The action of fungicides at different phases of the infectious process of late blight (Phy tophthora infestans) and early blight (Alternaria solani) of potatoes was studied under greenhouse and laboratory conditions. Protective and residual action was evaluated through inoculations undertaken with the respective pathogens 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 days after application. To evaluate the curative action against late blight, fungicides were applied 1, 12, 24 and 48 hours after inoculation, and against early blight 1, 24, and 48 hours after inoculation. Protective, residual and curative actions were evaluated according to the percentage of the foliar area affected, while the antisporulating action was assessed through sporangia and conidia counting. All the fungicides, regardless of their mode of action, provided high protection against late and early blight. Systemic fungicides showed a reduction of control starting at 12 days after application, while translaminar and mesostemic fungicides showed this reduction starting at 9 days after application. In regard to curative and antisporulating actions, systemic fungicides applied until 24 hours after inoculation were especially outstanding. Translaminar and mesostemic fungicides could inhibit late blight when applied until 12 hours after inoculation. Contact fungicides stood out in preventive action only.


As 4 and O 3 codeposited with excess argon at 14-17 K produced new sharp weak bands at 921.7, 590.3, and 565.4 cm −1 that increased with red-light photolysis. In the early stages of 630-1000-nm irradiation, the upper band was favored, but in later stages the upper band decreased while the lower bands increased. These single O atom species are assigned to AsO complex and bridge-bonded As 4 O formed by decomposition of excited terminally bound As 4 O. New bands in the 700-810-cm −1 region below As 4 O 6 that were favored on UV photolysis are assigned to bridge-bonded As 4 O x (x=2-5) species; As 4 O 6 was also formed on codeposition and increased by UV photolysis. As 4 is more reactive with O 3 than P 4 under the conditions of these experiments


Transit is vital to the functioning of most major cities in the world today and therefore evaluation of the robustness — capacity to withstand disruptions with minimal impact to the system — of transit networks is essential. In this paper, we study the spatial extent of link disruption impacts in urban public transport networks (PTNs) due to spill-over effects that occur as affected passengers choose alternative routes. Quantifying link criticality in terms of its spatial propagation effects is important for prioritizing robustness measures as well as devising methods to encapsulate disruption spill-over effects. To this end, a new local criticality indicator — spatial criticality — that is based on: (i) the magnitude of relative change in load on other links due to closure of a link and (ii) the topological distance between these other links and the disrupted link is introduced. Further, a stochastic user equilibrium, PTN assignment model is developed. The model explicitly considers the service layer of the PTNs and accounts for on-board crowding and denied boarding at stops to represent passenger spill-over effects. Finally, to demonstrate the proposed indicator and investigate its relationship with conventional, local topological indicators, the urban rail-bound network of Amsterdam is used as a case study.


The nuclei with Z ~ 75 and A ~ 175 fall in the transitional region between the strongly deformed rare earth nuclei and the spherical lead isotopes. These nuclei exhibit softness in their nuclear potential and hence are also known as 'gamma-soft nuclei'. For these nuclei the proton Fermi level is close to the highly down sloping low , high-j orbital's like h9/2[541]1/2 orbital intruding from above the Z = 82 shell closure. The presence of highly intruding orbital's makes the nuclear structure studies more interesting in this mass region. For odd proton nucleus such as 75Re, the high-K (9/2 )h11/2 and (5/2 + )d5/2 bands are upsloping in the Nilsson diagram and therefore have positive slope as a function of deformation, so have a tendency to drive the nucleus to smaller deformations. As the deformation affects the energy of the entire band, the band crossing frequencies corresponding to the alignment of the i13/2 neutron pair also observe a shift to higher or lower values, depending upon the type of orbital occupied by the odd particle. For high-K orbital's like h11/2[514]9/2 and d5/2[402]5/2 +


Email communication has become an integral part of the communication structure
within organisations, but the problems it can cause are rarely assessed. The defects
associated with email, which are related to both the quantity and the quality of email
need to be understood by employees for them to become more effective users of
email. Email training within organisations tends to focus on how to use email as a
software package, without looking at when it is appropriate to use email and how to
get your message across effectively.
This thesis first explores email defects and how they impact on organisations. [Continues.]


We have investigated the influence of ultrathin Pt insertion layers on the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and annealing stability of Ta/Pt/(Co/Ni)×3/Co/Pt/Ta multilayered films. When the Pt layers were inserted at the Co/Ni interfaces, the PMA of the multilayered films decreased monotonically as the thickness of the Pt insertion layer (tPt) was increased. However, when the Pt layers were inserted at the Ni/Co interfaces, the PMA increased from 1.39 × 106 to 3.5 × 106 erg/cm3 as tPt increased from 0 to 10 A. Moreover, the multilayered film containing 6-A-thick Pt insertion layers that inserted at the Ni/Co interfaces exhibited the highest annealing stability for PMA, which was up to temperature of 480 °C. We hypothesize that the introduced Pt/Co interfaces, due to the Pt insertion layers, are responsible for the enhanced PMA and high annealing stability. This study is particularly important for perpendicularly magnetized spintronic devices that require high PMA and high annealing stability.


Abstract CORN Cockle is recognized to contain a toxic substance, known as githagin. It has also been referred to as saponin, agrostemmin, sapotoxin, and smilacin. This is a saponin-like glucoside and listed as a haemolytic poison. The poisonous principle, said to be present in all parts of the plant but mainly in the seed, is destroyed by heating to 50°C. The poisonous character of corn cockle has been reported as affecting humans and all domestic animals. The susceptibility of animals varies, the young being more readily affected. Animals seem to become accustomed to the poison so that the amount of seed first causing sickness later has no injurious effect. The amount of the poisonous substance in the plant also is variable. Cornevin (1874) indicated 0.25 pound per 100 pounds of live weight as being harmful for the calf and fowl, 0.10 pound for the pig, and 0.09 pound for the dog. . . .


An abelian group G is called minimax if it contains a finitely generated subgroup H such that G H satisfies the minimal condition for subgroups Ž . which I shall abbreviate to min . In this case, we may choose H to be free Ž . abelian by making it smaller if necessary , or we may choose G H to be Ž . divisible by making H bigger if necessary . Recall that the divisible abelian groups with min are direct products of finitely many quasicyclic Ž . groups groups of type C , for various primes p , and that an abelian p group with min is the direct product of a divisible one with a finite group. There are two reasons for being interested in the group rings of such groups, ''external'' and ''internal.'' The external reason, and original motivation for the present work, comes from the theory of infinite soluble groups. It has become apparent in recent years that among finitely generated groups, the soluble groups of finite rank are singled out by quite a varied range of finiteness conditions, such as polynomial subgroup growth or finite upper rank LMS, MS . In proving results of this nature, some sort of induction argument may well reduce the problem to the consideration of a group with an abelian normal subgroup A such that A is soluble of finite rank; to conclude that itself has finite rank one then has to Ž . understand the nature of A as a module for the group ring A . The analogous situation in the case where A was polycyclic was studied by P. Hall in the 1950s and J. E. Roseblade in the 1970s; the key idea of their beautiful and highly successful theory was to pick an abelian normal subgroup G in A, and consider A as a module for the group ring G, with A as a group of operators. In their situation, G was a finitely generated commutative ring, and the whole arsenal of Noetherian ring


Implications Practice: Pandemic-related needs of people with mental health disorders require service delivery approaches that integrate behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge and techniques. One such approach is evidence-based psychiatric rehabilitation that combines traditional psychiatric clinical services with interventions that promote wellness, employment, secure housing, adult education, leisure and recreation, and financial literacy.


This paper presents our research works on developing an evaluation system for remanufacturing. This paper has two objectives. The first objective is to evaluate the product end-of-life (EOL) by integrating an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) with case-based reasoning (CBR). The nearest neighbourhood (NN) algorithm was used to retrieve a past case that is closest to the current case under consideration. The AHP, which allows the pair-wise comparison and consistency judgement, was used to determine the weight in NN. The second objective is to evaluate EOL of parts and components. The integration of an economical cost model and an environmental cost model was used to determine the EOL of parts and components. An example is presented and discussed. The predicted results of the complete method were compared with those of the previous study. The results showed that the integration of the AHP–CBR method has reached a good correspondence with the established methods.


The process of non-linear ambipolar diffusion in the region overlying the solar surface can be an effective mechanism for producing sharp magnetic structures and current sheets. These may be the sites responsible for the occurrence of connectivity of magnetic field lines, and the subsequent explosive input of energy for heating of some of the features in the atmosphere of the Sun..


Soil CO2 concentrations and emissions from tropical forests are modulated seasonally by precipitation. However, subseasonal responses to meteorological events (e.g., storms, drought) are less well known. Here, we present the effects of meteorological variability on short‐term (hours to months) dynamics of soil CO2 concentrations and emissions in a Neotropical wet forest. We continuously monitored soil temperature, moisture, and CO2 for a three‐year period (2015–2017), encompassing normal conditions, floods, a dry El Niño period, and a hurricane. We used a coupled model (Hydrus‐1D) for soil water propagation, heat transfer, and diffusive gas transport to explain observed soil moisture, soil temperature, and soil CO2 concentration responses to meteorology, and we estimated soil CO2 efflux with a gradient‐flux model. Then, we predicted changes in soil CO2 concentrations and emissions under different warming climate change scenarios. Observed short‐term (hourly to daily) soil CO2 concentration responded more to precipitation than to other meteorological variables (including lower pressure during the hurricane). Observed soil CO2 failed to exhibit diel patterns (associated with diel temperature fluctuations in drier climates), except during the drier El Niño period. Climate change scenarios showed enhanced soil CO2 due to warmer conditions, while precipitation played a critical role in moderating the balance between concentrations and emissions. The scenario with increased precipitation (based on a regional model projection) led to increases of +11% in soil CO2 concentrations and +4% in soil CO2 emissions. The scenario with decreased precipitation (based on global circulation model projections) resulted in increases of +4% in soil CO2 concentrations and +18% in soil CO2 emissions, and presented more prominent hot moments in soil CO2 outgassing. These findings suggest that soil CO2 will increase under warmer climate in tropical wet forests, and precipitation patterns will define the intensity of CO2 outgassing hot moments.


as they drove away with the matron and a sister to share the honours. A few Colonials were amongst the guests, who were specially cheered by really seeing and talking to the King for whom they have fought so bravely. The arrangements consisted of tea?a good sit-down tea such as the soldier loves? in the course of which their Majesties and other members of the Royal Family welcomed their guests, and never tired of shaking hands and writing their much-appreciated autographs on the programmes. Tea was followed by a variety performance and some good old songs, after which each section made for homer Certainly ahkppier' day was never spent, and itf is one whichwill be always gratefully remembered by the " Hampstead warriors." On the 21st ult. Sir Frederick Milner visited the base hospital at Whitworth Street, Manchester, and a number of the branch hospitals, at each of which he addressed the patients, telling them how keenly the King and Queen appreciate the splendid service they have rendered and how anxious their


I present an argument against the view that the additivity of mass (i.e., the property according to which a composite object's mass is the "sum" of its parts') is metaphysically independent of dynamical laws governing massive bodies. In particular, taking additivity to be independent of dynamics commits you to widespread unexplained correlations between the mass properties of composites and the dynamic behavior of massive bodies. The second half of the paper extends this explanatory worry, showing that the very same considerations apply to aspects of mass's quantitative structure. This gives rise to a new and powerful objection to certain influential theories about the fundamental structure of physical quantities —most notably the magnitude realism of Peacocke (2019) and the second-order absolutist accounts defended by Mundy (1987) and Eddon (2013b).


Bricks are considered as one of the ceramics products which consume lots of energy. Therefore, the present paper aims to experimentally investigate the heat transfer and pressure drop of perforated bricks tunnel kiln. The porosity of the used perforated bricks is 4.6 %. A test section of scale 1:4 has been conducted. Ten different perforated bricks arrangements have been examined within Reynolds number range of 10,000 to 21,000. The results demonstrate that the heat transfer and pressure drop depends on setting arrangement. The longitudinal Nusselt number have a maximum decreases of setting 2 over setting 1 by about 21% as the space between columns increases from 26 to 68 mm at Re = 18,600. The Nusselt number for middle columns is higher than that near walls and the maximum enhancement in longitudinal direction is 36.6 % and in transversal directions 25.2% for settings 1 and 3 respectively. The presence of holes in the bricks increases the heat transfer in the transversal direction. Finally, an empirical correlation is obtained for the average Nusselt number (Nu) in terms of Reynolds number (Re), brick setting dimensionless groups (s/a), ( s/b). Nomenclature A surface area, m a length of brick model, 58 mm b thickness of brick model, 16 mm c height of brick model, 28 mm r radius of holes on the brick Cp specific heat capacity of air, J/kgK Dh hydraulic diameter of the channels between adjacent bricks, m G Interstitial mass velocity, kg/ms h convection heat transfer coefficient, W/mK H duct height, m W duct width, m I current, A K thermal conductivity of air, W/mK L effective length of brick setting, m m mass flow rate of air, kg/s P pressure, Pa Q rate of Heat transfer, W R ratio of heat transfer rate to pumping power s spacing between columns, m T temperature, °C u superficial velocity of air in the empty duct, m/s U interstitial velocity of air in the loaded duct, m/s V volume, m Vi voltage supplied to longitudinal or transverse brick, Volt ε void fraction μ dynamic viscosity of air, Pa. s ν kinematic viscosity of air, m/s ρ density of air, kg/m Dimensionless groups f friction factor, ƒ = ΔPDh 1 2 UL ⁄ Nu Nusselt number, Nui = hiDh k ⁄ Pr Prandtl number of air, cpμ k ⁄ Re Reynolds number, Re = UDh ν ⁄ Subscripts a air f flow (free) b bricks av average d duct Introduction These days there is a great interest in the provision of energy in most fields, especially in the production of refractory bricks, where it has a big waste of energy as it uses less than 45% of the total input energy [1]. So many researchers investigated the energy consumption in such industries. Almeida et al. [2] made a mathematical model and numerical solution to dry the ceramic hollow bricks in a tunnel dryer of counter flow kind on an industrialized scale. Pariyar et al. [3] studied the effect of the tunnel kiln on the environment and human health and how to reduce this kind of pollution. Refaey and Specht [4] mad a three dimensional CFD simulation to study the gas circulation in the preheating zone of Sanitaryware kiln. The realizable k-ɛ turbulence simulation model was used. The results revealed that the radial velocity produced by the nozzles was necessary to increase the heat transfer. Furthermore, a mathematical model has been developed to study the effect of heat transfer on the energy consumption in ceramic production. One dimensional model simulation to describe the gas flow in the preheating zone of a tunnel kiln was made by Mançuhan et al. [5]. Two different profiles and vent locations for the ambient air into the preheating zone were used to obtain the desired gas temperature. The results showed that the ambient air should be fed with 0.96 kg air/kg brick to reach the desired gas temperature for great quality bricks. Gol'tsova et al. [6] mathematically studied the heat losses of different building and insulation materials of kiln tunnel. The entire kiln was divided to 48 zones and the temperature in each zone was constant. The results showed that there was a great degree of excessive power consumption. Refaey et al. [7] developed one dimensional mathematical model to predict gas and solid temperature profiles in tunnel kilns by using MATLAB program. Three different cases were studied and the ordinary differential equations were obtained in each case. Furthermore, the influence of fuel distribution along the firing zone was studied. The results demonstrated that, the energy consumption was increased with increasing the firing zone up to approximately 30% then there was a low increase in energy after that length. Consequently, the firing zone length should be as short as possible to reduce the energy consumption. Duraković and DElalić [8] draw temperature profile for tunnel kiln using developed software. Tehzeeb et al. [9] estimated the tunnel kiln performance using the computational fluid dynamics, CFD, software. The results showed that the temperature range was (300 K to 1300 K) and CO2 and NOx volume produced inside the kiln were evaluated as 1.01m/s and 0.108m/s, respectively. Nicolau and Dadam [10] developed a thermal model to simulate the tunnel kilns and dryers to reduce the energy consuming design. The simulation results were compared to measured values. The results estimated the influence of the load internal area on the heat exchange between combustion gases and the load. In addition to, there should be a larger number of tortuous channels inside the load for effect gas circulation. Naccache et al. [11] numerically evaluated the use of natural gas instead of sawdust in tunnel kiln. The bi-dimensional approach used to analyze the flow in a horizontal plane of the kiln. Abou-Ziyan [12] experimentally studied the effect of different brick setting on the convection heat transfer. The results showed that kilns with lattice setting achieved the largest convection heat transfer coefficient, the lowest production time and provided high energy saving. Two correlations for Nusselt number and friction coefficient were reported from the experiments. Becker et al. [13] numerically studied the convective heat transfer in a fast firing tunnel kiln for glost firing of porcelain. Karaush et al. [14] presented an experimental study which contained a model unit conducted on heat absorption from the burning walls of a kiln by the ceramic ware set up on a kiln car. The results showed that there was an optimal spacing above the setting and any further increase in the spacing would decrease the rate of heat absorption. Oba et al. [15] made three dimensional numerical model to analyze thermal heat transfer for a roof tiles kiln. The numerical results were compared with experimental date and a good agreement was obtained. Dugwell and Oakley [16] made a chrome-magnetite block with scale 1/10 to evaluate convective heat transfer coefficient on the sides, top, and end surfaces of the blocks. They consider the brick column as a solid block ignoring the actual hydrodynamic pattern for bricks inside the column. A correlation for (Nu) number for (sides, top, and end) was obtained. Schroder and Jeschar [17] estimated two correlations for convection heat transfer of matrix settings in rang of Reynolds number (20:400) and from (400:4000). In this study aimed at evaluate the convection heat exchange between air and different settings of perforated bricks with a suitable range of Reynolds number. Therefore, an experimental apparatus was made for estimated the local convective heat transfer coefficient between bricks and air. The bricks are arranged in ten different settings. The apparatus simulated a section of actual part of tunnel kiln with scale 1:4. The effect of different settings, spacing between bricks or column and the wall effect have been estimated for Reynolds number range of 10,000 ≤ Re ≤ 21,000. 2. Experimental apparatus and procedure A schematic diagram of the experimental apparatus was shown in the figure (1) which consists of centrifugal blower, air duct, pressure, velocity and temperature measuring instruments. An actual part of tunnel kiln was modeled with scale 1:4 as the actual dimensions of the kiln (1m height and 1.4m width) while the model dimension was (0.25m height, 0.35m width and 2m length). The test section was insulated with glass wool to reduce the heat loses to surrounding. On the top there are movable glass window to set the different brick settings. The tested brick have dimensions (0.058x0.016x0.028m and r=0.002m) with scale (1:4) of the actual brick. The tested brick was made of the fire clay to have the same properties of actual brick. The setting was arranged in the flow direction as shown in the figure (2) that shown the setting 1 .The brick setting may be known by three parameters namely: columns, rows and layers. Columns are perpendicular to the flow direction (duct width) whereas rows are in the flow direction (duct length). Layers are the numbers of bricks in the vertical direction (duct height). Fig.1. (a) Schematic diagram of the experimental apparatus. (b) Section in the duct at (A-A) Bricks sittings are arranged in counter flow with air direction. The brick setting can be identified by three parameters as: columns, rows and layers. Columns are normal to the flow direction (duct width) while rows are in the flow direction (duct length). Layers are the numbers of bricks in the vertical direction (duct height) as shown in the figure (2) which describe the setting 1. Fig.2. Arrangement of setting (1) Fig.3. Instrumented heater Instrumented heaters are made and used in brick setting as heat source to measure the local convective heat transfer coefficient figure (3) shows the details of instrumented heater that have the same dimension of brick. The surface roughness of the heaters is the same of firebrick. The heaters are arranged in each setting two in the same direction of flow and two in transverse direction of flow. The surface temperature of the heater surface measured using two thermocouples (type-T) while


Computer-based wargames have seen much improvement in recent years due to rapid increases in computing power. Because these games have been developed for the entertainment industry, most of these advances have centered on the graphics, sound, and user interfaces integrated into these wargames with less attention paid to the game's fidelity. However, for a wargame to be useful to the military, it must closely approximate as many of the elements of war as possible. Among the elements that are typically not modeled or are poorly modeled in nearly all military computer-based wargames are systematic effects, command and control, intelligence, morale, training, and other human and political factors. These aspects of war, with the possible exception of systematic effects, are individually modeled quite well in many board-based commercial wargames. The work described in this paper focuses on incorporating these elements from the board-based games into a computer-based wargame. This paper will also address the modeling and simulation of the systemic paralysis of an adversary that is implied by the concept of Effects Based Operations (EBO). Combining the fidelity of current commercial board wargames with the speed, ease of use, and advanced visualization of the computer can significantly improve the effectiveness of military decision making and education. Once in place, the process of converting board wargames concepts to computer wargames will allow the infusion of soft factors into military training and planning.


Since the beginning of the nation, white Americans have suffered from a deep inner uncertainty as to who they really are. One of the ways that has been used to simplify the answer has been to seize upon the presence of black Americans and use them as a marker, a symbol of limits, a metaphor for the "outsider." Many whites could look at the social position of blacks and feel that color formed an easy and reliable gauge for determining to what extent one was or was not American. Perhaps that is why one of the first epithets that many European immigrants learned when they got off the boat was the term "nigger"-it made them feel instantly American. But this is tricky magic. Despite his racial difference and social status, something indisputably American about Negroes not only raised doubts about the white man's value system but aroused the troubling suspicion that whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow black.' The black American experience is an immigrant experience. This is true, I submit, whether we speak of native or foreign-born blacks, poor or middleclass blacks. It has been suggested that all nonwhite people are foreigners or "others" vis-a-vis "real" or white Americans.2 However, the situation in which black Americans find themselves is different. The general failure of assimilation has made the black American experience unique among immigrant experiences in that it


This study was to investigate the antifungal activity of Larix kaempferi essential oil against dermatophytes, Epidermophyton floccosum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum. The active components of L. kaempferi against dermatophytes were determined (characterized by GC-MS), and the morphological changes of the dermatophytes exposed to the L. kaempferi essential oil were observed by electron microscope. Main component of L. kaempferi essential oil was (-)-bornyl acetate. In antifungal activity tests, MIC of L. kaempferi crude oil was 125 ppm on every fungi and 100% (agar dilution method) at more than 500 ppm. By using SEM and TEM, the fungal morphology of E. floccosum exposed to the L. kaempferi essential oil was different from that of normal hyphal morphology. Hyphae exposed to the L. kaempferi essential oil was damaged with distorted and collapsed surfaces. In addition, there were destruction and disorganization of organelles in cytoplasm and collapse of cell membrane. Active antifungal components from L. kaempferi essential oil were identified as terpene alcohol compounds like (-)--muurolol, (+)-terpinen-4-ol, -terpineol, and -cadinol.


PURPOSE: A dielectric body and a manufacturing method thereof are provided to disperse a ceramic filler inside a polymer substrate with the high dispersibility, and to effectively manufacture the dielectric body. CONSTITUTION: A manufacturing method of a dielectric body comprises the following steps: forming a polymer solution by mixing a first solvent capable of dissolving a polymer substrate, and the polymer substrate; forming a ceramic filler sol by mixing the first solvent, a dispersing agent, and a ceramic filler; forming a dispersant solution by mixing the polymer solution and the ceramic filler sol; separating the polymer substrate dispersed with the ceramic filler by dropping the dispersant solution in a droplet form; and evaporating the solvent by drying the polymer substrate.


The purpose of this study is to find an appropriate sky model for further development of an artificial daylight solution. The current concept for the artificial daylight solution, developed at Philips Research, contains a skylight with a static sky view. To make this concept more realistic and appealing Philips is interested in investigating how to convert the current skylight solution to one that provides 'daylight' dynamics. These dynamics should mimic the real changes in the position of the sun in the sky and should change the lighting in the room accordingly. To implement appropriate dynamics two models widely used in literature for the luminance values of the sky over daytime were studied and based on those models two additional, simplified models for the sky luminance were developed. One of the simplified models used a homogeneous luminance value, whereas the other interpolated the luminance linearly between a minimum and maximum value. The two models from literature and the two simplified versions were implemented in Matlab and their effect on the illumination in a real room was rendered in images. For the renderings HDR environmental maps of the skies were made and used as the light source for a 3D scene. Three different scenes all of the same room with a view outside were used: one contained only windows, one only skylights and the third one contained both. The renderings were compared in two experiments: the first experiment determined which model performed best in terms of realism and appeal of the daylight, and the second experiment determined which time of day was most realistic and appealing. The results of the experiments showed that overall the models from literature performed best, while the simplified linear model performed worst. However, for the scene with only skylights there was no significant difference between the simplified models and the models from literature, and so the simplified models were considered as realistic and appealing as the more complicated ones. The results of the second experiment showed that somehow the earliest time of the day was preferred over noon and later times of the day. From the results it can be concluded that a simplified sky model can equally well be used in an artificial daylight solution than a more complex model from literature, but only for a scene with only skylights. When there is a view to the sky near the horizon the simplified models scored significantly worse than those from literature. So, because Philips Research currently develops an artificial skylight solution the author advices to use a simple model of the sky luminance and to examine more complicated alternative models only when needed for window-type of artificial lighting solutions.


Suppression of β‐catenin signaling in liver is associated with increased apoptosis through unknown mechanisms. Loss of Met, a downstream target of β‐catenin, has been also been shown to induce apoptosis through dissociation of the Met‐Fas complex. We hypothesized that loss of β‐catenin in hepatocytes would exacerbate Fas‐mediated apoptosis. However, we demonstrate that β‐catenin loss paradoxically protects against Fas‐mediated apoptosis. Analysis of mRNA expression levels in wild‐type (WT) and β‐catenin knockout (KO) livers reveals a 9‐fold increase in HGF expression in KO, while baseline levels of Met protein are decreased in KO compared to WT. Expression of Fas protein is modestly increased in KO under unstimulated conditions. We also identify a novel interaction of Fas and β‐catenin in WT livers at baseline, which was dramatically lower in KO. KO and WT mice were next injected intravenously with Jo‐2 antibody (a Fas agonist) and monitored for morbidity. While 100% of WT mice are morbid or dead by 6 hours, 35% of the KO mice were alive and showed a marked reduction in liver injury by histology, serum biochemistry and TUNEL immunohistochemistry. Interestingly, a number of proteins known to be protective against Fas‐mediated apoptosis, such as c‐Jun, heat‐shock proteins and NF‐κB, are basally upregulated in KO livers as assessed by gene array. Thus despite increased HGF mRNA expression and decreased levels of Met protein, we report a decreased susceptibility of β‐catenin KO mice to Fas‐mediated cell death, which appears to be due to the presence of basal chronic injury and apoptosis, which primes the KO livers for protection through upregulation of multiple known anti‐apoptotic factors.


ABSTRACT: Single-pulse administration of either recombinant human granulocyte-monocyte colony stimulating factor or recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor to newborn rats has previously been demonstrated to increase the peripheral neutrophil count and modulate bone marrow (BM) neutrophil pools. In our present study, we investigated the effects of 7 d of either recombinant murine granulocyte-monocyte colony stimulating factor (rmGM-CSF) (75 μg/kg/d) or recombinant murine IL-3 (rm IL-3) (10 μg/kg/d) on newborn rat myelopoiesis. Sprague Dawley newborn rats (≥24 h) were injected (intraperitoneally) daily for 7 d with either rmGM-CSF, rmIL-3, or PBS/BSA. rmGM-CSF induced a significant increase in the peripheral neutrophil count on d 3 (p < 0.03) and d 7 (p < 0.001) (75% increase). Additionally, rmGM-CSF induced a 50% increase in the BM neutrophil storage pool (p < 0.025). rmIL-3 increased the BM colony forming unit-granulocyte monocyte pool (p < 0.001); however, it failed to increase the peripheral neutrophil count or BM neutrophil storage pool. Neither CSF increased the BM neutrophil proliferate pool or BM colony forming unit-granulocyte monocyte proliferate rate. Additionally, 7 d of rmGM-CSF with or without antibiotics did not synergistically alter the mortality rate after group B streptococcol inoculation. This study suggests that rmIL-3 appears to stimulate more neonatal myeloid committed progenitor cell activity compared with rmGM-CSF. Optimal modulation of neonatal myelopoiesis may require the use of a sequential combination of hematopoietic CSF, namely an early-acting CSF followed by a more lineage myeloid-specific CSF.


I B. Singer always maintained that Polish literature had no particular influence on him and repeatedly distanced himself from the schools of avantgarde experimentalism in vogue between the World Wars. Studies of Singer have therefore only marginally investigated the possibility of contact and influence between the Polish and Jewish intelligentsia. This essay, on the other hand, is based on the hypothesis that, despite a certain inevitable ideological and linguistic separatism, Jewish intellectuals writing in Hebrew or Yiddish knew what was happening in the neighbouring cultural world of Polish language writing. This hypothesis is borne out by a comparison between two of Singer's most famous short stories (The Last Demon and Pope Zeidlus) and the short stories written by the Polish Jew Aleksander Wat (1900-1967), The Eternally Wandering Jew and Lucifer Unemployed. The elements connecting these stories are not limited only to the themes, not common in Yiddish literature, but, above all, to the way of manipulating literary and ideological stereotypes "iconoclastically", which was an avantgarde literary device that Wat had taken to the extreme.


This paper briefly describes how an existing dam, not previously registered under the Reservoirs Act 1975, was located, registered, inspected and then discontinued, all within a 2-year period.


A fully relativistic/QED theory of light pressure of an isotropic, in particular relic, radiation yields analytic results in the momentum decay of an electron over entire span of energies in the universe. Using a FokkerPlanck-like equation, the evolution of initial extremely-high-T electron distribution to low-energy spectral line is analytically obtained for momentum span over tens orders of magnitude. A strong imprint of low-T relic radiation on high-energy spectral distribution transpires via formation of a "frozen non-equilibrium" state of electrons in current epoch, and possible existence of narrow spectral lines as remnants of past high-T sources.


The squirrel monkey platform runway test, which measures the degree and direction of bodily dysequilibrium in an ordinary walk without being affected by physical training, is described. Since the task procedure resembles the clinical balance test situation, the results obtained by this test can be more reasonably compared with the clinical data. Representative post-labyrinthec-tomy cases exhibited some oscillating directional change of bodily dysequilibrium which was previously observed by the squirrel monkey rail test.


Rampant urbanization brings opportunities for new infrastructural developments, however, it also has brought serious losses of vegetation land, forest land and water resources. The modelling and projecting of land use pattern is essential to document the urban profile of the city and assessment of consequent environmental impacts. Current study aims to highlight the impact of rapidly urbanizing Haridwar city not only inside the boundaries of the city but also its neighboring rural and semi urban areas. In the first part of the paper, one of the most popular supervised classification algorithm (maximum likelihood) is implemented to quantify the human inference in the city. In the second part the impact is calculated by executing an Urban Landscape Dynamics tool. In order to temporally access the impact of urbanizing, openly available land sat satellite images are used for the year 2008 and 2016.


In the current study we address the role of hormonal fluctuations across menstrual cycle in female dehumanization of women and men. Using a sequential priming procedure in a lexical decision task, we test whether increased levels of conception risk lead to dehumanization of other women and men on both animal and human dimensions. Results showed that for word woman as the prime, animal words were more accessible in the high than in the low conception risk of the menstrual cycle; whereas human words were more inhibited in the high compared to the low conception risk. As for word man prime, no difference in terms of accessibility was found between the high and the low conception risk on both animaland human-words. This study demonstrates that dehumanization of women is automatically elicited by menstrual cycle–related processes and associated with women's mate-attraction goals.


This article embarks from the narrative angle of view analyzes the Ren Mian Tao Hua,mainly analyzes four narrative angles in the novel.Constructing the Utopia in individual narration words the history and unfolding the subject from the multi-angles.


Objective: The study was aimed to investigate the impact of pregnancy-induced hypertension on fetal risk during the second and third trimesters. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study design approach is done in AL-Diwaniyah City/ Iraq, by interrogating members of the study population, with the aim of describing the studied phenomenon. To conduct the study, a non-probability (purposive) sample of (72) they were monitored and evaluated during two periods (during second and third trimester). The instrument dependability was established through a pilot research, and it was subsequently presented to experts for validation. The information was collected through interview and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical data analysis. Results: Out of 72 participants aged 30-34 years from urban residents and housewife and demonstrated that the impact of pregnancy induced hypertension in second trimester upon fetal were low impact as described by higher mean and standard deviation 16.44 (±1.65). While, a moderate impact of pregnancy induced hypertension upon fetal in third trimester at moderate mean and standard deviation 14.67 (±2.16). There is significant difference in impact of pregnancy induced hypertension upon fetal between second (low impact) and third (moderate impact) trimester (t=7.079; p=0.001). Conclusions: Pregnancy induced hypertension in terms of impact, women expressed a moderate fetal impact in two period of measurement second and third trimester (significant fetal impact associated higher the gestational age). Health education and providing a realistic picture of the dangers and difficulties of pregnancy can help reduce pregnancy risks. A handbook brochure on pregnancy hazards and how to handle them should. Keywords: Impact, Pregnancy Induced Hypertension, Fetal Risk.


Mixed methods research has increased in popularity over the past 20 years. Literature reveals that exploratory qualitative analysis followed by confirmatory survey research is common and concurrent studies outnumber longitudinal design. Longitudinal studies using quantitative and qualitative methods in sequence for exploratory purposes are rare, and no studies were found that combine exploratory quantitative analysis followed by both an exploratory cross-case analysis, and an exploratory longitudinal analysis. This design was used in the present study of postsecondary disability support services, and it is being presented to highlight how recursive analysis at each stage can be used to refine subsequent research questions.


This paper talks about the creation of fast and lightweight 2D electric road vehicle models in order to design the whole electric powertrain. Two models are developed. The first one is very essential: it consists of three dynamics, that is full vehicle dynamics, front wheels dynamics and rear wheels dynamics; basic friction model is used. The second model is more complex: it also takes into account the vertical dynamics; tire is characterized by Pacejka's Magic Formula. These models are then compared with a much more sophisticated vehicle model, developed through Chrono::Engine (C::E), and validated. Finally, vehicle dynamics models are connected to an electric powertrain model to perform the simulation of a driving cycle and estimate the characteristic quantities of the electric system.


MYCOTIC INFECTION of a blood vessel arises from the bacterial seeding of an atherosclerotic plaque or other damaging processes such as blunt trauma that may pre-dispose to the development of a pseudoaneurysm (false aneurysm). Gram-negative bacilli, chiefly Salmonella species, account for roughly 35% of such cases.' Salmonella enteritidis is the serotype responsible in 40% of the latter cases of infection, a proportion similar to its overall isolation rate for gastrointestinal disease in the United States.2'3 Salmonella species have long been rec-ognized as a common cause of mycotic aneurysms in persons without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.4 Risk factors for this vascular complication include advanced age,5 the of illicit drugs,67 and septicemia from salmonella but estimated that an intravascular focus of develops


The American democracy is a very complicated one. The Framers thought that three major features were critical to the working of our democratic institutions: free elections, separation of powers with checks and balances, and government limited by constitutional guarantees, especially those in the Bill of Rights. The aims of this essay are to remind the reader of how those complica tions were justified by the Framers, to raise implicitly the realization that ex porting democracy to other lands is not just a matter of having one set of free elections, and to comment explicitly on whether some traditional characteris tics of American democracy have come under serious threat. A pessimistic reading of developments would argue that we are already on the way to govern ment by an elective tyranny of the majority that violates checks and balances and the rights of the minority. The more pessimistic reading is that this tyranny of the majority is even trying to impose the doctrines of religious conservativ ism on officials and on the public in direct violation of the First Amendment and of the constitutional provision barring religious tests for holding public of fice. And feeding that pessimism is the absence in 2005 of any major political or public leader with the courage and self-interest, as John F. Kennedy had in 1960, to take on this religious right head-on and say, as Kennedy did during his campaign, "I [do not] look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test?even by indirec tion?for it. If they disagree with that safeguard they should be out openly working to repeal it."1


In the fluorescence spectrophotometric determination of dissolutionof reserpine tablets, fluorescence intensity was stable, the linear relationship withconcentration was good (r=0.9996), average recovery was 96.77%, with a meanvariation coefficient 1.96%.The dissolution of tablets produced with differentformulation and technology was different. It is suggested that dissolution of notless than 75% of the labeled amount of reserpine in 60 min might be specifiedas the control standard.


Open innovation is the research focus in innovation management field in recent years. Used software of Bibexcel,SPSS and Ucinet,this paper makes a quantitative research of Chinese open innovation literature by using of co- citation analysis and selecting CSSCI literature database as a data source. The results show that the research of Chinese open innovation can be divided into six academic research groups: open Innovation and innovation networks,innovation resources and knowledge management; open innovation and Total Innovation Management( TIM) and technological innovation; open innovation and innovation risk; open innovation and innovation independent; open innovation and business performance; open innovation and Intellectual Property Management. Their academic contribution rate,representative figures,research status and main points are significant differences.


The utility model relates to the technical field of underground packer devices, particularly to a hydraulic setting and pressing unlocking packer. The hydraulic setting and pressing unlocking packer comprises a core shaft, a lock key outer cylinder, a unlock ratchet, a ratchet core shaft, a lock key, a sealing assembly, a lower slip base, a slip and a piston assembly; an upper step and a lower step are fixed on the outer wall formed on the upper portion of the core shaft from top to bottom in an integrated mode, wherein the outer diameter of the upper step and the lower step is decreased in turn; the lower portion of the lower step is provided with an annular groove; reverted teeth are distributed on the outer wall of the lower step formed above the annular groove, wherein the tooth tip of every reverted tooth is upward; an inner protruding ring which is matched with the outer wall of the lower step is fixed on the inner wall formed at the upper end of the lock key outer cylinder in an integrated mode. According to the hydraulic setting and pressing unlocking packer, the structure is reasonable and compact, the use is convenient, the setting operation can be achieved in a hydraulic mode, a pipe column does not need to move, the operation is simple, the pressure resistance is high, the security of an oil and gas well in the production process is ensured, the setting and unlocking effect is good, the setting is stable, sand burying and detrital sedimentation can be effectively prevented, the unlocking can be smoothly performed, and the reliability and the security of the setting and the unlocking can be effectively ensured.


Acute endophthalmitis after intraocular procedures can be devastating. Patients with acute endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection of steroids demonstrated worse clinical presentation and visual outcomes compared with those after vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor therapy. Purpose: To compare patients with acute endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors vs. steroids. Methods: Retrospective single-center, nonrandomized interventional study from 2013 to 2021. Patients underwent vitreous biopsy before initiating treatment and were divided into the following cohorts: (1) anti-VEGF managed medically (T&I–anti-VEGF), (2) anti-VEGF managed by immediate pars plana vitrectomy (PPV–anti-VEGF), and (3) steroid therapy and managed medically or by pars plana vitrectomy (steroid). Results: A total of 141 patients were analyzed. The steroid cohort demonstrated significantly worse presenting (median = 2.80 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution [logMAR]; P ≤ 0.01) and final (median = 2.30 logMAR) best-corrected visual acuity compared with T&I–anti-VEGF (presenting: median = 2.00 logMAR; final: median = 0.40 logMAR) and pars plana vitrectomy–anti-VEGF cohorts (presenting: median = 2.30 logMAR; final: median = 0.48 logMAR). There was no significant (P = 0.33) difference in the final best-corrected visual acuity between T&I–anti-VEGF and pars plana vitrectomy–anti-VEGF cohorts. There were no significant (P ≥ 0.63) differences among cohorts in best-corrected visual acuity before acute endophthalmitis diagnosis (T&I–anti-VEGF: median = 0.40 logMAR; pars plana vitrectomy–anti-VEGF: median = 0.40 logMAR; steroid: median = 0.44 logMAR). Microbial cultures revealed similar profiles for all cohorts. Conclusion: Acute endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection steroid therapy had worse outcomes compared with anti-VEGF therapy.


In this paper we present a new bus protocol satisfying extreme real time demands. It has been applied to a high performance quality inspection system which can involve up to eight sensors of various types. Thanks to the modular configuration this multi-sensor inspection system acts on the outside as a single sensor image processing system. In general, image processing systems comprise three basic functions (i) image acquisition, (ii) image processing and (iii) output of processed data. The data transfers for these three fundamental functions can be accomplished either by individual bus systems or by a single bus. In case of using a single bus the system complexity of the implementation, i.e. Development of protocols, hardware employment and EMC technical considerations, is far smaller. An important goal of the new protocol design is to support extremely fast communication between individual processing modules. For example, the input data (image acquisition) is transferred in real time to individual processing modules. Concurrent to this communication the processed data are being transferred to the output module. Therefore, the key function of this protocol is to realize concurrent data paths (data rates over 1.2 Gbit/s) by using principles of pipeline architectures and methods of time division multiplex. Moreover, the new bus protocol enables concurrent data transfers via a single bus system. In this paper the function of the new bus protocol including hardware layout and innovative bus arbiter are described in details.


— The aim of this paper is to provide a general, but in-depth overview of aspects of incompatibility and actual interest profiles of Islamic finance in relation to the legal system of the European Banking Union, identifying some prospects for positive future developments. It examines the relevant Islamic principles for banking and the differences from conventional European banks for regulation and supervision, a number of experiences and possible relationships. The modern communication between the Islamic banking scheme and the European (and international) one is certainly allowed by the activity of the IFSB regulator, especially as regards the adaptation to the Basel Committee standards and the related capital requirements, transparency criteria and common references, considering the global application to operate in the international markets. The examination of the relationship with the European Banking Union allows the identification of future profiles for debate and research in economics law, considering the suitability for regulatory adjustments and the interaction between EU and national law and the interesting ethical aims of the socially responsible Islamic finance.


Compared with the combined pill, continuous progestagen preparations have a higher risk of pregnancy, and cause more menstrual irregularities resulting in a higher discontinuation rate. No other major unwanted effects have been reported and this may ensure that these preparations have some place in contraceptive practice. They are particularly suitable for women who know about their properties and wish merely to postpone their next pregnancy rather than to secure maximum protection against conception; for women who are breast-feeding; for some patients with serious medical conditions; and for older women or heavy smokers for whom combined pills are inappropriate. There is so far no good evidence that the preparations available differ in efficacy, adverse effects, or acceptability.


A sea-going workshop was arranged from 2 to 13 June 1993 in Storfjorden at M0re on the west coast of Norway. The workshop was a two-ship operation involving the Norwegian R/V "Johan Hjort" and the German R/V "A.V. Humboldt". The principal objective was to intercompare, characterize and evaluate the performance of gear and techniques for quantitative description of zooplankton distribution, biomass and production. During the last two days of the cruise, a seminar series of leetures was presented which highlighted various aspects of the sampling and sampiers. A total number of 38 scientists and technicians from Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and USA took part in the workshop and/or the seminar. A wide range of sampling gears and instruments were deployed. These included BIONESS, MOCNESS (l and 10 m 2), LHPR, CPR, Gulf IU, Optical Plankton • Counter, and various other plankton nets and trawls. Sampie treatment usually involved splitting the sampies in two halves for determination of sizefractioned dry weight biomass and species enumeration, respectively. The dry weight biomass sampies were worked up during the workshop and will form the principal material for the gear intercomparison. Acoustical registrations were made with Simrad EK500 eccho sounders operated at 4 frequencies (18,38, 120, and 200 kHz). This report gives abrief description of the work carried out during the workshop and a few preliminary results. A full report describing the results from the workshop will be prepared and reviewed by the Study Group of Zooplankton Production. •


Wavelike trails that are interpreted as nematode trails occur in large numbers at two stratigraphic horizons in the Green River Formation (Middle Eocene) in the western part of the Uinta Basin, Utah. One horizon is in the lower part of the delta facies in the Soldier Summit area and the other is in the upper part of the Parachute Creek Member or the lower part of the Evacuation Creek Member in upper Timber Creek in Wasatch County, Utah. The interpretation that those fossil trails were made by nematodes is based on the fact that nematodes are the only recent organisms known to make sinusoidal trails of the same size and form. If this interpretation is correct, these occurrences represent an interesting and a most unusual record of an entire animal phylum which is virtually un- known in the fossil record.


The internal control is an important component of modern enterprise management and subtilized management is a scientific and efficient management. The subtilized financial internal control has an important role to improve the management level of an enterprise. The financial internal control and subtilized control of hotel accounting are discussed in this paper. The ways to subtilized control the income and cost of Kailuan hotel are discussed.


Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. Translational Relevance Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a collection of complex and heterogeneous diseases, which can be grouped according to cytogenetic/genotypic features of the blast cells, and activated signaling pathways. These signaling pathways cooperate to promote blast cell survival and to prevent tumor suppressor induced senescence. We report here a tyrosine kinase (Flt3ITD)-initiated non-canonical NF-κB signaling pathway in a subset of AMLs, where p52NF-κB in association with certain histone deacetylases (HDACs) repress the tumor suppressor gene DAPK1. DAPK1 is an essential player in endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-stress induced apoptosis, and is implicated in poor outcome of AML by its repression. The mechanism for repression of DAPK1 by p52NF-κB and HDACs, influenced by Flt3ITD, was found to involve the MAP3K, TAK1. Because TAK1 is among the most highly expressed genes in a leukemic stem cell signature for poor-risk AML, these studies focus attention on the interface between signal transduction and epigenetic remodeling in AML. Abstract Purpose: DAPK1, a tumor suppressor, is a rate-limiting effector in an ER stress-dependent apoptotic pathway. Its expression is epigenetically suppressed in several tumors. A mechanistic basis for epigenetic/transcriptional repression of DAPK1 was investigated in certain forms of AML with poor prognosis, which lacked ER stress-induced apoptosis. Experimental Design: Heterogeneous primary AMLs were screened to identify a subgroup with Flt3ITD in which repression of DAPK1, among NF-κB-and c-jun-responsive genes, was studied. RNAi knockdown studies were performed in Flt3ITD+ve cell line, MV-4-11, to establish genetic epistasis in the pathway Flt3ITD-TAK1-DAPK1 repression, and chromatin immunoprecipitations were performed to identify proximate effector proteins, including TAK1-activated p52NF-κB, at the DAPK1 locus. Results: AMLs characterized by normal karyotype with Flt3ITD were found to have 10-100-fold lower DAPK1 transcripts normalized to the expression of c-jun, a Research. Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. 3 transcriptional activator of DAPK1, as compared to a heterogeneous cytogenetic category. Meis1, a c-jun-responsive adverse AML prognostic gene signature was also measured as control. These Flt3ITD+ve AMLs over-express relB, a transcriptional repressor, which forms active heterodimers with p52NF-κB. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays identified p52NF-κB binding to the DAPK1 promoter along with HDAC2 and HDAC6 in the Flt3ITD+ve human AML cell line MV-4-11. Knockdown of p52NF-κB or its upstream regulator, NIK, de-repressed DAPK1. DAPK1-repressed primary Flt3ITD+ve AMLs had selective nuclear activation of p52NF-κB. Conclusions: Flt3ITD promotes …


Timing aspect of interoperability between GNSS systems is one of the key issues in multi-system GNSS applications.It is important to deal with the system time bias(STB)problem properly especially in unaided receivers.Traditional multi-system receivers solve this problem by adding an additional state in main KALMAN filter.Considering the STBs are relatively slow-varying variables,this paper proposes an innovative real time approach to estimate the system time bias between different satellite navigation systems.With the assistant of estimated system time bias,additional filter states is avoided and a simple and efficient measurement matrix can be constructed.Through several tests in a GPS/BD receiver,we can conclude that the new method has performance comparable with the traditional one.


A process for producing a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet which comprises: heating a steel sheet containing, in terms of mass%, 0.005-0.12% carbon, 0.7-1.8% silicon, 0.5-2.8% manganese, up to 0.1% phosphorus, up to 0.07% sulfur, up to 1.0% aluminum, and up to 0.008% nitrogen, with the remainder being iron and incidental impurities, with a CGL having a heating zone of the DFF type or NOF type so that the heating zone has an atmospheric-gas composition with a CO/H2O volume ratio of 0.001-0.8, the steel sheet on the heating-zone outlet side has a temperature of 700 DEG C or higher and a width-direction temperature deviation less than 20 DEG C, and the average rate of heating in the heating zone from 400 DEG C to the heating-zone outlet-side temperature is 10 DEG C/s or higher; subsequently annealing the steel sheet in the temperature range of 700-940 DEG C for 15-600 seconds; successively cooling the sheet at a cooling rate of 3 DEG C/sec or higher to a temperature in the range of 440-550 DEG C; and within 200 seconds of termination of the cooling, dipping the 440-550 DEG C steel sheet in a 440-500 DEG C molten-zinc plating bath to plate the steel sheet with zinc by hot dipping. By this process, a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet is obtained which has a satisfactory deposit appearance, excellent formability, and a tensile strength of the 590 MPa class.


Sulawesi is the largest island in the Wallacea subregion of Indonesia. The island is rich in endemic species, yet scientific knowledge of the plants of Sulawesi is still very limited. There is a lack of botanical exploration, publications, and infrastructure. In 2000, the Tadulako University (UNTAD) of Palu, Sulawesi, in coorporation with the University of Gottingen (Germany), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), National Herbarium of Netherlands (L), Leiden, Herbarium Bogoriense (BO), and Herbarium Wanariset (WAN), and with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), has constructed a Herbarium in Sulawesi, the Herbarium Celebense, registered with the Index Herbariorum (New York) as CEB. The Herbarium Celebense currently holds approximately 10.000 plant specimens, especially from Central Sulawesi, including mainly spermatophytes. Some of them are collection of Type specimens. Key words: Indonesia, Wallacea region, Central Sulawesi, Herbarium Celebense


ABSTRACT The financial and subsequent economic crisis caused a sharp deterioration in labour market conditions which particularly affected the youth group. Southern nations were affected the most, while e.g. Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic were less affected. 42.3% of university graduates are registered in the Czech Republic Labour Office for longer than 5 months. This article aims to analyse youth unemployment in the European Union (EU) with an emphasis on the Czech Republic, which is below the EU-28 average. Based on the questionnaire survey, employment of university graduates in the labour market was analysed and the following hypothesis was tested: With a change in the status of a future graduate to an employed graduate, their willingness to retreat from their demands to find the required job, changes'. The result of the survey discovered that after finding the first job, there is reduction in graduates' demands on a job.


The objective of this comment is to correct two sets of statements in Litwin et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006239), which consider our research work (Bonetti et al., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0693; Bonetti et al., 2020, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911817117). We clarify here that (a) the specific contributing area is defined in the limit of an infinitesimal contour length instead of the product of a reference contour width (Bonetti et al., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0693), and (b) not all solutions obtained from the minimalist landscape evolution model of Bonetti et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911817117) are rescaled copies of each other. We take this opportunity to demonstrate that the boundary conditions impact the obtained solutions, which has not been considered in the dimensional analysis of Litwin et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006239). We clarify this point by using dimensional analysis and numerical simulations for a square domain, where only one horizontal length scale (the side length l) enters the physical law.


The localization of waves in two-dimensional clusters of scatterers arranged in relatively twisted lattices is studied by multiple scattering theory. It is found that, for a given frequency, it is always possible to find localized modes for a discrete set of rotation angles, analogous to the so-called "magic angles" recently found in two-dimensional materials like graphene. Similarly, for small rotations of the lattices, a large number of resonant frequencies is found, whose position strongly depends on the rotation angle. Moreover, for angles close to those that make the two lattices commensurable a single mode appears that can be easily tuned by the rotation angle. Unlike other twisted materials, where the properties of the bilayers are mainly explained in terms of the dispersion relation of the individual lattices, the special angles in these clusters happen because of the formation of dipolar scatterers due to the relative rotation between the two lattices, enhancing therefore their interaction. While the presented results are valid for any type of wave, the specific case of flexural waves in thin elastic plates is numerically studied, and the different modes found are comprehensively explained in terms of the interaction between pairs of scatterers. The analysis presented here shows that these structures are promising candidates for the inverse design of tunable wave-trapping devices for classical waves.


The objective comprises moving groups and at least one fixed lens group, in at least two of which groups is inserted an aspherical surface. The mobile groups consist of simple lenses, at least one of which has an aspherical surface, the fixed group (s) possibly comprising on their side at least one aspherical surface. The fixity of the image plane is provided by mechanical compensation for focal length variations of greater than five and easily reaching eight. Aspherical lenses are arranged so that, for the same zooming, the total number of lenses of the objective, spherical or not, is smaller than in any other lens with variable focal length and still image plane, comprising only spherical lenses. This results in a mass lightening of the lens, including moving parts, and a reduction in the energy required to move them. Application: color television camera. (CF DRAWING IN BOPI)


An optimized coagulant pretreatment strategy was developed and implemented at a customer site where a complex feed-water presented considerable pretreatment challenges for the reverse osmosis (RO) system. A series of on-site studies focused on improving multimedia filter performance as measured by critical RO feed-water parameters. The project resulted in significant cost savings due to reduced organic and microbiological fouling in the RO system.


Through the courtesy of the officials of the U. S. National Museum there were sent to me, for examination and description, two walrus brains obtained for that institution by R. Stein at North Greenland, August 10, 1901. The specimens had been preserved in a fluid of which formaldehyde was apparently a constituent. In both brains the cerel)ellum had been removed b}' a sectit.n through the brain stem at the level of the junction of the optic thalami with the mesencephal, so that in the process of removal the epiphysis (pineal body) remained attached to the cerebellar portion; the two hemicerebrums were then divided b^' a median section. The two brains difl'ered quite markedly in size, the one being but slightly more than half as large as the other. The smaller of the two brains had sufiered quite material mutilation during its removal from the cranium, a considerable portion of the brain substance having ))een lost fi'om the right hemicere1n-um. Li the process of hardening all of the hemicerebrums had undergone considerable distortion. The mesal surface in each case, instead of being relativeh' flat, was very distinctly convex in its cephalo-caudal direction, and on this account the gyres (convolutions) and Assures of the lateral aspect were closely crowded together, rendering the study of these parts more diflicult. On this account, also, it was decided not to photograph the brains, as the relationship of the parts would l)e misleading and tend to cause error and confusion to the observer. The tigures which illustrate


The relations |Vub/Vcb| = (mu/mc) and |Vtd/Vts| = (md/ms) between the CKM matrix elements and the quark masses are shown to imply a remarkably precise determination of the CKM unitarity triangle or of the Wolfenstein parameters ρ, η consistent with the data so far. We view this as a clean test of a quark mass texture neatly arising from a hierarchical breaking of a flavour symmetry.


Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy has become a very important tool in the analysis of an equivalent circuit of an electrochemical cell. Recently a new model was proposed by Taylor and Gileadi for the better understanding of the Warburg process. The model describes an equivalent circuit consisting of capacitance in series with resistance to replace the conventional Warburg impedance in the Randels equivalent circuit. Discusses the above model highlighting the defects in their assumption. Attempts to find a better understanding of the Warburg impedance and discusses various possibilities.


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 To the Editor: Desestret et al.1 consider hypertrophic branchial myopathy an unusual cause of symptomatic tension-type headache based on a single case. A pathophysiologic mechanism linking these conditions is missing, thereby making their hypothesis speculative.

Pain perception studies have suggested that altered myofacial nociception plays an important role in the pathogenesis of episodic tension-type headache.2 To our knowledge, patients with hypertrophic branchial myopathy have not been included in these studies. Moreover, there is no evidence that other emergent aspects …


A standard approach to solving this problem would start by solving a convex relaxation to F , thereby obtaining a lower bound on F z. However, when K is complex, such a lower bound is likely to be weak. In this paper we present efficient techniques that enable us to tighten the lower bound. Our techniques are backed by theory and also prove computationally effective – our approach yields bounds comparable to or better than those produced by sophisticated formulations, but at a very small fraction of the computational cost. To illustrate the situation we have in mind, we focus next on the example where P = {x ∈ Rn : Ax ≥ b} for a given matrix A and vector b, and K is given by a cardinality constraint, i.e.


A. new species of shrimp in the genus Microprosthema from the eastern Pacific is described and figured. Specimens have been collected from the Galapagos Islands, Panama, and the Gulf of California. The new species, Microprosthema emmiltum, represents a geminate or cognate species for it is closely related to the western Atlantic M. semilaeve. Microprosthema emmiltum is distinguished from M. semilaeve by slight morphological differences in ab domen, uropods, and spination of the pereiopods as well as by coloration. A specimen of Stenopus hispidus is recorded from Taboga Island, Panama, bring ing the total to five for species of stenopodidean shrimps found in the eastern Pacific.


VIHI: the Visible and Infrared Hyperspectral Imager is one of the three channels of the Simbio-Sys instrument for the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. Its scientific objective is to study the hermean surfaces composition by sensing the photon flux reflected off the planet. VIHI works in the range of 400 to 2000 nm with a spectral resolution around a few hundreds. The particularity of this channel is the use of a single detector matrix (264 × 264) for both visible and infrared wavelengths. Getting the visible part of the detector responsivity is achieved by thinning an infrared HgCdTe matrix because visible light is completely absorbed inside the substrate. The thinning process is well controlled since a long time and was used to increase number of thermal cycle of the hybrid devices. Recently, this process is able to remove completely the substrate and, thus, open the detector to the visible range. The detector is a custom design made by Raytheon Vision System in Goleta (USA). In this paper, we will describe the expected performances of the detector which is designed to work in the very harsh radiation environment of Mercury.


A photomixing technique for sub-THz wave generation using multimode laser diode (MLD) has been developed. To date, sub-THz spectra had a comb structure that was not suitable for application to spectroscopy. We succeeded in obtaining the improved spectral shape with broad background by optimizing the spot size of the MLD light on the photomixer in a cross-correlation spectroscopy in the sub-THz region.


Review of Zapata et al.In the past 30 years, seminal research hasidentified a dual system of instrumental re-sponse control: a goal-directed [or respon-se–outcome (R–O)] system that permitsresponses to be deployed in the service ofcurrentneedsanddesires,andahabitual(orstimulus–response)systemthatpermitsen-vironmental (or discriminative) stimuli toautomatically elicit responses indepen-dently of needs and desires. These two sys-tems are said to compete with one anotherforresponsecontrol.Earlyinoperanttrain-ing, the goal-directed system is dominantand instrumental responses are sensitive tochangesinboththeR–Ocontingency(Bal-leine and Dickinson, 1998) and outcomevalue (Adams and Dickinson, 1981). How-ever, with repeated training, the habitualsystem becomes increasingly dominantsuch that changes in R–O contingency andoutcome value have a reduced impact oninstrumental performance (Dickinson, 1985;Dickinson et al., 1995). Thus, it appearsthat there is a transition from internalvoluntary control to external stimulus-driven control with increasing amountsoftraining.Thistransitionisadaptiveinthesensethatperformancecanbemain-tained while the load on cognitive re-sources is reduced.A transition from voluntary, con-trolled drug taking toward a loss of con-trol and compulsive drug intake is ahallmark of addiction. Modeling this be-haviorisanimportantsteptowardunder-standing the neural processes by whichdrugseekingpersists,ofteninthefaceofadverseconsequences.Thestandardap-proach has been to focus on extendingthe findings on instrumental responsecontrol using natural rewards to in-travenously administered drug rewards.However, this enterprise has met withlimited success, owing largely to the factthat standard methods of reward devalu-ation (such as lithium-induced nausea orspecific satiety) are ineffective with a re-wardthathasnogustatoryorconsumma-tory component.In a recent article published in the


The recent shipment of plutonium from France to Japan aboard the freighter Akatsuki Maru touched off protests from environmental and antinuclear organizations. These protests arose from the fear of an accidental sinking of the vessel that would release its cargo to the sea, as well as the threat of a terrorist nation highjacking the ship for its cargo to produce atomic weapons. The sinking of a merchant ship is not uncommon, as illustrated by the famous losses of the tankers Amoco Cadiz and Exxon Valdez. The highjacking of a lightly armed freighter such as the Akatsuki Maru is possible and would not be unduly difficult for a well-equipped terrorist nation. The combined threats of weapons proliferation and environmental damage arising from the diversion or destruction of a sea vessel carrying plutonium will continue to abound as the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel increases. An alternate method for the transportation with reduced risks of both diversion and destruction needs to be developed. The shipment aboard the Akatsuki Maru was originally proposed to be flown from France to Japan over the continental United States. This proposal was rejected by the Reagan administration in 1988. A third alternative to the current ideas ofmore » air transport and surface transport is subsurface transport. This research project investigates the transportation of plutonium by submarine and compares it to the current method of transportation by freighter. This analysis involves a study of the military threat to a submarine by a terrorist nation and comparable threat to a surface vessel. To study the nonmilitary aspects of plutonium shipping, a fault-tree evaluation is performed for transportation by submarine and compared with the current risk analysis performed for surface vessels.« less


Disclosed is a nonwoven fabric coating for tampons for feminine hygiene or for medical purposes, comprising at least one layer with multicomponent filaments which contain at least one component of a thermoplastic heat-sealable material, wherein the multicomponent filaments are continuous filaments and wherein the continuous filaments laid down in first regions by thermal bonding are present and unconnected in the second areas between the first heat-sealed areas.


Abstract An account of a little-known article by John Longbottom featuring memories from Sally and Hannah Dawson of the Reverend Patrick Brontë and the death of Charlotte Brontë.


and the compilation of registers that recorded ownership of each field (parcela) and its net taxable income (liquido imponible) that promised to make fraud and evasion much more difficult. However, why such a development became possible cannot be properly explained when the changing dynamics of local influence and the limits of state power have not been properly explored as a continuous theme. In fact the chief


We describe 27 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a commercially important bivalve, the weathervane scallop ( Patinopecten caurinus ), identified using a targeted-gene approach. We further characterize 12 of these using 5′′ -nuclease and allele-specific PCR assays. Polymorphisms were identified in both mitochondrial and nuclear genes. These are the first SNPs developed for delineating population structure in the weathervane scallop and will provide a useful complement to currently available genetic markers.


At a time when the world becomes increasingly globalized it sets the requirement for companies to be competitive to survive. Many companies must restructure to lower costs and as a result of that the staff and the community will be affected. Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, becomes an increasingly relevant concept in the way for companies to handle; it deals with their responsibility of the impact on people and society. This report includes a case study of Electrolux and their restructuring. The purpose of this report is to contribute to the research about CSR and explore how Swedish companies can implement CSR in restructuring to reduce the negative effects. CSR is complex to define and therefore we have included the trade union IF Metall's opinions as an indicator of social responsibility around restructuring in Sweden. The theoretical basis of the report builds on previous research on CSR and Human Resources Management. In the area of social responsibility in restructuring, it has been developed a responsibility model that is central to this case study by Electrolux. We did an interview with a person who was involved in the leading of the company's restructuring process between 2004 and 2011. After an analysis of the interview it showed that Electrolux managed its restructuring well in line with the theoretical model. The most important similarity with the theory is that they do not see the affected stakeholders as victims, instead they uses a model with an investigation stage of where the action is taken before the restructuration is done. The study concludes that Electrolux can be seen as a company that successfully implement CSR in their restructuring, but the theoretical model for social responsibility in this case has room for improvement. The following points may be supplemented to create a better general model of responsibility that focuses on long-term strategies for being a socially responsible company in Sweden:Greater focus on HR through long-term investment in human resources to make the employees more employableInvestment in a more flexible and efficient production, so that companies can choose a restructuring strategy that does not affect human resources


OBJECTIVE To detect the expression of the glucocorticoid receptor-α(GR-α) mRNA in nasal polyps of patients and nasal mucosa of the inferior turbinate,ostiomeatal complex(OMC)of healthy adults.And to investigate the significance of GR-α in the initiation and progression of nasal polyps.METHODS The quantitative expression of GR-α mRNA in healthy nasal mucosa of the inferior turbinate,OMC and polyps were examined by using Fluorescent quantitative PCR(FQ-RT-PCR).RESULTS The GR-α mRNA level in normal mucosa of inferior turbinate[(135.4±5.2)×104 copies/μg ]was significantly higher than that of OMC[(114.7±4.3)×104 copies/μg](P0.01).The GR-α mRNA level in normal mucosa of inferior turbinate and OMC were significantly higher than that of nasal polyps[(23.5±12.1)×104 copies/μg](P0.01).With the development of the nasal polyps,the expression of the GR-α decreased.CONCLUSION Down regulation of the expression of GR-α mRNA in nasal mucosa might be an initiating factor of the progression of nasal polyps.


This paper concerns flow- and wave-field optimization of surface combatants using CFD-based optimization method. The main focus is placed on development of a high performance optimization module for application to Model 5415 hull form optimization, which is capable in combination with CFDSHIP-IOWA version 3.02, a RANS solver based on higher-order upwind finite difference and a projection method for velocity-pressure coupling. The optimization scheme is based upon the work of part of the present authors wherein tanker hull forms were optimized for minimum viscous resistance. The module is general in formulation, and basically independent from basic flow solver, e.g., different Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver or inviscid-panel method can be used with arbitrary combination of constraints and objective function to be minimized. In the following, an overview is given of the present numerical method and results are presented for flow- and wave-field optimization of surface combatant Model 5415 hull form.


Formation of the nerve commences early in gestation with the facioacoustic primordium (derived from the neural crest and otic vesicle) separating into facial and acoustic components at the end of the 4th week. By the end of the 5th gestational week, the chorda tympani has differentiated from the distal facial nerve. By the 8th week, the orientation of the facial nerve within the temporal bone has been established, with the nerve's ultimate position and bony covering determined by development of the stapes and membranous labyrinth.


Reconstructive biographical research is a diverse and differentiated sociological field. In this introduction, we trace its interdisciplinary and transnational historical development, consider the most important theoretical influences, and characterize central research areas. In this way, we show that reconstructive biographical research is a distinct sociological approach to social analysis. It offers a reflexive access to understanding, classifying, and explaining social processes and social challenges through the analysis of experienced and/or narrated life stories.


In the flame photometric estimation of calcium, phosphorus and sulphur cause interference which seriously affects the validity of the results. Hitherto it has been necessary to separate these interfering ions, but this is time-consuming. It is now shown that at high concentrations of either phosphate or sulphate ions, the calcium emission is independent of small variations of either anion. This is used as the basis of a flame-photometric method for estimating calcium in plants without separation of interfering ions, but in the presence of excess of sulphate.


Digitization technology towards different objects in the reverse engineering design of diemould was introduced.The principle of three_dimensional measuring technique of structured light grating projection was expatiated and the measuring process and results were presented.The method will have an extensive prospect in the application of reverse engineering design of diemould.


ABSTRACTBackground: The broader access to technological resources, combined with pedagogical practices implementation, shows the need of continuing education of teachers on Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT). Recognizing the knowledge that professionals need in their work is a path that allows the evaluation and creation of training measures. Objectives: Considering the Pedagogical and Technological Content Knowledge (TPACK) as a reference, we sought to investigate the professional knowledge of mathematics teachers about digital technological resources and their possible incorporation in pedagogical practices. Design: A qualitative research was carried out. Setting and Participants: Mathematics teachers working in high school, technical and higher education who participated in a short-term training proposal. Data collection and analysis: The research was based on meetings with mathematics teachers, in which the use of resources was discussed and lesson plans were elaborated; they were, then, followed up in a real scenario. Specific instruments, lesson plans, audiovisual records, and interviews were analyzed by Textual Discursive Analysis (TDA), provided evidence about teachers' use of resources. Results: Different professional knowledge linked to TPACK were recognized at different levels and some factors such as professional experience and technological appropriation proved to be influential. Conclusions: In addition to the possibility of recognizing professional knowledge, it was noted that a specific character under the interpretation of TPACK recognizes such knowledge even in teachers with a low level of technology appropriation, which allowed reflections on the construct itself and its possible correlations with the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK).


Aims. We present the application of a fully connected neural network (NN) for galaxy merger identification using exclusively photometric information. Our purpose is not only to test the method's efficiency, but also to understand what merger properties the NN can learn and what their physical interpretation is. Methods. We created a class-balanced training dataset of 5\,860 galaxies split into mergers and non-mergers. The galaxy observations came from SDSS DR6 and were visually identified in Galaxy Zoo. The 2$\,$930 mergers were selected from known SDSS mergers and the respective non-mergers were the closest match in both redshift and $r$ magnitude. The NN architecture was built by testing a different number of layers with different sizes and variations of the dropout rate. We compared input spaces constructed using: the five SDSS filters: $u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$; combinations of bands, colours, and their errors; six magnitude types; and variations of input normalization. Results. We find that the fibre magnitude errors contribute the most to the training accuracy. Studying the parameters from which they are calculated, we show that the input space built from the sky error background in the five SDSS bands alone leads to 92.64 $\pm$ 0.15 \% training accuracy. We also find that the input normalization, that is to say, how the data are presented to the NN, has a significant effect on the training performance. Conclusions. We conclude that, from all the SDSS photometric information, the sky error background is the most sensitive to merging processes. This finding is supported by an analysis of its five-band feature space by means of data visualization. Moreover, studying the plane of the $g$ and $r$ sky error bands shows that a decision boundary line is enough to achieve an accuracy of 91.59\%.


Modern civil structures such as bridges are required to have a low life-cycle cost and a long life. Since the corrosion damage of steel cannot be avoided in practical environments,1) effective countermeasures against corrosion are strongly required. Paint coatings are the most widely used method for preventing the corrosion of general structures.2) On the other hand, it is a challenging task to reduce the life-cycle costs of structures including the initial cost and the maintenance cost for repainting and there are continuous needs of constructions. However there are always budgetary constraints. In the case of painted steel, water may penetrate under the coating film over time. When defects are formed in the film, the water can penetrate, induce under-film corrosion, and eventually cause blisters on the coating film. Painted steel structures must therefore be repainted periodically, which increases their maintenance cost. Attempts are being made to prolong the life of paint coatings which include the development of heavy-duty coatings and/or alloy steels.3) Until now, these have been three major approaches to research and development to improve the corrosion resistance of paint coatings: (1) Adding suitable alloying elements to the Visualization of Water in Corroded Region of Painted Steels at a Compact Neutron Source


Taking Qiao family courtyard of Qixian in Jinzhong region,Chang family manor of Yuci city,Wang family courtyard in Jingsheng village,and other representative Shanxi merchant compound in Ming and Qing dynasty as research object,through analyzing its spatial layout and courtyard organization,it revealed the inter-relation of traditional Shanxi merchants settlements in Ming and Qing dynasty and the social,economic and cultural,which reflected the unique aesthetic sense of Shanxi merchants and its profound culture.


Experimental studies have shown that dished heads with enough strength and stiffness can improve steel-walled inner pressure short cylinder burst pressure;the empirical formula of Q235-A low carbon steel and 0Cr18Ni9 stainless steel-walled inner pressure short cylinder burst pressure can be identified;and the critical length calculation formulas between long and short internal pressure cylinder can be distinguished.


The principal purpose of this note is to give an elementary proof of an inequality, due to Pisier (proposition 2·4 of (4)), for martingales taking values in a Banach space X. This proof yields an explicit estimate, sharp when X is a Hilbert space, for one of the constants involved. The notation follows (1, 4).


Discard rate of Public Health Service Increased Risk (PHS‐IR) organs is high despite the absence of worse kidney transplant outcomes.


This article is part of learning in financial mathematics students who are studying at the National University of Loja. He made a slight historical review, indicating the necessary application of mathematics in the field of finance and training in this area, carried out an analysis of the current situation, conceptualizes and analyzes the importance to other subjects, a review of the most important contents and formulas it is done, so we can get to conclude why studying financial mathematics, not only from an academic point of view, but because their knowledge is useful in the day-to-day closer economic and financial operations, both in our personal economy and in the professional environment.


Background Airway inflammation in asthma is characterized by the production of cytokines, chemokines and soluble adhesion molecules. The assessment of these inflammatory biomarkers in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is hampered by low detection rates. However, the use of a glass condenser system combined with a sensitive analytical technique may increase the possibility to assess these biomarkers in EBC in a reliable way.


AbstractTropical cyclones (TCs) tend to change translation direction and speed when moving across Taiwan's Central Mountain Range (CMR), making the forecasts of landfalling points a challenging task. This study examines the statistical characteristics of unusual TC tracks around Taiwan Island during the 66-yr period of 1949-2014. Results show that (i) about 10% more TCs were deflected to the right than to the left as moving across the CMR, but with more occurrences of the latter on Taiwan's eastern coast and southern strait; (ii) TCs around Taiwan Island moved slower than the average speed over the western North Pacific, but then with anomalous acceleration along Taiwan's eastern coast and anomalous deceleration over the southern Taiwan Strait; (iii) about 33% of TCs passing the island were accompanied with terrain-induced secondary low pressure centers (SCs), more preferably in the northwestern, southwestern, and southeastern quadrants, with the TC-SC separation distance varying from 33 to 643 km; (iv) a...


liberation movements in various countries, proper theoretical approaches to the study of sex roles, etc. There was agreement by some that women, as a group, can be treated as a deprived minority, but this was largely a masculine view. The women analysts, predominantly North American, who were present, were less certain of this and believed considerable theoretical effort must be expended in the search for a proper conceptual vehicle. The women decided


In this study, the properties of two particulate reinforced epoxy composites namely granite powder and fly ash have been assessed. An attempt has also been made to improve the pure matrix system epoxy resin using commercially available thermoplastic (polymethyl methacrylate). Pure blend matrix with different weight fractions of polymethyl methacrylate and epoxy are prepared and the blend matrix having the highest strength is selected for preparing composites. The composites are prepared with different weight percentages of granite powder and fly ash with the blend matrix, and their impact, compression, and water absorption properties are studied.


This contribution was devised as a design for analysis of the poetry of
biblical psalms. It carries on from where the author left off in earlier
publications. It is argued that poetry should be understood as a structured
network between a plurality of systems of reference. In this kind of textual
arrangement, the different levels of language (grammar, semantics,
phonology, prosody) and structural building blocks (colon, verse line,
strophe, stanza, and poem) are interrelated. In addition to that, metaphoric
language plays a decisive role in psalmic poetry. Important aspects of a
poetic interpretation are demonstrated, using Psalm 130 as an example.


AIM: To study the effects of panax notoginsenosidum(PNS) on heart failure caused by ischemic cardiomyopathy(ICM). METHODS: 160 cases of ICM were divided into two groups:the PNS group: 80 cases, treated with PNS (400 mg, VD, QD, 10 d) and the control group :80 cases treated with compound salvia(20 ml, VD, QD, 10 d ). The changes in cardic function were observed and cardic function were investigated with ultrasonography before and after 10 days' treatment. RESULTS: The total rate of significant improvement in heart function of heart failure patient with ICM was 89%, which was significantly higher than that of the control group (56%). After 10 days' treatment, EF,ESV,SV were significantly improved in the PNS group as compared with those of the control group. CONCLUSION: PNS has significant effects on heart failure caused by dilate cardiomyopathy.


This paper studies the relationship between the theory of distributive justice based on the concept of envy-freeness and Arrovian social choise theory. We define two conditions of No-envy and study their relationship with Arrow' scondition of independence of irrelevant alternatives, a weakening of this condition called Personal States Independence and the condition of Minimal Equity, that says that each individual must have the power to veto (in a limited sense) at least one alternative (presumably, one alternative which is particularly unfair to him).


Secure operation of power system has always been a challenge to system operators. With increasing interconnection and growing load demand, a power system, sometimes, may go into the insecure operation especially after severe contingencies. It is important to develop a technique to quantify the degree of insecurity in both planning and operational stages. This paper presents such an algorithm.

The distance (Euclidean norm) in parameter space between any insecure point and closest point on feasible (secure) hypersurface is used as a measure of insecurity. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based Functional Link Network (FLN) is proposed because ANN is very popular for complex problems. The various FLN models are evolved to estimate the degree of insecurity. The sample study is performed on an IEEE 30-bus test system for different loading patterns and single line outage contingencies. The investigations reveal that the proposed FLN accurately estimates the degree of insecurity with least computational time compared to the existing methods.


This paper analyzes the intrusion detection requirement in perimeter environment.Aiming at the physical intrusions and the security threats in WSN,a security IoT architecture based on WIA-PA is given.And several mechanisms are designed for protecting the network.Then,we designed and implemented the perimeter intrusion detection security system based on WIA-PA industrial wireless network.Test results show that this intrusion detection system can detect physical intrusions in perimeter environment,and the security and availability of the system can be improved effectively by using the increased network security mechanism.