IntroductionCurrently, India is the second largest producer of two-wheelers in the world. It stands next only to China and Japan in terms of the number of two wheelers produced and the sales of two-wheelers respectively. The two-wheeler market has emerged as the most vibrant and transforming segment of the overall Indian automobile industry, witnessing an unprecedented growth. Rising rural demand and fuel efficiency are among the major factors boosting the growth in the market. Despite the economic slowdown, the Indian automobile industry has been performing consistently well, compared to other major markets of the world. The Indian two-wheeler market possesses a significant potential, and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of around 11% during FY 2011- 2015 to reach 17.8 Million Units by FY 2015-end.There are many two-wheeler manufacturers in India & The major key players in the 2-wheeler industry are Hero Honda, Bajaj Auto Ltd (Bajaj Auto), TVS Motor Company Ltd (TVS) and Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, Private Limited (HMSI) accounting for over 93% of the sale in the domestic two wheeler market. At present the dominant products of the automobile industry are Two Wheelers with a market share of over 75% and passenger cars with a market share of about 16%, Commercial vehicles and three wheelers share about 9% of the market between them & also two wheelers industry are growing rapidly @30 percent annually. Bikes & scooters are considered to be favorites among both youngsters & elders generation & they also cover the largest share in two wheelers industry. With an expanding market and entry of new players over the last few years, the Indian two wheeler industry is now approaching a stage of maturity. Previously, there were only a handful of two-wheeler models available in the country. The level of technology change in the Motor vehicle Industry has been high hence further investment in new technologies will help the players to be more competitive. The key to success in the industry is to improve labor productivity, labor flexibility, and capital efficiency. Having quality manpower, infrastructure improvements, and raw material availability also play a major role.Literature ReviewAdvertisers pay a particular attention to the customer in order to attract and retain him/her. According to Ph. Kotler and others (2003), D. Jokubauskas (2003), both the businesses and Individual sellers should ask themselves, that how should be the advertising of their products and Services has impact on the customer & also to know how customer should take it. Doraszelski and Markovich (2007) are the first to consider, in a theoretical framework, the long-run effect of advertising through the consumer choice set (which they call "awareness advertising"). They propose two different dynamic models of advertising, the goodwill and awareness advertising models, to study the effect of advertising on industry structure.Dubey & Patel (2004) founded that the products used by a customer are not necessarily those of advertisements they liked. The key lies not only in the attractiveness of the advertisements, but also the interest of the target.Chandok (2005) research conveys that, television medium is the most attractive and important place to advertise. Most of the companies try to target young people, women, men by television, as majority of the customers will remain glued to the television media and enjoy what they see.Kavitha (2006) the advantage of television over the other mediums is that it is perceived as a combination of audio and video features; it provides products with instant validity and prominence and offers the greatest possibility for creative advertising.Objective of the Study· To know the impact of advertisement on two wheeler purchase.· To study the relationship between advertising & purchase decisions of consumers· To identify the key factors & awareness level that influences on consumer purchase decision. …


One of the main components of a solar power station is panels. The photovoltaic panel has the highest energy absorption when the sun's rays are perpendicular to it. To track the sun for absorbing maximum radiation, The panel is placed on a platform with two degrees of freedom. Depending on the latitude and longitude and the position of the year, the path of the sun is determined by a predetermined path and the tracker must follow that path. Due to the existence of uncertainties in the tracking system, in this article, a sliding mode controller is used. Therefore, to design the control system and evaluate the performance of the control system, the model of the tracking platform and solar radiation has been extracted. The designed control system has been evaluated by performing computer simulations as well as by performing a processor in the loop simulation. The simulation results show better performance of the sliding mode controller than the classical PID controller in the presence of uncertainty. also, the results of a processor in the loop simulation indicate its ability to be implemented in realtime.


N,N-dimethylhydroxylamine(DMHAN)is the important organic reducing agent in the advanced Purex process.Therefore,the study on the thermal stability of N,N-dimethyl-hydroxylamine will contribute to ensure the process safety and reduce the loss of reductant.Besides,it also has the role of guiding effect on safe storage and disposal of the salt free agent.


A geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) system was constructed to support the shallow footings of a two-span bridge and the approaching roadway structures. Construction of this system, the Founders/Meadows bridge abutments, was completed in 1999 near Denver, Colorado, USA. This unique system was selected with the objectives of alleviating the "bump at the bridge" problem often noticed when using traditional deep foundations, allowing for a small construction working area, and facilitating construction in stages. The primary focus of the paper is to evaluate the deformation response of this structure under service loads based on displacement data collected through surveying, inclinometer, strain gages, and digital road profiler. The overall short- and long-term performance of the Founders/Meadows structure was excellent, suggesting that GRS walls are a viable alternative to support both bridge and approaching roadway structures.


According to the characteristic that large and middle space voltage vector in fundamental space turned into small and middle space voltage vector in third harmonic space correspondingly,an improved SVPWM algorithm is proposed on the basis of near-four-vector SVPWM algorithm for five-phase voltage source inverter. This new SVPWM algorithm can modulate fundamental reference voltage vector and third harmonic reference voltage vector at the same time. Taking five-phase permanent magnetism synchronous motor drive system powered by voltage source inverter for example,simulation model is built in Simulink. The results show that the improved SVPWM algorithm can simultaneously control fundamental and third harmonic currents of the stator. Stator current is approximate to flat-top wave,the peak value is reduced,and the motor performance is improved.


The principal objective of this paper is to show that a firm's internal organization of the capital investment decision as well as its capital allocation choices are significantly influenced by the necessity for the firm to raise capital from uninformed investors who reflect their strategic disadvantage in pricing the capital they provide. I focus on moral hazard (a brief discussion in the Appendix shows that the results are unchanged by private information). There is symmetric information prior to contracting, but those who buy claims against the firm's assets cannot directly and costlessly control the firm's actions that affect the productivity of these assets. This moral hazard affects asset valuation (see also Ramakrishnan and Thakor). The fact that informational problems are intricately linked to how firms are internally organized is now widely accepted (see, for example, Holmstrom, 1988, and Williamson, 1967, 1970). Moreover, lolmnstrom (1988) and Sah and Stiglitz also make the point that real investment activity is influenced by how investment decisions are internally organized within firms. To this literature the intended contribution of this paper is the observation that information-related frictions can lead value maximizing firms to not adhere


ABSTRACT Existing research on corruption in Asian business has focused on issues of causation, manifestation and impact, but with little attention paid to how corrupt practices evolve over time. Despite two decades of empirical evidence of changing work values among Asian managers, we know little as to how, why and to what extent this affects their corollary attitudes and behaviours towards corruption. Focusing on 'responsible' cronyism – as indicative of pressures to adapt current crony practices – we pursue an interview-based investigation in the emerging economy of Myanmar. Findings uncovered significant heterogeneity in participant perspectives towards responsible cronyism, seen variously as a West-East hybrid progression, a reversion to traditional Burmese values and an instrumental negotiation tool. Implications for how we understand changing attitudes to corruption in Myanmar (and emerging Asia) for both theory and practice, along with future research directions are discussed.


: This study investigated the effectiveness of using manipulative items for teaching the process of carrying in the mathematical operation of addition with a third-grade student with hearing loss. A single subject reversal design protocol was used. The subject student had low achievement in addition of two-digit numbers with regrouping. When visual aids, concrete materials, and practice were implemented with the student, he was eventually able to achieve a top score of 90% on a 10-item quiz. The strategy was found to be very effective in this setting. Further research is needed to investigate whether the student would be able to implement this strategy successfully with three-digit numbers. The use of the intervention should also be explored with more than a single student and with younger students who are deaf or hard of hearing.


Objective To investigate the effect of ornithoctonus huwena venom on proliferation of human colon carcinoma cell SW480 in vitro. Methods In this study, human colon carcino SW480 cell lines were cultured in vitro as the experimental model. Human colon carcino SW480 cells were intervened by different concentration solutions of ornithoctonus huwena venom in vitro. MTT chemosensitivity test was used to evaluate the suppression ratio and IC50. Cell morphology changes were observed through the microscope after dyeing by Hoechst 33342. Cells state and quantity were observed through flow cytometry after dyeing by AnnexinⅤ-FITC/PI. Caspase-3 relative activating in cell was evaluated by spectrophotometry.Results MTT chemosensitivity test results showed that human colon carcino SW480 cell quantity was reduced when intervened by 5 mg/ml-100 mg/ml of huwentoxin, with IC50=43.68 mg/ml(48 h). Microscopic observation results showed that SW480 cell quantity was reduced, with various shapes of cells and part of the cells were broken. Flow cytometry results showed that SW480 cell intervened by 10 mg/ml of huwentoxin had the highest rate of apoptosis(57.66±20.44) % and that intervened by 50 mg/ml of huwentoxin had the highest rate of Necrosis(25.36±15.03) %. Activated caspase-3 was detected out when intervened by 100 mg/ml of huwentoxin in SW480 cell. Conclusion Proliferation of human colon carcinoma cell SW480 cell can be suppressed by ornithoctonus huwena venom in vitro.


The vast majority of studies relating published accounting statement data with stock price behavior suggest that the data are fully impounded in stock prices prior to or almost instantaneously at time of announcement. For example, in a recent article, Benston states that: "The extant statistical studies that related published accounting statement data with stock prices all lead to the conclusion that the data either are not useful or have been fully impounded in stock prices before they are published" [1973, p. 153]. The present study presents evidence that, over the period studied, the information contained in quarterly earnings was not fully impounded into stock prices at the time of announcement. The adjustment of common stock prices to the announcement of unanticipated changes in quarterly earnings (and to other announcements as well) is an empirical question. The purpose of this present study is to reexamine the adjustment of stock prices to announcements of presumed unanticipated changes in quarterly earnings. We attempt to avoid many of the potential empirical problems of earlier studies,


The structure of a unique diterpene hydroperoxide, isolated from extracts of the red seaweed Laurencia snyderiae (Dawson) is reported. (JSR)


This study aims to achieve higher replay and entertainment value in a game through human-like AI behaviour in computer controlled characters called bats. In order to achieve that, an artificial intelligence system capable of learning from observation of human player play was developed. The artificial intelligence system makes use of machine learning capabilities to control the state change mechanism of the bot. The implemented system was tested by an audience of gamers and compared against bats controlled by static scripts. The data collected was focused on qualitative aspects of replay and entertainment value of the game and subjected to quantitative analysis Bhuman Soni Page 2 22/01/2008 Acknowledgements I have to start of by a big thanks to my supervisor Associate Professor Philip Hingston for putting up with me and being incredibly patient through my entire honours journey. Another important person, who's helped me throughout is my Colombian friend Gloria Arenas. Thanks for always being there for me, words cannot express how thankful I am for all that you have done. Also thanks to my parents and sisters whose blessings and wishes have kept my hopes up at all time. Thanks to all my friends and the people who participated in my experiment. I was running my experiment at a busy time of the semester, most of my participants had work commitments and uni commitments and yet they took the time for participation and I really appreciate it. And last but far from the least I thank my god Lord Krishna for I truly believe in him and its because of his blessings I have been able to reach this stage. Shuman Soni Page 3 22/01/2008 Table of contents 1. 1 ......................................................................................................... Introduction 8 2. 2.Background 10 to the study 2.1 AI used in games .............................................................................. 10 2.1.1 Artificial neural network ............................................................... 10 2.1.2 Evolutionary algorithms ............................................................... 11 2.1.3 Finite State Machines .................................................................. 12 2.1.4 Fuzzy State Machines (FuSM) ....................................................... 12 2.2 First person shooter genre ................................................................. 13 2.3 Initial Scope of the research ............................................................... 14 3. 3.The significance of the study 16 3.1 Purpose of the Study ......................................................................... 16 3.2 Research questions ............................................. , ............................. 16 4. 4.Review of the Literature 17 4.1 AI and Games ................................................................................... 18 4.2 Machine Learning in Video Games ....................................................... 20 4.3 Research similar to the proposed study ................................................ 22 5. S.Theoretical Framework 25 6. 6 .................................................................................................. Implementation 26 6.1 The AI technique ................................................................................ 26 6.2 The learning algorithm ....................................................................... 27 6.3 The game ......................................................................................... 30 6.3.1 Some key concepts of Unreal Tournament 2004 .............................. 31 6.4 Testing procedure ............................................................................. 31 6.4.1 Map selection ............................................................................. 32 7. 7.The implemented system 33 7.1 Feedforwa rd Bot ................................................................................ 34 7.2 RecurrentBot .................................................................................... 36 Shuman Soni Page 4 22/01/2008 7.3 UT2004 modifications for the study ..................................................... 38 7.4 The Recorder .................................................................................... 39 7.4.1 The state changes of the data recorder .......................................... 39 7.4.2 Determining the player action ...................................................... .40 7.4.3 Gathering Training data ............................................................... 41 7.5 Training the bots ............................................................................... 42 Equalizing the dataset .......................................................................... 42 7.6 The ANN state change mechanism ...................................................... 43 7.6.1 The ANN bot ............................................................................... 44 7.6.2 The game and ANN communication process .................................... 44 8. 8.Implementation phases 47 8.1 Preparation Phase ............................................................................. 47 8.2 First Implementation Phase ................................................................ 47 8.3 Second Implementation Phase ............................................................ 47 8.4 Third Implementation Phase .............................................................. .4 7 9. 9.The questionnaires 49 9.2 Bot specific questionnaire .................................................................. .49 9.3 Bot rating Questionnaire .................................................................... 49 9.4 Data analysis techniques .................................................................... 50 10. lO.Data analysis: bot specific questionnaire 51 10.1 Unpredictability in bot behavior ......................................................... 52 10.2 Human-like attributes of the bot ....... : ................................................ 54 10.3 Bot's skills and intelligence .............................................................. ,55 10.4 Bot difficulty leve1 ............................................................................ 57 10.5 Bot combat skills ............................................................................. 58 10.6 Entertainment value of the bot .......................................................... 59 10.7 Overall experience playing against the bot .......................................... 61 11. ll.Data Analysis: bot rating questionnaire 63 11.1 Question 1 ...................................................................................... 63 11.2 Question 2 ...................................................................................... 64 11.3 Question 3 ...................................................................................... 65 11.4 Question 4 ...................................................................................... 6 6 11.5 Question 5 ..... , ................................................................................ 67 Bhuman Soni Page 5 22/01/2008 12. 12 ..................................................................................................... Discussion 68 13. 13 .................................................................................................... Limitations 70 Smaller Sample Population ................................................................... 70 Support Character ..................................................................... ; ......... 70 Limited to one game mode ................................................................... 70 Limiting the initial scope ....................................................................... 70 14. 14 .................................................................................................... Conclusion 71 15. 15 .................................................................................................... References 72 16. 16 ........................................................................................................ Glossary 78 16.1 Techniques ..................................................................................... 78 16.2 Game Genres .................................................................................. 79 16.3 Gaming Terms ................................................................................ 80 17. 17 ....................................................................................................... Appendix 81 17.1 Questionnaires ................................................................................ 81 17 .1.1 Bot specific Questionnaire .......................................................... 81 17.1.2 Bot rating questionnaire ............................................................. 83 17.1.2 Feedback from participants ......................................................... 84 Bhuman Soni Page 6 22/01/2008 Tables of figures Figure 1: An illustration of a simple neuron (Source: Negnevitsky, 2002, p.166)10 Figure 2: The state changes of a simple electric bulb ...................................... 12 Figure 3: Player and game interaction .......................................................... 17 Figure 4: State machine example (Source: Meyer, 2003) ................................ 18 Figure 5: Overview of the implemented system ............................................. 33 Figure 6: FeedforwardBot ANN structure ....................................................... 34 Figure 7: The structure of the RecurrentBot ANN ........................................... 37 Figure 8: State changes during recording ...................................................... 39 Figure 9: Training data collection process ...................................................... 41 Figure 10: State changes of the bot during gameplay ..


Three kinds of coagulant agents,polyaluminium chloride(PAC),ferric chloride(FeCl3),and calcium oxide(CaO)are used to made coagulation tests to the phosphorus wastewater in corn in-depth processing enterprises.The factors related to different dosage of coagulant agents,pH of the wastewater,and the removing effect of PO43—P in wastewater by responsible time are studied in the test,to provide reference to the process reconstruction of depth treatment of wastewater.


Abstract Davydov D., 2018: Checklist of cyanobacteria from the European polar desert zone. - Botanica, 24(2): 185- 201. The present study compiles the results of inventory of cyanobacteria species from the polar desert zone of Europe. The checklist includes actualized literature data from Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya archipelagos, most of which are published in Russian, and the data from Svalbard archipelago. After the revision of nomenclature, the current checklist contains 176 species of cyanobacteria. The data on site characteristics, habitats, species frequency are provided. The study is the first generalization of the biodiversity of cyanobacteria in the European polar deserts, and it is important for the knowledge about their distribution and biodiversity in the Arctic. The flora analysis showed a decreasing trend of cyanobacterial biodiversity towards high latitude areas.


As Japan attempts to meet the demands of the Ministry of Education by introducing English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) classes in all elementary schools, there has been a shortage of qualified native Japanese EFL teachers. The English communicative ability (and pronunciation, in particular) of Japanese EFL teachers varies across educational levels throughout Japan and even within individual prefectures. This study presents an acoustic analysis of 77 Fukushima Prefecture junior and senior high school Japanese EFL teachers' read speech, comparing the two levels. It also presents an analysis of 133 Japanese university students' read speech, recorded both before and after 14 weeks of weekly 90‐min explicit pronunciation instruction. The reading passage was the "Please call Stella" paragraph from the speech accent archive (http://accent.gmu.edu/). Detailed analyses of vowel formants, voice onset time, fricative spectral peaks, and intonation were carried out using PRAAT and will be presented. The data have impl...


The light elements Li, O, Na, Al, and Mg are known to show star to star variations in the globular clusters 47 Tuc and NGC 6752. Such variations are interpreted as due to processing in a previous generation of stars. In this paper we investigate the abundances of the alpha-element sulphur, for which no previous measurements exist. In fact this element has not been investigated in any Galactic globular cluster so far. The only globular cluster for which such measurements are available is Terzan 7, which belongs to the Sgr dSph. We use high resolution spectra of the S I Mult. 1, acquired with the UVES spectrograph at the 8.2m VLT-Kueyen telescope, for turn-off and giant stars in the two globular clusters. The spectra are analyzed making use of ATLAS static plane parallel model atmospheres and SYNTHE spectrum synthesis. We also compute 3D corrections from CO5BOLD hydrodynamic models and apply corrections due to NLTE effects taken from the literature. In the cluster NGC 6752 sulphur has been measured only in four subgiant stars. We find no significant star to star scatter and a mean<[S/Fe]>= +0.49 +- 0.15, consistent with what observed in field stars of the same metallicity. In the cluster 47 Tuc we measured S in 4 turn-off and 5 subgiant stars with a mean<[S/Fe]>= +0.18 +- 0.14. While this result is compatible with no star to star scatter we notice a statistically significant correlation of the sulphur abundance with the sodium abundance and a tentative correlation with the silicon abundance.


Numero 96 Septiembre - Diciembre 1999 Nueva Serie Ano XXXII ISSN 0041 8633 NOTAS SOBRE LA FUNDAMENTACION DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS The author states that it is impossible to explain, in a general way, and in a single article, the pro-blem that outlines the basis of human rights. Moreover, several essays written about the matter give more information on the subject. Nevertheless, the reader might find here a detailed list of the several attempts to justify, with sound reasons, the issue of human rights, and will, as well, find references of the main efforts made to justify the basis of these rights, as well as the objec-tions that have arisen throughout. * Nota: Debido que la traduccion es automatica podra ser inexacta o contener errores.


The inspiratory diaphragmatic EMG (EMGdi) is severely contaminated by the ECG signal originating from the neighboring heart muscle. The efficiency of most frequently applied methods for ECG cancellation was tested using both simulated and real EMGdi data. The simulated data were generated by an EMGdi signal model. Real EMGdi data were recorded from 5 subjects. We introduced two new parameters for the comparison of the methods: maximum of the normalized correlation function between pure EMGdi and denoised EMGdi, and maximum of the normalized correlation function between denoised EMGdi and ECG; these parameters allow an objective evaluation of the denoising methods. As expected, compensation based methods outperformed the filtering and the simple cut methods.


Purpose: Imaging purine receptors and adenylate biodistribution in vivo may be of clinical importance not only for the investigation of normal adenylate metabolism but also in pathological conditions where adenylate uptake and/or release from certain tissues and organs may be altered, such as some types of cancer. In order to develop a tracer for positron emission tomography (PET) that would not be subject to loss of its radioisotope, adenosine 5 0 -monophosphate (AMP) was intrinsically labeled at the C-8 position with carbon-11. Procedures: [ 11 C]AMP was synthesized by reacting 5-amino-1-b-D-ribofuranosylimidazole-4carboxamidine-5 0 -phosphate with [ 11 C]formaldehyde. The metabolism of [ 11 C]AMP in human blood was determined in vitro both in the presence and absence of dipyridamole. The ex vivo biodistribution of [ 11 C]AMP and its in vivo dosimetry were determined in normal mice. The effect of dipyridamole on the distribution of [ 11 C]AMP in mice was also determined. Results: [ 11 C]AMP was reliably synthesized in 34 minutes (n = 7) with an average radiochemical yield of 2.4% and an average specific activity of 90.10 GBq/mmol (2435 mCi/mmol) at end of synthesis. In normal mice, the highest uptake of [ 11 C]AMP was in the lungs, blood, and heart. The ex vivo mouse experiments showed that the uptake of 11 C radiotracer in the lungs at 60 minutes postinjection was significantly lower for dipyridamole-treated animals than controls. Dosimetry showed that the critical organs for radiation dose burden are kidneys and bladder. Conclusions: Treatment with dipyridamole blocked the red blood cell uptake of extracellular adenosine and therefore its subsequent intracellular conversion to ATP. The biodistribution studies indicate that the tracer has substantial accumulation in the kidneys, lungs, heart, and blood. [ 11 C]AMP is promising as a PET-imaging agent to trace adenylate biology in vivo.


Levan polysaccharide used in this study was microbially produced from Bacillus sp. Levan was first blended with glycerol and a concurrent change in glass transition temperature (Tg) using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was observed. Levan was made into films by pressing the levan/glycerol blends on a heated compression molder. It was found that films with 20–30 weight percent (wt%) glycerol made cohesive, pliable films. However, films with less than 10 wt% glycerol were too brittle to handle and test. Films with greater than 30 wt% glycerol were not cohesive and were more ''liquid''-like than ''solid''-like. It was found that 20 wt% glycerol was a critical point for effective levan plasticization. Based on the compression-molding data, levan was extruded using optimal glycerol contents and heating regimes. Efficient extrusion of levan/glycerol blends required at least 35% glycerol, indicating extrusion may better incorporate glycerol into the levan structure over room temperature mixing and heated compression-molding. Adding water to the blend, either by replacing glycerol or levan, greatly reduced extrusion viscosity. Published by Elsevier Ltd.


The main objective of this program is to produce effective leaders and scholars in health professions education, who can bring about reform in medical education


Globally, the impact of disasters has risen rapidly over recent decades affecting almost all sectors and rich countries and poor countries alike. Several hundred million people are affected annually and losses reached a record US$ 371 billion in 2011(Annual Disaster Statistical Review, 2012). This figure may underreport the true losses by 50% or more. It does not incorporate knock-on impacts across economies and it undervalues the relative economic impacts on individual and particularly poor households. In some regions numerous smaller-scale and unreported events are a major source of aggregate loss, especially in developing countries and poor communities. A particular concern is that disaster-damaged livelihoods and economies can set the preconditions for further rounds of excessive exposure, susceptibility and loss, blocked escapes from poverty and negative spirals of development failure. This may occur at any level, from household to state (Annual Disaster Statistical Review, 2012). Abstract: This study looked at the role of governmental and non-governmental agencies towards disaster risk reduction in Rivers State, Nigeria with the view to ascertain if disaster Risk Reduction activities have contributed to meaningful development in the study area.Data for the study was collected through questionnaire survey and interviews while population for the study was 715 respondents which included (youths, women and men) from selected communities in Ahoada West and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGAs of Rivers State, Nigeria. Given the nature of the research and efficacy of the study, five officials from Total E&P Emergency Response Team and Shell Emergency Response Team who are under non-governmental Agencies were interviewed while officials from National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and Rivers State Ministry of Special Duties representing the governmental Agencies were also interviewed. Results of the study shows that the most prevalent disasters in the study areaare flooding (AWELGA) and Oil spillage (ONELGA). Majority of the respondents from the Agencies that carry out DRR activities and those residing in the communities where DRR is being carried out in both local government areas had their opinion that DRR activities have led to a remarkable sustainable development. The results further revealed that, adequate funding, partnership, training and retraining of staff are the major factors that have led to the success of DRR activities and sustainable development with adequate funding taking topmost priority. It was recommended that officials of governmental and non-governmental Agencies involved in DRR activities should be well trained in line with global standard; the administration of DRR policies should be better supported financially for effective monitoring and enforcement of DRR laws. The study concluded that DRR policies should embrace inputs from indigenous people in terms of participation and consultation to help in the implementation process especially in the area of monitoring for compliance. Community or public awareness campaign was strongly advocated as a means of information by the government and non-governmental Agencies to disaster prone communities while a more robust and all-inclusive partnership and collaboration with other stakeholders involved in DRR activities across the globe was suggested in order to ensure compliance with global best practices in the country.


Developmet and research achievement may be protected by patent. In China, new Patent Law is implemented in the end of 2009, so as to adapt to change of economic development and to increase of patent application. New Patent Law On the basis of new Patent Law, Current situation and protection extent and patent application are explained in patent protection of agro-biotechnology in China , so as to provide experience for protection of intellectual property and patent application of agro-biotechnology.


As a newly introduced interconnection network for parallel computing, the locally twisted cube possesses many desirable properties. In this paper, binomial tree embeddings in locally twisted cubes are studied. We present two major results in this paper: (1) For any integer n ≥ 2, an n-dimensional binomial tree Bn can be embedded in LTQn with dilation 1 by randomly choosing any vertex in LTQn as the root. (2) For any integer n ≥ 2, an n-dimensional binomial tree Bn can be embedded in LTQn with up to n − 1 faulty links in log(n − 1) steps where dilation = 1. The results are optimal in the sense that the dilations of all embeddings are 1.


In order to make clear for the bearing characters of super-long simple pile,a lot of parameters of super-long simple piles were analyzed using ANSYS software.The effect of the pile length,diameter,elastic modulus and the Young's modulus of soil on its load-settlement curve was obtained.The results indicate that the aspect ratio of the pile should not be more than 80,and the increases of the elastic modulus of pile and the Young's modulus of soil will improve the bearing capacity of the super-long simple pile.


In this essay I discuss the expression ritual landscape regarding the burial and gathering site of Doserygg and its surroundings in south-western Scania, Sweden. Doserygg is dated to the early Neolithic-mid Neolithic period. I have studied literature, searched the Swedish National Heritage Board's database, and studied maps to answer my questions: What is a ritual landscape? What other Neolithic sites are there in this part of Scania? How do they relate to Doserygg? and Can I see a ritual landscape in the archaeological material? There is not one definition of ritual landscape, but several. They all have in common that monuments are built in the vicinity of each other. By studying the patterns and locations of megalithic tombs (primarily dolmens), settlements and flint axe finds, I have found in my analysis that the term ritual landscape can be used, but that it may be better to use the expression ritual centre. This does not imply that it is not a ritual landscape, but that the link may be something other than monumental.


QuickBird image covering part of Beijing City is taken as a source.Object-oriented image analysis method is used to extract automatically the MCZ(municipal construction zones).On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of MCZ,a method combining low-and high-resolution images is presented.At low-resolution image,the crude extents of MCZ are identified;at high-resolution image,the crude extents are refined further.Compared with the visual interpretation result,the precision is about 89.7%,and the miscarriage of justice rate is about 27.6%.


In the history teaching,it is very important to cultivate the interest of students' learning history and the positive study manner.Meanwhile,we should strengthen two basic teachings,make students form a good knowledge structure,and promote study to transfer.How to study it,the author sums up some tactics' from her teaching experiences.


This article considers the problem of self-education among students in conditions of competition in labor market. It shows the mechanisms of self-learning in institute of higher education and presents the references of students, who are ready for self-education. The author gives an analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature within the discussed questions.


Email marketing is an effective channel in marketing strategies not only as a tool to increase brand visibility and brand awareness, but also as an excellent tool to help promote and sell. It will continue to be a critical channel for content marketers. Even with the advent of social media and networking platforms, email marketing still remains the most preferred channel for generating leads, informing and influencing customers. In this paper, we present our experiences using a learning model on predicting the "click" and "conversion" of email-marketing. We present a comparative study on the most popular machine learning methods applied to the challenging problem of email marketing personalization. Subject and sender lines have a strong influence on click rates of the emails, as the customers often open and click emails based on the subject and the sender. We propose a method to aid the marketers by predicting subject-line click rates by learning from history of subject lines. In the first step of our experiences, all models were applied and evaluated by cross-validation. In the second step, the improvement of the performance offered by the boosting has been studied. In order to determine the most efficient parameter combinations we performed a series of simulations for each method and for a wide range of parameters. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to predict the rate for a targeted marketing email to be clicked or not.


Nonparametric methods require only few assumptions to be made about the format of the data, and they may therefore be preferable when the assumptions required for parametric methods are not valid. The Wilcoxon signed rank test applies to matched pairs studies. For two tail test, it tests the null hypothesis that there is no systematic difference within pairs against alternatives that assert a systematic difference. The test is based on the Wilcoxon signed rank statistic W, which is the smaller of the two ranks sums. The steps to compute W consider the positive and negative differences and omit all the zero differences. In this study, we modify the Wilcoxon signed rank test using the indicator function of positive, zero and negative differences to compute the Wilcoxon statistic, W. The empirical Type I error rates of the modified statistical test was measured via Monte Carlo simulation. These rates were obtained under different distributional shapes, sample sizes, and number of replications. The modified Wilcoxon signed rank test was found to be robust under symmetric distributions even though the values are quite conservative. The finding also demonstrated that different number of replication does not influence the result because there is not much difference in the value of the Type I error rates obtained.Nonparametric methods require only few assumptions to be made about the format of the data, and they may therefore be preferable when the assumptions required for parametric methods are not valid. The Wilcoxon signed rank test applies to matched pairs studies. For two tail test, it tests the null hypothesis that there is no systematic difference within pairs against alternatives that assert a systematic difference. The test is based on the Wilcoxon signed rank statistic W, which is the smaller of the two ranks sums. The steps to compute W consider the positive and negative differences and omit all the zero differences. In this study, we modify the Wilcoxon signed rank test using the indicator function of positive, zero and negative differences to compute the Wilcoxon statistic, W. The empirical Type I error rates of the modified statistical test was measured via Monte Carlo simulation. These rates were obtained under different distributional shapes, sample sizes, and number of replications. The modified W...


The student of Jewish lore experiences an ever recurring curiosity concern ing the personal lives or opinions of well-known personalities. The informa tion, unfortunately, is meager. We lack essential personal documentation relating to historical events and most of our literary records have been lost. Although they are desirable for a proper understanding of the past, refer ences to one's interests and activities or the expression of opinions regarding current events were usually considered frivolous. Whatever remnants we do possess were preserved only because they were recorded tangentially to illus trate an idea or identify an event. Our Biblical and Rabbinic literature contains bits of information that


PURPOSE
To develop and evaluate a three-dimensional organ culture system of the cornea anterior chamber that could replicate the in vivo processes occurring during corneal wound healing and corneal transplantation.

METHODS
Bovine corneoscleral buttons were clamped in a specially designed chamber through the sclera outside the limbus. The epithelium was exposed to air, and its anterior surface was automatically irrigated. The endothelial layer was perfused separately with media under normal intraocular pressure. Wound healing and corneal transplantation were observed using light, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy.

RESULTS
The organ culture system maintained the epithelium, the putative epithelial stem cells in the limbus, the stroma, and the endothelium in good condition for the 10-day period during which the system was evaluated. The authors observed that the processes of wound healing and corneal transplantation in the model appeared similar to those occurring in vivo.

CONCLUSIONS
In vitro model closely replicated the in vivo processes of wound healing and corneal transplantation. The authors believe this model will be useful for basic investigations into the cornea, such as study of the response of the cornea to surgery, wound healing, toxins, and therapeutic agents.


The target painted with Zone plate pattern to be tracked by a high speed camera through another transparent Zone plate give us a very high precision method for the measurement of target displacement. The film unflatness, air fluctuation and the vibration of the high speed camera are also effected on the shape change of the moire. The small amount change of the position and the direction of the target can be easily measured by this method.


BACKGROUND
Adults with an intellectual disability (ID) have much lower rates of employment than their counterparts without intellectual disability, which increases their risk of poverty and social exclusion. Differential treatment of people with intellectual disability in welfare and training policies suggests an expectation they will be passive welfare recipients rather than productive employees.

METHODS
This paper aims to examine occupational activities by older people with intellectual disability in Ireland, exploring factors influencing outcomes using data from the IDS-TILDA study (n = 708).

RESULTS
Most people were unemployed but engaged in regular occupational activity. Occupational activity was associated with better emotional/mental health. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) functioning was associated with an active occupational status, while social supports most strongly predicted high occupational engagement across a range of activities.

CONCLUSIONS
A focus on the individual meaning derived from a broad range of engagement may better support people with intellectual disabilities to benefit from regular occupational activity.


The objective of this assignment was to identify if the University Net of Popular Cooperatives Technological Incubators (PCTIs Net) is a social net. The research was an exploratory nature study with descriptive character, the technical procedure of the present research was the case study. The questionnaire was applied in 82% of the incubators belonging to the PCTIs Net, and interviews. The information acquired through the questionnaire was gathered and tabulated to compose the characterization of the net incubators and the social analyzer. With the Pajek program was created the social analyzer and the centralizing box. Was performed to compare the results with previous work Renno et al. (2010) proposed that the same goal using a different approach. Ending the analysis guided by the characteristics of a social net, it was observed that the PCTIs Net is a social net, however it was emphasized that the existing communication is a point where the net needs to be fortified.


Although Li-ion battery is one of the most widely used energy storage devices, there have been extensive efforts to push its limit to meet the ever increasing demands to increase its energy density for applications such as electric vehicles, portable electronics, and grid storages. Here, Lithium metal anode plays a key role in the next generation energy storage devices, ultimately removing the Li metal anode in the initial state with the anode-free configuration. However, there are major challenges that need to be overcome. These include low Coulombic efficiency and formation of dendrites. In this work, we adopted gallium-based liquid metal (LM) as a coating layer on a copper current collector to uniformly deposit Li to prevent the dendrite formation and inmprove the cycle efficiency. The LM coating effectively improved the cycle performance in the anode-free configuration combined with Li(Ni,Co,Mn)O2 cathode. The effect of the LM coating was confirmed by in situ transmission electron microscopy and optical microscopy observations. LM reduced the charge/discharge overpotentials with its high affinity with lithium. It also contributed to decompose the dendritic lithium in the discharge process reducing the dead lithium disconnected from the current collector.


This study provides an estimation of the eco-compensation requirements for forest ecosystem conservation in Hainan province of China using the ecological location quotient (ELQ). It determines that the ecosystem services provided by the forest ecosystem need to be classified into predominant, secondary and potential types. Consequently, the appropriate levels of payment are calculated using the ecological valuation coefficient (EVC) method. The mechanisms and standards of payment are then determined for the corresponding stages in the context of the eco-compensation concept. In this way, guidelines are provided for practising eco-compensation, not only in Hainan province but also in the other parts of China.


Illustrate the design method,numerical simulation and experiment process of a new type of intelligent control valve.The flow area of valve is designed by using weighted area method.The pressure,velocity distribution and the resistance coefficient is computed and analyzed by the numerical method.The experimental bench is set up and the flow characteristic is validated.The results show the weighted area method is suitable for the design of intelligent control valve.


......................................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................v List of Figures............................................................................................................................... vi List of Tables............................................................................................................................... xiv Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background................................................................................................................................1 1.2 Road Map to Remaining Chapters.............................................................................................2 Chapter 2 Cylinders Studied 2.1 Details of Cylinder Fabrication..................................................................................................6 2.2 Nondestructive Evaluation.........................................................................................................9 2.3 Cylinder Machining .................................................................................................................10 2.4 Measurement of Initial Geometry............................................................................................11 Chapter 3 Analysis Method 3.1 Problem Formulation ...............................................................................................................18 3.2 Effect of Local Eccentricity (Overlap) ....................................................................................19 Chapter 4 Predicted Response of Segmented Composite Cylinders 4.


The research was conducted to know growth estimation of Madura and Limousin cross Madura (Limura) cattle on Pamekasan district, East Java Province, Indonesia. Samples for the research were 99 Madura cattle and 63 Limura cattle which both divided into two groups (1-2 years and 3-4 years). Sampling method were purposive sampling that directly come to the farmers who hold those cattle. Body measurement was analyzed by t-test. The result showed that body measurement of Limura cattle was higher than that of Madura cattle. Body measurement of Limura cattle for first group (1-2 years): body lenght were 116.90 ± 12.75 cm, heart girth were 149.64 ± 16.13 cm, withers height were 118.40 ± 9.05 cm, height at hip were 121.19 ± 8.74 cm. Body measurement of Limura cattle for second group (3-4 years): body lenght were 130.62 ± 10.61 cm, heart girth were 165.86 ±14.68 cm, withers height were 127.67 ± 9.09 cm, height at hip were 129.24 ± 8,77. While body measurement of Madura cattle for first group (1-2 years): 108.37 ± 11.85 cm, heart girth were 137.21 ± 15.41 cm, withers height were
115.45 ± 9.83 cm, height at hip were 113.19 ± 8.02 cm. Body measurement of Madura cattle for second group (3-4 years): body lenght were 121.19 ± 10.62 cm, heart girth were 151.97 ± 16.14 cm, withers height were 122.21 ± 9.16 cm, height at hip were 118.26 ± 7.88 cm. Conclusion, growth estimation of Limousin cross Madura cattle was greater than that of Madura cattle. Body measurement of Madura cattle has increased but can not reach of body measurement according to criteria of Standar Bibit Nasional in 1982.
Key Words: Growth estimation, Madura cattle, Limousin cross madura cattle, Pamekasan district


PurposeThe so-called vividness effect, painting a verbal picture to an audience and a key element of charismatic rhetoric, provides opportunities to make corporate communication more persuasive. The article seeks to provide evidence regarding: (1) the presence of the effect in written, international business communication and (2) whether vivid communication by top-level executives affects perception of their communication effectiveness.Design/methodology/approachThe article employs a qualitative, exploratory setting (focus groups) to examine the attitude of participants towards vivid communication of top-executives. The article also employs a computer-aided-content-analysis (CATA) in two of the most important stock indices (Deutsche Aktienindex and Dow Jones) from 2011 to 2015 to locate the presence of the rhetorical style in annual reports. Lastly, the article studies via a quasi-experimental approach whether this type of communication is perceived differently on the dimensions of communication effectiveness by Segars and Kohut (2001) using unique 485 responses from recruited US-citizens.FindingsThe article reveals empirically that companies make use of this type of communication across stock indices. The results of the conformational, quasi-experimental study (Study 3) suggests that vividness is perceived differently by an audience. Therefore, positive attributional effects are not univocally related to communication effectiveness but to the dimensions responsibility and customer commitment. The participants also attribute other desirable characteristics towards the speaker, thereby providing evidence for a partial positive effect of vividness on communication effectiveness.Originality/valueThe article employs an established measure of communication effectiveness and combines it with a key communication style from academia and industry. In addition, the article combines several methods to examine the construct (mixed-models).


A pelvic abscess occurred in an infertile woman with an endocervical gonococcal infection after hysterosalpingographical examination. The pelvic abscess was not cured despite rigorous antimicrobial chemotherapy until two intra‐abscess ceftriaxone injections were administered. This shows that antibiotics administered systemically may not reach therapeutic concentration in an abscess and an intra‐abscess antibiotic injection may help to cure it.


The invention relates to the achievement of piezoelectric crystal resonators. is produced bursts of laser beam shots piercing successive rows of holes in a metal layer deposited on the resonator. The amount of material removed by a burst varies during the process, so that the resonator frequency is close by successves approximations of the desired frequency. The frequency of the resonator is compared after each shot a burst to a provisional limit frequency. The amount of material removed on the next liter and the provisional limit frequency are modified or not depending on the result of the comparison. Application to the adjustment of the resonator frequency.


The seventeenth century, broadly conceived, marks an important turning point in the history of European population movements. Long cycles characterized, first, by population expansion and subsequently by mortality contractions due to famine or disease held long-term population growth largely in check. The subsistence and mortality crises of the middle decades of the seventeenth century and the fundamental shift in the capacity of the European population to grow after 1750 together suggest that the case for a "general crisis of the seventeenth century" has strong demographic support.


The ability to develop bifunctional electrocatalysts for concurrent CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the key to the practical application of CO2 splitting to produce CO. However, this remains a grand challenge. Herein, a robust strategy to rationally craft hierarchical structured bifunctional electrocatalysts composed of 3D CoS2 nanocages interconnected on 2D CoS2 nanosheet arrays (denoted hierarchical CoS2 nanocages) for high‐performance CO2 splitting is developed. The subsequent calcination removes the partial S edges of CoS2, thereby strongly suppressing the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of CoS2. By combining theoretic and experimental results, for the first time, it is discovered that the plane S of CoS2, instead of S edges, are highly active for CO2RR but inactive for HER, rendering the plane S as ideal active sites for CO2RR. Intriguingly, the composition tuning via calcination and the presence of a hierarchical architecture confer hierarchical CoS2 nanocages respective outstanding CO2RR and OER performance. Notably, the hierarchical CoS2 nanocages can be exploited as bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall CO2 splitting to yield the current density of 1 mA cm−2 at a small cell voltage of 1.92 V, much lower than the widely reported values (>2.5 V).


MicroRNA‐34c (miR‐34c) has been found to play important roles in tumorigenesis. However, little is known about miR‐34c expression and the impact on prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).


Preventing illegal immigration in the European Union since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The legislation in force after the Treaty of Lisbon
The article analyses the activities of the European Union aimed at preventing illegal immigration. The author describes the legal basis for immigration policy prior to and after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force. The most important elements of the multiannual programs for justice and home affairs adopted by the European Council between 1999 and 2009 are also discussed. Chronologically, these were: The Tampere, The Hague and The Stockholm Programs. Finally, the article presents statistical data related to the number of illegal third country citizens in the EU Member States.


Workplace Incivility is labelled by way of rudeness, impolite behaviour towards the employees. This is an alarmingly an important problematic thing for all the organization. Discovering the motives for the Workplace Incivility is the main and primary step for every administration to overcome the problem. This Workplace Incivility comes from both the direction of Supervisor as well as coworker. In this paper, we are going to highlight the reasons of Workplace Incivility from Supervisor and Coworker among nurses and which is leaving the intention to quit the Job. Individuals who are engaging in uncivil behaviour or activities might not have the intention to bully others. Advanced development has been taking place in all the fields, especially in the field of Healthcare. Nurses who are the most trusted professionals in the healthcare industry. After getting advice from the doctors, nurses are the people who are taking care of the patients well and good. The care and wellbeing of nurses also should be taken care by the organization. This paper attempts to bring out the reasons and outcomes of Workplace Incivility among nurses of Karaikudi region. The sample consists of 160 respondents, who were the private hospital nurses at Karaikudi. Convenient sampling technique was followed to collect the sample. In this paper, we have also provided suggestions for the hospital nurses to overcome Workplace Incivility and how to overcome it. ANOVA, Chi-Square, and Garrett Ranking Methods have been adopted to find out the relationships and association between the variables.


: This paper will consider the question as to whether the thought of Eriugena is a source for the Eastern Christian ideas found in the Summa Halensis. I shall first give a general historical overview of the fate of Eriugenian texts and ideas in this pe-riod. Following that, I shall examine the Eriugenian element in an important section of the Parisian Corpus Dionysiacum (Mystical Theology V), and the anonymous Liber de causis primis et secundis , which gives us something of a key to the 13 th reading of Eriugena, and helps explain the harshness of later reaction to him. Finally, I shall examine a key example from the Summa in which this debate from the previous five centuries emerges, and conclude. For the purposes of this comparison, I shall focus on one problem, that is, the problem of Eriugena ' s presentation of the Primordial Causes. concealed in the darkness of their excellence, do not cease to appear by being brought forth into the light, as it were, of knowledge in their effects.³


. We prove a random fixed point theorem in a Banach space for set valued mappings and then derive a corollary that yields a fixed point theorem of Bharucha-Reid and Mukherjea, as a special case.


The social principle contradiction transformation is the distinct mark of the new Era in our country. The contradiction between the increasing of the necessities of people and the unbalanced and insufficient development determines the final target and direction of the great cause of the Chinese characteristics in the new Era. To a particle level, we must fully understand the objective importance to guide people for a ever-going demand for better. This requires our way from the contents of the education, the education innovation, education network integration, education evaluation change, etc., actively explore the formation of a set of effective education mechanism.This is a new era system to promote the comprehensive innovation of ideological and political education. Keywords—Principle Contradiction Transformation, Ideological and Political Education, Practice The 19th National Congress of the Party in a landmark meeting in the period of runoff of well-off society in an all-round way. The conference proclaimed to the world that "socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era, the social principle contradictions of our country has been converted to the contradiction between the demand for better life and the unbalanced and insufficient development. " The ideological and political education is the echo wall of all theoretical problems in the era. When the main social contradictions are transformed, it must become a new turning point and new direction for the development of ideological and policy education. I. HISTORICAL AND REALISTIC BASIS FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF MAJOR SOCIAL CONTRADICTION IN CHINA On one hand, from the historical changes of the principal contradictions, this is the inevitable result of summarizing the development and changes of the major social contradictions in China since the establish of the party. Things are moving, contradictions are developing, and the principle social contradictions are not static. From the perspective of the 96-year-old framework of the party's founding, our party's judgment of major social contradictions has a torturous process of change. Before the founding of new China, the goal was to overthrow the 3 mountains and seize power. After1949, after "3 mirrors" and "5 antis" movements, such as socialist transformation stage, the 8th National Congress of the Party in 1956 pointed out that the domestic principle contradiction is no longer the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie, but the people to the requirement of establishing the advanced industrial counties with the contradiction between the reality of backward agriculture country, it is the people for the needs of the rapid development of economy and culture with the condition of the current economic culture cannot satisfy people's needs. The Sixth Plenary session of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1981 adopted "about since the founding of the party's resolution on certain questions in the history". It said the principle contradiction of China is: "after the socialist transformation completed, to solve the principle contradiction in our country, is the people;s growing material and cultural needs with the contradiction between the backward social production."This formulation was confirmed by the 12th and 13th party congress, and included in= the general program of the party constitution as the principle-contradiction in the primary stage of socialism in China. With the development of history, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which is a new historical orientation for China's development. The new era is facing a new social situation , and the major social contradictions are also changes, it can be seen from the above context that the transformation of major theoretical judgment and the opening of the new stage of development often occur simultaneously, and its importance is related to the overall situation. With the transfer of China from the right to subsistence to the right to development, the important symbol of China's entering into the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics is reflected in the correct understanding of the new contradictions at present. On the other hand, from the development reality of the principle contradiction, this is the inevitable result of scientific judgment on the new stage of socialist construction and development with Chinese characteristics. Based on the profound analysis of our national conditions, the 19th CPC national congress has a profound understanding of the development stage we are in, and made a brand-new summary of the major contradictions in our society. With long-tern efforts, China's development has entered a new historical direction, from socialist construction to reform a new and opening-up to socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era. At the beginning of reform and opening up, our party issued a great call to go its own way and build socialism with Chinese characteristics, Xi said. Since that time, our party led the Chinese people of all ethnic strength, technological strength, national defense strength, comprehensive national power into the world, to promote China's international status to achieve an unprecedented increase, the party's face, the fate of national and people's appearance, face to army, the unprecedented changes have taken place in the face of the Chinese nation, the Chinese nation is 2018 8th International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society (EMCS 2018) Copyright © (2018) Francis Academic Press, UK DOI: 10.25236/emcs.2018.176 707 standing in the world with new attitude of the east."Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era," Xi said. "it means that the afflicted Chinese nation in modern times has ushered in a Great Leap Forward from standing up, becoming rich to becoming strong, and ushered in a bright future for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It means that scientific socialism in the 21st century in China is full of vigor and vitality, and the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics has been raised high in the world. Means that the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, theory, system and culture development, expand the way of developing countries towards modernization, to the world those who hope to speed up the development and want to keep their independence of national and ethnic provides a new choice to solve the problem of human contribution to the Chinese wisdom and the scheme." II. THE TRANSFORMATION OF MAJOR SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS IN CHINA IS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION One hand, it's the important adherence of ideological and political education in the new era. The great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics into the new era, new era created Jinping the ideas of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This is the newest theoretical results which marxism, is also a system of theories of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, the latest theoretical system of sinicization of marxism into people's social principal contradictions of the salient features is the growing demand for a better life and not balance the contradiction between the inadequate development, the transformation of the main contradiction refraction is, in the field of ideological and political education is a reflection of the people for the spiritual needs of ideological and political education is becoming more and more high quality and the contradiction between the unbalanced development is not sufficient. Therefore, to solve this contradiction, from the overall to translate into significant features of the main social contradiction of Jinping the ideas of socialism with Chinese characteristics to follow new era, actively explore the ideological and political education the development path of the new era. On the other hand, this is an important basis for the development of the ideological and political education in the new era. From the historical experience of our party ideological and political education, ideological and political education work is the lifeline of all work. It is about the developing direction of our party, flags, relations to a new era of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics course, about the four cardinal principles of implementation. Therefore, the development of the new era of ideological and political education, will be based on characteristics of The Times at this stage, from the largest of China's actual situation, seek truth from facts, in-depth analysis of the ideological and political education unbalanced development situation of inadequate research practitioners, different people from all walks of life level psychological state and developing trend of thought, they on the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the theory, the condition of roads, cultural identity, etc., to find problems, determine the next step of the concrete countermeasures of ideological and political education.All this to be in the main contradiction of reality based on practical investigation and analysis, from to ensure that the scientific development of ideological and political education. III. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION IN THE NEW ERA A. Principle:adhere to Xi Jingping thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era "The wise change from time to time, and the knower system according to the matter." How to solve the new contradictions of the new era of the future? On the basis of continue to promote the development and focus on solve the problem of inadequate good unbalanced development, to ensure all the people sharing development more in the acquisition, to promote people's all-round development and all-round social progress, is a new topic put forward by the new era to us. At the current changes in the number of study abroad in C


The principle of legal definition of crimes does not mean the cancellation of criminal interpretation, but allows a reasonable scope for criminal interpretation. Therefore, criminal interpretation must conform with the principle of legal definition of crimes and reach conclusions that agree with the given criminal norms.


ABSTRACT Current literature on gifted Black students with disabilities is growing but still limited in regards to specific college and career readiness needs of these students. This article discusses the unique academic and socioemotional needs as they related to career development for these students. Based on the academic and social needs of students, the author provides a group counseling intervention that professional school counselors can use to foster positive identity development while exposing students with disabilities who are also Black and gifted to college and career readiness activities.


In this paper, thermo-tactile interaction is investigated using a tactile display. The tactile display device can provide both normal vibrotactile stimulus and temperature together, using piezo-actuating pin-array and a thermo electric module. The main experiment of this research is about the effect of temperature, especially cold temperature, in perceived magnitude of vibrotactile stimuli. Three different conditions of vibrotactile amplitude and frequency were selected for tactile stimuli. Two different conditions were applied for each vibrotactile stimulus. Experimental result shows the effect of temperature condition to the perception of vibrotactile stimuli.


We present new gas flow models for the Milky Way inside the solar circle. We use smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations in gravitational potentials determined from the near-infrared (NIR) luminosity distribution of the bulge and disc, assuming a constant NIR mass-to-light ratio, with an outer halo added in some cases. The luminosity models are based on the COBE/DIRBE maps and on clump giant star counts in several bulge fields and include a spiral arm model for the disc. Gas flows in models that include massive spiral arms clearly match the observed 12 CO (l, v) diagram better than if the potential does not include spiral structure. Furthermore, models in which the luminous mass distribution and the gravitational potential of the Milky Way have four spiral arms are better fits to the observed (l, v) diagram than two-armed models. Besides single-pattern speed models we investigate models with separate pattern speeds for the bar and spiral arms. The most important difference is that in the latter case the gas spiral arms go through the bar corotation region, keeping the gas aligned with the arms there. In the (l, v) plot this results in characteristic regions that appear to be nearly devoid of gas. In single-pattern speed models these regions are filled with gas because the spiral arms dissolve in the bar corotation region. Comparing with the 12 CO data we find evidence for separate pattern speeds in the Milky Way.


We have developed a new software tool, lensview, for modelling resolved gravitational lens images. Based on the lensmem algorithm, the software finds the best-fitting lens mass model and source brightness distribution using a maximum entropy constraint. The method can be used with any point spread function or lens model. We review the algorithm and introduce some significant improvements. We also investigate and discuss issues associated with the statistical uncertainties of models and model parameters and the issues of source plane size and source pixel size.

We test the software on simulated optical and radio data to evaluate how well lens models can be recovered and with what accuracy. For optical data, lens model parameters can typically be recovered with better than 1 per cent accuracy, and the degeneracy between mass ellipticity and power law is reduced. For radio data, we find that systematic errors associated with using processed radio maps, rather than the visibilities, are of similar magnitude to the random errors. Hence analysing radio data in image space is still useful and meaningful.

The software is applied to the optical arc HST J15433+5352 and the radio ring MG1549+3047 using a simple elliptical isothermal lens model. For HST J15433+5352, the Einstein radius is 0.525 ± 0.015 arcsec which probably includes a substantial convergence contribution from a neighbouring galaxy. For MG1549+3047, the model has Einstein radius 1.105 ± 0.005 arcsec and core radius 0.16 ± 0.03 arcsec. The total mass enclosed in the critical radius is 7.06 × 1010 M⊙ for our best model.

We finish by discussing issues relating to modelling of resolved lens images for this method and some alternatives.


A photometric titration procedure is described for the determination of a number of phenothiazine derivatives and their dosage forms. An acidic solution of the drug or dosage form is titrated with standard ceric sulfate solution. The end point is determined photometrically at 420 mG. Quantitative recoveries are reported for 14 phenothiazine derivatives and three dosage forms.


Background: Public educational programs have been developed to reduce delays between the onset of ischemic stroke symptoms and emergency department evaluation. An increase in the proportion of patients presenting soon after stroke would reflect the effectiveness of these efforts. Methods: All patients (n = 506) with ischemic stroke admitted to an academic medical center located within the 'Stroke Belt' of the USA were prospectively identified over 2 years (1998–1999). Demographics, stroke characteristics and time from symptom onset to arrival in the emergency department were recorded. Results: A higher proportion of ischemic stroke patients presented within 3 h of symptoms in 1998 than in 1999 (18% of 234 vs. 8% of 272, p = 0.0001). Those with less severe strokes (Canadian Neurological Scale score; Spearman r = 0.18, p < 0.0001) and younger patients (r = –0.09, p = 0.04) had greater delays. There was no difference in time to presentation based on race (13% of whites and blacks presented within 3 h, p = 0.70) or sex (16% of women vs. 9% of men, p = 0.10). Logistic regression showed that time to presentation was independently related to both stroke severity and year. Conclusions: These data show that, after accounting for other variables, the proportion of stroke patients presenting within 3 h of symptom onset to one academic medical center decreased by 10% between 1998 and 1999. Revision of public stroke-related educational programs may need to be considered.


Significant erosion occurred from recently constructed forest logging roads and skid trails in a small headwater catchment in Peninsular Malaysia. Soil loss was estimated by measuring dimensions of all significant rills and gullies along the road, as well as by measuring height of preserved soil pedestals in sidecast and fill material and on skid trails. Estimates of surface erosion from logging roads and skid trails were 272 ± 20 t ha−1 year−1 and 275 ± 20 t ha−1 year−1 respectively. However, owing to lack of connectivity of skid trails to the stream, much of the sediment mobilized on skid trails was stored either on adjacent hillslopes or the trails themselves, rather than being transported to the stream system, as was the case for the road. Steeper skid trails (>20% gradient) had slightly higher erosion rates (320 ± 24 t ha−1 year−1) than trails with gentler gradients (245–264 t ha−1 year−1). Some 60% of the soil loss on logging roads comes from erosion of the running surface. Disturbed cut and fill material along the road supplied the remaining 40% of the soil loss from roads. Roads and skid trails had no designed drainage systems; runoff discharged onto the hillslope at 25 major discharge nodes from the logging road (690 m total length) and at 34 nodes from skid trails (2300 m). Sediment pathways were either fully or moderately connected to headwater channels at 64% of the logging road nodes, but at only 26% of the nodes emanating from skid trails. A detailed sediment budget revealed that 78% of the soil loss from the road system (including log landings) was delivered to the stream in the first 16 months after logging began. Most (90%) of the deposition from skid trails occurred below just three discharge nodes. Runoff from and onto skid trails often exacerbated the sediment connectivity to channels. Clearly, sediment discharge from logging roads was more highly connected to the stream than discharge from skid trails. Once in the channel, much of this sediment was temporarily stored in the floodplain and behind woody debris. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The response of SOC spatial variability to different soil moisture conditions has not been explored at the global scale in part due to the lack of continuous information of these variables across large areas of the world. Analyzing this relationship could be useful to reduce the current uncertainty around SOC distribution and change. Large scale models and SOC mapping efforts contrast with country specific SOC maps, and large uncertainties on SOC magnitudes and patterns remain across large areas of the world. Our main objective was to explore SOC trends using soil moisture values as prediction factors. Using SOC point data from the World Soil Information Service (WoSIS, n=87002 point data between the years 1991 and 2015) we applied a cross validation-based ensemble learning approach to generate continuous SOC maps in a quinquennial basis (limited to 0-30 cm depth). The cross validated root mean squared error (RMSE) of our ensemble for the period 1991 -1995 varied from 32 to 33 g/kg while the correlation between modeled and observed data varied from r=0.45 to r=0.55. The accuracy of SOC estimates increased for the period 2011-2015 (r=0.75 to r=0.81 and RMSE= 20 to 23 g/kg). However the lower RMSE (16 to 17 gr/kg) was found for the years 2001-2005 (r=52 to r=58). Trend detection analysis applied to SOC predictions reveal areas showing significant (p-value < 0.05) positive trends across ~2.7 million km2 at the global scale ranging from 0.3 to 29 g/kg. Significant negative trends of SOC were found across ~3.6 million km2 at the global scale ranging from -22.2 to -0.3 g/kg. Main SOC losses were found across North America, Europe, central Africa, and Siberia. Our results quantifying the response of soils to changing soil moisture conditions contribute with new insights that are useful for the development of soil carbon monitoring systems.


This essay seeks to make two contributions, one pertaining to the analysis of Brazil specifically, the other more general and theoretical, which challenges what have become almost common-sense assumptions concerning capitalism, imperialism and core-periphery relations in light of significant changes in capital, states and, not least, labour on a world scale today. The first part analyzes the relation between Brazilian multinationals and the state. Despite Brazil being behind China and India in the leading rankings of 'emerging multinational companies', Brazilian multinationals are shown as 'engines' of economic development of the country affecting Brazilian foreign policy. A new consensus has been created on the need for policies aimed at supporting Brazilian foreign direct investment. Social, environmental and labour aspects of life, that are essential for the working class, have been systematically excluded from the main analyses and reflections on the role of the state in supporting Brazilian investments abroad. Conflicts involving communities, environment and workers point to contractions within an apparent over-all consensus on the need for the international expansion of Brazilian capital.

Taking into account these new features, the second part of the essay analyzes their broader and deeper implications. Insofar as capitalist expansion needs to be understood differently than political forms of territorial expansion, the current dynamics of capital formation and accumulation which lead an expansive Brazilian bourgeoisie to compete and accumulate beyond its own borders may be captured by the concept of imperial capitalism. This is a concept specifically formulated to allow us to grapple with the conditions that led to the dissemination and development of capitalism in peripheral countries, such as Brazil, India and others, which are now developing their own significant transnational capitalist dynamics. However, insofar as Brazil's imperial capitalism is one which retains strong traces of dependency, and even stems from the contradictions of dependency, this means that any proper understanding of Brazil today needs to start with an awareness of the contradictions that still attend the emergence of this new type of imperial capitalism.


The paper analyzed the principle of impact compaction,discussed the action of impact compaction technique with improving subgrade whole strength and strengthening soft subgrade etc.


The invention discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display. The backlight module includes a carrier, a guide light plate, a light source, a compression member and a fixing unit. The guide light place is disposed on the carrier. The light source is disposed on the carrier to emit light toward the guide light plate. The compression member is positioned above the carrier and covers the light source, and has a compression surface. The compression surface is arranged on the light guide plate in a compressed manner. The fixing unit is used for joining the compression member on the carrier. The fixing unit includes a first hole position, a second hole position and a positioning member. The positioning member penetrates through the first hole position and the second hole position, and during the joining process of the positioning member and the second hole position, the positioning member is shifted in the first hole position until reaches the compression surface to compress the light guide plate, and then is fixed in the second hole position.


Renewable energy technology (RET) can help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies to both meet the need for a stable energy supply and contribute to the fight against climate change. In Senegal, SMEs have the opportunity through RET to become electricity prosumers. Whether it works as such in Senegalese SMEs is one of the questions we were able to address through qualitative interviews with 23 SMEs and 13 experts. Using qualitative content analysis, we examined what factors promote the adoption of RET by these SMEs. We also examined how well the established Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model (UTAUT2) can serve as a guiding framework for this type of investigation. We find that effort expectancy is generally underestimated. Performance expectancy, when high, may influence the adoption process positively, while social influence does not seem to play a role. Both SMEs and experts point to customer service and government support for SMEs adopting RET as important facilitating conditions. The cost of RET is another factor influencing the adoption of these technologies. However, we regard the UTAUT2 as only partially helpful for the Senegalese context, due to the informal sector economy in Senegal. This leads us to add the factors knowledge, communication channels and entrepreneurial orientation. Moreover, we question the unequivocally positive notion of prosumerism for African contexts, as the idea draws its motivating power from a Western mindset.


The adsorption of atomic (H, C, N, O, S) and molecular (OH, CHₓ, NHₓ, CO, NO, CN, N₂, HNO, NOH, HCN, x = 1–3) species at 1/4 monolayer coverage on an extended Ag(111) surface was studied using periodic density functional theory. Geometries and energies were calculated self-consistently using the PW91 functional; nonself-consistent energies using the RPBE functional are also provided. We analyze the binding energies, binding geometries, estimated diffusion barriers, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and energetic and geometric deformation parameters of these adsorbates, comparing them to experimental and theoretical results whenever possible. PW91 gives binding energies that match experimental binding energies more closely than RPBE, which consistently predicts weaker binding than PW91. The data were then used to construct and analyze thermochemistry-only potential energy pathways for the hydrocarbon-assisted and hydrogen-assisted selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitric oxide (NO). These analyses provide preliminary insights into the possible mechanistic paths of the SCR of NO on Ag(111). Specifically, we show that deep dehydrogenation leading to the formation of atomic intermediates is not favored on Ag(111).


One of the critical parameters for the modelling of particle temperature profiles in continuous processing of particulate foods in a carrier liquid is the fluid-to-particle heat transfer coeflcient between the fluid and the particles (hfJ. A laboratory scale apparatus was fabricated to evaluate hfi under conditions imparting particle oscillatory motion while being heated in a model holding tube. Spherical particles (d = 12.7 x lo-' m) with centrally located fine-wire flexible thermocouples (d = 7.62 x lo5 m) were suspended from the upper mid-section of a curved glass tube (ID = 50.8 x lo3 m) to provide lateral movement of the particle as the tube was subjected to an oscillatory motion. A variable speed reversible motor, in conjunction with an electronic circuit board, was used to control the frequency and amplitude of the tube thereby keeping the particle in continuous motion. Time-temperature data were gathered continuously from the time the particle-mounted oscillatory unit, set at room temperature for the desired amplitude and frequency, was transferred to a heated sucrose solution (0, 30 and 50% w/w) at 70 or 90C. The hfp values were calculated from the evaluated heat rate index, fh, at three particle velocities (0.09, 0.16 and 0.26 m/s) under three oscillatory amplitudes (90, 180 and 270"). The hfp values increased with amplitude of oscillation and particle velocity, and decreased with the sucrose concentration. The h,, values associated with the fixed particles were higher than those for particles which were free to move.


Abstract:The text "Sabina Spielrein: to Love, to Die, to be Reborn" discussed the life and work of Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), a Russian–Jewish early pioneer of psychoanalysis and pediatrician, an original clinician and scholar, who is still mostly remembered for her connection to Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and not for her groundbreaking contributions to the development of Freudian theory and practice. It also provides a context to the 1913 publication of Spielrein's "Traum von 'Pater Freudenreich'" in the IPA journal Internationale Zeitschrift für ärtzliche Psychoanalyse.Sabina Spielrein analyzes the dreams of Lene, a patient sent to her by Sigmund Freud. Lene's experience as a professional opera singer lends to Spielrein's analysis, referencing works by Mozart and Wagner as well as memories of past father figures and identifying Freud himself as the archetypal dream character of "Father Freudenreich."


We present results of the hosts of four high-redshift (z 2) and high luminosity (M B < ?28 mag) QSOs, three radio-quiet one radio-loud, imaged in R and K bands. The extensions to the nuclear unresolved source are most likely due to the hosts galaxies of these QSOs. The luminosities and sizes of the hosts overlap with those of actively star-forming galaxies in the nearby Universe. Radial prooles over the outer resolved areas roughly follow de Vaucouleur or exponential disk laws. These properties give support to the host galaxy interpretation of the extended light around QSOs at high-redshift. If the hosts we have detected are indeed galaxies, young massive and luminous galaxies are not only a characteristic of radio-loud QSOs, but of QSOs as an entire class. 1 Introduction The study of high redshift (z 2) QSOs ooers a unique opportunity to investigate conditions in the early universe. In the currently favoured cold dark matter cosmogony, this epoch corresponds to the period when normal galaxies formed through hierarchical coalescence 3], thereby giving rise to enormous concentrations of gas in the center of the galaxies, which could feed a central black hole 7] or provoke a massive starburst episode 12]. As such, this picture is consistent with the observation that the QSO population peaks at these redshifts 10]. Searches for galaxies hosting high-redshift QSOs were rst carried out in radio-loud objects, with spectacular results: luminosities several magnitudes brighter than the most luminous galaxies in the nearby Universe were observed 8]. However, radio-loud quasars are only a small fraction (< 1%) of all QSOs, and many of the conclusions drawn from radio-loud objects


The average particle diameter of 0.1 to comprise a 200 ㎛ powder, the oxygen content is 1000 wtppm or less as the sintered body target made of a sintered Sb-Te-based alloy powder and a Sb-Te-based alloy, characterized in that, the oxygen content is 1000 wtppm or less, jeolryeok wherein at least 50 MPa, the sintered body target made of a Sb-Te based alloy, characterized in that the relative density of 99% or more. To reduce the Sb-Te-based uniform and finer alloy sputtering target tissue, inhibits the cracking of the sintered target, and prevent arcing generated at the time of sputtering. In addition, it is possible to reduce the unevenness of the surface by the sputtering erosion, to obtain a good quality of the Sb-Te alloy sputtering target.


all kinds are rising ever upward in incidence and prevalence. Complicated STIs can present in a number of guises to a wide range of different specialties. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the 'great mimicker' of our times, and unfortunately the original 'great mimicker' (syphilis) is back with us too. This conference was addressed to general physicians and those in genitourinary (GU) medicine as an update on how we can expect sexually transmitted infections and related problems to present to nonGU physicians.


Only by deeply understanding the new laws that govern trade secrets protection in the United States and Europe, companies will be able to effectively protect their own trade secrets. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the similarities and differences between both regulations to give useful guidelines to international companies who deal in both geographical areas. Therefore, the paper will focus first on the economic value of trade secrets and the costs related to cybercrime and cyberespionage. Then, it will analyze the US and EU historical legal backgrounds that brought to the adoption of both laws. Finally, this article will make a comparative analysis of the provisions in each law. Hence, the paper makes potential suggestions for companies that deal in both regimes.


It is barely ten years since Jantet, at St Thomas' Hospital, first described the use of intralymphatic radioactive colloidal gold in the treatment of malignant disease (Jantet 1962, British Journal of Radiology 35, 692). The most promising results were obtained in malignant melanoma that had no evidence of lymph node or other metastases. Jantet concluded that the most logical use of this method of treatment was in a malignant disease, peripherally situated, whose draining lymphatic vessels could be demonstrated easily, i.e. malignant melanoma. The treatment should not prejudice any subsequent surgery or radiotherapy that may be considered necessary. No one disputes that the primary treatment of malignant melanoma is wide excision and graft. It is the problem of treatment of the regional lymph nodes that remains in doubt, i.e. whether


Background: The primary central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disorders are witnessing significant advancement in terms of treatment options and the diagnostics. However, a resource poor country like ours has to rely more on our clinical findings. Aims and Objectives: To study the spectrum of different clinical manifestations in patients of various primary CNS demyelinating disorders in the hospital setting; categorizing them to the most possible extent into its various types viz. multiple sclerosis(MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis(ADEM), idiopathic optic neuritis(ON). Metarials and Methods: An observational study was conducted for 2 years including old and newly diagnosed cases in whom detailed clinical assessment was done for every attack including the previous and subsequent ones. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 21. Results: Of the 47 patients included, 26 (55.3%) were cases of NMOSD, 12 (25.5%) of MS, 4 (8.5%) of ADEM and 5 (10.6%) were isolated cases of ON. 30 were female and 17 were male (ratio 1:0.6). The total mean age for primary CNS demyelinating disorders at presentation was 27.09 ± 13.44 years. Maximum patients fell in the age range of 11–20 years. Among the clinical manifestations, motor abnormalities (97.6%), sensory abnormalities (69%), bladder dysfunction (59.5%), visual manifestations (54.8%) (Unilateral in all MS patients, both bilateral and unilateral in NMOSD) were the most common presentations. In MS, the most common manifestations were motor dysfunction followed by sensory symptoms, optic neuropathy (mostly unilateral), and bladder dysfunction. In NMOSD, the most common clinical manifestations were motor dysfunction, followed by bladder dysfunction, optic neuropathy and then sensory abnormalities. In ADEM, most common manifestations were motor abnormalities, acute encephalopathy, headache, optic neuropathy. Among idiopathic ON, most patients presented with painful diminution of vision (80%). Mean number of attacks was 2.53. Conclusion: A wide spectrum of clinical presentations in various disorders of primary CNS demyelination was found with maximum patients presenting with motor dysfunction in various forms.


The National Transonic Facility is a high Reynolds number transonic wind tunnel designed to satisfy the research and development needs of NASA, DOD, and industry. The facility design incorporates the cryogenic approach to achieving high Reynolds numbers with manageable model loads. By using temperature as a test variable, a unique capability to clearly separate aeroelastic, Reynolds number, and Mach number effects will be possible. This capability will open new horizons in transonic aerodynamic research. The tunnel design including unique features and operating envelopes is described. A brief overview of the general operating arrangement and the schedule for facility construction is presented.