Western colonialism brought with it, not merely economic exploitation and political oppression, but also the unrelenting thrust of a 'civilizing' mission based on a world-view which believed in the absolute superiority of the human over the non-human, of the masculine over the feminine, of the historical over the ahistorical, and of the modern over the traditional. This world-view was calculated to disrupt the cultural identities and subvert the cultural priorities of the subject societies. This paper sees the ensuing battle, not as an adventitious one between the East and the West, but as an immanent one between the Appolonian and Dionysian within each civilization and culture. It illustrates, with the case study of Rudyard Kipling and his ambivalent attitude to India, how, while this encounter of two cultures produced in the subject societies small sections of men comically imitative of the Western lifestyle, it also produced among the rulers a small section of men who found themselves painfully suspended between two worlds. As for the peoples in general in the subject societies, they were not troubled by such a dilemma. They learned to cope with transient defeat by making a shield out of their suffering to protect their authentic selves and the core values of their cultures, and thus showed that co-optation could be successfully resisted.


PURPOSE: To improve the data transfer efficiency of a data bus. CONSTITUTION: This system is provided with a continuous data transfer number setting register 4 for setting the amount of data, which can be continuously transferred when a DMAC 1 acquires a bus use right, a temporary request stopping means 5 for stopping transmitting the bus use right requesting signal of the DMAC 1 to a competition control part 6 equal to or longer than one clock period without fail after the end of set data transfer and a DMA priority setting register 7 for performing an arbitration so that the bus use right can be next applied to the DMAC 1 without fail when the bus use right requesting signal of the DMAC 1 is generated in the competition control part 6. Thus, the bus use right is assigned to the DMAC 1 and a CPU and i/f 8.


Organ transplants are procedures which require intensive personal and material resources.The results of organ transplants have continuously improved during recent decades. International data bases (registries) have documented the continuous evolution of organ transplantation. On the basis of the German Transplant Law guidelines for "Re- quirements regarding quality control for procedures related to organ procurement and transplantation" have been formulated by the German Medical Chamber.Thus, monitoring of outcome quality will become a requirement for all German transplant centers. In this paper, the guidelines for the different organ transplants (kidney, pancre- as, liver, heart, lung) are discussed as well as quality control for living donor transplanta- tion. Studies from the USA and Europe demonstrated volume-outcome relation- ships in organ transplantation. In addition, in kidney transplantation a centre-effect could be demonstrated which influences outcome more than the immunological match between donor and recipient.The introduc- tion of required quality control may have far reaching consequences for the future struc- ture of organ transplantation in Germany.


Religion can be a source of undemocratic attitudes but also a contributor to democratic norms. This article argues that different dimensions of religiosity generate contrasting effects on democratic attitudes through different mechanisms. The private aspect of religious belief is associated with traditional and survival values, which in turn decrease both overt and intrinsic support for democracy. The communal aspect of religious social behaviour increases political interest and trust in institutions, which in turn typically lead to more support for democracy. Results from multilevel path analyses using data from fifty-four countries from Waves 4 and 5 of the World Values Survey suggest there is some regularity in mechanisms responsible for the effect of religiosity on democratic support that extend beyond religious denomination.


Psychiatria Danubina, 2021; Vol. 33, Suppl. 8, pp 18-569 S238 high-quality talents for the society. Objective: If students with consciousness disorder can't concentrate on listening, moral education can't achieve the desired effect. And the students with consciousness disorder will have certain anxiety symptoms, which will harm their physical and mental health. Research on the improvement of moral education model in colleges and universities, so as to effectively alleviate the anxiety and depression of students with consciousness disorders, so as to improve their mental health level, promote the healthy growth of students and output more high-quality talents for the society. Subjects and methods: 60 students with consciousness disorders were selected from 12 colleges and universities, and the students were from 10 different majors. Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) were used to evaluate students' mental health level, and students' moral education examination results were used to evaluate the teaching effect. Research design: Students were randomly divided into research group and control group, with 30 people in each group. The research group adopts the improved moral education model for teaching. The control group used the traditional teaching mode. After 4 months, the mental health level and test scores of the two groups were compared. Methods: The relevant data were processed and analyzed by software SPSS 17.0. Results: After teaching, the degree of anxiety and depression of the students in the study group decreased significantly (P < 0.05), and the test scores increased significantly (P < 0.05). There was no significant change in anxiety, depression and test scores in the control group (P > 0.05). The anxiety of students is shown in Table 1. Table 1. Anxiety of two groups of students Timing Communication ability score t P Research Group Control group Before teaching 57.1±10.2 56.4±11.1 0.246 0.752 After teaching 85.3±8.4 57.9±12.4 8.572 0.001


This paper studies the modern college students' understanding towards four-dimensional view point of health and their sporting behavior in such condition through survey.After analyzing the roots,this article finds out frequency for sports at present.Moreover,their sporting content,method,place and facing pluralistic development and their sporting motives are in harmony with new idea of health.In addition,relative suggestions are also given.


This paper is based on Platform and developmental documents of Serbia and Ministry of Health as well as developmental enactment and programs. The comparative legal solutions of other countries are also presented. It is concluded that it is necessary to establish development concepts of health insurance, health policy and overall organization and development of the country for the forthcoming period.


This article analyses the results of Loza-B georadar sounding of the upper part of the permanently frozen ground section in the area of polygonal microrelief development. These investigations took place on the eastern coast of the Taymyr Peninsula and on the western coast of Kotelny Island (New Siberian Islands). The polygonal microrelief is at the descend stage of development at both sites, so the ground-penetration radar profi les were scanned across the fl at and high-centered central parts of the polygons. The results allowed us to determine some peculiarities of ground-penetration radar profi les for polygons with diff erent types of surfaces, composed mainly of sand-gravel deposits. Typical ground-penetration radar complexes corresponding to the central parts of the polygons and deposits overlapping thawed ice wedges were identifi ed. The possibility of using the spectrum of waveforms to interpret results was shown, velocities of electromagnetic wave propagation in the studied deposits were determined. Ice wedges and pseudomorphs after them were not reliably identifi ed, but areas of their possible location were.


Akköprü A., Özaktan H. (2018): Identification of rhizobacteria that increase yield and plant tolerance to angular leaf spot disease in cucumber. Plant Protect. Sci., 54: 67–73. The biological control of angular leaf spot disease (ALS) of cucumbers ( Cucumis sativus ), caused by pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans ( psl ), using promising rhizobacteria (RB) and to compare RB efficacy to that of acibenzolar-S -methyl (ASM) was investigated. Effects of ASM and RB isolate pseudomonas putida AA11/1 that was isolated from the healthy cucumber root surface on disease severity and plant growth were evaluated using ALS-susceptible and tolerant cucumber cultivars in a growth chamber and a soilless growing system. ASM and AA11/1 significantly reduced average disease severity of ALS by 69 and 34% in the susceptible cultivar and 92 and 21% in the tolerant cultivar, respectively. ASM treatment significantly reduced psl populations, but AA11/1 did not inhibit psl growth in either cultivar. In the soilless system, disease severity was limited by either ASM or AA11/1, whereas only AA11/1 treatments significantly increased cucumber yield by 68 and 33% in the susceptible and tolerant cultivar, respectively.


In analyzing and evaluating the efficiency of a transportation system, origin-destination matrices are important. In this paper, we propose an optimization model to estimate origin-destination matrices. The proposed model is easily handled since it is a convex quadratic optimization model. We validate the proposed model using numerical results from real-world data. In addition, we use our model to evaluate the efficiency of a real-world bus service.


The present invention can also be environmentally friendly, and also prepare for decrease in supply quantity of future oil, and also, without increasing the hardness, tear strength and flex crack growth of a side wall that can balance well improved rubber composition and It relates to the production method, a natural rubber, 30 to 80 wt% and an epoxidized natural rubber 20-70% by weight of the rubber component based on 100 parts by weight, 15 to 60 silica parts by weight containing, and two of the plasticizer having a coupling 2 to 20 characterized in that it contains parts by weight. Tire sidewall rubber composition


Symbolizing for some the unrecoverable past, for others the struggle against materialism, or the spontaneous wishes of the disinherited, Spanish anarchism has long fascinated scholars and other observers. Like Spain itself, exotic as a result of its domination by the Moors and its isolation from modern European currents, Spanish anarchism has appeared to many as a curious remnant a medieval movement in the modern age, its adherents exhibiting a passionate commitment and 'simplicity of surrender'3 that may be unattainable in industrialized societies.


Activity: Technoogy, Social Process and Gender in the Information Society : a joint project between Lulea university of technology & Malardalen university 2005-2008


: Information security is always the area of concern for cloud users. The confidentiality of the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is major issue when commercial cloud servers are used by hospital staff to store the patients' medical records because it can be viewed by everyone. There are various issues and challenges toward achieving detailed data access control based on cryptography. To achieve fine grained and scalable data access control for medical records stored in cloud servers, we propose Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) techniques such as key policy attribute based encryption, role based encryption, etc. to encrypt each patient's medical record file. For this we describe an approach which enables storage which is secure and patient's health data with controlled sharing. We explore key-policy attribute based encryption to gain patient access control policy such that everyone can download the data, but only authorized user can view the medical records. A high degree of patient privacy is maintained using multiple cryptographic algorithms applied on the various types of data.


For blood transfusion to be of benefit to the recipient, it must do no harm and therefore the process of identifying safe blood donors begins at the time of recruitment. Selecting, assessing and retaining sufficient safe donors whose blood will do no harm to recipients must therefore be the aim of every blood service. It has been shown that non-remunerated blood donors, who give their blood voluntarily and regularly, have the safest blood. It should therefore be the goal of every blood service to attract and retain only those donors who give their blood for altruistic reasons, and whose lifestyle is such that they are unlikely to be carrying transfusion transmissible infections (TTIs). A safe blood supply depends on: • Recruitment and retention of an adequate number of donors who donate blood regularly. • Growing the number of repeat donors, i.e. those who donate regularly, rather than new donors. • Education of donors regarding transfusion risks. • Selecting safe donors by asking donors about their health and lifestyle factors. • Performing blood grouping and testing all donations for TTIs. • Ensuring adequate donor, sample and donation identification and records to make sure donations are properly labelled and blood can be traced from donors to recipients (vein to vein traceability). This section will focus on recruitment, retention, and selection of donors. Blood group testing and TTI testing are discussed in Section 10: Donation testing. Quality procedures are discussed in Section 16: Quality.


School system culture is the intrinsic mechanism of school culture,and is the inevitable course for the studying and managing system to tramsfer gradually from rigid management to flexible mangement of "people-orientedness".This paper explores the practical significance of school system culture construction based on the analysis of connotation and function of it.The study will provide theoretical foundation to the constructing and perfecting of school system culture for school managers,and will broaden the educational supervisors' scope and enhance the harmonious development of school education.


This research was conducted to find the distance prediction between reader and tag using distance determinant program that called "distance program" which applied LANDMARC method with adaptive k-NN algorithm. This method works by assigning a weighted value to k-NN algorithm between all reference tags and tested tag with k determined by key reference tag. This research is different from the research using the same method before [5] which used 2 antennas and has the position of tag in form of coordinates as the output, this study uses 1 antenna and has the distance estimation between reader's antenna and tag as the output. The use of 1 antenna is expected to increase the efficiency of the number of antennas used in one environment to search tags by distance, but still has a good accuracy, in order to not to reduce the performance of the LANDMARC method to get distance determination between reader's antenna and tag. The test was performed on 4 tracking tags, with a distance of 1.4 meters, 1.9 meters, 2.8 meters, and 3.35 meters respectively. Data retrieval is done 5 times on each tracking tag. There are 2 experiment that are applied. The first experiment is to apply 2 test scenarios, first scenario is when there is no object around the tag and second is when there are object around the tag. The second experiment is to calculate the difference of percentage error from test result from both scenarios. The first experimental result showed that the scenario 1 can produce result with the average percentage error of each tracking tag is 1.280%, 1.452%, 2.107%, and 2.470%. While scenario 2 can produce larger percentage error, with the average percentage error for each tag is 3.687%, 4.225%, 4.466%, and 7.430%. The second experimental result showed that the scenario 2 results can have larger percentage error than the scenario 1 results because of the surrounding objects near the tracking tags. The average difference of percentage error between two scenarios is 3.125%.


This paper suggests an emotion-based music player that produces a playlist based on user captured images. A manual playlist and song selection to meet current emotions are more time consuming and uninteresting. Many people will pick songs at random from the playlist. As a result, some songs chosen by the user do not correspond to their present mode. Furthermore, no widely used music player can play songs based on the mood, which includes the emotion like neutral, sad, angry and happy. This system makes extensive use of images processing and facial recognition technology. The suggested model requires .jpeg format as input. Model performance is evaluated by loading 64 still photos (16 for each emotion category) into it. To see how accurate, it is at detecting emotions, the proposed model has an 80% recognition rate based on the testing results. The system is validated by comparing it to the user in user dependent and user independent. It is aimed to provide a better enjoyment to music lovers in music listening. Keywords: - Facial Recognition, Emotion Detection, Emotion Detection module, Camera, Music, Open CV


Young people in Australia are at greatest risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, and priority actions are necessary for this population group. This study of marginalised and at-risk young people in out-of-school environments was conducted in Western Australia with the aim of obtaining young people's perceptions about their experience of sexual health education and preferred means of gaining sexual health knowledge and skills. A participatory research methodology was implemented through a series of workshops with 88 young people recruited through community youth agencies. The results of the study support what is already known about sexual health promotion for young people and the importance of a holistic approach to promoting positive relationships and sexual health. However, the findings emphasise that this should include the need for demonstrated trust, confidence and safe environments, and the complementary role of community youth agencies and peer-based programmes which may play an important role in reaching young people who may disengage with, or not be reached by school-based sexual health education.


Chitosan was modified by 2,3-epoxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (ETA) to prepare 2-hydroxypropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan (HACC) with good water-solubility. The optimum process of modification was studied. Then the HACC was used as coagulant to treat silk degumming wastewater and recycle sericin. The result showed that the HACC with over 90% degree of substitution had high performance for treating the wastewater, which could be prepared by controlling the reaction temperature at 70°C, molar ratio of ETA to chitosan at 3:1, reaction time for 8 hours and pH at 8. When it was used to treat the degumming wastewater, the optimum treating process was 8 for pH value and 1 g/L of coagulant.


We prove the following variational principle for asymptotically Randall-Sundrum (RS) black holes, based on the first law of black hole mechanics: Instantaneously static initial data that extremizes the mass yields a static black hole, for variations at fixed apparent horizon area, AdS curvature length, cosmological constant, brane tensions, and RS brane warp factors. This variational principle is valid with either two branes (RS1) or one brane (RS2), and is applicable to variational trial solutions.


In a series of paintings dating from 2008, artist Lucas Grogan attracted the ire of artists and curators for appropriating Arnhem Land rock art motifs. These works, including Yeah Babe, Its Been A Tough Night Out (2010), You've Been Out All Night Babe (2010) and Spit It Out Babe (2011), used cross-hatched patterning resembling Arnhem Land rarrk, as well as spirit figures resembling the mimis (figs 1–3). They were also cut to simulate the rough edges of bark paintings from the region. Fellow artists withdrew from being represented by Grogan's gallery, curators withdrew from working on exhibitions in which he was included, his work was withdrawn from exhibitions and competitions, and he was personally threatened and warned not to do it again. Critiques posted on personal blogs and Facebook were vehement. While the appropriation of Indigenous motifs goes some way towards explaining the reaction, the collision of sexualised spirit figures with online opinion-making intensified it. As Grogan reports, '80% of the hate mail I received was gay related'. While Grogan's paintings have precedents, not only in the history of appropriation but in a more specific history of eroticism around rock art motifs, they were also exhibited in a world transformed by the internet-affected culture of the twenty-first century. To begin, it is worth returning to the critiques of Grogan in order to establish the reasoning behind the controversy. There are two types of criticism of his work. The first lies in the artist's 'flagrant disregard for Aboriginal copyright'. As artist TextaQueen writes, 'I don't think it's his story to be telling and I think he's trading on controversy'. Artist Tony Albert is most succinct when he writes on Facebook that 'Rarrk has meaning, it has purpose and it has ownership. Like the land it was never surrendered, sold or traded. Rarrk designs relate to ceremony and refer to people's spiritual identity and connection to country.' Canadian and M etis artist David Garneau complains:


This paper presents the concept of k-FR circuits. It is shown that all stuck-at faults and stuck-open faults in a k-FR circuit can be detected and located by k(k+1)+1 tests render the highly observable condition. K is usually two or three. The paper also presents an algorithm for converting an arbitrary combinational circuit into a k-FR circuit.<<ETX>>


In many applications, such as encryption of DateTime field in database, it is desirable to encrypt items from an arbitrarily sized set with the specified format described as "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" onto that same set. Unfortunately, conventional block ciphers such as DES, 3DES or AES are unsuitable for this purpose. The solution to it belongs to the format-preserving encryption (FPE) category. In the paper, we present an FPE scheme for DateTime based on "rank-then-cipher" mode, and then analyze its security and efficiency. We further propose a new more efficient approach named "reference-based offset encryption" to resolve the FPE problem on DateTime domain, which can be applied in message space comprised of fixed-length strings taken over some alphabet as well.


Our experience with surgical treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism is described. Five patients who were recently operated on, were composed of three males and two females, ranging from 24 to 66 years in age. Besides hypercalcemia, each patient had a main clinical manifestation, such as pathological bones (2 cases), peptic ulcer (2 cases) and ureterolithiasis (1 case). As the methods for localizing parathyroid gland tumors, 201Tl scincigraphy combined with 123I-Na scincigraphy or 99TcO4-scincigraphy, and computed tomography (CT) were diagnostic. Histological examinations showed adenomas in four cases and hyperplasia in one. Postoperatively, hypercalcemia reappeared ten months after surgery in a patient with hyperplasia, and hypocalcemia developed for a long time after surgery in a patient with pathological bones.


We present a patient who at initial visit appeared to have hemicrania continua (HC). Due to the absence of response to indomethacin, the traditional treatment for HC, and the atypical pain characteristics that did not meet all the migraine criteria, the patient was diagnosed with atypical idiopathic facial pain. As antiepileptic medications have shown efficacy in neuropathic pain and facial neuralgias (1–4), the patient was put on topiramate, which has been described as an effective treatment for primary headaches (5, 6). After 20 months of follow-up, topiramate continues to demonstrate effectiveness in the treatment of his idiopathic facial pain.


The article was devoted to defining a role of self-motivation in the success professional activity of a manager, which operating in the modern business environment. In our opinion, it was worth paying attention to the formation and development of self-motivation in the organization's management, because an effective leader – a ideal, a «reference point» for the rest personnel. The purpose of the article was to determine the role of self-motivation in the professional activities of a manager in a modern organization, as well as the foundations for its development. Self-motivation in the managerial life and professional activity was seen as the main means of achieving personal and organizational goals, progress. Both, hard skills and soft skills are important in the professional activity of a manager. The article describes the differences between hard skills and soft skills. There are 13 soft skills of a modern successful manager: transparency; effective communication; effective listening; consistency and reliability; appreciation and encouragement of teamwork; desire to achieve goals; developed emotional intelligence; ability to reward and demonstrate recognition; readiness for change and ability to manage change; ability to resolve conflicts; ability to make decisions and responsibilities; capacity building and team motivation; high level of self-motivation, as well as their characteristics. An attempt to made a form a «happy seven of self-motivation», which includes: values; setting life, professional goals, in accordance with the values; self-activation, self-control, self-discipline; emotional intelligence and sensitivity; ability to set priorities and decompose goals, objectives; reward; proactivity and positivity. Thus, the basis of self-motivation was outlined. It was emphasized that the manager in the further professional activity should create and promote values, which are connected with organization's corporate culture. At the same time, corporate values must meet the needs (physiological, safety, belonging, respect, self-expression) and feelings of personnel, otherwise the leader, no matter how much he sets his own example, will not be able to achieve self-motivation skills in subordinates. As a result, the relationship between the level of managerial self-motivation and his efficiency, as well as staff loyalty, sustainability and competitiveness of the organization was established.


Overview of CCS technology. Part 1 CCS economics, regulation and planning: Techno-economic analysis and modeling Regulatory and social analysis for CCS legitimation and market formation Energy supply planning. Part 2 Post- and pre-combustion CO2 capture: Advanced absorption processes Advanced adsorption processes Advanced membrane separation processes Gasification processes and synthesis gas treatment. Part 3 Advanced combustion processes for CO2 capture in power plants: Oxyfuel combustion Advanced oxygen production for power plants with integrated CO2 capture Chemical-looping combustion. Part 4 CO2 compression, transport and injection: Gas purification, compression and liquefaction for CO2 transport Infrastructure and pipeline technology for CO2 transport CO2 injection processes. Part 5 Industrial applications: CCS in the cement and concrete industry CCS in the iron and steel industry.


Background:  Wilson's disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease with copper accumulation; neurodegeneration is associated with dopaminergic deficit. The aim of the study is to verify sleep co‐morbidity by questionnaire and objective sleep examinations (polysomnography, multiple sleep latency test).


A created from raw materials, is collected, and to provide an EUV light generator for supplying EUV light from the plasma is directed to the focal point. At least one optical element having a surface, such as A multilayered collector mirror, and a laser source for generating a laser beam, and a raw material that emits EUV light is irradiated by the laser beam to form a plasma EUV light source that can contain. In one embodiment, the source material, essentially can be made of tin compounds, and may be caused by plasma formation tin debris deposited on the optical element, further, the tin compound is deposited from the optical element surface It may include elements effective to etch tin. Tin compounds can include SnBr In another embodiment, EUV light source, is irradiated by a laser beam to form a plasma, it can include melting the source material that emits EUV light, raw material, tin and at least one other metal, such as tin and containing gallium and / or indium. .FIELD 1


In chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), colony‐forming units granulocyte/macrophage (CFU‐GM), which grow in vitro in the absence of exogenous growth factors, arise from the abnormal clone that is responsible for the overproduction of granulomonocytic cells. Previous in vitro findings including ours suggest that divergent molecular aberrations in CMML seem to converge within the GM‐CSF signaling pathway. As JAK2 is a sentinel kinase in this pathway, JAK2 inhibition may be an attractive treatment approach in CMML. We investigated the in vitro effects of the specific JAK2 inhibitor TG101209 on the autonomous CFU‐GM formation from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with CMML. TG101209 was found to either block or strongly inhibit spontaneous CFU‐GM growth in all 10 patients tested. This inhibitory effect was dose dependent and significantly more pronounced as compared to the inhibitory effect on stimulated CFU‐GM growth from normal individuals. In a CMML patient with splenomegaly, who was treated with the JAK1/2 inhibitor ruxolitinib off label, we can demonstrate a spleen response and the disappearance of constitutional symptoms which was associated with a decrease in autonomous CFU‐GM formation ex vivo. Pharmacological JAK2 inhibition may be an interesting approach to be systematically studied in patients with CMML.


Abstract Data analysis has become most widespread field of research and it has extended in almost every field of study. Considering the recent trends and developments in the field of communication and information technology, there is a scope of combining the monitoring of substation equipment with big data analysis technology. That will result in an improved data analysis ability, information sharing and utilization rate of monitoring data. In the proposed work, the authors have introduced the big data analysis and its corresponding application in the monitoring of substations. Basic concepts and the procedures of the typical data analysis for general problems are also discussed. As a main part of the paper, different types of distributed data analysis techniques have been proposed, in which two relational online analysis, namely Hive and Impala and one H Base multidimensional online analysis are important. These data analysis techniques are proposed considering the analysis efficiency, storage performance from the business development requirements point of view of the substation. The result obtained depicts that the proposed model has an advantage in storage overhead and roll-up performance, when compared with the traditional method, although the data loading speed is approximately 1.7–1.9 times of the traditional model. Some experiments are carried out in order to verify the validity of the model.


To determine the present flow properties of the KE downcomer and the effect of small flow increases upon the downcomer pressure characteristics.


Massive gravity theory introduced by de Rham, Gabadadze, Tolley (dRGT) is restricted by several uniqueness theorems that protect the form of the potential and kinetic terms, as well as the matter coupling. These restrictions arise from the requirement that the degrees of freedom match the expectation from Poincar\'e representations of a spin--2 field. Any modification beyond the dRGT form is known to invalidate a constraint that the theory enjoys and revive a dangerous sixth mode. One loophole is to exploit the effective nature of the theory by pushing the sixth mode beyond the strong coupling scale without completely removing it. In this paper, we search for modifications to dRGT action by coupling the matter sector to an arbitrary metric constructed out of the already existing degrees of freedom in the dRGT action. We formulate the conditions that such an extension should satisfy in order to prevent the sixth mode from contaminating the effective theory. Our approach provides a new perspective for the "composite coupling" which emerges as the unique extension up to four-point interactions.


We present a new method for the wavelength and linewidth measurement of optical sources with a resolution in the femtometer range, based on the very low bandwidth and amplification characteristics of stimulated Brillouin scattering.


Editorial in 'The Cancer Letter', written by Professor Robert Cook-Deegan. This article was included in background materials provided at the September, 2011 Congressional briefing.


A large body of research has shown evidence of positive effects associated with multilanguage acquisition on general cognitive skills such as selective attention, control of interference, and visuo-spatial memory. Such findings have also suggested that lifelong use of two or more languages may protect the brain from the effects of aging. However, recent studies have not been able to replicate positive effects, and this has underpinned the emergence of a binary debate on whether or not there is a genuine cognitive advantage driven by the acquisition of a second language. This debate has raised concerns regarding definitions, administered tasks, and efficacy of controlling alternate confounding variables. Such a fiercely debated topic is providing an opportunity for the development of new approaches that could lead to better insight on the cognitive impact of acquiring a second language beyond any claimed advantages or disadvantages.


The USS Indianapolis, a sophisticated cruiser that carried over a thousand men and part of an A-bomb, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine at the end of World War II, catching the ship and the Navy off-guard. While many on board survived the sinking, hundreds of men died over the four days that followed, falling prey to sharks, dehydration, and other malicious elements. The captain of the ship, Charles McVay, survived and was courtmarshalled for, among other charges, failure to issue a timely warning to abandon ship. This courtmarshall was controversial since the beginning. Critics, some within the Navy, charged that McVay was a scapegoat for an array of larger procedural failures and intrigues on the part of the Navy. "Abandon Ship!" was the first book to challenge the charges against McVay, and the essays by Peter Maas will examine these charges further against the evidence that has resurfaced over the last decade.


This research Case Study with title "System Evaluation and Procedure Remuneration and Remunerating at Company Of PT. Paper of Leces (Persero)". Target of this research is (1) to know how far used remuneration procedure and system at Company Of PT. Paper of Leces (Persero), (2) to know how far used procedure and system at Company Of PT. Paper of Leces (Persero), (3) giving some suggestion if remuneration procedure and system and remunerating at Company Of PT. Paper of Leces (Persero) not yet is effective. In this research, writer find problems faced by company that is existence of geminating of good duty in remuneration procedure and system and remunerating. This matter generate ketidakefektifan of related/relevant function that is personnel administration function and function record-keeping of time. To solve problem geminating of duty in procedure and system which pursuant to at theory analysis that is doing of dissociation of personnel administration function with function marker of time. This matter to streamline an work and facilitate an observation. From existence of dissociation of the function expected by the each function that is personnel administration function and function record-keeping of concentration time can according to at its area each and earn implementation of good procedure and system. Pursuant to conclusion told by writer expected can be made by consideration to company alternatively from trouble-shooting faced by company


This paper demonstrates a modelling approach for graphene and related nanostructures by embedding molecular mechanics equations into finite element codes. Atomistic interactions are modelled using specialty finite elements, based on analytical expressions of molecular mechanics equations. The major advantages of the proposed approach can be summarised as: (i) direct integration into well-established software; (ii) more realistic representation than other similar approaches; and (iii) user-friendly way to create an atomistic structure. Examples of incorporating the developed finite elements into Abaqus are also demonstrated. The introduced approach does not claim to replace other well-established molecular mechanics/dynamics software, but to provide a more intuitive structural modelling approach for graphene.


Background Many factors contribute to health. This study uses community level data to estimate the impact of socioeconomic and demographic factors as well as physical health on community mental health outcomes. Method Multiple regression analysis was used to estimate the impact of determinants on community mental health outcomes for men and women using community level data from up to 113 health regions covering almost the entire population in Canada. Results Study findings indicate that communities with higher proportions of aboriginal people have greater mental illness hospitalization. Minorities have poorer perceived mental health but better objective measures of less mental illness hospitalization and self injury hospitalization. Also, communities with higher proportion of low income persons show poorer results for many objective mental health outcomes. Higher prevalence of lone parents in a community is associated with greater perceived life stress and greater mental illness hospitalizations for men. Poor physical health is also a predictor of poor mental health. Conclusion Improving the living conditions of aboriginal people and other low income people could reduce mental illness hospitalizations in a community, helping minorities the majority of whom are immigrants with their settlements in their host communities could improve perceived mental health and life stress, and helping lone parents who are men with counseling services to better cope with their situations could reduce their perceived life stress and mental illness hospitalization. Also, improving the physical health of individuals across communities could have a positive impact on mental health outcomes across communities.


Abstract An alternative approach to solve the steady-state incompressible Navier–Stokes equations using the multigrid (MG) method is presented. The mathematical model is discretized using the finite volume method with second-order approximation schemes in a uniform collocated (nonstaggered) grid. MG is employed through a full approximation scheme-full MG algorithm based on V-cycles. Pressure-velocity coupling is ensured by means of a developed modified SIMPLEC algorithm which uses independent V-cycles for relaxing the pressure-correction and momentum equations. The coarser grids are used only internally in these cycles. All other original SIMPLEC steps can be performed only on the finest grid of the current full MG level. The model problem of the lid-driven flow in the unitary square cavity is used for the tests of the numerical model. Computational performance is measured through error and residual decays and execution times. Good performances were obtained for a wide range of Reynolds numbers, with speedups of orders as high as Linear relationships between execution times and grid sizes were observed for low and high Re values ( and 7,500). For intermediate Re values ( and 1,000), the linear trend was observed from more refined grids (512 onwards).


This study investigates the hunting of two endemic and threatened terrestrial chelonians, the Cochin forest cane turtle (Vijayachelys silvatica) and Travancore tortoise (Indotestudo travancorica) in the Western Ghats region of India. Informal interviews were conducted with indigenous and non-indigenous communities and Forest Department officials to understand the dynamics of chelonian hunting and the existent rationale and beliefs that supported it. Chelonian consumption was existent among both indigenous and non-indigenous communities, but was higher among the former. Indotestudo travancorica was exploited to a larger extent than Vijayachelys silvatica. Both the species were used as a cure for piles and asthma, to increase body strength and were largely captured during collection of non-timber forest produce and fire management activities. These chelonians were also sold to local hotels and served to customers known on a personal basis with minimal transfer to urban areas. Conservation action needs to be prioritised towards I. travancorica, by upgrading its IUCN Red List status, and also through increased interaction between the Forest Department and local communities to improve chelonian conservation in the landscape.


The socially sharing responsibility mechanism for environmental infringement is a shift of the loss caused by environmental infringement to the society and a compensatory mechanism in which the compensator is not the infringer or not the infringer only.The necessity of establishing the socially sharing responsibility mechanism for environmental infringement in the minority areas finds repression not only in the relevant theory of solidarism but also in theories of ethics,economics,politics and sociology.


In addition to economic and ecological factors, it is becoming increasingly evident that a human factor is of consequence to the success or failure of integrated pest management (IPM) programs. To understand this human factor better, as it relates to IPM, concepts from the social sciences known as diffusion theory are presented and accompanied by illustrations and examples from the Fruit IPM Program at Michigan State University. In spite of inevitable variations among individual IPM programs, it is concluded that diffusion theory is helpful for understanding the adoption and implementation of IPM. Based on this understanding, a number of implications are presented and include: who to focus initial efforts on when introducing IPM, communication channels most suited for introducing and promoting IPM, and characteristics of IPM that can be highlighted to facilitate its adoption and implementation.


This article synthesizes the main results of a recent research on the existing situation and the future perspectives of the supplying conditions of the main agriculture food products demanded by the Amazon region. By the same token, after analysing the regional relative participation in the supply of agriculture food piodution vis-à-vis regional consumption, the role of the principal instrumehts of agriculture fomentation, and the several exogenous and endogenous constraints to potential agriculture regional growth, we get the main conclusion that the Amazon region is and will continue to be an essencialy food impòrt region. R Y F F , T i t o ( 1 9 8 8 ) : P r o d u ç ã o e abas t ec imen to a l imentar n o Brasil; u m diagnóst ico c o m cor tes regionais: Região Sul e Sudes te . Brasíl ia, P N U D / C D R / I P E A . Y O T O P O U L O S , P . A . ( 1 9 8 5 ) . Middleincome classed and food crisis: the " n e w " food-feed com pe t i t i on . E c o n o m i c Deve lopment a n d Cul tura l Change , 3 3 ( 3 ) : 4 3 6 8 3 .


Formation reactions for several metal bicarbonate ion pairs were written as: M2 + H2 CO 3 (cid:9) MHCO3 + H. Values of the equilibrium constants as a function of temperature could then be fit to a two-parameter equation of the form log K = A + B/T. The resulting equations reproduce selected published experimental formation constants to an average of + 0.5% for the following ions: Mn, Mg, Ca, Zn and Cu.


ABSTRACT Amorphous Fe76Si9B10P5 particles were fabricated by a container-free solidification process and subsequent annealing, and their structural and magnetic properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction analysis, transmission electronic microscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry. The annealing induced the nanocrystallisation of α-Fe and Fe-B compounds. The proportions of the different crystalline phases formed were dependent on the annealing temperature. The saturation magnetisation of the single particles was higher than that of the samples prepared by a conventional quenching process; this was attributable to the higher homogeneity of the nanocrystalline grains of the former as well as their higher α-Fe to Fe-B compound ratio. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT IMPACT STATEMENT We have investigated single particles obtained by a container-free solidification process to gain deeper insight into their magnetic properties than is possible with samples obtained by conventional processes.


The utility model provides a chain plate conveyor, belonging to the operation and transmission mechanical technical field. The utility model aims at the shortages of material leakage and material blocking as mutually opening when a material supporting plate runs to the end of the conveyor and carry out the circle motion caused by the structure of overlapped joint ends of the material supporting plate of the existing conveyor with the material supporting surface of the material supporting plate higher than a chain pin shaft; two sides of the material supporting plate are changed into a zigzag plane; the height of the material supporting plate surface is reduced to be close to an axis line of the chain pin shaft; furthermore, a joint end of the material supporting plate is changed into mutually coincident arc surfaces, thus overcoming the shortages of the prior art, and improving the flexibility of the equipment by bidirectional operation.


In order to distribute resources properly, it is necessary for people to broaden the scale of the media throughcapital managing. The western media is trying to enter China's media market to make profits, thus forcing China's mediato face a big challenge. Under this background, if the China's media people want to make our national media stay in secu-rity and advance, it is really significant for them to manage capital well.


w s s s w a c ( BSTRACT hanges in diet during the past century have caused a arked increase in consumption of saturated fatty acids nd n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) with a conomitant decrease in the intake of n-3 PUFAs. Increased sh consumption has been shown to be the only realistic ay to increase dietary quantities of beneficial long-chain -3 PUFAs such as eicosapentaenoic acid and docosaexaenoic acid and re-establish more balanced n-6:n-3 atios in the diets of human beings. Our objective in this esearch was to characterize some of the relevant fatty cid chemistry of commonly consumed fish, with a paricular focus on the four most commonly consumed armed fish. To do this, 30 commonly consumed farmed nd wild fish were collected from supermarkets and holesalers throughout the United States. Fatty acid c o m osition of samples from these fish was determined sing gas chromatography. The 30 samples studied conained n-3 PUFAs ranging from fish having almost undeectable levels to fish having nearly 4.0 g n-3 PUFA per 00 g fish. The four most commonly farmed fish, Atlantic almon, trout, tilapia, and catfish, were more closely exmined. This analysis revealed that trout and Atlantic almon contained relatively high concentrations of n-3 UFA, low n-6:n-3 ratios, and favorable saturated fatty cid plus monounsaturated fatty acid to PUFA ratios. In ontrast, tilapia (the fastest growing and most widely


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Cultured arterial fibroblasts synthesize fatty acids from [1-14C]acetate, mainly by de novo synthesis, when incubated under a gas phase of air/CO2. In hypoxia (gas phase N2/CO2) or aerobically in the presence of 2,4-dinitrophenol the mode of fatty acid synthesis changes to the chain elongation mechanism as indicated by an increased 14C-radioactivity in the carboxyl carbon of fatty acids.

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The ATP/ADP ratio of aerobically incubated fibroblasts is diminished in anaerobiosis as well as in dinitrophenol experiments, whereas the NADH/NAD ratio rises only in anaerobiosis, thus suggesting that the mode of fatty acid synthesis in fibroblasts is controlled by the ATP/ADP ratio rather than by the redox state of NAD.


A semi-fragile watermarking scheme based on toral automorphisms was proposed for image authentication and copyright protection. According to torus automorphism, the image's DCT coefficients and copyright information are used to generate the secure semi-fragile watermark, and the torus automorphism also decides which region of the image the watermark should be embedded into. The authenticator acquires the copyright information from the received watermarked image and indicates the specific locations that have been malicious manipulations. The proposed scheme can accept quantization based lossy compression to a determined degree.


Minimally invasive technologies for intracranial lesions are a rapidly growing area of surgical neuro-oncology. Magnetic resonance (MR)-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is novel adjunctive therapy for patients who are poor candidates for open surgical resection. Recent developments in modern stereotaxy, fiber optics, and MR thermography imaging have improved the safety profile of LITT, enabling its emergence as an attractive alternative adjunct therapy for intracranial lesions which are deep-seated, refractory to standard therapies, or in patients with multiple comorbidities. In this chapter, we review the technological principles underlying LITT and provide a comprehensive, up-to-date summary of the evidence regarding the indications, outcomes, and limitations of LITT for a diverse array of intracranial tumors, including dural-based lesions, metastases, gliomas, and radiation necrosis.


In this paper, we propose an intelligent detection method for satellite communication jamming based on the long and short-term memory (LSTM) networks. The LSTM network can effectively predict the value of the signal at a particular moment. Specifically, a myriad filter is used to suppress the alpha-stable noise in the receiving signal to guarantee that the suppressed noise follows the Gaussian distribution approximately. For the LSTM network training, a priori noise-free jamming signal is used to ensure that the network has a specific memory of the jamming signal. Then, we utilize the trained LSTM network for satellite communication jamming detection. Furthermore, the mean square error between the predicted value and the actual value is examined as the test statistic. It is observed that the mean square error with the only input of noise is larger than that with the inputs of both signal and noise. In addition, a threshold is obtained by recording the noise-only signal into the network multiple times. Consequently, the detection of jamming signals is achieved based on the proposed model. Simulation results show that the detection rate of the satellite communication jamming can reach 98% when the jamming-to-noise ratio is 7dB.


In this study, a surface activated bonding method using remote plasma is applied to realize the direct wafer bonding of Si and SiC. A comparison of different surface treatments is reported. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic wafers have been exposed to in-situ argon and nitrogen radicals generated by remote plasma for surface activation before bonding. A comparison of the bonding yield and surface condition has been conducted and analyzed as a function of the surface treatments. It has been shown that N2 plasma leads to the highest yield of > 97 %, strongest bond of > 360 N and interfacial layer (IL) thickness of ~1.5 nm. Keywords-direct wafer bonding; free radical surface activation; heterogenious integration; Si; SiC


This paper discusses the influences of Michel Foucault's ideas - its conceptual toolbox - to the Brazilian psychiatric reform, that composes the current scenario of mental health in Brazil. It is made a historic rescue retaking, although shortly, the events of the late 1970s in Brazil. Subsequently, it is questioned these changes actuality, as well as the need for further conceptual tools in order to point possibility conditions for notions such as madness, mental illness and deraison, seeking for a relationship with the outside (dehors). It is concluded by emphasizing the importance of arts (its creation and invention potency), in the process of constructing a new conceptual toolbox.


In this study, a measurement tool that evaluates career goal inconsistencies between individuals and parents was adapted into Turkish. The sample group consists of 410 university students, aged between 18 and 31 years. The Discrepancies Between Individual-Set and Parent-Set Career Goals Scale (DBIPCGS), Career Stress Scale (CSS,) and Life Satisfaction Scale (LCS) were used as data collection tools in the study. The structure of DBIPCGS was tested by confirmatory factor analysis. The model goodness of fit values obtained in confirmatory factor analysis showed that the structure of the scale was confirmed. The internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) of the scale was calculated as .78 for the ability dimension, .90 for the choice dimension, .92 for the enthusiasm dimension, and .93 for the total score of the scale. As a result of the correlation analysis conducted for the criterion validity, a positive relationship was found between DBIPCGS and the CSS, and a negative relationship with the LCS. As a result, DBIPCGS is a valid and reliable measurement tool that can be used in Turkish culture.


Black children in the United States are more than twice as likely as white children to live in poverty. While past research has primarily attributed this phenomenon to the family structure of black children, this paper investigates how state-level heterogeneity in social assistance programs contributes to the black-white child poverty gap. The evidence suggests that racial inequities in states' allocations of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds contributed to the impoverishment of approximately 215,000 black children per year from 2012 to 2014. To arrive at this finding, I first analyze state spending data to classify four conceptually distinct TANF spending priorities. Building on theorizations of opportunity hoarding and minority threat, I then apply a 'within-between' random-effects model to state-year panel data and conclude that states with larger percentages of black residents are less likely to prioritize the 'provision of cash assistance' spending priority and more likely to prioritize the 'discouragement of lone motherhood.' Using household income data, I estimate that neutralizing the inequity in TANF spending priorities would reduce the black-white child poverty gap by approximately 13 percent. The findings call for greater attention in American poverty research of the role of state governments in generating racially-skewed poverty outcomes.


The complex domain structure in ferroelectrics gives rise to electromechanical coupling, and its evolution (via domain switching) results in a time-dependent (i.e. viscoelastic) response. Although ferroelectrics are used in many technological applications, most do not attempt to exploit the viscoelastic response of ferroelectrics, mainly due to a lack of understanding and accurate models for their description and prediction. Thus, the aim of this thesis research is to gain better understanding of the influence of domain evolution in ferroelectrics on their dynamic mechanical response.

There have been few studies on the viscoelastic properties of ferroelectrics, mainly due to a lack of experimental methods. Therefore, an apparatus and method called Broadband Electromechanical Spectroscopy (BES) was designed and built. BES allows for the simultaneous application of dynamic mechanical and electrical loading in a vacuum environment. Using BES, the dynamic stiffness and loss tangent in bending and torsion of a particular ferroelectric, viz. lead zirconate titanate (PZT), was characterized for different combinations of electrical and mechanical loading frequencies throughout the entire electric displacement hysteresis. Experimental results showed significant increases in loss tangent (by nearly an order of magnitude) and compliance during domain switching, which shows promise as a new approach to structural damping.

A continuum model of the viscoelasticity of ferroelectrics was developed, which incorporates microstructural evolution via internal variables and associated kinetic relations. For the first time, through a new linearization process, the incremental dynamic stiffness and loss tangent of materials were computed throughout the entire electric displacement hysteresis for different combinations of mechanical and electrical loading frequencies. The model accurately captured experimental results.

Using the understanding gained from the characterization and modeling of PZT, two applications of domain switching kinetics were explored by using Micro Fiber Composites (MFCs). Proofs of concept of set-and-hold actuation and structural damping using MFCs were demonstrated.


Novel types of methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) linkers (U-PEG linkers) have been synthesized. These PEG linkers are linear polymers that attach to bioactive agents via a functional group, derived from a 2° alcohol, located in the center of the polymer chain versus the traditional terminal attachment site. These new types of linkers can be prepared with different functional groups (e.g. active ester, succinimidyl carbonate, and carbazate) for selected point of attachment, including ethylene oxide oligomers to provide "stems" when steric factors need to be addressed. Conversion of p-nitrophenyl carbonates to the more desirable succinimidyl carbonates has also been accomplished by a novel nucleophilic displacement procedure. Modification of proteins with these reagents is easily accomplished and is illustrated by the conjugation of a U-PEG linker with L-asparaginase.


The invention discloses a new way for synthesizing levalbuterol. A chirally amphiphilic block copolymer is used as a chiral catalyst in asymmetric synthesis of the levalbuterol. The method comprises the steps of reacting salicylaldehyde with aluminium chloride anhydrous and chloroacetyl chloride in dichloromethane to obtain (chloracetyl) salicylaldehyde; reacting the (chloracetyl) salicylaldehyde with tert-butylamine in isopropanol to obtain a compound (4) ((1,1-dimethyl ethyl) amino) acetyl) salicylaldehyde hydrochloride; dissolving the ((1,1-dimethyl ethyl) amino) acetyl) salicylaldehyde hydrochloride in mixed solution of potassium hydroxide (or sodium hydroxide) and isopropanol to prepare the levalbuterol by chiral catalyst. The synthesizing method has simple preparation process, is easy to control, has high target product yield and ee value, and meets the green and environment-friendly requirements.


In the present study, a new feature extraction method based on relative spectra and gammachirp auditory filterbank is proposed for robust noisy speech recognition. The relative spectra filtering are applied to the log of the output of the gammachirp filterbank which incorporates the properties of the cochlear filter in order to remove uncorrelated additive noise components. The performances of this method have been evaluated on the isolated speech word corrupted by real-world noisy environments using the continuous Gausian-Mixture density Hidden Markov Model. The evaluation of the experimental results shows that the proposed method achieves best recognition rates compared to the conventional techniques like Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP), Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC) and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC).


We explore the dynamics of a quantum dissipative system subjected to a space dependent, rapidly oscillating periodical force in semiclassical regime. Starting from a time dependent quantum system-reservoir Hamiltonian, we arrive at an effective time independent c-number generalized Langevin equation at leading order using multiple scale perturbation theory which rules the dynamics of the system. The motion for the slow part has been calculated perturbatively in powers of the frequency (ω) of the applied force to the order ω−4. We have employed our derived time-independent results to study the escape rate of the modulated system by numerical simulations. To illustrate the impact of driving on the resulting rate in conjunction with the thermal noise, we provide the results without driving and results of the corresponding classical analogue. The escape rate is larger in the presence of driving due to the intricate interplay of spatially periodic gradients, periodic modulation and thermal noise.


The effect of pasteurisation temperature on the formation of early Maillard reaction products was studied in lactose-hydrolysed and unhydrolysed milk. The Maillard reaction was studied by the content of furosine. The furosine level was higher in all lactose-hydrolysed milks than in unhydrolysed milks even at the lowest pasteurisation temperatures tested. The effect of pasteurisation on lysine blockage was estimated on the basis of furosine content in milk and by measuring the level of reactive lysine by an OPA-reagent. Both methods used showed that lysine blockage was higher in lactose-hydrolysed milks than in unhydrolysed milks. In general lysine blockage was small, below 0.6% of total lysine as calculated on the basis of furosine content and below 7% as measured according to reactive lysine content during storage for 8 days at 5°C. In α-amino-N/total-N content no significant changes were noticed in lactose-hydrolysed or unhydrolysed milk during the storage period at 5°C.


The common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Chuannong 18 with 1BL/1RS translocation chromosome, whose HMW-GS components is (1, 7+9, 2+12) as male and female parent respectively was crossed with Chuannong 19 (N, 7+8, 2+12). Both the female and male gametes of their F2 progenies showed significantly (P0.01) lower rate of 1BL/1RS translocation compared with the theoretical value (75%), in which female gamete (65.1%) had higher rate than male gamete (52.4%). In both crosses, HMW-GS subunits (encoded by Glu-A1 and Glu-B1) of parents were all transmitted to F1 progenies as dominant trait, but devi- ated the Mendel's segregation ratios at Glu-B1 and the combination of Glu-A1 Glu-B1 loci in F2 progenies. We also found and confirmed a variant seed in F1 of Chuannong 19 × Chuannong 18 by detecting its genome DNA with 33 pairs of specific SSR markers and the components of HMW-GS and gliadin of its F2 progeny. The HMW-GS patterns of the variant seed were (1, 7+8, x+9, 2+12). The band of variant subunit was similar to 1Bx6 by SDS-PAGE analysis, which was between 1Dx5 and 1Bx7.


Film badges have been used to measure the ''beam-on'' radiation levels in a 45/sup 0/ segment of the Fermilab Main Ring. This segment contains regions where proton losses from the primary beam are both high and low. A comparison is made between the beam-on radiation intensity and the residual radioactivity measured with the beam off. A quantitative description is given of the decrease in radiation intensity with position downstream from a high loss point.


Language is the most common and specific phenomenon of human beings,which is the most important mode of human communication.Language is actually social semiotic which is determined by social structure and reflects it,which is the product of social structure.Likewise,anti-language is also the product of its social structure.The speakers and users of anti-language reflect the social reality and make an attempt to reconstruct a subjective reality.


An ink jet printhead comprising: a nozzle plate having a lower side and the lower side comprises one or more configured to dispense droplets of a fluid in the dispensing direction of the nozzle; and a multi-level structure maintenance, which binds to the nozzle plate such that a gap exists between the lower side part of the maintenance and configuration of the nozzle plate. Maintain the structure comprising: a first portion having a first upper surface of the lower plate from the nozzle at a first distance depending; and a second portion coupled to the first portion, a second portion having a lower side from the nozzle plate to a second depending from the upper surface of the second, the second distance greater than the first distance, the second upper surface relative to the first upper surface displaced laterally.


To acquire calibration parameters between homemade POS and SWDC-4A,different calibration fields were laid out,according to German IGI Company and Canadian Applanix Company.The precision of calibration results were analyzed and compared with the ground calibration field of 863 research project.The results show that air-to-ground calibration field needed in actual flying could be replaced by the ground calibration field,which not only save costs greatly but also provides reference for the planning of calibration field.


Clinical thinking and decision making in practice. A young woman with back pain. – A woman aged 23 visited the GP because of nagging back pain at the level of L.2-L.3. In spite of the atypical symptom, the GP made the diagnosis of 'back pain of myogenic origin', possibly the result of camping in inelement weather. When the pain was still present after one week, the patient coughed, produced greyish-green mucus, was dyspnoeic, had 38.5oC fever, while crepitations and reduced breathing sounds were heard in the right lower lung fields, the working diagnosis of 'pneumonia' was made. No laboratory studies were done; X-ray diagnostics and a good response to antibiotic treatment confirmed the diagnosis. After the symptoms recurred and patient's use of an oral contraceptive was established, she was examined for 'pulmonary embolism'. After this condition was shown to be likely, anticoagulant treatment was instituted, which led to rapid


In the Netherlands strategies for ensuring quality in conservation are carried out by different institutions. Aim of this paper is to discuss the contribution of the system MDCS (Monument Diagnosis and Conservation System) to different synergistic programmes and to the citizens involvement in conservation. MDCS is a freely accessible web-based system [1] including atlases for the visual identification of damage to monuments and a section where relevant diagnostic and intervention techniques are elaborated to be used in practice. In the Netherlands the Monumentenwacht organization, active at a provincial level, performs regular surveys on the state of conservation of monuments and supports their owners in maintaining them. Because of the growing relevance of their task in conservation, the programme 'Monumentenwacht moves' was started in co-operation with the faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft aiming at empowering the inspectors. Workshops are given to Monumentenwacht on the use of MDCS terminology to visually identify the damage. On this basis hypotheses can be made on possible causes of damage, according to the method included in the MDCS system. The use of a common terminology makes scientific communication possible. The programme 'Monumentenwacht moves' also contributes to the ERM national program on the enhancement of Quality and Professionalism in the country [2]. ERM guidelines are produced by different branches active in conservation; in the guidelines links are made to the MDCS terminology atlases. Owners of monuments in the Netherlands are expected to maintain their building according to the Dutch Heritage Legislation. In the case of private owners contractors play an important role in deciding on the necessary interventions. Investigations on specific issues are often lacking or entrusted to not independent parties. The ERM programme helps guarantee ethical and technical correctness and 'Monumentenwacht moves' aims at allowing inspectors perform independent investigations on recurrent damage mechanisms, also referring to the MDCS system. MDCS is provided with a function for visual monitoring, which can be used by laymen owners to follow the development of certain types of damage. Finally, in the CONSECH20 [3] project concerning monuments in concrete, the MDCS atlas on concrete damage will be improved to be used by technical people and laymen. It is intended to involve them in the conservation of concrete monuments not only as (potential) users but also for monitoring of interventions.


In the essay that concludes this issue of I Tatti Studies, Angela Dressen asks why Bernard Berenson chose to purchase the sixteenth-century books that he did. His library of some one hundred cinquecentine is not particularly wide-ranging. He invested primarily in the writings of a few figures: Anton Francesco Doni (who tops the list), Benedetto Varchi, and perhaps not surprisingly Giorgio Vasari—leading lights of Florence's new academies under Cosimo I de' Medici. In second place, we find books by someone who associated himself with Cosimo only late in life, Paolo Giovio. Erstwhile bishop and a doctor to popes, Giovio was an indefatigable writer of lives of the illustrious, from his Notable Men and Women of Our Time, written shortly after the Sack of Rome, to his Elogia for men of letters and of arms. He was also a collector of paintings, particularly portraits, that he exhibited in his home on Lake Como, on the site of Pliny's villa. And in fact, Berenson's copies of the Elogia in their 1575 and 1577 editions, published in Basel, featured engravings of these portraits by one Tobias Stimmer, many of which he executed while visiting Giovio's portrait gallery around 1570—almost twenty years after Giovio's death. The subtitle of the Basel editions explicitly calls attention to the museum as the site from which the engravings were derived, as seen in the accompanying frontispiece for the Elogia virorum literis illustrium (fig.1): "Ex eiusdem MUSAEO (cuius descriptionem una exhibemus) ad viuum expressis imaginibus exornata" (Praise of illustrious men of letters. . . . Adorned with images that portray their subjects as alive, all from the same museum [for which we display a description]). Giovio had created something at Como that Berenson perhaps hoped to emulate at I Tatti, making it a place for paintings that would in turn generate books. Among the ritratti from the Elogia virorum literis illustrium and the Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium are those of several figures discussed in essays in this volume: LeonardoBruni (fig. 2), AngeloPoliziano (fig. 3), andKing François I (fig. 4); Poliziano's image also appears on the cover. What follows the ritratti is not always unmitigated praise. Giovio identifies both Bruni and Poliziano as plagiarists and, in the latter's case, observes in words that are hardly flattering to this wunderkind of Lorenzo's Florence that "his character was in many respects distorted just as his face, which was by no means frank and open, was made particularly grotesque by an enormous nose and a drooping eyelid. His intellect was shrewd, keen, and slyly


The reaction of indium(I) bromide with ortho-phenylenemercury and 1,2-bis(bromomercurio)benzene leads to the isolation of the polyfunctional Lewis acid−Lewis base adducts (o-C6H4(InBr(THF)2))2 (2) and Hg(o-C6H4(InBr2(THF)))2 (3), respectively.


The use of models has been one of the prevalent approaches to enhancing information security education and awareness in existing literature. Models provide step by step problem solving opportunities and are thus essential in security education and awareness activities. This paper categorized models for enhancing security education and awareness based on their stakeholder domains into: End-Users, Institutions and Industry domains. Analysis of literature on information security education and awareness indicates that approaches for enhancing end-users' security knowledge do exist, as do models for promoting organizational security knowledge in the industry domain. However, only one model was found to exist for enhancing security knowledge of employees in the institutions domain. This paper therefore describes a gap identified in the existing information security education and awareness models and presents the required relevant characteristics for developing information security education and awareness models for bridging the gap (in the institutions domain). The paper also evaluates and compares characteristics of existing models in order to identify the most relevant characteristics for a new model and makes a presentation to that effect. This was done through a review of existing literature on information security education and awareness models and a comparative analysis of models identified in the three domains.


Rising petroleum prices, an increasing threat to the environment from exhaust
emissions, global warming and the threat of supply instabilities has led to the choice of
inedible Mahua oil (MO) as one of the main alternative fuels to diesel oil in India. In the
present work, MO was converted into biodiesel by transesterification using methanol
and sodium hydroxide. The cost of Mahua oil biodiesel (MOB) is higher than diesel.
Hence liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which is one of the cheapest gaseous fuels
available in India, was fumigated along with the air to reduce the operating cost and to
reduce emissions. The dual fuel engine resulted in lower efficiency and higher
emissions at part load. Hence in the present work, the injection time was varied and the
performance of the dual fuel engine was studied. From the engine tests, it is observed
that an advanced injection time results in higher efficiency and lower emissions. Hence,
advancing the injection timing is one of the ways of increasing the efficiency of
LPG+MOB dual fuel engine operated at part load.


A high-definition map of the autonomous driving system was built with the target points of interest, which were extracted from a large amount of unordered raw point cloud data obtained by Lidar. In order to better obtain the target points of interest, this paper proposes an improved RandLa-Net algorithm incorporated with NDT registration, which can be used to automatically classify and extract large-scale raw point clouds. First, based on the NDT registration algorithm, the frame-by-frame raw point cloud data were converted into a point cloud global map; then, the RandLa-Net network combined random sampling with a local feature sampler is used to classify discrete points in the point cloud map point by point. Finally, the corresponding point cloud data were extracted for the labels of interest through numpy indexing. Experiments on public datasets senmatic3D and senmatickitti show that the method has excellent accuracy and processing speed for the classification and extraction of large-scale point cloud data acquired by Lidar.


The opening theme of the book is the examination of data. Arguing that much incorrect data analysis is caused by blindly applying standard procedures, Moore and his colleagues set out to train students to look most carefully at their data. They emphasise issues like the design of surveys, the dangers of extrapolation, the limits of correlation and linear regression, the caution needed in interpreting questionnaire responses and procedures for handling outliers.


WebDAV is an IETF standard protocol which supports asynchronous collaborative authoring on the Web. The WebDAV Access Control Protocol provides various methods of controlling the resources on a WebDAV server and their properties, helping high-level group activities to be performed through the WebDAV server. In this paper, to provide high level collaboration, we introduce a technique for managing access control over WebDAV resources through the WebDAV Access Control Protocol and describe the development of an access control manager for the CoSlide Collaborative system based on the technique. To provide users with the access control features in an easily understandable manner, the developed technique presents the privileges for performing WebDAV methods instead of the standard privileges in the WebDAV Access Control Protocol. In addition, we present the facility for detecting conflicts between new access privileges on resources and old access privileges on them. We applied the method-based access control management technique to the CoSlide collaborative system. The developed access control manager enables us to create group workspaces with flexible access control strategies for group members and resources.


Bottom Line Screening high-risk patients for diabetes provides no 10-year mortality benefit. The findings of this study are consistent with those of another large study of screening for type 2 diabetes (http://www.essentialevidenceplus. com/content/poem/130943 [subscription required]). Perhaps it is time to stop screening patients for diabetes and use our limited resources on endeavors that make a difference, like smoking cessation. (Level of Evidence = 1b)


Both commonsense and the authority of many eminent geologists, beginning with James Hutton, suggest that the Earth's land surfaces are youthful. Yet for the past half century or more palaeosurfaces have been recognised, and compelling evidence adduced pointing to their great antiquity, not only in Australia and Africa but also, and in lesser measure, in the Americas and Europe. Furthermore, coincident with the discovery of these old palaeoforms, factors conducive to their survival were independently suggested. Despite this, land surfaces continued to be seen as youthful and in many respects this remains the conventional view. Why the intellectual breakthroughs implied by the recognition of very old palaeosurfaces occurred in the New World are discussed, as are the possible reasons many geomorphologists remain unconvinced of the great antiquity of land‐forms. The implications of the antiquity of land surfaces in the broader geological context are briefly mentioned.


Four materials ZnSe,CdTe,AIP and GaAs were chose to constitute the photonic crystal with face-centered cubic structure.Based on the plane wave expansion method,the band gap exist in the range of 0Hz,0.8140—0.8406Hz,0.7924—0.8218Hz and 0.7457—0.7837Hz through calculation,and the width of band gap increased when the dielectric constants of four material increased.The results provide reference for the preparation of three-dimensional photonic crystals.


underfit stream (un-der-fit) A misfit stream that appears to be too small to have eroded the valley in which it flows; a stream whose volume is greatly reduced or whose meanders show a pronounced shrinkage in radius. It is a common result of drainage changes effected by capture, by glaciers, or by climatic variations (Bates and Jackson 1987, 712).


Electrospray ionization (ESI) prevents the analyte being split into fragments and is widely used to analyze biomolecules. Nanodiscs provide a native-like environment for membrane proteins, while making them accessible in aqueous solution for analysis. We performed microsecond (μs) molecular dynamics simulations at different temperatures, to provide atomistic insight in the release of intact nanodiscs from charged nano-droplets, the late stage of the ESI process. Two distinct main scenarios, at-center and off-center, were observed. The at-center scenario follows the charged residue model, and in the process the nanodisc stays well in the droplet interior, with the membrane scaffold protein (MSP) keeping its annular geometry. As solvent evaporates, lipids turn over to protect the hydrophilic surface. The off-center scenario conforms to a hybrid model of the charged residue model and chain ejection model. The nanodisc migrates to the water/air interface, leading to lipids escaping from the dissociated dimer and the partial ejection of one monomer of MSP. A diversity of morphologies of product gaseous ions was observed, as evidenced by their structural details, collision cross sections and moments of inertia. Our results are in reasonable agreement with results of mass spectrometry in mass-to-charge ratio, charge state and collision cross section. Our work displays the first atomistic view of a heterogeneous system, a lipid nanodisc, releasing from highly charged nano-droplets into the gas phase, which may provide structural supports for the interpretation of mass spectra of complicated systems. What we observe in our simulations could also be generalized to other protein-lipid systems.


The performance of a diesel engine with Dimethyl Ether (DME)-Diesel mixed fuel was experimentally studied in this paper. Tests were conducted under the principle of minimum engine alteration. Results show that the exhaust emission is much lower with the mixed fuel while the output power of the engine could be kept little changed with the choice of different mixing ratios. Dimethyl-Ether is proved to be very promising as an alternative fuel for diesel engines.


Objective To evaluate the environmental quality of the planting base of Herba andrographitis.Methods Basesd on the national environmental quality standards to analyze the soil,air and water from the planting base.Results The air quality were reached the 2nd standard of GB30952-1996,the soil quality the 1st standard of GB156182-1995,and the water the 1st standard of GB5048-92 in GAP base of Herba andrographitis.Conclusion The environmental quality of the GAP base of Herba andrographitis was pretty good,and were reached "Green standards of medicinal plants and preparations for foreign trade and economy" and GAP.


The generation algorithm was emphatically studied on cases of initial design in the process of intelligent design.Principles of similarity for design cases and taking this principle as a base the searching,matching and picking up tenets of design cases were put forward.The generation algorithm for cases of initial design was presented.An applied case shows that this algorithm is reasonable and effective.


The sources and properties of the waste water in the tar are analyzed and the working principles of the oil removal by air bubbling and key equipments used in the process as well as the problems existing in the site of waste water treatment and counter measures to solve those problems are studied.Results show that there is a very promising future for application of the technique in this field.


Evaluation of online teaching quality has become an important issue because many universities are turning to online classes due to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this paper, online teaching quality evaluation is considered as a linguistic multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem. Generally, the evaluation sematic information can be symmetrically or asymmetrically distributed in linguistic term sets. Thus, an extended linguistic MAGDM framework is proposed for evaluating online teaching quality. As the main contribution, the proposed method takes into account the risk preferences of assessment experts (AEs) and unknown weight information of attributes and sub-attributes. To be specific, the Delphi method is employed to establish a multi-level evaluation indicator system (EIS) of online teaching quality. Then, by introducing the group generalized linguistic term set (GLTS) with two risk preference parameters, a two-stage optimization model is developed to calculate the weights of attributes and sub-attributes objectively. Subsequently, the linguistic MAGDM framework was divided into two stages. The first stage maximizes the group comprehensive rating values of teachers on different attributes to obtain partial ranking results for teachers on each attribute. The latter stage maximizes the group comprehensive rating values of teachers to evaluate the overall quality. Finally, a case study is provided to illustrate how to apply the framework to evaluate online teaching quality.


ABSTRACT
Previous research on matched pairs of experimental cheese showed that heat treatment of milk affected flavor properties. However, whether pasteurization has a generalized effect or whether the effect is specific to certain cheese varieties is not known. Experienced, highly trained sensory panelists developed flavor profiles for seven commercially available French cheeses (Brie, Coulommier, Camembert, Saint Nectaire, Muenster, Chevre and Bleu) for which versions made from pasteurized or unpasteurized milk were commercially available. Raw-milk cheese had stronger odor properties. Soft cheeses with white rind (Brie, Coulommier, Camembert and Saint Nectaire) as well as Chevre and Bleu were affected similarly by heat treatment of milk, but the sensory characteristics of Muenster cheese did not follow the pattern of other cheeses. These results suggest that many, but not all, cheese types show similar changes in sensory attributes as a result of using pasteurized rather than raw milk.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
This study gives manufacturers and researchers information on flavor differences that exist between similar cheese types made from raw or pasteurized milk. Researchers and manufacturers can use that information in order to develop pasteurized-milk cheese that has the traditional full-flavored characteristics of its raw-milk counterpart.


Mozer et al. (2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024223) suggested that time domain structures (TDSs) drive pulsating aurora (with additional contributions by kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs)) and that chorus waves have negligible effects. In this comment, we point out that electrons scattered by TDS or KAW (dominantly at ~0.1–3 keV, <1 s modulation) cannot explain key features of pulsating aurora, which require precipitation above a few keV with a couple of tens of second modulation. Their study did not conduct quantitative evaluations of wave‐aurora correlation. The use of short burst mode data (~<10 s) may only cover a single pulse of pulsating aurora and is not suitable for examining connections to pulsating aurora. "Field‐aligned" electrons do not necessarily represent loss cone population, and their characteristic energy (hundreds of eV) is much lower than typical precipitation over pulsating aurora. By reexamining the events studied by Mozer et al., we quantitatively demonstrate that TDS and KAW are uncorrelated with pulsating aurora and that only chorus waves showed high correlations with pulsating aurora. Occasional simultaneous occurrence of TDS/KAW and pulsating aurora is found to be coincidental, because the correlation over a time scale of minutes is poor. Several auroral features analyzed in that paper are not pulsating aurora but other types of aurora. We also show that the chorus‐pulsating aurora correlation can last for 2 h or longer and can be used to highlight dynamic changes in magnetic field mapping. Chorus waves can resonate with electrons above a few keV and are in agreement with pulsating auroral properties.


Objective:To investigate the effect of CD40-CD40 ligand interaction on the proliferation and migration in cultured aortic vessel smooth muscle cells(VSMC)of rat.Method:The primary passage smooth muscle cells of rats were cultured by tissue mince-sticking method and the 3rd and 4th passage cells were incubated with indicated concentrations of CD40 ligand(CD40L)for various periods.The incorporation of 3H-TdR and 3H-Leu analysis was used to evaluate the cell proliferation.Cell migration was obtained by monolayer cell scrape and observed by reverse microscope.Result:The incorporation of 3H-TdR,3H-Leu and the migration of smooth muscle cells were significantly increased by CD40L with a dose-and time-dependent manner.Anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody significantly suppressed CD40L-induced incorporation of 3H-TdR,3H-Leu and the migration of VSMC.Conclusion:The interaction of CD40-CD40L could promote the proliferation and migration of cultured aortic VSMC of rat.


Summary: A study is described of the risk management strategies employed by consumers who have made a purchase by credit. Realistic scenarios involving the purchase of consumer durables were used and adults with a variety of occupations and a range of experience of credit participated (N = 96). They were presented with minimal descriptions of alternative credit offers and an option to buy insurance to cover repayment difficulties due to job loss or illness. Participants could request any information required while deciding, and afterwards they summarized how they had reached their decision. Verbal protocols for the repayment insurance decision were generally consistent with a revised version of Huber's (1997) model of risk management. In this two-dimensional threshold model, if a risk exceeds both a loss probability and a loss value threshold, risk defusing operators are activated. Some strategies not consistent with the model were also observed, either involving more complex compensatory thinking, or sim...


Two negro siblings with focal epithelial hyperplasia of the oral mucosa are described. A review of the literature is presented.


During the RHIC sextant test in January 1997 beam was injected into a sixth of one of the rings for the first time. We describe the injection zone and its bottlenecks. We report on the commissioning of the injection system, on beam based measurements of the kickers and the application program to steer the beam.


This study investigated the relationship between EFL reading comprehension achievement and substance use among undergraduate students in Jimma University. Data were collected from a sample of second and third year students (N= 802) randomly selected from four colleges. The data collection instruments used in the study were pretested structured questionnaire and standardized reading comprehension test. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. P-value < 0.05 was used as a cut-off point for statistical significance. The findings revealed that substance use had some association with students' EFL reading comprehension achievement. Prolonged use of substances, onset of substance use (before university enrolment vs. after university enrolment) and frequency of alcohol intake had significant associations with students' reading comprehension achievement. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------* However, the association between substance use and reading comprehension achievement is not straightforward since various factors determine the relationship between the two variables. Further studies are necessary to establish a clear understanding of the association between substance use and achievement in EFL reading comprehension.


Objective To study the expression and significance of CD44v6 and E-Cadherin( E-cd) in human renal cell carcinoma. Methods Immunohistochemical method was used to detect CD44v6 and E-cd expression in 20 normal renal tissues and 72 primary renal cell carcinoma tissues. Results The postive expression rate of CD44v6 in normal renal tissues and primary renal cell carcinoma tissues was 15 00% and 66 67% respectively with significant difference (P0 01). Abnormal expression rate of E-cd in normal renal tissues and primary renal cell carcinoma tissues was 0 and 51 39% respectively with significant difference (P0 01). Both the postive expression rate of CD-44v6 and abnormal expression rate of E-cd were significantly associated with the histological grades and clincopathological stages of the primary renal cell carcinoma. Conclusion CD44v6 and E-cd might be valuable markers in assessing biological behavior, invasion and metastatic potential of human renal cell carainoma.


Abstract : The primary objective of this study was to devise generalized procedures that would make it possible for the Air Force Logistics Command to provide initial spares support to a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customer within two years of the Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) without degrading USAF capabilities. The authors broke the overall acquisition process into three mutually exclusive phases: requirements phase, procurement phase, and production phase. They concluded that the requirements phase could be compressed into approximately one year if (1) some of the program manager's work could be completed while the LOA was being negotiated, and (2) the program manager was provided with an automated system for assembling, organizing, and editing the parts lists. To reduce leadtimes in the procurement phase, the authors recommend an interactive status reporting system that would highlight critical delays. Finally, the spares list should be rank ordered to ensure early delivery of the most important items. Keywords: Military aircraft; Spare parts; Logistics support; Fighter aircraft; Military assistance.


Context information is one of the key factors in pervasive access control systems,which exerts a decisive influence on authorization and access control on subjects.Permissions of the subjects,threshold intensity of the resources and security policies of the system should be automatically adjusted as the changes of the context information in pervasive computing environment,without thorough consideration by current access control models.In order to describe the active influence of fuzzy context information on pervasive access control(permissions of the subjects,the threshold intensity and the security policies of the system),based on the traditional ECA rules and the interval fuzzy set theory,a fuzzy ECA rule scheme was designed,and an active access control method was proposed based on the proposed fuzzy ECA rule scheme.By applying the new access control method,the pervasive access control can be self-adjusted in the pervasive environments.


Abstract The connections between electronic line broadening processes in solids and liquids have been explored with transient hole burning measurements. Homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening in solids correspond to phonon-induced and structural components of relaxation in the liquid. These ideas lead to a quantitatively accurate viscoelastic model of electronic state solvation in liquids in which changes in molecular size upon excitation are responsible for the coupling to the surrounding medium. Mode-coupling theory accurately represents the decay shapes and temperature dependence of the structural relaxation.


Langoni H., Sakiyama D.T.P., Guimaraes F.F., Menozzi B.D. & Silva R.C. 2009. (Cytological and microbiological aspects of milk in farms with an organic system of production.) Aspectos citologicos e microbiologicos do leite em proprieda- des no sistema orgânico de producao. Pesquisa Veterinaria Brasileira 29(11):881-886. Departamento de Higiene Veterinaria e Saude Publica, Faculdade de Medicina Veteri- naria e Zootecnia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de Botucatu, Distrito de Rubiao Junior s/n, Botucatu, SP 18618-000. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Nowadays, farmers have great interest in milk production within an organic system due to the consumers' claim for natural products. The purpose of this paper was to study the cytological and microbiological quality of milk produced by four farms in the county of Botucatu, SP, which use organic system management. A total of 150 mammary gland milk samples were tested by CMT and Somatic Cell Count (SCC/mL milk), microbiological examination, and Colony Former Unit Count (CFU mesophile microrganisms/mL milk). From these individual milk samples, 66 (44.0%) were CMT positive. Corynebacterium bovis was isolated from 37.9% milk samples, Staphylococcus aureus from 18.2%, S. epidermidis from 15.2%, Streptococcus uberis from 3.0%, and S. dysgalactiae from 3.0%. Association of at least two different bacteria species was observed in 7.6% samples. In respect to the whole milk of each farm, the SCC/mL values were in normal limits on three of them (i.e. lower than 400x10 3 ), and considering the CFU/mL, on three farms high levels were observed (8,5x10 5 ; 1,5x10 6 ; 4,1x10 5 ). From the individual milk samples, contagious mastitis pathogens were isolated predominantly, but environmental microorganisms were detected from the whole milk, as Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, probably due to contamination during and/or after milking. The results suggest that more than mastitis problems, the four farms studied have hygienic deficiencies, what strengthens the importance of sanitary education to achieve a better milk hygiene quality.


The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a simple model to understand the impact of third-party content bundling by a social platform that has a monopoly on showing user-generated content to consumers. In our model, consumers can access news either directly through a newspaper's website or indirectly through a platform, which also offers social content. We show that content bundling, when unilaterally implemented by the platform, tends to harm publishers and to increase the dispersion of quality across outlets, with initially high-quality outlets investing more and low-quality ones investing less. With many heterogenous newspapers, the result is robust even if each newspaper can prevent the platform from using its content. When content bundling follows an agreement between the platform and publisher, its effects are reversed, as publishers' profits go up while quality dispersion goes down. In a setup with heterogeneous consumers, we also show that the platform's ability to personalize the mix of content it shows to users induces publishers to invest more in the quality of their content. This paper was accepted by Dmitri Kuksov, marketing.


The changes in the morphology of conical carbon nanotubes and composition of functional groups on their surface during liquid-phase functionalization in various solutions were investigated. The dependence of the type of functional groups on the composition of oxidizing agents was studied. The influence of the type of functional groups on the carbon nanotubes surface on the conductive properties of the polymer composite material based on them was established.