Research on the labour process has recently been extended to include studies of state socialist enterprises. One of the most innovative streams has been based on Hungarian experience. So far little empirical research has been carried out on the `foot-prints' of East European practice left by advisers in developing countries. A case study of a large Egyptian state textile enterprise is presented which suggests that many of the rigidities of traditional state socialism identified by Kornai are faithfully replicated. However, instead of `to each according to contribution' the overriding principle for pay is `to each according to age'. With a buoyant external labour market for manual workers and limited scope for officially personalising rewards, managers introduce flexibility by tolerating various forms of work avoidance and indiscipline. Workers use `effort saved' to take a second outside job.


The traditional dry beneficiation such as the pneumatic separator, the pneumatic jig and the air table, has low efficiency and with heavy dust pollution, can't meet the requirements of the modern beneficiation. The technology of the air-dense medium fluidized bed concentration, an effective dry beneficiation, can solve the above problems. This paper presents the separation principal of the air dense medium fluidized bed, studies the factors of the dry coal separation technology as well as the importance of the grid plate. The grid plate model is established by the simulation software — AMESim. We have studied the diameter of micropore which is a main factor that influences the pressure based on the model. At last, we have got the relationship between the diameter of the micropore and the outlet pressure. This provides references for the rational selection of the pressure source and the grid plate.


A case of prollferative fasclitis arising In the left forearm of a 56‐year‐old man was examined. The lesion was preceded by blunt trauma, measured 1.5 times 1.3 times 1.0 cm, was poorly circumscribed and appeared white to light gray on the cut surface. Light microscopic examinations revealed that spindle cells and giant cells with one or two nuclei and abundant basophllic cytoplasm ware arranged without any organized patterns In collagenous stroma. Ultrastructurally, well‐developed rough endoplasmic reticulum separated by varying amounts of fine to course fibrillar materials was detected in the giant cells. Only vimentin lmmunoreactivity was detected In both spindle and gtant cells. The Ki‐67 labeling Index of spindle cells was 35% but that of giant cells was less than 5%, and this reflects the quiescent or slow‐growing features of these giant cells in proliferative fasclitis. DNA content of the calls, which was examined by Image cytometry, demonstrated diploidy In both spindle (DNA Index = 1.01) and glant (DNA Index = 1.09) calls.


The article is aimed at introduction of the up-to-date approaches to the economic assessment of ecosystems and their implementation while determining the priority tasks of the territorial communities development. The necessity is substantiated of the ecosystems economic assessment for determining the priority tasks of the territory development taking into account the ecosystem approach.
It is emphasized that the achievement of the goals of sustainable spatial development at the local level is ensured via full mobilization of all types of local resources, in particular by taking into account the value of ecosystem assets and ecosystem services produced by them in the interests of local communities. The necessity of forming an integrated strategic approach to the introduction of ecosystem asset valuation at the local level is substantiated.
The ecosystem assets of territorial communities are proved to be a continuous flow of the community ecosystem resources produced as a result of the system of functionally interconnected components of the natural environment involved in economic circulation, the use of which will contribute to economic benefits. It is shown that the economic assessment of ecosystem assets at the local level makes it possible to assess both the market value and value of ecosystems from direct and indirect use, and to identify real prospects for possible financial revenues to the community budget from their operation.
Differentiated are economic approaches to estimate the ecosystem benefits at the local level. The structure and tasks of payments for the biodiversity conservation at the level of territorial communities are studied. The structural scheme of information support for estimating the ecosystem assets values of territorial communities is proposed The tasks of local authorities as to the community ecosystems management are outlined and the stages of assessment of ecosystem assets of the territorial entities are defined. The targets for application of the results of assessment of ecosystem assets of territorial communities have been determined.
It is shown that the introduction of an ecosystem approach in the management of communities will contribute to the financial content of local budgets.


This thesis explores the importance of the senses to the experience of the Mackintosh Building. In its discussion of Sense of Place, Time and Being, it concludes that the combination of these elements is important to the overall architectural atmosphere.


The standardization of vestibular examination is still far from being accomplished. Not only are there various schools of thought but almost each individual examiner employs different methods to perform the tests, the caloric one in particular. The usual cause of the numerous errors and one of the greatest hindrances to the proper standardization of the procedures can be found in the fact that the nystagmus, with all its characteristics, is a phenomenon very difficult to observe and analyze. And even the determination of the starting and stopping time of a reactive nystagmus following calorization is not simple.


Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a behavioral explanation of excess stock price volatility relative to present value theory. Design/methodology/approach - The conceptual basis is the impact of affect on investor decisions. The empirical tests involve survey data collected from a sample of semi-professional investors (AAII members) and investment advisors (CFPs). Findings - It is suggested that affect causes investors to perceive an inverse Practical implications - The primary implications are that Originality/value - This paper is unique as to the conclusion that risk and return perceptions vary inversely


Editor's Note: The education and certification of nuclear medicine technologists in the U nitedStates are extremely important issues. We therefore present for your interest and comparison the evolution of current standards used in Australia. Dr. Andrews is chairman of the Accreditation Subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine and Miss Smith is a lecturer in nuclear medicine at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.


The study is aimed to evaluate in vitro somatic embryogenesis to gamma ray exposure and the use of growth regulators to mature embryos explants for rice callus induction. Seeds of local rice genotype (MR269) were exposed to gamma rays at 350 Gy (Source: Caesium-137). Matured embryos were cultured to induce callus on Murashige and Skoog (MS) supplemented at different concentrations of 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 mg/L 2.4-D and 0.1 and 0.2 mg/L Kinetin for 4 weeks. Callus induction and callus fresh weight were decreased after exposure to gamma ray. The most efficient response to callus induction and callus fresh weight was found at 3 mg/L 2,4-D and 0.1 mg/L kinetin.


The folk house named Syuraku-an is one of few existing thatched houses in Nadasyo village. The NPO group restored this abandoned house in 2008 with financial support. They now use it for nature experience programs for urban children. The traditional thatched house in use at the present time is quite valuable, whereas the maintenance, in particular for a thatched roof, requires a significant cost to outsource professionals and purchased materials, or a significant labor force raised from the community. The heavy work of re-thatching a whole roof is necessary in the future; however, it is difficult to repeatedly expect sufficient funds or to ask for community cooperation in a depopulated and aging village. The NPO group has a plan for the next re-thatching to establish a new community network with the help of participating members in the younger generation. The sustainability of the thatched house is a long-term challenge. 2 RESTOREd THATCHEd HOUSE 2.1 Thatched houses in Nadasyo village Nadasyo village is located in the southwest part of Fukui prefecture neighboring Kyoto and was merged with the town of Ohi in 2006 (Fig. 2). The village had once been located along the main road for marine product transportation from Obama bay to the ancient capital city of Kyoto; thus, it was influenced by the culture of Kyoto. The village is 143.5 km2, surrounded by deep mountains covering nearly 90% of the village area, and occupies small flatlands along rivers for settlements and agricultural lands. The main form of livelihood had previously been a small industry of wooden charcoal, forest industry, and subsistence agriculture (Nadasyo village, 1968). The population was 2500 people in 2010, compared with 3500 people in 1968. The villagers are mostly aged 50–60 years, with very few aged 20–30 years because of outflows to urban areas. Thatched houses have been gradually disappearing since the 1950s, and now five remain: one enshrinement hall (Yakushi-do) and one shrine (Kamo-jinja) are designated and conserved as cultural properties, one house was moved and converted to a hostel (Ryusei-kan) operated by the town management, and one temple was converted to a private house (Fig. 3), leaving Syuraku-an as the only original folk house in the village. The reasons for disappearance of thatched houses are shown in (Fig. 4). Two major trends starting from the 1950s are the popularization


ABSTRACT The aim of this work was to apply a one-dimensional hydrodynamic and water quality DYRESM–CAEDYM model to the Boadella reservoir, Catalonia, Spain. Thus, simulation length was two years (2000 and 2001) with the aim to predict temperature, dissolved inorganic phosphorus and chlorophyll. The DYRESM–CAEDYM input data were meteorological data, river inflow and outflow data, morphometry parameters, an initial profile and file configuration data. The CAEDYM model also requires a configuration file and initial profiles for all the water quality data, but these data are not complete. Therefore, simulation may not be reliable or well analysed because of a lack of field nutrient data; so we will focus on the simulation of temperature, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll. After simulation and calibration, coupling of those models might be a good tool to have an idea about Boadella reservoir water quality behaviour.


The yeast HXT (glucose transporter gene) repressor Rgt1 lacks a dimerization domain and thus appears to bind as a monomer to its consensus binding site sequence (5′CGGANNA3′). The HXT1 promoter contains 8 Rgt1 binding sites, but its expression is not effectively repressed by Rgt1. In the present study, the Rgt1 binding sites in the HXT1 promoter were analyzed to examine how Rgt1 mediates transcriptional repression. I show that Rgt1 binds the HXT1 promoter, but does not significantly mediate repression. When engineered to be multimerized without the intervening sequences between the Rgt1 binding sites, however, 4 or more Rgt1 binding sites were required to provide sufficient Rgt1-dependent repression. These findings suggest that the intervening sequences between the Rgt1 binding sites are important for the regulation of Rgt1 function and that Rgt1 functions efficiently only through multiple binding sites.


The current literature documents a need for assertiveness training for clients with a psychiatric illness, in order to address this need, a programme was designed and implemented to provide clients with practical techniques to enable them to communicate in a more effective, assertive manner. The frames of reference for the programme were the model of human occupation and social teaming theory. Data were collected over a 2-year period from 33 clients with a psychiatric illness who participated in a 7-week training programme. The investigation incorporated a prospective one-group, pre-test/post-test design. The Rathus assertiveness schedule and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale were used to measure changes in assertiveness and self-esteem. A t-test analysis of the pre-test and post-test scores attained by group participants on both scales indicated a statistically significant increase in their level of assertive behaviour and self-esteem. A brief review of the pertinent literature and a description of the assertiveness training programme are provided. Programme evaluation results and recommendations for further research are also discussed.


Starting from a new study on carbon monoxide and noise pollution levels in an important crossroads area of the city of Sibiu, Romania, the current paper uses the data to compare with data obtained during past studies carried out on the same area, allowing an assessment of the evolution of the two pollution indicators over time. The recent study, carried out over a two-week period in November 2017 both during the peak morning hours and at midday, combined a video-based vehicle count with measurements of the carbon monoxide and of the noise level, respectively. The data comparison reveals not only a worsening of the pollution levels in the centre of Sibiu over the past few years and should allow the determining of the best methods and means for reducing the level of the pollutants, possibly in correlation with the improvement of the road traffic conditions.


T multi-physics models were developed or presented to predict the transient nonlinear behavior of actuators/sensors based on stimuli-responsive polymer hydrogels. A true meshfree, implicit numerical scheme was conducted to solve the coupled transient nonlinear partial differential governing equations. For the developed models involving chemo-electro-mechanics, the transient responds of electric-sensitive hydrogels including the membrane deformation, ionic concentrations and electric potentials interior and exterior the membranes are numerically simulated and compared. And the parameters having important influence on the transient hydrogel deformation are also investigated.


A stochastic model describing particle deposition in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients has been developed. The model should help to optimize drug administration in the treatment of CF by exploring those physiologic and physical parameters that are responsible for the delivering of pharmaceutical aerosols to appropriate sites (receptor cells). Concerning the modeling of deposition, changes of the lungs due to CF were expressed by either constant or random scaling of the airway calibers. Additionally, continuous enlargement of the alveoli and the definition of asymmetric breathing cycles (different lengths for inhalation and exhalation time) were carried out. Application of these model considerations to three different age groups (infants, children, and adults) showed that permanent reduction of the airway calibers generally increases deposition in the tracheobronchial tree by more than 100% with respect to healthy controls. The fraction of particles deposited in the alveoli and alveolar ducts may be decreased at the same time. These tendencies are even more pronounced by the simulation of emphysema and by extending exhalation time with respect to inhalation time. Relative particle fractions deposited in the tracheobronchial compartment significantly increase from infant to adult.


As the second sourceof Islamic teaching after the Qur'an, the study of the hadis continued to be developed increasingly against the rapidly growing age of technology marked by the development of technology as one of the tools of information and communication in the global era. Accordingly, hadis were developed to balance and adapt to the present digital age. Access to the hadis that used to be obtained manually has now been accessed through the internet software/ applications. As the Maktabah Syamilah, the Lidwa Pusaka, the Jawami' al-Kalim and so on. With this development, it is expected that society in special millennial generations use the software provided as the digitization forms of the hads to be used as best possible. So the essence of hadis doesn't fade or fade in the midst of today's modern society.


Being a kind of dynamic un-damaging detecting method, Acoustic Emission is almost applicable of all materials. Based on the const-amplitude partly low-frequency compress fatigue test carried out on cement mortar samples ( 10cm× 20cm), some analysis and inspections on its strain and AE test results have been performed to explain the basic fatigue characteristics of concrete and the AE characteristics of concrete during the fatigue damaging process. Thus, a test foundation has been laid for the application of AE un-damaging test technique.


This article summarized the researches abou t negative priming mechanis ms. The stress of the recommendation was on the experiments of the perceptual mi smatch theory and the selection-feature mismatch, and putted forward some ideas of continue investigation.


The key difficulty in robotic assembly is not the control problem but the problem of perception. In this paper, from the viewpoint of the affordance theory, an action-perception cycle model is employed for realizing a perception driven assembly robot. The proposed robot has neither a set of rational action rules nor a map of the environment. However, the robot achieves assembling through the interaction with its surroundings. Instead of action rules, the robot uses a kind of oscillator, which is named action pattern generator (APG), to take active actions. In order to improve the performance of the assembly robot, two types of memory, namely, working memory and episodic memory, are also introduced into the brain of the robot. Simulations show that the assembly robot mates two parts rapidly even though it does not know their initial arrangements.


Ceramic oxide thin films are an important material, with applications in many areas of science and technology. Titanium oxide (TiO2) is also a well-known and important material for applications such as gas sensors [1], photocatalysis materials [3], and electrochemicals [1], due to its self-cleaning [2], good corrosion resistance and biocompatibility. Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a nanotechnology tool that is used for the deposition of nanostructured thin films. The unique advantage of ALD is the self-limiting film growth mechanism, which offers attractive properties, simple and accurate film thickness control, sharp interfaces, uniformity over large areas, excellent conformality, good reproducibility, a multilayer processing capability, and high quality films at low temperatures [3, 4]. TiO2 thin films were grown using TTIP (Titanium isopropoxide) ALD on silicon wafers, glass slides, and stainless steel plates in order to study the effect of substrates on the growth of TiO2. In order to achieve the desired advantages of using TTIP, a series of experiments were performed to study the growth mechanism of TiO2 thin films using TTIP and H2O by ALD.


e13618 Background: The phase I first-in-human study of TLC388 (Lipotecan) examined the MTD, safety, anti-tumor activity and pharmacokinetic profiles in patients with advanced incurable solid tumors.

METHODS
Lipotecan was administered intravenously on day 1, 8 and 15 of a 28-day cycle. Patients underwent tumor assessments every other cycle. Pharmacokinetic samples were drawn on days 1, 8 and 15 of cycles 1 and 2.

RESULTS
Fifty four previously treated patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors were enrolled The dose was escalated from 1.5 mg/m2 to 60 mg/m2 over 12 patient cohorts. MTD was reached at 50 mg/m2. DLTs above that dose were thrombocytopenia and febrile neutropenia. Treatment was well-tolerated and no accumulated toxicity seen. Treatment related G3/4 hematological toxicity include neutropenia (19%), leucopenia (15%), anemia (9%), and thrombocytopenia (7%). G3/4 non-hematological side effects were diarrhea (2%) and hyponatremia (4%). Twenty one of 35 evaluable patients (60%) continued therapy beyond cycle 2, received a median of 4.5 cycles (2-12 cycles), and had stable disease or minor tumor regression. Prolonged (≥ 6 months) stable disease was noted in 8 patients (23%), including renal (chromophobe and clear cell types), docetaxel refractory prostate, salivary gland, sorafenib refractory hepatic, and vaginal cancers. One minor response occurred in a heavily pretreated 70-year-old male with stage II B thymoma cancer metastatic to lung, liver and lymph nodes who was treated for 12 courses and remains on the study. PET-CT scan revealed tumor size reduction of 22% at cycle 10. Pharmacokinetics of TLC388 was dose-independent; mean (SD) values for the volume of distribution at steady-state and clearance were 857 (1122) L/m2 for S,R-TLC388 and 996 (1333) L/m2 for S,S-TLC388, and 2174 (2526) L/h-m2 for S,R-TLC388 and 2670 (2988) L/h-m2 for S,S-TLC388, respectively. The half-life values averaged 0.67 (1.15) hours for S,R-TLC388 and 0.64 (1.11) hours for S,S-TLC388.

CONCLUSIONS
Lipotecan at dose of 50 mg/m2 on current treatment schedule is safe, well tolerated, and demonstrates broad antitumor activity to support phase II disease-specific investigations.


The breakout of bloom continuous caster in No.1 Steel-making Branch of WISCO is statistically analyzed.Various causes of the breakout such as pouring temperature,casting speed,cooling,composition,crystallizer,mold powder,and alignment of the submerged entry nozzle with the mold and etc are found out.By strengthening the equipment inspection,control and process standard optimization,improving operation level and developing mold powder and etc,the breakout cases are controlled effectively.


In the article methods of identification of direct current electric drive automated control systems necessary for solving the tasks of auto tuning have been examined. The tasks of creation and functioning of automated control systems on different stages, the obtaining of the estimated values of the models have been examined. The analysis of theoretical and experimental methods of identification have been conducted, and recommendations of its usage for different objects classes in automated control systems have been given given.


B. A. Bloom, B. A. Valentine, DVM, PhD, R. D. Gleed, BVSc, MRCVS, DVA, C. S. Cable, DVM, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-6401, USA Correspondence to Dr Valentine, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Magruder Hall 105, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA Postanaesthetic recumbency in a Belgian filly with polysaccharide storage myopathy


We discuss the existence of solutions of transport equations where boundary conditons are non linear generalizations of the usual diffuse reflection law. The proofs use monotonicity and comparison properties. Global existence is obtained for initial data comparable to a Maxwellian having the temperature of the body. Moreover, the method provides some information about the behaviour of the solutions.


A check up system for picking mechanism on water jet looms is developed. This system catches the signal of water jet pressure with a pressure sensor, and detects the open-close of a clamper with a clamper sensor respectively, and measures such values as water jet pressure, jetting angle and flight start angle of weft yarn etc. As these measured results, this system can find the best condition of picking mechanism for weaving.This system is available for preventive maintenance of picking mechanism, and contributes to decrease loom stoppage and poor condition of weft flying resulting in improvement of flexible manufacturing.


The use of toys in physics teaching is common. This brief review of the physics of toys intends to show that they are not only very useful in lectures and demonstrations in order to motivate students but also very interesting from a scientific point of view. However, since their physics is sometimes too cumbersome, the effect can be the opposite. We call attention to some subtleties of toys used in physics or in general science teaching.


Ultra-short-term photovoltaic power prediction is one of the important measures to reduce the adverse effects of the safe and stable operation of traditional power systems. First, the periodicity of the PV power is taken into account to extract periodic components. For the remaining components, under different weather types, the local sensitive hashing algorithm algorithm is used to achieve rapid classification of photovoltaic power segments, and the European distance is introduced as a measure of the prediction to predict. Using the data of the photovoltaic power station for verification, the results show that the method has a higher prediction accuracy.


Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is a naturally occurring polymer that is bioresorbable and anabolically active on bone forming cells in vitro. In order to demonstrate if polyP also shows morphogenetic activity in vivo, animal studies are performed applying the rat calvarial defect model. Poly(D,L‐lactide‐co‐glycolide) (PLGA) microspheres with a narrow size distribution (≈820 μm) are prepared, containing either encapsulated polyP or β‐tricalcium phosphate (β‐TCP), used as a reference material. Discs are prepared from the microspheres and inserted into 10 mm large defects created in the calvaria of rats. Both the formation of COL‐I and the expression of ALP is upregulated, as well as the extent of mineralization within and around the polyP implant. Our data demonstrate that amorphous and resorbable inorganic polyP is also morphogenetically active in vivo.


Baz Luhrmann's taking up a recent adaptation of The Great Gatsby might have worried lovers of Fitzgerald's novel and at a first viewing, there are many startling and perhaps discordant elements he has incorporated into the film, including hip-hop music or 3-D and CG technology and wanders much from the original text through the invention of Nick's narrative device and exaggerated and unrealistic depiction of scenes. However, when pondering on the meanings that Luhrmann is attempting to deliver to contemporary audiences, Luhrmann's adaptation is true to the spirit of Fitzgerald's novel and focuses on the problem of class, the problems of modernity, and Nick's exploration of Gatsby through his narration. By discussing these issues against Fitzgerald's novel and the 1974 adaptation by Jack Clayton which focused on the romance between Gatsby and Daisy, this study examines these issues which figure not only importantly in the novel but are relevant for contemporary audiences. The 1974 adaptation by Jack Clayton had focused on the romance between Gatsby and Daisy and had made Nick's narration transparent, thus making the characters one-dimensional. Gatsby is the idealized hero, powerful with his material success and the tragedy occurs due to a cowardly and self-serving Daisy. In the 2013 adaptation, the emphasis is not on character or romance, but the problems of modernity and power between classes and the problem of narration which are central layers of the Fitzgerald novel. The site of the two Eggs and New York landscape is depicted in detail through the subjective and critical eyes of Nick as narrator. The two Eggs are contrasted as the clash of the old and new money, and the Valley of Ashes is described as the wasteland that urbanity had produced. The scenes of the three parties held in the milieu of different classes are portrayed in detail through the narration of Nick and are rather subjective or even distorted. Whereas characterization seems weak in this adaptation, this is the natural result of the contrived narrative device which allows us to see characters through Nick's conscious. The development of Nick's narration allows Nick to narrow the distance between himself and his idea of Gatsby. Luhrmann has kept Fitzgerald's dual vision; he encompasses both Fitzgerald's time and ours, is keen to the problems of modernity such as the disparity between class and hollowness of materialism, but keeps us dazzled and allured to his screen of glamor and glitter.


Neurofilament heavy polypeptide (1026 aa, ~112 kDa) is encoded by the human NEFH gene. This protein plays a role in both the establishment and maintenance of axonal and dendritic structures.


Abstract This study presents a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) by integrating analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy cognition to evaluate the construction risks of tunnel portals. Wuguanyi Tunnel is taken as the research objective to validate the performance of the proposed method. The result shows that the proposed decision making method can effectively identify risk factors and determine the risk level during the construction of tunnel portals. Finally, the corresponding control measures during the construction of the Wuguanyi Tunnel portal are proposed according to the risk assessment results.


When I was asked by Joan Domicelj if I would organise this conference I agreed because I saw it as an opportunity to explore an issue which the Trust was having to develop, ie Whose Cultural values? It was not something that had confronted us quite so directly before. But it is a question that has been interesting us in recent times as we have had to come to grips with the development of a museum on the site of Australia's First Government House.


1. Agricultural Remote Sensing Agricultural remote sensing is a very useful technology that allows us to observe crops on a large scale in a synoptic, remote, and non-destructive manner. Usually, it involves a sensor mounted on a platform, which could be a satellite, RPA, unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), or a field robot. The sensor collects the reflected or emitted electromagnetic radiation from plants, which is then further processed to produce useful information and products. This information consists of traits of the agriculture system and their variations in space and time. Functional traits have been defined as the biochemical, morphological, phenological, physiological, and structural physiognomies that regulate organism (plant) performance or fitness . These traits vary from one plant to another and from one location to other, and can be categorized as typological-, biological-, physical-, structural-, geometrical-, or chemical-based in terms of their respective natures. RS provides an effective relation between the radiance of plants and the respective traits to extract useful information, e.g., leaf area index (LAI), chlorophyll content, soil moisture content, etc. Nevertheless, a number of factors, like the crop phenological stage, crop type, soil type, location, wind speed, precipitation, humidity, solar radiation, nutrient supply, etc., need to be known to generate accurate information from RS products. Among others, plant density, organ computing, LAI, green cover fraction, leaf biochemical content, leaf orientation, height, soil and vegetation temperature, and soil moisture are prominent informational products that RS delivers. This information is further processed and used to interpret crop health, disease infraction, irrigation period, nutrient deficiency, and yield estimations.


The image captured by satellites in outer space is known as satellite imaging. Through remote sensing, it captures how the earth's surface appears. Because many items are obscured by cloud shadows in the sky, satellite picture objects are typically difficult to spot. The goal of this research is to assist in resolving the following problems with satellite images: low image resolution, image noise, light changes, image shadows, and excessive over-capturing of inconsequential edges. Kernels are used to smooth over the images in low-resolution cases to make discrepancies less noticeable. Applying median blurs to eliminate minute image irregularities that shouldn't be detected by the edge detector will reduce image noise Consistent results will be achieved by being able to distinguish between these different image kinds and how they are preprocessed. Finally, canny edge detection generates results for less significant edges. The results achieved through the developed methodology were compared to results produced using a different method-using edge detection algorithms for certain photos. Utilizing the right edge detector for the selected image material is made easier by this process.


The electronic device (100) includes a network interface controller (102) and an input / output controller (110,202) having a link layer. Part of the input / output controller is configured to power off during the low power mode of the electronic device, wherein the first portion comprises a link layer. When the electronic device is in a low power mode, separated from the input / output controller wakeup logic (108) in response to the physical layer via the network receives a wake-up message received from the network interface controller wakeup indication. In response to a wakeup indication from the network interface controller, wakeup trigger logic for causing the electronic device to wake up from a low power mode indication.


Abstract : The more an autonomous system is optimized to perform a task, the less intelligence it has to deal with unexpected changes in an uncertain environment. This paradox implies that in such environments, viability rather than optimization may be a more appropriate measure of a system's potential to carry out tasks. In this presentation I proposed that the function of innovation is to keep a system viable in response to change. To function autonomously in a dynamic environment, a constructed system has to be capable of innovating to some degree. This capacity can be modeled as a flexible repair and compensation mechanism. It can be measured with respect to specific tasks assigned to the system by having it react to selected imperfections and gauging the results. This presentation proposes that the capacity of a system to repair itself is a measure of its ability to act appropriately in uncertain environments. To examine this capacity, I explore a system architecture that could be tuned to enhance repair solutions.


Experiments were done in 1983,1984 and 1985 in Beijing and Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China, to determine the relationship of yield components of wheat to the severity of yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici). Epidemics were manipulated by timing inoculation and fungicide applications. Disease, plant yield, number of ears per plant, number of grains per ear and 1000-grain weight were measured. Analysis indicated that there were interactions among the yield components. However, path coefficient analysis did not detect any statistically significant compensation and showed that there was a positive correlation among yield components. The correlation coefficients between AUDPC (area under disease progress curve, accumulated to each growth stage) and each yield component increased gradually with growth stage, thus providing no evidence of a critical stage at which a yield component was most affected by disease.


The study is aimed at exploring teacher's strategies in designing bilingual test items in science and mathematics. Through employing a qualitative approach and using an interview to collect the data, the study involves an elementary teacher in a private school that implements a bilingual program in the classroom. The study reveals several findings: 1) the teacher uses a simplified language for the items; 2) given students' barrier in terms of understanding specific terms, the teacher aids the students by using L1 to ensure students' understanding; 3) because of students' limited English proficiency, the teacher cautiously chooses the familiar words in the items to be translated into English; 4) the teacher seeks help to ensure the test items are


Asylum and immigration law EU law and the right to reside Benefits Asylum support eligibility Asylum support provision Section 4 support (for failed asylum-seekers) Appeals and remedies Housing Community care services Healthcare


Apple is one of the mostwidely consumed fruit and its popularity is due to the complex aroma and flavour composition. The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in apples, summarizing their biosynthetic processes, and exploring the analytical methods commonly used for their analysis. This approach could lead to a deeper understanding of the different outputs derived from each technique. Organic Compounds in apples: from biosynthesis


The nonlinear optical response (NLO) of linear polyenes and fullerenes is studied using an anharmonic oscillator model. The influence of size effects and quantum exciton confinement on the nonlinear optical response is examined, and the time evolution of the excitons is studied. The elementary optical excitations for C60 are shown to be correlated charge density fluctuations. For linear polyenes with finite size, oscillations in the time-resolved degenerated four wave mixing (D4WM) signal due to the coherent excitation of several band states are found within the Huckel model (no Coulomb interaction). For infinite size a photon echo like behavior is obtained. The exciton-exciton interaction changes the lineshape of the D4WM signal and gives rise to a broad delayed signal whose position is given by the dephasing time of the system.


Orders of Magnitude is an immersive educational virtual reality application. Each player can explore all the known scales in our universe by zooming in or out. This scientifically accurate experience contains elements such as galaxies, stars, the solar system, Earth, the human brain, neurons, DNA, atoms and subatomic particles. The majority of the content is taken from various scientific databases and is represented, wherever possible, as it exists in nature. An artistic impression is used to depict elements for which little or no information is available about their visual presence.


This paper begins with a comment about how the possibilities of critical debate about Outcomes Based Education have been narrowed. It then discusses four dimensions of South African OBE: transparency, instrumental rationality, the freedom of teachers and 'outcomes', and objectivity and subjectivity in education. It is argued that education cannot be made transparent, that the 'integration' of education and training can lead to a thoroughly instrumental view of education, that teacher freedom is compromised by the conceptual connexion between teaching and learning and the envisaged 'outcomes' of learning, and that both 'objectivist' and 'subjectivist' interpretations of OBE are seriously flawed. The paper concludes with the suggestion that there are advantages in understanding teaching, learning and education in terms of the concept of practices. This suggestion implies a different interpretation of OBE.


We discuss the original idea of beam-beam compensation (BBC) in Section I, sequence of events in 2001-2002 and use of the Tevatron Electron Beam (TEL) for DC beam removal in Section II, (anti)proton lifetime improvement in Section III, experimental data on the BBC attempts in Section IV and, conclusively, Section V is devoted to discussion on important phenomena, needed improvements and future plans.


Mangrove vegetation has born an abundance of epiphytes which usually are omitted in studies about this ecosystem. The results of the present study include collection data and literature records about the occurrence of Marchantiophyta and Bryophyta species in the mangroves of Ubatuba, Sao Vicente, Praia Grande, Itanhaem, Peruibe, Iguape and Cananeia. Nineteen families with 56 genera, and 115 species are listed. The checklist adds 43% of the 115 species of Marchantiophyta and Bryophyta, which are now know to occur in the studied mangroves of Sao Paulo state. Hepatics predominate in the species of Marchantiophyta and Bryophyta of these mangroves, which is very similar to species found in the "paulista" Mata Atlântica.


2-Chloroethylphosphonic acid (ethephon) applied at 480, 960, or 1,920 ppm to strawberry (Fragaria sp.) cult Redcoat plants increased runner plant yields from fruited plants compared with control fruited plants in two greenhouse experiments and one field trial. In one greenhouse experiment, ethephon applications of 960 and 1,920 ppm significantly increased runner plant yields from fruited plants compared with control deflowered plants and these treatments increased the percent of the total crop harvested in the first four picks an average of 44% above the control. In the field trial, runner plant yields from fruited plants receiving ethephon applied at 960 ppm were similar to those from control deflowered plants.


A design scheme of integrated field bus applied to mine safe information management is introduced.Fitting with various sensors,field bus integrated with Ethernet technology,automatically monitors the equipments movement circumstance in mine underground and manages the information,enhances the reliability of the safe production in mine.


Background and Aim: The majority of animal-derived food safety studies have focused on foodborne zoonotic agents; however, members of the opportunistic Enterobacteriaceae (Ops) family are increasingly implicated in foodborne and public health crises due to their robust evolution of acquiring antimicrobial resistance and biofilms, consequently require thorough characterization, particularly in the Egyptian food sector. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the distribution and prevalence of Enterobacteriaceae family members in animal-derived foods, as well as their resistance to important antimicrobials and biofilm-forming potential. Materials and Methods: A total of 274 beef, rabbit meat, chicken meat, egg, butter, and milk samples were investigated for the presence of Enterobacteriaceae. All isolated strains were first recognized using traditional microbiological techniques. Following that, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry was used to validate the Enterobacteriaceae's identity. The isolated enterobacteria strains were tested on disk diffusion and crystal violet quantitative microtiter plates to determine their antibiotic resistance and capacity to form biofilms. Results: There have been thirty isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from seven different species and four genera. Out of the three food types, Pseudomonas aeruginosa had the highest prevalence rate (4.1%). With three species, Enterobacter genera had the second-highest prevalence (3.28%) across five different food categories. In four different food types, the Klebsiella genera had the second-highest distribution and third-highest incidence (2.55%). Almost all isolates, except three Proteus mirabilis, showed prominent levels of resistance, particularly to beta-lactam antibiotics. Except for two Enterobacter cloacae and three P. mirabilis isolates, all isolates were classified as multidrug-resistant (MDR) orextensively multidrug-resistant (XDR). The multiple antibiotic resistance index (MARI) of the majority of isolates dropped between 0.273 and 0.727. The highest MARI was conferred by Klebsiella pneumoniae, at 0.727. Overall, 83.33% of the isolates had strong biofilm capacity, while only 16.67% exhibited moderate capacity. Conclusion: The MDR, XDR, and strong biofilm indicators confirmed in 83.33% of the currently tested Enterobacteriaceae from animal-derived foods suggest that, if not addressed, there may be rising risks to Egypt's economy and public health.


Abstract The debate on accounting truth is an old problem (Briloff, 1979) and it is at present more and more important in harmonization process, especially involving small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Their users' needs regarding the extents and type of accounting information as well as the costs of their providing are widely discussed as the arguments for differential reporting for SMEs, although there is still more literature focusing on financial reporting of large enterprises. The standards setters try to decrease the reporting burden for SMEs, keeping the relevant information for their reports users, while considering harmonization goals in the same time. In such an attempt, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued an International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) designed for use by small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) the 9th of July 2009, however some national European standard-setters seem not to be keen to introduce them. The aim of our paper is to analyze, the attempts and difficulties to reach all these goals in the same time and to implement the IFRS for SMEs, such as drawn by the IASB, in the European countries. Croatian experiences presented, running from International Accounting Standards (IAS) implementation as obligatory for all the companies, towards Croatian Financial Reporting Standards (CFRS) introduction for SMEs, represent an interesting experiment in the European context.


Hate speech detection within a cross-lingual setting represents a paramount area of interest for all medium and large-scale online platforms. Failing to properly address this issue on a global scale has already led over time to morally questionable real-life events, human deaths, and the perpetuation of hate itself. This paper illustrates the capabilities of fine-tuned altered multi-lingual Transformer models (mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa) regarding this crucial social data science task with cross-lingual training – from English to French, vice-versa and each language on its own, including sections about iterative improvement and comparative error analysis. Keywords—cross-lingual, hate speech detection, transfer learning, transformers, bert, xlm-roberta


Objective: To observe the regulating effect of Weiliuan on Digestive enzyme and Relevant Gastrointestinal hormone in spleen- deficiency rats. Methods: The rats were given the decoction of Radix et Rhizoma combine with dietary disorder to induce spleen- deficiency syndrome. Spleen- deficiency rats were divided into 8 groups: normal control group,spleen deficiency model group,Meng Tuo Shi San group( 0. 15 g · kg- 1),Weiliuan high dose group( 31. 5 g ·kg- 1),Weiliuan low dose group( 15. 75 g·kg- 1),Weiliuan splited prescription I high dose group( 31. 5 g·kg- 1),Weiliuan splited prescription I low dose group( 15. 75 g·kg- 1),Weiliuan splited prescription II high dose group( 31. 5 g·kg- 1),Weiliuan splited prescription II low dose group( 15. 75 g·kg- 1). At the end of experiment,the level of amylase( AMS),Lactic dehydrogenase( LDH),Succinate dehydrogenase( SDH),motilin( MTL),Somatostatin( SS),gastrin( GAS) and organ coefficient were detected. Results: Weiliuan group,Weiliuan splited prescription I group and Weiliuan splited prescription II group can significantly reduce the spleen index,the level of SDH and LDH,it can also improve the level of the AMS( P 0. 05,P 0. 01) In the regulation of hormone levels,Weiliuan group,Weiliuan splited prescription I group and Weiliuan splited prescription II group can significantly improve the levels MTL、GAS( P 0. 05,P 0. 01) but had no obvious effect on SS. Conclusion: Weiliuan group,Weiliuan splited prescription I group and Weiliuan splited prescription II group can improve the The symptoms of spleen deficiency syndrome significantly. its mechanism may be to regulate the levels of AMS,SDH,LDH,MTL and GAS.


The structures and methods are provided for expressing multiple genes in plant cells and / or tissue. Provided construct includes at least one bi-directional promoter is connected to a multi-gene expression cassette, wherein the bi-directional promoter comprises a nucleotide sequence of a functional promoter from sugar cane rods (Bacilliform) virus (SCBV) promoter. In some embodiments, the constructs and methods provided are Jea maize In some embodiments, the constructs and methods provided allows for 3 to 20 gene expression.


In this paper, a directive, robust, and light weight antenna for Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV) communication applications is presented. The proposed antenna exhibits dualband operation from 4.53 GHz to 5.16 GHz with a bandwidth of 13.26% and from 5.3 GHz to 5.9 GHz with a bandwidth of 10.7%. Furthermore, it is characterized by good and stable radiation characteristics with overall realized gain of 7.07 dB at 4.7 GHz and 7.9 dB at 5.68 GHz. The proposed design shows flexible ability in terms of tuning the resonance frequencies by scaling some design parameters. The antenna is simulated and optimized using both CSTMWS and HFSS. The two different simulators shows very good agreement in terms of the operating bands and the radiation patterns.


The thesis is about the conception of the human body in French literature from the XVIth to the XIXth century. Using chosen texts by Rabelais, Montaigne and Rousseau, we analyzed the conception of the body during Humanism, during the XVIIth century, with Descartes mechanical philosophy and finally, we described the new conception of the body in the XIXth century, through texts by Zola and Flaubert, in which the psychological and physiological dimension is very interesting.


Creating graphic layouts is a fundamental step in graphic designs. In this work, we present a novel generative model named LayoutDiffusion for automatic layout generation. As layout is typically represented as a sequence of discrete tokens, LayoutDiffusion models layout generation as a discrete denoising diffusion process. It learns to reverse a mild forward process, in which layouts become increasingly chaotic with the growth of forward steps and layouts in the neighboring steps do not differ too much. Designing such a mild forward process is however very challenging as layout has both categorical attributes and ordinal attributes. To tackle the challenge, we summarize three critical factors for achieving a mild forward process for the layout, i.e., legality, coordinate proximity and type disruption. Based on the factors, we propose a block-wise transition matrix coupled with a piece-wise linear noise schedule. Experiments on RICO and PubLayNet datasets show that LayoutDiffusion outperforms state-of-the-art approaches significantly. Moreover, it enables two conditional layout generation tasks in a plug-and-play manner without re-training and achieves better performance than existing methods.


Abstract : The semantic classification revealed by predication-typing does not coincide with the formal grammatical division into word classes. Function words--such as conjunctions and prepositions--when viewed in the light of predication typing turn out to have significant elements of meaning in common with content words--such as certain verbs and nouns. An example of this is the semantic spectra of the function word from and the content word result shown on the handout.


Agile is a software development methodology and an engineering approach that embraces and promotes the changes in cooperation through activities performed during the life cycle of software development. In an agile environment, the company changes the way of doing operations and become open to those changes that deliver the value promptly. Agile development claims to improve customer satisfaction, shorter delivery time, and increase the value of the business. This research paper has the purpose to increase the current body of evidences related to change management in agile development and the survey paper aims to investigate about how change request management, prioritization, and change response are done in different agile processes including XP, Serum, Lean, ASD, AUP, MSF, Crystal, DSDM, FDD. The methodology used in this paper is the systematic literature review. The findings of this paper show that FDD, DSDM, MSF are less collaborative and change responsive as compared to XP, Serum, Lean, ASD, AUP and Crystal.


Considering the varied pharmacological prominence of thiazole and oxadiazole heterocyclic moieties, a unique series of bi-heterocyclic hybrids, 8a–h, was synthesized in a convergent manner. The structures of newly synthesized compounds were characterized by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and IR spectral studies. The structure–activity relationship of these compounds was predicted by examining their inhibitory effects against alkaline phosphatase, whereby all these molecules exhibited superb inhibitory potentials relative to the standard used. The kinetics mechanism was determined by Lineweaver–Burk plots which revealed that 8g inhibited the studied enzyme non-competitively by forming an enzyme-inhibitor complex. The inhibition constant Ki calculated from Dixon plots for this compound was 0.42 μM. The allosteric computational study was coherent with the experimental records and these ligands exhibited good binding energy values (kcal mol−1). The hemolytic analysis revealed their mild cytotoxicity towards red blood cell membranes and hence, these molecules have potential to be nontoxic medicinal scaffolds for the treatment of alkaline phosphate-associated ailments.


Summary form only given. We characterized for the first time the surviving channel transient responses of TDFA, as a function of 1.5 /spl mu/m subsidiary pump power in combination with 1.4 /spl mu/m main pump. Results show the existence of signature on the transient curve from the lower state (i.e. first excited state 3F4) lifetime, making the response curve characteristics from that of an EDFA. Also found includes the differentiation of TDFA operation regimes in the transient responses, depending on the relative strengths on the main pump power, subsidiary pump power, and signal strengths. Different time constants at /spl sim/60 /spl mu/s and /spl sim/8 ms time have been characterized to explain all these phenomena. Our results suggest the need of different transient/gain excursion control algorithms to TDFA for future applications, different from that of EDFA.


Recently, ethical leadership has opened innovative thought pathways that have attracted global human resource managers' attention because of their efficacy and positive impact on organizational citizenship behavior. This research demonstrates the magnitude of employees' job satisfaction impacts performance motivated by ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. This study aims to determine the influence of ethical leadership on employees' job satisfaction and OCB. Using a convenience sample design, data were collected from 230 employees. SmartPLS-3 software was used for data analysis. The results of this study reveal that ethical leadership has a positive impact on job satisfaction. Organizational citizenship behavior has mediated the relationship between job satisfaction and ethical leadership. The finding shows that ethical leadership has a significant impact on employees' job satisfaction as well as a partial mediating relationship. Based on the findings, we present the theoretical and policy implications, limitations, and future studies pertinent to this research


As the state-of-the-art edges towards Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), we found that we have to revise some previous assumptions about security engineering for this domain. Ubicomp devices have to be networked together to be able to realize their promise. To communicate securely amongst themselves, they have to establish secret session keys, but this is a difficult problem when this is done primarily over radio in an adhoc scenario, i.e. without the aid of an infrastructure (such as a PKI), and when it is assumed that the devices are resource-constrained and cannot perform complex calculations. Secondly, when ubicomp devices are carried by users as personal items, their permanent identifiers inadvertently allow the users to be tracked, to the detriment of user privacy. Unless there are deliberate improvements in designing for location privacy, ubicomp devices can be trivially detected, and linked to individual users, with discomfiting echoes of a surveillance society. Our findings and contributions are thus as follow. In considering session key establishment, we learnt that asymmetric cryptography is not axiomatically infeasible, and may in fact be essential, to counter possible attackers, for some of the more computationally capable (and important) devices. We next found existing attacker models to be inadequate, along with existing models of bootstrapping security associations, in ubicomp. We address the inadequacies with a contribution which we call: 'multi-channel security protocols', by leveraging on multiple channels, with different properties, existing in the said environment. We gained an appreciation of the fact that location privacy is really a multi-layer problem, particularly so in ubicomp, where an attacker often may have access to different layers. Our contributions in this area are to advance the design for location privacy by introducing a MAC-layer proposal with stronger unlinkability, and a physical-layer proposal with stronger unobservability.


The standalone(SA) 5G system is a true 5G system that uses 5G radio between the user terminal and the base station, and the core network also uses a 5G core network. In the 5G core network of the SA 5G system, traffic is transmitted to the user terminal through various methods such as a switching method and a splitting method which use wired and 5G, WIFI wireless BS interfaces in a fusion. However, the 5G system operator has no way of knowing whether traffic delivery methods such as switching and splitting are normally performed. Therefore, this paper proposes a 5G core network traffic monitoring system that allows operators to easily identify switching and splitting traffic using the traffic monitoring messages delivered from the 5G core network functions that make up the 5G core network.


Abstract : MIT Lincoln Laboratory has recently developed a new systolic FFT architecture for FPGAs. This architecture utilizes a parallel design to provide high throughput and excellent numerical accuracy. Using this design, an 8192-point real-time FFT, operating at 1.2 billion samples per second and performing 78 Gops with 70 dB of accuracy, fits on a single Xilinx Virtex II 8000.


* corresponding author. e-mail: email@example.com This study presents the most recent data on Na and Ca concentrations in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) needles sampled in bioindicator surveys carried out in 2009 at Kemi (Northern Finland), as well as at Pietarsaari (Western Finland) in 2007, at Eno (Eastern Finland) in 1994–1996 and in the Jyvaskyla region (Central Finland) in 2006, which are areas with operating pulp and paper mills. Na and Ca concentrations in Scots pine needles at Kemi varied within 7–280 mg/kg (d. w.) and 1 410–5 450 mg/kg (d. w.), respectively. Na concentrations in both C and C + 1 needles at Kemi in 2009 were in good agreement with the values of 31–105 mg/kg (d. w.) and 54–151 mg/kg (d. w.), respectively, observed at Eno. Ca concentrations in C + 1 needles at Kemi were in good agreement with the values of 2 432–5 598 mg/kg (d. w.) observed at Pietarsaari in 2007 and with the values of 2 700–7 900 mg/kg (d. w.) observed in the Jyvaskyla region in 2006, although the highest Ca concentrations – 7 900 mg/kg (d. w.) – in the C + 1 needles in the latter area was obviously higher than the corresponding value of 5 450 mg/kg (d. w.) observed in our study at Kemi.


TEverybody is conscious for the importance of Albanian integration in EU. But each of us must be aware of the fact, that this outstanding process is accompanied by some benefits and costs, which has to be paid by our society. The main objective of this study is to qualitatively asses the economic impact of Albanian integration in EU. The first section is dedicated to theoretically explanation of the types of effects of integration which may be: direct or directs ones, micro or macroeconomic effects, and short run or long run effects. In the second part I am mainly focused on a qualitative assessment of effects of Albanian economic integration in EU. The main benefits relate to the new opportunities that will be ushered in, principally arising from better access of Albanian exports to foreign markets, enhanced competitive structures and improvements in efficiency, which in the long run will strengthen the Albanian economy. The costs arise mostly from the change-over from a protected economy to an open competitive one, which could lead to a loss of income and employment.. There are introduced in the third part, three main quantitative methods which are recommended to be used for a further step of quantifying the economic effects of Albanian integration in EU.


Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Osaka University, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 4 Department of Engineering Physics, Electronics and Mechanics, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Shibaura Institute of Technology, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Kotoku Tokyo 135-8548 Japan E-mail: email@example.com


In recent years, the significant impact of low-probability and high-impact natural disasters on distribution systems has gradually attracted attention. Based on the actual demand of distribution systems to cope with extreme natural disasters, this paper proposes a distribution system resilience evaluation framework which can be uniformly applied to system planning and operation. Firstly, the intermediate indices and ultimate indices are extracted to evaluate the distribution system resilience. Then, the resilience evaluation of distribution system against extreme events is divided into offline and online modes according to the application scenarios. Finally, based on the Monte Carlo simulation method, the evaluation process of distribution system resilience is proposed, and the modified IEEE 33-bus distribution system is used for case study to verify the validity and rationality of the proposed method. The results indicate that the number of contact feeders has a significant effect on distribution system resilience against typhoons, while the effect of repair teams is relatively weak, which suggests the utility properly reinforce the infrastructure to mitigate the impact of disasters.


Noturus (Rabida) taylori, a new madtom, is described from 300 specimens collected from the Caddo River (Ouachita River drainage) in Arkansas. It is known only from the uper waters of the Caddo River. It is most closely related to Noturus elegans and Noturus miurus, but differs from the former by size of eye and dorsal fin pigmentation and from the latter by size of spines and adipose fin pigmentation. It is compared with all other members of the subgenus Rabida. It represents the second species of fish apparently endemic to the upper waters of this small river.


We report about the muscular system and the serotonergic and FMRFamidergic components of the nervous system of the Bucephalidae trematode, Rhipidocotyle campanula, an intestinal parasite of the pike. We use immunocytochemical methods and confocal scanning laser microscopy (CLSM). The musculature is identified by histochemical staining with fluorescently labeled phalloidin. The body wall musculature of R. campanula contains three layers of muscle fibres – the outer thin circular, intermediate longitudinal and inner diagonal muscle fibres running in two opposite directions. The digestive system of R. campanula possess of a well‐developed musculature: radial, longitudinal and circular muscle elements are detected in the pharynx, circular and longitudinal muscle filaments seen in the oesophagus, and longitudinal and the circular muscle fibres were found in the intestinal wall. Specific staining indicating the presence of actin muscle filaments occurs in the cirrus sac localized in the posterior body region. The frontal region of anterior attachment organ, the rhynchus, in R. campanula is represented by radial muscle fibres. The posterior part of the rhynchus comprise of radial muscles forming the organ's wall, and several strong longitudinal muscle bundles. Serotonergic and FMRFamidergic structures are detected in the central and peripheral compartments of the nervous system of R. campanula, that is, in the paired brain ganglia, the brain commissure, the longitudinal nerve cords, and connective nerve commissures. The innervations of the rhynchus, pharynx, oesophagus and distal regions of the reproductive system by the serotonergic and FMRFamidergic nervous elements are revealed. We compare our findings obtained on R. campanula with related data for other trematodes.


In the reactions of H atoms, generated by the Hg(3P1)-sensitized decomposition of H2, with C2H5SC2H5 the primary reaction has been established to be with k1 = (4.7 ± 0.9) × 1013 exp [−(3797 ± 152)/RT] cm3 mol−1 s−l relative to the rate constant of the H + C2H4 → C2H5 reaction. The mechanism postulated explains adequately all the experimental observations. The entropy of activation for the primary reaction, −22.1 eu is close to the value obtained for the H + CH3SCH3 reaction, suggesting a transition state with similar structure. H atoms do not abstract hydrogen from diethylsulfide, but the ethyl radicals from reaction [1] do with a rate coefficient of k = (7.4 ± 0.5) × 1013 exp [−(6860 ± 98)/RT] cm3 mol−1 s−1.


Isospin-relaxation times characterizing isospin transport processes between the projectile and the target with different N/Z ratios and that between the neck and the spectator with different isospin asymmetries and densities in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions are studied within an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model using the lattice Hamiltonian approach. The respective roles and timescales of the isospin diffusion and drift as the major mechanisms of isospin transport in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions are discussed. Effects of nuclear symmetry energy and neutron-proton effective mass splitting on the isospin relaxation times are examined.


This article investigates the biographical novel "The Last Station" by the American writer Jay Parini and focuses on reality and unreality in it. The relationship of literary characters to each other is observed from the point of view of each narrator. Also, the article shows some contradictions.


Three technologies are brought together to form a wide variety of electro-optical measurement and gauging systems. The discussion will cover how solid state image sensor technology combined with a variety of optical configurations and digital signal processing techniques provide a myriad of optical inspection systems. The discussion covers the various optical and part positioning parameters which must be evaluated in the design of an on-line optical gauging system. This is followed by a review of digital processing techniques which provide the outputs required. The .RS85.2 Button Inspection System is reviewed to provide an example of a 2 axis multiple parameter high speed part gauging system.


The Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) is currently the mainstay of absorbing boundary conditions. For some anisotropic wave equations the PML is exponentially unstable in time. We present in this work a new method of open boundaries, the phase space filter, which is stable for all wave equations. Outgoing waves can be are waves located near the boundary of the computational domain with group velocities pointing out. Phase space filtering involves periodically removing only outgoing waves from the solution, leaving non-outgoing waves unchanged. We apply this method to the Euler equations (linearized about a jet flow), Maxwell equations in a birefringent medium and the quasi-geostrophic equations.


A stretched-pulse fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) produces 135-fs pulses with 1-nJ energy. These are the best results obtained with a laser utilizing a NOLM, which can be the basis for environment ally-stable designs.


Ideas contribute to the achievement of high performance, excellence, and competitive advantage in management and organisation. To intervene to facilitate these favourable outcomes, managers need to be aware of how ideas are affected by mindsets they use and what is actually happening to ideas in their workplaces. This paper reports on a pilot survey among managers from diverse organisations. Respondents provide their views about what happens to ideas in their organisations, with comments about the responsiveness of colleagues. It is presumed that how managers engage with ideas in the workplace will reflect the mindsets that they bring from the theory and practice of management. These mindsets are discussed. The study suggests that these mainstream management approaches as applied in our enterprises might not be adequate, and foreshadows the need for their improvement.


Oxbow says: This volume provides both an introduction to the Diamare region of northern Cameroon, and its neighbouring regions, and is testament to the important work of Alain Marliac, now in retirement. It is a synthesis of information and evidence on the history of the area from the Palaeolithic to the present day including analyses of sites, material culture, burials, art, historical linguistics, oral traditions and ethnography, and a reflection of the career of Marliac and other scholars working in this field of study. French text.


In this work, we present the development of a target tracking and following system using a self-customized hybrid UAV, KH-Lion. KH-Lion is a small and autonomous tail-sitter UAV stabilized and controlled by two vectored propulsion systems. A target tracking system was developed on this platform for autonomous target following on a predetermined moving object on the ground. A customized AprilTag marker was attached on a radio-controlled car, and the target tracking algorithm was verified in actual flight experiment in which the moving car is tracked. Experiments were conducted in the environment of VICON motion tracking system, which provides us with a ground truth to evaluate the performance of the tracking. The system was verified and tested with a moving speed of approximately 0.5 m/s.


Transparent Ag nanowire conducting thin films with high surface hardness were fabricated by bar coating method. When coating speed was changed from 35 mm/sec to 50 mm/sec, the transmittance of coated glass increased from 65.3% to 80.8% in visible light range and the surface resistance was changed from to . The surface hardness and adhesion of thin film were 5H and 5B.


DEVELOPING COUNTEIES is a disparate term that includes countries in such various stages of development as Taiwan and Laos. There is as much difference among them as there is between "developed" countries such as Australia or Japan. The developed countries have found it necessary to try to solve their medical manpower requirements in dif¬ ferent ways, often with marked contrasts within a country itself. Australia, for ex¬ ample, has evolved different plans for rendering service to its densely populated southeast coast and its sparsely settled heartland. The


An application has been developed to assist in using software applications to individuals that have null or limited mobility of their upper limbs. The system uses a Web camera for movement patterns recognition of the user's face. The image analysis allows emulating the basic functions of the computer mouse. The face detection process is carried out through the implementation of an algorithm that uses a cascade sort key of Haar-Like type. The application was developed in C++ to be used on Windows XP platform. Tryout of the application has been performed showing excellent acceptation and short time training requirements.


In perfusion culture of mammalian cells, the cells should be separated from the spent medium and retained in the culture vessel. A possible cell separator for this purpose is a multiple inclined plate space in an agitated or air-circulated culture vessel. Local fluid velocity and cell concentration contours in an assumed hybridoma cell suspension, which was held stationary in such a gravitational cell settler consisting of multiple open-ended spaces partitioned by inclined plates, were estimated by numerically solving the momentum and continuity equations. The simulated maximum convection flow velocity was 20 times the Stokes' velocity of the cells. The flow penetrated into the space below the lower ends of the inclined plates. The model estimated a larger cell settling rate than the Ponder-Nakamura-Kuroda (PNK) formula. In our experiment, the cell suspension of hybridoma 2E3 was held stationary in a vessel containing multiple inclined plates, and the position of the interface between the clear and turbid fluids was observed. The falling rate of the interface was larger than that predicted by the PNK formula. The model can be utilized for designing such cell separators for perfusion culture of suspended mammalian cells, including optimization of the size and interval of the plates.


VER 600 cases of malignant hyperther0 mia have been reported,' with an incidence of 1 : 15,000 anesthetics in children and 1:50,000 anesthetics in adults.? The youngest child we could find in the literature with documented malignant hyperthermia was 18 months of age.' Recently, a 6-monthold female infant developed malignant hyperthermia during anesthesia in our institution. We believe she is the youngest patient yet reported with this syndrome.


To meet the food demand of growing population and to achieve higher crop yield, farmers use excessive amount of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. In India a major share (up to 20%) of organophosphate and carbamate pesticides are mostly used by five agriculturally rich states viz., Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat. Amongst those pesticides dimethoate, monocrotophos, carbendazim and methyl parathion consumption is high in India. Residues of pesticides remain in agricultural produce and migrate into human food chain. Microbial communities of soils play an important role in cycling of elements in ecological systems and provide essential nutrients to plants. Members of these microbial communities are the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). PGPR produce different types of enzymes and metabolites that have an ability to degrade xenobiotic compounds. The aim of the study is to explore the possibility of PGPR to tolerate and remediate organophosphate and carbamate pesticides. Microbial strains isolated from native agricultural fields were named as: PGPR 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. In the present study organophosphate and carbamate pesticides used were dimethoate, monocrotophos, carbendazim and carbofuran. Experiments were carried out to determine the tolerance level of PGPR strains with different pesticide concentrations. All the isolates were checked for their viability against these pesticides at various concentrations ranging between 10 100 ppm. MTT and respiration assay were done for assessing the viability of bacterial isolates. In agriculture soils, pesticides residue concentration is usually in the Sonam Shaheen & S. Krishan Sundari et al 948 range 0.2 2ppm. All isolates have shown 90% survivability at the concentration of 10ppm as compared to control (without pesticide). At the time of application in fields, concentration of respective pesticides would be very high. A better PGPR formulation should tolerate wide range of pesticides so that they can involve in plant growth promotion and degradation of residual pesticides. Thus in our experiment all the isolates were tested for tolerance limits of up to 100ppm concentration of pesticides. In monocrotophos at 100ppm concentration under stressed condition PGPR2 showed 57% viability followed by PGPR1 with 56% viability whereas PGPR6 and PGPR10 were found to be more sensitive. For dimethoate, PGPR3 showed 85% survivability at 100ppm followed by PGPR2 with 69%. Isolates PGPR6, PGPR9 showed less tolerance. PGPR2 isolate proved to be a superior isolate showing consistent growth even in the presence of high organophosphate pesticides across a wide range. For carbendazim PGPR1 exhibited more viability followed by PGPR2 i.e. 61%, 60%. PGPR6, PGPR10 showed less tolerance level to even carbamate pesticides. In case of carbofuran PGPR7 and PGPR8 showed more tolerance with the survivability of 87%, rest all the isolates showed more than 70% survivability at 100ppm concentration of pesticide. In carbamate type pesticides though each isolate responded differently to the pesticide per say, there was a very uniform response to increasing pesticide concentrations by every isolate. Hence we can say that PGPR1, 2 and 3 that exhibited comparably better tolerance to both organophosphate and carbamate type of pesticides would be better option for sustaining plant growth in agriculture soils that are particularly stressed due to heavy chemical inputs. Further studies at our laboratory involve exploration of the degradation pathways of these pesticides by select PGPR isolates.


Abstract Background The relative distribution of cefazolin into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) remains debated. Determining the distribution of cefazolin into the CSF in noninfected adults may allow for further treatment applications of cefazolin. This prospective pharmacokinetic study aimed to determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of cefazolin in serum and CSF from external ventricular drains (EVDs) in neurologically injured adults. Methods Blood and CSF were collected, using a biologic waste protocol, for cefazolin quantification and trapezoidal rule–based pharmacokinetic analysis in a total of 15 critically ill adults receiving 2000 mg intravenously every 8 hours or the renal dose equivalent for EVD prophylaxis. Results A median (range) of 3 (2–4) blood and 3 (2–5) CSF samples were collected for each patient. The most common admitting diagnosis was subarachnoid hemorrhage (66.7%). The median calculated cefazolin CSF Cmax and Cmin values (interquartile range [IQR]) were 2.97 (1.76–8.56) mg/L and 1.59 (0.77–2.17) mg/L, respectively. The median (IQR) CSF to serum area under the curve ratio was 6.7% (3.7%–10.6%), with time-matched estimates providing a similar estimate (8.4%). Of those receiving cefazolin every 8 hours, the median and minimum directly measured CSF cefazolin concentration ≥4 hours following administration were 1.87 and 0.78 mg/L, respectively. Conclusions Cefazolin dosed for EVD prophylaxis achieved CSF concentrations suggesting viability as a therapeutic option for patients with meningitis or ventriculitis due to susceptible bacteria such as methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. Further clinical trials are required to confirm a role in therapy for cefazolin. Population-based pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modeling may suggest an optimal cefazolin regimen for the treatment of central nervous system infections.


Abstract This study tested the main effect model and the stress-buffering model of the mechanisms by which social support affects bereaved single older adults' depression. Data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (Wave 2; N = 621) were used to test a latent moderated structural equation model that explores the interaction between grief reactions and social support on bereaved single older adults' depression in the US. The findings provide evidence for the stress-buffering model (i.e., the relationship between grief reactions and depression, which was strongly positive when social support was low, turned negative when social support was high).


We present a design of tunable terahertz (THz) metamaterial filter with single-band and dual-band switching characteristics. The proposed device is composed of dual splitring resonator (SRR) and a central bar. To control the horizontal and vertical displacement between the central bar and SRR, the resonance could be tuned by 0.08 THz and the transmission intensity is keeping as 100%. The electromagnetic response of proposed device exhibits polarization-dependence and single-/dual-band switching characteristics. These results open an avenue to be potentially used for detector, sensor, and switch applications in THz spectra range.


My love affair with Freud began when I was 12 years old. I found, in the library of a family friend, a book published in Hebrew as a part of a series of "Popular Science," named Psychoanalysis and Its Creator Sigmund Freud. After I read it, I told my friends enthusiastically that now I know that our mind is divided onto three parts—an id, an ego, and a superego—and that we have many wishes and ideas that we are not conscious of. We used to have at that time, in the last year of elementary school, a weekly lesson to be prepared by one of the pupils according to his choice. I asked to get the topic of "The Psychology of Adolescence," which I prepared according to some booklet of Anna Freud and other Freudian texts that I found in Hebrew, and was very proud when the teacher, who always used to criticize everyone, when finishing the lesson dryly uttered, "I have nothing to add." When I was asked in those days what I would like to be as an adult, I used to answer that I still cannot decide if I want to be a musician or a psychoanalyst. But these were the years prior to the founding of the state of Israel, when the aim of all of us, members of the Zionist youth movements, was to become farmers in our future free country. So I went for four years to an agricultural school, joined the army at the age of 17, and, after the independence war, found myself together with all my friends from the army establishing a new kibbutz, called Erez (a name now famous for the gate to the Gaza Strip built near it). A year later, beginning to feel a little bored planting potatoes and milking cows ten hours a day, I decided to leave and go to the university, but owing to my guilt feelings about leaving the kibbutz, I felt that the only profession worthy of spending time studying in those critical years of founding the new state of Israel was agriculture, and I promised everyone that soon after finishing my studies I would come back to the kibbutz to serve as an agronomist. I don't even remember exactly how it occurred, but after three semesters in the faculty of agriculture I found myself passing to the just newly opened School of Medicine of the Hebrew University and Hadassah, forgetting that I intended to become an agriculturalist. During the five years in the school of medicine, I kept changing my plans several times, believing each time we found ourselves as students in another department of the hospital that this is the most interesting vocation for a physician. So I wanted to be, in turns, a brain researcher, a surgeon, and a neurologist, but finally, when reaching the year of internship in a big general hospital, I decided to practice in internal medicine. I was especially attracted to this special kind of detective work, characteristic of the work with the patients in the department of internal medicine: to listen to their complaints, to get the anamnesis, to gather the symptoms and signs, and to integrate all these findings into a reasonable diagnosis. I used to pick out the patients who were hospitalized for a long time without a Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 30:133–145, 2010 Copyright © Melvin Bornstein, Joseph Lichtenberg, Donald Silver ISSN: 0735-1690 print/1940-9133 online DOI: 10.1080/07351690903203261


This paper investigates the development of a tool for the numerical simulation of the discharge and after-glow phenomena in a pulsed discharge scheme.The kinetics and plasma phenomena are thoroughly discussed in order to understand the role of plasmas in the combustion processes.


Pleomorphic Lipoma of the Neck: A Benign Lesion Mimicking Liposarcoma
Pleomorphic lipomas are a rare variant of lipomatous tumors. They typically occur in older males and show a tendency to develop over the posterior neck, shoulder, and back. Clinical presentation, rate of growth, and histologic features of these benign lesions are key factors in making an accurate diagnosis and in distinguishing them from liposarcomas. Complete surgical excision with clear margins is curative. This paper presents a case report and a discussion intended to aid the clinician in using the histological findings to help differentiate a pleomorphic lipoma from its malignant counterparts.


TiB2 protective coating was prepared in the 310S container wall to improve the life of the container and achieve long-term protection purposes, and also studied the properties of TiB2 coating with anti-heat shock, mechanical and anticorrosion to molten Al-12.07%Si . The results showed that the anti-heat shock properties of the coating was good, bonding strength between coating and substrate was high, the corrosion resistance was improved under certain limited temperature, and the life of container was also remarkable enhanced.


Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. (Milton, Areopagitica 728-29) WITH the recent publication of the last volume in Philip Pullman's His ark Materials trilogy, C. S. Lewis has received a new wave of publicity--largely negative--as numerous articles and interviews have recorded Pullman's dislike of Lewis's work, especially the Narnia series. While his opinions are to a large extent a matter of taste and to that extent not matter for scholarly concern, some of his remarks reflect interpretations of Lewis's work that merit further exploration. One issue that comes up repeatedly in Pullman's comments is the absence of Susan from the "inner" Narnia where the rest of the English visitors to Narnia find themselves reunited at the conclusion of The Last Battle. Pullman objects mightily to Susan's "exclusion" and what it seems to imply about Lewis's attitudes toward adulthood. Susan, he claims, "is shut out from salvation because she is doing what every other child who has ever been born has done--she is beginning to sense the developing changes in her body and its effect on the opposite sex" (qtd. in Eccleshare). In Pullman's interpretation, the adult nature of Susan's interests is the crucial point, and her being "shut out" reflects Lewis's profound disapproval, even horror, of maturation: "he turns away in horror, explicitly with horror, from the process of growing up." This disapproval, moreover, has a dear religious source and significance: "'In other words, she's growing up. She's entering adulthood,' says Pullman. 'Now this for Lewis, was something [...] so dreadful and so redolent of sin that he had to send her to Hell'" (qtd. in Wartofsky). "What he's saying," Pullman concludes, "is that growing up is something we must avoid at all costs, that when you grow up you fall into the clutches of, well, lipstick and nylons, which means sexuality, which means Satan [...]" (Pullman). I will eventually argue that this interpretation is misguided, but it is a valuable one to consider, not only because it has appeared so frequently in the popular press, but also because it raises important issues in Lewis's work and brings together elements that criticism has not often connected. This interpretation is, in fact, a viable one, but it takes certain statements out of context and, more significantly, relies on certain crucial assumptions: assumptions about the nature of sin, the nature of the original prohibition, and about the incompatibility of wisdom with innocence. Readers familiar with Pullman's His Dark Materials fiction will recognize a consistency between his comments on Lewis and the cosmology that informs his own books, and while it is not my purpose here to debate the theological issues themselves, I submit that it is essential in interpreting (and evaluating) Lewis's fiction to attempt, at least, to identify the theological assumptions implicit within that fiction. (Indeed, it would be interesting to compare the two cosmologies, though it lies beyond the scope of my present project.) What will emerge is that Lewis disagrees not simply on whether the Fall was a fortunate one (I believe he does disagree with Pullman here) or on the necessity of growing up (I believe his view actually has much in common with Pullman's), but on those fundamental assumptions about innocence, sin, and maturity. Following Pullman's lead, my main concern will be with the Narnia series, but elucidating these assumptions will take me into other works, notably Perelandra. Such prohibitions bind not Pullman's own assumptions about the nature of sin and its relationship to maturity--the assumptions that largely drive his reading of Susan's exclusion from paradise--are spelled out in some detail in a Wisconsin Public Radio interview. …


Objectives: Lumbar spondylosis is described as a degenerative condition whose symptoms recur over a period of time. Hence, the objective of this study is to find out the effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and mechanical intermittent lumbar traction (MILT) (conventional therapy) with or without facetal joint mobilization in lumbar spondylosis for speedy and long-term recovery. Method: A total of 60 subjects clinically diagnosed with lumbar spondylosis of age between 40 and 60 years were recruited and divided into two groups (Groups A and B) with baseline treatment of TENS and MILT given to both groups and facetal joint mobilization along with baseline treatment given to the study group. Pre- and post-intervention outcome were measured using visual analog scale (VAS) for pain and modified Schobers test (MST) for a range of motion. Result: Results showed extremely significant improvement in VAS and MST score in Group A. Conclusion: Facetal joint mobilization along with TENS and MILT is effective in relieving pain and improving range of motion in lumbar spondylosis.


The spherical IEC concept as well as driving research objectives in the context of a potential application as an innovative plasma propulsion system in space are briefly introduced. The numerical approach currently under development is outlined. Focus is on the DSMC code development for the kinetic treatment of fusion reactions. Correspondingly, typical criteria like resolution necessities are derived. We find that for a fully kinetic all-scale particle simulation of a typical IEC device only one spatial scale needs to be considered. However, with the applied field solver (explicit, full Maxwell) three different time scales have to be accounted for, but the number of time scales might be reduced by one if e.g. a Poisson solver is used instead. Numerical problems are expected from an inappropriate definition of the Debye length as well as from the divergence of the Coulomb cross section. Potential countermeasures as well as certain solution paths are sketched.


One of the key technologies for TOFD inspection is identification and interpretation for graph spectrum.According to the distortion wave signal in TOFD graph spectrum,the time difference calculation was done,and the influence of non-correlation signal and distortion wave was excluded as much as possible combining with the analysis of inspection cases.So the identification and measuration for defect was done correctly,and misjudgment of defect was also avoided.


In order to perform EMC design activities, engineers need to have some tools for preliminary risk analysis to determine filters needs and/or architecture orientation choices. Huge variations in term of requirements between different carmakers can be observed (40 dB difference for example for a simple conducted emission test can be observed between OEMs). The product nature that we develop can be also very different (from small cameras to DC/DC converter for Electric Vehicle applications). As a consequence we decided to develop simulation capabilities based on Pspice, instead of using generic rules or simple return on experiences to design our products. This paper provides a synthesis of these capabilities, for emission, immunity and ESD testing, focusing on the latest modeling techniques developed for these different aspects.


Objective To analyze the effect and cost on the use of Phenobarbital as an appropriate health technology in the treatment of epileptic seizures in the primary health institutions,so as to provide some theory support for the promotion of the health technology. Methods Totally 164 patients with epilepsy from 3 township hospitals of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region were randomly assigned to the appropriate technology group and conventional technology group from July to August of 2010,and the therapeutic effects and costs of the two therapies were investigated. Results The cure rate and recovery rate were 18.5% and 71.6% in the appropriate technology group,and 20.3% and 65.8% in the appropriate technology group;the average daily drug costs were respectively RMB 0.199 yuan and 2.838 yuan in the two groups.And the total cost of conventional technology group was 7.26 times that of the appropriate technology for achieving the same therapeutic effect. Conclusion The appropriate technique of employing Phenobarbital for treatment of epileptic seizures is of good effect,so a great effort should be made to assure its popularization.


Due to technical advances in train control and wireless communications, unmanned train operation has gained in popularity of late. On the other hand, any errors involved in managing the QoS of train control traffic will cause negative consequences such as possible loss of life. Operators therefore naturally wish to scrutinize the specifications so that the wireless communications system is capable of guaranteeing the QoS of the train control traffic. In this article, we propose a feasible QoS management scheme for train control traffic based on the methodology used in a conventional LTE system. Based on the proposed scheme, we evaluate the feasibility of the LTE system using a testbed built in a commercial railway region. The key issues to support the train control services by the LTE system are the design of a QoS policy based on analyzing the characteristics of the train control traffic and the appropriate adjustment of the cell parameters during the cell planning and optimization procedures in order to resolve any network issues that may cause problems with data pause.


Projection system and method for operating a discharge lamp is described. The projection system includes a discharge lamp 12 and the drive electronics 14. Color wheel 18, for generating light sequence 20 with different colors in sequential color time periods 22, 22a, acts as a color filter for filtering the light 16 emitted from the lamp 12. During the color time periods 22, 22a, the time period 24,24a spokes are arranged. Drive electronics is provided with a first current pulse superimposed generated by at least one color time period 22,22a to the lamp current I. Allow greater flexibility, in order to achieve a certain color point through a stable arc operation and the lamp life, the driving electronics 14 further supplies a second current pulses superimposed on the lamp current. The second current pulse is generated during at least one of the time periods 24,24a spokes.


Climate change is a global issue that all governments have to encounter nowadays. In recent years, many governments are aware of the environmental issues necessary to agenda setting in their development objectives. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) conducted by the United Nations gives guidelines for the governments to integrate both economic and environmental issues in a sustainable development framework. Meanwhile, the rural development has also become a global agenda in reducing the disparity between urban and rural areas. Many governments have conducted development strategies for ensuring economic prosperity along with ecological sustainability, yet for generating rural-urban equality as well. Low Carbon Green Growth Program is one of the strategies aimed to meet those objectives. The main purpose of the program is to reduce carbon dioxide emission to minimize the effects of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) as the main cause of climate change and global warming. An immediate action useful to implement the program is managing and utilizing biochar in agricultural process. Previous studies have proved that the biochar reduces CO 2 emission and also restores soil fertility. One of the best applicable Low Carbon Green Growth Programs might be the pilot project conducted in Kameoka City of Japan called The Carbon Minus Project. The project's main purpose is to reduce carbon emission by promoting a low-carbon lifestyle, yet economically profitable. Nganjuk Regency generates abundant biomass from agriculture products, livestock, plantation, and forestry. The solid biomass can be converted into biochar through a pyrolysis process. The result of this study is expected to be taken into consideration by the local governments to promote low carbon lifestyle, to combat climate change, and yet to reduce the rural-urban disparity.


The invention discloses a fragrant type ink and a preparation method thereof. The fragrant type ink contains the following components in parts by weight: 10-12 parts of color black, 0.3-0.5 part of efficient dispersing agent, 2-3 parts of adhesive polyvinyl acetate emulsion, 10-13 parts of castor oil, 8-9 parts of pentaerythritol, 9-11 parts of cold cream type essence, 4-6 parts of purple glue, 0.2-0.3 part of anionic surfactant, 3-4 parts of preservative and 100-120 parts of distilled water. Thus, the ink formula and the technology are scientific and reasonable, the writing performance is excellent, the fragrance can be left on a written paper and can be kept for a long time, the working efficiency of the mental worker can be increased and fatigue can be eliminated.


A kind of gear assembly includes a planetary gearsets and a clutch.The planetary gearsets include a central gear, engaged with the central gear an at least planetary gear, support an at least one planetary support frame, and the external toothing engaged with an at least planetary gear.The clutch is operationally engaged and is separated with the planetary gearsets, so that the planetary gearsets can switch between a first mode and a second mode.