This paper outlines the performance specification which should be met by a high performance Vision Monitor intended for use in television transmission stations.Particular emphasis is laid on the importance of utilizing the correct type of geometric projection to produce a picture on a spherical surface from the ideal picture on a plane surface with the least objectionable type of distortion.Means are indicated whereby the type of projection chosen, namely, stereographic, can be realized in practice. A method called "Spot Wobbling" by which the line structure of a television picture can be rendered less visible is described. A monitor which incorporates most of the desirable features discussed in the first part of the paper is described in some detail. Some indication is also given of methods by which its performance can be checked without having recourse to a picture.


Time-domain fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (FDOT) can provide information, not only concerning the localization of specific fluorophores, but also about the local fluorophore environment. We present a method based on linear inversion algorithm to reconstruct images of fluorescence yield and lifetime from time-resolved data. To provide efficient solutions, we convert the data type by Laplace transform and adapt normalized Born ratio for its advantages in fluorescence mode. The methodology is experimentally validated in reflection and transmittance measurements by use of time-correlation single photon counting system. We experimentally validate that the proposed scheme can achieve simultaneous three-dimensional reconstruction of the fluorescent yield and lifetime. The results show that for the positions, sizes and shapes of the targets, there are some deviation in reflection measurement, the quality in transmittance one is more satisfied.


Based on the study of wind controlling measures efficiency at the K1533 of Qinghai-Tibet railway,the results show that the upright sand fence decreased the wind velocity in the protection area,behind the first piece upright sand fence,it reduced wind velocity by rate 14.63%~86.15% as compared to the control,41.93%~97.91 % behind second piece,and 22.80%~87.40 % behind third piece,respectively.The wind erosion modulus decreased greatly behind the upright sand fence,after the first piece of upright sand fence,the wind erosion modulus just occupying about 21.75% of the control wind erosion modulus.Wind erosion rate behind second and third piece upright sand fence,it reduced range from several ten fold to hundred fold as compared to the control.The same trends appears in the stone checkerboard sand barrier protection area,wind erosion modulus reduced range from several ten fold to hundred fold,even to thousand fold as compared to the control in the same monitoring height.Upright sand fence and stone checkerboard sand-barrier have the greatly effect on the wind erosion control of the railway,their protected that the railway suffered from the wind erosion hazards.


Kinetics of the thermal decomposition of pure formaldehyde were studied over a temperature range of 466–516 °C and a pressure range of ~ 50–160 Torr. Arrhenius parameters and rate laws were determined for carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methanol as follows:A mechanism is postulated which is qualitatively consistent with the experimental results but the activation energy for reaction 1is ~15 kcal/mol lower than predicted from recent thermochemical data, suggesting the possibility of a heterogeneous reaction.


We report a systematic study of the dynamic microwave conductivity near ${T}_{c}$ for ${\mathrm{La}}_{2\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{x}\mathrm{Cu}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$ (LSCO) thin films with $x=0.07\char21{}0.16$. The strong frequency dependence of the phase stiffness together with scaling analysis of the ac fluctuating conductivity of superconductivity provide direct evidence for the two-dimensional-$XY$ behavior of nearly decoupled $\mathrm{Cu}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ planes in underdoped LSCO ($x=0.07$ and 0.12). On the other hand, the critical exponents for slightly overdoped LSCO ($x=0.16)$ were found to agree with those for the relaxational three-dimensional-$XY$ model, indicating that the universality class in LSCO is changed by hole doping. The implication of these results for the phase diagram of high-${T}_{c}$ cuprates is discussed.


We first study the spectrum of the excitonic polaritons in semiconductors in the presence of a condensed phase. With the help of the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation we propose an exact mapping of the extended Hubbard model onto an excitonic-polariton model describing the light propagation in semiconductors. This approach allows us to derive exact formulas for spin-spin and charge-charge correlation functions for spin-triplet superconductivity.


ABSTRACT Much security-related research conducted in Central Asia appears to disregard the nexus between the data gathered and participants' and researchers' experiences of safety during the research. This article explores the interconnectedness of these factors and their effects on the knowledge produced on security. It investigates the legal and institutional context researchers encounter when conducting research in Kyrgyzstan; namely, a state monopoly over knowledge on certain subject matters linked to political stability and security. Furthermore, drawing on the combined fieldwork experience of the authors, the article explores the roles of cooperation, networks and framing in navigating the security implications of doing research. To conclude, we suggest a long-term and collaborative production of knowledge on security in Central Asia to counter the prevailing modes of knowledge production which lean towards epistemically violent and politically provocative topics.


To describe intra-hole fluid convection, fine-scale temperature-time variations were monitored at 25 depth levels within a 50 m long interval (80—130 m depth) in a slim experimental borehole in Sporilov (the Czech Republic). High-resolution temperature data were sampled with a 15 sec time interval for 1.6 up to 2.7 days. The time series obtained were from 10 000 to 16 000 data points. In the upper part of the investigated depth interval, the temperature time series showed a complex oscillation pattern with amplitudes of up to 45 mK (milliKelvin). This variation pattern is alternated with a "quiet" regime below 110 m depth, where temperature oscillations fall within 4–10 mK range. Convection produced temperature signal was studied by means of recurrence plots and their quantification analysis. This method was proven to be effective to detect transitions in system dynamics. The analysis confirmed a relevant deterministic part in the measured signal (quasi-periodic skeleton) and enabled to quantify the periodic—periodic and periodic—chaotic transitions in the borehole convection dynamics. Thermal dynamics is richer and cooler at shallower depths. The results were confirmed with temperature time series registered at the bottom hole, where the probe penetrated into soft mud debris, which prevented convection, and restricted heat transport to a pure conduction.


Early Head Start (EHS) can provide services to a child and family from pre-birth until the child is three years old. Services are comprehensive, intensive, individualized and flexible according to child and family needs, and integrated with community service delivery systems. The local program designs and operations were developed and carried out within the framework of the Head Start Revised Performance Standards, which included specific provisions for services to pregnant women, infants and toddlers and emphasized prevention, early intervention, safety, and health education. As with preschool Head Start, EHS programs are required to make available 10 percent of their enrollment for infants and toddlers with disabilities as defined by Part C regulations of the state in which the program operated. Quality child care has become a priority for EHS. A majority of EHS children need child care, and the quality is important to their development. An evaluation of EHS in 17 programs selected from the first program cohorts showed that the program had significant and positive impacts on a wide range of parent and child dimensions, some with implications for children's later school success. Among the issues for policy attention identified by American EHS for the Korean system are: - The need to create a comprehensive infant/toddler care system - The need to address access of teachers for young children - The need to improve quality.


 The term "plurality of relations" (PR, Lichtenberk 1985, 2000) describes situations in which multiple participants/objects (n  2) entertain a relation with each other such that (typically) every participant/object is at the same time actor and undergoer.  It has been noted, that across typologically diverse spoken languages, a single marker is commonly used to encode the various, partially overlapping functions subsumed under PR: reciprocal, collective, chaining, converse, repetitive (Lichtenberk 2000; Nedjalkov 2007b).  Consider e.g. the German examples in (1), in which the reciprocal pronoun einander is used to express a "true" reciprocal (1a), a collective/sociative (1b), and a spatial/chaining (1c) meaning. As the English translations show, the same holds for English each other.


Standard FastSLAM algorithm suffers from particle set degeneracy and accumulation errors caused by linearization of the nonlinear model.To overcome the above problems,this paper proposed a novel FastSlam algorithm based on square root unscented Kalman filter(SR-UKF).SR-UKF selected a group of representative sigma points to approximate the covariance,these sigma points were propageted through the non-linearforce model to reconstruct the new statistical characteristics.Using SR-UKF to replace EKF for posteriori estimation of particles could reduce the linearization error and slow down particle set degeneracy.SR-UKF ensured the non-negative definite of covariance matrix to guarantee the stability of SLAM algorithm.The simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is better than FastSLAM 2.0 both in accuracy and robustness.


Abstract : The thermal disintegration of acetylacetone is submitted to a thorough investigation utilizing both statically and dynamically operating measuring apparatus. Under static test, disintegration satisfactorily occurred in the range of 375 to 450C, with an initial pressure of 300 tons. Free radicals are determined utilizing the Paneth metal mirror technique. An induction period could not be determined. In all, propylene acts in a markedly inhibitive manner, and the gross reaction obeys the time law of the first order. Under dynamic measurement, disintegration was investigated in the range of 450 to 540C. Durations were between 10 and 180 seconds. Principal products of disintegration were: 50 to 60% by volume of acetone, 15 to 25% by volume of methane, 20 to 25% by volume of carbon monoxide and 5 to 10% by volume of carbon dioxide. Semi-quantitative gas chromatographic and infrared spectroscopic analysis of the disintegration products enable the clarification of various divider processes. A radical chain mechanism is proposed which under application of the principle of stationariness, leads to a time law of the first order which is in satisfactory agreement with that found empirically. (Author)


The invention discloses a carbon-based coal-fired fume mercury adsorbent and an application method thereof which can carry out the desulfurization operation and the denitration operation simultaneously. The method mixes haloid salt and thiosulfate to prepare a solution which is used as chemical modifier so as to dip the active carbon, thus obtaining the modified carbon-based coal-fired fume mercury adsorbent. The adsorbent has the applications of mercury removal, desulfurization and denitration in boilers of coal-fired power plants simultaneously; the adsorbent is sprayed into the fume of the boiler of the coal-fired power plants at the temperature of 110-350 DEG C so as to mix with the fume; the stoichiometric ratio of the adsorbent sprayed into the fume and heavy metal mercury in the fume is 1-5:10 ; and the proportion of the adsorbent and the fly ash in the fume is 1-5:10 . The adsorbent can oxidate the elemental mercury in the fume as divalent mercury, realizes the comprehensive control on the mercury and CO2 in the fume, generates no side effects on the use of the fly ash of the coal-fired power plant, and generates no secondary pollution.


Reactions of the lithium enolate of ethyl (trimethylgermyl)acetate (1) or ethyl bis(trimethylgermyl)acetate (12) with some carboxylic acid derivatives were examined. High yields of ethyl 3-oxoalkanoates (10) were obtained from the reaction of 1 with S-benzyl carbothioates; however, mixtures of 10 and 12 were produced in about 1:1 ratios from the reaction with acyl chlorides, 1-acylimidazoles and benzoyl chloride


Hollow core fibers have a lot of applications in domains where delivery of ultrashort pulses is very important. On the other hand, double clad fibers are widely used for delivery and collection of nonlinear optical signals. In this paper we present a new concept of double clad hollow core fibers(DC-HCF) and we investigate the propagation of femtosecond pulses in such fibers. We use split-step Fourier method to estimate the numerical solution of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations (GSNLE).


Objective:To explore the effect of the amiodarone on the patients of atrial fibrillation.Methods:60 cases of atrial fibrillation were randomly divided into therapy group(amiodarone)and compared group(Betaloc and digitalis).To observe the turning over the rhythm of the heart and the rate of ventricle.Results:Amiodarone have significant difference in turning over the rhythm of the heart;have no significant difference in the rate of ventricle.Conclusions:Amiodarone have obvious superiority in turning over the rhythm of the heart.


Magnetically coated materials are widely utilized for communications, home entertainment and computer applications, including videotapes, cassette tapes and floppy diskettes. They consist of a thin film of crosslinked polymeric matrix with magnetic particles and binders. This magnetic coating is then adhered to and supported by a thermoplastic substrate, generally polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film. The semicrystalline nature of the PET substrate provides a stable support medium for the thin magnetic, data storage coating.


By collapsing one cladding hole next to the solid-core of a photonic crystal fiber, a modal interferometer is demonstrated. More than one mode is naturally excited and spectral modulation depths of 9dB could be observed.


Patients with existing comorbidities or those who are elderly have a poor prognosis. Generally, existing comorbidities in covid-19 patients exhibit increased chances of mortality and require a longer treatment period. This pandemic has now reached a stage where there is a dire need to incorporate an integrated treatment approach for combating such conditions. Here, we present a case study on the clinical outcome of the integrated treatment approach in Covid-19 patients with pre-existing comorbidities. The patient is a known case of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and arthritis. He was on his medication at the time. On infection with coronavirus, he was advised of the standard treatment plan and strict home quarantine. He presented to the covid-19 healthcare center with complaints of weakness, breathlessness on exertion, cough, loss of appetite. On examination, he had a 93% oxygen saturation and had hematological findings; CRP 33.3(mg/dL), ESR 112(mm/hour), D-dimer 2470(ng/mL), LDH 2485 (Units/L), RBS 596 mg/d. He provided his informed consent to proceed with the integrated treatment approach. The integrated treatment approach along modern medicine includes T-AYU-HM Premium 600mg and Acupen 600mg thrice a day. The treatment plan has resulted in remarkable improvement in the clinical profile and the inflammatory markers of patients. It has managed the blood glucose level in the patient and preventing unwanted complications associated with it. This case study provides information about the importance of an integrated treatment approach in the treatment of Covid-19 with existing comorbidities.


This essay analizes the bullfighting milieu and the most relevant political events occurring in Mexico City between 1863 and 1867, in order to understand why Benito Juarez decreed the prohibition of bullfighting in Mexico's capital on November 28, 1867, a decree which stayed in force  for almost twenty years. The presence of the French army, the arrival, stay and execution of Maximilian of Habsburg, the migrating government of Juarez and his political triumph, plus a hurricane in Matamoros, make up the framework of that episode, which was lived with great intensity in the midst of a political debate which brought civilization face to face with barbarity or, among many other things, enlightenment with the ill treatment of animals that could be useful to society.


The relationship between emerging technologies and how the Army conducts its business is not a simple one. Army has a requirement for plausible emerging technology impact information in order to provide guidance for strategic planning and future development across the Army. An earlier study assessing emerging technologies on Army force structure highlighted the need for an ongoing program of work. In order to generate an ongoing program of traceable and consistent emerging technology information a process was developed which would support the nature of this work based upon the requirements of the Australian Army. This project leverages off the emerging technologies work already conducted within DSTO, and couples with ongoing research and techniques that are well developed to produce an evolutionary ongoing process. An Army centric focus is used for analysis of plausible impacts of emerging technologies on generic Army functions over a rolling 30 year timeframe. In order to undertake this, a well-defined and consistent framework was required which would provide a common language to underpin the entire process. This framework was developed as a two-sided classification framework of emerging technology categories on one axis and generic functions of the Australian Army on the other. Using a framework of this nature has some limitations in that there are technologies which map into multiple categories; however it was found that this limitation was easily managed against the benefits provided by the ability of this framework to allow this complex space to be structured for study. The classification framework is presented as the first item in this paper. The determination of plausible impacts of emerging technologies on the Australian Army is undertaken using a well-established qualitative technique called TOWS (Threats, Opportunities, Weaknesses and Strengths) which is designed to deduce outcomes and strategies from the combinations of these elements. TOWS is reliant on the strength and breadth of the Subject Matter Experts consulted and the ability of these experts and the analytical team to develop the outcomes/strategies and impacts. This plausible impact determination is the second focus of this paper, where the use of the TOWS method (as part of the larger emerging technology evaluation process) is presented with a sample of an impact analysis. The plausible impact outcomes from this analytical process provide the Army with documented and researched outcomes and strategies resulting from the consideration of technology areas on Army functions, which may have impact on the way the Army conducts these functions in the future. These outcomes and strategies are provided to the Army for consideration as a part of their future strategic planning and development process. They cover the breadth of the external threats and opportunities as well as internal weaknesses and strengths for plausible technology impact on Army function and where the risk or opportunity may lie.


The radiologic aspects of the Celestin tube in place in patients with incurable obstructive esophageal carcinoma are described. The Celestin tube currently in use has a flexible latex shaft with an inkwell-shaped funnel and pressure-free edges. There is a radiopaque line along the shaft, enabling visualization of the tube without the aid of contrast medium. Complications of intubation include slipping, partial occlusion, and blockage. Tumor related complications include fistula formation and perforation of the esophagus by the edge of the tube due to tumor extension. In a series of 21 patients, palliative treatment by Celestin tube intubation was beneficial.


gration. Antiviral therapy was discontinued. The patient rash resolved after 5 days. When HHV-6 is chromosomally integrated (ci-HHV6), HHV-6 DNA is present in every nucleated cell with two biological consequences. First, ci-HHV6 is vertically transmitted in a mendelian manner through host germ line. Second, these patients have unusually high viral loads of HHV-6 in biological samples which can lead to possible erroneous diagnosis of active infection. This is what happened to our patients with consequent administration of unnecessary antiviral therapies. The reactivation of HHV-6 in ci-HHV6+ individuals can occur with different molecular mechanisms and potential clinical manifestations are not fully understood. In conclusion, we presented a case of cutaneous manifestations of ci-HHV6 in an immunocompetent patient. There is one previous description of cutaneous lesions which appeared in an immunocompetent ci-HHV6 individual and resolved without therapy in 4 weeks.


The manganese ferrite spinel was synthesized by co-precipitation. The nano sized manganese ferrite characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron micrograph (SEM), tunneling electron micrograph (TEM) and Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) techniques. The adsorption ability of malachite green (MG) from the aqueous solution by manganese ferrite was investigated. It was found that pH value of 2 and contact time 30 min is favorable for adsorption of malachite green by manganese ferrite. The adsorption process follows second-order kinetics and Arrhenius behavior.


Summary form only given. We have used the LANL PEGASUS Z-pinch facility to drive a thin cylindrically-convergent Al liner to /spl sim/3 km/s to launch /spl sim/30 GPa shocks in a 3-mm thick 10-mm-i.d. aluminum cylinder whose interior is filled with 1 atm Xe gas. The subsequent material motion of the metal and gas is diagnosed with both radial and axial flash X-rays and with optical framing cameras Instabilities are seeded by implanting wires of assorted higher density metal parallel to the cylinder axis. We have done two shots, varying the target from Al 1100-O to Al 6061-T6 to explore the effect of changing material strength. The images show the spallation failure of the metal-gas interface on shock release and the effect of the seeded instabilities.


In this paper,the authors utilized the interpolation at irregular sampling sequence of multivariate bandlimited functions to discuss the aliasing error of functions on classical multivariate Sobolev space,and obtained the exact upper bound in the sense of order.


As ED students learning to teach English, they need a real life situation experience about teaching called teaching practicum. The teaching practicum gives students images and motivation before they work as teachers. In regards to that, it is necessary to find more studies about pre-service teachers. This study aims to find and describe pre-service teachers' attitudes toward teaching grammar during their teaching practicum which makes this study descriptive. The subjects of this study were ten ED students who were taking the teaching practicum in SMP N 1 Banyubiru and SMP N 2 Tuntang. In this study, standardized open-ended interview used to obtain the data which were gathered on 10th – 31th December, 2014. The questions were adapted from Nguyen and Hudson (2010) and Jolanta (2007) who also conducted a research on pre-service teachers. The results of the interview were analyzed using a content analysis technique. Most of the participants had positive attitudes toward teaching grammar. Participants' opinions and feeling are described in this study. From the finding of this study, some suggestions were also proposed to increase the pre-service teachers' quality.


Residents from city and countryside are conferred different suffrage for the historical reason in China.Pitfalls of the system are more obvious in the development of society.It was first put forward in the 17th NCCPC that residents in city and countryside should conferred equal suffrage.It has great influence for the social development.


A method for a nano calcium carbonate quantum dot through a microemulsion system belongs to the technical field of nanometer materials. According to the method, a non-aqueous toluene/emulsifier/co-emulsifier microemulsion system is firstly prepared, then a calcium chloride microemulsion and a sodium carbonate microemulsion are respectively prepared in a microemulsion area, then the sodium carbonate microemulsion is slowly added into the calcium chloride microemulsion and reacts to finally obtain a nano calcium carbonate quantum dot microemulsion. The nano calcium carbonate prepared through the method provided by the invention has the characteristics such as small grain size and uniformity. The nano calcium carbonate quantum dot, as a modified intermediate, can be directly used in a special occasion with methylbenzene as a solvent, so as to reduce the dust pollution of the environment. According to the method, the reaction condition is mild, the equipment is simple and easy to operate, and meanwhile, the chosen main materials are rich in source and low in cost, so that the method is easy in promotion and application.


The antibodies against avian flu were detected respectively with the erythrocytes from the same kinds of waterfowl and the chicken erythrocytes treated with waterfowl serum.The results showed that the level of antibodies against avian flu in geese and ducks detected with chicken erythrocytes were(2~4)Log2 lower than that detected with goose erythrocytes or duck erythrocytes.When the avian flu antibodies were lower than 4 Log2,the antibodies were not detected with chicken erythrocytes by HI test.To detect the avian flu antibodies with waterfowl erythrocytes in the same kind of waterfowl may completely eliminate the impact of non-specific agglutination factor on detection.


This experiment studied the effects of early size grading on growth and water quality of Micropterus salmoides and the hybrid of Channa orgus♀×C. maculata♂. Juvenile M. salmoides(3.15 ± 0.12 cm) and the hybrid of C. orgus♀× C.maculata♂(1.59 ± 0.08 cm) were size graded by net cage three times in the same pond. Moreover, the experiment fishes should be divided into three densities breeding for 7 d according to the size in each grading. After 21 d of classification, body weight and length of M. salmoides and the hybrid of C. orgus♀ × C. maculata♂ reduced with density increasing, but the difference was not significant. The survival rate of M. salmoides significant increased with hierarchical breeding. Uniformity of two experiment fishes significant increased with hierarchical breeding, while the average body length variation coefficient significant declined. The content of NH4+-N, TN, NO2-N and TP in breeding water significantly elevated with hierarchical breeding. Test results showed that the early classification could improve the uniformity of M. salmoides and the hybrid of C.orgus♀×C. maculata ♂, also could effectively improve the survival rate of the hybrid of C. orgus ♀ ×C. maculata ♂ by21.92%, but had no significant impact on the survival rate of M. salmoides.


We present and compare two continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators based on the nonlinear crystals periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN) and periodically poled RbTiOAsO4 (PPRTA) pumped internal to a high-power, all-solid-state Nd:YVO4 laser. At a diode pump power of 12 W, similar total extracted idler powers of over 440 mW were obtained from each system even though the nonlinearity of PPRTA is significantly less than that of PPLN. The spatial, power, and frequency stability of the PPRTA-based system outperformed those of the PPLN system. We attribute the poor performance of PPLN in these parameters to its susceptibility to thermal lensing.


The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treatment of chronic renal diseases and its preparation method and use. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from the raw material medicines of rheum officinale, astragalus and safflower with a weight ratio of 3-45:9-85:3-65 by a certain extraction and purification process into an injection, a freeze-dried powder injection or other oral preparations. Animal experiments confirm that, the traditional Chinese medicine composition can obviously improve the hemodynamic indexes of rats subjected to chronic glomerulonephritis, reduces serum IL-6, IL-8, and TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-alpha levels, significantly reduces serum creatinine and urea nitrogen and other indexes of rats subjected to hypertensive nephropathy, significantly reduces serum urea nitrogen and serum creatinine contents of rats subjected to chronic renal failure, increases serum albumin content, and also can improve each hemodynamic index of rats subjected to the chronic renal failure; and pathological results show that the traditional Chinese medicine composition can improve and inhibit injures on kidney caused by the chronic renal diseases and chronic renal failure.


The wolf spider,Pardosa pseudoannulata(Boesenberg et Strand),is a dominant natural enemy in sweet corn field.In this paper,the predatory efficiencies of P.pseudoannulata on eggs and first to third instar larvae of the Asian corn borer(ACB),Ostrinia furnacalis,were tested in laboratory condition.Results showed that P. pseudoannulata preyed on larvae of ACB effectively,but not on eggs.The predatory functional responses of P. pseudoannulata on 2nd or 3rd instar larvae of ACB fitted to HollingⅡ,with the maximal preying quantity(1/Th) on 2nd and 3rd larvae being 116 and 85,respectively,for female spider,and 69 and 26,respectively,for male spider.The best searching density was 15 and 9,respectively,for P.pseudoannulata preying on 2nd and 3rd instar borer when fitting to the new model of Holling Ⅲ.At the same prey density,predation ratio(E) decreased with increase in density of the predator,following the equation E=0.5965 PP-0.65.These results indicate that P.pseudoannulata could prey first to third instar larvae of ACB effectively.


The role of network structure has grown in significance over the past ten years in the field of information retrieval, stimulated to a great extent by the importance of link analysis in the development of Web search techniques [4]. This body of work has focused primarily on the network that is most clearly visible on the Web: the network of hyperlinks connecting documents to documents. But the Web has always contained a second network, less explicit but equally important, and this is the social network on its users, with latent person-to-person links encoding a variety of relationships including friendship, information exchange, and influence. Developments over the past few years --- including the emergence of social networking systems and rich social media, as well as the availability of large-scale e-mail and instant messenging datasets --- have highlighted the crucial role played by on-line social networks, and at the same time have made them much easier to uncover and analyze. There is now a considerable opportunity to exploit the information content inherent in these networks, and this prospect raises a number of interesting research challenge.Within this context, we focus on some recent efforts to formalize the problem of searching a social network. The goal is to capture the issues underlying a variety of related scenarios: a member of a social networking system such as MySpace seeks a piece of information that may be held by a friend of a friend [27, 28]; an employee in a large company searches his or her network of colleagues for expertise in a particular subject [9]; a node in a decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing system queries for a file that is likely to be a small number of hops away [2, 6, 16, 17]; or a user in a distributed IR or federated search setting traverses a network of distributed resources connected by links that may not just be informational but also economic or contractual [3, 5, 7, 8, 13, 18, 21]. In their most basic forms, these scenarios have some essential features in common: a node in a network, without global knowledge, must find a short path to a desired "target" node (or to one of several possible target nodes).To frame the underlying problem, we go back to one of the most well-known pieces of empirical social network analysis --- Stanley Milgram's research into the small-world phenomenon, also known as the "six degrees of separation" [19, 24, 25]. The form of Milgram's experiments, in which randomly chosen starters had to forward a letter to a designated target individual, established not just that short chains connecting far-flung pairs of people are abundant in large social networks, but also that the individuals in these networks, operating with purely local information about their own friends and acquaintances, are able to actually find these chains [10]. The Milgram experiments thus constituted perhaps the earliest indication that large-scale social networks are structured to support this type of decentralized search. Within a family of random-graph models proposed by Watts and Strogatz [26], we have shown that the ability of a network to support this type of decentralized search depends in subtle ways on how its "long-range" connections are correlated with the underlying spatial or organizational structure in which it is embedded [10, 11]. Recent studies using data on communication within organizations [1] and the friendships within large on-line communities [15] have established the striking fact that real social networks closely match some of the structural features predicted by these mathematical models.If one looks further at the on-line settings that provide the initial motivation for these issues, there is clearly interest from many directions in their long-term economic implications --- essentially, the consequences that follow from viewing distributed information retrieval applications, peer-to-peer systems, or social-networking sites as providing marketplaces for information and services. How does the problem of decentralized search in a network change when the participants are not simply agents following a fixed algorithm, but strategic actors who make decisions in their own self-interest, and may demand compensation for taking part in a protocol? Such considerations bring us into the realm of algorithmic game theory, an active area of current research that uses game-theoretic notions to quantify the performance of systems in which the participants follow their own self-interest [20, 23] In a simple model for decentralized search in the presence of incentives, we find that performance depends crucially on both the rarity of the information and the richness of the network topology [12] --- if the network is too structurally impoverished, an enormous investment may be required to produce a path from a query to an answer.


Choked flow rate and pressure profile data were taken on sequential, axially alined inlets of the Borda type. The configurations consisted of two to four inlets spaced 0.8 and 30 diameters apart. At a spacing of 30 diameters the reduced flow rate appeared to follow the simple empirical relation G sub r/G sub r,1=N(-b), where G sub r,1 is the reduced flow rate for a single inlet; N is the number of inlets; and b, which is weakly temperature dependent, is approximately 0.4. The relation is in reasonable agreement with an analysis of the N-inlet configuration. At a spacing of 30 diameters the pressure profiles dropped sharply at the entrance and partially recovered within each inlet somewhat independently of N. Jetting through the last Borda was common at low temperatures. At a spacing of 0.8 diameter fluid jetting was prevalent at low temperatures for each configuration studied and flow rates were the same as that for a single inlet.


Over-expression of human carboxylesterase 1 (CES1) in macrophages has been shown to increase hydrolysis of cholesterol esters and protect against atherosclerosis. However, the role of CES1 in other tissues and the physiological functions of CES1 are largely unknown. In this report, we investigated the role of CES1 in the liver. Over-expression of hepatic CES1 decreased hepatic triglyceride and plasma cholesterol levels. In contrast, knock down of hepatic CES1 by shRNA led to increased hepatic triglyceride levels and plasma LDL-C levels. To understand the physiological functions of CES1, we generated Ces1
 -/-
 mice. Ces1
 -/-
 mice are resistant to diet-induced obesity and showed changes in hepatic and plasma lipid levels. We also investigated the mechanisms underlying these changes. Our data indicate that CES1 plays a critical role in regulating lipid and energy homeostasis.


Objective: Afferent renal nerve pathways likely play a role in salt sensitive hypertension. We recently reported that high salt diet (HS) impairs these afferent renal pathways in rats. Now we tested the hypothesis that during HS a decrease in sensitivity of renal afferent neurons is prevented by the SGLT2 inhibitor empagiflozin. Design and method: Respective groups of rats were put on HS containing 8% NaCl or a normal diet. Two groups (HS, controls) received empagiflozin 20 mg/kg BW/day orally. Renal neurons were retrogradely labeled with DiI. In culture, labeled dorsal root ganglion neurons (DRG Th11-L2) with renal afferents were investigated electrophysiologically using current clamp mode to assess action potential generation during current injection. Neurons were characterized as tonic highly active ( less than 5 action potentials, AP) and phasic less active neurons (more than 5 AP upon stimulation). Results: In neurons from rats on HS, the relation of tonic highly active neurons to less active phasic neurons shifted consistently towards phasic units (63,8% tonic neurons in controls vs. 42%* on HS, *p < 0.05, z-test). However, continuous treatment with empagiflozin preserved the proportion of tonic neurons as in controls (67,9% on HS with concomitant administration of empagiflozin). In controls, empagiflozin did not affect the proportion of tonic to phasic neurons (63,8% tonic neurons in controls vs. 67,9% on HS & empagliflozin, p = 0.7, z-test). Blood pressure and heart rate were not altered by HS and/or treatment with any chosen dose of empagiflozin. Conclusions: In rats, chronically elevated sodium intake (8% NaCl) reduced the sensitivity and stimulability of renal afferent DRG neurons. Under these circumstances, concomitant treatment with the SGLT2 inhibitor empagiflozin preserved the function of renal afferent DRG neurons. SGLT 2 inhibitors may help to treat dysfunction of renal innervation in cardiovascular disease.


Beginning with analyzing the social background under which ZhangJian's "local autonomy" idea was developed.The article focuses on the contents of ZhangJian's "local autonomy" system,the interrelationship between industry,education and charity,and the characteristics and limits.


Since liberation of fifty years and more, the three generation leaders Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin as a core pays close attention to development of the west area. In order to give impetus to economy forward and the construction of modernization in the west, they makes a hardship s exploration and great practice. In the different historical period, taking a series of measures and advancing different developmental strategy exerts a deep influence on economic development of the west.


PURPOSE: A 3D image display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided to display an optimal 3D image signal while minimizing power consumption. CONSTITUTION: An image signal receiving unit(11) receives an image signal, including planar image data or 3D image data. An LCD panel(12-1) selectively displays the planar image data and the 3D image data. A backlight unit(12-2) is prepared in the rear of the LCD panel. A power supply unit(13) supplies power to a liquid crystal module(12). A controller(14) controls the power supply unit to operate the backlight unit in a power saving mode.


Certain cationic square-planar IrI and RhI complexes with chelating tertiary diphosphine ligands, [M(L–L)2]+, exhibit photoluminescence in the solid state at 25°, while their adducts with O2, CO, and H2 do not; emission and absorption spectra for a number of emitting compounds are compared, and some practical uses of the phenomena are suggested.


Deep-learning methods are gaining popularity because of their state-of-the-art performance in image classification tasks. In this paper, we explore classification of laser-beam images from the National Ignition Facility (NIF) using a novel deeplearning approach. NIF is the world's largest, most energetic laser. It has nearly 40,000 optics that precisely guide, reflect, amplify, and focus 192 laser beams onto a fusion target. NIF utilizes four petawatt lasers called the Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC) to produce backlighting X-ray illumination to capture implosion dynamics of NIF experiments with picosecond temporal resolution. In the current operational configuration, four independent short-pulse ARC beams are created and combined in a split-beam configuration in each of two NIF apertures at the entry of the pre-amplifier. The subaperture beams then propagate through the NIF beampath up to the ARC compressor. Each ARC beamlet is separately compressed with a dedicated set of four gratings and recombined as sub-apertures for transport to the parabola vessel, where the beams are focused using parabolic mirrors and pointed to the target. Small angular errors in the compressor gratings can cause the sub-aperture beams to diverge from one another and prevent accurate alignment through the transport section between the compressor and parabolic mirrors. This is an off-normal condition that must be detected and corrected. The goal of the off-normal check is to determine whether the ARC beamlets are sufficiently overlapped into a merged single spot or diverged into two distinct spots. Thus, the objective of the current work is three-fold: developing a simple algorithm to perform off-normal classification, exploring the use of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the same task, and understanding the inter-relationship of the two approaches. The CNN recognition results are compared with other machine-learning approaches, such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The experimental results show around 96% classification accuracy using CNN; the CNN approach also provides comparable recognition results compared to the present feature-based off-normal detection. The feature-based solution was developed to capture the expertise of a human expert in classifying the images. The misclassified results are further studied to explain the differences and discover any discrepancies or inconsistencies in current classification.


Information users are not attuned to pay for the information which they needs. The libraries and information centres are not in position to generate their funds for maintaining the collection. They are solely dependent on the funding agencies. In recent times, we notice the recession in all spheres of economic activity an imposition of drastic cuts on funds. In this process, the libraries and information centres stand to suffer most, and can not maintain the level of information storage and supply as the flow of documents are restricted. In order to complement and supplement the collection, the librarians attempt to explore the unpublished literature in their respective subjects. In this paper, the authors attempt to deseribe various avenues, to mobilize the unpublished literature to meet the information requirement of users.


This study was carried out as part of an investigation of the mechanical behaviour of expansion joints in bridge decks. These joints have recently been a major item in bridge maintenance, usually requiring repair or complete replacement of the joint and often of the surrounding areas as well. The rapid deterioration of this part of the road is ascribed mainly to the dynamic loads imposed by commercial traffic. Two algorithms are developed to evaluate the magnitude of these loads and the interaction between the road profile and the vehicle. The first is a numerical model for calculating the response of the system for any given dynamic configuration arising from an artificial obstacle, or from a real road profile. The second algorithm uses the Fourier spectrum of the road profile for calculating the response of the dynamic system. This paper was originally published in French by the Centre de Recherche Routieres, Bruxelles, Belgium. (TRRL)


Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of in-vivo 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) for differentiation between hepatic and renal cysts, with emphasis on the analysis of cystic content. Materials and Methods: The 1H-MR spectra of 43 cystic lesions (15 hepatic and 28 renal) obtained using in -vivo 1H-MRS at 1.5 T and with a localized proton STEAM sequence were evaluated. We calculated the ratio of the peak area of lipid/water (), protein/water () and lipid/protein (), paying particular attention to identifying differences in peak area ratios between the two types of cyst. Results: The 1H-MR spectra from 26.7% (4/15) of hepatic and 67.9% (19/28) of renal cysts showed the lipid peak as most prominent. Meanstandard deviations of the of hepatic and renal cysts were 0.380.30x10-6 and 8.4223.24x10-6, respectively; for the corresponding figures were 0.830.74x10-6 and 1.502.94x10-6, and for , 0.570.64 and 2.443.26. All differences were statistically significant (p


Excerpt The liver may be a major site of extrathyroidal conversion of thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3). Patients with alcoholic liver disease of several types have been observed to have mild...


Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) technique was used to analyze toxic metals in the leaves (aerial part) and roots (underground part) of four common tubers namely Colocosia and Xanthosama (Cocoa yam), Manihol eaculenhis (Cassava), Dioscoreu rolundata (White Yam) and Ipomoea batatas (Sweet potato) grown around Enyigba lead-zinc derelict. The results revealed that heavy metals in soil (mean pH = 6.5 + 0.29) decreased in the order Pb > Cd > Ni > As . The mean concentration (mg kg -1 ) of heavy metals in soil was found in the range of Pb (0.01-0.41); As (0.02-0.54): Cd (0.02-0.12); and Ni (8.24-34.66). The results revealed that levels of Pb in white yam (0.41 mg/kg) and cassava (0.32 mg/kg); As in cassava (0.54 mg/kg), white yam (0.12 mg/kg) and sweet potato (0.14 mg/kg) and Cd in cocoyam (0.12 mg/kg) all exceeded the World health Organisation Maximum Limit (WHO ML) and thus they are unfit for human consumption. High values of Translocation Factor (TF) observed in sweet potatoes for cadmium (2.0) and in cocoyam for cadmium (1.2) suggest that the affected tubers were potential hyperaccumulators. The variation in the parameters determined were found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05) as determined by one way analysis of variance.


Thermal control surfaces returned from space exhibited synergistic effects of simultaneous exposure to various natural environments. The thermal control surfaces of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) were exposed to 5.75 years of low Earth orbit environments. Since LDEF was gravity-gradient stabilized and directionally stable (i.e., no rotation), the effects of each of the environments (meteoroid and space debris impacts, thermal cycling, atomic oxygen, and ultraviolet light exposure) can be distinguished via changes in material responses to hypervelocity impacts. The extent of these impacts are being visually and microscopically characterized using thermal control surfaces archived at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in order to determine the relationship between environment exposure and resulting ring sizes, delamination areas, and penetration diameters. The characterization of these affected areas will provide spacecraft system designers with the information they require to determine degradation of thermal control systems during satellite lifetimes.


Consumers pursue hedonism and beauty throughout the decision-making processes regarding purchases and consumption. The five senses (sensory marketing) will be essential in the aesthetic perception that consumers have in these processes. Therefore, consumers will go to points of purchase that they consider attractive. Consumers want the packaging of the products to satisfy their needs of making a gift to other people or to themselves. The product needs to be visually appealing – we can even think of something as simple as a piece of fruit, or something much more sophisticated, such as a cellular phone. Advertising strategies (billboards, commercials) need to stimulate this quest for beauty. Marketing strategists have been aware of this reality for a long time. However, the new neuromarketing and neuroaesthetic techniques can be useful complements to understand the consumers quest for beauty.


The World Bank estimates that over two billion people on the planet live their daily lives without access to basic, reliable electric services. Rural populations in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and island nations need clean water, health services, communications, and light at night. Small, simple, solar electric systems are part of the solution—increasing the quality of life, often at a cost that is less than what is presently being spent for kerosene, dry-cell batteries, and the recharging of automotive batteries that must be lugged to the nearest town on a weekly basis (see Figure 1).


Abstract— In "Independence and Interdependence in Children's Developmental Experiences,"C. Raeff (2010) sensitively depicts the interrelations of varying sorts of independence and interdependence within a given culture while showing the distinct ways in which these 2 overarching variables are structured across different cultures. Based on a new theory of social change and human development (P. M. Greenfield, 2009), the claim is that certain forms of interdependence and independence are well adapted to simple, small-scale, relatively poor, subsistence-based, isolated rural community settings in which lifelong extended family relations are central, large numbers of siblings are the norm, and education takes place informally at home, whereas other forms of interdependence and independence are well adapted to complex, large-scale, relatively rich, commerce-based, urbanized societies with multiple ties to the outside world, many opportunities for transitory relations with strangers, small families, and a highly developed system of formal education.


Various kinds of quasi-two-dimensional order-disorder phase transitions on binary alloy surfaces are discussed on the basis of the lattice gas model with appropriate approximations. The importance of surface segregation is pointed out in understanding phase transitions on alloy surfaces. Ordered structures localized on the surfaces are found above the bulk transition temperature, and a possibility of finding surface ordered structures with a different symmetry from the bulk ordered one is discussed, too. As for both ordering and segregating alloys, semi-infinite systems with surfaces are discussed above and below the bulk transition temperatures; in particular, the relation of the surface phase transitions to the bulk ones is focused on.


Variant strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, lacking one or both flagellar phases have been widely reported. The monophasic S.1,4,[5],12:i:‐ variant has emerged worldwide in the past few years and has become one of the most frequently encountered in many countries. In contrast, monophasic S.1,4,[5],12:‐:1,2 and nonmotile S.1,4,[5],12:‐:‐ strains are rarely described. This study investigated seven molecular markers to identify and delineate monophasic S.1,4,[5],12:i:‐ (n = 90), S.1,4,[5],12:‐:1,2 (n = 25), nonmotile S.1,4,[5],12:‐:‐ (n = 17) strains, and some serovar Typhimurium strains (n = 124) collected through the French Salmonella network between 2001 and 2010. Three markers were commonly detected in serovar Typhimurium and in all variant strains: STM2757, mdh and fliA‐B. Monophasic S.1,4,[5],12:i:‐ were genotypically confirmed by the absence of the fljB, fljA, and hin genes. Nevertheless, 13 (14.5%) of them were positive for these last three genes, revealing monophasic strains named "inconsistent" as previously described. All nonmotile 1,4,[5],12:‐:‐ strains had the fliC, fljA, fljB, and hin genes and the fliC gene was detected in 88% of monophasic S.1,4,[5],12:‐:1,2 strains. The combination of the seven markers detection enables to recognize eight different genotypes within the S.1,4,[5],12:i:‐ collection, among which the Spanish and the U.S. clones previously described could be distinguished and assigned to a genotype. Based on this molecular approach, 71% of the French S.1,4,[5],12:i:‐ collection belonged to the Spanish clone, whereas only 2% were assigned to the U.S. clone. This study highlights the usefulness of these molecular markers and genotypes for identifying lineages, especially among the epidemiologically important monophasic S.1,4,[5],12:i:‐ variant.


Exclusive nonleptonic decays of bottom baryons to charm baryons and pseudoscalar light mesons are analyzed within a relativistic three-quark model. We include factorizing as well as nonfactorizing contributions to the decay amplitudes. The total contribution of the nonfactorizing diagrams amount to 30% of the factorizing contributions in amplitude. We present detailed predictions for rates and asymmetry parameters.


Report that investigates the concept of using ammonium fluoride-oxidant systems to dissolve spent U-Zr-Sn reactor fuels in both batch and continuous operation.


t-Butyl 4-alkyl-1H-pyrrole-2-carboxylates were oxidized with DDQ in the presence of MeOH at the α-position of the alkyl substituent at the C-4 position regioselectively to afford 4-acylpyrrole deri...


Radiative double electron capture (RDEC) observed in collisions of bare ions with atoms is a charge exchange process during which two target electrons are captured into a bound state of the projectile and a single photon is emitted. This process can be described as a time-reversed double photoionization. In bare ions, due to the lack of spectator electrons, it is the most reliable tool for observation of electron–electron correlation in electromagnetic fields produced in ion–atom collisions. An experiment conducted at Western Michigan University, using the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, aiming at observation of the RDEC process during O8+ + C collisions at 38 MeV, provided the first experimental evidence of this process. In this paper, an extension of the data analysis of this experiment is presented, based on Monte Carlo simulation of the generated x-ray spectra. It is shown that the total measured RDEC cross-section value exceeds the theoretical predictions by a factor of more than 20.


This note describes two pairing-friendly curves that embed ed25519, of different bit security levels. Our search is not novel; it follows the standard recipe of the Cocks-Pinch method. We implemented these two curves on arkworks - rs . This note is intended to document how the parameters are being generated and how to implement these curves in arkworks - rs 0.4.0, for further reference. We name the


The results of the sensitivity studies with the photochemical box-model show that for VOC/NOx ratios typical for urban areas, the maximum O% production is very sensitive to the VOC mixture. This indicates the importance of the individual hydrocarbon mixture for the ozone production close to the sources and the need for a better characterisation of the VOC emissions to develop successful reduction strategies.


A 2.4 GHz low-power wireless platform based on the Texas Instrumentstrade CC2431 System-On-Chip (SOC) transceiver is used to conduct a preliminary investigation of the accuracy of a 3-axis accelerometer fused with a linear encoder for capturing high-speed motion. Calibration of the fused sensors is accomplished by extracting the gravity related term from the accelerometer when it is under static conditions. When moving at acceleration greater than 1.1 g, the wireless platform switches to the linear encoder for local joint angle data. To ascertain the concept of sensor calibration when the sensor is under static conditions, experiments that compare results from a high-speed motion analysis system (Silicon Coachtrade) and the combination of the accelerometer and linear encoder is carried out. Experimental results for pronation and supination of the forearm that has acceleration less than 1.1 g show that the accelerometer and linear encoder produces a low root mean square (RMS) error of 5.3deg and 6.6deg respectively. Correlation coefficient for the accelerometer and linear encoder for the above experiment are 98.7% and 98.9% respectively. A similar experiment where the maximum acceleration exceeds 1.1g produces a RMS error of 10.5deg and 6.9deg for the accelerometer and linear encoder respectively. Correlation coefficients for both sensors are approximately 98.2%. This study shows that linear encoder as a joint angle measurement device is preferred for both high and low acceleration motion while the errors associated with extracting gravity related tilt from the accelerometer increases with increasing acceleration.


1 Torsades de pointes (TDP) is a severe adverse effect during the clinical use of dofetilide, a selective blocker of the rapid component of the delayed rectifier potassium channel (IKr). The present study was designed to test whether CPU228, a derivative of dofetilide with calcium (Ca2+) antagonist properties, could reduce TDP without reducing the blockade of IKr. 2 The incidence of TDP in a rabbit model and the effective refractory period (ERP) were measured and compared for dofetilide and CPU228. Suppression of IKr and the L‐type Ca2+ current (ICa,L) and the Ca2+ transients of isolated cardiomyocytes were investigated by whole‐cell patch‐clamp and Fluo‐3 dye spectrophotometry. 3 The incidence of TDP was greatly reduced by CPU228 relative to dofetilide, occurring in only one of six rabbits compared with five of six rabbits following dofetilide (P < 0.05). In isolated atria, prolongation of ERP by CPU228 was less than that of dofetilide and no reverse frequency dependence was observed. Negative inotropism by CPU228 was significant against positive inotropism by dofetilide. CPU228 inhibited both IKr and ICa,L currents and the IC50 for ICa,L inhibition was 0.909 µmol/L. At 3 µmol/L, CPU228 significantly suppressed the Ca2+ transients. 4 CPU228 is able to block ICa,L, contributing to decreased TDP, while also blocking IKr activity. By combined blockade of IKr and ICa,L, CPU228 shares the property of complex Class III anti‐arrhythmic agents.


Current interest in the role of kingship during the 1650s is confined largely to concerns about the origins and consequences of the Humble Petition and Advice presented to Oliver Cromwell on 31 March 1657 by the Second Protectorate Parliament.1 That episode highlighted an unresolved tension at the heart of Protectoral authority: though Cromwell regularly utilised the trappings of kingship and already, in effect, exercised a de facto prerogative, he rejected the actual kingly title itself. This is undoubtedly a crucial issue but focusing narrowly on that one event has tended to obscure rather than clarify these issues under the Protectorate, reducing episodes where these matters were raised earlier in the Interregnum simply to staging posts on the road to the Petition and Advice.2C. H. Firth's main conclusions on that event made at the beginning of the twentieth century remain essentially unchallenged, although evidence for a revision of some sort has slowly accumulated over the years.3 The Petition and Advice, of course, deserves close attention but we need also to recognise that the issue of kingship did not just 'happen' in 1657 or even 1656: it was a serious concern among the elite, both military and civilian, throughout the Interregnum. As J. M. Wallace noted in 1968, 'A good deal of evidence concerning the vitality of the kingship issue as early as 1654 can be found in the histories of the period, though never widely aired by historians, and more is available in the pamphlet literature'.4My aim is to examine one episode in the mid-1650s - the first Protectorate Parliament, 3 September 1654 to 22 January 1655 - where concerns about monarchy and the succession did play a prominent role. Most familiar with the period will recall Augustine Garland's attempt to have the Parliament petition Cromwell to take the crown.5 This is generally regarded as an isolated incident with little support among the members. While it certainly lacked support in the House, this should not be taken as evidence it lacked support more generally. At that very moment, a lively debate on monarchy was in fact in progress in the pamphlet literature and, to a lesser extent, the news-books.Moreover, the apparent lack of support in the House itself requires closer examination. Historians have taken the absence of kingship from the Parliamentary records to mean it lacked importance during 1654. The contrast between the lively debate in the pamphlet literatures and the silence of Parliamentary sources is too systematic simply to be dismissed as a difference between reliable and unreliable sources. It is as if kingship had been cut deliberately from the picture leaving only a suspicious silhouette.Such silences are notoriously difficult to deal with. An argument from silence seems to break the golden rule of evidence: silence, at best, supports scepticism. If there was only silence then nothing more could be said but there is also the contrasting debate in the pamphlet literature, indications of censorship or at least 'interference' in the press, and considerable evidence - albeit circumstantial - that powerful interests in the Army, the Government and the Parliament, were desperate to keep a lid on any such debate with the House itself. From this perspective, the critical silence of the 'eyewitnesses' did not simply mark an absence; it also marked the invisible hub of Parliament's anxiety: kingship and the succession. The aim of this article is to situate that silence and the anxiety it concealed within the debate on legitimate authority which dominated early Protectoral politics.The Silence of ParliamentOn 22 January 1655, at the dissolution of Parliament, Cromwell praised the Instrument of Government because it 'put us off the hereditary way' and achieved a balanced, equitable form of government by avoiding 'the extremes of monarchy on the one hand, and democracy on the other'.6 He told Parliament that,if you had upon the old government offered me this one . …


Many measuring points on airborne are important reasons for the redundancy of aircraft electromechanical data, which leads to the low quality of airborne data. This paper presents a kind of aircraft electromechanical fault measuring points correlation prediction analysis based on the new link prediction. This method combines higher-order network representation learning algorithm with link prediction to consider higher-order similarity relationships between nodes. Then, through the analysis of the observation points, the link prediction algorithm is used to obtain the relationship between the observation points. Finally, the optimization improves the quality of the airborne data. After simultaneous experimental simulations on four real datasets, the results show good link prediction performance based on high-order approximation.


The invention belongs to the technical field of vibration reduction and noise reduction, and in particular, relates to a metamaterial vibration isolating technology. A ultralow-frequency and shock-resistance metamaterial vibration isolating device comprises a metamaterial vibration isolating part (1), a lower positioning cover (2), an upper positioning cover (3), an inner limiting shell (4), an outer limiting shell (5), a lower bolt set (6) and an upper bolt set (7). The ultralow-frequency and shock-resistance metamaterial vibration isolating device theoretically can realize any low frequency range, so that the metamaterial vibration isolating device can bear higher static load on an online elastic deformation section, and can realize ultralow-frequency vibration isolating effect of a vibration isolating system on a ultralow-frequency vibration isolating section; and the metamaterial vibration isolating device is high in shock resistance, and can improve the safety of the vibration isolating system. The metamaterial vibration isolating part is not limited by a base material, so that the adaptability is wide.


This paper expounds the feasibility and the out come precision near shaft network of west ventilation shaft in Xinji Coal Mine according to precision analysis and field observation.


Computing performance is predicted to increase a thousand-fold and interconnect performance is going to have to do the same. The article details the stepwise shift to optical interconnect necessary to keep supercomputer performance on track.


This article deals with segmented regression that is based on the so called cut-off polynomials of the first, or second, respectively third order. Most of the attention is given to the inference of the system of the normal equations gained by minimisation of the criterion of the least squares method. Certain attention is also given to the calculation of the unknowns of such a system with one of the Gauss methods. Parametric equations of the output regressive curve in the given model and the determination indexes of the observed variables are inferred. Those indexes also enable to assess the "quality" of each model. The author of this article also wrote a program for the three types of segmented regression. This program helps solve the aforementioned phases in much faster and simpler way.


"The water companies of England and Wales were privatised 28 years ago, with generous public subsidies. Since then the owners have invested no new shareholder equity, but extracted nearly all post-tax profit as dividends, and built up a growing pile of debt to finance investments. They have been allowed by the regulator, OFWAT, to increase prices by 40% above the general rate of inflation.

The paper estimates that public ownership would save at least £2.3bn per year from eliminating the payment of dividends (saving £1.8 billion per year) and reducing the cost of interest payments (a saving of at least £500 million.), representing a reduction of about £100 per year per household: a 25% cut in the average water bill. It also represents a clear return of over 10% even if compensation were as high as £20bn. - and UK law would allow a much lower figure to be determined by parliament."


In this paper I examine the phenomenon called Hedge Fund Activism and its effect on the governance of public corporations in the United States.The following subtopics are addressed:1. Definition of Hedge Fund Activism, its primary objective and typical targets;2. Review of the public policy implications of Hedge Fund Activism;3. Explanation of how Activists use the proxy system to implement their strategies;4. Summarization of two recent business law cases involving Hedge Fund Activism, which have established key legal precedents; and5. Suggested corporate and regulatory responses to be taken in response to Hedge Fund Activism.


This paper reviews the path of world oil demand over the past three decades, and the effects of both the oil price increases of the 1970s and the oil price decreases of the 1980s. Compared with demand in the industrialized countries, demand in the Less Developed Countries (LDC) has been more responsive to income growth, less responsive to price increases, and more responsive to price decreases. The


We study the Evolutionary p-Laplace Equation in the singular case 1<p<2. We prove that a weak solution has a time derivative in Sobolev's sense and that the time derivative is locally summable to some power>1.


The objectives of this study were to know drought susceptible and resistant varieties of soybean-based on the average value of drought susceptibility index and correlation of yield and yield components traits under drought stress condition. This study was conducted using an experimental method and was laid out using Factorial Completely Randomized Design (CRD), two factors with three replicates of each experimental unit. Factor 1 soybean variety consists of 7 genotypes: Lawit, Sibayak, Kaba, Pangrango, Seulawah, Nanti, and Burangrang, and factor 2 drought stress condition: no drought stress (reasonable condition), drought stress during the vegetative phase, drought stress during the generative phase, and drought stress during vegetative and generative phases. Yield component traits observed were the number of pod per plant, number of empty pod per plant, number of filled pod per plant, number of seeds per plant, the weight of 100 dry seeds, and seed weight per plant. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that: 1). Variety of Sibayak and Nanti, were classified as resistance to drought stress either during the vegetative phase, generative phase, or continuous drought. 2). The highly significant positive correlation of among yield and yield components of soybean under drought stress were: seed weight per plant - number of pods, seed weight per plant - number of filled pods, and seed weight per plant - number of seed per plant, while highly significant negative correlation occurred in the character of flowering date - 100 seed weight.


A Little Jazz Mass Bob Chilcott Sheet music July 16th, 2020 The Kyrie from the Little Jazz Mass and the Agnus Dei from the Nidaros Jazz Mass is where to start if you need to be convinced of this genre Armin Zanner Music Teacher May 2005 You can guess from the title whether or not this is suitable for your choir and you know it s meant to be fun when the Gloria is marked with a swing and the Agnus


The use of teaching materials in the learning process really helps the realization of an active, effective and efficient learning, as well as the discovery of concepts independently by students. One of the efforts to realize this as well as the aim of this research is to develop teaching materials in the form of physics learning worksheet oriented to the Student Facilitator and Explaining learning model which is valid for class XI students in the Science program at SMA Negeri 6 Padang. The type of research used is Research and Development (R&D). The research procedure was a 4-D model namely define, design, develop, and disseminate, but this stage was not carried out due to time constraints. The research instrument used was a validity questionnaire. Furthermore, the data obtained was analyzed to see the validity of the worksheet. The results showed that the Student Facilitator and Explaining oriented worksheet developed was categorized as valid with a percentage of 80.2%. The validity of the worksheet is illustrated by the results of validation by experts on the four aspects of the assessment, namely the appropriateness of the content, language and images, presentation, and graphics. Keyword : Worksheet, Student Facilitator and Explaining, Valid.


From the effectiveness of the Civil Procedure Code of 2015, a new instrument was created to disregard of corporate entity, the "Incident of Disregard of Corporate Entity", established between articles 133 to 137 of the referred Code. After the creation of this instrument, a new discussion raises at Tax Law: is it necessary to follow the "Incident of Disregard of Corporate Entity" to move a Tax Execution to the business partners? Because this is a recent issue, it does not yet have a firm position at the Courts, but there are already some decisions about this theme. The premises adopted at these decisions to resolve the cases will be analysed, and before that an analysis will be done of these premises together with the law that involves the theme (Federal Constitution, Civil Procedure Code and Tax Execution Code) to try to answer the question which is the object of this research under two aspects: i) move the Tax Execution when the partner is already at the Debt Certificate before the Tax Execution was filled; and ii) move the Tax Execution when the partner was not at the Debt Certificate before the Tax Execution was filled.


In this thesis we describe the current and shot noise properties of quantum dot systems. Their transport characteristics reveal information about interesting quantum mechanical effects such as the energy quantization and electronic correlations due to Coulomb interactions of electrons. Based on a diagrammatic real time approach we developed a numerical method to describe the current and shot noise. The method includes all relevant quantities such as the electron spin, the Coulomb interaction as well as the delocalized nature of the electronic wavefunctions in coupled quantum dots. Our approach is based on a perturbative expansion in terms of the coupling constant to the leads and thus allows to describe sequential tunneling as well as co-tunneling transport in local as well as non-local multilevel systems. For a system of a double quantum dot we analyzed in detail the influence of asymmetries on the electronic transport properties and found strong correlations. In contrast, larger systems such as three and more coupled quantum dots display a strong noise enhancement even in fully symmetric situations due to their complex delocalized wavefunctions. Within the Coulomb blockade transport is governed by co-tunneling processes. In particular we investigated the regime of co-tunneling assisted sequential tunneling and described characteristic features in the differential conductance as well as the noise properties.


This paper presents the development of gas chamber for testing and characterization of gases with different concentrations. By using glass as the chamber material, it able to provide strong and air-tight structure and prevent odor chemical gases from leaking which can effect the environment. The glass chamber also enables easy monitoring (from the external) of the hardware connections, to ensure that they are always intact and in good condition. The measurement plate in the chamber consists of a copper probe, sensor, heater and conductor. A temperature within the range of 200 °C to 300 °C is required to activate the sensing mechanism. Initial testing shows that the chamber provides well enclose environment for gases detection.


Identification of geographical origin of raw materials and animal-derived products to exclude a possibility of their falsification is quite a complex task, which requires searching for reliable criteria of identification that account for an effect of the geoclimatic and anthropogenic factors. One of the methods for revealing falsification of geographical origin of food including meat products is a method of analysis of stable isotopes (2H/1H, 18O/16O, 15N/14N, 13C/12C) and several other elements. The review describes the main theoretical provisions of stable isotope analysis and their fractionation, presents the results of the investigation of the isotopic composition of meat raw materials and products of animal origin for verification of their geographical origin and feeding systems that differ largely in the content of C3 and C4 plants in the animal diet. Analysis of the C, N and S stable isotope ratio has a significant potential for authentication of meat raw materials and verification of the origin. In addition, it can be used to detect differences between very similar agricultural production systems, even if the underlying mechanisms are not fully elucidated. УДК/UDC 637.5.06:54.027:581.9 DOI 10.21323/2414–438X-2018–3–1–46–58 Для цитирования: Горбунова н.а. возможности использования стабильных изотопов для идентификации географического происхождения мяса и мясных продуктов. обзор. Теория и практика переработки мяса. 2018;3(1):46–58. DOI:10.21323/2414–438X‐2018–3–1–46–58 FOr cItatIOn: Gorbunova n.a. Possibilities of using stable isotopes for identification of geographical origin of meat and meat products. a review. Theory and practice of meat processing. 2018;3(1):46–58. (In russ.) DOI:10.21323/2414–438X‐2018–3–1–46–58 Горбунова Н.А. Федеральный научный центр пищевых систем им. В.М. Горбатова РАН, Москва, Россия Обзор Nataliya A. Gorbunova V.M. Gorbatov Federal Research Center for Food Systems of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia


Due to the challenging channel conditions in WBANs, lengthier packets might be more problematic. By and large, coupled bundles can withstand the ingenious effects of cleverly visible above. As a result, the best packet size for various WBAN execution tests should be determined. According to the most recent survey, choosing a surprising packet size on WBANs required a few thinking techniques. This study is centered on the mobility of the blasting size in a certain application or streaming scenario. This paper presents proportional models and strategies for refreshing the packet size for nearby associations with bodies removed in order to attract specialists for further evaluation in that specific area.


The aim is to test the hypothesis whether the cholesterol loaded lysosomes are capable of mediating lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) during aging and to study the efficacy of epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate (EGCG) in preserving the lysosomal membrane stability. Aged rats were fed with high cholesterol diet (HCD) and treated with EGCG orally. Serum and tissue lipid status, cholesterol levels in lysosomal fraction, activities of lysosomal enzymes in lysosomal, and cytosolic fractions were measured. Transmission electron microscopic studies (TEM), oil red "O" (ORO) staining, and immunohistochemical analysis of oxidized low density lipoprotein (OxLDL) were carried out. Significant increase in serum, tissue lipid profile, and lysosomal cholesterol levels were observed in aged HCD‐fed rats with a concomitant decrease in high density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. We also observed a significant increase in lipid accumulation in hepatocytes of aged HCD‐fed rats by TEM, ORO, and immunohistochemical staining. Upon treatment with EGCG to aged HCD‐fed animals, we found augmented levels of HDL with a concomitant decrease in lysosomal cholesterol levels and other lipoproteins. TEM studies and immunohistochemistry of OxLDL also showed a marked reduction in lipid deposition of hepatocytes. Thus, EGCG has preserved the lysosomal membrane stability in HCD stressed aged rats.


To develop reliable control systems running on embedded devices, we advice to use domain specified languages. They abstract away the underlying hardware and provide the necessary syntactic sugar to conveniently describe the most useful control constructs. In addition, such languages can provide toolsets for proving the correctness of programs in them against given formal requirements. In this paper, we consider a partial solution of such a problem related to the formalization of the control code. In our case, syntactic sugar lies in extending the IEC 61131–3 standard for industrial automation languages with explicit statefulness and focusing on logical decomposition of code into processes. The aim of the present paper is to provide approaches and methods for transforming imperative programs in such a promising poST (process-oriented structured text) language into a functional representation for their further proofs using the Isabelle/HOL system. In our solution, we provide insight into three parts of the formalization: (1) the creation of basic data types constituting the original code model, (2) transformation of the poST code model into special representation for execution, and (3) a group of inductive definitions constructing the process of execution. The results represent a complete solution in the form of a formal functional model for the execution of poST programs and then can be used to form and prove theorems based on the model.


A sudden delay spike or reordering in the network can cause TCP to experience a loss event. Since loss is interpreted as a sign of congestion in TCP, this causes the protocol to reduce its sending rate. Several mechanisms for detecting and reacting to such spurious loss events have been proposed; each of them has some advantages and disadvantages. We extend this space with a new detection mechanism which complements the existing ones well. Furthermore, the mechanism is easy to implement because it only needs the sender to intelligently interpret feedback from ECN nonce.


Purpose
This paper aims to apply a mixed-methods approach to redefine essential work skill sets, propose components of these skill sets that are necessary for workers in the contexts of emerging market economies (EMEs), examine potential selection tools that should be applied across firms and explain implications for the labour process theory (LPT) of work.

Design/methodology/approach
During the first phase of this study, qualitative data was collected from methods, including semi-structured interviews with human resources (HR) experts from the Personnel Management Association of Thailand, top and HR executives and managers of firms across industries in Thailand. Non-participant observations were made during the pre-interview, interview and post-interview stages. Analysis of archival documents and Web-based resources was then conducted. The authors used the qualitative data obtained from the first phase to develop survey instruments for conducting quantitative research during the second phase of this study.

Findings
The empirical findings demonstrate that essential work skill sets are "soft skills" that help workers survive and thrive in the business arena in EMEs. These essential work skill sets have implications for the LPT of work in that they play an important role in transferring the power of negotiation from employers to workers in the labour market. Essential work skill sets here can be divided into eight skill domains: (1) ideation and system thinking, (2) information and digital literacy, (3) social skills with appreciation for diversity and inclusion, (4) communication and language, (5) creativity and innovation, (6) emotional quotient (EQ) for self-management and development, (7) growth/outward mindset and (8) cognitive skills for the job role. Within each essential work skill set, there are several skills that workers in the current world of work need to possess (42 skills in total). Additionally, potential selection tools include behavioural observation, behavioural-based interviews, STAR (Situation, Task, Action and Results) interviews, role plays, case studies and simulations, high-pressure interview questions, project assignments, assessment centres, in-depth interview questions and special methods, such as face reading and fingerprint reading. Top and HR managers across industries strongly agree that the eight essential work skill sets and 42 skills are necessary for workers to survive in the business arena in EMEs. They also strongly agree that talent selection tools, especially behavioural-based interviews, are used by their firms to select high-skilled job candidates in the labour market.

Research limitations/implications
Because the eight essential skill sets proposed in this paper are based primarily on the qualitative data obtained from top/HR managers in firms across some industries, generalization to respondents across other industries or across other EMEs may be limited. It is possible that the context of other EMEs may be different from that of Thailand. In this regard, some of the essential work skill sets that are suitable in the case of Thailand may not be suitable in the case of other EMEs. Future studies should thus explore how institutional contexts of other countries/economies shape the definition of essential skill sets and their components, as well as potential selection tools that shall be applied to select high-skilled labour in those contexts.

Practical implications
This paper provides practical implications for top managers and/or HR managers of firms across various industries in EMEs. In particular, managers should internally train and develop their employees/workers to possess the eight essential skill sets: (1) ideation and system thinking, (2) information and digital literacy, (3) social skills with appreciation for diversity and inclusion, (4) communication and language, (5) creativity and innovation, (6) EQ for self-management and development, (7) growth/outward mindset and (8) cognitive skills for the specific job role so that their employees/workers can survive and thrive in the era of the brittleness, anxiety, non-linearity and incomprehensibility of the business world under pandemic conditions. Additionally, top managers and/or HR managers of these firms should apply the potential selection tools proposed in this paper to probe into job candidates' past experience and behaviours to better predict such candidates' success at work. In this regard, job candidates/workers should prepare themselves to possess these essential work skill sets so that they can be successful in the business arena and should understand potential selection tools that firms may apply to recruit and select them.

Social implications
This paper provides social/policy implications for the government and/or relevant public agencies of Thailand and of other EMEs. These governments should encourage firms across industries to invest resources in training and developing their employees/workers to possess those essential work skill sets so that these employees/workers are industry-ready, leading to the alleviation of the problems of skill and mismatch in the labour market.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the prior literature on human resource management (HRM), the comparative institutional perspective on employment systems based on the varieties of capitalism (VoC) framework and the LPT of work in the following ways: first, this paper fills in the research gap in the field of HRM that calls for studies that explore how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes essential skill sets and skills development among workers within firms (Cooke et al., 2021). Second, this paper provides implications for the LPT of work regarding how essential work skill sets are likely to return the power of negotiation from employers to workers in EMEs during the current situation. Third, the VoC framework tends to focus on only two types of economies, liberal market economies and coordinated market economies. However, this paper examines essential work skill sets and potential screening tools in the context of the underresearched country of Thailand, an EME. In fact, the Thai labour market is quite different from that of other EMEs labour markets, as it is impacted by an aging workforce. This paper contributes to the literature on comparative institutional perspectives on employment systems as it redefines essential work skill sets, proposes various components of these skill sets among workers and examines potential selection tools that are applied across firms located in EMEs.


Vine tea is in the Vitaceae,Ampelopsis section.It is the spear leaves of Ampelopsis division,which is rich in a variety of bio-functional components.This wild resource has a great development potential.In this paper,the nutritional content and the main chemical composition of vine tea are introduced briefly.At the same time,according to the reports at home and abroad,the biological activity of vine tea plants and the extract methods about functional components are summarized systematically.This paper could provide relevant information for tea physiological and pharmacological research and product development.


The purpose of the article is to study the main stages of the theatrical directorial activity of Nicolai Merzlikin. The methodology is based on historical, systemic, and informational approaches, methods of analysis and synthesis. Scientific novelty. The material analyzed in the article gives a general idea of the main stages of theatrical directorial activity of an outstanding Ukrainian theater director Nicolai Merzlikin. The article also deals with the circumstances of the formation of Merzlikin as a theater director, shows the influence of the school of L.Kurbas, the school of M. Verhatsky, as well as the experience of staging other creative spectacular forms. Conclusions. The article provides a general systematic review of the main periods of theatrical directorial activity of the outstanding Ukrainian theater director, actor and educator Nicolai Merzlikin and highlights the following important stages.1958-1965 – studied at the Kyiv Institute of Theater Arts, gained experience of staging the first plays.1964-1967 – worked as the director of the Zhdanovsky (Mariupol) Russian Drama Theater and practiced in stanging non-theatrical art shows. 1967-1970 – worked as a director of the Kyiv Youth Theater.1970-1977 – worked in the cinema and in the Theater-Studio of a film actor.1977-1985 – worked as the main director of the Kyiv Theater of a young spectator and the main director of the Kyiv Youth Theater. 1985 – 2006 - worked as the main director of the State Musical Theater for Children and Youth in Kyiv. Each stage of N. Merzlikin's activity was accompanied by another search, a transition to a qualitatively new level of creative directorial work due to the accumulation of experience and the discovery of new faces of the directorial profession.


This document provides a high level introduction to the capabilities supported by the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). It is intended as a guide for potential users of SCTP as a general purpose transport protocol.


Intelligent interaction control is required in many fields of application, in which different operative situations have to be faced with different controllers. Being able to switch between optimized controllers is, indeed, of extreme importance to maximize the task performance in the different operative conditions (i.e., free-space motion and contact), especially when considering sensorless robots. To deal with the proposed context, a sensorless optimal switching impact/force (OSIF) controller is proposed. The low-level robot control is composed of an inner joint position controller, fed by an outer Cartesian impedance controller with a reference position. The estimation of the external wrench is implemented by means of an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). The high-level controller (feeding the Cartesian impedance controller with the setpoint) is composed of an optimized impact controller (LQR-based controller), an optimized force controller (SDRE-based controller), and a continuous switching mechanism (Fuzzy Logic-based). In addition, the output of the switching mechanism is used to adapt the Cartesian impedance control parameters (i.e., stiffness and damping parameters). Experimental tests have been performed on a Franka EMIKA panda robot to validate the proposed controller. Obtained results show the capabilities of the OSIF controller, being able to detect task phase transitions while satisfying the target performance.


This paper is about a new framework for high performance thread scheduling based on the work stealing principle when processors may run at different speed. We also take into account memory management problems. We hope that such framework could help multi-threaded or multi-core architects to rely on well founded mathematical results to build appropriate hardware/software schedulers that control the scheduling of threads.


The scanning electron microscope reveals that the egg of Pollenia rudis (Fabricius) is structurally suitable for a plastron method of respiration.


In this paper, a new control is utilized for the grid integrated-solar PV (Photovoltaic)-wind-battery energy storage system (GISWBS) with an automated transition capability between the grid tied mode (GTM) and standalone mode (SAM) of operation. The main aim behind the hybrid wind-solar PV and battery-based distributed generation (DG) system is the fact that both solar and wind power have exhibit complementary power profiles, which help in smoothing of intermittency in power and higher reliability. A single voltage source converter (VSC) is utilized for feeding AC local loads and interaction with the grid. This microgrid presents a focus on enhancing the power quality along with the generation of renewable energy sources (RESs). For the improvement in power quality, a generalized integrator (GI) type observer based current control scheme is used here, which controls VSC under GTM of operation. In SAM, the voltage control is implemented to regulate the frequency and voltage at desirable level according to the IEEE standard 1547–2018 standard. The battery is used to compensate for the intermittent nature of the power generated from RESs and connected varying loads. Moreover, during the unavailability of the grid, the loads have a continuous power supply due to the automated transition.


1. Carcasses of twenty-one fat cattle (from six cows, ten steers and five heifers, aged from 12 months to 12 years and representing seven breeds) have been dissected into nine joints, and the fatty and muscular tissue from each joint dissected and analysed for fat. The iodine number of each sample of fat has been determined. 2. The fat in fatty tissues ranged from 28·3 to 96·7%, and in muscular tissues from 1·3 to 14·2%. Iodine numbers of fat from fatty tissues ranged from 34·0 to 69·0 and those of fat from muscular tissues from 45·9 to 73·2. 3. By an analysis of covariance it has been possible to reduce these data to two families of regression lines—those for fatty tissue and those for muscular tissue. 4. The equations for fatty tissue have the following generalized form: I.N. = AFT + CFT + JFT + b1F/FT, where AFT = 55·6 ± 1·7 and is a general constant, CFT is a series of constants for the various carcasses and ranges from +12·6 to −6·7, JFT is a series of constants for the various joints and ranges from +6·6 to −10·3, b1 is a general constant with the value −0·052(± 0·025), F/FT is the percentage of fat in any given sample of fatty tissue, and I.N. is its iodine number. 5. A similar set of equations has been deduced for muscular tissue. Here, however, the relation between iodine number and percentage of fat is a rectangular hyperbola. Consequently, the inverse (Z) of the percentage of fat (in order to get a straight-line relationship) has been used.


Arachnura melanura SIMON, 1867, is newly recorded from Japan. Its male is described for the first time. The previous record of the species from this country has been regarded as a misidentification.


This paper based on the ideology of cloud computing, using the cloud platform of Google App Engine and Web Services technology, utilizing the eclipse, Google Plugin for Eclipse and Java Web, building a sharing platform for university network teaching resources. The design and implementation of the system reduce the capital investment and the burden of system development and maintenance costs, and will bring a great convenience to teachers "teaching" and students "learning. Practice shows that the cloud platform of teaching resources has high stability and scalability than traditional services technology, and can provide new ideas for the system design, so online teaching resource sharing cloud model can be achieved.


Aims to provoke discussion on the concept of team management in the context of African university libraries, with particular reference to Ghana. It considers the influence of the historical roots of the universities, and describes the aspects of the socio‐cultural environment which influence the operating environment. A review of the literature is provided.


Objective To investigate the clinical value of plasm D- dimer in acute cerebrovascular disease complicated with lower limb deep venous thrombosis (DVT).Methods The plasm D- dimer of 100 patients with acute cerebrovascular disease was measured on the first day in hospital,and all patients were recognized as group A,then divided group A into two groups:group C complicated with DVT and group B not with DVT.D-dimer of group B and group C were measured in the third or fourth week.The data were analyzed by statistics.Results Ther is difference in D-dimer between group B and group A(P0.05);There is difference in D-dimer between complicated lower limb with DVT and non-complicated one (P0.05).Conclusion The measurement of D-dimer can be recognized as a guideline to judge whether patients are in acute cerebrovascular disease complicated with DVT or not.


A novel synthesis of 2-phenyl-4-[(triisopropylsilyl)methyl]quinazolines from monosubstituted arenes has been developed. Treatment of N-phenylbenzamidines with 5-nitro-1-[(triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one and K(2)CO(3) in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuBr in benzene gives 2-phenyl-4-[(triisopropylsilyl)methyl]quinazolines in moderate to good yields.


In this paper we review recently established results on the asymptotic behaviour of the trigonometric product $P_n(\alpha) = \prod_{r=1}^n |2\sin \pi r \alpha|$ as $n\to \infty$. We focus on irrationals $\alpha$ whose continued fraction coefficients are bounded. Our main goal is to illustrate that when discussing the regularity of $P_n(\alpha)$, not only the boundedness of the coefficients plays a role; also their size, as well as the structure of the continued fraction expansion of $\alpha$, is important.