Lyapunov stability theory is used in this paper to reason a kind of stable arithmetic for the output-layer weight of RBFN when it's used as identifier and controller respectively.Then,according to the result,a certain kind of turntable was choosed as the object for simulation.The result shows that the method applied has promoted the effect of identification a lot.As for the controller,the example in paper~([4]) is used in the simulation,and the result shows this arithmetic can promote the control effect in a certain degree.


Ascofuranone is a potent inhibitor of trypanosome alternative oxidase. A short and efficient total synthesis of (±)-ascofuranone was accomplished in only seven steps starting with geranyl acetate. ...


The many-parameter Gaussian theory of a polymer chain is in the asymptotic region N to infinity (N is the number of monomer units) equivalent to a one-parameter scaled Gaussian theory. Such theories fulfil the necessary condition of minimum free energy only in a polymer chain without remote interactions along the chain. Therefore they cannot be used as a reliable basis in SCF calculations in polymers.


An averaging methodology is employed in studying dynamics of a two degree of freedom nonlinear oscillator. The main system is modeled as a van der Pol oscillator under harmonic forcing. The objective is to reduce its amplitude of oscillation near resonance, by attaching to it a damped vibration absorber with a Duffing spring


Knowledge of the structure and function of sensory system of aphids, as well as understanding of their behavior, enabled the development of different methods of aphid collection, flight monitoring and control. The first methods used for collecting aphids were the colored water traps, most commonly of yellow color. Methods based on olfactory perception in order to reduce the abundance of aphids in the field have been developed later. These methods are mainly based on sowing different plant species, such as border crops, trap crops and intercropping. Chemicals, such as pheromones and essential oils, have also found practical application.


Intuition suggests that a strengthening of the yen should moderate Japan's trade surplus by reducing the price competitiveness of Japanese goods. Yet the Japanese merchandise trade surplus more than doubled from 1990 to 1993 while the yen appreciated roughly 30 percent against the dollar. This article shows how a sequence of increases in the yen's value repeatedly pushed the trade surplus higher, delaying the downward adjustment that eventually results from a yen appreciation. Once the yen stabilizes, the author suggests, the surplus should fall significantly.


The paper studies the methods of prevention of necking of casings and in particular, production strings, as well as the complications occurring in the drilling process in the Caspian Sea as a result of clay flowing out and prediction of such kind of issues. Moreover, in the selection of production strings, "Stress Check" software program was used. One of the geological issues leading to the necking of casing is probably poorly cemented clay layers. In addition, the structure of the well drilled in Bulla-deniz field, formation pressure and the selection of casing for this well have been considered. In conclusion, the selection of casing to be lowered into the gas well in Bulla-deniz field has been executed via "Stress Check" software program.


Moderation of religion in students is very important to discuss, especially in this modern era. Religious moderation can't be separated from tolerance because it can affect daily life. This study aims to understand how students apply tolerance in religious moderation and to find out how students from the PIAUD IAIN Pekalongan study program foster socialization in religion. The research method used is a qualitative research method. Data collection techniques through the distribution of questionnaires, observations, interviews and documentation. The data analysis technique uses the Miles and Huberman model, namely data reduction, data display. The results of this study indicate that the students of the PIAUD IAIN Pekalongan study program are able to understand the meaning and concept of religious moderation, the students are able to apply the concept of religious moderation in everyday life through an attitude of tolerance. The cultivation of religious moderation in students must be done so that students are able to have moderate traits and prevent intolerant attitudes towards others and those around them.


The corporate education initiatives have been institutionalized as an element of competitiveness between countries (LANVIN; EVANS, 2013), organizations (EBOLI et al 2010.) and work force (SARSUR, 2010). This article outlines this approach by analyzing the labor certification of bank workers in Brazil, under the auspices of various actors as the regulatory body; banks and their corporate universities; certifiers; and unions. It was conducted a qualitative research describing Human Resources Management policies reviewing corporate education and the process of bank certification. It is concluded that the Brazilian Central Bank regulates the market, banks induce labor certification process as a competitiveness broadening mechanism and pressure on the labor workers, and the unions act as adjuvant in the process.


In the arena of, high speed data transmission and requirement of large data to store in minimum available space, compression is very prominent aspect. There are various techniques, which have been applied for this purpose. One of most useful technique is fractal image compression. In which the main errand is to lessen the transmission time and storage capacity. In this paper, the primary objective is to determine the performance of fractal image compression using quad-tree decomposition applied on different modalities, using objective quality factors such as mean square error, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), average difference, max difference, normalized co-relation, mean absolute error, structural co-relation. From the repercussion we observed that, proposed method has better results than the existing technique. Keywords— Quad-tree Partitioning (QP), Peak Signal Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Square Error (MSE), Normalized Absolute Error (NAE) __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________


Here we report a highly efficient living polymerization of challenging electron-rich or sterically hindered aryl isocyanides using an air-stable, but highly active, bisphosphine-chelated nickel(II) complex. Initially, the living character was examined by screening various Ni(II) complexes, and we identified o-Tol(dppe)NiCl as an excellent initiator for the living polymerization of aryl isocyanides. On the basis of chain extension experiments and in situ 31P NMR spectroscopy, we concluded that the high stability of the propagating species due to the tightly bound chelating ligand was crucial for successful living polymerizations. Not only reactive electron-poor aryl isocyanides but also more challenging electron-rich or sterically hindered aryl isocyanides underwent fast living polymerizations to give polymers having controlled Mn with narrow dispersity. In addition, we confirmed that the electronic character of the monomer significantly affected the polymerization efficiency by comparing the polymerizatio...


This article describes extraction properties of mono- (A1–A8) and di- (B1–B8) substituted azocalix[4]arene analogues. The ionophore solvent extractions of alkaline-earth (Sr2+), basic metal (Pb2+) and transition metal cations (Ag+, Hg+, Hg2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+, Cr3+) from aqueous phase to organic phase were carried out by azocalix[4]arene derivatives. It has been observed that they show a good extraction behavior toward selected heavy metal (Hg) and toxic metal (Cr), while A4 and B4 prefer Hg+, Hg2+ and Cr3+ among transition metal cations, respectively. The azocalix[4]arenes (A1–A8) and (B1–B8) are not efficient extractants for all of the selected metal cations, whereas A4 and B4 are selective only for Hg metal cation.


A low profile patch antenna design for on-body wireless sensor in the medical body area network (MBAN) band is presented. By locating the proposed antenna at the top of the sensor, i.e., farthest from a human body, we can maximize the radiation efficiency of low profile sensor. The antenna consists of a rectangular loop and patch with slots for size reduction, employing printed flexible printed circuit board (FPCB). The proposed antenna is measured on a lossy medium with permittivity and conductivity close to those of the human body. The 3-dB bandwidth of antenna is sufficient to cover the MBAN band (2.360-2.395 GHz) and has a relatively good peak gain with -0.4 dBi for 1 mm separation from the lossy medium, especially considering its low profile characteristic (0.008λ).


It is a new angle of view to study the problem elements in international cooperation. Two aspects of the studies are prevalent. One is to build models based on game theory, and the other is to differentiate the degrees of difficulty according to problems' properties. These two methods have both merits and demerits, and both are much on national interests and national preferences and to attach importance to non-state actors, for international cooperation and settlements of problems.


The Authors discuss the incidence of the epilepsy in childhood period and on particular psychosocial aspects concerned in this problem.


This research analyses the manual assembly process of LFE packages at Bronkhorst High-Tech. These precision parts determine the flow capacity of the flow meters the company produces. The LFE packages consist out of a specific number of small metal disks (LFEs) which are currently manually counted, oriented and stacked. The process is perceived to be inefficient. With the findings of the analysis, the ideas already present in the company and the ideas gained from literature, alternatives and improvements are suggested for the short-, medium- and long-term. They are, respectively; a (simple) counting machine, an alternative supplying method for the LFEs and full automation of the process.


ABSTRACT: This report describes a death related to the abuse of and intoxication by mephenesin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report case of lethal intoxication involving solely mephenesin and reporting mephenesin blood concentrations. The victim was a 48‐year‐old woman found unconscious at home. Resuscitation was unsuccessful. Toxicological analysis was performed on a blood sample collected during resuscitation. The results being negative, the body was exhumed for an autopsy, which revealed bronchial inhalation syndrome. Analysis in a second laboratory has revealed the presence of mephenesin in samples collected during autopsy. No other drug/toxin was found, and alcohol was negative. Reanalysis of the peripheral blood collected during resuscitation found a mephenesin concentration of 15.81 μg/mL (15‐fold greater that the maximum concentration that would result from a single intake of a 500 mg formulation). The pathologist has concluded on a bronchial inhalation syndrome consecutive to a mephenesin overdose as the cause of death. The manner of this death is discussed in the light of the toxicological hair analysis and the medical past of the victim.


Sri Lanka is presently facing a serious energy crisis due to continuous increase in energy demand annually. One of the solutions for this is energy conservation for which houses are a good candidate. The need for using active means such as fans and air-conditioning can be minimized by planning the houses with desirable passive features. In order to determine the passive performance, computer simulations were carried out for two houses with and without passive elements. A comparison of similar volumes in these two houses indicated that it is possible for the indoor temperature of certain type of volumes to rise about 5°C above the maximum outdoor temperature when passive elements are ignored.


This study investigates the correlation between leukocyte number and the patient's awareness level after craniotomy surgery, both high (leukocytosis) and low (leukopenia). Several studies reveal that an increase in leukocytes affects mortality rates due to the high level of leukocytes affecting our body's functionalities, including awareness. Previous studies revealed that a leukocyte count exceeding 17.5x106/L was associated with a lower GCS score, a longer hospital stay, and worsening CT scan results, regardless of the type of focal lesion that occurred. This study uses observational methods in the form of retrospective case studies. The data was collected from the medical records of the Operation room at Jemursari Islamic Hospital in 2018-2019 with a sample size of 89. The research was conducted at Jemursari Islamic Hospital Surabaya from May 2018 to August 2019. Data were analyzed using the Spearman correlation test with p <0.05. Results showed no significant relationship between the leukocyte count and the consciousness level of post-craniotomy patients. Future research could estimate the specific effects on the morphology of specific leukocyte cells that are elevated in post-craniotomy patients. This research is expected to provide insight into the effect of leukocytes on consciousness to reduce patient mortality after craniotomy.


In this study, native lignins were separated from bamboo using a phase separation system. Three kinds of alkaline lignins were isolated from cooking black liquor; also three kinds of alkaline lignins were modified using the phase separation system. The characteristics of bamboo native lignin and alkaline lignins were compared using Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC), Ultraviolet Spectrometry (UV), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS). The solubility of lignophenols derived from bamboo and from alkaline lignins is better than that of alkaline lignins. All materials were soluble in common organic solvents and showed similar groups in FTIR spectra. GPC data indicated that the molecular weight of bamboo lignophenols (circa 4000) was larger than that of alkaline lignophenols (circa 2000). AFM images taken from the same smooth plane showed that the molecular heights of bamboo lignophenols were higher than those of alkaline lignophenols, and the aggregation of bamboo lignophenols appeared to be very uniform. DLS results indicated that the average dimension of lignophenol molecular and its aggregates ranged from 115 nm to 1560 nm, depending on the pH of the solution and the type of material examined.


Brazilian cities are characterized by extreme inequality in the distribution of urban infrastructure and services. Middle-class neighbourhoods are typically well served with paved streets, running water, sewers, storm drains, schools, health care and public transportation. Poor neighbourhoods where the vast majority of the population lives largely go without such basic resources. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as social movements of all kinds were flourishing throughout Brazil, protests demanding basic urban infrastructure and services in poor neighbourhoods became increasingly common in the cities.


An optimization-based confocal algorithm for microwave imaging aimed at medical applications is presented. Due to complexity of human body tissues, microwave signals that enter a human organ from different angles and are reflected at different depths inside that organ face different effective dielectric constants. An accurate estimation of those dielectric constants is vital for an accurate estimation of signal speed within the imaged object and thus accurate resultant images. The traditional confocal algorithm uses one preassumed effective dielectric constant and thus its resultant image is sensitive to that assumption. In the proposed approach, position-dependent dielectric constants are used to generate a highly focused image that accurately maps scatterers within an imaged object. To that end, an objective equation based on the focusing degree of the obtained initial image is created. Then, particle swarm optimization (PSO) uses that equation to find the effective dielectric constants facing signals penetrating the object according to their entrance point. Those optimized effective dielectric constants are used to produce a highly focused image without the risk of creating false-positive targets irrespective of the initial values of the effective dielectric constants. The proposed algorithm is evaluated in head imaging via full-wave electromagnetic simulations and experiments. The simulations are based on using an accurate numerical head model, whereas the experiments are conducted using realistic artificial head phantoms. The obtained images indicate that the quality of the images is significantly improved with more accurate localization of targets in unhealthy cases and less probability of positive false alarms in healthy cases compared with the traditional approach.


The salt tolerance and salt tolerance of melilot has been thoroughly studied in Kazakhstan, and on this basis its high productivity has been universally established on salt licks, saline irrigated lands compared to other fodder plants. The results of experiments on a comparative study of the productivity of fodder crops on non-saline zonal soils also showed its high productivity. But at the same time, melilot is a culture that dramatically increases the productivity of the grass mixture when it is introduced into it. In the experiments we conducted 1998 and 1999., the high productivity of the joint sowing of mtlilot (Melilotus) was established, with alfalfa compared with the pure sowing of alfalfa (Medicago) - 113.0 c / ha of hay against 81.9 c / ha in total over two years. When cultivating melilot, attention should be paid to the following circumstances. It is well known that under irrigated conditions, the alfalfa layer is not amenable to processing due to its strong compaction and desiccation. A completely different picture is observed when cultivating a melilot for seeds, after which the soil, although it is dried up as much, but at the same time, due to the decomposition of the fallen leaves, the melilot layer is easily treated, because there is no strong soil compaction. From the studied methods of treating the melilot layer, the best result in the 2019 laying test was obtained by cultivating the soil to a depth of 10-12 cm, rolling before and after sowing alfalfa with melilot - here the grass mixture provided 89.1 c / ha of haylage, which is much higher than it productivity when harrowing (49.5 t / ha) and plowing to a depth of 20-22 cm. (69.3 t / ha).


The energy-saving potential of the single-stage pump water system for air conditioning in an office building has been investigated and analyzed.The transformation plan of frequency transformation of the water system is introduced and its energy-saving effect has been measured and analyzed.The results show that the energy saving potential of the single-stage pump water system is great and the energy-saving effect is obvious.For the single-stage pump water system,it can not simply take the temperature difference between the supply water and return water′s of the chilled water as a frequency conversion control target;it should also take the operational requirements of the water chillers into account.Limited by the allowed minimum chilled water flow,the temperature difference between the supply water and return water′s of the single-stage pump water system in frequency conversion operation is small at low road rate.The frequency conversion operation of single-stage pump water system decreases the water chillers′COP value and energy efficiency ratio of terminal equipment.The evaluation of the energy-saving effect should take the increase in energy consumption that caused by the decreased energy efficiency of water chillers and terminal equipment in frequency conversion operation into account.


A solution of intelligent test system for mechanical property of geotextile material which based on high speed data acquisition card PCI-1714 is introduced in this paper. Microprocessor and drive card PCI-1240 are also used to control and drive the test equipment. The article discussed in detail the system's overall design, the hardware structure, software design, and process of data acquisition. Software is designed by Visual Basic 6.0. This paper research and implement on accurate measurement of mechanics performance of geotextile material.


PURPOSE
To discover if beta ig-h3 is mutated in gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy, as has been suggested.

METHODS
Genomic DNA was isolated from unrelated individuals with lattice corneal dystrophy type I (n = 3), Avellino corneal dystrophy (n = 3), and gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy (n = 3) and used as a template for polymerase chain reaction to amplify all exons in beta ig-h3. The polymerase chain reaction product was then sequenced.

RESULTS
Beta ig-h3 is mutated in lattice corneal dystrophy type I (Arg124Cys) and Avellino corneal dystrophy (Arg124His). In gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy, on the other hand, no mutation was detected in the entire coding region of beta ig-h3 (all 17 exons).

CONCLUSION
Unlike the amyloidotic corneal dystrophies lattice type I and Avellino, gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy is not likely to be caused by a mutation in beta ig-h3.


The standard gentamicin dosing recommendations for neonates appear to be inappropriate because they fail to consider the influence of neonatal development on gentamicin pharmacokinetics. Recent reports have emphasized that the standard regimens of 2.5 mg/kg q8–12h produce steady-state trough serum concentrations > 2 μg/ml in up to 91 percent of preterm infants of less than 35 weeks' gestation. A new dosing schedule based on postconceptional age (PCA) was developed to provide a better guideline for initiating and maintaining gentamicin therapy in neonates: PCA greater than 34 weeks, 2.5 mg/kg iv q12h; PCA 28–34 weeks, 2.5 mg/kg iv q16h; PCA less than 28 weeks, 2.5 mg/kg iv q24h. The new dosing schedule reduced the number of neonates with elevated trough concentrations (>2 μg/ml) from 68.4 percent to 33–40 percent. Pharmacokinetic parameters for gentamicin in the various PCA groups were determined. Volume of distribution was constant across age groups (0.5 ± 0.09 L/kg). Elimination rate constants (kel), half-lives, and clearance rates (Cl) ranged from 0.069 ± 0.02 to 0.14 ± 0.04h−1, 10.71 ± 2.92 to 6.04 ± 1.24 h, and 0.58 ± 0.25 to 0.93 ± 0.24 ml/kg/min, respectively. Significant relationships were found between kel and Cl and patient age and weight; significant correlations were found between actual and estimated (based on PCA and weight) kel and Cl. Variability in kel and Cl estimated was considerable in spite of the correlations. The observed variability stresses again the need for pharmacokinetic monitoring of gentamicin therapy in neonates.


Basing on basic principle of FIR filter,one basic method of realizing linear phasic FIR filters using window functions is discussed.The designing method of FIR filters using MATLAB is deeply discussed and realized in sample hardware board based on TMS320C5416.By using CCS 5000 and TMS320C5416 Demo board,this designed result is downloaded to demo board.The result shows to be effective.


Financial fraud damages state financial administrative order and infringes upon property rights. Its constitution of crime is similar to those of other crimes in that the four required elements of criminal object, objectivity, subject of crime and subjectivity must be met at the same time. Whether the wrongdoer of the financial crime subjectively meets the requirements of 'illegal possession' and the subjective guilt is a problem that must be correctly addressed. 'Illegal possession' is a subjective requirment that all fiancial crimes must meet rather than an optional requirement. The forms of subjective guild of the wrongdoer of financial crimes must be direct intention rather than negligence or indirect intention.


CONCLUSION. I would againi draw attention to the fact that the benefit in the v-ast majority of these cases hals beeni appraised by independent observers, wlhiel fact is reniderecl doubly important by the nature of the results. The hiigh proportion of success obtained is attributable to two factors. In the first place, selectioni of suitable cases by bacteriological examliinationi provides olne witlh cIiniical material that offers a rational basis for the use of vacciine tlherapy. The results are influenced accordingly. The second factor is the residual vaccine itself, whiecl has an inherent therapeutic efficiency greatly superior to that of the older " whole " type of vaccine. In recent years tlho production of improved tylpes of antigens has engaged the attention of a iiiiniber of workers. The most recent paper on the subject is by Arkwrigilht3 anid deals with typhoid and paratyphoid vaccines. Amongst other facts elucidated he sliows that a heat-stable antigen is more efficient thani a heat-labile one obtained fromli the same organism, anid inotes the inateresting detail that a heat-stable antigen that hacd been heated to 1000 C. gave slightly better results than the identical antigeni unheated. Precisely the same resuilt is revealed in the tables published in my originial paper on residual vaccines. Horder and Ferry4 have produced antigens that differ in the mode of preparation, and almost certainly in their composition, from those of Arkwright anid myself. At first sight suich results may appear contradictory, butt that is noti necessarily so. The improvement ulpOnl heating thie lheat-stable antigenis caln be explained in one of two -avs. It may be supposed that the antigen itself is actually -improved by heating, which is improbable. The alteirniative is more feasible: it is that some suibstance inimllical to anitibody formatioln is destroyed by the lheat. The aggressins have not received muclh attenLtion in recent bacteriological studies, but it has been shlown by Bail anid subsequent workers that their action is to paralvse the tissue resistance against bacterial invasioni, althioughi the ag-ressins themselves are not toxic, anid that imiimlunity cani be created against aggressins or againist bacteria. 'When a mixture of bacteria and tlheir aggressins is administered the lhost experiences increase(d difficulty in the production of an adequate resistance. Tllis experimental evidence indicates two methods of producing immunity, and it is conceivable that the iinmuniogenis of Horder and Ferry depend in part at least for their effciency upon thle small quantities of aggressin present in the washinlgs. Thle hleat-stabule antigenls are probablyfreed fr'oI thleir aggressinls whlen hleated, ande are therefore cal)ab)le of stimulatingv to thle fullest extenlt thle resistanlce apprlopriate to them. If this conceptioni of the action of these different bacterial substances be correct, it follows that a mixture of bacteria anid their aggressinis, such as is represented by an ordinary " whole " vaccine, cannot be as efficient as some of the fractional types of vaccine. Further experience witlh maniy of these fractions may show that they are not in opposition to eaclh other as potential remedies, but will perhaps be used most effectively at different stages of the same disease. REFEnRENXCES. Jenkins: BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, June 11th, 1921. 2 H. R. Dean: Ibid., April 29thi, 1916. 3 Arkwright Jowrn. Path. and Bact., vol. xxx, 1927. Horder and Ferry : BRhISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, 1926.


The article describes the author's view of individual issues of the activities of the prosecutor in the trial. Position about matters of doctrine and practice was expressed by author. The possible ways of resolving of these problems were suggested.


In this paper we describe Bio Circuit, an artist and designer collaborative wearable project. This project stems from our concern for ethical design and the creation of media-based interactions that reveal human interdependence with the environment.


A variety of insults can contribute to lung inflammation in the neonatal period. Many of these insults exert their effects through activation or suppression of critical transcription factor pathways. The effect of these pathways on gene transcription/protein translation has a direct impact on lung development, labor induction and the intra-amniotic milieu, and postnatal lung inflammation.


A continuous variable (CV) controlled quantum dialogue (QD) scheme is proposed. The scheme is further modified to obtain two other protocols of (CV) secure multiparty computation. The first one of these protocols provides a solution of two-party socialist millionaire problem, while the second protocol provides a solution for a special type of multi-party socialist millionaire problem which can be viewed as a protocol for multiparty quantum private comparison. It is shown that the proposed scheme of (CV) controlled (QD) can be performed using bipartite entanglement and can be reduced to obtain several other two- and three-party cryptographic schemes in the limiting cases. The security of the proposed scheme and its advantage over corresponding discrete variable (DV) counterpart are also discussed. Specifically, the ignorance of an eavesdropper, i.e., information encoded by Alice/Bob, in the proposed scheme is shown to be more than that in the corresponding (DV) scheme, and thus the present scheme is less prone to information leakage inherent with the (DV) (QD) based schemes. It is further established that the proposed scheme can be viewed as a (CV) counterpart of quantum cryptographic switch which allows a supervisor to control the information transferred between the two legitimate parties to a continuously varying degree.


Many researches on residual chlorine decay mechanisms and models at home and abroad have been carried out. It was found that consumption of chlorine mainly occurred in bulk water and on the pipeline surface. Chlorine mainly reacted with inorganics and organics in bulk water. When met inorganics, it usually took place with chemical or electrochemical reactions, and its reactions with organics were complex for them related to the NOM compounds. On the pipeline surface, residual chlorine mainly reacted with bacterial membrane and corrosion scale, the mechanism was complicated with many influencing factors. Typical chlorine decay models in bulk water are empiric model, first-order chlorine decay model, combined second-order chlorine decay model, n-order chlorine decay model, first-order parallel model, first-order restricted model and so on. Zero- order kinetics model and first-order kinetics model were the main decay model of residual chlorine on pipeline surface.


Food safety problems is not only in domestic consumer issues, but also in global consumer`s main issues. Specifically It is foremost interesting issue of recent much consumer issues. In the grounds of Korea government, there is much endeavor to confirm on food safety. But, there is many problem, which food safety politics is divided by Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries(MFAFF) and Ministry for Health, Welfare Affairs(MHWA) and in legal system about food, there are more than 20s. Therefore, this paper propose to more effective alternative at food safety legal system under New Government Reorganization. Roughly speaking, it is proposed to divide aspects between administrative system and specific institutional improvement.


ABSTRACT In an attempt to formulate an African phenomenological method, this article engages with existing African philosophical schools, namely particularism, universalism and eclecticism. I will explore how the positions advanced in these schools, valid in their own rights, are at the same time potentially absolutist and thus in need of reformulation. I will also test my theoretical findings by addressing the ontological implications of ontological absolutism in politics, with special reference to the situation in Cameroon and how they translate to an identity crisis. I argue that an absolutist understanding of human existence has become an integral justification for the use of violence. I then proceed to propose ways of addressing the situation by arguing that this absolutist foundation is foreign to Africa in general and Cameroon in particular, and it will only further the chaos that is already ravishing the social reality in Cameroon. While addressing the problem, the aim here is to attempt a formulation of an African phenomenological approach and to bring attention to the often-neglected phenomenological and ontological dimensions in African politics.


The invention provides a showing method for social network carrier. The method comprises the step of obtaining the social network carrier data of a user, analyzing the contents of the multiple network carrier. When the contents of the at least one social network carrier of the multiple network carriers, at least one warning card is generated according to the contents of the at least one social network carrier. The social network carrier data and the at least one warning card are provided to the client of the user. When the user triggers the at least one warning card, the client is shifted to the URL address or warning interface. The invention further provides a showing system and cloud server for social network carrier. In the embodiment of the invention, the cloud server analyzes the contents of the social network carrier and is automatically shifted to the corresponding URL address and the warning interface when the user triggers the warning card, thereby greatly facilitating the use of the user.


Abstract : The paper focuses on the development of the European defense initiatives within the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI), the Common Security and Foreign Policy (CFSP), and the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) concepts. It examines the evolution of the ESDI and the CFSP/ESDP concepts, their application to peace operations, and their relationship to the national security interests of Greece. The paper discusses the evolution of the European defense concepts in post-WW II Europe and the roles that have been played in the formulation of the present European defense identity concepts (EU, the U.S. and NATO). The focus is on EU and U.S. perceptions regarding the definition and use of ESDI and the existing tensions within NATO involving its implementation. The ESDI and CFSP/ESDP concepts are examined in relation to EU-led peace operations. The analysis focuses on the creation of the EU Rapid Reaction Force and on the various factors that will affect EU-led peace operations. It also examines EU's participation in the Bosnia and Kosovo peace operations and formulates certain principles that could be applied in the recent crisis in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The paper finally examines Greek participation in peace operations.


"Government, bank, and guarantee institution" cooperative financing guarantee (hereinafter referred to as the cooperation mechanism) is an important way to alleviate the financing difficulties of China's new agricultural entities and raise the credit line of bank financing. In order to find an effective way for the improvement of low-level equilibrium in the actual operation of the cooperation mechanism, this study builds a three-party evolutionary game model using the local government, banks, and agricultural guarantee institutions, with incomplete information on all partners of the cooperation mechanism as the study object. This model focuses on the weak activeness, strong dependence, poor cooperation effect, lower credit line of guarantee, and other specific problems. Moreover, this study analyzes the equilibrium solution of this model and extracts the significant factors affecting the positive cooperation behaviors of the three parties (government, banks, and guarantee institutions) in the view of interest realization. Analog simulation is performed to explore the key conditions for truly alleviating the financing risks of new agricultural entities, thus helping improve the operation quality of the cooperation mechanism. According to the study results, the focus of "government, bank, and guarantee institution" cooperation should be shifted from post risk sharing to prior risk identification. Specifically, the government should further share high-quality information affiliated with farmland management rights and reflecting the status of risks; guide banks and agricultural guarantee institutions should share the cost of risk identification, accelerate the acquisition of higher information transformation value, and prevent the "free rider problem." In the last part, policies are recommended in four aspects, including risk information sharing, risk identification quality improvement, risk identification cost sharing, and risk information value transformation, which have practical guiding significance for the sustainable development of "government, bank, and guarantee institution" financing guarantee for China's new agricultural entities.


The invention relates to the field of material preparation, in particular to a preparation method of high-concentration graphene dispersion, and discloses a preparation method of high-concentration and high-stability graphene dispersion through a microwave assisted liquid stripping method and a method for obtaining the graphene dispersion with different concentration gradients through grading dilution to further determine the stability of the graphene dispersion. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing oxidized graphene dispersion; (2) preparing the graphene dispersion by the microwave assisted liquid-phase stripping. The high-concentration and high-stability graphene dispersion is prepared, the preparation method is simple, is easy to operate and realize, and can meet the requirement on large-scale production.


Profiles and areas of interfaces subjected to interfacial tension measurements by the du Nouy ring method, were calculated with the aid of a digital computer. The computations were based on a solut...


Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) also known as ChurgStrauss syndrome is a systemic smalland medium-vessel necrotizing vasculitis, characterized by extravascular granulomas, and eosinophilia. Treatment is primarily with corticosteroids and, for severe disease, addition of other immunosuppressive agents. Here, Here, we want to present a 57-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with EGPA and developed an opportunistic infection as the cause of hepatitis after treatment. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common cause of opportunistic infection and can cause various symptoms and even mortality in immunocompromized patients. It is rarely cause of acute hepatitis. Opportunistic infections may cause vasculitis as well as reactivate after immunosuppressed treatments.


Coordination and synchronization of parallel tasks is a major source of complexity in parallel programming. These constructs take many forms in practice including mutual exclusion in accesses to shared resources, termination detection of child tasks, collective barrier synchronization, and point-to-point synchronization. In this paper, we introduce phasers, a new coordination construct that unifies collective and point-to-point synchronizations. We establish two safety properties for phasers: deadlock-freedom and phase-ordering. Performance results obtained from a portable implementation of phasers on three different SMP platforms demonstrate that phasers can deliver superior performance to existing barrier implementations, in addition to the productivity benefits that result from their generality and safety properties.


As 193 nm immersion lithography continues to evolve, the need to understand the effect of the immersing liquid on the resulting photoresist properties continues to grow. With this in mind, the sorption of water (using both liquid and vapor environments) in two model photoresist polymer resins based on functionalized poly norbornene) was examined using quartz crystal microbalance techniques. Similar to the results presented by Berger and coworkers, it was found that the water uptake in bis-trifluoromethyl carbinol substituted polynorbornene (HFAPNB) increases as the polymer molecular weight increases, while the diffusion coefficient of water in these materials remains relatively constant over the same range in molecular weight. In contrast, trifluorosulphonamide-substituted polynorbornene displays a relatively constant level of water uptake as a function of polymer molecular weight, while the diffusion coefficient decreases by more than an order of magnitude over the same molecular weight range. Sorption experiments performed as a function of temperature have shown that the water diffusion in these polynorbornene polymers can be described using an Arrhenius relationship. The activation energy of water diffusion was compared in both HFAPNB and poly(hydroxystyrene). The activation energy for diffusion of water in HFAPNB is substantially larger than in the case of poly(hydroxystyrene). This is consistent with the view that polynorbornenes possess relatively stiff and rigid backbones as compared to more flexible polymers such as poly(hydroxystyrene). The activation energy for water diffusion in HFAPNB was found to be a strong function of polymer molecular weight, with the activation energy decreasing with increasing molecular weight.


Understanding the various information from user utterances is important for chat-oriented dialogue systems. However, no study has yet clarified the types of information that should be understood by such systems. With this purpose in mind, we first collected information that humans perceive from each utterance (perceived information) in chat-oriented dialogue. We then categorized the types of perceived information. The types were evaluated on the basis of inter-annotator agreement, which showed substantial agreement and demonstrated the validity of our categorization. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first attempt to clarify the types of information that a chat-oriented dialogue system should understand from varied user utterances.


The present study is an attempt to describe the development and validation of an inter-language pragmatic questionnaire to examine the kind of instructional approaches and techniques that EFL teachers use to practice the pragmatic features in their classes. The research made use of two theories; cognitive processing and language socialization theories. The participants include 366 EFL Iranian instructors .The methodology part consists of two parts; instrument development and validation. Based on the exploratory factor analysis, 31 items including five separate factors emerged: pragmatic awareness-raising techniques, pragmatic communicative practice technique, pragmatic corrective feedback technique, culture teaching techniques and pragmatic instructional approaches. Therefore, a questionnaire including 31 items was developed which followed the 5-point Likert technique of scale construction where 1 shows "Never" and 5 denotes "Always". The reliability and factorial validity of the questionnaire are also illustrated. Finally, the potential theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.


We summarize work done in FY12 on the Los Alamos Electron Source Model (ESM), which predicts the distribution of beta-decay electrons after a high altitude nuclear explosion (HANE) as a function of L, energy, and pitch angle. In the last year we have compared model results with data taken after the Russian 2 HANE test of 1962 and presented results at the HEART conference. We discuss our future plans to continue comparison with HANE data and to develop the code to allow a more complex set of initial conditions.


ABSTRACT A review of current literature highlights the need for school shepherds to consider the strays when determining how best to tend the flock. In response, this study explores the phenomenon of dropping out of high school from the perspective of those who strayed. Examining student voices through a sociocultural perspective leads to greater understanding of the meaning of dropping out within the context of the school community. The findings and implications of this analysis provide compelling incentives for educators to initiate critical dialogue around issues of existing school structures policies, and practices. Many school corporations conscientiously collect data from recent graduates about their school experiences. Yet rarely are non-graduates contacted for information about their academic histories. Though official reasons for dropping out are dutifully assigned to each student by administrators or their designees according to the codes provided by the State Department of Education, local school officials often understand little about why the students really left school. The purpose of this study was to explore student perceptions about dropping out. It seeks to interpret the meaning and ramifications of the act of withdrawal from the perspective of those who have withdrawn prior to graduation. The study examines the decision to leave school as an act that occurs within a specific context or social setting, that of the community of school. What might dropouts themselves tell us about school that could help us better understand their decision to withdraw despite widespread sentiments of disapproval? From their perspectives, what impact has the decision to withdraw had on their social and economic status? How do they envision their futures? WHY DO THEIR WORDS MATTER? There are significant reasons for attending to what dropouts have to say about their school experiences and to their suggestions for school improvement (Kronick & Hargis, 1998; Farmer & Payne, 1992). Their unique perspectives provide researchers with a glimpse into how they viewed school and what they valued (Fine, 1991; Cusick, 1973). Asking for the opinions of dropouts acknowledges the probability of shared responsibility for the complex phenomenon of dropping out, and suggests that school officials can benefit from their insights (Dorn, 1996). Such conversations concede the established right of the individual (at 16 and with parent permission) to make informed decisions about remaining in school. Research that examines the beliefs of former students about the personal and ecological factors that impact school attendance is enlightening. All school communities harbor significant untapped resources, such as dropouts, whose voices have been systematically silenced (Fine, 1991). The messages they can share about their school experiences need to be solicited, valued, and utilized in determining school mission statements, planning learning programs, assessing school climate, and assigning and evaluating school personnel. Such listening promotes critical dialogue about social and economic injustices that deny access to educational opportunities and determine eventual educational outcomes for marginalized students (Brantlinger, 1993). THE TRADITIONAL DROPOUT PROFILE Traditional efforts to combat early school withdrawal include attempting to construct a composite dropout profile aimed at identifying candidates for early interventions. Giroux (2000), Brantlinger (1991), and Freire (1985) have demonstrated the determining role of such factors as socioeconomic status in contributing to alienation and lack of perseverance in students who eventually drop out. Dropouts as a group have been characterized by an overrepresentation of minorities, males, and non-native English speakers (Brantlinger, 1993; Fine, 1991; Freire, 1985; Ogbu, 1981). Dropouts often are retained in earlier grades and have histories of chronic absenteeism and/or truancy. …


Feed corn farming is expanding throughout the forested uplands of Thailand. Although feed corn is a significant global commodity, several factors are working to drive the transformation of these up‐ land landscapes and quicken the spread of feed corn plots. These changes cannot be completely un‐ derstood under the rubric of global market forces. Similarly, the upland farmers who have adopted feed corn as a main cash crop cannot be understood simply as the passive and unfortunate victims of economic globalization. This paper discusses the agency of local farmers and their influence on the expansion of feed corn farming. I argue that farmers have adopted feed corn farming as they struggle with the imposition of conservation policies and ideals. Despite agro‐economic globalization, the con‐ servation ideals of actors from outside of the commodity chain have crucially impacted the agricul‐ tural practices of local farmers.


In a quantum nanojunction with a $\ensuremath{\Pi}$ geometry and two external leads, the spin properties of an incoming electron are modified by the spin-orbit interaction, resulting in a transformation of the spin polarization of the injected current. The $\ensuremath{\Pi}$ nanojunction acts as a ballistic spin rotator whose properties can be varied by tuning the Rashba parameter of the spin-orbit interaction, by changing the relative position of the junctions, as well as by the length of the transverse legs. We show that a large class of unitary transformations can be attained with already one $\ensuremath{\Pi}$ nanojunction or a few $\ensuremath{\Pi}$ nanojunctions in series. By choosing appropriate parameters the spin transformations can be made unitary, which corresponds to lossless gates.


espace – l'interieur dehors / inside out is a reflective examination of the fashion practice S!X. Its focus is an exploration of the various uses and meanings of space within the practice. This investigation of space, conduc


The flow of labor migrants to Russia is steadily growing. The rules for providing medical care to foreign citizens on the territory of the Russian Federation depend on their status. Among the morbidity of migrant workers, infectious diseases, venereal diseases, tuberculosis, injuries, intoxication are leading. This increases the risks to the health of Russians, and also puts an economic burden on the healthcare system of the Russian Federation. The purpose of our study was to study risk factors in migrant workers hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome. The study included 50 migrant workers and 107 Russian citizens hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome. Analysis of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases revealed that in migrant labor patients, the development of acute coronary syndrome occurred at a younger age. There were significantly more smokers among migrant labor patients, they had a lower body mass index, type 2 diabetes mellitus and a previous acute myocardial infarction were significantly less common in the anamnesis. Analysis of clinical and laboratory data of patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome revealed that the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among migrant workers are smoking and lipid metabolism disorders.


FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, a man died in the Alps. It's possible he died from a blow to the head, or he may have bled to death after being shot in the shoulder with an arrow. There's a lot we don't know about Otzi (named for the Otztal Alps, where he was discovered), despite the fact that researchers have spent almost 30 years studying him.


Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that can be inherited from a person who has a mutant copy of the HTT gene. This mutated HTT gene encodes the mutated huntingtin (mHTT) protein. This disease targets the basal ganglia and cortex which is responsible for the movement of the body and memory cells, gradually it causes the slowing of brain cells and involuntary movements in the body. Progressively cause deterioration of the vital functions of the body which leads to complications and premature death. To track the disease progression and to alleviate novel therapies identification of the disease is essential. Biomarkers provide reliable effective and accurate prognosis of the disease. Here, the application of computational algorithms and mathematical modeling techniques to identify HD is done. Global Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) traits are used in conjunction with a TRACK-HD dataset of patients with symptomatic and managed Huntington's disease to predict HD. Predictive models for early HD patients, pre-manifest gene carriers, and control patients were created using machine learning and deep learning. These predictors were used as Biomarkers for the prediction of Huntington's disease.


In a panel of West African countries, we investigate whether data on immigrant remittance flows can be used to improve on predictive accuracy of aggregate demand in a systematic way. The results of the prediction experiments are compared to traditional significance tests of asymmetric error correction and of the exogenous remittance variable. We find that there is a considerable discrepancy between statistical hypothesis testing and the results from the forecast comparison. In particular, while remittances yield significant coefficients for at least some of the accounts aggregates, they do not contribute to improved forecasting accuracy.


In [1–3] solutions, which describe unfamiliar waves, were found for the disturbed wave equation. These resonant (natural or parametric resonance) waves cannot be classified as soliton- or conoidal- or shock- or breather-type waves. Some spatiotemporally oscillating, localized, nonlinear waves have properties of both standing waves and travelling waves. The last unfamiliar waves are not the d'Alembert-type waves. Different patterns are yielded by the waves in x-t plane. The waves describe qualitatively anomalous water and granular parametric waves observed recently. Here these unfamiliar waves are studied as applied to field systems. Cavities with a vibrating boundary are considered. Methods of nonlinear acoustics [1–3,4] are used. It is found that in the cavities the unfamiliar parametric waves can have an imagine amplitude. For this case, perhaps, these waves describe localisation and motion of a negative energy. Indeed, the generation of the negative energy density is the known result in physics (see, f...


The contemporary adult education scholars should take many academic responsibilities,such as caring for adult education reform,paritcipating in adult education decision-making,popularizing adult education knowledge,innovating adult educatin theory,and perfecting adult education discipline system.


ABsTRAcr. The conjugacy problem in three types of group constructions involving cyclic subgroups is discussed. First it is shown that if G has the solvable conjugacy problem and if h E G and k E G satisfy (a) h and k are not power conjugate to themselves or each other, (b) the power conjugacy problem in G with respect to h or k is solvable, and (c) the double coset solvability problem in G is solvable with respect to and , then the HNN extension G* = has the solvable conjugacy problem. This result is used to deduce a similar theorem for free products with amalgamation, a fact first stated by Lipschutz. Then it is shown that if A and B are groups with the solvable conjugacy problem and h E A and k E B taken with themselves satisfy the conditions above in A and B, respectively, then has the solvable conjugacy problem.


Elastic wave turbulence has been studied experimentally, n umerically and theoretically, and exhibited rich phenomen a such as spectral variation [1]. The coexistence of weakly an d strongly nonlinear spectra is one of the most remarkable properties. In [2], energy decomposition analysis and ener gy budget are investigated by using a single-wavenumber representation of nonlinear energy spectrum. We also have f ound the strong correlation between a mode ak and its companion modea−k at the small wavenumbers k, where the nonlinearity is relatively strong. Although one may expect a distinctive structure in the real space due to this correla tion, the real-space structures are the results from the cum ulative effect of all active modes. At the 3rd IC-MSQUARE 2014 [3], on the other hand, we have reported that the bundle structures of ridges appear intermittently in the time evol uti n of the stretching-energy field. The time evolution of nonlinearity shows the existence of active and moderate pha ses in the turbulent state. The bundle structures appear at s uch active phases with the strong nonlinearity, when the energy transfers occur effectively at the scales of strongly nonli near spectrum. We attempt to characterize this driving structur e of energy transfer in both the real and Fourier spaces. The governing equation for the lateral displacement ζ and the momentump in a thin elastic plate is the FvK equation,


Complete 1H and 13C NMR assignments and coordination‐induced shift [CIS, δ(complex) – δ(free ligand)] calculations for carbon σ‐bonded ortho‐metalated rhodium(III) and iridium(III) complexes are described. NMR parameters are used as probes of van der Waals interactions and ring current anisotropy in the ligand's environmental framework and to monitor σ‐donation and π‐back‐bonding within the ligand in this family of ortho‐metalated complexes. CIS measurements indicate large charge redistribution within the ligands as a result of ortho‐metalation to the rhodium(III) or iridium(III) cationic metal centers. The pulse sequences, attached proton test (APT), 1H1H homonuclear correlation spectroscopy (COSY), single‐frequency off‐resonance decoupling (SFORD) and 1H13C heteronuclear correlation spectroscopy (HETCOR), were utilized to assign all proton and carbon resonances of [Rh(ppy)2Cl]2, [Ir(ppy)2Cl]2, [Ir(ptpy)2Cl]2, [Ir(mppy)2Cl]2, [Rh(ppy)2bpy]+, [Ir(ppy)2bpy]+, [Ir(ptpy)2bpy]+ and [Ir(mppy)2bpy]+, where ppy is 2‐phenylpyridine, ptpy is 2‐(p‐tolyl)pyridine, mppy is 3‐methyl‐2‐phenylpyridine and bpy is 2,2′‐bipyridine.


Objective To investigate the efficacy of the application of low-temperature plasma sterilizer in operating Room.Methods Physical,chemical and biological indicators were monitored in materials sterilized low-temperature plasma sterilizer(200 times) to evaluate the sterilization efficacy.Results All sterilizations were successfully performed at the first attempt.Sterilization cycle was(62.51±4.64)minutes.After sterilization,the color of chemical indicator card was qualified and no bacterial growth was found in biological indicator culture.In addition,there was no bacterial growth in randomly selected 30 sterilized samples.Conclusion Low-temperature plasma sterilizer is effective for sterilization in operating room.


The present work shows the ability of Navier-Stokes codes to handle detailed chemical kinetics models to compute the reactive and vibrational non-equilibrium gases in shock layers and the recent development done in our laboratories towards this goal. The detailed model used in the present study is a simplified version of a collisional-radiative model for N 2 that has been implemented step-by-step in a Navier-Stokes code in order to show the effect of each group of chemical and vibrational processes. The processes taken into account are the vibration—vibration exchanges and the vibration—translation exchanges through molecular or atomic impact, leading to dissociation or not. The question of how the vibrational levels reach the Boltzmann distribution is also assessed. Comparisons of results obtained with global and detailed chemical kinetics models are presented.


After the "subprime crisis," the financial supervision becomes the focus of world attention once again.As the founder of financial regulation,the United States has been known by its strict supervision.But in this crisis are exposed many deficiencies.Thus,the research of its financial regulatory system is very necessary.This paper attempts to sort out the U.S.financial regulatory system through the development process.Exploring from the perspective of its value choice,it also provides value orientation and reference for our country's financial regulatory reform.


This paper discusses the development and pilot testing of a nationwide "Databank" of pavement research results built as an end user application of a nationwide geographic system (GIS) network. A technical study performed to support policy review processes for the 1982 Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) called for a determination of potential need to apply weather-related factors to apportionment formulas to lessen the burden on States whose harsher climates may subject pavements to earlier and more severe deterioration. Information from a national monitoring system provided insufficient detailed pavement engineering data to permit clear conclusions. A decision was made to establish a data base of research-oriented pavement data for use in future work. Location references in the source data bases are maintained while they are tied into a GIS-based highway network, developed by others in the agency. The GIS basis of the Databank permits other geographically-based non-highway data, such as weather records, to be accessed for statistical and other analysis needs. The data base is designed to maintain compatibility with other current and proposed nationwide systems. The entire structure of the Databank uses off-the-shelf mainframe software for storage, retrieval, and analysis.


Gold mineralisation in the Hutti-Maski schist belt is mainly confined to sheared/fissile chlorite schist and contacts of schistose amphibolite with felsic units in the form of vein and veinlets of quartz/quartz carbonate (ankerite) containing sulphides. In the Geophysical exploration for gold, the IP method is generally effective for identifying the sulphidous lodes. However, owing to the poor volume percentage of sulphides, the IP anomalies normally tend to be very feeble making it difficult to isolate them in the presence of noise. In this paper it is shown that based on concurrent syntheses of responses obtained by detailed gravity, magnetic, resistivity and E M surveys conducted in parts of Hutti-Maski schist belt, characteristic combinations of the geophysical signatures have been identified which helped in successful delineation of I P anomalies significant from the point of view of gold mineralisation owing to their favourable structural environment. The gravity surveys conducted on a semi-detailed scale (50 m grid) have indicated feeble gravity lows (0.2 to 0.5 mgal) and low nosings delineating the structures such as sheared/fissile zones within chlorite schist which are favourable for gold mineralisation. These gravity lows are well corroborated by EM quadrature anomalies and resistivity lows confirming the presence of shear zones. While the detailed IP surveys conducted in the area have broughtout numerous feeble chargeability anomalies, only those anomalies which are within the identified shear/fissile zones with corroborative sharp resistivity highs were proved to be significant for establishing the presence of mineralised quartz veins. Two case studies have been presented demonstrating effectiveness of the integrated approach which can be applied to other target areas in the schist belt for gold exploration.


To investigate the specificity of the psychological distress nowadays, beginning this discussion in the psychoanalysis' raw material. Thus, we are aiming at different kinds of therapeutic intervention which escapes from a model that has, in the representative universe, its biggest reference. Moreover, we will work out the distinction between material reality and psychic reality and analyze the terms Vorstellung and Darstellung as indicators of different forms of psychic elaboration


In this study, Cauquoin et al. conducted a set of time slice experiments with newer version of isotope-enabled coupled climate model, namely MPI-ESM-wiso, and comprehensively validated the results by fully using the currently available isotopic data over the world. Moreover, they made analyses on how isotopic information can be proxy of climate information by using isotope-temperature, isotope-precipitation, isotope-salinity relationships. In conventional method, isotope-climate relationship is assumed to be stable (meaning that the same linear relationship is assumed for both climates), but it is highly doubtful. This study revealed that such simple relationship is indeed not same


Dye molecules containing two or more polymethine structural units, or at least one polymethine and one polyene structural unit, generally exhibit coupling effects that determine the spectroscopic behavior and other physicochemical properties of the substance. The coupling concept can be used inter alia to fit the quinone dyestuffs, the indigoids, and the indanthrenes into a general poymethine color system and to perdict new dye structures.


Abstract This article presents a preliminary survey by which to track, in the longue durée, the path of the nail of the Gran Bestia (great beast), a remedy that appeared in therapeutics on both sides of the Atlantic. The Gran Bestia is mentioned in the natural histories, books of remedies, and medical handbooks that proliferated in the Old World and European settlements from the seventeenth century onwards. From the point of view of global history, it is a revealing case from which to investigate, first, how the transfer of a name between continents involved the associated transfer of medical virtues and properties and, second, long before Linnaeus, how the commerce in medicines, skins, and other animal products contributed to associating different animal kinds from different cultural worlds. Far from human universals, the history of the great beast seems to refer to common meanings created by commerce. This article therefore argues for a new investigation into the global and transdisciplinary dimension of objects that is not limited to exclusively local traditions, and may instead reflect the living remains of a long history of exchanges, translations, and transfers that de- and re-functionalized nature in evolving geographies over several centuries.


A new early ripening hot pepper'Sujiao 16'has been released.Its fruit is long lantern shaped,green color in immature and red color in mature,15-16 cm in length and 62.1 g in weight.The marketable yield is up to 44 000 kg ? hm-2.It shows good resistance to disease,excellent storage capacity,and strong tolerance to low temperature.It is highly resistant to bacterial wilt and phytophthora blight.It is suitable for the protected cultivation in the middle and lower regions of the Yangtze River.


This article analyses a case study on Moroccan mothers' involvement in the Dialogic Literary Gathering (DLG) in an urban primary school in Catalonia (Spain). DLG is a dialogic learning environment that improves reading skills and communicative abilities and promotes school–community links. This activity has been identified in previous European Union (EU)–funded large scale research, the INCLUD-ED project, as a successful educational action. Children's results in standardised tests reported a significant improvement in communicative skills over the academic year. The case study highlights evidences on how this action contributed to transform family interactions at home. Discussions about classic works of literature were transferred to the child–parent interactions and were part of their daily lives. According to the data analysed, this experience affected mothers' and children's motivation to read and helped migrant mothers to improve the language acquisition of the host country. Mothers confirmed becoming more able to understand the schoolwork of their children and they felt more confident to help them with their homework.


The nuclear safety and radioactive pollution control program for the 12th Five Year Plan period and long- term goals to be reached by the year of 2020( hereafter referred to as the planning) have been reviewed and principle passed by meeting of the State Council. This plan has been analyzed the current situation and challenge,specific provided the guiding ideology,basic principles,program goals,key tasks,key projects,safeguards for nuclear safety and radioactive pollution control work. It is important to guide nuclear safety and radioactive pollution control work,realize the safe,healthy and sustainable development of nuclear energy and technology, improve the ecological civilization level,and ensure the public interests.


Poverty and food shortage form the basis of food insecurity in the world, and this is well pronounced in sub-Sahara Africa where most farming households live on less than US$1.25perday. A multistage random sampling procedure was used to select and interview 276 households. Data collected were analysed through the use of descriptive statistics, Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT, 1984) poverty and food insecurity indices and Multinomial logit regression model.The study revealed that most of the respondents were older and aged between 51-60 years with a mean age of 55 years. Most of the farmers were married 79.85%, the mean household's size was approximately 7 members. Also, during post harvesting season, households' size (1%), home food production 1% and food-away-from-home 1% were positively significant which implied that a unit increase in households' size, home production and food-away-from home, the probability of households to be food insecure/non-poor, food insecure/poor respectively will increase relative to food secure/non-poor, while in postplanting season, households size 1%, income 1%, farm size 5%, infrequently non-food expenditure 1% and food-away-from-home 1% were significant, this implied that in a unit increase in households' size, income, infrequent non-food expenditure and food-away-from home, the probability of households to be food insecure/non-poor, food insecure/poor respectively will increase relative to food secure/non-poor. The study concluded that male headed households with small holding farm size, spending much on food-away-from-home and too much non-food expenditure might lead to food insecurity and poverty in the study area.


Now-a-days Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) became popular due to the advantage of energy saving. Earlier, DC motors were used in variable speed applications which require good dynamic response, even though they have problems related to commutation. With the advancement in power electronics, dynamic response is no more a problem with induction motor. This paper demonstrates three speed control methods for induction motor. One of the three methods discussed here is scalar control in which speed control is done by varying the voltage and frequency keeping their ratio constant, the second method is Indirect Field oriented control (IFOC) in which rotor flux orientation is used, and the last method is Direct Torque Control (DTC) in which speed control is done by computing torque and stator flux directly from motor parameters. In all these speed control methods Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) technique is used for three level inverter. Three level inverters are preferred to reduce the voltage stress on switches in medium voltage drive applications.


From the introduction for concept of Construction Project Supply China(CPSC) based on Partnering,Discuss that the partners of a project supplying chain based on partnering should give high priority to the benefits of project supplying chain and have an equal,trustful and cooperative work relationship in the paper.It expatiates the importance of creating a learning culture for CPSC based on partnering,and points out learning from experience,continuous improvement and a learning climate are the key factors for a learning culture.


Ti3C2Tx nanosheet, the first synthesized MXene with high capacity performance and charge/discharge rate, has attracted increasingly attention in renewable energy storage applications. By performing systematic density functional theory calculations, the theoretical capacity of the intrinsic structure of single- and multi-layered Ti3C2T2 (T = F or O) corresponding to M (M = Li and Na) atoms are investigated. Theoretical volumetric capacity and gravimetric capacity are obtained, which are related to the stacking degree. The optimal ratios of capacity to structure are determined under different stacking degrees for understanding the influence of surface functional groups on energy storage performance. Its performance can be tuned by performing surface modification and increasing the interlayer distance. In addition, the reason for theoretical capacity differences of M atoms is analyzed, which is attributed to difference in interaction between the M-ions and substrate and the difference in electrostatic exclusion between adsorbed M-ions. These results provide an insight into the understanding of the method of efficiently increasing the energy storage performance, which will be useful for designing and using high performance electrode materials.


Based on the random analysis of the stability of reinforced soil slopes, a limit state equation and a solution to the equation is presented. By case study, the comparison of definite analysis against random analysis of reinforced soil slopes is discussed, together with the regularities and the effect factors of random analysis.


This paper examines the long-term psychological effects of the nation`s worst natural disaster on the employees of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant. It also examines the efforts made by plant personnel and company volunteers to aid employees` families affected by the storm. Despite significant damage at the plant, unit 4 was returned to service 5 weeks after the August 24, 1992, hurricane. Unit 3 was returned to service on December 3, 1992. Unit 3 was originally scheduled to start a refueling outage the day Hurricane Andrew struck. While plant personnel are still recovering from Andrew`s impact, the plant`s performance has never been better. On May 26, 1993, the plant completed a record-breaking 46-day refueling outage - 7 days ahead of schedule and $3 million under budget. Turkey Point`s recovery, return to service, and superior performance would not have been possible without the efforts of hundreds of employees who put their personal tragedies aside and focused on the common goal of the plant`s operation. To help employees with rebuilding their lives, the plant launched extensive assistance programs. Although the plant returned to normal operation, plant personnel continue to struggle in a community whose infrastructure (homes, schools, stores, etc.) have beenmore » almost eliminated.« less


Special needs of deaf people appeal henceforward to sign language synthesis. The system presented here is based on a hierarchical description of sign, trying to take the different grammatical processes into account. Stress is laid on hand configurations specification thanks to finger shapes primitives and hand global properties, and on location and orientation computation issues. We then expose the results achieved from the corresponding written form of signs, leading to their computer virtual animation.


Until today, people have made efforts to enhance convective heat transfer by means of surface enlargement using obstacles such as ribs and fi ns and the increase in fl ow turbulence due to the interaction between the fl ow and the obstacles. However, additional pressure losses increase with introduction of obstacles and turbulence. The low thermal conductivity of conventional fl uids such as water, oil, and of an ethylene glycol mixture is a serious limitation on improving the performance and compactness of this engineering equipment. To overcome the above-mentioned disadvantages, there is a strong motivation to develop advanced heat transfer fl uids with substantially higher conductivity. An innovative way of improving the thermal conductivities of fl uids is to suspend small solid particles in a fl uid. Nanofl uids are new heat transfer fl uids containing a small quantity of nano-sized particles that are uniformly and stably suspended in a liquid. The dispersion of a small amount of solid nanoparticles in conventional fl uids remarkably changes their thermal conductivity. Compared to the existing techniques for enhancing heat transfer, the nanofl uids show a superior potential for increasing heat transfer rates in a variety of cases. In addition, fl ow in a lid-driven cavity or in a two-sided NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF MIXED CONVECTION OF SiO2–WATER NANOFLUIDS WITHIN AN INCLINED DOUBLE LIDS-DRIVEN CAVITY


Fundamental mathematical constants like $e$ and $\pi$ are ubiquitous in diverse fields of science, from abstract mathematics to physics, biology and chemistry. For centuries, new formulas relating fundamental constants have been scarce and usually discovered sporadically. Here we propose a novel and systematic approach that leverages algorithms for deriving mathematical formulas for fundamental constants and help reveal their underlying structure. Our algorithms find dozens of well-known as well as previously unknown continued fraction representations of $\pi$, $e$, Catalan's constant, and values of the Riemann zeta function. Two example conjectures found by our algorithm and so far unproven are: \begin{equation*} \frac{24}{\pi^2} = 2 + 7\cdot 0\cdot 1+ \frac{8\cdot1^4}{2 + 7\cdot 1\cdot 2 + \frac{8\cdot2^4}{2 + 7\cdot 2\cdot 3 + \frac{8\cdot3^4}{2 + 7\cdot 3\cdot 4 + \frac{8\cdot4^4}{..}}}} \quad\quad,\quad\quad \frac{8}{7 \zeta(3)} = 1\cdot 1 - \frac{1^6}{3\cdot 7 - \frac{2^6}{5\cdot 19 - \frac{3^6}{7\cdot 37 - \frac{4^6}{..}}}} \end{equation*} We present two algorithms that proved useful in finding conjectures: a Meet-In-The-Middle (MITM) algorithm and a Gradient Descent (GD) tailored to the recurrent structure of continued fractions. Both algorithms are based on matching numerical values and thus they conjecture formulas without providing proofs and without requiring prior knowledge on any underlying mathematical structure. This approach is especially attractive for constants for which no mathematical structure is known, as it reverses the conventional approach of sequential logic in formal proofs. Instead, our work supports a different approach for research: algorithms utilizing numerical data to unveil mathematical structures, thus trying to play the role of intuition of great mathematicians of the past, providing leads to new mathematical research.


An oral inhibitor of isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2), AG-221, has shown activity and potentially durable remissions in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.


The presence of appraisers in the nation's economic development is very helpful in estimating the value and feasibility of business. This study aims to evaluate and produce a performance improvement model for appraisers by employing Indonesian Valuers Code of Ethics (KEPI). This research also helped to map the implementation of KEPI for appraiser communities in Medan. The sample of this study was the appraiser community in Medan. A total of 120 Appraisers in Medan City participated in this study. Data were collected using interview methods and distribution of research questionnaires. Data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially with structural equations to evaluate the research model. The results of the study indicate that at present the appraisers in Medan have well upheld the code of ethics contained in KEPI. Inferential analysis indicates that the code of ethics is the key in building the capabilities of the self and performance of the appraiser. The willingness of the appraiser to apply the code of ethics during the assessment process will significantly affect his/her capability. The assessment capability in this study acts as a partial mediator, because without the presence of capability as a mediation variable, ethics still have a significant effect on the performance of the appraiser in Medan. The capability of the appraiser significantly influences the performance of the appraiser. Moreover, self-development will be the key to improve one's performance as whole.


Objective: To determine the incidence of newly acquired morbidity, its categorization, and to identify the associated risk factors among children upon being discharged from the PICU. Study Design: Prospective Longitudinal Cohort study. Setting: Multidisciplinary PICU of Aga Khan University Hospital. Period: October 2022 to March 2023. Material & Methods: Patients who were readmitted to the PICU, deceased, or lost to follow-up during the study were excluded. The functional status was assessed using FSS at baseline, PICU discharge, and at 3 months to measure newly acquired morbidity and dysfunction. All data was collected on a structured proforma. Categorical variables were presented as absolute values and percentages, and continuous variables were expressed as means ± SD or medians with interquartile range or proportions as applicable and considered statistically significant level if p value is ≤ 0.05. Results: A total 96 patients were discharged alive from PICU and 85 of them were included in this study. The mean age was 5.27 ± 5.01 years. The major diagnostic categories were acute respiratory illnesses (25.89%), cardiovascular disorders (21.18%), and neurological disorders (16.47%). 43.53% of the patients underwent surgical intervention. The mean PRISM score at admission was 4.32 ± 5.84. The incidence of morbidity was 40% (34/85) at PICU discharge and 5.8% at 3 months. Longer duration of vasoactive medications, arterial catheterization, mechanical ventilation and PICU stay were associated with new morbidity in critically ill children on discharge from PICU. Conclusion: At PICU discharge, the incidence of new morbidity among critically ill pediatric patients was 40%, which reduced to 5.8% at 3 months. Patients with hemodynamic instability, longer duration of inotropic support and those on prolonged mechanical ventilation had longer PICU stay and exhibited increased risk for new morbidity development. The majority of patients (>82%) exhibited either good functional status or mild dysfunction upon discharge.


Shows a view of a part of the Marlborough Sounds, framed by foreground trees, with a steamship travelling past.
This image also appeared on a "poster stamp" issued by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Publicity Department (see folder of stamps at Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1930s).
Displayed in "Gifts to the Nation", National Library Gallery, October 2002 - March 2003.

Dated 1934-1937, the dates during which G H Loney appears to have worked as Government Printer. (From records on the NZ book catalogue).
Other Titles - Government Tourist Department
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.
Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 1010 x 640 mm, mounted on linen, 1099 x 727 mm.


In this paper we will consider the realisation of a number of hybrid structures and systems of potential application in the fields of microelectronics and microwaves: (1) Important properties of HTS superconductors from the point of view of device applications. (2) Thick and thin film technologies. (3) Thick devices and systems. (4) HTS thin film systems/devices with ferroelectric and ferrite components. (5) HTS-hybrid multilayer structures.


On the basis of relevant literature,the agricultural products regional brand was studied. Through defining"umbrella brand"and"individual brand",the interaction between them was analyzed in detail. The covering effect of "umbrella brand"was explored. Taking Fengqiao honey peach regional brand development as example,by case analysis,it was pointed out that through establishing interaction mechanism between"umbrella brand"and"individual brand"to promote development of agricultural products regional brand.


The present study was undertaken with a view to determine the extent of relationship between seed cotton yield and other economic traits of F2, F3 and F4 generations in the two Egyptian cotton crosses i.e., cross I [({Giza 89 x Giza 85} x {Giza 86 x Giza 81}) x ({Giza 83 x Giza 80} x Giza 89)] and cross II [(Giza 85 x Giza 86) x ({Giza 83 x Giza 80} x Giza 89)]. The F2, F3 and F4 generations in the two crosses were grown at Sakha Experimental farm, Cotton Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt during 2008, 2009 and 2010 seasons, respectively. The mean squares obtained from analysis of variance showed highly significant (P≤0.01) differences for most studied traits of F2, F3 and F4 generations in the two crosses. For the two crosses, the best mean values for boll weight (3.27 and 3.39 g) and 2.5% span length (33.22 and 32.84 mm) traits were detected in F4 generation, seed cotton yield/plant (175.88 and 197.09 g) and uniformity index (87.01 and 86.54 %) traits in F3 generation and fiber fineness (3.75 and 3.63) in F2 generation. While, lint percentage (40.68 and 41.39 %) and fiber strength (10.32 and 10.44 g/tex) traits exhibited highest mean values of the crosses I and II in F4 and F3 generations, respectively. In general the magnitude of genotypic correlation coefficient was higher than those of phenotypic correlations coefficient of most studied traits for F2, F3 and F4 generations in the two crosses. Seed cotton yield for the two crosses exhibited positive and highly significant associations with lint percentage, 2.5% span length, fiber fineness and fiber strength traits in F2 generation and with lint percentage and 2.5% span length traits in F3 and F4 generations, while, the correlation changed for fiber fineness and fiber strength in F3 and F4 generations. 2.5% span length, fiber fineness, fiber strength and uniformity index for the two crosses in F2, F3 and F4 generations had a highly significant positive correlations with boll weight. Lint percentage showed positive and highly significant associations with fiber fineness for F3 generation in the cross I and with fiber fineness and strength traits for the three generations in the cross II. These results indicating that, the two crosses could be used in improving yield and fiber quality in Egyptian cotton.


This paper provided an efficient symbol timing algorithm for WiMAX system with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) technology.This algorithm is based on the known preamble sequence and designed to eliminate the ambiguity of the symbol timing algorithm in Schmidl's algorithm and the hypo-pinnacles in traditional sliding correlation method.Validity analysis and simulation reveal the new algorithm is preponderant in symbol timing and operation efficiency.


This paper proposes a novel Single Input Multi-Port Isolated Bi-Directional Converter (SIMPIBDC) for electric vehicle applications. The proposed converter works under both PWM and single-phase control modulation. It has the advantages of the high-frequency transformer, which enables the step-up/down operation with extreme voltage gain. Besides, it offers low voltage regulation. In the proposed approach, converter integrated with solar PV, and maximum power from PV array is tracked by perturb and observe technique. The analysis, operating modes, and waveforms of the converter have been discussed in detail. The converter has an input voltage of 380 V and an output voltage of 48V for each port. The simulation results are presented to validate the converter both in charging and discharging modes.


A Nonlinear Programming Model(NPM) for the optimal day-operation of multi-units by adjusting speed in one pumping station has been put out,where the peak-valley electricity prices and tides influence of Yangtze River are considered.The model takes the minimal operation cost of pump units assembly as objective function.,the periods are defined as stage variables.The speed of pump units and the number of the working-pumps are expressed as decision variables,and the water volume pumped in one day as constraint condition.The problem is very difficult to be settled by conservational methods.The authors present the theory of dynamic programming with successive approximation to settle it at the first time.With applying the method to the optimal operation of Jiangdu No.4 pumping station,which is the source pump station of Eastern Route Project of South-to-North Water Diversion,and comparing the state of combination optimal operation with the operation in constant blade-angle and rotational speed of Jiangdu No.4 Pumping Station.the calculation results showed that If full load operation,regardless of considering peak-valley electricity prices or not,the benefits of variable speed operation is not enough to compensating the energy losses of the VFD.But when the load and delivery lift are low enough,the effect of adjusting speed is still in evidence.which gives a new way to the optimization of eastern route project of south-to-north water diversion.


Structural health monitoring has emerged as a viable tool for damage detection and preventive maintenance procedures. There is a wide range of proposed applications that were documented in the literature over the past two decades. Recently, the notion of sustainable design has emerged as an important attribute of all engineering designs. Sustainable design is defined as one that would result in systems that are smart, optimum, and reliable. In this book, the concept of sustainable design is the backbone of the design of a structural health monitoring system. Within the backdrop of the presented definition, this book attempts to present structural health monitoring as a tool that would result in a sustainable engineering system. There are several aspects that are now being introduced to the conventional notion of structural health monitoring which are expected to contribute to such objective. Smart systems, smart materials, wireless sensor networks, conservation of historic cultural heritage, and autonomous systems are some of these aspects. The book explores the design of smart structural health monitoring systems, using smart technologies and/or materials. It presents the issue of conservation of heritage structures using structural health monitoring tools. It explores the optimum employment of sensor networks that would render the most optimum structural health monitoring system. This book attempts to present such advanced concepts and/or technologies as the new direction of structural health monitoring. This chapter briefly presents several advanced observations and/or applications that are considered to augment structural health monitoring techniques currently in practice.


In any situation and condition, the wheel of the tridharma of higher education must continue to run. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, STIT Al-Fattah Siman Lamongan is required to keep going with the various opportunities and challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic requires the emergence of government policies for online lectures. This research will reveal the opportunities and challenges faced by STIT Al-Fattah Siman Lamongan in online lectures. The research approach used is a qualitative approach with the interview and questionnaire data collection methods. The results showed that the chances of online lectures were very high as evidenced by the availability of the necessary facilities. The challenges faced are the low level of student understanding of the lecture material


Today every organization creates and uses relational database (RDatabase) to manage the requirements of its users. The two ways to retrieve data from these databases may include 1. SQL and 2. Through interface provided to user. The vision of semantic web is possible in true sense by transforming Ontology from RDatabase. First a detailed comparison is elaborated between RDatabase and Ontology. Secondly, different ways to create ontology are discussed. The rules used for transforming Databases to ontologies are based on resemblance among constructs of RDatabase and OWL 2. This resemblance is summarized next in the subsequent text and a method is proposed to define ontology by constructing RDatabase from csv file and using it to construct domain Ontology which can be used for personalised recommendation.


The purpose of this study was to investigate early educators' current practices, knowledge, beliefs and training needs for utilizing various informal assessment methods. Early educators working Head Start centers and other child care from two southeastern states completed an online survey. The results indicated that participants primarily used one-two informal assessment practices; with anecdotal notes and event/frequency being the most popular. In addition, Head Start teachers used significantly fewer informal assessment methods compared to those in other child care settings.


In principle, most of the properties of solids can be determined by their electronic structures. So the understanding of electronic structures is essential. This thesis presents two classes of mate ...


Wangqingtuo reservoir located meizoseismal area has characteristics of long dam and widespread silt in dam foundation,which leads to sand soil liquefaction easily.Reconstruction silt has been done experiment with vibration triaxial apparatus.The influence of cyclic acting force,confining pressure,initial shear stress,dry density,soil structure and grain composition on silt soil liquefaction is analyzed.Thus,the reasonable,feasible and economic liquefied prevention measures are proposed.


I made this experiment for the purpose of study on the effect of rabbits serum protein frattion through sound stimulation.Healthy rabbits were exposes to pure tone at 1000cps for 5, 10, 15, and minutes.Sound pressure was maintaned at 110db, 120db, and 135db. Serum proteinfraction was measured by the paper-Electrophoresis on the Kobayashi's method.The results were as follows:1) The decrease of serum total protein and albumin and the increase of γ-globulin become conspicuous as much as the stimulated sound pressure becomes great and as much as the stimulation time. becomes long.2) Decrease of serum ttotal protein albumininserumprotein begins to come out from the stimulative condition at 110 db for 10 minutes. Increase of γ•globulin shows by stronger stimulation than the first condition.3) When the stimulated sound pressure becomes 135db. the decrease of serum total protein and albumin in serum and the increase of γ-globulin come out early after the stimulation not withstanding the stimulation time. The recovery can not be seen before the lapse of 48 hours.From the results of the experiments, the changes of the serum protein frection by the exposure to sound stimulation, is considered to be due to the automaticnerve-system and internalsecretionsystem reaction.


The review of a series of oblique aerial photographs recording a Neolithic bank barrow and adjacent post-medieval field-system identified the ground-plan of a Roman temporary camp on the rising ground to the north-east of the Roman fort at Raeburnfoot, Dumfriesshire. Further analysis, later confirmed by field survey, recognised the presence of at least two upstanding gateways of a form usually referred to as the 'Stracathro '-type and so far only known in Scotland. All the other examples are known only as cropmarks, making the camp at Raeburnfoot the sole visible earthwork camp with these unusual entrances known in the Roman world.


Identifying the level of suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students is the key aim of this research, as well as identifying the significance of differences according to gender (males - females), and the correlation between the two variables. In order to verify this, the researchers adopted the measure of suggestibility prepared by "Roman Kotov" (2004), Arabized by (Abdul Rahman 2014), where the number of its final paragraphs reached (79) paragraphs, and adopted the scale of emotional thinking prepared by Abdullah 2017). The scale consisted of (27) final paragraphs, and their psychometric characteristics were ascertained, where the two tools were applied to a sample of (160) male and female students who were selected in a stratified random method from four colleges at the University of Baghdad: (College of Political Science and College of Education / Ibn Rushd, College of Engineering, and College of Science), for the academic year 2019-2020. The results of the research showed the following:

University students do not have a tendency to suggestibility.
There are no differences between (males and females) in suggestibility.
University students have emotional thinking.
There are no differences between (male and female) in emotional thinking.
There is no correlation between suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students.


✓ Ten saccular aneurysms obtained postmortem from large cerebral arteries were examined with ultrasoft x-rays. At the border toward the aneurysms the elastic lamella generally showed duplication, thickening, and fragmentation, with irregular variations in the absorption of ultrasoft x-rays. Calcification could only be discovered in the intimal collagenous tissue several millimeters from the aneurysm mouth. Eosinophilic substance was found in one case to be markedly radiopaque. The observations support the hypothesis that at the site of a media defect there is a compensatory hypertrophy of the elastic lamella, resulting in degeneration and decay. Fluorescent microscopy of the elastic lamella gave similar results.


his article presents the diverse precepts that the patriarchal ideology assigns both genders: feminine and masculine, and it is pretended to demonstrate form the Bakhtinians theoretical conceptions on the relations text-society, the statement and the social valuations, the refraction of these rules in eight stories of obligatory reading used by the students of Third Cycle of the Basic General Education of the Costa Rican Educative System in 2005. Finally, some recommendations are given in the conclusion, concerning the submitted theme because of its incidence in the formation of the students.


This year, for a change, NASA gets to share in the budget wealth. The White House request for a $435 million increase, to $14.04 billion, marks the first time that the Clinton Administration has granted the space agency a significant increase.