tutor, memorize, role play, demonstration, quiz, and others. The implemtation of active learning strategy in teaching learning process of islamic education lesson in Baitul Jannah SDIT gives the good result for example their score in raport book, beside of their good score with active learning strategy the islamic education lesson that delivered in the class can apply in daily activities such as students love to read quran, pray 5 times, duhha sunnah pray, and other religious activites in islam.


Abstract We measured the amount of UV-C light (254 nm) achieved on hospital surfaces using a modified emitter and competing placement strategies. An autonomous UV-C strategy improved exposure on surfaces that were distant, angled, or shadowed to the nonautonomous strategies, leading to significantly higher overall UV-C dosages.


Hybrid governance forms that seek to meld the virtues of both market control and traditional hierarchical control are alluring. Comparatively little research, outside of the M-form literature, has examined internal hybrids - hierarchical forms infused with elements of market control. This paper contends that common change initiatives, such as TQM, re-engineering, autonomous work teams, and group-based rewards, are appropriately viewed as attempts to craft internal hybrids by selectively infusing elements of market control within hierarchy. However, these change initiatives are often implemented in isolation and, as a consequence, violate patterns of complementarity that sustain traditional hierarchy or support the stable infusion of market control.The paper argues that these violations of complementarity often spiral hierarchies toward fundamental transformation. The clear trajectory of these transformations is to quite radically disaggregated organizations structured around teams. The paper presents both theory and evidence supporting the existence of complementarities among these common change initiatives.


In study of disease cause,we often use 1:1 match ing to study the risk fac tor There is many methods to calculate conditional logistic regresstion in SAS sof tware,this paper take some methods and compare them The result is that u sing macro procedure in SAS software can easily solve this question


The purpose of this study was to compare the selected physiological variables between male Athlete and non athletes. 60 male subjects ( athletes: 30 and Non athletes: 30) age group of 18 to 25 years, randomly selected from different institutes affiliated to Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India. Vital capacity of athletes was measured by Spiro meter. Peak flow rate was measured with a peak flow meter. The between-group differences were assessed by using t-test. The level of p<0.05 was considered significant. The t-test revealed that male non athletes had significantly higher vital capacity and Peak flow Rate (p<0.05) than male athletes. Further investigations are needed on the above studied variables along with motor fitness variables to assess relationships among them and with performances in male athletes and non athletes.


In a retrospective study of 105 retinoblastoma cases, the authors studied the clinical symptoms, survival and ocular conservations. The results are much better in case of early diagnosis. They discuss the therapeutic modalities in their institute and elsewhere.


This study represents a quest to find answers to the complex problem of rural land degradation in Australia. Despite significant investment in environmental improvement programs and community based natural resource management interventions, the problem of land and water degradation continues. A key intervention in Australia has been the Landcare program, which has experienced much success in engaging a large sector of the rural population in addressing the problem. Additionally, the Australian Government has and continues to make significant investment in the Landcare program as well as directly to rural land managers through a range of extension and incentive mechanisms and increasingly through market-based instruments. Whilst financial, human and knowledge capital investment in such interventions appear to have an influence on their success, it is the social and cultural factors that seem to be a downfall. This study investigated this problem through a case study conducted in Gippsland, in the state of Victoria. Through a multi-methods approach guided by foundations of critical realism and influenced by grounded theory, this primarily qualitative study yielded rich insights into the inner workings of Landcare and the values, drivers and motivators of rural landholders and the institutional staff who work with them. Through five research cycles the study explored the health and function of 16 Landcare Groups; three examples of community-based projects which sought to improve Landcare group capacity and the views of 46 landholders and 31 institutional staff on values, drivers and intervention design. A sixth research cycle provided a synthesis of the findings of the first five cycles to develop a conceptual model of community intervention and change which was tested with a sample of the study's informants. Emerging as key insights was the role that ownership, social capital and empowerment play in the success of group based community projects. On an individual level, values of landholders, including strong land ownership values and motivations are a key to practice change. This is also mediated by an individual's access to various forms of capital to undertake farm management activities including altering practices towards environmental sustainability. The outcome of the study, the model of community intervention and change provide a series of critical 'states', 'stages' and 'transitions' to the process of individual and/or group change and empowerment. The study conclusions point out the complexities of the problem of land degradation when it is realised that the role of people is critical to its solution. The study provides insight into the essential components of interventions which are required to attain success.


On July 20, 2000—the night following the fast of the seventeenth of Tammuz—the Jewish world lost one of its outstanding personalities, Rabbi Yosef Kafah. "Mori Yusuf," as he was called by his students, was born in San'a in 1917. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by his grandfather, Rabbi Yihye Kafah (Qäfih), a great scholar in his own right, most famous for his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to dislodge the Kabbalah from the faith and practice of his coreligionists. Rav Yosef began copying manuscripts in early childhood; he showed me one text that he copied when he was about six years old. A meticulous scholar with wide-ranging knowledge, an independently minded thinker, and the possessor of a very intimate knowledge of traditional Jewish sources and the Arabic language, Rav Yosef was to make a monumental contribution to Jewish studies in several areas, of which the most important are the thought and writings of Maimonides; the literary output of Saadia Gaon; and the relatively large corpus of medieval Yemeni philosophical texts. Ptolemaic astronomy in its medieval Arabic elaborations remained a living tradition in the Yemen well into the second half of the twentieth century. Rav Yosef studied astronomy with a Muslim by the name of Lutf Hamza; he described this experience in a brief note in Kiryat Sefer, in which he corrected some of the entries in Y. Ratzaby's bibliography


Cassava harvesting especially on large scale involves first, cutting the stem at a predetermined height above the ground and preserving it for the next planting season, after which a preferred method of uprooting the tubers is employed. It is categorised as the most difficult and challenging aspect in its production process. Most practiced world over, especially in Africa and Nigeria in particular, is the manual system of uprooting by hand which is tedious and mostly characterised with defects on farmers over time. Some of these defects include; blistered/callus palms, arched spinal cord and waist pain, amongst others. Root tuber damage, land mass and the farmers financial status are major considerations in the choice and adoption of a method of harvesting, (manual, semi-mechanised or mechanised) with respect to the end use of the harvested produce and availability/accessibility of resources. These and more led to the development of a hand push-type cassava harvester, incorporated with a cabin to protect the operator from unfavourable weather conditions and driven manually on two wheels. The mechanism of a simple machine such as the lever was employed in driving and powering the machine and its major components, adopting the first and second class lever principle in the design. The machine, comprising of three main mechanisms to carry out the following operations; stem cutting, soil loosening and tuber harvesting was successfully designed, fabricated and tested.


This essay is an attempt to trace the historical trajectories of the life and/or afterlife of the leftists in the 1950s Taiwan, through close readings of five key texts of Chen Yingzhen's five novels, written from 1960 to 1994. The result is a preliminary picture of the structural configuration of the spiritual history of the leftists from that era. The major discovery is that through writing practices, Chen Yingzhen inherits the thought and sentiment of the 1950s generation. Its contribution goes far beyond bridging the crucial link between the past and present in Taiwan into establishing critical connections with mainland China and the Third Word, especially in the upholding the socialist spirit of the world revolution. How to continue to recover, rescue, research and writing the postwar leftist history in Taiwan is a real challenge to the critical intellectual circle of thought.


Background Incidence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among emerging adults (EmA) is high in some African settings. Estimates on sexual risk-taking behavior (SRTB) among EmA is varied in literature, which presents a challenge when designing targeted interventions. We aimed to review and summarize literature on prevalence and risk factors of SRTB among EmA in Africa. Methods A search for studies published in PubMed, Embase and Psych Info involving EmA (18 - 25 years), conducted in Africa and reporting one or more SRTB was done. Pooled prevalence estimates were summarized using forest plots. Heterogeneity in SRTB was explored by sex, geographic region, year of publication and outcome definition. Risk factors were synthesized using a modified socio-ecological model. Results Overall, 117 studies were analyzed. Non-condom use had the highest pooled prevalence (46.0% [95% CI: 14.0-51.0]), followed by study-defined SRTB (37.0% [95% CI: 23.0 -51.0]), concurrency (35.0% [95% CI: 19.0-53.0]), multiple sex partnerships (30.0% [95% CI: 24.0-37.0]), younger age at sexual debut (25.0% [95% CI: 19.0- 31.0]), age disparate relationships (24.0% [95% CI: 17.0-32.0]) and transactional sex (17.0% [95% CI: 11.0-24.0]). In four of the seven outcomes, heterogeneity was partially explained by sex, with female participants having higher pooled prevalence estimates compared to their male counterparts. In four of the seven outcomes, alcohol/drug use was the most common risk factor. Conclusions SRTB was common among EmA and differentially higher in emerging female adults. Non-condom use had the highest pooled prevalence, which may contribute to the propagation of HIV and other STIs in this population. Interventions targeting emerging female adults and alcohol/drug use may reduce SRTB, which may in-turn mitigate propagation of HIV and other STIs among EmA in Africa.


PRO ECCLESIA Vol. II, No. 4 tamentasCanon: An Introduction. As the title of the earliest worksuggests, the project was conceived and framed against the backdrop of the faltering of the Biblical Theology movement. While there were, according to Childs, a number of reasons for the"eracking of the walls" of the older BiblicalTheology movement, the greatest failure was in laeking a historically and theologically refined use of the historieal-critical method in the study of Holy Seripture. That is to say, there was an inabilitywithin the limits of the older approach to hear Seripture on its own terrns, to reflect exegetically and theologically in a manner commensurate with the subject matter itself.


The invention discloses a binary solution type formulation for intravenous and intracerebral injection, shown as right. The main active component thereof is temozolomide with the binary system and having temozolomide sterile powder and solvent for dissolving medicaments. The operating temozolomide solution agent can be obtained through the combination of the solvent. The invention is characterized in that, 1, the binary formulation is stable at the room temperature for over 2 years; 2, the prepared medicaments liquid is stable at the room temperature at least for 48h to meet the operating requirement of injection administration; 3, the solvent is nontoxic and non-irritant, and the prepared medicaments can be used for the intracerebral injection during the operation and stereotaxic intraturmor injection of local chemotherapy.


Large proportion of available manganese ores contain high proportions of potassium. Electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) is manufactured from manganous sulphate obtained from naturally occuring manganese ores. Crystallographically EMD has to be essentially gamma phase and other phases, alpha and beta should be the bare minimum. High potassium content is, however, an obstruction in the way of getting gamma phase EMD. The present invention describes a method of making manganous sulphate solution with low level impurity of potassium from high potassium ores which comprises adding the reduced ore to spent electrolyte containing ferric ions and digesting same at pH 1-2 and temperature of 60 DEG -90 DEG C. for 1-4 hours, and thereafter again adding reduced ore to the digested product till pH is raised to 4-6.


This paper considers whether monetary and scal policy may sensibly be formulated independently of one another, and argues that the reasons for the two to be interconnected go well beyond the familiar but unappealing possibility of using seignorage as a source of revenue for the government. Particular attention is given to the eects of scal policy upon the price level through the wealth eect of variations in the value of the public debt; such eects are shown to be consistent with rational expectations and frictionless nancial markets, contrary to the doctrine of \Ricardian equivalence", in the case of \non-Ricardian" scal policy. In this case, the eects of variation in the composition of the public debt (as to maturity and degree of indexation) are considered, as well as the eects of growth in its overall size. A number of objections to the possibility of a non-Ricardian policy are considered, notably the assertions that it is not possible for a government to refuse to adjust its budget when its debts grow too large, and the assertion that equilibria in which the price level is determined by the government budget depend upon an implausible equilibrium selection in a model with multiple rational expectations equilibria. The eects of public debt upon the price level are also considered in the case that consumers have adaptive rather than rational expectations about their lifetime budgets. Finally, the nature of optimal scal and monetary policy is considered, as a problem of dynamic Ramsey taxation. It is shown that an optimal policy regime may well involve a \non-Ricardian" scal policy, in which increases in govermment purchases do not result in corresponding increases in the present value of future tax collections, and so cause fluctuations in the equilibrium value of government bonds. At the same time, an appropriate choice both of monetary policy and of the composition of the public debt can make this sort of scal policy compatible with a substantial degree of price stability.


The hematology profile that include hematocrite value, erythrocyte count, leucocyte count, differential leucocyte can used to determined the health state and diagnosis of fish diseases. The purpose of this research is to study the hematology profiles of gabus (Channa striata). This research was conducted on August to October 2016. Gabus with body length about 25-35 cm and the blood samples were collected from vena caudalis (caudal vein) to evaluate hematocrite value, erythrocyte count, leucocyte count, eythrocyte and leucocyte diameter and differential leucocyte. The result of the research showed that hematocrite values 23,25-24,83%, erythrocyte counts 2,34-2,51x106cell/mm3, erythrocyte diameter 7,69-8,16 µm, leucocyte counts 1,53-1,65x105cell/mm3, leucocyte diameter 5,73-6,53 µm, monocytes 5,73-6,53%, limphocytes 76,13-78,20% and neutrophils 16,07-17,40%.


The ultimate goal of our work is to provide elderly drivers with training methods or driver assistant systems appropriate for their individual levels of ability through assessment of their recognition, judgment, and operation capabilities. We are working on such an assessment with specific focus on the P3 component of eye fixation related potentials (EFRP). In this study, healthy elderly persons were introduced as the participants and the aging effects were studied compering the results with those of the previous experiment using young adults. Thirty-three healthy adults aged 66 81 provided written informed consent and participated in a dual-task experiment. In addition to a simulated driving task, an oddball task was introduced. As the results, eye fixation latencies, P3 latencies and reaction times of elderly were confirmed to be longer than those obtained from the younger participants. The assessment method for individual person will also be discussed.


Under the direction of Dr. Donments, "genes"—deoxyribonucleic ald S. Fredrickson, NIH Director, acid molecules—from living orgaNIH has reviewed its guidelines nisms can be transferred to single on recombinant DNA research and cells from completely unrelated orissued the two-part Final Environganisms. mental Impact Statement on NIH These experiments depend on the Guidelines for Research Involving ability to join genetic material Recombinant DNA Molecules. from different sources and to propNoting the "uncertainties suragate the resulting elements in sinrounding the benefits and hypogle bacterial and animal cells. thetical risks of the use of recomIn June 1976 NIH issued guidebinant DNA technologies," the lines that govern the conduct of Final EIS reports that NIH beNIH-supported research involving lieves it important to implement recombinant DNA molecules, and a safety guidelines and to assess the Draft Environmental Impact Statepotential of the research for good ment on the Guidelines was puband harm. lished in September 1976. In recombinant DNA experiIn addition to modification of the Draft EIS in response to comments received, changes have also been Dr. Kannel Is Honored made in the Final EIS based on By Military Surgeons new knowledge and developments. The 2-part set of the NIH EnFor Outstanding Work vironmental Impact Study is available for $9.75 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. This publication, Stock Number 017-040-00413-3, is sold in sets only.


Natural fiber ash is the product that is produce from the burning process of the specific type of natural fiber that exist in this world for example sisal fiber, jute fiber, kenaf fiber, and bamboo fiber. For more specific, natural fiber is actually the thread like
materials which can be used for different purposes and also can be used in different application of field. Other than that, the other benefits of natural fiber are can lead to have sustainable development , easy usage/handling of fibers due to their flexibility, have good strength- and stiffness-to-weight ratios, and require only around 20-40% of the production energy. By using the natural fiber ash in concrete production, we can minimize the amount of cement used and definitely it can save the cost of construction due to the expensive cost of cement. In this study, the coconut fiber ash will be used as cementitious material in order to produce high strength concrete and will be burn in
furnace for 2 hours at 5000C. Not only that, the concrete with cementitious materials can be stronger and have high durability than concrete with Ordinary Portland cement (OPC). The percent replacement of the ash used are 1%, 2%, 3% and 4% from the weight of cement used and will be compared with 0% (without coconut fiber ash replacement). The testing that will be conduct in this study is fixed for all size cubes (100 x 100 x 100 mm) that are compressive strength. The curing days are 7 days, 14
days and 28 days. From the data during this study was conduct, the most successful compressive strength is the concrete with 1% coconut fiber ash replacement than the
others percentage.


Abstract The development of machine learning provides a new path for translating fuzzy semantics into English and literature. In this paper, we propose translation points for fuzzy semantics based on the fuzziness of language by studying the linguistic features in English literature. The hierarchical PY process under the Bayesian nonparametric model is adopted to achieve word alignment in English translation, and the clustering process of English words is controlled by introducing discount and intensity parameters. Based on this, the parameter estimation of the word probability model is completed using Gibbs sampling, and the Moses decoder extracts the translation features. Based on monolingual word classification, this model reduces 6.85% in the average time consumed per sentence compared to the Beam algorithm and 9.57% compared to the A* algorithm.


Adaptive sinusoidal filter method applying in the extraction of weak harmonic signal in the background of strong fundamental signal was proposed Different from the traditional digital adaptive filter,the new method decomposed signal into liner combination of signal with different frequency.Adjust coefficient of the signal automatically in order to get the optimum approximation to actual signal on the basis of minimum mean square error rule,then get the amplitude and phase of harmonic signal by the result of adaptive algorithm.MATLAB simulation proved the method was accurate and feasible.


Dimitrie Cantemir, was twice Prince of Moldavia (in March-April 1693 and in 1710-1711). He was also a prolific man of letters, philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, etnographer and geographer between 1711 and 1719, he wrote his most important creations. Cantemir was known as one of the greatest linguists of his time, speaking and writing eleven languages and being well versed in Oriental Scholarship. This oeuvre is voluminous, diverse and original; although some of his scientic writings contain unconfirmed theories, his expertise, sagacity and groundbreaking.