The effects on anther culture of six culture media including NTH, MS, B5 and NTH1, MS1, B51 (i.e. the modified NTH, MS or B5 supplemented with 3g/L activated charcoal, 0.5 mg/L NAA, 1.0 mg/L KT+ 0.1 mg/L 6-BA +5 mg/L AgNO3)were studied using 21 capsicum varieties belonging to the three fruit shape types (sent pepper, bell pepper and hot pepper) as the materials. The results showed that 71.43% of the varieties used produced embryoids with induction frequency of 0.41%~2.69%. Among the fruit shape types, 83.33% of the sent varieties, 69.23% of the bell varieties and 50.00% of the hot varieties produced embryoids. Addition of 5 mg/L AgNO3 into the media have significantly reduced browning. The order of the mean values of both the induction percentage of calli and that of embryoids in anther culture by six media was MS1,NTH1,B51,MS,NTH,B5. Although MS1 and NTH1 did not show the difference, they were significantly superior to B5. NTH1, MS1 and B51 significantly reduced browning and improved percentage of induction of both calli and embryoid. Although there was not any significant difference in the percentage of induction between MS and NTH, the percentage of induction on MS or NTH was significantly higher than that on B5.


A Canadian Naval threat/countermeasures simulator (NTCS) capable of modeling the engagement between a naval ship and an infrared (IR) guided anti-ship missile is presented. The NTCS program is built upon previously developed naval ship signature software entitled Ship Infrared Simulator (SHIPIR) which produces 3-D graphical imagery of a ship in its sea/sky background for a wide range of operational, atmospheric, observer, and spectral conditions. By adding models for an IR seeker head, missile flight dynamics and commonly deployed ship IR countermeasures, NTCS can effectively assess the IR susceptibility of naval platforms through calculation of target lock-on ranges and hit/miss distances. Current and future naval ships can be analyzed for IR suppression effectiveness in such areas as hot surface visibility, low emissivity paints, and engine exhaust signature suppression. The various deployable countermeasures (flares, smoke screens, washdown, and ship maneuvers) and missile/seeker heads modeled in NTCS permit the assessment of ship survivability and development of tactics and counter-measures necessary to provide adequate IR protection. A description of NTCS is provided with emphasis on the missile and countermeasure models and overall engagement simulation. Some sample simulations to date on the Canadian DDH-280 tribal class destroyer are presented.


On the math-fun mailing list (7 May 2013), Neil Sloane asked to calculate the number of $n \times n$ matrices with entries in $\{0,1\}$ which are squares of other such matrices. In this paper we analyze the case that the arithmetic is in $\mathbb{F}_{2}$. We follow the dictum of Wilf ("What is an answer?") to derive a "effective" algorithm to count such matrices in much less time than it takes to enumerate them. The algorithm which we use involves the analysis of conjugacy classes of matrices. The restricted integer partitions which arise are counted by the coefficients of one of Ramanujan's mock Theta functions, which we found thanks to Sloane's OEIS (Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences). Let $a_n$ be the number elements of ${\rm Mat}_n(\mathbb{F}_{2})$ which are squares, and $b_n$ be the number of elements of ${\rm GL}(n,\mathbb{F}_{2})$ which are squares. The numerical results strongly suggest that there are constants $\alpha,\beta > 0$ such that $a_n \sim \alpha 2^{n^2}$, $b_n \sim \beta 2^{n^2}$.


Heterogeneous catalytic conversion of syngas (including CO and H2) derived from carbon-rich resources (e.g., natural gas, coal, and biomass) to desired liquid fuels or valuable chemicals, well known as Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS), is of great significance to alleviate the dependence of petroleum. Traditional industrial FTS requires harsh reaction conditions and the chain length distribution of products represents a broad and non-selective Anderson–Schulz–Flory distribution. In contrast, using solar energy and suitable photocatalysts to effectively promote FTS with considerable selectivity toward target products under mild conditions is a more attractive and sustainable alternative. This timely minireview aims to expatiate the recent advances of various transition metal-based catalysts for photo-driven FTS to obtain fuels and commodity chemicals. We put dedicated emphasis on the rational photocatalyst design, structure–performance relationships, and reaction mechanisms in this context. Finally, the current challenges and perspectives for future research in this nascent and promising field of photo-driven FTS are also discussed.


Generational replacement is one of the most important drivers of social and political change. This is because values and voting habits are acquired early in life and then remain relatively stable over time. While scholars do not deny that parents still play an important role in socialization of young children and adolescents, Inglehart made it clear that the post-war generations did not simply "inherit" parental values and loyalties. The "engine of generational replacement" is particularly clear in the evolution of long-term change in electoral turnout, which has declined almost everywhere among advanced industrial democracies in recent years. The unfreezing of party systems has resulted in lower overall levels of partisanship and higher levels of volatility as younger voters give support to new party offerings, perhaps voting for different parties in successive elections. As well as showing very distinct differences between US and Europe in terms of the timing of partisanship decline graphs also show differences in overall strength of partisanship.


Dam overflows are a constant threat throughout the year to the India. There are various methods of alerts available; such as the Emergency Broadcast System can alert a user remotely in an efficient and timely manner. The system goal of project is to provide a real- time system able to monitor sudden overflows in dam lots, addressing the concern of water damage to vehicles; creating a personal alert that could reach an end user through their mobile phone using GSM. In this case, the system defines two types of nodes sensing node and sink node. Each sensing node uses a float sensor to monitor the water levels; it will then communicate with neighboring nodes. The sink node is then responsible for sending the received data from the sensors to a control server via mobile communication network using Global System for Mobiles. Database of users which is stored on cloud and flood levels will then be processed and handled by the server, which will send users an email alert that will reach any mobile phone as a text message (SMS). India has agriculture as its primary occupation. In India of the people living in rural areas in India are dependent on agriculture. This calls for planning and strategies to use water sensibly by utilizing the advancements in science and technology. The food production needs to be increased by at least 50% for the projected population growth. Agriculture accounts for 85% of freshwater consumption globally. This leads to the water availability problem and thus calls for a sincere effort in sustainable water usage. There are many systems to save water in various crops, from basic ones to more technologically advanced ones.


We propose a multi-layer feature extraction framework for speech, capable of providing invariant representations. A set of templates is generated by sampling the result of applying smooth, identity-preserving transformations (such as vocal tract length and tempo variations) to arbitrarily-selected speech signals. Templates are then stored as the weights of "neurons". We use a cascade of such computational modules to factor out different types of transformation variability in a hierarchy, and show that it improves phone classification over baseline features. In addition, we describe empirical comparisons of a) different transformations which may be responsible for the variability in speech signals and of b) different ways of assembling template sets for training. The proposed layered system is an effort towards explaining the performance of recent deep learning networks and the principles by which the human auditory cortex might reduce the sample complexity of learning in speech recognition. Our theory and experiments suggest that invariant representations are crucial in learning from complex, real-world data like natural speech. Our model is built on basic computational primitives of cortical neurons, thus making an argument about how representations might be learned in the human auditory cortex. Index Terms: Invariance, Auditory Cortex, Phonetic Classification, Convolutional Network


Computer aided human modelling systems can be used at the earliest stages of a design process to assess ergonomics where it can provide most benefit and while there is still plenty of time for modification.


The invention discloses a security and protection method for an open access network of a security and protection image monitoring device, and relates to the optical communication technology. The security and protection method solves the technical problem of preventing illegal access on network nodes. The security and protection method is technically characterized in that the node which is farthest away from the center end sends local image monitoring information to the next near-end node in the form of an Ethernet data packet, the middle node packages the local image monitoring information into the Ethernet data packet, data multiplexing is conducted on Ethernet data transmitted from the previous far-end node and the Ethernet data packet of the current node, the Ethernet data and the Ethernet data packet are sent to the next near-end node or the next center end, the center end receives Ethernet data transmitted from the node nearest to the center end, demultiplexing is conducted on the Ethernet data so that Ethernet data packets of image monitoring information of all the nodes can be obtained, and the Ethernet data packets of the image monitoring information are multiplexed into one route and input into the same port of an Ethernet exchange chip at the current center end in the form of the Ethernet data.


The sparsity of the localization problem makes the compression sensing (CS) theory suitable for indoor localization in wireless local area networks (WLANs). However, in practice, we find that the location errors and computing complexity increase significantly as the dimensionality of the sparse vector and measurement matrix are high in a large environment, so most CS-based localization techniques are accompanied by coarse localization and access point (AP) selection stages. Therefore, in this article, we first deduced the relationship between the number of APs and the dimensionality of the sparse vector theoretically to give the guideline that the number of subdatabases and APs should be obtained. Then an adaptive intuitionistic fuzzy C-ordered mean (AIFCOM) clustering is designed for the data with outliers in the environment with multipath effects. Finally, in the fine localization stage, we propose a semi-tensor product CS (STP-CS) model to construct the measurement matrix, compared with the traditional CS model, our model not only remains more number of APs, but also decreases the dimensionality of measurement matrix, which can reduce the storage space and improve localization accuracy simultaneously.


The results of a study conducted to determine the relationship between changes in the surface distress of flexible pavements and incremental changes in the international roughness index (IRI) or ride quality by using Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program data are presented. The results of the regression analyses completed to identify those distresses found to be important and related to incremental changes in the IRI were obtained under the sponsorship of NCHRP Project 1-37A (Development of the 2002 Guide for the Design of New and Rehabilitated Pavement Structures). The results from the study have shown that selected distresses do have a significant effect on incremental changes in IRI with time and traffic. The results summarized can be used for the management, design, or evaluation of pavement structures.


Wildman Siltstone, South Alligator Group, Finniss River Group, Mount Partridge Group, Burrell Creek Formation, Koolpin Formation, Gerowie Tuff, Mount Bonnie Formation


This article explores multilevel relationships between group-level OCB, individual-level OCB, and work performance. We also discuss conceptualizing OCB with regard to context and multiple levels of analysis. We hypothesize that group-level OCB moderates the relationship between individual-level OCB and job performance. Results based on 100 work groups in a manufacturing firm indicate that group-level OCB significantly moderated the relationship between individual-level OCB and job performance. Comparing contexts in which group-level OCB was rare with those in which it was prevalent, we found that high individual-level OCB yielded greater significant increases in job performance ratings when group-level OCB was rare.


Using Pd/C as catalyst,the hydrogenation of condensed soybean lecithin was carried out in the supercritical CO2 state. The optimal pressure of CO2 in the high-pressure reactor, total pressure after adding H2, ratio of dichloromethane to ethanol, reaction temperature, reaction time, stirring speed, amount of catalyst are determined, 5 MPa,9 MPa,2:1,65℃,70 minutes, 220 r/min and 3.5%, respectively. Under the above conditions the product yield is 92%, and iodine value of lecithin after hydrogenation is 35.5g I2/100g. The product is granular and yellowy. Its anti-oxidation is enhanced, which is benificial for processing, transportation and storage. The dispersion of condensed soybean lecithin in feed is also improved.


In a control method for a power assist apparatus, a pressing force acting on a workpiece held by a workpiece holding apparatus is detected, a determination is made as to whether or not the detected prIn a control method for a power assist apparatus, a pressing force acting on a workpiece held by a workpiece holding apparatus is detected, a determination is made as to whether or not the detected pressing force exceeds a preset threshold, a determination is made as to whether or not a dead man switch provided on the workpiece holding apparatus is ON, and a determination as to whether or not to ressing force exceeds a preset threshold, a determination is made as to whether or not a dead man switch provided on the workpiece holding apparatus is ON, and a determination as to whether or not to release a rotation restriction applied to a joint portion for connecting the workpiece holding apparatus rotatably to an arm is made in accordance with a result of the determination as to whether or noelease a rotation restriction applied to a joint portion for connecting the workpiece holding apparatus rotatably to an arm is made in accordance with a result of the determination as to whether or not the detected pressing force exceeds the preset threshold and a result of the determination as to whether or not the dead mean switch is ON.t the detected pressing force exceeds the preset threshold and a result of the determination as to whether or not the dead mean switch is ON.


Use of protective angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE‐I) in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is sometimes limited by incident coughing. In clinical trials, cough occurred also on placebo. We performed a meta‐analysis including randomized, placebo‐controlled trials reporting cough on ACE‐I in patients with CVD. We evaluated the attributable fraction of cough on ACE‐I accounting rate on placebo: placebo‐adjusted ACE‐I (%) = (ACE‐I (%) – Placebo (%)) / ACE‐I (%). In total, 65,054 patients from 22 included studies were analyzed. Placebo‐adjusted ACE‐I cough was 37% of 13.5% reported cases on ACE‐I, while 8.5% reported cases on placebo were equivalent to 63% of cases on ACE‐I, indicating potential other factors for cough than ACE‐I in a substantial number of cough cases on ACE‐I. Placebo‐adjusted ACE‐I cough had the highest rates of arterial hypertension (85%) and the lowest of heart failure (29%). Therefore, other causes of cough, particularly in heart failure, should be excluded before ACE‐I withdrawal.


Surface water elevation profiles for a reach of the Ohio River were produced by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Instrument Simulator to represent satellite measurements representative of those that would be observed by a wide swath altimeter being considered jointly by U.S. and European space agencies. The Ensemble Kalman filter with a river hydrodynamics model as its dynamical core was used to assimilate the water elevation synthetic observations, and to estimate river discharge. The filter was able to recover water depth and discharge, reducing the discharge RMSE from 23.2% to 10.0% over an 84‐day simulation period, relative to a simulation without assimilation. An autoregressive error model was instrumental in correcting boundary inflows, and increasing the persistence of error reductions between times of observations. The nominal 8‐day satellite overpass produced discharge relative errors of 10.0%, while 16‐day and 32‐day overpass frequencies resulted in errors of 12.1% and 16.9% respectively.


Even with long-standing management and extensive science support, North American inland fish and fisheries still face many conservation and management challenges. We used a grand challenges approach to identify critical roadblocks that if removed would help solve important problems in the management and long-term conservation of North American inland fish and fisheries. We identified seven grand challenges within three themes (valuation, governance, and externalities) and 34 research needs and management actions. The major themes identified are to (1) raise awareness of diverse values associated with inland fish and fisheries, (2) govern inland fish and fisheries to satisfy multiple use and conservation objectives, and (3) ensure productive inland fisheries given nonfishing sector externalities. Addressing these grand challenges will help the broader community understand the diverse values of inland fish and fisheries, promote open forums for engagement of diverse stakeholders in fisheries management, and...


Nucleation and growth of materials are kinetically-determined processes. As such, they typically lead to nonequilibrium morphologies, which relax in some fashion afterward. This set of topics--nucleation, growth, and subsequent relaxation (NGR)--provides a framework for understanding many aspects of the world around us, from geological erosion to pharmaceutical sedimentation to nano-fabrication. As such, the topic is immensely important and scientifically ancient. This paper deals with one small, but important, arena in which fresh insights about NGR are emerging, namely, epitaxial metal films on metal surfaces. The authors work in the laboratory that has shed new light on nucleation, growth, and relaxation processes in thin metal films. The progress comes from the synergistic and synchronous implementation of theory and experiment, which reveals surprising secrets hidden a very simple model system.


This paper considers the extension to panel data of models that are specified cross-sectionally in terms of a likelihood. It considers specifically the estimation of stochastic frontier models but the same issue arises in many other models. The model can be estimated for any single value of the time-index t by maximizing a likelihood that depends on the distribution of yit given xit. Estimation in the panel could be based on the joint distribution of yi1,...,yiT given xi1,...,xiT. Many different joint distributions may exist that imply the given marginal distributions of the yit separately, however, and except in the normal case none is "obviously" correct. The paper observes the well-known fact that maximizing a quasi-likelihood that assumes independence yields consistent estimates, and it shows how to obtain asymptotically correct standard errors. It shows how to use GMM methods to improve on the quasi-MLE, without assuming any specific form of the joint distribution, and derives the condition under which there is or is not an improvement. Finally, it shows how copulas can be used to construct joint distributions. It addresses the question of whether or not there are any copulas with the robustness property that the quasi-MLE is consistent even if the assumed copula is incorrect.


Three-dimensional micromagnetic model is utilized to compare narrow track-width MR disk head performances under various exchange biasing schemes. Patterned exchange biasing only the MR layer leads to side-reading instability, which can be partially alleviated by additional patterned exchange on the SAL. However, a uniform exchange over the entire SAL along the transverse direction is shown to be most effective to ensure head stability and high sensitivity. An optimum exchange orientation on the MR film also exists due to the trade-off between output signal and pulse distortion. >


Digestion of fly ash for agricultural use by heating with microwave was studied for the spectrophotometric method of boron determination, and the effective analysis approach was established. The results showed that: The sample could be digested completely in 25 minutes, the relative standard deviation ranged from 5.38% to 7.3% and the recovery from 94% to 109%. It proves that microwave digestion-spectrophotometric method for determining boron in fly ash is rapid, accurate and less environmental contamination method.


We discuss cellular automata (CA) architectural considerations that led to the design of the cam-8 CA machine; describe some of the spatial modeling tasks that CA's have been applied to on this machine; and discuss some of the interesting practical and theoretical modeling challenges that remain.


Purpose: Cataract surgery is known to change the corneal endothelial cell density and morphology. In patients with diabetes, this change is more pronounced. This prospective cohort study was conducted to assess and compare the endothelial cell loss and change in central corneal thickness (CCT) after manual small incision cataract surgery (SICS) in patients with diabetes versus age-matched patients without diabetes. Methods: Consecutive patients with diabetes (153) in the age group 40-70 years and age-matched patients without diabetes (163) undergoing manual SICS were enrolled. Preoperative and 1 week, 6 weeks, and 3 months postsurgery assessments of corneal endothelial loss and change in CCT were done using specular microscopy and ultrasound pachymetry. Results: There was a steady drop in the endothelial density in both the groups postoperatively, with the percentage of endothelial loss at 6 weeks and 3 months being 9.26 ± 9.55 and 19.24 ± 11.57, respectively, in patients with diabetes and 7.67 ± 9.2 and 16.58 ± 12.9, respectively, in controls. The percentage of loss between 6 weeks and 3 months was found to be of significant difference (P < 0.023). In both the groups, an initial increase in CCT till the second postoperative week was followed by a reduction of CCT in the subsequent follow-up (sixth week) and a further reduction in the last follow-up (3 months). The change in CCT between the second and sixth weeks was significantly higher in the diabetic group (P = 0.045). Conclusions: The diabetic endothelium was found to be under greater metabolic stress and had less functional reserve after manual SICS than the normal corneal endothelium.


Flame spraying technique was employed to spay Al2O3 ceramic coating on metallic surface. Normally, the defects, such as "peeling off", "cracking", or high porosity, appear easily in the sprayed Al2O3 ceramic coating, and will seriously influence the properties of the coating. As the process of flame spraying is improved, it will solve effectively the problems of producing the defects on Al2O3 ceramic coating .


BACKGROUND
Neurodegenerative diseases are widespread yet challenging to diagnose and stage antemortem. As an extension of the central nervous system, the eye harbors retina ganglion cells vulnerable to degeneration, and visual symptoms are often an early manifestation of neurodegenerative disease.

OBJECTIVE
Here we test whether prion protein aggregates could be detected in the eyes of live mice using an amyloid-binding fluorescent probe and high-resolution retinal microscopy.

METHODS
We performed retinal imaging on an experimental mouse model of prion-associated cerebral amyloid angiopathy in a longitudinal study. An amyloid-binding fluorophore was intravenously administered, and retinal imaging was performed at timepoints corresponding to early, mid-, and terminal prion disease. Retinal amyloid deposits were quantified and compared to the amyloid load in the brain.

RESULTS
We report that by mid-prion disease (50% timepoint), discrete fluorescent foci appeared adjacent to the optic disc. By later timepoints, the fluorescent foci partly surrounded the optic disc and tracked along retinal vasculature.

CONCLUSION
The progression of perivascular amyloid can be directly monitored in the eye by live imaging, illustrating the utility of this technology for diagnosing and monitoring the progression of cerebral amyloid-angiopathy.


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COLLODI, Carlo. Pinocchio. New York: New York Review of Books, 2009.
POSTMAN, Neil. Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.


Metacognition is a mental process that focuses on"cognition"itself,which has received universal attention, and hence become the frontier of Psychology.In this field, dynamic Metacognitive Regulation lies in the center of the issue; it comprises 6 sub—processes:prediction,planning,strategies selecting,monitoring,debugging,and evaluation.Research- ers have noticed that there are multiple methodologies in assessing these processes,and have formed some classical research paradigms.The studies in question have achieved tremendously so far,but fundamental issues such as the uncertainty of the objectives and the inefficiency of assessment validity still remain.Accordingly,the measurement structure of Metacognitive Regulation demands solution;the combination of multiple assessment methods,and computerized group test will become the trend.


To detect if the alloy steel socket sleeve is built in a correct location,an incorporated method for image clustering via the ant colony optimization algorithm and the character differentiation model based on the Support Vector Machine(SVM) was proposed to improve the detection speed and estimation reliability.Firstly,the observation stamps about all of the images were determined according to the differential analysis between each type of the gap images.Then,the first turn of ant colony algorithm for the clustering number unknown was conducted to ascertain the number of basic sorts,and the second turn of ant colony algorithm for the clustering number known was performed to conclude the exceptional sort for the gap images from the another source.Therefore,the every possible states could be covered with the developed differential program.Furthermore,an advanced distributary method based on SVM model was adopted to increase the estimation speed etc.The experiment results in production line indicate that the mis-estimated error ratio is less than 0.5% and the irretrievable error is near zero.The instrumentation equipped with above technique can meet the need of industry application well.


With the convenience of the accounting method in the Internet financial business, it becomes a significant way to analyze the financial index of the listed company. In order to improve the application of the accounting checking audit method on the Internet widely, the paper carries on the quality inspection to the listed companies the financial data of financial business from 2007 to 2016 , using Logistic regression method to fit and analyze the original data, and filtrate the suspicious financial data. This paper illustrates that most of the listed companies in our country have obtained effective, real and reliable data in the Internet financial business. In the meantime, What we also discuss is that the system of improving accounting checking in the internet business of the listed companies ,so as to improve the quality of accounting audit, which improves the asymmetry of information collected and provided by listed companies . The results show that if the listed companies adopt stricter audit system to control the reliability of accounting statements and increase the audit of financial information, they can effectively make the correct decisions through the financial statements.


The photon/electron-stimulated desorption dynamics of ammonia from the Cu(111) and Cu(100) surfaces is investigated using a three-dimensional two-state quantum model, which includes the desorption and ammonia inversion coordinates as well as the "spinning" rotational degree of freedom. The desorption dynamics is followed by time-dependent wave packet on the ground or excited electronic state. Rotational state populations of both NH3 and ND3, obtained from the asymptotic wave packet, can be approximated by Boltzmann distributions and they show strong dependence on the symmetry and corrugation of the Cu surface. The NH3 rotational temperature of Trot=205 K on Cu(111) and 372 K on Cu(100) agree well with experimental observations. The desorbed NH3 is found to be rotational hotter than ND3, also in agreement with experiment. The addition of the rotational degree of freedom has little impact on other aspects of the dynamics, including desorption yield and vibrational excitation.


Given that globalization is constantly spreading, supply chains are becoming more complex and vulnerable. Managing the security of supply chains is becoming a regular part of business management practices. Threats to supply chains include theft, terrorism, and patent violations. Food and water supply sources are an attractive target for terrorist attacks, which makes Food Defense for the protection of food supply chains a huge priority. Although a business process approach is widely adopted in the Food Supply Chain (FSC) context it is not very well developed in the literature about Food Defense. The development of alternatives to build a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to measure Food Defense in business processes has not been part of the studies that follow this approach. This article proposes a procedure to build a Food Defense KPI to establish how efficient business processes are in preventing food terrorism. The practical validation of the proposed procedure was done in a food company in El Bajio, Mexico. The results support the possibility of the successful application of the Food Defense KPI.


We succeeded in the separation of bulk and interface contributions to the electroforming and resistive switching behavior of Pt/STO(Fe)/Nb:STO devices by performing impedance spectroscopy. Two distinctive features observed in the impedance spectra could be assigned to the STO(Fe) bulk and to the depletion layer of the Pt/STO(Fe) Schottky contact. We attribute the resistance change during the dc forming process to a local bypassing of the depletion layer caused by oxygen effusion to the environment. By comparing the impedance spectra in the resistive "on" and "off" states, we propose that the resistance of the STO(Fe)/Nb:STO interface locally changes during the switching process.


We consider the scattering and absorption by infinite flat graphene strip gratings in a dielectric slab in the THz range. Both the H and E-polarization regimes are analyzed. Accurate numerical treatment is based on the use of singular integral equations and projection to orthogonal polynomials. The resulting numerical algorithm possesses guaranteed convergence and controlled accuracy of computations including the natural resonances. Reflectance, transmittance, and absorbance by the graphene-strip gratings are studied; surface-plasmon standing-wave resonances on strips are quantified in the H-polarization case. The potentialities of the polarization discrimination between the E-polarization and H-polarization cases are discussed.


Summary The aim of this study was to develop and, to some extent, assess new materials and methods of teaching elementary mathematics to first year economics undergraduates at Cambridge. At the beginning of term, 128 first year students completed a pre‐test in basic mathematical concepts and at the end of term, 112 of this total completed a similar post‐test. Of these, 48 students, most of whom had O level mathematical backgrounds, followed the elementary mathematics course. Methods used with different groups of these students included self‐instructional learning programmes written especially for the course, a lecture course together with classes involving the use of a desk computer and a straight lecture course. Although the resulting statistics showed no clear differences in effectiveness between teaching methods used, this may be attributed to problems of control and design of experiment. The results together with student attitudes, however, provide valuable indications of how students' needs in this a...


Humor, as an enduring research topic, the earliest research on which can be back to the era of Platon and Aristotle in Ancient Greece. Since then scholars from different areas use different methods to study humor, summed up many theories on humor from various perspectives, such as linguistics, rhetoric and aesthetics, philosophy and sociology. This paper starting from the violation of the cooperative principle and politeness principle point of view, to study the humor in modern American sitcoms, aims to reveal the intrinsic mechanism of humor, to help people better understand and appreciate the American sitcom. Ten to twenty-one episodes in the third season of "The Big Bang Theory" have been selected as the corpus in this study. Through the analysis of the violation of the cooperative principle and the politeness principle of conversation, the essay finds that a great deal of humor in American sitcom is produced by violating the CP and PP and a series of rules of them. This finding contributes to a certain extent to the generation and interpretation of humor in American sitcoms, which helps Chinese audiences to better appreciate American situation comedies.


Excerpt To the editors: Data from the article by Murphy and colleagues (1) paint a depressing picture. Lest readers be left with the impression that cardiac resuscitation of elderly patients in the...


Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most frequent infections among women, and if untreated could lead to severe complications. The treatment of UTI is difficult due to the appearance of pathogens with increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents. This study thus aimed to determine the bacterial etiological pathogens of UTI and the antibiotic sensitivity pattern of the pathogens isolated. This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed from March to September 2019 on a total of 339 women referred to Imam Khomeini Teaching Hospital in Ahvaz, Iran. Mid-stream urine samples were collected from the patients and were cultured. The presence of significant bacteriuria was determined using the plate count method. The antimicrobial susceptibility test was done by the standard disk diffusion method. The most frequently isolated pathogens were Escherichia coli (54.8%), Klebsiella (18.2%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (9.9%), Proteus (8%), and Acinetobacter (5.1%). E. coli , as the most common pathogen of UTIs, showed the most resistance to cephalosporins and the least resistance to imipenem. According to the findings, E. coli was the most common cause of UTI in our region. Considering the rate of UTI, and the importance of preventing its severe complications, a survey of regional resistance patterns and timely treatment can control the development of its resistant bacteria.


95 Figure 1[Figure omitted. See PDF] 95 Figure 2[Figure omitted. See PDF]ConclusionA large cohort of children were admitted with COVID-19, with a significant over-representation of BAME, neonates and children with multiple co-morbidities. Fever was the most common symptom. In regards to critical care requirements, over 11% of admissions required PICU input. Interestingly, in regards to PIMS-TS, those requiring intervention often had no co-morbidities and were likely to be normal at baseline. Long term follow up will be required for these patients to truly understand the effects both COVID-19 and PIMS-TS have had on the paediatric population.


Sperchopsis leConte is a distinctive monotypic eastern North American genus of water scavenger beetles including only S. tessellata (Zeigler), a rarely collected species restricted to the margins of cold, clear, rapidly flowing streams where it prefers undercut sandy or gravelly banks. Spangler (1961) reviewed the distribution and biology of S. tessellata, recording it from the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Quebec as well as from localities throughout eastern United States. Smetana (1988), in his important review of the hydrophilidae of Canada, provides only three Canadian collection records for S. tessellata: one from Nova Scotia, one from Quebec and one from New Brunswick. roughley (1991) used Smetana's review as the basis for a checklist of hydrophilidae of Canada, but gave the known Canadian distribution of S. tessellata as Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario instead of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec. There are no Ontario specimens of S. tessellata in the Wallis-roughley Museum of Entomology (University of Manitoba) so roughley's listing of Sperchopsis from Ontario was probably a lapsus. The relatively large (about 7 mm long), strikingly convex, pitted adults of this species are easily distinguished from other water scavenger beetles, so it is unlikely that it would be overlooked in collections or samples from aquatic insect surveys. The new Ontario records of Sperchopsis given below are based on the only known Ontario collections of the genus. I first collected and identified this species from Ontario in 1976, from the Credit river near Belfountain in Wellington County. Despite subsequent searching in apparently suitable parts of other streams and rivers in southern Ontario (including the Eramosa, Saugeen, Speed, Grand, Sauble, rankin and Crane rivers), no further Sperchopsis specimens were found until 2007 and 2008, when one beetle was found on rotting wood embedded in an undercut sandy bank in the Credit river near Erin, and another was collected in the Credit River very close to where the first Ontario specimen had been collected 31 years earlier. Data for the Ontario specimens of Sperchopsis, all deposited in the University of Guelph Insect Collection, are as follows (latitude and longitude are not on the original label): Ontario, Wellington County, Belfountain, Credit River, 43°48′6.56′′N 79°59′47.10′′W, April 3, 1976, S. A. Marshall; Belfountain at the fork of the Credit River, May 5, 2007, Adam Brunke; Ontario, Wellington County, Credit river at the crossing of highway 124 near Erin, 43°50′6.01′′N 80° 1′20.04′′W, May 1, 2008, S. A. Marshall.


Burn patients frequently require prolonged intubation and sedation. A rare complication of prolonged sedation is the "acute withdrawal syndrome" which usually occurs within 24 hours of stopping the sedatives. Our burn team's lack of awareness of the syndrome has led to the occurrence of this preventable complication in one of our burn patients. The case is reported here to increase the plastic surgeons' awareness of this complication and its management.


Indirect optimal control and dynamic programming are combined in a receding horizon controller to obtain an energy management strategy for hybrid vehicles. This combination permits the use of inaccurate predictions of the future, instead of requiring exact knowledge, and allows the use of mixed state-control constraints, like voltage constraints for batteries. The controller can run in real-time on commodity hardware and, using a prediction of the future based on geographic information only, obtains a fuel use within 0.2% of the optimal fuel use computed with the exact speed and power trajectory of the vehicle known in advance. All this for a planned distance of more than 500 [km].Copyright © 2013 by ASME


Thermoluminescence of CaF2:Ce, BaF2, and BaF2:Ce irradiated at room temperature is reported. X-ray induced emission spectra of the samples show that both excitonic (due to e — + VK recombination) and Ce3+ d—f luminescence may contribute to thermoluminescence signal. The simple Randall—Wilkins model is used to deconvolute glow curves into seven to eight first-order peaks. Parameters of all traps are calculated and correlations between peaks in the curves of the examined materials are discussed. PACS numbers: 78.60.Kn, 73.50.Gr, 29.40.Mc


We analyze how variation in federal level legal liability associated with judge ideology is associated with the likelihood of firms receiving going-concern modified audit opinions, separately for Big Four and non-Big Four clients. With auditors trading off between Type I and Type II reporting errors, the threshold value (of client bankruptcy probability) above which auditors issue going-concern reports is decreasing and convex in the level of federal litigation risk. Building on literature showing that federal judge ideology affects the likelihood and outcome of lawsuits, we find that Big Four and non-Big Four auditors converge in their going-concern reporting decisions as federal litigation risk increases and that this convergence is caused by the greater effect of judge ideology on non-Big Four than on Big Four auditors. The key results remain with firm-fixed effects and are not driven by the effects of judge ideology on auditor choice or bankruptcy probability.


Development of Paget disease of the skull was associated with severe migraine headache in two patients. The migraine, uncontrolled by usual regiment, responded to partial control of the Paget disease with calcitonin or mithramycin. Increased blood flow to the pagetic bone was evident clinically in both patients, and was demonstrated by angiography in one patient prior to treatment of the Paget disease. The serum alkaline phosphatase was reduced from 168 ± 14 mIU/ml to 91 ± 12 mIU/ml with calcitonin in one patient, and from 385 ± 25 mIU/ml to 125 mIU/ml and with mithramycin in the other. Remission of the migraine attacks correlated with evidence of metabolic response of the Paget disease to treatment.


Peppermint is a therapeutic and aromatic herb. In order to determine the effect of plant density and harvesting time on growth and oil production of peppermint a field experiment was carried out at Sari Agricultural Science and Natural Resources University, in Iran, during 2010-2011. A split plot experiment was performed in a randomized complete block design with four replications. The main plots were four levels of density (8, 12, 16 and 20 plat 1 m- 2 ) and the sub plots were two levels of harvesting time (25 th may and10 th September. Fresh biomass yield, plant height, dry biomass yield and fresh leaf weight, increased significantly with the decreasing plant density. The value of fresh biomass and essential oil yield were significantly (p< 0.01) increased by increasing plant density from 8 (plant m -2 ) to 20 (plant m -2 ). Maximum oil yield and


We study the relationship between development indicators and fertility with focus on low fertility countries. The most developed countries led both the first and second demographic transitions, and during these transitions, development indicators were inversely correlated with fertility levels. Results from data on 100 countries for the period 1975-2005 suggest that countries with highest development are again leading the transition by showing signs of fertility recovery from low and lowest-low levels closer to replacement levels, and among the most developed countries, the association between fertility and development has changed signs from negative to positive. 1 Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 250 McNeil Bldg, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. 2 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 272 McNeil Bldg 3718, Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 3 Professor of Demography, IMQ Università Bocconi, viale Isonzo 25, I-20135 Milano, Italy Acknowledgements: Kristen Harknett, Janice Madden, and participants of the demographic research seminar at the University of Pennsylvania have provided helpful comments to previous versions of this manuscript.


The concept of environmentally safe export production of forestry enterprises is analyzed and substantiated, as such, at which the financial income from the sale of export products is at a level that allows reimbursing the costs of production and sale of these products, costs of forest reproduction and restoration of useful social and environmental functions that have suffered corresponding losses as a result of felling. It is established that in order to ensure environmentally safe functioning of forest ecosystems in the process of export activity of forestry enterprises, financial revenues from the sale of export products must fully compensate for production losses (extracted wood resources) and loss of social and environmental functions of forests. The environmental and economic factors that affect the safety of export activities of forestry enterprises are systematized, and the nature of this impact is analyzed. The method of estimating the level of environmental safety of export activity is proposed and substantiated, which is based on the calculation of the coefficient of the level of environmental safety of the enterprise. This methodology involves a comprehensive assessment of the safety of export activities indicators that consider the degree of environmental threat from the production load on forest ecosystems in the production of forest products for export and the degree of load from export activities on social and environmental functions of forests. The proposed method of calculating the level of environmental threat from the export activities of forestry enterprises, taking into account the influence of these factors enables assessing the state of environmental and economic safety of export activities of these enterprises. This assessment will be a prerequisite for the development and making the necessary management decisions to improve the efficiency of export activities on the basis of sustainable development. The proposed method can be used to assess the state of environmental and economic safety of export activities of enterprises of related sectors of the economy to make adequate management decisions.


Cigarette smoke is proved to cause various disturbances on respiratory tract. Clove cigarette is far more dangerous than common ("white") cigarette, since the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxyde content is significantly higher. In Indonesia, 88% smokers consume clove cigarette. The clove cigarette effect to the respiratory tract have never been studied. Aim of this  research is to study histopathological changes of respiratory tract in Sprague-Dawley white rats after smoke cigarette exposure. The study was performed using 20 white rats starting September 2005 until May 2006. Necropsy was done after final day of smoke exposure, then histopathological slides of the respiratory tract were processed and stained under light microscope and videomicrometer. Observed parameters were height and number of ciliated epithelia and goblet cells, also number of pneumocytes types I, II, and macrophages, and interstitial lung tissue reactions. The latest parameters were observed with semi-thin sections of resin embedded lung stained with Toluidine Blue. Result showed considerable histopathological changes on respiratory tract. The amount of epithelial cells on the group exposed to clove cigarette smoke were significantly higher than control group (P 0.05). Number of goblet cells in exposed group was also higher (P>0.05). The epithelial height in exposed group was higher compared to control, but no statistical differences were found between male and female rats. The interstitial  pneumonia score was statistically different (P<0.05) between the two groups. The amount of pneumocytes type II was higher than types I within the exposure group. Based on all mentioned above, we suggest that clove cigarette smoke exposure causes pathological disorders in rat respiratory tract. (Med J Indones 2007; 16:212-8) Keywords: clove cigarette, respiratory tract histopathology, respiratory tract toxicopathology.


Disclosed are a method and device for recognizing a data category based on a deep neural network, which are used for solving the current problem that there is category information about data which is unable to be recognized when data recognition is conducted through a deep neural network. The method in the embodiments of the present invention comprises: locally establishing a deep neural network for adding data category information, inputting data to be recognized in an input layer of the deep neural network generated based on the data category information, and acquiring category information to which the data to be recognized belongs output by an output layer of the deep neural network. By means of the technical solution of the present invention, a deep neural network is established based on category information about data, and category information about the data to be recognized is conveniently and quickly obtained through the deep neural network, thereby realizing a category recognition function of the deep neural network and facilitating the mining of a deep regulation of the data to be recognized according to the category information about the data to be recognized.


In order to study the influence of microbial content on the engineering properties of expansive soil im-proved by microbially induced calcium carbonate (MICP) method, and to clarify its influence law and mechanism of action, and to provide some theoretical reference for the application of MICP method to expansive soil treatment. Microbial reproduction and their mineralization in expansive soils have been studied. The problems such as moisture content controlling and low calcium content in the process of treating expansive soil with MICP method have been solved by means of adding calcium salt and using optimum moisture content as the control standard of the total amount of bacterial solution and cementation solution. The tests such as compaction, swelling rates and triaxial shear are carried out. The hydrophilicity, compaction, expansibility and strength characteristics of improved expansive soil under different microbial content are analyzed. The results demonstrate that with the increasing of microbial content, the dry density and shear strength of the improved soil are first increased significantly and then tend to be stable gradually. At the same time, the hydrophilicity and expansibility of improved soil are all decreased significantly. The microstructures of improved expansive soil are imaged by scanning electron microscope. Analytic results show that soil particles have been cemented and the pores in the soil have been filled due to microbially induced calcite precipitation. As a result, microstructure characteristics of the soil have been improved. From the microscopic point of view, the improvement mechanism of MICP method on expansive soil has been revealed. The conclusions above laid a theoretical foundation for in-tensive study on the improvement of expansive soil by MICP method. It also provides a new idea for perfecting and expanding the engineering application of expansive soil improvement technology.


The-aim of this paper is to show why some people, born and brought up in the same environment as ourselves, may yet develop a special form of speech, such as lisping or one of the allied disorders. For our purpose it is, I think, advisable to look first at the way in which Nature has developed articulation. The word " articulation " is of Latin origin ; articulus is derived from the stem ar? " to join." When used to describe sounds the adjective " articulate " means " divided into distinctf and significant parts " : " speaking intelligibly." The verb " to articu late " means the action that leads to the state expressed by the former. The word " significant " implies a conscious intention to make signs, and thus also a relation whose parts are: (i) the individual who makes the signs, and (ii) the individuals to whom they are directed.


This article reveals the importance of using artificial intelligence technologies in statistics. The potential of using artificial intelligence in predicting statistical indicators is revealed. The practical application of these systems in statistical research is shown. Also, the role of big data is highlighted in the context of their use and application in conjunction with technologies based on artificial intelligence.


Introduction: It is important to recognize the extent to which views on persons with visual impairment have changed over the years. From looking at this issue as a medical condition, it is nowadays being regarded as a human rights issue which has today been embedded into legally binding instruments at the national, regional and the international levels.
Purpose: The purpose of this work is to address the human rights aspect of visual impairment, the challenges faced and to assess if the rights of persons with visual impairment are effectively enforced.
Methodology: The qualitative methodology of research was used to gather information such as observation and unstructured interviews.
Findings: We discovered that there is the inadequate provision of support needs to persons with visual impairment as well as inaccessibility to infrastructures.
Unique contribution to theory and practice: In theory, this piece of work is beneficial to the entire academic society as it contributes to the existing body of literature. In practice, it raises awareness on the need for the promotion and protection of persons with visual impairment. As concerns policy recommendations, we tackled the Government, institutions and the Community. As one of the policy recommendations to the government in particular, we saw the need to address the fact that they should be louder on raising awareness on the existence of such rights by teaching the human rights of persons with visual impairment in educational institutions. The institutions should organise talks or conferences which will help them identify challenges these people face while the community can contribute in creating a conducive atmosphere for these people by being warm and receptive.


A new numerical algorithm for blocking automatic reclosing on power distribution lines with permanent symmetrical or unsymmetrical faults is presented. It can be utilized in the field of distance protection and fault location. Through numerous computer simulations it is concluded that the algorithm is not sensitive on the higher order harmonics and decaying DC component presented in the input signals (line terminal voltages and currents). A very interesting example of laboratory testing is also presented, confirming the excellent results obtained in computer simulations. (5 pages)


Use of alternate substrates (acetylene, azide, cyanide) for estimating N2 fixation confirmed that recombined fractions from different bacteria are functional but restricted in complementarity.


The law society's awareness of the factors that strongly holds an important role in the efforts of the law enforcement itself, because it is this persfektif that need to be arranged so that the rule of law in this country can run. The relevance of the rule of law in the perspective of the rule of Justice as part of the legal consciousness of the public, is an alternative effort over mistrust against law enforcement officials of the ruling is positive and which is the mainstream of the view legalistic. When talking about the law in persfektif justice in the area of ethics or morality and does not discuss the legal issues in a sense narrow. How positive law is made, and whether it has made positive law represents the community's sense of fairness, as well as the legal apparatus that this mentality of enforcing the law? The culture of the law society legal culture depends on its members which is influenced by the background of his education, the environment, culture, position, even the interests. Keywords: Law enforcement, Legal Awareness, and Justice


For persons with medication-refractory psychotic experiences such as auditory hallucinations, a psychological therapy referred to as cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) has emerged as the standard recommended treatment in clinical practice guidelines (e.g., Kreyenbuhl et al., 2010; National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE], 2014). However, the past few years have seen impassioned debate regarding the endorsement of CBTp as evidence-based practice, with some arguing that evidence in its favor has been "oversold" (McKenna and Kingdon, 2014). As a follow up to their earlier controversial review (Lynch et al., 2010), which claimed no evidence that CBTp was effective in "well-conducted" trials, a recent meta-analysis by Jauhar et al. (2014) drew the only slightly less pessimistic conclusion that CBTp's therapeutic effect was only in the small range. Coinciding with the continuing recommendation of CBTp for routine provision in the 2014 NICE guidelines, this has led to debates published in several journals, and a flurry of further metaanalyses analysing different permutations of trial characteristics andmeasures. Thesemeta-analyses have formed the more optimistic conclusions that CBTp shows good effects for hallucinations (van der Gaag et al., 2014), for overall psychotic symptoms in people with persisting symptoms (Burns et al., 2014), and in direct contrasts with other interventions (Turner et al., 2014). As a battle fought with meta-analysis, debate has focused on which data should be included in effect size calculations: for example, whether trials with different intervention targets should be included, conducted during acute psychosis should bemixedwith persisting psychosis, andwhether both group and one-to-one format intervention should be included (Birchwood et al., 2014; Burns et al., 2014; Mueser and Glynn, 2014; Peters, 2014). There has also been criticism of an excessive focus on overall psychotic symptom severity at post-treatment as the primary outcome (e.g., on measures like the Positive and Negative Symptom Scales, PANSS), when there is stronger evidence for effects on specific symptom measures (Peters, 2014; van der Gaag et al., 2014), and at follow-up time points (Peters, 2014), and when, in any case, CBTp primarily targets the emotional impact of psychotic experiences rather than their presence or frequency (Birchwood et al., 2014).


The modeling of switched reluctance motor using Maxwell 2D was introduced.The basic performance of SRM was analyzed based on the model. The results of simulation can be available to design and optimize this new type machine and control system.


A study of acid aerosol and ozone exposure patterns was conducted for metropolitan Philadelphia between June and August 1992. Included in the study design were daily monitoring of particulate strong acidity (PSA), sulfate (SO{sub 4}{sup {minus}2}) and hourly ozone data (O{sub 3}) at a citywide network. A continuous sulfate thermal speciation analyzer at one site collected hourly concentration data for SO{sub 4}{sup {minus}2} aerosol. The current paper presents temporal patterns of continuous measurements for O{sub 3} and SO{sub 4}{sup {minus}2} aerosol. Both pollutants had similar daily peak periods in the mid-afternoon, although the range for O{sub 3} was much greater than for SO{sub 4}{sup {minus}2} aerosol. The daily peak values were also correlated for the two species during the study period. It seems that many of the same meteorological factors affect the spatial and temporal patterns for these lung irritants. Hence, the similarity in exposure patterns for O{sub 3} and SO{sub 4}{sup {minus}2} aerosol is reason for concern, regarding possible synergism from coincident doses.


253 IN THIS ISSUE OF ASTROBIOLOGY, Arora and Kamaluddin report that ribonucleotide monophosphates bind to the surface of aluminum oxide (Arora and Kamaluddin, 2009). These results are presented in support of their hypothesis that metal oxides facilitated the prebiotic formation of RNA polymers, either by protecting mononucleotides from degradation or by promoting nucleotide polymerization. In their own words, "The present work shows aluminum oxide to be a good adsorbent for ribonucleotides and therefore supports the possible role of metal oxides in chemical evolution." Such statements reflect the opinion of many prebiotic chemists that mononucleotide adhesion to mineral surfaces was a productive and even necessary step toward the RNA world. This conclusion may be premature. For decades, scientists have postulated that mineral surfaces facilitated the origin of life by concentrating molecules from solution and by catalyzing chemical reactions (Bernal, 1949; Hazen, 2005). The prebiotic role of mineral surfaces as general catalysts looks very attractive, particularly for the formation of biological building blocks from smaller, plausibly prebiotic molecules (Saladino et al., 2004). However, more specific proposals for the roles of minerals in life's origin necessarily remain more speculative. These proposed roles include, but are not limited to, nucleotide and amino acid polymerization (Ferris et al., 1996; Liu and Orgel, 1998), the chiral selection of molecules (Hazen et al., 2001), the first cell-like compartments (Hanczyc et al., 2003; Martin and Russell, 2003), the creation of metabolic cycles (Wachtershauser, 2007), and Cairns-Smith's highly influential proposal that the first replicating living systems were themselves clay surfaces (Cairns-Smith, 1982). Surfaces can exhibit remarkable catalytic properties, but the current enthusiasm displayed by many prebiotic chemists for mineral surfaces may be greater than is warranted. Surely, not every example of a biomolecule interacting with a mineral surface should be considered a clue to the origin of life. The article by Arora and Kamaluddin regarding nucleotide adhesion to metal oxides presents an opportunity for an open dialogue on this point. Adhesion of nucleotides to a mineral surface is, at best, a double-edged sword. In support of their proposal for the participation of metal oxides in chemical evolution, Arora and Kamaluddin cite the extensive work from the Ferris laboratory that has demonstrated the polymerization of chemically activated mononucleotides on clay surfaces (Ferris et al., 1996; Huang and Ferris, 2006). Ferris and coworkers have clearly shown that polymer growth can be promoted by a surface that binds both the polymer and its activated monomeric units. Nevertheless, the enhanced affinity of polymers relative to monomers also presents potential problems. With the coupling of each additional residue, a polymer grown on a surface increases its free energy of surface attachment (de Duve and Miller, 1991; Orgel, 1998). Such a polymer can become effectively irreversibly bound to the surface until a considerable change in the local environment (e.g., pH, salinity, or temperature) promotes release from the surface. Therefore, short-term gains provided by surface attachment can lead to an additional obstacle. Nucleotide coupling with chemically activated mononucleotides has proven inefficient in aqueous solution (Joyce and Orgel, 2006), but monomer attachment to a mineral surface represents only one way to solve the polymerization problem. Some alternative scenarios for the origin of the first RNA-like polymers include the possibility that prebiotic nucleoside coupling occurred in a different solvent than water or that the original linkage group between nucleosides was not phosphate. For example, experiments with nucleosides and oligonucleotides dissolved in formamide indicate that phosphorylation and polymerization can be thermodynamically favored in this plausibly prebiotic solvent (Schoffstall, 1976; Schoffstall et al., 1982; Benner et al., 2004; Ciciriello et al., 2008). Deamer and coworkers have also reported that phosphodiester linkages are formed between mononucleotides when they are dried from water in the presence of lipids (Rajamani et al., 2008). Finally, structurally analogous acetal linkages have been achieved by simply drying mononucleosides from aqueous solution in the presence of the aldehyde glyoxylate (Bean et al., 2006). Thus, mineral-catalyzed polymerization of activated mononucleotides is only one of several current proposals for how the first informational polymers were formed. With regard to the particular results presented by Arora and Kamaluddin, adsorption of unactivated mononucleotides to a surface does not necessarily imply that RNA polymer formation will be promoted by the surface. In fact,


The hydrolysis of 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl acetate was studied in the presence of several carboxylic bases and tertiary amines. Carboxylic bases pyridine and imidazole react as nucleophilic catalysts, while 2,4-dimethyl and 2,4,6-trimethyl pyridine react as general-base catalysts. The nonlinear structure–reactivity correlations (log kcat versus log kOH and log kcat versus pK of the leaving group) for the series of aryl acetates are discussed, and it is suggested that there is a change in transition-state structure along the series.


CYBER-PHYSICAL system is a system of collaborating computational elements to control physical entities. The coordination and the tight link between computational, virtual and physical resources in cyber-physical system will have a pervasive effect on our everyday life. The development of cyber-physical system will create new opportunities for the introduction of services that will enhance the quality of life of the society as a whole. Research advances in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems that will far exceed those of today in terms of: effectiveness, adaptability, autonomicity, energy efficiency, precision, reliability, safety, usability, scalability, stability and user-centric applicability. Moreover, recently the sensor web concept came into foreground, aiming at combining distributed sensing with the ubiquitous connectivity and accessibility of the web, therefore facilitating the close interaction of digital world with physical world. The technical challenges of cyber-physical systems are significant, and of high research and practical importance, mainly stemming from the fact that traditionally different groups of scientists deal with this setting without much interaction, using disjoint sets of techniques. Towards merging the cyber and physical world, well-defined analytical models, methodologies and experimental validations are required in order to build systems capable of orchestrating heterogeneous components together in a flexible and efficient way. The control systems community has been consistently engaged in the development of theories, tools, and practices for the analysis and the design of cyber-physical systems. The aim of this special issue is to provide a window into the recent developments of the fundamentals and applications of control of cyber-physical systems.


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 This paper attempts at recovering environmental responsibility as a strictly bioethical notion and, at the same time, renew the need for educational activities as the only viable strategy in the context of environmental protection. It examines some pedagogical strategies and provides grounding for conceptual guidelines on environmental education. As a conclusion, it points out that it is necessary to learn how to reach decisions in the long run, integrating economics, ecology, education and social development as key elements for a treatment of the topic at a local and regional levels; it is however necessary to create an environmental culture inducing structural changes in collective and individual behavior. It is a cultural change relying upon ecopedagogics, which necessarily proposes new behaviors, tools and values reflected in attitudes and consisten lifestyles.


Successful project management is primarily measured by the project manager's ability to meet the classic triple constraint. What impact does certification and experience have on meeting project scope, time, and cost goals? This research study examines these factors by eliciting data from practicing project managers, with and without certification, and with various years of experience.


Until quite recently, Russian philosophy was studied mainly from the standpoint of its development "along the path to Marxism." Understandably, attention was mainly devoted to "the solid materialist tradition," which overshadowed all other currents of Russian thought. However, the question arises of whether this "materialist tradition," i.e., the philosophy of the Russian revolutionary democrats, is so consonant with Marxism. One need only examine the facts to persuade oneself of the untenability of such an assumption.


British battery maker Ever Ready is patenting an idea for making small batteries child-proof. Batteries no bigger than buttons are just the right size for children to swallow but contain poisonous chemicals such as zinc and mercury.
 Ever Ready plans to douse these batteries in a solution of denatonium benzoate, an intensely bitter chemical that is sold under the trade name Bitrex. The batteries are then heated in air to 120°C for four or five minutes. The chemical hardens as a surface coating, like sugar round a sweet.


During the weeks of October in 2019, when the idea of having a Special Issue of Acta Oeconomica entirely devoted to China was accepted by our Editorial Board, the world looked different: athletes prepared themselves to the Tokyo Olympic Games in July, President Trump was marching unstoppably towards his re-election in November. Then, the chosen title, "2020 – the Year of China", was a reflection of a growing number of specialists' conviction that China under the leadership of General Secretary and President Xi Jinping is gradually but persistently returning to the centralized communist model (e.g., Fan et al. 2019; Roland 2019; Kornai 2019a, 2019b; Westad 2019). As the world economy continued to display a solid overall growth rate accompanied with better than normal levels of unemployment and inflation figures, China looked interesting because the Chinese economy performed even better. There was, however, for many observers – including the ones quoted above – a strong ethical conflict between economic success on the one hand and the political dictatorship of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the other. China looked not only repulsive but also dangerous for the outside world. New facts emerged that were hidden earlier behind the veil of secrecy. Numerous reports appeared about the ethnic Muslim members of the Uyghur and Kazakh communities in the eastern part of the country, who were detained in extrajudicial "re-education camps." Estimates from 2018 placed the number of detainees in the hundreds of thousands. China continued to follow very oppressive policies against Tibet, too. One possible interpretation of this is that the CPC tries to transform a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual China into an ethnically, linguistically homogeneous nation-state at any price. Another frightening new development is the so-called Social Credit System, de facto, a blacklist. By the end of 2020, it was intended to standardize and centralize administrative assessments of citizens' and businesses' economic and social reputations. The social credit initiative called for the establishments of a unified record system for individuals, businesses, and the public sector, to be tracked and evaluated for political trustworthiness. It was a straightforward assumption that these tendencies would continue to prevail in 2020. The outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020 took the whole world by surprise – but not entirely from the perspective of the above said. When the country's leadership hermetically locked down the city of Wuhan and Hubei provinces for 10 weeks, factories stopped, people were forcefully quarantined, the alleged effectiveness of such draconian measures reconfirmed the "advantages" of centralized executive power structures and prioritization. The old slogan of Mao Zedong, "politics in command" has been revived and justified in the eyes of many. The careful comparison of all predictable social costs and benefits, the basic principle of market-based economic systems was discredited and discarded. The most important evidence for this was provided by the World Health Organization (WHO). During the recent previous epidemics, most notably in the case of avian influenza and swine flu, the WHO took a definite position against the closure of international borders. Once the global spread of pandemics is established, in the globalized world economy, the costs are likely to be vastly bigger than the Acta Oeconomica 70 (2020) S, 1–3 DOI: 10.1556/032.2020.00031


1. Introduction: Quality and Equality in Third World Education Anthony R. Welch 2. The Tension between Quantity and Quality in Nicaraguan Education Robert F. Arnove 3. The Struggle to Achieve Quality: A Case Study of Palestinian Education Ibtisam Abu-Duhou 4. The Mirror of China: Questions of Quality and Equality R.F. Price 5. Reflection upon Class and Inequality in Chinese Education Erwin Epstein 6. Education and Mutuality - an Action Perspective Jane Hayes-Orton 7. 'Post-Marxist' Discourse and the Rethinking of Third World Educational Reform Ann Hickling Hudson 8. Qualifications, Quality and Inequality: A Political Economy of Sri Lankan Education Angela Little 9. The Search for Quality and Equality: The Case of Papua New Guinea Sheldon Weeks 10. The State, Adult Literacy Policy and Inequality in Botswana Frank Youngman 11. The Struggle for Quality and Inequality in Iranian Education: Problems, Progress and Prospects Gholam A. Tavassoli, Anthony R. Welch and K. Houshyar


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This paper proposes a fast intra prediction method to reduce encoding time for the HEVC(high-efficiency video coding) encoder. The proposed fast Intra prediction method uses quadtree structure and SATD(Sum of Absolute Transformed Differences). In HEVC, a 8×8 SATD value using 8×8 hadamard transform is used to calculate a SATD value for 8×8 or larger blocks. The proposed method calculates the best SATD value by using each 8×8 SATD result in 16×16 or larger blocks. After that, the proposed method removes a candidate mode for RDO(Rate-Distortion Optimization) based on comparing SATD of the candidate mode and the best SATD. By removing candidate modes, the proposed method reduces the operation of RDO and reduces total encoding time. In 8×8 block, the proposed method uses additional 4×4 SATD to calculat the best SATD. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieved 5.08% reduction in encoding time compared to the HEVC test model 12.1 encoder with almost no loss in compression performance.


The article explores recent restoration of ancient temples and the creation of new, modern monuments dedicated to the legendary sage ruler Shun, considered one of the "founding fathers" of the Chinese people and state. The article shows how local elites have tried to build a sense of their community's historical and moral identity while at the same time pursuing economic and political advantage through the promotion of cultural sites. Drawing on time-honored symbols and narratives that celebrate the unity of the Chinese state, these local constructions of Chinese identity promote the local and regional while integrating with higher levels of social and political organization, ultimately re-creating and reinforcing the Chinese nation and, through an appeal to Sinophone sentiment, extrapolating a global Chinese identity. The powerful hold that historical memory still has on people's imaginations is revealed through an examination of prominent temple sites in two locales, in southwestern Hunan and northern Zhejiang.


An embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, and discloses a method and device for visiting a website and a mobile terminal. The method includes the steps of scanning a target object through a camera to obtain a scanning result or shooting the target object through a camera to obtain a picture, extracting website information in the scanning result or website information in the picture, generating a website according to the website information and visiting the generated website. According to the method and device for visiting the website and the mobile terminal, the website in the scanning result or in the picture obtained through the camera can be automatically obtained and visited, complicated operations for visiting the website are reduced, and user experience is improved.


In the "nomenclature of pyroxene"adopted by CNMMN in 1987, the Na pyroxene and Ca-Na pyroxene were considered to be a ternary system of jadeite-aegirine-Ca-Me-Fe pyroxene. And the 80% and 20% of Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxene were used for the classification of Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxene, omphacite and jadeite. In recent decade or more, however, the study on jadeite and relative pyroxene has proved that there is a quaternary system of jadeite-aegiring-Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxene-kosmochlor. And the 50% regulation must be used for the nomenclature of minerals within the tetrahedron of quaternary system. In this new nomenclaure, the name omphacite is only used for the omphacite of P2 spacegroup, the varieties of C2 are divided into jadeite and Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxene. The jade variety is close relative to the chemical compostion of jadeite. A few subspecies of jadeite are classified in this paper. Using 50% regulation in this nomenclature, the traditional concept of jadeite wont be revised too much.


Background: There is growing evidence that subclinical hypothyroidism is associated with increased risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. The relationship between subclinical hypothyroidism and lipid profile has been widely investigated, but the findings remain controversial. Objectives: This study was done to find out the association between subclinical hypothyroidism and lipid profile. Materials and Methods: Case control study was done taking 30 Subclinical hypothyroidism patients as cases and 30 age and sex matched healthy euthyroid subjects as controls. Results: The results showed a significant increase in total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides (p< 0.001) and a significant decrease (p<0.001) in HDL cholesterol in subclinical hypothyroidism cases as compared to controls. Conclusion: It can be concluded that Subclinical hypothyroidism cases exhibit an atherogenic serum lipid profile pattern which increases the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore the routine assessment of serum lipid profile if done early in subclinical hypothyroidism would be helpful to prevent or reduce the risk of development of atherosclerosis and its associated cardiovascular complications.


An accident occurred at the NIF construction site on January 13, 2000, in which a worker sustained a serious injury when a 42-inch-diameter duct fell during installation. Following the accident, NIF Project Management chartered two review teams: (1) an Incident Analysis Team to independently assess the direct and root causes of the accident, and (2) a Management Review Team to review the roles and responsibilities of the line, support, and construction management organizations involved. This report provides a discussion of the information gathered by the Management Review Team and provides a list of observations and recommendations based on an analysis of the information. The Management Review Team includes senior managers who represent several Directorates within LLNL and DOE OAK: Dick Billia representing Engineering; Dave Leary representing Business Services and Public Affairs; Jim Jackson representing Hazards Control; Chuck Taylor representing DOE OAK; Arnie Clobes representing the ICF/NIF Program; and Jon Yatabe and Bruce Warner (Chairperson) representing the NIF Project. The attached letter from the NIF Project Manager, Ed Moses, to the Management Review Team contains the team's Charter. The team was asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the line management and its supporting safety functions in managing safety during NIF construction.more » The evaluation was to include the current conventional facility construction, which is 85% complete, and upcoming activities such as Beampath Infrastructure System installation, which will begin in the next six months and which represents a significant amount of work over the next two to three years. The remainder of this document describes the Management Review Team's review process (Section 2), its observations gathered during the review (Section 3), and its recommendations to the NIF Project Manager based on those observations (Section 4).« less


The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicinal composition for treating damp-heat rheumatism, which is prepared from twelve kinds of Chinese herbs including atractylodes rhizome, corktree bark, honey-suckle stem and tetrandra root, the dosage types include any pharmacologically acceptable oral medications. The invention also provides the process for preparing the Chinese medicament, especially the process for preparing dispersible tablet, micro balloons and capsules, as well as the preparing process.


OBJECTIVE
To study the concordance between abdominal scintigraphy using technetium-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (99mTc-HMPAO)-labelled leucocytes (ASTLL) and ileocolonoscopy in patients with spondyloarthropathies (SpA) and without clinical evidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

PATIENTS AND METHODS
Fifteen patients with SpA (European Spondylarthropathy Study Group 1991 criteria) without clinical evidence of IBD were studied prospectively with ASTLL and ileocolonoscopy.

RESULTS
This cohort consisted of seven men and eight women aged 31.8+/-10.5 yr (18-47) [mean age +/- S.D. (range)] and with a disease duration of 6.0+/-4.4 yr (0.4-15). ASTLL showed abnormal uptake in four patients. Ileocolonoscopy was abnormal in five patients, showing acute inflammatory lesions in one patient with reactive arthritis, undifferentiated chronic inflammatory lesions in two cases, and features indistinguishable from those of Crohn's disease in two cases. ASTLL was negative in two cases in which ileocolonoscopy showed inflammatory lesions and was positive (terminal ileum) in one case with normal ileocolonoscopy. The concordance between the two examinations was statistically significant (kappa = 0.53; P = 0.008).

CONCLUSION
ASTLL may be an interesting tool to detect subclinical gut inflammation in patients with SpA.


In this review, we pose and respond to three questions concerning canine cognition: How has the history of this field influenced what we currently know about dog cognition? How confident should we be about what we know? Finally, what should we find out next? We begin by presenting two perspectives on canine cognition. We then survey the existing literature by conducting a quantitative summary of over 100 years of empirical work, focusing on power and replicability. Last, we lament the dearth of individual-differences studies in dog cognition (only three since 1911). We claim that a test of dog IQ with good psychometric properties will benefit basic science on dog and human health (including aging and dementia research). As a complement to an existing rich program of ethological investigation, we argue that individual-differences work on dogs should be a research priority.


In rural areas of developing countries like Burkina Faso, nutritive elements are mainly composed of  vegetable source. Shea nut, seeds of Sesamum indicum , Cucumis melo and Cucurbita pepo, four species widely consumed were studied. The proximate parameters: moisture, proteins and fat were analysed. Saponification value, iodine value, acid value and peroxide value of selected nut and seeds oils and fatty acids were also evaluated. The results for moisture content of oils were significantly different (P˂0.05) and ranged between 3.22 ± 0.36 to 6.74 ± 0.83%. Protein rate was ranged between 12.93 ± 2.60 to 19.96 ± 0.73 with significant difference (P˂0.05). Fat content was ranged at significant difference (P˂0.05) as 49.14 ± 0.06, 43.82 ± 0.12, 42.01 ± 0.20 and 41.07± 0.73 for S. indicum , shea nut, C. melo and C. pepo , respectively. The acid value obtained from S. indicum , C. pepo , C. melo ranged between 2.51 ± 0.13, 1.29 ± 0.05 and 1.16 ± 0.06 mg/KOH/g, respectively with significant difference (P˂0.05). The iodine value of the oil samples showed significant difference (P˂0.05). The significant difference (P˂0.05) of saponification value ranged between 197.4 ± 0.70, 191.8 ± 2.23, 117.13 ± 2.37 and 112.54 ± 0.03 from shea nut , S. indicum , C. pepo and C. melo , respectively . The different samples showed significant difference (P˂0.05) of peroxide value ranged between 6.5 ± 0.18, 3.38 ± 0.20, 1.45 ± 0.02 and 1.33 ± 0.15 from shea nut , S. indicum , C. melo, C. pepo , respectively . The composition of fatty acids of oils revealed the presence of high amount of linoleic acid 59.12 ± 1.91 and 62.97 ± 0.62%. Key words: Shea nut, sesame, cucurbitaceae, oil, physico-chemical, fatty acids.


The article is aimed at studying systems based on the recursive form of movement. The world-forming tendency of such system consists in an eternal self-change due to self-repeat/return and self-reproduction, based on the algorithm of its own unfolding by analogy, which ensures the movement deep into itself. This results in the complication of the system, which shows the coexistence of the simple and the complex, the continuous and the discrete, the whole and the part, the one in the many and the many in the one, the finite and the infinite. The identified features of the recursive form of movement make it possible to detect this principle in a cultural space and to study a huge number of cultural phenomena on its basis.


The harmonic superspace formalism has been used to construct the consistent chiral anomaly in N = 1, d = 6 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The expressions of the gauge anomaly ..delta../sub s//sup phi/ and of the supersymmetric anomaly ..delta../sub SUSY//sup phi/ are given together with the consistent condition.


Foliar clipping treatments were applied to crimson clover at select points in the disease cycle of Sclerotinia crown and stem rot (SCSR), caused by Sclerotinia trifoliorum, to determine the potential of single and multiple clippings for cultural control of the disease. During each of 4 yr, crimson clover was seeded in September and grown until April. Foliage was cut in November and January of each year and in February during two of the years. Experiments were performed with and without sclerotia of S. trifolium added to plots. Estimates of SCSR severity and dry matter yields were obtained in April(.)


The histopathological effects of sublethal concentration of malathion in the ovary fresh water teleost, Channa punctatus were investigated. An exposure dependent alteration in ovary and histology is reported for both acute and chronic exposures were reported in Channa punctatus. In acute exposure (for 4 days) reduction in size of mature oocytes, disruption, vaccualation in cytoplasm were reported. In chronic exposure (for 15 days) complete loss of normal configuration of ovary, necrosis, elongated ovarian follicles, and fragmented ova with abnormal shape were reported.


Most men with lower urinary tract symptoms have both storage and voiding symptoms. Overactive bladder symptoms occur in 50–75% of men with benign prostatic obstruction. Alpha‐blockers are usually the first option in medical therapy. Even though voiding symptoms are alleviated by the use of medicines or transurethral resection of the prostate, storage symptoms continue in 30–65% of patients. Combination therapy with an alpha1‐receptor antagonist and an anticholinergic agent in benign prostatic hyperplasia patients with overactive bladder symptoms significantly alleviates symptoms and improves quality of life. In clinical practice, the efficacy and safety of anticholinergic combination therapy may not be comparable with well‐controlled studies. Overactive bladder symptoms usually require long‐term treatment, and benign prostatic hyperplasia tends to progress with time. When male LUTS patients are treated with anticholinergic combination therapy, there are still some concerns about the development of acute urinary retention, voiding difficulty, and other anticholinergic side‐effects. If the drug is prescribed in a relatively low dosage, however, this approach could be appealing regarding adverse effects. There is a relatively small number of clinical reports about low‐dose combination therapy, which is in its early stages. Promising results are being reported, though the level of evidence is low. We await the final results.


Using Spatial Domain Correlation Pattern Recognition (CPR) in Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based applications often faces constraints, like inadequate computational resources and limited memory. To reduce the computation workload of inference due to large spatial-domain CPR filters and convert filter weights into hardware-friendly data-types, this paper introduces the power-of-two (Po2) and dynamic-fixed-point (DFP) quantization techniques for weight compression and the sparsity induction in filters. Weight quantization re-training (WQR), the log-polar, and the inverse log-polar geometric transformations are introduced to reduce quantization error. WQR is a method of retraining the CPR filter, which is presented to recover the accuracy loss. It forces the given quantization scheme by adding the quantization error in the training sample and then re-quantizes the filter to the desired quantization levels which reduce quantization noise. Further, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to fine-tune parameters during WQR. Both geometric transforms are applied as pre-processing steps. The Po2 quantization scheme showed better performance close to the performance of full precision, while the DFP quantization showed further closeness to the Receiver Operator Characteristic of full precision for the same bit-length. Overall, spatial-trained filters showed a better compression ratio for Po2 quantization after retraining of the CPR filter. The direct quantization approach achieved a compression ratio of 8 at 4.37× speedup with no accuracy degradation. In contrast, quantization with a log-polar transform is accomplished at a compression ratio of 4 at 1.12× speedup, but, in this case, 16% accuracy of degradation is noticed. Inverse log-polar transform showed a compression ratio of 16 at 8.90× speedup and 6% accuracy degradation. All the mentioned accuracies are reported for a common database.


The invention relates to an automatic detection system fault on at least one rotary member of an aircraft engine, comprising: - heating means (9) embedded for heating said rotatable member (3) of the motor (5) by a thermal stress, - thermographic means (11) embedded to acquire at least one image (23) reflecting infrared thermal field transient phase of said rotary member, and -the processing means (15) for calculating the differential relative to a component of thermal field between various subdivisions of said image to detect variations of said component of the thermal field indicative of defects on said rotating element.


Evaluating image registration methods in images with dense feature points is challenging, because it's hard to discriminate real inliers in thousands of resulting correspondences processed by image registration methods. Therefore, this paper presents a dense feature points simulation which could provide ground truth of correspondences for evaluating image registration methods automatically. Moreover, the dense feature points are created by simulating pinhole camera model, parallax of reference image and sensed image, radial distortion of camera lens and random outliers. The performance of five state-of-art image registration methods is evaluated and discussed on the dense correspondences simulated by proposed model. The evaluation results show that the proposed model indeed offers a practical way for evaluating image registration methods on dense feature points.


As for China's development in peace, there have been constant voices of Threatening from China's arising. Some articles may have no evil intention, but consider China according to their peculiar "experience" and "international relation theories", and have hence drawn the wrong conclusion that "it is impossible for China to arise in peace". However, they do not understand that this way of development in China is decided by China's historical and cultural characteristics, the Socialist Institution and ideal with the Chinese peculiarity, China's own development demand, and the current world trend. In fact, China's development in peace echoes well with the heartfelt wishes of the Third World nations and people. It would also benefit forming the situation of bilateral win among the big countries. It will provide a new development model for the international world, and as well change the Western international relation theory that has experienced a number of centuries. China's development in peace has already exerted a great influence upon the world, and would further promote the development of the world.


Understanding and controlling the transport properties of interacting fermions is a key forefront in quantum physics across a variety of experimental platforms. Motivated by recent experiments in one-dimensional (1D) electron channels written on the LaAlO 3 / SrTiO 3 interface, we analyze how the presence of different forms of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can enhance electron pairing in 1D waveguides. We first show how the intrinsic Rashba SOC felt by electrons at interfaces such as LaAlO 3 / SrTiO 3 can be reduced when they are confined in one dimension. Then, we discuss how SOC can be engineered, and show using a mean-field Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov model that SOC can generate and enhance spin-singlet and -triplet electron pairing. Our results are consistent with two recent sets of experiments [Briggeman et al. , Nat. Phys. 17 , 782787 (2021); Sci. Adv. 6 , eaba6337 (2020)] that are believed to engineer the forms of SOC investigated in this work, which suggests that metal-oxide heterostructures constitute attractive platforms to control the collective spin of electron bound states. However, our findings could also be applied to other experimental platforms involving spinful fermions with attractive interactions, such as cold atoms. DOI:


In this essay we return to Walter Benjamin's notion of messianic time as outlined in his Theses on the Philosophy of History. Messianic time is read with Benjamin's Sonnette as a "divestment" from historical time. That is, messianic time is a relinquishing of historical time's formation of identities within late capitalism. Messianism represents that opening which whispers the possibility of bringing asymmetrical accumulation and subjective formation to a standstill. The aim of the essay is thus to push a rereading of Benjamin's notion of messianic time as subjective divestment from historical time which in turn breaks the uneven distribution of time, accumulation, and the monetary value of market time at work in our current world of global finance.


A majority of remaining proven Oil & Gas reserves is contained by Carbonate reservoir, and much more complicated to explore as imaging of the Carbonate rocks is poor. In case of Carbonate data, seismic diffraction imaging has contributed to an enhancement in the quality of seismic but there is still lack of understanding the lithology and impedance contrast which can be defined by the seismic inversion. In contrast, to the conventional process, an integration of seismic inversion methods are necessary to understand the lithology and include the full band of frequency in our initial model to incorporate and detail study about the basin for prospect evaluation. In this paper, an integrated approch is developed for better deleniation of subsurface structure and lithologies. Seismic post stack inversion technique is applied to the Carbonate field to study Electroficies and lithofacies of subsurface strata for better and detail study of the reservoir.


WTO rules relating to carbon tariff include the border adjustment tax,the MFN principle,the principle of tariff bindings,the principle of national treatment,general exceptions of GATT1994.Carbon tariff is essentially an import border adjustment tax related to carbon emissions.Article 20 of GATT1994 may be a legitimate basis for carbon tariff.WTO dispute settlement cases provide useful material for the analysis of this issue.Carbon tariff can comply with WTO rules when it is designed to meet certain conditions.