This study presents the field investigation by a qualified architect, examination, and the reform of verification agency system, which are the parts of the administration of construction. The objectives of this study are to analyze the operation condition and to suggest the direction of improvement based on the cases at home and overseas countries. The methods of the study include analyzing our operating conditions and similar cases of foreign countries by the building laws and building codes and redefining the concept of agency business and the transition process of the related statute from its introduction background to the current condition.Through the analysis, problems were found on the selection of business agencies, the charge of commission on conducting agency business, building permit fee, and so on, and the study suggests the development plan of the system. Agency business has a legal and operational limit of the lack of responsibility due to the legal parameters and the commission burden; therefore, it is necessary to revise the building code and conduct study continuously in order to contract out the administration of construction with the improved agency business system.


Gastrointestinal pathogens continue to present a threat to the health of Americans and people worldwide, particularly children in developing nations. This problem is compounded by the ever increasing number of microbes that have developed resistance to one or more conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides such as defensins are potent antimicrobial agents, even killing microbes that have developed resistance to conventional antibiotics. Conjugation of short antimicrobial peptides to polysaccharides, such as cellulose, could serve to localize these peptides to the gastrointestinal tract and help to shield them from digestion. Towards these ends, short peptides, based on the amino acid sequence of the C‐terminal portion of human beta‐defensin‐3, have been grafted onto a polysaccharide scaffold through reductive amination. In these initial studies, cross‐linked agarose has been used as a model polysaccharide in lieu of more robust dietary polysaccharides such as cellulose. While the antimicrobial activity demonstrated by this first generation of peptide‐polysaccharide conjugates is lower than that of the parent peptides, the results achieved with these early conjugates are encouraging.


A selection method of characteristic color samples based on color correlation was put forward.The color correlation factors between colorant amount distributions of characteristic color samples were used to select a part of color samples having similar colorant amount distributions from the massive characteristic color samples generated by the whole CMYKGO gamut sampling;the optimum color samples after selection were used to establish color separation model.On the premise of not influencing the color separation precision,the new method can reduce the number of characteristic color samples effectively,and all colorants in dark regions are efficiently used,so it can reappearance larger color gamut than conventional method.


Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 04-Apr-2018 Effectiveness Date: 10-Apr-2018 Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2020 Revised Closing Date: 31-Dec-2020 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The development objective of the proposed project is to improve access of targeted communities in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao to basic socio-economic infrastructure and alternative learning system. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No


We report on the electrical characterisation of etched Mg-doped p-GaN layers using low power inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching (ICP-RIE). Although the quality of ohmic contacts to p-GaN is generally degraded by plasma etching, the results, assessed by current-voltage characteristics and Transmission Line Model (TLM) analysis, indicate that the ohmic contacts improve significantly as the power is reduced from ICP/RF power of 150/75 W to very low ICP/RF power of 40/20 W.


We propose a novel cognitive biometrics modality based on written language-usage of an individual. This is a feasibility study using the Internet-scale blogs, with tens of thousands of authors to create a cognitive fingerprint for an individual. Existing cognitive biometric modalities involve learning from obtrusive sensors placed on human body. Our modality is based on the characteristic pattern of how individuals express their thoughts through written language. The problems of cognitive authentication (1:1 comparison of genuine versus impostor) and identification (1:n search) are formulated. We detail the algorithms to learn a classifier to distinguish between genuine and impostor classes (for authentication) and multiple classes (for identification). We conclude that a cognitive fingerprint can be successfully learnt, using stylistic (writing style), semantic (themes), and syntactic (grammatical) features extracted from blogs. Our methodology shows promising results (with 79% as the area under the ROC (AUC) in case of authentication). For identification, the individual class accuracies are up to 90%. We performed stricter tests to see how our system performs for unseen user, and report the accuracies of 72% (genuine) and 71% (impostor). Such a study lays the groundwork for building alternative cognitive systems. The modality, presented here, is easy to obtain, unobtrusive and needs no additional hardware.


In this paper, we study the modem architecture for software-defined radio. We proposed a hierarchical modem architecture and a tree bus structure based on the time constraint and complexity in the signal processing in software-defined radio. We divided the functions based on the proposed architecture with the Third Generation Partnership Project Direct Sequence-Frequency Partition Duplex (3GPP DS-FDD) mode as the evaluation motive and evaluated the processing load and the flexibility. Next, we developed an evaluation board loaded with a CPU and a programmable logic device (PLD) and measured the scale of the proposed architecture and the overhead due to data transfers. On the evaluation board, the proposed architecture was implemented with 551 kGates and 5.1-Mbit circuit scale, excluding the CPU core and the transmission hardware (Tx-HW). We verified the overhead of each processor due to data transfers to be about 2.5% of the total processing load. Thus, this architecture achieved a lower frequency for the CPU operating clock and a simpler process flow, and demonstrated the ability to construct an efficient software-defined radio. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 89(5): 1–14, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecja.20259


The paper presents historical facts about the town of Kamianka in Cherkasy region, famous historical figures that lived in this area and their guests ‒ world famous and respected. The analysis of natural resources and objects in the territory of the Decembrists Park is given, their tourist attractiveness for the organization and carrying out of excursions for tourists and wide sections of the population of Ukraine and visitors from other countries of the world is proved.
The purpose of the study is to analyze tourist resources and determine a strategy to increase the tourist attractiveness of the Decembrists Park in Kamianka.
Analytical, statistical methods, comparison methods, etc. were used during the research.
The article proves that the tourist potential of the Decembrists Park in Kamianka in Cherkasy region meets the requirements for its tourist importance at the global level and motivates to create appropriate programs for its preservation and improvement of tourist potential at the level of local government agencies, the state as a whole, and internationally.
The article summarizes the arguments on the issue of defining appropriate indicators for the development of a strategy to increase the level of tourist attractiveness of the Decembrist Park in Kamianka.
According to the results of the research, it was concluded that garden and park landscapes are not only the decoration of the respective territories, but have natural, social, historical and cultural significance for the development of communities; contribute to the promotion of tourist and sightseeing facilities; motivate to preserve the natural, historical and cultural heritage of the region.
The results of the study can be useful for workers in the field of tourism and services; scientists, teachers, students of higher educational institutions who master the specialty "Tourism", as well as for employees of museums, historical and local lore reserves, cultural and architectural institutions; local governments and state institutions of culture, art, etc.


Experimental test have carried out to investigate the behavior of residual tensile strength of concrete prepared using normal and high strength concrete. For the same purpose, cylindrical and prism-shaped specimens of concrete were caste and consecutively subjected to heating and cooling condition in the laboratory-controlled environment. A hold period of three hours was provided to impart the heating-cooling phenomenon inside the electrical furnace at four different sets of temperatures. The elevated temperatures chosen for the present tensile behavior study are 200oC, 400oC, 600oC, and 800oC. Strength was also determined at the ambient environment for the purpose of comparing the effects of thermal loads on the behavior of strength. A significant loss in tensile strength has been observed in concrete mixes at various temperatures. The outcomes of the current experimental work are termed useful for understanding key mechanical characteristics of concrete under the effect of thermal loads.


Abstract Informal caregivers of older users of adult day care centers are important clients for promoting the quality of services related to them. From the perspective of quality management, responsive communication and training provided to informal caregivers would enhance the caregivers' knowledge about the services of the center and thereby their perception about the helpfulness of the center. These effects are the focus of examination in the present study, which surveyed 508 caregivers affiliated with 22 adult day care centers in Hong Kong. The study measured the responsive communication of the center by aggregating care-givers' perceptions. Results support the hypothesis by revealing the contributions of the responsive communication of the center and the caregiver's knowledge to the caregiver's perception of helpfulness of the center. Moreover, responsive communication appears to foster the caregiver's service knowledge.


32 Background: Patients with advanced cancer suffer acute declines in their functional status for a variety of reasons, including progression of disease, adverse effects of medical or surgical treatment, and exacerbation of a chronic non-cancer condition. The use of rehabilitation services to improve functional status for patients with advanced cancer has been increasing, but the likelihood that a patient will achieve the goals of continued cancer treatment or extended survival has not yet been demonstrated. Times of transition in a patient's course of illness present opportunities for discussion of goals of care.

METHODS
The objective of this study was to determine how often patients who were referred to acute rehabilitation (AR) returned to the cancer center for further chemotherapy. A secondary end-point was length of survival after referral. Records of patients admitted to the medical oncology service of an academic cancer center who were referred to AR between January 1, and December 31, 2012, were retrospectively reviewed for the following information: age, gender, race, primary malignancy type, subsequent chemotherapy, and date of death.

RESULTS
A total of 43 individual patients were referred for AR. Of these, 22 (51.2%) were 65 years of age or older, 30 (69.8%) were male, 32 (74.4%) were of white race. Primary hematologic malignancies accounted for 26 (60.5%) of the patients, 12 (27.9%) had non-brain solid primary tumors, and 5 (11.6%) had a primary brain tumor. For the 43 patients who qualified for AR, 33 (76.7%) were transferred to an AR facility, 9 (20.9%) were discharged to home, and 1 (2.3%) died in the hospital prior to discharge. Of those 33 patients who went to AR, 17 (51.5%) received further chemotherapy. Of note, 18 (54.5%) of the patients referred to AR died within 6 months (range 17-158 days), and 22 (66.6%) died within one year.

CONCLUSIONS
Furthercancer treatment after an acute rehabilitation admission is a reasonable goal for patients with advanced cancer; however, these patients frequently have a limited life expectancy and should be considered for palliative care consultation prior to discharge to ensure a discussion about goals of care, in light of their overall prognosis.


1. When rhizoid is differentiated from the protonema of some ferns, Dryopteris varia, Diplazium japonicum, and Blechnum niponicum a special cytoplasm which has a high affinity for metallic ions, called the "metallophilic cytoplasm", appears at the presumptive part prior to the actual differentiation as a prepattern to the rhizoid formation.2. In the rhizoid under active elongation, the metallophilic cytoplasm appears in the basal region while in a fullgrown rhizoid it is restricted to the basal end.3. The metallophilic cytoplasm could not be verified in rhizoids of the sporeling of a moss, Pogonatum inflexum, in root hairs of the seedling of some Angiosperm, Glycine Max, Raphanus sativus, and Triticum vulgare. 4. The metallophilic property appears regardless of the acidity level of the cytoplasm whether it is on the lower or on the higher side of its IEP. Therefore, it seems that it cannot be attributed to the attraction by the cytoplasm of metallic ions caused by difference in electric charge between the two.


Abstract From conductance measurements of a series of pyridinium picrates in nitrobenzene solutions, the equilibrium constants of the following hydrogen bonding reactions were estimated for each system: 1. the molecular acid-base association constant 2. the ionic association constant of Ka, (3) the homoconjugation constant K+1 In addition to these, the formation of 1:2, complexes between the pyridinium ion and the pyridine molecule is observed in the case of 3,4-dimethylpyridine and 4-dimethylamino pyridine. This may be explained in terms of π-π interactions between the second pyridine molecule and that already bound to the cation by a hydrogen bond. Plots of log Kf, log Ka and log K+1 vs. aqueous pKa s values of the pyridines yield straight lines with slope of 1.167, −0.218 and 0.061 respectively. The results show that the hydrogen bond formation between pyridine and picric acid in nitrobenzene increases with increasing basicity of the pyridine molecule. The value of the first slope indicates that the proton transfer is important. The ionic association between the pyridinium cation and the picrate increases with increasing acidity of the cation. In the case of the formation of the homoconjugate cation PyH+⋯Py it was expected that the substituent effects will be small, because the increasing proton donor ability of the cation will be compensated by the decreasing proton acceptor ability of the conjugate base. It is interesting to note that, contrary to this expectation, the stability of the non-ortho substituted homoconjugate cation increases, although to a small extent, with the basicity of the pyridine. This is explained by considering the potential energy curve of the proton for the homoconjugate cation. The increase of the depth of the potential well resulting from the hydrogen bond formation is more important when the pyridine is more basic.


This research aim to determine whether the patient is satisfied with the services and health facilities that were provided by the hospitals in and determine what factors are influential in dtermining the level of patient satisfaction to services and facilities provided by the hospital yasmin. Design of the study is divided into three types, namely research exploratory, descriptive and explanatory. Research study kind of explanatory research because the goal is to explain the causal relationship between variables testing hipotesis result show that the variable of service quality and room facilities have a significant effect on patient satisfaction at Yasmin Hospital.


Many hold that morality is essentially impartial. Many also hold that partiality is justified. Susan Wolf argues that these commitments push us toward downgrading morality's practical significance. To use her iconic phrase, not everyone should strive to be a moral saint. Here I argue that there is a way of pushing morality's boundaries in a partialist direction in a way that respects Wolf's insights. According to this theory, there is eudaimonic encroachment on morality. This means that non-moral eudaimonic considerations can impact what morality demands of us without themselves being moral. This allows us to do justice to the non-moral pursuits Wolf values and allows us to vindicate the idea that being morally ideal is compatible with being ideal.


We demonstrate a method for measuring the carbon isotope ratios of aromatic molecules without the need for chemical preparation. The technique employs a time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer equipped with a dual microchannel plate detector assembly. We present the measurement of carbon isotope ratios for m-xylene-d,, (C,D,(CD,),), toluene (C,H,CH,), and toluene-d, (C+CD,). Gas-phase samples are photoionized with the 266 nm output of a Nd:YAG laser, and the abundance of "C and C in the molecules is derived from the TOF spectra. Complications caused by and corrections for detector nonlinearity and parent ion fragmentation are discussed.


Objective To investigate the effects of exogenous HCAP1 gene product on the sensitivity to chemotherapy in B lymphocytic lymphoma/leukemia cell line Raji.Methods HCAP1 gene was transfected into Raji cells by medium with liposome, The Raji cells stably expressing exogenous HCAP1 gene, which were screened by G418, exposed to various concentration of DNR, VP16 and VCR for 24 hours, the cell viability was measured by trypan blue dye exclusion test.Results Following exposure to various concentrations of DNR( 0.01 ~ 10.0μg/ml )and VP16(5~80μg/ml), Raji cell tranfected with HCAP1, displayed stronger suppression on cell viability and lower level of IC 50 value, compared with the control cells transfected with empty vector or without any transfection. However, similar suppression on cell viability and IC 50 value were observed between Raji cells transfected with HCAP1 and control cells, following exposure to VCR( 12.5 ~100μg/ml).Conclusion Overexpreesion of HCAP1 could increase sensitivity in the Raji cells to DNR and VP16, but not to VCR.


The worker safety program cooperative agreements fund projects to educate pesticide applicators, handlers, and farmworkers on working safely with, and around, pesticides. Read about pesticide related grant opportunities and reports from previous grants.


Trimethoprim (tmp) is a bacteriostatic antibiotic mainly used for prophylaxis and also in the treatment of urinary tract infections.It belongs to the group of chemotherapeutic agents known as dihydrofolatereductaseinhibitor.Trimethoprim can bind to dihydrofolatereductase and inhibits the reduction of dihydrofolic acid (DHF) to tetrahydrofolic acid (THF). THF is an essential precursor in the synthesis of thymidine pathway and interference with this pathway inhibits bacterial DNA synthesis.


The establishment of lecturing institutions of peasant movements in Guangzhou and Wuchang cities are not only one of the glorious achievements of Chinese Communist Party(CCP) during the period of First Revolutionary Civil War,but also the outcome of close cooperation between CCP and Kuo Ming Tang(KMT).The successful establishment of lecturing institutions of peasant movements derived from the Communist International's oriental strategy,and rested with Sun Yat Sen's "assisting peasants and workers" policy,and benefited from full supports of leaderships of both parties.The education and teaching is participated by both parties' cadres,and the selection and arrangement of students is shouldered by both parties,too.Lecturing institutions of peasant movements started with close cooperation between CCP and KMT and ended with final breakup between the two parties,which reflects the discrepancy of class relationship and political platform of both parties.


Dear Editor: Short Tandem Repeat (STR) loci are a class of polymorphic reference markers of great utility in differentiating humans at the DNA level (Edwards et al., 1992). STRs are repetitive microsatellite deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) regions with base repeat motifs of 2 -6 bp. Comparisons at a single STR locus generally yield identical results from 1 in 100 unrelated individuals, however discrimination levels in excess of 1 in 109 may be achieved when several STR loci are multiplexed. The total size of an STR locus is generally under 500 bp, which makes it ideally suited for analysis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. Routine screening of STR loci obviates the need for highly purified DNA preparations since relatively crude DNA extracts have been used successfully. The small target size of STR loci also allows successful multiplexing of PCR reactions in a single reaction vessel. Commercial kits are available, which permit the simultaneous amplification of 10 target loci. Use of commercial kits for routine screening minimizes the potential for laboratory error when examining a sample at multiple loci. DNA profiling is one of several techniques employed by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) in its rigorous quality control procedures for authenticating human cell lines maintained in its repository. As part of the accessioning process, each cell line in the master cell bank is characterized at eight STR loci using the commercially available GenePrint PowerPlex vl .2 system (Promega, 1998). The level of discrimination for this kit is approximately 1 in 109. This resolving power should prove sufficient to characterize the approximately 2000 human cell lines currently present in the ATCC cell line repository. The utility of DNA profiling is being demonstrated by a number of cell line collections worldwide. Using DNA profiling, Drexler et al. (1999) of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany) have demonstrated an incidence of 15% cell line cross-contamination of 117 hematopoietic cell lines received from an original investigator or a secondary source. Saeki and Kudo (1999) of the Cell Resource Center for Biomedical Research (Tohoku University, Japan) used a commercially available STR kit composed of four STR loci to successfully authenticate 63 cell lines in their collection. However, they reached the conclusion that more STR loci will be required as the number of cell lines in the collection increased. Kaplan and Hukku (1998), who have estimated cell line cross-contamination at an incidence of 7%, are strong proponents of DNA profiling as a component of a multipartite cell line monitoring strategy. At the ATCC, an STR DNA profile is established for each accessioned cell line in the master cell bank. Unless the depositor description states otherwise, each new cell line is presumed to be derived from a unique origin. Each new DNA profile is compared


KICHEL, Luciene de Souza. Fatigue Life Prediction of Steel Reinforcement Bars Through Tanaka and Mura Model and the Theory of Critical Distance. 2019. 95 f. Dissertação (Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil), Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2019. Steel reinforcement bars (rebars) are determinant in the fatigue strength of reinforced concrete bridges when the concrete is in good condition and can rupture without apparent damage to the structure. The increasing volume of traffic in bridges added to the lack of maintenance, makes the conditions of the steel bars in these structures are unknown. Since it is not possible to inspect only the rebars, fatigue life prediction models can be used to calculate how many load cycles they still support. This research aim to predict the fatigue life of hot rolled, cold worked and quenched and self-tempered rebars by the Tanaka and Mura model and Theory of the Critical Distance. For this purpose, the roughness of the rebars manufacturing process and the grain size variation of the steel were considered in the Tanaka and Mura model, which aims to calculate the number of cycles spent in the initiation phase. By combining the concepts of the Theory of the Critical Distance with the Paris Law, the calculation of the number of cycles for propagation was made taking into account microstructural and geometric aspects of the rebars. The fatigue life of the rebars was then calculated by adding the numbers of initiation and propagation cycles. The proposed approach was compared to experimental data from the literature and it has satisfactorily predicted the fatigue life of rebars.


The invention discloses a PLA (polylactic acid) conductive fiber and a preparation method thereof. The fiber comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 50-80 parts of PLA, 20-50 parts of P (VAc-co-VA) and 0.05-8 parts of conductive filler. The preparation method of the PLA conductive fiber comprises the following steps of: (1) weighing the dried PLA, P (VAc-co-VA) and conductive filler according to the proportions, premixing, and granulating in a blending way to obtain conductive master batches of the PLA; or firstly, weighing the P (VAc-co-VA) and the conductive filler according to the proportions, premixing, granulating in a blending way to obtain conductive master batches of the P (VAc-co-VA), and then blending with the PLA to obtain conductive master batches of the PLA; and (2) carrying out melt spinning-drafting on the conductive master batches of the PLA to obtain PLA conductive fiber. The conductive fiber can be taken as an electrode material, an anti-static material, a low-temperature heating material, an electromagnetic shielding material, a heat-sensitive material, a gas-sensitive material and the like.


Compared with rye grasses(Nui),the mainly spread species in Guizhou province,two kinds of forage grasses with fine drought resistance selected and bred in Guizhou Institute of Prataculture were identified by means of biological identification method.The results showed that under unfavourable condition of drought,the plants lost moisture due to soil drying,which made protein composition decreased and discomposition increased,and pressed chlorophyll formation,therefore their contents were reduced greatly,even exhausted.The order of drought resistance for three kinds of forage grasses was:festuca arundinacea.QiancaoNO.1 Festuca arundinacea.QiancaoNO.2 Lolium Linn.Nui.


The contemporary societies are characterized by several attributes. We can talk about a postmodern, scientific-technical, information, fast, hyperreal or consumer society. In fact, these attributes do not appear in isolation, but in relation to each other. The author inspired by postmodernists such as Lyotard, Virilio, and Baudrillard, focuses on identifying the ethical aspects of these phenomena and deals with the contemporary image of man and societies in this context. Science, technology, information and communication technologies permeate all spheres of human being and change the nature of knowledge. Information, time and speed are important factors and manipulation with them is a key way of ordering societies and shaping the image of man. We may call this an ability to transform reality and create hyperreality. Hyperreality may also be referred to as the paradigm of the current cultural situation of consumerism.


Typically estimates of the benefits of education investments show average private rates of return for the average individual. The average may not be useful for policy. An examination of the distribution of the returns across individuals is needed. The few studies that have examined these patterns focus on high-income countries, showing investments to be more profitable at the top of the income distribution. The implication is that investments may increase inequality. Extending the analysis to 16 East Asian and Latin American countries the authors observe mixed evidence in middle-income countries and decreasing returns in low-income countries. Such differences between countries could be due to more job mobility in industrial countries, scarcity of skills, or differential exposure to market forces.


This afternoon, the statue of William Dargan in the forecourt of the National Gallery of Ireland on Merrion Square West was moved from its plinth in the forecourt of the Gallery to facilitate preparation works for the excavation of a new energy centre.


In most of real-world applications, such as the case of heat stores, inlet is not kept at a constant temperature but it may vary with time during charging process. In this paper, a vertical water jet injected into a rectangular storage tank is measured experimentally and simulated numerically. Two cases of study are considered; one is a hot water jet with uniform inlet temperature (UIT) injected into a cold water tank, and the other is a cold water jet with non-uniform inlet temperature (NUIT) injected into a hot water tank. Three different temperature differences and three different flow rates are studied for the hot water jet with UIT which is injected into a cold water tank. Also, three different initial temperatures with constant flow rate as well as three different flow rates with constant initial temperature are considered for the cold jet with NUIT which is injected into a hot water tank. Turbulence intensity at the inlet as well as Reynolds number for the NUIT cases are therefore functions of inlet temperature and time. Both experimental measurements and numerical calculations are carried out for the same measured flow and thermal conditions. The realizable


The transient temperature distribution in the gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding process was analysed by employing a three-dimensional finite element model. In the formulation, the solution domain which moves with the welding heat source was introduced to minimize the number of elements, and consequently the computation time of the three-dimensional program. Since the moving solution domain is small compared with the real weld structure, there are two kinds of boundaries, namely, solid metal-atmosphere boundary and solid metalsolid metal boundary. The heat loss through the solid metal-solid metal boundary was considered through a conduction heat flow and the heat flow through the solid metal-atmosphere boundary through a convection heat flow. As the solution domain moves with the progress of welding, new boundary conditions and new elements were generated in front of the heat source, while some elements disappeared in the rear of it. The initial temperature distribution of the new elements was determined by considering the continuous temperature gradient. To verify the numerical analysis, GTA welding experiments were performed on a medium-carbon steel and the isothermal lines examined. The transient isothermal lines of fusion and heat affected zone boundaries obtained numerically and experimentally were in good agreement. Thus, with the small moving solution domain the change of the fusion zone shape in long welds can be easily analysed, so that, for example, the transient melting characteristics at the start of welding in automatic welding can be effectively simulated for the process optimization.


Abstract An aqueous extract of wild rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia DC) was tested for its allelopathic activity in vitro on radish germination and seedling growth in light and darkness. The extract caused a delay in the onset and a significant decrease in the rate of germination (40%) in the light. The photo-inhibition was accompanied by an inhibition of water uptake into the seed, and a decrease of protein content as well as an increase of peroxidase activity into the seedlings. Microscopic observations suggest that the extract markedly changes radish radicle development inducing a decreased imbibition and distension of seed cells. Consistent results were obtained with some species such as purslane, lambsquarter and tree of heaven present in the cultivated wild rocket field and with cultivated lettuce and barley. Finally, a potential allelochemical, biologically active, was isolated from the extract: S-glucopyranosyl thiohydroximate at concentration of 6.3×10−4 M.


I survey recent progress on a classic and challenging problem in social choice: the fair division of indivisible items. I discuss how a computational perspective has provided interesting insights into and understanding of how to divide items fairly and efficiently. This has involved bringing to bear tools such as those used in knowledge representation, computational complexity, approximation methods, game theory, online analysis and communication complexity.


Abstract : Catalytic oxidation of thiourea has been studied at alumina modified Pt electrode using cyclic voltammetry. The results indicate the suitability of alumina modified Pt electrode for voltammetric determination of thiourea. The catalytic peak currents are linearly dependent on the thiourea concentration in the range 2.5· 10 -5 – 7.0· 10 -3 M. The usefulness of the method was tested in determination of thiourea in real samples. Moreover, in this work the heterogeneous electron transfer rate constants of thiourea at the surface of modified and unmodified Pt electrodes were estimated by comparing the experimental cyclic voltammetric responses with the digital simulated results. Keywords: Thiourea; Catalytic oxidation; Cyclic voltammetry; Heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant; Digital simulation Introduction Thiourea and its derivatives are widely used in the rubber industry as accelerators, in photography as fixing agents and to remove stains from negatives, and in agriculture as fungicides, herbicides and rodenticides. The use of an aqueous solution of thiourea as leaching agent for gold has been widely reported in the literature. Thiourea is also used as a spectrophotometric reagent for the determination of several metals [1]. It is toxic owing to its influence on the metabolism of carbohydrates [2]. Moreover, thiourea has been labeled as having carcinogenic activity [3]. A survey of analytical procedures that exist in the literature reveals that titrimetry with haloamines [4], N-bromosuccinimide


: Algae have a particularly rich evolutionary history that has not yet been comprehensively explored. We review statistical techniques to infer patterns of trait evolution and species diversification from phylogenies. We illustrate these methods using the evolution of algal thermal niches and its interaction with species diversification as a case study. We offer some perspectives for the application of these methods in other fields of phycology and the integration of micro-and macroevolutionary approaches.


The employment of an asset or source of funds for which the firm has to pay a fixed cost or fixed return may be termed as Leverage. Consequently, the earnings available to the shareholders as also the risk are affected. The leverage analysis is useful to assess the business risk, financial risk as well as the total risk of the firm. Hence the need is felt to undertake a study on the leverage analysis in terms of Degree of Operating Leverage, Financial Leverage and Combined Leverage in three select cement companies namely, ACC Ltd., J.K and Madras Cements Ltd. during the period of 10 years from 2003-04 to 2012-13. The paper concludes that, operating risk is highest in ACC, financial risk is highest in Madras and ultimately total risk is slightly higher in J.K Cement Ltd than the other two companies.


Purpose of review Clostridium difficile infection and Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) are growing worldwide health threats. Recent studies have identified new host risk factors, diagnostic approaches and therapies of CDAD. The present review focuses on scientific papers published in the past 18 months in an attempt to provide the latest information on the topic. Recent findings We are seeing an increasing number of patients with Clostridium difficile infection developing their illness in the community, although many were recently discharged from a healthcare setting suggesting an acquisition of infection in the hospital environment. The use of gastric acid-altering drugs that facilitate intestinal transit of the bacteria, antibacterial drugs that deplete colonic flora and presence of inflammatory bowel disease are risk factors for CDAD. Fulminant CDAD is increasing, complicated by leukocytosis (peripheral white blood cell count >16 000/mm3), hypoalbuminemia, renal failure and emergency colectomy, with overall rise in CDAD disease mortality rates. Although vancomycin is recommended for severe cases of CDAD, recurrence rates remain high. Control of Clostridium difficile infection in the hospital setting focuses on disinfection of the environment and antibiotic stewardship policies. Anti-Clostridium difficile vaccines are in development. Summary CDAD is an increasing health problem throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with rising mortality rate. Occurrence of CDAD outside of healthcare settings and in pediatric populations represents newly emerging problems. New treatments are needed.


A reasonable clamping form can effectively reduce the distortion and defect in wire and arc additive manufacturing. In this paper, a three-dimensional finite element model with verified weld-bead profile and heat source model is established. Using the Simufact.welding finite element analysis software, four typical clamping forms are compared in total distortion and residual stress distribution. The results demonstrate that the edge clamping form has the better performance than the corner clamping form. In edge clamping form, the transversal clamping plays the dominant role than the longitudinal clamping in guaranteeing the dimensional precision. Basing on the analysis of residual stress distribution, the clamping form with only the transversal clamping can obtain the least residual stress distribution.


The particle swarm optimization(PSO)algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm that simulates the mechanism of biological swarm social behavior.The models of bird flocking and swarm actions are firstly introduced,and the fundamental characteristics and the working mechanisms of PSO algorithm are also analyzed.Then the recent progress in theory of PSO algorithm is reviewed,which are related to the improvement of PSO algorithm,the parameter selection in PSO algorithm,the convergence features of PSO algorithm,and the merging mechanism to other meta-heuristic optimization algorithms.In addition,several typical application areas of PSO algorithm are surveyed respectively,which include continuous function optimization,neural network training, optimization of power system and optimization in electromagnetics.Finally,some suggestions on future trends and existing problems related to PSO algorithm are discussed and concluded.


Non-profit cultural undertaking is the important component of socialist cultural undertakings.At present,Chinese funds of non-profit cultural undertakings can not make ends meet,and its development face with many challenges,cultural artifacts is lack of specialized personnel,public cultural product and supply ability of service is weak and cultural facilities and equipment are still hard to adapt to the development of social economy.Therefore,we must take effective measures,vigorously develop non-profit cultural undertakings and perfect the system of public cultural services to further improve the developmental level of urban and rural material civilization,political civilization and spiritual civilization.


The laser speckle interference measuring was integrated into college physics experiments,in which the key obstacle is the production of instrument of pulling-type loading.Through the union of spherical rod,the combination of spherical slider and fixed pulley,it can test the prospective vertical pieces fixed degrees and eliminate the loading due to the extreme conditions caused by the pending tests,thus solving the key technical problem about instrument of pulling-type loading.The results have been patented.


The purpose of this article is for the women gymnastics training and competition to provide theoretical reference.In this paper the writers adopt video tape observation methods and analyse 42nd gymnastics world championships of the women's team and individual all-around final,to understand the new scoring rule of women's world athletics gymnastics movement under the development and the trend and pattern change broken before Chinese-American confrontation situation,Russia and Romania.All these request the rapid rise of the Chinese women's team be stronger "better",and the Chinese women's team can't always rely on strengths to win.In complete quality and stability,sportsmen also should give full play to have very good psychological quality.This is the key factor to victory.


The extraction of rhodium (III) chloro species has been investigated by using a trioctylmethylammonium chloride (R3R'NCl) in various diluents. The extraction isotherm decreasesThe extraction isotherm decreases with increasing the acid concentration. The stoichiometric composition of the complex formed in the organic phase deduced to be (R3R'N) RhCl4(H2O)2. Therefore, the following mechanism is proposed for the extraction of rhodium (III) chloro species.R3R'NCl (org) +RhCl4(H2O)2-(aq)⇔(R3R'N) RhCl4(H2O)2 (org)+Cl-(aq).These results are also confirmed by visible and infrared spectral measurements.In the examination of diluents effects, nitrobenzene and benzene most promoted the extraction of Rh (III) at 0.1 and 7 mol dm-3 hydrochloric acids, respectively.The distribution ratio increases with increasing temperature.


513 UK today: are we adequately prepared for national colorectal cancer screening tomorrow? Gut 2004; 53: 277–83. 27. Zalis ME, Perumpillichira J, Del Frate C, Hahn PF. CT colonography: digital subtraction bowel cleansing with mucosal reconstruction initial observations. Radiology 2003; 226: 911–17. 28. George ML, Tutton MG, Jadhav VV, Abulafi AM, Swift RI. Colonoscopy in older patients: a safe and sound practice. Age Ageing 2002; 31: 80–1. 29. Clarke GA, Jacobson RJ, Hammett RJ, Carr-Locke DL. The indications, utilization and safety of gastrointestinal endoscopy in an extremely elderly patient cohort. Endoscopy 2001; 33: 580–4. 30. Syn WK, Patel M, Ahmed MM. Metallic stents in large bowel obstruction: experience in a District General Hospital. Colorectal Dis 2005; 7: 22–6.


This paper explores the intricate relationship between employee motivation and organizational performance, with a focus on understanding the factors that influence employee motivation and its impact on achieving organizational success. Drawing on a comprehensive theoretical framework and empirical evidence, the study sheds light on the significance of cultivating employee motivation to enhance organizational performance. The research contributes to the field of Human Resource Management by offering practical recommendations to foster employee motivation and drive organizational success. The methodology involves a mixed-methods approach, combining a structured survey questionnaire to collect quantitative data and in-depth interviews/focus group discussions to gather qualitative insights. The findings provide actionable insights for organizations across diverse industries to optimize their performance through effective employee motivation strategies.


OBJECTIVE To investigate the levels of serum concentrations of interleukin-6(IL-6),tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-α) and interleukin-10(IL-10) in patients with congestive heart failure(CHF),and to evaluate the beneficial effects of bisoprolol on the above variables,cardiac function and exercise endurance.METHODS One hundred patients with CHF(CHF group) and fifty healthy physical examinees(control group) were selected.The serum levels of IL-6,IL-10 and TNF-αwere measured.Patients with CHF were divided randomly into conventional treatment group and bisoprolol group(routine drugs additional bisoprolol) and followed up for 12 weeks.The serum levels of IL-6,IL-10 and TNF-α and cardiac function and six-minute hall walk test were measured pre-treatment and after treatment.RESULTS The main findings in the CHF group were as follows: the serum levels of IL-6,IL-10 and TNF-α were significantly higher than those in the control group(P0.01);the serum levels of IL-6,IL-10 and TNF-αwere positively correlated to each other;the ratios of IL-6/IL-10 and TNF-α/IL-10 increased with increasing the severity of CHF(P0.05);the serum levels of IL-6 and TNF-α were significantly decreased,and the serum level of IL-10 showed a rising trend after treatment as compared with before treatment in the bisoprolol group;the left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF),fractional shortening(FS) and cardiac output(CO) were significantly increased in the bisoprolol group,but in the control group,only LVEF and FS were improved,while cytokine levels showed no change.Six-minutes walking distance of the paitents in the bisoprolol group were increased signifcantly.CONCLUSION The cytokines were out of balance in the patients with CHF.These disorders were related to the abnormal secretion of inflammatory cytokines.Bisoprolol could improve cardiac function and reduce inflammatory cytokine plasma level in patients with CHF.It might be one of the new mechanisms to improve cardiac function and reverse myocardial remodeling.


The current symptom list for ADHD in the DSM–IV (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) was developed on children and was only field tested using children (Lahey, Applegate, McBurnett, Biederman, Greenhill et al., 1994; Spitzer, Davies, & Barkley, 1989). The utility of extending that list to adults with ADHD is therefore an open question. This article addresses the important issue of whether or not better symptoms could be identified for the adult stage of this disorder than those 18 childhood symptoms currently represented in the DSM–IV.


Mg-based secondary batteries are attracting candidates to satisfy the increasing demand at the global level for efficient and safe energy storage systems. Mg-based devices show intrinsic advantages in comparison with competing technologies, e.g., those based on Li. In particular, Mg is more abundant in Earth's crust in comparison to Li and suffers from fewer concerns in terms of safe use, disposal and waste management [1-3]. Mg is able to provide a larger volumetric capacity as compared to Li (3832 vs. 2062 mAh·cm) [4, 5]; in addition, Mg batteries have a very good cyclability, lose little capacity over prolonged cycling and have a wide temperature operation range. On the other hand, practical Mg batteries tend to show low specific energy values [6].


Objective: To study the association of selected established anthropometric indices of obesity viz body mass index (BMI), Waist circumference (WC) and waist-hip ratio (WHR) with diabetes, Hypertension and Dyslipidemia in population residing at Sukkur division.
Methods & Place of Study: Hospital based cross sectional descriptive study. Participants were selected from out-patients setting of Medicine at Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical college teaching hospital, Sukkur through consecutive sampling. Structured Questionnaire, anthropometric measurements and bio-chemical tests were administered to 369 participants.
Duration of Study: July 2011 to June 2012.
Results: Waist circumference was associated with Hypertension, Diabetes and Dyslipidemia in male and Dyslipedemia in female. Waist-hip ratio showed association with Dyslipidemia in female while BMI with Hypertension (male) and Dyslipidemia (female).
Conclusion: Waist circumference as obesity index may be a more reliable predictor of cardiovascular disease risk factors viz. Hypertension, Diabetes and Dyslipidemia among general population compared with BMI and WHR.


The aim of this paper is to present the results of a number of testing programs performed on a Loureiro Viaduct seismic device. One of the total eight viscous dampers designed and provided by TESIT/FIP Industriale, Italy, and characterized by a stroke of 550 mm and a 4000 kN reaction at the max velocity of 500 mm/s, was tested both at FIP Industriale and at the University of California, San Diego Laboratories. These tests were aimed to design verification and product acceptance of the units installed on the Loureiro Viaduct of the A10 BucelasCarregado Motorway (Portugal). As expected, the dampers showed perfect non-linearity in their Force versus Velocity constitutive law the velocity exponent being 0.15, thus providing very high damping efficiency within a very wide range of velocities. Their behavior demonstrated very steady cycles at any velocity within the entire temperature range. In conclusion, a number of criteria are identified to model damper behavior when the designer aims to take full advantage of this powerful technology and wishes to install devices matching his specific technical requirements.


Islam, before XIX Century, develops many renewal movements whose goal was to legitimate a new kind of political power. Contemporary Islam offers two alternatives. First, a religious renewal in the conscience of believers being the reason for a social change, we call that renewal «revisionism». Second, an external social revolution according to muslim norms, which we call «zelotism».


This paper presents a novel design concept for Synchronous Reluctance (SynRel) machines aimed at reducing the torque ripple. Two general sizing approaches based on the homothetic scaling principle are defined and compared. An in depth analysis on the torque ripple, for a wide range of scaled geometries, evaluated by finite element, has been carried out at different operating conditions. A further analysis is performed on 4 scaled geometries that have been optimized starting from 4 random rotor geometries. It is shown that the main rotor geometrical variables converge to similar values for all scaled machines. The accuracy of the proposed model is then validated by comparing the FE simulated torque ripple waveforms with the experimental data carried out, for a range of operating conditions, on a machine prototype. The outcome of this work is a fast and accurate scaling technique for the preliminary design of SynRel machines with reduced torque ripple.


Since the early 2000s, a number of Western capitalist states, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, have enacted criminal laws aimed at holding corporations to account for negligently killing workers or members of the public. In the United States, however, the existing respondeat superior (vicarious liability) regime remains intact. Drawing insight from semistructured interviews with corporate lawyers, nongovernmental representatives, union/labor leaders, and academics, I argue the relative impunity for corporate killing in the United States has its roots in corporate power and related beliefs in law and economics scholarship. This article documents how corporate offending is downplayed through hegemonic ideals that corporations are inherently good and law-abiding and any "bad apples" can be dealt with through existing law and market forces. In this respect, the recent rollback of various social protections is not simply a result of Trump's presidency but instead a product of the neoliberal political, economic, and moral order.


The article aims to determine the role of standardization in the engineering industry and for cutting tools in general. This paper explains the basic principles of standardization. The technical committee for standardization of cutting tools (TC 95 'Tools') was presented. The main directions of work and functions of TC 95 'Tools' are explained. Harmonization of standards in Russia is presented on the example of ISO 13399 international standard. The work reveals positive aspects of officially translated versions of standards for enterprises. The article also describes the role of standardized tools when working in computer-aided design systems (CAD).


Advanced satellite sensors are tasked with improving global measurements of the Earth's atmosphere, clouds, and surface to enable enhancements in weather prediction, climate monitoring capability, and environmental change detection. Measurement system validation is crucial to achieving this goal and maximizing research and operational utility of resultant data. Field campaigns including satellite under‐flights with well‐calibrated FTS sensors aboard high‐altitude aircraft are an essential part of the validation task. This manuscript focuses on an overview of validation methodology developed for assessment of high spectral resolution infrared systems, and includes results of preliminary studies performed to investigate the performance of the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) instrument aboard the MetOp‐A satellite.


How to strengthen the construction of ideology and morality, the paper thinks of having to set up a new moral value, inherit and develop the essence of traditional morality, grasp firmly the basic principles, fundamental structures and targets of morality construction, and the same time clasp practically ideology and morality education and implement comprehensive governance


The present invention relates to a novel cryogenic composition for use in thermal processing devices, said composition comprising a hydrophobic compound (a) as a liquid in which is immersed polymer granules superabsorbent (b) charged in water (c) and in humectant (d), said hydrophobic compound (a) having a freezing point below 0 ° C. The invention also relates to a heat treatment device, particularly a medical device used to cool a part of the human or animal body, particularly after trauma, inflammation or surgery. The invention finds application in the treatment and / or medical field but also in other areas such as for cooling or maintaining low temperature of food.


A downlink user scheduling algorithm based on the pricing scheduling factor is proposed for the established relay-assisted massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) model, which represents the typical remote cell with multiple relays and a massive MIMO base station. Different from the traditional scheduling algorithms, the authors' proposed scheduling algorithm simultaneously takes account of the strength of the desired signal and interference, in which the proposed scheduling factor takes interference strength as the price to select appropriate users. An analysis on the optimal precoding vector is given by assuming each relay adopts equal gain transmission (EGT). According to the analysis, a non-cooperative solution based on the phase difference of EGT is proposed to search the optimal transmission direction of EGT with low complexity. An analytical upper bound of system sum rate is also obtained. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheduling algorithm has excellent sum rate performance and slight rate degradation compared with the brute-force search algorithm.


This work seeks to expose the reality of a social and environmental phenomenon,
which is the marketing of bush meat; phenomenon that finds its beginnings in
cultural change and altering the economical dynamic of the Waorani nationality for
the past 50 years, which the mestizo white society and the rest of the Western
symbolic contingent, have been creating changes in the social, economical and the
belief system that is part of this nationality located in the heart of the Ecuadorian
Amazon region.
Starting from concepts such as social representation, perspectivism and socio
environmental conflict, seeks to show the variables that come into play when we talk
about the marketing of bush meat by Waorani families. Finally, the marketing of
bush meat can be seen as a generational conflict, polychromatic and likely to be
approached from multiple forms of representations.


According to requirements,methods and calculation standards of Grade of Meteorological Drought(GB/T 20481-2006),grade and frequency of meteorological drought season and year appeared in Tangyin County,Henan Province from 1961 to 2010 were analyzed.The results showed that the county experienced slight drought and above in 13 years during the study period,severe drought and extremely-severe drought appeared in 2 years each.Extremely drought appeared in winter,spring and autumn,specifically,9 times in winter,1 in spring and 3 in autumn,but none in summer.It implies that continuous drought in autumn and winter is likely to appear in Tangyin County,thus special attention should be given to fight against drought and preserve moisture in the soil;and extremely severe drought is unlikely to appear in summer,but more attention should be given to prevent flood and water logging.


Device for air u. is arranged borne noise reduction with an outer shell and an inner tube, the outer casing (1) forms at least two of an intermediate wall (2) adjacent chambers (4) and the inner tube (3) of at least one transverse to the intermediate wall (2) acoustically tuned pipe piece (8) characterized in that the outer casing (1) is integrally molded from a semi-finished pipe and has a constriction, the said intermediate wall (2) forms with a receiving opening for the inner tube (3), and that the inner tube (3) next to the tube piece (8 ) in the terminals (5, 6) of the outer shell (1) arranged, (from the pipe section 8) includes separate pipe parts.


Melt pressure-sensitive adhesive based one or more non-thermoplastic elastomers, at least comprising 100 parts by mass of the or of the non-thermoplastic elastomers, 1 to 200 parts by weight of one or more tackifier resins, 1 to 100 parts by weight of one or more reactive phenolic resins with Methylolgehalten from 1 to 20 wt .-% based on the reactive phenolic resin, 1 to 100 parts by weight of accelerating substances.


The cycloaddition reaction of N-benzyl C-(2-pyridyl) nitrone with allylic alcohol has been carried out to obtain the corresponding 2-benzyl-3-(2-pyridyl)-5-hydroxymethylisoxazolidine. The influence of Lewis acids in the reaction has been studied and a complete 3,5-regioselectivity and cis diastereoselectivity was observed when the reaction was carried out with 1.0 equiv of AgOTf, [Ag(OClO3)(PPh2Me)] or Zn(OTf)2. Insight into the mechanism of the reaction has been obtained by isolating and characterizing (X-ray) the intermediate complexes. Also, a model based on both experimental and theoretical results is proposed.


The current statues of confusion for accountant's damage claims is spreading in Sweden. After the highly mediatized Prosolvia-case a lot of questions regarding causality has surfaced. When does causality for an accountant's damage claim become applicable?
Since the Prosolvia-case verdict there has been a stream of confusion of how the court decided to determine the causality. They decided that one should base a hypothetical course of events on whether the accountant's audit had been done correctly or not. This choice of a hypothetical course of events became disregarded by scientist in the field of law.
After a couple of years a new case of damage claim for accountants appeared. The BDO-case verdict became a milestone for damage claims. The court decided that the hypothetical course of event that was described in the Prosolvia-case was faulty. One can't make a fair judgment based on if the accountant's audit was thoroughly done or not. It can only be done by examining if the injured party would drastically change its decision making based on the correct financial statement, presented by the company.
This verdict has had an overall positive feedback from the scientific community. They agree that this is a more correct form of judging if there is a causality between the damage and the occurrence. It also brings back order to the field of damage claim and lessens the effect of the deep pocket theory, that's currently spreading chaos for accountants. This has also led to the need of stricter guidelines for how thoroughly an accountant should audit a company. In the year of 2015 this will hopefully come when Swedish regulations has to intertwine with the new European audit guidelines. How these new regulations will affect the accountant community is still unknown but hopefully it will lead to order and less risks of faulty damage claims towards accountants.


This book provides a thought-provoking and carefully argued exposition and defense of Nietzsche's philosophy of education. The authors argue that if educators followed Nietzsche's approach to education, properly understood, then their students would contribute to the flourishing of democratic society. More specifically, the authors aim to refute a common argument for the incompatibility of Nietzsche and democratic education. Critics charge that Nietzsche promotes an elitism that would grant no rights to people of lesser talent, and treat their welfare as (at best) instrumental to the production of people with greater talent. In short, Nietzsche would treat the weak as contemptible and disposable. In response to these critics, the authors claim that Nietzsche promotes a society in which everyone is encouraged to flourish, and to help each other flourish. This society would urge everyone to see one goal as the highest pursuit in life: the production and appreciation of the highest possible works of culture. Moreover, it would regard the exclusion or neglect of anyone from this pursuit as a betrayal of the main goal. In support of their main claim, the authors identify what they regard as four key misunderstandings of Nietzsche's educational philosophy. For each misunderstanding, they devote two chapters. The first chapter explains the common misunderstanding and argues for an alternative interpretation of Nietzsche. It also explains why the correct interpretation of Nietzsche promotes character traits that would contribute to the flourishing of everyone in society. The second chapter applies the relevant interpretation to education. That is, the authors present ways in which educators could promote the relevant character traits in their classrooms. In Chapters 1–2, the authors respond to the charge that Nietzsche's perspectivalism undermines students' character. Some critics argue that Nietzsche promotes an extreme and dangerous relativism. As the authors note, Nietzsche does deny that there is a single true perspective. However, Nietzsche also affirms that some perspectives empower people and others make them weaker. Those perspectives that empower people are 'truer' than those that do not. Along these lines, educators can promote respectful but critical dialogue among students that helps them develop and make use of a variety of truer perspectives. In Chapters 3–4, the authors respond to the charge that Nietzsche's approach to selfovercoming undermines students' characters. Some critics argue that Nietzsche encourages students to overcome all externally-imposed moral restraints in ways that could lead to destructive consequences. In response, the authors argue that Nietzsche British Journal of Educational Studies Vol. 68, No. 3, 2020, pp. 391–393


494 AbstractThis paper presents a Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) algorithm to solve various types of Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) problems of the thermal power plants in a power system. The proposed methodology can handle economic load dispatch problems having constraints like transmission losses, prohibited operating zones, etc. Biogeography basically is the science of geographically distribution of the biological species. The mathematical model of the biogeography describes the process how species arise, migrate from one place to another and gets vanish. This methodology has some common features with other biogeography based optimization methods like Genetic algorithm (GA), Particles swarm optimization (PSO). This algorithm search the global optimum value through two steps: Migration and Mutation. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology has been verified with some test systems. Considering the quality of the solution of the different problems obtained, this method seems to be better than other optimization methods.


Review(s) of: The Patch, by Justina Chen Headley, Fitzroy,Vic, Black Dog Books, 2007, Soft cover, pp. 32. ISBN 9781921167546, A$16.95.


Glaucoma is one of the commonly occurring ocular diseases which could potentially lead to permanent loss in vision. Color fundus imaging is one of the most common modalities used for imaging the retina. Using the color fundus images, the assessment of glaucoma is performed by the examination of the optic nerve head and the region around it. For the computer aided diagnosis of glaucoma, we propose a deep learning based framework for three major tasks localization of optic nerve head, image based classification for glaucoma, semantic segmentation of optic disc and cup. In our approach, we transform the fundus images with cropped region of interest using various operations. We propose a novel method for glaucoma classification in which we employ multiple pretrained deep networks and retrain the networks for glaucoma classification.During the prediction stage, we perform ensembling of multiple classifiers, each of which are trained with different networks and different kinds of input images. For the task of semantic segmentation, we employ a fully convolutional network for joint segmentation of optic disc and cup. On the validation set of the REFUGE challenge, we obtain an area under the curve (AUC) 0.9635 and reference sensitivity of 0.975, for the task of classification and dice scores for 0.8964 for optic disc and 0.7744 for optic cup and cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) error of 0.0974 for the task of semantic segmentation.


In the context of the sea level survey at the mm level, it is necessary all along the lifetime of the altimeter mission to survey the quality of the products from the microwave radiometer. The calibration of the brightness temperatures has been validated using reference brightness temperatures over selected continental areas as well as simulations for a wide range of oceanic and atmospheric situations. The validation of the wet path delay is performed by comparison with radiosonde measurements and pointed out that both the JMR and the TMR estimate wet path delay around 5 mm higher than the one measured by radiosondes. Furthermore, it appeared that the correction of the TMR drift degrades the product with respect to radiosonde measurements. The monitoring of the brightness temperatures since launch shows a mean drift around +0.1 K/year for the 18.7 GHz, −0.6 K/year for the 23.8 GHz channel, and around −0.4 K/year for the 34 GHz channel.


Addition of the enolate derived from isopropyl
α-(methylsulfanyl)butyrate to N-(quinolylmethyl)-2-fluoro-
pyridinium triflate 7, followed by oxidation–hydrolysis of the
resultant 2-fluoro-1,4-dihydropyridine 8b afforded pyridone 9b, from which
20-deoxycamptothecin (11), a known precursor of camptothecin, was
synthesized by a radical cyclization–desulfurization, with subsequent
elaboration of the lactone E ring by chemoselective reduction.


With the continuous development of science and technology, the research on the protection and inheritance of Northeast folk handicrafts is also constantly innovating and developing. These studies not only innovate and broaden the existence of Northeast folk handicrafts, but also attract more and more people to pay attention to and understand the Northeast folk handicraft. Augmented reality and virtual reality technologies (ARVR for short), as today's cutting-edge technologies, are also used in the restoration of historical sites and the protection of digital cultural heritage. At the same time, modern scientific and technological civilization has brought new crafts and new materials to the traditional development, and has brought the possibility of expansion. In an era when challenges and opportunities coexist, Northeast folk handicrafts must seize the opportunity to get out of the predicament. The purpose of this article is to design an interactive platform for the inheritance and development of Northeast folk handicrafts based on VR. This article analyzes the four aspects of research time, research author, research institution, and research keywords. It understands the current main research forces of folk crafts in Northeast China and the cooperation status between the research forces, and interprets the inheritance of folk crafts in Northeast China based on the knowledge map. The status quo. According to the survey, the media has the greatest influence, accounting for 65.1%; followed by friend promotion and museum exhibitions, accounting for 35.6% and 38% respectively; people who actively learn about themselves through their hobbies and interests account for the least, accounting for only 13.6%, with passive acceptance as the Lord.


Vehicles equipped with towbar arrangements experience some safety risks when towing with unsafe conditions like a too high vertical load. This study presents some methods of measuring and detecting these conditons. Furthermore, a patent study is carried out.


Based on a research on the characteristics and influential factors of female students' physical exercise after class in Henan province by adopting literature,questionnaires and interview,the paper suggests some advice on the issues found in the survey.The research result shows: the main factors influencing the female students' physical exercise after class are the lacking of sports places and equipments,exercise time,the methods of doing exercise and guiders etc.


to the future of the NHS is a re-balancing of activity between primary care (general practice and community services) and secondary (hospital) care, combined with better, more coordinated working between these and other health and social care sectors. These proposals have major implications for the use of resources and of the NHS estate, and for professional careers and identities and raise a host of new questions. How important is the location of services and will we have to close and sell off hospitals to really shift resources into primary care? How can tensions between generalist and specialists be resolved and real integration and joint working be achieved? Will the IT systems ever catch up with changing structures? How can we develop an evidence base for the effectiveness of the reforms, and how can we share best practice? Is it really possible to design services around patients, and how can the 'patient voice' truly be heard and heeded in service development? And finally, which, if any, of the proposals for change are going to save money? This last question is critical, not only because of the financial constraints now being placed on the NHS, but also because of recent evidence that seems to show that, while countries with strong primary care have better health outcomes and less health inequality, overall costs of health care may be higher.1 We asked four people, who are particularly well placed to comment on the future of the service, to give us their perspectives on how things may develop in tomorrow's NHS.


The standard siren method using gravitational-wave observations has great potential to resolve the tension in measurements of the Hubble constant from different experiments. To realize this goal, we must thoroughly understand the sources of potential systematic bias. Among the known sources of systematic uncertainties, selection effects originating from electromagnetic counterpart observations of gravitational-wave sources may dominate the measurements and no method to mitigate this effect is currently established. In this Letter, we develop a new formalism to mitigate the counterpart selection effect. With realistic examples, we show that our formalism can reduce the systematic uncertainty of standard siren Hubble constant measurement to less than 0.6%. We conclude with how to apply our formalism to different electromagnetic emissions and observing scenarios.


The three-dimensional structure of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) from human lymphocytes has been determined by X-ray crystallography at 2.1 A resolution. The structure was solved by a molecular replacement technique using the coordinates of rat MIF. The molecule forms a trimer structure similar to the rat MIF. However, unlike the rat MIF whose C-terminal tail (residues 104-114) is disordered in the crystal, human MIF has a deftite main-chain conformation up to the C-terminal end. These eleven residues create two more b strands and join to the inter-subunit bsheet, which contribute to forming a trhner structure. Thus, the trimer structure consists of three seven-stranded @-sheets surrounded by six a-helices. Each f&sheet is comprised of bstrands from each of the three monomers. This architecture is almost identical to S-carboxymethyl-2-hydroxymuconate isomerase (CHMI) and is related to the E. coli signal transducing protein Pn. k :y words: Cytokine; Isomerase; Macrophage; X-ray crystal sl ,mucture


A problem of reversal distance on star-tree is discussed. The problem of 3SAT is induced to the problem of the reversal distance on star-tree with object partially fixed. The fact described below is proved: if an instance has 3 sequences given, and the order and some signs of the symbols in aimed sequence are fixed, it is still NP-hard to solve the problem of reversal distance on star-tree in which only need to decide the signs of the other symbols to minimizing the sum of distance between object and the given sequences. A polynomial approximation algorithm for the problem is given.


We consider the Anderson model on a strip. Assuming that potentials have bounded density with considerable tails we get a lower bound for the fluctuations of the logarithm of the Green's function in a finite box. This implies an effective estimate by $ \exp(CW^2) $ for the localization length of the Anderson model on the strip of width $ W $. The results are obtained, actually, for a more general model with a non-local operator in the vertical direction.


We present the numerical modeling of two different randomization methods of photonic lattices. We compare the results of light propagation in disordered aperiodic and disordered periodic lattices. In disordered aperiodic lattice disorder always enhances light transport for both methods, contrary to the disordered periodic lattice. For the highest disorder levels, we detect Anderson localization for both methods and both disordered lattices. More pronounced localization is observed for disordered aperiodic lattice.


Under the direction of advanced concept of Intel Future Education,from the network courseware characteristics and connotations which are based on local area network,guided by the teaching theory of "Constructivism "and"Double Dominating",using the advantages of LAN and Internet,we introduce the methods of designing and development network courseware of new styles,integrate the material examples during the teaching process,and put forward correspond solutions.


Validated for sertraline 1R4R cis enantiomer of sertraline hydrochloride in bulk drug and tablet using UV detector at 215 nm. The developed method was able to separate sertraline 1R4R cis enantiomer of sertraline hydrochloride from its bulk drug and tablet within 25 min. The chromatographic separation was carried out by reverse phase chromatography using column of protein based chiral stationary phase (Chiral AGP 100 mm x 4.0 mm x 5 μm) with mobile phase comprising of ammonium phosphate buffer and isopropanol (80:20, v/v) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min at 25°C temperature. The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ) of sertraline 1R4R cis enantiomer were found to be 0.016 μg/mL and 0.05 μg/mL respectively. The linearity of response of sertraline 1R4R cis enantiomer was in the range of 0.05 μg/mL to 0.30 μg/mL with r > 0.9995. The percentage recovery of the sertraline 1R4R cis enantiomer from sertraline hydrochloride bulk drug sample ranged between 97.85 to 100.29 and for sertraline hydrochloride tablet ranged between 96.15 to 100.15. The method was validated and found to suitable for determination of sertraline 1R4R cis enantiomer of sertraline hydrochloride in bulk drug and tablet.


Kinematic significance and time scales of geodynamic processes forming the Altai Orogenic Belt are addressed through structural and petrological analysis combined with zircon and monazite geochronology. The study area is composed of orogenic lower crust represented by a Devonian migmatite‐magmatite complex and orogenic middle and upper crust formed by an amphibolite‐facies Ordovician sedimentary sequence and a weakly to unmetamorphosed Devonian volcano‐sedimentary cover, respectively. The orogenic lower and middle crust were first affected by moderate thickening, which formed subhorizontal Barrovian metamorphic schistosity. This fabric was reworked by deep crustal melting and intrusion of granite sheets during horizontal extension at 400–380 Ma. Soon after, this horizontal fabric was affected by NW‐SE shortening generating crustal‐scale upright folding associated with subvertical flow of still partially molten orogenic lower crust. During this event, the orogenic lower and middle crust were tightly juxtaposed with upper crustal sedimentary rocks. The last event was related with a NE‐SW oriented convergence resulting in large‐scale folding and megafold interference pattern in the Permian at 280–273 Ma. Combined with existing regional data, our results allow proposing a Devonian tectonic switching from compression to extension and back to compression, as a response to variations of subduction dynamics between slab advance and retreat in a Pacific‐type suprasubduction system. The Permian folding was associated with the progressive northward exhumation of thermally softened crust. This tectonic evolution is in response to the indentation of the rigid Junggar arc domain into the weak Altai wedge.


The surface comprises an artificial grass mat covering the entire playing surface area, and line markings formed by a pile having a contrasting color. The markings comprise separate strips of a monofilament fiber pile mat which are laid in slots cut into the artificial grass mat before a material comprising sand or another non-agglomerating, granular material is scattered on top of the surface, forming two layers with different properties in respect of the color, shape and dimensions of the particles. The top layer comprises colored particles prepared by painting or coating and the bottom layer comprises non-colored particles. An independent claim is also included for a tennis court with its entire playing surface area is covered by an artificial grass mat containing 3 blades per linear inch and consisting of a pile of fibrillated synthetic fibers which have a homogenous color and pile height of 20 mm. The line markings are formed by a pile having a contrasting, lighter color and comprising separate strips of a mat with a pile consisting of monofilament fibers. The strips are laid in slots cut into the artificial grass mat before a material consisting of sand or another non-agglomerating, granular, grit-like material is scattered on top of the surface, forming two distinct layers with different properties in respect of the color, shape and dimensions of the particles. The top layer comprises colored particles prepared by painting or coating and the bottom layer comprises non-colored particles. Each layer has a thickness of ca. 5-25 mm and comprises particles having a size of 0.1-1.5 mm. One of the layers comprises a single material and one layer comprises identical size particles. The top layer comprises quarried sand or basalt particles which are at least 5% coarser and more angular than those in the bottom layer, which comprises fluvial or fine sand, in order to avoid a capillary fracture area. The thickness of the two layers is equal to the pile height.


Disclosed are an oxidized graphene nano-ribbon/polymer composite film and a preparation method therefor. A multi-walled carbon nano-tube is longitudinally cut into oxidized graphene nano-ribbons with strip-shaped structures through an oxidation method, and then the oxidized graphene nano-ribbons are compounded with a polymer to form the film. The composite film prepared according to the invention is excellent in barrier property and mechanical property, and has a certain fixed degree of transparency, thereby being widely applied to the field with higher barrier requirements. At present, mass production of carbon nano-tubes is realized in domestic and foreign countries, so that the preparation cost of the oxidized graphene nano-ribbon is greatly reduced. The barrier property and mechanical property of the composite film can be greatly improved only with few oxidized graphene nano-ribbons. The preparation method is simple, high in operability, and is suitable for large-scale industrialized production.


A scalar, preferred-frame theory of gravitation is summarized. Space-time is endowed with both a flat metric and a curved, "physical" metric. Motion is governed by a natural extension of Newton's second law, which implies geodesic motion only for a static field. The theory predicts Schwarzschild's exterior metric in the spherical static situation. It also predicts gravitation waves with the velocity of light. The equations of motion are recast into the "flat space - uniform time" form, and compared with the geodesic equations of motion. The principles of the post-Newtonian approximation of this theory are given, including the way to account for preferred-frame effects. This approximation is then developed more particularly for photons. It is found that the preferred-frame effects do not occur in this case, nor does the difference between Newton's second law and geodesic assumption. Thus, the post-Newtonian predictions of this theory for photons are indistinguishable from the standard post-Newtonian predictions of general relativity.


This research focuses on the size of municipal crime-control bureaucracies-police departments. The consensus perspectives assumes that the legal order reflects social consensus and that the size of crime control bureaucracies is a response to reported infractions of that order (reported crime rates). The conflict perspectives assumes that the legal order reflects the interests of the powerful and that the size of crime-control bureaucracies is a response to perceived threats to such interests. Work by Turk and Blauner suggests that the size of crime-control bureaucracies reflects the relative size of groups dissimilar to authorities and the extent to which such groups are segregated. The above perspectives are tested for 109 U.S. municipal police departments from 1950 to 1972. Empirical support for the conflict perspective is strongest (1) in the South and (2) after the civil disorders of the 1960s.


The cross-section of roller profile controls the pressure distribution in the contact area and radically affects the roller bearings basic dynamic load rating and rating lives. Today the most used roller profiles are the logarithmic profile and cylindrical-crowned (ZB) profile. The logarithmic profile has a continuous evolution with no discontinuities till the intersection with the end fillet while ZB profile has two more discontinuities at the intersections points between the crowning circle and straight line generatrix. Using a semianalytical method, a numerical study has been carried out to find the optimum ZB profile for rollers incorporated in cylindrical rollers bearings. The basic reference rating life ( L 10_r ) has been used as optimization criterion.


VALUE AND A COMPLEX HEALTHCARE MARKET
"Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit." American Heritage Dictionary "A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable." American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary "A fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged." Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law.


Objective:To optimize extraction process of main components from flower of Gnaphalium hypoleucum.Method:With the contents of quercetin and apigenin as comprehensive evaluation index,which were determined by HPLC.Extraction method,ratio of solid-liquid,extraction times and the concentration of ethanol were investigated by single factor test;orthogonal design test was used to optimize extraction technology with extraction time,extraction times,ratio of solid-liquid and the concentration of ethanol.Result:Optimum extraction conditions were as follows:ultrasonic extracted 2 times with 30 times the amount of 60% ethanol,40 min per time.Conclusion:This optimized process was simple,stable and feasible.It could provide reliable extraction method for quantitative analysis of main components from flower of G.hypoleucum.


The Han clan, which emigrated from Hongtong Shanxi province, was the descendant of the Minister Hanqi in Song Dynasty. During the Chenghua period, many gentlemen came from Han clan. The family tree of Han clan indicates that Han clan is a typical clan booming because of Imperial Examinations. So for this reason, the clan not only bears the traditional culture ,but also on the base of essential ecomomic security. As far as the clan system is concern, the clan exerted a strong influence on local society.


This series fan assembly has a first blower, a flow control element for reducing the eddy current, and a second fan, which are arranged in series. Connecting sleeve, the combined output stream, leading to the housing a to be cooling elements (the heat sink) enclosure. Drawer sliding is at the connecting sleeve, the first blower is configured to releasably retain flow control element and the second cooling fan, hot-swappable replacement of defective elements It has become way possible. Control device, a power source, a first fan, said second fan is in fluid communication with the at least one sensor for monitoring the first and second blowers each state. The control device, the first fan or the second fan is in case of failure, and is configured to maintain a minimum the combined output flow control level or more at any time. .Field


One of the major challenges in the manufacturing industry is the dynamic competitive environment in which manufacturers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods operate. This has compelled manufacturers of FMCG to use various strategies like training and development, cooperative advertising and recognition programs among others to motivate supermarkets to carry their brands. Although manufacturers of FMCG use various strategies to motivate channel members, it is not known which strategies they use to motivate supermarkets to carry their brands from the supermarkets' management point of view. The objectives of this research were to establish what motivates supermarkets to carry Fast Moving Consumer Goods of manufacturers from the supermarkets' management point of view, determine how the supermarkets' management perceive the motivators provided by the manufacturers of fast moving consumer goods in Nairobi and determine the difference in management expectations and the perceptions of the supermarkets' management. The study was modeled on a descriptive design. The population of interest in this study consisted of 155 supermarkets located in Nairobi. A sample size of 60 supermarkets was used in the study. This was believed to be representative of the population of the study. Primary data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. The questionnaires were personally administered by the researcher to the supermarkets' distribution managers or equivalent. The questionnaire was divided into three parts. Part A contained questions on general information of the supermarket. Part B contained questions on supermarkets' management expectation and Part C contained questions on perception of what is actually done. Out of 60 supermarkets in Nairobi, 48 filled and returned the questionnaires. The response rate was therefore 80% with a none-response rate of 20%. Most of the


The overall goal of our recent research has been to quantitatively measure the influence of commercial processing variables on the structure of polypropylene melt blown webs. In this paper, we applied a cool water quench spray to fibers to increase their thermal quenching rate. Then, we collected webs and measured single fiber diameter, shot content, fiber bundle size, basis weight uniformity and pore structure. The structure of webs produced with and without quenching was compared to access the influence of quenching on webs.


Oil prices increased dramatically during 2004-6. Industry experts initially attributed these price increases to fundamental factors such as the rise in global demand, but also because of disruptions in the supply of oil. The price increases however were so substantial that additional factors are needed to explain such dramatic changes. We propose that the decline in the value of the U.S. dollar measured both by the appreciation of the Euro and of gold prices, played an important role as oil suppliers demanded compensation for the declining value of the dollar. Using a Markov switching regime methodology we find evidence that this hypothesis is true prior to the financial crisis, but its validity does not hold after the crisis when oil prices crashed and the dollar rallied.


Multimodal machine translation uses images related to source language sentences as inputs to improve translation quality. Previous multimodal Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models, which incorporate visual features of each image region into an encoder for source language sentences or an attention mechanism between an encoder and a decoder, cannot catch the relation between visual features from each image region. This paper proposes a new multimodal NMT model, which encodes an input image using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a Transformer encoder. In particular, the proposed image encoder first extracts visual features from each image region using a CNN, and then encodes an input image on the basis of the extracted visual features using a Transformer encoder, where the relation between visual features from each image region are captured by a self-attention mechanism of the Transformer encoder. The experiments on the English-German translation task using the Multi30k data set show that the proposed model achieves 0.96 BLEU points improvement against a baseline Transformer NMT model without image inputs and 0.47 BLEU points improvement against a baseline multimodal Transformer NMT model without a Transformer encoder for images.


The direct evidences of tillage erosion by hoeing plough in karst area are obtained with tracer technique.The test proves that tillage translocation rates range from 42.364 to 61.534 kg/m,the mean displacement distances range from 0.2053 to 0.2982m,and tillage erosion rates reach 141.21 to 205.11t/hm~2,mean tillage erosion rate is 162.85 t/hm~2.They are all affected by slope,and they all increase with the farmland slope even under same slope length.The major reasons for the seriously tillage erosion are that the area of single farmland being too small,the slope body comparatively short and the patches of farmland too dispersed.By combining the special natural conditions in karst mountain area,the necessity and importance in strengthen the research on soil tillage erosion is put forward.


The growth conditions and development of Asterionella formosa Hass., Tabellaria fenestrata (Lyngb.) Kutz., Fragilaria crotonensis Kitt., and Oscillatoria spp. have been studied in Lake Vansjo and Lake Mjosa for many years. Some batch culture experiments have been performed with dilute phytoplankton populations in filtered water samples to support the field data. The results indicate that the concentrations of phosphate, nitrate, silicate or chelators/Fe were important factors regulating the spatial and temporal distribution of the populations. Based on the assumption that the growth rates were strongly dependent on the external nutrient concentration, S, the growth conditions were divided into three types. The nutrient concentration may be too low to support growth, i.e. the growth rate k ≤ 0, or the population is nutrient growth limited (0 < k < km) or not growth limited, i.e. the population has maximum growth rate (km). The nutrient concentration may be population density dependent, i.e. resource competition may occur, or density independent separately or in combination. The growth strategies of the populations in the two lakes were partly explained by studying the nutrient growth conditions of the populations.


In order to explore the origin of the potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, feeding experiments were carried out using [2-14C]-acetate, [guanido-14C]-arginine, [ureido-14C]-citrulline and [14C (U)]-glucose on the newts Taricha torosa and Taricha granulosa. The precursors were administered by injection, by oral feeding, or by soaking the newts in a bath of water containing the radioactive precursors. None of these feeding experiments resulted in the incorporation of radioactivity into tetrodotoxin, though common metabolites such as cholesterol, amines, amino acids, and macromolecular compounds were significantly labeled. The toxicities of T. granulosa and T. torosa used for the experiment were found to be higher than those previously reported. They retained a high level of toxicity during their captivity, yet they were found to continuously release small amounts of toxins (2.5% of the total toxins in one year). When subjected to an electric shock, the newts released significant amounts of toxin.


This paper has reviewed the research results of humanities quality education in colleges and universities with CNKI as the platform and according to its data analysis,has found out its basic situation and research development,and has put forward the need of strengthening the study so as to provide the foundation for its in-depth study.


The article proves the significance and relevance of the concept of strategic development of the regional fuel and energy complex (FEC) based on the triad consisting of innovative cluster formations, harmonization of proportions according to the graph analytical model, formation of effective system of anti-sanctions pressure. It is suggested that regional FEC should be regarded as complex hierarchical organizational technical and economic systems with a global purpose of effective functioning within the life cycle. The authors prove that issues devoted to alternative choice of cluster formations are possible only on the basis of the system criterion which takes into account financial and economic indicators as well as technical and technological, social and environmental ones. The article presents verbal comparative assessment of cluster formations – regional industrial cluster (mega-cluster), coal and energy complex (meso-cluster), mine systems (mini-cluster) – according to the classification characteristics of a cluster. It is stated that any cluster formation has the right for implementation in case it passes the criterion barrier for socio-economic efficiency.It has been stated that the global purpose for the regional FEC is to ensure energy security of the region. During the sanctions period the Kuzbass should adapt its economy towards cardinal transformation of traffic flows and develop operation of the regional FEC on the basis of harmonization of the parameters of the basic elements according to the graph analytical model. To form the targets it is essential to predict and model the development trends of the regional FEC. This fact predetermines scientific methodological support according to optimization models. The basic foundation of the regional concept is the graph analytical model of interrelation of subjects of strategic management and relations of technological elements of the Kuzbass FEC's function. Identification of the limit parameters within all the elements of conceptual inequality of interaction, i.e. determination of conditionally optimal parameters of coal production, transportation and demand, essential energy capacities and environmental restrictions, is needed for making strategic decisions and will ensure synergetic effect within the entire production system of the region.


Kouyu Yibian Yin(口语异变音) and some certain conditions of Sheng Fu(声符) created the Yibian Yin(异变音 ) annotations of contemporary sound of Xingsheng Skujuan Zi(形声书卷字). The subjective randomness and some objective considerations brought a kind of chaotic phenomena to the annotations of contemporary sound. It is no doubt that this kind of chaotic phenomena should be arranged. The author of this essay shows his point of views about this problem. And those specific actualized-schemas are still need to be studied furtherly.


Clustered atop the deepest basement in the country, the International Finance Centre Seoul features a five-star hotel and a trio of office towers whose facades present a complex, sloping geometry. From its location at the center of Seoul's transportation network, the project has become a new landmark in the city's skyline.


Over the years, the purchasing area has taken on an essential role in the management of companies in all activity sectors. In the health sector, purchasing medicines is highly important considering the amounts involved, the impact on the service quality, and the wide variety of purchased products. This research work combined action research with a case study and aims to apply to a Central Hospital a Purchasing Portfolio Model based on the Kraljic Purchasing Matrix (KPM). The KPM allows for the classification of different classes of medicines in accordance with their impact on profits and supply risk dimensions, making it possible to define differentiated purchasing strategies. This application used the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) tool for criteria prioritization and used direct measurement for criterion rating. By applying the model to a Central Hospital, this study seeks to increase the areas of applicability of purchasing portfolio models. Moreover, the results confirmed the model's value in defining medicine purchasing strategy at the Central Hospital and also gave rise to guidelines for applying the model.