.................................................................... 5 Introduzione............................................................... 9 Introduction................................................................ 19 Manuscript 1 – Growth and regeneration of the second antennae of Asellus aquaticus (Isopoda) in the context of arthropod antennal segmentation.................................................. 31 Manuscript 2 – Segmental pattern formation following amputations in the flagellum of the second antennae of Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea, Isopoda)....................................... 51 Manuscript 3 – Comparative morphology and development of isopod (Crustacea) second antennae.................................. 63 Manuscript 4 – Segmental mismatch in arthropod appendages: the naupliar antennal exopod of Artemia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca).............................................. 73 Manuscript 5 – Article number and muscular system in the naupliar appendages..................................................... 87 Manuscript 6 – On the anatomy of some articles in arthropod appendages................................................................ 105 Manuscript 7 – On the proximal "growth zone" of arthropod appendages................................................................ 113 Discussion and conclusion................................................ 127 Acknowledgements......................................................... 131


In the 1930s, the midwestern writer Meridel Le Sueur became fa mous in American Left literary circles for her "proletarian" writings. Stirred by the dire condition of the working class during the Great Depression, Le Sueur wrote reportage and fiction on elemental is sues, particularly the need for food, adequate shelter, social relief, and steady work. Her most important contribution to the burgeoning depression-era proletarian literary movement, however, was her sym pathetic depiction of how the other half of the "other half" lived. In deed, in works such as "Women On the Breadlines" (1932), "Women Are Hungry" (1934), "They Follow Us Girls" (1935), and The Girl (1939), Le Sueur stands out as one of a minority of American prole tarian writers concerned with the ways working women had to shift during the economic crisis. As a result of her self-identification as both a radical working-class and feminist writer and, more importantly, as a result of her recuper ation as a feminist by women scholars since the 1970s, Le Sueur has found increasing recognition in literary studies under the "sub genres" of women's literature, and, less often, working-class litera ture. While current scholarship on Le Sueur's work varies in important ways, it shares an interest in explaining her intellectual convergence with and/or divergence from the politics of the Com munist Party of the United States (CP), in which she was an active member in the 1930s and 1940s. Critics over-conscious of the linger ing specter of a "dead" communism often explain this vexed issue of her CP affiliation in terms of the tensions between feminist and Com munist dimensions of her work. More often than not, Le Sueur's fem inist identity wins out in the covert Cold War battles of literary criticism.1


The legal attribute of national culture originality has its particularity and complexity.As quasi-public product,it also has special economics attributes.Based on the national culture originality economics attributes as the breakthrough point,the paper analysis on the necessity of protection of national culture originality to and the relationship between protection and promotion.Pursuing the perfect the legal protection system of national culture originality,realize the prosperity of the national culture.


The choice to become a parent is not an easy one to make, moreover it is today a choice more likely to be made by the mother. She has the opportunity of abortion, whereas the father can't affect his becoming a parent after the moment of conception. This constitutes a situation of inequality between the sexes, which this year has caused a debate to arise in social media as well as in news papers. It concerns male reproductive rights and more specifically the issue of the so called paper abortion. Paper abortion would make it possible for an unwilling father to renounce his fatherhood completely. The debate so far centres on equality between the sexes because of the situation mentioned above. However, this essay shows that another person should be in the centre of this discussion, namely, the future child who will grow up without a father.

The essay aims to examine, through the use of a legal dogmatic method, this consequence for the child, in relation to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as well as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The goal is to reach a conclusion on whether the child's right affect a legislation on paper abortion or not.

Art. 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, together with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, gives the right to a child to know his or her origins. It also establishes a shared responsibility for the parents when ensuring their child's rights given by the Convention, while always putting the child's best interest first. The state has a subsidiary responsibility to do it's best making sure that both parents are present during the childhood as well as giving financial support to their child. The essay also examines what possibilities Sweden does have to interfere with these rights in order to benefit the reproductive rights of the father.

The conclusion of the essay is that the rights of the child do interfere with any future legislation on paper abortion, because it most likely equates Sweden's position as one that infringes on international conventions.


The goal of this paper is the presentation of a method and results for artificial neural networks crops classification based on HyMap hyperspectral data. The method that uses an ANNs does not only depend on statistical parameters of particular class and hence makes it possible to include texture information. To experiment with variable pattern size two data sets were chosen with 10 bands obtained after MNF and 5 hyperspectral vegetation indicies. Next to post classification crops maps, additional quality layers were generated to check which classes are "problematic" because of spectral similarity or errors in the training/reference data. The best accuracy was achieved using the 10 MNF bands with the 3×3 pixel sub pattern size −94,8 %.


The incidence of pulmonary embolism increased year by year.As it is lack of specific clinical manifestations,misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis of pulmonary embolism frequently occurred.There are several methods for diagnosis of this disease,such as ECG,serum markers,echocardiography,lung CT,pulmonary ventilation/perfusion imaging,and so on. It is possible for rapid diagnosis if combined with the advantages and disadvantages of various methods,and it may greatly reduce the morbidity and mortality of this disease.

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Pulmonary embolism ;  Diagnosis ;  Progress


The present paper reports the occurrence of mites belonging to 38 species under 22 genera and 9 families and 3 orders on economically important plants which includes 4 species hitherto unknown from India, besides 11 new host records. This also includes a total of 23 phytophagous, 12 predatory and 3 fungal associated mites from West Bengal.


A while reducing the number of times that the hearing aid user to implement Listen and evaluation, determining the hearing aid processing parameter that reflects how hearing of a hearing aid user efficiently. A hearing aid adjusting apparatus 1 includes a comparison section 22a, a setting unit 22b, a. Comparing unit 22a includes a user rating given by the user T against hearing level data and sound obtained by the hearing aid processing based on the fitting theory user T of the hearing aid 5, each customer A~C acquired in advance correspondingly to compare reference and evaluation given by the customer a through C the sound obtained by the hearing aid processing based on the hearing level data and fitting the theoretical customer a through C, the. Setting unit 22b, the value of the user parameters defining the hearing aid processing provided to the user T, a previously acquired parameter, to give a reference evaluation similar to the user evaluation of the customer A~C set to the same value as the value of the reference parameters defining compatible hearing aid processing to a customer a. .FIELD 8


Cellular fibronectin is expressed only at very low levels on the surface of the spontaneously transformed Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell line, as detected by immunofluorescence studies and confirmed by resistance of CHO cells to complement‐mediated lysis in the presence of anti‐fibronectin antibody. Treatment of CHO cells with sodium butyrate results in a marked susceptibility to anti‐fibronectin complement‐mediated killing. Using selected complement‐containing sera from rabbits, it is possible to demonstrate that killing of butyrate‐treated CHO cells is absolutely and specifically dependent on the presence of antibody to fibronectin. The increased susceptibility of butyrate‐treated cells to complement‐mediated killing correlates with an increase in cell surface fibronectin detected by immunofluorescence studies. This increased antigen expression should allow the isolation of mutants with altered regulation of fibronectin expression in a cell line of proven value for somatic cell genetic studies.


A discussion on a demethanizer process, which was characterized by interactions between the complex distillation column and other flowsheet units, including the turbo-expander, flash units, multistream exchangers, and refrigeration system, covers a systematic approach for demethanizer flowsheet synthesis to generate cost-effective designs; a semi-rigorous boundary value method for the design of complex demethanizer columns for application within an optimization framework for process synthesis and evaluation; a simplified flowsheet simulation model based on shortcut models to account for various configurations and inter-connections in the demethanizer process; a methodology accounting for heat integration in multistream exchangers; a generalized superstructure for demethanizer flowsheet synthesis that includes various structural combinations in addition to the operational parameters; application of a stochastic optimization technique, simulated annealing, to optimize the superstructure and generate energy-efficient and cost-effective flowsheets; and a case study relevant to natural gas processing to apply the synthesis methodology. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 2012 AIChE Spring National Meeting and 8th Global Congress on Process Safety (Houston, TX 4/1-5/2012).


As the costs of the Iraq War—in lives and money—continue to rise, public and political support continue to drop. Now is the time to find a way out.


The three-dimensional Monte Carlo code MORSE-SGC, as implemented in the SCALE system calculational sequence SAS4, is applied to the analysis of a series of simple geometry benchmark experiments and prototypic spent-fuel storage cask measurements. The simple geometry experiments were performed in Japan and at the General Electric-Morris Operation facility; the cask measurements were performed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The quantification of uncertainties in a typical shielding analysis process for transport/storage casks can be accomplished by comparison of consistent trends between calculated and measured dose rate quantities in both benchmark and prototypic environments. Benchmark results typically measure the validity of cross-section data and computer code adequacy; prototypic environments, however, generally measure the overall validity of the calculational procedure. A total of five storage cask problems and two simple geometry problems were analyzed to determine the expected accur...


Quality education serves for the development of the society and people. It is essentially carried out on the basis of people's potential and the requirement of the society. Therefore, the key problems to push forward quality education are to establish perfect education system, to reform the examination system and to develop comprehensive intelligence.


Quantum electrodynamics furnishes a new type of representation for the characterisation of nonlinear optical processes. The treatment elicits the detailed role and interplay of specific quantum channels, information that is not afforded by other methods. Following an illustrative application to the case of Rayleigh scattering, the method is applied to second and third harmonic generation. Derivations are given of parameters that quantify the various quantum channels and their interferences; the results are illustrated graphically. With given examples, it is shown in some systems that optical nonlinearity owes its origin to an isolated channel, or a small group of channels.


The recombinant human insulin gene was connected by overlap extension PCR.The Kex2 cleavage site was inserted between A chain and B chain.Then,the recombinant human insulin gene was ligated into pGAPZα-A vector.In order to generate a secreting expression vector pGAPZα-A/Insulin,the open reading frame of the gene was ligated with the vector of pGAPZα-A,on the downstream encoding the α-factor signal sequence.After being linearized by Bln I,the recombinant vector was transformed into competent cells of Pichia pastoris GS115 by electroporation.The analysis of SDS-PAGE and Native-PAGE showed that A chain and B chain were cleaved by Kex2 proteinase during the secretory expression of insulin.The analysis of Western blot indicated that recombinant human insulin had the antigenicity to rat anti-human insulin monoclonal antibody,which had the same immunogenicity as natural human insulin.


and cultural development. School subjects singled out as being basic and necessary for advanced learning are the Chinese language in the elementary school and mathematics in the middle school. The plan to move middle school graduates into production earlier is to be achieved by lowering the kindergarten entrance age and by reducing the period of school instruction. A change in the school organizational pattern is proposed with the final goal being the establishment of internats or boarding schools.


Cost‐effective net‐shaped forming components have brought considerable interest into DoD, NASA and DoE. Electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB‐PVD) offers flexibility in forming net‐shaped components with tailored microstructure and chemistry. High purity rhenium (Re) components including rhenium‐coated graphite balls, Re‐ plates and tubes have been successfully manufactured by EB‐PVD. EB‐PVD Re components exhibited sub‐micron and nano‐sized grains with high hardness and strength as compared to CVD. It is estimated that the cost of Re components manufactured by EB‐PVD would be less than the current CVD and powder‐HIP Technologies.


This paper studies distributed knowledge among agents who possibly have contradictory beliefs with each other. The paper formalizes distributed knowledge as knowledge logically deduced from agents' collective information, consisting of events that some agent believes whenever they are true. As a result, distributed knowledge is true, monotonic, and positively introspective, even though agents' beliefs are not. Agents' false beliefs do not lead to distributed knowledge. Distributed knowledge can fail negative introspection even if agents' beliefs satisfy it. Agents cannot necessarily have distributed knowledge of the lack of distributed knowledge of an event. Thus, agents can be collectively unaware of events. If agents' beliefs are true, monotonic, positively introspective, and conjunctive, then distributed knowledge coincides with knowledge possessed by the least knowledgeable "wise man" who knows everything each


The present invention discloses a fin for a heat exchanger, it is formed on the louver fin, when the heat exchanger is working, the heat exchange air as the working fluid of the order of the respective sheet through the window blind stream. The window blind pitch changes along the flow direction of the air, so that the window number and the amount of frost corresponding to the pitch at the site at various locations adapted shutters. The technical solution of the present invention, by making a certain number of frost quantity at the site of the louver pitch corresponding window at the site adapted so that after the louver frost still remains between adjacent sheet fenestration enough space for air circulation past, therefore, does not result in a significant increase in wind resistance airflow volume significantly reduced, whereby the heat transfer performance can give full play fins.


Objective To investigate the association between the polymorphism of Ile50Val in the interleukin-4 receptor alpha (IL-4Rα) gene and bronchial asthma (asthma).Methods Case control studies on polymorphism of Ile50Val and asthma were collected.The quality of the included studies was evaluated and the data was extracted.RevMan 5.0 software was used for Meta-analysis.Results A total of five studies were identified,involving 641 cases in the asthma group and 647 cases in the control group.No significant difference was found in the distributions of the genotypes (IleIle,IleVal,ValVal) between the asthmatic subjects and controls (P > 0.05).No significant difference was observed in the allele frequency (Ile,Val) between the two groups (P >0.05).Conclusions Current evidence suggests that the Ile50Val polymorphism of IL-4Rα gene is not associated with asthma.

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Asthma;  Interleukin-4 ;  Polymorphism ;  Gene;  Meta-analysis


Pro-tobacco messages in media play an important role in initiating smoking behavior among children, but can be addressed in health promotion media literacy interventions. Children from Southwest Virginia, US (age range: 8–14, N = 19) who participated in a tobacco media literacy intervention were invited to discuss their learning and understanding of tobacco media literacy in three focus groups. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis and sensitizing concepts based on a comprehensive theoretical framework. Responses to the intervention were largely categorized into awareness of absent health messages, perceived media influences, and critical evaluation. Unanticipated themes also emerged, such as enthusiasm for media production, desirability of commercials despite the intervention, and an excitement to share with family. These findings not only have implications for the development of health promotion media literacy, but also add additional dimensions to advance theoretical development.


The invention relates to a catalyst which can be used for catalyzing in the trimerization reaction of isocyanate to form isocyanurate and catalyzing in the reaction of isocyanate and epoxy to form oxazolidone. In the catalyst, substituted or non-substituted, straight-chain or branched-chain chromium carboxylate (Cr+3) having 3-60 carbon atoms of alkyl, aryl or aralkyl is taken as a main catalyst, and an organic alkali is taken as a cocatalyst. Materials such as epoxy-terminated or isocyanate-terminated oligomers, low polymers and high polymers with controllable structural performance containing an isocyanurate ring/oxazolidinone ring can be synthesized by changing the ratio and using amounts of the main catalyst and the cocatalyst, the molar ratio of raw materials, the reaction temperature, the reaction time and the like, wherein the mass ratio of isocyanurate to oxazolidone is 0:100-100:0, and is adjustable.


The paper presents the results of experiments with 48-hour horizontal and vertical clinostatting of 5-day old Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings in 2 types of lighting, i.e. white light (4000 cd) and lateral blue light (450 nm). The experiments were performed in a clinostat designed to install Petri dishes with juvenile Arabidopsis thaliana in the horizontal and rotate it about the horizontal axis at a speed of 1 rev/min. Angular bend of the main root (MR) was measured as it elongated. It was demonstrated that, on the average, vertical clinostating in white light caused a more significant MR departure from the apical-basis axis than the horizontal clinostating. The proposed space experiments with Arabidopsis seedlings and laboratory controls will require extensive preliminary studies of the effects of specific light spectra and directions, and crop orientation. In blue light, there was no difference in the MR departure due to the seedlings placement in the clinostat; however, more than 75 % of the seedlings tended to bend away from the light source. Directed blue lighting in a 2D-clinostat can be an approach to root system orientation based on the negative phototropism.


Compliant capture of the space non-cooperative targets is a key technology in on-orbit services. A great challenge is that the multi-dimensional contact force generated by the tumbling space target can destabilize the spacecraft-manipulator system (SMS), which may eventually cause failure of the capture task. A full-dimensional controllable damping mechanism (FDCDM) with gyroscopic structure is introduced into the joint of the SMS to buffer the multi-dimensional contact forces during capture. The six-dimensional damping force outputs by the FDCDM can be equivalent to the actuator outputs in the end joint, which could form a coordinated control system with the torque of base flywheel and active joints. The whole-body dynamic model of SMS with FDCDM is established using the Kane method. Furthermore, a backstepping non-singular sliding mode control is proposed to optimize the momentum distribution and impact absorption. The characteristics of collision process for the above SMS-FDCDM system is analyzed in the ADAMS workspace, and the experiments performed in MATLAB demonstrate that the full-dimensional damping mechanism and coordinated control can greatly reduce the vibration caused by the impact force, and the attitude of SMS is quickly stabilized after capture, which proves the feasibility of its application in non-cooperative target capturing tasks.


Mr. ZHANG Jian's saying "Knowledge consists of theory and experience",has deep meaning and profound significance. It is an important instruction to study,talent cultivation and work. To study ZHANG Jian's view on experiences systematically and to practice it consciously is beneficial to the inheritance, development and innovation of ZHANG's thoughts.


In presenting the material of history, the connection between the past and the present should always be made clear, in order that the child may interpret his own experience through the accumulated experience of the race. Unless this connection is made, the child finds nothing in the subject-matter of the history lessons which helps him to solve the problems of his every-day life or furnishes any motive for work. He is constantly reaching out for the means of answering questions in regard to his social environment. To be of value to him, historic material must be put before him in such a way that he will see its relation to his own thought and action.


In article questions of working out of a technique of use of computer modelling for diagnostics of a condition of a backbone in norm are considered and at pathologies.


A software program was developed to enable the quantification of the complex 3D-data sets as produced by GC×GC. Using this software, it was demonstrated that the detectability limit of GC×GC in our study is 18 times better than that of 'normal' capillary gas chromatography (CGC). This enhancement is due to the signal increase produced by the thermal modulation effect. The relative standard deviation of 0.9% as measured on a test mixture was excellent. Furthermore, a comparison was made for the group-type separation of heavy gas oils between the hyphenation of LC and GC (LC-GC) and GC×GC. Although these separations are different in nature, the agreement of the results of both methods was very good. The results of GC×GC may even be more accurate, since, different from CGC, even in the most complex chromatograms the baseline in the second dimension chromatograms is always present.


This paper describes using a high-speed continuous-time analog adaptive equalizer as the front-end of a receiver for a high-speed serial interface,which is compliant with many serial communication specifications such as USB2.0,PCI-E2.0 and Rapid 10.The low and high frequency loops are merged to decrease the effect of delay between the two paths,in addition,the infinite input impedance facilitates the cascade stages in order to improve the high frequency boosting gain.The implemented circuit architecture could facilitate the wide frequency range from 1 to 3.3 Gbps with different length FR4-PCB traces,which brings as much as 25 dB loss.The replica control circuits are injected to provide a convenient way to regulate common-mode voltage for full differential operation.In addition,AC coupling is adopted to suppress the common input from the forward stage.A prototype chip was fabricated in 0.18-μm 1P6M mixed-signal CMOS technology.The actual area is 0.6×0.57 mm~2 and the analog equalizer operates up to 3.3 Gbps over FR4-PCB trace with 25 dB loss.The overall power dissipation is approximately 23.4 mW.


Nowadays, traffic has become a real chaos in big cities, affecting the mobility of millions of people. On the other hand, social networks handle large amounts of publications dealing divers topics. In particular, many of these publications are shared with the aim of warning about traffic incidents. In this paper, an approach that combines Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques to detect traffic incidents posted on Twitter is proposed. The viability and effectiveness of this approach was evaluated in a study case showing promising results.


Objective To explore the optimal restoration timing after crown lengthening surgery.Methods All 28 teeth underwent crown lengthening by combining flap surgery and osteoectomy were chosen(MD Ⅰ~Ⅱ degree and gingival defect marge -1~1 mm).The clinical outcomes including the change of MD and the gingival marge location were examined at 1,2~3,4~5,6~8 weeks and 6 months after surgery.Results There were no significant differences from 4~5 weeks after surgery(P0.05).Conclusion The best restoration timing was 4~5 weeks after surgery.


AREST was developed to provide a quantitative assessment of the performance of the high-level radioactive waste engineered barrier system and its individual components for a number of repository designs and geologic settings. AREST is a source-term model which simulates the releases from the engineered barrier system (EBS) in natural barriers of the geosphere. It consists of three component models and five process models that describe the post-emplacement environment of a waste package. All of these components are combined within a probabilistic framework. The three component models are a waste package containment (WPC) model that simulates the corrosion degradation processes which eventually result in waste package containment failure, a waste package release (WPR) model that calculates the rates of radionuclide release from the failed waste package, an engineered system release (ESR) model that controls the flow of information among all AREST components and process models and, in particular, combines release output from the WPR model with failure times from the WPC model to produce estimates of total release. The AREST model contains models of the thermal, geochemical, hydrological, mechanical, and radiation processes that determine the waste package environment. AREST provides a menu-based editor, which allows the user to change the inputmore » data prior to execution.« less


This paper deals with the problem of predicting or extracting a certain type of non-stationary sequence or signal from another sequence composed of the signal and a stationary noise. The noise is assumed to be uncorrelated with the signal. Although all sequences in the body of this paper are multivariate, for purposes of discussion, this introduction will deal with only the univariate case.


R.M. GERMAN, J.E. HANAFEE, and S.L. DiGIALLONARDO A two phase heavy alloy composite based on 95 W-3.5 Ni-l.5 Fe (wt pct) was fabricated from elemental powders by liquid phase sintering. Past reports on the heavy alloys indicate considerable disagreement concerning cooling rate effects on toughness. The present experiments determined the effect of both cooling rate and test temperature on the properties of the 95 W heavy alloy. This alloy undergoes a ductile to brittle transition with decreasing test temperature; the transition temperature is close to room temperature. The cooling rate from post-sintering anneals carried out at temperatures greater than 1000 ~ has a large influence on toughness; rapid quenching gives superior toughness. These findings support an impurity segregation explanation for embrittlement in the heavy alloys.


Air pollutant emission inventories are fundamental information for investigating pollution formation mechanism and formulating pollution control policy, and the work associated with emission inventories should be always encouraged given the fact that fundamental emission data compilation, analysis and sharing in China generally do not cause enough attentions. From this point of the view, I would like to give my favorable considerations of this manuscript. In this manuscript, the author presents a high-resolution emission inventory of primary pollutant for the Huabei region, one of several regions with serious air pollution in China, the work shown here is important for further analysis of identifying and characterizing atmospheric environmental issues in this region. However, I do have some serious challenges on this manuscript, which are shown in


This study examined the relationship between communication apprehension and power strategy use in marriage. Data were collected from 42 non‐student married couples and were analyzed using the couple as the unit of analysis. ANOVA showed that one‐sided, noninteractive indirect‐unilateral power strategies were more likely to be used by couples in which both spouses expressed a high level of spouse communication apprehension than by couples in which both spouses were less apprehensive in communicating with their partners. The results have produced evidence that communication apprehension is a significant variable that has an impact on marital communication and interaction.


This thesis indicates the optimization and application situation of the flow,configuration of card clothing,each cell machine and the system when the Zhengzhou blowing-carding machinery is used in combed yarn flow and it also brings forward several suggestions how to use the Blowing-carding machinery effectively,which directs the textile factories to comb good yarn with the blowing-carding machinery.


Objective: To prepare folate-conjugated human serum albumin (folate-HSA). Methods: The activated folic acid was conjugated to the surface of HSA via the amino groups to form folate-HSA. Folate-HSAs were purified with Sephadex G250 column and the extent of folate-HSA was measured by quantitative ultraviolet spectrophotometric analysis in order to verify whether the activated folic acid was conjugated to the surface of HSA. Results: The folate-HSAs were completely separated from unreacted folic acid with Sephadex G250 column. The surface activity amino was measured by 2,4,6-trinitro-benzene-sulfonic acid coloration method (TNBS) and its content was 168 μg/mg HSA, so the density of folic acid conjugated to the surface of HSA was 27.26%. Conclusion: The folic acid conjugated to the surface of HSAs is successfully prepared, which will establish a good base for the following experiments.


Until recently, CERN had been considered eligible for academic pricing of Microsoft products. Now, along with many other research institutes, CERN has been disqualified from this educational programme and faces a 20 fold increase in license costs. CERN's current Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure, dating from 2008, comprises multiple Microsoft services from the web Single-Sign-On to the Accounts Database. Replacing these core components is an opportunity to rebuild the CERN infrastructure using the latest technologies and concepts and to respond to evolving requirements of the community. It is also the appropriate moment to consider the alignment of CERN's and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid's approaches to identity management, to create a more consistent environment for operators, developers and users. 2019 saw the launch of an Alpha version of CERN's next generation Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure, focusing on free and open source products and responding to the limitations experienced by the current system. We describe the new solution and focus on key changes.


Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEP) are bioelectric brain responses evoked by acoustic stimuli and generated in different brain centres at higher levels of auditory processing. Many experimental studies conducted so far show that the registration and evaluation of these responses constitute great potential of opportunities in audiological diagnosis and other scientific fields where the verification of brain functional states and assessment of processes related to the acoustic stimuli analysis are needed. This paper provides an overview of the most commonly reported components of sensory evoked (egzogenous) and event-related (endogeneous) potentials. It presents numerous examples of their clinical application in the assessment and diagnosis of central auditory as well as cognitive and language processes.


Experimentation plays a great role in understanding the concepts in engineering subjects like Electrical Machines. All the experiments on Electrical machines are requiring high voltage supply to be handled by students which always requires supervision by an expert. As electrical drives are essential parts of all real life applications basic knowledge and thorough understanding of the working of machines becomes important. For practicing experiments like load test on DC Motor, Induction motor, No Load/ Blocked rotor test on Induction motor students must visit the laboratory which may not be possible and safe all the times. To overcome this assignment experiments can be given on Virtual Machines laboratory in which they can access the lab from home and perform experiments without the fear of high voltages and try them on real machines in the lab under supervision. As the experiments cannot be performed unless all connections are correctly done, students understand the connections correctly. However experiments could be modified with further research for wrong connections or faults on Virtual Machines laboratory and see their effects, without causing any damage. It also helps to visualize and understand various concepts like Double field revolving theory, Rotating magnetic field through simulations.


We present a novel appearance model using sparse coding with online sparse dictionary learning techniques for robust visual tracking. In the proposed appearance model, the target appearance is modeled via online sparse dictionary learning technique with an "elastic-net constraint". This scheme allows us to capture the characteristics of the target local appearance, and promotes the robustness against partial occlusions during tracking. Additionally, we unify the sparse coding and online dictionary learning by defining a "sparsity consistency constraint" that facilitates the generative and discriminative capabilities of the appearance model. Moreover, we propose a robust similarity metric that can eliminate the outliers from the corrupted observations. We then integrate the proposed appearance model with the particle filter framework to form a robust visual tracking algorithm. Experiments on publicly available benchmark video sequences demonstrate that the proposed appearance model improves the tracking performance compared with other state-of-the-art approaches.


Objective To investigate the risk factors for nosocomial infection in elderly patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Methods Medical records of 282 elderly inpatients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from 2006 to 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were divided into infection group and control group according to the onset of nosocomial infection; the general data of patients in the two groups were analyzed. Results Univariate analysis showed that sex ratio, duration of hospitalization, the use of antibiotics, mini score, combined underlying diseases, and age were the correlated factors for nosocomial infection (P 0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that mini score, performance status score, invasive operation and hospitalization time, the joint use of antibiotics were independent risk factors for nosocomial infection. Conclusion Mini score, physical status score, invasive procedures and hospitalization time, the joint use of antibiotics were the independent risk factors for nosocomial infection, indicating that active treatments for these relevant factors should be administered to prevent nosocomial infection.


The set of equations of the proposed physical & mathematical model, written for the dense, discrete, and semi-diluted phases of the fluidized bed, allows to calculate the main hydrodynamic parameters at any given level of the bed, the material balance as to the fuel and oxidizer, the amount of volatile matter emitted and the fuel carbon emission, as well as the burn-out degree of the volatile matter, carbon, and the fuel as a whole. The calculation results of the burn-out degree of various coal ranks, obtained by using the model, converge well with the experimental results obtained in laboratory and with the test results produced during boiler efficiency testing of boilers equipped with fluidized-bed furnaces.


Solutions can be thought of as a collection of design decisions along the various dimensions of solution variation. Some design decisions are mutually exclusive, e.g. looping over a particular array with a for or a while, some decisions are correlated with one another, and some decisions are completely independent. Each new solution submitted by a student may introduce a novel design decision into the collection. Every possible combination of design decisions (that arent mutually exclusive) may be observed as new student solutions are submitted.


It is well established that biaxial orientation produces large improvements in the mechanical properties of polypropylene; this study further shows that the large improvements in mechanical behavior are magnified especially below the glass transition temperature. In this study, the irreversible deformation behavior of polypropylene during sharp single-edge notch tension testing has been studied at two levels of biadial orientation at −40°C. Unoriented polypropylene formed a narrow wedge-shaped damage zone that grows with increasing stress until catastrophic fracture occurs in a brittle manor. The damage zone consisted of many crazes that mainly grew perpendicular to the loading direction. The 50% oriented material initially developed a wedge-shaped damage zone that grew wider as loading increased. This resulted in a drop of the length-to-width ratio at high sample extensions. The specimen fractured with stable crack growth in a ductile manner, showing a large resistance to crack growth. The 80% oriented material had a circular damage zone that consisted of many delamination crases. These crases grew by splitting the specimen in the thickness direction. Stable crack growth dominated the final failure process with the 80% oriented material showing nearly three times the toughness of the unoriented material. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Composition in emulsion form which can be expanded as foam by an aerosol dispenser, characterized in that it comprises from 15 to 50% by volume of alcohol, 1 to 10% by volume of a C3-polyol C8, a thickening agent, at least one nonionic surfactant, a wetting agent and one or more active principles dissolved or suspended, and its medical and cosmetic applications.


Ambon Island has potential geothermal energy resources, one of them is geothermal energy in Tulehu where it is managed by PT. PLN has carried out exploration drilling, but the results of the exploration well test results obtained are low temperature and low pressure, so that cannot use conventional power plants. One of the technologies that can be used in this case is the binary cycle. The binary cycle can be used for low temperature geothermal fluid by using the working fluid to drive a turbine. The purpose of this research is to optimize power output by varying the working fluid, turbine inlet pressure and condenser temperature. Working fluids used are isopentane, n-butane and isobutane. The research method uses the Aspen HYSYS and uses REFTROP as a support analysis. Research shows that the power outputs of each working fluid are 2,471.30 kW, 2,052.13 kW and 1,743.09 kW. Working fluid selected used for PLTP Tulehu is isopentane whit net power output is 2,232.55 kW.


Local government public health offers an environment rich with opportunities for applying the principles of health psychology to local health challenges, conducting impactful research, and training others in the use of behavioural techniques to support behaviour change among local populations. Indeed, the authors were inspired to begin their own health psychology journeys from their work in local authorities and have worked in public health roles as qualified health psychologists since. The shift towards applying principles from behavioural and social sciences across public health practice supports the need for more health psychologists to work within public health settings. The authors reflect on some of the challenges arising from working in such multidisciplinary settings and offer some ideas going forward.


System reliability can be used as an important tool for the efficient evaluation of existing bridge structures. The traditional element-based approach to bridge design and evaluation does not allow for consideration of interaction between the components that form the structural system and, therefore, it can be conservative. The safety of the structural system also depends on the degree of redundancy (load sharing) and ductility. As a result, it has been observed that the load-carrying capacity of the whole structure can be much larger than that determined by the design of individual components. Therefore, this study was focused on system behaviour. The objective was to identify the load and resistance parameters, formulate the limit state function and develop a system reliability analysis procedure for the whole bridge as a structural system. The reliabilities were also calculated for individual components (girders) and compared with the system reliabilities of the bridge. The resulting system reliability...


Professor Lafayette Benedict Mendel passed away early in the morning of December 9, 1935. Through his death the world lost a distinguished scientist, the University a wise teacher and trusted servant, and his pupils a beloved counsellor and friend. The scope of his interests was broad and he achieved distinction in several spheres of scientific activity, but he will probably be best remembered for his contributions, first, to what in his early career was the new science of physiological chemistry and, later, to nutrition. Outstanding scholars are frequently the combination of innate ability and well-directed training, maturing at a fortuitous period in the development of their particular field of interest; Dr. Mendel was no exception in this respect. After graduating from Yale College in 1891, at the age of 19, he set out to prepare himself for a career in physiological chemistry. He became an assistant to Professor Chittenden and engaged in graduate work in biology and physiological chemistry, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1893. After serving as Instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School for two years, Mendel went to Europe to study physiology with Heidenhain and Rohmann in Breslau, and chemistry with E. Baumann in Freiburg. By that time, under the influence of Chittenden, he had already attained considerable proficiency as a chemist, particularly in the preparation and analysis of compounds of biological interest. Heidenhain was glad to welcome the young man from America who asked for nothing but the privilege of working in his laboratory and who was willing to provide himself with all necessary apparatus and materials, even to a considerable quantity of a beautifully crystalline protein. Professor Mendel said later that "it was here in particular that my interest in experimental physiology and the technic of physical physiology became aroused; and I have always felt that Heidenhain had a profound influence upon my subsequent interest and activities in scientific work." In 1896 he returned to Yale as Assistant Professor, entering upon a period of teaching and extraordinary investigative activity which, with minor interruptions, extended for thirty-eight years.


An optimization study was carried out for an electrodialysis system (ED) operating continuously in stages, based on material balances for the species in each single cell of a generic stage, applied to the separation of NaCl, KCl or Na2SO4 from water solutions. The effect of process variables affecting the investment and operating costs, expressed as membrane and electric energy costs, respectively, is considered. The results indicate that Na2SO4 removal is more expensive than NaCl or KCl due to the divalent ion effect. It is possible to find optimal solutions for minimizing total costs under different scenarios by changing design and operating variables such as cell thickness and recycle ratio.


The articulation between the various stages of the educational path implies a progressive sequentiality, granting each stage the function of completing, deepening and extending the previous stage, in a perspective of continuity and global unity of education and / or teaching. It is incumbent upon the Childhood Educators and the Teachers of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education to have an active attitude in the search for continuity / sequentiality, while asserting and highlighting the specificity of each stage, and also to create conditions for a social articulation by lis-tening to the parents, other professionals (who may occasionally be with the children), the children themselves and their perspectives.


A compact temperature-compensated fibre optic magnetic field sensor based on a self-referenced anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Two hollow holes in the air ring cladding of the hollow core photonic crystal fibre (HCPCF) are infiltrated with magnetic fluid and ethanol. A self-referenced anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide is formed in the cladding of the HCPCF between the magnetic fluid- and ethanol-infiltrated resonators. The applied magnetic field only changes the resonance condition of the magnetic fluid-infiltrated resonator, while the temperature influences the resonance conditions of both the magnetic fluid- and ethanol-infiltrated resonators simultaneously. Therefore, the proposed self-referenced anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide can measure the magnetic field without temperature cross-sensitivity. The experimental results show that a magnetic field sensitivity of 81 pm/Oe can be achieved, and the standard variation of the wavele...


The temperature dependence of the luminescence decay for a series of SDL YAG:Ce phosphors is investigated. Luminescence quenching excited by chip under heat-treatment is observed. The dependence of temperature on thermal luminescent intensity at elevated temperature (range from room temperature to 200°C) was tested. Noticeable luminescence quenching of SDL 2700 phosphor is observed at temperatures above 50°C, and by increasing temperature up to 200°C, the luminescence intensity decreases 5 times. Compare with sdl2700 phosphor, the temperature quenching of sdl3500 and sdl4000 phosphors is much lower. The investigated phosphors differ in the content of Gd3+. An explanation of the observed effects is proposed.


The climatic factor plays a determining role in the management of the agricultural resources. In our work, we focused on the study of the impact of the climate change phenomenon and the risk of dryness on the yield and the management of farms in the Volta catchment in West Africa. This site of study is characterized by a very heterogeneous pluviometric gradient in the spatiotemporal scale, aggravated by dryness episodes, which contributed to the increase of the agricultural crises and to worsen the socioeconomic situation already weakened in this zone. Thus, and following a typology of the various preexistent farms on the catchment, we analyzed the dynamics of the socio-economic working of these last, by studying various means of adjustments deployed in sight to guard itself against its risks relating to the climate changes .The objective aimed by this work, is to estimate the degree of vulnerability of rain agriculture on the Volta catchment, by analyzing the impact of the climate change on the agricultural productivity and on the economic situation of farms. The obtained results show, a degradation of the Socioeconomic situation of the farmers following the manifestations of periods of dryness, as well as a heterogeneous spatiotemporal distribution of the agricultural vulnerability on the catchment, with a contribution at least effective of the adjustments means which remain however insufficient.


Nuclear receptors (NRs) play crucial roles in the regulation of hepatic cholesterol synthesis, metabolism, and conversion to bile acids, but their actions in cholangiocytes have not been examined. In this study, we investigated the roles of NRs in cholangiocyte physiology and cholesterol metabolism and flux. We examined the expression of NRs and other genes involved in cholesterol homeostasis in freshly isolated and cultured murine cholangiocytes and found that these cells express a specific subset of NRs, including liver X receptor (LXR) β and peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor (PPAR) δ. Activation of LXRβ and/or PPARδ in cholangiocytes induces ATP‐binding cassette cholesterol transporter A1 (ABCA1) and increases cholesterol export at the basolateral compartment in polarized cultured cholangiocytes. In addition, PPARδ induces Niemann‐Pick C1‐like L1 (NPC1L1), which imports cholesterol into cholangiocytes and is expressed on the apical cholangiocyte membrane via specific interaction with a peroxisome proliferator‐activated response element (PPRE) within the NPC1L1 promoter. Conclusion: We propose that (1) LXRβ and PPARδ coordinate NPC1L1/ABCA1‐dependent vectorial cholesterol flux from bile through cholangiocytes and (2) manipulation of these processes may influence bile composition with important applications in cholestatic liver disease and gallstone disease, two serious health concerns for humans. (HEPATOLOGY 2012;56:2288–2296)


Background: Attention to educational quality is a primary goal of the managers, professors, and policymakers of the community health system. Universities seek to meet students' needs and expectations and increase their satisfaction since student satisfaction is essential to the growth and improvement of educational organizations. Objectives: The present study aimed to evaluate the influential factors in students' satisfaction with Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Iran in 2015-2016. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 346 students of KUMS who were selected via stratified random sampling. Data were collected by a questionnaire used in similar studies. The influential factors were assessed in two dimensions of importance and satisfaction. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics at the significance level of 0.05. Results: The mean scores of the important dimension, satisfaction dimension, and the gap were 174.6 ± 25, 138.3 ± 24.3, and 36.3 ± 33.3, respectively. All the factors had a high degree of importance, and the highest level of relative satisfaction belonged to the factors of school atmosphere and educational effectiveness. Meanwhile, the lowest level of satisfaction was assigned to responsiveness to diverse populations. The most significant gap was observed in the factors of school's atmosphere and educational effectiveness, and the lowest value belonged to the factors of health and safety status of the school. In addition, the mean score of the gap in the female students (42 ± 33) was higher compared to the male students (26.9 ± 31.9; P = 0.004). Conclusions: Since the level of student satisfaction with KUMS was not desirable in this study, it is recommended that the university administrators and staff increasingly improve the quality and quantity of the educational services at this institution.


Sustaining environmental flows to preserve biodiversity of aquatic plant and animal species, as well as constancy of water for human communities, is essential in many river ecosystems. On the other hand, hydrological changes caused by the dam and its related environmental problems have provoked many concerns for hydrologists, ecologists and policymakers. Therefore, the main aim of this research was to study the rate of change in the Environmental Flow Components (EFCs) caused by the construction of Sabalan Dam in the Qarehsou River of Ardebil at stations of Arbabkandi and Dostbeiglou (before and after Dam) using IHA Software during the time period of . For this purpose, the values of environmental flow parameters were estimated at each hydrometric station. Consequently, changes in the parameters of the environmental flow discharge were investigated in four groups of Extreme Low Flows, Low Flows (Base flow), High Flow pulses, and Floods events. The diagram below shows the parameters of minimum flow, peak flow and small flood. Based on the results, the frequency of Extreme Low Flows at the Dostbeiglou station had a increase with respect to Arbabkandi station. On the other hand, the peak flow component showed more balanced nature in Dostbeiglou station after the dam, which can be related to the regulating effect of dam on high flow and balancing outflow in downstream reaches. The Peak flow, Duration, Timing and Frequency of small flood events had decreased in Dostbeiglu Station compared to the Arbabkandi with amount of , , and percent, respectively. Also, the peak and frequency of large floods had decreased at Dostbeiglu station with amount of and , compared with the observed flood events at the Arbabkandi station which located before the Sabalan dam.


To find a suitable water extraction method from Mapping satellite-1 imagery in urban areas, this paper compared the results of different water extraction methods and studied the effect of building shadow on water extraction. Taken parts of Xinjiang (Beitun of Irtysh river Basin) as the study area, Mapping satellite-1 imagery as data sources, single-band threshold method, Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), and spectral relationship method based on spectral area were applied respectively to extract information of water body. The results of information extraction by use of the four methods were compared to determine the optimal method for water body extraction. The results showed that, for Mapping satellite-1 imagery, single-band threshold method and spectral relationship method which based on spectral area were effective to eliminate classification errors cased by shadows from buildings, fast, easy and accurate to extract information of water body from urban areas. In addition, the spectral relationship method based on spectral area also had the character of extracting small tributary rivers.


The purposes of this system are (1) to support of marketing information system; technology and product classification, technology dictionary, search engine for raw materials and parts, (2) to leverage of marketing competitiveness for small and medium; market finding for horizontal and vertical business transaction, product positioning comparison to substitution or competitive goods, (3) to maximize the success for technology development; on-line services for research and business development, (4) to make a construction of decision support system based on product information; minimize the fail due to lack of information.


To get and illustrate cytoplasm fertility polymorphism distribution among Sumfeng cultivars of sugar beet in china, some loci or region correlated with fertility in sugar beet mitochondrial genome and chloroplast genome were analyzed using molecular marker, the result will provide a strategy and foundation for selecting sugar beet male-sterile lines and O-type lines. The gene loci of minisatellite tandem repeat sequences (VNTRs) in the mitochondrial genomes of 73 sugar beet varieties(lines) were amplificated by PCR method, the reserve sequences between petG-psbE region in sugar beet chloroplast genomes were analyzed using PCR-RFLP method. All cultivars studied in this paper mainly center around three groups. 21 cultivars possess normal cytoplasm (1 model or 2 model or both). 14 cultivars (lines) only contain the Owen male-sterile cytoplasm. 25 cultivars(lines)contain both normal I model cytoplasm and the Owen cytoplasm, so this 25 cultivars can be used as sugar beet resources for selecting improved O-type varieties (lines). K-5 cytoplasm is first found in sugar beet, it is essential to do more intensive study. S-2 male-sterile cytoplasm is first found in Chinese sugar beet cultivars, it can enrich male-sterile cytoplasm resources of Chinese sugar beet in a short time. Protein bolting analyzing showed that the proteins related with male-sterile only express in plants with the Owen cytoplasm, can't express in plants with 1 or 2 model cytoplasm. The cytoplasm types of Sumfeng varieties (lines) are more single. It is of vital importance to look for new types of cytoplasm to enrich sugar beet resource genetic background. Identifying cytoplasm fertility characters using molecular marker can grasp cytoplasm fertility of germplasm resources fast and exactly, and improve efficiency for breeding sugar beet male-sterile or O-type lines.


During the development of economy,large amounts of wastes are generated.The lack of warehouse space and process center will bring forth the concept of reverse logistics.This research attempts to explore the practical reverse logistics operation based on the questionnaires for Textile Investigation.Analytic Hierarchy Process was used to select the important factors under each aspect.The weight of each aspect and criterion was obtained.This research provides an important reference for the enterprises to manage reverse logistics.The results will provide enterprises the implementation reverse logistics related.Meanwhile,a complete supply chain cycle is achieved.


The main challenge in the efforts to protect roadside tree alleys is to achieve a balance between the local development and the conservation of biodiversity. The problem of aging and disappearing roadside tree alleys was analyzed based on a critical review of the literature, various types of reports related to this topic and the provisions of international and Polish acts of law on biodiversity conservation and landscape protection. The following research hypotheses were formulated: 1. The preservation and restoration of roadside tree alleys promotes biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, and it constitutes an important social and scientific problem, and 2. detailed guidelines are needed to formulate effective programs for the protection of roadside tree alleys. The results of the study were used to formulate the universal guidelines for designing programs for the protection of roadside tree alleys. The potential barriers and obstacles that can occur in each stage of the proposed algorithm were identified and discussed on the example of Poland. In the summary, the answer to the question used as the title of the article should be affirmative. However, many actions must be taken. Most of them are included in the proposed guidelines and some of them are given as recommendations.


Usage of visual domain-specific languages in software engineering allows to simplify the process of software creation and to attract to it the experts in domain, who are not professional programmers. However creation new domainspecific language is the nontrivial task, therefore the problem of automation of their development process is the topical task. For the automation, designing of visual modeling languages it is offered to use the ontologies received as a result of the analysis of text corpus. In article, the approach to automatic creation of visual modeling languages on the basis of domain ontologies is considered.


The infant was a 2,990 gram product of a 39 week pregnancy known by prenatal ultrasonography to have a cervical men• ingoencephalocele. The mother was a 32 year old primi· gravida referred to our institution for cesarean section. Deliv·· ery was uneventful and Apgar scores were 8 and 9 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. At birth the midline occipital meningoencephalocele measured 6 x 5 x 6 cm. The remainder of the neurologk and physical examinations were unremarkable. Imaging studies included plain film radiography, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and sonographic examinations of the head and cervical spine. Plain films on the first day of life showed a normal cervical spine and a very small calvarial midline defect in the occiput. On the same day a brain sonogram was obtained with an A TL Ultramark 4 (Bothell, WA) real time scanner using a 7.5 MHz transducer in the conventional manner, along with sagittal and transverse images of the occipital meningoencephalocele (Fig. 1). The posterior sac contained predominantly cerebrospinal fluid


The article deals with the possibilities of conflictological monitoring of the educational activities in higher education institutions. It sets out the reasons and types of conflicts faced by modern educational institutions in the implementation of educational activities. Besides the conflicts involving subjects of such activities, it describes the conflicts that arise during creating the conditions to implement the educational process, for example, providing the accommodation, catering, and etc. Authors describe the essence of the monitoring and pinpoints the need to build a comprehensive program on confl ict management in the organization. The paper describes the principles of monitoring necessary to obtain the relevant information. Among these may be mentioned the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods, involvement of a group of professionals. In addition, authors describe main characteristics of monitoring: data collection methods, parameters, sampling, questioning tools, time for collecting the primary information. Separately, it emphasizes the need to introduce revised studies that will provide information on the dynamics of educational activities development. Analyzing the complexity of conflictological monitoring, authors examine the concept and types of conflict management. Also, the article deals with conflict management technology, with special attention being paid to facilitative seminars, conflictological counseling, negotiation and mediation.


This project placed an experienced technology entrepreneur at Oak Ridge National Lab, one of DOEA¢Â€Â™s premier laboratories undertaking cutting edge research in a variety of fields, including energy technologies. With the goal of accelerating the commercialization of advanced energy technologies, the task was to review available technologies at the lab and identify those that qualify for licensing and commercialization by a private startup company, backed by private venture capital. During the project, more than 1,500 inventions filed at the lab were reviewed over a 1 year period; a successively smaller number was selected for more detailed review, ultimately resulting in five, and then 1 technology, being reviewed for immediate commercialization. The chosen technology, consisting in computational chemistry based approached to optimization of enzymes, was tested in lab experiments, paid for by funds raised by ORNL for the purpose of proving out the effectiveness of the technology and readiness for commercialization. The experiments proved out that the technology worked however itA¢Â€Â™s performance proved not yet mature enough to qualify for private venture capital funded commercialization in a high tech startup. As a consequence, the project did not result in a new startup company being formed, as originally intended.


We present the preparation and inhibition behavior of rebar in the presence of microencapsulated calcium nitrate (CN) with concentrations of 0.5, 2.0, and 5 wt.% in concrete. From both open circuit potential (OCP) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy spectra, it was found that an addition of CN corrosion inhibitor-containing microcapsules into concrete beams successfully repassivated or maintained the passivity of the rebar when the concrete was cracked. This corrosion inhibitor healed the rebar by forming a passive layer on the rebar surface under the crack. This healing process was evident by an increase of OCP values to more positive values or by stable OCP values at around -100 mV vs SCE. An increase in phase angle after corrosion activation for CN C 2% clearly showed this healing process. The optimum concentration for maintaining the passivity on rebar in the cracked concrete was found to be 5 wt.%.


Background: This thesis investigates how policy-driven approaches to change in early childhood education in Australia are impacting on the field, and its dominant discourses, and on how professionals interpret the process of change. The thesis contributes to the investigation of the impacts of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) since its introduction in 2009. This is an important issue for early childhood education because understanding the ways in which educators see their role in the workplace has the potential to deepen our understanding of what it means to work in the early childhood field right now, as well as what it will mean for future practitioners entering the field.
Aim: The research question asked: How do Victorian early childhood degree-trained educators perceive the term 'educator', as used in Australian policy documents? The thesis identified a gap in the literature in relation to the naming of early childhood practitioners' roles. Although there is a growing body of literature around the use of the EYLF in relation to how it applies to children and families, there is limited research regarding what practitioners think of the changes the EYLF has made, and what these changes mean for them.
Method: The thesis takes a poststructuralist perspective on the role of language and uses a sub-category of discourse analysis, Membership Category Analysis (MCA), to analyse the data. Six degree-qualified early childhood professionals were interviewed. Three were based in sessional kindergartens and three in a long day care setting. The interviews were conducted over 45 minutes, primarily over phone or webcam.
Results: The thesis demonstrates that the meaning of the term 'educator', to those experiencing it, is constantly changing and developing, so it is difficult to come to a clear, defined, single 'truth' of what it means to be an 'educator'. Using MCA, the thesis argues firstly that there are two categories within the data: discursive resisters category (teacher) and discursive adapters category (educator). The two categories indicate that the field may well still be finding its way into what it means to be an 'educator'. Secondly, this thesis argues that these categories do not exist in isolation. There are a range of issues outside of these categories that impact on the way practitioners understand their role in the field. The implications for policy development and future research include the need for greater understanding of how policy documents are embodied within the field. Further research could also be expanded into diploma- and Certificate III-qualified practitioners to provide greater topic saturation.


ABSTRACT This work departs from a reading of the novelistic essay A small place (1988), by Jamaica Kincaid, to analyse the representation of the tourism industry and of tourists in Antigua (the author's birthplace). From there, we present Kincaid's text as 'tourist literature' (Hendrix, 2014), also aiming to contribute to the examination of tourism-centred literary texts. Within the context of literature and tourism studies as well as comparative studies, this paper examines Kincaid's literary text in order to consider the promotion of literary tourism in Antigua. This example is then considered in light of recent contributions from literary tourism, space production, community-based tourism, mass tourism as well as responsible and sustainable tourism. Literary heritage as a resource for the tourism industry could bring tourists and locals closer and conspire to break down barriers between the largely dark-skinned hosts and the white tourists in Antigua.


Abstract:The second part of Don Quixote declares in its first chapter a peculiar affirmation: "el felicísimo tiempo donde campeaba la orden de la andante caballería." This statement contradicts the idea of the Middle Ages as a dark period, a mere transition between two glorious epochs (Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance). Against this, however, Don Quixote insists that this chivalric age was the happiest one that ever existed. This article analyzes how it is possible for Don Quixote to consider the medieval period not as a transitional and dark age, but as a veritable Golden Age, a time of which ancient poets such as Hesiod or Ovid used to dream.


Ever since bitcoin gained prominence, blockchain technology has captured the attention of media, investors, organizations, and startups. However, the technology has far more potential than the hype surrounding some of its early applications. Blockchain has the potential to transform industry structures and drive large-scale shifts in the business model of organizations. To realize this potential and overcome the challenges in adoption, it is essential to take a strategic approach, instead of a piece-meal one. Blockchain: The hype and the promise Blockchain gained prominence during the recent hype about crypto currencies and initial currency offerings (ICO) that gave a new impetus to fund raising. Even though the crypto currencies and ICOs belied their promise, blockchain's potential to transform transactions got reafrmed. Experts and analysts agree that blockchain—a distributed, peer-to-peer, digital general ledger—will have a transformative impact on both the economy and the society. Blockchain enables: WHITE PAPER Innovating with Blockchain n Reliable execution of business rules across parties: Today, enforcing business rules across parties requires regulations, processes, and human support. Smart contracts, a key component of blockchain technology, can ease the enforcement of business rules by ensuring the execution of the rules across parties independently. n Disintermediate third parties: Intermediaries play a prominent role in centralized organizations to facilitate transactions and business processes involving multiple parties. Blockchain can replace intermediaries with a protocol that provides similar functions, but cannot be controlled by any one stakeholder. n Automate trust: Organizations invest signicant resources to ensure trust in transactions. Blockchain provides a software protocol that ensures all parties view the same data, perform the same processing, and get the same results, thereby automating trust. The has transformed industries internet of information including communication, retail, transportation, and banking. It has also reshaped supply chains across sectors. Blockchain with its ability to enforce business rules, remove intermediaries, and automate trust, is poised to enable the internet of value. As blockchain technology gains momentum, there is little doubt that it will bring about change on a similar scale as the internet. Blockchain and the enterprise Innovations brought about by blockchain technology can be divided into three broad categories. n Efciency: Innovations that improve productivity to deliver signicant cost savings n Transformation: Innovations that lead to a quantum jump in customer experiences, market share expansion, and launch of products and services abandonment. n Disruptive: Innovations that result in new business models, revenue streams, and change the competition landscape. These have the potential to drive innite value creation As organizations adopt these innovations and adapt to the associated changes, they will create new business models. Blockchain can enable multiple business models, depending on the relationships among the stakeholders. Broadly, they can be categorized into ve models (see Figure 1) WHITE PAPER


In this paper we recall some general properties of extremal and Barabanov norms and we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a finite-dimensional continuous-time linear switched system to admit a Barabanov norm.


Editors' Note: In WriteClick this week, Dr. Casson disputes 2 points made in the article "Legal and ethical implications in the evaluation and management of sports-related concussion." The authors of the article elected not to respond. Drs. Seibert and Alvarez report a second case of anemia …


This paper examines four hypotheses: (i); in Brazil, as in otherperipheral countries in the post-crisis context, a policy choice appears tohave been made for a flexible exchange rate within a currency band ("dirtyfloat");; (ii); the underlying reasons for this policy appear to have more to dowith pass-through of exchange-rate variations and precautionary demandfor reserves than with the maintenance of a competitive real exchangerate; (iii); in the country's peculiar situation, considerable capital mobility isconjoined with large and liquid financial derivatives markets and a reservesbuild-up policy that carries a high fiscal cost; (iv); until April 2006, reservesaccumulated in much the same way under the floating exchange-ratesystem as they had under the currency band regime; there have beenchanges since then owing to the rapid growth of reserves.


A high performance NC laser cutting machine tool for copper sheet is designed, emphasis discussing the components of NC laser cutting machine tool and design points. Performance of high power semiconductor pulse micro-cutting of copper sheet is studied and several key parameters are given by changing assistant gas and process parameters. The experimental results show that the best cutting quality can be obtained when argon is used as assistant gas, and oxygen is on the contrary. Also, in a certain range, improving laser power and cutting speed can help in decreasing laser cutting gap, minishing heat affected area, and achieving better cutting quality.


A myriad of pensile but pertinent issues found in the optical fiber sensors can be sought resolution based on the antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW) working principle. Due to its compact structure, the anti-resonance based sensor has several advantages such as high sensitivity response, low confinement loss, and high stability that make the sensor more effective for health monitoring. In this manuscript, an anti-resonance fiber sensor has been proposed for the detection of tuberculosis cells. An analytical structure has been explored to simulate the characteristics of the ARROW. For the suggested structure, the Finite Element Method (FEM) is used to conduct its numerical investigations. The proposed optical sensor working on the ARROW principle was implemented on the Comsol Multiphysics software. From the numerical analysis, it is noted that the designed sensor has reached around 99% sensitivity with negligible confinement loss and single modality due to the excellent light-guiding properties of the anti-resonance fiber. Besides, lots of optical parameters such as effective area, V-Parameter, spot-size along beam divergence have been calculated over the wide wavelength region. The achieved result indicates the various application's suitability of Antiresonant Hollow-Core Fiber (ARHCF) as a tuberculosis sensor.


Managing the supply chains (SCM) is the subject of various analyses of the operational managers concerning the strategies of managing and integrating of different activities in the realization of processes and operations for achieving an operationally efficient and economical delivery. The multi distributive channels are becoming more and more complex and they demand the most rational management strategy to be chosen. Different strategic approaches show that most of the Adresa autora zaduženog za korespodenciju: Branko Davidovic  firstname.lastname@example.com Davidovic B. Tendencije razvoja lanaca snabdevanja FBIM Tranasactions Vol. 3 No. 1 pp. 91-99 92 │ MESTE Published: January 2015 organizations perform the delivery by two or more channels at the same time. Goods are sent to many buyers by more channels, especially in the case of e-trading, in the organization of 3PL or as a still classical process. A few organizations are on 'the edge' and they want to develop a way for acquiring new technologies while some are bound to wait to see the market positions, only once accepting a new solution which proved to be successful. Most organizations delay when accepting new solutions because, when using the old solutions, they gain an advantage over their competition which is delayed in development. Most distributors (82%) offer retail as the primary way of giving service. Besides, more than a half of them (56%) sell their products via the website, almost half (47%) covers the wholesale market, while a smaller part (25%) offers the traditional direct approach to the users by a catalogue or by mail. It isn't quite clear which strategy is the best for users and distributors because each strategy has both its advantages and disadvantages.


Andropodial and testicular development in a viviparous halfbeak, Dermogenys sp., is described from birth to sexual maturity. Gradual transformation of the anterior seven rays in the male anal fin takes place through the 9.0 mm-18.0 mm SL stages. Changes include an increase in number of segments in all rays, a thickening of rays 1-5, and marked curvature of rays 1-7. The 20.5 mm-26.0 mm stages are characterized by development of the tridens flexibilis, a pair of spines, and a hook, the spiculus, on the distal portion of the second anal-fin ray. Serrations also develop on the second and fourth fin rays. A mature andropodium possesses a pair of welldeveloped spines and a single, segmented, sickle-shaped spiculus on the second ray. Testicular maturation coincides with andropodial maturation. Throughout fin transformation, testes continue to develop. Male and female gonads are differentiated at birth. Within the testes, isolated spermatogonia proliferate through the 15.0-mm stage. By 18.0 mm, late-stage spermatogonia within spermatocysts are evident. By 20.5 mm, spermatocysts containing late spermatids are present. Sexual maturation, defined as presence of mature spermatozoa within testicular ducts, occurs at a length of 22.5 mm or greater. The testes of Dermogenys, which are typical atherinomorph testes, contain large, complete spermatozeugmata within the testicular ducts. These findings provide a morphological basis for identifying ontogenetic stages of the anal fin and for recognizing and comparing mature andropodia among species of Dermogenys for use in future phylogenetic analyses. T HE family Hemiramphidae, containing the


Stress management programmes for trade union officials still remain underdeveloped. This article seeks to highlight some of the methodological problems in trying to mount such programmes within the political context of contemporary trade unionism. The author argues that a much more "holistic" approach towards the "management of discontent" is necessary.


Recent work on blameworthiness has prominently featured discussions of guilt. The philosophers who develop guilt-based views of blameworthiness do an excellent job of attending to the evaluative and affective features of feeling guilty. However, these philosophers have been less attentive to guilt's characteristic action tendencies and the role admissions of guilt play in our blaming practices. This chapter focuses on the nature of guilty confession and argues that it illuminates an important function of blame that has been overlooked in the recent work on guilt as it relates to blameworthiness: Blame can communicate respect.


The invention belongs to the technical field of pharmaceutic preparation and discloses a compound ivermectin sustained release tablet and a preparation method thereof. The compound ivermectin sustained release tablet is prepared by 1 to 15 parts by weight of ivermectin, 20 to 50 parts by weight of albendazole, 110 to 153 parts by weight of diluents, 20 to 30 parts by weight of sustained-release materials, 0.5 to 0.7 part by weight of lubricating agents and an appropriate quantity of adhesion agents. The ivermectin, the albendazole, the sustained-release materials and the diluents are fully and uniformly mixed in a mixing machine to obtain a mixture, the uniformly mixed mixture is placed in a one-step granulator, the adhesion agents are sprayed to form particles, the particles are dried, the lubricating agents are added in the particles to be fully and uniformly mixed, and the particles are prepared into tablets in a tablet machine. The compound ivermectin sustained release tablet and the preparation method thereof have the advantages that the antibacterial spectrum is wide, the action time is long, the drug resistance can not be easily generated, and the curative ratio is high; compared with common compound tablets, the tablet has better therapeutic effect; and compared with simple recipe drugs, the compound ivermectin sustained release tablet has the advantages that the curative effect is remarkable, simultaneously the dosage is reduced, and the treatment costs are lowered.


A laser-scanning technique capable of probing the local current density in Josephson junctions has been used to study the current distribution and inhomogeneity of both high- and poor-quality junctions. Results from a high-quality tunnel junction are in good qualitative agreement with theory. The technique is also shown to be useful to study superconducting-normal-superconducting structures and bridge-type weak links.


The amphiphilic organoboron block copolymer poly (styreneboronic acid)-block-polystyrene (PSBA-b-PS )h as been prepared through a postpolymerization modification route from the silicon-functionalized block copolymer poly(4- trimethylsilylstyrene)-block-polystyrene (PSSi-b-PS). PSBA-b- PS is obtained through highly selective reaction of PSSi-b- PS with BBr3 at room temperature and subsequent hydroly- sis of the BBr2-functionalized intermediate. Transmission electron microscopy studies demonstrate that PSBA-b-PS undergoes pH dependent micellization in aqueous solution. Different morphologies could be realized by using different mixtures of water and organic solvents. V C 2010 Wiley Period- icals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 2438-2445, 2010


Elspeth Moncrieff met Nadim Karam, the artist behind The Travellers - Melbourne's landmark sculpture located on the Sandridge Bridge - and found his Beirut studio, Atelier Hapsitus, buzzing with ambitious ideas for urban projects worldwide.


The RELAP5YA computer code was developed to analyze postulated accidents and transients in light water reactor systems. The code has been assessed against many separate-effects and integral test results that address relevant thermal-hydraulic phenomena. The assessment results have established the validity of the code in predicting small- and large-break loss-of-coolant accidents (LOCA) events in boiling water reactors (BWRs) and small-break LOCA events in pressurized water reactors. To extend the applicability of RELAP5YA to calculation of containment behavior following LOCAs in BWRs with Mark I containments, additional assessment was necessary. Typical applications are (a) BWR LOCA analyses that require an integrated system model that includes the containment, (b) simulator benchmarking, and (c) estimation of post-LOCA containment environments for equipment qualification. The RELAP5YA containment model has been assessed against tests conducted by General Electric Company, as part of the BWR Owners Group Mark I Containment Program, in the Full-Scale Test Facility (FSTF).


The recent advances in image transformers have shown impressive results and have largely closed the gap between traditional CNN architectures. The standard procedure is to train on large datasets like ImageNet-21k and then finetune on ImageNet-1k. After finetuning, researches will often consider the transfer learning performance on smaller datasets such as CIFAR-10/100 but have left out Tiny ImageNet. This paper offers an update on vision transformers' performance on Tiny ImageNet. I include Vision Transformer (ViT) , Data Efficient Image Transformer (DeiT), Class Attention in Image Transformer (CaiT), and Swin Transformers. In addition, Swin Transformers beats the current state-of-the-art result with a validation accuracy of 91.35%. Code is available here: https://github.com/ehuynh1106/TinyImageNet-Transformers


SUMMARY Several sets of data suggest that the range of temperatures over which damage or kill due to frost progressively increases (i.e. A 'C/Ad, where d is % damage or % kill) is correlated with hardiness. The relationship may exist for several species of Gramineae, for alfalfa and for several types of tree and fruit bush. There appear to be exceptions to this generalization. A hypothetical explanation is offered.


. We obtain a duality theorem for separable locally compact groups, where the group is regained from the set of factor unitary representations. Loosely stated, the group is isomorphic to the group of nonzero bounded, operator valued maps on the set of factor representations, which preserve unitary equivalence, direct sums, and tensor products. The axiom involving tensor products is formulated in terms of direct integral theory. The topology of G may be regained from the irreducible representations alone. Indeed a sequence {x¡} in G, converges to x in G if and and only if tt(x¡) converges strongly to u-(jc) for each irreducible representation -n of G. This result supplies the missing topological part of the strong duality theorem of N. Tatsuuma for type I separable locally compact groups (based on irreducible representations). Our result also generalizes this Tatsuuma strong duality theorem to the nontype I case.


In order to preserve the texture and edge information and to improve the space resolution of single frame,a novel super resolution reconstruction was proposed by using Nonsubsampled Contourlet transformation and interpolation method based on edge direction.The image is transformed into the high-pass sub-band and low-pass sub-band by NSCT.The threshold is set in the high-pass sub-band,the high-pass sub-band coefficients is enhanced and de-noised,and low-frequency components are replaced by the enhanced amplitude of the original image.A highresolution image is achieved by inverse NSCT.The experimental results indicate that,compared with traditional super resolution reconstruction algorithms,this algorithm can get smooth edges and recovery the texture features,and resist Gaussian noise.


This paper deals with the usage of evolutionary algorithms, especially genetic algorithms in games. The concept of genetic algorithms and evolution will be described and the approaches NEAT and EBT will be presented. Then, the paper shows how this algorithm can be used in the games Super Mario. It will be discussed, what is necessary for a good setup using a genetic algorithm and how to evaluate results from a GA. Three di erent approaches will be shown including EBT, NEAT which is an neuroevolutionary algorithm and an interactive approach giving the user the possibility to lead the evolution.


Searching for morphometric differences between sexes in immature forms, the development of genital plates in the exuviae of Triatoma pallidipennis Stål 1872 nymphs was studied. Differences were found in the form and size of the 9th genital urosternite, it is larger and wider in males as compared to females. This difference is reported in several South American Triatoma species. From our results it is possible to sex early stages from microscopic observation of genital plates in whole insects.


Piping systems in power plant may experience combined bending-torsion loads in the presence of planar crack-like flaws. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section XI nonmandatory Appendix C provides flaw evaluation procedures for pipes with flaws. These are currently limited to straight pipes under pressure and bending loads and no provision is made for torsion loading. The working group on pipe flaw evaluation is developing guidance for including the torsion load within the existing solutions provided in the Appendix C for bending loading on a straight pipe under fully plastic fracture regime. This paper reports on the finite element limit load analyses performed on the straight pipe containing a circumferential planar crack-like flaw. Pipe diameters were ranging from 4 in. (100 mm) to 24 in. (600 mm) nominal diameter (OD) and R/t ranging from 6 to 40. For the purpose of nonmandatory Appendix C flaw evaluation, it is concluded that the torsion loads can be combined with bending loads using the root of the sum of the squares (RSS) method of Section III of the ASME Boiler Code, without any additional weighting on torsion.


In board manufacturing the shear test is frequently used to evaluate the quality of the solder joints shortly after the soldering process as well as after thermal cycling. The latter evaluation is in particular applied to leadless ceramic components; a certain load drop is linked to solder degradation in a certain region of the joint which is declared "failed" if the load drop of the shear force reaches a predefined limit. However, there are many uncertainties in this evaluation like component misalignment to the shear tool, excessive voiding of the joint or by a fracture mode away from solder bulk failure. As few is known about these effects from a theoretical viewpoint, FE-studies have been performed to close this gap The analyses comprise studies of size effects, misalignment, and voiding on the shear force response. Additionally, the simulated solder creep response was compared to the measured one to check for the validity of creep laws for SAC solder. For a realistic creep rate range reached in low cycle fatigue, very low shear velocities have to be applied to the joints. A new shear tester was designed with shear velocities down to 1 nm/s to reach this goal.


This paper presents a new approach to real-time accessibility analysis for robotic manipulation. The workspace is captured using a stereo camera, and processed into a 3D model which is composed of extracted planar features, recognized objects, and unrecognized 3D point clouds organized using an octree. When a robot is requested to manipulate a recognized object, the local accessibility information for the object is retrieved from the object database. Then, the accessibility analysis procedure is invoked to verify the local accessibility and determine the global accessibility. The verification process utilizes the visibility query supported by graphics hardware. The experimental results show the feasibility of real-time accessibility analysis using commodity graphics hardware and its performance gain.


On December 2-3, 1966, I attended a Conference on Burns and Flame-Retardant Fabrics at the New York Academy of Medicine, to represent the American Academy of Pediatrics. The General Chairman of this conference was Dr. Paul Joliet, Chief, Division of Accident Prevention, United States Public Health Service with whose group we are in official liaison. Other sponsors were the American College of Surgeons, the New York and Brooklyn Trauma Committee, the National Fire Protection Association, the Section on Plastic Surgery of the New York Academy of Medicine, in cooperation with the National Safety Council, the American Public Health Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.


Current Internet has confronted many raised problems related to network security, scalability, performance, etc., mainly due to the rapid increase of end-users and various new service demands. Therefore, revolutionary Future Internet researches have come up with resolving the fundamental weakness of Internet while the importance of Future Internet testbed is growing faster for researchers to experiment and verify newly proposed Future Internet technologies on the experimental networks. Furthermore, the federation and management of distributed Future Internet testbeds is required to support reliable end-to-end researches over inter-domain networks, countries, and even continents. In this paper, we introduce the federated network operations and management experiments over global Future Internet testbeds based on DvNOC (Distributed Virtual Network Operations Center) and GMOC (GENI Meta Operations Center) [1][2]. We also take performance consideration on federated network operations into account for more efficient and scalable network management on Future Internet federation.


The author points to coarse logical errors, which exist in modern theoretical science of nature, and ways to correct them


Abstract The custatic changes of the ocean in prehistoric and historical times are linked with the fate of the ocean-based salt industry, and are recognized as erratic. An hypothesis is proposed to explain these erratic changes with albedo changes of the polar ice sheets, caused in turn by erratic volcanic dust fall-out. Ash layers in Antarctic ice cores are connected with historical dislocations of maritime civilizations. Albedo changes associated with the dusting of ice sheets are considered to be the cause of the decline of periods of glacierization generally. Such albedo changes are connected with volcanic activity on the one hand, and loess formation on the other, caused in turn by the growth of the ice sheets.


Concurrent time series with strong inter-series dependence occur in several areas of application where each may be modeled by the same Box-Jenkins ARIMA model. We present a method for explicitly incorporating the inter-series dependence in constructing shrinkage estimators of the model parameters by bootstrapping the covariance matrix of marginal parameter estimates. We also study improved estimation for the scale parameter. We present simulation studies to verify the amount of improvement in terms of expected mean squared error and Pitman nearness.


This paper investigated the effect of big data analytics and its six sub-dimensions on the competitive advantage of healthcare service organisations. Big data analytics have six sub-dimensions: agility capability, data-driven decision making, business intelligence, information technology capability, Internet of Things (IoT) application software, and cloud computing. Big Data Analytics (BDA) refers to the advanced analytical techniques used to process and derive valuable knowledge from large datasets. While BDA has the potential to offer significant business insights and create immense value, many organisations struggle to fully capitalise on their BDA initiatives and gain a competitive advantage. Despite the opportunities presented by BDA, some firms face challenges in effectively leveraging and extracting value from their data analytics endeavours. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study comprised 3931 employees of accredited healthcare service firms in Lagos State. The study utilised mixed sampling techniques comprising purposive, proportionate, and random sampling techniques. A sample size of 676 participants was obtained using Cochran's sample size formula (1977). An adapted questionnaire was used, and an 83.3% response rate was achieved. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients for various constructs ranged from 0.769 to 0.904. The data were analysed using inferential (regression) analysis. The findings revealed that big data analytics dimensions had a significant effect on competitive advantage (Adj.R2 = 0.937; (F (6, 556) = 0.937), p<0.05). The study concluded that big data analytics affected the competitive advantage of healthcare firms in Lagos State, Nigeria. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that the management of healthcare service organisations in Lagos State invest in the combination of Big Data Analytics (BDA) dimensions in order to achieve a long-term competitive advantage. Also, management should use BDA to support the operational activities of the firm to increase cost efficiencies and develop firm-specific BDA knowledge. Keywords: Big data analytics, Healthcare organisation, Competitive advantage, Internet of things application, Information technology capability, Lagos State


Hainan Island coast has many tidal branch estuaries,mainly grouped under 3 types,namely sand bar lagoon type,estuarine type and drowned valley type.The first type is mostly distributed in the southeastern coast,and Sanya Port is its representative.The primary coastline of the port was bedrock embayment and composed of Mesozoic granite.Estuarine valleys were filled with the weathered granite sand and mud to become land and gradually turned into sea built plain with sand bars and lagoons scattering in.The second one is mainly distributed in the west of the island,rising from estuaries within tectonic fault zones.Its significant formation is due to deposits from river and coast erosion into the estuaries and tidal dynamics coming from great tide holding capacity as well.And the third one is mainly found along the north and northeast coast sections of the island,but such type is now in its late evolution and going near to the end of their lives.


Proposals for a 6,000-home "garden village" on land to the north of Bedford have surfaced in response to the borough council's development plan review.