A fluidic device (200), comprising a planar structure (202) constituted by a plurality of laminated layers (212) and accommodating a fluid channel (204) extending up to a surface of the planar structure (202), and a female adapter piece(206) configured for a fluid-tight accommodation of a male adapter piece(208) having a fluid conduit (210), wherein the female adapter piece (206) is connected or connectable with the planar structure (202) so that, when the male adapter piece (208) is accommodated in the female adapter piece (206), the fluid conduit (210) is brought in fluid-tight fluid communication with the fluid channel (204), wherein the fluid channel (204) is exposed to the female adapter piece(206) at a lateral surface of the planar structure (202) at which the laminated layers (212) are exposed.


Background: An effective method for monitoring the progress of patients with lung cancer has not been developed. Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has demonstrated a useful method for diagnostic and prognostic in many cancers. Here, we application cfDNA to compare PLAC8 methylation levels between lung cancer patients and healthy control; 98 controls and 140 lung cancer samples were evaluated.

Methods: Plasma samples were obtained, and cfDNA extracted used for bisulfite conversion. Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) based detection platform was performed to calculate PLAC8 methylation level, and data were analyzed with QuantaSoft analysis software (version 1.7.4, Bio-rad).

Results: PLAC8 methylaiton level significantly increased in lung cancer patients (95% CI = 21.83% - 27.57%) compared with healthy  control (95% CI = 8.71% - 9.61%). 124 of 140 lung cancer (88.57%) samples were identified the methylation level over than 12.91%, and 98 control (100%) samples methylation level below in 12.91%.

Conclusions: In this study, we found that PLAC8 methylation levels significantly increased in lung cancer patients than healthy control. This finding showed that PLAC8 methylation level changes might occur as a potential methylation biomarker in lung cancer diagnosis.

Funding Statement: Not applicable.

Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Ethics Approval Statement: This study was authorized by the Medical Ethics Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University.


In this paper we examine, if it is possible to implement live Motion Capture with a virtual reality (VR) system. In order to simplify the handling, we use a standard Head Mounted Display (HMD) and only few markers. The results show the effectiveness of this approach: The captured motions can be viewed in real time and can be for example used for the animation of virtual characters of avatars in VR learning setting or animation films and computer games. In this kind, a motion tracking is possible, which is sufficient for most kinds of VR applications.


The genomic DNA of CD38 extends for 71172 base pairs with 8 exons, starting at 15779898 bp and end ing at 15851069 bp. The CD38 gene is located at 4p15.32 . The 5'-flanking promoter region of the gene contain s a CpG island that is ~900 bp long and includes exon 1  and the 5'-end of the intron 1. This region contain s a binding site for the transcription factor Sp1 and s everal potential binding for other factors such as interle ukins, interferon and hormones. A critical region in the C D38 gene is the retinoic acid responsive element (RARE)  responsible for the upregulation of CD38 expression  induced by all-trans retinoic acid (Nata et al., 19 97; Ferrero and Malavasi, 1999). The 5'-end of the intr on 1 contains also a C → G single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs6449182, that leads to the presence or abs ence of a PvuII restriction site (see below). The SNP is  located within a putative E-box, a region of bindin g of the E proteins with a consequent regulation of gene  transcription. In the B cell compartment a relevant role is played by E2A, that controls the expression of several B lineage genes. E2A was demonstrated to bi nd to the E-box of the CD38 gene, regulating its expression, and the binding of the protein is influ enced by the CD38 genotype, with the G allele resulting i a stronger binding of E2A (Saborit-Villarroya et al.,  2011).


The development of innovative ability is the requirement of cultivating talents in the current pluralistic era. This paper reviews the development of foreign language talents cultivation mode and defines the concept of innovative ability of multiple foreign languages. On this basis, a "four-in-one" innovative foreign language talents cultivation model is constructed, which takes the task-based hybrid teaching mode as the main line, the subsequent courses as the basis, the skills competition as the traction, and the extracurricular practice as the platform. In addition, in order to adjust the cultivation mode dynamically in real time, suggestions are put forward for the evaluation of the implementation effect of the cultivation mode.


H7N9 avian influenza is a highly pathogenic zoonotic disease. In order to control the disease, many strategies have been adopted in China such as poultry culling, the closure of live poultry markets (LPMs), the vaccination of poultry, and the treatment for humans. Due to the limited resource, it is of paramount significance to achieve the optimal control. In this paper, an epidemic model incorporating the selective culling rate is formulated to investigate the transmission mechanism of H7N9. The threshold dynamics and bifurcation analyses of the model are well investigated. Furthermore, the problem of optimal control is explored in line with Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, with consideration given to the comprehensive measures. The numerical simulations suggest that the vaccination of poultry and the closure of LPMs are the two most economical and effective measures.


In many studies, the HPV vaccine prevented 98.8% of genital warts, 98% of cervical precancerous lesions associated with virus strains targeted by the vaccine, and 98% of cervical dysplasia related to these vaccine strains in subjects with no prior HPV infection [4,5]. In the Center of Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Constanta, Romania, we supervise a total of 1030 HIV infected patients, 428 of which female, more than 50% of them sexually active. A study conducted in our clinic during 2007-2010 showed that 18% of HIV-infected patients had genital disorders: vulvar warts 7%, cervical cancer 3%, cervical dysplasia 2%, other diseases 6% (vulvovaginal candidiasis, genital herpes, lues, pelvic inflammatory disease) [6]. Given the large number of patients with genital warts, cervical cancer and cervical dysplasia with HPV infection demonstrated by the presence of HPV antibodies, we proposed to vaccinate these patients with HPV vaccine and track the effectiveness of vaccination for a period of three years follow up. 196 women, aged 22 – 45, median age 27 years old, 82% undergoing HAART, 38 with a low CD4 count (less than 200 cells/mm3 ) were enrolled in a surveillance study, 98 of these were vaccinated in 2010 (Table 1) with HPV vaccine (HPV strains 6, 11, 16 and 18), three doses (0-2-6) and were monitored clinically and cytologically during 3 years, the results being compared with the ones from the other 98 unvaccinated HIV women.


─ The hereby article is devoted to elaboration of the analysis method of nonuniform transmission line (NUTL) with utilization of typical circuit simulator like SPICE. It is assumed that quasi-TEM modes are propagated in the NUTL. Solution of the problem is divided into three parts. 1) The analysis of nonuniform transmission line is reduced to the analysis of cascaded sections of linear varied nonuniform transmission line (LNTL). Proper algorithm originates from literature. 2) Computational model of linear varied nonuniform transmission line is elaborated following the asymptotic waveform evaluation methodology. The q-pole model is matched to imitate position of zeros and poles of admittance matrix of the NUTL. 3) Synthesis of passive circuit which implements the model for broad range values of LNTL slope constant. Consequently parameters of the circuit can be evaluated precisely as polynomial function of slope constant. Resultant model can be easily written in SPICE simulation language. Index Terms─ Asymptotic waveform evaluation, nonuniform transmission line, PR function, SPICE.


She has not paused in the working out rules and regulations stratification plane,but is focuses in advances the Qidan society feudalization the long-term strategy.A series of reforms which this article elaborated her to assist Jing Zong,the saint ancestor and personally guided the government into a new era period carries on: Selects and employs the mertorious,reorganization administrative style and achievements of local officials;The enhancement government by law,releases the slave;Light corvee thin tax,development production;Teaches a course selects scholars for public office,studies the Han Nationality culture;Negotiates peace the promotion nationality with Song to fuse.Finally has completed the Qidan society's feudalized advancement.


Abstract : We developed a chemical-thermodynamic procedure for calculating the capillary pressures of aqueous NaCl solutions in a porous medium at temperatures below 0 deg C by extending the treatment by Brun et al. (1977). Ice in the porous medium was assumed to be a pure phase with thermophysical properties identical to bulk hexagonal ice. The thermophysical properties (and the attendant derivative and integral properties) of the electrolyte solutions were calculated with the Pitzer model as parameterized by Archer (1992). Experiments were conducted to test this procedure. Pastes of kaolinite clay, montmorillonite, and quartz sand were prepared by washing repeatedly with aqueous solutions of 0.1-, 0.01-, and 0.001-mol kg(exp -1) NaCl. The molar unfrozen water contents of these pastes were measured by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in the temperature range -0.14 deg C to -66.6 deg C. The relationships between ice-solution capillary pressures and specific solution volumes for frozen pastes of each mineral were plotted for all initial solution molalities. While some systemic errors were evident, these plots indicated that the capillary pressure-volume relationships were consistent for pastes of the three minerals and, as expected from theory, unaffected by initial equilibrating solution molality.


In 17 patients recovering from acute tubular necrosis overhydration was prevented during the oliguric period by daily peritoneal dialysis. Daily urine volumes in excess of 21 were noted for up to 2 we


An artificial tidal inlet cut through the barrier island system of the Ria Formosa (South Portugal) has been studied. A conceptual model of functioning of the Barra Nova tidal inlet is proposed, mainly based on the morphology survey of the ebb-tidal delta during fair weather conditions following an important storm event, and on the long-term survey by video techniques.


The invention discloses a production method of a white sugar pigment, and aims to provide the production method of the white sugar pigment. The production method is characterized in that the white sugar pigment consists of the following raw materials in parts by weight: 9-11 parts of white sugar, 0.01-0.02 parts of phosphoric acid, 3-4 parts of water, 0.01-0.02 parts of ammonium chloride, 0.3-0.4 parts of sodium meta-bisulphite, 0.01-0.02 parts of antifoaming agent and 0.2-0.3 parts of sodium carbonate; and the production method comprises the following steps of: A, mixing the raw materials of sugar and phosphoric acid according to the proportion, adding water, stirring and dissolving to obtain solution; B, adding the ammonium chloride into the solution obtained by the step A and heating, adding previously dissolved sodium meta-bisulphite and antifoaming agent when the solution becomes slight brown, and keeping the temperature at 130-145 DEG C; and C, when the color ratio reaches 8,000-12,000 EBC, stopping heating, adding the previously dissolve sodium carbonate, adding water to dilute, stirring and cooling to obtain a finished product. The production method is mainly used for preparing the white sugar pigment for soy sauce production enterprises.


The rate constants for the reaction of three isomeric pyridine mono-carbo- cylic acid N-oxides with diazodiphenylmethane were determined at 30 oC in thirty two protic and aprotic solvents by the well known UV spectrophotometric method. The rate constants are generally higher than for pyridine mono-carboxylic acids in a similar range of solvents, except for picolinic acid N-oxide, and also higher in protic than in aprotic solvents. The determined rate constants were correlated with solvent parameters using the Kamlet-Taft solvatochromic equation by means of multiple re- gression analysis. The sign of the equation coefficients were in agreement with the postulated reaction mechanism. The mode of the influences of the solvent is discus- sed on the basis of the correlation coefficients, taking into account the specific struc- tures of the pyridine mono-carboxylic acid N-oxides.


The gracilis muscle is a workhorse flap of the reconstructive surgeon due to its reliable vascular anatomy; it is characterized as a type II muscle (Mathes & Nahai, 1981). The dominant vascular pedicle typically emerges from the gracilis 10–12 cm distal to the pubic tubercle, then courses cephalad and superficial to the adductor magnus underneath the adductor longus (Magden, Tayfur, Edizer, & Atabey, 2010). The artery can be followed in a fascial cleft between these muscles to its origin from the medial circumflex femoral system branching off the profunda femoris. Venous drainage occurs through paired venae comitantes. There are normally two minor pedicles to the gracilis muscle found distal to the dominant pedicle. One typically enters at the midpoint and the other in the distal third of the muscle; the distal branch routinely arises from the superficial femoral artery (Magden et al., 2010). Both minor branches are typically ligated during harvest. Here, we report a variation of the vascular pedicle to the gracilis muscle that has not been previously observed. It was discovered while operating on a 34-year-old male with foot drop following delayed presentation of lower-extremity compartment syndrome. Free-functional muscle transfer was undertaken to reconstruct the anterior compartment and provide dorsiflexion to the affected ankle via transfers to the distal tendons of the tibialis anterior, extensor halicis longus, and extensor digitorum longus muscles. During dissection, it was noted that a single dominant pedicle emerged from the gracilis, traversed over the adductor longus muscle, and joined the superficial femoral artery (see Figure 1). The pedicle entered the muscle 16 cm distal to the pubic tubercle, which was distal to the anterior branch of the obturator nerve. No other minor vascular pedicles were observed along the length of the muscle. Although aberrant anatomy was present, sufficient length of the pedicle was present to complete the reconstruction. There is consensus in the literature regarding a consistent pattern of motor innervation to the gracilis from the anterior branch of obturator nerve, which enters the muscle reliably 14–15 cm distal to the pubic tubercle (Magden et al., 2010). Anatomical variations of the gracilis muscle itself have been reported, such as the gracilis biceps (Macalister, 1875) or absent musculature (Sainsbury & Wagget, 1984), but there are no published reports about a single dominant pedicle arising from the superficial femoral artery. There are however reports of the muscle being split transversely to provide two free-flaps when one of the distal pedicles is of sufficient size to provide adequate independent flow (Schoeller, Meirer, Gurunluoglu, Piza-Katzer, & Wechselberger, 2003).


The brachistochrone problem can be solved either by variational calculus or by a skillful application of the Snellius' law of refraction. This suggests the question whether also other variational problems can be solved by an analogue of the refraction law. In this paper we investigate the physically interesting case of free fall in General Relativity that can be formulated as a variational problem w. r. t. proper time. We state and discuss the corresponding refraction law for a special class of spacetime metrics including the Schwarzschild metric.


One kind of the main vessel (22) and across the lateral branch pipe (24) of the vascular graft (20) is used. The implant is specifically configured to form a supporting main graft in the lateral side of the main vessel branch vessel of the tubular member, the graft having a gap spaced apart first pipe section and the second pipe section. Jumper (54) of the first pipe section (50) across the gap and the second pipe section is connected together, and having a relatively rigid support member, between the two tube sections to limit the axial relative movement. Graft may have one, two or more bridging members to form one, two or more lateral apertures allowing blood flow to branch vessels from endograft. Graft having a flexible (preferably fabrics) by a self-expandable stent body supported by the silk or balloon-expandable. The above-described graft may be deployed within the abdominal artery of renal artery on both sides, and having two holes allow blood flow from the renal arteries. Tube section below the trunk portion for the treatment of renal abdominal aneurysm extending into the iliac arteries fork grafts provide a smooth surface of the tubular fixed.


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The labelling pattern of a β-hydroxyacid, synthesized on nucleophilic enzymatic reaction of acetyl-CoA with an α-oxoacid in H218O, yields information about the mechanism of this type of enzyme action. Two related reactions catalyzed by citrate synthase and malate synthase were investigated in H218O. Malate was formed as the product in both cases.

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A micro-scale procedure is described for the stepwise and specific removal of the oxygen groups present in malate, by enzymatic degradation.

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Mass spectrometric analyses of the enzymatically obtained 18O-labelled malates and of their degradation products revealed the labelling of one oxygen atom of one carboxyl group of malate. The significance of this result is discussed.


The mobile communication method of the present invention comprises: a gateway device (S-GW) is switched from the first state to the first radio access apparatus transmits downlink data to the second radio access to the second device transmits downlink data step case where the state of the first radio access unit downlink data received from the gateway apparatus (S-GW) adds a specific message forwarded to the second radio access means; and a second radio access transmission devices before new downlink data gateway apparatus (S-GW) transmitted from the mobile station (UE) transmits the additional step of forwarding the downlink data forwarded apparatus specific information from the first radio access.


The authors have developed a 6 kV-200 A class superconducting fault current limiter (SC-FCL). The SC-FCL has eight co-axial coils connected in order to minimize total inductance. In the present paper, taking consideration of the self-magnetic field in the SC-FCL, they discussed the position of quench initiation. They calculated spatial profiles of the strength and the direction of the self-magnetic field in the SC-FCL. As a result, the self-magnetic field is applied to sections of the superconducting cable (SC cable) in the transverse direction (maximum value: 6.42/spl times/10/sup -4/ T/A). The connective section between coils, however, suffers a magnetic field with a longitudinal component of 3.34/spl times/10/sup -4/ T/A. In the case of a short sample of the SC cable which was used for the SC-FCL, the quench current levels were found to decrease at the rate of 40 A per 0.1 T in a transverse magnetic field and 100 A per 0.1 T in a longitudinal field. Taking these results into consideration, the authors pointed out that the quench may be initiated in the connective section between coils, where the self-magnetic field is applied in the longitudinal direction.


Abstract : The stability of pseudospectral-Chebyshev methods is demonstrated for parabolic and hyperbolic problems with variable coefficients. The choice of collocation points is discussed. Numerical examples are given for the case of variable-coefficient hyperbolic equations. (Author)


A configuration, a managing apparatus and a method of a channel in OFDMA(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Access) system and a transmitting/receiving method and an apparatus thereof are provided to maximize a system capacity in a system sending or receiving data by using an OFDMA based multi connection method. A method for configuring a channel in a communication system using an OFDMA type includes the steps of: configuring whole frequency resource of a system to a plurality of sub-bands(301); configuring a plurality of AMC(Adaptive Modulation and Coding) sub-bands consisting of at least more than one sub-bands(302); puncturing a predetermined symbol in each of the plurality of AMC sub-bands and allotting the punctured symbols to a diversity data transmission area(303,304); and configuring the symbol by inserting data into each of the allotted areas and transmitting the symbol(305,306).


We investigated the relationship between peripheral artery disease complexity and coronary artery disease complexity in patients with peripheral artery disease. A total of 449 patients were enrolled. SYNTAX score, a marker of coronary artery disease complexity, was assessed by dedicated computer software and complexity of peripheral artery disease was determined by Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus II classification. The SYNTAX score of patients with minimal peripheral artery disease, Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus A, Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus B, Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus C and Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus D were 5 (11), 12.5 (13.25), 20 (14), 20.5 (19) and 27.5 (19), respectively (values in brackets represent the interquartile range). SYNTAX score and Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus class was moderately correlated (r = 0.495, p < 0.001). In multivariate regression analysis male sex (B = 0.169, p < 0.001, CI95% = 0.270–0.735), Log10 SYNTAX score (B = 0.282, p < 0.001, CI95% = 0.431–0.782), Log10 creatinine (B = 0.081, p = 0.036, CI95% = 0.043–1.239), low-density lipoprotein (B = 0.114, p = 0.003, CI95% = 0.001–0.006) and high-density lipoprotein (B = −0.360, p < 0.001, CI95% = −0.063 to −0.041) were the independent predictors of Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus II class. We have shown that patients with complex peripheral artery disease had complex coronary artery disease.


Abstract Even though the Internet usage is perceived to be widespread, senior citizens are relatively more reluctant to adopt new technologies. By relying on the Eurostat's Community Statistics on Information Society (CSIS) microdata for the period 2008–2017, we explore recent evolution of the digital divide across Europe. We analyse the difference in adoption of e-governance by younger and older Internet users as well as their reasons for not using e-government services (specifically by submitting completed forms to public authorities). Additionally, we seek to identify factors that determine the difference in the reluctance to adopt e-governance services by senior citizens and the young. By adopting Heckman selection methodology, we establish three categories of factors: those that have different effects for young and old (gender, household size, and population density), those having similar effects (economic activity), and those that have adverse effects for the young and the old (education). Based on empirical results, we suggest following venues for EU-wide policy actions: special attention should be given to older population in sparsely populated areas, specialised learning activities should be developed for older citizens with additional effort to promote inclusion of older women to participate in these learning activities.


YET ANOTHER styrenic resins producer is finding a way out of the business. Lanxess has agreed to sell its Lustran Polymers acrylonitrile- butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins business to the privately he...


This paper describes the development,characteristics and social demand of the major of procedural equipment and control engineering,and discusses the cultivation of competent students for the sake of their better employment.


Some books need to be written. They fill a clear gap in the market for ideas. Others emerge from the creative and intellectual impulses of their authors and argue their way to influence. This glossary of keywords falls into the second category. It is a book nobody asked for that seeks to define a discipline and make itself and its subject useful. The authors note that there is ''a certain foolhardiness'' in trying to delineate conceptual vocabulary, but they are not fools and this is not the totality of their ambition. Journalism studies needs a canon of literature with which to define itself as a mature discipline. This book seeks to be part of it, and, by defining ''Journalism Education,'' as ''the teaching of journalism as a vocation,'' and some ''understanding of journalism's place in the world,'' it makes an excellent start. Among its many attractive aspects are ambition, modernity and range. Zelizer and Allan attempt to identify a clear, durable and relevant lexicon and they do not miss by far. They engage with the competing cultures of print and broadcast news and stride boldly into the multimedia era. Many of their definitions are rigorous, intricate and thought provoking. Crowdsourcing is here as are Warblogs and Ohmy News, a profitable South Korean business that promotes the work of citizen reporters. The authors are familiar with the emerging jargon of media convergence and they define large parts of it well. They have also laboured impressively to gather and define useful examples of journalese. I particularly admire the precision with which they pin down the meaning of ''freebie'' and cross-reference to its near neighbours ''conflict of interest'' and ''travel journalism.'' Missing is a definition of ''motoring journalism,'' a field in which abundant freebies do great damage to the consumer interest. Zelizer and Allan cannot bridge the gulf between American and British newsroom culture, thus we have ''double-enders'' but not ''2-ways'' and a ''bagger'' where a ''standby'' should be. A ''get'' (apparently American for a scoop or exclusive) does not exist in the United Kingdom, and the authors deploy print design terminology that is specific to one side of the pond. Thus a ''Hammer head'' is described as ''a large headline intended to achieve maximum impact.'' British newspaper journalists would be more likely to think it was a shark. In this country jump-lines are called turns. Another dichotomy proves nearly as hard to bridge as the Atlantic. The attempt to integrate professional and academic language is valuable but not entirely triumphant. Working journalists are unlikely to seek a definition of ''News as purposive behaviour,'' or to pursue clarification of Bourdieu's conception of the journalistic field. Should they come looking the definitions offered here might confirm their prejudices. The authors note that ''preferred terms of scholarship only become meaningful when they are used.'' Students of media, communication and journalism studies should use their meticulously crafted lexicon. Working journalists may not, but it would be an unalloyed boon if they did. Zelizer and Allan's glossary is useful and fun. They demonstrate slightly greater familiarity with theory than practice, but this is not a grave flaw. Their work will be


The distribution of Marenzelleria cf. viridis was studied in the Polish zone of the southern Baltic in relation to major environmental variables. Quantitative samples were collected in the 1996-2002 period from 62 stations using a 25 kg van Veen grab and a 200 kg box corer. Individuals of M. cf viridis were found to be abundant throughout the area of study down to depths of about 25-30 m, while the polychaete was encountered sporadically down to 76 m. M. cf. viridis occurred mainly on sandy bottoms, and low abundance was recorded on the silty bottoms


An analysis was made on the digital image recognition system for four Malay family countries' national flags. These countries are Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. The purpose of this study is as a first step in training the Artificial Intelligent system in distinguishing four Malay family countries based on the colors and motifs of the flags on a digital map. The process of analyzing and training the flag recognition used the Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) method. The result showed that the use of 4 Hidden Layers, as well as the use of 0.5 Learning Rate, gave the ability to correctly recognize the image of the flag where the accuracy of the presentation reached an average of 74.15%.


-SiC and -SiC/SiO2 core-shell nanowires (NWs) grown on silicon substrates by three different processes, based on the use of i) carbon monoxide, ii) silane with propane and iii) carbon tetrachloride precursors, are analysed by structural and optical techniques. Spectroscopic cathodoluminescence studies show a luminescence enhancement in core-shell structures, ascribed to an effective role of the shell as both carrier injecting barrier and passivation layer. In NWs grown using CCl4 precursor, a peculiar luminescence with dominant red component at about 2 eV has been detected and ascribed to point defects related to an unintentional oxygen incorporation.


Through in-depth research and analysis of new ideas、new concepts and new goals in the scientific outlook on development,which contain a integrity、scientific and dynamic goal model of economic social equilibrium development including "putting people first,comprehensive、balanced and sustainable development,overall consideration".Takes system development as its level goal and it is scientific development,putting people first as its value goal,comprehensive、balanced and sustainable development as its principle goal,overall consideration as its approach goal.This is a new meaning to science and positioning of economic social development goal,reflects the organic unity of economic sociology system outlook、time and space outlook、process outlook,it is a important innovation and development of goal model of economic social equilibrium development.


Abstract. In article legal basics of trade antimonopoly regulation activity in Russia and the countries of Europe are covered. By results of a research authors designated the main problems to which permission antimonopoly rules in trade are directed. Also in article the comparative analysis of trade antimonopoly regulation methods is provided in Russia and the countries of Europe and an assessment of their efficiency is given. In particular, the efficiency analysis of a restriction method of operating time of shopping facilities, a method of price regulation, a restriction method of distribution of shopping facilities of large retail chain stores is provided. Besides, in article as the positive moments of application of such methods, and the negative consequences which resulted from application of various methods of impact on activity of retailers in Russia and foreign countries are designated. The current state and tendencies of the antitrust law development in the field of trade activity in Russia are considered. The practical importance of the real research consists, first of all, in a possibility of its use in rule-making activity, as at creation of absolutely new model of antimonopoly regulation of the trade activity which is carried out by means of the organization of retail chain stores and at partial modernization of the antitrust law in the sphere of trade. Keywords: antimonopoly, regulation, trade, competition, right, efficiency, legislation, retail chain stores.


This paper advances two claims that run against the grain of recent scholarship on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. First, it argues that Peirce's "The Fixation of Belief" is not to be understood exclusively in terms of its epistemic import but provides key insights into how moral ideals might be fixed in an ethical theory constructed along pragmatic lines. This argument stands in contrast to the prevailing sense that Peirce—as opposed to the majority of figures in the American philosophical canon—had precious little to contribute to a discussion of ethics. Second, it suggests that the ethical import of "The Fixation of Belief" can be seen by way of a comparison between Peirce's essay and the Euthyphro, in which Plato asks a similar question concerning the justification of ethico-religious belief.


Taking paddy field sewage irrigated area in Guixi as an examples, pollution lost rate method was applied to pollution assessment of soil heavy metals. The results showed that the average single pollution lost rate of the soil heavy metals was in the order of Cu>Cd>Pb>Zn>As, and the average single pollution lost rates of Cu and Cd are higher than that of other metals, so the integrated pollution lost rate of the metals in any sample site is contributed by them. From the comprehensive pollution lost rate, most sample sites reached the intermediate level ( IV level) , and accounted for 76. 93% of the total sample sites. most of the samples are moderately polluted (IV level), accounting for 50% of the total number of sample sites, The sample sites of No5 and No6 are slightly polluted (III level), accounting for 33%, and only No1 are heavily polluted (Vlevel), accounting for 16.67% of the total sample sites. As a result, the pollution lost rate method manifested more resolving power in the serious pollution index of the soil.


The work concerns on a railway bogie strength analysis using the finite element method. On the case of Y25 bogie frame is shown the analysis using SOLIDWorks software and it's evaluation. Computed strains are compared with strains measured in laboratory conditions.


The works of J. de groot.- Topologies induced by banch function spaces.- Some properties involving base axioms and metrizability.- On ?-embedded sets in topological spaces.- Some applications of pointwise collectionwise normality.- Algebraic compactness and its relations to topology.- Spaces with a G?-diagonal.- On the theory of Hilbert cube manifolds.- The hyperspace of subcontinua of a peano continuum.- On Stone-Weierstrass spaces.- Coincidence of small and large inductive dimension.- Basic refinements of the category of uniform spaces.- Sequential spaces and quasi-perfect mappings.- Expansions of mappings.- Vector lattices of uniformly continuous functions and some categorical methods in uniform spaces.- Metrization of closed images of metric spaces.- Representation of spaces.- Some remarks on extension theorems in monotonically normal spaces.- A dozen small uncountable cardinals.- Limit-operators and reflective subcategories.- On perfect images of ordinals.- Shape theory and topological groups.- On countably paracompact spaces.- A universal one-dimensional metric space.- Ordinals and paracompactness in ordered spaces.- Another inductive dimension.- Regular maps and metrization.- Special bases for topological spaces.- A characterization of compact scattered spaces through chain limits (chain compact spaces).- Recent results on E-compact spaces.- Recent developments of general topology in Japan.- Some recent developments on repletions and stone-?ech compactifications of O-dimensional spaces.- Development classes: An approach to perfectness, reflectiveness and extension problems.- An axiomatic characterization of covering dimension in metrizable spaces.- The p-adic topology on Abelian groups.- On completeness conditions and the baire property in moore spaces.- Adequacy in topology and uniform spaces.- Complete uniform spaces.- Very flat spaces of continuous functions.- Inverse limits and near-homeomorphism techniques in hyperspace problems.- A simple topological proof that the underlying set functor for compact spaces is monadic.- Note on a problem of Katetov.- A 3-dimensional absolute retract.- On the theorem of Morita and Hanai, and Stone.- Some recent results on expandable spaces.- On characterizations of perfect morphisms and epireflective hulls.- P-points in ?N-N, normal non-metrizable moore spaces, and other problems of hausdorff.- Strong O-dimensionality of certain n-compact spaces.- Free topological groups.- Extensions of integer-valued maps and N-compact spaces.- Some recent results in the theory of [a,b]-compactness.- Topological spaces that are ?-favorable for a player with perfect information.- Completeness and topologically uniformizing structures.- A technique for reducing certain covers on certain L.O.T.S. and their products.- Filter space monads, regularity, completions.- Directed ?-structures and ?-compact spaces.- On covering and countable covering conditions.


The number of discarded home electric appliances CRT TV (CRT), liquid-crystal display TV (LCD), plasma display panel TV (PDP), refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine, microwave oven, cleaner, video cassette recorder (VCR) and (DVD) has been estimated using a population balance model. For the estimations of CRT and VCR, the effects of alternative products (LCD and PDP, and DVD, respectively) were considered. The increasing rates of the estimated number of the discarded refrigerator, the washing machine and the cleaner from 2000 to 2020 were within 5%, while those of air conditioner and microwave oven were more than 30%. The estimated number of shipped CRT and VCR were in good agreement with those of statistic values, indicating the reasonability of the estimated number of discarded LCD, PDP and DVD. As an application of the estimated data, the amount of indium included in the discarded display panel of LCD and PDP was calculated.


Dunes are ubiquitous morphological elements in rivers of all grain sizes and are the principal agents of bedload transport. Through the interactions between flow dynamics and dune morphology, dunes can migrate, change shape, and amalgamate leading to the formation of larger bedforms, which can also create hydraulic heterogeneity and potentially lead to river morphologic change. Additionally, dunes are the major building block in many alluvial successions in the rock record. Many interpretations of dunes in the ancient record have relied on analogies with dunes that have been well documented in experimental studies and examination of smaller natural channels, in which dunes possess a leeside angle at the angle-of-repose of the sediment. However, research over the past 20 years has shown the presence of dunes that possess a lower leeside angle, and which may have more complex leeside morphology. Recent research has also documented the flow associated with such low-angle dunes, both in the laboratory as well as in the field. Laboratory models have demonstrated the presence of an intermittent zone of flow separation in the leeside of low-angle dunes, and suggested an angle of 15◦ is required to promote the onset of permanent flow separation. Furthermore, interpreting big rivers from the sedimentary record is typically thought to be dependent on recognizing deposits that are related to the large scales of dune morphology and dynamics.


Wine consumption in Mexico has increased continuously over the last decade. However, domestic wine production is not sufficient to satisfy domestic demand, and foreign wine producers have been the main beneficiaries of the growth of the Mexican market. This highlights the need of Mexican winemakers for scientific evidence and technological innovations that can help to make better management choices both in the field and in the winery. This paper presents the results of a bibliometric study that aimed to investigate the contribution of the Mexican academic community to scientific literature in viticulture and oenology (1987-2017). Results indicate that Mexican academia has failed to keep pace with the constant growth of the wine industry in Mexico. The growth of scholarly scientific output in Mexico has been slower than that of other Latin American countries. In addition, Mexican scientific output relied to a large extent (36%) on collaborations with research groups from developed countries, while collaborative papers with Latin American countries were comparatively rare (7.9%). Domestic collaboration among Mexican institutions is still limited, as indicated by the low number of such publications (23.2%) and by the considerable number of institutions producing papers independently (49%). Agrosciences, biological sciences, chemistry, microbiology and health sciences were the main areas of research of Mexican academics.


This paper examines the potency Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as a Panacea to Solving Nigeria's Youths' Problem of Unemployment. Nigeria, an emerging economy with an estimated population of about 200 million is battling with poverty and unemployment problems consequently the country's quest for technological progress, industrialization and economic development is 'snail-speeding' and very unimpressive. TVET has been recognized worldwide as a tool for empowering people, especially the youth, for sustainable livelihood and social-economic development. This paper adopted a conceptual approach to explore how Technical Vocational Education and Training as a Panacea to Solving Nigeria's Youths' Problem of Unemployment. Materials were generated via internet, textbooks and other documents relevant to the study. The Nigerian government had initiated several youth empowerment programmes through TVET, but a lot of these programmes lack structure and their impact not felt by the nation's youths. This is evident in the substantial number of youth that still lack work skills - which often results to unemployment, insecurity, loss of lives and properties and chaos. The findings based on the literature reviewed showed TVET is backed up with the availability of materials, infrastructure, hard and soft skills coupled with good will on the part of government could be the vitally needed solution to the problem of graduates' employability in Nigeria. Truly, the battle against youth unemployment cannot be won without tertiary institutions collaborating with the private sector of the economy. This forms the thrust of this paper. It was recommended among others that educational institutions offering technical education programmes should tap the dynamisms and synergies of the 21st century workplace to the full to produce technical education graduates who can fit in and succeed in the 21st century world of work.


The inelastic scattering of electrons on the surface of a semi-infinite crystal with creation of surface and bulk molecular excitons is considered. Analytical expressions are obtained for the cross-section of inelastic scattered electrons. The angular and energy dependences of cross-section are investigated. A strong peak of the electron scattering is noted to be due to definite value of the wave vector of bulk exciton. The possibility to investigate the exciton band structure is discussed.

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Biofertilizers instead of synthetic chemicals are known to improve plant growth through the supply of plant nutrients and they may help sustaining environmental health and soil productivity. An experiment was carried out to evaluate fruit yield and macronutrient foliar contents of yellow passion fruit plants (Passiflora edulis) as a function of biofertilizers and nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (N-P-K) fertilizing in Brazil (2005–2007). The experimental design was randomized in blocks with treatments, which were distributed in a factorial arrangement (3 × 2) referring to biofertilizer application [without biofertilizer, simple biofertilizer and enriched biofertilizer] and mineral fertilizing with NPK (fertilized and non-fertilized), with three replications of nine plants. Nutritional status of yellow passion fruit is affected by biofertilizer. Simple biofertilizer promotes optimum supplies of phosphorus, calcium and sulfur, while enriched biofertilizer promotes optimum supplies of phosphorus, potassium, calcium and sulfur. Both biofertilizers stimulated fruit yield, with results above Brazilian average.


We estimated rupture directions and directivity effects of moderate-sized intraslab and interplate earthquakes off coast of Fukushima prefecture using S-net, K-NET and KiK-net records. Source spectral ratio of each earthquake to a reference earthquake observed at the same station is modeled by using the dependency of amplitude in the frequency higher than corner frequencies on azimuths assuming unilateral rupture. All four intraslab earthquakes are estimated to rupture to updip which is the direction to west toward land. Therefore, their short-period spectral level estimated using only KiK-net records are much larger than those estimated using records at all stations. It has been pointed out that directivity effects exist even in small or moderate-sized crustal earthquakes. The directivity effects on small or moderate-sized subduction-zone earthquakes, however, have rarely been examined except for the study by Yoshida et al.(2021). This main reason was that earthquake stations were installed on only land and so azimuth coverage was not enough to quantitatively examine the directivity effects. In 2016, NIED started to observe earthquake and tsunami records along the Japan Trench by constructing seafloor network called S-net. Using the S-net as well as K-NET and KiK-net strong motion records we estimate rupture direction and directivity effects of moderate-sized intraslab and interplate earthquakes off the coast of Fukushima prefecture. The directivity effects on short-period spectral level are also discussed. We use the azimuth dependency of amplitudes of source spectra to examine the directivity effects. This method is different from Yoshida et al.(2021) who examined duration of source time functions of interplate earthquakes using S-net and seismic records on land. Strong motion records of four downdip compression type intraslab earthquakes with Mw 4.4 to 5.0 and seven interplate earthquakes with Mw 4.7 to 6.3 are used. The focal depths are 40 to 60 km. The source spectral ratio at each station is defined as the ratio of each earthquake to a reference earthquake observed at the same station after correcting the distance difference between them. We assume  -2 model considering unilateral rupture with constant rise time. In this model the spectral level in frequencies higher than corner frequencies depends on azimuth and rupture direction. The rupture directions of all earthquakes including the reference earthquake are estimated by a grid search method. As a result, four intraslab earthquakes rupture to updip directions which are the directions to west toward land. Five interplate earthquakes rupture to updip directions which are the directions to nearly south. Two interplate earthquakes rupture to downdip directions, but one ruptures to nearly horizontal toward south. The other ruptures to pure updip direction. The short-period spectral levels estimated from source spectral ratios only at KiK-net stations for earthquakes which rupture toward land are much larger than those estimated from the ratios at all stations due to rupture directivity effects. The rupture directivity effects are large in 1 to 5 Hz, especially in 2 to 3 Hz which is close to corner frequencies. This result suggests magnitude dependent rupture directivity effects which were pointed out from large crustal earthquakes. Therefore, the rupture directions are estimated using the source spectral ratios in 2 to 3 Hz. Rupture directivity model with the ratio of rupture velocity to S-wave velocity of 0.7 explains observed source spectral ratios slightly better than model with the ratio of 0.8. The dependency on azimuths of source spectral ratios in 0.2 to 0.5 Hz is consistent to theoretical radiation patterns. The rupture directivity effects are strong to hypocentral distances less than at least 150 km. Since both the radiation patterns and directivity effects of intraslab earthquakes used in this study are large at coastal area west to the hypocenter, observed spectral amplitudes in the wide frequency range become larger there. The method showed in this study to estimate rupture directivity effects of moderate-sized earthquakes would be useful to select the element event of the empirical Green's function method for strong motion


In a series of chapters on advances in neuroimaging techniques, it is ironic that images per se of the brain's structures or of neural activity have actually diminished in importance since publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's Fourth Generation of Progress. The focus of neuroimaging in cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry is widening beyond initial questions of where normal and pathologic functions are localized in the brain, to begin to include questions of how cognitive operations are carried out and why they sometimes fail. For these more mechanistic questions, images become simply measurements for testing hypotheses and are not an end in themselves. Structural imaging of the brain with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a good example of a field that is no longer restricted to simple localization of pathology in psychiatric disease. Indeed, there are few psychiatric cases that are characterized by clear pathology that is visible in MRI pictures. By contrast, the new analytic approaches to measuring the size of structures in MRI images described by Evans in this section allow one to track small changes in structures over time, which can potentially reveal abnormal patterns of development in either gray or white matter. Recently, for example, these techniques have been used to track the distribution of gray and white matter during development in childonset schizophrenia, which is characterized by an abnormal time course of gray matter reductions in several different


The axial macrosegregation and relevant microstructure evolution of Fe-Ni peritectic alloys directionally solidified under different convection strength were discussed using pure diffusion model,boundary layer convection model and the Scheil equation.Comparing with the experiments of Fe-Ni alloys conducted in resistance heating and induction heating Bridgman system,it was found that the predictions of boundary layer convection model agreed well with the experimental results of induction heating directional solidification when the convection strength parameters lies in the region 1.7μ≤2,indicating that the model can be used to predict the axial macrosegregation and microstructures evolution of peritectic alloys.


Abstract : This Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) to the U.S. Air Force February 1995 Environmental Assessment for the California Spaceport (the 1995 EA) addresses the potential environmental impacts of the Proposed Action where the FAA would renew the Launch Site Operator License (LSO 01-005) to Spaceport Systems International (SSI) for the continued operation of the California Spaceport at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California. The 1995 EA analyzed the potential environmental impacts of construction and operation of a commercial launch facility (which is now the California Spaceport) at VAFB, California. On May 2, 1995, the FAA published a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) that adopted the 1995 EA in the Federal Register. In September 1996 the FAA issued a Launch Site Operator License to SSI for operation i'faith California Spaceport at VAFB. This SEA summarizes the environmental analysis presented in the 1995 EA where the data and analysis remains substantially valid and provides new data and analysis where information presented in the 1995 EA is outdated. This SEA analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the Proposed Action and the No Action Alternative on air quality; biological resources (fish, wildlife, and plants); land use (including coastal resources); light emissions and visual resources; historical, architectural, archaeological, and cultural resources; Department of Transportation Act Section 4(f) properties; geology and soils; hazardous materials, pollution prevention, and solid waste; health and safety; noise; socioeconomics, environmental justice, children's environmental health and safety; and water resources (including floodplains and wetlands). Potential cumulative impacts of the Proposed Action are also addressed in this SEA. This SEA found that there would be no significant impacts to any of the resource areas analyzed as a result of renewing the Launch Site Operator License to SSI for the continued operation of the Californi


The application research status inland and abroad of purification technology( concentration and refinement) for acetylene feed gas from natural gas cracking is presented. The merit and demerit of concentration and refinement technologies for acetylene are compared and analyzed. Aiming at the existing technical and economic issues such as complex technical process,rigorous operation conditions,high loss of solvent,difficult to treat waste sulfuric acid and so on,the solvent absorption technology for refinement of acetylene is proposed. The solvent with high selectivity is applied to remove higher alkyne and CO2 from crude acetylene,and the purified acetylene product is obtained. In addition,the higher alkyne is obtained as by-product to improve economic benefits.


The present invention provides a system and method for the uplink MIMO control information for multiplexing. The method of transmission of control information on MIMO layers for the L, where L is an integer value greater than one, the method comprising: generating a plurality of control modulation symbols from said control information; controlled by said plurality of modulation symbols mapped to the L layers to fill the L layers; and transmitting the L layer.


ABSTRACT This case study explores how a science teacher adopted knowledge building and learning analytics to support a class of primary five students to collaboratively inquire and learn about electricity. Specifically, we aim to understand how the teacher implemented a lesson design guided by knowledge building principles of idea improvement and community knowledge and how he used visualisations from an analytics tool to facilitate students in collaborative inquiry in science. We collected student notes from their online discourse in Knowledge Forum, video-recorded a total of 11 lesson videos and conducted interviews with the teacher and students. We found that students' online discussion reflected explanation-seeking questions to sustain the inquiry on the topic and explanations to deepen and improve their ideas on concepts of electricity. We also found that the visualisations from our analytics tool supported (i) teacher-facilitated whole-class discussions on curriculum keywords and student ideas to develop conceptual understanding and idea-building, and (ii) students in exploring science ideas they were interested in. The findings from our study contribute to the understanding of teachers' enactment of inquiry-supported pedagogies in primary science classrooms.


A solid-state switch using static induction (SI) thyristors has been developed for a klystron modulator of the L-band electron linac at Osaka University to enhance stability of a THz-FEL based on the linac. The switch meets the maximum specifications such that the holding voltage is 25 kV with the switching time of 270 ns, that the current is 6 kA for a pulse duration of 10 s, and that the repetition frequency is 10 Hz. The fluctuations of the klystron voltage are considerably reduced compared to those with a thyratron. The FEL is operated with the solid-state switch and the macropluse energy of the FEL at a wavelength of ~70 m are measured with an energy meter for infrared lasers. The fractional variation of the macropulse energy measured in successive 500 pulses is 2.4 % for the solid-state switch (standard deviation), which is much smaller than 5.4 % for the thyratron.


Nowadays, the development of smart grids has been the focus of attention due to its advantages for power systems. One of the aspects of smart grids defined by using distributed generation (DG) in a low voltage network is a microgrid (MG). Based on its operational states, MG can operate in different configurations such as grid-connected mode or off-grid mode. The switching between these states is one of the challenging issues in this technical area. The fault currents in different buses have higher value compared to islanded mode of MG when the MG is connected to the main grid, which influences the protection equipment. In this situation, some electrical devices may be damaged due to the fault currents. Application of a fault current limiter (FCL) is considered as an effective way to overcome this challenge. The optimal size of these FCLs can optimize the performance of an MG. In this paper, an index for FCL size optimization has been used. In addition, two optimization algorithms (Bat Algorithm and Cuckoo Search Algorithm) have been applied to the problem. The application of an FCL has been studied in grid-connected and islanded-mode. In addition, the application of the capacitor bank in both modes has been investigated. The results of simulations carried out by MATLAB have been presented and compared.


Being some major problems of our contemporary world, racism and ethnocentrism demand persistent critical scrutiny. One oft-neglected aspect of these problems is how such prejudices are shared and communicated among the members of the dominant group. This study examines Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat (2015), as a dramatic representation of how racism and ethnocentrism are reproduced and communicated as a social cognition. To this aim, the study tries to employ Teun Adrianus Van Dijk's cognitively-based discourse analysis and focus on some micro-level aspects of racism as a social cognition rather as an abstract historical phenomenon. Contextualizing the play within its socio-historical moment, three trends of schematic attitudes and mental models regarding ethnocentrism_ as Van Dijk's theory outlines_ are identified from and studied in the play. The findings demonstrate the socio-cognitive dimension of the discourse of racism, particularly the way it is reproduced and communicated among the dominant in-group members. Moreover, the discussion offers some insight on Lynn Nottage's latest dramatic endeavor in a hard-hitting portrayal of the intersections of race, class, and political economy and in drawing attention to the real meaning of diversity and inclusion in contemporary America.


Ageism in medicine is not due simply to ethical and philosophical issues, but rather to a misperception and ignorance of the process of ageing and its consequences. A strong antidote to this lies in the development of a cohesive approach from medical, biological and social gerontologists, which might perhaps result in a strong body of evidence. Further, academic medical gerontology has a strong but collaborative role to play in the development and evaluation of therapeutic and preventative interventions, particularly complex interventions for the UK' s rapidly expanding elderly population. The disposable soma theory might provide clinicians with a sustainable concept of ageing which could be used to underpin their thinking, and which would characterise ageing as a gradual and random accumulation of molecular faults and cellular damage, with a consequent loss of adaptability to both internal and external milieux. This is opposed to a pre-programming model of ageing, and offers an opportunity for intervention at genetic, molecular and cellular levels, as well as at the level of specific disorders, altered homeostasis and the external milieu. It is necessary to strengthen the currency of the term ' medical gerontology' , defined here as ' the study of ageing, including population ageing, and as it applies to the science and practice of ageing' . This definition should be underpinned by some strands of practical thought governing intervention, such as the existence of co-morbidity and heterogeneity in older people, and of diminishing adaptive reserve to both internal and external milieux. Progress in services for older people has often been more of a response to contingency or unexpected discovery than part of any plan. The specialty of geriatric medicine was spawned in the Poor Law Hospitals as a result of the 1929 Local Government Act, and developed through the Second World War and the foundation of the NHS. Physicians charged with the care of the elderly initiated the blend of custodialism and medical neglect which is now legendary. However, the resulting systematic diagnosis of multiple medical problems, the introduction of rehabilitative nursing and therapy, and the assessment and management of social relationships and circumstances, produced very positive


Using agent-based model (ABM) interaction between agents in the form of weather (temperature and precipitation), soil, and plant for different farming system is simulated. Three farming system: conventional farming (CF), organic farming (OF), smart farming (SF) are chosen, where each has its own characteristics. Age of plant τ max = 30 day and lag time between two successive planting τ lag = 10 day are used for ten years simulation. In each year there are nine replanting process. It is observed that CF and OF are very dependent to the weather, while SF is not. This will make the last farming system very superior, constant and predicted results, compared to the other two based on the proposed model, especially how every system components influence size of the plant as assumed.


"The language of the Island of Utopia: East Indies viewed from Flanders during the Renaissance" deals with Belgian people involved in the rediscovery of India in the late 15th-early 16th centuries. The reaching of Calicut (Kerala, South India) inspired the imaginations in the Low Countries, as exemplified by the Tournai tapestry. In the city of Antwerp, which at that time played a central role in the Portuguese trade with East Indies, two among the oldest reports on the Malabar Coast were printed (1504, 1508). The humanist Pieter Gillis, Thomas More's close friend who belonged to that city, may be considered as the author of the poem in the Utopian alphabet and language added at the opening of the first editions (1516, 1518) of More's Utopia. A new linguistic analysis of this 'pre-Orientalist' philological play shows echoes of Indian languages like Sanskrit and Malayāḷam. Samples of the latter are also documented in a few other European writings of that time.


Fungicide-resistant os mutants of Neurospora crassa Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. This research note is available in Fungal Genetics Reports: http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol29/iss1/3 TABLE 1 Siderophore production by arg-5 ,ota, aga and wild-type under iron-stressed conditions Supp1ementsa Growthb Total sideropbores (mg)c Total siderophore ornithine (μmoles)c Strains added to medium (gm wet wt) Medium Intracellular Medium Intracellular arginine (50 μg/ml) arg-5, ota, aga putrescine (100 μg/ml) 11.2 9.7 3.1 1.51 0.61 arg-5, ota, aga arginine (50 μg/ml) spermidine (100 μg/ml) 3.9 4.3 1.3 5.18 0.26 wild-type (74A) None 13.3 116.1 18.0 424.08 13.33 a Arginine (recrystallized) and polyamines were filter sterilized and added to autoclaved medium. b Mycelial wet wt of cultures grown in 500 ml medium for four days at 25° with shaking. c Post XAD-2 column chromatography siderophores. Amounts are per 500 ml culture. d Siderophores were hydrolyzed reductively with HI, and ornithine determined with a Beckman amino acid analyzer. (Supported by Public Health Service Grant AI 15739.) Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125. Grindle, M. and W. Temple Fungicide-resistant of os mutants of Neurospora crassa We are investigating mutants of Batrytis cinerea and N. crassa that are resistant to various antifungal chemicals. Mutants selected ~~~~ ~~~ on media containing the agricultural Fungicide, vinclozolin, are crossresistant to other "dicarboximide" and "aromatic hydrocarbon" fungicides. Most of the mutants (which we have designated Vin) grow poorly on Vogel's minimal medium MM, and on media supplemented with chemicals that cause a marked increase in the osmolarity and/or the supply of ammonium ion. The sensitivity of vin mutants to high osmotic pressure is paralleled by the osmatic mutants described by Mays (Genetics 1969, 63: 781) and by Murayama and Ishikawa (J. Bacteriology 1973, 115: 796). We have characterized a selection of these osmotic mutants to determine whether they are resistant to some dicarboximide (procymidone, iprodione and vinclozolin) and aromatic hydrocarbon (chloroneb, dicloran and quintozene) fungicides. The data (Table 1) show that os-l, os-2, os-4, os-5 flm-1 (= os-1 and flm-2 (= os-4) mutants are resistant to the fungicides, but cut and gla mutants are not. The phenotypes (i.e. rates of growth on MM and supplemented MM, and levels of resistance to the fungicides) of the os mutants are as variable as those of our Vin mutants. With a few exceptions, os-1 mutants can be distinguished from os-2, os4 and os-5 mutants by their lower growth on MN, their higher resistance to the fungicides, and their greater sensitivity to media supplemented with amino acids or NaCl Preliminary genetic studies of our vinclozolin-resistant mutants of N, crassa indicate that this phenotypic character is specified by numerous genes; most of the Vin genes seem to be located on chr I, but we have detected few Vin mutants that are clearly allelic with os-1 os-4 or os-5. Osmotic mutants can be isolated and identified with ease on media containing any of the fungicides listed in Table 1. We use commercial fungicides which are supplied as wettable powders (e.g. "Ronilan", supplied by BASF United Kingdom Ltd., contains 50% vinclozolin; the fungicides are added to cool, sterilized media.


In this work, an adaptive blind structure subspace algorithm is developed. The proposed algorithm tracks the signal subspace and estimates the channel in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The algorithm utilizes the inherent Toeplitz structure embedded in many communication systems and the orthogonal projection approximation subspace tracking (OPAST) algorithm to estimate the desired channel. The proposed scheme is robust and capable of estimating channels adaptively at a relatively low computational cost. The simulation results demonstrate the appealing benefits of the proposed method.


The invention provides a living garbage precast part and a manufacture method thereof; wherein, the materials of the living garbage precast part comprise: 36 to 57 wt percent of living garbage cinder, 5 to 14 wt percent of cement, 24 to 47 wt percent of scree, 0 to 8 wt percent of construction sand, 0 to 4 wt percent of fly ash, 0 to 0.5 wt percent of silicon ash, 0 to 0.2 wt percent of concrete admixture, as well as 5 to 9.5 wt percent of water. The living garbage precast part provided by the invention can replace a concrete precast part and become the construction materials with higher intensity like ground tiles, building blocks or road edge stones, realizes the innocent treatment of the living garbage with lower cost, and has excellent economic and social benefits. The invention also provides a manufacture method for the living garbage precast part, which prepares the living garbage precast part of the invention by the steps of mixing, shaping, maintaining, and the like.


The invention discloses a method for solving an optimal coverage control set of a static node in a wireless sensor network. With the adoption of the method provided by the invention, on the premise of keeping a certain coverage rate, a part of nodes enter a sleep state, so that the quantity of working nodes is reduced, the network energy consumption is reduced, and the network survival time is prolonged. Furthermore, a node set which has fewer working nodes, suitable sensing radius combination and low energy consumption, and meets certain coverage requirements can be found out by not considering communication and calculation energy consumption among nodes, considering energy consumption of a node sensing module, and using a property that the nodes have adjustable sensing radii. Three sub-functions, namely, energy consumption of the network node sensing module, a network coverage rate and a network node sleep rate, can be established, and a fitness function of a genetic algorithm is commonly formed by the three sub-functions; and the model is solved by using the genetic algorithm. An optimal working node combination with a large coverage range, fewer working nodes and low energy consumption, and an optimal sensing radius combination of the working nodes can be obtained.


Natural autoantibodies (NAAbs) specific for the T‐cell receptor (TCR) are present in all human sera, but individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) generally produce higher titres of immunoglobulin M (IgM) isotype autoantibodies (AAbs) against Vβ TCR epitopes. To investigate possible correlations between the specificity of such AAbs and their role in immunomodulation, we generated seven B‐cell hetero‐hybridomas, secreting monoclonal IgM NAAbs, from the synovial tissue and peripheral blood of patients with RA. Here we report three anti‐TCR monoclonal autoantibodies (mAAbs) – OR2, OR5 and Syn 2H‐11 – with the ability to bind subsets of murine T cells, including the ovalbumin‐specific DO‐11.10 clone. These antibodies did not induce apoptosis in vitro, but prevented interleukin‐2 (IL‐2) production by antigen‐specific T cells. These findings suggest an immunomodulatory function for NAAbs to TCR V‐region epitopes and serve as the foundation for testing human anti‐TCR mAAbs in animal models with the eventual goal of using them as therapeutic agents in human disease.


Preliminary pharmacoeconomic analyses suggest that levalbuterol (LEV) therapy is associated with decreased outpatient asthma health care costs. OBJECTIVE: Examine treatment costs in asthma patients stratified by the number of prescribed controller medications (CM), an index of asthma severity. METHODS: Claims data on patients prescribed LEV and RAC were obtained from the PharMetrics Integrated Outcomes Database. Age- and sex-matched samples of patients initiating therapy with LEV or RAC (no prescriptions for either agent in prior 6 months) were selected and their asthma-related charges were assessed over 6 months following the initial prescription. RESULTS: 544 LEV-treated patients were identified and matched to 544 RAC-treated patients. 62% of RAC patients previously received no CM, 20% had 1 CM, and 18% had> 1 CM. Following RAC treatment 30% had 1 CM and 29% had> 1 CM. Use of leukotriene modifiers increased from 8% to 14% and corticosteroid use increased from 33% to 46%. Although LEV patients previously received more CM (41% no CM; 24% 1 CM; 34%> 1 CM), after treatment the percent with> 1 CM declined to 28%. Their leukotriene modifier use increased from 22% to 25% while long-acting bronchodilator use decreased from 13% to 10%. In patients without prior CM, mean charges declined by similar amounts in both groups (LEV: $360, RAC: $306) following treatment. In patients with 1 CM, LEV was associated with a $116 reduction despite a $121 increase in pharmacy charges while RAC was associated with a $22 decrease. In patients with> 1 CM, LEV was associated with a $435 reduction in mean charges while RAC was associated with a $311 increase. CONCLUSIONS: Asthmatic patients treated with LEV required no additional CM and some patients reduced the number of CM. Cost reductions associated with LEV increased with severity.


Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer globally with a high patient mortality rate. As a result, researchers are trying to find new effective drugs to treat the disease. However, drug discovery is costly and time-consuming, making it difficult to succeed. Virtual screening is a tool for drug discovery as it can quickly assess the potential of many drug candidates, reducing time and cost. The study aims to develop a web application for the virtual screening of breast cancer drugs using a machine-learning approach. The data for this study was collected from the ChEMBL database and contained 8 human breast cancer target proteins, including mTOR, Trop-2, PI3K, CDK4/6, HER2, Aromatase, Akt, and Estrogen Receptor. The data is preprocessed with Feature Engineering using Lipinski's rule with the SMILE structure of a compound. The data is also applied in developing machine learning algorithms with two main objectives: predicting Drug–Target interaction and Drug Approvals with a classification model. Results of the study show that the SMILE structure and Lipinski's rule with machine learning are used for the virtual screening of many compounds from new drug discovery. The Gradient boosting Classifier is found to be the most suitable algorithm for predicting drug approval with the geometric mean, F1-score, and AUC of 0.95, 0.96, and 0.98, while the Random Forest Classifier is the best for drug target interactive with accuracy, F-1 score, and AUC of 0.75, 0.74, and 0.80, respectively. Moreover, we deploy machine learning with a web application and reduce time and cost in finding new drugs, increasing the chances of success in finding new treatments to reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer patients.


This paper proposes a new approach to accelerate a construction of automatic clusters. It initiates an analyse of the moving variance of clusters for each stage of cluster construction, then observes the pattern to find the global optimum as well as avoid the local optima. Using two constraints, valley- tracing and hill-climbing, to find the global optimum, the proposed approach reverses the pattern in order to accelerate the automatic clustering. Experiment result performs the effectiveness of the proposed approach in this paper.


To assist wayfinding and navigation, the display of maps and driving directions on mobile devices is nowadays commonplace. While existing system can naturally exploit GPS information to facilitate orientation, the inherently limited screen space is often perceived as a drawback compared to traditional street maps as it constrains the perception of contextual information. Moreover, occlusion issues add to this problem if the environment is shown from the popular egocentric perspective.


This paper presents a resonant LLC based isolated single-phase DC-AC converter for grid connected photovoltaic systems. The converter employs a LLC DC-rectified AC stage followed by a line frequency unfolder. A constant switching frequency based modulation strategy is used to generate sinusoidal output voltage. The gain of the converter is independent of the load current in the operating region. To control active power flow, a small variation in gain is needed which results in small variation in operating frequency. This ensures optimal design of the magnetic components. A closed form expression of the converter voltage gain is derived. Additionally, load independent ZVS of the input H-bridge is ensured. A 2 kW prototype is designed and key simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the converter operation.


This study aims to determine the effect of product quality, price and promotion of
purchasing decisions. This type of research includes quantitative research. The
object of this research is employees of PT. Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) Daop 1
Jakarta using iPhone. This study was conducted on 205 respondents. Data
analysis method used is multiple linear regression analysis.
The results of this study indicate that partially, product quality variables
affect the decision to purchase iPhone products, price variables affect the
decision to purchase iPhone products and promotions affect the decision to
purchase iPhone products. This is evidenced from the results of partial test (t test)
shows significant value sbesar 0.000 <0.05 then three independent variables
support the accepted hypothesis. Meanwhile, F test result states that together
there is influence between variable of product quality, price and promotion to
decision of purchasing iPhone product.
Keywords: product quality, price, promotion and purchase decision

Penelitian ini untuk bertujuan mengetahui pengaruh kualitas produk, harga
dan promosi terhadap keputusan pembelian. Jenis penelitian ini termasuk
penelitian kuantitatif. Objek penelitian ini adalah karyawan PT. Kereta Api
Indonesia (Persero) Daop 1 Jakarta yang menggunakan iPhone. Penelitian ini
dilakukan terhadap 205 responden. Metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah
analisis regresi linear berganda.
Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa secara parsial, variabel
kualitas produk berpengaruh terhadap keputusan pembelian produk iPhone,
variabel harga berpengaruh terhadap keputusan pembelian produk iPhone dan
promosi berpengaruh terhadap keputusan pembelian produk iPhone. Hal ini
dibuktikan dari hasil uji parsial (uji t) menunjukkan nilai signifikan sbesar 0,000 <
0,05 maka tiga variabel bebas mendukung hipotesis diterima. Sedangkan, hasil uji
F menyatakan bahwa secara bersama-sama terdapat pengaruh antara variabel
kualitas produk, harga dan promosi terhadap keputusan pembelian produk iPhone.
Kata kunci: kualitas produk, harga, promosi dan keputusan pembelian.


Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are carriers of the economic development on local, regional, and national level. With high levels of flexibility, agility and adaptability, small and medium enterprises have the ability to transform and embrace new emerging technologies and opportunities. In the Industry 4.0 world, characterized by the intensive development and integration of digital solutions into all levels of operations, SMEs are among early adopters of such solutions. The purpose of the paper is to examine how small and medium enterprises in the Middle East are increasing their competitiveness, using innovative digital and e-business solutions as key transformative tools. Within the research, a systematic review of support ecosystem for development of the sector in the Middle East has been performed. Based on the systematic review and literature findings, the 5I framework, consisting of internationalization, innovation, integration, implementation, and intensifying, has been suggested as the model for transformative development of small and medium enterprises. In the future research, it is possible to examine how fast-growing economies that create supportive environment for the development of small and medium enterprises, simultaneously recognizing digital and e-business solutions as important pillar of increasing competitiveness and innovativeness, might benefit from successful implementation of 5I framework for successful global transformation.


In the framework of the modified Fisher model,correlations between the symmetry-energy coefficient in semi-classical mass formula to temperature(asym/T) and the isobaric yield ratio in Heavy-ion collisions are established.asym/T of neutron-rich fragments are extracted using these correlations.It is found that the Coulomb-energy term has little effect on asym/T of fragments,while the reference isobars adopted have great influence on the extracted asym/T of fragments.


Soil water content is one of the dynamics of water conditions that can be a limiting factor in achieving optimal oil palm productivity. The extensive oil palm plantations make it difficult to acquire soil moisture content data. Soil water content conditions can be estimated by remote sensing technology through the vegetation and drought index, and also can be mapped using an interpolation approach. This study aimed to map the optimal soil water content in oil palm plantations based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Multi-band Drought Index (NMDI), and Interpolation. The results showed that the highest soil moisture was found on 0-3% slope gradient and the lowest on 8-15% slope gradient. Vegetation density based on NDVI analysis result was quite high, while the level of dryness based on NMDI analysis result was quite humid. Mapping of soil water content based on NDVI and NMDI had a very weak correlation with soil water content so both indices are less responsive in describing soil moisture conditions in the field. Interpolated water content value had a fairly strong relationship with the soil water content and had the highest suitability, so the interpolation approach can be recommended for mapping soil water content in an oil palm plantation area.


New sufficient linear matrix inequality (LMI) condition for regularization of singular discrete-time systems subject to norm-bounded uncertainties is given. Then a new class of feedback is proposed to stabilize singular uncertain discrete-time systems with unknown time delays. The regularization and the stabilizability condition of this class of systems is given in terms of one strict LMI. A numerical example is given to show the novelty of the control design.


The current definition of learning in our country is mainly confined to "the learning of books".The simple style of learning leads to the extremely unbalanced development of students.With correspondence to the new development orientation advocated by the new curriculum reform,we should adopt the diversified learning styles.Instead of adopting the psychological way of classifying learning styles according to learning outcome and mechanism,we can divide learning,based on the different subjects and areas involved in human's life,into such styles as symbolic learning,communicative learning,operational learning,observational learning and reflective learning,etc.Different styles of learning have different values to students' mental and physical development,and each of them has its own limitations.Learning styles should be diversified so that different styles of learning are complementary to each other and students'mental and physical development can be completely promoted.


Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major cause of acute kidney damage, which often occurs in deceased donor kidney transplants. Cathelicidin PR-39 peptide possesses anti-inflammatory and wound repair effects through tissue angiogenesis and anti-apoptosis. This study assessed the role of PR-39 in anti-apoptosis in vitro using a lentiviral vector with a kidney specific promoter (KSP) to drive PR-39 expression. Our data revealed that PR-39 peptide was specifically over-expressed in kidney-derived HK-2 cells, but was scarcely detected in non-kidney tissue-derived cells. PR-39 over-expression had a protective role in the hypoxia/re-oxygenation (H/R) treated cells. The anti-apoptotic activity of PR-39 peptide was mediated by the inhibition of caspase-2, caspase-12 and caspase-3 activity in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-induced apoptotic pathway. It was also revealed that the anti-apoptotic effect of PR-39 peptide was mediated by an apoptosis-related protein, cellular inhibitor apoptosis protein-2 (c-IAP-2). Taken together, the current data demonstrate that PR-39 expression driven by KSP could prevent kidney damage (apoptosis) from IRI via the ER stress-induced apoptotic pathway.


In the contemporary editing activities, the editor should build up a sense for the writer, which reflects in the following aspects: (i) the editor should get in touch with and establish a friendly relationship with the writer; (ii) the editor should try to be good at finding talents and helping new writers; (iii) the editor should try to improve the writer's quality when a manuscript is returned to the writer for modification or perfection; and (iv) the editorial department should build a database of writers for a vast contact with their contributors.


Genetic algorithms are one example of the use of a random element within an algorithm for combinatorial optimization. We consider the application of the genetic algorithm to a particular problem, the Assembly Line Balancing Problem. A general description of genetic algorithms is given, and their specialized use on our test-bed problems is discussed. We carry out extensive computational testing to find appropriate values for the various parameters associated with this genetic algorithm. These experiments underscore the importance of the correct choice of a scaling parameter and mutation rate to ensure the good performance of a genetic algorithm. We also describe a parallel implementation of the genetic algorithm and give some comparisons between the parallel and serial implementations. Both versions of the algorithm are shown to be effective in producing good solutions for problems of this type (with appropriately chosen parameters). INFORMS Journal on Computing , ISSN 1091-9856, was published as ORSA Journal on Computing from 1989 to 1995 under ISSN 0899-1499.


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To the Editor, We read with interest the research by Gilemkhanova et al. The authors present a case of a pharmacoresistant tachyarrhythmia associated with Arnold-Chiari malformation type 1(ACM). The authors have shown how brain-heart interaction can play an important role in the generation of cardiac disorders. Several studies have shown the neuroanatomical pathways of neurogenic arrhythmias. To explain these events we link mechanisms involved in neural compression. ACM is characterized by chronic compression of the hindbrain at the level of the magnum foramen. Wang et al. found that chronic spinal cord injury leads to a higher risk of atrial fibrillation than that of the general population. Presumably mechanisms involved in this phenomenon are related to disruption of communication between the brainstem and the autonomic nervous system including the sympathetic preganglionic fibers exiting from T1-4. These fibers innervate the heart and are responsible for increasing the heart rate and cardiac output. These effects are antagonized by the parasympathetic vagus nerve. Hence sympathetic impairment leads to unopposed parasympathetic tone and autonomic dysfunction, which may explain the atrial fibrillation in Gilemkhanovaa et al. case. Currently there are only two reports cases of atrial tachyarrhythmia in ACM, both were female patients. This corroborates Wang et al. results showing females are at a higher risk of atrial fibrillation. These data support the cause of atrial fibrillation being autonomic dysfunction triggered by compression of the ACM. Recent studies have shown promise for spinal treatments of atrial fibrillation. These include spinal cord stimulation, which may suppress atrial tachyarrhythmias by stabilising excessive tone of the intrinsic cardiac (parasympathetic) nervous system.


Fogo suggests that present day conflicts may be understood better by examining the way a particular segment of American society, the sixties generation, has made sense of its collective experience and its relation to society in the process of attributing symbolic meaning to one of its major icons, John Lennon.


Experiences and early coping of bereaved spouses/partners in an intervention based on the dual process model (DPM) Lund D, Caserta M, Utz R, De Vries B (2010). Omega 61(4) 291–313 This is one article in a special edition of the journal Omega devoted to the dual process model (DPM) of coping with bereavement, developed by Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut. This sees bereaved people as oscillating between loss orientation (LO) (focusing on their loss) and restoration orientation (RO) (learning to cope on their own and gain new life skills). Stroebe and Schut argue that recovery from bereavement requires a balance of the two. Every article is worth reading, whether you are a researcher or a practitioner. I have chosen to describe in more detail the one by Lund and colleagues as it provides a practical way of helping older people with their bereavement while also testing and considering refinements to the DPM. The study sought to compare outcomes from interventions based on the DPM model and more 'traditional' approaches offerering just LO support. Recently widowed people, all aged over 50, were offered 14 weekly sessions of group bereavement support: 128 attended traditional LO grief support groups, and 170 attended groups that focused on LO and RO – the DPM study groups. These sessions covered an imaginative list of issues that bereaved people might find useful. Participants in both kinds of group were very satisfied with the interventions. Some in the DPM groups would have preferred activities other than those that were offered – computer skills rather than learning about how to budget, for example. The list of RO topics had been chosen from preferences expressed in previous studies, but the feedback suggests that RO activities are best tailored and individualised to participants. It was also observed that many people in the LO groups engaged in RO activities both during sessions and outside the group. Participants in the DPM groups showed slightly higher use of RO coping initially, but improved at similar levels and reported similar high satisfaction with their participation as those attending the traditional LO groups. However, although DPM participants had six fewer LO sessions, they showed similar levels of LO improvement. This study addresses one important aspect of the DPM and the researchers plan to further research and develop this model.  The childhood experience of being a war orphan: a study of the effects of father loss on women whose fathers were killed in World War II Taylor SE (2010). Journal of Loss and Trauma 15(3) 228–241 This piece of heuristic research involves interviews with seven women born in the US between 1941 and 1945 whose fathers died on active service in World War II. Reportedly there is little research in this area, even though some 183,000 US children lost a father during the war. The author is herself a US World War II war orphan. Of the 100 responses to her search for interviewees via a national war orphan organisation, the author chose seven who consented to participate fully in the study. Several themes emerged from the interviews. Interviewees described 'feeling different'. Even if their mother remarried, they still longed for a 'normal' family life that included both birth parents. They described a pervasive sense of 'yearning for what could have been', of insecurity and a sense of danger. The result was either hyper-dependency or hyper-independence. Fears were 'rampant' – fears of abandonment, trust, letting go, getting lost, others dying unexpectedly around them, of death and of the dark. There were also fears of being 'replaced' and of loss and being hurt if they gave too much of themselves. Another key theme was having to care for their grief-stricken mother, and/or siblings. Some simply talked of a need to take care to others in order to win acceptance and retain control. Relationships with men were difficult and largely unsuccessful. The women described lack of trust, fear of intimacy, fear of abandonment and their disappointed searches for someone to take care of them. Those whose mothers had remarried often felt far from 'lucky', despite what they were constantly told. Some described terrible abuse and neglect and most reported losing more than they gained from the remarriage. Some retained a lingering fantasy that their father might return, and all felt their father's mystical presence in their lives. The researcher attempts from these seven interviews to create a 'composite portrait of a World War II orphaned daughter'. I felt there could have been more reflection on the limitations to objectivity. Nevertheless, this study highlights a very particular unacknowledged, disenfranchised grief and may provide a sense of 'commonality' for other women in this situation.  Denise Brady Librarian St Christopher's Hospice, London rBER Issue 30_1 TEXT.indd 51 18/04/2011 08:07:27


According to comparative test of the introducion of twenty-eight varieties of Chinese cabbage cultivation in open field,it comprehensively evaluated from above-ground the growth characteristics and yield. The results showed that the plant height,the plant expansion degree and the rate of net of Beijingxin 2hao were the highest,leaf length,leaf width of Beijingxin1hao were the highest,the gross weight per plant,the net weight per plant and yield of Jingchunhuang were the highest. The net weight per plant and yield of Jingchunwawacai were the least,but its taste was very good,it could use as high-end market or special vegetable planting. Comprehensive characters and yield were relatively good varieties that were Shengchunhuang,Beijingxin1hao, Huangxindabaicai,Sijichun,Gaolengdi and Jinxiu1hao.


During the lifetime of a workstation the system administrator is faced with constant change in system configuration (updates, new software). The users of a workstation, too, may change the system configuration. We describe the necessary concepts for maintaining many similar configured PC clients in a lab environment. The main software component consists of fsrcs, a revision control system similar to RCS and SCCS. The revision control software is available without charge.


A signal processing apparatus (130) of a teleprompter (12), which video signals to a monitor (18) outputs, on which a manuscript image for one person (M) in front of a camera (10) is displayed, wherein the signal processing device (130) comprises: a first input terminal (130A), via which an image, which receives either the camera (10) or a different camera, the signal processing device (130) video signals supplied; a second input terminal (130B) via which video signals of an image that displays an electronic viewfinder (124), the signal processing device (130) are fed; and a switching device (122, 134, S1, S2), the video signals to the monitor (18) are output between the video signals on the first input terminal (130A) are inputted, and switches the video signals on the second input terminal (130B) are inputted; characterized, that the electronic viewfinder (124) displays information regarding states of the camera (10); and that the monitor (18) displays the information when the video signals ...


PCM/FM has been widely used in telemetry system. Multiple Symbol Detection (MSD) based signal demodulation methods can achieve lower BER (Bit Error Rate) than other methods. Due to its high computational complexity, current MSD algorithms are implemented in specialized signal processing devices, such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). As the rapid development of CUDA, GPU has successfully accelerated applications in a variety of domains. In this paper, we explore to utilize CUDA-enabled GPU to accelerate MSD-based signal demodulation method. The computation core of MSD, sliding correlation problem, is formulated and an efficient parallelization scheme is proposed. CU-MSD (CUDA-enabled MSD) algorithm is implemented by adapting CUDA-enabled sliding correlation. Various optimization techniques are used to achieve the maximum performance. We evaluate our implementation by using data sets from a real aerospace PCM/FM integrated baseband system. The experimental results demonstrate up to 52.8x speedup.


Purpose: theoretically develop and experimentally substantiate aerobic complexes to improve the physical qualities of volleyball players at the stage of specialized basic training. Material & Methods: 24 athletes of the main medical group (16–18 years old, girls and boys) took part in the experimental part of the study. 2 groups were formed, control and experimental with 12 athletes each. A set of scientific research methods was used: analysis of special scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical observations, pedagogical experiment, pedagogical testing, methods of mathematical statistics. Results: studied the current state of the training process and existing methods for improving the physical qualities of volleyball players at the stage of specialized basic training. Developed differentiated aerobic complexes for the development and improvement of the leading physical qualities of volleyball players. The effectiveness of using aerobics in the process of improving the physical qualities of volleyball players at the stage of specialized basic training has been confirmed. Conclusions: an increase in the level of development of the basic physical qualities of athletes was obtained. Indicators of coordination abilities increased by (7%), speed-strength (3,9–1,79%), strength (4,5%, 3,1% and 2,8%) and speed qualities (4,5–3,7%) and, as a result, an increase in endurance indicators (6,2%) and flexibility (6,5%).


This project compares two Separation Barriers and their urban landscape, in two very different cultural contexts: in the cities of Jerusalem and Berlin. The focus is on how different mapmakers cartographically represent both physical divisions - such as walls and barriers, as well as imaginary divides - such as geopolitical or socio-ethnic divisions in divided cities. Jerusalem and Berlin are particularly powerful symbols of political partition as the Berlin Wall split the city of Berlin for over 26 years and Jerusalem remains a divided city to this day. In particular this paper addresses such questions as: how do map-makers across the divides use representational strategies of inclusion or exclusion, mapping and naming to either unify or split divided cities and claim or expunge urban spaces? How do they cartographically represent, visualize or erase geopolitical walls and barriers? Also how has the rise of political tourism affected the visibility of geopolitical walls and barriers in maps and on the ground? By addressing these questions, this paper traces the changing politics of the visibility or relative invisibility of walls and the cityscapes they divide at any given time and place.