This paper proposes a novel approach to develop super quality software(s) using workflows that improves the software code quality by reducing occurrence of software maintenance problems to minimum. It motivates the software development companies to use a static code analysis tool with our proposed modifications. Therefore, the static code analysis (SCA) exposes critical areas at early stages to be comprehensively tracked and fixed in less time and effort to improve the software quality significantly. The improved SCA presents quantitative listing of detected code smells of implemented workflows with activities, suggested refactoring methods to eliminate the identified code smells and their criticality ratios.


Submaximum caffeine-contracture tension in frog toe muscle was enhanced by a number of twitch-potentiating agents (chloroform, pentobarbital, quinidine, nitrate, perchlorate, and impermeant anions) without discernible change in membrane potential. Caffeine-contracture tension also was augmented by diethyl ether. Caffeine-contracture tension was not enhanced by several other twitch-potentiating agents (zinc, tetraethylammonium, and piperidylmethyl androstane). Increased [Mg]0 or [Ca]0 or prior depolarization in high [K]0 did not prevent the potentiation of caffeine-contracture tension by most effective agents. However, enhancement of caffeine-contracture tension by nitrate or perchlorate was largely eliminated by both of these procedures. The monovalent impermeant anions differed from one another in the intensity of their effects on caffeine contractures, and these differences still were evident in the presence of high [K]0. These differences must be attributed to actions exerted at the external surface of...


Korean society has seen a surge in the inflow of information, accompanied by colors and lights, with the emergence and technological advancement of devices such as TVs and smart phones. Human beings receive a significant proportion of their information visually. Among the five senses (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile). Thus, human beings have a high reliance on the visual sense, which undoubtedly plays a crucial role in their lives. For that reason, research has been conducted in various fields to develop applications involving the visual sense. Particularly, it has been vigorously aiming to induce direct changes in physical conditions, such as the visual stimulus-induced physiological changes in the human body, emotional enrichment, concentration, attention, etc. However, the applications have yet to be developed, or have made very slow progress. This study presents the analysis of the changes in cerebral activation induced by visual stimuli delivered through a combination of colors, and has derived significant results associated with the changes in relation to indices of concentration, psychology, etc., based on the variation of stimulation.


This paper addresses the design of full order linear dynamic output feedback controllers for flexible structures. Unstructured H∞ uncertainty models are introduced for systems in modal coordinates and in reduced order form. Then a controller is designed in order to minimize a given H2 performance function while keeping the maximum supported H∞ perturbation below some appropriate level. To solve this problem we develop an algorithm able to provide local optimal solutions to optimization problems with convex constraints and non-convex but differentiable objective functions. A controller design procedure based on a trade-off curve is proposed and a simple example is solved, providing a comparison between the proposed method and the usual minimization of an upper bound H2 to the norm. The method is applied to two different flexible structure theoretical models and the properties of the resulting controllers are shown in several simulations.


Abstract : The present study sought to evaluate the survival of selected bacterial and viral bio-threat agents in disinfected water. Water matrices tested included formulated tap water with and without chlorine for bacterial agents and formulated tap water with and without chlorine and bromine for viral agents. Agents tested included B. anthracis, Y. pestis, F. tularensis, Brucella spp., vaccinia virus, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus. Disinfected water samples were spiked with each agent separately to a final concentration of approximately 1 x 10(exp 6) CFU or PFU/mL, and survival was assessed by serial dilution and plating or plaque assay. All agents were killed within minutes by the disinfectants tested with the exception of spores that required a longer contact time for inactivation. In conclusion, these results demonstrate that chlorine and bromine are effective disinfectants against agents tested.


Based on the uncertainty theory, the logistics path optimization of dangerous chemicals is studied in the research. In the course of the research, time-varying parameters, fuzzy variables and fuzzy random variables are introduced to provide quantitative tools for the risk of uncertainty, so that parameters setting and problem hypothesis can better reflect the actual situation of the transport network, so as to eliminate the idealized model. At the same time, the fuzzy simulation is substituted into the genetic algorithm, and the fuzzy stochastic simulation is substituted into the particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve the location-path- dispatching model of dangerous chemicals. On the basis of the traditional heuristic algorithm, the greedy method and the self-adaptive method are used in this paper to improve efficiency of the algorithm and enhance robustness of the results. Finally, as for the small-scale model, exact value is calculated by using Lingo software and changing modes, and the exhaustive method is used to obtain all the optimal solutions. Meanwhile, the improved heuristic algorithm is used in this paper to solve this problem, and then, the comparative analysis is carried out to verify its efficiency and superiority. Finally, the genetic algorithm based on fuzzy simulation and the self-adaptive hybrid particle swarm algorithm based on the greedy method & fuzzy random simulation are proved to be improved effectively.


The Cancer Research UK funded CHHiP trial – the largest randomised treatment trial ever undertaken in localized prostate cancer led by The Ins tute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Founda on Trust – gave 3,216 men with prostate cancer from across the UK different schedules of RT. Some men received standard RT of 74 Gray (Gy) over 37 days (two Gy a day) while others were given either 60 Gy delivered over 20 days or 57 Gy over 19 days (three Gy a day).


What is involved in acting together with others? Most shared agency theorists endorse the Shared Intention Thesis, i.e., the claim that shared agency necessarily involves shared intentions. This article dissents from this orthodoxy and offers a minimalist account of shared agency—one where parties to shared activities need not form rich webs of interrelated psychological states. My account has two main components: a conceptual analysis of shared agency in terms of the notion of plan, and an explanation of undertheorized agency‐sharing mechanisms. My analysis states that we act together just in case our activities conform to a plan and that plan figures in an explanation of our activities' joint conformity to it. To sloganize: shared activity is plan‐coordinated activity. Sometimes, plan‐coordination goes by way of shared intentions. However, besides shared intentions, there are at least two additional families of agency‐sharing mechanisms. The first features a central planner who determines the content of a plan and attributes the different parts of that plan to a collection of agents. The second does away with the planner and involves a roughly Darwinian selection of patterns of activity. Both families of mechanisms enable us to act together even in the absence of shared intentions.


For biodiesel production, marine alga Chlorella sp. was grown by continuously perfusing 35–40 °C warm waste seawater in a 14 L photobioreactor. The temperature of the culture system was maintained at minimum of 25 °C at 1.0 L h of perfusion rate with no other heating systems. Under mixotrophic conditions with only 1 g L of glucose, a maximum cell concentration of 7.1 (gdry mass L ) was observed for over 95 days cultivation while 3.3 (gdry mass L ) of maximum cell concentration was maintained for autotrophic growth. The highest total lipid production was also obtained as w = 21.6 % with w = 50 % of palmitic and oleic acids, which would be a proper composition for biodiesel. The specific lipid production rate remained relatively constant until the end of the perfusion cultivation while it decreased in latter periods of batch cultivation. In general, the perfusion process shows a better performance because of the continuous supply of fresh medium and high accumulation of biomass. These results prove that this unique recycling system can be employed where geographically the temperature is a more critical factor for outdoor mass cultivation.


Results of the analysis of need for the preferential medicines applied to treatment of malignant neoplasms of a prostate gland, provided at the expense of federal budget and regional budgets means are given in article.


Financing structure theories of modern enterprises in west world started from MM principle. Then with the development of social economy,other theories have been put forward, such as balancing theory, promoting theory, information asymmetric theory and controlling power theory. They are becoming more practical and fact-based.The conclusions have important enlightenment for us to develop our capital market system and optimize financing structure of enterprises. That is to make great effort to establish modern enterprise system and normalize the practice, make the reports of financial status of the enterprises more reliable and transparent, develop enterprise bond markets and perfect financial organization system construction.


We consider the difficult problem of classifying spatial relationships between symbols and subexpressions in handwritten mathematical expressions. We first improve existing geometric features based on bounding boxes and center points, normalizing them using the distance between the centers of the two symbols or subexpressions in question. We then propose a novel feature set for layout classification, using polar histograms computed over points in handwritten strokes. A series of experiments are presented in which a Support Vector Machine is used with these new features to classify spatial relationships of five types in the MathBrush corpus (horizontal, superscript, subscript, below, and inside (e.g. in a square root)). The normalized geometric features provide an improvement over previously published results, while the shape-based features provide a natural representation with results comparable to those for the geometric features. Combining the features produced a very small improvement in accuracy.


This paper uses a transactions cost perspective to examine the development of organizational tendencies that plague the governance of unregulated subsidiaries by regulated parent companies. By focussing on what Williamson (1985) calls the 'incentive limits' of firms, conditions that should exacerbate the problems facing these firms as they diversify are identified. Empirical testing of hypotheses drawn from this discussion is conducted using a sample of nonutility, nonregulated subsidiaries of 54 electric utilities. The analysis, using both linear regression and event history methods, confirms the connection between the characteristics of the regulated parent company and subsidiary performance. The paper concludes with a discussion of how further research might extend the state of knowledge on the topic of the economic losses of bureaucracy. How does a bureaucratic legacy affect a firm's movements into new, more spirited, domains? What administrative attributes can be linked to the ability or inability to succeed in these new fields? This paper attempts to confront these questions by exploring the governance of unregulated subsidiaries situated within regulated parent companies. The research aims to contribute to our understanding of transaetion-c ost economics in an intraorganizational setting and to shed light on the ability of firms to reproduce the market's strong incentives. In addressing this question, I focus on the expansion of regulated firms into unregulated businesses, a fortuitous setting for several reasons. First, the analysis extends the literature on the interface between publie policy and strategy, a relatively neglected area. It is also timely because regulated firms, especially public utilities, have been pouring enormous resources into diversification in recent years. Pacific Gas and Electric


The isothermal adsorption of dodecanic acid from dodecane solution on iron has been measured under different temperature. The experiment results show that the adsorption equilibrium is obtained after 4 h isothermal stirring during the temperature from 298 K to 323 K. The adsorption isotherms under 298 K and 323 K are S shape, these indicate that dodecanic acid forms surface inverse micelles on iron or leads to cooperative adsorption. The adsorption experiment data under two temperature are handled using the general formula of adsorption isotherm based on two stages adsorption model, the results show that the experiment data are in good accordance with the theoretical curve. Thermodynamical calculation results indicate that surface association process of dodecanic acid on iron is not an entropy drive process, so the association material on iron is surface inverse micelle, the gathering amount is about 3. The polar mutual action between polar groups and hydrogen bond action plays a chief role in forming the surface inverse micelle. [


The purpose of this article is to summarize the main elements of the Central American Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR), and to take a closer look at the Agreement to see what is in it for Florida producers.  This is EDIS document FE564, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published June 2005.


Control rod drive (CRD) removal and replacement, as well as other routine under-vessel maintenance and surveillance tasks, have long been recognized as repetitive high-dose jobs for boiling water reactors (BWRs). This is primarily because normal operations contaminate the CRD flange assemblies to the degree that they become intense sources of radiation. The resulting under-vessel occupational dose rates routinely range as high as 700 mrem/h, and these dose rates persist for several months after reactor shutdown. Hence, BWR under-vessel maintenance and surveillance poses a very serious outage manpower management problem for the BWR manager. The most obvious and most desirable but most elusive solution to this problem is a shielding device that: 1) produces dramatic reductions in the radiation emanating from the individual CRD Flanges; 2) provides for easy installation and removal by fully suited under-vessel workers; and 3) permits the workers to perform all of their under-vessel maintenance and surveilance tasks without the loss of the protection afforded by the shielding. The CRD flange radiation shield (CRDFRS) is specifically designed to satisfy all of these principal objectives. It is, therefore, the first proposed solution to directly and effectively address the BWR under-vessel outage manpower management problem at its cause.


Ludwig-Maximilans-Universtität München, 85748 Garching, Germany Excellence Cluster Universe, 85748 Garching, Germany H. Hulubei National Inst. of Phys. and Nucl. Engineering, Bucharest, Romania Inst. of Nucl. Res. of the Hungarian Academy of Sci., Debrecen, Hungary Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, 85748 Garching, Germany Dep. of Phys. and Astr., Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA


The assessment of fiber architecture is of major interest in the progression of myocardial disease. Recent techniques such as MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging or Ultrasound Elastic Tensor Imaging (ETI) can derive the fiber directions by measuring the anisotropy of water diffusion or tissue lasticity, but these techniques present severe limitations in clinical setting. In this study, we measure the spatial coherence of ultrasonic speckle in skeletal muscles and myocardial tissues, in order to determine the fibers directions and compare it to ETI. Acquisitions were performed using a linear transducer array mounted on a rotation device to image ex vivo bovine skeletal muscle and porcine LV myocardial samples. At each angle, multiple plane waves were transmitted and the backscattered echoes recorded. The coherence factor was measured as the integral of the correlation function. In skeletal muscle, maximal/minimal coherence factor was found for the probe parallel/perpendicular to the fibers. In myocardium, the coherence was assessed across the entire myocardial thickness, and the position of maxima and minima varied transmurally due to the complex fibers distribution. The shear wave speed variation with the probe angle was found to follow the coherence variation. Spatial correlation can thus reveal the anisotropy of the ultrasonic speckle in skeletal muscle and myocardium. BTI could be used on any type of ultrasonic scanner for non invasive evaluation of myocardial fibers.


Modern technology provides a great amount of information. But for computer monitoring systems or computer control systems, in order to have the situation in hand, we need to reduce the number of variables to one or two parameters, which express the quality and/or security of the whole system. In this paper the authors introduce the system parameter fusion principle put forward by the second author and present how to apply it to assessing quality in digital reference services combining with the Delphi technique and AHP.


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Two spontaneous cases of canine disseminated hypereosinophilic disease were experienced. Main clinical signs were weight loss, severe dyspnea and coughing with abnormally high level of IgG, and in one case (Case A), bloody diarrhea occurred shortly before death. At necropsy, fibrous neoplastic nodules about 4 cm in diameter were produced around the trachea in both cases. Similar nodular lesions as well as some diffuse ones, were disseminated in the lungs, liver and spleen. In addition, the skin and gastrointestinal tract were severely affected in case A, while the kidneys and lymphoid tissues were involved in Case B. Histopathologically, all the lesions consisted of proliferated and sometimes degenerated fibrous tissues with dense accumulation of eosinophil leukocytes and plasma cells. By electron micro-scopy some eosinophils were shown to have specific granules of normal shape showing a degranulation process. The findings suggested an immunologic mechanism involved in pathogenesis of the disease.


Discussions on a form of a frequency spectrum of wind-driven sea waves just above the spectral maximum continue during the last three decades. In 1958 Phillips made a conjecture that wave breaking is the main mechanism responsible for the spectrum formation. That leads to the spectrum decay ∼ ω −5 , where ω is the frequency of the waves. There is a contradiction between the numerous experimental data and this spectrum. The experiments show decay ∼ ω −4. There are two general ways of the explanation of this phenomenon. The first one (proposed by Banner (1990)) takes into account the Doppler effect due to surface circular currents generated by long waves in the Phillips model. The second approach ascends to the work by Zakharov and Filonenko (1968). It is based on four-wave interactions in the kinetic equation and gives good agreement with the experimental data. In this article the contribution to the Phillips model due to the Doppler effect was examined. We considered the cases of isotropic and strongly anisotropic spectra. Both analytical results and numerical computations give us an evidence to state that the Doppler effect cannot explain the divergence of Phillips model with experimental data.


Lead oxide nanoparticles (PbO NPs) and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)/polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) nanocomposite films were prepared by sol-gel and solution casting methods respectively. The structural properties of the samples were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) and Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed the good dispersion of PbO NPs on the surface of the blend films. CMC film exhibits a transmittance (T) of 72%, increased after mixing with PVP and then decreased to <38% after adding 4.0 wt% PbO NPs. Both the direct and indirect optical band gaps (Eg) of CMC equal to 3.97 and 3.7 eV, respectively. These values were increased after PVP addition and then decreased after loading PbO NPs. The conduction mechanism in CMC/PVP blend has changed from Schottky emission to Poole–Frenkel due to the effects of temperature and PbO NPs content. The effect of adding PVP & PbO NPs on the DC conductivity and the activation energy Ea values of the CMC are discussed. The dielectric constant (e′) was investigated in the frequency and temperature ranges of 1 kHz–1.0 MHz and 293–393 K respectively. Its values depend on both the PbO content and temperature. The AC conductivity σac was increased with increasing PbO content. The correlated barrier hopping (CBH) was found to be the most appropriate mechanism for explaining the AC conduction behavior. POLYM. COMPOS., 2017. © 2017 Society of Plastics Engineers


CHA2DS2-VASc score has been used as a surrogate marker for predicting outcomes beyond thromboembolic risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Likewise, cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a predictor of mortality in AF.

 This study aimed to investigate the association of cTnI and CHA2DS2-VASc score with long-term prognosis in patients admitted to the emergency department with AF.

 A retrospective cohort study conducted between January 2012 and December 2013, enrolling patients admitted to the emergency department with AF and having documented cTnI measurements. CHA2DS2-VASc score was estimated. Primary endpoint was 5-year all-cause mortality, readmission for heart failure (HF), readmission for myocardial infarction (MI) and the composite end point of major adverse cardiac events defined as death, readmission for HF or readmission for MI (MACE).

 A total of 578 patients with AF were studied, of whom 252 patients had elevated levels of cTnI (43.6%) and 334 patients had CHA2DS2-VASc score >3 (57.8%). Patients with elevated cTnI tended to be oldercompared with those who did not have cTnI elevation and were more frequently comorbid and of higher ischemic risk, including hypertension, prior MI, prior HF, chronic renal failure and peripheral artery disease. The overall median CHA2DS2-VASc score was higher in those with cTnI elevation compared to those patients elevated cTnI levels (4.2 vs 3.3 points, p<0.001). Main diagnoses at hospital discharge were tachyarrhythmia 30.3%, followed by heart failure 17.7%, respiratory infections 9.5% and acute coronary syndrome 7.3%. At 5-year follow-up, all-cause death was significantly higher for patients with cTnI elevation compared with those who did not have cTnI elevation (56.4% vs. 27%; logrank test p<0.001). Specifically, for readmissions for HF and readmissions for MI there were no differences in between patients with or without cTnI elevation. In addition, MACE was reached in 165 patients (65.5%) with cTnI elevation, compare to 126 patients (38.7%) without cTnI elevation (p<0.001). On multivariable Cox regression analysis, cTnI elevation was an independent predictor of all-cause death (hazard ratio, 1.67, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.24–2.26, p=0.001) and of MACE (hazard ratio 1.47, 95% confidence interval 1.15–1.88; P=0.002), but it did not reach statistical significance for readmissions for MI and readmissions for HF. CHA2DS2-VASc score was a predictor on univariate Cox regression analysis for each endpoint, but it did not reach significance on multivariable Cox regression analysis for any endpoint.

 cTnI is independently associated with long-term all-cause mortality in patients attending the emergency department with AF. cTnI compared to CHA2DS2-VASc score is thus a biomarker with predictive capacity for mortality in late follow-up, conferring utility in the risk stratification of patients with atrial fibrillation.


Image sequences recorded with cameras mounted in a moving vehicle provide information about the vehicle's environment which has to be analysed in order to really support the driver in actual traffic situations. One type of information is the lane structure surrounding the vehicle. Therefore, driver assistance functions which make explicit use of the lane structure represented by lane borders and lane markings is to be analysed. Lane analysis is performed on the road region to remove road pixels. Only lane markings are the interests for the lane detection process. Once the lane boundaries are located, the possible edge pixels are scanned to continuously obtain the lane model. The developed system can reduce the complexity of vision data processing and meet the real time requirements.


International politics had quite an eventful year in 1975. The last American soldier left Saigon, bringing the Vietnam War to an end after sixteen years of fighting. General Francisco Franco died, starting the process that released Spain from thirty-six years of dictatorship. Moreover, the European Council had its inaugural meeting, Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to lead the British Conservative Party, and, to cap it all off, German political scientists produced a handbook on the Federal Republic's foreign policy for the first time.1 Despite all of the changes in the international system and domestic politics since the mid 1970s, the German international relations community has not published a new handbook capturing this monumental transformation. Over the course of the last two years, however, this dearth of up-to-date scholarship finally has been addressed. In light of this, I attempt to fulfill


Multi-class algorithm based on Support Vector Machines, which is also called as Decision Directed Acyclic Graph method, is used for ventilator faults diagnosis in order to diagnose the vibration faults of centrifugal ventilator and improve ventilator run security and economical efficiency. Results indicate that the method is a novel means to ventilator faults diagnosis, which can not only diagnose common vibration faults accurately but also it has some features which are faster diagnosis rate and higher accuracy.


Spatial modelling is recognized as an important factor for assessment of breeding values in plant trials. 841 Scots pines were analyzed using version 2.0 of the hglm package. Both random additive genetic effects and spatial effects were included in the model. The covariance structures for the genetic and spatial effects were given by the additive relationship matrix and a conditional autoregressive (CAR) model, respectively. The genetic variance decreased by 24% when the spatial effects were included, which confirms the importance of including spatial effects in plant trials. The possibility to fit CAR models in the hglm package is expected to facilitate spatial modelling in genetic studies including animal breeding applications.


Zanuck was born into the movies through his famous father, who founded the 20th Century Fox studio. His first major film job was in 1959, when at the age of 24 he produced "Compulsion," which starred Orson Welles. He became president of his father's studio during the transitional times of the 1960s and '70s, and went on to produce – with David Brown – Steven Spielberg's first film, "Sugarland Express."


The present paper represents an overview of the most popular Russian social networking site VKontakte and its role in the formation of modern music consumption pattern in post-Soviet countries. Unt ...


The article describes key elements of national innovative system and characteristics of its development in Russia. Special attention is given to institutional knowledge-based economic changes in the country.


This article describes how one company (The Dow Chemical Company) is managing the issue of increasing demands by regulatory agencies for health and environmental information. Described are: an interdisciplinary organization linked by a resource and communication network; methods of evaluating information requests and establishing priorities for response; and problems in communicating with the regulators. The need for a responsive technical dialogue between government and industry is stressed.


What is the role of trust in designing public policies, especially during the current pandemic? In this paper, I examine recent research that demonstrates the crucial effects of trust. This research suggests, I believe, two main conclusions. First, there is much emerging evidence that trust — and especially trust in government — is a major factor in shaping the effectiveness of public policies. In particular, when trust in government is weak, many government policies do not achieve their goals because people simply do not follow the government's laws, regulations, and directives. Second, there is also much emerging evidence that trust is not fixed and given and immutable, mainly determined by a country's history and culture and institutions, as was once believed. Instead, recent evidence indicates that trust can vary significantly, even over short periods of time. Indeed, there is growing research that trust in government can be affected in systematic ways by systematic policy interventions. These conclusions suggest that there are ways out of our current wilderness, even if these strategies will be neither easy nor quick.


The invention compound 4- (6-chloro-2,3-methylenedioxy-oxa-anilino) -7- [2- (4-methylpiperazin-1-yl) ethoxy] -5-tetrahydropyran-4 yl oxy-quinazoline, to a method and intermediates useful for the preparation of the intermediates in the manufacture of a chemical method to manufacture the compound of (AZD0530 the active entity). The present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing a specific crystal form, and this crystalline form of the compound, such as dimethyl fumarate salt and trihydrate.


Other poets of comparable stature have made the theme of death central in much of their writing. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) did so in hers to an unusual degree. In one way or another she has drawn it into the texture of some five or six hundred poems.
 One persistent thought that binds together her many poems is that death snaps the line of commuication with those she has known and loved, and creates the uncertainty in the minds of all mortals whether that communication can ever be re-established.1
 The letter below, written to a friend when Emily was just a month past her sixteenth birthday is both a good example of her literary style and her views about death.


Busbar technology is more and more used to realize connections within power supply systems in answer to the need of compactness. The integrated problem on heat conduction and radiation-convective heat exchange describes the temperature regime in current conductors and current carrying busbars of power electrical apparatus such as circuit breakers or high breaking capacity fuses. Beside steady-state conditions, the transient thermal regime of busbar has an important influence upon whole power supply system from thermal behaviour point of view. Hence, a 3D thermal analysis of a power system including fuse, low voltage circuit breaker and busbars connections, using a specific software package based on Finite Element Method, has been done. From 3D thermal modelling and simulations, the thermal transient impedance for the busbar has been computed. This allows a better correlation between protection characteristics of the fuse and circuit breaker and busbar design.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


A series of earthquake and tsunami loading tests of reinforced concrete buildings with soft-first story were conducted to identify the effects of earthquake shaking preceding to the tsunami loading, which might cause the collapse of the structure. The dynamic and hydraulic tests were conducted in 2014 and the static tests in 2015 totally for five specimens out of six specimens constructed. Three specimens were tested at hydraulic testing laboratory at PARI, Kurihama, in the first series of 2014 under earthquake loading and tsunami loading. The first specimen with 50 mm square column was tested under hydraulic loading with water height of 1.0 m and survived the hydraulic loading without collapse. The second specimen with the same dimensions of 50 mm square was subjected to dynamic loading first with the maximum acceleration of 0.4 G and then the same tsunami loading of 1.0 m, in case the specimen collapsed totally under hydraulic loading. The third specimen with 75 mm square columns survived the same shaking and the tsunami loading with minor damage. In 2015, the static lateral loading were conducted to bare specimens of two types and also the survived specimen with 75 mm square columns, from which rigorous and accurate hysteretic relations under static loading could also be obtained. The effects of seismic loading on the capacity against the following tsunami wave are discussed in details with the observed behavior as well as with the calculated capacity.


This article introduced the principle of aerial photogrammetry system based on remote controlled unmanned airship,and then introduced the status quo,the configuration,the performance index,and technical characteristics of the digital aerial photogrammetry technology based on remote controlled unmanned airship in land resources management.Finally,the article views the application foreground of digital aerial photogrammetry system of the remote control unmanned airship.


Fringe projection profilometry (FPP) based on the binary defocusing technique (BD) shows great potential in high-speed 3-D imaging. Due to the constant defocusing degree, existing binary defocusing operations require adopting similar-wavelength fringe patterns, thereby forming a long imaging sequence in multi-frequency temporal phase unwrapping (TPU). In this paper, we propose a few-pattern defocusing FPP for efficient and accurate 3-D imaging. The imaging sequence consists of only 6 hybrid images, namely 2 unit-frequency ramp images, 2 low-frequency, and 2 high-frequency sinusoidal fringe images. Combining unit-frequency ramp and low-frequency fringe images, the unknown average intensity and fringe orders of fringe images can be determined. Consequently, the final absolute phase map can be extracted from the high-frequency fringe images. Moreover, a kernel-optimized dithering technique is presented to generate the projected patterns of hybrid images. In this dithering technique, a dynamic kernel and a dual-objective function ensure the optimal binarization of defocused images with different grayscale variations. Experiment results verify the proposed few-pattern defocusing FPP achieves efficient 3-D imaging with a measurement accuracy of 0.02 mm.


The gradual incorporation of information and communication technologies influences all sectors of society, and education is not immune to this phenomenon, which has led to the use of various technological resources, including audiovisual aids. Their adoption poses constant challenges, since it requires knowledge and mastery of skills, so all actors will have to become literate in this regard at some point. The research starts from the systematization of the processes of integration and educational use of Information and Communication Technologies. In that sense, the authors of the following work intend to spread some experiences about the use and appreciation of the audiovisual aids, through theoretical approaches and inquiries made at different levels, educational and work contexts, a methodological procedure is also proposed that guides how to appreciate audiovisual aids, the result of research carried out with students and teachers. For its development, there were used the following methods: historical-logical, analysis and syntheses, explanatory- illustrative and observation, those that were carried out from perceptual processes, like analysis, synthesis, logic, and through abstraction, by allowing an exhaustive study on the theme and promoting the knowledge and development of the ability to appreciate audiovisual aids with their respective operations and actions, elements that are represented through the theoretical and practical experiences disseminated in the body of the work.


Koi herpesvirus (KHV) is a herpesvirus that particularly infects and causes mass mortality to koi and common carp. Therefore, the protection of common carp from KHV infection is urgently needed. In this study, we developed an application of DNA vaccine encoding KHV glycoprotein-25 by immersion method to increase survival of common carp against KHV infection. A total of 400 common carp juveniles at 30-day-old were immersed in 1-L water containing 1.3×10 CFU/mL of the killed Escherichia coli cells carrying DNA vaccine. Three frequencies and three duration of fish immersion were tested, namely: 1×30 minutes, 1×60 minutes, 1× 90 minutes, 2×90 minutes and 3×90 minutes by interval of 24 hours. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis showed that DNA vaccine was successfully expressed in the vaccinated fish. Fish at twenty eight days post vaccination were challenged by injecting 10 mL of KHV per fish. The result showed that vaccination by 1×30 minutes immersion allowed 61% of fish survived, and this was significantly higher (p<0.05) compared to control (without vaccination), but it was similar among vaccination treatments (p>0.05). The relative percent survival of vaccinated fish were also similar among treatments (p>0.05). DNA vaccination has increased fish survival about two fold higher compared to unvaccinated fish control (26.67%). Thus, DNA vaccination was effectively delivered by immersion for 1×30 minutes, and this technique can be useful to level up the resistance of common carp juveniles against KHV infection.


The limit state of torsion of ship hulls with large hatch openings is studied. A method to determine the distribution of the plastic shear flow on the hull cross section in the limit state by using the lower-bound theorem is presented together with the corresponding linear programming problem. The limit torsional moment of the hull cross section is obtained based on the distribution of the shear stress in the limit state. Three example limit states for typical containerships of different sizes with large hatch openings are calculated. The calculated limit torsional moments are compared with the design values of wave torque calculated by using the equations given by main classification societies in their rules. A rough estimate of the safety margin is obtained. The results show that for large containerships, it is necessary to pay attention to the safety with respect to torsion. The present method can serve as an effective tool in structural reliability analysis of ships with large hatch openings when the failure mode of torsion is taken into account.


There are precedents for the studies of road signs in terms of their visuality, color and design. There are, however, few precedents for actual study of guide design effectiveness as route guides. Therefore in this project actual running tests were carried out and also surveys of existing on-site road sign and recognition psychology, and analysis of roadside benefits conferred on drivers. Several proposals for improvement are given.


Diamond films of high quality were prepared by hot-filament chemical vapor deposition, and were annealed at a temperature of between 1300–1400°C in vacuum and hydrogen atmosphere. The electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum did not change in shape and intensity for the films annealed in vacuum, but it changed in shape for the films annealed in hydrogen. This change could not be explained if the ESR signal was attributed to a single center such as an H1 center. From computer simulation for the ESR spectrum, we found that two more centers are necessary besides the H1 center. The change in shape produced by annealing in hydrogen resulted from a change in the relative amounts of the three centers.


Census data indicates a steady increase in the number of Vietnamese people migrating to Australia. Despite this there is a paucity of research examining alcohol usage within this community. A review of the literature was undertaken to examine the prevalence of alcohol use, related harms, and health service use. Vietnamese Australians were found to consume alcohol at a rate lower than that of Australians in general. However, the relevant research may not be generalizable, alcohol usage and associated harms may be under-reported, and prevalence rates contradicted the breadth and frequency of harms reported. These issues are discussed.


kŭrim ("pictures that were not pictures"). That obstinacy in pursuing art beyond the confines of the establishment lent tansaekhwamethods a distinctly political tint against the backdrop of repression and authoritarianism, and Kee rightly stresses this fact to counter the widely held assumption that tansaekhwa failed to explicitly address the world outside art in comparison to its much more political counterpart: "Minjung" art of the 1980s. In the first four chapters of her book, Kee introduces the reader to a series of tansaekhwa's representative figures who embraced abstraction as a means to reconfigure fundamentals of art such as "medium, materiality, the viewing encounter and the place of the viewer" (p. 30) on the one hand, and call into question the issues of "empire, nationalism, and colonization" (p. 31) on the other. In the last, fifth chapter, Kee situates tansaekhwa in a broader context of the global art market where, contrary to the artists' own positioning of themselves as Korean artists who did not make "Korean art," tansaekhwa was "used to promote a distinctly Korean cultural, ethnic, and national sensibility" (p. 31). As Kee unfolds her coherent and engaging narrative of tansaekhwa, her storytelling comes across as hardly linear. Mirroring the nature of tansaekhwa as elastic and thus multivalent, Kee's narrative takes multiple points of departure and arrival and highlights the complicated position and reception of the tansaekhwa movement in the history of contemporary Korean art. She also displays throughout the book a rare sensitivity to formal qualities of the visual materials before her and exhaustive knowledge of theoretical discussions that surrounded and gave rise to the movement, all while writing a refined but accessible prose without a shred of excess. The timeliness of Kee's work is obvious when one reads commentaries by current leading figures of the Korean art scene who continue to define both tansaekhwa and the whole of Korean art vis-à-vis global art on both universal and particularistic terms without being aware of the role tansaekhwa played in challenging such binary categories of analysis. For that reason, this book is bound to appeal to a wide range of scholars, not only those within her own discipline of art history but also others who engage with issues of modernity, identity, and nationalism in modern and contemporary Korea and elsewhere. Kee's central question, "Is it possible, then, for the study of tansaekhwa to help us rethink some of the distinctions on which we practice the world at present?" (p. 33), is brilliantly answered in the process of reading—and by the method she utilizes—and there is little doubt that Kee succeeds in problematizing those distinctions that enjoy currency not only in the expanding global marketplace of art (or marketplace of global art), but also in communities of scholars and state actors alike.


This paper begins with an analysis of developing status of China software industry,then from macro、mid and micro respects,it focuses on comparative analysis of China and India software industry Finally,it puts forward some suggestions about how to life up international competitiveness of China software industry.


The first section provides additional background on solving control problems with pure state constraints. Section B contains proofs, derivations, and the analysis of the Hotelling-like policy in the main text. Section C describes the numerical example's calibration and solution. Section D adapts the carbon dioxide (CO2) decay model of Golosov et al. (2014) to our setting and demonstrates that the main text's primary results still hold. Section E allows business-as-usual emissions to evolve over time. Section F numerically explores different degrees of inertia and the role of the discount rate in the base model. Section G provides a phase portrait analysis of the efficient policy. Section H derives the least-cost trajectory for a geoengineering control.


One year ago this month Congress passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968.1 Title 17 of that act granted a bundle of new corporate powers to federal savings and loan associations both on the savings side of the business and on the investment and lending side of the business. The reason for including these new powers for federal associations in the Housing Act was that Congress wanted to increase the ability of these institutions to attract the savings of the public, because savings and loan associations by law and tradition have been the backbone of home financing in this country for many years. Title 1 7 sought to increase the ability of savings and loan associations to attract savings in two basic ways: ( 1 ) by authorizing a wider variety of more flexible investments in order to improve savings and loan associations' earning power to enable savings associations to pay more competitive savings rates, and (2) by providing the legal basis to offer modern savings deposit instruments which would be more attractive to the savings public. This morning I will comment briefly on the general legal nature of the new, modern deposits which federal savings and loan associations now are authorized to offer. In examining the general legal nature of the new savings deposits, it is instructive to make some basic comparisons between the new savings deposits which federal savings associations may now offer and their predecessor savings accounts (or "share accounts" as they were sometimes called). Let's start by considering the legal nature of savings accounts which traditionally have been offered to the public by both federally chartered savings associations and statechartered savings associations throughout the country. Corporate powers of federal savings and loan associations, derive from the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 and the regulations of the Fedefral Home Loan Bank Board which are issued pursuant to the broad grant of power contained in that act.2 State-chartered associations, of course, derive their corporate powers from applicable state law (and supervisory regulations, if any), but the general legal nature of savings accounts of both mutual state and federally-chartered savings associations, is accurately exemplified by the accounts of federal associations. The basic statutory authority for federal savings associations to offer savings accounts has been Section 5(b) of the Home Owners' Loan


Objective To treat polluted surface water and supply potable water rapidly for the army in the emergency such as war and natural disaster.Methods A new integrative membrane water purifier which was a small scale and intelligent pilot with a new process(membrane coagulation reactor,MCR) was developed.Results The dimensions of the pilot are 600 mm×600 mm×900 mm with net weight 80 kg,and the flow rate is 0.5 m~3·h~(-1).The apparatus which is automatic and self-powered is suited to treat many kinds of water source or polluted water and is not limited to the weather and the location.The clearing rate for organic matters,and turbidty is over 69.7%,and 99.9% respectvely.In addition,it is immobile or removable and can be operated simply.When beyond its service lifetime,the membrane should be renewed and the pilot can be used again.Conclusion The effluent quality accords with the sanitary standard of drinking water and fulfills the needs of the army.


With the growing application of DNA-sequence and other genetic data since the 1990s, osteological work has largely given way to molecular approaches in the study of amphibian biodiversity. Many influential works from the mid-20th century (e. g., Francis, 1934; Tihen, 1958; Hansen and Tanner, 1958; Wake, 1963; Özeti and Wake, 1969) are still cited today, but few such works are produced anew by contemporary biologists. However, as an independent source of data, osteological characters can provide invaluable insights into evolutionary relationships of living taxa that are as important as those derived from nucleotide substitutions. Homology and homoplasy are Comparative Osteology of the Genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Southeastern China


Two scanning acoustic probe microscopy (SAPM) techniques have been developed for the nanoscale analysis of the interaction of acoustic modes on the surface of a solid. The scanning acoustic force microscope (SAFM) and the scanning acoustic tunneling microscope (SATM) are extensions to the scanning probe microscopy world utilizing the non-linearity of the respective interaction-distance curves in order to detect high-frequency signals, like acoustic waves or electric fields. SAFM and SATM measurements are presented that give an overview of past and present work in this field. With SAPM, acoustic wave properties of arbitrarily polarized surface acoustic wave (SAW) modes can be measured with sub-wavelength resolution and unmatched amplitude sensitivity. SAW dispersion measurements, scattering and diffraction, SAW transducer studies, studies of the crystal anisotropy, as well as atomically resolved images of the oscillating lattice will be discussed.


ABSTRACT For many people around the world, the scale of the coronavirus crisis called to patterns of escalating cultural problems and polarization we have faced. This article looks at the cultural and power dimensions of this crisis in the context of soft power theory and makes a number of conceptual suggestions for future research.


Multithreading and prefetching are the techniques used to increase the performance of the processor. Multithreading executes another concurrent thread when running thread encounters a catch miss. Prefetching increases the single thread performance by predicting the data address in advance. This paper presents the performance of standard benchmarks in simultaneous multithreading processor (SMT) and chip multiprocessor (CMP). SMT is a tightly coupled system where the processor and the cache are dependent on each other. CMP is a loosely coupled system with independent processor and cache. The processor is demonstrated by cyclic accurate execution driven simulator and the processor performance are evaluated based on execution speed and execution time.


Abstract:In 1874–1875, hundreds of colorful nishiki-e (woodblock prints) pictorialized individual articles previously published in Tokyo's main daily newspapers. Because many prints foregrounded violent, sexual, and supernatural themes, they have been viewed as "hybrid" Edo-Meiji media forms that demonstrate an imperfect understanding of what constituted the news. In the context of 1870s' urban culture, however, news nishiki-e were part of a broader category of "old media"—including theater, short illustrated fiction, and oral storytelling—that self-consciously incorporated the newly prominent term shinbun (news or newspaper). These prints exploited the indeterminacy of images and the possibilities of text-image interplay to draw out social tensions and encourage audiences to reflect critically on changes wrought by the Restoration. Because the choice of what to think always remained with the reader-viewer, the disappearance of news nishiki-e thus constituted the loss of a mode of criticality.摘要:新聞錦絵は、 1874 年に登場し、以前報道された殺人や猥雑な事件を色彩豊かな錦絵で表象した。「古いメディア」の絵の不確定性、書画の相互交錯を駆使しつつ、新造語の「新聞」を意識的に取り入れ、読者に社会的緊張を自主的に思索するよう促したメディアであった。


Warsaw University Observatory, Warsaw, Poland(February 1, 2008)We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions onthe sphere which speed up computations by a factor O √Ncompared to present methods whereN is the number of pixels. No simplifying assumptions are made other than bandlimitation. Thisreduces typical computation times for convolving the full sky with the asymmetric beam pattern ofa megapixel Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) mission from months to minutes. Our methodsenable realistic simulation and careful analysis of data from such missions, taking into account theeffects of asymmetric "point spread functions" and far side lobes of the physical beam. Whilemotivated by CMB studies, our methods are general and hence applicable to the convolution orfiltering of any scalar field on the sphere with an arbitrary, asymmetric kernel. We show in anappendix that the same ideas can be applied to the inverse problems of map-making and beamreconstruction by similarly accelerating the transpose convolution which is needed for the iterativesolution of the normal equations.I. INTRODUCTION


Vertical seismic profiling/common depth point (VSP‐CDP) mapping is often preferred to crosswell migration when imaging crosswell seismic reflection data. The principal advantage of VSP‐CDP mapping is that it can be configured as a one‐to‐one operation between data in the acquisition domain and data in the image domain and therefore does not smear coherent noise such as tube waves, guided waves, and converted waves as crosswell migration could. However, unlike crosswell migration, VSP‐CDP mapping cannot collapse diffractions; therefore, the lateral resolution of reflection events suffers.We present a migration algorithm that is applied to the crosswell data after they have been mapped. By performing crosswell migration in two distinct steps—mapping followed by diffraction stacking—noise events can be identified and filtered in the mapped domain without smearing effects commonly associated with conventional crosswell migration operators. Tests on noise‐free synthetic crosswell data indicate that the two‐ste...


avings and assets can play an important role in low-income families' short-term needs and long-term development. In the shortterm, savings can help families weather unexpected employment gaps or pay unexpected medical and car repair bills. In the long term, families can realize goals such as owning a home or financing a secure retirement. A key concern is that low-wage jobs can be unstable, leaving families struggling to cope with employment gaps and financial emergencies that can arise without warning. Today's weak economy, highlighted by job layoffs, high unemployment rates, and limited lines of credit, underscores the need for families to have savings to draw on during


Derivatives of 1,2,4-triazole is a very  perspective class of heterocyclic compounds which have high therapeutic effectiveness. The main direction of research on these derivatives are antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial, soothing, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory and other activities.
The aim was to analyze literature data and generalize recent advances in the study of antimicrobial and antifungal action of 1,2,4-triazole derivatives which can help to create new biologically active substances of this type of activity. Bibliosemantical method, systems thinking and the results of our own research were used in the work.
The results of the literature review of antimicrobial and antifungal activity among new alkyl, aryl and heteryl derivatives of 1,2,4-triazole and among complex compounds, which contain 1,2,4-triazole are as ligands were analyzed and systematized. Some dependence of this type of activity on specialty of chemical structure of heterocyclic system derivatives was specified.
Perspective of purposeful synthesis of new derivatives of 1,2,4-triazole and products of their transformation as available object for studying biological activity and expanding knowledge about antimicrobial and antifungal activity of this class of heterocyclic compounds were shown with informational analysis. Topicality and practical importance of finding biologically active compounds and receiving biologically active substance by synthesis of new derivatives of 1,2,4-triazole with high antimicrobial activity in relation to gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria were demonstrated.


We are excited to introduce the new 'Agrarian Classics' review series, installments of which will appear occasionally in the pages of the JPS reviews section. In this series, leading scholars will revisit older works in critical agrarian studies to examine their legacy and contemporary relevance. What constitutes a 'classic'? We do not seek to define a canon and, if anything, hope that this series will provide opportunities to destabilize existing biases within the organized memory of the field. We consider as 'classic' any volume that remains compelling decades after it was first published. This embraces both works that are well known and continue to enliven a great deal of research, teaching and praxis, and those that are little known or underappreciated for whatever reason. The core objective for reviewers is to bring these enduring works into dialoguewith contemporary theoretical debates, political struggles, transformations in global capitalism and trajectories of agrarian change. Thismight include suggestions of how these works could inspire new lines of research or be incorporated into current course syllabi. 'Agrarian Classics' reviews will be afforded slightly more space than standard book reviews, typically around 3000 words. However, there is some flexibility to accommodate exceptional essays that grow in scope and ambition. We are fortunate to have Michael Watts inaugurate the series with just such an exceptional example. In this sweeping essay, Watts situates Anton Blok's The Mafia of a Sicilian village, 1860–1960 (1974) – arguably an underappreciated classic –within a broader canvas of agrarian political economy, Gramscian political analysis and mafia studies. Watts' essay extracts from Blok's formidable book's theoretical and methodological insights into a range of contemporary questions concerning peasantries, state formation, capitalist development and 'violent entrepreneurs'. In the second installment of this series, which will run in the next regular issue, Julie Guthman delivers a thought-provoking review of MiriamWells' Strawberry fields: politics, class, and work in California agriculture (1996). Drawing insights from her own research on the California strawberry industry, Guthman skillfully re-examines the empirical findings of the book in light of the farm consolidation, reduced labor supply, and increased environmental regulation that have reshaped the industry over the past two decades. She highlights Wells' lasting theoretical contributions, particularly her insights into how commodity characteristics shape industry structure and labor relations, and suggests that scholars today might expand on this approach by theorizing the production of strawberries and other agricultural commodities as complex socio-natural assemblages. We hope that these are the first of many 'Agrarian Classics' reviews to stimulate conversation, debate and research.


After a brief review of the derivation of the standard phase time formula, based on the use of the stationary phase method, we propose, in the opaque limit, an alternative method to calculate the phase time. The new formula for the phase time is in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations and shows that for wave packets, whose upper limit of the momentum distribution is very close to the barrier height, the transit time is proportional to the barrier width.


This essay states the achievenments made in controuing the population and promoting pepole's quality since the set-up of our nation. It also analyzes the severe population situation and the difficulties. It further sets forth the necessity to adhere to basic national poticy of Brith plan and some counter measure.


The article discusses the possibilities of managing regional development based on the "growth machine" creation. The results of a study of the regional stakeholders activity in Krasnodar region are presented. The authors provide recommendations for including regional stakeholders in the strategic management of the Krasnodar region socio-economic development.


In this paper, we investigate the resource block (RB) allocation problem in cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) networks mode 3, where the cellular networks schedule the RBs for direct vehicular communications. First, we establish the communication model and introduce the effective capacity and queuing theory to describe the reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links. Then, we introduce the α-fair function and formulate the joint power control and RB allocation problem considering the allocation fairness and the different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and V2V links. Our objective is to maximize the sum capacity of all V2I links with the α-fair function while guaranteeing the allocation fairness among V2I links and the transmission reliability for each V2V pair. To achieve this objective, we propose a novel matching game theory algorithm based on the exchanged preference profiles between the two participant sets, i.e., V2V and V2I links. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm is adaptive to the dynamic vehicular network and achieves better efficiency and fairness trade-offs, outperforming the classic allocation method.


We have shown (for man and dog) that the so-called stomachics or bitter tonics acting in the stomach alone have no appreciable influence on the hunger mechanism when given in the usual therapeutic quantities. 1 If the stomachics are taken by mouth in the ordinary way, all of them inhibit gastric tonus and hunger contractions in direct proportion to the intensity and duration of stimulation of the nerve endings in the mouth. If the bitters are introduced directly into the stomach in quantities considerably in excess of the therapeutic dose they all cause inhibition of the gastric tonus and hunger mechanism, evidently by stimulation of nerve endings in the gastric mucosa. In brief, the bitter tonics, in so far as they influence the hunger mechanism directly, cause inhibition or depression of hunger. According to Heubner and Reider, 2 large doses of bitters also retard the emptying of the stomach (dog).


The detection of rail fastener defects is the key to ensure the running safety of high-speed trains. Traditional method is usually be detected rely on train workers who walk along railway lines to find out the potential risks. The method by artificial maintenance is slowly, costly, and dangerous. As to solve the problem, an automatic detect method based on machine vision is proposed for all kinds of rail fastener defects. background subtraction algorithm is used to achieve the accurate positioning of railway fasteners in this paper. The method is based on video sequence for processing rail fastener image. First of all, realized rail fastener accurate positioning based on the improved Canny operator and the Hough transform to extract linear; Then, extracted the characteristics of fastener defect feature by fusion LBP (Local Binary Pattern, Local Binary Pattern) and HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradient direction Gradient Histogram); Finally, the characteristics of Histogram as the SVM (Support Vector Machine SVM) input values is used to buckle defect classification. The experimental results show that the method compared with the traditional single classification method, has higher real-time and accuracy, and can meet the requirement of rail fastener defect detection.


Objetive To establish a bacterial endotoxin test for Zoledronic acid Olive Oil injection.Methods According to the Bacterial endotoxins test in Chinese Pharmacopoeia(2005,2 edition).Different batches of Zoledronic Acid Injection from different TAL manufacturers were underwent the interference tests.Results There was no interference in the bacterial endotoxins test when the concentration of Zoledronic Acid Injection was less than or equal to the detection limit of 0.05 mg/mL and the concentration of Zoledronic Acid Injection was diluted to 14 times.Conclusion Carrying out the bacterial endotoxin test for Zoledronic Acid Injection is feasible.


John the Revelator begins the main body of his avpoka,luyij vIhsou/ Cristou/ by stating that he was on the island of Patmos in tribulation because of his faithful testimony to the gospel. He states further that, while there, he came to be evn pneu,mati evn th/| kuriakh/| h`me,ra| (Rev 1:10), at which time he encountered the resurrected Christ. The phrase evn pneu,mati unequivocally refers to the first visionary experience the Revelator had on Patmos (cf. 4:2; 17:3; 21:10). He was about to be shown a representation of events and forces affecting God's people, which were already at work in his own time and would lead into the time of the end. The phrase evn th/| kuriakh/| h`me,ra| has been widely debated among expositors of the Apocalypse in the last fifty years—particularly during the 1960s, when there were a number of exchanges of opinions in scholarly journals.1 The difficulty with this enigmatic expression is twofold. First, it is a hapax legomenon: the exact phrase in Greek occurs nowhere else in the NT, the LXX, or in early Christian writings (coinciding with the time of the writing of Revelation). Second, the context does not give any indication, or even a hint, regarding which day of the week the text is referring to. In addition, Christian sources contemporaneous with Revelation are not particularly helpful. Furthermore, there is no occurrence of the adjective kuriako,j in the LXX.2 Formerly, the word was considered as Christian in origin; however, it has been attested in Greek papyri and inscriptions preceding Christianity.3


The present invention discloses a kind of intelligent information push system and the vehicle based on the predicted destination. The system is composed of two parts-vehicle information terminal and the push server. Wherein the vehicle terminal, for acquiring vehicle status information, the user to learn driving habits, the predicted travel destination user, to the user of the vehicle transmits information push server status information, driving habits and travel destination, and to receive and display the pushed push server information information; push server, for receiving a user's vehicle status information, driving habits and travel destination, and automatically obtain the information desired by the user according to the received information to determine the user's needs, and then push the information to the vehicle terminal. The present invention can predict the user's travel destination and obtain status information of the vehicle, and can be inferred as a basis for the user's needs, and further can be more accurately targeted for a user to push the information they need.


The knowledge of Maqasid Al Shariah is the peak of Islamic Studies. It is like the sound of guidance that leads the people in the face of changing times and new problems. This is to ensure that decisions made are in accordance with the will of Allah Taala and His Messenger. Today, issues of peace have become the focus and concern of the entire world. Economic security, armed conflicts, social and religious harmony are the headlines among the major media outlets. It becomes very important to see how Islam preaches peace in its teaching. It is time to bring forth Islam's concern for peace and protection as a matter of Al Dharuriyy (necessity). Based on the security situation at the time this paper was written, it is time to review the need to prioritize peace over other Al Dharuriyyat matters. The author will study the verses of the Quran under the theme of security, related hadiths and historical examples of how the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) gives importance to security. The results show that peace can be listed among other Maqasid Al Dharuriyyat and it can be place on the top of the others including hifz Al Din. Peace can be classified as maqasid Al Kulli Al Ammah.


In recent years, Sinologists have been arguing about the terms "Sinology," "China Studies," "guoxue," "Area Studies," "New Sinology" and other new terms with which scholars could better define this discipline. Scholars in Europe, America and other Chinese-speaking countries obviously take different positions on this issue and have thus developed different terms, such as Sinology in Europe, Area Studies and China/Chinese Studies in the United States, New Sinology in Australia and Sinology and Sinophone Studies for the research on the Chinese-speaking areas. They are attempting to clarify how to discuss Chinese culture without causing problematic identity issues. Sinologists' focus has shifted from traditional Chinese culture to modern China. Meanwhile, the Chinese themselves are focusing on their identity. They have insisted that only Chinese could understand their own culture, which scholars outside of China will never be able to grasp. Therefore, Chinese scholars use the new term "Foreign Chinese Studies" to distinguish external approaches from their own. Global research on Chinese culture has gone through a long history; now it is stuck in a dilemma and cannot find common ground. This article attempts to construct a new model: the prism model. "Prism" means mirror, lens or a tool to break up a beam of light into its constituent spectrum. It could be also interpreted as an "observation" or "analysis" that reflects the different facets of things. Each angle or cultural background scholars use to understand Chinese culture could be treated as a "lens," one that reflects a certain aspect and a way to a possible future of Sinology. In this article, I attempt to use this prism model as a methodology for giving researchers of Chinese culture a new broader way without entering into the problems of the identity issue.


NIST has a long-standing program for the calibration of extreme ultraviolet optical components. Early activities, which began with the advent of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF) almost 40 years ago, centered on the development and characterization of detectors for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. About a decade ago the program was expanded to include reflectometry of normal- incidence EUV multilayer optics. Both calibrated detectors and EUV optics are used by researchers in private industry, academia, and government, in such diverse fields as EUV lithography, astronomy, and plasma physics. Since the inception of SURF, nearly 800 transfer standard photodiodes have been issued to customers, and over 500 measurements of other EUV optical components have been made. NIST researchers, in collaboration with U.S. companies, have developed new, high-quality radiometric detectors for use throughout the EUV spectral range. We will discuss the history of NIST's involvement in EUV metrology and offer examples of our recent work.


A future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will deliver luminosities of $10^{33} - 10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ for collisions of polarized electrons and protons and heavy ions over a wide range of center-of-mass energies (40 $\mathrm{GeV}$ to 145 $\mathrm{GeV}$). One of its promising physics programs is to study the partonic structure of quasi-real photons. Measuring di-jet in photoproduction events, one can effectively access the underlying parton dynamics of the photons through the selection of the resolved photon processes. In this paper, we discuss the feasibility of tagging resolved photon processes and measuring the di-jet cross section as a function of jet transverse momentum in ranges of $x_{\gamma}^{rec}$ at an EIC. These studies show that parton distributions in the photon can be extracted at an EIC.


In this paper we describe one experiment in which a new coordination language, called Manifold, is used to restructure an existing sequential Fortran code from computational fluid dynamic (CFD), into a parallel application. Manifold is a coordination language developed at CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) in the Netherlands. It is very well suited for applications involving dynamic process creation and dynamically changing (ir)regular communication patterns among sets of independent concurrent cooperating processes. With a simple, but generic, master/worker protocol, written in the Manifold language, we are able to reuse the existing code again, without rethinking or rewriting it. The performance evaluation of a standard 3D CFD problem shows that Manifold performs very well.


Resolution WHA 63.14 urges Member States "to cooperate with civil society and with public and private stakeholders in implementing the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children in order to reduce the impact of that marketing, while ensuring avoidance of potential conflicts of interest" (our emphasis). The Recommendations themselves also warn Member States against conflicts of interest. In particular, Recommendation 6 provides that "governments should be the key stakeholders in the development of policy [...]. In setting the national policy framework, governments may choose to allocate defined roles to other stakeholders, while protecting the public interest and avoiding conflict of interest." As paragraph 21 of the explanatory notes accompanying the Recommendations further emphasises, this is because "governments are in the best position to set direction and overall strategy to achieve population-wide public health goals". A conflict of interest, which has been defined as a situation where "interests or commitments compromise ... independent judgment or ... loyalty", are "pervasive features of life within all complex societies". The question therefore arises as to how existing, potential or perceived conflicts of interest should be managed in global public health. Regrettably, however, WHO has not yet given clear guidance as to what would constitute a conflict of interest, thus allowing major players in the food industry to act as if the industry itself had become legitimate market regulators by adopting


We present a new method for the study of general higher dimensional Kaluza-Klein theories. Our new approach is based on the Riemannian adapted connection and on a theory of adapted tensor fields in the ambient space. We obtain, in a covariant form, the fully general 4D equations of motion in a (4 + n)D general gauge Kaluza-Klein space. This enables us to classify the geodesics of the (4 + n)D space and to show that the induced motions in the 4D space bring more information than motions from both the 4D general relativity and the 4D Lorentz force equations. Finally, we note that all the previous studies on higher dimensional Kaluza-Klein theories are particular cases of the general case considered in the present paper. MSC: 83E15 Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories 83C10 Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory 53Z05 Applications of differential geometry to physics 53B05 Linear and affine connections 53C22 Geodesics in global differential geometry Cited in 2 Documents


Background: ICU admission imposes great risk of nosocomial infections on the patients due to various invasive interventions. Patients treated in these units receive invasive procedures such as endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation which predispose to a nosocomial pneumonia of a special entity named as 'Ventilator Associated Pneumonia'. Almost half of all the cases of hospital acquired pneumonia are due to VAP and about half of all antibiotics administration in ICU are for treatment of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia.
Objectives: objective of the current study was to study the local microbiological profile of ventilator associated pneumonia and their sensitivity pattern in the Critical Care department of BIRDEM general hospital.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: ICU of an academic tertiary care hospital in the period of July 2017 to June 2018.
Methods: All consecutive patients who were intubated and mechanically ventilated for a period of at least 48 hours within the study period were evaluated for the selection criteria of the study. The included study participants were followed up daily for signs of development of VAP. Once VAP was suspected pertinent investigations were sent to confirm the diagnosis. Tracheal aspirate was collected using conventional specimen trap and aseptic endotracheal suctioning technique and sent for Gram staining and culture and sensitivity testing.
Results: In this study total 92 patients out of 625 intubated patients during the study period after fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected as study participants. 35 participants out of 92developed VAP. Only 1 (2.9 %) patient did not yield any microbial growth in the tracheal aspirate sample and 34 (97.2 %) participants had growth of organisms in their tracheal aspirate samples. Total growths of 45 organisms were found in respiratory secretions of 34 VAP patients. The commonest organism was Acinetobacter which was grown in 21 (46.7%) samples followed by Pseudomonas in 10 (22.2%) samples; Klebsiella in 8 (17.8%) samples; Staphylococcus aureus in 3 (6.7%) samples; Candida in 2 (4.4%) and Enterococcus in 1 sample (2.2%). Most of the bacteria grown in the tracheal aspirates of VAP positive participants were sensitive to less than three antibiotic classes.
Conclusion: Multidrug resistant organisms are mostly responsible for both early and late onset VAP in ICU.
Bangladesh Crit Care J September 2022; 10(2): 122-126


Physics subject in learning need to be supported with learning materials to help students understand ing the physics concept . Currently, the use of teaching materials using IT to support physics learning is limited. Alternative solution of this problem is a video-based physics learning materials using sparkol videoscribe. This study aims to produce product such as video-based physics learning materials on the subject matter of geometry optics and optical instruments that valid and practical. Types of this research is research and development (R&D). This method consists of 10 steps according to Sugiyono (2012:409) , that are the potential and problems, data collection, product design, design validation, design revisions, product testing, product revision, user testing, product revision, and mass production. However, the study was only conducted until the seventh step. The object of research is a video-based physics learning materials using sparkol videoscribe that validated by 5 validator , and 3 teachers and 10 students to practicalities. Data were analyzed with descriptive analysis techniques. Based on research that has been done, product of video-based physics learning materials using sparkol videoscribe is categorized valid from the aspects of material substance, appearance visual communication, instructional design, and the use of software with an average value of 87.55%. Product research is also considered practical by teachers from the content aspect of teaching materials, ease of use, efficiency of learning time, and benefits with an average value of 84.83% and practical as well as categorized by students with an average value of 87,08%.


Background: malignant bone tumors in children are quite rare. When compared to the rest of the childhood tumors it occupies only 3 to 4%. Despite their low frequency, they are important because of their high mortality, ranging from 80 to 95%, and the serious physical and emotional sequelae that their treatment entails in patients. The most frequent types of malignant bone tumor at that age are Ewing's sarcoma and osteogenic sarcoma. Objective: to determine the most frequent malignant bone tumors with a five-year study of the cases admitted to the Eduardo Agramonte Pina University Pediatric Hospital in Camaguey under the age of 19 years. Methods: an observational, descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study was carried out through a review of the anatomy pathology file of the Eduardo Agramonte Pina University Pediatric Hospital in Camaguey. We studied all cases with histopathological diagnosis of malignant bone tumor from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2016, with ages below 19 years. The source of information was the biopsy record book of the Department of Pathology. The data obtained were compiled in a form prepared for them. Statistical analysis was performed using the standard professional package S.P.S.S version 21 2012. The results were presented in tables. Results: Ewing's sarcoma and osteogenic sarcoma were the most frequent malignant tumors. The most frequent age group of bone tumors was between 10 and 14 years. Conclusions: the results of the study are comparable to those reported in the medical literature where malignant bone tumors, Ewing's sarcoma and osteogenic sarcoma are the most common. DeCS: BONE NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA, EWING; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY.


A solution for an optimal robotic soccer strategy is yet to be found. Multiple agents interacting in an environment with continuous state and action spaces is a recipe for machine learning lethargy. Fortunately, due to the increasing hardware performance and new algorithms, the area of reinforcement learning is growing considerably. However, simulating the environment for strategy purposes is not following this trend. Several simulators are available, including those used in major soccer competitions (e.g. RoboCup). However, no option combines a good repository of teams with a simple command set that abstracts low-level actions. To clarify this problem, we surveyed the most promising simulators and proposed an extension for the well-established Soccer Server. The objective was to simplify the process of learning strategy-related behaviors through automated optimization algorithms. The results have shown a clear advantage in using the extension to improve the agent's performance. This work contributes to the development of future strategies related with RoboCup or other soccer competitions. Despite the good results, there is space for improvement in computational efficiency and behavior diversity.


Subjective perception of sound quality is an essential criterion in terminal assessment. To guarantee consistent quality over terminal generations is a great challenge in day-to-day business. Normally each algorithm and feature is optimized on its own before a long lasting field test of the terminal as a whole is started. The aim of the work presented here is to develop a test protocol for testing mobile devices within a few days and to have available a first, overall quality assessment just before the release for unrestricted serial production. The tests are carried out as conversational tests for single talk and double talk. Statistical relevant results can be generated within a few days by using short conversation test scenarios. Test results are very sensitive to the questions proposed, regarding both number and content, and to the involved test subjects. Test subjects themselves are subdivided twofold: naive (or every day) users, who will mainly purchase the terminal at the end, will only have to answer up to three general questions; and expert users, who know exactly what to listen to and therefore are interrogated in more detail about one specific topic.


Many robotics problems are challenging because it is necessary to estimate state based on noisy or incomplete measurements. In these partially observable control problems, the system must act in order to gain information while attempting to maximize the probability of achieving task goals. Recently, there has been an effort to solve partially observable problems by planning in belief space, the space of probability distributions over the underlying state of the system. However, one of the challenges is to plan effectively in high-dimensional belief spaces. This paper identifies a class of partially observable problems with state dependent noise for which planning can be expressed as a convex program. We also propose a method by which non-convex problems that are composed of a small number of convex "pieces" can be solved using integer programming. The convex sub-structure means that these integer programs are small and can be solved efficiently using off-the-shelf solvers. We also extend the integer programming formulation to incorporate chance constraints on the probability of colliding with an obstacle. Our approach is demonstrated in the context of micro air vehicle singleand multi-beacon navigation problems.


Nowadays, with the further development of telecommunication, IoT technology has become a concrete reality of everyday life. However, the widespread adoption of such technologies is sharply limited by Trust concerns for IoT devices, in terms of reliability, traceability, integrity, and privacy of the data. The lack of digital traceability increases the market time for IoT environment adoption. Contemporary Blockchain has been identified as one of the most promising technology to grant data security and reliability. The recent developments of such technologies have led to the possibility to build a shared, distributed, trustful, and autonomous infrastructure system making it hopeful for IoT systems. The constrained resources of low-level devices used in the IoT networks represent a significant hindrance to the integration of Blockchain and IoT technologies. Different kind of light protocols for IoT communication and secure authentication has been proposed to this end; some of this requires the slightest effort for resources integration. In this paper, an audit system for metrological traceability in a distributed measurement system is proposed. The system is based on Blockchain technology and Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF) access security protocol.


ABSTRACT This essay engages with the practice of anthologisation in contemporary Irish short fiction. It takes as its starting point Sinéad Gleeson's remark in The Art of the Glimpse (2020) that the anthology is a potentially generous art form since it constitutes "a gift" or "a gathering of possibilities" for the unsuspecting reader. The essay extends out from Gleeson's suggestive analogy to examine some of the ways that the anthological form allows established and emerging writers to be placed in generative company. There are complications, of course, as every instance of anthologisation is also an exercise in gatekeeping, which presupposes acts of negotiation, selection, ratification, and compromise. Anthologies play a critical role in the process of canon formation and in the delineation of literary heritage; they help to shape expectations of genre and form; and they reorient the textual environment in which stories are received and interpreted. This essay investigates these and related issues by looking at a selection of contemporary anthologies of Irish short fiction, focusing especially on the Faber series of New Irish Short Stories which began with the late David Marcus in 2005, and which most recently includes Lucy Caldwell's Being Various (2019).


Crop growth parameters as TRV (Tree Row Volume) and LAI (Leaf Area Index) are very important in control strategies for crop growing; it makes possible to determine instantly the quantity of water and plant protection products to be applied to the crop. Current methods of calculation consist of manually measuring the first plant in the row at different heights and the distances between them. In this work, an online software application is presented, which computes each row with known camera arrangements to calculate TRV by a stereovision method, as it is a powerful tool to capture tridimensional data in order to reconstruct tridimensional scenes. Afterwards, OpenGL based filtering algorithms are applied to compute TRV.


Project Objective: Develop a commercially viable modification to the Kraft process resulting in energy savings, increased yield and improved bleachability. Evaluate the feasibility of this technology across a spectrum of wood species used in North America. Develop detailed fundamental understanding of the mechanism by which phosphonates improve KAPPA number and yield. Evaluate the North American market potential for the use of phosphonates in the Kraft pulping process. Examine determinants of customer perceived value and explore organizational and operational factors influencing attitudes and behaviors. Provide an economic feasibility assessment for the supply chain, both suppliers (chemical supply companies) and buyers (Kraft mills). Provide background to most effectively transfer this new technology to commercial mills.


Since McKinsey & Company introduced the notion of a war for talent nearly 20 years ago, there has been unprecedented interest in the development, validation, and application of tools for quantifying human potential. Like other forms of warfare, the talent war has spurred a great deal of innovation and competition. In line, a significant amount of venture capital has been fuelling HR technology startups dedicated to the identification of new talent signals. Here we will address key advances in this area, highlighting the dialectic between the old and new worlds.


A series of insect growth regulators new N-(tert)-butyl-N,N'-dihydrazides used arglacetyl instead of benzoyl were synthesized in the paper,and their senuctines were charucterized with elemental analysis,Ir and'HNMR.It displayed that the arglacetyl RH-5849 (?)


This paper deals with investors' reaction to financial reports submitted by firms to the stock exchange, and specifically measures the influence of publication timing on investors: by using the proximity of the publication date to the regulated publication deadline as an independent variable the study examines whether deadline proximity causes a change in investors' reaction (as reflected in share returns). Understanding the connection between the publication date and investors' reaction contributes to the general understanding of financial reports and to the understanding of investors as recipients of those reports. Methodology: quantitative analysis is used based on empirical data collected at the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange from financial reports published over the fiscal years 2009– 2013. The data include quarterly and yearly financial reports and share performance for the corresponding periods. By bundling report publications made within a specific proximity to the deadline and comparing them with investors' reaction, non-parametric tests reveal a statistically significant correlation between the publication date deadline proximity to the share performance (returns). The conclusion of this research is that the time of financial report publication has an influence on investors' reaction. This suggests that investors react to financial reports not just based on their intrinsic information content but also in respect of their


Based on the students' physical decline,the weakness of mass sports' development,the competitive sports alienation and so on,the article makes research on the cultural consciousness.It holds that Chinese sports need cultural consciousness and it suggests to put the national sports thought and behavior into the world category.Through the excavation of "soft power" that includes the sports humanity spirit and the sports concepts and so on,it puts forward some suggestions on the construction of "soft power": to restore cultural confidence,set up the sports "cultural consciousness",emphasize health rights and ideas,improve public sports service quality,strengthen the sports humanity spirit construction,etc.


Many recent changes have occurred in the preparation, continuing development and careers of nurses working in today's health service. Nurses are not unique in these respects, as the flattening of hierarchies, the need to develop in role, to secure lateral career moves, to nurture a career, or even to change career several times, are all part of the reality of today's work environment and affect most professional groups ( Handy 1995 ).


In freshwater ecosystems, dissolved organic matter (DOM) originates from terrestrial and aquatic primary production, and its microbial biodegradability is expected to vary due to differences in its biogeochemical composition. However, the interaction of various DOM sources with the aquatic microbial population remains widely debated. Here, we performed laboratory bioassays, conducted in the dark for 20 d, to examine how changes in DOM composition influence its microbial biodegradability along a hydrological continuum (i.e., lake inlet, lake layers, and lake outlet) of a subalpine lake over four seasons. Despite a predominance of terrestrial DOM and lowest initial abundance of microorganisms, the highest microbial growth rates were observed at the lake inlet (0.0076 ± 0.0011 cells mL−1 h−1) across all seasons. DOM reactivity differed more with time (seasons) than with space (sampling sites) and DOM compositional differences showed higher degradability in upper lake layers, but not at the lake outlet. Additionally, gradual humification over incubation time was observed in almost all seasons and sites. Overall, an enhanced biodegradability of DOM was not detected even though lake sites were characterized by an autochthonous, presumably labile DOM signature. However, our results highlight the potential of thriving bacteria in terrestrial‐dominated DOM environments. This observation challenges a previous hypothesis that DOM of terrestrial origin is less accessible and more recalcitrant, while emphasizing the flexible response of aquatic systems to seasonal fluctuations.


The utility model relates to a contracting electrical connection line. Based on the prior art, the utility model has an additional rolling ball, one end of an enwinding wheel is arranged with a ring ladder recess, and the corresponding place on the front cover is digged with a ladder recess, the rolling ball can roll in the ladder recess. The utility model has the advantages of easy operation, no wiring kinked, and non retracting wire when being pulled out.


A lot research has been conducted in the field of autonomous navigation of mobile robots with focus on Robot Vision and Robot Motion Planning. However, most of the classical navigation solutions require several steps of data pre-processing and hand tuning of parameters, with separate modules for vision, localization, planning and control. All these modules work independently and make their own parameter assumptions to optimize their own performance without taking into account the effect these assumptions have on the performance of rest of the modules. Hence, even though each module in the whole system tries to achieve an optimal performance for the task it has been assigned, the lack of interdependence exhibited by these modules for decision making means that the overall performance of the whole system is sub-optimal in most of the cases. An alternating approach for addressing these issues is to train certain parts of the vision module to incorporate partial tasks from the planning module. Deep Learning architectures have achieved great success in the field of pattern recognition and object detection and as a result are usually being deployed to design such a module that jointly learns to carry out perception and path planning. This master's thesis, making use of Deep Learning, proposes an End-to-End Learning architecture that learns to directly map raw sensor readings to control commands for a ground based mobile robot. The research makes use of the simulation of Jackal UGV from Clearpath Robotics and the proposed network is able to produce collision free trajectories for the robot to navigate in it's environment. Master of Science Thesis Sukrit Gupta


The subject of placer, properly understood as a psychosomatic from animated beings, was widely documented by many authors along the ancient Greece. However, create a singular interpretation is nevertheless, as complex, as counterproductive. Two are the reasons: 1) the several intellectual areas in which the placer was a topic or, at least, evoked, and 2) the diversity of employed voices that, applied with higher or lesser descriptive intensity, shows some directly bound aspects to the pleasurable fact. The current article follows to drop some light over the first hedonistic philosophy or, express with higher precision, about the first hedonic philosopher of the ancient times: Aristippus of Cyrene, who, unlike the analgesic hedonism defended by Epicurus, advocated by a pleasurable way of life, cinematically founded, to assume as human purpose the soft movement produced by perception.


Based on Bayesian statistics using the expected a posterior (EAP) estimation, we forecast time evolution of meteorological data, such as the temperature, at a target point via information on a set of time-series of the temperatures at sampling points selected by the metric multi-dimensional scaling (metric-MDS), without using information on that of the target point. Using numerical calculations with respect to the climate statistics in Kanto district, we clarify that the metric-MDS can select a set of sampling points whose data are similar to that of the target. Then, we clarify that the EAP estimation succeeds in predicting time evolution on the temperature in Maebashi using the set of time-series of the temperatures at the selected sampling points around Maebashi. Also, we find that the EAP estimation predicts the time evolution of the temperature more accurately than the conventional autoregressive model.