This article examines, from a feminist perspective, the costs and the benefits accruing to divorced mothers and suggests that for many women divorce may be the "chance of a new lifetime." Case materials from interviews with divorced mothers are cited and implications for social policy are discussed. Development of services and lobbying groups for divorced women within existing women's centers are advocated, as well as the establishment of specialized "divorce centers," to serve women both during the acute crises of separation and on a continuing basis.


On Nov. 13, environment ministers will be meeting in The Hague, trying to work out for the final time the mechanisms for implementing the United Nations' Kyoto protocol. The negotiations promise to be difficult and may leave important issues unresolved. However, the 1997 protocol, known formally as the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is not the only international effort going on that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A parallel movement taking place among global oil companies could sharply expand opportunities for implementing the emissions cuts mandated by the Kyoto protocol. Some of the world's largest oil firms are investing in research in alternative energy and in production facilities for renewable energy sources such as solar power, wind turbines, and fuel cells. Oil firms are also forming partnerships with auto companies to develop fuel cells and onboard reformers that convert liquid fossil fuels into hydrogen for fuel cells. ...


In a December 1988 news conference at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel, where leaders of seventy-five black groups met to discuss a new national black agenda, Jesse Jackson announced that members of their race preferred to be called "African-American." The campaign he then led to replace the term "black" met immediate success among African American opinion makers and more gradual acceptance in the national press. Jackson's cultural offensive proposed an ethnic reference for a racial one, aiming thereby to help create as much as express a sense of ethnic identity among black Americans. It recalled the successful imposition of "black" over "Negro" twenty years earlier and renewed other themes of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s. Names can be more than tags; they can convey powerful imagery. So naming proposing, imposing, and accepting names -can be a political exercise. And the call for blacks to be called African Americans was for more than a manner of speaking. "To be called African-Americans has cultural integrity," Jackson said. "It puts us in our proper historical context. Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some land base, some historical cultural base. African-Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity. There are Armenian-Americans and JewishAmericans and Arab-Americans and Italian-Americans; and with a degree of accepted and reasonable pride, they connect their heritage to their mother country and where they are now."'


A series of erosion-corrosion tests was carried out on AISI 1018 steel and four thermal sprayed coatings using a nozzle type elevated temperature erosion tester. The erodent particles were mechanical mixtures of SiO{sub 2} (quartz) with 1--4% NaCl or 1--4% KCl. The specimens were water-cooled on the backside. Test conditions attempted to simulate erosion-corrosion (E-C) conditions at the tubes in the convection pass of FBC boilers. The effect of Cl-bearing salt/quartz mixtures on the E-C wastage mechanisms of these materials were investigated. It was found that the E-C wastage of 1018 steel and carbide coating specimens increased with increasing amounts of NaCl and KCl doped in the quartz. Among the four coatings tested, a WC-17CoCr coating demonstrated the lowest thickness loss of all of the quartz/salt mixtures while the Cr{sub 3}C{sub 2}-25NiCr coating exhibited the highest E-C wastage. Meanwhile, quartz doped with NaCl or KCl had no effect on the E-C wastage of an HVOF Ni20Cr15Mo metal coating. The accelerating effect of doping alkali chlorides increased with both specimen surface temperature and environmental temperature.


Objective To explore the role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signal pathway in interleukin-8 (IL-8)/chemokine (C-X-C Motif) receptor 2 (CXCR2)-mediated growth and metastasis of liver cancer.Methods Eighty-two cases of liver cancer tissues and serum samples,and 21 cases of normal tissues and serum samples were collected.The level of serum IL-8 was measured by enzyme-linked immunesorbent assay (ELISA).Expression of CXCR2 was detected by immunohistochemical method,and its correlation with clinicopathological parameters was also analyzed.Different stages of liver cancer fresh tissues were selected,and expressions of CXCR2,PI3Kγ,AKT,and NF-κB were detected by Westeru blotting analyses.Results The levels of serum IL-8 in liver cancer patients (stages Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ) were (120.34 ±15.52) pg/ml,(221.60 ±23.10) pg/ml,(279.50 ±24.25) pg/ml,(324.81 ±22.50) pg/ml,respectively.With the increasing degree of liver cancers,levels of IL-8 were increased,most significant was in the Ⅳ period of liver cancer; the expression of CXCR2 was significantly correlated with pathological stages,degree of differentiation,lymph node and distant metastases of liver cancer (P < 0.05) ; serum IL-8 levels were consistent with expression of CXCR2 in liver cancer tissues,which had a strong correlation with activation of PI3K γ,AKT,and NF-κ B proteins.Conclusions IL-8/CXCR2 was able to mediate the growth and metastasis of liver cancers,which might be through the activation of PI3K signaling pathway.

Key words:
1-phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; Signal transduction; Interleukin-8; Chemokines,CXC; Liver neoplasms/pathology; Neoplasm metastasis


There has been some confusion in the literature concerning three species of Colias found in Wyoming. The taxa involved are Colias meadii Edwards, Colias alexandra Edwards, and Colias gigantea Strecker. Subspecies of alexandra and gigantea have been described from the state. The purpose of this paper is to examine the distributions of these three species of Colias in Wyoming with respect to range and subspecies. Intergrades within a given species are discussed and possible hybridization with another Colias group is examined. As necessary, populations from other geographic regions are treated.


CLRC Daresbury Laboratory operates the SRS light source, which consists of a linac, booster synchrotron, storage ring and 41 experimental stations. Protection of personnel from radiation and the hazards associated with the accelerators and photon beamlines is ensured through a dedicated personnel safety (PS) system. The design of the PS interlock hardware was produced over 20 years ago, and has been implemented using two generations of technology. The PS system has recently been reviewed due to changes in legislation and in preparation for future accelerator projects. This review included a formal analysis of part of the system using the technique of fault tree analysis to examine likely failure modes and system integrity. The analysis takes into account both hardware and human factors. This paper briefly presents the SRS PS system and discusses the outcome of the recent review and analysis.


[1] We present a 3-D time-dependent modeling of Mercury's extended sodium exosphere in the region of the distant tail. Recent simulations in support of the MESSENGER and BepiColombo missions have shown spatial distributions in Mercury's exosphere can be linked to specific source processes. Our model builds upon these efforts by concentrating on the escaping component of Mercury's surface-bound exosphere to assess the wide-field (7°) data described in the studies by Baumgardner et al. (2008) and Schmidt et al. (2010). Escape rates of several source processes in Mercury's exosphere are determined, and the effects of orbital motion, surface-gas interactions, variable source rates, and spatially heterogeneous sources are explored. Our simulations demonstrate that both photon-stimulated desorption and micrometeoroid impacts can result in a ∼20% loss of Mercury's sodium atmosphere, depending on orbital phase, and are jointly responsible for the observed comet-like tail as driven by solar radiation pressure. For a constant supply of both these sources into the exosphere, the modeled average column density over Mercury's disc decreases by ∼1/3 at 70° true anomaly (the orbital position for peak escape), consistent with observations over many orbits.


It is my privilege to present at this time certain observations based on an analysis of the character and significance of a rather extensive correspondence with lay citizens in all parts of the United States on the subject of medical and health information. Thousands of inquiries annually, seeking health and medical guidance, are addressed to public and private agencies—generally national agencies with no facilities for handling such inquiries other than the written reply. Now, while helpful advice and guidance can be given to a certain percentage of these inquiries, yet if the experience of one of those "national information bureaus," the insurance company with which I am connected, is a satisfactory guide, then the large bulk of correspondence that ensues is futile for reasons inherent in the procedure. A few seek advice concerning a community health problem and can be answered or intelligently referred. A few raise a theoretical question


were of normal length in ten of twelve cases treated at post-oestrus, functional luteal phase or pro-oestrus. In twenty-three of twenty-five cycles in which the treatments were performed between early luteal phase and late luteal phase, the mean length from the treatment to ovulation was 9\m=.\3\m=+-\ 1\m=.\6days, suggesting that intra-uterine treatment is effective in synchronizing the oestrous cycle and ovulation in cows except during pro-oestrus, oestrus and post-oestrus. Gel treatment produced a temporary endometritis associated with cloudy mucus and


There is provided an electronic device having a mutual capacitance touchscreen or touchpad having combined finger navigation and active stylus navigation and character entry capabilities. According to one such embodiment, first and second pluralities of sense and drive electrodes are disposed in or on at least one substrate, and form an array configured to permit a first location corresponding to a finger or a second location corresponding to an active stylus to be detected thereby. The drive electrodes in the array are configured to operate as drive electrodes when the touchscreen or touchpad operates in a first finger touch mode, and to operate as addi tional sense electrodes when the touchscreen or touchpad operates in a second active stylus mode.


The module studied in this paper is composed of two $1 \times 8$ dual polarization linear arrays. There are 1 RF input port and $2 \times 16$ RF output port in the system, corresponding to $2 \times 8$ antennas. The module provides control signal and power supply by a low frequency interface. Each channel is composed of power amplifier, phase shift and control circuit. After simulation and physical development, the single channel transmission power 17.2 dBm is finally realized, the deviation between the two polarization channels of the same antenna is $\leqslant 0.5 \mathrm{~dB}$, and the shape size is in $92.5 \mathrm{~mm} \times 23.8 \mathrm{~mm} \times 14.2 \mathrm{~mm}$.


The aim of this manuscript is to propose a new hybrid iterative block space-time receiver structure for millimeter wave (mmW) systems, to efficiently separate the spatial streams. We consider that both the transmitter and the received are equipped with a large antenna array and the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is lower that the number of antennas. The analog and digital parts of the equalizer are jointly optimized using as a metric the mean square error (MSE) between the transmitted data vector and its estimate after the digital equalizer. The specificities of the analog domain impose several constraints in the joint optimization. To efficiently deal with the constraints the analog part is selected from a dictionary based on the array response vectors. Our performance results have shown that the performance of the hybrid iterative space equalizer is close to the fully digital counterpart after only a few iterations. Moreover, it clearly outperforms the linear receivers recently proposed for hybrid mmW massive MIMO architectures.


Abstract The bryozoan fauna from the Dalmanitina Beds at Kinnekulle in Vastergotland, comprising thirteen species, is similar to that from Borenshult in Ostergotland, but differs from known contemporary faunas from Dalarna, Ojle Myr (Gotland) and Porkuni (Estonia). The Kinnekulle fauna is dominated by Clathropora bifurcata (Brood), Nematopora sublineata Mannil and Eridotrypella crassa n.sp.; the latter is described, together with Phylloporina kinnekullensis n.sp.


Zn-Al based alloys are good candidates in the proposal of alternative lead-free solder alloys for Silicon (Si) die attach in high-temperature applications because of its proper melting range and excellent thermal and electrical properties. There are limited studies on the feasibility of Zn based alloys in die attachment application and out of these studies, many did not include reliability test. In this report, the reliability of Si die attachment on Cu and Ni leadframes using Zn-Al-Ge based solder was investigated through high temperature storage (HTS) test. The die attachment process capability was verified using visual inspection, CSAM, and microscopic inspection on cross-sectioned samples. Die attached samples subsequently underwent HTS at 200 oC for up to 500 hours. SEM/EDX analysis was then carried out on cross-sectioned die attached samples being exposed to various storage durations to inspect for any failures and to identify intermetallic layers that were formed during the HTS. Results showed that good temperature tolerance at 500 hours was observed for soldering on Ni leadframe. However, several failures were seen in die attachment on Cu leadframe as early as 25 hours and up to 500 hours. This paper covers extensive analyses to understand these failure mechanisms applicable in this die attachment configuration.


Due to the explosive proliferation of mobile cloud computing applications, much data needs to be transmitted between mobile users and clouds, incurring a huge traffic demand on cellular networks. Mobile offloading is a promising approach to address this challenge. In this paper, we focus on the problem of offloading many deadline-sensitive data items to some WiFi networks with capacity constraints; that is, how to schedule each data item to the WiFi networks, so that we can offload as many data items before their deadlines as possible, while taking the constraints of transmission capacity into consideration. This problem involves a probabilistic combination of multiple 0-1 knapsack constraints, which differs from existing problems. To solve this problem, we propose a greedy oFfline Data Offloading (FDO) algorithm, achieving an approximation ratio of 2. Also, we propose an oNline Data Offloading (NDO) algorithm, which has a competitive ratio of 2. Additionally, we extend our problem to a more general scenario where WiFi transmission costs are heterogeneous. We design a Heterogeneous Data Offloading (HDO) algorithm to solve the extended problem, and give its performance analysis. Finally, we demonstrate the significant performances of our algorithms through extensive simulations based on some real-world and synthetic WiFi datasets.


In the keyboard musical instrument such as an acoustic piano, an acoustic piano or electronic piano having an exterior and machangajiin chair, the fall board provides a keyboard musical instrument having cavities in the inside of the plate-shaped member formed of a plate material made of resin. In addition, the plate material includes a resin foam plate and the plate-shaped, cavity portion comprises a plurality of air bubbles contained in the interior of the resin foam plate.


The charge density of a TiO 2 film deposited on a SiO 2 -passivated silicon wafer is determined. The TiO 2 is deposited by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition at 400°C, and the Si0 2 is grown thermally at 950°C. This TiO 2 ―SiO 2 stack is a useful coating for the front surface of a silicon solar cell, as it has a high optical transmission and a low density of interface states D it (E) at the SiO 2 ―Si interface. While these properties are beneficial to high efficiency solar cells, so too is a large charge density, as what occurs in Si 3 N 4 ―SiO 2 (+10 12 cm ―2 ) and Al 2 O 3 ―SiO 2 (―10 13 cm ―2 ) stacks. The D it (E) and charge density of TiO 2 -coated and SiO 2 -passivated silicon are evaluated by capacitance―voltage and Kelvin probe measurements. The charge density of the TiO 2 is within the conservative limits of ―8.5 and ―1 × 10 11 cm ―2 after deposition and of ―10 and +1 × 10 11 cm ―2 after a subsequent 800°C oxygen anneal. Photoconductance measurements suggest that the dangling-bond defects at the SiO 2 ―Si interface are predominantly donorlike and, hence, that the change density in the TiO 2 is closer to the upper limits (less negative); this charge is too small to benefit solar cells.


A field experiment was conducted at Bihar Agricultural University farm, Sabour, during rabi season 2011-12 and 2012-13 to evaluate the effect of sources and doses of hydrogel on growth, yield, root characteristics and economics of winter maize. The experiment comprised of two sources of hydrogel i.e. Stockosorb and Pusa gel in main plot and their application doses viz., Control (No hydrogel), 50% hydrogel dose, 75% hydrogel dose, 100% hydrogel dose (20 kg/ha), 125% hydrogel dose and 150% hydrogel dose in sub plots laid out in split plot design with three replications. Results indicated that sources of hydrogel did not affect growth parameters significantly, however, they were significantly higher by hydrogel doses up to 150%. Plant height did not vary significantly due to hydrogel sources. Pusa gel was found superior over Stockosorb. Among hydrogel doses, 150% gel dose recorded maximum plant height (203.5 cm) as compared to control and was at par with 125% dose. At 90 DAS, Stockosorb was noted for higher LAI than Pusa gel. However, difference between gel sources was non-significant. Among hydrogel doses, 100%, 125% and 150% were on par with each other at 90 DAS and 125 DAS. Lowest LAI was recorded in control in both the time intervals. All the yield attributes were significantly influenced by gel sources except 1000-grain weight, however, they were significantly differed by hydrogel doses. Highest grain yield (81.7 q/ha) was recorded under 150% gel dose which was 2.1% higher than those of 125% gel dose, respectively, however, application of 100% and 125% dose differed significantly among each other. Recommended hydrogel dose recorded 3.3%, 10.6% and 29.2% higher grain yield over 75%, 50% gel dose and control, respectively. Stover yield was significantly highest under 150% gel dose which was superior over rest of the gel doses except 100% and 125% gel dose. Stone yield was recorded maximum under 150% gel dose being at par with 125% gel dose and was significantly higher over rest of the gel doses. Number of rootlets and root dry weight was found highest at 150% gel dose. Recommended dose of hydrogel at 20 kg/ha recorded Rs. 3,332/ha higher net return than control.


Opal phytoliths are particles of opal (amorphorous hydrated silica) that develop in the tissues of plants. These particles take on a fascinating variety of shapes depending on the type of plant in which they form. When plants decay, opal phytoliths accumulate in the soil and provide a record of the plants that once grey there. They have proven and potential value in a wide range of research in palaeoecology, but have received little attention in New Zealand. In some countries, they are also being used as raw materials for modern industrial products. This guide provides many microscopic photographs to aid identification.


We present a rigorous optical simulation of photon recycling in a nanostructured perovskite layer stack resembling a solar cell. Relevant emission characteristics such as the fraction of recycled light and far-field angular spectrum are deduced.


MCELROY, ERIC J., Ph.D., August 2008, Biological Sciences The Functional Morphology of Lizard Locomotion: Integrating Biomechanics, Kinematics, Morphology, and Behavior (182 pp.) Director of Dissertation: Stephen M. Reilly Lizards have long served as a model system for understanding how locomotor functional morphology meets ecological demands. However, far less is known about how behavior modulates this relationship. Likewise, there is still a need for a comprehensive understanding of lizard locomotor functional morphology. This dissertation presents four studies that focus on how behavior molds locomotion and advances our understanding of lizard locomotor functional morphology. Chapter one examines variation in locomotor performance, whole-body mechanics and gaits in a phylogenetic array of lizards that use differing foraging modes. Multivariate and phylogenetic comparative analyses show that foraging mode drives the evolution of biomechanics and gaits in lizards. Sit-and-wait species used only fast speeds, trotting gaits, and running mechanics, whereas wide foraging species independently evolved slower locomotion, different walking gaits, and walking mechanics. Chapter two examines patterns of variation in the hierarchical relationship among morphology, kinematics and force during fast running in seven species of lizards. Multivariate analyses test for correlations among levels to reveal the morphological basis for kinematics and locomotor forces. The results show that limb length, support duration and float distance directly influence the nature of forces applied to the ground during the support phase of steady state locomotion and suggest that this relationship may affect locomotor energetics and endurance.


For child sexuality education, the "body" issue is one of the basic but important elements in child sexual development and sexuality education. The child, still illiterate, can learn sexuality education through pictures, so the children's picture books can be its earliest and easiest learning source. As a teacher on sexuality education and child education, I am trying to bring these two fields into consideration and make a further exploration. Therefore, literature analysis method and text analysis method are adopted in the study. first, inducting the child's "body issue" from the literature about psychosexual development, child curiosity, and sex role based on literature analysis method; then, through text analysis method exploring the "body issue" messages the child gets from the eleven children's picture books concerning "body issue" on the current market for under six years old. Through the above process, we come to the conclusions as follows: 1 .Currently, the children's picture books on 'body issue' are very rare and confined to 'the stereotype of sex role'-as a big myth. These children's picture books provide messages about bodily(or physical)areas, body development, body cleaning, body privacy and protection-that is basically instructive but a little ambiguous and simple. Furthermore, although the authors of these children's picture books objectively criticize the stereotype of sex role, they emphases on the contradictive viewpoint, therefore, in applying the children's picture books, we must provide various viewpoints and an open dialogue space, and carefully try not to fall into another kind of stereotype. 2.Since 1999, there have been two children's picture books on 'body issue' steadily published each year. These books gradually stand on the children's position, speaking for them, understanding their curiosity about sex and even come to criticize the myth of adults and their dogmatism. It is no doubt that these viewpoints can provide a communication platform between children and adults, which brings a strong support for advocating child sexuality education. 3.Clearly, the child himself is an individual with the abilities of interpreting and thought-building. What the child can learn from the children's picture books is the key issue for the adult editing these books.


The research aims to reveal the relationship between the use of social networking sites and the image that females make about their physical formation, the nature of the effects, their value judgments about the image of their bodies, their attitudes toward plastic surgery, the most important types of these processes for them, their motivations to conduct them, and the cultural pressures they are exposed to. The study, moreover, investigates in the effects of those plastic surgery on their behavior as active and interacting users with what is published on social media, according to the theory of social comparison. This paper is an attempt to understand the pattern of social networking operation and its implications for the human self.

The research community formed of "females", and the sample included (204) respondents from the followers of "fashionista/ fashionist". The survey approach was used over the intentional sample method to obtain research data through the electronic questionnaire. The questionnaire contained closed questions and phrases according to Likert scale. The research reached several results, including:

 The sample of the research mostly ranges between 18-28 years of age, having a university education, and are not married and economically sufficient.

 Always interested in following "fashion" from "fashionista", and sometimes learning cooking techniques, and rarely follow "fashionist".

They have a desire to perform plastic surgery, and they were respectively "filler and Botox, remove wrinkles", rhinoplasty, plastic surgery and whitening teeth, sculpting the waist and buttocks, getting the lip of the duck, and finally liposuction and stomach cutting.

 As for their motives of plastic surgery, mostly, are done in order to satisfy themselves, and in the second place to satisfy people, and in the third position to satisfy their husbands, and in the fourth position to obtain a husband. Finally, they do that to get a job.


This document describes the working procedues and approaches to project digital graphicsonto physical architecture, ie how computer graphics can be applied onto real buildings withprojectors.The te ...


A wind-tunnel investigation was carried out to characterize the spatial distribution of the integral time scale ( T u ) within, and in the vicinity of, two model wind farms. The turbine arrays were placed over a rough wall and operated under high turbulence. The two layouts consisted of aligned units distinguished only by the streamwise spacing ( Δ x T ) between the devices, set at five and ten rotor diameters d T (or S x = Δ x T / d T = 5 and 10). They shared the same spanwise spacing between turbines of 2.5 d T ; this resulted in arrays of 8 × 3 and 5 × 3 horizontal-axis turbines. Hotwire anemometry was used to characterize the instantaneous velocity at various vertical and transverse locations along the central column of the wind farms. Results show that T u was modulated by the wind farm layout. It was significantly reduced within the wind farms and right above them, where the internal boundary layer develops. The undisturbed levels above the wind farms were recovered only at ≈ d T / 2 above the top tip. This quantity appeared to reach adjusted values starting the fifth row of turbines in the S x = 5 wind farm, and earlier in the S x = 10 counterpart. Within the adjusted zone, the distribution of T u at hub height exhibited a negligible growth in the S x = 5 case; whereas it underwent a mild growth in the S x = 10 wind farm. In addition, the flow impinging the inner turbines exhibited T u / T i n c u < 1 , where T i n c u is the integral time scale of the overall incoming flow. Specifically, T u → β T i n c u at z = z h u b , where β < 1 within standard layouts of wind farms, in particular β ≈ 0.5 and 0.7 for S x = 5 and 10.


This paper is concerned with a language trend which has been going on in the last few years in Germany: patterns of non-native German, often called "Türkendeutsch" ('TurkGerman'), are reproduced in different kinds of mass media, and some media reproductions have triggered an imitation trend among native speakers of German. The aim of this paper is to describe the mediated reproduction of such linguistic patterns and their subsequent appropriation by native speakers. As the title indicates, my aim is to work out how these speech patterns move from their community of origin ("the streets") over mediated discourse ("the screens") to the face-to-face communication of native German speakers ("back again"). In this introduction, I will conceptualise my topic with regard to two areas of recent sociolinguistic research, i.e. new language varieties in Europe and language crossing.


In this work, we analyze the problem of scheduling a set of independent jobs on a homogeneous parallel computer. This problem has been widely studied from both a theoretical perspective (complexity analysis, and predictability of scheduling algorithms) and practical side (schedulers in production systems). It is common for some processors of a cluster to become unavailable for a certain period of time corresponding to reservations. These reservations represent blocks of time and quantities of resources set assigned in advance for specific applications. We propose here to investigate the scheduling problem where there are restricted resource availabilities. Our main result is to provide a deep analysis for this problem (complexity, lower bounds and upper bounds) for several variants of list scheduling algorithms. More precisely, we show that the problem of scheduling with any reservations can not be approximated. This leads to the study of restricted versions of this problem where the amount of reservation is limited. Our analysis is based on an old bound of Graham for resource constraint list scheduling for which we propose a new simpler proof by considering the continuous version of this problem.


The earlier investigation of radiation damage to certain amino acids with the method of electron spin resonance was extended to all the basic amino acids. Most amino acids when x-irradiated were found to have characteristic resonance patterns, each different from those found for the other amino acids. For most of them the characteristic patiern arises from hydrogen nuclear coupling with the electron spin. However. cysteine, cystine. and glutathione gave very similar resonance patterns. For these compounds the structure of the resonance appears to arise mainly from an anisotropy in the g-factor rather than from nuclear interactions. The common pattern of these sulfurcontaining amino acids suggests that the odd electron is mainly localized on the sulfur. The absence of resolvable structure for the resonances of x-irradiated tyrosine and tryptophan suggests that the odd electron giving the resonance may be migrating within the unsaturated rings of these substances. The evidence indicates that the tyrosine and tryptophan rings, in addition to sulfur groups, may in certain combinations act as protective agents to prevent radiation damage to other parts of the molecule. Tentative identifications of the free radicals produced by irradiation of a few of the acids are made from the structure of themore » resonances.« less


Background Stability of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is dependent on correct and precise rotation of the femoral component. Multiple differing surgical techniques are currently utilized to perform total knee arthroplasty. Accurate implant position have been cited as the most important factors of successful TKA. There are two techniques of achieving soft gap balancing in TKA; a measured resection technique and a balanced gap technique. Debate still exists on the choice of surgical technique to achieve the optimal soft tissue balance with opinions divided between the measured resection technique and the gap balance technique. In the measured resection technique, the bone resection depends on size of the prosthesis and is referenced to fixed anatomical landmarks. This technique however may have accompanying problems in imbalanced patients. Prediction of gap balancing technique, tries to overcome these fallacies. Our aim in this study was twofold: 1) To describe our methodology of ROBOTIC TKA using prediction of gap balancing technique. 2) To analyze the clinico-radiological outcome our technique comparison of meseaured resection ROBOTIC TKA after 1year. Methods Patients that underwent primary TKA using a robotic system were included for this study. Only patients with a diagnosis of primary degenerative osteoarthritis with varus deformity and flexion deformity of were included in this study. Patients with valgus deformity, secondary arthritis, inflammatory arthritis, and severe varus/flexion deformity were excluded. Three hundred ten patients (319 knees) who underwent ROBOTIC TKA using measured resection technique from 2004 – 2009. Two hundred twenty (212 knees) who underwent ROBOTIC TKA using prediction of gap balancing technique from 2010 – 2012. Clinical outcomes including KS and WOMAC scores, and ranges of motion and radiological outcomes including mechanical axis, prosthesis alignments, flexion varus/valgus stabilities were compared after 1year. Results Leg mechanical axes were significantly different at follow-up 1year versus preoperative values, the mean axes in the Robotic-TKA with measured resection technique and Robotic-TKA with prediction of gap balancing technique improved from 9.6±5.0° of varus to 0.5±1.9° of varus, and from 10.6±5.5° to 0.4±1.3° of varus (p p =0.045 and 0.032, respectively). KS knee and function scores and WOMAC scores were significantly improved at follow-up 1year ( pi¼i?½0.05 ). However, no significant difference was found between the Robotic-TKA with measured resection technique and Robotic-TKA with prediction of gap balancing technique for any clinical outcome parameter at follow-up 1year ( pi¼i?½0.05 ). Conclusions Robotic assisted TKA using measured resection or gap prediction technique provide adequate and practically identical levels of flexion stability at 90° of knee flexion with accurate leg and prosthesis alignment. But, Robotic TKA using measured resection technique have less than flexion stability compared with gap prediction technique with statistical significance after follow-up 1year.


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This article purports to investigate the relationship – in an empirical way – between the various operational indicators currently used for the management of call centers in Brazil and customer satisfaction. In this context, a set of call centers rendering services to a telecommunications company will be analyzed in order to verify which of their indicators are positively associated with customer satisfaction. A methodological approach based on surveys as well as stepwise multiple linear regressions is developed and applied in order to achieve the objective of this paper. The "First-Contact Resolution Rate†and the "Average Handle Time After the Call†indicators present a statistically significant relationship with customer satisfaction. Some alternative call center operational performance indicators are proposed, in an exploratory way, so as to convey an enhanced relationship between call center performance and customer satisfaction.


Aim. To study the impact of investment on economic growth and ensuring economic security in modern Russia, developing under the conditions of economic sanctions from the countries of the "collective West".Tasks. To describe the impact of sanctions on the Russian economic system, to assess their impact on national economic security. To study investment activity in Russia in the medium term, including its transformation in the conditions of non-economic shock caused by sanctions. To offer recommendations for improving the state investment policy.Methods. In preparing the article we used general scientific methods of research (comparative, retrospective, macroeconomic analysis), as well as special methods of economic and mathematical modeling, forecasting, statistical data analysis, and expert assessments.Results. Anti-Russian sanctions have caused a number of new challenges and complex threats to national economic security. The sanctions caused a macroeconomic shock. But, despite the volatility and volatility of GDP, the Russian economy is experiencing a trend of long-term growth, which indicates the presence of sufficiently effective mechanisms for preserving national economic security. At the same time, this growth is rather sluggish, it is necessary to launch mechanisms for its acceleration, which is difficult in the conditions of external sanctions restrictions. The basis for success in economic growth is high investment activity. Its stimulation should become one of the priorities of Russia's current economic policy. Despite the political and economic turbulence caused by the sanctions and the general contraction of the economy, investments, contrary to expectations, did not decline in Russia in 2022, although their growth rate slowed down. At the same time, the structure of investments has changed unfavorably. The author's study reveals atypical behavior of investments in Russia under the shocks of 2020 and 2022: the growth rate of investments slowed down, but at the same time they grew in absolute terms in both actual and comparable prices, despite the general crisis in the economy. This creates preconditions for future growth. Apparently, Russian investors did not revise their plans, remaining confident that external sanctions will not only be successfully overcome, but may also give a new impetus to the development of domestic production, as it happened with agricultural production after the food embargo introduced in 2014. This indicates high confidence of national business in the policy pursued by the authorities. In order to maintain the sustainability of socio-economic development and the realization of national economic interests, it is important to achieve a steady decline in investment activity and prevent the curtailment of investment. This is possible only through the creation by the state of such an investment environment, such conditions that are understandable and attractive for the business community and arouse its confidence.Conclusions. The impact of sanctions on the Russian economy is immediate and prolonged. The Russian economy has successfully coped with the initial sanctions shock. But the delayed effects of sanctions remain, they act as a significant threat to national economic security, which makes it necessary to strengthen measures to counteract them and preserve economic stability. The investment policy of the state has a significant role in solving these problems, which is considered in the article as a tool to overcome the threats to national economic security caused by sanctions. Investment activity of private business in the new conditions requires state support, the article reveals the directions and conceptual provisions of such support.


Factors of influencing quality of hydrothermal growth ruby crystal are discussed according to the research results of high quality hydrothermal growth ruby and the growing experiments with an emphasis on the growing speed and crystal quality improvement methods by adjusting high pressure bomb dimension,crystal seed quality and orientation and several other factors as imperity,temperature fluctuation and crystal cracking.


Continuing previous work, we show the existence of stable, anisotropic future attractors in Bianchi invariant sets with a p -form field () and a perfect fluid. In particular, we consider the not previously investigated Bianchi invariant sets (II), (IV), (VII0) and (VIIh) and determine their asymptotic behaviour. We find that the isolated equilibrium set Wonderland is a future attractor on all of its existence () in all these sets except in (II), where the peculiar equilibrium sets Edge and Rope show up, taking over the stability for certain values of . In addition, in (IV) and (VIIh) plane gravitational wave solutions (with a non-zero p -form) serve as attractors whenever .


The resonant frequencies of released microcantilevers, microbeams, and microplates are among the most important response characteristics for microelectromechanical systems such as resonators, sensors, and radio frequency (RF) switches. It is generally believed that the resonance frequencies of such structures decrease monotonically as the surrounding gas pressure is increased from vacuum conditions. However, we find that for microbeams supported on gas films the natural frequencies of the device can first increase and then decrease with increasing gas pressure from vacuum, with the extent of non-monotonicity depending on device geometry. This anomalous property of a wide class of microelectromechanical systems is explained in terms of the competing inertial and compressive effects of the supporting squeeze film.


In this essay I argue that one of the things that matters most to Descartes' account of mind is that we use our minds actively. This is because for him only an active mind is able to re-organize its passionate experiences in such a way that a genuinely human, self-governed life of virtue and true contentment becomes possible. To bring out this connection, I will read the Meditations against the backdrop of Descartes' correspondence with Elisabeth. This will reveal that in Descartes' writings there is a crucial connection between the conception of ourselves as dreamers and the idea that we fail to realize our true potential as self-determined, active agents. Dreams, as Descartes conceives them, are passively received mental states that inhibit our freedom to use reason at will. To awaken here takes the form of activating our thoughts, which holds the key to freeing ourselves from the stimulus-response patterns that Descartes takes to be at work in animal conduct. Applied to the Meditations, these insights suggest that this work engages in questions far beyond the epistemological agenda. By activating the mind, the Meditations teach us how to realize our true human potential as virtuous thinkers and passionate agents.


To ensure the safety of the operation and improve the operational efficiency of an urban rail transit network, it is vital to study its reliability., and the complex network theory can be a practical access. In this paper, the Pajek method is used to model the three periods of Shenzhen Metro network. MATLAB is used to analysis the evaluation indices of complex network theory to assess the development of urban rail transit in Shenzhen. At the same time, how and to what extent the whole rail transit network will be affected in case of failures at transfer stations, as well as the network's reliability in this situation is studied emphatically. The simulation results show that the connectivity of Shenzhen Metro network needs to be improved. When facing deliberate attacks, key nodes of the network like Chegongmiao Station, Futian Station and Qianhaiwan Station have a greater implication on the efficiency of the entire network.


Anthonomus grandis thurbelriae Pierce, released from hibernation cells in bolls of wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi Todaro, in December and February survived until late June and July. Longevity of released weevils increased when moisture was made available. However, a large percentage of weevils remaining in hibernation cells were still alive when all released weevils had died. In laboratory tests, released weevils readily moved to moist niches.


Urinary lipid bilayer–bound extracellular vesicles (EVs) are released from all nephron segments under both physiologic and pathologic conditions 1,2 and carry cytoplasmic protein, lipids, and microRNAs (miRs). Accumulating evidence implicates miRs in kidney injury and BP control, 3–6 but whether miR levels are altered in kidneys exposed to hypertension of different causes remains unclear. We tested the hypothesis that urinary EVs show different expression of selected miRs in essential (EH) and renovascular hypertension (RVH) and in healthy volunteers (HVs). This HIPAA-compliant study was institutional review board– approved, and written informed consent was obtained. We prospectively recruited 30 hypertensive adults diagnosed with EH (n = 15) or RVH (n = 15). Data and samples were obtained from the Mayo Biobank for age- and BMI-matched HVs without diabetes, hypertension, or drug treatment. miR-21, -92a, -93, -126, -148, -192, -200b, -377, and -433, known for regulation of renal fibrosis and angiogenesis, 3,6–9 were quantified from total RNA extracted from EVs isolated from urine from 24-hour collections in hypertensive patients and spot samples in HVs (detailed methods in Item S1). We used analysis of variance, χ 2 test, or Fisher exact test to compare groups. Analysis of covariance (to adjust miR levels by clinical parameters) and partial correlation analysis (for comparison between miRs and clinical values) were performed with JMP 10.0. Pairwise comparisons were only performed for overall P ≤ 0.05.


Background: Septoplasty or septal reconstruction is a corrective surgical procedure performed to straighten nasal septum. It may be associated with numerous complications. To minimize these complications, both nasal cavities are frequently packed with different types of nasal packing. The solid and porous characteristics of Merocel not only help in better hemostasis, but also cause more pain during insertion of nasal pack, pain while pack is inside the nasal cavity, and pain during removal of the pack. Objective: To investigate the effect of using Merocel in glove finger over plain Merocel as a nasal packing after septoplasty. Patients and methods: Data for this study was collected from patients attending in Al-Sahel teaching hospital during period from March 2019 to December 2020. In this study, the total number of patients is 60, the age ranged from 18 to 45 (38 males, 22 females). All patients presented with symptomatic deviated nasal septum. All cases are diagnosed after taking a detailed history regarding nasal obstruction and associated symptoms like nasal discharge and headache and by endoscopic examination to detect the site of deviation and other nasal abnormalities. Results: In this study the range of pain scoring in group A was (1-6) and the mean ±SD was 3.300 ± 1.291 while the range in group B was (3-9) and the mean ± SD was 6700 ± 1.489. In this study, moderate bleeding was observed in one patient (3.33%) during pack removal in Group A. In Group B, 18 patients (60%) had moderate bleeding on pack removal, suggesting that glove finger ‑ coated Merocel plays a role in avoiding friction between Merocel and surgical wound on pack removal, which reduces mucosal damage or bleeding amount. In this study, mild postoperative crustation was observed in 10 patients (33.33%) after pack removal n group A, while in group B there were 14 patients (46.67%). There were no patients with moderate postoperative crustation n group A, while in group B there were 10 patients (33.33%). Conclusion: Gloved Merocel produces less pain and bleeding during its removal and less postoperative crustation, adhesion and inflammation. Gloved Merocel is preferred over ungloved Merocel as nasal packing following septoplasty. Thus, glove finger Merocel can be used as an excellent packing material.


A study program has been conducted to explore new methods of achieving zero leakage, separable and semipermanent, ducting joints for space flight vehicles. The study consisted of a search of literature of existing zero leakage methods, the generation of concepts of new methods of achieving the desired zero leakage criteria and the development of detailed analysis and design of a selected concept. Other techniques of leak detection were explored with a view toward improving this area.


The paper presents the design of a new nonlinear real-time adaptive control algorithm which is suitable the systems with saturation nonlinearity at the input. The linear part of the system can be non-minimum phase and/or unstable. The control algorithm is of the self-tuning type. The algorithm utilizes an auxiliary control parameter that can be chosen on-line to keep the controller output in the linear zone of the saturation nonlinearity. Stability of the algorithm is discussed. Several simulation experiments are performed to demonstrate effectiveness of the algorithm. Finally, the algorithm is applied to the real time pressure tank process control system successfully.


Currently, the aging of the population is no longer a forgotten subject for health professionals in Brazil. This is due to the decrease in the birth rate in the country and the improvement in quality of life, this first factor was boosted after the ease of access to information on contraceptive methods and their distribution by the health system. As a result, the Nutrition area has been studying more diligently ways to provide elderly people with methods that contribute to a more comfortable, healthy, and long-lasting life. The nutritionist is essential to identify the deficits and disharmonization of the body of the elderly caused naturally over the years in people's lives, such as loss of muscle mass, and lack of nutrients, among others. Given this scenario, this work will be focused on showing that the use of oral Glutamine supplementation contributes to the gain of muscle mass in the elderly since this natural amino acid present mainly in the muscle tissue of the human body is greatly reduced due to loss of mass skin and body weight gain caused by the slow metabolism found in older people. In this way, supplementation along with a well-designed nutritional table and an exercise routine will promote less chance of injury to the elderly due to a lack of nutrients and greater physical resistance. To reinforce and prove this study, we will use the literature review method distributed in topics.


We present the discovery and characterisation of the post-common-envelope central star system in the planetary nebula PN G283.7−05.1. Deep images taken as part of the POPIPlaN survey indicate that the nebula may possess a bipolar morphology similar to other post-common-envelope planetary nebulae. Simultaneous light and radial velocity curve modelling reveals that the newly discovered binary system comprises a highly irradiated M-type main-sequence star in a 5.9-hour orbit with a hot pre-white dwarf. The nebular progenitor is found to have a particularly low mass of around 0.4 M⊙, making PN G283.7−05.1 one of only a handful of candidate planetary nebulae that is the product of a common-envelope event while still on the red giant branch. In addition to its low mass, the model temperature, surface gravity, and luminosity are all found to be consistent with the observed stellar and nebular spectra through comparison with model atmospheres and photoionisation modelling. However, the high temperature (Teff ∼ 95 kK) and high luminosity of the central star of the nebula are not consistent with post-RGB evolutionary tracks.


The ability of Br. melitensis, Br. abortus and Br. suis to grow in the presence of certain aniline dyes forms one of the most important criteria for distinguishing these species. The dye-sensitivity test, first described by Huddleson and Abell (1928)


The differences in emotional handling between male and female adolescents lead to differences in the way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. This experimental research used the Emotional Experience Writing (EXPRIT) model as an intervention for 15 orphans (8 male adolescents from the Tunas Melati Orphanage and 7 female adolescents from Tunas Harapan Orphanage in Pontianak City aged 12-18 years). There were rapport-building sessions at the start of the study as well as five intervention sessions. Qualitative data were collected by coding techniques on the subject's writing, and The Emotional Handling Scale was used to collect quantitative data. The data analysis is using paired t test. This study revealed differences in emotional handling abilities between the two groups of adolescents based on gender. The t test scores were higher than the t table in both orphanages. This result shows that the EXPRIT model as an intervention, affects the ability to deal with emotions for both genders in the form of different models of emotional control.


Advanced electronic devices based on compound semiconductors often make use of selective area ion implantation doping or isolation. The implantation processing becomes more complex as the device dimensions are reduced and more complex material systems are employed. The authors review several applications of ion implantation to high performance junction field effect transistors (JFETs) and heterostructure field effect transistors (HFETs) that are based on compound semiconductors, including: GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaP, and AlGaSb.


Summary of the doctoral dissertation Interpersonality Strategies in International Student Handbooks Written by Native Speakers of English (NSE) and Non-native Speakers of English (NNSE) Tesis doctoral presentada por: Stan McDaniel Mann Valencia, 2014 Have you ever read a brochure or handbook written in English by a non-native speaker of English (NNSE), noticed that the grammar and syntax was excellent and the terminology was near-perfect, but you still did not understand the essence of what the author was trying to communicate, or you had the feeling that the information was ambiguous? It was precisely for these two reasons that this research on interpersonality strategies was carried out. Through this analysis it is hoped to contribute to explaining why international student handbooks written by NNSE do not persuade effectively enough and do not establish a proper writer-reader relationship, which are precisely two of the main goals of interpersonality. Interpersonality is also referred to as interactional metadiscourse or interpersonal metadiscourse, and all three terms are used interchangeably throughout this study. Since the term metadiscourse was coined over 50 years ago, the definitions for it have continuously evolved. Metadiscourse may be broadly described as overtly expressing the writer´s acknowledgement of the reader (Dahl, 2004, p. 1811). There are two classifications of metadiscourse, textual metadiscourse and interactional metadiscourse. For this study, interactional metadiscourse has been chosen due to its focus on establishing a close writer-reader relationship. Hyland and Tse´s (2004) model of analysis proved to be the most reliable for this study due to the fact that it was the first classification of interactional metadiscourse markers with 5 main interactional metadiscourse categories: hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, and self-mentions, each category with its corresponding subcategories for a more precise classification and analysis. The main objective was to see the difference of interpersonal metadiscourse usage between NSE and NNSE authors of international student handbooks. The corpus for this study consisted of 50 international student handbooks written by NSE authors, 10 handbooks from 10 different universities from the following NSE countries: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia, and 50 handbooks written by NNSE authors, 10 handbooks from 10 different universities from the following NNSE countries: France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Japan. A total of 31,989 interpersonal metadiscourse markers from NSE handbooks were classified and analyzed, and a total of 12,948 interpersonal metadiscourse markers from NNSE handbooks were classified and analyzed. This study was rather unique in that, unlike the vast majority of the previous research performed on interpersonal metadisdourse which was done on the genre of the research article, it was focused on the business-academic genre of international student handbooks. For the statistical analysis, the obtained data was submitted to SPSS, and the ANOVA and T-tests were run. For the percentage analysis, percentages were computed for the main categories and subcategories of interactional metdisdourse. Significant and highly significant differences were discovered and discussed. On a general level, NNSE authors used a total of 10.03% of interactional metadiscourse while NNSE authors used only 5.69%. One of the most surprising results was a very significant difference between interactional metadiscourse usage between to NSE countries. UK authors used a total of 13.37% of interactional metadiscourse while authors from Australia used a mere 6.82%, representing a very unusual variance between 2 NSE countries. A broad conclusion of this study is that there is definitely a difference in interactional metadiscourse usage between NSE and NNSE authors of international student handbooks which could possibly be due to educational and/or cultural factors. One of the suggestions for possible further research in this field could be the impact of including interpersonality strategies in programs for teaching English as a foreign language.


In Search of the Fractional Four Color Theorem by Ari Nieh May 2001 Tait showed in 1878 that the Four Color Theorem is equivalent to being able to three-color the edges of any planar, three-regular, two-edge-connected graph. Not surprisingly, this equivalent problem proved to be equally difficult. We consider the problem of fractional colorings, which resemble ordinary colorings but allow for some degree of cheating. Happily, it is known that every planar three-regular, two-edge-connected graph is fractionally three-edge-colorable. Is there an analogue to Tait's Theorem which would allow us to derive the Fractional Four Color Theorem from this edge-coloring result?


Sir, A 75-year-old Japanese man presented to a dermatologist of Chiba University Hospital with a nodule lesion on the scalp, which had been present for approximately 5 months. He was not immunocompromised. Histopathological examination suggested angiosarcoma. The patient was transferred to our hospital. He had a 50 × 50 mm ulcer with central necrosis surrounded by haemorrhagic nodules on the frontal region and an adjacent 30 × 30 mm ulcer covered with a bloody crust (Fig. 1a). A biopsy specimen taken from the border of the ulcer showed dermal bleeding and numerous irregular vessels with pleomorphic and atypical cells (Fig. 1b). Immunohistochemical staining demonstrated reactivity of tumour cells to CD31 and EN-4, but not to CD34 or factor VIIIrelated antigen. A diagnosis of ulcerative-type scalp angiosarcoma was made. No other tumours were found with computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging of the whole body. The scalp lesion was treated with electron beam radiotherapy at a total dose of 70 Gy and chemotherapy of docetaxel (50–80 mg/m2/day) was performed biweekly as a combined therapy. After 10 months, however, the treatment was discontinued due to hypoproteinaemia with anorexia. One month later, the patient was conscious of the intraoral putrid odor, and a dentist reported a maxillary tumour. The tumour was a 40 × 40 mm purple-red, pedunculated nodule covered with yellowish-white necrotic tissue (Fig. 2), which invaded the gingival sulcus between the teeth. CT revealed that the oral tumour penetrated into the maxillary sinus with bone disruption. Histopathological and immunohistochemical findings were consistent with those of the original scalp tumour (Fig. 1c). Therefore, the oral tumour was thought to be metastasis from angiosarcoma of the scalp. With a total dose of 60 Gy X-ray, the tumour regressed, leaving an ulcer on the gingiva. This was finally identified as gingival metastasis. Unfortunately the patient died 4 months later from pneumothorax and haemothorax. Autopsy confirmed that there was no residual tumour in the maxilla. Angiosarcoma of the Scalp with Metastasis to the Gingiva


Following intravenous administration of ~(125)I-LH-RH(about 20 μg,14-18μci),the radioactivity of various organs was determined in rats.The control animalswere injected with Na ~(125)I of the same radioactivity.After 3 minutes,the ratswere sacrificed by decapitation.The liver,kidney,cardiac muscles,ovary,uterus,ileum,skeletal muscles,hypophysis,pineal body,hypothalamus and cerebral cortexwere immediately removed and separately weighed and digested.The radioac-tivity was counted in the various organs.It was found that the radioactivity of ~(125)I-LH-RH was not only highly con-centrated in the hypophysis,but also markedly concentrated in some other organs,such as the liver,kidney,ovary,cardiac muscles and so on.The results indicatedthat exogenous high dose of LH-RH could be selectively taken up by some extra-pituitary tissues.


ABSTARCT In the present research work gastro retentive floating matrix formulation of Nifedipine by using various hydrophilic polymers were developed. Then the formulation was developed by using different concentrations of polymers of Gum cyamposis, xanthan gum and sodium alginate as polymeric substances. The formulation blend was subjected to various preformualation studies, flow properties and all the formulations were found to be good indicating that the powder blend has good flow properties. Among all the formulations the formulations gum cyamposis as polymer were retarded the drug release up to desired time period i.e., 12 hours in the concentration of 60 mg. whereas in low concentrations the polymer was unable to produce the desired action. (F3 Formulation, 99.36% Drug release). The formulations prepared with sodium alginate were also retarded the drug release for more than 12 hours. Hence they were not considered. The optimized formulation dissolution data was subjected to release kinetics, from the release kinetics data it was evident that the formulation followed zero order mechanism of drug release.


Received: July 25, 2017 Revised: November 23, 2017 Accepted: December 17, 2017 Abstract: Introduction: Due to the water shortage and dry Mediterranean condition, determination of water and nitrogen (N) fertilizer requirements is a major challenge for crop production and environment protection. A field experiment was carried out for two consecutive years (2014 and 2015) to evaluate the response of a new cotton variety (cv. Rassafa) to N-fertilizer and drip irrigation.


China's Hainan network system 500kV AC submarine cable has the world's largest length and the second largest capacity in the world, with very important political and economic significance. The surface temperature of the power cable is estimated to calculate the internal conductor temperature and the current rating capacity. Firstly, the principle of testing is introduced, which is the principle of temperature testing of the optical cable bundled on the power cable surface using the Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer tester. Secondly, the power cable current rating experiment was designed. The power cable is bundled on the surface of the 10 meter optical cable. The BOTDA distributed temperature tester is attached to both ends of the power cable to monitor the power cable surface, record the surface temperature of the power cable, and route the power cable through cable heater. Use the power cable heat cycling test system to heat the power cable, the temperature of cable conductor is monitored by a thermocouple, and clamp current meter monitors the current rating capacity of the conductor, changes the regulation value of the through transformer, recording the temperature and load of the power cable conductor. Finally, this method of bundling the optical cable on the power cable surface was verified, which provided an experimental basis for submarine cable temperature monitoring.


In rural areas, women often have low access to job opportunities, lower social support, inadequate care of children due to cooperating with the spouse or family in production processes, difficulties in getting services and transportation, etc. and these issues will cause privation, inequality, insecurity, and thus psychical distress. Regarding this, social, economic, and ecological stability will be held if in addition to improve social and economic conditions of rural accommodations by supplying facilities, services and infrastructures and providing people with their basic needs, they reach health and psychical tranquility. In this research, has been discussed relationship between rural women's stress and social-economic and ecological instability in the villages of Maneh district. The methodology used in this study by geographical approach is descriptive–analytic methodology. Also in this study, the sampling of 240 women survey was selected among the 16 rural communities in Maneh district. The results indicate that the sampled women in the studied villages suffer from higher levels of social stress. In fact awareness and feeling inequality on one side and involving in more complicated relations due to development, suffering from shortage and modern needs on the other, also lack of good employment, children confronted to unemployment and worrying about their future occupation in these communities, has highlighted the role of stress therein. Also after classification of villages into categories of stability, it was inferred that despite the reverse correlation between women's stress and rural instability, there is not reasonable relationship statistically. Nowadays urban influences, has changed rural life in a way that feeling inequality and low self-confidence has led to suffer from the feeling of lack of urban facilities and welfare services and consequently in order to get welfare and more development, get exposed to more stress.


Although Bayesian theory has been successfully applied for count-limited medical image reconstruction in the past two decades, its wide applications in clinic has been hampered by its hyperparameter ${\beta}$, which is traditionally determined by a trial-error style. To eliminate the cumbersome style, this work aims to present a selection method by mimicking the physical model of cooling down the temperature adaptively for an economic high-quality crystal. From the basic Bayes' law, the physical meaning of hyperparameter can be interpreted as the ratio of the data uncertainty (or variance ${\alpha}$) and the prior tolerance (or ${\sigma}$) by formulating the probability distribution functions (FDFs) of the data fidelity and prior expectation. Inspired by this idea, the prior tolerance ${\sigma}$ can be treated as the temperature of the texture patterns, and ${\beta}$ can be adjusted according to different texture pattern status by satisfying the condition of each PDF in the Bayes' Law during the iteration. In Simulated phantom study, realistic Poisson noise added to the pre-log transmission data model was used. Both phantom simulation and clinical patient data results show that the proposed method can provide comparable reconstructed image quality comparing to the conventional methods but with much less reconstruction time. It is observed that the parameter introduced to satisfy the prior's PDF is more sensitive to stop the iteration process.


Summary The paper provides a background to the history, development and importance of the cider industry to the county. A case study approach is then adopted, in order to demonstrate the richness of cider experiences available to the tourist travelling both through, and within, Somerset. Three case studies of individual firms are provided. The paper notes that a firm's reasons for engaging in tourism bear great similarities to those utilized by wineries. The paper also highlights the importance of collective marketing strategies at both the firm and business level.


A significant reduction in urinary excretion of 17-hydrox~rcorticosteroids was observed in patients using dexamethasone by inhalation (Respihaler Pro Decadron). This effect, interpreted to indicate that absorption of aerosol-administered steroid does occur, was not different from that shown when the drug was given orally in comparable dosage. Linder (Fort Sam Houston, Texas), Arch. Int. Med. 113:655 (May), 1964


Hair dyes are used to change hair color. In this study, the effect of coloring and hair protection from blueberry extract were investigated in 5 and 8 level bleached hair. The virgin hair was collected and divided into 9 pieces. 8 Pieces were bleached, and 7 pieces of them were dyed with oxidized hairdye, blueberry under acid or alkali condition. The hair was measured color (lightness, redness, yellowness), thickness and tensile strength, and morphological change of hair cuticles was observed before and after shampoo. In the results, 8 level bleached hair is better the dyeing effect than 5 level bleached hair. The oxidized hairdye treated hair was red violet, the blueberry acid was deep violet and the blueberry alkali was dark bluish violet in 8 level. The oxidized hairdye, the blueberry acid, and the blueberry alkali had weak change of the similar lightness, redness, and yellowness after 30 times shampoo in compared with before shampoo. The lowest color change had observed in the blueberry alkali treated hair pieces after 30 times shampoo so it had the excellent dyeing sustainability. Thicker hair diameter and stronger tensile strength were in the blueberry acid and the blueberry alkali treated hair than in oxidized hairdye treated hair. The damage of hair cuticle such as chipped off, floating was weaker in the blueberry acid and alkali treated hair than in the oxidized hairdye treated hair. In conclusion, the blueberry extract has a good effect of hair coloring and protection and may be useful for natural hairdye.


In building up the network laboratory in college school,the paper proposed new ideas and some concrete realization ways;and in the two aspects of hardware as well as software,the paper also detailed a framework of its reconstruction.


A sound mathematical foundation, a knowledge of mathematics, is essential for training specialists in any branch of science and technology. In our day it is impossible to name a branch of production in which a knowledge of mathematics is not required.


Experiments with argon‐ethyl acetate mixture in small counters are described. Details of construction are given for two designs of brain probing counters of 3‐ and 2‐mm diameters.


Abstract The cloud point (CP) of triblock-copolymer L31 aqueous solution was determined with salting-out salts (Na2SO4/Na2CO3/NaF/NaCl/NaBr). The results show that all these salts can decrease the CP of L31 aqueous solution and form aqueous two-phase system (ATPS). With increasing concentrations of Na2SO4 and Na2CO3, an obvious phase inversion could be observed and phase inversion points were found. This was mainly due to the change in density, the salt-rich phase shifted from the top phase to the bottom phase. Meanwhile, the liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) data for L31-Na2SO4/Na2CO3/NaF/NaCl/NaBr ATPSs were measured at 288.15 K. The salt ability to decrease the CP and to induce the phase separation is as follows: Na2SO4 > Na2CO3, NaF > NaCl > NaBr. Finally, the order of anions that reduced the CP and caused phase separation was obtained as follows: SO42− >CO32−, F− > Cl− > Br−. Graphical Abstract


MRI is mainly used in obstetrics in the evaluation of maternal bony pelvis, the cervix for cervical incompetence, localisation of placental site, diagnosis of gestational trophoblastic disease and its severity, and in diagnosing fetal malformations such as renal agenesis. This study aimed to correlate the MRI brain findings in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic severe pre – eclampsia / eclampsia, and to determine the value of MRI as a predictive diagnostic tool in the management of such cases. This is a prospective descriptive study of 30 pregnant mothers with clinical signs and symptoms of pre-eclampsia / severe pre-eclampsia / eclampsia admitted to the pre-eclampsia room (High Dependency Unit) of the labour room of the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan Kuantan Pahang, Malaysia from 1st January 2004 to 30th June 2004. General findings indicate that there were no conclusive results with regard to the correlation between the MRI brain changes seen in both groups of patients.


Real-time image-based object tracking from live video is of great importance for several smart city applications like surveillance, intelligent traffic management and autonomous driving. Although recent deep learning systems can achieve satisfactory tracking performance, they incur significant compute overhead, which prevents them from wide adoption on resource-constrained IoT platforms. In this demonstration, we present an Edge Computing system for Real-time object Tracking (ECRT) for resource-constrained devices. The key feature of our system is that it intelligently partitions compute-intensive tasks such as inferencing a convolutional neural network(CNN) into two parts, which are executed locally on an IoT device and/or on the edge server. Moreover, ECRT can minimize the power consumption of IoT devices while taking into consideration the dynamic network environment and user requirement on end to end delay.


A modified bromine vapor method for iodine value determination that allows of the determination of substitution is described. For non-conjugated unsaturated oils free from oxidation or polymerization products, values are obtained that are in close agreement with those found by Wijs' method. The unsaturation of conjugated esters can be determined satisfactorily. Owing to substitution, the unsaturation of oxidized or polymerized esters cannot be determined by this method.


For the practical problems of the present gap flow field between the surface of micro-hole annular.By means of CFD software Fluent,the 3-D gap flow for the surface of micro-hole annular was simulated,and compared the simulation results with the smooth surface.The numerical method can truly reflect the gap flow field between to the surface of micro-hole annular,it provides a theoretical basis for designing the practical engineering problems such as this type.


Should the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale (CERS) be used as a criterion measure of counselor effectiveness in studies attempting to identify correlates of counselor effectiveness? The validity of recent recommendations regarding the use of certain factors of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) to select persons for counselor training programs, where the CERS was the criterion measure, is challenged. Relationships between the three scales of the CERS and levels of empathy, respect, and empathy offered in a counseling relationship were investigated; only one of the hypothesized relationships was found (p < .05).


(1) Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Poznań, Poland (email@example.com), (2) Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Laboratory of Fish Genetics, Libechov, Czech Republic, (3) Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Department of Biology, Camden, USA, (4) Chiba University, Graduate School of Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Chiba, Japan


The bianisotropic susceptibility generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) synthesis method is extended from planar to spherical metasurfaces. Properties specific to the nonzero intrinsic curvature of the spherical shape are pointed out and different types of spherical transformations are described. Finally, the susceptibility GSTC method and exotic properties of spherical metasurfaces are validated and illustrated with three examples: illusion transformation, ring focusing, and birefringence.


Granulated coal ash was prepared by mixing coal ash derived from a coal electric power plant and blast furnace cement, to remove hydrogen sulfide from aquatic environment. In this study, we investigate the effects of the composition of the coal ash used to prepare the granulated coal ash on its hydrogen sulfide removal performance. Manganese, magnesium, and calcium contents in the granulated coal ash were found to be the major factors in controlling the rate of hydrogen sulfide removal. The kinetics of hydrogen sulfide removal by the granulated coal ash were expressed as a first‐order equation with a rate constant of 0.0081–0.080 h−1. The rate constant for hydrogen sulfide removal obtained in this study correlated well with the manganese content in the granulated coal ash. The increasing surface pH attributed to the hydrolysis of calcium and magnesium on the surface of the granulated coal ash slightly increased the hydrogen sulfide removal rate.


We consider a system of two bosonic modes each subject to the dynamics induced by a thermal Markovian environment and we identify instantaneous, local symplectic controls that minimise the loss of entanglement in the Gaussian regime. By minimising the decrease of the logarithmic negativity at every instant in time, it will be shown that a non-trivial, finite amount of local squeezing helps to counter the effect of decoherence during the evolution. We also determine optimal control routines in the more restrictive scenario where the control operations are applied on only one of the two modes. We find that applying an instantaneous control only at the beginning of the dynamics, i.e. preparing an appropriate initial state, is the optimal strategy for states with symmetric correlations and when the dynamics is the same on both modes. More generally, even in asymmetric cases, the delayed decay of entanglement resulting from the optimal preparation of the initial state with no further action turns out to be always very close to the optimised control where multiple operations are applied during the evolution. Our study extends directly to mono-symmetric systems of any number of modes, i.e. to systems that are invariant under any local permutation of the modes within any one partition, as they are locally equivalent to two-mode systems.


This book makes essential reading for all financial professionals who work with or allocate assets to hedge funds, including private and institutional investors, fund of funds managers, hedge funds managers themselves, brokers, administrators and custodians. Also helpful to anyone addressing the challenges of hedge funds, including traditional asset managers, financial analysis, consultants and advisors.


In this paper, a stochastic cell loading, family and job sequencing problem derived from a shoe manufacturing company is addressed. The problem is also observed in several other manufacturing systems such as jewelry, frozen food, medical device, blood sugar where jobs have individual due dates and uncertain processing times. Family splitting is allowed and family setup is applied where two consecutive jobs are not from the same family. Each job has probabilistic processing time and deterministic due date. A Stochastic Non-Linear Mathematical Model is developed and solved with Lingo software. The objective is to minimize the number of tardy jobs (nT) and total probability of tardiness. Jobs are classified as tardy, risky and early based on the obtained probability of tardiness. A job is called "tardy" if the probability of tardiness is 1 and "early" if it is 0. If the job is neither early nor tardy (the probability is between 0 and 1), it is classified as "risky". Single and multi-cell configurations are experimented with and the results are compared with deterministic model (Suer & Mese, 2011). The proposed approach decreased the risky jobs in all configurations. The number of early jobs increased and the number of tardy jobs stayed the same in single cell configuration. In multi-cell configuration, less number of risky and greater number of early jobs are obtained with proposed approach.


There is increasing interest in automatic recognition by gait given its unique capability to recognize people at a distance when other biometrics are obscured. Application domains are those of any noninvasive biometric, but with particular advantage in surveillance scenarios. Its recognition capability is supported by studies in other domains such as medicine (biomechanics), mathematics and psychology which also suggest that gait is unique. Further, examples of recognition by gait can be found in literature, with early reference by Shakespeare concerning recognition by the way people walk. Many of the current approaches confirm the early results that suggested gait could be used for identification, and now on much larger databases. This has been especially influenced by DARPA's Human ID at a Distance research program with its wide scenario of data and approaches. Gait has benefited from the developments in other biometrics and has led to new insight particularly in view of covariates. Equally, gait-recognition approaches concern extraction and description of moving articulated shapes and this has wider implications than just in biometrics.


In the construction industry in Brazil the masonry system is the most used. However, a market that has already settled in Europe and North America has been the Drywall system for building vertical seals built into buildings. Such a system shows itself quite satisfactory, fulfilling its function properly. Thus, the present study has as its general objective: Understand the benefits and features of the Drywall system in Brazil. So, your specific goals focus on: To know the productive system of application of plasterboard plaster plates (CGA); Identify the differences between the use of the common masonry system and the Plasterboard Gypsum sheet System (CGA) in constructions; E Check the efficacy of the use of plasterboard plaster plates (CGA) in buildings in front of the common masonry system. As a methodological path, the study is made up of theoretical knowledge on the subject, thus a survey of theoretical reference was carried out based on the bibliographic and documentary methods. It is Verificouu that the Drywall has been used in Brazil mainly in the commercial construction business, i.e. in shops, offices, etc., because it is a relatively new method in Brazil, it is still not widely used in residential constructions. However, in the construction process the use of the Drywall system is very favorable to the market, in view of its practicality, speed in the execution of processes and reduction of the financial costs of the work.


The paper presents the production of adenoviral vectors (AdV) containing -galactosidase (Ad -gal), from the transfer of recombinant viral DNA into packing cell line (HEK293) to the titration of viral particles. Optimisation of the methods (preparation of DNA for transfection, adsorption time during the infection of cells, amount of serum in the medium, time-point of vector isolation) enables obtaining a titer of up to 1010 IU/mL. Ad -gal were titrated with several methods, with -gal in situ staining used as a reference. We found that the most suitable titration method of the vectors containing other than reporter genes was the Rapid Titer ELISA kitTM.


This paper analyses mail surveys of residents living near two proposed offshore wind projects – Cape Wind off Massachusetts and Bluewater Wind off Delaware, and compares responses in 2005 or 2006 with 2009. On Cape Cod, compared with 2005, a majority (57%) now supports Cape Wind. Support in Delaware has remained relatively constant since 2006, reaching 80% in 2009. Questions examined reasons for support or opposition. A desire for energy independence is an increasingly significant reason for support in both areas and has motivated some individuals to switch from opposition to support. Conversely, those who switched from support to opposition said they were most concerned about fishing and recreational boating impacts.


The acute toxicity of pvidone-iodine(PVP-I) and IO_(3) on allogynogenetics silver crucian carp(Carassius aurutus gibelio,1.0~1.5 cm) was determined by conventional method.The results showed that pvidone-iodine semi-lethal mass concentrations on allogynogenetics silver crucian carp fry in 24 h,48 h,96 h were 43.45,24.21,21.38 mg/L respectively,and its safe concentration was 2.14 mg/L;and that IO_(3) semi-lethal mass concen trations on allogynogenetics silver crucian carp fry in 24 h,48 h,96 h were 52.36,33.11,26.73 mg/L respectively,and its safe concentration was 2.67 mg/L.


Krombein, Karl V. Biosystematic Studies of Ceylonese Wasps, XV: A Monograph of the Alyssoninae, Nyssoninae, and Gorytinae (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea: Nyssonidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 414, 43 pages, 39 figures, 1985.—Twelve species of Alyssoninae, Nyssoninae, and Gorytinae are described from Sri Lanka; six are endemic, five occur in India, and one is known from India and Burma. The new taxa are the following: Analysson rufescens, new genus and species, from Sri Lanka and South India; Alysson triangularis, new species, from Sri Lanka; and Ammatomus xerophilus, new species, from Sri Lanka. The new pictus Group is described in Hoplisoides. Nysson horni Strand is synonymized with N. rugosus Cameron, Nysson basalis Smith is transferred to Brachystegus. Brachystegus dubitatus (Turner) is a valid species and is removed from the synonymy of B. decoratus (Turner). The Indian Hoplisoides capitatus (Nurse) is a valid species and is removed from the synonymy of//, pictus (Smith). Lectotypes are designated for Nysson rugosus Cameron and Gorytes alipes Bingham. The forefemoral "carina" in certain Ammantomus females is discovered to be a brush of dense, flattened, agglutinated setae, and hair brushes are described at the bases of abdominal sterna V and VI in Ammatomus males. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE is handstamped in a limited number of initial copies and is recorded in the Institution's annual report, Smithsonian Year. SERIES COVER DESIGN: The coral Montastrea cavernosa (Linnaeus). Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Krombein, Karl V. Biosystematic studies of Ceylonese wasps, XV. (Smithsonian contributions to zoology ; no. 414) Bibliography: p. 1. Nyssonidae—Classification. 2. Insects—Classification. 3. Insects—Sri Lanka—Classification. I. Title. II. Title: Alyssoninae, Nyssoninae, and Gorytinae (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea, Nyssonidae) III. Title: Nyssoninae, and Gorytinae (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea, Nyssonidae) IV. Title: Gorytinae (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea, Nyssonidae) V Series QLI.S54 no. 414 591s [595.79] 84-27710


Abstract The incidence of bitter pit in 'Cox's Orange Pippin' apples was halved when the apples were dipped after harvest in solutions containing 2.5% CaCl2 or Ca(NO3)2. Addition of egg lecithin to the dips further reduced the incidence of the disorder (to less than one quarter of that in water-dipped controls). Lecithin addition also alleviated the damage often associated with calcium dips and improved control of two other physiological disorders, breakdown and water core. A dip containing lecithin alone was relatively ineffective. It is suggested that lecithin may assist the movement of applied calcium into apples.


MIMOSA is the acronym for: Methodology for the Implementation and Monitoring of Occupational SAfety, and it is a new model for evaluating performances in health and safety in workplace, through the use of check-lists and indicators. In this work a first proposal of the application of Fuzzy Logic to the Mimosa methodology is described. It is worth noting that the application of fuzzy logic set theory to the field of occupational safety is legitimate by the presence of typical uncertainty in the collection of data related to the human behavior. The aim is to obtain a quantification of a theme through the fuzzyfication of the checklists, whose scores are vague for definition, and of the indicators. One among the 27 themes of the whole methodology is selected, in order to show in a simple way how fuzzy logic can be applied and which are the results obtained. This is a preliminary approach but it shows that the method can be extended to all the themes and interesting considerations can result for the uncertainties characterizing the final result of Mimosa.


Abstract : This report is being issued as part of our Audit of FY 1993 Financial Statements for the Distribution Depots - Defense Logistics Agency Business Area of the Defense Business Operations Fund (Project No.2LD-2022). The report states that the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) could achieve savings of $58 million by reversing its decision to construct a distribution operations center at the Red River Depot.


Photocatalytic production from water is considered an effective solution to fossil fuel-related environmental concerns, and photocatalyst surface science holds a significant interest in balancing photocatalysts' stability and activity. We propose a plasma-wind method to tune the surface properties of a photocatalyst with an amorphous structure. Theoretical calculation shows that the amorphous surface structure can cause an unsaturated coordination environment to adjust the electron distribution, forming more adsorption sites. Thus, the photocatalyst with a crystal–amorphous (C–A) interface can strengthen light absorption, harvest photo-induced electrons, and enrich the active sites, which help improve hydrogen yield. As a proof of concept, with indium sulfide (In2S3) nanosheets used as the catalyst, an impressive hydrogen production rate up to 457.35 μmol cm−2 h−1 has been achieved. Moreover, after plasma-assisted treatment, In2S3 with a C–A interface can produce hydrogen from water under natural outdoor conditions. Following a six-hour test, the rate of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution is found to be 400.50 μmol cm−2 g−1, which demonstrates that a catalyst prepared through plasma treatment is both effective and highly practical.


The earth site is most difficult to protect in the Site.protecting the earth sites from weathering is the international difficult point and had caused wide attention.The PS material was applied to consolidating the earth site in the Northwest arid region and was succeeded in use.Through the compression test and the shear strength test,the results indicate that the compression strength and the shear strength are increased with the PS material consistency and the reinforcement times,and that the PS meterial can be multiple application.By adopting many multi-disciplinary techniques such as the X-ray,the IR,the SEM and the BET technique,studied the soil micromechanics which was consolidated by the PS material.In the X-ray spectrogram,some mineral diffract intensity of consolidated soil depressed,and there appear dense diffraction peak of uncrystalline phase.Above phenomena show cementation is increased and the structure becomes more stable.The infrared spectrum indicated that no new crystalline phase is produced and just the chemical bond increased a little.The SEM photo show the consolidated soil cementation changed from schistose cementation to silicic acid cementation.The outcome indicated that the connection between particles consolidated by PS was apparently strong and the soil structure doesn't change and will become more stable.On the whole,the engineering performance of the soil consolidated by the PS improved.10figs.,2tabs.,13refs.


Trait Negative Affect (NA) and Positive Affect (PA) are strongly associated with Neuroticism and Extraversion, respectively. Nevertheless, measures of the former tend to show substantially weaker self–other agreement—and stronger assumed similarity correlations—than scales assessing the latter. The current study separated the effects of item content versus format on agreement and assumed similarity using two different sets of Neuroticism and Extraversion measures and two different indicators of NA and PA (N = 381 newlyweds). Neuroticism and Extraversion consistently showed stronger agreement than NA and PA; in addition, however, scales with more elaborated items yielded significantly higher agreement correlations than those based on single adjectives. Conversely, the trait affect scales yielded stronger assumed similarity correlations than the personality scales; these coefficients were strongest for the adjectival measures of trait affect. Thus, our data establish a significant role for both content and format in assumed similarity and self–other agreement.


The technique of extracting objects' geometrical representations from images,known as image based modeling,has received considerable attention in both fields of computer vision and computer graphics. In this paper,we present a image based tree modeling method,based on a number of techniques and algorithms in the field of image processing,image morphology,computer vision,as well as computer graphics. Due to the nature of image based modeling,the result model is quite realistic. Efforts were made in every step of the reconstruction process for the sake of acceleration and simplification,which include: 1.A modification of "the Intelligent Scissors" for branch segmentation. 2.A dynamic programming based skeleton extraction algorithm. 3.The implementation of a two step,co planar reference object based calibration algorithm in natural outdoor environments,and 4.Utilization of branch to branch correspondence instead of point to point correspondence to enhance the robustness and simplification of the stereo matching process. The final result shows that our method is not only practical but also efficient and robust.


The purpose of this paper is to analyze the work Harmada , by Joao Gilberto Noll. The novel's hero is unfinished and pessimist is looking for the being; is someone common and doesn't


A prototype software system of NC programming of hydraulic manifold blocks(HMB) is developed,based on analysis of characteristics of design and manufacturing of HMB,in order to solve the problems such as insufficiency of technicians with NC programming technologies and poor efficiency of NC programming.The machining mapping and code mapping are realized adopted manufacturing oriented feature mapping technologies on basis of feature technologies.Then the whole features are planned,and machining steps are recombined and arranged.At last the NC codes are automatically generated.The correctness and feasibility of NC programming system of HMB are illustrated with an instance.


The aim of my diploma work is to analyse standard and alternative sources of small and larger enterprise financing. At the same time, on the basis of results it was recommended to obtain financial sources also from Eurofonds, not only form commercial banks and leasing companies. Diploma work is divided into three chapters. It contains 5 pictures, 14 graphs, 18 charts, 7 exercise and 8 appendices. The first chapter is devoted to small and larger enterprise characteristics, their functions and roles. In the next part we define standard financial sources, companies' research and what sources they make use of. The final chapter concentrates upon alternative sources, where we had a close look at the company Fond fondov, s.r.o. /Fund of funds, ltd./ and European social fund.


This study investigates how the discourse of Capes in evaluating postgraduation programme which originates from a fragmented model rebuilds itself in a net of social communication. It aims at showing discourse reconstruction and the discussion of Capes institutional identity by means of a case study based on an Institutional Qualification Programme (Programa de Qualificacao Institucional -PQI), having as its parameter the Social Discourse Theory and the Systemic Theory in an interdisciplinary perspective. The core reference of critical discourse analysis can be traced back to the study of Norman Fairclough (1989, 1992a, 1992b, 1995a, 1995b, 1999, 2001a, 2001b, 2003, 2006) by means of applying linguistic categories such as ideology, hegemony, intertextuality, interdiscursivity et al. The study on systems was based on the work of Luhmann (1980, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1996a, 1996b, 2005). Other authors were also part of this investigation: van Leeuven (1997); Giddens (1991a, 1991b); Bourdieu (1993, 1998, 2005); Hall (2004, 2006); Lopes (2002); Woodward (1997); Wodak (2000); Arendt (1997); Habermas (1984, 1990, 1997, 2003, 2004); Bakhtin (1988, 1997); Bazerman (2006a, 2006b); Swales (1990, 2004); Foucault (2000, 2002a, 2002b); Althusser (1974); Thompson (1995); van Dijk (1993, 1995, 1997, 1998); Gramsci (1974); Eagleton (1997); Warat (1994); Ianni (1997); Godoy (2004); Castells (1999, 2003, 2004); Bauman (2001); Bhaba (2004); Levy (1993, 1996); Morin (2000a, 2000b, 2001), Vieira (2004, 2005, 2007). The methodology was developed by means of qualitative research (BAUER & GASKEL, 2002; WORTHEN et. al., 2004; THOMAS, 1993; CAMERON, 1995, 1992; IVANIC, 1994; BARBIER, 2004) which offered the necessary guidance to the selection of the corpus, compiled specifically with institutional documents produced in social events within Capes. The analysis aims at investigating: (a) if the categories of analysis of The Social Discourse Theory, used within this research, offered elements which would help disclose, de-fragment and build the discourse of Capes; (b) if the institutional qualification program of Capes, as a study case, constitutes a systemic model attempt of building an institutional identity; (c) if it is possible to find in the discourse analysis of Capes elements which consolidate an evaluating system capable of networking with other social systems in an interdisciplinary perspective. The following results were noticed: (a) the discourse analysis becomes authentic through the investigation of linguistic relations of social events and its representation forms; (b) the process of building an institutional identity is the result of an integration among systems; (c) transdiciplinarity is a link among theories and sciences. It was possible to conclude that the discourse of Capes to evaluating the post-graduation programmes rebuilds in a social network through the insertion of discourse practices and by the exchange of information among systems.