The literature reports that norms and values shared among organizational members largely constitute an organization's culture. Employees' performance can be represented as the behaviors they display at work as well as the consequences of employees' behaviors that advance or hinder organizational goals. The literature reports that the behavior of organizational members is greatly shaped by its culture. Charismatic leaders possess leadership qualities and behaviors that are discernable to followers. If followers admire a leader's charisma and are inspired by it, they will likely emulate the leader's beliefs and values. Hence, the leader will be able to exert considerable influence on the satisfaction and motivation of followers. However, the police force, being a quasimilitary organization, is traditionally designed to be mechanistic rather than organic----a tall pyramidal hierarchy of authority, impersonality, and an authoritarian command system that is believed to be best suited to deal with emergency and crisis situations, and to maintain internal integration. But crises do not occur all the time and in normal situations a policeman's responsibilities concern work schedules, information processing, logistics, inspection, customer service, and communication, which are typical of the work performed in other organizations. Thus, this research examines the hypothetical relationship between police culture and policeman performance and the moderating influence of police leaders' charismatic behaviors on the relationship. A questionnaire survey of 222 policemen was conducted to collect data on police culture, leader charismatic behavior, and policeman performance. The hypothetical relationship is tested using regression analysis. The result of this study shows that there is no relationship between police culture and policeman performance. Also, police leaders' charismatic behaviors act as a moderator variable to the relationship between police norms and policeman performance but not between values and policeman performance.


In terms of their light microscopic appearance and fine structure the ovarian interstitial cells of the rabbit are typical steroid-secreting cells. They are characterized by an abundance of agranular endoplasmic reticulum, spherical mitochondria with closely packed lamellar cristae, lipid droplets which appear to arise independently of the endoplasmic reticulum, conspicuous Golgi areas, a cytoplasm containing ribosomes and variable numbers of glycogen granules. A feature of the differentiation of the cells from the theca interna of atretic follicles or the stroma is the enlargement of the multiple Golgi areas and the progressive accumulation of agranular endoplasmic reticulum, possibly by "budding" from the Golgi cisternae. "Light" and "dark" cells are observed, the latter being characterized by a more closely packed agranular endoplasmic reticulum which tends to be tubular in type, that of the "light" cell being vesicular. Electron dense material (lipid?) is found in the vesicles and tubules of the agranular endoplasmic reticulum and in the Golgi cisternae; it may indicate a role of these structures in the biosynthesis of steroidal hormone. No fine structural changes specifically associated with pregnancy were observed. Degenerative changes are common and are described. The role of the interstitial cells, especially in relation to the production of 20 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone, is discussed.


Cloud computing has now become a very standardised concept in our society. However, many modern applications need a better level of security that includes saving data from internal breaches. Thus, cloud databases need effective security mechanisms to keep track of data modifications. This paper will introduce the enhanced structure of cloud relational database (RDB) based on blockchain technology (BC) named BC over cloud-RDB. Through a self-verification mechanism, it enables the client to detect and prevent erroneous RDB manipulation. We proposed two systems to improve cloud-RDB namely, agile BC-based RDB and secure BC-based RDB. Both are distributed among several cloud service providers based on the Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus. Additionally, both rely on linking records to each other using the SHA-256. At the same time, secure BC-based RDB uses a proof-of-work consensus to make data offensive operation impossible. On the basis of performance of both systems' and security analysis, the agile BC-based RDB is highly suggested for the high throughput database. On the other hand, the secure BC-based RDB is recommended for RDB that contains sensitive data and low throughput performance. The improved RDB is flexible and can be operated according to the data owner's specifications.


This paper considers the hardware and software implementation of a Near-Field Communication (NFC) reading system which was used to collect student attendance information in a two-year study with University Engineering students. Learning analytics has become popular with an increase in attendance monitoring activity across the higher education sector. This paper presents a bespoke in-house attendance monitoring system and has been created in the School of Engineering to conduct research to consider the benefits of such a system for staff and students. The paper highlights some of the technical decisions and it challenges faced during the implementation of the trial system and considers the accessibility of the system for powered wheelchair users. Electronic card reader hardware was purchased and installed in selected rooms in the University as part of a faculty of technology learning and teaching grant looking at Attendance monitoring. The study has concluded that the introduction of an electronic card reader system at the University of Portsmouth would not cause unacceptable delays for students entering classrooms and would contribute positively to student experience, however accessibility measures would need to be put in place to enable powered wheelchair users to engage with the system at all locations across the University premises.


From March, 2001 to January, 2002 the resting metabolic rates for 114 fish of Mystus macropterus Bleeker, which were collected from the Jialing River with body size ranging from 13.0 g to 400.4 g, were measured by a closed respirometer at the temperatures of 12.5 ℃, 17.5 ℃, 22.5 ℃, 27.5 ℃ and 32.5 ℃, respectively. There was double-logarithmic linear correlation significantly between specific size metabolic rate and temperature in each of body size groups. The covariance analysis showed that the difference between the every two temperature exponents in the equations was significant. There was double-logarithmic linear correlation between metabolic rate and body size at each of tested temperatures. The covariance analysis indicated that the difference was significant between the intercepts in the regression equations, but not between the slopes. Regression analysis showed that interaction of body size and temperature on the resting metabolic rate was not significant. The approach of measuring metabolism was discussed in this paper.


Teacher diversity has been linked to improved student outcomes including increased academic achievement, higher rates of gifted assignment, and lower rates of exclusionary discipline. To recognize these benefits, there has been a growing research and policy focus on recruiting and hiring teachers of color. However, studies have shown that teachers of color have high turnover rates, so retention of teachers of color has also become an important part of the conversation. There are numerous school-related factors that may differentially impact teachers of color and result in higher rates of turnover. We look to update these findings on rates of turnover and factors related to turnover using data that was collected after the widespread implementation of rigorous evaluation systems. We find that on average Black teachers in Tennessee receive lower evaluation scores than their White counterparts and those differences are a significant predictor of turnover.


Background: Enrofloxacin used considerably on large scale among poultry birds. Detection and monitoring of its residues is vital in the domestic and export market. A simple and rapid LCMS/MS method for screening of Enrofloxacin and its metabolite residues in poultry liver samples was described. Methods: Target analytes were extracted with a solvent combination of 5% phosphoric acid in 50% acetonitrile in water. It was followed by deep freezing for efficient separation of the liquid phase. Later extractants were subjected to centrifugation at 4oC, 10,000 rpm for 20 minutes and supernatant was filtered and injected into LCMS/MS. 0.1% formic acid is used as mobile phase additive for both aqueous and organic mobile phase acetonitrile. Result: Accuracy and precision values of the method are within the acceptable limit of ( less than 5% RSD) accorded by the European commission. Standardized method has been applied to determine the Enrofloxacin and Ciprofloxacin residues in liver samples collected in local markets and found within maximum residue limits.


Despite the importance of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) in terms of respiration and phonation functions, studies on the normal histology of this nerve in rats are still scanty. The RLN is asymmetric in length, because the different origin on both sides but neither a longitudinal ultrastrucutral study nor information about ultrastructural lateral asymmetry of this nerve is available in rats. Male adult Wistar rats (N=5), had their RLN prepared for transmission electron microscopy and morphometry. Comparisons were made between segments on the same side and same levels between sides. The RLN fascicles are significantly larger proximally, on both sides as is the myelinated fiber number. No other longitudinal differences were observed. Unmyelinated fiber number and density is larger on right, compared to proximal left segment. This lateral difference was not present on the distal segments. No other lateral differences were observed. Our results indicate that the RLN are asymmetric not only macroscopically (origin and length, between sides) but also on its microscopic anatomy, not only between sides but also between proximal and distal segments. This information is crucial for those studies investigating RLN neuropathies since results can vary according to the nerve site studied.


The aim of the present investigation was to study the effect of both the stacking sequence and surface treatment on the thermal conductivity of multilayered hybrid nano-composites. Four types of multilayered hybrid nanocomposites were manufactured and tested: Nitinol- CNTs (carbon nanotubes)- Acrylic resin; Nitinol- Acrylic resin- CNTs; Surface treated Nitinol- CNTs- Acrylic resin and Surface treated Nitinol- Acrylic resin- CNTs. Surface treatment of Nitinol plies was realized by means of the electrochemical anodization. Surface topography of the anodized nitinol sheets was investigated through Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). It was found that the overall thermal response of the manufactured multilayered nano-composites was greatly influenced by both the anodization and the stacking sequence. A theoretical model for the prediction of the overall thermal conductivity has been developed considering the nature of the different layers, their stacking sequence as well as the interfacial thermal resistance. Thermal conductivity and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) measurements were conducted, to verify the predicted by the model overall thermal conductivities. In all cases, a good agreement between theoretical predictions and experimental results was found.The aim of the present investigation was to study the effect of both the stacking sequence and surface treatment on the thermal conductivity of multilayered hybrid nano-composites. Four types of multilayered hybrid nanocomposites were manufactured and tested: Nitinol- CNTs (carbon nanotubes)- Acrylic resin; Nitinol- Acrylic resin- CNTs; Surface treated Nitinol- CNTs- Acrylic resin and Surface treated Nitinol- Acrylic resin- CNTs. Surface treatment of Nitinol plies was realized by means of the electrochemical anodization. Surface topography of the anodized nitinol sheets was investigated through Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). It was found that the overall thermal response of the manufactured multilayered nano-composites was greatly influenced by both the anodization and the stacking sequence. A theoretical model for the prediction of the overall thermal conductivity has been developed considering the nature of the different layers, their stacking sequence as well as the interfacial thermal resistance....


Few things compare in sluggishness to institutional inertia. Changing hospital procedures to better care for the physical and emotional needs of children is more often advocated than done. A recently released film, "We Won't Leave You,"1 produced by Dr. Edward Mason at the Massachusetts General Hospital, raises in a positive but provocative way a number of important issues in this regard.
 Briefly, in cinema verité technique the 17-minute film follows a 5-year-old girl from two days before her outpatient surgery for bilateral hernias through her eight-hour stay in the hospital to her recollection of the experience that same evening. The girl's mother, a nurse, is adamant about wanting to be with her child as much as possible during the ordeal, and this leads her to agree to the daughter's one-day surgery.


Quotation is ubiquitous in American legal discourse, whether in academic scholarship, legal briefs or judicial opinions. And yet, although quotation is a common object of scholarly attention, there is very little scholarship on quotation in legal discourse. This article addresses this lack by exploring the United States Supreme Court's quotation practices. Applying Herbert Clark's model of joint activities, I argue that quotation in judicial opinions is one of the most important mechanisms by which the Supreme Court negotiates legal meaning and preserves its moral authority. Judicial quotation both allows the justices to make rhetorical claims that do not match legal substance and provides a site for the justices to negotiate the meaning of existing language and, therefore, the law itself.


The World Bank, one of the largest development agencies in the world, publishes about 150 publications in print every year. Its publishing department ("The Office of the Publisher") launched between 2001 and 2007 four online, subscription-based services called World Bank Online Resources, consisting of two statistical databases, one portal of analysis of global economic conditions, and a collection of about 4,000 e-books and working papers. The experience with online collections has been overall very positive so far. However, a number of questions and challenges present themselves as technology evolves and demand grows at a time of technology renaissance and a second internet boom. This paper discusses the experience of the Bank as regards the following: changes needed in internal workflows and organizational habits; the tension between mission and cost-recovery as regards free electronic access to the new online services; the challenges posed by technology developments, which create the need to upgrade and invest in the systems fairly frequently and extensively; the rise of new actors such as Google; the increasing demand for online content and tools to make content more userfriendly on the side of the users' community – librarians, intermediaries and end-users; which practices work and which do not in developing vs. developed countries, and how to ensure that the end-users in developing countries can get access to a wealth of information they need. ______________________________________________________________________


What criteria should be applied to screen for diabetes in pregnancy? What diagnostic criteria should then be used for the diagnosis of diabetes? What parameters will allow us to evaluate the validity of the approach selected? In an attempt to answer these questions, 472 pregnant women with high risk for diabetes (of the 6741 deliveries in the 2 yr of the study period) were followed in specialized medical-obstetrical clinics. Only women with adequate clinical data and a precise definition of their diabetic status were included.


Fifteen years ago the present writers published a survey entitled 'Ten Years of Recusant History' (January issue, 1961). That article briefly described how this journal had evolved during its first ten years from a publication designed to supplement existing biographical works into 'a periodical that would lay the foundations of a general history of Catholicism in these islands since the Reformation'. This is a statement of aims which, from the vantage point of a quarter of a century's experience, we see no reason to alter. While much excellent material, derived mainly from local records of all sorts, now appears in the flourishing crop of county recusant periodicals which have sprung up in our wake, the pages of Recusant History continue to offer extended space for the publication of long articles, or even series of articles, treating specific topics in full depth. We still believe that definitive studies of this sort, with full apparatus of sources and references, must form the necessary groundwork for any reliable general histories to be written in the future. Such topics as we surveyed in 1961, for example biographies, family histories, recusant bibliography, and those wider questions concerning the status and fortunes of the whole Catholic body, have continued to be well represented in our pages during the ensuing fifteen years. But there has been growth as well as continuity. Looking back over the whole corpus of material published between 1961 and the end of 1975, we observe with pleasure that the previously under-cultivated period from 1700 onwards has received an amount of scholarly attention which fifteen years ago we did not dare to expect. Indeed, it has now been generally accepted that the boundaries of recusant history as a subject stretch onwards in time beyond those centuries when recusancy was a crime on the statute book. By a similar process the connotation of the word 'recusant' has been widened. It is perhaps not too much to claim that, by the expanded range of its subject matter, this journal has gone far towards validating the use of the word 'recusancy' as a general term covering post-Reformation English Catholicism even in its widest ramifications. It remains our aim to continue to explore and document its history and culture in all their rich variety.


=Abstract=A male Korean farmer, who had received excisional operation on subcutaneous masses due to sparganosis, showed reappearance of subscutaneous masses at other sites. He was given praziquantel orally at the dose of 75 mg/kg/day for 5 days and again after one month. However, the masses did not regress and the patient complained of discomfort for the next 4 months. Finally the masses were excised and 3 actively moving spargana were recovered. In this case of human sparganosis with multiple lesions, praziquantel was not effective.


A 37-year-old man presented with lingual and oral dyskinetic movements and dysarthria. Over the next 10 years, he developed dysphagia, unsteadiness, and frontal lobe cognitive deficits. His father, paternal grandfather, and paternal uncle had developed a movement disorder in middle age. Examination revealed perseveration and poor cognitive estimates. He had primitive reflexes and apraxia of eyelid opening. There was a palatal tremor at a frequency of 1 Hz, choreiform movements, and dystonic posturing. A magnetic resonance imaging scan showed evidence of abnormal iron deposition in the putamen, pallidum, thalamus, substantia nigra, and red nucleus. Genetic testing revealed an abnormal adenine insertion at position 460–461 of the ferritin light chain consistent with neuroferritinopathy, which is a recently described neurodegenerative disorder associated with iron accumulation.1 Cognitive impairment has not been described thus far, but the phenotype may broaden with time. The diagnosis should be considered in all patients with a hyperkinetic movement disorder and evidence of abnormal iron deposition in the brain. The development of palatal tremor in our patient is interesting, probably arising as a consequence of functional disruption of Mollaret's triangle by iron deposition in the dentate nucleus.2 Ear clicking was not a feature, in common with other causes of symptomatic palatal tremor.


(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)In an age when American Protestantism is often characterized as being divided into "ecumenical" and "evangelical" camps, Missions and Unity demonstrates that Christian mission and Christian unity have in fact been inextricably linked since the beginning of the nineteenth century. The book is divided into three sections. The first section is a historical one, providing examples of the ways in which missionaries and missionary organizations have, in the course of their work and over time, come together in movements of unity. The second and largest section of the monograph discusses ten models of Christian unity that are operative in the world today. The final and shortest section of the book recounts how Christian missions have contributed to secular movements of unity, such as the inclusion of human rights in the charter of the United Nations, and to interfaith dialogue. The work closes with a bibliography, a subject index, and a name index.The starting point of the historical section is William Carey's suggestion made in 1806 that "a general association of all denominations of Christians, from the four quarters of the globe" be held every ten years in South Africa (3). A brief review of missionary movements that worked for unity before Carey reminds us that Carey did not sound the first call for ecumenical efforts in mission, but his importance is nevertheless asserted. In succeeding chapters, the author describes various formal and informal cooperative ventures by Protestant missionaries from 1792 to the present. Unusually for a historical section, the more recent developments are described more briefly than the earlier ones.In the second part of the volume the author discerns ten different models of Christian unity. These are, respectively, "Unity Through A Global Church," with the Roman Catholic Church as the prime example; "World Conciliarism," typified by the World Council of Churches; "Christian World Communions," such as the Lutheran World Federation; "World Associations," like the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; "Regional and National Voluntarism," exemplified by the United Mission to Nepal; "Regional and National Councils," which are found all over the world (Christian Conference of Asia, All Africa Conference of Churches to name but two); "Towards Church Union," as happened in the Church of South India; and three models of "Local Unity": local united churches (such as union churches), local councils (that is, local councils of churches), and local associations (like BCCs and Taize). A convenient chart showing the conceptual connections between these models is provided in the Introduction (xxiii). …


Regional differences are one of the most important forms of expression of uneven economic development. The unevenness of the level of development in the regions in the Republic of Serbia is one of the most complex development problems. The current economic policy has caused that the gap between rich and poor regions is increasing in Serbia. Different demographic development of the regions is consequences of differences of economic development. In this paper, the authors analyze the quantitative and qualitative population's characteristics. Attention is given to the implementation of VIKOR methods in order to rank the regions of Serbia according to the level of demographic development. Ranking regions by multiple criteria simultaneously, contributes to the determination of the real situation in terms of regional differences. The authors demonstrate that the multi-criteria analysis could be applied to determine the demographic disparities between the levels of development of the regions. The criteria and their importance could be changed depending on the consideration of demographic, economic and social development. Also, other methods of multi-criteria analysis in the evaluation of the demographic development of the region or state is applied.


Nowadays the interest in integrating mobile applications into the learning process is increasing rapidly, so we need such teaching methods that will facilitate and accelerate the transmission of knowledge to students, intensify the process of learning, teach them techniques for independent work with material, increase productivity of learning and teacher's work. Such teaching methods can be implemented through the use of mobile information technology in education.  Mobile technology can make the learning process more interesting, meeting today's requirements, providing the right information at the right time.
The article considers the concept of "mobile learning", analyzes the features and directions of its use in modern education. It is noted that the use of mobile electronic devices and applications in higher mathematics allows you to check quickly the solution, to draw the chart in a few minutes as well as to apply them to distance learning, which greatly facilitates and accelerates knowledge, increases students' productivity and  independent work. It is also noted that despite the widespread use and availability of mobile phones among students, mobile learning is not widespread in native universities. The didactic principles to which mobile applications should correspond are defined, and also the attention to the basic advantages and disadvantages of the use of mobile applications in learning process of higher mathematics is paid.


collection of 2217 landraces from western Balkan (former Yugoslavia) is
 maintained at Maize Research Institute Zemun Polje gene bank. Nine flint and
 nine dent accessions from six agro-ecological groups (races), chosen on the
 basis of diverse pedigrees, were analyzed for genetic relatedness using
 phenotypic and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. One of the aims was to
 establish a reliable set of SSR markers for a rapid diversity analysis using
 polyacrilamide gels and ethidium bromide staining. In the principal component
 analysis (PCA) the first three principal components accounted for 80.86% of
 total variation and separated most of the flint from dent landraces. Ten SSR
 primers revealed a total of 56 and 63 alleles in flint and dent landraces,
 respectively, with low stuttering and good allele resolution on the gels.
 High average PIC value (0.822) also supports informativeness and utility of
 the markers used in this study. Higher genetic variation was observed among
 flint genotypes, as genetic distances between flint landraces covered a
 larger range of values (0.11- 0.38) than between dent (0.22 - 0.33)
 genotypes. Both phenotypic and SSR analyses distinguished flint and dent
 landraces, but neither of them could abstract agro-ecological groups. The SSR
 method used gave clear, easy to read band patterns that could be used for
 reliable allele frequency determination. Genetic diversity revealed for both
 markers indicated that the landraces were highly adapted to specific
 environmental conditions and purposes and could be valuable sources of
 genetic variability. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
 TR31028: Exploitation of maize diversity to improve grain quality and drought
 tolerance]


The rapid increase of bandwidth requirements across the entire hierarchy of Data Center (DC) networks, ranging from chip-to-chip, board-to-board up to rack-to-rack communications, puts strenuous requirements in the underlying network infrastructure that has to offer high-bandwidth and low-latency interconnection under a low-energy and low-cost envelope. Arrayed Waveguide Grating Router (AWGR)-based optical interconnections have emerged as a powerful architectural framework that can overcome the currently deployed electrical interconnect bottlenecks leveraging the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and the cyclic routing properties of AWGRs to offer one-hop, all-to-all communication when employed as N×N routers. However, the majority of previous silicon (Si)-based integrated AWGR demonstrations has either targeted C-band operation, despite the dominance of the O-band spectral region in the DC interconnection domain, or offered coarse-WDM (CWDM) functionality and, as such, were limited in terms of AWGR port count. In this article, we present for the first time to our knowledge, a Dense-WDM (DWDM) 16×16 Si-photonic cyclic-frequency AWGR device targeting O-band routing applications. The fabricated AWGR device features a channel spacing of 1.063 nm (189 GHz), a free spectral range of 17.8 nm (3.15 THz) and a 3-dB bandwidth of 0.655 nm (116 GHz). Its proper cyclic frequency operation was experimentally verified for all 16 channels with channel peak insertion loss values in the range of 3.9 dB to 8.37 dB, yielding a channel loss non-uniformity of 4.47 dB. Its compact footprint of 0.27×0.71 mm2 and low crosstalk of 21.65 dB highlight its potential for employment in future AWGR-based interconnection schemes.


We appreciate the interest of and insightful comments by Dr Joffe et al concerning the relationship between extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) and in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest outcomes. During the 10-year study period, only 227 of the 3419 patients received E-CPR, with very few patients in several illness categories.1

Although some E-CPR patients received shorter durations of CPR, 168 received E-CPR for >35 minutes. Of those who received >35 minutes of CPR, survival to hospital discharge was as follows: overall, 56 of 168 (33.3%); general surgical, 0 of 7 (0%); surgical cardiac, 40 of 104 (38.5%); medical cardiac, 15 of 34 (44.1%); general medical, 1 of 23 (4.4%); and trauma, 0 of 0. Survival to hospital discharge after >35 minutes of CPR without E-CPR was as follows: overall, 102 of 819 (12.5%); general surgical, 9 of 63 (14.3%); surgical cardiac, 26 of 156 (16.7%); medical cardiac, 22 of 145 (15.2%); general medical, 40 of 390 (10.3%); and trauma, 5 of 65 (7.7%). With the use of a 2-sided Fisher exact test (Stata 12.1) without adjustment for other potential confounding factors to compare those who received E-CPR …


Since angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels strongly correlate with cardiovascular mortality and subclinical cardiovascular disease, it was hypothesized that levels of Ang‐2 and its soluble receptor (sTie‐2) were associated with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and individual MetS components.


This article is written in support of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. As of the time of this writing, the event is scheduled to take place in Houston, Texas, during the week of October 3, 2022. The ATCE is the SPE's flagship international event. The host facility will provide over 90,000 square feet of exhibition space along with numerous presentation rooms. It is an honor to be a part of this program.
 The author has been tasked with preparing an article that discusses the role that patents have played in the development of the oil and gas industry. As someone who has written hundreds of patent applications in various energy generation fields over the last 22 years, and as a degreed petroleum engineer himself, the author believes that he is uniquely suited for the task.
 A number of years ago, the author wrote an article for the Society of Petroleum Engineers entitled Intellectual Property for the Oilfield The article was written in connection with a presentation at an International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) Drilling Conference held in Dallas, Texas. A reciprocal article was published by a patent attorney in Canada the same year. See R.B. Caldwell, Patent Monopoly-Protecting Your Ideas (in Canada). The two articles focused much more on the patent process itself than the development of oil and gas technology and the role that the patent process has played.
 The author is unaware of any attempts that have been made, scholarly or otherwise since 2002 to discuss the role that patents play in the oil and gas industry. This paper is a humble attempt to fill that void.


Ultrasonic enables a mobile autonomous system to obtain information about obstacles in
large environments. In the presented work, taking the limited energy resources of a mobile robot into
account, only one transmitter is used. The employment of two receivers permits the calculation of
the distance to and the orientation of a wall, using only time-of-flight measurements. The evaluation
procedure consists of basic geometrical calculations, which do not strain the system's calculating
power too excessively. The results show that it is possible to place the transmitter and the receivers
close together without losing much of the performance. Hence the introduced arrangement of
ultrasonic sensors can be used for small systems, e.g. the mini-robot Khepera.


We report on the first international comparison in ultrafast waveform metrology. To this end, the frequency and time responses of a photodiode with a nominal bandwidth of 100 GHz have been measured by several National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) during the last two years. An overall good agreement between the different measurement techniques is obtained. However, certain features in the frequency- and time-domain responses are not reproduced by all NMIs, calling for additional studies and comparisons.


3. Breast feeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants. It is also integral part of reproductive process with implications for the health of mother. Review of evidence has shown that on a population bases exclusive breast feeding for 6 months is the optimal way of feeding infants 4 . Nature has designed the provision that infants to be fed upon their mother's milk. They find their food and mother at the same time. Every child born in the country has a right to lead a healthy life which is directly related to breast feeding. Milk contains immunizing agents which protects babies against various diseases and is rich in vitamins, enzymes and antibodies and it provides babies for the establishment of personalities and learning readiness. It is no doubt that no other food can replace mother's milk 5 . Hence the advantage of breast feeding can't be overemphasized in the developing countries like India which have high neonatal and infant mortality rates. Therefore, it has to be fed on exclusive basis to boost the fulfillment of needs of the babies and it is the right of every child. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) reduces infant deaths caused by common childhood illness such as diarrhea and pneumonia, fastens recovery during illness and helps space births 6 . Studies have showed that breast fed babies are more intelligent, improves their academic performance and they become smarter than formula fed babies 7 . Globally, more than ten million children die before their 5th birthday due to preventable causes and malnutrition is associated with over half of all childhood death and over a million babies born in the country die within their first month of life. India has the unfortunate distinction of claiming more than a quarter of the total newborn deaths in the world. It is estimated that out of 3.9 million neonatal deaths that occur worldwide, almost 30 percent occur in India 8 . The major cause of infant death is lack of exclusive breastfeeding leading to malnutrition, diarrhea and infections. The infant mortality rate is increasing primarily due to infectious diseases and malnutrition. Failure to offer breast milk, on practicing of exclusive breast feeding, on-compliance with immunization on account of illiteracy, ignorance, cultural and social beliefs pose the greatest risk of death in the infant. Many studies have found that mothers in India have inadequate knowledge and ill practices about breast feeding and EBF. Findings of a study conducted in Pondicherry, India revealed that the knowledge of the mothers was inadequate in areas of time of initiation of breastfeeding (92%), colostrum feeding (56%), duration of exclusive breastfeeding (38%), knowledge on expressed breast milk (51%) and continuation of breastfeeding while baby is sick 9


The utility model discloses a locomotive draught apparatus added with a Z-shaped draw-rod on a center pin, which is characterized in that a draught pin is provided on the locomotive bottom, a draught pin seat is sleeved on the draught pin, draught draw-rods are respectively arranged at both sides of the draught pin seat, two draught draw-rods and the draught pin seat are arranged as a Z-shape, the draught draw-rod and the draught pin seat are hinged by an elastic joint, the other end of the draught draw-rod is connected with a draught draw-rod seat on the bogie cross beam, an elastic element is also arranged between the draught pin and the draught pin seat. The utility model can realize unconstrained rotation between the locomotive body and the bogie when the locomotive passes the curve, and the inner elastic element can buffer the impact and oscillation from various directions.


Let A be a commutative ring and let B be a faithful A-module with a distinguished element e 6 B. It would be nice to understand in terms of the theory of A-modules whether B supports the structure of an A-algebra with identity element e. In general there is of course nothing unique about such an algebra structure. But there is at most one such structure if B is a finite birational A-module in the sense that there is an element d 6 A, which is a nonzerodivisor on B, such that dB Ae B. In this case, indeed, the algebra structure of B is determined by the fact that it is a subalgebra of B[d A[d-1 ]. A number of authors (Catanese 1984], Mond and Pellikaan 1987], de Jong and van Straten 1990], Kleiman and Ulrich 1995]) have given interesting applications of criteria that, under quite special hypotheses, test whether B is an A-algebra in terms of conditions on annihilators of elments of B, or even in terms of a presentation matrix of B as an A-module. It is the purpose of this note to re-examine and generalize these criteria. (For a thorough survey of the history and relations of the criteria, see the introduction to Kleiman and Ulrich 1995].) Assuming that A is Noetherian, for us the interesting case, the finite birational hypothesis implies that B is a finitely generated A-module (it is contained in dAe). If B is an A-algebra, then our hypothesis implies that Enda (B) EndB (B) B, so there is an obvious criterion: B is an A-algebra iff every A-module homomorphism Ae B extends to an A-module homomorphism B B. Equivalently, B is an A-algebra iff the map B Extla (B/Ae, B), induced by the exact sequence 0--+ Ae -B B/Ae --+ 0 is zero. We shall write -* for Homa (--, A). It is easy to see that if B is an A-algebra, then B** is too. In fact, it is not hard to see that B** is an A-algebra iff the composite map B ---> Ext (B/Ae, B) --> Ext (B/Ae, B**) is zero. Our first result is that there is a simple alternative criterion in terms of annihilators for determining when this occurs:


Positioning and Navigation (PN) is one of the most important topics in the world of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Being equipped with a suite of sensors and high-performance computers, self-driving cars are designed to perceive its surrounding environment prior to planning and control. Among the observations are the semantics of the objects appearing in the scene. While PN is very challenging for extended GNSS outages, vision sensors can also exhibit failures in the case of highly dynamic scenes and lack of texture between consecutive image frames. To overcome this problem, we propose a stereo visual odometry scheme and advocate the use of a pretrained state-of-the-art Semantic Segmentation (SS) Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) model to forcefully remove features belonging to objects that most likely behave dynamically in the scene prior to egomotion estimation and integration with inertial sensors. When loosely coupled with inertial sensors, the proposed method was able to outperform the integrated algorithm without SS-based outlier rejection during natural GNSS outages.


Discovering network topology is necessary for many critical network management tasks, but with the immense size and dynamic nature of the Internet, so discovering the Internet topology is a challenging task. In this paper we introduce a distributed algorithm for discovering the Internet topology using intelligent mobile Agent. In the proposed scheme topology of autonomous systems are discovered in a distributed fashion, thereby making this approach significantly more scaleable than applications using the traditional Client/Server model and SNMP.


Disaster preparedness is a key success factor for any effective disaster management practices. This paper evaluates the disaster preparedness and management in Saudi Arabia using an empirical investigation approach. It presents the results of the survey conducted by interviewing representatives of the Saudi decisionmakers and administrators responsible for disaster control in Jeddah before, during and after flooding in 2009 and 2010. First, demographics of the respondents are presented, followed by quantitative analysis of their views and experiences regarding the Kingdom's readiness before and after each flood. This is shown as a series of dependent and independent variables. Following this is a list of respondents' priorities for disaster preparation in the Kingdom.


In this work, the authors proposed a modification of the working space one-strand tundish adapted for slab casting process. Numerical simulations of liquid steel flow in the considered flow reactor were performed. The tundish is equipped with a dam with a multi-hole filter. Two variants of the filter hole arrangement were tested and their effect on the liquid steel flow hydrodynamic structure in the tundish was examined. The computer calculations results were verified by performing experiments on the water model. The result of numerical and physical simulations an RTD (Residence Time Distribution) type F curve was generated, which define the transition zone between the cast steel grades during the sequential casting process. The results of the researches showed that the modification of a dam with a multi-hole filter affects on the formation of the liquid steel flow hydrodynamic structure and the transition zone. Furthermore, examinations of the liquid steel refining ability in the considered tundish were carried out. The influence of the filter holes arrangement on the non-metallic inclusions flotation process to the slag phase and liquid steel filtration processes was checked. Numerical simulations were performed in the Ansys-Fluent computer program.


Introduction Medical Exposure Directive of the European Commission, 97/43/Euratom recommended setting-up local national diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for the most common radiological examinations in order to comply with the law and to maintain safe clinical practice. There are no guidelines for spinal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The aims of this study were to evaluate local radiation doses & screening times for diagnostic spinal blocks, to look at PACS image intensifier films for diagnostic representation and to assess the accuracy of data in IR(ME) document. Materials and Methods Between 1/01/2009 and 15/07/2010, all spinal blocks done under care of three spinal surgeons (LB/NC/AAC) were reviewed. Images revisited on PACS for confirmation. We reviewed 229 patients (included single & two levels nerve root blocks, facet joint and lysis blocks). Data were collected with regard to radiation dose, screening times, third-quartile values used to establish DRLs, IR(ME) documentation and PACS fluoroscopic image documentation. Results Third quartile single level NRB DAP (Dose area product) was 111.5 cGyCm2. Single level NRB screening time was mean-0.13, third quartile-0.2 min. Nerve specific dosimetry included L5 nerve (0.2 min; 119cGyCm2) and S1 nerve (0.2 min; 118.7cGyCm2). Mean 'Click: Block ratio' (last click for PACS/Block) was 22.4 (SD=7.05, range 10 to 48). Local fluoroscopic documentation was 87.2%. Conclusions There are no national standards in radiation dosimetry for diagnostic spinal blocks. We recommend that all spinal units in the UK should evaluate their own DRLs to help establish national guidelines for fluoroscopy-guided spinal procedures. Representative fluoroscopic image documentation on PACS was 87% locally. It is a joint responsibility of radiographer & operating surgeon to make it 100% to reduce medicolegal risks.


Background:  Genetic immunization is a very promising therapeutic approach for allergy treatment. In the present study we investigate the influence of the nature of the allergen, the mouse strain, and the relative amount of CpG to expressed recombinant protein on immune responses using two major peanut allergens, Ara h 1 and Ara h 4.


Beet curly top disease is caused by Curtoviruses, a group of viruses transmitted by the beet leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus). It occurs in many different plants in Arizona including tomato, pepper, cucurbits, spinach, and beets. The viruses also are differentially hosted by many other plants including alfalfa (Nischwitz and Olsen, 2010) and many weeds (Creamer et al. 1996; Lam et al. 2009). In the USA, the Curtovirus group currently consists of seven viruses – Beet curly top virus (BCTV), Beet mild curly top virus (BMCTV), Beet severe curly top virus (BSCTV), Pepper curly top virus (PCTV), Pepper yellow dwarf virus (PYDV), Spinach curly top virus (SCTV) and Horseradish curly top virus (HrCTV). When more than one of these viruses infects a plant, they readily exchange genes and recombine, so variation in their incidence is common. Curtoviruses and their only known vector, the beet leafhopper, are native to the western United States. In recent years, Curtoviruses have resulted in significant losses in table beet and spinach plantings in Arizona. The Curtoviruses associated with spinach and beets in Arizona during 2009-2010 are identified in this bulletin along with other non-symptomatic hosts that harbor the viruses. Knowledge of host range and location are useful for efficacious weed control and reduction in disease severity.


: In order to study the interspecies variations in small intestinal and hepatic drug metabolism, the benzpyrene hydroxylase and UDP glucuronyl-transferase activities were determined in the cat, guinea pig, mouse, rabbit and rat. The cat exhibited very low benzpyrene hydroxylase and UDP glucuronyl-tranferase activities both in its liver and small intestine. Of the other species the guinea pig had the highest benzpyrene hydroxylase activity, the rabbit an intermediate and the rat and mouse the lowest activity in the small intestine. The hydroxylation of 3,4-benzpyrene by liver microsomes was most active in the mouse and guinea pig, the rat liver showed an intermediate activity and the rabbit liver was least active. The UDP glucuronyl-transferase activity was highest in the small intestinal mucosa of the rabbit and rat, whereas the guinea pig and mouse exhibited an 80 per cent lower activity. The guinea pig liver microsomes showed the highest activity and the mouse, rabbit and rat livers had an intermediate activity. The rat small intestinal benzpyrene hydroxylase activity could be enhanced to the same level as in the guinea pig by feeding the rats with a guinea pig diet.


The title of Robert Doran's collection of essays on Hayden White proves provocative and evocative. Provocative because it claims to mark a move within philosophy that pivots on the work of Hayden White, and this despite the fact that White himself explicitly resists inclusion within such a classification, that is, as a philosopher of history. Indeed, another contributor, Arthur Danto, had as of 1995 declared passé the whole subfield of philosophy of history. Doran situates White, then, in a niche White rejects and in any case one largely abandoned by those who do academic philosophy. Thus a question that this title evokes concerns why—whatever philosophy of history happens to be before Hayden White— after him it becomes a topic of philosophical lack of interest, one pursued almost exclusively by those not associated with departments of philosophy. Given White's professional travails, his acquaintance with another undisciplined academic, Richard Rorty, and his long-standing friendship with preeminent philosophers of history such as Louis Mink, one might well assume that White eschews Doran's disciplinary labeling for a reason. In this regard, reframing him as this book's title does invites a worry that, if only unwittingly, the book elides discussion of why certain positions excite not merely disagreement but prompt rather a type of professional shunning. In failing to confront White's reception (or rather lack thereof) by historians and his position (or rather lack thereof) within philosophy, Doran passes over in silence a highly salient aspect of White's work.


By the analysis of traffic jam produced by the evacuation before Hurricane Floyd came in 1999 in US,the functional relations among flow rate, velocity and density in balanced state are given. On the basis of the functions and the traffic flow theory,the strategies to improve the traffic flow are studied, models are constructed and some useful conclusions are drawn. First, we construct a net flow model in term of the theory of flow conservation. It is used to process problems of traffic flow of a system. We acquire the condition on which I 26 should be reversed by using the model, and it can be extended to more complex net. Also, we tested the precision of the model. Second, we also use the theory of flow conservation and detailed deduction to acquire the conditions under which the alternative strategy and turning around traffic on the roads besides I 26 can improve the traffic flow. Third, we construct an algebra model in term of theory of conservation to search the functional relation between the number of shelters to be established and flow rate of system. Using the relation , we resolved the problem of establishing shelters in Columbia. We can also use an algebra model to calculate the evacuation time under ideal conditions by controlling the proportion of large scale vehicles. If the time is shorter than the given time, we neednt constrain the types or numbers. Or, the constraint is necessary. At last, to resolve the congestion in intersections, we construct a traffic net controlling model . By using a controlling function, we can make the length of waiting queues as short as possible . We also identify a measure to compare the strategies. It is whether the strategy can improve the traffic flow or decrease the total evacuation time.


Guinea pigs immunized with egg albumin or an azobenzene arsanate conjugate of acetyl-tyrosine (ABA-tyr) in complete or incomplete Freund's adjuvant can develop eosinophil-containing delayed hypersensitivity skin reactions when challenged with specific antigen. Retest, achieved by the re-injection of antigen at the site of a prior skin test, leads to an accelerated reaction which may contain increased numbers of eosinophils. ABA-tyr which induces delayed hypersensitivity without antibody formation, dissociates the two components of the retest reaction; that antigen leads to an accelerated reaction, but one with only small numbers of eosinophils.


It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Stefan H. Mackiewicz on September 28, 2017. Professor Stefan Mackiewicz was an outstanding Polish rheumatologist. He was a graduate of the Medical University of Poznan. After graduation he worked at the Third Department of Internal Medicine in Poznan. In 1967 he became the Chairman of the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, and he obtained the post of the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Internal Medicine of the Medical University in Poznan. The title of extraordinary professor was granted to Professor Stefan Mackiewicz in 1970, and in 1972 he became an ordinary professor. Later, until 2008, Professor Stefan Mackiewicz was the head of the Ward of Rheumatology at the Joseph Strus Hospital in Poznan. He was several times a visiting scientist in leading rheumatological centres. He was the President of the Scientific Council at the Institute of Rheumatology in Warsaw, a consulting physician of the Governmental Medical Unit in Warsaw, and the National Specialist in Rheumatology. He authored five handbooks for physicians and medical students, and more than 300 scientific papers. Professor Stefan Mackiewicz was an honorary member of the Polish Society for Rheumatology since 2011.


Limited information is available on the decay fungi present aboveground in structures and there are no known U.S. studies of decay present in green, Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) construction lumber obtainable from retail lumber inventories. In order to answer the question of whether aboveground decay in California structures may be a result of fungal invasion before or after building construction and identify practical control measures, baseline information was obtained on the types and distributions of wood-rotting fungi in these materials. Ten fungi were isolated and identified from decay in green, Douglas-fir lumber, including two white-rotting fungi. The fungi isolated most frequently from lumber were Antrodia carbonica, Antrodia vaillantii, Gloeophyllum trabeum, and Postia placenta. Antrodia carbonica and Postia placenta are frequent colonizers of air-seasoned Douglas-fir poles in the Pacific Northwest and might be expected to colonize green, unprotected lumber at mills and storage facilities. The same four fungi were isolated most frequently from aboveground decay in structures along with Gloeophyllum sepiarium. Direct similarities between the decay fungi isolated from buildings and those isolated from commercially available construction lumber make it probable that a large amount of decay in California structures stems from the use of pre-infected green lumber in construction. Kiln-drying and subsequent proper handling would ensure the greatest amount of protection against infected lumber.


The study area is located in the southern part of the Tuz Gölü in central Anatolia, Turkey. The investigated evaporates were taken from ten drill holes depths ranging from 650 to 1100 meters in Miocene to Quaternary deposits. The determined evaporite minerals are formed from the sulfate group minerals (gypsum, anhydrite, glauberite and partially bloedite), carbonate minerals (dolomite and partially magnesite, rarely calcite), and chloride group (halite and rarely polyhalite in the study. Detrital and/or non-evaporitic mineral are composed of quartz, feldspar, mica, and rarely zeolite minerals. The purpose of the study is to determine the mineral types and contents at the basin in the lateral and vertical direction. The mineralogical compositions of the samples were investigated using X-ray diffraction, optical microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy methods. In optical microscopic examinations, distribution of these minerals and their frequency was determined, their textural properties and their conversion to each other were also defined. In particular, the thickness of the halite-bearing sediments can reach several hundred meters, partly even if the halite beds intercalated with glauberite and/or anhydrite layers. Carbonate-halite and sulphate minerals are usually precipitated with each other in succession. Carbonate sedimentation has been reduced or has not occurred at the levels of sedimentation of halite precipitated layers. Carbonate minerals are mostly accompanied by sulphate group minerals, halite and clay minerals. Calcite is usually found in the upper parts of the drillings. Dolomite-magnesite and dolomite-calcite mineral couples can be found together in the drillings. While dolomite is more common in moderate levels in drillings, magnesite is found in lower levels and is less prevalent. Sulphate minerals are the most common mineral group in the basin. The most common sulphate minerals are gypsum, anhydrite and glauberite. Along with these minerals, bloedite, epsomite, loveite, eugasterite and konyaite have been determined at various levels.


This paper gives an overview of reported design-and process-related electrical performance failure modes for high-speed (> 1 GHz) serial interfaces fabricated using CMOS processes /spl les/130 nm. Effects of various defects on observable performance at the I/O pins are summarized, along with ATE test technology implications.


The corrosion of carbon steel causes dramatic economic losses each year. Since conventional corrosion prevention approaches may cause pollution problems to the environment, ecofriendly and effective corrosion approaches are desired. Microbiologically influenced corrosion inhibition (MICI) has been reported as a sustainable corrosion prevention method. This work aims to evaluate the corrosion inhibition effect of two bacterial strains, Tenacibaculum mesophilum D-6 and Bacillus sp. Y-6 by choosing Q235 carbon steel as a model system. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and a series of electrochemical techniques were applied to study the corrosion prevention effect. The electrochemical and pitting results indicated that T. mesophilum D-6 displayed a better corrosion protection effect. T. mesophilum D-6 formed a denser and thicker biofilm on the Q235 surface than Bacillus sp. Y-6. The maximum thickness of the T. mesophilum D-6 biofilms was 11.6 ± 0.7 μm, which is about twice as thick than that of Bacillus sp. Y-6. The corrosion prevention mechanism was ascribed to the formation of biofilms as a barrier to block corrosive agents such as O2. This study provides a theoretical foundation for the application of biofilms as green and effective corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel.


Gold nanoparticles (AuNP's) facilitate cancer cell recognition and can be manufactured by green synthesis using nutrient rich medicinal plants such as Moringa oleifera (MO). Targeting dysregulated oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes is crucial for cancer therapeutics. We investigated the antiproliferative effects of AuNP synthesized from MO aqueous leaf extracts (MLAuNP) in A549 lung and SNO oesophageal cancer cells. A one‐pot green synthesis technique was used to synthesise MLAuNP. A549, SNO cancer cells and normal peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were exposed to MLAuNP and CAuNP to evaluate cytotoxicity (MTT assay); apoptosis was measured by phosphatidylserine (PS) externalization, mitochondrial depolarization (ΔΨm) (flow cytometry), caspase‐3/7, −9 activity, and ATP levels (luminometry). The mRNA expression of c‐myc, p53, Skp2, Fbw7α, and caspase‐9 splice variants was determined using qPCR, while relative protein expression of c‐myc, p53, SRp30a, Bax, Bcl‐2, Smac/DIABLO, Hsp70, and PARP‐1 were determined by Western blotting. MLAuNP and CAuNP were not cytotoxic to PBMCs, whilst its pro‐apoptotic properties were confirmed in A549 and SNO cells. MLAuNP significantly increased caspase activity in SNO cells while MLAuNP significantly increased PS externalization, ΔΨm, caspase‐9, caspase‐3/7 activities, and decreased ATP levels in A549 cells. Also, p53 mRNA and protein levels, SRp30a (P = 0.428), Bax, Smac/DIABLO and PARP‐1 24 kDa fragment levels were significantly increased. Conversely, MLAuNP significantly decreased Bcl‐2, Hsp70, Skp2, Fbw7α, c‐myc mRNA, and protein levels and activated alternate splicing with caspase‐9a splice variant being significantly increased. MLAuNP possesses antiproliferative properties and induced apoptosis in A549 cells by activating alternate splicing of caspase‐9. J. Cell. Biochem. 117: 2302–2314, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


This article provides an ethnographic examination of olfactory consumer testing in the perfume industry. What kind of reality is generated within such practices? The analysis is focused on one particular testing method used in order to assess the hedonic performance of fine fragrances. The authors observe what happens inside the testing venue. The article concentrates on the problem of the simulacrum (how the reality provoked within the test may serve as a proxy for the reality of 'consumer behaviour') and analyses how participants actively engage into the task of becoming measuring instruments (of fragrances and of themselves).


A. galli infection caused high economic losses and decreased the amount and quality of egg production. The existence of anthelmintic resistance lead to the development of research on alternative treatments for A. galli. This aim of the research was to know LC50 of Areca catechu on infestation of A. galli. In this research A. galli was taken from a chicken slaughterhouse in Terban, Yogyakarta, and was divided into 8 groups for in vitro research. Group I was treated with an 10% infusion of A. catechu; group II was treated with 12.5% infusion of A. catechu; group III was treated with a 15% infusion of A. catechu; group IV was treated with a 17.5% infusion of A. catechu; group V was treated with 20% infusion of A. catechu; group VI was treated with a 22.5% infusion of A. catechu; group VII was treated with 25% A. catechu infusion and group VIII as negative control (0.9% NaCl). A. galli mortality is recorded every one hour until worm mortality is 100%. The results were then analyzed using the Reed and Muench method. Based on the in vitro test the infusion of Areca catechu against Ascaridia galli can cause death in worms with an LC 50 calculation of 21. 18%.


The speed of development and the quality of high and new technology industries will essentially determine the status of a city and its competitiveness in the markets at home and abroad in the 21st century.As a medium-sized city in central China,Jiyuan should make use of the development of high-tech industries to transform and vitalize the traditional industries.


The industrial revolution had marked the beginning of the age of machine.It shaped the world we are living in. The industrial activity broughttremendous changes in almost every sphere of life. The textile industrywhich was one of the earliest and most prominent industries led to theemergence of the booming fashion industry. It is that fashion industrywhich is now creating tons of industrial waste and counted as one of thebiggest polluters in the United Kingdom. The adverse industrial impacts onenvironment prompted the environmental activists, fashion entrepreneurs,students, and other citizens to shift to sustainable practices. There is astrong inclination to adopt sustainability in the industrial process. Themounting call for sustainability raises two important questions. Was theIndustrial Revolution indeed a 'revolution'? And if that was the case, did itmake the world, more specifically, the environment unsustainable? Shouldthe Industrial Revolution be blamed for the environmental crisis in theUnited Kingdom?


Project and independent study become two significant teaching methods under the new mechanical drawing teaching. This paper introduces the purpose, practice plan and implementations of part drawing project under the new teaching model. Since it is important to give equal value between knowledge mastery and skill development, between improving problem-solving ability and comprehensive quality in teaching, the part drawing project offers students the opportunity to meet and solve the problems, thus enhancing the comprehensive quality of students and achieving the curriculum objectives. The practice has proved that this method is effective to inspire the initiative, develop project consciousness and team-work spirit of students, which has attained great teaching results.


Simulating the Cross-Linguistic Development of Optional Infinitive Errors in MOSAIC Daniel Freudenthal (firstname.lastname@example.com) Julian Pine (email@example.com) School of Psychology, University of Liverpool L69 7ZA Liverpool, UK Fernand Gobet (email@example.com) School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK Bloom, 1990; Pinker, 1984; Valian, 1991). More recently, however, it has been argued that they reflect the child's optional use of (root) infinitives (e.g. go) in contexts where a finite form (e.g. went, goes) is obligatory in the adult language (Wexler, 1994, 1998). This interpretation reflects the fact that children produce (root) infinitives not only in English, where the infinitive is a zero-marked form, but also in languages such as Dutch (Wijnen et al. 2001) and German, where the infinitive carries its own infinitival marker (-en). For instance, children learning Dutch may produce utterances such as: Abstract The Optional Infinitive (OI) phenomenon in children's speech has attracted a great deal of attention due to its occurrence in a variety of languages (including English, Dutch and German), and its apparent absence in other languages (such as Spanish and Italian). Wexler (1998) explains this pattern of results in terms of a Unique Checking Constraint that interacts with cross-linguistic differences in the underlying grammar to result in Optional Infinitive errors in obligatory subject languages (which require double-checking), but not in pro-drop languages (which do not require double-checking). While Wexler's account explains the cross-linguistic data, it attributes a great deal of innate linguistic knowledge to the child, and ignores the possibility that the cross-linguistic data may be equally well explained by the interaction between a simple distributional learning mechanism and the surface characteristics of the language. This paper presents simulations of the Optional Infinitive phenomenon across 4 languages (English, Dutch, German, and Spanish) using MOSAIC, a simple distributional analyser with no built-in syntactic knowledge. MOSAIC clearly simulates the different rates of Optional Infinitive errors across the languages, suggesting (a) that it is possible to explain the basic OI phenomenon without assuming large amounts of innate linguistic knowledge, and (b) that cross-linguistic differences in the OI phenomenon may be related to differences in the surface characteristics of the languages being learned. (3a) Pappa eten* (4a) Mamma drinken* (Daddy (to) eat) (Mummy (to) drink) Instead of (3b) Pappa eet (4b) Mamma drinkt (Daddy eats) (Mummy drinks) According to Wexler (1998), the Optional Infinitive phenomenon can be explained as follows. By the time children begin to produce multi-word utterances, they have already set all the basic inflectional and clause structure parameters of their language. However, their grammars are governed by a Unique Checking Constraint that is 'genetically specified (and withering away in time)' (Wexler, 1998: 27). The Unique Checking Constraint may prevent the child from checking the D-feature of the subject DP against more than one D-feature (in this case the D-features of Tense and Agreement). As a result, Tense and Agreement can be optionally under-specified in the underlying representation of the sentence, and the child may produce non-finite verb forms (forms that are not marked for tense or agreement) in contexts in which a finite verb form is required. The main strength of Wexler's account is that it can explain data from a range of different languages. Thus, it can explain why children produce Optional Infinitive errors at high rates in obligatory subject languages like English, Dutch and German, which require the child to check against two D- features: Tense and Agreement. However, it can also explain why children make few Optional Infinitive errors in INFL- licensed null subject languages like Spanish and Italian, Introduction Between two and three years of age, children learning English often produce utterances that appear to lack inflections, such as past tense markers or third person singular agreement markers. For example, children may produce utterances as: (1a) That go there* (2a) He walk home* instead of (1b) That goes there (2b) He walks home Traditionally, such utterances have been interpreted in terms of absence of the appropriate knowledge of inflections (Brown, 1973) or the dropping of inflections as a result of performance limitations in production (L. Bloom, 1970; P.


1. Every day, government officials, from ministers to street-level bureaucrats, make complex decisions with significant implications for individuals, society, and the economy. In recent years, offi...


Through the analysis of distributed control system communication network in Huaneng Beijing Thermal Power Co.,Ltd.,the communication network technology of symphony system was expounded.Adopting the exceptional report and the valid data processing technology for data compression,etc.were introduced to ensure expedite data transmission in the network.


During the period of the central soriet area,the Party scored lots of achievements in the mass work such as deweloping economy,raising Party members' awareness of the masses,adopting democratic politics,and setting up an incorrupt government.This experience has great enlightenment significance for today's mass work.First,we must understand that divorce ourselves from the masses bears on the Party's very survival.Second,the mass work must be integrated with people's lifelyhood.Third,efforts must be made to improve the system for safeguarding people's fundamental interdsts.Fourth,combating corruption must be considerd a basic measure to enjoy the trust from the masses.


The purpose of this project is to understand the proof of Lickorish-Wallace Theorem. We begin with studying some aspects of knot theory and prove the existence and uniqueness of prime factorisation of knots. We go on to understand the Jones polynomial and establish the fact that it is a knot invariant. We study surface homeomorphisms and prove the classic result that any orientation preserving homeomorphism can be written as a composition of Dehn twists [8]. Lickorish-Wallace theorem is proved by using the aforementioned theorem.


1 Gary Freeman and Paul Adams, 'The Politics of Social Security: Expansion, Retrenchment, and Rationalization', in The Political Economy of Public Policy, edited by Alan Stone and Edward J. Harpham, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982. 2 On the anti-poor bias of the America Social Security programme, and its origins, see Jerry R. Cates, Insuring Inequality, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983. 3 Hugh Heclo,'Toward a New Welfare State?' in The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America, edited by Peter Flora and Arnold J. Heidenheimer, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1981; Peter Taylor-Gooby, 'The New Right and Social Policy, Critical Social Policy 1 (1981); Paul Adams and Gary Freeman, 'Social Services Under Reagan and Thatcher,' in Urban Policy Under Capitalism, edited by Norman I. Fainstein and Susan S. Fainstein, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982. 4 Paul Adams, Health of the State, New York: Praeger, 1982, pp.11-17; Ian Gough, The Political Economy of the Welfare State, London: Macmillan, 1979. 5 On the Harold Washington campaign for mayor of Chicago, see Dan LaBotz's two articles, 'Why Leftists Worked for Washington -A Retreat from Independent Political Action' and 'Chicago: The Programme Was Pride, But the Winners Are the Democrats,' both in Changes, May 1983. 6 A recent article in the journal Democracy (Summer, 1983, pp. 58-69), 'The American Road to Democratic


This paper addresses a robust human trajectory tracking method through the data integration of 2D laser scanner and 3D camera. Mapping the deep learning-based 3D camera human detection onto the point cloud of the depth information to build up the 3D bounding box-represented human and using the state-of-the-art 2D laser-based leg detection are the main data streams of the human tracking system. The human-oriented global nearest neighbour (HOGNN) data association, inspired from the Hall's proxemics, was developed to improve both the 3D camera-based and 2D laser-based human detection techniques. The dual Kalman filters are employed to track the human trajectory in parallel. The integration of the 3D camera-based and 2D laser-based human tracking is the key function of the system providing the real-time feedback for both the HOGNN to reduce false-positives of the camera-based and laser-based human detection and the Kalman filter to enhance the quality of the human trajectory tracking under uncertain environmental conditions. We implemented the sensor integration on ROS and validated it through real-world experiments.


A theoretical equation is derived for the collision rate of aerosol particles in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent system. This equation takes into account the relative velocity between fluid and particles. The calculated results indicate that the relative velocity between fluid and particles is the main factor in the turbulent coagulation (agglomeration, coalescence) of unequally sized particles in an air flow. This hold true, even when the particle sizes are less than 1 micron. For particles of equal radii the coagulation coefficient reaches its minimum value, because the effect of motion relative to the fluid now becomes zero and only the spatial variation of turbulent motion remains to cause collisions between the particles. For particles following a fluid motion completely, as in a water stream, the equation for the collision rate reduces to the Saffman and Turner equation.


Abstract: This research article aims to find out how is the management of Tahfidz Al-Qur'an learning in schools? This research uses qualitative research. The approach used in this study is a naturalistic qualitative that was carried out at the Al-Fityah Binjai Foundation which includes Al-Fityah Elementary School, Junior School and High School. This approach is carried out by making a systematic and objective description of events, by collecting, evaluating, verifying, and synthe-sizing evidence to support the facts in order to obtain a conclusion. The results showed that the management of Tahfidz Al-Qur'an learning in schools was carried out through empathy, namely 1) Learning planning, where the implementation was arranged by involving the foundation and the school, Tahfiz Al-Qur'an learning planning contained subject matter, learning media, learning methods and time assessment. 2) Organizing learning which is carried out through the division of teaching tasks and the formation of a curriculum deve-lopment team that is oriented to the process of deter-mining, grouping, determining authority and respon-sibility by policy makers. 3) The imple-mentation of tahfidzul quran learning is carried out on the basis of four things, namely the material for each meeting, methods, class management, and teaching and learning activities. 4) evaluation of tahfidzul quran learning in these three schools was car-ried out using formative evaluation and summative evaluation.Keywords: Management, Learning, Ta


With whom are you Flirting now, my sweet ambition? With what Younger student are you Nuzzling in the library stacks or melding futures In Erlenmeyer flasks? You ultimately grew bored With me and, true, I was no match for you, Full-lipped, provocative, Tireless. And now that my latest partner has left I can't stop thinking of you. Did I leave you? Or did you leave me? Uncertainty cluttered our lab Like an incomplete experiment Either lacking the power to answer the question Or flawed in design. You wanted more from me But I wanted children and I wanted time. You wanted perfection Because that's what you do best: want and want Again, satisfied never. You wanted Hippocrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir William Osler. Instead, You found yourself flirting With a commoner. Remember when you gave my daughter The astronomy flashlight. All the world flashed On the ceiling in the dark. She has stopped Asking for you, but Your sweet touch of foreignness glazes her eyes And frightens me. Today, I see patients, Write only in charts and taxi the children back And forth to the library, Glancing occasionally in my rear view mirror, Wondering if you're there.


A prepolymer of styrene was prepared with BPO at room temperature,a small amount of which was introduced into polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA)to investigate its effect on the light scat- tering property of the latter based on Mie scattering theory.The simulation results by matlab theory were consistent with the experimental data.With increasing content of styrene prepolymer,the particle diameter of the scattering centers increased and the light scattering property changed in the form of a parabola.When the content of styrene prepolymer was 0.45 %,the light scattering property reaches a maximum near 75 %.


Purpose: Selections are a family of cell adhesion molecules that are responsible for adhesion of leukocytes to the endothelium and commencement of atherogenic processes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of eight weeks high intensity interval training on the levels of E-selection and P-selection.
Methods: 16 obese young females were randomly assigned into two experimental (N=8, age; 26.12±3.1 years; height, 1.6±0.06 meters; weight, 85.5±16.6 kilograms) and control groups (n=8; age, 31±6.23 years; height, 1.6±0.02 meters; weight, 76.2±12.06 kilograms). Exercise protocol included eight weeks (three sessions per week, each session four to seven repetitions of running with maximum velocity in a 40 meters distance with 30 seconds' recovery) HIIT trainings. Fasting blood samples were taken 24h before and after the training. Elisa method was used to measure the dependent variables.
Results: Analysis of data using student T-test showed no significant changes in the levels of E-selection and P-selection after trainings (P>0.05).
Conclusion: It was concluded that more duration of training is probably needed to have significant effect of HIIT trainings on the levels of E-selection and P-selection.
Keywords: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), E-selection, P-selection, Obese young female


The 7Be(p,γ)8B reaction is undoubtfully important to the understanding of the solar model. As a step in the direction of improving the accuracy of the S17 astrophysical factor, a study of the 7Be + p scattering was performed with the thick target method at the CRIB facility. In addition to its astrophysical significance, this reaction is also useful to clarify the nuclear structure of 8B. A primary beam of 7Li and a hydrogen gas target were used to produce a 7Be secondary beam at 7.69 MeV/u. This was the first time in which γ‐rays were measured in coincidence with protons, and we have successfully measured the inelastic contribution to the scattering cross section.


The maximum entropy method (MEM) of BURG (1968, 1970, 1972) has been applied to 2300 years of mean daily D, H, and Z data. Composite spectra and line counts, aside from the fundamental annual (mainly P20 mode) and semiannual (P10 mode) lines, show harmonics at periods 365/(n+1), n=1, 2, …, 6 days. In this range the geomagnetic spectrum consists of a P20 mode line structure superposed on a background P10 mode continuum. Mode mixing may have adversely affected previous Earth response estimates (BANKS, 1969) and must be considered in future studies. Finally, the '27-day peak' is shown to be a broad band signal from 24 to 31 days, confirming results of RASSSACH et al. (1966).


It has long been recognized that language interacts with visual and spatial processes. However, the nature and extent of these interactions are widely debated. The goal of this article is to review empirical findings across several domains to understand whether language affects the way speakers conceptualize the world even when they are not speaking or understanding speech. A second goal of the present review is to shed light on the mechanisms through which effects of language are transmitted. Across domains, there is growing support for the idea that although language does not lead to long-lasting changes in mental representations, it exerts powerful influences during momentary mental computations by either modulating attention or augmenting representational power.


The main physical features of LMFBR safety are summarized with particular reference to the maximum possible mechanical energy release in a hypothetical core disruption accident. It is likely that such a postulated fuel melting accident would lead to a nonenergetic disassembly of the core. With pessimistic estimates of reactivity increaases, but not derived from any mechanistic point of view, mechanical energy impacts on the reactor vessel of 100 MJ have been calculated for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. These are containable with the present design, and the increase should vary only linearly with increased power for future designs of similar concept. Various possible steps are discussed to increase the certainty of these conclusions.


Microstructures in Pd/Ti multilayer films have been investigated using X-ray diffraction, Auger electron spectroscopy and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy. Multilayer films consisting of crystallites with preferred orientations in Pd and Ti layers after deposition exhibit crystalline-to-amorphous phase transition during thermal annealing at 573–623 K. This solid-state amorphization reaction is discussed in terms of a metastable phase diagram calculated for this system.


Summary Hedychium spicatum Buch. Ham. (Zingiberaceae), commonly known as spiked ginger lily, is found in the entire Himalayan region. Traditionally, the rhizomes are used in the treatment of respiratory disorders, fevers, tranquilizer, hypotensive, antispasmodic, CNS depressant, analgesic, anti%inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiox idant, antifungal, pediculicidal and cytotoxic activities. The aim of the present paper is to give a detailed literature review on Pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and pharmacological activities reported till date.


MEASURING EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL TOLERANCE FOR FAILURE by Perla Yael Slutzky The empirical concept of Organizational Tolerance for Organizational Failure was examined. First, a clear definition of the concept was established and, second, the concept's dimensionality was explored. Based on data collected from 140 participants, four main scale components were identified: Organizational Values and Beliefs, Organizational and Supervisor Support and Motivation, Compensation and Reward Systems, and Recognition. Even though the final scale developed represented a good research base, further development is needed to improve some of the subscale's internal consistencies.


Three cases (2 boys, 1 girl) of trisomy 12p syn‐ drome are reported. In two, the disorder is caused by a malsegregation of a maternal translocation, the karyotype being 46, XY, der(18), t(12;18)(p11;q23) (case 2) and 46, XX,‐10, + der(10), t(10;12)(p15;p11)(case3). Case 1 is a de novo case with a regular trisomy 12p in the fibroblasts: 47, XY + (12pter → 12 cen…?) and a mosaic trisomy 12p in lymphocytes: 46, XY/47, XY, +(12pter → 12 cen…?). In all cases, the EEG showed 3‐Hz generalized spike and wave (SW) discharges. Generalized epilepsy with myoclonic seizures was present in two patients (cases 1 and 2), who may be considered to have a symptomatic generalized epilepsy with a specific etiology. Case 3 has shown only febrile seizures. Any association between the excess of genetic material and the EEG trait "generalized SW" might not be a chance occurrence in this disorder; however, both EEG findings and clinical features (seizure type and frequency) in the 23 cases reported in the literature are too scanty to allow confirma‐ tion of such an association.


Article history: Received: 20 December, 2018 Accepted: 28 January, 2019 Online : 20 February, 2019 Modern automobiles have been turning more and more into wireless sensor and communication networks. Accordingly, the number of radio systems is steadily increasing. Due to strict safety requirements, these radio systems need to be tested extensively for functionality and reliability, especially under poor radio channel conditions. Beside the large electrical size of cars at frequencies of mobile communication services, access to the antennas imposes challenges for testing, due to an increasingly high integration of the antennas with frontends and digital signal processing. This paper proposes an over-the-air testing procedure for automotive radio systems on the basis of the wireless communication standard Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method to derive the radiation patterns of automotive antennas from reference signals in the LTE downlink scheme without requiring any access to the analogue RF feed point is proposed. A comparison of the LTE approach with the usual antenna measurement techniques shows good agreement. As a logical step from the antenna towards a complete wireless link, a concept of spatially distributed channel emulation on the basis of Software Defined Radio (SDR) modules is proposed, aiming at the emulation of essential multipath features of the wireless channel. RF measurements of the channel transfer function as well as by over-the-air end-to-end tests prove this approach to be a cost-efficient alternative to commercial channel emulators.


In this short note, we notice that the relation-theoretic metrical fixed point results are equivalent with the fixed point results in \(\alpha\)-complete metric spaces. We observe that any arbitrary binary relation on a non empty set \(X\) can be defined in terms of an arbitrary real valued function defined on \(X\times X\). Consequently we show that the results of Alam and Imdad ( J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 17 (4) (2015)) and Ahmadullah et al . (arXiv ) do not contribute anything new in the literature.


This paper discusses the architecture and technology of stratification in the masonry of the Abbey of Santa Maria Nova at the Roman Forum


Subtitle: US ports are preparing themselves to reap the benefits of an expanded Panama Canal. P&H's deputy Americas editor, Will Watson, gives an update.


Abstract : Two Litton MS-4 Multisensors, S/N 17 and S/N 23 were tested at the Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility, 6585th Test Group, Holloman AFB, New Mexico during the period from November 1973 to June 1975. The purpose of the tests was to collect performance and environmental data on the instruments. The laboratory tests included gyro and accelerometer coefficient determination; drift tests; voltage, frequency and temperature sensitivity tests; and scale factor linearity tests. A hot soak was the only environmental test performed due to failure of one instrument and damage to the other. The report contains test results for the complete laboratory phase of testing on Multisensor S/N 17 and results of coefficient determination and drift tests on Multisensor S/N 23.


In this paper, we present solutions concerning communications resource allocation for tactical communication networking. Given a mission definition (which defines communication needs among participants) and participant capabilities (such as processing power and bandwidth), algorithms are presented to determine if the mission as presented is feasible. The mathematical foundation of the problem is presented, and a "static" model to determine feasibility is shown. Further evolution of the algorithm into a "dynamic" model and the reasons for the more demanding requirements are presented. Reasoning behind use of the Netflo algorithm in the dynamic model is also discussed. The inclusion of the algorithm in a stand-alone program is discussed, including overall program structure, graphical user interface components and alternative output (such as the generation of high level network policy). Finally, future work in this area is discussed. This work was funded by the US Navy and the Office of Naval Research as part of the NAVCIITI program, contact N00014-00-1-0549


Application of State aid and competition law rules to the health sector reinforced by the General Court* The General Court has annulled a decision of the EU Commission finding no state aid…


Background: Birth defects are the abnormalities in structure or function present at birth. Major abnormalities of birth defects lead to physical or developmental disabilities which may need urgent medical or surgical treatment and may cause death in early days of life. The objective of this study is to find the incidence of congenital abnormalities in this institution. Methods: This was a prospective study conducted in Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital from April 2014 to February 2016 . All the delivered babies in this hospital during the study period were included. All the birth cases of gross congenital fetal malformation were identified and carefully studied and classified with the help of the International Classification of diseases (ICD-10). Results: Out of total 8300 birth in 22 months study period, congenital fetal malformation delivered during this period was 94 (1.13%) in 7868 live birth. The maximum number of congenital fetal malformation was seen in musculoskeletal system 24.44%. This was followed by a central nervous system 17.02%, gastrointestinal system 12.76%, and cardiac system 10.63%. There was equal number of congenital fetal malformation seen in renal system and genitourinary system 7.44%, in craniofacial system and miscellaneous 9.57%.The lowest number of congenital fetal malformation seen in respiratory system 1.06%. Conclusion: Fetal congenital malformation has a major role in morbidity and mortality of neonates and children as well. The most common system involved in our study was musculoskeletal.


Low-temperature electronic absorption and emission data are reported for Tm 3 + at the octahedral site in crystals of Cs 2 NaTmCl 6 . Thirty-seven crystal field levels (total degeneracy 88) of the f 1 2 configuration (totaldegeneracy 91) have been assigned, and in several cases the levels are split due to electron-phonon coupling interactions. The fitting of the energy levels, using the conventional f 1 2 analysis with 12 variable parameters, gives a mean deviation of 53.3 cm - 1 . This is reduced to 9.3 cm - 1 by including the 4f 1 2 np 6 /4f 1 3 np 5 configuration interaction, using 16 variable parameters. The results indicate a tendency for the early members in the series of Ln 3 + ions to interact with the p-electron, and the later members with the p-hole, configurations, following the redox properties of the ions. The interacting configuration is charge-transfer (n = 3) rather than metal ion (n = 5), and the mixing of ligand wave functions with those of the metal ion may be responsible for the unusually strong electron-phonon coupling identified for several electronic states of Tm 3 + in TmCl 6 3-.


There is evidence that indicates that elicitors reduce damage caused by nematodes. Elicitors are compounds that stimulate plant defense promoting secondary metabolism. The aims of this study were to evaluate the soil and previous root crop nematofauna in tomato 'Elpida', and determine the effect on yield and root damage by Nacobbus aberrrans. Soil drench applications were conducted 24 hours pre-transplanting with 1 mL of: salicilic acid 0.50 x 10-4 M and 1.00 x 10-4 M, ethylen 0.35 x 10-3 M https://doi.org/10.29393/CHJAAS37-5FRSM50005 Chilean J. Agric. Anim. Sci., ex Agro-Ciencia (2021) 37(1): 44 43-53. and 0.70 x 10-3 M, jasmonic acid 1.00 x 10-4 M and 1.00 x 10-5 M, including untreated plants as control. In the soil, saprophytic, omnivorous and predatory nematodes, as well as Helicotylenchus spp. and N. aberrans, were identified. The previous crop was ungrafted 'Elpida' plants and also grafted on Maxifort, 9184, Multifort and Beaufort. Eggs and N. aberrans J2 were identified in all roots, with significantly lower amounts in Maxifort and 9184. Phytohormones increased the production of fruits with weight higher than 150 g and total yield compared to the control, producing lower galls, galling and reproductive indexes. Salicylic acid 1.00 x 10-4 M produced lower damage to the roots and a higher total yield and truss yield, followed by ethylene 0.70 x 10-3 M and jasmonic acid 1.00 x 10-5 M treatments. Further research is required to provide deeper knowledge of the practical implications of using elicitors and enhance the understanding of their action for N. aberrans control.


In order to obtain the information about nonlinear terms of the high frequency magnetic susceptibility at 2MHz near the Curie temperature the 2nd and 3rd order nonlinear terms against the high frequency magnetic field are derived from the observations of the 2nd and 3rd harmonics. Both terms decrease abruptly as the temperature deviates from the Curie temperature. It is a very remarkable result that the 2nd harmonic signal is observed above the Curie temperature in contradiction to the simple theoretical consideration. As for the 3rd harmonic its temperature dependence is explained qualitatively by the molecular field theory.


The paper proposes a direct torque control (DTC) algorithm suitable for low-variable-frequency operation of the brushless doubly fed reluctance machine (BDFRM) and considers aspects of its practical implementation. The simulation and experimental results show that a small BDFRM prototype can successfully operate down to zero supply frequency of the inverter-fed (secondary) winding, unlike cage induction or many other alternating current machines with DTC. This BDFRM advantage is a consequence of using a flux estimation technique not relying on the secondary voltage integration and therefore avoiding the well-known problems at low secondary frequencies, being typical for the BDFRM normal operation. The developed algorithm also offers the prospect for optimizing the machine performance in a manner similar to conventional vector controllers but with control actions executed in a stationary reference frame as usual for all traditional DTC methods. The maximum torque per inverter ampere control strategy has been chosen as a case study.


List of abbreviations List of symbols 1. Introduction Part I. ISI Channels and Adaptive Signal Processing: 2. Channel equalization for dispersive channels 3. Sequence detection with adaptive channel estimation 4. Estimation and detection for fading multipath channels Part II. Iterative Signal Processing for ISI Channels: 5. MAP detection and iterative channel estimation 6. Iterative receivers over static ISI channels 7. Iterative receivers under time-varying channel conditions Part III. Other Interference-Limited Systems: 8. CDMA systems and multiuser detection 9. Iterative CDMA receivers 10. Iterative receivers for multiple antenna systems 11. Coded OFDM and iterative receiver Appendices.


The purpose of this study is to identify attributes of public accounting firms that accounting graduates find most desirable in their job selection decisions, and the impacts of individual differences on these perceptions. Factor analysis performed on the responses of 167 final-year accounting students in Hong Kong to a 30-item questionnaire identified seven factors. The results indicate that accounting graduates considered help in finishing their professional accounting examinations and good staff relationships as the most important criteria in their choice of employers. In addition, female accounting graduates were more concerned about the possibility of being required to travel or be transferred, but were less concerned about the reputation and profile (such as the client base and the size) of the firms than their male counterparts. Accounting graduates with a higher grade point average (GPA) were less concerned about the working environment, but more concerned about a firms' reputation and profile than those with a lower GPA. The implications of these results are discussed.


ABSTRACT This paper offers an autoethnographic account of my first academic year as a Human Geography lecturer at a 'new' public university in the North West of England. This research is timely and much needed, since teaching at universities in England has recently come under increasing scrutiny. The Teaching Excellence Framework is a new scheme, which aims to recognise and reward excellence in teaching, learning, and outcomes, and helps to inform student choice. This paper is theoretically framed by drawing on notions of theatrical performance, and performativity. This paper offers insight into the coping strategies, in respect of teaching, that I deployed as a new university lecturer. Findings are discussed around the themes of: performing teaching identities, and inauthenticity. With regard to performing teaching identities, this paper discusses the need for identity to be multiple and shifting, and how, as a young female, I undertook identity work, in order to perform competence. I also bring to the fore feelings of inauthenticity; that is, how I did not feel as if I was a genuine academic, and how I fabricated / falsified aspects of my academic identity in order to 'fit in' with the expectations of both students and staff. As the voice of a new lecturer in her first year of teaching, this paper makes a useful contribution to the scholarship on early career academics and teaching development. This paper concludes with recommendations for change in practice-based settings, in order to assist new lecturers to settle into the job role, and enhance and enrich teaching practice.


A given cell C1 contained in the biological sample flowing through the flow cell 45 optically measured to obtain the concentration information of the cell C1 in the biological sample, the density adjustment of cell C1 to the biological sample based on the obtained density information performing pre-processing step of preparing a measurement sample to go. Even if there is large variation in the concentration of the measurement target cells for each biological sample, a measurement sample suitable for analysis of the measurement target cell can be satisfactorily prepared, also, the measurement target cell can be accurately analyzed.