With the increasing use of credit cards in our day-to-day transaction, the credit card fraud has also increased for both online purchases and regular purchase. Due to rapid growth in E-Commerce, rise of fraud transaction is increasing in the mode of electronic payment system. Many efficient methods like sequence alignment, neural networks, fuzzy logic, machine learning, genetic programming, etc. are used to discover frauds in credit card transactions. The Genetic algorithm finds the optimal solution for the problem and implicitly generates the results. This algorithm is to develop a method for detecting fraudulent transaction. In this paper we tried to improve, optimize and use evolutionary search based on the principles of natural selection and genetic programming. It is also used to solve high complexity computational problems. It not only finds the detection of credit card fraud mechanism but also examine the results.


In practical radiology, early diagnosis and precise categorization of liver cancer are difficult issues. Manual segmentation is also a time-consuming process. So, utilizing various methodologies based on an embedded system, we detect liver cancer from abdominal CT images using automated
 liver cancer segmentation and classification. The objective is to categorize CT scan images of primary and secondary liver disease using a Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) classifier, which has greater accuracy than previous approaches. In this work, a newly proposed method is shown
 which has four phases: image preprocessing, image segmentation, extraction of the features, and classification of the liver. Level set segmentation for segmenting the liver from abdominal CT images and Practical Swarm Optimization (PSO) for the tumor segmentation. Then the features from the
 liver are extracted and given to the BPNN classifier to classify the liver cancer. These algorithms are implemented on the Raspberry Pi. Then it serially interfaces with the MAX3232 protocol via serial communication. The GSM 800C module is connected to the system to send SMS as primary or
 secondary cancer. The BPNN classification technique achieved an excellent accuracy of 97.98%. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of this proposed approach, which provides excellent accuracy with good results.


The questions of organizational and practical activity of Moscow Soviet, staffs and the capital local anti-aircraft defence formations ' personnel after defeating German-fascist forces near Moscow are examined in the article


Forging process commonly used in industry and affected by the process temperature. A study has been conducted to understand the effect of forging process parameters of the axle shaft. The axle shaft is made of different material. The four significant parameters such as billet weight, billet temperature, forging time and the die temperature were used to optimize and reduce the rejections due to various forging defects. Forging defects of axle shaft under different manufacturing conditions successfully analyzed using Taguchi's experimental design method. Taguchi's method provides a simple, systematic and efficient methodology for the optimization of the control factors. Forging time is the most significant factor followed by weight of billet and initial die temperature while the forging temperature has the least or almost no significance on defects of the forged gear whereas, forging temperature is the most significant factor followed by weight of billet and initial die temperature while the forging time has the least or almost no significance on defects of the forged axle shaft.


This chapter is not a discussion of research procedures as such, but is an extended illustration of open coding, with commentaries on particular instances of it. Again, readers who are eager to move directly to procedures should defer reading this chapter until later, although it is placed here because to most readers it should be useful to at least scan it, especially the analytic commentary in its closing pages. The chapter consists of one case: a research seminar session which was recorded on tape. The format of the presentation is this: first, a short introduction to the case; second, the analytic discussion itself; third, an analytic summary, with a detailed commentary on each phase of that unfolding discussion. In the long extended case, the seminar participants are seen working together on the very real data of a researcher–student. By contrast, the pain-theory case in Chapter 2 illustrated a very active teacher, at a very early session of the seminar, "getting across" various elements of grounded theory methodology, using not a presenting student's data but only the combined experiential data of himself and the class participants. Here, while experiential data come visibly into play as an element of the analysis, the chief data are not collective data. Besides, there is the additional, if invisible, drama of a presenting student who is deeply concerned about the outcome – the product – of the class discussion. Of course, the materials in this chapter are designed not only to illustrate the teaching–learning of analysis within the seminar setting, but to clarify further how qualitative analysis, especially open coding, is carried out in the grounded theory style of analysis.


In recent years, the cost and accessibility of housing has become a significant concern in many regions in the United States. Because housing is seen as a local issue—and regional policy efforts tend to focus on other topics— there is often a geographical mismatch between housing and other types of activity, especially jobs. The right type of housing is rarely available in the right place at the right price. Despite this lack of attention, housing and regionalism are linked in many critical ways. Social mobility and economic opportunity are often tied to housing, as are regional transportation and environmental problems. There are several unique challenges that make it difficult to address housing issues at the regional level. This paper examines the following barriers: • Governmental fragmentation; • Fragmentation in the private homebuilding market; • NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard


Objective To summarize the clinical features,diagnosis and treatment of hepatic tuberculosis.Methods The clinical data of 20 cases with hepatic tuberculosis were retrospectively analyzed.Results Among the 20 patients,loss of appetite and abdominal distension were found in 12 cases,fever in 10 cases,abdominal pain in 8 cases,night sweat and diarrhea in 4 cases,no abnormalities in 3 cases.Abdominal CT and ultrasonic examinations revealed focal liver space occupying lesions in 15 cases,focal calcifications in 2 cases,and hepatomegaly in 3 cases.15 cases of hepatic tuberculosis were determined by operative pathology,2 cases by local liver calcifications,and 3 cases by diagnostic therapy.Among the 20 patients,16 cases had extrahepatic tuberculosis.All the patients received anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy for over 1.5 years,and recovered well.Conclusions The clinical characteristics and photography of hepatic tuberculosis are variable,and have nonspecific manifestations.So the erroneous diagnostic rates are high.Now the diagnosis of hepatic tuberculosis is mainly by pathology and therapeutic trial.Systemic anti-tuberculous therapy and selective surgical treatment are the main effective treatments.


Various methods have been proposed to employ a hybrid surface integral equation/partial differential equation approach, or finite element/boundary element method for electromagnetic scattering problems involving inhomogeneous scatterers. Few investigators, however, have discussed possible problems associated with fictitious interior resonances. It is demonstrated that certain formulations exhibit the interior resonance problem, and that a combination of the finite element method (FEM) and the combined field integral equation (CFIE) can eliminate such problems. In addition, it is demonstrated that the interior and exterior regions can be partially decoupled in a resonance-free manner by using the CFIE/FEM.<<ETX>>


A review of existing lower bound approaches for dry block masonry structures reveals a lack of reliable analytical methods applicable to most general conditions. Usually the analysis is restricted to cases in which sliding is prevented by high friction among block interfaces. This leads, for arches, to the well-known hinging mechanisms first discussed in terms of plastic analysis by Heyman (1966). However, especially for historic buildings the quality of the contact surfaces or of the binding materials might be deteriorated so as to substantially reduce the original friction coefficient. In addition, some particular shapes of curvilinear structures, e.g. flat arches, would never collapse unless sliding occurred. Hence the necessity of studying this group of problems under the more realistic assumptions of presence of sliding and absence of dilatancy. Herewith first is presented a proof of uniqueness of the solution for the limit state analysis of 3D masonry arches, in the condition of axial symmetry of geometry and loading. This proof is crucial to the robustness of the results and allows a straightforward treatment of this class of problems as one of standard limit-state analysis. The analysis can easily be extended to barrel vaults, common in historic buildings and forming the structure of masonry bridges. On these assumptions a simple but very adaptable computer procedure, using a lower bound approach, has been developed for the calculation of the minimum thickness required to ensure stability for such structures. Parametric analysis shows how the geometry of the barrel vault varies depending on the eccentricity and inclination of the applied loads.


ideas. These are used to c nnote ideas and concepts." (Machin, 2007: 25) Therefore, asking what an image connotes is asking: what ideas and values are communicated through what is represented and through the way it is represented? When analysing an image at the level of its connota tion one can look for the elements that transport meanings from other domains and how t ey connote particular ideas and values. As Machin puts it; "we can ask what the cultural associations of eleme nts in the image are. It is these associations that connote particular disco urses, models of the world, scripts of likely sequences of activity, kinds of people and kinds of pr blems and solutions." (Machin, 2007: 25) Barthes (1973), in Mythologies calls the connotative meanings 'myths'. He considers myth as the concept used to express the dense assoc iations of what is represented in an image or a sign (eg. flags, national anthems). However, a s M chin explains, in social semiotics the term 'discourse' is much more preferred to that of myth as the latt er " ends to suggest that some ways of thinking are free of cultural and poli tical arbitrariness" (Machin, 2007: 26). He adds that while considering denotation and connotat ion there are three general rules that need to be taken in consideration: 1The more abstract is the image, the more overt and forgrounded its connotative purpose. (Barthes said that there was no innocent i mage free of connotation) 2Whether the communicative purpose of an image is pr imarily denotative or connotative depends to some extent on the context i n wh ch the image is used. 3What an image connotes may, in some contexts, be a matter of free associations. But where image – makers need to get specific ideas across, they will rely on established connotators, carriers of c nnotations, which they feel


Indonesia's state-owned enterprises are now on the verge of adopting a new management system called values-based management (VBM) or management by values (MBV) initiated by the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SoE) by introducing a set of core values, namely AKHLAK (abbreviation from Bahasa Indonesia's words: Amanah / Trustworthy, Kompeten / Competent, Harmonis / Harmonious, Loyal, Adaptif / Adaptive, and Kolaboratif / Collaborative). This study uses an inductive/qualitative approach to understand how these core values are measured. The implication of this study will help SoEs to decide whether to use indirect or direct measurement methods in their effort to translate core values into values-based management. The initial finding shows the sample SoEs do not have a solid understanding of the differences between direct and indirect values assessments yet utilize the method of choice quite exclusively and extensively.


IN SUMMER OF 1968, in the northern part of Kyushu in Japan, many cases of an unusual disorder characterized by acneiform skin eruption, dark-brownish pigmented nails, and cheese-like discharge from the meibomian glands developed. Rice oil used for cooking, contaminated with Kanechlor 400, the main component of which is tetrachlorobiphenyl, was proved to be the cause of this disease; it was the first mass outbreak-about 350 patients-of chlorobiphenyl poisoning in Japan.l-" Some of the patients complained of numb or neuralgic limbs. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the peripheral nerve involvement in chlorobiphenyl poisoning both clinically and electrophysiologically .


The simulation results of a modest 6 KW fuel cell energy system employing technical control are presented in this study. Technical control and fuzzy logic the performance of the controller used for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) can improve the efficiency of the FC system when Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and the system Boost DC/DC Converter power converter that steps up voltage (while stepping down current) from its input (supply) to its output (load) are compared. An electrolyzer with a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). This paper presents dynamic modeling of various components of a small isolated system. The dynamic modeling of this nonlinear 45 Vdc energy system is done with Simulink. The simulation findings are analyzed, as well as the constraints of a fuel cell energy system. The hydrogen produced is used by the third operating subsystem (the fuel cell stack), which generates electricity to power the DC bus. The global system is modeled, and the results are presented and analyzed. Due to its better efficiency, clean operation, and cost-effective supply of power sought by consumers, fuel cell (FC) technology has attracted substantial attention as an alternative to traditional power units among the numerous renewable energy sources. In the SIMULINK environment, the proposed model is implemented. The simulation outcomes are examined.


Based on the information about flood damage on roads in mountainous areas over the years,the article analyzes the reasons responsible for this damage,with the regards to the design of road survey and road maintenance,and expounds the prevention and repair of flood damage on roads and some countermeasures dealing with it.


The Hungarian method by matching is efficient in solving assignment problems. And its method by matrix is easy to handle and popular. But the latter method would fail in some special cases due to improper selection of zeros for transversal when there are more than one to choose. A general selection method of transversal was given based on the Hungarian method by matching. The MATLAB routine of our method was also given.


Columbia River Basalt Group feeder dikes cut the tonalite-granodiorite Wallowa batholith in northeastern Oregon, providing a unique setting in which to examine the process of partial melting. This paper summarizes the progressive partial melting reactions in biotiteand hornblende-bearing tonalite at the margin of a near-vertical Grande Ronde basalt dike. Samples collected from the dike margin represent five progressive stages of melt reaction from unmolten wall rock to about 40 volume quenched melt. This melt is now represented by devitrified glass plus plagioclase, pyroxene, and magnetite quench crystals. With progressive melting, hornblende, biotite, and orthoclase are entirely consumed, but plagioclase, quartz, and magnetite persist in the restite. Hornblende dehydration produces a dusty intergrowth of augite, pigeonite, lesser enstatite, and sparse magnetite. Biotite dehydration produces magnetite and lesser ilmenite aligned in bands in an intergrowth of enstatite and plagioclase. Residual plagioclase develops a spongy texture, as the albite component is lost to the melt. In the initial stages of melting, the reaction of hornblende, quartz, and feldspars produces silicic melt localized around decomposed mafic sites and as seams on quartz-feldspar grain boundaries. The melt composition was modified during cooling by the formation of quench crystals and later by devitrification of the glass. At higher temperatures, the reaction of orthoclase, clinopyroxene, and plagioclase produces additional silicic melt. INTRODUCTION Although there is general consensus that basalt input is fundamental to crustal melting, there are few places where this interaction can be directly sampled. The Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon provide a rare natural setting in which to examine shallow crustal melting. Here, hundreds of Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) feeder dikes cut granitoids of the Wallowa batholith. Dikes have interacted with wall rock in a variety of ways, including some contact melting in the wall rock. We have examined the 5-mwide partially melted zone in tonalite at the margin of a near-vertical Grande Ronde Basalt dike in the vicinity of Maxwell Lake (Figure 1). Samples collected from the western margin of this dike represent five progressive stages of melt reaction, from unmelted tonalite (Stage 1) to about 40 volume percent quenched melt (Stage 5). This melt is represented by devitrified silicic glass containing plagioclase, pyroxene, and magnetite quench crystals. This paper summarizes the natural partial melting reactions fully characterized by Petcovic (2000). Figure 1. Generalized location and geologic map of the study area and vicinity in the Wallowa Mountains. Modified after Taubeneck (1995). 82 Enterprise


The global migrant crisis triggered an unprecedented number of asylum seekers in the Balkan region. In this case study, the state of migrants with disabilities—a community notoriously overlooked during global conflict—is explored through field interviews of settlement service providers in Serbia. A human rights framework is espoused in first examining contemporary refugee law discourse and the corresponding gaps in current resettlement practice of migrants with disabilities. The study's findings illuminate the need for a drastic shift in settlement services for those migrants most vulnerable to persecution in de facto destination countries. The discussion takes aim at "humanitarian silo" funding models and argues for international cooperation and transparency in accommodating migrants with disabilities internationally.


The internet publication of a Coptic Gospel of John fragment demonstrated that both it and the related Gospel of Jesus' Wife fragment were modern creations. The Coptic John fragment was clearly copied from Herbert Thompson's 1924 publication of the Lycopolitan Qau codex, and shared the same hand, ink and writing instrument with the Gospel of Jesus' Wife fragment. The present discussion will first survey the extant Coptic tradition of John's Gospel, and second outline the evidence for dependence on the Qau codex publication.


The Neoproterozoic basins of central Australia share many features of architecture and sedimentary fill, suggesting common large-scale extrinsic causal mechanisms. In an attempt to improve understanding of these mechanisms we have gathered and analysed new deep seismic reflection data and re-evaluated existing seismic and well-log data from the eastern Officer Basin, the largest and most poorly known of Australia's intracratonic basins.

The Officer Basin is asymmetric and has a steep thrust-controlled northern margin paralleled by sub-basins as much as 10 km in depth. Further south the basin shallows gradually onto a broad platform. The basin rests on a thick crust (≈42 km) that is pervaded by a complex of northward-dipping surfaces most of which terminate erosionally against the sediments of the Officer Basin and are interpreted as prebasinal features, possibly faults. Some appear to have been zones of crustal weakness which were reactivated as thrust complexes and played a major role in basin evolution.

The sedimentary succession can be subdivided into six megasequences separated by major tectonically and erosionally enhanced sequence boundaries. The megasequences have distinctive sequence stacking patterns suggesting that they were deposited in response to episodic subsidence induced by a major extrinsic tectonic event. The basin initially formed as part of a giant sag basin which incorporated all the present-day intracratonic basins (Amadeus, Georgina, Ngalia, Officer and Savory Basins) in a single large 'superbasin' perhaps as a response to mantle processes. Subsidence then ceased for ≈100 Myr producing a regional erosion surface. Beginning in the Torrensian or Sturtian five more major events of varying regional significance influenced the basin's evolution. Four were compressional events, the first of which activated major thrust complexes along the present basin margins, forming deep foreland sub-basins with elevated intervening basement blocks. Once activated, the thrust complexes and sub-basins persisted throughout the life of the intracratonic basins. From this epoch the intracratonic basins of central Australia were decoupled from the giant sag basin and became interrelated but independent features.

Available information suggests that the Officer, Amadeus, Georgina, Ngalia and Savory Basins are related and are perhaps products of major tectonic events associated with the assembly and ultimate dispersal of the Proterozoic supercontinent. The closing phases of these basins were strongly influenced by events occurring along the newly created active eastern margin of the Australian continent in the Palaeozoic.


, the character George Costanza is distressed to learn that his fiancee wants to socialize with his friends from his bachelor days. George has a theory that he inhabits two distinct 'worlds': the world of his friends ('independent George') and the world of his fiancee ('relationship George'). Each world operates smoothly on its own, but together they are dangerously incompatible. If the two worlds interact, the results will be disas-trous. In George's words, 'Anybody knows, ya gotta keep your worlds apart.'G eorge's concern about worlds colliding provides a metaphor for thinking about the belief systems of science (on the one hand) and religion, magic, or supernatural entities (on the other hand). To what extent do these different ways of construing reality represent distinct realms that are best kept apart, like the two worlds of George Costanza? And what happens if they make contact? Can they peacefully co-exist, or will one overwhelm and destroy the other? The fascinating and important papers in this volume by Harris [this issue], Legare and Visala [this issue], Subbotsky [this issue], and Evans and Lane [this issue] speak about these issues. In my com-ments, I will review some of their major contributions, and then focus on the impli-cations for cognition more broadly.


The paper deals with the dynamical analysis of the system of first-order ODE's describing the isometric stimulation of the muscle fibre. This system is considered to be a non-autonomous one having the periodical excitation. For the analysis of dynamical behaviour the system the multiple scale method (MSM) is employed. The main goal of this contribution is to show the application of MSM to the non-autonomous dynamical system using the first order approximation of the solution. The existence of the degenerated Hopf's bifurcation of the gained solution is presented.


A ring filter is proposed as a wide-banded filter. It consists of a ring and two short stubs, which are connected at 90˚ and 270˚ points of the ring. Since the termination impedance at 90˚ and 270˚ points of the ring and the characteristic impedance of the short stub have an effect on designing of it, the relation between them and bandwidths has been studied. Based on the study, two types of small-sized wideband CVT(constant VSWR-type impedance transformer)- and CCT(constant conductance-type impedance transformer)-ring filters are introduced, designed, simulated and one of two, a CCT-ring filter, is tested. The circumference of the ring can be reduced theoretically up to 60˚ and two of many cases having about 300˚ circumferences are simulated. The simulated results show more than 100 % fractional bandwidth, which can be obtained with more than 5 stages in conventional filter-design techniques. To test the designed CCT-ring filter, it has been fabricated in microstrip technology and the measured results show good agreement with the simulated ones, having more than 100% fractional bandwidth.


Background: BLM gene belongs to the RecQ helicase family and has been implicated in the maintenance of genomic stability. Homozygous and compound heterozygous BLM gene mutations cause Bloom syndrome, an inherited recessive clinical syndrome, which is characterized by chromosomal instability and a predisposition to cancer. The aim: To reveal BLM gene mutations in prostate cancer patients. Methods: We analyzed 124 DNA samples of prostate cancer patients from the Republic of Bashkortostan and used the following methods: the DNA isolation from peripheral blood by phenol-chloroform extraction; polymerase chain reaction (PCR); high resolution melting (HRM) analysis; direct sequencing. The functional significance of the mutations was analyzed using the following programs: SIFT, PolyPhen-2, Mutation Assessor, Mutation Taster, CADD. Results: We revealed 4 missence mutations (c.C1237A (p.L413I), c.A1490C (p.Q497R), c.C2603T (p.P868L), c.G3961A (p.V1321I) and several synonymous variants (с.G3102A (p.T1034T), c.C3531A (p.A1177A)) in the BLM gene.


This paper details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the "wannarexic." This paper documents the way in which tensions around authenticity and embodied practices are managed through treatment of the wannarexic, participating in group rituals, and deployment of individual tools. Participants grapple with these tensions through engaging in offline bodily rituals that attempt to make the body evident online. Introduction k, so theres lots of people here now, lets start doin' some posts!! Lol, how bout we start some stats. H -5'6''/ cw – 105 / hw-160 (pregnant)/lw-85/34'/22'35' So opens a popular "pro-ana" discussion group on the social network site MySpace by a member calling herself Death for Beauty. On this site and countless others, women separated by geography, age and lifestyle log in to share their struggles, goals, triumphs and failures in living a pro-ana lifestyle. Death for Beauty is engaging in a fairly common pro-ana ritual in which a member verifies her authenticity as pro-ana by posting, among other things, her current weight, her highest weight and her goal weight. This posting of one's weight is one of the several rituals central to the iteration and reiteration of identity and embodiment in the online world of proanorexia websites. These online discussion groups are organized around body size and bodily practices and, as a result, are fraught with the contradiction that online spaces are fundamentally disembodied ones. This paper investigates how members of pro-ana online communities grapple with this contradiction and face issues of authenticity and embodiment in online spaces. 1 The grammar and spelling are as the members posted them. 2 The names of the group members and the groups themselves have been changed. 3 While there are members who identify as men on these sites, the vast majority identify as women, thus our use of the female pronoun


art 2, w e explore conventional options available to winemakers for modulation of Chardonnay aroma. Can commercially-available yeast, with appropriate nutritional management, be harnessed to generate aromas and flavours consistent with 'Next-Gen' Chardonnay styles? We also revisit malolactic fermentation (mlF). While associated strongly with classical styles of Chardonnay, mlF can be used to enhance complexity without imparting 'buttery' characters through careful application of appropriate bacterial strains.


This paper is structured in five sections. After this introduction, the authors describe the framework of BRCP focusing on achieved results. In third and fourth sections, a critical analysis and future perspectives are described, respectively. Finally, in the fifth section, based on the complete examination of the BRCP, conclusions are stated.


To cite: Talarczyk P, Kanodia AK, Ironside J, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015211262 DESCRIPTION Meningiomas are divided, by the WHO, into three groups: benign (grade I), atypical (grade II) and malignant (grade III). Although some overlapping features can occur, atypical meningiomas are more likely to exhibit heterogeneous density or intensity, heterogeneous contrast enhancement and relatively large perifocal oedema on CT scan and MRI. Meningiomas typically receive their blood supply from dural arteries, although larger meningiomas can also have a blood supply from leptomeningeal or parenchymal branches. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) results from β-amyloid deposition in the walls of leptomeningeal and cortical arteries. It usually causes lobar intracerebral haemorrhage and often occurs in association with Alzheimer's disease. Rarely, CAA has been documented to be associated with inflammatory changes, sometimes thought to be co-existent primary central nervous system vasculitis or giant cell arteritis, although most literature has focused on probable inflammatory changes secondary to β-amyloid deposition, sometimes described as amyloid β-related angiitis. We could not find any specific association of CAA with Wegener's granulomatosis in the literature. We present serial brain imaging findings describing the evolution of changes from a stable benign meningioma to a lesion imitating an atypical meningioma, which was surgically removed and subsequently shown to be affected by amyloid angiopathy. A 59-year-old woman presented with a short history of right-sided tinnitus, hearing loss and sinusitis. Her other significant known condition was Wegener's granulomatosis involving the lungs, diagnosed in another institution. Brain MRI in January 2011 (figure 1) was negative for vestibular schwannoma, but demonstrated an incidental 14 mm parafalcine meningioma in the left frontal region on the background of small vessel cerebrovascular disease. MRI performed in March 2013 (figure 2), due to acute neurological symptoms, demonstrated extensive abnormalities in the right parieto-occipital lobe with further haemorrhage in the left frontal lobe; these were assumed to be due to the patient's known Wegener's granulomatosis, rather than from potential CAA. There was some increase in the size of the meningioma, which continued to show homogenous enhancement. A follow-up MRI in April 2014 (figure 3) showed further increase in size of the meningioma to 28 mm, still with homogenous enhancement and without any significant surrounding brain changes. Figure 1 MRI in January 2011. T2 axial (A) and postcontrast T1 axial (B) images showing small left parafalcine meningioma (white arrow).


Killing Forms of Lie Algebras By Audrey Lynne Malagon One approach to the problem of classifying Lie Algebras is to find invariants. One such invariant is the Killing form. In this dissertation, I give a formula for computing the Killing form of any semisimple isotropic Lie algebra defined over an arbitrary field of characteristic zero, based on the Killing form of a subalgebra containing its anisotropic kernel. I then explicitly compute the Killing form for several Lie algebras of exceptional type and give a general formula for the Killing form of all Lie algebras of inner type E6, including the anisotropic ones. Killing Forms of Lie Algebras


Children with disability are particularly susceptible to physical social and emotional problems associated directly or indirectly with their experience of disease disorders and disability. Some of the problems are directly related to limitations preventing the child from enjoying normal contacts with other children and other physical social and educational activities typical for his or her age. A childs handicap cannot be considered in isolation. In order to alleviate his difficulties it is essential to take into account how well he can function in his physical environment and the effect not only of his handicap but also of the cultural environment to which he is exposed. Guidelines for dietary allowances in school lunch diets for handicapped students in Saudi Arabia like in many other countries have been based on those for normal students. However because of specific nutritional requirements the need for new guidelines for handicapped students has been expressed. Thus it was decided to survey the growth and maturation of blind and deaf students in order to gather information about their nutritional and physical status to improve their health and fitness. (excerpt)


The archives is a collection of photographs, documents, and other ephemera tracing and preserving the history of the college (MJC, MCC and SCF) from 1957 to the present. Hello, I'm the contact person for the archives. Please either call me or ask for me at the front desk.


In the August issue of PIR (1:46, 1979), the common sources of contact for rabies were listed as dogs, cats, rats, foxes, etc. As one reader pointed out to us, "While rat bites are an index of obscenely substandard housing conditions and may cause various bacterial infections in the bite site or systemically, they are rarely, if ever, a cause of a course of postexposure rabies prophylaxis." CDC has confirmed only two rodents (neither a rat) as being rabid in the past seven years. There is no need to initiate rabies prophylaxis following rat bites.


Unsupervised spoken term discovery is the task of finding recurrent acoustic patterns in speech without any annotations. Current approaches consists of two steps: (1) discovering similar patterns in speech, and (2) partitioning those pairs of acoustic tokens using graph clustering methods. We propose a new approach for the first step. Previous systems used various approximation algorithms to make the search tractable on large amounts of data. Our approach is based on an optimized k-nearest neighbours (KNN) search coupled with a fixed word embedding algorithm. The results show that the KNN algorithm is robust across languages, consistently-performs the DTW-based baseline, and is competitive with current state-of-the-art spoken term discovery systems.


A simple single folding model for $\Omega$-deuteron with maximal spin $\left(I\right)J^{P}=\left(0\right)5/2^{+}$ is investigated. $\Omega$ is assumed to orbit an unperturbed deuteron in a $\Omega$-deuteron potential based on a separable $\Omega$-nucleon potential from lattice QCD. We show that the effective central folding potential of $\Omega d$ in the $^{5}S_{2}$ channel has a simple Wood-Saxon form, and approximate the upper bound for the binding energy of $\Omega$ particle on a deuteron. In order to investigate how changes in the wave functions affect the results, we consider four analytical forms for $S$-state deuteron wave functions, i.e., two widely used Hulth\'en forms, as well as the modified Reid93 and Argonne v18 forms. Our calculations of binding energy from simple two-body approximation are compared with the results reported for the three-body problem; it is confirmed that the $\Omega d$ system is deeply bound. Although the single folding model reduces the three-body problem to a two-body problem, this simplification is inadequate.


: The proposed system provides a sentiment score pattern of products(textile) by calculating the sentiment score using a domain ontology sentiment score measurement method by analyzing the reviews provided by the customers. The system helps to easily analyze the reviews and provide accurate emotional polarity which can represent the emotional intensity of customers on a product. The emotional score shows the increase or decrease of demand and quality of a product and therefore it helps in decision making. As the product reviews are available widely the study on these reviews make an insight about the product that is the attitude and emotion towards it. Therefore the sentiment analysis is becoming more important. There are various tools and techniques available for sentiment analysis.


This paper emphasizes that pragmatic analysis of movie conversations is necessary to improve speaking ability. Most students focus on uttering...


Background: Left ventricular hypertrophy is common and is associated with cardiovascular events and death among patients with known chronic kidney disease. However, the link between reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) remains poorly explored among young and middleaged adults with preserved kidney function. In this study, we examined the association of cystatin C–based estimated GFR (eGFRcys) and rapid decline in eGFR with subsequent LVMI. Study Design: Observational study. Setting & Participants: We included 2,410 participants from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) cohort with eGFRcys . 60 mL/min/1.73 m 2 at year 15 and who had an echocardiogram obtained at year 25. Predictor: eGFRcys at year 15 and rapid decline in eGFRcys (defined as .3% per year over 5 years from years 15 to 20). Outcome: LVMI measured at year 25. Measurements: We adjusted for age, sex, race, diabetes, body mass index, low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, cumulative systolic blood pressure, and albuminuria. Results: Meanagewas40 6 4(SD)years,58%werewomen,and43%wereblack.After10yearsoffollow-up, mean LVMI was 39.6 6 13.4 g/m 2.7 . Compared witheGFRcys . 90 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (n5 2,228), eGFRcys of 60to 75 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (n 5 29) was associated with 5.63 (95% CI, 0.90-10.36) g/m 2.7 greater LVMI (P 5 0.02), but there was no association of eGFRcys of 76 to 90 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (n 5 153) with LVMI after adjustment for confounders. Rapid decline in eGFRcys was associated with higher LVMI compared with participants without a rapid eGFRcys decline (b coefficient, 1.48; 95% CI, 0.11-2.83; P 5 0.03) after adjustment for confounders. Limitations: There were a limited number of participants with eGFRcys of 60 to 90 mL/min/1.73 m 2 . Conclusions: Amongyoungandmiddle-aged adultswithpreservedkidneyfunction,eGFRcysof60to75 mL/ min/1.73 m 2 and rapid decline in eGFRcys were significantly associated with subsequently higher LVMI. Further studies are needed to understand the mechanisms that contribute to elevated LVMI in this range of eGFRcys. Am J Kidney Dis. 67(2):227-234. a 2016 by the National Kidney Foundation, Inc.


Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an innate immunodeficiency with a genetic defect of the nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide phosphate, reduced, oxidase components. This leads to decreased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, which renders patients susceptible to life‐threatening infections. Over the course of 30 years, we diagnosed CGD in 84 patients from 61 families using functional, molecular, and genetic studies. The incidence of CGD in Israel is 1.05 per 100,000 live‐births in the Jewish population and 1.49 in the Israeli Arab population. We diagnosed 52 patients (62%) with autosomal recessive inheritance (AR‐CGD) and 32 (38%) with X‐linked recessive inheritance (XLR‐CGD). Consanguinity was detected in 64% of AR‐CGD families (14% in Jews and 50% in Israeli Arabs). We found 36 different mutations (23 in XLR‐CGD and 13 in AR‐CGD patients), 15 of which were new. The clinical spectrum of CGD varied from mild to severe disease in both XLR and AR forms, although the AR subtype is generally milder. Further, residual ROS production correlated with milder clinical expression, better prognosis and improved overall survival. Patients with recurrent pyogenic infections developed fibrosis and hyperinflammatory states with granuloma formation. The management of CGD has progressed substantially in recent years, evolving from a fatal disease of early childhood to one of long‐term survival. Our present cohort displays an encouraging 81% overall long term survival. Early hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is advisable before tissue damage is irreversible. Successful transplantation was performed in 18/21 patients. Therapeutic gene modification could become an alternative cure for CGD. Am. J. Hematol. 92:28–36, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The first deliberation of the suggested amendment draft of Environmental Protection Act(EPA),without any change of the legislation objective provision,Article one of EPA,was made by the 28th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh National People's Congress on 2012.Up to this day,if the EPA still adheres "facilitating the development of socialist modernization" as one of its key legislation objective elements,how to suppose it can confirm with the trend of international environmental legislation technology;how to suppose it can captain the other environmental legislations and regulations,which already confirmed "facilitating sustainable development" as one of their legislation objectives,under itself as the fundamental law of the environmental law department(falv bumen);and how to suppose it can reflect objectively the great practice achievements of localization to the "sustainable development" by our Chinese from 1990s.The Scientific Outlook on Development(kexue fazhanguan) and the Idea of Ecological Civilization(shengtai wenming linian) developed in one continuous line and expanded sequential progressively of the idea of sustainable development in China.Therefore,the EPA should revise and establish "promoting the comprehensive,coordinated and sustainable development of socialist economy and society,progressing ecological civilization" as its key legislation objective elements so that it could be the pacesetter in the regimes building for Ecological Progress(shengtai wenming jianshe).


As security requirements in coastal water and sea ports, maritime surveillance increases the duty. In this research, we focus on the maritime trajectory data to explore movement behavior for anomaly detection in maritime traffic. Trajectory data records the moving objects' true movement and provides the opportunity to discover the movement behavior for anomaly detection. The multidimensional outlying features are first identified and defined. To deal with the uncertain property of trajectory, a maritime trajectory modeling is developed to explore the movement behavior from historical trajectories and build a maritime trajectory model for anomaly detection. Then, our ongoing work is developing an anomaly detection algorithm to detect anomalous moving objects from real time maritime trajectory stream effectively. This work should contribute the area of maritime security surveillance by trajectory data mining.


Four different liquid media were tested for the growth of O.radicata.The result showed that mycelium of O.radicata grew well in the medium M_3 (corn and wheat bran mediums) and the size of mycelium ball was well situated (average diameter 3.5 mm).The quantity of mycelium was considerable (30.3/mL), the dry weight of mycelium was the highest (1.72 g/mL).So the corn and wheat bran medium(M_3) was the best liquid medium for mycelium culture and propagation of O. radicata.


Family planning program is an effective way to prevent maternal and child mortality because it can help married couples avoid high-risk pregnancies, reduce the risk of maternal mortality through pregnancy prevention, delay, gestational age and spacing pregnancies with the main target being couples of reproductive age . The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with the low use of implant family planning in women with fertile age couples (WUS) in Pintupadang Village, Batang Angkola District in 2020. This study used an analytical survey with a cross sectional approach. The population used was all women in fertile age (WUS) in the village of Pintupadang, Batang Angkola District, amounting to 40 people. Sampling was carried out using the total population technique. This research was conducted in Pintupadang Village, Batang Angkola District. Data analysis using the Chi-Square test. The results of this study were knowledge with a value of p = 0.001 (<0.05), parity with a value of p = 0.013 (<0.05) and husband's support with a value of p = 0.005 (<0.05). The conclusion of this study is that there are factors that are associated with the low use of implant planning in women with fertile age couples (WUS) in Pintupadang Village, Batang Angkola District in 2020.


We investigate the first-spike response latency dynamics of a single Hodgkin-Huxley neuron model with a tunable intensity of intrinsic noise and fraction of blocked voltage-gated sodium and potassium ion channels embedded in biological membranes. In contrast to previous studies, we consider a biophysically realistic neuron model which contains stochastic ion channels. We show that potassium ion channels play a key role than sodium ion channels on the appearance of the noise delayed decay (NDD) effect in the first-spike timing.


The nonlinear optical effects such as second harmonic generation and two-photon emission in ZnO nanocrystals have been studied using microscopic time-resolved and time-integrated emission spectroscopy. The two-photon emission efficiency is proportional to the emission from the defect level. The stimulated transition of the carriers from the conduction band-edge to the defect states significantly influences the efficiency of the two photon process. The nonlinear emission characteristics depend significantly on the origin of the emission and the power dependence is significantly different from the surface emission compared to that emitted within the bulk of the nano-crystal. The two photon emission efficiency generated within the bulk semiconductor reduces at higher pump photon densities due to the saturation of the defect level states populated by stimulated emission. The two-photon emission from the surface of the ZnO nanocrystals increases and is then followed by a saturation due to the increase in the intensity. Unlike the two-photon emission from the bulk of the crystal, the surface emission does not show any drop in the efficiency at higher pump intensities.


In Mexico City, children rarely use the color blue when they make paintings of the sky. This metropolitan area of 20 million people is known as the most dangerous city in the world for children because of its very polluted air. When pollution levels are high, students are banned from playing outdoors until the emergency passes. Clean air consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen gas, as well as very small amounts of argon, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. When harmful substances build up in the air to unhealthy levels, the result is Substances that pollute the air can be in the form of solids, liquids, or gases. Most air pollution is the result of human activities, but pollutants can also come from natural sources. A volcano, for example, can spew clouds of particles and sulfur dioxide, SO2, into the atmosphere. Natural pollutants also include dust, pollen, and spores.


The author presents the chromosome numbers and detailed chromosome morphology of 7 species of the genus Solidago (Asteraceae), the majority of which were collected from the Province of Nova Scotia in Eastern Canada.The somatic chromosomes of Solidago are uniformly characterized by small size (range in length: 2.02 to 2.93 microns) and possess predominantly sub-median to median types of centromeres. The karyotype is generally of the asymmetrical type in which chromosome form a graded series without exhibiting a marked break.Meiotic chromosomes show a regular bivalent formation during diakinesis and at other stages and a normal disjunction at anaphase, suggesting a lack of, or a low degree of interbreeding among these and related species of Solidago. The high degree of pollen fertility observed in these species corroborates this statement.It is concluded that owing to its general uniformity, chromosome morphological data is likely to be of greater value in clarifying the taxonomic status of the higher categories of the family Asteraceae than in differentiating related diploid or polyploid species.


In this paper, we show that every spacelike biharmonic curve in the Lorentzian Heisenberg group Heis 3 is a helix (both of whose curvature and torsion are constants). We give some characterizations for spacelike biharmonic curve by using the positions vectors of the curve.


We report here, for the first time, the occurrence of hydrothermal monazite and xenotime in alteration haloes associated with the gold-Mineralized zones of the Hutti Gold Deposit in Karnataka, India. These minerals were identified by systematic scanning of polished thin sections in an SEM using backscattered electron and energy dispersive X-Ray detectors. Most of the grains are very small (<10 μm), although some larger gram (30-40 μm) have also been identified Hydrothermal monazite and xenotime, though volumetrically minor, have been found to be important components in many orogenic gold deposits in Australia, Canada, Brazil and South Africa,as they form a part of the primary ore mineral assemblage, elther in ore-Bearing veins itself or are intergrown wlth ore minerals in wallrock alteration zones. Both monazite and xenotime are excellent geochronometers, and their importance is that they allow precise ages to be obtained for gold mineralization events. The discovery of these minerals in hydrothermally altered rocks from the Hutti gold deposit Dharwar Craton enables us to estimate the age of gold mineralization event(s).


Background and purpose: Small pelagic fish species round sardinella (Sardinella aurita) has expanded its habitat during the last few decades towards colder parts of the Mediterranean Sea. In the Adriatic Sea, this investigation is the first attempt to study its gonad development histologically.Materials and methods: S. aurita specimens were sampled monthly from commercial landings of purse seine catches from the eastern part of the Adriatic Sea from November 2007 to January 2009. After biometric parameters were determined, gonads were removed from the fish and weighed. Sex and gonad development were determined macroscopically by the shape and the structure of gonads and afterwards gonads were analysed histologically.Results: The phases of gonadal development of both sexes of S. aurita were: immature, developing, spawning capable, regressing, and regenerating. An annual reproduction cycle based on gamete development revealed five stages of oocyte development: chromatin nucleolar stage, perinucleolar stage, yolk vesicle (cortical alveoli) formation, vitellogenic (yolk) stage, and ripe (mature) stage. Spermatogenesis was described through three stages: spermatocytogenesis (formation of primary spermatocytes from spermatogonia), meiosis (formation of secondary spermatocytes and spermatids) and spermiogenesis.Conclusions: Gonadal histology analyses of both sex of S. aurita indicated summer spawning manner of this species, with a peak in June-August period.


Many of the current emotion recognitions are intra-subject, the reason is that recognize cross-subject emotions have always been difficult. In this paper, we proposed a decision tree classifier based on sequential backward selection (DT-SBS), and "leave-one-subject-out" verification strategy was used for evaluating performance of cross-subject emotion recognition. Power spectral density (PSD) was extracted from EEG signals as feature set. The emotion recognition performance of the method we proposed was examined on EEG data of a group of subjects. The pictures were utilized to stimulate the emotion of 12 subjects and we collected their EEG signals (PEEG), the mean recognition accuracy of 65.8%. The dataset for emotion analysis using physiological signals (DEAP) was utilized to verify the method we proposed in this paper and the mean recognition accuracy of 65.2%. Compared with the performance reported in the existing literature, the method we proposed in this paper was effective in cross-subject emotion recognition. In addition, the emotion recognition performance of different rhythms were explored, we found that the mean recognition accuracy of PSD in the gamma rhythm achieved the best mean recognition accuracy compared with the other rhythms; the high frequency bands contained higher emotional information than the low frequency bands.


This research aimed to examine and compare the effects of using self-correction and peer-correction techniques on improvement of  students' writing skills at Language Development Centre of a state Islamic university in Sumatera. The data were gathered using pre-test, post-test, writing assessment sheet and guidance sheet of self and peer correction techniques. This quantitative research was carried out by using an experimental method. The population consisted of 34 classes, and the samples were taken through cluster random sampling. As a result, 3 classes, consisting of 77 second-semester students, were selected. The research hypotheses were tested by using the Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests. The results showed that, first, there was a significant difference in the students' writing skills before and after using the self-correction technique. Second, there was a significant difference in students' writing skills before and after using the peer-correction technique. Third, there was a significant difference in writing skills between the students who were taught using the self-correction technique and those who were taught using the peer-correction technique. The results also showed that the peer-correction technique had a more significant effect size on the scores for the students' writing skills. Keywords: self-correction technique, peer-correction technique, students' writing skill


Interference fit consisting of a carrier (16) and of at least one press-fitted on the carrier (16) seated sleeve-like component (1) of sheet metal with the surface of the carrier (16) is formed at least one recess (17, 18, 19), by at least one wall section (3, 4, 5) of the sleeve-shaped component (1) is at least partially covered, wherein the hollow cylindrical sleeve-like component (1) the press fit with the support (16) in the vicinity of the recess (17, 18, 19) is received, characterized in that the thickness of the sheet metal of the wall portion (3, 4, 5) with which the recess (17, 18, 19) is at least partially covered, is thicker than the plate of the sleeve-like component (1) thick is that enters to the wall portion (3, 4, 5) is directly adjacent in at least one direction and with which the sleeve-like component (1) the press fit with the support (16) in the vicinity of the recess (17, 18, 19), and that the component made from sheet steel sgd is ogen while the wall portion (3, 4, 5) at the non-mounted sleeve-like component on the particular for the press fit area or on the side remote from the press fitting face by an amount of the thickness to which the wall portion is thicker, on the wall of the sleeve-like member protrudes and is avoided by the amount of thickness in the press-fitted state in the recess.


In recent years, there has been quite a bit of enthusiasm and interest among scholars of early modern English and Spanish drama to embrace the performative aspects of seventeenth-century plays. Laura L. Vidler's monograph, Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama: Reviving and Revising the Comedia, is a prominent example of recent trends in comedia studies to examine and analyze Golden Age theatrical works through the lens of performance studies. As Vidler indicates, portions of some of the chapters have been published previously as articles, but the material is further developed here. Chapter One analyzes the debates concerning critical theory and theater generally and performance studies specifically, and insists on the necessity of interdisciplinarity to examine cogently the relationship between spectacle and spectator. Vidler notes that since the 1950s, comedia scholars have begun to compile a vast amount of historical and archival material (ledgers, bills of sale, contracts, notes and letters, repair orders, etc.) that has helped to develop a behind-the-scenes understanding of the stage practices of theatrical production. Such archival research then provided a strong impetus to develop analyses that go beyond reliance on the written play text. Indeed, Vidler examines several modern critical approaches to the comedia and indicates that the combined subjective and objective interpretations offered today by performance theory seem to be the most promising for examining Golden Age theater. Throughout the chapters, she bases her analyses on Pierre Bourdieu's notion habitus ("structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures") as outlined in his The Logic of Practice. Vidler then explains that a Golden Age play is both an individual and collective practice—like habitus—that develops through performance: "The relationship between the current circumstances that motivate the practice, and the historical milieu in which that habitus developed is realized, in Bourdieu's own words, through its performance" (21). As a result, Vidler observes:


PC/ABS/GO composites were fabricated using a twin screw extruder in order to study GO dispersion and the physical properties of polycarbonate (PC)/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (ABS)/graphene oxide (GO) composites depending on fabrication methods. The position of the GO was thermodynamically identified by measurement of contact angle and the use of wetting coefficient. The GO tended to be located in the ABS phase and ABS-g-MA. In TEM images, most of the GO was located in the ABS phase regardless of fabrication methods. In comparisons of tensile strength and Izod impact strength, the physical properties of PC-GO/ABS composites using PC/GO composites were significantly improved. In PC-GO/ABS composites produced by using PC/GO composites, and changing screw rpm, tensile strength and impact strength slightly increased as screw rpm rose. In SEM and TEM images, it was confirmed that GOs were mostly dispersed in the PC and ABS interface due to the short residence time in the extruder as screw rpm rose.


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TREPTOMYCIN is prototypical among a S group of antibiotics with paralyzing potentialities related to neuromuscular-blocking activity.1 This pharmacologic effect has been attributed2 to decreased calcium ionization. According to Adriani,3 the concept of the action of streptomycin also pertains to the neuromuscular effects of related antibiotics such as neomycin, dihydrostreptomycin, bacitracin, kanamycin, and polymyxin B.


The sampling unit of the device, based on ion mobility spectroscopy technique, for detection of ultra-small concentration of substances on human fingers and documents, is described. The vapor pressure of some substances is subtle; so the heating of an examined surface is a must for efficient detection of these substances. In the present work it was shown (by the thermal transfer investigation) that more efficient method of surface heating consists of the using of the impulse gas-discharge lamp in comparison with the use of a heated air flow or heat transfer from the warm body by thermal conductivity. However the heating of the human fingers by the irradiation of the gas-discharge lamp is not effective because of a small concentration of the melamine (pigment of the black or brown color) in the skin of the human palm. Therefore in this work the combination of the two methods is used: irradiation of the gas-discharge lamp heats grid and a grid heat the surface of the finger that is pressed to a grid. The system will be effective for the control of admission to public events and providing anti-terrorist measures (1-3).


In this work, mixed research approaches are used, referring to analysis strategies in the course
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and Intervention Youth to measure the level of baseline risk from certifying the court record. It
is confirmed that the program is effective in 88.23% and that subjects who were under the
program for more than one year intervention significantly lowered the level of initial risk and
favored by implementing the program.


An object of the present invention is to provide is to provide an optical density is high and the exposure sensitive light-shielding pigment composition. Another object is to provide a light-shielding member for a display comprising a light-shielding pigment composition. A light-shielding pigment composition comprising two or more organic pigments, organic pigments, at least, the following general formula (1): (In the formula (1), in each of R


In this paper, a double-clad Er/Yb fiber laser with self-Q-switched and continuous wave operation depending on the pump power range is experimentally demonstrated. The linear cavity is formed on one side by a pair of cascaded tunable fiber Bragg gratings used for the selection and tuning of the generated laser lines. On the opposite side, a fiber optical loop mirror with high birefringence fiber in the loop is used to adjust the intra-cavity losses to obtain dual-wavelength emission by temperature changes on the fiber loop. Continuous wave dual-wavelength laser operation is obtained for tunable separation of the generated laser lines in a range from 1 to 7 nm, maximum output power of 3.6Wwith a pump power of 10Wand laser wavelengths linewidth of ~0.2 nm. Self-Q-switched laser pulses are obtained with low pump power in a range from 322 to 890 mW. Q-switched pulses with minimum pulse duration of ~1.5 _s and maximum pulse energy of ~3.5 _J are obtained.


Banyuasin is one of the regency in South Sumatera which has an area of 200.000 Ha of peat land. Peat soil are characterized by high compressibility parameters and low initial shear strength. Block sampling method was used to obtain undisturbed sample. The results of this paper describe the characteristics of peat soil from physical and chemical testing. The physical and chemical characteristics of peat include water content (ω), specific gravity (Gs), Acidity (pH), unit weight (γ), and ignition loss tests. SEM and EDS test was done to determine the differences in fiber content and to analyze chemical elements of the specimen. The average results ω, Gs, and pH are 263.538 %, 1.847, and 3.353. Peat is classified in H4 (by Von Post). The results of organic content (OC), ash content (AC), and fiber content (FC) are found 78.693 %, 21.310 %, and 73.703 %. From the results of physical and chemical tests, the peat in Banyuasin is classified as fibrous peat. All the results of the characteristics and classification of fibrous peat compared with published data were close.Banyuasin is one of the regency in South Sumatera which has an area of 200.000 Ha of peat land. Peat soil are characterized by high compressibility parameters and low initial shear strength. Block sampling method was used to obtain undisturbed sample. The results of this paper describe the characteristics of peat soil from physical and chemical testing. The physical and chemical characteristics of peat include water content (ω), specific gravity (Gs), Acidity (pH), unit weight (γ), and ignition loss tests. SEM and EDS test was done to determine the differences in fiber content and to analyze chemical elements of the specimen. The average results ω, Gs, and pH are 263.538 %, 1.847, and 3.353. Peat is classified in H4 (by Von Post). The results of organic content (OC), ash content (AC), and fiber content (FC) are found 78.693 %, 21.310 %, and 73.703 %. From the results of physical and chemical tests, the peat in Banyuasin is classified as fibrous peat. All the results of the characteristics and classificati...


THE development of the Wolf-Schindler flexible gastroscope in 19321 followed by the Benedict flexible operating gastroscope in 19482 and the flexible gastric-biopsy tube invented in 1949 by Wood et...


Eunotia clevei Grunow ex Cleve was collected as an epiphyte on aquatic mosses and macroalgae from the Ravdangiin Bulag mineral spring in western Mongolia. E. clevei is widely reported but usually rare in many north temperate large-lake systems and fossil deposits. This taxon is characterized by its large size, two rimoportulae per valve, a small pseudoseptum that is overlapped by die valvocopula, spinules on the dorsal and ventral valve margins, an internal proximal raphe hook, sternum on the valve face, coarsely areolate striae in LM, and epithemioid frustular symmetry (heteropolarity in the transapical plane) because of dorsalty expanded mantles and cingular elements. This combination of characters clearly differentiates E. clevei from Eunotia sensu stricto;, however, some of these characters are shared with other eunotioid genera such as Desmogonium, Semiorbis, Peronia, Actinella, and Eunophora, suggesting that Eunotia clevei, its varieties, and allied taxa may be better placed within a new genus.


The COVID-19 lockdown was a frenetic period for inmates of the night shelters in Delhi. The difficulty in maintaining employment, social distancing, sanitation, safety measures and sanity that were regarded as critical factors could not be ensured. Yet, it was apparent that the residents' experiences during this time varied, and their lives were differentially affected by the pandemic. The following piece presents glimpses from encounters with the residents of these night shelters that took place soon after the lockdown.


This report has been prepared at a time when the South East Asian region has suffered a series of economic shocks which has shattered much of the mythology that has accumulated around the so called Tiger economies. To that extent it has been very difficult to comment on the immediate future of the many port and inland transportation infrastructure developments that were commenced against a background of what might have seemed like unrestricted growth. the research undertaken in the course of the preparation of this report has encouraged the belief that the region will rebound from the setbacks and resume its former growth pattern - albeit possibly with a rather more cautious eye to the future. It is probable that this caution will acknowledge the need for a well-developed comprehensive transportation infrastructure as an essential ingredient of the competitiveness that will have top lie at the heart of continued economic growth. There are encouraging signs that the investment necessary for the continuing development of transportation systems throughout the region will be provided increasingly by private sector sources. At the other end of the spectrum, development in the coastal regions of China is being implemented at great speed. There appears to be no shortage of funding, and there is an increasingly-assured inwards flow of expertise to encourage the development of indigenous capabilities.


The main objective of the project is to determine the Pre - feasibility study, for a wind farm with technology, and in this way increase the capacity of the Jepirachi wind farm (La Guajira), Since its functionality is currently different from that initially designed and therefore obsolete and used for other purposes, as a tourist attraction, in this way there is a small income, which does not meet the needs of the community, nor does it solve. In principle the determination of the energy potential of the Jepirachi wind farm is carried out, from the wind potentials of the area of influence, additional Offshore wind turbine will be chosen to solve the energy needs of the same, for this, they are taken into account construction, installation, operation, materials and maintenance costs of an Offshore wind turbine, located in La Guajira; In which, design factors such as: location, area of influence, wind speed, wind potential, will be taken into account, acting forces and altitude, where the most profitable and optimal wind turbine is chosen to generate the highest energy capacity in the study area. Finally, the economic evaluation is carried out, based on the CAPEX and OPEX costs; where by definition the first are the investment costs to capital and the second are the costs of operation and maintenance of the project. In addition, the indicators of the VPN and the TIR are used, from these define the viability of the project.


Resistance spot welding utilizes the inherent resistance of metal pieces to join two or more sheets of metal by the flow of electrical current, which passes through the metal sheets and generates the welding heat. As a traditional welding technique, resistance spot welding is a major metal-connecting method in the automotive, consumer electronics, and aircraft industries (Ref. 1). For resistance spot welding, its cooling crystallization of liquid metal in a nugget is consistent with the general rules of a solidification process; the nugget shape or structure after solidification is closely related to the cooling rate of the solidification of the liquid metal and directly determines the performance of the spot welded joint (Ref. 2). However, it is currently impossible to determine the cooling rate directly with normal test methods, such as thermocouple, optical temperature measurement, or highspeed photography, which have been widely used in the research field of rapid solidification. The reason behind this is the nugget crystallization of spot welding is instantaneously completed in a closed plastic ring, and the spot weld nuggets in sheet metals are usually small. Therefore, there are few open publications in this field to directly determine the cooling rate of a spot welding nugget. It was reported that under spot welding conditions, the cooling rate of lowcarbon steel had been roughly inferred from the phenomenon of hardened martensite in the welding nugget (Ref. 3). In addition, by using an X-ray, Elmer (Ref. 4) observed the solidification and cooling processes of stainless steel spot welding. According to the secondary dendrite arm spacing method, a cooling rate could be indirectly determined based on the correlation between the cooling rate and dimensional characteristics of microstructure after rapid solidification (Ref. 5). This method is widely and successfully applied in the research area for rapid solidification technology (Refs. 6–8). Due to the fact that the crystallization temperature range in stainless steel is relatively narrow and its dendrites can grow fully, it is relatively easy to measure their secondary dendrite arm spacing. As such, 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel was taken as the research material. Based on the measurement of the secondary dendrite arm spacing in the spot welding nugget of this material, the cooling rates in different areas of the nugget were estimated according to rapid solidification theory.


A novel higher-order active FM modelocking technique capable of multiplying the pulse repetition rate of a fibre ring laser is demonstrated by applying a strong phase modulation and using an intracavity Fabry-Perot filter with a free spectral range which is a harmonic of the modulation frequency. Generation of equal amplitude and evenly spaced pulses with 10- and 15-fold multiplication in repetition rate is demonstrated.


Magnetic field is believed to play an important role in the collapse of a molecular cloud. In particular, due to the properties of magnetic forces, collapse should be easier along magnetic field lines, as supported by the large-scale sheet-like structure of the Taurus giant molecular cloud for instance. Here we investigate whether such a prefered orientation for collapse is present at a much smaller scale, that of individual objects. We use recent high-angular resolution images of TTauri stars located in the Taurus star-forming region to find the orientation of the symmetry axis of each star+jet+disk system and compare it to that of the local magnetic field. We find that i) the orientations of the symmetry axis of TTauri stars are not random with respect to the magnetic field, and ii) that young stars that are associated to a jet or an outflow are oriented very differently from those which do not have a detected outflow. We present some implications of this puzzling new result.


Abstract We examine in this paper the importance of banks' behavior in the transmission of the monetary policy to the real economy. Monthly data from eight economies in transition that recently became members of the European Union and the techniques of cointegration and Error Correction models are used, in order to investigate the relationship between intermediation margin spread (IMS, official lending rate minus deposit rate) and industrial production. Given the low development of corporate bond market and the dependence of non-financial agents on banking credits, we find that in many countries the IMS is an important leading indicator of industrial production. However, in countries characterized by credit access constraints (Estonia and Latvia) evidence for the traditional money channel is found. Evidence for both money and credit channels is found in Poland and Hungary. These results imply that a common monetary policy implemented by the European Central Bank may be transmitted in different ways across the new members of the enlarged European Union with different effects on real output in each country.


Background: Many thousands of patients with a suspected Mendelian disease have their exomes/genomes sequenced every year, but only about 30% receive a definitive diagnosis. Since a novel Mendelian gene-disease association is published on average every business day, thousands of undiagnosed patient cases could receive a diagnosis each year if their genomes were regularly compared to the latest literature. With millions of genomes expected to be sequenced for rare disease analysis by 2025, and considering the current publication rate of 1.1 million new articles per annum in PubMed, manually reanalyzing the growing cases of undiagnosed patients is not sustainable. Methods: We describe a fully automated reanalysis framework for patients with suspected, but undiagnosed, Mendelian disorders. The presented framework was tested by automatically parsing all ~100,000 newly published peer reviewed papers every month and matching them on genotype and phenotype with all stored undiagnosed patients. If a new article contains a possible diagnosis for an undiagnosed patient, the system provides notification. We test the accuracy of the automatic reanalysis system on 110 patients, including 61 with available trio data. Results: Even when trained only on older data, our system identifies 80% of reanalysis diagnoses, while sending only 0.5-1 alerts per patient per year, a 100-1,000-fold efficiency gain over manual literature surveillance of equivalent yield. Conclusion: We show that automatic reanalysis of patients with suspected Mendelian disease is feasible and has the potential to greatly streamline diagnosis. Our system is not intended to replace clinical judgment. Rather, clinical diagnostic services could greatly benefit from a modest re-allocation of time from manual literature exploration to review of automated reanalysis alerts. Our system additionally supports a new paradigm for medical IT systems: proactive, continuously learning and consequently able to autonomously identify valuable insights as they emerge in digital health records. We have launched automated patient reanalysis, trained on the latest data, with user accounts and daily literature updates at https://AMELIE.stanford.edu.


Aim: The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the marginal bone loss in implant supported over-dentures in case of early loading on denture. Methodology: 36 edentulous participants (mean age 68 years, SD 9.2) were randomly assigned into three treatment groups (n¼12). A single implant was placed in the mandibular midline of participants to support an overdenture using a 6-week loading protocol. The control group received Southern regular implants and standard ball attachments. One group received Southern 8-mm-wide implants and large ball attachments. Another group received Neoss regular implants and Locator attachments. SPSS was used to determine between groups differences in marginal bone loss, implant stability, implant, and prosthodontic success (P<0.05). Results: Implant success after 1 year was 75% for Southern regular implant (control) group; and 100% for the Southern wide and Neoss regular implant groups (P¼0.038). Prosthodontic success was comparable between the groups but the maintenance (41 events overall, mean 1.2) was greater for the Locator and the standard ball attachments. Conclusion: Mandibular single-implant overdentures are a successful treatment option for older edentulous adults with early loading protocol using implants of different diameters and with different attachment systems.


"Our strategy is to lead a global alliance, political alliance if you will, to isolate Iraq politically, economically and militarily …. We remain the one nation that has the necessary political, military and economic instruments at our disposal to catalyze a successful response by the international community." (James Baker, U.S. Secretary of State, Testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, September 5, 1990)


I. General topic: Municipal Government. References: Bryce, American Commonwealth (Ed. 3, New York, Macmillan, I895), Vol. I, pp. 622-666. A careful analytical study of our municipal institutions. Ely, Problems of Today. Directly to the point as regards municipal problems. Fiske, Civil Government in the United States. A valuable study, chiefly historical. Goodnow, Comparative Administrative Law (New York, Putnam, I893), Vol. I, bk. 3. A comparative study of municipal organizations in different countries; especially valuable as furnishing a basis for comparison in the study of our own institutions. Loomis, Modern Cities (New York, Baker, I887). Suggestive discussion of municipal problems. National Conference for Good City Government, Proceedings I895-6. Contain valuable papers on the different phases of municipal reform. The volume for I894 has a very full bibliography. Shaw, Municipal Government in Great Britain. Shaw, Municipal Government in Continental Europe. Shaw's books are excellent studies of British and Continental municipal life, with special attention to social problems. Tolman, Municipal Reform Movements (New York, Revell, I895). Made up largely of reports from organizations in many cities for improving existing conditions.


Methods used to measure the temperature of Al x Ga 1―x N based ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs) are based on optical or electrical phenomena that are sensitive to either local, surface, or average temperatures within the LED. A comparative study of the temperature rise of Al x Ga 1―x N UV LEDs measured by micro-Raman spectroscopy, infrared (IR) thermography, and the forward voltage method is presented. Experimental temperature measurements are provided for UV LEDs with micropixel and interdigitated contact geometries, as well as for a number of different packaging configurations. It was found that IR spectroscopy was sensitive to optical properties of the device layers, while forward voltage method provided higher temperatures, in general. Raman spectroscopy was used to measure specific layers within the LED, showing that growth substrate temperatures in the flip-chip LEDs agreed more closely to IR measurements while layers closer to the multiple quantum wells (MQWs) agreed more closely with Forward Voltage measurements.


Due to the broadcast nature, wireless transmissions can be overheard by any receiver within the transmission range. A physical layer approach for secure wireless cooperative communications is proposed in this paper. Considering the asynchronous nature of cooperative communications, this paper proposes an eavesdropping-resistant space-time network coding (STNC) scheme for multinode cooperative communications to prevent eavesdropping and overcome the problem of imperfect synchronization. In the proposed scheme, training symbols are transmitted by the destination $D$ instead of the user nodes. Therefore, each user node can obtain the channel state information (CSI) between itself and $D$, which is unavailable to the eavesdropper $E$. By exploiting such CSI and the transmit information symbols, weighting coefficient is designed at each user node to prevent $E$ from interception and ensure successful decoding at $D$. Based on the pairwise error probability (PEP) analysis, STNC is designed to achieve full diversity at $D$ and improve the transmission efficiency of the asynchronous cooperative system. Simulation results are presented to verify the performance of the proposed eavesdropping-resistant STNC scheme.


PURPOSE: An electronic money payment system and a method using on-line connector that integrates near field communications are provided to purchase a product or service by connecting an online electronic cash service and apply a local area wireless communication technique to the online connection device which requests payment. CONSTITUTION: An electronic cash service provider(100) process the payment for a product or service based on online electronic cash service. Through the online connection with the electronic cash service provider, a user online connection device unit(200) sets up the electronic cash service corresponding to the control input of a user. A local area communication module unit(300) outputs the control information for the payment through local area communication. The local area communication module unit receives the processing information corresponding to the control information through the local area communication. A user electronic cash terminal unit(400) processes the cash variation for electronic cash.


The Australian High Court reversed the decisions of the judgments by the trial judge and the NSW Court of Appeal relevant to the liability of the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). The case involved a 14-year old by who had jumped off a bridge and became partially paraplegic.


WILHELM RIBHEGGE* TRANSLATED BY RALPH KEEN Among the archives of the University of Munster is an unusual condolence document. Numerous letters of sympathy were sent upon the death on January 31, 1931, of Joseph Mausbach, a moral theologian and cathedral provost who for almost forty years had taught at Munster. 1 The Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli, who had been papal nuncio in Germany (1917-1929) and would later become Pope Pius XII, assessed the loss suffered not only by the faculty or the Bishopric of Munster,"but all of Catholic Germany."2 The dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty wrote to the dean of the neighboring Catholic Theological Faculty: "With the senior member of your faculty has departed one of the most notable personalities of German Catholicism, one of the best-known Catholic theologians of Germany, a defender of the Christian faith among the German people, a leader in the defense against the present-day powers hostile to Christianity."3 Almost all the documents point to the role that Mausbach played in German public life. Together with a colleague from the Catholic Theological Faculty at Munster, Franz Hitze, Mausbach was a delegate to the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 as well as a leading member of its constitutional committee. He co-operated in the preparation of the artides of the Weimar Constitution dealing with the relation of church and state, which were incorporated into the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. This legislation was seen as a significant historical compromise after the collapse of the state church in the wake of the revolution of 1918. It was a compromise achieved among social democrats, liberals, and conservatives; between Protestants and Catholics; and between the mainline churches and the small religious communities: a distinct advance, accompanying the transition from German society under the Empire to the modern democracy of the twentieth century. Mausbach became a professor in 1892 at age 32; his appointment, like that of the young Catholic social reformer Franz Hitze to the newly created chair of "Christian social science" in 1893, came at a time when the Munster Academy was transforming itself into a university. The of ficial in charge of higher education for the Prussian Ministry of Culture, Friedrich Althoff, strove to modernize Prussian higher education during his administration (1882-1907) and thereby also supported the work of younger Catholic academics, in order to facilitate the integration of Catholics into the new empire after the Kulturkampf.4 Thus Mausbach's academic career in the Empire advanced without evident problems or hindrances. But his life, so far as it reflects public affairs, was beset with conflicts which cannot now be easily imagined: ecclesiasticalreligious, spiritual, political, national, and international. It was Mausbach's official calling to take a position with regard to all these conflicts, for his teaching responsibilities in Munster were moral theology and apologetics.5 Born in 1860 in the village of Wipperfeld, the son of the mayor, Mausbach attended the Gymnasium in Wipperfurth and the Apostles' Gymnasium in Cologne, after which he took up theology at the Academy in Munster. "The theological faculty of the Academy at that time had suffered less under the Kulturkampf than Bonn had," Mausbach reported in his memoirs.' The tendency toward Neo-Thomism was spiritually influential at this Academy; the then Pope Leo XIII had recommended it as an anchor and support in the face of contemporary philosophical and scientific turmoil: against historicism in the human sciences, against scientism in the natural sciences, and against the general confidence in scientific progress to which the academic elite in particular clung in the nineteenth century? Transcending this, Neo-Thomism united Catholic theologians of various nationalities: German, Swiss, French, Belgian, Italian. In Munster, even during the Bismarck regime, people were loyal to Rome, or romtreu. …


Biohybrid molecules are a versatile class of materials for controlling the assembly behavior and functional properties of electronically-active organics. In this work, we study the effect of the size of the π-conjugated core on the assembly and phase behavior for a series of π-conjugated peptides consisting of oligothiophene cores of defined lengths flanked by sequence-defined peptides (OTX, where X=4, 5, 6 is the number of thiophene core units). Interestingly, we find that π-conjugated peptides with relatively short OT4 cores assemble into ordered, high aspect ratio, 1-dimensional structures, whereas π-conjugated peptides with longer OT5 and OT6 cores assemble into disordered structures or lower aspect ratio 1-dimensional structures depending on assembly conditions. Phase diagrams for assembled materials are experimentally determined as a function of ionic strength, pH, temperature, and peptide concentration, revealing the impact of molecular sequence and π-conjugated core length on assembled morphologies. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are further used to probe the origins of microscale differences in assembly that arise from subtle changes in molecular identity. Broadly, our work elucidates the mechanisms governing the assembly of π-conjugated peptides, which will aid in efficient materials processing for soft electronics applications. Overall, these results highlight the complex phase behavior of biohybrid materials, including the impact of molecular sequence on assembly behavior and morphology.


Twelve reinforced-concrete continuous deep beams having web openings within interior shear spans were tested to failure. The main variables investigated were the opening size and the amount of inclined reinforcement around openings. An effective inclined reinforcement factor combining the influence of the amount of inclined web reinforcement and opening size is proposed and used to analyse the structural behaviour of continuous deep beams tested. It was observed that the end support reaction, diagonal crack width and load capacity of beams tested were significantly dependent on the proposed effective inclined reinforcement factor. As this factor increased, the end support reaction and increasing rate of diagonal crack width were closer to those of companion solid deep beams. In addition, a higher load capacity was exhibited by beams having an effective inclined reinforcement factor above 0·077 than the companion solid deep beam. A numerical procedure based on the upper-bound analysis of the plasticity the...


Very Brief Introduction to R Very brief introduction to R The basic regression ANOVA as regression ANCOVA: Lord's paradox and mediation analysis Model selection and shrinkage Generalized linear models (GLMs) Regression splines and generalized additive models (GAMs) Multilevel models Robust regression Conclusion - make your data cool


An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) is a subset M ⊆ E of edges such that each edge in E ∖ M is incident to at least one edge in M. In this paper, we consider the parameterized edge dominating set problem which asks us to test whether a given graph has an edge dominating set with size bounded from above by an integer k or not, and we design an O*(2.2351 k )-time and polynomial-space algorithm. This is an improvement over the previous best time bound of O*(2.3147 k ). We also show that a related problem: the parameterized weighted edge dominating set problem can be solved in O*(2.2351 k ) time and polynomial space.


Abstract Room occupancy rate indicates the volume of guests at the hotel in a period. Room occupancy rate is the main parameter to see the success of a service hospitality. The goal of this research is to analyse characteristics of visitors and the development level of occupancy rooms in the Papyrus Tropical Hotel, making forecasting occupancy rates for next one year (short term), and analyze the profitability of Papyrus Tropical Hotel. Analysis of attitudes of visitors on this research using model multiatribut Fishbein and the methods of forecasting, was used single exponential smoothing and double exponential smoothing. The results shown that overall visitors have very positive attitudes towards Papyrus Tropical hotel with a total score of Fishbein 142,37. Forecasting results for room occupancy rate percentages, in 2012 is 47,94 percent This result has an increase 5.12 percent from 2011 with achievement of operating profits Rp. 983.428.275. Keyword: Occupancy rates, forecasting method, characteristic of visitors


Abstract The publication of some caricatures of the prophet Mohammed by the Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, and their distribution around the globe provoked a tremendous outcry and debate, which even led to physical destruction and death. This raises fundamental questions about the nature of blasphemy, (self-)censorship and the freedom of expression, the responsibility of cartoonists, trans-cultural communication, and the power of caricature. The author, who played a direct role in the French part of this affair, reflects on the questions it raises and on his own practice of editorial cartooning. 'Don't be a stickler, Mr. Priest, it's black humour; this boy is a freethinker.' Excerpt from the movie L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (screenplay by Michel Audiard)1 The caricatures published in Denmark in September 2005 went unnoticed at first. They were meant to represent Mohammed in different situations, in a somewhat provocative manner; the Danish cartoonists wanted above all to push back against the interdicts proclaimed by religious authorities. That triggered an uproar in January 2006, the consequences of which are well known: torchings of cultural centres; attacks on Danish and European embassies; demonstrations in Libya; 11 dead in Pakistan. And all that for some drawings! Where was the blasphemy? What surprised me the most was the imbalance between the impetus for the polemical debate (a few irreverent drawings) and people's perceptions in Muslim countries. At the start, I did not quite understand where the blasphemy was to be found. We Westerners are so used to seeing anti-religious drawings; I had to do a double-take to figure out what was really so provocative about them. In fact, the Danish drawings were not unbearable caricatures; the real provocation came from the title: Here Are the Portraits of Mohammed. That was the true sacrilege! Not for us, because we are used to seeing Jesus Christs, Virgin Marys, Saint Mary Magdalenes in every position! For Christmas 2005, the pages of Liberation offered, next to multicoloured dildoes, a Virgin Mary standing on a skateboard, and a Perfecto advertisement showing Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns.2 In January, in Parisian circles, it was considered tasteful to say that the published Danish drawings of Mohammed were worthless. Still, I liked the suicide bomber with his belt of explosive devices; Mohammed welcomes him to paradise with the news that there are no more virgins left for him. By contrast, there was another, more problematic, drawing, which suggested that Mohammed had orchestrated the bombings; it showed the Prophet with a bomb in his turban. This debate, which has some substance to it, was squeezed out by the media controversy surrounding the face of the Prophet: according to many Muslims, it is forbidden to draw Mohammed. Moreover, while we are on the topic of turbans and bombs, I would point out that I had made the same drawing a few months earlier, in July 2005, at the time of the London bombings (Fig. 1). But the difference was that the character that I had drawn was not Mohammed; instead, it was an Islamic extremist who had planted bombs. That makes all the difference. The drawings published in Copenhagen by Denmark's premier newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, suggested that the cartoonists had a bone to pick with the Prophet. On top of that, a few Danish imams orchestrated a manipulation of the news media to make people believe that the photograph of the pig-squealing competition was one of the Danish drawings. As a result of giving numerous interviews, I began to realise that the public was rediscovering the meaning of caricature, the meaning of images, at a point in time when we have grown used to consuming - on television, in newspapers and on the Web - images that, although striking, are increasingly meaningless. I have noted, over the last dozen or so years, that the media frenetically use cliched imagery without any supporting critical discourse. …


A non-autonomous stochastic delay wave equation with linear memory and nonlinear damping driven by additive white noise is considered on the unbounded domain <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \mathbb{R}^n $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. We establish the existence and uniqueness of a random attractor <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ \mathcal{A} $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> that is compact in <inline-formula><tex-math id="M3">\begin{document}$ C{([-h, 0];H^1(\mathbb{R}^n))}\times C{([-h, 0];L^2(\mathbb{R}^n))}\times L_\mu^2(\mathbb{R}^+;H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)) $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="M4">\begin{document}$ 1\leqslant n \leqslant 3 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>.


Solar electricity is generated using photovoltaic (PV) systems all over the world. Solar power sources are irregular in nature since PV system output power is intermittent and highly dependent on environmental conditions. Irradiance, humidity, PV surface temperature, and wind speed are only a few of these variables. The uncertainty in photovoltaic generating, it's crucial to plan ahead for solar power generation. Solar power forecasting is required for electric grid supply and demand planning. Because solar power generation is weather-dependent and unregulated, this forecast is complicated and difficult. Selective developed to this goal. Traditional approaches such as statistics, autoregressive moving average, regression, and others were used to forecast PV power before the widespread usage variables are assessed for prediction models based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and regression models. Several PV forecasting algorithms have been of machine learning technologies. Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, and hybrid techniques have grown popular as a result of recent advances in machine learning methodologies and access to huge data. This study examines the impacts of numerous environmental conditions on PV system output, as well as the working principle and application of various PV forecasting approaches, in order to better comprehend the insights of PV prediction. Furthermore, the important parameters influencing PV generation are calculated using real-time data.


The tire is the only touching surface of a road vehicle with a pad. It must provide a number of safety features such as steering, elasticity, load bearing, force transfer, durability, etc. The technical performance characteristics of truck tires are an important feature in selecting the tire itself. Exploitation features means a number of interrelated features, which depend on the suitability of the vehicle for use under different conditions. Tire maintenance is not demanding, and tire durability depends on the internal pressure, driving style and driver, and the condition of the roadway and vehicle. Using a tire outside the intended season reduces safety. Tests help with the correct tire selection. The tests are carried out under appropriate conditions.