ABSTRACT The separation of Sc and Y from the lanthanides by extraction with various quaternary ammonium salts was investigated. Aliquat-336,methyltrioctylammonium nitrate (MTOA), methyldibutylhexadecylammonium nitrate (MDBHDA) and tributylhexadecylammonium nitrate (TBHDA) were used as extractants. The synthesis of MDBHDA and TBHDA from industrial products is described. From the results obtained in the extraction studies of REE as a function of the parameters of aqueous and organic phases, we have determined the optimal separation conditions. The salting-out action in these systems of a great number of cations such as Al3+, Fe3+, Mg3+, Cu3+, Ni3+, Li3+, Cs3+, was investigated. To determine the functional dependences of the separation factors for the REE, the viscosity of the water layer around the ion was used.


Comparative studies of a series of halogenated solvents, as carriers for TTA in the chelate process for plutonium extraction, indicate that ortho-dichlorobenzene most nearly satisfies the requirements that are set forth. A complete process design is presented for use with this solvent, and flow data and equipment capacities are given for dissolver solution and for uranium-free fission product solution as alternate feeds to the process. Vertical mixer-settlers are recommended as the contractors, although pulsed columns or packed columns are also believed to be suitable. The size of such units is estimated from the best available rate and equilibrium data, and the effects of several operating variable are considered.


High school students are overrepresented in traffic crashes, compared to other subgroups of students in Vietnam. Traffic safety education can increase students' knowledge and skills, but faces issues regarding psychological factors including engagement, motivation, and attitude. Gamification has a great potential to tackle these issues. This research aimed to explore the effectiveness of traffic safety education, through a gamified platform, on students' knowledge and skills about traffic safety, and their engagement, motivation, and attitude towards traffic safety education before and after following this platform by online questionnaires. Findings show that the platform is not only advantageous to measure students' learning outcomes regarding traffic safety knowledge and skills which are categorized based on their socio-demographic characteristics, but also generates engagement, motivation, and positive attitudes towards traffic safety education. In an effort to increase the effectiveness of traffic safety education, gamified platform is suggested as an innovative and effective teaching method for traffic safety education in Vietnam.


Wilcox (Eocene) sedimentation, stratigraphy, and production are discussed. Present productive trends are explained by interpreting the regional deltaic sedimentation and stratigraphic history, which are discussed and illustrated diagrammatically. A restored strike section from eastern Alabama to southwest Texas shows graphically the near-shore sedimentary conditions at the close of Wilcox time. A table giving the productive sands in Wilcox fields in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi through 1945 is included. Data and information are taken entirely from published sources.


Antioxidant prevents oxidative stress. One of the antioxidant sources is plant. Red and white galangal are herbal plants that are easy to grow and they may have antioxidant activity. The aim of this study was to compare antioxidant activity and phytochemistry screening of red galangal (Alpinia purpurata (Vieill.) K. Schum) and white galangal (Alpinia galanga (L.) Willd.). The method of this study used was the DPPH method and qualitative analysis. The results of this study showed that the value of antioxidant activity of red galangal was significantly higher than white galangal (p<0.05). The results of phytochemistry screening showed that red galangal contained alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, tannins, saponins, and triterpenoids. While white galangal contained alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, tannins, and triterpenoids. It is can be concluded that red galangal is more effective than white galangal.


A filed trial was conducted at the Agricultural Research station, Aliyarnagar to study the effect of combined inoculation of rhizobial strains viz.. Tt9 and TNAU 14 along with Azospirillum brasilense Sp 7 and phosphobacteria (Bacillus megaterium var. phosphaticum) PB 1 in groundnut var. Co.1. The combined inoculation of Rhizobium, Azospirillum and phosphobacteria produced maximum crop growth nodule number, plant nutrient content and yield compared to individual inoculation or dual inoculation of Rhizobium with Azospirillum or phosphobacteria.


This chapter attempts to take a fresh look at the career of Philippe de Mezieres by considering the English members of his Order of the Passion. Much has been written on Mezieres', including my own rather naive thoughts about whether his influence encouraged the involvement of an English force at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396. More recently, the worlds of Thomas Chaucer and Mezieres have been brought much closer by the work of Stefan Vander Elst, who has developed a convincing argument for the portrait of Chaucers Knight being based on the military exploits of Mezieres himself. The chapter briefly describes the order and how it was known and publicized in England. It investigates the list of English members, to try and identify them and question why they were chosen. Finally, it considers what if anything inclusion on this list signifies?. Keywords: battle of Nicopolis; English members; military significance; Philippe de Mezieres'; Thomas Chaucer


The helical intake port of 4B26 diesel engine was acquired based on the reverse engineering.With 3D modeling software,the accurate solid model of intake port-valve-cylinder was built.Depending on the idea of multi-block structured grid generation,the structural hexahedron grid of 4B26 engine model was generated with ICEM-CFD software.Based on KIVA-3V code,the transient simulation model was established.The results show that the generated grid can meet the calculation requirement of KIVA-3V.The calculated in-cylinder pressure with the model can comply with the experimental result.Accordingly,KIVA-3V code can apply to the field of complex calculation,which extends the application region of code.


Abstract A new, simplified design and a convenient preparation procedure for the Pb(Hg)|PbSO4|SO42- electrode are proposed. This procedure ensures preparation of stable amalgams and reproducible electrode potentials, which make this electrode useful and attractive for both thermodynamic investigations and electroanalytical applications. For these purposes, the electrode prepared according to the proposed procedure has been exhaustively characterized both thermodynamically and as a sulfate-sensing electrode, in different sulfate solutions, including H2SO4. Also, a practical standardization procedure has been proposed. The Pb(Hg)|PbSO4|SO42- electrode can be structured with a built-in concentrated Li2SO4 salt bridge for use as a sulfate-based reference electrode. This electrode can be operated as a reference electrode alternative to the conventional calomel or Ag|AgCl reference electrodes in electroanalytical practice.


Anisidines ( o-, m- and p-) were used as corrosion inhibitors for aluminium in hydrochloric acid solution. The inhibition efficiency depended on the concentration and type of the anisidine. The inhibition efficiency ranged between 76 and 93% at the highest concentration (80 mM), and between 65 and 85% at the lowest concentration (20 mM) of inhibitor in 0.4 M HCl solution. Inhibition efficiency decreased with rise in temperature, this corresponded to surface coverage of the metal by the inhibitor. The calculated degrees of surface coverage, �, were found to increase with the inhibitor concentration. The results also showed that, the inhibitors were adsorbed on the aluminium surface according to Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Polarization study revealed that all the three anisidines functioned as slightly anodic but significantly cathodic inhibitors.


In order to study the effect of compound Radix Isatidis prescription on the growth performance and immunity of mice,so as to provide the experimental basis for the development of Chinese medicine immunoenhancer,100 healthy mice with similar body weights were randomly divided into 10 groups with 10 in each group. Group Ⅰ was the control group and fed with normal feed without any medicine,group Ⅱ was flavomycin control group and added with 0.1% of flavomycin,group Ⅲ was Astragalus polysaccharide control group and fed with 0.1% of Astragalus polysaccharide,group Ⅳ to Ⅶ was the single herb-medicine group and fed with 0.1% of Radix Isatidis,Herba Houttuyniae,Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Radix Astragali,respectively. Group Ⅷ to Ⅹ was the trial group and added with 0.05%,0.1% and 0.15% of compound Radix Isatidis prescription,respectively. After 20 days,the relevant indexes were determined. The results showed that compared with the control group,the growth performance and exhaustive swimming time of mice in group Ⅹ was significantly increased,the immune cell levels and liver index of mice in group Ⅸ was obviously increased,and the spleen index of mice in group Ⅷ was increased. It prompts that compound Radix Isatidis prescription could increase the growth performance and immunity of mice to some extent.


Observations have demonstrated that supernovae efficiently produce dust. This is consistent with the hypothesis that supernovae and asymptotic giant branch stars are the primary producers of dust in the universe. However, there has been a longstanding question of how much of the dust detected in the interiors of young supernova remnants can escape into the interstellar medium. We present new hydrodynamical calculations of the evolution of dust grains that were formed in dense ejecta clumps within a Cas A–like remnant. We follow the dynamics of the grains as they decouple from the gas after their clump is hit by the reverse shock. They are subsequently subject to destruction by thermal and kinetic sputtering as they traverse the remnant. Grains that are large enough (∼0.25 μm for silicates and ∼0.1 μm for carbonaceous grains) escape into the interstellar medium while smaller grains get trapped and destroyed. However, grains that reach the interstellar medium still have high velocities, and are subject to further destruction as they are slowed down. We find that for initial grain size distributions that include large (∼0.25–0.5 μm) grains, 10%–20% of silicate grains can survive, while 30–50% of carbonaceous grains survive even when the initial size distribution cuts off at smaller (0.25 μm) sizes. For a 19 M⊙ star similar to the progenitor of Cas A, up to 0.1 M⊙ of dust can survive if the dust grains formed are large. Thus we show that supernovae under the right conditions can be significant sources of interstellar dust.


Call connection probability in an all optical network (AON) using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) depends on the number of WDM wavelengths available in a link and on the network capability for wavelength conversionat network nodes. A simpler approach for calculation of call connection probability using wavelength converters has been provided. Expressions for call connection probability, with and without wavelength converters are derived and are combined in a converter availability model, so as to study the impact of wavelength conversion on call connection probability.


The reflection of cynicism to organizations is called organizational cynicism and it denotes the negative attitudes of individuals towards the organization. The level of this negative attitude should be known by the organization and its reasons and results should be determined. In this context, the aim of this research is to de termine the levels of general and organizational cynicism that express the negative attitudes of individuals employed in hotel enterprises in tourism sector towards life and the organization and to find out the relation between the general and organizational cynicism levels. For this purpose, the scope of the research covers staff of star hotels within the borders of the city of Kutahya. Afterwards, a questionnaire was conducted on the determined sampling. The questionnaire work was designed in two parts: the first part contains questions/variables about personal information and organizational structure while the second part contains two scales: one developed by Wrigthsman (1992) to determine the general cynicism level and the other developed by Brandes (1997) to determine the organizational cynicism level. As a result of the analyses, general cynicism and organizational cynicism were reduced to three dimensions as cognitive, affective and behavioral and were named accordingly. It was determined that cognitive dimension was at the highest level among general cynicism dimensions, whereas affective dimension was at the highest level among organizational cynicism dimensions.


Australia is internationally regarded as providing a source of safe food. Australian trade policy has long chased the ideal of the level playing field, to allow our natural comparative advantage in food production to be fully realised. A central component of the Doha Round of trade talks was to tackle agricultural subsidies and protectionism, but these talks have not reached consensus since starting in 2001. To negate this stagnation, countries including Australia have engaged in a series of side agreements. However, these deals extend well beyond the notion of providing additional market access for agricultural producers, as they are designed to increase economic integration between the signatories. To encourage integration, these treaties are examining ways of harmonising the rules of business within the signatories. If Australian regulations are different, and we are known as providing a source of safe food, is there any risk associated with adopting new regulations? This article provides a discussion on the role of regulations in Australia, and explores the possible consequences for Australian food exporters from adopting new and more relaxed regulations.


Volcanic gas reservoir becomes an important domain of natural-gas E P for PetroChina. In this study, based onthe reservoir characteristics, a lot of stress experiments on volcanic rock are carried out by core and full-diameter core analysis; andthe effect of different factors on stress sensitivity is also summed up. It is shown that for small cores with different permeability and full-diameter cores, the permeability decreases along with an increase of effective pressure; compared with the permeability of smallcores, the permeability of full-diameter cores decreases more along with an increase of effective pressure; in addition, the development degree of both fracture and pore as well as the water saturation have a larger effect on stress sensitivity: more developed fractureis, stronger stress sensitivity is; compared with the permeability of dry rock sample, the permeability of rock sample with water decreasea more along with an increase of effective pressure.


Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with genetic and environmental etiologies, characterized by problems in communication, social skills, and repetitive behavior. Many areas of the brain exhibit abnormalities in autism, including the parietal cortex. Abnormalities of parietal cortex in autism may be associated with disturbances of visuospatial-integration, impaired language, apraxia, and agnosia. Emerging evidence points to apoptotic mechanisms being responsible for certain neuropsychiatric disorders (Jarskog et al., 2000). We recently showed reduction of Bcl2 protein in cerebellum of autistic subjects (Fatemi et al., 2001). We investigated whether levels of Bcl2 and p53, two markers of cell proliferation and apoptosis, would be altered in parietal cortex of age, sex, and post-mortem-interval (PMI) -matched autistic subjects. The Institutional Review Board of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine approved this study. Postmortem parietal cortex blocks (Brodmann area 40) were obtained from the Autism Research Foundation and their contributing brain banks (Harvard Brain Tissue Research Center, University of Miami Brain Tissue Bank in contract to NICHD) from nine subjects ( n 5 5 autism, n 5 4 control) following consent from next of kin. DSM-IV diagnoses were established prior to death by neurologists and psychiatrists using information from all available medical records and from family interviews. Details regarding the subject selection, diagnostic process, and tissue processing were collected by the Autism Research Foundation. Samples were matched for age, gender, and PMI (Table I). All samples were stored at 2 86°C until use. The mean age for autistic subjects was 21.6 6 3


After more than a century of focus on internal, proprietary R&D as the driver for industrial innovation, today's managers face a dramatically different, more complex and difficult environment. Just how these R&D managers are thinking about the R&D "Lab" of the Future is a question we've been exploring over the past year with the support of the Industrial Research Institute and its Research on Research Subcommittee, the National Science Foundation and its Science of Science Policy and Partnerships for Innovation programs, the Center for Innovation Management Studies at North Carolina State University, IBM, and NASA. We have gathered information from hundreds of IRI member organization representatives via workshops, surveys and in-depth interviews. Our preliminary analysis reveals three "architectures for innovation," different arrangements of resources and people that diverge along underlying dimensions of how "external" versus how "internal" the focus is, and the degree to which the central innovation activity is "outside" versus "inside" the firm. There is no single, "one best way." Instead, the pace of change in an industry, the locus of interesting science and technology, and the complexity of the industry's goods or services seem to favor companyspecifi c arrangements. Does your firm fit in one of these? Or have you evolved a wholly different architecture? Read on ... and let us know. The Changing R&D Context While innovation is a perennial topic, the pace of change has so quickened in recent decades that the Global 500 executives surveyed annually by IBM have listed innovation at the top of their principal strategic concerns for the past decade (1). During this time, products and even services have become increasingly complex and increasingly dependent on multiple layers of technology. Meanwhile, the locus for research and discovery has dramatically expanded across the globe, as developing countries-most notably China and India, but others as well-have increased their commitment to R&D. Needed technical expertise has consequently broadened, while the cost and risk of go-it-alone innovation have become prohibitive. Whollyinternal and proprietary R&D has given way to "Open Innovation," strategic alliances, collaborative efforts, and even online "Seekers" and "Solvers" (as on InnoCentive's website). As a result, R&D executives and senior managers face critical decisions not only about research directions and projects, but about where and whether to hire, to build, to substitute simulation for physical experimentation, or to entirely outsource R&D activity. But while cost is the ostensible attraction for outsourcing, "the availability of highly-educated intellectual capital" has been identified as the real driver (2), at a time when U.S. nationals' enrollment rates in science, technology and engineering programs continue to decline. If it's easy to downsize and outsource R&D assets, it is vastly more difficult to (re)assemble, focus and manage them for effective and timely innovation. Newly hired researchers need time to become productive. A research direction must be selected, the problem focus refined, and specific technical questions and directions identified for inquiry. The old internal R&D lab worked well, in part because its teams were coordinated and had learned to work well together over time. They wove a repertoire of routines and expertise into a fabric of shared knowledge to be drawn upon again and again, deepening the firm's command of its underlying technology. They also developed what researchers call "absorptive capacity," the ability to make sense of, adapt, and utilize knowledge from whatever source, internal or external (3). R&D in the Brave New World Today's managers must somehow reassemble the scattered pieces of an increasingly complex puzzle. Preliminary analysis of the data we've gathered reveals that companies are pursuing three different approaches, adopting three different configurations, or architectures, of resources: * A multi-node, firm-centric network with offshore outposts grown from a strong and historically successful centralized research lab. …


QCAT has come of age in fulfilling the objects of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (Qld) (QCAT Act) in dealing with matters in a way that is accessible, fair, just, economical, informal and quick.


A facile synthesis has been demonstrated for the first time to construct self-host functional Ir-cored dendrimers up to the fourth generation on the basis of a newly developed polyether dendron, where the N-phenylcarbazole (NPC) moiety is used as the basic building block instead of benzene to improve charge transport whilst keeping the ease of preparation. With the growing generation number, the dendrimer size can be well tuned in a wide range of 4–10 nm. The obtained fourth generation dendrimer 45NPC-G4 is the largest Ir complex ever reported so far, having a diameter up to 10 nm and a molecular weight as high as 15.9 kDa. Most interestingly, the performance of non-doped phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhOLEDs) is found to be greatly dependent on the molecular size. For example, 9NPC-G2 (R ≈ 30 A) reveals the best luminous efficiency as high as 50.5 cd A−1 (56.6 lm W−1, 14.8%), whereas the efficiency of 45NPC-G4 (R ≈ 50 A) sharply drops to 10.5 cd A−1 (5.6 lm W−1, 3.4%). The results suggest that an appropriate size of 6 ± 2 nm is desirable to balance the dilemma between luminescence quenching and charge transport, and thereby realize highly efficient non-doped PhOLEDs.


A substrate of a thin glass material, such as the subject innovation is a semiconductor manufacturing equipment, books used in the substrate manufacturing facility of a thin glass material, such as the array substrate and the color filter substrate of a liquid crystal display device such as a TFT-LCD acceptor, a hot plate (hot plate) in the plate of an aluminum material or aluminum alloy material by processing the oxide film of the manufacture facility, to form a groove portion oxide film layer on the surface a plurality of columns formed working entire surface of the fine line in the vertical and horizontal directions (從 橫) on the front working surface of the plate the plate relates to a transparent glass substrate for manufacturing a plate of the work surface gave the semiconductor and liquid crystal display device increases the roughness (粗 度), in particular when the subject innovation will be a flat transparent glass substrate unloaded from the plate in the semiconductor and TFT-LCD liquid crystal display device minimize the contact area between the thin glass substrate and the transparent plate, and a space tongha concave portion on the fine lines in the vertical and horizontal Thin the semiconductor and TFT-LCD liquid crystal display device to be in the so-airflow surface cross by destroying the vacuum in the contact area prevented from being strongly adsorbed by the vacuum due to close contact with a smooth and stable separation of the thin transparent glass substrate clear glass to preclude the damage case of the substrate becomes a flat transparent glass substrate effective and economical able to be mass-produced at low cost and at the same time the working face is more stable machining state reliably achieved as zoom and thin, such as semiconductor and liquid crystal display device to significantly extend the service life of the transparent glass substrate for manufacturing plate with a number of uses will be able to perform maintenance and economically. Anodizing the plate, a susceptor, a liquid crystal display device, TFT-LCD, a hot plate, a hot plate, the semiconductor equipment


BACKGROUND
On the basis of the Heinz Nixdorf RECALL Study (HNR) we estimated the impact of classical atherosclerotic risk factors on different ankle-brachial-index (ABI) criteria.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
In a subgroup of participants (n = 2586) who had normal ABI at baseline ABI measurement was repeated at a 5 years follow-up and 3 different ABIs were defined: "ABI-high" calculated from the higher pressure, "ABI-low" from the lower pressure of both foot arteries of each leg. "Pure-ABI-low" was defined by exclusion of participants with ABI-high from those with ABI-low. Mönckebergs mediacalcinosis (MC) was accepted in case of ABI-high > 1.4 in one leg.

RESULTS
According to ABI-high 2 %, to ABI-low 7.8 % and pure-ABI-low 5.8 % of the participants developed peripheral arterial disease (PAD) (ABI < 0.9) and 3.6 % developed MC within the 5 years. Age did not play any role whereas female gender, diabetes mellitus and smoking were associated with an increased relative risk of pathologic ABI-high and ABI-low. Looking at the pure-ABI-low group only, female gender and smoking showed significant associations. None of the analysed risk factors except gender had an impact on the development of MC.

CONCLUSIONS
Classical risk factors have different impact on incidence of PAD as defined by different ABI criteria.


In the present work new possibilities of computer training, self training and knowledge received checking environments efficiency increasing, the architecture of the computer training environment to be designed with its features and efficiency increasing measures are presented. Among them there are environment openness, multimedia, new kinds of dynamic illustrations and interactive, hypermedia and expert media using and different directions and measures of environment adaptation to its users possibilities.


Abstract This paper reviews progress made in understanding the factors which control the supersolidus liquid phase sintering of high speed steel powders to full density. The correlation between alloy composition and sintering behaviour is discussed for a number of alloy systems. Realising that for complete densification it is necessary for sintering to take place in the liquid +γ+M6C+MC (or MX) phase region, two approaches have been developed to extend this critical phase field. This enables a scientific development of alloys that are more robust to process variations than currently sintered high speed steels of standard (for wrought materials) compositions. The new alloy systems possess wider process or sintering windows and have lower optimum sintering temperatures. The first approach relies on computer aided alloy design: vacuum sintering windows extending to 30–40 K at temperatures of 1170–1200°C have been achieved for novel Fe–C–4Cr–14Mo(–8Co)systems. The second approach involves sintering vanadium enriched high speed steels (HSSs) in nitrogen rich atmospheres. Such processing promotes the formation of MX carbonitrides in place of the more massive MC carbides. The solidus is lowered and sintering windows of ∼30 K at temperatures of 1140–1150°C have been achieved. Compared with wrought HSSs, directly sintered materials have uniform, coarser microstructures. The low levels of residual porosity achieved enable attainment of metal and wood cutting properties comparable to those achieved with wrought and hipped HSSs of similar compositions.


It is significant that smallpox is a disease imported into Britain. A population with a low level of im lIlunity, due to neglected vaccination, is ideal for the rapid spread of this highly infectious disease, which


We derive the analytic expression for the one-loop $SU(N_{c})$ QCD effective potential including $N_{f}$ flavor quarks which non-linearly interact with the chromo-magnetic background field and the external $U(1)_{em}$ magnetic field. After the renormalization of couplings and fields, we obtain the correct one-loop $\beta$ functions of both QCD and QED, and the resulting effective potential satisfies the renormalization group equation. We investigate the effect of the magnetic field on the QCD vacuum by using the effective potential, in particular for the color $SU(3)$ case with the three flavors ($u, d, s$). Our result shows that the chromo-magnetic field prefers to be parallel to the external magnetic field. Furthermore, quark loop contributions to the effective potential with the magnetic field enhance gluonic contributions, and then the chromo-magnetic condensate increases with an increasing magnetic field. This result supports the recent observed gluonic magnetic catalysis at zero-temperature in lattice QCD.


This article aims is to demonstrate the social aspect of the technology of human in acting "chameleon effect". It has been analyzed whether this result is behind the effectiveness of integration and training workshops, which back to profitable businesses in the form of increasing the employee productivity. The novelty of this study was to carry them out under natural conditions and in groups. To accomplish these objectives, longitudinal study were used, running in two stages. During the first – behavior of 100 students was controlled, and after four months in the second study – 84 students. The results confirmed the existence of the "chameleon e.ect" in groups, in natural conditions and demonstrated a significant impact on the efficiency of copying the exercise and a larger display of sympathy after the workshop integration. These results can be directly applied in practice.


In this article we review the three fluoroquinolone antimicrobials now marketed for systemic use in the UK (ciprofloxacin – Ciproxin; norfloxacin – Utinor, olfloxacin – Tarivid). All are fluorinated quinolone derivatives, the original of which was nalidixic acid, introduced over 30 years ago for the treatment of urinary tract infections.


The results of laboratory studies of the grinding processing process are given taking into account the evaluation of the quality of the surfaces of the shafts with disturbing vibrational influences on the equipment of external forces that are the consequence of sea waves, as well as the neighboring operating equipment in a floating workshop. To determine the influence of external influences on the quality of processing during grinding, an experimental stand was used, including a cylindrical grinding machine with a complex of test equipment, as well as a compressor placed at a different distance from the machine, creating external vibration effects simulating external disturbances through the surface Floor and foundation on the machine bed, corresponding to the effects of the external environment and the operating neighboring equipment. The dependences of the frequency of mechanical oscillations (in the measuring zones-the base-bed and the machine table guides in the transverse and vertical directions) are obtained, the amplitude of the vibro-displacement in these zones from the conditions of the circular grinding machine and sea-wave levels. The changes in the error in the shape of the machined parts, the roughness of the machined surface, the waviness of the roll neck surfaces according to the basic and achieved variants are determined taking into account the use of new designs of effective vibration isolating supports and devices.


In the "Philosophical Magazine" for September, 1883, we showed that certain relations existed between potential, current, watts (volt-ampères), and radiation in incandescence lamps, and that if p = the potential, c = current, w = watts, R = radiation, and a and b were constants, then (i) c = ap + bp3/2, and consequently that (ii) w = p2(a + bp½) ; further we showed that after the carbon filaments attained a certain heat, the radiation varied directly as the energy. (iii) R∝ (w — m) where m is a constant. We may incidentally mention that this relationship appears to hold good in a properly exhausted lamp, be the filament of carbon or of platinum, or presumably of other metals. In this case the sign in the left hand members of equations (i) and (ii) is changed. On laying down graphically the curve obtained by using the watts as the abscissæ and the radiation as ordinates, it was at once evident that the straight part is an asymptote to a curve having its origin at 0. It might, therefore, be presumed that each individual ray should increase in intensity in somewhat the same manner when the energy in the filament was increased, i. e., in some simple curve which would have an asymptote.


Abstract Research studies show a strong link between a teacher's sense of efficacy and student achievement as well as teacher retention. With the recent push for a highly qualified teacher in every classroom through the No Child Left Behind Act, it is important to understand how teacher preparation programs can contribute to a new teacher's developing perceptions of teaching efficacy. This study examines the perceived efficacy of teachers from traditional and alternative certification programs and their perceptions of the success of the pathways they chose to teacher certification. This study revealed that certification route, specialization area, and years of teaching experience appear to modulate teacher efficacy. Furthermore, the results of this study support the hypothesis that teacher efficacy is a developmental process dependent on the type of certification program a candidate completes.


For high power equipments in Industry, application of multilevel inverter has become popular. So, multilevel inverter have been widely used for high-power high voltage distributed generation(DG) applications. In this paper Reverse voltage(RV) multilevel topology is proposed, which has reduced number of switches, electromagnetic interference & increased efficiency. This work focused on operation & integration of a single phase RV multilevel inverter with photovoltaic(PV) sources. PV system is made to operate with maximum power output at a point know as maximum power point(MPP).In this paper a fuzzy logic controller is used as MPPT controller. The proposed work is verified through simulation using MATLAB/SIMULINK


The formation of ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) has not been well understood. Previous works show that ultrashort orbital periods (less than 1 hr) may be reached through mass transfer driven by magnetic braking in normal low/intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (L/IMXBs) only for an extremely small range of initial binary parameters, which makes it difficult to account for the rather large population of UCXBs. In this paper, we report the calculated results on mass transfer processes in L/IMXBs with a circumbinary (CB) disk. We show that when the orbital angular momentum loss due to a CB disk is included, ultrashort orbital periods could be reached for a relatively wide range of initial binary parameters. The results of our binary models suggest an alternative formation channel for UCXBs.


Review(s) of: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price Robert Greenwald (dir.), Brave New Films, 2005. Review(s) of: The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy, by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox (AEI Press, Washington DC, 2007, 175 pages).


Blood Vessels Rupture in Liposculpture and Other Surgeries Blood remains liquid in normal conditions within the bloodstream. Within the vascular system, the pressure is greater than that in the surrounding tissues, therefore, there is always risk of blood loss and vascular lesions in surgical techniques carried out in aesthetic surgery, aesthetic phlebology, or those used by other specialties. 20 These losses must be avoided at all costs by the surgeon, because they open the way to infection and can increase the danger of surgical shock. II The type of hemorrhage that is usually seen in liposculpture is capillary or in small vessels. In those techniques of varicocelectomies through mini-incisions or in the other used in phlebology, it is common to observe postsurgery the presence of hematomas caused by surgical extraction maneuvers.v'" The frequency of postsurgical hematomas is 4%. The rupture of lymphatic or blood vessels has been divided into three varieties, depending on whether liquid filters into tissues, collects inside them, or, if the rupture is simply serum. So we have ecchymosis, hematoma, or seroma, respectively.


currently affiliated with the Indiana University Public Policy Institute, works with public safety agencies and social services organizations to provide impartial applied research on criminal justice and public safety issues. CCJR provides analysis, evaluation, and assistance to criminal justice agencies; and community information and education on public safety questions.


Organophosphates (OPs) are compounds that were specifically designed to be used as insecticides, herbicides, and nerve gases. However, recent studies have shown that exposure of animals to these agents results in Parkinsons Disease (PD) like symptoms. These symptoms result from the loss of pigmented dopaminergic cells in the pars compacta region of the substantia nigra. It has been reported that some OPS are responsible for this process. However, the molecular mechanisms by which this occurs are ill understood. We therefore proposed that Paraoxon and Trichlorfon induce neuronal cell death by inhibiting the release and expression of growth factors. Cells treated with OPs and analyzed by Cell MTS assay and Fluorescent microscopy revealed that both Paraoxon and Trichlorfon induced cell death at 20μM. Raybio cytokine array analysis showed that cells exposed to 80μM Trichlorfon had a marked decrease in the release of FGF9, FGF7, IGFBP3, IGFBP6, βNGF, VEGF‐D. Direct PCR was used to validate if inhibited release of growth factors was due to reduced gene expression. Results obtained showed that both Trichlorfon and Paraoxon significantly decreased the expression of FGF6, FGF9, MCP4, PARC, MIF and IFNγ. These results indicate that OPs induce neuronal cell death by specifically inhibiting the release and expression growth related proteins and genes.


This study explores long-term deviations from wind averages, specifically near the surface across central North America and adjoining oceans (258‐508N, 608‐1308W) for 1979‐2012 (408 months) by utilizing the North American Regional Reanalysis 10-m wind climate datasets. Regions where periods of anomalous wind speeds wereobserved (i.e., 1 standard deviation below/above both the long-term mean annual and mean monthlywind speedsateachgridpoint)wereidentified.Thesetwoclimaticextremeswereclassifiedaswindlulls(WLs;below) orwindblows (WBs;above).Majorfindings for the NorthAmerican studydomainindicatethat1) meanannual windspeedsrangefrom1‐3ms 21 (IntermountainWest) toover7ms 21 (offshoretheEastandWestCoasts), 2) mean durations for WLs and WBs are high for much of the southeastern United States and for the open waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, respectively, 3) the longest WL/WB episodes for the majority of locations have historically not exceeded 5 months, 4) WLs and WBs are most common during June and October, respectively, for the upper Midwest, 5) WLs are least frequent over the southwestern United States during the North American monsoon, and 6) no significant anomalous wind trends exist over land or sea.


Objective Antibiotic resistance has increasingly been recognized as the major cause of treatment failure for Helicobacter pylori infection. The study was designed to compare the propensity of Helicobacter pylori to develop in vitro resistance to five commonly used antibiotics and to investigate the rates of resistance to these five antibiotics. Methods The serial passage tests were done in 7 sensitive Helicobacter pylori strains (2 type strains and 5 clinical isolates) to induce the resistance to amoxycillin, tetracycline, furazolidone, metronidazole or clarithromycin in vitro. The agar dilution tests detecting the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) were performed in 165 strains of Helicobacter pylori isolated from 2000 to 2001 to determine the resistance rates to the 5 antibiotics mentioned above. Results Serial passage tests showed that 5 of 7 strains of Helicobacter pylori were induced to be resistant to metronidazole and tetracycline; the inducible multiple of metronidazole was the highest. No strain was induced to be resistant to clarithromycin, but the inducible multiple of one strain was relatively high. No strain was induced to be resistant to amoxycillin or furazolidone, and the inducible multiple of furazolidone was the lowest. The resistance rates of Helicobacter pylori to metronidazole, clarithromycin, amoxycillin, tetracycline and furazolidone were 49.7% (82/165), 7.3%(12/165), 1.2% (2/165), 2.4%(4/165) and 1.2%(2/165), respectively. Conclusions Our study indicate that it is quite easy to induce the resistance to metronidazole,not difficult to clarithromycin, and relatively difficult to furazolidone or amoxycillin. The relative degree of difficulty in inducing the resistance to the drugs other than tetracycline is associated with the resistance rates detected, the fact that may help predict the changing trend of resistance rates in general population.


This article covers a nouveau idea of a way to collect and handle geophysical data with a peer-to-peer network in near real-time. The text covers a brief introduction to the cause, the technology, and the particular case of collecting data from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations. We describe the proof-of-concept implementation that has been tested. The test was conducted with an experimental GNSS station and a data aggregation facility. In the test, original raw GNSS signal measurements were transferred to the data aggregation center and subsequently to the consumer. Our implementation utilized the BitTorrent protocol to communicate and transfer data. The solution could be used to enable the majority of data aggregation centers for fast, reliable, and transparent real-time data handling experience for the benefit of the scientific community.


The entry to the WTO will change the situations of competition with which Chinese enterprises are faced.In order to adapt themselves to the demands for competition,enterprises must attach great importance to brand operation at a strategic level and foster and develop their own famous brands.


It is often necessary to introduce the main characteristics of population mobility dynamics to model critical social phenomena such as the economy, violence, transmission of information, or infectious diseases. In this work, we focus on modeling and inferring urban population mobility using the geospatial data of its inhabitants. The objective is to estimate mobility and times inhabitants spend in the areas of interest, such as zip codes and census geographical areas. The proposed method uses the Brownian bridge model for animal movement in ecology. We illustrate its possible applications using mobile phone GPS data in 2020 from the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, in Mexico. We incorporate the estimated residence-mobility matrix into a multi-patch compartmental SEIR model to assess the effect of mobility changes due to governmental interventions.


Corrective feedback (CF) has been the focus of different ESL/EFL educators and researchers. It has been a source of debate among them for about four decades. Many controversies are associated with different variables of corrective feedback. This paper discusses some of these controversial issues in light of what experts and recent research have found. Given the need for more studies in written CF, this paper investigates the effect of direct focused written corrective feedback on EFL students' writings. Tag questions, conjunctions, quantifiers, and articles were the focus of the direct written CF. The writings of 49 EFL students in pre feedback phase, post feedback phase and delayed test were collected and analyzed. The results revealed a significant difference between the pre and post feedback phases indicating the short-term effect of direct focused written corrective feedback. However, no significant difference was found between the pre feedback phase and the delayed test. The paper, then, concludes with some general guidelines drawn from the present researcher's review of literature, and her reflection on corrective feedback based on her experience as a learner and a teacher.


A quantum model on DNA structure is proposed. By introducing the self-consistent harmonic potential in the X-Y plane vertical to helix axis (z-direction) and the periodic potential along the z-axis we obtain the wave function for the single nucleotide and the many-nucleotide system. The helix distribution of bases is deduced from the solution of wave function under the self-consistent potential. The variation of DNA structure (polymorphism) is related to the periodicity of the potential in Z-axis, the quantum state occurring in harmonic potential and the interaction between helix strands. As Watson-Crick (W-C) interaction is introduced between double helices, the quasi-particle transformation is utilized to solve the interacting many-body problem for DNA. It is proved that the phase-transition (thermal denaturation) temperature is related to the frequency ω of harmonic potential. Through comparison with experimental data a simple relation (N means number of base pairs and V the W-C coupling) is deduced. For a DNA sequence of 1000 bp ω is predicted about (0.9-1.2)×1017/sec. Such a high frequency is necessary for nucleotides of each strand located on a narrow tube. The large temperature fluctuation experimentally observed during DNA thermal denaturation is interpreted by the collective motion of nucleotides.


The simulation technique of modal and transient response analysis of cantilever beam with viscoelastic material layer was studied through the integration of FEA and experiments in this paper.Then,this method was used to approach on the benefits of vibration properties of car body structure with viscoelastic material layer,and so as to improve the ride quality for railway vehicle design.This study concludes that viscoelastic material layer can reduce certain vibration of railway vehicle structure.


Members of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) family are pleiotropic cytokines with key roles in tissue morphogenesis and growth. TGFβ1, TGFβ2 and TGFβ3 are abundant in mammalian reproductive tissues, where development and cyclic remodelling continue in post‐natal and adult life. Potential roles for TGFβ have been identified in gonad and secondary sex organ development, spermatogenesis and ovarian function, immunoregulation of pregnancy, embryo implantation and placental development. However, better tools must now be employed to map more precisely essential functions and the regulatory networks governing their activity. Gene ablation and transgenic models are expected to provide novel insights into distinct physiological activities for each TGFβ isoform in normal reproductive function and reproductive pathologies. It is also necessary to consider the mechanisms controlling TGFβ activation from latent precursor forms, and receptor and binding protein expression. Smad intracellular signalling circuitry and modulation by environmental stimuli through cross‐talk with other signal transduction pathways will further constrain TGFβ action. This review examines existing evidence for TGFβ1, TGFβ2 and TGFβ3 regulation of male and female reproductive biology, and highlights prospects for future research. BioEssays 24:904–914, 2002. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Catchment Management Concept: Robert C. Ferrier (The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen) and Alan Jenkins (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) 2. Wetland Management: Mike Acreman (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) and J. Owen Mountford (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) 3. Flood Management: Ralph M. J. Schielen (Centre for Water Management, Lelystad) 4. Ecological Consequences of River Channel Management: Nikolai Friberg (The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen) 5. Managing Agricultural Catchments to Sustain Production and Water Quality: Andrew Sharpley (University of Arkansas), Marty Matlock (University of Arkansas), Louise Heathwaite (Centre for Sustainable Water Management, Lancaster University) and Tom Simpson (Water Stewardship, Inc., Annapolis) 6. Effluent Management: Alan Jenkins (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) and Robert Ferrier (The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen) 7. Managing Urban Runoff: J. Bryan Ellis (Urban Pollution Research Centre, Middlesex University) 8. Catchment to Coast Systems - Managing Microbial Pollutants for Bathing and Shellfish Harvesting Waters: David Kay (School of Geography, University of Leeds), Adrian McDonald (School of Geography, University of Leeds), Carl Stapleton (School of Geography, University of Leeds), Mark Wyer (School of Geography, University of Leeds) and John Crowther (School of Geography, University of Leeds) 9. Irrigation Management in a Catchment Context: Shahbaz Khan (UNESCO, Paris) 10. Managing Potable Water Supplies: Bernard Barraque (LATTS-ENPC, Marne-la-Vallee) 11. Managing Catchments for Hydropower Generation: Haakon Thaulow (Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo), Arve Tvede (Statkraft Energy Production, Environment and Concessions, Lilleaker), Tor Simon Pedersen (Statkraft Energy Production, Environment and Concessions, Oslo) and Karin Seelos (Statkraft Energi AS, Oslo) 12. The Danube River - The Most International River Basin: Philip Weller (International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, Vienna) 13. Murray-Darling Basin - Integrated Management in a Large, Dry and Thirsty Basin: Sarah Ryan (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra) 14. Water Resources in South East England - A Dilemma in Sustainable Development: John C. Rodda (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) 15. Managing the Catchments of the Great Barrier Reef: Jane Waterhouse (CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship and Reef Water Quality Partnership, Aitkenvale), Mike Grundy (CSIRO Land and Water, St Lucia), Iain Gordon (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale), Jon Brodie (Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research, James Cook University, Douglas), Rachel Eberhard (Eberhard Consulting Pty Ltd, Dutton Park) and Hugh Yorkston (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville) 16. Catchment Management Case Study - Senegal River: Mike C. Acreman (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) 17. Laguna De Bay - A Tropical Lake Under Pressure: Maria Victoria O. Espaldon (School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos) 18. Chesapeake Bay Catchment Management - Lessons Learned from a Collaborative, Science-Based Approach to Water Quality Restoration: Tom Simpson (Water Stewardship, Inc., Annapolis) 19. The Glasgow Strategic Drainage Plan: J. Bryan Ellis (Urban Pollution Research Centre, Middlesex University) 20. The Ruhr Catchment (Germany) - The Contribution of Reservoirs to Integrated River Basin Management: Gerd Morgenschweis (Water Resources Management Department of Ruhrverband, Essen) 21. Evolution of River Basin Management in the Okavango System, Southern Africa: Piotr Wolski (University of Botswana, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre), Lars Ramberg (University of Botswana, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre), Lapo Magole (University of Botswana, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre) and Dominic Mazvimavi (University of Botswana, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre) 22. Basin Management Approaches Used in a High-latitude Northern Catchment - The Mackenzie River Basin: Frederick J. Wrona (Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, Environment Canada,University of Victoria), Joseph M. Culp (Canadian Rivers Institute, Environment Canada, University of New Brunswick) and Terry D. Prowse (Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, Environment Canada, University of Victoria) 23. The Future for Catchment Management: Robert C. Ferrier (The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen), Alan Jenkins (Centre for Ecology and Hydrolog, , Wallingford y) and Kirsty Blackstock (The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen)


The effect of the Revenue Act of 1962 upon the taxation of permanent stock savings associations is significantly more complicated, and somewhat more burdensome, than its effect upon the taxation of mutual savings associations. In the next few pages I will try to assess the effect of the 1962 Act, both from the practical standpoint of how it works and what the stock associations should or at least might do about it.


Amplitude and phase variations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) radio signals used by the aeronautic community occur due to ionospheric irregularities (ionospheric scintillation), which may cause the degradation of service availability and performance, raising safety issues. This is particularly true in the Appleton Anomaly region, where the occurrence of ionospheric irregularities is known to be frequent. In this work, the results from an analysis of the impact of ionospheric irregularities on the single point positioning performance of GPS is presented and discussed. The results show that the developed model has a good positioning measurements and few discrepancies. However, in the presence of ionospheric scintillation, degradations of positioning quality are observed. These promising results can be applied to data from other stations and positioning system, with the objective of directly characterizing ionospheric scintillation effects.


Purpose : To compare the size and bone wall thickness of the maxillary sinus in normal, preoperative and postoperative maxillary sinusitis patients. Materials and Methods : The author analyzed CT images of both left and right maxillary sinuses in 357 patients who visited Chonbuk National University Hospital between January 1997 and December 1998. The size and bone wall thickness of the maxillary sinus of normal, inflammatory and post-Caldwell-Luc groups were compared. Results: The significant differences of transverse, maximum medio-lateral, maximum supero-inferior dimensions and medio-lateral dimension at nasal floor level between normal and post-Caldwell-Luc groups were found (P0.05). The significant differences of postero-lateral, infero-lateral and medial wall thickness between normal and post-Caldwell-Luc groups were found (P


The reform of the Senate, the Upper House of the Cortes Generales, has long been a major topic in Spanish political and academic debates. At a time when the Senate's reform is apparently under way, this paper studies all the issues involved, as well as the options open to the reformers in relation to the Senate's composition and powers, in view of the experience in similar Chambers in other countries and in view of the available literature. Regarding its composition, the paper argues that Senators might either be chosen in regional districts, or by the Parliaments of the Autonomous Communities, and considers unsuitable the Bundesrat model. In relation to its functions, the reformed Senate should bring its legislative powers closer to the Congress', as well as emphasize its territorial character. In any case, all proposed reforms must take into account their consequences on the institutional framework set up by the 1978 Constitution. 86 Una primera y original propuesta de dos sistemas distintos de votacion, in capita y comunitario, en el que los representantes de cada Comunidad Autonoma tendrian un solo voto, en R. BLANCO VALDES («La reforma del Senado», cit., pag. 45). El voto comunitario afectaria a la reforma de la Constitucion, la financiacion de las Comunidades Autonomas, la aplicacion del articulo 155 CE, la autorizacion de tratados internacionales y de acuerdos de cooperacion entre Comunidades Autonomas y la distribucion del Fondo de Compensacion Interterritorial. En estos casos, el Senado dispondria de veto no superable por el Congreso de los Diputados.


With the rapidly economic growing rate, the price of the household ranks to the top and becomes the current issue in Chinese. In this study, it will give interpretation through different angles such as the eastern, middle, and western market. Then, study analyzes the representative 15 cities and then extracts into the 11 indexes of the price of housing. During the analyzing, the information of common factors are identified from 11 indexes and named into 3 common categories in order to obtain composite scores of the 15 cities and seek the root causes that influence development of real estate beyond the expected.


Malaria is an ancient disease in India. Known as the 'king of diseases', malaria was estimated to cause 75 million cases and 0.8 million deaths annually. In epidemic years, morbidity and mortality used to increase 2–3 times. Ravages of malaria were so rampant and devastating, that the economic growth of the country remained paralysed. Economic loss to the nation due to malaria was estimated at Rs 75,000 million annually, at 1940 rupee value. Malaria was the single biggest disease with which Indians had to suffer perennially. Etiology of malaria remained obscure, and so was its scientific treatment. Briefly, the major discoveries that led to the scientific approach to malaria control started with the discovery of its causative agent in 1880 by Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. While working in a military hospital in Constantine, Laveran discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan parasite and for the discovery he received the Nobel Prize in 1907. In 1897, Ronald Ross demonstrated malaria transmission by mosquitoes in Hyderabad and a year later, in 1898, in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He received the Nobel Prize in 1902. The Indian Society for Parasitology celebrated 100 years of this epoch-making discovery on 20 August 1987 in Hyderabad, and paid homage to this great genius of his times. Following this discovery, malaria control was attempted by Ross in Mian Mar town (now in Pakistan), but the results were disappointing. The discovery of residual insecticidal action of DDT by Paul Muller for the control of vectors of malaria and yellow fever raised hopes of malaria control worldwide. For this discovery Muller received the Nobel Prize in 1939. Initial impact of DDT spraying produced spectacular results by killing malaria-carrying mosquitoes for several months. Thus rural malaria control had become a reality.


In view of the wide variety of telecom packages and the difficulty of adapting to the needs of users, this paper introduces a recommendation model for telecom packages based on deep forests. This paper first analyzes the telecom package data, and then optimizes the deep forest according to its characteristics such as discrete, continuous attribute interleaving and high coupling characteristics, including the use of decision trees to discretize continuous features and design continuous window sliding mechanism. These methods can improve the ability of deep forest combination high coupling features. Finally, the model optimization measures were verified by detail experiments. The experimental results show that the optimized deep forest can be applied to the telecom package recommendation field. Compared with other shallow models and unoptimized deep forest models, the deep forest model has increased the F1 score by 5%; after adjusting the deep forest hyper parameters, the F1 score can be increased by 2%.


This report tries to address youth employment challenges, and suggests measures that countries will need an integrated approach involving different levels of government and linking with overall development and employment policy that reaches beyond the labour market and education sectors. The report discusses steps needed by governments to complement any short-term and youth-specific measures with longer term policies to stimulate labour-intensive growth. In a low-growth or capital intensive growth environment, programs aimed at improving youth employability risk having no or only limited impact.


Recently, many researchers have shown interest in robots and their applications in various medical applications (Invasive and Non-Invasive Diagnostic Testing).This paper introduces developing of master and slave robots that aid radiologists perform ultrasound tests on the human body. Three degrees of freedom Movements for ultrasound imaging are provided for master device and slave robot. The probe of ultrasound machine is fixed in the slave and touches human body through the end of design to decrease the volume of the slave. The master is depended on linear actuators to be controlled in real-time. The master and slave robotic system was developed and a movement tracking test was shown with the introduced system.


Love is a big and subjective topic in human life. It is an important element in a marital relationship. This study aims to investigate the relationship between love and marital satisfaction among ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. This study implements a survey study design using a questionnaire aimed at gathering personal background information and measuring marital love and satisfaction among the sample population. A total of 384 ethnic Chinese samples who were Malaysian citizens in the age group from 25 years to 44 years old and have been married for at least one year and above voluntarily participated in this study. Overall, the findings showed that love has a significant relationship with marital satisfaction. Love in this study which has been divided into three components namely, intimacy (r = 0.852 **, p <0.00), passion (r = 0.835 **, p <0.01) and commitment (r = 0.737 **, p <0.01) showed a very high significant relationship with marital satisfaction. These findings show the importance of love in helping to increase marital satisfaction among married couples. Among the implications of the study is to enrich the field of psychology that focuses on marriage and culture and counselling as well as sharing knowledge that can serve as a reference to the helping profession.


With Orchidaceae plant Spiranthes sinensis mycorrhizal fungi as the test material,by the mycorrhizal fungi separated,purified and cultivated mycorrhizae of Spiranthessinensis,setting temperature,light condition,carbon sources,nitrogen sources,acidity and alkalinity and so on for single-factor test,the growth conditions and culture traits of mycorrhizae of Spiranthes sinensis were studied in different culture conditions.The results showed that Spiranthes sinensis mycorrhizae could grow within 5~30℃,and 25℃ was its optimum temperature;in all kinds of light conditions could grow,the optimum condition was dark;the optimum pH was pH 4.0to 5.0;its optimal carbon sources was fructose;the optimal nitrogen source was NH4NO3.


Although research on natural resource and ethnic identity-based conflict abounds, studies which critically examine how the state fragility–conflict nexus shapes the contemporary security of the Horn of Africa are rather limited. Qualitatively designed, this study attempts to explore and explain security implications of such a nexus. Analysis of the regional security complex (RSC) and empirical data from the field reveal that conflict dynamics feed and fuel state fragility in the Horn of Africa sub-region. The presence of extra-regional security actors, who are competing for military bases along the coast of Djibouti, the spill-over effects of violence in Yemen, and the Iran–Saudi power rivalry, together with incompetent regional political leadership, tend to shape the security of the Horn. Hence, a new and innovative approach to contemporary security and political commitment are sine qua non since the existing institutions and policies are not fully capable of coping with the need for a new security regionalism. It is hoped that the recent rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, albeit at an embryonic stage, is and will be a positive force capable of bringing about a paradigm shift in security structure, and inducing a viable and sustainable economic, political and security community in the Horn of Africa. Keywords : conflict dynamics, Horn of Africa, military bases, political community, regional security complex, state fragility


Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is one of the most promising techniques to achieve high spectral efficiency for 5G. In the NOMA downlink, a transmitter allocates different power levels to users and linearly combines user signals using the square roots of the power levels. A constellation point of the combined signal can be very close to other points, which degrades bit error rate (BER) performance severely. To overcome such degradation, the proposed NOMA system rotates phases of the user signals and then linearly combines the resultant signals. On the receiver side, multiuser detection (MUD) is introduced so as to improve BER performance more than successive interference cancellation (SIC), which the conventional scheme employs. Since the proposed scheme with phase rotation (PR) for 2-user signal transmission has been thoroughly investigated, this paper considers 3-user transmission in the proposed NOMA scheme and proposes one method to optimize two angles of PR, whereas another method previously proposed by the authors can control only one angle. Computer simulations under the 3-user condition demonstrate that the proposed scheme employing PR and joint MUD and SIC for signal detection is much superior to other schemes in downlink BER performance and that the two optimization methods bring about almost the same BER.


This study proposes a distinctive and robust spatial and geometric histograms (SGHs) feature descriptor for three-dimensional (3D) local surface description. The authors also introduce a new local reference frame for the generation of their SGH descriptor. To fully describe a local surface, the SGH descriptor considers both spatial distribution and geometrical characteristics in its underlying support region. To encode neighbourhood information, the SGH descriptor is constructed using histogram statistics with spatial partition and interpolation strategies. The performance of the SGH descriptor was rigorously tested on six public datasets for applications of both 3D object recognition and registration. Compared to eight state-of-the-art descriptors, experimental results show that SGH achieves the best performance on noise-free data. It also produces the best results even under different nuisances. The promising descriptiveness and robustness of their SGH descriptor have been fully demonstrated.


It is indeed my greatest pleasure to welcome all delegates to the sixth International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia (ICIMμ). Alhamdulillah, once again, College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional is organizing the ICIMμ. Sixteen years have passed since the first ICIMμ was held in September 1998 and the last sixteen years have witnessed the evolution of the ICIMμ series, in line with the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) and the initiatives of the government.


SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has created serious public health issues claiming millions of human lives worldwide. Few vaccines for the control of COVID-19 are now available under emergency user authorization. However, many aspects of SARS-CoV-2 such as vaccine efficacy, pathogenesis, and transmission related to emerging variants still need to be explored. Various animal models have been studied for COVID-19 research. Of these, hamsters and nonhuman primates have been found to be the best models which share highest similarity with human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2. Both of these animals have been used effectively for testing of vaccines and drugs, and other basic research on this disease. Here, we have discussed the utilization of Syrian hamster and nonhuman primate in COVID-19 research with special focus on preclinical studies on vaccine and drug discovery.


Pity Abraham Lincoln. Everything that should have gone right for the Union cause in the spring of 1864 had, in just a few weeks, gone defiantly and disastrously wrong. For two years, the 16th president had toiled uphill against the secession of the Confederate states, against the incompetence of his luckless generals and against his howling critics from both sides of the congressional aisle. Finally, in the summer and fall of 1863, the course of the war had begun to turn his way. Two great victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg staggered the Confederates, and those were followed by a knockdown blow delivered at Chattanooga by the man who was fast becoming Lincoln's favorite general, Ulysses S. Grant. "The signs look better," Lincoln rejoiced, "Peace does not appear so distant as it did." [excerpt] Comments This blog post was originally published in the New York Times as part of the Disunion series in the Opinionator blog. Required Publisher's Statement Original version is available from the publisher at: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/thepoliticalwar/?_php=true&_type=blogs&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+gettysburgmedia+%2528In+the+Media%2529&_r=1 This blog post is available at The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cwfac/58 Opinionator The Political War


The key issues of three-dimensional load test,such as test setup,loading scheme and control scheme are still not studied in-depth in the previous research,and obviously,these issues will have a significant impact on the development of theory study of material damage and material model. By comparing several groups of test setup,the setup applicable for three-dimensional loading was designed and this setup covers different slenderness ratios,different loading schemes. The test setup,monitor and data acquisition system were designed to simulate the mechanical behavior of specimens under complicated three-dimensional loading. Then the stability of the setup and data acquisition system can be verified by two groups of compared experiments,which is undoubtedly a milestone in conducting on the study of material damage and material constitutive model under three-dimensional loading test.


The project of repudiating the exceptionalism associated with the Cold War–era founders of American studies came at the same academic moment as the canon debates—they both started in the mid-1980s. They are twinned countercultural movements, and at their origin they were explicitly interrelated. We've debunked American exceptionalism, but we're still practically glued to the old-fashioned canon—at least where the nineteenth century is concerned. This essay takes up the incompletion at the heart of what began as a conjoined movement against the exceptionalisms of national and literary canons, arguing that our attachment to canonical authors indexes the larger insolvency of our anti-exceptionalist project. It argues for a different critical methodology, one grounded in self-criticism, incompletion, and imperfection.


The significant influence of stable ammonia recovery process on melamine production technique based on perspectives of the energy efficiency;equilibrium of ammonia;heat;and water was illustrated.Furthermore,an optimization design on the process of stable ammonia recovery was brought forward.


The US Agency for International Developments (USAID) NIS (Newly Independent States) program commissioned this study on the legal status of women in the NIS in order to gain an overview of gender differences in the effects of recent and proposed legal reforms in the region. Communist efforts to achieve equality and equity for men and women failed and recent legal changes have relegated women to traditional roles. Because the contribution of women is necessary to achieve the political and economic transition USAID is supporting in the region it is important for USAID to understand what is happening and to anticipate the impact of new legislation on gender issues. The first part of the report details womens work force status and political assimilation under communism and at the current time. The first chapter in this part provides a summary and chapter 2 describes the effect of the current crisis on women and USAIDs commitment to women. Chapter 3 sketches the economic and social status of women in the NIS and chapter 4 focuses on Russia. The fifth chapter points out research needs recommends short-term assistance targeted to womens needs (providing education and training programs for all age groups and supporting female entrepreneurship in traditional and nontraditional areas) and discusses other issues related to female productivity in the NIS. The second part of the study examines the differential impacts of current and proposed legislation on men and women. The chapters in this part provide an introduction; a look at the cultural context; a review of substantive law in the areas of Constitutional law property and economic law family law education labor law and sexual harassment; a discussion of the gendered nature of legal structures; and recommendations for USAID action.


A quantitative feedback theory (QFT) method of Horowitz, treating nonlinearities as equivalent disturbances, is applied to the linear control of a multi‐machine power system. This system has a smooth nonlinear dynamics so the original approach was simplified. From the design point of view good results were obtained with simple controllers (automatic voltage regulator, speed governor, power system stabilizer) when the power system was affected by large load variations and short circuits. To reduce significantly the steady state errors which appeared, a novel rotor speed error amplification scheme was employed. This increased the autonomy of the controlled power system to combat big distortions from normal operating conditions. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


(4,5). The interactions of contaminants and the resident microbiota are often overlooked or given only cursory consideration in many environmental toxicological studies. However, environmental contaminants may affect microbiological activities. Biotic effects can range from stimulation to inhibition, depending on the form and concentration of the contaminant. If pollutants are either acutely or chronically toxic to part or all of the microbial population, alterations in the normal pathways of carbon, energy flow, and productivity within a system may be expected. The microbiota can affect the fate of many contaminants by contributing to their removal through uptake, degradation, (for organic contaminants) (Fig. 8.2) or transformation (for metals) (Fig. 8.3). However, excessive toxification can impair the capacity of a particular system to detoxify itself,


Care in the early years entails more than childcare. This paper has three major sections. In the first section, I begin with an introduction and a quick overview of the ECEC system in Australia. This snapshot of the Australian ECEC system presents a messy map of the care and education system for young children under a neoliberal political economy to elucidate what this may mean in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this contextual background of the ECEC system in Australia, in the second section I discuss my theoretical, ethical, political, ontological, and epistemological positioning when re-imagining and reconceptualizing what a socially just ECEC landscape might look like through the lens of a feminism approach. This onto-epistemological discussion explains the shift toward a feminist approach and how this enables me to (re)think about care and education in the early years differently. Taking up this different set of analytical tools with a post-structural sensibility of the politics of caring, in the third section, I continue on to critical analyses and discussions, highlighting the paradoxes of care and education in the early years. A key aim of this paper is to un-settle the taken-for-granted ways of thinking and talking about ECEC in Australia. I build my discussions by unsettling the dominant ways of thinking about care and education in the early years to deconstruct the narrowed political rhetoric of care in the early years as childcare only. I assert such a critical analytical position requires a new language from a new onto-epistemological positioning to mobilize a different system of reasoning as a strategy for re-imagining a new landscape toward an ethical world with social justice and greater social inclusion for all children.


Career stress is one of the current issues that university students have to deal with. Although there are many reasons, it is stated that perfectionism can be one of the main reasons for the formation of stress. On the other hand, it is supported by the literature that the perception of social support can be a source that can reduce this effect. For such reasons, this study aims to examine the mediating role of perceived social support in the relationship between university students' perfectionism and career stress. A total of 433 university students, 311 (71.8%) female and 122 (28.2%) male, participated in the sample of this study. The measurement tools used to collect data in the study are the 'Big Three Perfectionism Scale-16'', 'Career Stress Scale' and 'Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support'. The research findings explain that the perfectionist personality traits of the students have a positive and significant effect on career stress. It is also explained that perceived multidimensional social support has a partial mediating role between perfectionism and career stress. The findings of the research were discussed in relation to the literature.


In this paper, we study chance-constraint vehicle routing with stochastic demands. We propose a setpartitioning formulation for the underlying problem and solve it via a branch-and-price method. Our method is flexible in modeling different types of demand randomness while ensuring that the resulting problem is tractable. An extensive computational analysis, which includes simulation tests and a sensitivity analysis, is carried out to investigate the solution quality and computational efficiency. Some large instances of the underlying problems from the VRP library are solved to optimality for the first time. Our sensitivity analysis provides some useful insights about the impact of the probability of route failure on the decision variables, the expected cost and the route reliability. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )


BACKGROUND: The theory that posthospitalization stress might increase the risk of postdischarge complications has never been investigated. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether serum levels of stress biomarkers at discharge are associated with readmission and death after an acute‐care hospitalization. DESIGN: We prospectively included 346 patients aged ≥50 years admitted to the department of general internal medicine at a large community hospital between April 8, 2013 and September 23, 2013. We measured the serum levels of several biomarkers at discharge: midregional pro‐adrenomedullin, copeptin, cortisol, and prolactin. All patients were followed for up to 90 days after discharge (none was lost to follow‐up). The main outcome was first unplanned readmission or death within 30 days after hospital discharge. We assessed the additional value of biomarkers to 2 validated readmission prediction scores: the LACE index (Length of stay, Admission Acuity, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and number of Emergency department visits within preceding 6 months) and the HOSPITAL score (Hemoglobin level at discharge, discharge from Oncology service, Sodium level at discharge, any Procedure performed during index hospitalization, Index admission Type, number of Admissions within preceding 12 months, and Length of stay). RESULTS: Forty patients (11.6%) had a 30‐day unplanned readmission or death. High serum copeptin and cortisol levels were associated with an increase in the odds of unplanned readmission or death (odds ratios [95% confidence interval] 2.69 [1.29–5.64] and 3.43 [1.36, 8.65], respectively). We found no significant association with midregional pro‐adrenomedullin or prolactin. Furthermore, these stress biomarkers increased the performance of two readmission prediction scores (LACE index and HOSPITAL score). CONCLUSION: High serum levels of copeptin and cortisol at discharge were independently associated with 30‐day unplanned readmission or death, supporting a possible negative effect of hospitalization stress during the postdischarge period. Stress biomarkers improved the performance of prediction models and therefore could help better identify high‐risk patients.


On the occasion of the retirement of Saskia J. Stuiveling as the president of the Netherlands Court of Audit, eight former heads of audit institutions took to the stage to talk candidly about their work. Topics covered included innovations in the field, the effects of the financial crisis on their profession, changes resulting from the open data movement, and the need for new skills to audit the oil industry. This book presents their discussion, offering a snapshot of the current state of the profession at its highest levels.


The article presents a clinical observation of an extremely rare in gynecological practice androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS). The authors give data on the pathogenesis of the disease, modern classification and terminology of various forms of this pathology. The phenotypic manifestations of the disease, the results of clinical and instrumental studies and surgical treatment are described.The results of the study show the possibility of clinical diagnosis of AIS and timely surgical treatment of patients with this pathology, due to the high risk of gonadal malignancy.


The invention relates to a method of treating a component which is destined for a facility for producing or processing of glass melts and having surfaces which are made of precious metal and are affected in the operation of the glass melt. DOLLAR A The invention is characterized by the following features: A DOLLAR, the component is exposed prior to its start-up during a certain period of time an oxidizing atmosphere.


In this paper, we study the quadratic perturbations of a one-parameter family of reversible quadratic systems whose first integral contains the logarithmic function. By the criterion function for determining the lowest upper bound of the number of zeros of Abelian integrals, we obtain that the cyclicity of either period annulus is two. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result for the cyclicity of period annulus of the one-parameter family of reversible quadratic systems whose first integral contains the logarithmic function. Moreover, the simultaneous bifurcation and distribution of limit cycles from two-period annuli are considered.


This paper proposes an asynchronous serialized link for NoC that can achieve the same levels of performance in terms of flits per second as a synchronous link but with a reduced number of wires in the point to point switch links and reduced power consumption. This is achieved by employing serialization in the asynchronous domain as opposed to synchronous to facilitate the removal of global clocking on the serial links. Based on transistor level simulations using 0.12 mum foundry models it has been shown that it is possible to achieve the same level of performance as synchronous but with 75% reduction in wires and 65% reduction in power for a 300 MFlit/s link with 8 buffers with a switch clock speed of 300 MHz. Furthermore the paper presents the design requirements arising from interfacing switches of synchronous NoC and asynchronous serial links.


An interview of Dr Michael Maziere by Emilie Bickton for the Telesur Broadcast series Rear Window edited by Tariq Ali Screenwriter Emilie Bickerton reviews the exhibition Chantal Ackerman NOW at the Ambika P3 Gallery in London. Looking back across her career with curator Michael Maziere, Bickerton asks whether Akerman's move from the cinema to the gallery was out of choice, and a success.


The article focuses on studying the operational properties of regenerated engine oils in terms of the impact on the wear of friction units of the trunk diesel engine when it works on the fuel of different grades. There have been built generalized models of marine diesel parts wear on the basis of experimental studies. Diesel 2Ч10,5/13 was used for experiments. Wear was determined by the method of artificial bases and by weighting. Four groups of the main indicators
of fuels used on ships have been considered (depending on the quality indicator). The first group includes distillate fuels and low-viscosity marine fuel which is close in its characteristics to foreign fuels. The second group includes motor fuel, naval fuel oil and export fuels (medium viscosity fuels). The third group presents high-viscosity marine fuel; the fourth group - fuels made from the remains of oil refining. The description of the generalized model of details wear of the tested diesel engine was carried out by a polynomial of the second order. To obtain the model, a non-position plan was chosen for three test variables: concentration of additives in oil, a fuel quality factor and a level of diesel forcing. The superposition of the hypersurfaces of the response of wear functions
of the internal combustion engine with diesel boosting factors at zero, lower, and upper levels with visualizing the effect on engine wear parameters depending on the additives concentration and quality of the fuel used in testing regenerated engine oil has been illustrated. Verification of the model's adequacy has proved that the model is adequate for machines with average effective pressure and a wide range of fuel grades. There has been given the possibility of using the obtained model to estimate the wear value at different values of parametric factors


Disaster is rarely something that can be anticipated, but with the proper preparations, you can help minimize the risks, damage, and perhaps even prevent some incidents. How best to recover from hurricanes and other storm damage.


Industry 4.0 is a new concept, thus risk assessment is necessary. Several risk assessment methods for Industrial Control System (ICS) and Industry 4.0 have been proposed, however, it is difficult to identify impacts on the physical world caused by cyber attacks against ICS since many of these are based on tabletop analysis or software simulations. Therefore, we focus on the risk assessment using actual machines (ICS testbed) which can help to solve the above problems. In Industry 4.0, autonomous judgment and execution are required for the cyber-physical system, it is based on information exchange using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies. In this research, we evaluate cyber risks through attacks against ICS with AI and cloud using ICS testbed. The proposed method can clarify cyber risks and impacts on the real world, and corresponding countermeasures.


In article the author justified need of formation of information culture of future expert in the conditions of the changing external information environment, revealed the maintenance of structural components of information culture, considered metaknowledge understood as the knowledge supplied the information on activity mechanisms and its structure. The expert owning metaknowledge, successfully, rationally and quickly carries out information activities which take considerable time in any professional activity. The author justified importance of the metaabilities allowing future expert to adapt quickly in the conditions of obsolescence of knowledge.


Distance second language learning is essentially practical and skill-based requiring personal, social and occupational language-mediated activities with other speakers using the target language. Computer technology has long been used to try to overcome the challenges of distance learning although with limited success. To improve this situation, the authors developed a theoretical framework for second language learning that combined a cognitive student model with a collaborative group model. As the underlying access to information and computational resources becomes more ubiquitous, the framework is less able to represent how a specific computing device and real-world context mediate the selection and structuring of materials and activities, therefore, limiting the framework's effectiveness for second language learning. Hence, the existing models need to be complemented with a functional ubiquity model, which characterises the way in which the degree of ubiquity defines the types of learning activities and resources available in the framework.


Wire EDM machines are used to cut all conductive material of any hardness or toughness or those are difficult or impossible to cut with conventional methods. Wire electrical discharge machining process is a highly complex, time varying & stochastic process. Electrical discharge machining has been extensively used for cutting intricate contours or delicate cavities that would be difficult to produce with a conventional machining methods or tools. A review of the research work on Wire EDM is presented in this paper. Some important research work of the recent years has been discussed. The review revealed that majority of the researchers have focused research work on performance parameters of the wire EDM process, multi objective optimization of the input and performance parameters, dimensional accuracy of the WEDM, development of mathematical model of the process. Researchers have used different types of statistical methods for the analysis of the experimental results. Grey Relation analysis is used in some research work for the multi objective optimization. Taguchi method in combination with ANOVA is used to analyze the result data and significant effect of parameters on performance characteristics . The review relies on notable academic publications and recent conference proceedings. Keywords-WEDM, Cutting speed, MRR, Spark gap, Surface finish, Kerf width, Taguchi Method


Image interpolation has been used widely to perform magnification by predicting missing details from a sampled image. As most of the signal information is distributed around edges and areas of sharp changes, there is a need of designing an interpolation technique that is able to predict these changes precisely. However, many conventional polynomial-based interpolation methods tend to smooth or blur out image details around the edges. In this paper, a novel method called Lagrange time delay estimation interpolation (LATDEI) model is proposed, to confront the problem. Simulation results shows that the consistency of LATDEI performance, in obtaining better images, implies that it is a promising estimator for image interpolation of various images. Compared to two traditional methods, the proposed LATDEI method improves the subjective quality of the interpolated edges while providing a better resolution.


The present case study aimed at understanding musical heritage, examines the problematics involved in the restoration and conservation of pipe organs. Attention is particularly focused on the great number of organs in Sicily and the ensuing problems due to a lack of clear legislation able to protect their authenticity and artistic value. The success of organ activity also in the south of Italy is made evident in the evolution of its form and the progress made in its sound system. However, prompt historical and artistic research is required to assess the size of this heritage and programme its proper recovery. Besides the methodological difficulties involving direct intervention on the organs, there are also problems related to the writing up of the documentation concerning the restoration work carried out. This is due to the fact that there is no uniformity in the compilation of these documents, preventing the issue of correct information regarding the technical characteristics and artistic features of these instruments.


At present,traditional test device can not satisfy the requirement of avionic device integrative test which is more and more complicated.An ATS(automatic test system) is developed based on PXI bus which virtual instrument technology and LabVIEW are applied to.This paper describes the methods of design and implementation by the hardware and software.Especially,the design of TUA(test unit adapter) and the method of fault diagnosis based on expert system are introduced.This system has good man-machine interface.It is steady,efficient and convenient to use and maintenance.


Two independent self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers were synchronized by a thin fused silica slab. The relative carrier-envelope phase slip was directly detected by beat frequency measurement. A simple optical feedback model was used to simulate the synchronization process.


We present numerical simulations of the generation of coherent LO phonons in an electrically biased quantum well. An ultrashort laser pulse is used to simultaneously excite two exciton levels, which leads to an oscillating dipole moment that couples to the polar lattice and drives the phonons. The generation of coherent phonons becomes resonantly enhanced if the splitting of the two exciton levels is tuned to the LO phonon energy. In this case relaxation by emission of incoherent phonons becomes also possible. Our calculation therefore takes into account incoherent phonons on a quantum kinetic level as well. The intersubband relaxation by excitation of incoherent phonons competes with the generation of coherent phonons and is dominant in terms of the energy transferred.


According to the base on principle-one of the important operational systems of WTO, all member states of WTO are required to comply with the principles of WTO by which, as the newcomer of WTO, Chinese government and enterprises should abide. They are the principles of most-favored-nation treatment, national treatment, market open, fair trade and equality between right and duty. Facing opportunities and challenges, our government and enterprises, by taking positive actions, explore ways of survival and developing. The quality measure discussed in this article is an effective method.


Blog is an emerging media power, the media blog is a rising phenomenon of the press. Compared to the area of blog has accumulated considerable discussion with the academic literature newspapers, the media blog is still a small number of relevant studies. The statements focus on the news media and blog different attributes of the fair and integration in the media blog field formed by special aims to understand how the media blog in content and the relationship with the news media at the difference between the existing media What has brought in ecological possibilities. Study found that most of Taiwan's media blog by individual operators, the lack of official representatives of the media edit blogs, and the Anglo-American media is the biggest difference between the blog. Strictly speaking, the media in Taiwan have blog only person-to-person relations, the media has yet to establish a personal relationship between the formal, in other words, the media blog in the news media outside the establishment.Under such circumstances, journalists' media blogs, have become media has been in the news media blog audience and the only channel of communication. This makes, it is more detailed in a press cutting performance of the media unit, from journalists and audience one-on-one interaction. This amendment to the previous media ecology, "Media - audience Group" groups, and enter the "journalists - audience," person-to-person relations. For journalists' media blog content, the largest meaning in the news is the significance of the news process. In contrast to news media, online news and blog circle the common people in the news writing is about "fast", journalists, media blog, and the stress is not fast, but in deepening news breadth and depth of possibilities. In addition, the media blog real potential lies, first, what can independent of the pressure on media organizations, journalists can not by looking back to communicate with the public; second, whether the media as a whole can have self-discipline, that the power of the media blog use of the results of two-way communication.


Considering the potentialities of using storytelling in English classes for children, this paper aims to present a suggestion of a lesson plan based on the story Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and point out aspects that the teacher can consider to select a story and develop activities with the students. After a brief review on the characteristics of children and the benefits of storytelling to the students' linguistic development and critical education, we present the chosen book and its main features. Moreover, we offer a suggestion for three classes with three activities each, which aim to explore multiple ways of construction of meaning that can be used in activities based on children's stories.