In this paper, we formulate two exact charged solutions to the field equations by extending the domain of existing anisotropic models with the help of minimal gravitational decoupling in f(R,T) theory. For this, the anisotropic fluid distribution is considered as a seed source that is extended through the inclusion of a new gravitational source. The influence of the later matter configuration is controlled by the decoupling parameter. We formulate the field equations corresponding to the total matter source that are then decoupled into two distinct sets by implementing a transformation only on the radial metric coefficient. Both of these under-determined sets correspond to their parent sources. Some well-behaved forms of the metric potentials are taken into account to deal with the first set of equations. On the other hand, we solve the second set corresponding to an additional source by taking different constraints on the matter sector. We then consider the radius and mass of a compact star 4U 1820 − 30 to analyze the physical feasibility of the resulting solutions for a particular modified model. It is concluded that our resulting solutions show stable behavior for certain values of the decoupling parameter and charge.


We present the case that these indirect effects are further strengthened when you are acting  as part of a community of people doing important work. For instance, being considerate can  improve the level of trust and collaborativeness among members of the community. It can  also improve the reputation of the community. Conversely, failing to be considerate can  harm the community, both internally and in its reputation.


This paper presents a novel approach for video representation, called bag-of-scenes. The proposed method is based on dictionaries of scenes, which provide a high-level representation for videos. Scenes are elements with much more semantic information than local features, specially for geotagging videos using visual content. Thus, each component of the representation model has self-contained semantics and, hence, it can be directly related to a specific place of interest. Experiments were conducted in the context of the MediaEval 2011 Placing Task. The reported results show our strategy compared to those from other participants that used only visual content to accomplish this task. Despite our very simple way to generate the visual dictionary, which has taken photos at random, the results show that our approach presents high accuracy relative to the state-of-the art solutions.


The study of physicochemical processes at chiral surfaces is a particularly intriguing field of science.1,2 Of course, a logical and natural extension is the study of the electrochemical behavior of a "chiral-electrode"|solution interface, which is the subject of rapidly growing scientific and applicative interest in electrochemistry.3–6 In physics (and biology too), the concept of chirality, and the relevant involvement of physical interactions ruling chiral-systems is fascinating field of science: Maxwell equations, light polarization to mention a few (in biology, the homochirality dilemma7). Besides the purely fascinating scientific aspects, in chemistry chirality means a concept able to rule asymmetric synthesis and enantioselectivity/enantio-recognition (sensors). Within the area of chirality, it was shown that chiral systems are able to interact selectively with spin-polarized electrons8 acting also as spin-filter: chiral induced spin-selectivity (CISS).9 As a rational development, the implementation of the chiral spin-selectivity in electrochemistry, lead to the so-called spin-dependent electrochemistry.10 Quite recently where surfaces functionalized with chiral molecules shown better charge transfer properties if compared with structurally similar achiral compounds.11 Moreover, "chiralized" (which means co-deposition with a chiral-inducer compound) electrodeposited nickel and electropolymerized aniline (PANI), showed both good enantioselectivity as well as spin filtering (magnetoresistance measurements) characteristics.12–14 In this paper we want to prepare "chiralized" metals by electroless co-deposition of a suitable metal (here Cu and Ni) with an enantiopure chiral molecule: asymmetry inducer. This aiming to deposit a chiral conductive (metallic and possibly ferromagnetic) surface on a non-conductive material, in view of applications in both energy (photovoltaic) and spintronics (spin-valve) applications. In general, electroless deposition of both Cu and Ni relies on the use of Pd salts (where the real "catalyst" are Pd metallic nanoparticles), this makes the electroless procedure quite expensive. At present, in our laboratory the electroless deposition of both Cu and Ni was successfully carried out using Ag nanoparticles as the catalyzer, Figure 1. Co-deposition in the presence of enantiopure organic compounds is under investigations.

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The silver-cheeked toad fish, Lagocephalus scleratus, was recorded for the first time on 25 September 2014. Two specimens of this fish species were collected from the by-catch landed by a commercial deep-sea trawler at Kasimedu Fishing Harbour, Chennai coast, Southeast India. The morphometric and meristic characters of the recorded specimens are described and discussed. The specimen was compared with earlier reports.


ii The Australian Centre for Cooperative Research and Development (ACCORD) is an independent centre dedicated to research and development of cooperatives , mutuals and the broader social economy. ACCORD is a joint venture between University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and Charles Sturt University (CSU). It receives financial support from the New South Wales Department of Fair Trading and the two universities. The views in this publication should not be taken as those of the New South Wales Government. ACCORD papers report research likely to interest members of cooperatives and other social economy organisations, government policy makers and other researchers. They are written by ACCORD staff and associates. The research is published in this form to enable its wide and timely distribution. In some cases, reworked versions of these papers will receive refereed publication Comment and feedback are welcomed. ACCORD during 2001-2002 on research projects which explored different aspects of agricultural cooperatives. She is the author of the annotated bibliography on agricultural cooperatives (ACCORD paper No. 6). During the last few years her research activities have focused on ethnic business communities, informal, ethnically-based business networks in agriculture, and generally multidisciplinary perspectives on entrepreneurship. She also teaches research method subjects and has published in the area of mixed methodology and comparative method. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to acknowledge the involvement and help of initiating this study and making some helpful suggestions and comments about its content. The author also appreciates an understanding and general consideration received by Kay Plummer during the work on this study. Appreciation is further extended to Dr Jo Barraket, from the ACCORD's office at University of Technology, Sydney, for helpful comments on taxonomy of agricultural cooperatives in the context of policy issues. iv ABSTRACT This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive yet useful overview of the concepts of agricultural cooperatives with a special emphasis on taxonomy of agricultural cooperatives. After confirming the empirical relevance of the cooperative principles within the modern agricultural sector, and outlining economic, social and psychological aspects of the roles and benefits of agricultural cooperatives , the paper focuses on different classifications of the agricultural cooperatives as identified in the literature. Fourteen classifications of agricultural cooperatives were outlined, with more or less developed criteria by which the different types of cooperatives may be classified and subsequently examined. The classification reviewed included the standard criteria such as the functions performed, ares serviced, types of membership. …


With the hydrous thermal pressure simulation experiments of the solid bitumen,bitumen limestone,bitumen sandstone and oil with different media,the experiment result of the characteristic of gas-generating factor,gas-generation potentiality and their affecting factor of the marine crude oil and bitumen was correlated.The experiment results indicated that the gas-generation potentiality of marine crude oil and bitumen not only related to the lithology and the evolution grade but also to the abundance and component of the soluble organism.The most hydrocarbon gas generating factor heightens with the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon.The reservoir rock or the rocks in migration path are the new source of light oil or natural gas when they reach to matured-high matured stages.


Abstract : This report was developed under a SBIR contract. This paper describes a heat flux-based method for measuring emissivity of a surface. In this method the emissivity of a surface is calculated using direct measurement of the heat flux passing through the surface. Unlike storage-based calorimetric methods, this method does not require application of known amounts of heat to the surface or the temperature history of a known amount of thermal mass to calculate the surface emissivity. Application and operation of this method is much simpler than calorimetric methods as it does not require careful thermal insulation of the heat radiating body from the surroundings. This technique allows emissivity measurements of the newly developed variable emissivity surfaces with significantly lighter and energy efficient measurement equipment that can operate for long term space missions. In this study, a commercially available thermopile heat flux sensor was used to measure the emissivity of a black paint and a variable emissivity surface, Electrostatic Switched Radiator (ESR). This paper details the concept, experimental setup, and the experiment results.


This study investigates problems on the enforcement of court orders issued by the civil courts in divorce cases in Malaysia.  Although the civil courts are guided by comprehensive statutory laws, however, issues on matters related to the enforcement of court orders especially maintenance orders are still unresolved.  Therefore, this study is undertaken to examine and identify problems that have caused the failure to enforce these orders, post-divorce.  A survey was conducted on one hundred and sixty-seven respondents came from five regions in Malaysia.  The survey using questionnaires was the main method of collecting data.  To support the empirical evidence, semi-structured interviews were also conducted in this study. The study discloses an obvious co-relation between complex and lengthy processes, unnecessary time consuming and costs inefficiency with the enforcement of orders after the divorce has taken place. This article is a prelude to a projected study on the enforcement of court orders issued by Civil Courts whereby the result will be useful for further improvement of the existing legal provisions in Malaysia.


Analysis and design of RLC and crystal oscillators based on current conveyors, in 1.5 /spl mu/m CMOS integrated technology, are described. Maximal operating frequencies are 350 and 50 MHz, respectively.


Hunger Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize the food stamp program through FY 1995. Increases the basic benefit level by specified increments through FY 1994 and after, according to formulae involving the rising cost of the thrifty food plan. Permits the use of food stamps to purchase meals at homeless shelters and soup kitchens as well as private establishments (like restaurants) which contract with a State to offer meals for qualifying persons at concessional prices. Permits the use of appropriations to make grants for projects designed to improve the effectiveness of the program in delivering food assistance to the homeless. Allows families in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to receive the first $50 of child support payments each month without lowering their food stamp benefits. Repeals the cap on the excess shelter deduction, permitting all eligible households to deduct the full amount of excess shelter costs in the determination of food stamp benefits. Raises from $4,500 to $5,500 after January 1, 1991, the limit on the value of a motor vehicle an eligible family may own. Requires annual cost-of-living adjustments to such limit beginning October 1, 1991. Provides for the issuance of food stamp coupons by mail to households in rural areas where low-income persons face substantial difficulties in obtaining transportation. Reauthorizes Nutrition Assistance to Puerto Rico through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct pilot projects that test changes in, and new, food stamp program administrative and eligibility determination procedures designed to increase participation in rural areas. Authorizes State agencies to implement on-line electronic benefit transfer systems in which household benefits are issued from and stored in central data banks and electronically accessed by household members at the point-of-sale. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for approving such systems. Amends the T


With the growth of cloud computing, many organizations started to offer cloud services to various consumers on the basis of their functional and non-functional requirements. Currently there is no software framework which can automatically index cloud providers based on their needs. Due to plethora and the verity of cloud service offering, in this paper, we propose a new framework for ranking and reservation the cloud services which is based on a set of cloud computing specific performance and QoS attributes. Also, it provides an automatic best fit and a guaranteed delivery. Furthermore, it creates healthy competition among Cloud providers to satisfy their Service Level Agreement (SLA) and improve their Quality of Services (QoS).


The RFI model development described intended to provide an understanding of the interference susceptibility of DSN receivers. An overview of interference types and effects, analytic modelling and experimental verification is presented.


Objective: To investigate the effects of different levels of hypertension on cerebrovascular reserve capacity damage. Methods: Thirty-three cases of mild essential hypertension(EH) patients(group A), 30 cases of moderate or severe EH patients(group B), and 38 cases of control(group C) were detected using transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler ultrasonography(TCCD). The mean velocity of blood flow(Vmmca) and the diameter(Dmca) of middle cerebral artery(MCA) were measured at rest and after 25 seconds of breath holding. The blood flow volume of MCA(BFVmca) at rest and after 25 seconds of breath holding were calculated by the following equation: BFVmca(ml/min)=(Dmca/2)2·π·Vmmca·60. The increase percentage of BFVmca after breath hold was regarded as index. Results: The increase percentage of BFVmca was 29.07%±3.79% in group A, 28.12%±3.97% in group B and 31.19%±3.21% in group C. The capacity of cerebrovascular CO2 reactivity in patients with mild hypertension decreased significantly compared with the controls(P0.05), and it decreased more markedly in patients with moderate or severe hypertension(P0.01). Conclusion: The cerebrovascular reserve capacity damaged even in mild hypertension, and the damage aggravated with the increased level of blood pressure.


The fractal dimension of pores in a SEM photo of cement matrix materials is tested and counted accurately with the measure relation.In this paper,as an example,the fractal dimension of the SEM photo of interfacial area of the aggregate in the mortar is tested in different sizes,at 250 nm,200 nm,25 nm and 200 nm.Furthermore,the testing result is compared with the traditional result.The result shows that,in the traditional method of'changing scale',the testing result of the fractal dimension is affected by the grid size and the error is large.But,with the measure relation,the tested result of the fractal dimension of the SEM photo is very credible.When the differences of the grid sizes are 50nm and 25nm,the pore fractal dimensions are 1.2935 and 1.2809,and the error is only 0.0126.If hydration products are considered and the grid size difference is 50nm and 25nm,the pore fractal dimension are 1.5773 and 1.5701 respectively.The error is only 0.0072.With the increase of the pore fractal dimension,the complexity of the pore also increases.Besides,the measure relation is more accurate than the traditional method.Evaluating fractal characteristics of the pore structure by SEM photos are effectual.It is useful for further investigating the inner microstructures of cementing composite materials,increasing its high performance and enlarging its application.


This paper mainly introduces Russian legislation achievements from 1999 in two fields such as Internet development and utilization, E-business and digital files management, deeply analyzes the contents of them. Finally, the author probes the influence of information technology and internet on traditional Russian laws.


In article problems of innovative development of Russia in modern conditions are considered. The comparative analysis of foreign and domestic experience of the state support of innovative activity is given.


The occurrence of fog and low level stratus at airports causes a number of negative impacts ranging from delays, diversions, cancellations, extra fuel leading to reduced loading capacity and customer discomfort. Some of the impacts can be greatly minimized if the occurrence of fog and low level stratus are accurately, reliably and timely forecasted. The study aimed at investigating the utilization of METAR and satellite products, as well as their performance in issuance of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The study is based on a case study of 20th and 21st August 2012, utilizing TAFs, Water Vapour imagery of satellite and METARs, High Resolution Visible, Infra-red channels. The fog and low level stratus were observed to form at around 0100 and 0500 UTC and dissipate at around 0500 UTC. The dissipation is mainly attributed to the incoming solar radiation. The satellite observations replicated the METARs issued. The study therefore recommends further utilization of satellite products and METAR reports in the issuance of Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts to help in minimizing the impacts associated with fog and low level stratus at the airport. However, the study calls for quantitative verification of the performance of the satellite products is however recommended to ascertain the accuracy of the products.


A comparative study of the calculated relative intensities of 10.l reflections for the five members 21R, 39R, 57R, 75R and 111R of the silicon carbide structure series [(33) n 34] 3 R (Zhdanov-Ramsdell notation) has been made. Characteristics of the intensity distribution in the 10.l row line, for the entire series of structures, have been derived, enabling a direct identification of higher members without undergoing tedious intensity calculations. A new polytype 111R has been discovered and is shown to have a structure [(33) 5 34] 3 . The structure is confirmed by the excellent agreement between observed and calculated relative intensities of diffracted x-rays. The origin and growth of this series of structures is discussed.


Mobile augmented reality has become an influential tool for digital content representation and visualization of media content in terms of enhancing users' experience and improving the adaptability and usability of typical augmented reality applications, such as in e-commerce shopping, virtual museum, or digital heritage scenarios. This research proposes a new Service Oriented Mobile AR Architecture called SOMARA, which includes a novel mobile AR client application.

SOMARA takes advantage the ability to integrate third party content through service orientation. The SOMARA architecture enhances traditional standalone mobile AR applications with embedded media content by uniquely integrating a web service framework into an augmented reality client application to create more efficient and flexible mobile augmented reality applications that efficiently supports novel media content acquisition and visualization through appropriate access parameters.

The proposed architecture requires access to media content through specific media content service providers, e.g. a museum commissioning an augmented reality based museum interactive — predetermined media content, or any third party with their own service APIs, e.g. the Victoria and Albert Museum API — related external media content. This approach allows relevant third party media content to be 'mashed' via their public API with museums' augmented reality interactive's 'embedded' media content in the SOMARA mobile AR client. In this way novel mobile AR interactive applications, such as a museum augmented reality interactive, can be created based on particular museum environment scenarios that integrate a museum visitor's experience with the interactive's cultural objects.

Such experiences based on a SOMARA type museum augmented reality interactive can also be saved allowing visitors to take home their museum experience. SOMARA thus allows museum interactive experiences based on visualization of museums and third party media content physically located in the museum to be migrated to the visitor's home environment for further study, enjoyment and understanding. This unique feature, ability to effectively replay the experience at home, of the proposed system utilizes service-orientation to integrate third party media content, which is currently deficient from commercial augmented reality solutions.


A packed column comprising a bed of bodies of fibrous material for the interphase transfer of mass and/or heat and the separation of solids or immiscible phases from fluids. Each body is of generally cylindrical form and includes a centrally disposed axial support from which a large number of fibers extend radially, the fibers being secured to the support. The bodies are disposed in the bed at random and interlocked with each other. The density of the fibers in count per unit volume varies from point to point in the packing body and in the bed. The volume of each body is small compared to the volume of the bed. In mass and/or heat transfer with this bed a liquid is distributed over the top of the bed and trickles downwardly through the packing in a multitude of irregular paths while the gas is projected upwardly through the bed. The gas contacts the liquid over a very large surface area for an extended time interval and effective mass and/or heat transfer between the gas and liquid takes place. In the separation of solids or an immiscible phase from a fluid, the fluid is transmitted once or repeatedly through the bed and the fibrous packing acts to agglomerate or coalesce the solid or immiscible phase components and deposit these components on the fibrous surface.


A compressible fluid in a two-dimensional half-space (y>0) is bounded by a plane surface (y = 0) which is acoustically hard except for a set of periodically arranged strips S n given by nd -a 0, with ∂ ?/∂y = 0 on the plane y = 0, x ? S n . The boundary condition on the pistons S n is taken to have the form L(∂ 2 /∂x 2 ) ∂ ?/∂y+ M(∂ 2 /∂x 2 ) ? = V(x), x ∈ S n , y = 0 where the prescribed forcing function V(x) is the same on each strip, so that V(x + nd) = V(x), and the operators L and Mare polynomial functions of the second derivative ∂ 2 /∂x 2 . This boundary condition includes the possibilities of an elastic plate, a membrane, or an impedance surface for S n . When the separation distance d is much greater than the strip width 2a and wavelength 2π/k, the problem is reduced to that of finding the potential ? P due to a single piston S 0 set in a rigid baffle, together with a potential ? c subject to a similar condition with forcing functions exp (±ikx) in place of V(x). The problem is generalized to allow for the possibility of a phased forcing function V(x), such that V(x + nd) = exp (iβnd)V(x), where β is a given constant.


Modern 3D core analysis is increasingly looking to detailed transport theory solutions to improve accuracy. The Method of Characteristics (MoC) has been applied to such problems by several authors. However, the use of MoC for 3D core-scale calculations can have very high computational costs. This paper describes the CACTUSOT 3D MoC solver in the WIMS reactor physics code. CACTUSOT includes specialised methods to optimise track configuration and minimise track storage requirements for core calculations. It uses a once-through tracking method which has been shown to improve spatial coverage. The slice-geometry scheme can be used to represent a problem in terms of a series of repeated axial slice types. Track data are generated for individual slice types rather than for the entire problem, meaning that the amount of data to be stored can be significantly reduced. The application of CACTUSOT to core-scale Sodium Fast Reactor and PWR benchmark problems is presented.


Although a large amount of capital has been invested in the design and operation of agricultural extension1 in Latin America, the results have been quite unsatisfactory. The reasons that could explain this inefficiency are probably found in the limited level of training -in this topicby engineers (agronomists), extension agents and even postgraduate teachers. In addition to the lack of interest in the study of regional culture and the absence of theoretical-methodological models, which ultimately result in little interest from public and private institutions to develop research in extension.


Summary The root of the plant Smilax Chinensis L. (Liliaceae) is used by the tribal of South India for the treatment of liver diseases. The hepatoprotective activity of chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts at the dose of 100 mg/kg body weight orally, was evaluated against paracetamol induced liver damage in rats. Biochemical markers such as serum glutamate oxalate transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), serum alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin content of the liver were estimated. The ethyl acetate extract showed significant hepatoprotective activity and experimental data are almost comparable to that of standard drug Silymarin (25 mg/kg) with respect to all selected hepatic markers. Further, the in vitro antioxidant activity of the extracts was carried out with the help of some selective models namely 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazil (DPPH) method, total reducing power determination and determination of total phenolic content to establish correlation between antioxidant effect and hepatoprotection. It was observed that the ethyl acetate extract showed best antioxidant effect amongst other two extracts. Thus it may be concluded that the ethyl acetate fraction produce hepatoprotective effect by antioxidant mechanism.


This study aims to determine the effect of village financial transparency (X) on the management of village fund cash transfers during the pandemic (Y). The data used are primary data by using a questionnaire. The sampling technique used purposive sampling method with a total sample of 95 respondents, namely village officials and several communities receiving village BLT-DD. The data collection technique was a census where all villages in Bajo Barat  District were 9 villages. This study uses quantitative research methods and simple linear regression analysis. The results showed that village financial transparency had a positive and significant effect on the management of direct cash assistance from village funds during the covid 19 pandemic.
Keywords: village financial transparency, management of direct cash assistance from village funds during the pendemic


SUMMARY The possibility that slabs of subducted oceanic lithosphere may buckle and fold under longitudinal compressive stresses when they encounter the major seismic discontinuity near a depth of 670 km in the mantle has led us to explore experimentally the behaviour of very viscous plumes falling onto a density interface or a viscosity step. We begin with the case of axisymmetric and planar streams falling through air onto the free surface of a viscous fluid which has the same or smaller density, and observe the conditions under which they coil or fold. In order to remove surface tension and to introduce effects of a viscous environment we study plumes falling onto a density interface between two (generally very viscous) liquid layers. Stability to buckling is found to depend largely on a geometrical criterion based on the length to thickness ratio of plumes, but also the tendency to buckle is greater for large density differences across the interface and larger viscosity contrasts between plume and upper layer. When plumes are unstable, coils or folds are laid down with a horizontal scale in a fixed proportion to the thickness of the plume, and the frequency of folding is determined by the velocity and thickness of the slab as it enters the region of compressive stress. Entrainment of upper layer fluid can have a marked effect on the fate of the folded plume material, which may spread at the interface or continue to descend into the lower layer. Similar behaviour is observed at a viscosity interface. Application of results to the mantle depends on the nature of the 670 km discontinuity and is therefore inconclusive. However, cool slabs are likely to be unstable if mantle circulation involves two layers separated by a density interface or if whole-mantle circulation involves a large viscosity increase with depth near 700 km.


Template DNA quality directly affects the effectiveness of PCR amplification.To investigate the optimum DNA extraction method from soybean leaf,the influencing factors such as extraction buffer,buffer concentration,extraction times,and extraction steps were analyzed.The results indicated that the alkali extraction method on leaf was faster than but inferior to the other two methods.Both CTAB and SDS method could produce high quality DNA.When the DNA quality was compared under different buffer concentration ranging from 1% to 4%,it was found the quality of DNA could meet need of SSR analysis except that the DNA degraded a little under 4% CTAB.The concentration of DNA increased as the extraction times decreased,while the purity of DNA descended.The quality of DNA could meet SSR requirement even extracted once by chloroform/isoamyl.Under different extraction steps,we extracted DNA 4 times continuously,or separated out DNA after extracting twice,then dissolved it and extracted twice more,compared to the former,the later had a bigger ratio of A260/A280,but a suitable ratio of A260/A230.


There is a growing recognition of the need for daily contact with nature, to live happy, productive, meaningful lives. Recent attention to biophilic design among architects and designers acknowledges this power of nature. However, in an increasingly urban planet, more attention needs to be aimed at the urban scales, at planning for and moving towards what the authors call "biophilic cities". Biophilic cities are cities that provide close and daily contact with nature, nearby nature, but also seek to foster an awareness of and caring for this nature. Biophilic cities, it is argued here, are also sustainable and resilient cities. Achieving the conditions of a biophilic city will go far in helping to foster social and landscape resilience, in the face of climate change, natural disasters and economic uncertainty and various other shocks that cities will face in the future. The paper identifies key pathways by which biophilic urbanism enhances resilience, and while some are well-established relationships, others are more tentative and suggest future research and testing.


This essay psychologically illustrates that Jane's anxiety for the restoration of her middle-class identity makes Jane consistently categorize herself as a middle-class woman,which is represented by her consciousness of her position,her identification with her affluent master,and her irritation at being demoted to a lower class.Therefore,under cover of her critical comments on the morality of the middle class,Jane actually strives for her admission to that class.


On first inspection it seems unlikely that the interests of Polish artists and writers in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century?the theme of this essay?could be anything more than the subject of a minor footnote in the history of either country. Living as subjects of three aggressive empires that had partitioned the nation over a century earlier, the Polish intelligentsia was remarkably introspective. The widespread desire for national independence from Russian, German, and Austrian rule overshadowed most aspects of national culture. Art and literature in the late nineteenth century were weighed on Polish scales: a poem or a painting was most highly valued if it captured national hopes or anguish. Patriotic writers and painters were claimed as the authentic voice of a nation silenced by injustice.1 Polonocentrism was not, of course, limited to art: historians raked over past events in order to find explanations of the misfortunes endured in the present.2 National messianists, sharing a vision shaped by the poet Adam Mickiewicz in the mid century, claimed that the wrongs done to the nation would eventually be corrected by natural laws of justice and that Poland, like Christ, would arise again. Others saw the causes for the loss of sovereignty in terms of national failings; not least in the anarchic system of government known as the "golden freedom" (zlota wolnoic) which had operated during the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Commonwealth. The Poles could not, however, be accused of ignorance or indifference to present events abroad. Contemporary political dramas in Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna, or elsewhere on the international stage were invariably weighed up in terms of their impact on "the Polish question." From the Polish perspective, Russia's war with Japan in 1904-5 and the turmoil which followed it throughout Vistula Country (Privislinskii Krai / Kraj PrzywiSlahski), as Russian Poland was known, was perhaps the


Abstract The article is an unyielding argument supporting the thesis that not only a writer, but also a translator is expected to use their creativity so that nothing is lost in translation. Amongst various factors that influence the process of translating a novel the article focuses on two of them: a translator should stick to the original text with taking the semantic fields differences into account while s/he should keep the atmosphere of the source language, making as little changes in the target language as possible. Marking a translator's existence in a text is strongly connected with a perlocutionary act. A great example of the translation that covers both principles is The Godfather, written by Mario Puzo and translated from English into Polish by Bronisław Zieliński. He translated only English words into Polish, leaving the target Italian words with no metamorphosis. The article presents the effect obtained by such an action.


Brovey,HSV,PC,Gram-Schmit and Wavelet fusion methods were adopted to compare the effects of different fusion methods on feature extraction in the experimental areas.Standard variation,information entropy,bias index and correlation coefficient were selected to evaluate the fusion results.In terms of the spatial information,the images with HSV transformation had the most spatial information,whereas the images with Brovey transformation had the lowest spatial information.For the other fusion methods,there were not significantly different.In terms of spectral fidelity,the images with HSV transformation had the lowest value and no significant differences were observed among the other fusion methods.


The present invention relates to a laser apparatus for inducing a photo-mechanical effect. In particular, the present invention relates to a laser apparatus for inducing a photo-mechanical effect that outputs a pulsed laser beam and controls the pulsed energy of the pulsed laser beam. [Reference numerals] (AA,DD) Laser beam;(BB) Photo-mechanical effect;(CC) Mechanical touch offering


High and rising economic inequality has prompted concerns about the consequences for opportunity and mobility for those from less advantaged backgrounds. I propose that an appreciation of three psychological phenomena—(1) how scarcity affects decision-making, and how (2) the belief in upward mobility and (3) the justification of class privilege help legitimize and maintain economic inequality—is critical to the development of psychologically wise policies targeting inequality—policies that acknowledge and address specific psychological processes that are known to help sustain and perpetuate inequality. I highlight the implications of expanding consumer choice for individuals facing scarcity, and the effects of people's tendency to overestimate mobility rates on support for policies designed to reduce inequality.


The administrative service under the idea of sustainable development should be multiple,should serve the existence and develop-ment of human kind,should serve the construction of harmonious society.The government should serve not only the state and society,but also the individuals;not only the present generation,but also the future generation;not only the rich,but also the poor;not only the party concerned,but also the third party and the common public.Most important of all,guided by the idea of double service,the government should put the political slogan"serve the people"into practice.


Aiming at the problem that the result of outlier detection algorithm based on clustering is coarser and not very accurate, this paper proposes an outlier detection algorithm based on Approximate Outlier Factor(AOF). This algorithm presents the definition of the similarity distance and outlier similarity coefficient, and provides a pruning strategy based on similarity distance to reduce the suspect candidate sets to decrease the computational complexity. Experiments are carried out with public datasets Iris, Labor and Segment-test, and results show that the performance of detecting outlier and reducing candidate set of this algorithm is effective compared with the classical outlier detection algorithm.


Attention is drawn to the frequent occurrence of respiratory distress in patients with non-thoracic trauma. The relation of these findings to the 'fat embolus syndrome' or 'post-traumatic syndrome' (PTS) is considered. The typical findings in PTS are described and consideration is given to prophylaxis and treatment. The differential diagnosis is discussed. S. Afr. Med. J ., 48, 995 (1974).


Target audience Health professionals (including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, paediatricians, neonatologists) involved in the research and management, prescription and provision of motor assessments and developmental care programs for infants born preterm or at risk of developing cerebral palsy (CP) and Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD). Four key learning areas 1. To understand the key periods of brain development during infancy. 2. To examine the clinical utility and psychometric properties of contemporary motor assessment tools appropriate for use with preterm infants up to 12 months of age. 3. To review the current evidence related to early developmental intervention programs for preterm born infants during the neonatal period and post hospital discharge. 4. To discuss the implications of current evidence from the neonatal and animal data for therapeutic intervention, environmental factors and parent training. Workshop summary The presenters will combine their research experience and clinical expertise to critique current and new approaches to early motor assessment from the neonatal period to early infancy based on their clinical utility and psychometric properties including predictive, discriminative and evaluative validity. Contemporary thinking on practical family focused developmental intervention programs will be presented and the current efficacy of such programs will be discussed based on the findings of a recent Cochrane review published by the presenters. An interactive approach with clinical case studies and research data will be used to highlight different options for management.


To the Editor. —Severe ocular trauma from driver's-side air bag in conjunction with a three-point lap-shoulder seat belt 1 and air-bag keratitis 2 have been recently documented. I examined a 45-year-old woman restrained by a three-point lap-shoulder seat belt whose air bag was deployed when she drove her 1990 Lexus LS 400 at 30 mph head-on into a tree. She suffered right upper and lower lid ecchymoses and edema, right inferonasal subconjunctival hemorrhage, right corneal abrasion, and 20° to 30° of variable right exotropia. Orbital roentgenograms showed no abnormalities. All her injuries resolved completely without residua. The case report by Rimmer and Shuler 1 involved facial abrasions and severe ocular trauma on the left side, and one of their hypotheses was that the air-bag may have forced that patient's head laterally against the driver's-side window in that head-on accident. With this description of a right-sided injury, the air-bag is directly


The current non-pharmacologic treatment recommendations for coxarthrosis, according to the American College of Rheumatology and the Osteoarthritis Research Society Internationale, include cardiovascular, aquatic or land-based exercises, weight loss (if applicable), use of thermal agents and the use of walking aids when necessary. The pharmacologic treatment includes oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, acetaminophen, tramadol and intra-articular corticosteroid injections [1,2].


The aim of this research is to describe the learning motivation of physics sciencewithimplementation of Pictorial Riddle. This type of research is a quasi-experimental, with a one-shot case study design. Samples in this research is all student of VIII B classes with total of25 students.The instrument of data in this research is a ARCS motivation questionnaire.Analysis of the data in this study was a descriptive analysis that was used to view the category maotivation on learning physics science with the of use keller motivation formula. The analysis data shows score of students motivation are 5,33 with good category. Therefore, it can be concluded thatimplementation of Pictorial Riddle Learn Methodcan be used as an alternative method in the learning process in the classroom VIII SMP Beer Seba Pekanbaru.

Key Words: ARCS motivation, light reflection, pictorial riddle


According to the most recent definition of the International Continence Society, urinary incontinence (UI), a symptom of impaired storage, is 'the complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine'. A condition that primarily affects women, UI is not a lethal condition; however, it significantly affects quality of life. Three types of incontinence are generally distinguished: stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence, and mixed urinary incontinence, which associates with the first two. Prevalence varies significantly due to variations in definitions and measurement, methodology of data collection, lack of self-reporting, and sampling/non-response issues. Age, parity, vaginal childbirth, and body mass index are important factors that affect the prevalence of urinary incontinence. In 2005, the 'Evaluation of the Prevalence of urinary InContinence' (EPIC) study, which was the largest population-based survey of 19,165 individuals, was conducted in five developed countries to assess the prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms in men and women. Prevalence of overactive bladder overall was 11.8%; rates were similar in men and women and increased with age. Overactive bladder was more prevalent than all types of UI combined (9.4%). Besides the obvious issue of hygiene, UI results in ramifications that extend to the sufferer's social and sexual life. This chapter focuses on mainly three types of female urinary incontinence commonly encountered in clinical practice—stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence, and mixed urinary incontinence—and discusses the anatomy and physiology of the continence apparatus, and the classification, evaluation, and management of urinary incontinence.


Based on the actual situation of the current deep excavation works,the construction of deep foundation pit is introduced in detail.According to differeut underground soil and water systems,various forms of support method are used.


The study aims at investigating the relationship of emotional and spiritual intelligences with transformational leadership of sports managers in Alborz province. The study adopted a descriptive-correlational method. The population of the study consisted of 101 sports managers in Alborz province in 2012. Due to limited population size, the sample was considered as equal the population. The instruments used to collect the data included Cyberia- Shrink Emotional Intelligence test(CSEI) and Moradi [1], Linda Hildebrant's Spiritual Intelligence questionnaire (SIQ) [2] and Bass's Multifactor Leadership questionnaire (MLQ) [3].The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated to be 0.82 for CSEI, 0.90 for SIQ and 0.73 for MLQ using Cronbach alpha formula. SPSS software was used to do statistical analysis. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics including mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum scores, independent t test, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The results showed significant, positive, simple and multiple correlationsbetween emotional intelligence and transformational leadership style of sports mangers. From among the components of emotional intelligence, internal motivation assumed a greater role in predicting transformational leadership in the sports managers of Alborz province. The results also showed significant, positive, simple and multiple correlations between spiritual intelligence and transformational leadership style of sports mangers. From among the components of spiritual intelligence, transcendental awareness was found to play a greater role in predicting transformational leadership in the sports managers of Alborz province.


the animal kingdom and often occurs in high-density populations when food availability is low (Polis, 1981; Crump, 1983). This behaviour is common in larvae of anurans that develop in ephemeral aquatic environments (Crump, 1983). As the pond dries, the tadpoles are likely to experience food scarcity and crowding which favour cannibalism (Polis, 1981; Crump, 1983). Intraspecific predation results in energy gain and elimination of potential competitors (Crump, 1983). As a consequence, cannibalistic tadpoles have a higher growth rate and larger size at metamorphosis than non-cannibalistic individuals (Fox, 1975). We report on three contexts in which we documented necrophagy and most likely cannibalism under controlled conditions in túngara frogs, Engystomops pustulosus (Cope, 1864). Between October 2014 and April 2015, we raised ten broods from a captive colony with 80 breeding females derived from six founder túngara frogs captured in the vicinity of Gamboa, Panama (9.1212''N, 79.6981''W; WSG84). We raised these broods in tanks containing 15 liters of dechlorinated water at 28oC and fed them daily with fish food (Tetramin, Tetra). During this period, each tank contained a maximum of five broods and was divided by a plastic mesh into five plots for tadpoles and one for the water filter. Each plot received 25 individuals from the same brood. The tadpoles in one of these broods were less vigorous and grew more slowly than those in the other broods, except for a few individuals. One tadpole was extraordinarily larger than its siblings (Fig. 1). After 17 days (since oviposition), this individual reached stage 44 (Gosner, 1960) with a body length of 2.97 cm and a body mass of 0.22 g, while most of its siblings were still around stage 31 (one representative individual was 1.74 cm in length and weighed 0.06 g, Fig. 1). This fast rate of development almost matched the absolute record (16 days to stage 44) observed by us in the development of more than 700 broods raised in our laboratory. During these 17 days we counted the numbers of tadpoles daily in each of the five plots and we noticed that in two separate events one tadpole from the same plot containing the large tadpole disappeared, without leaving any remains or showing previous signs of illness. One of them disappeared between counts separated by less than 12 h. These observations indicate that the missing tadpoles were most probably consumed Herpetology Notes, volume 11: 961-962 (2018) (published online on 19 November 2018)


A liquid Li vapour-box divertor is an attractive heat exhaust solution for future fusion reactors. Previous works have established the ability of vapour shielding to protect the wall, but it has not been possible to directly determine the effects of Li vapour on the plasma parameters. Experiments to investigate this were carried out in Magnum-PSI, which is able to generate a plasma with DEMO-divertor relevant conditions. 3D printed tungsten capillary porous structures filled with Li have been used as targets. A reciprocating Langmuir probe was used to determine electron temperature and density close to the target, while the power reduction to the coolant due to vapour shielding was increased from 0% to 50%. The Langmuir probe measurements directly determined an increase of density by up to 50% while electron temperature could be inferred to have dropped by up to 33% compared to the solid target reference case.


OBJECTIVE
To determine the minimal electric threshold (MET) of neurostimulation in and out of the lumbosacral epidural space necessary to cause muscle contraction of the hind limb or tail, determine an MET cutoff value that indicates epidural needle placement, and compare predictability of epidural needle placement attained by use of neurostimulation versus the standard technique that uses loss of resistance in dogs.

ANIMALS
96 healthy Beagles.

PROCEDURES
Dogs received nonionic contrast medium (90 mg/kg) either in or out of the epidural space. Correct placement of the needle was evaluated by use of neurostimulation and loss of resistance of injection and confirmed by use of epidurography.

RESULTS
With the neurostimulator test, MET was significantly lower in dogs with needle placement in the epidural space (mean +/- SEM, 0.30 +/- 0.07 mA) than those with needle placement out of the epidural space (1.2 +/- 0.13 mA). When an electric current cutoff of < or = 0.28 mA for the neurostimulator test was used to suggest correct needle placement in the lumbosacral epidural space, sensitivity and specificity were 74% and 93%, respectively. The loss of resistance test had sensitivity of 63% and specificity of 90%. The combination of both tests yielded a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 83%.

CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE
Neurostimulation is a useful tool to suggest correct lumbosacral epidural needle placement in dogs.


Network-supported remote vehicle control is expected to improve efficiency in the future. Our current research target is to develop a cost-effective real-time control technique using the broadband wireless network infrastructure widely used by smart phones and personal computers. A key to realizing such control is a highly reliable data transmission technique that achieves a very small packet transmission delay and a very small packet loss ratio. To improve the transmission performance of broadband wireless access networks, e.g., cellular networks and wireless LANs, we present a dual transmission protocol that uses multiple independent transmission channels simultaneously. In this paper, we present the numerical simulation results obtained from the network simulator ns-3. We also present the experimental results of our scratch build program. The results show the effectiveness of our proposal.


The article provides research data devoted to the study of an actual scientific problem of human physiology the identification of sex differences in human cerebral hemodynamics during the solving cognitive tasks. Cognitive activity was modeled using a two-colored Schulte Gorbov test, cerebral hemodynamics was assessed by the method of rheoencephalography, registering it in the fronto-mastoidal and occipito-mastoidal leads on the left and right. The obtained data indicate that the hemodynamic supply of brain activity in subjects of different sexes during the solution of cognitive tasks differs significantly. In particular, it was found that when the Schulte Gorbov test was performed in male subjects, hemodynamic changes were observed in the occipital region mainly on the right, while in females in the occipital region both: on the left and on the right.


The average yield of cereal crops increased by more than 98% worldwide and part of this dramatic yield increase is due to the increasing use of pesticides. Unfortunately, the use of phytosanitary products to eliminate pests has not spared some natural enemies of these crops.
 Carabids beetles are important biological control agents in agroecosystems and are one of the most sensitive invertebrate groups to environmental disturbances such as use of pesticides or type of plowing. However, in the context of beetle diversity conservation and encourage biological control, we have undertaken a bioecological study of the carabid fauna in two cereal fields (treated and untreated) situated in the north est of Algeria. The beetles were sampled from april to june 2018.
 Species richness and abundance values revealed a great difference between the two sampled area. We recorded 38 species and 332 individuals in the untreated field versus 18 species and 89 individuals in the treated field. The data of the species traits as diet, dispersal ability and habitat affinity show that predators, macropterous and xerophilic species dominate in both crops.


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Throughout their time in school, students in military families face many challenging periods of transition, which include deployments, relocations, and the family's separation from the military. During these transitions, students in military families may be especially susceptible to social, emotional, and academic challenges both in their home lives and in their school lives. As advocates for all students, school counselors are called to actively support this population in these times of transition. Examples of support that aligns with these students' needs include performing academic interventions, creating partnerships with family and community members, accessing appropriate resources, facilitating peer support, referring students to outside mental health providers, and providing professional development training to equip other school personnel on best practices for working with this population. Overall, school counselors should be aware of best practices for intervening and should actively carry out these interventions to help students in military families overcome the challenges they face in the midst of their families' transitions.


The influenza virus strain A/chicken/North Kazakhstan/184/2020 (H5N8) was isolated in North Kazakhstan during a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in 2020. This study aimed to obtain the complete genome sequence of the isolate. ABSTRACT The influenza virus strain A/chicken/North Kazakhstan/184/2020 (H5N8) was isolated in North Kazakhstan during a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in 2020. This study aimed to obtain the complete genome sequence of the isolate.


The essay points out the problems existing in the structure of investment demand, analyzes the effect of the structure of investment demand in Shanxi Province on the growth of its economy, and with the method of quantitative analysis, the essay measures and calculates the relationship between investment and economic growth and the effect of the former on the later.


As Justice Thomas has correctly observed, "[our] Establishment Clause jurisprudence is in disarray." The disarray comes in several forms. There is extensive disagreement among judges and scholars about what purpose the Establishment Clause serves. This disagreement has bled into the Supreme Court's merits decisions in Establishment Clause cases: Over the last seventy years they have used at least six different standards to resolve such cases. Moreover, the Court has been unable to create a principled standing doctrine for Establishment Clause cases. This confusion has left lower courts and litigants struggling to interpret what they are supposed to do in Establishment Clause cases. This paper argues that the Court could resolve all of these issues if it were to adopt a uniform Establishment Clause standard that focused on whether the alleged establishment had caused political divisiveness. This standard would go some distance to resolving (or at least avoiding) the tension over the purpose of the Establishment Clause, and would give courts and litigants a clear measure to apply for both the standing and the merits inquiries.


The invention discloses a surface fluid driving device. The device comprises a fan, a bracket and two pressure-equalizing chambers, wherein the bracket is connected with the fan; the two pressure-equalizing chambers are symmetrically arranged on the bracket up and down; rectangular narrow slots which correspond to each other in position are formed in the two pressure-equalizing chambers; and each pressure-equalizing chamber comprises an outer shell and an inner shell which is sleeved in the outer shell, wherein the outer shell is designed into a hollow pentagonal prism structure with two closed ends, the inner shell is designed into a hollow cylindrical structure with an opened end and a closed end, and a flow-equalizing wall is horizontally arranged between the outer shell and the inner shell and divides the space between the outer shell and the inner shell into two independent chambers. According to the surface fluid driving device, pressurized gas is sprayed from the slots of the outer shells of the pressure-equalizing chambers to form a gas cutter, and the gas cutter is used for scraping excessive liquid substances on the surface of a band steel, so that the quality and the yield of a product are increased substantially, and the device is also convenient to maintain.


Thai sword fighting is more than just a martial art; it is a display of the uniqueness of Thai culture. Unlike sword fighting in other countries, Thai sword fighters must undergo ceremonial rituals before each match. Also, competitors must follow a distinct set of rules for each sword type. Before the match, each competitor performs a Thai sword dance to pay his respects to his teachers as well as the goddesses of protection. These ceremonies are considered to be a fundamental aspect of Thai heritage. Throughout history, there were many martial arts schools that taught sword fighting, each with its own inimitable style, as swords were considered to be a lethal weapon during war. However, to prevent the boredom of repeating every posture multiple times, many schools invented a ceremonial sword dance to lend diversity to practice. Thus, the invention of the sword dance birthed a tradition that allowed swords to be both a destructive weapon of war, as well as a ceremonial prop for entertainment. As time passed, swords were no longer used in war, and interest in the art faded away. As a result, many sword fighting schools have disappeared, along with the Thai sword dance. In order to conserve this valuable component of Thai culture, Digitize Thailand, one of NECTEC's Flagships have funded a project that will utilize a technology termed Motion Capture to reproduce the Thai sword dance in 3D. Compared with conventional methods, in which the materials are stored in video recording, the digitized aspects of 3D can give complete information from every viewpoint. Additionally, the digitized information provides convenience for the application of future work. Besides the conservation of precious Thai culture, we are also proposing the stimulation of interest in the disappearing Thai sword dance using the Nintendo Wii. Software with gesture recognition engines have been developed to enable a game-like experience for players learning the dance. We believe that the project will not only preserve our cultural treasures, but also educate future generations about the legacy of the Thai sword.


The text deals with the problems of the local party systems
typologization in the Czech Republic. In the Introduction, the
number of local policies in the Czech Republic and other
European countries is compared and the author highlights the
complexity of the local Czech political scene. The text further
proceeds to the problems of the number of political subjects in
the party system. The next part pursues the problems with
borrowing current typologies as well as with the constructions
of new typologies. The following part continues with the
multilevelity of the local party systems and the creation of a
new scheme of possible alternatives of putting local party
systems in the Czech Republic into operation as tools for
future research. Reflections on the possible usage of the
typology can be found in the Conclusion.


standard practice. The storyline contains information about matters including hospital admission, weighing, fasting, cannulation, gaseous and IV induction of anesthesia, pain management, and postoperative recovery. The animation has been shown to many young children and the feedback has been excellent. All of the children were able to accurately quote fasting times and said that the story was fun. Most said that they would not be scared if they needed to have surgery in the future. Interestingly, many parents said that the animation had enhanced their own knowledge and understanding of anesthesia. This English language animation is now available via the app store. It is 8-min long. 'Sound asleep.' (full stop is part of the name) is free to download for anyone. Searching either for Sound Asleep. or Laura McClelland will take you to the app (this is available for iphone and ipad users). Please note that it may appear a couple of pages into the search on the US store. I hope that you will agree that this is a fantastic resource and will contribute to improved patient and family experiences for many years to come.


LAY SUMMARY This study aimed to understand how well published research on pain management in Veterans considered reporting results based on sex and gender differences. The review identified studies that included active duty military or Veterans with pain who were treated with various methods published from January 2000 to May 2022. Studies about pain management in Veterans that properly reported results based on sex and gender differences were not found. This lack of reporting may limit research progress and understanding of sex and gender differences in pain management for Veterans.


A nano-Si3N4/5 wt% nano-C composite was successfully fabricated for the first time via high-energy ball milling, followed by spark plasma sintering. The milling promoted the amorphization of the starting powders; most of the carbon particles were transformed into nano-size and embedded in the amorphous phase. This, combined with a low sintering temperature and a rapid densification rate, prevented the reactions between carbon and the other starting powders, leading to a uniform nano/nano-composite microstructure. Nano-sized carbon grains with an average diameter of about 10 nm were homogeneously dispersed in nano-sized (about 70 nm) Si3N4 grain boundaries. The hardness of the obtained nano-ceramics is comparable with that of conventional Si3N4, whereas Young's modulus is significantly decreased.


A major new public-private collaboration will seek to capitalize on the proliferation of potential biomarkers for common diseases — including Alzheimer's disease (AD) — and to speed the development of successful therapeutics to the bedside. The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) is a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health, ten pharmaceutical companies, and nonprofit patient advocacy organizations designed to identify and validate the most promising biological targets of disease for new diagnostic and drug development. In a Feb. 4 press conference in Washington, DC, partners in the new collaboration described a milestonedriven research agenda focused initially on Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, and the autoimmune disorders of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Importantly, a critical component of the partnership is that industry partners will make the AMP data and analyses publicly accessible to the broad biomedical community. In an interview with Neurology Today, Maria C. Carrillo, PhD, vice president for medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, said AMP is consistent with — and will help to operationalize — the National Plan for Alzheimer's Disease. That plan, which grew out of the 2011 National Alzheimer's Project Act, calls for enhanced collaboration between industry, government, and academic research, and outlines a plan to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's disease by 2025. The Alzheimer's Association is a member of the steering committee for AMP for the Alzheimer's arm of the project. "AMP will incorporate novel biological markers into ongoing Alzheimer's prevention trials, allowing a direct comparison of the ability of multiple markers to track the progression of very early stage Alzheimer's and potentially to predict clinical benefit of a therapy," Dr. Carrillo told Neurology Today.


On the ecological network functional structure, the National Parks undoubtedly represent core areas that play a key role on the biodiversity conservation strategies. The Italian National Parks system is characterized by the historic settlements presence, which represents a territorial peculiarity. On the one hand, this characteristic contributed to maintaining an enormous wealth of biodiversity and landscapes while, on the other hand, it strongly quickened the anthropic disturbance with certainly not negligible effects on the ecological connectivity. The years of intensive urban growth coincide in Italy with a period of almost stasis environmental legislation condition. Furthermore, the land planning penalized both by a lack of strategic vision and by the absence of a clear planning and programming framework. The main aim of this work is to highlight the conditions of presence of high pressures (derived to urban and infrastructural systems) and high environmental values by directional proximity analysis. It will be implemented a new effective indicator to highlight conflicts between the phenomena of urbanization and ecological values still present. This approach could permit to address the land planning future choices both at territorial and local scale in a perspective biodiversity conservation and mitigation of the anthropogenic impact on the National protected areas system.


The paper examines the cases of attacks on schools in Russia, assesses the events that have occurred, and analyzes the activities of school shooters. The symbolism and attributes of Columbine's followers are given. As part of the study, a content analysis of the Internet information space was carried out, which allowed us to draw certain conclusions on the spread of the radical ideological movement Columbine. Thus, a typical representative of a "Columbine community" is from 14 to 20 years old. Teenagers often pretend to be older in the virtual space and maintain several accounts in the same social network. The formation of a teenager's personality occurs through the prism of relationships in the reference group. If this self-identification does not occur in the family or school for various reasons, then the minor plunges into the information and network space, where he finds comfort, his interests and views are shared, and he gets support. A teenager gets an impression that he is best understood in death groups, Columbine communities and other destructive associations, and not in the family. The information that these users leave on their personal social network accounts allows us to identify a number of features indicating depression, the presence of pre-suicidal syndrome, aggressive behavior and excessive cruelty. Thus, the following conclusion can be drawn: a typical participant in a Columbine community is an emotionally unstable, driven, complex, secretive, insecure individual. As a rule, there are few or no real photos on the account of a typical Columbine community participant. Sometimes a pseudonym is used instead of the real name: in most cases it is associated with the Columbine cult. In addition, the account of such a teenager contains photo and video content that can be attributed to suicidal themes, excessive cruelty and aggression, and a passion for weapons.


The shear modulus of electrodeposited amorphous Co-P was measured via torsional vibrations at about 0.5 MHz after pre-annealing the samples for 20 h at 200 degrees C. Besides the isostructural, instantaneous change a relaxation of G was observed, which is caused by reversible structural relaxation of the material. During isothermal treatment after a change of the temperature G tends non-monotonically to the new temperature-dependent pseudoequilibrium. This means that at least two types of elementary processes with different kinetics govern the process. Following a concept proposed to explain the relaxation of defect concentrations in crystalline gold the observations presented in this paper are qualitatively described by the alternate play of production and annihilation of single, di- and tri-vacancies.


In this paper,the properties of a class of Bloch
type spaces (B α) and a class of little Bloch type spaces (B α 0) are studied, and some
necessary and sufficient conditions for an analytic function to be B α function or B α 0
function are obtained.


The method for a portable device with a wireless interaction is supported by the stand, it is presented to the system, and a computer program. In one method of operation, the communication link is set up between the stand and the portable device. Stand track the movement of the input apparatus in the mutual action area. In another method of operation, the portable device may interface with the input device to produce the action associated with the game object in the mobile device, either in the source device, the mutual action area takes place the interface when it is in his neighborhood. In addition, when an input device, a track is detected that the outside of a predetermined boundary around the edge of the mutual action area, and moves the stand. Stand movement information is transmitted via the communication link to update the location of the mutual action area.


Gendarussa vulgaris Nees (Acanthaceae) is used in folk medicine for the treatment of asthma, rheumatism, colic's, arthritis, jaundice, inflammation, cephalgia, eczema, diarrhea, wounds, dyspepsia, pain and fever. The present study was designed to qualitatively evaluate the profile of phytochemical constituents as well as acute toxicity, antinociceptive and antidiarrheal activities of ethyl acetate extract of Gendarussa vulgaris leaves (EAGVL). Phytochemical constituents, acute toxicity, antinociceptive and antidiarrheal activities were determined and assessed by various tests such as Molisch's test, Fehling test, Mayer's test, frothing test, FeCl3 test, alkali test, Salkowski's test, Keller-killiani test and CuSO4 test, OECD guidelines, formalin-induced paw licking, acetic acid-induced writhing, castor oil and MgSO4 induced diarrheal test. This extract figured the presence of carbohydrates, alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, glycosides, triterpenoids, fat and fixed oils. Mortality, behavioral changes or sign of any toxicity were not observed up to the dose as high as 4000mg/kg. The crude extract was found to have significant (P<0.05, vs. control) analgesic activity at the oral dose of 200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg (b. wt.) in the tested animals. Moreover, both doses of (200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg) ethyl acetate extract significantly (P<0.05, vs. control) reduced the gastrointestinal motility and inhibit the percentage of diarrhea in antidiarrheal models. But 400 mg/kg dose showed better antinociceptive and antidiarrheal activity than 200 mg/kg dose compared to control. The results indicate that Gendarussa vulgaris leaves may provide a potential source of antinociceptive and antidiarrheal activities.


Transfers of energy during the propagation of an electromagnetic wave in homogeneous and stationary plasma are described by the instantaneous Poynting theorem, using Maxwell equations. A plasma being a complex middle to describe; thus it will be necessary to work on meanly quantities. The energy of the wave carried by the movement of particles is represented by the kinetic flux.


. We establish existence and uniqueness of Green functions for flow velocity of stationary Stokes systems, under a continuity assumption of weak solutions to the system, in a bounded domain such that the divergence equation is solvable there. We also obtain pointwise bounds of the Green functions.


According to a new lifestyle and living in an apartments, people paying attention to different exercises and increasing the lifetime of human beingsthe number of elderly population and use of drugs has been increased on the incidence of falls statistics' have been added daily. Also with regard to health promotion, economic each year, the elderly populations are increasing every year. And in general, results suggest the negative impact of aging population is on the equilibrium level. As age increases the risk of falling and Effects of age-related accumulation are increased. It should be noted that the older people who fell down, due to physiological changes during aging have problems and severe complications more than youth. This can lead to problems of economic, psychological, physical and social, and therefore may reduce the quality of life and death in this population. So it is very important to assess the damages caused by flat falls, in this study attention has been paid on this issue. This is cross - sectional study. The corpus of the study includes of patients admitted to the emergency department of Tehran Hafte Tir Martyrs hospital due to flat fall during the 1391's. The data of the present study has been obtained using the archived files in the Hafte Tir hospital in Tehran. Data collected and after entering information into the computer was analyzed by SPSS software. Overall, 421 people have fallen flat, 6/60% were male and 4/39% were women. The Mean age was 93/47 with a median of 49 years; the average age of women was 95/58 with a median age of 63 and the average age of men were 75/40 years with a median of 34 years. 55/1% had a fall at home 29/7% at work and 11/2% had fallen in public places. The most frequent of patient admission was related to the winter and fall season. 5/9% of people have died. Most injuries were to the limbs and then the skull. The most common injury was the skull and its soft tissue. The Spine injuries were entirely bone injury. The total damage to limb, 50% were soft tissue injuries. It should be noted that, with regard to health and economic promotion of societies, elderly people are increasing every year. And given the rapid increase in the elderly population, Life Expectancy, The need to further planning to increase their level of independence in the lives of people over age of 60 is required. Otherwise, this reduction leads to a decrease in the ability of the individual's level of independence in daily life activities. And thereby the risk of falls and complications of falls is increased that ought to take measures to prevent it.


This research aims to improve the digestibility and nutritional value of rice straw as a ruminant animal feed and determine the effect of long soaking in sea water of rice straw on digestibility in vitro dry matter and organic matter. The used materials in this study are a bales machine, weighing scales, rapiah rope, poly bags, rice straw varieties Ciliwung obtained from rice fields in Bantimurung, sea water with 2.71% saline, as well as tools and chemicals for analysis of in vitro dry matter and organic matter digestibility with pepsin, calculus method. This study is done based on Randomized Complete  Design (RCD) with 5 treatments and 4 replications. Variance based on the long soaking treatment gives the nature of the response curve linear on the digestibility of dry matter and also to organic matter digestibility. The magnitude of the correlation length relationship soaking rice straw and with sea water for in vitro dry matter and organic matter digestibility that is 96.5% and 96.8% respectively. Based on the results of research and discussion can be concluded that rice straw is soaked with sea water 3-12 days producing dry matter digestibility and organic matter are higher than the rice straw that is not soaked with sea water. Soaking of the sea water for 3-12 days increase the digestibility of dry matter and organic matter.


In 1949, scholar W. E. B. Du Bois complained bitterly that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was useless in the fight to free Africa from colonialism because the association was just a "bourgeois set-up, afraid to do anything that is not respectable."1 Indeed, historians' understanding of one of the most significant transformations in the twentieth century, decolonization, often echoes Du Bois's assessment that only "radicals" had the mettle to take on this battle for the right to self-determination.2


Energetic neutral atom (ENA) images in the 10-60 keV range of the plasma sheet and ring current region are presented. The images were obtained during two substorms in the mainphase of the 4 October 2000 storm by the high energy energetic neutral atom (HENA) imager onboard the IMAGE satellite. They show ENA emissions extending out into the nightside plasma sheet region of L 15. During the two substorm sequences the edge of the most tailward ENA emissions appears to move earthward in association with dipolarization observed at geosynchronous distance by the GOES satellite. At the time of geosynchronous dipolarization, the auroral onset was observed by the far ultra violet (FUV) imager onboard IMAGE. Preliminary equatorial ion distributions derived from the individual ENA images in the substorm sequences have been obtained through a constrained linear inversion technique. The results show that the ion flux es in the 6R plasma sheet suddenly decrease around dipolarization during approximately 30 min. About 10-20 min after the start of the plasma sheet flux decrease, ion injections are seen by the geosynchronous satellites. The peak of the ring current flux is pushed in from geosynchronous to L=4 over the substorm sequences. Two exospheric models are used in the inversion. We find that more realistic plasma sheet flux es are obtained with an exospheric model that contains enhanced exospheric hydrogen densities on the nightside. Implications for Earthward propagation are discussed and an Earthward propagation velocity is estimated to 27-33 km s .


The article describes the possibilities of parallelization algorithms of decision trees and their implementation in programming languages that use the features of the functional programming paradigm. They allow simplifying transformation of sequential algorithm to its parallel form. As example we consider the C4.5 algorithm and comparison of its implementation in Java 7 and Java 8 programming languages. The Java 8 uses the elements of functional programming languages: pure functions, functions for list processing and etc.


Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease (CPPD, chondrocalcinosis) is known to affect fibrocartilaginous tissue in the large and smaller peripheral joints. The affection of similar structures in the axial skeleton is unclear.To assess the frequency and severity of structural changes in the lower spine in patients with established CPPD in comparison to degenerative disc disease (DDD).In a retrospective study, patients with CPPD or DDD as a main diagnosis with available spinal conventional radiographs (CR) performed during 2014 – 2020 were included. Definite other inflammatory conditions affecting the spine were excluded. The CR segments T7/8-L5/S1 were evaluated for the occurrence of disc calcification, intradiscal vacuum phenomenon, disc height (normal, narrowing, complete loss), endplate erosion, osteophytes and spondylolisthesis. When lumbar spine MRIs of the same time point were available, discovertebral units were evaluated for the occurrence of vacuum phenomena, endplate erosion, Modic changes and disc dehydration (Pfirrmann). Follow up CR were assessed if available. All available images were evaluated by 2 independent readers and discrepancies were solved by consensus.CR of 140 patients (1.171 discovertebral units) with CPPD and 99 DDD (803 discovertebral units) were evaluated (mean age 74.4±9.9 and 71±6.2, 20% vs. 20.2% males, respectively). MRIs of the spine were available from 48 CPPD and 44 DDD patients. Vacuum phenomena, disc calcification, osteophytes and erosion were significantly more frequently seen in patients with CPPD compared to DDD (Table 1) with no differences between the thoracic and the lumbar spine. Follow-up CR were available for 29 patients with CPPD and 46 DDD. Both groups presented statistically significant progression of endplate erosions and osteophytes (p 0.001 - 0.02 for both groups). Notably, even though CR follow-up times in the CPPD group were, compared to DDD (median (IQR) 1.9 (2.4) vs 3.0 (3.1) years, p=0.033, respectively), shorter, radiographic progression was noted more frequently in CPPD vs. DDD for erosive changes (6.8% vs. 0.6%, p=0.018) and disc calcification (5.8% vs. 0.6%, p=0.007), respectively. When comparing MRIs, a higher number of discovertebral units was affected by vacuum phenomena (34 vs 13, p=0.04) and endplate erosions (L4/5 (45.5% vs 24.4%, p=0.04), L5/S1(40.4% vs 19.5%, p=0.03) in patients with CPPD vs. DDD, respectively.Table 1.Frequency of affected discovertebral units on conventional radiographsCPPDDDDpVacuum phenomenon156 (13.3%)44 (5.5%)<0.001Disc calcification193 (16.5%)42 (5.2%)<0.001Endplate erosion159 (13.6%)26 (3.2%)<0.001Osteophytes861 (73.5%)480 (59.8%)<0.001Spondylolisthesis126 (10.8%)69 (8.6%)0.264CPPD: calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease DDD: degenerative disc diseasePatients with chondrocalcinosis showed more severe and progressive degenerative findings in the lower spine as assessed by both, CR and MRI, even more in comparison to established DDD. This data shows that disease manifestations of CPPD in the axial skeleton are clinically relevant.None declared


An one-factorial trial was conducted according to the random grouping design to study effect of enzyme on dry matter,organic matter,crude protein,crude fat and nitrogen-free extract's digestibility of soybean flour processing in 13~17 days old tan sheep lambs.Twenty 4-day-old healthy male lambs with close weight were allotted randomly to 4 treatments and 5 replicates per treatment.Group A,control group,which was fed soybean flour processing;Group B,soybean flour processing +Neutral proteinase 5 000 U/kg;Group C,soybean flour processing +α-amylase 4 000 U/kg;Group D,soybean flour processing +lipase 4 000 U/kg.During the period of 4~17 days,4~13 days were preparative period,13~17 days were trial period.The results showed: The dry matter,organic matter,crude protein,crude fat and nitrogen-free extract's apparent availability of soybean flour processing were increased incoordinately by adding enzyme.Group added Neutral proteinase was increased 8.45,6.66 and 6.68 percents respectively than control group,group added α-amylase and group added lipase in apparent availability of crude protein(P0.05);group added α-amylase was increased 5.66,6.88 and 6.54 percents respectively than control group,group added Neutral proteinase and group added lipase in availability of nitrogen-free extract(P0.05);group added lipase was increased 4.73,4.13 and 4.88 percents respectively than control group,group added Neutral proteinase and group added α-amylase in apparent availability of crude fat(P0.05).


Analyzed was the use of a heat transfer coefficient method-based fouling resistance prediction model for the real-time monitoring of the fouling resistance of a synthetic ammonia waste-heat boiler.It has been found that within the allowable variation range of operating parameters,the theoretical error of the model in question is around 36%,and the total prediction error,about 48% if the measurement error is taken into account.The model was improved after correcting the error resulting from a change of the convection heat transfer resistance.A fouling resistance real-time monitoring device was designed based on the improved model.Practical applications show that in the case of the fouling thermal resistance reaching its design value,the prediction error is less than 15%,thus making it possible to eliminate the theoretical error of the model mentioned earlier and meet engineering accuracy requirements.


In recent years,farm products trade were deeply influenced by the "Green Barrier" in its processing,this made more and more countries pay attention to its treatment,and take the Animal Welfare as a new excuse to restrict foreign animal products.This article introduces the concept of Animal Welfare,and analyzes the present gap of Animal Welfare between China and other countries,then put forward some reasonable suggestions.


Author(s): Cushman, P; Galbiati, C; McKinsey, DN; Robertson, H; Tait, TMP; Bauer, D; Borgland, A; Cabrera, B; Calaprice, F; Cooley, J; Empl, T; Essig, R; Figueroa-Feliciano, E; Gaitskell, R; Golwala, S; Hall, J; Hill, R; Hime, A; Hoppe, E; Hsu, L; Hungerford, E; Jacobsen, R; Kelsey, M; Lang, RF; Lippincott, WH; Loer, B; Luitz, S; Mandic, V; Mardon, J; Maricic, J; Maruyama, R; Mahapatra, R; Nelson, H; Orrell, J; Palladino, K; Pantic, E; Partridge, R; Ryd, A; Saab, T; Sadoulet, B; Schnee, R; Shepherd, W; Sonnenschein, A; Sorensen, P; Szydagis, M; Volansky, T; Witherell, M; Wright, D; Zurek, K | Abstract: As part of the Snowmass process, the Cosmic Frontier WIMP Direct Detection subgroup (CF1) has drawn on input from the Cosmic Frontier and the broader Particle Physics community to produce this document. The charge to CF1 was (a) to summarize the current status and projected sensitivity of WIMP direct detection experiments worldwide, (b) motivate WIMP dark matter searches over a broad parameter space by examining a spectrum of WIMP models, (c) establish a community consensus on the type of experimental program required to explore that parameter space, and (d) identify the common infrastructure required to practically meet those goals.


Understanding domain wall pinning and propagation in nanowires are important for future spintronics and nanoparticle manipulation technologies. Here, the effects of microscopic local modification of the magnetic properties, induced by focused-ion-beam intermixing, in NiFe/Au bilayer nanowires on the pinning behavior of domain walls was investigated. The effects of irradiation dose and the length of the irradiated features were investigated experimentally. The results are considered in the context of detailed quasi-static micromagnetic simulations, where the ion-induced modification was represented as a local reduction of the saturation magnetization. Simulations show that domain wall pinning behavior depends on the magnitude of the magnetization change, the length of the modified region, and the domain wall structure. Comparative analysis indicates that reduced saturation magnetisation is not solely responsible for the experimentally observed pinning behavior.


doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2017.22116 The paper analyzes the current economic situation of the country from the called neoextrativismo where we see a process of loss of share of the manufacturing industry, followed by insulation in the extractive industries of commodities, the national economy, and space aggravations of a model economic that has as main characteristic the overexploitation of nature. As a result the socio-spatial developments caused by enterprises, many conflict situations involving different social groups directly affected by the spoils of such projects has been verified. The analysis will be made from the Petrochemical Complex of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Comperj), being installed in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, especially in Guanabara Bay and has brought direct impacts to local fishermen. These are faced with the spoils built by Comperj ranging from increased pollution to the decrease of free areas for fishing. Through the Guanabara Bay claim as a guarantee of their ways of life and work fishermen come engaging in socio-territorial conflict


Abstract The way of life of Lampung people, Piil Pesenggiri, essentially is related to existence of human being correlating to God, other human, and nature. From the axiological dimension, Piil Pesengiri contains some values, such as divinity, religiousity, spirituality, morality, intellectuality, individuality, sociality, and material. Those values can be pressed into three values: divinity, humanity, and vitality. Strategy of cultural development in Lampung must refer to the values of Piil Pesenggiri. It focus on political system of leadership/ power, economy, environment and education. The reason is governmental, economical, and environmental policy philosophically can impact and form mindset and lifestyle of Lampung people. Keywords: Piil Pesenggiri, value of divinity, value of humanity, value of vitality.


In this paper, we propose an approach to improve detection of event related potential (ERP) component using hidden process model, which enables estimating the trial-to-trial variability of ERP latency to overcome limitation of the conventional averaging method for extracting ERP components. By using HPM, which is a generative model for estimating underlying process that has unknown onset timing, we can estimate responses of assumed processes underlying cognitive functions and the probability distribution of the onset timing of each process. We applied HPM to ERP data obtained during the oddball task and distinguished ERPs induced by target or nontarget stimuli. We designed 2-process and 3-process HPMs and estimated the responses of each process in these HPMs. Then, we compared these responses with ERP waveforms obtained by conventional averaging. As a result, the waveforms of the estimated response from each model resembled that of averaged ERP while the peak amplitude was higher in estimated responses than in averaged ERP. In addition, the difference of the area under curve between target and nontarget condition was clearer in estimated responses than in averaged ERP. This suggests that HPM might be able to overcome the latency variability of ERP components to estimate more exact components, which will enhance differentiating ERP components between conditions in an ERP study.


In this letter, the prominent biophysicist Max Delbruck asked Heidelberger for reprints of his work on the theory of the precipitin
 reaction, and himself proposed a mathematical theory for calculating the rate, or velocity, of antigen-antibody reactions.


The aim of this research is to examine the evaluation of implementation government standard accounting accrual based. The sampling method of this research used census sampling, whether the sample of this research is 415 respondends. Samples of the research is Local Government Unit (SKPD) in the five district or city in North Sumatera, they are Langkat, Binjai, Medan, Samosir and Humbang Hasudutan. This research using SmartPLS application to analyse the data. The main problems is about how difficult government coordinate the human resource in the district or city government especially in implementation of accounting system . Methods of data analysis used in this research is testing the quality of the data, outer model and inner model test. Outer model consists of convergent validity, discriminant validity and reliability test and inner model consists of adjusted R square and Predictive Relevance (Q 2 ) . The result of this research is partially human resource , software and hardware and understanding of government standard accounting accrual based have effect to implementation government standard accounting accrual based.


Reforming the public sector has meant changes in tax administration. Yet tax reform in most countries has overlooked administrative improvements and focused instead on changing tax rates, addressing the economic efficiency of the tax system and developing new forms of taxation. The literature does not offer any common definitions for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of a tax administration, presenting a piecemeal approach to its operations. This article proposes a model for the comprehensive performance measurement of tax administration and describes the use of this model in assessing the work of tax administration in Slovenia. The assessment revealed a common problem with measurements in transition countries, demonstrating that the tax administration is only aware of weak points in areas assessed using indicators derived from data it collects itself. This neglects soft indicators and work assessments assisted by taxpayers. Evaluating work using indicators of this type has revealed the poor functioning of the tax administration in several areas.


The old relic storehouse in Nanjing was built in 1936 and the seismic capability of this building is insufficient. To ensure the safety of this old storehouse, structural investigation, site inspection and the structural synthetic seismic calculation were done to appraise seismic behavior of this building and find the defect in structural system. Then strengthening ways were discussed based on the analysis and some reasonable strengthening suggestions for old storehouse were put forward.