We find that visible light irradiation of gold–palladium alloy nanoparticles supported on photocatalytically inert ZrO2 significantly enhances their catalytic activity for oxidant-free dehydrogenation of aromatic alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes at ambient temperatures. Dehydrogenation is also the dominant process in the selective oxidation of the alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes with molecular oxygen. The alloy nanoparticles strongly absorb light and exhibit superior catalytic and photocatalytic activity when compared to either pure palladium or gold nanoparticles. Analysis with a free electron gas model for the bulk alloy structure reveals that the alloying increases the surface charge heterogeneity on the alloy particle surface, which enhances the interaction between the alcohol molecules and the metal NPs. The increased surface charge heterogeneity of the alloy particles is confirmed with density function theory applied to small alloy clusters. Optimal catalytic activity was observed with a Au:Pd molar ratio of 1:186, which is in good agreement with the theoretical analysis. The rate-determining step of the dehydrogenation is hydrogen abstraction. The conduction electrons of the nanoparticles are photo-excited by the incident light giving them the necessary energy to be injected into the adsorbed alcohol molecules, promoting the hydrogen abstraction. The strong chemical adsorption of alcohol molecules facilitates this electron transfer. The results show that the alloy nanoparticles efficiently couple thermal and photonic energy sources to drive the dehydrogenation. These findings provide useful insight into the design of catalysts that utilize light for various organic syntheses at ambient temperatures.


The interaction mechanism of heavy vehicle tires with road surface pavement is developed as a force, excitation, response problem. Results are presented in three volumes which report tire/pavement contact pressures, structural vibration response, and surface vibration acoustic modeling methods, respectively. The results of each report provide detailed information that may be utilized for tire/pavement evaluation by the methods developed in the subsequent reports. In this report, Volume 2, a three-dimensional, orthotropic, nonlinear dynamic finite element shell model is developed for evaluation of the damped vibration response of the tire. The inflated model is validated for structural response by experimental methods. Nonlinearities due to inflation and resulting prestress are shown to significantly increase structural wavespeeds. The inflated model is subjected to direct time step integration for dynamic response to an array of fluctuating input forces. The model predicts tire dynamic response for vibration and acoustic evaluation at frequencies to 1,000 Hz.


"The study of Relationship of selected kinematic variables with the performance of one hand underarm throw in cricket", was basically taken to see the kinematic variable involved in the enhancement of the performance of the one hand underarm throw in cricket. For the purpose of the study, 5 male cricket players were taken as the subjects who have represented L.N.I.P.E. in the interuniversity tournaments, and for the purpose of the study the linear and angular kinematics were used i.e. the centre of gravity at the moment release and the angular kinematics were the angles of the various joints of the body.


Purpose – The paper aims to review the concept of the environmental protection expenditure account (EPEA). It recommends its application in the decision‐making process in the area of environmental management.Design/methodology/approach – The review of the environmental protection expenditure account is based on surveys conducted in several old and new European Union member nations.Findings – The EPEA elements, i.e. production of environmental services, environmental protection expenditure and financing of environmental protection, have been presented in certain EU countries but results of the analyses were not used for the assessment or elaboration of environmental policy.Practical implications – This paper presents several examples of the application of the environmental protection expenditure account in the environmental management process and in sustainable development.Originality/value – The proposal of the EPEA application can be used by general administration for the improvement of environmental man...


Introduction: the clinical success of adhesive systems is based on the use of a responsible for creating microporosity in the dental structure acid and arises assess in vitro the degree of microfiltration in direct restorations with cavities class V where two adhesive systems differently used composition and at different periods of time. Methods: in the cervical third of 60 third molars extracted by therapeutic indication performed by diamond instruments, two cavities one on the vestibular side and one on the palatal or lingual side; It separated into two groups of 30 in the first acid conditioning was performed and then applied -Voco Admire bond while the second group Futurabond-Voco applied; both groups were restored with resin composite Admira-Voco, each group was divided into two subgroups of 15 subgroups A were subjected to thermal cycling for 10800 cycles and 5400 cycles B subgroups. It concluded these periods proceeded to staining with methylene blue and then a cut is made lengthwise to assess the income of the dye in the interface formed; this pigmentation was evaluated and measured under stereomicroscope. Results: the obtained data were statistically analyzed by Tukey's test, which showed the existence of differences between the groups evaluated, so evident at the level of cervical margin with a p ˃ 0.05.Conclusion: it is evident that the artificial aging increased microfiltration resin composite restorations regardless of the type of adhesive system used.


A new natural product named 6,8,1′‐tri‐O‐methyl averantin(1) has been isolated together with five known anthraquinones 1′‐O‐methyl averantin(2), 6,8‐di‐O‐methyl averufin (3) averufin (4), versicolorin C (5) and 6,8‐di‐O‐methyl averufanin (6) from a mangrove endophytic fungus ZSUH‐36 collected from the South China Sea. NMR techniques including COSY, HMQC, and HMBC were used to elucidate the structures of these compounds. We report the unambiguous assignments of the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of the new compound 6,8,1′‐tri‐O‐methyl averantin(1). Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The interaction of a plasma wave with a long wavelength free‐streaming perturbation is considered in the case of a one‐dimensional electron plasma. A demonstration of this interaction is provided by means of both numerical simulation and analytical theory. The initial distribution function is so chosen as to give rise to an ordinary plasma wave together with a long wavelength disturbance containing a free‐streaming portion. Satellites of the plasma wave are shown to be excited in agreement with earlier work of Morales and Malmberg on the ''linear sideband'' effect. This result is found to hold when the initial long wavelength disturbance is close to a pure free‐streaming perturbation. In order to have an observable effect in the numerical simulation, it is necessary to increase the density of resonant particles by adding a warm beam to the Maxwellian plasma, in such a way though, as to avoid beam plasma instability. The predictions of analytical theory on the amplitudes of the satellites are compared with...


The invention discloses repeating data processing technology which includes two methods including static file segmenting and dynamic file segmenting. Static file segmenting refers to segmenting files according to a fixed size, and dynamic file segmenting includes the following steps: looking up border positions of data blocks according to a certain algorithm; solving data fingerprints; using the data fingerprints to judge whether two data blocks are same or not; storing the same data blocks into one portion, and storing index values of the same data blocks for the convenience of being used during recovery. By adopting the technical scheme, needs of data on storage capacity can be reduced; on the basis of in-depth study on storage capacity optimization technology in disaster recovery backup, a certain technological improvement on repeating data deleting technology is made, and high-quality storage is realized.


This work presents an innovative computationally-efficient methodology for the synthesis of reflectarrays through the System-by-Design (SbD) paradigm. The proposed approach integrates different analysis and synthesis functional blocks in order to yield effective solutions while reducing the computational burden of the design procedure. Towards this end, a fast surrogate model is used to predict the electromagnetic response of each candidate solution, while a global optimizer is used to effectively explore the search space and synthesize a reduced-complexity reflectarray surface layout satisfying specific radiation features.


In this paper we establish certain fundamental radiation integral relations, refereed also as radiation theorems or principles, which connect the fields and far-field patterns due to the spherical wave excitation of a layered chiral obstacle by a dipole in its interior. The investigation of problems involving such types of excitations is motivated by significant applications including, for example, radiation from thin wires embedded in layered chiral media as well as from chiral in chiral composites. Reciprocity and general radiation theorems are established, relating the total, primary, and secondary Beltrami fields with the respective far-field patterns. As a consequence of the general radiation theorem, we obtain the optical theorem expressing the extinction cross section by means of the secondary Beltrami field at the dipole's location. For an obstacle excited by a plane and a spherical wave mixed radiation-scattering theorems are derived. The theorems recover as special cases the respective known res...


TPS3639 Background: Several randomized trials have indicated that combination chemotherapy applied in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) does not significantly improve overall survival when compar...


The paper deals with the communicative aspect of political interview which is considered one of the most popular genres of modern newspaper journalism. The aim of this work is to describe communicative techniques, or the actions of the journalist interviewer focused not only on disclosure of the personality of the interlocutor, but also on rendering pragmatic impact on reader's audience. In political interview, the specifying and initiating techniques are widespread. Among the initiating techniques prevalent are affirmative statements, emergence of which in the dialogical speech is caused by personification of journalistic activity. The initiating techniques, which often contain an assessment, can have an ironical form. Methods of a discourse analysis, the contextual and comparative analysis are used. A study of communicative techniques in interview is of scientific and practical importance because it makes a contribution to research of the communicative and pragmatic aspect of the modern newspaper speech which is among the relevant directions of mass communication. The conclusion is drawn that the use of communicative techniques promotes increasing effect of pragmatic influence.


In our study we investigated two polluted rivers of Eurasia from silicate and carbonate regions. We revealed an algal diversity consisting of 184 algal species and cyanoprokaryotes in the Rudnaya River, and 175 in the Qishon River. The distributions of species over the 7 higher taxa were very similar for both rivers with diatom prevealing. Bioindicational analysis in respect salinity, acidification, oxygenation, and organic pollution show that the water is cleaner and the diversity is higher in the Rudnaya River than in the Qishon River. The indices of saprobity S ranged similar. The impact of pollution on Rudnaya River increases downstream. In tha case of Qishon River, the impact of pollution decreases downstream.As a result of CCA, we revealed biosensors group sensitive to borates and fluorides in the case of Rudnaya River and these were: Ankistrodesmus acicularis , �. angustus , Scenedesmus acuminatus , Lyngbya kuetzingii, Neidium ampliatum, and Sellaphora rectangularis. In the case of Qishon River, Audouinella pygmaea, Characium ornithocephalum , and Chamaesiphon amethystinus were found as biosensor species. We found that algal biodiversity is more sensitive to technogenic pollution in the silicate province being more tolerant to the same organic pollutants in the carbonate province. Therefore, the combination of bioindicational methods and statistics are effective for determination of the main factors influencing algal diversity, indicators or biosensing species for the most important environmental variables.


The paper is devoted to the study of Buddhism in the following aspect: its outline on life, theory of karma, Buddhistic nature, filial piety, morality norms and its practice. The paper also expounds the historical role the Buddhistic morality plays and its values in the modern society. These Buddhism education and become the spiritual resource for constructing the Chinese socialism system of morality.


As benchmarks within political, military, and economic lines of effort were achieved in Iraq, the Bush administration felt it was making progress. This chapter shows how assessing progress within bureaucratic silos allowed the Bush administration to remain overly optimistic about a favorable and durable outcome, even though violence intensified.


Laws that prohibit abusers' possession of firearms are associated with lower intimate partner homicide rates. However, some policies are moving toward arming victims of intimate partner violence (I...


Taylor and Francis RRED_A_471291.sgm 10.1080/026 52 003707691 esea ch Papers n Education 0267-1522 ( ri t)/1470-1146 (online) Original Article 2 10 & Francis 0 002 10 She leyTracey s.trac @qub.ac.uk Networking practitioner research, by Colleen McLaughlin, Kristine BlackHawkins, and Donald McIntyre, with Andrew Townsend, Abingdon, Routledge, 2008, 246 pp., US$45.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-3886-7


Constitution indices of red-motley bull-calves of different genotypes in the various age periods were studied in the article. It is ascertained that the use of the red-motley breed of the Holstein breed of the red-motley color and red-motley Swedish breed promoted intensive growth and development of the received descendants


According to the tunnel construction situation,it determines the optimal ventilation scheme.Calculation on the required air volume and air pressure during the tunnel construction period.It has discussion on the installation of air flow and air duct,the maintenance of ventilation system,supervision of constrcution ventilation and other links.To guarantee the construction schedule and improve the work efficiency.


We determine the channel capacity of coded repetition MIMO scheme assuming non-ideal p.i.n. photodetection, and the channel is modeled using the statistical model due to Al-Habash et al. The coded repetition MIMO scheme is suitable for communication over the strong atmospheric turbulence channel. The scheme under study employs the Q-ary pulse position modulation and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Component LDPC codes are designed using the concept of pairwise-balanced designs.


The structure of the Tell ranges of Algeria can be explained by various tectonic schemes based on the observed facts. It is known that Glangeaud9s zone I was subjected to slicing in the Nummulitic and uplift in the lower Miocene; these processes undoubtedly contributed toward formation of nappe C and at least part of nappe B. Sliding of the nappes probably took place along a surface produced by pre-Miocene planation.


A near-field three-dimensional (3D) imaging method combining multichannel joint sparse recovery (MJSR) and fast Gaussian gridding nonuniform fast Fourier transform (FGGNUFFT) is proposed, based on a perfect combination of the compressed sensing (CS) theory and the matched filtering (MF) technique. The approach has the advantages of high precision and high efficiency: multichannel joint sparse constraint is adopted to improve the problem that the images recovered by the single channel imaging algorithms do not necessarily share the same positions of the scattering centers; the CS dictionary is constructed by combining MF and FGG-NUFFT, so as to improve the imaging efficiency and memory requirement. Firstly, a near-field 3D imaging model of joint sparse recovery is constructed by combining the MF-based imaging method. Secondly, FGG-NUFFT and reverse FGG-NUFFT are used to replace the interpolation and Fourier transform in MF-based imaging methods, and a sensing matrix with high precision and high efficiency is constructed according to the traditional imaging process. Thirdly, a fast imaging recovery is performed by using the improved separable surrogate functionals (SSF) optimization algorithm, only with matrix and vector multiplication. Finally, a 3D imagery of the near-field target is obtained by using both the horizontal and the pitching interferometric phase information. This paper contains two imaging models, the only difference is the sub-aperture method used in inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging. Compared to traditional CS-based imaging methods, the proposed method includes both forward transform and inverse transform in each iteration, which improves the quality of reconstruction. The experimental results show that, the proposed method improves the imaging accuracy by about O(10), accelerates the imaging speed by five times and reduces the memory usage by about O(102). Manuscript received August 22, 2018. *Corresponding author. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61771369; 61775219; 61640422), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JB180310), the Equipment Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (YJKYYQ20180039), the Shaanxi Provincial Key R&D Program (2018SF-409; 2018ZDXM-SF027), and the Natural Science Basic Research Plan.


The aim of this paper is to investigate a security solution in the physical layer of a wireless channel. By considering secrecy outage probability, a method of maximizing the average secrecy throughput through adaptive power and transmissions rate with Artificial Noise (AN) will be presented. This system performance secrecy throughput is evaluated by the different impacts of system parameters. The results show that transmissions with AN and with adaptive optimal power control will significantly increase the secrecy throughput.


This piece is concerned wth the many ways in which the idea of gagging has been and could be connected to the idea of the past. There have been specific claims from Windschuttle and others that there has been a gagging of 'real' history founded in fact. But we might also see that reducing the past to 'proven' facts is to make a 'gag', a predigested narrative caricature that denies the past is something we must constantly make in the present. But could a 'gagging' of the past make us think about how writing the past is to engage with the possibility of a physical gagging that connects the past to a choking, a reflex connected to disgust and shame? This reflex via Darwin is connected to ideas of distance where we keep ourselves safe from the touch of the other, from the threat of the poison and perhaps the perpetuity of the past. If the past is embodied then how do we negotiate our relationship with it? And how should we write it? Can we eat it? This writing engages with the ambivalent affectivity of historical fact, narratives of the past and our relationship with a performed present that claims to be past. It is, in short, an intervention into the 'factual turn' that haunts a 'knowing' of the past.


Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) now accounts for 20–30% of all newly diagnosed breast cancers in centers which use mammographic surveillance as a standard part of the examination. The majority of these DCIS lesions, at least in the United States, are of very limited size, with mean estimated extents of 8–20 mm, based on pathological examination. A small fraction of these are incidental microscopic features of the biopsy; the majority are detected on the basis of mammographic microcalcifications.


Lithium niobate thin films have been deposited on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si(100)substrates by using Pechini method.The metal cations are chelated in an aqueous solution with citric acid as chelating agent.The chemistry of the metal-citric acid solutions has been characterized by carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(13C NMR),Raman spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared(FTIR).A possible molecular structure of Nb-citric acid complex is proposed,i.e.citric acid coordinates to Nb5+ ion through one terminal carboxyl group,the hydroxyl group,and the central carboxyl group as a tridentate ligand.The thermal decomposition of Li-Nb precursors gels has been studied by TG/DTA and films annealed at different temperatures have been characterized by XRD and Roman spectroscopy.The results show that by heat-treatment at 600 ℃ for 2 h,polycrystalline LiNbO3 thin films with smooth and crack-free surface could be achieved.The average grain size of the films is about 50 nm.


Introduction/Background Brachytherapy (BT) lowers the risk of recurrence and improves the survival rates when used after external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), in cervical cancers. In endometrial cancers vaginal cuff BT lowers the risk of vaginal recurrences. New treatment methods have been investigated since BT is not an option for every patient because of the difficulties in placement of BT applicators. Simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) has recently been investigated as an alternative modality in patients BT is not suitable after EBRT. Methodology Nine patients were treated with the SIB IMRT for cervical and endometrial cancers (table 1)In SIB volume 74 Gy in 2,54 Gy/fraction, in common iliac external-internal iliac and obturator lymph nodes and presacral lymphatic lymph node volumes 50,4 Gy in 1,74 Gy/fractions were administered.(figure 1) In patients with endometrial cancer vagina, paravaginal-parametrial regions received 60 Gy in in 2,3 Gy/fraction with 10 mm margin. 45 Gy in 1,73/fraction was administered to common iliac, external-internal iliac and obturator lymph nodes. Results All patients with the diagnosis of inoperable cervix carcinoma were in complete remission (CR) The median follow-up was 45 months (18–78 months) with local control (LC) rate of 100%. Acute side effects were seen in 2 patients with cervical carcinoma and in 2 patients with endometrial carcinoma. Late side effects were observed in 1 patient both in cervical and endometrial carcinoma patients (table 2). Conclusion SIB-IMRT is an alternative treatment option for patients with cervix and endometrial carcinoma. This pioneering study, although contains limited number of patients, presents long term favorable follow up results. Disclosure Nothing to disclose. Abstract EP1264 Table 1 Patients characteristics and SIB dose CASE I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX Age 55 54 56 88 66 72 55 55 56 Primary Cancer Cervical Cancer Cervical Cancer Cervical Cancer Cervical Cancer Cervical Cancer Endometrial Cancer Endometrial Cancer Endometrial Cancer Endometrial Cancer Surgery Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø TAH + BSO TAH + BSO TAH + BSO TAH + BSO Histology SCC SCC SCC SCC SCC Serous + Clear Cell Serous + Clear Cell Adenocancer Adenocancer Stage IIB IVA IIIB IIB IIB IB IIIA IB IB Tumor Size (cm) 4 7,5 6 6,5 6 Ø Ø Ø Ø Chemotherapy Cisplatin Cisplatin Cisplatin Ø Cisplatin Ø Taxol + Carboplatin Ø Ø Dose (Gy) 74 74 74 74 74 60 60 60 60 Fractions (Gy) 2,54 2,54 2,54 2,54 2,54 2,30 2,30 2,30 2,30 Abstract EP1264 Table 2 Outcome of nine cases CASE I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX Follow up (Months) 77 24 78 27 30 18 25 60 68 Local Control (%) 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Acute side effect Ø Proctit (grade 3) Ø Vaginitis (grade 2) Ø Ø Disuri (grade 1) Disuri (grade 2) Ø Late side effect Ø Rectal bleeding (grade 3) Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ureteral stenosis (grade 2) Ø Abstract EP1264 Figure 1 Radiotherapy plan


The basic principle,structure design and calculation of magnetic circuit for touchless magnetoelectric rotational velocity sensor are reported.The test data and testing result are also analyzed.The applications of high magnetic material in high temperature are introduced.


Abstract The author argues that efforts to regulate content and access will create an infrastructure of surveillance and in tandem dismisses any and all attempts at equality. The infrastructure appears to be reluctant towards regulation, making regulation difficult to apply; moreover, once applied, technology allows for the circumvention of content regulation and the circumvention of the infrastructure of surveillance. If regulation is a challenge to apply, and then impossible to enforce equally and judiciously, then its very nature may be called to question. On the Internet, regulation with only partial effectiveness creates vast inequalities, and renders us further from the promised Open Society, and not necessarily to the 'information rich/information poor' divide, but more appropriately termed: those who can access information, and those who are prevented, based solely on technological circumvention.


Palaeomagnetic and Ar39/Ar40 studies have been performed on basic dykes and dyke swarms in central and northern Sweden. At least five different generations of dykes have been defined and will be di ...


This study aims to determine the effect of motivation, compensation, and work discipline on employee performance at PT. Dharma Five Ocean. This study uses a quantitative approach. The sampling technique used a saturated sample with the number of samples obtained as many as 85 respondents . The population used in this study were all employees of PT. Dharma Panca Samudera. The data analysis technique used in this research is the multiple linear method. The results showed that the regression equation was obtained Y=8.715+0.428X 1 +0.541X 2 +0.461X 3 . The results of the analysis show that motivation has a significant positive effect on employee performance with a significant value of 0.05 or 0.026 <0.05. Compensation has a significant positive effect on employee performance with a significant value of 0.05 or 0.000 <0.05. Work discipline has a significant positive effect on employee performance with a significant value of 0.05 or 0.004 <0.05. It is recommended that to improve employee performance, management is expected to need to increase employee morale in carrying out tasks that are the responsibility of employees so as to improve work discipline and also improve employee performance. The management should provide increased benefits and incentives to employees so that they can improve the performance of employees in the company.


A series of complex chemical compounds present in the essential oils of Umbelliferae impart characteristic odors to the plants of this family. Species of Papilio which feed on Umbelliferae are attracted by these chemicals. Although the attractant chemicals are most common in Umbelliferae, they occur sporadically in other families. Papilios now feeding on umbelliferous plants originally fed upon Rutaceae. The transition from one part family to the other took place because of the presence of identical attractant chemicals in both families. The present distribution of the genus Papilio is related in part to the distribution of the host plants.


Here we derive Harnack inequalities for nonnegative solutions of the porous medium equation and the p-difFusion equation. The method applies to functions obeying certain a priori evolution inequalities. The proofs are based on optimizing inequalities for the convective derivative of the function along a path.


Based on the comprehensive analyses of the influence of the parameters of charge construction and projectile body construction on ballistic performance of finstabilited sabot discarded penetrator projectile, the mathematical model of multi objective optimization design in all trajectory is established. A satisfying result of multi objective optimization design is presented..


Does the stock price efficiency, i.e. the speed and the extent with which prices reflect public information, affect corporate innovation? Using the intensity of algorithmic trading (AT) to capture price efficiency and the Tick Size Pilot experiment setting, we establish a causal positive relation between AT and innovation measured by patents. The relation is stronger for firms where managerial compensation is more closely linked to the share price performance and for more opaque firms where managerial effort is more difficult to observe from financial information. Our results generalize to other measures of innovation such as R&D spending and the number of citations.


The invention discloses a process for preparing Wickerhamiella domercqiae var. sophorolipid antineoplastic sophorolipid crude extract, which comprises the following steps: subjecting Wickerhamiella domercqiae var. sophorolipid fermentation liquor to natural sedimentation, acetic acid ethyl ester extraction, filtering, scrubbing, vacuum distilling, drying the gathered substance and preparing alcoholic solution of sophorolipid.


This easier method that combined decision tree algorithm and maximum likelihood ratio is proposed aiming at vegetation distribution characteristic at Kashin-Beck disease region of Ruoergai County in Aba,using Spot 4 and ETM data of different time.Decision tree can plot out main category except arbor subturma;the precision of Maximum likelihood ratio is lower,only 84 percent,however,94 percent for arbor subturma.The precision of the class is up to 95.05 percent if it combined with the two methods,Kappa coefficient is 0.9016.The method provides helpful source for studying the relation between vegetation coverage and morbidity,and it is very useful and convenient for beginner.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a liquid acidic composition for cleaning solid surfaces, having pH from 2.1 to 2.4 and containing formic acid, citric acid, oxalic acid and an alkaline substance. The present invention also relates to a method of cleaning a solid surface or an object (versions) and to use of an alkaline substance in a liquid acidic composition for cleaning solid surfaces. EFFECT: obtaining a liquid acidic composition for cleaning solid surfaces, which provides good scale removal characteristics and is not corrosive. 18 cl, 23 ex, 6 tbl


Considered turning vehicles at the intersection with a dividing strip. The analysis of how to perform a turn at an intersection. Given an opportunity to secure a reversal arrangement on the stretch between junction.


Conclusions Fig. 1 shows the conductor positions and schematic diagram of transmission and distribution configuration. The neutral wire is insulated from the tower and grounded with dedicated ground rods. The shield wire contacts the tower's body, which provides the grounding of this wire. The objective is to investigate the safety impact of a parallel circuit in the same tower, by quantifying the GPRs of the shield and neutralwires. Objectives The GPR profiles of the neutral and shield wires


In the process of China′s agricultural industrialization,a sound organizational system,which is normally restricted by the external internal conditions,is the key to quality assurance of agricultural products.First,this paper investigates the factors affecting dynamic evolution of the Shaanxi apple industry organization system and then puts forth corresponding policy proposals with the related theories of the information economics and new system economics.


Developed was a therapeutic and diagnostic program that makes it possible to predict the course of adhesive bowel obstruction, specify the indications for conservative and surgical treatment, and, if indications for the operation are present, to set the time-frame for preoperative preparation.


The high-energy part of the neutron spectra from (p,n) reactions has been studied for a proton energy 22 MeV. In order to investigate the behavior of the neutron energy distributions we made measurements with improved resolution. From analysis of angular distributions measured previously we have made an estimate of the contribution of pre-equilibrium and direct processes.


We encounter ambiguous information every day. Previous research suggests that prior knowledge is necessary for making sense of this information and that such meaning-making is effortless and automatic (Barrett, 2017; Barrett & Bar, 2009). The present study sought to confirm and extend this idea in the visual domain. We hypothesized that participants would be able to disambiguate ambiguous visual information more easily and quickly after exposure to relevant perceptual knowledge. Moreover, we predicted that older participants would have greater success in disambiguating information, even before presentation of relevant perceptual information, given their greater exposure to relevant perceptual experiences over their lifetime. We recruited 68 participants at the Museum of Science, Boston, who rated their ability to see objects in a series of ambiguous (distorted) images both before and after being exposed to a clear (non-distorted) version of the image. In line with our hypotheses, participants rated the ambiguous image as less ambiguous after exposure to the corresponding clear (original) image and did so more quickly. Further, we found that neutral images were more easily and quickly disambiguated than positive or negative images. Overall, these findings reveal the significance of previous experience in alleviating our "experiential blindness" and making sense of the perceptual ambiguities in our world.


In Italy, reading is not a widespread habit, and promoting it would require a strong alliance between publishers, booksellers, librarians, teachers and all the subjects interested in reading diffusion. The Association "Forum del libro" acted in this direction for many years. Recently, there have been some discrepancies between the organizers of the Turin International Book Fair and the Italian Association of Publishers, and this could lead to a n useless waste of efforts.


An experimental program of in-cylinder sampling is described, and the integrity of results for nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from the diesel engine combustion process is discussed. Sampling data for these gaseous products are used to produce concentration contours on various planes around the fuel spray at different times during combustion. Some calculations of spray penetration and NO producer are compared with experimental data. Data indicate that, in the quiescent combustion chamber engine, combustion occurs in a volume that develops outward and upward from the original jet direction after impingement on the piston crown. It is anticipated that further correlation of these data will improve the understanding and computer calculations of combustion and performance in this type of diesel engine.


The article describes an analytical model of the actions of an information security violator for the secret extraction of confidential information processed on the protected object in terms of the theory of Markov random processes. The characteristics of the existing models are given, as well as the requirements that are imposed on the model for simulating the process. All model states are described in detail, as well as the data flow that is used in the process simulation. The model is represented as a directed state graph. It also describes the option for evaluating the data obtained during modeling. In the modern world, with the developing methods and means of covert extraction of information, the problem of assessing the damage that can be caused by the theft of the organization's data is acute. This model can be used to build a model of information security threats.


The radio-iodination of arenes is investigated from organosilane and organogermane precursors using Ipso-Electrophilic Halogenation (IEH). Discovery of a mild base mediated process allows radio-iodination in HFIP of either aryl silane or germane, with germanes being more reactive. Clinical potential of arylgermanes as radio-iodination precursors is demonstrated through the labelling of [125I]IMTO and [125I]MIBG thus offering an alternative to radio-iododestannylation processes using non-toxic precursors.


This paper focus on the robustness analysis inverse problem of linear electric circuits. The aim is to determine what amount of variations of the input parameters can an electrical or electronic system tolerate, such that the output variables (e.g. conducted noise) does not exceed an upper bound in the frequency domain. Based on the well-known theory of robust control and convex optimization, we propose a procedure to check which commercial values of tolerance can be picked for components of an arbitrary electric circuit, while guaranteeing a prescribed upper bound. The proposed method is applied to an op-amp active band-pass filter and the results are analyzed and discussed.


ANEEME is a system for automatic skeletal rigging of 3D scanned humanoid objects such as toys, figurines, sculptures and even humans. Unlike other automatic skeletal rigging techniques, ANEEME does not require humanoid objects to be in a specific pose, (e.g. T-Pose) before scanning and rigging. If 3D models have limbs touching other parts of the body, the system provides an interactive cutout tool to separate and re-mesh the conjoined regions based on a few user-supplied points. After separating the overlapping body parts and filling the holes generated, ANEEME implements a hierarchical mesh segmentation to infer skeletal joints and perform a smooth skinning technique. Within minutes, the input can be easily incorporated and used to setup skeletal-based animations in most animation software applications.


An increasing number of home automation systems using wireless devices compete for the radio access in the same space and time. Lately, a stressing trend consists of aggregating home automation systems to save energy consumption, while at the same time avoiding wireless interference. This article proposes virtualization, open software deployment, and separation of radio and higher layers as the response to the increasing expandability of home automation systems combined with the increasing number of technologies for connecting wireless devices. A system has been developed, containing three different technologies: ZigBee, Idsecom, and 6LoWPAN simultaneously working over a virtualization platform with access to a common antenna. The evaluation tests performed on the system validate the solution and separately show the performance capacity of virtualization platform, software (ZigBee, Idsecom and 6LoWPAN) nodes, and 802.15.4 wireless antennas.


Presented on September 8, 2015 from 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. at the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB), room 1128, Georgia Tech.


One of the most widely researched language varieties in the field of sociolinguistics is African American English (AAE), a term used to describe a range of English dialects, from standard to vernacular, spoken by many (but not all) African Americans as well as by certain members of other ethnic groups who have had extensive contact with AAE speakers. Most linguists agree that AAE developed from contact between enslaved Africans and predominantly English-speaking Europeans (who spoke a range of English vernaculars) during the early to middle period of colonization of what is now known as the United States of America. Consequently, research on the development of AAE is traditionally framed in terms of the degree of contact with white English vernaculars, both during and after AAE genesis, with white vernaculars playing a primary, if not exclusive, role (McDavid & McDavid, 1951; Mufwene, 1996; Poplack, 2000; Poplack & Tagliamonte, 2001). Though some analyses of AAE allow for substrate influence from creole and/or African languages in its development (cf. Winford, 1997, 1998; Rickford, 1998, 2006; Wolfram & Thomas, 2002; Holm, 2004), many studies place a particular focus on Earlier African American varieties or Diaspora varieties, such as the Ex-Slave Recordings, Samaná English, and Liberian Settler English rather than contemporary AAE varieties spoken within U.S. borders (cf. Rickford, 1977, 1997, 2006; DeBose, 1988; Schneider 1989; Bailey, Maynor, & Cukor-Avila, 1991; Hannah, 1997; Singler, 1998, 2007a, 2007b; Kautzsch 2002). This research has helped further linguists' understanding of AAE yet does not reflect its full history in the United States.


1 Aided by a grant from the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. 2 Presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the American College of Angiology, Chicago, Ill., June 1956. 3 From the Departments of Medicine and Radiology, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y. The thoracic aorta, surrounded by air containing lung tissue in much of its course, is readily discernible with the roentgen-ray. The aging aorta accumulating deposits of salts and calcium in the wall further enhances recognition of the arteriosclerotic aorta. However, when dilatation, tortuosity, unfolding and kinking of the thoracic aorta occur, it may be difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish it from surrounding mediastinal structures. Especially difficult is the recognition of thoracic aneurysms, often with intraluminal thrombus. Now that resection of


The objective of this project was to conduct and report on experiments to determine whether industrial case studies, web-based course materials, and communication enhanced by the Internet can improve the proficiency of student learning in engineering economy.


Rigid body displacement can be presented with Chasles' motion by rotating about an axis and translating along the axis. This motion can be implemented by a screw transformation matrix in the form of either 3×3 dual number matrix or 6×6 transformation matrix that is executed with rotation and translation. This paper investigates characteristics of the screw transformation matrix, and decomposes the dual part of the transformation matrix into the part with an equivalent translation due to the effect of moving rotation axis and the part resulting from a pure translation. New results are presented and new formulae are generated. The analysis further reveals two new traces of the transformation matrix and presents the relation between the screw transformation matrix and the instantaneous screw, leading to the understanding of Chasles' motion embedded in a normal body transformation. An algebraic and geometric interpretation of the screw transformation matrix is thus given, presenting an intrinsic property of the screw transformation matrix in relation to the finite screw. The paper ends with a case study to verify the theory and illustrate the principle.Copyright © 2011 by ASME


Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common complication after pelvic floor surgery. Antibiotics as prophylaxis may reduce the prevalence of UTI's by 50%, but bacterial resistance may be a large disadvantage, necessitating the search for other possible prophylactic options. Recent research found a 50% reduction in the rate of UTI's with the use of cranberry capsules after elective gynecologic surgery, suggesting that cranberry capsules may serve as a good prophylaxis. The aim of this study was to assess whether perioperative cranberry prophylaxis reduces the risk of clinical overt UTI after elective pelvic floor surgery with indwelling catheter.


Objective: To evaluate the advantages and limitations of power doppler imaging (PDI) in the diagnosis of benign and malignant breast tumors. Methods: The distribution of blood vessels of 48 cases of breast tumor were compared on the same section of ultrasound by color doppler flow imaging(CDFI)and PDI simultaneously.Results: The positive rate of blood flow in benign breast tumors shown by CDFI and PDI were 51.16% (16/31) and 71% (22/31) respectively, while that of the malignant ones were 76.9% (20/26) and 92.3% (24/26) respectively, showing significant difference (Po.oo1). The total detectable rates of blood flow in all benign and malignant breast tumors examined by CDFI and PDI were 63.2% (36/57) and 80.7% (46/57), respectively significantly different too (P0.05). Conclusion: The results above show PDI is superior to CDFI in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast tumors.


commonly from a complete hydatidiform mole. Choriocarcinomas following term live births are rare, with an incidence of 1:50 000 live births. Several retrospective reviews have reported between four and 10% of total gestational trophoblastic disease cases were women with antecedent, term non-molar pregnancy. The most common symptom is abnormal vaginal bleeding postpartum, whilst the most common metastatic site is the lung with a variable time period between the antecedent pregnancy and the onset of symptoms. This case illustrates the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion of the diagnosis of metastatic choriocarcinoma, even after a term pregnancy, when the thCG was only moderately elevated. The decision to treat with EMA-CO, in view of the slightly increased risk of second malignancy, was considered carefully. It is noteworthy that in the published world literature, there is still a paucity of data confirming the activity of single-agent methotrexate in histologically proven choriocarcinoma with lung metastases after term pregnancy. Furthermore, we were initially concerned that the thCG was lower than often seen in this situation and subsequently only rose slowly, even in the presence of progressing lung metastases. We considered whether there might be a component of mixed choriocarcinoma and placental site trophoblastic tumour. However, we did not confirm this histologically. For the above reasons and following extensive discussion both locally and overseas and with the patient, we chose to treat with EMA-CO. Finally, there were unusual features in this case and we were extremely grateful to Charing Cross Hospital, London for their guidance. It is important, when dealing with young patients with rare, but curable cancers, to realise that centres of excellence are happy to be contacted for advice.


Based on credibility theory,this paper will present a new class of venture capital chance constrained model with fuzzy parameters.Since the proposed venture capital problem includes fuzzy variable parameters with infinite supports in this paper,it is infinite-dimensional optimization problem.In order to solve this fuzzy "programming problem,the approximation approach of venture capital chance constrained problem is embeded into neural network and genetic algorithm to produce hybrid intelligent algorithm for solving the proposed venture capital chance constrained problem with fuzzy parameters.Finally,a numerical example will be given to show the practicality of the designed model and algorithm.


The direct dehydrogenative coupling of 1,3- and 1,4-diols and dihydrosilanes is efficiently catalyzed by Cs 2 CO 3 (10 mol%), cleanly affording six- and seven-membered 1,3-dioxo-2-silacycles with dihydrogen as the sole by-product. Conversely, 1,2-diols do not yield the expected 1,3-dioxo-2-silacyclopentanes, essentially forming cyclic disiloxanes instead. Aside from the synthetic convenience, the procedure itself is also useful for straightforward diol derivatization prior to GLC analysis.


From Edward Said, who criticized Jane Austen's Mansfield Park(1814) as a colonialist novel upholding slavery in his Culture and Imperialism(1993) to...


Environmental pollution has significantly influenced ecology and has thus become a global issue. To satisfy diverse market demands and to upgrade product competitiveness, companies have prioritized the production of green products. In the initial stage of new product production, companies need to evaluate green component suppliers for those that meet environmental requirements in product design changes. By following the WEEE and RoHS directives of the EU, and by eliminating component suppliers with negative green indexes, this study constructed an optimal decision-making model for the selection of green component suppliers. The supplier selection was conducted by considering a quantity discount mechanism under the scenario of seeking minimum total cost. Lastly, this study obtained the solution for the model by applying Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and constructed a decision support system upon the decision-making process for the reference of decision makers.


Recursive and explicit formulas are given for the time response connected with the complex multiple poles of a frequencydomain transfer function. The formulas may be used to obtain higher order Laplace-transform pairs and to simplify computer calculations of such time responses.


Enumerates the varied duties of Foreign Service officers; general public has little idea of work involved; all reports are sent to State Department, and from there copies are sent to the interested Department such as Agriculture or Commerce; reports are then distributed directly to the individuals or firms who will find them useful, but who probably will not know they are the work of the Consular officers; Commerce Department, for instance, gets larger appropriation, while State Department finds it difficult to stretch budget to cover necessities; suggests Foreign Service Officers, when on leave, use every opportunity to speak before business organizations and write articles for their local papers with reference to the Service and its work.


Complex numbers are important in a variety of engineering areas. It is widely used in thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics and some other areas like that. It has a history of over 1200 years; since 780, when it first came into the platform of math, it has been supplied by over 10 mathematicians. Now, the complex number is a complicated subject which refers to many different subjects in higher mathematics. The paper will mainly discuss several quintessential instances of complex numbers, including formation and relevant operations on the set ℂ, while further explaining the complex conjugation involved thereof. The paper covers the algebraic formation of complex numbers, as well as discuss in detail arithmetic operations of complex numbers, on complex numbers, in this research paper to reveal the intrinsic beauty of the world of complex numbers. We will also apply two examples and their solutions to make the point more specific.


English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a course which teaches students the terminology needed in their field of study through relevant topics. Due to the compulsory nature of the course and its placement in the first year at university, students may develop negative attitudes toward ESP and have lower levels of learning motivation. The aim of this thesis was to investigate learning motivation and attitudes of 142 ESP university students at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering. The instrument used was a questionnaire whose results were subject to statistical analysis and used to test five hypotheses. The results showed that there is no difference in attitudes and learning motivation between male and female students, or among students of Petroleum Engineering, Mining and those of Geology. Years of learning English prior to learning ESP also showed no statistical relevance. The fourth and fifth hypotheses were confirmed: more positive attitudes toward the English language, the teacher, course material and evaluation lead to higher motivation for learning ESP and the students' intrinsic motivation was higher than extrinsic. A further analysis of the questionnaire was also conducted and the overall results point to the fact that, due to their young age and the fact that they have just started university, students acknowledge the overall importance of English, but are not fully aware of the benefits of ESP in their field of study.


Since campus network has become the most important infrastructure for universities, the digitization, networking and informatization of campus have become the important indicator for measuring university management level and comprehensive strength. In view of the present situation for the development of digital campus, the strategies for digital campus construction and management have been put forward in this thesis so as to promote the rapid development of digital campus based on the overall understanding for digital campus construction.


. We constrain the rotation law in Be star circumstellar disks. We show that Keplerian rotation is a valid approximation.


-This work describes the results of an investigation on a dissimilar weld joint comprising Stainless Steel (SS304) and Mild Steel (MS1144). Welds produced by shielded metal arc-welding with two different electrodes (Rutile & Cellulosic) were examined for their tensile strength, hardness & microstructure features. The welds were found to have overmatching mechanical properties. Keywords— Arc Welding, Cellulosic, Hardness, Rutile, Tensile etc.


We show that the dark curent noise spectrum of an In0.30Ga0.70As/GaAs quantum-well infrared photodetector (QWIP) is characterized by two plateau-like frequency regions. At high frequencies, the observed noise current is due to the generation–recombination noise of carriers, which have been emitted thermionically from the quantum wells into the continuum. In the low-frequency regime, an additional contribution to the noise current is caused by the redistribution of space charges, that occurs on a time scale similar to the dielectric relaxation time.


This chapter argues for the importance of design-based leadership research (DBLR) for advancing the research and practice of educational leadership, with a focus on school district central offices. DBLR, like other design-based research, calls on researchers to develop designs for practice. Unlike other such research in education that calls for designs for classrooms, DBLR focuses on designs for leaders. Researchers working in this mode develop designs for leadership practice that reflect the latest knowledge about how leaders matter for improved student results; they work alongside leaders to use that knowledge to design and engage in new forms of their own practice consistent with the knowledge and appropriate to their settings. Participants study the process to feed new knowledge into the partnership sites and the field. This chapter elaborates how such research differs from traditional scholarship on district central offices and forms of action research. Challenges to conducting DBLR include focusing practitioners on central offices (especially in tough budget times), capturing central office practice in DBLR knowledge-building activities, and growing and sustaining the work. Early experience illuminates how to address those challenges and advance DBLR partnerships that promise to significantly strengthen leadership practice in support of improved results for all students. In school districts across the country, central office staff members are working to improve how they lead district-wide instructional improvement, but are finding few guides or supports for that work, what design researchers might call limited "designs" for their leadership. Consider the following example. In a Midwestern school district, the superintendent promoted a successful principal, Betty Greene, to a new high-level position, reporting directly to the superintendent's office. In that position, she and two colleagues are to help all district principals become better instructional leaders—principals who do not mainly manage their buildings, but work intensively with teachers to improve the quality of classroom instruction. Greene's new position represents a sea change for many school district central offices from their historical focus on business and regulatory functions to providing direct, intensive supports to schools to improve the quality of instruction across the district. Greene enthusiastically accepted the position. She believed she had expert knowledge of high-quality teaching and how principals could support it. She viewed the new post as an opportunity to take some of her own successful school-level leadership to scale across the district. However, once in her new post, she struggled. With no predecessor to consult with, she wondered, "I know my charge is to help principals become stronger instructional leaders, but what does that mean I actually do day-to-day to realize those results?" As a school principal, she had access to myriad professional development opportunities, such as workshops sponsored by the state, the district, and outside groups, as well as conferences and peer networking opportunities. While not all of those opportunities were high quality, Greene always took something away from them. But in the central office, she found professional development opportunities for staff virtually nonexistent. Three years into the post, she reflected, "I have been in a building for 30 years and building principal for 20. When I was principal, I regularly complained that central office staff were never in my building. I have been at this job for three years, but I am hardly ever in buildings myself. I don't know what to do when I'm there to help."


Aim: To study the occurrence of congenital heart defects of newborns in the maternity department of the Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital in 2011–2015. Material and methods. 342 cases of women who delivered to newborns with congenital heart defects were analyzed. Results. The frequency of children birth with congenital heart diseases during the period from 2011 to 2015 was 1.0–1.3%. It was found that this pathology was more often observed in women over the age of 35 and it has almost the same frequency in male and female children. Children with congenital heart defects were more often born prematurely. Conclusions. Perinatal pathology due to congenital heart defects was 1.0%–1.3% of the total number of newborns. There is no positive tendency to reduce the congenital pathology of the population due to portion of congenital heart defects.


Increased osteoblast activity in sclerostin‐knockout (Sost−/−) mice results in generalized hyperostosis and bones with small bone marrow cavities resulting from hyperactive mineralizing osteoblast populations. Hematopoietic cell fate decisions are dependent on their local microenvironment, which contains osteoblast and stromal cell populations that support both hematopoietic stem cell quiescence and facilitate B‐cell development. In this study, we investigated whether high bone mass environments affect B‐cell development via the utilization of Sost−/− mice, a model of sclerosteosis. We found the bone marrow of Sost−/− mice to be specifically depleted of B cells because of elevated apoptosis at all B‐cell developmental stages. In contrast, B‐cell function in the spleen was normal. Sost expression analysis confirmed that Sost is primarily expressed in osteocytes and is not expressed in any hematopoietic lineage, which indicated that the B‐cell defects in Sost−/− mice are non‐cell autonomous, and this was confirmed by transplantation of wild‐type (WT) bone marrow into lethally irradiated Sost−/− recipients. WT→Sost−/− chimeras displayed a reduction in B cells, whereas reciprocal Sost−/−→WT chimeras did not, supporting the idea that the Sost−/− bone environment cannot fully support normal B‐cell development. Expression of the pre‐B‐cell growth stimulating factor, Cxcl12, was significantly lower in bone marrow stromal cells of Sost−/− mice, whereas the Wnt target genes Lef‐1 and Ccnd1 remained unchanged in B cells. Taken together, these results demonstrate a novel role for Sost in the regulation of bone marrow environments that support B cells. © 2012 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.


An innovative, physical, aging and life model for polymeric insulation systems, founded on damage inception and growth at the level of microscopic cavities, was developed previously by the authors. This paper is focused on the role played by micro-structural and mechanical properties (such as crystallinity and Young's modulus) in the framework of such model. These concepts are applied to the case of LDPE, HDPE and XLPE matrixes. The relevant estimates of damage growth rate and time-to-failure as a function of void size and applied electric field in typical working conditions for HVDC power cables are performed. The results show that, under the assumptions made, the crystallinity level itself does not seem to affect significantly the life times, while the mechanical characteristics of the investigated materials (accounted for via the Young's modulus) seem to have a non-negligible impact on damage growth rate and time-to-failure of the polymeric matrix.


The banking sector in Germany is undergoing a massive change. The reasons are digitalization, changing customer behaviour, and low interest rates. The focus of this research is on the savings banks in Germany. Savings banks could miss the boat in the age of digital transformation. On the one hand, savings banks are demonstrably forced to take drastic measures, such as mergers, branch closures, and staff reductions. On the other hand, savings banks possess more data about their customers than other industries. Savings banks can order a big data analytics solution called "Sparkassen-DataAnalytics" (aka savings banks data analytics). Sparkassen-DataAnalytics could be used to offer customers tailormade banking products from the information obtained. It is an open secret that costs can be reduced through a higher degree of automation. The main purpose of this research is to discuss to what extent big data analytics could be a lifeline for German savings banks. Research methods are a literature review and subsequent discussion on the use of big data analytics in the German banking market.


We present CONTRAfold-SE, which extends CONTRAfold to model RNA structure-probing data as observations of possibly unknown secondary structures. This model can then be learned from datasets containing only structure-probing data, or a mix of known structures and probing data. We train CONTRAfold-SE on various combinations of structure probing data and complete structures and find that while genome-wide structure probing data provides modest improvement in prediction performance, with sufficiently dense probing data alone it is possible to learn a model that approaches the performance of energy-based methods. CONTRAfold-SE may be obtained from https://github.com/csfoo/contrafold-se.


Curcumin, which is traditionally known to have effects on various types of diseases in humans, is found in Curcuma longa L. Previous reports have indicated that the curcumin content varies between the different lines of this species. To clarify the differences in the amounts of curcumin between the lines, we investigated the outcomes of cultivation ex-periments with the hybridization or introgression between C. longa and other Curcuma species using the matK gene of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) and the external transcribed spacer (ETS) of nuclear DNA (nrDNA). The results show that there is heterogeneity of the ETS and incongruence between the matK and the ETS phylogenetic trees, suggesting that hybridization and introgression had taken place in the diversification of the various lines of C. longa. Moreover, al-though all of the lines had the same cpDNA haplotype of C. longa, the lines of homogeneous C. longa had a high con-tent of curcumin, whereas the lines created by hybridization and introgression with other Curcuma species had a me-dium or low level. These results suggest that the difference of curcumin content among the various lines of C. longa was caused by hybridization and introgression with other Curcuma species.


Climate change is impacting Mediterranean basins, bringing warmer climate conditions. The Marganai forest is a natural forest protected under the European Site of Community Importance (Natura 2000), located in Sardinia, an island in the western Mediterranean basin, which is part of the Fluminimaggiore basin. Recent droughts have strained the forest′s resilience. A long-term hydrological database collected from 1922 to 2021 shows that the Sardinian forested basin has been affected by climate change since the middle of the last century, associated with a decrease in winter precipitation and annual runoff, reduced by half in the last century, and an increase of ~1 °C in the mean annual air temperature. A simplified model that couples a hydrological model and a vegetation dynamics model for long-term ecohydrological predictions in water-limited basins is proposed. The model well predicted almost one century of runoff observations. Trees have suffered from the recent warmer climate conditions, with a tree leaf area index (LAI) decreasing systematically due to the air temperature and a vapor pressure deficit (VPD) rise at a rate of 0.1 hPa per decade. Future climate scenarios of the HadGEM2-AO climate model are predicting even warmer conditions in the Sardinian forested basin, with less annual precipitation and higher air temperatures and VPD. Using these climate scenarios, we predicted a further decrease in runoff and tree transpiration and LAI in the basin, with a reduction of tree LAI by half in the next century. Although the annual runoff decreases drastically in the worst scenarios (up to 26%), runoff extremes will increase in severity, outlining future scenarios that are drier and warmer but, at the same time, with an increased flood frequency. The future climate conditions undermine the forest's sustainability and need to be properly considered in water resources and forest management plans.


Malignant gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors in the United States. Membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) has been shown to be crucial for the progression, invasion, migration, and angiogenesis of tumors. Use of a fluorescent substrate to quantify MT1-MMP activity, where tumoroids are embedded in a collagen hydrogel, would simplify detection of potential protease inhibitors, while using an in vivo-like cell model. When substrate and experimental setup are combined with the hit pick joint reading and imaging process available in Agilent BioTek Gen5 microplate reader and imager software, the most efficient inhibitor screening method is created. It saves time and image storage needs by only imaging wells with test molecules that demonstrate inhibitory effects. Combination of a Fluorescent Substrate-Based MMP Activity Assay and Hit Pick Reading/Imaging Procedure


Janet Ainley firstname.lastname@example.com The Williams Review of mathematics teaching in primary schools and early years settings The Williams Review has the remit to consider and make recommendations in the following areas: • What is the most effective pedagogy of maths teaching in primary schools and early years settings? • What range of provision best supports children across the full ability range, including the most gifted? • (Including specifically making recommendations to inform the development of an early (age 5 to 7) intervention programme for children who are failing to master the basics of numeracy – "Every Child Counts".) • What conceptual and subject knowledge of mathematics should be expected of primary school teachers and early years practitioners, and how should initial teaching training and continuing professional development be improved to secure that knowledge? • What is the most effective design and sequencing of the mathematics curriculum? • How should parents and families best be helped to support young children's mathematical development? An extensive consultation is currently in progress. In this session I will give some information about how the Review Panel is operating, but most of the time will be given to discussion which can feed into that consultation.


The product marketing concept expresses the understandability for the product from the angle of market marketing or consumers.It has the meaning to the nowadays market marketing practice to analyze and discuss the product marketing concept to the influence and using value of the business enterprise market marketing activity.


The formation of the capillary pores in the wood pulp fiber walls and the changes in the distribution of residual lignin and hemicellulose across the fiber walls during different delignification processes have been investigated. The latter is derived from the component location in wood cells and the method of delignification. It has been established that the residual lignin content on the unbleached pulp fiber surface varied from 5% to 35%. The average lignin content was 2% to 8% for these samples. The outer layers of the organosolv and the kraft pulp fibers were rich in xylan and mannan containing polysaccharides. It was found that each delignification method exhibit a characteristic pattern of the rate of submicroscopic pore (2-60 nm) formation. It was demonstrated that in case of the lumen-loaded wood the submicroscopic pores provide the transport facilities for dissolved lignin or hemicellulose fragments. The pore volume increased more rapidly during sulphite delignification of the cell walls in comparison with kraft cooking. The knowledge concerning total wood cell wall submicroscopic pore volume was used when modifying the two-stage alkaline-sulphite pulping method. By means of auger-blade mixer and small amounts of NaOH or Na,CO, solution, the first pulping stage was converted into an alkaline pretreatment procedure. The pilot plant and mill scale trials demonstrated the following advantages of the proposed method: -Rapid first stage chemical treatment of wood chips, Higher pulp yields (3-6%) and lower resin content in the fibers, -Possibility to use different wood species or their mixture in the sulphite pulping process. The knowledge of the pulp fiber wall chemical composition and fine structure contribute to the explanation and prediction of the fibermaking properties, as well as cellulose reactivity. It was observed that the xylan-containing hemicellulose in the surface layers affects the pulp fiber wall in a biobleaching stage. A bleaching sequence including a biological stage offers advantages.


This paper analyses the discourse of science through the study of collocational patterns of high frequency noun keywords in science textbooks used by upper secondary students in Malaysia. Research has shown that one of the areas of difficulty in science discourse concerns lexis, especially that of collocations. This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of the lexical collocations, specifically the noun/noun (NN), noun/adjective(AN) and verb/noun(VN) combinations, of high-frequency noun keywords in this science corpus. The study found that the NN and AN syntactic combinations were the more predominant combination type among the collocations of the noun keywords. Most of the collocations have been found to fall into the category between free and restricted combinations. In addition, the analysis have also uncovered clusters of overlapping collocations which show a tendency towards the free end of the restricted category of combinations.


Purpose: Stricture plasty (SP) is well known to be a suitable surgical option for skip lesion of Crohn disease (CD) to avoid risk of extended bowel resection and short bowel syndrome. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are only a few studies on the long-term outcome of SP. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term outcome and patency rate of SP alone and with concomitant bowel resection. Material and Method: We studied 192 CD patients who underwent SP surgery in our institution up till January 2016. Non-patency of the SP group was defined as re-operated cases caused by anastomotic stenosis of SP. In addition, patency of the SP group was defined as cases in which there was no stenosis of the SP anastomotic site at the time of re-operation. Result: Patients' characteristics: the male/female ratio was 167:33; median age at time of operation was 34 (16–65) years; classification of initial type of disease was 88 jejunoileitis, ileitis and 112 ileocolitis. Procedure of SP was 456 Heineke-Mikulicz, 31 Jaboulay, 15 Finney, and 1 side-to-side method. Post-operative complications: There was no anastomotic leakage at the SP site. The cumulative 5-year SP patency rate was 91.7%. Conclusion: The SP procedure is safe and the cumulative 5-year patency rate is good. SP should be considered when feasible.


The effect of rapid rehabilitation on stress response, cellular immune function and life quality after laparoscopicgastrectomy for elderly patients with hypertension. 64 elderly hypertensive patients with gastric cancer whounderwent laparoscopic gastric cancer radical surgery in our hospital from January 2015 to June 2019 wereselected in the study. According to the random number table method, 64 patients were divided into theobservation group (n=32) and the control group (n=32). The observation group patients were treated with rapidrehabilitation program, and the control group patients were given routine treatment to compare and analyze theeffects on postoperative stress response, cellular immune function and life quality of the two groups of patients.The hospital stays of the observation group [(10.12 ± 0.11) d], and extubation time [(5.01 ± 3.01) h] wereboth shorter than the control group [(12.21 ± 3.15) d, (7.23 ± 3.45) h], the difference were statisticallysignificant (P < 0.05). Cor [(241.52 ± 43.25) pg / ml] and Ang Ⅱ [(70.23 ± 6.27) pg / ml] of theobservation group were lower than the control group [(275.21 ± 52.11), (86.45 ± 10.11) pg / ml], and thedifferences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The CRP [(37.15 ± 9.21) mg / L] and TNF-α [(53.01 ±15.23) pg / ml] of the observation group were lower than the control group [(43.11 ± 10.25) mg / L, (62.11 ±16.45) pg / ml], and the difference were statistically significant (P<0.05). The levels of CD4 +, CD4 + / CD8 +and NK cells in the observation group after operation were significantly higher than those in the control group,and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05); 6 months after surgery, the hemoglobin andprognostic nutritional index (PNI) indexes in the observation group were higher than those in the control group,which were close to the normal level, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). The casenumber of Visick grade Ⅰ in the observation group was significantly higher than that in the control group, andthe number of grades Ⅱ -Ⅲ were lower, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05); thegastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS) score of the observation group was lower compared with thecontrol group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Rapid rehabilitation program caneffectively reduce the stress response, enhance the recovery of cellular immune function, and improve the lifequality after laparoscopic gastric cancer resection in elderly patients with hypertension.


Anita Houghton continues her series of articles on personal support with advice on how to reap the maximum benefit in a mentoring relationship


In Oman during the 3rd and 2nd millennium B.C., copper was produced in several places, which have been excavated and studied with archaeometallurgical techniques. The production must have been so extensive that export from Oman is highly probable. -- AATA


The present paper deals with the megaspores recovered from the surface samples of the Barren Measures Succession from Jharia Coalfield, Bihar. Four genera and 6 species have been described and compared with the other megaspore assemblages from the Lower Gondwanas.


We show a possible large spin polarization of the nuclei produced by one-nucleon-transfer heavy-ion reactions and investigate its origin. The asymmetry of the particle-{gamma} angular correlation is also calculated for the ejectile and {gamma} ray emitted from the spin polarized nucleus.


In 2008, the whole world was hit by the impact of rising world oil prices
and stock markets around the world was also affected, and Indonesia is no
exception. The difference occurs when world oil prices increase / decrease, CSPI
also corrected to follow the movement of world oil prices. In an article, it was
explained that the JCI moves along with world oil prices due to the influence of
stock price index of mining and agriculture which controls 25% of JCI movement.
The main objective of this study is to see the effect of the increase / decrease in
world oil prices so as to make the stock price index of mining and agriculture
affected following the world oil prices. The researcher used secondary data ie the
closing price on the stock price index of mining and agriculture for the price of oil
using the closing price of the British Petroleum (BP). The researcher used a time
series with a period of 3 years i.e. 2007-2010, the period was taken because of
rising oil prices occurred in the range of that year.
To analyze the effect of oil price on the stock price index of mining and
agriculture, the researcher used the aid of SPSS ver. 17. Data processing results
obtained significant results between world oil prices on the stock price index of
mining and agriculture for 0.000 <0.05, which means there is influence between
the increase / decrease in oil prices on both the stock price index.
Based on the results of this analysis, the author concluded that there is influence
of world oil prices on stock indices of mining and agriculture. The increase or
decrease in oil prices will affect both the industry and will affect the JCI
movement in Indonesia, because Indonesia is a country exporting coal and palm
oil which resulted when oil prices rise then the price of coal and palm oil were
exported to rise and make the many investors invest their shares in the two
industries to benefit from the two industries.


H∞ and H 2 denote the Hardy spaces on the open unit disc D. Let Φ be a function in H∞ and ||Φ||∞ = 1. If Φ is an inner function and Φ(0) = 0, then {Φ n ; n = 0,1,2,...} is orthogonal in H 2 . W.Rudin asked if the converse is true and C. Sundberg and C. Bishop showed that the converse is not true. Therefore there exists a function Φ such that Φ is not an inner function and {Φ n } is orthogonal in H 2 . In this paper, the following is shown: {Φ n } is orthogonal in H 2 if and only if there exists a unique probability measure ν 0 on [0,1] with 1 ∈ supp ν 0 such that N Φ (z) = f 1 |z| log r/ |z| dν 0 (r) for nearly all z in D where N Φ is the Nevanlinna counting function of Φ. If Φ is an inner function, then ν 0 a Dirac measure at r = 1.


The formation of the Marxian project the development of the Marxian project totality and dialect in Hegel and in Marx the dialectic of capital and the counter-dialectic of class struggle the context of closure the enactment of closure - from the "Grundrisse" to "Kapital" the enactment of closure within "Kapital" - volume I, volume II the structure of closure in Hegel's "Logic" and in Marx's "Kapital" the closure within Marx and the closure within Marxism.


Objective:To investigate the effects of puerarin on insulin resistance in elderty patients with essential hypertension.Methods:60 cases with essential hypertension were randomly divided into two groups.Under the same basic treatment,35 cases in the treatment group were treated with puerarin and 25 cases in control group were not treated with puerarin.The methods had been applied to the two group for one month.Observing the effects of puerarin on the concentrations of fasting blood glucose(FBG),surum insulin,blood pressure, GHbalc,blood lipid,hemorheology and insulin sensitivity index(ISI).Results:The comparison proved the indexs of blood pressure,blood lipid and hemorheology were dropped remarkably(P0 05~0 01),ISI increased remarkably(P0 05)in the treatment group after treatment,but no changes in control group after treatment(P0 05).There was significantly difference in the all bove mentioned indexes between treatment group and control group after treatment(P0 05~0 01).Conclusion:Puerarin has the good effects in of reducing insulin resistance on elderty patients with essential hypertension.


We have investigated the excitation of fluoresce molecules using nanoscale light confinement on the plasmonic nanostructures. We have fabricated gold nano-dimer arrays whose diameter and height were 100 and 20 nm respectively on 20-nm gold film with BK7 substrate with a period of 746 nm. We have calculated the field distribution by three dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and confirmed the field localization on the dimer's gap whose size was 18 nm. The field confinement was induced by a light source at 671 nm and experimentally measured by near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) under same incident condition given at FDTD calculation. The angle of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) was chosen to enable both fluorescence microscopy and SPR microscopy simultaneously. Given a resonance angle, a dimer could provide a subdiffraction-limited observation volume to study the dynamics of fluorescence molecules and a highly sensitive light scattering probe as a nanoantenna. By employing dual microscopic images, we could separate the fluorescence excitations within a subdiffracion-limited volume from those outside the volume. We calculated scattering intensities of fluorescence nanobeads on the dimer nanoantenna to assure the presence within an observation volume when they diffuse near the dimer nanoantenna with Brownian motion. We have applied the subdiffraction-limited volume to fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to measure the dynamics of fluorescence molecules with high signal-to-noise ratio, with additional spatial analysis from SPR microscopy. The result of imaging FCS using gold nano-dimer with SPR microscopy shows novel applications for nanoscale sensing and imaging methods.


The European Union's Cohesion Policy is the most important structural policy in terms of financial commitment, geographical size and time frame, aimed at redistributing wealth between regions and countries, to stimulate growth in areas whose development is lagging behind. The reach of the investments prompted the EU Commission to promote an impact evaluation of the European Structural Funds (SF); however, the impact evaluation of EU programs is almost neglected in the Italian regions. This paper is based on the results developed within the RI.P.R.O.VA.RE project and is aimed at defining an impact evaluation of EU SF and other regional funds, based on evidence derived from the analysis of a specific case study in the Agri Valley area (Basilicata, Italy). To develop the impact evaluation process, the euro amounts of all the individual policies organized according to the themes of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), the impact indicators and the trend for the municipalities are considered together, in order to obtain an overall trend for the entire case study area. An important result is achieved above all in the methodological approach to impact evaluation: the municipal territorial scale is taken into account; the maps illustrate the use of resources; regardless of the type of funding source since there is a comparison between the priority axes of the funds with the NUA issues; and indicators are developed with open data available at a national level. This experiment makes it possible to detect that, even in the face of significant investments, some substantial aspects that are part of the policy objectives remain unchanged or even worsen.


Semi-linear uniform space is a new space defined by Tallafha, A and Khalil, R in [3], the authors studied some cases of best approximation in such spaces, and gave some open problems in approximation theory in uniform spaces. Besides they defined a set valued map ρ on X ×X and asked two questions about the properties of ρ. The purpose of this paper is to answer these questions. Besides we shall define another set valued map δ on X × X and give more properties of semi-linear uniform spaces using the maps ρ and δ. Also we shall give an example of a semi-linear uniform space which is not metrizable.


The strand space model has been proposed as a formal method for verifying the security goals of cryptographic protocols. However, only encryption and decryption operations and hash functions are currently supported for the semantics of cryptographic primitives. Therefore, we establish the extended strand space model (ESSM) framework to describe algebraic operations and advanced threat models. Based on the ESSM, we add algebraic semantics, including the Abelian group and the XOR operation, and a threat model based on algebraic attacks, key-compromise impersonation attacks, and guess attacks. We implement our model using the automatic analysis tool, Scyther. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework by analysing several protocols, in particular a three-factor agreement protocol, with which we can identify new attacks while providing trace proofs.


About 32% of all births in the United States—or roughly 1.2 million—are cesarean deliveries, which is a 50% increase over the past decade. But are all of these cesareans necessary?


Primary systemic amyloidosis (AL amyloidosis) is the most common subtype of amyloidosis in developed countries. Amyloid fibrils deposition results from an abnormal secondary structure of immunoglobulin light chains produced by a plasma cell clone. The most common accompanying plasma cell dyscrasia is monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, while multiple myeloma coexists in only 10–15% of patients. The kidneys and the heart are the most frequently affected organs. Patients usually present with concentric left ventricular concentric thickening displaying a restrictive filling pattern with well-preserved systolic function. Clinical suspicion of AL amyloidosis should be raised in older adults and elderly patients with diastolic heart failure accompanied by heavy proteinuria, upon detection of thick-walled heart on echocardiography with low-voltage QRS on ECG ("red-flags" for amyloidosis"), in non-diabetic subjects with peripheral neuropathy or autonomic neuropathy, commonly with severe postural hypotension. Classical clinical stigmata, i.e. periorbital purpura, macroglossia, carpal tunnel syndrome, are not frequent (10–20%) but can guide diagnosis. In the presence of typical echocardiographic features recommended diagnostic steps include identification of monoclonal gammopathy (serum and urine immunofixation and serum free light-chain kappa to lambda ratio) and confirmation of amyloid deposition, preferentially in a non-cardiac tissue such as periumbilical fat or minor salivary glands. Bone marrow biopsy, serum calcium assay and skeletal survey are mandatory to exclude multiple myeloma. Prognosis is mainly dependent on cardiac involvement, being determined by cardiac biomarkers and the difference between involved and uninvolved light chains. Intensive chemotherapy is the therapy of choice in intermediate-risk patients with AL amyloidosis. An improved overall survival was reported in patients with a complete haematological response and an adequate cardiac response, especially a fall in circulating levels of B-type natriuretic peptides. JRCD 2016; 2 (8): 245–253


Obtaining an accurate diagnosis for Parkinson's disease, which is characterised by a slow degeneration of motor skills, is notoriously difficult and often takes months. By monitoring a user's movements through integrated sensors, the now ubiquitous smartphones could potentially become a tool to identify digital biomarkers that are indicative of Parkinson's disease. In order to extract such digital biomarkers from smartphone sensor data, we present an automated machine learning method based on training a hierarchy of convolutional recurrent attentive neural networks to recognise predictive features in a movement task that includes segments of walking, resting and turning. The features extracted by our approach outperform several frequency-based baselines and yield a per-record classification accuracy of 83.20% on a held-out validation set (n = 10, 080) in diagnosing Parkinson's disease. In addition, our method is highly interpretable through the use of a neural attention mechanism (Schwab et al. (2017)), which we are currently investigating to gain further insights into what digital biomarkers our networks focus on to decide that a user is likely to have Parkinson's disease. Abstract presented at RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM CHALLENGES 2017.presented at RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM CHALLENGES 2017. Acknowledgments This work was partially funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project No. 167302 within the National Research Program (NRP) 75 "Big Data" and SNSF project No. 150640. References Schwab, Patrick, Scebba, Gaetano C., Zhang, Jia, Delai, Marco, and Karlen, Walter. Beat by Beat: Classifying Cardiac Arrhythmias with Recurrent Neural Networks. In Computing in Cardiology, 2017.


A new method of recognizing a two dimensional (2D) shape of a single perspective image taken from an unknown viewpoint is presented. This method is based on a set of new defined Fourier descriptors (FDs) to describe the contour of a planar shape lying in the three dimensional (3D) domain. In order to generate the 3D planar image from the 2D perspective image, we use inverse paraperspective transformation instead of general inverse perspective transformation. Based on the linear approximation of the transformation, new FDs for the 3D planar contour have been developed. They are proved to be merely dependent on the FDs of the 2D contour of the projected image and the slope of the world plane. Thereafter, opportunities for simple and efficient computation for 3D planar shape recognition can be realised.<<ETX>>


A new technology for combining the production of diammonium phosphate(DAP) and mono-ammonium phosphate(MAP) was introduced.According to this process,a part of dilute phosphoric acid including acid sludge was neutralized by ammonia and the resulting slurry was concentrated to produce powder MAP.Another part of limpid phosphoric acid after removing subsiding sludge was concentrated and neutralized to produce granular DAP.This process not only improves production capacity,but also makes the sludge get rational utilization.The industrial experiment shows that this method is mutual-scale supplement with each other′s advantages of the processes,which is featured by good economic benefits,energy-saving and low consumption as well as less investment.So this technology is worth popularizing.


Through the investigation on normal and abnormal growth of fast-growth eucalyptus in forest district and the measuration of basic elements and microelements on relevant places.The results show that except the basic elements,the absence of microelements such as B,Mn and Cu is the main reason of abnormal growth.Through the supplement of microelements,the abnormal frees can return to normal growth within 60 days.


The importance of the position of the lingual nerve in the oral cavity cannot be understated for dentists and oral surgeons. Therefore, the location of the lingual nerve with various positions of the tongue is important. However, most dental and medical students are taught oral cadaveric anatomy where tissues are fixed. Therefore, the focus of this article is to demonstrate how the lingual nerve moves based on tongue movement in fresh tissues and how this is important for dentists and oral surgeons. Clin. Anat. 30:467–469, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


A fractured cephalomedullary femoral nailing system was investigated for the clinical and mechanical reasons responsible for its failure. Optical and scanning electron microscopes were utilized to investigate the fracture surface characteristics. Striations presented on the surface indicated mechanical fatigue. A qualitative material conformity test was conducted using available resources and found to be inconclusive, requiring more advanced testing of Ti-15Mo per ASTM standards in a third-party laboratory. In addition, the investigation showed that there is evidence of overloading failure once the fatigue-propagated crack reached a critical size. Based on the observed features, it is possible that nail and self-tapping helical screw interference may have occurred. The interior wall of the nail exhibited damage, allowing a surface crack to form. This surface crack was propagated due to cyclic loading occurring as a result of activities of daily living. The propagation of cracks formed the striations seen on the failed device. This continued for a period of time up until the crack grew to the point where the structure of the nail could no longer withstand the load and catastrophically failed by overloading.


Since the conversion of Emperor Constantine, the story of Christianity has increasingly appeared to be the story of a western religion. Appearances can be deceptive precisely because there are communities in Africa that could claim an involvement in the Jesus movement from its inception till today. When Christianity abandoned its Palestinian roots, its new home in the Graeco-Roman world included North Africa (Maghrib ), which was the breadbasket of Rome, and shared extensive commercial and cultural relations with Palestine and the Levant. Before the story of Judich, the treasurer to Candace (Queen Mother) of the Nubian kingdom ofMeroe, who met Philip en-route from a pilgrimage to Rome, geographical contiguity had made it possible for the infant Jesus to take refuge in Africa. The Coptic Orthodox church celebrates this event annually. Later, Christianity shifted its center of gravity yet again into barbarian Europe where every effort was made to domesticate and repackage it in western imagery. Recently, commentators have observed another shift from the northern hemisphere into the south. David Barrett's annual statistics in his World Encyclopedia (1982, 2000) reads as follows:


In this paper with the help of Simulink the Self Excited Induction Generator is made also Laboratory hardware implementation of the different arrangement scheme of Capacitor for the generation of Voltage in IG is discussed. The voltage is developed in Induction Generator which is Self Excited due to the residual magnetism present in the rotor circuit. To build-up and maintains the voltage in SEIG requires the minimum Capacitor. The Induction Motor starts working as an Induction Generator when actual speed of an Induction Motor larger than the Synchronous Speed (i.e. the slip is negative) by means of an outside prime mover, the direction of induced torque is inverted and it draws the current way it flows real power a way of machine but machine wants reactive power compensation and this work is done by minimum value of Capacitor.


Vibration–rotation spectra of HNO (DNO) have been observed in a flow system following the reaction of hydrogen (deuterium) atoms with NO. The spectra were recorded at approximately Doppler limited resolution with a large Fourier transform spectrometer. Complete analyses have been made of the ν1 bands of HNO and DNO with the following results (in cm−1).Spectra of ν2 (NO stretching) were also observed in both HNO and DNO, but ν3 (bending) proved too weak to be detected in either molecule.


This work aims to analyze Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea in order to display the author's strategy to deconstruct Charlotte Bronte's eurocentric discourse in Jane Eyre, granting voice to the colonized subject, besides allowing a "dive" into the web woven by patriarchy, getting men and women stuck in predetermined social roles.


Improving packet loss does not necessarily coincide with the improvement in user perceivable QoS because each frame carries different degree of importance. We propose Significance-aware packet scheduling (SAPS) to maximize user perceivable QoS. SAPS carries out two fundamental issues of packet scheduling: "What to transmit" and "When to transmit?" To adapt to the available bandwidth, it is necessarily to transmit the subset of the data packets if the entire set of packets can not be transmitted. "Packet Significance" quantifies the importance of the frame by elaborately incorporating frames' dependency. Greedy approach is used in selecting packets and transmission schedule is determined based on the Packet Significance. The proposed scheme is tested using publicly available MPEG-4 video clips. Decoding engine is embedded in the simulation software and user perceivable QoS is exposeed in termstermiSNR. Throughout the simulation based experiment, the performance of the proposed scheme is compared two other schemes: Size-based packet scheduling and Bit-rate based best effort packet scheduling. SAPS successfully incorporates the semantics of a packet and improves user perceivable QoS significantly. It successfully provides unequal protection to more important packets.


3. The Court of Justice must further refine the main elements of the trade mark registration procedure, stating precisely the time with reference to which the distinctive character of a sign must be assessed (i.e. the time when the application is filed or the time when the mark is registered), and must modify its case-law in relation to threedimensional shape of goods signs, which need to be dealt with in a particular way and differently from other registrable signs.


Background: Electrolyte abnormalities such as hyponatremia and hypochloremia are prevalent in patients(pts) with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Although hyponatremia is well-established ...


The Deposit Insurance System is an important and fundamental system in finance under the condition of market economy. The article, taking foreign experience into consideration and by the means of system engineering, complex system modeling and BSDE and on the purpose of protecting the depositors, integrates the financing income and payment into one system recording to management and operation of DIS and establishes one based BSDE system model researching on the relationship between the fee standard, investment, payment and objective achievements. Then, it provides with different theoretical solutions considering the risky assets and risk-free assets respectively to analyze the pricing or charge.