Abstract In all matters regarding climate change, the modern world presents complex challenges which highlight how investments in infrastructure have as of yet been inconclusive. The emission percentages calculated by relevant studies demonstrate the need for long-term investments in infrastructures, to ultimately reduce the impact on the environment and our health. To this end, in alignment with the principles expressed in the Paris Agreement – reducing global warming and incentivising a zero-emission transportation system – and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these new infrastructures will require a structural change that can be guaranteed by multilateral development banks (MDBs), given their nature, especially within developing countries. MDBs play an important role in supporting local governments, on the one hand creating a prosperous environment for sustainable infrastructures and, on the other, providing innovative financial instruments that could increase the financial sector's participation. In this paper, aft er a brief excursus on the Paris Agreement's role in the global climatic crisis, there will be an evaluation of the relations between MDBs and climate finance, with a focus on green bonds.


Although there is a growing interest in the influence of multicultural issues in education, there is still a lack of theoretically well-grounded comparative analyses of educational systems. Topics such as problems and prospects involved in the development of multicultural pedagogy are broadly discussed, but often suffer from an insufficient number of empirical and comparative studies. The lack of systemic or unified research in the field of multicultural education has reduced multicultural pedagogy within education to the simple implementation of individual training courses. As a result, multicultural pedagogy is generally oriented only toward the needs of a single country, rather than toward a system of multicultural interests that takes into account the interests of multiple countries. As a result, we must develop methods that will enable the realization of true multicultural pedagogy. The leading objective should be, firstly, the consideration of the individual as a subject of culture in a multicultural environment with a goal to determine the significance of the formation of an individual's multicultural qualities; secondly, the development of an integrative approach. Comparative studies are taking the lead in addressing this goal and recommending specific steps to incorporate multicultural pedagogy more systematically into an existing education system in every country. This paper addresses these problems by discussing theoretical questions behind the development of the ideological basis of multicultural pedagogy.


Abstract. For cable-driven parallel robots elastic cables are used to manipulate a mobile platform in the workspace. In this paper, we present a hybrid position-force control, which allows for applying defined forces on the environment and simultaneous movement along the surface. We propose a synchronous control of the cable forces to ensure the stability of the platform during movement. The performance of the controller is experimentally investigated regarding contact establishment and dynamic behavior during a motion on the cable robot IPAnema 3.


For the purpose of language retrieval for English listening, this paper designs and implements a cross-language information retrieval system for English listening. Different implementation methods of cross-language information retrieval, query, and translation are analyzed. The system adopts cross-language information retrieval technology based on bilingual dictionaries. According to the cross-language retrieval system of the existing bilingual dictionaries and monolingual dictionaries, based on the design and implementation of the fuzzy search dictionary lookup mechanism, the existing dictionary lookup mechanism is constructed and analyzed. Aiming at the problem of translation ambiguity in information retrieval systems based on bilingual dictionaries, a disambiguities elimination algorithm based on cooccurrence technology is proposed. In continuous speech, the speed of different speakers in different contexts is very different. Deviation from normal speech speed often leads to recognition errors, which makes recognition performance decline. Considering that the influence of speech speed on the length of speech units increases or decreases synchronously, and there is a strong correlation between the lengths of adjacent speech units, an adaptive speech speed algorithm is proposed based on the framework of implicit Markov model based on the information of the length of speech units. Experiments on number string and large vocabulary continuous speech recognition show that the algorithm is effective.


The efficacy acceptability and side effects of a contraceptive containing .5 mg of norethindrone and .1 mg of mestranol were studied in 71 patients over 418 menstrual cycles. After clinical examination of the patients it is concluded that the drug is well tolerated effective and without serious side effects. 2 pregnancies occurred during the test and they were due to incorrect use of the drug. Alterations of the menstrual cycle were slight and previous irregularities were generraly corrected. There was a slight tendency to lose weight. Nausea was reported in 14% of the cases being slight (90%) to moderate (10%) without cases of vomiting. Spotting and bleeding occurred in 16 cases. Premenstrual tension was improved markedly in 84.8% of the cases that showed it. Headaches nervousness and dizziness were moderate. Other complaints more difficult to correlate with the treatment included frigidity (2.8%) loss of hair (2.8%) persistent amenorrhea (1.4%) and chloasma (1.4%). Of 4 patients who discontinued treatment 1 complained of marked dizziness and nervousness.


Declining soil fertility is a major cause of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to describe Kenyan acids soils, 11 sites were selected, described and sampled. Laboratory analyses conducted included: soil pH, total carbon and nitrogen, loss on ignition, extractable phosphorus, exchangeable bases and Al, cation and anion exchange capacities, and ammonium oxalate and dithionate citrate bicarbonate extractable iron. With a few exceptions, the results indicate the following general trends: low soil pH, low P, low effective cation exchange capacity, and relatively high aluminum saturation. Low plant nutrient reserves, particularly phosphorus, and likely aluminum toxicity seem to be the major limitations for sustainable agricultural use and management of these soils.


A new method was proposed for simulating digital yarn blackboard based on a yarn image acquisition system.The system was mainly consisted of a computer,a single-chip micro-computer,a stepper motor,and a digital video microscope,and it was used to capture sequence images for a moving yarn.And then the images were processed by image grey-scale transformation,image segmentation,morphological opening operation and area filtering process.The yarn evenness information was extracted from the yarn core image.Finally,the digital yarn blackboard was constructed with the yarn evenness information.


A Record of Decision (August 1990) required pump-and-treat remediation of the contaminated groundwater plume extending beneath Building 3001 at Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), OK. Operations inside Building 3001 (a 62-acre aircraft overhaul facility) had, in past decades, contaminated the underlying shallow aquifer zones with industrial solvents--primarily trichloroethylene (TCE) and chromium. The discussion will detail how horizontal extraction wells have greatly enhanced contaminant removal, thereby reducing the duration and cost of the remediation effort. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) required that contaminated groundwater be extracted from both the perimeter and the heart of the plume. This required placing extraction well screens beneath the center of Building 3001. Because installation of conventional vertical wells inside Building 3001 would have disrupted critical aircraft overhaul operations, five horizontal wells were drilled from outside the building using slant drill rigs and steerable down-hole drilling motors. Each horizontal well is more than 900 feet long, and each places 200 feet of extraction screen in the areas of highest contaminant concentration. The upper aquifer zone is a thin perched aquifer. A conventional vertical well would allow only about 15-feet of productive well screen, thus restricting flow to 2 or 3 gallons per minute (gpm) per well.more » The longer horizontal well screens have allowed extraction rates of 8 to 18 gpm per well. The increased flow rate has significantly improved plume control and capture and has accelerated contaminant mass removal, reducing ultimate duration and cost of remediation.« less


The hydrodynamics and mixing process within droplets travelling along a three dimensional serpentine microchannel are studied using a computational fluid dynamics simulation based on the volume-of-fluid approach. The fluid mixing within the droplet follows symmetric circulations in the straight section, which generates axial mixing. In the winding section, the asymmetric circulations lead to the reorientation of the fluids within the droplet, thus enhancing the mixing efficiency. The mixing performance is controlled by the spatial distribution of the mixing components and the circulation period within the droplet. The best mixing occurs when the droplet size is comparable with the channel width. When the droplet size is less than two times the channel width, the asymmetric circulations make it easy for the fluid to distribute in the axial direction, which leads to a fast mixing process. For larger droplets, the long circulation period becomes more significant, which causes lower mixing efficiency.


The opportunity to transfer information from a location to another has always held a position of capital importance for the mankind. The relevance of telecommunications is uncontested due to countless reasons, spanning from philosophical to tactical. The increasing demand for high data rate services is the driving force of the scientific research in this area. In order to provide the final user with a fast and reliable service, many technical challenges have to be completed. For what concerns the physical layer of communications, increasing the data rate usually involves a detrimental effect on the reliability of the link. Theoretical bounds of reliable transmission has been derived for channels affected by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The performance in AWGN channel is a useful benchmark, because wireless communication systems are usually affected by further problems. One of the most discussed impairments that heavily deteriorates the performance is the interference, which is the topic discussed here. This thesis embeds the most of the author's works during his Ph.D. course. In particular, each section is or contains an excerpts of publications. In the first chapter, the impact of impulsive interference on multi-carrier systems is analysed and a novel transmission scheme to improve the performance is proposed. Sec. 1.2 and Sec. 1.3 are based on references [1,2], respectively. Chapter 2 derives from [3, 4] and shows how impulsive interference can be modelled as an additive noise through the Laplace distribution. Hence, the structure of the optimum receiver is provided and discussed for this particular distribution. Chapter 3 concerns interference produced by terminals belonging to the same system, in particular the LTE standard. Indeed, the high frequency reuse, aiming to maximize spectrum efficiency, leads to intra-system interference which limits the benefits of this approach. This chapter gathers [5–7]. Finally, Chapter 4, following from [8, 9], deals with a different approach to manage interference coming from terminals of the same system: rather than avoid or mitigate, the physical layer network coding exploits mutual interference to increase the transmission rate. Thesis Supervisor: Romano Fantacci, Full Professor Thesis Supervisor: Dania Marabissi, Assistant Professor Thesis Supervisor: Norman C. Beaulieu, Full Professor The other publications achieved during this Ph.D. are [10–14]


A welfare state works towards building a model society where there is no place for inequity, whether based on wealth, gender, race, caste or creed. However, in a developing country like India, where the state has limited resources for social and economic upliftment of its people, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can play a very critical role. India today ranks at a low 136 among 186 countries on its human development index (HDI) according to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report 2013. HDI is a composite measure of life expectancy, access to education and income levels. These statistics reveal that an effective role of alternative development agencies like NGOs can ensure greater access and equity for the marginalised sections of the society through their works of philanthropy and promotion of human values like gender equality, rural development, respect for environment, promotion of education and economic equality. The present study is an attempt to comprehend the role of NGOs in India as a powerful catalyst to bring a positive growth in promotion of human values. It focuses on NGOs working in India to bring innovative solutions to promote human philanthropy – both social and economic through their efforts.


The article describes major features of the anthroponyms of the foreground and the background characters used in one of the most important novels of a Nobel Prize winner, an outstanding Spanish writer, Camilo Jose Cela.


The purpose of this thesis was to examine music's role and importance in event marketing. Today event marketing has come to be a well accepted marketing tool and has proven to be an effective way to reach consumers. In order to understand how companies in this sector use music to affect people and how strategic choices concerning music and artists were made, a case study based on interviews was conducted on three different companies in the Event marketing industry. The study has shown that music plays a major role in event productions because of its ability to influence man and create certain moods and that the choice of music genre as well as artists has a considerable impact on event image and that precaution concerning these choices must be taken. Innehållsförteckning 1. Inledning........................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Bakgrund......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Problemdiskussion ......................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Syfte ................................................................................................................................. 4 2. Teori.................................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Musik inom event marketing ........................................................................................ 5 2.1.1 Musikens roll i evenemanget ................................................................................... 5 2.1.2 Musik som promotionverktyg och påverkansmedel ................................................ 7 2.2 Artistoch musikvalets påverkan på evenemangets image........................................ 9 3. Metod.............................................................................................................. 12 3.1 Litteraturstudie ............................................................................................................ 12 3.2 Forskningsstrategi........................................................................................................ 12 3.3 Val av fallstudieobjekt ................................................................................................. 12 3.4 Datainsamlingsmetod................................................................................................... 12 3.5 Analysmetod ................................................................................................................. 13 3.6 Metodproblem .............................................................................................................. 13 3.6.1 Validitet ................................................................................................................... 13 3.6.2 Reliabilitet ............................................................................................................... 14 4. Empiri............................................................................................................. 15 4.1 OTW AB........................................................................................................................ 15 4.1.1 Musik inom event marketing ................................................................................. 15 4.1.2 Artistoch musikvalets påverkan på evenemangets image................................... 16 4.2 LiveStockholm AB........................................................................................................ 17 4.2.1 Musik inom event marketing ................................................................................. 17 4.2.2 Artistoch musikvalets påverkan på evenemangets image................................... 18 4.3 Bodén & Co. Kommunikation AB.............................................................................. 19 4.3.1 Musik inom event marketing ................................................................................. 20 4.3.2 Artistoch musikvalets påverkan på evenemangets image................................... 21 5. Analys ............................................................................................................. 23 5.1 Musik inom event marketing ...................................................................................... 23 5.1.1 Musikens roll i evenemanget ................................................................................. 23 5.1.2 Musiken som promotionverktyg och påverkansmedel .......................................... 24 5.2 Artistoch musikvalets påverkan på evenemangets image...................................... 25 5.3 Svar på forskningsfrågor............................................................................................. 27 6. Slutdiskussion ................................................................................................ 28 6.1 Slutsatser och återkoppling till syftet ......................................................................... 28 6.2 Teoretiskt och praktiskt bidrag .................................................................................. 28 6.3 Förslag till fortsatt forskning ...................................................................................... 29 Referenser .......................................................................................................... 30 Bilaga 1: Intervjuguide Inledning _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


textabstractThis article traces the influence of the Arab Spring on Iraq as activists staged fervent protests against the corruption, sectarianism, and favoritism of Nouri Maliki's government. A group of young Iraqi intellectuals, journalists, students, government employees, and unemployed youth posted their plan to organize demonstrations against the government using social media in February 2011. This study investigates the use of Facebook and YouTube, which bypassed the government's attempt to limit the coverage of these protests. Indeed, the events during the Arab Spring in Iraq crossed sectarian lines and united Iraqis against the Shiite-dominated government. I examine the five most popular Facebook pages and more than 806 YouTube clips and their 2,839 comments related to the Iraqi Arab Spring. The study reveals that young Iraqi men between the ages of 25 and 30 were the most active bloggers, while those between the ages of 20 and 24 were the most active commentators during the protests. Iraqis living in the United States and Canada played an important role by posting YouTube clips and comments. A gender disparity was evident; Iraqi men posted more video clips and comments than women.


The utility model relates to a straight screwdriver with a casing, which is characterized in that a step-shaped screwdriver rod is inlaid on a handle of the screwdriver, a slideable casing is arranged on a thinnest rod at the middle section of the screwdriver rod, an internal stop of the casing is arranged at the rear end of a screwdriver head, a retractable spring is installed at the rear end of the casing, and the rear end of the spring is blocked at the front end of the thickest rod of the screwdriver rod. By using the straight screwdriver, a screw can be rapidly screwed into a screw hole without using a hand to support the screw, and thereby the straight screwdriver is more suitable for screwing screws in deep holes.


Abstract (Clarence) Henry Warren (1895–1966), my great-uncle, was an author and broadcaster on the English countryside. He was known for his contentment in the life of the countryside and a passionate concern for the future of rural England. This article evaluates his substantial literary output. It begins by describing his ancestry in the farming communities of Hertfordshire and his upbringing in a village in the hop country of Kent, and goes on to survey five decades of his writing career and some of the distinguished illustrators who enhanced his work. Warren is placed within 'the rural tradition' of countryside writing, and he is compared with similar writers from his own century and earlier. The paper also assesses Warren's contribution to 'A kinship in husbandry', a group of influential advocates for the English countryside during the 1940s. Finally, some conclusions about his enduring legacy are attempted, including a consideration of what his 'contentment' really comprised. At its best his writing achieves a creative balance, valuing the traditions of the past but not romanticising 'the good old days', enjoying what has survived into the present but working to ensure its preservation for the future.


This report discussed the use of insulation in confmed space for optimization
of heat flow. The objective of this project is to compare the insulation materials of a
confined space for the optimization of heat flow. The scope of this project is to study
the effect of several insulation materials for confmed space, i.e. oven, using several
heat sources and to find the optimum material based on time and cost. Several
materials are tested for pven insulation. Simulations of heat flow pattern as well as
experimental data are discussed. Suitable insulator will be based on heat maintained;
cost and time. The experimental data are derived from the insulation testing on two
type prototype ovens such as square shape and hexagon shape. The insulators are
also tested using several heat sources. The results show that the use of insulation in
the prototype oven has h~lp reduce the time for cooking several food products.


Model-based systems engineering applies a variety of model kinds, each with its own fidelity and exactness level. Based on experience we gained while modeling an aircraft landing gear with the objective of numerically defining its various parameters that fulfill engineering and safety requirements, we present the model fidelity hierarchy (MFH). At this hierarchy's bottom, vaguest level, is spoken language, followed by free written text, conceptual model, its augmentation with computational capabilities, and finally an executable version of that model. Using object-process methodology (OPM ISO 19450) with its computational extension, we present this hierarchy by describing the landing gear model as it progresses through these levels, and the kinds of mistakes revealed while transitioning from one level to the next. The MFH, identified and defined in this article, is made possible by using OPM, which enables these level transitions to be information lossless, providing the most value while requiring the minimal effort. The ability of this continuous, seamless modeling approach to detect errors with increasing accuracy justifies our OPM approach, as errors revealed in this early system lifecycle stage are exponentially less costly to correct than those revealed downstream.


textabstractDuring the fifth week of fetal life, formation of the genital ridges starts in the posterior
abdominal wall, in response to colonization by primordial germ cells, migrating
from the yolk sac. By the end of the sixth week, the male and female gonads are
indifferent. Differentiation of the gonads is triggered by the sex-determining-region
on the Y-chromosome. The first step in male gonadal development is differentiation of
Sertoli cells, which produce anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH). Subsequently, between
the eighth and tenth week, AMH induces regression of the Mullerian ducts. Thereafter,
mesenchymal cells differentiate into Leydig cells, which produce testosterone.
Further differentiation of the urogenital system into male derivatives is then ensured
by testosterone. In absence of the sex-determining-region on the Y-chromosome,
producing the testis determining factor, the gonad differentiates into a female genital
system. In addition, production of AMH is lacking and Mullerian ducts, also called the
paramesonephric ducts, continue to differentiate into fallopian tubes, uterus and upper
part of the vagina. From the seventh week of fetal life onwards, germ cells differentiate
into oogonia. Through mitotic cell divisions, the number of oogonia increases steadily
and during the third month, the first oogonia begin to transform into oocytes. From
the fifth month onwards, the oogonia enter meiosis. In addition, the oocytes are
encapsuled by a single layer of pregranulosa cells, forming the primordial follicles.
Meiosis is arrested during the first prophase of the first meiotic division, when the
homologous chromosomes pair and the primordial follicles enter a dormant state.


The Lake Wobegon Effect (LWE) describes the potential measurement-error bias introduced into survey-based analyses of education issues. Although this effect potentially applies to any student-report variable, the systematic overreporting of academic achievements such as grade point average is often of preeminent concern. This concern can be easily circumvented if official records data are available; however, many researchers can only access student-reported data. In this article, the authors examine whether using student-survey data in place of official records data meaningfully biases regression estimates. They motivate their contribution by noting a useful statistical feature of overreporting on bounded variables such as grade point average. Specifically, the misreports will be negatively correlated with the true grade point average, yielding a form of nonclassical measurement error that actually counteracts the bias. The authors connect this observation to reliability ratios used in labor economics, which are simple ways to adjust for attenuation bias, when needed. In two applications, we find that it is unnecessary to correct for the LWE bias because it is so small.


The ancient Greek and Roman civilization are commonly regarded as the intellectual and political bases for the modern European civilization. In my paper, I have proceeded to examine the reforms of three illustrious emperors of ancient Rome: Diocletian, Hadrian, and Octavian Augustus. I conclude that the common feature that they share is that they have not proceeded to any serious administrative, judicial, nor economic reforms.


Cadet Training ship which was operated by Politeknik Ilmu Pelayaran Semarang have old enough, it was built in 1984 . In that age, some damages in the machinery occur specially the main propulsion engine.  Maintenance activity is done in the hope that it can maintain the machinery function under normal condition.The research is started by data taking from the engine log book  to get TTF,  by observing the failure pattern, the writer can determine the critical system and component to make its blocks diagram function. Then, the model of component failure is analysed with FMECA and the help of weibull++ software, the writer try to find the exact opportunity distribution parameter. Analysing the reliability quantitatively, the writer finds the component reliability value. Premium solver Microsoft excel is used for optimizing the maintenance and repair schedule determination. The result of the research shows that maintenance interval and optimum repair with minimum cost is designed every two years for the docking. The amount of the budget proposed for 2 years is Rp 1.193.489.636,- divided into 2-years budget proposal, that is Rp 477.395.855,- in the first year or Rp 39.782.988,- each month and Rp. 716.093.782,- in the second year or Rp 59.674.482,-each month.


PurposeThis paper introduces "virtual fun at the virtual workplace" and conceptualizes its impact on virtual socialization and the formation of virtual professional ties. The conceptual model also recognizes the moderation of a few variables: "awareness of being observed," "diversity in the virtual workplace" and "virtual impression management."Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes a theoretical approach to develop a conceptual framework of virtual fun in the virtual workplace, drawing on social exchange theory (SET) and social network theory (SNT).FindingsThe study extends the tenets of the SET and extends the applicability of SNT to a virtual workplace. The study suggests that managers should introduce semi-organized virtual fun during scheduled breaks within work hours to aid in virtual socialization, which further aids in the formation and strengthening of "professional ties" in the virtual workplace.Originality/valueThis study is the first of its kind to conceptualize a model for virtual fun in the virtual workplace.


Machine Learning (ML) is traditionally formalized as the study of learning concepts from labeled examples. We are interested in providing a way for a human teacher to interact with a learner using natural instructions, thus allowing the teacher to communicate the relevant domain expertise to the learner without necessarily knowing anything about the internal representations used for learning. We introduce a learning algorithm for the instruction interpretation problem that gets feedback from its performance on the final task, while learning jointly (1) how to interpret the lesson and (2) how to use this interpretation to do well on the final task. This approach alleviates the supervision burden of traditional ML by focusing on supplying the learner with only human-level task expertise.


interleukin-2 provided recurrent islet autoimmunity. We tested the effect of daclizumab induction therapy on autoreactive lymphocytes and recall immunity compared to ATG induction therapy in a cross-sectional study in T1D patients successfully transplanted


This paper presents a novel magnetorheological (MR) damper with a self-powered capability, which is proposed to have energy harvesting and MR damping technologies integrated into a single device. Vibration energy harvesting mechanisms were adopted, based on ball-screw mechanisms and a rotary permanent magnet dc generator, to convert the external vibration energy into electrical energy to power the MR damping unit. The configuration and operating principles of the proposed self-powered MR damper were presented. Considering the core loss effect on the magnetic field, a theoretical analysis of the proposed MR damper was carried out and a mechanical model was developed. Finally, a prototype with a capacity of 10 kN was fabricated and experimentally investigated in both the direct-supply mode and the supply-with-rectifier mode. The results indicated that the proposed configuration is feasible and that both modes can realize good self-adaptability of the MR damping force. However, the direct-supply mode has a sag effect in the force–displacement curve and provides a lower energy-dissipating capacity than the direct-supply mode does under the same conditions.


This paper introduces the method of overload protection for multi-electric motor circuit with 8051 sigle-chip micro-computer technology and points out the implementary thought and the method of the programme design.


Shape recovery fiber reinforced self-healing plastic which achieves full strength recovery is developed. In this system, microcapsules containing dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) as healing agent are dispersed in epoxy resin matrix. Moreover, thermal shrinkage fibers coated by weak interlayer with Grubbs catalysts are uniaxially oriented. When a crack is introduced to the material, it propagates through the matrix and branches along the interlayer while breaking the microcapsules. Then DCPD flows from microcapsules into the cracks and polymerizes. At the same time, the fibers thermally shrink due to the polymerization heat, and the cracks are completely healed and closed. Furthermore, shape recovery ratio is defined as ratio of "closed crack width" with respect to "initial crack width", and can be rewrote as ratio of loads. Tensile tests were carried out using flat plates with a notch, and they were pulled in the fiber direction. After the crack introduction, the displacement was kept constant. The specimen was heated to about 70°C, and temperature and load change were measured until the stress reduction was done. As a result, the shape recovery ratio was calculated to be 7.89% due to the temperature rose caused by polymerization. Therefore, the full strength recovery can be expected by demonstrating the shape recovery effect of this material.


[eng] Labour in agriculture : news demands, new issues . Organization of labour in agriculture has known new trends for the last four or five years. These trends may impulse deep transformations in the running of farms and beyond this, in the characteristics which used to shape their identity. In the first part, we analyse the different economical, domestic and psychological reasons which explain the present needs for labor and its new features : flexibility and qualification. The second part is supported by a survey which we are conducting in Beauce and Brittany, in order to show the changes already observable at the level of the different devices supposed to answer these needs : adaptation of the existing devices (cuma, eta, replacement services) and new devices (employers groups, exchange circles). Observing these new practices confirms at the same time the still undeterminated character of the ongoing changes and the hypothesis of a deep rupture. [fre] L'organisation du travail en agriculture connait depuis quatre ou cinq ans de nouvelles tendances d'evolution susceptibles de transformer profondement le fonctionnement des exploitations et, plus largement, leurs caracteristiques identitaires. Dans une premiere partie sont analysees les differentes raisons, economiques, familiales et psychologiques, fondant la demande actuelle de main-d'œuvre et ses caracteres nouveaux de flexibilite et de qualification. La seconde partie s'appuie sur une enquete en cours, en Beauce et en Bretagne, pour montrer les changements deja observables au niveau des differents dispositifs repondant a cette demande : adaptation des dispositifs existants (cuma, eta, service de remplacement) et mise en place de nouveaux dispositifs (groupement d'employeurs, cercle d'echange). . L'observation des pratiques nouvelles confirme le caractere encore indetermine des changements en cours, mais conforte l'hypothese d'une profonde rupture.


Heart rate variability (HRV) is a statistical evaluation of ECG Holter analysis used for non-invasive assessment of autonomic nervous system activity. The autonomic nervous system plays a major role in human homeostasis. Autonomic dysfunction and altered HRV are observed in many life-threatening conditions, like myocardial infarction, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, sepsis and severe brain injuries. Analysis of HRV uses two major techniques for assessing ECG intervals – time and frequency analysis. Additionally, there is also an alternative non-linear method of assessing HRV called fractal analysis. Clinical evaluation of HRV has been performed in medicine for more than three decades. Recent studies show that heart rate variability is a strong predictor of cardiovascular risk and mortality. It has also become common practice in everyday medicine, especially in family medicine, cardiology, neurology and psychiatry. There are some variables affecting HRV analysis: age, gender, physical activity and body mass index. Age and body mass index have negative correlation with HRV. Correlation of gender with HRV is not clearly specified in literature. Recent studies show that young males have increased HRV, and this diminishes faster during aging. Young women present decreased values of HRV, but these differences become indistinguishable after 50. Physical activity may enhance HRV by increasing vagal tone and decreasing sympathetic activity.

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ABSTRACT The partitioning of a sodium petroleum sulfonate between heptane and brine yields surfactants with different molar absorptivity and λmax values in the two phases, except near the point of minimum interfacial tension, e of the surfactant in the heptane phase increases sharply above the point of minimum interfacial tension between the two phases. The molar partition coefficient, MH/MW, for the surfactant between the heptane and brine phases is unity at surfactant concentrations in the brine phase below the point of minimum interfacial tension and drops sharply at concentrations above it. The critical micelle concentration of the surfactant in the aqueous phase equilibrated with the heptane phase is considerably below the concentration for minimum interfacial tension


Diverse methods have been proposed for protein secondary structure prediction. However, such task still presents a challenge in bioinformatics. In this article various of these methods are implemented and analysed. First, a baseline using Support Vector Machine. Then a convolutional neural network (CNN), a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and a strategy of Ensembling both of these methods. Lastly, a novel technique Secundary Structure of Physicochemical Clustered Proteins (SSPCP) is proposed, which combines multiple CNNs trained accordingly to a protein feature clustering and combined using a neural network. The rationale behind SSPCP is that amino acids from proteins which have similar physicochemical characteristics should have the same secondary structure prediction for similar amino acids, but amino acids from differing proteins might have different structures. All of these methods use as features PSSM matrices extracted from PSIBLAST. For performance evaluation, 25pdb dataset was split into training and validation and the same subsets were used on all these methods achieving the Q3 score of CNN: 70.11%, LSTM: 69.25%, Ensemble: 70.71%, SSPCP: 70.91%. The experimental results show that the features extracted from clustering of physicochemical properties of proteins seem to improve the accuracy of highly specific CNN models for accurate protein secondary structure prediction.


Mushroom farming is one of the profitable agribusiness especially for rural areas in developing countries. It can be adopted and applied as a sideline or main business. Through a partnership, farmers are indeed able to resolve their falter caused by production problems and market challenges. However, some questions emerge about the effectiveness of partnerships. Learning the adoption of the partnership specifically on mushroom farming can provide more understanding about its strengths and its weaknesses for further better use. This study aims to review the adoption process and the experience of an informal partnership case between a mushroom enterprise and farmers using qualitative and non-parametric quantitative approaches framed by Rogers's innovation–decision process. The result shows that the partnership delivers ample benefits for the farmers and is recommended especially for rural society in certain conditions, though before and after the implementation, some issues were found, and suggestions are given for improvement.


Hepatoid carcinoma of the ovary is a rare histopathological variant that has phenotypic properties in common with hepato-cellular carcinoma and composed mainly of epitheloid cells. It presents with unilateral or bilateral ovarian masses with elevated serum α-feta-protein especially in post-menopausal female. We hereby discuss a very rare case of 58 years old female presented with abdominal pain and distension with high serum levels of CA 125 and AFP. She was diagnosed as hepatocellular carcinoma. CT guided FNAC of omentum revealed poorly differentiated carcinoma and on immuno-histochemical staining cells was positive for CK7, CK8/17 and AFP. The tumor cells were negative for CMA, PAX2/PAX8, CK20 and CK19. She was diagnosed with bilateral hepatoid carcinoma of ovary. This shows that histopathological examination and tissue immuno-histochemical staining plays an important role in distinguishing hepatoid variety of ovarian carcinoma from other ovarian tumors and hepatocellular carcinoma.


Through actual example,this paper introduces the application of the light weight steel structure in the grid-structure engineering,which includes the manufacturing of the semi-finished products of the grid and the erection of the grid,and emphatically expounds the quality control measures and safety control measures in the construction.


Whether a newborn child looks like the putative father is used to construct estimates of the impact of father visitation on the health of one-year old children. These estimates are not biased by the effect of a baby's initial health on father visits, unobserved maternal ability, or measurement errors, thereby eliminating endogeneity biases that plague existing studies. Analysis of data from the first two waves of the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing study indicates an extra day (per month) of father visitation raises the chance of reported excellent child health by 3 percentage points. Moreover, the impact of father visitation is more important when maternal earnings are low. JEL Classification: I12, J12, J13


1. The influence of certain rootstocks propagated both from seeds and cuttings on the tree vigour and cropping of Marsh Seedless grapefruit has been studied over a period of three years.


E-learning systems have been considerably developed after the COVID-19 pandemic. In our previous work, we developed a linguistic interactive E-learning system for phonetic transcription learning. In this paper, we propose three artificial-intelligence-based enhancements to this system from different aspects. Compared with the original system, the first enhancement is a disordered speech classification module; this module is driven by the MFCC-CNN model, which aims to distinguish disordered speech and nondisordered speech. The accuracy of the classification is about 83%. The second enhancement is a grapheme-to-phoneme converter. This converter is based on the transformer model and designed for teachers to better generate IPA words from the regular written text. Compared with other G2P models, our transformer-based G2P model provides outstanding PER and WER performance. The last part of this paper focuses on a Tacotron2-based IPA-to-speech synthesis system, this deep learning-based TTS system can help teacher generate high-quality speech sounds from IPA characters which significantly improve the functionality of our original system. All of these three enhancements are related to the phonetic transcription process. and this work not only provides a better experience for the users of this system but also explores the utilization of artificial intelligence technologies in the E-learning field and linguistic field.


The purposes of this research were compare the behavior of organizational communication. Case study of Hotel in Phuket by personal factors. The study staff from all departments. Executive level and sample mid-level hotel 130 people using sampling methods defined by the report. The instruments used for data collection was the result showed that employees with individual factors: Sex and age difference horizontal difference in communication behavior is statistically significant at the .05 level for the factors. Which is the age and level of education. Different communication habits significantly different landscape at the statistical level. 01.


Islamic architecture is a form of structural art that takes inspiration from the Qur'an, the Sunnah of the Prophet, the Prophet's Family, Companions, Scholars, and Muslim scholars, as well as the physical and metaphysical features of buildings. The concept of Islamic Architecture can maintain harmony between nature and local culture, and sustainable designs must be used, protecting the environment from the planning stage onwards. Barus, which is the entrance to the Islamic Archipelago Civilization, has the potential to be developed into a favorite destination for pilgrims. The beautiful environment around Barus is an added value for this area because the beaches are still beautiful, and the people still adhere to their local wisdom. The object of study is to explore and implement religious-oriented design for resort hotel. The method we use is qualitative explorative research by reviewing some relevant-theory and synthesizing concept. The study formed the design statement: Barus  as the "Zero Point of the Spread of Archipelago Islamic Civilization," which will attract domestic and international visitors, boost the local economy, and provide jobs for the local community. It is necessary to include a bit of Mandailing Batak culture as the majority ethnic group in Barus. The main objective of this sharia resort design is to create sharia-oriented atmosphere through the use of religious architecture and upholding positive human relations. Mosques, galleries, viewing towers, separate swimming pools for men and women, and other facilities are available at this resort, which will make visitors' vacations keep connecting to from Islamic concepts.


Abstract We prepared activated carbons (ACs) from coal samples ranking from lignite to anthracite. The pore structures and surface functional groups of the obtained ACs were examined by nitrogen adsorption isotherm, field-emission scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and Boehm's titration method. Isothermal adsorption experiments using methylene blue (MB) solution were conducted to evaluate the adsorption capacities of the ACs. The obtained ACs had different sorption properties due to their differences in structural characteristics and surface chemical groups. The maximum adsorption was achieved using the ACs made from low-ranked lignite coals. The MB adsorption process could be described well by the intra-particle diffusion model with a wide range of effective diffusion coefficients. The results indicated that both the proportion of mesopores and the number of basic sites within the ACs mainly governed the MB adsorption capacities.


An approach is proposed to solve the problem of estimating the stress state of a shell structure loaded with a thermomechanical load and in contact with a hydrogen-containing medium. The stress state of the steel housing of the diffusion apparatus for the production of highly pure hydrogen was determined. The object of study is presented in the form of a composite shell of rotation, loaded by internal pressure and operating at elevated temperatures. The purpose of the work is to determine the stress state of the shell at normal and elevated pressure, taking into account changes in the mechanical properties of the combined effect of temperature and hydrogen. In the general case, the task of calculating such a structure under given operating conditions is related. In the phenomenological approach, the relationship between thermal diffusion and mechanical problems is manifested in a change in the parameters of the sample deformation diagram with increasing temperature and hydrogen concentration. The integration of differential equations of a boundary value problem for a shell under pressure is performed by the discrete orthogonalization method S.К. Godunov.


In a previous paper the author reported a one-dimensional diffusion method assaying streptomycin in the "blood." Contrary to this, almost all other in vestigators have so far been measuring the concentration in the "serum." Present paper is to discuss the difference between the "blood concentration" and the "serum concentration" and to report some improved techniques . 1) The procedure. 0.2cc of blood was pipetted from the ear of a patient and dissolved into 1.8cc of M/150 phosphate buffer . Thus, the hemolysis, which occured immediately, eliminated the hindernis of diffusion, which may be caused by the red blood cells. The hemolysed solutions were then super


The distinguishing mechanical characteristics of cardiac muscle are(1) the presence of a significant and sometimes labile resting tension at functional lengths. Certain invertebrate skeletal muscles also possess this property, but the structural basis seems to be different.(2)Force-velocity characteristics of heart muscle are labile and constitute a mechanism for regulating cardiac performance.(3)Data on quick-stretch and release show that the active state in heart muscle is slow in its onset, probably preceding the development of isometric tension by only a short time.The onset of the active state is labile also, and probably forms the basis of the regulatory function of the force-velocity relation. Measurements of heat show a slow rate of increase of heat during a twitch consistent with the onset of contractility.


In this work experimental data of thick MOS gate oxides (25 nm) of a state of the art 90 nm technology are assessed for degradation from plasma induced charging (PID). It is demonstrated that the type of stress measurement and the data analysis approach are crucial for the interpretation of the experimental data and for lifetime estimation. Two PID stress measurements are compared: hot carrier stress and Fowler-Nordheim stress. Different data analysis concepts illustrate that the usual technique can give misleading analysis results, just calculating the drift of MOS transistor parameters. It is shown that the type of PID protection for MOS transistor test structures plays a significant role in the misinterpretation of MOS device data.


A field experiment was established in two Picea abies (L.) Karst. plantations in southern Sweden to study yield and effects of competition on growth in beeted stands. Beeting was carried out in gaps where originally planted seedlings had been removed. Tree species used for beeting were P. abies, Pinus sylvestris L., Pinus contorta Dougl. and Larix decidua Mill × L. leptolepis Gord. The plantations were beeted when mean heights were 95 cm (Ullasjo) and 40 cm (Knared). Effects of competition on diameter growth of P. abies were found when originally planted stands were 2.5 and 3.5 m in height. On both sites, diameter growth in stump height was significantly lower for seedlings beeted in small gaps (approx. 20 m2) than for seedlings beeted in the middle of large gaps (approx. 155 m2). This difference was larger at Ullasjo than at Knared. About 50 % of the P. sylvestris 70 % of the P. contorta and 80% of the L. decidua x L. leptolepis were dead or severely damaged six years after beeting. The main causes of da...


Diuretics were given alone or in combination to normal subjects and cirrhotic patients with ascites. Patients unable to excrete sodium and water under basal conditions (Stage I), were found to be systematically resistant to all drugs tested. Patients with ascites and essentially normal sodium and water excretion made good diuretic responses to all drugs. Resistance of patients was overcome by the combination of thiazides and meralluride. Potassium output increased in all cases, even in the absence of satisfactory diuretic responses. Potassium supplements should therefore be given. Maintenance of relatively low water intake was of value in preventing hyponatremia. Strict low sodium intake was found essential for good over‐all results.


A gut specific G12 gene (AcG12) from the mosquito, Anopheles culicifacies, was cloned and characterized. Rapid blood meal inducibility validates the use of G12 upstream regulatory regions to drive anti-parasitic gene expression in transgenic mosquitoes. However no endogenous promoter has been reported in Anopheles culicifacies which is a predominant vector in Indian subcontinent. 286 Divya Miglani, Ashwani Kumar, Arvind Sharma, Richa Sharma &S.K.Gakhar The open reading frame of characterized gene was found consisting of a protein of 209 amino acids. The coding region of the gene shares 69% and 66% similarity to An. gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) and Ae. aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) G12 gene respectively. AcG12 has a putative secretory signal peptide at the amino terminus and also harbouran insect allergen domain. The peak expression of the gene was found to be at 24 h after blood feeding and was restricted to midgut only. Putative 3D structure of the AcG12 was predicted showing similarity to Blattella germanica (Blattodea: Blattellidae) allergen. Phylogenetic analysis showed that AcG12 is closely related to An. gambiae.


1,3-Bis[(1-uracilyl)methyl)]benzene derivatives 3, formed by selective N-1 alkylation of 1,3-bis(trimethylsilyloxy)pyrimidine with 1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene derivatives 2, on cyclization with the same or different derivative of 2, provide calix[2]uracil[2]arenes 4. Their conformations, investigated through X-ray, variable temperature 1H NMR, and molecular modeling MM2 calculations, are found to depend on the nature of substituent(s) on the position 2 of 1,3-phenylene rings. 4a exists in equilibrium between various conformations, and 4b, 4d−4i adopt an inward flattened partial cone conformation. In 4j, the equilibrium is restricted to two conformations at −60 °C, but the 4j·ethanol complex (2:1), in the solid state, has a cone conformation with ethanol being a H-bond donor through H of OH and CH2 and an acceptor through O of OH. 4d, 4j, and 4k exhibit significant preferences toward alkaline earth metal ions over alkali metal ions though overall bindings are poor.


Back ground: the old age group is increasing in size relative to the younger generation. The trend is expected to continue, a time associated with increasing health complications, including late life depression and anxiety. Aim: Evaluate the effect of the psychoeducational program on controlling late life anxiety and depression among the elderly at a geriatric room. Methods: a quasi –experimental research design was performed on a convenient sample consisted of 20 elderlies at Elhlal Elahmer and El-Noor and El-Amal geriatric homes that are located in Beni-suef governorate, Egypt. Tools: data were collected using 1) Socio demographic questionnaire, 2) Geriatric Depression Scale, 3) Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale. Results: the results of this study showed that there is a noticeable improvement in the symptoms of depression among the elderly who have been studied, as the percentage of those who do not suffer from symptoms of depression after the program increased post program from 40% to 65%, and in follow-up from 40% to 75%. There is also a noticeable improvement in the symptoms of anxiety among the elderly who have been studied, where the percentage of those who do not suffer from anxiety symptoms increased post program from 25% to 50% and in the follow-up from 25% to 55%. Conclusion: Psycho-educational program is effective in controlling late life anxiety and depression among the elderly at a geriatric room. Recommendations: The study recommended that develop awareness pograms for elderlies that include psychological, social consequences related to aging and how to manage them.


In this article we use the social reproduction concept to reveal the effects of the demographic transition last phase in development countries. We discuss especially the initial impact of the ageing process on the domestic units organization and social security institutions. These institutions will receive in the next years the numerous cohorts of individuals who are coming in the third age in Mexico. We search the different social groups in third age, their relation with the labour market, the family and institutional resources. There are gender differences that characterize this age group into this heterogeneous context, because men and women assume different social roles into and out the family. As parental and social indicators we adopt parental relations, economic status, composition and structure of the domestic units. On the other hand, we compare with other countries the institutional support in Mexico, as the asylum and social security. Temporality of the individual and family life course is an important concern in the relation between ageing, family and society. The high life expectancy impacts the size, composition and structure of the domestic units, especially in the last phase of their life cycle. Couples survive although the third age and then dissolute mainly because the widowhood. In this step the head´s role, the size and structure of the domestic units are redefined according the gender differences reproduced demographical and socially.


Organic silicone rubber composite foams were prepared using methylvinyl silicone rubber(MVQ) as matrix, graphene oxide(GO) as reinforcer flame retardant,and the effects of amount of GO on mechanical properties and flame retardency of the composite foams were investigated. The results showed that the density of the composite foams increased, tensile and compressive properties improved,limiting oxygen index (LOI) increased,and the droplet and fuming phenomenon decreased with increasing GO amounts. When GO amount was 5 phr, the tensile strength, tear strength,and compressive strength at deformation 50% of the composite foams increased by 6.6,4.7 and 12.3 times,respectively, compared with pure MVQ foam. Moreover,the LOI was also improved from 22.3% to 26.5%,and no droplet and fuming phenomenon occurred,the flame retardancy improved evidently.


In a home LAN environment,the Linux-based HD set-top box has a low reading speed for files shared on LAN PCs using SMB protocol,resulting in playing delay for high bit-rate multimedia files such as HD movies.This problem limits the application of set-top boxes.Because the initial design of SMB client is not for high speed transmission,to solve this problem of low transmission speed of high bit-rate files,study has been taken on the transmission efficiency and betterment of set-top boxes'SMB client.In the light of SMB protocol for HD multimedia applications,acceleration principles have been analyzed.The key points are the analysis of the network environment and the parameter adjustment based upon this analysis.In accordance with these principles,implements a new SMB client software module for the Linux-based set-top box.Without any modification to the hardware,tests show the new software module can make the speed increased by approximately 20% for all types of files,making HD movies of some bit-rate played smoothly and saving upgrading costs for HD set-top boxes.


The medical cannulas typically receive a silicone coating to improve their quality of perforation. For obtaining a thin coating, continuous and regular, there is provided the silicone oil (8) on one side of a thin sheet (2) highly elastic and the sheet is perforated by the cannula ( 1) uncoated from the other side of the sheet. The cannula is thereby wetted by the present silicone oil. When removing the cannula, the puncture opening in the sheet ensures wiping silicone oil in excess and therefore the formation a thin coating, regular and free of particles which exhibits no tendency to form folds at the time of perforation.


Fuzzy groups and fuzzy theory have a lot of applications in several sciences such as mathematics, computer science, computer and electrical engineering. Hence, counting the number of fuzzy subgroups of finite groups to classify them is an important issue in fuzzy theory. The Main goal of this paper is to give an explicit formula for the number of fuzzy subgroups of a finite cyclic group 1 2 3 k p p p p G Z Z Z Z = × × × ×  , where k p p p ,..., , 2 1 are distinct prime numbers. We introduce a very simple recursive formula to count the number of subgroups of G.


This paper deals with the development and validation of a mathematical friction model for numerical friction clutch simulation within a dynamic multi-body system of complete vehicle powertrains to be used by the commercial numerical code AVL EXCITE. The corresponding requirements and demands of the automotive industry and the given software environment are presented along with the advantages of the new friction model. The focus is to find a model capable rendering important friction dynamics and true stick. Detailed tribological analysis of the developed friction model is done and results for the so called STICK/SLIP test are given, to show the capabilities and properties of the friction model. Validation of the developed friction model on a special test bed is presented. A comparison of experimental validation measurement results and numerical simulation results shows a remarkably good agreement.


This paper expounds the design, the test and th e construction of densification by gravel piles,it is proved t hat the method in practical used for increase the bearing ca pacity of foundation.


In a previous communication 1 we reported having obtained in pure culture a hemophilic diplococcus from the unfiltered blood of human measles, which apparently was identical to the coccus isolated by Tunnicliff 2 and similar in some respects to the coccus described later by Coronia. 3 These workers regard their respective isolation as the active exciting agent in measles. In our earlier report we reserved opinion regarding the possible causal relation that the coccus might bear to measles, inasmuch as it was obtained from the unfiltered blood, and did not conform with our conception of the excitant of measles (filterable virus). A recent epidemic of measles in New Orleans has afforded the opportunity to make further studies concerning the incidence of this coccus in the disease. Blood was secured by veni-puncture from 6 children in the active eruptive stage of measles, and immediately defibrinated. Within 3 hours after the blood was collected 1 cc. portions of both filtered and unfiltered was cultured upon a variety of nutrient media. At the same time rabbits were intravenously inoculated with 1 cc. quantities of the filtered and unfiltered measles blood. The purpose of the animal injections was to serve as controls upon the infectiousness of the blood employed, and also to attempt the cultivation of the coccus in question from the blood of those reacting to the inoculation. The special nutrient medium which was found most suitable for the initial growth of the coccus was semi-solid sheep serum agar, which had been prepared in tall sterile tubes, and the reaction adjusted to approximately 0.6 per cent acid to phenothalein. The culture medium was inoculated with the measles blood by means of a long fine capillary pipette. This was introduced to the bottom of the culture tube and the content slowly ejected from the pipette as it was withdrawn through the column of medium.


We compare two tradable permit markets in their ability to meet a safety first environmental target at least cost when some polluters have stochastic, correlated, and non-measurable emissions. In both markets, the point source permit defines the allowable level of the observed (deterministic) point source pollution load. The permit for unobservable and stochastic nonpoint source pollution cannot be defined in this way. One market bases the nonpoint permit on expected nonpoint pollution and uses a trading ratio between the two pollution types to manage stochasticity. This model follows existing point-nonpoint markets for water quality trading. The second model defines the nonpoint permit as a multi-attribute good, where the attributes inform the market about the stochasticity of the underlying pollution load. The multi-attribute permit market is demonstrated to out-perform the trading ratio market. This result is an artifact of polluters directly pricing stochasticity in the former market but not in the latter, where stochasticity is only controllable under highly restrictive conditions.


The authors propose new processor virtualization architecture, VIRTUS, to provide a dedicated domain for pre-installed applications and virtualized domains for downloaded native applications. With it, security-oriented next-generation mobile terminals can provide any number of domains for native applications. VIRTUS feature three new technologies: VMM asymmetrization, dynamic inter-domain communication and virtualization-assist logic, and the first in the world to virtualize an ARM-based multiprocessor


MACKEY, R., 2007. Rhodes Fairbridge and the idea that the solar system regulates the Earth's climate. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium), 955 – 968. Gold Coast, Australia, ISSN 0749.0208 Rhodes Fairbridge died on 8th November, 2006. He was one of Australia's most accomplished scientists and has a special connection with Australia. In July, 1912 his father Kingsley established Fairbridge Village near Perth. It contains a chapel of elegant simplicity designed by one of the world's most famous architects of the time, Sir Herbert Baker, as a labour of love to commemorate Kingsley. Rhodes is one of the few scientists to research the sun/climate relationship in terms of the totality of the sun's impact on the earth (i.e. gravity, the electromagnetic force and output and their interaction). When the totality of the sun's impact is considered, having regard to the relevant research published over the last two decades, the influence of solar variability on the earth's climate is very strongly non-linear and stochastic. Rhodes also researched the idea that the planets might have a role in producing the sun's variable activity. If they do and if the sun's variable activity regulates climate, then ultimately the planets may regulate it. Recent research about the sun/climate relationship and the solar inertial motion (sim) hypothesis shows a large body of circumstantial evidence and several working hypotheses but no satisfactory account of a physical sim process. In 2007 Ulysses will send information about the solar poles. This could be decisive regarding the predictions about emergent Sunspot Cycle No 24, including the sim hypothesis. According to the sim hypothesis, this cycle should be like Sunspot Cycle No 14, and be followed by two that will create a brief ice age. During the 1920s and '30s Australia's Bureau of Meteorology published research about the sun/climate relationship, especially Sunspot Cycle No 14, showing that it probably caused the worst drought then on record. ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS: solar inertial motion, barycentre, n-body problem, sunspot cycle, drought, climate change, global warming, IPCC, meteorology, nonlinear, non-stationary. RHODES W. FAIRBRIDGE Rhodes W Fairbridge, one of Australia's most accomplished intellectuals and an early expert on climate change, died on 8th November, 2006 in his home in the historic town of Amagansett, overlooking the Atlantic on the northern edge of Long Island, New York. He was 92 and had remained an Australian citizen all of his life. One of Australia's most accomplished intellectuals, Rhodes W. Fairbridge was born in what is now Fairbridge Village in Western Australia in 1914 and was named after his father's friend and mentor, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes had spent his boyhood in the idyllic setting of Fairbridge Village, working closely with his parents. Fairbridge Village, located some ninety kilometres south of Perth, is a living monument to the altruistic vision, hard work and intellectual strength of his parents, Ruby and Kingsley, after whom it is named. There, in July, 1912 they founded the Fairbridge Farm School. Kingsley, a Rhodes Scholar, founded the Child Emigration Society three years earlier at Oxford University with the support of his fellow Rhodes Scholars. Kingsley, inspired by Cecil Rhodes, dedicated his life to the achievement of his vision of providing the poor and orphaned children of the slums of England with a sense of self-worth and with the opportunity to live a fulfilling and productive life. This was to be the purpose of the Fairbridge Farm School. Fairbridge Village, the Patron of which is the Governor of Western Australia, is now the site of major cultural events including an annual festival of popular culture, organised mainly for and by young people. DOLAN and LEWIS (2004) point out that the architectural jewel in the crown of Fairbridge Village is a beautiful chapel, built in 1930-31, whose elegant simplicity shows the admiration in which Rhodes' father, Kingsley, was held by one of the world's most famous architects of the time, Sir Herbert Baker. He designed the chapel and supervised its construction, carried out by the Western Australian Government, as a pure labour of love to commemorate the memory of Kingsley Fairbridge. It was financed by other Englishmen who shared Sir Herbert's admiration of Kingsley. Sir Herbert Baker considered that Kingsley lived the true values of altruism and honour that were central to Cecil Rhodes, who had also been his patron. Rhodes had little formal schooling until the age of 10 when his father died unexpectedly in 1924, aged only 39. Rhodes was taken to England, where he attended a new experimental school in Hampshire. It was here that his lifelong interest in geology, science and maps was established. Whilst his undergraduate education was at Queen's University, Ontario and Oxford, he was awarded a Doctorate of Science from the University of Western Australia in 1944, at the age of 30, bypassing the usual PhD prerequisite. The main parts of the thesis, Subaqueous Sliding and Slumped Blocks, formed Rhodes' first two scientific publications in 1946 and 1947 (FAIRBRIDGE, 1946a, 1946b). Rhodes was also with the RAAF in General MacArthur's headquarters during 1943 to 1945, as Deputy-Director of Intelligence.


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The existence of the industry has a positive impact on the economy. However, along with the production process, it will also produce a waste product called waste. The purpose of this study is to analyze the responsibility of the company which in this case is PT Surabaya Industrial Estate Rungkut for waste pollution in the environment around the company. This study analyzes cases using a comparison between Law No. 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management with Law No. 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation, article 88 which eliminates the absolute responsibility of corporations to be responsible. This study uses a normative juridical method. In this study, the authors analyze the problem of environmental waste which is suspected to have originated from the leakage of the Wastewater Management Installation (IPAL) owned by PT SIER and the corporate responsibility scheme of PT SIER for the case from the point of view of the Job Creation Act. The Job Creation Law itself is known to change the provisions related to absolute liability which previously bound corporations based on Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management. The results of this study indicate that the corporate responsibility for waste pollution that occurs after the elimination of absolute responsibility is limited to administrative responsibility.


The ultrasonic tubular resonator, a device for removing surface contamination, is making its way to chemical process tanks. Cleaning tanks and reactors with this device is less expensive, less energy intensive, and more environmentally friendly than with conventional cleaning methods, according to results of a demonstration project by DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical. DuPont Merck has been testing the technology at its facilities in Deepwater, N.J., under a grant from the National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment & Economics (NICE 3 ) program. NICE 3 is a joint cost-sharing grant program of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. The grant requires DuPont Merck to make available the results of the demonstration project. These results were presented in May at two seminars organized by the New Jersey Technical Assistance Program for Industrial Pollution Prevention. Ultrasonic cleaning of reaction tanks and reactors is simple, says Angelo C. Piro, president of the U...


The design of gaits and corresponding control policies for bipedal walkers is a key challenge in robot locomotion. Even when a viable controller parametrization already exists, finding near-optimal parameters can be daunting. The use of automatic gait optimization methods greatly reduces the need for human expertise and time-consuming design processes. Many different approaches to automatic gait optimization have been suggested to date. However, no extensive comparison among them has yet been performed. In this paper, we present some common methods for automatic gait optimization in bipedal locomotion, and analyze their strengths and weaknesses. We experimentally evaluated these gait optimization methods on a bipedal robot, in more than 1800 experimental evaluations. In particular, we analyzed Bayesian optimization in different configurations, including various acquisition functions.


In Turkey and many other countries, both the quality of and participation to education are not at the desired levels. Particularly, there are major problems in student participation in mathematics classes and in the achievement in this course. These problems vary according to gender. In our country, the representation of females in education and in the fields related to mathematics is fairly low in relation males. In this study, the representation proportions of females and males in education were researched and the literature related to gender differences in mathematics was revised. Gender differences in mathematics are discussed in the light of literature. Finally, suggestions were provided for preventing or decreasing gender differences in mathematics teaching.


significance of the American volte-face of May 1958 and the conciliatory line pursued by Ambassador Jones between then and 1964— without which it is quite impossible to understand all the nuances of the ' Konfrontasi ' against Malaysia. But a book which sets out to provide a whole new rendering of Indonesian history is bound to raise issues of interpretation and to provoke critical comments at one point or another. If such a book ends by stimulating the reader to participate in those controversies, that perhaps is a mark of its essential success.


This final issue for 1993 contains papers on a wide range of topics. Horikawa et al. describe a compact soft X-ray microscope built around a laser-produced plasma source which can be used in a small laboratory. The authors describe a number of interesting biological applications. Ensikat P Bartilott have devised a liquid substitution procedure using glycerol for the preservation of organic sampIes for scanning electron microscopy. The treated samples are sufficiently conductive to enable them to be examined uncoated. Darkfield electron microscopy has been used by Zabal et al. to study unstained nucleosomes, and multivariate statistical analysis has been used to interpret the macromolecular images. The effects of sample deposition techniques and substrates on the resultant scanning tunnelling images of microbial polysaccharides have been studied by Wilkins et aJ. These studies show that the image quality is profoundly influenced by the way the sample is prepared. The two papers by Anguiano et aJ. consider the problems associated with assessing the quality and accuracy of the methods based on frequency analysis used for the fractal characterization of surfaces measured by scanning tunnelling microscopy. The authors provide details of an improved procedure which can be used to give more accurate measurements of the fractal dimension of surfaces and profiles. The paper by Russ addresses the same problem and the author puts particular emphasis on the effect that surface anisotropy and instrument noise can have on the measurement techniques. Thioulouse et aJ. provide another paper on the statistical evaluation of systematic samples. The problem is easy to understand: suppose that a three-dimensional body is exhaustively transected by a series of parallel planes a known distance apart. This happens in physical serial sectioning by microtomy and in optical sectioning in confocal scanning laser microscopy. The product of the interplane distance and the total area content of the transections of the body is an unbiased estimator of the volume of the body. But how accurate is this procedure? Statisticians have yet to give a satisfactory answer to this question and at best we only have approximate methods. In this paper, the effect of the pronounced changes of the cross-sectional area at very short distances ranges on the accuracy of systematic sampling (the so-called 'nuggett effect') is investigated. Molchanov et al. show how stochastic geometry can help in the evaluation of images of sets of planar fibrous structures such as paper. The approach taken is to use probabilistic modelling of the real structure in order to determine the directional distribution of the fibres. The final paper in this issue by Starkey P Samantaray is concerned with the analysis of petrographic images, with particular emphasis on the detection and analysis of grain boundaries. The procedures they describe are centred on computer-based microscopy working in real-time and the resultant image is a synopic grain-boundary image of the rock sample. PATRICK ECHLIN TORSTEN MAT~TELDT


will search in vain for any clear distinction between the provisions and purposes of such major diplomatic arrangements as the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 and the Tripartite Pact of September 1940. It is also confusing to find Buss's description of the Chinese Communist movement before 1945 in the section dealing with the Far East after VJ Day, and to return to a discussion of the collapse of the Nationalists, 1945-49, after considering at length the policies of Peking, 1949-55. The text is marred by errors and misrepresentations, as is indicated in the discussions of American policies. Buss refers to President McKinley's humanitarian concern for the Filipinos, while he omits any mention of the long war of conquest (p. 365). His own later discussions contradict his declaration that the Open Door notes of 1899 "defeated the exclusive monopoly aspects" of the spheres of influence in China (p. 129). John Hay did not "act concurrently with other powers in the punitive expedition" of 1900 in order to forestall the breakup of China (p. 129). The Americans joined the international expedition to rescue the legations, not to punish the Chinese or to save China from the powers. The Atlantic Fleet departed on the world cruise on December 16, not March 16,1907 (p. 376). The Pacific War would seem an ample denial of Buss's view that the American promise in 1922 "not to fortify Guam, Pago Pago, the Philippines and the Aleutians, ruled out the possibility of offensive American naval action in the western Pacific" (p. 383). Students of Far Eastern cultures will contend with Professor Buss on numerous points. Surely the findings of John K. Fairbank, Teng Ssu-yu, Joseph R. Levenson and others regarding the Chinese reaction to the West amply disprove Buss's contention that "Chinese thinkers did not bother to estimate the causes of their own weakness or the sources of Western strength" (p. 40). Nor will sinologists agree that "T'ang China showed very few basic differences from Han China" (p. 27). One wonders by what measure Buss determined that the Annamese are "cursed with an incurable strain of idleness and indifference" (p. 18). Doubtless the Japanese who shouted banzai to "de-mok-las-sie" (p. 477) were raised in China! Buss's volume is equipped with a number of maps that are not always clear or accurate. The book is adorned with numerous quotations, a large portion of which lack any identification. The brief reading suggestions at the end of each chapter omit a number of the more important monographs dealing with the modern Far East. In sum, Professor Buss's textbook can be improved by thoughtful and careful revision.


Power systems are becoming more and more stressed and burdened with the continuous increase in consumption and demand. The modern lifestyle demands increasing amounts of affordable and reliable electricity. To tackle this expansion of the existing system is needed. However, in the face of increasing public safety concerns and environmental hazards brought about by the expansion of the existing power structure has forced the search for alternate methods. This has made the development of methods for more efficient use of the existing structure very critical. In pursuit of increasing the efficiency of the existing power infrastructure this work proposes the implementation of Distributed-Flexible AC Transmission System (D-FACTS) devices in the existing power infrastructure to increase the capacity of power transmission and the stability of the system.


B uild ing on the performance-outcome contingency r e  l a t i o n s h ip s o f bo th expectancy theory and the operan t model o f work b ehav io r , a small but growing body b f re cen t em p i r i c a l re se a rc h has s p e c i f i c a l l y i n v e s t i g a t e d l e a d e r r e  ward b eh a v io r . The major o b je c t iv e o f t h i s re sea rch was to f u r t h e r exp lore the causa l r e l a t i o n s h i p s between le a d e r reward beh av io r and subord ina te ro le p e r c e p t io n s , s a t i s  f a c t i o n , and performance. All o f the v a r i a b le s used in t h i s r e se a rc h , except fo r performance, were measured through the use o f q u e s t io n  n a i r e s . Performance measures were o b ta ined through company re co rd s . The da ta were c o l l e c t e d a t two p o in ts in time a t a major s t a t e agency in the S o u th eas t . The sample con s i s t e d o f 53 s o c i a l s e c u r i t y d i s a b i l i t y examiners. The hypo thes ized r e l a t i o n s h i p s were t e s t e d through the use o f th re e lo n g i tu d in a l c o r r e l a t i o n a l techn iques : c ro s s la g g e d c o r r e l a t i o n s , Kenny-corrected c ro ss la g g e d c o r r e l a t i o n s , and dynamic c o r r e l a t i o n s . The r e s u l t s from t h i s re se a rc h i n d ic a te d t h a t : 1) A l l th re e le a d e r reward i n s t r u m e n t a l i t i e s ( p o s i t i v e , advancement, and p u n i t iv e ) were c a u s a l ly r e l a t e d to bo th lower ro le c o n f l i c t and ro le ambig u i t y . P o s i t i v e i n s t r u m e n ta l i ty and ro le c o n f l i c t appeared to i n t e r a c t in a p a t t e r n o f nega t ive r e c ip r o c a l c a u s a l i t y , and h igh l e v e l s o f ro le ambigu i t y appeared to le a d to low p o s i t i v e i n s t r u m e n t a l i ty . Both h igh ro le c o n f l i c t and h igh ro l e ambiguity ap  p ea red to l e a d to reduced employee p e rcep t io n s o f p u n i t iv e i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y . F i n a l ly , high advancement i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y appeared to le a d to both reduced ro le c o n f l i c t and to reduced ro le ambiguity. 2) P o s i t i v e i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y and s a t i s f a c t i o n i n t e r a c t e d in an o v e r a l l p a t t e r n o f p o s i t i v e r e c i p  ro c a l c a u s a l i t y . Causal in fe re n c e s fo r p u n i t iv e and advancement i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y were much l e s s c l e a r , .b u t some support was found fo r p u n i t iv e in s t r u m e n ta l  i t y and s a t i s f a c t i o n i n t e r a c t i n g in an o v e r a l l p a t t e r n o f n e g a t iv e r e c i p r o c a l c a u s a l i t y and fo r high advance ment i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y le ad in g to in c re a s e d job s a t i s  f a c t io n . 3) No d i r e c t causa l r e l a t i o n s h i p between le a d e r reward behav io rs and performance were found. Some s l i g h t support was, however, found fo r high p e r f o r  mance being l i k e l y to le a d to in c re a s e d p o s i t i v e i n  s t r u m e n t a l i t y and fo r p u n i t iv e i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y l e a d  ing to in c re a s e d performance. Causal r e l a t i o n s h i p s between advancement l e a d e r rewards and performance appeared in d e te rm in a te . The r e s u l t s were g e n e ra l ly sup p o r t iv e o f the prev ious s tu d ie s o f l e a d e r reward behav io r and extended r e l a t i o n  sh ips between l e a d e r reward i n s t r u m e n t a l i t i e s and ro le p e r  cep t io n s i n to a cau sa l framework. The f in d in gs a lso provide some f u r t h e r suppor t to the view t h a t p o s i t i v e rewards are more powerful than n eg a t iv e rewards fo r the exp lan a t io n o f employees' a t t i t u d e s and behav io r in o rg a n iz a t io n s and fo r the argument a g a in s t the common p r a c t i c e o f i n t e r p r e t i n g s i g n i f i c a n t s t a t i c c o r r e l a t i o n s between le a d e rsh ip measures and o th e r v a r i a b le s as i n d i c a t i n g th a t the le a d e rsh ip d i  mensions caused the o th e r v a r i a b l e s . F in a l ly , im p l ica t io n s


Objective
To investigate the association of serum uric acid(SUA) level with dialysis adequacy and nutritional status in maintenance hemodialysis(MHD).

Methods
From July 2016 to July 2018, a total of 100 MHD patients were recruited in our hospital. Patients were allocated into dialysis adequacy group and inadequate dialysis group according to the urea drop rate. Also, patients were divided into good nutrition group and malnutrition group depending on their serum albumin levels. Complete blood count, serum albumin, creatinine, urea nitrogen, SUA, calcium, phosphorus, C-reactive protein, β2 microglobulin and intact parathyroid were assayed. The association between SUA and clinical parameters were analyzed.

Results
Compared to inadequate dialysis patients, the SUA, creatinine, urea nitrogen, serum phosphorus and C-reactive proteinlevels were significantly lower in dialysis adequacy patients(P<0.05). Also, compared to malnutrition group, the SUA and serum albumin levels were significantly higher in good nutrition group(P<0.05). However, C-reactive protein levels were significantly lower in good nutrition group(P<0.05). Correlation studies revealed that SUA levels were positively correlated with creatinine(r=0.202, P<0.05), while negatively correlated with age(r=-0.303, P<0.01) and urea drop rate(r=-0.220, P<0.05).

Conclusions
SUA levels in MHD are closely correlated with nutritional status and dialysis adequacy. Higher SUA in MHD patients may suggest the relatively good nutritional status, but hyperuricemia may also associate with inadequate dialysis.

Key words:
Renal Dialysis; Uric Acid; Nutritional Status


This paper analyses a crack growth behaviour, which is initiated from the contact edge between a square punch with rounded edges and a half plane. Investigated are the influences of the contact profile, magnitude of the bulk tension and, crack obliquity, in particular, misalignment between the punch and half plane on the variation of the stress intensity factors KI and KII during the crack growth. The misalignment is simulated by a tilting of the punch. A partial slip regime is considered for the contact shear force to accommodate a general fretting fatigue condition. It was found that a crack closure occurs if only the contact forces are applied. The crack grows longer before it is closed if the punch is tilted (clockwise, in this paper) such that it initiates at the opposite site with respect to the direction of tilting. The closure phenomenon disappears when the bulk tension is added and exceeds a certain magnitude, which significantly depends on not only the contact profile but also the degree and direction of tilting. Provided are the lowest values of the bulk tensile stress due to a fatigue load necessary to extend the crack without a closure for each condition of the contact profile and misalignment. This may be used as a design guideline to restrain the contact-induced failure.


In the title compound, C13H15N3O2S, the geometric parameters are in the normal ranges. The amide N atom is coordinated in an almost trigonal-planar fashion.


An environmentally hardened compressive sensing hyperspectral imager (CS-HSI) operating in the long wave infrared (LWIR) has been developed for low-cost, standoff, wide area early warning of chemical vapor plumes. The CS-HSI employs a single-pixel architecture achieving an order of magnitude cost reduction relative to conventional HSI systems and a favorable pixel fill factor for standoff chemical plume imaging. A low-cost digital micromirror device modified for use in the LWIR is used to spatially encode the image of the scene; a Fabry-Perot tunable filter in conjunction with a single element mercury cadmium telluride photo-detector is used to spectrally resolve the spatially compressed data. A CS processing module reconstructs the spatially compressed spectral data, where both the measurement and sparsity basis functions are tailored to the CS-HSI hardware and chemical plume imaging. An automated target recognition algorithm is applied to the reconstructed hyperspectral data employing a variant of the adaptive cosine estimator for detection of chemical plumes in cluttered and dynamic backgrounds. The approach also offers the capability to generate detection products in compressed space with no CS reconstruction. This detection in transform space can be performed with a computationally lighter minimum variance distortionless response algorithm, resulting in a bandwidth advantage that supports efficient search and confirm modes of operation.


HPHE symptomatology which may be asso- -*- ciated with tumours arising within or invading the third ventricle is extremely variable. Such symptomatology is vitally important for neurological and neurophthalmological diag¬ noses. New information will not be found in this study. Although more than 200 cases have been reviewed, no effort has been made to cover all the literature on the subject. Sixteen personal cases are included because of interest¬ ing histories or pathological findings which ex-emplify the presentation. A brief summary of the basic embryology, anatomy and physiology involved is included to permit a more complete discussion of clinical symptomatology.


To introduce a novel method for long‐T2 signal physical suppression in steady‐state based on configuration states combination and modulation using diffusion weighting. Its efficiency in yielding a high contrast in short‐T2 structures using an ultrashort echo time acquisition module (Diff‐UTE) is compared to the adiabatically prepared Inversion‐Recovery‐UTE sequence (IR‐UTE).


Objective To explore a compatible approach to detect and classify the lesions of inferior vena cavas (IVCs) on sonogram in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome(BCS).Methods Ultrasonogram of the IVCs were observed detailedly in 300 patients with BCS by using trans-abdomen and trans-thorax-right atrium-inferior vena cava ingress sections.Transducers usually used for heart examination were applied in the latter.Lesions of the IVCs found in 277 out of 300 patients were classified.All lesions were confirmed by digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and among them,52 cases underwent computed tomography angiography (CTA).Results Lesions of IVCs were classified into 3 categories as follows:membranous type,segmental type,and ex-pressed type.① Membranous type (thickness ≤ 15 mm) included membranous stenosis type and membranous occlusion type.On the basis of the thickness,the membranous stenosis type was further classified into thinner membranous stenosis type (thickness ≤5mm) and thicker membranous stenosis type (5 mm<thickness≤ 15 mm).The membranous occlusion type was further classified into thinner membranous occlusion type (thickness ≤5 mm) and thicker membranous occlusion type (5 mm<thickness ≤15 mm).② Segmental type (lengtb > 15 mm) was consist of segmental stenosis type and segmental occlusion type.Based on the length of the lesion,the segmental stenosis type was further divided into longer segmental stenosis type (length > 30 mm) and shorter segmental stenosis type (15 mm<length ≤30 mm).The segmental occlusion type was further divided into longer segmental occlusion type (length > 20mm) and shorter segmental occlusion type (15 mm< length ≤20 mm).③ Ex-pressed type of IVCs was mainly caused by compression of intumescent caudate lobes.Corresponding sonographic features were demonstrated in each type.Conclusions Ultrasonogram of trans-abdomen and trans-thorax-right atrium-inferior vena cava ingress sections could accurately classify the lesions of IVCs.It is of important significance for the clinical treatment.

Key words:
Ultrasonography ;  Hepatic vein thrombosis ;  Vena cava, inferior


The octatriacontapeptide corresponding to positions 1 to 38 of human parathyroid hormone (hPTH), a half of the whole molecule, was synthesized by assembling 9 peptide fragments in a conventional manner. Arg (mesitylene-2-sulfonyl), a new arginine derivative bearing an acid-labile protecting group, was employed in combination with a new deprotecting procedure with 1 M trifluoromethanesulfonic acid-thioanisole in TFA. The synthetic peptide exhibited an activity of 1400 IU/mg when assayed by the mouse bone adenyl cyclase activity assay.


The present invention can easily and conveniently create electronic documents that can be used as a book to record information such as text or images on electronic media, and even this in the manufacturing process of such an electronic document that can be quickly and easily perform a preview electronic document relates to the production system and its control method.


This practitioner note provides an overview of the National Trades Union Congress' (NTUC) engagement initiatives with ex-offenders, inmates, and employers interested in hiring them. These efforts aim to address the marginalised segments affected by the rapidly evolving economic and labour landscape. NTUC's broader campaign to renew its compact with workers encompassed these engagements. In tackling the employment challenges faced by ex-offenders, NTUC remains dedicated to expanding the pool of inclusive employers, improving job retention rates, and fostering career progression. However, to facilitate long-term rehabilitation, it is imperative for tripartite partners and the community to collaborate on initiating workplace mentorship programmes, integrating therapeutic interventions with Career Retention Support initiatives, and introducing supportive communities for ex-offenders.


Volume 3, Issue 1 January – February 2014 Page 259 Abstract: Agent software paradigm allows implementing large and complex distributed applications. In order to assist analyzing, conception and development or implementation phases of multi-agent systems, we've tried to present a practical application of a generic and scalable method of MAS with a component-oriented architecture and agentbased approach that allows MDA to generate source code from a given model. We have designed a generic class diagram as a class meta-model of different agents of a MAS [1]. Then we have applied it on a collaborative platform based on MAS supply chain which ensures cooperation and information logging and sharing between partners in real time. We have finally generated the model source code developed using an open source tool called AndroMDA. This agent-based and evolutionary approach enhances developments modularity and genericity and promotes their reusability in future developments [2].


Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been applied to the characterization of the 1/f-noise. The application of the PCA to the 1/f noise requires the definition of a stochastic multidimensional variable. The components of this variable describe the temporal evolution of the phenomena sampled at regular time intervals. In this paper we analyze the conditions about the number of observations and the dimension of the multidimensional random variable necessary to use the PCA method in a sound manner. We have tested the obtained conditions for simulated and experimental data sets obtained from imaging optical systems. The results can be extended to other fields where this kind of noise is relevant.