: In this work, the annual performance of a solar thermal power system in Greece is numerically studied. The system consists of a field of Evacuated Tube Collectors and a Trilateral Flash Cycle engine. The main target of this study is to assess the potential of the Trilateral Flash Cycle, a promising higher efficiency alternative to the Organic Rankine Cycle, for solar energy exploitation. The effects of the solar irradiance, the temperature of the heat source, and the flashing efficiency on the total solar energy conversion efficiency are monitored. The economics of the system is preliminarily studied taking into account its scale and the anticipated annual power output. Simulations indicate that the combined Solar-Trilateral Flash Cycle system can achieve an average annual total solar energy conversion efficiency of 5%, outperforming a Solar-Organic Rankine Cycle system of similar architecture at the examined location. It is demonstrated that the efficiency of the Trilateral Flash Cycle engine is highly dependent on the quality of the Working Fluid at the onset of expansion, and the operating pressure ratio. Moreover, the Trilateral Flash Cycle can achieve a thermal efficiency of up to 11%. The Levelized Cost of Electricity of the power system is estimated to lie in the region of 0.26 - 0.32 €/kWh, based on its scale, indicating that it may be a competitive solution for solar energy exploitation.


In a previous investigation we showed that, when human subjects were exposed to the stress of an insoluble problem while under the influence of nitrous oxide, the usual adverse effects of the stress on subsequent learning were abolished. We suggested that these empirical results might be accounted for either in terms of "anxiety-reduction" or in terms of transfer effects. The results of the present experiment show that differential transfer effects do occur in the insoluble problem situation when the degree of similarity of this task to the subsequent soluble task is varied. They also show that inhalation of nitrous oxide during exposure to the insoluble task abolishes these differential transfer effects, as well as any other effects which may be interfering with subsequent learning. These other effects, if they are present, may include "anxiety" and other "unique properties" referred to by other investigators using the insoluble problem situation in experimental studies of stress.


Almost one year ago,at a training school where I worked,I was giving a class to some children who were four or five years old.The headmaster,a strict woman,came in as an unexpected inspector of my noises,and the headmaster had a talk with a little girl nearby.Headmaster:What's your name?


Deprotonation of 1,3-di(2-hydroxy-5-tert-butylphenyl)imidazolium chloride (1a) followed by reaction with chloro-1,5-cyclooctadiene Ir(I) dimer affords the anionic Ir(I) complex [K][{OCO}Ir(cod)] (2: OCO = 1,3-di(2-hydroxy-5-tert-butylphenyl)imidazolyl; cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene), the first Ir complex stabilized by a diphenolate imidazolyl-carbene ligand. In the solid state 2 exhibits square-planar geometry, with only one of the phenoxides bound to the metal center. Oxidation of 2 with 2 equiv of [FeCp2][PF6] generates the Ir(III) complex [{OCO}Ir(cod)(MeCN)][PF6] (3). Reaction of 3 with H2 results in the liberation of cyclooctane and a species capable of catalyzing the hydrogenation of cyclohexene to cyclohexane. Displacement of cyclooctadiene from 3 can be achieved by heating in acetonitrile to form [{OCO}Ir(MeCN)3][PF6] (4) or by reaction with either PMe3 or PCy3 to generate [{OCO}Ir(PMe3)3][PF6] (5) or [{OCO}Ir(PCy3)2(MeCN)][PF6] (6), respectively. 6 reacts with CO in acetonitrile to give an equilibrium...


In recent years a number of reports have dealt with cytoplasmic antibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) The purpose of the present study is to better characterize these serum factors in terms of serological specificity, physicochemical characteristics and relationship to other antibodies known to react with cytoplasmic antigens (antileukocytic and antithrombocytic serum factors). Finally, the biological significance of these cytoplasmic antibodies is discussed.


The structure,mechanism of keeping fresh and application in the storage of fresh fruits of chitosan are summarized in brief,and some questions and current situation of application of chitosan in the storage of fresh fruits are put forward and the outlook is prospected at last.


The surface tensions of eight pure fused salts: NaNO/sub 3/, KNO/sub 3/, LiCl, NaCl, PbCl/sub 2/, KCl, and ZnCl/sub 2/ and nine binary mixtures: NaNO/sub 3/ --KNO/sub 3/, AgNO/sub 3/ --NaNO/sub 3/, AgNO/sub 3/ --KNO /sub 3/, NaCl -- KCl, PbCl/sub 2/ -- LiCl, PbCl/sub 2/ --NaCl, PbCl/sub 2/ --KCl, PbCl/sub 2/-- RbCl, and PbCl/sub 2/--CsCl were measured by the maximum bubble pressure method. Surface tension showed essentially linear variation with temperature in all cases. (W.L.H.)


Like many other countries, the United States is facing numerous major problems related to the location of economic activity. These difficulties may be broken down into two principal categories: those of large urban agglomerations and those relating to regional disparities in income and economic opportunity. Most metropolitan area problems-slums, public transportation deficiencies, air pollution, lack of parks and recreation facilities, traffic tie-ups, etc.-are a consequence of urban congestion. On the other hand, regions characterized by relative economic stagnation' tend to be outside the influence spheres of large cities. In response to these phenomena increasing pressure has been brought to bear on the central government to render relevant assistance. A major aid project under federal auspices has already been inaugurated for Appalachia and large-scale assistance to metropolitan areas will be forthcoming soon. From an opportunity cost viewpoint it is apparent that such programs have significant consequences for the nature and location of economic activity in general; it is desirable, therefore, that urban and regional development be considered within a unified framework of analysis.2 Moreover, the relevance of both the market mechanism and


In this paper, the issue of computing a good estimate of the value set of a characteristic polynomial f(s, q) is addressed, where q denotes a vector of uncertain parameters belonging to a box and f is a multi-linear function of q. If f(s, p) is a totally decomposed expression, then a good estimate of the value set can be computed very fast by using non-convex polygon interval arithmetic. In this paper, an efficient method to compute good estimate of the value set is proposed when f is not a totally decomposed expression


Eric Kuklinski, clinical research coordinator at Mount Sinai in New York, NY, discusses the methodology behind the Dry Eye Assessment and Management Study (DREAM) study and its findings at ARVO 2018 in Honolulu.


A review of the literature has shown that the rapid growth of health and wellness coaching has gone hand in hand with the growing needs of a population struggling with lifestyle-related diseases. Yet many questions remain unanswered concerning the defining characteristics of the discipline, the background and qualifications required to deliver health and wellness coaching and whether it is effective. This article explores the current status of the discipline and attempts to clarify the scope of this intervention, who is delivering it and the evidence base for its role in supporting lifestyle change and potentially reducing chronic illness. The article highlights the need for further investigation into the effectiveness of health and wellness coaching as well as the need to establish internationally agreed standards for the design of coaching interventions and the way in which coaches are trained.


Abstracl. Skin biopsies from 3 patients with anaphylactoid purpura examined by an immuaofluorescence technique re vcaled deposits of immunoglobulins, complemcnt CJ, and fibrinogen in 1hc dermo-cpidcrmal junctioa and in vessel walls of clinically involved as well as uninvolved skin. The dcposits in thc dcrmo-epidcrmaJ junc1ion are similar to those scen in 1he skin or patients with sys1emic lupus er) 1hema1osus.


In helicopter satellite communications, removal of time-varying Doppler shift due to helicopter maneuver is one of the most important issues. The conventional automatic frequency control (AFC) scheme for helicopter satellite communications removes Doppler shift exactly. However, its acquisition time is extremely long. This is caused by a delay element in the feed-back loop. In this paper, we propose a novel AFC scheme for helicopter satellite communications to reduce the acquisition time. The proposed AFC scheme consists of a feed-back loop and a feed-forward loop. This configuration excludes the delay element from the feed-back loop. Results of computer simulation show that the proposed AFC scheme significantly reduces its acquisition time.


• The connections between poverty and reproductive ill health, as expressed through high fertility and perinatal mortality, are multidimensional. Conceptually, poverty is both a determinant and a consequence of reproductive ill health, either directly or through a series of proximate determinants. The links between poverty, low educational attainment, high fertility, and poor child and maternal health are well documented. Fertility decreases monotonically as education increases. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, women who live in urban areas and women who work for cash have fewer children than do other women. A mother's death during childbirth means not only the loss of her productivity to both the national economy and the household, but also has an inter-generational effect through her child's reduced chances of survival and health. Studies show that surviving children are three times more likely to die within two years than children who live with both parents; and many motherless children, particularly girls, get less health care and education as they grow up. Thus a mother's sickness and death affects her household's socioeconomic status, and this status in turn affects the proximate determinants of health.


This investigation was a randomized controlled trial to determine the impact of health education interventions on the return of mailed fecal occult blood (FOB) tests (FOBT adherence) in a colorectal cancer screening program. The study sample included 2,201 men and women aged 50 to 74 years who were members of an Independent Practice Association (IPA)-type health maintenance organization (HMO). Subjects were randomly assigned to a "usual care" Control Group (advance letter, screening kit, reminder letter), and Treatment Groups 1 (usual care + reminder call), 2 (usual care + self-held screening booklet + reminder call), or 3 (usual care + self-held screening booklet + instruction call + reminder call). Bivariate analysis revealed significant differences in adherence (P<.001) across study groups: Control Group (27%), Group 1 (37%), Group 2 (37%), Group 3 (48%). In addition, a significant positive association between age and adherence (P<.001) was found. Logistic regression analysis revealed an interaction between sex and treatment. Adherence among men in all treatment groups increased significantly (P<.0001) in relation to Control Group males. Men in Group 3 also were more likely to adhere than those in Group 2 (P<.01) or Group 1 (P<.01). Among women, adherence was significantly higher in Group 3 than in Group 2 (P<.03), Group 1 (P<.025), or the Control Group (P=.0008). The primary reason cited for nonadherence was perceived inconvenience of the FOB testing procedure.


Apple food allergen Mal d 1 and birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 belong to the same pathogen related protein 10 (PR10) family. When each of these allergens was expressed as a secretory protein by fusion with the GFP reporter in transgenic rice by ligating an N terminal signal peptide and a C terminal KDEL ER retention signal under the control of the maize ubiquitin constitutive promoter, the GFP:Mald1 highly accumulated in various tissues, whereas the accumulation level of GFP:Betv1 was remarkably reduced in vegetative tissues except for seed. Analysis by RT-PCR exhibited that there was little difference in transcript levels between them, indicating the involvement of post-transcriptional regulation. To investigate the cause of such difference in accumulation levels, deletion analysis of the Mal d 1 and domain swapping between them were carried out in transgenic rice. These results showed that the region between positions 41-90 in the Mal d 1 is predominantly implicated in higher level accumulation in vegetative tissues as well as seed compared with the Bet v 1. It is notable that GFP:Mald1 directed by the ubiquitin promoter is deposited in huge PBs in aleurone layer rather than starchy endosperm. Highlight Specific region of PR10 proteins is mainly implicated in their stability in vegetative tissues when expressed in transgenic rice.


Provided are an aromatic polyamide compound, a method for preparing the aromatic polyamide compound, and an optical film using the compound which is colorless and transparent and is excellent in heat resistance. An aromatic polyamide compound is a copolymer comprising a repeating unit represented by the formula I and a repeating unit represented by the formula II, wherein A is -SO-, -SO2-, -CH2-, -CF2-, -C(CH3)2-, -C(CF3)2-, -CONH- or -NHCO-; A' is -O-, -S-, -SO-, -SO2-, -CH2-, -CF2-, -C(CH3)2-, -C(CF3)2-, -CONH- or -NHCO- and exists at a m-m position or a m-p position to an amine group; A and A' are identical or different each other; R, R', R'' and R''' are identical or different one another and are H, F, Cl, I, NO2, CN, a C1-C4 alkoxy group or CF3; and Ar and Ar' are identical or different each other and are a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring.


Abstract Boophilus microplus, an ectoparasite of bovines has immense importance in South Asian countries like Pakistan. These are cosmopolitans and affect cattle herds drastically worldwide and are involved in direct and indirect harm to the bovine species. In this regard, trichlorfon is widely used to control ticks in bovines along with its sprays to control different pests, which leads to resistance in ticks against these acaricides in different parts of the world. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the resistance and prevailing genomic mutations in Boophilus microplus ticks against trichlorfon. Molecular characterization was carried out and heterozygous mutations were observed in the adult tick samples collected from two different zones of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan. After the identification of ticks, in vitro studies were performed which showed resistance in ticks against trichlorfon drug. To assess genomic mutation in the samples, DNA was extracted through a kit, and PCR was performed to evaluate the mutation in the samples. After in-vitro studies, almost 104 (54%) ticks samples were found resistant and run through PCR in which 3 and 4 samples from zone-I and zone-II, were identified mutated while the remaining samples were found non-mutated. Boophilus microplus acetylcholinesterase genes were sequenced and compared with the control group. All these findings suggest a continuous monitoring of heterozygous mutations in the Boophilus microplus ticks and the strategic application of trichlorfon against Boophilus microplus ticks, to enable improvement in drug efficacy and tick control strategies.


(Received February 28, 2014 / Revised March 20, 2014 / Accepted March 25, 2014)In this study, strength development properties of high volume fly ash concrete was evaluated through compressive strength of concrete with reduction of unit water content. And concrete specimens were prepared according to target strength 3 level and variation of unit water content. As a result, the improved fluidity were obtained as a result of the ball bearing action of the spherical, the electrostatic rep ulsion and theparticle size distribution of fly ash particles in case of using more than 50% fly ash. Through this, the mixture of fly ash ha s been shownto reduce the amount of water required in concrete. Also, the early strength of high volume fly ash concrete with reduction of unit water content was improved more about 66% than general concrete mixture.키워드 : 하이볼륨 플라이애시, 조기강도, 단위수량, 강도발현Keywords : High Volume Fly Ash, Early Strength, Unit Water Content, Strength Development* Corresponding author E-mail: email@example.com


The purpose of this study is as follows to determine the mechanism for licensing and regulatory agreements of the parties related to futures options trading and to find out the legal review of futures options trading based on positive law and Islamic law. The approach method used in this study is the normative method, because in this research what will be examined are legal rules, legal principles regarding the legal basis of unlicensed futures options trading (case studies of online brokers). The type of research used is descriptive, namely to describe clearly the legal basis for trading futures options without a permit (online broker case study). The results of the study explain that the provisions regarding the licensing mechanism and the regulation of the agreement of the parties related to futures option trading are explained in Regulation Number 83/BAPPEBTI/Per/06/2010 concerning Procedures for the Implementation of Promotional Activities or Advertising, Training, and Meetings in the Field of Commodity Futures Trading. Any party who violates this provision will be subject to sanctions in accordance with the applicable provisions. For domestic futures companies, their business licenses will be revoked. As for foreign companies, CoFTRA has the right to ask the police to investigate these companies. In fiqh, this futures contract is referred to as a qad salam with "salam object" (al-muslam fih), is called bai'ul benefit (benefit sale and purchase). Determination of margins, in accordance with Surah an-Nisa' Verse 197.


Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy (PLE) has been widely applied to reveal information about the subband structure of quantum wells (QWs). PLE essentially probes the intersubband absorption in the well, which cannot be probed in transmission because of the low absorbances of single QWs. PLE is a standard characterization technique for AIGaAs/GaAs QWs due to the availability of tunable dye lasers as excitation sources in the AIGaAs/GaAs spectral regime (e.g. ref.[1]). There have been very few PLE studies on GaInAs/InP QWs because in this spectral regime there are no laser dyes commercially available. Kodama et al. [2] and Sauer et al. [3] have studied GaInAs/InP multiple QWs and observed transitions from the first three heavy and the first two light hole subbands to the respective electron subbands. Skolnick et al.[4,5], Sauer et al.[6,7], Razeghi et al. [8,9], and Temkin et al.[10] have studied GaInAs/InP single QWs, and observed transitions from the first five heavy and the first three light hole subbands to the respective electron subbands. Skolnick et al. [5] have tentatively assigned a feature in their spectra to absorption involving the first heavy hole subband and the InP (barrier) conduction band. In this study PLE spectra from extremely thin Gag0 47ln0 53AS /InP single QWs are investigated. The PL spectra from these samples exhibit narrow, intense multiplets, which have been attributed to recombination in regions of the wells, differing in width by single monolayers [11].


The government and private had unable to fullfill the demand of simly house in Semarang that compare with the increasing of population. This condition impact to the citizens of Semarang City as the consumers, they can not buy a simply house. This reasearch focused on analysis factors that influence toward the demand of the simply house in Semarang City. Analysis with multiple linear regression used in this research. The result shows that simply house price, consumer income, credit interest rate, rent house price and location distance were influenced toward the demand of simply house. Keywords: demand, elasticity, price, interest rate


Introduction: Coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was initially identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The virus affects almost all countries of the world. It has infected humans in all age groups, of all ethnicities, both males and females. It is considered that COVID-19, in those with underlying health conditions or co-morbidities, has an increasingly rapid and severe progression, often leading to death. This study is designed to evaluate the impact of co-morbidities on the severity and outcome of COVID-19 infection in children.
Methods: This retrospective observational study was conducted at the pediatric department, Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi from March 2020 to September 2021. Every confirmed COVID-19 admitted case according to inclusion criteria was enrolled for the study. Data were retrieved from hospital records; data was recorded on a predesigned study questionnaire, entered and analyzed in SPSS version 24 for descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis.
Results: 109 children were enrolled with confirmed COVID-19, of these 64(58.7%) were males and 45(41.2%) were females. The age of the patients ranged from infants to 12 years with a mean age of 27.25 months. Comorbidities were present in 70 patients     (64.2%).CHD was the most common co-morbid condition (n=18, 16.5%). Most of the patients experienced mild to moderate symptoms (n=64.2%) while severe symptoms were found in (n=35.8%) patients. 27 patients (24.8%) required Ventilatory support, and of these 20 patients (18.3%) had underlying co-morbidity. The total number of patients who expired was 27(24.7%), and 30.3% of patients who expired had co-morbid conditions. the patients with co-morbid conditions had a longer stay in the hospital. 35 patients (32.1%)with underlying co-morbidity remained admitted for more than a week and 13 patients(9%)for more than two weeks.
Conclusion: Pediatric patients with co-morbidities have a higher risk of severe COVID-19 and associated mortality than children without underlying disease. Children with underlying conditions need to be carefully assessed and closely monitored. Further data are required to define these associations and adequate guidelines to manage high-risk children with COVID-19.
Keywords: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Pediatrics, Co-morbidity, Severity, Outcome


Primary objective: To test the usefulness of a method to improve the measurement of prevalent mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) among injured workers with a workers compensation claim. Methods: Database codes were selected to identify MTBI cases in the Ontario workers compensation lost-time claims database. A random sample of 210 claims was selected, classified as MTBI or not, and used to calculate proportions with MTBI among code groups. The annual prevalence of MTBI in 1997 and 1998 was calculated by weighting the numerators with the appropriate proportions of MTBI within each code group. Results: Four code groups were created: the head region, cranial region, concussion code group and the brain region. The proportion of MTBI in each group was 29%, 19%, 92% and 32%, respectively. The 1997 prevalence depended on the codes used, from 39/10 000 (95% confidence interval (CI): 35–44) for a weighted version of the 'concussion' code to 58/10 000 (95% CI: 50–65) for inclusion of all identified MTBI codes. Conclusions: Restricting the enumeration of MTBI to specific 'concussion' codes can lead to under-estimation of the prevalence of MTBI in epidemiological studies using workers compensation data. Approximately six out of every 1000 lost-time claims are associated with MTBI. Given lost-time estimates of disability under-estimate the prevalence of this mild injury, MTBI, is an important workplace injury.


The level of public knowledge is still low regarding the long Covid-19 requiring massive campaigns and learning. Lack of knowledge in society has an impact on the emergence of various views to cause anxiety. This study aims to describe the level of knowledge and anxiety in patients experiencing long Covid-19. The research design used is a survey design. The population of this study was patients who were confirmed positive for Covid-19 and the remaining symptoms did not disappear or did not decrease for up to 4 weeks. The research sample was carried out using purposive sampling technique and obtained a total of 50 respondents in Semarang Regency. The research instrument used to measure knowledge was compiled by the researcher himself with a validity value of 0,460-0,889 and reliability value of 0,766. The instrument for measuring anxiety uses the Generalized Anxiety Disorder instrument with a validity value 0,46 - 0,76 and a reliability value of 0,86. Statistical analysis of this study used frequency distribution analysis. The results obtained from the assessment of knowledge about the long Covid-19 were found that 74,0% had less knowledge and 54,0% experienced mild anxiety. The provision of massive information through various media related to the long Covid-19 disease can be done to reduce anxiety in the community.


Treatment of the complexes[FeW(µ-CR)(CO)5{HB(pz)3}][R = C6H4Me-4 or Me; HB(pz)3= tris(pyrazol-1-yl)borate] with diphenylphosphine in dichloromethane at room temperature gives the compounds [FeW(µ-CR)(CO)4(PHPh2){HB(pz)3}]. On heating in toluene, the p-tolylmethylidyne derivative affords the complex [FeW{µ-σ,η3-CH(C6H4Me-4)}(µ-PPh2)(µ-CO)-(CO)3{HB(pz)3}]. In contrast, the ethylidyne analogue under similar conditions yields the compound [FeW(µ-PPh2)(CO)5{HB(pz)3}]. The latter was structurally characterised by X-ray diffraction. A short Fe–W bond [2.658(2)A] is spanned by a PPh2 group [Fe–P 2.21 0(3), W–P 2.406(3)A]. The iron atom is ligated by three CO groups and the tungsten atom by two such groups. One CO ligand on tungsten semi-bridges the Fe–W bond [W–C–0168(1)°]. The tungsten atom carries the HB(pz)3 ligand which functions as a tridentate group in the usual manner. The ethylidyne tungsten compound [W(CMe)(CO)2(η-C5H5)] reacts with the complexes [RhH(L)(PPh3)3](L = CO or PPh3) to give a mixture of the dimetal compounds [RhW(µ-CO)2(CO)(PPh3)2(η-C5H5)] and [RhW(µ-CO)2(PPh3)2(η-C2H4)(η-C5H5)]. The former species was identified by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study [Rh–W 2.587(1)A], the latter could only be identified by 1H and 13C-{1H} n.m.r. spectroscopy. Spectroscopic data for all the new compounds are reported and discussed.


As human approaches the big data period, artificial intelligence becomes dominating in almost every domain. As part of machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL) is intended to utilize mutual communication experiences around the world and assess feedback to strengthen human ability in decision-making. Unlike traditional supervised learning, RL is able to sample, assess and order the delayed feedback decision-making at the same time. This characteristic of RL makes it powerful when it comes to exploring a solution in the medical field. This paper investigates the wide application of RL in the medical field. Including two major parts of the medical field: artificial diagnosis and precision medicine, this paper first introduces several algorithms of RL in each part, then states the inefficiency and unsolved difficulty in this area, together with the future investigation direction of RL. This paper provides researchers with multiple feasible algorithms, supported methods and theoretical analysis, which pave the way for future development of reinforcement learning in medical field.


SUMMARY
The Brazilian species Hyptis pauliana Epling probably has an ornithopilous flower, in which explosive pollen presentation is effected by the sudden release of the stamens from a petal lobe, called a carina. Two hinges are situated in the suspensor of this carina. Pressure in large epidermal cells of the suspensor, in combination with the stiffness of collenchymatic, deeper cell layers, produces the force for the explosion. Shortly before anthesis the filaments elongate so that the stamens enter deep into the carina. At anthesis two hinges in the suspensor plate unfold and the stamens keep the carina in this excitable position. A disturbance causes the anthers to slip from the carina, which then can flip back, while the anthers swing up and eject the pollen on to the flower visitor. In the receptive phase the stamens bend down and the style elongates. In the Lamiaceae, subfamily Ocimoideae, it seems likely that an explosive mechanism has evolved at least twice.


The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has signed an agreement to help Malaysia develop its first fully integrated private four-year graduate medical school and teaching hospital. The agreement was signed in November 2010 and includes the JHU, the JHU School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI), and Academic Medical Centre Sdn Bhd (AMC). AMC is jointly owned by Chase Perdana Sdn Bhd, a leading construction company in Malaysia and the Middle East which holds 80% equity interest in AMC, and Turiya Berhad, formerly Sitt Tatt Barhad, which owns the remaining 20%. Johns Hopkins will assist with campus and facilities design and planning, medical education programs, clinical affairs, and all major aspects of the new medical school. Academic development will be aligned with breakthroughs of the Genes to Society curriculum and Johns Hopkins will consult on a variety of issues related to pedagogy, teaching environment and infrastructure, administration and student affairs. Johns Hopkins will also provide guidance on the design and development of the teaching hospital. The hospital is slated to be a 600-bed facility with ambulatory care facilities, diagnostic capabilities and ancillary support services. According to the agreement, all education, patient care and research functions and programs will be managed in accordance with the Johns Hopkins Medical organizational and operational model. Johns Hopkins will also work with Malaysian colleagues to guide the development and integration of medical research programs.


IN RECENT years, considerable progress has been achieved in the efforts of the developing countries to obtain increased access to their products in the markets of developed countries. Through multilateral and bilateral efforts, the developing countries have been able to obtain elimination or re· laxation of tariff and non-tariff barriers imposed in the developed countries on the products of their export interest. These efforts have covered the governmental barriers to trade but have left largely untouched the barriers that are created and operated by international firms, which adversely affect the interests of the firms in developing countries. These private barriers are, at times, more restrictive than government bar· riers and, to a great extent, defeat the benefits of trade liberalisation measures taken by governments in developed countries. Due importance needs to be given to the question of elimination of such private barriers, which have the effect of decelerating the trade and development of developing countries. An attempt is made in this paper to examine some of the private barriers and to assess their impact on developing countries' production and trade.


Atactic poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM) is a thermosensitive polymer in aqueous solutions. By modifying its structure with isotactic (i) rich blocks it has been shown that the thermal and structural properties of the solutions can be modified. For example, a triblock PNIPAM with isotactic endblocks forms hydrogels at temperatures close to room temperature. These gels phase separate at higher temperatures and dissolve when lowering the temperature. The rheological properties of PNIPAM polymers in water-acetone mixtures were investigated to see how the acetone content affects solution behaviour. Different arrangements of the atactic and isotactic block result in different complex viscosity as a function of temperature profiles and the block arrangement have an effect on the strength of the formed gel. It was also found that the acetone content influences the gelling behaviour of the PNIPAM systems to a large extent.


Patriarchal Reinventions under Colonialism Gender, Caste and Religious Identities: Re-constructing Class in Colonial Punjab by Anshu Malhotra; Oxford University Press, New Delhi,


The present invention discloses a method for breeding trituberculatus which appropriate reproduction (oviposition and hatched) temperature of 20 ℃ ~ 22 ℃, which includes, in order embryonic development of the fertilized egg, cleavage stage, blastocyst stage, the original intestinal period, nauplii of the film and of the film zoea, shock treatment administered at the time of film zoea, shock temperature with a suitable temperature is a temperature difference of propagation ± 12 ℃ ~ 22 ℃, shock time is 0.5min ~ 20min; after shock treatment so that the ratio of female reproductive and larval cultivation obtained reaches 57% or more, especially after cold shock treatment, after the propagation and cultivation of young female ratio of 65% or more of the crab, and to improve the economic efficiency of artificial propagation portunus and farmed trituberculatus of.


Measurements of the inelastic magnetic scattering of neutrons from the Heisenberg paramagnet RbMnF3 are presented for the temperature range from TN to 3.55TN. A direct deconvolution procedure is applied to the data, yielding, for various temperatures in the above range and for values of q in the (1, 1, 1) direction, the spectral density χ(q) F(q, ω) of the spin relaxation function. The evolution as a function of temperature and q of the dynamical properties of this isotropic Heisenberg paramagnet is thus exhibited experimentally. In particular, the persistence of the three‐peaked structure of the spectral density, previously reported at TN, is observed also above TN at the antiferromagnetic zone boundary, and the merging of the peaks into a single mode, as temperature is increased, is described. The static susceptibility χ(q), determined on an absolute basis, is in excellent agreement with the calculated values obtained from nearest‐neighbor Heisenberg‐model high‐temperature expansions and provides, there...


Background: Aluminum (Al) considered the third most ground element present everywhere which is nonessential and toxic metal to humans and accumulates in target organs causing serious effects on different systems including male reproductive system. Arabic gum (AG) is a dried exudate obtained from the stems and branches of Acacia Senegal tree and has antioxidant compounds that have ability to scavenging the free radicals, activation of antioxidant enzymes and inhibition of oxidases.Aim: This study evaluates the modulating effect of Arabic gum (AG)on fertility impairmentand oxidative stress-induced from exposure to aluminum chloride (AlCl3) on adult male albino rats.Materials and methods:Thirty two male albino rats were divided randomly into four equal groups. Group I: served as control received only oral distilled water. Group II: rats were given AG by oral gavage (7.5 g/kg/day). Group III: received AlCl3 (100 mg/kg) orally. Group IV: received oral AlCl3 (100 mg/kg) and AG (7.5 g/kg) simultaneously for 60 consecutive days. Blood samples were taken to measure antioxidant state and testosterone level also semen samples were collected for semen analysisandhistopathological study was also done. Results:Simultaneous administration of AG with AlCl3 produced highly significant increase in plasma level of GSH, SOD and CAT with highly significant decrease in plasma level of MDA when compared to the AlCl3 group. Fertility study regarding treatment of AlCl3intoxicated rats with AG showed improvementin testosteronehormone level and semen analysis as there were highly significantincrease in testosterone hormone level, sperm count, sperm motility, sperm viabilitywith highly significant decrease in total sperm abnormality compared to AlCl3 group. Also, histopathological changes occurred in AlCl3 group were improved with concomitant administration of AG with AlCl3.Conclusion: AG is an effective protective agent against AlCl3induced fertility impairment and oxidative stress due to its ability to decrease the oxidative stress and preserve the activity of antioxidant enzymes.


THIS WONDERFUL little book tells the story of a man with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) using illustrations that combine humour, pathos and pathology.


I think all service users should get involved with this. I felt really listened to for the first time. (Service User, 2003, University of Plymouth) The new BSc (Hons) Social Work requires students to undertake an assessed preparation for practice. For students in their first term at the University of Plymouth and Cornwall College, a corner stone of this 'Safety to Practice' assessment is the 'service user conversation'. Service users and carers meet individually with students to tell them what they think a good social worker should be like. Students write an account of the conversation and are given feedback on their interpersonal skills and on the accuracy of the record. This process involves service users and carers as 'teachers' and contributors to assessment from the beginning, thus reversing the usual power relationship. The conversations have proved to be a fascinating journey for all those involved, with significant implications for future practice. The students' learning needs come into sharp focus at the very beginning of their course and an assessment of their performance is meaningfully ascertained through this process. The method has been evaluated with many of the service users and carers who were involved and the outcomes of this research are presented. This innovative and creative process has much to offer in the education and the professional development of new social workers in ways that are both ethical and inclusive. We share the richness of the experience that has gone beyond our expectations and seek to encourage discussion about the possibilities of a fully inclusive approach to social work education.


Purpose: This study, which investigated the relationship between veteran secondary school teacher perceptions of evaluation feedback and self-efficacy of instructional practice, was driven by the research question: What is the relationship among evaluation processes, teacher perceptions of evaluation feedback, and veteran secondary education teacher self-efficacy toward personal instructional practice? Method: Participants were recruited from two school districts in west central Florida. The study tested two hypotheses. Hypothesis 1: Veteran secondary teachers self-efficacy of instructional practice will be related to both evaluation system type (standard vs. nonstandard) and specificity of feedback (high vs. low specificity). Hypothesis 2: Veteran secondary school teacher perceptions of the characteristics of evaluation feedback will predict teacher self-efficacy toward personal instructional practice. The study instrument included the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES; Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 2001) and additional feedback-related questions. Teachers were recruited through gatekeepers at the two districts and invited to take the online survey. Results: In a test of Hypothesis 1, analysis of variance revealed that teachers who reported receiving specific evaluation feedback also reported higher teacher self-efficacy compared with teachers who reported receiving nonspecific evaluation feedback, although there were no differences related to standard versus nonstandard evaluation systems. To test Hypothesis 2, multiple regression analysis showed the perceived value of feedback to be the strongest predictor of teacher self-efficacy. Conclusions: These findings, which link teacher perceptions of evaluation feedback to teacher self-efficacy of instructional practice, have the potential to inform the creation of improved professional development practices.


The pages in this guide link users to resources in Tyler and throughout the state of Texas. Web resources for Texas


The inner-shell ionization cross section by charged-particle impact is expressed in the form of the momentum distribution of the target electron. Based on this approximation, the correction factor for the electronic relativistic effect is obtained as the ratio of the relativistic to nonrelativistic momentum distribution at the momentum corresponding to the minimum momentum transfer in the ionization process. It is found that for K -, L 1 - and L 3 -shell ionization cross sections the correction factor obtained from the momentum distribution is in good agreement with the exact relativistic calculation.


Identifying genomic regions influenced by natural selection provides fundamental insights into the genetic basis of local adaptation. We propose a deep learning-based framework, DeepGenomeScan, that can detect signatures of local adaptation. We demonstrate that DeepGenomeScan outperformed PCA and RDA-based genome scans in identifying loci underlying quantitative traits subject to complex spatial patterns of selection. Noticeably, DeepGenomeScan increases statistical power by up to 47.25% under non-linear environmental selection patterns. We applied DeepGenomeScan to a European human genetic dataset and identified some well-known genes under selection and a substantial number of clinically important genes that were not identified using existing methods.


This volume examines studies of Joseph Conrad's work at the close of his first century and looks ahead at new directions in Conrad scholarship for the 21st century. The essays pursue biographical, linguistic, formalist, socio-historical and theoretical approaches and comment on a great number of fiction and non-fiction works from Conrad's extensive canon - including the centennial novel "Almayer's Folly" and re-visions of his writings in fiction and film. New work from established Conrad scholars joins with that of the rising generation to offer a range of perspectives on the breadth of Conrad's culture and art.


Objective: To observe the effect of Kangxian Yixin prescription on expression of Angiotensin Ⅱ(Ang Ⅱ) in rats with dilated cardiomyopathy(DCM).Methods: Wistar rats were fed furazolidone to establish dilated cardiomyopathy model,then were randomly grouped and with drug intervention for 8 weeks,immunohistochemical staining of the myocardial expression of Ang Ⅱ.Results: The comparison of the expression of Ang Ⅱ: the high dosage and captopril group,the high dosage group and the captopril group compared with the model group were significantly lower for Ang Ⅱ expression,detected by immunohistochemistry of the three model group,the average optical density(AOD) were compared:(0.1820 ± 0.0235),(0.1827 ± 0.0180)、(0.1833 ± 0.0189) and(0.2324 ± 0.0408),all P0.05.Conclusion: Kangxian Yixin Prescription can reduce the AngⅡ in myocardium of DCM rats,which may be one of the interferencemechanisms of ventricular remodeling with DCM.


We analyze the prospects for observing CPT violation using neutral-meson P0-P0bar systems. Before one can claim a measurement of CPT violation, one must be able to rule out the possibility that its result is due to simpler new-physics effects. In particular, one must be able to separate the CPT-violating quantities from parameters violating the Delta P = \Delta Q rule of semileptonic decays, and from new-physics contributions to the production mechanism of the neutral mesons. One can isolate CPT violation using the semileptonic decays of single, tagged neutral mesons; unfortunately, this situation cannot be implemented at the Upsilon(4S). For P0-P0bar pairs produced in a correlated parity-odd state we show that, by combining the di-lepton with the single-lepton decays, it is in principle possible to extract unambiguously one CPT-violating parameter. Finally, we develop the formalism necessary for describing new-physics effects in the production mechanism; this includes both cascade decays and violations of the rule of associated production.


ABSTRACT The pathologic features observed in a sural nerve biopsy from a subject with acromegalic peripheral neuropathy are presented. Examination of individually teased nerve fibers revealed diffuse segmental demyelination. Since each internodal segment represents the territory occupied by a single Schwann cell, the presence of the segmental loss of myelin indicates dysfunction throughout the Schwann cell system. It is concluded that the metabolic derangements occurring in association with acromegaly result in Schwann cell abnormalities. Repeated episodes of segmental demyelination may then predispose to eventual connective tissue hypertrophy.


To compare the performance characteristics of aqueous delayed-release coating dispersions with those obtained from organic, solvent based polymer solutions. To assess the quantity of coating required to achieve enteric protection. To examine the effects of aging on delayed-release performance. To develop a test method that augments and is more discriminating than the current E.P. enteric disintegration method.


The technology assessment and demonstration programme on lentil was carried by KVKs for demonstrating production potential of newly developed technologies of lentil at farmers' fields in the country. 596 demonstrations on lentil were organized in different conditions of 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh. Technology modules were prepared including all the recommended package of practices. Technology performance in respect to productivity and per unit area profitability from lentil was taken up as important intervention. On an average 15.75 q/ha yield was realized by the farmers under demonstration which was significantly higher as compared to local check, state and national average yield. More than 18 q/ha yield was provided by L-4076, KL-320 and HUL-57 varieties of lentil. More than Rs. 40000 per ha of net return was obtained with the cultivation of L-4076, KL-320 and DPL-62 cultivars. On an average, 43% increased income was accrued to the farmers as compared to local check. The technology dissemination model developed and utilized for scientific demonstrations of lentil, played a great role for enhancing productivity and net return to the farmers along with creating a platform for interface with different stakeholders. This paper discusses performance of lentil in different agro-eco and cropping systems. Self sufficiency in pulse production in the country had been one of the major objectives of the Indian agriculture since long. Pulses are very important in Indian agriculture both in terms of enriching soil health and for food and nutritional security of country's ever growing population. Pulses being predominantly rainfed crop grown in constrained and limiting factor environment, the increase in productivity had remained a major challenge for several decades. There has not been remarkable increase in area and productivity of pulses as witnessed in other commodities over the years. There has been number of technological breakthroughs with promise to raise the productivity levels which need to be demonstrated at farmers' fields with their active participation so as to build their confidence in new technologies. India produced 17.21 million tonnes of pulses from an area of 24.78 million hectares (Directorate of Economics and Statistics Department of Agriculture and Cooperation-2012 and Nadarajan, 2013), major contributors being Madhya Pradesh (4.16 million tonnes), Uttar Pradesh (2.43 million tonnes) and Rajasthan (2.36 million tonnes) in 2009-10. According to the fourth advanced estimate of DAC pulses productivity of the year 2012-13 is 18.45 million tonnes which is an all time high level (Nadarajan, 2013). However, about 3 million tonnes of pulses are imported annually to meet the domestic consumption requirement (Chaturvedi, et al 2010). Uttar Pradesh accounts 40% of area and 45% of the total lentil production of the lentil with highest average productivity of 7.15 q/ha (Kokate, et.al., 2013). Therefore, raising productivity may be the important option to deal with it. The technology assessment and demonstration programme on lentil was carried by KVKs for demonstrating production potential of newly developed technologies and varieties of pulses at farmers' fields as to bring in enhanced application of modern technologies to address the issues related to production of pulses in the country. Technology performance in respect to productivity and per unit area profitability from lentil was taken up as important intervention. This paper discusses performance of lentil in different agro-eco and cropping systems. Materials and Methods The programme on lentil was organized in 17 districts of Bundelkhand zone, Vindhyan zone, Central Plain zone, Eastern Plain and North Eastern Plain zone of Uttar Pradesh during 2010-11 and 2011-12. Technology modules were prepared including all the recommended package of practices. Analysis of agro-ecosystems was made. The cropping systems followed are rice-lentil, maize-lentil and fallow-lentil. The prevalent varieties grown are K-75, DPL-62 and NL-1 in the study area. The technology module introduced included: Seed rate: 16 kg seed/acre. Seed treatment with fungicides like Thirum / Captan / Carbendazim @ 3.0 gram / kg seed. Application of rhizobium culture @ one packet per 10 kg seed and seed treatment with Trichoderma @ 4.0 g / kg seed. Sowing time: 15th October to 15th November. Cultivars: HUL 57, KLS 218, Narendra Masoor 1, Pl 639, PL 4, PL 5, DPL 62, JL 3, L 4076, IPL 81. Irrigation: One at flower initiation stage. Fertilizer dose and plant protection measures were followed as per locations of the district. The sample included 17 districts and 596 farmers of 5 agroclimatic zones of Uttar Pradesh. Critical inputs were provided to the participating farmers. Training of participating farmers and extension workers were orgainized through KVKs. Statistical techniques like percentage, weighted mean, yield gap analysis, technology index were used. The technology gap, extension gap and technology index were estimated using the following formula: Fig. 1: Technology Adaptation Model for Harnessing Productivity Networks Deliverables National Level ICAR • Brain storming • Guidance • Monitoring Institute Level IIPR, ZPD • Potential area identification • District specific technology module • Constraint analysis • Action plan & training plan development • Capacity building • Monitoring • Publication Regional Level SAU, AICRP • Technology support • Capacity building • Monitoring District Level KVK, Line Departments • Critical input support • Training of farmers • Implementation • Field days & regular visits • Data collection & reporting • Monitoring Village Level KVK, Farmers Organization, Line Departments • Cluster demonstration • Field day • Data recording • Feedback to technical institutions Field Level Farmers • Demonstration • Observation recording • Day-to-day monitoring • Feedback


This study examined how implicit and explicit changes following integrative inpatient treatment of adolescents with eating disorder (ED) may predict the posttreatment ratings of psychodynamic therapists of their patients' openness to therapeutic processes and their change (Therapist Evaluation Inventory). The relative contribution of inpatients' ego functions was compared with that of their mental distress and ED symptoms in two subgroups: restricting type anorexia (AN-R) and binging/purging type EDs (B/P). Data indicated that the implicit personality variable of elevated ability to modulate affects was the best predictor of therapist-rated global outcome among patients with B/P symptoms, whereas in patients with AN-R, evolving openness to implicit negative affects and a reduction in reported distress were best predictors. In patients with AN-R, attenuated affect control was also significantly correlated with therapist posttreatment ratings. These data point that in addition to addressing behavioral/symptomatic aspects, personality variables should be addressed in the psychological treatment of EDs.


The hydrodynamic force induced by waves which excites hull vibration at the bottom entrance of a ship is calculated based on the measured pressure-time relation at the bow of a 76,000 dw tanker in ballast condition. The wave exciting force produced by the bow flare in the full load condition is also studied by assuming the form of the flare. The response factor of the whipping induced in large ships by such a wave pressure as measured above is estimated from the results of the calculations and measurements.


This essay offers a wide-ranging survey of the uneven and plural militarization of US war culture and everyday life during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It argues that the cultural authority and representational confidence of recent war culture draws on the "consolidated vision" of empire, but that paradoxically its power is based not on grand narratives but rests on much more partial, fragmented, and incoherent representations of wartime. It explores the unstable "homeland" imaginary constituted around the militarization and racialization of urban policing and surveillance since the Cold War recently contested by Black Lives Matter; the distancing, dominant representations of wars abroad through high tech warfare and hypermasculine paramilitary special forces; the emergent normalization of torture and trauma; and the sacralization of the veteran. The essay explores work by Phil Klay, Brian Turner, Sinan Antoon, and the film, Zero Dark Thirty, and offers extended discussions of Ben Fountain's novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and the TV drama The Wire.


Coxeter complexes are simplicial polytopes derived from certain reflection groups. The type An−1 Coxeter complex is derived from the symmetric group Sn and admits an elegant combinatorial description. Its faces are identified with set compositions and certain combinatorial properties of these compositions can be explained geometrically. Aguiar and Mahajan used this geometry to define a product and coproduct on various vector spaces, thereby endowing them with the structure of a combinatorial Hopf algebra. This talk will be an overview of their work.


oxoguanine (oxoG) by catalyzing cleavage of the bond linking the lesion to its sugar. A previously reported x-ray structure of a mutant form of hOGG1 provided insight into recognition of oxoG by the enzyme but raised questions about the catalytic mechanism. We report the x-ray structure of wild-type hOGG1 bound to mechanism-based inhibitor and with no oxoG occupying the base-recognition pocket. The structure lends insight into the coupling of base recognition and catalysis and suggests a previously unanticipated role for a key aspartic acid residue in the enzyme. See Journal of the American Chemical Society 123, 359-360 (2001) for the complete article.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the capital structure of listed property firms in China. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on quantitative methods such as dynamic panel data models and a panel data set containing financial and accounting data for all listed property companies from 2006 to 2010 in China. Findings – The findings confirm that the state-own shares, the fixed asset values, the total size of assets and profitability have a positive and significant impact on the leverage ratio of listed property firms in China. The negative impact of the tax shields and the currency ratio, and significant impact of state-own shares on capital structure cannot be explained by existing capital structure theory but the unique property market regulation environment and market conditions in China. Research limitations/implications – The findings confirm the applicability of trade-off theory (except for the correlation between leverage and the tax shield) on pro...


In the context of present international and intercultural communication, the official communication plays a significant part since the settlement of all political, economical and social problems depends upon their appropriate and clear comprehension and interpretation. Many linguistic scholars along with other specialists express their interest to the official discourse as a scope of interdisciplinary research. This paper presents the characteristics of speech acts of various communicative and semantic categories and their actualization in English-language documents, namely resolutions and recommendations of Parliamentary Assembly of European Council. In the scope of our research the main terms, namely pragmatic meaning, communicative intention, speech acts were given definitions. Besides, the consideration was given to the principal elements that create communicative situation, these elements are the following: addresser, addressee, communicative intention and communicative tasks. Subject to the results of the research, pragmatic meaning is realized within the category of address as well as speech acts of different communicative and semantic groups that were thoroughly studied. The most prevalent category of pragmatic meaning realization is the category of speech acts including vocatives, representatives, expressives, exercitives and directives with their pragmatically relevant units expressing pragmatic meaning. A great attention was also paid to the functioning and realization of aforementioned speech acts in the contexts of resolutions and recommendations of Parliamentary Assembly.


Background: Malta has one of the lowest reported incidence rates of tuberculosis in Western Europe, and was approaching the elimination phase. It was observed that a disproportionate number of cases were occurring among persons of advanced age. Objective: To investigate the epidemiology of tuberculosis in the elderly Malta-born population. Methods: A retrospective review of national TB surveillance data from 1995 to 2005 with estimation of 11-year means. Age stratified comparisons between the general, the younger, and the elderly Malta-born populations were made. Results: One hundred and seventeen Malta-born patients were included in the study; 99% of all notified cases. The mean stratified incidence rates of TB among the general population, those less than 65 years of age, and the elderly (65 years and over) were 2.8, 1.6, and 10.6 per 100,000 person-years respectively. When the study sample was stratified into 15-year age groups, their mean TB incidence showed an exponential increase. All major age groups showed a fall in incidence, with the elderly group featuring the steepest decline of about 5% per year. The stratified incidence ratio of males to females, and pulmonary to extra-pulmonary TB was greatest in the elderly. Relapse occurred more commonly amongst elderly males. Conclusion: Contrasting age-stratified differences in incidence, gender, site, relapse, and mortality rates were discovered between the two major age groups, with the elderly forming a sub-population with distinct TB-related characteristics. Thus, the elderly, even when living in very low TB-incidence regions, should receive particular consideration.


At CHI2015 our Art.CHI initiative led to a two-day workshop, an art catalog and presentations during Interactivity. The long-term plan is to turn this into a regular feature of CHI. For CHI2016 we will additionally use a gallery space within the Conference concourse. This workshop will invite digital artists to present their work, discuss its immediate impact with other digital artists and consider long-term issues and investigations in the interface between CHI and digital art. Towards this end our theme for Art.CHI II is Digital Art in a Post-Digital World.


Abstract Based on the previous paper (Osaki et al. 1995, Soil Sci. Plant Nutr., 41, 635-647), crops were classified by root characteristics for nitrogen uptake as follows: Group I (small root dry weight (RW) and high specific absorption rate of nitrogen (SARN)): legumes, potato, and beet; group II (large RW and low SARN): cereals; and group III (large RW and high SARN): sunflower. In the roots of field crops subjected to various treatments in a field of Hokkaido University, the nitrogen, calcium, and magnesium contents in roots were relatively higher in group I than in groups II and III. Potassium content in roots was high in maize and sunflower. Phosphorus content in roots in groups I and II increased linearly with the increase of the nitrogen content, and the contents of both minerals were higher in group II than in group I. However, the phosphorus content in group III remained constant or increased slightly with the increase of the nitrogen content. Potassium content in roots in groups I and II did not...


The term Cobar Superbasin System refers to a regional, complex tectono-stratigraphic terrain in the Central Subprovince of the Lachlan Orogen marked by Late Silurian-Early Devonian sedimentation of the Cobar Supergroup. The Cobar Superbasin System developed as four deep-water troughs surrounded by shallowwater flanking shelfs. The northern portion (Cobar Basin) is characterised by siliciclastic sediments locally intruded with felsic volcanics. The southern portion (Mt Hope and Rast Troughs) is dominated with volcanics of bimodal character and volcaniclastic rocks intercalated with sediments. During the Early Devonian, an array of scattered carbonate reefs (or probably a carbonate ramp) existed along the eastern margin of the Cobar Superbasin System. As rifting persisted, carbonate reefs (ramp) broke-down and collapsed in the deepwater parts of the superbasin system. The Cobar Superbasin System developed during Silurian-Devonian time (Glen, 1995) and was (half-) inverted by combined thick and thin-skinned tectonic style (Glen, 1990). The region underwent deformations during Late Devonian Tabberaberran Orogeny and Middle Carboniferous Kanimblan Orogeny (Scheibner, 1989; Glen 1992). The Cobar Basin opened as a haft-graben, by transtensional NE-SW extension and closed by NW transpression. The overall structural style of the Cobar Basin is NW-SE folding overprinted by NE-SW folding and eastwards oblique left-lateral thrusting. In general, the basin development was influenced by placement of Silurian granite batholiths, which acted as structural weakness and/or tectonic butters. The Cobar Superbasin System metallogenic work in conjunction with basin architecture, facies analysis and structural history attempted to find answers to the metal sources, mechanism of fluid-flow and mineral deposition in a dynamic environment of basin evolution. Metallogenesis is characterised with formation of initial mineral deposits (early mineralisation stage), their subsequent modification and formation of syn-tectonic deposits (late mineralisation stage). Early mineralisation stage is characterised with syn-rift phase of basin development accompanied with extensional tectonic environment, whilst later mineralisation formed in the inversion phase under compression. In the early mineralisation stage, the intrusion related epithermal, the VMS and the Irish type deposits were formed. These deposits are hosted in the syn-rift sedimentary sequence, where intense lithofacies distribution and basement architecture controls their occurrences. They formed in the zones of growth faults, intersections of growth faults and transform/transfer faults and intersection of major transform/transfer faults. The later mineralisation stage formed Cobar style deposits, quartz vein hosted deposits and Mississippi Valley Type deposits. The reverse lateral inversion tectonic environment controls morphology of these deposits. Deposits are localised in the structurally favourable sites: at the deflected segments of strike slip faults (CSA); at the intersection of reactivated growth and transfer/transform faults (Elura); at the end of major strike-slip faults (as results of differential displacement – Peak and Perseverance); at the overlap zones of en-echelon strike-slip faults (Cobar Goldfields; Rayner, 1969); and at the junction of major faults (McKinnons Tank). The Cobar Superbasin System represents a mineralisation continuum, where the deposits formed during the syn-rift phase underwent structural overprinting and green-schist grade metamorphism during the basin inversion phase. Introduction The Cobar Superbasin System forms the richest polymetallic 'basin' in the Lachlan Orogen. It contains a metal inventory of 198t Au; 4,597t Ag; 2.2Mt Cu; 4.8Mt Zn and 2.9Mt Pb. About 70% of these resources have been mined since initial discovery in 1870. In the district, three polymetallic underground mines are operating. After the discovery of the Elura deposit in 1974, a modern approach was introduced to metallogenic studies. Such modern approach generated controversial interpretations of ore genesis. Syngenetic, sediment-hosted, genetic models were introduced by Brooke (1975); Gilligan and Suppel (1978); Sangster (1979), Schmidt (1980) and Marshall et al., (1981). These models also involved the possibility of mechanical remobilisation close to the original place of deposition. Syn-deformational, structurally controlled models were advocated based on the study of fault relationships between the major deposits and quartz vein microstructures (Glen, 1978; Schmidt 1980, 1990). DeRoo (1989); Lawrie (1990); and Glen (1987, 1995) interpreted a syn-deformational, structurally controlled model for the Elura zinc-lead deposit. Similar, syndeformational models were proposed to the CSA copper-zinc-lead deposit by Brill (1989) and to the Peak gold deposit by Hinman and Scott (1990), and Perkins et al., (1994). However, some authors proposed a polymodal genesis for the Cobar deposits (Marshall and Gilligan, 1987; 1993), based on overlapping concepts of remobilisation and syn-tectonic formation. Secombe and Brill (1989); Seccombe (1990); Jiang (1996), Foster (1997) and Jiang et al., (2000) provided detailed studies on fluid inclusion, stable isotopes, lead isotopes of the individual deposits in the Cobar Basin. During the 1990's, Marshall and Gilligan (1987; 1993), Glen (1987, 1995) and Stegman (2001) made the most significant contributions in a complex approach to the understanding of metallogenesis. In the metallogenic studies, the high quality 1:100 000 NSW Geological Survey geology maps of the Cobar region (Pogson, 1982; MacRae, 1987; Glen, 1988; Glen 1994) played a crucial role. In addition, under the NSW government project Discovery 2000 the Geological Survey of New South Wales in collaboration with numerous of mineral exploration companies acquired high-quality geophysical coverage: airborne magnetic on 400m spaced lines, radiometrics and ground gravity with 1x2km grid. These data helped to create a structural-geological framework on which this metallogenetic work is based. In this paper, author undertook a complex approach to the metallogenesis involving basin evolution processes and tectonostratigraphic placement of mineral deposits. In addition, the paper correlates basement architecture, lithofacies distribution and deformation styles which controls deposit occurrences Structural History Structural history of the Cobar Superbasin System is associated with processes of basin evolution: basin formation (extensional tectonic) and basin inversion (compressional tectonic). The Cobar Basin formed by subsidence along NNW-trending normal listric faults (e.g. Jackermaroo Fault, Woorara Fault, Coonara Fault and Rookery Fault), which developed perpendicular to the main extensional direction. The pre-existing weaknesses and heterogeneities in the basement rocks, such as granite batholiths governed the occurrences and orientations of the listric faults. The variations in the spacing, orientation, geometry and the detachment depth of the listric faults were accommodated by NWand NE-trending strikeslip and/or dip-slip sub-vertical transform/transfer faults. The Buckwaroon Fault, Plug Tank Fault, Amphitheatre Fault and Wagga Nymagee Structure developed as a conjugate set of NWand NE-trending extensional faults (Figure 1). Cobar Basin formed as a haft graben with greater block down-throw on the eastern margins. The basin inversion phase commenced with development of N-S cleavage associated with open folding and low-angle thrusting (Glen, 1990), and the selective reactivation of normal gently dipping listric faults along the eastern trough margins. The reactivated faults penetrated into basin sediments and formed blind reverse fault systems and leading imbricate fan structures. The irregular reactivation of listric (syn-sedimentary) faults caused the development of tear faults and rotation of structural blocks. The tear faults formed NEand SW-trending en–echelon array of left-lateral, with and south block-down movement in the northern part and vice versa in the southern part. Tight folds and decollement faults advanced eastwards with deformation culminating in reverse lock-up thrust faults at the eastern margins. Tectonic barriers such as basement horsts of Silurian granites caused clockwise rotation of local stress axes (σ1' rotated from E-W to WNW-trend) and left-lateral movement along basin bounding faults. This short description of structural history supports Glen's (1990) interpteratation implying that Cobar Basin was (half-) inverted by combined thick and thinskinned tectonic style. Cobar Superbasin System Lithofacies Facies analysis includes study and interpretation of textures, sedimentary structures, fossils and lithological associations of sedimentary rocks on the scale of an outcrop, drillhole or small segment of a basin (Miall, 1990). The Cobar Superbasin System comprises deep-water troughs, flanking and intra-basinal shelves delineated by major structures and abrupt lithofacies changes (Figure 1). The major tectono-stratigraphic units characterised with sedimentary environments and constrained by distinct lithofacies are: • Flanking shelfs on the deep-water troughs margins (Kopyje Shelf and Winduck Shelf); • Intrabasinal shelves (Wiltagoona Shelf and Walters Range Shelf); and • Deep-water troughs (siliciclastic Cobar Basin, volcanic-volcaniclastic-siliciclastic Mt Hope and Rast Troughs). Basin evolution commenced in latest Silurian to Early Devonian, with formation of the shallowwater shelf to the east (Kopyje Shelf with late Silurian fossils) and deeper water Rast and Mt Hope troughs to the west. Basin subsidence progressed northwards, followed by transgressive facies. Sedimentation started with upward finning outwash-fan facies of conglomerates, arkoses and greywacke (Glen, 1990, 1994; MacRae, 1987; Trigg, 1987). A high-rate of basement subsidence in the Rast and Mt Hope Tro


This paper proposes the generation of the code for the algorithm of 1D and 2D FFT and the methods for the recognition of faces using various methods of Joint Transform Correlation techniques. Various codes were written in MATLAB for the correlation and recognition of various images. Comparison between DFT and FFT Computation Speeds is made in this paper From results it is evident that for a couple of samples of various lengths the time taken by normal DFT is higher than the time taken by FFT. Thus the speed of FFT is beneficial when large calculations are required.


Content is hot! And enterprise content management (ECM) is fast becoming one of the trendiest buzzwords bandied about in IT circles. ECM deals with the dynamic nature of today's content and the delivery of this content to a variety of platforms. The advent of the Web and its related implications for sharing Knowledge within and between organizations has breathed new life into this once-stodgy field, previously Known for records management and document processing.


Most amino acid sequences are predicted to specify a single three-dimensional protein structure. However, the identification of "metamorphic" proteins, which can adopt two folds from a single amino acid sequence, has challenged the one sequence/one structure paradigm. Polar-tohydrophobic substitutions have been suggested computationally as one mechanism to decrease structural specificity, allowing the population of novel folds. Here, we experimentally investigate the role of polar-to-hydrophobic substitutions on structural specificity in the homodimeric ribbon-helix-helix protein Arc repressor. Previous work showed that a single polar-to-hydrophobic surface substitution in the strand region of Arc repressor (Arc-N11L) populates the wild-type fold and a novel dimeric "switch" fold. In this work, we investigate an Arc repressor variant with the N11L substitution plus two additional polar-to-hydrophobic surface substitutions (Arc-S-VLV). We determine that this sequence folds into at least three structures: both dimer forms present in Arc-N11L, and a novel octamer structure containing higher stability and less helicity than the dimer folds. We are able to isolate and stabilize a core of the S-VLV octamer by limited trypsinolysis and deletion mutagenesis (Arc-VLV 4-44). The shortened construct contains only the octameric structure by removing disordered C-terminal segments nonessential for this fold. A two-dimensional NMR spectrum of VLV 4-44 and subsequent trypsinolysis of this construct suggests that at least two types of subunits comprise the S-VLV octamer: subunits structured from residues 4 to 44 and subunits structured from residues 4 to 31. Crystal trials of trypsinolyzed Arc-VLV 4-44 yielded several leads, suggesting that obtaining a high resolution structure of the S-VLV octamer is possible. Relatedly, we determine that the proline residues flanking the Arc repressor strand act in concert as "gatekeepers" to prevent aggregation in the S-VLV sequence. We also find that three highly hydrophobic surface substitutions in the Arc repressor strand region are necessary and sufficient to promote higher-order oligomer formation. In summation, this work reveals in an experimental context that progressive increases in polar-to-hydrophobic surface substitutions populate increasingly diverse, structurally degenerate folds. These results suggest that "metamorphic" as well as "polymetamorphic" proteins, which adopt numerous folds, are possible outcomes for a single protein sequence.


During the 19th century, the American West featured ranching and farming expansion, communication via telegraph, mail delivery by the Pony Express, railroad expansion and community development, cat...


The distribution and occurrence of coprophilous ascomycetes on dung of Asiatic elephant, cattle, chicken, goat and water buffalo in Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand was investigated between March and May, 2010. A moist chamber culture method was employed. Species from eleven genera in Sordariales, Pleosporales, Pezizales, Thelebolales and Microascales were identified. Some of the species examined are new records for Thailand. The most common species were Saccobolus citrinus, Sporormiella minima, Ascobolus immersus and Cercophora kalimpongensis. Most fungal species were found on cattle dung. Chicken dung, a rarely reported substrate for coprophilous fungi, had the least fungal species.


The patterns in this collection are an addition to those that appeared in our book Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas (Manns & Rising, 2005). Our passion for this topic didn't end when the book was published. Rather, we continued to read, observe, take extensive notes and, most importantly, listen to comments and suggestions from our readers. We have not stopped learning about leading change! As people exchange ideas about the environment, and exchange patterns, the overall inventory of patterns in the pattern pool keeps changing. ...Of course, this evolution will never end. (Alexander, C. A., The Timeless Way of Building) A pattern language and the patterns in it are living things. The work is never finished. We are grateful for the opportunity to share as we are learning. This paper contains the following new patterns: Wake-up Call, Town Meeting, Emotional Connection, Elevator Pitch, and Pick Your Battles. References to existing patterns in our book or in this paper appear in brackets, e.g. [Do Food]. Summaries for the existing patterns are in the Appendix. The patterns follow a variation of Alexander's format. Each pattern includes: • Name in bold • Alias (if applicable) • Abstract in bold • Opening Story in italics that conveys the essence of the pattern • Context • Problem statement in bold • Description of the Problem and Forces • "Therefore" in italics • Essence of the Solution in bold • Elaboration of the Solution • Resulting Context • Known Uses in italics


PHES GENE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF A LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM PRODUCING  BACTERIOCIN FROM NEM CHUA The aim of this study was to identify species level of producing bacteriocin strain isolated from Ha Noi nem chua (DV4.10) by pheS gene sequencing analysis. Genomic DNA DV4.10 was extracted. Then pheS gene was run the first PCR with PheS-21-F(5′-CAYCCNGCHCGYGAYATGC-3′) and PheS-22-R (5′-CCWARVCCRAARGCAAARCC-3′). PCR product was checked by by electrophoresis on a 1% (wt/vol) agarose gel at 75 V for 45 min with marker (SmartLadder, Eurogentec, Searing, Belgium). PCR  product of DV4.10 collected a bold band at  450 bp position similar to size of pheS gene [6]. This PCR product continued to run the second PCR with seperated primer, purified, sequenced and comparated to sequencing of known sequence database in EMBL or BCCM/LMG collection of Gent university, Belgium. The result showed that  DV4.10 is Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis species. Thus, the pheS gene sequence provides a useful tool. It have a higher discriminatory power for reliable identification of species level.


The last decade has witnessed significant attention on networked control systems (NCSs) due to their ubiquitous presence in industrial applications, and in the particular case of wireless NCSs, because of their architectural flexibility and low installation and maintenance costs. In wireless NCSs, the communication between sensors, controllers, and actuators is supported by a communication channel that is likely to introduce variable communication delays, packet losses, limited bandwidth, and other practical nonidealities leading to numerous technical challenges. Although stability properties of NCSs have been investigated extensively in the literature, results for NCSs under more complex and general objectives, and, in particular, results dealing with verification or controller synthesis for logical specifications, are much more limited. This paper investigates how to address such complex objectives by constructively deriving symbolic models of NCSs, while encompassing the mentioned network nonidealities. The obtained abstracted (symbolic) models can then be employed to synthesize hybrid controllers enforcing rich logical specifications over the concrete NCS models. Examples of such general specifications include properties expressed as formulas in linear temporal logic or as automata on infinite strings. We thus provide a general synthesis framework that can be flexibly adapted to a number of NCS setups. We illustrate the effectiveness of the results over some case studies.


MIRLET7D pre-miRNA is an oligonucleotide that is encoded by the human MIRLET7D gene and has a role in the regulation of gene expression.


Satisfactory spore preparations for testing hospital sterilizers can be made from B. stearothermophilus and comparatively simple methods for loading and drying the papers are considered to be valid. Each batch of spore papers should be calibrated by plotting dose-response curves for exposure to steam. A minimum standard in terms of the L.D.50 to moist heat is proposed and confidence limits suggested when such papers are used in pairs or small multiples.


We describe the theoretical formulation behind an algorithm for synchrotron phase-space tracking with rf noise and some preliminary simulation results of bunch diffusion under rf noise obtained by actual tracking. 8 refs., 7 figs.


Dispersal is a context-dependent adaptive trait. Different dispersal strategies arise as species need to optimize their fitness in the ever changing quality of habitats further imposed by abiotic and biotic factors. This work reviews the spread of populations under different dispersal strategies. Namely, we address the spread of a population when dispersal is driven by habitat fragmentations, density-dependent predation and mixed propagules. The context-based dispersal can explain a variety of range dynamics. It is of common accord however that the cause and effect of dispersal could have a wider effect on population dynamics that goes beyond purely ecological nature.


Paracetamol has emerged as an important environmental contaminant due to its extensive use. The purpose of this work was toisolate, identify, and characterize fungal species able to degrade paracetamol from pharmaceutical wastewater effluent at Sana'a City, Yemen. The fungi were isolated and purified from wastewater samples using enrichment and selective media. The isolated fungi were identified according to phenotypic characterization. Two species of isolated fungi were able to utilize the paracetamol as the sole of carbon and energy sources. These fungi were designated as F1 and F2 and identified as Aspergillus niger and Fusarium oxysporium, respectively. Optimum temperature and pH for growth of both species were 25 ̊C and 6.0, respectively. Also, the biodegradation of paracetamol was influenced by glucose concentration. F1 and F2 were able to degrade 35.7% and 26.1% of 1000 and 2000 mg/L, respectively, paracetamol in 60 days. This is the first report on the ability of Aspergillus niger and Fusarium oxysporium to degrade paracetamol. The reported findings highlight the potential use of the isolated microorganisms for treatment of paracetamol-contaminated wastewater.


Wastewater irrigation could relax the tension of water resources to a certain extent but irrational utilization of wastewater can also cause pollution of soil and groundwater.This paper discusses the characteristics of main pollutants in wastewater for irrigation.According to the present situation of research in wastewater irrigation,this paper also analyses the soil and groundwater environment pollution caused by wastewater irrigation and presents some relative technical methods and countermeasure.


The rural ecological environment has been ignored by people,as the economic developmenting of China,farmers lifestyle changing,the ecological environment in rural areas has become a problem affecting rural and social development and the health of farmers,and cann't be avoided.We analasised the rural ecological environment from the current issues,and raised some contermeasures and recommendations in the construction of new rural.


Deep learning is widely used in image classification due to the huge potential of multi-layer training. Combining deep learning with traditional dictionary learning has become a hot topic. However, the existing methods update dictionary learning and classifier as two independent modules, which limits the classification performance. In this paper, a novel image classification method based on multi-layer dictionary learning is proposed to meet this challenge. First, multi-layer training is introduced to extract the multi-layer nonlinear features of image data. Then, the discriminant label constraint term is designed to optimize the dictionary and classifier synchronously. The proposed method improves classification accuracy via enhancing the coding coefficient features and screening the beneficial classification feature. Finally, we examine the performance of our model on two real-world image data sets. The correctness and effectiveness of the proposed model are verified through convergence, accuracy and parameter sensitivity.


Excess levels of organic and inorganic matters in the discharge from sugarcane mill effluent (SCME) wastewater, causes the earnest environmental issue. In this study, a single unit integrated ultrasonic membrane anaerobic system (IUMAS) has been investigated for industrial sugarcane wastewater treatment. As the "Membrane-fouling" is one of the main constraints of IUMAS which eventually reduce the processing ability. In the present study, most researchers resort to cost reduction. IUMAS was alternatively applied as an economical approach for SCME wastewater treatment. The application of "Multiple-analysis" methods (COD, BOD, TSS) and three kinetic models during the treatment, suggested the specific range of organic loading rate to produce biogas. The result showed the increased methane gas production up to 80% in the biogas, with 94 -96% of COD removal efficiency from the SCME wastewater. Results concluded the effective efficiency of IUMAS to reduce the membrane fouling and treatment of SCME wastewater as well as enhanced production of methane gas.


ABSTRACT This article traces Dietrich Bonhoeffer's transition from orthodoxy to orthopraxy. As his life and thought moved ever deeper into resisting Nazism, Bonhoeffer was eventually executed in 1945 in punishment for aiding plots to assasinate Hitler. I argue that the path that led to his praxis of resistance to Nazi oppression is significantly different from orthopraxy as a 'first act' in the Theology of Liberation which arose later in Latin America. Although Bonhoeffer's work has influenced the Theology of Liberation, I show that his orthopraxy is based on a liberative Christology which, unlike the liberative Christology of the Theology of Liberation, steers as far as possible from political ideology. I claim that, to interpret Bonhoeffer, one must tackle his ideological deconstruction of religion and politics, Church and State. What we discover is a liberation theology based on imitatio Christi.


Experiments are reported on the lateral photoeffect in a novel type of amorphous superlattice consisting of 6 A of Ti and 13 A of Si grown on Si substrate. The spectral, temperature, bias voltage, and time dependences have been measured for this new position sensitive detector.


Metaheuristics have already shown useful in solving difficult problems in a broad range of fields over the last several decades. This accomplishment spurs the research group to create new, more successful heuristics and stimulates interest in this area of study. However, recent research has concentrated on constructing innovative algorithms but instead of consolidating the body of current knowledge. A further obstacle to the advancement of the area is the lack of formalization and precision in the identification, design, and development of combinatorial optimization issues and metaheuristics. The basic ideas and issues in this domain are discussed, and formalism is suggested for organizing, designing, and coding combinatorial optimization issues and metaheuristics. We think these contributions might help the discipline advance and make metaheuristics more capable of solving problems comparable to these other machine learning methods.


This book examined the Facebook Pages of the five Philippine Presidential Candidates as they affect the outcome of 2016 Philippine Elections and perhaps the election of President Rodrigo Duterte in the highest post of the land. With only a few references discussing the same matter especially in the local parlance, this book will provide the readers the differing insights, both from the perspective of politicians and Facebook users. The results and findings from the present investigation present a good reference as to how politicians and political parties can engineer their respective online campaigns. It will deepen their understanding not only of the online engineering strategies but also help them grasp the behaviors of the voters in the platform. In this book they will discover how political communication works in the virtual arena as another political battleground. Lastly, this book exhibits the dynamism of the Philippine political culture as it evolved with the rapid change of times.


e17051Background: Recently, genetic polymorphism in HSD3B1 has been shown to be associated with oncological outcome when treated with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer, and ris...


The present invention relates to a system and method of remote application management on wireless data terminals using a device management agent and dynamic link libraries provided by the application. Third party applications on a wireless device can communicate and be controlled by a remote management server via a management client plug-in interface.


Original scientific paper The correction method for pressure coefficient distribution around an airfoil is developed for the purpose of the postprocessing of wind tunnel data, obtained from the model pressure measurements. Pressure coefficient distribution around the airfoil, directly obtained by wind tunnel measurements, is corrected numerically in order to compensate for the interference effects of the wind tunnel test section walls. In this paper, the airfoil NACA0012 is approximated by linear vortex segments, which are then mirrored using sufficient number of images with respect to the ceiling and the floor of the test section, to model the flow pattern around an airfoil in the wind tunnel test section with solid walls. Flow calculations, both with the tunnel wall presence and in the free stream, are then performed. The numerically obtained pressure coefficient difference between these two cases should be superimposed to the pressure coefficient distribution measured in the wind tunnel, for the same nominal airflow parameters and angle of attack, at the corresponding points, resulting in the corrected experimental pressure coefficient distribution. The values of corrections generally increase with the reduction of the wind tunnel test section relative height. The paper is focused on the verification of lift curve slope corrections, where very good agreements have been obtained with several well-known classical correction methods.


We report the effect of a Ta/TaN/SiCN tri-layer barrier on the electrical properties and thermal stability of single damascene (SD) lines for Cu-ultra low k (2.3) integration. It was found that by incorporating a thin SiCN layer between the Ta/TaN barrier and ultra low k material, the leakage current can be significantly reduced and the breakdown voltage can be enhanced. A thermal treatment at 200°C for 40 hours can further improve the leakage current but with slight decrease in breakdown voltage.


The authors introduce the separate spheres bargaining model of distribution within marriage. This differs from the divorce-threat bargaining model in that the threat point is not divorce but noncooperative equilibrium within marriage. The model is illustrated using child allowance allocations. (ANNOTATION)


In two‐tier networks, which consist of macrocells and femtocells, femtocells can offload the traffic from macrocells thereby improving indoor signal coverage. However, the dynamic deployment feature of femtocells may result in signal interference due to limited frequency spectrum. The tradeoff between broad signal coverage and increased signal interference deserves further exploration for practical network operation. In this paper, dynamic frequency resource management is proposed to avoid both co‐tier and cross‐tier Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access downlink interference and increase frequency channel utilization under co‐channel deployment. A graph‐based non‐conflict group discovery algorithm is proposed to discover the disjoint interference‐free groups among femtocells in order to avoid the co‐tier interference. A macrocell uses the femtocell gateway for frequency resource allocation among femtocells to avoid cross‐tier interference. We formulate the optimized frequency resource assignment as a fractional knapsack problem and solve the problem by using a greedy method. The simulation results show that the average data transfer rate can be increased from 21% to 60%, whereas idle rate and blocking rate are decreased in the range of 15% ∽22% and 60% ∽82% , respectively, as compared with conventional graph coloring and graph‐based dynamic frequency reuse schemes. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


With but one exception when our judiciary permit themselves to be greeted as "Her Majesty's Judges" political reality means that it is a pipe dream from the past. That one exception is'Lord Denning (to whom our Law School owes so much) and the reason for it is that by awarding him the Order of Merit Her Majesty has marked him for Her Own. It was many years ago that an insignificant person first caught a distant glimpse of the future judge. How peaceful now it seems; remembered so vividly. It was a summer's day, the sum was shining through the windows of a college library. As yet an undergraduate, this person was browsing there. Steeped, as he was in the myths and anomalies of legal history, he chanced to come upon a "case note" about a long forgotten case. Here was a contributor who had a contagious way of conveying his emotions to his reader and it was plain that he was angry. The object of his indignation was that he had smelt an injustice. It seemed that some judge or other had denied a claim based on unjust enrichment under the erroneous impression that the implied promise then considered necessary to support such a claim had to be a valid legal, rather than a fictional, one. Which had never really been the case. The unknown author of that note was a barrister called "A.T. Denning" and he had made a conquest. If anybody ever had the magic of "charisma" it is Lord Denning. He seems in some strange way to dwell apart and, looking down on life, to see it "steadily and see it whole.,,2 Yet, in the world of everyday reality he by no means stands aloof: a friend of all the world if they will let him be he is easy of approach, likes to take people to himself and actually encourages them to call him "Tom." Constrained to say a little of a lot let us now try to tell of him .


when everyone speaks of the crisis facing the arts, when money is tight and culture "itrelevant," it's heartening tonote the emergence ofseveral vigorous new community museums in New York City. Within the past year, E1 Museo del Barrio, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Storefront Museum have opened their doors as grass-roots institutions, bridging the gap between "culture" and everyday life. Their success is an important conSrmation f the Metropolitan's position that the impetus for a community museum ust come from the people themselves. It would be arrogant, we feel, for any large cultural power to set up its own branch museums, carbon copies of itself, regardless of the needs of the commu-


Samples of Kuwaiti (n = 646) and American (n = 320) undergraduates responded to the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale in Arabic and English, respectively. Differences by sex were significant, with women having a higher mean anxiety score than men and by country with Kuwaiti women having a higher anxiety score than American women.


Nacre, the internal lustrous "mother of pearl" layer of many common shells, is a biomineral product of mainly CaCO3 crystals and a matrix of biological macromolecules. Depite constituting less than 5% of total nacre weight, matrix proteins control the crystallization of CaCO3. To further investigate the regulatory function of Water Soluble Matrix (WSM) in nacre biomineralization, aqueous extraction was used to extract WSM from the Pinctada fucata nacre. Three protein fractions (FI~III) have been separated and collected from the WSM by reversed phase HPLC. According to the results of amino acid composition analysis, WSM and the three fractions are rich in glycine, alanine, aspartate, and leucine. Crystallization experiment in vitro showed that WSM and the three fractions markedly affected CaCO3 crystal formation. The three fractions however,have different effects on the CaCO3 crystallization. FI and FII stimulate CaCO3 formation, while FIII has suppressive effect on CaCO3 formation. This is the first identification of two proteins factors in WSM which stimulate and suppress CaCO3 crystallization separately indicating nacre formation is under both positive and negative regulations.


The schema theorem describes the expected proportion of a particular schema at the next generation in an evolutionary algorithm given the current proportion of that schema, its realized fitness, and the mean fitness of all extant solutions (ignoring the effects of variation operators). Simple iterative analysis of this relationship, extrapolated over successive generations, has led to a claim that the use of proportional selection generates an exponentially increasing proportion of schemata that are of above-average fitness. This paper shows that this claim is not correct, and moreover that iterating the expectations derived from the schema theorem leads to erroneous predictions about schemata propagation even in the simplest problems and even when iterated over only two generations.


This paper suggests a new fuzzy adaptive controller, which is able to solve the problems of classical adaptive controllers and conventional fuzzy adaptive controllers. It explains the architecture of a fuzzy adaptive controller using the robust property of a fuzzy controller. The basic idea of new adaptive control scheme is that an adaptive controller can be constructed with parallel combination of robust controllers. This new adaptive controller uses a multirule-base architecture which has several independent fuzzy controllers in parallel, each with different robust stability area. Out of several independent fuzzy controllers, the most suited one is selected by a system identifier which observes variations in the controlled system parameter. Here, we propose a design procedure which can be carried out mathematically and systematically from the model of a controlled system; related mathematical theorems and their proofs are also given. The performance of the proposed adaptive control algorithm is analyzed through a design example and a DC motor control simulation.


PARTICLE PHYSICSWith Europe's Large Hadron Collider now out of commission until late September, the older Tevatron collider at Fermilab may be gaining the edge in the race to spot the Higgs boson, the last missing piece in the standard model of fundamental particles.


The specialist literature on family therapy naturally tends to focus only on the special features of what is a much larger body of skills and knowledge. To redress the balance this paper outlines the rest of the picture in various ways. About 90 separable component parts of family therapy are described. Some implications of this analysis are identified.