In moderately-coupled plasma, a significant fraction of the internal energy resides in electric fields. As these plasmas are heated or compressed, the shifting partition of energy between particles and fields leads to surprising effects, particularly when ions and electrons have different temperatures. For a large interspecies mass ratio, temperature differences can persist for long times. Employing a thermodynamic approach, coupled quasi-Equations of State for the electrons and ions are derived and put into a simple form. It can then easily be shown that adiabatic compression can lead to significant separation between electron and ion temperatures at moderate coupling strength. Remarkably, correlation heating can occur, whereby the ion temperature increases following the heating of the electrons, even in the absence of interspecies collisions. This additional channel for ion heating may be relevant to ignition regimes for inertial confinement fusion (ICF).


The new exposition on the turn and Innovation of socialism by Xiao Feng makes a new summary of "three seventies" to the process of the international communist movement in the world. And meanwhile it is a new idea to define the second big turn and innovation of the international communist movement under the leadership of Communist Party. The research on socialism is a key science having to do with the prosperity and the failure of socialist construction. From the developing process of history, correcting Zuo and preventing You can make the international communist move ment have a turn and an innovation.


PURPOSE: The 26-week maintenance trial, PRECiSE 2 demonstrated that certolizumab pegol 400 mg (a PEGylated Fab' fragment of a humanized anti-TNF alpha monoclonal antibody) administered subcutaneously every 4 weeks (after open-label induction) was effective and well tolerated in patients with active Crohn's disease. The current analysis investigated the relationship between work and daily activity impairment in patients included in PRECiSE 2, as evaluated by the validated Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI) questionnaire, and the primary clinical endpoint — Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) — and a measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) — the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ). METHODS: Kendall's tau coefficient was used to assess the relationships between WPAI dimensions and CDAI and IBDQ subscales and global scores at Week 26 for the intention-to-treat population. Kendall's tau coefficient is a measure of the strength of dependence, showing the extent to which two variables move together. High positive values of Kendall's tau indicate that the two variables move together; high negative values of Kendall's tau indicate that there is a high probability that when one of the variables increases, the other one will decrease. RESULTS: An association was observed between lower WPAI dimension scores (representing a lower impact of Crohn's disease on work productivity and daily activities) and lower scores for the abdominal pain and general wellbeing CDAI subscales and the global CDAI (representing lower disease severity) (Table). Lower scores for the WPAI dimensions were also associated with higher IBDQ dimension and global scores (representing better HRQoL) (Table). All coefficients were significant at the 0.0001 level.


This paper revisits the problem of stability analysis for neural networks with a time-varying delay. An improved general free-matrix-based (FMB) integral inequality is proposed with an undetermined number <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Compared with the conventional FMB ones, the improved inequality involves a much smaller number of free matrix variables. In particular, the improved FMB integral inequality is expressed in a concrete form for any value of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. By employing the new inequality with a properly constructed Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, a new stability condition is derived for neural networks with a time-varying delay. Two commonly used numerical examples are given to show strong competitiveness of the proposed approach in both the conservatism and computation burdens.


The first embodiment of the present invention by the addition of enzyme to the sugar to three hundred seconds Glidden icon in the form of inactive flavonoids sikimeuroseo converting the compound to an active-type flavonoid compound of ah Glidden icon types for producing a three hundred seconds composition of the content of the active current flavonoid compound increases and that is characterized. In this case, the glycolytic enzyme is a cellulase, beta glue Kane and the party using the Visco ILA atom (viscozyme) containing and concentration 0.25ml / g, 35 ℃ enzyme treatment temperature, maintaining a constant enzyme treatment time 12 hours do. The flavonoid compounds contain quercetin. In addition, the second embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that using the active form of flavonoid compounds prepared by the above claim 1, wherein rapid separation quercetin by silica gel column chromatography and ODS (Octadecylsilane) column chromatography. Accordingly, it is possible to provide optimal conditions for the production of highly active form of flavonoid quercetin content of the composition short, the prepared material may be useful in the prevention of product of various diseases by suppressing the radical generation. Three hundred seconds, flavonoids, quercetin, enzyme, separate


Sentiment analysis within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field is an active area of research that attempts to classify pieces of text in terms of the opinions expressed. A sub-specialization in this area focuses on classifying or identifying biased text and is growing more important in the era of "fake news." There are many methods used across researchers so it can be difficult to find a entry point into the field. Not only are there different machine learning methods applied, text embedding techniques have grown in recent years making it difficult to determine the correct avenue to use in research. This thesis explores different embedding techniques as well as training several machine learning models using sentences from the news annotated using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) as either "Unbiased" or "Biased." Overall, this thesis endeavors to provide an overview of what is currently being done in the field but gathered in one place. The embedding techniques used in this paper focus on predictive models: word2vec, GloVe, and fastText. With each word embedding Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Recurrent Neural Networks. Results show no front-runner in terms of classification accuracy but can still serve as a reference or jumping off point for future research. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank all the family and friends who supported me through this whole process. I especially want to that Meghan Peterson, Deborah Bellows, John Bellows, and Luc Peterson for standing by me when I decided to go back to school. I would also like to thank Sam Armenti for being the best person to go through a Computer Science Master's degree with. I also cannot thank Mike King enough for all his encouragement and help throughout the thesis process. There is also the crossfit community at IRCF that kept me sane and less stressed over the last couple of years as I juggled work and school. Finally, thanks to Dr. Noah Daniels for being my thesis advisor. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii TABLE OF CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii CHAPTER


Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) promoted by JEEViKA have emerged as promising economic platforms in tackling the challenges of small farmer agriculture. In the face of rising input costs and lowering margins, these FPOs are delivering value by leveraging economies of scale, improved inputs and technologies at lower costs and bringing the small farmer to larger markets hitherto out of their reach. Most importantly, the FPOs, by their everincreasing scale, are changing the rules of engagement in agriculture markets through producer centric approaches and fair business practices.


107 stool samples from normal children in tube cultures of the strain was inoculated Hela established; obtained 30 strains which corresponded, 8 type I poliovirus strains, four strains of poliovirus Type II, two type III poliovirus strains and 16 strains were not identified.


Preface, A. Aldroubi and M. Unser Wavelet Transform: Theory and Implementation The Wavelet Transform: A Surfing Guide, A. Aldroubi A Practical Guide to the Implementation of the Wavelet Transform, M. Unser Wavelets in Medical Imaging and Tomography An Application of Wavelet Shrinkage to Tomography, E. Kolaczyk Wavelet Denoising of Functional MRI Data, M. Hilton, T. Ogden, D. Hattery, G. Eden, and B. Jawerth Statistical Analysis of Image Differences by Wavelet Decomposition, U.E. Ruttiman, M. Unser, P. Thevenaz, C. Lee, D. Rio, and D. Hommer Feature Extraction in Digital Mammography, R.A. DeVore, B. Lucier, and Z. Yang Contrast Enhancement by Multiscale and Nonlinear Operators, J. Fan and A. Laine Using Wavelets to Suppress Noise in Biomedical Images, M. Malfait Wavelet Transform and Tomography: Continuous and Discrete Approaches, F. Peyrin and M. Zaim Wavelets and Local Tomography, C. Berenstein and D. Walnut Optimal Time-Frequency Projections for Localized Tomography, T. Olson Adapted Wavelet Techniques for Encoding Magnetic Resonance Images, D. Healy and J. Weaver Wavelets and Biomedical Signal Processing Sleep Images Using the Wavelet Transform to Process Polysomnographic Signals, R. Sartene, L. Poupard, J.L. Bernard, and J.C. Wallet Estimating the Fractal Exponent of Point Processes in Biological Systems Using Wavelet- and Fourier-Transform Methods, M.C. Teich, C. Heneghan, S.B. Lowen, and R.G. Turcott Point Processes, Long Range Dependence, and Wavelets, P. Abry and P. Flandrin Continuous Wavelet Transform: ECG Recognition Based on Phase and Modulus Representations and Hidden Markov Models, L. Senhadji, L. Thoraval, and G. Carrault Interference Canceling in Biomedical Systems: The Mutual Wavelet Packet Approach, M. Karrakchou and M. Kunt Frame Signal Processing Applied to Bioelectric Data, J.J. Benedetto Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Using Wavelet-Based Neural Networks, M. Akay Wavelets and Mathematical Models in Biology A Nonlinear Squeezing of the Continuous Wavelet Transform Based on Auditory Nerve Models, I. Daubechies and S. Maes The Application of Wavelet Transforms to Blood Flow Velocimetry, L. Weiss Wavelet Models of Event-Related Potential, J. Raz and B. Turetsky Macromolecular Structure Computation Based on Energy Function Approximation by Wavelets, E. Schmitt Index


Germanium and its derivatives present important applications in numerous industrial fields: electronics (semiconductors), infrared optics, glass, optical fibers, ceramics, polymers and catalysts. The biological activitiesare notable in the field of fongicides, bactericides, and antitumor agents, psychotropic agents as well as in radioprotective activity.


A method for updating an information handling system, the method comprising: Receiving an update, wherein the update is identified with an update type, which is selected from a predefined set of update types; Determining a probability that the information handling system enters an essential or essential operating state; and Install the update only in response to the probability, which is less than a threshold.


The aim of this study was to assess the resistance to sour rot of twenty-eight valuable cultivars of grapevine for wine production and twenty-five cultivars of table grapevine with diverse geographic and genetic origins, and to explain the causes of varied resistance based on the features related to the morphology, biology and ecology of assessed genotypes. The study was conducted for six years in the grapevine field collection of the National Institute of Horticultural Research in Skierniewice (Poland, latitude 51.9627 N, longitude 20.1666 E). Sour rot was severe in three seasons with abundant rainfall during the berry ripening stage. The number of wine and table cultivars in particular classes of resistance (mean value for three years) was as follows: very little or little—9 (wine) and 9 (table), medium—9 (wine) and 3 (table), high or very high—10 (wine) and 13 (table). The severity of bunch sour rot was positively correlated with single berry weight (moderate or weak correlation), bunch density and single bunch weight (very weak or weak correlation), and negatively correlated with thickness of berry skin (strong correlation) and the time of the beginning of veraison (weak correlation). Cultivars that were characterized by such agrobiological and ecological features as easy detachment of the berry from the pedicel, sensitivity to berry skin cracking, frequent damage to the skin by insects, and sensitivity to sunburn, were more heavily exposed to sour rot.


Regarding the two-dimensional (2-D) imaging processing of circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR), the motion compensation (MOCO) in the frequency domain is not fully developed. To perform the MOCO for CSAR data in the frequency domain, a novel three-step strategy is presented in this paper. The motion error model is established first, and it is found that a difficulty of MOCO for CSAR lies in the space variance of the motion errors. Specifically, according to the proposed MOCO strategy, this first step is space-invariant MOCO, the second step is space-variant MOCO in the range-compressed angular-wavenumber domain with respect to subaperture data, and the last step is the autofocus operation in the 2-D wavenumber domain after the polar format resampling. Eventually, the complete MOCO flowchart is obtained. Simulation and experimental tests verify that the proposed motion error model is valid and the three-step MOCO strategy can remove motion errors accurately and figure out well-focused CSAR images.


The invention relates to a novel, advantageous method for producing alpha fluoromalonic acid dialkyl esters of general formula (I) by reacting a compound of general formula (II) with an addition product of hydrogen fluoride and a trialkylamine, under pressure and at temperatures ranging from 103 DEG C to 130 DEG C. In formulae (I) and (2), R represents alkoxy having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R represents hydrogen or fluorine, and R represents hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine.


The Renminbi (RMB) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is issued by the People's Bank of China, the monetary authority of the PRC. In recent years, the role of RMB has been a widely discussed issue. Also, because of the promotion of China's economy performance and the importance of political position in the world, As the Communist Party of China took control of ever larger territories in the latter part of the Chinese Civil War, its People's Bank of China began in 1948 to issue a unified currency for use in Communist-controlled territories from June 1949. Nowadays, the problem of undervaluing the currency value of RMB has been a widely discussed international issue. The role of RMB has changed differently. The role of RMB must be understood within the context of political-economic factors. In fact, the role of RMB is affected by many political and economic factors. The text discusses the factors in both the field of politic and economy , including internal and external factors . This text summarizes the main factors that affect the role of RMB from 1948 to 2005. The research in the role of RMB is a long-term and hard job. The role of RMB will gradually move toward a new and complicated function in the future. Thus, the role of RMB as well as the exchange rate of RMB is worth researching and discussing chronically and deeply. Key words: RMB Political Economy


This study analyzed the color and power Doppler signals in solid breast masses and assessed their value in differentiating malignant from benign lesions.


One of AD driver with hard timer design under interrupt mode based on stream interface for data acquisition is suggested for enhancing the real-time. By going deep into the analysis of Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) in kernel mode, Interrupt Service Thread (IST) in user mode, the virtual address mapping and the data communication between application and driver, the states of diamond synthesis data acquisition system based on ARM-3SC2410 is established. Besides the fast communication and synchronization between data acquisition and display is achieved by multi-thread synchronization and schedule technology. The stability and reliability guarantees the model of temperature estimation.


This editorial refers to 'Peritoneal dialysis relieves clinical symptoms and is well tolerated in patients with refractory heart failure and chronic kidney disease', by M. Koch et al. published in this issue on pages 530–539 and 'Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis as a therapeutic alternative in patients with advanced congestive heart failure', by J. Núñez et al. published in this issue on pages 540–548.


Our objective was to develop a suitable cardiomyocyte progenitor cell line for use in testing biomaterials as potential scaffolds in cardiac tissue engineering. We transfected P19 cells with the human cardiac  -actin promoter driving the gene for puromycin resistance, to create a stable cardiomyocyte-selectable P19 cell line, termed P19(CA- Puro). Puromycin selection resulted in a 4-10 fold enrichment of cardiac muscle gene expression and a 3-fold enrichment in cardiomyocytes. Morphological, biochemical, and functional analyses were used to evaluate the properties of P19(CA- Puro) cardiomyocytes in the presence and absence of a novel cross-linked collagen-based biomaterial. The collagen-based biomaterial was able to support appropriate viability, gene expression, and cardiomyocyte function. Therefore, P19(CA- Puro) cells are suitable for examining biomaterials as potential scaffolds and this approach could be used for rapidly screening biomaterials for designing future human embryonic stem cell therapies.


A ubiquitous service/device test method using a uniform object model and an apparatus thereof are provided to save the time and cost required for constructing a ubiquitous environment by verifying the validity of an associated device or service without physically constructing the ubiquitous environment. A ubiquitous service/device test apparatus(100) comprises a profile management part(110), a user interface part(140), and an emulator engine part(120). The profile management part stores and manages profile information a user establishes. The user interface part is used to establish the profile information and a target test device or service. The emulator engine part creates uniform objects for the target device or service, based on the profile information, emulates the uniform objects according to time or events, and deduces the current situation from state changes of the uniform objects. In case an abnormal situation occurs, the emulator engine part displays it through the user interface part.


The creation of hair is specialized work in cel animation that is challenging to achieve in 3DCG because cel animation may not be consistent with all the hair's features from all camera positions [Noble and Tang 2004]. This paper describes a new approach for cartoon hair animation by using an existing character animation sequence. The novelty of this method is that a creator can easily make a 3D character model to apply environmental information such as winds in an existing character animation with hair. In fact, the user can re-use existing cartoon sequences as inputs to give environmental information to another character as if both characters existed in the same scene.


of Enoch is found in chap. xc. 37, 38 (written before 161 B.C.). The Messiah in this passage is represented as the head of the Messianic community out of which he proceeds, but he has no special role to fulfil, and his presence in that description seems due merely to literary reminiscence. This Messiah-reference exercised no influence on New Testament conceptions. But with regard to the Messiah described in the Similitudes the case


AbstractAs an equilibrium core configuration is reached after only a few refueling cycles, equilibrium core energy costs dominate plant economics. Optimization of these costs can therefore lead to nearly optimum energy costs over plant life. A simple reactor state model has been developed that can predict equilibrium core conditions without reference to previous cycles. By coupling this model to an assignment and direct search algorithm, the refueling procedure and core power at equilibrium are determined so that energy costs are minimized. The equilibrium core parameters are then used to establish pre-equilibrium core conditions.


the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in Bradford on a proper footing 'The school is healthily situated, sanatorium conditions exist, and facilities for nursing and massage are adequate. It is not too far from the town to justify a possible complaint of the parents that they are losing sight of, or touch with, their clhildren. In an industrial town such as Bradford, where the cases are sufficiently numerous, the most effective way of dealing with the problem is also likely to be the cheapest It is primarily a lhospital problem applied to children of school age; but since such cases under proper supervision are not ill, school teaclhing with suitable manual training can, and should, be given at the same time. There is no reason why in-patient (recumbent) and out-patient (ambulatory) cases should not be taught at the same institution, and this would have tlhe furtler advantage that medical supervision by the same people would be practicable for both classes of case, and tle after-treatment of the cured would be in the lhands of those responsible for the cure. Much overlapping would be prevented, muclh better results would be obtained, muclh needless deformity would be saved, education and treatment would continue withlout gaps, and a larger percentage of useful citizens would be the ultimate outcome. An after-care as.sociation for those beyond school age would round off and complete the scheme.


Among all the applications of metasurface, we focused on the transition from a perfect electric conductor behavior to a perfect magnetic conductor behavior. This could have potential application for characterization of magneto-dielectric materials [1] [2]. Waveguide characterization could be useful to achieve the design of such a metasurface reducing the cost of prototypes and numerical calculations. Thus two models has been developed to validate the experimental measurements made on the future prototypes of the metasurface. These models differ in their boundary conditions so as a validation method we compare them to an infinite analytical metasurface whose inphase characteristics are in agreement with those presented in [3].


Pregnant women are at increased risk for severe COVID‐19 and are a priority group for vaccination. The discrepancy in vaccination rates between pregnant and non‐pregnant cohorts is concerning.


Collaboration technologies are being used in healthcare research, practice, and management. However, they have potential for even greater use especially in the light of healthcare reforms currently occurring throughout many countries and their greater emphasis on technology to facilitate superior healthcare delivery. Geographically dispersed health professionals can use collaboration technology to communicate with each other, review patient records, manage workflows, and improve the delivery of patient care. Similarly, geographically non-collocated researchers can collaborate with each other. The problem being addressed by this mini-track is encapsulated in an ontological framework in the figure below. The four papers in the mini-track address different components of the framework. Specifically, the first paper "Co-Creation of Knowledge in Healthcare: A Study of Social Media Usage" maps as a paper on 'Strategy for collaboration between Clinicians/Nurses/Patients in exchange of data and information. The dominant focus of the papers is on the collaboration and communication between the various partners clinicans/nurses between themselves and the patients. The second paper "Improving Knowledge Provision for Shared Decision Making in PatientPhysician Relationships – A Multiagent Organizational Approach" suggests the use of a multiagent aprpaoch in order to address current problems with fragmentation of knowledge between clinicians/nurses/patients ie the partners in healthcare while embracing technology solutions to address this. Paper thres in this mini track "Communicating Personal Health Information in Virtual Health Communities: A theoretical framework" examines the aspects of privacy and security with regarding to communication of personal health information via social media technologies and from this proposes a theoretical framework on how to ameliorate many of the current challenges in a systematics fashion. The final paper, paper four "meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records for Physician Collaboration: A Patient Centered HealthCare Perspective" illustrates based on case study data how a collaborative architecture can enable the reduction of costs and improve quality healthcare delivery. Ideally, one would hope to realize all the possible collaborations envisaged in the ontological framework. There is a need for these collaborations. The four papers are a sample, albeit not representative, of the research on technology mediated collaboration in healthcare. They are signifiers of the state-of-thepractice. With the increasing emphasis on translational research, cost containment, safety, and quality in healthcare the collaborations underrepresented in these papers would be equally important for effective delivery. The researchers, the administrators, and software agents/bots, have to be integrated into the collaboration system for research and administrative purposes. And so too should personal and mass media. Given the costs and challenges facing healthcare delivery today it is paramount that we begin to address these issues and the papers presented in this mini track serve to provide a direction for providing superior healthcare delivery. Souren Paul Nova Southeastern University firstname.lastname@example.com Arkalgud Ramaprasad University of Miami firstname.lastname@example.com Nilmini Wickramasinghe Epworth HealthCare & RMIT Univ. firstname.lastname@example.com 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Science


Recently, a State Committee (Second Delta Committee, 2008), installed by the Netherlands' government, delivered a number of recommendations on making the Netherlands flood proof for the next 100 years and beyond with an integrated vision on new perspectives. In response to impacts of climate change new innovative concepts have been created in order to keep the country – largely a delta – an attractive and viable place to live, work, recreate and invest. Safety and sustainability are the two pillars of the strategy for the future. Besides the issue of flooding also draughts, fresh water availability and drainage were addressed. This chapter presents some of the findings and discusses these. Before doing so, we highlight the main triggers for concern and the paradigm shift needed to implement far-reaching recommendations.


Abstract The paucity of biodiversity assessments in the Palaeotropics has constrained recommendations for tropical forest conservation in areas such as Siberut, one of the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia known for its high endemicity. Taking advantage of information from museum collections amassed from the Indo-Malaya archipelago from the early 20th century onwards, we show how species records available through online databases of natural history collections can be used to assess the state of biodiversity when used in conjunction with a field survey, using bat species on Siberut as a study case. We obtained a total of 15 years of records from 1903 to 2013 (following searches of databases up to 2020), documenting 20 bat species on Siberut. Of these, our field survey contributed records of three additional species not previously recorded on the island. The species accumulation curve has not levelled off, suggesting that future surveys may discover additional bat species and highlighting Siberut's importance as bat habitat and source of tropical biodiversity.


SummaryA clinical trial was carried out to compare the eflects of placebo and of a spironolactone-althiazide combination in the treatment of 24 Zambian Africans with hypertension. After an initial 2 weeks on placebo, patients received 100 mg spironolactone plus 60 mg althiazide daily for 12 weeks. They were then treated with placebo again for 3 to 5 weeks, followed by a second active treatment period of 6 to 8 weeks in dosages ranging from 50 mg spironolactone plus 30 mg althiazide to 150 mg spironolactone plus 90 mg althiazide according to the previous response. A statistically significant (p <0.001) reduction was noted in both systolic and diastolic blood pressures whilst on active treatment. Mean reductions were 30/16 mmHgfor supine and 35/21 mmHg for standing blood pressures. Treatment with the combination product did not influence serum potassium or creatinine levels. Mean blood urea, however, increased from 23.6 to 35.1 mg/100 ml and the mean serum uric acid from 6.7 to 8.9 mg/100 ml. No serious sid...


Silicon dioxide films deposited on InP substrates are obtained from a mixture of silane and oxygen gases irradiated with a UV lamp. Deposition rates compatible with industrial processes are obtained for substrate temperatures well below the degradation threshold of InP. Optical and electrical characterisations are performed for InP MISFET applications.


To understand human cognition, cognitive and behavioral scientists measure external behavior using a variety of tools. However, many of these tools are not sensitive enough to detect small changes in behavior, they are too costly, or they can only be used in dedicated lab space, thus limiting behavioral science from studying many populations. Here, we present a reliable, robust, cost-effective device that can measure small modulations in human handwriting behavior through pressure sensing on the writing instrument itself. This is made possible through a cross-disciplinary approach, combining advantages of new, high-sensitivity pressure sensors and experimental psycholinguistics. We show that this instrument is reliable and sensitive to the typical pressure range in writing. Then, we present a proof of concept from an experimental replication and demonstrate the utility of handwriting pressure measurement in a classic experimental paradigm, thus opening new research directions in psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and psychology.


Dedication. Acknowledgements. Using this book. 1. Family Lives 2. Theorising Family Lives 3. Family Studies 4. Families in Society 5. Children in Families 6. Partnering 7. Parenting 8. Putting Families First


Radiation initiated grafting is a very promising area in the field of polymers. To make a backbone hydrohilic different vinyl monomers have been grafted onto the polymeric backbone. Here acrylamide, methyl acrylamide and N, N-dimethyl acrylamide were grafted on the cellulose acetate backbone using y-radiation from 60 Co source. Different parameters like total dose, concentration, temperature and time were varied during grafting of N, N-dimethyl acrylamide. Extent of grafting followed the order AM> Me AM > N, N-dimethyl A M and for N, N-dimethyl acrylamide highest grafting was obtained at 40% monomer concentration, at 60°C with 1.37 M rad dose. Probable reasons for difference in grafting percentage for different monomers are discussed.


Mathematical model is established difficulty, because the horizontal well completion methods selection is impacted by many production factors of oilfields. It is obscuring that factors are obscuring to influence the selection of horizontal well completion methods. But fuzzy mathematics shall propose the nature and regularity of multi-factor, multi-goals fuzzy problems and make correct quantitative evaluation. Therefore, it establishes the evaluation model for optimal selection of horizontal wells by fuzzy mathematical theory based on geological and engineering factors.


Using on the web customer overviews as electronic verbal trade to help purchase fundamental authority has ended up being continuously common. The Web gives an expansive wellspring of customer reviews; anyway one can hardly peruse all overviews to get a sensible appraisal of a thing or organization. A substance planning framework that can gather reviews would henceforth be alluring. A subtask to be performed by such a structure is find the general point classes would in general in overview sentences, for which this paper presents two strategies. Rather than most existing procedures, the vital system displayed is an unsupervised strategy that applies association control mining on co-occasion repeat data obtained from a corpus to find these point arrangements. While not practically identical to top tier coordinated methodologies, the proposed unsupervised methodology performs better than a couple of direct baselines, a similar anyway regulated procedure, and an oversaw standard, with a F1-score of 67%. The second procedure is a managed variety that beats existing methodologies with a F1-score of 84%.


A woman with no previous cardiac history was admitted to hospital because of dyspnoea and chest discomfort lasting for 3 days since she had celebrated her 70th birthday. An ECG showed T-wave inversions in leads II, III, aVF and V2–V6. Troponin I was positive, creatine kinase, creatine …


✳ Abstract This research project evaluated the effects of adhesive type, wood species, and cure temperature on the strength and durability properties of a finger-joint. The adhesives were a resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF), a polyurethane/aqueous emulsion polymer (PU/AEP), and a resorcinol-formaldehyde/soy-isolate (RF-Soy) honeymoon system. The species of wood were keruing (Dip- terocarpus spp.), southern pine (Pinus spp.), and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). The cure temperatures of the adhesives were ambient (26° to 35°C, 78° to 95°F) and elevated (43° to 49°C, 110° to 120°F). Joints were subjected to three test procedures: a tension test, a bending test, and a bending test following a cyclic delamination procedure. The response variables measured for each of the bending tests included modulus of rupture, modulus of elasticity, and percent wood failure. The response variables measured for the tension tests were tensile strength and percent wood failure. The end-joints bonded with RF adhesive performed the best in flexural and tensile strength of the three adhesives studied. However in most cases, the end-joints bonded with PU/AEP could be considered a comparable system. The RF-Soy honeymoon system generally had the lowest strength and wood failure across most species/adhe- sives variables. Given adequate adhesive performance, strength and stiffness of the joints studied were dependent on density of the wood species, with keruing having the greatest density.


The goal of future communication technology is that anyone can communicate with anyone else in any way at any place and at any time. The existing network or because the coverage is not wide enough, or the bandwidth provided is not high, so that a single network can not meet the future communication needs. The mutual integration between heterogeneous networks with different coverage and service provision capabilities has become the inevitable trend of network development. With the acceleration of the pace of life, the standby state of communication terminal has a greater and greater impact on the selection of network. Therefore, a communication technology and routing algorithm based on wireless heterogeneous network are proposed. The algorithm defines three terminal standby modes, defines the network gravity judgment formula used to measure the network performance, and puts forward different network switching trigger strategies according to different standby modes, And it can prolong the standby time of the terminal, so as to ensure the user's communication experience.


By examining whether the individualistic assumptions used in social choice could be used in the aggregation of individual preferences, Arrow proved a key lemma that generalizes the famous Szpilrajn's extension theorem and used it to demonstrate the impossibility theorem. In this paper, I provide a characterization of Arrow's result for the case in which the binary relations I extend are not necessarily transitive and are defined on abelian groups. I also give a characterization of the existence of a realizer of a binary relation defined on an abelian group. These results also generalize the well-known extension theorems of Szpilrajn, Dushnik-Miller, and Fuchs.


2014 A new method based on simultaneous measurements of thermoelectric power and conductivity is proposed for analysing the contribution to electron scattering of imperfections frozen in thin monocrystalline metal films ; previously reported data on copper and silver films are examined. It is shown that the procedure is efficient for identifying the presence of imperfections but could also give information on anomalous size effects due to impurities. Revue Plcys. Appl.15 .(1980) 1573-1577 NOVEMBRE 1980,


BACKGROUND
With continuous innovation in Plastic Surgery, new procedures are constantly being introduced. A number of these procedures are generally safe but have the potential for rare yet serious complications. Many surgeons stray away from these procedures due to safety concerns.

OBJECTIVES
To survey the Aesthetic Society membership to elicit perception of risk of several novel or less mainstream procedures.

METHODS
A 24-item survey was sent out to members of the Aesthetic Society. The survey focused on surgeon experience and attitude towards three procedures: filler rhinoplasty, gluteal augmentation with fat grafting, and submandibular gland excision.

RESULTS
189 completed surveys were returned. 50%, 49%, and 89% of surgeons said they do not perform filler rhinoplasty, gluteal augmentation with fat grafting, or submandibular gland excision in their practices, respectively. The majority of those who do not perform the procedures selected "danger to the patient" as the primary concern for each of the three procedures. Surgeons overwhelmingly reported not learning these procedures in training. Additionally, surgeons perceive the risks of more common procedures such as abdominoplasty and breast augmentation-mastopexy to be significantly lower and more acceptable than those of the studied procedures.

CONCLUSIONS
When comparing the perceived complication rates to those in published data in the literature, particularly when looking at rates of serious or life-threatening complications, Plastic Surgeons overestimate the risks of procedures with which they are less familiar. This perception of risk, accompanied by the lack of exposure to novel techniques in training, may contribute to surgeons avoiding these procedures.


Abstract The main flavor metabolites and sensory profiles of six craft beers and ten industrial beers available in the Chinese market were studied. The common sensory profiles of the six craft beers included head retention, hydrogen sulfide, oxidation, body, bitterness, malty, bruised apple, yeasty, diacetyl, caramelized, and cheesy. The main flavor metabolites related to these common sensory profiles in the craft beers were isoamyl acetate, medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) ethyl esters (ethyl hexanoate), and diacetyl. The common sensory profiles of the ten industrial beer samples included estery, cooked vegetable, and solvent flavors. The foam stability of the craft beers was higher than that of the industrial beers, showing a significant difference (P < 0.05). The main differential flavor metabolites between the craft beers and industrial beers were ethyl hexanoate, ethanol, and isobutyl alcohol. The content of ethyl hexanoate in the craft beers was significantly higher than that in the industrial beers (P < 0.05), while the content of ethanol and isobutyl alcohol in the craft beers was significantly lower than in the industrial beers (P < 0.05). This study provides a preliminary look at the two groups of beers; however, since it was a small sample, more samples will have to be analyzed in the future to draw definitive conclusions outside of this particular selected sampling. However, the study does provide a useful framework for future research in this area. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03610470.2021.1980677.


It is typically difficult to measure viscosity of a fast polymerizing molding compound using a rheometer. So, spiral mold filling experimental data were used to obtain viscosity functions of a silica filled epoxy–novolac molding compound. The functions could describe the effect of temperature and conversion on viscosity change during cure. With the flow rate data obtained from the mold filling experiments, parameters of the viscosity functions were determined through regression of a simulation model developed in this study. The reaction kinetic equation considering an autocatalytic reaction mechanism was used for the molding compound in the simulation model. The viscosity function of the molding compound determined from the rheometer data and the reaction kinetic data measured at a relatively slow reacting condition was compared with simulation results. The viscosity function determined through nonlinear regression of the spiral mold filling simulation model showed a good correlation with the viscosity function obtained from the rheometric study. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 80: 873–884, 2001


Single crystals of potassium chloride (KCl) were impacted on quartz stress gauges at velocities ranging from 0.0363 to 0.0755 cm/μsec, producing plane shocks with stress amplitudes between 17 and 31 kbar. Stresses greater than 21 kbar are sufficient to induce a polymorphic phase transformation in KCl. For impact stresses above the phase transition point, the theory of continuum mechanics is used to relate measured stress history at the impact interface to transformation rate between the phases. Experimental results show that, when shocked above the measured dynamic transition pressure of 20.8±0.5 kbar, KCl rapidly transforms to a metastable nonequilibrium mixture of phases. Phase transformation to these initial metastable states proceeds at a rate greater than 500 μsec−1 for shock propagation along the 〈100〉 and 〈111〉 directions, based on the magnitude of initial transformation and the minimum response time of the measuring system. The degree of partial transformation is observed to depend only on impact ...


: The Old Colony Mennonites of Belize practice a conservative form of Anabaptism where technology, dress and lifestyle choices are informed by church standards. Members live in a spatially contiguous Colony, which creates land pressure over time as population increases. The development of new Colonies is necessary for the Mennonites to participate in agricultural livelihoods. The Indian Creek Colony of Belize has experienced agricultural and economic hardships since its inception in the 1989 due to land costs, crop failures and debt structure. Old Order Mennonites of North America developed an outreach effort to assist with on-farm production of vegetable crops to alleviate these hardships. The author was enlisted by an Old Order Mennonite Committee to visit greenhouse sites in the country and provide advice to ensure project success. Indian Creek farmers have adopted high tunnel greenhouse vegetable production, overcoming challenges such as high pH soils and pests. Large scale economic relief would require Colony wide investment and engagement. [Abstract by author.]


Objective To compare the DLT with the torque control blocker univent(TCBU) and to determine whether there are objective advantages of one over the other in one-lung ventilation during elective thoracic surgical cases.Methods 60 patients needing one-lung ventilation during elective thoracic surgical cases were randomly divided into Group D(DLT) and Group U(TCBU).The following variables were recorded and compared:①time required for intubation and position each tube,②ration of successful blind intubation,③ increase in airway peak pressure(PIP),④frequency of malpositions,⑤number of times that the fiberoptic was achieved,⑥surgical exposure,and ⑦incidence of sore throat or hoarseness.Results Statistical difference were found in increase of PIP and incidence of sore throat(P 0.05).No statistical difference were found in the time required to intubation and position each tube,the ration of successful blind intubation,the frequency of malpositions,the number of times that the fiberoptic was achieved and the surgical exposure(P 0.05).Conclusion TCB univent applied for one-lung ventilation is as good as DLT,and in some specific clinical situations it can offer more advantages over the DLT.


In the late nineties T. Kobayashi wrote a series of papers in which he established a criterion for the discrete decomposablity of restrictions of unitary representations of reductive Lie groups to reductive subgroups. A key tool in the proof of sufficiency of his criterion was the use of the theory of hyperfunctions to study the microlocal behavior of characters of restrictions to compact subgroups. In this paper we show how to replace this tool by microlocal analysis in the $C^\infty$ category.


Objective To develop a technique of simultaneously and rapidly detecting important viral pathogens which may cause respiratory infections.Methods Under optimized PCR conditions,a multiplex PCR technique was developed to simultaneously detect seasonal influenza A virus(INFA)、influenza B virus(INFB)、Human rhinovirus(HRV) and Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A Virus(H1N1).Results Four specific PCR products,212 bp for INFA,489 bp for INFB,380 bp for HRV and 153 bp for H1N1,were amplified respectively.The LOD of INFA,INFB,HRV and H1N1 were 104、104、103、104 copies/mL.The specificity of the technique was verified in detecting another 6 common pathogens including Streptococcus pneumonia,Klebsiella pneumonia,Pseudomonas aeruginosa,Staphylococcus aureus,escherichia coli and enterococcus faecalis,and none of these was found positive in the same multiplex PCR conditions.Conclusion The multiplex RT-PCR assay may be used as a rapid,sensitive and specific diagnostic method for the differentiation of INFA,INFB,HRV and H1N1.


Lithium ion battery (LIB) technology is the state-of-the-art rechargeable energy storage technology for electric vehicles, stationary energy storage and personal electronics. However, a wide variety of degradation effects still contribute to performance limitations. The metallic copper and aluminium current collectors in an LIB can be subject to dissolution or other reactions with the electrolytes. Corrosion of these metal foils is significantly detrimental to the overall performance of an LIB, however the mechanisms of this degradation are poorly understood. This review summarises the key effects contributing to metal current collector degradation in LIBs as well as introduces relevant corrosion and LIB principles. By developing the understanding of these complex chemistries, LIB degradation can be mitigated, enabling safer operation and longer lifetimes.


Four protistan species, Tetrahymena pyriformis, Chilomonas paramecium, Euglena gracilis, and Chlamydomonas reinhardti, were fed individually or in pairs to the ciliate Stentor coeruleus. Making use of a new definition of food preference which does not confound catchability with choice, this species' food preferences were measured by comparing the mean consumption of a population of stentors when each prey species was present alone with the mean consumption when a pair of prey species was present. S. coeruleus was found to exhibit consistent food preferences, preferring protozoan to algal prey while indicating no preference when choosing between algal or between protozoan prey. Preferences were not correlated with prey size.


Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is a progressive condition characterised by prostate enlargement accompanied by lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). It contributes to, but is not the sole cause of LUTS. It is well known that BPH and the resultant LUTS is very common in elderly men and has a great impact on the patients' quality of life. It was estimated that in the male population, a histological prevalence at autopsy of 50% in men aged 50-60 years and of 90% over 80 years was seen. 75% of men > 50 years old had symptoms arising from BPH, and 20-30% of men reaching 80 years old required surgery. Despite the fact that BPH is one of the commonest diseases that are managed by urologists and it has a big impact on public health, the aetiology and pathophysiology are still not yet clear.


The history of hyaluronan goes back to the thirties of 20 th century, when it was discovered in vitreous body of an eye. Hyaluronan is a part of a large group of glycosaminoglycans, present in almost every tissue of human body. Being one of the most hygroscopic molecules in nature, hyaluronan gives the skin the proper hydration and tonus. He also plays a great role in skin- aging processes, because his concentration in the skin is decre- asing during lifetime. His positive role in wound healing has been known for ages and it is still being use to produce better dressings for difficult-to-heal wounds and ulcers. Thanks to his special pro - perties he become an inspiration of searching its new clinical ap- plications.


In the modern, networked, information environment, many scholars, including those in the arts and humanities, are turning to computational technologies to assist and facilitate them in their varied research tasks. This volume, the newly released paperback edition of the 2004 hardback, aims to provide an overview of the emerging application of computational methods to research problems in the humanities. Published as one of Blackwell's Companions to Literature and Culture, it identiμes 'Digital Humanities' as an academic discipline, in much the same way as Romanticism, the Victorian Novel, or Restoration Drama are identiμed as bona μde scholarly μelds in the same series. The Editors refrain from providing the deμnitive description of what is meant by the phrase 'Digital Humanities'; this is a common concern for those operating within the discipline, which has also been known as 'humanities computing'.1 Meanings do emerge in the 37 chapters which constitute the volume; for example, the Digital Humanities are described as 'the automation of every possible analysis of human expression' (Busa, p. xvi), 'using information technology to illuminate the human record, and bringing an understanding of the human record to bear on the development and use of information technology' (Schreibman et al., p. xxiii), and 'the applications of computing to research and teaching within subjects that are loosely deμned as "the humanities" or in British English "the arts" ' (Hockey, p. 3). However,


We present an all-optical, fiber-based quantum switch that operates at high speeds with low loss and-most importantly-retains the incident photons' quantum state, thereby making it useful for applications in quantum communications.


A digraph D is said to be an m-coloured digraph, if its arcs are coloured with m colours. A directed path (or a directed cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A set N ⊆ V (D) of vertices of D is said to be a kernel by monochromatic paths of the m-coloured digraph D, if it satisfies the two following properties : (1) N is independent by monochromatic paths; i.e. for any two different vertices x, y ∈ N, there is no monochromatic directed path between them, and (2) N is absorbent by monochromatic paths; i.e. for each vertex u ∈ V (D) - N, there exists a uv-monochromatic directed path, for some v ∈ N. In this paper we present a method to construct a large variety of m-coloured digraphs with (resp. without a kernel) kernel by monochromatic paths; starting with a given m-coloured digraph D0. A previous result is generalized.


The statistical mechanics for systems with a medium-dependent dispersion relation are formulated and applied to construct a model for the gluon plasma equation of state with a temperature-dependent particle mass. This simple model gives us an example of a system with a temperature-dependent effective Hamiltonian. We find that to satisfy the thermodynamical relations in these systems, standard statistical mechanics formulas have to be supplemented by special requirements. The self-consistent statistical model formulation is used to describe Monte Carlo lattice data for the thermodynamical functions of SU(2) and SU(3) gluon plasma.


Objective to study the expression of P 21 .P 53 in rectal cancer and its relation to clinical pathological characteristics and the significance of its prognosing rectal cancer.Methods Using immunohistochemistry (s p method) P 21 .P 53 were studied in 110 cases of rectal the expression of cancer,using normal rectum as controlling group.Results the positive rate of P 21 .P 53 oncoprotein was 54 5%、42 7%,the expression of P 53 had no relation to clinical pathological characteristics of rectal cancer,the cases with expressing P 21 oncoprotein had lower 3 or 5 year survival rate,worsely differentiated,higher rate of lymph metastasis.Conclusion P 53 gene might be related to rectal.carcinogenisis,P 21 might be prognosis of rectal cancer.


Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) are vast structu res that respond to site-specific characteristics, rate of production, placement techniques, and the p hysical and mechanical properties of tailings. As a common denominator, TSFs are in some degree vulnera ble to failure due to liquefaction, poor management, slope instability and/or unusual climat ic events. In practice, stability of TSFS is determ ined by calculating a minimum Factor of Safety (FOS) usi ng the Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM). However, it has been proven that relying exclusively on the lim it equilibrium approach is not accurate because it is basically a static method that does not take into a ccount the stress-strain distribution and displacem ent experienced by the constitutive materials of a TSF. In order to overcome these limitations of the LEM, the finite element method Shear Reduction Technique ( SRT) has been used as a more reliable tool for TSFs stability assessment. This paper presents a compara tive stability analysis between an upstream tailing s storage facility (UTSF), and a water retention tail ings dam (WRTD) under static and pseudo-static stat e using simplified and rigorous LEMs and the SRT. Add itionally, and taking into consideration the intrin sic uncertainty of tailings properties, sensitivity and probabilistic analyses in the form of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) and the Point Estimate Method (PEM ) are applied to determine the Probability of Failure (Pf) and Reliability Index (β) of each TSF. It is shown that the friction angle o f UTSF's foundation and the core's cohesion of the WRTD are the main va riables that govern stability. Further analysis sho ws that the WRTD has a higher reliability index and a lower probability of failure than the UTSF.


Disclosed are a polyacrylate dispersing agent, a pigment dispersion liquid, a color photoresist, a color film substrate and a display device. The polyacrylate dispersing agent of the present invention is a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-modified polyacrylate dispersing agent which is prepared from a polyacrylate dispersing agent and polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane through an esterification reaction. When the polyacrylate dispersing agent of the present invention is used for dispersing pigment powder, because of the steric hindrance effect of the polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane structure, the stability of the pigment dispersion liquid can be remarkably improved. The color photoresist prepared based on the pigment dispersion liquid has extremely high thermal resistance, excellent resolution and surface flatness, and at the same time low dielectric constant.


This article argues for the value of I poems as a means to hear and understand the voices of individual women and girls. I poems are a feature of the Listening Guide (e.g., Brown & Gilligan, 1992). As a feminist method, the Listening Guide was developed to attend to the multiple and complex voices found in qualitative data, particularly when the subject of study is taboo or otherwise difficult to discuss. The creation of poems out of participant voices is one way to emotionally engage the reader or audience, and to resist the urge to turn a participant's complex story into a single linear narrative. It is argued that I poems, when constructed with the guidelines set forth by the Listening Guide, are an evocative way to present participant data. To illustrate this, I poems constructed from interview data about women's unwanted sexual experiences are included.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of group speech therapy for individuals with Parkinson Disease (IWPD) in general and to compare outcomes of group treatment delivered face-to-face (FtF) versus delivery via telemedicine (TM). Twenty-seven IWPD received group treatment based on a modified version of LSVT® in either an FtF or TM format. Outcome measures were collected preand post-treatment, which included vocal intensity (dB), Voice Handicap Index (VHI) scores, and self-ratings. Results indicated that vocal intensity and self-ratings of loudness significantly increased for both the FtF and TM groups. VHI scores and the five remaining self-ratings were not significantly improved for either group following treatment, although the data on all measures from the FtF group did show improvement. The findings of this study support the short-term effectiveness of FtF and TM group therapy for improving vocal intensity and participant self-ratings of loudness in IWPD.


This study aims to reveal the meaning of silih asih, silih asah, silih asih in the mixing of Chinese culture and Sundanese culture in the city of Bandung. Silih asih, silih asah and silih asuh is the life guidance of the Sundanese in communicating, which aims to create harmony with the surrounding environment without releasing their own identity. Social life in the city of Bandung cannot be separated from the cultural background of each unique perpetrators. Two of the different cultures are Chinese and Sundanese culture. Through qualitative research method, this research found that the expression of silih asih, silih asah and silih asuh, became the driving force for the integration of Chinese culture with Sundanese culture. Specifically, it becomes the basis of daily behavior for individual informants. Keywords—silih asih; silih asah; silih asuh, acculturation,


Abstract Context: There are many causes of impaired glucose tolerance in pregnant women. It is unclear whether genetic etiologies are a source of impaired glucose tolerance in pregnant women. Objective: To prospectively determine the prevalence of maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY) due to glucokinase (GCK) mutations in an American population of women with recent onset diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes. We hypothesized that based on America's higher prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and Type 2 diabetes, there may be an increased prevalence of GK mutations in our population than in previously reported studies from European studies. Design: Over a three-year period, 72 pregnant women with recently diagnosed diabetes mellitus were prospectively assessed for presence of the most common pathogenic GCK mutations. Setting: This study was performed in a gestational diabetes clinic in Urban America and a high-risk pregnancy clinic that served the military and their families on an American military base in Germany. Patients: Seventy-two women; 65 with diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in this pregnancy (GDM/overt diabetes) and 7 with diagnosis in the last nine years prior to pregnancy were recruited during pregnancy and blood samples were obtained. Interventions: None. Main outcome measures: Each study participant's blood sample was analyzed with restriction fragment length polymorphism to assess for mutations in the GCK gene. Results: There were 38 female and 34 male neonates born at 38 weeks gestation ±1.2 weeks. Mean birth weight was 3351 g ± 450 g. There were no patients with GCK mutations found in our population 0/72. This prevalence is not greater than that seen in previous a similar study in European women with gestational diabetes, but in fact significantly less (p = 0.03). Conclusion: American women with recently diagnosed diabetes mellitus likely have no higher prevalence of MODY than in previously studied European women with diabetes mellitus and may have a lower prevalence.


The one hundred twenty non-insulin dependent diabetic selected subjects from Punjab Agricultural University and Civil Hospital of Ludhiana were divided into four groups viz., group I, II, III and IV having thirty subjects each. The subjects of group I was not given any treatment. The nutrition education was given for three months after fifteen days interval to the subjects of group II, III and IV through individual and group contact and gain in nutrition knowledge was assessed after the study. General information, diabetic information and dietary pattern of the subjects were recorded. Significant improvements were seen in physical activity, sleeping pattern and dietary pattern of the subjects of group II, III and IV after study. Therefore, it can be reported from the results that supplementation of bael (Aegle marmelos L.) leaf, pulp and seed powder along with nutrition counseling significantly improved the general status of the diabetic patients.


a) Trade policy measures affecting competition paras. 1-5 [Member countries should evaluate trade policies and practices, considering and responding to concerns of other member countries over their impact on competition; make policies and practices as "transparent" as possible; prevent the use of legal proceedings for anticompetitive purposes] b) Application of competitive laws to restrictive practices by enterprises affecting international trade paras. 6-9 [Member countries should consider impact on competition before approving export and import cartels and export limitation arrangements; should not encourage them when they are anticompetitive; and should cooperate in each others' investigations of possible anticompetitive effects]


At this year's Laser World of Photonics, MKS Instruments brands Spectra‐Physics, Newport, and Ophir demonstrated their joint portfolio for laser materials processing. We asked Herman Chui and Christian Dini, what benefits customers can expect.


Porphyrias is mainly caused by enzyme deficiency during heme synthesis,and its manifestation was increasing of porphyrin and porphyrin precursor,such as ALA and PBG,which metabolized via urine and feces. Porphyrias is rare on clinic,and its clinical symptoms is various,is easily to be misdiagnosed. When we meet cases performed as recurrent abdominal pain with peripheral nerve damage,severe symptoms without severe physical signs on clinic,and can not be explained by common diseases,porphyrias was with great probability. Clinicians should ask family history and precipitating factor in detail,and examine the urine PBG to clarify the diagnosis,to avoid diagnostic errors and misdiagnosis.


Indian atlantia is a small, much-branched, evergreen tree growing up to 6 meters tall. The branches are usually armed with single, stout, sharp spines up to 2 cm long. The plant is harvested from the wild, usually for medicinal purposes. It is source of antibacterial, antioxidant, larvicidal, pupicidal, antifeedant, also used in chronic rheumatism and paralysis. Different extracts of Atlantia monophylla leaves were found to possess in-vitro anthelminthic activity against Indian earthworms Pheritima posthuma, using Albendazol as reference standard. Dose dependent activity was observed in extracts of plant leaves. Ethanollic extract shown better activity of Atlantia monophylla leaves. No were reported on the part of leaves of Atlantia monophylla shows Anthelmintic activity.


This article addresses the subsequent measurement of tangible fixed assets over the last few years. A literature review and an analysis of the different accounting standards made it possible to draw conclusions about the monitoring of standards in the face of the growing demand for accounting information. Evolution is one of the factors influencing the changes in accounting standards, and higher education schools must be the starting point of such changes. In the 5.0 era, this will undoubtedly be one of the topics that will undergo accounting changes, namely due to the automatisms that exist today, since many of the options foreseen in the normative require deep analysis depending on the type of entity.


We investigate an interesting vehicle chaining phenomenon observed from the dynamics of automated vehicles in 300 mm semiconductor manufacturing. This paper explores the causes of this phenomenon and clarifies its impacts on job waiting time. We first start from a simple case where there are only two vehicles in a loop. We then extends to the general problem with multiple vehicles in a unidirectional circular loop. Computer simulations are then conducted to demonstrate this phenomenon. Statistical analysis of simulation results shows that the average waiting times are significantly independent of number of vehicles in the loop.


PAN Jinlian is known as adulteresses image in Water Margin,Margaret is the most vicious temptress in Hemingway's works.As the representatives of "bad women" in different countries,ages and background,Hemingwey and SHI Naian creates these two images with similarities and differences.The thesis is aimed to analyze the similarities and differences in their lives and give some enlightenment and reflection to the modern women in the 21st century.


The sense of pleasure that arises from engagement in activities is of fundamental importance for the well-being of older adults. In this study, we initiate the investigation of the psychometric properties of a Brazilian version of the California Older Person's Pleasant Events Schedule (COPPES; the Brazilian version is the OPPES-BR), which measures the frequency of older people's involvement in pleasant activities. The sample consisted of 337 community-dwelling older Brazilians, who completed the Beck Depression Inventory and OPPES-BR. Internal consistency of the "Frequency," "Pleasure," and "Obtained Pleasure" scales was excellent, indicating evidence of internal validity. Frequency and Obtained Pleasure were negatively correlated with depressive symptoms, indicating evidence of external validity. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that responses of the Brazilians do not form the same domains, compared to the original sample of Californians. Further studies to continue evaluating the psychometric properties of the OPPES-BR, such as exploring the domains that are pertinent to older Brazilians, are needed.


Aim at the choke point in server resource and network bandwidth resource of streaming media transfers,presented a mode about streaming media transmission adaptive C/S and P2P inside LAN.Analyzing the key technology of realization the system,and testing indicate this mode can improve the Qos of streaming media transmission.


An interesting debate is currently taking place among scholars and decision makers about the evaluation of public support targeted to internationalization activities. In order to understand their efficiency, we need first to know more about the determinants of their use. We developed an econometric model based on the Heckmam method, a two-step statistical approach that corrects for selection bias resulting from non-randomly selected sample of firms' awarenesses. The model is tested on a recent survey that includes 441 firms that used at least one of the 11 internationalization support measures launched in Portugal since 1994. The empirical results overall show that firm competencies and the requirements of internationalization positively affect the awareness of public support. Analysing the effects on use, we found evidence that firm competencies are negatively related with use, unlike the the requirements of internationalization, which are positively related with the use of public support.


Abstract The effect of doping on the steady-state photoconductivity σp of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) down to temperatures of 4·2 K has been studied. Phosphorus doping up to 10−2 PH3/SiH4 does not essentially change σp/eG, the photoconductivity normalized by the photocharge generation rate eG either at low T where σp/eG is constant, or between 30K < T < 50K where it rises with T. Boron doping on the other hand causes σp/eG at low T to decrease significantly and to rise with T at a higher temperature. This effect of boron doping is not related to the defect density or to the sign of the charge carriers. We tentatively attribute this effect to a heterogeneous morphology that is associated with boron doping.


ocean wave, Before drilling and production opefation, the re-entry operation needs to plug the riser end in the bottem platforrn. Due to the deepness and darkness of seabed, it's difficult to get the position information between the riser end and the bottorn platfbrm which is important foT re-entry operation. Generally speaking, cameras installed on the Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) are used to observe the riser end, an operator guesses the distance between the riser end and BOP from the irnage, and then moves the riser end empirically, but it's not an easy task and sometirnes takes too much time. To survey the relative position between riser end ancl bottem platform, here we have resortecl to irnage analysis scheme. In the paper, an image analysis seheme is proposed in which a plane board with many ciTcle marks is attached to eaoh side of the bottem platform, and the 3D position ofthe waving camera


Meccanismi e valutazione: un confronto tra approcci - The paper introduces theory-oriented evaluation, a set of approaches that argue for a stronger role of theory in evaluation. Theory-oriented evaluation criticizes mainstream objectives-inputs-outputs evaluation for poor contribution to knowledge cumulation due according to these authors - to the overwhelming role played by method. The paper develops a comparison between the two most influential approaches in theory-oriented evaluation, i.e. Carol Weiss' theory-based evaluation and its concepts of program theory and implementation theory, and realistic evaluation by Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley, based on the concepts of context, mechanism and outcome. For each of them principal features and problems will be discussed; moreover, a strict comparison will be worked out to define similarities and differences. Key words: theory-based evaluation, realistic evaluation, mechanism, context, implementation, perfect and bounded rationality Parole chiave: valutazione basata sulla teoria, valutazione realistica, meccanismo, contesto, implementazione, razionalita assoluta e limitata


The article examines the process of formation of investigative bodies in the territory of modern Kostroma Region from 1917 to August 1944, that is, from the fi rst post-revolutionary years until the re-establishment of Kostroma Region. Based
on the study of archival and memoir sources, the author introduces into the scientifi c circulation new, previously unknown information about the activities of the investigative apparatus and individual local investigators. The article provides the names of specifi c investigative workers who functioned in the prosecution authorities in the studied period of time. Separate criminal cases are described that were in the proceedings of the investigators who worked in Kostroma Region. When writing the article, the author used such research methods as comparative analysis, elements of a systemic, dialectic and historical approaches. The main conclusion is the thesis that the establishment of the investigative apparatus in the territory of Kostroma Region was diffi cult, due to a lack of qualifi ed personnel and a large amount of work. However, this process took place in strict accordance with the laws and other regulations in force at that time.


Addresses the Venezuelan exceptionalism thesis, which claims that Venezuela is characterised by relative stability, low levels of violence and non-interventionist armed forces. Ellner argues that this theory has has fostered misleading perceptions of organised labour.


The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of translating the Qur'anic text into foreign languages. In so doing, the paper considers the unique features and characteristics of the language of the
Qur'an and the special difficulties encountered by translators, from many different backgrounds, of the divine text. Different types of translation in relation to the Qur'an —literal, non-literal, and interpretive—are briefly discussed. Based on this discussion, this paper proposes an eight-point scheme to best translate the meaning of the different Qur'anic terms and/or expressions. This scheme can be applied either by an individual translator or a body of translators alike. This paper shows that the language of the
Qur'an poses considerable obstacles to the translators. Thus, the best mode of translation in relation to the
Qur'an is the interpretive one. It also calls upon researchers and translators to examine the proposed eight-point scheme for validity, usefulness, and further development.


By understanding the economics of agribusiness, an important economic sector for developing countries, this article explores possibilities for a new development paradigm based on areas of opportunities created for local entrepreneurs. Based on a detailed study of the soybean market chain in Brazil, this paper illustrates that the current neoliberal economic approach has resulted in a business which is dependent on foreign multinationals. While foreign companies hold 60% of the soybean market share, Brazilian groups hold only 40% of the entire business, with the domestic market share concentrated in land (13.3%) and labor (14.3%). But the expansion of foreign investments in agribusiness in the country offers opportunities occupied by Brazilian companies, characterizing a situation of associated dependent development. Currently, 12.4% of the share held by Brazilian companies belongs to capital and technology intensive segments such as seed production (2.4%), fertilizers (4.8%), agrochemicals (0.6%), machinery (0.3%), and agro-industry trade (4.3%). The increase in the participation of Brazilian groups in agribusiness requires agricultural policies that can be inspired by a new development paradigm. Opportunities created by foreign investments can be used by domestic groups to increase their share in agro-industrial sectors. Lessons from the Brazilian case can help other developing countries to explore areas of opportunities for domestic investments in dynamic economic sectors such as agribusiness.


The Rasiowa–Pawlak school was established during the second half of the twentieth century. The school concentrates on studies in logics, foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). Its formation has been greatly influenced by the logician Andrzej Mostowski, a professor at Warsaw University [110, 111], who, in particular, directed the doctoral dissertation of Helena Rasiowa. Nowadays, the disciples of the Rasiowa–Pawlak school are active in many research-development centres worldwide. The school founded its own journal, Fundamenta Informaticae. In this paper, we present selected trends in the studies of the school concerning applications of logic in AI. At the beginning, we briefly describe the genesis of the Rasiowa–Pawlak school. We then present the understanding, currently dominating within the school, on such basic concepts as AI and logic. Since the beginning of the 1950's, the focus of the research by Helena Rasiowa and her associates has been the application of algebraic and topological methods to the investigation of crucial problems of logic from an AI perspective. Amongst them are the completeness theorem, construction of deduction systems, construction of models, especially models for constructive mathematics [136, 241, 67] and related logics such as intuitionistic, intermediate, modal, and approximation logics. In the paper, we discuss the fundamental, in our opinion, ideas underlying these roots of the Rasiowa–Pawlak school. A great importance in the studies of the school is assigned to the search for optimal tools for reasoning about complex vague concepts, construction of knowledge representation systems, reasoning about knowledge as well as for the application of logics in learning, communication, perception, planning, action, cooperation, and competition. It should be noted that as is the case with many other research centers, the Rasiowa–Pawlak school studies pertaining to the application of logics in AI have also undergone an evolution which we present in this paper. We include extensive references to the literature on the approach presented in this paper.


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Veteriner,Wates Yogyakarta was conducted to fulfill the practice fieldwork
assignment which was scheduled by paramedic Veterinary study program. It
was also conducted to gather data for final paper. This final paper was aimed to
ascertain process inspecton sample of H5N1 on duck whith technique Real-Time
Polymerase Chain Reaction ( PCR ) in balai besar veteriner wates yogyakarta.
The substance collection was conducted in BBVet Wates Yogyakarta. The
substance collected were about inspecton sample of H5N1 on duck whith
technique Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction ( PCR ) in balai Balai Besar
Veteriner Wates Yogyakarta.
The inspecton result of the substance H5N1 sample on duck whith technique
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction ( PCR ) in the biotechnology lab Balai
Besar Veteriner Wates Yogyakarta, from five sample it trial, undiscovered DNA
from virus H5N1. The sample to emanate from BBVets employment area, namely
Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province, Jawa Tengah Province and Jawa Timur
province.


Nowadays,there are many mobile phone input methods,and the mainly are keyboard,voice and handwriting by the input mode. Because the voice input method is easily influenced by the environment's noise,so it is not as popular as the other two. The keyboard input method is very suit for the young people,and the writing input method is suit for the old people and the person who is not familiar with Pinyin. But the mobile phone's handwriting board is a little large and more expensive, so there are not many people to buy. This paper pointed out a finger-write input method to realize the writing input on the keyboard without other input devices by deeply researches of the Chinese character's structure,as well as principles of mobile input methods. This new input method has great market potential,and it already acquired the patent application number ( 2007100505970) ,now in the patent substantive examination process.


According to the requirement of system,the incipient structure of the off-axis optical system without freeform surface was computed.Choosing the Zernike polynomials surface as freeform surface,using the relationship of aberration and the Zernike polynomials,the aberration of surface parameters correction system was adjust,and the system was optimized by using CODE V.The different examples of direct optimization method and step-by-step optimization method were compared,and result shows the step by step optimization method is more suitable for the system design.Simulation results show that in the entire field of view,the diameter root mean square(RMS)of spot diagram dispersion circle is less than 27μm,MTF value at 30lp/mm is more than 0.197and the maximum grid distortion is-7.15%.


It has often been said that while the atomic bomb ended World War II, radar won it. Radar was decisive in defending Britain against the superior air forces of the Germans, in securing shipping channels in the Atlantic against German submarines, and generally in winning the later sea and air battles in the Pacific. Though numerous articles and books of technical history have been written, mainly by radar practitioners, the subject has lacked a general overview accessible to a wide audience. This book, commissioned for the Sloan Foundation Series on Technology and written by an able science writer, serves this purpose-much in the same way Richard Rhodes's widely acclaimed books tell the stories of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. The central focus of Buderi's book is the Radiation Laboratory, operated on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1940 through 1945 to develop radar technologies that could be transferred to industry for rapid manufacturing and delivery to the Allied forces. Starting as a handful of scientists organized hastily under the authority of the National Defense Research Committee, the Radiation Laboratory mushroomed into a community of almost 4000 workers by war's end. Although located in the nation's most hallowed bastion of engineering education and devoted primarily to development rather than research, the Rad Lab, as it


This paper describes the design of a three-dimensional display device capable of display-ing real-time dynamic images. The system combines the power of pre-processing Yith the strengths of a particular high-bandwidth display configuration to produce dynamic high-bandwidth volumetric images. Emphasis in this paper is given to design aspects required to provide the moving image capability to an existing static 3-D display system.


The abdomen is the largest cavity in the body that is oval shaped and extends from the pelvic diaphragm at the top to the bottom. Cervical carcinoma is a malignant tumor in the lower part of the uterus. For Carsinoma by disclosing cervicks uteri using aircraft CT Scan 4 (four) with a slice helical techniques that produce 4 slides per one rotation tehadap tube detector. Aircraft used CT scans of the Toshiba brand, generation III / Helicle Capabilities. The test results showed suspicion Ca cervix.


A major reform of the Mathematics curriculum was published in England in 2016, implemented in 2017 and examined in 2019. In Bulgaria, the analogous reform was published in 2018, will be implemented in 2020 and examined in 2022. This paper takes the framework developed by Budgell and Kunchev (2019) and seeks to interpret the new curricula in terms of the Students, the State and the Curriculum with an introduction to Assessment. In terms of the Curriculum, the paper examines, at the highest level, General and Specific Objectives; followed by Overarching Themes; then the Topics covered and finally the Detailed Content Statements for each topic. The paper concludes that the real differences between the teaching of Mathematics in England and Bulgaria lie not in the Mathematics itself but in the overall curriculum and assessment frameworks within which Mathematics is taught.


The digital competence in university students has taken on greater relevance as a response to a new teaching-learning modality and for graduates, it has meant facing the demands of the current labor market that demands new digital skills. The objective of this research is to compare the level of the dimensions of the digital competence by academic areas with an instrument with proven validity. Validation was performed by expert judgment and calculation of Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. The survey was applied to university students in the areas of Law and Business Sciences, Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering and Health Sciences of a university in Arequipa. The instrument used for the comparative study exceeded the cut-off levels, achieving content validity. Likewise, the internal consistency of the scores has good to excellent reliability. Most students have a high to very high level of knowledge of digital skills. In five indicators there is a significant difference between the levels of knowledge of the different academic areas. We concluded that the evaluated students are prepared to face current technological requirements, keeping in mind that it is a duty of the university to ensure that all of its students satisfy said requirements.


The ratio between fluorescence (F) and chlorophyll‐a (Chl)—where fluorescence is measured with a saturating fluorometer—is variable in the world's oceans, with the highest ratios and highest variability observed in the Southern Ocean. While species composition and Chl packaging per cell are strong drivers for the observed variability, additional factors, including iron limitation, have to this date not specifically been evaluated. Radiometers on biogeochemical (BGC)‐Argo floats allow for an independent estimate of Chl concentration that is based on the light attenuation coefficient, Kd. Making use of 4,000 radiometry profiles from BGC‐Argo floats in the Southern Ocean, we estimate Chl based on Kd and investigate the variability in F/Chl. Our analysis reveals a positive correlation between F/Chl and a proxy for iron limitation based on non‐photochemical quenching dynamics. The strong influence of iron limitation on F/Chl is further corroborated by data from Southern Ocean phytoplankton cultures.


Talk of the Spirit's work of sanctification often leads to a number of different conclusions, ones that often appear mutually exclusive. Under such conditions, their espousers often make cases for their views in overcompensatory ways by highlighting their approaches over and against other views that may be complementary in their own way. This article contends that behind this diversity are often competing claims within different domains of inquiry surrounding the Creator–creation interface. These commitments lurk in the background of these debates, and their exposure may help in the ongoing task of speaking of the Spirit's endeavoring in and among creatures.


The objective of this paper is to present a basic study of rapid object recognition in full scene of high resolution SAR image. In this paper the recognition is viewed as a recipient of information from two sources: a scene containing the object to be recognized and a geo-database indicating the location of the objects to be recognized with feature class. Using the prior information offered by geo-database and SAR imaging model, the efficiency of object recognition is improved rapidly.


In their report of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) among people with multiple sclerosis (MS), the Dutch MS Taskforce of the Netherlands Society of Neurology did not find an association between lymphocyte counts and the severity of the disease,1 which was similar to the findings of the Covisep registry study.2 Furthermore, people with MS taking diseasemodifying therapies (DMTs) that induce lymphopenia are not necessarily at risk of poorer outcomes from COVID-19.1–3


Although many studies have defined mechanisms of resistance to EGFR‐TKIs, acquired resistance remains the major limitation of monotherapy with EGFR‐TKIs.


The characterization of power radiation and coupling has been an important research subject. The partial element equivalent circuit method (PEEC) is a powerful tool in bridging the electromagnetic modeling together with a circuit solver. Even though PEEC was a convenient tool for many quasi-static applications, in this paper, we propose a new approach for PEEC to calculate the radiated and coupled power from the distributive point of view. Formulations for both radiated and transferred powers are proposed based on a full wave PEEC model. Distributive power can be evaluated with negligible additional computational cost in PEEC implementations. The physical meaning is interpreted according to the energy conservation law. Representative radiating units are employed as benchmarks. The proposed method can be applied in the diagnosis and optimization process for signal integrity, EMI, EMC, etc.


Defeat at Gaugamela and the surrender of the Achaemend capitals ended Darius' hopes for victory and the recovery of his empire. There was some talk of gathering new forces from central Asia, but his political enemies, Bessus and Nabarzanes, were already plotting to arrest the king and turn him over to the Conqueror. If they hoped to save themselves through this action, they had made a serious miscalculation. Some of the nobles remained true to Darius, and after his arrest and murder, they made their peace with Alexander and reaped varying degrees of reward. Artabazus, Phrataphernes, Autophradates, and Amminapes abandoned the fleeing Persian army and sought the Conqueror's mercy. Bessus was, however, hunted down and eventually subjected to torture and execution. Despite Alexander's attempt to endear himself to the defeated, he was met with distrust and was soon confronted with a major insurrection in Bactria and Sogdiana, a land well suited to guerrilla warfare.


Despite the great progress made in the last few years in the manufacturing of ceramic bricks and their fitting technology, brick facades still suffer from a series of critical problems and in some cases the number of pathologies have even increased. The most common and critical problem of brick facade enclosures is the detachment of pieces from the die, thus the loss of union. This detachment can be associated with three different causes: an inadequate prescription of the griping material, the absence of control joints to make the enclosure compatible, and the incidence of sun and rain on the facades. While the first two factors are directly related to the design process, the fitting techniques, training of the work force, and quality control efficiency, the third factor is related to environmental factors that generate a different microclimate in each facade depending on its orientation. This paper describes some examples of detachments in brick facade enclosures and the main causes that originated from them.


This paper describes the impact of drug addiction, alcoholism and smoking, at rural development process. In addition to the main objective of the study, it pays attention to find the factors for drug addiction in rural areas. This study scrutinizes the variations of drug addiction among children, elders, males and females. Drug abuse is one of the prominent problems which affect the country in many aspects including social, economic, and educational and health. The most highlighting issue with regard to drug abuse is that prisons in Sri Lanka accommodate approximately 40 percent of drug related offenders compelling the Government to spend large sums of money on them. So it has become a glaring problem for the country, both urban and rural, as they have become a burden to the country's economy and also to the society.


A process for the production of water-soluble pouches. The process comprises the steps of drawing a first film into a mould to form a first compartment, adding composition to the first compartment, drawing a second film into the mould to form a second compartment which comprises a composition and, preferably, sealing. The first film is perforated and the second film is drawn into the mould by means of suction applied through the first film. This eliminates the need to align separately formed pouches or containers. This also reduces the total amount of film needed to produce a multi-compartment pouch. Furthermore, it is very easy to vary the film material used according to what properties are desired. Since the different compartments may require different properties this adds flexibility to the process. Process particularly suited for the production of water soluble pouches such as cleaning or fabric care pouches.


In the current era of globalization, universities are working to conclude agreements on international exchanges. Such agreements are concluded as a result of support from various quarters and departments within the university. International exchanges between Kazakhstan and Japan have progressed over the past few years. Semey State Medical University and Kochi University concluded an agreement on academic cooperation and student exchanges in 2018. This agreement follows on the heels of similar agreements concluded between Semey State Medical University and Hiroshima and Shimane universities. The current paper described the characteristics of Semey State Medical University, Kochi University, Hiroshima University, and Shimane University. The study described in this paper examined the current state of collaboration between Semey State Medical University and Japanese organizations or individuals (i.e. the authors of this paper). This paper described collaborative/cooperative projects that Semey State Medical University and Kochi, Hiroshima, and Shimane universities have planned for the near future. This paper also offered specific proposals to facilitate future international exchanges between the City of Semey including the Republic of Kazakhstan and Kochi, Hiroshima, and Shimane in various areas. All 4 of the aforementioned universities are providing a rigorous education, and individual departments at those universities are rigorously conducting their own and joint research. In light of current conditions at those universities, further cooperation is necessary in terms of international exchanges. Universities have been concluding agreements on international exchanges, so universities, government agencies, foundations and organizations supporting international exchanges, NGO, and relevant personnel should coordinate to facilitate exchanges between prefectures/provinces and municipalities and their foreign counterparts. This should facilitate increased exchanges and further regional development. Based on the current results, further actions will be taken in the future.


While the nexus of the entrepreneurial education (EE) framework shapes education policies and promotes entrepreneurial opportunities to achieve global sustainable development goals, studies on the potential mechanisms by which the ecosystem dimension of entrepreneurial education (EEE) influences entrepreneurial behavior are still scarce. To address these lacunae, this research study investigates the interaction between EEE elements (institutional environment, course curriculum, and academic incubators) and sustainable entrepreneurial intention (SEI) and in addition, examines the role of attitude towards sustainability (ATS) as a mediator from the resource dependence perspective, deploying the theories of planned behavior and social cognitive career. Furthermore, we examine the moderating role of sustainable entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) in the relationship between ATS and SEI. We developed and tested a model on a sample of 402 university and academic institution students with diverse academic backgrounds using partial least squares structural equation modeling. Results indicate that ecosystem elements of EE and attitudinal attributes are crucial factors in promoting SEI. The indirect impact of EEE involves fostering ATS, which in turn augment SEI. The results also reveal that SEO is a moderator that shapes attitudes and career intentions towards sustainable entrepreneurship. In sum, the present empirical study sheds light on the pathway to build sustainable entrepreneurial careers through analyzing the ecosystem framework of entrepreneurship education. Implications, limitations, and future research avenues are discussed in detail.


In one of his letters to Lucilius (Book 6,Ep.56), Seneca discusses the effects of noise and silence on study and contemplation.In the opening sections of the letter, he reveals that his current lodging is located above a bathhouse whence issue continually all sorts of irritating sounds. Seneca insists that such noises, despite their persistence, present no real distraction to one who possesses inner peace and a clear, untroubled mind (animum enim cogo sibi intentum esse nee avocari ad externa: omnia licet foris resonent, dum intus nihil tumultus sit,§5) and whose thoughts are 'good, steadfast, and sure' (nullus hominum aviumque concentus interrumpet cogitationes bonas solidasque iam et certas,§11).


A battery tester is an important equipment for battery manufacturers to understand several characteristics of a lithium-ion battery including dc and/or over-discharge properties. This paper proposes a low cost battery tester that can discharge the battery to zero voltage under a minimized current ripple to evaluate the characteristics of a lithium-ion battery. The circuit of the proposed tester consists of two basic bidirectional buck converters with no additional switch or auxiliary circuitry structure. In addition, to ensure the minimization of the current ripple components, a link voltage variation scheme is adapted. Due to these properties, the proposed circuit enables to provide a low cost and a good DC characteristics with a low current ripple. The performance of the proposed battery tester is verified by several simulation and experimental results with a lithium-ion battery as a load.


In (high pressure hydrogen injection) hot surface ignition engines under nearly all engine operating conditions combustion pressure vibration is generated just after ignition. As a result of many experimental investigations a true nature for the cause of this interesting phenomenon was found and are listed: (1) This phenomenon probably originates from the extremely high local rate of burning of the hydrogen-air mixture. (2) Accompanying the stronger combustion pressure vibration was an increase in engine vibration and noise with increase in NO/sub x/ emission and higher piston temperature. (3) Longer (ignition delay) resulted in a steeper pressure-time diagram which resulted in a stronger combustion pressure vibration. (4) The phenomenon had negligible effect on engine performance. (5) The phenomenon can be prevented by premixing a certain quantity of hydrogen gas into the intake air stream. The result was a shortened ignition delay.