Nowadays, system seem to be pioneer in the development of growth IT (Information Technology). PDK Fire Fighting Management System is a system going to be develop for the company of PDK Pyrosev Fire Electrical Engineering company. PDK company types of record mostly recorded manually. Paper and files are used to record customer's profile, payment, quotation, invoice, delivery order, purchase order and checklist consists of Hose Reel, Fire Alarm, Hydrant, Automatic Sprinkler and Carbon dioxide (CO2). Besides that, this system is to keep track on invoice monthly payment for each and every company. Furthermore, through this system it alerts on the expired date of fire extinguisher by popping out a remainder. In addition, with the help of this system, the management of this PDK Company has become more systematic in the aspects of managing procurement of goods and services, sales, inventory and maintenance. Due to this the probability data getting lost and being repeated will be lesser. The interface used for this system is based on current needs and system requirement. Besides, this system is received from different aspects to assure the effectiveness. PDK Fire Fighting is develop using PHP 5 programming language, mySQL database and the methodology used is Object Oriented Software Development. As a conclusion, management system eases the company in terms of Procurement, sales, Inventory and Maintenance.


Phrygians, a member of the Indo-European language family, who came from the Ancient West and sought homeland in the Ancient East, are one of the peoples that played an important role in the formation of ancient Anatolian culture. This study, which offers a translation of the article into Turkish, touches upon Phrygians' culture, language, religion and neighbors.


A method comprises providing to an application environment, offload configuration information for an application and application information, said application information comprising one or more of network properties and operator properties for said application.


The increase in urban development is accompanied by large scale civil works for infrastructure to support it. A major portion of such infrastructure comprises of subsurface utilities networks. Such utilities networks like water supply lines, sewage disposal networks, gas supply & cable systems for power & communications are the backbone of the urban development. Trenchless technology is more and more widely used in urban areas due to increasing amounts of investment in underground infrastructures that can be new, deteriorating, or under capacity. Different trenchless technologies are used worldwide; the terminology is not in all cases the same. The paper deals mainly with two new technologies, which are very close one to other, i.e. pipe jacking and microtunneling. These two technologies are quite similar in the final result and the purpose of the utility resulted, some detail aspects can be identified to make the difference. As worldwide the trenchless technology is promoted and widely used, in Romania only a few works were performed, mainly by foreign companies. Some lack of expertise and knowledge can be observed among Romanian civil work companies and urban utility management bodies, as in the training of skilled specialists. The paper intends to make a review of the state of the art of this new and booming technology.


Generation Y brings new changes and demands to the market and advertisers. Embarking upon wine consumption as inexperienced consumers, Generation Y consumers are confused and overwhelmed when having to choose wine. Generation Y, wine consumption occasions and gender differences in wine consumption represent the subject of research. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to analyse the factors influencing wine consumption of Generation Y consumers in the context of two countries from South-Eastern Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia). // Quantitative research was conducted using a highly structured, Internet-based questionnaire developed for this research. The online questionnaire was created using LimeSurvey. Special attention was given to the fact that the Bosnian and Croatian languages differ in various nuances that serve as ethnical, religious, social and political differentiation. The non-probability judgment sampling method (n=295 respondents) was identified as being suitable, compared to the goals and objectives of the research. // Research findings show that specific gender differences exist in the wine consumption behaviour of males and females of Generation Y. However, factor analysis reveals that self- expression, sociability, tradition and food are factors that have been recognized as significant for wine consumption. Multivariate regressions have been applied in order to explain the influences of the mentioned factors on wine consumption. // This paper has empirical implications because it gives suggestions on how to create ads to target Generation Y male and female wine consumers in accordance with factors that have been identified as influencing their wine consumption. The managerial implications consider new practical knowledge on Generation Y's attitudes and habits that the regional wine industry and wine professionals could incorporate into their businesses.


ABSTRACT Li, X.; Tian, Y.; Xu, C., and Cheng, B., 2019. The impact of marine pollution control on the output value of marine fisheries based on the spatial econometric model. In: Li, L.; Wan, X., and Huang, X. (eds.), Recent Developments in Practices and Research on Coastal Regions: Transportation, Environment and Economy. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98, pp. 381–384. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This study proposes that the input of marine environmental pollution control affects the output value of the marine fishery. Based on panel data from Marine Fisheries for China's coastal areas, model setting and data testing were performed. Through the spatial econometric model, the model results were estimated and analyzed and showed that the marine fishery economy in China is greatly affected by the total investment in environmental pollution control. Proper total investment in environmental pollution control will promote an increase in marine fishery output value, but with the change in the regional environment, excessive control of environmental pollution will also have a negative effect on the marine fishery output value. In addition, the number of people employed in the fishery labor force, the local per capita gross domestic product (GDP), and marine fishing productivity will have a significant positive effect on the fishery output in China.


According as the form of highrise building is diversified recently, new structure system that escape in existent structure system is applied in a tentative way and the most representative thing is diamond grid system. Building which apply diamond grid system in the domestic recently is planed and among them, representative building is Asan Baebang Ssaikeulron tower.in this study, we conducted finite element analysison connection node of Asan Baebang Cyclon tower, and evaluated the behavior of connection node. Also, we analized stress concentration effect and connections strength on thickness of cap plate and Extended length of Cap Plate.


AIM
To investigate the effects of emergent preoperative self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) vs emergent surgery for acute left-sided malignant colonic obstruction.

METHODS
Two investigators independently searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, as well as references of included studies to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared two or more surgical approaches for acute colonic obstruction. Summary risk ratios (RR) and 95% CI for colonic stenting and emergent surgery were calculated.

RESULTS
Eight studies met the selection criteria, involving 444 patients, of whom 219 underwent SEMS and 225 underwent emergent surgery. Seven studies reported difference of the one-stage stoma rates between the two groups (RR, 0.60; 95% CI: 0.48-0.76; P < 0.0001). Only three RCTs described the follow-up stoma rates, which showed no significant difference between the two groups (RR, 0.80; 95% CI: 0.59-1.08; P = 0.14). Difference was not significant in the mortality between the two groups (RR, 0.91; 95% CI: 0.50-1.66; P = 0.77), but there was significant difference (RR, 0.57; 95% CI: 0.44-0.74; P < 0.0001) in the overall morbidity. There were no significant differences between the two groups in the anastomotic leak rate (RR, 0.60; 95% CI: 0.28-1.28; P = 0.19), occurrence of abscesses, including peristomal abscess, intraperitoneal abscess and parietal abscess (RR, 0.83; 95% CI: 0.36-1.95; P = 0.68), and other abdominal complications (RR: 0.67; 95% CI: 0.40-1.12; P = 0.13).

CONCLUSION
SEMS is not obviously more advantageous than emergent surgery for patients with acute left-sided malignant colonic obstruction.


Patients with treatment-failure gout (TFG) experience pain, impaired function, and reduced quality of life. The experimental drug pegloticase — a


We establish a phase transition for the parking process on critical Galton--Watson trees. In this model, a random number of cars with mean $m$ and variance $\sigma^{2}$ arrive independently on the vertices of a critical Galton--Watson tree with finite variance $\Sigma^{2}$ conditioned to be large. The cars go down the tree and try to park on empty vertices as soon as possible. We show a phase transition depending on $$ \Theta:= (1-m)^2- \Sigma^2 (\sigma^2+m^2-m).$$ Specifically, if $ \Theta>0,$ then most cars will manage to park, whereas if $\Theta<0$ then a positive fraction of the cars will not find a spot and exit the tree through the root. This confirms a conjecture of Goldschmidt and Przykucki.


The present study creates models reflecting how essential climate variables (ECV) like temperature gradient and precipitation pattern shape rice production in the past decades of three SEA nations, namely: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The target test statistic to analyze the relationship between rice production and ECV is Multiple variants technique utilizing Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimation. Results reveal that the quantity of rice production of all three countries are linear functions of temperature. Meanwhile, precipitation only affects rice production in the Philippines but not in Indonesia and Thailand. The alteration of phenology which opens research for applying marker assisted selection such as marker assisted backcrossing (MABC) explains the development of rice cultivars tolerant to abiotic stress. In effect, there is still increase in rice production.


Phytophthora rot on broad bean(Vicia faba) occurred in the experimental field at Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services from 2004 to 2006. The fungus isolated from the diseased plants grew well on potato dextrose agar and showed an arachnoid or rosaceous colony pattern. Sporangia were conspicuously papillated, noncaducous, ovoid to globose, and in size. Oogonia and oospores were spherical and measured as 20-32 and 16-28 in size, respectively. Oospores were relatively small and aplerotic. Antheridia were amphigynous, spherical, and unicellula. Chlamydospores were globose and 18-40 in size. Optimum temperature for growth was about on potato dextrose agar. The disease occurred in all parts of the plant including roots, stems, leaves and pods in the field. The symptoms similar to those of naturally infected plants were induced by artificial inoculation and the pathogen was re-isolated from the plant. On the basis of mycological and pathological characteristics, the causal pathogen of broad bean rot was identified as Phytophthora nicotianae. This is the first report of Phytophthora rot of broad bean caused by P. nicotianae in Korea.


The development of new and easily available acceptor moieties for further expansion of the thermally activated delayed fluorecence (TADF) family becomes imperative. In this study, new donor–acceptor TADF materials are designed and synthesized via introducing quinazoline unit as a simple and efficient acceptor for the first time. This is also a typical example of efficient spin–orbit charge transfer coupled between the acceptor triplet (3LEA) and charge transfer singlet (1CT). The small 3LE–1CT gap of 0.09–0.22 eV plays a key role in these four emitters leading to the obvious TADF properties. Moreover, these materials exhibit green to yellow‐green emission and high photoluminescence quantum yield of 67.5–81.0% in the 1,3‐bis(N‐carbazoly)benzene (CBP) host. Organic light‐emitting diodes using the doped emitters exhibit high external quantum efficiency of 16.0–20.5%.


The basic suitability of the flameless oxidation (FLOX®) principle for combustion of lean gases has already been discussed elsewhere [1]. This article examines the developments taking place in the context of an EU project [2] for industrial implementation and optimization of such burners. An initial prototype burner has now demonstrated its high fuel flexibility in an industrial environment in a 170 hour trial. It has been shown at the Okozentrum Langenbruck (Langenbruck Ecological Center) that FLOX® burners, given appropriate operation, are capable of reducing oxides of nitrogen not only of thermal but also of fuel origin. Innovative FLOX® burners are integrated into different pregasifiers at the Institute of Process-Engineering and Power Plant Technology (German abbreviation: IVD) of the University of Stuttgart, in order to also permit exploitation of their specific benefits for solid fuels. The robust manner of operation of such burners has been proven and implementation of the technology developed at Langenbruck to further reduce NO x is the next task. The pilot burners used were manufactured by WS Warmeprozesstechmk GmbH.


: Digital transformation and its unpredictable nature make future studies to be of paramount importance for dealing with a crisis and identifying market trends and opportunities existing in new markets. Moreover, future studies guarantee enterprises to develop accurate models toward their perspective and distinguish enterprises from their competitors. This study presents a strategic future study in entrepreneurial resiliency considering digital development trends in emerging markets. To do so, the researchers used the Delphi technique. The findings reveal that fifteen driving forces which panel experts suggested are effective in this regard. Artificial intelligence, data mining, environmental scanning, business circumstances prediction


There is debate whether targets for ED length of stay introduced to reduce ED overcrowding are helpful or harmful, as focus on a process target may divert attention from clinical care. Our objective was to investigate the effect of a national ED target in Aotearoa New Zealand on the recommended care for acute asthma as this is known to suffer in overcrowded departments.


For the freshmen writing seminar Decoding Dress (WRI 196/197) taught in winter/spring semester 2019 by Erin Vearncombe. The basics on finding books, music scores, CDs, and DVDs in the Princeton Library (including the Mendel Music Library)


In this paper the author analyzes the nature of the legislative process which takes place within the European Parliament by studying the bilateral interactions among its relevant decisional groups, i.e. the parliamentary groups. In this sense, the author uses a methodological approach inspired from game theory, describing these interactions in the form of non-cooperative games similar in structure and function to the 'negotiator's dilemma' model proposed by Lax and Sebenius. Through comparing at a theoretical level the optimal strategies employed by parties in national parliaments with a majority-supported government with the optimal strategies employed by groups in the European Parliament the author concludes that the level of bilateral cooperation in the EP surpasses the one existent in national legislatures as cooperation is induced through the systemic relation developed among the groups as well as through institutional and ideological factors.


A prolonged cold adaptation decreased the lipid content and increased free fatty acids in homogenate of skeletal muscles. It also seems to decrease the efficiency of the calcium-ATPase resulting from non-saturate fatty acids effect upon sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes.


Does a fine arts course lose its immediacy when it is transmitted over television? To find out, Ms. Merrion sat in on class sessions and then watched off-campus broadcasts of an introductory theater course. When I was 12 years old, I had my first experience with instructional television. Sister Mary Suzanne taught modern math as part of the Archdiocese of Chicago's public broadcasting program. In retrospect, I see how incongruous the situation was. High technology (yes, instructional television was avantgarde in 1962) was being used to teach one of the "basics" of a Catholic school curriculum. A traditionally trained, conservative religious educator was teaching "modern" math. And the instructional site was not a normal academic setting, but my home. At that time, the program seemed to be quite innovative and a rather bold step in the advancement of the technology of teaching. Now, some 30 years later, I contrast this cutting-edge memory with a recent experience I had with instructional television. Although many factors in the two situations differ considerably, one factor - my being the student - remains constant. In this article, I wish to describe some significant changes in the instructional media as perceived from the catbird's (student's) seat and to discuss their pedagogical implications for higher education as perceived by an arts administrator. FALL 1962 I have a vivid memory of those half-hour math lessons that were aired on Monday and Wednesday evenings, because the instructional mode seemed so novel. The course of study spanned one semester. We had a textbook and plenty of problems for homework. Since the "live" math teacher monitored the homework assignments and administered tests at school, the televised instructor only lectured. I remember her using the chalkboard and a variety of charts and other visual aids. In fact, the camera rarely focused on her. Rather, "close-ups" of examples in our textbook, props to illustrate concepts, and the active shadowing of her writing on the chalkboard or charts dominated the screen. Back then we had a black-and-white television, but we were not troubled by the lack of color. (A math lesson taught by a nun in a black-and-white habit was not exactly material for a "living color" extravaganza anyway!) The limitations of the medium did not diminish our attention or dull the intensity of the learning experience. The teaching, which relied on straightforward lectures and simple instructional devices, had a clarity about it. The delivery was plain, but it was effective. There were a couple of occasions on which I wanted to ask questions. However, since this teaching technology allowed for only one-way transmission, I had to wait until I could ask my classroom teacher - that is, if I remembered my question long enough. I also recall that the television teacher's pacing of instruction was impeccable. She had perfected the fine skill of moving through new concepts at an appropriate tempo and rarely ran out of time. I was highly motivated in this course and must admit that I have been positively disposed toward math ever since I mastered long division in fourth grade. So I may have had some bias toward the subject matter. Nonetheless, the instructor successfully led us to understand rather abstract, remote material and sustained our interest through the series of lessons. My eighth-grade classmates concurred. Sister "S" was okay in our books. Compared to the more recent razzle-dazzle developments of technology, there was something pure - almost Amish in quality - about the entire experience of televised instruction in the early Sixties. And to my amazement I conceded that, under certain circumstances, selected subject matter might be taught effectively through television. But I also maintained that it was no substitute for the real classroom. FALL 1990 Interactive instructional television debuted on the Ball State University campus to rave reviews several years ago. …


Recently, the topic of nondiffracting laser beams has been studied extensively. Mathieu beams are nondiffracting beams because they are solutions of Helmholtz equation in elliptic coordinates. Mathieu beams have been applied in photonic lattices, transfer of angular moments, localized X waves, and so on. Mathieu beams have an infinite extent and energy, they cannot be realized in practice. The apodization of Mathieu beams by a Gaussian transmittance lead to the Mathieu-Gauss beams (MGBs). These beams can be generated experimentally and they are a very good approximation of nondiffracting Mathieu beams. MGBs are introduced first by Vega et al. as a member of Helmholtz-Gauss beams family. Although the propagation characteristics through paraxial aligned optical systems of MGBs are well understood, their propagation through misaligned optical systems has not been investigated until now. In practice, the small perturbations of the optical systems, the inevitable errors of the adjustment of beams path, the tolerance in designing optical elements and the thermal deformation or displacement of optical elements etc, lead to the misalignment of optical systems. Thus it is necessary to study the propagation of the considered laser beams through this kind of systems. In this work, the generalized diffraction integral is used to study the propagation of MGBs through a slightly misaligned optical system. So, an analytical propagation equation is derived by using this integral in the case of apertured misaligned optical system. Using this approach, the propagation of ordinary and modified zeroth order MGB through a misaligned thin lens is presented as an example.


The stock of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) has been in a declining trend in the last five years. Although the noticeable decline mainly occurred in the western part of the Indian Ocean, uncertainty lingers on how this phenomenon will affect the opposite leg. The study aimed to investigate the dynamics of stock through monitoring several indicators by utilizing logbooks, scientific port sampling, and observer data available. The result showed that both relative abundance and estimated catch trend are declining in recent years, a sign that the negative global inclination also influences Indonesian tuna longline fisheries. Further studies are needed to understand whether this phenomenon also impacts other gears. Hence, mitigation on conserving the resource by reducing the catch and strengthening the data collection should be the priority to maintain the livelihood and welfare of many coastal communities.


Physiologists and oculists agree that the anatomical and functional development of the fovea takes place in close connexion with the production of the image by the dioptric system. The visual effect depends upon the normal differentiation of this wonderfully formed tissue. The complicated dioptric apparatus collects parallel beams into a minute area, and the more regularly the dioptric apparatus works, the more


Chapter 5 is the first of three chapters exploring the impact of age related risks affecting particular sub populations of older people. Socioeconomic disadvantage in later life tends to reflect a lifecourse status. It amplifies what is already present. In 2016/17 one million older people were living in poverty; an additional 1.2 million were living just above the poverty line. These numbers are rising. Those aged 85 years or over, frail older people, older women and single older people are particularly at risk. Poor older people are also more likely to live in poor housing and be exposed to fuel poverty. Being poor - and its concomitants - compromises mental health in a number of profound ways. It undermines an older person's capacity to make choices, retain independence, save for a crisis, maintain social contacts and be digitally included. It is linked with worry, loss of control over life and shame. Poor older people are at heightened risk of isolation and loneliness, stress, anxiety and depression. The UK has a weak policy record, compared with other developed countries, of sustainably and coherently addressing poverty in later life. One of the cornerstones of doing so is a continued commitment to the basic state pension as a fundamental building block of a secure old age. Addressing poor housing is also pivotal.


COROLLARY. Suppose u(t) is a finite valued, essentially bounded measurable function on [t0, t0+a) such that Du(t)< + oo for all t and (1') Du(t)<f(t,u(t)), a.e. [t09t0+a). Then u(t0)<v0 implies the existence of a solution of (2) such that (3) holds. It follows from essential boundedness and measurability of u(t) that/(Y, u(t)) is integrable (cf. [8, p. 92, Lemma 2.1]). The other conditions of the corollary imply that (1) holds (cf. [4, p. 267, Lemma 2]). General results for differential inequalities of this type were obtained by Peano [6] and Perron [7] in the case t ha t / and u are continuous on their domains and (!') holds everywhere. When/satisfies the Carathéodory conditions such results


This paper provided data 2002-2010 years on research of infectious and parasitic diseases and their prevalence in populations of four harvested species of crabs from Western Kamchatka shelf: the lithodid crabs Paralithodes camtschaticus and P platypus and majid crabs Chionoecetes opilio and C. bairdi. According to the results of visual registrations in the catches, pathologoanatomic, parasitological, bacteriological, histological and histochemical studies the shell disease, necrosis of internal organs, and viral infections were the most important among infectious diseases. Microsporidia and dinoflagellates Hematodinium sp. were most common among parasitic pathogens. The effect caused by ciliate, amoeba, rhizocephalan B. callosus was insignificant.


This illustrated biography gives an intimate view of this umpire, from his birth in 1896 and long marriage to his death from diabetes in 1954. With research including interviews with former players as well as family members, the work provides a wealth of anecdotes and insights into his profession.


Way finding or routing has been always used by common people in navigating from one place (of origin) to another (destination). And most of them are in two dimensional routing or network. In orthogonal concept, two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) routing uses planar or non-planar graph and spatial extend, where the third dimension is used to calculate the weights for the edges in the graph. Usually routing is done in a planar graph embedded in 2D space. Sometimes it is extended to non-planar graphs to model bridges, etc. but still embedded in 2D space. Currently, most of shortest path algorithm used in GIS application is often not sufficient for efficient management in time-critical applications such as emergency response applications. It doesn't take into account dynamic emergency information changes at node/vertex level especially when applying in emergency situations such as large fires (in cities or even in buildings), floods, chemical releases, terrorist attacks, road accidents, etc. This study is based on finding shortest path route in a dynamic situation for indoors and outdoors using Single Sink Shortest Path (SSSP) routing algorithm. The main focus of the research is to implement 3D shortest path analysis in 3D data set. A program is developed to calculate the shortest path in 3D data set with the support of dynamic events that might or will occur at each of calculated routes.


Introduction: Holding a post-exam feedback session may help with learning and training retention. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the implementation of the post-exam feedback process in the biochemistry course with an evaluation approach for learning.
Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 127 students of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnourd, Iran. Sampling was performed by census method. Data was collected using a demographic and educational form, students' experience, satisfaction, and acceptability questionnaire from the post-exam feedback session. After completing the Biochemistry final exam at the end of the semester, the feedback session was held for two hours. Then, two weeks after this session, the aforementioned questionnaires were completed. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS (version 24), and indices of central tendency, dispersion, and frequency distribution were measured.
Results: The mean score of satisfaction and acceptability of the post-exam feedback session was measured at 4.22 ± 0.7. The highest average score of students' experience from participating in the post-exam feedback session was related to "clarification of students' expectations," which was 4.44 ± 0.62. Moreover, the results showed that the students' experience, satisfaction, and acceptance of participating in the post-exam feedback session were higher than the expected average and optimal level.
Conclusion: Planning to hold a post-exam feedback process as part of the lesson plan is associated with the satisfaction and acceptance of students. It is suggested that more studies be conducted on the implementation of the post-exam feedback process after the mid-semester exams


Project Overview. Linked Data has gained significant momentum over the last years and is now used at industrial scale in many sectors including bio-medicine, plant manufacturing, smart cities, content creation and management, data journalism, asset management and storage, banking and many more. In these sectors, an increasingly large amount (volume) of rapidly changing (velocity) data in different formats (i.e., unstructured to structured data, variety) needs to be integrated (vocabulary), refined, curated (veracity) or even bundled (value) to serve as data basis for large-scale appli-cations. However, deciding on the right framework to build a given pipeline is still a demanding endeavour.


Plate tectonics and its contribution to progress in studies of the Earth's gravitational field is discussed. In acquisition, the development of forced feedback accelerometers, satellite navigation, and satellite radar altimetry significantly improved the accuracy and coverage of gravity data over the oceans. In interpretation, gravity and geoid anomalies are used to determine information on the thermal and mechanical properties of the oceanic lithosphere and the forces that drive plate motions.


Introduction: Adolescence has been defined by World Health Organization (WHO) as "Critical period of transition from childhood to adulthood and progression from appearance of secondary sexual characters to sexual and reproductive maturity, and development of the adult mental process." AIMS and Objectives: Evaluation of gynaecological problems among adolescent and diagnostic modalities used to evaluate the disorders and treatment options. Material and Methods: This observational descriptive study was conducted among the 335 adolescent girls aged between 10-19 years over the period from January 2017 to March 2018. Results: The mean age of study population was 16.41±2.10 years, 71.05% of the girls presented in the late adolescence period with gynaecological problems. The mean age of menarche was 13.11±1.03 years. The mean body mass index was 18.93±3.22. 68.36% of girls presented in outdoor with menstrual problems followed by vaginal discharge (11.04%), pain abdomen (8.36%), urinary complaints (5.08%) and acne/Hirsuitism (2.68%) girls. Among girls with menstrual disorders maximum number of girls (41.04%) presented with heavy menstural bleeding, followed by amenorrhoea (19.65%), oligomenorrhea (16.59%), dysmenorrhoea (16.59%), hypomenorrhoea (2.64%) and irregular cycles in 3.49% girls. Among 57 girls with PCOS, oligomenorrhea (64.94%) was the most common presenting complaint followed by acne/hirsuitism (15.78%), secondary amenorrhoea (12.28%), heavy menstrual bleeding and hypomenorrhoea (3.50%) each. Mean haemoglobin in the present study was 11.80=1.45 mg/dl. Anaemia was seen in 156(46.56%) girls and severe anaemia was seen in 2.42% girls. Ultrasonographic examination carried out in to 203(60.59%) girls, among them 21.18% had PCOS, 10.83% had ovarian mass, 0.98% had TO mass, 8.73% had congenital anomalies and 0.98% each had ovarian torsion and renal calculi. Puberty menorrhagia was the most common disorder seen in 27.16% girls followed by PCOS (17.01%), dysmenorrhoea (11.34%), vaginal discharge (11.04%), ovarian masses (6.56%) and UTI (5.07%) in girls. Conclusion: Menstrual disorders and PCOS are the common gynaecological disorders seen in about two third and one fifth of the adolescent girls in Indian population. Anaemia is associated in about one half of the adolescent girls. PCOS if not managed earlier can lead to metabolic syndrome and infertility. These gynaecological problems alter the quality of life, affecting career, education and social life of young girls. Prevention is always better so there is urgent need of awareness programs about gynaecological disorders at school and college levels so that these young girls can be made aware and seek medical advice timely, thus preventing long term complications of gynaecological disorders.


Almond is widely used in food industry,pharmaceutical,and health care fields,with diverse biological activities and pharmacological effects.The variety of active ingredients,such as phenolics,flavonoids,natural vitamin E,and unsaturated fatty have been confirmed as important pharmacological active ingredients of almond by many modern research.Almond and its extracts have multiple pharmacological actions such as antioxidant,antitumor,antifungal,hepatoprotection,antidiabetic as well as anti-hyperlipidemia properties.The pharmacological profiles in recent years and the latest developments on the almond and its extracts are reviewed in this paper.


The construction elevator controlled by the traditional rekying contactors has the defect that it can not overcome by itself. The ideal solution is to combine the modern controlling technique with mechanical equipment to realize the mechanism-electricity an an integral whole.This paper introduces the design and the main problems which need to be solved in realizing process of the intellective construction elevator.


This paper examines the business cycle properties of business cycle models with search frictions and wage bargaining which rely not only on labor, but also on capital in the production function. In the presence of capital, the choice of bargaining framework matters, even under perfect competition and constant returns to scale. In particular, under individual bargaining, the welfare theorems do not hold, due to a hold-up effect in capital and a hiring externality, so that solving a planner's problem is not sufficient. I examine the business cycle properties of the decentralized model with individual bargaining under alternative calibration strategies


The success of small businesses, especially restaurant businesses, is very much determined by the ability of the manager or owner to innovate. The phenomenon in small business management encourages research that observes the orientation that managers have in seeing the market, the ability in learning so that it will encourage the ability of managers to innovate. This exploration uses a quantitative proceed toward multiple regression to decide the relationship between variables. The findings obtained in the study explain that a good understanding of market orientation has prominent effect on innovation capabilities. In addition, orientation of learning has important effect on the capability to make innovation.


ABSTRACT Recent research has suggested that individuals may respond to differing treatment approaches with varying degrees of success depending upon their personality characteristics. The current paper attempts to examine how a tendency to engage in externalizing behaviors, as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist, may impact on treatment success for anxiety in a sample of 71 children. Results lend preliminary support to the hypothesis that the presence of an externalizing behavior disorder in a child may interfere with treatment success for anxiety disorders.


Inertial Navigation Systems(INS) are ubiquitiously employed to provide position and velocity information. However, navigation information from INS gets degraded over time as INS errors are nonlinear and accumulate over time. The errors can be divided as horizontal errors and error in vertical channel. Error in the vertical channel directly contributes to error in altitude estimate. Due to Schuler damping, the horizontal errors are bounded and oscillate with a frequency equal to 0.00124 rad/s, known as the Schuler frequency. Due to undamped vertical channel, the errors in the vertical channel are not bounded and hence, while the latitude and longitude estimates from an INS are within the limits, the altitude estimate could have large deviation from true value.


Parents play an influential role during athlete development, providing a range of different types of support, including financial resources. Previous studies of general sport participation suggest unequal opportunities for youth who come from lower income families; however, few studies have examined how measures of socioeconomic status (SES) differ between athletes who achieve different levels of attainment. This study assessed whether measures of SES (i.e., parent education) differed by athletes' skill level. A retrospective design examined 229 athletes from Australia (n = 154) and Canada (n = 75) including 79 males and 150 females with a mean age of 23.28 years (SD = 4.79 years). All athletes had to have reached their highest expected level of competition, which allowed them to be classified into three distinct skill groups: elite (n = 139), pre-elite (n = 33), and non-elite (n = 57). Participants completed the Developmental History of Athletes Questionnaire, which addresses a range of potential influences on sport expertise, including parental characteristics. Differences between skill groups were examined using chi-square tests. The association between parental level of education and skill level was found to be significant [χ2 (4) = 12.11, p = .02; w = 0.22]. It was found that a greater than expected number of non-elite athletes reported the highest level of education reached by either parent as secondary school or less, while fewer than expected non-elite athletes reported the highest level of education reached by either parent as 'some post-secondary education'. When comparing mothers' and fathers' levels of education independently, there was no significant effect for mothers' education [χ2 (4) = 5.69, p = 0.23] however fathers' education approached significance [χ2 (4) = 8.17, p = 0.09]. These results suggests an association between parent education, particularly father's education, and skill level.


17 Despite significant advancements in improving the dataset for biomass burning (BB) emissions over the past few decades, 18 uncertainties persist in BB aerosol emissions, impeding the accurate assessment of simulated aerosol optical properties (AOPs) 19 and direct radiative forcing (DRF) during wildfire events in global and regional models. This study assessed AOPs (including 20 aerosol optical depth (AOD), aerosol absorption optical depth (AAOD), and aerosol extinction coefficients (AEC)) and DRF 21 using eight independent BB emission inventories applied to the WRF-Chem model during the BB period (March 2019) in 22 Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA), where the eight BB emission inventories were the Global Fire Emissions Database version 23 4.1s (GFED), Fire INventory from NCAR version 1.5 (FINN1.5), the Fire Inventory from NCAR version 2.5 MOS (MODIS 24 fire detections, FINN2.5 MOS), the Fire Inventory from NCAR version 2.5 MOSVIS (MODIS+VIIRS fire detections, 25 FINN2.5 MOSVIS), Global Fire Assimilation System version 1.2s (GFAS), Fire Energetics and Emissions Research version 26 1.0 (FEER), Quick Fire Emissions Dataset version 2.5 release 1 (QFED), and Integrated Monitoring and Modelling System 27 for Wildland FIRES Project version 2.0 (IS4FIRES), respectively. The results show that in the PSEA region, organic carbon 28 (OC) emissions in the eight BB emission inventories differ by a factor of about 9 (0.295-2.533 Tg/M), with 1.09 ± 0.83 Tg/M 29 and a coefficient of variation (CV) of 76%. High-concentration OC emissions occurred primarily in savanna and agricultural 30 fires. The OC emissions from the GFED and GFAS are significantly lower than the other inventories. The OC emissions in 31 FINN2.5 VISMOS are approximately twice as high as those in FINN1.5. Sensitivity analysis of AOD simulated by WRF32 Chem to different BB emission datasets indicated that the FINN scenarios (v1.5 and 2.5) significantly overestimate AOD 33 compared to observation (VIIRS), while the other inventories underestimate AOD in the high AOD (HAOD, AOD>1) regions 34 https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1650 Preprint. Discussion started: 19 September 2023 c © Author(s) 2023. CC BY 4.0 License.


The functions of metaphors are not solely stylistic; they are also cognitive. It is argued thatmetaphor scenarios in particular play an important role in the constitution and transfer of cultural constructs like, for instance, in the narrative of transcendent justice. Three examples of this narrative in three different cultures and ages are discussed, outlining the differences but also the similarities of the constituting metaphor scenarios. To conclude, the thesis of a cultural influence between the three narratives is discussed.


We report on a scalable method for generating multiple quantum correlated beams by using cascaded four-wave mixing processes in hot rubidium vapor. As the number of quantum modes increases, so does the total degree of quantum correlations.


Vehicles are identified as a means of logistic and conveyance, a dynamic of livelihood, and even an insignia of wealth and luxury. Whatever the perception be, vehicles, whether two-wheelers or four-wheelers, are expensive and need constant care and maintenance. This paper tries to study the factors considered in buying two-wheelers and four-wheelers in Mizoram, a remote and rugged State in the North East corner of India having a total road length of 4,046.37 kms, out of which 2,220.30 kms were surfaced road (Census of India, 2001) and only 18 petrol pumps all over the State (Economic and Statistics, 2008). Given the various infrastructural constraints and backwardness of the State, the present study tries to identify which of the ancillary attributes play prominence in the buying behaviour of the rural and urban Mizoram consumers with respect to two-wheelers and four-wheelers.


NEW MATERIAL: 2,4-Dioxo-5-phenyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-1,5-benzodiazepine derivatives of formula I (wherein X and X' are each H, a halogen, cyano, NO 2 CF 3 , or alkyl or alkoxyl having 8 or less carbon atoms; R is H or an alkyl having 8 or less carbon atoms; and Ar is an aryl having 14 or less carbon atoms, an aromatic heterocyclic group or a heterocyclic group bonded to aryl). EXAMPLE: N-(7-chloro-2, 4-dioxo-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-1,5- benzodiazepine-3-yl)-1H-indole-2-carboxyamide. USE: Treatment of some dietary functional disorders, adiposis, behavioral and emotional disorders, schizophrenia, and gastrointestinal disorders. PROCESS: A compd. of formula II is reacted with a compd. of formula III to obtain a compd. of formula I. COPYRIGHT: (C)1990,JPO


A series of new (1-(4-methoxybenzyl)indol-3-yl)(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methanones, 1-(1-(4- methoxybenzyl)-1H-indole-3-carbonyl)-3-subsituted-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-ones have been developed using the 1-(4-methoxybenzyl)-1H-indole-3-carbohydrazide 1 as a key intermediate. The target compounds were tested in-vitro for tumor cell-growth inhibition.


Abstract: This paper argues that Lorine Niedecker's New Goose poems evoke the material particularity of individual human, crop, and livestock bodies in the agricultural world they inhabit. This materiality is both irreducible to itself and gestures to networks of structural economic forces, histories of US settler colonialism, and the forms of other bodies. Critics have articulated Niedecker's complication of an Objectivist focus on materiality with regard to her own psychic and bodily experience. This paper argues that Niedecker similarly complicates the materiality of the bodies that make up her poems to construct a bodily intersubjectivity between humans and nonhumans. The networks that these bodies illuminate reveal human and nonhuman entanglements in transforming the landscape and in human sociality, even while these individual bodies always resolve again into their own particular forms. In doing so, Niedecker constructs an expansive intersubjectivity between humans and nonhumans as a demand for attention to the irreducible particularity of individual bodies alongside the networks within which they are located.


Non-communicable chronic skin illnesses like psoriasis, vitiligo, and lichen planus have an increasing worldwide burden and are challenging to treat therapeutically. Despite the fact that there are many treatment options available under conventional therapies, these approaches cannot be taken into consideration in the long run due to their unfavourable side effects and excessive financial implications. These diseases exhibit remissions and exacerbations throughout their chronic course, which are frequently discouraging for both patients and doctors. Therefore, the major goal was to determine the effectiveness of homoeopathic medications in treating acute psoriasis exacerbations, and the secondary goal was to identify the primary triggering events producing these exacerbations. Here, based on conventional homoeopathic principles, we provide a prospective clinical investigation on the efficiency of homoeopathic medications in treating psoriasis flare-ups. Homoeopathic management provided good symptomatic relief in patients suffering from exacerbations of psoriasis.


In this paper, the authors describe an experimental process for measuring the propagation characteristics of 60 GHz band millimeter waves between two vehicles for designing a vehicle to vehicle communications system. They describe how received power and bit error rates were measured and the development of a two-ray propagation model for calculating propagation characteristics. The feasibility of data transmission between running vehicles on a freeway is demonstrated.


A decoding algorithm for $q$-ary low-density parity-check codes over the $q$-ary symmetric channel is introduced. The exchanged messages are lists of symbols from $\mathbb{F}_{q}$. A density evolution analysis for maximum list sizes 1 and 2 is developed. Thresholds for selected regular low-density parity-check code ensembles are computed showing gains with respect to a similar algorithm in the literature. Finite-length simulation results confirm the asymptotic analysis.


Objective:To research X-ray finding and diagnosis of thalassemia.Methods:Clinical data and X-ray findings of thalassemia in 16 patients confirmed by clinic were retrospectively analyzed.Results:16 patients looked like the physiognomy of thalassemia;The inner-outer tables of skulls were very thin and the diploes of skulls were very thick like perpendicular hair appearance in 12 patients;The diploes of skulls were slight thick in 4 patients;The sella turcica were shallow in 10 patients;The mastoids were diploetic type in 8 patients;The accessory nasal cavity and mastoids were not gasified in 7 patients;Anterior extremity of ribs were intumescent in 7 patients;The bone trabecula of vertebral bodies were obviously grossus liking paling form or coarse reticulate in 6 patients;The limb bone and pelvis were reticulate in 10 patients.Conclusion:The radiographic features of thalassemia are very thin in the inner-outer table of skull and very thick in the diploe of skull like perpendicular hair appearance and obviously intumescent in anterior extremity of ribs and reticulate in vertebral body,pelvis,limbs bone.Diagnosis of thalassemia should be combined with clinical data.


Potential crops are the most important to overcome food insecurity in Ethiopia. This paper also reviews the increasing productivity and production of potential crops through improved technology play great role to achieve food security in Ethiopia. Besides the possible increasing productivity and production of potential or major crops for food security in Ethiopia, through improving productivity of the crop, tackle climate change, tolerance/resistance to major abiotic and biotic factors. In Ethiopia, cereal crops have large coverage both in area and production. Even though out of the total grain crop area, 79.88% is under cereals and their production is contributed 86.68% of the grain production while Pulses covered 13.24% of the grain crop area and their production is 10.38% of the grain production. These potential crops are mainly the primary component in the most Ethiopians' diet, and also the key to food security in the country. The possible opportunities for increasing major crop production and productivity in Ethiopia are wide suitable land resources, broad crop genetic diversities, availability of different types water resources and conducive government policy. However, challenges also occur in our country like climate change, technological problem, socio-cultural problems, biotic and abiotic factors, lack of skilled manpower, increasing human population growth and they put more people under malnutrition. The major areas of focus on the future major food security crops improvement are improving the productivity of the crop, tackling climate change, capacitating human skill, lowering the total population growth rate through creating awareness on human contraceptive mechanisms, developing tolerance/resistance crops to major abiotic and biotic factors.


In this paper we present our current work on a tight coupling of a speech recognizer with a dialog manager and our results by restricting the search space of our grammar based speech recognizer through the information given by the dialog manager. As a result of the tight coupling the same lingustic knowledge sources can be used in both, speech recognizer and dialog manager. Furthermore, the flexible context-free grammar implementation of our speech decoder Ibis allows weighting of specific rules at run-time to restrict the search space of the recognizer for the next decoding step. These rules are given by the dialog manager depending on the current dialog context. With this approach we were able to reduce the word error rate of user responses to system questions by 3.3% relative for close talking and 16.0% relative, when using distant speech input. The sentence error rates were reduced by 2.2%, 9.2% respectively.


The design of microwave wireless power transmission systems sometimes requires the synthesis of large phased arrays, and the objective is to obtain the maximum beam collection efficiency (BCE). To reduce the feeding network complexity as well as system costs, subarray partition is usually indispensable, which is especially essential for large arrays in the context of long-range and high-power transmission applications. Through minimizing the difference between the subarrayed BCE and the reference one, the subarray partition problem can be reduced to an excitation matching one. Toward this end, a clustering method named k-means algorithm is adopted to determine the optimal subarray configuration. To assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method, representative examples on different sizes and shapes of transmitting arrays and receiving regions are presented. Moreover, comparisons with the state-of-the-art technique are reported as well.


Objective To study the effects of gene T833C mutations of cystathionine βsynthase(CBS) on the recurrence in cerebral infarction of young and adult.Methods The plasma total homocystine levels of 108 recurrence and 75 first cerebral infarction and 54 normal controls were measured by high performance liquid chromatography methods,the CBS genetypes were analyzed by PCR-ARMS technologies.Results The frequencies of CBS C/C,C/T genetypes and C alleles in recurrence and first group were respectively higher than that in normal controls.There was not statistical significance in recurrence and first group.In recurrence and first group,the plasma homocystine level of C/C genetype was higher than that of C/T,and the level of C/T was higher than that of T/T.In the C/T genetype,the plasma homocystine levels of recurrence and first groups were higher than that of control.Conclusions The genetic mutations of CBS could be an important genetic risk factor to result in cerebral infarction recurrence.


Testing for electro-rheological fluid(ERF) by MAK-04 visco-analyser made in METRAVIB company of France was introduced.Its testing for ERF in different voltage and frequency was emphatically illuminated.The law of ERF viscoelasticity with voltage variation was obtained.


Perceptions of pedestrian convenience on the pedestrian path of Gajah Mada Street Denpasar. Gajah Mada Street as an economic and tourist area requires good and comfortable physical infrastructure to support easy accessibility and circulation of visitors to the area. One of the physical infrastructures is a pedestrian lanewhich functions as an access to support pedestrian activities. The purpose of this study was to identify the physical conditions of the pedestrian paths and to determine the perception of pedestrian comfort on the pedestrian path at Gajah Mada Street. The research method used in this research is a survey method byperforming primary data collection techniques through observation, questionnaires and secondary data through literature study. Based on the research conducted, it is known that there are physical conditions and supporting facilities for the damaged pedestrian paths, in the form of materials and street furniture such as: seats, trash cans and roadside plants. Based on the assessment of perceptional respondents about the condition of pedestrian path has been considered comfortable and safe. The suggestion of this research is that it is necessary to improve the physical condition of the damaged pedestrians. The purpose of improving pedestrian facilities and infrastructure is to facilitate the pedestrians in order to be comfortable and safe in carrying outactivities on the pedestrian path.


The study on microwave irradiation and steam batch process to sterilize oil palm fruits is carried out to investigate their effectiveness on lipase inactivation. The inactivation parameters, palm oil quality, and stripping efficiency were evaluated. Evaluation on the inactivation parameters, such as decimal reduction time (D-value) and kinetic constant (k), were conducted to study the sterilization dependency on time and temperature. Microwave sterilization required only 14.085 to 16.949 minutes to inactivate lipase at temperature of 76.5°C (max), while steam batch sterilization required more than 90 minutes to obtained similar level of free fatty acid (FFA) at higher temperature (80 to 105°C). The quality of palm oil was indicated by the concentration of FFA in palm oil. Sterilization of either by microwave irradiation or steam batch sterilization reduced lipase's activity significantly, which is indicated by FFA concentration of below 1%. Stripping efficiency from microwave sterilization at various power level after 16 minutes were 27% (medium power level), 58.5% (medium high power level), and 61% (high power level), respectively.


How TO STUDY A RELIGION OR A CULTURE SCIENTIFICALLY. A study of religious books and their interpretation leads to divergent schools. The innumerable modifications of Christianity is a case in point. There are some christian denominations who did not believe in the life here-after for all human beings or even for all christians. They assert that only those who have lived a Christ-like life may live hereafter while others die away like dogs and cats: Such ir-religious people do not develop a spirit and are soul-less. There are some christian denominations who do not believe that Jesus was the son of God in any special way different to what any other human being can become by his own effort. This school does away with the deep significance of the cross of Christ which most christians hold as most essential. There are other denominations who do not believe in the doctrine of Trinity. Some denominations lay the greatest emphasis on the sacrament of the Holy communion while other minimise this ritual. The same holds true for the various sects of Hinduism and Islam to a modified degree. These are declared denominations, but if you were to study the un-published individual variations of those who were nurtured in each of these religions they will multiply the number of variations to infinity. Thus history of religions points out that the interpretation of books is bound to lead to diversified meanings detached from the facts of life. I have discussed elsewhere that the scientific method of investigating and studying a religion or all the religious is that adopted by psychoanalysis in particular and science in general. The Hindu and the Hindus are the living field of Hinduism and this holds true for the members of other religions. The most serious fallacy is to assume that the christian nations and the individual christian, for example, is not the product of christianity. Toynbee (1) has demonstrated by the study of the history with special reference to the West that the western civilization has its roots in Christian principles. I fmd, to study the culture and religion, for example of Islam is to study a comprehensive sample of true Muslims psychoanalytically modified by the method of total psychoanalysis. The sum total of the findings of a significant number of the sincere and carnest members of that religion by the above-mentioned method is the only system which can form the basis of the correct total interpretation of that religion or culture. Such a study with the data available can also be studied to find the highest common factor in that religion. For example if such a study and the data is available for christianity and instead of summing it up into a total, you were to find the common facter still left Wlcriticised and safe, this highest common factor, may be of great use specially to a worker


Series-connected triple quantum dots were fabricated by a simple two-step oxidation technique using the pattern-dependent oxidation of a silicon nanowire and an additional oxidation of the nanowire through the gap of the fine gates attached to the nanowire. The characteristics of multi-dot single-electron devices are obtained. The formation of each quantum dot beneath an attached gate is confirmed by analyzing the electrical characteristics and by evaluating the gate capacitances between all pairings of gates and quantum dots. Because the gate electrode is automatically attached to each dot, the device structure benefits from scalability. This technique promises integrability of multiple quantum dots with individual control gates.


Rapidly as the advance in blood transfusion has taken place, and brilliant as the results have been, it must be admitted that some details have been more or less neglected. A study of the literature shows that one of the simplest questions still remains unanswered, viz., the exact amount of blood to be transfused. It is very important that this be determined in every case as exactly as is possible; because if too much is given, danger of hypertransfusion becomes imminent; if too little is given, the result will be nil. Until now no method has been known by means of which one could determine beforehand how much blood was needed to cause a definite increase in the number of red blood cells. Nor could one foretell the degree of increase after the transfusion of a known quantity of normal blood. In fact, the question of blood dosage is a


We have fabricated a poly-Si TFT with double gate insulator composed of ECR oxide and APCVD oxide to improved the performance of poly-Si TFTs. The poly-Si TFT with double gate oxide exhibits the remarkable enhancement of the electrical parameters compared with the conventional poly-Si TFTs which has APCVD gate oxide, such as improvement of the subthreshold swing and the low threshold voltage. The proposed poly-Si TFT has a higher oxide breakdown electrical field and the device characteristics are not degraded significantly after an electrical stress. It is found that the ECR oxide plays a key role to improve the device performances and prevent the poly-Si TFTs from degradation due to the electrical stress.


Thus the computer-testing dialogue would follow the completion of a section of the course taught by current methods. The computer-controlled clinicopathological conference would then be added to the system as a test of the ability of the student to adapt his knowledge to the solution of a practical problem. Progress towards this type of programmed education is slow and it would be foolish to anticipate the outcome. It seems reasonable to suggest, however, that there are some areas of medical education that may benefit from automation. Perhaps the greatest impact of the computer may be to force a great many people to think about the whole process of education. Teaching, like medicine, is in many respects an art, but unlike modem medicine it is not yet a science. The techniques and procedures of instruction have not been systematically studied and consequently have showrn little improvement. The interest in the new technology is related in no small measure to the hope that educational techniques and procedures may at last become susceptible to study and improvement.


Background Sex preference is one of the cultural problems of countries in the field of demographic issues. It can increase the number of pregnancies, reduce the interval between births and delay in seeking prenatal care, which can threaten the health of mother, baby, child and family, especially in traditional societies. Objectives To determine the role of ethnicity on sex preference of different ethnicities living in North Khorasan Province (Iran). Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted using a multistage cluster sampling method and a researcher-made questionnaire of reproductive behavior on 1,000 women from 5 ethnicities (Fars, Turk, Kurd, Turkman and Tat) in North Khorasan Province in the summer of 2016. Data were analyzed by IBM-SPSS version 21, using descriptive statistics, ANOVA, t-test, and logistic regression. A significance level of ≤0.05 was set for examining the study hypotheses. Results The results showed sex preferences among different ethnicities of North Khorasan Province. The highest level of preference for sons was seen in Turkman (66% vs. 23%). Unlike other ethnic groups, Turkman (21%) and Kurdish people (29.7%) were under pressure from the spouse's family to give birth to sons. Conclusion Sex preference, especially among the Turkman ethnic group, which are different in terms of geographical, economic and social conditions, affects the fertility and reproductive behavior of the respondents; and it is necessary to reduce son preference for the health and well-being of children and women.


In November 2014, a group of more than 100 scholars and practitioners from academia, industry, and non-profit organizations gathered in Tempe, AZ for an intensive two-day workshop to articulate the most important and pressing questions on the societal aspects of synthetic biology. The aim of the workshop was not just to reflect on the social science research that has been done around synthetic biology, but also to generate new questions to construct a new (set of) research agenda(s). A subset of the papers the participants wrote and circulated in advance of the workshop focused on the theme of responsible innovation; these authors agreed to revise their papers for this Special Perspectives Section. Together these articles communicate a diverse set of new ideas for work in responsible innovation.


VHDL is a kind of language of hardware description.It is used to describe the function of cir- cuit hardware,the connection relationship of signal and the timing relationship.So,it is applied widely in the field of electronic engineering.DDS (Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer) technology introduces the ad- vanced theory and method of digital processing into frequency synthesis.It is a new technology.The funda- mental principle and modulation characteristics of DDS are introduced in this paper.Besides,we implemented DDS by programming in VHDL language.More over,we designed and implemented a sort of linear FM signal based on DDS technology.Then,the simulation result of the main part of system is presented,and the correct- ness of design is validated.


The effect of ytterbium co-doping on erbium ion clustering in silica-based glass was studied. It was experimentally shown that the pump-to-signal conversion efficiency could be significantly increased if the number of Yb3+ ions in the fiber core was 20 times higher than the number of Er3+ ions. Estimations of the number of Er3+ ions in clusters confirmed a decrease in their clustering at high Yb concentrations.


This research aimed to analyze the writings on Africa made during the seventeenth century, in order to enter the imaginary that sketched about the cultures of the kingdoms of Congo and Angola, in order to establish interconnections with the kingdom of New Granada. In this paper was used the texts of the Capuchins and Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi Antonio de Teruel. These texts are written discourses from the perspective of the observed, and under the stewardship of a historic African-anthropological discourse; is a Eurocentric and Catholic image that permeated Europe in the Indies. With these texts, I tried scrutinizing the Black Atlantic Studies with what has been achieved, from images, interpreting and making a confrontation with the cultural heritage manifested in the writings of the period and to establish that imaginary arrived from Africa New kingdom of Granada.


Ultrasonic measurements have been used to study the propagation of longitudinal waves in systems comprised of unconsolidated glass and Plexiglas spherical beads saturated with water. In each sample there is roughly a 20% spread in the sphere diameters. The mean diameters vary between 100 and 500 μm. In every sample the porosity is about 38%. We find that the measured velocity dispersion and attenuation are in generally good agreement with the results of multiple scattering calculations based on the quasicrystalline approximation. In these calculations, the average sphere diameter and porosity of the samples are modeled in terms of the radial (i.e., two site) distribution function, and the scattering properties of the individual spheres are treated exactly. Surprisingly, we find that the properties of the glass and Plexiglas bead samples are remarkably similar. This is true in spite of the fact that the elastic properties of the two materials are quite different. At the lowest frequencies, we show that ess...


Drawing on the analysis of security in Chapter 3 and the capabilities approach in Chapter 4, Chapter 5 provides examples of the interests that the right to security of person protects. It also considers the extent to which human rights law already recognizes a link between those interests and security of person. Five overlapping examples are discussed in turn: life, the means of life, health, privacy and the home, and autonomy. Illustrations are brought primarily from the European Convention on Human Rights, the Canadian Charter, and the South African Bill of Rights jurisprudence. It is argued that protection against material deprivations that threaten a person's existence are as much part of the right to personal security as protection against physical assaults. The right to security of person effectively overcomes the problematic distinction between civil and political rights and socio-economic rights because it sits in both categories.


The hypoxia inducible factor is critical in the cellular response to the stress of hypoxia.Current researches mainly focus on its regulation under hypoxia conditions.In fact,the same regulation under hypoxia situation can also be stimulated by various receptor-mediated factors under normoxic conditions. In this article, we reviewed the related mechanisms of the regulation of the hypoxiainducible factor in normoxic conditions for a comprehensive understanding.


Ships in the ocean are subjected to various dynamic loads such as fluctuating hydropressure and the cargo inertia force. Rational and comprehensive ship structural analysis and strength evaluation must be carried out in order to secure the strength over its whole life. This paper reviews some latest wave load ship structural analysis and evaluation techniques.


5,15- cis -bis(Ureidophenyl)porphyrins have significant recognizing ability for p -benzoquinones through four-point hydrogen bonding. Although an unusual temperature-dependence of the complexation is observed with bis( N '-phenylureidophenyl) porphyrin, bis( N '-ethylureidophenyl)porphyrin shows a satisfactorily linear van't Hoff plot and recognizes an electron-rich p -benzoquinone such as tetramethyl- p -benzoquinone more effectively, which is ascribed to the large enthalpy change in the complex.


Aiming at the problem of the poor observability for the yaw measurement of the foot-mounted attitude heading reference systems (AHRS), this paper presents an indoor pedestrian navigation method using low cost foot-mounted AHRS and waist-mounted compass. Based on this mode, the yaw measured from the waist-mounted compass is used to calculate the attitude transformation matrix for the foot-mounted AHRS, and then the Kalman filter (KF) is used to restrict the error of the inertial sensors when the person is in a stance phase during walk. The experimental results showed that the mean error of the position had been reduced by about 28% when compared with the method without the waist-mounted compass, which demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.


The Ethiopia Public Health Association (EPHA) was established in 1989 and legally registered under the Ethiopian law in 1991, with the objective of attaining an optimal standard of health for the people of Ethiopia by promoting better health services to the public and high professional standards through advocacy, active involvement and networking. EPHA is committed to improve the health and wellbeing of Ethiopians through the dedicated and active involvement of its members and in collaboration with all stakeholders. As stated in its constitution, establishing forums for promoting communication among members and the public on health and health-related matters; and advancing research in public health and publishing scientific journals, newsletters and bulletins for disseminating the results for the advancement of knowledge and excellence in public health practice are the prominent objectives of the Association (1).


The influence of urban infrastructures in city planning is obvious. However, among all types of systems, those that are destined to supply thermal energy to the cities, there is no tradition in design and development in Spain, contrary to what happens in the United States or in other countries in Europe. From a technical point of view, these systems present a proven effectiveness in countries with more than one hundred years of experience using these infrastructures. They have an efficiency of up to forty per cent higher compared to other isolated systems of energy production, implicating better fuel management with a consequent reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Regarding the social implications, they present great advantages such as lower maintenance costs, avoid the problems of heat outage, or risks of individual explosions or accidents. But above everything, they improve the urban air quality in many towns, since local boilers and high chimneys are replaced for single heat generation plants. So, why this type of infrastructures has not had in Spain the same development as in other countries if the benefits seem clear as mentioned above?


The subject of this work is the setup of an experiment to study immersed quantum systems using bosonic 23Na and fermionic 6Li. Bose-Einstein condensation of 23Na has been achieved in two di erent magnetic trap con gurations, namely the plugged quadrupole trap and the cloverleaf trap. Both are compared with respect to their suitability for a two-species experiment using this particular isotopes. In such a mixture, it should be possible to investigate polarons, which are quasiparticles, emerging when one of components of the mixture has only a very rare concentration. Furthermore, a theoretical study of the polaron will be discussed. A mean- eld calculation has been carried out in order to simulate the impurity behavior in the presence of a large bosonic background gas.


SUBTITLE: GROUND HANDLERS ARE AN INHERENT COMPONENT OF YOUR AIR CARGO MOVE: BUT WHO ARE THESE BACKGROUND PLAYERS AND WHAT REALLY GOES ON DOWN THERE?


Rodents explore their immediate environment using their whiskers. Such exploration leads to micromotions, which contain many high‐frequency (50–200 Hz) components. High‐frequency whisker motion is represented faithfully in the temporal structure of the spike trains of trigeminal neurons. However, the representation of high‐frequency sensory inputs in cortex is not fully understood. By combining extracellular and intracellular recordings in the rat somatosensory cortex and thalamus, we show that high‐frequency sensory inputs, either sinusoidal or white noise, elicit internally generated gamma (20–60 Hz) band oscillations in cortical networks. Gamma oscillations modulate cortical spike probability while preserving sub‐millisecond phase relations with high‐frequency sensory inputs. Consequently, our results indicate that millisecond precision stimulus‐locked spiking activity and sensory‐induced gamma oscillation can constitute independent multiplexed coding schemes at the single‐cell level.


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Frailty is a complex, age-related condition which confers a risk of adverse outcomes. Evidence supports the effectiveness of screening and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) to meet the needs of frail older people. Little is known about the views of key stakeholders on frailty in a Primary Care context. This study explored the views of healthcare professionals and patients on frailty management in Primary Care in Ireland.

 A qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured interviews was conducted. Healthcare professionals and patients were recruited using purposive sampling. Patients were recruited through the Frailty Intervention Team at the local acute hospital. Patients with cognitive impairment were excluded. Written informed consent was provided. Data were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The research was approved by the local Ethics Committee.

 Three patients and 17 healthcare professionals from general practice, public health nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and social work participated. Three themes emerged. (i) Perceptions of Frailty (ii) Current Management of Frailty and (iii) CGA in Primary Care. Results demonstrated variability of perspectives on the concept of frailty, with limited knowledge of screening and CGA. Healthcare professionals described a fragmented service with sub-standard care for frail older patients. Critical weaknesses were: absence of essential services, uni-disciplinary working, inadequate IT systems and integration. Support for screening and CGA in Primary Care was evident. The general consensus was that frailty management required an adequately resourced Primary Care and the suitability of the current pathway for patients requiring CGA should be reviewed.

 This study highlights an absence of a complete understanding of frailty among healthcare professionals. Inter-professional training and education is advocated. Further development of a frailty pathway and investment in Primary Care is required to improve care for frail older people. An intermediate interface service with a dedicated frailty management team is suggested.


This study characterized the distribution of geographic variation in water relations traits for six populations of California blue oak along a precipitation gradient (two each from high, medium and low precipitation environments). Acorns were collected from each population, germinated and the resulting seedlings were experimentally treated with three different watering regimes in a greenhouse experiment. There were significant among-population differences in growth and biomass production characteristics in the seedlings. Significant among-treatment differences indicated at least low levels of plasticity, although there were no treatment x population interactions. Implications are that seed source zone maps should be used by restorationists until we have more information that coadapted or regional gene complexes do not exist.


. The paper describes the technology of implementing calculation algorithms for continuous wavelet transform on a digital signal processor using Simulink. The basic concepts of wavelets and continuous wavelet transform are given. Three calculation algorithms for continuous wavelet transform are considered: first, on the basis of a discrete wavelet transform, second, using a cross -correlation function and third, using a fast Fourier transform. The paper presents Simulink models that allow describing the calculation algorithms of continuous wavelet transform at the level of logical block diagrams, as well as the results of implementing these algorithms on Texas Instruments TMS320C5515 Evaluation Module (EVM). A comparative analysis of the wavelet spectrograms obtained in MATLAB and output to the LCD display of the debug board is performed.


Based on analyses to the generation mechanism of speech signals,this paper presents a novel method which uses fractal dimension to determine speech terminals for mandarin isolated words.Compared with those of two traditional detection methods for speech terminals,the experimental results have shown that the use of fractal method in speech terminals detection for isolated words recorded in normal experimental environment is not only feasible,but it can also achieve higher correctness than traditional methods.


For a robot to be perfect and enter the everyday life of humans,like computers did, it needs to move from special-purpose robots to general-purpose. So, the idea of modularity is considered in this project.Thus, any type of task that falls in the 4 D's of Robotization: Dull, Dirty, Dangerous and Dear can be achieved by adding a module to the robot.


Portfolio optimization is the basic quantitative approach for finding optimal portfolio weights. It has become increasingly important as portfolio construction involves more and more data and automated approaches. The inherent uncertainty in financial markets has led to consistent demand for improved robustness of portfolio models. In this article, the authors discuss the importance of robustness in portfolio optimization and present powerful methods that include robust estimators, robust portfolio optimization, distributionally robust optimization, and scenario-based optimization. They also review data-driven methods, machine learning–based models, and practical approaches for improving portfolio robustness.


Ohort though it was, F. Scott Fitzgerald had a longer professional career and produced far more varied writing than many readers, even today, realize. Born in 1896, he published his first story, "The Mystery of Raymond Mortgage," when he was only thirteen, supervised a performance of his first play, a necessarily amateur effort entitled The Girl from LazyJ, two years later, and saw Fie! Fie! Fi-FU, his first musical comedy, onto the stage at Princeton in 1914. After World War I ended, he published "Babes in the Woods," his first commercial sale, in 1919, and a year later his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and his first short-story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. He was then twenty-four. There was no let-up. Despite early and ever-mounting financial, marital, and drinking problems, Fitzgerald remained prolific. By the time of his death in 1940, at the age of fortyfour, he had written five novels, something like one hundred and seventy short stories) depending on inclusion or exclusion of certain sketches), eleven plays, and ninety-six poems (I omit attributed verse)-?not to mention several articles, essays, and reviews. After an exhausting tabulation, I can report that in his strictly imaginative works, Fitzgerald created 511 named characters in his novels, 1,955 in his short stories, forty-one in his poems, and 158 in his plays (I exclude his movie scripts). Noteworthy is his use of a blizzard of different first names. Of 340 male first names (including nicknames, such as Brick, Buzz, Frog, Midget, Spud, amd Trombone), 238 are never repeated (for example, unique Amory Blaine and Jay Gatsby), while thirty-seven others are used only twice (for example, Ernest and Jules). Of 236 female first names (including a few nicknames?for example, Dizzy, Peaches, and Teeny), 141 are used only once (for example, Gretchen and Vienna [her father was a diplomat in Vienna, Madrid, and Rome]); and thirty-two others only twice (for example, Isabelle and Norma). This underscores Fitzgerald's lifelong habit of memorably individualizing his characters, particularly major ones. His favorite male names (with variations and nicknames) are William with forty-seven appearances; John, forty-four; George, forty-one; Joseph, thirty-three; James, thirty-one; Charles, twenty-nine; Thomas, twenty-five; Edward, twenty-four; Henry, twenty-two; and Richard, twenty. Fewer, but still substantial, usages follow, including Benjamin, Howard,


This paper presents a framework developed to increase the autonomy and versatility of a large (~75kg) hydraulically actuated quadrupedal robot. It combines onboard perception with two locomotion strategies, a dynamic trot and a static crawl gait. This way the robot can perceive its environment and arbitrate between the two behaviours according to the situation at hand. All computations are performed on-board and are carried out in two separate computers, one handles the high-level processes while the other is concerned with the low-level hard real-time control. The perception and subsequently the appropriate gait modifications are performed autonomously. We present outdoor experimental trials of the robot trotting over unknown terrain, perceiving a large obstacle, altering its behaviour to the cautious crawl gait and stepping onto the obstacle. This allows the robot to locomote quickly on relatively flat terrain and gives the robot the ability to overcome large irregular obstacles when required.


Within four weeks of the September 4 2010 Canterbury Earthquake a new, loosely-knit community group appeared in Christchurch under the banner of "Greening the Rubble." The general aim of those who attended the first few meetings was to do something to help plug the holes that had already appeared or were likely to appear over the coming weeks in the city fabric with some temporary landscaping and planting projects. This article charts the first eighteen months of Greening the Rubble and places the initiative in a broader context to argue that although seismic events in Christchurch acted as a "call to palms," so to speak, the city was already in need of some remedial greening. It concludes with a reflection on lessons learned to date by GTR and commentary on the likely issues ahead for this new mini-socialenvironmental movement in the context of a quake-affected and still quake-prone major New Zealand city. One of the key lessons for GTR and all of those involved in Christchurch recovery activities to date is that the city is still very much in the middle of the event and is to some extent a laboratory for seismic and agency management studies alike.


Solid pseudopapillary epithelial neoplasm (SPEN) of the pancreas is a rare neoplasm of the pancreas accounting for only 0.17–2.7% of all pancreatic neoplasms, often detected initially on imaging. Despite advances in imaging, pseudocysts and other cystic neoplasms feature in the differential diagnosis. We report a case of solid pseudopapillary epithelial neoplasm in a young female who presented with a progressively increasing abdominal lump in whom the diagnosis was considered based on imaging studies. She underwent exploratory laparotomy, pancreaticoduodenectomy, pancreaticojejunostomy, hepaticojejunostomy, gastrojejunostomy, and made an uneventful recovery in the postoperative period. Histopathological examination and immunohistochemistry confirmed the diagnosis. This case highlights the need for a high index of suspicion and timely surgical intervention for optimal outcomes.


This article mainly analyses the experimental data on dried corn in a fluidized bed dryer. It uses Page equation to simulate and compare the calculated results with experimental data. Although the experimental data aren't fitted with the model, Page equation can describe the drying characteristics of corn approximately.


Abstract The paper examines the extent to which bilingual children select lexical noun phrases and null and overt pronouns as referring expressions in their majority language German and their heritage language Polish. Both languages are similar regarding the availability of lexical noun phrases but differ in terms of the distribution of null and overt pronominal forms. Our focus lies on discourse contexts with a subject antecedent in the preceding clause, which require only light processing for both speaker and hearer due to the high accessibility of the intended subject referent. Drawing on experimental data from a picture story retelling task (MAIN) to investigate the distribution of referring expressions in the two languages compared to age-matched monolingual control groups, our results reveal that bilingual children are sensitive to crosslinguistic differences in the syntactic and discourse-pragmatic constraints that regulate the distribution of null and overt subjects in Polish and German, depending on the mode of speech (narrative or dialogic). Furthermore, there are no significant differences between the bilingual and monolingual children, irrespective of language and age group. Thus, our study cannot confirm findings of previous studies concerning the tendency of bilingual children to be either overspecific or underspecific in subject reference production.


David-Kupiainen-Rhodes-Vargas introduced a probabilistic framework based on the Gaussian Free Field and Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos in order to make sense rigorously of the path integral approach to Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT). We use this setting to compute fusion estimates for the four-point correlation function on the Riemann sphere, and find that it is consistent with predictions from the framework of theoretical physics known as the conformal bootstrap. This result fits naturally into the famous KPZ conjecture which relates the four-point function to the expected density of points around the root of a large random planar map weighted by some statistical mechanics model.
From a purely probabilistic point of view, we give non-trivial results on negative moments of GMC. We give exact formulae based on the DOZZ formula in the Liouville case and asymptotic behaviours in the other cases, with a probabilistic representation of the limit.
Finally, we show how to extend our results to boundary LCFT, treating the cases of the fusion of two boundary or bulk insertions as well as the absorption of a bulk insertion on the boundary.


Abstract Introduction: The mixture of Phet Sang-Khaat capsule is recommended to treat hemorrhoid in Thai National List of Essential Herbal Medicines (2011). This formula consists of 3 medicinal plants including Cissus quadrangularis (Linn.) (Vitaceae), Clerodendrum serratum (L.) Moon. var. wallichii C.B.Clarke (Lamiaceae) and Rheum officinale Baillon. (Polygonaceae). The previous review literatures on the mixture of Phet Sang-Khaat capsule did not contain information about quality control or formulation. However, we found several phytochemical and pharmacological studies on single ingredients of this formula. The aim of the study to determine the contents of some active constituent in each ingredient of formulation such as quercetin in C. quadrangularis and rhein in R. officinale and the mixture of Phet Sang-Khaat capsule.  Methods: The dried powder of the samples were extracted with 50% ethanol. HPLC was used to determine each of medicinal plants preparation content of major compounds from these 3 medicinal plants from 5 different regions. Results: The results showed that the amount of quercetin in C. quadrangularis from Khon Kaen, Nakornratchasima, Maha Sarakham, Phetchabun and Roied provinces were 1.8, 1,69, 3.51, 3.15 and 3.30 (%w/w, dried powder), respectively. The amount of rhein in rhubarb from Bangkok, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham, Nakornratchasima, and Roied provinces were 1.02, 1.09, 1.01, 0.54 and 1.56 (%w/w, dried powder), respectively. Thus, we were used the aerial part of C. quadrangularis from Maha Sarakham and the rhizomes of rhubarb from Roied province as the ingredients to formulate the mixture of Phet Sang-Khaat capsule in this study. The amount of querceitn and rhein in the mixture of Phet Sang-Khaat capsule were obtained 10.96 and 0.70 mg/capsule, respectively. Conclusion: The results from this study could be used as a guideline for the quality of some Thai herbal formulation. Keywords: quality control; the mixture of Phet Sang-Khaat capsule; quercetin, rhein


Polycrystalline films of 60-40 NiFe prepared under specified conditions exhibit a behaviour which is at present being explored for possible applications in medical ultrasound diagnostic systems. The magnetization in a chosen area of the film can be switched by exposure to ultrasound. This switching proceeds via the nucleation of domains of 'reverse' magnetization. These nucleation centers have not yet been identified in terms of a physical model and it is the aim of this paper to go some way in this direction.


One of the most fundamental effects used to investigate number representations is the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect showing that responses to small/large numbers are faster with the left/right hand, respectively. However, in recent years, it is hotly debated whether the SNARC effect is based upon cardinal representation of number magnitude or ordinal representation of number sequence in working memory. However, one problem is that evidence comes from different paradigms, e.g., evidence for ordinal sequences comes usually from experiments, where ordinal sequences have to be learnt and it has been ar-gued that this secondary task triggers the effect. Therefore, in this preregistered study we em-ployed a SNARC task, without secondary ordinal sequence learning, in which we can dissociate ordinal and magnitude accounts by careful manipulation of experimental stimulus sets and com-pare magnitude and ordinal models. The results indicate that even though the observed data is better accounted for by the magnitude model, the ordinal position seems to matter as well. Thus, it appears that the mechanisms described by both accounts play a significant role when mental numbers are temporarily mapped onto space even when no ordinal learning is involved.


FROM the standpoint of biological evolution it might be conijectured that some modification in the amino-acid compositions of tissue proteins would accompany evolutionary development, but it might be argued contrariwise that a pronounced change in composition could be anticipated only in association with a charige in function of a tissue. Correspondingly, among the present day descendants of a common ancestor, according to their degrees of development from, or retention of, the primitive characteristics, one might expect variation in the protein composition or anticipate constancy. Extensive analyses of animal proteins have been published and although many ofthem require repetition by newer and more critically examined methods, certain regularities have been established soundly enough, e.g. the high cystine contents of the proteins of epidermal structures like hair, wool, horn etc., and the high arginine contents of the protamines. Block & Vickery [1931], and Block [1934] and in subsequent articles, have drawn attention to the constancy of the ratio of the histidine, lysine and arginine contents of proteins in groups arranged according to biological origin, physical properties etc. The results of Bailey's [1937] partial analyses of muscle proteins may be expressed briefly as follows: such evolutionary developments as can be traced through the crustaceans, fish, birds and mammals have probably been without marked influence upon the compositions of the skeletal muscle myosins. It would seem, in general, that the proteins of animal tissues having similar functions will have similar physical properties and will be similar in composition., Comparative atudies of plant proteins have generally been confined to the seeds of the angiosperms, chiefly on account, of the ease with which the proteins could be obtained reasonably free from other classes of organic material. The more recent analyses have sustained the conclusions drawn from the earlier work, that between seed proteins the differences in composition are frequently very large but that marked regularities do exist, as in the high proline and glutamic acid contents of the gliadinR of seeds of the Gramineae. It is only in recent y0ars that detailed knowledge of the compositions of proteins of the leaves of-these higher plants has been acquired. As reviewed by Chibnall [1939], the analyses show remarkable uniformity of composition, almost comparable with the degree of uniformity among mammalian myosins. There are differences as between the Leguminosae, Gramineae etc. but tb,ey are not large. The main purpose of this article is to record partial analyses of the proteins of somatic, photosynthesizing parts of some lower land plants, and to compare


A new chemical treatment process has been developed and implemented at The Boeing Company to process concentrated wastewater containing hexavalent chromium and chelated heavy metals from several major aerospace operations. The new method, referred to as the Alchem process, uses spent aluminum chips as the main reagent, This process ~ involves controIled-release of aluminum chips, reduction of hexavalent chromium, deactivation of chelates, singlestage metal precipitation and membrane separation. It is a robust process that consistently removes heavy metals from various sources and concentrations to below discharge limits. Compared to conventional methods, this improved process significantly reduces the treatment cost by minimizing the treatment time, chemical usage, capital expense, and reusing a spent material. This paper will discuss the development and fbllscale operation of the Alchem process.


Geo-spatial expression is the basis of a geographical data organization,storage,computing,and analysis.Through electronic map data analysis,a simple and easy to implement descriptive rules is presented based on BNF,you can easily use a text editor to edit,to achieve the electronic map in different software systems commonality of purposes,and the result shows it has greatly improved efficiency.


We have measured the cross section for the dissociative excitation of the forbidden OI(2p-italic/sup 4/ /sup 1/D-italic--3s-italic/sup 3/S-italic, lambda1641.3 A-circle) transition by electron impact on O/sub 2/. At 100 eV, we find a cross section value of 1.22 x 10/sup -23/ cm/sup 2/ +- 35%. This result is consistent with recent estimates of this branching ratio from theoretical calculations and aeronomical observations and supports the suggestion by Meier et al. (1985) that observation of the OI lambda1641.3 A-circle line would be useful for remote monitoring of atomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere.


Public concern about 'fake news' skyrocketed following the 2016 US presidential election and the Brexit referendum, and has only intensified since then. A burgeoning body of research on the topic is emerging, and conceptual clarity is vital for this research to converge into a cumulative body of knowledge; the purpose of this article is to underline and address some of the conceptual clutter and ambiguities around the concept of fake news and situate it within its social context. To do so, we first discuss the problems with current terminology and conceptualisation, and then draw on recent developments on the ontology of digital objects and their attributes to shift the focus from fake news to false messages, a type of syntactic digital objects comprised of content and structure and characterised by attributes of editability, openness, interactivity, and distributedness. Then we expand this concept further by placing it within a network of actors and digital objects. Our analysis uncovers several areas of research that have been overlooked in the study of fake news.