The relaxation times evaluated earlier1 were utilised to estimate the solvent effect in the rotation of a dipole under an applied field. The various equations proposed by Hill2, Vaughan3 and Kalman4 have been applied to the above molecules and the results have been obtained and compared. It has been found that Kalman's equation4 in place of mutual viscosity is a better representation of the hindrance to the rotation of the individual solute molecules.


An iterative pipeline carry save array multiplier module (PCAMM) is proposed which hasa constant through put rate for every number of data bits. Data in 2s complement form are processed directly according to the Robertson algorithm. The PCAMM was realized in ECL–technologyfor6–bit data with a throughput rate of 35 x 104 multiplications per second. Multipliers ofthis kind are the heart of the 12–bit arithmetic unit of a fast signal processor which has been developed at Technical University of Munich.


The large number of vehicles operating on the roads cause high emissions and consequently a negative effect on the environment. When developing and optimizing internal combustion engines, certain r ...


The theory of shielding was developed mostly on the basis of transmission lines model, using the Schelkunoff-Schulz isomorphism. The paper uses the transmission line theory but abandons the isomorphism that led to theory vs. experiments mismatch. The new model assumes transversal capacitive coupling between the sample under test and the coaxial TEM measuring cell. Thus, occurrence of higher modes inside the tested material at high frequencies is avoided, and experimental curves IL=F(/spl omega/) validate theoretical predictions.


A biosensor (1) and a method for determining the hematocrit level in a sample of thoroughbreds (11) using an electrochemical technique. The biosensor (1) includes working electrodes (4) and counter (5). A porous membrane (9) is impregnated with an electroactive compounds and moves spatially-electrode surface (4, 5). When a sample of thoroughbreds (11) is applied to porous substrate (9) is formed a mixture of compound electroactive and blood (11). MIXTURE alights on the electrodes (4, 5) and applied A DIFFERENCE enough potential to be oxidized or reduced electroactive COMPOUND AND CREATE A CURRENT. This current is measured and correlated to hematocrit level.


Objective: In undertaking a Cochrane systematic review of allied health professional-led interventions for hypertension, we found greater blood pressure (BP) lowering and BP target achievement with both nurse-led and pharmacist-led care, in comparison to usual (doctor-led) care. We identified elements of these complex interventions associated with successful outcomes. Here we present further analyses to describe key components of effective BP lowering interventions. Design and method: Univariable and multivariable meta-regression: study level descriptive variables for populations (setting, ethnicity, co-morbidity) and interventions (duration, review frequency and method, medication management, and BP target) were tested against change in systolic BP and achievement of study BP targets. Where univariable analyses suggested an association (P < 0.1) variables were included in multivariable models. The final model informed a hierarchical classification of interventions to compare effectiveness between groups. Scientific Data: Searches to July 2017 identified 1618 unique citations; 398 full texts were reviewed and 120 randomised controlled trials contributed data to the meta-regression dataset. Results: Reduction in systolic BP was negatively associated with telephone delivery of interventions (P = 0.02). A multivariable model including three factors: face to face delivery of care, frequency of intervention, and ability to change medication, accounted for one third of variance between studies (R2 = 34%). Hierarchical classification of studies based on these three elements predicted increasing magnitude of BP reduction (P < 0.001). Achievement of study BP targets was associated with both duration of interventions and the systolic BP target set (R2 = 14%). Relative risk for achievement of study targets declined as systolic BP targets were lowered, with evidence for effectiveness down to a target of 130 mmHg. Conclusions: Effective interventions to lower blood pressure require face to face contact. Telephone support or substitution appears ineffective. Ability to change medication is a key component of successful interventions, and review should take place at least monthly until BP is at target. Interventions are shown to be effective for systolic targets of 130 mmHg or higher, and are sensitive to duration of the intervention. These findings should inform future studies and guidelines.


. The present study attempts to investigate the effect of Penaeus monodon-type baculovirus (MBV) infection on growth and survival of the larval stages of Penaeus monodon Fabricius. The results showed that MBV may significantly retard larval growth and cause mortalities during the larval stage. The MBV-infected larvae of P. monodon varied more in body size than uninfected control shrimp, and were discoloured. To detect the presence of MBV in larval prawn, histopathological techniques and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) were used. Positive diagnoses were routinely detected as early as the zoea 1 stage when ELISA was used.


A power grid in a nation or continent integrates utilities by generating stations and loads in order to meet power requirements. When such colossal power systems are involved in the transfer of power, the voltage stability issue typically crops up. Voltage collapse may lead to blackouts. Blackouts can only be reduced by focusing on the steady-state and dynamic operation of power systems. A possible solution may be to increase the power system infrastructure in order to endure these blackouts. Therefore, we need to distinguish the weak and less reliable buses or lines as soon as possible in the operation of the power system so that necessary actions can be taken for smooth operation or maintaining steady-state equilibrium. The weak elements may suffer outages, and that may lead to cascading outages. In this study, contingency ranking is carried out using two evaluation approaches, namely a pre-developed Fast Voltage Stability Index (FVSI) and a new Reduced Fast Voltage Stability Index (RFVSI) or the classical approach and the soft computing approach based on Fuzzy Logic (FL). The methods have been used for different bus systems such as IEEE-14, IEEE-30, and a practical Indian 62 bus system. The RFVSI is a reduced and faster version of FVSI. The outcomes of the two approaches were compared. It is found that the Fuzzy Logic (FL) approach computes the contingency ranking faster compared to the classical approaches, whereas the classical approach based on the RFVSI method calculates more correctly the contingencies and reliable results are produced.


This paper focuses on AGV scheduling and path planning of automatic transport system. Using the topological modeling method to build an electronic map; based on A* (A-Star) algorithm and complex scheduling strategies to solve single AGV path planning, this paper presents a one-way graph path based planning algorithm which solves the problem of multi-AGV path planning, avoids system conflicts and enhances system stability. And the algorithm is verified by the AGV automatic transport management system, which is based on VC++6.0 and SQL Server.


The title of an article is a key to its contents and effective title can reveal the outline of the article.The paper discusses the variational rhetoric devices,which can help to achieve some special effect,and their pragmatic value in news titles from the following aspects:the associative variation bewteen homonymous;collocational variation;variation of the parts of speech;connotative variation;oxymoron variation and variation in language varieties.The paper reaches the conclusion that to achieve the vividness and expressiveness in news titles,we should amply different kinds of variational rhetorical devices.


Regarding the current econometric scene, in this review I argue that (a) traditional econometric modeling approaches do not provide a reliable basis for making inferences about the causal effect of a supposed treatment of data in observational and quasi-experimental settings; and (b) the focus on conventional reductionist models and information recovery methods has led to irrelevant economic theories and questionable inferences and has failed in terms of prediction and the extraction of information relative to the nature of underlying economic behavior systems. Looking ahead, a nontraditional econometric approach is outlined. This method recognizes that our knowledge regarding the underlying behavioral system and observed data process is complex, partial, and incomplete. It then suggests a self-organized, agent-based, algorithmic-representation system that involves networks, machine learning, and an information theoretic basis for estimation, inference, model evaluation, and prediction.


Technologies and building blocks for the realization of reliable electronic systems for the use in harsh environments are attracting increasing intention. Harsh environments are for instance high temperature, pressure, mechanical stress and/or submerge into corrosive liquids, or the combination thereof. In the first place electronic components like integrated circuits or passive components which constitute the electronic system need to be operational under harsh conditions. On system level also the interconnections and package materials need to withstand the loading conditions. Printed circuit board embedding technology is a highly promising approach to realize this kind of electronic systems. Embedded semiconductors and passive components are mechanically protected from the environmental stresses by the epoxy/glass fibre compound into which they are encapsulated. Furthermore, novel types of high temperature laminate materials are commercially available since a few years. In an electroless plating process a fully hermetic metallic encapsulation can be added to the modules. This encapsulation acts as a protective barrier when they are immersed into corrosive liquids or gases. The external electrical connections out of the package are realized by ceramics with metallic feed throughs. They are assembled onto the modules (prior to the metallic encapsulation) using sinter-lamination-technology, i.e. the simultaneous build-up lamination and a sintering process. Two application demonstrators were realized in order to show the general viability of the encapsulation process. All used materials are commercially available. Industrial process equipment was used throughout the manufacturing. Subsequent reliability tests provide evidence for the general robustness and functionality of the modules under harsh environmental conditions. This work was part of the Fraunhofer lighthouse project "eHarsh" which was funded by the Fraunhofer Society.


This paper proposes a method based on hexagon TDA5005 total station to assess the positioning accuracy of GNSS dynamic measurement. We achieve the single epoch positioning accuracy testing of GNSS equipment in dynamic environment by the steps of automatic control,time synchronization,posture correction,unified spatial benchmark. Equipment testing can also be carried out on land and at sea,which is of high-degree automation and easy operation. It also has some guidance and reference meanings for GNSS applications.


We compared the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQDI) and the simpler Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and examined whether either questionnaires are less prone to 'floor effects', whereby patients report normal scores despite experiencing functional impairment.

 Data were collected prospectively across three UK hospital trusts from 2018-2019. All patients completed the MDHAQ, HAQDI and PsA Impact of Disease Questionnaire (PsAID) in a single clinic visit. A subset were given an identical pack to complete one week later. The HAQ questionnaires are scored from 0-3, and the PsAID is scored from 0-10. The PsAID has a validated patient acceptable symptom state (PsAID≤4) to stratify high-impact and low-impact disease. Mean with standard deviation (S.D.) was calculated and variability was assessed using the Bland-Altman method. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC, two-way mixed model absolute agreement) was used to assess test-retest reliability. Using pilot data, we calculated that 210 patients were required to detect non-inferiority between the HAQ questionnaires, with a 0.125 margin at a two-sided 0.025 significance level with > 90% power. All analyses were performed using R. This study was approved by London-Surrey Research Ethics Committee.

 210 patients completed the study; one withdrew consent thus 209 were analysed. 62 patients completed the questionnaires one week later. 60.0% were male, mean age was 51.7 years, and median PsA duration was 7.0 years. In clinic, mean (S.D.) scores on the MDHAQ, HAQDI including/excluding aids, and PsAID were 0.58 (0.64), 0.79 (0.78), 0.70 (0.73), and 3.71 (2.70), respectively. The mean HAQDI tends to be higher than the MDHAQ, for both high and low-impact disease. However, the difference between the two mostly lies within 1.96 S.D. of the mean using the Bland-Altman method, suggesting reasonable agreement. Comparing clinic and 1-week scores, the ICCs for the MDHAQ, HAQDI including/excluding aids, and PsAID were 0.97 (95% CI 0.95-0.98), 0.98 (0.97-0.99), 0.98 (0.96-0.99), and 0.96 (0.93-0.97) respectively, suggesting excellent test-retest reliability. Patients scoring '0' in MDHAQ and HAQDI including/excluding aids were similar (48, 47, 49). Using a score of ≤ 0.5 for low functional impairment, 23 patients had a MDHAQ ≤ 0.5 when their HAQDI including aids > 0.5. This reduced to 17 when using HAQDI excluding aids > 0.5. In contrast, 4 patients had a HAQDI including aids ≤ 0.5 when MDHAQ > 0.5. This increased to 5 patients when using HAQDI excluding aids ≤ 5. Collectively, this suggests the HAQDI is less prone to floor effects compared to the MDHAQ, especially when the score incorporates aids.

 The MDHAQ and HAQDI scores show test-retest reliability and reasonable agreement in patients with PsA. Although the MDHAQ is quicker for patients to complete, it appears more prone to floor effects.
 Disclosures: W. Ye: None. S. Hackett: None. C. Vandevelde: None. S. Twigg: None. L.C. Coates: None.


This paper describes the results of a usability study that tests the online interface of the Diccionario de Colocaciones del Espanol (DiCE). This dictionary was conceived with the purpose of providing a detailed description of Spanish collocations in accordance with the theoretical guidelines of the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology. Although from the outset of dictionary compilation, accessibility of the DiCE interface has always been taken into account, no usability test has been carried out to see how different target user groups are able to perform with the dictionary. Our aim was to assess the functionality of the different search options offered by the interface, both in terms of their efficiency and the adequacy of presentation from the point of view of the user. As the results of the test show, the overall quality of interaction between users and the dictionary was good, although we have also identified some areas for improvement, which are provided as design recommendations in the concluding part of the paper.


This community's service activity is carried out in Perawang Barat village, a subdistrict of Tualang, regency of Siak. The purpose of this community's dedicated activities to 1) provide information and education to the public about stunting and nutrition of the child, 2) increase the knowledge and insight of the community on the stunting prevention, 3) raising mothers' awareness linked to child development early on. As for the benefits of this community's devotion activity, it is to change people's behavior to better understand what stunting is, why and prevention efforts are early, even from pregnancy. The targeted communities of these activities are expectant mothers, lactating mothers, and 0-23 months of age. The method used in community service activities is the socialization and division of stunting poster to posyandu and puskesmas. After the socialization and divison of posters, the executive team has established a group of chaperones and coaching about a stunting in order to see community knowledge and existing constraints so that if they have a problem, they can be eliminated immediately.


A problem of energy efficiency increasing for steelworks power plants is considered. Hence, fuel resources consumption makes up a significant part of the costs of steelworks products, great emphasis is made on using secondary resources and optimization of maintenance of the power equipment, including boilers and turbines. A technical economic power plant model, which is based on the energy characteristics of equipment is proposed. These characteristics are calculated on real time data, using automated information system data for the power equipment to be optimized. This is a two stage control model. Stage 1 consists in rescheduling of electric and heating loads between turbines. Stage 2 consists in rescheduling the steam load between power boilers taking into account the reduction in such load at Stage 1. This reduces the consumption of fuel and makes a power plant more profitable. The results of implementing an automated energy efficiency control system are presented. The results show that the proposed method can make the power plant approximately 3% more profitable.


Significance The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor (NLR) family members, NLRC4 and NLRP3, activate the inflammasome to provide host defenses against infection. The precise molecular constituents of an inflammasome are unknown; however, it is believed that receptor-specific complexes containing apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase activation and recruitment domain (ASC) and caspase-1 are formed. Here, we used confocal and superresolution microscopy to show that in macrophages infected with Salmonella Typhimurium, a pathogen that activates two distinct NLRs, ASC forms an outer ring-like structure that comprises NLRC4, NLRP3, caspase-1, caspase-8, and pro–IL-1β within the same macromolecular complex. These results suggest that the inflammasome is a highly dynamic macromolecular protein complex capable of recruiting different NLRs and effectors to coordinate inflammasome responses to infection. Pathogen recognition by nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor (NLR) results in the formation of a macromolecular protein complex (inflammasome) that drives protective inflammatory responses in the host. It is thought that the number of inflammasome complexes forming in a cell is determined by the number of NLRs being activated, with each NLR initiating its own inflammasome assembly independent of one another; however, we show here that the important foodborne pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) simultaneously activates at least two NLRs, whereas only a single inflammasome complex is formed in a macrophage. Both nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat caspase recruitment domain 4 and nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat pyrin domain 3 are simultaneously present in the same inflammasome, where both NLRs are required to drive IL-1β processing within the Salmonella-infected cell and to regulate the bacterial burden in mice. Superresolution imaging of Salmonella-infected macrophages revealed a macromolecular complex with an outer ring of apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase activation and recruitment domain and an inner ring of NLRs, with active caspase effectors containing the pro–IL-1β substrate localized internal to the ring structure. Our data reveal the spatial localization of different components of the inflammasome and how different members of the NLR family cooperate to drive robust IL-1β processing during Salmonella infection.


Operation of a non-contact compliant gas foil seal (CFS) in a high temperature hybrid dynamic simulator representative of a small gas turbine engine spool is discussed. At the hot section of the simulator two oil-free components, a CFS and a compliant foil bearing (CFB) were mounted and at the cold (compressor) section of the simulator, an oil-mist lubricated ball bearing was installed. The preliminary numerical study on the fluid flow and thermal analysis of a CFS was discussed in the previous work by the authors. The experimental results for successful operation of the foil bearing and foil seal at temperatures up to 560 °C and speeds up to 55,000 rpm are presented. The surface of the CFS and CFB journals for high temperature tests were coated with PS304 solid lubricant film, developed by NASA The CFS performance at different operating speeds and temperatures and differential pressures was investigated. In a similar test, a leakage flow comparison was made among a labyrinth seal, a brush seal and a CFS. The experimental results indicate superior performance of the CFS over the two other types of seals. Unlike brush seal, CFS showed no evidence of rub or induced wear on the journal or seal surface. Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting Orlando, Florida May 20–24, 2001


Objective: To observe the short-term efficacy of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy(PTED) treatment in patients with single lumbar disc herniation.Methods: Lateral-posterior approach percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic nucleus pulposus discectomy was carried out in 35 cases of single lumbar disc herniation,the clinical efficacy was evaluated by the application of pain visual analog scale(VAS score) and improved Macnab criteria.Results: The operation in 35 patients were successfully completed,the operation time was 60-90 min,blood loss was 20-35 ml.The postoperative back and leg pain was significantly reduced or disappeared immediately.Intraoperative dural injury and guide pin fracture occurred in 1 case,respectively.Postoperative nerve root injury,lower extremity sensory disturbances and edema reaction was found in 1 case,respectively.Compared with preoperative VAS score,it was significantly lower after 1 week,1 month and 3 months postoperatively.According to improved Macnab evaluation criteria,the excellence rate was much higher.Only 1 case reported mild lower extremity sensory disturbance on the same day of surgery,which was relieved 3 months after treatment of nerve nutrition drugs.Conclusions: PTED is an effective treatment method for lumbar disc herniation and its short-term efficacy is reliable.


In this paper, the objectives of thermoeconomic diagnosis are presented. The paper is part of a project, started in 2001 and named TADEUS (Thermoeconomic Approach to the Diagnosis of Energy Utility Systems), aimed at integrating various experiences accumulated by a group of researchers working on thermoeconomic diagnostics, a field of research started by Antonio Valero and co-workers in 1990 and followed by various researchers all over the world. It is shown how, starting from the same basic set of ideas, researchers developed different approaches, each one having particular characteristics that are, nonetheless, complementary to each other.


The bibliography below lists Bernard Shaw's pronouncements on religion and related topics, followed by numerous commentaries on those views. A self-proclaimed atheist, Shaw nonetheless expressed his ideas on religion, ritual, and belief continually and at some length in his plays, prefaces, and speeches, where Protestantism, Catholicism, Christian Science, Fundamentalism, Calvinism, Lutheranism, and many other faiths are critiqued—and, for the most part, found wanting—as are the concepts of sin and punishment, atonement and salvation, crucifixion and resurrection, as well as the Church, the Bible ("a jumble of savage superstitions"), the Ten Commandments ("unsuited and inadequate to modern needs"), and the Book of Common Prayer ("saturated with blood sacrifice beyond all possible revision"). Very few religions earned Shaw's respect—Quakerism is a rare exception—and he found it impossible to embrace most of their precepts. "At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world," he wrote in 1906. "I preferred to call myself an Atheist," Shaw recalled in 1949, the year before his death at age ninety-four, "because belief in God then meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah." What was unpalatable for Shaw was the easy rationalization that "the vengeance of a terribly angry god can be bought off by a vicarious and hideously cruel blood sacrifice." He denounced the doctrine of Atonement as "the old idea that in some way or other you could always get rid of your guilt and your responsibility by seizing on some innocent victim and destroying it—sacrificing it, as it was said. Whether that victim was a goat, as in the sacrifice which Abraham substituted for A Gospel of Shawianity


This article analyzes the critical points,which impair the detection capability of statistical analysis engines in in-trusion detection systems.On the basis of Layer-Windows model and Half-life Windows model,we bring forth a new stat-istical model named Smooth K-Windows,which is used to describe and trail the users' behavior both in a short term and in a long term.The results of our experiments show that it can diminish the False Positive Rate and the False Negative Rate dis-tinctly in the process of Intrusion Detection,when compared with the conventional statistical analysis methods.Further more,it can detect the complicated attacks in which the attackers stash their behavior by changing it gradually.


Metadata, which are called "data about data", are an essential tool of organizing and handling digital information. They offer criterial and universal description methods for various forms of digital information elements and collections. Their open description and interoperation can meet the essential demand of information handling. In order to sustain the exchange, reuse, transformation and integration of metadata, their definition, description, management and maintenance are required to be in accordance with open and standard mechanism. In the transition from traditional libraries to digital ones, the organization and description of information resources in journals are one of the main works in digital information resource development. The reuse of metadata with biomedical journal literature characteristics in open XML description is chiefly explored.It includes their reuse formats and principles, mechanisms in XML description as well as some examples.


The study systematically reviews the studies based on a search of published articles from 2010 to 2021 on library service quality with the aim of determining which models of service quality are the most commonly used by librarians as a means of measuring service quality. In addition, the paper makes an effort to determine the variety of dimensions by which these qualitative evaluations were carried out, the types of libraries that have reported such qualitative studies, and the data collection strategies (research population, sample size and data collection instruments) adopted by the authors. The findings indicate that the SERVQUAL and LibQual models are the most frequently adopted models. The empathy, reliability, tangible, assurance, responsiveness, effect of library, information control and library as place are the prominent dimensions. The researchers rely heavily on questionnaire-based survey research methods with sample sizes of less than 100 respondents, mostly reported in academic libraries.


Combustion instabilities can pose serious problems in the development of liquid rocket engines. In order to understand and predict them, it is necessary to understand how representative liquid rocket injector flames react to acoustic waves. In this study, a representative coaxial gaseous hydrogen / liquid oxygen (LOX) jet flame is visualized for both reacting and nonreacting cases. The jet flame was studied unforced, without acoustics, and forced, with transverse acoustic waves in a pressure node and a pressure antinode configuration. For unforced flames, reactions are found to cause a significantly more expanded plume due to the vaporization and expansion of the LOX. Flame holding is established at the lip with a particularly dominant LOX recirculation zone. Nonreacting convective structures propagate downstream at relatively constant velocity, while reacting structures start at a slow speed and gradually accelerate with downstream distance. These structures never reach the velocity of the nonreacting structures. Reactions shift the spectral content to lower frequencies, consistent with trends observed in the linear stability literature. For forced flames, acoustics do not appear to affect the flame holding. Dynamic mode decomposition detects jet response not only at the fundamental frequency but at higher harmonics as well. Reactions produce inconsistent trends in the harmonics: reactions promote harmonics at a pressure antinode while they damp harmonics at a pressure node. *Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.com 1Now at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota ILASS Americas 28th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Dearborn, MI, May 2016 DISTRIBUTION A. Approved for public Release; distribution unlimited. PA 16168 Introduction Combustion instability associated with liquid rocket engines has been responsible for degradation of engine performance, increase in engine component stresses, and under extreme conditions, catastrophic engine failure. High-frequency instabilities, which are generally the most harmful in liquid rocket engines, can be driven when the disturbances associated with transverse acoustic resonances couple with the combustion process to form a feedback loop. In order to understand and predict combustion instabilities, it is necessary to understand how representative liquid rocket injector flames react to acoustic waves. In general, the thermoacoustic instability phenomenon is understood to be an interaction between acoustic waves and unsteady combustion. The unsteady heat release can amplify the acoustic field if the conditions are favorable. Due to the broadband nature of hydrodynamic instabilities, avoiding a detrimental coupling between acoustics and fluid dynamic mixing is challenging. One way to try to mitigate the instabilities is to design an injector that does not couple with acoustic perturbation while it still provides the necessary mixing to sustain combustion. One such injector, used extensively for liquid rocket applications, is the shear coaxial injector [1-5]. In this injector configuration liquid oxidizer is injected surrounded by a gaseous fuel, as shown in Figure 1. The aerodynamic interactions at both fluid interfaces bring about hydrodynamic instabilities and atomize the liquid oxidizer into small droplets. These droplets evaporate and mix with the surrounding fuel and react. There have been many models and efforts [6-9] to describe the atomization process with most being linear in nature and supported with empirical approximations to existing data. The models provide approximate liquid core lengths, time scales associated with growth rates of small disturbance, and droplet sizes and distributions. Due to the highly nonlinear nature of atomization, these models are limited in their range application and do not take reactions and the effects of high pressures into consideration. Accurate predictions of nonlinear, reacting high pressures atomization are left for intense computational studies. In an effort to further understand high pressure atomization and combustion of a shear coaxial injector, experimental efforts have been carried at academic and national laboratories [10-12]. From these studies, there have been several proposed models of the breakup and dynamics of the liquid core of the shear coaxial injector under relevant rocket engine conditions. One such model is the classical phenomenological break up modFigure 1. The shear coaxial flow of a LOX center surrounded by gaseous hydrogen. The first row shows the unreacting condition under same acoustic amplitude (0.34 bar) in a PAN and PN configuration. The second row shows the same conditions but reacting. el by Reitz and Bracco [6]. In this model, the intact liquid core has ligaments and droplets continually shed due to surface instabilities, with the rate of liquid atomization dependent on momentum flux and velocity ratios between the liquid and the gas. This model has been typically used for rocket applications. Experimental and computational results have since raised questions of Reitz and Bracco model on its applicability to coaxial jets at rocket relevant conditions [13-15]. Another model is the core fragmentation model [16] where helical instabilities distort and breakup the liquid core. It is this helical mode that is responsible for some the large scale breakup of the LOX core observed for this investigation. Since the LOX core has been observed to be the most prominent feature of shear coaxial injectors and with studies suggesting that combustion instabilities couple with LOX-post acoustics [17], an experimental effort was undertaken to study LOX core dynamics and breakup using a shear coaxial configuration subjected to high frequency acoustic forcing. A near field view at the injector exit was studied, limited to 6 LOX diameters, to capture the onset of the LOX core instabilities. The shear coaxial injector was studied both at reacting and nonreacting conditions. High frequency pressure anti-node (PAN) and a pressure node (PN) acoustic forcing was applied at the injector exit. Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) was used to extract frequencies and spatial modal shape of the LOX response to the acoustic forcing under reacting and nonreacting conditions. There were differences in LOX core convective speeds and LOX core length between the reacting and nonreacting conditions for the acoustically unforced conditions. The LOX core behaved similarly under reacting and nonreacting conditions for the PAN acoustic forcing. A coupling of hydrogen (GH2) and LOX core shear layers occurred and a LOX core helical model was observed for the PN acoustic forcing for both reacting and nonreacting cases. Experimental Setup and Conditions The experimental facility at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards Air Force Base was used to investigate the coupling of transverse acoustic resonances with a single, shear coaxial, LOX/GH2 flow with varying acoustic perturbation amplitudes. Figure 2 shows the experimental chamber. The features of this facility were documented by Wegener et al. [12]. The injector geometry was the same as studied by Wegener et al [12]. Experiments were done at a mean chamber pressure of 34.45 bars (500 Psia). Nominal flow rates of liquid oxygen and hydrogen were 4.2 and 0.7 g/s, respectively, with a jet momentum ratio (GH2 to LOX) of 2.2. Both fluids had a Reynolds number on the order of 104. The LOX core had a Weber number on the order of 104. The LOX core was kept at constant temperature of 140 K and the GH2 at 250 K. The transverse acoustic resonance was induced through the use of carefullycontrolled piezo-sirens, allowing excitation across a range of pressure amplitudes for discrete resonant chamber frequencies. The amplitude of the acoustic perturbations was varied incrementally from 0 bar (i.e. no acoustic forcing) to 0.34 bar (5 Psi). The pressure fluctuations were measured via Kulite high-speed pressure transducers (model XCL -100) located at different transverse locations, including the middle of the chamber which is the location of the injector. The mode shape of the acoustic field was altered through the phase relationship between the two acoustic drivers. The control of the mode shape allows for the PAN and PN regions of the acoustic mode to be placed at the exit of the injector. Resonant chamber frequencies of 3060Hz for PAN forcing and 2890 Hz for PN were selected. Previous studies on nonreacting experiments have shown a dramatic difference in the coupling mechanism depending on the local acoustic environment [18]. Shadowgraphy was selected as the basis of flow visualization due to the focus on the LOX core dynamic response to the acoustics, while providing an indirect view of the flame through the locations of density variations. A collimated light source and Vision Research v710 Phantom camera were used to acquire the highspeed shadowgraph images. The images were acquired at a 25 kHz frame rate with an exposure of 5 microseconds. The high-speed shadowgraph images were then analyzed using dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), similar to that described by Schmid [19], to identify when and how the LOX core and its shear flow responded to acoustic perturbations with and without heat release. Results Figure 1 shows instantaneous shadowgraph images of unforced and acoustically-forced cases under both unreacting and reacting conditions. The presence of the Figure 2. The experimental chamber and high speed camera. flame has a dramatic effect on the topology of the LOX surface. For nonreacting, unforced conditions, the interface is highly blurred and appears to be in a fibrous atomization regime, consistent with Farago and Chigier [20] diagram of fiber type of atomization for the given Reynolds and Weber numbers. Evidence of large scale breakup of the LOX core length for the nonreacting and unforced condition, shown on the upper left in Figure 1, is evident 6 di


An association between hepatic neoplasia and the use of oral contraceptives was first noted in 1973 when 7 women with benign adenomata were described. Since then 46 similar cases have been reported. Most of these had been taking oral contracepives for over 2 years, but in a few cases for less than 6 months. The tumors have usually been solitary. About 2 of each 3 have had acute symptoms of intraperitoneal hemorrhage. Abdominal pain and an abdominal mass have also been present. Liver scanning has shown a filling defect when the tumor was large. Liver function tests have been normal. Liver biopsy is contraindicated because of the danger of hemorrhage. Surgical excision of the tumor is recommended. A case of hepatocellular carcinoma and 1 of hepatoblastoma have been reported in these tumors. Surgeons have found these tumors at laparotomy for other diagnoses. Physicians should be alert to make the diagnosis. All further cases should be reported.


In perturbation calculations using basis states defined in terms of spherically symmetric potentials it is often necessary to simplify complicated expressions involving n-j symbols. A well known graphical technique can be used to aid in this process. The graphs are represented by their incidence matrices, so that the algebraic manipulations can be carried out by matrix arithmetic. It is shown that the sequence of operations required to simplify a given graph can be determined from structural considerations based on the properties of certain polynomials in the adjacency matrix. This provides a method of performing complete perturbation calculations of this type on a computer.


Device-to-device (D2D) communications have the potential to improve spectrum efficiency and link capacity by allowing nearby devices to communicate directly with each other on the licensed frequency resource. However, the co-channel interference (CCI) among D2D pairs is the major issue that needs to be solved when they are sharing the same frequency resource. The interference alignment (IA) is an effective interference management scheme that can overcome the issue of the CCI. In order to discuss about the possibility of applying IA to the D2D communications, in this survey, we provide an overview on the applications of IA, and analyze the advantages of applying IA in the D2D communications.


It seems strange that a 25-year-old beginning a 40-year superannuation accumulation journey should have the same asset allocation as a 65-year-old on the verge of retirement. Yet, the ubiquitous '70/30 balanced fund', comprised of 70 per cent growth assets and 30 per cent defensive assets, holds the superannuation savings of some 80 per cent of working Australians who are in the default investment option of their fund.


Purpose:  Generalized absence seizures are characterized by bilateral spike‐wave discharges (SWDs), particularly in the frontoparietal cortical region. In WAG/Rij and GAERS rats with absence epilepsy, recent evidence indicates that SWDs arise first from the lateral somatosensory cortex (LSC), that is, the cortical focus theory. To further understand the cortical role in SWD generation, two epileptic rat models were assessed.


The evaluation of value is one of the important contents in the philosophy of value.On the essence of the evaluation,there are different viewpoints in the circle of theoretical science.We can elaborate the topic mainly from the three aspects,such as the prerequisite and foundation,the aims and tasks,and the ways and methods.


Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy presents a rapid, non-destructive method to identify chemical and biological samples with up to single molecule sensitivity. Since its discovery in 1974, the technique has become an intense field of interdisciplinary research, typically generating >2000 publications per year since 2011. The technique relies on the localised surface plasmon resonance phenomenon, where incident light can couple with plasmons at the interface that result in the generation of an intense electric field. This field can propagate from the surface from the metal-dielectric interface, so molecules within proximity will experience more intense Raman scattering. Localised surface plasmon resonance wavelength is determined by a number of factors, such as size, geometry and material. Due to the requirements of the surface optical response, Ag and Au are typical metals used for surface enhanced Raman applications. These metals then need to have nano features that improve the localised surface plasmon resonance, several variants of these substrates exist; surfaces can range from nanoparticles in a suspension, electrochemically roughened electrodes to metal nanostructures on a substrate. The latter will be the focus of this review, particularly reviewing substrates made by oblique angle deposition. Oblique angle deposition is the technique of growing thin films so that the material flux is not normal to the surface. Films grown in this fashion will possess nanostructures, due to the atomic self-shadowing effect, that are dependent mainly on the deposition angle. Recent developments, applications and highlights of surface enhanced Raman scattering substrates made by oblique angle deposition will be reviewed.


Abstract Dwarf galaxies offer an opportunity to understand the properties of low metallicity star formation both today and at the earliest times at the epoch of the formation of the first stars. Here we concentrate on two galaxies in the Local Group: the dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, which has been the recent target of deep HST/ACS imaging (Cole et al. 2007) and the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal, which has been the target of significant wide field spectroscopy with VLT/FLAMES (Battaglia 2007).


This paper proposes a multiobjective solar photovoltaic (SPV) system integrated to a three-phase four wire (3P4W) distribution network by using a digital multistage interpolation (DMSI)-based technique. In addition to the power exchange from SPV array to the 3P4W grid, a four-leg voltage source converter (VSC) is used as a power conditioning unit; therefore, it is named a multiobjective SPV system. For good utilization of SPV array, it is necessary to harvest peak power from SPV string. To fulfill this objective, a perturb and observe-based maximum power point tracking control is used. However, to control the grid integrated VSC, a DMSI-based control technique is presented. The technique is utilized for mitigation of grid neutral current, load harmonics currents, power factor improvement, and grid currents balancing. The incorporation of SPV feed forward loop in control loop minimizes the dependency on proportional integrator controller, and also good dynamic behavior is recorded because of load and climate changes. The operation and control of system topology are validated experimentally under various scenarios.


In the package inlet system for mounting to an exemplary embodiment with an object packet incoming system through the inlet portion the conveyor belt according to the transport vehicle of the present invention, the image information acquisition unit for acquiring image information captured for a parcel on said conveyor belt; Object recognizing unit for measuring the size of an object from the image information and calculates the rotation state of the object; Depending on the size and rotational state of the object may include a control unit for controlling the speed of the conveyor belt.


The injection of remediation compounds has rapidly become a widely accepted approach for addressing contaminated sites. One of the most fundamental questions surrounding the use of in situ remediation has been "What compound are you injecting at your site?" With the advances in the industry's understanding and acceptance of the in situ remediation process remediation professionals are now asking a follow-up question that has become equally important to the success of a project: "How are you injecting a compound at your site?" This article discusses advances in field applications for in situ remediation and injecting remediation compounds. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The pupillary reflex is a natural reaction to visible optical irradiation. In particular in a beam cross-section which is larger than the normal pupil diameter, the pupillary reflex limits together with the aversion responses the duration and the extent of exposure.The increasing availability and the associated hazards of handheld laser products in the entire visible spectrum and the currently still limited knowledge of the anatomic and physiologic function of the pupillary reflex were the special reason for the study of power, exposure duration and wavelength dependence on the pupillary reflex.Various test setups have been realized and the most important parameters of the pupillary reflex like latency period, constriction duration, maximum amplitude, and relaxation time were investigated. The measurements were made with the help of infrared pupillography. The subsequent analysis was performed on a video recording with a frame rate of up to 120 Hz.The tests were carried out at the wavelengths of 405 nm, 532 nm, 635 nm and 670 nm. The applied laser beam powers ranged from about 0.5 microwatts up to 300 microwatts and the exposure durations have been chosen between 25 ms up to 10 s. The investigations have been performed with several test subjects under normal laboratory illumination, mesopic conditions and after dark adaptation.The measurement results showed that the latency times are in the range of 160 ms to 280 ms. The investigations also showed that all other parameters of the extent of the pupillary reflex depend on the power level, exposure duration and on the applied wave-length. In this context, it could be shown that, for example, violet laser radiation at 405 nm caused a larger pupil response as energetically equivalent red laser radiation and showed a nearly equivalent response as for 532 nm.The pupillary reflex is a natural reaction to visible optical irradiation. In particular in a beam cross-section which is larger than the normal pupil diameter, the pupillary reflex limits together with the aversion responses the duration and the extent of exposure.The increasing availability and the associated hazards of handheld laser products in the entire visible spectrum and the currently still limited knowledge of the anatomic and physiologic function of the pupillary reflex were the special reason for the study of power, exposure duration and wavelength dependence on the pupillary reflex.Various test setups have been realized and the most important parameters of the pupillary reflex like latency period, constriction duration, maximum amplitude, and relaxation time were investigated. The measurements were made with the help of infrared pupillography. The subsequent analysis was performed on a video recording with a frame rate of up to 120 Hz.The tests were carried out at the wavelengths of 405 nm, 5...


In this paper, we consider thecomplex-analyticity of harmonic maps from almost-Kahlermanifolds into Kahler manifolds, and we obtain a generalizedBochner type identity. As the application, we obtain a strongrigidity theorem of compact almost-Kahler manifold.


The victims of intimate partner violence are subjected to emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse. The physical abuse often includes episodes of mechanical asphyxia and its most frequent mechanisms: throttling and strangulation. Non-fatal asphyxia situations have signs, symptoms and short-term or long-term consequences whose severity varies according to the intensity, duration and number of episodes. The extensive study of bibliographic contents available at the PubMed platform, which resulted from a search with the terms "intimate partner violence", "domestic violence", "strangulation", "brain injury", "PTSD", "non-fatal lesions", "asphyxia", "forensic", "neck compression", "fatal lesions", "prevention", "violence against women" and "crime", as well as the study of the books "Forensic Pathology", "Medicolegal Investigation of Death", "Medicina legal y toxicologia" and "Odontologia legal & antropologia forense" allowed to gather the most recent information on asphyxia in an intimate partner violence context. The typical signs of mechanical asphyxia are abrasions and contusions on the neck, which may or may not be visible, and the most common symptoms are neck pain, swallowing difficulties and sore throat. Among the several consequences, there is the possibility of developing brain injuries that might work to signal a non-fatal intimate partner violence situation or that lead to the victim's death. The occurrence of asphyxia increases the victim's likelihood of being murdered in the context of that intimate relationship. Given the severity of this public health issue, it becomes imperative to identify the victims of asphyxia in order to ensure the provision of healthcare and the application of measures of protection and prevention that are adequate to victims and survivors.


Surface tilt will result in tilt of power transmission tower.Code for Design of Building Foundation stipulates tolerable foundation tilt limit value of power transmission tower with ordinary isolated foundation while that of power transmission tower with slab base is not provided.Taking the maximum pressure on foundation of power transmission tower as judgment value,this paper applied theoretical and numerical methods to comparing foundation tilt value of slab base with that of ordinary base.Limit foundation tilt of slab base was obtained.


Inclusion complexation of α-substituted benzyl tert-butyl nitroxide spin probes is used to investigate the group recognition ability of a novel water-soluble octamethoxy-p-cyclophane by ESR spectroscopy. It is found that the phenyl or substituted-phenyl group is included but alkyl or cycloalkyl groups are not. Evidence for different spectra is obtained in the aggregated p-cyclophane at high concentration of the host


Based on the dynamical quantization method we derive a quantum phase-space non-Markovian Smoluchowski equation describing the non-inertial Brownian motion of a harmonic oscillator immersed in a generic environment. In the long-time regime we investigate the tunneling phenomenon by evaluating the quantum Kramers escape rate of a Brownian particle over a potential barrier. As far as a quantum thermal reservoir is concerned, it is found that our steady quantum Kramers rate may depend upon no friction constant in the strong friction domain. This preposterous feature may suggest the existence of non-dissipative quantum tunneling at the low-temperature range, including the zero temperature case. Lastly, we predict that our quantum escape rate non-exponentially decays on the edge of the breakdown of the dissipation-fluctuation relation.


Background: Anaemia during pregnancy is a global public health challenge facing the world today. It is estimated that around 2 billion people, 30% of the world population, are affected with the majority coming from the developing world.Aim: The present study was conducted to assess perinatal outcomes and associated morbidity factors among anaemic pregnant women.Materials and Methods: The present study was a hospital-based observational study that was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sultania Zanana Hospital, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India and included all the pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy with haemoglobin level <7 who were admitted between January 2016 to December 2017.Results: A total of 500 cases were enrolled for the study. The present study revealed that anaemia was significantly associated with co-morbidities, 25.4% women had pre-eclampsia, 7.6% had jaundice, 3.6% had heart disease and 4.8% had the intercurrent infection. Out of 500 anaemic women 216 women had severe maternal morbidity this was found to be significant (P = 0.016), 59 women had eclampsia in their antenatal period, septicaemia was found in 63 women, 32 had a pulmonary embolism. In this study, maternal morbidity among anaemic pregnant women (ICD-10) were found to be significant in the puerperal period, among 500 study participants, 41 women had puerperal pyrexia. 319 (63.8%) delivered the baby with low birthweight, 144 (28.8%) had full-term delivery, 34 (6.8%) were stillborn and 03 (0.6%) patients were undelivered. There was a statistically significant difference found in fetal outcome according to the urban or rural locality (P = 0.001). Conclusion: Low education level, gravidity and inter-pregnancy intervals are the main risk factor. We recommend educational awareness programme to be conducted amongst pregnant women to improve their knowledge regarding the causes and prevention of anaemia for a better antenatal and perinatal outcome.


In the present research investigation we extracted the powdered rhizome of Drynaria quercifolia linn by Soxhletion method using different solvents. Then extracts were subjected to preliminary phyto-chemical investigation. The proximate analysis was carried out for the plant rhizome powder. The total ash value was 9.93%, Acid insoluble ash value was 4.49%, and Water-soluble ash value was 6.96% and extractive values of alcohol and water was found to be 9.87% and 13.94%. The materials were subjected to successive extraction with solvents. The solvents used were petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and water in the ascending order of polarity. Pet ether extract was Light brown color, highly viscous and sticky and the yield was 3.12%, chloroform extract was brownish black color, viscous and sticky and the yield was 5.72%, methanol extract was brown color and sticky and yield was 19.67%, and the water extract was brown and sticky and yield was 16.33%. All the extract was subjected for qualitative chemical evaluation to detect the phyto-constituents present in them. Pet ether extract revealed the presence of phytosterols and fixed oils and fats. Chloroform extract revealed the presence of sterols, methanolic extract shows the presence of alkaloids, sterols and tannins and the water extract has shown the presence of tannins, proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, gums and mucilages. To identify the constituents present in different extracts, the TLC was performed.


The problem of ethnic and cultural contacts with the non-Chinese people in China in the early medieval period shows an important feature of Chinese civilization, which consists in the fact that all the elements brought about gradually adapting and become the elements of the Chinese culture.


Investigation was carried out to determine the genetic divergence in the 25 maize inbred lines. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among all the inbreds. Inbreds were grouped into five clusters, indicating the presence of genetic diversity. The clusters I, IV and V had the highest number of inbreds (6). The maximum inter-cluster distance was observed between clusters I and III (19.279) and the highest intra-cluster distance was recorded in cluster III (0.243) and also wide range of variation was observed in cluster mean performance for the characters studied. Intercrossing among the inbreds belonging to clusters II and III was suggested to develop high yielding inbreds with desirable characters.


In this paper, we investigate the joint design of transmit beamforming over physical layer and file dissemination strategy at base stations (BSs) over transport layer in the cache-enabled cloud radio access networks. Our objective is to minimize the total user file download delay while satisfying each BS's power constraint and file dissemination proportion constraints. This problem is very challenging because of the highly coupled optimization variables in the objective function. To address the untractable non-convex problem, the original problem is decomposed into two subproblems. The first subproblem is a non-convex fractional program problem, and by transforming it into a second-order cone program, an iterative algorithm based on an inner approximation method is proposed to achieve the optimal beamforming vectors. For the other subproblem, we propose a sparse optimization algorithm and prove that there exists a closed-form solution in terms of  $l_{0}$ -norm. Then, the original non-convex problem is addressed in an iterative manner by employing the two proposed sub-algorithms. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed cross-layer optimization algorithms can efficiently reduce the total user download delay.


Virtual Environments present opportunities for novel interaction with and visualization of abstract data. However, the inherent difficulties of rendering three dimensional environments, as well as bottlenecks in traditional virtual reality systems make real-time manipulation of realistic volumes of data difficult. We present an architectural solution that addresses many of these problems, and Q-Space, an exemplar virtual environment in which large amounts of data can be manipulated in real-time in a three dimensional world


Acyclovir is an antiviral medication often used to treat outbreaks of herpes in children. Acyclovir has an exceptional safety profile; there is a possibility that it might induce severe nephrotoxicity in rare cases. In this report, we present the case of a 17-year-old girl with acute renal injury as a side effect of using acyclovir. The patient was admitted for three days due to drug-induced AKI, which was reversed by discontinuing the afflicted medicine (acyclovir), initiating appropriate hydration with intravenous normal saline 0.9%, and refraining from any nephrotoxic medications. Following up a week later, the patient was asymptomatic and had normal kidney function. Therefore, it is critical to use acyclovir correctly to avoid possibly fatal consequences.


In the summer of 2016, severe storms caused serious casualties and destruction of facilities and properties over South China. Near-real-time (NRT) satellite precipitation products are attractive to rainstorm monitoring and flood warning guidance owing to its combination of timeliness, high spatiotemporal resolution, and broad coverage. We evaluate the performance of four NRT satellite products, i.e., Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks, 3B42RT, Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) NRT, and Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) Late run using a high-quality merged product in the rainy June over South China. In addition, a method based on an empirical flash flood guidance and the Flash Flood Potential Index is proposed to examine the applicability of satellite products in guiding flood warning. The IMERG Late run and GSMaP NRT perform the closest-to-ground observations. 3B42RT detects the most flood warning events due to its notable overestimation of actual precipitation. We recommend that the IMERG Late run is the best NRT satellite product in capturing flood hazard events according to the Pareto Efficiency of jointly optimizing higher hit ratio and lower false alarms.


This paper introduces the development of a special RF connector used in the Coaxial Impedance Measurement Platform. The connector has good broadband transmission performance while the structure of tightening the inner conductor included. The design is done with 3D simulation code MAFIA, the calculated refelection factor less then 0.1 below 20GHz. The measured refelection factor of the manufactured connector is less then 0.2 below 17GHz.


ABSTRACT Following a highly disordered series of reforms, Italian universities will adopt accrual accounting by the end of 2016. This article studies the case of two universities where the new accounting system was introduced early (2013). The aim is to identify the main drivers of resistance to change and determine the types of organizational behavior that can counter this resistance. The results show a positive correlation between overcoming resistance to change and implementing specific organizational practices that may soften its effect. Surprisingly, the article found that resistance was stronger in the university where the situation was less complex.


Abstract The synthesis of the 3-pyrrylacetic acid as well as the study of its esterification conditions are described. The new materials thus obtained are electropolymerized.


The distribution, synecology, physiognomy, structure, recent succession, and syntaxonomy of the relict plant community Orno-Ostryetum Aich. 1933 in the region of Serbia, have been researched in detail.


More and more people talk about so-called Daoist ecological thought. Actually, Daoism does not have a ready-made ecological thought. However, it indeed can act as a vital theoretical resource for constructing such thought. In this article, I will argue how this is possible, and what realm Daoism can attain in the relation between human and nature. I will mainly employ such methods as original problem research, literature analysis and comparative research in the inquiry. Compared with traditional Western metaphysics, Daoist ontology can provide stronger philosophical support for the value and significance of empirical things. In addition, Dao does not dominate things like a personal god with will, but gives them the chance to grow and develop according to their own nature. Lao-Zhuang called on people to imitate this character of Dao. They believed that the primitive nature itself was worthy of respect, and urged us to set limits for ourselves and never to distort things' natural propensities to suit us. Consequently, natural things are neither overshadowed by a noumenon, nor are they subject to humans' conquering and abuse, so they are capable of flourishing freely. This is precisely the realm of tianfang which Daoism seeks.


The new stellarator Wendelstein 7-X will employ a combination of beam-aided active spectroscopy systems. Active Charge Exchange Resonance Spectroscopy will be performed in the beam of a diagnostic neutral beam injector. This low power, low divergence neutral beam system allows for the spectroscopic measurement of impurity density profiles, ion temperature and radial electric field profiles with good spatial resolution. However, no toroidal rotation can be measured with it, because of the radial arrangement of the observation chords. This instead will be done by CXRS in the neutral NBI heating beams, in addition to Beam Emission Spectroscopy to monitor the beam absorption in the plasma. Finally, the Motional Stark Effect diagnostics in the NBI can measure the magnetic pitch angle to provide information on iota variations by the bootstrap current. This information is essential for reliable W7-X divertor performance, which depends strongly on the edge iota value. In this paper the beam injectors are described together with the beam properties and observation geometries. Details are given for the spectroscopic systems. The relevance of the observed plasma parameters is briefly discussed, with an emphasis on some stellarator optimization criteria.


Lean thinking improves the success of engineering program management. The successful "Siemens PM@IA" project management maturity improvement program was analyzed for the way it incorporates 43 so-called Lean Enablers. The Lean Enablers, developed at MIT, not only improve engineering program management but can also be applied in organizational change programs. An implementation approach for the Lean Enablers based on a change program is presented in this paper. The Lean Enablers are grouped into seven topical Lean Program Management themes, which are suggested to be implemented in three phases.


The paper describes our search for a universal algorithm of detecting intentional lexical ambiguity in different forms of creative language. At SemEval-2018 Task 3, we used PunFields, the system of automatic analysis of English puns that we introduced at SemEval-2017, to detect irony in tweets. Preliminary tests showed that it can reach the score of F1=0.596. However, at the competition, its result was F1=0.549.


Objective: To clarify whether the impact of normal and high-normal BP (BP) per se on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause death differs depending on smoking status. Methods and results: A prospective observational cohort study (median follow-up period: 7.5 years) was performed among 25 077 healthy nondiabetic Japanese men aged 20–61 years (mean age 37.3 years), whose BP was less than 150/95 mmHg and who were not on medication. Hazard ratios (HRs), adjusted by known risk factors and a change in annual BP during the follow-up, were calculated by the Cox proportional model with less than 119/75 mmHg as a reference. Among smokers, CVD events increased significantly from a SBP of 120 mmHg, with HRs of 2.68 (120–129 mmHg), 4.28 (130–139 mmHg), and 11.7 (140–149 mmHg). The CVD events also increased from a DBP of 75 mmHg (P for trend less than 0.0001), with 75–79 mmHg and 90–94 mmHg considered statistically significant. Among noncurrent smokers, 110–149 mmHg (SBP) and 75–89 mmHg (DBP) were not associated with elevated HRs for CVD. The relation between BP and all-cause mortality was similar among both current and noncurrent smokers: 140–149 mmHg (SBP) and 90–94 mmHg (DBP) were significantly associated with elevated risk, and 130–139 mmHg (SBP) among noncurrent smokers associated with elevated risk. Conclusion: Young and middle-aged healthy Japanese individuals with normal and high-normal BP (120–139/75–89 mmHg) were at risk for CVD among smokers, even after adjusting for an annual change in BP.


How and to what extent social media can generate desired benefits for firms has been of great interest to both researchers and practitioners. Extant literature has offered mixed perspectives comprising both optimism and skepticism. Furthermore, research has only begun to examine how social media can bring forth sustainable value for firms beyond sales and a simultaneous consideration of their impacts on a firm as well as its rivals in today's competitive market remains lacking. In this study, we investigate the competitive effects of social media blog sentiments and brand performances of firms operating within the same industry. We assembled a novel, comprehensive dataset that combined the extent of social media blog valence and volume of competing brands in the personal computer industry and individual consumers' evaluations of the brands collected at a daily level with 7,871 brand-day observations. Our analyses unveil three key insights: 1) a focal brand's social media blog sentiment enhances its own brand performances and undermines its competitors' brand performances in the long run; 2) the focal brand's blog sentiment has a reinforcing carry-over effect on its own subsequent sentiment and a cannibalistic effect on its competitor brands' social media blog sentiment; and 3) the positive effect of blog sentiment on brand performances is stronger when the focal brand is a non-leading (versus leading) brand, while the reinforcing effect on social media blog sentiment is stronger when the focal brand is a leading (versus non-leading) brand. The findings advance research by offering a more holistic understanding about the competitive and dynamic effects of social media, enabling firms to gauge what they may gain (or lose) from their own (or competitors') use of social media.


SULEV (super ultra low emission vehicle) is the emission standard established in California for the year 2004. German company Emitect has developed SuperFoil which is an extremely thin foil for the production of high-cell-density catalytic converters that can help to achieve SULEV values of 0.01 HC;1.0 CO;0.02 NOx and 0.01 PM grams per mile. Such converters have achieved impressive results in the FTP (Federal Test Procedure) test. A reduction in catalytic converter diameters improves the cold-start behaviour but leads to a high pressure loss that can decrease fuel consumption. This can be offset by using cascades of passive substrates or cascades with an electrically heated catalytic converter.


Bisha Mining Share Company (BMSC), Eritrea, is a subsidiary of Nevsun Resources of Canada. BMSC has completed an exploration work which discovered Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) deposit containing commercial quantities of gold, silver, copper and zinc at Bisha. The objective of this paper is to design an optimal open pit and generate a Life of Mine (LOM) schedule for the profitable exploitation of the deposit. Thus, Net Smelter Return values were modelled using a script developed in Surpac. The deposit was optimised and an open pit was designed using MineSight software under the given geotechnical and economic parameters with a marginal tonnage deviation of 3%. A Life of Mine (LOM) schedule carried out in MineSched predicted a mine life of 10 years and defined the transitional periods for the exploitation of gold, copper and zinc deposits. It is recommended that the designed optimal pit and the LOM schedule should be used for the exploitation of the Bisha VMS deposit. Also, extensions to the primary massive sulphide mineralisation, including the Primary Zn Domain, should be tested with further drilling. This may have the effect of increasing the mineable reserve and extend the project life.


Roman Abramov – PhD, associate professor, Social Science Department of NRU HSE, senior researcher, Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: email@example.com
Ksenia Antonova – doctorate student, Social Science Department of NRU HSE, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: email@example.com

This article considers images of orphanage graduates formed by the electronic and print media in Russia and is based on the materials from a study entitled 'The trajectories of social and professional adaptation of graduates of children's homes'. The study aimed to obtain analytical information on the socio-psychological and professional adaptation of children from Russian Orphanages. Using the automated media monitoring system 'Medialogia', the authors analyze thematic publications from seven Russian regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Tver, and Yaroslavl. Textual analysis is based on one hundred articles selected as they enjoy the highest rating of re-quoting and republishing. A thematic map of topics constructed within this analysis shows that the main body of publications is focused on issues of compliance and violation of the orphan rights and the provision of benefits, including housing. Also attracting attention are government, NGOs and private volunteer initiatives in organising adaptation programs for orphans. On the basis of these textual materials, we have developed a thematic typology of media representations of this social group. The following types were unearthed: a positive-independent (successfully adapted and self-made orphanage graduates), a positive-passive (so-called 'adult children'), the negative-independent ('deviants') and negative-passive (orphanhood as a social stigma). What becomes clear is that 'positive-passive' media images are the most common in the printed media at the current moment. This stigmatises orphanage graduates, positioning them as not adapted to 'real' life. The positive-independent media image occurs more rarely, usually only in the context of an orphanage graduate building a successful career. This image corresponds to specific individual biographies, while other media images tend to be devoid of personality or gender characteristics. This, the media forms a 'typical' path in the socialisation of orphan graduates that does not take into account modern pedagogical and psychological practices. These practices are associated with the individual work of educators and social workers with the orphans, who work to prepare children for release from an orphanage or boarding school. The analysis in this paper suggests that the main body of materials on orphanage graduates does not reflect the diversity of problems and challenges faced by this category of citizens.


Word learning is one of the initial and essential parts in learning a language. As building blocks of language, words involve both form and meaning. In all languages, words are composed of consonants and vowels, while in some languages, tones also play a comparable role in building words (Yip, 2002). Previous studies show that speakers of non-tonal languages (e.g. English) find it difficult to learn words in a tonal language (e.g. Pelzl et al., 2019). A number of factors are likely to contribute to success in learning tones. The most widely recognized factors contributing to variation in learning outcomes among second language (L2) speakers include tone experience, pitch ability, musicality or experience with music, L2 aptitude and general cognitive ability. Among these factors, experience with tones in the native language (Chan & Leung, 2019) and learners' ability to perceive pitch patterns in a non-verbal context showed the highest correlation with tone learning success (e.g. Bowles et al, 2016; Wong & Perrachione, 2007). While manipulation of the factors listed above is mostly beyond learners' control, teachers and educators are seeking ways to improve learning outcomes by focusing on external factors that can be manipulated, such as different teaching and training methods. Applied linguistic studies have reported the effectiveness of using various teaching and training methods, such as visualization of tone contours (Liu et al., 2011), using color or number coding (Godfroid et al., 2017) and music (Lin, 1985), hand gestures or other body movements (Tsai, 2011) in the perceptual learning of tones. Common to all of these methods is that they try to draw learners' attentional focus to tones as a minimally contrastive feature. This aligns with a number of different theoretical models of language learning. For instance, the Noticing hypothesis claims that "noticing is necessary for intake" (Schmidt, 1990, p. 141). If learners do not pay attention to contrastive features of a cue, they could not intake the information and learn the cue. According to the Automatic Selective Perception model (Strange, 2011), the perceptual salience of a cue is influenced by speakers' linguistic experience, but experimental manipulation can potentially reallocate


Welcome to NClibraries guide for students in the Bachelor of Business Administration - ICOM program. This guide has information and resources to help you succeed with your research assignments. info on using Proquest Flow to store your research


This paper analyzes how Julia Krsiteva's Powers of Horror throws new light on the psychoanalytic account of the maternal body. Throughout her...


As more and more devices become available and interconnected, there is a growing need for end users to control the devices in a programmatic manner. Our prior work explored end-user programming models for the Internet of Things (IoT). We started with the premise that current trigger-based approaches, while helpful, are not sufficient. What is needed was a more program-oriented, continuous approach for handling more complex devices. Our prior work explored different strategies for such a continuous approach. In this paper we detail the lessons learned and outline our current directions aimed at creating a practical system.


The use of traditional sensors in a geotechnical centrifuge model test usually causes deviations in the monitoring data. This is because of the mutual interference among centrifugal field electromagnetic waves that is caused by the independent transmission lines. In recent years, the development of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing technology has substantially improved the accuracy and reliability of monitoring the strain and temperature in geotechnical centrifuge model tests. This study follows a series of centrifuge model tests carried out on a 60 g-ton geocentrifuge, with FBG sensing technology used for monitoring the strain on a static pressed pile; the strain is caused by soil collapse around the pile. During the test, an improved packaging and installation method of the quasi-distributed FBG sensor system was employed to monitor the strain of a jacked pile in a loess field with immersion collapse. The model test results show that the proposed FBG-based sensor assembly monitored the strain distribution of the jacked piles effectively, proving that it is a promising solution for strain monitoring in a geotechnical centrifuge test.


Electron and positron production in relativistic ion‐atom collisions is discussed within the context of the time‐dependent Dirac‐Hartree approximation to a fully relativistic field theory of the collision. The time‐dependent fields are treated classically, and the numerical methods employing basis splines are discussed in detail and contrasted with results obtained from the case of nonrelativistic velocities. The results of a one‐dimensional model are presented and show a moderately large probability for pair production followed by electron capture.


Groundnut kernels have a rich variety of seed cont colours like rose, red, purple, white and mixed colours of white and red with different shades and patterns. However, only rose and red coloured groundnut seeds predominate in all commercial varieties. The problem of evolving a white seeded strain by hybridization was taken up for the first time at the Regional Research Station, Tindivanam.


Aims: This qualitative literature review aims to critically assess and analyse published literature to determine drivers influencing over-prescribing by general practitioners (GPs) in primary care, exploring their views and opinions, and also to determine how antibiotic prescribing can be improved and unnecessary prescribing reduced, thus reducing the threat to public health from antibiotic resistance. It is intended to develop new thinking in this area and add to existing knowledge concerning GPs' antibiotic prescribing behaviour. Methods: Thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke's 2006 framework was used to analyse 17 qualitative studies chosen from EBSCOhost databases, focusing on GPs' views of antibiotic prescribing in primary care, with specific search strategies and inclusion criteria to ensure study quality and trustworthiness. Results: Three main themes and nine sub-themes were generated from the studies. The first main theme discussed GP factors related to over-prescribing, the main drivers being GP attitudes and feelings and anxiety/fear concerning prescribing. The second theme highlighted external factors, with pressures from time and financial issues as the main drivers within this theme. The final theme marked patient pressure, demand and expectation with lack of patient education as the major drivers affecting GP over-prescribing. Conclusion: The findings of this research show GPs' antibiotic prescribing in primary care is complex, being influenced by many internal and external factors. A multifaceted approach to interventions targeting the drivers identified could significantly reduce the level of antibiotic prescribing thus minimising the impact of antibiotic resistance and promoting a more efficient working environment for GPs and patients alike.


Commentary on: Swan F, Newey A, Bland M, et al . Airflow relieves chronic breathlessness in people with advanced disease: An exploratory systematic review and meta-analyses. Palliat Med 2019;33:618-633. doi:10.1177/0269216319835393.

Chronic breathlessness,1 is a major cause of suffering in people with severe disease. Treatment includes cardiorespiratory rehabilitation training, supplemental oxygen in hypoxaemia and low dose opioids in selected patients, but is often insufficient and new therapeutic options are needed. …


The mean defined by Bonferroni in 1950 (known by the same name) averages all non-identical product pairs of the inputs. Its generalizations to date have been able to capture unique behavior that may be desired in some decision-making contexts such as the ability to model mandatory requirements. In this paper, we propose a composition that averages conjunctions between the respective means of a designated subset-size partition. We investigate the behavior of such a function and note the relationship within a given family as the subset size is changed. We found that the proposed function is able to more intuitively handle multiple mandatory requirements or mandatory input sets.


Sophocles traditionally is credited with having introduced the third actor in Greek tragedy and so with decisively shifting the focus of the drama from the chorus to the interplay of characters. Any thorough account of classical theater for example, A. E. Haigh's The Attic Theatre (revised by A. W. Pickard-Cambridge in 1907) or Margarete Bieber's The History of Greek and Roman Theater will allot some space to the three-actor rule.1 However, it rarely is taken into account as a major interpretive tool even when, as with Pickard-Cambridge and others, the author has shown a thorough awareness of the existence of the rule.2 Oliver Taplin, giving the subject barely a paragraph in Greek Tragedy in Action? believes there is no greater significance to the rule than a shortage of first-class actors during the Dionysian festival. Leo Aylen, in a finely detailed account of the Greek theater, does see that the rule, which led to the practice of very creative doubling, had symbolic significance; nevertheless, he devotes only two pages to the topic and insists that four actors must have performed Oedipus at Colonus, for otherwise we would have the "ridiculous" situation of the role of Theseus being played by more than one actor.4 He thus misses one of the great subtleties of the three-actor rule in Sophocles' hands and especially in Oedipus at Colonus. David Seale, examining Sophocles' stage-


Objective:To analyse the alterations of gene expression in gastric cancer cell line AGS transfected with RhoA small interfering RNA ( siRNA) by DNA gene microarray technology. Methods: The recombinant RhoA /siRNA plasmid pSilencer 3.1 was constructed and transfected into gastric cancer cell line AGS with effectene reagent. pSilencer 3.1 was transfected with the same cell line as the control . The two groups were subjected to G418 selection.The gene expression profile was analyzed by Agilent Gene Chip. Results: The gene microarray chip demonstrated that 1151 genes were up-regulated and 1079 genes down-regulated, which involved in signal transduction, cell cycle , apoptosis et al. Bioinformation analysis showed that the caspase family which related to cell apoptosis, the cell cycle related molecules,were important in RhoA mediated signal transduction. Conclusion: The gene microarray is a good method with advantages of high flux and high efficiency , which brought some new clues to study the molecular mechanism of RhoA signaling in cancer .


Modern MRI scanners have trended toward higher field strengths to maximize signal and resolution while minimizing scan time. However, high‐field devices remain expensive to install and operate, making them scarce outside of high‐income countries and major population centers. Low‐field strength scanners have drawn renewed academic, industry, and philanthropic interest due to advantages that could dramatically increase imaging access, including lower cost and portability. Nevertheless, low‐field MRI still faces inherent limitations in image quality that come with decreased signal. In this article, we review advantages and disadvantages of low‐field MRI scanners, describe hardware and software innovations that accentuate advantages and mitigate disadvantages, and consider clinical applications for a new generation of low‐field devices. In our review, we explore how these devices are being or could be used for high acuity brain imaging, outpatient neuroimaging, MRI‐guided procedures, pediatric imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging. Challenges for their successful clinical translation include selecting and validating appropriate use cases, integrating with standards of care in high resource settings, expanding options with actionable information in low resource settings, and facilitating health care providers and clinical practice in new ways. By embracing both the promise and challenges of low‐field MRI, clinicians and researchers have an opportunity to transform medical care for patients around the world.


A one-dimensional two-fluid model is described for the analysis of critical flows in pipes of nondiverging cross-sectional area. The model accounts for thermal nonequilibrium between the liquid and vapor bubbles and for interphase relative motion. Closure of the set of governing equations is performed with constitutive relationships which determine the pressure drop along the flow channel as a function of the flow regime, and the number and rate of growth of vapor bubbles in a variable temperature field in terms of the problem's primary state variables and geometrical configuration. An empirical correlation is derived which fits the number density of bubble nuclei in the flow as a function of the flow channel length-to-diameter ratio. Model predictions compare favorably with experimental data in small- and large-scale systems over a wide range of pressures and pipe diameters and lengths.


In comparison to the greenhouse gas emissions from composting untreated waste, composting digestate left after biogas production can cause significantly higher methane emissions to the atmosphere, a new study reveals. To achieve a circular economy, good management of organic waste is crucial. Recycling technologies that allow for minimal greenhouse gas emissions to the environment, along with the return of nutrients in the organic material to the soil, need to be found.


Objective—Gallstone disease (GSD) is related to multiple cardiovascular risk factors; the present study was to prospectively examine the association between GSD and ischemic heart disease (IHD). Approach and Results—We examined the association of GSD with IHD among 199 292 men and 288 081 women aged 30−79 years in the China Kadoorie Biobank study. Participants with cancer, heart disease, and stroke at baseline were excluded. Cox proportional hazards regression model was used to estimate the association of GSD with IHD. The prevalence of self-reported GSD was 3.7% in men and 7.3% in women at baseline. During 3 431 124 person-years of follow-up between 2004 and 2013 (median, 7.2 years), we documented 10 245 incident IHD cases in men and 14 714 in women. As compared with men without GSD at baseline, the multivariate-adjusted hazard ratio for IHD was 1.11 (95% confidence interval, 1.02−1.22) for men with GSD; the respective hazard ratio was 1.27 (95% confidence interval, 1.20−1.34) in women and 1.23 (95% conf...


Sir: When protein is hydrolyzed partially and then the hydrolyzate is incubated with a certain proteolytic enzyme under appropriate conditions, a high-molecular protein-like sub stance is formed whose properties are quite different from those of the original protein. Such a protein-like substance is called "plas tein" and the enzymatic reaction concerning the plastein formation is called "plastein re action."1) Some basic studies on the plastein and plastein reaction have been made mostly from the standpoint of enzyme chemistry.2•`4) Proteolyzates obtained by treating proteins with proteolytic enzymes, especially with


We report highly nonlinear GaInP photonic crystal waveguides. An extremely large hybrid nonlinearity was demonstrated in a static experiment as well as in a wavelength conversion scheme at 10 Gbit/s. Highly efficient four wave mixing was also demonstrated for either CW or pulsed pump signals. Photonic crystyals; Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear wave mixing


Development of a high temperature heat pump for demonstration of waste heat recovery in industry is described. This report outlines the design of a prototypical unit to be used to recover heat from the vapor effluent of a thermomechanical pulping unit in a paper mill. The output capacity of the unit is 30 x 10/sup 6/ Btu/h in the form of process steam delivered at 50 psig with 20/sup 0/F superheat (318/sup 0/F). A functional description of the heat pump system is given along with a thermodynamic analysis of the cycle. The various subsystems, controls, and major components are also described and a safety analysis presented. The next step in the program is the procurement of components and fabrication of the heat pump and test loop. A general discussion of the important considerations involved when considering the application of a heat pump to an industrial process is given in Appendix A. Additional information presented in appendices includes an analysis of the hot gas by-pass and control of the intercooler; pressure drops in methanol piping and heat exchangers; and typical liquid nitrogen storage system information.


The increasing turbulence of the global tourism market determines the development of the marketing aspect of a destination, the emerging image of which is an important factor in the behavior of a potential tourist. In the presence of a theoretical basis, the development of this direction requires the search for new approaches, modern sources of information and the definition of a research algorithm, which is of particular relevance for global cities that form a unique category of tourist destinations or urban destinations. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the perception of New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet (Runet) on the basis of a combination of various techniques and the use of social media analysis capabilities. The authors offer a conceptual scheme for the implementation of the study, the database of which consists of four blocks, including: the combination of statistical data and international ratings of urban destinations; the number of search queries from Runet users; the frequency and context of mentions of urban locations in different social media (VK, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.); the results of a sociological survey held by means of an Internet questionnaire in the regions of Russia and abroad. Based on the analysis, the effectiveness of various mechanisms of image formation of the world's largest urban communities with a relatively modest role of the media is evaluated; the level of destinations' attractiveness among the Runet audience is revealed. A generalizing scheme of the "supporting framework" of the image of urban destination is presented, reflecting the secondary importance of affective components and the dominance of urban realities with a special role of the categories of "metropolitan", urban localities and architectural brands. At the same time, significant differences have been established in the field of formation, focus, the ratio of cognitive and affective components of the image, and in general a high degree of its individuality, which in practice involves the use of a range of fine-tuning marketing settings for the largest tourist urban destinations in the world.


With more than ten years developmen t,the stock market of our country has taken in shape roughly.The developm ent of stock market has played an important role in the collection of long -term c apital,the management of capital an d the optimization of the disposition of resources.Since Chinas entry into the WTO,the stock market has confronted with not only opportunities and challenges but also the probabilities of surplus interests and non -inte rests.Thus it is important to keep th e stock market stable.The stock market in our country must be developed under the actual conditions of China.The supervision and admini stration of stock market must be undertaken comprehen sively.Meanwhile a multi -body fram ework of supervision and administra tion must be built with the cooperation of each individ ual supervising and administrative body so as to form the joint forces of s upervision and admin-istration,to keep the stable and healthy development of stock market and to guarantee the real interests of th e investors.


Although hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is offered as a curative therapy for pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), it may cause severe complications and mortality. Several reports have shown the efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy (IST) in adult patients with refractory anemia (RA), but its safety and efficacy remains to be fully elucidated in childhood RA.


Depending on the reaction conditions, propargylic tosylates (I) are converted into allenyl tosylates (II) or ketones (III) and (IV), respectively.


Seen from the history of the music development between China and the West, there has always existed a major developing line for innovation and change in the music cultural tide, and the same is true of the current new music tide in China. The motive cause for innovation exists in its art versatility, social sensibility etc., which can not only elicit people's sensitive thoughts to the innovation, performance and appreciation of the new national music and the development of the Chinese national music but has a positive significance in promoting the Chinese national music to grow healthily and in connecting with the international music culture thoughts rationally.


The invention discloses a microwave fish-vegetable product, which is composed of 100-1000g of a main material fish flesh and 30-500g of an auxiliary material vegetable. The main material fish flesh and the auxiliary material vegetable are respectively packed into small bags and then the small bags are packed into a big bag. The vegetable product is convenient to carry and easy to prepare, is delicious and tasty, and satisfies the requirement of modern people who lead a busy life on delicious food. The invention also provides a preparation method of the microwave fish-vegetable product. According to the invention, a modern fish food processing and preservation technology is adopted, and a basic technology is established to realize the standardization, industrialization and batch of the microwave fish-vegetable product.


The lecture traces a research programme for bulding a reference framework aiming to integrate nature conservation, landscape valorisation and territorial policies, in order to improve their effectiveness. It enlights basic principles, new paradigms and interpretative models leading the territorial project, as a collective project for the territorialgovernance.


This paper describes the design of a fuzzy distance for content-based image retrieval applied to 2D color images within an image database. The technique herein presented computes first a multiresolution representation using the Haar transform. Then, a color based primitive is obtained from the color level energy distribution at different resolution levels of the wavelet transform. Fuzzy membership functions are constructed from the values of the color based primitive of the test vector. The values of the elements of the database images are used to compute a fuzzy distance between the test and the database images. The experimental results given in this paper include the success rate achieved with the proposed distance using different membership functions and aggregation operators over a database composed of 298 color images and 68 tomographic volumes with test sets formed respectively by 1655 images and 805 volumes.


PT. Indah Bangunan Sejati Palu is a company engaged in building materials. The company has 4 warehouses and serves the distribution of ceramics in Sulawesi Tengah, precisely in the city of Palu. The problems found in PT. Indah Bangunan Sejati Palu The cost of distributing ceramics requires a large amount of transportation costs and there is no planning for the distribution of ceramics, therefore proper planning is needed so that the distribution costs incurred can be minimized. The purpose of this study is to obtain optimal distribution costs using the least cost method with the optimal test using the Modified Distribution (MODI) method. The results showed that the optimal transportation cost was obtained at Rp 276,297,300. This amount is more efficient, namely Rp 3,002,400 or 1.1% of the company's transportation costs which is Rp 279,297,300.


The objective of this study is to identify the favorite recreational activities of physical education course academic at theUniversity Vila Velha / ES when they are in the free time of their academic and social obligations and opt for leisure. As well ascategorize these activities from cultural leisure interests. This descriptive and exploratory field research is based on directobservation of activities in the study group and semi-structured interviews. We conclude that the subjects interviewed in this study,from Monday to Friday trade after their academic and social obligations rather as leisure activities those that are restricted in virtualcultic and intellectual interests; leaving the sports physical and social interests in the background.


While it is premature to conclude that changes in intestinal microbes influence the genesis or progression of PD, preliminary evidence indicates that they may be associated with inflammation in the intestinal wall.