The fluid mechanics of multi-phase flow breakup of liquid nitrogen, LN2, jets injected into sonic velocity nitrogen gasflow, was experimentally investigated. A scattered-light scanning instrument was used to measure the characteristic dropsize, D(sub v.5), of LN2 sprays and to determine the effect of droplet vaporization on experimental dropsize measurements. Under sonic gas-velocity conditions, liquid-jet breakup occurred in the regime of aerodynamic stripping. As a result, the following correlation of volume-median drop diameter, D(sub v.5), with atomizing gas flowrate, W(sub g), was derived for two-fluid atomizers; with atomizing gas flowrate, W(sub g), was derived for two-fluid atomizers; (D(sub v.5))(exp -1) = k(sub c)(W(sub g))(sup n), where proportionally constant k(sub c) and exponent n are functions of droplet vaporization rate. Partially vaporized sprays were investigated and it was found that n = 1.11, which is considerably less than the value of 1.33 that is predicted by atomization theory. This was attributed to the evaporative loss of very small droplets. As a result, the following expression was obtained experimentally: (D(sub v.5e))(exp -1) = 301(W(sub g))(sup 1.11). Values of D(sub v.5), that existed prior to partial vaporization of the LN2 sprays, were calculated and the following expression was derived for originally unvaporized LN2 sprays: (D(sub v.5))(exp -1) = 285(W(sub g))(sup 1.33). This expression agrees well with atomization theory that predicts n = 1.33, for liquid jet breakup in high-velocity gasflow.


Objective. To study the morphological and functional characteristics of the endometrium in patients of reproductive age before and after unilateral adnexectomy using a three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging. Patients and methods. A total of 113 patients after unilateral adnexectomy were examined. The mean age of patients was 32.85 ± 4.01 years. Two patient groups were identified: group 1 (n = 51) consisted of patients with mature teratomas; group 2 (n = 62) included patients who underwent surgery for epithelial ovarian tumors (endometrioid (30; 48.4%), serous (21; 33.9%), and mucinous (11; 17.7%) cystadenomas). The 3D ultrasound examination of pelvic organs was performed in the middle luteal phase of the menstrual cycle before surgery and at 6, 12 months after it. The endometrial thickness, volume, and ultrasound pattern were studied, as well as volumetric vascularity indices: vascularization index (VI), flow index (FI), and the vascularizationflow index (VFI). Based on the ESHRE consensus (2022), the ovarian reserve was assessed. Results. The improvement of endometrial perfusion was noted at 12 months after surgery. In patients with ovarian teratomas, compensatory restoration of morphological and functional properties of the ovary and endometrium was recorded. The opposite pattern was observed in the group of patients with epithelial tumors. Thus, patients operated on for ovarian endometriomas had an extremely thin endometrium (3.5 ± 0.1 mm), whose values were 1.5 times lower compared to those of patients with serous and mucinous cystadenomas; the glandular layer volume was expectedly low (1.1 ± 0.9 cm3). Conclusion. The minimum effective restoration period for the collateral ovary after unilateral adnexectomy is at least 6 months. The qualitative and quantitative parameters of 3D Doppler velocimetry can be used as predictors of the endometrial morphological and functional state in patients of reproductive age. Key words: 3D ultrasound, mature teratomas, cystadenomas, endometrium, endometrioid cysts, VOCAL


Exact dual-series eigenfunction solutions, and simple closed-form low-frequency asymptotic approximations are determined for the problems of TM and TE scattering from a semicircular channel in a perfectly conducting ground plane. The eigenfunction solutions provide benchmarks for channel scattering, and the low-frequency solutions can be used to determine directly incremental length diffraction coefficients for narrow channels.<<ETX>>


Dictionaries often give us a misleading indication that words are synonymous. As an example the three words fatal, mortal and deadly are defined as follows: fatal: 'deadly', mortal: 'fatal', deadly ...


Objective
To investigate the prevalence of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and ALT-related dysmetabolism and risk factors.

Methods
A total of 12 789 adult participated, with no hepatitis B virus infection or alcohol over-intake, received health check-up, including blood pressure measurement, blood glucose and lipid profile test, liver function evaluation and ultrasonography.The subjects were then assigned into two groups according to the serum level of ALT.Metabolic composition was compared between the two groups.

Results
The prevalence of elevated ALT activity was 8.69%.The waist circumstance, body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), urine acid (UA), fasting blood glucose (FBG), HbA1c, total bilirubin (TBIL), γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT), alkaline phos-phatase (ALP) of the elevated ALT group were significantly higher than those of the normal ALT group.However, age and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) in the elevated ALT group were lower than those in the normal ALT group (P<0.05). The occurrence of overweight, obesity, hyperlipidemia, impaired fasting glucose, diabetes, increased DBP, hyperuricacidemia and fatty liver in the elevated serum ALT group was significantly more than that in the normal ALT group(P<0.05). Multiple logistic regression analysis demonstrated that fatty liver, DBP, BMI, TC, HbA1c were risk factors of elevated serum ALT.

Conclusion
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, lipid metabolic disorders and obesity may be the main risk factors of elevated ALT.

Key words:
Alanine transaminase; Lipid metabolism; Fatty liver


One of the key deliverables for the DOE-funded controls research at LBNL for FY04 was the development of a prototype Personal Workspace Control system. The successful development of this system is a critical milestone for the LBNL Lighting Controls Research effort because this system demonstrates how IBECS can add value to today's Task Ambient lighting systems. LBNL has argued that by providing both the occupant and the facilities manager with the ability to precisely control the operation of overhead lighting and all task lighting in a coordinated manner, that task ambient lighting can optimize energy performance and occupant comfort simultaneously [Reference Task Ambient Foundation Document]. The Personal Workspace Control system is the application of IBECS to this important lighting problem. This report discusses the development of the Personal Workspace Control to date including descriptions of the different fixture types that have been converted to IBECS operation and a detailed description of the operation of PWC Scene Controller, which provides the end user with precise control of his task ambient lighting system. The objective, from the Annual Plan, is to demonstrate improvements in efficiency, lighting quality and occupant comfort realized using Personal Workspace Controls (PWC) designed to optimize the delivery ofmore » lighting to the individual's workstation regardless of which task-ambient lighting solution is chosen. The PWC will be capable of controlling floor-mounted, desk lamps, furniture-mounted and overhead lighting fixtures from a personal computer and handheld remote. The PWC will use an environmental sensor to automatically monitor illuminance, temperature and occupancy and to appropriately modulate ambient lighting according to daylight availability and to switch off task lighting according to local occupancy. [Adding occupancy control to the system would blunt the historical criticism of occupant-controlled lighting - the tendency of the occupant to leave lights on]. The PWC will be an entirely open networking system in which all manufacturers of task lights, furniture-mounted lighting and ballast manufacturers can participate and have a business position.« less


SEFTI HEZA DWINANTI. Toxicity and Immunogenicity of Non-hemolytic Streptococcus agalactiae Extracellular Products to Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Under direction of SUKENDA, MUNTI YUHANA and ANGELA MARIANA LUSIASTUTI. Toxicity and immunogenicity of extracellular products (ECP) of nonhemolytic Streptococcus agalactiae were studied in the tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. The aim of this research was to analyse the toxicity and immunogenicity of ECP of non-hemolytic S. agalactiae and to evaluate ECP as a material vaccine for prevention of S. agalactiae. Toxicity to tilapia was detected in the ECP. There was a chronic mortality pattern which was shown after post ECP injection. By intraperitoneal injection into young tilapia (± 20 g), the median lethal dose were calculated at 633,9 μg/kg bodyweight for isolate 3 and 685,4 μg/kg bodyweight for isolate 5. Cytopathic effects of ECP to tilapia's lymphocytes were observed during 0, 30, 60 and 180 minutes. A mixture of ECP caused nuclear granulation and cytoplasmic streaming after 60 minutes. Using immunodiffusion analysis, precipitate line was demonstrated against tilapia anti-ECP sera, and there was biospecific type anti sera against for each isolate. The ECP vaccine effective to protect tilapia from S. agalactiae was injected intraperitoneally (IP) at 2 x 10 CFU/ml. Tilapia vaccinated with ECP from isolat 3 which protein 283 μg/kg bodyweight had a RPS value 60%. Tilapia vaccinated with ECP from isolat 5 which protein 408 μg/kg had a RPS value 68%.


Dependences and regularities of the influence of abiotic factors on the formation of resistance of poikilother-mic animals on the model species Cyprinus carpio have been resistanced. A sharp decrease in the temperature of the aquatic environment leads to an increase in the level of cortisol in the blood serum of fish. A decrease in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the aquatic environment leads to an increase in cortisol levels. With an increase in the time spent in an anhydrous medium in the serum of Cyprinus carpio, the level of protein decreases, and the level of cortisol increases.


Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the eight most populous nation in the world. She is currently the largest economy in Africa. Nigeria is considered to be relatively wealthy in terms of oil reserves; however, the level of poverty is still very high because of corruption and mismanagement. This study investigates the impact of public health expenditure on health outcomes in Nigeria, 1985–2019. Empirical results from the Classical Regression Analysis reveal that health expenditure by the government reduces under-5 mortality rate significantly and improves life expectancy. Furthermore, immunization against measles was found to reduce under-5 mortality rate, while prevalence of HIV reduces life expectancy. The study therefore recommends that there is need for government expenditure on health to be targeted at areas that will improve health outcomes significantly. With adequate funding and proper monitoring, a resource-abundant nation like Nigeria, can become healthier. However, if this is not done, the wealthy may not be healthy after all.


The Indian diamond industry thrives in the atmosphere of secrecy and informality that envelops the diamond trade and has for long been labeled as an unorganized sector of the economy. However, it resembles a close-knit community composed of thousands of small, medium and large sized CPD ( cut and polished diamonds) units and has grown to become one of the highest foreign exchange earners for the country. The industry exports cut and polished diamonds worth US $ 14 billion annually and enjoys a 95 % market share of the global exports of cut and polished diamond pieces. An in-depth study of the industry reveals that the so called unorganized sector is in fact highly organized and has great potential to offer useful insights to the field of management in terms of new forms of organizing, networking, business processing and for doing international business. This paper presents summary of findings from research conducted in the Indian diamond industry over a period of last four years. Part I includes insights about the remarkable rise, growth and the unique working of the industry. Part II makes use of a case study of a 40 years old large- sized CPD unit to help gain further understanding of the Indian diamond industry. Part III is about the impact of the 2008 global turmoil and of the industry's revival after a severe recession. The analysis of findings and implications for future research have been discussed.


Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are becoming increasingly popular as they overcome the limited applicability of prior neural networks. One recent trend in GCNs is the use of deep network architectures. As opposed to the traditional GCNs, which only span only around two to five layers deep, modern GCNs now incorporate tens to hundreds of layers with the help of residual connections. From such deep GCNs, we find an important characteristic that they exhibit very high intermediate feature sparsity. This reveals a new opportunity for accelerators to exploit in GCN executions that was previously not present.In this paper, we propose SGCN, a fast and energy-efficient GCN accelerator which fully exploits the sparse intermediate features of modern GCNs. SGCN suggests several techniques to achieve significantly higher performance and energy efficiency than the existing accelerators. First, SGCN employs a GCN-friendly feature compression format. We focus on reducing the off-chip memory traffic, which often is the bottleneck for GCN executions. Second, we propose microarchitectures for seamlessly handling the compressed feature format. Specifically, we modify the aggregation phase of GCN to process compressed features, and design a combination engine that can output compressed features at no extra memory traffic cost. Third, to better handle locality in the existence of the varying sparsity, SGCN employs sparsity-aware cooperation. Sparsity-aware cooperation creates a pattern that exhibits multiple reuse windows, such that the cache can capture diverse sizes of working sets and therefore adapt to the varying level of sparsity. Through a thorough evaluation, we show that SGCN achieves 1.66× speedup and 44.1% higher energy efficiency compared to the existing accelerators in geometric mean.


Management procedure presenting descriptions of events with conditional access, comprising the following steps: * sending data forming an electronic program guide (EPG) to a decoder (STB), this electronic guide being intended to presentation of events that will be distributed, these data have for each event, at least one identifier, a textual data and a condition block comprising the conditions required for access to this event, - sending at least one authorization message (EMM ) to a security module (SC) associated with the decoder, this message defining access rights to an event; characterized in that the method further includes the following steps: - sending to said security module (SC), the conditional block (PECM), - processing, in the security module, the access condition contained in said block conditional (PECM), and - forwarding Porel security module of a message indicating, according to the access condition for each event and access rights contained in the security module, if the right is present or not for each event in the security module, and that the access condition contained in the condition block (PECM) is expressed in the form of an operation (Op) described by a request in a structured language.


Abstract The design of efficient linear statistical operators for the 24-hour prediction of the sea-level pressure distribution over the United States is considered. Factor analysis techniques for reduction and selection of independent variables in regression analysis are used as a means of obtaining efficient statistical forecasting equations. The effects of the variations in data density in time and space, and the extent of geographical coverage upon the explained variance of the sea-level pressure are examined.


Entrepreneurs or managers of a tourism business, especially extreme tourism with a high level of risk, must ensure the safety of their visitors by carrying out the Visitor Safety Assessment Parameters and based on Law Number 10 of 2009 concerning Tourism. The research method used a descriptive approach. Selection of informants using purposive sampling technique. The data collection technique is done by interviewing, observing and checking documents. This study aims to obtain more in-depth information related to management commitment in fulfilling the security and safety rights of visitors in Tubing tours of Goa Pindul which includes Tourist Rights based on Law Number 10 of 2009 concerning Tourism, Human Resources Training Data, Standardization, Certification, and Manpower. and Visitor Safety Assessment Parameters. Of the 7 indicators of Tourist Rights based on Law Number 10 of 2009 concerning Tourism 2 indicators are not met, only 38% of the workforce has fulfilled Human Resources, Standardization, Certification, and Manpower Training. 8 indicators of Visitor Safety assessment parameters have not been met.


One form of employee behavior that often arises is the desire to move work (turnover intention) which leads to the decision of the employee to leave their jobs. This is caused by several factors including high work stress and low organizational commitment. This study aims to determine the impact of work stress and organizational commitment on turnover intention at MM Juice Restaurant in Bali. The respondents of this study were restaurant operations employee in all branches of Bali District. The number of samples of this study was set at 77 people by determining the number of representative samples. The study used partial least square (PLS) analysis with the help of the PLS software program. the results of this study indicate that 1) work stress has a negative and significant impact on organizational commitment, 2) work stress has a positive and significant impact on turnover intention, 3) organizational commitment has a negative and significant impact on turnover intention, 4) organizational commitment is a partial mediation between stress work and turnover intention. The implication of this research is that all branches of MM Juice Restaurant in Bali District should pay more attention to the employee turnover rate by looking at the work demands and workload given so that employee does not experience excessive work stress. In addition, it is necessary to increase employee commitment so that it reduces the desire of employee to move to work.


Summary In this paper, we present a new architectural metric, termed dominating ratio, together with an appropriate visualisation. The dominating ratio provides support for re-architecting in situations where existing metrics, like coupling and cohesion, fall short. A tabular representation with browsing facilities enables a systematic investigation of the software architecture for incremental re-architecting of large legacy systems. Such a means for visualisation is yet uncommon for quantitative information and novel for an architectural metric. Initial experience with the dominating ratio and its visualisation is described briefly.


US 85 (South Santa Fe Drive) exists as a principal arterial serving north and southbound traffic in the south central portion of the Denver Metropolitan area. The four-lane facility accommodates considerable commercial traffic as well as normal commuter traffic to the Central Business District. With 8 traffic signals to be located within 3 miles, it was determined that signal coordination was necessary in order to provide for the reasonable flow of traffic. The objective of the project was to develop an on-street microcomputer system to provide cycle length, split and offset information. The system was designated to select timing plans by sampling traffic using threshold switching.


Traditionally, the resources of embedded devices which are employed for process control at shop floors were resource constrained. However, advances in embedded system technologies permit the enhancement of the processing and storage capabilities of embedded devices. Therefore, semantic descriptions of manufacturing systems can now be hosted and computed at the device level. This fact permits the creation of a decentralised solution for controlling processes at the lowest level of the manufacturing enterprises and the reduction in the time and effort requirements for the configuration and information exchange. The eScop project presented the Open Knowledge-Driven Manufacturing Execution System (OKD-MES) solution, which enables monitoring and controlling production systems openly and allows runtime re-configurability of interconnected industrial equipment and services. This research work presents how part of the OKD-MES functionality can be handled at lower level. More precisely, the OKD-MES representation and management of knowledge can be decentralised and handled at the shop floor level, where the industrial machines are connected to devices that are capable of controlling the execution of processes. The main objective of this paper is to describe a decentralised vision for the OKD-MES framework, which is a centric solution in terms of knowledge management. Moreover, the article also discusses some of the advantages to be gained from decentralising the management of knowledge model semantic descriptions.


This paper firstly introduces the security in IDS and points out it is connected with the operating environment of the whole system. Besides, it expatiates upon the solution to the security of the whole system from the three aspects of operating system, routers and IDS itself to improve the defending ability of the whole IDS system. Finally it points out that to protect the IDS system, the security defects of the components in the system must be detected dynamically and must be updated in time.


Summary This essay examines the relationship between popular initiatives and government decision-makers during the 1930s. The economic crisis and the reawakening of labor militancy before 1935 elevated men and women, who had been formed by the workers' movement of the 1910s and 1920s, to prominent roles in the making of national industrial policies. Quite different was the reshaping of social insurance and work relief measures. Although those policies represented a governmental response to the distress and protests of the working class, the workers themselves had little influence on their formulation or administration. Through industrial struggles, the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) mobilized a new cadre, trained by youthful encounters with urban ethnic life, expanding secondary schooling and subordination to modern corporate management, in an unsuccessful quest for economic planning and universal social insurance through the agency of a reformed Democratic Party.


Author(s): Griffeath-Loeb, Brian | Advisor(s): Steiger, Rand | Abstract: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION...on a par with grass a twigs...byBrian Griffeath-LoebDoctor of Philosophy in MusicUniversity of California, San Diego, 2013Professor Rand Steiger, Chair "What in my music would I be most fearful to let go of?" The question provokes clear, visceral response, an indication of fear and reluctance. Curiously, the answer is never the favorite or most personal element but the safety net--some long-ago discovery, since emptied of all provocation, yet clung to out of habit. It is the thing I don't even see, yet whose proposed absence triggers immediate protest: "No, you see, I need that thing there in order to keep doing my work--the important stuff--over here." But the truth is the "work over here" has already been done. Were it otherwise, my question would not have triggered such opposition, which latter exposes a refusal to even look--a creative blind spot. And so what appeared necessary support for experimentation is in fact the very thing preventing it. Looking back, my development while at UCSD has been a reiterative process of mounting frustration leading to impasse, followed by new means of relinquishing control, allowing another step forward. ...on a par with grass a twigs... is my most extensive detachment to date--the culmination of seven years' effort to let go.


The local structure of CAs acceptors in AlxGa1-xAs has been investigated by studying the nondegenerate localized vibrational modes of H-CAs pairs with A1 symmetry, rather than those of isolated CAs ...


In order to study the sound scattering characteristics of array transducers on different shell structures, based on the COMSOL finite element simulation calculation method, this paper analyzes the scattered sound field characteristics of the array transducer in the single-shell structure, the single-double transition shell structure, and the double-shell structure. A quantitative comparison between the radiated sound field and the scattered sound field is made, the law of the scattered sound field is analyzed, the scattering characteristics of the array transducer under different shells are explained, and the simulation basis for the engineering application of the array transducer is provided.


Biologic treatments can be life changing, apart from when they are not; healthcare professionals and researchers must not forget those for whom biologics are not an option. https://bit.ly/3DJVmxP


This research aimed to know the influence of the Relativism Ethical Orientation, Moral Intensity, Organizational Commitment and Professional Identity to the Intention to carry out an Internal Whistleblowing. The main problem that researchers descriptions are as follows: to see how many significant relationship between the dependent variable to the independent varaibel. This research was conducted on employees SKPD Rokan Hulu. This research was included in the quantitative research. The type of data used in this research is the primary data by source. And then, in data collections sampling was conducted with a purposive sampling method (Sugiyono, 2012: 392) with respondents as many as 104 employees who working in SKPD Rokan Hulu. Data were analyzed using multiple regression with SPSS version 20. The results of this research showed that the Relativism Ethical Orientation have influnce to the intention to carry out an Internal Whistleblowing, moral intensity have influnce to the intention to carry out an Internal Whistleblowing, Organizational Commitment have influnce to the intention to carry out an Internal Whistleblowing, and professional identity have influnce to the intention to carry out an Internal Whistleblowing. So that all the hypotheses presented in this research received.


The data show that in the urban population of the city of Zagreb, a slight decrease in blood was observable in late 1980ies. However, lead intake via air was still relatively high. In the area of lead smeltery, even after efficient control of lead emissions, the contamination problem remained unsolved. Consequently, higher lead intake via locally produced food, and indoor and outdoor dust, remains a possibility.


INTRODUCTIONRule violations, unethical decision-making, and instances of unethical misconduct in intercollegiate sport are ubiquitous occurrences that have been outlined by a series of prominent sport scholars (e.g., Coakley, 2009; French, 2004; Oriard, 2009; Simon, 2010; Yost, 2010). Intercollegiate sport managers, administrators, and coaches are faced with producing decisions concerning ethically-based dilemmas with their personal lives, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and regulations, university policies, and local, state, and national laws on a daily basis. For example, one of the most prevalent rule violations in intercollegiate athletics is the use of impermissible recruiting tactics and procedures (NCAA, n.d.). According to the NCAA Legislative Services Database (LSDBi), since January of 2000, 97 member institutions have committed significant recruiting infractions that warranted recruiting sanctions handed down by the NCAA Committee on Infractions (NCAA, n.d.). In hopes to deter unethical behavior during the recruitment of potential student-athletes, the NCAA Manual devotes an entire chapter/section to review various recruiting rules and regulations (e.g., the time frame in which coaches or other personnel can contact potential student-athletes, the total number of phone calls and text messages allowed, the enticement of student-athletes with illegal benefits such as cash payments or gifts, the determination between official and unofficial campus visits). Despite this detailed account of recruiting regulations, the NCAA enforcement staff has still appeared to be overworked and outnumbered, with countless coaches across the United States continuing to violate the standardized recruiting procedures and regulations. Often, these violations occur when coaches, administrators, or athletic boosters consciously elect to make unethical choices when faced with difficult ethical decisions during the recruitment of top high school athletic recruits (Yost, 2010).To elaborate, during the 2007-2008 season, former Indiana University men's basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, -participated in ten three-way phone calls with prospective recruits" (Yost, 2010, p. 147). This type of phone conversation is not an uncommon manifestation for intercollegiate coaches; however, Sampson was serving probation designated by the NCAA for recruiting violations he had previously committed while acting as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma (NCAA, 2006, 2008). During his tenure with the Oklahoma Sooner basketball program, NCAA investigators uncovered that Sampson -had participated in...577 excessive phone calls [to recruits]" (Yost, 2010, p. 148). This information led the NCAA to ban -Sampson from off-campus recruiting for one year and (bar) him from initiating phone contact with prospects" (Yost, 2010, p. 148). In addition, the University of Oklahoma was subjected to mandated annual compliance reporting, public reprimand, public censure, two years probation, and a decrease in financial aid awards (NCAA, 2006). Lastly, Sampson received a one year show cause order, which required any school interested in hiring Sampson, to undergo strict NCAA regulations, and absorb the penalties associated with the head coach (NCAA, 2006). Once employed by Indiana University, and still under probation from the NCAA, Sampson's morally suspect decisionmaking produced a comparably laundry list of sanctions for his new employer. Indiana University was unceremoniously provided with three years probation, public reprimand, public censure, mandatory annual compliance reporting, a decrease in financial aid awards, and recruiting restrictions due to Sampson's actions (NCAA, 2008). Similarly to the penalties/sanctions he received at the University of Oklahoma, Sampson received a five-year show cause order for his newest offenses (NCAA, 2008).The Sampson recruiting incidents at the University of Oklahoma and Indiana University provide an accurate example depiction of unethical recruiting behaviors that have seemingly permeated NCAA athletics. …


In Sweden, the environmental quality goal 13 for A Varied Agricultural Landscape, that combines environment, food production and rurality and aims at keeping the agricultural landscape open, was co ...


Based on the nearly 100 m2large section chamber for large mining height support reloading,with the site observation and numerical simulation method,surrounding rock deformation and failure mechanism was analyzed. With the increase of chamber section,the failure zone and the plastic zone increase,the plastic zone radius of super large section chamber is 2. 2 times about normal section chamber. The high disturbed stress because of large section,the small thickness of anchorage body with bolt support,and the low initial support resistance resulted in serious deformation and failure of weak surrounding rock. According to the 0-2. 5 m failure zone and the 2. 5-8. 0 m plastic zone of support reloading chamber,the stability principle of zonal control of coupling support for large cross section chamber was put forward. After chamber excavation,the failure zone,the plastic zone and the elastic zone were formed,the surrounding rock damage degree was gradually reduced from shallow to deep,and also the needed support strength to be stability decreased gradually,through the high strength and high pre-stress support with bolt,grouting cable and cable, three load bearing ring can be formed according to the failure zone,the plastic zone and the elastic zone,so that the three zones are connected organically,and the support strength for the three zones can be satisfied,and a common loading of supporting structure and surrounding rock can be ensure the stability of the surrounding rock.


This paper introduces a method based on color barycenter hexagon model and hierarchical filtering structure which detects faces in color image.In the first step,according to the clustering characteristics of skin color in the space,the method separates the skin regions from non-skin regions using CBH model,and gets the face candidate region.Then in order to eliminate the non-human faces,the authors organize some operations on a cascade structure which includes best-fit ellipse,shape and variance verifications,orientation normalization and template matching.At last,it identifies and marks the location of the human face.The results of experiments show that the method can have rapid and accurate detection of a human face in the color image with complex background,the rate of false detection is low,and has a great value in application.


In this article the author discusses considerations in the installation of detectable sidewalk warning surfaces. While sidewalk features such as depressed curbs and curb ramps have accommodated those with limited mobility, they have also posed a danger to the visually impaired, prompting ADA accessibility guidelines (ADAAG) to include the installation of detectable warning systems. The article addresses durability, water and sealing, contrast, and maintenance considerations. It cites a study suggesting that snowplows are the largest factor in determining sidewalk warning systems, noting several systems that are not compatible in these areas. The article continues with a discussion of problems tied to other systems, such as stamped concrete truncated domes, surface-applied mats, and cast-iron panels. The article concludes by suggesting several questions that must be addressed when choosing the right detectable warning system for a community.


Objective: To observe the effect of acupuncture on TNF-α and blood lipid in obesity rats so as to explore the mechanism of acupuncturein reducing weight.Methods: The obesity model are fed on high fat diet.To acupuncture obesity rats' "zusanli" and "zhongwan" acupuncture point and connect the electronic needle device.It takes 10 minutes each time,once a day.To acupuncture "housanli" points alternately for 14 consecutive days.Results: The acupuncture group has a lower TC、TG and TNF-αthan the model group(P0.01).but there is certain difference between the acupuncture group and the common feeding group.(P0.05).Conclusion: The improvement of TNF-αresistance in obesity rats is the mechanism of acupuncture weight loss.


This research was conducted to determine knowledge acquisition by employing digital technology for public sector employees. This study adopts system quality, information quality, user satisfaction, service quality, and net benefit as the empirical considerations. The data analysis technique in this study used SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). Respondents in this study were 198 people consisting of public sector employees who used a learning management system. The results showed that service quality has a significant effect on user satisfaction. User satisfaction has a significant effect on net benefits. Meanwhile, system quality had no significant effect on user satisfaction, information quality had a significant effect on user satisfaction. The findings would imply the strategies to strengthen the implementation of e- learning is to increase user satisfaction. The finding managerially points out the necessity to evaluate the transformation of classical training programs in terms of face-to-face learning to blended learning by integrating online learning and face-to-face in the public sector knowledge acquisition model of training. The findings present an evaluation using empirical examination and highlights the importance of continuity to arrange action plans in public sector to synchronize knowledge acquisition model through training to obtain behavioral change and wider organizational impact of the training on public sector institutions.


Sphaerosporella microspora is described as a new species based on morphological and molecular data. It is characterized by its sessile apothecia, surface smooth, ectal excipulum composed of cylindrical and angular cells, globose and smooth ascospores, and unmodified paraphyses. A detailed description, photographs of the fruit body and microstructure diagrams are provided.


The NHS 'Choose Wisely' campaign places greater emphasis on the clinician-patient dialogue. Patients are often in receipt of their laboratory data and want to know whether they are normal. But what is meant by normal? Comparator data, to a measured value, are colloquially known as the 'normal range'. It is often assumed that a result outside this limit signals disease and a result within health. However, this range is correctly termed the 'reference interval'. The clinical risk from a measured value is continuous, not binary. The reference interval provides a point of reference against which to interpret an individual's results—rather than defining normality itself. This article discusses the theory of normality—and describes that it is relative and situational. The concept of normality being not an absolute state influenced the development of the reference interval. We conclude with suggestions to optimise the use and interpretation of the reference interval, thereby facilitating greater patient understanding.


SMOS salinity data based on file format of hybrid binary-XML has just been processed and applied in the primary stage and extracting SMOS data is its premise.This paper presents a process of read-write hybrid binary-XML file format in details and gives a flow chart and an example of extracting SMOS data,laying the foundation of developing SMOS salinity product.


This article presents a case study of the developments in media gatekeeping in the last 10 years, focusing on the launch of the Tennis Channel and the ascendance of ESPN as the major network for professional tennis in the United States. The U.S. broadcast networks NBC and CBS have ceded the exclusive television rights for 2 of the Grand Slam tournaments (Wimbledon, U.S. Open) to ESPN for the first time in over 40 years. Meanwhile, the Tennis Channel, despite its independence from the media conglomerates, has carved out a niche for fans with its extensive global coverage of tournaments and for advertisers with its lucrative audience demographics. This change in dominance after the broadcast networks reigned for over 4 decades underscores the globalization of the sport and the abundance of early-round tournament matches available to fans. Organizational theories are used to analyze what has occurred and to predict what will happen next for tennis media gatekeeping in the United States.


A radiator mounting of a vehicle in which the radiator rests by means of at least one mounting support fixed at the radiator on a corresponding mounting support fixed at the vehicle and in which at least one hold-down member secured at a fixed part of the vehicle and coop erating with a corresponding counter-support member at the radiator prevents the lifting of the mounting sup port fixed at the radiator from its mounting support fixed at the vehicle; the tilting of the radiator about a reference axis in one circumferential direction is thereby counteracted by at least one abutment fixed at the vehicle and cooperating with a counter-abutment fixed at the radiator while a connecting element opposes the tilting of the radiator in the other circumferential direction; a center section of the connecting element thereby additionally cooperates with the counter-sup port member to perform itself the hold-down function.


The development of information and communication technology has spurred the development of the world of telecommunications. The development of telecommunications can be seen from the number of cellular service users supported by technological infrastructure in the form of BTS (Base Transmission Station). But in its development, there are social problems in the form of resistance from the community around BTS, one of the things that people worry about is the danger of radiation from BTS. This could be due to a lack of socialization and knowledge from the community. This study aims to provide education as well as quantitative evidence regarding radiation from BTS in Bulakrejo which is compared with safety standards from International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and Ministry of Communication and Information Indonesia. The result of investigation shows that received Power Radiation in near Base Station is safe according to regulatory standard.


Focusing on strong nonlinearity and cutting uncertainty of inverted plasma cutting power supply,this paper proposes a fuzzy-PI double-mode controller.It consists of PI control and a new variable interval fuzzy quantification algorithm with self-adjusting factor in full domain introduced in this paper.This algorithm simplifies modeling of nonlinear system.And it has optimization property.Under fuzzy-PI control,this algorithm improves steady-state precision and dynamic performance of system,either of which the conventional algorithm can be realized simultaneously.The simulation result shows that compared with PI controller or fuzzy controller,the double-mode controller improves steady-state performance and robustness as well.


As a lifestyle and consumer trend, the LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) has been growing in popularity worldwide. The LOHAS is followed by a consumer group that is characterised by consumer attitudes and behaviours focusing on health and sustainability, that is increasingly concerned about global problems and challenges, and that follows trends related to sustainability, such as health and environmental consciousness. In addition, this group strives for a sense of naturalness, aims to behave ethically, and seeks to hold authentic and individualistic values. The objective of this research is to explore how young people today relate to the components of the LOHAS model, how the different characters respond, and what their perceived values are. We are also looking for answers pertaining to whether clusters may be formed based on the examined factors. In our study, we surveyed 357 Hungarian respondents, who are members of Generation Z. As a method of data analysis, descriptive statistical methods, correlation analyses, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and the persona profiles were designed using the design thinking method. Based on the factors of the LOHAS model, three separate groups may be ascertained within Generation Z: personas that fit the LOHAS, personas that could fit the LOHAS, and personas that do not fit LOHAS.


Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (CITS) based on a communication between vehicles and intelligent roadside infrastructure can be of a great benefit regarding road safety, traffic congestion and environmental impact of the transport. One of their key technologies are the Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Due to the high mobility of the nodes that form the network, some protocol data unit forwarding approaches cannot achieve acceptable results under certain conditions. In this paper we evaluated the performance of L2 broadcasting and L3 routing using AODV and GPSR routing protocols to forward messages of an emergency vehicle approach warning application for connected and autonomous vehicles under specific road traffic conditions in the city of Zilina. To run the simulations, we used the highly realistic simulation stack comprising of OMNeT++ network simulator coupled with SUMO traffic simulator by Veins simulation framework.


The many-body dynamics exhibited by living objects include group formation within a population and the nonequilibrium process of attrition between two opposing populations due to competition or conflict. We show analytically and numerically that the combination of these two dynamical processes generates an attrition duration T whose nonlinear dependence on population asymmetry x is in stark contrast to standard mass-action theories. A minority population experiences a longer survival time than two equally balanced populations, irrespective of whether or not the majority population adopts such an internal grouping. Adding a third population with predefined group sizes allows T(x) to be tailored. Our findings compare favorably to real-world observations.


Previous studies have examined the effect of recruiting classes on team performance in college football and found a positive correlation between recruiting classes and success on the field. The relationship between recruit quality and team performance may be overstated, however, if the effect is driven by heterogeneity between teams. In this article, we analyze the effect of recruit quality on team performance controlling for school fixed effects. We collected data from recruiting services to obtain the number of individual recruits by ex ante star rating for every Football Bowl Division (FBS) school for the years 2002-2012. We also record team performance in the regular season and postseason during the same time period. We find that controlling for between-school heterogeneity lowers the estimated effect of recruit quality on wins by more than 25%, but the remaining effect is still statistically and economically significant. Furthermore, we find that within-school variation in recruit quality is an important determinant of the probability of an appearance in the most lucrative bowl games. Our within-school estimates imply that a 5-star recruit is worth more than US$150,000 in expected Bowl Championship Series bowl proceeds to an individual school.


Describes a simple algorithm which has been developed for determining exact moments of top event failure probability from the moments of the basic events in a fault tree. This method requires neither Taylor series expansion of top event failure probability function nor its partial derivates to find these moments. This method has subsequently extended to systems with multistate components. Describes a general algorithm for the purpose. Provides several illustrations to highlight its usefulness.


Since its establishment 30 years ago,Nantong RTVU has been making great contribution to the local economy and society.Especially in the past 10 years,it has achieved great success in school running idea and mode,infrastructure construction and school administration,probed a road for city level RTVU developing.The inspiration and experience include: persisting in the right direction adhere on the correct principles,catching up the chances,emphasizing on the connotation construction,a leading group with prevision and capability,seeking the instruction and support from above supervisors,etc.In the future,we should pursue new development under the guidance of the theory of scientific development in the aspects of systematic setting and domestic management.


In order to achieve the high efficiency, accuracy and intelligence of the statistics of the number of tobacco plants based on computer vision, this paper constructs the USE-Net tobacco fields segmentation model to segment the large-scale background in the tobacco fields image, and constructs the tobacco fields mask map based on the HSV color model to remove the background of small-scale objects such as weeds and ridges, so as to obtain the tobacco fields remote sensing image map with only tobacco plants. Through Gaussian filtering, morphological denoising, opening operation denoising on the background removed tobacco fields image, the tobacco plants contour is extracted, and finally the tobacco plants contours is counted to achieve the statistics of the number of tobacco plants. In tobacco fields segmentation, compared with U-Net, USE-Net improved mIoU by 4%, mPA by 7.21%, mPrecision by 4.52%, and mRecall by 7.46%. In the prediction of the number of tobacco plants, the prediction accuracy can reach 91.98%. These results show that our method is effective in tobacco fields segmentation and tobacco plants number statistics.


Aiming at pitting of gear failure forms and attrition, this paper uses image processing software of MATLAB and the research image extractive technique of image character. Based on the two different image expressions of defect forms, this paper abstract defect area ratio as well as the characteristic value and abstract contrast with gray co-occurrence matrix as image characteristics. In order to verify the abstracted image characteristic for evaluating pitting and wearing effectiveness, we use the neighboring method to construct a recognition model, and analyze the collected image samples. The result is correct, but the recognition accuracy needs to be improved. At last, eccentricity ratio and circularity is abstracted as the characteristic value based on image morphological characteristics.


Risks due to sexual behavior experienced by adolescents today can occur including STDs, abortion, HIV / AIDS, MMR, and IMR. Based on data from the 2016 Sukoharjo District Health Office cases of HIV / AIDS in the 11-20 years age group of 3.38% with 3 sub-districts having the highest STI rates, 38 from Polokarto District, 39 from Grogol, and 43 from Kartasura District. The existence of PIK-R in schools is very useful for adolescents to obtain correct information so as to avoid negative behavior directly to adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in risky sexual behavior in adolescents in PIK-R and SMA without PIK-R in Sukoharjo Regency. This type of research is a comparative study with a cross sectional study design. The population in this study were class X, XI and XII totaling 2001 students and the sample was class X and XI totaling 360 samples. The sampling technique in this study is the Proportional Rondom Sampling system. Data analysis using the Mann Whitney Test. The results showed there were differences in student scores in schools with PIK-R and in schools without PIK-R with significance p = 0.012 (p <0.05). The conclusion is that the school obtained an average ranking in PIK-R that is 166.78 and a PIK-R that is 194.23. It is hoped that in the DP2KBP3A it will be ensured for the work program to provide participation not only to PIK-R members but also to all members who are in the school.


Abstract Crop yield and nutrient uptake are often impaired under salt, water, or both stress conditions. This study was designed to gather further information concerning NaCl stress effects on these components. Therefore, dry‐matter yield, nitrogen (total and 15N) uptake, Na+, Cl‐ and K+ content of leaves, stems, and roots of tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill., cv. 'Columbia') plants subjected to NaCl stress were studied in a greenhouse. Saline treatments consisted of 0.3 (control), 4.3, and 8.3 bars osmotic pressures. Plants were 80 days old at the start of salt and 15N treatments, and each plant was in a pot containing 1.8 kg of washed quartz sand. The 15N as K15NO3 solution was provided to plants at 10‐day intervals over a 30‐day period. Plants were harvested at 5‐day intervals during the 30‐day 15N treatment period. Dry‐matter production, total‐N, and 15N uptake at final harvests were significantly lower for saline treatments as compared with a control. There was a 46% reduction in leaf dry weights...


Are there combustion hazards in plutonium-contaminated waste containers caused by combustible gas generation? Current gas generation models in which the only reaction considered is radiolysis must inevitably predict eventual complete dissociation of any water present into hydrogen and oxygen. Waste prepared for the 3013 container should be less subject to this problem because organic material and most of the absorbed water should have been removed. Depending on the waste form, moisture content, organic content, temperature, and container material, the pressure rise due to gas generation will be bounded by backreactions, recombination of the hydrogen and oxygen, absorption of the oxygen by plutonium oxide, and possibly other chemical reactions. Examination of a variety of food pack waste containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has shown little pressure rise, indeed often subatmospheric pressures. In a few cases large hydrogen concentrations up to 47% mole fraction were observed, but with negligible oxygen content. The only fuel seen in significant quantities was H{sub 2} and, in one case, CO; the only oxidizer seen in significant quantities was O{sub 2}. Considerable work on measuring gas generation is being done at Westinghouse Savannah River Company and LANL. In a mixture of H{sub 2}, O{sub 2},more » and other diluent gases, if the hydrogen concentration is below the value at the lean flammability limit, or if the oxygen concentration is below that at the rich flammability limit, a flame will not propagate from an ignition source. Assuming H{sub 2} is the only fuel present in significant quantities, a mixture leaner than the lean limit will get only leaner if mixed with air and is therefore no combustion hazard. However, when a mixture containing large amounts of H{sub 2} is nonflammable because there is insufficient O{sub 2}, there is a hazard. If the mixture should leak into a volume containing O{sub 2}, or the container is opened into the surrounding air, the mixture will pass through the flammable range. There is the possibility of diffusion flame, deflagration, or even detonation. A wise precaution in opening plutonium waste containers is to use a flowing inert atmosphere (e.g., N{sub 2}). If this is not practical, the container can be slightly cracked open, and hydrogen detectors can be used to measure if there are significant amounts of H{sub 2} present.« less


This study looks at Discourse-linking effects in Mauritian Creole relative clauses where the use of a resumptive pronoun triggers a reading whereby one or more individuals is selected from a contextually-defined subset of individuals. Mauritian Creole resumptives confirm Erteschik-Shir's (1992) hypothesis concerning the 'restrictive focus' reading. Resumption is also incompatible with Sells' (1984)'concept' reading. Furthermore, I look at the interaction between determiners and resumptive pronouns: it is observed that bare nouns and indefinite noun phrases cannot be the antecedent of a resumptive. As a consequence, it is not possible to observe the purportedly obligatory wide-scope reading of resumptives in Mauritian.


One kind sprinkler assembly includes a sprinkler body, said body having a base and a sprinkler frame extending from the base. Said base having a passage extending therethrough defining an inlet and an outlet. Deflector mounted to the frame and spaced apart from the outlet, the deflector is configured to flow in a radial pattern from said outlet fluid flowing. Trigger assembly between the frame and extending from said base, and a cap assembly adapted to support the tube in the outlet, and released when the temperature associated with the detection of fire plugs. The tube and cap assembly comprising a housing accommodating the copper and stainless steel which extends outwardly from the insert in the copper shell.


After recruiting large numbers of police forces, installing massive surveillance systems, and interning vast numbers of predominantly Turkic minority population members, many have been wondering about Beijing's next step in its so-called "war on Terror" in Xinjiang. In this report it is argued based on government documents that the state's long-term stability maintenance strategy in Xinjiang is predicated upon a perverse and extremely intrusive combination of forced or at least involuntary training and labor, intergenerational separation and social control over family units. Much of this is being implemented under the heading and guise of "poverty alleviation". The findings presented below call for nothing less than a global investigation of supply chains involving Chinese products or product components, and for a greatly increased scrutiny of trade flows along China's Belt and Road.


Summary: Tritium labelled albumin present in urine fractions from in vivo rat filtration studies and isolated perfused rat kidneys (IPK) has been shown by gel chromatographic analysis to be severely degraded (approximately 90%) to small peptides. the in vivo degradation of rat serum albumin and bovine serum albumin has been shown to be similar. the degradation has a marked influence on the fractional clearance analysis. the fractional clearance for albumin in the isolated perfused kidney as determined by Lowry assay was 0.00180 ± 0.0007, 0.0060 ± 0.0033 by Biuret assay and 0.0075 ± 0.0039 as measured by total radioactivity in the urine. Specific analysis of intact albumin by gel chromatography gave a fractional clearance of 0.00039 ± 0.00016, which is comparable to in vivo values. Degradation of albumin in the urine from IPK experiments was inhibited by 42% by including 150 mmol/L lysine, an inhibitor of tubular cell uptake, in the perfusate. Inhibition of degradation of anionic horseradish peroxidase was also observed. These studies demonstrate that albumin is degraded during renal passage probably by tubular cells. In a series of isolated perfused kidney systems using different inhibitors of protein tubular uptake, namely lysine, ammonium chloride, chloroquine and cytochalasin B, we estimate the glomerular sieving coefficient of albumin to be approximately 0.074 as determined using [3H]‐albumin. This glomerular sieving coefficient is considerably higher than originally thought, yet it is in accord with the size selectivity characteristics of the glomerular capillary wall as determined by transport probes calibrated for hydrodynamic size by gel exclusion chromatography. the tubular inhibitors also destroyed charge selectivity of the anionic and neutral forms of albumin and horseradish peroxidase. the tubular inhibitors were characterized in terms of their effect on tubular lysozyme uptake and glomerular size selectivity as determined using polydisperse dextran fractions. By accounting for the destination of all the tritium labelled albumin in the urine, perfusate, whole kidney and isolated glomeruli we conclude that a major rapid transtubular cell pathway must exist that directs albumin from the tubular lumen to either the renal lymphatics or peritubular capillaries or both. This pathway appears to be an overload pathway because since the albumin concentration in the perfusate was lowered from 50 mg/mL to 2.0 mg/mL it was not active. the pathway is also inactive for other proteins, such as horseradish peroxidase, that are at relatively low concentration.


In order to improve resistance of cold and salt of flax,and select pure transgenic flax,cold and salt resistant gene HY15 was introduced into haploid flax by Agrobacterium tumefacies,and 24 regeneration plants were obtained.The PCR analyses revealed that there were 3 transformed plants whose genomes were integrated with foreign gene HY15 sequence in 15 strong regenerated plants,and the frequency on HY15 gene integrated into flax haploid regenerated plant was 20%.DAPI stain was selected from others as a fast method to judge the chromosome ploidy.


Trends in pedagogy and in technology are converging to make distance learning environments of the twenty-first century meet the needs of the learner of the 2-15` centuty. Trends in pedagogy have encouraged the movement away from the learner as a passive recipient of information and toward a more active model of learning. Earlier generations of distance learning media and methods were ill-suited to the active learning model. More recent technologies of distance learning, most notably computers, the Internet, and interactive video, have the potential to support the new model of learning. This paper describes different strategies to integrate activities to support this new model of learning into courses in two distance learning programs. An integral component of higher education in the new millennium will be collaborative learning, not only because it supports active learning, but also, because it is required for the workplace for which we prepare our students. Moreover, as more corporations become global, collaboration will be mediated by technology. The paper also discusses ongoing research being conducting to measure the effectiveness of technology-mediated collaborative learning. Collaboration will be the hub in the wheel of pedagogical strategies necessary for success in the new millennium. The 21'1 century will see a great expansion in the use of distance learning in the education environment. The teacher-student relationship is increasingly mediated by the use of technology. No where is this more evident that in distance learning. The typical distance learner is a mature person with a substantial number of commitments in addition to furthering his/her education. This paper investigates the implications of the reliance upon technology by distance learning programs. It addresses such questions as, what pedagogical shifts teachers should make to achieve effective learning outcomes and what changes institutions need to make to support the distance learner in order for this type of program to succeed. The authors report on findings derived from their joint research, from current literature, and from the practice of teaching in and supporting distance learning programs at their institutions. The initial driving force behind distance learning programs was the desire to provide opportunities for learning to individuals who are not able to attend an educational institution, to increase the number of educational experiences available to individuals, and to provide educational opportunities to individuals at times and places of their convenience. This third reason for distance learning programs has taken on increased importance in proportion to the number of working adults seeking higher education. The early modes and media of distance education met these needs by providing educational opportunities for students who did not reside nor commute to campus. [Edelson 97]. These modes and media included correspondence courses, courses on audio and video tapes, and courses broadcast via satellite and cable television. Distance learning programs employing these media can successfully deliver the educational programs based on the lecture-text-exam model of education to the distant student. According to this model of education, the two primary activities that produce successful learning are attending lectures delivered by content experts and reading texts written by content experts. Evaluation is accomplished by examination. In this model the learner is the passive recipient of information absorbed through listening, seeing, and reading. Shifts in learning theory, especially in adult learning theory, challenge the lecture-text-exam model of learning [Knowles 84]. They indicate that learning is achieved when the learner is actively engaged in the creation


Urban lawn irrigation is an important component in urban water budgets. The water requirement both timing and volume are important and need to be accurately estimated for both helping landowners improve the amount of water they apply as well as to estimate the efficiency of the system. The lawn irrigation estimation process is heavily influenced by having accurate land-cover type areas. In this study land-cover data extracted from aerial photographs were used to monitor and estimate urban lawn irrigation water requirement (IWR). Five land-cover categories (grass, trees, impervious, soil, and water) were digitized from aerial photographs using GIS. Land-cover information was introduced into a consumptive use model to estimate lawn irrigation consumptive use. A demonstration of aerial photographs based lawn IWR estimation was performed on an area in Denver, Colorado. As part of the GIS dataset that was created, a lot of additional information was generated such as location of the parcels (address), impervious areas, canopy of trees, canopy of trees over grass, and canopy of trees over impervious areas. Some studies have been conducted on how to use random sampling to estimate the total area of lawns in urban areas. Combining this statistical sampling with GIS and aerial photography was found to be a cost effective methodology for assessing lawn IWR in urban areas.


In this paper the most recent advances on noncollinear guided-wave magnetooptic (MO) Bragg interactions in which the light waves propagate in directions nearly orthogonal to that of the magnetostatic waves, the resulting MO Bragg cells, and two applications are given. First, the basic interaction geometry and underlying physical mechanisms, and the realization of wideband MO Bragg cells in pure and Bismuth-doped YIG-GGG waveguides for the carrier frequencies ranging from 2 to 12 GHz are presented. Applications of the wideband MO Bragg cells to light beam scanning and real-time spectral analysis of microwave signals are then described. Finally, comparative advantages and disadvantages of guided-wave MO Bragg cells versus their acoustooptic (AO) counterparts are discussed.


Figure 1. Emergency Coronary-Artery Angioplasty for Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction. Coronary-artery angioplasty was performed in a 45-year-old man who presented with two hours of crushing retrosternal chest pain and hypotension (blood pressure, 90/60 mm Hg). Electrocardiography revealed evidence of an acute anterior-wall myocardial infarction. Coronary arteriography (Panel A) showed a left anterior descending artery that was totally occluded in its proximal portion (indicated by the arrow in each panel), with normal right and circumflex coronary arteries. Emergency coronary-artery angioplasty (Panel B) resulted in rapid antegrade flow without residual stenosis at the site of the occlusion (Panel C). The . . .


The thermal diffusion similitude should be well considered during the numerical simulating of its distribution in power plants or nuclear power stations. The distribution near the waterspout is well related to the initial grid's size. The bigger the initial grid is, the faster the thermal diffusion. Reasonable initial grid should be related to thermal discharge and flow velocity. Five different grid's sizes are adopted to simulate the constant diffusion phenomenon in a rectangle water channel, the currents near the waterspout, the thermal diffusion near or away from the waterspout are discussed in this paper, and a rational size of initial grid is proposed to relative researchers.


This paper reviews currently dominating webpage ranking algorithms,improves the ARC algorithm among of them,and proposes an algorithm based on hyperlink and content—the SHITS(Similarity-HITS)algorithm.The SHITS algorithm uses the webpage content cited by the hyperlinks to evaluate the importance of these hyperlinks instead of the anchors used in the ARC algorithm,which not only improves the ability to differentiate the importance of hyperlinks,but also needn't analyze the content of the numerous anchors in web pages.From the contrastive experiment with the related algorithms, the result shows that the precision of the SHITS algorithm was significantly higher than that of other algorithms. Furthermore, the SHITS algorithm has a good performance:its computational cost is smaller than that of the ARC algorithm, and approximate to that of the HITS algorithm.


In the teaching of shot-putting with back-turned sliding step, legs skill is the key teaching point. Combining the back-turned sliding step with the ultimate force , students can bring every part of the body into play, and finally raise the efficiency of the sports.


One kind of thermoplastic epoxy resin powder coating composition, wherein the bisphenol type epoxy resin and novolak type epoxy resin and an epoxy resin mixture by the formula (I) bisphenol derivative represented by the curing agent, 200 is above the melting point deg.] C, an average particle diameter of 18 ~ 50μm nylon fine powder, and, corresponding to the melting point of the epoxy resin 100 parts by weight, the amount of nylon fine powder silica fine powder obtained by mixing 5 to 30 parts by weight, the amount of the fine silica powder of 100 to 200 parts by weight. (Wherein n is an integer of 0-8).


Copyright c Korea Institute of Dermatological Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Impact of Aestheticians' Perception of Alternative Medicine on the Management Performance


Abstract Lithium sodium sulfate, LiNaSO4, and lithium potassium sulfate, LiKSO4, have been prepared with yttrium sulfate, Y2(SO4)3, as a substituent over a concentration range up to 15 mol%. Raman spectra of the sulfate ion intramolecular modes suggest the formation of a new compound in the substituted materials. The possibility of substitutional stabilization of a higher temperature phase in the parent compounds is ruled out by comparison with the spectrum of the high temperature phase in each pure parent compound. A differential scanning calorimetry study of substituted LiKSO4 shows an endothermic process at 281°C not present in the pure compound. Powder X-ray diffractograms of the substituted LiKSO4 compounds indicate the presence of pure LiKSO4, pure Y2(SO4)3, and new peaks not attributable to either component.


A scheme for implementation of a 4 kbit serial ferroelectric nonvolatile memory is proposed, which is composed of 2T 2C memory cells.The signal definition and the state machine description are discussed.The device has the characteristics of compatibility with traditional E 2PROM


Blood from six donors was stored in two and 2,3-DPG levels were measured at varexperimental blood preservatives, CPDious times during storage in both the adenine-sodium ascorbate and bicarbonmixed and unmixed bags. Mixed bags ate adenine glucosephosphate mannitol. maintained higher levels of glucose, ATP, Control aliquots were stored in CPDand 2,3-DPG throughout storage. Frequent adenine and ACD-adenine preservatives. mixing was shown to be essential for the Half of each donor's blood was stored maintenance of 2,3-DPG with these without mixing and half was mixed vigorpreservatives. orously 5 days each week. Glucose, ATP, F OR THE PAST several years, we have been studying experimental blood preservatives and have noted that aliquots of blood that had been subjected to periodic mixing during storage maintained higher adenosine tnphosphate (ATP) levels than identical aliquots that had not been agitated. More recently, we have become aware that periodic agitation has a much more draMatic effect on 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) maintenance during blood storage. We have developed two new blood preservatives that permit 2,3-DPG to be maintained at high levels for 4-6 wk, if the blood-preservative mixture is subjected to periodic agitation. This work is a report of a systematic investigation of the role of agitation of stored blood on maintenance of 2,3-DPG and ATP levels.


Due to the high costs and schedule risk associated with federal launch ranges, private commercial space transportation companies are turning to the use of existing airports as alternatives for spaceports. Several factors contribute to the anticipated advantages of commercial spaceports, including privatization, increased efficiency, and lower costs. Spaceports can also diversify local employment and expand opportunities for tourism and education, as well as provide the airport sponsor with a new source of revenue. The steps needed to be taken in order for an airport to become eligible to be a spaceport candidate are detailed here.


Despite its importance for health and wellbeing, oral health quality of life (OHQoL) has received little attention in lower-income countries, such as Colombia. This study describes the prevalence of older adults' OHQoL and variability by socioeconomic status. We use data from the 2015 SABE-Colombia (N=18,700), a nationally representative survey of community-dwelling Colombians ages 60 and older. We used the Simple Count Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (SC-GOHAI), a self-reported measure of frequent oral health problems such as chewing, swallowing, and speaking designed to assess OHQoL. The scale ranges from 0-12; higher scores indicate worse OHQoL. About 69% of older Colombians reported at least one OHQoL problem. The most common issues were difficulty chewing hard food and speaking. High education and income were associated with better OHQoL and smoking were associated with worse OHQoL. Oral health may therefore reflect another dimension of social and health inequality for older Colombians.


The Majorana Demonstrator is a neutrinoless double-beta decay search consisting of a low-background modular array of high-purity germanium detectors, $\sim2/3$ of which are enriched to 88\% in $^{76}$Ge. The experiment is also searching for double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to excited states (e.s.) in $^{76}$Se. $^{76}$Ge can decay into three daughter states of $^{76}$Se, with clear event signatures consisting of a $\beta\beta$-decay followed by the prompt emission of one or two $\gamma$-rays. This results with high probability in multi-detector coincidences. The granularity of the Demonstrator detector array enables powerful discrimination of this event signature from backgrounds. Using 41.9~kg-y of isotopic exposure, the Demonstrator has set world leading limits for each e.s.\ decay of $^{76}$Ge, with 90\% CL lower half-life limits in the range of $(0.75-4.0)\times10^{24}$~y. In particular, for the $2\nu$ transition to the first $0^+$ e.s.\ of $^{76}$Se, a lower half-life limit of $7.5\times10^{23}$~y at 90\% CL was achieved.


Flow cytometry allows the visualization of physical, functional, and/or biological properties of cells including antigens, cytokines, size, and complexity. With increasingly large flow cytometry panels able to analyze up to 50 parameters, there is a need to standardize flow cytometry protocols to achieve high‐quality data that can be input into analysis algorithms. Without this clean data, algorithms may incorrectly categorize the cell populations present in the samples. In this protocol, we outline a comprehensive methodology to prepare samples for polychromatic flow cytometry. The use of multiple washing steps and rigorous controls creates high‐quality data with good separation between cell populations. Experimental data acquired using this protocol can be analyzed via computational algorithms that perform end‐to‐end analysis. © 2020 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


As NASA's exploration missions on planetary terrains become more aggressive, a focus on alternative modes of locomotion for rovers is necessary. In addition to climbing steep slopes, the terrain in these extreme environments is often unknown and can be extremely hard to traverse, increasing the likelihood of a vehicle or robot becoming damaged or immobilized. The conventional driving mode in which all wheels are either driven or free-rolling is very efficient on flat hard ground, but does not always provide enough traction to propel the vehicle through soft or steep terrain. This paper presents an alternative mode of travel and investigates the fundamental differences between these locomotion modes. The methods of push-pull locomotion discussed can be used with articulated wheeled vehicles and are identified as walking or inching/inch-worming. In both cases, the braked non-rolling wheels provide increased thrust. An in-depth study of how soil reacts under a rolling wheel vs. a braked wheel was performed by visually observing the motion of particles beneath the surface. This novel technique consists of driving or dragging a wheel in a soil bin against a transparent wall while high resolution, high-rate photographs are taken. Optical flow software was then used to determine shearing patterns in the soil. Different failure modes were observed for the rolling and braked wheel cases. A quantitative comparison of inching vs. conventional driving was also performed on a full-scale vehicle through a series of drawbar pull tests in the Lunar terrain strength simulant, GRC-1. The effect of tire stiffness was also compared; typically compliant tires provide better traction when driving in soft soil, however it's been observed that rigid wheels may provide better thrust when non-rolling. Initial tests indicate up to a possible 40% increase in pull force capability at high slip when inching vs. rolling.


Abstract This study offers a new perspective on the role of relative humidity in strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of office workers. A lack of studies of sufficient participant size and diversity relating relative humidity (RH) to measured health outcomes has been a driving factor in relaxing thermal comfort standards for RH and removing a lower limit for dry air. We examined the association between RH and objectively measured stress responses, physical activity (PA), and sleep quality. A diverse group of office workers (n = 134) from four well‐functioning federal buildings wore chest‐mounted heart rate variability monitors for three consecutive days, while at the same time, RH and temperature (T) were measured in their workplaces. Those who spent the majority of their time at the office in conditions of 30%‐60% RH experienced 25% less stress at the office than those who spent the majority of their time in drier conditions. Further, a correlational study of our stress response suggests optimal values for RH may exist within an even narrower range around 45%. Finally, we found an indirect effect of objectively measured poorer sleep quality, mediated by stress responses, for those outside this range.


Visual function degrades with increasing age, in absence of frank disease, and affects both photopic and scotopic sensitivity. The mechanisms underlying these impairments may be related to biological (e.g., neural, optical) and environmental (e.g., smoking, dietary) factors. Recent evidence suggests that visual function may be improved following retinal carotenoid supplementation, both, in healthy and diseased eyes. Retinal carotenoids accumulate within the retina to form the macular pigment (MP) a biomarker of antioxidant status of the eye and retinal disease risk. The objectives of this thesis were manyfold. First, the extent of vision loss (particularly scotopic sensitivity) in healthy ageing was examined. The results of this investigation showed that dark adaptation recovery slows with increasing age despite no significant change in visual acuity or fundus appearance. The technique described had excellent repeatability and correlated well with previous research. The potential link between MP and dark adaptation was also examined. The results showed that macular pigment optical density (MPOD) was correlated with a specific parameter of dark adaptation (S2) a sensitive marker of functional degradation in normal ageing and retinal disease. The main part of this thesis sought to investigate the effect of MP augmentation on visual function in a large group of observers aged between 50 and 90 years old. The baseline data from this clinical trial revealed very interesting findings with regards to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, health status and statin use. Subjects taking statins were identified (n = 25) and matched with 25 participants not using statins for age and body mass index. It was found that statin users had a higher proportion of males, higher prevalence of current smoking status and poorer general health (e.g. hypertension, high cholesterol and heart disease). Statin users also had significantly reduced MPOD, prolonged photostress recovery time, and deficits in a number of dark adaptation parameters. In a separate analysis of the whole group (n = 74, mean age 65.51), smokers were found to have reduced MPOD, slower S2, higher prevalence of high cholesterol and lower fruit and vegetable intake. MPOD was also reduced among obese subjects. The impact of MP augmentation on visual function in normal older subjects was assessed (n = 74, mean age 65.51) in a 12 month, randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled study. Active formulation consisted of 20 mg lutein combined with vitamins and minerals. Data were collected at baseline, 6 months and 12 months. The results showed that, despite a 24% MPOD increase in the active group, there were no significant differences between the two groups over the three visits for any of the visual parameters. Given the increasing size of the older adult population in developed countries, research aimed at slowing or reversing age-related declines in vision is much needed both from an economical and psycho-social perspective. The results of the studies presented in this thesis show that lifestyle, health status and certain medications can adversely affect visual function in normal ageing. MP augmentation, however, had no effect on visual function. Further research is warranted, particularly paying close attention to subjects engaging in several unhealthy lifestyle/dietary behaviours, statin users and those with low MPOD and suboptimal visual function.


This article provides a critical re-view of the literature and studies of mindfulness at work. It offers a constructive and sympathetic yet also reflective and critical problematisation of the field. The re-view documents and examines the contributions of four different orientations towards mindfulness at work. These are as follows: individual mindfulness, collective mindfulness, individual wisdom and collective wisdom. Drawing on these contributions, the article makes the case for an 'anti-anti mindfulness'. It argues for the self-critical promotion of mindfulness as a vehicle for extending and promoting the insights of organisational studies.


A method for the direct exchange heating / cooling system refrigerant pipe installation kit assembly lower surface (1), comprising a protective package and increase the tube (2), for the bottom of the distal end of the refrigerant pipe U-shaped curved portion (8) is lowered into the well / bore (21). The tube set (2) having a body portion and a circular or conical distal end. U-shaped bend of the distal end portion of the refrigerant transfer line (5, 6) are positioned in the tube package (2) in the interior of the cementitious slurry (15). The sheathing tube (2) inside the slurry (15) having a flat top to prevent upward floating, and at least one eyebolt (11), the eyebolt to be used during installation of the consumable wire (19 ) stationary slurry pump tube (14). An optional distal ring (34) is attached to a lower portion of the distal end of the tube (2) for attachment flag in water float (39).


Because of the existing hybrid fuzzy PID controller does not perform well when applied to servo electro-hydraulic system (SEHS). Forasmuch, when the system parameters changes will require a new adjustment variable of PID controller. Therefore, a hybrid of fuzzy and fuzzy self-tuning PID controller is proposed in this paper. The proposed control scheme is separated into two parts, fuzzy controller and fuzzy self-tuning PID controller. Fuzzy controller is used to control systems when the output value of system far away from the target value. Fuzzy self-tuning PID controller is applied when the output value is near the desired value. In the terms of adjusting the PID parameters are tuned by using fuzzy tuner as to obtain the optimum value. We demonstrate the performance of control scheme via experiments performed on the motor speed control of the SEHS. The results from the experiments show that the proposed a hybrid of fuzzy and fuzzy self-tuning PID controller has superior performance compared to a hybrid of fuzzy and PID controller.


Abstract In April of 1992 the German Red Army Faction issued a communique announcing that it would, with some conditions, lay down its arms in the fight for communism. This marked the end of the armed struggle for groups all over Europe and in particular signaled the move from military to political for the remaining active members of Italy's Red Brigade. The interview that follows was conducted in May 1992 with one of the last free column commanders of the Red Brigade's Strategic Command.


In the present study, a rapid, sensitive, and selective method for determination of several synthetic analogues of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in human urine by solid-phase extraction and ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) was developed. Various parameters affecting sample preparation, LC separation, and MS/MS detection were investigated, and optimized conditions were identified. The UPLC-MS/MS system was equipped with an electrospray ion source operating in positive ion mode with selected reaction monitoring. Leuprolide- 13 С 6 was used as internal standard for analytes quantitative assessment. The proposed method was validated considering the parameters specificity, linearity (0.1–10 ng/ml), recovery (52– 98%), limit of detection (0.1 ng/ml), matrix effects and stability.


5527 Background: We conducted a comparison of overall survival (OS) and local-regional tumor control (LC) outcomes in patients with stage IV-T4 disease originating from the oral cavity, oropharynx or hypopharynx among 4 RTOG H/N trials using RT +/- chemotherapy. Methods: The four compared RTOG trials and their treatment regimens were as follows: 1. RTOG 8117–standard fractionated (SFX) RT [66 –73.8 Gy] & 3 cycles of concurrent IV P (100 mg/m2); 2. RTOG 9003 –SFX RT (70 Gy in 7 weeks) alone [Arm 1], & accelerated fractionated (fx) RT with concomitant boost (AFX-C) [72 Gy in 42 fxs over 6 weeks] [Arm 4]; 3. RTOG 9703–concurrent SFX RT (70 Gy/7 weeks in arms 1 and 3, and q other week over 13 weeks in arm 2] with IV daily P (10 mg/m2) / 5-FU (400 mg/m2 d/ CI last 2 wks of RT) [Arm 1], q other week of IV 5-FU (800 mg/m2/d x 5 days) / Hydroxyurea (1 gm po bid x 6 days) [Arm 2], or weekly IV P (20 mg/m2) / Taxol (30 mg/m2) [Arm 3]; & 4. RTOG 9615 –intra-arterial (IA) weekly P (100 mg/m2) x 4 weeks with SFX RT (7...


This essay discusses the development of rugby in China,its present situation and future prospect,and analyses the main factors hindering its development.Some advice is provided on how to stimulate its development and popularize this game.


We aimed to quantify nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions as a function of the addition of different quantities of bovine faeces and urine on soil under pasture. Two experiments were performed in randomised complete blocks with five replicates. In the first experiment, the emissions of CH4 and N2O were evaluated for 14 days after the addition of four amounts of faeces (0.0, 1.2, 1.8 and 2.4 kg of fresh faeces per plot), and in a second experiment, N2O emissions were evaluated for 43 days after addition of four volumes of urine (0.0, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 L). Urine and faeces came from crossbred (Fresian × Gir) dairy cows fed on pasture and concentrates. N2O emissions from faeces did not alter the emission factor (EF) according to the faeces weight (P = 0.73). N2O-N EF from faeces-N averaged 0.18% (±0.05) of total applied N. The volume of urine applied influenced N2O losses. The EF decreased linearly (P = 0.015) with increasing volumes of urine, being 4.9% (±0.75), 3.36% (±0.7) and 2.43% (±0.46) of N applied emitted as N2O for the 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 L volumes of urine respectively. The EF from urine was significantly (P < 0.0001) higher than the EF from faeces. There was no change to the CH4 emissions per kilogram of excreta when the amount of faeces added was varied (P = 0.87). However, the CH4 emitted increased linearly with the amount of faeces (P = 0.02). The CH4 EF was estimated to be 0.95 (±0.38) kg/head.year.


The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry conducted a health study of the area surrounding the Calvert City Industrial Complex (CCIC), an industrial site located in Calvert City, Kentucky. The objective of the study was to assess the current health status of residents living near the CCIC compared with the health status of residents of a similar, `nonexposed` comparison community. A total of 720 randomly selected participants from the Calvert City area and a similar comparison area were administered a standardized symptom and illness prevalence questionnaire, performed pulmonary function test, and provided blood and urine specimens for chemical exposure tests and biomedical tests of subclinical organ dysfunction. In general, target area study participated reported illnesses slightly more often, but symptoms less often, than comparison area study participants. No clear pattern of symptoms or illness was discerned.


This paper investigated the effect of high hydrostatic pressure processing on sensory quality, physical and chemical quality and nutrients of strawberry juice.The L*,E,soluble solid,titratable acid and total phenols were not significantly affected by HHP treatment (p<0.05), the a* and b* value were significantly increased with the extension of pressure and time except 400 MPa. The suspension stability showed a gradual rise trend. High pressure can well maintain the anthocyanins of strawberry juice.Well,under 500 MPa,10~40min ,the content of anthocyanins were significantly changed (p<0.05),but the retention rate of anthocyanins is 90%~95%.


The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals has released three new speech corpora for both industrial and academic use: a) Hempels Sofa contains recordings of up to 60 seconds of non-scripted telephone speech, b) ZipTel is a corpus with telephone speech covering postal addresses and telephone numbers from a real world application, and c) RVG-J, an extension of the original Regional Variants of German corpus with juvenile speakers. All three corpora were transcribed orthographically according to the SpeechDat annotation guidelines using the WWWTranscribe annotation software. Recently, BAS has begun to investigate performing large-scale audio recordings via the web, and RVG-J has become the testbed for this type of recording.


According to the characteristics and application situation of safety pre-warning technology on oil and gas pipeline,six assessment indices for safety pre-warning technology were established.The weight of each index was determined using AHP according to the result of questionnaire.Through field investigation and related literatures,the performance of four kinds of safety pre-warning technology were systematically compared under six indices.Comparison results of each kind of technology under different index were sorted utilizing fuzzy comprehensive evaluation.Combining with the index weight determined by AHP,the comprehensive performance evaluation results of different safety pre-warning technology of oil and gas pipeline were finally obtained,and the results were analyzed.The analysis showed that fuzzy comprehensive evaluation based on AHP has strong practicality in the performance evaluation of safety pre-warning technology of oil and gas pipeline,which provides strong basis for enterprises to choose the suitable safety pre-warning technology.


Increasing concerns about biosafety of nanoparticles (NPs) has raised the need for detailed knowledge of NP interactions with biological molecules especially proteins. Herein, the concentration‐dependent effect of magnetic NPs (MNPs) on bovine serum albumin and hen egg white lysozyme was explored. The X‐ray diffraction patterns, zeta potential, and dynamic light scattering measurements together with scanning electron microscopy images were employed to characterize MNPs synthesized through coprecipitation method. Then, we studied the behavior of two model proteins with different surface charges and structural properties on interaction with Fe3O4. A thorough investigation of protein–MNP interaction by the help of intrinsic fluorescence at different experimental conditions revealed that affinity of proteins for MNPs is strongly affected by the similarity of protein and MNP surface charges. MNPs exerted structure‐making kosmotropic effect on both proteins under a concentration threshold; however, binding strength was found to determine the extent of stabilizing effect as well as magnitude of the concentration threshold. Circular dichroism spectra showed that proteins with less resistance to conformational deformations are more prone to secondary structure changes upon adsorption on MNPs. By screening thermal aggregation of proteins in the presence of Fe3O4, it was also found that like chemical stability, thermal stability is influenced to a higher extent in more strongly bound proteins. Overall, this report not only provides an integrated picture of protein–MNP interaction but also sheds light on the molecular mechanism underling this process.


A study of biaxial fatigue of glass fiber-reinforced composites subjected to in-phase, cyclic tensile and torsional loading at cryogenic temperatures is presented. Fatigue failure of the composite is investigated in terms of cyclic fracture, stiffness degradation, and energy dissipation. Fatigue fracture lives of the cryogenic composite are obtained for the cases of various combinations of cyclic tensile and torsional stresses. A power-law relationship is established between the range of cyclic octahedral shear stress and the number of cycles to fracture. Influences of hydrostatic mean stress and stress biaxiality ratio on fatigue fracture of the fiber composite are determined. Fracture mechanisms in the material during the cryogenic biaxial fatigue are examined by using optical and scanning electron microscopes.


Six essays by international scholars addressing the Tale of Genji scrolls and the Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, comparative literature and a global view of medieval romance. It links new critical theory with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interests.


This presentation compares the performance of polyol ester base fluids - in key areas such as miscibility, stability, hygroscopicity, lubricity and materials compatibility - with other candidate oil proposed for use with HFC-134a and with naphthenic oil conventionally employed with ozone depleting CFC refrigerants such as CFC-12. In addition, the paper describes compressor tests with HFC-134a and polyol ester. The data demonstrate that properly selected polyol ester-based fluids meet key lubricant requirements for use with "ozone friendly" refrigerant HFC-134a.


Ion transport in a fluid medium is often described by the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equation, a time-dependent mean-field theory that ignores the ion excluded-volume effects and electrostatic correlations, and a number of theoretical procedures have been recently proposed to alleviate the mean-field approximation. In this work, we investigate the charging kinetics of an electric double layer (EDL) of organic electrolytes using the dynamic density functional theory (DDFT). Unlike the PNP equation, DDFT predicts a nonlinear dependence of the surface charge density on the charging voltage. For systems with low solvent viscosity, the collective behaviors caused by inertial effects lead to an oscillatory variation of the surface charge density, occurrences in the charging process of the electrochemical system. Both the strength and frequency of charge oscillation are affected by the solvent viscosity and the degree of EDL overlap.


IN THIS, ITS FIRST REPORT, THE COMMITTEE INDICATES GENERAL MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES ALONG WITH THE GENERAL ADVANTAGES OF STABILIZATION TO THE LIFE OF THE ROAD. NO DATA HAVE BEEN GATHERED THAT WILL GIVE A COMPARISON OF THE COST OF MAINTENANCE BETWEEN BASES THAT HAVE BEEN STABILIZED AND THOSE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN. IT IS THE BELIEF OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THEIR STUDY OF THE WORK THAT THERE IS A CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE AND FUTURE RESEARCH WILL BE DIRECTED ALONG THIS LINE. /AUTHOR/


We discuss derivation and use of the SYNPHOT Linear Ramp Filter throughput table, which provides a preliminary photometric calibration with accuracy ~3%.


An unprecedented electrophilic difluoromethylthiolating reagent (MesNHSCF2 PO(OEt)2 ) was designed. Under mild and metal-free conditions, this new reagent reacted with various nucleophiles, thus offering an efficient and operationally simple tool for the construction of C-SCF2 PO(OR)2 , N-SCF2 PO(OR)2 , and S-SCF2 PO(OR)2 bonds. Finally, thanks to this new methodology, the synthesis of the non-stereoidal anti-inflammatory diflumidone was achieved.


Cancer is a disease that requires treatment with a long process. Types of treatment include chemotherapy. Cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy treatment are usually advised to maintain their health condition. Fulfillment of nutritious and balanced nutrition and avoiding stress are the best steps to support the chemotherapy process. The purpose of this study was to determine how much influence food intake and stress have on the health conditions of chemotherapy. The test results can be concluded that there is an influence between food intake and stress on the health condition of chemotherapy patients as evidenced by the results of the validity and reliability tests above 0.60 with a description of the value of variable X1, namely: food intake has a Cronbach value of 0.737 negligence with stress which is variable X2 with Cronbach alpha 0.633 to variable Y, namely health conditions. with a value of 0.820.
Keywords: cancer, chemotherapy, validity and reliability tests.