The article deals with two particular topics of Juchid numismatics. The author examines the legend written in Arabic letters on the obverse of copper coins struck at Shahr al-Jadid, a town once located on the site of nowadays' Old Orhei settlement (Moldova). Researchers use to attribute the coinage of this type to the final stage of Juchid presence in the region (second half of the 1360s). Silver coins of that period, save for the latest issues (AH 769–770), bear the name of Khan ʿAbd Allah (1363–1370). As for copper coins, all belonging to the same undated type, those were long considered anonymous. Early in the 2000s the Romanian numismatist Eugen Nicolae suggested to see on them the Turkic name ﻗﺘﻠﻐﺒﻮﻏﺎ Kutluğboğa, implying certain graphic errors in the coin inscriptions. On the basis of written sources researchers use to associate this name with one of the Juchid Khan's regional governors, a dignitary who took part in negotiations with Venice in the middle of 1340–1350 and later also in the battle against the Lithuanian prince Olgerd's army at Sinie Vody ('Blue Waters') in 1362. Two completely different reading versions of the same coin inscription have induced the author to carry out a study aimed at clarifying the real spelling and translation of the obverse legend. In the course of joint work with colleagues (Vladimir Nastich), the author has come to the conclusion that Eugen Nicolae's reading of the obverse legend on the copper coins in question is critically erroneous and the proposed reading of the legend as the name Kutluğboğa is impossible, which is confirmed by a detailed analysis of the arabographic legend, accompanying with high quality photos of clearer samples. The author has succeeded to reaffirm the reading of the legend proposed by Svetlana Yanina in 1977. Vladimir Nastich offered a refined translation of the cited expression as "glorious [is] who is moderate". Other types of Juchid copper coins of the late 14th century containing the same legend were also found. A similar dictum was detected as part of a more complete saying on a copper coin of the Qajar dynasty (Rasht, AH 1229 / 1813–1814 [Zeno numismatic database, #9077]). All this has led the author to transferring his search from numismatics to Islamic texts. As a result, the cited saying has been found among the Hadith ascribed to Prophet Muhammad. Spelling, transcription and translation of the expression look like this: ﻋﺰ ﻣﻦ ﻗﻨﻊ ﻭذل ﻣﻦ طمع ʿazza man qanaʿa wa-d̠alla man ṭamaʿa "glorious [is] who is moderate, and despicable [is] who is greedy". The result of the described work can be outlined in several paragraphs: The legend on the 'New City' copper coin obverse is not Turkic as per Eugen Nicolae, just Arabic. Instead of whatever name, it contains the first part of the saying ﻋﺰ ﻣﻦ ﻗﻨﻊ ʿazza man qanaʿa "glorious [is] who is moderate". The cited saying is present within the set of Hadith allegedly uttered by Prophet Muhammad. Thus, the question of correctness of its reading and translation can be considered settled and closed. The text of Hadith has been fixed on a Juchid coin for the first time. The use of part of the Hadith in the design of a mass coin issued in Eastern Europe before the withdrawal of the Juchids requires special attention and further study. The article should be interesting to historians and numismatists studying the history of Juchi Ulus, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the earliest history of the Moldavian principality, Islamic numismatics, and also to all those who are curious about the given topic.


The analysis of rainfall is offered over a period of thirty-two years of measurement. This study based on the calculation of a number of indices has to account for the extreme variability of rainfall in the region of Tiaret (western Algeria). It also shows the severe and lasting climate of drought observed in this region from 1984 to 2002. It also highlights the return to a wet phase recorded from 2003 to 2014. The year 2015 has been quite deficient in rainfall. Is it the beginning of a new period of drought?


Abstract : This study assesses the commercial viability of advanced nuclear technology as a means of meeting future demand for electricity by comparing the costs of producing electricity from different sources under varying circumstances. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the cost of producing electricity using a new generation of nuclear reactors and other base-load technologies under a variety of assumptions about prospective carbon dioxide charges, EPAct incentives, and future market conditions. This study compares the cost of advanced nuclear technology with that of other major sources of base-load capacity that are available throughout the country including both conventional and innovative fossil-fuel technologies. Because the study focuses only on technologies that can be used as base-load capacity in most parts of the country, it does not address renewable energy technologies that are intermittent (such as wind and solar power) or technologies that use resources readily available only in certain areas (such as geothermal or hydroelectric power).


Quantum mechanically determined electrode potential dependent activation energies for hydronium ion discharge over Pt−H (Heyrovsky reaction) and the reverse reaction have been used to predict Tafel plots. The calculated Tafel plot for H2 oxidation is similar in shape to an experimental plot from the literature for a Pt(100) electrode and will overlap it when an appropriate preexponential factor is chosen in the Arrhenius expression. This provides strong theoretical support for the first electron-transfer step being rate limiting during H2 oxidation over the potential range 0 to 0.15 V, and the second electron-transfer step being rate limiting during H2 evolution over this electrode. The exchange current density is determined from the calculated oxidation and reduction currents and is found to overestimate experiment primarily because the predicted activation energy at the reversible potential underestimates the experimental value. This study illustrates that curvature in nonlinear Tafel plots may stem fro...


Catalytic properties of gold remarkably change by the size of gold particles and the kind of supports. An extremely high catalytic activity for aerobic oxidation of glucose was achieved when the size of gold could be minimized to about 3 nm on Al2O3 and ZrO2. On the other hand, Au/NiO exhibited higher catalytic activity than conventional gold catalysts such as Au/TiO2 for base-free aerobic oxidation of aliphatic alcohol to carboxylic acid with high selectivity (97%) at a full conversion. Gold on NiO also showed high selectivity to alcohol in the presence of amine and promoted the N-formylation of primary amine with methanol. Gold on ZrO2 showed the best catalytic activity and the selectivity for the N-alkylation of primary amine with alcohol to produce secondary amine. The surface hydroxyl groups would participate as acidic and/or basic sites for the adsorption of substrates, deprotonation of alcohol, and hydrogen transfer in the N-alkylation.


In multicore processor systems, last-level caches (LLCs) play a crucial role in reducing system energy by i) filtering out expensive accesses to main memory and ii) reducing the time spent executing in high-power states. Cache compression can increase effective cache capacity and reduce misses, improve performance, and potentially reduce system energy. However, previous compressed cache designs have demonstrated only limited benefits due to internal fragmentation and limited tags. In this paper, we propose the Decoupled Compressed Cache (DCC), which exploits spatial locality to improve both the performance and energy-efficiency of cache compression. DCC uses decoupled super-blocks and non-contiguous sub-block allocation to decrease tag overhead without increasing internal fragmentation. Non-contiguous sub-blocks also eliminate the need for energy-expensive re-compaction when a block's size changes. Compared to earlier compressed caches, DCC increases normalized effective capacity to a maximum of 4 and an average of 2.2 for a wide range of workloads. A further optimized Co-DCC (Co-Compacted DCC) design improves the average normalized effective capacity to 2.6 by co-compacting the compressed blocks in a super-block. Our simulations show that DCC nearly doubles the benefits of previous compressed caches with similar area overhead. We also demonstrate a practical DCC design based on a recent commercial LLC design.


The majority of plants associate with mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhizal fungi are ecologically important because they form relationships in and on the roots of a host plant in a symbiotic association. Mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and AMF is life form that known mutuality symbiosis. The host plant provides the fungus soluble carbon sources and the fungus provides the host plant water and nutrients from the soil. Mycorrhizal fungi are classified in to 4 major types: ectomycorrhizas, arbucular mycorrhizas, ericaceous mycorrhizas and orchid mycorrhizas. Arbuscular mycorrhizal associations are the most abundant of the several different types of mycorrhizas. Plants benefit more from soil because of surface extent of root of plants enlarge by AMF extramatrical hyphes. These hyphes improve aggregate stability of soil. Soil resistance to erosion and plant resistance to drought – salinity – high metal stress are increased by AMF. Also plants are protected to root Ş. Palta, S. Demir, K. Şengonul, O. Kara, H. Şensoy Bartin Orman Fakultesi Dergisi 88 pathogens and growth hormones induced by AMF. There is positive effect of AMF on physiology and morphology of range plants as well as on plant growth and soil quality. At the present day, thought of range rehabilitation studies which continued with composite fertilizer dwindle in scientific area. The importance reasons of this emanate from thought that composite fertilizer damage to ecosystem. Range rehabilitation studies with AMF inoculation is topical subject in Turkey as is the case in the entire world. So, it should be done map of AMF in Turkey for isolating and production of AMF. This AMF are applied for range rehabilitation especially the field that marginal soil condition.


In this work research of interrelation of subjectivity of students with features of their cognitive and style sphere is presented. Significant distinctions in intellectual styles at students with object and subject orientations are revealed. Specifics of interrelation of subjectivity with intellectual styles are found in students with humanitarian and natural-science profiles. The received results testify that the subject position of the student of pedagogical higher education institution finds the reflection in a cognitive and style profile and has specific features of manifestation at representatives of different profiles of training.


The eggs of Chilo partellus (Swinhoe), commonly known as maize borer showed the presence of certain morphological features after thorough analysis through scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), which can be used in taxonomic investigation along with the other aspect adopt by a taxonomist for accurate identification and updation of the information about the taxa. Principally, the shape and chorionic structures vary greatly among the higher taxonomic groups due to the presence of key structures on the egg chorion, also known as sutures and ridges. In the presently studied species, besides the egg chorion texture, the micropylar end was surrounded by nine rosettes like primary cells.


An ultra low-power biopotential instrumentation amplifier, based on the current balancing technique is presented. An internal programmable high-pass filter has been included in the instrumentation amplifier to filter out low-frequency artifacts if necessary. The instrumentation amplifier was fabricated in a multi-project test chip in 035/spl mu/ mixed mode CMOS process through MOSIS. Measurement results show that the instrumentation amplifier draws a current of 9/spl mu/A from a 3.3 V lithium-ion battery and it has CMRR of 100 dB and input voltage dynamic range of /spl plusmn/6 mV. The input referred noise voltage is 0.3/spl mu/V//spl radic/Hz with a flicker noise corner frequency of 15 Hz. Design methodology and experimental results along with measurement issues are given in this paper.


ABSTRACT Summer climate variability in South China at decadal scales is not well understood due to the relatively short meteorological records and the scarcity of paleo-proxies. Herein, we explore the potential of using tree-ring latewood width (LWW) from Tsuga longibracteata to reconstruct summer climatic factors. Latewood usually forms in the mid- to late growing season, at least partly during summer. Tree-ring samples were collected at three sites (HS, QSZ, and SJD) close to the northern boundary of Guangxi province. We built three LWW chronologies and three adjusted LWW chronologies (LWWadj) after the removal of the influence of earlywood on latewood growth. Bootstrapped correlation and response analyses indicate that the LWW chronologies are significantly correlated with summer climatic factors, and the LWWadj chronologies show much higher correlations. The extent to which summer climatic signals can be extracted from LWWadj is site-dependent. At the well-drained sites (QSZ and SJD) with abundant sunshine, LWWadj shows significant positive correlations with July–August Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), owing to the positive response to precipitation and the negative response to temperature. In contrast, LWWadj only exhibits positive responses to July temperature on north-oriented slope (HS) with high water-holding capacity. Nearly 37% of the variance in the regional SPEI can be explained by the LWWadj chronology from the forest stand (QSZ) on well-drained southeast-facing slope with less endogenous disturbances. These results indicate that there is a great potential of using LWWadj to reconstruct summer SPEI in South China when suitable sampling sites are selected.


Abstract Substituent effects have been investigated for both nucleophili -ic and reduction reactions of arylsulphonyl fluorides in aqueous media. The significance of the results will be discussed in relation to the reactions of arylsulphonyl chlorides.


Genetic testing is a type of medical test that identifies changes in chromosomes, genes, or proteins. Most of the time, testing is used to find changes that are associated with inherited disorders. The results of a genetic test can confirm or rule out a suspected genetic condition or help determine a person's chance of developing or passing on a genetic disorder. The main difference between direct-to-consumer genetic testing and the standard genetic testing is the way informational support is provided in internet offers of testing. Counselling may be offered as an additional special service at extra costs and at the customer's request. It may also be that a recommendation or at least an offer is given for the customer to contact a doctor or health practitioner from the company via phone for counselling. In a liberal society the fundamental individual rights can be considered to include access to medical treatment and diagnostics that may be helpful for improving one's health condition or that can help an individual make decisions regarding life style and health. At the European level, there are no binding legal regulations that specifically apply for genetic testing. In some European counties, national laws, require a responsible medical person to be involved before a genetic test is provided. The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 November 1996, while an Additional Protocol to the Convention, concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes, was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 7 May 2008. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is closely watched by the community of medical genetics and counsellors, and the EU funded Eurogentest Network of Excellence. In 2010, the European Society of Human Genetics has releaseda statement on direct-to-consumer gene testing for health-related purposes. The European Society of Human Genetics is concerned about the way in which commercial companies are currently introducing genetic tests into the market outside of the scope of the traditional healthcare system.


Recognizing and segmenting actions from long videos is a challenging problem. Most existing methods focus on designing temporal convolutional models. However, these models are limited in their flexibility and ability to model long-term dependencies. Transformers have recently been used in various tasks. But the lack of inductive bias and the inefficiency of handling long video sequences limit the application of Transformers in action segmentation. In this paper, we present a pure Transformer-based model without temporal convolutions in action segmentation, called Temporal U-Transformer. The U-Transformer architecture not only reduces complexity but also introduces an inductive bias that neighboring frames are more likely to belong to the same class. Besides, we further propose a boundary-aware loss based on the distribution of similarity scores between frames from attention modules to improve the ability to recognize boundaries. Extensive experiments show the effectiveness of our method.


Several studies and research projects all over the world have considered transport pricing measures and policies including all kinds of road and parking pricing as promising attempts to solve the urgent traffic problems in urban areas. However, empirical findings have showed that public acceptability of such measures is rather low. This article analyses the reasons for this lacking acceptability. Five major issues of public concern are identified and analysed in more detail: information, perceived effectiveness and efficiency, individual claims, revenue allocation and equity. Then, based on this analysis some principles are derived how to increase public acceptability of transport pricing measures. 1 The work for this article was done as part of the EU research-project TRANSPRICE (Trans Price Integrated Urban Transport Pricing for Optimum Modal Split), sponsored by the European Commission, DG VII. 2 1. ACCEPTANCE OF TRANSPORT PRICING EMPIRICAL FINDINGS Traffic problems and congestion are perceived as some of the most pressing problems in high density areas today. There is an urgent call for improvement on public transport, reduced fares, improved roads, etc. by people living or travelling in these areas. There exists a large number of proposals how to deal with these problems within the framework of traffic demand management systems. They comprise regulatory traffic restrictions (e.g. access control and reducing parking space) as well as various measures of transport pricing. In this article the term transport pricing is defined as methods of payment for the use of a ground transport system and its infrastructure. Transport pricing is more extensive as the term road pricing which is often used in a similar way. Hence, transport pricing comprises in the first place all kinds of road and parking pricing measures. An important precondition for successfully implementing such traffic demand management systems is public and political acceptance. However, empirical research in this field as the EU research-project MIRO 1 has shown that the public acceptance of such measures is low in spite of the perception of traffic problems as serious. On the one hand the MIRO results revealed a high general perception of problems related to traffic. People are especially sensitive to air pollution, congestion and lacking parking space (Bartley, 1995). Jones (1995) reviewing various studies reports similar results. Around 80% of adults regard current traffic levels in cities as a great problem and this problem is perceived as deteriorating and worsening. Among the above mentioned problems people perhaps regard the car traffic in the city centres as the most serious problems (evidence from the U.K., from European surveys: UITP/EC survey "Access to city centres", from Japan and the U.S.A). On the other hand public support for countermeasures exists but it highly depends on the kind of measure: The most popular measures seem to be those which influence the choice between modes (e.g. improving bus and rail schemes, encouraging walking and bicycling). These measures alone seem to be of minor effectiveness but they are an important prerequisite to gain public acceptance of restraints. In addition to 1 The MIRO project (Mobility Impacts, Reactions and Opinions) (sponsered by the European Commission, DG XIII) is a collaborative study of public opinion about a range of traffic demand management schemes. The main aim of the project was to investigate the acceptability and potential effectiviness of such schemes (Bartley, 1995). 3 alternatives or supplements to car use next best accepted measures seem to be traffic regulations (e.g. better parking enforcement or even partial restrictions on cars entering central areas). The least accepted measures comprise above all road user charging (charging drivers to enter city centres or congested areas). Jones (1995) points to an immediate problem of transport pricing: "There will inevitably be resistance to paying for something (i.e., road use) which was previously regarded as free at the point of use, particularly since most travellers will experience net losses as a result of the introduction of road user charging". These empirical findings raise two questions: a) How to explain the different levels of public acceptance of various travel demand management measures? Why, for example, is the support for transport pricing lower than for restrictive measures? b) How to increase the acceptability of transport pricing? How to design a solution package in order to convince a majority of people? The first question is addressed in section 2, the second in section 3.


We have developed an updated version of the Dust and Magnet visualization technique for large, multitouch displays. Multiple users can interactively manipulate magnets (data attributes) to observe how iron dust (the data items) changes its positions, and thus gain insight about the data. This type of visualization provides a very direct engagement with the data and thus a very "hands on" analytic experience.


The semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell and, in response to the voltage level of the selection signal outputting a selection signal having a data transfer unit, and a first control voltage level in the data write state to control access to the memory cell, and data reading state and the selection signal output section for outputting a selection signal having a second control voltage level, sensing the voltage formed by the sensing current is supplied to the memory cell through a data portion transmitted from the data read state, and outputs the read data in accordance with the detection result and includes a data detection, a second control voltage level is characterized in that it is lower than the first control voltage level.


This article makes a brief introduction of the community education of its definition, type, and mode. It makes a deep analysis of the current situation and the major problems of the community education in Wenzhou. The effective methods of solving all the problems are also provided in this article.


This chapter proposes a deeper integration of the writing practices like creative writing and storytelling in a class of literature in order to develop a new pedagogical model that empowers the students of literature to not only read and interpret but also to express and engage with the text in a nuanced manner. It does so in the context of the current trends of interactive reading and writing fostered by the digital technology where productive engagements with the texts through fanfictions, visual adaptations, and so on are a part reading a text. Following the paradigm of fanfiction, the project "The Crucible on Twitter" implemented in the classrooms of English Literature in a Malaysian University revealed the ways in which digitally mediated writing activities enable the learners to engage with a text on its own turf, promoting cross-cultural understanding and empowering the learner-readers to integrate their own meanings, concerns, and issues into their reading of an original literary text.


Objective To explore the protective effect of the edaravone on dopaminergic neurons of the PD rats induced by lipopolysaccharide(LPS).Methods The rat model of PD was established after intranigral injection of 15μg LPS.Twenty-four female PD rats were randomly divided into three groups with different injection dose of edaravone(5.0mg/kg,1.0mg/kg)and the injection of saline as control.Five normal rats were set as normal group.On 28d,the number of tyrosine hydroxylase(TH)positive neurons and superoxide dismutase(SOD)and malondialdehyde(MDA)in the substantia nigra(SN)were observed.Results The TH positive neurons survived in the animals treated with edaravone were more than those of the saline group(P0.05).The SOD levers of edaravone groups was higher,while MDA level was lower than the saline group(P0.05).Conclusion Edaravone attenuates LPS-induced degeneration of rat substantia nigral dopaminergic neurons.


Outcrossing between rice and red rice has been a concern because of their morphological similarities and oftentimes synchronous flowering. A continuing study on reciprocal outcrossing between conventional rice and red rice was done in 2001. Pairs of rice and red rice with near synchronous flowering were planted in isolated field plots. In 2003, seedlings were produced from the pair 'Kaybonnet' and AR19948 black-hulled red rice planted in a greenhouse, and DNA was extracted from leaves of the 14-day-old seedlings. Outcrossing between Kaybonnet rice and AR1994-8 black-hulled red rice was estimated at 0.27% with AR1994-8 as the pollen donor, and about 0.20% with Kaybonnet as the pollen donor. Although these outcrossing rates were calculated from a total of only six hybrid plants, the results generally agree with an earlier report, which suggested that pollen movement from red rice to rice may be higher than from rice to red rice, and that outcrossing occurs even when the height difference between rice and red rice is as great as 60 cm. INTRODUCTION Conditions favorable for growing cultivated rice are also favorable for the growth, development, and reproduction of red rice, due to their morphological similarities (De Datta 1981; Gealy et al., 2002). These conditions create major concerns over hybridization between rice and its weedy relatives (Vaughan et al., 2001). These con1 This is a completed study. AAES Research Series 517 38 cerns have increased in recent years in the US due to the development of herbicide resistant cultivars. Gene flow between rice and red rice can proceed in both directions (Zhang et al., 2003). The objective of the study was to determine the reciprocal outcrossing rates between several adjacent pairs of conventional rice and red rice ecotypes under Arkansas field conditions using four SSR rice markers. MATERIALS AND METHODS Plant Materials Non-herbicide-resistant rice cultivars and red rice ecotypes were drill-seeded in isolated field plots at the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center on 2 May 2001 using seed sources and procedures similar to those described previously (Estorninos et al., 2003). Based on previous comparisons of numerous rice cultivars and red rice ecotypes under field conditions at Stuttgart, Ark., pairs of rice and red rice with overlapping flowering periods were selected for these experiments (Table D 1). The pairs studied in the present test included Kaybonnet rice and AR1994-8 (awned, black-hulled red rice) and 'Starbonnet' rice and AR1994-11D (awned, straw-hulled red rice). Due to time constraints, DNA analyses from only the first pair have been completed for both years. Heading notes were recorded three times per week throughout the reproductive periods of rice and red rice to obtain estimates of flowering dates within each plot. After flowering was completed, all red rice panicles in each plot (2 rows by 3 m) were bagged securely with perforated plastic bags to assure capture of all shattered and non shattered seeds. At maturity, heights of five rice and five red rice plants in each plot were measured to mid-panicle and to the tallest point on the plant. The bagged red rice panicles were harvested, threshed, cleaned, and dried to 7 to 10% moisture at room temperature, and 100-seed weights were determined. Rice panicles (not bagged) were harvested and processed similarly. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with three replications. The data were not analyzed statistically due to the extremely low number of hybrids detected. In 2003, seeds from the pairs of Kaybonnet (2060) and AR1994-8 RR (1460) grown in 2001 were selected and planted in soil in groups of 24 in greenhouse flats. Approximately 1500 and 1010 seedlings of Kaybonnet and AR1994-8 RR emerged, respectively. Leaves from 14-day old seedlings in each group were bulked and genomic DNA was extracted. Genomic DNA Analysis Genomic DNA (20 ng/ L) served as a template for amplification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using SSR rice markers. These markers, RM215, RM234, RM251, and RM 253, are known to differentiate between rice and red rice (Gealy et al., 2002). The reactions were carried out in 15-μL volumes and subjected to the following temperature profiles: one cycle at 94oC for 45 s, 35 cycles at 94oC for 45 s, 57oC for 45 s, and at 72oC for 60 s, and one cycle at 72oC for 7 min. DNA fragments were


When Alexander of Macedon failed to cajole his troops into driving deeper into India, Western civilization lost the first of many opportunities to acquaint itself with a rich and varied culture. The timidity of Alexander's army spared the subcontinent from yet one more crushing invasion, but this brief exposure marked the beginning of an enduring interest in India on the part of the West. Two millennia have elapsed since Alexander's conquests, but his legendary curiosity about the life and beliefs of the peoples beyond the River Indus stands as a provocative metaphor for our approach to Indian civilization today.


The world economy grew by less than 2.5 per cent in the year 2001-a rate that is understood to be the breaking point between economic progress and slippage. The world's major economies-the United States, Japan and Europe-have either been contracting or growing at a rate close to zero. The GDP growth of the US economy for the four quarters of the year 2001 is estimated to have been 1.3 per cent, 0.3 per cent, -0.4 per cent, and 0.2 per cent respectively (revised estimates for the third and fourth quarters put it at -1.3 per cent and 1.4 per cent. See Tables 1 and 2 for the general picture of the state of economies in different regions/countries as reflected in GDP growth rates around the middle of 2001).


The growth of Bacillus subtilis TR–44, a prototrophic transductant from one of inosine producers, was completely inhibited by 200 µg/ml of 5-fiuorotryptophan, a tryptophan analogue, and the inhibition was reversed by the addition of L-tryptophan.Several mutants resistant to 5FT* produced L-tryptophan in the growing cultures. The best producer, strain FT–39, which was selected on a medium containing 1500 µg/ml of 5FT, produced 2 g/liter of L-tryptophan, when cultured in a medium containing 8% of glucose but without any tryptophan precursors. In this mutant, anthranilate synthetase, a key enzyme of the tryptophan biosynthesis, had increased over 280-fold, presumably owing to a genetic derepression. From FT–39, mutants resistant to 7000 µg/ml of 5FT were derived. Among them, strain FF–25 produced 4 g/liter of L-tryptophan, twice as much as did the parental strain. Since this strain produced large amount of L-phenylalanine as well as L-tryptophan, the genetic alteration seemed to be involved in some metabolic...


The diploma work is devoted to the historical evolution of the currency on the Czech territory. This work briefly describes the course and in fact shaping and important milestones in the development of Czech cash, compiled in chronological order. The work is a cross-section of the most important moments in the history of currencies until year 1993.


ABSTRACT A research program has been set up to develop oil dispersants containing oleophilic nutrients. This new type of dispersant will not only dilute the oil slick into the sea, but also start and speed up the microbial growth around the fine oil droplets, because the nutrients remain at the oil/water interface and are not washed away in the water. Each of these newly synthesized nutrients is made of an oleophilic part (normal paraffine or olefine) and of a hydrophilic moiety (containing nitrogen and or phosphorus). This surfactant-like structure allows it to maintain a good level of dispersing efficiency. The capacity to stimulate biodegradation of the various compounds was evaluated by measuring the microbial CO2 production (mineralization) in a gas train arrangement of 40 channels monitored by a 40-way valve. This guaranteed a constant air supply to each test vial. A practical partition coefficient of the nutrient between oil and water was determined to evaluate its ability to remain at the interpha...


Abstract : The early body-wave coda of far-regional events (14 - 29 degrees) contains triplicated arrivals from upper-mantle discontinuities that could potentially improve seismic monitoring capabilities. However, far-regional seismograms are typically under-utilized in location and magnitude estimation because path-specific heterogeneity and multiple phase interactions make the arrival suite difficult to interpret accurately. In this report we present a set of techniques that were developed to improve phase characterization and identification at these distances. We have applied our techniques to data from two arrays in Kazakhstan: MKAR (Makanchi) and KKAR (Karatau), both of which record far-regional events throughout south-central Asia. Our techniques include improved array processing methods (e.g., phase-coherence semblance stacking) to characterize arrival time, back-azimuth and slowness of individual phases within the P-coda arrival suite, and methods to more accurately identify the measured arrivals (e.g., -p transformation and clustering analysis to determine wavefield templates).


The singlet fission (SF) channels in many systems are controlled by the thermodynamic driving force (Switch 1) and kinetic barrier (Switch 2) both of which could be modulated by chromophore structure dynamics and solvent properties because they can cause chromophore different transient photoexcitation energetics. In this work, using ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) samplings, we simulate how the structural dynamics and solvent impact jointly govern the singlet pre-fission energetics, taking a T-shaped covalent BODIPY dimer (di-BODIPY, not meeting the SF criterion in the gas phase) in polar CHCl3 and apolar cyclohexane as examples. We report a general dual-switched dynamic channel for intramolecular SF in solvents which can reasonably interpret the complicated SF phenomena and also suggest an effective AIMD sampling method to characterize the joint effect of chromophore structure dynamics and solvent impact on SFs. Results reveal that structural fluctuation and solvent impact not only cooperatively provide di-BODIPY more chances for meeting the SF thermodynamic requirement in solvents (Switch 1 ON), but also jointly tune the charge transfer state towards removing the kinetic barrier (Switch 2 ON). Two factors jointly govern each switch and thus the dynamic dual-switched SF channel in di-BODIPY and anyone doesn't open the channel alone. We suggest a general principle for dynamically dual-switching the SF channel in solvents by utilizing structural dynamics of chromophore and impact of solvents to tune the pre-SF energetics of chromophore for photoexcitation and opening of the subsequent channel. We for the first time propose the AIMD sampling to get detailed explicit solvent/solute interaction information and structure dynamics of chromophore and their effect on the excitation energetics. This work also shows the statistic information for an ensemble of the SF chromophores in solvents which can undergo different photoexcitations and possible subsequent SFs. High agreement of the findings here with experiments justifies our AIMD-sampling-based pre-SF energetic prediction to be a reliable way for exploring novel SF systems and their controllability.


T HE LAST EIGHT YEARS HAVE SEEN the evolution of thirteen different projects, each one having as its object the closer integration of a certain group of European countries in a specific field. Ten of these projects have reached fruition by giving birth to an international organisation entrusted with the fulfilment of definite tasks; another three are in an advanced stage of preparation. Between them they embrace such diverse subjects as national defence, coal and steel, customs rates and nuclear research. Why have so many European agencies come into existence or been planned? What countries are involved in them? How do they compare in their constitution and powers? What are the important tendencies in this process of evolution-or, in other words, where are we going? These are the questions which naturally spring to mind; without being able to answer them all, this article will attempt to shed some light that may help to find the answers. Before entering into any details, there is one general observation to be made, the proof of which will be found in what follows. We are in the middle of a process of evolution. The European international structure is more fluid than at any time since the years following the French Revolution. There is general recognition that new problems exist and that new solutions are required; but there are many divergent views as to what those solutions should be. The basic problem is that the existing political structure of Europe does not correspond to the needs of the twentieth century, when the individual countries are interdependent as never before. Their interdependence in the military sense was conclusively proved by the last war; if any doubts remained, they were shattered by the atom bomb. The interrelation of their economies is equally apparent. Traditionally, national governments have been responsible for the military security and the economic and social well-being of their peoples. But all European governments now realise that their security and prosperity depend on events beyond their frontiers over which they have no direct control. How, therefore, can they discharge their responsibilities? That is the basic problem of modern Europe.


Electrical machine with a stator having a plurality of juxtaposed winding chamber forming grooves for receiving at least one stator winding. Each stator winding is composed of cross-sectionally substantially rectangular conductor rods forming in the winding chambers and winding heads conductor parts. The conductor bars are material-locking electrically connected at their ends with the conductor portions, by each of said conductor members has a substantially U-shaped end section with two opposite legs whose mutually facing inner sides are connected to corresponding side faces of an end portion of one of the conductor bars.


In this study, we designed a series of new alkali metal-adsorbed graphdiyne (GDY) structures (denoted as AM3@GDY (AM = Li, Na, K)) with an intramolecular electron donor–acceptor framework using density functional theory calculations. It is found that the three alkali metals are energetically preferred to be adsorbed on the three hollows of the largely delocalized π-conjugated GDY surface, while the adsorption of alkali metals largely affects the electronic properties of the complexes, and reduces the vertical ionization potentials. More interestingly, the doping of alkali metal atoms dramatically enhances the static first hyperpolarizabilities (βtot) of AM3@GDY, of which the K3@GDY cluster possesses a remarkably giant βtot value of ∼1.61 × 105 a.u., which is enough for it to exhibit strong nonlinear optical (NLO) behavior. These findings may provide new insights into the design of novel graphdiyne-based NLO materials and promote further potential applications in optoelectronic nanodevices.


Objective:To establish a multidrug-resistene(MDR) subline of human osteosarcoma.Methods:The authors created cell lines by short-time pulse exposure of the parent cell line to adriamycin followed by single-cell clone.MDR character was detected with immunoflorescence method and MTT,ABA Results:The authors developed six P-gp-positive,human osteosarcoma cell lines that were resistant to adriamycin MG-63/R 1~6which were higher than the cells from parent line respectively and also cross-resistant to other drugs at different degrees.There was less accumulation of the drug in resistent cell lines,AB% of MG-63/R 6 is only 9.8%.but when verapamil is used,AB% could risen to 52%.Immunoflorescence can detect significant high expression of P-gp in MDR cell lines.Conclusion:Expression of MDR1/P 170is key factor to regulate MDR phenotype of osteosarcoma.These newly described multidrug-resistent osteosarcoma cell sublines are useful models for further characterization of drug resistence in osteosarcoma and for the development of treatment protocols.


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Proteasomes are large protein complexes that degrade and remove proteins to maintain proper cellular physiology and growth. Proteasomes are a validated target for anticancer therapy, but drug design has been hampered by poor understanding of how inhibitors interact with the active


To realize the autonomous driving of a certain tracked vehicle, the paper has a research on its steering and braking control technology. According to the steering and braking device's structure and work principle on the original vehicle, the paper design an electronic pneumatic steering and braking control system before analyzing the design request of the system and introduce the system's work principle. Applying this system to the original vehicle's autonomous transformation, a test was conducted on the vehicle, the test prove that the electronic pneumatic steering and braking control system can well satisfied the tracked vehicles' request of steering and braking.


A general method for computing the spectra of periodic Schrodinger operators is introduced here. The method is based on the classical theory of moments, and provides exact, rapidly converging bounds to the energy bands of periodic Hamiltonian operators, in any number of space dimensions. As an illustration of the general theory, we develop an application to the electronic states of modulated superlattices, in the envelope-function approximation. This allows one to obtain important information on the effects of variable effective mass and relative-band-offset ratio in these material


Russian has been facing a serious demographic crisis after independence,while there are a large number of immigrants enter into Russia.Russia's migration policy and regulations have been adjusting continuously.Central Asia,as the Russia's major area of immigration,has formed a special labor economy.The labour of Central Asian countries has an important impact in the area of national economy,domestic and foreign affairs,economic structure and its social structures.


This note explores the ability of existing English law to grapple with the issues raised by psychiatric euthanasia. Burgess and Hawton have argued in this issue of PPP that the concepts used in the bioethical literature are ill-equipped to address the problems they identify. The U.K. courts have not yet had to face the problem of psychiatric euthanasia directly, but cases are likely to turn on whether or not the patient is thought to be competent. That question has been addressed in a number of life and death situations, but the approach taken by the English courts suggests that the judges are far from convinced that it resolves matters satisfactorily. English law, which shares a commitment to patient autonomy with most common law systems, may be just as poorly placed as bioethics to provide a framework for defensible practice in this area. Competence is a pivotal concept in health care law. The general principle is that patients who are


There is growing interest in the arts in community and economic development, yet little research examines the dynamics of community-based arts institutions to inform urban planning and policy. Drawing on interviews with participants and organizers of small and midsized art spaces, the study explores the factors that influence their involvement in neighborhood revitalization and outreach, support for artistic communities, and efforts to build bridges to commercial cultural sectors. Art spaces function as a conduit for building social networks that contribute to both community revitalization and artistic development. But issues pertaining to the location, organization, and management of art spaces may limit their community and economic development potential. The article concludes with proposals to craft stronger arts-based community and economic development programs.


Abstract : This report summarizes the work performed under a DARPA-sponsored effort performed by Columbia University which focused on the development and integration of advanced software engineering environment capabilities for computer-supported cooperative work, rule-based process modeling and execution, and distributed transactions management.


Abstract We have studied four radio-loud Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies with extreme optical emission-line shifts, indicating radial outflow velocities of up 2450 km s−1. The shifts are accompanied by strong line broadening, up to 2270 km s−1 in [NeV]. A significant ionization stratification (higher line shift at higher ionization potential) of most ions implies that we see a large-scale wind rather than single, localized jet-cloud interactions. The observations are consistent with a scenario, where the signatures of outflows are maximized because of a pole-on view into the central engine of these radio-loud NLS1 galaxies.


Thermal-shock resistance of aluminosilicate refractories is influenced by their chemical composition and mineralogical constitution. Attempts have been made in this paper to compare the effects of shape, size and relative proportions of the crystalline phases usually present in the aluminosilicate refractories on their thermal-shock resistance.


Objective To explore the significance of the change of CD4+CD25+ Foxp3+ regulation T cells in peripheral blood of patients with myocardial infarction.Methods The proportion of CD4+CD25+ Foxp3+ T cells were detected in 20 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI group),21 patients with old myocardial infarction (OMI group) and 36 healthy individuals (control group) by flow cytometry.Results CD4+CD25+T cells /CD4+ T cells in both AMI group(7.06±2.15)%and OMI group (7.55±1.77)%were significantly lower than in control group(8.81±1.50)%(P0.05).Moreover CD4+CD25+ Foxp3+ cells /CD4+T cells in both AMI group(1.43±0.48)%and OMI group(1.46±0.55)%were significantly lower than in control group(1.75±0.58)%(P0.05).Conclusion Reduction of CD4+CD25+ regulation T cells may lead to the breakdown of peripheral autoimmune tolerance and participate in the progression of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.


Ayung River village located in the District Melinggih Kelod Payangan, Gianyar, Bali Province. Generally, this area is used as a line of water sports rafting . Live eels on the Ayung River, eel is one of the fish that live migrate ( katadromus ). This fish has a high economic value. Do research to find out keaadaan eel populations in the river , and whether there is a difference between the upstream and downstream regions of the rafting. This research was conducted in the Ayung River located in the village of Melinggih Kelod, District of Ubud, Gianyar, Bali. The study lasted for 1 month, the start date of January 2, 2014 to February, 7, 2014 In this study the method used was experimental. Based on the results of research and statistical tests, it can be concluded that there are differences between populations in the upstream and downstream. The cause of the difference is the presence of different populations of habitat upstream and downstream region of the Ayung River rafting.


This paper introduces the internal mechanism and working principle of the dynamic shear rheometer, and proposes the measurement index and calibration method of the dynamic shear rheometer. The stability of the complex shear viscosity of the dynamic shear rheometer is less than 3%, and the relative indication error of the complex shear viscosity of the dynamic shear rheometer is less than ±3%, it solves the measurement traceability of the dynamic shear rheometer, which can effectively improve the measurement accuracy of the device.


In this paper, a new modeling for the local fractional Laplace's transform based on the local fractional calculus is proposed in fractional space. The properties of the local fractional Laplace's transform are obtained and an illustrative example for the local fractional system is investigated in detail.


The setup of majors and curriculums in higher vocational colleges and universities should adopt itself to our country's vocational education orientation of extending vocational education, training students with general skills, so that the basic subjects should occupy a certain proportion; the school book building should meet the teaching requirements of " wide range, thick base, high skill and multiple directions", focusing on progresses , leading edge and practicability; taking scene teaching as main method, with the organization form of " taking scene as kernel, practical as objective, student's activities as main content"; the teaching team building should emphasis the exchange between school and society, achieving the socialization in teacher staff building.


To the Editor: We read with interest the paper by Michna et al, ''Urine Toxicology Screening Among Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy: Frequency and Predictability of Abnormal Findings'' in the Clin J Pain. 2007;23:173–179. However, we were troubled regarding the author's (or at least a few of the authors) concern in the use of cannabis. The authors state, ''There is great variability among clinic attendings in addressing this issue.'' This is quite disturbing because Marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance and its use is prohibited under federal law. So, there is inconsistency in author response when they stop opioid if illegal drugs are in the urine but give a different message for Marijuana. Marijuana has been associated with altered neuropsychologic response by resulting in impaired memory task performance. In an unpublished study, pain patients using Marijuana were followed. Within 6 months all patients who did not stop Marijuana use broke the opioid agreement (including use of unprescribed licit and illicit drugs, altering prescriptions, or involved in drug trafficking). We now allow 4 weeks (time for the urine test to be clean of traces of marijuana as it can take up to 4wk to have a clean urine specimen) then we stop opioid prescription and consult our psychologist and addictionologists. We expected the authors should have taken a firm stand in the use of cannabinoid within the scope of the opioid agreement for chronic pain management. Until a random controlled trial of the use of cannabinoids for pain management/or other medical states is proven it should remain unacceptable to continue the use of Marijuana with concurrent opioid use.


SUMMARY Current seismic design codes do not contemplate explicitly the design of structures having passive energy dissipation systems. One important issue for the development of a design methodology for these structures is the formulation of methods to estimate their design seismic forces. From the study of the response of single degree of freedom systems subjected to accelerograms recorded during recent seismic events in Mexico, expressions to estimate the value of the reduction factor that should be used to reduce the elastic strength design spectra to establish the design seismic forces for systems having different plastic deformation and viscous energy dissipation capacities, are derived. Expressions corresponding to firm and soft soil sites are presented, in which the value of the reduction factor is estimated as a function of the period, maximum ductility demand and equivalent viscous damping coefficient of the structure.


The reaction of [CpTiCl2]n and Cp*TiCl2(thf) with Cp*NLi (Cp*N, C5Me4CH2CH2NMe2; Cp*, C5Me5) leads to Cp*NCpTiCl (7) and Cp*NCp*TiCl (8), respectively. The monochlorides are oxidized by PbCl2 to give Cp*NCpTiCl2 (9) and Cp*NCp*TiCl2 (10). The molecular structures of 7 and 10 have been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis, which reveals a chelating bonding mode of the Cp*N−ligand in 7 (Ti−N, 2.437(3) A) and noncoordination of the NMe2 group in 10. The fulvene complex Cp*N(C5Me4CH2)TiCHCH2 (18) and the titanacyclobutane respectively, are formed under mild conditions via the titanocenevinylidene intermediate [Cp*NCp*TiCCH2] (17), generated by α-H transformation from the vinyl complexes Cp*NCp*Ti(CHCH2)(CH3) (15) and Cp*NCp*Ti(CHCH2)2 (12). The formation of 14 is suggested to be influenced by the nitrogen-containing side chain in the Cp*N−ligand. A stabilization of 17 by intramolecular Ti−N coordination is not observed under the reaction conditions. Intermolecular trapping of 17 with transition metal carb...


This report described the several extraction methods (Saline, 90% phenol and hot water) and purification of mycelial antigenic substances of Aspergillus fumigatus.The extraction methods are as follows:In the first, myceliun of A. fumigatus homoginized with saline solution at 0°C, for 3hrs, and centrifuged with 3000r.p.m., and the residue extracted with 90% phenol, at 80°C, for 30 minutes, and then the phenol treated residue was extracted further with hot water at 100°C. for 30 minutes.The composition of those fractions are as follows:1) The carbohydrate contents are about 50% in those extraction methods. Sugar components are mannose and galactose from fractions by saline and 90% phenol extractions, but that of hot water extraction contain mannose, galactose and glucose.2) Major components of fatty acid in those fractions are palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids.3) Those fractions showes almost similarity of antigenic titre.


: This paper studies the phenomenon of conflict in Anambra state using the Aguleri-Umuleri conflict as a focus with a view to find out its fundamental cause and consequences for security and development in the area. Using the economic theory of conflict, interview and archival method of data collection, the paper discovered that colonially inherited boundaries, concentration of development in the colonial area of Otuocha that was given to Umuleri and the struggle for ownership and control of the area gave rise to the conflict. This has strong negative effects on development and security in the area. Thus, the paper recommends that all ill-famous colonial boundaries in Nigeria should be revisited with the parties forming the boundaries adjustment committee.


Embryonic development and morphology of the eggs, egg masses and larvae of the scorpaenid fish,Scorpaena miostoma are described on the basis of the laboratory-reared specimens. The gelatinous egg mass is not bilobed but simple, oval and balloon-like in shape. It usually floats at or near the surface. The individual egg is colorless and ovoid in shape, measuring 0.86 × 0.75 mm. Hatching occurs between ca. 34 and 40 hours after spawning at the water temperature of 22–24°C. A newly hatched larva measures 1.55 mm in notochord length and has ca. 25 myomeres. The finfold is balloon-like in shape and almost completely covers the larval body. Minute "cell-like" granules scatter on the findfold.


The late medieval prophetic tradition played a significant role in how John Bale (1495–1563), England's first Protestant church historian, formulated his ideas about the nature of revelation, which would become a contentious issue in the course of the Reformation. It is the goal of this essay to examine this first-generation evangelical's views, which will bring us closer to understanding prophecy and its legitimacy in Reformation-era Europe. In an influential essay, Richard Southern illustrates the important role of the prophetical tradition in premodern historical writing: 'Prophecy filled the world-picture, past, present, and future; and it was the chief inspiration of all historical thinking.' But while its significance is easy to pinpoint, the varied nature of prophetic revelation does not make for easy delineations or definitions. Southern names four types of prophecy in the Middle Ages: biblical (Daniel, Revelation); pagan (sibylline); Christian (such as that of Hildegard of Bingen); and astrological (stars and celestial events). Of course, even these are not clearly distinct categories; Southern notes that Merlin is 'half-Christian, half-pagan'. Lesley Coote points out that the 'subject of political prophecy is king, people and nation', separating this from theological, apocalyptic prophecy, though she also asserts that the two are closely related. Bernard McGinn remarks that in the later Middle Ages, prophecy is 'seen as a divinatory or occasionally reformative activity – the prophet as the man who foretells the future, or the one who seeks to correct a present situation in the light of an ideal past or glorious future'.


The application of Information Technology (IT) has now spread in almost all fields including in the field of libraries. The library as an information management institution is one of the fields of rapid application of information technology. The size of the development of many types of libraries is measured from the application of information technology that is used and not from other size scales such as the size of the building used, the number of collections available and the number of users. The need for IT is closely related to the role of libraries as a force in the preservation and dissemination of information on science and culture that develops along with writing, printing, educating and the human need for information. The application of information technology in the library can be used in two forms. First, the application of information technology is used as a Library Management Information System. Second, the application of information technology as a means to store, obtain and disseminate scientific information in digital format. Both functions of the application of information technology can be separate or integrated, depending on an information system and the ability of the software used. This paper tries to see how the application and management of library software is implemented.


Quantifying sediment deformation induced by depressurization of gas hydrate reservoirs and hydrate dissociation is crucial for the safe and economic production of natural gas from hydrates, and for understanding hydrate-related natural geological risks. This study uses our recently developed fully-coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical formulation for gas hydrate-bearing geological systems implemented in the 3D Code_Bright simulator. First, the model formulation is briefly presented. Then, the model is applied to reproduce published experimental consolidation tests performed on hydrate-bearing pressure-core sediments recovered from the Krishna–Godavari Basin (offshore of India) during the India National Gas Hydrate Project Expedition 02 (NGHP02). The numerical simulation reproduces the tests in which the sediment is loaded and unloaded prior and after hydrate dissociates via depressurization at constant effective stress. Our results successfully capture sediment collapse when hydrate dissociates at a mean effective stress above that of the host sediment consolidation curve. The mechanical constitutive model Hydrate-CASM also allows reproducing the experimentally observed changes in sediment swelling index with changes in hydrate saturation.


Low pressurized internal mix spray nozzle assembly adapted to operate at gas requirements. Spray nozzle assembly includes a liquid passage for directing liquid flow stream for collision pins, also, the liquid flow stream in order to atomize it collides with the dispersion to spread laterally from the impact surface air guide to form an annular pressurized air passage is provided around. To promote atomization of the liquid, air guide is defines an air flow opening of relatively small width for the atomizing air flow was sufficiently accelerated to increase the pressure of the air flow, also the collision the pin, the secondary impact surface of the relatively large primary collision surface and parallel downstream to prevent the accumulation of liquid at the periphery of the bottom of and collision pin encourage further droplets fracture is formed. .FIELD 1


The classical Banach contraction principle in metric space is one of the fundamental results in metric space with wide applications. And the probabilistic metric space is one of the important generalizations of metric space introduced by Austrian mathematician Karl Menger in 1942. The purpose of this article is to describe different contraction conditions in Probabilistic Metric Space. Also, mention the generalized contraction conditions and interrelationships between contraction conditions.


The present study was undertaken to study the effect of inbreeding on pre-weaning and sow performance traits of Large White Yorkshire pig population. Data on 7596 Large White Yorkshire pigs maintained at PGRIAS, Kattupakkam from the period of 1990 to 2015, were subjected to least square analysis to study the effect of inbreeding and other non-genetic factors viz., period, season, sex, parity, litter size at birth on various traits using general linear model. Inbreeding was calculated as Wright's path co-efficient. The mean inbreeding co-efficient of LWY population studied was 2.45 %. Among 7596 animals in the pedigree, 2088 were inbred and the range of individual inbreeding co-efficient (F) was from 0 to 37.5 per cent. The average inbreeding in the inbred population was 8.92 %. The effect of inbreeding was found to be significant for weaning weight, pre-weaning average daily gain and litter weight at weaning, where the traits were found to increase with inbreeding (enhancement). The absence of depressive effect on fitness traits observed in the present study could be due to lower levels of inbreeding, which was possible due to periodic introduction of breeding animals and planned mating.


e13556Background: Prevalence of obesity in Hispanic population has been increasing. Obesity is a 'super carcinogen' and largely modifiable factor. We hypothesize due to current increase in prevalen...


It's a Friday morning in June and easily the worst day of the year for a score of engineering students from Ohio State University, in Columbus. Months of painstaking labor have gone into their all-electric cycle, the Buckeye Current RW-3, to handle one race and one race only: the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a motorsports race up Colorado�s iconic mountain. It towers in the near distance; the students are at rock bottom.


In this article, a compact frequency selective surface (FSS) is implemented using a modified metallic square loop structure for ultrawide band (UWB) stop behavior. The proposed structure exhibits wideband rejection over the entire UWB, ranging from 3.1 to 10.8 GHz. The proposed structure manifests polarization independent characteristics and provides a stable frequency response for normal and oblique angles under both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) incident polarization. The angular stability for various polarization angles is also obtained. This structure provides a −10dB wide impedance bandwidth of 110.79%. The maximum relative deviation in between transmission zero frequency and angularly incident frequency is 5.9% and 6.2% at 80˚ TE and TM polarized wave, respectively, with attenuation more than 45 dB. The unit cell of the proposed FSS is imprinted on single-layer FR4 substrate of the dimensions 6 × 6 mm2, which is 0.062× 0.062 λ, where λ is the wavelength of lower cut-off frequency and is by far the smallest design for the desired UWB rejection FSS.


An ultraprecise superferric magnet, 14 m in diameter, was built for the muon (g-2) experiment currently in progress at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The principal quantities to measure in the experiment are the frequency of (g-2) oscillations and the average magnetic field, which imply stringent requirements on the homogeneity of the magnetic field as well as on the precision of its measurement and control system. This paper describes (g-2) magnet, shimming techniques used to improve it and advanced NMR and Hall probes systems to measure and monitor magnetic field.


This paper presents a continuous-time model of Autoassociative Neural Memories (ANMs) which correspond to a modified version of pseudoinverse-type ANMs. This ANM model is derived from minimizing the energy function for a modular neural network. Through the eigendecomposition of the connection matrix, we show that the dynamical properties of the ANM are qualitatively different in the two state subspaces: a pattern-subspace and a noise-subspace. The proposed ANM has a distinctive feature in the noise-subspace dynamics. The size of basins of attraction can be varied by controlling the contribution of the noise-subspace dynamics to the whole network. The first simulation confirms this attractive feature. In the second simulation, we investigate the performance robustness of the ANM for several kinds of correlated pattern sets. These simulation results confirm the usefulness of the proposed ANM.


Adopting digital materials such as eTextbooks and e-coursepacks is a potential strategy to address textbook affordability in the United States. However, university business relationships with bookstore vendors implicitly structure which instructional resources are available and in what manner. In this study, a document analysis was conducted on the bookstore contracts for the universities included in the State University System of Florida. Namely, issues of textbook affordability, digital material terminology and seller exclusivity were investigated. It was found that textbook affordability was generally conceived in terms of print rental textbooks and buyback programs, and that eTextbooks were priced higher than print textbooks (25% to 30% markup). Implications and recommendations for change are shared. DOI: 10.18870/hlrc.v5i4.284


The acute work of the ambulance service is of two sorts. Emergencies result from 999 telephone calls usually made by members of the public. Urgent transfers follow a request by a general practitioner (GP) or other health care professional to take a patient to hospital. In recent years there has been a large increase in emergency calls to the ambulance service. This has not been associated with a reduction in severity of illness, as judged by patient disposal from the A&E department.1 We felt that some of the increasing emergency calls was caused by a reduction in urgent calls and tested this hypothesis by examining the workload of the Westcountry Ambulance Service …


Rigid body models with two controls cannot be locally asymptotically stabilized by continuous feedbacks which are functions of the state only. This impossibility no longer holds when the feedback is also a function of time, and time-varying asymptotically stabilizing feedbacks have already been proposed. However, due to the smoothness of the feedbacks, the convergence rate is only polynomial. In this paper, exponential convergence is obtained by considering time-varying feedbacks which are only continuous.


A nutritional composition for use in restoring or promoting a healthy ecosystem and optimal microbial flora in humans or animals, comprising a protein source, a fat source and a source of carbohydrates and is supplemented with threonine, serine, proline and cysteine in an amount effective to promote growth and balance of bacterial microbiota amount providing the composition, serine in an amount from 0.07 to 0.35 gram / kilo of body weight / day; proline in an amount from 0.07 to 0.3 grams / kilo of body weight / day, threonine in an amount from 0.04 to 0.20 grams / kilo body weight / day and cysteine in an amount of weight 0.03 0.15 grams / kilo of body weight / day.


................................................................................................................ I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................ II TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ 3 TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS....................................................................................... 10 LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................. 10 LIST OF TABLES .............................................................................................................. 23 LIST OF GRAPHS ............................................................................................................. 23 LIST OF CHARTS ............................................................................................................. 24 1. CHAPTER ONE: PROJECT OVERVIEW ................................................................. 25 1.


Numerical computations of transport coeecients at low temperatures are presented for shapes typically encountered in nuclear ssion. The innuence of quantum eeects of the nucleonic degrees of freedom is examined, with pair correlations included. Consequences for global collective motion are studied for the case of the decay rate. The range of temperatures is speciied above which this motion may be described as a quantal diiusion process. In the past decade much progress has been made in the understanding of nuclear transport phenomena in the regime of not too low temperatures, say between 1 and 5 MeV (with k B = 1). Such a situation is reached if two heavy ions collide at an energy above the Coulomb barrier, but where the excess energy per particle still is small compared to the Fermi energy. In this regime the dynamics of the composite system may be parameterized in terms of shape variables. Of particular interest is the outgoing channel which is dominated by ssion and the emission of light particles and 's. It has been possible experimentally to deduce valid information on the time scale of collective motion 1], and, hence, on the size of nuclear dissipation. These experiments suggest collective motion to be over-damped, possibly providing an answer to the question raised by Kramers as early as 1940 in his seminal paper 2], namely whether nuclear friction is "abnormally small or abnormally large". Nowadays such processes are described theoretically in terms of the Langevin equation 3], which is understood to be equivalent to Kramers' original equation (of Fokker Planck type) for the density in collective phase space.


Embodiment of the invention relates to a defective-pixel detection and correction method of the image sensor, each pixel in the other brightness Part A and the plurality of image frames for storing the generated plurality of image frames of the object piece with the environment and a second step of scanning, when each of the plurality of image frames to be the defective pixel detected in the common position, the third process of storing the location of a block having the defective pixel in the memory as the defective block location and, when the recording is made the by calling the defective block location is stored in memory, it comprises a fourth step of correcting the luminance value of the defective block. Camera, an image sensor, pixel, pixel, rouge, dead, luminance correction,


Summary In vitro production of corms from Gloriosa superba L. using three kinds of explants: dormant, non-dormant corm buds and 30 d old in vitro derived multiple shoots is reported. Excellent responses was obtained in terms of corm production using MS medium supplemented with B5 vitamins, 6% sucrose, 2iP, ADS and ANL for corm formation from dormant corm buds, using Kin, ADS and ANL for corm formation from non-dormant corm buds and using BAP, ADS and ANL for callus derived multiple shoot corm formation. Well developed corms were obtained from the tissue cultured plants with no dormancy breaking requirement.


The effect of sugar addition on water sorpton by wheat flour was studied using inverse gas chromatography. Experiments involving the addition of 0, 20 and 50% crystalline sucrose to wheat flour of 70% extraction rate were run at 25, 30, 35, 45 and 55 o C. Results showed a decrease in moisture sorption with an increase in sugar added. The same pattern in moisture sorption was observed with increasing temperature. Experimental data could well be described by the Guggenheim, Anderson and de Boer (GAB) equation


Trusty (2004) used NELS:88 data (National Education Longitudinal Study: 19882000, 2002) to examine the effects of several middle-school and high-school variables on completion versus non-completion of the bachelor's degree. Data spanned across a 12year time period—from when students were in the eighth grade to when they were eight years out of high school. All 5,257 young people in Trusty's study had attended college soon after high school, and all were pursuing the bachelor's. Eight years after their senior year of high school, 53% of participants had realized their goals of completing the bachelors and 47% had not.


CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 114, NO. 2, 25 JANUARY 2018 387 *For correspondence. (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com) 9. English, S., Wilkinson, C. and Baker, V., Survey Manual for Tropical Marine Resources, ASEAN Australian Marine Science Project: Living Coastal Resources, Townsville, Australia, 1997, p. 368. 10. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global analysis – annual 2015; https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201513 11. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global climate report – Annual 2015; https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/ 201513#gtemp 12. Heron, S. F. et al., Validation of reef-scale thermal stress satellite products for coral bleaching monitoring. Remote Sensing, 2016, 8(1), 59. 13. Eakin, C. M. et al., Global coral bleaching 2014–17. Reef Encounter, 2016, 31(1), 20–26. 14. Hughes, T., Coral crisis: Great Barrier Reef bleaching is 'the worst we've ever seen'. Nature, 2016; http://www.nature.com/ news/coral-crisis-great-barrier-reef-bleaching-is-the-worst-we-veever-seen-1.19747 15. Ainsworth, T. D. et al., Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef, Science, 2016, 352(6283), 338–342. 16. Edward, J. K. P., Mathews, G., Raj, K. D., Thinesh, T., Patterson, J., Tamelander, J. and Wilhelmsson, D., Coral reefs of Gulf of Mannar, India – signs of resilience. In Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia, 2012. 17. Kalyan De, Sautya, S., Mote, S., Tsering, L., Patil, V., Nagesh, R. and Ingole, B., Is climate change triggering coral bleaching in tropical reef? Curr. Sci., 2015, 109(8), 1379–1380.


The model of dynamic change law reflecting plant anatomical structure was summarized.On the basis of this study,proposing a virtual plant model constructed with the L-system,and achieved the virtual plant visualization.


A new analytical model for the response of whole-leaf potential electron transport rate ( J ) to light is presented. The model treats incident irradiance at the upper and lower leaf surfaces independently, describes transdermal profiles of light absorption and electron transport capacity explicitly, and calculates J by integrating the minimum of lightand capacity-limited rates among paradermal chlorophyll layers. The capacity profile is assumed to be a weighted average of two opposed exponential profiles, each of which corresponds to the profile of light-limited rate when only one surface is illuminated; the weights may take on any values, provided they sum to unity, so the model can describe leaves with a wide range of 'preferred' illumination regimes. By treating irradiance at either surface independently and assuming the capacity profile is fixed on short time scales, the model predicts observed effects of leaf inversion on light-response curves and their apparent convexity. By assuming the capacity profile can adapt on developmental time scales, the model can predict the observed dependence of inversion effects on the growth lighting regime. It is suggested that the new model, which is mathematically compact and formally similar to the standard non-rectangular hyperbola model for J , be used in place of the standard model in studies in which the effects of leaf angle or diffuse light fraction on gas exchange are of interest.


The article describes a method of the synthesis of carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and a technique for obtaining masterbatches, which are represented by CNFs with a layer of pre-synthesized polyethylene (PE) on their surface. Using scanning electron microscopy, it was shown that in-situ ethylene polymerization over the catalyst anchored on the CNF surface allow to evenly cover CNFs surface by PE. Pristine and pre-coated CNFs were introduced to commercial PE matrix. It has been found that the reinforcing of PE with CNFs leads to improved mechanical properties and two times higher resistance to abrasive wear. The application of the proposed approach makes it possible to reduce significantly the carbon filler's effective concentration and distribute uniformly the filler throughout the composite.


R-function theory of Thomas used in study of inelastic scattering of neutrons to a definite state. Onset of fluctuations, effects of randomness of phases of interfering amplitudes, and variations in statistical distributions of neutron widths considered in detail. Fluctuations exhibit well-defined maxima and sharp minima. For certain adjacent resonances, strong interference effects are predicted.


. The processes of globalization have a sig-nificant impact on the market of agricultural machinery. Producers of agrarian products, raw materials and food-stuffs form a system of specific consumer demand, which can be met by producers of machine-building industry only on the basis of scientific and practical approaches and research. The market of agricultural machinery in Ukraine is considered one of the most promising in the world. The po-tential for increased demand for agricultural machinery and equipment for animal husbandry is very high. This attracts a large number of foreign producers to Ukraine. In recent decades, CLAAS, John Deere and CNH have been leaders in the Ukrainian agricultural machinery market. The aim of the article is to increase the reliability of agricultural machinery in the system of innovative processes. Perspective for maintenance of efficiency of animal industries is use of technics of the fourth generation - mul-tioperable, power- and resource-saving. At reduction of manufacture and sale of domestic agricultural machinery import foreign analogues of the equipment the leading manufacturers the operations mixing, transporting distribution machines by simplicity of construction, mo-bility and economy. maintenance efficiency reliability of use of modern theoretical researches an estimation maintenance of reliability of machines, of influence the person-operator as a component of difficult technical system the fur-ther The important researches of classification and increase of durability of working bodies, formation of system of qualitative service are. reliability, system, machine, technique, innovative processes, means for preparation and distribution of feeds.


To achieve the effectiveness of intramedullary fixation of displaced long bones shaft fractures in skeletally immature children using the TENS intramedullary nails. Patients and Methods : The case records of 30 children in the age group of 5 - 15years, who underwent fixation with titanium intramedulary nails because of long bones fractures were reviewed. The average age of the patients was 11.7 years, and mean follow - up was 41.3 months. Subjective satisfaction was assessed according to Flynn et al's criteria. Results: All patients achieved complete healing at a mean of 7.5 weeks. Complications. Were recorded in 2(6.3%) patients and included, six entry site skin irritations, and two skin infections at the entry site. In a subjective measure of outcome at follow - up, 89% of patients were very satisfied and 11% satisfied; no patients reported their outcome as not satisfied. The implants were removed at a median time of six months. Conclusion: Elastic Stable Intra - medullary Nailing, TENS is the method of choice for the paediatrics patients, because it is minimaly invasive and shows very good functional and cosmetic results. It allows an early functional and cast - free follow - up with a quick pain reduction.


The termination of mechanical oscillations of a synchronous machine in minimum time considerably improves the performance of a power system. A simple method of switching autoreclosing breakers is suggested to reduce the electromechanical transients in a power system.


operatively; new types of unit are at present being developed to meet the problem of competition between the natural and artificial pacemakers. The analysis of E.C.G.s taken during the investigation of pacemaker failure can be carried out by reference to Table I. The importance of the deflection due to the pacemaker stimulus will be apparent, and it should be noted that the amplitude of this deflection is considerably less for bipolar stimulation than for unipolar stimulation. Values for threshold voltage found under different conditions are given in Table II, and these were obtained with 2 msec. square-wave biphasic impulses provided by a pacemaker2 with an output impedance of about 50 ohms (Fig. 5); the values


Abstract : Study provides an appraisal of tensile properties of present structural grades and sizes of southern pine 2-inch dimension lumber; provides a means of evaluating presently assigned working stresses; and includes pertinent data on appraisal of the possibilities and limitations of lumber grading based on a stiffness evaluation. (Author)


THE DIS~ASI: or dissection and dissecting aneurysms of the aorta has been known since the sixteenth century when it was described in several publications.36x37*4' In his classical treatise on aneurysms, Scarpa3' referred to Fernelius" as the first, in 1542, to propose that an aneurysm may be caused by pathologic distension of all the coats of an artery. In 1628, Sennertus3* described aortic dissection but made no distinction between the process and aneurysmal formation. In 1769, Morgagniz9 recorded a clear description of the anatomic and pathologic changes in dissecting aneurysms. A more detailed and accurate description of the disease was presented by Maunoir26 in 1802. The term "dissecting aneurysm" was first designated by Laennec,24 in 1826, as "anivrisme dissequant." During the remainder of the nineteenth century, a number of investigators reported observations on the pathology, histoanatomy, and pathogenesis, further clarifying the nature of the disease.+ Despite these observations there remained some confusion and uncertainties about the pathogenesis of the disease. Much of this was resolved in 1934 by Shennan4* in his classical treatise on the subject and his extensive investigations resulting in the conclusion that the most significant underlying cause of dissection was medial degeneration. The gravity of the disease with its rapidly fatal course has long been recognized. This was first indi-


Crimina's education and transformation is an information bidirectional interaction process,the compulsory education transformation content by the jail police officer to the criminal is only the external agency factor,only fully displays the subjective initiative of the criminal self-remolding,is the key to improve the education and transformation quality.Therefore,in the criminal education and transformation,we should establish criminal's independent status,drive criminal's self-remolding with the foundation of full protection of the criminal legitimative rights and interests.


The present study is intended to examine the stress among single parent and parenthood in Lucknow city. Stress is very familiar condition faced by single parents and both parent by parent when they are unable to bear the risk involving higher home work. The study aimed to assess and compare the stress level of single parent and both parents. The study was conducted in Lucknow city. A total sample of 100, both parent sample 50 and single parent sample 50, (mother 25 sample and 25 sample father) were collected from the selected areas viz. , Rajnikhand, Bangla bazaar, South city, Ruchikhand using the random sampling method. The sample comprised of 25 parents from each selected area including both of the sexes. A stress among single parent and both parents questionnaire was used to assess the stress pattern used by different areas. The study revealed that majority of respondents had stress and there was non-significant difference between both parent and parenthood.


In this letter, we report a new kind of hybrid field emitters with the mixture of ZnO nanotetrapods and MgO particles by spin-coating method. Due to the excellent field emission properties of the hybrid field emitters, the turn-on electric field (at a current density of 1 µA/cm2) and threshold electric field (at a current density of 1 mA/cm2) have been reduced to 0.6 v/µm and 0.92 V/µm, respectively. The turn-on electric field and the threshold electric field have been decreased about 67% and 74% compared with the data reported previously.


Suppository quality control includes physical and chemical aspects of the product. Physical analysis includes visual examination (physical appearance), uniformity of weight,uniformity of texture, melting point, liquefaction time, melting and solidification time, and mechanical strength. Chemical testing includes analysis of the activity and dissolution testing.The uniformity of texture can be assessed by sectioning a suppository longitudinally and laterally, and ensuring that each section presents a smooth, uniform surface. Keywords: Quality control, weight, melting point, liquefaction time


Numerous analytical tasks in industry rely on data integration solutions since they require data from multiple static and streaming data sources. In the context of the Optique project we have investigated how Semantic Technologies can enhance data integration and thus facilitate further data analysis. We introduced the notion Ontology-Based Stream-Static Data Integration and developed the system Optique to put our ideas in practice. In this demo we will show how Optique can help in diagnostics of power generating turbines in Siemens Energy. For this purpose we prepared anonymised streaming and static data from 950 Siemens power generating turbines with more than 100,000 sensors and deployed Optique on distributed environments with 128 nodes. The demo attendees will be able to see do diagnostics of turbines by registering and monitoring continuous queries that combine streaming and static data; to test scalability of our devoted stream management system that is able to process up to 1024 concurrent complex diagnostic queries with a 10 TB/day throughput; and to deploy Optique over Siemens demo data using our devoted interactive system to create abstraction semantic layers over data sources.


Imperforate hymen is rare, with a low incidence of 1/16,000–30,000 in newborns. Most symptoms occur because of the accumulation of menstrual blood after puberty. In rare cases it can be found before puberty. Periodic abdominal pain, discomfort of the pelvic region, and the like are most commonly observed, and these symptoms increase at bowel movement. Usually a 13to 15-yearold girl does not experience menarche. Continuous accumulation of menstrual blood leads to vaginal hematoma, or even to hysterovaginal, ovarian, or abdominal hematomas. Rarely, compression of the surrounding tissues can result in upper back pain, dysuria, frequent urination, or oliguria. We report on a rare case of imperforate hymen with urinary retention.


Research in robotics has been playing an important role in human-robot interaction field. This interaction has evolved in several areas such as speech recognition, walking, gesture imitation, exploring and cooperative work. Imitation learning has several advantages over conventional programming methods because it allows the transfer of new skills to the robot through a more natural interaction. The work aims to implement a dual-arm manipulation system able to reproduce human gestures in real-time. The robotic arms are fixed to a mechanical structure similar to the human torso developed for this purpose. The demonstrations are obtained from a human motion capture system based on the Kinect sensor. The captured movements are reproduced in a two Cyton Gamma 1500 robotic arms assuming physical constraints and workspace limits, as well as avoiding self-collisions and singular configurations. The kinematics study of the robot arms provides the basis for the implementation of kinematics control algorithms. The software development is supported by the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework following the philosophy of modular and open-ended development. Several experimental tests are conducted to validate the proposed solutions and to evaluate the system's performance in different situations, including those related with joints physical limits, workspace limits, collisions and singularity avoidance.


The application of the classification of occupation involves many areas, and there are characteristics of occupation classification in the various countries. There has been no standard occupation classification used internationally until now, which has been an obstacle to the exchanges among the users. The Russia is trying to approaching international standardization in this area, but the former USSR's system still influencing the Russia now. So it is with great significance to Russian people to get rid of the old system as soon as possible and to formulate the classification that meets the need of Russian economic development .


Thomas Robert Malthus, it is universally known, opted for agricultural protection in the great Corn Law debates at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. He was the only major economist to do so and has been regarded ever since as something of an anomaly. This paper reports a finding that seems to remove the anomaly-the apparent fact that Malthus as early as 1824 withdrew his support for the prohibitory Corn Laws. The episode lends credence to his persistent claim that his original protectionism was not designed to defend the class interests of landowners but reflected rather his perception of the national interest-a perception which required modification with the beginning of the end of the old commercial system and in the light of the actual experience of industrial buoyancy. The volte-face entailed a profound reorientation of analytical perspective, amounting to renunciation of support for balanced growth and self-sufficiency in food in favor of industry-based growth-the Ricardian position. An historiographical addendum (Appendix) addresses Malthus's failure to correct the oversight of his contemporaries who were unaware of the change. This discussion also throws light on the puzzling neglect by scholars of the numerous statements by Malthus indicating an abandonment of agricultural protectionism.' I. The Evidence


The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the seismic safety of Korean R/C school buildings built in the 1980s, based on "the Japanese Standard for Evaluation of Seismic Capacity of Existing R/C Buildings", the nonlinear static and the nonlinear dynamic analyses. The evaluation result of the J...


Abstract : This thesis investigates the design of a digital fiber-optic interferometric demodulator based upon a passive symmetric combination of signals produced by an interferometer terminated with a 3x3 optical coupler. The demodulator was implemented using a digital signal processing (DSP) board based upon a TMS320C31 DSP processor. The demodulator was tested using signals produced by a set of interferometric simulators which used an analog AD639 trigonometric chip. A goal of this thesis was to demonstrate an improved noise floor at low frequencies as compared with a similar analog implementation.


The general purpose of the study was to establish the need for awareness of health concerns associated with prolonged exposure to devices with screens and the impact on the academic performance of adolescents in Nigeria. The survey research method was adopted for this study. Data was collected in Anambra state by administering questionnaire to a sample of 392 respondents from four secondary schools in the State. The study found that on the average, the respondents' had access to and owned screen devices; 68% among them spent an average of two hours and less on these electronic devices with screens. It was also found that in-school adolescents' increased screen media usage, especially TV, interfered with other activities, promoted sedentary behavior, increased the likelihood of poor food choices, and affected, to an appreciable degree, the students' reading and study time. Keyword: Screen time; Displacement effect; Academic performance; Screen media usage


The report presents the results of a cross-cultural analysis of factors associated with traffic accidents in Spain and the U.S.A. The research was performed as the first phase of a project on cross-cultural differences in driver risk-taking in the two countries. The analysis was based on the data from 1984 and, whenever possible, on fatal accidents. The findings are presented in a tabular form with an accompanying commentary for each table. Because of the potential reporting differences in the two countries, the present findings should be interpreted with caution and should be viewed only as indicating possible trends. The following are some of the factors with differential involvement in traffic accidents in the two countries: fatality rates per vehicle and per person, proportion of rural and urban accidents, pedestrian fatalities, time-of-the-day and day-of-the-week peaks and troughs, atmospheric factors, speeding citations in accidents, alcohol citations in accidents, violations of traffic laws, and involvement of young persons.


This graduating paper aims at explaining how Sausage Party movie potrays the Nietzschean Existentialism through the main character Frank. As an animated movie potraying Nietzschean existentialism becomes important to investigate because the nature of the movie seems to contradict the nature of the theory. In other words, animated movie seems to be assumed as a not-serious movie, meanwhile Nietzschean existentialism is a serious philosophical context. This research uses qualitative methods to collect data. The movie of Sausage Party has completed the existentialism theory proposed by Nietzsche, and it is proven by the character of Frank. This shows that Nietzsche"s existentialism fits to analyze this plausibility cartoon.


In the field of imaging through a single multimode fiber (MMF), various methods have been explored to reconstruct the object. In all these methods, deep learning is more robust and the imaging system is less complex. In this paper, we verified the reconstruction of images from a few-mode fiber with deep learning methods based on the intensity of the light filed with simulation and experiments. Compared with another broadly used method that depends on the measurement of optical fiber transmission matrix, the reconstructed images with deep learning method are not affected by the circular field of view of the fiber aperture.


Some traditional means of preserving wood structures (repainting, replacing weakened elements) are presented in five case studies: the church door at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, the maypole at Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, the warships HMS Victory and Mary Rose , and the Viking Buildings, York. The author comments about the division between traditional and scientific approaches to the conservation of wood, and recommends cooperation in the sharing of information on methods among international bodies.


Cloud computing is the enactment of using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet to accumulate, manage and process data rather than a local server or a personal computer. Cloud computing is known as a popular and important term in the IT society these days. As the main goal of cloud computing we can mention the better use of distributed resources and applying them to attain a higher throughput, performance and solving large scale computing problems. In this thesis we focus on allocation of resources on multiple request simultaneously, As we observe in previous work that the researcher found difficulty in allocation of resources to many requests as they faced many problems like regarding cost, time, bandwidth etc which affects the overall performance of the cloud therefore, In our proposed work we mainly focus on time consuming problem by using Scheduling algorithms in which we are using Time-shared Policy to get the appropriate results without any delay. Index Terms – Cloud Computing, Resource Allocation, Round Robin, TimeShared Policy.