This study presents the development of a product called colada that was fortified with vitamin A and minerals such as zinc and iron, for the breakfast of children from 3 to 4 years and 11 months old. In the first stage of this work the formula was determined based on the nutritional requirements of the children from 3 to 4 years 11 months old, and the quantities of each ingredients were selected according to the grater amount of nutrients that the ingredient contributed in the formula. A sensory study was made to this formula to determine the level of acceptance of the product. In the second stage of the study xantan gum and silicon dioxide were used to improve rheological properties of the colada, using a complete randomized experimental design to evaluate ten treatments with different concentration of silicon dioxide; 0.1%, 0.15% y 0.2%, and xanthan gum; 0.4%, 0.7% y 1% with the help of a control which had no xantan gum and silicon dioxide. In this design viscosity, sedimentation and solubility were measured in order to prove if there were changes in the rheological properties of the colada.


Urban deep foundation pits are generally surrounded with dense buildings,this paper put deep foundation pits bracing structures and adjacent structures in an integrate system to study.Under the typical geological conditions of Tianjin area,using ABAQUS to simulate and analyze the construction process of the deep foundation pit.The conclusions are valuable for foundation pits engineering design.


The pure Ni dendrite growth process was simulated under the effect of interface anisotropy based on Wheeler model of coupling flow field. The effects of interface kinetic anisotropy on dendrite morphology and tip growth behaviour were studied. The results show that the dendrite growth orientation along the 100 and 110 when there only exists interface energy anisotropy(e4) and only exists interface kinetic anisotropy(ek),respectively. When the interface concurrencee4and ek,the preferred growth directions of dendrite change from 100 to 110 as ekincreases,the tip velocities decrease and temperature increase at 100 and -100 directions in steady state. With increasing solidification time,the dendrite morphologies change from umbrella shape to square-like shape,and finally change to the developed dendrite morphology when e4=ek=0.04.


The taxonomy of the putative superfamily Lafoeoidea (Hydrozoa), which includes the families Hebellidae and Lafoeidae, has been widely disputed at all systematic levels, mainly because these are morphologically simple and plastic animals. We used the molecular marker 16S mRNA to address phylogenetic relations of 'Lafoeoidea' hydroids mainly from shallow and deep waters of the north-east Atlantic and west Mediterranean. This study proves that the morphological simplicity of the 'Lafoeoidea' has led to several erroneous taxonomic assignments. We demonstrate that the superfamily 'Lafoeoidea' is not monophyletic and thus not valid; the families Hebellidae and Lafoeidae are polyphyletic. The 'Lafoeidae' subfamilies 'Lafoeinae' and 'Zygophylacinae' were recovered as monophyletic but quite distantly related and should be erected to the level of distinct families. The 16S haplotype data analysed in conjunction with morphological characters and distribution data were useful in differentiating morphologically undistinguishable, nominal and cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species, including undescribed taxa. Particularly within the 'Lafoeinae' group, unexpectedly high genetic biodiversity (including cryptic species) was encountered in the possibly not monophyletic genera Lafoea, Acryptolaria and Filellum. Cryptic diversity is also likely associated with the 'Zygophylacinae' nominal species Cryptolaria pectinata. The indications of genetic segregation by geographical distance of the 'Lafoeoidea' hydroids, particularly verified in deep waters, is probably a consequence of their reduced potential for large-scale dispersal, which likely interacts with the influence of the seabed topography, oceanographic circulation and adaptability to tolerate different abiotic conditions.


The Facing Dementia Survey, presented at the Facing Dementia Forum in Rome, Italy, 29–30 June 2004, is an extremely important resource for efforts to improve the early identification and care of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The findings of the survey focus attention on the need for agreement among leaders of public and private research institutions, local and national care agencies and communications media at every level. Such agreement has been my goal as chairman of the Italian National Commission on Dementia. I believe that we have been able to do much towards improving the understanding and care of dementia. However, there are still too many bottlenecks, too many obstacles in the way of delivering the right therapy at the right time. This calls for a very early diagnosis, and many primary care physicians may still be unable to distinguish some important early signs. Another problem we face is prejudice. I believe that the fight against the stigma of dementia is just as important as therapy – indeed, it is part of therapy. In a society like ours, people tend to reject any form of difficulty or distress. Our culture has created the myth that everyone should be 'super', and this, I believe, is the worst disease of the Western world. We all feel that we must become over-achievers in order to keep pace with everyone else. Dementia evokes what is perhaps our deepest fear – that of losing our memory and with it our identity. Instead of hiding this terrible fear in darkness, we should flood it with light. We should do as we would do with small children. A young child in a dark room sees many monsters, but when the light is turned on, he sees only the usual calming furniture around him. We should turn the light on Alzheimer's and dementia through research and surveys designed to discover and understand what people think and how to defeat prejudice. And this work should be carried on in the schools and universities as well, teaching that it is possible to live with a serious problem. Finally, we need to improve services. The lack of trust in services revealed by the Facing Dementia Survey is real. There should never be long waiting lists. Services should not be medical only. And above all, they should provide not only drug therapy but also essential community and psychological support, for patients and families alike. As a child neuropsychiatrist, I have often wondered about children who feel less loved because their grandparents no longer recognise them. This is extremely important to understand, because people with dementia do not live outside a context. As Deputy Minister of Health, I have launched a widespread campaign in Italian schools against the stigma of mental illness and dementia. We want to break down this prejudice that views people with dementia as if they were inhabitants of another planet. We need to bring them back to our own planet. Once it was said that people with dementia were lunatics – but now, we have actually been to the moon, and we found nothing there but calm and tranquillity. The Facing Dementia Survey will help us all move forward with more confidence and courage. It is important to know that we are not alone in facing this challenge – which affects not only science, medicine and rehabilitative care but, indeed, civilisation itself.


This study compared the teaching strategies of mothers and fathers of preschool age mentally handicapped children to those of mothers and fathers of non-handicapped preschool age children. The reaction of the children towards their parent's scaffolded instruction was also studied, and the interaction between the behaviors of the children and their parents. The study is based on theories on early intervention for handicapped children and their parents and theoris on scaffolded instruction, such as it has been defined by Bruner and Vygotsky. The interactions between parents and their children, working on a simple task, were analysed by theme, a cumputerized system of analysis designed to detect hidden patterns of interaction. A comparison is made from three independent variables, children's handicap, the sex of the parents and that of the children. Results show statistically significant differences between the two populations of parents and a a statistically significant interaction between the sex of the fathers and mothers teaching their children of the opposite sex. Results are discussed in relation to other studies on interaction between mentally handicapped children and their parents.


A denoising method based on modified matrix pencil algorithm and f-k filter is proposed in this paper. To verify this method, field measured multipole array waveforms excited by dipole sources in fluid-filled borehole using a multipole array acoustic logging tool (MPAL) were processed. The results showed that the proposed method can effectively remove noise from the useful signals.


We always live in the long run (John M. Keynes notwithstanding). Current events are generally the (often unintended) consequence of decisions made several years ago, just like the European debt crisis is the result of a long run that began sometime in the past. Europe is entering a severe economic crisis largely due to the decision to create a common European currency, the euro.


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Agriculture
While irrigation is under our control, rain is not. It
complicates irrigation system design and irrigation
management, while increased annual rainfall makes
matters worse. Hence, extensive irrigation areas in South Africa
treat rain as a chief 'intrusion'. The mitigating factor being an
adjustable irrigation programme, unfortunately superseded by
erratic rainfall.
Both designer and farmer are concerned with the calculation of
the peak capacity of the irrigation system and the estimation of
the water volume required to meet the irrigation needs of a farm or
project. To illustrate the principles involved, a number of computer
tests were done, ..


Background Abbreviations are widely used in clinical notes and they are often ambiguous. The ambiguity of abbreviations usually affects the performance of medical natural language processing (MNLP) systems. Therefore it is critical to accurately identify abbreviations in clinical notes. Before applying word sense disambiguation (WSD) methods, a set of predetermined senses (also called sense inventories) of abbreviations are required. Clinical knowledge sources, such as the UMLS, could be used for building sense inventories, but none of them has adequate coverage for different clinical corpora. Therefore, it is necessary to develop methods that are able to detect senses of abbreviations that is appropriate for a particular clinical corpus.


Strange metal behavior appears across a variety of condensed matter settings and beyond, and achieving a universal understanding is an exciting prospect. The beyond-Landau quantum criticality of Kondo destruction has had considerable success in describing the behavior of strange metal heavy fermion compounds, and there is some evidence that the associated partial localization-delocalization nature can be generalized to diverse materials classes. Other potential overarching principles at play are also being explored. An intriguing proposal is that Planckian scattering, with a rate of k B T/ℏ, leads to the linear temperature dependence of the (dc) electrical resistivity, which is a hallmark of strange metal behavior. Here we extend a previously introduced analysis scheme based on the Drude description of the dc resistivity to optical conductivity data. When they are well described by a simple (ac) Drude model, the scattering rate can be directly extracted. This avoids the need to determine the ratio of charge carrier concentration to effective mass, which has complicated previous analyses based on the dc resistivity. However, we point out that strange metals typically exhibit strong deviations from Drude behavior, as exemplified by the "extreme" strange metal YbRh2Si2. This calls for alternative approaches, and we point to the power of strange metal dynamical (energy-over-temperature) scaling analyses for the inelastic part of the optical conductivity. If such scaling extends to the low-frequency limit, a strange metal relaxation rate can be estimated, and may ultimately be used to test whether strange metals relax in a Planckian manner.


ABSTRACT Although the meltdown in the American financial system in 2008 created the most profound financial crisis in sixty years, the field of International Political Economy (IPE) has remained curiously silent. More worrisome is the inability of the paradigmatic approach to the study of IPE in the United States – Open Economy Politics (OEP) – to shed much light on the causes of the crisis. We develop the conceptual distinction between risk and uncertainty to explain why the rationalist (and largely materialist) "American School" of IPE failed so badly. OEP followed orthodox economics in conflating risk and uncertainty. Preserving the distinction, as constructivist IPE scholars and economic sociologists have done, enables us view the crisis through dual rationalist and sociological optics. Our illustrative evidence, drawn from public (the Federal Open Market Committee of the US Federal Reserve) and private actors (accountants, credit rating agencies, and arbitrage traders) in financial markets, shows that only eclectic approaches that make use of both rationalist and sociological optics give IPE scholars the depth of vision and the breadth of imagination necessary to make sense of the financial crisis of 2008.


Indonesia is an independent country. In criminal law it is still colonized. At first, the implementation of the colonial Criminal Code (KUHP) was only temporary. The law has legalized the adjustment of the implementation of the colonial Criminal Code in the spirit of an independent and sovereign state. I just don't have the courage to do it. The plan to stipulate the original Indonesian Criminal Code was met with demonstrations. In this paper, the problem that will be revealed is what is the normative measure of the enforcement of the colonial Criminal Code in Indonesia and how is the moral justice of the controversial articles in the National Criminal Code Bill. This paper is sourced from normative research. The data used is secondary data. Data collection was carried out by means of a literature study, The data were analyzed qualitatively and presented in descriptive form. From the results of the research, it is known that the Act has legalized the enactment of the colonial Criminal Code in Indonesia, with exceptions. The articles in the Draft Criminal Code which are considered controversial have already accommodated moral values.


Would bank employees be more comfortable with and willing to use a new software program if senior management were enthusiastic about it and actually helped design it? The answer is yes, if Wilber National Bank, Oneonta, N.Y., is any indication. Robert W. Moyer, who is vice chairman and CEO of the $375 million assets bank, speaks as knowledgeably about the latest developments in bank technology as he does about bank regulations and loan-to-deposit ratios. When Moyer joined the bank in 1969, .it had already converted savings accounts to an automated system and was in the process of doing the same with DDA accounts. Today, remarkably few papers clutter Moyer's desk. The bank's homegrown software system--dubbed WIN, for Wilber Information Network-provides numerous management reports on-line, most of which don't require hard copies. A built-in electronic mail system delivers interbank memos, further reducing the flow of paper through the bank. Information is an edge. "What we get do1lar for dollar from the system goes right to the bottom line because of the efficiency we operate under," says Moyer. "In today's society, information itself is an edge," he adds, "and we're mandated to provide information." Employees throughout the bank access the same system Moyer does, enabling them to easily call up client account information, open new accounts, provide product information and updated interest rate information, and perform numerous other functions. WIN includes word processing capabilities that Moyer uses to write letters, among other things. He can quickly generate letters to several hundred stockholders, for example, drawing on information the system maintains on the status of their holdings. Built-in security features limit access to certain functions, but use of a single system in the bank for platform, teller, and management needs eliminates problems associated with maintaining multiple systems running in different operating environments. "We asked ourselves whether we wanted our tellers to be tellers or all things to all people," says Moyer. "We decided we wanted them to be tellers, but also to have access to other information as needed." When bank employees take courses with other bankers, relates Moyer, they are frequently amazed at how much more in touch with technology they are than their counterparts, and at the lack of such comprehensive systems they perceive in other banks. "They have a high level of expectation where technology is concerned," says Moyer. "It's like going into your favorite supermarket where you know where everything is and then going to another one and being amazed that they don't carry an item you're used to getting." Advisors to IBM. The choice of hardware running the WIN software-- an IBM ASl400--is no surprise considering Moyer and his vice-president of operations, Steven Milavec, participated in IBM's development of the computer. The two were the only bankers in the multi-industry advisory group that provided the computer manufacturer with tips on achieving greater efficiency from the midrange computer prior to its release in 1988. Approximately 160 devices are attached to the AS/400 at Wilber National, estimates Moyer, including six communications lines, three proof machines, and numerous PCs linked by a Token Ring local area network. The bank's ten branches are connected on-line to the AS/400. A branch employee in a branch can access an optical disk system, bring up an image of a check or statement, and print it on a laser printer in the branch. Prior to bringing in the AS/400, the bank ran its software on an IBM System/38, following several years in a service bureau arrangement that was terminated in 1978. Strategic planning. Because so many applications are automated at Wilber National, technology has long played an important role in strategic planning at the bank, particularly in its ability to deliver new products. …


The present study was aimed to evaluate the anti-diabetic activity of isolated compounds from aerial parts of Ficus bengalensis in alloxan induced diabetic rats. Diabetic wistar albino rats were treated with standard drug Glibenclamide and prepared drug extract in 150 mg/kg. Hypoglycemic effect was evaluated in these rats and the efficacy of isolated compounds was administered in alloxan induced diabetic rats. At the end of study period blood glucose level were statistically analyzed based on the results. Isolated fractions produced a significant reduction in blood glucose level when compared with non-treated diabetic rats. So the present research work was confirmed that the isolated compounds possess hypoglycemic effect significantly.
Keywords: Ficus begalensis, antidiabetic, allaxon induced, Diabetes mellitus.


Abstract Low molecular weight (LMW-GS) and high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) were added to a base flour using both «addition» and «incorporation» protocols. «Incorporation» of glutenin subunits into the glutenin network of the base flour was performed by partial (reversible) reduction and subsequent reoxidation of the glutenin network in the presence of the added glutenin subunits whereas, in the «addition» protocol, glutenin subunits were added without reduction/oxidation. The effects of both «addition» and «incorporation» of alkylated and unalkylated LMW-GS and HMW-GS on dough extension parameters maximum resistance (MR) and extensibility (EX) were compared and thoroughly discussed. HMW-GS and LMW-GS had totally different effects on dough extensibility. «Addition» of LMW-GS significantly decreased both MR and EX whereas HMW-GS caused a significant increase in MR. «Incorporation» of LMW-GS caused a decrease in MR whereas HMW-GS clearly increased MR. The similarity in effects obtained with «addition» and «incorporation» of glutenin subunits indicated that, even with «addition», glutenin subunits can be partially incorporated into the glutenin network in the presence of oxygen. Alkylated and unalkylated glutenin subunits had different effects. This was probably caused by the effect of free sulphydryl groups in unalkylated subunits (possibility of SS/SH exchanges and/or incorporation) and/or the effect induced by introduction of alkylated derived substituents. A protocol for «incorporation with excess KIO3» was developed to exclude the possible effect of a lowering of the available oxidant concentration by oxidation of free sulphydryl groups in glutenin subunits. However, the use of high levels of oxidant in the «incorporation with excess KIO3» protocol seems to overrule the effects of added glutenin subunits or may force glutenin subunits to incorporate differently from what can be observed under gentle oxidation conditions. Therefore, «incorporation with excess KIO3» is not suitable for studying the effects of incorporation of glutenin subunits on dough extensibility.


The thermohydraulic simulation of the optimised design of the High Flux Test Module (HFTM) for the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is done with the commercial code STAR-CD. The work is mainly focused on the detailed analysis of the temperature and velocity distribution in the module. Particularly, the influence of the cooling channels deformation as well as the heat of the target back wall on the thermohydraulic characteristics of the HFTM is estimated. It has been also shown that the target temperature in the volume with samples can be reached with the acceptable temperature gradient for the temperature level of 4500C and 6500C by use of the electrical heaters. The appropriate power of the electrical heaters are obtained for all the rigs. Additional task of the investigation is the optimisation of the lateral reflector cooling system. The cooling system consisting of four cooling channels is suggested to decrease the temperature level of the lateral reflector and to decrease the temperature non-uniformity in it. Nevertheless, the preliminary stress analysis showed high stress value in the rig wall. So, further work is required in this direction to achieve the acceptable stress in the structure. The first results of the natural convection simulation in the IFMIF test cell cavity are also presented in this report. These results are obtained for a simplified simulation of the test cell cavity and the work should be continued to obtain more reliable data.


Resonance Rayleigh scattering from electronic states in materials with static disorder is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. By using classical scattering theory we prove that this process, if excited by short optical pulses, decays with finite time constant determined by the coherence time or, equivaleritly, the homogeneous linewidth of the state. Experiments with picosecond time resolution at the (n=1, e-hh) exciton in GaAs/Al x Ga 1-x As multiple-quantum-well structures confirm this prediction. Exploiting the selection rules, from transient scattering the coherence time and energy-relaxation time are determined and measured as functions of exciton energy across the inhomogeneously broadened exciton band


In Korea, a precast floating track with anti-vibration isolators was recently developed to reduce the vibration and noise in urban railway stations, without disrupting train operations. This precast floating slab track is a newly developed structure and differs from existing conventional slab tracks. In this study, a Finite Element Method program (MIDAS CIVIL 2019) was used to analyze the load-carrying ability of structures under the train axle loads. After finishing the design, to understand more precisely about load transfer efficiency of this type of track, an assembly test (two load cases) was conducted with three precast panels (with rail 60 K mounted on) and compared with Finite Element Analysis results. The final results satisfied the test standards in Korea, which confirms that the precast floating track has an acceptable safety factor and structural behavior.


The present study deals with gastropod community structure along Veraval coast, Gujarat. Total five gastropod species were selected viz., Turbo intercostalis, Turbo coronatus, Cerithium morus, Cellana radiata and Chiton peregrines for present study from October 2012 to April 2013. The physio-chemical parameters viz., water temperature ranged between 23.22 to 25.83 oC, water salinity between 34.75 to 35.67 ppt, pH 7.87 to 8.28 and dissolved oxygen ranged between 4.23 to 5.39 mg L -1 . Cerithium morus and Turbo coronatus showed dominance along the study location. The species diversity (H') values ranged between 0.99 to 1.21. The species richness (D) values ranged between 0.90 to 0.97 and species evenness (E) values having range between 0.62 to 0.75 bids / individuals.


I n August 1747 during a brief visit to the remote gentleman's estate of Garth in Brecknockshire, Charles Wesley, 40 year-old bachelor and itinerant evangelist of dubious repute and slender means was introduced to Sally Gwynne, his wealthy host's attractive 21 year-old daughter.! Despite an age difference of nineteen years and a considerable gap in material circumstances, the attraction between the two must have been at first sight for after a correspondence lasting just six months, Charles proposed marriage to Sally in April 1748 during only their second meeting and was immediately accepted.2 The marriage of Charles Wesley in April 1749 represented a watershed in his ministry. Hitherto, Charles and his brother John had formed one of the outstanding evangelistic partnerships of the post-Reformation Church. Working in close co-operation, the Wesleys had criss-crossed Britain and Ireland for ten years laying the foundations of the Methodist movement. Contemporary accounts make it clear that Charles made a vital contribution to this process through a preaching and pastoral ministry that was second to none.3 After his marriage, domestic responsibilities started to encroach on Charles' itinerant preaching and he abandoned the travelling work entirely at the end of 1756. This withdrawal from the forefront of Methodism gave rise to awkward


Aims/objectives: Although both the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) and the transobturator suburethral tape (TOT) have a high success rate in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI), both techniques have complications. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that the approximation of the two ischiocavernosus muscles (ICMs) over the mid-urethra would effect a cure for the SUI. Methods: The technique was performed in 68 women with SUI who had a mean age of 54.3 ± 11.2 years. Inclusion criteria was comprised of a clinical and urodynamic diagnosis of SUI, a positive stress test, and a cystoscopy procedure. A transverse incision was performed below the external urethral orifice. The flaps of the incision were undermined laterally to expose both ICMs. The exposed ICMs and the underlying crus clitoridis (CC) were approximated and sutured together over the exposed mid-urethra. Results: A cure of SUI was achieved in 64 patients (94.1%). Four failures were the result of a gaping of the suture line; ...


The invention provides a system and a method for on-line analysis and diagnosis of whole-process energy-consuming conditions of integrated iron and steel works. The system is operated on an on-line diagnostic workstation (1), and comprises a driving program, a flow modeling and simulating module, a production data acquiring and processing module, a flow network simulating module, an energy-consuming computing and benchmark analyzing module, a production operating condition maintenance module and an online optimizing and diagnosing module which are in sequential connection. On one hand, the method can directly guide the integrated iron and steel works to carry out systematic and comprehensive energy-saving and emission-reducing diagnosis and planning, and on the other hand, the method as an important technical method can expand business scopes of professionalized iron and steel technology service companies, and enables the professionalized iron and steel technology service companies to give full play to the advantages to launch technology service work for energy saving and emission reduction of the integrated iron and steel works.


There are complex and extensive couplings between water, energy, and food security. The emerging tensions between these resources are situated within a larger nexus of developmental agendas and environmental considerations. Inevitably, this complex set of interdependencies will be exacerbated by climate change. Until recently, much of analysis and policymaking focused on each resource in isolation, resulting in underappreciated risks. A more holistic approach is needed to identify and analyze this nexus effect and propose corresponding policy measures. Consider South Africa as an illustration of this nexus and the way in which sector-specific policies and decisions can exacerbate risks. The South African experience also illustrates initial efforts at "nexus-conscious" analysis and policymaking, and it suggests broader lessons applicable elsewhere. Increasing resource price inflation and volatility in recent years have highlighted the interconnected and interdependent nature of energy, water, and food resources. Having endured electricity interruptions and rising electricity prices for the better


Every directed acyclic graph (DAG) over a finite non-empty set of variables (= nodes) N induces an independence model overN , which is a list of conditional independence statements over N . The inclusion problem is how to characterize (in graphical terms) whether all independence statements in the model induced by a DAG K are in the model induced by a second DAG L. Meek [8] conjectured that this inclusion holds iff there exists a sequence of DAGs from K to L such that only arrow removal and 'legal' arrow reversal operations are performed to get the next DAG in the sequence. In this report we give various characterizations of inclusion of DAG models and the proof of Meek's conjecture in the case that the DAGs K and L differ in at most one adjacency. As a warming up a rigorous proof of well-known graphical characterizations of equivalence of DAGs, which is a highly related problem, is given. Furthermore, we give intuition how to characterize inclusion of DAG models in general and describe possible strategies how to verify Meek's conjecture even if the DAGs K and L differ in more than one edge.


A bi-resonant beam micromachine pressure sensor mainly comprises sensing membrane, non-sensing area, resonant working beam and resonant compensating beam; the centre of the structure is rectangular sensing membrane for sensing the tested pressure to generate corresponding deformation; the peripheral part of the sensing membrane is non-sensing area which does not sense the tested pressure; periphery of the sensing membrane is clamped in the inner wall of the non-sensing area; both ends of the resonant working beam are clamped at the centre of upper surface of the sensing membrane to sense the tested pressure so as to change the resonance frequency and obtain the corresponding tested pressure valve through testing the resonance frequency by the closed loop system; both ends of the resonant compensating beam are clamped in the upper surface of the non-sensing area and are parallel to the resonant working beam and have the same physical dimension with the resonant working beam; the resonant compensating beam does not sense the tested pressure and only senses the temperature the same with the resonant working beam and other environmental factors; executing difference by using the resonance frequency of the resonant working beam and the resonance frequency of the resonant compensating beam is able to remove the change of the resonance frequency of the resonant working beam caused by temperature and other environmental factors so as to improve the measuring precision and stability of the sensor.


This paper is devoted to the description of one of the fastest growing areas of modern linguistics, which is considered to be the main factor of individual study of the phenomenon of the language. The author analyzes an important link of anthropocentrism – the linguistiс personality, that represents a new object of scientific research. On the example of the linguistic personality – representative of folk spoken form of the German language – some features of their language portrait are shown.


Despite a recent revision of the dinoflagellates of the order Dinophysiales on Mexican coasts and a checklist of dinoflagellates from the Mexican Pacific, many records still need to be confirmed, for there are very few reliable illustrations and/or descriptions. In this paper, species composition and distribution of dinoflagellates belonging to the Dinophysiales, the product of the analysis of net phytoplankton material collected from coasts of the tropical Mexican Pacific (Jalisco to Chiapas) are presented. The material has been studied using light microscopy, although a few species were also studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Forty-one species from five genera were identified, with two new records annotated for the Mexican Pacific: Amphisolenia thrinax and Metaphalacroma skogsbergii, and two new species of the genus Amphisolenia, Amphisolenia fusiformis sp. nov. and Amphisolenia michoacana sp. nov. Illustrations, dimensions and distribution data are provided for each species, and descriptions of the new species are also given. Amphisolenia palmata, A. rectangulata, A. truncata, Dinophysis apicata, D. hindmarchii, Histioneis biremis, H. crateriformis, H. pulchra, Ornithocercus cristatus, O. heteroporoides and O. orbiculatus are illustrated for the first time in the waters of the Mexican Pacific. The number of species found in this study is relatively low. The species Dinophysis norvegica and D. sacculus, reported in previous papers, do not seem to occur in Mexican waters, as their distribution is rather limited to the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic, respectively. Finally, the identity of certain species of Dinophysis and the nature of the new species described here are discussed.


Based on holding JJF1059-1999, uncertainty of standard silver nitrate titration solution was assessed in detail from the point of method summarization, setting up mathematical model, confirming import quantity, calculating relative standard uncertainty, composing relative standard uncertainty and extending uncertainty.


Image stitching has been developed to enhance users' immersive experiences by constructing new images of higher spatial resolution and broader field of view from multiple input images. Most image stitching schemes assume 2D transformation of the whole frame between images. There usually exist local misalignments of contents that do not match with the transformation and may cause artifacts such as ghosting. Several schemes including seam cutting, image blending and other image composition algorithms, have been developed to relieve such artifacts. However, these schemes are essentially post-stitching processing that do not address the alignment problem and would fail when the parallax is large. In this paper, we propose a multi-objective content preserving warping (CPW) for local adjustment of image alignment which is optimized considering feature matching, line preserving, line matching, shape smoothness and other factors to significantly reduce the visual artifacts. In particular, we adjust the image warping from their pre-warping results using the homography estimated during the image registration step. Experimental results show that the proposed CPW scheme for image stitching is able to generate much smoother stitching results comparing with the state-of-the-art methods reported in the literature.


The hemispherical rules require that eastbound flights should use odd thousands flight levels (FLs) and westbound flights should use even thousands FLs. Though these rules improve safety, they could also negatively impact flight efficiency by, for example, reducing the available FLs that can be used to improve efficiency. With improved surveillance and communication capabilities in oceanic airspace, it is possible to use the FLs that do not comply with the hemispherical rules (non-complying FLs). The paper investigates whether doing so in the Pacific airspace could bring benefits to airlines and air traffic controllers. Our analysis showed mixed results. We found that fuel savings would increase as more flights accept non-complying FLs. If all flights accept non-complying FLs, the annual total fuel savings could reach 12.2 million gallons within the Oakland and Anchorage Flight Information Region (FIR). Depending on the price of Jet-A fuel, the monetary value of these fuel savings ranges from 11.25 to 25.66 million dollars. However, we also found that the annual total travel time inside the two FIRs would increase by about 2,070 flight hours. In addition, the workload of air traffic controllers and pilots may also increase as more flights accept non-complying FLs.


An apparatus for measuring the distance between two difficult to access surfaces (61, 62), for example between a groove flank of a transmission shaft (81) and the end face of a mounted on the transmission shaft gear (83) with a movable measuring nose (35), wherein the measuring nose (35) between a retracted position and an extended position is moveable to automatically enter into a distance measuring position which is located between the retracted position and the extended position of the measuring nose and in which the measurement nose (35) on one of the measuring surfaces (62) comes to rest, characterized in that the measuring nose (35) via a measuring lever means (23) is coupled to an actuating device, wherein the measuring lever means (23) comprises a first lever arm (34), to which the measuring nose (35) is formed, and a second lever arm (22) which is coupled to the actuator.


66 patients aged between 50 and 81 with infected wounds attended with urinary fistulas were studied. The main group of 35 patients was treated with ozone therapy. The comparison group of 31 patients was treated under conventional scheme with the use of ointment Levomecol. An ozonated composition of vegetable oils was applied in the main group. The said composition was ozonated by splashing of 100 ml of the composition with the ozone-oxygen mixture of the ozone concentration of 40 mg/l within 30 minutes on portable ozonator A-c-ГОКСф-505-ОЗОН (Lepse JSC, Kirov, Russia). The bandaging for patients with application of such ozonated composition to infected wound surface was performed once a day. The wound process dynamics were assessed with the aid of clinical, bacteriological and morphometric methods of research. It was shown that the inclusion of oleozone therapy in the set of curative measures for treatment of infected wounds attended with external urinary fistulas enabled to accelerate the relief of local signs of infection-inflammatory process, had a good effect on the terms and rates of wound cleansing and healing, thus, reducing time of inpatient treatment and costs thereof.


Productivity data and the direct measurements of CO{sub 2} exchange were used to compare two methods of evaluating annual carbon sequestering in middle-aged pine stands. It is shown that calculations based on the annual biomass increment may underestimate (up to 75%) this value because of an incorrect estimation of both the productivity of the root system and the contribution of litter to the total biomass of a cenosis. With these components of biomass taken into account, similar results were obtained by both methods.


According to the statistical analysis of ice area data for the Bohai sea and air temperature data at the Yingkou Station from 2000 to 2004 winters,the regression equation about them was derived and the correlativity was fine.Moreover,the regression equation was applied to sea ice forecast test in 2005 winter,and the ability of the equation for the Bohai sea ice area forecast was proved.


This article introduced the research progress of antidepressant efficacy of Lily in recent 10 years and summa-rized the antidepressant effective parts and preparation of Lily, antidepressant effect and action mechanism of lily and lily com-pound, to further explore the antidepressant and system research on Lily and Lily compound.


Seismic data acquired in the field show the subsurface reflectors or horizon among the geological strata, while the seismic inversion converts this reflector information into the acoustic impedance section which shows the layer properties based on lithology. The research aims to predict the porosity to identify the reservoir which is in between the tight layer. So, the output of the seismic inversion is much more batter than the seismic as it is closer to reality such as geology. Seismic inversion is frequently used to determine rock physics properties, for example, acoustic impedance and porosity.


By use of 2001—2010 panel data of private industry from 12 coastal provinces and cities,this article takes an empirical study about how asset price fluctuation and inflation influence the scale-hollowing and efficiency-hollowing.The results show that rise of real estate price and inflation may not only cause scale-hollowing but also promote efficiency-hollowing of private industry.The rise of stock price on the one hand may intensify scale-hollowing through squeezing out entity investments,on the other hand can reduce efficiency-hollowing through improving technology efficiency of private industry.Therefore,on the macro-policy,government can regulate the stock and real estate prices,bring down inflation expectation as to control industrial hollowing.In the short term create a favorable environment for private industry,in the long term discard "low factor price,low added value,low cost competitive" development mode,find new profit source,private industry hollowing can really be improved.


THE PRESENT SYSTEM MAINLY ADHERES TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS GIVEN BY THE WORBOYS COMMITTEE. HOWEVER, THE SIGNS ARE TOTALLY AT VARIANCE WITH CONTINENTAL PRACTICE. PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY THERE IS A NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT. PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESENT BRITISH ROAD SIGNS ARE INCLUDED. /HSL/


Background: Among healthy participants, the interindividual variability of brain response to facial emotions is associated with genetic variation, including common risk variants for schizophrenia, a heritable brain disorder characterized by anomalies in emotion processing. We aimed to identify genetic variants associated with heritable brain activity during processing of facial emotions among healthy participants and to explore the impact of these identified variants among patients with schizophrenia. Methods: We conducted a data-driven stepwise study including samples of healthy twins, unrelated healthy participants and patients with schizophrenia. Participants approached or avoided pictures of faces with negative emotional valence during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Results: We investigated 3 samples of healthy participants — including 28 healthy twin pairs, 289 unrelated healthy participants (genome-wide association study [GWAS] discovery sample) and 90 unrelated healthy participants (replication sample) — and 1 sample of 48 patients with schizophrenia. Among healthy twins, we identified the amygdala as the brain region with the highest heritability during processing of angry faces (heritability estimate 0.54, p < 0.001). Subsequent GWAS in both discovery and replication samples of healthy non-twins indicated that amygdala activity was associated with a polymorphism in the miR-137 locus (rs1198575), a micro-RNA strongly involved in risk for schizophrenia. A significant effect in the same direction was found among patients with schizophrenia (p = 0.03). Limitations: The limited sample size available for GWAS analyses may require further replication of results. Conclusion: Our data-driven approach shows preliminary evidence that amygdala activity, as evaluated with our task, is heritable. Our genetic associations preliminarily suggest a role for miR-137 in brain activity during explicit processing of facial emotions among healthy participants and patients with schizophrenia, pointing to the amygdala as a brain region whose activity is related to miR-137.


Due to the growth of sensor use, such as environmental sensors and street cameras, sensor data stream delivery, the delivering of sensor data through cyclic collection, is attracting considerable attention. Our research team proposed some peer-to-peer streaming methods named LCF, LLF and LLF-H for distributing communication loads when delivering sensor data streams with different data collection cycles. In this paper, we implemented a sensor data stream delivery system with visualization based on the abovementioned technique, using the PIAX (P2P Interactive Agent eXtensions) peer-to-peer framework.


In this paper, data-driven and physics-embedded deep neural networks (DNN) are analyzed as potential candidates for flow field reconstruction in fluid mechanics applications. The data-driven and physics-based algorithms are employed to model the canonical case of flow past a circular cylinder. It is shown that both types of DNNs model the flow fields well, with the physics-based alternative having a higher reconstruction accuracy. Moreover, it is seen that the data-driven model provides a reasonably accurate solution with a lower computational expense as compared to the physics-embedded model. Finally a discussion on the strengths and drawbacks of each model is presented compared to mainstream numerical methods.


This work is devoted to the proposal of a new flux limiter that makes the algebraic flux correction finite element scheme linearity and positivity preserving on general simplicial meshes. Minimal assumptions on the limiter are given in order to guarantee the validity of the discrete maximum principle, and then a precise definition of it is proposed and analyzed. Numerical results for convection–diffusion problems confirm the theory.


Objective: To detect the serum activity of diamine oxidase and the total serum IgE levels in chronic urticaria patients, and the significance thereof. Methods: The serum levels of diamine oxidase activity and the total serum IgE were determined by spectrophotometry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 68 patients with chronic urticaria and 54 healthy controls. The relationship of the activity and the urticaria severity was compared using linear correlation. Results: The serum levels of diamine oxidase activity were lower in three different time points of chronic urticaria group than those of healthy control group. There were significant differences in the serum activity of diamine oxidase and the total serum IgE level between the two groups (P 0.01). There was a significant difference in the correlation between the activity and the urticaria severity (P 0.05). There was a significant correlation between the serum diamine oxidase activity and the disease severity (mild, moderate and severe, P 0.05). There was a significant difference in the total serum IgE level between the two groups (P 0.01). The serum total IgE was positive correlated with the disease classification, when it was ≥ 175 IU/mL(P 0.05). Conclusion: The higher level of total serum IgE and the lower serum diamine oxidase activity might be implicated with the chronic pathogenesis and the urticaria severity in chronic urticaria patients.


Voxel-by-voxel estimation of liver perfusion using nonlinear least-squares fits of dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging data to a compartmental model is a computational expensive process. In this report, a "linear" least-squares method for estimation of liver perfusion is described. Simulated data and the data from an example case of a patient with intrahepatic cancer are presented. Compared to the nonlinear method, the new method can improve computational speed by a factor of approximately 400, which makes it practical for use in clinical trials.


The Internet is increasingly being used around the world as an innovative tool to conduct effective marketing policies of goods and services. Online retailers in Vietnam are beginning to pay more attention to the importance of developing online sales systems that engage customers as well as enables them to purchase products online. However, online shopping in Vietnam is not widely applied yet. This research develops an integrated theoretical model based on TAM to identify the factors that determine user attitude and their engagement towards online shopping. Gathering information from 365 respondents in Vietnam has been conducted via a self-administered questionnaire. The research results manifest that user experience and service quality have the power to predict users' perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, which in turn are crucial drivers of attitude and intentions towards online purchasing. The findings provide some important implications and add more certain insights about the theoretical groundwork of TAM in the Vietnamese online shopping context.


Vocational education in China in recent years has achieved rapid development,in order to fierce market competition to achieve better development,higher vocational institutions must adopt effective strategies to build brand of education to enhance the competitiveness of schools.


Cucumber fruit (Cucumis sativus L. cv. Burpee Hybrid II) were more tolerant of hot water immersions (30 to 60 min at 45C or 30 to 50 min at 46C) after being conditioned at 32.5 ± 0.5C in air for 24 hr. This increased tolerance was associated with a significant decrease in surface pitting. Hot water-treated cucumbers held for 3 days at 24C after storage at 10C for 7 days were yellower than untreated fruit. Degreening was greatest for the 30-min immersion and decreased with increasing immersion times.


Based on issues faced by an actual company, this case focuses on the design of an appropriate information systems architecture for International Lumberyards, Inc. (ILI). The design necessitates consideration of both the business strategy and the information technology that can support that strategy, since the business strategy needs to be both informed and supported by the information system. A strategy that is not supported by the requisite infrastructure will fail. Likewise, implementing technology that is not aligned with the business strategy will result, at a minimum, in a waste of resources. In the setting described in the case, the technology (or lack thereof) resulted in very constrained processes. A new technology infrastructure, aligned with the business strategy, will allow for future growth as well as addressing the limitations of the current environment. The case description forces consideration of how the organization's multiple locations will communicate with each other, and also what type ...


This study examined the interaction effect between two concept requirements (without and with concept application) and two task contexts (everyday and scientific) on pupils' responses to questions about control of variables, some of which were previously assessed in the UK national science monitoring (APU). Three hundred and twenty four pupils in Seoul, Korea, of both sexes and in three age groups (12, 13 and 16) were given altogether twelve pairs of paper and pencil questions, six without concept application and another six with concept application. Results revealed that there was a significant interaction between concept requirements and task contexts, showing that pupils' achievements in without concept‐application questions were significantly higher in everyday contexts than in scientific contexts, whereas in with concept‐application questions there was no statistical difference between the two contexts. Effects of age and gender and correlations with school achievements are also discussed.


Objective:To study the needs of the family members of discharged patients with hemiparalysis after stroke for health education for the improvement of their life quality.Method:A self-designed stroke Health Knowledge Questionnaire was used to investigate their families.Result:The families knew little about stroke health knowledge,less than 40%,especially in the respects of relapse,recheck knowledge,method,time and note for medication-taking.The needs of their families were strong.Most of them hoped to acquire related health knowledge by way of telephone or individual instructions from doctor and nurse.Conclusion:The families of discharged patients with hemiparalysis after stroke are short of the disease-related knowledge.Health education needs enhancement and the education methods should be diversified.


A receiver for a moving object, which receives digital terrestrial broadcasting, comprising: a current position detection unit for detecting a current position of the moving object; a first tuning means; second tuning means; channel determining means for using the first tuner unit, acquires data relating to the digital terrestrial broadcast channels viewable in a second service area, the service area of the second region and the first service that includes the current position of the detected neighboring; determined based on the acquired data provided the second service area can be viewed, and a program for the same program channel currently viewed using a second tuning means; and a channel switching unit, the tuner unit viewed using the second channel switching from a current channel to a program viewed channel determining unit determined by the channel.


the design of a set of all renewable energy multi-energy complementary coupling energy supply system is made to realize the goal of "double carbon" and increase the proportion of renewable energy consumption. For the user side, it conducts the load simulation calculation and resource endowment analysis. Through the comprehensive consideration on the economy and environmental protection of the system, the multi-objective mixed integer linear programming method and Lingo software are used to establish the coordinated optimization model of system capacity allocation and energy scheduling strategy. The optimal capacity configuration and energy dispatching strategy of each unit of the system were obtained. The optimal capacity allocation of an all renewable energy multi-energy complementary coupled energy supply system to meet the cooling, heating and power load of a 500-unit household in Helingeer County is found. These are 1850 kW for the biogas power unit, 2900 kW for the wind power unit, 1000 kW for the photovoltaic unit, 5100 kW for the gas-fired lithium bromide air conditioning unit, and 1920 kW for the electricity storage unit.


Humoral Immune Responses in Mice and Man to Malarial Parasites. Role of Cell-Mediated Immunity in Resistance to Malaria. Cell-Mediated Immunity and Its Role in Protection. The Role of Macrophages in Resistance to Malaria. Malaria Crisis Forms, Intraerythrocytic Development Derangement. Relationships between Inflammation and Immunopathology of Malaria. Genetic Control of Host Resistance to Malaria. Index.


Abstract : The New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam was built in 1937. The concrete now shows substantial cracking. Tests were conducted to determine if alkali-silica reaction has occurred. Some calcium sulfoaluminate was seen in cracks and on broken core surfaces, but the amount appeared to be normal. Although the concrete was not air-entrained, its appearance and physical condition did not indicate that any significant frost damage had occurred. It is believed that much or all of the cracking seen in this structure is due to the alkali-silica reaction. (Author)


This article is a sketch of what the grain growers in the middle West have accomplished during the last ten years through co6peration and organization. To be a little more explicit, it is the purpose of the writer to tell how these producers have reduced the cost of distribution at least $25,000,000 annually, and briefly to detail the struggle necessary to place them in a position to effect this saving. Cooperation as a word or term is much abused. Demagogues have learned its power, and are using it in various ways to deceive the people for the purpose of financial gain. This practice has be-


In recent days, when the development in smartphones has made it common to operate objects by using them, this study aimed to present a guideline for the UI/UX designs for applications which are necessary for operating various objects through the wireless communication technology. To suggest the application guideline, existing object control application case studies were analyzed, and based on this investigation the object control application UI/UX design guidelines were proposed. This study classified the types of wireless connections used by smartphones (LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NCF, RFID) and analyzed the necessary design factors for operating objects by each type. Based on such analysis, this study presented the design sequence, factors, and methods for the UI/UX guidelines of applications. First, the method of connection was selected; second, the control device was selected. This new direction for designing smartphone applications for operating objects will likely help systemize the design process and enable the user to operate the object more intuitively. In future research, case studies will be designed applying the guidelines suggested from this study.


Abstract Using a current-mode multiple reset, a current-to-voltage(I-V) converter with a wide dynamic range was produced. The converterconsists of a trans-impedance amplifier(TIA), an analog-to-digital converter(ADC), and an N-bit counter. The digital output of the I-Vconverter is composed of higher N bits and lower bits, obtained from the N-bit counter and the ADC, respectively. For an input currentthat has departed from the linear region of the TIA, the counter increases its digital output, this determines a reset current which issubtracted from the input current of the I-V converter. This current-mode reset is repeated until the input current of the TIA lies in thelinear region. This I-V converter is realized using 0.35 ㎛ LSI technology. It is shown that the proposed I-V converter can increase themaximum input current by a factor of 2 N and widen the dynamic range by 6 N . Additionally, the I-V converter is successfully applied to aphotometric sensor. Keywords : Current-to-Voltage Converter, Current-Mode Multiple Reset, Trans-Impedance Amplifier, Dynamic Range


The epidemic of diseases, which impeded the continual and healthy development in aquaculture, has been a thorny problem for long time. Several immunostimulants including glucan, seaweed polysaccharides, chitin, vitamins C and E have been applied to aquatic animals and showed a good results to enhance the non- specific immune in aquatic commercial animals significantly. In this article, the current research status of the immunostimulants in aquaculture is summarized and application perspective and consideration of the immunostimulants in aquaculture is discussed.


The asymmetric oxidative coupling polymerization of methyl 6,6'-dihydroxy-2,2'-binaphthalene-7-carboxylate with the copper-diamine catalysts under an O 2 atmosphere was carried out. As is the case with the CuCl-2,2'-(S)-isopropylidenbis(4-phenyl-2-oxazoline) [(S)IPhO] catalyst, a polymer with a high cross-coupling selectivity of 96% was obtained in 71% yield, whose THF-soluble part had a number-average molecular weight of 4.5 x 10 3 . To estimate the enantioselectivity with respect to the cross-coupling linkage in the obtained polymer, the model asymmetric oxidative cross-coupling reaction with CuCl-(S)IPhO was also conducted, and the products showed a 94% cross-coupling selectivity and enantioselectivity of 31% ee (S).


Taxonomy is the science of systematic classification of living or fossilized organisms. Classification is the orderly arrangement of the categories into which related groups (taxa) may be divided or amalgamated. The names of these groups are governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. This contribution is not concerned with the higher divisions of classification. All genera of fungi. unless they are monotypic. have frayed edges; that is. they merge into related genera so that it is often a matter of opinion in which genus an intermediate species should be placed. In this respect, the limits of Fusarium are more homogenous than many other common genera. Any problems that exist in Fusarium taxonomy apply at species or subspecies level and may be considered under two quite distinct headings: (a) the problem relating to the correct application of the name, and (b) the problems of assign ing a collection or isolate to its correct taxon, be it species, variety, or forma specialis.


Abstract The high-temperature phase transitions of KLiSO4 III←708 K→II→949 K→I are observed in-situ by polarisation microscopy and synchrotron radiation white-beam topography. Phase II reveals three pseudohexagonal ferroelastic twins which deviate slightly from the hexagonal 120° angles. The domain arrangements differ considerably for the transitions III→II and I→II.


Stoll figures the moth of two species of Sibine. He also figures two larvæ of Sibine, but, owing to the unfortunate confusion into which his labels must have fallen, they are not attributed to the right imagines, but to two species of Dioptidæ. After Stoll, Sepp also illustrated two species of Sibine, with their larvæ correctly shown. One of Sepp's species is the same as one of Stoll's, the other is different in both larva and moth. This gives three species of the genus known in both larval and mature states, assuming only that the larva which Stoll figures as micilia (228 G.) really belongs to the moth nesea, which I think is probably the case.


Introduction
Diabetes mellitus (DM) affects peripheral nerves inducing diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN). Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are potential causes of DPN.

Methods
Nerve conduction studies were performed in 20 type 2 DM patients (11 with DPN) and 15 healthy controls. Perception threshold values of cold, warm and vibration were measured by quantitative sensory testing. Variants of a superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2) gene single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs5746136) were determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and following NexteraXT DNA Library.

Results
DPN patients showed significantly increased threshold values. DM patients without DPN and healthy controls showed comparable values. TT variant of the SOD2 SNP was more prevalent in DM and DPN patients. DM patients with the TT variant displayed increased perception threshold values.

Conclusions
Quantitative sensory testing is not superior to standard nerve conduction studies in DPN. Carriers of SOD2 SNP manifested increased sensory threshold levels which is important in further corroborating the link between oxidative stress and DPN.


The performance optimization of many man-made systems belong to simulation-based constrained optimization (SBCO), where the evaluation of both the performance and the constraint have no closed form expression and are based on simulation. The simulation-based estimate of both the performance and the feasibility are usually time-consuming and noisy. So it is of great practical interest to study how to efficiently find a good and feasible design. Constrained ordinal optimization (COO) is one of the few methods that solve SBCO. We follow the idea of COO to develop a crude model for performance evaluation and a feasibility model to estimate the feasibility. The existing selection rules in COO only search within designs that are observed as feasible. We first show that this could lead to an efficiency lower than blind picking in some cases. Then we develop an improved COO (ICOO) that searches within the entire design space and compares designs efficiently. Both theoretical and numerical results demonstrate that ICOO provides an efficient way to solve SBCO and beats the existing selection rules in COO, including blink picking with feasibility model and horse racing with feasibility model. We hope this study sheds insight to solving simulation-based constrained optimization in general.


Bakpia Citra Premium is one of many companies that used social
networking twitter to market their products. This study used the theory of new
media or online media and using the theory of digital marketing communications.
The purpose of this study was to examine used of social networking twitter for
communication and product sales. This type of research are taken using
qualitative description, where the activities carried Bakpia Citra Premium in the
promotion of products, was appointed as the research object. Data collected by
direct observation through observation, interviews and collecting documents
related to the study. The results of the use of social networks can be used as a
medium to know the development of the market, making it easy to communicate
with a quick response from the company to the consumer. In the discussion are the
goals, objectives, policies and rules in the used of social networking twitter as
communications products. The goal is that the message is delivered quickly to the
consumer and are broad. The target for publication bakpia and delivery of
promotional products. And the rules to build customer loyalty, should not be out
of topics surrounding the product.
Keywords : promotions, twitter, online media


The charging load of electric vehicles, the magnitude of which is expected to increase, creates complex balancing challenges for the power grid. Elevated thermal inertia of warehouses offers a promising flexibility potential that can be leveraged as a buffer in case of high power demands to avoid blackouts or notable increments in the user's cost of energy owing to the rise in the peak load. The present work investigates the feasibility of utilizing a conditioned warehouse's flexibility by modulating the indoor air temperature's setpoint to reduce the demand while electric trucks are being charged. Within this framework, energy simulation of a cooled fine storage warehouse has been used while considering the scenario of 2 electric trucks being charged (for a night shift delivery) immediately after the offices' are closed. The possibility of providing sufficient power to partially charge the trucks without exceeding the building's peak demand by increasing the warehouse's setpoint temperatures by 2.5 °C (for a maximum of 4 hours each day) has been investigated. It was found that the proposed approach enables the charging of the two electric trucks on 60% of the days of the cooling season (for an average duration of 170 minutes).


The thesis is focused on marketing usage in non-profit organization. Theoretical part enclose essential problem spheres - defines non-profit sector, marketing conception and specifics of marketing usage in general public sector and considers of marketing strategy. Practical part pays attention to extensional non-profit organization - Czech technical university in Prague, Service facilities administration. Based on marketing analysis results and marketing background there are formed own proposals for changes.


This article explores production function (PF) aggregation problem. It is shown that a consistent description of PF on microand macroeconomic levels is possible only in special case of linear PF. A statistical approach to aggregation is offered. It is shown how the proposed statistical method allows to derive new types of PF. It is proved that PF's are not invariant on the microand macrolevels. It is also shown that the proposed statistical approach allows to obtain more accurate estimates of macroeconomic PF than traditional Cobb-Douglas function.


The gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE) and GRACE-Follow on (FO) data provide valuable information about dynamic total water storage (TWS). The complexity of the computational process and the influence of various parameters on TWS changes are complicated in their interpretation. Principal component analysis (PCA) has been used to identify key components to amplify signals and reduce noise in observations. For this purpose, in this research, the Self-organizing map algorithm (SOM) has been used to cluster TWS in 4 categories. The results show that the western regions of Greenland and part of Antarctica are in the critical cluster and have a TWS rate of about –0.2 m/year, which indicates the melting of ice in these regions. The advantage of PCA-SOM is the easy interpretation of TWS, which reduces the impact of seasonal parameters, observation noise and measurement error, and facilitates global policy decisions in the face of climate change.


The relative permeabilities, distribution coefficients and diffusion coefficient of some salts which are important components in blood plasma through a poly(HEMA) membrane were measured. The crosslinker which was used for preparing the membrane was tetraethylene glycol dimethacrylate(TEGDMA), the weight percentage of the latter was about 2.8. We found that the diffusion coefficients () of the solutes decrease exponentially with increasing molecular weight, and also that 's decrease linearly (except urea) with cylindrical radius (a). These facts were explained by a sieve pore flow model. The relative permeability and diffusion coefficient of urea at various temperature were larger than those of other solutes such as glycine, -alanine, D-glucose, saccharose and maleic acid. The result indicates that the poly(HEMA) membrane might be suitable for hemodialysis application.


In this study, production possibility of glass and glass-ceramic produced from granite was investigated. The composition of granite based glass bath mixture was 50 wt% granite, 25 wt% dolomite and 25 wt% sodium carbonate. Composition that was grounded and mixed in a ball mill for 2 h was melted at 1500 ◦C for 1 h. Glass samples were heat treated for crystallization to produce glass-ceramic materials at 800 ◦C, 900 ◦C and 1000 ◦C for 2 h to promote internal crystallization. Phase identi cations of glass and glass-ceramic materials were investigated by X-ray di raction analysis. Moreover, hardness and fracture toughness measurement of glass and glass-ceramic materials were applied. Granite based materials after that melting and casting process was found amorphous state by characterization with X-ray di raction analysis. After the heat treatment processes, crystal phases settled out in glass matrix were also determined in granite based materials. Moreover, values of hardness and fracture toughness increasing were detected by heat treatment schedule.


Abstract This paper describes the use of X-ray pole figures to determine the degree of preferential orientation induced by poling of 0-3 piezoelectric composites. By comparing pole figures and 2θ scans of the same samples, we demonstrate that the pole figure technique is superior to conventional 2θ X-ray scans because it is capable of recording diffraction from many orientations of the sample with respect to the incident X-ray beam instead of just one. Samples poled at higher fields have a greater degree of orientation, as do those with large, multidomain particles. It is also shown that poling of the composites is nonuniform through the thickness of the samples.


The operating envelope of the Abe Silverstein 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel (10x10 SWT) at the NASA Lewis Research Center was recently expanded to include operation at subsonic test section speeds. This new capability generates test section air speeds ranging from Mach 0.05 to 0.35 (32 to 240 kn). Most of the expansion in air speed range was obtained by running the tunnel's main compressor at much lower speeds than ever before. The compressor drive system, consisting of four large electric motors, was run with only one or two motors energized to obtain the lower compressor speed range. This new capability makes the 10x10 SWT more versatile and gives U.S. researchers an enhanced ability to perform subsonic propulsion and aerodynamic testing.


Nonlinear low frequency electrostatic waves which arise from the coupling between two linear modes, viz., the dust‐acoustic and dust‐cyclotron waves, are studied in a magnetized dusty plasma comprising Boltzmann electrons, a negatively charged warm dust fluid, and two ion species of different temperatures with both species having isothermal Boltzmann distributions. The fluid equations for the dust are combined with the quasineutrality condition to obtain a single equation which governs the nonlinear evolution of the electric field for wave propagation oblique to an external magnetic field. The numerically obtained solutions for the electric field are found to have sinusoidal waveforms for small values of the initial driver electric field amplitudes and Mach numbers, whereas, spiky structures are found to be supported for larger values. Furthermore, the periods of the waveforms are found to depend on various plasma parameters such as hot and cool ion number densities and temperatures, dust drift speed and ...


Central E-services have a key-role in enterprise governmental organizations. These organizations maintain related information in database servers inside one or more datacenters. Some of these organizations have a lot of country wide branches and all of them connect to datacenter(s) by WAN links. As a result to provide services with acceptable quality to customers, quality and stability of WAN links have main role. A usual method to achieve desired stability and availability is providing redundant link and running a suitable routing protocol over links to reduce service downtime of branches. This method has some constraints and drawbacks. The main constraint is lack of redundant WAN link in some regions. Also link and maintenance costs are two main drawbacks for this method. In this paper by combining existing WAN topologies we introduce a hybrid WAN topology with an acceptable stability and cost and predict availability of all existing methods and proposed models (C2MP) by aid of ITIL definition and prove at least by regarding stability, our model(s) have better result.


The invention discloses a preparation method for a SiO2 nanoparticle reinforced chitosan composite microcapsule. The preparation method is as follows: by utilizing a gas-liquid microfluidic device, and through mixing of an acidic silica sol with a liquid-phase solution, SiO2 nanoparticles are dispersed in a chitosan solution; by utilizing hydrogen-bond interaction generated by active groups in chitosan molecules and the SiO2 nanoparticles, the nanoparticles are introduced into the capsule wall of the chitosan microcapsule; meanwhile, the chitosan used as a cationic electrolyte forms cationic and anionic complex compounds with a sodium dodecyl sulfate anionic electrolyte by mutual attraction through charges, so solubility of the chitosan in a solution is reduced; and the chitosan coats a capsule core substance to form a composite microcapsule, so a chitosan/nanometer SiO2 composite microcapsule is obtained. The prepared composite microcapsule provided by the invention has the following advantages: the nanoparticles are introduced onto the capsule wall of the microcapsule, so compactness of the capsule wall of the microcapsule is increased; the mechanical performance of the microcapsule is reinforced; the capsule wall of the chitosan composite microcapsule is insusceptible to cracking under stress; and application range and fields of the chitosan microcapsule are expanded.


The invention relates to a coal water slurry cyclone entrained flow gasifier and a gasification method thereof, belonging to the technical field of coal gasification equipment. The coal water slurry cyclone entrained flow gasifier comprises a top nozzle, a gasifier roof, a gasification chamber, an exhaust port and a bottom deslagging port, wherein a swirl blade is arranged in the top nozzle; the side wall if the gasification chamber is provided with at least one layer of corner tangential O2 nozzles; coal water slurry is fed through the top nozzle in a swirl manner, and forms a rotary coal water slurry atomized airflow in the gasifier roof region; pure oxygen is introduced through the corner tangential O2 nozzles on the side wall of the gasification chamber, and forms a tangential high-speed rotary airflow in a region close to the gasifier wall; and under the centrifugal action of the high-speed rotary airflow, coal water slurry particles are subjected to film type gasification on a liquid slag film formed on the surface of the gasifier wall. The invention effectively prolongs the service life of the gasifier nozzle, increases the in-gasifier residing time of the coal water slurry and improves the coal gasification carbon conversion rate; the formed liquid slag resides on the wall surface, thereby effectively protecting the gasifier wall from heat damage and chemical corrosion damage; and the corner tangential O2 nozzles are arranged in multiple layers along the height direction of the gasification chamber, thereby ensuring that the temperature field in the gasifier is uniform.


Submitted for the MAR14 Meeting of The American Physical Society Large Intrinsic Spin Hall Conductivity in Bismuth, Antimony and Bi1−xSbx Alloys 1 CUNEYT SAHIN, MICHAEL E. FLATTÉ, Optical Science and Technology Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA — Bismuth and antimony, which are building blocks of 3 dimensional topological insulators, are expected to exhibit a large spin Hall conductivity due to their large spin-orbit couplings. Furthermore the semimetal characteristics of these materials that originate from slightly overlapping conduction and valence bands can be altered by opening a gap through alloying them up to certain concentration. This so called semi-metal semiconductor transition also allows Bi1−xSbx alloy to exhibit topologically protected states [1]. In this work we use a lowenergy effective spin-orbit Hamiltonian within a tight-binding approach for Bi and Sb as well as Bi1−xSbx alloys. Beginning with this low-energy Hamiltonian and band structure we calculate the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity using a Berry's curvature technique in the clean static limit. We have also investigated the behavior of the Berry's curvature in a full zone picture and observed that several symmetry points contribute largely to the SHC due to extreme curvature. Robust spin-orbit couplings and Berry curvatures in bulk Bi, Sb and Bi1−xSbx alloys result in SHC which is comparable to platinum and considerably larger than conventional semiconductors and metals. [1] Zhang et al., Nature Physics 5, 438, (2009) 1This work was supported in part by CSPIN, one of six centers of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program, sponsored by MARCO and DARPA. Cuneyt Sahin Optical Science and Technology Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA Date submitted: 15 Nov 2013 Electronic form version 1.4


The interlaminar crack initiation in mixed-mode specimens was investigated through two- and threedimensional finite element models. Elastic analysis was conducted to understand the crack initiation in glass-fibre/vinylester composites. The MMF and CLS specimens were used for the two-dimensional plane strain models. Simplified 3D micro-mechanical models were constructed to investigate the effect of the fibres on the stress distribution based on the square fibre arrangement. The mixed-mode conditions were produced by changing the ratio of the crack opening and crack shearing displacement components. It was concluded that the fibre/matrix interface plays critical role in the direction of the crack propagation path. The propagation path was described by the crack angle determined by the peak stresses in the crack front and in the fibre/matrix interface. The critical fibre/matrix interface stress was also determined and found to increase with the mode-I contribution. The tensile stresses ahead of the crack-tip were examined and experienced as increasing with the mode-I contribution.


The promulgation of Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Regulation Number 12/PERMEN-KP/2020 on Management of Lobster (Panulirus spp.), Mud Crab (Scylla spp.), and Blue Swimming Crab (Portunus spp.) in the Territorial waters of the Republic of Indonesia has implications for the management of lobster fisheries within the Indonesia's Territorial Waters and Fisheries Management Areas (FMAs). This research aims to outline the current condition of lobster fisheries with the enactment of the ministerial regulation's KP number 12/2020 on lobster fishery and to analyse the policy gaps regarding the implementation of lobster fisheries regulations. Data were collected within FMA 573 through a structured interview technique using a clustered questionnaire system and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with key informants. The impacts of the regulation were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively using a descriptive approach. The results indicate that the implementation of regulation No. 12/PERMEN-KP/2020 has not resulted in significant increases in income for lobster fishers and traders, in fact rather the reverse. The legalization of juvenile lobster capture has increased the supply, leading to a decrease in juvenile lobster prices. The price per lobster has fallen from IDR 6,000-10,000 to IDR 3,500-4,000, IDR17,500 to IDR 10,000-11,000 andIDR 27,500-30,000 to IDR 16,000-17,000 for fishermen, middlemen and exporters, respectively. The positive impacts on lobster fishers were an increased sense of security since it is no longer illegal to catch and trade juvenile lobsters.


Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is categorized into 2 types based on the absence (CRSsNP) and presence of nasal polyps (CRSwNP). Although CRSsNP patients lack nasal polyps, the mucosa may show variable degrees of polypoid change. This raises the question of whether or not the classification system is an over simplification and that CRSsNP and CRSwNP only represent 2 phenotypic extremes along a broader spectrum of immunologically different disease processes. To investigate this, adaptive and innate immune cells were compared in the different tissue types within CRSsNP and CRSwNP patients.


chapter titled 'Performer of worship' when she focuses on missionaries' work to place themselves and the pope as the religious figures in the faith. On page  Yang notes that some Chinese rejected the pope's status due to it resembling the emperor, but Giuliu Aleni moved to place priests as 'the intermediary' and Lodovico Buglio emphasised the power of the priest to celebrate mass (p. ). The author is keen to point out that the relationship priests had with their converts was quite different from in Chinese religions. In particular, they involved themselves in the private lives of their converts more than the other Chinese religions. While some of their activities coincided with other Chinese religious leaders, the Jesuit priests sought to show a different role for Church leaders. The developments and actions by the missionaries sometimes led to opposition and violence against the Catholics, leading to an urgency to develop an indigenous clergy. The author goes on to note that priests maintained that they were the only ones who could celebrate mass, but they also 'deputised' Chinese catechists with the ability to perform baptisms, lead prayer when a priest could not celebrate mass and other duties (p. ). In this transition, the Holy Office declared that the Chinese clergy were allowed to produce a Bible in literary Chinese and that they could hold mass in Chinese rather than Latin. The issue of Latin was a key stumbling block to developing a Chinese clergy but this permitted its formation without the requirement that they be able to say mass and perform other duties in Latin (pp. –). Yang shows that Sinicisation even extended down to the 'sacrificial hat' that Chinese priests wore during mass. The hat clearly displays Chinese traditions in the form of flowers mixed with Christian images of the cross (p. ). Through her detailed analysis of all aspects of the mass Yang is able to include some enlightening examples of Sinicisation/inculturation. The book is clearly well researched with a plethora of related secondary sources and new primary sources, particularly Chinese language sources. Overall, Hongfan Yang has produced an excellent book that gives the reader a clear view of the development of the Catholic Church in China and the engagement with Chinese society of Catholic rituals in the early period of Jesuit missionary activity.


Indiscriminate and unscientific sand mining has become a serious environmental threat to the river systems and its surrounding environment. The rapid rate of urbanization has increased the demand for sand, which is supplied from river bed through sand mining. Sand mining from river bed results in channel degradation and erosion, change in local gradient, head cutting, increased turbidity, bank erosion and sedimentation of riffle areas and ruins its flow regimes and total sedimentary environment. In lower reaches of Ajay river, unscientific sand mining is a serious issue from Illambajar (Birbhum) to Mongalkot (Burdwan) fluvial environment of Ajay river basin, which is highly affected by in-stream sand mining. Natural morphological characteristics of Ajay river are changed and damaged due to over mining of sand. Excessive in-stream sand mining is a threat to Illambajar bridge and Nutanhut bridge. River embankments are also affected by river bed mining. Sand mining also affects the adjoining groundwater system. In Mongalkot and Ketugram Blocks (Burdwan), ground water level becomes lower than the past. Sand mining also generates extra vehicle traffic, which negatively impairs the environment and pollution level continuously gets higher. Total station survey was carried out to detect the changes in river bed. Topographical sheets and satellite images were geocoded to extract past status of river health and tried to correlate with the present situation. GPS (Handheld-Germin etrexH-20) was used as necessary tool in the present study. The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the impact of sand mining on riparian environment.


Probes, examines and analyses those variables that affect the motivation and productivity of library staff in some university libraries. Offers a comparative study based on the situations prevalent in two West African (Ghana and Nigeria) and two Southern African (Zambia and Botswana) countries. Highlights measurement of performance and various techniques for improving the same. Makes a number of recommendations to library policy formulators on how to improve the lot of their subordinate staff and thus motivate them towards higher productivity and the realization of organizational goals and objectives.


The present study investigates the year-to-year variations of September‐October rainfall in Hainan, China, for the period 1965‐2010. The dominant circulation anomalies feature a cyclone (an anticyclone) over the Indochina Peninsula and northern South China Sea, an anticyclone (a cyclone) over subtropical western North Pacific and lower-level convergence (divergence) over the Maritime Continent in the wet (dry) years. These circulation anomalies are responses to an east‐west sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly pattern withnegative(positive)SST anomaliesin theequatorialcentralPacificandpositive(negative)SSTanomalies around the Maritime Continent in the wet (dry) years. Although the SST anomaly pattern is similar (but with opposite anomaly), the SST signal in the equatorial central Pacific is more significant in the dry years than in the wet years. This difference indicates a larger case-to-case variability in the wet years than in the dry years. Thelargevariabilityinthewetyearsisattributedtocontributionsoftropicalcyclones(TCs)andintraseasonal oscillations (ISOs). There are more TCs impinging on Hainan and the TC tracks are closer to the island in the wet years than in the dry years. The rainfall shows large intraseasonal variations with periods of 10‐20 and 30‐60 days during September‐October in the wet years. The 10‐20-day ISO originates from the Maritime Continent, whereas the 30‐60-day ISO develops over tropical Indian Ocean and propagates northeastward to northern South China Sea. In contrast, the ISO signal is much weaker in the dry years.


Negative Avalanche Feedback photon counting detectors with near-infrared spectral sensitivity offer an alternative to conventional Geiger mode avalanche photodiode or phototube detectors for free space communications links at 1 and 1.55 microns. These devices demonstrate linear mode photon counting without requiring any external reset circuitry and may even be operated at room temperature. We have now characterized the detection efficiency, dark count rate, after-pulsing, and single photon jitter for three variants of this new detector class, as well as operated these uniquely simple to use devices in actual photon starved free space optical communications links.


Transport of angular momentum is one of the thrust areas of astrophysical flows. Instabilities and hence the turbulence generated by it have been invoked to understand its role in angular momentum transport in hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic regime. Investigation of an unexplored region described by the parameter space Ω 2 e < 0, Ω e being the epicyclic frequency, resulted in a powerful magnetohydrodynamic instability. The growth rate of this instability is rather large and is found to depend on the wavenumber.


Organic contaminants in ground water from parts of the sole-source regional aquifer underlying the City of Tucson in Pima County, southeastern Arizona, have been an issue of public concern for many years. Characterization studies done subsequent to studies in the early 1980's have provided much additional information about the extent of contamination at the Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site. Cleanup activities have been initiated at many locations at the site. The principal contaminant in ground water is trichloroethylene (commonly referred to as TCE), which is a volatile organic compound that was widely used as an industrial solvent at several locations in the study area. Other volatile organic compounds, including trichloroethane, dichloroethylene, chloroform, and xylene, are in ground water at the site at much lower concentrations. Heavy metals, such as lead, cadmium, nickel, and chromium, released as components of an industrial waste stream, also are contaminants of concern. Heavy metals generally were immobilized at shallow depths in the unsaturated zone and have not been found in ground water. Chromium in the form of hexavalent chromium is the exception. Monitoring of concentrations of TCE and other organic and inorganic compounds in ground water is done throughout the site. Data provided by industries and government agencies involved with monitoring and cleanup efforts at the site were used to create a unified geographicinformation system data base. Data for concentrations of TCE for December 1995 were plotted using this storage-and-retrieval system. Areas with wells that yield water with concentrations of TCE that exceed 5 micrograms per liter were delineated. The main area of contaminated ground water is similar in overall shape and extent to the area delineated in a study done in 1987 using data for 1984. South of the airport, a small reduction in the width of the main area of contaminated ground water is evident, and concentrations of TCE in the discharge of several wells within the delineated area have declined. Two smaller areas of contaminated ground water are immediately north and northeast of the airport as in 1984. Data for 1995 suggest an increase in size of the contaminated area immediately north of Tucson International Airport. The apparent increase in size may be because additional wells were completed to better define the area of contaminated ground water. Recently completed characterization studies indicate concentrations of TCE in ground water as large as 74,000 micrograms per liter in samples taken from a layer of fine-grained sediments at the uppermost part of the aquifer in an area on the west side of Tucson


A case is presented of a pituitary adenoma which was treated with radiation. Subsequently an empty sella developed and the dorsum sellae was found to be fractured forward. Possible etiological factors and the significance of this finding are discussed.


The Indian National Gamma Array (INGA) has been the main workhorse for endeavours pertaining to inbeam gamma ray spectroscopy within the country for over two decades. The facility has ushered extensive and unique developments both in the domains of electronics and date acquisition systems along with the advances in data sorting and analysis. A major landmark in the context of INGA has been the use of Digital Signal Processing based electronics and data acquisition system. The current presentation aims at discussing the results from the recently concluded campaign of INGA at VECC, wherein the digital DAQ developed by the UGC DAE CSR KC group has been used. The results from this campaign are expected to amplify the power of the system, which to the best of our knowledge is one of it's maiden kind in the context of implementing the DSP algorithms for gamma rays spectroscopy.


Objective To investigate the relationship of endothelial nitric oxide synthase(eNOS) expression with apoptosis of spermatogenic cell in the rat experimental cryptorchidism.Methods Unilateral c ryptorchidism was surgically induced in the immature rats,the apoptosis of spermatogenic cell was detected by terminal - deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated d-UTP nick end labeling(TUNEL) in the cryptorchidism on the 7th day after the operation,the expression of eNOS was detected by RT-PCR and immunohistochemical SABC assays.Results Compared to the control,the number of apoptotic spermatogenic cell in the cryptorchidism increased significantly and its weight decreased predominantly.The expression of eNOS mRNA in the cryptorchidism increased significantly than that in the control.In the spermatogenic epithelium of the control there were no eNOS expression which could be detected in the spermatogenic epithelium of the cryptorchidism by immunohistochemical assay.Conclusions The apoptosis of spermatogenic cell increased significantly in the cryptorchidism which was partly mediated by eNOS.


The extension rockmass quality classification index system has been estabilished by studying on rockmass quality classification index and combined with extension theory. Then the rockmass quality evaluation model,correlation function,weight evaluation function,were to built based on extension theory toevaluate the rockmass quality. The instance shows that the extension theory has at least two advantage:(1) The extension rockmass quality evaluation is a qualitative and quantitative evaluation method,it not only ascertains rockmass quality,but also reflects the relationship with other rockmass quality grade. (2) The extension quality evaluation indexes have open character,it can be extended to many evaluation indexes,the more evaluation indexes and data,the better is the evaluation result.


Two Japanese mosquitoes of Culex infantulus and Tripteroides bambusa have been colonized and sustained for 15 and 10 generations respectively. The adults are maintained in screened cages (60•~60•~30 cm for C. infantulus and 30•~30•~20 cm for T. bambusa) placed in the laboratory with daily photoperiod of 16 hours normal white light and 30 minutes each of dawn and dusk lighting conditions. Temperatures range from 24 to 26 C and relative humidity is 70 to 80 percent. Blood meals are provided by placing a restrained turtle for infantulus and an anesthetized mouse for T. bambusa.


The recent air quality directive (2008/50/EC) encourages the introduction of modelling as a necessary tool for air quality assessment and management. Towards this aim, an air quality management system (AQMS) has been developed and installed in the Department of Labour Inspection (DLI) of the Republic of Cyprus. The AQMS comprises of two operational modules, providing hourly nowcasting and daily forecasting of the air quality status, implemented as an integrated model system that performs nested grid meteorological and photochemical simulations. A third operational module provides the capability of an interactive configuration of custom emission scenarios and corresponding model runs covering user-defined domains of interest. Statistical indicators are calculated at the end of each day for the measurement locations of DLI's air quality monitoring network. Besides, the system provides an advanced user interface, which is realised as a web-based application providing access to model results from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser.


This paper presents the architecture, simulation and measurement results of a low power dual stage charge sensitive amplifier providing a time-over-threshold analog to digital conversion with linear transfer characteristic dedicated for readout of long silicon strip detectors. The key features of the presented solution are: very low power consumption (2 mW), linear transfer characteristic and low charge losses at high detector capacitance. This work was motivated by the requirements of a new Silicon Tracking System at the Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR centre. The issues investigated using other prototype ASICs implementing a constant-current discharge feedback and working with high detector capacitances (tens of pF) directed us to develop the presented idea and to evaluate it with a prototype ASIC. Up to our knowledge, due to the difficult operating conditions this solution fills the gap within the existing fabricated circuits.