s: TITLE: A multiscale method with Robin boundary conditions for the Darcy flow problem Speaker: Rafael T. Guiraldello The design of accurate multiscale domain decomposition methods for channelized, high-contrast porous media remains as an important challenge for the numerical simulation of typical problems posed by the oil industry. Here we investigate an improved version of the recently proposed Multiscale Robin Coupled method (MRCM) [1], which is a generalization of the Multiscale Mixed Method (MuMM) [2]. This method ensures weak continuity of both normal fluxes and pressure through the imposition of Robyn-type boundary conditions at the skeleton of the domain decomposition where interface spaces for the pressure and fluxes, respectively, can be chosen independently. Numerical simulations are presented aiming at illustrating several features of the MRCM. We shown that the MRCM can also be seen as a generalization of two well know multiscale procedures, the Multiscale Mixed Mortar Finite Element method (MMMFEM) [3] and the Multiscale Hybrid Method (MHM) [4]. Then, we compare the accuracy of the above mentioned multiscale procedures given a fixed computational cost for interface spaces spanned by polynomial and informed functions [5]. Our results illustrate how one can take advantage of the built in flexibility of the MRCM to produce more accurate approximations when compared to the MMMFEM and MHM. [1] R.T. Guiraldello, R.F. Ausas, F.S. Sousa, F. Pereira, G.C. Buscaglia, The Multiscale Robin Coupled Method for flows in porous media, In J. Comput. Phys. 355 (2018) 1-21. [2] A. Francisco, V. Ginting, F. Pereira, J. Rigelo. Design and implementation of a multiscale mixed method bases on a nonoverlapping domain decomposition procedure, Math. Comput Simul., 99:125–138, 2014. [3] T. Arbogast, G. Pencheva, M.F. Wheeler, I. Yotov, A multiscale mortar mixed finite element method, SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul. 6 (1) (2007) 319–346. [4] R. Araya, C. Harder, D. Paredes, F. Valentin, Multiscale hybrid-mixed method, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 51 (6) (2013) 3505–3531. [5] E. Chung, S. Fu, Y. Yang, An enriched multiscale mortar space for high contrast flow problems, arXiv:1609.02610, 2016. TITLE: A new downscaling procedure for multiscale methods in porous media flows Speaker: Fabricio S. Sousa Non-overlapping domain decomposition multiscale methods have been succesfully applied to flows in porous media. Such remarkable class of methods seek to decompose the domain of the porous media flow equations in non-overlapping subdomains, solving smaller local problems in parallel, and one global interface problem, instead of a large coupled one. Usually the interface problem enforces the compatibility conditions -continuity of pressures and normal fluxes -across subdomain interfaces. In multiscale methods, these conditions are enforced at different length scales, originating different methods. Examples are the MMMFEM [1] (Multiscale Mixed Mortar Finite Element Method), that prioritize pressure continuity at fine scales and weak flux continuity; the MHM [2] (Multiscale HybridMixed Method), that enforces continuity of normal fluxes at fine scales and weak pressure continuity; the [3] (Multiscale Mixed Method) that enforces weak continuity of both pressure and normal fluxes through Robin-type boundary conditions. Recently, the MRCM [4] (Multiscale Robin Coupled Method) that generalizes the aforementioned methods in one single variational formulation has been introduced. It is well known that enforcing continuity only at larger scales creates a discrepancy in the continuity (of pressure or normal fluxes, or both) in fine scales, so that a downscaling is required to keep the resulting velocity fields conservative. We propose a new procedure based on alternating domains with minimum overlapping to perform downscaling of the computed normal fluxes, resulting in new conservative velocity fields. We studied the applicability and efficiency of this new method when applied to single-phase flow problems using the MRCM, as compared to existing techniques, exploring the choice of parameters given by the MRCM to improve its accuracy. [1] T. Arbogast, G. Pencheva, M.F. Wheeler, I. Yotov, A multiscale mortar mixed finite element method, SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul. 6 (1) (2007) 319–346. [2] R. Araya, C. Harder, D. Paredes, F. Valentin, Multiscale hybrid-mixed method, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 51 (6) (2013) 3505–3531. [3] A. Francisco, V. Ginting, F. Pereira, J. Rigelo, (2014). Design and implementation of a multiscale mixed method based on a non-overlapping domain decomposition procedure. Math. Comput. Simul., 99, 125-138. [4] R.T. Guiraldello, R.F. Ausas, F.S. Sousa, F. Pereira, G.C. Buscaglia, The Multiscale Robin Coupled Method for flows in porous media, In J. Comput. Phys. 355 (2018) 1-21. TITLE: A Recursive Parallel Implementation of the Multiscale Mixed Method Speaker: Paola Ferraz We are interested in the numerical approximation of partial differential equations of elliptic-hyperbolic nature, in the context of incompressible two-phase flow problems in heterogeneous porous media. Numerical solutions of elliptic boundary value problems with high contrast and discontinuous coefficients are often expensive and time consuming, so efficient numerical methods are necessary. Indeed, methods that can take advantage of CPU-GPU clusters are of particular interest because GPUs have larger computational power than CPUs alone. In this work, we focus on the multiscale mixed method MuMM introduced in [1] (see also [2] where the variational formulation of [1] was presented), that is based on a non-overlapping iterative domain decomposition procedure with Robin interface conditions. Local multiscale basis functions are calculated in each subdomain to represent the discrete solutions that can be efficiently computed in CPU-GPU clusters. The method presented here uses a new technique to cluster multiscale basis functions associated with nearest neighbor subdomains, leading to a small (and local) linear system for the interface between the subdomains. The global solution is obtained by recursively applying the MuMM to all pairs of subdomains until the union of subdomains reach the whole domain. The resulting interface linear systems are easly handled by Schur decomposition along with a LU factorization. The novelty of this method is that it does not use an iterative procedure to compute the global solution and shows excellent parallel performance. [1] A. Francisco, V. Ginting, F. Pereira and J. Rigelo, (2014). "Design and implementation of a multiscale mixed method based on a nonoverlapping domain decomposition procedure", Math. Comput. Simul., 99, 125-138. [2] R.T. Guiraldello, R.F. Ausas, F.S. Sousa, F. Pereira and G.C. Buscaglia, (2018)."The Multiscale Robin Coupled Method for flows in porous media", Journal of Computational Physics, 355, 1-21. TITLE: A computational method for solving a two-phase Buckley-Leverett pseudo-parabolic model with dynamic capillary pressure Speaker: Eduardo Abreu We formally discuss a numerical approach for the simulation of a two-dimensional model for immiscible incompressible two-phase flows in heterogeneous porous media to deal with dynamic capillary pressure. The differential system of equations consist of a nonlinear pseudo-parabolic Buckley-Leverett equation modeling the transport of fluid saturations coupled with an elliptic equation modeling the Darcy pressurevelocity problem. Upon certain manipulation of the differential system of equations, we rewrite the transport pseudo-parabolic Buckley-Leverett model as a nonlinear elliptic reaction-diffusion problem along with a simpler time-dependent relation to deal with the dynamic capillary pressure. Hybridized mixed finite elements and domain decomposition procedures are used for the spatial discretization of the equations. Proper locally conservative finite volume techniques are used for a balancing discretization of the first-order hyperbolic flux and the dispersive behavior inherent of the pseudo-parabolic model. After discretizing in time, the resulting nonlinear algebraic equations is solved with a sequential time-marching approach and the arising systems of linear equations are solved efficiently. Our numerical experiments demonstrated the viability of the proposed formulation based on 1D and 2D computational simulations for porous media nonlinear flows. Joint work with Paola Ferraz (University of Campinas) and Jardel Vieira (University of Campinas). TITLE: Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (McMC) applied to deformable porous media flows Speaker: M. R. Borges Natural reservoirs exhibit high degree of spatial variability in their properties in multiple length scales. It has been established that such variability has a strong impact in determining fluid flow patterns in subsurface formations. Direct measurements of reservoir properties are only available at a small number of locations. Without an adequate description of the formation properties, such as hydraulic conductivity, porosity, and poromechanical parameters, the predictability of computational models is limited and tends to deteriorate over time. In this sense, history matching and uncertainty quantification are important research topics that aim at reducing the uncertainty in reservoir performance forecasting. Dynamic flow data are direct measures of reservoir responses and can introduce important information about subsurface processes. However, due to the non-linearity of the relations between flow data and reservoir properties, the integration of dynamic flow data directly in computational models by conventional geostatistics techniques is usually difficult. The problem of matching dynamic data can be formalized, as a inverse problem, in terms of Bayesian analysis and Markov chain Monte Carlo (McMC) methods. The Bayesian framework allows quantifying the added value of information from several sources, while McMC methods all


Despite all the real and apparent differences between Europe 150 years ago and today's capitalist world, two fundamental issues remain equally unresolved: the lack of fully-fledged and widespread socialist consciousness, and the absence of large-scale organization directed at fostering such consciousness. If Marx and Engels saw in the rise of class conflict the birth of such organisation, the moves towards some resurgence of class struggle may offer the opportunity for its rebirth - providing, of course, the socialist left can overcome its own isolation from the reality of this struggle. In many ways, we are faced with the same problems and limitations within the socialist movement itself as were the authors of the Manifesto.


The chapter proposes a discourse analysis of the Armenian Genocide Orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum (Lebanon) through the lens of minority studies. The museum embraces the identity of Lebanese-Armenians and primarily highlights the legacy of the genocide orphans. The text explores how the identity of the Armenian minority is negotiated within the Lebanese context by examining some of the region's historical and socio-political components. The museum discourse is then analysed by recounting the permanent exhibition's storyline and its scenography symbolism. Finally, the paper evaluates the museum's success in creating dialogue spaces by studying its audience. It becomes evident, throughout the investigation, that the museum not only raises awareness on the significance of the Armenian Genocide, but also strives to make its audience reflect upon questions of identities, and leaves the space open for interpretive, moral and spiritual considerations and enquiries raised by historical war crimes and differences within a society.


This article critiques Jack Halberstam's concept of queer failure through a feminist cripistemological lens. Challenging Halberstam's interpretation of Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher (Jelinek 1988) as a symbol of postcolonial angst rather than a figure of psychosocial disability, the article establishes a critical coalition between crip feminist theory and queer‐of‐color theory to promote a materialist politics and literal‐minded reading practice designed to recognize minority subjectivities (both fictional and in "real life") rather than exploiting them for their metaphorical resonance. In asserting that Erika Kohut is better understood as a woman with borderline personality disorder (BPD), and in proposing borderline personality disorder as a critical optic through which to read both The Piano Teacher and The Queer Art of Failure (Halberstam 2011), the article challenges the usual cultural undermining of epistemic authority that comes with the BPD diagnosis. It asserts instead that BPD might be a location of more, rather than less, critical acumen about the negative affects that accompany queer (and crip) failures, and reflect on what we might call a borderline turn in queer theory. On a broader level, the article joins an emergent conversation in crip theory about the reluctance of queer theory to address disability in meaningful and substantive ways.


Systemic data processing is a necessity that is immediately implemented in all service lines both government, education and trade. Scholarship data processing at SMK Negeri 1 Talangpadang still uses a manual system in the form of manually storing data in the Ecxel office application. The problem that often arises is the scattered distribution of scholarship receipt files each year. Scholarship selection criteria consist of Academic Achievement, NonAcademic Achievement, Personality, Mileage, Report card grades, Organizational, Parental dependents, Parents' income, and Parental status. The method used in this deccision making system is the Analytical Hierarchy Process method. In the process of developing an application using a structured model by planning it uses a use case diagram. The application system was developed by using the HTML programming language and MySQL Data Base then tested using the localhost system with the Xammp application.


black beauty queens or queer collectives. Rather than viewing vernacular photographs as static, anonymous objets d'art that celebrate the vision of their collectors, the scholars in this volume ask what the photographs do in their particular conditions of production and circulation. It asks its scholars to consider their ethical responsibilities to the images, and the extent to which their research may contribute to inequality. As Wexler reflects, in relation to a recent legal case brought against Harvard by a descendant of a slave sitter in a daguerreotype in the university's collection, the incarcerated and enslaved, by definition, could not give consent to be depicted. Scholars and collectors who engage with these images must reflect on their complicity as these images become deracinated as 'vernacular photographs' in their afterlives.


Biotelemetry increases the efficiency of the healthcare professionals. This study proposes the development of a wireless-communication-enabled low-cost, automated drip rate monitoring system, used for intravenous (IV) therapy. The proposed system monitors the falling fluid drops inside the drip chamber, and subsequently calculates and displays the drip rate on a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. It is capable of wirelessly notifying the central monitoring station when the drip rate is outside the set range. The system was designed using a light emitting diode (LED), a light-dependent resistor (LDR), a microcontroller and an Xbee wireless module. The proposed device is simple, user-friendly and can reduce the workload of the healthcare givers by reducing their regular visit to the patient site.


The objective of this research is to suggest anoise prediction method for a centrifugal compressor. It is focused on the Blade Passing Frequency component which is regarded as the main part of the rotating impeller noise. Navier-Stokes solver is used to simulate the flow-field of the centrifugal compressor, and the time-dependent pressure data are calculated to perform the near-field noise prediction by using Ffowcs Williams - Hawkings formulation. Indirect Boundary Element Method is applied to consider the noise propagation effect. Pressure fluctuations of the inlet and the outlet in the centrifugal compressor impeller are presented and the sound pressure level prediction results are compared with the experimental data.


The assembly of many bacterial cell surface polysaccharides requires the transbilayer movement of polyisoprenoid-linked saccharide intermediates across the cytoplasmic membrane. It is generally believed that transverse diffusion of glycolipid intermediates is mediated by integral membrane proteins called translocases or "flippases." The bacterial genes proposed to encode these translocases have been collectively designated wzx genes. The wzxEgene of Escherichia coli K-12 has been implicated in the transbilayer movement of Fuc4NAc-ManNAcA-GlcNAc-P-P-undecaprenol (lipid III), the donor of the trisaccharide repeat unit in the biosynthesis of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA). Previous studies (Feldman, M. F., Marolda, C. L., Monteiro, M. A., Perry, M. B., Parodi, A. J., and Valvano, M. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 35129–35138) provided indirect evidence that thewzx 016 gene product of E. coli K-12 encoded a translocase capable of mediating the transbilayer movement ofN-acetylglucosaminylpyrophosphorylundecaprenol (GlcNAc-P-P-Und), an early intermediate in the synthesis of ECA and many lipopolysaccharide O antigens. Therefore, genetic and biochemical studies were conducted to determine if the putative WzxO16translocase was capable of mediating the transport ofN-acetylglucosaminylpyrophosphorylnerol (GlcNAc-P-P-Ner), a water-soluble analogue of GlcNAc-P-P-Und. [3H]GlcNAc-P-P-Ner was transported into sealed, everted cytoplasmic membrane vesicles of E. coli K-12 as well as a deletion mutant lacking both the wzx 016 andwzxC genes. In contrast, [3H]GlcNAc-P-P-Ner was not transported into membrane vesicles prepared from awzxE-null mutant, and metabolic radiolabeling experiments revealed the accumulation of lipid III in this mutant. The WzxE transport system exhibited substrate specificity by recognizing both a pyrophosphoryl-linked saccharide and an unsaturated α-isoprene unit in the carrier lipid. These results support the conclusion that thewzxE gene encodes a membrane protein involved in the transbilayer movement of lipid III in E. coli.


FIELD: foundry. SUBSTANCE: vacuum forming equipment has model plate, hollow model with high protruding parts and deep pocket, whose cavity is communicated with atmosphere. Vent openings in flask and model are communicated with vacuum system. Model cavity is connected with atmosphere and model plate is connected with compressed air source and with atmosphere. Device for pressing film to model is formed as box communicated with compressed air pipelines and with atmosphere and engaging by its flare portion with outlines of model plate. Sluice chamber disposed in upper part of box is adapted for feeding refractory filler into flask and is communicated with compressed air pipelines and atmosphere. Vacuum forming equipment allows high-quality lining of models with high protruding parts and deep pockets to be provided. EFFECT: increased efficiency and wider operational capabilities including provision for usage of films easy of access and having low plasticity, for example films from polyethylene, to obtain castings of complex shape having different sizes. 2 cl, 13 dwg


The invention discloses an intelligent visual identification system capable of preventing wrong operation. All operating rooms and a central control room of a substation five-prevention system are internally and respectively provided with a wireless router so as to form a wireless local area network; room doors and indoor partitioning doors of all the operating rooms and the central control room are provided with electromagnetic type locking tools; an operator holds an intelligent terminal by hand to enter the operating rooms and acquire video images, transmits the acquired video images to a background server hardware system in the central control system and sends an unlocking/locking command to the electromagnetic locking tools after the acquired video images are analyzed by the background server hardware system so as to open/close the indoor partitioning doors. The intelligent visual identification system further increases the safety and the reliability of site operation of workers on the basis of the functions provided by the existing microcomputer five-prevention system, only needs to install the locking tools on site, equip the intelligent terminal for the workers, erect the wireless communication local area network and install a background server without need of carrying out modification on the existing substation microcomputer five-prevention system, is low in price and can be promoted and applied in the newly-added and existing substations.


This final report describes the results of a research program we carried out over a five-year (3/1999-9/2004) period with funding from a Department of Energy geothermal FDP grant (DE-FG07-99ID13745) and from other agencies. The goal of research projects in this program were to develop modeling technologies that can increase the understanding of geothermal reservoir chemistry and chemistry-related energy production processes. The ability of computer models to handle many chemical variables and complex interactions makes them an essential tool for building a fundamental understanding of a wide variety of complex geothermal resource and production chemistry. With careful choice of methodology and parameterization, research objectives were to show that chemical models can correctly simulate behavior for the ranges of fluid compositions, formation minerals, temperature and pressure associated with present and near future geothermal systems as well as for the very high PT chemistry of deep resources that is intractable with traditional experimental methods. Our research results successfully met these objectives. We demonstrated that advances in physical chemistry theory can be used to accurately describe the thermodynamics of solid-liquid-gas systems via their free energies for wide ranges of composition (X), temperature and pressure. Eight articles on this work were published in peer-reviewed journalsmore » and in conference proceedings. Four are in preparation. Our work has been presented at many workshops and conferences. We also considerably improved our interactive web site (geotherm.ucsd.edu), which was in preliminary form prior to the grant. This site, which includes several model codes treating different XPT conditions, is an effective means to transfer our technologies and is used by the geothermal community and other researchers worldwide. Our models have wide application to many energy related and other important problems (e.g., scaling prediction in petroleum production systems, stripping towers for mineral production processes, nuclear waste storage, CO2 sequestration strategies, global warming). Although funding decreases cut short completion of several research activities, we made significant progress on these abbreviated projects.« less


This paper examines the relationship between implied volatility indices and stock price indices in the case of five European market : Euro zone, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for the period from January 2010 to March 2015. To achieve that, two empirical models were estimated. Using GARCH modelling, our results show clearly that implied volatility indices contain relevant information concerning future stock market volatility, while this information is still insufficient in predicting the latter.? A multiple linear regression procedure confirmed the existence of a strong negative and asymmetrical relationship between the implied volatility indices and stock market returns for three studied markets.


Steam generator with a steam boiler (5), a level sensor (6) for measuring a water level in the boiler (5), a water supply, for filling the boiler (5) with water, and control means (12) for controlling the water supply in dependence the signal of the level sensor (6), wherein the control means further comprises a timer (13) for controlling the water supply, characterized in that the timing element (13) is designed so that a filling operation ends at the latest after a predetermined first time period.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of service quality and innovation on visitor satisfaction and loyalty in Bogor City Public Service Mall. Another thing that also needs to be answered from this study is whether there is an effect of customer satisfaction on loyalty in using the services of the Bogor City Public Service Mall. This study used primary data that were collected via interviews and questionnaires distribution to 81 MPP Kota Bogor visitors who were selected by purposive sampling method. The analysis used in this research is modeling analysis using Structural Equation Modeling with the Partial Least Square (PLS) method. The results of this study indicate that service quality has a significant effect on visitor satisfaction and loyalty. Another result is that innovation has a significant effect on visitor satisfaction, but has no significant effect on visitor loyalty. This study also shows that visitor satisfaction has a significant effect on visitor loyalty. Further research is needed with a broader model to explain the diversity of satisfaction and loyalty variables. It is also necessary to conduct a study comparing the services in the Bogor City MPP with the services in the original institution in terms of the level of satisfaction and loyalty of the community.


Overall, this book presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art development of different nanoscale intelligent materials for advanced applications. Apart from fundamental ...


The cause resulting in appearing narrow size of the head and end of 1 450mm hot-rolled strip was analyzed,and the countermeasures to control the width tolerance within the range of ±3mm were introduced.


An evaluation of library collection is a library collection
activity both from collection availability view and collection view. In
this research, evaluation of library collection is defined as a proccess
to describe and measure the collection availability in a library with
certain criteria, in order to be analized and conclused about how for
collection availability of 2013 syllabus of Islamic education in MTsN
Giriloyo.
Evaluation method this research is on its collection. The goal of
this research is knowing the collection availability of the books of
Islamic education, based on 2013 curriculum. This is cuantitative
descriptive research. There are some methods to get the data such as
documentation, observation and interview. The instrument wich used
in this research is check list arraged based on syllabus of Islamic
education in lesson year 2015/2016 based on 2013 curriculum.
The result of this study shown that the collection availability of
the Islamic education on lesson year 2015/2016 in the library of MTs
Negeri Giriloyo based on 2013 curriculum is good with prosentase
84,75%.


The important topics in the executive supervision at universities and colleges are the development of education,the style of the party and the university,and the accomplishment of every task.The reflections in the paper cover the clarification of the features of governing,the development of the mechanism,and the grasp of the key problem for the strengthening of the executive supervision at universities and colleges.


This paper presents some innovations in the standard algorithms for image segmentation into regions and its proper colorization in the second phase. The basic idea is to extract the partial image areas and division of the regions a special method for easier and precise colorization. The method is based on the simultaneous use of two original Tesla's images, made in time distance of several minutes. In this way we will use lighted parts of the first image for separation regions of the second image. This technique or segmentation locates the objects consisting of pixels which process the common attributes. It means that the pixels with almost the same intensity of values are grouped together or these are the pixels with the colour of the same code. After defining of the object or regions the process of colorization is done based on information coming from both images.


The range of droplet deposit is influenced by wind speed of air blast sprayer. Taking the D400 air blast sprayer as the experiment platform, the spraying experiment was carried out by using concentration of 1g/L solution being of mixed colorant Rhodamine-B with water instead of pesticide. Spray test sampling region was selected to be a sector in front of the cylinder, the centre angle and the radius were 38° and 18.5m respectively. 90 sampling points were set in the region. At each sampling point, a glass slide (7.5cm × 2.5cm) was placed to collected droplets. When spraying, the power supply frequency of fan was regulated from 50Hz, 49.5Hz down to 44.5Hz, in a step of -1Hz. Each spray testing period was 30s. The droplet depositing on sampling points was calculated using the fluorescence spectrophotometer. When spraying tests were conducted under variable frequencies of 49.5Hz to 44.5Hz, test results indicated: (1) When spraying directly, an average of 97.4% of the droplets deposited between two parallel lines shift away from the wind cylinder axes was ±2m. (2) When wind speed was less than 0.3m/s, the influence of the outside wind on the droplet deposition in front of the spout within 8m was quite small, but outside wind made the droplets in the area scather away from the spout (>8m) drifting along the direction of the outside wind. (3) As the fan power supply frequency was reduce, the droplet transmission distance of air blast sprayer was shortened.


An analytical framework on One Door Service in this article derived from new public management that takes a coordinated, holistic approach to public service delivery. These service delivery approaches have become a famous and adaptable mode of administrative decentralization of government services in Laos, and gives strategic focus on governance and public administration reform for better service delivery. This article reviews these rationales in the conceptual introduction of One Door Service initiatives in Laos. The ODS has been justified mainly on managerial and governance grounds and viewed by government as a partial successful governance and public administration reform of early stage. The change of it is placed in public service improvement, using the collaborative customer interface model through the four sets of critical assessment challenge on governance, performance management, workforce and information sharing. The analysis assesses the performance by looking at the empirical results and draws on experiences on how One Door Service has been operating and providing services to citizens at the ground. With this knowledge of linkages with the concept of public service improvement in Laos, we can pose the question of whether the One Door Service project has achieved the aims of governance and public administration reform and benefited the majority of citizens. The overall image presented a positive and negative- a positive image is an innovative mode of service delivery which has expanded across the country in terms of establishing, but a negative image is an inadequate step for administrative reform during the design and implementation.


Let X be a complex Banach space and Y be an invariant subspace of a bounded linear operator T in X. Then it is easy to prove that ( 1 ) a ( T) C r7(r|y)Ufj(r/r"),(2) o{T\Y) Co(T)Uo{T/Y), and (3) o(T/Y)Co{T)U 0 such that M\\x\\ < \\(XI - T)x\\ for all x e D(T). The spectrum of T is defined by o(T) = C \ p(T) as usual. Note that a(T) = a(T) for the closure T of a closable operator T. We refer to (4) for details. The set of all bounded (resp. closed) linear operators on X is denoted by B(X) (resp. C(X)).


Optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) has attracted great interest during the last two decades. Due to its excellent performance, OEO can find wide applications in many fields. However, general OEO cavities are sensitive to thermal fluctuation; this character could greatly deteriorate the long-term frequency stability of OEO. To solve this problem, thermal stabilization, injection-locking and phase-locked loop (PLL) have been widely employed. Nevertheless, increased bulk, deteriorated phase-noise performance, small operating temperature range, or limited bandwidth brings new problems for tunable OEOs. In this paper, two wide-range broadband frequency-drift compensating methods have been proposed to solve those problems. In the first method, we extracted the time delay fluctuation of OEO's optical loop via a low frequency calibration signal, and offset the fiber's random delay fluctuation dynamically with a tunable laser. In the second method, we demonstrated a novel broadband and wide-range feedback tuning scheme for PLL stabilization of tunable OEOs based on a dual parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator and optical bandpass filter. The wide range and broadband performance of the proposed methods were demonstrated theoretically and experimentally, which ensured OEO's wide operating temperature range and tunability for further applications. As a result, stabilization for OEO was achieved at different oscillating frequencies and the long-term stability was greatly improved without any thermal control. The measured overlapping Allan deviation of stabilized OEO was two orders of magnitude better than the free-running OEO in the first method, and four orders of magnitude better than that in the second one. Meanwhile, phase noise performance remained the same at high-offset frequencies.


The causes of industrial accidents are most often based on the human factor. Industrial companies today strive for zero injuries, so they try to improve the quality of employee training. To achieve these goals, many of them implement solutions based on immersive technologies in the production process. For example, simulators for training employees to work with equipment based on virtual reality (VR) or three-dimensional graphics (3-dimensional, 3D). Such technologies replace the practice of working on real equipment and allow you to develop skills more deeply in a safe environment. In addition, with the help of virtual reality, you can simulate any emergency situations that are unacceptable to create on real objects. All this subsequently helps to reduce the negative impact of the human factor in production, which means that it reduces the likelihood of injuries, accidents or even deaths at enterprises.


The energy efficiency of a renewable energy system is inextricably linked to the energy storage technologies used in conjunction with it. The most extensively utilized energy storage technology for all purposes is electrochemical storage batteries, which have grown more popular over time because of their extended life, high working voltage, and low self-discharge rate. However, these batteries cannot withstand the very low temperatures encountered in cold regions, even with these very promising technical characteristics. The cold northern temperatures affect the batteries' electromotive force and thus decrease their storage capacity. In addition, they affect the conductivity of the electrolyte and the kinetics of electrochemical reactions, thus influencing the capacity and speed of electrons in the electrolyte. In this article, which is intended as a literature review, we first describe the technical characteristics of charge–discharge rate of different electrochemical storage techniques and their variations with temperature. Then, new approaches used to adapt these electrochemical storage techniques to cold climates are presented. We also conduct a comparative study between the different electrochemical storage techniques regarding their performance in the harsh climatic conditions of the Canadian North.


Sir, The opinion paper by Grunebaum and Chervenak w2x takes one back to a different age: an age when thundering editorials and cutting opinion pieces in scientific journals that were condemning articles printed in the very same issue were a regular feature that was seen as adding some life to the dreary monotone of research. And also a time when waterbirth was seen as the epitome of irresponsible and hazardous practice in obstetrics, situated on the lunatic fringe among old-style hippies and shamanistic healer-midwives who were delivering asphyxiated babies in wooden tubs in remote hillside communes. Until the mid 1990s the papers presented by the Frauenfeld group at conferences in Germany, Switzerland and Austria elicited similar venom as the present paper w1x has apparently provoked on the other side of the Atlantic. The Frauenfeld physicians and midwives would have been readily forgiven for practicing obscure ''alternative'' obstetrics somewhere among the cows in their native Thurgau – that poorest and most unfashionable canton on the northern edge of Switzerland. It is easy to shrug off a few dozen eccentric women who insist on delivering their personal addition to the gene pool in water. What really raised the voices and the blood pressures of the learned professors at these meetings from Hannover to Vienna was the Frauenfeld group's attempt to take waterbirth mainstream by taking it out of the holistic-herbal twilight and into the hospital delivery suites – an attempt at which they were undoubtedly successful. From the beginning waterbirths in Frauenfeld were submitted to the stringent conditions of a continuous


. Two classes of plate equations with past history and strong time-dependent delay in the internal feedback are considered. Our results contain the global well-posedness and exponential stability of the two systems. We prove the global well-posedness of a system with rotational inertia without any restrictions on µ 1 , µ 2 , and the system without rotational inertia under the assumption | µ 2 | ≤ µ 1 . For the system with rotational inertia, we establish exponential stability to the plate equation with the memory term only to control the delay term if the amplitude of the time delay term is small, and the stability result also holds for the plate equation with strong anti-damping. For the system without rotational inertia, we obtain the exponential stability under the assumption | µ 2 | < √ 1 − dµ 1 .


This research aims to observe the effect of financial literacy on fintech service usage with the support of fintech knowledge. Data collecting through a questionnaire with 210 students from BINUS Business School, Bina Nusantara University. The questionnaire was made using a Likert scale. The collected data is then processed using the structural equation modelling method. Indicators measure the financial literacy variable: understanding interest rates, understanding inflation, financial skills, financial attitude, management of finances, and risk and return in investing. The fintech knowledge variable is measured by indicators, namely knowledge about fintech practices, knowledge about fintech terms, knowledge from college, familiarity in fintech, and awareness of fintech. The fintech services usage variable is measured by indicators of access features, service reliability, user's needs, user friendly application, trust, and intention. The study results show that financial literacy has significant and positive influence on fintech knowledge. Financial literacy has significant and positive influence on fintech services usage with the support of fintech knowledge.


The effect of phosphate buffer on the kinetic behavior of jack bean urease covalently immobilized on chitosan membrane was studied in the pH range 5.76-8.19, and compared with that of the free enzyme in an attempt to elucidate the effects of heterogeneity of the system on its kinetics. The chemical inhibition by the buffer, occurring between pH 5.76 and 7.50, was found to consist of two antagonistic effects: a decrease in the intrinsic enzyme activity and a reduction in the degree of environment-related inhibition. The apparent kinetic constants of the immobilized urease: v x max., K x M and K i,buffer exhibited both pH- and buffer concentration-dependence, anomalous as compared to the free enzyme: the optimum pH and the pK i,buffer values were displaced toward more acidic pH values, and the pK x M values were leveled off. The anomalies were gradually suppressed by increasing the buffer concentration. The anomalous behavior of chitosan membrane-immobilized urease was accounted for by a combined effect of: a) the increase in local pH on the membrane produced by both the enzymatic reaction and the electric charge of the support, and b) diffusional limitations imposed on substrate and product in the external solution.


We describe an instrumentation system which provides the capability to monitor a large number of Bragg gratings using a common source and scanning narrowband filter. The system described has the capability to monitor 12 FBG sensors along each of 5 fibers for a total of 60 sensor elements.


Can higher education institutions continue using planning and self-evaluation processes that are decades old without any reform? Several recent monographs urge institutions to embrace continuous improvement processes that engage systematic planning and department self-evaluation across whole campuses, but they do not show institutions how to do it. This article describes an improvement system shared by two very highresearch universities that includes features such as interactive organizational learning environments, and it highlights the aspects of the system that help deal with some organizational problems such as administrative turnover, disconnected planning efforts, and limited sharing of information.


The BSmooth algorithm is described in detail in [1]. It was applied to human cancer data in [2] and we have also used it to analyze data from Rhesus Macaque [3]. Specifically, the algorithm uses smoothing to get reliable semi-local methylation estimates from low-coverage bisulfite sequencing. After smoothing it uses biological replicates to estimate biological variation and identify differentially methylated regions (DMRs). The smoothing portion could be used even on a single sample, but we believe that variation between individuals is an important aspect of DNA methylation and needs to be accounted for, see also [4] for a relevant discussion.


Measles is an infectious disease and a major health concern worldwide. Among individuals with a higher risk of exposure to measles, there are the Health Care Workers (HCWs), who may transmit the virus to other people. According to the Italian National Plan for Immunization and Prevention, all HCWs should have presumptive evidence of immunity to measles (documented two doses of MMR vaccination) or serological evidence of protective antibodies.

 The study aims to evaluate the immunological status, the vaccine coverage, and the protective IgG antibody titre for measles in medical students of the teaching hospital PoliclinicoTor Vergata (PTV).

 IgG measles antibodies titre was evaluated in a sample of 461 medical students undergoing annual health surveillance visits from January 1st to May 31th, 2020.

 73.7% of medical students showed protective measles IgG antibody levels. The immunization rate was higher among subjects aged less than 25 years with respect to students aged over 25 years (77.4% vs. 66.4%; P <0,001). Furthermore, average antibody titre showed a statistically significant association with the age group (124,2 AU/ml for the age group 18-25 and 133,2 AU/ml among subjects aged 25 or more; P<0.001).

 Our study shows a non-protective measles IgG antibody titre, especially among the older students. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the serological levels, to vaccinate those subjects whose antibody level is not adequate, and promote the vaccination even in the general population.


Abstract Exploration is the process of a wellbore being drilled below the Earth's surface, and produced through a production tubing to the wellhead. In drilling modeling, optimization and statistical analysis are important. Optimizing drilling process is a technical strategy to drill wells more productively. This paper aims at least squares modeling and statistical analysis of the depth of cut of reservoir rock from real-time drilling parameters. Real-time drilling data was obtained from drilling process of the reservoir rock in North Brae Sea (offshore) with the coordinate "58.70 N 1.30 E". Within the data set, "Revolution Per Minute (RPM)" (rev/min), "Rate of penetration (ROP)" (ft/min), are the independent variables, and the "depth of cut", the response variable. Maximum depth of cut is found to be 1.0533 and achieved at Revolution Per Minute (RPM) and Rate of penetration (ROP) values of 81.4626 and 85.8096, respectively. Least squares method was assessed for fitting the data set and found to provide a decent fit to the drilling data. Statistical analysis reveals that the model is highly significant with R squared value, adjusted R squared value and Predicted R squared values value of 100.00%, 100.00% and 99.99%, respectively. Hence, the linear model developed could be used for predicting the depth of cut of the reservoir rock.


Synchronization is important in order to correctly recover information for multi-antenna orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. In this paper a novel transmitting diversity scheme named as maximal channel power (MaxCP) is proposed. Specifically the channel state information (CSI) is feedback to transmitter firstly and then only one of transmit antennas with the highest channel power is selected. Thus synchronization sequence is only transmitted at the selected antenna. By simulation, it is found that the proposed MaxCP scheme has the better performance than conventional maximal ratio combining (MRC) scheme, in both timing and frequency synchronization for OFDM systems.


The sense of the markets as arenas where economic agents are engaged in struggles for recognition has not yet been appropriately incorporated in the agri-food studies, which make it difficult to understand some process of distinction and qualification. By proposing a dialogue between Theory of Recognition and Economic Sociology, this paper analyzes the moral disputes that take place in the construction of food qualities. The focus turns to the labels that identify products from family farmers, indigenous and quilombolas communities. In response to a history of disrespect and injustice, these farmers are beginning to use markets for their struggles for recognition, claiming values that distinguish their social identities. The institutionalization of these labels, under government protagonism, reveals a kind of evaluative conflict opposing a particularistic logic that defends the labels only in products closely associated with the identities of these social groups, and a generalistic logic that argues for a wide dissemination strategy, by associating the labels with a large range of agro-industrial companies and cooperatives products.


This chapter describes application of the Manning equation to measure peak discharge in open channels. Field and office procedures limited to this method are described. Selection of reaches and cross sections is detailed, discharge equations are given, and a complete facsimile example of computation of a slope-area measurement is also given.


The extract from the aboveground parts of Chelidonium majus reduced the mycelial growth of Botrytis cinerea on Czapek agar medium. In minimum fungicidal concentration (60 μl/ml), the extract induced irreversible ultrastructural changes in B. cinerea conidia.


Selected issues related to the destruction of a head of a machine torch used in the CNC plasma cutters are discussed in the article. The specifics of plasma cutting as well as a problem of a continuous control of the process are presented. An attention was also paid to the behavior of the material being cut during the heat input, which may cause, among others, a release of stresses remaining in the material after rolling. What is more, the article illustrates how important the practical training of operators and programmers is, not only in the field of programming and cutting details, but also in the case of loading and downloading of cut-out elements.


In 1978, Lefty Rosenthal—a former Chicago bookmaker—became Director of Entertainment at the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Financed by Teamsters' pension money, the Stardust was "owned" by Allen Glick. Despite Glick's ostensible ownership, the Stardust was part of the gambling operations of La Cosa Nostra. Rosenthal was the mob's "inside man" at the Stardust, but Rosenthal is Jewish and, thus, «could never be a member of the organization [La Cosa Nostra]» and did not need to abide by the protocol of La Cosa Nostra (Pileggi, 1995: 43). Roemer, in his book about Vegas, says, «Lefty had traveled a road paved with controversy and dispute. I guess you could say Lefty was representative of Las Vegas» (1994: 111, our emphasis). Martin Scorsese immortalized Rosenthal, a k a Ace, by filming his story. The film, Casino, was billed as the story of "how the mob lost its control of the neon moneymaking machine it created" and as a love story: a "romantic love triangle" among Rosenthal, Rosenthal's friend (the mobster Tony Spilotro), and Rosenthal's wife. What makes the Rosenthal story interesting and relevant to organizational theory? We intend to analyze whether Lefty is "representative" of Las Vegas, and in doing so, we examine the issue of representation. Specifically, we analyze the story, as told by Roemer (1994) and Pileggi (1995), from a historical point of view and, then, from a Jungian archetypal point of view. However, we would In 1978, Lefty Rosenthal—a former Chicago bookmaker—became Director of Entertainment at the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Roemer (1994: 111), in his book about Vegas, says, «Lefty had traveled a road paved with controversy and dispute. I guess you could say Lefty was representative of Las Vegas». What makes the Rosenthal story interesting and relevant to organizational theory? We intend to analyze whether Lefty is "representative" of Las Vegas, and in doing so, we examine the issue of representation. Specifically, we analyze the story, as told by Roemer (1994) and Pileggi (1995), from a historical point of view and, then, from a Jungian archetypal point of view. However, we would like to be somewhat post-Jungian, and following the Anti-Oedipus of Deleuze and Guattari (1977), we will put forward a revised Jungian account for the material genealogy of Las Vegas. We conclude the paper by commenting upon the "demise of representation" (Knights, 1997) and its implications for organizational theory.


Transl Cancer Res 2020;9(4):2164-2167 | http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2020.02.42 Although ovarian cancer accounts for a small percentage of the total malignancies that affect women, ovarian cancer remains the most lethal gynecological malignancy, leading to over 14,000 deaths in the last year (1). Nonspecific symptoms such as lower abdominal pain, early satiety, urinary frequency, constipation, and abdominal distension characterize the insidious onset of this disease (2), In fact, 4 out of 5 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer are diagnosed only after the cancer has already reached its advanced stages, having spread throughout the abdomen or into the retroperitoneal space (1,3). Due to this, less than one-third of patients with ovarian cancer discovered in the advanced stages (stage 3 or 4) survive longer than 5 years after diagnosis (3). For years, the standard of care for ovarian cancer has been cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy. Up to 80% of women with ovarian cancer will initially respond to platinum-based chemotherapy, but most women will ultimately relapse and develop drug resistance to these platinum-based agents (4). A rise in serum CA-125, new tumor growth on imaging, or worsening physical exam findings generally herald the recurrence of ovarian cancer (4). If the recurrence occurs in fewer than 6 months from the completion of the primary platinum-based therapy, patients are described as having platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer (5). Reinitiation of platinum-based chemotherapeutic monotherapy in ovarian cancer that has recurred in less than 6 months from the completion of the first treatment has a probability of <10% for a clinically significant treatment response (2). Due to the dismal response expected from multiple cycles of platinum-based chemotherapeutics, many secondline therapies have been tested to evaluate for efficacy, tolerability, and cost effectiveness. The most active secondline agents used in patients with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer include paclitaxel, topotecan, gemcitabine, and pegylated l iposomal doxorubicin (PLD) (6) . Response rates for second-line cytotoxic monotherapy have ranged from 10–35%, with a high likelihood of recurrence within in months after treatment initiation (2). Using multiple cytotoxic agents for platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer are typically avoided as cumulative toxicity increases without a demonstrable increase in efficacy (6). Given these findings, many trials in the last few years have explored different drug targets for patients with platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer. One such target is the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) targeted by the humanized recombinant monoclonal antibody bevacizumab (BEV). BEV reduces the formation of new blood vessels, including their number, density, diameter, and permeability in cancer cells (7). Furthermore, due to its unique mechanism of action, it behaves in a synergistic way when combined with conventional chemotherapeutics, and it carries with it a different set of toxicities (7). To this day, there have been five large-scale phase III Editorial Commentary


Silicon fertilizer was first research and extensively used in Japan.Following Japan,S. Korea,Thailand,Philippine,Taiwan region,most Europe agricultural developed countries and U.S.A.,etc.also carried out plenty of researches for silicon and use silicon by a large scale.silicon fertilizer have brought high benefit for their agriculture,the silicon research and application in our country start late comparatively,and concentration in the south areas of Changjiang with northeast and the North China region is blank basically.Silicon fertilizer efficiency test on maize had been down in Baotou city soil fertilizer work station,the fertilizer efficiency of silicon verified,result in- dicate that application of Silicon fertilizer35~50kg as base fertilizer can increase yield 6.7%~ 19.1% and top application 40kg per mu can increase yield 17.4%~21.4%.Thus result offer sci- entific basis for silicon fertilizer application on the maize


Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs), have the aim of reducing poverty and creating assets to rural dwellers who have limited access to formal finance due to high collateral requirements. However, since the implementation of VSLAs in the Garu and Tempane districts for over a decade, there is inadequate evidence as to the impact of VSLAs on the lives of the participants. Not only that, there is the need to find out the current and anticipated challenges faced by the participants in the program. This study analyzed the effect of VSLAs on the income of households in Garu and Tempane districts. Data was collected from 100 respondents, 50 direct beneficiaries and 50 non beneficiaries from 3 and 2 communities in Garu and Tempane districts respectively. A Heckman treatment effect model was used to analyze the determinants of participation and the effect of participation on income. The results showed that participants of the VSLA program had an annual income of about GH₵ 2016.60 more than the non-participants. Decision to join VSLAs is mainly influenced by age, the years a respondent spends in the Original Research Article Sienso et al.; AJAEES, 39(1): 123-135, 2021; Article no.AJAEES.64767 124 community, the number of active labor force in a household and whether a respondent is a native or migrant. However, based on the challenges identified, it is recommended that the government and other institutions interested in rural development should institute appropriate policies that will help enhance participation in the program. Also, the associations should enforce tougher sanctions on members who absent themselves from meetings without prior notice.


Transgenerational processes contribute to organizing and disorganizing attachment. The past (in all its forms and potentialities) lives on in the present, influencing the affective field of the parent–child intersubjective matrix. In a child's construction of self, he or she may run up against the confounding presence of ghosts: the dissociated, and thereby unreflected upon past of their parents. This implicitly felt, yet explicitly unknown transmission interferes in the processing of emergent experience and impedes the child's development. Attachment theory, informed by psychoanalysis, and nonlinear dynamic systems theory, is the main theoretical underpinning of this paper's examination of the mechanisms involved in the transfer of dissociated dynamics from parent to child. The child's symptoms grow out of an incoherent affective field that defies representational mapping into a flexible usable theory of mind. Through play a child therapist finds openings to enter the attachment system, reflecting on how...


Within the framework of the concept of deep abiogenic origin of oil and gas systems, a source of associated petroleum gas has been determined. The composition of the gas, its genetic relationship with the liquid components of oil,as well as dependence between amount of associated petroleum gas and viscosity, heaviness, sulfur content of oils and their location in depths have been revealed. The data on the composition of deep abiogenic fluids and the presence of methane as the main component in them allow ,one to conclude that methane, undergoing polymerization-polycondensation transformations under the influence of components-catalysts of deep fluidsin the process of their ascent, is the initial (starting) compound for the formation of liquid oil components, and methane of associated petroleum gas is the remainder of the original deep-seated methane, which is not involvedin the formation of liquid oil components. The data on the resources of associated petroleum gas in the Russian Federation are presented, and the directions of its application are outlined. Among the major application fieldsare the production of synthesis gas and the use of ethane, propane and butane contained in associated petroleum gas to produce ethylene as a feedstock for the production of petrochemical products. Data on gas flaring, measures for its prevention and rational use of associated petroleum gas are given.


Cassava substitution with wheat has been generally encouraged in the tropic economy but deficiency in protein of Cassava has made the needs for supplementing with high protein product. Thus, the effects of addition of mushroom to cassava to produced bread were investigated. Samples of the blends used in the study are 95:5, 90:10. 85:15, 80:20 and 75:25% cassavamushroom respectively while 100% wheat flour was used as control. The breads produced were evaluated for their proximate, minerals, functional and sensory properties. Results showed that the proximate composition of bread from the composite flour ranged from 10.11% to 11.34% for moisture, 8.84% to 10.03% protein, 3.06% to 3.75% fat, 2.03% to 2.56% ash, 2.23% to 2.73% fiber, and 70.03% to 74.55% carbohydrate. The mineral contents: Fe, Ca, K, P of the produced bread increased with increased in the incorporation level of mushroom flour. The functional properties varied from 93.42% to 101.23%, 0.61% to 0.74%, 10.88% to 15.35%, 9.34% to 10.32% and 2.14% to 3.74% for the water absorption capacity, bulk density, swelling power, oil absorption capacity and solubility respectively. There was no significant difference (p>0.05) in flavor and overall acceptability of the bread while significant differences (p>0.05) existed in texture, taste and appearance. Sensory evaluation of the cassava-mushroom bread indicated that the bread sample containing 75:25% CF/MP was the most acceptable. This result suggests that cassava flour could serve as a good substitute for wheat flour in the production of bread and addition of mushroom could improve its nutritional quality.


An eccentric fault level identification method of a turbo-generator based on comparing stator vibration pass-band intensity and some specific frequency component's amplitude was presented here.The factors affecting vibration of the stator and the rotor were firstly analyzed and compared to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.It was shown that the stator vibration is mostly affected by those faults influencing magnetic flux density,such as,air gap eccentricity.Then,the stator vibration characteristics under the normal condition and the eccentric faults were analyzed and compared,and a specific identification method was proposed.Finally,a test verification was performed on a SDF-9 fault simulating generator.It was shown that the eccentric fault level can be objectively identified with the presented method.The results provided a new thought and a reference for fault level recognition of a turbo-generator.


Simple home-based physical activities are effective in the prevention of frailty for elderly persons, but adherence to such programs is challenging. We suggest the ActiThings toolkit for the provision of environmental prompts in opportune moments. We describe the design of two functional prototypes to motivate for exercising in opportune moments and to tackle sedentary behavior. We outline the evaluation results and discuss implications for future work. 1


More than any other book of the Bible, Job lends itself to addressing the theological implications of the Holocaust. As the biblical Job called God to account for his own suffering, so God—and we—must be called to account for the victims of the Holocaust.


Data-intensive applications executing over a computational grid demand large data transfers. These are costly operations. Therefore, taking them into account is mandatory to achieve efficient scheduling of data-intensive applications on grids. Further, within an heterogeneous environment such as a grid, good schedules are typically attained by heuristics that use dynamic information about the grid and the applications (network and CPU loads, completion time of tasks, etc). However, these information are often difficult to be obtained accurately. Although there are schedulers that attain good performance without requiring that kind of information, they were not designed to take data transfer delays into account. This work presents Storage Affinity, a novel scheduling heuristic for Bag-of-Tasks and data-intensive applications running on grid environments. Storage Affinity exploits a data reuse pattern, common on many data-intensive applications, allowing it to take data transfer delays into account and reduce the makespan of the application. Further, it uses a replication strategy that yields efficient schedules without relying upon dynamic information that is difficult to obtain. Our results show that Storage Affinity may attain performance that is in average better than that of state-of-the-art knowledge-dependent schedulers, even in the unlikely case when the latter are fed with perfect information. This is achieved at the expense of consuming more CPU cycles (in average, more than not using replication).


In this paper, a new method is proposed to improve edge detection procedure using negative and gamma correction functions in image segmentation application. The negative image, keeps the edges of the image, and this will be a suitable way for edge detection. This method is based on multiplying the image and it's negative with performing the gamma correction. Gamma correction is carried out on the histogram distribution of the original image. Using the proposed method, we can detect the right edges and eliminate the false edges of an image. The results show that this method yields a significant improvement in the performance of the edge detection in comparison with traditional methods.


Four experiments investigated the effects of instructions, response-contingent shock, and the latency of the critical response on the GSR. Using a discrimination procedure, in which responding in the presence of one stimulus avoided shock while responding in the presence of another led to shock, it was found that relative to non-instructed, yoked-noncontingent conditions, instructed subjects responded at higher levels to the respond stimuli and at lower levels to inhibit stimuli. The effects of instructions appeared stronger than the effects of the shock contingencies. Only when the "contingent" GSR was of the "anticipatory" latency were differential effects obtained, however. No effects were observed in the absence of cognitive mediation.


An amorphous complex precursor with uniform Mn/Ni cation distribution is attempted for preparing a nano-structured layered Li-rich oxide (Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2)cathode material, using diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) as a chelating agent. The materials are characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and electrochemical tests. The crystal structure of Li-rich materials is found to be closely related to synthesis temperature. As-obtained nano materials sintered at 850 °C for 10 h show an average size of 200 nm with a single crystal phase and good crystallinity. At a current density of 20 mA·g−1, the specific discharge capacity reaches 221 mAh·g−1 for the first cycle and the capacity retention is 81% over 50 cycles. Even at a current density of 1000 mA·g−1, the capacity is as high as 118 mAh·g−1. The enhanced rate capability can be ascribed to the nano-sized morphology and good crystal structure.


Hepatitis B infection is a worldwide healthcare problem, especially in developing areas. The current study was to evaluate the alterations in different biochemical parameters including paraoxonase (PON), 5′-Nucleotidase (5NT), total bilirubin, direct bilirubin, indirect bilirubin, Prothrombin time (PT), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), Total serum protein (TSP), albumin (Alb), Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ɣ-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) in the serum samples of the viral hepatitis patients (n=100) compared with healthy controls(n=100). This study shown that there were significant increase (p<0.05) in the TSB, D. Bilirubin, In. Bilirubin, AST, ALT, PT, GGT, 5-NT, and ALP in viral hepatitis patients compared to their respective normal controls and there were significant decrease (p<0.05) in the serum (PON, SOD) activities, TSP and albumin concentration. It can be concluded that PON, 5-NT, SOD, ALT, AST, ALP and GGT may be specific method for making a diagnosis of viral hepatitis and also in distinguishing it with other kinds of hepatitis.


Lignin is crucial to the formation of fruit texture quality. Here, we aimed to explore the relationship between lignin metabolism and fruit texture by investigating the lignin content, total phenols and their related enzyme activities among three Chinese olive (Canarium album (Lour.) Raeusch) genotypes. Our results showed that lignin deposition moved from the exocarp to the flesh in Chinese olive fruit. The lignin, total phenols and enzyme activities were all different between the three Chinese olive cultivars at each developmental stage. The lignin content was positively correlated with the PAL, 4CL and POD activities. These results demonstrated that lignin metabolism was regulated through the related enzyme activities. Therefore, our findings may provide insight to facilitate further improvement in fruit texture quality in Chinese olive.


This paper analyses the remarkable growth experience of Indonesia since 1966. Over a thirty-year period, GDP per capita rose more than fourfold, despite unfavourable initial conditions, some weak institutions, and flawed microeconomic policies. The paper attributes this strong performance to a mutually reinforcing combination of political stability, competent macroeconomic policy, and some important instances of good fortune. It explores the origins of good policy and analyses three of the main external shocks. The paper also argues that rapid growth interacted with weak institutions in a way that contributed to the severity of the crisis of 1997-98.


This paper presents an effective method for preprocess after depicting the representation and description of the signature images.Experimental results show the effectiveness of the representation for signatures of the processing output,resulting in a better recognition rate.


This paper presents an expert-system for the design process of injection molding for improving the quality of the injection molding process, named "Polymeric Material Adviser". This computer program has been developed to search for the properly polymeric material, a database with many and more used polymeric materials, total flexibility of dates visualization, information about material properties and producer. PMA has many and different polymeric materials on hand from several different suppliers, so using this new technology we can choose easily which plastic is best suited for each application.


Thrombopoietin (TPO) is the primary regulator of megakaryocyte development, regulating proliferation and differentiation in addition to the number of circulating platelets through binding to and stimulation of the cell surface receptor MPL. Activating mutations in MPL constitutively stimulate downstream signalling pathways, leading to aberrant haematopoiesis and contribute to development of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Several studies have mapped the tyrosine residues within the cytoplasmic domain of MPL that mediate these cellular signals; however, secondary signalling pathways are incompletely understood. Additionally, the identification of the JAK2V617F mutation has profoundly increased our understanding of MPNs and although a role has been implicated in vitro, the in vivo role of MPL in JAK2V617F-positive MPNs has yet to be determined.

In this thesis, a novel signalling pathway for the negative regulation of TPO signalling was identified whereby MPLY591 is phosphorylated resulting in association of SYK which negatively regulates TPO-mediated ERK1/2 signalling. Additionally, genetic manipulation of an in vivo JAK2V617F-positive MPN mouse model led to the identification of MPL as an essential molecular component for development of JAK2V617F-postive MPNs. In the absence or reduction of MPL, the disease fails to develop. However, removal of the cytokine, TPO, was unable to prevent the disease from developing.

These findings provide novel insights not only into regulation of TPO-signalling but also the role of TPO and MPL in JAK2V617F-positive MPN disease pathogenesis. Identification of the role of MPL in MPN pathogenesis, as well as insights into additional regulatory pathways, contributes to our understanding of normal and pathological TPO signalling. These new insights also provide a basis for development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of MPNs and other diseases resulting from aberrant of TPO signalling.


In recent years, market forces and political processes have generated growing interest in the economic costs of disease to the individual, institutions, and society. It has long been recognized that these costs include the direct cost of disease treatment and care, other costs that accrue to patients and their families as a result of disease, and economic losses to society as a whole (1). The publication of the article by Taplin et al. (2) in this issue of the Journal marks an important advance in empirical economic research on the first of these components, direct medical costs, related to cancer. Taplin et al. (2) are able to take advantage of a fortunate combination of existing data resources: the computerized internal cost-accounting system of Group Health Cooperative (GHC) of Puget Sound (Washington State) and the Cancer Surveillance System in the Seattle area, which participates in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Using the linked GHC-SEER database, Taplin et al. (2) are able to present cost estimates related to cancer treatment at a level of detail and clinical relevance that could not be achieved in the past (3). These data support several types of analytical health economic studies that are increasingly important, including descriptive studies designed to understand aggregate annual levels of cost, average patient level lifetime costs (the flow of costs from diagnosis to death), and variations in these costs. While not reported in the current article, the GHC-SEER database also makes it possible to analyze which factors—treatment approach, service, and procedure utilization—"drive" costs. These data will also be useful in analytical studies designed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of specific cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and care interventions. Data of this kind may also serve as a benchmark for studies designed to assess different organizational strategies for delivering cancer-related services. The richness of the GHCSEER database makes it possible to explore some aspects of cancer treatment in more detail than previously possible. For example, the variations in net cost by age and comorbidity described in this article raise important questions regarding patterns of cancer care that deserve further investigation. In the past, when stage-specific costs were crucial to the analysis, as in the economic assessment of cancer-screening interventions or stage-specific treatment interventions, analysts often had to rely on anecdotal information or interpolations based on hypothetical clinical scenarios. Researchers have recognized the weakness of existing cost data and have stated the need for reliable stage-specific lifetime cost data (4). In response to this need, the NCI has sponsored a number of efforts. Two other NCI-sponsored projects also use linkage of financial and clinical data to SEER: a similar project involving Northern California-based Kaiser Permanente; and a link among all SEER sites and financial records of Medicare, maintained by the Health Care Financing Administration (5). Taplin et al. (2) provide estimates for both "total" (not to be confused with lifetime) and "net" costs. What is the importance of this distinction? Total costs refer to all medical costs attributed to a patient diagnosed with cancer, regardless of whether a particular medical procedure or service was directly related to cancer treatment. Total cost estimates are much easier to construct but are not as useful as net cost estimates for many analytical questions. Net costs, if estimated appropriately as they appear to be here, are a more accurate reflection of the costs avoided as a result of an intervention that prevents the occurrence of cancer, such as abatement of environmental or lifestyle risk factors. For the analysis of cancer screening, it may be appropriate to use either total or net cost, depending on the perspective of the analysis and the analytical model that is being used.


This study reveals the story of Dajjal who experienced a shift in interpretation. This is due to the response of each reader with a different background. To disclose it, this research uses the reception theory proposed by Hans Robert Jauss. This research is the result of philology research from Saifu ad-Dharib (SaD) script. This manuscript was written by KH. Tubagus Ahmad Bakri, Purwakarta, West Java, with a thickness of 32 pages. Meanwhile, the section of the manuscript taken only the story of Dajjal contained in Chapter 4 and part of Chapter 5. From the results of the manuscript SaD taken only transliteration and translation. From the results of the study, it was found that the author of SaD responded that Dajjal in question is Ibn Sayyad. It is realized by the author that there are two opinions concerning the birth or previous Dajjal, but the author responds and interprets that Dajjal has been born ie that existed in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. In addition, Dajjal will come out with 70,000 followers who are mostly artists. The great Dajjal before the exit will be preceded by the existence of the small Dajjal-Dajjal which is now emerging, ie Persatuan Islam, Muhammadiyah, Wahabi, and Shi'a. This manuscript was born at the time of the condition of Muslims who are still in conflict, so the reception of Dajjal refers to the organization of the period above. The manuscripts of his day can be used as propaganda material.


High conflict separations and parental alienation pose significant risks for emotional harm to children, as well as substantial challenges for professionals, agencies and the courts. These cases are very difficult to resolve by mediation or other forms of ADR. Often these cases result in multiple court appearances, not infrequently with concurrent family and child welfare or criminal proceedings. Alienation cases need to be distinguished from other types of parent child contact issues, including cases of "realistic estrangement" and "affinity" towards one parent without rejection of the other.In the two-year period from January 2013 to December 2014 there were 51 reported cases in Ontario involving allegations of parental alienation. Most of the alleged alienators were mothers, and most were custodial parents. Fathers, however, also engage in alienating conduct, sometimes combined with spousal abuse. Judges concluded that parental alienation had occurred in 16 cases; in 14 of the cases the court responded by making some change in the custody arrangements, often combined with supervision or suspension of access to the alienated parent.Lawyers and judges can have a critical role in educating and encouraging parents who engage in alienating behavior to desist in this behaviour and focus on the interests of their children. Although in many less severe alienation cases parents can be helped (or pressured by the courts) to reduce their conflict, in the most severe alienation cases contact with an alienating parent may need to be suspended to prevent emotional trauma to the child. In other cases, it may be best for the child to give up attempts to legally enforce contact with a rejected parent.


In this article I analize the metaphor of the master and slave in Plato´s Phaedo, as used to describe the relationship between soul and body. My goal is to determine the role that the sophist plays in the bondage of the soul to the body, considered harmful by the philosophers. In that sense, I identify body´s and soul´s own desires, and the opinions (doxai) about the good that arise in the soul as a result of pursuing bodily desires. Finally, I develop the way the sophist feeds somatic doxa itself, wich identifies the good with the pleasant.


The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of adhesive variation (kanji, oil, coconut shell tar) to the result of proximate analysis (volatile matter, ash content, fixed carbon), water content, heating value, specific weight, and density to sawdust briquette teak wood. This briquette blending presentation is 50% of the main ingredients and 50% adhesive. Briquettes are printed using a briquette pressing device with a pressure of 10 kg/cm2 each briquette. The result of the analysis obtained from the test of sawdust briquette of teak wood is in proximate test, the highest content of volatile matter is obtained on the oil adhesive of 89.79%. The lowest ash content obtained was on the kanji adhesive of 1.34%. The highest bound fixed carbon obtained was on the tar adhesive of 8.74%. The lowest water content obtained is on tar adhesive of 2.35%. The highest heating value obtained on the test of sawn briquette sawdust is on oil adhesive for 7143.67 cal/gram. The highest specific weight obtained is on the oil adhesive of 0.61. The highest density obtained is on the oil adhesive of 0.49 gr/cm3.


Spatial data1 together with the tools for its visualization play a significant role in the environmental education. This issue is a point of interest to environmental stakeholders and GIS professionals. At the same time, however, it is also a point of interest to a number of social groups responsible for broadly sensed environmental education – both at the stage of school and academic education as well as the less formal education outside of school. The authors have adopted the following assumptions regarding the understanding of the term "environment" and its details, and consider the natural environment to be consisting of natural (both living and non-living) interrelated (systemically) and interacting components. Geographical environment is defined as a natural environment including some elements resulting from the human activity, i.e. anthropogenic elements (Jackowski, 2004). The aim of this article is to identify and summarize public spatial data sources available at the European and national level and to discuss some opportunities for implementing them into the environmental education. Furthermore, answers were given to the following two questions: a) which public spatial data resources facilitate research and education projects related to ecology and sustainable development, and b) which geoportals should be used in environmental education and in implementing and presenting the ideas of sustainable development.


This paper explores the idea that auto-teaching neural networks with evolved selfsupervision signals can lead to improved performance in dynamic environments where there is insufficient training data available within an individual's lifetime. Results are presented from a series of artificial life experiments which investigate whether, when, and how this approach can lead to performance enhancements, in a simple problem domain that captures season dependent foraging behaviour.


This paper discusses the potential of engaging the compulsory dispute settlement system of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in order to resolve disputes over the South China Sea. It does so both in general, but also specifically against the background of the Jurisdiction and Admissibility Award of an Annex VII Arbitral Tribunal in the arbitration initiated by the Philippines against the People's Republic of China. The paper discusses in particular the trend in seeking to shoehorn disputes into existing compromissory clauses in order to establish the jurisdiction of a court of tribunal, as well particular issues of jurisdiction and admissibility that may (and do) arise in South China Sea disputes being brought under Part XV of the UN Convention.


Objective To study on the diagnosis and curing methods of abdominal incisional as well as perineal incisional,and to reduce complications of the surgery.Method To retrospective analysis 29 patients of incisional endometriosis about the clinical features,curing methods and pathogenic factors.Result All of the 29 patients have mass which hurts regular according to their period time and these are comparatively typical medical history.29 patients had all received surgeries,9 patients among them took drug treatments afterwards.1 to 3 years after their medical treatments none of them had recrudescence.Conclusion Based on patients medical history,symptoms as well as their objective signs,the right diagnosis of incisional endometriosis can be made basically.The existence of incisional endometriosis is related to improper operations and individual differences.The key is to have the right precautious methods.During the surgery,one should operate precisely and implement good protection of the incision.Clean the wounds after surgeries and reduce the unnecessary procedures are the main method to avoid incisional endometriosis.Surgery is an effective curing method;while the more severe symptoms need to have wider cover of the surgery and drug treatment afterwards are the key points to prevent recrudescence.


A novel Cu(II)-2,2′-bipy-supported (bipy = bipyridine) mixed valence decatungstate, [Cu(2,2′-bipy)2]2Na2W6VW4VIO30·2H2O 1, has been synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray analysis. The crystal of 1 is of triclinic, space group P1 with a = 10.9393(10), b = 12.0492(2), c = 12.3783(2) , α = 80.631(10), β = 70.226(10), γ = 72.329(9)°, V = 1459.64(4) 3, Z = 1, Dc = 3.582 g/cm3, F(000) = 1404, R = 0.0553 and wR = 0.1242 for 4607 observed reflections (I 2σ(I)). The EPR spectrum of 1 indicates that its unpaired electrons are placed in the dx2-y2 orbital of the ground state of CuII. Furthermore, compound 1 shows an antiferromagnetic interaction.


We derive QED radiators for the universal corrections to polarized electron scattering. To 5th order in the coupling constant the flavor non-singlet and singlet contributions are calculated. We derive the non-singlet and singlet exponentiation of the leading terms propertional to (alpha ln^2(x))^k to all orders.


The evolution of teaching and learning from a teacher-centred, knowledge-transfer approach to a learner-centred approach necessitates the evolution of the tools used for teaching and learning. Learning Management Systems (LMSs) which are used to manage and deliver learning contents and other resources online are some of the tools which need to evolve to support the emerging understanding of teaching and learning styles. The inclusion of social features similar to those used for social networking in a LMS can help to enhance the capability of LMSs to support both non-formal and informal learning. This study investigated the educational value of integrating a social networking platform and a LMS and found that although the use of social networking in education may have the potential to promote both non-formal and informal learning, educational institutions intending on following this path should proceed with caution as many factors can affect results.


In this paper, we examine several methods for including dynamic, contextually-sensitive binary codes within indirect selection typing methods using a grid with fixed symbol positions. Using Huffman codes derived from a character n-gram model, we investigate both synchronous (fixed latency highlighting) and asynchronous (self-paced using long versus short press) scanning. Additionally, we look at methods that allow for scanning past a target and returning to it versus methods that remove unselected items from consideration. Finally, we investigate a novel method for displaying the binary codes for each symbol to the user, rather than using cell highlighting, as the means for identifying the required input sequence for the target symbol. We demonstrate that dynamic coding methods for fixed position grids can be tailored for very diverse user requirements.


Decision making is a difficult task, especially in the medical domain. Decision trees are among the most often used supervised machine learning algorithms, primarily due to their straightforward interpretation through rules, they are composed of. Visualizations of decision trees can help with the understanding of data and decision rules on top of them. This paper proposes a 3D decision tree visualization method that allows effective decision tree exploration and help with decision tree interpretation. The main contribution of this visualization is the ability to display global tree structure and the difference in the distributions of values between subsets created by individual decision nodes. The approach is evaluated using a design study on a typical medical dataset and on a synthetic dataset with controlled properties. It shows the visualization's ability to display individual components of the decision rule and the ability to see other correlated factors in the decision and the change it causes in subsets of data created by individual decision nodes.


ABSTRACT Deliberative policy analysis (DPA) has become a new branch of post-positivist policy inquiry since the release of a book edited by Hajer and Wagenaar fifteen years ago. The status quo of this field, however, is not satisfactory. Particularly, there is apparent shortage of exploration on how to apply DPA to generate insights for policy making. This article undertakes a critical revisit of DPA's development and to explore the road ahead, especially through the lens of practice. It starts with a brief review of DPA study, mainly focusing on its characteristics, suitable context, and functions. The next section discusses three challenges facing the emerging field: how to render the DPA approach more operable, the absence of "analysis," and the lack of purposeful and designed pilot practice. It proceeds to argue that the research on DPA will likely take a methodological turn, and offers several considerations for future study: understanding and framing DPA from a practice-oriented perspective, underscoring the importance of DPA's consulting function, taking a procedural perspective and incorporating consensus building into the process, providing organizational solutions for practicing DPA, and conducting purposeful pilot practices with prior DPA design.


Excited states in $^{164}\mathrm{Dy}$ were produced using Coulomb excitation. Rotational properties of the ground-state and gamma-vibrational band were studied. Angular distribution and band-mixing parameters were extracted from the data. No evidence was found for a two-phonon gamma vibration with anharmonicity in the range 1.7\ensuremath{\le}E(${4}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{+}$)/E(${2}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{+}$)\ensuremath{\le}2.7.


Very long span optical communications are mainly limited by the chromatic dispersion (CD) or group velocity dispersion (GVD), fiber nonlinearities, and optical amplifier noise (Agrawal 2005). Different frequencies of a pulse travel with their own velocities, which involves a pulse spreading. In a fiber-optic communication system, information is transmitted within a fiber by using a coded sequence of optical pulses whose width is determined by the bit rate of the system. The CD induced broadening of pulses is undesirable phenomenon since it interferes with the detection process leading to errors in the received bit pattern (Kogelnik & Jopson 2002; Mechels et al. 1997). Clearly GVD will limit the bit rate and the transmission distance of a fiber-optic communication system. GVD is basically constant over time, and compensation can be set once and forgotten (Karlsson 1994). When the signal channel bit rates reached beyond 10 Gb/s, polarization mode dispersion (PMD) becomes interesting to a larger technical community. PMD is now regarded as a major limitation in optical transmission systems in general, and an ultimate limitation for ultra-high speed signal channel systems based on standard single mode fibers (Mahgerftech & Menyuk 1999). PMD arises in optical fibers when the cylindrical symmetry is broken due to noncircular symmetric stress. The loss of such symmetry destroys the degeneracy of the two eigen-polarization modes in fiber, which will cause different GVD parameters for these modes. In standard single mode fibers, PMD is random, i.e. it varies from fiber to fiber. Moreover, at the same fiber PMD will vary randomly with respect to wavelength and ambient temperature (Lin & Agrawal 2003b; Sunnerud et al. 2002). The differential group delay (DGD) between two orthogonal states of polarization called the principal states of polarization (PSP's) causes the PMD (Tan et al. 2002; Wang et al. 2001). As a pulse propagates through a light-wave transmission system with a PMD, the pulse is spilt into a fast and slow one, and therefore becomes broadened. This kind of PMD is commonly known as first-order PMD. Under first-order PMD, a pulse at the input of a fiber can be decomposed into two pulses with orthogonal states of polarization (SOP). Both pulses will arrive at the output of the fiber undistorted and polarized along different SOP's, the output SOP's being orthogonal (Chertkov et al. 2004; Foshchini & Poole 1991). Both the PSP's and the DGD are assumed to be frequency independent when only first-order PMD is being considered (Lin & Agrawal 2003c; Gordon & Kogelnik 2000). Second-order PMD effects account for the frequency dependence of the DGD and the PSP's. The frequency dependence of the DGD introduces an effective chromatic dispersion of opposite sign on the signals polarized along the output PSP's (Elbers et al. 1997; Ibragimv &


Like many other developing countries, India has taken great steps in promoting e-governance applications in recent years. E-Governance has become a necessity in public administration in the 21 st century. Good governance is expected to be ensured through e-Governance by means of transparency and accountability. The pace of e-Governance is increasing even in states. States are competing with each other in implementing e-Governance for better service delivery. Kerala is not an exception to this. Government of Kerala has implemented several programmes with the ultimate aim of serving citizens in a speedy and transparent manner. This paper discusses some of the e-governance initiatives and projects successfully implemented in Kerala.


Non-negative latent factor (NLF) models well represent high-dimensional and sparse (HiDS) matrices filled with non-negative data, which are frequently encountered in industrial applications like recommender systems. However, current NLF models mostly adopt Euclidean distance in their objective function, which represents a special case of a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-divergence function. Hence, it is highly desired to design a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-divergence-based NLF (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-NLF) model that uses a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-divergence function, and investigate its performance in recommender systems as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> varies. To do so, we first model <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-NLF's learning objective with a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-divergence function. Subsequently, we deduce a general single latent factor-dependent, non-negative and multiplicative update scheme for <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-NLF, and then design an efficient <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-NLF algorithm. The experimental results on HiDS matrices from industrial applications indicate that by carefully choosing the value of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-NLF outperforms an NLF model with Euclidean distance in terms of accuracy for missing data prediction without increasing computational time. The research outcomes show the necessity of using an optimal <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{\beta }}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-divergence function in order to achieve the best performance of an NLF model on HiDS matrices. Hence, the proposed model has both theoretical and application significance.


SUMMARY The apparent precision of estimated areal rainfall is affected by persistent areal pattern. The areal pattern and random variations can be separated by correlation between records in two periods of a network of gauges.


In 2006, the Dutch government launched a policymaking process for meeting the Kyoto Protocol target of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. In both the development and the evaluation of Dutch Kyoto-related policy, research has played a major role. For the transport sector no targets were set; however, a list of measures and instruments to reduce transport GHG emissions were discussed in the Kyoto-related policymaking process. Nearly all transport instruments and measures on this list appeared to be automobile-related. The reason for this focus was an a priori choice of policymakers. However, cost-effective options for other vehicle categories may be available. The transport options finally chosen for the Policy document will reduce GHG emissions from transport by 3-5% as compared to the forecasted 2010 emissions. Researchers estimated that tax differentiation for new cars and in-car instruments such as fuel economy meters and cruise control will be the most effective solutions.


Objective To investigate the effects of Yiqi Huoxue decoction on CRP and FIB in patients with coronary heart disease.Methods 80 patients with coronary heart disease were randomized to 2 groups,45 patients in treatment group were treated with the integrated Chinese and Western medicine and 35 patients in control group with western medicine.CRP,FIB were evaluated before and after treatments.Results The differences of CRP and FIB volumes before treatment were not significant(P0.05);CRP and FIB volume after treatments were both decreased in two groups(P0.01);compared with control group,CRP and FIB in treatment group were significant decrease(P0.05).Conclusion Yiqi Huoxue decoction is effective to reduce the levels of serum CRP and FIB in patients with coronary heart disease.