In the article the author makes an attempt to broaden E. Kubryakova's typology of the drama play titles. The term "speech equation" is suggested in the context of the cognitive and discursive approach to the analysis of the language. This term facilitates more exact and objective interpretation of cognitive and communicative processes of the play title being generated as a speech fragment, which originates from the communication pattern "author – reader/spectator" of the discourse.


This book represents a resurrection of common sense. It presents a number of strategies, taken from the pages of nutritional literature, the herbal pharmacopoeia, and a book of old wives tales. Not being burdened with a medical degree, the author was free to roam the literature, sampling and recommending diverse treatments. In most cases he has tested them on himself, in the tradition of the pioneers of medicine of all times. His readings have led him to the astonishing conclusion that we were built to live 120 healthy, happy years!


Y.B. Tang,1 M. Li,1 Y. Bernabé,2 H.M. Tang,1 X.F. Li,3 X.Y. Bai3 and Z.W. Tao1 1State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China. E-mail: email@example.com 2Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 3School of Geoscience, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China


Samuel Huntington's"The Clash of Civilizations", a focus of studies by relevant scholars, typicallyrepresents the pursuit of the cultural identity of the intellectuals in the process of globalization and the "awareness of unexpected development" related to their survival interests, which from another angle reflects the definite necessity of cross-civilization studies. To avoid trapping in the"clash of civilizations" in"the virtual confrontation"caused by the crisis of cultural identity in the process of globalization, there should be cross-civilization studies and dialogue by the academia, and Chinese scholars engaging in comparative studies are capable of doing it and also should bear the responsibility for it.


We prepared very high-coercivity cobalt ferrite nanoparticles synthesized by a combustion method and using short-time high-energy mechanical milling to increase strain and the structural defects density. The coercivity (HC) of the milled sample reached 3.75 kOe—a value almost five times higher than that obtained for the non-milled material (0.76 kOe). To investigate the effect of the temperature on the magnetic behavior of the milled sample, we performed a thermal treatment on the milled sample at 300, 400, and 600 °C for 30 and 180 min. We analyzed the changes in the magnetic behavior of the nanoparticles due to the thermal treatment using the hysteresis curves, Williamson-Hall analysis, and transmission electron microscopy. The thermal treatment at 600 °C causes decreases in the microstructural strain and density of structural defects resulting in a significant decrease in HC. Furthermore, this thermal treatment increases the size of the nanoparticles and, as a consequence, there is a substantial increa...


The objectives of the research are: (1) to map the condition of character education of junior high school students, (2) to know the effectiveness of character education policy implementation through legal awareness, and (3) to find the effectiveness model of strengthening character education based on legal awareness in SMP. Qualitative and quantitative research methodology, student population of SMP Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan is 700 students. Qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. Result of research: The condition of character education mapping of students is moderate. For the implementation of the character education policy has not been effective and based on legal awareness, the causes among other things, the character education policy is too forced the program, less awakened from self-awareness of the students so that students in the program are less serious. The effectiveness model for strengthening character education based on legal awareness needs to be adjusted to the condition of the learning process of students at school and outside school. Supervision actions by local government and school need to involve parents, ninik mamak, religious figures, and intelligent outposts that exist in the school environment. From the aspects of: (1) the substance of the character education program, (2) the structure of the regulation made: the structure of character education policy that is made there between overlapping regulations. Keywords—legal awareness policy analysis; student character education


SOME OF THE OVERALL BENEFITS THAT THE HIGHWAY FIELD MAY RECEIVE FROM THE STATISTICAL APPROACH ARE DISCUSSED. RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS TO PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR STATISTICAL SPECIFICATIONS ARE DISCUSSED AND LISTED: (1) ACCEPTANCE TESTING VERSUS CONTROL TESTING, (2) DESIGNATION OF A SINGLE POINT OF ACCEPTANCE, (3) INTERNAL ASSURANCE SYSTEM, (4) DESIGNATION OF LOT SIZE, (5) DESIGN TARGET RANGE, (6) PROCESS TOLERANCES, (7) PENALTY SYSTEM, (8) REFEREE PROCEDURE, (9) CONTROL CHART, (10) DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, (11) EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND (12) COOPERATION OF THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS.


HAT rural populations are more fertile than urban is one of the most widelyobserved phenomena in the field of human fertility.' Most of the data on this subject have been collected in the industrialized countries of the West, but some evidence exists that this relationship is widespread among underdeveloped countries as well.2 Whetten's study, published in 1948, included data showing that the fertility of Mexican women was much lower in cities having more than ten thousand inhabitants than in localities having less than ten thousand.3 The present paper pursues further the problem of differential fertility in Mexico utilizing data that have more recently become available. Mexico, in common with other Latin American countries, has a high level of fertility. Since 1932, when the registration of births was considered to be reasonably complete, the annual crude birth rate has not dropped below 42.2 per thousand, and in 1947 it was 46.1 births per thousand population. In 1950 the crude birth rate was 45.7 per thousand.4 This high level of fertility, coupled with decreasing mortality, brought about an 18.7 per cent increase in Mexico's population between 1930 and 1940 and a 31.2 per cent increase between 1940 and 1950. This increase, however, has not been experienced equally by all segments of the population. Since at least the year 1900 urban places in Mexico have grown at faster rates than the country as a whole. Between 1930 and 1940 urban places increased 30.3 per cent; and between 1940 and 1950 they increased 73.0 per cent 5 as compared with 31.2 per cent for the country as a whole. This large increase in Mexico's urban population has come about in large part from differential internal migration. Indirect evidence of this is shown by an analysis of state-of-birth data from the Mexican Censuses of 1940 and 1950. During the decade, 1940-50, urban municipios experienced a total increase in population of 3,569,892 persons and the remaining municipios 2,550,846 persons. In urban municipios, the increase during the decade in the number of persons born in other states represents 30.4 per cent of their total population increase, while in the rural municipios the net increase in persons born in other states represents only 5.4 per cent of the total increase over the decade.6


The administration of ethanol to normal rats results in a significant increase in liver neutral fat. The continuous intravenous administration of either choline or soya lecithin following ethanol a...


Strategy for Professional Development of Early Madrasah Teachers in Indonesia. This study aims to determine the patterns and strategies for the professional development of madrasah diniyah teachers in Indonesia. The method used in this research is library research with an explanatory approach. Collecting data using relevant research and factual data. The results of the study indicate that there are several shortcomings of the professional development of madrasah diniyah teachers, namely static learning patterns and conventional delivery of material so that it is necessary to update the strategies carried out by madrasas to improve quality through three innovative programs, namely pre-service education, in-service education, and in-service training


The goal of this paper is to analyze main changes in the business performance - as in part of the overall competitiveness - of the Visegrad Group, i.e. Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland and Hungary, in the last ten years, 2004-2014, based on Pearson correlation, Chow and Granger Causality tests. The business performance in the Visegrad Group is defined with the help of five indicators: business density, value added per business entity, investment in fixed capital per business density, inward foreign direct investment stock per business entity and ex-ports of goods and services per business entity. The author finds that the business performance, and hence the business environment, in the Visegrad Group has diverged since EU accession with the exception of internationalization indicators, which indicates the necessity for managers to adjust to the specifics in each particular country.


This article outlines what small systems need to do to address the Y2K problem. First, identify all the computer‐supported operations of the system, such as backwashing and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) telemetry systems. Second, determine whether any of these operations use a "real‐time" clock function, which relies on the exact calendar day of the year. Also, in regards to billing software, it would be important to require certification from the billing software vendor that their products are Y2K compliant. It is also recommended that small system managers require all purchase orders to contain language that requires equipment to be Y2K compliant. A checklist prepared by the Federal Reserve Board and recommended by the Small Business Administration is provided, along with websites that offer detailed information about Y2K compliance.


Chief Investigator: Professor Sasha Shepperd, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford Investigators: Dr Graham Ellis, Monklands Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire, Glasgow. Dr Mary Godfrey, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds. Professor Alastair Gray, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. Dr Pradeep Khanna, Aneurin Bevan Health Board, Gwent, Wales. Dr Anthony Helmsley, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon. Professor David Stott, Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, University of Glasgow. Professor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Dr Rafael Perera, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Professor Peter Langhorne, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow.


We devised a semiautomatic approach for extracting lake features based on a customized set of normalized difference water index (NDWI) information which was obtained by incorporating high resolution, 8-band WorldView-2 data. An extensive accuracy assessment was carried out for three semiautomatic feature extraction approaches for extracting 36 lake features on Larsemann Hills, Antarctica. The method was tested on five existing PAN-sharpening algorithms, which suggest that the customized NDWI approach renders intermediate performance (root mean square error varies from ~227 to ~235 m 2 ) and highest stability when compared with existing feature extraction techniques. In general, the customized NDWI rendered a least misclassification ( ≈11 percent), followed by target detection (≈16 percent) and spectral processing (≈17 percent) methods for extraction of 36 lakes. We also found that customized NDWI caused consistently least misclassification ( ≈21 percent) than the target detection (≈23 percent) and spectral processing (≈30 percent) methods for extraction of partially snow or ice-covered 11 lakes. Our results indicate that the use of the customized NDWI approach and appropriate PANsharpening algorithm can greatly improve the semiautomatic extraction of lake features in cryospheric environment.


An African Vice-Chancellors' Regional Food Systems Dialogue was hosted with the aim to provide a multi-stakeholder platform for stakeholders to explore various existing and emerging approaches that have the potential to deliver sustainable solutions at scale and encourage collaborative actions to directly transform Africa's agriculture and food systems. Various food system experts and leaders from policy research institutions, universities, and other stakeholders participated. A lack of coherent linkages among stakeholders, youth restlessness, and silos within and between higher education institutions were some of the challenges identified to hindering the much needed transformation. Poor links with ministries and political red tape, inadequate programme funding and capital for coping with rising input costs, as well as unsustainable resource mobilization were also reported as having a negative effect. To address these, stakeholders must embrace collaboration and transdisciplinary practices, mobilize resources, and harness partnerships for greater leverage. In addition, a systems-thinking approach to dealing with complex issues should be adopted, while partners co-design and co-create research initiatives. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Big Data were identified as key enablers that can ensure relevant research with appropriate translation into practice while maintaining quality and excellence. This research—together with society-relevant curriculums with emphasis on agricultural sciences and practical on-farm skills—must inform policies and practice. Higher education institutions must be committed to driving the sustainable food system transformation agenda in partnership with other stakeholders. Institutions must be at the forefront of reimagining the sector's role when it comes to transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation aimed at strengthening the continent's agro-food systems.


Brain imaging research allows direct assessment of structural and functional brain abnormalities, and thereby provides an improved methodology for studying neurobiological factors predisposing to violent and aggressive behavior. This paper reviews 20 brain imaging studies using CT, MRI. rCBE and PET conducted in the study of violent and sexual offending. Two alternative positions, based on the findings. are presented: (a) frontal lobe dysfunction may be associated with violent offending while temporal lobe dysfunction may be associated with sexual offending and fronto-temporal dysfunction may be associated with violent sexual olrending, and (b) anterior brain dysfunction may represent a general predisposition to offending irrespective of location of the dysfunction such that dysfunction to frontal or temporal areas may predispose to offending, with the type of offending (e.g.. violent, sexual, or violent and sexual) determined more by non-biological factors. Conceptual issues in neuroimaging research rega...


Background and purpose: Insulin regulates cell growth and apoptosis by binding to its receptor (INSR). Many studies show that variation in insulin pathway play a plausible role in the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). The goal of this study was to evaluate the incidence of insulin receptor (INSR rs1799817) in people attending Taleghani Hospital and to investigate the role of this polymorphism in increased risk to CRC. Materials and methods: In this case-control study genotyping of the insulin receptor (INSR rs1799817) were determined in a series of 110 colorectal cancer patients and 110 controls using polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism genotyping assays (PCR-RFLP). To investigate the relationship between genotypes and risk of CRC SPSS (V16) was used. Results: The results showed that polymorphism INSR rs 1799817 was not a predisposing factor for increased risk of CRC (P= 0.49). There was no significant difference in the incidence of mutant allele between the patients and controls (OR= 1.12 95% CI= 0.73-1.69). Conclusion: These findings suggest that polymorphism insulin receptor rs 1799817 is not associated with increased risk of CRC.


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) operates Physical Oceanographic Real Time Systems (PORTS/spl reg/) at many of our Nation's major sea ports to provide real-time information in support of safe and efficient maritime commerce. As part of on-going efforts to improve PORTS/spl reg/, COOPS has partnered with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to install current measurement systems on existing navigation buoys. These systems consist of a "clamparatus" that secures a current profiler and electronics box to the buoy. The entire package weighs less than 200 pounds and is easily deployed using a small boat and a block and tackle. Data are sent to shore via spread-spectrum radios. Deployments up to seven months have been achieved because of the low power consumption of both the profiler and radios. The biggest challenge to date has been correcting the compass error induced by the steel buoy; initial compass calibrations have removed much of the magnetic deviation. The results of comparisons with current directions from bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) are encouraging, showing agreement to within +/-13/spl deg/ when all data are included. The difference improves to 11/spl deg/ when speeds less than 12.9 cm/s (.25 knots) are omitted. Recent experiments include the collection of global positioning system (GPS) compass measurements during calibration.


In the near future, people and artificial intelligences (AIs) will often be working together. This will require special training for both the people and the AIs. Virtual reality (VR) used for training may come into its own, especially in situations where the people and the AIs must move quickly and safely together. This chapter looks at just such training. In this story, "The Triceratops," the AIs are in charge of the training; they also control the future employment opportunities of people. This brings out a number of ethical considerations and practical considerations when people's lives are controlled by AIs in important ways, even in training.


Interpreting is a cross-cultural communication.Language is the carrier of culture.Cross-cultural awareness and competence of an interpreter,that is whether the languages that he/she is interpreting are culturally,is one of the norms to evaluate an interpreter.


The aim of this article is to characterize the penetration bias of the ENVIronmental SATellite (ENVISAT) radar altimeter over the Antarctic ice sheet through comparison with the more accurate measurements of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) altimeter at crossover points. We studied the difference between ENVISAT and ICESat fluctuations over six years. We observed the same patterns between the leading edge width and the elevation difference. Both parameters are linked, and the major bias is due to the lengthening of the leading edge width due to the radar penetration. We show that the elevation difference between both altimeters and the leading edge width are linearly well-linked with a 0.8 Pearson correlation coefficient, whereas the slope effect over the coasts is difficult to analyze. When we analyze each crossover point temporal evolution locally, the linear correlation between the leading edge width and the elevation difference is between −0.6 and −1. Fitting a linear model between them, we find a reliability index greater than 0.7 for the Antarctic Plateau and Dronning Maud Land, which confirms that the penetration effect has a linear influence on the retrieved height. Moreover, we present results from SARAL/AltiKa (launched in February 2013) that confirm SARAL/AltiKa accuracy and the promising information it will provide.


* Russomanno, Joseph (2002). Speaking Our Minds: Conversations with the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, pp. 476 * Yalof, David A. and Dautrich, Kenneth (2002). The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion. Cambridge; The Cambridge University Press, pp. 155 Among the freedoms most cherished in the United States are those guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. As such, the freedoms to speak and publish are highly valued in maintaining democratic ideals. Protection of those fundamental liberties, therefore, remains at the forefront of American public policy. Two recent books in this area contribute to our knowledge of the First Amendment by examining some of the freedoms embodied in it through the eyes of key stakeholders-those who pursue violations to some of the highest courts and members of the general public who responded to surveys about their interpretation of the First Amendment. Speaking Our Minds: Conversations with the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases sets out to review ten landmark cases-one per chapter-through the voices of some of the major participants. This is not a traditional law casebook, although case excerpts of major judicial rulings appear at the end of each chapter. Rather, it is a compilation of the stories of citizens, professional communicators and lawyers told in their own words. In their own way, these noteworthy speech advocates used the courage of their convictions to bring important First Amendment cases to some of the highest courts in the federal judiciary. The author, journalism professor Joseph Russomanno, conducted extensive-and in some cases exhaustive-interviews with some of the parties and participants, several of whom are household names in the media or First Amendment bar-Sam Donaldson (ABC News), Larry Flynt (Hustlermagazine), and media lawyers Walter Isaacman and Floyd Abrams. Interspersed between the interviews with these important players are summaries of court proceedings, pronouncements and explanatory notes. These aid the readers' understanding of the sequence of events, provide helpful annotations, and assist in moving the stories along. Each chapter begins with the background of a significant case, although the cases' landmark status is debatable in a couple of instances. Each chapter ends with a heavily edited version of the federal circuit or Supreme Court decision that was discussed in depth by the parties and their attorneys. A question/answer format is used quite effectively here both to interview the subjects about their involvement and as a presentation tool. Many of the interviewees appeared to give candid responses to various direct questions by the author. The questions delved into key aspects of the cases-from how and why they got involved to their interpretations of the effects of the courts' ultimate rulings. Their replies may seem somewhat predictable for those who are familiar with the selected cases. But that does not detract from the usefulness of the cases as teaching tools. Cover to cover, this collection offers great benefits for communication law teachers by unlocking the true nature of protecting free expression and venturing behind the scenes of the appellate judicial process. Interviewees' responses are rich with anecdotes about their thrilling victories and agonizing defeats, bringing to the fore their contemporaneous emotions, hopes, concerns and fears. At times, the interview format enlivens the manuscript by recalling approaches and strategies used and the flavor of the times in which these cases were decided. Noticeably absent from several of the case studies, however, were voices opposing free expression rights. When properly used, that perspective adds significant depth to the case studies. Each chapter makes a different kind of contribution for readers. For example, Tinker v. Des Moines Iowa School District gives a sense of what it was like to take the unpopular action of wearing black armbands in the 1960s in support of a truce in the Vietnam War. …


This paper describes the factors which have had an influence on the land use impacts of rapid rail systems in the past and the implications for the future Downtown People Mover projects. These factors include favorable local government policies, strong market conditions, and land availability.


The recent growth of e-commerce websites has paved a way for the users to express their opinions on these web portals which, in turn, makes the customers review these comments before buying any product or service. The comprehensive reading of these large number of reviews is cumbersome and tiring. The purpose of this paper is to perform the analysis on the tourism domain reviews to decide whether the document is positive or negative. The traditional methods use a machine learning approach, but the authors are using an unsupervised dictionary based approach to classify the opinions. The scores of the opinions are extracted using Sentiwordnet, a popular dictionary for calculating the sentiment.


Corporate offshoring refers to the practice of firms moving business activities beyond the borders of their countries to perform functions that otherwise could be done in the home country (Bunyaratavej et al. 2011; Grappi et al. 2013). While prior to the turn of the century, offshoring was mostly confined to the manufacturing sector, offshore services have emerged as a dynamic global sector over the past two decades, driven by the rise of information and communication technologies and the international tradability of services. While much attention has focused on the benefits (e.g. cost savings, increased productivity), less attention has been paid to the negative effects of offshoring business services on the provider-client relationship. Based on moral theory, status quo bias theory, and literature on innovation resistance, this paper investigates customers' objections to offshoring credence services in a business-to-business context. The paper develops a conceptual framework and expected contributions will be discussed.


In this paper, we introduce different equivalent formulations of variational principle. The language of differential forms and manifold has been utilized to deduce Euler–Lagrange equations in free coordinates. Thus, the expression is simple and global.


The middling low yield lands covers 55% of the total cultivated land in Zhumadian Area. The reasons that formed the middling low yield land is the poor quality land which is also lack fertilized. Furthermore the natural calamity happens frenqutly. The basis construction for farm land can not form a complete set and small quancitiy of money was thrown into agriculture. The administrative measures are reenforcing the basic construction for agruculture, improving the quality of soil and tilling the land scientifically.


A method of determining the impurity content of silicon samples by means of IR spectroscopy, comprising at least the following steps: a) providing a rough sawn silicon sample having a surface roughness Ra greater than 0.02 micrometers and a thickness less than 6 mm b) irradiation of EM radiation in the IR range to the rough sawn silicon sample c) measuring the absorption at a predefined wavelength d) repeating steps b) and c), a reference sample is measured e) determining the impurity content based on the in steps b) to d) obtained extinction coefficient


This is a book review of the following volume: Katerina Nicolopoulou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Frank Janssen, and John M Jermier (eds), Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. Abingdon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2016; 400 pp, £110.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-138-81266-6.


A preparation method of faropenem sodium taken (3R, 4R)-4-acetoxy-3-((R) (t-butyldimethylsilyloxy) ethyl) 2-azetidinone as primary material is characterized by being prepared by five steps: an intermediate compound I is obtained through salt condensation of R-sulfo-tetrahydrofuran-2-formic acid under the catalysis of zinc halide; an intermediate compound II is gained through acidylation reaction of the intermediate compound I catalyzed by alkali and mono-oxyprophl group oxalyl chloride or allyloxy formoyl formaldehyde; the intermediate compound II is dissolved in triethyl phosphate solvent to obtain an intermediate III through cyclization; the intermediate III is added in the solvent and hydroxyl protecting group is divested through the action of ammonium bifluoride, thus obtaining an intermediate compound IV; the intermediate compound IV is dissolved in the solvent and the protecting group thereof is divested through the action of 4 (triphenylphosphine) palladuium and triphenyl phasphine, thereby getting the faropenem sodium by the effect of sodium iso-octoate. The method has less operation steps, high yield rate, low cost, and is suitable for industrial production.


The parabolic equation method is an accurate and efficient approach for solving nonseparable problems in ocean acoustics in which there are horizontal variations in the environmental parameters. Many range-dependent problems may be solved using 2-D parabolic equation models that ignore coupling of energy between planes of constant azimuth. When azimuthal coupling must be taken into account, the splitting method may be used to efficiently solve a 3-D parabolic equation that handles the depth operator to higher order but handles the azimuth operator only to leading order. Despite the fact that this approximation provides a favorable combination of accuracy and efficiency for 3-D problems, run times have generally been regarded as prohibitive for the long-range problems that are often of interest in ocean acoustics. It is demonstrated here that, when propagation paths from source to receiver are confined to a relatively narrow neighborhood of the vertical plane containing the source and receiver, it is practical to solve 3-D problems out to long ranges by using nonuniform azimuthal sampling, with fine sampling near the vertical plane and extremely coarse sampling elsewhere.


The importance of environmental factors in the development of economic systems at the moment has been significantly increased. The ecological determinant becomes mandatory in modern economic theories ("green economy", sustainable development economics). This requires the development of the necessary methodological tools for its assessment. In the article, assessment of the regions of Russia is formed using the author's methodology of ecological safety; сlustering of regions is carried out according to the value of the indicator of economic security and the character of its change since 2005; types of regions are identified according to the level of ecological safety, their ecological and economic characteristics are determined; recommendations are made to public authorities in the sphere of regional economic policy.


The composition and characteristics of insoluble fruit matter (IFM) and alcohol insoluble solids (AIS) from banana, mango and orange were evaluated. The galacturonic acid content was significantly higher for mango and orange pectin (6.0%) compared to banana (5%). The degrees of esterification of pectin in AIS were 78 ± 5, 85 ± 6 and 85 ± 2 for mango, orange and banana, respectively. Proteins in the fruit pulps were of low molecular weight (<100,000 Da). The relative proportions of the amino acids in the AIS and IFM were similar, with predominant aspartic acid and low methionine and tyrosine contents. Phenolic compounds were highest in banana pulp (138 ± 2 mg gallic acid equivalent/L = mg GA/L) compared to 102 ± 8 mg GA/L for orange. Phenolic compounds were about 10-fold less (15 ± 2 mg GA/L) in mango.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

This work has applications to the development of natural clouding agents for juices, juice-added beverages and protein-fortified beverages. The chemical analysis provides fundamental information on the potential for stable protein interactions from banana and mango, tropical fruits that are desirable in beverages. Further, the research enhances the potential for value-added processing of these fruits.


In the context of supply-side structual reform, the marketization of forest ecological compensation is an inevitable requirement under the market economy. The forest health-cultivation industry, which explores the new method to utilize the forestry resources, is a new direction of forestry firms and is the production of supply-side structural reform. From the perspective of forest health-cultivation industry, this essay explores the possibility of the marketization of forest ecological compensation based on forest health-cultivation industry, and predicts the willingness of people to pay for the ecological service by using the original number of tourists in forestry tourism and leisure industry tourism between 2010 and 2015 and adopting the improved GM (1,1) model. The result shows that people's willingness is increasing. It is predicted that, by 2023, the number of tourists in forestry tourism and leisure industry tourism will reach 8.98 billion. The development of forest health-cultivation industry has introduced the market mechanism for forestry development, which makes up for the deficiency of the existing compensation mechanism characterized by low compensation standards and single channel of funding. The increase of people's demand for ecological tourism and the boom of forest health-cultivation industry which provide a new opportunity for the marketization and diversification of forest ecological compensation mechanism.


In this article, I draw on personal experiences with mentors throughout various periods of my education. More specifically, I address the impact of two scholars, Dr. Michelle Camacho and Dr. Lionel Cantu, in shaping my decision to attend graduate school. I discuss how their ongoing support, in combination with university mentorship-focused programs, helped me to prepare for life in the academy. I end with a reflection of Dr. Lionel Cantu's untimely death and how his legacy continues to influence my academic trajectory.


The ion-channel laser (ICL) has been proposed as an alternative to the free-electron laser (FEL), replacing the deflection of electrons in an undulator by betatron oscillations in an ion channel. The aim of this study is to describe the ICL in terms of the well-developed formalism for the FEL in the steady-state, while taking into account the dependence of the resonance between oscillations and emitted field on the oscillation amplitude. Numerical solutions for experimentally relevant parameters show similarities and differences between both devices. The ICL has potential to replace FELs based on magnetic undulators, leading to very compact coherent X-ray sources. Furthermore, coupling the ICL with a laser plasma wakefield accelerator would reduce the size of a coherent light sources by several orders of magnitude.


Describes a system that is used for precise movements of cargo on the rope suspension and damping their spatial oscillations. Technical result is achieved by the fact that at the bottom of the trolley crane is hinge attached the rod with guide rollers which rotate by means of two hydraulic cylinders.


Industries use numerous drives and actuators, including DC motors. Due to the wide-ranged and adjustable speed, DC motor is widely used in many industries. However, the DC motor is prone to external disturbance and parameter changes, causing its speed to be unstable. Thus, a DC motor requires an appropriate controller design to obtain a fast and stable speed with a small steady-state error. In this study, a controller was designed based on the PID control method, with the controller gains tuned by trial-and-error and MATLAB Tuner with an identification system. The proposed controller design was implemented using PLC OMRON CP1E NA20DRA in the hardware implementation. Each tuning method was repeated five times so that the system performances could be compared and improved. Based on hardware implementation results, the trial-error method gave acceptable results but had steady-state errors. On the other hand, the use of MATLAB Tuner provided fast system responses with no steady-state error but still had oscillations with high overshoot during the transition. Therefore, the PID controller gains acquired from MATLAB Tuner must be tuned finely to get better system responses.


Review(s) of: The Business of Electronic Publishing, by Colette, John and Quinn, Meredith, AFTRS/Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1997. ISBN 0 6422 7093 7. 244 pp., $35.00. Distributor: Allen and Unwin.


This paper presents a method for modelling the seam puckering of multi-layer fabrics by considering the thread shrinkage as well as seam structure and fabric compression properties. A theoretical investigation and numerical calculation of forces acting on the sewing thread were carried out. Based on this, the forces causing the thread tension puckering were analyzed and a seam model to calculate the deformation of a multi-layer seam when threads shrink is presented. Three types of seams were simulated and satisfactory results were obtained


It is hard to find a topic that has occasioned more contentious theoretical debates but also more fruitful dialogue between philosophical argumentation and empirical research than that of the nature and origins of our everyday capacity to understand human behavior by ascribing mental states, or what has been labeled our folk psychology. In commenting on the surprising surge of interest over the last few decades in 'the folklore of the mind,' the philosopher Radu Bogdan [1991] once cited the essayist Emil Cioran as saying 'that the two most interesting things in life are gossip and metaphysics' (p. 1). In some respects Daniel Hutto's new book Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons is an outstanding illustration of the relevance of this saying for a strand of current theorizing in psychology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary theory and other disciplines, which attempts to reconnect theory of mind (ToM) to social life and its pervasive practice of storytelling about people. This theoretical move toward grounding mental life in sociocultural activities can be traced back to the efforts to bring meaning into the study of human psychology pioneered by Jerome Bruner [1990] and Katherine Nelson [1985, 2007], in response to the prevalent objectivist approaches to cognition that posit innate modules, theoretical explanatory frameworks, or other internal cognitive mechanisms, which have proliferated in contemporary cognitive science. Expanding on Bruner's influential ideas regarding the roles of narratives in culture and in the development of psychological understanding, Hutto builds a strong argument for why, instead of searching for innate specialized mechanisms, or starter theories, or uniquely human introspective/projective capacities, all inherited from our evolutionary history, we need only to turn to the pieces of gossip and fairy tales and stories about people who act for reasons, which are part of the fabric of social life and abound in most cultures, to discover the roots of our folk psychology. But before evaluating this refreshing proposal, some terminological clarifications need to be put in place.


The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between all the independent variables which are Corruption, Inflation Rates, Foreign Direct Investment, and Government Expenditure to the Economic Growth in five selected Southeast Asian countries namely Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia. The study has used Panel Regression Model in order to discover the relationship between all the independent variables and economic growth. The annual percentages of each variables starting from 1995 until 2016. Based on the result, foreign direct investment and government expenditure have a positive relationship on the economic growth while inflation rates has negative relationship on the economic growth and corruption have insignificant negative relationship towards economic growth in 5 Southeast Asian countries namely Malaysia, Singapore,
Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia. This shows that the economic growth which is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are sensitive to changes in all of the independent variables except corruption. Furthermore, based on the result, government expenditure is the most significant factor that affecting the economic growth performance.


Polyhydroxybutirate Producing Bacteria M2 Isolated From Pulau Laki, KepulauanSeribu. PHB is one of very important material for production of biodegradable plastic,and physiologically it is important electron sink in anaerobic-aerobic process. PHB accumulating bacteria M2 was isolated from mangrove of Pulau Laki, Kepulauan Seribu.The bacteria were able to produce PHB from glucose, acetate, and sucrose .Strain M2 was produced PHB (79.9% of biomass) by using acetate as sole carbon sources. The strain was also able to grow at 3 % to 5 % with a doubling time of 10.9 and 21.04 hours and specific growth rate (0.0633 h-1 and 0.0328 h-1). The ability of Strain M2 to produce PHB and its salinity tolerance implying that this strain is not only importance for PHB production but also ecologically importance microbe.


1. Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization Miles Kahler 2. Bounded communities: territoriality, territorial attachment, and conflict H. E. Goemans 3. On giving ground: globalization, religion, and territorial detachment in a Papua New Guinea society Joel Robbins 4. The resilience of territorial conflict in an era of globalization David Newman 5. Diasporas and homeland conflict Terrence Lyons 6. Territory and war: state size and patterns of interstate conflict David A. Lake and Angela O'Mahony 7. Globalization, economic development, and territorial conflict Erik Gartzke 8. The death of distance? The globalization of armed conflict Halvard Buhaug and Nils Petter Gleditsch 9. The evolution of territoriality: international relations and American law Kal Raustiala 10. Trade and territorial conflict in Latin America: international borders as institutions Beth A. Simmons 11. Conclusion Barbara F. Walter.


IntroductionPart I: Cultures of Community1. Three Halloweens, Three Viroquas 2. The Alternatives: A Kinder, Gentler Counterculture 3. The Main Streeters: The Busiest People in Town 4. The Regulars: Keeping Things Simple 5. Playing in the Same Sandbox?Part II: Commerce, Consumption, and Community in Viroqua6. Beneficent Enterprise and Viroquan Exceptionalism 7. Retail Morality 8. Consumption and Belonging in ViroquaEpilogue and ConclusionAppendix: Study Methods References Index


The Indian Premier League is a new T20 League which completed its inaugural season in 2008. Players' auctions are not new phenomena in the world of sports. However, in the game of cricket auctioning of players was first time used in Indian Premier League (IPL). No fixed method was used before to evaluate the performance of a player and determining its base price. In this study, we build several predictive models for predicting the selection of a player in the Indian Premier League, a cricket league, based on each player's past performance. Using One-Day International (ODI) variables and T-20 variables of both batting and bowling, we have found a number of interpretable variables that have explanatory power over auction values. The models that are developed can help decision makers during the auction to set salaries for the players.


In this article, the process type and participant function of Jiah Khan's, Kevin Carter's, and Virginia Woolf's suicide notes are analyzed. This article actually is a continuation of the article entitled Experiences around the Clauses: A Transitivity Analysis of Four Famous People's Suicide Notes published by Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature (see Sawirman and Ridhwani, 2020) about the transitivity system, including process types, participant functions, and circumstantial elements, used in these suicide notes. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory is applied. Not only qualitative approach but also descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Existing documents are one of the instruments to collect the data. Four suicide letters namely a suicide note written by Jiah Khan in 2016, a suicide letter written by Kevin Carter and published by TIME in 2001 entitles The Life and Death of Kevin Carter, and two Virginia Woolf's suicide discourse published by Quentin Bell entitle Virginia Woolf: A Biography: 1912-1941 (1972) and an autobiography entitles The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: an Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1970.


The invention discloses a high-precision fiber-optic gyroscope inertial measurement device calibration method which comprises the following steps: S1, respectively forwards turning a fiber-optic gyroscope inertial measurement device by 90 degrees, 180 degrees and 270 degrees for three times according to three axes of oi shaft (i refers to X, Y and Z), reversely rotating the device by 90 degrees, 180 degrees and 270 degrees for three times, and returning to an initial position; and S2, totally moving by 19 positions comprising the previous 18 turning positions and the initial position, fully exciting the error of the instrument under static and dynamic conditions, and performing optimal estimation by utilizing a parameter estimation method. According to the method disclosed by the invention, repeated electrification and power failure are not needed, the device is only turned according to a certain sequence, the parameters can be identified, and the influence caused by inconsistent reference in the repeated electrification and calibration process is avoided.


Physics experiment is an important way to carry out quality-oriented education. Yet, middle school physics experiment is comparatively a weak link, which gives rise to a new question in making college physics experiment.


We have established a novel method which make electron scattering off short-lived radioactive nuclei come into being. This novel method was named SCRIT (Self-Confining RI ion Target). It was based on the well known "ion trapping" phenomenon in electron storage rings. Stable nucleus, 133Cs, was used as target nucleus in the R&D experiment. The luminosity of interaction between stored electrons and Cs ions was about 1.02(0.06) × 1026cm-2s-1 at beam current around 80 mA. The angular distribution of elastically scattered electrons from trapped Cs ions was measured. And an online luminosity monitor was used to monitor the change of luminosity during the experiment.


This concert marks the reissue of the trio's 1998 recording 'Sudden in an Shaft of Sunlight'. The democratic improvisatory dialect of the ensemble has always sought to balance the contributions of the three players: Allan Browne (drums), Nick Haywood (bass) and Tim Stevens (piano). With keen listening and subtle interplay the music-making is a truly collaborative effort. Sudden in a shaft has recently been reissued on Rufus Records, and this performance marks a 're-launch' of the album, which received an ARIA nomination.


WTU innovative practice team investigates the university campus courier market,interviews the staffs from these express agencies such as Shentong express,Yunda express,Yuantong express,Zhongtong express and Huitong express,combines with the Internet and related information,designs a questionnaire on the basis of the interview,conducts a questionnaire survey and draws the following conclusion after the statistics,summary and analysis so as to better serve all the teachers and students.


NUMO has developed a generic safety case for geological disposal in Japan. This safety case provides the multiple lines of arguments and evidence to demonstrate the feasibility and safety of geological disposal, which will encourage stakeholder confidence in the safe implementation of geological disposal and will provide the basic structure for a safety case which will be applicable to any potential site. This paper provides the outline of trial underground repository layout designs tailored to the site descriptive models (SDMs) in this safety case. Suitable emplacement areas were first selected in the repository-scale SDMs based on the Layout Determining Features (LDFs) defined by the geological features such as faults and permeable rocks. Next, geometry of repository panels was determined. Regarding the high level radioactive waste, both through type and dead-end type were applied for the vertical and horizontal emplacement concepts. Then, layout of the repository panel was designed in the suitable emplacement area considering the Emplacement Determining Features (EDFs) defined by the features such as water inflow from minor faults and fractures in the disposal tunnels, ensuring the space for the reserved areas. As a result of comparison among the above design options, the dead-end type geometry with the horizontal emplacement concept could be identified as a relatively efficient and economical approach which has more flexibility to the geological structures.


Two new in amber preserved Zygentoma are described, namely Protolepisma tainicum gen. n. sp. n. (Lepismatidae) from the Dominican Republic of Hispaniola Island, and Paleograssiella chiapanicum gen. n. sp. n. (Nicoletiidae) from the Chiapas State of Mexico. Dated at approximately 20–30 MY old, they represent, respectively, the second fossil Lepismatidae known from the Dominican deposits and the first fossil Nicoletiidae (Atelurinae) and only fossil Zygentoma known from Mexico.


LSE's Marc Davies analyses the state of South African politics as South Africa's Leader of the Opposition Mmusi Maimane claims that disillusionment with the ruling African National Congress is rising.


Changes of calmodulin (CaM) distribution in the embryo sac of rice (Oryza sativa subsp. japonica) at various stages before and after fertilization have been investigated by using immunogold electron microscopy. Before pollination, both cytoplasm and vacuoles of the egg cell, synergids and central cell were labeled by gold particles. A small amount of gold particles were localized in the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and dictyosomes. From pollination to fertilization, CaM amount increased in these cells, especially rich in the starch of amyloplasts. Increase of gold particles in the central cell began about 2 h earlier than that in the egg cell. There was no distinct difference of CaM amount between the degenerated and the persistent synergids. It is interesting to observe an obvious change of CaM distribution form during pollination and fertilization from scattered single particles to clustered particles, and back again to single particles after the fertilization finished. CaM was also localized extracellularly in the embryo sac wall as well as in the wall and intercellular space of nucellus cells. The extracellular CaM also changes in its amount and form after pollination. These results suggest that CaM, either intra_ or extra_cellular, may play important roles in fertilization and zygote formation.


Abstract Utilization of biomass from logging residues for renewable energy production depends on forest harvesting businesses. As biomass markets emerge, businesses will need to adapt to meet opera...


Preparation of samples of known concentration of hydrogen fluoride, arsine and phosgene in air from 0.5 to 10 times the TLV is described. These are required to evaluate and calibrate analytical monitoring devices used for measuring these gases in work atmospheres. Dynamic gas-blending systems have been constructed and evaluated at the National Bureau of Standards for preparing these samples. Measurements to estimate the long term concentration stability of these gases are also included.


A pulse method for the direct measurement of the normal spectral emissivity of electrical conductors in the form of strips was described. The normal spectral emissivity of the specimen was measured by integrating sphere reflectometry developed at HIT. At the same time, the radiance temperature was measured by high speed pyrometer from 1 100 K to the melting point. The heat capacity, electrical resistivity, total hemispherical emissivity and spectral emissivity of the specimen can be measured by using this apparatus for some materials. The preliminary results of the normal spectral emissivity of niobium at 632.8 nm in a wide temperature range were presented and discussed.


Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) annual reports over the years indicate a continued decline in learners' performance in English paper at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Among the three English language papers at KCSE, Paper Three which tests writing skills is poorly performed. Moreover, performance of boys has been lower than that of girls. This gender disparity is attributed to among other factors, the instructional approaches adopted by the English teachers. Although studies have been carried out on English language performance, the effects of Cooperative Learning (CL) on gender of secondary school learners in English language writing skills in Nakuru North Sub-county has not been done. This study therefore investigated the effects of CL on gender of secondary school learners' achievement in English language writing skills. Solomon Four Non-equivalent Control Group Design under the quasi-experimental research was used. The accessible population was all Form Two learners in co-educational schools in Nakuru North Subcounty, Kenya. Purposive sampling technique was used to select four schools with a total of 197 learners. The schools were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. All learners were taught the same English language content of imaginative essay writing. The experimental groups were taught using CL approach while the control groups were taught using Regular Teaching Approach (RTA). English language Writing Skills Achievement Test (ELWSAT) was used to collect data. ELWSAT was validated and then piloted before use to ascertain the reliability coefficient. The reliability coefficient for ELWSAT was found to be 0.87. Data was analysed using t-test, one-way ANOVA and ANCOVA at a significance level of alpha (α) equal to 0.05. The results of the study showed that there was no statistically significant gender difference in learners' means when CL was used. The findings of this study may go a long way to reducing gender disparity in English language writing skills.


In this paper, a model predictive control (MPC) based on the indirect continuous-control set (CCS) is proposed for regulating the grid current waveform provided by a PV grid-connected single-phase inverter. It involves a three-level NPC quasi-Z-source (3L-NPC qZS) inverter, an only-string PV array, and a LCL output filter. From a finite set of modulation index values, the proposed indirect CCS-MPC current control selects one of them for an external fixed switching frequency driver based on LS-PWM strategy. An issue regarding cost function composition and modulation index regulation is also proposed for improvement of transient and steady-state responses. Simulations results from a PSCAD/EMTDC model are presented and discussed. Even limited by a fixed switching frequency, obtained results demonstrate: an acceptable accuracy of the proposed system model; and a robustness of the evaluated indirect CCS-MPC grid current method under some external perturbation conditions.


Maham Rasheed, Naeema Sarfraz, Raheel Ahmed E-Mail Id: email@example.com Clinical Psychology Department, Government College University (GCU), Lahore Pakistan Abstract-The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between perceived psychological stresses, burn out (exhaustion, disengagement) among police constables (16-55 years). Sample of the police constables was taken from 5 different cities (Sheikhupura, Lahore, Narowal, Kasur and Farooqabad) of police departments. Perceived Psychological stress developed by Sheldon. Olden Burg Inventory developed by Baller and Demographic questionnaire was used for the assessment in police constables. The results indicated that there is a significant correlation between income, burn out and psychological distress. The major contribution of the results is that although the police constables performed the same duty and having the same responsibilities but the level of burn out, perceived psychological stress differs in five cities according to their occupational stress and demand of their jobs. As in the Lahore city there are more security needed and having political addresses from other cities.


Oral administration is the mostconvenient and preferred means ofdrug delivery to the systemiccirculation. Oral controlled release(CR) drug delivery have recentlybeen of increasing interest inpharmaceutical field to achieveimproved therapeutic advantagessuch as ease of dosingadministration, patient complianceand flexibility in formulation.


Johannes Czernin, editor in chief of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, talked with Andrew M. Scott, director of the Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy at Austin Health, head of the Tumor Targeting Laboratory at Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, a professor at the School of Cancer Medicine at La Trobe University, and a professor at the University of Melbourne (all in Australia), about his role and perspective on the extraordinary growth and promise of theranostic applications in nuclear medicine. Dr. Scott is an internationally recognized physician/scientist whose research has focused on defining and characterizing antigen and receptor targets for cancer therapy, signaling and metabolic pathways in cancer cells, antibody-based therapy and immune regulation of tumors, and molecular imaging of cancer. His research has led to translation of multiple novel antibodies and proteins from basic development to phase 1 and 2 cancer trials. In addition to his clinical and research activities, he is engaged in strategic planning for training, health-care policy, and molecular imaging/ nuclear medicine therapy advocacy in countries around the world, as well as with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization. He is a former president of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology and has published more than 390 peer-reviewed articles and 27 book chapters. Dr. Czernin: Andrew, I want to first talk to you about theranostics, which is now becoming mainstream in oncology and is considered one of the major accomplishments in the history of nuclear medicine. How do you see the presence and future of theranostics? Dr. Scott: The future is extremely bright. It is quite gratifying to see improved progression-free and overall survival in prostatespecific membrane antigen (PSMA)–targeted radionuclide multicenter trials, which build on a history of innovation in our field. I started my theranostics research with radiolabeled antibodies back with Steven Larson, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC; New York, NY). Today our understanding of suitable targets in tumors and therapeutic strategies, including delivery systems, is more sophisticated. We are also much more expert in conducting multicenter trials, either investigator-led cooperative group or industry-led studies. If we had relied only on industry-led studies, I don't think we would have achieved the progress that has been made. And I do think that we need to maintain our roots in biology and in physiology to ensure that innovation and progress continue. Nuclear medicine isn't just about looking at images; if that's all we did, we would not be where we are with theranostics. We have to maintain that rich pipeline—that deep understanding of the fundamentals of biology, the connection to imaging, and how that leads to radiopharmaceutical approaches—to achieve therapeutic outcomes for patients. Dr. Czernin: Much of the impetus for designing the prospective PSMA trials came from compassionate-use studies done in Germany. Of course, these wouldn't have been sufficient to move the field forward, because prospective data are needed. At the same time, in Australia even before the VISION trial you provided important data from prospective studies of PSMA therapeutics (e.g., the TheraP trial) and for somatostatin-targeted therapies. Could you treat patients outside of trials? Dr. Scott: There is a regulatory mechanism in Australia to treat people with compassionate therapeutics under certain circumstances, and this has been done. But we have also introduced a discipline and rigor in Australia to perform prospective clinical trials for novel imaging and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. That dates back to our early studies in PET, where, in order to achieve Medicare rebates for PET, our federal government provided support for a nationwide program in which we performed prospective studies over 2 years in more than 30,000 patients to generate evidence of PET's impact. We also explored detailed management outcome data in prospective studies in more than 900 additional cancer patients. These data allowed us to get approval for PET in Australia for a range of cancers and to develop a clinical trial network that we have then been able to reapply to theranostic programs. Dr. Czernin: Given the enormous interest in PSMA-targeted theranostics, do you have any volume predictions in Australia? How many patients will you treat per year? Dr. Scott: We don't have precise numbers, and we are actually working on that at the moment. But it's many, many thousands of patients. Dr. Czernin: We came up with an estimated 40,000 patients in the United States initially, including all patients with advanced disease—that's 160,000–240,000 cycles, which is an enormous number when you know that we may have a hundred sites where these treatments can be done. The volume will be staggering. Dr. Scott: It will be! We have been thinking a lot about the provision of PSMA therapies in Australia and how this can be done in an effective and equitable manner. From a supply chain perspective, I think the supply of lutetium is going to be a major issue globally. Andrew M. Scott, MD


Dynamic testing system for shaft of hybrid power system can monitor the bending vibration and torsional vibration of power shaft in development of hybrid excavator, which can provide experimental basis to examine the dynamic characteristic of shaft. Furthermore, in the normal work of a excavator, dynamic monitoring system can show the working condition of shaft timely. When vibration performance is abnormal, it can issue warnings to stop work of excavator, so as to reduce harm to shaft and to prevent the incident caused by the fracture of working power shaft. In present paper, a dynamic testing system for hybrid power shaft was developed, and its components was mainly introduced. Moreover, the torsion vibration characteristics of the flexible-jointed hybrid power shaft were tested and analyzed.


Methoxybenzenes and -naphthalenes are benzotriazolylmethylated in the para-position or if this is blocked in an ortho- position. The methylene groups in the products are readily substituted by electrophiles via the lithiated derivatives. Displacement of the benzotriazole group can be effected by organometallic reagents or by electron-rich benzoid compounds to afford a versatile method for the synthesis of substituted aryl ethers.


Heritage language learning has a long tradition in the United States and its antecedent colonial history. Heritage language learning may be seen as part of a larger custom, what Kloss (1998; see Ivonne Heinze's review in this volume) called the American bilingual tradition, a minority tradition set against the backdrop of a more powerful tradition of domination by English monolingualism. The "heritage language" label has been used in reference to both immigrant languages and indigenous languages. For some, the positive aspect of this expression is the suggestion of connections to past traditions and the maintenance of ancestral languages. However, Baker and Jones (1998) caution that the association with ancient cultures and past traditions "may fail to give the impression of a modern international language that is of value in a technological society" (p. 509) . For those who share this concern, "community language" may be preferable because "community-based education begins with people and their immediate reality. Above all, it allows them to become meaningfully involved in shaping their own futures through the school and other agencies in their community" (Corson, 1999, p. 10; cf. Horvath & Vaughan, 1991). For the purposes of this volume, heritage language will be treated as roughly synonymous with community language. We will leave temporal orientation to the readers' preferences. Deciding on what types of learners should be included under the heritage language label raises a number of issues related to identity, inclusion, and exclusion. Who can legitimately be considered a heritage language learner? Which is more important-affiliation with an ethnolinguistic group or one's language proficiency in the target heritage language ? (Wiley, in press a) For pedagogical purposes a "heritage" speaker refer s to "a student who is raised in a home where a non-Engli sh language is spoken by one who speaks or merely understands the heritage language, and who is to some degree bilingual in English and the heritage language" (Valdes, 2000, p. 1). From an educational policy perspecti ve, promotion of heritage languages create s both challenges and possibilities. Historically, the impetus for the preservation and support for heritage languages was left to language minority communities themselves (Kloss, 1998). Facing the domination of English in the broader society, it is not surprising that linguistic assimilation into English has been accompanied by sweeping language loss. Typically, there has been a three generational shift to English (Veltman, 1983). Among immigrant language minorities the characteri stic pattern has been that the first generation acquires some Engli sh while remaining strongest in the native tongue; the second generation usually becomes bilingual with more developed literacy skills inEnglish becauseEnglish is thelanguage of instruction; and thethird generation has a tendency to become English speaking with little or no


L-band SiGe HBT differential variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) with analog or digital control have been developed to realize fine tuning of gain. These VGAs use capacitance-variable/selectable bridged-T attenuators in the design of a series feedback circuit of the differential amplifier and achieve continuous or discrete gain variations by varying or switching the bridging-capacitances. Contrary to the traditional VGAs using a variation of gm or resistance, high gain can be expected because of the positive feedback effect through the bridging-capacitance. An L-band continuously variable gain amplifier using a capacitance-variable bridged-T attenuator has achieved a gain variation of 5dB with a phase variation of 11 degrees at 1.2GHz. On the other hand, an L-band 4-bit VGA has achieved a gain variation of 7.6dB with a phase variation of 3.1 degrees at 1.4GHz. This is the first report on the VGAs using a variation of the reactive element.


An analysis is presented of perfectly-conducting cylindrical structures completely filled with cold, anisotropic plasmas. Major, but not exclusive, consideration is directed to the circular waveguide containing a lossless, longitudinally magnetized plasma. The modes are generally a mixture of TE and TM fields with the result that the conventional orthogonality relations must be replaced by appropriate generalizations. The orthogonality relations are used to determine the fields excited in a longitudinally magnetized plasmaguide*by a coaxial current loop. At cut-off, resonance, and at limiting values of the system's parameters, the modes reduce to simple TE or TM waves. The field configuration and dispersion are examined at these limiting conditions as well as at intermediate values of the parameters. Numerical results are provided for the cut-off frequencies and dispersion relation.

*Plasmaguide is the generic name given to any metallic waveguide containing an anisotropic plasma. In this manuscript it will refer to the longitudinally-magnetized, plasma-filled waveguide.


If Martin's Axiom is true and the continuum hypothesis is false, and X is a compact Radon measure space with a non-separable L1 space, then there is a continuous surjection from X onto [0, 1]1 .


The 80-cm diameter liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber at our institute, exposed in a separated beam of {sup 3}He nuclei with momentum 5 GeV/{ital c}, has been used to study for the first time the reaction {sup 3}He{ital p}{r arrow}2{ital p}2{ital n}{pi}{sup +}. A total of 3509 events of this reaction were selected, which corresponds to a cross section 14.4{plus minus}0.2 mb. On the basis of the pole model with interaction of the spectator nucleons in the final state in the complete phase space a study has been made of the angular, mass, and momentum spectra. From analysis of the effective mass of the {ital p}{pi}{sup +} system it follows that the {Delta}{sup ++} isobar is formed in the reaction {sup 3}He{ital p}{r arrow}2{ital p}2{ital n}{pi}{sup +} in peripheral quasifree {ital pN} collisions without broadening. In the reaction studied on indications were obtained of the formation of two-baryon or three-baryon resonances.


Since 2011, we have been educating mentor teachers at buda University Trefort Ágoston Centre for Engineering Education - ÓOU TÁcEE. Mentor teachers can support the preparation process of our engineering teacher students in secondary vocational schools by coaching their teaching practice. In this article I present examples how have changed my teaching methodology according to the recognized needs and share my experience on teaching-learning process.


The invention discloses a system for preparing activated carbon by using pulverized coal ash, which comprises a flotation system and a carbonization system. The system has the advantages that: 1) since the specially-shaped structure of a Venturi tube is used for changing the speed of fluid passing through the tube to generate differential pressure, and external air is enabled to enter a circulating pipe through an air compensation port and enter a cylinder together with materials to form air bubbles in the cylinder, a separate air supply device is not required to be arranged, and the manufacturing cost of equipment is saved; 2) since an air dispensing device sprays air to drive the air bubbles to be scatted and float in the cylinder in a disturbed flow state, a better flotation effect is obtained; and 3) since a fuel gas-flue gas loop structure is arranged in the carbonization system, combustible gas produced during carbonization enters a combustion device for combustion from the loopstructure, and high-temperature flue gas produced during combustion enters a carbonization furnace from the loop structure to heat raw carbon powder in the carbonization furnace, through the circulation, not only can the energy be saved, but also a great volume of combustible gas can be prevented from entering the atmosphere, and the environmental pollution can be reduced.


We demonstrate an ultra-subwavelength surface plasmonic polaritons waveguide, which can confine light in the nano-scale region with comparable low propagation loss. The mode can be squeezed to one thousandth of the diffraction spot size with micro-meter scale propagation distance and is highly sensitive to the buffer layer materials and geometric parameters. This design improves the performance of previous surface plasmonic polaritons waveguides and lends itself to complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor compatible fabrication. These waveguides can be used as a platform for active devices as well as for nano-sensing applications.


State-owned enterprise restructuring is the major move for strategic adjustment of the state-owned capital system reform in our country to meet the requirement of state-owned capital management globalization.However,in the process of restructuring and reorganization,the problem for loss of state-owned assets is very serious because of improper operation and inadequate management in enterprise restructuring process.This paper analyzes the way of losing state-owned assets,probes into the reasons of losing state-owned assets,and puts forward the measures to prevent the loss of state-owned assets as well.


In Action in Perception and "Experience without the Head," Alva Noë argues that what is perceived emerges as one actively moves about in the environment. Moreover, the role of action is directly relevant for perceptual content, as it is enacted into existence. Noë's goal is to develop an account of perceptual experience that supports an externalism in which perceptual experience does not need to be explained in terms of the brain, but includes external processes (Block, 2005; Hurley, 1998; Noë, 2004). He refers to this account as the "sensorimotor account of perception" (2004). More specifically for Noë, sensorimotor contingencies lead to an acquisition of sensorimotor knowledge. Sensorimotor knowledge is an intuitive knowledge that underwrites a perceiver's understanding of how movement affects changes in sensation (O'Regan and Noë, Visual; Noë, 2004). Noë admits that he lacks a clear articulation of the precise nature of sensorimotor contingencies, which undercuts the adequacy of his model. Sensorimotor contingencies and sensorimotor knowledge require a causal


Bi2WO6 with multilayered disc-like and 3D hierarchical nest-like architectures self-assembled from 2D nanosheets were successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method in EDTA-mediated processes. It was found that the morphology modulation of the as-obtained products could be easily realized simply by changing the amount of EDTA introduced into the reaction system. The stepwise self-assembly formation mechanisms for two different hierarchical architectures were proposed on the basis of a series of time-dependent experiments. The photocatalytic activities of the different Bi2WO6 samples for the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) were also evaluated. Due to the unique morphology, porous structure and large surface area, Bi2WO6 nest-like architectures exhibited better activity performance than Bi2WO6 multilayered microdiscs. The present work not only presents an efficient way for the selectively controllable preparation of Bi2WO6 hierarchical structures viaself-assembly from 2D nanosheets, but also provides a step forward in the design of photocatalysts with controllable morphology and enhanced photocatalytic activities.


A sufficient condition and a necessary and sufficient condition are presented in this paper for the positive integer sequences π(d1,d2,…,dn),which is potentially k1,4+2e-graphic,where the k1,4+2e is the complete bipartite graph k1,4 to be added two edges.


Pedestrian fatalities account for about 38.7% of all traffic accident fatalities in Korea. Because the road evidence that indicates collision point is rare in pedestrian accident, investigation of pedestrian accident is more difficult than that of car to car collision. The type of pedestrian accident can be characterized by vehicular frontal shape and the height of pedestrian. The trajectory of pedestrian after collision by passenger car is different from that by bus due to vehicular frontal shape. The frontal shape of SUV vehicles is dissimilar to passenger car and bus. So, the trajectory and throw distance of pedestrian by SUV vehicles is not the same of passenger car and bus. In this paper, a series of pedestrian kinetic simulation were conducted to inspect the difference in throw distance between SUV vehicle and passenger car by PC-CRASH that is the program for kinetic analysis of articulated body. From the results, if the height of pedestrian is taller than 1.70m. there is no difference in throw distance between SUV vehicle and passenger car, but if the height of pedestrian is about 1.55m throw distance of SUV vehicle is about 4m longer than that of passenger car at each impact speed.


The Tsumo mine is located about 20km southeast of Masuda City, Shimane Prefecture, Southwest Japan (Fig. 1). The ore deposits of the mine are of contact meta somatic origin and have so far been mined mainly for copper, lead, and zinc. Some geologic descriptions of the mine and its surrounding area were given up to now. They include Ota et al. (1970), Akatsuka (1968, 1972), and some others. The most comprehensive descriptions of the


Context. Multiple populations in globular clusters are usually explained by the formation of stars out of material with a chemical composition that is polluted to different degrees by the ejecta of short-lived, massive stars. But the nature of the "polluters" remains elusive. Different types of stars have been proposed to account for the observed chemical patterns of multiple populations. Among other things, these differ by the amount of helium they spread in the surrounding medium.
Aims. In this study we investigate whether the present-day photometric method used to infer the helium content of multiple populations indeed gives the true value or underestimates it by missing very He-rich, but rare stars. This check is important to discriminate between the different polluter scenarios. We focus on the specific case of NGC 6752.
Methods. We compute atmosphere models and synthetic spectra along isochrones produced for this cluster for a very broad range of He abundances covering the predictions of the different scenarios, including the extreme case of the fast-rotating massive star (FRMS) scenario. We use the same abundances in isochrones and atmosphere models to ensure consistency. We calculate synthetic photometry in HST filters best suited to study the helium content. We subsequently build synthetic clusters with various distributions of stars. We finally determine the maximum helium mass fraction of these synthetic clusters using a method similar to that applied to observational data. In particular, we select nonpolluted and very He-rich stars from the so-called chromosome map.
Results. We re-determine the maximum helium mass fraction Y in NGC 6752, and find a value consistent with published results. We build toy models of clusters with various distributions of multiple populations and ensure that we are able to recover the input maximum Y. We then build synthetic clusters with the populations predicted by the FRMS scenario and find that while we slightly underestimate the maximum Y value, we are still able to detect stars much more He-rich than the current observed maximum Y. This result still holds even in synthetic clusters that contain less He-rich stars than predicted by the FRMS scenario. It is easier to determine the maximum Y on main sequence stars than on red giant branch stars, but qualitatively the results are unaffected by the sample choice.
Conclusions. We show that in NGC 6752 it is unlikely that stars more He-rich than the current observational limit of about 0.3 (in mass fraction) are present.


In order to define the measuring time on initial verification for a ultrasonic gas meter, measurement of the instantaneous flowrate was conducted by using a test facility with critical nozzles. The possibility of reduction in measuring time for initial verification was cleared.


In 1969 the fourteen largest Indian commercial banks were nationalized. Bank nationalization was intended to allow the state to target financial backwardness as a means of promoting social objectives. Rural sector continues to play an important role in terms of contribution to GDP and employment generation in India, as about 70 percent of India's population still lives in rural areas. To fully exploit the opportunities, there is a need to empower rural population with necessary new knowledge, capital and entrepreneurial skills; the major limiting factor for development of rural poor is the access to capital for both investment and consumption to upgrade living standards. As easy and timely availability of capital will act as incentive to wider adoption of productivity enhancing skills / knowledge / technologies by entrepreneurs, farmers and laborers, access to capital depends on development of efficient financial service providers .The present study is based on primary research in selected places of rural Karnataka during the period June 2012 to December 2012,and secondary data extracted from RBI and other relevant sources to explore the rural financial needs, rural financial service providers, rating of banking services and to study the Rural banking initiative by banking industry.


Information visualization is a method for delivering information in visual form. Information visualize is vital if information about covid 19 is presented to the public, especially in the Province of Banten. Because the covid-19 virus is still high in the Province of Banten, as well as the lack of information about the spread of the covid-19 virus, there is need for caution so that the number of cases can be suppressed and may not increase. This requires A Covid 19 Information Visualize Android Application To Educate People In The Province Of Banten. So people can find out information about the covid-19 virus case. The application uses waterfall methodology for analysis that will identify the problem, data collection for android based information visualization. The next step is the design to design an android interface system app. Squence diagram, use case, erd (entity relationship diagram), and activity diagram are used for system design diagram. Based on the research from the android based app that will show information's visualization of covid 19.


This paper proposed a fuzzy neural network control model according to analyzing manual threading strategy.Basing on simulating manual threading strategy,the paper further proposed the structure of threading system based on expert coordination control,and discussed about the system coordination plan,work principles,coordination rules and control state,which offers feasibility of certification on theoretical study and plan for the design of intelligent servo threading control system.


Shotgun microphones and microphone arrays have super-cardioid polar patterns with a main lobe called "beam." This pattern suppresses noise located outside the beam, but it cannot suppress noise originating from the same direction as the signal. In this paper, we have proposed a "spot-forming" method using two shotgun microphones. Two shotgun microphones are first located in parallel, and then one microphone is rotated in order to make the beams intersect. This system suppresses all but the sound signals originating from the cross-point, by using the delay-and-sum beamformer. The experimental results showed that the proposed method could suppress noise located in front of or behind the target speaker, especially in the lower frequency band.


FOR ELIMINATION batch or continuous hot strip with ferritic structure and / or austenitic FROM Llantones (5) THIN PREPARED BY CASTING POURING IN ROPE CONTINUOUS PROPOSES PRODUCTION FACILITY WHERE BEHIND A INSTALLATION (1) CASTING ROPE CONTINUOUS AND BEFORE THE OVEN (2) cOMPENSATION IS AVAILABLE shears (3) as well as behind the oven (2) cOMPENSATION AND BEFORE THE MECHANISM (4) lamination HAS AN OTHER SHEAR (3) a device (7) deoxidation METHOD AND MECHANISM behind (4) LAMINATING DEVICE IS HEATING OR DEVICE (9) REFRIGERATION AND A BELT OR wINDER a machine (20) WINDING. Is characteristic PRODUCTION FACILITY THROUGH MULTIPLE STREETS OF ROLLING WORKING continuously, for example by SET RACKS (6) LAMINATING quadruple, quintuple, AS A FIRST GROUP (4) RACKS lamination being provided DEVICES (8 ) HEATING INDIVIDUAL also among RACKS (6) QUADRUPLE arranged one after another in the first group (4) RACKS OF rOLLING, AND THROUGH THE DISPOSITION OF winders BAND OR MACHINES WINDING AS APPLICATIONS (11) MACHINE WINDING O DOUBLES winders.


The invention relates to a continuous production process or semi-continuous hetero compounds comprising macrocyclic lactones and cyclic esters. The method comprises the catalyzed depolymerization of a linear polyester to an elevated temperature and under reduced pressure in the presence of a specified amount of monocarboxylates, while providing a brewing up and down in substantially all of the volume of the reaction mass. Application to the production of heterocyclic compounds used as perfuming agents.


The paper describes approach to use statistically-based tools incorporated into Sketch Engine system for electronic text corpora processing to mining big textual data for search and extract word semantic properties. It presents and compares series of word search experiments using different statistical approaches and evaluates results for Bulgarian language EUROPARL 7 Corpus search to extract word semantic properties. Finally, the methodology is extended for multilingual application using Slovak language EUROPARL 7 Corpus.


The utility model discloses a can about two ventilative athletic undergarment that wear, including the sweat shirt main part, the sweat shirt main part is including about two -layer the same surface fabric, sweat shirt main part the place ahead is equipped with holds in the palm the chest device, and it can be to the cup of about two orientations regulations to be equipped with two in the support chest device, ask chest device upper end symmetric connection to have two elasticity to shoulder, sweat shirt main part both ends behind one's back is equipped with the stealthy back knot of mutually supporting, and the top that stealthy back was detained is equipped with ventilative cloth, and ventilative cloth upper end is shouldered with elasticity and is connected, and the cloth lower extreme of breathing freely is connected with the sweat shirt main part, and stealthy back is detained and is breathed freely and is equipped with the hole between the cloth, the edge of sweat shirt main part and the edge of ventilative cloth all are equipped with elastomeric element. The utility model provides a can about two ventilative athletic undergarment that wear, can be about the two sides dress, have the chest of support effect, the protection chest, pleasing to the eye, it is convenient to dress, ventilative perspire, elasticity is good, and is comfortable and easy to wear, dress longe -lived, simple structure, preparation technology is simple.


Objective To introduce the importance and problem for the establishment of Pharmacy intravenous admixture service(PIVAS).Methods Based on the standards of Quality Control for Centralized Dispensary of Intravenous Drug,the necessity and problems of PIVAS in the establishment were analyzed.Results To establish PIVAS can effectively advance the development of clinical pharmacy,to come into play the effections of clinical pharmacists and to promote rational use of medicines.Conclusion The establishment of PIVAS in hospitals should be combines with the actual situation to design construction standard.It is necessary to focus on information management system,staff,cost effectiveness,batch processing,etc.


A neutron star with mass close to the lower limit might be a reasonable model for some anomalous pulsars. Emission is thermal. X-ray luminosity is high. Spatial velocity can be high. Since the radius is predicted to be large, the magnetic field calculated for spin-down is lower than that required by the magnetar model.


The effects of plate impingement on the flammable mixture produced by a fuel jet release were modeled with a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. First, the CFD code was used to simulate the release of a free turbulent jet to assure that the code agreed with established trends. Equations were derived to determine the volume of the free jet above the lower flammable limit. The code was then used to model a jet confined by a wall or a circular plate. Computer simulated concentration profiles of the source fluid and air mixtures were analyzed to determine mixture volumes above the lower flammable limit. The flammable mixture volume was normalized and determined as a function of plate radius and distance.


Techniques for transferring human behaviors to robots through learning by imitation/demonstration have been the subject of much study. However, direct transfer of human motion trajectories to humanoid robots does not result in dynamically stable robot movements because of the differences in human and humanoid robot kinematics and dynamics. An imitating algorithm called posture-based imitation with balance learning (Post-BL) is proposed in this paper. This Post-BL algorithm consists of three parts: a key posture identification method is used to capture key postures as knots to reconstruct the motion imitated; a clustering method classifies key postures with high similarity; and a learning method enhances the static stability of balance during imitation. In motion reproduction, the proposed system smoothly transits between key poses and the robot learns to maintain balance by slightly adjusting the leg joints. The developed balance controller uses a reinforcement learning mechanism, which is sufficient to stabilize the robot during online imitation. The experimental results for simulation and a real humanoid robot show that the Post-BL algorithm allows demonstrated motions to be imitated balance to be preserved.


Dominoes are physically present at the start of Heart of Darkness, and a grand piano is physically present at its conclusion. They form an unobtrusive parenthesis containing Marlow's story, which comprises all but a few pages of the novel. As far as I know, no interpreter of the novel has seen this bracketing as significant; in what follows, I hope to show that it is. As a group of men aboard the yacht anchored in the Thames await the turning of the tide and are about to hear Marlow's story, the primary narrator mentions that one of them, "The Accountant had brought out . . . a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones." Dominoes were called "bones" because they were originally white with dark dots or "pips." He adds, "For some reason or other we did not begin that game of dominoes" (Conrad 4). Why, then, does he—or, rather, Joseph Conrad—mention them? I think there are two reasons: one, that the word dominoes homonymously evokes dominion or domination, which is a function of empire; the other, that dominoes were made of ivory at the time Conrad was writing, and acquiring ivory is, of course, the purpose of the imperialism that Marlow is about to talk about. Near the end of the novel, Marlow meets Kurtz's Intended in a room furnished, he says, with "A grand piano . . . massively in a corner: with dark gleams on the flat surface like a sombre and polished sarcophagus" (125–26). The word sarcophagus recalls Marlow's earlier image of the imperialist capital (implicitly Brussels) as "a whited sepulchre" (Conrad 14), an image


This paper focuses on nostalgic qualities in two songs featured in the film Heima by Icelandic band Sigur Ros which is put in context with the ideologies of the 'krutt' (i.e. cutesy generation) and the sociological reality of Iceland today. The nostalgic features analysed can be found in the many layers of the film; in the cinematic techniques, the locations of the songs, the recording technique, the structure of the songs, timbre and timing, as well as in the lyrics. The world depicted in the film appears to be the home of the band; 'their' Iceland. Despite the clear longing for a simpler life somewhere in the rural past, the nature and world created in the film have little to do with the harsh and difficult reality of either Icelanders past or present. Arguably, the world created in the film represents an urban or even foreign view of a world and nature, seen by those who have never had to combat the forces of nature in Iceland.


Detecting some cancers early can improve a patient's chance of survival, but conventional detection methods can involve costly tests and equipment, making them inaccessible for people in low-resource areas. Researchers have now developed a diagnostic test that can detect a molecular signature of cancer and other diseases with a simple readout: it turns urine blue (Nat. Nanotechol. 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0527-6). Molly Stevens of Imperial College London teamed up with Sangeeta Bhatia of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create nanoparticle-protein complexes that, once injected, can reveal the presence of disease-related enzymes through a simple urine test. The team used peptides to link gold nanoclusters to neutravidin, a protein carrier. They designed the linkers so that enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) can cleave them. The presence of MMPs has been proposed as an early warning sign of several cancers. To test their sensors, the team injected the complexes into healthy mice


In the July 1999 issue of Clinical Chemistry , Seman et al. (1) present reference ranges and prevalence data for lipoprotein(a) cholesterol [Lp(a)-C], based on the examination of offspring and spouses of participants of the Framingham Heart study. These data will be potentially useful provided that the determination of Lp(a)-C is included in routine cardiovascular risk assessment in the future.

Seman et al. (1) measured Lp(a)-C by nonspecifically trapping Lp(a) with a lectin and subsequently determining cholesterol enzymatically. They claim that their method, in contrast to immunoassays for Lp(a), was not sensitive to the genetic size polymorphism of apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)]. This, however, has not been demonstrated conclusively. Thus, to date, there are no data available as to whether the apo(a) size polymorphism affects the binding of Lp(a) to the lectin matrix.

In 1995, we published a method to measure Lp(a)-C using a two-step procedure: (a) we first removed lipoproteins with a density <1.006 kg/L by preparative ultracentrifugation; and (b) we then detected Lp(a) by electrophoresis of the …


Money plays an important role, both on a social and an individual level. Secure forms of investment hardly bring any interest. Also, state financial support has changed and will continue to do so in the future. A constructive, forward-looking approach to private finances and long-term wealth accumulation are therefore becoming increasingly important. Finding the right system at the right time is a challenge that small private investors have to face continuously. On the internet, in magazines or television programs, investors will find a flood of information. The fact that unlimited amounts of data can be accessed, often creates more confusion than perspective. This applies particularly to the investment business. Based on a literature review, this article provides an overview of current forms of investment for small private investors and uses qualitative research via problem-centered interviews to critically compare their advantages and disadvantages in times of low interest rates.


A dynamic behavior of diethyl carbonate Electrolyte on lithium with a surface film, such as a solvent penetration into the surface film and a chemical reaction with lithium, was firstly detected by using in situ FTIR spectroscopy.


This paper presents the problem of spatial equilibrium prices for seasonal products in an environment of perfect competition subject to buffer stock without bands. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear programming model. The solution is obtained using a projection algorithm, which is applied to a numerical illustrative case. The results are discussed and compared with the case in which there is no buffer stock.


Acne vulgaris is a common skin disease that is more common in young population and it can be associated with some sequels after resolving the lesions. Post‐inflammatory erythema is one of these complications that can be disturbing for patients and does not have any definite treatment. This study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid (TA) as mesotherapy in treatment of post‐acne erythema (PAE) treatment.


Prostate diseases occur with high frequency in the clinical setting and can compromise patients' quality or extent of life. Benign prostatic hyperplasia is seen in 70-90% of men and is the cause of disturbing urinary symptoms in one third of them. In these symptomatic patients medical treatment with 5 α-redutase inhibitors or α-blockers can improve the urinary manifestations. When obstructive urinary symptoms are prominent surgical treatment can successfully improve patient's outcome. Prostate cancer will affect 18% of adult men, familiar history and black men are more susceptible to the disease and precise detection of the tumor can be done with serum PSA measurements and digital rectal exam. Patients with confi ned disease are usually treated with radical surgery or radiotherapy, locally advanced tumors are best managed with external radiotherapy and metastatic disease can be improved with androgen suppressive therapy.