In order to design the material,which can generate the ultraviolet spectrum and fit a certain requirement,and measure the ultraviolet spectrum better,a method that utilizes some atomic material and appropriate excitation source to generate the needed ultraviolet spectrum and then measures the ultraviolet spectrum with the ultraviolet sensor is proposed.This is very useful for study and application of ultraviolet guided missile countermeasure and jam.According to related theories,the ultraviolet spectrum of atomic materials,especially the electron energy transition around alkali metal atomic nucleus is analyzed and calculated,and the spectral line data is listed in this paper.The measurement principle of target ultraviolet spectrum is also introduced.After the excitation scheme of suitable ultraviolet material is selected,the ultraviolet spectrum is measured with the dual-grating monochromator and ultraviolet sensor.Finally,the experimental result and the curve diagram of measurement for ultraviolet radiation spectrum are given.


The material point method is well suited for large‐deformation problems in solid mechanics but requires modification to avoid cell‐crossing errors as well as extension instabilities that lead to numerical (nonphysical) fracture. A promising solution is convected particle domain interpolation (CPDI), in which the integration domain used to map data between particles and the background grid deforms with the particle, based on the material deformation gradient. While eliminating the extension instability can be a benefit, it is often desirable to allow material separation to avoid nonphysical stretching. Additionally, large stretches in material points can complicate parallel implementation of CPDI if a single particle domain spans multiple computational patches. A straightforward modification to the CPDI algorithm allows a user‐specified scaling of the particle integration domain to control the numerical fracture response, which facilitates parallelization. Combined with particle splitting, the method can accommodate materials with arbitrarily large failure strains. Used with a smeared damage/softening model, this approach will prevent nonphysical numerical fracture in situations where the material should remain intact, but the effect of a single velocity field on localization may still produce errors in the post‐failure response. Details are given for both 2‐D and 3‐D implementations of the scaling algorithm. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


A multidimensional fluorescence-detected circular dichroism spectrometer has been modified for improved performance. The hardware and software which control the spectrometer were updated. The optical layout of the spectrometer was also redesigned in order to minimize spectral artifacts.


Objective To explore the causes of an outbreak of 168 cases of incisional infection in one hospital.Methods The secretory substances of incisioral wound infection from 168 cases of operation patients were collected,cultured and identified in bacterium strain.We also did drug sensitivity test,pathological examination and investigation of environment.Results Above these experinental studies demostrated that the large-scale outbreak of incisiona infection was caused by mycobacterium chelonei in operation room.Used 0.137% glutaradehyde as disinfectant immersion surgical tools ,but the concentration too low to kill the mycobacterium chelonei,which polluted the hickeyes of surgical instrument.The pollution leading to outbreak of incisional infection.Conclusions By reason of the event lesson,authors suggest that the doctors and nurses should strengthen the detection of atypical mycobacterium,so as to reduce the iatrogenic infection,reducing,or stoping the outbreak of incisinal Infection.


This book on "Sustainable Empowerment of DR Congo Rural Women Survivors of War Rape" describes how Congolese women are viewed in the community and how traditions weigh on them. In the villages, traditions discriminate against them, which makes them rightless and underdeveloped. During wars, fighters target and impregnate them by rape. The pregnancies will deliver fatherless children. This causes husbands to expel the women from their homes as they are viewed as social casts. Blaming them for rape kills them morally as they endured physical and moral rape and now grieving with their children. COFAPRI is empowering them through different income generating activities:sewing, small business, animal rearing and cultivation. The victims are also empowered through learning about forgiveness and truth telling for healing from moral wounds. But, the women are still worried of the current political situation in the country. The president does not want to quit power peacefully. The constitution allows him two terms only. The postponement of the election until 2018 has increased people's anger and qualms, which pushed them to street but they were shot dead by the police.The women need peace!


The symmetrical CPW is a popular structure in the MMIC technology as all conductors are coplanar that does not require any via to approach the ground. The asymmetrical CPW (ACPW) shown in Fig.1 provides additional degree of freedom to control the line characteristic. Several analytical methods [1–2], closed- form expressions [3–4] and experimental investigations [5–6] have been reported to compute the conductor loss of the symmetrical CPW. For the case of microstrip line, Lee and Itoh [8] presented the phenomenological loss equivalence method. Heinrich [9] also presented a circuit model for this purpose applicable to the symmetrical CPW. Holloway and Kuester used the concept of 'stopping distance' to compute the conductor loss of microstrip, symmetrical CPW, symmetrical CPS etc. [4, 10, 11]. This method is accurate and applicable to both the thick and thin strip conductors. However, they have not used the method to compute the conductor loss of asymmetrical CPW (ACPW).


The paper introduces the principle of a simple and effective power phase-shifted full-bridge switching power supply(ZVZCS).The selection of main circuit and the calculation of parameters are given.According to the ZVZCS principle,a DC charging power supply with output 50V and rated current 50A are designed.The phase-shifted full-bridge soft switch simulation are used on MATLAB.The simulation results show the validity of the main circuit parameters selection and calculation.


This research project used two methods for studying the problems facing alternate fuels. The first method studied the use of chemicals to improve fuel characteristics without changing the basic engine design. The second method was to make engine modifications to suit characteristics of the alternate fuel. The result of the two methods studied is a two-part report. Alcohols, solvent-refined coal (SRC-II), vegetable oils, and mixtures of these with diesel fuels and with each other are the alternative fuels discussed and tested. 21 references, 4 figures, 10 tables.


A new class of devices is proposed for flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS) for high-voltage (HV) powerlines with bundled conductors. These new FACTS devices are based on switching modules (SMs), which are mounted on insulated portions of the transmission towers in close proximity to the line conductors. These SMs are composed of electromechanical and power-electronic switches and could be coupled to some other passive components. Such SMs can be used for connecting/disconnecting one or more subconductors of a phase bundle of the powerline at numerous line segments in the network. Power flow is managed in the line segment by changing the series impedance of the line segment with the SM. Furthermore, the SM could also be used for the extraction/injection of active/reactive power from a segment of the HV line. Power-flow management in an electrical power transmission network could be achieved by using serial SMs distributed throughout the transmission lines of the network. The system and method could eventually be used for modifying, in a steady state or dynamic manner, the power flow through an electric powerline. The passive components coupled with the SM improve the range of impedance modulation. A whole range of applications of the SMs could be developed.


This paper presents a pollen and charcoal record from a forest hollow located in northern Germany. The initial stand-scale colonization and subsequent expansion of the species Fagus sylvatica (European Beech) is examined and compared with examples from southern Scandinavia. In the early Holocene, a diverse forest stand is present. The recording of Fagus sylvatica in nine contiguous samples over the time period 8600–7950 cal. yr BP, constrained by three AMS dates, suggests its presence close to the hollow. This early occurrence is critiqued against the current paradigm of mid- to late-Holocene Fagus sylvatica spread in northern Central Europe. Between 6200 and 2900 cal. yr BP, Fagus sylvatica was a minor constituent of the forest community but did not expand despite periods of favorable conditions including relatively open forest landscape, wetter-cooler climatic conditions and a suitable fire regime. The eventual expansion of Fagus sylvatica, around 2900 cal. yr BP, is initiated by significant anthropogenic disturbance around the hollow. After the initial phase of expansion, its growing importance in the forest was potentially aided by a period of wetter-cooler conditions and a switch in the fire regime from one of regular episodes, to one of sporadic occurrence. Two fire events and an increase in anthropogenic activity occur at the same time as the decline in the relative abundance of Fagus sylvatica at 1200 cal. yr BP. This site highlights the strong anthropogenic influence on the species dynamics throughout the late Holocene.


In a retrospective follow‐up study of 50 pregnancies with low urinary excretion of oestriol, there were 6 neonatal deaths; 5 of 23 survivors who could be traced had definite neurological handicaps, and 6 had minor abnormalities of uncertain significance. There was a high incidence of retardation of infra‐uterine growth.


In a double blind manner 38 children with hayfever due to birch pollinosis and weighing 25–80 kg (mean 45 kg) were treated with either astemizole 5 mg/d or placebo for 2 wks before the start of the birch pollen season. At the start of the season all children were given astemizole in doses increasing every week, i. e. 5, 10, 20 and 40 mg/d. This part of the study was blind in that patients did not know the actual dose administered and the physiscians did not know the plasma concentrations of the drug. Blood was drawn before the start of the medication and after each week in the single blind phase of the trial. Despite the long half‐life of astemizole. prophylactic treatment gave no improvement during the first week of the pollen season. Increasing daily doses from 0. 1 mg/kg body weight gave i'ewer hayfever symptoms up to 0. 25 mg/kg, corresponding to a plasma concentration of 4 ng/ml of astemizole plus hydroxyluted metabolites. Still higher doses up to 40 mg/d, corresponding to 0. 5–1. 6 mg/kg/d. gave littie improvement. Sedation and other side effects did not increase with higher doses. Analyses of various laboratory tests did not reveal any abnormalities that were judged to be a result of the medication. However, liver enzymes increased during the treatment period although all values were within normal limits. Thus, astemizole is safe even in higher doses, but neither prophylactic treatment nor daily doses above 0. 25 mg/kg/d improve treatment results in hayfever. The statistical lime series model used correlating symptoms with pollen exposure allowed a good evaluation of the dose‐response of astemizole in hayfever despite the limited number of patients


Pilumnus vespertilio is probably the most abundant brachyuran inhabiting the pebble and rocky areas of Mozambique. However, several aspects concerning its biology remain poorly known. The influence of temperature and rainfall on the reproductive activity of this crab were investigated. Samples were taken from January to December 2002 in the pebble area of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Pearson correlations revealed that both temperature and rainfall were positively associated with the relative frequency of ovigerous females. However, multiple regression models showed that temperature is the main factor controlling the reproductive activity of this species in the study area.


We first briefly review tests on CPT invariance based on the consequences of the CPT theorem and then present some possible CPT tests due to exotic models in which some of the CPT conditions are lost, such as those without hermiticity.


The ubiquity of the World-Wide Web (WWW) has served to increase the rate of data collection for many psychologists. A testament to this observation is the in crease in both degree and kind ofdata collection devices currently found on the Internet. Whereas survey forms (Schmidt, 1997) and within-subjects research methods im plementing static hypertext markup language (HTML) pages have become a quotidian staple in the experimen tal psychologist's research toolbox, methods involving between-subjects designs have been less recognizable as Internet-based experimental designs. Central to the implementation of a between-subjects experimental design on the Internet is a program that is ex ternal both to the user/subject and to the experimenter. A method is necessary that instructs the subject about the experimental requirements, as well as provides accurate, consistent data reporting to the experimenter. Server-side scripts that are written as common gateway interfaces (CGIs) can serve this function. Server-Side and Client-Side Scripts The key differences between a server-side and a client side script are not so much a matter ofwhat is being done as ofwhere it is being done. Although we may think ofeach as containing the instructions for an experimental proto col, there exist key differences between the two. Client side scripts occur on the machine receiving feedback from the server. As a matter offunction, client-side scripts are shipped in their entirety to the computer (more specifi cally, the browser) that is downloading the experiment.


Japanese audio-visual teaching is an important link in higher vocational Japanese teaching system, and a major means and supporting course of training students' listening and speaking ability. Communication ability is also a weak link in higher vocational students, so in the audio-visual teaching the improvement of students' communicative ability is significant to promote the Japanese teaching in higher vocational colleges. It is necessary to strengthen students understanding of Japanese culture through cultural permeation, and then in constructing the system of updated teaching materials and curriculum setting strengthen the cultivation of communicative ability.


THE tendency of the population of the country to move towards the towns, and the consequent rapid increase of the already densely-populated quarters of towns, enhances the responsibility of those who are charged with the duty of supplying wholesome water, especially as new sewerage works, particularly in their connection with the houses which the growth of towns makes necessary, may become, without great precautions, means of contamination of the water, to say nothing of the chances of pollution at its source. It may then be as well to note what has been done, and what is being done, in some of the larger towns towards providing wholesome water, and to refer briefly to the systems and methods which are most efficient in affording a good and sufficient supply. The Rivers Pollution Commissioners declared that &dquo; of the


FIELD: chemistry of peptides, medicine, drugs, pharmacy. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing polymer of lactic and glycolic acids with the ratio of average molecular mass and medium-numbered molecular mass about 1.90 or less, or its salt and physiologically active peptide as agonist of LH-RH of formula: 5-oxo-Pro-His-Trp-Ser-Tyr-Y-Leu-Arg-Pro-Z (I) wherein Y means D-Leu, D-Ala, D-Trp, D-Ser (tBu), D-2-Nal or D-His; Z means HN-C 2 H 5 or Gly-NH 2 or its salt, in particular, peptide of the formula: 5-oxo-Pro-His-Trp-Ser-Tyr-D-Leu-Leu-Arg-Pro-NH-C 2 H 5 (II) or its acetate, and to polymer of lactic and glycolic acids with the ratio of average molecular mass and medium-numbered molecular mass about 1.90 or less. Also, invention relates to a method for preparing indicated polymer and to a microsphere containing indicated polymer and peptide of the formula (II), and to a medicinal agent used in prophylaxis or treatment of prostate cancer, prostatomegaly, endometriosis, uterus myoma, metrofibroma, premature sexual maturation and dysmenorrhea, or for a contraceptive agent comprising indicated microsphere, and to methods for prophylaxis or treatment of indicated diseases. Invention provides preparing compositions with delayed release and containing physiologically active substance of peptide nature and providing the stable rate of release of active substance for the prolonged period (up to 1 month) in inhibition of high initial release of indicated active substance. EFFECT: improved preparing method, valuable medicinal properties of composition. 37 cl, 4 tbl, 9 ex


This paper discusses a feasibility study covering the generation of high-intensity electromagnetic fields for radiated susceptibility or ordnance hazard tests. A new type of antenna using an elliptic-cylinder reflector is discussed. The results of laboratory measurements made with such an antenna are displayed graphically and discussed in the text of the paper. The advantages and limitations of this device are discussed. It is demonstrated that such an antenna is feasible, and plans for a proposed follow on effort are discussed.


This paper introduces an advanced 800 MHz direct-oscillation frequency, synthesizer and 145 MHz SAW FM modulator that do not use multipliers or mixers but instead uses four newly developed devices: An 800 MHz VCO, a 145 MHz SAW VCO, a two-modulus prescaler IC which is operational up to 1 GHz, and a C-MOS PLL LSL.


Part 1 1. Introducing Alternative Food Networks, Fair Trade Circuits and The Politics Of Food 2. Coming Home To Eat? Reflexive Localism and Just Food 3. Bridging Production and Consumption: Alternative Food Networks as Shared Knowledge Practice Part 2: Alternative Food Provisioning In Britain And Western Europe: Introduction And Antecedents 4. Rural Europe Redux? The New Territoriality and Rural Development 5. Into the Mainstream: The Politics Of Quality 6. Changing Paradigms? Food Security Debates and Grassroots Food Re-Localization Movements in Britain and Western Europe Part 3: Alternative Food Movements In The US: Formative Years, Mainstreaming, Civic Governance And Knowing Sustainability 7. Broken Promises? US Alternative Food Movements, Origins and Debates 8. Resisting Mainstreaming, Maintaining Alterity 9. Sustainable Agriculture as Knowing and Growing Part 4: Globalizing Alternative Food Movements: The Cultural Material Politics of Fair Trade 10. The Shifting Cultural Politics of Fair Trade: From Transparent to Virtual Livelihoods 11. The Price and Practices of Quality: The Shifting Materialities of Fair Trade Networks 12. The Practices and Politics of a Globalized AFN: Whither the Possibilities and Problematics of Fair Trade? 13. Concluding Thoughts


A new concept of rain contamination flashover(RCF) is proposed based on the analysis of the RCF of bushing and CT at Gezhouba power station.The causes leading to these incidences are investigated.To study measures against the RCF of bushing and CT, tests are performed on a porcelain housing for 500 kV MOA with and without aided sheds.The factors affecting the performance of aided sheds such as the shape,the number,the applied location and the fixing method are discussed.


We propose to align the orientation of local feature descriptors with the gravitational force measured with inertial sensors. In contrast to standard approaches that gain a reproducible feature orientation from the intensities of neighboring pixels to remain invariant against rotation, this approach results in clearly distinguishable descriptors for congruent features in different orientations. Gravity-aligned feature descriptors (GAFD) are suitable for any application relying on corresponding points in multiple images of static scenes and are particularly beneficial in the presence of differently oriented repetitive features as they are widespread in urban scenes and on man-made objects. In this paper, we show with different examples that the process of feature description and matching gets both faster and results in better matches when aligning the descriptors with the gravity compared to traditional techniques.


The fidelity susceptibility has been used to detect quantum phase transitions in the Hermitian quantum many-body systems over a decade, where the fidelity susceptibility density approaches $+\infty$ in the thermodynamic limits. Here the fidelity susceptibility $\chi$ is generalized to non-Hermitian quantum systems by taking the geometric structure of the Hilbert space into consideration. Instead of solving the metric equation of motion from scratch, we chose a gauge where the fidelities are composed of biorthogonal eigenstates and can be worked out algebraically or numerically when not on the exceptional point (EP). Due to the properties of the Hilbert space geometry at EP, we found that EP can be found when $\chi$ approaches $-\infty$. As examples, we investigate the simplest $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric $2\times2$ Hamiltonian with a single tuning parameter and the non-Hermitian Su-Schriffer-Heeger model.


With the rapid development of Chinese economy and the need of large numbers of senior technical personnel,our country and society attach importance to the higher vocational education.The higher vocational education is an important part of education enterprise in Chinese.EducationInformatization is the key to promote the development of higher vocational education.At first,there are some problems commonly existed in the present education informatization construction.For example,the planning is not unified,the information standards lag behind,the application is not in place,the mechanism is imperfect,and so on.Finally,prospect the development direction of the education informatization construction in higher vocational education.


Abstract The utility of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) has been to a certain extent neglected in order to investigate on acquired cochleo-vestibular disorders of uncertain origin until the wide range of labyrinthine dehiscences has been discovered. In the last decade both the technical progress, that has permitted a diagnostic refinement in general terms, and the better definition of the width of the dehiscence syndromes, that proved larger than previously expected, has restored CT to its crucial role in detecting inner ear affections. Despite its evidence, this statement has not uniformly entered the habit of clinical practice. For this reason, a review of the literature of the last years, aimed at underlying the real significance of this tool for the otologist, appears of some utility in order to contribute to eliminate deep-rooted diagnostic incongruities.


A Crown Heights, New York, headline reports a curious incident: " Vigilant Bystanders Deliver Mugger to Hands of Justice " (2014). Why would third parties put themselves at risk to intervene in a conflict between strangers? In a city of anonymous millions, it is unlikely the third parties had any material stake in this conflict—their intervention appears irrational. Nonetheless, apparently irrational third-party intervention has been widely documented in laboratory and field settings (Buckholtz et al. Here, we used an ecological-rationality approach to derive one explanation for why humans engage in third-party intervention: the deterrence hypothesis. A psychological mechanism is ecologically rational if it produces behavior that would, on average, have been adaptive in the environments that selected for its design. But that same mechanism may produce behavior that appears unwarranted or irrational when placed in evolutionarily atypical situations (Haselton et al. hypothesis, third-party intervention arises from a psychology designed to deter personally relevant mistreat-ment. This deterrence psychology exploits an enduring Abstract Third-party intervention, such as when a crowd stops a mugger, is common. Yet it seems irrational because it has real costs but may provide no personal benefits. In a laboratory analogue, the third-party-punishment game, third parties (" punishers ") will often spend real money to anonymously punish bad behavior directed at other people. A common explanation is that third-party punishment exists to maintain a cooperative society. We tested a different explanation: Third-party punishment results from a deterrence psychology for defending personal interests. Because humans evolved in small-scale, face-to-face social worlds, the mind infers that mistreatment of a third party predicts later mistreatment of oneself. We showed that when punishers do not have information about how they personally will be treated, they infer that mistreatment of other people predicts mistreatment of themselves, and these inferences predict punishment. But when information about personal mistreatment is available, it drives punishment. This suggests that humans' punitive psychology evolved to defend personal interests.


The aim of our study concerns the evaluation of levels of contamination by 9 heavymetals (Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, Ni, Cr, Pb, Cd, Hg) in water, sediment and aquatic organisms within3 wetland areas Tonga, Oubeira and Mellah in the National Park of El Kala.Lake El Mellah: water, sediment and bivalve "Ruditapes decussatus".Lake Tonga: water, sediment and eel "Anguilla anguilla".Lake Oubeira: water, sediment and mussel watch" Anodonta sp".In each area, two sampling station were fixed. During the year 2006, 154 samplingswere carried out.Statistical analysis (ANOVA and PPDS) of concentration of these 9 heavy metals atthe level of water and sediment showed significant variation in time and space.In Lake Oubeira, waters are polluted by Fe, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Cr, Cd, Hg. In LakeMellah, levels of pollution by Fe, Mn, Ni, Cr, Pd, Cd, and Hg are higher than Europeanstandards. In Lake Tonga, 6 heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Ni, Cr, Pb, Cd) show high levels.Measurements of levels of heavy metals in sediment show higher values of :• Fe, Ni, Cr in Mellah,• Fe in Oubeira• Fe, Pb, Cd in TongaIn aquatic organisms, levels of heavy metals in Anguilla anguilla from Lake Tonga andRuditapes decussatus from Lake Mellah are very low, whereas very high in Anodonta Sp.from Lake Oubeira.


M-competition studies provide a set of stylized recommendations to enhance forecast reliability. However, no single method dominates across series, leading to consideration of the relationship between selected data characteristics and the reliability of alternative forecast methods. This study conducts an analysis of predictive accuracy in relation to Internet bandwidth loads. Extrapolation techniques that perform best in M-competitions perform relatively poorly in predicting Internet bandwidth loads. Such performance is attributed to Internet bandwidth data exhibiting considerably less structure than M-competition data. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


T he subject of my presentation today as the keynote lecture in the opening session of this great congress of the International Confederations of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery is popular, as you can all see in this room, as well as the focus is educational. Over the years, craniofacial surgery has had its ups and downs, and currently, we are in a downswing as the remuneration is not as rewarding as are the other parts of surgery we do in plastic surgery, even though the popularity is still the same. Despite what we think and as pure as we are, that is an important factor in the daily activities of practitioners. This is not so only in our great country, but we are facing a global wave of similarities. I am going to tell you what's happening today and what is going to be there tomorrow, as we define the future progression of our specialty of craniofacial surgery within plastic surgery. Tomorrow's advances are well seen today in the work that is done all around the world. This is the 2009 Confederation Congress of Craniofacial Surgery. The first presentation on the creation of this field was made more than 40 years ago, when craniofacial surgery was considered to be a new part of plastic surgery, where it has stayed until now. Today, we continue to encompass craniofacial surgery as part of plastic surgery, even though our special field is extremely dynamic and we are living in changing times. We continue to look for science, innovations, and the traditional barriers that need to be crossed without compromising the safety of the patients involved. We may have called them obstacles in the past, and crossing them has always been a challenging opportunity to keep the dynamic nature of our field active. I would like also to pay tribute to my mentor, Dr Joseph Murray. Together we did the first craniofacial surgery in our country more than 40 years ago. He taught us that the patient comes first, that science should guide our clinical work, and that self-promotion is out of the question. Dr Murray's book, Surgery of the Soul, is a treasure of these principles (Fig. 1). They are not only the principles but also the criterion standard of what we do in craniofacial surgery. However, the technical aspects continue to change. So do the small maneuvers that some hang their hats on and produce the futile arguments that we have to encounter on a regular basis for almost a century now. New maneuvers are continuously described, the majority I feel are for the benefit of the patient not drastic as some lead us to believe. The horizon is inundated with them, and whoever was first to identify the maneuver gets his name on it. The safety to the patient should always be paramount and the respect to vital anatomic structures is critical. Science is always essential. Bone is a living organ. It does not need carpentry with plates and screws in the biologic system to withstand the time. We continue to improve our understanding and knowledge of bone healing, as well as the applications of biomaterials in that regard. Craniofacial surgery is a matrix specialty combined with other specialties, such as otolaryngology, oral surgery, and neurosurgery. However, as the green pie of returns is getting smaller and competition is becoming more the rule than collaboration among specialties as was done years back, the patients start falling in the cracks of differences. An example of this is seen here (Fig. 2), the first patient who had a unilateral coronal synostosis. She had a limited stripe craniotomy, which is a sham operation in this situation. It does not do anything for the patient's cranial configuration, the orbital dystopia, or to the central nervous system. The founder of the field of neurosurgery wrote a century ago, BThe surgeon who performed this procedure to correct imbecility should be held in disrepute.[ Yet we see our colleagues doing the limited strips all around us, despite what is known scientifically of its futility. Another problem is seen in this patient (Fig. 3) who has a lambdoid synostosis that was treated with a helmet and massage therapy. Such treatments are not going to do anything to the deformity the patient has encountered. The patient had severe plagiocephaly involving the craniofacial skeleton; in this patient, the deformation increases in time to involve more structures. The next patient (Fig. 4) has deformational plagiocephaly, the most common craniofacial


Fines of pulp,one of the important cellulose materials for the paper industry,have systematic effects on paper properties.Generally,the fines will decrease thickness,bulkness,porosity of paper,and will improve tensile strength,formation and smoothness of paper,and will affect brightness,color,sizing properties of paper and so on to some extent.Considering the morphology of fines,fibril fines improve tensile strength of paper significantly while flake fines increase light scattering coefficient.Because of their different morphology and chemical composition,the fines of different kinds of pulp produce specific characteristics.The fines of kraft wood pulp are good for tensile strength of paper because of their characteristics of high fibril fines content and good accessibility.The fines of mechanical wood pulp can improve optical properties of paper because of their characteristics of high flake fines content,high lignin content and stiffness.The fines of straw-like pulp will deteriorate the strength of paper as they contain high content of non-fiber cells.Fines also affect other properties of paper by their process behavior(for example retention).The knowledge of the fines has profound significance in strengthening the pulp and paper process control and the development of new products.


Contemporary education now appears to be dominated by the continual drive for improvement measured against the assessment of what students have learned. It is our contention that a foundational relation with assessment organises contemporary education. Here we draw on a 'way of thinking' that is deconstructive in its intent. Such thinking makes clear the vicious circularity of the argument for improvement, wherein assessment valorised in discourses of improvement provides not only a rationalisation for improvement via assessment, but also the very means of achieving such possibilities via targets grounded in limited specifications of assessment. On reading Heidegger's 'question concerning technology' we sought to reconsider the vicious circle of improvement in relation to Being. We claim that the means‐ends driven technology of assessment, rather than being at our disposal and under our control, only serves to reveals the Real to us in accordance with the restricting principle of reason. The principle of reason, we argue, grounds 'Enframing' that ranks and orders the very beings of education as objects to produce an objective 'world as picture', rather than opening the possibility of their identity as belongings with a movement of difference. So, 'improvement' becomes normative and binding for institutions and practices on grounds of the principle of assessment, and renders agents of education as functionaries of 'Enframing'.


This paper investigates whether there is a negative relationship between related party transactions and firm performance and to examine whether there is a positive moderating effect of corporate governance on the relationship between related party transactions and firm performance. We use Big-N CPA firms or independent boards and supervisors to measure corporate governance mechanisms and suggest that the effect of related party transactions on firm performance is conditional on corporate governance mechanisms. The empirical results provide evidence that corporate governance mechanisms transfer related party transactions from "conflicts of interest" to "efficient transactions". Thus, we conclude that Big-N CPA firms or independent boards and supervisors can play moderating roles in related party transactions. Our findings contribute to the debate about the competing theoretical perspective and the mixed empirical evidence of related party transactions.


Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently attracted significant research interest as the third generation of artificial neural networks that can enable low-power eventdriven data analytics. The best performing SNNs for image recognition tasks are obtained by converting a trained Analog Neural Network (ANN), consisting of Rectified Linear Units (ReLU), to SNN composed of integrate-and-fire neurons with "proper" firing thresholds. The converted SNNs typically incur loss in accuracy compared to that provided by the original ANN and require sizable number of inference time-steps to achieve the best accuracy. We find that performance degradation in the converted SNN stems from using "hard reset" spiking neuron that is driven to fixed reset potential once its membrane potential exceeds the firing threshold, leading to information loss during SNN inference. We propose ANN-SNN conversion using "soft reset" spiking neuron model, referred to as Residual Membrane Potential (RMP) spiking neuron, which retains the "residual" membrane potential above threshold at the firing instants. We demonstrate near loss-less ANN-SNN conversion using RMP neurons for VGG-16, ResNet-20, and ResNet-34 SNNs on challenging datasets including CIFAR10 (93.633% top-1), CIFAR-100 (70.928% top-1), and ImageNet (73.26% top-1 accuracy). Our results also show that RMP-SNN achieves comparable accuracy to that provided by the converted SNN with "hard reset" spiking neurons using 2-8× fewer inference time-steps across datasets.


Innovation is the real source of economic growth, and industrial innovation is systems integration of the technological innovation, product innovation and market innovation, which is the basic determinant of national competitiveness. This paper constructs an analytical framework that includes variables such as innovation spillover effect, innovation input, innovation output and industrial effect. Through the investigation and analysis of the innovation activities of China's small and medium board listed companies in 2006, 2007 and 2008, this paper examines the innovation performance and the above factors. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between firm performance and innovation input and innovation output, but there is no significant correlation with the innovation environment and industry background such as government support and innovation opportunity, and the spillover effect is significant Negative correlation, and innovation human capital investment, company age, company Q value also showed a negative correlation.


In this paper,a simple,convenient and practical self-adaptive dynamic optimizing method for an extremum value control system is presented to solve a never evading problem in practical industrial process by using the previous method.The problem is that accurate identification of the parameters of linear part in the extremum value control system is too difficult.The method in this paper only needs much less apriori information concerning the controlled plant.This new method can automatically not only identify the parameters of control plant,but also can automatically adapt to the drift of the parameters.So it is very simple,convenient and practical to be realized in the real industrial process.


Abstract The essay examines the social policy principles underlying state funding schemes that shape the functioning of non-profit organisations in service delivery in Russia. Scrutinising federal and regional financial tools, the analysis reveals that some non-profit organisations are engaged with a neoliberal logic promoting state funding based on competitive grant processes and a means-tested approach to clients, while others seek privileged access to state resources to secure a statist and stratified service provision for their members. The essay argues that neoliberal principles are extended through contracting-out and are undermining statist practices; however, a situation is emerging within competitive outsourcing procedures in which selected organisations are still receiving privileged treatment from the state.


sense of sympathy for the solitary individual whose private, personal turmoil and struggle are dialectically set against the public aspirations to grand humanitarian ideals. But precisely because Makavejev's method is so profoundly dialectical, we sense that the contradiction between the individual and the social aspirations need not necessarily be an antagonistic one: the plea in Okoudjava's song is a plea for the individual, but for the individual who himself subscribes to the communist commitment to create a society which provides to each according to his need. The film, then, while critical of the authoritarian and repressive elements within the communist movement-some of which are traced to Lenin himself-seems clearly to be an ho est and sincere ttempt to bring out the revolutionary potential for genui e liberation which has so often been betrayed and distorted by our neglect of the all-important psychosexual foundations of political behavior. A d the tribute which is offered to Wilhelm Reich by WR: The Mysteries of the Organism is ll the more meaningful because Makavejev no more adopts an uncritical attitude toward Reich than he does toward Lenin, but instead chooses to respect the complexity of our human predicament-caught up as we are, and as they were, in a sound and fury of sex and politics.


The gasification of petroleum coke (petcoke) can cause fouling and erosion problems. In this study, the evolution of Ni and V during steam gasification is investigated in a fluidized bed from 800 to 1100 °C. The occurrence modes determined by the sequential extraction show that raw petcoke contains diversified Ni forms, whereas V is dominated by organic matter and residual form. The organic matter is rapidly converted to residual form. The Ni in residual form is partially released, whereas the V in residual form is considerably converted to other forms. The volatilization of Ni is positively correlated with the temperature and sulfur content, whereas V has a positive correlation with the exchangeable form. The exchangeable form of V is conducive to forming a well-developed pore structure, whereas carbonates play the opposite role. Under the practical fluidized bed gasification, Ni tends to cause erosion, especially for continental petcoke, whereas V is inclined to cause slagging and fouling.


Summary The challenges of developing the Tyumen Formation reserves are associated with the following features: thick oil column, high heterogeneity, abnormally low permeability, and a low degree of knowledge. Historically, the development of the Tyumen Formation has been uneconomic due to low startup oil rates and high decline rates. The first active phase of development began in 2009, due to recompletions at the Talinsky license block and drilling of directional wells with hydraulic fracturing at the Em-Yegovsky license block. Those measures resulted in recoveries of less than 2% of the initial recoverable reserves. The next stage started in 2013–2015, when a pilot project of "horizontal wells with hydraulic fracturing" was successfully implemented at the Em-Egovsky license block. Together with the tax incentives to the MET rate, this made it possible to significantly expand the zones of economic drilling and ensure an increase in oil production. Based on successful practices at the Em-Egovsky license block, since 2017, the HzW + MSHF technology has been replicated at the Kamenny and Talinsky license blocks. In the next 20 years, it is planned to drill about 5,000 wells in the Tyumen Formation which will increase production by more than five times. In 2020, a pilot project was implemented to increase the length of a horizontal well (up to 1,200 m) and the number of hydraulic fracturing stages (up to 12). Note that the current tax incentives will not allow the full involvement of the Tyumen Formation reserves into development - when moving into zones of poorer quality, the development economics decreases. By the time the tax benefit expires (2030–2035), 40% of planned wells will be drilled, the recoveries from initial recoverable reserves will not exceed 20%. Further growth and maintenance of oil production will require additional tax incentives.


The genus Azteca is endemic to the American tropics, where they are abundant arboreal ants. The taxonomy and natural history of the Costa Rican fauna is reviewed, and the A. aurita group is recognized and revised globally. The following synonymies are proposed: A. laticeps Forel under A. chartifex Forel; A. championi Forel, A. eiseni Pergande, A. raptrix Forel, A. ursina Forel, and A. xysticola Forel under A. forelii Emery; A. rossi and A. surubrensis Forel under A. gnava Forel; A. major Forel under A. instabilis (F. Smith); A. prorsa Wheeler under A. longiceps Emery; A. patruelis Forel under A. pittieri Forel; A. nigriventris Forel and A. rectinota Forel under A. velox Forel; A. silvae Forel under A. aurita Emery; A. pruinosa Mann under A. lallemandi Forel; A. lacrymosa Forel under A. pilosula Forel; A. fiebrigi Forel, A. clariceps Santschi, and A. pallida Stitz under A. schimperi Emery; A. columbica Forel under A. jelskii Emery; A. mexicana Emery under A. sericea (Mayr). Azteca velox nigra Forel is raised to species. Azteca aurita pilosula is removed from synonymy and raised to species. The following new species are described: A. sericeasur, A. flavigaster, A. oecocordia, A. nanogyna, and A. quadraticeps.


Quantifiers are expressions that denote number and quantity (Peters & Westerståhl 2006). When quantifiers interact with each other or with other logical expressions in a sentence, the resulting interpretation may be ambiguous (cf. May 1985, a.o.). In this paper, we focus on young chilren's understanding of the interaction of the universal quantifiers every and each with wh-expressions (who, which) in questions such as (1).


Davies S. A. & M a c h V. M. (1991) Endosalpingosis as a cause of chronic pelvic pain. A m J Obstet Gynecoll64,495496. Editorial (1978) Enigmatic pelvicpain. Br Med Jii, 1041-1042. Editorial (1981) Pelvic pain. Lancetii, 617418. Editorial (1991) Pelvic congestion. Lancet 337,398400. FarquharC.M.,HoghtonG.B. S.&BeardR. W.(1990)Pelvicpain pelvic congestion or the irritable bowel syndrome? Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol37,71-75. Farquhar C. M. et al. (1989) A randomized controlled trial of medroxyprogesterone acetate and psychotherapy for the treatment of pelvic congestion. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 96,


The great advantage of the helical ionization cooling channel (HCC) is its compact structure that enables the fast cooling of muon beam 6-dimensional phase space. This compact aspect requires a high average RF gradient, with few places that do not have cavities. Also, the muon beam is diffuse and requires an RF system with large transverse and longitudinal acceptance. A traveling wave system can address these requirements. First, the number of RF power coupling ports can be significantly reduced compared with our previous pillbox concept. Secondly, by adding a nose on the cell iris, the presence of thin metal foils traversed by the muons can possibly be avoided. We show simulations of the cooling performance of a traveling wave RF system in a HCC, including cavity geometries with inter-cell RF power couplers needed for power propagation.


72.38 The quadratic alphabet "Rubashov sat down on the bunk, his heart beating. The first contact was always very exciting. No. 402 was now tapping regularly; three times with short intervals, then a pause, then again three times. Rubashov repeated the same series to indicate that he had heard. He was anxious to find out whether the other knew the quadratic alphabet—otherwise there would be a lot of fumbling until he had taught it to him. While Rubashov was memorizing the numbers, he tried, being out of practice, to visualise the square of letters with the twenty-five compartments—five horizontal rows with five letters in each. No. 402 first tapped five times—accordingly the fifth row: V to Z; then twice so it was the second letter of the row: W. Then a pause; then two taps—the second row, F-J; then three taps—the third letter of the row: H. Then three times and five times: O. He stopped. Whol" From page 26 of the Penguin edition of Darkness at noon by Arthur Koestler.


We present a study of sensitivity of the R-parity violating SUSY searches with the upgraded D0 detector in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron, within a SUGRA framework. We considered the lightest neutralino as an LSP that decays into a lepton and slepton (R-parity violating decay), resulting in 2e + \ge 4 jets or 2\mu + \ge 4 jets final state. The analysis, based on scaling of the Run I results, shows that squarks and gluinos with masses up to about 0.6 TeV could be probed with 2 fb^-1 of Run II data. This work has been done in the context of the BTMSSM Working Group of the Run II SUSY/Higgs Workshop at Fermilab.


This work extends a previous study on the electrochemistry of silver electrodes in aqueous sulfide solutions. It has been found that the voltammograms for the silver-sulfide system have additional features to those reported earlier. The nature and interpretation of the additional features is described. Peaks due to silver oxides, and chemically formed silver sulfide, are identified and discussed. Further evidence for the presence of α- and β-Ag2S in the layer deposited during anodic oxidation of the silver was obtained from chronopotentiometric and diffraction studies.


This paper deals with analysis and comparison of the equivalent plastic
 strain and temperature fields in the aluminium alloy 2024 T3 welded joint,
 with macro/microstructure appearance and hardness profile. In the alloys
 hardened by heat treatment, grain size and particle size of the precipitate
 are functions of equivalent plastic strain, strain rate and temperature. By
 analyzing the equivalent plastic strain fields and temperature fields it is
 possible, to some extent, to capture the effect of welding parameters and
 thermo-mechanical conditions on grain structure, and therefore hardness and
 strength in the welded joint. A coupled thermo-mechanical model is applied
 to study the material behaviour during the linear welding stage of friction
 stir welding (FSW). Three-dimensional finite element (FE) model has been
 created in ABAQUS/Explicit software using the Johnson-Cook material law. The
 values of thermo-mechanical quantities during the welding stage are obtained
 from the numerical model and shown as distributions across the joint. The
 obtained values of these quantities are related to the microstructure of the
 joint zones and hardness distribution, and this relation is discussed.


The Hashimoto-Koshiishi model is the predictive mechanistic model for crack growth rates (CGRs) of stress corrosion cracking (SCC). The simplified formula of the Hashimoto-Koshiishi model was developed for the calculation of CGRs of irradiated Type 316L stainless steels (SSs). This study evaluated the applicability of the developed formula to various types of stainless steels by analyzing experimental data of CGRs. The developed formula was determined to be applicable for Type 304L SSs and 316NG SSs as well as Type 316L SSs. On the other hand, the formula was unsuitable for irradiated Type 304 SSs because the mechanical properties and the Cr concentrations at the grain boundaries of Type 304 SSs were different from these quantities for Type 316L SSs.


In this article, I trace the credit and debt practices of a company incorporated in the UK to extract "wild rubber" in the Amazon. Based on reports by Sir Roger Casement, an officer of the British diplomatic service, I present a general description of the organization of the Peruvian Amazon Co., whose operation did not depend on investment in technology or infrastructure but, rather, on the flow of credit in the form of merchandise. I will discuss debt-peonage as the form of labor privileged by the wild rubber industry in the Amazon and show how it works when indigenous peoples and their territories are involved, as was the case in Putumayo. I argue that the concept of debt-peonage is misleading in this situation, as it obscures both the conditions and the relations into which the Indians, as a society, were forced. I will highlight the role of debt in this relation, commonly referred to as the "conquest" of the Indians, as constitutive of both physical and symbolic violence. I conclude showing how credit and debt, usually considered to be instrumental for the development of capitalism, are here at the core of a system that not only was opposed to the logic of the market, but also strangled local production and exchange networks. The "credit engine" became here an instrument of genocide.


In natural languages, as opposed to computer languages like C or Pascal, the words and syntax are not artificially defined; instead, they develop naturally. Typical examples of natural languages are those that are spoken in human communication, such as the English, French, and Japanese languages. However, the term natural language can also refer to written text, such as Facebook postings, emails or even text messages. As well as changing over time, natural languages also vary among different cultures and people groups. So, for example, the words and syntax that a teenager might use to write a text message on their phone are likely to be different to the words and syntax that Shakespeare used to write Othello. Within computer science, the term Natural Language Processing (NLP) refers to way computers are programmed to understand natural languages. At a basic level, NLP involves three steps – lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis. The complexity of each of these steps is perhaps best illustrated through looking at how three well-known programs incorporate NLP; namely, Microsoft Word, the Google search engine, and Apple's Siri. If you were to type (or copy and paste) the following string – "Can I be worn jeens to church?" – into Microsoft Word then it will perform simple lexical analysis by grouping the characters into tokens (i.e. words) using the whitespace and punctuation as separators. Having done this, the program will then consult its dictionary and recognize that "jeens" is not a valid entry. As a result, it will place this word in red, somewhat like this:


An important and critical factor in data warehouses is maintaining data quality. In case of inadequate data quality the stakeholders associated with this cannot trust the results produced by data warehouses. Data warehousing has capture an attention from several years among researchers and developers but maintaining quality in data warehouses is a crucial issue and a sophisticated task. Poor data quality will not only lead to loosing customer trusts but also increase costs, decision making and break downs in the supply chain. As analysis demands increases, quality becomes more and more important. By the increase in number of data warehouse systems, the integration of data from different resources is required. This paper presents a survey based on issues regarding security of data in data warehouses and techniques required for maintaining quality. It combines views of different researchers to provide brief set of issues and problems of data warehouse systems.


This talk on using VR games in legal education was delivered as part of the launch of the University of Westminster's Centre for Teaching Innovation (CTI)


Patient satisfaction with a ring pessary SIR Ð Uterovaginal prolapse is a common condition in parous women. Frequent complaints are protrusion of tissue and a dragging sensation. It may be treated surgically or with the use of a vaginal ring pessary. There is a wealth of literature describing most facets of surgical management. There is a dearth of literature regarding the use of a vaginal ring pessary, generally restricted to unusual complications such as the incarceration of small bowel (Ott et al., 1993). In view of this lack of information, I surveyed 30 women who attended a gynaecology clinic for the routine change of a ring pessary. They were asked how long they had been treated with a ring pessary, whether the ring satisfactorily treated their symptoms and if they would have preferred to have been treated surgically or with a ring pessary. The mean age of the women surveyed was 78 years (range 54± 90 years) and the mean length of time that they had been treated with a ring pessary was 6 ́5 years (range 1± 20 years). All 30 (100%) women were satis ® ed by their treatment with the ring pessaries, and 29/30 (96 ́6%) were happy to have been treated for their prolapse with a ring pessary rather than by surgery. This cohort of women demonstrates a high level of satisfaction and efficacy with the use of a vaginal ring pessary for the treatment of uterovaginal prolapse. One must accept that this is a self-selecting population. Those who were reluctant to be treated with a ring pessary and insisted on surgical correction would not be included. Those who found the ring poor for their symptom control, or were intolerant of the ring would be likely to have been offered surgery. However it does demonstrate that the ring pessary is a useful method of controlling symptoms of prolapse in certain women. The principal advantages of treatment with a ring are that women are spared the need of an operative procedure and the innate risks that this entails. Vaginal hysterectomy is commonly performed at the time of surgery for genital tract prolapse, and hysterectomy either by the abdominal or vaginal route is associated with further genital tract prolapse, such as prolapse of the vaginal vault. This is a notoriously difficult problem to manage (Toozs-Hobson et al., 1998). Disadvantages of treatment with a ring are that the women require numerous repeat visits to a health care professional for change of the ring pessary. The presence of a ring may be seen as problematic in sexually active women although some well-motivated women could be taught to remove their ring and replace it themselves. There has been a reported association of ring pessaries with the development of genital tract malignancies (Schraub et al., 1992). However these cases were associated with old-fashioned types of rings that were never changed, in contrast with the modern silastic rings that are changed on a regular basis and the vagina inspected at the time of the change. It has been estimated that 50% of parous women have some degree of genital prolapse and 10± 20% of these women are symptomatic to some degree (Cardozo, 1995). Advancing age is strongly associated with symptomatic uterovaginal prolapse (Mant et al., 1997). The population of the United Kingdom is living longer and one may well presume that in the near future symptomatic uterovaginal prolapse will be seen even more frequently. There has never been a controlled trial to assess the value of treatment of genital tract prolapse with a ring pessary in contrast to surgical management. Surely it is time to scienti® cally investigate the optimum mode of treatment for this common condition.


The aim of the article is to review the scientific contribution of the representative of the Ossetian intellectuals A. Tsallagov in Ethnography Ossetia. Problemno thematic areas of the historical-ethnographic essay A. Tsallagov were: housing, agriculture, animal husbandry, food, wedding ceremonies, birthing ceremonies, funeral rites, folk festivals. A. Tsallagov gave description of various aspects of socio-economic and spiritual life of one of the largest lowland villages of North Ossetia Gisela, formed in 1858. The author concluded that A. Tsallagov introduced into scientific use many new ethnographic materials Ossetia, including a detailed description of left social and family life gizeltsev. According to the author, historical and ethnographic materials A. Tsallagov are one of the most important sources and have great historical and ethnographic value.


The spectroscopic observation of 1268-nm emission of singlet oxygen photosensitized by tetracyclines in oxygenated solutions at room temperature is reported. In the series demeclocycline, tetracycline, and minocycline, the efficiency of singlet oxygen generation is found to parallel the clinical observation of relative frequency of phototoxicity of these antibiotics, suggesting singlet oxygen generation as the origin of their phototoxicity.


The question of whether global norms are experiencing a crisis allows for two concurrent answers. From a facticity perspective, certain global norms are in crisis, given their worldwide lack of implementation and effectiveness. From a validity perspective, however, a crisis is not obvious, as these norms are not openly contested discursively and institutionally. In order to explain the double diagnosis (crisis/no crisis), this article draws on international relations research on norm contestation and norm robustness. It proposes the concept of hidden discursive contestation and distinguishes it from three other key types of norm contestation: open discursive, open non-discursive and hidden non-discursive contestation. We identify four manifestations of hidden discursive contestation in: (1) the deflection of responsibility; (2) forestalling norm strengthening; (3) displaying norms as functional means to an end; and (4) downgrading or upgrading single norm elements. Our empirical focus is on the decent work norm, which demonstrates the double diagnosis. While it lacks facticity, it enjoys far-reaching verbal acceptance and high validity. Our qualitative analysis of discursive hidden contestation draws on two case studies: the International Labour Organization's compliance procedures, which monitor international labour standards, and the United Nations Treaty Process on a binding instrument for business and human rights. Although both fora have different context and policy cycles, they exhibit similar strategies of hidden discursive contestation.


/Si substratesby using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) system. We fabricated three different thin films of BTO, BTO/CNF andCNF/BTO/CNF for magneto-capacitor and studied their crystalline structure, surface and interface morphol-ogy, and magnetic and electrical properties. When three different structures of multilayered thin film werecompared, magnetization of CNF/BTO/CNF thin films was decreased by magnetic and dielectric interaction.Also we confirmed that capacitance of CNF/BTO/CNF multilayered thin film was enhanced as being near tet-ragonal structure with increasing of c/a ratio because of atomic bonding at interface between BTO dielectricand CNF magnetic materials. Finally, we studied the change of the capacitance of CNF/BTO/CNF multilay-ered thin film with magnetic field for emergence of magnetocapacitance and suggested a possibility of enhancedcapacitance.Keywords : magnetocapacitance, multilayer thin film, pulsed laser deposition, interface effect


The two-year-old Quercus nuttallii and Quercus Shumavdii B.seedlings were planted in three treatments of deep(20cm) waterlogging,shallow(saturated water conten) waterlogging and no waterlogging for 76 days to study the influences of waterlogging stress on their growth and leaf anatomical structures.Taxodiaceae taxodium L was selected as the control species with the same treatments.Biomass and the height of seedlings were measured,and external morphological characters and anatomic structures in leaves were observed.The results showed that there was no death seedling of two oak species in the condition of shallow waterlogging stress,while under deep waterlogging stress Q.Shumavdii seedlings began to die after 49 days,Q.nuttallii seedlings was lightly harmed after 76 days,and no any damaged symptoms were observed in the T.taxodium seedlings.Compared with the control,shallow waterlogging stress could improve biomass accumulation and the height of Q.nuttallii and T.taxodium,especially for the former.Under deep waterlogging stress,the height and biomass of Q.Shumavdii seedling was suppressed obviously,while for Q.nuttallii and T.taxodium seedlings the effects were not obvious.Waterlogging stress had no obviously influences on the anatomical structures in leaves of T.taxodium and Q.nuttallii,while the intercellular spaces in leaves of Q.Shumavdii were greater than the control.Synthetically,waterlogging-tolerance of two oak species was stronger,and comparatively,Q.nuttallii was stronger than Q.Shumavdii and weaker than T.taxodium in waterlogging-tolerance.


To investigate the relative advantages of bolus versus no bolus, extensive measurements were made of the dose distribution in the superficial layers for single and parallel opposing fields applied to a phantond shaped like a chest wall. The findings indicate that for Co/sup 60/ optimum distributions are obtained using full bolus, while for Cs/sup 137/ bolus should only be used for half of the treatment series. A obtained using Co/sup 60/ in this way than can be achieved with Cs/sup 137/. (P.C.H.)


stone wall, is often added. These highly similar designs with a mixing of three or four different forms may lead the inexperienced designer to think that most projects call into play all the choices in a designer's bag of tricks. Reid's combining of multiple forms or structuring themes in a single design is a different approach from that used elsewhere in the book. Most earlier photos and drawings clearly depict a space organized around a single, dominant structure, be it geometric or naturalistic. The book would be better served by a wider range of case studies. None of the examples use symmetry as an organizing principle, and only in the office courtyard does one type of geometry (circular) clearly dominate. As an alternative, case studies based on landmark or award-winning landscapes would have broadened the presentation of design elements and principles beyond their application to small-scale landscape design. The book's value, and thus its strongest point, is the academic lessons it provides in composition, especially the combining of geometric shapes. Students and novice designers all struggle with the problems of combining geometric shapes and forms. Poor design is often typified by awkward intersections or odd junctions of lines, angles, and circles. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design provides a series of simple rules to help the designer compose a design. Figure 2-260 is a diagram that summarizes many of the key principles. This one, succinct drawing combines triangle and square, intersects a circle with the triangle, transitions from a curve to a straight line, combines contrasting forms, and abuts geometric and organic elements. The appendix continues these valuable lessons by showing the reader how to construct a hexagon, pentagon, ellipse, and golden-mean rectangle. Paying heed to the lessons of this book will surely elevate the composition ability of design students. Elmina Hilsenrath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-5611. STRUCTURE IN SCULPTURE, by Daniel Schodek, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. xiv + 312 pages, illustrations, diagrams, drawings, figures, line drawings, photographs, appendix, bibliography, index, $60.00, clothbound. ISBN 0-262-19313-2


The study examines the notion of happy life and its ingredients in a rural adivasi (first nation people) community experiencing the influences of acculturation and development taking place in the rapidly globalising world. The study was carried out on 200 males of the Kharwar adivasi group residing in 11 villages of the Naugarh Block of Chanduali district in Uttar Pradesh. The participants, aged 30–60 years, were given the happy life test (Sinha, 1969, Indian villages in transition: A motivational analysis. Delhi: Associated Publishing House) with slight modification in the questions. Content analysis of responses brought out five major elements of happy life, namely economy, relationships, health, meaningful engagements and money. Cluster analysis revealed that only economy, relationships and health were reliable elements of happy life, while the other two elements were outliers. As compared to the happy Kharwars, the less happy Kharwars suggested more number of items as ingredients of happy life. The findings suggest that the ingredients of happy life are culture specific and not universal. It is suggested that, even in the face of a development model, which underscores material possessions, the life of people in traditional societies, such as of the Kharwar, is driven largely by need rather than by greed.


The Sila Massif in the Calabrian Arc (southern Italy) is a key site to study the response of a landscape to rock uplift. Here an uplift rate of ∼1 mm/yr has imparted a deep imprint on the Sila landscape recorded by a high‐standing low‐relief surface on top of the massif, deeply incised fluvial valleys along its flanks, and flights of marine terraces in the coastal belt. In this framework, we combined river longitudinal profile analysis with hillslope erosion rates calculated by 10Be content in modern fluvial sediments to reconstruct the long‐term uplift history of the massif. Cosmogenic data show a large variation in erosion rates, marking two main domains. The samples collected in the high‐standing low‐relief surface atop Sila provide low erosion rates (from 0.09 ± 0.01 to 0.13 ± 0.01 mm/yr). Conversely, high values of erosion rate (up to 0.92 ± 0.08 mm/yr) characterize the incised fluvial valleys on the massif flanks. The analyzed river profiles exhibit a wide range of shapes diverging from the commonly accepted equilibrium concave‐up form. Generally, the studied river profiles show two or, more frequently, three concave‐up segments bounded by knickpoints and characterized by different values of concavity and steepness indices. The wide variation in cosmogenic erosion rates and the non‐equilibrated river profiles indicate that the Sila landscape is in a transient state of disequilibrium in response to a strong and unsteady uplift not yet counterbalanced by erosion.


We developed a new software program called Limovie to produce light curve plots of occultation events. Limovie converts a video to a light curve for a qualitative analysis of occultation events including those difficult ones with very small magnitude drops. If the video is with time insertion or with time signals recorded, the light intensity data can be outputted with the precise times automatically so that the precise times of the occultation events can be obtained. The high detail of the light curve plots of lunar occultations, especially the grazing ones, can allow the user to estimate the size of the star and the lunar limb profile features by applying Fresnel diffraction patterns to the resulted light curve. Limovie can also be used to analyze the events such as the mutual events of the Galilean satellites where the light intensity varies slowly with time. Limovie is also useful for occultations involving close double stars, allowing measuring the component magnitudes. Limovie is a free program obtainable at: http://www005.upp.so-net.ne. jp/k_miyash/occ02/limovie_en.html. *1麻績村筑北村学校組合立筑北中学校 (Chikuhoku Junior High School) *2せんだい宇宙館(Sendai Space Hall)


Nusraddin Arslan Aba Hasbeg was one of the most famous of Ahmadili atabegs reigning in the Maraghah location, depending on Seljukids. Atabeg Arslan Aba Hasbeg ascended throne after the death of his father Aksungur al-Ahmadili and reigned in Maraghah during a long time. He made atabegness to the son of Muhammedshah and Davud from the Seljukid maliks of Irak He participated the throne struggles of the Irak Seljukids. Also he battled with Georgians and atabegs of Azarbaijiin


The paper introduces the AHP-based gray relation analysis into the evaluation of the support effectiveness of motor transportation squadrons in military logistics and,through the determination of evaluation objects and the construction of evaluation factor set,establishes a support effectiveness evaluation model of motor transportation squadrons and verifies its validity and practicality through case studying.


Over recent years, invasive hypertension treatments have led to a new clinical condition, called device-resistant hypertension (DRH).1 DRH is defined as blood pressure (BP) >140/90 mm Hg, with at least 3 antihypertensives at maximal doses, including a diuretic,2 without BP decrease after the invasive treatments. These patients are not infrequent and are obliged to visit several hypertension units for managing their BP. We have observed a significant BP decrease only by using intravenous drugs recommended for emergencies.2,3 Thus, we refined a protocol to perform a chronic intravenous antihypertensive infusion in patients with DRH via an elastomeric pump and a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC).

After exclusion of several intravenous drugs for contraindications, urapidil was selected as the drug of choice. Here, we present the case of the first treated patient with DRH.

The patient is a 45-year-old male. He was hypertensive and undergoing treatment since 2009. He was overweight (body mass index, 29.6), a smoker and dyslipidaemic. In 2012, he underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty plus stenting for unstable angina and underwent a further new percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in 2013. The same year, he was admitted to the Hypertension Unit of the University of Pisa for uncontrolled hypertension (office BP, 240/150 mm Hg and day-time ambulatory BP monitoring 200/102 mm Hg). Secondary causes of hypertension were ruled out. After several drug changes, the patient was treated with furosemide 50 mg/d, metoprolol 100 mg/d, spironolactone 50 mg/d, ramipril 10 mg/d, and amlodipine 10 mg/d without BP control. In March 2014, he underwent radiofrequency renal denervation without complications, but no significant BP reduction. Seven months …


A comparative study was made on the susceptibility of Triatoma infestans and Triatoma barberi to different Mexican strains of TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI .

A total of 128 T. infestans were exposed to 5 strains of T. cruzi resulting in 14.1% not acquiring an infection. Of the 138 T. barberi tested with the strains only 5.1% remained negative. T. barberi was more susceptible than T. infestans , and in general, T. cruzi had a faster rate of development in the former reduviid. The variation between different growth patterns and development for the same strains is due probably to the different physiology of the bugs.

The significance of the above results is that T. barberi and the strains of T. cruzi are both native to Mexico. Methods of obtaining improved results with xenodiagnosis are pointed out.


This chapter describes how Web usage patterns can be used to improve the navigational structure of a Web site. The discussion begins with an illustration of visualization tools that study aggregate and individual link traversals. The use of data mining techniques such as classification, association, and sequence analysis to discover knowledge about Web usage, such as navigational patterns, is also discussed. Finally, a graph theoretic algorithm to create an optimal navigational hyperlink structure, based on known navigation patterns, is presented. The discussion is supported by analysis of realworld datasets. IntroductIon The structure of a Web site is usually based on how the designer envisions the site will be used. However once the Web site is put into use, the designer's theoretical approach may turn out to be not so practical. It is only the actual use of the Web site that will give the designer clues about how the users navigate through the site and in what content they are most interested. For example, if the users are flocking towards a particular type of content, then the designer could think about establishing the site as an authority on that type of content by providing more information on the topic. Conversely, if a type of content is not generating much attention, it may be because the users are missing the information. The designer may look into changing its location on the Web site. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-990-8.ch024


An impact resistant thermoplastic molding composi tion comprising a. 80% to 98% by weight of polyvinyl chloride, b. 2% to 20% by weight of a modifying resin for improving the impact strength, characterized by an additional content of, c. 2% to 30% by weight, based on PVC, of a coated calcium carbonate, the surface of which has been treated with stearic acid and which has a particle size of 0.04 to 0.1 p. The composition is useful for preparing shaped articles, such as hollow articles.


Our country has a long standing cultural history. Laboring people had gathered rich experiences in the production practice of rearing domestic animals, such as silkworms, pigs and deer. The famous Legalist Xun Kuang (313-238 B.C.) summarized Ms theory in his work "Zheng-ming" (Accurate Definitions of Concepts). The theory included the principle of taxonomy, the distinguishing of variations of living objects as well as the significance and regulations of nomenclature. The political implications as well as the theoretical significance were also under discussion.The book "Er-ya", which was completed in Qin-Han dynasties, inherited and further developed the knowledge of animal species in "Shi-jing" (Book of Odes). There are five chapters, each containing nearly a hundred different names of aaimal species, i.e., insects, fishes, birds, mammals and domestic animals. It is the earliest systematic record in history discovered so far. Owing to the influences of Confucia-nists, further progress was arrested or halted. But books on medicinal herbs often have important bearings on animal taxonomy. In Li Shi-zhen's (1518-1593 A.D.) "Ben-cao-gang-mu", animal species were classified in six divisions, i. e., insects, fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals and human beings. Altogether 409 different species of animals were recorded. This monographic study raised the taxonomic work to a new level.


In order to achieve the challenge of the present invention, a laundry machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, the drum is provided on a portion of the vibration sensor, the drum to sense the vibration of the drum, including at least one ball It includes a ball balancer, a control unit for controlling the rotational speed of the drum, to the control unit using a signal related to vibration of the drum obtained from the vibration sensor, while maintaining the rotational speed of the drum, a group for a specified time interval, characterized by detecting the amount of eccentricity and the information related to the location of the balls in the drum and selecting the acceleration pattern corresponding to the position of the detected amount of eccentricity and the view of the pre-set table, and rotating the drum in accordance with the selected acceleration pattern do.


The aims of this study was to determine the effect of the combination of  progesterone in sponge intravaginal with equine chorionic gonadotropine (eCG) to the occurrence of estrous on fat tailed sheep. Eighteen of 1-2 years old sheep divided into three groups randomly with six replication. P0 were given 75 mg progesterone in sponge intravaginal until twelve days. P1 were given 75 mg progesterone in sponge intravaginal until eleven days. P2 were given 75 mg progesterone in sponge intravaginal until twelve days. After that, on day 12th P1 and P2 were injected equine chorionic gonadotropine (eCG) 250 IU intramuscularly. This study used complete random design and analyzed using ANOVA and continued with BNJ Test Method and processed by using SPSS version 20. The result showed the combination of progesteron in sponge intravaginal with or without injection eCG can provide effect the occurrence of estrous on fat tailed sheeps.


The so-called line-by-line procedure is an impractical procedure in the case of several chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Positions, strengths and widths of individual lines are practically impossible to catalogue since there are literally (densely packed) thousands of them. Lines belonging to hot bands, which are transitions from excited vibrational levels, and isotopic bands further complicate the problem. A proper approach to take in such instances would be to measure the absorption coefficient itself over the range of wavenumbers, temperatures and pressures that are relevant to atmospheric remote sensing experiments. The ultimate goal in the line-by-line scheme is, after all, that of computing the absorption coefficient, a computation that is so desperately dependent on our knowledge, which we can never hope to possess totally adequately in the near future, of all of the parameters mentioned above and of their temperature and pressure dependence. Why not measure the absorption coefficient itself in the laboratory ? To illustrate the atttractiveness of this idea we present below two examples involving CFC-12 (CF2Cl2) and CFC-22 (CHClF2). The spectra were measured with the Doppler-limited spectral resolution of a tunable diode laser spectrometer and using a cryogenically cooled absorption cell, both of which are adequately described in some of our publications.1


Background Compared to all other racial groups, black Americans are most likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) and are most likely to die from the disease. These racial disparities have been largely attributed to social and economic conditions that impact the prevalence of co-morbidities and access to quality health care. However, the molecular and cellular differences in CRC tumors between black and white subjects remain largely uncharacterized. Methods We analyzed paired tumor and adjacent normal RNA sequencing reads collected from 15 black and 18 white subjects at Downstate Medical Center and Stony Brook University Hospital (DSSBU). 273 additional RNA sequencing and clinicopathologic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were used as a validation cohort. In the TCGA dataset, 54 black subjects were propensity score matched to 108 white subjects by age, sex, tumor location and tumor stage. Differential expression analysis was performed with EdgeR and Wilcoxon rank-sum test, which was recently recommended for human population samples. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis of DEGs (absolute log 2-fold change > 1, adjust p value < 0.05) was performed using enrichR. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) of hallmark gene sets was applied to the gene list ranked by fold changes. The TPM (transcript per million) data was used to estimate relative cell abundance via xCell. Antitumor immune response likelihood scores were generated via the Estimate Systems Immune Response (EaSIeR) R package. Results EdgeR analysis identified 15 and 80 DEGs in the DSSBU and TCGA datasets, respectively. Two DEGs, CXCL10 and RPPH1 have decreased expression while EEF1A1P13 has higher expression in black samples from both datasets. CXCL10 remained a DEG under the Wilcoxon test in the TCGA dataset and in propensity score matched samples. GO enrichment analysis identified "Chemokine-mediated signaling pathway" as a significantly different biological process between tumor groups with a FDR of 0.043 and 0.0004 in TCGA and DSSBU respectively. GSEA computed a negative enrichment score for IL6 JAK STAT3 signaling, Interferon alpha response, Interferon gamma response, Allograft rejection and Myc targets V1 in the black group from both datasets. xCell analysis of the DSSBU data revealed significant enrichment for endothelial cells, adipocytes and hematopoietic stem cells in black tumor samples, while white samples were significantly enriched for basophils, T helper 2 cells and common lymphoid progenitor cells. No significant differences in cell type enrichment were identified in the TCGA dataset. Predicted immunotherapy response scores were not significantly different between races in both cohorts. Conclusion Our results show differences in genes and pathways associated with inflammation and immune cell recruitment which may impact anti-tumor activity. Our future work will include experimental validation of interesting genes accounting for the differences.
 Citation Format: Dimitri F. Joseph, Ellen Li, Bin Chen, Joseph F. LaComb, Alexandra Guillaume. Deciphering molecular and cellular differences between black and white colorectal cancers through in-depth transcriptomic analyses [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 15th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2022 Sep 16-19; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2022;31(1 Suppl):Abstract nr A010.


The purpose of predictive maintenance is to predict the failure of a component or machinery, to plan its replacement at the lowest possible cost, minimizing downtime and maximizing the life of the component. In the case of dynamic systems subject to deterioration or random wear, such as pumps, vibration measurement and Fourier analysis are used to characterize and monitor their behavior.


This study examines the relationship among foreign aid, food supply and poverty reduction in Nigeria. It uses secondary data for the period 1975-2005. With the use of econometric analysis we specify a structural model that examines the determinants of poverty-reduction. We test our model specification, using Statistical Analysis of Time Series (STATA 10) software. We find that multilateral aid, food supply, public sector spending on health care and education are the major determinants of poverty reduction in Nigeria. We conclude that given the ongoing food supply crises, the gradual withdrawal of government from provision of health care and education as well as the unreliability of aid, there is the need for some policy re-think if poverty is to be reduced in the country.


Objective To observe the effect of Shengnaokang capsules in treatment of women vascular headache.Methods Two hundred and twenty four female patients were divided into treatment group(168 cases,including 108 cases during intermission and 60 cases during period of onset) and control group(56 cases,including 36 cases during intermission and 20 cases during period of onset).The two drugs in clinical role were analyzed and compared,TCD was preformed before and after taking drugs and the effects of drugs on improvement of CBF states were observed.Results After Shengnaokang capsules treatment,the TCD results showed that in 108 cases during intermission there were 101 cases cured,the others CBF states were improved except 1 case,the effective rate was 90.5%.In control group,the effective rate in 36 cases during intermission was 30.6%(11 cases).In 60 cases during period of onset,the CBF states were improved except 2 cases,there were 54 cases cured,the effective rate was 90%.The effective rate in 20 cases during period of onset in control group was 25%(5 cases).The efficacy of the treatment group was better than of the control group(P0.05).Conclusion The effect of Shengnaokang capsules in treatment of women vascular headache is better than compound danshen tablets.


Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text. Background: Percutaneous injuries from needlesticks are a major occupational hazard for nurses. Local Problem: Reducing subcutaneous insulin-related needlestick injuries was part of a nurse-led comprehensive sharps injury-reduction program at an integrated, not-for-profit health system. Methods: The incident rate of needlestick injuries was compared between 1 year before and 1 year after introducing this quality improvement project. Interventions: A system-wide educational program instituting changes in subcutaneous insulin administration practices was combined with supply chain standardization using a single type of safety-engineered insulin syringe. Results: The average monthly incidence of needlestick injuries per 10 000 subcutaneous insulin injections fell significantly from year to year (incidence rate ratio, 0.49; 95% CI, 0.30-0.80; Poisson regression P = .004). One-year cost savings for supplies totaled $3500; additional annual median savings were $24 875 (2019 US dollars) in estimated costs of needlestick injuries averted. Conclusions: The effectiveness of this multifaceted project provides a practical template to reduce subcutaneous insulin-related needlestick injuries.


ABSTRACT We determined and compared the method detection limits (MDLα) of a PCR and an immunofluorescence assay (IFA) for detection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in soils. Based on the MDLα and the quantitative nature and stability of the IFA, PCR analysis is not a useful screening step for soil studies of oocyst transport.


177 Introduction The feed of concentrates and other additives into furnaces is becoming a more sophisticated field of engineering compared to the historical, and in many instances current, systems that have been and are used today. The need for the improvement of furnace feeding systems is brought on by two major driving forces. The first of these is the more sophisticated furnace designs that are being built. These strive to smelt more material for the same footprint that the original smelters use and also to get a higher yield of smelted ore per kWh of energy used. In essence this means significantly higher energy densities and better energy efficiencies. The role that the feeding of concentrates and other additives plays is vital to the metering and the distribution of material, and has to be better controlled to absorb the increased energy being introduced in the furnace. Failure to do this can lead to unstable operation of the furnace, unbalanced energy distribution, and over-heating, amongst other operational difficulties, rendering the furnace unusable. The second driving force is the cost of power. The paper that I presented two years ago1 argued that the original introduction of injection systems as a means to feed furnaces was initiated by the global oil crisis in the late 1970s. The world is now in another global energy crisis. This is seen in Southern Africa as the rapid increase in the price of electricity, the recent Eskom price increases ratified by NERSA validate this point, which in turn affects the bottom line of all the electrical-powered smelters and will be placing an industry-wide emphasis on improving throughput in the same furnaces as well as dramatically improving energy utilization. The furnace feeding technologies which Clyde Materials Handling Africa (Pty) Ltd (CMHA) are able to offer to the furnace designers and operators will allow them to exploit the full benefit of new furnace designs and technologies. This will allow the industry to improve the energy utilization as well as increase the energy density of the designs-leading to the smelting industry remaining competitive in regard to global production price indices. There is an important final aspect of these systems which needs to be added to the overall picture and that is the environmental soundness of the systems offered and specifically the containment of dust emissions into the atmosphere. This paper outlines the technologies, areas in which these technologies have been used, and strategies for the application of these technologies in future applications.


Mixture viscosities and densities of the ternary mixtures of ethylbenzene, toluene, bromobenzene, and 1-hexanol were measured at 30, 40, 50, and 60{sup 0}C. The nonidealities reflected in mixture viscosities are expressed and discussed in terms of excess viscosities which were both positive and negative.


A blind search in a network is used to discover a target node without detailed knowledge on the network. Because of its simplicity and the robust against network uncertainty, the blind search has been widely utilized by diverse applications in different types of networks (e.g., unstructured P2P (Peer-to-Peer) networks, ICNs (Information Centric Networks), mobile ad-hoc networks, and social networks). One of the major drawbacks of the blind search is its inefficiency; i.e., a large number of message exchanges is unavoidable for shortening the search time. In this paper, we propose an efficient blind search method utilizing the rendezvous of multiple random walkers, whose transition probabilities are adjusted based on our analysis results. Through simulation experiments, we show that the performance of the proposed search method is comparable with the flooding, which is the fastest but the least efficient method among blind search methods, and that it requires much smaller message exchanges than the flooding. We also show that the proposed search method works more effectively in scale-free networks than in non-scale-free networks.


To the Editor.— It is known that the use of chlorpropamide in diabetics may result in hyponatremia.1Less well appreciated and only once described before is a similar phenomenon with the use of tolbutamide. Report of a Case.— A 64-year-old man, diabetic for ten years, was admitted to Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, Surgical Service, for bilateral nonhealing ulcers on the stumps of his below-the-knee amputations, performed four years earlier for gangrene. Diabetes had been controlled (fasting blood glucose levels averaged 100 mg/dl) with oral tolbutamide, 500 mg daily, for two years. Physical examination showed an oriented, cooperative, chronically ill man. There was no edema, evidence of heart failure, or cirrhosis. Necrotic ulcers were present on both stumps. Chest x-ray film was normal. Serum sodium level was 114 mEq/liter; chloride level, 83 mEq/liter; BUN level, 12 mg/dl; creatinine level, 0.7 mg/dl; cholesterol level, 150 mg/dl; and albumin level, 2.9 g/dl.


Abstract : The evolution of the Strategic Concept, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) blueprint for its approach to the global security environment, has undergone substantial change during the last ten years. These changes reflect the vastly different international world order precipitated by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. the Untied States, as a member of NATO, has been equally involved with the developments of the post bi-polar world. It has begun to restructure its military in an attempt to better respond to the full-spectrum of conflict and higher tempo of contemporary operations. The potential for complex multinational operations, coupled with the unique military and strategic dynamics found within such an environment, will ultimately demand a higher level of understanding of such operations from members of the United States Army. Using a contemporary analytical strategy to explore the development of NATO's Strategic Concept, coupled with an examination of Army service specific doctrine, this monograph will answer the problem statement of this research: Is the United States Army aware of the operational ramifications contained within NATO's new strategic concept? The most visible evidence of alliance understanding and awareness rests within the cornerstone publications and service doctrine. This monograph concludes that there is insufficient attention paid to alliance and multinational operations within its doctrine and manuals and points to After Action Reviews from Kosovo and Bosnia to support these findings. The extensive experience accumulated by U.S. Am% commanders since the signing of the Dayton peace Accords must be cultivated and ultimately integrated into future doctrine development.


The present invention is, (the I) conductive, and functional phase particles selected from electrically resistive and dielectric properties of particles, the fine particles of inorganic material comprising an inorganic binder having a glass transition temperature in the range of 325-600 ° C. hints, (II) (e) copolymers, an interpolymer or aqueous developable non-photosensitive polymer mixtures thereof, each copolymer or interpolymer comprises (1) alkyl acrylates of C


Modernization of 14,500 ft canal; navigational problems caused by up to 100,-000 cfs fluctuating turbine discharge of powerhouse, resembling twice daily tide; use of 1:100 scale model; modification in entrance shape to eliminate two cross-current problems; extension of downstream point of land between canal and river and placing of six 32 ft diam sheet-piling cells on 57 ft centers parallel to river.


ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of proof tasks in the transition from conjecture to proof in Euclidean geometry on freshmen's proof schemes. In line with this aim, the proof schemes of the freshmen who performed conjecture-proof and theorem-proof tasks were compared. The freshmen were composed of 109 pre-service middle school mathematics teachers who are enrolled in their first year of undergraduate education. The study was modeled as a multiple-case study. Fifty-three freshmen performed conjecture-proof tasks in Case-1, and fifty-six freshmen performed theorem-proof tasks in Case-2. The video recordings, including the written proof reports, reflection papers, and proof explanations of the freshmen, were used as data collection tools in the tasks. The proof schemes were used as construct maps to evaluate the proofs of freshmen and analyzed using Winsteps Rasch software. The proof schemes in freshmen's proof tasks were evaluated by the Wright Map and supported with direct quotations from the proofs. In the study, it was observed that the proof schemes of freshmen who made proofs based on their own conjectures were mostly empirical and analytical proof schemes, while the proof schemes of freshmen who made proof of the presented theorem were generally external and empirical proof schemes.


The existence, the need and the use of the WEB by individuals, companies and governments is total, but the accession processes are distinct. This complicates even more in the religious expressions. Largely refractory to change, some religious expressions are more radical and adherence to modern values, some are extremely susceptible though. All of them adhered to some kind of technology hi-tech, but not necessarily its values. More specifically, an expression of Pentecostalism, the processes are slow, inconsistent and selective. The God is Love Pentecostal Church prohibits - among many things - its membership of having or watching TV, but the church has an Internet portal. That church joined the modern technology exerting absolute control over the lives of members in total isolation from any modern cultural expression. It is one of most closed churches, internally and externally, the Pentecostal world, but it is on the web. This church is a example that modern and archaic can be contradictory, but also, dialectically, a synthesis of reality.


Under the condition of an upper stream manufacturer and two distributors who sell different products, hold private demand information and carry out price-based Bertrand competition, the paper establishes a three-stage game theory model, gets equilibrium result and puts forward such a tactics as sharing demand information between manufacturer and distributors.