Aim: In sports activities, the athlete faces the problem of maintaining the balance of the body against the background of physical and sensory fatigue. The sum of physical and sensory fatigue results in an overload of the athlete's statokinetic system, which primarily leads to a decrease in vestibular stability and proprioceptive sensitivity, generation of muscle tension, changes in the central integration of sensory information, as well as to an impaired differentiation of fine movements, mismatch of regulation mechanisms, and speed of motor reactions. Materials and Methods: The body balance function was assessed using "Stabilan 01–2" stabilographic hardware–software complex (CJSC "OKB" "Ritm," Russia) by analyzing the oscillation of the pressure center. Vestibular stimulation was performed with the help of the Barany chair (Russia). Results: The assessment of the body balance function in athletes and persons not engaged in sports was conducted before and after vestibular stimulation. According to the data of the stabilographic test, the balance function of the athletes engaged in cyclic, situational, and precision sports did not differ. Conclusion: At the same time, the most significant differences in the regulation of the balance between athletes of different specializations are manifested after vestibular stimulation. Individuals not engage in sports have a lower level of quality of maintaining balance, as compared with athletes, which significantly decreased under the influence of vestibular stimulation.


Carbon nanosheets have recently evolved into useful edge emitters with high emission current densities, low threshold electric fields, and long lifetimes. In addition to further improvement in these characteristics, good stability and repeatability are also essential for these materials to be suitable for high vacuum applications such as microwave tubes and flat panel displays. Since the work function of graphite, carbon nanotubes, and amorphous carbon is relatively high, 4.6–4.8eV, selective thin film coatings may offer significant advantages. Carbides are a good film choice for their corrosive resistance, chemical stability, and substantially lower work function. Approximately 3 ML (monolayer) (∼1nm) of molybdenum were deposited on carbon nanosheets by physical vapor deposition and the carbide (Mo2C) formed by heating to >200°C at 1×10−8Torr. The carbide stoichiometry was confirmed in situ by the characteristic Auger triple peak at 272eV. A stoichiometric Mo2C calibration sample was used to acquire the ...


Alfred W. Stewart (1880-1947) was a physical chemist who held a chemistry chair at Queens University in Belfast (1919-44) where he managed to combine chemical research with the writing of 27 crime fiction novels under the nom de plume J.J. Connington. By then, he was well into reviewing chemical literature, beginning in 1908 with Advances in Organic Chemistry, followed the next year by Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. Both series ran to nine editions, but his biographer, George Kauffman, felt that in the end it was clear that he was not keeping up with developing ideas in chemistry. For example, I found him questioning the validity of the Debye-Huckel theory of strong electrolytes long after it had passed into the chemical lexicon.


This study deals with the development of a new test method simulating the effect of ageing on skid resistance. This test is applied to bituminous mixes in this study, but can also be applied to concrete. This test relies on two machines, the Wehner–Schulze machine, to measure the friction, and the Weatherometer sunset machine, to simulate weather effects (rain, wind, sunlight, etc.). The relevance of this test is evaluated from comparisons between changes in friction and a chemical function linked to bitumen ageing: the carbonyl index. Validation is performed on bituminous mixture samples exposed to natural and accelerated ageing modes. Three very thin asphalt concrete (VTAC) slabs are manufactured in the laboratory with three different types of bitumens. Two specimens are extracted from each slab: one for natural ageing and the other for accelerated ageing. The evolutions of friction and carbonyl index measured on these samples submitted to the two ageing modes exhibit similar tendencies for all three bitumen types, thus confirming the relevance of the test. A conversion factor describing the correspondence between the durations of accelerated ageing and those of natural ageing is proposed for each type of bitumen. Video abstract Read the transcript Watch the video on Vimeo


This working paper is a reprint of the final year honours project report prepared by the authors in 1976. It discusses a study which was conducted in order to determine the factors affecting vehicle speeds on residential streets. Linear regression techniques were used to determine a number of empirical relationships between mean speed and traffic and physical variables. The analysis is based on data collected during two morning peak hour periods, at three established residential streets in Melbourne. (A)


We started drug consultation at patients' homes in October, 1998. The number of drug consultations are 2.65 per month per patient and the consulting time is 2.25 hours per patient. The fee for drug consultation is 550 points twice a month. We evaluate the fee for drug consultation. Our data suggest that this fee needs to be 550 points three times a month.


The invention relates to a method for artificially breeding mass Carpoglyphus lactis. In the method, the Carpoglyphus lactis is bred by 1 to 50 percent of sugar, 1 to 50 percent of yeast, 0 to 50 percent of breeding medium and 0 to 35 percent of water in an environment with the temperature of between 15 and 35 DEG C and the relative humidity of 65 to 95 percent. The method comprises the following steps of: after combining breeding materials, throwing the combined breeding materials into a breeding container; inoculating the Carpoglyphus lactis, wherein the Carpoglyphus lactis is inoculated in an amount of more than or equal to one Carpoglyphus lactis per milliliter; and breeding the Carpoglyphus lactis for 10 to 40 days to realize mass breeding. The Carpoglyphus lactis is bred by the sugar, the yeast, the breeding medium and the water, so the Carpoglyphus lactis can be efficiently bred, the method is easy to operate and has low cost, the bred Carpoglyphus lactis has the characteristics of good nutritional status, low death rate, high egg laying amount, high population density and the like, and the method is more suitable for low-cost commercial production of predatory mites.


Experimental implementation of phase-locked loop (PLL) with bandpass filter is proposed. Such PLL is noteworthy for neuron-like dynamics. It generates both regular and chaotic spikes and bursts. Previously proposed hardware implementation of this system has significant disadvantage – absence of excitable (non-oscillating) mode that is vital for brain neurons. The proposed electronic neuron-like generator is modified and could be used for hardware implementation of spiking neural networks.


Abstract : Brucella antiglobulins were highly iodinated with nonradioactive I127 to determine the extent to which oxidation by iodine is responsible for loss of antibody activity. As many as 51 atoms of iodine were bound to a molecule of antiglobulin without causing loss of activity. Distribution studies of the iodotyrosines formed during iodination showed that both moniodotyrosine dd diiodotyrosine increase with increased iodination levels. When approximately 24 atoms of iodine per molecule of protein have been bound, the former begins to level off while the latter con tinues to rise almost linearly. The two iodo tyrosines are equally distributed in a sample containing about 38 atoms of iodine per molecule of protein. The binding of 51.1 atoms of iodine per molecule of protein corresponds to the iodi nation of about 28 out of a total of 55 tyrosyl residues. It is believed that the remaining 27 tyrosyl residues are buried within the protein molecule aome accessible only after the iodine penetrates the exposed protective groups surrounding the molecule. Ultraviolet spectro photometry methods for rapid estimation of bound iodine atoms and the number of iodotyrosyl residues in a sample of iodinated protein are described.


A morphological study of herbarium and field-collected specimens, using phenetic techniques of agglomerative classification, ordination and minimum spanning trees, and covering the geographic range of the Holly Grevillea, G. ilicifolia (R.Br.) R.Br. sensu lato, has resulted in the recognition of three species and four subspecies. The taxa are based on leaf form, noted by previous authors to be highly variable between populations. The taxa recognised here are G. ilicifolia, G. ilicifolia subsp. ilicifolia (typical, kite-shaped leaf form), G. ilicifolia subsp. lobata (F.Muell.) T.L.Downing comb. et stat. nov. (oak-shaped leaf form), G. dilatata (R.Br.) T.L.Downing comb. et stat. nov. (fan-shaped leaf form), G. angustiloba (F.Muell.) T.L.Downing comb. et stat. nov., G. angustiloba subsp. angustiloba (narrow-lobed leaf form) and G. angustiloba subsp. wirregaensis T.L.Downing subsp. nov. (very narrow-lobed leaf form). The rank of subspecies is used where there are some intermediate plants between forms. Grevillea ilicifolia subsp. ilicifolia is the most widespread taxon and occurs in South Australia, western Victoria and in two localities in New South Wales. Grevillea angustiloba subsp. wirregaensis has the most restricted range, occurring in semi-arid regions near Wirrega in South Australia. Grevillea dilatata is largely endemic to Kangaroo Island, South Australia.


The MilkBot® model is a nonlinear lactation model that has been shown to perform well both in summarizing differences in lactation-curve shape and in projecting future milk production for individual lactations. An understanding of the derivation and assumptions behind the model aids in interpretation of model parameters, which constitute a concise language for summarizing the distribution of milk production within a lactation.


We describe the evolution of a Navier-Stokes code developed in the Israel Aircraft Industries and its application to complex turbulent high-Reynolds flows. The paper focuses on the following issues: 1) implementation and validation of the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model, 2) parallelization of the computational framework, and 3) application to the design of the wing-body fairing of a generic business jet.The improved capability of the code allowed its use for large-scale flow simulations on a daily basis


The purpose of this study is to help the company to improve customer satisfaction about Red Bean restaurant locations. To improve the customer satisfaction in this study used Geographic Information System based on Thiessen polygon, buffer zone, and distribution facility analysis. The conclusions of this research are the company needs to improve restaurant location using Geographic Information System method.


Abstract Masoud Gerami, Managing Director of vLex Justis, and Aidan Hawes, Head of Commercial Development, discuss the development and launch of the new vLex Justis platform. They describe the process of making decisions behind the content and features available on the platform, and how these will be continually enhanced in the future. They also discuss the global circumstances the platform was launched within and share their goal of meeting customer needs in a future which will bring new ways of working.


Scholars increasingly argue that the vegan lifestyle reflects a broader pattern of how political behavior is becoming more individualized and private. Veganism is particularly viewed as an unconventional form of political participation, as it is conducted to address ethical concerns and to change market practices. However, this argumentation lacks detailed empirical data. By means of an original standardized survey of a purposive sample of 648 vegans in Switzerland, this study shows that (1) a vast majority of vegans is politically motivated and aims to induce change in society at large; (2) they are highly engaged in a broad variety of political activities; and (3) politically motivated vegans live vegan more strictly and are more politically active than vegans motivated by personal concerns. This study contributes to the understanding of political participation in current times, and the insights gained may prove useful to vegan movement groups or the food industry.


Abstract Twenty major fields in the Anadarko basin contain the equivalent of over 22 billion barrels of oil in place. Basin configuration, tectonic activity, and processes of sedimentation have been the primary influences affecting the generation and accumulation of these hydrocarbons. Understanding the important elements of these phenomena and how they interact should lead to successful exploration. A look back over the past indicates that a general knowledge of these basic elements and the use of exploration techniques which would focus on them would have located most major accumulations.


This article investigates whether financial development volatility effect on growth volatility of industries? The findings of the study are based on panel data consisting of seven manufacturing industries listed at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) over the period of 1994-2013. The Results of this study reveal that financial development in banking sector diminishes growth volatilities of industries that highly depend upon external liquidity. Whereas, financial development volatility in banking sector increases growth volatility of industries. Further, combined effect of both volatilities, banking sector and stock market, also raise growth volatility of Industries. Policy implications that come out from this study that regulatory authority should closely observe the behavior of financial markets to ensure the stability in economic growth more precisely, industrial growth of country. In addition, this study also suggests that there should be further development in banking sector in order to sustain economic growth and stability in Pakistan.


Sulfate attack is a major cause of the deterioration of concrete structures. Accurately predicting the temporal and spatial distribution of sulfate ions in concrete is the basis for revealing the mechanism of concrete performance deterioration caused by sulfate attack. In this article, based on the pore change caused by sulfate damage to cement mortar, a diffusion model of sulfate ions in cement mortar considering changes in surface concentration was established. Furthermore, a two‐dimensional mesoscopic concrete model composed of cement mortar, coarse aggregate, the intrafacial transition zone (ITZ) and macroscopic defects, which can reflect the real aggregate shape, was constructed to study the diffusion of sulfate ions in concrete. The correctness of the model is verified with existing experimental data, and the model is further studied. The results show the following. (1) The average value of the calculation results of multiple sets of models can be used to eliminate the influence of the randomness of the construction of the two‐dimensional mesoscopic concrete model. (2) With increasing stone content, the corrosion depth increases, but the average concentration at a given location decreases. (3) With increasing sulfate solution concentration and water‐cement ratio, the sulfate ion concentration and the corrosion depth in concrete increase.


In April 1939, Howard Hailey and Hugh Hailey, 1 from the Department of Dermatology of Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, wrote an article in which they described two brothers, aged 35 and 38 years, with recurrent dermatoses of nine and ten years, respectively. It was a problem to classify the conditions of these patients from the onset. Clinically, the condition was characterized by recurrent small blisters of the neck that became wet and crusted within a few days and spread rapidly. The lesions were generally sharply marginated and varied in size from several millimeters to several centimeters. They had a peripheral scale, and Nikolsky's sign was positive. The lesions healed without scarring, but residual hyperpigmentation was observed. A culture from the lesions yielded short-chain streptococci. The lesions were pruritic and unilateral or bilateral. The patients thought that "perspiration in the summer added to their discomfort." The condition had been


The present invention relates to a thin film plate trimming machine, characterized in that it includes a bracket, wire, wire fixing member, slide Ⅰ, Ⅱ rail, slider Ⅰ, Ⅱ slide, the tool holder, in addition to the film cutter, the guide wheel, pulley ⅰ, ⅱ pulley, limiting wheel, guide rollers, and the weight of the cylinder. The present invention can easily be covered with a metal plate on both sides of the excess film removal, and the use of labor-saving advantages of saving time with high reliability.


Different isogenic cells have been shown to exhibit widely varying responses to the same extracellular signal. Based on the assumption that this variation arises from noise in the signaling pathways that cells use to transmit information from surface to nucleus, recent publications asserted that single cells cannot detect their surroundings accurately. Here, we analyze existing data on gene expression induced by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pheromone response system, finding that individual cells signal consistently over time, implying that response variation arises primarily from stable cell-to-cell differences rather than signaling noise. Individual cells transmit at least 2.7 bits of information through the pheromone response system, enabling each cell to distinguish between at least 6 pheromone concentrations. In principle, cells can gain further precision by internally referencing these responses with measurements of constitutively expressed genes. Combination with prior results shows that only about 6% of total response variation arises from signaling pathway noise. One-sentence summary Single yeast cells signal consistently over time, indicating that their signaling pathways transmit information precisely.


Abstract : The central problem with respect to magnetic logical transducers is to find a means of expressing logical systems in a language more closely related to the physical nature of the magnetic logical transducer (as a threshold element) than the ordinary formulation in Boolean algebra. This report describes an approach to the problem using some of the techniques of lattice theory. A sufficient criterion for 3-monotonicity in sixvariable functions is also described in terms of lattice theory, and a theory of voting logic is advanced. Finally, the appendix gives recursive formulas for determining the input weights of magnetic logical transducers which will generate each of two particular complete, maximal chains of realizable functions for any number of variables. (Author)


Starting by introducing the information-accomplishment education,this article tries to bring forward the significance of information-accomplishment education for college students.It discussed some methods in inducting students to strengthen their abilities of collecting and handling information by utilizing the electronic reading-room.In this way,the electronic reading-room can function effectively.


Sulphydryl (-SR) and disulphide (-S8-) levels were examined in extracts of cabbage leaves which had been desiccated to various degrees down to the death of the tissue at a water potential of -94 atm.


Presentation is typically with pain in the associated compartment with a 22 month delay in diagnosis [5].Pain onset is at the same time, distance or intensity of exercise and typically worsens with continued activity. Symptoms are bilateral in approximately 70% of cases [2]. It has significant lifestyle implications for patients due to restrictions in physical activity secondary to exertional pain, particularly given the potential for delay in diagnosis [5].


The present invention relates to the production of ovoproducts containing bioactive peptides derived from egg white, which is subjected to enzymatic treatment. The peptide has antihypertensive activity and / or antioxidant activity in in vitro angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitory activity (ACE inhibiting activity) and / or rat. The egg-derived product, the total hydrolyzate and the low molecular weight fraction or their constituent peptides, as therapeutic substances with ACE inhibiting activity and / or antihypertensive activity and / or antioxidant activity, functional food, food additives or as an ingredient, or in a human or animal for the treatment and / or prevention of hypertension, as well as pharmaceuticals all forms for treating and / or preventing any of the diseases that hypertension is involved in a human or animal, it can be used it is.


The respiratory enzyme cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is composed of subunits encoded by both nuclear and mitochondrial genes; thus, COX activity reflects, to some extent, the coordinated function of the two genomes. Because extensive mtDNA differentiation exists between populations of the copepod Tigriopus californicus, we hypothesized that laboratory hybridizations that disrupt natural combinations of nuclear and mitochondrial genes might negatively impact COX activity. Although experimental results varied greatly among different crosses, replicate sets of crosses between two particular populations showed consistent evidence for nuclear‐cytoplasmic coadaptation.


Shape parameters such as aspect, roundness, and the ratio of thickness to perimeter were used to describe plant shape and are different according to the species that they represent. Color slide images of several species of plants were digitized for computer analysis. Three optical methods were tested to separate target plants from the soil and residue background. The separation method that provided the best contrast was the normalized difference index. Subtracting the blue or the red raster from the green raster also provided good separation on soils with little residue. Once the plant image had been isolated from the background, leaf edges were automatically traced using a commercial software package. Analysis of the shape of the plant outline was then performed, resulting in the plant shape parameters. Grasses and broadleaf plants had similar values for each shape parameter during the first ten days after emergence. After this period, differences occurred between grasses and broadleaf plants. The parameter that best discriminated grasses from broadleaf plants was the aspect (major axis length/minor axis length). However, when a grass sends out more than one shoot radially from the stem, the aspect will be similar to broadleaf plants. This study contributes to the design of a system that can determine weed populations and identify plant species without the use of human intervention.


Purpose:The purpose of this master dissertation is to examine current research on trust and its building process in business to business relationship from marketing and behavioral sciences perspect ...


University of Colorado, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, USA University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, USA Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, Monterey, CA, USA Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, USA NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA


Strategic requirements are a way to ensure that EU funds generate more value added than just the investments they finance. For the 2021-2027 programming period, Romania will receive around thirty billion Euro through European Structural and Investment Funds (ESFI). This sizable budget will help address a number of development challenges throughout the country. To be able to access these funds, Romania, as all other EU member states, has to meet a number of strategic requirements. Generally, these strategic requirements cover most sectors covered by EU funds, and include the national level and local levels, and from the managing authorities and intermediary bodies to end beneficiaries. Moreover, in addition to the minimum strategic requirements imposed by the European Commission, there are also a set of additional strategic requirements imposed by national governments. The report proposes a way to think about potential strategic requirements for the SUD 2021-2027, based on the types of organizational models that could be adopted. The report also discusses some of the risks that should be kept in mind when the decision for a SUD approach is taken, focusing on three types of risks: 1) contextual s; 2) implementation; and 3) collaboration.


A curriculum development team, comprised of professionals from diverse professions and approaches including medicine, psychology, social work, and counseling, created and implemented an educational program for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH). Consistent with broader training approaches in medicine and mental health, the content was conceptualized as a basic overview of problematic sexual behavior (PSB). Professionals were provided with an introduction to PSB so that they might appropriately screen and refer their clients. Evaluations were analyzed to understand the impact of the training and to suggest improvements in the curriculum.


The relaunch of London Journal of Primary Care (LJPC) with a new website continues the theme of integration and collaboration in community settings. The argument for local integration is well-rehearsed – quality elderly care cannot be provided unless there is interagency teamworking in community settings; addressing intractable problems like addiction, child abuse and family breakdown requires joint working and innovation in community settings; chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer require shared care between specialists and generalists in community settings.

The question is, HOW do we do it? This issue of LJPC explores this question, starting with five papers that describe the infrastructure needed.

Colin-Thome and Fisher explain that policy must be bold:

If Health and Wellbeing Boards are to make a real and lasting impact on the health and resilience of the populations they serve, they must revitalise the principles of community-oriented primary care.

Chandok et al remind us that communities for health require trusted relationships:

One important ingredient of trust-building is the size of area in which activity happens. 50 000 population – 10–20 general practices – is small enough to feel you belong and large enough to have political clout.

Unadkat et al describe a model of shared care for long-term conditions (diabetes):

… team-working across disciplinary and organisational boundaries that avoids duplication, synchronises efforts, quickly accesses specialist knowledge and helps patients to help themselves.

Dhillon and Godfrey describe ways that routinely gathered data can evaluate complex community-embedded interventions:

Feedback of data needs to be regular to see overall trends, and used as 'food for thought' rather than claiming a higher 'proof.'

Stange and Gullett compare multi-agency working with high-quality cooking:

… the secret is to taste it.

LJPC invites you to continue this theme through online discussion and case studies of integrated care. In particular we want to explore:

what the role of primary care is in the 21st century

what infrastructure it needs to be effective.


A specific physics problem format has been successful in helping students to develop attentional strategies in solving standard physics problems. The basic structure of this format simultaneously presents alternative patterns of possible solutions/approaches with a correlated package of several related facts/criteria that can be utilized as a foundation to construct a formal analysis of the problem.


In order to monitor controller area network(CAN),two problems such as device driver for CAN controller chip and graphics user interface under embedded OS should be solved.Firstly,a kind of monitoring system scheme based on ARM chip of S3C2410 and CAN controller chip MCP2510 is provided,and then,structure and template for writing device driver under embedded Linux are intro-duced,and the device driver for MCP2510 is coded.And then,QT/E is selected to use as the GUI developing tools,and the flow chart for writing GUI programs is given too.Finally,a practical running case of the system is shown.


BACKGROUND: The drug-coated balloon is superior to angioplasty for simple femoropopliteal lesions in clinical trials. The evidence on the effectiveness of Acotec drug-coated balloon in treating complex femoropopliteal lesions in the real world is limited. This study aimed to investigate the clinical effectiveness of Acotec drug-coated balloon in real-world femoropopliteal lesions. METHODS: The retrospective study enrolled 128 limbs of 120 patients treated with the Acotec drug-coated balloon in femoropopliteal lesions. Patency rate, target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate, clinical improvement, and safety endpoints of femoropopliteal lesions were analyzed for a 12-month follow-up. Risk factors of primary patency and freedom from TLR were identified. RESULTS: Of the limbs, 31.2% had chronic limb-threatening ischemia. The mean lesion length was 199.3 ± 108.9 mm, and 75.8% were occlusions. Kaplan–Meier estimates of 12-month primary patency were 88.5%, whereas freedom from TLR rate was 95.2%. Rutherford category improved in 87.1% of patients. Freedom from 30-day major adverse limb events was 95.5%. The 12-month overall mortality was 8.6%. No independent risk factors for restenosis and TLR were identified. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that Acotec drug-coated balloon is safe and effective in treating complex femoropopliteal artery diseases in the real world.


The teaching-learning process is considered to be one of the most delicate, complex, challenging and significant social processes. throughout However, the history of professional concern about the processes of education, there has never been suff icient appreciation of the complexity of teaching. In this short paper, an attempt has been made to highlight the basic relationships between teaching and learning and, thereby, note the instructional roles and of responsibilities teachers. The addresses itself paper to the importance of knowledge about the relationship between teaching and learning, at least at the theoretical level, due to


The research was aimed at determining the effect of high-pressure homogenization (100 MPa) on the stability of proteins and equilibrium of mineral salts in skim milk and milk standardized to fat content of 2% and 4%. High-pressure homogenization of skim milk evoked a slight increase in the content of protein compounds sedimenting during ultracentrifugation and in a degree of their hydratation. In turn, homogenization of milk with the standardized fat content affected a decrease in the content of proteins in milk plasma as well as in the quantity of sedimenting proteins and in the degree of their hydrations, both observed to intensify along with a higher fat content. In addition, the study demonstrated partial denaturation of whey proteins, an increase in the level of soluble forms of calcium and phosphorus salts, as well as a decrease in heat stability and time of rennet coagulation upon high-pressure homogenization. The changes were observed to intensify along with an increasing content of fat in milk.


The invention discloses an automatic residual adhesive cleaning method. The automatic residual adhesive cleaning method is suitable for cleaning residual adhesive in a needle head of a hot melt adhesive dispensing machine. The hot melt adhesive dispensing machine comprises an adhesive dispensing device with the needle head, a working platform and a controller, and the adhesive cleaning region of the working platform is provided with a metal plate with smooth surface and a residual adhesive gathering box; the automatic residual adhesive cleaning method includes steps that controlling adhesive flushing air pressure to flush most of the residual adhesive from a needle nozzle after moving the adhesive dispensing device to the adhesive cleaning region, moving the adhesive dispensing device to the upside of the metal plate, stopping for at least 0.1 seconds, wherein the distance between the needle nozzle and the metal plate is 0.1 to 0.5 millimeters, and the residual adhesive falls off to contact with the metal plate under the gravity effect; controlling the adhesive dispensing device to slowly move towards the upside to enable the needle nozzle to keep away from the metal plate, wherein the residual adhesive keeps away from the needle head and attaches to the metal plate under the gravity and adhesive force effect to finish the residual adhesive cleaning from the needle head. The automatic residual adhesive cleaning method does not use chemical solvent and only adds the metal plate; the automatic residual adhesive cleaning method is simple, practical, environmental friendly, low in cost and high in efficiency.


The rapid growth rate of wind energy coupled with the increasing sizes of individual wind turbines strengthens the need for optimised wind energy capture. This study utilises the unknown input observer to track the variation of the maximal value of wind turbines' power coefficient to tune the control law. The proposed observer identifies variations in the power coefficient surface over time due to the effect of the environment on the rotor blades. Simulations for both open- and closed-loop operations are shown. The proposed technique shows the potential to alleviate the performance degradation during the lifetime of wind turbines operating in hostile environments.


Aiming at the problem of the unable display the equipment overall situation problem in a picture,it is proposed the particle swarm optimization with maximum mutual information related to the seamless mosaic method while the X-ray digital imaging by the imaging plate size limit and the power equipment generally larger. The local X-ray image mosaic taken as a whole X-ray digital image is achieved. The overall? evaluation of the internal situation of power equipment is given. The results show that the method proposed in this paper can not only realize a X-ray image seamless mosaic,and has good robustness.


Figure 2: Parenchymal volume estimated with MRU and tractography. DTI AND TRACTOGRAPHY OF THE KIDNEY IN CHILDREN: FEASIBILITY AND CORRELATION WITH FUNCTIONAL MR UROGRAPHY Camilo James, Kassa Darge, Dmitry Khirchenko, Rob Carson, and Jeffrey I Berman Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States


Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes enterically transmitted epidemic and sporadic viral hepatitis affecting millions of people in the developing world. Different geographical isolates of HEV show a high degree of homology at the nucleotide and amino acid levels. The ∼7.2 kb RNA genome has three open reading frames of which ORF1 is predicted to code for the viral nonstructural polyprotein. The expression, processing and properties of the nonstructural ORF1 polyprotein have not been reported so far. In this study, the complete HEV ORF1 was reconstructed from overlapping fragments amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of total RNA isolated from the bile fluid of a rhesus monkey experimentally infected with HEV isolate from an epidemic. The complete assembled ORF1 was sequenced using HEV specific primers. The ORF1 polyprotein was expressed in E. coli, in a cell free translation system and in HepG2 cells, and was characterized by western blotting and immunoprecipitation using acute phase patient serum as well as polyclonal antibodies raised against defined parts of the ORF1 polyprotein. The nonstructural polyprotein of HEV was expressed as a 186 kDa protein. No processing was observed into discrete units, either in‐vitro based on a kinetic analysis, or in HepG2 cells based on immunoprecipitation. J. Med. Virol. 60:275–283, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


We report a scheme for the II−VI chalcogenide sol−gel synthesis, using cadmium sulfide as a model system. Highly concentrated sols are obtained by surface complexation of CdS nanocrystals with 4-fluorophenylthiol. Controlled aggregation and gelation is then achieved by a progressive decomplexation of the particles via a thiol oxidation reaction. The gels may finally be processed as solid monoliths or thin films and dried to obtain transparent nanostructured materials.


Public librarians may find especially worthwhile reading the chapter "The Gimme Engine: A True Story of Innovation, Creativity and Fun" by Aimee Fifarek and Ann Porter, of the Scottsdale Public Library, Scottsdale, Arizona. (For one thing, the name of the app is charmingly straightforward.) The chapter is engagingly written. It starts out, "In 2010, we at the Scottsdale Public Library decided that the time had come to build our first mobile web app." The conversational style is wonderfully suited to the task in hand: describing the project's origins and development, the need to get everyone on board, as well as the app's launch and ultimate success. For those of us who work in the field of grants, this chapter contains the bonus of delineating how the project was conceived in the grants-related portion of a library leadership seminar. Also, those who especially like recommendation systems will get a kick out of passages such as "Gimme a Bedtime Story" (picture books), and "Gimme a Story, Dude!" As the authors say, "A classic library service that our staff love to do—readers' advisory—now has a 21st century presence because it is included in a mobile app." The book as a whole provides this same combination of inspiriting enthusiasm (which many of us daunted by the world of mobile computing so need) and well-laid-out, real-world case studies. There is quite a bit in the book that academic librarians will likewise find valuable, notably the chapter "Oregon State University Libraries Go Mobile" by Laurie Bridges, Hannah Gascho Rempel, and Evviva Weinraub, of the Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis. The authors provide simple but extremely useful tips, such as noting that a key question in such matters is, "What problem will building a mobile site solve?" The last section, "Next Steps for the OSUL Mobile Site" should be read by all academic librarians keen on creating new roles for university librarians and building partnerships, for example, with scholarly presses in publishing projects and in learning how to mount digital collections (for example, from items in an institutional repository) in a mobile environment. There is one significant flaw in this book: There is no chapter and no index entry on how to design mobile library services for those with some kind of a disability. That is a major oversight—No book on library services these days should lack some discussion of the needs of such a sizable percentage of the population. All in all, though, this book lives up to the promise of its title and given how quickly the world of mobile computing is moving, the book is surprisingly current. Kudos to the editors, Charles Harmon and Michael Messina. This book should be required reading in library schools.


The Kafertal training centre, since April 1946 called the "Tadeusz Kościuszko Civilian Guard Training Center," played an exceptional role in the history of the Polish Guards Companies of the US Army. Since January 1946, it trained companies to be used by the 7th American Army, and since the summer of 1946, after the dissolution of other such centres, it remained the only training centre catering for the whole American occupation zone. Throughout its existence, until the summer of 1947, more than 130 companies had been trained and partly also formed there. Regardless of its main function, Kafertal was also an important vocational education centre for the guards, as well as a place where the Polish cultural, literary, sport, educational and cooperative life developed. The centre was dissolved by the Americans in the summer of 1947, when the decision was made to dissolve the Polish guards companies and replace them with the international, and in fact German, industrial police. The Kafertal tradition, although limited to forming new units and complementing the existing ones, was continued for a few months by the Guard Company Replenishment Center in Fulda, Germany.


This study explores the occupational participation of children with Epydermolisys Bullosa (E.B.) dystrophic and junctional in the educational area, which because of their health condition, are considered as student with Special Educational Needs (SEN). With the aim to know how satisfactory is the integration and whether it has the necessary support, the study carried out, through a qualitative and exploratory focus, on three selected cases with the established selection criteria. Through a pragmatic analysis of data obtained during the field work, the Short Child Occupational Self Assessment (S.C.O.P.E.) is used, from the Model of Human Occupation (M.O.H.O.), some conclusions emerge, which are structured and based on the model announced. The importance and relevance of studying this subject from Occupational Therapy is given by the pertinence of the intervention and contribution to E.B. in people who live this condition, even though it as a low incidence in general population from an epidemiological perspective, because they need a multidisciplinary and integral intervention to mitigate the impact caused by thedisease in all occupational areas.


Title of Document: CALLING TUNES: A PIECE IN THREE MOVEMENTS FOR VIOLIN, CLARINET, VIOLONCELLO, AND PIANO Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis, D.M.A., 2008 Directed by: Professor Robert Gibson, School of Music Calling Tunes is a seventeen-minute piece in three movements for violin, clarinet, violoncello, and piano. The title refers to the common jam-session activity of "calling tunes", which represents an expression of common knowledge between musicians within an unrehearsed, improvisation-based ensemble. Each individual in the group shares a common repertory that is used as a backdrop to music-making — a collection of not only melodies and chords, but a world of performance practices, music theory, and cultural memory that is drawn upon to create music without the need of prior rehearsal or planning. Calling Tunes strives to capture this unrehearsed, impromptu quality as if the piece had been created by an informal gathering of musicians extemporizing on some kind of shared musical language. Each movement focuses on a single originating motive that is developed and transformed throughout like an improviser embellishing a familiar tune. The first movement, Montunos, is based on the piano vamp of Afro-Cuban salsa music, which is often characterized by off-the-beat syncopation and harmonization in thirds. The montuno that opens this movement combines these traditional qualities with metric irregularity and an ambiguous harmony that produces an otherworldly, out-of-tune quality. The second movement, Canzone, acts as an introspective, lyrical interlude within the piece that begins as a chord progression without a melody. The long lines in each instrument combine to form threeand four-note chords that imply fleeting diatonic collections that slowly bleed into each other at a glacial pace. The real canzone is saved until the end where the cello channels the previous glimpses of tonality into a final coda-like cantabile statement. The third movement, Variations on a Riff, takes the simple idea of a G major triad (first presented in the clarinet in mm. 34–44) and bends it through multiple permutations and harmonic contexts. This movement is framed by two fast sections in a galloping compound meter whose volatile, slightly unfinished texture sums up the attitude of the entire piece — a composed musical narrative that seems to have been created in the moment out a subconscious musical language. CALLING TUNES: A PIECE IN THREE MOVEMENTS FOR VIOLIN, CLARINET, VIOLONCELLO, AND PIANO By Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts 2008 Advisory Committee: Professor Robert Gibson, Chair Jerrold Levinson Robert Provine Mark Wilson Lawrence Moss © Copyright by Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis 2008


In this paper we introduce the concept of semi-invertibility with respect to a semi-open set. Here we examine some semi-separation axioms which are carried from subspaces to parent spaces with the help of invertibility and semi-invertibility. Also we study these properties on completely invertible and completely semi-invertible spaces.


Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for analyzing and assessing the environmental impact of a material, product or service throughout its life cycle, including raw material extraction, processing, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, use, reuse, maintenance, recycling and waste treatment. The procedure for doing an LCA includes goal and scope definition, inventory analysis and impact assessment. The inventory analysis is a flow model of a delimited technical system, comprising energy and mass balances of environmentally relevant flows. Impact assessment includes both modeling the natural systems and cause effect chains there in, and weighting, which takes values held in the social system into account. When doing an LCA of a product or service, waste treatment is usually a part of the technical system. LCA may also be applied on assessment of different waste treatment alternatives. Examples are; treatment of waste generated in production processes in the life cycle, waste treatment of the used product, material recycling. Assessment of recycling schemes often involves modeling on a societal system level, e.g. models of recycling cascades such as food packaging recycled to non food packaging eventually recycled to energy. Life cycle assessment demand large quantities of data, which need to be gathered, documented and manipulated in a transparent and reproducible way. Tools are needed for documentation, storage, communication, manipulation, and administration of data. Database technology facilitates development of such data handling tools. We have developed a data model and a database format for LCA data called SPINE. SPINE allows for reuse of data through storage of data on an arbitrary level of aggregation, i.e. a whole life cycle (flow model of connected processes) may be stored and data for single processes in it may be retrieved and incorporated into another life cycle. SPINE is implemented as relational databases, such as MS Access, Oracle, and Sybase. Commercial LCA calculation software are available. However, the programs are limited in that they do not implement the full potential of the SPINE model. Life cycle assessment Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for analyzing and assessing the environmental impact of a material, product or service throughout its life cycle. The life cycle includes raw material extraction, processing, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, use, reuse, maintenance, recycling and waste treatment. The procedure for doing an LCA includes goal and scope definition, inventory analysis and impact assessment (figure 1). The inventory analysis is a flow model of a delimited technical system, comprising energy and mass balances of environmentally relevant flows. Impact assessment includes both modeling the natural systems and cause effect chains there in, and weighting, which takes values held in the social system into account. This paper deals only with inventory analysis (LCI). Figure 1. Illustrations of the flow model of the life cycle inventory analysis and the LCA procedure. LCA and waste management An LCA may be performed in order to assess waste management options, in which case the waste management is the system in focus. On the other hand, waste management is also part of almost any LCA, since most production processes generate waste and residual material and because a product's life cycle includes waste management. We have found the distinction between foreground and background system useful for LCAs made to support decisions on changes. The foreground system is defined as the collection of processes on which measures may be taken concerning their selection or mode of operation as a result of decisions based on the study. The background system consists of all other modeled processes influenced by measures taken in the foreground system. A sufficient (but not necessary) condition for a process or group of processes to be in the background is that the exchange with the foreground takes place through a homogeneous market (Clift et al 1997). The distinction between foreground and background system has thus to do with in which part of the system measures may be decided on, based on the study. Both the foreground and the background systems are affected by those measures. The distinction between foreground and background systems has nothing to do with the environmental importance of those effects, and therefore should not be confused with requirements on data accuracy regarding the foreground and background systems. The requirements on accuracy are equal to both system types. Effects on environmental loads may be largest in the foreground or the background, and may be judged only from the results of an appropriately performed LCA study. Example: waste water management as foreground system The following example is based on a case study, where concepts very similar to foreground and background systems were arrived at (Tillman et al 1996, Tillman et al 1997). The main question that the LCA was set up to answer was: Which are the environmental consequences of changing the treatment of waste water from households in a well defined area, from sending it to the existing centralized waste water treatment plants to a more local system, with increased degree of recycling of plant nutrients. Three alternative scenarios were compared, with alternative foreground systems, affecting the same background systems to different extents. 1. Existing system with centralized sewage treatment. Heat is recovered from the water before release, through the use of heat pumps, and fed into the district heating system. Sludge is partly used in agriculture. 2. A suggested local system, where the solid fraction of the sewage would be separated immediately outside the houses, to be treated biologically and later recycled to agriculture. The biogas formed would be used in the district heating system. The liquid fraction would be treated on sand filter beds situated in the area. The filter bed acts as a phosphorus trap, and phosphorus may thus be recirculated to farmland. 3. Urine, faeces and grey water, through the use of separating toilets, would be brought out of the houses separately and treated separately. The urine, which contains the larger portion of plant nutrients, would be used in agriculture, as would feaces after biological treatment. The grey water would be treated on local filter beds before release. Figure 2. Principal flowchart for treatment of waste water from households. The foreground system represents those activities on which measures may taken as a result of decisions based on the study, the background system represents all other activities affected by a change of waste water treatment system. For the sake of simplicity, electricity delivered to other parts of the background system is only vaguely indicated. A change in waste water treatment systems affects technical systems outside those of the sewage treatment system. The separating toilets use less water, and thus the production of drinking water is affected. Recycling of plant nutrients reduces the need for other types of fertilizer, if the agricultural production is assumed to be constant. Production of heat energy and biogas reduces the need for other energy sources, again provided that the demand for heat does not change. The useful flows leaving the foreground system were followed to the point where they may be used. The system was then compensated with an alternative production of an equal utility. The alternative production was followed back to its origin in the natural system. The actual use of the useful flows leaving the foreground system, or their alternatives, was not included, since it was considered to be equal between compared alternatives. Thus, the waste water system was defined as the foreground system, whereas all the other technical systems affected by changes in the foreground where defined as background systems. Waste management as background system Waste management processes usually are multi input processes, where waste consisting of many different used products is treated in a common process. When performing an LCA of a specific product, however, the life cycles of all the other inputs are not of interest. Thus, the waste management processes need to be modeled in order to describe the environmental impact associated with the product studied, i.e. the environmental impact from the entire waste management process needs to be allocated between the product studied and the other inputs. Need for reuse of LCI data A product life cycle usually includes a large number of technologies and industrial sectors, all of which need to be thoroughly described. However, it is not feasible to inventory all processes in equal detail in all LCA studies. Thus, access to welldocumented and well-structured inventories of various technical systems such as waste management, production of energyware, and transportation increase the quality of LCAs. It is evident that high quality inventories are best performed by those competent within the specific technology or sector. LCI modeling and levels of aggregation Schematically, the reuse of inventories may be described as in figure 3. Consider the central flow model as being the first one made. While performing a second LCA, the left flow model in figure 3, an analyst may identify a need for data on a technical system supplying a specific product, something which was modeled within the first life cycle inventory. Provided the first study was sufficiently documented at an appropriate level of detail, parts of it may be reused with retained transparency. There is also a need to reuse inventory results on individual processes, as indicated in the flow model to the right in figure 3. Figure 3. Schematic illustration of different types of reuse of life cycle inventory data and documentation. Data and documentation reuse may be done in different ways and may be differently suppor


This workshop will gradually build up the machinery necessary to describe some simple examples of the physics behind General Relativity. The objective is getting some physical intuition to ground the mathematical discussion in the main lecture course. We shall start by reviewing Euler-Lagrange equations and index notation in the case of the dynamics of non-relativistic particles; then we move to the relativistic case, sticking to special relativity; finally we discuss the equivalence principle which sets the stage for GR; we end with a discussion of some simple predictions from General Relativity (that have been experimentally tested!). This will mostly consist of exercises intercut with just the necessary information to be able to proceed to the next exercise. For more details consult the notes provided on the course webpage. Starred exercises will be covered in class, non-starred exercises will only be covered if time allows.


India is a country whose primary livelihood of the people is the agriculture. The Indian economy is based on agriculture -about 70% of its population depends on agriculture and it contributes to 1/3rd of the national income. About 14.7% of India's growth depends on the agricultural sector, so it's a huge cause of concern. Sometime excess of water and some deficiency of water makes crop difficult to grow. In such situation automation play an important role to maintain water level without human interaction. Indian monsoon being erratic in nature, there is irregularity in the distribution of rainfall throughout the year. The irrigation system helps the farmers to be less dependent on rain water. Balanced irrigation has been considered essential for optimal development of crops. Superfluous irrigation leaches nutritive elements of the soil as the water seeps down due to the gravitational force of earth. It also causes water logging. Similarly, scant irrigation can be harmful as water does not reach the lithosphere. Irrigation practices in India need constant monitoring. This proposed paper focuses on reducing the water wastage by using smart irrigation. It discusses how Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to achieve optimal irrigation by continuously monitoring the water level. It also discusses how water supply can be maintained using the proposed mobile application.


A modification of the serum gentamicin immunoenzymatic method (Syva- Biom erieux kit) for sisomicin assay is proposed and compared to the bacteriological reference method. It shows a higher sensitivity (0.1 mg.l-1) with a shortened time of analysis (less than 1 hour) and a good reproducibility (range: 4.7% to 1.6% for concentrations between 0.5 mg.l-1 and 10 mg.l-1) but the concentrations are 15 p. cent lower as compared to the bacteriological method. A pharmacokinetic study, performed in five patients, enables us to demonstrate the praticability of this method for the adaptation of the dosage regimen in renal insufficiency.


In this experiment, during late autumn to the beginning summer of next year, with water temperatures of the Fujian waters similar to coldwater species turbot's(Scophthalmus maximus) optimal growth range, turbot was transplanted to the Fujian sea area, southern China for farming. There were two types of culture modes including land-based commercial farming and cage culture in the sea. During the experimental period, the temperatures of seawater were 1 or 2 ℃ lower in land-based cement tanks than in the sea, but the fish grew faster in cages. From Nov. 26,2003 to Apr. 2,2004, turbot juveniles were raised to 27.1 cm total lengty (TL) and 500.4 g body mass(BM) from 11.3 cm TL and 113.6 g BM on the average, with survival of 86.7% respectively. In addition, turbot showed tolerance to high water temperatures, 85.9% of cultured fish still survived even exposed to the average water temperature of 27.0℃ in June (lowest temperature 25.2℃ and highest 29.2℃). Hence, the results indicated that farming turbot for certain periods in Fujian was technically feasible.


A progressive right parietal lobe disorder charcterized by astereognosis and pseudoathetosis developed in a 57‐year‐old woman. Two years later, the patient began to show signs of intellectual deterioration. Biopsy of the right frontal lobe revealed numerous plaques and tangles. The patient's right parietal lobe dysfunction was probably the first manifestation of Alzhemer disease. On rare occasions, Alzhemier disease can present as a focal syndrome with findings referable to a localized area of maximal involvement.


Background:  The restoration of natural accommodation in the presbyopic and cataract affected eye is a subject of intense research effort. A new instrument has been developed to test the viability and efficacy of procedures and methods to restore accommodation ex vivo in animal or human eyes.


THE RATIONAL APPLICATION OF RADIOMETRIC SURFACE SOUNDING TECHNIQUES TO THE MEASUREMENT OF DENSITY IN ROAD CONSTRUCTION IS GREATLY DEPENDENT UPON THE MAGNITUDES OF THE TOTAL ERRORS ARISING. OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE ARE THOSE MEASUREMENT ERRORS, WHICH OCCUR BECAUSE OF THE BACK SCATTERING VARIATIONS BETWEEN THE BASE OF THE PROBE AND THE SURFACE OF THE MEASURING DEVICE. IT IS SHOWN, THAT BY MEANS OF A CAREFUL SELECTION OF THE MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY, A MINIMIZATION OF THESE ERRORS CAN BE ACHIEVED. THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF RADIOMETRIC SURFACE SOUNDINGS APPEARS THEREFORE TO BE WORTH RECOMMENDING FOR ROUGH ROAD SURFACINGS ALSO.


This datasheet on Oreochromis mossambicus x Oreochromis niloticus covers Identity, Overview, Associated Diseases, Pests or Pathogens, Distribution, Biology & Ecology, Environmental Requirements, Impacts, Uses, Management, Economics, Further Information.


According to the diameter of antibacterial circle,the inhibitions of different kinds of disinfectant on bacteria were performed by filter paper method.Concerning escherichiacoli and staphylococcus aureus,0.25% bromogeramine solution has the strongest inhibition.Aldrich mixture has the stronger and the higher the concentration was,the more significant the inhibition was.5% phenol has the weak inhibition.75% ethanol has the weaker inhibition.Ethanol absolute has the weakest inhibition.Bromogeramine solution,Aldrich mixture,5% phenol,and 75% ethanol have the stronger inhibition against staphylococcus aureus than E coli.There was no significant difference of the inhibition of Ethanol absolute against staphylococcus aureus and E coli.


Background: Measures of nutrient availability such as concentrations of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are important indicators of terrestrial ecosystems productivity. Current research illustrates the C, N and P stoichiometry of litter and soil in a coastal mixed forest stand, northern Iran. Materials and Methods: To this, the Carpinus betulus (CB), Acer velutinum (AV), Pterocarya fraxinifolia (PF), Quercus castaneifolia (QC) species were considered; litter and soil (0-15cm depth) samples were taken under tree canopy cover. Results: Litter and soil C: N ratio differed among the tree species, showing the highest (61.08 and 31.44) and lowest (21.90 and 3.59) under the QC and CB tree species, respectively. The litter and soil C: P ratio varied among the study sites and ranked in order of QC (52.4 and 27227.04) > PF (30 and 1465.61) > AV (15.74 and 630.54) ≈ CB (13.42 and 566.28). The higher amounts of litter N: P ratio were significantly found under QC (0.86) > PF (0.73) > CB (0.61) ≈ AV (0.55), whereas soil N: P ratio were significantly higher under CB (177.69) > PF (123.53) ≈ AV (121.60) > QC (109.25), respectively. Conclusion: We found the species that differed in traits could influence C, N and P dynamics and its stoichiometry. The Q. castaneifolia species with different root traits that resulted in different vertical and horizontal distributions of C, N and P, reflecting differences in nutrient uptake by plants and microbial dynamics, drove the biggest changes in litter and soil C, N and P.


It is not difficult to see why The End of the Affair should have roused a certain section of Mr. Green's campfollowers to an indignant outcry. Sarah Miles' adulterous love of the writer Maurice Bendrix, with its hard core of unadorned sexuality, did not shock Greene readers since they had long learned not to be squeamish about such matters. But Sarah's pact with God when she found her lover apparently lifeless after a bomb explosion during the Blitz, the renunciation of her love and her slow and initially reluctant surrender to a God who was to reward her abstention from felicity with miracles, struck many readers as a deplorable aberration from Mr. Greene's previous attitude to his religion.


This paper deals with credit risk in the Czech aggregate economy. It follows structural Merton's approach. A latent factor model is employed within this framework. Estimation of this model can help to understand relation between credit risk and macroeconomic indicators. The credit risk model of the Czech aggregate economy was estimated in this manner for purpose of stress testing. The results of this study can be used for stress testing of banking sector.


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This paper summarizes the impact of the mail coach on public coach services in England and Wales in 1784-1840. The paper details the history of how the public service coach was replaced by rail service and the Postal service developed a mail coach for mail operations.


Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation introduces the panel session on Big Data, Ethics and Public Engagement, and introduces crowd-sourcing efforts to preserve big data.


This study aims to reveal the management of productive waqf and the application of the Principles of Good Corporate Governance in the Management of Productive Waqf at The Al-Furqon Integrated Islamic School Foundation (IISF). Methods of data collection using field research techniques with interviews, observation, and documentation. Data analysis used a qualitative descriptive method with steps data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing which showed that the management of productive waqf at The Al-Furqon Integrated Islamic School Foundation (IISF) had been managed properly and met the requirements indicators of the Principles of Good Corporate Governance. Application of the principles of transparency, accountability, responsibility, independency, and fairness can be applied in the productive waqf management system at The Al-Furqon Integrated Islamic School Foundation (IISF). Although the accountability principle has not fully fulfilled the Good Corporate Governance Principles.
Keywords: Good Corporate Governance, Management, Productive Waq


A strain of exopolysaccharide-secreting Lactobacillus brevis , BDLB0001, and an application thereof. The Lactobacillus brevis is deposited at the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center of the China Committee of Culture Collection for Microorganisms, with a deposit number of CGMCC No. 5223. The Lactobacillus brevis secrets an elevated amount of exopolysaccharide, where the exopolysaccharide secreted is capable of eliciting B lymphocyte proliferation to enhance immunity, and has application prospects in medicaments, healthcare products and food products for immunity enhancement.


Coordinate control of a multi-robot system is a hot research topic in recent years, since a tough task is usually performed by cooperation of multiple robots. A typical issue of coordination is formation, which requires a leader robot and its follower robots to construct certain types of patterns. A practical issue is addressed if the sensor and communication abilities are limited such that robots can only handle local information, how a group of robots form a formation. For an individual robot control, the local control strategy is applied based on dynamic model of robots with parameter uncertainty and adaptive NN methodology. The macroscopic performance of formation or stability of formation is studied, which includes invariant and variant interaction topologies. Using the local control strategy, it has been proved that the robots can form steady formation structure even if interaction topologies change over time as long as adjacency graph keeps connected.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


The objective of this study was to develop a sensory lexicon for dairy protein hydrolysates (DPHs) produced from whey and casein substrates. To create the lexicon, 25 DPHs were assessed by a trained sensory panel (n = 8) using the spectrum descriptive analysis method using a 15-point intensity scale. The sensory panel identified over 43 attributes present in the DPHs, the attributes that occurred the most frequently formed the refined lexicon of 19 attributes, which were then scaled by their intensity. Principal component analysis was employed to visualize the relationships between attributes and samples. The DPHs were separated by their attributes as whey protein hydrolysates were found to have a more complex flavor profile than casein hydrolysates, which were found to be bitter, astringent and metallic. The attribute that was found to clearly characterize the DPH samples was bitterness as the taste occurred in all samples and many of which were of high intensity.

Practical Applications
Dairy protein hydrolysates (DPHs) are a variety of food ingredient that is of interest to the food industry for their functionality within foods, their nutritional profile and their bioactivity. However, it has been reported in previous studies that DPHs can have undesirable sensory attributes. This sensory lexicon was created to allow for a more systematic and quantitative approach to characterizing sensory attributes of DPH. Such information would be valuable to manufacturers contemplating on the use of DPH as ingredients in foods, allowing the evaluation of the impact of DPH on product sensory properties as well as helping to direct any masking strategies required. While lexicons for whey-based DPHs have been published, this work represents the first attempt to develop a combined lexicon for DPH based on either whey or casein. The principal component analysis based on descriptor scores shows clear differences between the sensory attributes of whey protein and casein-based DPHs.


Strains of Escherichia coli K12 have been prepared that carry the ruv mutation in combination with lon or uvrA mutant alleles. The ruv minus uvrA minus double mutant is more sensitive to ultraviolet light than the urvA minus single mutant, whereas the strain with ruv and ion mutations shows the same sensitivity to ultraviolet light as the ruv minus single mutant.


A trial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, affecting an estimated 2.2 million Americans. Among patients with AF there is an approximate 5% annual stroke risk, a 5-fold increase over an age-matched population in sinus rhythm. It is important to note that the incidence of atrial fibrillation increases significantly with age. The efficacy of oral anticoagulation (OAC) in lowering the risk of stroke and death in patients with nonrheumatic AF has been clearly demonstrated by multiple randomized, controlled trials. Warfarin confers a 68% relative risk reduction compared with non-warfarin-treated control subjects, reducing absolute risk from 4.8% to 1.8% per year. Aspirin confers a lesser benefit, with a relative risk reduction as high as 44% compared with control subjects, but this may be substantially less in individuals at high risk for stroke. Chronic OAC with warfarin appears to have problems of safety and acceptability for many patients. Patients treated with warfarin achieve a therapeutic range only on 50% to 68% of monitored days. In clinical practice, oral anticoagulants are prescribed to only 15% to 66% of patients with AF who are at high risk for thromboembolic events and have no clear contraindication for their use. Transcatheter Occlusion Devices for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation


In recent years museum institutions have pushed forward the use of digital archiving of both tangible and intangible cultural assets. But while digitized cultural resources have been mainly applied in the areas of preservation and data analysis, their use as part of the exhibition has not been actively pursued. The present study will address the use of digital archives of exhibition objects for the creation and inspection of exhibition contents for mobile devices. Guide contents utilizing advanced functions in highly sophisticated mobile devices like smartphones rather than traditional one-sided displays of content and information have the potential to offer information intuitively. With the cooperation of the Kyushu National Museum, The guide contents for a large tangible cultural asset, the Tahosenbutsusekito (Stone pillar of the thousand Buddhas) where prepared by using and verifying 3D digital model data retrieved from the museum's digital archive material. The effectiveness of the exhibition is made clear by the new guide contents produced by the utilization and activation of the digital archives.


At first,author has analyzed the connotation of the modern services industry,briefly introduced the economic profiles of Jiaojiang city and the ocean,and analyzed the advantages, weaknesses,opportunities and challenges of mordern services industry in marine economy in Jiaojiang,Zhejiang by using SWOT method.Author has also proposed suggestions on soft environment to optimize the development of modern services industry in marine economy;insisting on market-oriented development of modern services industry in marine economy,releasing market access conditions,introducing competition mechanism;seizing the international transfer opportunities of services sector,and promoting the second and third industries development; speeding up the recreational fishery products development.


We divised several therapeutic tools ti extend indications of microwave coagulation therapy (MCT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Percutaneous MCT under artificial hydrothorax or ascites was performd in the surface of the liver, respectively. Isoechoic hepatic tumors can be enhanced by intraarterial infusion of carbon dioxide microbubble in albumin solution, detecting as a high echoic tumor by ultrasound (CO2 angio-US). It is extremely difficult to follow accurately the extent of MCT injury in real-time by US during procedure. However, the coagulation area over 4 cm in diameter can be achieved by multi-needle insertion technique. Thus, we indicate percutaneous MCT for HCC under 3 cm in diameter. In patients with large hepatic tumors, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization reduced the tumor size and able to indicate for HCC by which complete tumor necrosis can be obtained. HCC located adjacent to the Glisson capsule of the liver was treated by MCT under biliary cooling to prevent bile duct injury. In conclusion, our new devuces make to extend the indication of MCT for HCC. Thus, MCT may be a safe and more applicable therapeutic modalities for HCC.


Sa 1282. 7. Wagner J, Glas J, Seiderer J, et al. Variants in the PTPN2 are associated with susceptibility to both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in the German population. Sesión de carteles presentada en DDW 2011; mayo 7-10; Chicago, IL, USA. Abstract Sa 1291. 8. Mathieu N, Dumestre-Perard C, Kheav VD, et al. ASCA/OMPC are serological markers of Crohn's disease disability and prognosis. Sesión de carteles presentada en DDW 2011; mayo 7-10; Chicago, IL, USA. Abstract Mo 1979. 9. Ye M, Haffeman-Udagawa S, Liu L, et al. Distinctive diagnostic and prognostic value of antiglycan antibodies as serological IBD biomarkers in African American population. Sesión de carteles presentada en DDW 2011; mayo 7-10; Chicago, IL, USA. Abstract Mo 1974. 10. Mahler M, Seaman A, Bogdanos DP, et al. Pr3-ANCA in inlammatory bowel disease: a useful marker to differentiate ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease? Sesión de carteles presentada en DDW 2011; mayo 7-10; Chicago, IL, USA. 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The article outlines the construct of the ACA's premium assistance tax credits, explores the legal controversies surrounding these subsidies, uses the tax subsidies cases to demonstrate the flaws in the Chevron framework, and argues that the Supreme Court should have framed its King v. Burwell analysis in a way that would have cured, rather than ignored, the ails of Chevron.


The present invention, carbon dioxide from the air flow resulting from the fermentation process, compression, absorption, relates to a method of recovering by condensation and distillation, at least the absorption and condensation is carried out under high pressure of at least 30 bar.


The crystal structure of the title compound (C17H19Cl2N2O3P, Mr= 401.21) has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The crystal is of monoclinic, space group P21/n with a = 6.1648(6), b = 19.943(2), c = 15.268(2) (A),β = 99.220(2)°, V = 1852.8(3) (A)3, Z = 4, Dc = 1.438 g/cm3, F(000) = 832,μ(MoKa) = 0.456 mm-1, the final R = 0.0622 and wR = 0.1586 for 3986 observed reflections (I > 2σ(I)). X-ray analysis reveals that the product is a thermodynamically stable cis isomer. The intramolecular hydrogen bond N(2)-H(2A)…O(1) is observed in the title compound.


This article presents a model of foster care advocacy that practitioners can use in their practice. It outlines three domains to intervene in assisting youth in care: preparing for advocacy (assessing foster parent potential), advocacy with service providers (courts, social services, schools, health and mental health systems, interdisciplinary teams), and advocacy with macro systems (agencies, law, community). Specific strategies of advocacy, as well as a discussion of the model's application to practice, conclude the article.


A broad Gag-specific CD8 (cid:1) T-cell response is associated with effective control of adult human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The association of certain HLA class I molecules, such as HLA-B*57, -B*5801, and -B*8101, with immune control is linked to mutations within Gag epitopes presented by these alleles that allow HIV to evade the immune response but that also reduce viral replicative capacity. Transmission of such viruses containing mutations within Gag epitopes results in lower viral loads in adult recipients. In this study of pediatric infection, we tested the hypothesis that children may tend to progress relatively slowly if either they themselves possess one of the protective HLA-B alleles or the mother possesses one of these alleles, thereby transmitting a low-fitness virus to the child. We analyzed HLA type, CD8 (cid:1) T-cell responses, and viral sequence changes for 61 mother-child pairs from Durban, South Africa, who were monitored from birth. Slow progres- sion was significantly associated with the mother or child possessing one of the protective HLA-B alleles, and more significantly so when the protective allele was not shared by mother and child ( P (cid:2) 0.007). Slow progressors tended to make CD8 (cid:1) T-cell responses to Gag epitopes presented by the protective HLA-B alleles, in contrast to progressors expressing the same alleles ( P (cid:2) 0.07; Fisher's exact test). Mothers expressing the protective alleles were significantly more likely to transmit escape variants within the Gag epitopes presented by those alleles than mothers not expressing those alleles (75% versus 21%; P (cid:2) 0.001). Reversion of transmitted escape mutations was observed in all slow-progressing children whose mothers possessed protec- tive HLA-B alleles. These data show that HLA class I alleles influence disease progression in pediatric as well as adult infection, both as a result of the CD8 (cid:1) T-cell responses generated in the child and through the transmission of low-fitness viruses by the mother. and directly sequenced. Statistical analysis. Fisher's exact test was used to compare proportions de- fining progressor and slow progressor children and proportions of progressor and slow progressor children with protective and unshared HLA-B alleles. The same test was also used to determine the proportions of progressors and slow progressors with ELISPOT responses to Gag epitopes and escape variants in epitopes presented by protective HLA-B alleles and the proportions of escape variants in shared and unshared HLA-B alleles. The odds ratio test was used to compare the numbers of sequence variations in children who made or did not make responses to the epitopes. The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare differences in the magnitudes of Gag responses in slow progressor and progressor children without protective HLA-B alleles.


Plastics are extremely valuable to our society and are widely used in many industries such as food, beverage, textile, healthcare, automotive, aerospace, construction, agriculture, oil, etc. Since plastics do not degrade easily with time, the discarded plastics pose a grave environmental problem. Only less than 10% of plastics is recycled in the US. Therefore, there is an urgent need to increase the recycling of plastic products. At present, sorting of plastic waste is carried out manually which is time consuming, costly and manual labor intensive. To address this problem, a novel multi-modal sensor platform capable of improving the accuracy of automated sorting of various plastics by using molecular identification has been developed. This multimodal technique of standoff photothermal-photoacoustic detection is a combination of mid-infrared (MIR) photo-thermal spectroscopy and photoacoustic spectroscopy for characterizing surfaces. Since MIR is free of overtones, this region is known as the molecular fingerprint region. In this technique, the plastic surface is illuminated with a pulsed laser beam from a tunable quantum cascade laser (QCL). The photothermal detection is accomplished by collecting the scattered light from the plastic surface which contains the molecular vibration spectrum of the sample. A silicon bi-material microcantilever, fabricated by depositing a thin metal film on one of its sides is used as a sensitive uncooled infrared detector. Monitoring the bi-material cantilever bending as a function of illumination wavelength provides the IR absorption spectrum of the plastic material. Simultaneously, the photoacoustic signal generated by the absorption of light is monitored by a sensitive microphone. A highly sensitive microfabricated acoustic resonator is used for collecting the photoacoustic signal. Monitoring the microphone response as a function of wavelength produces photoacoustic spectrum (PAS) of the sample. This non-destructive characterization technique will help in enhancing the quality of plastic sorting process at materials recovery facilities and other industries by making the process inexpensive and time efficient.


Water stress during seed filling could reduce soyhean [Glycine mar (L.) Merr.] yield by accelerating leaf senescence and shortening the seed filling period. Greenhouse experiments were conducted to (i) evaluate the effect of water stress during seed fill on leaf senescence and (ii) determine the potential role of redistributed C and N in moderating the effect of water stress during seed fill. Soybean plants ('McCall', Exp. 1; 'Elgin 87', Exp. 2) were grown in soil-filled pots. At the beginning of Growth Stage R6, two levels of water stress were imposed until maturity: daily waterings of 60% (moderate stress) and 30% (severe stress) of the water required to bring well-watered pots to field capacity. Moisture stress reduced yield by reducing seed size (8-20%) in Exp. 1 and seed number (18%) and seed size (14-32%) in Exp. 2. Moisture stress accelerated leaf senescence, as shown by more rapid declines in leaf chlorophyll and N, and shortened the seed filling period in both experiments. In Exp. 2, a 50% depodding treatment was applied at the beginning of Growth Stage R6. Depodding delayed senescence and physiological maturity. Moisture stress accelerated leaf senescence and reduced seed size on the depodded plants, but the effect was less than on the nondepodded plants. Our results demonstrate that moisture stress during seed filling reduces yield by accelerating senescence and shortening the seed filling period. Increasing the source-sink ratio may reduce the effect of moisture stress on seed size.


This article aims to examine the production sector of the sugar cane liquor - the Brazilian white rum, from the perspective of job
positions and the income that this segment can create. It analyzes the insertion in the new relationship between the urban and the rural, the
programs that now are valid in state and federal level and the contradictions that those programs carry with itself.
Keywords: White rum. Urban economy. Public politics


In this work, we have fabricated highly efficient polymer solar cells based on the blend of PBDTTT-EFT:PC71BM in the inverted device configuration. By using low temperature processed zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles as an electron-transport layer (ETL) and 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) as additive in chlorobenzene (CB) solvent we have achieved PCE of 9.43% with an excellent short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 17.6 mAcm−2, open circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.80 V and fill factor (FF) of 0.67. These results reveals that addition of 3% DIO additive in CB solvent improve the morphology (lower charge carrier recombination and better metal/organic semiconductor interface) and provide uniform interpenetrating networks in PBDTTT-EFT:PC71BM blend active layer.In this work, we have fabricated highly efficient polymer solar cells based on the blend of PBDTTT-EFT:PC71BM in the inverted device configuration. By using low temperature processed zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles as an electron-transport layer (ETL) and 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) as additive in chlorobenzene (CB) solvent we have achieved PCE of 9.43% with an excellent short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 17.6 mAcm−2, open circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.80 V and fill factor (FF) of 0.67. These results reveals that addition of 3% DIO additive in CB solvent improve the morphology (lower charge carrier recombination and better metal/organic semiconductor interface) and provide uniform interpenetrating networks in PBDTTT-EFT:PC71BM blend active layer.


he dynamical properties of quantum entanglement in a time-dependent three-level-trapped ion interacting with a laser field are studied in terms of the reduced-density linear entropy considering two specific initial states of the field. Allowing the instantaneous position of the center-of-mass motion of the ion to be explicitly time-dependent, it is shown that either sudden death of entanglement or survivability of quantum entanglement can be obtained with a specific choice of the initial state parameters. The difference in evolution picture corresponding to the multi-quanta processes is discussed.


Othius rosti Bernhauer,1907,formerly recorded from Japan and Soviet Russia,is newly discovered in Heilongjiang Province,China.The species is redescribed and its major diagnostic characters illustrated.


The recent developments have generated the need for sense of community building, social apprehension and inculcation of social-consciousness in the young managers and achieving this requires being a part of curriculum. The current article aims to explore the integration of business morals, corporate social obligations and sustainability principles in B-schools of NCR in India and its impact on social consciousness of budding managers. We propose an integrative and holistic framework to brief the coordination of morals, corporate social responsibility and sustainability in management education through three independent analyses - institutional level, curriculum level and pupil level learning analysis. Our findings reveal that government universities are imparting both compulsory as well as CSR-embedded courses yet it fails to moderate the perception of budding managers. The current article points towards the new paradigm of CSR education in academic institutes and suggestions are made to enhance it further.


The present study on the company PETROTECH GROUP analyzes the significance and impact of crises on business performance. For this the communication, reputational and strategic management components will be studied, as well as their roles in critical situations. The importance of determining the types and phases of crises are evident when planning scenarios and prevention activities. The significance of the Committee of crisis and particularly the performance of Speaker in the relationship with the media and other stakeholders will be detailed. Through an exploratory – descriptive study of the company, parameters and the scope of the investigation were determined. By verifying the population universe and selecting a sample, the variables and research tools were obtained to help identify the types of crises that could affect the organization and to propose a crisis management plan for each. This plan aims to design the actions and strategies to be implemented at critical moments. With the identification of 11 types of potential crises, classified into three groups, crisis management practices will be identified to anticipate and resolve situations that affect the development of the company. By promoting polices of crisis, the plan intends to engage staff, allocate resources, provide information to employees, maintain an open internal communication and plan for crisis management simulations. During a crisis, the Committee will be activated and it will focus on maintaining an image of trust among its stakeholders, being the official source of information, training its employees to face the situation and implementing a crisis management plan. To prevent and control a crisis, a prevention plan is presented, whose management includes two programs: one related to Public Relations and the other related to Communication and training. Additionally, a communication campaign is incorporated to support actions to prevent a possible crisis. This campaign includes the strengthening of the security training program, as well as PETROTECH GROUP's corporate identity. A section of activities, schedule and budget for both the campaign and the crisis management plan is allocated. Finally, a list of conclusions and recommendations as a contribution to this study is included.


The invention discloses a preparing method of two-dimension plane gold micro-nanometer single-chip disc, which comprises the following steps: (1) allocating mold; blending non-ion surface activator, clad and chlorauric acid solution; obtaining even hexagonal lysotropic liquid crystal; (2) stewing the lysotropic liquid crystal; (3) collecting the product; observing the product with regular trianglar or hexagonal structure through electron microscope; measuring the length at 1-10um and thickness at 10-100nm.


This article focuses on the special aspects of identity construction in youth culture under present day conditions, when identity is «diversified» and its individual components are unstable and undergo various changes.The authors present results of the sociological research on this topic and compare them with observation of other scientists. The sociological analysis was held in the national republics of the Privolzhsky Federal dictrict. The article states that every Russian region has the unique sociocultural peculiarity, which has an impact on the identity construction of youth.


The microstructure and electrical properties of low temperature (250 °C) RF sputtered Al doped ZnO layers are investigated. By varying the Al composition from 0 to 15 at%, it is shown that the morphology of the layers is improved whereas the crystalline structure changes from highly oriented monocrystalline domains to textured and misoriented nanocrystallites. It is also noticed that the best metallic properties are attained for a quite low Al concentration in the AZO (3 at%), when the Al content is further increased, the mobility, carrier density and resistivity saturate. The annealing in air at higher temperatures does not seem to improve the conduction properties, instead at 800 °C, the resistivity drops by more than one order of magnitude and the carrier density by almost five orders of magnitude. At this high temperature, the strong increase of the mobility is tentatively attributed to the better crystalline quality of the annealed layers. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Michio Shiraishi and Yasushi Yamaguchi University of Tokyo fshira,email@example.com Painterly rendering algorithms synthesize the images with a hand-crafted touch from a source image of a real scene. The current major scheme is based on Haeberli's method[1,2,3], which paints brush strokes on a canvas successively. In our approach, each rectangular stroke is controlled by several attributes, namely, color C, location (xc;yc), orientationθ, width w and lengthl . We propose an alternative method to determine these attributes so that the stroke nicely approximates a local region of the source image. Algorithm All stroke attributes are computed with the following steps. 1. Preparation Firstly, a tentative location is given for a stroke (Fig. 1(a)). The stroke color C is sampled from the source image at the location (Fig. 1(b)). The source image is cropped with a square at the point (Fig. 1(c)). This cropped image Cw is to be approximated by the stroke. 2. Color Difference Image Generation A color difference imageis a gray-scale image, obtained from Cw andC (Fig. 1(d)). Its pixel valueI(x;y) is larger if the corresponding Cw(x;y) is closer to the stroke color C. I(x;y) is given by: I(x;y) = f (d(C;Cw(x;y))): Here,d(C1;C2)2R is the Cartesian distance of two colors, C1 andC2, in the CIE-L u v color space.f (d)2 [0;1] is the function that maps the color distance d to the pixel intensity of the color difference image. In our current implementation,f (d) is:


Metal organic solvent deposition(MOD)is one of the main methods to fabricate high-quality YBCO coated conductors.Silver addition can effectively reduce the weak link between grain boundaries and improve the surface morphology of YBCO.Finally give rise to much improvement of performance of coated conductors.However,Ag doping are mainly applied to bulks and films fabricated by physical methods.In this paper,YBCO-Ag films are fabricated by low-fluorine MOD method on buffered Hastelloy substrates.Ag doping effects on YBCO texture are studied firstly.Then,Ag doping effects on YBCO crystallization temperatures are studied.The results show that Ag doping can suppress nucleation of a-axis grain.YBCO-Ag films have strong c-axis orientation in a wide temperature range as well as smooth and dense surfaces without cracks.


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