Analysis datasets have become a permanent fixture in study submissions. The complexities of these datasets need higher validation levels. In an increasingly competitive drug innovation market with global outreach and added scrutiny from the regulatory agencies, most companies rely on validation method of independent recreation of datasets. Comparison of th isset of independently created datasets with each other, on the correct ID variables, is an important part of the validation effort. This paper presents a simple and efficient technique to compare entire dataset libraries, created by original and independent programmer, with eachother, using the sort key information contained in the SORTEDBY variable from the metadata. This technique utilizes the functionality of Dictionary Tables to access all necessary information stored in metadata for comparin g each dataset with its counterpa rt. As this macro produces only one SASoutput listing file and one log, it avoids the need of going through multiple compare reports and inspecting, sign-off, storage, documentation and maintenance become easier and faster.


Background: Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction was identified as the earliest functional alteration in the course of diabetic cardiomyopathy, and also established it as an important prognostic marker in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Furthermore, LV longitudinal systolic dysfunction was closely associated with diabetic cardiomyopathy in DM patients with preserved LVEF. This study' aim was to investigate the impact of LV longitudinal systolic function on LV diastolic function in DM patients with preserved LVEF. Methods: We studied 177 DM patients with preserved LVEF (all ≥50%), and 82 age-, gender- and LVEF-matched healthy volunteers as control. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) was defined as the average peak strain of 18 segments from standard apical views, GLS Results: For DM patients with LVSD (n=74), E/A and E' were lower, and E/E' and isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT) were greater than for DM patients without LVSD (n=103) and normal controls. Moreover, these parameters were lower for DM patients without LVSD than for normal controls. Multivariate analysis revealed that GLS was a strong determinative factor for E' and E/E' (β=0.30, p Conclusions: In contrast to age-related LV diastolic dysfunction in normal subjects, in DM patients with preserved LVEF, LV diastolic function was associated with LV longitudinal systolic function and LV dispersion independently of age. Our findings have obvious clinical implications for the management of DM patients.


The prevalence of childhood obesity has recently peaked in the USA with ~17% of children considered obese. With the increase in adiposity that occurs with weight gain, a persistent low-grade inflammatory state is created. The most commonly studied inflammatory markers associated with obesity are the cytokines, tumor necrosis factor α and interleukin-6, and the acute-phase reactant, C-reactive protein. Understanding the relation between adiposity and inflammation is an important concept because these inflammatory markers influence insulin sensitivity, glucose metabolism, and atherosclerosis, ultimately leading to impaired health. In addition to obesity, physical inactivity is associated with elevated inflammatory markers. The literature, however, is inconsistent as to whether the association between physical activity and inflammation is independent of adiposity. In some obese children, physical fitness appears to circumvent the increase in inflammatory markers that are associated with obesity. The purpose ...


The key to the reform of university history teaching is to raise students' question consciousness and their innovation thoughts. An effective way to raise qualified history talent is to carry out the research teaching, in which students inquire into questions on their own initiative primarily; and is to lead students to move towards the society, to move towards the fork, and to move towards the field.


BackgroundChina is a country with a high incidence of gastric cancer, accounting for about half of the new cases in the world every year. The development of Gastric cancer (GC) is closely related to Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play important roles in the survival, proliferation, metastasis and recurrence of tumors. However, the mechanism of CSCs and H. pylori-induced GC remains unclear.At the same time, the effect of tumor microenvironment on tumor stem cells and GC with H. pylori infection is also worth exploring. On the basis of the existing research on GC, it is still of great significance to further understand and explore the pathogenesis of GC through bioinformatics analysis.ResultsThere was higher mRNA expression-based stemness index (mRNAsi) in H. pylori (+) GC tumor tissue than in normal tissue. The clinical features of stage T and N were highly correlated with mRNAsi. The purple module was the most significant modules related to the mRNAsi by WGCNA and its key genes played played a major function related to tumor immunity, mainly involved in regulating the Jak-STAT signal pathway, Th17 cell differentiation pathway, and so on. These key genes were correlated with the high level of immune infiltration of CD8+ T cells, CD4+ T cells, macrophages, neutrophils and dendritic cells in GC via Tumor Immune Estimation Resource (TIMER). 28 genes were found to be closely related to the characteristics of gastric CSCs (GCSCs) associated with H. pylori infection. 13 genes were associated with lymph node metastasis in GC, which may lead to poor prognosis in patients.ConclusionThe characteristics of GCSCs were related to the interleukins signaling, cytokine signaling, Jak-STAT signaling pathway, which provides a new idea for screening therapeutic targets to inhibit the characteristics of GCSCs and a basis for the eradication of H. pylori and the prevention of GC.


Thomas, Lynn M. Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Print. In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political signi cance—and complex rami cations—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to in uence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.


Feed efficiency (FE) or dairy efficiency (DE) has been a popular topic of observation and discussion on dairy farms the past few years. Many articles, both scientific and popular press, along with several conference proceedings (Atwell, 2006a, 2006b; Britt et al., 2003; Britt and Hall, 2004; Casper et al., 2003, 2004; Hinders, 2005; Hutjens, 2005, 2006, 2007; Linn et al., 2004) have been written on what FE is, how to measure FE, and factors affecting FE on the farm. In this presentation to keep things simplistic, FE will be defined as unit of milk produced per unit of dry matter (DM) consumed.


c) Candy—count out different types of candy and each group must have one type of candy. For instance, you might have twenty students that you want to put into groups of four, so you would count out five Hershey Kisses, five Starbursts, five Twixs, and 5 KitKats and then put them in a bag. Students would randomly choose a piece of candy on the way in to class. They then organize into groups so there are no duplicated types of candy. It's easy and most people like the free candy. The only down side is for big classes, that's a lot of candy to buy.


A correlation between the nuclear quadrupole coupling constant for the halogens in some halomethanes and Jaffe's group orbital electronegativity is presented. Since the calculation of group electronegativity does not allow variations in the hybridization of the atoms in the group, it is apparent that the change in coupling constant is due, not to changing s character of the carbon, but rather to changes in ionic character of the bonds involving the halogens.


In the graduation thesis spatial databases of land cover and land use are represented and its use for analysing changes of agriculture land in Slovenia. The analysis was conducted in the area of Pomurska statistical region in the period 2000-2011 on the regional and municipal levels. In the theoretical part spatial databases are represented; Statisticni GIS, CORINE Land Cover and land use of agriculture and forest land of ministry of agriculture. The analysis of land cover CLC and land use was conducted in GIS environment and also numerically. The analysis of land cover StatGIS was conducted only numerically. In the analytical part we focused on analysing the land use of study area in the period 2000-2011. In the thesis we tried to identify trends of changes of agriculture land, which processes are the most active and account the influence of methodology for more accurate evaluation of agriculture land loss. Strong processes of abandoning agriculture land, afforestation and greening were detected. The loss of agriculture land due to the construction of Pomurska highway in the period 2002-2008 was also evaluated.


Online learning can present challenges and barriers for students, especially when it comes to self-motivation and discipline. Non-traditional learners and those who may be underprepared are often the students most likely to seek virtual learning options. As a result, methods of supporting online learners must be intentional and robust to stay attentive to students' needs. The American Women's College (TAWC) at Bay Path University designed its Social Online Universal Learning (SOUL) model to promote degree completion through a constellation of evidence-based practices that cultivate student engagement in a personalized online learning environment. SOUL employs an innovative adaptive technology approach with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to promote accessibility and affordability. Foundational to these frameworks is a commitment to leveraging technology to gather data that drives action-oriented analytics, triggering interventions by faculty and staff and generating predictive models to inform wrap-around support. SOUL's high-tech, high-touch attributes give students agency over their unique learning paths and provide instructors and administrators the meaningful insights needed to target efforts in a personalized yet scalable way, to promote and positively impact student success. Lessons learned in the process of developing data-driven "high-tech, high-touch" practices are presented.


Contents: Preface Introduction: points of departure An overview of the zheng The zheng within folk ensemble contexts: a case study of Henan dadiao quzi Transition: forming the solo zheng repertoire and practice Creating a tradition: the qinzheng school in Xi'an Contemporary zheng music and practice in an international setting background: new music and the zheng Conclusion: regional-national-international: 20th-century transformations of the Chinese zheng Appendices Bibliography Discography Glossary Index.


Introduction Common Sense, Myth, News and Racism A Myth of Marginality Traditional Racism and the News A Myth of Difference Racial Stereotypes and the News A Myth of Assimilation 'Enlightened' Racism and the News Race, Myth and the Newspaper How the Daily Press Covered King Day Conclusion


Location based services (LBSs) are now an integral part of wireless communication and mobile enabled service provisioning. In the new Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, its importance has become even more critical. These services are used to obtain the current location of the mobile phones and other connected devices. LBSs facilitate access to the sensor enabled information around the locations of the connected devices. There are several LBSs in existence such as satellite based positioning which is commonly known as global positioning system (GPS), cellular network based positioning, wireless network based positioning, indoor positioning and several hybrid systems. In the recent years, we have seen the emergence of IoT which can be provided over the cellular and wireless systems as value added services. It has several features which can enable the new initiatives in LBSs. In this paper, we present the recent trends and advances in these technologies. We also present its future prospects.


Selective mutism often starts in the early years and can continue into adulthood if left untreated. Charlotte Baker discusses the signs, the impact and strategies to support children who are affected.


Most conflicts in the world in this century have been civil wars taking place in poor and fragile states: in 2010 it was reported that every conflict started since 2003 was a recurrence of a previous one.1 With this realisation in mind, the international community now devotes much attention to understanding how interventions in 'post-conflict' settings might be designed more effectively to minimise relapse. However, given the persistence of war globally, it is pertinent to ask how much progress has been made.


This paper analyses separation process of gas-liquid mixture in submersible centrifugal gas separators. Gas separation coefficient is a monotonic function of two non-dimensional variables. Values of the function at the boundaries of variation range are found. Approximation of gas separation coefficient by the function satisfying these conditions is obtained. For gas separators of different designs the suggested characteristic curve was correlated to experimental information. It is shown that average approximation error did not exceed 10 %.


While smartwatches have become common for mobile interaction, one of their main limitation is the limited screen size. To facilitate reading activities despite these limitations, reading with Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) has been shown to be feasible. However, when text is presented in rapid sequence, single words are easily missed due to blinking or briefly glancing up from the screen. This gets worse the more the reader is engaged in a secondary task, such as walking. To give implicit control over the reading flow we combined an RSVP reading application on a smartwatch with a head-worn eye tracker. When the reading flow is briefly interrupted, the text presentation automatically pauses or backtracks. In a user study with 15 participants we show that using eye tracking in combination with RSVP increases users' comprehension compared to a touch-based UI to control the text presentation. We argue that eye tracking will be a valuable extension for future smartwatch interaction.


Application of HAZOP analysis method on polypropylene plant was introduced. According to the analysis results, risks during polypropylene plant operation could be identified effectively, then some reduction measures and recommendations were proposed.


Content information is the topic information of a Web page excluding links,navigations,advertisement and so on.This paper proposes and implements an information extraction algorithm including content Web page.By taking a top-down traversing of HTML tag tree of Web page and continuously analyzing the statistics within like text link rate and continuous text length,it can locate the best content information region and extract the text content.Experimental results show the high feasibility and accuracy rate of the algorithm.


Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici is the most dangerous and common disease among global wheat cultivars. Twelve local Egyptian and four exotic genotypes of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) obtained from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) were evaluated under Egyptian field conditions for adult plant resistance (APR) levels to stem rust at Sakha location during the two successive growing seasons (2016 and 2017). Also, DNA characterization for genotypes by specific markers were tested to determine the presence of the effective resistance genes (Sr's); Sr22, Sr24, Sr25 and Sr26. Out of the tested genotypes, four Egyptian bread wheat cultivars; (Misr3, Sakha94, Gemmeiza9 and Gemmeiza11), and four of CIMMYT lines (Line6043, Line6091, Line6107 and Line6197) show high levels of adult plant resistance to stem rust. Among the tested genotypes, Sr22 found to be the most frequent gene, present in most of them. While, Sr24 was present only in one local wheat cultivar and two exotic lines. Sr25 was present in five local wheat cultivars and two exotic lines. In addition, a resistance gene Sr26 was present in three exotic lines. The obtained results in this study evince that a combination of two or more resistance genes in one cultivar confer high adult plant resistance level in this cultivar, under field condition.


An embodiment of the invention provides a song generating method and device. The method includes receiving a text input by a user; extracting the text feature information of the text; acquiring a song matching with the text feature information; performing voice synthesis processing on the text according to the song, and acquiring a fresh song with the text serving as the lyric. According to the scheme, after the text input by the user, the text feature information is extracted, the text feature information matches with the information corresponding to the lyrics of the existing song, the song matching with the text feature information can be acquired, the music of the successfully-matched song serves as the background music, the text serves as the fresh lyric of the background music, and the song generated through the text is acquired through voice synthesis.


This research was done to know about how the effectifity of utilization Person Overpass Facility exist at Bandarlampung City. As we know that the increasing of transportation vehicle volumes cause protocol streets become more density in Bandarlampung City. Of course this matter cause the road jogger be difficult to across the road especially in busy times like in the morning when people goint to work place and going to school or in the evening when they going home. Moving of include their moving when they tracing the road,  across road and narrow ones. As common happened in every big cities, this matter happenend because of  economy development demand, trading, and the ease of the  people to reach the social service, so public facilities like hotel, shopping centre, etc. tend to grouping at certain area. Beside that, because of the location of a building with another scattered to the whole areas, so foot jogger should across the traffic to reach their destination. But, the existence of foot jogger in certain level often cause the big conflict with the vehicle`s current until cause the delaying of the traffic and  height degree of accident  number. Keywords: Effectiveness, people crossing bridge


This article examines the similarities and differences between the factors affecting the audit fee of financial statements from the standpoint of independent auditors working in audit firms (managers and senior managers) as well as members of the board of directors, managers and financial assistants of the owners. Factors considered include specific variables of the auditor, specific variables of the auditor, and specific variables of the audit work. The study is based on a survey of independent auditors working in audit firms and executives of Tehran Stock Exchange companies. The results show that there is no significant difference between independent auditors and financial managers in any particular domain of auditor, auditor specific and audit specific.


A graph G is said to satisfy the Vizing bound if χ(G) ≤ ω(G) + 1, where χ(G) and ω(G) denote the chromatic number and clique number of G, respectively. It was conjectured by Randerath in 1998 that if G is a triangle-free and fork-free graph, where the fork (also known as trident) is obtained from K1,4 by subdividing two edges, then G satisfies the Vizing bound. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture.


This paper introduces the theories of2003Nobel Prize for Economics winners:Robert F.Engle and Clivew J.Granger.Then,the reflections and thoughts concerning the theories are put forward.


This degree work partially solved the problem of multicast communication using Bluetooth technology for real-time applications in Bogota DC, Colombia, using the concepts of piconet and synchronization based on the basic principles of the IEEE 1588 protocol, which allows the synchronization of different slave nodes from a single master source.


The serranid tribe Epinephelini (subfamily Epinephelinae) is represented in American waters by 36 nominal species and 2 undescribed ones in 4 geno::ra,2 of which are monotypic. Although adult groupers are readily identifiable, specific identification of larvae has proved problematic. Kendall (1979) was able to identify larvae of the four American genera on the basis of meristic data, but found that specific identification was prevented by overlap in ranges of meristic characters among many species and by the apparent absence of any speciesspecific larval characters. Grouper larvae are characterized by elongate, serrated second dorsal and pelvic fin spines. Comparative examination of the serration patterns ofthese larval spines shows that they exhibit species and species-group differences. These features in conjunction with frequency distributions of meristic characters and geographic distributions allow identification of larvae of 13 of the 21 American species of Epinephelus. The remaining eight can be placed in one of three species groups. Striking morphological differences between larval E. afer from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific suggest that these populations are specifically distinct. Larvae of the genus Mycteroperca share diagnostic features, but specific separation remains unresolved. The serranid subfamily Epinephelinae, as defined by Johnson (1983), comprises five tribes, Niphonini, Epinephelini, Diploprionini, Grammistini and Liopropomini. Of these, the Epinephelini, commonly called groupers, are by far the most speciose, most widely distributed and most important commercially. In his revision of the American groupers, Smith (1971) recognized 35 species in three genera. He did not consider the monotypic genus Gonioplectrus, however Kendall and Fahay (1979) suggested that Gonioplectrus is closely related to the epinephelines, and Johnson (1983) included it in that tribe. Thus, the tribe Epinephelini is represented in American waters by 36 nominal species in four genera. Two undescribed species of Epinephelus are known from the eastern Pacific (R. H. Rosenblatt, personal communication). Although adults of the American groupers are readily identifiable, characters that aid in specific identification oftheir larvae have not been described. Kendall (1979) briefly reviewed the history of description of larval groupers worldwide and reiterated the general physiognomy that characterizes them (Fig. I). Most striking are the elongate, serrated second dorsal and pelvic fin spines. The first and third dorsal spines are much shorter than the second, but also usually bear serrations. Also characteristic of all epinepheline larvae are the long serrated spine at the angle of the preopercle and a large pigment spot on the caudal peduncle that migrates from the ventral midline to a mid-lateral position early in development. Epinepheline larvae are easily recognizable by their possession of the above combination of characters. Kendall (1979) was able to separate larvae representing the genera Epinephelus, Mycteroperca and Paranthias on the basis of fin ray counts but not by larval morphology. Larvae of the fourth American genus, Gonioplectrus, also have unique fin ray counts and differ from all other epinepheline larvae in having a deeper body and the serrated second and third dorsal spines nearly equal in length (Kendall and Fahay, 1979). With the exception of the monotypic Paranthias and


Background Nowadays, the studies mainly focus on the function of decreasing the inflammatory factor and improving the functions of endothelium, but the effects of statins on ventricular remodeling are rarely studied. Methods The 2-kindey,1-clip hypertensive rats (2K1C, Goldblatt) were prepared with Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat. SD rats were randomly divided into three groups: control rats, hypertensive rats and hypertensive rats treated with atorvastatin (2 mg·kg-1·d-1). After 6 weeks, systolic blood pressure (SBP) was measured using the tail-cuff method. The plasma concentration of angiotensin Ⅱ and renin activity were determined by radioimmunoassay. The heart weight, the ratio of left ventricular weight and body weight was calculated. Results The plasma concentration of angiotensinⅡ(106.4 ± 7.8) ng/L and renin activity (20.6 ± 2.4) ng/L were significantly increaed in hypertensive rats compared with normal rats [(72.3 ± 5.4) ng/L and (12.5 ± 3.7) ng/L](P 0.01). The heart weight (1.46 ± 0.09)g, the ratio 3.54 ± 0.19 ( × 10-3) of left ventricular weight and body weight in hypertensive rats were obviously higher than that in normal rats [(0.98 ± 0.07)g and (2.28 ± 0.06) × 10-3] (P 0.01). After treatment with atorvastatin, the plasma concentration of angiotensin Ⅱ(68.3 ± 6.9) ng/L and renin activity(8.7 ± 2.3 )ng/L, heart weight(1.05 ± 0.04)g, the ratio 2.36 ± 0.07 ( × 10-3) above were decreased significantly, there were no difference between the group of hypertensive rats and the normal. Conclusions Atorvastatin can decrease the ratio of left ventricular weight and body weight and has the effects on cardiovascular remodeling in hypertensive rats.


This study provides an overview of how World Bank-financed policy-based loans (both structural adjustment loans and Development Policy Lending's) (DPLs) have supported social accountability approaches in policy reforms and extracts lessons learned from this emerging experience. The study is based on a document review of all policy-based loans approved by the World Bank since 2000 that have some social accountability content, as well as interviews with fourteen key informants. These included task team leaders (TTLs) of some of those DPLs as well as sector leaders, country directors, and country managers of sectors, regions or countries that had DPLs with social accountability in their portfolio. The few social accountability practitioners that have worked on DPLs have also been interviewed to gather more specific lessons learned on the challenges and opportunities on design and implementation issues. The study also draws on the experience of the authors that have worked on social accountability components in a number of DPLs in the Latin American and Caribbean region.


Eye gaze is a useful indication of attention and, as such, can be a valuable feature to improve spoken-language understanding in human-computer interaction. Based on the hypothesis that users look at a link before selecting it, we investigate the use of novel eye-gaze features to improve link click event prediction. Our data comprises users performing a variety of online tasks such as form filling and web browsing, and we show significant performance improvement by incorporating the use of gaze features. In addition, our analysis shows that there is much user-specific variation in gaze, so we are also looking to improve the modeling of gaze by user- and task-specific adaptation.


Excited states of Ce-142, populated in deep inelastic reactions of Se-82 projectiles bombarding La-139 target, have been studied to medium spins using in-beam gamma spectroscopy techniques. Three new levels have been identified at 2625, 2995 and 3834keV, and assigned as 8(+), 9((-)) and 11((-)) respectively, based on the analysis of the properties of gamma transitions. These new yrast states follow well the level systematics of N = 84 isotones. Their structures have been discussed with the help of empirical shell-model calculations.


Abstract We report a rare case of a subcutaneous mass on the finger, which was suspected to be a soft tissue tumour and was reconstructed using a digital artery flap after excision biopsy. Tophaceous gout was pathologically diagnosed. The patient had no prior gouty attacks, making the preoperative diagnosis difficult.


In order to build base populations for selective breeding,ninety families in nine groups were constructed using a full diallel cross design with parents of Pinctada fucata from three different places [Beihai (B),Xuwen (X) and Sanya (S)]. Comparisons of the breeding value and general evaluation among families were studied after 60 days culture in out-door pond. The results showed that the Kung breeding values of shell length were over 20 in eight families (BX2,BX9,BB4,BB5,BB8,BS9,XS3 and SB8). The family XS3 had the largest breeding values in shell length and shell width and comprehensive value,whereas XX3 had the smallest ones. The overall values of BB4 and XS3 were over one. General combining abilities (GCA) in shell length for Sanya,Xuwen and Beihai parents were 17.40,17.45 and 18.27,respectively while GCAs in shell height were 14.74,14.79 and 15.54,respectively. Specific combining abilities (SCA) in shell length were 17.75,18.27 and 18.12 for Sanya(♂)-Xuwen(♀),Sanya-Beihai and Xuwen-Beihai matings,respectively while SCAs in shell height were 14.98,15.51 and 15.46,respectively. Average heteroses in shell length were 1.41,0.96 and 0.67 for Sanya-Xuwen,Sanya-Beihai and Xuwen-Beihai matings,respectively while average heteroses in shell height were 1.13,1.60 and 1.19,respectively. This study suggested that the parents from Beihai are preferable.


Metal/semiconductor and transparent conductive oxide (TCO)/semiconductor heterojunctions have emerged as an effective modality in the fabrication of photoelectric devices. This review is following a recent shift toward the engineering of TCO layers and structured Si substrates, incorporating metal nanoparticles for the development of next-generation photoelectric devices. Beneficial progress which helps to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost, has been sequenced based on efficient technologies involved in making novel substrates, TCO layers, and electrodes. The electrical and optical properties of indium tin oxide (ITO) and aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) thin films can be enhanced by structuring the surface of TCO layers. The TCO layers embedded with Ag nanoparticles are used to enhance the plasmonic light trapping effect in order to increase the energy harvesting nature of photoelectric devices. Si nanopillar structures which are fabricated by photolithography-free technique are used to increase light-active surface region. The importance of the structure and area of front electrodes and the effect of temperature at the junction are the value added discussions in this review.


Results for th flap efficiency and flap heating of the NASA X-24 lifting body vehicle are presented. Several Mach numbers, flap deflection angles, angles of attack and Reynolds numbers are considered. Perfect gas flows with constant temperature at wall, equilibrium flow with radiation adiabatic wall and non-equilibrium flow with fully catalytic and finite catalytic wall are studied. The influence of viscous effects is investigated by comparing Euler with laminar and turbulent Navier-Stokes solutions for several flap geometries. The accuracy of the solutions is supported by comparing the numerical results with computations from other sources and also with wind tunnel measurements. Viscous and real gas effects play a dominant role for large flap deflection angles. Both viscous interaction parameters tested do not allow to collapse the data in one curve concerning flap heating. Navier-Stokes results do not correlate with Holden's predictions. Maximum inviscid.


The invention pertains to a device for dusting moving objects, including printed paper sheets (16), comprising at least one sprayer for projecting an air/powder mixture (14), devices for electrically charging the powder particles with a given polarity, as well as conveying means (22, 24) for said objects. In order to ensure powder deposit onto the paper sheets and reduce dirt accumulation inside the printer, the conveying means (24) have an electric charge of the same polarity as powder particles.


Li doped iron oxide nanorods were synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method. XRD results are in good agreement with the JCPDS data. The crystallite size was calculated using Scherrer's formula. SEM studies brought out the surface morphology of prepared nanorods. The lithium doping to the iron oxide crystal lattice was confirmed through FTIR spectrum. Thermal properties of prepared nanorods were studied using DSC. The band gap of iron oxide nanorods was calculated from UV-absorption spectrum and is ascribed to quantum confinement effect. Electrical conductivity of the nanorods was determined using four probe method. The fluorescence spectrum was also recorded to elucidate the optical property of the prepared Iron nanorods.


Melinda Bush is the publisher of Hotel & Travel Index, the world's oldest and largest hotel and travel directory. A widely recognized authority on marketing and advertising, Bush holds a B.S. in marketing from the University of Colorado and has done graduate work in business at New York University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. A member of the American Management Association, Advertising Women of New York, and the Wings Club, she is listed in Who's


Isoflavone genistein has antioxidant activity,cardiovascular protection,anti-cancer,anti-inflammatory,anti-ulcer effect and estrogen etc.Here the pharmacokinetic of genistein are reviewed in order to provide scientific basis for its pharmacokinetics studies and prodrug modification.


The present work exposes a proposal of systematization of two very common modalities in academic and scientific events: oral communication and poster sessions. First it will be discussed the meaning and scope of scientific communication, introducing it as one of the scientist activities. The spreading of the researcher studies can be organized both as written or spoken communication, and also mixing them. Next, some conceptual and technical considerations will be made on oral communication and poster, discussing the following aspects: definition, objectives, features, observations and suggestions about planning and execution. In each modality specific orientations are presented to everyone interested in improving their presentations. This article is especially directed to beginners in academic and scientific events. It has no pretension of being exhaustive concerning the technical aspects involved in the elaboration and scientific publicizing through the modalities emphasized here. Keywords: scientific communication; oral communication; poster session.


2 Introduction 3 Life Skills Background 3 NGO Background 4 Project Background 4 Progression of Paper 5 Literature Review 5 Effectiveness of Life Skills 5 Underlying Theories for Life Skills Program Development 6 Life Skills and Education in India 8 Life Skills as a Tool to Prevent Child Labor and/or Hazardous Labor 10 Methodology 11 Topic Selection 11 Observations of Community 11 Observations of Municipal Schools 12 Observations through General Interactions with Children 14 Logic Behind Topics 14 Framing of the Modules 18 Implementation 19 Responsibility 19 Team Building 20 Leadership 21 Futures 22 Self-Awareness 22 Challenges 23 Sustainability 23 Conclusion 24 Bibliography 26 Appendix 1: Life Skills Topics and Goals 28 Appendix 2: Responsibility Module 31 Appendix 3: Team Building Module 35 Appendix 4: Leadership Module 39 Appendix 5: Futures Module 44 Appendix 6: Self-Awareness Module 47


Abstract The behavior of thin films in the PLZT system made using a recently developed metal acetate precursor technique was investigated with respect to microstructural and crystallographic development. Variations in film microstructure and phase continuity were dependent on substrate and film composition. The optical quality of Zr rich films deposited onto sapphire substrates was impaired by the formation of a pyrochlore phase leading to a discontinuous microstructure. Application of a PLT buffer layer was shown to significantly modify this situation, improving the potential viability of this fabrication method.


Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a major role in extending the reach of the existing
communication systems to include resource constrained devices. Many exciting research works for IoT have
been proposed for management of such devices such that human intervention is minimized. This is a challenge
due to the high heterogeneity, high complexity of the devices and the lack of dynamic management
schemes.Here, we introduce the paradigm of autonomic computing to be used for such dynamic yet secure
management in IoT. The adoption of the autonomy in IoT architecture can prove to be a valuable addition to
IoT systems.


The method of Serverless Computing at the Edge is drawing attention because of the efficiency of using resources. This paper presents a design of Serverless Computing for Edge Clouds, based on an open-source project. One of the methods of Serverless at the Edge is that centralized architecture with a Serverless Platform in the control plane cluster. However, in a centralized architecture, if the resources or the status of a particular Edge is not good, the control plane cluster must detect anomalies and redeploy the Functions considering the environment of other Edges. It will take time to select and deploy to the appropriate Edge. The proposed architecture introduces cross-monitoring which imports monitoring metrics directly from a nearby Edge. Grouping Edge sites as a Zone and cross-monitoring each other in the Zone. So that, Serverless computing-based Functions can operate quickly when adjacent Edges are in poor condition. As a result, the neighboring Edges of the Zone can back up with each other.


We present a multiwavelength radio study of the nearby galaxy pair Arp 269 (NGC 4490/85). High sensitivity to extended structures gained by using the merged interferometric and single- dish maps allowed us to reveal a previously undiscovered extension of the radio continuum emission. Its direction is significantly different from that of the neutral gas tail, suggesting that different physical processes might be involved in their creation. The population of radio- emitting electrons is generally young, signifying an ongoing, vigorous star formation -- this claim is supported by strong magnetic fields (over 20 {\mu}G), similar to the ones found in much larger spiral galaxies. From the study of the spectral energy distribution, we conclude that the electron population in the intergalactic bridge between member galaxies originates from the disc areas, and therefore its age (approximately 3.7--16.9 Myr, depending on the model used) reflects the time-scale of the interaction. We have also discovered an angularly near compact steep source -- which is a member of a different galaxy pair -- at a redshift of approximately 0.125.


Chronic sciatica is one of the neuropathic pains which assumed to be effective for pregabalin. However, a recent double-blind placebo-controlled trial reported that pregabalin was no more effective than placebo in pa-tients with acute or chronic sciatica. We retrospectively investigated the effect of Kampo medicine including makyoyokukanto extracts combined with powdered cinnamon bark and processed aconite root (makyo-yokukanto plus) which were administered to 14 cases with chronic sciatica in the past year. The efficacy of Kampo medicine for lower leg pain relief was assessed using NRS (numerical rating scale). It was effective in 11 of 14 cases (79%, 6 males and 5 females, the mean age : 69), and not effective in 3 of 14 cases (21%, 2 males and 1 female, the mean age : 77). In 7 of 9 cases, who were given pregabalin before prescribing makyoyokukanto plus, makyoyokukanto plus was more effective than pregabalin. Furthermore, we have con-tinued to observe 10 cases for over a year. Two of 10 cases were completely cured even if makyoyokukanto plus was discontinued. In 5 cases we switched from makyoyokukanto plus to yokuininto extracts combined with powdered cinnamon bark and processed aconite root, which was comparable to makyoyokukanto plus in its effect. Makyoyokukanto or yokuininto extracts combined with powdered cinnamon bark and processed aconite root were effective for chronic sciatica.


Novel adsorbents for methane and ethane based on HKUST-1 metal-organic framework were synthesized by microwave (MW) assisted technique using ionic liquids (ILs) as synthesis media. It was found that the MW synthesis time remarkably impacts both the product yield and the physico-chemical characteristics of the produced HKUST-1 material. The crystalline phase purity, crystallite size/dispersion and textural properties of the synthesized HKUST-1 matrices determine their performance in methane and ethane adsorption. Therefore, the HKUST-1 material produced in MW fields for 3 min only shows the highest phase purity and the largest surface area (BET) and porosity, along with a rather small crystallite size (below ~300 nm), demonstrating high methane and ethane adsorption capacity in the pressure range 1–30 atm.


WT5"BZ]By using contralled temperature and humidity, we have carried out a compared experiment for seedling and seedling of Tutcheria kweichowensis Chang et Y.K.Li. The results are as follows. 1), The range of temperature from 20 to 25℃ and humidity 80%~90% is best for seeding and seedlings; 2), After 10~15 days, the seeds begin to germinate with sand gradation store, and their germination rate is 85~93% after 40~50 days; 3), The germinated seeds were sowed in seedbed with a constant temperature of 20℃, The emergence rate after 60 days and growing nursery stock rate after 360 days are 60.7% and 43.7%. This result is valuable and significant to effective utilization and conservation for germ plasma of rare Tutcheria kweichowensis species.


The market for linear motors and drives is expected to more than double to over $ 200 milion by 2002 because these products afford lots of benefits. In these circumstances it may be interesting a novel high performance linear motor structure. In this paper a novel double salient permanent magnet linear motor structure is proposed and analysed. The results obtained via computer simulation stand by to sustain the pertinence of the proposed motor design.


The channeling effect in electron-induced X-ray emission has proved useful as a method to get immediate information about the cation atom distribution between octahedral and tetrahedral positions in the receiatly synthesized spinels: ZnCro.4Fe ~ .004, ZnCrFeO 4 and ZnCr 1.6Feo.404. It is concluded that the Zn atoms are in tetrahedral positions and the Cr atoms in octahedral positions. The Fe atoms also have a strong octahedral site preference, but the analysis indicates that ,--5°0 of them are in tetrahedral positions.


Global total ozone measurements from various satellite instruments such as SBUV, TOMS, and GOME show increases in zonal mean total ozone at NH mid- to high latitudes since the mid-nineties. This could be expected from the peaking and starting decline in the effective stratospheric halogen loading, but the rather rapid increases observed in NH zonal mean total ozone suggests that other physical mechanism may also contribute. Following the cold Arctic stratospheric winters of the mid nineties, winter planetary wave activity has increased that lead to higher stratospheric temperature and enhanced ozone transport into higher latitudes as part of the residual circulation. From a multi-variate linear regression with explanatory variables such as polar ozone loss (PSC volume), planetary wave driving (eddy heat flux) as well as stratospheric aerosol loading, QBO, and solar cycle it can be shown that the strongest contribution to the recent total ozone increases are from solar activity (increasing branch of solar cycle 23) and planetary wave driving. Replacing the linear term (accounting for unexplained ozone loss on the order of -2% per decade in spring until 2003) with the estimated effective stratospheric chlorine loading (EESC), the role of planetary wave driving gets smaller without change in overall statistical significance. It is clear that more years of data are needed to uniquely attribute the cause of the observed recent increase in NH total ozone. In addition the question remains, if the current increase in planetary wave driving is part of natural variability on decadal time scale


Considering the shape, color and motion characteristics of gesture in human-computer interaction, and aiming at the problems of KCF algorithm in the case of scale change, fast movement and non-rigid deformation of gesture target, a long-term gesture tracking method combining GMM skin color detection, ELM and KCF is proposed. Firstly, the GMM skin color model is obtained by cross-validation training method, and the GMM skin color filter result is refined by Bayesian estimation. According to the search strategy, ELM is used to further determine the gesture area and gesture category. Then, the KCF tracker is improved by combining the onedimensional scale filter, and is initialized by the detection result of the gesture detector. Finally, the tracking result is evaluated by the designed confidence model. If the confidence is less than the threshold, the gesture detector is used to reinitialize the improved KCF filter and restart tracking. Otherwise, continue to track. The experimental results show that the method can track the deformed gesture in human-computer interaction quickly and accurately in real time, and has good adaptability to scale changes.


The use of an electronic embedded system for general or multi-purpose applications has increased substantially and while they require more flexibility for processing different types of applications and communication protocols. The need for this high flexibility also requires the use of general purpose processors as a solution for configuring and controlling a considerable amount of peripherals, what consequently implies in an increasing need for hardware-dependent software (HdS). HdS is a highly critical component and error prone due to the nature of the environment in which it is inserted, and it's hard coding. So it is essential to support the development and runtime phases of HdS by methodologies that are able to capture devices' accesses violations, through the monitoring of the communication protocol specification. So, this paper presents the toolset TDevCGen. This toolset synthesizes properties monitors, for checking hardware/software communication protocol, described through a high-level DSL called TDevC language. Before synthesizing the monitor model (SystemC or SystemVerilog) for runtime validation, the TDevCGen performs a sequence of validation in the specification input, looking for type mismatch, properties inconsistencies and the presence of nondeterministic in the specified protocol. Experiments using a DM9000A Ethernet device and an Altera UART show the efficiency and practicality of proposed approach (TDevCGen). The approach TDevCGen supports the specification of the protocol and communication properties, reducing the time of verification phase significantly, and performs a fast and reliable monitor's synthesis from a high-level specification, eliminating the use of general purpose languages, error-prone coding, and, thus, increasing the reliability of communication checking.


To upgrade the system lifetime fittingly many steering conventions and bunch based calculations are utilized to accomplish the execution need in WSN. From existing examination approaches, advancement of vitality in correspondence turns out to be extremely basic. Some portion of a vitality utilization of every sensor hub has a vital part while imparting among other sensor hubs for expanding lifetime of the WSN. This examination work concentrates on vitality protection in every sensor hub by utilizing AODV convention with PSO, GA and ABC based bunching and group head choice vitality enhancement calculation. AODV gives a course to correspondence while the group head is chosen utilizing PSO, GA, and ABC in view of the separation from the bunch part hub to sink hub and the leftover vitality in that hub. Reproduction comes about demonstrate that the inspiration of this work enhances the lifetime of the system exceptionally.


Air preheater used in the Labuan 2 Banten PLTU is a type of tri section air preheate.From the above data so that the effect of cold element change was needed. e nd to the x-ratio value. From the results of the analysis before the element change on the cold end side can get the x-ratio value of 0.626 after the element change on the cold end side becomes 0.643 and before washing with the sootblower the x ratio value is 0.638 after washing using value sootblower x-ratio is 0.641, while in terms of effectiveness value an increase occurs before the element changes on the cold end side can be effective value of 0.656 after the element change on the cold end of the effectiveness value becomes 0.724 and before washing with sootblower the effectiveness value is 0.714 after washing using sootblower effectiveness value of 0.721


The aim of the study was to develop a system for monitoring the results of the formation of universal and professional competencies of healthcare managers when studying at additional professional education courses. The objectives of the study included defining the stages of monitoring, developing a fund of assessment tools, criteria and assessment indicators for the competencies specified in the Federal State Educational Standards for Higher Education (FSES HE), implementing and testing the effectiveness of monitoring in the cycles of professional retraining of healthcare managers. The developed and implemented monitoring system has proved its effectiveness. The result of its application is obtaining the most accurate, objective and timely information about the level of development of universal and professional competencies of healthcare organizers in the process of training in professional retraining cycles. In the course of monitoring, reliable results were obtained to improve the level of competencies of healthcare managers related to organizational and managerial activities.


The magnetic phase transition is studied by the AC susceptibility and the specific heat measurements in NaNi triacetylacetonate benzene which is considered as an example of an antiferromagnetic triangular Ising lattice. The magnetic phase transition from paramagnetic to ferrimagnetic state is observed at the temperature \(T_{\text{c}}^{0} \cong 32.5\) (mK) by the AC susceptibility measurements. The H vs T phase diagram is obtained giving the extrapolated value of \(H_{\text{c}}^{0} \cong 320\) (Oe) at T =0 K. At T c 0 the susceptibility does not diverge to infinity, and below T c 0 it increases with decreasing temperature. This new type of behavior of the ferrimagnetic transition is qualitatively well described by the antiferromagnetic triangular Ising lattice model.


Abstract Aims: Among the putative mechanisms proposed to be common factors in Down syndrome (DS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, deficits in protein quality control (PQC) have emerged as a unifying mechanism of neurodegeneration. Considering that disturbance of protein degradation systems is present in DS and that oxidized/misfolded proteins require polyubiquitinylation for degradation via the ubiquitin proteasome system, this study investigated if dysregulation of protein polyubiquitinylation is associated with AD neurodegeneration in DS. Results: Postmortem brains from DS cases before and after development of AD neuropathology and age-matched controls were analyzed. By selectively isolating polyubiquitinated proteins, we were able to identify specific proteins with an altered pattern of polyubiquitinylation as a function of age. Interestingly, we found that oxidation is coupled with polyubiquitinylation for most proteins mainly involved in PQC and energy metabolism. Innovation: This is the ...


Consider all care transitions, even those that might seem insignificant, such as the switch from a pediatric to an adult provider. Find a payment system that reimburses and grants flexibility for coordinated care. Put critical providers, such as behavioral health specialists and coordinators, in the same location.


Video training has practical and representational advantages that make it well-suited pedagogically and methodologically for use by investigators developing school-based social competence promotion programs. Pedgogically, video's visual representational medium and attention-focusing capacities help to promote the effective presentation of the process-based reciprocal flow of social understanding and behavior. Methodologically, video enables researchers to standardize training approaches and thus to evaluate more accurately the effectiveness of a given intervention, including the ability to assess the hypothesized processes of skill learning, as well as the social outcomes of such learning. In addition, video is readily accessible for classroom use. As such, it has potential both as a powerful stimulus for learning, and also as the foundation of an intervention that can be both easily disseminated and systematically evaluated. The empirical and theoretical bases of social competence video training in social learning and social information-processing theories are examined, and an agenda is set for developing and evaluating future intervention work in this area.


The plasmon-induced heat generation by core–shell Ag0@SiO2 nanoparticle ensemble, i.e., Ag0 nanoparticles coated with a nanometric, amorphous SiO2 layer, has been studied for nanoparticles dispersed in liquid suspensions or deposited in film. Nonmonodispersed, fractal-like Ag0@SiO2 ensembles were synthesized by flame spray pyrolysis, varying Ag0 particle size distribution, and SiO2 shell thickness, ranging from 1 nm up to 5 nm. The particles were characterized by TEM, XRD, XPS, and UV–vis, while the thermoplasmonic heat-generation efficiency was monitored in situ by measuring the temperature rise over the nanoparticle ensembles by an infrared thermal imager under UV–vis irradiation or ambient solar light. We have carried out a systematic investigation of parameters regarding (i) the particle characteristics, (ii) the surrounding medium, and (iii) the irradiation characteristics. The data reveal the determinant role played by the SiO2 shell in the plasmonic heating by Ag0@SiO2. Thus, for the thinner SiO2 c...


This is a retrospective study comprising 45 patients who underwent decompressive laminectomy due to secondary malignancy in the spine. There were 31 males and 14 females. Two of them had no weakness, one was treated for radicular pain and the other for severe intractable back pain. Forty-three patients presented with weakness of the limb of which six patients were able to walk unaided, four with an aid, twenty four were unable to walk of which eleven of them were completely paralysed. Nineteen of the patients had urinary incontinence. Out of 10 patients in Frankel's D, 3 of them regained almost normal power post operatively and were able to walk without any aids at the time of discharge. There were 6 patients in Frankel's C and 2 improved. Of 17 patients in Frankel's B, 6 of them improved and were able to walk with walking aids. Only one out of ten patient from Frankel's A had showed an improvement. A total of three patients deteriorated post operatively and all of them presented with multiple level involvement. There was no change in the post operative status of the two patients who did not have weakness. Overall only 27% of the patient showed improvement following decompressive laminectomy.


Population characteristics can be influenced by specific factors of the habitat and the natural variability of populations can confuse the effect related to protected environments. This study compares the demographic characteristics of Octopus tehuelchus in three coastal environments: two Marine Protected Areas (San Antonio Bay (SAB) and Islote Lobos (IL)) and a traditional fishing zone (El Fuerte (EF)). Weight–frequency distributions, sex-ratio and recruitment were monthly compared between the three intertidal zones. Octopus tehuelchus was smaller in IL, where fishing intensity is lower or null, and reached the largest sizes in the main fishing area of EF and within SAB (where there is no regulation and a mid–high fishing intensity). The sex proportion in SAB and EF was 1:1 all along the year. Although the proportion of mature females in IL was higher, the highest recruitment was observed in EF (the traditional fishing ground). These new data suggest that previous studies, which reported that Marine Protected Areas have positive effects for O. tehuelchus populations, can no longer be supported, and highlight the importance of understanding and quantifying the magnitude and range of natural variability in each environment when assessing the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas.


The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a method for reducting the disciplinary contraints of traditionnal acquisitions lists. University faculty were invited to help test an acquisitions notification system called NEW ADDITIONS


In the winter of 1995-1996, the Soil and Water Conservation Society established an Issue Survey Task Force to identify natural resource issues that should be addressed and activities that would be appropriate to achieve the Society's mission. One issue identified was that "Improvements are needed in capabilities to identify and to address natural resource management issues in a holistic manner (ecosystem/watershed/whole farm/new partnerships) with an objective of sustainable resource use." The task force recommended that an interdisciplinary cadre of scientists and practitioners be assembled to (i) review what is known about ecosystem dynamics as it relates to the sustainability of soil and water resources, (ii) determine what needs to be understood so that soil and water resources can be effectively managed to sustain ecological integrity while maintaining economic livelihoods, and (iii) develop a white paper for distribution to policy makers and research and education institutions. The staff of the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Watkinsville, GA, proposed to the board of directors to organize and host a conference "Interactions: Investigating Ecosystem Dynamics at a Watershed Level" in collaboration with the Society. The conference goals were to:

1) Provide a forum …


In the second decade of the 21st century, globalisation and the digital revolution have made culture, in all its manifestations, a powerful vehicle for building global relationships and creating business. It was once said, in international relations, that culture follows commerce; however, this chapter sees culture as commerce itself and as a means of leading to greater commercial relations via knowledge transfer. It sees culture as a broad reciprocal phenomenon. While on the one hand, the flow of Australian cultural products into Latin America serves to enhance our profile in the region and also provides access for our artists to one of the largest markets in the world, on the other hand, the flow of Latin American culture into Australia has many significant benefits. Indeed, in terms of advancing Australia's strategic relationship with Latin America, the role of culture—especially popular music, dance and food—can be seen both as a means of developing a sadly lacking awareness and understanding of the region in this country and as a means of expanding existing—and developing new—commercial activities for Australians in Australia via the popularity and proliferation of Latin American culture. All these connections will generate economic benefits for Australia and Latin America.


Bellows is a thin-walled metal cylindrical with folds, as a pipeline connection and compensation device, it has the feature such as reliable and compact. Now Bellows is widely used in the produce of aerospace engines and the relative industries. In order to solve the load life test problem of bellows, the squeezing and twisting process after the long time loading is simulated by swinging and pressing it rapidly in a short time. Adopting NI Real-Time Hypervisor,a real-time monitor and test system is built by Windows operation system. According to the real twist data of bellows,the dynamic equation of swing platform for two cylinder is constructed, by the real-time and a high precsion control of the motion of two cylinders, the bellows which is full of liquid has been squeezed and twisted with a high frequency, and loading test of the mechanical properties, strength and lifetime for bellows is achieved in an automatic way.


The research reported in this thesis has investigated the segmentation and recognition of words in connected speech. An account has been developed that uses a simple recurrent network trained to map from a sequence of input segments to an output representation of the lexical/semantic content of that sequence. This final chapter discusses ways in which this distributed recognition system contrasts with other computational models that use localist representations and that include direct, inhibitory connections between units representing competing lexical items. This chapter also describes conclusions drawn from experimental investigations that were designed to test the predictions of these different accounts and proposes future work to develop and test this recurrent network model further. A critical test case used throughout this thesis to evaluate these different computational accounts has been the recognition of words that are embedded at the onset of longer words. In the introductory chapters of this thesis, arguments were reviewed suggesting that direct, inhibitory competition between lexical items is necessary to account for the identification of embedded words. Lexical competition provides a mechanism by which a following context that rules out longer competitors can boost the activation of embedded words, allowing their identification. However, simulations described in Chapter 3 demonstrate that the crucial property of systems like TRACE and Shortlist is not the inclusion of direct intra-lexical competition, but that the recognition system is not confined to using sections of the speech stream to identify only a single word at a time. Recurrent networks in which the goal of the recognition process is to activate a representation of an entire sequence of words are also capable of using post-offset information to identify onset-embedded words. The approach taken in this thesis has interesting implications for theories of language comprehension and acquisition. Training a recurrent network to activate a representation of an entire sequence of words was suggested in Chapter 3 to have an interesting developmental interpretation. The assumption made by these networks is that the task involved in learning to understand


From the point of view of energy density, handling and economy, present-day motor fuels are superior to all known alternatives. The internal combustion engine powered by them satisfies the requirements of customers to an excellent degree. The search for alternatives can therefore only be justified if emissions can be avoided totally and non-fossil primary energy sources can be used or at least partially our dependence on mineral oil can be reduced. What was long suspected has been increasingly confirmed, not least by developments at BMW: electricity (stored in batteries) and hydrogen offer the best prerequisites for achieving these goals in the long term. These forms of energy can be produced in sufficient quantities and with relatively little effect on the environment. They promise to produce an absolute minimum of pollutants when used in vehicles. Natural gas, which is very similar to hydrogen, and hybrid systems, that would compensate for battery risks, could perform a valuable function in the transitional phase.


This research aims to determine the influence of the role internal supervision unit and also organizational commitment to achieving Good University Governance. The population of this research was 23 state universities in Indonesia with BLU status under The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education. The Audit Board of The Republic of Indonesia (BPK-RI) found low-quality performance findings to the acceptance a qualified opinion (WDP) BPK RI accompanied by findings of misappropriation of financial statement records in 2015.This is due to the low quality of governance performance universities, which often occur at Public Service Agency of State University as well as a lack of transparency and accountability. The sampling technique used in this research was purposive sampling and the method for analyzing data was path analysis. Findings. The results showed that there was a significant positive influence and were supported by the role of the internal supervision unit and organizational commitment to the achievement of good university governance. Moreover, this study also saw a positive influence on the role of the internal supervision unit to achieve good university governance through organizational commitment.


The superior agricultural products are developing emphases of regional agriculture,and evaluation and selection to superior agricultural products is an important basis of developing agricultural regional division and cooperation as well as agricultural structural adjustment.Based on comparative advantage index which including scale,yield and per capita output and so on,applying evaluation methods on comprehensive advantage degree of agricultural products,the comprehensive advantage of 62 agricultural products of 31regions in China were evaluated during 2008-2010.Results are shown as follows:the main crops(including rice,maize and wheat)in Yunnan has no obvious advantage in China. Tobacco,walnut,rubber,resin,tea,sugarcane,silkworm cocoons,flax,banana,pineapple,litchi, coffee,flowers,spices,shellac and pork in Yunnan have outstanding advantages in China.Potato, rapeseed,tungoiltree seeds,citrus,hemp,mulberry cocoon,wood and lacquer in Yunnan have obvious advantage in China.And some countermeasures and suggestions on development of superior agricultural products in Yunnan province were also given.


We introduce a class of models for microstructural damage and cohesive macromechanical failure in heterogeneous systems. Our models are based on random networks of Hooke-type springs with load limit, such that a spring breaks irreversibly if stretched beyond a critical length ${u}_{c}$. We consider several special cases in which both the spring constant $k$ and ${u}_{c}$ are distributed quantities, and we show that the macroscopic response of the system depends crucially on the form of the probability distribution functions (PDF's) for $k$ and ${u}_{c}$. If the first inverse moment of the PDF is finite, it appears that macromechanical failure occurs by means of a sharp transition, in which a single crack spans the entire system ("brittle failure"). By contrast, if the first inverse moment is infinite, many cracks appear in the system. Then, at a certain microdamage level, as defined by the fraction of broken springs, all moduli of the system vanish ("pseudobrittle failure") and the system undergoes a percolationlike transition.


Keeping in view the increasing importance of users in shaping and acceptance of Information Systems IS products, there is a need for deeper understanding of IS user requirements. However, currently there is a gap in IS literature. Virtually no theory-based Typological Scheme TS exists for IS user requirements. And a typology is widely acknowledged as the first step towards understanding a phenomenon. Using concepts from inter-disciplinary review of research in the areas of requirements engineering, product quality, and customer satisfaction this study explores the possibility of developing a TS suitable to the IS context. The proposed TS scheme, iteratively constructed, through literature review and experimentation demonstrates promise. The requirement types identified in the suggested TS are found to have both theoretical and empirical support and have useful implications for future research as well as practice.


According to the latest changes, according to the Law on Preschool and School Education in Bulgaria, programming training at the high school level is implemented only as a profiled or elective school subject. This creates problems in building key digital competencies related to programming, according to the European Union's DigComp strategic framework. Since information technology is studied at all levels of education and participates as a profile subject in many professions and profile classes as compulsory or elective modules, this discipline can be used to fill these gaps. The article examines an approach for applying block programming and robotics in elective modules in profiled IT training at the second-high school level. Solving specific practical tasks by programming the behaviour and activity of robotic devices increases the activity and motivation of students and allows them to build the key competencies necessary for their successful future professional realization as EU citizens.


The article proposes the technology of obtaining grissini type salt-free bakery products. Research has been carried out on reducing the salt content and replacing the water with fermentation products as kefir, whey, and sour borscht, in order to reduce the effect of the lack of salt on the product quality. The results showed that the complete exclusion of salt from the recipe had a negative effect on the dough stability, physicochemical properties and organoleptic characteristics of the baked products. Partial or total omission of salt resulted in higher dough rise ability and lower moisture content in the final product. Grissini made according to the classic recipe with salt, registered high appearance and sensory properties, while reducing the salt content results in products with a less pronounced crust and taste. The use of kefir, whey and sour borscht as water substitutes in the recipe contributed to the improvement of the chromatic parameters, as well as the physicochemical indicators of the baked grissini. However, consumers appreciated less the samples with the addition of kefir and whey. These samples being distinguished by a specific taste and smell, in some extent unusual for panelists. At the same time, grissini based on sour borscht were highly appreciated. According to the results, the sample with sour borscht without added salt recorded similar characteristics to the control sample, but in order to align it with national standards in terms of physicochemical indicators, the dough fermentation period needs to be revised.


Objective To explore molecule biological bases of difference clinical character in gastric carcinoma between young and aged patients.Methods Sixty five gastric carcinomas including 35 young and 30 aged patients were examined immunohistochemically and the serial slides were stained with silver colloid technique. The former data were tested by χ 2 test and the latter were by t test.Results In 65 gastric carcinoma cases, the positive rates for proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and the mean argyrophilic proteins associated nucleolar organizer region (AgNOR) count increased as degree of differentiation of the gastric carcinoma decreased, and the mean AgNOR count enhanced as invasive depth increased (P0.05). In the gastric carcinoma cases with the same differentiation, invasive depth or local lymph node metastasis,PCNA positive expression and mean AgNOR count in young patients were significantly higher than those in elderly patients(P0.05).Conclusion PCNA overexpression and the higher mean AgNOR count in young patients with gastric carcinoma than the aged patients indicate the gastric carcinoma cells in young patients may possess much stronger proliferation,invasion and metastasis abilities.


This article reports on the initial clinical experiences using a robotic system (SpineAssist) to place lumbar pedicle screws. The screw trajectory is based on intraoperative assimilation of a preoperative CT scan. This study reports a high degree of accuracy of placement of the screws using this technique. Over the past decades, various navigational systems have been developed to assist surgeons in positioning of spinal instrumentation. Almost all of these systems have shown promise in the "lab setting," yet in many instances once purchased; these expensive systems end up relegated to a distant corridor of the operating suite gathering dust. A number of these systems have fallen short of their promise of improving patient outcomes and surgeon efficiency. The major theoretical advantages of a robotic imageguided system include improved accuracy of screw placement (particularly in challenging cases) and reduced radiation exposure for the operating room team and the patient. In the current series, the accuracy of screw placement was good; however, these cases represent uncomplicated routine surgeries. The true advantage of a navigation system is in situations where free-hand placement of screws is technically challenging (such as revision surgery, spinal deformity). Yet too often, it is in these challenging cases that the accuracy of the navigation system declines and the surgeon "hassle factor" increases. The benefits of the SpineAssist in more challenging surgeries remain to be determined. Less invasive spine procedures typically rely heavily on the use of fluoroscopy. The potential for an imageguided system to reduce the radiation exposure to all in the OR is appealing. However, to reduce radiation doses, the surgeon must develop trust in the navigation system so that fluoroscopy is not used to verify the navigation accuracy. This leap of faith has not been easy for surgeons accustomed to relying on intraoperative radiographic images. The use of the SpineAssist requires data capture from preoperative CT scans. At the investigators' center a CT is apparently customarily obtained before fusion surgery. In many practices, however, a routine preoperative CT scan is not performed. Exposing patients to the radiation dose associated with a CT scan that is indicated primarily to facilitate the use of a navigation system must be thoughtfully weighed against the advantages that the navigation system provides. An additional challenge of image guidance systems is incorporating them into the flow of the procedure. For surgeon acceptance, the use of image guidance should enhance the surgical procedure rather than be an encumbrance. In this study, midline PLIF surgeries were performed (allowing placement of the SpineAssist reference clamp on a spinous process). It remains to be seen how the SpineAssist will be incorporated into "minimallyinvasive" fusion surgeries, typically making use of paramedian incisions. For new technologies to be acceptable in today's health care environment, the benefit afforded by the technology must be commensurate with any increased cost. The high cost of image guided systems has been a significant deterrent to their universal adoption. The SpineAssist is an exciting innovation with potential to improve spinal surgery. However, I believe that wide spread adoption will be dependent on the technology addressing the issues discussed in this review. From the Rush-Presbyterian, St. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago, IL. The device(s)/drug(s) is/are FDA-approved or approved by corresponding national agency for this indication. No funds were received in support of this work. No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Frank M. Phillips, MD, Rush-Presbyterian, St. Lukes Medical Center, 1725 West Harrison St, Suite 1063, Chicago, IL 60612; E-mail: email@example.com


The invention relates to a numerical control strong circular cutting machine which comprises a machine frame base, an upper machine frame, ball bearing screw rods, a cotton penetration roller, a thickness control servo motor, a cotton delivery roller, a cotton delivery motor, a driving knife wheel, a driven knife wheel, a knife belt, a big belt pulley, a knife belt motor, a material collection mechanism and a control system, wherein the upper machine frame is arranged on the machine frame base, the ball bearing screw rods are arranged at the left end and the right end of the machine frame base, the cotton penetration roller is arranged between the ball bearing screw rods, the thickness control servo motor is used for driving the ball bearing screw rods to rotate, the cotton delivery rolleris used for driving circular bubble cotton to rotate, the cotton delivery motor is used for driving the cotton delivery roller to rotate, the driving knife wheel and the driven knife wheel are installed at both ends of the machine frame base, the knife belt is arranged between the driving knife wheel and the driven knife wheel and is used for cutting the circular bubble cotton, the big belt pulley is connected with the driving knife wheel and the driven knife wheel, the knife belt motor is connected with the big belt pulley and is used for driving the driving knife wheel and the driven knifewheel to rotate, the material collection mechanism is used for completing coiling and cutting, and the control system is used for controlling the operation of the numerical control strong circular cutting machine. The invention has high work efficiency and low labor strength and can enhance the accuracy of a product.


General-purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPU) on personal computers has recently become an attractive alternative to parallel computing on clusters and supercomputers. We present the GPU-implementation of an accurate molecular dynamics algorithm for a system of spheres. The new hybrid CPU-GPU implementation takes into account all the degrees of freedom, including the quaternion representation of 3D rotations. For additional versatility, the contact interaction between particles is defined using a force law of enhanced generality, which accounts for the elastic and dissipative interactions, and the hard-sphere interaction parameters are translated to the soft-sphere parameter set. We prove that the algorithm complies with the statistical mechanical laws by examining the homogeneous cooling of a granular gas with rotation. The results are in excellent agreement with well established mean-field theories for low-density hard sphere systems. This GPU technique dramatically reduces user waiting time, compared with a traditional CPU implementation.


Processing of metallic materials using microwave energy offer benefits of time compression and energy saving during applications such as sintering, casting, melting, joining and cladding. However, use of microwave energy is uncommon for machining of metallic materials because of high reflectivity. The present work aims to study microwave-metal (MW-m) discharge-induced plasma channel (PC) characteristics during microwave drilling of thin stainless steel (SS) sheet (0.6 mm) at 2.45 GHz. Experimental trials inside two different microwave applicators A1 and A2 were monitored and recorded. The images of the plasma channel generated in both the microwave applicators were obtained at different time intervals to analyze the plasma channel diameter (PCD). Experimental results revealed that variation in the microwave power significantly affects the dimension of plasma channel generated in the tool-work gap and heat affected zone (HAZ) formed around the drilling zone. Reduction in microwave drilling time of approximately 80% was observed at 3 kW power compared to drilling time at 0.7 kW power. The HAZ observed in the samples drilled at 0.7 kW was significantly higher than the HAZ observed at 3 kW owing to higher drilling time of samples at 0.7 kW.


Health reform is a continuing state and national issue, and demands will increase for various health care disciplines at varying levels of training. In Fall 1992, the Tennessee Board of Regents System (TBR) appointed a task force to conduct a study that would provide data and information to assist institutions and the TBR in making responsible decisions relative to programming in allied health. This study describes the employment status of various allied health professions at the national, regional, and Tennessee levels, provides current supply information for Tennessee, identifies areas of need, and gives Tennessee and national employment projections for twenty-five occupations grouped into seven major categories. Tennessee has fewer allied health care workers in most categories when compared to the nation, as well as significant shortages in several areas. State institutions are using this baseline data in institutional program planning. The study provides a model for similar longitudinal studies that could be performed by communities of interest. 'Kaylene A. Gebert, Ph.D. ,is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; M. Jo Edwards, Ed. D., is Adams Chair of Excellence in Health Care Services; Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. 1 Gebert and Edwards: Allied Health in Tennessee: A Supply and Demand Study Published by STARS, 1995 Introduction Allied health services have significant implications for the quality of health care for Tennessee citizens. Allied health education is a high cost program area compared to many other curricula. In times of fiscal constraint, changing demographics, and increased use of technology, public post-secondary institutions must plan carefully to meet expectations for improved heaith care. This article describes the rationale, methodology, and findings of a state-wide assessment of allied health manpower in Tennessee. To assist its institutions and the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) System in making responsible decisions relative to progmmming, the Chancellor requested a study on allied health. In December 1993, a state-wide task force of allied health faculty and staff completed and disseminated the final report. The Temessee Board of Regents is the sixth largest postsecondary governing system in the US, including six universities, 14 two-year community colleges, and 26 technology centers, serving over 165,000 students. TBR has responded to demands for more health care professionals, and since 1989, both enrollments and the number of graduates from health programs have nearly doubled. Much of this growth has occurred at the two-year institutional level. In the allied health area, TBR offers more than 70 accredited allied health programs at all levels, from technology centers to two-and four-year schools. These programs are both credit and non-credit and range from certificate to doctorai levels. Some programs are based on a partnership model with clinical instruction delivered by other educational and medical institutions outside TT3R.


A comparative post‐Hartree–Fock study has been performed on cyclopropyl and oxiranyl radicals in order to ascertain the role of the oxygen atom in modifying the hyperfine structure and height of the barrier governing inversion at the radical center. The structural parameters and harmonic force fields obtained for the parent molecules using second‐order many‐body perturbation theory with a large basis set are in good agreement with experiment. The same approach points out significant distortions upon breaking of a CH bond and a larger pyramidality for the radical center in oxiranyl with respect to cyclopropyl. Also inversion barriers of both radicals are in remarkable agreement with experimental estimates. Isotropic hyperfine parameters in good agreement with those obtained from electron spin resonance spectra can be computed only when using purposely tailored basis sets in the framework of a coupled cluster approach and taking into account vibrational averaging effects induced by the inversion motion. Int...


We consider a small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) with a funding gap intending to invest in a project, of which the cash flow follows a double exponential jump-diffusion process. In contrast to traditional corporate finance theory, we assume the SME is unable to get a loan directly from a bank and hence it enters into a partial guarantee agreement with an insurer and a lender. Utilizing a real options approach, we develop an investment and financing model with a partial guarantee. We explicitly derive the pricing and timing of the option to invest. We find that if the funding gap rises, the option value decreases but its investment threshold first declines and then increases. The larger the guarantee level, the lower the option value and the later the investment. The optimal coupon rate decreases with project risk and a growth of the guarantee level can effectively reduce agency conflicts.


We now live in a world where urbanization has become the norm. Approximately half the world now lives in cities(O'brien, 2008). In recent years for a province like Newfoundland and Labrador which has relied heavily on one industry, the fishery, this statistic holds a lot of meaning. For well over a century there has been a continuing movement from Newfoundland to other parts of Canada and the US. Between 1971 and 1998 alone, net out-migration amounted 20% of the provinces population. This exodus has become a significant part of Newfoundland culture (Bowering Delisle, 2008). Communities have declining populations because families can no longer afford to live in their communities. For places like Corner Brook though citizens do not feel the urge to move to bigger urban centers like St. John's or places on the mainland. The purpose of this paper is to outline values which maybe keeping Corner Brook residents from uprooting their families to move to bigger urban centers such as St. John's, in order to be able to support ther families, get experience in their fields or to just acquire a job like many other people around the province.


We consider the numerical approximation of a first order
 stationary hyperbolic equation by the method of characteristics with pseudo time step k using discontinuous finite elements on a mesh ${\cal T}_h$
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 obtain an error estimate. We show that when k goes to zero problem $(P_h^k)$
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 method. This extends to two and three space dimension our previous results obtained in one space dimension.


The performance of diesel engine as a main engine on board have a correlation with the condition of supporting system. All of supporting system such as fuel oil system, lubricating oil system, cooling system and starting air system are have a major function to support the operation of main engine on board, because if the support system can not be operate properly it will give an impact to the performance of main engine. It is also possible to make main engine as a prime mover on board can not be operated because of the failure in component of supporting system. Therefore, it is necessary to make an analysis about the failure mode from each component and make a decision about the maintenance methods to make sure about the condition of each component still in a good state. The aims of this research is to analyze the failure of component system on board using the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) methods in order to support marine transportation in Indonesia. By using FMEA Worksheet, failure mode and effect from each component of lubricating system to main engine was detected. Result from this research shown that rating risk for lubricating oil tank and sump tank is LOW, rating risk for lubricating oil cooler is MAJOR, and then rating risk for lubricating oil pump, lubricating oil filter, purifier, transfer pump and lubricating purifier heater is HIGH. Based on the result of the analysis the appropriate maintenance methods for this system are preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance. Hopefully the result of this research could give the information of failure mode, and selection of maintenance methods to support the marine transportation operation in Indonesia.


Surface passivation of device-grade radiation detector materials was investigated using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy in combination with transport property measurements before and after various chemical treatments. Specifically Br-MeOH (2% Br), KOH with NH{sub 4}F/H{sub 2}O{sub 2} and NH{sub 4}OH solutions were used to etch, reduce and oxidize the surface of Cd{sub (1-x)}Zn{sub x}Te semiconductor crystals. Scanning electron microscopy was used to evaluate the resultant microscopic surface morphology. Angle-resolved high-resolution photoemission measurements on the valence band electronic structure and core lines were used to evaluate the surface chemistry of the chemically treated surfaces. Metal overlayers were then deposited on these chemically treated surfaces and the I-V characteristics measured. The measurements were correlated to understand the effect of interface chemistry on the electronic structure at these interfaces with the goal of optimizing the Schottky barrier height for improved radiation detector devices.


In this paper we investigate an Ising model which simulates multiple financial time series. The model is called the multiple time series Ising model that introduces the interaction which couples to spins of other systems. We analyze the return time series data simulated by the model and find that several stylized facts such as volatility clustering appear in the model. Non-zero cross correlations between the absolute returns are also present in the model. On the other hand no cross correlations between returns are observed. We also estimate volatility of the return time series by the GARCH model and check the view of the finite-variance mixture of normal distributions for the return data by using the GARCH volatility. The results are found to be consistent with this veiw.


This reply to Meyer explains again that cell means, although usually the results of greatest interest, should not be confused with interaction effects. Unless all main effects are 0, one cannot accurately interpret an interaction by plotting the cell means. To interpret an interaction, it is the residuals remaining after removal of constituent effects (e.g., row and column effects in 2-factor analyses) that must be examined


This study reports a failure analysis of wire bonding reliability issue of packaging assembly in microelectronics industry. It involves an investigation of Au wire bonding failure on Ag-plated Cu leads of IC packages. Combined use of high resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX) technique with conventional cross-sectional method was employed for the analysis. SEM equipped with EDX provided images of surface morphology and identified elements Cu, Ag with small amount of O on lead surfaces of all the as-received specimens. Cross-sections of Cu leads revealed an extra Cu layer within the Ag plating close to the surface. Phase analysis at the cross-sections from X-ray mapping analysis clearly identified the possible cause of failure. Effects of Cu interdiffusion within Ag plating were further examined from the as-received specimens after thermal treatment in air at 140°C for 8 and 20hrs respectively. As a result, it was observed that more Cu migrated within the Ag plating and was exposed/oxidized at the lead surfaces. Therefore, it was shown that substantial amount of oxide products on the lead surfaces caused Au wire bonding failure. Furthermore, the cause of unanticipated Cu layer was identified and isolated from the consequence of using aging Ag plating solution bath which was contaminated with Cu dissolution. Strict quality assurance of plating process is addressed as the solution to solve this non-bonding reliability issue and will be discussed in details.


Stephania abyssinica is used in Ethiopian traditional medicine for the treatment of stomachache, headache and inflammation. The present study evaluated the 80% methanol leaf extract of S. abyssinica for its analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities. Dried leaves of the plant were extracted using maceration technique. Antinociceptive and antinflammatory activity were evaluated using hot plate test, acetic acid induced writhing test, formalin test and carrageenan induced paw edema test. Swiss albino mice of either sex were randomly assigned into five groups of six mice each. The extract reduced the number of writhing at all doses though to a lesser extent than aspirin. Increase in latency time was observed throughout the observation time. Greater increase in latency was observed at the 30 minute and lesser on the other time intervals. In the formalin test, 200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg of the extract reduced paw-licking time more significantly in the second phase. During carrageenan-induced paw edema test, paw volume was considerably decreased in the second phase. The plant extract contained alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins and saponins. This study showed that the extract had potential analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity.


The Ecological Economic Zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area is the backward area in Chongqing City, and its development needs the efficient drive of the relatively developed economic centers. This paper first analyses the problems during the development of the Ecological Economic Zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, then calculates the economic radiation radius of every district and county in this zone with Wilson Model, and finds out economic center that can drive regional economy. On the basis of this, this paper analyses the radiation area of every economic center theoretically and practically, and at last, gives suggestions for speeding its development.


Acetic acid pulp (AAP) containing more than 8% residual lignin was chemically modified to prepare hydroxypropylated pulps (HP-AAPs) by treatment with propylene oxide under alkaline conditions. HP-AAPs with residual lignin had an amphiphilic property. After negative staining, transmission electron micrographs indicated that HP-AAP formed self-aggregates in water which were converted into small particles with diameters in the nano meter range by ultrasound sonication. The aggregates were revealed to have strong hydrophobic domains by the fluorometric study of their complexes with fluorescent reagents as indicators for hydrophobicity. However, commercial hydroxypropylated cellulose and carboxymethylated AAP did not form self-aggregates and had little hydrophobic domain. These results suggest that HP-AAP aggregates in water by the hydrophobic interaction of the residual lignin, and the aggregates have a tendency to form complexes with hydrophobic materials. Thus, the amphiphilic derivatives have the same properties as inclusion compounds do.


This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.


Because of the high aspect ratio and large upper mass of electrical equipment with multi-column posts in substation or converter station, large overturning moment is generated under earthquake action. Conventional isolation devices can not bear the tensile force caused by the electrical equipment with multi-column posts under earthquake action, so there is a lack of research on the application of isolation devices in electrical equipment with multi-column posts. The finite element models of capacitor bank tower with multi-column posts and its isolation structure are established. The stress of capacitor bank tower under three-dimensional El Centro earthquake is analyzed, and the effect of tensile isolation device on reducing the peak stress of capacitor tower post is studied. The analysis results show that before and after the application of the isolation device, the peak stress of the post insulator of the capacitor tower is 15.11 MPa and 6.48 MPa, respectively. The isolation efficiency is 57.1%.


This study aims to analyse the impact of workplace harassment on intention to leave where psychological stress as mediator was used to examine its intensity on the relationship between workplace harassment and intention to leave. Convenience and snowball sampling technique was adopted to select the employees working in different sectors situated within the Kathmandu Valley. Regression Analysis from Hayes macro process was conducted from the responses of 199 respondents to generate the results of mediation effect. The findings indicate that workplace harassment has a positive significant impact on employee's intention to leave. In addition, it was found that the psychological stress mediates the relationship between workplace harassment and intention to leave. Future studies can be conducted through qualitative methods among the employees of different sectors or specific industries for indepth analysis of the harassment and its consequences the employees are facing.


Diatoms are unicellular organisms, and their cell walls (diatom frustules) composed of hydrated amorphous silica have the characteristic of a delicate porous structure. Herein, we explore the appli...