The pre‐ and postnatal course of a child surviving after successful intrauterine balloon aortic valvoplasty for critical aortic stenosis is described. She is now well at 4 years of age. A clearer understanding of the hemodynamics in such cases and improved catheter technology are necessary before this is advocated as a generally applicable technique. However, the outcome in this case is promising for the future of fetal interventional procedures. Copyright © 1995 International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology


The main objective of this investigation is to obtain new closed form solutions for the (3+1)-dimensional Bateman–Burgers equation (B–B equation) by the symmetry method and developed Exp-function method (DEFM). The symmetry method is utilized to infer the infinitesimal generators and build the commutation relations. The similarity reductions of the governing partial differential equations are obtained. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to different ordinary differential equations. The ordinary differential equations are solved by using DEFM. The solutions are analyzed numerically to show the behaviors of the solutions. Solution behaviors include the solitary wave solution, the singular wave solution, the kink wave solution, and the anti-kink wave solution.


BACKGROUND
Cardiovascular surgery is associated with substantial risk for postoperative bleeding with increased patient morbidity and mortality. Numerous intraoperative techniques have been utilized to reduce this risk. This study was to assess postoperative bleeding-related parameters following Bentall procedures and to examine the impact of intraoperative surgical sealant application.

METHOD
The medical/surgical records of 100 consecutive Bentall procedure cases were examined retrospectively for perioperative surgical sealant use and postoperative bleeding-related outcomes.

RESULTS
Of the 100 patient cases, three died during the postoperative period, and 97 were evaluable. Surgical sealant was utilized in 56 patient cases (57.8%). The utilization versus no utilization of surgical sealant was associated with significant reductions in most postoperative bleeding-related parameters, including less drainage (P = .028), resternotomy for hemorrhage (P = .036), transfusion of red blood cells (P = .022 at 48 hours; P = .027 total in-hospital), transfusion of fresh frozen plasma (P = .04 at 48 hours; P = .004 total in-hospital), and a higher percentage of cases not needing blood transfusion (P = .002). The surgical sealant group had longer cardiopulmonary bypass circuit (P = .016) and aortic cross-clamp time (P = .001), with no significant between-group differences in intubation time (P = .636) or intensive care unit duration (P = .294). When excluding urgent cases or Stanford type A aortic dissections, intensive care unit duration significantly was shorter in the surgical sealant group (P = .017). Surgical sealant use was not associated with any adverse events.

CONCLUSION
The application of surgical sealant to the anastomosis suture line in Bentall procedures reduces postoperative drainage, bleeding, and transfusion utilization. Further studies are warranted to investigate these benefits in prospective, randomized clinical trials.


ON September 8, 1975, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a major vendor of nuclear reactors and a major contractor for uranium fuel, announced that it would not honor fixed price contracts to deliver about 70 million pounds of uranium.1 Westinghouse claimed that it was not legally bound to honor these contracts by appealing to ? 2-615 of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.) which allows excuse from the performance of contractual obligations for reasons of "commercial impracticability." In particular, it claimed that for "unforeseeable" reasons uranium prices had risen to several times the price at which Westinghouse had agreed to deliver uranium to utilities and that performance on such contracts, with a potential loss of as much as $2.0 billion,2 was "commercially impracticable". Subsequent to this announcement 27 utilities in 14 separate actions brought suit against Westinghouse to either fulfill its contractual commitments or pay damages. Thirteen of these suits were brought in Federal District Courts and have been consolidated for pretrial procedures in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The fourteenth suit was brought in a state court in Pennsylvania. Trial was in progress in December 1976 as this paper was completed, but has subsequently been settled out of court.3


Background: gastric pneumatosis is a rare sign with a primarily radiological diagnosis. In newborn infants, this �nding should raise the suspicion of necrotizing enterocolitis, which represents a serious clinical condition with high morbidity and mortality. However, other causes of gastric pneumatosis are reported in literature, including intramural displacement of a feeding tube. In this report we present a case of gastric pneumatosis in a preterm boy admitted to our NICU. Case presentation: the baby appeared pale and poor responsive during the �rst days of life on positive pressure ventilation and gavage feeding. A distended upper abdomen with bloody and biliary gastric aspirates was noted; no bloody stools were reported. Blood cultures, cerebrospinal �uid culture and blood cell count were normal; acute phase proteins were negative on serial determinations. Abdominal X-Ray showed gastric pneumatosis with displacement of the feeding tube and no other pathological �ndings in the rest of the bowel. After few days of conservative management, the baby improved dramatically. Conclusions: we suggest that the cause of this clinical picture could have been a mechanical lesion in gastric mucosa caused by the feeding tube; positive pressure ventilation then could have raised intragastric pressure, leading air to diffuse between the layers of the gastric wall.


The list of financial return indicators for companies in Brazil, Bag, Counter-B3, with the management of the effective tax rate on profit, influenced the research. For this, the relationship between the financial indicators of return on equity-ROE and the return on invested capitalROIC was identified with the effective rate of taxes on profit. The research has an explanatory characteristic and regression with panel data was used to analyze the results. As a result, ROIC Como citar este artigo: MENDES, T. de J.; ABREU, I. R.; COUTO, F. F. Alíquota efetiva de tributos sobre o lucro no Brasil das companhias da B3: um estudo da relação dos indicadores de retorno financeiro. ForScience, Formiga, v. 8, n. 2, e00776, jul./dez. 2020. DOI: 10.29069/forscience.2020v8n2.e776. Autor para correspondência: Tiago de Jesus Mendes, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com MENDES, T. de J.; ABREU, I. R.; COUTO, F. F. Alíquota efetiva de tributos sobre o lucro no Brasil das companhias da B3: um estudo da relação dos indicadores de retorno financeiro 2 ForScience, Formiga, v. 8, n. 2, e00776, jul./dez. 2020 has shown that possibly the most profitable companies have higher effective tax rates. The ROE showed that possibly the organization's investment in the payment per directors performance leads them to invest more resources in the tax management, generating an increase to the shareholders' return. Financial leverage indicates that in Brazil a leveraged structure can contribute to a greater tax burden, leading companies to increase the holdings of third-party capital, neutralizing the effect of leverage on taxation. The size of the company may indicate that the larger the company size, the smaller the company's profit tax. As a result to the effective tax rate, was identified that the enterprises they use the benefits of reducing the effective tax rate on profit, since the nonparametric signal test demonstrated that in 80% of the observations, the effective rate of the analyzed companies are lower than the nominal rate of 34%, soon the companies to use the effects of tax management.


The methods of production of gender diverse characters within mainstream literary texts
are an under-researched area from a creative writing standpoint. Is That What You're
Wearing? Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, A Novel and Exegesis is a
creative writing doctoral thesis which critically interrogates the signifiers and tropes that
are employed to produce gender diversity in contemporary fiction, and their effects and
impacts. The exegesis, Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, contextualises the
theoretical ground concerning gender diversity. It critically explores issues of cultural
and material access to literary works featuring gender diverse protagonists. In addition,
it compares and contrasts the production of gender diversity in three contemporary
novels: Chris Bohjalian's (2000) Trans-sister Radio; Jeffrey Eugenides' (2002b)
Middlesex; and Ali Smith's (2007) Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis. Most
significantly it discusses the manner in which these two aspects inform my creative
writing practice in the novel Is That What You're Wearing? The exegesis argues that
creative writers require an increased awareness of issues of representation when writing
about marginalised groups, such as gender diverse individuals, to avoid perpetuating
problematic and commonly used representations that otherwise sustain their
marginalisation in society. The novel, which features three gender diverse characters, is
the practical outcome of this critical theoretical research. As per the requirements for
Victoria University creative writing theses, the creative component forms 67 per cent of
the thesis, and the critical exegesis, 33 per cent. The preferred reading order for the
thesis is the novel (Volume One), then the exegesis (Volume Two).


A kind of methane sensor based on the principle of piezoelectricity is developed.The PANI/PdO composite thin film is fabricated by chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline with PdO nanoparticles,and the PANI/PdO thin films which is sensitive to methane is fabricated through layer-by-layer self-assembly method.The film is deposited on the piezoelectric material by sputtering.It accomplishes the detection of CH4 by the absorption of CH4 which can change the oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric crystal.The experimental results show that the sensor has good selectivity.And the output of the sensor has good linear relationship with the volume fraction range of CH4 0 % ~2 %.


A common problem in physics is to fit regression data by a parametric class of functions, and to decide whether a certain functional form allows for a good fit to the data. Common goodness-of-fit methods are based on the calculation of the distribution of certain statistical quantities under the assumption that the model under consideration holds true. This process has methodological flaws, e.g. a good 'fit'– albeit with a model that is wrong – might be caused by overfitting or the fact that the chosen statistical criterion is not powerful enough to distinguish the particular deviation between the model and the true regression function. This causes particular difficulties when models with different numbers of parameters are to be compared. Therefore, the number of parameters is often also penalized. We provide a methodology that circumvents these problems to some extent. It is based on the consideration of the error distribution of the goodness-of-fit criterion under a broad range of possible models – and not only under the assumption that a given model holds true. We present a graphical method to decide on the most evident model from a range of parametric models of the data. The method allows one to quantify statistical evidence for the model (up to some distance between the model and the true regression function) and not only absence of evidence against, as common goodness-of-fit methods do. Finally, we apply our method to the problem of recovering the luminosity density of the Milky Way from a dereddened COBE/DIRBE L-band map. We present statistical evidence for flaring of the stellar disc inside the solar circle.


Solid dispersions of Clonazepam in polyethylene glycol 4000 and 6000 were prepared by employing various techniques in the ratio of 1:1, 1:0.5 and 1:0.25 with the aim to increase its aqueous solubility. Drug polymer interactions were investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and UV spectroscopy. By these determinations no drug-polymer interactions were evidenced. Solubility and dissolution study were performed and both solubility and dissolution rate of the drug in these formulations were increased. Finally, tablets were produced by direct compression and dissolution tests were realized in order to evaluate the dissolution profiles. The results show that the tablets can be classified as immediate release dosage forms due to clonazepam fast release, and such release was dependent on the amount of superdisintigrant (cross-povidone and doshion P544) in the formulation.


development of energy storage systems. The current state of energy storage systems in Ukraine is studied. The capacity of the segment of energy storage systems in the energy market, due to the need to meet the requirements of the European Energy Community on the flexibility of the integrated energy system, renewable energy sources and the objective need to use such systems as system service providers. The sufficiency of market and state incentives for the broad application and development of energy storage technologies in the conditions of quasi-competitive and full-scale electricity market of Ukraine is determined, taking into account the perspective tendencies of energy development. The cost and benefit analysis of investment projects for installation and operation of energy storage systems for three most common and prospective types of applications for the Ukrainian electricity market: participation in the market of ancillary system services, participation in the balancing market and system constraints reduction (renewables) is conducted. The sensitivity of project indicators of these types of applications is analyzed depending on the number of parameters: variations in specific capital expenditures, green tariff rates, market prices "day ahead" and market conditions of system services. It is substantiated that in Ukraine the energy storage systems are the most promising as the providers of system services for primary regulation of frequency and power, a sufficient reserve of which is one of the conditions for integration of the Ukrainian power system into the European energy system ENTSO-E, ancillary services through auctions for the provision of primary regulation services with a long-term time horizon. Regarding the prospects for the development of decentralized energy system, it is proved that the development of decentralized storage systems consisting of industrial facilities, substations and other low-capacity energy facilities has great potential with reformatting the energy system architecture to "smart grid" standards to form fundamentally new economic incentives for the development of energy storage systems.


full view, clockwise from top left: La Pensee by Aragon; Dada Souleve Tout by Tzara; transcription of Quelques Presidente et Presidentes by Tzara from Dada no. 6.


Globalization is nowadays presented as one of the reasons for the importance of languages to develop business related professions. This study illustrates that since late 18th century there was interest in training people with knowledge of languages and more specifically specialized languages in the area of trade. This fact is evident in the syllabuses of the subjects in the different curricula of Commerce studies, which are preserved in the Archivo de la Universidad de Cadiz.


This paper examines how effectively working with students and contractors can engage small commercial businesses in energy efficiency measures. Small commercial businesses are an underserved and hard-to-reach market for energy efficiency services. Yet, this sector comprises a significant percentage of all businesses and aggregate energy usage. Two main barriers to doing an energy retrofit in small businesses include getting the business to agree to participate and getting them to implement suggested measures. Student outreach addresses the first, and using a mechanical or electrical contractor as an ESCO is a great way to address the second. The Awareness for Community Energy (ACE) Program is currently being offered throughout the United States. ACE employs high school and college students as interns and trains them in small business energy auditing. The business more readily accepts the marketing of energy services by a student, since it is seen as an opportunity to contribute to a student's educational experience. In one case, ACE program participants audited over 150 small businesses in a threemonth period. Electrical and mechanical contractors are prime candidates to both disseminate information on energy efficiency and carry out the necessary retrofits. The owners of most energy using facilities already have trusted mechanical/electrical service contractors. By diffusing ESCO concepts amongst existing service contractors, there is a far greater chance of upgrading the energy efficiency throughout the small business sector. Such diffusion activities will involve training and awareness programs for contractors, as well as encouragement of financial institutions to develop supportive financing products.


We obtain the general solution of Euler-Lagrange-Rassias quartic functional equation of the following . We also prove the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability in various quasinormed spaces when .


A new time-domain-reflectometry measurement method is described that provides accurate measurements of the average high-frequency (0.1 GHz to 5 GHz) dielectric constant of printed wiring board (PWB) materials and that is suitable for "factory-floor" usage. A parallel-plate transmission line is used for the sample geometry. A model is developed that describes the electrical behavior of the transmission line thereby allowing the dielectric constant to be extracted from the observed signal. The data analysis and the sample preparation are both simple to accomplish.


Telemetry tracking is 40 years old method of choice for revealing patterns of movements and sizes and shapes of home ranges of non conspicuous animals. That information is often the base for management of species. With the use of GPS technology, large amounts of high quality GPS locations quickly accumulate. Various methods to calculate the movements and ranges of animas are available today, giving very different results. Here we present the results of GPS tracking of bears in Croatia and the comparation of three methods for calculation of home ranges. Nine brown bears (Ursus arctos), five males, four females, in ages from 2.5 to 15 years (average=5.1), were tracked by the use of GPS-GSM collars in Croatia between 2003 and 2009. Tracking time lasted from 42 to 409 (avg=214) days. Collars were scheduled to attempt GPS fix every two hours. The GPS fixing was successful in 48.8% of attempts, resulting in 9882 locations. Home ranges and utilization distributions were calculated as minimum convex polygons (MCP), fixed kernels (FK) where smoothing factor (h) was obtained by least square cross validation (hLscv)- We also used newer method called "local convex hulls" (LoCoH) calculation, where we selected adaptive algorithm, with factor a=maximal locations distance. With MCP we used 100% and 95% of locations, while with FK and LoCoH methods we used 95% and 50% of locations. Calculated home ranges were overlaid on bear habitat suitability map to compare how resulting polygons match with habitat map. The average length of day-to-day movements of all tracked bears was 1674m (n=1395, average range was 48 to 9976, SD=1767). The average time between two GPS fixes was 3.47 hours (n=9814, range 1.1 to 37.2 SD=3.6). During this time tracked animals moved 515.1 m (n=9814, range 0.8 to 8079, SD=848). Recalculated to one hour, the average movement was 217m (n=9814, range 0.2 to 4703, SD=408). Traditional 100% MCP for all bears was 249.7 km2 (range 31.6 to 963.9, SD=330.5), Areas of 95% MCP for all bears covered only 93.0 km2 (range 17.8 to 358.6, SD=105.1). Fixed kernels (95% FK) covered 169.5 km2 (range 17.8 to 62.7, SD=19.8). Local convex hulls (95% LoCoH) covered 48.8 km2 (range 8.7 to 141.0, SD=49.2). Female ranges were much smaller than the ones of males. Resulting 100%MCP ranges were 2.7 times larger than 95%MCP ranges, but 95% MCP were 1.8 times smaller than 95% FK ranges. LoCoH ranges (95%) were 1.9 and 3.5 times smaller than 95% MCP and 95% FK home ranges respectively. When overlaid on bear habitat suitability map, both MCP and kernel home ranges included unsuitable areas (lakes, sea, settlements ; Type II error) and 95% kernel ranges included areas away of any known location (Type I error). Home ranges calculated by LoCoH method had "holes" and "pockets", which actually were patches of unsuitable habitat on habitat map. Home ranges calculated by kernel method were larger than MCP, but both would give satisfactory results if the habitat is continuous and homogenous. With the increase in habitat patchiness (fragmentation) LoCoH method gives better results than the other two methods. LoCoH polygons can also include unsuitable areas, but when the sampling effort is insufficient i.e. tracking time shorter than one year, too long interval between GPS fixes and low GPS success rate. Considering the average hourly movements of bears in Croatia (217m), the 2 hours GPS fix interval would be sufficient, but only if GPS success rate would be close to 90%. Further analyses will reveal which calculations do the best represent the bear use of the habitat.


haematuria. No other urinary complaints were reported and no previous urinary tract problems were known. Digital rectal examination revealed an enlarged prostate, confirmed on rectal ultrasound, which additionally revealed a large bladder stone and a significant amount of post-void residual urine. CT urography was performed with the non-contrast and portal phase scanned in supine position and the delayed phase in prone position. The prostate was enlarged and the urinary bladder showed a diverticulum at the left lateral wall. A 2.7 cm large, spiculated and mobile calcification was seen in the urinary bladder (Figure 1, non-contrast; and Figure 2, delayed phase). The diagnosis of a Jackstone calculus causing haematuria due to irritation of the bladder wall was made. The patient refused further treatment.


Competitive first-person shooter games are played over a network, where latency can degrade player performance. To better understand latency's impact, a promising approach is to study how latency affects individual game actions, such as moving and shooting. While target selection (aiming and shooting at an opponent) is fairly well studied, navigation (moving an avatar into position) is not. This paper presents results from a 30-person user study that evaluates the impact of latency on first-person navigation using a custom "hide and seek" game that isolates avatar movement in a manner intended to be similar to movement in a first-person shooter game. Analysis of the results shows latency has pronounced effects on player performance (score and seek positioning), with subjective opinions on Quality of Experience following suit.


: Efficient three-dimensional infinite Green's function and its first- and second-order derivatives for materials with piezoelectric coupling are studied in this paper. The procedure is based on an explicit solution recently introduced by the authors which presents three valuable characteristics: (i) it is explicit in terms of the Stroh's eigenvalues, (ii) it remains well-defined when some Stroh's eigenvalues are repeated (mathematical degeneracy) or nearly equal (quasi-mathematical degeneracy), and (iii) it is exact. Then, this solution is used to compute coefficients for a double Fourier series representation of the Green's function and its derivatives. These Fourier expansion representations are realvariable which is an important feature for numerical applications. In the past, double Fourier series representation have been shown a high performance for anisotropic elasticity. Its attractiveness stems from the fact that the information of the material properties is contained only in the Fourier coefficients, while the information of the dependence of the evaluation point position is contained in simple trigonometric functions. This results in two advantages. First, any order derivatives can be determined by simple spatial differentiation of the trigonometric functions. Second, Fourier coefficients need to be obtained only once for a given material so a library of materials can be easily constructed, leading to a very efficient methodology for numerical applications in piezoelectric structures. Higher-order derivatives can be straightforwardly built upon this methodology if required. In this work, after present the solutions we study the dependence of various parameters on the computational efficiency.


The stress-strain-strength anisotropy behaviour of undisturbed soft clay in Hangzhou is studied based on a series tests carried out with HCA by setting certain stress paths.It can be found from the experiments that the strength and deformation module of the clay have strong anisotropic behavior.The stress―strain characteristic of the soil under rotation of principal stress axie with low shear stress level(q=5 kPa)mainly reflect the influence of initial anisotropy,while the stress-induced anisotropy impact on the soil is small.As the existence of stress-strain-strength anisotropy,the design for practical engineering with significant rotation of principal stress axie may be unsafe if using conventional method without considering the effect of principal stress rotation.


. In this paper we extend results due to Vogt on line bundles over Cousin groups to the case of domains stable by the maximal compact subgroup. This is used in the sequel to show that the algebraic dimension of OT-manifolds is zero. In the last part we establish that certain Cousin groups, in particular those arising from the construction of OT-manifolds, have finite-dimensional irregularity.


This paper introduces a new replenishment policy for inventory control in a two‐level distribution system consisting of one central warehouse and an arbitrary number of nonidentical retailers. The new policy is designed to control the replenishment process at the central warehouse, using centralized information regarding the inventory positions and demand processes of all installations in the system. The retailers on the other hand are assumed to use continuous review (R, Q) policies. A technique for exact evaluation of the expected inventory holding and backorder costs for the system is presented. Numerical results indicate that there are cases when considerable savings can be made by using the new (α0, Q0) policy instead of a traditional echelon‐ or installation‐stock (R, Q) policy. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 49: 798–822, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/nav.10040


A novel coronavirus has rapidly spread to almost every country in the world, causing over 233 million confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and over 209,761,242 deaths by late September 2021. Binding the receptor binding domain (RBD) to the host cell surface receptor protein, angiotensin converter enzyme (ACE2), is a key step in virus infection. In this study, we applied a pulsed electric field to the RBD/ACE2 complex based on molecular dynamics simulation and demonstrated that the electric field affects the structure and binding affinity of the complex. Additionally, residue Y505 is the crucial medium for the effects of electric field on the complex. Overall, these results may help apply an external electric field to virus suppression.


Growing soybean cyst nematode (SCN, Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) resistant varieties in fields infested with SCN can improve yield, but the impact of SCN on seed quality of lines with modified seed composition is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine if SCN resistant or susceptible rootstock influenced the composition of seed of soybean lines developed for desirable elevated levels of unsaturated fatty acids (FA). Five soybean lines with modified or normal levels of FA were Y-grafted to generate a 5-×-5 combination of plants with a SCN susceptible (SCNS) or resistant (SCNR) rootstock having a self-grafted branch, a scion (alien) grafted branch, or non-grafted branch; control plants were not grafted. In 2004 and 2005 plants were transplanted into blocks of Asgrow 3302 (SCNR) or Asgrow 3701 (SCNS) verified to be infested with SCN. Seeds were harvested at physiologic maturity (R8) in 2004 and 2005 and analyzed for five unsaturated FA. Differences in FA levels between 2004 and 2005 were significant (P < 0.05), but there were no significant (P = 0.05) block × year effects. Significant differences were observed between the FA levels of seed harvested from non-grafted control plants and self-grafted or non-grafted branches of grafted plants within lines. Seed oleic acid of the mid-oleic line S03-1379-2 was significantly greater when grafted onto an SCNR line than when grafted onto SCNS lines. The low linolenate trait appeared to be insensitive to SCN presence as seed linolenic acid of the low linolenic line IA-3017 was not different when grafted onto SCNR or SCNS lines. SCN can negatively impact the expression of seed quality of soybean if grown where SCN infestations are evident. Introduction New soybean genotypes with modified fatty acid (FA) composition are being developed and will be important in meeting industry demands for food, fuel, and other uses (23). It is important to determine best growing conditions for different genotypes with modified oil to insure that FA levels desired by the industry are consistently met. Evaluation of the oil profile of genotypes with modified FA across environments is necessary to determine their utility in plant breeding programs and commerce (15). The influence of environmental stresses on the FA profile of soybean oil has been addressed in many studies, but generally limited to stresses associated with temperature and moisture (6,18,24). Soybean cyst nematode (SCN, Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) is the most widespread pest of soybean in the USA and worldwide impeding soybean growth and development by interfering with root function (22). High population levels of SCN have been reported to have a considerable effect on soybean yields of susceptible cultivars (23) and constitute an environmental stress. Resistance or susceptibility to SCN is an expressed interaction between a soybean genotype and nematode: a genotype × environment interaction that can have a considerable influence on plant growth and development. Leaf chlorosis and plant stunting may occur if nematode population densities are high or infection is associated with one or more secondary problems such as nutrient deficiency or root rot (11), but the primary measurable effect of infection by SCN is yield reduction in the absence of symptoms (22). 3 November 2008 Plant Health Progress FA modifications in soybean cultivars are a relatively recent option for producers and SCN may be encountered during commercial production. The first low-saturate cultivar that was grown commercially in 1996 was developed jointly by Iowa State University and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Several large seed companies are marketing soybean cultivars with < 3% linolenic and some cultivars produce a seed linolenic content as low as 1% of total oil. Midoleic (» 56%) germplasm (4) and experimental lines have been developed and some cultivars are scheduled for commercial availability in 2009. Seed buyers can pay producers of soybeans with modified FA a premium over the price of conventional soybeans. This research investigated the effects of SCN on soybean seed composition. The objectives of this study were to assess the stability of soybean FA composition of genotypes with varied FA levels grafted onto SCN resistant (SCNR) or susceptible (SCNS) rootstocks when grown in an SCN infested site. Soybean Lines, Grafting, and Field Study Five soybean lines were pruned above the cotyledons during early seedling growth to promote development of two axillary branches. Plants were Y-grafted as described by Pantalone et al. (14) to generate a 5 × 5 combination of plants with a SCN susceptible or resistant rootstock having a self-grafted branch, and a scion (alien) grafted branch or non-grafted branch. Control plants were not grafted. The soybean lines used were: (i) SN97-6946 (SCNR, resistance derived from PI-88788) with conventional FA ratio; (ii) Magellan (SCNS) with conventional FA ratio; (iii) S02-1379-2 with higher than typical oleic (SCNS); (iv) IA 3017 with lower than typical linolenic (SCNS); and (v) Williams 82 with conventional FA ratio (SCNS). The study was conducted in 2004 and 2005 in a field near Columbia, MO, verified to be infested with SCN Race 3 in 2003. The field was divided into four blocks with two blocks each randomly chosen and no-till planted with glyphosate-resistant Asgrow lines 3302 (SCNS) or 3701 (SCNR, resistance derived from PI-88788) on 28 June 2003, 3 June 2004, and 7 June 2005. The planting placement of the Asgrow lines was the same in 2003, 2004, and 2005. The field was sprayed with glyphosate at the rate of 1.5 lb ai/acre after seedling emergence. Grafted plants and controls were randomly transplanted among the Asgrow lines on 15 June 2004 and 20 June 2005 and grown to physiologic maturity (R8). Ultra Blazer (acifluorfen) was applied at the rate of 1 pt/acre tank mixed with Poast (sethoxydim) at 1.5 pt/acre on 16 July 2004 and 22 July 2005 to control broadleaved and grass weeds. Irrigation was applied as needed. Greenhouse bioassays were performed for each soybean line and Asgrow cultivar as described by Rao-Arelli et al. (17) using eggs collected from Asgrow 3302 and 3701 plants grown at the field site during 2003. Seeds of the five soybean lines and Asgrow 3302 and 3701 were germinated, planted and inoculated with SCN eggs. Ten seedlings were grown for 4 to 5 days prior to their inoculation with 1200 ± 25 eggs in 5 mL of suspension (distilled water) with an automatic pipetter (16). Approximately 30 days after inoculation, plant roots were individually washed with a strong jet of water to dislodge SCN white females and cysts. These were counted under a stereomicroscope, and female index (FI) was calculated for the number of females developing on each line in each replication (9). Each seedling represented a single replication within a genotype, and the test was completely randomized. Data were combined for ANOVA (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) of female indices and means were separated with Fisher's LSD based on a significant F test. Ratings of resistant/susceptible reactions of the soybean lines were based on Schmitt and Shannon (20). The bioassay demonstrated that line SN97-6946 and Asgrow 3701 exhibited resistance to Race 3 (mean cyst number of 6.3 per plant) and Asgrow 3302 and the four other soybean lines were susceptible (mean cyst number of 60.6 per plant). Nematode egg densities were determined at soybean harvest 2003, 2004, and 2005. Plots within each block were sampled for SCN cysts and eggs in October. Ten 2.5-cm-diameter × 20-cm-deep soil cores were collected from random points within the rows of soybean plants and mixed. The soil samples 3 November 2008 Plant Health Progress were stored at 4°C before being processed. Cysts were extracted from a 100 cm3 subsample of soil on a 150-μm-pore sieve and mechanically ruptured to release eggs (13). The nematode population density was expressed as number of eggs per 100 cm3 of soil. Numbers of SCN eggs were significantly higher in soil derived from the plots of Asgrow 3302 in 2003, 2004, and 2005 with an average of 5341, 10030, and 14612 eggs per 100 cm3 compared to 1635, 2967, and 1563 for Asgrow 3307. Investigated Effects of SCN on Soybean Seed Composition Concentrations of palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and linolenic acids as a percentage of the total fatty acids in the seed oil were evaluated for each plant by randomly selecting pods that were later threshed by hand. From each sample seeds were randomly selected for FA analysis. Seeds were manually chipped to obtain a tissue sample fatty acid extraction. Tissue was extracted in 5 mL chloroform:hexane:methanol (8:5:2, v/v/v) overnight. Derivitization was done by transferring 100 μL of extract to a vial and adding 75 μL of methylating reagent (0.25 M methanolic sodium methoxide:petroleum ether:ethyl ether, 1:5:2 v/v/v). Hexane was added to dilute samples to approximately 1 mL. An Agilent (Palo Alto, CA) series 6890 capillary gas chromatograph fitted with a flame ionization detector (275°C) was used with an AT-Silar capillary column (Alltech Associates, Deerfield, IL). Standard fatty acid mixtures (1) were used as calibration reference standards. Composition comparisons were made between seed produced from lines grafted on SCNR or SCNS rootstock and their respective non-grafted controls. Data was analyzed as a randomized complete block (RCB) using PROC GLM (SAS Institute Inc.) for FA content. Years, blocks (Asgrow lines), and entries were considered fixed effects while replications were considered random. Oleic acid content showed heterogeneity of variance within each year. Variance increased with increasing levels of oleic and a square root transformation was used to normalize the data and yield a homogeneous variance. Within entry comparisons were made between non-grafted control plants and self-grafted or non-grafted branches of grafted plants to determine if there was an effect due to g


The thawing of polygonal ice wedges determines the dynamics of polygonal peatland relief. The polygonal peat plateaus in the Pur-Taz interfluve account for an average of 6,5 % of the total area. The purpose of the proposed study is to establish the short-term rates and direction of change in the plateaus' relief under the combined action of technogenic and natural factors, using monitoring data for the period 2005–2022. Based on satellite images and orthophotoplans, elements of the peat plateaus have been outlined and their areas have been determined for different time slices. The studies were carried out on a peat plateau immediately adjacent to the highway (T1) and on a background peat plateau at a distance of about 1.5 km from the highway (T2). To identify the natural causes of changes in the relief of the peat plateaus, the influence of climatic parameters is considered. The rates of relief change in natural conditions and under the impact of the highway are also compared. It has been established that in the area to the north-west of the highway the relief of the T1 polygonal peat plateau has stabilized. In the south-east section of T1, degradation has sharply increased after the construction of the highway. Due to the degradation of the polygons, the polygonal troughs expanded. In the background peat plateau T2, the rate of relief degradation is somewhat higher than in the northwestern portion of T1. Comparison of the main climatic parameters and degradation rates of the polygonal relief did not show any clear correlations. Probably, of greater importance are the regime of atmospheric precipitation, the redistribution of surface runoff and recurrence of flooding and drainage of the polygonal troughs, determined by the rhythmic course of the relief degradation.


Congestive heart failure due to hypocalcemia is rare. We describe a 36-year-old woman with hypocalcemia who presented with cardiomealy and congestive heart failure. Her serum calcium was 4.8 mg/dl and phosphorous 6.1 mg/dl. Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy was diagnosed by cardiac catheterization and right ventricular biopsy. Her decompensated heart improved gradually after calcium supplements and conventional treatment for heart failure. We provpose the cause of her heart failure was iatrogenic hypoparathyroicism induced hypocalcemia. We suggest that physicaians should be aware that hypocalcemia can be a reversible cause of dilated cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure especially in patients who have had a radical thyroidectomy.


The condensation of cyclohexylidenemalononitrile or cyclohexylidenecyanoacetic ester with thioamidoethyl(methyl)malonate in the presence of sodium ethylate gave 6-amino-3-carbethoxy-5-cyano-4-spirocyclohexane-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine-2-thione and 3-carbethoxy(methoxy)-5-cyano-6-oxo-4-spirocyclohexanepiperidine-2-thiones which were used in the synthesis of the corresponding substituted 2-alkylthiotetrahydropyridines. 5-Carbethoxy-3-cyano-3-methyl-6-methylthio-4-spiro-cyclohexane-3,4-dihydropyridine-2(1H)-one was studied by X-ray crystallography.


Designing environments for the elderly includes studying changes in the elderly themselves, changes in their environment, and changes in the intercommunication between the elderly and their environment. The purpose of this study is to provide guidelines for a ubiquitous environment in which seniors can "age in place," using an environment-behavioral approach. 305 subjects aged 45 to 78 take part in the survey research. Temporal sequence (age groups) and behavior (daily activities) are considered as the significant variables to design digital services for the elderly in the perspective of an environment-behavioral approach. Several conclusions can be made. (1) The characteristics of subjects in the over-65 age group shows that they manage an independent lifestyle even if they realize some body functions deteriorate as they age. (2) Over-65 age group is more engaged in healthcare and pastime activities. The male subjects of it are most inactive. (3) The IDA (importance of daily activities) and FDA (frequency of daily activities) are classified by five to six factors in each group. The IDA and FDA of the group aged over 65 differ from other age groups. (4) Five affordance dimensions of digital services for the elderly are proposed: Healthcare, Domesticity, Mobility & Security, Network, and Recreation & Pastime. These affordance dimensions will help research groups or companies design ubiquitous environments to enhance the quality of life of seniors.


The booming Internet with extensive applications of e-trade in a distributed environment has necessitated the careful monitoring and analysis of network information. This paper proposes a multi-agent system EDI-MA (electronic data interchange-multi-agent) embedded in each client to monitor and analyze the XML/EDI format data. The paper introduces the architecture of EDI-MA and describes the organizational structures and functions of single agent in detail. This includes the data exchanging agent (DA), the interacting and coordinating agent (CA), and the computing and analyzing agent (TA). Communicating through four kinds of primitive message language, these agents monitor and analyze cooperatively XML/EDI format data based on the request-response cooperation mechanism with the CA's managing. EDI-MA is installed and run in EDI clients automatically and can be configured to achieve different functions. In addition, an application example in mobile phone online ordering is given to show how the system should perform. This technology can be widely used in the monitoring of electronic tax document and electronic checks on network.


Some solvability conditions of periodic solutions are obtained for a class of nonquadratic second order Hamiltonian system by the minimax methods. 


Aberrant expression of miR-196a has been frequently reported in cancer studies. However, the expression andmechanism of its function in gastric cancer remains unclear. Quantitative real-time PCRwas carried out to detect the relative expression of miR-196a in gastric cancer cell lines and tissues. SGC7901 cells were treated withmiR-196a inhibitors,mimics, or pCDNA/miR-196a to investigate the role ofmiR-196a in cell proliferation. Higher expression of miR-196a in gastric cancer tissues was associated with tumor size, a higher clinical stage, and was also correlated with shorter overall survival of patients with gastric cancer. Exogenous downregulationofmiR-196a expression significantly suppressed the in vitro cell-cycle progression, proliferation, and colony formation of gastric cancer cells, and ectopic miR-196a expression significantly enhanced the development of tumors in nude mice. Luciferase assays revealed that miR-196a inhibited p27 expression by targeting one binding site in the 30-untranslated region (30-UTR) of p27 mRNA. qPCR and Western blot assays verified that miR-196a reduced p27 expression at both mRNA and protein levels. The p27mediated repression in cell proliferation was reverted by exogenous miR-196a expression. A reverse correlation between miR-196a and p27 expression was noted in gastric cancer tissues. Our study shows that aberrant overexpression of miR-196a and consequent downregulation of p27 could contribute to gastric carcinogenesis andwould be targets for gastric cancer therapies and further developed as potential prognostic factors. Mol Cancer Ther; 11(4); 842–52. 2012 AACR.


A crossing rod connecting piece is disclosed by the utility model and is of one piece structure, which is provided with two paratactic holes to hold two bearing rods. Both side walls of one of the holes are provided with two U-shaped grooves from top end face to bottom end face that are connected with the hole, respectively. Two bearing rods are inserted in the two holes, respectively and are pin connected to the two holes through pivot joint parts. As two holes are provided only on one module to connect the two bearing rods, and due to the U-shaped grooves on both sides of a hole, the two bearing rods can spread and be folded in a cross way. As a result, contact area at joint of the cross rods is increased to prevent force deformation and rupture of rivets after long use, thereby improving service life of a chair; in addition, the connecting piece is compact and beautiful.


Clients and staff leave law firms because they do not feel valued. Law firms are not able to grow because of their inability to keep or retain staff. If law firms used their money and energy to think of strategies to retain existing staff, they would benefit greatly. Clients demand high quality, motivated lawyers, and if law firms cannot supply them, they will not be able to understand and meet their clients' needs.


Reproduction in a cattle ranch is the basis for an upward production. A high reproductive efficiency has high economic significance for livestock, for greater production efficiency in dairy cows need to remain pregnant with an interval of three months after birth in order to obtain a calf per year. A reduction in the time between births is equal to an increase in production per cow per year aimed to determine the reproductive parameters in dairy cows in postpartum anestrus, conducting induction and synchronization of estrus with intravaginal implants DIV-B ® and applying Gonadotropin Equine chorionic (eCG) at 14 days post insemination, considering the percentage variables showing estrus, pregnancy rates to first and second service pregnancy accumulated, services per conception, services per conception for all cows and rate conception. The cost per pregnant cow was US$ 56.54 and US$ 70.20 for treatments with eCG and control respectively. The best results of all services per conception of cows and conception rates were obtained by treatment with 400 IU of eCG 14 days post insemination, under these conditions it is recommended this dose.


This article aims to evidence communication, through the literature,  as a differential in the Executive Secretary profession,  since this professional represents a fundamental position in the organizations. We hope that this article will alert the professionals about the need of effectiveness communication,  in their professional performance, independent of the formation area- management assistence, processes articulator or entrepreneur -  it is deeply related to a correct utilization of the communication, which should be fundamented in the correct and efficient information.


A novel model of snake-like robot based on a spatial linkage mechanism is presented.Each module of this model has two micro servo motors which are linked by universal joints.The two motors drive two cranks,and the two cranks drive another module by two links with two spherical joints.Many motion modes including wriggling in sine wave,swerving left,swerving right and uplifting head are available by coupled actuation of the two motors on each module.The kinematics of the spatial linkage mechanism is presented.Joint's angles and pulses can be calculated based on Serpenoid curves,and then three basic motion modes are realized by programming.


This study examined the effect of ill-health on technical efficiency of food crop farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. Primary data were obtained from 300 randomly selected food crop farmers using multistage sampling procedure. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Findings revealed that respondents were still in their economic active age with mean age 46.5 years. Most (82.3%) of the farmers were male and 44.3% of the sampled farmers have primary education. Majority (70.0%) of the respondents had access to health care services out of which 50.7% had access to government maternity. 58.3 percentage of the respondents lost about 5 farming days due to illness of a member while majority (93.3%) of the farmers reported ill-health due to malaria, cold and catarrh. Farmers' mean annual expenditure transportation to the nearest health care Centre and medication were ₦137.00 and ₦4,228.83 respectively. Mean technical efficiency was estimated to be 0.627 and the returns to scale computed as the sum of output elasticity for all inputs was estimated as 1.6506, indicating increasing return to scale. SFA showed that travel cost to health care centres (p<0.01) and cost of disease treatment (p<0.05) significantly decreased efficiency. The study concluded that cost of disease treatment decreased farmers' efficiency. Therefore, government is encouraged to site health care facilities closer to farmers and ensure that the facilities are adequately equipped with modern medical equipment, drug and trained medical personnel. This should be accessible by farmers to improve efficiency.


Combining the one-dimensional tight-binding Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model and the extended Hubbard model (EHM), we investigate the effect of electron-electron interactions on the dynamics of a charged polaron in a conjugated polymer chain, by using a nonadiabatic dynamical method. Both the localization and the velocity of the polaron will vary with the on-site Coulomb interactions U and the nearest-neighbor interactions V . It is found that the local extremum of the stationary velocity of the polaron occurs at U ≈ 2V (U, V > 0). Additionally, the relation between the velocity and the lattice structure of the polaron is shown qualitatively. Copyright c © EPLA, 2007 There is currently great interest in the use of semiconducting electroluminescent polymers for the feasibility of constructing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on conjugated polymers [1]. In these devices, the electrons and/or holes are injected from metal electrodes, and transported under the influence of an external electric field. It has been generally accepted that the charge carriers are charged polarons in conjugated polymers, due to the strong electron-lattice interaction. Obviously, the transportation and the recombination of polarons play an important role in these optoelectronic devices based on conjugated polymers. There have been extensive studies on dynamics of polarons in conjugated polymers [2–9] under the influence of an external electric field, based on the one-dimensional tight-binding Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) Hamiltonian [10,11]. The polaron velocity is one of the major issues of interest. Arikabe et al. found that a polaron has a saturation velocity just below the sound velocity by using an adiabatic simulation in which the electronic energy is treated within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation [6]. In contrast to the result, based on a nonadiabatic simulation in which the transitions between instantaneous eigenstates are allowed, Johansson et al. [7,8] showed that the polaron can move with a supersonic velocity when (a)E-mail: email@example.com the electric field strengths are above 0.14mV/Å and the maximum velocity (about four times the sound speed) is reached at a high electric field strength (∼ 3.5mV/Å). At even higher electric field strengths, the polaron becomes unstable and dissociates. However, in the SSH model, only the electron-lattice interactions are considered and the electron-electron interactions are ignored. Therefore, it should be asked, what is the influence of the electron-electron interactions on polarons. The purpose of the present paper is to study how the electron-electron interactions affect the properties of polarons, especially to discuss the dynamics of moving polarons based on the extended Hubbard model (EHM). Indeed, as a prototype model, the static-state properties and the dynamical evolutions of organic polymers have been widely investigated based on the SSH model modified with the consideration of electron-electron interactions via an extended Hubbard Hamiltonian [12–16]. Moreover, the unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) approximation has also been used in weak correlation systems [14–19]. It has been shown that EHM and UHF are good approximations if the electron-electron interactions are not too strong. In this letter, combining the SSH and EHM models, we simulate the motion of polarons under an applied electric field by using a nonadiabatic dynamical method at the UHF level. For simplicity, the lattice is described classically while we solve the time-dependent Schrödinger


Out of 32 varieties of baeley tested. none of them was found to be immune to the aphid Rhopolesiphum maidis and shootfly Atherigonanaqvii BM 6 was found to be least susceptible to aphid during 1978.79 and 1979–80. KN.80 ROBt and HP 104 were observed to be least susceptible to shootfly in both years


The research is focused on the heat treatment techniques of four different ways including anneal、deformation、dual aging、RRA to the deformation process and the fining process of alloy grains.The anneal alloy has different characters under different temperature.At the high temperature,the grains of the alloy are refined after ECAP process.


The article gives the analysis of ways to improve extracurricular activities Soviet teachers is determined by its role, tasks and functions in the formation of ecological culture of the younger students. Environmental culture is a part of human culture, which should be put in a human from a very early age.


Water footprint assessments contribute to a better understanding of potential environmental impacts related to water and have become essential in water management. The methodologies for characterizing such assessments, however, usually fail to reflect temporal and spatial variations at local scales. In this paper, we employ four widely-used characterization factors, which were originally developed with global estimates of water demand and availability, to evaluate the impact that inter-basin transfer (IBT) of water has on water risk assessments and, consequently, on the evaluation of the soundness of water cycle. The study was conducted for two major river basins in Japan, where diversion channels were built to move water from the Tone river basin to the Arakawa river basin. Considering IBT, the available water in the Arakawa river basin increases a 45%, reducing the characterization factors a 44% on average and denoting their tendency to overestimate the risk in this basin, while the Tone river basin increased the characterization factors a 28% on average by IBT. Moreover, with a simple example we show how ambiguity in the definition of some characterization factors may cause significant changes in the result of the assessments. Finally, we concluded that local water footprint characterization can be more helpful in local assessment of water resources if the results are unanimous, Targetable, Replicable, Ameliorable, Comparable, and Engageable (uTRACE).


Four Preyssler-type polyoxometalate-based organic–inorganic hybrid materials were synthesized as non-enzymatic H2O2 electrochemical sensors, with high sensitivity and low detection limit.


Texture is an important image special knowledge,whereas scales are the major factor to affect its validity.This study put forward an algorithm of GIS spatial knowledge-based multi-scale texture feature extraction.It analyzed the human cognition custom for texture feature under GIS knowledge auxiliary,and concluded that the texture scale parameter is strong correlated with feature geometry characteristic,and it could be determined based on stable features geometry characteristic from a historical database.Based on the above,this study first described the spatial geometry characteristic by ER algorithm,then followed extracting texture scale parameters by relevant data mining algorithm.Finally,the strong correlation charistiristics between texture scale factor and classified object shape were proved in experiments that the proposed algorithm could be used to quickly and adaptively choose the texture scale factors comparing with the traditional methods,to meet the request.Furthermore,the multi-resolution texture descriptors could improve the separability among different land use categories,so that the total number of classification categories could be increased and more in line with the land use requirements.


Rare species Eriogaster lanestris (Linnaeus, 1758) from the family Lasiocampi-dae is noted firstly in Lepidoptera fauna of Saratov Province in XXI century.


Endotoxemia is an important factor causing liver injury. The recent researches has demostrated that liver injury induced by endotoxemia close relation to the excess activation of kupffer cells. Abundant inflammatory mediators and cytokines synthesizing and releasing from kupffer cells lead to liver injury.This article summarizes the role of kupffer cells in liver injury induced by endotoxemia.


In this article, illustrated by the three examples of Jiuzhaigou disaster model, Jiuzhaigou carst channel spatial analysis model and water resource forecast. It has a discussion on GIS applying in tour resource protected and planning of Jiuzhaigou. It can use for reference to GIS applying in China National park.


Hydrocarbon-based fuel cell membranes are susceptible to radical-induced degradation. Such polymers commonly contain aromatic units, which react rapidly with HO·. Antioxidant strategies therefore need to focus on repairing intermediates formed upon radical attack to mitigate irreversible degradation. We summarize our recent ex situ g-irradiation studies on an aromatic model compound and in situ fuel cell tests of radiation grafted membranes with a polymer-bound crown ether-cerium complex to elucidate its antioxidant mechanism. Cerium is effective in reducing aromatic hydrocarbon membrane degradation and likely follows a catalytic mode of action.


Variable speed drives (VSD) is widely used in the industry because of the cost saving, reliability and easy control characteristics. VSD uses high switching frequency to reduce harmonics which causes disruption in motor performances. The phenomenon of EMI emissions from electronic devices has adverse effects on the accuracy of the data readings. This is very obvious in the process of converting and inverting the current signal where there are harmonics. The RFI component of EMI will couple either through conduction and/or radiation to the victims, i.e. temperature sensor. This may cause inconsistent changes of temperature reading instigating a premature shut down and costing millions of dollar in damages in automated industries. This paper mainly focuses on the total effect of the RFI which is due to the high switching frequency of the inverter on the reading of the temperature sensor by going through a series of experimentation and simulation steps.


This article points out that the accurate hydrologic forecasting plays an important part in reservoir pre-release and pre-storage regulation by studying the case of Meishan reservoir occurring extreme flood in1991and2003across the Huaihe river.The author has come up with some opinions on how to define the stage flood limit level,enhance forecasting,regulate neatly and im-prove the benefits from reservoir.


There are insufficient data on the long‐term outcome of a combination therapy that comprises phototherapy and topical administration of tacrolimus.


Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Alexander Christian Pyymaki Perros Name of the doctoral dissertation Thermal and plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition: the study of and employment in various nanotechnology applications Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Microand Nanosciences Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 80/2015 Field of research atomic layer deposition Manuscript submitted 5 December 2014 Date of the defence 12 June 2015 Permission to publish granted (date) 27 February 2015 Language English Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles)


The authors report on the results of an analysis of the wavelet transform and its use as a tool for image enhancement and filtering in knowledge-based systems. They review the concept of the wavelet transform. A convolution theorem for the wavelet transform and a filter model are described, which uses a wavelet orthonormal basis set. This model is compared to the linear filter model for image enhancement and filtering. The wavelet filter is applied to a set of degraded sample imagery. Applied operations include edge detection and sharpening.<<ETX>>


NEN-3.2/220 type notching machine, used for cutting thin plates with thickness up to 3.2 mm cuts generated forms are angles and square shapes. This machine is required in fabrication process garbarata (boarding brigde) in PT Bukaka teknik utama so by using this engine can accelerate the production process. Notching machine hydraulic systems on work processes and analyzed based on the calculation of Reynolds number (Re) to determine the type of stream. Obtained from the calculation (Re) equal to 839 so that the type of laminar flow that occurs


The structuralist Marxist philosopher in the twentieth century, Althusser produced a novel form of Marxism by attempting to integrate into it the dominant ideas of structuralism. Althusser's version of Marxism received both praise and criticism. Those in favor of his philosophy believed that he had broken through the traditional way of interpreting Marxism and found a new approach to research into Marxist philosophy. Those against his ideas claimed that he pretended to be a defender of Marxist to distort Marxism, subjectively counterfeited Marxist theories, propagated structuralism under the guise of Marxism and attempted to replace Marxism with structuralism. Althusser actively responded to those criticisms and ingeminated his inimitable understandings of Marxist philosophy.


This paper objective is to mitigate to what extent the Liddle empirical formula (which the initial power equation of 4th order) may suit in designing road pavement lifespan for overloading vehicle roads. A case study was conducted in the Meredan highway, Siak, Riau, Indonesia. It was identified that the Truck Factor (TF) > 1 in this road. During 3 years project operation, the pavement condition has been deteriorated (Road Surface Index fail, IPf=1.5). Hence, the road was proven to be a failure before reaching its designated project lifespan (10 years). This study conducted various calculations by adjusting the Liddle empirical exponential formula (from power equation of 4th to 6th order) in order to fulfill the pavement lifespan which was capable to serve the overloading traffic loads in this road. This research has identified that there is a need to adjust the Liddle empirical formula by power equation of 6th order to accommodate the current overloading vehicles.


The incorporation of 14C from H14CO−3 into acid-soluble metabolites was examined in the endosymbiont-containing gills and purified symbionts of the lucinid clam Lucinoma aequizonata. HPLC, paper chromatography, and enzymatic techniques were used to identify and quantify compounds into which label was incorporated in continuous and pulse-labeling experiments. Both symbiont and host cells fix carbon in considerable quantities; however, each incorporates carbon into a distinctly different subset of compounds. In intact gills the initial carbon fixation product is malate. Label subsequently accumulates in succinate, glucose phosphate, glutamate, alanine, and glycogen. In the symbiont cells carbon is incorporated into aspartate, 3-phosphoglycerate, malate, and citrate. Purified symbionts incorporate carbon into the same compounds in the same proportions as do symbionts that are exposed to labeled H14CO−3 while still within the host tissues. Under the conditions tested, purified symbionts released no significant quantities of labeled compounds into the incubation medium.


Compared with the first half year in 2005,operation condition on the expressway in Shanghai Central city performed better in 06 first half year.The complement of the Middle Ping have a great influence on the whole expressway system.The article analyzes the traffic condition of the Shanghai's expressway system in the first half year of 2006 and proposed that it should consider the speed,flow and saturation as a whole when evaluating a road's traffic condition.


13. A@STUACT (Ugsaw 200 ce di The aim of this research is to study the idea compilation and its impact on the development of concise, efficient, verifable code. This entails developing, formalizing, analyzing, and extending a data compilation methodology based on work proposed. One goal of our study is to delineate the scope of applicability of data compliation techniques. our purpose is similar to that of researchers studying functional transformations and partial computation. Regarding data compilation, the greatest success of this work has been the apprication of the ideas; a varitey of problems using extend-syrtax in Scheme. The solutions we have obtained are concise, are of optimal complexity, and yet are relatively free of data structure considerations including boundedness and sparsity. The potential for solving a wider variety of problems in this style by adding features to Scheme has been shown to be great. We have proposed some new features and modifications to existing features which will be needed to manage data compilation more efficently.


House prices in the United States rose 14 percent in real terms during the 1990s; by historical standards, this was strong performance. Some analysts have worried that this performance was too strong, perhaps indicating an asset bubble, and could not be explained by fundamentals. This paper focuses on this relationship between rent and house value changes in 27 American metropolitan areas through 1998 using hedonic price and rental regressions on American Housing Survey Data to separate the extent to which house value and rent increases were due to changes in the quality of the housing stock, and how much were due to changes in price of housing services. We find that almost all of these markets demonstrated home value and rental growth during the 1990s that was well explained by economic fundamentals.


the centuries. '... This herb tobacco has particular virtue to heal grief 's of the head, and in especially coming of cold causes, and so it cures the headache when it comes of a cold humor, or of a windy cause, the leaves must be put hot to it upon the grief, and multiplying them the time that is needful, until the grief be taken away ...' (Nicholas Monardes, 1577)


VEPP-2000 electron-positron collider operating in the beam energy range of 150-1000 MeV is the only machine originally designed for and successfully exploiting Round Beams Concept. After injection chain upgrade including link to the new BINP injection complex VEPP-2000 proceeded with data taking since 2017 with luminosity limited only by beam-beam effects. At the low energies (300-600 MeV/beam) the novel technique of effective emittance controlled increase by weak coherent beam shaking allowed to suppress the limiting flip-flop effect and resulted in additional luminosity gain factor of 4. The averaged delivered luminosity at the omega-meson production energy (2×391 MeV) achieved L =2×1031 cm2s1/IP. At the top energies above nucleonantinucleon production threshold the stable operation with luminosity of L = 5×1031 cm2s1/IP resulted in high average data taking rate of 2 pb1/day in 2020.


Capsular contracture is a major complication in breast augmentation using silicone implants. The cause of this complication is still unknown. Different type of prosthesis, implant in the different layers, local inflammation and hematoma are some of the etiologic factors discussed. According to these factors, we should select the suitable implants and do the operation carefully and use the drugs exactly, which can reduce the incidence of capsular contracture. While operation to resect the capsule or remove the implant are the main treatment after the capsular contracture was formed.


Globally, small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) have been identified as a major source of employment and the foundation for successful entrepreneurship. They can also be a catalyst of economic transformation due to their significant contribution to any country's gross domestic product (GDP). They have therefore been identified as key assets for any country with aspirations towards transformation, poverty reduction, employment redistribution, business innovation and strong economic growth. In countries such as Japan, the United States, China, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania, manufacturing growth attributable to SMEs has strengthened, indicating that any predicted global downturn in industrial production may be mitigated by their input. This indicates beyond reasonable doubt that the role of manufacturing SMEs is central to any country and, it can be argued, more especially to developing countries like South Africa. Thus, their diminishing contribution towards GDP in recent years has been a significant concern of the South African Government, and of investors and policy makers, and has led to additional support being provided for the emergence and sustainable growth of manufacturing SMEs in the country. Statistics reflect that in 2018 manufacturing industry contributed only13.53% to GDP compared with 15.2% in 2013, and around 20% a decade earlier. This declining contribution has been associated with critical negative factors that affect the innovative leadership skills required to implement business innovation, manage a turbulent business environment, and achieve sustainable growth in the sector. Many researchers have studied the factors that contribute to manufacturing SMEs being successfully established. These factors include management skills, leadership ability, access to finance, the availability of resources, the economic climate, and the availability of necessary infrastructure and raw materials. The role of government regulations and compliance requirements have also been highlighted as critical factors affecting the sustainability and growth of manufacturing SMEs in the country. However, despite extensive research being carried out in the field, there remains a serious gap in studies which provide an in-depth understanding of those innovative business leadership abilities and business characteristics that critically influence manufacturing SMEs. These abilities are known to instigate, develop and promote business innovation that will subsequently attain sustainable growth. Theoretical models of the factors affecting and influencing innovative business leadership in this field are also lacking. Therefore, it can be argued that this is a critical area of research which has the potential to improve the current position of manufacturing SMEs in South Africa. This study has specific reference to manufacturing SMEs within KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Therefore, the study aimed to identify the critical factors affecting innovative business leadership within manufacturing SMEs in KZN and to propose a prototype model for improving such leadership. Justification for the study stems from the high failure rate currently experienced in the sector which is attributable to several significant challenges faced by manufacturing SMEs in South Africa. The study was conducted within the Province of KZN, employing a quantitative research method. The population of the study consisted of 384 manufacturing SME leaders, owners and managers. A non-probability, convenience, sampling technique was adopted, while a closed-ended questionnaire was used as the primary data collection tool. Inferential and descriptive statistical analysis of the data was undertaken using the SPSS (version 23.0) computer package. The research findings indicate that manufacturing SMEs are severely affected by a variety of challenges and that they face significant hurdles that negatively affect their performance. These impact on the business leaders' ability to implement the innovations that could promote, support and sustain the growth of their firms. The results of the study identified education and training as major positive contributory factors affecting innovative business leadership. Furthermore, technical abilities, access to financial support, and ICT awareness were also identified as critical catalysts to business success. The study therefore seeks to provide key insights into both the theoretical and practical implications of innovative leadership for manufacturing SMEs. It further provides an extensive range of recommendations and proposes a theoretical framework for those factors that can be understood by business leaders, government officials and policy makers to effect remedies for the current challenges faced by the sector.


Introduction PART I: ASSIMILATION IN EARLY-MODERN FRENCH AMERICA: FROM FRANCISATION TO RACIALISM 1. French colonial justifications 2. Francisation as New France's founding project 3. Defining French distinctiveness in seventeenth-century France 4. Implementing francisation 5. The emergence of race in French political imagination 6. Conclusion PART II: ASSIMILATION IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH EMPIRE: THE RULE OF LAW AS AN ENGINE OF CIVILISATION 1. British colonial justifications 2. The colonial career of Saxe Bannister 3. Bannister's colonial philosophy 4. Bannister's civilising scheme for the Aborigines of the British Empire 5. Introducing the rule of law in the colonies 6. Building an empire by treaty 7. The outcomes of the assimilative project in the second half of the nineteenth century 8. Conclusion PART III: ASSIMILATION AGAINST COLONIALISM: THE STRUGGLE OF THE MUSLIM NATIVES IN FRENCH ALGERIA 1. French conquest of Algeria 2. Assimilation in French political culture 3. Assimilating Algeria to France 4. Assimilating the Muslim natives through the rule of French law 5. Assimilating the natives through education 6. The rise of racial politics 7. Assimilation in post-First World War Algeria 8. Assimilation in Algeria: the indigenous point of view 9. Conclusion CONCLUSION: ASSIMILATION IN POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES Bibliography


The classical limits on the radiation Q and bandwidth have been reexamined for the case electrically small antennas with mixed TE/TM modes. A comparison with the case of transmission lines suggests that some of the underlying assumptions of the classical model may not be applicable in the cases where both TE and TM modes exist. The near filed energy flow has been studied in the case of an electro-magnetic dipole pair, showing the rotational nature of the fields. A possible implementation based on gyrators has been considered as an example which shows a very wideband input matching.


This paper reports first on the very promising self-heating and temperature rising characteristics of solid-state NiFe2O4 nanoparticles for hyperthermia applications. NiFe2O4 nanoparticles were prepared by using both the "high temperature thermal decomposition method (HTTD)" and the "newly modified sol-gel" methods. The magnetic properties and cell-cytotoxic properties of the synthesized NiFe2O4  nanoparticles were investigated to consider these nanoparticles for in vivo hyperthermia applications. The saturation magnetic moments measured by a high sensitive SQUID were between 43.0 and 47.6 emu/g. The cell survival rates of NiFe2O4 and chitosan coated NiFe2O4, which were determined by MTT assay, around 85 % and 98.8 %, respectively. The maximum self-heating temperature induced by our specially designed RF-MRI modified L-C circuit was 47.3degC and the frequency and magnetic field product, H 0f was 1.07 times 109 Am-1 s-1


This paper aims to develop a new method to determine a robust scheduling control for systems evolving in uncertain environments. Time Petri Nets with controllable and uncontrollable transitions are used to model the system. The controllable transitions represent the operations and the uncontrollable transitions represent unexpected events that correspond either to interruption of operations or to unavailability of resources. The developed method computes reconfigurable control sequences based on the determination of series of timed extended reachability graphs (R-TERG). Once an unexpected event is detected, a reconfiguration point is created and the R-TERG is updated. Successive applications of the Dijkstra algorithm allow reconfiguring the control sequence in order to preserve optimality with respect to the faults that affect the system.


Purpose – During the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on commercialization of knowledge and technology from universities. However, universities report financing as being the main impediment to successful university spin‐off companies (USOs) creation, leaving valuable inventions un‐commercialized. The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model in order to explain financing challenges experienced by USOs.Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a conceptual model illustrating financing challenges met by USOs, and provides an explanation why TTOs report that obtaining financing is their biggest impediment to spin‐off creation. Two different theoretical perspectives back this conceptual development: Knightian uncertainty and agency theory.Findings – This theoretical examination suggests that increasing levels of uncertainty affect the investor's willingness to fund new companies in a negative way. Through the literature review, clear indications were also found for the incr...


The opposition of Northern abolitionists, churchmen, and political figures to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is criticized in this rare pro-Southern cartoon. In two panels artist Edward Williams Clay illustrates the abolitionist's invocation of a "higher law" against the claim of a slave owner, and the application of the same principle against the Northerner in a case of stolen textiles. In the left panel a slaveholder "Mr. Palmetto" and a federal marshal confront an abolitionist "Mr. Pumpkindoodle" and a garishly dressed, runaway slave "Pompey" in a warehouse or shop interior. On the counter is a copy of the newspaper the "Emancipator." Palmetto: ". . . I've come here to take that fugitive slave who belongs to me, according to the provisions of the U. S. law! Officer do your duty!" Pumpkindoodle (handing a pistol to the slave): "What! seize my African brother! never! I dont recognize any U.S. law! I have a higher law, a law of my own. here Pompey take this pistol and resist to the death! if he attempts to take you!" Pompey (trembling): "Ye yes sa! I'll try, cause brudders [antislavery senator from New York William H.] Seward and [abolitionist William Lloyd] Garrison says its all right; and so does Parson Squash! But I'm mighty feared." Federal marshal: "Whew! I think I'd better make myself scarce!" In the panel on the right, the same abolitionist approaches the seated slaveholder in the latter's shop. A sturdy slave "Cesar" and a grinning attendant stand by. On the counter are several bolts of fabric, labeled "Bay State Shawls," "Cotton Shirting," "Domestic Prints," "Amoskeag Ticks," "Lowels Negro Cloth" and "Hamilton Long Cloth." A copy of the "Charleston Mercury" lies open on Palmetto's lap. Pumpkindoodle: "Look here Mr. Palmetto them 'ere goods is mine! They've been stole from me, and if you dont give 'em up, I'll take the law of the land on you!" Palmetto: ". . . They are fugitives from you, are they? As to the law of the land, I have a higher law of my own, and possession is nine points in the law. I cant cotton to you. Kick out the abolitionist Cesar." Cesar: "Of course Massa. De dam Bobolitionist is the wus enemy we poor niggers have got."
Entered . . . 1851 by E.W. Clay . . . Southern District of N.Y.
Pub. at 152 Nassau St. corner of Spruce N.Y.
Signed with initials: E.W.C. (Edward Williams Clay).
The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on January 22, 1851.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Century, p. 70.
Weitenkampf, p. 103.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1851-5.


Dante Alighieri's argument on the question of the language stimulated the debate among fifteenth century humanists. This book provides a novel and open-ended reading of Dante's literature on language as well as a systematic reconstruction of the whole body of humanistic literature on linguistic phenomena.


Blockchain technology provides promising solutions to problems where trust between participants is a significant concern. Blockchain technology eliminates centralised trusted authorities and provides decentralised trust assessments and improved transparency and immutability for transactions. Blockchain platforms have tightly connected decentralised consensus mechanisms and distributed ledgers. However, within DApps(decentralised applications), blockchain platforms should easily communicate with other systems, including data storage systems and front-end applications. Blockchain is not for storing big data. The transactions cost is a primary concern when developing DApps for commercial use. This paper proposes a BaaS(Blockchain as a Service) architecture enriched with a loosely coupled service API(Application Programming Interface) connecting IPFS(Interplanetary File System) as the information storage and smart contracts to govern the business logic. We realised the proposed architecture for prescriptions management in a veterinary medicine case study in Ireland. The solution DApp continuously monitors the updates of prescriptions, medicine dispenses, and medicine administrations while restricting the overuse of prescription and the use of counterfeit drugs. The traceability improves the transparency of treatment activities and information retrieval for users. Moreover, the proposed architecture is easily adaptable and maintains low-cost transactions with the support of IPFS and smart contract events.


54 HIGH TEMPERATURE DIRECT 3,682,621 8/1972 Struve..................................... 75/34 REDUCTION PROCESS FOR RON ORE AGGLOMERATES Primary Examiner-L. Dewayne Rutledge 75 Inventor: Rodney L. Bleifuss, Coleraine, Assistant Examiner-M. J. Andrews Minn. 73 Assignee: The Regents of the University of 57 ABSTRACT Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. A practical process for carrying out direct reduction of iron-rich materials in the temperature range from 22 Filed: Apr. 9, 1974 about 1100 to 1300° C. The process is directed pri (21) Appl. No.: 459,391 marily toward the direct reduction of iron ore concen W. trates which have been suitably agglomerated, such as taconite pellets, and in which the silica has been suit (521 U.S. Cl............................................ 75/34; 75/3 ably prefluxed with lime to prevent the reaction of (51) Int, Cl.'.......................................... C21B 13/08 FeC) and silica during reduction. Prefluxing the silica 58 Field of Search............................... 75/3, 33-35 with lime prevents the formation of an FeC-silica slag e and makes it feasible to carry out direct reduction at 56 References Cited temperatures up to 1300 C without attendant fusion UNITED STATES PATENTS of the agglomerates.


An approach for detailed routing with a relaxed switching structure for island style FPGAs is presented in this paper. The routing problem is converted to a Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem by formulating the routing constraints as set of Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) clauses, which is then solved by a SAT solver which explores all possible routing layout for a circuit. The internal structure of a switch box has a great effect on routing. An optimal switch box with highest level of flexibility is used to test its effect in routing for island style FPGAs. The performance of the proposed switch has been compared with Subset, Wilton and Universal switches having restricted internal topological structures. Increase in switching block flexibility reduces the required channel width for a complete routing of the circuit and hence reduces the size of a chip area.


At present,the Chinese Question Answering System was mostly aimed at some questions of named entities to give answers,while few researches were aimed at"Why"interrogative Sentences.In this paper,cause-effect relationship sentences from some snippets of the Search Engine were extracted,and then the weight of every sentence was measured according to the causeeffect patterns.The experiment results indicated that the system could get relatively good results,with the MRR of all questions at 0.52.


Label Propagation Algorithm (LPA) predicts what label a node in a graph has by its accumulated label information after iteratively propagating label information among adjacent nodes. Subsequent studies of LPA try to assign weights on connections to adjust the propagation between different node pairs. However, such approaches still rely on the assumption that adjacent nodes should have similar labels. To predict when the label distribution may differ from this assumption, we propose Residual Label Propagation (ResLPA). It approximates residuals between labels with node features, then adds the approximated residuals to the label information as corrections before propagating. In experiments on five real-world graphs, ResLPA matches or exceeds state-of-the-art LPA-based methods, GCN-based methods and their integrations.


Aqueous Zr-nitrate solutions containing appropriate amounts of Fe(NO3)3·6H2O and Al(NO3)3·6H2O were used to synthesize ZrO2-Fe2O3 compositions (up to 40 mol% Fe2O3) and one ZrO2-Al2O3-Fe2O3 composition. An amorphous phase was produced after pyrolysis, which subsequently crystallized to a single-phase Zr(Fe)O2 solid solution (or Zr(Fe,Al)O2 ss) that appeared cubic by X-ray diffraction, but tetragonal (c/a→ 1) by electron diffraction. The crystallization temperature increased with Fe2O3 content. At higher temperatures, the single phase partitioned to two phases, tetragonal-ZrO2+γ-Fe2O3. The γ- to α-Fe2O3 transformation occurred at still higher temperatures to produce a two-phase microstructure composed of two interpenetrating phases (ZrO2+α-Fe2O3), each with equiaxed grains. This microstructure was relatively stable to grain coarsening, even to temperatures just below the apparent eutectic temperature. With the exception of the lower transition temperatures and the equiaxed grains observed for both phases, these observations are similar to that previously reported for the ZrO2-Al2O3 system. The microstructure development reported here is another example for the synthesis via solution processing that involves diffusion-limited crystallization. Namely, a two-phase material can be produced where the grain size of each can be very small, and can be prevented from growing rapidly at high temperatures due to the constraint of each phase on one another.


In this speakerphone the peak value of the microphone output must be above the (variable threshold) average value to cause switching to transmit mode, thus providing dynamic compensation for ambient noise. In addition, a feedback path rapidly reduces the average value threshold if ambient noise such as a fan suddenly stops to cause the average value to be momentarily larger than the peak.


The literature on the U.S. Supreme Court has paid substantial attention to the perceived legitimacy of the Court's decisions. However, much less attention has been paid to the perceived legitimacy of the reasons the Court provides for its opinions. We design two experiments to understand how the public perceives opinion content. Unlike prior studies, we take it as a given that the Court uses legal reasons in its decisions. This offers us a baseline by which to compare departures from these legal reasons. We find that extralegal reasons, when paired with legal reasons, do nothing to harm the legitimacy of the Court. Furthermore, we find that even with a lack of legal reasons, the use of extralegal reasons does not harm the legitimacy of the Court, even among those who find that these reasons are inappropriate for the Court to use.


Dielectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of PVDF loaded with PbTiO3 ceramics of the mean grain size 3 m were studied at room temperature. The low frequency dielectric absorption of composites with ceramic volume fraction x > 0:4 can be described by power law 00 f n . The exponent n amounts to about 1/2 in the frequency range 0.3 mHz-30 mHz and is about 1/3 at higher frequencies, i.e., 1 Hz to 10 kHz. In the MHz region the relaxation process, characteristic of the polymer, was overlapping with the dielectric absorption characteristic of perovskites. Pyroelectric response was found to decrease with the light modulation frequency and the piezoelectric dh coecient was observed do decrease slightly with pressure in the range up to 60 MPa.


The present application is a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), field emission displays (FED), LED display device such as a display, or a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) and LED lamp, such as acid usable in the light-emitting mechanism such as a lighting device, or the backlight of the relates to a nitride-based and nitride-based method for producing a phosphor powder, and phosphor powder due thereto, the manufacturing method of the phosphor powders of nitride over the fired in an atmosphere containing nitrogen, using a fine carbon material part or all of the metal oxide It includes.


The state-holding commercial banks have set up modern corporate governance structure according to the principle of "separation of 3 boards,division of 3 powers,efficient control and harmonious development".Whereas there are still some deficiencies in the existing governance structure: the interests of investors and interests-related can not be properly protected;the relations among the board of directors,board of supervisors and managers are not so well coordinated;there is a lack of proper incentive and constraint mechanism.Hence,the corporate governance for the state-holding commercial banks has to be optimized,i.e.,the "golden share" has to be introduced to set up the diversified equity so as to encourage the investors and other interests-related to pay attention to the operation and supervision of companies;the relations among the meeting of stockholders,board of directors,board of supervisors and managers have to be coordinated to guarantee the efficiency of the decentralization and balance;sound incentive and constraint mechanism has to be set up to reach a balance between efficiency and counterbalance.


The objective of the study is to show that landslide conditioning factors derived from different source data give significantly different relative influences on the weight factors derived with statistical models for landslide susceptibility modelling and risk analysis. The analysis of the input data for large-scale landslide hazard assessment was performed on a study area (20.2 km2) in Hrvatsko Zagorje (Croatia, Europe), an area highly susceptible to sliding with limited geoinformation data, including landslide data. The main advantage of remote sensing technique (i.e., LiDAR, Light Detection and Ranging) data and orthophoto images is that they enable 3D surface models with high precision and spatial resolution that can be used for deriving all input data needed for landslide hazard assessment. The visual interpretation of LiDAR DTM (Digital Terrain Model) morphometric derivatives resulted in a detailed and complete landslide inventory map, which consists of 912 identified and mapped landslides, ranging in size from 3.3 to 13,779 m2. This inventory was used for quantitative analysis of 16 input data layers from 11 different sources to analyse landslide presence in factor classes and thus comparing landslide conditioning factors from available small-scale data with high-resolution LiDAR data and orthophoto images, pointing out the negative influence of small-scale source data. Therefore, it can be concluded that small-scale landslide factor maps derived from publicly available sources should not be used for large-scale analyses because they will result in incorrect assumptions about conditioning factors compared with LiDAR DTM derivative factor maps. Furthermore, high-resolution LiDAR DTM and orthophoto images are optimal input data because they enable derivation of the most commonly used landslide conditioning factors for susceptibility modelling and detailed datasets about elements at risk (i.e., buildings and traffic infrastructure data layers).


Previous studies from this laboratory (1) have shown that within the frame of reference of the isolated glomerulus, the "nephrotoxic" antigen(s), the heterologous serum to which can produce glomerulonephritis in the donor species, is localized within the basement membrane of the glomerular capillaries. The parietal capsule and the cellular elements of the glomerulus could be excluded as sites of this antigen(s). In the course of these investigations additional methods were evolved whereby tubular epithelial cells from the cortex of the kidney and tubular basement membrane could be obtained in relatively pure form. Heterologous serums developed against these two additional renal components failed to produce glomerulonephritis in the donor species. The present investigation was, therefore, designed to determine and contrast the antigenic composition of all the isolated principal renal structures on an in vitro basis.


Victor Turner(1920-1983)was one of representative figure of "The school of Manchester" of Britain's anthropology.At the beginning he was good at conflict and study ceremony.He had studied the symbolic meaning of the Ndembu's ritual in African,thoroughly probed into the essential attribute and the research of symbolism,became theoretical research master of symbolic anthropology finally.Afterward,Turner had developed the theory of"rites of passage"by Arnold Van Gennep,(1873-1957)he deeply explained and boosted the second stage in "rites of passage "theory and finally applicated it in one special travel research namely"pilgrimage"phenomenon.Turner also created a series of the concept about pilgrimage and which make tourism anthropology studies made the first step in anthropology theory,therefore he established the important concept"limineality"as foundation of in the travel transitional ritual.


The utility model relates to a general connecting device for assembling furniture frame, relating to the field of furniture. A plate can be inlaid in the frame which is formed by the connecting device to be fixed into beautiful ideal furniture. The utility model is composed of a vertical component and a horizontal member. The vertical component and the horizontal component are provided with grooves which are used for fixing and embedding boards, etc. The utility model can be dismounted and mounted for a plurality of times, and can not be damaged. In addition, the utility model also has the advantages of low cost and easy recovery in the course of updating, which can avoid polluting environment.


The authors present a fuzzy logic approach to a decision-support system with the benefit of human expertise in the naval domain in which the velocities of the mobiles are sufficiently slow. They consider the problem of maneuver-aid to track a target. The classical approaches use mathematical models with simplifying assumptions, but the tracking process cannot be rigorously defined, as it is an approximate reasoning process. An approach using a fuzzy logic knowledge-based system is proposed. The method consists of characterizing the behavior of human operators and incorporating this behavior in a fuzzy logic decision-aid system. A fuzzy logic development environment has been realized. The fuzzy logic approach is justified by very satisfactory results obtained on simulations.<<ETX>>


Taking different elevations as one-dimension resource,the authors measure the ecological space and ecological overlap of eight main associated species in Fujian Luoboyan Nature Reserve.The quantitative measurement finds that the ecological space of the dominant species in this community is relatively wide.The result also finds that the dominant species share the same resource and the community is relatively stable.