Journalists' right to use confidential information and anonymous sources is considered to be one of the cornerstones of press freedom and democracy. The aim of reporter's privilege (or "shield law") – a reporter's protection from being compelled to testify about confidential information or sources – is to safeguard the public's right to know by protecting the rights of journalists and their use of confidential sources. In the era of traditional media (print, television, radio) it was relatively easy to define who is the "reporter" in reporter's privilege, i.e. who and which media belong to the realm of shield laws. The internet, however, have challenged the traditional conceptions and apparently caused confusion among legislators and judiciary in different countries. It is not at all clear anymore who is a journalist and who or what should be protected by the reporter's privilege. The research question of our case study is: How is the scope of the reporter's privilege defined in the legislations six countries? In other words, who are the subjects of reporter's privilege and who or what are protected by reporter's privilege? We build a heuristic model (continuum) of these definitions. In one end of the continuum reporter's privilege is technology neutral and applies to anyone providing a message in public (as in Finland). In the other end of the continuum reporter's privilege is restricted only to the professional journalists (as in Germany or in the federal shield law bill reintroduced in U.S Congress in Sept. 2011). We call the former a universal right and the latter a guild privilege. Most countries seem to stand between these two extremes. Reporter's privilege as a universal right acknowledges the internet as an equal medium with traditional media and the citizen journalists or even bloggers (as in Finland and Australia) as equal actors with professional journalists. The conception of guild privilege reflects either an outdated, pre internet legislation, or a deliberate aim to restrict the privilege to the professionals even in the era of citizen journalism. Our claim is that theoretically the former reflects the ideals of public sphere by Jurgen Habermas in which individuals congregate to discuss matters of mutual interest, while the latter is a continuation of libertarian theory of the press emphasizing the role of the news media as an institution. We compare in our paper the differences between the conceptions of "reporter" in both ends of the continuum (Finland, Germany) and in representative countries between these extremes (Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden as well as the bill proposed in the U.S). We also conduct a qualitative text analysis about how divergent legal outcomes concerning the domain of the reporter's privilege have been argued in the academic and professional discussions. Empirical data of our paper consists of legislation (and a bill proposal in the case of the U.S) of the reporter's privilege in the countries mentioned, and selected texts of academic and professional journals. We consider international comparison of the reporter's privilege important because many countries are either planning or revising shield laws in a moment (for example Netherlands, Norway, the U.S). The role of the internet and citizen journalism is a major concern in these undertakings.


This paper focus on the problem that incomplete information in the practical application of uses multiple sensor to real-time acquisition the surrounding environment basic parameters(such as temperature, humidity etc.), use the method of data fusion based on the mutual support degree between the collect data, improve the precision of data acquisition,to improve the error caused by the sensor's precision and environment noise etc, and according to the number of new sensor nodes join in the sensor network Adaptive to fusion. The experimental results show this system is effective.


Objective To choose the most suitable position for peripheral vein catheter in order to alleviate infant's pain and improve nursing quality in NICU.Methods The authors enrolled 207 term infants and 339 premature infants in the incubator,adopted different positions,such as vein of scalp,oxter,upper limbs,lower limbs and watched the lasting periods of the peripheral vein catheter.Results The lasting period in the vein of oxter of term infants and premature infants was(94.03±17.43) hours and(112.27±23.27) hours respectively.It showed significant difference compared with the other groups(scalp,upper limbs,lower limbs)(P0.01).The lasting period in the vein of oxter was the longest.The lasting period in the vein of scalp of term infants was(80.06±17.91) hours,it showed significant difference compared with the other groups(upper limbs,lower limbs)(P0.01).Conclusion The best position of peripheral vein catheter is the vein of scalp and oxter for term infants,and that of oxter for premature infants.


Tritomaria koreana is transferred to Lophozia based on molecular studies involving material from the type locality. Within Lophozia, the species belongs to the early diverging branch sister to other taxa of the genus and is so distinctly morphologically different from congeners that the morphological circumscription of the genus should be revised based on the ability to develop 1) deep, pink-colored unicellular polygonal gemmae, 2) very unequally bilobed leaves, 3) leaves shaped and inserted as in Tritomaria exsecta. There are 5 morphologically distant species of Lophozia, four of which were described within the last decade and belong to the branches sister to the main bulk of taxa of the genus. All of these early diverging taxa are distributed on the geographical fringes of the area for the genus, whereas the geographical centre of the genus is occupied by widely distributed, morphologically intergrading and genetically closely related taxa of questionable taxonomic rank belonging to the L. ventricosa complex and its closest allies.


What makes the difference between cultures? Are these differences visible in language? How can one make himself understood? There exist what Ioan Petru Culianu calls "the games of mind", patterns existing in every language and probably in all civilizations and which, with certain variations, contribute to the safeguarding of a certain unity in diversity. Milan Kundera's novel L'Ignorance has the word nostalgia as a starting point. He explains its significance in some European languages: homesickness, pain provoked by someone's absence, desire of what is absent, of what it has been – the past, lost childhood, the first love – or of what it has never been – a new adventure – the suffering provoked by ignorance. The author tends to interpret this word through the "adventures" of several characters belonging to different cultures: since Ulysses, the character of the "epic that founded nostalgia", to Irena and Josef, two Czech emigrants in 1969, to Gustaf, a Swedish cosmopolite, and, on a secondary level, to Milada, a Czech citizen, as well as Irena's mother. Two themes emerge from this first approach: the one of the voyage and the one of alterity, straightly connected to each another. Through the approach of the classical conception of the voyage in the 16 th century,


Capsule Diet composition and feeding behaviour of breeding birds differed between areas of high and low agricultural intensification. Aims To analyze diet composition and feeding behaviour of Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus in agricultural landscapes with different degrees of agricultural intensification. Methods Diet composition and feeding behaviour was assessed by focal observations at nests during breeding seasons in 2001–03 in two agricultural areas within the eastern Ebro Basin (on the northern Iberian Peninsula) which differed in their degree of agricultural intensification: a traditional non-irrigated and non-intensively managed farmland area; and an irrigated and intensively managed farmland area. Results Marsh Harriers in the intensively managed area took higher percentages of small mammals than harriers in the traditional area managed at low-intensity, where they also had a more diverse diet. Male delivery rates increased throughout the breeding season in the intensively managed area. On the contrary, no significant trend in delivery rates was observed in the traditional area, where harriers turned to larger prey late in the season. Conclusion Marsh Harriers probably took advantage of different prey types in intensively managed and traditional farmland according to prey availability. Differences in diet composition seem to be related to different foraging strategies adopted by harriers in traditional and intensively managed farmlands. In the traditionally managed farmlands, harriers responded to increases in the energy requirements of the brood over the course of the breeding season by taking larger prey, whereas in the intensively managed farmlands harriers increased feeding rates.


We studied the optical properties of ordered and intentionally disordered GaAs-AlxGa1-xAs superlattices, with and without dimer-type correlations in the disorder, by means of spectroscopic ellipsometry. The electronic structure of the superlattices has been calculated and compared with the experiments. The optical transitions in ordered, correlated, and uncorrelated disordered superlattices show specific features that we relate to their different electronic structures.


In the present paper we derive four new finite integrals involving the products of the -function, Appell series in reduction form and Srivastava Polynomials. The values of integral are obtained in terms of  (The logarithmic derivative of ). A large number of integrals involving various simpler functions follow as special cases of these integrals.


Lisa Nodzon, PhD, APRN, AOCNP®, of Moffitt Cancer Center, reviews an update on treating Richter Syndrome, which was discussed in a session presented by Davide Rossi, MD, PhD, of Institute of Southern Switzerland, at the 2021 SOHO Annual Meeting.


The complex nonlinear refractive index has been measured and analyzed by adapting the sensitive cw z-scan technique in an amorphous As2S3 thin film. Diffraction rings which is caused by spatial self phase modulation are also observed.


In this communication, a novel broadband dual circularly polarized (CP) antenna is presented. This antenna consists of an U-shaped slot to achieve broadband CP radiation and two 50-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> microstrip-fed ports to realize both right-hand circular polarization and left-hand circular polarization at the same frequency band. The axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) is greatly broadened by moving the feeding ports to upper portion of the U-shaped slot. To verify this design, the proposed antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured −10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidth is about 114.4% (1.80–6.61 GHz) and the 3-dB ARBW is approximately 110.5% (1.83–6.35 GHz). The isolation between two ports is better than 14.8 dB within the ARBW.


A 43-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with epigastric pain radiating down the center of his abdomen. He denied significant use of alcohol or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. He had uncontrolled hypertension on hydrochlorothiazide and a blood pressure of 185/95 mmHg. A two-dimensional aortic ultrasound was done at the patient's bedside and revealed a double lumen and an intimal flap on the longitudinal axis (Figure 1). The transverse view was limited due to body habitus and bowel gas.


The hot deformation behavior of a H10 hot work tool steel was studied by performing hot compression tests over the temperature range of 900 to 1200 °C and strain rates of 0.001–1 s−1 and total strain of 0.7. At temperatures below 1100 °C, the grain size is fine and below 20 μm. In this temperature range, grain size increase with temperature due to dissolution of carbides. Then by increasing temperature to 1150 and 1200 °C, the grain size is increased significantly due to growth of grains. The study on the effect of strain rate showed that at constant temperature of 1000 °C, the grain size increased from 4.8 to 6 μm with increasing strain rate from 0.001 to 1 s−1. Also, this increase in the strain rate at temperature of 1100 °C lead to increase the grain size from 5.9 to 17 μm, due to the occurrence of dynamic recrystallization. At 1200 °C growth of grains causes to decrease grain size from 112 to 87 μm by increasing strain rate. According to the microstructural investigations, at the temperatures of 1000 and 1100 °C and strain rates of 0.01 and 0.1 s−1 dynamic recrystallization was the main softening mechanism. As a result, the most suitable range for hot deformation was obtained at the temperature range of 1000–1100 °C and strain rates of 0.01–0.1 s−1.


Aims: The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the rate and characteristics of intoxications who were admitted to our intensive care unit (ICU). Study Design:This isa retrospective study.


The traditional trend of DNA computing aims at solving computationally intractable problems in the filed of graph theory and permutation and combination.For the objective to solve the Menage problem with biological operations,this paper gave a mathematical model and analyzed the difficulties of solving the problem with DNA computation.An improved mathematical model of the Menage Problem to overcome these difficulties was proposed.In order to improve the efficiency,using the extended separation and extended multi-separation operation,this paper proposed a sticker DNA algorithm of the Menage problem and analyzed the complexity of the algorithm.Consequently,it showed the operation steps and carried out simulation experiments by an instance.


Framing the research: related literature. Theoretical framework. The growing role of national parliaments in the EU decision-making process following the traties' reforms. Upper chambers in Italy and Belgium. Bicameralism and the European integration process. The europeanization of the intra-bicameral procedure.


Eff ective microorganisms (EM) is a commercial biofertilizer that contains a mixture of co-existing benefi cial microorganisms collected from natural environments. Predominantly it consists of species of photosynthetic and lactic acid bacteria, yeast, and actinomycetes. Th e present study was conducted to evaluate the eff ect of EM application on growth, nodulation, yield, and nutrient uptake in mung bean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) var. NIAB Mung 98 under fi eld conditions. Field soil was amended with farmyard manure at 20 t ha -1 , Trifolium alexandrinum green manure at 20 t ha -1 , and recommended (NPK) and half (½ NPK) doses of chemical fertilizers. EM was applied in the form of a dilute solution in water (1:1000) at fortnight intervals throughout the experiment. EM application signifi cantly enhanced shoot biomass in farmyard manure, ½ NPK and NPK amendments. Similarly, EM signifi cantly increased grain yield by 24% and 46% in farmyard manure and NPK fertilizers amendments, respectively. By contrast, in green manure amendment, EM application resulted in a signifi cant decline of 23% in grain yield. In ½ NPK amendment, the eff ect of EM application on grain yield was insignifi cant. Nodulation in terms of number and biomass of nodules was signifi cantly suppressed by EM application in farmyard manure and green manure amendments. In NPK amendment, a signifi cant increase in nodule biomass was recorded due to EM application. EM signifi cantly enhanced nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium nutrition of the test plant in farmyard manure amendment both at fl owering stage and maturity. However, in NPK amended soil, EM application markedly enhanced plant nutrition at later growth stage only.


Friction is one of the greatest obstacles in high precision positioning systems. It can cause steady state errors and tracking errors, while it may results in limit cycles. Therefore, the influence of friction on the response of systems, such as a DC servo drive, must be seriously considered. In this paper, considering the LuGre model of friction as part of the process taken into account, a hybrid structure of a feedback compensation scheme is proposed. A compensation signal is provided by a model-based observer via an inverse model of DC motor. The model-based observer is tuned using a load disturbance torque estimator. Thereafter, the whole structure is implemented in a typical position closed-loop in which the feedback consists of a state-feedback (P) part and the model-based compensation term. Good transient responses and tracking steady-state errors are achieved for different micrometer scale reference test signals


This review discusses the understanding of state policies on human resource management in the field of small and medium-sized businesses that are still plagued by the pandemic. For this purpose, we have conducted a series of data searches on online databases, especially scientific journal publications that publish HR issues and strengthen small businesses. Our data is obtained from secondary data from well-known publications such as Research gate, Taylor&Francis, Google Book, Sagepub, and databases published by the Indonesian Government related to policies and regulations for small and medium enterprises. At the same time, Indonesia is still plagued by pandemics. Then our data with a phenomenological approach to explore all available data so that we can find answers to this study with available and valid principles. Among other things, our studies involved evaluation, system coding, and high interpretation before we got a summary. The results include that Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises contribute to the National Gross Domestic Product and have an essential role in economic recovery. The Government is committed to supporting MSMEs to survive, develop, and grow amid the challenges of the pandemic.


This paper presents the conception of a Microworld designed for learning physics and the pilot study of its use in the classroom. The observations from the classroom activities show that students do not question the way the Microworld represents reality, even where the tool is limited to a simplified physics. From this finding, we discuss the knowledge embodied in the tool and the way it can be used for fostering a deeper understanding of physics.


Cables are the primary transmission media for electric power and communication in modern systems. Faults in cable networks affect the system's reliability and have serious consequences, leading to significant interruptions, failures, and accidents. In this letter, we propose a new method for detecting and locating multiple faults in bus-shaped cable networks based on distributed time-domain reflectometry. The proposed method can detect multiple faults existing simultaneously within one or more network branches. We use analytical modeling and adjacency matrix to categorize reflections measured at the terminations of a bus-shaped network. The proposed method can recognize redundant reflections by distinguishing the first reflection of each error. It detects the faults and identifies their corresponding network branches. The method has been validated on a network with two junctions, one soft fault, one open circuit, and one short circuit. It achieves a maximal relative position deviation of 1.05% and a maximal absolute deviation of 0.98 m.


In this paper we introduce the stability threshold that quantifies the minimal returns to size sufficient to prevent credible secession threats by regions of the country. Severity of internal tension has been linked to degree of polarization of citizens' preferences and characteristics. We show that the increasing degree of polarization does not, in general, raise the stability threshold, even though this hypothesis holds in some asymptotic sense. We also examine the question of the number of smaller countries to be created if the unity of the large country is not sustainable, and investigate the link between this number and the degree of the country polarization.


Objective To investigate the effects of serum of patients with maintenance hemodialysis(HD),conventional dialysate(CD) and high purity dialysate(HPD) on apoptosis of adipocytes. Methods Blood samples of 20 patients with HD(ten were treated with CD and ten were treated with HPD) were collected,and serum was isolated for detection of tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α) by ELISA.Mature 3T3-L1 adipocytes induced in vitro were treated with hemodialysis patient serum(HDPS group),HDPS combined with CD(HDPS+CD group) and HDPS combined with HPD(HDPS+HPD group),respectively,and cells were harvested 48 h later.Morphological changes were observed by Hoechst33258 fluorescence staining,and cell apoptosis was detected by Annexin-V-FITC/PI double staining.Bacterial DNA from CD and HPD was assayed by PCR. Results It was revealed by ELISA that the serum level of TNF-α from patients with HD treated by CD was significantly higher than that from patients with HD treated by HPD(P0.05).Typical apoptotic morphology changes were observed by fluorescence microscopy in HDPS group and HDPS+CD group,and the apoptosis rates in these two groups were significantly higher than that in HDPS+HPD group(P0.05).PCR revealed that there were significant differences between the expression of bacterial DNA in CD and that in HPD(902.79±60.57 vs 454.87±32.22)(P0.05). Conclusion HDPS may induce apoptosis of 3T3-L1 adipocytes,which may be related to the increased serum level of TNF-α.Compared with intervention by HDPS and CD,intervention by HDPS and HPD may yield lower apoptosis rate of adipocytes,and there may be lower expression of bacterial DNA in HPD.


Landi et al. (1) recently reported in the Journal that DNA repair capacity (DRC) may modify the risk of melanoma in the presence of other strong risk factors, i.e., low tanning ability and/or presence of dysplastic nevi. This study provides the first report that low DRC may be associated with an increased risk for melanoma. Intriguingly, in this study, low DRC does not appear to be a risk factor for melanoma in the absence of other strong risk factors. However, it is established that deficiency in DNA repair mechanisms or higher mutagen sensitivity, as assessed by the induction of chromatid breaks, may play an important role in the development of melanoma (2,3). The absence of association between DRC and melanoma risk observed in the study by Landi et al. may be caused by a lack of sensitivity in the host cell reactivation assay. This assay measures DRC in lymphocytes that have not been exposed to the genotoxic stimulus (UV radiation). Indeed, UV-induced DNA


ABSTRACT: The process of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is slowly replacing traditional design methods. The use of BIM has been documented to produce many benefits, both on and off- -site. BIM authoring tools create the building model, and this can be further analyzed by downstream applications. Currently, one of the main data transfer schemas, the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), contains a domain describing structural analysis, but lacks one describing energy concepts. This paper proposes a methodology for a software independent energy analysis extension. It will be implemented via a system called PassivBIM, which supports the design of Passive Houses using BIM-based models. This implementation supports the design decision making process at both the initial and later stages without having to use methods such as optimization. It also provides an opportunity to design more robust buildings as alternative building elements and climates can be used without the need for multiple building models.


In the context of building a harmonious society,culture,in its broad sense,should be divided into ecological culture and non-ecological culture.Ecological culture finds its expression in non-ecological culture,while non-ecological culture reflects the merits and demerits of the eco-cultural status of a country,a region or a nation.Due importance have to be attached to ecological culture in bid to enhance productivity.


The confocal scanning microscope is a coherent system with significantly improved imaging characteristics. The effective pupil function of such an instrument is a composite one, formed by the convolution of the pupil functions associated with the illuminating and imaging optical systems. Because of this additional degree of freedom, the transfer function of the system can be modified with comparative ease. Confocal imaging will be analysed within a very simple but quantitative physical model. Also, the effect of various pupil combinations on the imaging properties of such systems will be presented with special emphasis on the use of superresolving pupils.


: We present a method to reconstruct quad only meshes from volume data which mainly consists of two steps: reconstruction of a quad only mesh and topological simplification to reduce the number of irregular vertices. A novel algorithm is described that computes Dual Marching Cubes (DMC) meshes without using lookup tables. The meshes are topologically consistent across cell borders, i.e. they are watertight. The output of the algorithm is a quad only mesh stored in a halfedge data structure. Due to the transitions between voxel layers in volume data, meshes have numerous quad elements with vertices of valence 3 − X − 3 − Y , where X , Y ≥ 5, and 3 − 3 − 3 − 3. Hence, we simplify the mesh by eliminating these elements wherever possible. Finally, we briefly describe a CUDA implementation of the algorithms, which allows processing huge amounts of data on GPU at almost interactive time rates.


Data clustering and community detection in networks are two important tasks in machine learning which aim to group the data into similar objects or densely connected sub-graphs. However, applying an appropriate similarity measure to obtain the highest accuracy is always a challenge. Furthermore, in some realworld applications, some background knowledge and information exists about the true or desired assignments or properties of clusters and communities. The side-information could be obtained by experiments, domain knowledge or user preferences in different applications. Some constraints may also be imposed on the system due to the natural complexity of the problem or resource limitations. Community detection (clustering) in the presence of side-information represented as supervision constraints is called semi-supervised community detection (clustering). However, finding efficient approaches to take the most advantage of this pre-existing information to improve quality of the solutions is still a challenge. In this thesis, we study community detection and clustering problems with and without incorporating domain knowledge for which we propose a similarity measure and exact and approximate optimization techniques to improve the accuracy of the results. In this thesis, we address limitations of a popular community detection measure called modularity and propose an improved measure called generalized modularity which quantifies similarity of network vertices more realistically and comprehensively by incorporating vertex similarity concepts. The proposed generalized modularity outperforms the state of the art modularity optimization approach in community detection. In addition, to incorporate background knowledge and user preferences into


In this paper we define the formal and tempered Deligne cohomology groups, that are obtained by applying the Deligne complex functor to the complexes of formal differential forms and tempered currents respectively. We then prove the existence of a duality between them, a vanishing theorem for the former and a semipurity property for the latter. The motivation of these results comes from the study of covariant arithmetic Chow groups. The semi-purity property of tempered Deligne cohomology implies, in particular, that several definitions of covariant arithmetic Chow groups agree for projective arithmetic varieties.


Objective:99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid(DMSA) scan is considered to be the most sensitive examination for detection of renal scars. However, because of its high radiation exposure to the kidney and its limited usefulness for patients with low grade vesicoureteral reflux(VUR), some authors have suggested that DMSA scans should be reserved primarily for children with VUR grade 3 and above. The aim of this study was to reevaluate the necessity of DMSA scans as a screening test in infants without reflux or with low grade reflux. Methods:In this retrospective study, 189 infants(mean age:6.2 months) diagnosed as UTI were enrolled. Voiding cystourethrogram(VCUG), DMSA scan and renal ultrasonography were performed within 1 month of UTI. VUR grade was classified into three subgroups; low grade(grade 1-2), moderate grade(grade 3), and high grade(grade 4-5), respectively. Results:Renal defects were present in 67 of 189 infants, and 82 of the 378 renal units. The incidence of renal defects was significantly correlated with VUR grade(P


A fast tag anti-collision algorithm named Fast Query Tree (FQT) is presented. FQT is an improved technique based on query tree algorithm, the novelty of FQT is that it use a counter and a pointer in each tag for tag transmission arbitration, owing to the counter and pointer, which on the other hand remembered the reader's query history, reader just needs to transmit the last bit of the current prefix. The simulated results show that FQT can achieve a better performance than other conventional tree-based algorithms in terms of communication overhead, identification delay and speed.


The enterprises in critical condition and self organization have the properties of self organization, strong robust, being adaptive and prompt to the initializing conditions. In this paper, the following problems have been discussed, which were the characteristic of enterprise self organization and critical condition, the conditions of making choice of critical competition strategy, some principles and steps. One model that a steady strategy was achieved through changing the critical structure in the uncertain environment has been put forward, which includes critical disordered balance, time balance, and strategy innovation dancing balance. It has important guidance meaning for the enterprises that build competition advantage through innovation.


Abstract Two non-linear control structures are considered for position control of an electrohydraulic actuator. The first control structure is derived from a direct near input-output (IO) linearization of the actuator model with position as output. The second control structure is a cascade of a near IO linearizing pressure force controller as an inner loop to a feedback plus feedforward outer-loop position controller. In the present paper, it is shown that the two control structures are theoretically equivalent. Then, it is highlighted that the equivalence can be exploited to extract a simple and intuitive tuning procedure for selecting the gains of one control structure from the gains of the other structure. This result is particularly useful for tuning the near IO linearizing position controller as the interpretation of its gains is obscured by the non-linear state transformation of the feedback linearization. Some numerical simulation and experimental results are included to demonstrate the identified tuning procedure.


The design of high performance instruments often involves the attenuation of poorly damped resonant modes. Current design methods typically rely on informed trial and error based modifications to improve dynamic performance. In this contribution, we present a multi-material topology optimization as an alternative, systematic methodology to design structures with optimized damping characteristics. A parametric, level set-based topology optimization is employed to simultaneously distribute structural and viscoelastic material to optimize the structure's damping characteristics. To model the viscoelastic behavior a complex-valued material modulus is applied. The structural loss factor is determined from the complex-valued eigensolutions and its value is maximized during the optimization. We demonstrate the performance of the optimization by maximizing the damping of a cantilever beam.


This research is to develop a theoritical model about performance and to do an empirical test to know the influence of soft TeM toward performance with Hard TpM as moderating by empiricar test in medium hotit iemice companv in Purwokerto. The research subject is CEo. The research population is I is ielati hotel service companies in Purwokerto. The research simpte is 90 melati hotel service companies determined by spss for windows with Moderating Regresion Alnlysis. The conclution of the research are: soft TeM ( incrudes"Leaiership, Customer focus, People Management) and Hard fgU ior" a positive influence'in improving the performance of the comryny so the management if hotel semice needs to cowider policies related.to soft and hard reM. Hird reM-moderate the sofi TQM.on the performance of the company so that the management needs to considers policies related to the hard TeM effort that can be -done to support prorin tymagement: planning, and information system. The implication of thi resea)ch are: rhis- ltud/ theoritically based and suppotrt the Marcorm Batdrigi moder of the sift and \r! TQM and company. perform:ance. Specifically the reiult of this'researih !?.h"tp to^the hospitality lustytess n always ao qiAity repairs"with. iOM. Limitation of this study include: the number of co*poii", involied in this reseaih is still considered small. Researchers use only the perception of corporate readers in answ ering t he que st io nair e


--Mammographic density provides significant amount of information about breast cancer risk. Therefore, automated appraisal of mammographic density could help the radiologist to assess the risk of developing breast cancer. This paper presents fully automated breast tissue characterization methodology for mammograms, which consists of three phases: i) preprocessing ii) feature extraction and iii) classification. To remove the high frequency artifact such as labels and wedges, Otsu's global thresholding method and connected component labeling is employed. This paper incorporates a new straight line method proposed by us in our earlier work to remove the pectoral muscle from the breast area which is our region of interest. Haralick's texture descriptors and Zernike moment descriptors are extracted from the region of interest. SVM and BPNN classifiers are used to classify the extracted features into one of the three breast parenchyma classes viz., dense, glandular and fatty tissue. The work reported an accuracy of 95.83%.


A study was made of the divergence and spectral composition of the radiation from an electrical-discharge XeCl laser with nondispersive and dispersive resonators. It was found for the first time that the spectrum of the XeCl laser could be narrowed substantially by simply reducing the lasing level in the nondispersive resonator. Inhomogeneity of the discharge in a direction perpendicular to the current exerted an influence on the laser divergence. Lasing with a line width of 0.1 cm−1 and a divergence close to the diffraction-limited value was achieved.


With a steep recession in full swing, it's French-bashing time again on the editorial pages and in the business sections of American newspapers. As the Obama administration frantically weighed policy options, pundits agonized over the prospect of the U.S. government's taking stakes in banks, and automakers contemplated France with a mix of horror and resignation. When, last February, the Washington Post dared a tentative endorsement of government takeovers, it did so apologetically, reassuring its readers that it shared their distaste for Gallic planning: "We can understand why talk of bank nationalization freaks out the stock market: The very notion is so, well, French." The New York Times's economics columnist David Leonhardt called for temporary nationalizations, but he took pains to distinguish them from the nefarious takeovers inflicted by leftist ideologues.


This paper sought to explore why Kenya television airs Nollywood movies. The study adopted a qualitative research method. It targeted Citizen and Kiss Televisions' production managers, focus groups and Nigerian Movie fans. The households were selected randomly. The research consulted documentary sources on Nigerian movies in Kenya. This included gathering information from the internet, Newspapers and research was done by Synovate on Nigerian movie audiences. The obtained data were analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean, mode, percentages, and frequencies. The study concludes that given Nollywood's great influence over African culture, such an effect is reinforced by the massive consumption of Nigerian movies by Kenyans and Africa as a whole. Many Nigerian video films are filled with religious overtones; therefore, many Africans see most Nigerian movies. These films portray values rooted in their countries of origin. Nigerian video films, as a representation of Nigerian culture, greatly influence an entire population of Africans due to similar cultural practices. The study recommends that Nigerian moviemakers emphasise African culture's positive sides in their movies. This should be inclusive of marriage ceremonies, the bride prize, family dissolutions, the place of girl/boy child in the African context, African foods and so on. On the other hand, filmmakers should have fewer films on barbaric themes like witchcraft, human sacrifice, and blood thirst vampires. These kinds of movies portray Africa in a Negative way.


A key parameter that controls the formation of a local galvanic element during the deadhesion of paint from base metals is the potential gradient between a defect in the paint and the intact metal oxide/polymer interface. The suitable development of zinc coatings allows for control of the potential at the intact interface and thus improvement of the delamination behavior. However, no systematic in-depth study on the origin and meaning of electrode potentials at polymer/metal interfaces or even bare metal surfaces has been presented yet, although in many recent publications Volta potential differences between inclusions and matrix measured on the surfaces of alloys are often interpreted as providing information on the galvanic activity during corrosion. It is the focus of this paper to present a detailed analysis of the origin of the potentials measured on the different materials and to point out what conclusion can be drawn from their values. Special focus is given to the technologically important system Zn-Mg.


Objective
To investigate the changes in physique and the bone age, and the correlation between the changes in cardiac structure and function and the bone age index (BAI) in atrial septal defect (ASD) children.

Methods
The experimental group included 48 cases of ASD patients, and 30 cases of healthy children were assigned as the control group; the children of both groups were measured for height and weight.Philips ie33 ultrasonic detector was used to detect the indicators of cardiac structure and function, and Philips digital X-ray machine was used to radiograph the left hand and the wrist.Then the bone age was assessed in order to calculate the BAI.Fourteen cases of ASD patients who underwent repairing surgery were measured for orifice area in surgery.The differences in physique and the bone age between the 2 groups were analyzed, and Pearson correlation analysis method was used to observe the correlation between the cardiac structure and function indicators, defect area and BAI in the experimental group.

Results
There was no significant difference in the age, height, bone age(t=-0.02, -1.31, -1.69, all P>0.05), while the weight and BAI were significantly different between the 2 groups(t=-2.28, -9.06, all P 0.05). The height and BAI were significantly different in patients with different defect size(t=2.561, 2.191, all P 0.05). The defect size, defect size/atrial septal stretched diameter, PASP were all negatively correlated with BAI(r=-0.349, P<0.05; r=-0.412, P<0.01; r=-0.539, P<0.01). The defect area was positively related to the defect size in 14 cases of children with ASD underwent surgery(r=0.599, P<0.05), and the defect area was negatively correlated with BAI(r=-0.655, P<0.05).

Conclusions
The physical development in ASD patients evidently lagged behind the healthy children, particularly for weight.The BAI of ASD patients is significantly smaller than that of the healthy children, in other words, the growing speed of bone in ASD patients is significantly slower than that of the healthy children at the same age.The lagging extent of physical development and the bone age are related to the PASP and defect size.PASP has more influence on the height, yet the defect size has influence on height and weight of ASD children.There is no correlation between physical development and the bone age with the course of disease.

Key words:
Congenital atrial septal defect; Pulmonary hypertension; Defect size; Growth and development; Bone age index


www.chestpubs.org CHEST / 140 / 6 / DECEMBER, 2011 1511 A oral appliance (OA) is a device that fi ts within the oral cavity and prevents upper airway collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). A recent American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) guideline concluded that OAs are less effective than continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) but are a reasonable alternative for patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in specifi c situations. 1,2 For patients with severe OSA, a trial of CPAP is required prior to their use, and Background: We sought to establish the effi cacy of an adjustable oral appliance (aOA) in the largest patient population studied to date, to our knowledge, and to provide a comparison with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients using an aOA. Results of overnight polysomnography with aOA titration were evaluated and compared with CPAP. Predictors of a successful aOA titration were determined using a multivariate logistic regression model. Results: A total of 497 patients were given an aOA during the specifi ed time period. The aOA reduced the mean apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) to 8.4  11.4, and 70.3%, 47.6%, and 41.4% of patients with mild, moderate, and severe disease achieved an AHI , 5, respectively. Patients using an aOA decreased their mean Epworth Sleepiness Score by 2.71 (95% CI, 2.3-3.2; P , .001) at follow-up. CPAP improved the AHI by 2 3.43 (95% CI, 1.88-4.99; P , .001) when compared with an aOA, but when adjusted for severity of disease, this difference only reached signifi cance for patients with severe disease ( 2 5.88 [95% CI, 2 8.95 to 2 2.82; P , .001]). However, 70.1% of all patients achieved an AHI , 5 using CPAP compared with 51.6% for the aOA ( P , .001). On multivariate analysis, baseline AHI was a signifi cant predictor of achieving an AHI , 5 on aOA titration, and age showed a trend toward signifi cance. Conclusions: In comparison with past reports, more patients in our study achieved an AHI , 5 using an aOA. The aOA is comparable to CPAP for patients with mild disease, whereas CPAP is superior for patients with moderate to severe disease. A lower AHI was the only predictor of a successful aOA titration. CHEST 2011; 140(6):1511–1516


The present invention discloses a perceptual weighing filtering method. The method mainly comprises treating the input voice or audio signals through spectrum inclined filtering, processing the output voice or audio signals treated through perceptual weighing filtering, selecting the corresponding weighing factor value according to the spectral flatness of the input signals, and outputting the voice or audio signals processed through the traditional perceptual weighing filtering. Moreover, part of the coefficients of the transmission function acquired in the processing of perceptual weighing filtering are directly used as the coefficients of the transmission function acquired in the processing of spectrum inclined filtering. Simultaneously, the present invention also provides a perceptualweighing filter. The perceptual weighing filter can well simulate the formant structure of the frequency spectrum of the input wideband voice or audio signals without additional encoding bit rate andreducing the computation complexity, make full use of he masking effects of human acoustic feelings, and achieve the purposes of improving the encoding efficiency and enhancing the subjective hearingeffects.


The study investigated the relationship between Value Diversity, Social Networks, Information based and Identification based Trust, Emotional Exhaustion, and knowledge-sharing behavior among academicians.The present study investigated knowledge sharing behavior among academic staff of three public sector universities of Quetta City. The survey technique was used to collect the data. A sample of 221 Respondents was obtained and hypotheses were tested by employing Structural equation modeling technique of data analysis. The findings of the study indicate that value diversity had positive association with emotional exhaustion and social network, information based trust and identification based trust had significant and negative effect on emotional exhaustion. Findings also indicated that emotional exhaustion and knowledge sharing behavior were negatively related with each other.The foremost limitation of present research was its focus on academic staff of universities. This limitation can be controlled by considering knowledge sharing behavior of administrative staff in future research. It was also suggested that Emotional Exhaustion can be used as mediator between interpersonal group characteristics and knowledge sharing behavior.This research offer information on how organizations can upsurge the morale of their academic staff to share knowledge with their group members.


The method of using a coaxial‐to‐waveguide adaptor as a broadband dielectric probe with time‐domain measurements is presented. The reflected pulses at the aperture of the open‐ended waveguide are measured for short circuit and dielectric slab loads. A reflection coefficient frequency response analysis is applied to the pulses for the relative permittivity extraction of the dielectric slab. Dispersion compensation is introduced for error correction. Accuracies of within 10% are achievable for an octave bandwidth.


Synopsis : The roles of microstructures and alloying elements on cavitation. erosion resistanse of stainless steels are examined. The results are summarized as follows ; 1) Cavitation •E erosion resistance of 13Cr martensitic stainless steel depends on metal hardness and has only little dependency to chemical composition. 2) The resistance of austenitic 18Cr-8Ni steels and similar steels depends on their chemical compositions and the erosion weight loss is determined by the hardness of the surface layer where strain induced martensitic transformation occurs due to the cavitation impact. 3) Cavitation•erosion resistance of austenitic high C-18Cr-6Co stainless steels is most excellent for wide range of Ni equivalent. This reason should be attributed especially to martensitic transformation characteristics related to alloying elements of Co and C.


Low birthweight was originally defined as 2,500 g or below, but more recently it has been revised to less than 2,500 g. It is a simple definition requiring only an accurate measurement of weight. It does not infer that all light babies will require special care but, like all babies whatever their weight, special attention will be necessary to provide adequate warmth, food, and love—and if they come to medical attention— to prevent cross-infection from one baby to another. It is of course also necessary to characterize the baby's weight in relation to other features as well, particularly his gestational age, and then to compare this with some external reference data (or standard) of weight for gestational age. There are varied and strongly held views on whether local or international reference data should be used and whether they should be based on the total or on only a selected "normal healthy" population; we have discussed this in detail previously (1). Even after these allowances other adjustments must be made: Some intrinsic biological law results in boys being heavier than girls (this is intriguing in its own right, but it would be unreasonable to expect girls on average to be as heavy as boys); first born children are lighter than subsequent births wherever birthweight has been studied; and so on. There is probably no end to the adjustments and allowances one can make. Crude as it is, therefore, "birthweight," lone and unadorned, summarizes an amalgam of biological and pathological factors which have affected the child's growth. In this chapter I have drawn on published work from many developing countries, and for those who wish to pursue particular points in further detail, I have tried to give at least a passing reference to many of the papers concerned with the causes of low birthweight in developing countries which have been published in English since 1983. Rather than give a mere literature review, however, I have also drawn on our own experience at Sorrento Maternity Hospital in Birmingham, England, which has for many years looked after many mothers and their babies from the Indian subcontinent, particularly from Pakistan. A number of recent papers have also drawn lessons from ethnic differences in birthweight (2-10). Elsewhere in this volume, Canosa describes the problems as actually seen in India and Bangladesh.


Social media are a new phenomenon attracting the interest of researchers from different fields–marketing experts, sociologists, anthropologists, even philosophers and semioticians. The problems related to them vary and many remain unanswered. The current paper analyzes the level of social media habituation, taking Charles Peirce`s evolutionary cosmology, and more specifically the concept of effete mind, as its milestones. Other important studies considered here are from the fields of anthropology and media studies.
Communication and the transfer of information have always been vital for living creatures, not only humans but animals, plants and even microorganisms. During the centuries of our existence and evolution we have developed complicated sign systems to satisfy the need for knowledge transfer among the members of our social groups. In the digital era many questions about the new forms of communication arise. Here I will analyze one of them: are these new media something totally new or do they follow some kind of universal tendency and predisposition? To answer this question I will consider Charles Peirce`s ideas of habit and habit-taking tendency, his concepts of living and effete mind, together with the studies of Robin Dunbar and Tom Standage.
In his book Writing on the wall. Social media–the first 2, 000 years (2013) Standage examines the question of writing on the walls as one of the oldest methods of communication and knowledge transfer. It dates back to the age of cavemen, long before any of societyЎЇs modern tools were even considered possible. Over the centuries these methods evolved and became more sophisticated but it kept their essence and main function–to transfer information for the well-being of the group and its members. Centuries ago at the dawn of human kind, the necessity of survival shaped our predisposition for communication. Since then, the tools have changed but the necessity and the reasons for it remain the same. As such, the current state of well-developed digital social media could be considered a manifestation of the Peircean concept of habit-taking tendency, combined with human natural need of communication and information sharing stated by Standage and also by the evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar.


Modified polyurethane composite reinforced by fiber was prepared by pultrusion process,and the performances of mechanic properties,chemical resistance and heat humidity-aging resistance for the composite are tested along with the density and resin content.The fiber reinforcing polyurethane composite will be a potential material used in hydropower for their outstanding advantages on mechanic and chemical resistance properties.


JamesCarson, a Scot, graduated fromEdinburgh in1799. Hesettled inLiverpool where hebecame a successful andrespected physician andwherehealsofoundtimetopursuea longstanding interest inphysiology andtoconduct certain important experiments. Heread a series of'papers on these experiments andtheir import before theLiterary andPhilosophical Society of Liverpool ofwhichthetwomostimportant wereOntheelasticity ofthelungs andOnlesions ofthe lungs. Inthefirst heclarified themechanics ofrespiration while inthesecond hesuggested that this knowledge mightbeemployed toproduce temporary collapse ofthelung as a therapeutic measure.Twoattempts ata clinical trial were defeated bywidespread pleural adhesions butthe first recorded attempts atartificial pneuinothorax hadbeenmade.George Bodington, a Warwick- shire man,after serving asurgical apprenticeship studied atStBartholomew's Hospital andobtained thelicence oftheSociety ofApothecaties in1825. Helater practised nearSutton Coldfield where hewas knownasan acuteobserver anda thoughtful andfluent speaker. In1840hepublished an essayOnthetreatment andcureofpulmonary consumption inwhichheroundly condemned the currenttherapy andadvocated instead fresh airinabundance, gentle exercise intheopen, an adequate andvaried diet, anda minimumofmedicaments. Violently attacked bythereviewers he becamediscouraged abouttuberculosis anddevoted theremainder ofhisprofessional life tothe careofthementally ill. Itmayappear afutile pastime, suitable only for thereminiscent ortheretired, towriteabout tuberculosis anditsassociation withmen and eventsdating backto theearlynineteenth century, now thatwe haveachieved ourheart's desire withtheintroduction into routine practice ofeffective antituberculosis chemotherapy. To thepresent generation ofphysicians collapse therapy andsanatorium treatment lieburied in the- vaults ofhistory. Yet,until 1950,these two m,easures constituted thefirst lineofattack against pulmonarytuberculosis, contributing mightily to thereduction of theappalling mortality whichhadpreviously accompanied that disease. BrehmerandDettweiler arethenames generally associated withthebeginning ofsana- torium treatment while Forlanini andMurphyare credited withtheoriginal workon artificial pneumothorax. Germany,Italy, andtheUnited Statesarethusrepresented amongthegreat innovators leaving, forgotten andunsung, two Britons whopreceded them,twomen wholike


Phase diagrams involving solid solutions are calculated by solving sets of non‐linear equations. In calculating P–T  projections and compatibility diagrams, the equations used for each equilibrium are the equilibrium relationships for an independent set of reactions between the end‐members of the phases in the equilibrium. Invariant points and univariant lines in P–T  projections can be calculated directly, as can coordinates in compatibility diagrams. In calculating P–T  and T–x/P–x pseudosections – diagrams drawn for particular bulk compositions – the equilibrium relationship equations are augmented by mass balance equations. Lines in pseudosections, where the mode of one phase in the lower variance equilibrium is zero, and points, where the modes of two phases are zero, can then be calculated directly. The software, THERMOCALC, allows the calculation of these and a range of other types of phase diagram. Examples of phase diagrams and phase diagram movies, with instructions for their production, along with the THERMOCALC input and output files, and the MathematicaTM functions for assembling them, are presented in this paper, partly in hard copy and partly on the JMG web sites (http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/jmg/jmg.html, or equivalent Australian or USA sites).


Field studies were conducted during the summer of 1987 to characterize the levels of {sup 125}Sb and {sup 137}Cs releases and the distribution of the two radionuclides in vegetation and soil at distances of 0.45 and 0.75 km from a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant stack. Samples were collected of sagebrush, wheatgrass, and rabbitbrush and their leaves, stems, roots, and litter were separated. Vegetation samples were dried at 70{degree}C for 48 hours, ground, and concentrations of {sup 125}Sb and {sup 137}Cs were determined by gamma spectrometry. Soil samples were collected from the surface to a depth of 18 cm (at 3 cm increments), dried at 45{degree}C, and the concentrations of {sup 125}Sb and {sup 137}Cs measured in the same manner as for vegetation samples. Results showed that the activity of {sup 125}Sb was higher in the leaves than in the stem and roots. Total activity of {sup 125}Sb (1041.77 Bq m{sup {minus}2}) was distributed as 33.4% in vegetation and 66.6% in soil. Deposition of airborne {sup 125}Sb measured through absorption by transplanted vegetation was about one Bq m{sup {minus}2} day{sup {minus}1}. The resuspension rate of {sup 125}Sb from vegetation determined by an air-flux chamber positioned over sagebrush plants was less thanmore » 61 x 10{sup {minus}11} sec{sup {minus}1}. Cesium-137 concentrations were lower in the leaves than in the stems and roots indicating slow movement through plant tissues.« less


This paper proposes the D-optimal design for the additive mixture model with two-response, which is linear model with no interaction terms. The optimality was validated by using the general equivalence theorem, and the corresponding weights are found under which additive model satisfies D-optimality. In addition, relevant statistics and graphics are given to illustrate our results.


Regis Debray

_Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms_

Translated by Eric Rauth

New York: Verso, 1996

ISBN 1-85984-972-5 (hb)

ISBN 1-85984-087-6 (pbk)

179 pp.


The problem of accelerating the convergence of nodal S/sub n/ calculations has received increased attention recently due to the difficulty in applying standard diffusion-synthetic acceleration (DSA) methods. The idea of using a low-order S/sub n/ operator to synthetically accelerate a high-order S/sub n/ calculation has been considered previously but without success. Through Fourier analysis, Gelbard determined that the spectral radius of an S/sub 2/ synthetic acceleration scheme would be c/(2-c) (c = scattering ratio) in X-Y geometry. Thus the acceleration would disappear as c approaches unity. Larsen later verified these results and showed that if two S/sub n/ sweeps are performed, a spectral radius of 0.153c would be obtained. The subject of this paper is a new synthetic scheme that uses an S/sub 2/ low-order operator and requires only one S/sub n/ sweep. It has been developed from the formalism proposed by Adams and Martin in which discretized S/sub n/ equations are projected to a coarse angular grid. This projection, which produces an S/sub 2/ operator that depends on the S/sub n/ quadrature that is to be accelerated, is the fundamental difference between this scheme and those tested previously.


Current feedback operational amplifiers: a tutorial In a didactic approach, the amplifying properties of an inverter stage using a current feedback operational amplifier (COA) and one using a voltage feedback operational amplifier (VOA) are compared. Then, following a discussion of COA modelling, the frequency and transient responses of a COA non-inverter stage are analysed.


The relationship between interpersonal developmental trauma and adolescent suicidality (suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts) was examined in a cross sectional survey of 720 adolescents attending a secondary school in Durban, South Africa. After controlling for the effects of demographic and family background variables, domestic forms of physical abuse and neglect emerged as the only forms of child maltreatment which accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in adolescent suicidal ideation; with domestic neglect emerging as the only form of child maltreatment which accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in non-fatal suicidal behaviour. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for future research.


Herein, a straightforward synthesis approach for the formation of anisotropic microswimmers is proposed as an alternative to a top–down fabrication for asymmetric artificial swimmers. Melamine barbiturate (MBA)–self‐assembled supramolecular crystals are utilized as an asymmetric matrix for selective chemical platinum deposition. Surface functional groups of prevalent crystallographic planes for platinum sorption are presented by acidic sites of the assembly. The formed platinum catalytic layer is separated from the bulk MBA and investigated using X‐Ray photoelectron spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope energy‐dispersive X‐Ray spectroscopy analysis. Both methods confirm platinum adsorption and reduction of platinum ions during the deposition process. The MBA asymmetric swimmers show directional motion in a fuel environment, proved by the mean‐squared displacement study. Previously reported pH‐dependency and encapsulation capacity of MBA opens wide opportunities for functional materials formation.


The aims were to assess longitudinally 1) the role of asthma as a potential selection factor for smoking initiation and 2) the role of smoking as a potential risk factor for asthma incidence in relatives of asthmatics. The analyses were conducted in the EGEA study, a 12−year follow−up of asthmatic cases, their first degree relatives and controls (n=1848). The first question was addressed in 511 non smoker children at inclusion (258 asthmatics, 253 non asthmatics). The second question was addressed in 496 adult relatives of cases, non asthmatic at inclusion. Survival analyses (Cox model) were conducted with adjustment on confounders (age, sex, ETS, father educational level, centre for question 1, and sex, age, educational level, atopy, rhinitis for question 2) and stratification for age. Children with asthma at inclusion started smoking as often as non asthmatic children (45.4% vs 48.6% respectively, RR[IC 95%] = 1.0 [0.7;1.3]). Among adult relatives of cases, 37 had incident asthma at follow−up (7.5%). Both smoking at inclusion (non smoker n=242, ex−smoker n=124, smoker n=130) and a time dependant smoking variable were used (never (n=341), beginner (n=22), persistent (n=74), former (n=55)). Smoking at inclusion did not affect asthma incidence (RR for smokers and ex−smokers compared to non smokers were 1.8 [0.8;3.9] and 0.7 [0.3;2.1] respectively). However, compared to never smokers, the risk for asthma incidence was increased in beginner and persistent smokers (RR=3.2 [1.0;10.1] and 2.5 [1.0;5.9]). Asthmatics started smoking as often as non asthmatics. This analysis indicates that smoking may be a risk factor for asthma incidence in first degree relatives of asthmatics, a potentially more sensitive population.


This invention relates to a combined circulating device of absorption cycle and organic cycle, which belongs to energy mechanical engineering field. The device comprises a smoke gas pipe, cylinder liner cooling pipe, lithium brominate absorptive-type refrigerating circulation loop and organic circulation loop, wherein the organic circulation loop comprises the second evaporator, a turbine, the second chiller and a circulating pump; the gas pipe is connected with the high-voltage generator and the second evaporator, and the outlet of the second evaporator is connected with the inlet of the turbine, while the outlet of the turbine is connected with the inlet of the second chiller, and the outlet of the second chiller is connected with the inlet of the circulating pump; the outlet of the circulating pump is connected with the inlet of the second evaporator; the lithium brominate absorptive-type refrigerating circulation loop is connected with the organic circulation loop through the gas pipe, and the cylinder liner cooling pipe is connected with the low voltage generator. The organic circulation loop of said invention can use the hot source to generate, and recover the waste gas discharged by the gas engine set.


This study analyzes effects of international investment on poverty reduction in China by testing a growth model with provincial data. Economic growth is the single most important factor influencing poverty reduction. Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) seems central to achieving that goal because it is a key ingredient for successful growth in China. FDI might reduce poverty through promoting economic growth and diffusing growth widely. Results of cross-section and panel estimates suggest that FDI is indeed an important source of China's economic growth and therefore a powerful force for poverty reduction. The more poverty could be reduced through government-led programs and polices that improve poor provinces' investment environments the more FDI is attracted.


Abstract This article examines the notion of post-industrial self-sufficiency in 1970s Australia. Against a backdrop of more than 20 years of economic prosperity from which the majority of Australians had benefited, an increasingly dissatisfied minority voluntarily chose to 'opt out' of mainstream society. Despite their material affluence, those who were drawn to self-sufficiency did not feel free under the constraints of consumer capitalism. Their solution would be to reunite the dual spheres of production and consumption to regain control over their lives by providing for as many of their needs as possible themselves. Thus, to understand the complexities of the movement (and the failings of the consumerist ideal), this article contends that one needs to view post-industrial self-sufficiency as much as a product of post-war consumer capitalism as a reaction against it.


Experiments are an indispensable link of the course system designed to develop students' innovation or creativity,and there is a growing demand in society for innovative information management profession with manifold talents.In view of the objective and requirement of our university's information management major,a series of reform and trial studies have been conducted in order to cultivate qualified information management profession.This paper presents measures and approaches aiming at reforming the experiment course system and the innovation-oriented mode adopted for information management majors.


The LPA accuracy is characterized by an error defined as the The analysis produced in the previous chapters concerns some aspects of the accuracy of the LPA operators. It has been proved that, as the sampling interval approaches zero, the discrete estimators can be replaced by corresponding integral ones. Further, it is shown that the kernels of these integral estimators are delta sequences. It immediately follows that, as h→0 , the approximations of the signal as well as those of the derivatives become accurate. Both of these results jointly yield that there is a convergence of the LPA estimates to the true values of the signal and the derivatives. However, all of these results are mainly qualitative. In particular, in terms of the delta sequences, this convergence can be claimed only with respect to the test functions. Remember that the test function is continuous smooth with an infinite number of derivatives.

In this chapter we analyze approximation errors of the LPA for more realistic classes of signals with the main goal of evaluating the order of errors as well as the convergence rate of the estimates. Together with the analysis with respect to the random noise, it gives a complete picture of the accuracy of the LPA estimators.


We report on the magnetic behavior and single‐crystal EPR spectra of the chain complex Mn2(EDTA)⋅9H2O characterized by two different alternating sites for the manganese ions. Magnetic susceptibility data are indicative of weak antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between the manganese ions, showing a maximum of about 3 K. This behavior can be accurately described on the basis of a Heisenberg chain model that assumes classical spins, giving J/k=−0.72 K and g=2.0. The EPR spectra are typically low dimensional, with an angular dependence of the linewidth of the type (3 cos2 θ−1)n (n=4/3 or 2). Nevertheless, such a behavior cannot be reproduced from a one‐dimensional model with dipolar broadening. An alternative broadening mechanism arising from single‐ion zero‐field splitting is then suggested.


The resonance enhanced Goos-Hanchen shifts at attenuated total internal reflection enables the possibility for highly sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor. The observed giant displacements result from the singular phase retardation at the resonance where the phase is continuous but changes dramatically. The phenomenon is proposed for chemical sensing and the superior sensitivity is demonstrated.


Optical fibers are widely used in medicine and biology for routine tasks such as beam delivery and video endoscopy, to more advanced systems such as nonlinear endoscopy and the Microscope-in-a-Needle platform. This talk will review basic principles and survey state-of-the-art applications.


Taking a mixed flow pump with double spiral case for an example,the RNG κ-e turbulent model and the fully-implicit multi-grid coupling algorithm are applied to implement numerical simulation of internal three-dimensional turbulent flow at three operating conditions by using commercial software CFX.It also analyzes the changes of relative velocity and pressure in impeller at three operating points,and reveals the collision and second flow phenomenon in double spiral case under the design operating point.In addition,it discusses some optimized modification methods in order to improve hydraulic performance of impeller.


In the last decades, the growing importance of natural gas (NG) as a power source increased the efforts to develop efficient and safe combustion systems. Promising results were obtained with low-environmental-impact premixed metal fibre burners, due to their thermal efficiency and environmental impact superior performance (remarkable NOx reduction [1]). Coupling radiant-premixed burners with PdOx-based catalysts proved to further improve burners' performance. With such catalysts (attractive for their low cost, thermo-chemical stability at high temperature (900-1100°C) and catalytic activity [1]) the fuel fraction burnt within or just downstream the burner outlet surface is increased, thus maximizing the radiant heat fraction, cooling flame temperature and improving combustion completeness (lower CO and unburnt HC [2]). Since PdOx-based catalysts are prone to be poisoned by S-compounds [2], used as odorants in NG networks, the present work deals with a deep analysis on poisoning mechanisms induced by S-compounds on 2% Pd/CeO2∙2ZrO2 in order to assess catalysts with longer lifetime. The mixed oxide system of CeO2-ZrO2 is very promising in fact, ZrO2 acts as a structural promoter, in that its presence limits the specific surface area losses caused by prolonged exposure to high temperatures [3]; CeO2 is particularly appreciated as promoter for many utilizations in the catalytic combustion with noticeable application as automotive exhausts oxidation catalyst. Ceria shows, in fact, a good capability of changing rapidly its oxidation number from Ce to Ce state, with a consequent fast release of oxygen from its lattice to the close species [4, 5]. The production of ceria nanoparticles by combustion synthesis, is also widely studied since 1990 [6], with a particular attention to obtain high surface area values [7]. The CeO2-ZrO2 production by co-synthesis is seen as a good method that should give a catalytic material with higher thermal stability respect to the simple oxides.


Simple, accurate, sensitive and reliable reverse flow injection analysis (rFIA) technique with chemiluminescence detection was applied for the determination of omeprazole in pharmaceutical products. This rFIA system was based on the inhibition effect of omeprazole on the generated chemiluminescence light from the in situ peroxynitrite (NO2 and H2O2 in acidic medium) and luminol system, when the latter was injected as a reagent. All analytical parameters participated in the determination procedure were evaluated statistically to assess the applications of the methods. Calibration curve was constructed between different omeprazole concentrations (μg/mL) versus the differences in CL-intensity in the form of the peak height (ΔCL = CL1 (Blank) - CL2 (omeprazole)). The calibration curve was linear in concentration range of 3.0-15.0 μg/mL (R2= 0.9987 and DL= 1.30 μg/mL). The method shows good selectivity as no serious effects of interferences were observed. Applications of the present method for the determination of omeprazole in pharmaceutical products were performed and the results show good agreement with that obtained from HPLC technique.


The oeuvre of Tanvir Mokammel majorly centres on his conviction that the Indian Partition of 1947 has long-standing ramifications for Bangladesh. While nationalist historiography understandably privileges the Liberation War of 1971 as the arrival of nationhood in Bangladesh, Mokammel persistently argues for the relevance of historical continuities in understanding both the aspirations and ruptures underlying the nation project over the last 50 years. This article analyses his film Chitra Nadir Pare (Quiet Flows the Chitra, 1998) for Mokammel's representation of the complex ways in which the matrices of religion and gender have subversively operated in the intervening decades between 1947 and 1971 to rupture a hitherto syncretic Bengali identity, leading to displacements and statelessness. This re-historicising of the mid-twentieth-century cataclysm and its analysis in the second decade of the twenty-first century prioritise film as an authentic medium of cultural history that bears deep implications in the present time.


Fr. Anthony (Seamus) Watsham, a much revered and distinguished member of the Society, passed away peacefully in Harare on the 17th of January 2019, aged 94. Anthony was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, and grew up in the nearby village of Wendover. He was educated at Xavier Brothers College in Manchester, and went on to study architecture. During World War II, he served in India where his artistic and graphic skills were put to good use, designing 3D briefing models for the Royal Navy and Air Force. Following demobilisation, he became a Jesuit, joining the Society of Jesus in September 1947, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1958. Anthony arrived in South Africa in 1961 to take up an appointment at St Aidan's College in Grahamstown, first as a geography teacher, and later teaching biology. It was here that he met the late Charlo Jacot-Guillamod, Hymenopterist and director of the Albany Museum, who channelled Anthony's interest in insects towards parasitic wasps, and specifically the Chalcidoidea. His keen interest in the group subsequently blossomed, in collaboration with several parasitic wasp taxonomists from around the world, including the late Dave Annecke and myself (G.L.P.) at the National Collection of Insects in Pretoria, the late Zdenek Boucek of the Natural History Museum in London, who is regarded as the father of modern Chalcidology, and several other specialists from institutions as far afield as the U.S.A. and Canada. In 1967, Anthony moved to St. Ignatius College in the rural surroundings of Chisawasha near Harare in Zimbabwe, where he taught biology and served as Rector from 1989 until 1992. During his 28 years as a biology teacher at the College, he inspired and mentored numerous students, many of whom are currently successful professionals around the world. He was assigned chaplain of the Precious Blood Sisters' Novitiate in Macheke, a small village in the east of the country. Here, he not only served as a devoted chaplain, but continued with his art and research in entomology. In 2014, he was reassigned to the St. Ignatius College community, where he was based until the time of his death. Anthony's greatest contribution to the documentation of southern Africa's parasitic wasp fauna is undoubtedly the thousands of invaluable, meticulously mounted specimens which he enthusiastically and methodically collected over his years in the African bush, once embarking on an extended solitary road trip through the length and breadth of South Africa and Namibia, in search of his beloved wasps. With emphasis on the superfamilies Chalcidoidea, Platygastroidea and related groups, the bulk of his specimens is housed in the National Collection of Insects in Pretoria and the Natural History Museum in London. Renowned for their richness in rare and undescribed taxa, these collections have become highly prized and indispensable to taxonomists from across the globe involved in the study of the Afrotropical


Optical waveguide spectrometry with non-contact conditions was performed with the aim of widening the choice of substrate material. The visible absorption spectrum of cytochrome c (cyt.c) adsorbed on a quartz glass or gold surface was detected with the evanescent wave from a co-faced waveguide. A clear correlation was observed between absorbance of cyt.c and the gap between the waveguide surface and the protein.


This paper presents the results of a research project called IRCAD, which aimed at developing a global system to warn drivers in real time, when their behaviour is not adapted to infrastructure characteristics. The warning system is based on the comparison between the speed of a vehicle before a curve and a safety speed. This safety speed is defined as the maximum speed value before crash all along the curve (safety speed profile). These thresholds values of speed are calculated in real time depending both on constant parameters like infrastructure geometry (radius of curvature, cross and longitudinal slopes) and changing parameters like skid resistance, which is evolving with the weather conditions (wind, rain). This study is divided into three parts. In a first step, a water-depth model was developed to predict the water film thickness in the curve taking into account the road geometry and the rainfall intensity. On a second step, the skid resistance decrease due to the water film is evaluated. Then, the maximum speed is calculated by considering these corrected friction values. In a third step, experimentation is realized on two sites located on French secondary roads. To conclude, this system is proved to be very efficient and useful considering the fact that the models use data easy to obtain for road managers and that the warning sign only starts when the situation presents a real risk.


The year 2006 will be the last of my term of office (8 years) as Editor-in-Chief of the official journal of the ISTH. My successor, not yet designated at the time of writing this Editorial, will take over the responsibility starting with the January 2007 issue. Needless to say, the climax of 2005 was the knowledge of the 2004 impact factor (IF), the first for JTH. Obviously, we must strive to improve and to try to approach the IF of our true competitor in the field, i.e. Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) that achieved the excellent IF of 6.6 in 2004. ATVB has the asset of also featuring lipids and atherosclerosis, and is stronger than us in vascular biology, whereas we are stronger in thrombosis (i.e. at least, my obviously biased opinion). As a result of the impending IF, the number of articles submitted to JTH has increased in 2004, reaching the highest number in the history of ISTH official journals (975). The number of submissions is further increasing in 2005. I predict that they will go beyond 1000 (I am writing this Editorial at the beginning of October). The fact that I must write in the early fall, an Editorial that will be published in January emphasizes the current weakness of JTH; the long-time elapsing between final acceptance of a manuscript and its publication. Together with the Managing Editor, Silvia Malosio, I have been working incessantly to cope with this problem with the publisher. Since 2004, JTH launched two awards totaling 24 000 Euros (approximately 28 000 US dollars): the Best Article Award for the six best articles published in JTH by young investigators, and the Best Picture Award for the best six color images published in the year. The 2005 prize winners, chosen by a jury made up of the Associate Editors and a few Editorial Board Members, are announced in this issue of JTH and will receive their prizes at a special ceremony to be held at the ISTH SSC meeting, in Oslo, Norway, on 28th June to 1st July 2006. The best pictures of 2005 and of the past years can be seen in the image gallery at http://www.journalth.com. The prizes were made available by ZLB Behring and Bayer through unrestricted educational grants and the two corporations have agreed to continue sponsoring the awards in 2006. The age for the best article prize has been set to 35 years of age. In 2005, we have also published two compilations of JTH articles that have been distributed at two scientific meetings. The compilation onWomen's Health Issue was distributed free of charge at the Budapest Symposium in February 2005, thanks to an unrestricted educational grant provided by the Congress Chairman Benjamin Brenner. The compilation on the published articles on cancer and thrombosis has been distributed at the Bergamo Symposium in October 2005, thanks to the grant provided by Anna Falanga. We intend to continue with these compilations in other areas of interest, namely Thrombosis in cardiology, in orthopedics, as well as in other sub-specialties where JTH can expand its readership and promote submissions, i.e. neurology, hepatology, nephrology and others. The International Society of Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis (ISFP) has joined the ISTH, taking JTH as its official journal and asking to be represented by the Associate Editor Robert Medcalf, who is responsible for decisions on all the papers submitted to JTH under the category fibrinolysis. The ISFP has agreed with ISTH to publish their abstracts as a supplement of JTH in 2006. The Milan Editorial Office has further expanded the capabilities of the editors website http://www.journalth.com, enabling us to post early early editions of accepted manuscripts, i.e. within only a couple of days from acceptance. This additional service, developed by the Managing Editor, allows for a superior search and links within the website and further within the broader PubMed, Crosslink and ScholarGoogle engines. This enables, among other things, to trace the quotes to a JTH article after it has been published. As many as 800 individuals have subscribed to the alerts service of JTH. Only 200 among them are current members/subscribers, suggesting a potential to increase subscriptions and ISTHmembership. The Chapel Hill Headquarters of the ISTH should take action to enlist these potential members. Through the website, we have been able to promote single articles to readers and authors of articles related to thrombosis and hemostasis published in other journals. The 800 subscribers to the alerts are accessing the website whenever new articles are accepted for publication in JTH. Their access generates an average of 7000–8000 clicks per day and about 2500 daily downloads on average! These figures are doubled if we add the JTH articles accessed through the publisher's website Blackwell-Synergy. On the whole, I believe that the journal is blooming. For this on behalf of the society that I represent, I am grateful, first and mainly, to all the contributors who did submit their articles at a time when there was no IF and the success of the new journal seemed uncertain to the pessimists. Now, it is easier, but we must all strive for higher achievements. My thanks also go to Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 4: 1–2 DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2005.01773.x


Internet has made a paradigm shift in the market by making buying and selling with a click. Lot of options available through internet lead the online retailers to explore the various determinants affecting the behaviour of online shoppers. Consumer Behaviour is defined as activities people undertake when obtaining, consuming, and disposing of products and services. There are various factors that induce consumers to buy the goods where as in case of online shopping there are some risk factors that restrain the buyers to make their decisions. In the current study we tried to explore the fear factors that or filtering elements that don't let the consumers to buy online.


The bench was first introduced to the scientific community on 12 January 1835, when Italian physicist Macedonio Melloni presented a memorandum to the Academie des Sciences in Paris summarizing all his previous experimental work. Melloni claimed that by properly choosing the components of the apparatus it was indeed possible to reproduce the most significant experiments he had performed to prove the identity between "calorific rays" and visible light.


Multisim is a well-known EDA software. It contains thousands of components and thirteen types of instruments wh were convenient to link various electric circuits and could do a simulation analysis exactly. Analyzing circuits by Multisim co not only increase the design efficiency but also guarantee the quality.


Autogenous vein bypasses manifest a substantial late stenosis and occlusion rate due, at least in part, to the hostile conditions of the arterial milieu. The present study was undertaken to evaluate flow-mediated dilation (FMD)-a putative measure of endothelial health and, potentially, long-term function-in chronically implanted vein grafts performed for critical lower-extremity ischemia. Eleven patients, four men, seven women (mean age: 64 ±14 years; range: 30 to 81 years), with saphenous vein bypasses performed for critical lower-extremity ischemia a mean of 346 ±457 days previously (range: 47 to 1640 days), had their grafts studied in the resting state, following 5 minutes' tourniquet application to produce hyperemia, and following administration of nitroglycerin. Baseline and maximal postischemic brachial artery and vein graft diameters were determined ultrasonographically. An Atherosclerosis Risk Score (ARS) was calculated by assigning one point for each of six established risk factors for atherosclerosis (smoking, diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, male gender, and age >60 years). Vein graft flow and diameter increased significantly with hyperemia (20% ±23%; p=0.04, and 3% ±3%; p=0.01 by paired t-test, respectively). Mean ARS was 3.6 ±1.2 (range: 2 to 5). FMD in vein grafts correlated inversely with ARS (r=-0.66, p=0.03). Seven of the 11 vein grafts demonstrated FMD >1% of baseline diameter. No differences were observed between the seven patients with "reacting" grafts and four with "non-reacting" grafts except in the mean ARS (2.9 ±0.9 vs. 4.3 ±0.5, respectively, p=0.05) and in the frequency of diabetes (33% vs. 100%; p=0.05). Chronically implanted saphenous vein grafts performed for limb-threatening ischemia exhibit FMD. FMD in vein grafts appears to be influenced adversely by concurrent atherosclerotic risk factors, and is reduced compared to FMD reported in other vessels.


In this paper, a very efficient method, called single matrix block analyzer (SMBA), has been developed to determine relative permeability and capillary pressure curves from spontaneous imbibition (SI) data. SMBA mimics realistically the SI tests by appropriate boundary conditions modeling. In the proposed method, a cuboid with an identical core plug height is considered. The equal dimensions of the cuboid in x and y directions are set such that the cylindrical core plug and the cuboid have the same shape factor. Thus, by avoiding the difficulties of the cylindrical coordinates, a representative model for the core plug is established. Appropriate grid numbers in x-y and z directions are specified to the model. Furthermore, the rock and fluid properties of SI test are set in the SMBA. By supposing forms of the oil-water capillary pressure and relative permeability and comparing the oil recovery curves of SMBA and SI data, capillary pressure and relative permeability can be determined. The SMBA is demonstrated using three experimental data with different aging times. Suitable equations are employed to represent the capillary pressure and relative permeability curves. The genetic algorithm is used as the optimization tool. The obtained results, especially for capillary pressure, are in good agreement with the experimental data. Moreover, the Bayesian credible interval (P10 and P90) evaluated by the Neighborhood Bayes Algorithm (NAB) is quite satisfactory.


This thesis addresses a class of particularly challenging real world optimisation problems that occur in operational patient management in hospitals. These problems are found in surgery scheduling, as well as in scheduling for various nonsurgical treatment or diagnostic services. As a class, these problems can be identified by the following properties: They concern the scheduling of a (potentially large) set of patients, where one or several activities must be scheduled for each patient. A set of resources is required for each activity, and there are many alternative such sets to choose from (the problems are multi-modal). Furthermore, the problems involve both planning and scheduling decisions; both a day and an exact start time must also be chosen for each activity. These problems are subject to resource capacity constraints and a variety of time constraints, often including both minimum and maximum time lags, as well as time windows. Common objective functions involve both the quality of treatment and an efficient use of hospital resources. In general, these problems have a high computational complexity, and in many cases even simpler subproblems have been shown to be NP-hard. In this thesis we show that a majority of these real world problems can be modelled in a unified way, without artificial simplification, and that structurally different problem instances can be solved efficiently based on such a model. We develop several efficient search methods, both heuristic and exact, and test these on real world problem instances. We also investigate the potential of 'same program multiple data' parallelisation for use in algorithms for our chosen problem class. The scientific contribution of this thesis is presented through five papers. Three of these were published in (or submitted to) 'Level 2' journals1. 1Norwegian classification of journals; Level 2 is the top level.


This paper describes a network simulation tool working at a flow level basis. The tool, written in C++, was developed specially for the flow aware networking (FAN) architecture -it assumes fair queueing according to the priority fair queueing and priority deficit round robin algorithms. The simulator, called flow simulator (FS), was designed to be an efficient tool with modular structure, which allows for easy addition of new features (specially new routing algorithms). Comparison with the Network Simulator 2 (NS2) in the field of computation time shows the FS' efficiency.


Objective To establish the method for the determination of Baicalin in Jinshawulinwan by HPLC.Methods The condition of HPLC was Dima BDS C18(250 mm× 4.6 mm,5 μm),mobile phase of Methanol-0.05% Phosphoric Acid solution(49∶51),the decetion wavelength at 280 nm and with aflow rate of 1.0 ml/min.Results The method proved to be liner in the range at 0.20~1.00 μg of Baicalin with correlation coefficient of 0.9997.The liner formula was Y=22614753χ-182777,the average recovery and recision were 98%,and RSD=1.3%(n=5).Conclusion The method is simple,accurate,repeatability and can be used in quality control of the preparation.


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This article offers an overview of the historic evolution of the concepts of education and citizens and includes texts by Rousseau and Condorcet as well as translations and commentaries on these texts. As regards the contemporary significance of these two concepts and the birth of what today is known as the education of citizens there is also an examination of the discourse of these two great 18th century French thinkers regarding their thoughts on what they termed instruction civique (civic education).


The ProTWIN Trial (NTR1858) showed that, in women with a multiple pregnancy and a cervical length < 25th percentile (38 mm), prophylactic use of a cervical pessary reduced the risk of adverse perinatal outcome. We investigated whether other maternal or pregnancy characteristics collected at baseline can improve identification of women most likely to benefit from pessary placement.


ABSTRACT Building occupancy patterns are an important factor in considering the energy efficiency of buildings and a key input for building performance modelling. More specifically, the energy consumption associated with heating, cooling, lighting, and plug load usage depends on the number of occupants in a building. Identifying occupancy patterns and profiles in buildings is a key factor for the optimisation of building operating systems and can potentially reduce the performance gap between the planning stage and the actual energy usage. This study aims to identify the patterns and profiles of the occupants in a selected case study building in England. In this study, occupancy data were collected over 12 months at five minutes intervals. A sensor was used to obtain high accuracy occupancy data compared to previous studies that encountered uncertainties in data collection. A set of clustering analyses was carried out to identify occupancy patterns and profiles in the building. The results of this study identified three different occupancy patterns and profiles as well as four drivers that influenced the occupants in the case study building: the beginning of the academic term, the examination period, the weekday/weekends, and the vacation driver.


We generalize the work of Lue Pan on locally analytic completed cohomology of modular curves to Shimura varieties. In the process we obtain a proof of the rational Calegari-Emerton conjectures without a perfectoid assumption at infinite level. We also construct the overconvergent $\mathrm{BGG}$ maps for the derived infinitesimal Jacquet module of the locally analytic completed cohomology and its dual.


Competing risk theory hypothesizes a number of risks (diseases, accidents, etc.) which compete for the lives of individuals. Each individual will die from one of these risks, and the theory predicts the consequence of removing or adding a risk. The risk of early fatalities from a nuclear accident is examined in comparison to motor vehicle fatality probabilities. (HDR)


Ideological and political education is gradually being the focus of society, how to use the holistic thought to promote the class management is a useful discussion of practice. Today, personalized education is continuously developing, holistic education also must be strengthened. Holistic education benefits for mastering class development direction, benefits for realizing class goals, benefits for strengthening class competitiveness and realizing class survival and fittest.


Growing season of tea plants is generally from April to the end of September in Japan. However, there are considerable regional variations with date of flushing and plucking, showing from 2 to 4 pluckings in a year. As to the quality of green tea, the first crop of tea, harvested in April-May, is regarded to be the best, followed by the second and third crops harvested in the summer season. Since such regional variations with time of sprouting new shoots and the seasonal differences in tea quality are considered to be caused by differences in climatic conditions, especially air temperature, the author has examined effects of air temperature (it's upper limit, lower limit and optimum range) on the growth of new shoots, and the accumulated air temperature from the sprouting to plucking stage. In addition, effects of air temperature during the period of new shoot growth on tea quality were studied by examining contents of amino acids and tannin, the components contributing to tea taste (hereafter referred to taste components), and by histological examinations.


Costs of resources consumed by responsibility segments should be accumulated by type of resource. Outputs produced by responsibility segments should be accumulated and, if practicable, measured in units. The full costs of resources that directly or indirectly contribute to the production of outputs should be assigned to outputs through costing methodologies or cost finding techniques that are most appropriate to the segment's operating environment and should be followed consistently. The cost assignments should be performed by the following methods listed in the order of preference: (a) directly tracing costs wherever feasible and economically practicable, (b) assigning costs on a cause-and-effect basis, or (c) allocating costs on a reasonable and consistent basis


How does the Social Lab methodology support participatory research? This paper provides an evidence-based analysis of experiences of 19 implemented Social Labs applying experiential learning cycles on the question of how to induce Responsible Research and Innovation in the Horizon2020 research funding scheme of the European Commission and beyond. It looks at the potentials of Social Labs to allow participation in research and innovation addressing societal challenges and contrasts empirical results with the theoretical conceptualisation of a scienti fi c Social Lab methodology. It discusses drivers and barriers of engagement, and provides evidence for the impacts of experimental engagement on participation in the context of the labs, substantiated by concrete examples from some of these labs.