The application of aircraft to agriculture began in the 1920's; experiments in insecticide dispersal were made in Ohio in 1921 and a bulletin was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on dusting cotton crops by means of Curtiss JN6H aeroplanes in 1924. Since then the idea has been developed, notably in countries of large area. In 1928, for example, crop dusting experiments were made in the United Kingdom but the results were not very encouraging because of the drift problem with comparatively small fields.


It is concluded that there is a characteristic temperature present between 800 oC and 850 oC in the single crystal superalloy DD6, symbolized as Tc after the longterm crept microstructures are analysed, with investigation into the fracture mechanism of the specimens with low angle grain boundary (LAB) as well as the relationship between modulus and temperature. When the temperature rises beyond Tc, the rafting microstructure comes to arise in the long-term crept specimens. The cohesive strength of the LAB will be weaker than that of alloy at the condition of the temperature beyond Tc so that the inter granular fracture would arise in the specimens with LAB.1


Paleopathologists face complicated presentations of osteological conditions that ac-crued over a considerable period of ill-health. Determining the relative sequence of symptoms and how long the individual lived with them is critical to understanding disease onset and progression in the body and may help to identify a specific disease. This paper describes an atypical presentation of the dentition associated with a 5,000-year-old case of treponemal disease. This circumstance led to a cessation of macrowear, which allowed for an estimation of the age when the jaw began to profoundly deform. This paper also summarizes molar microwear texture analysis (DMTA) that was employed in order to determine if the diet of the victim prior to death was con-sistent with other people from the site.


A key decision in the design of an operating system is which facilities to provide for the management and composition of the address space. A wide spectrum of schemes exist, ranging from the private process address spaces of Unix through to the recently revived single address space approach. This paper proposes a new model which provides a unified and generalised approach to address space management. The model presents a single abstraction of address spaces which are orthogonal to processes and may be composed in arbitrary ways. The power of the model is demonstrated by case studies which show how shared libraries, a Unix system and a single address space system may be implemented.


Summary
Simultaneous oral challenge of calves with S. dublin, S. typhimurium and S. choleraesuis produced a severe disease essentially similar to that produced by giving one of the serotypes alone. In general, organisms of the three serotypes were similarly distributed throughout the contents of the alimentary tract and the tissues. This applied even when the challenge dose of each of the three serotypes was reduced to 104.
The distribution of organisms was different in rabbits, mice and fowls simultaneously challenged with these three serotypes.


Dragonfly networks have been recently proposed for the interconnection network of forthcoming exascale supercomputers. Relying on large-radix routers, they build a topology with low diameter and high throughput, divided into multiple groups of routers. While minimal routing is appropriate for uniform traffic patterns, adversarial traffic patterns can saturate inter-group links and degrade the obtained performance. Such traffic patterns occur in typical communication patterns used by many HPC applications, such as neighbor data exchanges in multi-dimensional space decompositions. Non-minimal traffic routing is employed to handle such cases. Adaptive policies have been designed to select between minimal and nonminimal routing to handle variable traffic patterns. However, previous papers have not taken into account the effect of saturation of intra-group (local) links. This paper studies how local link saturation can be common in these networks, and shows that it can largely reduce the performance. The solution to this problem is to use nonminimal paths that avoid those saturated local links. However, this extends the maximum path length, and since all previous routing proposals prevent deadlock by relying on an ascending order of virtual channels, it would imply unaffordable cost and complexity in the network routers. In this paper we introduce a novel routing/flow-control scheme that decouples the routing and the deadlock avoidance mechanisms. Our model does not impose any dependencies between virtual channels, allowing for on-the-fly (in-transit) adaptive routing of packets. To prevent deadlock we employ a deadlock-free escape sub network based on injection restriction. Simulations show that our model obtains lower latency, higher throughput, and faster adaptation to transient traffic, because it dynamically exploits a higher path diversity to avoid saturated links. Notably, our proposal consumes traffic bursts 43% faster than previous ones.


Haemotococcum pluvies, Saccaromyces cerevisiae and their protoplast fusant were tested by RAPD method with 7 randomly selected primers. Among 54 electrophoresis bands of the fusant, 7 bands can be found in both parents (12.96%), 18 bands can be found in one of the parent Saccaromyces cerevisiae (33.0%), 17 bands can be found in another parent Haemotococcum pluvies (30.9%). 12 bands are brand-new ones which can not be found in both parents. The results indicated that the fusant are possibly the result of protoplast fusing hybrid of Haemotococcum pluvies and Saccaromyces cerevisiae.


discussion and thought about HRxt in Australia' and that they may be used as 'an independent resource for those involved in HRhi and management development programs'. There is, of course, something plausible about the idea of providing a collection of articles in one convenient volume. But important as these articles are, I have difficulty determining who would be particularly convenienced by this collection. Of course, a collection like this would offer the most benefit to those who do not have direct access to the types of professional journals and magazines Stone has drawn on here. But I am inclined to think that this market is relatively small, especially since those needing access to material of this nature are generally academics, serious students and informed practitioners. Because this group of readers generally have access to the sources referred to here, this collection of readings is likely to offer no special advantage to them. Another concern I have with this collection of readings is the absence of any rationale or explanation as to why Stone chose the particular articles he did for


Thermal barrier coatings systems (TBCs) are widely used in the field of aerospace. The durability and insulating ability of TBCs are highly dependent on the residual stresses of top coatings, thus the investigation of the residual stresses is helpful to understand the failure mechanisms of TBCs. The simulation of residual stresses evolution in electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD) TBCs is described in this work. The interface morphology of TBCs subjected to cyclic heating and cooling is observed using scanning electron microscope (SEM). An interface model of TBCs is established based on thermal elastic-plastic finite method. Residual stress distributions in TBCs are obtained to reflect the influence of interfacial roughness. Both experimental and simulation results show that it is feasible to predict the crack location by stress analysis, which is crucial to failure prediction.


In this paper we propose a novel relay selection method for cooperation communication networks using fuzzy logic. Many efforts have been made in the literature to select the superior relay based on relay's SNR/SER and / or relay's reputation (in cooperation stimulation methods). We jointly consider four criteria for the process of relay selection, relay's SNR/SER, relay's reputation, relaying strategy and relay location. We consider the condition in which network users employ different relaying strategies, i.e., some relay nodes employ decode-and-forward strategy, some nodes employ amplify-and-forward strategy, and the other ones employ compress-and-forward strategy. Also, we categorize the network users into LM clusters and take into account the relative distance of potential relay nodes from the source and destination nodes in the process of relay selection. This relative distance has significant impact on the average achievable rate in destination node. Finally, by using a fuzzy logic decision making method, we select the "best relay" based on these four criteria.


Tea is consumed worldwide due to its charming flavor and the refreshing effects conferred by caffeine. Caffeine however has undesirable side effects, such as sleep disturbance. Camellia ptilophylla is known for its low caffeine content, and the biosynthesis of purine alkaloids in this species has become a hot topic. In this study, the accumulation of purine alkaloids in a natural C. ptilophylla population (32 plants) was analyzed, and the results showed that 81.25% of this population were caffeine-free, containing only theobromine (TB), while six plants contained both theobromine and caffeine (CAF). RNA-seq analysis of two C. ptilophylla plants with contrasting purine alkaloid contents (TB and CAF) revealed that xanthosine synthesis genes of the SAM cycle and AMP pathway were significantly related to the differential accumulation of purine alkaloids between TB and CAF. The high theobromine content in TB was attributed to the significantly higher expression of TCS-2, TCS-3 and MXMTs and downregulation of the xanthosine degradation pathway in comparison to CAF. Additionally, CsMYB184 was significantly upregulated in TB, opposing the expression pattern of TCS1, but consistent with that of other TCSs and MXMTs. Furthermore, the upregulated expression of catechin biosynthesis genes, F3'H, F3'5'H and SCPLs in TB corresponded to a higher gallocatechin gallate (GCG) content. Overall, these findings provide new insights into the accumulation of theobromine and GCG, which may facilitate the development of tea plant cultivars with low-caffeine or high GCG to meet the diverse demands of consumers. Citation:  Ying C, Chen J, Chen J, Zheng P, Zhou C, et al. 2023. Differential accumulation mechanisms of purine alkaloids and catechins in Camellia ptilophylla, a natural theobromine-rich tea. Beverage Plant Research 3:15 https://doi.org/10.48130/BPR-2023-0015


This paper aims to identify the principals distributed leadership practice toward school performance in Junior High Schools, State of South Sulawesi, Indonesia by using quantitative methods. Quantitative data obtained from the questionnaire interviews of 540 respondents from among the teachers. There are four dimensions required for Junior High School principals derived from questionnaire data with the respondent that the vision mission and goals of the school, the school culture, the sharing of responsibilities and leadership practices. The results showed that the culture of the school is the most dominant dimension that can affect school performance and distributed leadership has positive relationship in improving school performance. This means that if the principals perform well in school leadership the school performance can also be improved. Dimensions must be available on the school principals themselves to discharge their duties, especially in leadership activities to improve the performance of schools in South Sulawesi.


A planar array of box horns is presented for the frequency band 57.2-58.2 GHz. The horns are fed in parallel with a waveguide feed network. Improved T-junctions are used to connect the waveguides. The horns are divided into two subarrays shifted sideways in order to reduce the grating lobe in the H-plane, which is due to the large element spacing. The radiation pattern of the horn is also optimized to reduce H-plane sidelobe levels. The measured H-plane sidelobe level is below -35 dB at angles larger than 18/spl deg/ from boresight with a gain higher than 31 dBi. The measured return loss exceeds 17 dB over the band 57.2-58.2 GHz.


Altner, Gunter, ed., The Human Creature. New York: Doubleday. 1974. 450 pp. Anschel, Eugene, ed., The American Image of Russia 1775-1917. New York: Frederick Unger, 1974. 259 pp. Armstrong, Alan, Stability and Change in an English Country Town. A Social Study of York 1801-51. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 254 pp. Armstrong, William M., ed., The Gilded Age: Letters of E. L. Godkin. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1974. 583 pp. Sanyai, Laszlo, Destin Commun, traditions fraternelles. Bucarest: Editions de L'Academie de la Republique Socialiste de Roumanie, Etudes No. 42, 209 pp. Barck, Oscar Theodore and Nelson Manfred Blake, Since 1900. London: CollierMacmillan, 1974. 821 pp. Billington, Ray Allen and James Blaine Hedges, Westward Expansion. London: CollierMacmillan, 1974. 840 pp. Blau, Peter, M., On the Nature of Organizations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. 358 pp. Breen, T. H., The Character of the Good Ruler. Puritan Political Ideas in New England 1630-1730. New York: Norton, 1974. 301 pp. Brockway, Fenner, The Colonial Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974.654 pp. Bromhead, Peter, Britain's Developing Constitution. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1974. 230 pp. Bulletin of the Institute of Humanities, Nos. 1-6. Yokohama, Japan: The Institute of Humanities, Kangawa University, 1965-72. Camden Miscellany, Vol. XXV. London: Royal Historical Society, Camden Fourth Series Vol. 13,1974. 278 pp. Chalkin, C. W., The Provincial Towns of Georgian England. London: Edward Arnold, 1974. 367 pp. Colson, Elizabeth, Tradition and Contract. The Problem of Order. Chicago: AldineAtherton, 1974.140 pp. Cox's Hints to Solicitors for the Conduct of an Election 1868. Milton Keynes: The Open University Press, 1974, 23 pp. Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975. 567 pp. de Kadt, Emanuel, and Gavin Williams, eds., Sociology and Development. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1974. 374 pp. Deshen, Shlomo, and Moshe Skokeid, The Predicament of Homecoming. Cultural and Social Life of North African Immigrants in Israel. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1974.251 pp.


A perturbative model for the calculation of electron-phonon coupling constants of tetrahedral transition metal complexes based on the electrostatic ligand field theory is presented. Orbital vibronic coupling constants are expressed in terms of common ligand field parameters, and linear many-electron coupling constants for all d2-d9 strong field states in tetrahedral and octahedral symmetry are reduced to orbital coupling constants, enabling comparisons of coupling strength and directions of nuclear distortions over a wide range of transition metal complexes in a general way. The usefulness of the model is demonstrated for well resolved optical spectra of tetrahedral [MnO4]2-, [CrO4]3-, [CoCl4]2- and octahedral [CrF6]3-, [Cr(NH3)6]3+, [VO6]8- complexes, revealing good correspondence. The method is especially valuable for the interpretation of such spectra because it is easy to apply and the prediction of band shapes does not require additional parameters to be fitted to experiment. Nuclear distortions from...


This article analyzes the overall and type of developmental impacts of remittances for migrant-sending households (HHs) in districts of Punjab, Pakistan. For this purpose, an HH-based human development index is constructed based on the dimensions of education, health and housing, with a view to enrich insights into interactions between remittances and HH development. Using high-quality data from a HH micro-survey for Punjab, the study finds that most migrant-sending HHs are better off than the HHs without this stream of income. More importantly, migrant HHs have significantly higher development in terms of housing in most districts of Punjab relative to non-migrant HHs. Thus, the government would need policy interventions focusing on housing to address inequalities in human development at the district-HH level, and subsequently balance its current focus on the provision of education and health.


It has been recently reported that n-type single crystalline SnS exhibits a large band bending (∼1 eV) at the interface with MoO3, which is a large work function material. In this study, we applied this interface to solar cells for the first time and evaluated its photovoltaic properties. The highest VOC achieved was 437 mV. Although this value is the highest ever recorded for SnS solar cells, it was lower than the expected value of 700–800 mV. The highest power conversion efficiency ( PCE) was 4.4%. Based on an analysis of the device parameters, we propose methods for improving the device performance, including VOC, the short-circuit current, and PCE. The carrier-collection length of the n-type SnS single crystals was estimated to be ∼200 nm based on the external quantum efficiency measurements. Therefore, this study demonstrates that the VOC of SnS solar cells can be improved by fabricating a junction with MoO3 thin films.


Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to compare recent performance of small firms with that of large firms in developed and emerging stock markets. Design/methodology/approach - T-tests as well as Wilcoxon Signed Rank test statistics are utilized to test the differences in returns between stock indices. Additionally, ANOVA and median test statistics were conducted to test differences in size premiums over years. Finally, Findings - It was found that small firms did not generate significantly different returns than large firms in recent years. More specifically, size premiums were not sensitive to market conditions and were not significantly higher in January over non-January months. These results indicate stock markets no longer exhibit a size effect or a reverse size effect. Originality/value - The paper contributes to the finance literature by examining the size effect as well as the reverse size effect in developed and emerging stock markets on recent data.


In CT images, tumors located in a liver are generally identified by intensity difference between tumor and liver. The intensity of the tumor can be lower and or higher than that of the liver. However, the main problem of liver tumor detection from is related to low contrast between tumor and liver intensities. Tumor sometimes presents in a very small dimension and makes the detection even more difficult. In this work, we focus on contrast enhancement of CT images containing liver and tumor based on the histogram processing as a necessary preprocessing for liver tumor identification. Results show that using our proposed method, the contrast of the CT images can be enhanced and results in relatively accurate identification of tumors in the liver.


During the last several years,the industrialization of middleware has been developing at a fast pace. Coupled with operating system and database,middleware has evolved into one of the three fundamental software categories. Civil aviation is among the first group of industries that adopt informatization. Since then the information requirements in aviation industry are shifted from infrastructural construction to the application of software services. Civil aviation industry features extensive geographic distribution as well as the coexistence of tremendous number of information systems. Based on the requirements of interconnection and information sharing between different information systems,integration becomes a must. Based on the object-oriented method,this paper describes the design concept of airport middleware system AIIS in perspectives of airport operation model,software system architecture and specific system design method respectively.


The Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main device for tracking and identification of charged particles in the MPD experiment at the NICA collider. The article presents the design consideration of this detector for registration of central Au-Au collisions at energies up to 11 Gev/c and NICA event rate of 5 kHz. The status of the TPC construction and features of its main parts (field cage, read-out chambers, front end electronics, gas and cooling systems, laser-calibration) are described.


We discuss current trends in the development and use of high-confidence medical cyber-physical systems (MCPS). These trends, including increased reliance on software to deliver new functionality, wider use of network connectivity in MCPS, and demand for continuous patient monitoring, bring new challenges into the process of MCPS development and at the same time create new opportunities for research and development.


The joint hypothesis test is a replicable interpretation
of the quantity theory of money (QTM) when used as
an inflation theory. This study examined the effect of
money supply and gross domestic product (GDP)
growth on inflation volatility. We used the cross-
country data of 40 countries, both in 2002 and 2014,
from the World Bank publications. We analyzed the
data using both the unrestricted regression model
and joint hypothesis testing (the Wald test). The
unrestricted regression results pointed inflation
volatility in 40 countries was mostly driven by the
monetary side, not by the real sector. Meanwhile, the
joint hypothesis test demonstrated Strong Wald and
Weak Wald test for the QTM prediction were
rejected. These findings implied undesirable results
from a monetarist perspective. We proposed an
alternative method to confirm the joint hypothesis
test from the QTM. It would be interesting to see
whether our findings hold in other countries.


This paper analyzes risk premia and volatility transmission across the stock and bond markets within an expected return beta representation of the conditional capital asset pricing model. Time variation in the market price of risk is characterized by a two state Markov regime switching process, while time variation in conditional betas is characterized by an asymmetric general dynamic covariance process. On the basis of estimated state dependent generalized impulse response functions, we find evidence of a flight to quality phenomenon, whereby investors shift funds from the stock market to the bond market in response to high stock market volatility. Our impulse response analysis also suggests that the degree of risk diversification achieved by cross market hedging is lowest when it is most desirable.


We used the microscope to observe the dorsal and ventral skin of Scutiger(Scutiger)boulengeri,S.(Aelurophryne)mammatus,S.(A.)muliensis,and S.(A.)glandulatus in the genus Scutiger.The skins of the four species at different positions on the body,which including the epidermis and dermis,were different in thickness but similar in structure.Epidermis of the dorsal skin was thinner than that of the ventral skin,and had less cell layers,but overall,the dorsal skin was thicker than the ventral skin.Capillaries were distributed in the junction between the epidermis and dermis,parallel to the epidermis.Species of subgenus Aelurophryne had more capillaries,their skin played an important role in respiration.Dermis was made up of stratum spongiosum and stratum compactum.The stratum spongiosum was loaded with glands,which included two types:the mucus gland and granular gland.Mucus glands were widely distributed in different parts of the skin,and the granular glands were mostly distributed in the dorsal skin.The pigment layer was found on the top of dermis and was irregular in shape.The pigment layer was well-developed both in the dorsal and ventral skin,only slightly thinner in ventral skin.As Scutiger lived in the environment with low temperature,high altitude and strong ultraviolet radiation,the pigment layer played an important role in ecological adaptation.A special substance,the lamina calcare,had been discovered in both the dorsal and ventral corium tectorium in the four species.It showed as blue bands when HE staining was employed.There were no cell structures in the lamina calcarea which lay under the pigment layers.


1. A method of applying an ion channel molecule activated by light, which reacts to light stimulus, the method comprising: Construction of light activated ion channel molecule in a cell; and! activation in response to light stimulus that is provided to the ion channel molecule and that has properties that do not activate ChR2 ion channel, the ion channel molecule allowing ions to pass through the light-activated ion channel molecule. ! 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the light stimulus properties are wavelength and intensity. ! 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the ion channel molecule is a single protein component. ! 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the cell is a stem cell, and activating step is performed in order to regulate cell fate. ! 5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of assessing the effectiveness of treatment comprising the step of activating, where evaluation was carried out as the cell performance monitoring function. ! 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of screening a drug influencing the ion channels, monitoring and comparing characteristics of the cell before and after the activation step. ! 7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of adding a prosthetic device to deliver the light stimulus wherein the light stimulus has a wavelength greater than about 530 nm. ! 8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of constructing the second light-activated ion channel molecule in a cell, wherein the second activated ion channel molecule not responding to light stimulus light having a wavelength greater than about 530 nm. ! 9. The method claim


- Along with the changes of social society and the flow of information, customer's need for quality of service is higher, including health service in hospital. For some people, they perceived health service in private hospital is superior than government-owned hospital. Moreover, some of them preferred to use health service abroad. Since medium – higher economic class customer have ability to choose health service they needed, it is important to inquiry factors that influenced their decision making. The research for this thesis was conducted at RIK Parahyangan Pavilion Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung. The problem is low Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR). Eventhough every year, hospital improve their facility, either added their bed capacity or added supporting facilities, the efforts still did not urge standar usage capacity BOR which is about 85% of occupancy.The main focus of this thesis is to investigate the preference inpatient service of potential customer. This study includes internal and external analysis to determine the dominant criterion in influencing customer preferences to choose inpatient service of particular hospital. The data that had been processed comes from interview and questionnaire. The result are the level of importance, customer perception and position of RIK Parahyangan Pavilion Hasan Sadikin Hospital compared with its competitor. Based on the data and analysis, we can conclude that low awareness of Instalasi Rawat Inap Khusus Parahyangan Pavilion RSUP Dr. Hasan Sadikin Bandung, negative perception of health service and cannibalism became the dominant factor that cause low level in BOR. As solution RIK Parahyangan Pavilion Hasan Sadikin Hospital is to encourage to apply internal marketing communication and below the line marketing to build customer awareness and create positive attitude toward government-owned hospital especially Hasan Sadikin Hospital.


An eighty-year-old man who had subarachnoid hemorrhage and large intracerebral hematoma caused by a ruptured aneurysm of the left middle cerebral artery was treated with acute dome embolization using Guglielmi detachable coil and subacute CT guided stereotactic aspiration of the hematoma. As a result of these less invasive treatments, he returned to his regular daily life without any neurological deficits or complications.


The invention discloses a design method of an underflow manual wetland matrix structure based on flow field distribution. The method performs quantification design on main structural parameters influencing underflow manual wetland flow field distribution based on a seepage field theory, taking uniform distribution of a water flow around a bed body as a purpose, and taking a three-dimensional finite difference underground water flowing mathematical model as a design calculation basis, wherein the main structural parameters include manual wetland unit division, unit pond body length-width ratios, water distribution area length, water collection area length, bed body depth, filling layers of a main body filler area, and filler permeability coefficients; matrix fillers are measured by a Darcy permeability test; the fillers with required particle size are screened out. When the design method performs design calculation on the structural parameters of underflow manual wetland, the selection of the structural parameters is simple, convenient and practicable; the underflow manual wetland constructed according to the design method can greatly improve and increase the hydraulic efficiency of a system and utilization ratios of the fillers, can avoid a channel flow, a short flow and a dead area, and can further improve and prolong a purifying effect and the service life.


Strengthening governmental accountability is a crucial consequence of governmental policies which could enhance the quality of reporting. International public sector accounting standards have been perceived as a step towards enhancing quality reporting of state owned entities. The study investigated the impact of transparency, financial statement disclosure and comparability on the quality of financial reporting in state owned administration in Pakistan. Also, the study employed the use of accounting information system as a moderator to assess the moderating effect of AIS. The research methodology is based on a questionnaire sent to state owned entities. Regression Analysis was employed to determine the relationship among the variables. The results indicate that comparability, financial statement disclosure and transparency are all positively and significantly associated with the quality of financial reporting, providing evidence of the impact of explanatory variables on the quality of reporting in Pakistan. The moderation results indicate that AIS positively and significantly moderates the relationship among transparency and quality of reporting and comparability and quality of reporting. Notwithstanding, AIS was found to have an insignificant moderating effect on the relationship of financial statement disclosure and quality of reporting. The finding of the study implies that government of Pakistan needs to adopt a more robust approach to improve quality of financial reporting.


Excerpt The effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis is now under investigation at various centers. Early trials with small amounts of the drug, although disc...


【Objective】To investigate the correlation between the volume of bleeding during endoscopic sinus surgery and the histopathologic changes of ethmoid bone of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS).【Methods】 All ethmoid bones and mucosa from 180 patients with CRS after endoscopic sinus surgery were collected for histopathologic detection with HE staining. The correlation between the different histopathologic types of ethmoid bone with the volume of bleeding during surgery, the time of surgery and the complications were compared and ana- lyzed that. 【Results】The ethmoid bone of all patients had different-degree of histopathologic changes. There were 29 cases (16.11%) in stage Ⅰ, 43 cases (23.89%) in stage Ⅱ, 58 cases (32.22%) in stage Ⅲ, and 50 cases(27.78%) in stage Ⅳ. All histopathologic changes of ethmoidal bone were statistically related (P 0.01) with the volume of bleeding during surgery and the time of surgery, but was not significantly different with the complications (P 0.05).【Conclusion】Almost all patients with CRS indicated different degree of histopathologic changes, which was related with the volume of bleeding during surgery and the time of surgery, but was not related with the complications. The bigger histopathologic changes of ethmoid bone became, the more volume of bleeding during surgery and the longer time of surgery.


The application of nitrous oxide-ethane flame Atomic absorption spectrometer to Research of Iron content measurement in gold of solar battery material uses is studied. This paper introduces the optimum measuring conditions for Iron content and potency in which a fine liner range presents. And makes a synthetic consideration to interference factors.The method has the advantages of high sensitivity,less interference and good in selectivity and reappearance. The relative standard deviations are all less than 1.0%,and the standard adding recovery is the range of 97.0%~98.0%.This law achieved the instrumental analysis quality of laboratory and qualities control the requirement.


On 7 November 1667, the diarist Samuel Pepys "resolv'd [...] to go see 'The Tempest', an old play of Shakespeare's" on the first day it was presented at the Dorset Garden Theatre, also known as "the Duke's house".1 In the same entry, Pepys adds a description of "a curious piece of musique in an echo of half sentences, the echo repeating the former half, while the man goes on to the latter, which is mighty pretty". This remark both identifies the performance as the Davenant/Dryden adaptation of The Tempest by Shakespeare, and brings into focus two questions. First, can we really say that Pepys saw Shakespeare's play, and, by extension, accept as Shakespeare criticism his additional remark: "The play no great wit, but yet good, above ordinary plays"? Second, we know that the Davenant/Dryden adaptation was not turned into Thomas Shadwell's opera until March or April 1674.2 So whose music did Pepys hear in 1667? Not Robert Johnson's. The songs which he composed for what was possibly the original performance of The Tempest (certainly during Shakespeare's lifetime) did


ABSTRACT A simple and efficient procedure has been developed for the synthesis of 2-arylbenzothiazoles by a one-pot reaction of o-aminothiophenol with β-chlorocinnamaldehydes using p-TsOH under microwave irradiation.


Enzyme is a kind of biologically active compounds with important significance.It has become a critical problem to extract the target enzyme in vivo quickly and efficiently.In recent years,more and more researchers applied the popular technology of activity-based probes in proteomics to separate and purify enzymes.This paper summarized the application of activity-based probes in the separation and purification of enzymes based on the streptavidin affinity chromatography.And we also listed the separation technologies and their functional mechanism for serine and cysteine protease,N-Acetylglucosaminidase,prolyloligopeptidase and histone deacetylase with probes.


RFID - based Staff Control System (SCS) will allow complete hands-free access control, monitoring the whereabouts of employee and record the attendance of the employee as well. Moreover, with a help of this system, it is possible to have a nice report at the end of the month and based on the total number of worked hours, the salary will be allocated to each personnel. The access tag can be read up to 10 centimeters from the RFID reader. The proposed system is based on UHF RFID readers, supported with antennas at gate and transaction sections, and employee identification cards containing RFID-transponders which are able to electronically store information that can be read / written even without the physical contact with the help of radio medium. This system is an innovative system, which describes the benefits of applying RFID- technology in the Education System process of Republic of Kazakhstan. This paper presents the experiments conducted to set up RFID based SCS.


This study attempts to apply the principle of neural networks and pattern recognition (PR) technologies to real-time recognition by client-server network structure into a web-based recognizing system. In this paper, we recommend a Web-Based PR technology, which is improved recurrent neural network (RNN) from possessing feedback and non-linear activation function with its input, be taken out threshold. The purpose of this article is. to construct a Client-Server network structure for PR system with associative memory. The Server-end is built a databases management system for storage sample patterns. In proceed with training, the user can real-time assign any pattern, which is a record in the Server-end databases. In deal with retrieve task, we propose a novel PR method via databases matching, it can efficient solve spurious states problem from RNN in the WBPR system. On the other hand, taking advantage of Database Matching is to overcome the capacity restrictions on RNN. In order to clarify and corroborate the above Web-Based PR technology, thus a simulation experiment will be presented and their algorithms are also discussed.


Coccidiosis is an intestinal disease of chickens caused by various species of protozoan parasites within the genus Eimeria . Diagnosis and genetic characterization of different species of Eimeria are central to the prevention , surveillance , and control of coccidiosis. The aim of the present study was to identified different poultry Eimeria species that considered the causal agents of poultry coccidiosis in each of the Kerbala and Babylon provinces. The present study observations were revealed platuation ( increasing and decreasing) the percentages of infection with coccidiosis during different months of a year and that due to the large change in temperature and humidity in Iraq, A lot off 200 samples of feces and intestines were collected from chickens that suspected infection with coccidiosis during the period from August 2013 to July 2014 and the results revealed that 160 samples were positive depending on the macroscopic and microscopic examination Which diagnosed three species of Eimeria includes E.tenella which formed the largest proportion of the total positive samples (66.8%) then the species E.necatrix which accounted for (30%) and finally the species E.maxima which form (3.13%). The results showed that the highest percentage of infection in both of Kerbala and Babylon provinces were in December (23.12%) and the lowest percentage in July (1.87%).


ABSTRACT In this issue we will look at the environmental management system and related standards developed by ISO TC 207.


We report three cases of depression fracture of th femoral condyle in the adolescent.The etiological mechanism was assumed to be abduction (Valgus) stress or a combined compression force in the knee as occurs with fractures of the tibial plateau.All cases achieved satisfactory results, with no problems. Treatment of the fracture should be selected according to the degree of the depression, and associated meniscal lesion or soft tissue and ligament injury.


Present study demonstrates the widely known and debated consumer-brand relationship, particularly focusing on the phenomenon of brand avoidance. However, the traditional consumer researches focus predominantly on the consumer loyalty, the examination of negative consumer-brand relationship is actual. The extant literature on the field brand avoidance is scarce. It is important to discover which factors are the those key elements that cause the brand avoidance. Firstly, if we know these factors we can prevent for more losing consumers. Secondly, nowadays the opinion of consumers is critic for the brand successful, because the negative word of mouth (WOM) might be harmful. Based on my previous suppositions the motivation of the brand avoidance are caused by symbolic consumption (selfexpression) which means consumers avoid certain brand because of the brand personality, brand image and the typical brand user. Partly, the results of the qualitative research certifies my previous suppositions, but the functional factors and the message of the advertisement are important elements for the brand avoidance as well.


CONFESS all and repent nothing. Rosa Ayala, like her brother, a native of Seville, and never truly at home in Naples, could be sly one minute and lovely the next. A terrible tease. A girl of barely seventeen years, she was my model for four sketches in charcoal and one painting, The Madonna. Her brother Luis, a noisy little nobody, puffed up with Spanish pride, was never my friend. But his death was my undoing. Illegitimate, abandoned at birth, I was baptized a son of the church and nursed in the convent of the sweet Sisters of Charity. I was raised that is to say, fed and educated by the pious Benedictine brothers in that white stone monastery overlooking our fabled bay: the slant of sunlight on the cliffs about us; the wind brisk on the water below, where boats of all sizes sat bobbing, the fishing tackle, the sieves and nets, glimmering wet. Behind our refectory stood the winery and tool sheds, the mules stall, the bees' hives, and on a green slope lay our tidy cemetery. Here a cross marked each grave but none was named, for in this world no monk should be distinguished from another. In my early years I was by nature neither studious nor devout and loathed discipline. Yet, toiling in those low rooms supported by dark cypress beams, the windows so narrow that the sun must force its way among us, a brief but dazzling light, I exhibited promise in calligraphy and illumination. So, like many youths, I entered the holy orders as a matter of course. What did I know? But in my young manhood I departed that sanctuary, descending into the city of my birth where I took to the streets. I found lodging on my own: an uncommonly spacious loft above a gaming den, the Tavern of the Hound loud, but offering ample light for my art. Sketching and painting occupied my daylight hours; dusk sent me to the tavern and the darkening streets where I met models for


This work deals with the description of general, macroscopic and microscopic wood anatomical structure of Feijoa sellowiana Berg. The most important anatomical characteristics that were found are typical to the wood anatomy of family Myrtaceae. The identification of the studied wood requires the use of anatomical characteristics of secondary importance due to the great homogeneity in wood structure and number of species of this botanical family in south-brazilian flora.


Molecular profiling strategies generally apply either transcriptomic or proteomic technologies for dissection of aberrant expression patterns between normal and diseased samples. Although studies in yeast ( S. cerevisiae ) demonstrate excellent concordance between gene/protein abundance, the lack of integrated comparisons using human systems prompted us to stringently dissect these relationships in a cellular model system (platelets) devoid of active transcriptional activity. Highly-purified platelets from four healthy donors were pooled for proteomic analyses which were completed in duplicate using tryptic digestion of 100 mg cytoplasmic fractions, followed by cation exchange liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (μLC-MS/MS). Spectral (peptide) counts were used as a semi-quantitative means of establishing protein abundance among normalized MS data sets, with excellent concordance between platelet runs (Spearman rank correlation r = 0.87, p in silico mathematical models (Pearson correlation r =0.96, p an integrated analytical platform incorporating both transcriptomic and proteomic databases considerably enhances efficiency of platelet protein detection, and when analyzed using highly-rigorous and novel methods that normalize for tryptic fragment number, there is significant correlation between gene/protein abundance, unrelated to ongoing transcriptional activity.


Copyright: © 2013 Rothschild B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Collaborations are typically initiated when one of the parties recognizes that they either lack the skills or the experience to address a challenge in explaining and managing an aspect of primate behavior or health. It also requires identification of the appropriate partner who is knowledgeable and experienced in a field at least tangential to the problem. Tangential infers that the partner has experience/knowledge with and of the behavior/health issue, but not necessarily in the same species or that they have problem solving skills, documented across phylogenetic lines. This is not to say that such experience/education cannot be pursued in isolation without collaboration, but that approach is very time expensive, no longer even required for those in pursuit of advanced academic degrees and subject to semantic limitations [1]. Human and veterinary medicine have a shared vocabulary, often quite disparate in meaning, and this statement is no less true across other fields of endeavor.


Cats were conditioned to press a bar for a food reward using a trace conditioning procedure. Comparison was made between two conditioning procedures. In one procedure, repetitive flashes were given contingently upon a correct response (Procedure B), and in the other no such photic stimulation was made (Procedure A). In the final stage of the conditioning, differences between two procedures were found; the distribution of response times was more concentrated with smaller means and variances in Procedure B than in Procedure A. Excitability of the visual cortex to a flash differed according to whether or not the flash was used as a response-contingent stimulus. To the response-contingent flash the primary component of visual cortical evoked potentials was augmented in amplitude with a reduction of peak latency. From these findings, temporal discrimination function of the animals was discussed. Behavioral correlates with modification of visual cortical evoked potentials were also discussed.


With more and more complicated codes and control algorithm are being introduced into the plasma control system (PCS) which is a real-time, basic and complex system in HL-2A, it is becoming more and more necessary to reorganize the PCS in order to make it more flexible and effective. Some progress has been made recently for this purpose. A real time operation system that is based on Ubuntu Linux patched by Xenomai code becomes the platform for the plasma control algorithm instead of the DOS operation system at present and the platform for the plasma shape identification code in the future. The real time network consists of reflective memory (RFM) cards take the place of the signal cables for data transmitting in real time plasma control. The real time data acquisition system for plasma control is separated as a single crate where NI RT system deployed. The details of the new developments for HL-2A are described in this paper.


The rice black-streaked dwarf disease caused by brown planthopper and white back planthopper has led to severe yield loss of rice in recent years.Eight bands were obtained in infected rice plants by agarose gel electrophoresis,while no bands were obtained in non-infected rice plants.This result was same to corn.Two pairs of primers were designed in S1 and S10 fragments according to the sequence of RBSDV,and then anticipated fragments were obtained from infected rice plants.In conclusion,this approach could be used for early detection and forecast of RBSDV.


Socially and in relation to the individual, schools' mission for STEM education is not limited to the teaching of knowledge and cognitive skills. Although they form an important basis for dealing with today's challenges in a self-confident and responsible manner, they alone are not enough. Positive attitudes towards learning are additional important prerequisites for lifelong learning and participation in society. However, national educational standards still focus mainly on developing cognitive competencies. They hardly take into account multidimensional educational goals that combine both cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. At the classroom level, in everyday school life, addressing both is one of the greatest challenges. Introducing standard-oriented curricula may have the potential to shift teachers' professional perception also to non-cognitive educational goals. We argue that, in order to foster multidimensional educational goals, they need to be more clearly addressed at the policy, teacher training, and teaching level. One important research agenda within STEM education for the next years will be to examine and discuss the connection between the implementation of standard-oriented teaching, the achievement of multiple educational goals, and teachers' professional competence.


It is known that Helicobacter pylori infects human stomach as a host inherent to it and fixes therein to thereby participate upper digestive tract diseases. It is intended to provide an economical method of inhibiting the proliferation and migration of Helicobacter pylori without any fear of the appearance of a drug-tolerant strain caused by a drug having been commonly employed for removing bacteria or side effects, which comprises selecting a mineral-rich water, which is capable of inhibiting the proliferation and migration of Helicobacter pylori that has infected human stomach as a host inherent to it and fixed therein from among mineral-rich waters obtained from deep marine water and taking the same, and a food and a drink with the use of the mineral-rich water.


The principal view of this article is to discuss the excess pore water pressure distribution over tine, the effective stress increases with the dissipation of excess pore pressure variation. This paper demonstrates the comparison between the pore pressure variation and Vesic cylindrical expansion theory by using ABAQUS finite element software to simulate the discipline of excess pore water pressure distribution and dissipation of the pile driving process. The changing rules of excess pore water pressure were studied, which would provide an important basis for the design and construction of the similar projects.


In future, the wireless network could apply different access technology and guarantee various QoS requirements of services. However, the spectrum resource and other resources are limited. The limited resources are requirements of services tough to meet. In addition, the energy consumption is an important problem with the explosive increase of the wireless terminals and nodes. Hence, a joint bandwidth and power allocation algorithm based on energy efficiency is proposed to solve the problem. The proposed algorithm transforms the joint allocation problem to optimization problem of energy efficiency by establishing the energy efficiency model and solves the optimization problem using clone immune algorithm. Numerical simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can efficiently and reliably improve the energy efficiency of system and reduce the frame error rate.


1. Introduction 2. The Formative Years: Mysticism and Millenarianism 3. Into Modernity 4. Succession and Renewal 5. Charisma Routinized 6. Creating Orthodoxy: The View of Posterity Epilogue Bibliography


Patients who present to the emergency department after ingestion of excessive amounts of suflonylurea medications have hypoglycemia refractory to dextrose administration. Recently, the use of octreotide was described as an alternative treatment in such patients. A diabetic patient with chronic renal failure who ingested excessive amounts of sulfonylurea medications causing refractory hypoglycemia resistant to treatment with large doses of intravenous dextrose was presented here. Octreotide administration rapidly reversed hypoglycemia allowing the patient's stabilization and eventual discharge without any significant adverse events. We believe that octreotide may be an effective therapy in refractory sulfonylurea-induced hypoglycemia.


Urdbean leaf crinkle virus (ULCV) is a widespread and most destructive virus that causes leaf crinkle disease in black gram. Virus infection causes alteration in physiological and biochemical processes within the plant. In present study, effect of viral infection was investigated on chlorophyll content, total soluble sugar, total protein, phenolic contents, sodium dismutase (SOD) and nitrate reductase activities in the leaves of susceptible and resistant genotypes of urdbean at 30 days after virus inoculation. Disease symptoms were mild (6.7% to 10%) in resistant genotypes and severe (36% to 43%) in susceptible genotypes. ULCV infection resulted in a significant decrease in chlorophyll content in infected plants of all genotypes over control plants; however, magnitude of reduction was more in susceptible genotypes (41%) as compared to the resistant genotypes (14.35%). The total sugar and protein contents were significantly higher in the inoculated susceptible (210.26 % and 68.67%, respectively) as compared to the resistant genotypes (183.87% and 25.89%, respectively). Also, the total phenolic content was significantly higher in inoculated resistant genotypes (83.91%) over the susceptible genotypes (25.89%). There was significant decrease in the activity of superoxide dismutase enzyme in resistant genotypes as compared to susceptible inoculated genotypes. Similarly, a reduction in nitrate reductase activity was more in inoculated plants of resistant genotypes. Our results indicate that post-infection significant increases in total sugars and proteins in susceptible genotypes and phenols in resistant genotypes may have a role in disease resistance and development. Changes in enzymatic activities in resistant and susceptible genotypes might also have some role in resistance against ULCV.


LaF3:Er,Yb nanoparticle-doped organic-inorganic hybrid material waveguides were demonstrated using reactive ion etching technology. The absorption and photoluminescence spectra were observed on a 140μm thick film of the nanoparticle-doped hybrid material. Under excitation at 976nm, the fluorescence was obtained at 1535nm, and its full width at half maximum was about 83nm. A relative optical gain of about 5dB was measured at 1535nm in a 22-mm-long waveguide.


SiO2 thin film is successfully prepared on sapphire substrate by RF magnetron reactive sputtering method, with silicon as the target and oxygen as the reactive gas. The deposition rate, composition, structure and optical properties of SiO2 films have been also investigated. The results show that SiO2 films can be obtained at lower temperature by RF magnetron reactive sputtering method and it also adhere sapphire substrate firmly. The deposited SiO2 film has a highly antireflective effect on sapphire substrate.


Commercial and research lobster trapping, targeting two species of lobster (Panulirus marginatus and Scyllarides squammosus), began in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in the mid 1970s. Commercial fishing effort peaked in 1986 at 1.3 million trap hauls. A corresponding site-specific, depth-stratified research-monitoring program began in 1 with two sites, Necker Island and Maro Reef, visited annually. Two types of traps were used in the commercial and research fisheries, initially a 2x4inch-mesh wire trap and later a 1x -inch-mesh plastic trap. Research trapping was carried out in two depth strata: 1 m (shallow) and 1 m (deep). Both trap types are highly selective with target species comprising 0% and % of the research catch for wire and plastic traps, respectively. Changes in diversity and species abundance of the research trap catches from 1 00 are evaluated and discussed in terms of potential impacts due to fishing activity. The Simpson diversity index measured for the community, using plastic trap catch data, showed a significant increase over time for both depth strata at Necker Island, but a significant decline over time for the shallower depth stratum at Maro Reef. Significant increases in species richness for all sites as measured by Margalef's diversity index were strongly related to increases in trapping effort. Simpson's measure of evenness declined significantly over time for both depth strata at Maro Reef. Declines in abundance of both target species attributed to direct removal (harvest) occurred at Necker Island and for spiny lobster at Maro Reef. Declines in abundance for nontarget species were not observed. Increases in species abundance possibly attributed to competitive replacement were observed for slipper lobster at Maro Reef and for nontarget crab species at both study locations. Recent increases in whitetip reef shark abundance were observed for both Necker Island and Maro Reef, but they could not be explained in terms of fishery impacts.


A 5 years old girl presented 3 years back with pain and swelling over the upper right leg for 2 years duration. X-ray, CT and MRI revealed osteolytic well defined lesion 2.5 × 2 cm in the meta-diaphyseal region of the proximal tibia with pathological fracture of anterolateral cortex. Child underwent thorough curettage of the lesion and the defect was filled with allograft (iliac crest graft) from mother which was harvested in an adjacent operation theatre. The limb was protected with a plaster splint for a period of 3 months. The graft gradually consolidated and new bone formation was apparent by 6 months. Remodelling of the medullary canal occurred at 1 year follow up. Child has been followed up to 3 years (till date) and there is no evidence of recurrence. The case illustrates that osteofibrous dyplasia can be effectively treated by curettage and replacement of defect by allograft from parents.


An all-optical magnetization switching protocol is presented where the magnetization associated with a single Mn atom embedded in a single CdTe quantum dot is controlled on a picosecond time scale. Even though there is no direct optical coupling to the Mn spin, the control may be achieved by the optical excitation and manipulation of spin-polarized carriers that couple to the Mn spin via the exchange interaction. It is shown that the Mn spin can be selectively driven into each of its spin eigenstates. By suitably chosen pulse sequences also well defined superposition states can be prepared. The Mn spin dynamics is directly reflected in pump probe type signals.


Catching dynamic response of the complex structure accurately is crucial to reduce the disaster losses, which can be verified by testing methods. Real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is a quite powerful testing method by combining the numerical simulation and experimental testing. The numerical part is generally highly simplified to relieve the computation burden, which causes the deviation between numerical model and real structure, especially when when the testing structure is complex and the numerical part has a large number of degrees of freedom. Moreover, Fine modeling may introduce time delays, resulting in the stability and accuracy of the RTHS. Thus, in this paper, a parallel RTHS platform is proposed for relieving the computation burden and realizing the real-time control, based on the vector form intrinsic finite element (VFIFE) and the field programmable gate array (FPGA) . Two cases are carried out that prove the proposed RTHS platform can be well used to conduct the experimental research of RTHS, with accurate timing and high computation efficiency.


Dry matter intake of dairy cows grazing pasture based on perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) pasture at low or high herbage allowances was estimated from preand post-grazing pasture masses (PMM), using n-alkanes or by calculations based on cow performance and published estimates of energy requirements (PERM). Pasture intakes were lower (14.1 vs 17.1 kg DM/day) (p<0.05) at low compared to high herbage allowance when estimated using PMM, PERM and C31/C32 alkanes. When C33/C32 alkanes were used, there was no difference in intake between the 2 allowances (18.5 vs 18.6 kg DM/day). The estimates of intake using n-alkanes were higher (p<0.05) than for PMM or PERM. Sources of error and uncertainty with each method are discussed.


WT5"BZ]One of the internal causes of the inner-party corruption is that a considerable number of the party cadres haven't solved the problems of values, outlook on the world and life; the other is that in quite many places and departments the management of the party is very poor, the ideological and political work is not well-done, and the education, management and supervision of the Party cadres, especially the leading cadres are seriously neglected. Therefore, to preserve the advancement and purity of the Party and to heighten the cohesion as well as the fighting power of the party to a new level, we must strengthen the education, management and supervision of the party cadres and manage the Party more stictly and seriously. [WT5"HZ]


The LQS-98 cleaner and passivator was used in the sulfur producing equipments in Yanshan Petrochemical Refinery. This passivator was a new style product with the function of passivation, Deodorizing and degreasing, could reduce the time of the cleaning. This article introduced the mechanism, the usage, and the effect of the cleaner and passivator.


The pro‐inflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis factor‐α, and interleukin‐1β/α modulate catecholamine secretion, and long‐term gene regulation, in chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. Since interleukin‐6 (IL6) also plays a key integrative role during inflammation, we have examined its ability to affect both tyrosine hydroxylase activity and adrenomedullary gene transcription in cultured bovine chromaffin cells. IL6 caused acute tyrosine/threonine phosphorylation of extracellular signal‐regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2), and serine/tyrosine phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3). Consistent with ERK1/2 activation, IL6 rapidly increased tyrosine hydroxylase phosphorylation (serine‐31) and activity, as well as up‐regulated genes, encoding secreted proteins including galanin, vasoactive intestinal peptide, gastrin‐releasing peptide, and parathyroid hormone‐like hormone. The effects of IL6 on the entire bovine chromaffin cell transcriptome were compared to those generated by G‐protein‐coupled receptor (GPCR) agonists (histamine and pituitary adenylate cyclase‐activating polypeptide) and the cytokine receptor agonists (interferon‐α and tumor necrosis factor‐α). Of 90 genes up‐regulated by IL6, only 16 are known targets of IL6 in the immune system. Those remaining likely represent a combination of novel IL6/STAT3 targets, ERK1/2 targets and, potentially, IL6‐dependent genes activated by IL6‐induced transcription factors, such as hypoxia‐inducible factor 1α. Notably, genes induced by IL6 include both neuroendocrine‐specific genes activated by GPCR agonists, and transcripts also activated by the cytokines. These results suggest an integrative role for IL6 in the fine‐tuning of the chromaffin cell response to a wide range of physiological and paraphysiological stressors, particularly when immune and endocrine stimuli converge.


The characteristics of variations of pan evaporation and its influencing factors from 1951 to 2001 were analyzed in Dalian in terms of methods of a linear tendency estimation,an cumulative anomaly and a complete correlation coefficient.The results show that the annual pan evaporation has an increasing trend.The trend is significant in summer,followed in spring.However,it is not significant in autumn and winter.Summer pan evaporation is the main contributor to annual pan evaporation.Annual and seasonal pan evaporation is positively correlated with the sunshine duration,average surface temperature,diurnal range of average temperature and average wind speed,and negatively correlated with average relative humidity.The decreasing average relative humidity and the increasing average surface temperature are the major reasons for the increasing pan evaporation in Dalian.


The structure of bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)magnesium, Mg(C5Me5)2 (1), in the solid state has been determined by X-ray diffraction. The experimental results are described and discussed in comparison to structural properties of the higher alkaline-earth metallocenes MCp*2 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba) as determined in the gas phase or in the solid state. Structural trends of 1 in comparison to the isoelectronic species [LiCp*2]-, BeCp*2, and [AlCp*2]+ are also presented.


This hook is intended in the first place for the use of students at work in the author's own laboratory. It gives a full programme of practical work on typical bacteria, with notes on the methods employed. Considerable space is given also to the discussion of general questions of the morphology and physiology of bacteria. The book, however, does not take the place of a general text-book. For each part of the work one method is given, and no attempt is made to describe other suitable methods, even though they may be in common use. While this limitation exists, it must at the same time be granted that the methods


The role of atomic cooperation in producing optical bistability in a system consisting of resonant atoms in a low-Qcavity driven on resonance is investigated. It is shown that while completely correlated atomic cooperation precludes steady-state bistability, the assumption that each atom behaves independently and is affected only by the average behavior of the others leads to a bistable steady state. Certain physical and mathematical aspects of the two kinds of cooperation are discussed, and the relationship of the results to the problem of optical bistability without a resonator is indicated.


A latest vision of the development of rural areas should include an increase of productive capacities of the agrarian sector in conjunction with the development of non-agricultural activities through the revitalisation of local entrepreneurship. In the process of stabilisation of the situation in agricultural industry, the priority of raw material sectors will be reduced in relative terms to tip the balance in favour of processing operations and the provision of services, including tourism. This poses new challenges to rural residents, local authorities, non-governmental organisations, and education and science professionals to revitalise economic activities in rural areas. The observations made and surveys conducted by the author are an attempt to make a case for the importance of diversification of the operations of business entities in rural areas with reference to international experience. Research has made it possible to identify both objective and subjective factors that prevent the revitalisation of entrepreneurship in rural areas, specifically, the low purchasing power of rural residents and their quality of life, fully dilapidated technical infrastructure, significant transport costs, and poor implementation of public programmes.


In this paper, the authors discuss the need for, the challenges, and the opportunities of providing efficient transit in suburban areas. A review of the development of 'flexible' transit services is presented. Recent developments with the application of new, user-based and ubiquitous technology, such as smartphones and tablets, is discussed. This paper describes how recent developments in the application of new technology holds promise for viable and efficient means to serve suburban mobility. The discussion is based on the example of FlexBus, a public transit concept recently approved and funded by the Federal Transit Administration for a 12-month live revenue service demonstration in Central Florida. Similar to Uber and Lyft, FlexBus will provide real-time, dynamic mobility in response to user requests. Unlike these private ventures, FlexBus is designed as an affordable shared-ride public transit service. FlexBus uses the technology in tablets plus advanced routing, vehicle assignment, and predictive vehicle location algorithms to provide an app-based point-to-point service with a response time to user requests of 15 minutes or less. Development of the FlexBus operating concept is completed, a two-month field operational test of the technology is completed, the technology vendor is secured, and a solicitation for the operating contractor is ready to be released. This paper describes the operational model and operating requirements for the demonstration.


With the accumulating evidence of changing disturbance regimes becoming increasingly obvious, there is potential for disturbance ecology to become the most valuable lens through which climate-related disturbance events are interpreted. In this paper, I revisit some of the central themes of disturbance ecology and argue that the knowledge established in the field of disturbance ecology continues to be relevant to ecosystem management, even with rapid changes to disturbance regimes and changing disturbance types in local ecosystems. Disturbance ecology has been tremendously successful over the past several decades at elucidating the interactions between disturbances, biodiversity, and ecosystems, and this knowledge can be leveraged in different contexts. Primarily, management in changing and uncertain conditions should be focused primarily on the long-term persistence of that native biodiversity which has evolved within the local disturbance regime, and is likely to go extinct with rapid changes to disturbance intensity, frequency, and type. Where possible, conserving aspects of natural disturbance regimes will be vital to preserving functioning ecosystems and to that native biodiversity that requires disturbance for its continued existence, though these situations may become more limited over time. Finally, scientists must actively propose management policies that incorporates knowledge of disturbance ecology. Successful policies regarding changing disturbance regimes for biodiversity will not merely be reactive, and will recognize that for natural ecosystems as for human society, not all desired outcomes are simultaneously possible.


The aims of this research are to enhance extraction of betacyanin from pitahaya (dragon fruit Hylocereus undatus) peel by using homogenization and microwave techniques and assessed pigment stability under the different pH and heat treatments. We assessed enhanced extraction with homogenization in distilled water at 2500 rpm at times of up to 20 minutes and 100W microwave power with times up to 30 seconds. After extraction, the stability test under the different pH of 3-7 and heat treatment levels (without heat treatment, pasteurization and sterilization) was also investigated. The homogenized extract after 20 minutes and microwave powered extract for 30 seconds led to the highest red color (measured by a* value) and betacyanin content when compared with each other processing time. The extracted pigment without heat treatment had higher stability than pasteurized and sterilized extract in the pH 4-6 range.


A close relationship has developed in this country between the stock market and the money market because of (1) the widespread practice of margin trading in securities and (2) the need, especially under a system of small unit banks, for a liquid money market where banks may employ reserves and temporary surplus funds. Wide fluctuations in the volume of street loans with changes in speculative activity have been a stabilizing influence when they offset opposite movements in volume of credit used by business customers of banks; but from 1922 to 1927 street loans increased along with other loans and investments of banks. The speculative movement was not checked by limitations on the supply of money in 1928 and 1929, and brokers obtained loans from non-banking lenders. Increase in volume and use of credit and diversion of credit into certain uses resulting from the increase in street loans affected the volume of production and trade and also the equilibrium of the economic system. Absorption of credit by the stock market was less important than creation and diversion of credit resulting from market activity. More effective control of stock-market credit is necessary for business stability. Adequate control may be exercised over supply of funds only by making stock-market activity the principal guide of credit policy. Restrictions on mar- gin trading are needed to limit demand for brokers' loans. New restrictions on both supply and demand have been imposed by the Banking act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange act of 1934.


Readers' letters is a kind of a rubric that appears in written media. This rubric contains the letters from the readers for the media itself, particular person or company, governement, or for readers in general. Besides bridging the relationship between the readers and the media, readers' letters also functions yo give the readers a chance to state their opinion. In My Opinion (IMO) in the jakarta Post is readers' letters in online form where the other readers can comment on the readers' letters online. Thus, they can communicate one another. The way the readers communicate their purposes in the IMO is an interesting phenomenon. This study aims at analysisng the rethorical structures of the IMO in the Jakarta Post on January 2011. Rethorical structure is the organization of ideas in a text that consists of stages or steps. These stages or steps are usually called Move. The method used in this study was qualitative method with genre analysis approach. The unit of analysis in this research was Move. A total of 17 readers' letters from IMO rubric of the Jakarta Post formed the data of the study. The result revealed that the rethorical structure of the readers' letters vary as the purposes also vary. It can be concluded that to achieve different communicative purposes, writers apply different linguistic strategies.


e23154Background: The tumor microenvironment plays a critical role in regulating cancer cell survival, proliferation, and invasiveness. It also acts as key driver in promoting tumor-mediated evasio...


The convergence conditions for a class of generalized Persidskii systems and their discretized dynamics are introduced, which can be checked through linear (matrix) inequalities. The case of almost periodic convergence for this class of systems with almost periodic input is also studied. The proposed results are applied to a Lotka–Volterra model and opinion dynamics.


Use of an ion-conducting membrane based on an aromatic polyimide or copolyimide polymer, units which may be the same or different, of the following general formula I: wherein the residue B is at least an aromatic heterocycle of the following general formula II: R is H, a phenyl residue or a phosphonic acid group, and A represents one of the following, containing at least one naphthalene-unit groups of the general formula III: and with the neighboring imide groups rings with 6 atoms is, for electrochemical applications.


Cells of Bacillus cereus grown in an alcohol-free medium (control cells) had a lipid content of 2.6 ± 0.4%, on a dry weight basis. About half of the lipids consisted of phosphatides, including phosphatidyl ethanolamine (40%), phosphatidyl glycerol (28%), lecithin (6%), lyso compounds (10%), and three acidic phosphatides of unknown structure. The fatty acids of the total lipids were predominantly saturated, the major components being branched-chain C13, C15, and C17 acids. The neutral lipids consisted mostly of diglycerides, with a small amount of triglycerides. Five to ten per cent of the lipids was obtained as unsaponifiable material, consisting chiefly of long-chain (n-C16 and n-C18) alcohols, and having traces of long-chain aldehydes (derived from plasmalogens).Cells grown in the presence of alcohols usually had a higher phosphatide content, a correspondingly lower non-phosphatide content, and a higher non-saponifiable content than control cells. Total lipid content or relative proportions of the phosp...


An access system including a storage medium and a host is disclosed. The storage medium includes an identification code. The host includes a processor, at least one connection port and an identification port. The processor executes a mass-production application program. The connection port is coupled to at least one electronic product. The identification port is coupled to the storage medium. When the mass-production application program is executed, the processor determines whether the identification code matches a key code. When the identification code matches the key code, the processor writes mass-production data to the electronic product.


Mixed testicular tumors are of great interest both clinically and pathologically. Being in most cases benign neoplasms, they sometimes give rise to metastases, and in some cases are subjected to malignant transformation, so that their timely recognition is of particular value. In the pathological and anatomical sense these neoplasms are of interest in relation to their microscopic structure, often extremely complex in particular in relation to their histogenesis.


cans hit the people of this state with a four-page newspaper entitled the United States Senate News, they introduced something new in the form of political publicity into Utah politics. Printed in Minneapolis, this verbal guided missile, held secret until the moment of its issuance and launched in an extremely efficient manner, struck the electorate like a bombshell, exploding in every direction at once and taking in the entire population within its range of explosive fire. Citizens generally were startled and shocked, some even shaken and stunned, although they already had been morally hardened to anything that might have come from anywhere by the incessant and unrelenting propaganda bombardment that had characterized "the most scurrilous" campaign in Utah since "the almost forgotten days of the bitter Mormon and anti-Mormon struggles for economic and political position." ' Republicans understandably were delighted with the further demoralization wrought in the ranks of the Democratic party by this propaganda invasion from outside the state.


Chun-shu Chang and Shelly Hsueh-lun Chang, Redefining history: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's world, 1640-1715, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1998, pp. xiii + 358, hb. $59.50, 0472108220This is a study of the Chinese writer P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715) and his Liao-chai chih-i ('Tales of the World of the Unusual from the Studio of Deliberation and Musing') set against the transformations in the political, cultural, social, economic and literary world of post-Ming/Ch'ing dynastic transition. The Liao-chai tales (compiled 1670-1711), many of which contain supernatural elements, provide a mirror on the world of seventeenth-century China as perceived through the eyes of a regional Confucian scholar, frustrated by failure in the imperial examination system. The authors analyse P'u Sung-ling's life, how this shaped his self-identity and career goals, and how he came to compile the collection. Their stated aim is to provide 'the most systematic historical and cultural biography of P'u Sung-ling in any language' (p. 4).Although the stories are fiction, this purports not to be a literary undertaking, rather an investigation into P'u's role as a history maker and how the work has historical significance. Using an interdisciplinary approach which they term 'Comprehensive History', they apply analytical techniques from fields as diverse as cultural anthropology, psychology and literary criticism, to a variety of sources - historical, literary, official and private. Fundamental issues to be addressed include a) the individual, his society and culture; b) the interaction of local culture and national worldview; c) the invention, transmission, and acceptance of tradition; and d) the defining of the collective mentalite at a certain time in a certain locality. The fictional Liaochai collection may reveal more about the popular mentalite i.e. values, feelings, dreams of the age, than the official historical documentation.Section I introduces P'u Sung-ling himself. A descendant of a scholar-gentry family (although of merchant father) from Shandong province, his life-long goal to be useful as an official was thwarted by forty years of failure to achieve higher degree success. By turning to fiction, he aimed to attain literary immortality, following in the footsteps of other talents such as the poets Chu Yuan and Li Po, both of whom failed to gain entrance into officialdom.Section II demonstrates how Liao-chai can be considered a history and a cultural mosaic. P'u styled himself the 'Historian of the World of the Unusual' after the innovative Han historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien. Unlike his predecessor who concentrated on 'the affairs of great men', P'u wrote more of the common people, their work and family life. Accounts of the extraordinary are contrasted and mixed with those of everyday life. The world of the unusual in P'u's thought, therefore, covers the cosmic universe, spiritual world and human condition.P'u's style was a combination of various genres including the earlier chih-kuai (tales of the mysterious) and ch'uan-ch'i (prose romances). That he used the classical language highlighted the regard he felt for hsiao-shuo (small writing or fiction), traditionally regarded as a low form of literature. …


The present invention provides a data processing arrangement method, apparatus and a server, the method comprising obtaining a current performance of each attribute information of the LUN; each LUN, the LUN acquired from the user profile corresponding to the current performance in respect to the attribute information of the LUN attribute value of the current performance of the same performance attributes target performance attribute value; performance when the current value and the target performance attribute property values are not equal, the performance of the current attribute information for each LUN, obtains an average traffic per LUN IO data; and get each LUN average read IO IO latency and average write latency; then the data on the disk IOPS per LUN according visit and visit each disk bandwidth and the number of each LUN LUN amount of disk resources are acquired distributed processing, so that the distribution of each LUN, the LUN current performance attribute value equal to the target value of the performance attribute of the LUN.


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Intelligent Visual Input (IVI) provides a rapid, graphical method of data entry for both expert system interaction and medical record keeping purposes. Key components of IVI include: a high-resolution graphic display; an interface supportive of rapid selection, i.e., one utilizing a mouse or light pen; algorithm simplification modules; and intelligent graphic algorithm expansion modules. A prototype IVI system, designed to facilitate entry of physical exam findings, is used to illustrates the potential advantages of this approach.


The four papers in this symposium were originally presented at the Fifth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Dublin Economics Workshop held in Killarney on October 15-17 1982 and are published together in this Policy Paper with only minor alterations. Taken together, they illustrate the complexity of the issues which must be faced in devising an exchange-rate policy as well as the diversity of views held by economists on the subject.


For meeting the environmental challenges posed onto the community by its increasing demand for cheap energy, it is necessary that the electricity generation is shifted from nuclear and fossil fuel fired power plants to renewable energies. In photovoltaics, thin film solar cells in general and CuIn1−xGaxSe2 (CIGS) solar cells in particular have a significant potential for cost reduction compared to classical Si-based solar cells due to less material usage, easier interconnection, and potentially faster production processes. The first part of the thesis focuses on the CIGS absorber layer and how changes to the layer processing can be used to increase the solar cell performance. It is also investigated how different evaporation profiles for the absorber layers could be used to make the production process cheaper by reducing layer thickness, resulting in less raw material demand and higher throughput in the deposition equipment. It was shown that by introducing an intentional band gap grading into the CIGS absorber layer, a 4% increase in the open circuit voltage can be obtained while limiting the loss in short circuit current to 1.5% or less, with the potential of reducing the loss even more by further optimization of the deposition process. This, among other optimizations, lead to a new internal record efficiency of 18.8% (Voc = 715 mV, Jsc = 34.7 mAcm−2, FF = 75.9%). Additionaly, significant changes to the distribution of the dopant Na were found when the three stage deposition process is altered, namely the duration of the Cu rich growth regime is changed. For absorber layers grown with a short time in Cu rich composition, a localization of Na at the absorber surface was found, while those layers where the Cu rich regime is maintained for a longer time show a shallower slope from the surface into the bulk and the Na more evenly distributed throughout the top region of the absorber layer. Furthermore, the potential of thickness reduction of CIGS was investigated with absorber deposition by a physical vapor deposition (PVD) three stage process. It was found that several changes in the deposition sequence and metal ramps need to be introduced to maintain Voc and fill factor. The best solar cell obtained showed a PV efficiency of η = 11.7%, with Voc = 653 mV, Jsc = 25.1 mAcm−2, and FF = 71.4% at an absorber layer thickness of 500 nm.


Human behaviour remains the same whether it is a physical or cyber world. They express their emotions like happy, sad, angry, frustrated, bullying, and so on at both places. To express these emotions in cyberspace one of the way is a text post. The impact of these posts lasts forever on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and so on. Some posts that contain hate and offensive content affect victims badly and drag them into mental illness. The current paper aims to identify such hate and offensive posts using deep learning-based models such as CNN, and LSTMs. The Twitter posts in English, Hindi, and German languages used in this study are a part of HASOC-2020 competition. The model submitted for English sub-task A outperformed all other models submitted in the competitions by securing the 1st rank and F1-macro average score of 0.5152.


Objective – This paper examines whether the implemented ASEAN Economic Community AEC 2015 measures have a significant effect on ASEAN industrialization. Design/methodology – The examination was performed by comparing the growth of manufacturing indicators before and after the period of the AEC Blueprint implementation. panel data was used to examine the trend of manufacturing development in ten ASEAN countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The panel data analysis examined seventeen years data on ten ASEAN countries that reported manufacturing indicators (mnfemp, mnva, rmva), GDP per capita, and population. The AEC Blueprint is implemented in a specific timeline since the year 2008 by ASEAN countries. Results – This study found that there are no significant differences in the growth of manufacturing employment and the growth of nominal manufacturing value-added before and after a period of AEC blueprint implementation. Also, the growth of the real manufacturing value-added in the period of AEC blueprint implementation is less than prior AEC era. The findings of this study support studies that criticize the AEC implementation.


The effects on the loss factor of anisotropic laminated damped thin plates produced by changing its anisotropic parameters were studied by using methods of orthogonal experiments and theories of anisotropic laminated damped structure.[1]As the results show, the effects of anisotropic parameters on the loss factor of the thin plates are different under the different molds, in which the influence of the fibrous paving angle is complicated to the loss factor of thin plates for its influence changing largely from the mold or the construction of thin plates, and the influence of the shear modulus in longitudinal or transverse direction or the Young's modulus in longitudinal or transverse direction goes up to enlarge gradually along with the mold. In addition, the further analysis of the effects of anisotropic parameters on the loss factor shows that the effects of anisotropic parameters on the loss factor have different characteristics, and the optimal-design of the loss factor has potential for the way of construction design.


A robust antibody response is essential for efficient identification and eradication of pathogenic microbes and toxins, whereas dysregulation of the antibody response can lead to autoimmune disease. Specific antigen encounter by B lymphocytes induces clonal expansion that encompasses several distinct stages of differentiation. During this differentiation process, a critical cell fate decision is made wherein some B cells will undergo terminal differentiation into antibody-producing cells, while a separate cohort will assume a distinct pathway of differentiation to become long-lived memory B cells. An exciting new development in the field is the revelation of a novel chemotactic axis involving the recognition of oxysterol compounds by the orphan G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), Epstein-Barr virus-induced gene 2 (EBI2). EBI2 is expressed on B cells and is highly induced upon activation. Recent gene targeting experiments revealed that EBI2-/- B cells exhibited defective migration, resulting in strongly impaired T cell-dependent antibody responses. Most recently, two research teams made the unlikely discovery that oxysterol compounds, previously known to bind nuclear receptors, are the physiologic ligands for EBI2. In order to investigate the importance of EBI2 in immune processes and potential as a drug target, selective and potent antagonists with good in vivo pharmacokinetics need to be developed. This probe report describes a potent functional antagonist of EBI-2, ML401 (CID 73169083, SID 173333998), which is potent (IC50 ∼ 1 nM), displays activity in a chemotaxis assay (IC50 ∼ 6 nM), and has a clean profile in a Eurofins/Ricerca panel as well as excellent rodent pharmacokinetics. As such ML401 should be a valuable tool to explore the in vivo effects of EBI-2 inhibition.


Taking the atmosphere and ocean water as homogeneous respectively and regarding the ocean surface as a plane, a new method, the successive iteration method, for solving the radiative transfer equation (RTE) of the atmosphere-ocean system is presented. As a result, an expression of the azimuth integrated radiance in this system is developed.


As mine rehabilitation planning is an integral part of the mine plan, it is essential to be able to predict the likely success of rehabilitation in terms of its sustainability, the risk of failure, and the potential impact on surrounding ecosystems. A requirement of many regulatory authorities is the inclusion of rehabilitation plans in the Environmental Impact Statement, and at the development stage. Thus rehabilitation forecasts are commonly required in the early stages of mine planning and usually well before mining operations cease. Geomorphic modeling of structural stability, and particularly of the erosion, transport, and deposition of particulate and soluble phases of eroded materials, is an integral part of the rehabilitation assessment. Geomorphic models have to be integrated with other biophysical models in order to provide a holistic picture of the rehabilitation and its potential environmental impacts. The predictive modeling of a proposed rehabilitation structure at Ranger Uranium Mine, North...


In this paper we will describe the design, construction and application of a wearable digital imaging project based on the PC/104 embedded PC board. The systems for image capture, manipulation and communication will be presented and power- consumption, heat dissipation and user-interface design will be considered. The paper will also discuss the results of an archaeological field trial and demonstrate the potential of image sequence tagging methods for efficient data retrieval in documentary applications.


The invention relates to an automatic locking head device of a self-sealing bag and provides the technical scheme as follows: the automatic locking head device comprises a bag pressing component, a locating piece arranged in parallel to the bag pressing component, a lock head sliding rail and a butting pressing piece which slides along the lock head sliding rail in a reciprocating way, wherein the butting pressing piece is driven to slide along the lock head sliding rail in a reciprocating way by a driving piece; and the lock head sliding rail extends between the locating piece and the bag pressing component. By adopting the technical scheme, the invention provides an automatic locking head device which has convenient operation and automatically threads a self-locking head on the self-sealing bag.


SummaryIn the past 40 years, marketing scholarship has made tremendous advances. Our methods are diverse and relatively sophisticated. As a brief perusal of any marketing textbook (or journal) indicates, we have developed approaches for solving important managerial problems. Consumer behavior, sales management, and advertising have been distinct fields of study, within marketing, for more than 40 years. There are specialized journals for each of these areas, butJAMS, as a general journal, also publishes scholarly articles in these areas. Nonetheless, each of these subdisciplines has its own unique set of patterns and traditions, and there does not appear to be a lot of communication between scholars who specialize in distinct subareas. In this way, we have a tendency to remain somewhat isolated as researchers and scholars. At the same time, there is an increasing challenge to fit all of marketing scholarship under one unified and harmonious tent.


High-precision measurements of joint displacements are available on robot manipulators. In contrast, the velocity measurements obtained through tachometers are in many cases contaminated by noise. It is therefore economically and technically interesting to investigate the possibility of accurately estimating the speed from direct available measurements such as the angular positions. This paper proposes a 'smooth non-linear observer' (i.e. an observer with 'smooth' or 'differentiable' gains) and a modified computed torque law which is a function of estimated velocities and measurement positions for rigid industrial robot manipulators. We derive local conditions for asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system.


The fabrication of conductive lines or connectors is vital in electronic industry. Various methods have been widely developed and employed. Typically, electroplating, photolithography and etching processes are adopted for manufacturing. However, this subtractive technique involves many complicated steps, those results in time consuming, generating waste chemicals and materials. The purposed additive approach with the adaptation of conventional ink-jet printer promises simplicity and reduction in manufacturing cost. Furthermore, the technique is suitable for foldable organic substrates, such as paper. This sets a foundation of 'green' electronics with the use of environmentally friendly process and materials [1]. An excellent demonstration of this affordable fabrication technology is through RFID antennas. The emerging UHF RFID technology is potentially applied to a variety of applications. Especially when the fabrication cost is comparable to that of bar codes, the paper-based RFID can be used in almost any low cost applications. In this article, ink-jet printed RFID antennas in different configurations are demonstrated, along with their measured performances compared to simulation results.


Using methods of reliability theory and variation calculus, it is posed and solved the problem of increasing efficiency of industrial equipment in the enterprises for processing of solid household waste. As experimental basis for studies, there were served the real data on operating time between failures of machines and apparatuses of existing waste processing enterprises in Moscow. The results enable to choose the operating conditions corresponding to maximum reliability of equipment.