Seismic hazard analysis(SHA) is a key component of earthquake disaster prevention field for island engineering, whose result could provide parameters for seismic design microscopically and also is the requisite work for the island conservation planning's earthquake and comprehensive disaster prevention planning macroscopically, in the exploitation and construction process of both inhabited and uninhabited islands. The existing seismic hazard analysis methods are compared in their application, and their application and limitation for island is analysed. Then a specialized spatial analysis method of seismic hazard for island (SAMSHI) is given to support the further related work of earthquake disaster prevention planning, based on spatial analysis tools in GIS and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model. The basic spatial database of SAMSHI includes faults data, historical earthquake record data, geological data and Bouguer gravity anomalies data, which are the data sources for the 11 indices of the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model, and these indices are calculated by the spatial analysis model constructed in ArcGIS's Model Builder platform.


removing vasoconstrictor nervous tone. A chemical cause for the vascular narrowing thus demonstrated seemed out of the question, in view of the much lower arterial pressures recorded in the legs, where Lewis had found a normal blood-flow; and the vascular narrowing above the aortic constriction was attributed to a local change. Steele (1941) has since shown, by direct recording, that the diastolic arterial pressure is often nearly as high below the aortic constriction as above it, thus removing the argument against a humoral mechanism. A further similarity with essential hypertension is to be found in Friedman, Selzer, and Rosenblum's (1941) finding of a reduced effective renal blood-flow and normal glomerular filtration rate, inferred from the diodrast and inulin clearances.


A procedure is described for epifluorescence direct-counting of planktonic bacteria in an alkaline, hypersaline, organically enriched lake. To preclude precipitation and staining of dissolved organic material (DOM), the procedure involved isotonic dilution of unfixed samples at in situ pH and filtration before fluorochrome staining. Fluorochrome-DOM complexes remaining on the filter were removed by sequential rinses with isotonic 0.1 M citrate (pH 6.6). With the modified procedure, the dye acridine orange (AO) yielded better specimen-background contrast and higher overall cell counts than did ethidium bromide, Hoechst dye No. 33258, or 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI).


There are three technologies of transition from IPv4 to IPv6, namely dual IP stack, tunnel and NAT-PT. Dual IP stack is an important technology during the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. It is the foundation of other transition technologies. In this paper, a transition scheme based on dual IP stack and ISATAP tunnel is proposed and a specific process is presented.


Background: This study aimed to discuss several surgical approaches for advanced-stage breast cancer-related lymphedema and compared their treatment outcomes. Methods: The patients who underwent surgery with International Society of Lymphology stage III lymphedema were included in this study. The three surgical methods used here were (1) suction-assisted lipectomy with lymphovenous anastomosis, (2) autologous breast reconstruction with muscle-sparing transverse rectus abdominis muscle flap combined with inguinal lymph node transfer, and (3) vascularized lymph node transfer with free omental flap. Analysis of the postoperative outcomes in the patients was based on the difference in volume between patients pre- and postoperatively, LYMPH-Q questionnaire, and bioelectrical impedance analysis. Results: Eighty-seven patients with stage IIb or higher disease underwent surgery. 38 patients underwent suction-assisted lipectomy + lymphovenous anastomosis, 23 underwent autologous breast reconstruction with vascularized lymph node transfer + lymphovenous anastomosis, and 26 underwent right gastroepiploic omental vascularized lymph node transfer with lymphovenous anastomosis. The LYMPH-Q questionnaire, which evaluates patients' subjective satisfaction, showed that the autologous breast reconstruction group showed the greatest improvement, whereas in bioimpedance analysis, the omental flap group demonstrated the greatest postoperative improvement compared with preoperative values. However, suction-assisted lipectomy was considered the most effective surgical method for reducing limb volume in patients with high-stage lymphedema accompanied by fibrosis and volume increase. Conclusions: We observed slightly different clinical effects for each surgical method; however, all surgical methods demonstrated a reduction in the degree of edema and an increase in patient satisfaction.


According to inner logic of Marxist thought of human nature,this paper studies the common stipulation of nature dimension in the development of human nature.Through introducing the case of the price paid for the model human nature in the history,the authors explain the special position of nature in the development of human nature.From the existence and development of human beings,the paper examines present irrational human nature,puts forward the effective way to relieve the crisis of human beings given by nature in 21st and realize harmonious development between people,nature and society.


L39: "Insurance and re-insurance companies must estimate the financial risk posed by these events to ensure they are able to pay out the resulting claims, and to satisfy industry regulations. For example, European law requires that EU based insurers hold enough capital to withstand the 1 in 200 year loss (Solvency II, 2009), and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) states that insurers must discuss the impact of climate change on their business (EIOPA, 2022), which involves assessing trends in hazards in present and future climate."


Interactions of hard polarized photons with charges and monopoles are discussed. A new aspect of the problem of the existence of monopoles inside hadrons can be tested by an operating facility.


The contemporary challenges to health and well-being expose a tendency towards two contrasting modes of engagement and understanding. On the one hand, policy analysts observe an individualisation of responsibility and blame for the production of health and ill-health; on the other, attention to social determinants, inequalities and globalisation locate the production of health and ill-health within complex relationships shaped across both space and time. Whilst arts and health activities function within both modes, their local and fragmented nature has meant that, to date, little research attention has been accorded within the second mode to the potential value to the field of an international focus. The papers in this special issue on international perspectives in community-based arts and health offer a first set of explorations that both tease out the riches from comparative research and, hopefully, may provoke further engagements of research at this scale. The opening paper, by Parkinson andWhite, lays out the issues confronting the field of arts and health in tackling health inequalities both nationally and internationally. The authors reflect on the histories and current trajectories of arts and health networks across a number of English and non-English speaking nations, thereby articulating the issues in building the strength of the grassroots traditions of arts and health towards greater impact. Wright and colleagues pick up the theme of how arts and health projects may generate change through a comparative study across different sites in an Australian initiative, hART, for disconnected young people. They position the project's impact as emergent from productive tensions across seven domains of change, arguing that how arts practice animates these domains is crucial to impact. The emphasis from this single country study on the management of tension across specific domains offers a general model that demands validation in other country settings. Continuing with the nature of impact, Jensen examines the factors that influence the ability of arts and health organisations to enhance their participants' wellbeing through comparison of two projects in the United Kingdom and Denmark that aim to impact on social capital and identity as elements of well-being. Jensen emphasises the importance for arts and health organisations of a supportive policy environment with strategies for sustainability. The fourth paper shifts the focus from impact onto the nature of arts and health practice itself. Raw and Mantecón compare artists' practice across the North of England and Mexico City and, despite little shared history, language or policy priorities, find a convergence in practice captured through six elements. Exposing the commonalities in practice for community-based arts and health across very different settings simultaneously exposes the potential for international cooperation in professional development, institutional support and alliances for advocacy. Wilkinson and colleagues complement this attention to practice in demonstrating the potential for volunteer, peer involvement in arts and health projects, in this case in arts activities facilitated by seniors for other seniors who are socially isolated or in underserved areas in Canada. The final paper takes the contributions of arts and health into the heart of


In the competitive business environment, retailers can obtain profit by strategic planning and delivering consumer satisfaction. Quick response (QR) is a new business strategy to maximize consumer satisfaction by implementing new technologies (e.g. barcoding, scanner). Reports on research which aimed to identify the use of quick response technologies (QRT) and to identify store attributes that are improved by QRT. A convenience sample of 32 apparel retailers participated in this survey research; 26 retailers were selected at a QR trade conference and six small individual retailers were also selected from a south‐east city. Finds that the most frequently cited store attributes that are improved by QRT were fast turnaround of goods and reduced stockouts. Both the use of QRT and improvement level of store attributes differed by store type.


Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter to Ed Idar Jr. from John J. Herrera dated December 21, 1955 addressing the political issues with the American GI Forum poll tax drive in the Valley, Texas. "I don't see anything wrong in the efforts of the American Gi Forum conducting this type of civic drive in the Valley. I think it should have been done long ago." Herrera writes that the Latin American people of Mexican descent should all be able to vote and pay the poll tax in preservation and contribution to the "American way of life."


The efficiency of cellulase produced by Aspergil lus flavus (NFCCI 2703) in bioconversion viasol id state fermentation using paper waste and bagasse as substrates was studied. Optimization parameters and effect of co-inducers on production of F Pase, CMCase, and cellobiose were assayed. Opti mum pH for paper waste was 4.5 and 5.5 for bagasse, 30 0 C was optimum for both substrates, moisture content was found to be 85% and 90% for bagasse and paper w aste respectively. Sucrose was found to be best co-inducer for bagasse and enhanced the activity by 21.91%, 11.11%, 11.77% of CMCase, FPase and cellobiase respectively. Using paper waste as subst rate the CMCase, FPase and cellobiase activit ies were enhanced by 21.6%, 34.65%, 29.55%, respect ively by cellulose. Bioconversion of paper waste was 20% more as compared to bagasse though; high er concentrations of substrate and incubation period inhibited the enzyme. This study reports that cellulase produced by A. flavus (NFCCI 2703) was more effective in bioconversion of paper waste as compared to bagasse .


To present and quantify the performance of a method to compute tissue hemodynamic parameters from dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI data in brain tissue with possible nonintact blood–brain barrier.


Although tourism and protected areas seem to be mutually exclusive, protected areas popularly attract tourism all over the world. As such, tourism integration is perceived as a good strategy for a better management of protected areas. But this policy of integrating tourism in protected areas requires an understanding of the distributional aspects of its benefits regarding who are the ultimate beneficiaries and how this mechanism or process is supposed to work. As far as the policy is concerned, it mainly cares for the numbers in terms of tourists' visits, revenue generation and conservation of species. If policymakers can take care of both the allocative and the distributive parts of tourism by providing direct benefits to the people living in the protected areas, then a sustainable management of ecotourism in protected areas may be possible. This article takes a case of Bhitarkanika National Park, Kendrapara, Odisha, and tries to study the tourism aspects associated with this park from the perspectives of different stakeholders, addressing the policy issues of sustainability and management. Three important aspects of sustainability of tourism at protected areas are suggested through this study—provision of start-up capital, facilitating training to local people who are linked with tourism at the site or are interested in hosting up tourism and strengthening institutional set up for better management, networking and monitoring of tourism and conservation at the site.


The trichromatic nature of commercial photography is strictly connected with the nature of human colour vision, although the characteristics of usual colour imaging devices are quite different from the human visual system. The increase in the number of colour channels for spectral (either multispectral or hyperspectral) imaging is an active field of research with many potential applications in different fields. Each element of the captured scene is specified in the spectral image by the spectral reflectance factor. This measurement is independent of the particular illumination of the scene and allows the colorimetric computation in a device-independent colour space for any chosen illuminant and any observer. This thesis describes the project and construction of a compact spectrophotometric camera, which can be used in both portable and in-situ applications. The compactness is made possible by a suitable image spectral scanning based on an Induced Transmission Filter (ITF). This filter is made by a set of thin-film coatings of dielectric materials with high and low refraction index, whose shape like a wedge induces a wavelength selective transmittance, continuously variable along one direction and uniform in the perpendicular direction. Such a filter, classified as Linearly Variable Filter (LVF), operates continuously from 430 nm to 940 nm and allows hyperspectral imaging. In traditional scanners the whole apparatus is moved along a path as long as the


Free movement of patients has been criticised from the moment that the first patient cases reached the Court of Justice of the European Union ('CJEU'). The moving patient supposedly increases consumerism, reduces national solidarity, and has a negative impact on the quality of healthcare provided in some Member States. This article challenges the empirical foundations of such criticisms. An empirical analysis of all patient cases before the CJEU shows that a significant number of patients required urgent treatment, that their medical condition was life-threatening, and that they were supported by their treating doctor in seeking treatment in another Member State. Moreover, free movement of patient cases regularly lead to positive changes to national healthcare systems. Therefore, the negative attitude towards free movement of patients should be reconsidered. Patients, doctors, and lawyers must think more strategically about how free movement can be used to improve the quality of healthcare in the EU.


Objective: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of point urinary albumin to creatinine ratio at 20 +0 and 28 +0 weeks of gestation for predicting the possibility of developing pre-eclampsia, late in pregnancy. Study Design: A prospective cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Gynecology Outpatients Department of Nishtar Hospital, Multan from January 10, 2018 to January 10, 2019. Methodology: Age, weight, gravidity and Body Mass index was documented for total 250 patients included for study. Patients were divided on the basis of development of pre-eclampsia and their mean Albumin to creatinine ratio was compared by applying Student's t-test considering p≤0.05 statistically significant. Test positive and test negative patients were noted. The association of urinary albumin to creatinine ratio with pre-eclampsia was calculated. SPSS v.23 software was used to analyze the data. Results: Mean urinary albumin to creatinine ratio was 22.77±12.42 mg/mmol in normotensive women and 46.87±15.13 mg/mmol in pre-eclamptic women which was significantly higher in pre-eclamptic patients (p<0.001). The sensitivity of point urinary albumin to creatinine ratio at a cutoff value of 35.5mg/mmol is 73.91%; the specificity is 91.56%; the positive predictive value (PPV) is 72.34%; and negative predictive is 92.16%. Conclusion: Our study concluded that solitary point urinary albumin creatinine ratio values equal to or higher than 35.5mg/mmol, when quantified early during the second trimester had a higher specificity than the sensitivity and it can be safely used to rule out the possibility of developing pre-eclampsia, late in pregnancy. Keywords: Albumin to Creatinine Ratio, Pre-eclampsia, Normotensive, Point Urinary . DOI : 10.7176/JMPB/62-12 Publication date: December 31 st 2019


Owning to their structure diversity,organophosphorus compounds play an outstanding role in the asymmetric tranformations.They have been successfully employed as chiral ligand,chiral catalyst,chiral auxiliary,additive,substrate as well as chiral reagent in different type of asymmetric reactions.This account outlines our efforts on the application of organophosphorus compounds in some asymmetric reactions during the past seveval years,such as silylcyanation of aldehydes,desymmetrization of meso epoxide,Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indole,Michael addition to nitroolefins,aza-Henry reaction,aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction,borane reduction of prochiral ketones.


The research aim are: identity juridical problem the implementation of Trade industrial Minister Decree Number 558/MPP/KEP/XII/1998 about TheExport CoreRegulation, Reveal factors caused such problem and the solution. To gain the goal empirical legal reserach is chosen. Datacollected bya series of deepth interview andopen quesioner in which responden chosen as nonrandom. Theanalysis method is editing analysis editing. The result are: the sources of the problem arraised of the implementation Trade industrial Minister Decree Number 558/MPP/KEP/XII/1998 is the fact that such decree still categorize export goods as regulated, supervised and free export goods. Other problem is exporter not ready yet to fulfill the export condition and procedure and the solution is revising regulation by completing such decree suplement and giving export guidance and training. Research teoritical implementation is conceptdevelopment law as tool of socialengineering toward law as tool of economic engineering. The practical implementation is export policy changing to eliminate the problem and increasing Indonesia's non- migas export. The institution contribution is develop International trade Contract, Law and Economic and Entrepreneurship course


The approximation for the correlation function G(r,r',t) appearing in the theory of Hubbard and Beeby (1969) has been examined and found to be exact for short times. Further, it has been shown that the recent paper by Tewari and Tewari (1975) is erroneous and misleading, and that their results are greatly inferior to those obtained by Pathak and Bansal, (1973).


Aiming at the proportional solenoid valves widely used in industry,the system stability and control quality of the negative impact,which caused by hysteresis curve that existed in the valves,were studied. By using of mechanism modeling,curve parameter identification based on Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) algorithm modeling and neural network curve fitting of three methods,modeling was done for hysteresis curve,and three modeling results were gotten by using Matlab software. The modeling results obtained by the three methods were analyzed and compared with the practical measured data. The results show that to determine curve parameter identification based on PSO algorithm modeling do best to represent the actual hysteresis curve. This method is simple and practical.The model can be used for the feed-forward control of the proportional solenoid valve,for the purpose of decrease or eliminate flow hysteresis of the valve.


BACKGROUND
Diaphyseal forearm fractures in children are a common injury usually resulting from a fall. The treatment options include non-surgical intervention (manipulation and application of cast) and surgical options such as internal fixation with intramedullary nails or with plate and screws.

OBJECTIVES
To assess the effects (benefits and harms) of a) surgical versus non-surgical interventions, and b) different surgical interventions for the fixation of diaphyseal fractures of the forearm bones in children.

SEARCH METHODS
We searched the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group Specialised Register (March 2011), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library, 2011 Issue 1), MEDLINE (1948 to February week 4 2011), EMBASE (1980 to 2011 week 09), trial registers and reference lists of articles.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials that compared surgical with non-surgical intervention, or different types of surgical intervention for the fixation of diaphyseal forearm fractures in children.

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
All review authors independently examined the search results to identify trials for inclusion.

MAIN RESULTS
After screening of 163 citations, we identified 15 potentially eligible studies of which 14 were excluded and one is an ongoing trial. There were thus no studies suitable for inclusion in this review.

AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS
There is a lack of evidence from randomised controlled trials to inform on when surgery is required and what type of surgery is best for treating children with fractures of the shafts of the radius, ulna or both bones.


The yield of wheat was not affected by solutions of mixed fission products ioncorporated mnto, or applioed onto the surface of equal amounts of potted soil when the beta activity levels ranged from 0.01 to 1.5 microcurioes per gram of soil. Wheat removed from 0.07 to 0.09% of the beta activity that was incorporated into the soil, and from 0.10 to 0.l5% of the beta activity applied onto the surface of the soil. In plants, the beta and gamma activities were highest in leaves, intermediate in stems, and the lowest ion fruiting heads. Radiostrontium contributed from 60 to 90% of the beta activity accumulated by wheat plants. The length of the plant growth period, soil type, and the addition of caland organic amendments to the soil altered the abh roots from the contaminated soil. (auth)


This invention provides antibodies or fragments thereof that are capable of specifically binding to at least one conformational epitope of enterovirus 71 (EV71), wherein the antibody individually comprises at least one variable light chain and at least one variable heavy chain. There is also provided a method of producing an antibody capable of specifically binding to at least one conformational epitope of enterovirus 71 (EV71).


The complex dynamics coupled with operational condition have made an unmanned underwater vehicle susceptible to perturbation due to parametric uncertainty. This has necessitated the need for a robust control technique capable of not only guarantee robustness to unstructured uncertainty, but also account for inherent parametric uncertainty in the system dynamics. This paper presents an optimized based extended H-infinity loop-shaping design procedure for the synthesis of a control system capable of addressing the problem of parametric perturbations in the unmanned underwater vehicle dynamics. The design problem formulation and procedure, together with performance evaluation are highlighted in the paper. Validation of the robustness is examined explicitly using structured singular value analysis.


A structure for combining a shoot plate with a golf club head is composed of a club head body, a shoot plate, at least one cut slot on either front surface of club head or the back of shoot plate, and at least one plastic flange on either the back of shoot plate or front surface of club head. When they are assembled, said flange is pressed and deformed for making it come in said cut slot, so firmly combining the shoot plate onto club head.


The air-cooling heat pump set of solar heater comprises solar water-heating circulation circuit, solar air-heating circulation circuit, air-cooling heat pump refrigeration heat-supplying circulation circuit, coal-gas or gas water-heating supplement branch. Said solar water-heating circulation circuit is connected in parallel to the solar air-heating circulation circuit through a branch three-way valve and an interflow three-way valve, the air-cooling heat pump refrigerating and heat-supply circulation circuit forms independently a closed circulation circuit, the coal-gas or gas water-supplementing branch is connected to the solar water-heating circulation circuit through the water inlet of a life hot-water tank.


Study Design. A retrospective study. Objective. To determine the incidence and risk factors of adjacent segment disease (ASD) requiring surgery among patients previously treated with spinal fusion for degenerative lumbar disease and to compare the survivorship of adjacent segment according to various risk factors including comparison of fusion methods: posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) versus posterolateral fusion (PLF). Summary of Background Data. One of the major issues after lumbar spinal fusion is the development of adjacent segment disease. Biomechanically, PLIF has been reported to be more rigid than PLF, and therefore, patients who undergo PLIF are suspected to experience a higher incidence of ASD than those who underwent PLF. There have been many studies analyzing the risk factors of ASD, but we are not aware of any study comparing PLIF with PLF in incidence of ASD requiring surgery. Methods. A consecutive series of 490 patients who had undergone lumbar spinal fusion of 3 or fewer segments to treat degenerative lumbar disease was identified. The mean age at index operation was 53 years, and the mean follow-up period was 51 months (12–236 mo). The number of patients treated by PLF and PLIF were 103 and 387, respectively. The incidence and prevalence of revision surgery for ASD were calculated by Kaplan-Meier method. For risk factor analysis, we used log-rank test and Cox regression analysis with fusion methods, sex, age, number of fused segments, and presence of laminectomy adjacent to index fusion. Results. After index spinal fusion, 23 patients (4.7%) had undergone additional surgery for ASD. Kaplan-Meier analysis predicted a disease-free survival rate of adjacent segments in 94.2% of patients at 5 years and 89.6% at 10 years after the index operation. In the analysis of risk factors, PLIF was associated with 3.4 times higher incidence of ASD requiring surgery than PLF (P = 0.037). Patients older than 60 years at the time of index operation were 2.5 times more likely to undergo revision operation than those younger than 60 years (P = 0.038). There were no significant differences in survival rates of the adjacent segment according to sex, preoperative diagnosis, number of fused segments, and concomitant laminectomy to adjacent segment. Conclusion. It was predicted that 10% of patients would undergo additional surgery for treating ASD within 10 years after index lumbar fusion. In this study, PLIF showed higher incidence of ASD than did PLF. Patient age greater than 60 years was another independent risk factor. Surgeons should carefully consider these factors at the time of surgical planning of lumbar fusion. Level of Evidence: 3


The energy of wireless sensor networks is limited and the energy efficient routing protocols are applied to reduce energy consumption. An energy consumption balanced wireless sensor networks routing protocol based on the hybrid genetic simulated annealing algorithm (GASA) is proposed. The hybrid optimization strategy of simulated annealing algorithm and genetic algorithm is adopted in wireless sensor networks to construct global optimum communication link. The base station selects the node with most estimated remaining energy to be the cluster head by the improved energy consumption model and the information of the node with most estimated remaining energy. Simulation results show that compared with the PEGASIS protocol, when the first node dies, the lifetime of the networks is 266%~500% longer than that in the PEGASIS. When 20% and 50% of nodes die, the lifetime is 6%~20% longer. When different percent of nodes die, the variance of the remaining nodes' energy is only 0.01%~1.34% of that in the PEGASIS. The proposed protocol is an effective method to achieve the balance of node energy consumption and to extend the lifetime of the networks.


An original scheme to automatically generate control point pairs for image registration in a progressive way is presented here. It consists of three stages of processing. In the first stage, the Voronoi-Delaunay dual graph is used to predict the optimal location for a new control point to be generated. Second, a target-defined interest operator is designed to extract feature points from the predicted area. In the third stage, a hierarchical templet matching procedure is applied. A global consistency check by robust estimation to improve its reliability is also included.


ANSI/IEEE Standard 802.3, 1993, p. 45. Shenker, S., "Some Conjectures on the Behavior of Acknowledgement-Based Transmission Control of Random Access Communication Channels', ACM Sigmetrics '87, 1987, pp. 245-254. Melas, R. P., "On the Sensitivity of Ethernet Performance To Inter-Packet Spacing Under Batch Poisson Traffic', 1991. Masters Thesis, University of Toronto. Ramakrishnan and Yang, "The Ethernet Capture Effec t:Analysis and Solution', Proceedings of 19th Conference on Local Computer Networks, 1994, pp. 228-240.


Human parathyroid hormone was extracted from parathyroid tumors and purified 40,000-fold to a stage apparently homogeneous on polyacrylamide electrophoresis. The course of purification was monitored by radioimmunoassay modified for rapid analysis of the limited amounts of hormone available from human parathyroid tumors. The molecular size and charge properties of human and bovine parathyroid hormone are similar, but distinct differences in animo acid composition exist. These structural differences presumably account for the documented differences in immunological properties. (Endocrinology 89: 234, 1971)


In most applications of neural network models one has to consider sets of correlated data. The authors study the problem of the storage of associated patterns in neural network memories. They consider two basic types of correlation: 'semantic' ones-among the different patterns-and 'spatial' ones-among the different sites of the network. They apply Gardner's program to evaluate optimal storage conditions for both kinds of correlation. The 'spatial' ones worsen, generally speaking, the storage properties of a simple perceptron, while they improve them for the Hopfield network. In the case of 'semantic' correlations they obtain bounds of the critical capacity for both kinds of networks; the storage ratio of the perceptron may be significantly increased in this case.


C. Piers (ed.), Personality and Psychopathology: Critical Dialogues with David Shapiro, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6214-0_8, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 In "On the psychology of self-deception," David Shapiro (1996) considers a man talking about a difficult decision he has made. The man says: "I know I did the right thing!" with exaggerated emphasis on "know," and he says it more loudly than he would in ordinary conversation. Shapiro characterizes this as the man's attempt to dispel his own doubts, as much to convince himself of the content of what he is saying as to convince his listener; it is thus an attempt at self-deception. In this case, it is an unsuccessful attempt, as evidenced by the man's following up, after a pause, with "I think." Shapiro sees this as one example of self-deceptive speech, a kind of speech that has several qualities that distinguish it from speech with typical communicative aims. Self-deceptive speech of this sort can be characterized by repetition ("I know I did the right thing! I know I did!") and by surprising affective disconnects: either notably less affect in the saying than the content would typically warrant (e.g., speaking of being furious without any concomitant sign of anger), or alternatively what Shapiro describes as a melodramatic and artificial feel to the descriptions and gestures. As Shapiro (1996) recounts from prior clinical observation, e.g., from Hellmuth Kaiser in the 1950s, self-deceptive speakers do not "seem to express what they actually thought or felt. The tears sometimes seemed forced or worked up; the story of childhood sounded rehearsed; the angry account of yesterday's event, as one listened to it, had the quality of a public oration" (p. 788). Another quality of this kind of speech, Shapiro (1996) proposes, is that it comes off as self-directed rather than listener-directed: the speaker is "addressing himself through the listener" (p. 790). Shapiro describes two manifestations of the inwardness of self-deceptive speech. In one version, the speaker does not seem to be attending to the listener at all. His speech has unusual prosodic characteristics that do not take the listener into account (as when our example speaker speaks unusually loudly), and he does not look at the listener in the ordinary way that speakers do. The listener can feel as if he or she is irrelevant to the speaker for the moment, and Chapter 8 Self-Deceptive Speech: A Psycholinguistic View


SUMMARY The Act on chambers of physicians provides for the possibility of referring parties to mediation proceedings, the purpose of which is, among others, to alleviate the conflict between the aggrieved patient and the accused doctor. Depending on the stage of a given case, mediation is directed by the spokesperson for professional liability – in the course of an investigation, or medical court – during the proceedings before a medical court. A mediator may only be a doctor appointed from a given chamber as a trustworthy person, which may raise doubts as to his impartiality and neutrality towards the case and parties to the proceedings. Mediation means a voluntary and confidential process in which a professionally prepared, inde pendent and impartial person, with the consent of the parties, helps them cope with the conflict. Me diation allows its participants to identify contentious issues, reduce communication barriers, develop proposals for solutions and, if it is the will of the parties, enter into mutually satisfactory agreement. The success of mediation as an effective method of resolving conflicts depends to a large extent on the professionalism of mediators and the high level of their professional ethics 7 .


Financial and economic crisis has challenged the ideological and methodological basis, the basic assumptions and the universal applicability of the research conclusions of the mainstream corporate finance. In order to construct corporate finance appropriate to the state of financial crisis, it is necessary to adjust the objective function of corporate finance, modify the corporate financing theory, extend corporate investment theory, enrich corporate working capital management theory, and adjust corporate dividend policy theory.


This lecture-recital paper deals with some of the music of the early 1900's, examining both original xylophone solos and piano rags arranged for the xylophone. An attempt is made to identify the role of the xylophone in ragtime music and its implications for the present day xylophonist. In this investigation a brief history of ragtime music is presented along with the history of the xylophone. The history of ragtime is traced from its beginnings around 1890 to its decline during the 1930's, developing from cakewalks and folk rags into its various styles of Classic rags, Popular rags, Advanced rags, and Novelty rags. The history of the xylophone is traced from the middle ages to its emergence as an orchestral instrument, popularized by a Polish Jew named Michael Josef Gusikov during the early 1800"s. The popularity of the xylophone in the United States increased along with that of ragtime music; from approximately 1890 to 1935 the xylophone experienced what most refer to as its "golden age." Many solos for the instrument, both original and transcribed, were published toward the end of this era. As the popularity of the xylophone declined, these solos went out of print.


Security is a key concern across the world, and it has been a common thread for all critical sectors. Nowadays, it may be stated that security is a backbone that is absolutely necessary for personal safety. The most important requirements of security systems for individuals are protection against theft and trespassing. CCTV cameras are often employed for security purposes. The biggest disadvantage of CCTV cameras is their high cost and the need for a trustworthy individual to monitor them. As a result, a solution that is both easy and cost-effective, as well as secure has been devised. The smart door lock is built on Raspberry Pi technology, and it works by capturing a picture through the Pi Camera module, detecting a visitor's face, and then allowing them to enter. Local binary pattern approach is used for Face recognition. Remote picture viewing, notification, on mobile device are all possible with an IOT based application. The proposed system may be installed at front doors, lockers, offices, and other locations where security is required. The proposed system has an accuracy of 89%, with an average processing time is 20 seconds for the overall process.


Epitope mapping is essential for the understanding how an antibody works. Given millions of antibodies short of epitope information, there is an urgent need for high-throughput epitope mapping. Here we combined a commercial phage displayed random peptide library of 109 diversity with next generation sequencing to develop Antibody binding epitope Mapping (AbMap) technology. Over two hundred antibodies were analyzed in a single test and epitopes were determined for >50% of them. Strikingly, the antibodies were able to recognize different proteins from multiple species with similar epitopes. We successfully identified the epitopes of 14 anti-PD-1 antibodies, including Sintilimab (i.e., L128, A129 and P130), and confirmed that the binding epitopes of Nivolumab and Sintilimab are very close to the binding interface of PD-1 and PD-L1. The predicted conformational epitopes of Pembrolizumab and Nivolumab are consistent with their antibody-antigen co-crystal structures. AbMap is the first technology enables high-throughput epitope mapping. Highlights The first technology enables epitope mapping of two hundred antibodies in a single run Linear epitope was determined for >50% of the antibodies Distinct epitopes of 14 anti-PD-1 antibodies, including Sintilimab, were determined The predicted conformational epitopes of Pembrolizumab and Nivolumab are consistent with the known antibody-antigen co-crystal structures


With the expansion of medical education and the deepening of the reform of health institutions, the problem of difficult employment for the higher vocational medical students is increasingly prominent. This article mainly discusses the factors that have an impact on grass-roots entrepreneurship of higher vocational medical students, analyses the feasibility of their grass-roots entrepreneurship, and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures.


TIIVISTELMÄ • SAMMANDRAG Interlaboratory Proficiency Test 14/2017 Proftest SYKE carried out the proficiency test in cooperation with the KVVY Tutkimus Oy for the laboratories conducting leaching tests for solid waste samples at the turn of the year 2017-2018. The results of the up-flow percolation test (EN 14405:2017) for fly ash samples were compared and evaluated. In total, 8 participants joined in the proficiency test. Either the mean or the median of the results reported by the participants was used as the assigned value for the measurands. The overall performance evaluation was done with the En scores and 64 % of the all the evaluated results were satisfactory. The performance evaluation for the results for pH as well as for the cumulative values L/S 2 and L/S 10 of the measurands was done also with the z scores. In the evaluation based on z scores, 85 % of the results were satisfactory, when deviation was set to 0.5 pH units, to 20 % for SO4 and to 50 % for other measurands. For these same results, 78 % of the results were satisfactory when evaluated with the En scores. Warm thanks to all the participants!


This work deals with the literary career of the Valencian Jesuit P. Juan Bautista Colomes carried out while in exile in Italy. We concentrate on one of his works, «Les philosophes a l'encan», published in Parma in 1793 and again in 1796. Our study analyses this publication which we would place in the category of satirical literature defending religious belief, which counter-attacks the ideas of the encylopaedists by means of ironical, antiphilosophical criticism.


The present invention relates to a user-accessible local information service from a terminal (A) and a communication system (7) proximity information. The system (7) information comprises: - means (E) for storing a code list, - at least one server (M) interactive proximity information, means (D) a translation code (1), - means (C) terminal connection (a) of the communication server (M) interactive .


POET (Polarimeters for Energetic Transients) is a Small Explorer mission concept proposed to NASA in January 2008. The principal scientific goal of POET is to measure GRB polarization between 2 and 500 keV. The payload consists of two wide FoV instruments: a Low Energy Polarimeter (LEP) capable of polarization measurements in the energy range from 2-15 keV and a high energy polarimeter (Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment - GRAPE) that will measure polarization in the 60-500 keV energy range. Spectra will be measured from 2 keV up to 1 MeV. The POET spacecraft provides a zenith-pointed platform for maximizing the exposure to deep space. Spacecraft rotation will provide a means of effectively dealing with systematics in the polarization response. POET will provide sufficient sensitivity and sky coverage to measure statistically significant polarization for up to 100 GRBs in a two-year mission. Polarization data will also be obtained for solar flares, pulsars and other sources of astronomical interest.


For two interacting particles (TIP) in one-dimensional random potential the dependence of the Breit-Wigner width $\Gamma$, the local density of states and the TIP localization length on system parameters is determined analytically. The theoretical predictions for $\Gamma$ are confirmed by numerical simulations.


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year development history of penology in China can be divided into three stages, namely, establishment and devious development stage, stagnation stage and revival and development stage. During which, researches in terms of penology have achieved remarkable progress, yet also have demerits. Researches in the future should try unremitting efforts to construct people-oriented criminal theory so as to scientifically carry out researches in terms of jurisprudence system and meanwhile strengthen the analysis on penology theory in the West. This paper is conducted from the perspective of criminology and penology to compare their nature and value goal. Besides, it also takes victimless crime theory related to victim theory as the perspective so as to elaborate the preconditions, ontology setting and connotation of victim theory. KeyWords-Criminology; Penology; Function


As the resistance of structures against the crack-tip plastic deformation, constraints has attracted much attention in the research of material fracture behaviour. In order to increase the accuracy of structural integrity assessment, many characterization parameters of in-plane and out-of-plane constraints have been considered and proposed in the last few decades. Threedimensional finite element analyses have been conducted for five C(T)50 specimens with different out-of-plane constraint. The distributions of four constraint parameters (σ22/σ0, Tz, h and Dp) along crack fronts were calculated. To characterize the out-of-plane constraint, the capability of constraint parameters such as σ22/σ0, Tz, h and Dp were analyzed and compared. Results show that, compared with the three constraint parameters (σ22/σ0, Tz and h) based on crack-tip stress fields, the parameter Dp based on crack-tip equivalent plastic strain is more sensitive to out-of-plane constraint, and may effectively characterize the out-of-plane constraint.


Abstract The solid phases of cholesteryl acetate were studied by x-ray diffraction techniques. The data were analyzed in terms of the angular position of the reflections, their intensity, and their integral width. The unit cell is monoclinic with the parameters a, b, c, and β respectively equal to 10.00 A, 7.36 A, 37.2 A and 95°. The space group is either c2 or cm. The dimensions of the unit cell are the same for all three solid phases. Temperature dependent measurements show that the broad melting range of the transition into the isotropic phase is not a true melting range. Increasing lack of short range order occurring along the direction of the long axis of the molecule causes an increase of the expansion coefficient in that range.


PURPOSE
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a recommended treatment in penile cancer patients with bulky inguinal lymphadenopathy or unresectable primary tumors although there is no evidence of its benefit from randomized trials.

PATIENT AND METHODS
We conducted a systematic search in Embase and MEDLINE for studies reporting on patients who received preoperative NAC for locally advanced PSCC. Objective response rate (ORR), pathologic complete response (pCR), grade ≥3 toxicity and overall mortality (OM) were evaluated in terms of NAC type, which was dichotomized as non-taxane-platinum (NTP) and taxane-platinum (TP) regimens.

RESULTS
Overall, 10 studies met the inclusion criteria enrolling a total of 182 patients; 66 (36.3%) and 116 (63.7%) were treated with NTP and TP regimens, respectively. The pooled results demonstrated ORR of 53% (95% CI: 42%-64%) pCR of 16%, grade ≥3 toxicity rate of 40% (95% CI: 19%-64%) and OM of 55% (95% CI: 40%-70%) in patients treated with NAC. Stratified sub-analysis revealed an ORR of 55% and 49%; a pCR of 9% and 20%; a toxicity rate of 26% and 49%; and an OM of 54% and 58% for NTP vs. TP regimens, respectively.

CONCLUSION
The pooled findings in this study suggest that approximately 50% of the patients with bulky regional lymph node metastases from penile cancer respond to platinum-based NAC and approximately 16% of patients achieve a pCR. Non-taxane based regimens appear to be better tolerated than taxane regimens based on reported grade ≥III adverse events (26% vs 49%). Ultimately, the robustness of these observations should be interpreted with an awareness of the inherent limitations of deriving data from a collection of small, heterogeneous series.


Measurement of the cross section for the simultaneous ionization and excitation of helium to the n = 2 level of He/sup +/ is reported. (WHK)


The paper expounds the development status of environmental protection industry in Jiangxi Province and the problem of existence.Analysis the environmental protection industry market demand.An exploratory study in how to standardize the development of environmental protection industry in Jiangxi province market,put forward the countermeasure and suggestion.


The purpose of this research is to solve the Close-Open Mixed Vehicle Routing Problem (COMVRP) using Bat Algorithm. COMVRP which is a combination of Close Vehicle Routing Problem or commonly known as Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) with Open Vehicle Routing Problem (OVRP) is a problem to determine vehicles route in order to minimize total distance to serve customers without exceed vehicle capacity. COMVRP occurs when the company already has private vehicles but its capacity could not fulfill all customer demands so the company must rent several vehicles from other companies to complete the distribution process. In this case, the private vehicle returns to the depot after serving the last customer while the rental vehicle does not need to return. Bat algorithm is an algorithm inspired by the process of finding prey from small bats using echolocation. The implementation program to solve was created using Java programming with NetBeans IDE 8.2 software which was implemented using 3 cases, small data with 18 customers, medium data with 75 customers and large data with 100 customers. Based on the implementation results, it can be concluded that the more iterations, the smaller total costs are obtained, while for the pulse rate and the amount of bat tends not to affect the total cost obtained.


The article describes the experience of foreign States in the area of combating corruption. Provides conceptual activities of a number of foreign countries to fight corruption. Analyses the effectiveness of anticorruption measures.


The work discusses the topic of emulsion explosives and demilitarized energetic materials, particulary the possibilities of using them in production of commercial explosives.


The objective of this paper is to analyze the potential application of fraction images from a spectral mixture model to characterize the different vegetation types at transition zones between forest and savanna formations. This study presents also the summarized methodology of biomass data collection during a field survey, the spatial distribution of "vegetation", "soil" and "shade" proportions for each class identified at the TM/Landsat image, as well as the relation among biomass and the variables obtained from satellite data, derived from this spectral mixture model. This approach has been very useful to monitor the changes due to land occupation that have occurred in these transition zones of forest/savanna in Brazilian Amazonia.


This paper examines the evolution of the Greek party system in the postwar era. It is well known that parties are but a subsystem of a polity. Yet, by virtue of the fact that they constitute a central intermediate structure between society and government,' they provide invaluable clues for the understanding of the overall performance of this polity. Until very recently, research on parties was almost totally absent from modern Greek historiography,2 and it is not an exaggeration to say that we do not have a single treatment of the party system qua system, that is, as a bounded whole with concrete and patterned interactions of its parts (the parties) that may influence in its own right other spheres or systems of the polity. Thus, when not totally disregarded, parties have always been portrayed as responding to-but never shaping--societal tensions. In this respect, Greece has been the wonderland of what Sartori called "sociological reductionism."'3 This work aspires to contribute to reversing this trend. Let it be understood right from the beginning that the underlying assumption here is not that parties can create and impose upon civil society tensions which the latter totally lacks. The point is rather that the character of interparty competition qua party system clearly influences the dynamic of these tensions and potentially accentuates or minimizes them.


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1. A box, comprising: a top panel, upper side panels connected to the top panel, lower side panels connected respectively to the upper side panels in the respective transverse crease lines; wherein the lower side panel disposed between the opposite ends of the box, at least one bottom panel connected to at least one of the lower side panels, the side end panels connected respectively to the lower sides of the side panels in the respective longitudinal crease lines; wherein the side end panels, respectively, extend at least partially across the ends of the carton, the upper end panels respectively connected to the upper sides of the panel; iperemychki respectively connected with the top end panels by fold lines, wherein each web includes a tuck inwardly panel, a gusset panel and narrowing, bends inside the panel are respectively adjacent side end panels; etomdlya at each restriction jumper bridge is formed between the inward bends panel webs and the side end panel, which is adjacent to the bridge; prichemsuzheniya designed to respectively pull inwardly buckled panels inwardly during formation of the box, and with an approximate etomkazhdoe restriction as the corresponding transverse fold line transverse fold lines, and to the corresponding longitudinal fold line sgiba.2 longitudinal lines. Box according to claim 1, wherein each jumper her includes narrowing the space between the panel webs bends inwardly and a side end panel, koto


This paper proposed an innovative method based on the semantic differential of Kansei Engineering and the correlation analysis of machine learning in the case of small-size samples, which could achieve the evaluation of users' subjective feelings to form factors of modeling language and color schemes in the process of product design. It used grey relational analysis and the entropy method to analyze and study the design of modeling and color of guide signs in a public space, and converted the subjective assessment process of designer and user in art design into numeric operation that quantifies and treats data. This research faced two problems: one was to analyze the form correlation between the modeling and color of designed guide signs and the architecture and environment of a public space where the signs are placed, and the other was to convert the subjective assessment of designed guide signs into objective quantified data. The paper took vertical guide boards in a guide sign system as a research object, analyzed and resolved it according to the primitive type of form factors of modeling language, and converted them into numbered sequences of the form factor type. Then, guide boards using different color schemes were utilized to conduct group tests on users; the uniformity of guide boards and architectural style was evaluated through a semantic differential method of Kansei engineering; the test data was analyzed and treated using the grey relational degree, Pearson correlation coefficient and the entropy method; the user's qualitative assessment on the correlation degree of the modeling form and architectural style of guide boards using different color schemes was converted into quantitative numerical parameters; and finally, we obtained the assessment results of the correlation degree and significance of integrated color and modeling language form factors. Specific to the users' assessment discrepancies on the style design of guide signs using different colors, this paper proposed a color scheme evaluation approach with uniform color space based on the grey correlation degree, used Pearson correlation coefficient to make a numerical analysis on users' subjective assessment, presented a modified entropy method based on standardization, and made a comprehensive assessment on the uniformity of style design in different colors and architectural style. Thus, the numerical analysis results of the uniformity between the guide signs in different color schemes and modeling forms and the architectural style of public spaces were obtained. This research method can provide a new research means and numerical computation method to the study of color and form correlation in product design and style design. Meanwhile, it also provides a theoretical foundation and application method for artistic design by virtue of high-performance computing platforms.


The aim of this report is to establish how the current national transport situation in the United Kingdom affects managers and how managers believe it could be improved. A random sample of 3000 members of the British Institute of Management were sent a questionnaire in February 1992, which contained sections on extent and travel mode used for business travel and commuting, expenditure on travelling to and from work, satisfaction ratings for travel mode used, and opinions on the current investment in transport by the British government, on privatisation, and on urban road traffic management. Just over a third of those surveyed replied to the survey. The results indicate that the majority of respondents thought that current levels of investment in British Rail were too low. The majority made most longer work journeys by car (73%), with 82% commuting to work by car. The provision of free parking at work was found to be the strongest incentive to car commuting, followed by provision of a company car and free petrol. Only 3% received a season ticket subsidy, and only 38% believed they had a viable alternative means of commuting. Other issues relevant to transport policy are also highlighted, for example land use, and urban traffic congestion, and freight transport mode.


When a small amount of silver is added to the copper metal, there appears electric field gradient at copper atom sites surrounding silver atoms. We have calculated the electric field gradient arising from the redistribution of conduction electrons which are scattered by the displaced copper atoms. The present result explains reasonably the observation by Redfield. A distinctive feature of our result is that the electron charge density shows a cubic anisotropy having the well-known oscillatory behavior with distances from each impurity atom.


Objective To research and design a community health care system based on C/S and B/S combination architecture.Methods The system was composed of the client software for remote monitoring which was installed on computer of residents,website of community hospital and database server,using object-oriented and modular designing methods.VS2008.NET platform was used as the development environment,with Windows and Web programming techniques,C++ and C# as developing language were also involve in.Results It realized the remote monitoring of ECG,SpO2,and established health records,chronic disease tracking service.Conclusion The community health care system will play a positive role in construction of network and information sharing for community health care.


In this paper,an oil-water microemulsion system containing sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate(SDBS)or sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS)is successfully used for synthesizing polypyrrole(PPy)nanoparticles via in situ chemical oxidative polymerization.The nanomaterials doped by SDBS or SDS were characterized by means of FT-IR,XRD,SEM and four probes-conductivity meter.The results show that the surfactant micelles,which formed by SDBS or SDS,act as soft template and dopant in this oil-water microemulsion system.Two kinds of anionic structures play a significant role in the conductivities of PPy micro-nanoparticles.The conductivity of PPy doped by SDBS reaches 1 S/cm.


Studies conducted at a number of locations around the country by Southwest Research Institute for the U.S. Department of Transportation have shown that glare from vehicle headlights at night has a much greater impact on motorists from a psychological standpoint than it does from a physiological, vision-degrading standpoint.


We consider a two-level quanlum mechanical system driven by an analylic time-dependent Hamiltonian of 1he form H ( r r ) . In the adiabatic limit, E << I , the transition probability P(+. -) from one energy level (labelled by -) at time I = -m Io the other (labelled by +) at time r=+m is known to behave as Pi+,-)= erp(--u.,e-') exp(cJ( l+O(c)) . Using a simple iterative procedure generating Hamiltonians Ha = H, H , , . . . , H,v+, we compute the fu l l asymptotic expansion of the lransition probability ,v I ~ ~ ( + , ) = U ~ , E ~ ' + U ~ + 1 a , r ' + O ( ~ " " ) V N s O / "


Banks are the engines that drive the operations in the financialsector, money markets and growth of an economy. With the rapidly growingbanking industry in India, frauds in banks are also increasing very fast, andfraudsters have started using innovative methods. As part of the study, a questionnaire-basedsurvey was conducted in 2013-14 among 345 bank employees to know theirperception towards bank frauds and evaluate the factors that influence thedegree of their compliance level. This study provides a frank discussion of theattitudes, strategies and technology that specialists will need to combatfrauds in banks. In the modern era, there is "no silver bullet for fraudprotection; the double-edged sword of technology is getting sharper,day-in-day-out." The use of neural network-based behavior models in real-timehas changed the face of fraud management all over the world. Banks that canleverage advances in technology and analytics to improve fraud prevention willreduce their fraud losses. Recently, forensic accounting has come into limelightdue to rapid increase in financial frauds or white-collar crimes.


While the American public may know a lot about influenza vaccine, individuals are woefully undereducated about all of the other vaccines important to their health. Among them is the pneumococcal vaccine—which is strongly recommended by our public health officials for tens of millions of Americans who have not been vaccinated yet. Given the unique collaboration between nurse practitioners (NPs) and patients, NPs are well positioned to help shift vaccine dynamics and increase coverage for this important adult vaccine. Doing so can help prevent thousands of deaths each year and increase the odds that many Americans at risk for this disease can avoid serious illness and hospitalization.


In practice, heat pumps (HP) often do not perform as expected. This is due to many factors
such as how well the system and the ground loop are designed, installed and subsequently
maintained and how well they are operated and controlled in the field. Improving overall
system design and demonstrating increased HP performance and higher reliability are core
objectives for this research. Performance instability and variations in ground source heat
pump (GSHP) system output has been observed previously and this indicates that detailed
research is required for example (i) to identify the relationship between dynamic performance
and seasonal ground temperature patterns, (ii) to address the operation, installation and
control opportunities that arise from (i). This project investigates all of these issues.
This thesis focuses on the monitoring of the long-term operation of a 500 kW installed GSHP
system with the aim of understanding and establishing the current trend performance
characteristics of the installation. The research involved combination of experimental
measurements and analysis, mathematical simulation and the development of an empirical
transient model that could be generally applied.
Despite the importance of the effect of ground temperatures on performance, relatively little
data has been published on the effect of disturbed underground temperature distributions. The
author has therefore developed a novel mathematical model for the analysis of disturbed
ground temperatures over time. The novel mathematical model developed has been used to
predict the disturbed seasonal underground temperatures based on daily fluid and air
temperature data and has been validated against real historical data.
It was concluded from the critical literature review that the dynamic long term performance
investigation of GSHP systems using transient models is not well understood. Therefore the
work described in this thesis has focused on the development of a generic empirical transient
system model of a GSHP system. This model has been developed using TRNSYS 17 software. This has permitted investigation of the effects of different control strategies using a
dry air cooler (DAC) for heat rejection, energy consumption of the HP, the overall
performance of the system and ground temperature variations.
The main novelty and contributions to science from this work is:
 The better understanding of the effect of ground temperature variation over time and
its effect on the system's performance.
 The development of new measurement methods for assessing system performance.
 The use of ground temperature in the prediction and control of system performance,
together with an analysis of the effects of specific interventions or control
methodologies.
 The development of a novel mathematical model for predicting disturbed ground
temperature.
 The development of a novel GSHP model using TRNSYS.
 The development and investigation of novel control strategies using DAC.


The World Broadcasting Unions (WBU)
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 is the coordinating body for broadcasting unions who represent broadcaster networks across the globe. It was established in 1992 as a coordinating body at the international broadcasting level. Since then, the WBU has provided global solutions on key issues for its member unions. The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) acts as a secretariat for the WBU.


This article highlights some of the particular challenges faced by the large and growing population of Turkish speaking offenders in the London borough of Haringey. It draws on a small-scale study, which sought to inform the author's practice with this group of offenders.


One of the most outstanding new elements of social research in the last quarter of the 20th century, in Africa and elsewhere, is undoubtedly gender. Academics, social researchers and decision-makers have had to contend with sensitivity to gender issues as an essential aspect of all their action. Based on the theme of this symposium, we highlight a living challenge to modern gender relations through an appraisal of the lasting aspects of human culture. We expose patriarchy as an impediment to gender parity through an examination of the proverb perceived as linguistic phenomenon and enhancer of culture. At the dawn of the new millennium, gender research would not close its eyes to aspects of traditional African culture that challenge the streamlining of gender relations. Patriarchy is a social system where much of the power rests in the hands of men, who also dominate private and public spheres of life. Gender parity implies equality between men and women, especially in terms of rights and power. Putting gender relations right is thus the search for this parity. Definitions of the term 'proverb' have centred on its economy of words, origins in human experience and observation of social phenomenon, folkloric and communal belonging as well as the claim of being general or absolute truth. Of all the 'definitional ingredients', the claim over truthfulness is rather disturbing. It actually reflects the user's or society's aspiration for control and desire to impose a given view of life as unshakeable and accepted. This is


A new approach to the minimization of polyhedral convex functions is applied to give a finite algorithm for the rank regression problem. Numerical results for the Daniel and Wood example are presented.


An improved iodine test based on the ability of the live scale to react with iodine, yielding reduced iodine products which in turn are unable to give the blue colour reaction with starch, has been used for determining the mortality of the California red scale after treatment with various insecticides. 0.1% monocrotophos, omethoate or methidathion (active material) and 1.4% ethion formulation were found to give good control, while methomyl, mecarbam and azinphos-methyl were less effective. The results obtained by the iodine method resembled those obtained by the visual method, commonly used for determining death in armoured scales.


The original contribution of the current work is to (1) Derive a density fluctuation corrected version of the TEA constituent flux equation, previously only available for REA, (2) Combine the density corrected flux equation with the volume mismatch correction, separately for the TEA and REA methods, (3) Derive integrated equations for constituent fluxes, separately for the TEA and the REA methods, which correct the flux both for density fluctuations due to heat and water vapor transfer and also for volume mismatch, and further expand the correction of density fluctuations to the volume mismatch correction term itself.


Byers, W. (2007). How mathematicians think: Using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., Rossi Foundation For Psychosocial Genomic Research and The New Neuroscience School of Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. If we can all agree that dissociation is a key concept of therapeutic hypnosis then we should be eager read this book by William Byers. Byers is a Professor of Mathematics at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Contrary to all you may have been taught about mathematics as the embodiment of logic, rationality, and truth, Byers believes that the history of mathematics provides evidence of how discovery in creative math is actually an exercise in using ambiguity, contradiction, and conflict to clarify the paradoxes inherent in the nature of thought, consciousness, and our perception of the world and ourselves. Such an idea must arouse a familiar resonance in students of Ericksonian hypnosis who also believe that ambiguity, confusion, and paradox can be utilized in the induction and facilitation of the creative process of therapeutic hypnosis. So what is the connection between dissociation in hypnosis and mathematics? While Byers does not even mention the words "dissociation" and "hypnosis" in his book, he does focus on the analogous concepts of "complementarity" and "quantum physics." He points out how quantum physics is one of the most novel and successful theories of our century. Quantum physics is a useful paradigmbreaking scientific theory precisely because it posits a radically new way of viewing the world, which is described as "complementarity." Complementarity describes how the same phenomenon can be described in two different and seemingly contradictory ways. An electron, for example, can be understood as being a particle or a wave. Likewise, two ideas, emotions, behaviors, goals, or self concepts (e.g. the many faces of Eve) can be complementary, conflicting, or dissociated from one another. Byers notes that mathematicians and physicists use the t e r m " d u a l i t y " t o d e s c r i b e BOOK REVIEWS


The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the optimal raw material ratio of purple corn cake containing corn silk powder (PCC) for maximal the total anthocyanin content (TAC), 2,2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) radical scavenging ability (ABTS-RSA) and texture score using response surface methodology (RSM) and 2) to evaluate the effects of adding organic acids of PCC on TAC, total phenolic content (TPC), ABTS-RSA, ferrous chelating ability (FCA), color values and sensory evaluation. The optimal raw material ratio for maximal TAC (142.0 μg CE/g), ABTS-RSA (1,249.0 μg TE/g) and texture score (6.6) was the ratio of purple corn flour to rice flour of 71.1:28.9, corn silk content of 10.0 and water content of 27.1 (% total flour weight basis). The acidified PCC (APCC) with citric acid, fumaric acid, glucono-delta-lactone (GDL) and lactic acid at 0, 0.3, 0.75, 1.5, 3.0, 4.5 and 6.0% (% total flour weight basis) could reduce the degradations of TAC, TPC, ABTS-RSA and FCA. However, APCC with 3% fumaric acid showed the highest of TAC (282.7 μg CE/g), TPC (2,154.7 μg GE/g), ABTS-RSA (1,884.8 μg TE/g) and FCA (5,571.1 μg EDTA/g). The difference color (∆E) and chroma values of APCC were significantly increased as increasing acid concentrations. Inversely, hue value was decreased as increasing acid concentrations. Additionally, the sensory scores in taste, texture and overall acceptability of APCC with 0.3% organic acid were higher than other acid preparations.


We study the number of short geodesics and small eigenvalues on Weil-Petersson random genus zero hyperbolic surfaces with n cusps in the regime n → ∞ . Inspired by work of Mirzakhani and Petri [MP19], we show that the random multi-set of lengths of closed geodesics converges, after a suitable rescaling, to a Poisson point process with explicit intensity. As a consequence, we show that the Weil-Petersson probability that a hyperbolic punctured sphere with n cusps has at least k = o ( n 13 ) arbitrarily small eigenvalues tends to 1 as n → ∞ .


Objective To study the expression of human kallikrein gene(KLK) 4 and KLK5 in ovarian cancers,and to investigate the pathogenesis in malignant tumors. Methods Fifty specimens of ovarian cancers were divided into three groups: malignant tumor group(n=23),borderline tumor group(n=6) and control group(normal or benign tumor,n=21).Fluorescent quantitative RT-PCR was employed to determine the expression of KLK4 and KLK5 in these specimens. Results The expression of KLK4 in ovarian cancers was significantly higher than that of the control group(P0.05),and the expression of KLK5 in ovarian cancers and borderline ovarian tumors was also significantly higher than that of the control group(P0.001).The expression of KLK5 in serous epithelial carcinomas was higher than that of the other malignant histological types(P0.05),and was markedly associated with the histological differentiation(P0.05).There was a positive relationship between the expression of KLK5 and serum CA125 level. Conclusion(KLK5 might) play a potential role in the pathogenesis and development of ovarian can-(cers,) especially in serous epithelial carcinomas.


As the amount of accessible biological data is growing exponentially, it is becoming harder and harder to extract the biological knowledge contained in thousands of databases. Biomedical scientists collect facts, often recording them in natural language, and then use their knowledge to make inferences about as yet uncharacterised observations. Therefore, to make the best use of biological databases and the knowledge they contain, different kinds of information from dii¬€erent sources must be integrated in ways that make sense to the scientific community. The Gene Ontology (GO) and other biomedical ontologies (OBO) are fundamental components in data integration and annotation.
This PhD project focuses on the improvement of some already existing resources, and the development of new methods that facilitate data integration and extraction, for genes, drugs and diseases, and their inter-relationships. The work consists of contributions to biological ontologies and definitions of cross-links between different semantic fields represented in several distinct databases. Significant changes in GO content and structure have been provided, resulting in the addition of hundreds of terms useful in the representation of muscle and nervous system biology. In addition, a resource has been developed to find preliminary correlations between genes, drugs and diseases. This resource integrates information from several very up-to-date sources, most of which are manually curated; and from a human disease ontology, the "Disease Ontology".
The revised ontologies will facilitate the interpretation of high-throughout experiments in the area of muscle biology and neurobiology, and more importantly, in the fields of neuromuscular and nervous system diseases. Furthermore, the developed ontology-based system will provide interoperability support for physicians and medical researchers in the interpretation of data from studies on human diseases.


An 18-year-old female with no prior medical history, presented with a three-week history of nausea, dyspnoea on minimal exertion and palpitations. On examination, sinus tachycardia of up to 120 beats per minute at rest was noted. Echocardiogram and computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiogram revealed a large pericardial effusion (left). CT thorax and positron emission tomography (PET) scan showed a 21 9 60 mm superior and anterior mediastinal mass (standardised uptake value, SUV 4 5) with anterior pericardial uptake, surrounding the aortic arch and great vessels and causing near occlusion of the right pulmonary artery. Full blood count and blood film were normal. Analysis of pericardial fluid (right) showed a population of immature myeloid cells, some containing cytoplasmic granules and Auer rods, indicating infiltration of the pericardium by myeloblasts. Biopsy of the mass showed dense sclerosis and a diffuse infiltrate of intermediate size myeloblasts with irregular nuclei and pale cytoplasm. Immunohistochemistry was suboptimal due to sclerosis but demonstrated that the neoplastic cells expressed CD45, CD117, CD34, CD68 and BCL2 with a high MIB1 index (>70%). There was no expression of CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5, CD8, CD20, PAX5, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, myeloperoxidase (MPO), CD30, CD23 or CD56. CD79a was equivocal. Overall, this was indicative of myeloid sarcoma (MS), though the degree of sclerosis was unusual. Cells in the pericardial fluid expressed CD45, CD34 and CD117 with some expression of MPO and with Sudan black B positivity, confirming the presence of myeloblasts. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation analysis of pericardial fluid showed monosomy 7. Analysis for NPM1 and FLT3 mutations was negative. There was no evidence of bone marrow involvement on bone marrow aspiration or trephine biopsy. The patient was treated with induction/consolidation chemotherapy, with PET then showing a complete metabolic response; monosomy 7 was no longer detectable in pericardial fluid. The patient was then successfully consolidated with a matched unrelated donor allogeneic stem-cell transplant. She remains in remission 10 months post-transplant. MS is a rare myeloid neoplasm, defined as a tumour mass of leukaemic cells that occurs in extramedullary tissues at almost any site, in isolation or associated with acute myeloid leukaemia or other myeloid neoplasm. Virtually all patients develop overt bone marrow involvement if untreated. Malignant effusions in haematological malignancies are rare in comparison with solid tumours. A small number of case reports describe MS of the pericardium, with some reports of simultaneous serosal effusions at other sites. Serosal fluid can offer high-yield information in diagnostically challenging cases. It is important to consider MS in the differential diagnosis of a mediastinal mass with pericardial or pleural effusions.


In this modern era computers and smart devices are the major mode of communication, which connects different parts of the world within a fraction of seconds, As a result, people can easily exchange information, so that the distance is no longer a barrier for communication but safety and security may get compromised. This creates brutal issues while storing or transferring confidential data. By making use of Delta Steganography techniques, these security threats can be tackled to some extent and also eliminate unnecessary data being transmitted over network. This work introduces a combined form of steganography and delta compression algorithms. Steganography conveniently obscure confidential data inside a video file, delta compression analyze stego frames and reference frames then produce a set of instructions named as delta file. Storing or transferring delta file rather than video file can offer reduced space consumption as well as high security to the confidential data.


The nuclei from one-, two-, four-, and eight-cell rat embryos were transferred into enucleated zygotes and development to term of the reconstituted embryos, after transfer to recipients, was examined. The rate of electrofusion of enucleated zygotes with karyoplasts was quite high (81–92%), but the fusion rate was only 8% when Sendai virus (HVJ) was used. A large percentage of the enucleated zygotes that received pronuclear karyoplasts developed to the two-cell stage in vitro (89%) and to term (22%) after transfer to recipient rats. Although 67%, 57%, and 67% of enucleated zygotes receiving nuclei from two-, four- and eight-cell embryos, respectively, developed to the two-cell stage, they failed to develop to term after transfer.


I was clutching the steering wheel of the Dodge coupe, its headlights aiming straight up into the sky as it slid down the embankment in slow motion like a horror scene from a movie. Only this was real. World War II had ended, and Dad owned one of the first new cars to reach our Kentucky hills—thanks to his good friend, Ransom Jordan, the only car dealer in our small county. The Dodge was so rare a commodity that I was forbidden to drive it even though at fourteen Pd been driving the old Packard for months. Of course, either Dad or Mother was always along then, unlike tonight when, irked by the restriction, Pd pocketed the keys and driven off without permission. The fluid-drive gave me no problem. Pd watched my parents maneuver the gear shift, and I'd felt the car's signal and response. I cruised down the highway into town, stopped for the only traffic light, and headed on toward East Jenkins. I had no destination in mind, just the free feeling of tires rolling on pavement, the response of the steering wheel to my hands—the same feeling of control Pd first had learning to ride a bicycle and to paddle a canoe: competence combined with ease. Two factors combined to wreck me. First, the thought that my parents might notice the Dodge's absence and assume this rarity of a new car had been stolen. The second was a week of heavy rain that softened even the hardest clay and filled creeks with the rushing flow of silt. Hoping to return home before either parent noticed the car's absence, I began to look for some place to turn around—not an easy find on a road cut out of a hill so that on one side the clay embankment rose straight up and on the other it fell straight down to a rocky creek bordered by a railroad track. Finally, I saw a narrow dirt road I could pull into, but Pd have to back across the pavement and onto the shoulder to turn around. Since there were no other cars in sight, I swerved immediately onto the dirt road and cautiously backed up till the rear wheels sank onto the shoulder. But when I shifted into low, the back wheels kept sinking until the car perched on the side of the hill, its headlights serving as searchlights to the stars.


The effectiveness of air cooling in the engine room of cogeneration gas reciprocating engines of an isolated power plant has been analyzed. According to the results of the analysis a rational way of air cooling has been suggested for the engine room with supplying cooled intake air directly to the inlet of turbochargers and to the electrical generators of the gas reciprocating engine generators and ventilation of the main space of the engine room.


Feline behavioral problems can be treated successfully by good advice from cat-behavior advisors, but guardians often do not comply with their advice. An experimental survey under 703 cat guardians was used to investigate what advisors can do to increase their clients' compliance with environmental enrichment advice. By systematically varying the credibility of the advisor and the severity of their advice, the hypothesis was confirmed that highly credible advisors elicit more positive attitudes and compliance intentions than less credible advisors. Also as expected, mild advice resulted in stronger compliance intentions than severe advice because guardians believed they were better able to incorporate the required actions. Finally, guardians who more strongly thought of themselves as cat guardians were more likely to adopt the advice because they believed that other cat guardians would do the same. The investigation of factors that can increase cat guardians' compliance with advisors' recommendations for the treatment of behavioral problems is crucial because the wellbeing of domestic cats lies in the hands of their guardians. Several practical recommendations for cat-behavior advisors are offered.


The dynamic imaging of a gravity wave propagating at the air-water interface is a complex task that requires the sampling of every point at this interface. Using two source-receiver vertical arrays facing each other in a shallow water environment, we manage to isolate and identify each multi-reverberated eigenray that interacts with the air-water interface. The travel-time and amplitude variations of each eigenray are then measured during the crossing of the gravity wave. In this work, we present an ultrasonic experiment in a 1 m-long, 5 cm-deep waveguide. At frequencies in the MHz range, the waveguide transfer matrix is recorded 100 times per second between two source-receiver arrays while a low-amplitude gravity wave is generated by a laser-induced breakdown above the water surface. The breakdown causes a blast wave that interacts with the air-water interface and penetrates into the water, creating ripples at the surface. This event is easily controlled and therefore repeatable. The inversion performed ...


This research aims to test the influence of self-efficacy, talent management, and continuous improvement on employee organizational commitment of PT Indonesia Epson Industry. Self-Efficacy is an (X1), Talent Management as an (X2), Continuous Improvement as an (X3), and Organizational Commitment is a (Y). The method in this study is quantitative. The population of this research is the workers in Epson Line 151 workers. The sample is 110 people using the way of Slovin and data collection using a questionnaire method. The analysis results used a validity test, reliability test, classical assumption test, multiple linear regression test, t-test, F test, and coefficient of determination. So self-efficacy has no significant effect on the organizational commitment of PT Indonesia Epson Industry. In addition, talent management significantly affects the organizational commitment of PT Indonesia Epson Industry employees. Furthermore, it can also be essential that continuous improvement significantly affects the organizational commitment of PT Indonesia Epson Industry employees. Furthermore, self-efficacy, talent management, and continuous improvement together have a significant effect on the organizational commitment of PT Indonesia Epson Industry employees.


Piezoelectric force microscopy has been enhanced by coplanar epitaxial electrodes to detect and manipulate the striped ferroelectric domain structure of a multiferroic BiFeO3 thin film grown on single-crystalline DyScO3. Time-resolved imaging revealed ferroelastic (71° and 109°) switching of domains in a needlelike region that grew from one electrode toward the other in a uniform electric field, and demonstrated reversible rotation of the 71° domain stripe orientation in a nonuniform field. Purely ferroelectric (180°) switching was suppressed by the geometry of the electrodes. The extendibility of this apparatus opens the door toward magnetoelectric domain imaging.


iv OZ vi DEDICATION viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iv TABLE OF CONTENTS x LIST OF TABLES xii LIST OF FIGURES xiv LIST OF INTERVIEWS xv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2: Operationalization 8 2.1 Description of the Research: Exploring the Relationship between Human-beings and Nature 8 2.2 Assumptions 11 2.3 Hypotheses 14 2.4 Methodology, Method, Sampling and Limitations 15 2.5 State of Freshwater Resources Management in Turkey 17 2.6 Information on Bafa Lake, Uluabat Lake, Salt Lake and Egirdir Lake 20 2.7 Conceptualization of the Relationship between Human Beings and Nature 28


The increase in productivity, quality of sunflower seeds is largely dependent on the optimal doses of fertilizers and plant density in relation to a particular variety and agroclimatic conditions of the region. The aim of our research was to study the effect of the seeding rate and the background of mineral nutrition on the productivity and quality of seeds of Orenbar sunflower hybrid. The application of mineral fertilizers in a dose of N90P60K90 on average for four years ensured the formation of a crop with a planting density of 47 thousand pcs per hectare – 1.536 tons per hectare. As the seeding rate increased to 74 thousand pcs per hectare - the productivity increased by 0.376 tons per hectare and amounted to - 2.839 tons per hectare against the background of mineral fertilizers in the dose of N90P60K90. This variant had the highest oil yield – 1.463.9 kg per hectare.


Australian studies of people who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIED) have identified subgroups including professional sportspeople, occupational users (those in protective services/entertainment industries), body image users and adolescents [1]. Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of respondents in the National Drug Strategy Household Survey who reported non-medical use of steroids remained low and stable at 0.3% or less [2], and PIEDs injectors comprised just 1–2% of respondents in surveys of Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) attendees [3]. Anecdotal reports from NSP services in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland suggest substantial recent increases in the number of people who inject PIEDs accessing injecting equipment.This study investigates temporal trends in prevalence and patterns of PIEDs injection among Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey (ANSPS) respondents.


The emergence of social interaction technologies (SIT) has drastically altered the way in which individuals relate to each other, particularly with regard to team work and group membership. A team used to be constrained by the geographical location of its members, and the quality of the face-to-face interaction and interdependence was largely reliant on the close proximity through which members worked. In recent years, teams have evolved to become virtual entities consisting of teleworkers, telecommuters and individuals situated in countries around the world who are linked together through collaborative work. This shift has seen changes to the ways in which team work occurs, and the virtual world of work has emerged as a complex environment where success is dependent on a shared culture that facilitates knowledge creation and the best contributions of all its members (Starke-Meyerring & Andrews, 2006). Modern workplace is inherently ambiguous, uncertain and full of change. It puts exacting ABSTRACT


In this study, Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) corm showing wet rot symptoms were collected from a farm in Abeokuta south local government area in Ogun state and examined for associated fungal pathogens. Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus flavus, fusarium solani, trichoderma spp, and two Aspergilus spp (unidenfitied)were recovered from the otted cocoyam. The representative isolates were plated and cultured against Trichoderma asperelleum and Trichoderma longibrachiatum to determine the percentage rate of inhibition exhibited by the two Trichoderma spp on the organisms.


Semi-arid woodlands have dominated the middle elevations of Great Basin mountain ranges during the Holocene where subalpine woodlands prevailed during the Pleistocene. Ancient woodrat middens, and in a few cases pollen records indicate in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene woodland history lowered elevation of subalpine woodland species. After a middle Holocene retrenchment at elevations in excess of 500 meters above today, Juniper-dominated semi-arid woodland reached its late Holocene maximum areal extent during the Neoglacial (2 to 4 ka). These records, along with others indicate contracting semi-arid woodland after the Neoglacial about 1.9 ka. Desert shrub community expansion coupled with increased precariousness of wetland areas in the southern Great Basin between 1.9 and 1.5 ka coincide with shrinking wet-lands in the west-central and northern Great Basin. Coincident greater grass abundance in northern Great Basin sagebrush steppe, reaching its maximum between 1.5 and 1.2 ka, corresponds to dramatic increases in bison remains in the archaeological sites of the northern Intermontane West. Pollen and woodrat midden records indicate that this drought ended about 1.5 ka. Succeeding ameliorating conditions resulted in the sudden northward and downward expansion of pinon into areas that had been dominated by juniper during the Neoglacial. Maximum areal extent more » of pinon dominated semi-arid woodland in west-central Nevada was centered at 1.2 ka. This followed by 100 years the shift in dominance from juniper to pinon in southern Nevada semi-arid woodlands. Great Basin woodlands suffered from renewed severe droughts between .5 to .6 ka. Effectively wetter conditions during the {open_quotes}Little Ice Age{close_quotes} resulted in re-expansion of semi-arid woodland. Activities related to European settlement in the Great Basin have modified prehistoric factors or imposed new ones that are affecting woodland response to climate. « less


Based on Fresnel formula , Jones matrixes of reflection and transmission are gained. By analysing and comparing the difference between incoming wave and tansmissive wave , the superiority of the later is obvious.


In order to investigate the most appropriate sampling to assess habitat effects on red deer, authors analysed body mass, diastema length and length of the posterior part of the lower jaw of red deer females Cervus elaphus (Linnaeus, 1758) in five study areas of the Ardennes (Belgium).


The Interball project consists of two pairs of satellites orbiting in the Earth's magnetosphere. It was managed by the Russian space agency (RKA) in the framework of a wide international cooperation. The Interball-1 pair, comprising a main Prognoz type satellite and a subsatellite, MAGION4, was launched in August 1996 into a highly elongated (800 km perigee, 190 000 km apogee altitude), 62.8 inclined orbit which crossed the equatorial parts of the Earth's environment at distances of a few tens of Earth's radii, and was therefore particularly suitable for solar wind/magnetosheath and magnetospheric substorm studies. The main purpose of the subsatellites of the Interball-1 pair was to search for cause-and-effect relationships by performing measurements synchronized with those made on the main satellite. Measurements at two different points in space enable one to distinguish reliably (in one direction, at least) the locations and motions of various plasma structures and/or inhomogeneities, thus making a correct interpretation of experimental results easier.


The presence of analyte contained in the animal inside the medium, the sensor that can be used to detect the amount and / or concentration. Sensor includes a sensor housing, embedded in the sensor housing, and / or the indicator element that covers at least a portion of the sensor housing, and a membrane covering the indicator element may comprise a. The membrane prevents the immune cells such as leukocytes to contact the indicator element, substantially interfere with the transmission through the film of light of at least a predetermined wavelength or wavelength range, and / or the analyte is the index by allowing the pass through the element, it is possible to reduce the deterioration of the indicator element. The film may be an opaque diffusion membrane. The sensor may include a metal flake. The metal flakes can reduce the light interfere, and / or degradation of the indicator element. The membrane can reduce the oxidation of the indicator element. .The 10


To test or diagnose the depth of crack is the important basis of integrated judgment of damaged concrete structure after fire. It is a significant task to develop a special instrument for concrete crack depth test after fire. Three kinds of testing methods based on ultrasonic impulse such as single surface flat measurement, measurement by penetrating through every layer and depth determination of the damage layer are introduced. An ultrasonic diagnose instrument is developed by using high precision timing circuit, sensor driving circuit and automated gain circuit. The precision and anti-interference character has been enhanced in the instrument. 60 sound-time data of 6 groups are obtained and calculated by the method after many times of testing of the concrete structure. The results are basically consistent with the observed data. The crack depth test method and the instrument presented are testified to have fine practicability.