: Introduction: Population aging implies increased demands for care sanitary. The frailty of the elderly a previous step to disabili-ty, causing deterioration in the quality of life both in people who suffer, as in the caregivers. Objec-tive: Determine the relationship between frailty syndrome in the elderly with the overload primary caregiver. Material and method: Analyt-ical Observational study design. It included 145 older adults with a primary caregiver, excluding those with cognitive impairment or severe phys-ical disability. After signing the consent, general data were interrogated; the Ensrud scales for frailty in the elderly and abbreviated Zarit scales for caregiver overload were applied independent-ly. Descriptive analysis, chi square, Mann-Whit-ney and Spearman correlation, obtained with SPSS version 22 program, was considered signif-icant difference with p < 0.05. Results: 61.4% of the older adults are women, age 77 ± 7 years, 59% married, 28% were classified as fragile and 50% as pre-fragile. Sex, age, schooling and comorbid-ities were associated with frailty. 70% of caregiv-ers are women, 41% have have intense overload, and caregiver wear was associated within the elderly. Conclusion: The level of caregiver attrition had a moderate positive correlation with frailty in the elderly.


PURPOSE: A method for generating a virtual view image and an apparatus thereof are provided to obtain a more high definition virtual view image by compensating a non-processed region of a virtual view image in a current frame through a pixel value of a virtual view image of a previous frame. CONSTITUTION: The base view images for plural base view cameras are synthesized, and a virtual view image for the virtual view camera is created(401). The depth information images for the plural base view camera are synthesized and created(403). A first non-processed region of the non-processed region in the depth information image is compensated. Based on the depth information image, a second non-processed region which is the non-processed region of the virtual view image in the current frame is compensated(405).


Social exclusion reality brings together a certain complexity and a series of multidimensional profiles that make it difficult both its analysis and also the application of suitable strategies that could contribute to its prevention and improvement. It is therefore necessary to deepen in the knowledge of all the manifestations of exclusion processes and to keep making advances in the development of new policies and also in the transversal and integral interventions, at a conceptual and operative level, which have to be mainly centred in the territory and in the articulation of efforts among all social agents


In vitro cancer research predominantly utilizes established cell lines of a chosen cancer type as phenotypic representations of various disease states, whether they be non-cancerous, non-invasive, highly metastatic, or derived from distinct cellular origins within an organ or tissue. While such methodology is useful to study cancer cells from diverse disease states, when one considers the tremendous complexity of intertumoral heterogeneity, it becomes problematic to use cell lines derived from distinct individuals with diverse malignancies to study the progression of tumorigenesis in a single cancer type. To address this need, a novel murine model was developed, composed of six cell lines isolated from progressively advanced tumors all derived from a single parental line (Ray et al., Exp. Cell Res. 340, 1-11). Each cell line should represent a snapshot of a particular stage of this cancer's development, with the entire model providing a platform to study tumorigenic changes incurred as the transformed cells progressed from a localized tumor to an aggressively malignant growth. However, isolating primary cell lines can be an inefficient process, and a successfully isolated line may not accurately represent the dominant neoplastic cell type from a tumor. For that reason, it is necessary to characterize the cell lines from this model to confirm that the observed in vitro behavior of the cells matches the expected phenotype of the tissue from which it was derived. To this end, we performed an in vitro characterization of each cell line in the model. The three lines derived from distant metastatic tumors displayed significantly higher rates of two dimensional motility and invasive capacity as compared to the parental cell line, the line derived from a primary tumor or from a local metastasis. The distant metastatic lines also displayed elevated rates of extracellular acidification, an indication of increased rates of aerobic glycolysis. These measures demonstrated convincingly that the behavior of the cells in culture mirrored the expected phenotype of the tissue from which they were derived, thus validating the utility of the model. We then performed a comprehensive proteomic analysis via orbitrap tandem mass spectrometry, yielding expression data on over 3,000 proteins across all cell lines. This analysis yielded expected results that further validated the model, such as showing an increasing trend of expression of cancer-associated proteins like transcription factor AP-1 and decreasing trends of expression of tumor suppressors like protein NDRG1. However, it also revealed striking changes in protein expression in targets not currently implicated in tumorigenesis, thus providing novel targets for further examination. In total, this study validated a novel murine cell model as a valuable tool in the study of tumorigenesis, while providing a robust proteomic data set to guide future research into cancerous progression.
 Citation Format: Steven D. Scahill, Kelly Jean Sherman, Jessie Guidry, Harry J. Gould, Dennis Paul. In vitro characterization of a novel murine model of cancerous progression [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 1684.


In this paper,a RFID attendance system based on ARM embedded Linux OS is introduced.To strengthen the practicability and reliability of the system,we make full use of the features of Linux OS,such as real-time and concurrency.Photos and coding time are shown on LCD by Qt.A new thought called asynchronous check-on-work-attendance method is suggested in this paper by applying Internet and embedded RFID technology comprehensively.


Mycobacterium leprae is the organism responsible for causing leprosy, a persistent contagious illness. The inflammasome is a complex of cytosolic proteins that mediates the inflammatory response in response to pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) or damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), the latter of which is responsible for the maturation of caspase 1, secretion of IL-1 and IL-18, and a type of cell death known as pyroptosis. One protein, interleukin-1 conversion enzyme (ICE)- protease activating factor, was found to be responsible for initiating caspase-1. (IPAF). The amino-terminal CARD domain and its surrounding amino acids confirmed its membership in the NLR protein family, prompting the nomenclature change to NLRC4. In reaction to bacterial infections that target the cytoplasm of host cells, like M. tuberculosis and M. leprae, new data indicates that the NLRP3 inflammasome is involved in the inflammatory response caused by caspase-11. Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome follows a classical pathway that begins with the recognition of PAMPs or DAMPs by TLRs, which then activates nuclear factor kappa B (NF-B)-mediated signaling and up-regulates transcription of inactive NLRP3, pro-IL-1, and pro-IL-18. Oligomerization of NLRP3 is the second stage, which is then followed by the formation of a complex containing NLRP3, ASC, and pro-caspase-1. This results in the synthesis and release of mature IL-1 and IL-18, as well as the self-activation of pro-caspase-1 into the enzymatically active form by proteolytic cleavage. The clinical course of an infection depends on the result of this first interaction, and it now appears that NLRP1, NLRP3, caspase 1, IL-1, and IL-18 collaborate in a concerted effort to trigger this early reaction.


A coordinated effort by UCLA leaders to identify a high-cost population with chronic kidney disease and to modify care processes and personnel has led to improved health and reduced utilization.


In most IVHS (intelligent vehicle highway systems) programs in the United Sates, information accessibility is limited by the location of a fixed receiver. However, the Minnesota Guidestar's Genesis initiative holds that information should be available to the traveler regardless of location. This paper describes how this concept will be realized, and reviews the project's progress and proposed testing activities. The paper describes the Genesis personal communications device (PCD), its concept, and the interface between Genesis and other elements of the fully integrated transportation system.


We have developed the sp3s* tight-binding model and used this model to calculate the electronic structures of cagelike nanostructured systems.Specially, the effect on the electronic structure of C60 for s* excited state is taken into account. The band structure and the electronic probability density of C60 cluster are calculated. The calculated energy gap 1.893eV is good agreement with the experimental value. The valance band and conduction band can be described very well by our calculated results as well.


The EU's negotiations on major trade agreements in recent years have shown a trend towards new arbitration mechanisms. In the bilateral agreements and institutional negotiations between Switzerland and the EU, too, arbitration courts have recently reappeared. In both cases, however, the EU's principle of the autonomy of Union law sets limits to the design of dispute settlement mechanisms by reserving the CJEU a decisive role in the interpretation of agreement law for certain constellations.


To enhance the exhaust efficiency during ventilation, three types of air duct outlets were imported. According to the characteristics of velocity distribution simulated by numerical method, the flow field is divided into the mixing zone and the exhaust zone. The gradual contracted air duct outlet can enhance the mixing effect between fresh air and smoke. In the exhaust zone, however, the flow velocity on the upper section of the tunnel is weakened, which is unfavorable for smoke exhaust. Gradual expanded air duct outlet, on the contrary, may weaken the concentration effect of the airflow. The flow velocity on the upper section of the tunnel is increased in the exhaust zone, thus the flow field is more homogenized, which is in favor of smoke exhaust.


In the manual in accordance with the curriculum of the discipline "Administrative responsibility" analyzes the major provisions of the legislation on administrative offences; the concept of administrative law enforcement and administrative-tort law; analyzes the characteristics and types of administrative-legal coercion; the characteristic of administrative and tort law; and considers the system of stages and production stages on Affairs about administrative offences.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of secondary professional education and higher education of the last generation.
For students of law faculties of educational institutions of higher education, for graduate students, professors of law faculties, judges and employees of law-enforcement and regulatory bodies.


A banknote specimen built on Fibonacci principles It is important that a banknote design evokes emotions and is loved by the people while at the same time fulfilling a complex set of functionalities required for all target users including central banks, commercial banks, cash handling professionals and automated systems. It is amid these parameters that the Fibonacci Project has been undertaken by the Swiss company SICPA an exploration of the creative design possibilities during the integration of modern banknote technologies for an efficient cash cycle.


Community participation in tourism is regarded as the critical and indispensable way for sustainable development. Although it is a non-traditional but a political decisive progress, community participation can't generate direct profits to the community residents automatically. Due to the influence of regional economy, local policies and residents' value system etc, it is hard to obtain the expected result in community tourism development. Therefore, the article tries to explore the connotation and theoretical framework of community integration. The author thinks that community integration should not be an isolated progress. It has close ties with tourism planning and tourism impact. The paper puts much emphasis on the principal elements affecting community integration: (1) Community members are willing to cooperate with each other, which is the basic premise for community integration. The core of community integration is that community residents as a unity take part in the tourism development and benefit from the tourism industry equally. Whether local residents are willing to cooperate with each other depends on their attitude to community tourism. (2) Community members can attain equal distribution of local benefits in terms of revenues and employment, which is the motivation of community integration. Revenues and employment from tourism industry are the two key factors, which indicate the tourist effects on community residents. (3) Local residents have a relatively high degree of control and management of tourism service. Because individual ability of community residents is limited, many development decisions are generally made by the tourism enterprises. Tourism community can take some measures, such as developing collective economy and stock co-operational economy etc. to strengthen their control power of tourist service enterprises. (4) Community has certain ability of integrating local traditional culture with heterogeneous culture. Tourism development brings changes to traditional life style and modes of thought and brings conflicts between tourist culture and local culture. So community integration must respect, safeguard and develop local traditional culture and strengthen cultural identification of community residents.


The optimization of the observation geometry is very important for multi-sensor target tracking. This paper performs analysis of the Fisher information matrix obtained using the passive measurements, and analyzes the influences to the tracking performance by the observation geometry factors like the distance and the angle, therefore obtains the optimal criteria for the sensor selection in target tracking.


An absorber (10) comprising first and second portions (12, 14) and at least partially of plastic material, wherein: - the first portion comprises a first support wall (16) extending in a longitudinal direction of the absorber and placed in abutment against a vehicle beam (11), - the second portion comprises a second supporting wall (22) extending in a longitudinal direction of the absorber and substantially perpendicular to the first wall, placed in abutment against the beam, - the second portion comprises reinforcing walls (23) substantially corresponding to a plane normal to the longitudinal direction of the absorber and arranged to each include one end connected to the second wall, each reinforcing wall comprising at least one other end connected to an adjacent reinforcing wall, so that each reinforcing wall is connected to each of the walls adjace nt.


In this paper, a high power laser diode electrical derivative parameters test instrument is developed, the wavelength range of this instrument is between 400nm to 1300nm, the power range of this instrument is between 1W to 15W. The relationships between the device reliability and the electrical derivative parameters are discussed. Then the measurements of 20 high power 808nm AlGaAs/GaAs laser diodes by using this instrument combined with the aging test results demonstrate that the electrical derivative parameters can use to evaluate the laser diode reliability and quality effectively.


Patients in the United Kingdom are to be given access to some drugs before they have been formally licensed, in an effort to speed up access.

The early access scheme, which was first proposed in 2006 and has been under active discussion for the past two years,1 will apply to life threatening and seriously debilitating conditions.

The first step is for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to designate a new drug as a "promising innovative medicine" (PIM) on the basis of early trial data and as long as the agency is satisfied the drug meets an unmet …


Andasol 3 is a 50 MW parabolic trough concentrating solar power plant with thermal energy storage in Andalusia, southern Spain. Having started operating in 2011 as one of the first plants of its kind in Spain it has been followed by more than 50 in the country since.For the reason that CSP plants with storage have the potential to compete against fossil fuel fired plants much better than any other renewable energy source a long-term review of such a plant operating on a commercial scale is needed. With data at hand documenting Andasol 3's operation over the course of one year between July 2013 and June 2014 we intend to provide such a review.We calculated the plants overall efficiency, its capacity factor, the gross energy generation as well as auxiliary powers on a monthly basis to reflect upon its overall performance. It was also looked at the benefits caused by the thermal energy storage and especially how steadily and reliably the plant was able to operate.With basic background information about physi...


This paper analyzes the construction of digital library and the copyright protection from the exploitation of the works,the scope of the fair use and the utilization of the database,and advances some corresponding countermeasures.


The brachiopod fauna of the Middle-Late Devonian cratonic carbonate platform deposits of the Iowa Basin, central North America, contains twenty species of the order Atrypida, some of which are types for widespread genera common in Middle and Late Devonian faunas. The latest Givetian-early Frasnian deposits yield a diverse fauna consisting of ten species (two new) included in Desquamatia (Independatrypa), D. (Seratrypa), Pseudoatrypa, Radiatrypa, Spinatrypa (Spinatrypa) and Spinatrypina (Exatrypa). Many of these forms occur in, or are closely similar to species known from, coeval faunas of central and western Canada. Middle Frasnian deposits of northern Iowa contain two species included in Spinatrypa (S.) and Pseudoatrypa, both of which are new. Late Frasnian strata of the Iowa Basin yield eight species included in Costatrypa, Iowatrypa, Pseudoatrypa, and Spinatrypa (Spinatrypa), some of which are widespread in other subtropical and tropical faunas of the western US and western Canada. The taxa Pseudoatrypa witzkei sp. n., Spinatrypa (S.) bunkeri sp. n., ~ ~ i n a t r y ~ a (S.) thompsoni sp. n., and Spinatrypina (Exatrypa) johnsoni sp. n. are proposed. Pseudoatrypa? sp. from the very late Frasnian of southern New Mexico is also illustrated.


The paper has the objective to build a life insurance policy, with the lowest possible cost, supplying the necessities of a client of a broker based on Barra da Tijuca, West Side of the city of Rio de Janeiro. For this purpose, a Operational Research technique, Integer Linear Programming, will be used, scientifically supporting its conjecture. Since the life insurance Market is quite limited, companies must often innovate their methods, and this work proposes Integer Linear Programming as an alternative for innovation in this recently open organization. With its comprehensive performance, Operational Research, which is commonly used in several areas, such as the industrial sector, commerce, sports, among ohers, demonstrates, once again, its effectiveness.


Subject
 China's plan to blacklist foreign firms for denying supplies to Chinese customers.

 Significance
 China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) is responding to US export controls by creating a new tool to punish foreign businesses that curtail supplies to Chinese enterprises for non-commercial reasons: the Unreliable Entity List (UEL). China has not shied away from targeting foreign businesses for political reasons in the past. The UEL gives it a much more powerful tool to do so.

 Impacts
 The United States is the target for now, but once in place the UEL can easily be used against other countries.
 An export control bill now in the works will hasten the decoupling of China and the West.
 Foreign firms in sensitive sectors may opt to curtail their presence in China preventatively, or curry greater favour with Beijing.


Even though young traffic offenders contribute to high number of traffic violations and accidents in most countries including Lithuania, they may not be homogenous in their motivational features. This study was aimed to find out if two groups of young male traffic offenders (drunk drivers and overspeeders) differ in their motives for risky driving and attitudes towards traffic safety; and how these two psychological characteristics can predict their risky driving indicators. A cross-sectional survey using self-report questionnaire (with Motives for dangerous driving scale, Attitudes towards traffic safety, and DBQ) was carried out in 2013. The total sample included 268 young male traffic offenders (151 – drunk drivers, 117 – overspeeders; mean age 23.4). The results showed that drunk drivers and overspeeders do not differ in their risky driving indicators or attitudes towards traffic safety, but overspeeders had stronger motive for driving fast/risk taking and stronger motive of disrespect for traffic laws. Regression analysis also revealed that motive for driving fast/risk taking is the strongest predictor of self rated risky driving indicators in both groups of traffic offenders.


Abstract: Has done research on use of chitosan from shrimp skin (Peneaus monodon) waste as antimicrobial agents in the process of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) storage. The purpose of this research is to isolate chitin from the shrimp skin (Peneaus monodon) waste into chitosan, and use as an alternative to be a natural antimicrobial compounds as well as determine the optimum concentration of chitosan solution as a preservative of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). This research was carried out by preparation of chitosan from shrimp skin (Peneaus monodon) was begin with deproteination using 3.5% NaOH, demineralization using HCl 1N, and deacetylation using 50% NaOH, analyzing its deacetylation degree by baseline method. Then it was used as an antimicrobial of tilapia, tilapia was immersed in a solution of chitosan by varying the concentration (w/v) 1%, 1.5% and 2% in 2% acetic acid. Storage was varied within 0 days, 1 day, 2 days; 3 days, and 4 days. The results of extraction was found white-grayish colour chitin and white chitosan with deacetylation degree of 66.73%. The optimum concentration of chitosan as an antimicrobial agent of tilapia is 2% with storage time of four day which preserve the fish is consumable.


We study an approximate factor model in the presence of both cross sectional dependence and heteroskedasticity. For efficient estimations it is essential to estimate a large error covariance matrix. We estimate the common factors and factor loadings based on maximizing a Gaussian quasi-likelihood, through penalizing a large covariance sparse matrix. The weighted l1 penalization is employed. While the principal components (PC) based methods estimate the covariance matrices and individual factors and loadings separately, they require consistent estimation of residual terms. In contrast, the penalized maximum likelihood method (PML) estimates the factor loading parameters and the error covariance matrix jointly. In the numerical studies, we compare PML with the regular PC method, the generalized PC method (Choi 2012) combined with the thresholded covariance matrix estimator (Fan et al. 2013), as well as several related methods, on their estimation and forecast performances. Our numerical studies show that the proposed method performs well in the presence of cross-sectional dependence and heteroskedasticity.


Macrophages play key role in initial tissue remodeling by engulfing debris and releasing cytokines at the site of injury. Currently, the contribution of macrophage PPARγ in response to myocardial infarction (MI) and post‐MI remodeling is unknown and the effect of early cytokine signals on the post‐MI expression of collagens, MMPs (Matrix metalloproteinases) and TIMPs (tissue inhibitors of MMP) is unclear. The study objective was to examine the role of macrophage PPARγ in post‐MI remodeling, particularly collagen I & III, MMP, and TIMP expression using macrophage specific PPARγ knockout (KO) and wild type (WT) mice. Protein and RNA were extracted from 28‐day post‐MI heart tissues from WT and PPARγ‐KO mice for western blot and real‐time PCR analysis. qPCR results showed a significant increase (p<0.05) in expression of collagens I and III, MMPs 9 and 13, and TIMPs 1 and 2 in the 28‐day post‐MI PPARγ‐KO model compared to the WTMI group. The level of MMP 2, although not significantly elevated, showed an increasing trend in the PPARγ‐KOMI compared to WTMI group. Western blot showed similar increasing trends in TIMP 1 and 2 expressions in the PPARγ‐KOMI group. Our results indicate that PPARγ could be influencing the initial signals that alter post‐MI remodeling by regulating the expression of collagens (I, III), MMP 9, TIMPs 1 and 2.


Best subset AR models involve computationally intensive exhaustive search techniques. The aim of this paper is to avoid such computationally intensive exhaustive search procedures for obtaining best subset AR models. A methodology was proposed (Sarkar and Kanjilal, 1995) using singular value decomposition (SVD) and orthonormal with column pivoting factorisation (QRcp) for extracting a reduced subset from an exhaustive candidate set of regressors. Here the spurious regressor variables from this set are identified and eliminated by a test of significance based on the asymptotic normality of the maximum likelihood estimates (m.l.e) of themodel parameters and a model selection information criterion. This method obtains subset AR models directly and efficiently. Fitting procedure is demonstrated with a simulated series and some important real life time series. Some subset models have been found to generate better forecasts than their respective full models.


A family of proposed miniature sources of power would exploit the direct conversion of the kinetic energy of α particles into electricity. In addition to having long operational lives, these sources are expected to operate with energy-conversion efficiencies from 70 to 90 percent. A power source as proposed (see figure) would be an electrolytic cell in which liquid gallium would serve as both an electrolyte and an energy-conversion medium. The cell would contain an iridium cathode and a zirconium anode. The α particles, each with a kinetic energy ~5.8 MeV, would be emitted by radioactive decay of Cm, which has a half-life of 18 years. The Cm source would be positioned so that the α particles would enter the liquid gallium, where their kinetic energy would be dissipated mostly through ionization of Ga atoms, creating Ga ions and free electrons. The electrons would be collected by iridium cathode, and the Ga ions would be neutralized at the zirconium cathode by electrons returning after flowing through an external circuit. Gallium is a candidate for use as the electrolyte and the energy-conversion medium because in the liquid state it is a semimetal: its electrical conductivity is greater than that of a typical semiconductor but small in comparison with the conductivities of metals. Consequently, in liquid gallium, electrons and Ga can exist without immediate recombination and can be moved by electric fields. It is expected that electric fields, resulting at least partly from the difference between the work functions of the electrode metals, would move the electrons and ions to their respective electrodes. The opencircuit potential of the cell is expected to be 1.62 V — equal to the difference between the work functions of iridium and zirconium. Unlike in a solid-state energy conversion medium, the impingement of energetic α particles would not give rise to displacement damage in the liquid gallium. Hence, the cell should have a long life, limited only by the half-life of Cm. A cell having a volume less than 25 mm, containing 1 curie of Cm (the curie is a unit of radioactivity equal to 3.7 × 10 disintegrations per second) is expected to deliver a current between 7 and 12 mA, which, at the expected open-circuit potential, would provide a power in the approximate range of 11 to 20 mW. This work was done by Jagdish U. Patel, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, and G. Jeffrey Snyder of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Further information is contained in a TSP (see page 1). This invention is owned by NASA, and a patent application has been filed. Inquiries concerning nonexclusive or exclusive license for its commercial development should be addressed to the Patent Counsel, NASA Management Office–JPL at (818) 354-7770. Refer to NPO-30322. Liquid Gallium in an Electrolytic Cell would be ionized by impinging α particles. The resulting electric charges would be collected at the electrodes. Ga+ e– Ga+ e–


Provided are a device and a method for bending a glass sheet. A glass sheet, which has excellent optical quality and is capable of being molded into a shape that is bent sharply with a large curvature, is bent orthogonally using a molding roller that has been curved. The device comprises a molding roller (20), which forms at least a portion of a roller conveyor (32) for conveying a heated glass sheet (G) and is capable of curving in the direction (Y) orthogonal to the plane of conveyance in order to bend the glass sheet (G) in the direction (Y) orthogonal to the direction of conveyance (X), and a curve forming mechanism (42a) for causing the molding roller (20) to curve at the desired curvature in the orthogonal direction (Y). The curve forming mechanism (42a) has back-up rollers (56) and (58), which are formed from flexible shafts that flexibly extend in a lengthwise direction, and which support the molding roller (20) over the whole lengthwise direction, and these back-up rollers (56) and (58) are caused to curve in order to cause the molding roller (20) to curve at the desired curvature in the orthogonal direction (Y).


Abstract It was way back in the mid-1960s that I first became interested in the Academy of Ancient Music, and I have been collecting stray scraps of information relating to them ever since. Fifty years on, methinks it's high time I shared my findings with the world of eighteenth-century musical scholarship at large. Others meanwhile have dealt with various bits of the story, but no one so far as I know has yet attempted to bring it all together in one place. What follows here is in three self-contained parts and two appendices. The first part surveys the history of the society from cradle to grave so to speak, and deals with all the main personalities and events involved. The second, and by far the longest, part provides details of all the Academy programmes known to have survived together with various references to be found in diaries, letters and other manuscript material of the period; there is also, for the 1780s and 90s in particular, a good deal of supporting comment in the London newspapers. Also duly noted in this section are the present-day whereabouts of all those individual works that can be identified as having once formed part of its celebrated library. Part III is an editorial conflation of the 1761 and 1768 editions of The Words of such pieces as are most usually performed by the Academy of Ancient Music (plus a short and hitherto unnoticed addition to the latter to be found only in some copies), and keyed to it are the dates of all known performances tabled in Part II. Appendix A provides an annotated list of all those who were named as subscribers on 9 April 1730. This is the last such list to have survived, and here, for the first time, an attempt has been made to identify those various City merchants, clerics and others who are not among those well-known musicians usually named as being members. Appendix B refers to an interesting document now in the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale. It contains not only the names of the subscribers to the 1785–86 season but also a list of all those singers and instrumentalists who were employed by the Academy in 1786–87 (and how much they were paid). Only the latter, however, is reproduced here, and its content has been reordered in the interests of greater clarity. Standard RISM sigla are used for all but a very few library references.


Mismatches between syntax and semantics in the construction of eat canteen have been extensively studied by grammarians. However, researchers have mainly focused on how to introduce arguments like"canteen" but ignored asymmetries in the process of syntactical transformation. Consequently, the interpretations in various proposals have been either too weak or too strong. Through introducing "YOU"( 有) with prepositional features, this study attempts to delve into the origin of these patterns' constructional meaning,and the causes for such asymmetries as well. It is argued that the asymmetries are caused by the interaction of lexicon, computational system, completeness of sentences, and pragmatic factors. This approach also explicates the source of preposition assigning thematic roles in previous studies.


Results of the first study of the conceptual design of a collective-effect proton accelerator of subst<:.n-. tial energy (65-100 GeV) are described. Basic theoret ical considerations are outlined and components and their arrangement for a conceptual accelerator are dis cussed. This first study shows that the promise of ERA principle to produce remarkably compact accelerators can be achieved by use of single-pulse surge-excited acceleration cavities. The example single-pass machine provides accelerating gradients.of 250 MeV/meter over all where conventional synchrotrons yield 40- 80 MeV / meter. The relaxed tolerances of the surge-excited cavities and their associated components allow great advantage to be taken of mass-production techniques' with ensuing low cost (~M$ 0.24/Gev).


The invention discloses a network application integration system and a method. The system comprises one or more underlying servers, a proxy server, a buffer, a front-end server and a monitoring server, wherein one or more applications are provided by each underlying server; the applications provided by the one or more underlying servers are buffered by the proxy server by a first preset interval; the applications provided by the one or more underlying servers are buffered by the buffer by a second preset interval; the front-end server is used for combining the applications of the one or more underlying servers and providing external interfaces interacting with the applications; the monitoring server is used for detecting whether the underlying servers are normal and detecting whether the proxy server is normal; and the front-end server is used for deciding how to invoke the required application according to the detection result of the monitoring server. Through the network application integration system and the method, the network application integration system still can provide a user with complete application functions under the condition that the application in a certain underlying server has failure.


Introduction: Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) are circulating cells which appear to play a major role in endothelial repair and angiogenesis. Obesity contributes to endothelial dysfunction in part by the adipose tissue releasing harmful paracrine factors (adipokines) like leptin and resistin. We studied whether such adipokines were also able to affect EPCs.


Inter ionic pair potentials including the effect of ion polarization have been re-examined after the brief survey of their study. The cause of major defect of the polarizable ion model, the polarization catastrophe , has been examined. New expression of screened ion potentials including ion polarization has been proposed to avoid the catastrophe. The application to molten CuI has been demonstrated as an example


In this paper, we address the problem of the restoration of image sequences which have been affected by local intensity modifications (local contrast changes). Such artifacts can be encountered particularly in biological or archive film sequences, and are usually due to inconsistent exposures or sparse time sampling. In order to reduce such local artifacts, we introduce a local stabilization operator, called LStab, which acts as a time filter on image patches and relies on a similarity measure which is robust to contrast changes. Thereby, this operator is able to take motion into account without relying on a sophisticated motion estimation procedure. The efficiency of the stabilization is shown on various sequences. The experimental results compare favorably with state-of-the-art approaches.


The purpose of this study was to design and develop a three-dimensional numerical model using primitive equations in spherical coordinates of the Earth with the Sigma pressure vertical array to simulate currents in the Caspian Sea. In this study, the finite difference method was used for numerical solution and discretization of equations using the two step Lax-Wendroff scheme for advection terms and DuFortFrankel scheme for diffusion terms. The results of the study showed that the clockwise eddy in the middle and the counterclockwise alongshore current near the western coast of the southern Caspian Sea continued throughout the year. Furthermore, due to the steeper slope of the bed in this basin, it is more stable than the currents pattern in the North and Middle basins of the Caspian Sea. Also, the divergence of the current in the surface Ekman layer is balanced by the convergence of current in the bottom Ekman layer in the middle and southern basins of the Caspian Sea, which indicates that the bed topography beside the wind plays a key role in the production and steering of the currents in the Caspian Sea.


The spectra of supershort avalanches electron beams (SAEB) generated during nanosecond discharges in atmospheric-pressure air have been investigated. A novel technique has been developed for recovering electron spectra from attenuation curves. The data on the discharge formation dynamics in an inhomogeneous electric field have been obtained, and the dependences of the electron beam amplitude on various parameters have been determined. The temporal characteristics of the electron beam current, gap voltage, and discharge current in a gas diode have been measured with a time resolution of ∼0.1 ns. Electron spectra for various generators and different types of cathodes and electrode gaps have been recovered. It is shown that the breakdown of a gap with a small-curvature-radius cathode by a voltage pulse with an amplitude of ≫100 kV and a rise time of ∼0.5 ns or less is accompanied by the generation of runaway electrons with energies from a few keV to several hundred keV.


In this article we consider an even entire function of order one as the
 solution of the classical wave equation in one-dimensional space. We suggest
 a conjecture that this function has only purely real zeros in the entire
 complex plane. This is given as a new prospective on a nice connection with
 number theory and wave equation.


To summarise the existing evidence regarding the body fat of small or large for gestation subjects, evaluated from birth up to 18 years of age.


The Iliad opens with a quarrel in the Greek camp between Agamemnon and Achilles over the woman Briseis, who came into Achilles' hands as part of the spoils of war. Agamemnon demands Briseis back from Achilles, and Achilles objects that, if he is deprived of his just part of the spoils, no reason remains for him to continue fighting. The quarrel is about status.1 Achilles has lost his prize, he is dishonored (a6Tt[oS, II. 1.171), and he withdraws to his tent. Because of Achilles' withdrawal, many Greeks die, including Patroclus, the companion whom Achilles most loves. It is this loss that Achilles mourns in the final book of the epic, in the company of Priam. As the poem draws to a close, Achilles and Priam share a common sense of grief, the former for Patroclus and the latter for his son Hector, whose body he had come in order to recover (11. 24.509-12):


Cancer in Saudi Arabia is on the increase. This statement includes head, neck and oesophageal cancers which rank 3rd to 8th in frequency according to different studies. The Saudi literature consists of retrospective hospital-based studies and therefore does not present a clear and reliable picture. There is a need for a national tumour registry in order to formulate definitive preventive and therapeutic measures. King Faisal University in the Eastern Province has already instituted a regional tumour registry. Their results are awaited. With the increase in cancer cases there is a need to increase the treatment facilities. Public awareness and health education can contribute towards prevention, early detection and better follow-up results


The present invention provides an underwater towing the working width automatically monitoring system consists of two parts, namely the console and optoelectronic measurement device. Console installed in the control room, artificial manipulation and display device, constituted by a general purpose computer system for remote manipulation of the operator optoelectronic measurement device and the working width automatically calculated. Real-time optoelectronic measurement device installed in the remote control unmanned boat aloft, non-blocking position measuring direction, by the first housing, a visible light camera, an infrared camera, a laser rangefinder, rotatable platform configuration, it is possible to indicate the surface of the floating body shooting, target trajectory monitoring. Communication between the control station and the optoelectronic measurement device is realized by a radio station. The system clock can be completed in a case where the measurement of electromagnetic interference or light control, with anti-interference ability, high accuracy passive sensing and data characteristics.


It is well known that when plasmas obtained from individuals belonging to the different blood groups are pooled there is evident neutralization of the agglutinins in the pooled plasma. This neutralization of the agglutinins occurs between A and B agglutinogens present in solution in the plasma from groups A, B and AB and the anti-A and anti-B agglutinins from groups O, A and B. The agglutinin titers in pooled plasma are believed to be sufficiently low so that pooled plasma can be administered intravenously in large amounts to individuals of any blood type without fear of causing serious reactions from possibly incompatible agglutinins. This is borne out by an extensive, worldwide experience by a great number of physicians in the therapeutic intravenous use of pooled plasma. However, when this investigation was started there were no publications of the determination of the agglutinin titers in large numbers of pools of plasma


Food television offers a new and unique lens on national identity, the Anglo-Scottish relationship, and their cultural representation in contemporary Britain. This article is based on the analysis of three British travelogue cooking shows, first broadcast between 1995 and 2011, about Scotland and its food. The programmes analysed exemplify and reinforce long-standing cultural constructions of the relationship between England and Scotland as sub-state nations of the United Kingdom, as well as illustrating and creating new national scripts, notably in relation to class and gender. These 'homeland' travelogue cooking shows consistently associate Scotland with a defined set of local and traditional foods, closely associated with a Romantic construction of Scotland, its history and landscape. However, the programmes also indicate wider changes in British and Scottish food culture during this period, including the rise of the local food movement and the increasing economic success and cultural confidence of the Scottish food and drink industry. The article highlights the role of celebrity chefs in the cultural construction of contemporary British sub-state national relationships.


SPARQL queries are used to retrieve information from RDF datasets while visualizing the results on a web page still requires development of custom modules especially when it needs to be graphically displayed. To ease this situation, I have developed MetaStanza as a generic framework to generate typical visualizations based on the TogoStanza and the d3sparql.js tools that have also been in-house developed. With MetaStanza, user can specify a SPARQL query API with desired parameters to embed 15 different types of visualizations in any web site as a WebComponents widget.


In order to discuss the proper seeding time of seedling propagation of Senecio cannabifolius Less,and seeding in two different times of spring and autumn to discover the biological characteristics,phenology,and production traits of Senecio cannabifolius Less during in the first year.The result showed that there were some difference among bservation index,seeding in autumn could complete the fertility cycle and achieved harvest standards,and was the best seeding time.


The specific topic of this essay is legal scholars' ethical responsibilities concerning neutrality and objectivity, candor and exhaustiveness. These specific responsibilities are best understood in the context of ethical standards regarding scholarship for university faculty in general and then specifically for law faculty.
Part I below explores the responsibilities of neutrality and objectivity, candor and exhaustiveness in the context of the ethical standards for scholarship for university faculty in general. Part II analyzes these same responsibilities in the context of American Association of Law Professors Statement of Good Practices. Part III looks at the data relevant to the probable incidence of questionable conduct regarding these responsibilities. Part IV briefly discusses how most effectively to educate law professors about these responsibilities.


Lynch has defined place legibility as the ease with which people understand the layout of a place. The concept essentially represents the composite mental image of a place. Alternatively, space-syntax literature has objectively defined the concept of intelligibility as the capacity of a space to give clues to the understanding of the system as a whole. This study contributes to understanding space-syntax theory as applied to spatial cognition by examining the effect of spatial configuration, measured by intelligibility, on place legibility, measured by sketch maps, recognition tests, and surveys. The results of the experimental study showed that the intelligibility of neighborhood layout influences place legibility. The findings of this study suggest that the space-syntax methodology could be used by urban designers and policy makers to understand and quantitatively manipulate one aspect of the environment, that is, intelligibility, which contributes to improved legibility.


The methods of diversity exponent, evenness exponent, dominance,collating and classifing analysis were used to study the community structure of arthopods in different periods in cotton fields in the northern of Arhui. The results showed that the dominance was not obvious,and diversity exponent and evenness exponent were higher during the prophase of cotton growth compared with more cotton aphides during anaphase. The species and number of arthropods were found to be closely related with cotton growth periods. Compared with the ball period of cotton, the number of pests and their natural enemies were less during the shoot period of cotton.


To investigate chemical constituents from acrial part of the Chinese Hainan mangrove plant,Ceriops tagal.Various chromatographic techniques,including silica gel column chromatography,Sephadex LH-20,and HPLC,were used.The structures of compounds were identified by means of spectroscopic and chemical data.Seven compounds were obtained and identified as tagalsin B(1)、tagalsin G(2)、tagalsin Q(3)、3βlup-20(29)-ene-3,28-diol(4)、28-hydroxylup-20(29)-ene-3-one(5)、3α-hydroxy-lup-20(29)-ene-28-oic acid(6)and naringenin(7),respectively.Compound 7 was isolated from the genus of Ceriops for the first time.


The Forest Products Laboratory uses the cone calorimeter for the initial evaluation of the flammability of untreated and fire retardant treated wood products. The results of various studies are reviewed using a model presented at the 12th Annual BBC Conference on Flame Retardancy. The model uses data from the cone calorimeter to provide measures of fire growth propensity based on material bulk properties and surface fire growth propensity and to provide an estimate of the ASTM E 84 flame spread index. In a study on the fire performance of treated wood exposed to elevated temperature, wood treated with borax/boric acid did not maintain fire retardancy after being exposed to 66°C (150°F) for 1 to 3 months.


In an information displaying apparatus 1 for a vehicle that projects an image to a space in front of the vehicle, an output image processing unit 10 controls a focusing drive unit 12 on the basis of the type of object detected in front of the vehicle and the distance to the object and moves the position of a projection lens 22 to change a projection distance D of a projected image. In cases where the type of object is a vehicle in front 31 and where the distance S to the vehicle in front is less than a threshold S0, the projection distance D is set as the distance S to the vehicle in front 31 and a projection image 41 is displayed in a position in the vicinity of the vehicle in front. In cases where the type of object is an object of alert 32, the projection distance D is set as the distance Sa to the object of alert and an alert image 42 is displayed.


Objective To evaluate the bone mineral density and biochemical parameters of bone metabolism in premenopausal women with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE). Methods Lumbar and femoral bone mineral density were determined by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry in 178 premenopausal women with SLE and 60 healthy controls. Various laboratory parameters including serum calcium, serum phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase(AKP), serum osteocalcin (BGP), urine cross linked N-telopeptides of type I collagen (NTX) were measured. 178 patients were divided into two groups, one was untreated and another was treated with glucocorticoid. Results Lumbar BMD, femoral BMD and T-score, serum AKP, urine NTX were not significantly lower in patients with SLE untreated than matched normal controls. However, they had lower lumbar T-score and serum BGP. Lumbar BMD and T-score, femoral T-score, serum BGP were lower in patients with SLE treated than normal besides femoral BMD serum AKP, and urine NTX. Patients with SLE treated had lower BMD and T-score than those untreated. According to the WHO criteria, 6.74% had osteoporosis and 16.85% had osteopenia in patients with SLE. Conclusion BMD in our Chinese premenopausal women with SLE was significantly lower than normal controls. Levels of serum BGP and lumbar BMD maybe prognosticate the occurrence of osteoporosis.


The accurate energy consumption characteristics evaluation in machining is helpful to optimize processing scheme to realize low carbon manufacturing. The energy consumption characteristics evaluation method in turning is researched, which includes energy efficiency calculation and energy consumption prediction. First, the simple and accurate energy efficiency computational model in turning is put forward. Second, the energy consumption prediction empirical model and the back-propagation neural network prediction model are developed respectively. Finally, the power signal measurement system is built on computer numerical controlled lathe, and the proposed energy efficiency computational model and the energy consumption prediction methods are verified in the 45# steel semi-finish turning with hard alloy cutting tools. The results show that the proposed methods can effectively evaluate the energy consumption characteristics in turning, which can help to select the high energy efficiency processing program on the basis of ensuring processing quality.


In contrast with the present universal recognition of the effects of parathyroid abnonnalities on the skeletal system relatively little attention has been devoted to the close interrelation of the kidneys and the parathyroid glands. Yet there is reason to believe that instances of the latter are far commoner than the former. For this relation appears to work in either direction. Hyperparathyroidism, if sufficiently long continued, will eventually lead to renal insufficiency because of calcium deposits in the kidney parenchyma, while primary renal insufficiency of a severe and prolonged character will produce parathyroid hyperplasia andif we accept as evidence the histological alterations in the bones and Shelling and Remsen's' parathormone assay of the bloodtrue functional hyperparathyroidism. Starting, therefore, with either primary lesion a patient may reach an apparently similar end-stage of combined hyperparathyroidism and renal i'nsufficiency. The possibility, therefore, of distinguishing between primary and secondary changes in the parathyroid gland has practical as well as theoretical significance. In a previous paper describing the pathology of the parathyroid glands in 25 cases of hyperparathyroidism 2 a classification was proposed that divided the lesions sharply into two groups, one in which the changes were restricted to one gland, part of a gland, or occasionally two glands (presumably neoplasia), and a second group in which diffuse hypertrophy and essentially uniform histological changes in all the glands occurreda condition we classified as hyperplasia. We described furthermore two types of hyperplasia; one in which all the cells are unusually large with clear cytoplasm and nuclei uniformly oriented to the base of the cell (true wasserhelle cells), and another type in which all the glands are composed, except for a scattering of oxyphil cells, of closely packed, normal sized chief cells. A single case of this chief cell type of hyperplasia was * Received for publication May 3, I937.


The emulation model of dynamic characteristic of meshing contact in gear transmission system was established.Using ANSYS/LS-DYNA,the curves on the displacement,the speed and the meshing force of the gear tooth meshing mode with the change of time are gotten.Dynamic transmission error curves were computed within a wide range of rotating speed and working conditions with and without friction force,so were the dynamic meshing force curves with the change of time.


Keypads are commonly used to enter personal identification numbers (PIN) which are intended to authenticate a user based on what they know. A number of those keypads such as ATM inputs and door keypads provide an audio feedback to the user for each button pressed. Such audio feedback are observable from a modest distance. We are looking at quantifying the information leaking from delays between acoustic feedback pulses. Preliminary experiments suggest that by using a Hidden Markov Model, it might be possible to substantially narrow the search space. A subsequent brute force search on the reduced search space could be possible with- out triggering alerts, lockouts or other mechanisms design to thwart plain brute force attempts.


Based on the combination of the phase-coordinate model of transformer and the traditional phase-coordinate method,a calculation method of fault current distribution and current division factor of grounding grid is put forward when ground short circuit takes place within substation,which is connected with numbers of transmission lines(including overhead lines and underground cables),and the corresponding calculation software FCDFGS is developed.With comparison of the results of software calculation and field measurement,the validity of the calculation model and correctness of the measurement method are verified,and the factors which have effect on current division factor of grounding grid are analyzed.The results show that current division factor of grounding grid presents saturation effect,and the parameters within the first 10 to 15 towers neighboring the substation are the most remarkably effective.Finally,technical measures to reduce grounding grid fault current are also brought forward.


The formation of oilfield scales is often caused by the mixing of incompatible waters and/or by changing pressure and temperature causing a reduction in the solubility of the dissolved solids in the produced water. To inhibit scale formation chemical inhibitor which typically operates by either nucleation inhibition or crystal growth modification, is added to the water. Almost all scale inhibitor chemicals are water soluble and are typically deployed continuously or by squeeze from an aqueous phase. In most circumstances water is the preferred carrier medium since it allows instantaneous mixing and rapid interaction with the scaling ions. However, for treating a water sensitive formation or a well with poor lifting energy, the application of a conventional water based scale inhibitor squeeze may have many drawbacks. These include extended clean up period, increased water saturation in the near wellbore area, cessation of production due to water ingress. Either of these can result in significant loss or deferment in the oil production. In this paper a new range of scale inhibitors which are solubilised in the hydrocarbon phase will be described. These new oil soluble scale inhibitors offer some advantages over the conventional water based products. Furthermore, unlike the oil 'miscible' products of the past, these new scale inhibitors do not contain any mutual solvent which sometimes can cause process upset during the backflow after the squeeze treatment. The paper will focus on the development of a product which is specifically designed for a sub-sea satellite field. Due to its unique properties some of the standard test methods and selection processes have to be modified. Special considerations on the treatment design are also needed due to the deployment constraints in the field.


The accountability system for administrations of China began from the crisis of SARS in our country.In the following three years,it has been paid an important attention and has become a focus of the innovation of administrations.But there are many problems in the process to systemize,and the accountability system for administrations is short of the sides of the main body,object,content,procedure and system of law for administrations.Many deep-seated reasons result in the actuality.So the article gives some choices of routes to perfect the accountability system for administrations.


Background: It is important to know the physiological needs of athletes in relation to the type of sport, exercise, and the competition, about the amount of energy intake, macronutrients, micronutrients and fluids. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional knowledge, attitude, and the performance of Shiraz top fitness clubs' sport trainers and ranking the clubs in this regard. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire of Parmenter and Wardle were used to record nutritional information including nutritional knowledge, attitude, and the performance of the sport coaches of 26 top clubs in Shiraz, southern Iran. To determine the weight of questionnaire's dimensions, the Shannon entropy method was used and the Topsis technique was used to rank the clubs. Results: The mean scores of the top fitness clubs' coaches in Shiraz in different aspects of nutritional knowledge, attitude, and performance were 14.367, 9.17, and 3.381, respectively. The ranking of clubs showed that 73% and 27% of the top clubs in Shiraz, respectively, had a moderate and poor status in the knowledge, attitude and performance of the coaches, and none of the clubs been in a good condition. In addition, the highest scale in this ranking was related to nutritional knowledge of coaches. Conclusion: The top sport clubs' coaches in Shiraz had a low level of nutritional knowledge, attitude and performance, and none of the clubs had a good score in this regard. Therefore, the need for interventional actions to promote these items seems necessary.


In this paper we will introduce a referential relation between pair-sentences similar to the identity connective ≡ in SCI. Here pair-sentence statements of the form (A,B) read as "A is referential to B". Then by interpreting the pair-sentence (A,B) as a sequence of referential relation such that the referential recursive pattern A B0 B1 B2 . . . B0 B1 B2 . . . holds, we will formalize a pair sentential calculus and represent the behavior of Liar sentence. To formalize the pair sentential calculus, we firstly introduce the stage numbers i, j in which each of pair-sentence holds, i.e., (A, B) and which means a situation of A at a stage i is referential to the situation of B at a stage j. We also introduce a referential cycle number of (A, B) and by using of this cycle number, we may classify pair-sentences into two categories, that is, categorical and paradoxical. Then each Liar sentence has a referential cycle number of n such that n ≥ 2 and is paradoxical.


Product retention items on MC 306-type cargo tanks which represent potential leakage points in overturn accidents were identified in pressure tests of 61 cargo tanks at carrier sites and laboratory tests of 119 pressure/vacuum vents. The manhole assembly, loading/unloading venting, and pressure-actuated venting device were identified as primary leakage sources in overturn accidents. Maintenance practices of 10 carriers were surveyed. Most large carriers perform systematic maintenance on their tanks, but small carriers do not. In general, maintenance done on cargo tanks is devoted primarily to vehicular components, and most carriers do not perform adequate maintenance on product retention items. A cargo tank compartment overturn simulator was designed and constructed, then used in 90 degree and 180 degree tests of new and used manhole assemblies and venting devices. These tests identified pressure-actuated venting in filler covers and loading/unloading venting as the primary sources of overturn leakage. Regulation changes were formulated and presented to an industry representation. On the basis of program test results and industry evaluation, changes are recommended to Parts 173, 177, and 178 (49 CFR) to: (1) require leakage checks before tanks are operated, (2) increase frequency and scope of inspections and maintenance, and (3) instill overturn integrity as a construction and maintenance requirement throughout the operating life of MC 306-type tanks.


In our previous paper [arXiv:2011.07023] we have constructed a twice anisotropic five-dimensional holographic model supported by Einstein-dilaton-three-Maxwell action that reproduced some essential features of the ''heavy quarks'' model. However, that model did not describe the magnetic catalysis (MC) phenomena expected from lattice results for the QGP made up from heavy quarks. In this paper we fill this gap and construct the model that improves the previous one. It keeps typical properties of the heavy quarks phase diagram, and meanwhile possesses the MC. The deformation of previous model includes the modification of the ''heavy quarks'' warp factor and the coupling function for the Maxwell field providing the non-trivial chemical potential.


Women education is penetratingly associated with the formation of women's identity, decision making capability, mobility and contribution to the socioeconomic development of household, community and nation. For decades, in developing-patriarchal countries like Bangladesh and Nepal men's preference advocated for women's modest education. Hence, how especially education empowers women by enhancing their active participation in sustainable socioeconomic growth and human capital development (by delaying marriage, managing familysize, increasing gross family income and escalating literacy rate) needs to be studied. In this paper, time series and cross-sectional data have been analyzed by using econometric software EViews. Data from World Bank, IMF (International Monetary Fund), BBS (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics), and CBS (Central Bureau of statistics) of Nepal have been used as secondary information for descriptive and quantitative analysis. The analysis demonstrates there is positive and significant impact of women education on the socioeconomic growth of Bangladesh and Nepal. The study also brings light on the agenda of formulating effective educational policy for women education in developing countries.


Calculates Healthy Eating Index (HEI) scores for National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data sets to facilitate analysis of demographic and dietary differences. For more information on the HEI metric, refer to Guenther et al. (2014) .


Objective To investigate the expression and functional significance of neurofilament protein (NFP) in the nerve growth cones. Method We observed the expression and location of NFP in the nerve growth cones of primarily cultured chicken embryo spinal ganglion cells by using double immunofluorescent method with fluorescent microscope. Result NFP is intensely distributed in the cytoplasma, nerve process, and elongated to C domain of nerve growth cone body. Conclusion NFP is one kind of cytoskeleton, and involved in the transportation in the nerve growth cones and nerve process.


The aim of this study is to determine index and mechanical properties of pyroclastic rocks by means of the relatively fast and cost-effective electrical resistivity method. For this purpose, index-mechanical and electrical resistivity values of 12 different pyroclastic rocks were determined in the laboratory. Simple regression analyses were made between index-mechanical properties of the rock samples compatible with electrical resistivity values. Strong relationships were found between index-mechanical properties and electrical resistivity values. Based on these relationships, the electrical resistivity method can be used to assess index and mechanical properties of rocks as a non-destructive method where collecting regular shaped rock samples are difficult and impossible.


H20 and placed in a 37°C water bath for 10 min to allow the DNA to elute off the pumice. After incubation, the suspension was centrifuged as described above, and the supernatant containing the eluted DNA was transferred, with a micropipet, to a 0.5-mL microcentrifuge tube. We have used this technique to purify covalently closed circular plasmid DNA (pUCI8 and pBR325) and linear double-stranded DNA in sizes ranging from 2.7 kb up to 10.9 kb in yields comparable to those obtained with commercially available glass slurries. The recovered DNA was substrate for restriction enzymes that we have used (EeoRI , HindlII and BamHI) and could be ligated into plasmid vectors. Recovered genes ligated into plasmid vectors have been expressed following transformation procedures (1). Immunofluorescent Artifacts Due to the pH ofAntifading Mounting Media


This paper compares dBA levels at the protected ear obtained using the ISO-NIOSH method with the NRR factor recently adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency. The study was done on 144 combinations of 12 noises and 12 protectors. In each case the sound level was predicted using each of the methods. The differences between the levels, E, was used to define the accuracy of the NRR. It was found that the level predicted using the NRR was always higher than measured, the difference ranging between 0 and 11.3 dBA. Because of this rather conservative estimation of the hearing protector's attenuation and the simplicity of its use, the application of the NRR factor in industrial hearing conservation programs is recommended strongly.


The influence of Fe alloying on the formation of thermal vacancies in Ni 75 Al 25-x Fe x has been specifically studied by high-temperature, positron lifetime spectroscopy (PLS). The results are consistent with a previously reported decrease of the activation energy for the vacancy formation upon alloying of Ni 75 Al 25 with Fe derived from residual isochronal resistometry (REST): an indirect method for vacancy studies.


RESEARCH PAPER: Bargaining in Bobo-Dioulasso Clothing Stores: Structure, Rules, and Discourse Strategies STUDENT: Ritassida Mamadou Djiguimde DEGREE: Master of Arts COLLEGE: Sciences and Humanities DATE: May 2014 PAGES: 72 This study examines bargaining exchanges in the clothing stores of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Bargaining, an alternative pricing strategy to fixed prices and a process in which vendor and customer dispute the price of goods to eventually come to an agreement, is highly characteristic of Bobo-Dioulasso's commercial transactions. For purposes of a detailed description and a thorough analysis, 30 bargaining exchanges, involving male and female adult interactants from the Bobo-Dioulasso speech community, are audio recorded and transcribed. Utilizing Hasan's (1989) Generic Structure Potential (GSP), Ventola's (1987) Flowchart Theory, and Orr's (2007) set of illocutionary forces predictably produced and interpreted during price negotiation, the study unveils the stages of bargaining and proposes a formula that accounts for the dynamic nature of the exchanges. As components of the global structure of bargaining, the study identifies four functionally different elements – establishing communion, item selection, price negotiation, and leave taking – that are performed one at a time in a linear sequencing order. The analysis of its local structure allows the identification of price talk, product talk, person talk, and time/weather talk as the topics elaborated upon. Though the quantification of the types of talk reveals that price negotiation is dominated by price talk, it also demonstrates that the production and interpretation of all kinds of talk align with the basic features of negotiation which are soliciting, making, and evaluating an offer. This finding not only shows the formulaic and rule-governed nature of the exchanges, but also demonstrates the degree to which linguistic elements work conjointly with socio-cultural elements in the production and interpretation of discourse. The analysis of the identified set of illocutionary forces reveals that the double-intent negative evaluation/offer solicitation move dominates price negotiation, has the most dynamic nature, and incorporates the most discourse strategies. The description of the bargaining greeting, leave-taking, person talk, time/weather talk, and solidarity and power terms of address illustrates the importance of interpersonal relationships in bargaining in the Bobo-Dioulasso context. The study of bargaining, as a cultural artifact, is a potent method to track social changes within the Bobo-Dioulasso community. As a spoken genre, its description and analysis permit language learners to better decipher the meaning of texts in this genre and to foster their integration in discourse communities where this genre is prevalent.


Objective To establish an RP-HPLC for determination of phellodendrine and magnoflorine in Cortex Phellodendri. Methods SymmetryShieldTM RP-C18 Column(4.6 mm×250 mm,5 μm) was adopted;The mobile phase was acetonitrile-0.05 mol·L-1 phosphoric acid(10∶90,0.2 ml diethylamine in every 100ml) at the flow rate of 1 ml·min-1;The column temperature was 30 ℃ and the detection wavelength was 225 nm. Results The linear ranges of phellodenrine and magnoflorine were 0.338 4~2.030 4 μg and 0.307 2~1.843 2 μg;The average recoveries(n=6) for the sample preparation of the markers were 100.85%,100.35%,respectively. Conclusion The quantitative method for quality control of phellodendrine and magnoflorine in Cortex Phellodendri by RP-HPLC provided the basis for quality countrol of Cortex Phellodendri,this method is simple,rapid and accurate with good reproducibility.


Homologous DNA recombination is the highly conserved process by which similar or identical nucleotide sequences are exchanged between two DNA molecules. In all eukaryotes – from yeast to humans – this kind of genetic recombination serves two critical functions during meiosis, the class of cell division that leads to the formation of gametes such as sperm and eggs in the case of humans, or spores in yeast: Homologous recombination promotes the genetic diversity of gametes by allowing crossing-over between homologous chromosomes, and it is also critical to accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis. Anomalies in recombination often result in the complete loss of chromosomes during meiosis, or in chromosomal rearrangements such as deletions or translocations, which in turn can lead to birth defects or cancer.


Delonix regia. Raffin Svn. Poinaana regia, Bojer ex Hook seed oil belonging to the Leguminosae plant family which contains an appreciable amount of 7-(2-octaeyclopropcn-1-yl)heptanoic acid (malvalic acid. 6.3%) and 8-(2-octacyclopropen-1-yl)octanoic acid (sterculic acid. 4.2%) along with the other normal fatty acids like myristic (1.1 %). palmitic (14.0%). stearic (11.0%), oleic (12.7%) and linoleic (50.7%,). These fatty acids were characterized by FTIR, H NMR. GLC-techniques and chemical transformations.

Fettsaure-Zusammensetzung des Samenols von Delonix regia — eine Quelle fur 7-(2-Octacyelopropen-1-yl)heptansaure und 8-(2-Oclacyclopropen-1-yl)octansaure

Das Samenol von Delonix regia, Raffin Syn. Poinciana regia, Bojer ex Hook, die zur Familic der Leguminosen gehort, enthalt betrachtlichc Mengen an 7-(2-Octacyclopropen-1-yl)heptansaurc (Malvalsaure, 6.3%) und 8-(2-Octacyclopropen-1-yl)octansaure (Sterculsaure. 4.2%) neben Myristinsaure (1.1%), Paimitinsaure (14.0%), Stearinsaure (11.0%). Olsaure (12.7%) und Linolsaure (50.7%). Diese Fettsauren wurden analysiert mit Hide von FTIR. H NMR, Gaseliromatographic und chemischcr Transformationen.


Foreign language broadcasting in campus has successfully broken space and time limitations and become an effective way to improve the foreign language competence and skills.The paper is trying to investigate what effect the foreign language broadcasting station has on learners'cultural input.The employment of case study on announcers discovers and illustrates that practice of foreign language broadcasting is one of the effective approaches to gain foreign language culture.Meanwhile,material culture is easier to acquire,learn and grasp than institutional culture,artistic culture and cultural awareness.As a result,dynamic selection and routine input of culture are suggested.


In the early 20th century,advertisements of department stores on the press appeared in Guang- zhou,and extended consumption space,changed shopping activities and life style of consumers.


Neutron coincidence counting and neutron multiplicity counting are standard techniques for mass determination of fissile materials in nuclear safeguards applications. The preferred neutron detector layout incorporates 3He gas proportional counters in a cylindrical polyethylene moderator block with a central sample cavity. The detector tubes are embedded in the polyethylene in a ring shape approximating a 4 geometry. This standard layout has been adopted in several detector designs such as the High Level Neutron Coincidence Counter (HLNCC-II). The recent worldwide shortage of 3He gas has prompted research into alternative detection technologies for neutrons. An obvious candidate from a physics point of view is 10B due to the high thermal neutron cross section and the inexpensive enrichment process of the 10B isotope. An important advantage includes the fact that when in form of boron trifluoride gas this neutron detector the can replace 3He gas tubes while maintaining other standard counter materials, the well counter design, and even the detector electronics. The toxicity of the BF3 gas however has been mentioned as a potential problem for using this neutron detector is large size neutron coincidence or multiplicity counters in nuclear facilities. The paper describes the newly developed prototype well counter based on BF3 detector tubes including a discussion of results of test bed experiments and Monte Carlo simulations carried out to reach the final design. The objective to build a working counter with same cavity dimensions as the standard HLNCC but with neutron detection efficiency high enough to allow neutron multiplicity counting in practical applications was achieved. The paper shows initial results of measurements with the counter as well as the measured assay parameters. The paper also shows how the issue of the toxicity of the gas has been addressed in the design of the new counter. URI: Authors: PEDERSEN Bent CROCHEMORE Jean-Michel MOSCONI Marita MAYOROV Valeriy TAGZIRIA Hamid OCHERASHVILI Aharon ROESGEN Eric SCHWALBACH Peter Publication Year: 2015 Science Areas: Nuclear safety and security [1]


In this text we aimed at highlighting and commenting substanctive aspects of the first phase of the current Post-Graduation Program in Education from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, originally from a multinational project developed in the form of a covenant between the Brazilian Government and the Organization of American States (OAS), in the period from 1970 to 1977. This project which is denominated as Faculdade Interamericana de Educacao (Interamerican College of Education FIE) was the responsible by the implantation and development of one of the first Education Master's Program in the contryside of Brazil. For the brief understanding of its implications for the Post-Graduation espansion process in Brazil, we aimed at rebuilding its trajectory from the Cold War context, from the determinations of the OAS integration policy and the stricto sensu post-graduation expansion policy in Brazil.


Purpose – The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the impact of leadership on workgroup climate and performance in a religious/church‐based non‐profit organization.Design/methodology/approach – The impact of leadership is investigated using a questionnaire comprised of established scales such as the transformational leadership scales (TLS), team climate inventory questionnaire (TCI), team effectiveness, workgroup cohesion, and interdependence scales. This is a context based study that considers the unique culture comprised of social, political, economic, technologic, personnel, and personal concerns. Descriptive, correlation, hierarchical regression, and SPSS macro developed by Preacher and Hayes were used as statistical techniques to assess the indirect effects (Sobel Tests) of variables.Findings – Transformational leadership was identified as a key variable for the functioning of workgroup performance whilst transactional leadership was identified as a key influencing factor of workgroup cli...


European institutions have decided to ban the sale of Internal Combustion Vehicles (ICEVs) in the EU from 2035. This opens a possible scenario in which, in the not-too-distant future, all vehicles circulating in Europe are likely to be Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). The Spanish vehicle fleet is one of the oldest and has the lowest percentage of BEVs in Europe. The aim of this study is to evaluate the hypothetical scenario in which the current mobility of ICEVs is transformed into BEVs, in the geographical area of the province of Barcelona and in Spain in general. The daily electricity consumption, the required installation capacity of wind and solar photovoltaic energies, and the potential reduction of NOx and particulate matter (PM) emissions are estimated. The daily emission reduction would be about 314 tons of NOx and 17 tons of PM in Spain. However, the estimated investment required in Spain to generate the additional electricity from renewable sources would be enormous (over EUR 25.4 billion), representing, for example, 5.5% of the total national budget in 2022.


An error detecting and correcting system implementing the Reed-Solomon (1023, 1006) code having code words whose symbols are elements in the Galois field GF(210) generated by either the primitive polynomial x10+x3+1 or x10+x7+1. An original data word is encoded to produce a code word w(x) including a first set of checksum symbols appended thereto. Upon retrieval, the data symbols of the receive code word y(x) are encoded by the same encoder that encodes the original data word to produce a second set of checksum symbols. Both sets of checksum symbols are modulo-two summed to produce a residue R(x) from which error syndromes Si can be computed and thus enable rapid correction of errors in the received code word y(x). The system also monitors the number of non-zero symbols in the residue R(x) in order to avoid unnecessary computation of error syndromes Si and other decoding routines, such as when the received code word y(x) is otherwise uncorrectable or when the error exists only in the received checksum symbols, rather than in the data symbols. The distance between code words being (2T+ 2), the error correction routine is bypassed when the number of non-zero symbols in R(x) is less than or equal to T, which indicates that errors only reside in the checksum symbols. When the number of non-zero symbols equals (T+1), the error is uncorrectable. For determining whether a single error exists so that correction can quickly be made, the system also tests whether Si+1/Si is constant for all error syndromes Si.


Through a comparison between the outlooks on politics, history, life and art and the personality of Pasternak the author and Zhivago the protagonist in Doctor Zhivago, one can see that, although there are great differences between their life experiences and backgrounds, there are surprising similarities between their temperament and spirit, and come to the conclusion that Pasternak is Zhivago in real life.


IN the dark shadow of our ignorance as to the cause of new growths, it is not to be expected that I can bring any light when I venture to bring to your notice certain facts, and some few observations which bear on our present attitude towards such a dread disease as cancer of the rectum. I cannot recall the occasion when rectal cancers have been the subject of a paper presented to this Society. It is certainly long distant. It is as if a feeling of despair had paralyzed our endeavour along this melancholy road.


Functionalism and Conflict Theory are two conflicting theoretical approaches in Macro-Sociological theories.How to synthesize these two different approaches has long been a formidable challenge for sociologists.This article provided a review of some related arguments of Marx and Engles and suggested a new approach which originated from the works of Marx and Engles.This new approach may pave the way for reconciling the differences between Functionalism and Conflict Theory.


This document suggests a method of using DNS to determine the network
that contains a specified IP address, the netmask of that network, and
the address(es) of first-hop routers(s) on that network. This method
supports variable-length subnet masks, delegation of subnets on non-
octet boundaries, and multiple routers per subnet. This memo provides
information for the Internet community.


With the prevalence of Web applications and the development of technology,it brings concerns related to the reliability of Web application.Statistical testing and reliability analysis can be used effectively to assure quality for Web applications.Using the Web usage and failure information from existing Web logs,this paper presented a statistical testing method based on UMMs.The usage information was used to build UMMs.The related failure information was used to measure the reliability of Web applications and the potential effectiveness of statistical Web testing.At last we applied this approach to analyze one Web application.The results demonstrated the viability and effectiveness of our approach.


ABSTRACT. This study aims to determine: (1). Abnormal return
difference before and after the company do a reverse split, (2). Differences Trading Volume Activity of shares before and after reverse split. Data collection methods used in this study is the documentation. This study population is all issuers listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Study sample was taken by purposive sampling method that
is the issuer to do a reverse split in the period 20012011.
Hypothesis testing is done by testing the difference Average Abnormal Return (AAR) and the Average Trading Volume Activity before and after reverse split view events using the ttest (paired samples ttest) with a significance level of 5%. The results showed: (1). Based on the paired
samples ttest results shown that the probability value in significance 2tailed is 0,107. So the value of probability > 0,05, then the null hypothesis (Ho) accepted and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is rejected. This means that statistically there was no difference in abnormal returns before and after the company did a reverse split, in
other words, events do not have a reverse split that affects the information content of abnormal return, (2). Based on the paired sample ttest results, it is known that the probability value in significance 2tailed
is 0,002. So the value of probability < 0,05, then the
null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) accepted. This means that, statistically there are the difference trading volume activity before and after the date of the reverse split events


This monograph describes a personnel preparation program that prepared 32 Colorado special education graduates to meet the needs of students who are learning English as a second language and are visually impaired. Graduates took a course that was specially designed to expose students to relevant literature on federal mandates for the education of students from linguistically diverse communities, teaching methodology appropriate for students with limited proficiency and academic achievement, working with families from diverse cultures, using translators, and the teaching of the Spanish braille code. Moreover, students spent 10 hours observing English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in public schools. The second part of the monograph details changes incorporated into targeted courses related to multicultural issues and provides a list of competencies related to the education of linguistically diverse students with visual impairments to assist in the development of relevant course objectives. The third part of the monograph discusses the results of a survey of 361 educators working with students with visual impairments that identifies some of the challenges of working with linguistically diverse students. The fourth part of the monograph contains an annotated bibliography of relevant resources. (CR) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ********************************************************************************


We report the first read-out module for use with single- photon timing array detectors such as multi-anode MCP-PMTs. The IBH Model 5000MXR interfaces to the time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) technique using a single time-to-amplitude converter. In addition to performing established multiplexing tasks, such as simultaneous acquisition of fluorescence and excitation and anisotropy, the new module enables spectral and spatial imaging of kinetic parameters such as fluorescence lifetimes and amplitudes. The system retains the inherent advantages of TCSPC with respect to picosecond time resolution and wide dynamic range, while featuring parallel data acquisition and enhanced data acquisition rates. Unlike early TTL implementations of multiplexing which were limited to four channels, our system uses an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) which can read out the data from up to sixteen detection channels with higher reliability and less time-dispersion. The Model 5000MXR can be packaged as a NIM standard module, packaged to serve more channels or be close coupled to detector arrays for specific applications such as microscopy and lifetime based sensors. The theory, design and performance of ASIC data read-out will be described. Other applications include photon migration in tissue, time- of-flight reflectometry/mass spectrometry and nucleonics.


Semiconducting glass diodes can exhibit at least three conducting states: a high-resistance, or "off" state; a low-resistance, or "on" state; and a negative resistance state. When appropriately pulsed they can also display a memory function. The laboratory operation of simple diodes and the methods of inducing transitions among the various states are described. In addition, the possible role of phase changes in the mechanism of device operation is discussed, and new evidence in support of a filamentary conduction hypothesis is presented.


Eleven non-alcoholic subjects gave written informed consent. Seven men (age 23-52) and four women (age 26-44) were hydrostatically weighed to determine their % body fat and lean body weight. Female subjects on average had a higher % body fat 23.5% (range 18.6-30.0%) than males 16.9% (range 7.5-30.2%). Each subject fasted for at least 10 hrs. then received an oral dose of alcohol at 1.23 g/kg of lean body weight to achieve the intended alcohol concentration of approximately 0.11. On day one beer, containing approximately 5% ethanol by volume, was consumed and on day two 101 proof whiskey mixed with a carbonated beverage was consumed. The drinks were consumed over 2 hr. and 45 min. in three 45-min. drinking periods. Each drinking period was followed by a 15-min. deprivation period and breath alcohol measurements were conducted. After drinking ended, testing continued in 20-min. intervals until each subject's alcohol concentration returned to 0.000. All alcohol analyses were conducted on the Intoxilyzer 5000tructures and reported as g/210 L. While there were significant individual subject differences in both women and men in peak alcohol concentrations between beer and whiskey, the differences between the average peak alcohol concentrations between women and men, and beer and whiskey were insignificant. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference, see ITRD Abstract No. E201067.


Background: Chronic dacryocystitis is a constant menace to delicate ocular structures. If left untreated, it can lead to sight as well as life-threatening complications. However, such complications may be prevented by timely intervention along with appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis. The objectives are to investigate the current bacterial community profile in adult patients with chronic dacryocystitis attending a referral eye care center in Odisha and to determine their drug susceptibility pattern to commonly used antimicrobial agents. Materials and Methods: An observational study was conducted on 70 adult patients with chronic dacryocystitis. The discharge from the punctum was collected by doing a regurgitation test or lacrimal passage irrigation and sent for microbiological analysis. Results: Out of 70 samples collected, 54 (77.1%) samples showed bacterial growth after 24–48 h of incubation. Among various isolates recovered, 68.5% were gram-positive and 27.8% were gram-negative organisms. Staphylococcus aureus was found to be the most common isolate among gram-positive, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was most common among gram-negative organisms. Among all drugs used in the susceptibility test; amikacin, piperacilin + tazobactam, and netilmycin were found to be most sensitive and cefixime, and amoxycilin + clavulinic acid was found to be most resistant to gram-positive as well as for gram-negative organisms. Conclusion: Knowledge about the microbiological profile and the drug susceptibility pattern responsible for chronic dacryocystitis in a geographical area is important and should be kept in mind while treating these patients.


An apparatus for the determination of diffusion coefficients in fused salts at pressures up to 2 kbar, together with the necessary experimental techniques, is described. Values of the self‐diffusion coefficients of 22Na in NaNO3 at 350°C are (2.10±0.09)×10−5 cm2 sec−1 at 1 bar, (1.90±0.05)×10−5 cm2 sec−1 at 400 bar, and (1.77±0.05)×10−5 cm2 sec−1 at 800 bar. The activation volume for the self‐diffusion of 22Na in NaNO3 is 10.7±1.4 cm3 mole−1.


The myth of different choices regarding portfolio composition by taking risks on the long term and on the short term follows to be busted. Whether the opportunity of taking risky decisions regarding investments in the future influences or not short term decisions on risky investiments, especially when retirement is envisaged, always represented a dilemma for those with a short span of life but still investing. Problems like intermediary consumption, exposure to risky investments or differences between young and old investors' portfolio and time horizon issues, are going to be investigated in this article, finding a solid answer by means of mathematical modelling.


The ultrastructure of physiologically different motor nerve terminals on fibers of the eye-raising muscle of the crab Podophthalmus vigil is described. The terminals occur wherever branching axons lose part or all of their Schwann cell cover, either in simple grooves on the surface, in invaginated clefts, or even deep within the fiber in invaginated fingers lined by extension from the surface plasma membrane of the muscle fiber. Dense innervation of the surface of the fiber is associated with the occurrence of large, non-facilitating e.p.s.ps., i.e., with "fast" axons. Less dense innervation, with deeply invaginated terminals is associated with small-sized e.p.s.ps. and with facilitation typical of "slow" axons. No differences in either vesicle content, vesicle shape, mitochondrial density or density of other particles could be found in terminals having different associated biophysical properties.


A field experiment was conducted at Main Agricultural Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad [Northern Transition Zone (Zone 8) of Karnataka] on medium black clay soil during two consecutive kharif seasons (2015 and 2016), to know effect of different weed management practices on activity of enzymes in of groundnut and soybean crops during kharif season. The experiment consisted of two Main Plot treatments (Groundnut-cv JL 24 and Soybean-DSb 21) and eleven Sub-Plot treatments [Weed management practices involving five pre-emergence herbicides, (Alachlor 50 % EC @ 3.00 l ai/ha, Pendimethalin 30 % EC @ 1.00 kg ai/ha, Butachlor 50 % EC @ 1.00 kg ai/ha, Pendimethalin 38.7 CS @ 750 g ai/ha and Oxyfluorfen 23.5 % EC @ 100 g ai/ha), four post-emergence herbicides (Propaquizafop 10 % EC @ 100 g ai/ha, Quizalofop ethyl 5 % EC @ 50 g ai/ha, Fenoxapropp-ethyl 9.3 % EC @ 100 g ai/ha and Imazethapyr 10 % SL @ 100 g ai/ha), weed free control treatment and weedy check control treatment] and was laid out in Split Plot Design with three replications during two consecutive kharif seasons (2015 and 2016). Weed management practices had significant effect on dehydrogenase, phosphatase and urease enzymes activity in the soil at 15 days after sowing or 15 days after pre-emergence application of herbicides and 15 days after post-emergence application of herbicides in groundnut and soybean. Weed management practice involving post-emergence application of Imazethapyr 10 % SL @ 100 g ai/hain groundnut and soybean recorded significantly lower dehydrogenase, phosphatase and urease activity as compared to weedy check and weed free control plots.


........................................ ix CHAPTER I. APPROACHING THE SOUTHSIDE............... 2 1. The Southsi&e: Problems, Issues, Method ................. 2 2. The Southsides 1703-1753 . . . . . . . 12 CHAPTER II. THE EXPANSION OF THE SOUTHSIDE.......... 28 CHAPTER III. TAKING UP THE L A N D .................. 56 CHAPTER IV. SOUTHSIDE SOCIETY.......................110 CHAPTER V. THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE SOUTHSIDE . . . . 172 CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION.............................. 2l6 APPENDIX A............................... 224APPENDIX B............................................226 BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................232


For the French communists and socialists of the 19th century, brochures were the most important means used to spread their doctrines and to organize political movements. With some exceptions, these cheap works were targeted to an audience from lower social strata, thereby inviting them to take part in the polemical space which they created. Brochures were available from specialist booksellers, but they were also distributed during meetings, conferences, and strikes. While read aloud, they could serve as a launch pad for political discussions or as a substitute for political speeches. For these reasons, the examination of brochures offers insights into the context of communication between writers and readers and sheds light on the interaction between the written and spoken word.


Surface cracks in concrete structures are often indicators of more substantial damage and may negatively affect the durability of a structure. To ensure the soundness of these structures, surface cracks should be quickly detected; this project proposes a robot with the ability to detect, map, and fill surface cracks. The robot will use a Bayesian network to fuse the multi-sensor data provided via an RGB camera, a stereo infrared depth sensor, and a LIDAR sensor. It will also be fitted with a newly designed piston-driven syringe system to inject a concrete filler material in a controlled manner. A non-captive lead screw and stepper motor drive the piston along with the syringe, and an arm with two degrees of freedom will allow the robot to position the injector along a crack accurately. To control the arm, the Bayesian network and sensor systems will work in unison to determine when a crack has been filled in a satisfying manner, ensuring a degree of uniformity and consistency in the repaired concrete surface.