This paper investigates the effect of fiducials configuration on target registration error (TRE) and test the accuracy of theoretical model of TRE prediction in image-guided cranio-maxillofacial surgery. The skull specimen is prepared with 20 titanium microscrews placed at defined locations and scanned with a 64-slice spiral computed tomography unit. These markers are separated to registration fiducial group and target fiducial group. An optical tracking system is used to perform skull-to-image registration procedures. Subsequent to each registration, the TRE is calculated by the navigation system. Each configuration have been performed registration 50 times and the average is regarded as TRE of the configuration. The TRE prediction is also calculated for each configuration. The TRE ranges from 0.58mm to 3.88mm, relatively smaller values of TRE may be achieved by placing a majority of fiducials on the maxillary alveolus in proximity about the target and placing a small number on the cranium contralaterally. The TRE values are always larger than the corresponding TRE prediction but there is high correlation between them. The configuration of fiducials is an important factor in minimizing TRE and the TRE prediction is a good guidance for fiducial markers placement.


Effective performance in a situation relies on having a
good awareness of that situation or at least, if SA is poor, being aware
that this is the case. This study examined the bias (tendency to accept
or reject available information) and actual and perceived SA of
firefighters across two different situations The data suggested that,
although actual SA and bia varied across the situations, perceived SA
remained relatively constant. This raises the possibility that
individuals may have a 'resting level' of perceived SA and that the
tasks used in this study were effective in manipulating actual SA while perceived SA remained at the resting level.


a) particles of a first type are the free base form or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and polymorphs (polymorphs), in the form of Darby a solvate or hydrate contains tran etexilate, b) of the second type the particles comprising at least one pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid, at least a composition comprising a mixture of particles of two types, criticism membranous atrial fibrillation, reducing the risk of stroke and tissue embolism in patients and / or optional (elective) artificial the use of the composition, and the manufacturing process of the composition for prevention of venous thromboembolism THA or adult patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty.


For pt.1 see ibid., p.41-50 (2005). Part I of this paper introduces the simplified linguistic information feedback-based dynamical fuzzy system (S-LIFDFS) as well as adaptive training algorithms for the feedback parameters. In Part II, we are going to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed S-LIFDFS and its learning algorithms in time series prediction. Two artificial time sequences and the well-known Box-Jenkins gas furnace data are used.


The purpose of the present note is to solve a small editorial problem in the Miracles of ss. Cyrus and John 34 ( BHG 477-479), by Sophronius. The word οὔριον in the phrase ᾠὸν οὔριον ὄφeως (used of a snake's egg from which a live hatchling emerges), which has puzzled translators and for which a correction to ὥριον has been proposed, is explained as a somewhat playful reference to Isaiah 59, 5 ᾠὰ ἀσπίδων ... οὔριον eὗρeν, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ βασιλίσκος. In order to elucidate the background of Sophronius' use of the phrase, the article briefly examines the concept of the infertile "wind eggs" and the genesis and development of the basilisk legend in ancient medical, paradoxographical and Christian theological literature. Finally, an attempt is made to establish a connection between the word οὔριον and its early Medieval rendering as concalefactum et virulentum in Anastasius the Librarian's Latin translation of the Miracles .


The present invention relates to a medical system and a tower crane arm for the shaft of the medical tower crane arm system. The tower crane arm medical system comprising: an anchor plate, the anchor plate for fixing to the roof structure mounting space of a medical tower crane arm system; a first shaft, said outer shaft comprises a first shaft, the inner shaft and the ball spacer sleeve, the ball spacer sleeve disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring of said axle shaft, a lower portion of the outer shaft is formed a rectangular flange, an upper portion of the outer shaft is formed a circular flange, wherein said circular flange of the first rotary shaft fixed to the anchor plate directly or by means of extended post fixed to the anchor plate; and a first arm, the first arm in the vicinity of one end fixed to the first rectangular flange shaft. Medical tower crane arm system according to the present invention can play the following beneficial technical effects: overall structure is compact, simple to assemble and assembly time is short, less components may be selectively mounted airbag electromagnetic brake or brakes.


Sir,

We present a case report of anaesthetic management of a 12-year-old boy with sickle-cell disease (SCD) and congenital heart block (CHB) with pacemaker [Figure 1], undergoing laparoscopic splenectomy.

Figure 1

12-lead electrocardiography of the patient

The child had suffered sickle-cell crisis and pacemaker malfunction a month back. His preoperative investigations were normal and weight was 30 kg. He received intravenous (IV) fluids during fasting period, pneumococcal vaccine, antibiotic prophylaxis and cefotaxime 500 g IV. The cardiologist changed the mode of pacemaker to asynchronous (fixed rate). Standard American Society of Anesthesiologists monitoring, urine output and temperature monitoring were used.

Morphine 4.5 mg IV, thiopentone 150 mg IV and atracurium 0.5 mg/kg IV were used for induction and intubation. Anaesthesia was maintained with isoflurane (MAC: 1.0), air and oxygen (FiO2: 0.5). Pneumoperitoneum was created with CO2 and intra-abdominal pressure was kept around 8–10 mmHg. The surgeon used bipolar cautery, blood loss was approximately 800 ml and 1 unit packed red cell was transfused. The patient was given fluid at 60 ml/h intra-operatively as he had been kept hydrated preoperatively. For post-operative analgesia, paracetamol 500 mg IV was given and skin incision was infiltrated with 12 ml 0.2% ropivacaine. Neuromuscular blockade was reversed and trachea was extubated. The patient remained haemodynamically stable, normothermic and had adequate urine output. Post-operative analgesia was maintained with paracetamol 500 mg IV 8th hourly and fentanyl boluses of 30 μg as rescue analgesic whenever visual analogue scale exceeded 3. The child was discharged on the 7th post-operative day after uneventful course.

CHB (incidence 1 in 22,000 live births) with no structural abnormality and when diagnosis is established beyond neonatal period has better survival.[1] Intraoperatively, pacemaker mode is advised to be changed to asynchronous, and bipolar electrocautery is to be used. The availability of manual pacing should be ensured to manage pacemaker malfunction.[2]

SCD is the disorder of beta-globin chain characterised by haemolytic anaemia, intermittent vascular occlusion, pulmonary compromise and multi-organ damage. Electrocardiogram changes are non-specific and first-degree heart block may be found.[3,4] Not usually associated with SCD, CHB in our patient is perhaps an additional finding.

Splenectomy is recommended in children older than 2 years or after one major or two minor episodes of splenic sequestration crises.[3,4] When done laparoscopically, the duration of surgery increases, but hospital stay is decreased.[3] Any major surgery is associated with 7% mortality. Preoperatively, the history of episodes of painful crises must be sought.[4] Pre-operative examination should be thorough as SCD involves multiple organ systems. Neurological evaluation rules out the previous cerebrovascular accident as ischaemic infarcts are common in anaemic children.[3] Kidneys may get involved during advanced disease. Presence of rib infarcts can lead to hypoventilation. Perioperative cardiopulmonary manifestations such as acute chest syndrome usually remain undetected in young children.[3,4]

As dehydration precipitates RBC sickling and occlusion of microvasculature at a level of precapillary sphincters, perioperative hydration must be ensured.[3,4] There is a controversy regarding blood transfusion, benefit being dilution of haemoglobin S and disadvantage being triggering of sickling.[3,4] Other factors leading to sickling crises are vascular stasis, hypoxia, metabolic acidosis, hypothermia and presence of infection.[3] Previous case reports have emphasised the importance of preventing sickling crisis perioperatively.[5]

To conclude, perioperative anaesthetic management of children suffering from SCD and CHB needs meticulous pre-operative and intra-operative management and post-operative vigilance for preventing sickle-cell crisis and associated complications.

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As the number of monitoring sites of carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor fluxes is increasing and long-term measurements of these fluxes are popularized, guidelines for practical procedures of quality control of measured flux data are needed to produce reliable datasets which are suitable for data analysis.Several quality control tests for eddy covariance data have been proposed. To examine whether such tests are suitable for practical use, we applied three types of quality control tests to a two-year dataset obtained by the open-path eddy covariance method at a rice field. Raw data quality control tests detected time series inappropriate for flux calculations such as runs with rainfall or instrumental failure. Steady state tests detected two kinds of non-steady state runs. Monotonic trends were detected by the instationarity test, while intermediate changes of turbulence structure were detected by the nonstationarity test. Integral turbulence characteristic tests based on flux-variance similarity were useful for confirming whether turbulence was well developed or not. Results of these quality control tests, together with additional information on the length of recording time, wind direction relative to the sonic anemometer, and precipitation records were categorized into nine classes and combined for evaluation of the final data quality of the covariances. The final data quality was then evaluated as either discard, high quality, low quality, or normal quality. By visual inspection of the daily courses of CO2 fluxes, we confirmed that anomalies and unexpected covariances had been rightly judged to be discarded in the final data quality classification. Energy imbalance ratios also supported the evaluation of the final data quality as the average of the half-hourly energy imbalance ratios decreased with the increase of final data quality. We concluded that the quality control tests examined and the final data quality evaluation proposed in the present study provide a suitable guide to data quality and can be a useful tool for flux studies.


The winter Forum season opened with an opportunity for attendees to become acquainted with the programs of the Center for Value in Healthcare, a new research entity within the School of Population Health. The Center focuses on research designed to examine performance measurement and improvement strategies that will increase the capacity of the US healthcare system to deliver higher quality, and more cost-effective care.


Abstract As substance abuse treatment becomes more psychologically oriented, a group process orientation can be the integrative factor in a program. An example of how one program fully integrated vocational rehabilitation services by encouraging psychological issues to emerge within the vocational group is presented.


ABSTRACT The draft genome sequence of Ruminoclostridium sp. Ne3 was reconstructed from the metagenome of a hydrogenogenic microbial consortium growing on xylan. The organism is likely the primary hemicellulose degrader within the consortium.


The concept of freedom can be defined respectively in terms of receptivity and autonomy. This paper attempts to trace Kant's concept of freedom in terms of autonomy,beginning with his discus- sion of freedom in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone.It is perceivable that Kant's major con- cern in this book is about"change of heart".Kant comments that Christian conception of grace cannot theoretically justify the inward pursuit for good in human existence,which demands self-efforts.He then asserts that the absolute freedom in human existence is the sole dynamic to propel a human being to change for good.However,having conducted more examinations into the issue,the paper finds that "change of heart"is impossible without deconstruction,and Kant's autonomous freedom fails to explain the deconstruction of a notion of good.The discussion then shifts to demonstrate the deconstruction of a notion of good by appealing to the concept of grace.This is the so-called"receptive freedom"sustained in Christian conception of grace.To defend such a shift,the paper resorts to Kierk egaard's concept of freedom to delineate the receptive freedom in human existence.


High-power wide-band submillimeter-wave frequency sources have been developed. A frequency doubler to 300 GHz has delivered an output power of 5 mW with 3-dB-down bandwidth of more than 10 GHz. A frequency tripler to 450 GHz with an output power of 0.5 mW has also been tested. These multiplier output powers are highest values in the respective frequency regions up to date. The successful performances have been achieved by use of GaAs Schottky-barrier diodes and hybrid integrated circuits which are specially designed to obtain high output power.


This chapter comprises an interview between Barbara Adam and the editors, and is followed by Adam's 'Honing Futures', which is presented in four short verses of distilled theory. In the interview Adam reflects on thirty-five years of futures-thinking rooted in her deeply original work on time and temporality, and her innovative response to qualitative and linear definitions of time within the social sciences. The interview continues with a discussion of the way Adam's thinking on futures intersects in her work with ideas of ethics and collective responsibility politics and concludes with a brief rationale for writing theory in verse form. In 'Honing Futures', a piece of futures theory verse form, Adam charts the movements and moments in considerations of the Not Yet and futurity's active creation: from pluralized imaginings of the future, to an increasingly tangible and narrower anticipated future, to future-making as designing and reality-creating performance. Collectively, the verses identify the varied complex interdependencies of time, space, and matter with the past and future in all iterations of honing and making futures.


scope, an idea of the intended arrangement in the new building where, in the European wing, a combined exhibition of the art of painting, sculpture and decorative arts will be shown in period rooms in chronological order. So far, only three periods are represented the Gothic, the Italian Renaissance, and the Northern Baroque, covering the time from Christian and Romanesque art, so far we have been able to show only a few scattered objects of these earlier


In this investigation, a tracking control is designed for the angular velocity of the DC/DC Boost converter–DC motor system. To this end, the dynamics of the power supply, generated through a renewable energy power source, is considered in both the mathematical model and the designed control. This latter is proposed by using a two-level hierarchical approach, where the dynamics of the DC/DC Boost converter and the one associated with the DC motor not only are treated as two independent subsystems, but also they exploit their differential flatness property. For the DC/DC Boost converter, an alternative first-order mathematical model is obtained for designing the low-level voltage control. Whereas, the well known second order mathematical model of the DC motor is used for developing the high-level angular velocity control. The robustness and performance of the hierarchical tracking control are verified via realistic numerical simulations and experimental results by using Matlab-Simulink, a prototype of the system, the DS1104 board, and the renewable energy emulator TDK-Lambda G100-17. The results demonstrate and validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


E-textiles aim to integrate enhanced functionality into ordinary fabric materials. This is often through the development of the material itself to have specific properties, such as hydrophobic or heat resistance, or by adding electronic functionality as part of the initial fabrication or during some form of post processing. At the University of Southampton we have taken the approach of combining the thousand year old art of graphical screen printing with the modern development of printed electronics to create electronic functionality on to any textile either before or after it has been made into a garment. This approach allows for much greater design freedom as the designs are not limited to orthogonal shapes and the location on the fabric is not limited by the weaving process. In this presentation we will report on the latest devices we have printed including the first all screen printed electroluminescent watch display on fabric, an all inkjet printed dipole antenna and an all screen printed motion sensor using sacrificial MEMS based techniques


Cobalt is a widely used, though proportionally minor, metal, occurring in hard-metals, varnishes and paints, plastics, alloys, and cement (1, 2). In patch testing, ''isolated cobalt sensitivity'' was defined by Rystedt (3) as a positive reaction to cobalt (cobalt chloride hexahydrate 1% pet.) without simultaneous reaction to chromate or nickel: it is rarely reported (3, 4). In cement allergy, e.g., sensitization to cobalt is generally assumed to be secondary to chromate sensitization (2, 5). Regarded as a more potent sensitizer than nickel, cobalt is frequently present in nickel as a contaminant (1, 6). For this reason, it is more likely that concomitant positive reactions arise from coexisting sensitivity than from cross-reactivity (7). In cases of suspected occupational contact dermatitis, the detection of an ''isolated'' cobalt reaction may have clinical and occupational relevance (8).


Twenty-six male albino rabbits of the same strain and approximate age and weight were passively sensitized with rabbit anti-horse serum and challenged with horse serum according to a procedure favoring the production of acute lesions of periarteritis and panarteritis of the pulmonary arteries and arterioles. Nitrogen mustard in sufficient doses to induce and maintain a leukopenia was administered to twenty of the animals for one to two weeks prior to sensitization. Five of the six non-treated sensitized rabbits and fifteen of the twenty sensitized rabbits that received nitrogen mustard developed the typical lesions of panarteritis and periarterial infiltration of eosinophiles, lymphocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and eosinophilic infiltration into the media and intima of the small pulmonary arteries and pulmonary arterioles. The results of this study indicate that any suppressive effect of nitrogen mustard exerted on the arterial lesions due to hypersensitization mechanisms cannot be attributed to an interference with in vivo antigen-antibody reactions, or an alteration of the tissue response to antigen-antibody combinations by an anti-inflammatory action or through a deficiency of reacting cells secondary to the induced leukopenia.


This paper extends our probabilistic framework for two-player quantum games to the mutliplayer case, while giving a unifying perspective on both classical and quantum games. Considering joint probabilities in the standard Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) setting for three observers, we use this setting in order to play general three-player non-cooperative symmetric games. We analyze how the peculiar non-factorizable joint probabilities provided by the EPR setting can change the outcome of a game, while requiring that the quantum game attains a classical interpretation for factorizable joint probabilities. In this framework, our analysis of the three-player generalized Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) shows that the players can indeed escape from the classical outcome of the game, because of non-factorizable joint probabilities that the EPR setting can provide. This surprising result for three-player PD contrasts strikingly with our earlier result for two-player PD, played in the same framework, in which even non-factorizable joint probabilities do not result in escaping from the classical consequence of the game.


In order to reduce the registration frequency and the handoff latency in LEO satellite IP networks,a VMR-based handoff management scheme was presented.When the handoff happens,the VMR associated with user segment network's MR decided whether to transfer itself and register with the MR's home agent by the cost function.The VMR's data structure,the handoff operation procedure and the cost function model were presented,and the proposed method's numerical simulation was carried on.The simulation result indicates that the proposed scheme can realize the isolation between the handoff and the registration procedure and be used in the LEO satellite IP networks.


To enhance the performance of anti-ship missiles cooperative attack, this paper proposes a finite-time trajectory shaping-based cooperative guidance law (TSCGL). Firstly, the cooperative guidance model is established on segmented linearisation of the missile's heading angle. Then, a trajectory shaping guidance law for a single missile is derived by a weighted optimal energy cost function and Schwarz inequality. On this basis, a finite-time TSCGL is proposed combined with trajectory shaping technology and finite-time theory. The desirable finite-time convergence performance can ensure a simultaneous attack. Through an improved method of time-to-go estimation, it is independent of small-angle assumption and relaxes the launching conditions of the missiles. Additionally, the proposed finite-time TSCGL can achieve better damage performance through energy management. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed finite-time TSCGL.


The genesis of the Spanish Civil War cannot be neither analyzed nor explained without taking into consideration the international role. Behind propaganda from both sides, and thanks to the gradual opening of archives in several countries, historians have been reconstructing the game of inhibitions and supports to the coup d'etat that triggered a three-year civil war. Nazi Germany was one of the most influential states in the final result of the struggle. These pages will try to explain how that German intervention has been narrated through historiography, and what topics of discussion have aroused on this issue.


The diet-plasma relationships for carotenoids were examined in a group of 98 nonsmoking premenopausal women who participated in the cross-sectional phase of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-US Department of Agriculture (USDA) diet study on alcohol-hormone metabolism, 1988-90. With use of the newly developed USDA-NCI carotenoid foodcomposition database, the mean daily intakes of carotenoids were significantly higher when estimated from the food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) than from the 7-d diet records. Lycopene (i = 0.58 mmol/L), lutein plus zeaxanthin (1 = 0.46 mmollL), and /3-carotene (1 = 0.34 mmol/L) were the major plasma carotenoids. After adjustment for body mass index, energy and alcohol intakes, and total plasma cholesterol concentration, the following significant correlations (P < 0.05) were observed between the diet record and the FFQ-estimated carotenoid intakes and their respective plasma concentrations: acarotene (r = 0.58 vs 0.49), fl-carotene (r = 0.51 vs 0.49), ficryptoxanthin (r = 0.49 vs 0.36), lutein plus zeaxanthin (r = 0.31 vs 0.37), lycopene (r = 0.50 vs 0.26), and total carotenoids (r = 0.57 vs 0.49). These data indicate that plasma carotenoid concentrations are reflective of dietary intake, but the magnitude of the correlation varies depending on the specific carotenoid and on the dietary assessment tool. Am J Clin Nutr 1994;60:223-30.


Today, extraction of the impacted third molar is the most common procedure performed in oral surgery departments. One of the methods currently investigated—in terms reducing the severity of non-infectious complications and decreasing Quality of Life following third molar surgeries—is Kinesio Taping (KT). The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of Kinesio Tape application on Quality of Life. A total of 100 asymptomatic patients with impacted third lower molar were included. The study participants were randomly divided into two groups: a study group with the application of KT (n = 50) and a control group (without KT) (n = 50). Removal of the impacted third lower molar was performed in each patient in a standardized fashion. For assessment of Quality of Life, the modified University of Washington Quality of Life Questionnaire (UW-QoL v4) was used. Patients with Kinesio Tape application scored higher in all domains. Statistically significant differences between the two groups were found in the following domains: "Activity", "Mood", "Health-related QoL during the past 7 days" and "Overall QoL during the past 7 days". There were no significant differences in significant problems and important issues between groups. Kinesio Taping has a significant impact on Quality of Life after impacted third molar removal. It should be considered as one of the noninvasive methods to reduce postoperative non-infectious complications.


Based on a45kW PEMFC engine, the cooling system is improved by including the intercooler into the cooling system and adding a coolant bypass valve. New temperature control strategy is developed for the improved cooling system with adoption of steady-state optimization control and feedback control, which not only keeping the stack temperature around the setting value, but also limiting the temperature difference between inlet coolant/air and stack into 10 °C, at the same time, power consumption of cooling system is lower. The strategy is validated by simulation tests in MATLAB/Simulink platform. Simulation results show that all the goals are reached with the application of new control strategy.


This study will reveal the sociolinguistic perception that Peruvians living in Santiago de Chile have regarding their own dialect of Spanish in contact with the Chilean dialect. To collect the data, a direct survey was applied on 30 people that met the requirements of being born in Peru, having at least five years of residence in Chile and being over 18 years old. Among the findings that were obtained it was revealed that, according to survey respondents, there is a paradoxical sociolinguistic situation: while Chileans considered valuable the
Peruvian variety of Spanish, making it more prestigious than the local dialect, Peruvians feel socially diminished when receiving mistreatment and discrimination by Chileans. Therefore, Peruvians try to accomodate to Chilean Spanish and they leave aside their own
variety, in order to go unnoticed and fit in the Chilean society.


Summary Diplodia pinea causes shoot blight and collar rot diseases of pines in forest tree nurseries and sporulates on colonized seedling needles and stems. In late summer 2005, pycnidia of D. pinea were observed on shoots that had been excised by top pruning red pine seedlings earlier that summer during the third season of growth. This observation prompted surveys to determine the incidence and abundance of D. pinea conidia on excised shoots. At each of two nurseries, excised shoots were collected from the seedling canopy and adjacent alleyway soil in two subplots in each of five beds (plots). Excised shoots from both nurseries bore pycnidia with conidia of D. pinea. A water washing and filtration technique was used to quantify D. pinea conidia extracted from these shoots. Excised shoots collected from the seedling canopy yielded more D. pinea conidia than shoots collected from adjacent alleyway soil. Collection and removal of excised shoots resulting from top pruning of pine nursery seedlings should be considered as a means of reducing inoculum in areas where D. pinea is present.


This paper systemically investigate the effect on Marshall index of fiber percent,fiber type,asphalt percent,fiber shape and other factors by Marshall test and pavement performance,then analyses the mechanism of fiber reinforced asphalt mix concrete,aiming to find out some theories to guide the project and construction on asphalt mix concrete pavement.


The invention provides a bare core removing device. The device comprises a workbench, a bare core removing apparatus, a carriage holding unit and a carriage transmitting unit. The workbench is configured to support a cutting belt, and multiple bare cores are adhered to the cutting belt. The bare core removing apparatus includes removing units, a main body and carriages. The removing units are arranged under the workbench and are configured to selectively lift one of the bare cores. The main body has a driving unit configured to be a vertical mobile removing unit. The removing units are arranged inside the carriages each of which has a lower opening to allow the top of the main body to be inserted into the carriages. The carriage holding unit is disposed at one side of the workbench. The carriages with the removing units inside are accommodated in the carriage holding unit. The carriage transmitting unit is configured between the bare core removing apparatus and the carriage holding unit to transmit the carriages, so one of the carriages accommodated in the carriage holding unit replaces another carriage.


The present research project whose title bears the name: increase of productivity to improve the levels of competitiveness of the rice of the enclosure the Cleotilde of the Canton Baba of the province of the Rios, through the Association of small producers; He was pleased to do the graduate of the Faculty of economic sciences Mr. Carlos Benito Garcia Rizzo to well-known people, relatives and friends of the place.

Having extracted relevant points regarding lands, applications, media and follow to become subjects of aid; Thus also established forms and amounts production of the same, are established weaknesses, themes and main point, from which it would seek to improve them. Approaches are performed with MAGAP people, who guided and exposed guideline to of funding for the implementation of this project through the BNF……


The accounting literature on the effectiveness of different types of feedback in learning inference tasks, in general, suggests that higher judgement achievement results when feedback is provided, compared to a situation where no feedback is provided. While similar findings have been reported in the psychology literature with respect to task properties and cognitive feedback, conclusions about the effectiveness of outcome feedback are problematic. Although no systematic investigations have been carried out by accounting researchers in this regard, the general belief s.;ems to be that the conflicting results are caused by the moderating effects of task complexity and/or experience level. An attempt has been made in this study to examine the moderating effects of experience level on the effectiveness of different types off eedback. In addition, the nature in which learning takes place was also examined. A laboratory experiment was conducted to investigate the judgement pe,formance of inexperienced individuals with different feedback types using a task with a high degree of predictability. Eighty students, who voluntarily participated in the experiment, were assigned at random to one of four experimental conditions representing four types of feedback treatments namely, no feedback, outcome feedback, task properties feedback, and both outcome and task properties feedback. The data were analysed using AN OVA methods. In order to examine the moderating effects of experience level on the effective use of feedback, the results of the current study was compared with those obtained by Hirst & Luckett (1987) who conducted an experiment using the same task, but with experienced individuals as subjects. The following conclusions_ have been drawn: ( 1) the judgement achievement of groups receiving feedback is higher than that of the group receiving no feedback; (2) when tasks are highly predictable, inexperienced individuals, receiving feedback, can improve their performance, irrespective of the type of feedback received,· (3) the experience level alone will not explain the conflicting results about outcome feedback; and (4) judgement performance improves immediately with TPF and over time with OF.


As its record in California, southern India, and elsewhere suggests, of the many biotic exchanges of the long nineteenth century, the case of the Australian blue gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus) is one that especially transcends bilateral, spatial, or imperial framing. The blue gum instead invites more material and temporal perspectives to its spread: since its reputation accrued over time in diverse colonial settings, its adoption was contingent on the extent to which local tree cover was feared to have been depleted, and its growth was hoped to secure the futures of colonial states. Focusing on nineteenth-century understandings of the biological characteristics of the blue gum in southeastern Australia, South Asia and California, and the circulation of this knowledge between these sites, this article draws on the insights of neo-materialism to argue that this tree's value and importance lay in its perceived ability to rapidly provide fuel wood for the empowerment of colonial states. This article is part of the "Crossroads of Indo-Pacific Environmental Histories" special issue of Pacific Historical Review.


Nonverbal immediacy of teachers has been demonstrated to be substantially associated with increased cognitive and affective learning in students. The assumption underlying the current research is that teacher communication behaviors that enhance student learning will also enhance positive evaluations of teachers by those students. This study sought to determine what specific teacher nonverbal immediacy behaviors are most associated with students' evaluations of their teachers. Our research was based on data drawn from the cultures of Australia, Finland, and Puerto Rico as well as the dominant United States culture. Each study was conducted in the primary language of the sample studied. The results of this research permit a comparison of the relationship between nonverbal immediacy and teacher evaluation across diverse cultural and linguistic communities as well as multi‐cultural comparisons of the importance of individual immediacy behaviors to teacher evaluation.


The 32-dimensional compounding fields and their quantum interplays in the trigintaduonion space can be presented by analogy with octonion and sedenion electromagnetic, gravitational, strong and weak interactions. In the trigintaduonion fields which are associated with the electromagnetic, gravitational, strong and weak interactions, the study deduces some conclusions of field source particles (quarks and leptons) and intermediate particles which are consistent with current some sorts of interaction theories. In the trigintaduonion fields which are associated with the hyper-strong and strong-weak fields, the paper draws some predicts and conclusions of the field source particles (sub-quarks) and intermediate particles. The research results show that there may exist some new particles in the nature.


65% of the region's population is covered by the complex monitoring and control of environmental factors. Chemical contamination of drinking water with iron, manganese, boron, or nitrates makes a 60% contribution to anthropogenic load. Implementation of the measures of a special urban program could reduce the proportion of the drinking water, which did not meet the hygienic standards by sanitary chemical indicators, in Voronezh from 10.2% in 1999 to 8.5% in 2008 and halve the concentration of manganese and iron.


The changes in amylose, the optimal account of addingwater for cookmg and texture characteristics after storage for 4 months at 37°C were studied. The results mdicated that the mcreases occur in the content of amylose, the optimal account of water-addmg for cooking and hardness after nce storage for 4 months at 37°C, while the stickiness decrease, stickmesslhardness ratio also declme Moreover, it was found that the optimal account of water-adding for cookmg determmed according to the content of msoluble amylose is advantage over that according to the content of amylose. The increasmg number of hardness of cooked-rice is positively correlation to that of in-soluble amylose, and the decreasing number of stickiness of cooked-nee is negatively correlation to that of msoluble amylose after rice storage at 37"C for 4 months


Japan's role in developing and using science and technology is considered in a philosophical vein where cooperative structures prevail between nations. Japan's industrial structure is altering to focus on high technology and its economic strength can now be applied to societal and environmental questions. Newly emergent countries can readily partake of the fruits of technology which must be applied to strengthening basic knowledge and research, improving the quality of life and promoting an international exchange of ideas. Unilaterally created structures in Japan will succeed if other countries show a reciprocal interest in Japan's contribution. Competition and cooperation in science will bring success to global efforts for economic and cultural development.


Measurements of initial sintering shrinkage of CaAl4O7are reported in the temperature range 1380°-1480°C. The particle size chosen was—45 micron and the soaking periods were from 10 to 180 minutes. The time dependance of shrinkage indicated that the grain boundary diffusion is the dominant mechanism of sintering. The activation energy for the sintering of CaAl4O7 was found to be 151.0 k cal.mol−1.


The banking sector is highly volatile due to the influence of a large objective and subjective factors and the banking institutions must defend onself against all the risks. Therefore, risk awareness should be intuitive, while the decisions on risks by the banking management must be proactive, not passive and careless. The role of credit in the economy is represented by economic results achieved by the expression of the credit relationships and the contribution that it has in achieving the objectives of economic country policy. This paper aims the benefits of the risk management implemention into the lending activity of banks in Romania to increase the efficiency by the lending activity of the Romanian banking to improve the banks' performance of our country.


In this year Ivanka Cernelic celebrates her 70ih birthday. In 30 years at the Fran Ramovs Institute of the Slovenian language she worked as a compiler and editor of the Dictionary of Standard Slovenian, and also tutored younger colleagues.


Purpose – The focus on designing spaces for users in the last decade or so signifies the gradual change in the mission of libraries from provision of resources to that of a pro-active partner in learning. Planning for user space in support of learning is far more complex as it needs to take into account the variety of users' needs and behaviour. Before specifying the actual layout and design of users' spaces it is important to consider all the major factors that affect the use of the intended library space. The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to library planning base on the experience of the authors at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The framework for planning library spaces developed at NTU Libraries consists of four components – collaborative space, sanctuary space, interaction space and community space. Discussion on the rationale of these spaces and suggestions for their implementation will assist others in asking appropriate questions on the...


The development situation and main technique routing of antistatic textile product were illustrated.Based on some common testing technique and method of antistatic textile,our national testing technique and method of antistatic textile were analyzed and discussed.And some technique problem in detail were mentioned and discussed.


A method for identifying objects based on affine invariant moments of key points comprises the steps as follows: (1) image pretreatment: processing primitive collecting images so as to reduce influence of invalid information such as noises on the following process, enhance useful information and improve the image intensification; (2) main contour extraction: extracting the main contour to object edge images so as to obtain edge images of an outer contour and filter an interior contour and useless contour branches; (3) key frame extraction: calculating a mass center of the target at first based on target gray images dissected, then extending a plurality of rays to the periphery taking the mass center as an extension point so as to seek for the closest gray extreme point in each ray direction and take all the gray extreme points as the key point assembly; (4) invariable characteristic extraction of affine: extracting affine invariable characteristics of the main contour of the objects and calculating of multistage affine invariable moment vector; (5) object identification: identifying the objects through the characteristic proposed in the step (4) and outputting recognition result.


Legal petitions to nullify electoral results comprise a rich source for studying electoral fraud. During a fifty-year period in Costa Rica, parties submitted 120 petitions to Congress, containing more than 1,200 charges of fraud. The petitions reveal that between 1901 and 1938, more than half of such accusations took place in the country's peripheral provinces, where roughly 20 percent of voters lived. They also show that institutional changes helped to shape the nature, frequency, and magnitude of fraud. By the 1940s, the polarization of political competition was accompanied by a geographical redistribution of fraud to the central provinces of the republic, where most of the electorate resided.


In the present article, the term "magic realism" is applied to Quebec literature. First the author explains the concept in order to specify its distinctive features. Afterwards she analyses the historical novel La tribu by the Quebec writer, Francois Barcelo, trying to bring out its affinity to the Latin America's aesthetic style. This examination contributes to enrich the analysis of Quebec literature with new aspects.


The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of audit committee characteristics, kap sizes, and internal auditor's role on accuracy of audit reporting time. The data used in this study are annual and financial reports in manufacturing companies listed on the indonesia stock exchange (idx) in the period 2014-2018. The method of taking data samples using purposive sampling method based on certain criteria. Based on the retrieval method obtained A sample of 240 companies. Hypothesis testing in this study uses Logistic regression analysis. The results show that the size of the audit committee, the financial expertise of the audit committee members, the size of the public accounting firm, the role of the internal auditor has no effect on accuracy of audit reporting time and the frequency of meetings of audit committee members has an effect on accuracy of audit reporting time.


Monitoring electricity consumption in residential buildings is an important way to help reduce energy usage. Nonintrusive load monitoring is a technique to separate the total electrical load of a single household into specific appliance loads. This problem is difficult because we aim to extract the energy consumption of each appliance by only using the total electrical load. Deep transfer learning is expected to solve this problem. This paper proposes a deep neural network model based on an attention mechanism. This model improves the traditional sequence-to-sequence model with a time-embedding layer and an attention layer so that it can be better applied in nonintrusive load monitoring. In particular, the improved model abandons the recurrent neural network structure and shortens the training time, which means it is more appropriate for use in model pretraining with large datasets. To verify the validity of the model, we selected three open datasets and compared them with the current leading model. The results show that transfer learning can effectively improve the prediction ability of the model, and the model proposed in this study has a better performance than the most advanced available model.


Type 2 diabetes mellitus is on the increase worldwide. Current treatments possess undesirable side-effects and therefore investigations into alternative remedies, which may be cost- effective and devoid of such side-effects, are on-going. Increased oxidative stress has been suggested as mechanism underlying diabetes and its related complications. The supernatant and mycelial extracts from the static and shake cultures of the fungus (Emericella unguis 8429) isolated from the soft coral Sinularia sp. were investigated for their α-glucosidase inhibitory activity, cytotoxic, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. The results showed that the supernatant static (A) had the highest significant α-glucosidase inhibitory activity (65.45%), followed by the mycelial static (B) (51.8%). These results seem to be more potent than positive control, Acarbose (41.8%). A and B extracts were tested against HELA (cervical), MCF-7 (breast), HCT116 (colon) and HEPG2 (liver) carcinoma cell lines. They exhibited cytotoxic effect against all investigated cell lines, in a dose dependent way. Extracts A and B had the highest free radical scavenging activity against DPPH and superoxide anion radicals. Also, they exhibited high activity against representative strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as yeast and fungi. The GC/MS analysis of (A) indicated the presence of 14 compounds including p-coumaric acid, mcoumaric acid, hexadecanoic acid, 2-piperidinecarboxylic acid (butenyl derivative) (48%) and its isomer (36%), 6-benzoyl-5-methoxy10-phenyl-pyranocoumarin, D-friedo-olean-14-en-3-one and other compounds. Based on our results, it could be concluded that, 2ry metabolites of the isolated coral derived fungus Emricella unguis 8429 possess significantly high α-glucosidase inhibition capacity, beside concomitant high antioxidant, antimicrobial and mild cytotoxic activities.


The authors consider field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that use two different sizes of lookup table (LUT) logic blocks and investigate the area-efficiency of different mixtures of different sizes of LUTs. Experimental results on a set of benchmark circuits indicate that several heterogeneous architectures achieve significant reduction in the number of programming bits and logic block pins compared to the industry standard 4-input LUTs. A 6-LUT/4-LUT combination will likely exhibit better performance with nearly equivalent area than a homogeneous 4-LUT FPGA.


Recent years have witnessed the increasing popularity of learning-based methods to enhance the color and tone of images. Although these methods achieve satisfying performance on static images, it is non-trivial to extend such image-to-image methods to handle videos. A straight extension would easily lead to computation inefficiency or distracting flickering effects. In this paper, we propose a novel image-to-video model enforcing the temporal stability for real-time video enhancement, which is trained using only static images. Specifically, we first propose a lightweight image enhancer via learnable flexible 2-dimensional lookup tables (F2D LUTs), which can consider scenario information adaptively. To impose temporal constancy, we further propose to infer the motion fields via a virtual camera motion engine, which can be utilized to stabilize the image-to-video model with temporal consistency loss. Experimental results show that our image-to-video model not only achieves the state-of-the-art performance on the image enhancement task, but also performs favorably against baselines on the video enhancement task. Our source code is available at https://github.com/shedy-pub/I2VEnhance.


Abstract : In order to meet the challenges of a reduced work force and the changing roles and/or missions of the Air Force in particular, the Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis (COEA) is used in the decision-making of every phase of the acquisition process. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OASD) has mandated that COEAs are to be an integral part of the acquisition process. The COEA information gathering or sharing process is not well defined. Areas within the COEA process affected are the coordination of common elements of information required, the data collection, and the generation of possible solutions. The problem addressed by this research is how to improve the COEA information sharing process for data used to produce analyses for an organization. This improved process should result in a reduction of the time spent in continual meetings and conferences resolving conflicts within the process areas. The result of our research indicates that the different processes within the COEA information process could be organized within a knowledge-based system (KBS) for improving the sharing of information and the overall efficiency of the process. Cost operational effectiveness analysis, COEA, Knowledge-based systems, KBS, Information sharing


Objective:To explore the effect of ox-HDL3 on human umbilical vein endothelial cell(HUVEC).Methods:HUVECs were incubated with ox-HDL3(50、100、200mg/L) for 24 hours.The change of cell shape and nuclear morphology were observed by light microscope and nuclear staining with Hoechst 33258.The cells survival percentage was detected by MTT assay.Results:Compared with the control group,the number of HUVECs cells incubated with ox-HDL3 decreased and the shape changed.Cells appeared typical characteristics of apoptosis,including apoptotic nuclear condensation.The survival rate of cells was reduced by MTT assay.Conclusion:ox-HDL3 can lead to HUVECs damage.


The measurements of electron temperature, electron density, and ion current density at the plasma downstream region in a neutral loop discharge (NLD) plasma were performed using a double probe. Based on these results and the theoretical analyses of electron behaviors, the entire structure of the NLD plasma was discussed. It was concluded that the obtained profiles of the electron temperature, density, and ion current density at the downstream and throughout the intermediate regions were the mirror of profiles at the plasma source region. In addition, laser Thomson scattering measurements of the electron temperature and density at the downstream region were performed in order to include the quantitative evaluation phase.


Summary:Summary: The minispec Body Composition Analyzer is based on Time Domain NMR. It acquires and analyzes TD-NMR signals from all protons in the entire sample volume and can provide 3 components of interest: Fat, Free Body Fluid and Lean Tissue values. Bruker's minispec Body Composition Analyzer provides a precise method for measurement of lean tissue, fat and fluid in living mice. TD-NMR uses NMR technology, providing analysis of fat tissue, lean tissue and free fluid by the same physical selection rules that give rise to contrast in MRI. Tissue contrast is high between fat and muscle based on relative relaxation times. This Magnetic Resonance technology provides our users with the opportunity to make multiple measurements during the life of the animal with the following benefits:


signal books was the ingenuity of successive authors and publishers in indexing their volumes in such a way that the making and reading of signals was greatly facilitated. This is one of the most important, certainly original, books on naval warfare to appear for many years. It is not naval history in the true sense because the authors have focused on tactics to the exclusion of political and military factors, but it enables the reader to look over the shoulders of various admirals and to see the problems besetting them at the time. Numerous uniform diagrams show the disposition of fleets and their manoeuvres. Taking advantage of the large format the publisher provides facsimiles of pages from contemporary signal books as well as portraits of personalities mentioned in the text, the whole rounded off with large high-quality reproductions of paintings of fleet engagements. The text throws new light on events that perhaps have been taken for granted and comprehensively introduces to a new audience for the first time in eighty years a subject that has been largely neglected. Hopefully it will stimulate further study. Potential purchasers may be deterred by the price but such is the importance of this work that it should be on the shelves of all serious students of naval history in preference if necessary to two or three less expensive publications.


Chronic diseases are more prevalent among populations with greater daily sedentary time and among populations with insufficient sleep duration. Yet, little is known about the potential links between insufficient sleep and sedentary behavior. Early findings from recent studies show variable and bidirectional associations between sleep duration and sedentary behavior, based on the population studied. The purpose of this investigation was to measure associations between: (1) sleep duration and sedentary time the next day; and (2) sedentary time and sleep duration the same study day/night, during a sleep extension intervention.

 Data collection are ongoing. To date, three participants (2 female; aged 24.7±4.04yr; BMI 21.73±2.38kg/m2) with self-reported habitual insufficient sleep (<6.5h per night) completed the study protocol in its entirety. Sedentary behavior (<1.5 METs, in seated or lying posture) and sleep duration were measured via activPALTM and wrist-actigraphy, respectively, at baseline for days 1-13. After baseline, participants completed a sleep extension intervention for study days 15-41, with sedentary behavior and sleep duration measured during study days 28-41. Only study days with full 24h activPAL™ wear time were included in statistical analyses. Associations between sedentary behavior and nightly sleep duration were analyzed by linear mixed-model regression. We focused this preliminary analysis of 3 participants on R2.

 Sleep duration was significantly increased (p<0.05) during sleep extension (7.6±1.5h) versus baseline (7.0±1.4h). Sedentary behavior was not significantly different (p=0.869) during sleep extension (8.4±1.6h) versus baseline (8.3±2.0h). The association between sleep duration to sedentary time the following day had p=0.683, R2=0.51, and =2.5±6.2h. The association between daily sedentary time to sleep duration the same study day/night had p=0.72, R2=0.12, and =2.3±6.2h.

 Preliminary findings from 3 participants in this ongoing study suggest that sleep extension is not associated with changes in sedentary behavior.

 NIH-UL1TR002535, NIH-K01HL145099, Colorado Clinical Translational Science Institute Pilot (CO-J-20-119), University of Utah Seed Grant-10060570


Background: For almost ten years Wewaria Village, Wewaria sub-district of Ende Regency suffered a flood disaster. The flood occurred in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Paupanda II Village has a puddle up to one and a half meter every year. Flood emergencies can cause family panic in rescuing themselves or their children under five. Children are a vulnerable group in the health sector because they cannot help themselves, when floods. If family preparedness is low, then the child's health threatened, increasing the child's morbidity or mortality rate. Purpose: This study explains or explore the experience of family preparedness who have children under five dealing with floods. Method: it used Purposive sampling in selecting the first informant then using snow ball sampling for the next informant. The number of samples is 9 people taken from a family of 6 people, 2 policy stakeholders, and 1 health worker. The qualitative analysis used is triangulation of data sources. Results: Family knowledge is well, but preparedness is still low for children needs, flood early warning, flood emergency response preparedness, and resource mobilization deal with floods.


Industrial wastewater sludge containing latex collected from rubber industry wastewater treatment plant has classified the waste as scheduled waste due to high concentration of selected heavy metals within it. Laboratory scale of special treatment via solidification/stabilization (S/S) technique has been performed to the waste by using ordinary Portland cement. The objective of this research is to evaluate the chemical properties of the raw waste using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and physical properties related to unconfined compressive strength (UCS) performance of stabilised/solidified (s/s) cube specimens. Other factors took into consideration include the curing condition using air and water immersion curing technique, waste addition percentage, specimen age and density. The fresh mix prepared were cast in plastic moulds internal dimension of 50 mm3 producing cubical shape specimens and cured approximately 24 to 48 hours. The prepared specimen batches are A1 (90% OPC + 10% waste), A2 (70% OPC + 30% waste), A3 (50% OPC + 50% waste). Chemical analyses using XRF indicates that raw sludge contains approximately several heavy metals such as Aluminium (30%), Phosphorus, P (17.5%) and Zinc, Zn (11.7%). UCS testing were conducted on 7 and 28 days of specimen age. Positive average compressive strength results of 7 day air cured specimens reach 5.25 MPa, 5.28 MPa, and 2.16 MPa for A1, A2 and A3. Next, 28 days air cured specimens results are 9.59 MPa, 8.01 MPa, and 1.46 MPa for A1, A2, and A3 respectively. As for water immersion, the compressive strengths are 8.19 MPa, 4.93 MPa, and 1.90 MPa for 7 days, and 7.75 MPa, 10.10 MPa, and 2.11 MPa for 28 days at respective A1, A2 and A3 sequence. Based on the UCS performance, the tested specimens surpassed the minimum requirement for secured landfill disposal which is at 1 MPa.


The major risk factors for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are hypertension and aging. A fundamental mechanism for hypertension‐ and aging‐induced vascular injury is oxidative stress. We hypothesize that oxidative stress has a crucial role in ICH. To test our hypothesis, we used bacterial collagenase to produce ICH in wild‐type C57BL/6 and gp91phox knockout (gp91phox KO) mice (deficient in gp91phox subunit of the superoxide‐producing enzyme NADPH oxidase). All animals were studied at 20–35 weeks of age, resembling an older patient population. We found that collagenase produced less bleeding in gp91phox KO mice than wild‐type mice. Total oxidative product was lower in gp91phox KO mice than in wild‐type mice, both under basal conditions and after ICH. Consistent with the ICH volume, brain edema formation, neurological deficit and a high mortality rate was noted in wild‐type but not in gp91phox KO mice. This ICH‐induced brain injury in wild‐type mice is associated with enhanced expression of the gp91phox subunit of NADPH oxidase. In conclusion, the oxidative stress resulting from activation of NADPH oxidase contributes to ICH induced by collagenase and promotes brain injury.


During the evaluation of thermal conduction errors in multi-sensor thermocouple probes in use for hyperthermia, an unexpected large temperature error occurred. When one of the sensors passed the temperature gradient between the hot and cold water bath a temperature offset occurred in the sensors further towards the tip of the probe. This effect caused by the temperature gradient over the thermocouple junction has been described earlier by Bach Anderson et al. (1984) and Dickinson (1985). However, their conclusion was that clinically this effect was of little importance because of the minor gradients in clinic, provided that the soldering/welding length of the junctions is small.


Hydrostatic testing system for hydrostatic testing of pipe or other vessel. Control center, during the test, and monitor the system may include a computer program recorded and controlled. Test fluid assembly, in response to commands from the computer program, may include the possible fill conduit providing a test fluid to the inlet compartment of the container to be tested. Pressure release safety assembly may have a vent conduit in fluid communication between the outlet compartment and the safety valve of the container. The safety valve may through outflow tank fluid communication for storing the outlet flow of the test fluid from the container. Safety valve in response to the selection conditions, are actuated to release the fluid pressure in the vessel. How to use the system for hydrostatic testing are also described.


Abstract The aim of this paper is to establish the boundedness of commutator [ b , g ˙ r ] \left[b,{\dot{g}}_{r}] generated by Littlewood-Paley g g -functions g ˙ r {\dot{g}}_{r} and b ∈ RBMO ( μ ) b\in {\rm{RBMO}}\left(\mu ) on non-homogeneous metric measure space. Under assumption that λ \lambda satisfies ε \varepsilon -weak reverse doubling condition, the author proves that [ b , g ˙ r ] \left[b,{\dot{g}}_{r}] is bounded from Lebesgue spaces L p ( μ ) {L}^{p}\left(\mu ) into Lebesgue spaces L p ( μ ) {L}^{p}\left(\mu ) for p ∈ ( 1 , ∞ ) p\in \left(1,\infty ) and also bounded from spaces L 1 ( μ ) {L}^{1}\left(\mu ) into spaces L 1 , ∞ ( μ ) {L}^{1,\infty }\left(\mu ) . Furthermore, the boundedness of [ b , g ˙ r b,{\dot{g}}_{r} ] on Morrey space M q p ( μ ) {M}_{q}^{p}\left(\mu ) and on generalized Morrey L p , ϕ ( μ ) {L}^{p,\phi }\left(\mu ) is obtained.


As playright, painter and novelist, Richard Fenchurch has been both successful and rich, but now, in his mid-sixties, he's begining to fall apart: again. His daughter plucks him from the squalor of his London house and installs him in the old family home, the mansion where he courted his first wife. Here in a familiar house and in a changed though recognised landscape, Fenchurch struggles to keep his grip on freedom and sanity, and allows himself to relax into memory. Time is catching up wit him, but it is memory that produces the more startling revelation. Fenchurch's love for his wife was real enough-it was successful marriage as these things go-but the old surroundings, both the building and land itself, bring back to him irresistibly ardent drive of his passionate affair with Isabella, his fiancee's mother. Returning to fiction after fourteen years, David Story has created both a sharply comic version of the indignities of age and delicately erotic evocation of a youthful and dangerous affair.


Today's society is a vulnerable society. Climate change and social injustices are genuine threats to how the lives of future generations are going to be, and humans are the cause of these problems. ...


Plasma-assisted ammonia synthesis has been one of the promising alternatives for building a sustainable ammonia production infrastructure. This study improved this process by introducing an in situ catalytic absorption mechanism using magnesium chloride. Other than its catalytic functions, the absorption mechanism involved two pathways of forming Mg3N2 and Mg(NH3)6Cl2. Meanwhile, the pulse density modulation (PDM) was introduced to improve the energy performance of the system. The series of efforts improved the plasma energy efficiency of the system and achieved the highest value of 20.5 g/kwh.


We prove that the triangle inequalities in general are not equivalent to lower semi-continuity of surface energy. In 1990, Ambrosio and Braides proved that the two conditions are equivalent when the number of regions, s, is three. They gave an example in the plane showing that the triangle inequalities do not imply lower semi-continuity when s ≥ 6. The cases when s = 4 and s = 5 have remained open. In this paper, we resolve these open questions and show that, in ℝm, the triangle inequalities are sufficient for lower semi-continuity if and only if s = 3.


Ashbourne and the southern peak Matlock Bath and the eastern edge Bakewell and the central peak Buxton and the western moors Castleton and the High Peak.


ABSTRACT Semantic relationships between the predicators and referring expressions in real or unreal universes of discourse designate deep semantic cases that serve conceptually and functionally central roles in text interpretation and translation across languages and cultures. Starting from the assumption that case roles are not easy to translate interlingually, this study examines a limited but self-contained number of Qur'anic verses in which semantic cases inherent in referring expressions figure prominently but fetter Qur'an interpreters (exegetists) and translators. The findings showed that referring expressions with intrinsic case roles have baffled and shackled the Qur'an translators in focus and their conceptual roles have gone unrendered into English. Their semantic scope and referential range have also been narrowed down through the procedures of analytic explicitation and synthetic implicitation.


: This paper examines the closely related treatments of the unicity of truth in Robert Grosseteste, Richard Rufus of Cornwall, and Thomas of York. Its focus is on their use of logical notions in their treatments, notably Grosseteste ' s and York ' s use of the notions of supposition and signification, and Rufus ' use of the notion of analogy. Although at first appearance Grosseteste and York appear to posit, and Rufus to deny, a plurality of truths, I suggest this apparent disagreement is more verbal than substantive.


Abstract. A self-affine set inRn is a compact set T with A(T ) =⋃d∈D(T +d)where A is an expanding n × n matrix with integer entries and D = {d1, d2, . . . , dN } ⊂ Zn is an N -digit set. For the case N = |det(A)| the set T has been studied in great detail in the context of self-affine tiles. Our main interest in this paper is to consider the case N > |det(A)|, but the theorems and proofs apply to all the N . The self-affine sets arise naturally in fractal geometry and, moreover, they are the support of the scaling functions in wavelet theory. The main difficulty in studying such sets is that the pieces T +d, d ∈ D, overlap and it is harder to trace the iteration. For this we construct a new graph-directed system to determine whether such a set T will have a nonvoid interior, and to use the system to calculate the dimension of T or its boundary (if T o = ∅). By using this setup we also show that the Lebesgue measure of such T is a rational number, in contrast to the case where, for a self-affine tile, it is an integer.


This Seminar on the Integration of Environmental Concepts in University Teaching will take place in Brussels, Belgium, during 7-10 June 1989, under the auspices of the Department of Human Ecology at the Free University of Brussels. It should be of interest to all ecologists, and especially, of course, human ecologists. There is an increasing trend to implement courses on both basic ecology and human ecology in different university faculties and at different levels of university education. Accordingly this seminar aims to examine the general and course-specific concepts, priority needs, contents, and main lines of structure, of university courses on environmental problems. The programme foresees background papers from UNESCO responsibles and from ecologists and human ecologists, as well as a session on 'University Teaching on Environmental Problems in the Life Sciences', a session dedicated to 'arts sciences' and another to postgraduate teaching, a session on 'Literature Handling, Data-bases, and Pedagogic Tools for Environmental Education', and another dedicated to international cooperation on environmental education. Keynote papers will be delivered by several notables, mostly from Belgium, France, or neighbouring countries, and including Dr V. Kolibyne of UNESCO. The working languages of the Seminar will be English and French, and participants are encouraged to deliver proffered papers in the different fields indicated above. The registration fee will be 5,000 BF (before March 31) or 6,000 BF for later registration. Further information may be obtained from:


Synchronization phenomena of frustration network by coupled oscillators has been studied in a wide range of fields, such as medicine and engineering. It is investigated towards various systems up to now. However, analysis of regarding more complex systems are little. In our study, we developed the system model so that a basic minimum unit even in more complex systems. In addition, we observed synchronization phenomena about the system. In this paper, we show the result of circuit experiment with oscilloscope. Finally, we state the conclusion accompanying the experiment results.


M(r) = M(r,f) = max jf (z)j (I z = r), /t (r) = /u(r,f) = min If (z) (I z I = r), using p(r) instead of m(r) for the minimum modulus to avoid confusion with the schmiegungsfunktion m(r,f). We shall assume that f(z) is transcendental i.e. that log r = o(T(r)) (r -+ oo) and also that f(O) = 1. It is easily seen in the sequel that this involves no loss of generality. If f(z) is an integral function then for r sufficiently large [7, p. 18]


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the prevalence of intestinal protozoan and worm infestation in children of families having migrated due to military operation.

METHODS
The cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted in Cantonment Military Hospital, Bannu, from August 4 to October 24, 2014, and comprised children of either gender aged 6-16 years belonging to families of internally displaced persons belonging to Miraliand Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency. Stool specimens were collected and examined by direct light microscopy for the assessment of intestinal protozoan and worm infestation.

RESULTS
Of the 150 children examined, 52(34.66%) didn't show any cyst/ova in their stool examination and were marked negative, whereas 98(65.33%) tested positive for numerous intestinal parasites that included Ascaris Lumbricoides 27(18%), Hymenolepis nana 22(15%), Pin worm 18(12%), Taenia saginata 14(9%), Entamoeba histolytica 9(6%), Giardia Lamblia 5(3%) and Ankylostomaduodenal 3(2%).

CONCLUSIONS
Poor hygiene, outdoor open field defecation, and unclean standing water source are risk factors for high prevalence of intestinal worm infestation.


Wireless Sensor Networks are the key-enabler for low cost ubiquitous applications in the area of homeland security, health-care, and environmental monitoring. A necessary prerequisite is reliable and efficient event detection in spite of sudden failures and environmental changes. Due to the fact that the sensors need to be low cost, they have only scarce resources leading to a certain level of failures of sensor nodes or sensing devices attached to the nodes. Available fault tolerant solutions are mainly customized approaches that revealed several shortcomings, particularly in adaptability and energy efficiency. The authors present a complete event detection concept including all necessary steps from formal event definition to autonomous device configuration. It features an event definition language that allows defining complex events as well as enhance the reliability by tailor-made voting schemes and application constraints. Based on that, this paper introduces a novel approach for self-adapting on-node and in-network processing, called Event Decision Tree EDT. EDT autonomously adapts to available resources and environmental conditions, even though it requires to re-organize collaboration between neighboring nodes for evaluation. The authors' approach achieves fine-grained event-related fault tolerance with configurable adaptation rate while enhancing maintainability and energy efficiency.


It is well known that the addition of fibers to concrete mix enhancesits performance. There are many types of fibers in the market, but forenvironmental protection purposes, the use of natural fibers rather thansynthetic fibers is highly recommended. However, natural fibers are affectedby the presence of Alkali environment of concrete; however, treating fiberswith chemical solution reduces the effect of Alkali attack and overcomes theweak bond between the fiber and the cement matrix by formation of a roughfiber surface. Alkali treatment is one of the most used methods for treatmentof natural fibers. In this study various Alkali treatment procedures on FanPalm fibers have been used to define the optimum procedure that enhancesthe durability of Fan Palm natural fiber in concrete without causing seriousdeterioration to the fiber itself. For that, an experimental program wasconducted to study the effect of different treatment procedures on the tensilestrength of fibers, modulus of elasticity, and the elongation of fibers at break.Thus, the treatment was applied at various concentrations of SodiumHydroxide solutions (1%, 2%, 4%, & 10%) and treatment durations (2 hrs , 8hrs, & 24 hrs ). From the tested fibers, the maximum tensile forces at breakand elongations were recorded. From the analysis of test results it wasconducted that using 4% sodium hydroxide concentration for 24 hours wasthe preferred treatment procedure for Fan Palm fibers.


A novel technology called net-mask laser shock processing (NMLSP) was introduced to fabricate micro-dent arrays on the surface of LY2 aluminum alloy. Experimental results showed that the as-fabricated micro-dents whose diameter and depth were about 230-250 μm and 9.3 μm, respectively, was closed to be circular although the original shape of the net mask was square. The height of upwarped area around micro-dent was about 4 μm. Moreover, the interference of neighboring surface shock waves would affect the topography of micro-dents. A dynamic analysis performed by ABAQUS/Explicit code exhibited that the dynamic formation process of micro-dents fabricated by NMLSP, and the simulation results were mostly consistent with experiment results.


The article attempts to formulate the main characteristics of the concept of sustainable finance and determine its place among other concepts. Its certain autonomy from the concept of sustainable development is emphasized. Indicators are presented that demonstrate the outstripping growth of sustainable finance in the modern world, and assumptions about the reasons for this trend. The problem of the adequacy of rating assessments of corporate adherence to ESG principles is briefly touched upon, which turned out to be the weak point of the concept of sustainable finance. The current state of the concept of sustainable finance in Russia is assessed, the main obstacles to its implementation and feasibility are determined. Proposals are formulated for public policy measures that can stimulate the formation of domestic responsible investors in Russia, as well as other measures that will contribute to the implementation of the concept of sustainable finance.


The parametric design and intelligent assembly system has been designed and developed of machinery.The application based on the re-development of SolidWorks with Delphi technology has been studied.The system has been developed of a lubrication recycling station on the parametric design and intelligent assembly.Parameters will be linked in the database through parametric design method,and the required specifications of parts and components will be generated automatically.Then these parts can be assembled by intelligent assembly technology.Using of the system significantly improved the efficiency of product design and shorten the design cycle,reducing duplication of effort.


Summary. A modification of the method of Burrows & Quinn (1939) was successfully used to collect semen from male Japanese quail, and females were artificially inseminated by intravaginal, intraperitoneal and intrauterine routes. Others were mated naturally. Semen from antibiotic-fed males, diluted with quail-egg albumin containing antibiotics, and deposited in the uterus (shell gland) by means of a hypodermic needle passed through the egg contained therein, fertilized more than 75 % of the females for a mean duration of 4\m=.\6 days. This procedure also resulted in excellent egg production and caused no mortality. In contrast, the other methods of artificial insemination resulted in much lower fertility and egg production and, in some cases, heavy mortality. The the results of our work including a method of collection and insemination which does not interfere with egg production and results in at least 75 % fertility.


The search for gravitational radiation has entered a new era as the Laser Interferom-eter Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has reached its initial target sensitivity. Other similar interferometric detectors are also approaching their design goals. There is presently vigorous activity in the gravitational radiation community in the search for signals. Here we review the status of the LIGO search for a stochastic background, and continuous wave signals.


This article is devoted to the advantage of applying the technology of integrated modular training in English classes, since the development and modernization of higher education in modern conditions has made it the goal of comprehensive formation of professional competence for a future teacher. New priorities in education are prompting teachers to search for new modern effective teaching technologies that enable achieving higher learning and upbringing results, introducing new educational technologies in the educational process.
The best practices of the teachers of many educational institutions confirm their desire for an active search and use of pedagogical technologies in working with students. Modern advanced pedagogical technologies include modular learning technology. Modular training is a way of organizing the educational process based on the block-modular presentation of educational information. Modular learning is becoming more and more popular in modern learning, as it uses elements in the context of pedagogy of cooperation, humanizes the learning process and saves time. It seems to us that the organization of training in vocabulary through the module as a unit of educational material will be an additional factor in optimizing the learning process. The technology of modular learning is characterized by the advanced study of theoretical material, enlarged block modules, the algorithmization of educational activities, the completeness and consistency of cognitive cycles and other cycles of activity, level-by-level individualization of educational activities and the creation of a situation of choice for a teacher and students. Based on the results of the study, recommendations were developed for teachers and students on the development of linguistic competence, in particular, on the development of competence to study a foreign language correctly, which is of primary importance for future teachers.


Purpose. Marshalling yards are strong points for the organization of wagonflows on the railway network of Ukraine; on their quality of work depends largely on the implementation of deliveries, the preservation of wagons and cargo, reducing transportation costs. The most efficient sorter at such stations are sorting humps. Systems of the interval and aiming adjusting of speed of rolling of cuts on the sorting humps semi-dominant chili spread of the railways in the world. One disadvantage of such systems is damaged wagons during sorting. Identifying ways to eliminate this disadvantage is an urgent task. Methodology . For the average speed collision of cuts on the sorting tracks to use simulations disbandment process breaking-up of trains on the sorting hump. Findings. It was found that the decrease in the estimated speed approach to cuts the wagons, located on sorting tracks, causes a significant decrease in the number of possible damaged cars for 1000 processed on the hump and a decrease in annual operating costs associated with damage to the wagons. Increase of error of braking of cuts causes a significant increase in the number of such wagons. Increase slope sorting tracks cause a certain increase in the number of wagons damaged and costs related to their injury. Originality. The influence of the accuracy of the braking of cuts at the park brake position, the design speed of their approach to wagons located on sorting ways and profile settings of these tracks on the average speed of the collision of cuts and the possible number of damaged wagons. Practical value. The results allow to determine the most rational option sorting hump technical equipment and control systems park brake position.


Two commercial oxide dispersion strengthened alumina-forming FeCrAl alloys, Inco alloy MA956 and Kanthal alloy APM, were studied in order to look at the effect of reactive elements on their oxidation behaviour. MA956 has a distribution of Y2O3−Al2O3 particles, while APM has a ZrO2—AI2O3 distribution. Isothermal oxidation at 1000°C and 1200°C showed a reduced oxidation rate for both alloys compared to that of an undoped FeCrAl alloy. In short-term cyclic tests at 1200°C, both alloys exhibited excellent scale adhesion. Using scanning transmission electron microscopy with X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, both Y and Zr, respectively, were found to segregate to the oxide grain boundaries and the metal-scale interface after oxidation at 1000°C and 1200°C. These experimental observations are discussed with regard to a new theory to explain the reactive element effect.


Public outrage over the Covid-19 pandemic has a detrimental effect on the habit of staying at home and contributes to increased household waste. The temporary closure of the TPTS Piyungan Yogyakarta has exacerbated the problem of garbage and household waste accumulation. Al Fatah Kindergarten, in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, wishes to encourage the community to practice environmental stewardship. The environmental conservation effort will begin at home with domestic waste management. This guidance tries to broaden the public's perception and understanding of waste. Online counseling and training are available on two primary topics: "Wise Waste Management Begining at Home" and "Making Soap and Candles from Waste Cooking Oil." "Wise to Manage Waste Beginning at Home" discusses how to separate waste and repurpose it starting with household waste. Meanwhile, "Making Soap and Candles from Used Cooking Oil" provides instruction on how to make simple soap and candles from used cooking oil, a common household waste. According to the questionnaires distributed to participants, some participants gained additional insight into how to incorporate sustainable living practices, particularly waste management, into their daily lives. Additionally, participants can comprehend the definition and practice of  garbage charity. As many as 94 percent of service users expressed satisfaction with their waste processing experience.


In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God's non-existence. Such moral principles, however, only apply to God on the assumption that he is a moral agent. I first argue against this assumption by appealing to recent work by Mark Murphy before, secondly, suggesting an alternative way to frame Sterba's argument in terms of divine love. One can distinguish God's motivation to promote creaturely welfare on the basis of love from a motivation grounded in morality, and I claim that doing so results in a stronger form of the logical argument.


As the spearhead of government, public relations plays an important role in building and maintaining a positive image. PR communicator directly or indirectly in delivering government policy, and to communicate information to the public. The information presented can be in the form of oral or written, through various kinds of media such as print media, electronic media. The purpose of this study was to determine how the public relations strategy in cooperation with the media in getting a positive image. This study used qualitative methods, the source of data derived from primary and secondary data, and data collection through observation, interviews, and documentation. Aanalisis data used in this research is the analysis method Interraktif (Data collection, data reduction, data presentation, conclusion). The results of this study that the mass media are used in the dissemination of information that a website, Asri Buana LPP radio, print media, outdoor media. Forms of cooperation with the mass media public relations, among others: 1) Press aligned partner, a public relations practitioner should be able to establish a good working partner relationship with the media. 2) Press Conference, a press conference aims to gather the media to discuss if there are issues that are less good in the community by attending local government officials. 3) Press Release, this press release to be one chance to deliver the facts and the views of an organization to a problem lies. 4) media services, local government provides facilities through public relations work space journalist (press room), which meant that journalists can work well when the pass coverage. 5) Coverage of community activities (srawung residents) function for Local Government closer to the people.


South African women's success in moving from active participation in the liberation struggle to active participation in government has been exceptional on a world scale. Their achievement is based in the long history of women's struggles against apartheid and for gender equality in the African National Congress. The result has been a political representation that is grounded in the experience of a united women's movement in the transition to majority rule and a firm policy consensus towards gender equality within the ANC. This has enabled women politicians to entrench gender equality goals within government discourse. Yet, the success has come with the price of a women's movement that has lost its strong leaders to government, and women politicians who lack the support of a strong women's movement. Thus, in the moment of greatest victory South African women lack the mass movement that propelled them to success, suggesting that the struggle is not done with yet.


In order to fully understand the limiting factors of the magnetic flux leakage inspection technique,impact factors for the reliability of magnetic flux leakage testing of atmospheric tank floor were studied.The results show that the magnetic flux leakage inspection technique is better than other techniques in the aspects of reliability and rapidity,the magnetic flux leakage inspection technique is still a highly effective,high precision inspection method for floor corrosion,and gradually applied into safety assessment process for corrosion of the vertical atmospheric tank floor.


This chapter introduces the norm of large marine protected areas (MPAs). It defines the norm and poses the two questions that this book seeks to answer: (1) Why have large MPAs emerged as the solution of choice for governments. (2) What explains differences in how governments manage their large MPAs? It positions these questions within the norm diffusion literature in international relations and offers an alternative analytical approach to norm localization in international relations that foregrounds domestic political economies. The chapter then introduces the book's process tracing methodology and details case selection and data collection.


【Objective】To analyze the cause of the accidents and complications in the knee arthroscopic surgeries. 【Methods】The study was carried out on 630 cases of knee arthroscopy during 2001 to 2011, including 371 cases of arthroscopic debridement for osteoarthritis, 92 cases of synovectomy for traumatic arthritis and synovitis, 64 cases of meniscus reconstruction, 36 cases of cruciate ligaments reconstruction, 36 cases of knee corpus liberum dislodgment, 25 cases of lysis of adhesions of joint, and 6 cases of avulsion fractures of cruciate ligament from the tibial.【Results】The patients were followed up for an average time of 10.2 months(6 to 18 months). There were totally 20 relatively severe accidents and complications. Normal tissues injury in 6 cases, nerve branch and vascular injury in 2 cases, surgical instruments broken in the articular cavity took place in 2 cases, postop intraarticular hematoma in 7 cases, lower limb deep venous thrombosis in 2 cases, synarthrophysis in 1 case. 【Conclusion】Complications during the knee arthroscopy are mainly related to unskillful using of the instruments, lack of anatomy knowledge, inadequate exposure and operation multiplicity of the intraarticular structure. The prevention of the points above can decrease the complication ratio and the treatment of the complications in time may avoid severe results.


The second remelt is an important influencing factor during semi-solid thixotropy forming technology, and the microstructure is immediately impacted by temperature distribution state. By the way of induction heating the temperature distribution state of 45# steel is researched in this paper. The results indicate: the temperature rises slowly by low power heating and the radial temperature distribution doesn't reach uniform. But the temperature rises rapidly by high power heating and the radial temperature distribution is nearly homogeneous after a while.


footed path here, in contrast to some other commentators, in noting John's constant recourse to the OT, with but rare appeal to apocalyptic. Unfortunately, however, in noting points of scholarly comment, he does not always arbitrate. Mounce's ancillary material can scarcely be criticised. He offers three pages of abbreviations, and a "select" bibliography of almost 170 boob. This is as wide open a door to serious study as one could hope to find. There are four indexes subject, author, Scripture and extra-biblical references. Despite its occasional flaws, I have no hesitation in recommending Mounce's commentary as an essential asset to any translator's library.


Abstract An advanced plutonium and uranium recovery process has been established based on two organic reductants, N,N-dimethylhydroxylamine (DMHAN) and methylhydrazine (MH), as U/Pu separation reagents. This Advanced Purex process based on Organic Reductants (APOR) is composed of three cycles, including U/Pu co-decontamination/separation cycle, uranium purification cycle and plutonium purification cycle. Using DMHAN and MH as plutonium stripping reagents in the U/Pu co-decontamination/separation cycle and plutonium purification cycle, the APOR process exhibits high performance with following highlights: 1) the process is much simpler because of the elimination of Tc scrubbing operation and the supplement extraction operation, 2) high efficiency of U/Pu separation can be achieved in the first cycle, 3) plutonium product solution of high concentration can be obtained in the Pu purification cycle with a simple extraction operation instead of circumfluent extraction or evaporation of the plutonium solution.


Beyond the virulent portrayal of imperial violence in Jeremiah 4-6 that is rightly described as "terror all around" (Jer 6:25), one also finds other forms of violation that are no less injurious (cf. the repeated reference to "wounds" in Jer 6:7, 14). This paper proposes that it is important also to recognize forms of structural violence in this text that take into consideration factors such as gender, race and class that manifest itself as hidden wounds, which, if left unattended, may fester and return with a vengeance. This paper argues that a more nuanced and multi-faceted understanding of violence in the book of Jeremiah is helpful in dealing with the complex manifestations of violence in many contexts today. Such an intersectional understanding of violence recognizes that the deep wounds caused by poverty, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia will come back to haunt us if we do not engage in what Shelly Rambo calls "wound work" (Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Aftermath of Trauma, p 92), i.e., surfacing and attending to the wounds caused by structural violence. https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2018/v31n3a12


Fullerene‐structural carbon‐based dots (f‐CDs) are synthesized for the first time by chemically oxidizing fullerene molecules (C60) using concentrated HNO3. The lateral sizes of the f‐CDs distribute in the range of 7–20 nm, and the heights mainly range from 0.4 to 1.3 nm with an average value of 0.7 nm. The presence of massive pentagonal carbon units makes the f‐CDs different from most of graphitic‐CDs in structure and morphology. The f‐CDs exhibit unique luminescent properties such as photoluminescence (PL) and electrochemiluminescence. Based on the investigation of the UV–vis absorption and luminescent properties, a novel and reasonable model is proposed for the PL mechanism of f‐CDs. Furthermore, the obtained f‐CDs show low cytotoxicity and have potential application in cell imaging.


Leymus chinensis and Phragmites communis were used to study the changes of moisture contents, stomatal conductances and respiration rates after cutting at different time (9∶00, 13∶00, 17∶00) in a day. The results showed that the water loss after cutting of L. chinensis and P. communis both experienced three stages: quick water loss (1d), slow water loss (2~3d) and stable stage (1d). The respiration rate of P. communis declined rapidly after cutting and changed to faintness 5h later while that of L. chinensis decreased slowly and still had physiological activity after 7h harvesting. In all the three cutting time in this experiment, cutting at 9:00 could largely decrease nutrient loss and be beneficial to making high quality hay.


This article has constructed the city vigor target system,which makes the comparative analysis between Mianyang to Qingdao,Suzhou and Chengdu cities;Proposes from six aspects promotes the vigor of Mianyang city.


To enhance the learning potential from actually developed concurrently during the problem driven traditional semester-long "projects" in individual and engineering courses, a novel steam engine design project was undertaken between two concurrent junior level mechanical engineering courses: Mechanical Design and Thermodynamics. As in traditional class projects, students were provided the opportunity to build team skills and gain hands-on experience. Utilizing student self assessment, this steam engine project was compared to a Stirling engine design project undertaken solely in a Mechanical Design Course. Students participating in the steam engine project reported increased use of both mechanical design and thermodynamics principles while undertaking the project as compared to those participating in the Stirling engine project. Steam engine project students also reported an increased development of team working skills


A disclosed display device includes a first oxide semiconductor layer and an oxide semiconductor connection wire both formed from an oxide semiconductor material layer over a substrate. The oxide semiconductor connection wire is integrally connected to the first oxide semiconductor layer and has a lower sheet resistance than the first oxide semiconductor layer. The display device also includes a first gate electrode either over the first oxide semiconductor layer or between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the substrate. The display device further includes a first gate insulation layer between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode.


Ancient Romans used glass to make everything from dining ware to colorful mosaics. But the Romans particularly prized a colorless, translucent glass they called "Alexandrian." Its origin was an arc...


The present study has framed to assess the process of desertification in Pavagada taluk in Karnataka state. The assessment of total four major parameters was considered such as, climate, soil, vegetation and anthropogenic activities. The selected factors were used as input data in the created GIS based model. The result obtained from the model has been classified into three categorize as Low, Moderate and High desertification area. The result of study shows the spatial vulnerability of desertification in study area.


This paper investigates the complex controlled object. A method of fuzzy-network is proposed. Results of simulation research show that the controller has not only high self-study ability, but also high robustness, and let the performance in AC speed adjustment system quickly improve.


The quantum conductance fluctuations of the electron resonator composed of the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) has been studied numerically. It is shown that the conductance oscillations appear at the strong coupling between the electrical contact and SWNT, and become well-defined resonant peaks as the coupling is very weak. It is also found that the disorder and defects in the SWNT cannot induce the observed slow and fast conductance oscillations. More importantly, it is demonstrated that the experimentally observed deep dip in the conductance G vs Fermi-energy plot is probably caused by the chemisorbed atoms on the SWNT.


Accurate differential diagnosis of the precise cause of Cushing's syndrome can be difficult, and conventional tests such as those based on the use of dexamethasone may be misleading. We have therefore studied the cortisol and ACTH responses to ovine corticotrophin‐releasing factor (CRF‐41) in 28 consecutive patients with Cushing's syndrome, and compared the diagnostic value of this test with that of the high‐dose dexamethasone suppression test (8 mg/day for 48 h).