Boundary-layer mass removal (bleed) through spanwise bands of holes on a surface is used to prevent or control separation and to stabilize the normal shock in supersonic inlets. The addition of a transport equation lag relationship for eddy viscosity to the rough wall algebraic turbulence model of Cebeci and Chang was found to improve agreement between predicted and measured mean velocity distributions downstream of a bleed band. The model was demonstrated for a range of bleed configurations, bleed rates, and local freestream Mach numbers. In addition, the model was applied to the boundary-layer development over acoustic lining materials for the inlets and nozzles of commercial aircraft. The model was found to yield accurate results for integral boundary-layer properties unless there was a strong adverse pressure gradient. Nomenclature A = constant (26.0) in van Driest's damping function, Eq. (3) ks = equivalent sand-grain roughness height k+ = roughness Reynolds number, ksuT/v k^ = constant (0.02) in outer layer eddy viscosity model, Eq. (4) k3 = constant (0.5) in the lag model, Eq. (7) / = length scale rabl = bleed mass flow rate p = static pressure R = augmented mixing length due to surface roughness effect Re = Reynolds number M, v = velocity components in the streamwise and the normal to surface directions UT = frictional velocity *, y = coordinates in the streamwise and the normal to boundary-layer surface directions T = intermittency factor in Eq. (4), 0 < F < 1 8* = displacement thickness 6 = momentum thickness K = von Karman constant, 0.40, Eq. (3) fji — viscosity p = density v = kinematic viscosity of the fluid Subscripts e = outer region of boundary layer eq = equilibrium turbulent flow t = turbulent flow Superscripts ' = fluctuating turbulent quantity + = quantity normalized by vluT


In general, homeowners do not have a concrete idea of how much energy their houses are using at any given moment. This energy "invisibility" is thought to be a barrier toward people adopting more sustainable behaviors. This study involves installing energy monitors in houses in the University of Dayton student neighborhood to analyze two important questions: whether the monitors teach students about the relationship between their activities and energy consumption, and whether the monitors influence students to adjust their household behaviors. Due to complications with and uncertainties in the data, quantitative conclusions could not be drawn. Fortunately, data collected from the distribution of questionnaires resulted in insightful conclusions regarding student attitudes and behaviors concerning the monitors. In essence, very few students consistently looked at their energy monitors, but those who did tended to learn from them and change their behaviors. It is recommended that future projects be conducted including further education and sufficient incentives to see whether more students respond to the monitors. Regardless, it can be concluded with confidence that students would be more inclined to save energy should they have to pay their own utility bills. At this time, installing energy monitors in every house would be inadvisable. Dedication or Acknowledgements This thesis is dedicated to my parents Rich and Lynn Esposito for their constant love and support. I would like to deeply thank my advisor Dr. Brecha for all the guidance, direction, and knowledge he has given me over the past few years. I am also greatly indebted to Kurt Hoffmann for all the help he has provided me; without him, this project would not have been possible. Finally, I would like to thank the University of Dayton Department of Facilities, Honors Department, and Physics Department for their support and funding for this project.


Deep neural networks (DNNs) with the flexibility to learn good top-layer representations have eclipsed shallow kernel methods without that flexibility. Here, we take inspiration from DNNs to develop the deep kernel machine. Optimizing the deep kernel machine objective is equivalent to exact Bayesian inference (or noisy gradient descent) in an infinitely wide Bayesian neural network or deep Gaussian process, which has been scaled carefully to retain representation learning. Our work thus has important implications for theoretical understanding of neural networks. In addition, we show that the deep kernel machine objective has more desirable properties and better performance than other choices of objective. Finally, we conjecture that the deep kernel machine objective is unimodal. We give a proof of unimodality for linear kernels, and a number of experiments in the nonlinear case in which all deep kernel machines initializations we tried converged to the same solution.


The chiroptical property of optically active polyamides (3a–i), derived from (−)-anti head-to-head coumarin dimer (1), was investigated by comparing their UV and circular dichroism (CD) spectra with those of the corresponding model diamides (8a–i) in the film state. The result suggests that the polyamides (3a–c,g) derived from acyclic aliphatic diamines, exist in a random conformation due to the flexibility of the diamine components. The polyamides (3d,h), consisting of piperazine, are assumed to be in a rod-like conformation, resulting from their rigid and fixed main chains. The polyamides (3e,f,i), prepared from aromatic diamines, show reversed and split Cotton effects at 270–300 nm in comparison with those of model diamides. This phenomenon is interpreted by the formation of an ordered conformation of macromolecular asymmetry.


Background: Stem cell therapy has been proposed as a potential treatment strategy for ischemic cardiomyopathy in recent years. A variety of stem cells or stem cell-derived cells can potentially be used for transplantation. Despite improved cardiac function after treatment, one of the major problems is the poor integration between host and donor cells which can lead to post-transplantation arrhythmia and poor long-term outcome. Methods: In the present study, we cocultured murine embryonic stem cells (mES) with murine embryonic ventricular myocytes (mEVs) in hanging drops to assess the cellular interaction and function of mES-derived cardiomyocytes under these conditions. Results: We found that when mEVs are added to a culture system of embryonic stem cells, the number of spontaneously beating areas in embryoid bodies (EBs) increases, intercellular gap junction communication is enhanced by upregulation of Cx43 expression at the mid-developmental stage and Cx43 is distributed more orderly between cardiomyocytes. Conclusions: Our findings suggest mES-derived cardiomyocytes are able to form effective signaling pathways through coculture with mEVs which is important for providing more functional grafts for cardiac cell therapy by improving the integration between transplanted and host cells.


Cell division of suspension cultures of Hemerocallis hybrida was partially synchronized by treating with hydroxyurea (HU), a DNA synthesis inhibitor, followed by treatment with colchicine (COL), a spindle toxin, as the first step toward an efficient preparation of microprotoplasts. During COL treatment, suspension cells were analyzed for relative DNA contents using flow cytometry (FCM) as well as mitotic index (MI) under microscopy. MI reached a peak after 20h of COL treatment. In FCM analyses, histogram of asynchronous cultures showed three peaks (2C, 4C and 8C nuclei), and the numbers of both 4C and 8C nuclei gradually increased until 18h after the initiation of COL treatment. After 20h of COL treatment, the numbers of 4C and 8C nuclei transiently decreased, indicating that a large number of cells were at the prometaphase to metaphase stages. These results indicate that FCM analyses offer a simple and rapid means of preliminary examination for arresting cell-cycle at metaphase in partially synchronized suspension cultures of H. hybrida.


According to the indispensability argument, the fact that we quantify over numbers, sets and functions in our best scientific theories gives us reason for believing that such objects exist. I examine a strategy to dispense with such quantification by simply replacing any given platonistic theory by the set of sentences in the nominalist vocabulary it logically entails. I argue that, as a strategy, this response fails: for there is no guarantee that the nominalist content of the platonistic theory is exhausted by this set of sentences. Indeed, there are platonistic theories that have consequences for the nominalist world that go beyond the set of sentences in the nominalist language such theories entail. However, I argue that what such theories show is that mathematics can enable us to express possibilities about the concrete world that may not be expressible in nominalistically acceptable language. While I grant that this may make quantification over abstracta indispensable, I deny that such indispensability is a reason for accepting them into our ontology. I urge that the nominalist should be allowed to quantify over abstracta whilst denying their existence and I explain how this apparently contradictory practice (a practice I call "weaseling") is in fact coherent, unproblematic and rational. Finally, I examine the view that platonistic theories are simpler or more attractive than their nominalistic reformulations, and thus that abstracta ought to be accepted into our ontology for the-same sorts of reasons as other theoretical objects. I argue that, at least in the case of numbers, functions and sets, such arguments misunderstand the kind of simplicity and attractiveness we seek.


There have been disputes about the civil duty that the third party violates the right of spouse in educational circles. New Family Law established the indemnity system of divorce. But it also expeled the third party's duty. We think that the right of spouse is absolute. The third party can not infringe . The conduct that the third party violates the right of spouse belongs to common behavior of infringement with the other spouse. He should to undertake the duty of indemnity to the right spouse. There are large positive meaning that the third party undertake the duty. It may protect the legal rights and interestsof the spouse, and propose the family's relation of health and civilization, and maintain the kind customs.


In this paper, we deene the minimax ow problem and design an O(k M(n; m)) time optimal algorithm for a special case of the problem in which the weights on arcs are either 0 or 1, where n is the number of vertices, m is the number of arcs, k (where 1 k m) is the number of arcs with nonzero weights, and M(n; m) is the best time bound for nding a maximum ow in a network.


The strategy and tactics involved in the integrated pest management (IPM) of insect pests of rice, have already been critically reviewed by Kiritani (1972; 1977; 1979). In spite of repeated emphasis on the urgent necessity of IPM by its advocates, the implementation of lPM by farmers still remains far behind. To bridge this apparent gap, it is anticipated that many obstacles should be over· come not only in technology but also in socio-economic sectors (Kiritani, 1979).


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From conventional wisdom and empirical studies of annotated data, it has been shown that visual statistics such as object frequencies and segment sizes follow power law distributions. Previous work has shown that both kinds of power-law behavior can be captured by using a hierarchical Pitman-Yor process prior within a nonparametric Bayesian approach to scene segmentation. In this paper, we add label information into the previously unsupervised model. Our approach exploits the labelled data by adding constraints on the parameter space during the variational learning phase. We evaluate our formulation on the La-belMe natural scene dataset, and show the effectiveness of our approach.


Over high extraction temperature of section 5 and section 6 is a universal problem in three 300MW imported type steam turbines of some power plant.Through the analysis for experiment data and structure of low-pressure inner cylinder,the low-pressure No.1 inner cylinder steam leakage is judged as the main cause.The main cause of low-pressure No.1 inner cylinder casing split gaping and deformation is analysed,some technical measures are supplied.The change of unit efficiency caused by steam leakage is calculated by using the local simplified algorithm of equivalent heat drop method.


「Liberal Arts」courses, which are collective core courses of the general education, were offered from the academic year of 1999 till now. The courses of「Liberal Arts」at Fooyin University divide into 5 studies: "Humanities", "Social Sciences", "Natural Sciences", "Applied Sciences" and "Life Sciences". The aim of this curriculum design and the implementation of「Liberal Arts」courses are to establish the concept of "health" considered a holistic ideal embracing every aspect of a person's physical, mental, emotional and social well-being. We try to promote students' competence and quality in healthcare as the beginning concept of general education, and to well integrate the spirit of general education and professional education in such a way as to bring about a deep concern for the whole person. In this study, we describe and analyze the courses programming. Besides, we would list out the strategies and methods of how to carry out the courses as well as the reference model in order to realize the expected effects. Hopefully, we would like to share these experiences with other colleges and universities of technology for their development and curriculum design of general education.


In an era of internationalisation, triggering increased multilingualism, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) provides an interesting alternative to traditional education for the acquisition of an additional language. A new interdisciplinary research project entitled 'Assessing CLIL' has just been launched and aims to tackle the interplay between linguistic, cognitive and educational aspects of the CLIL approach in French-speaking Belgium. Despite abundant literature indicating higher proficiency in the target language for CLIL learners (Admiraal et al. 2006, Dalton-Puffer 2011, Lasagabaster 2008), it largely remains unclear to what extent, in what respect and thanks to which (internal and external) processes/ factors CLIL learners outperform traditional learners. The present study is part of this evaluation project and focuses on socio-affective variables. While it is established that language attitudes and motivation play a significant role in language learning (see a...


The purpose of this study is to explore the practical utility of the polycentric governance composition of public-private cooperation in regional cultural and artistic activities. This is to confirm the institutional utility of the polycentric governance form and the actual situation felt in the actual field through in-depth interviews, and to present the phenomena derived through this as a basis for the development of cultural and artistic policies in the future. In particular, it was considered that it would be an example of presenting a regional model to overcome the crisis of Covid-19 to check whether the cultural and artistic policies that changed rapidly after Covid-19 and whether the main functions of polycentric governance worked in the business site. The theoretical basis of this study is E. Ostrom's polycentric governance theory, and among them, five democratic efficiencies of multi-core governance(right to speak, public-private joint production, public entrepreneurship, competition, and extrasibility) were explored. Accordingly, a qualitative study was conducted in three areas (Insa-dong, Daehak-ro, and Jamun-bak) in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and results consistent with the above five democratic efficiencies were confirmed in the governance of culture and arts in each dong. As a result of this study, it is expected that culture and arts policies using polycentric governance will be activated, and used as empirical data in the process of establishing a support system for culture and arts sites that have shrunk since Covid-19.


The human gut microbiota can restrict the growth of pathogens to prevent them from colonizing the intestine ('colonization resistance'). However, antibiotic treatment can kill members of the gut microbiota ('gut commensals') and reduce competition for nutrients, making these nutrients available to support the growth of pathogens. This disturbance can lead to the growth and expansion of pathogens within the intestine (including antibiotic-resistant pathogens), where these pathogens can exploit the absence of competitors and the nutrient-enriched gut environment. In this review, we discuss nutrient competition between the gut microbiota and pathogens. We also provide an overview of how nutrient competition can be harnessed to support the design of next-generation microbiome therapeutics to restrict the growth of pathogens and prevent the development of invasive infections.


Chongming Island, the third largest island in China and the largest alluvial island in the world, is situat-ed in the north of Shanghai Municipality at the mouth of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River. Along the fertile and prosper-ous sea coast there are a total area of over 120 × 103ha, with a population of 735 000, accruing some 500ha of new tidalland resources come from silt, sand and mud carried by the Changjiang River every year, extending about 140m peryear. This dynamic process of alluvial growth bas run for some 1500 years. Mudflat on Chongming Island at the mouth ofthe Changjiang River is a resting ground for migratory birds and host more than a hundred species, including rare c ranesand geese. But the loc al people keep reclaiming the tidal land for economic development. Obviously, it is crucial to havea well-coneerted plan for future exploitation. In this study, we attempted to investigate the status changes of land use audwild life habitats on Chongming Island in recent 10 years, and then analyzed different human activities and their effectson wild life habitats using satellite image data (1990, 1997 and 2000) as well as field survey. Based on the analysis.this study explored the relationships between island growth and land use/cover change (LUCC), predicted what the habi-tat would be like in the future and tried to find more effective use of this new growing resource. At last, this study provid-ed some preliminary management plans for Chongming Island that will coordinate the development of local economies andthe conservation of wild life and their habitats.


Alginate is a family of polysaccharides composed of (1→4)-linked β-D-mannuronic acid (M) and α-L-guluronic acid (G), with a wide variety of applications and even greater prospects for the future. Alginate is first synthesized as poly-β-D-mannuronic acid and the G-residues are introduced by enzymatic C-5 epimerization of individual M-residues, with different enzymes introducing different degrees of epimerization and patterns. The physical properties of alginates are highly dependent on their chemical composition, and their great degree of sequential and compositional variation creates the need for structural control. By expressing mannuronan C-5 epimerases in their native, or even hybrid form, in alginate-producing bacteria, it could be possible to produce alginates with carefully designed properties and a high level of compositional homogeneity. This is especially promising for the strict demands of biomedical applications. Great efforts have been made to obtain detailed characterization of the C-5 epimerases and their interactions with alginates, yet much is still unclear. In particular, a family of seven extracellular epimerases of Azotobacter Vinelandii, AlgE1-7, has been extensively studied. They all consist of two structural domains; the A-module, which has been found to hold the catalytic activity, and the R-module, whose role is not yet defined, but has been suggested as regulatory. This study, in two parts, aims at further clarifying the role of the R-module, specifically in AlgE4, and to learn more about the structure function relationship in the A-module of AlgE6. The first part is a comparative study of the A-module in AlgE4 and the full length epimerase. The result of this work supported previous findings of the R-module having a role in lowering the concentration of calcium ions needed for full activity in AlgE4. They also suggested that the R-module facilitates a stable degree of epimerization within a wider calcium concentration range, but that it was not needed to achieve full degree of epimerization. No evidence was found to suggest that the Rmodule gives rise to product specificity, but it did increase processivity, possibly by


THE PERFORMING ARTS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING Ahmed Hankir, Bruce Kirkcaldy, Frederick R. Carrick, Asad Sadiq & Rashid Zaman Department of Psychiatry, Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research in association with the University of Cambridge (BCMHR-CU), Cambridge, UK Leeds York Partnership Foundation Trust, Leeds, UK International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health, Düsseldorf, Germany Visiting Professor, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA Clinical Scholar, Harvard Macy and MGH Institutes, Boston, MA, USA Psychiatry and Therapy Centre, Dubai, UAE Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK


Published by Radcliffe Medical Press, 1998. 216pp. Paperback, £17.50. ISBN 1-85775-032-2 Demographic changes in western societies are increasingly focusing attention on the needs of older people. The demands for medical facilities for this age group could be such as to virtual1 cripple a National Health Service. It ~ therefore essential that the ageing population is maintained in as good a state of health as possible for as long as possible. In their Introduction to this book, the Editors say that 'In the past 20 years it has been recognised that care in this field should be directed equally towards the control of suffering and the maintenance of function to enable


Options for loss compensation in water-gilded objects are limited by a constrained number of materials and techniques suitable to imitate distinctive appearance of gilding and a conservators' individual preference for traditional or non-traditional methods. Evidence-based assessments of selected conservation materials indicated that the synthetic materials, acrylic dispersion Plextol B500, acrylic resin Paraloid B-72, and polyvinyl acetate resin AYAF, are potentially the most useful for compensation of losses in matte water-gilded objects. This prompted a series of experiments involving the testing of ageing characteristics of three synthetic polymers used in gilding, in comparison to those used in traditional gilding. A frame sample, which was gilded using both traditional and non-traditional techniques, was exposed to diurnal fluctuation in relative humidity (RH) and temperature through window glass without ultraviolet filtering for over 10 years. Subsequent examination of the gilded surfaces suggested that fluctuations in humidity occurring in diurnal cycles were inadequate to trigger any failure to gilding caused by movement of the wooden substrate; and any damage to gilding was a consequence of changes affecting the surface only of a protective layer, gold leaf, and polymers. The experiment showed that substantial temperature/humidity fluctuations can cause significant stress, particularly for Paraloid B-72 resin. Furthermore, this experiment demonstrates that Paraloid B-72 resin developed greater brittleness with age than either AYAF or Plextol B500. Despite the obvious physical changes evident within the polymer films, there were little alterations observed in their Fourier transform infrared spectra.


Introduction. Modern transformation of economic systems is connected with the changes of interest in information. The information which is in conditions of rapid changes in economic processes determines the search of new approaches to manage expenses in order to identify measures to their reduction. Users of financial statements are interested in information that in the conditions of  rapid changes in economic processes is the most adequate and optimal one to use for rapid decision-making. Relevant information is the kind of such  information, which is based on relevant costs. Analysis of research works and publications in the part of relevant costs has shown that the definition of the "relevant costs" is submitted by various scholars, and in most cases has only a theoretical aspect. Examples of relevant costs have the only direction and they are not suitable for practical use in the real enterprise. Of course, every company has its own list of relevant costs and expenses and also they are specific to each entity. So, there is a necessity for their determination, taking into account sectoral characteristics that are relevant to the process of decision-making. The subject of the present paper contains theoretical and practical aspects of port operator cost management based on relevant information. Purpose. The purpose of this article is to determine the nature of the relevant costs and develop practical recommendations for the formation of relevant information of port operator. Method (methodology). The paper used general scientific and special methods that helped to solve problematic issues of selected issues of research. Systematic approach to the analysis of economic phenomena and processes, basic principles of analysis of national and foreign scholars as for the cost management and classification are the methodological foundations of research. Results. Results of the research include recommendations for the port operator as for information and analytical support on the basis of relevant information. The proposed model of port operator cost management will ensure the formation of analytical expense reports for executives; increase the level of detail of information on costs and develop recommendations on pricing. Thus, for the port operator the chance to receive the results of effective selection costs of individual activities will increase and the process of making optimal management decisions will speed up. Further research in this area should include the development of guidelines for port operators on reporting forms as for the formation of  the second level on the basis of relevant information.


We characterize two-weight inequalities for certain maximal truncations of the Hilbert transform in terms of testing conditions on simpler functions. For 1<p<2 and two positive Borel measures u, v on R, we assume that u is doubling, and we consider maximal truncations T_# of the Hilbert transform. The norm estimate || T(f u) ||_{L^p(v)} < C || f ||_{L^p(u)} is characterized in terms of an A_p condition on the weights and two testing conditions. The first is the norm condition above, but the function f varies over bounded functions supported on a cube. The second is a dual weak-type condition, for arbitrary functions. This result should be compared to the result of Nazarov, Treil and Volberg, arXiv:math/0702758. Additional results are obtained for 2<p<\infty, and for the weak type inequality.


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In addition to exploring the philosophy of God, in Part 2, he spends several chapters, approximately one-third of the work, discussing Christology and analyzing relations among the persons of the Trinity. This section of the book will be of concern and significance to theologians as well as to philosophers interested in the period. The book's tools could be improved. The nonspecialists at whom the book is aimed may find the many German works listed in the bibliography inaccessible. Some recent significant works are missing, for example, Markus, ed., Augustine: A Collection of Critical Essays (5972), and O'Daly, Augustine's Philosophy of Mind (5987). A chronological summary, similar to that found in Sorabji, Time, Creation, and the Continuum (5983), 4~2-~4, would have been helpful. SHERI KATZ Spring Hill College


The atomic diffusion in fcc NiAl binary alloys was studied by kinetic Monte Carlo simulation. The environment dependent hopping barriers were computed using a pair interaction model whose parameters were fitted to relevant data derived from electronic structure calculations. Long time diffusivities were calculated and the effect of composition change on the tracer diffusion coefficients was analyzed. Our results indicate that this variation has noticeable impact on the atomic diffusivities. A clear reduction in the mobility of both Ni and Al is demonstrated with increasing Al content. Examination of the pair interaction between atoms was carried out for the purpose of understanding the predicted trends.


Investigates the class of epidemic algorithms that are commonly used for the lazy transmission of updates to distributed copies of a database. These algorithms use a simple randomized communication mechanism to ensure robustness. Suppose n players communicate in parallel rounds in each of which every player calls a randomly selected communication partner. In every round, players can generate rumors (updates) that are to be distributed among all players. Whenever communication is established between two players, each one must decide which of the rumors to transmit. The major problem is that players might not know which rumors their partners have already received. For example, a standard algorithm forwarding each rumor form the calling to the called players for /spl Theta/(ln n) rounds needs to transmit the rumor /spl Theta/(n ln n) times in order to ensure that every player finally receives the rumor with high probability. We investigate whether such a large communication overhead is inherent to epidemic algorithms. On the positive side, we show that the communication overhead can be reduced significantly. We give an algorithm using only O(n ln ln n) transmissions and O(ln n) rounds. In addition, we prove the robustness of this algorithm. On the negative side, we show that any address-oblivious algorithm needs to send /spl Omega/(n ln ln n) messages for each rumor, regardless of the number of rounds. Furthermore, we give a general lower bound showing that time and communication optimality cannot be achieved simultaneously using random phone calls, i.e. every algorithm that distributes a rumor in O(ln n) rounds needs /spl omega/(n) transmissions.


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: With the increase of Sino-US trade exchanges, Sino-US cross-cultural business negotiations have also become the object of scholars' research. The essence of cross-cultural business negotiation is cross-cultural communication. Business negotiation not only affects the corporate image, but is also very important for corporate development. This paper uses Hofstede's cultural dimension theory as the research framework, takes the cross-cultural business negotiation between Chinese and American companies as a realistic reference, and summarizes the influence of cultural differences between China and the United States on the personal role of business negotiators. Starting from three different cultural dimensions: uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation and short-term orientation, power distance, it explores the impact of cultural differences in business negotiations and finally put forward specific and useful suggestions to cross cultural business negotiators.


This paper develops the fuzzy neural network color image vehicular detection (FNNCIVD) system to detect multiple-lane traffic flows. A pseudo line detector with fourteen detection points is placed on the monitor to detect the two-lane traffic images. On each detection point, the differencing or R, G and B pixel values between the background image and instantaneous image are inputted in every one-tenth second into a four-layer fuzzy neural network trained by the backpropagation algorithm. Traffic scenes in the daytime and nighttime are both experimented. The experiment results show that the success rates for traffic counting in different lighting conditions can be as high as 90%, in the mean time, the success rates for vehicle classification can reach 100%.


This paper reviews our recent research on nonlinear dynamics of microchip solid-state lasers subjected to delayed optical feedback. Instabilities in two types of physical systems including multimode lasers with feedback and lasers with frequency-shifted feedback are discussed. Applications of microchip lasers with feedback to shot-noise-limited self-mixing optical sensing and imaging are summarized.


To ascertain application possibility of the sound monitoring for dynamics of the gas metal arc welding (GMAW) process research, the following was parallel performed on the laboratory system: (a) established DC voltage / DC current monitoring and (b) developing sound monitoring. The first part of the paper briefly describes the developing laboratory system and sound monitoring module. In the second part, experimental results with the applied data processing method are presented. The third part is devoted to the necessary adaptation of the sound monitoring module.


The Ampullariidae (apple snails) are freshwater snails of tropical and subtropical regions. Recent research has concentrated on a few species that are invasive or potential biocontrol agents, but the basic life history traits of most species remain unknown. One such poorly known species is Pomacea americanista, endemic to the Alto Paraná and Iguazú Rivers in southern South America, which may be vulnerable to environmental degradation. We studied the growth, survivorship, maturation and reproductive activity of P. americanista to help evaluate its resilience under different scenarios of environmental change. Fifty snails that hatched in the laboratory from two egg masses collected in San Francisco Stream (Misiones Province, Argentina) were reared under controlled conditions until their natural death. Shell growth was almost linear up to the 20th week of life, subsequently decreasing smoothly. Growth rate, asymptotic sizes, time to reach asymptotic size and age at maturity were greater for females than males. Mortality patterns were similar for both sexes, with no deaths up to 38 weeks and steady mortality thereafter, the maximum longevity being 143 weeks. The fecundity of P. americanista is lower than that of other apple snails under similar conditions. Under laboratory conditions males and females underwent a single extended reproductive period, but under the seasonal climate in their natural habitats their life cycle would probably extend for more than 3 years, with two or more reproductive periods. The low fecundity and the late maturity of P. americanista indicate slow population growth and low resilience relative to invasive apple snails. These traits, combined with a restricted geographical range and an association with hard substrates in swiftly flowing waters, suggest that P. americanista could be vulnerable.


This document specifies the requirements for ensuring the privacy and
integrity of real-time transport protocol (RTP) media flows between
two or more endpoints communicating through one or more centrally
located media distribution devices (MDDs).


Isoflavonic compounds and antioxidants from the leaves of Feijoa sellowiana Berg grown in Casablanca (Morocco) was analyzed by a sensitive and reliable ultra-fast liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UFLC-MS/MS) method. The identified compounds were rich in phenolics compounds, thus fifteen constituents were found.


It is well documented that both acetylcholine (ACh)‐evoked arterial relaxation and brachial artery flow‐mediated vasodilatation are blunted in hypercholesterolaemic patients. However, there are no simple diagnostic methods to detect the pathology of blood vessels of patients. To establish the use of serum nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity as a diagnostic parameter for impaired vasorelaxation, animals with different levels of vascular healthiness were made by feeding Sprague–Dawley rats a normal diet, a high‐cholesterol diet (HCD) or an HCD supplemented with 10 mg/kg per day, p.o., simvastatin, a cholesterol‐lowering drug, for 30 days. Serum total cholesterol levels, serum NOS activity and ACh‐induced vasorelaxation of the isolated aorta were determined at the end of the experiment. Consumption of HCD for 30 days resulted in an increase in serum total cholesterol, attenuated ACh‐induced nitric oxide/endothelium‐dependent aortic relaxation and decreased NOS activity. Concomitant administration of simvastatin lowered the elevated blood cholesterol levels with complete reversal of the attenuated ACh‐induced aortic relaxation and serum NOS activity. An attempt was made to correlate serum NOS activity and the magnitude of ACh‐elicited vascular relaxation among the different groups. A positive correlation (r = 0.8329; P < 0.001; n = 30) was found between serum NOS activity and vascular relaxation. This finding is a good foundation for the development of a simple and low‐cost alternative for diagnosing vascular diseases and evaluating the effectiveness of drugs on the vascular system in patients.


An extensive study was carried out for evaluation of different experimental and analytical techniques for damage identification of civil constructed facilities. A threespan steel-stringer bridge was subjected to a regimen of deliberately induced damage to simulate many of the common deterioration and damage states that may affect these bridges. The bridge was extensively tested between April and December 1996. A primary objective of the study was to obtain reliable results reflecting the dynamic properties and responses of the bridge. In this context, improved testing procedures and parameter estimation methods were established such that the civil infrastructure can reliably be tested and the modal data can be post-processed and confidently interpreted. A number of different indices were employed for a comparative study on damage detection. A damage indicator (Bridge Girder Condition Indicator) based on the deflections computed using modal flexibility yielded very promising results for locating damage and quantifying damaged response for certain loading patterns. This offered Bridge Engineers a conceptual index for understanding damage and its significance. In this paper, the knowledge gained as a result of this study will be summarized.


Enhanced performance is demonstrated in n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors with channel regions formed by pseudomorphic growth of strained Si on relaxed Si/sub 1/spl minus/x/Ge/sub x/. Standard MOS fabrication techniques were utilized, including thermal oxidation of the strained Si. Surface channel devices show low-field mobility enhancements of 80% at room temperature and 12% at 10 K, when compared to control devices fabricated in Czochralski Si. Similar enhancements are observed in the device transconductance. In addition, buried channel devices show peak room temperature mobilities about three times that of control devices.<<ETX>>


Abstract : Wind tunnel tests were conducted for NASA-Langley at M sub infinity = 8 to determine the pitch-, yaw-, and roll-damping characteristics of a modified 089B shuttle orbiter configuration. Data were obtained utilizing the small-amplitude forced-oscillation technique at angles of attack of -4.9 to 26.5 deg at Reynolds numbers, based on model length, of 1,180,000 to 4,820,000. The orbiter was dynamically stable in pitch, yaw, roll, and statically unstable in yaw for the moment reference of the test configurations. The pitch derivatives were dependent on Reynolds number while the roll derivatives were independent of Reynolds number.


The Orbitron Maser uses synthetic atoms in which free electrons orbit positively-charged metallic nuclei. These orbiting electrons interact with the radiation field of a microwave cavity to produce stimulated microwave emission. The difference between our device and ordinary microwave tubes and conventional masers is that it can operate in the difficult range between one centimeter and 0.1 millimeter.


A 52-year-old man presented with a slow growing, asymptomatic mass under the nail plate of the right thumb for the past 20 years. On examination, it was soft to firm in consistency, arising from the medial half of the nail bed. The overlying nail plate was onychogryphotic with splitting in the middle. The medial half of the nail plate was lifted off the underlying nail bed (Fig. 1). No other nails were affected with a similar or different condition, and the rest of the mucocutaneous examination was noncontributory. Radiographic images of the digit showed soft tissue tumor with no bony changes. What Is Your Diagnosis?


Broadcast media, by means subtle and spectacular, obscure social reality and influence the formation of human identity by promoting normative behavior. Taking as its focus Queen Elizabeth's 1989 Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth, HUGS KISSES TONGUES for the catalogue of mute swans is a musical composition which seeks to critique those processes and unmask their fostered social illusions. Compositionally utilized to illuminate the Christmas broadcast's ideological agenda are: textual inclusions, citational inclusions, psychoacoustic devices, allegorical frameworks of repetition with either tonal modulation or temporal suspension, mimetic relationships of music and text, exploitation of psychological attributes of the human voice, and visual inclusions. This undertaking is considered in terms of an antagonistic and critical practice that seeks to address a problematic social moment.


For long time forensic investigators have considered Hyoid and laryngeal injuries as important findings in cases of deaths due to strangulation. Further the incidence of injuries to the neck structures in such cases being related to various factors like the age, gender, the type of the hanging based on suspension and the position of the knot are well documented. Our study highlights the impact of other crucial factors which are usually overlooked, but having strong association in the deaths due to strangulations in general and hanging in particular. The study was undertaken in Central Delhi in 100 cases of hanging, where we studied the association between the hyoid and laryngeal fractures with other variables like type of the ligature material used, the number of turns around the neck, the width of the ligature mark, the type of the knot (fixed/running noose), the duration of suspension and the Body Mass Index of the individuals. In our study 42% of cases had hyoid/laryngeal injuries. These injuries were more common in those who had used hard ligature material with more than one turn around their neck and with a broader ligature mark on their neck. Hyoid and laryngeal injuries were also more common in victims who had a running noose and a prolonged duration of suspension.


With regard to the people engaged in voice work,the voice health is a question that should not be neglected.While exercising pronunciation,the beginner shouldn't seek singing 'high and loudly'.The singer should have a regular living rule;the exercising pronunciation time everyday must be of moderate degree;meanwhile,the singer must pay attention to the influence of the weather and diet and persist in routine voice health.The female singer must pay attention to the health in the period of menses.


Nowadays Web Services are one of the most rapidly developed technologies and have become platform for eecommerce as well as B2B model. Therefore, when Web Services use SOAP as a protocol for communication, their security should be considered. However, those SOAP messages are prone to XML attacks that can create a foundation for typical faults and make it vulnerable to use. Unfortunately, recent researches established that solutions to deal with these problems have several limitations. In this paper, we explore attacks on SOAP messages and also provide confidentiality and integrity solutions. It is a tolerant scheme which is able to automatically detect and fix typical faults occurred in SOAP messages to combat with the security threats in order to improve its reliability.


A new computational paradigm for the detection of moving edges in time-varying image sequences is presented. The frames need not be contiguous. The detector includes both motion and edge detection in a way that improves overall performance.<<ETX>>


We characterize the complex, heavy-tailed probability distribution functions (pdf) describing the response and its local extrema for structural systems subjected to random forcing that includes extreme events. Our approach is based on the recent probabilistic decomposition-synthesis technique, where we decouple rare events regimes from the background fluctuations. The result of the analysis has the form of a semi-analytical approximation formula for the pdf of the response (displacement, velocity, and acceleration) and the pdf of the local extrema. For special limiting cases (lightly damped or heavily damped systems) our analysis provides fully analytical approximations. We also demonstrate how the method can be applied to high dimensional structural systems through a two-degrees-of-freedom structural system undergoing rare events due to intermittent forcing. The derived formulas can be evaluated with very small computational cost and are shown to accurately capture the complicated heavy-tailed and asymmetrical features in the probability distribution many standard deviations away from the mean, through comparisons with expensive Monte-Carlo simulations.


The connections Stanley Hauerwas draws between his theological work and the craft of bricklaying, which he learned from his father, invites comparison with Seamus Heaney's depiction of poetry as digging. Both men understand their task of writing as hard and precise labour that pays close attention to given materials and that honours the complexities of the past. I consider how the characterisation of theology as bricklaying-like work, integral to Hauerwas' professional and personal self-understanding, may shape his theological approaches and priorities, and ask how this might contrast with other possible approaches formed from other historical contexts.


By definition, the "everyday" appears inconsequential. How could paying attention to who makes breakfast add to our analytical powers? How could monitoring laundry take us deeper into causality? Surely, assigning weight to casual chats in the elevator or before meetings begin would be a waste of precious intellectual energy. The everyday is routine. It is what appears to be unexceptional. Devoid of decision making. Seemingly pre-political.

For an embarrassingly long time, I didn't pay attention to the everyday. I, of course, lived it. My relationships with others—parents, friends, colleagues, interviewees—depended on my everyday routines somehow meshing with theirs. But I didn't think to spell them out when I engaged in formal analytical efforts. I presumed that my task was to reveal the workings of—and consequences of—power, and that those workings would manifest themselves by standing out from the mundane. If this were true in my attempts to understand ethnic politics in Malaysia (my initial research), it would be, I imagined, all the more true when I began to investigate the causes and consequences of international politics.

I was wrong.

It was feminist analysts who opened my eyes to how wrong I was and what exactly I was missing in the dynamics of international politics by naively imagining that the everyday was pre-political, analytically trivial, and causally weightless.

The most famous late twentieth-century feminist theoretical pronouncement is, "The personal is political." Its crafters were calling on women (and any men who had sufficient nerve) to look to the everyday dynamics in their lives to discover the causes of patriarchal social systems' remarkable sustainability. This call would have profound implications, we gradually learned, for understanding the flows of causality, the constructions of political cultures and the inter-locked structures of relationships between those actors we so simplistically call "states." The sites for research, …


Estrogens play pivotal roles in sexual development, growth, reproduction, and sex differentiation and have been implicated in a number of physiological processes in various tissues. Most of the effects of estrogens are mediated by the estrogen receptors alpha (ERα), beta (ERβ), and G protein‐coupled receptor 30 (GPR30). The liver is known to be a target tissue for estrogen signaling, but the physiological role of this signaling is not well characterized. Through analyses of an estradiol (E2)‐treated hepatocyte cell line and mice, we showed that E2 signaling controls hepatocyte proliferation. Importantly, our data showed that the E2 signaling that is mediated through ERα is crucial for efficient liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy (PH). PH rapidly induced marked increases in circulating E2 and ERα transcripts in periportal hepatocytes, well before the onset of hepatocyte proliferation. Taken together, our results indicate that increased E2 is one of the initiating signals that trigger liver regeneration. We suggest that E2 treatment could be beneficial for stimulating liver regeneration in humans.


We report the Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (FMRFM) experiments on a combined permalloy-cobalt continuous film. Our studies demonstrate the capability of FMRFM to perform local spectroscopy of different ferromagnetic materials. Theoretical analysis of the uniform resonance mode at the edge of the film provides good quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Our experiments demonstrate the micron scale lateral resolution and allow to extract local magnetic properties in continuous ferromagnetic samples.


The present invention relates to a cordyceps sinensis powder tablet and a preparation method thereof, which pertains to the field of medicines and health products. The technical problem the present invention aims at providing a tablet containing cordyceps sinensis medicinal powder and no auxiliary material; the appearance, shape and harness of the tablet is consistent with the tablet quality standard. The cordyceps sinensis powder tablet only adopts cordyceps sinensis powder with the water content of 8 to 18 percent and the granule diameter of 1 to 150mum; no auxiliary material is added in the preparation process and the cordyceps sinensis powder is the only component. The aim of direct tablet forming can be achieved by controlling the water of the powder or by the process of second tabletting or dry granule tabletting. The process ensures that the tablet appearance is good; pockmark surface rate and fracture rate are low; tablet harness, disintegration rate and friability are consistent with the tablet quality requirement; the harness can also ensure that the tablet can not fracture in the preparation process when coating and film covering is carried out in the later stage.


Abstract : The United Nations (UN) cannot effectively monitor regional stability or provide advance notification of impending conflict or crisis. To do this, there must be an early warning mechanism to provide advance notice. For the most part, this involves a capability to acquire, analyze and distribute the type of information which can trigger concurrent activities such as decision making at the political and strategic levels, contingency planning, and the implementation process. The UN's problem is not the absence of information. Rather, it is the absence of an organization to manage the information flow, linking early warning to the other processes crucial to rapid reaction. To be effective, this early warning mechanism must be linked to individuals and organizations capable of acting on such information.


In a preliminary note published in these Proceedings, 1 the writers described an agar-slant-tissue method for the cultivation of Rickettsiæ, both of the murine and of the classical types of typhus fever. Further study of this method has led to modifications and standardizations which are reported herewith in order to facilitate its use in the hands of others. Preliminary experiments by Pinkerton with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever virus indicate a possibility that the method may be successful with Rickettsiæ other than those of typhus. The medium as now used differs from the original only in proportions of ingredients. We have found that results are most regular when the agar is prepared as follows: A "Tyrode" solution of the ordinary formula is made up double strength throughout, except that only 1 gm. of bicarbonate of sodium is used per liter. The agar used is a Difco granular Bactoagar. A mixture of 150 cc. double strength Tyrode and 150 cc. of horse serum with 8 cc. of phenol red solution is filtered through a Seitz filter.† To the filtrate is added 150 cc. of 4% agar in distilled water, cooled to 45°C.


In this paper, we study a new estimation system for the prediction of steam generator tube defects. In the previous research works, defect size estimators were independently designed for each defect types in order to estimate the defect size. As a result, the structure of estimation system is rather complex and the estimation performance gets worse if the classification performance is degraded for some reason. This paper studies a new estimation system that does not require the classification of defect types. Although the previous works are expected to achieve much better estimation performance than the proposed system since it uses the estimator specialized in each defect, the performance difference is not so large. Therefore, it is expected that the proposed estimator can be effectively used for the case where the defect type classification is imperfect.


The measurement of photons from the quenching of /sup 3/He/sup +/(2S) state ions produced under special conditions by an rf ion source permit one to deduce a polarizable current of 260 nA, close to 5% of the total /sup 3/He/sup +/ current. Zeeman splitting and quenching of unwanted components can be effected at the ion source yielding directly a /sup 3/He/sup +/ beam with nuclear polarization.


Preface..1 The past uncovered and its ownership..2 The diversity of surviving traces..3 Dating the past..4 Changing landscapes..5 People, language and society..6 Subsistence and reciprocity..7 Seafarers to Sahul..8 Sahul: a Pleistocene continent..9 The initial colonisation..10 The original Australians..11 Pleistocene settlement..12 Conquest of the deserts..13 Pleistocene artefacts..14 Holocene stone tool innovations..15 Theories and models..16 People of the coast..17 Regional challenges and responses..18 Island settlement..19 Tasmania..20 Art on rock..21 Rock art of temperate Australia..22 Rock art of trpoical Australia..23 Asian and European newcomers..Glossary..Endnotes..References..Index


Abstract This paper proposes ten criteria by which the suitability of any language for use as an international language might be measured. These criteria fall into two classes. The first three are criteria of familiarity—that is, they measure the extent to which a candidate language is already familiar to the people who would have to learn it. The remaining seven are criteria of excellence, and are intended to rate languages according to such properties as their freedom from local idioms, from exceptions to the rules of grammar, from inflections, and so on. Such criteria have three purposes. First, they would rank the candidate languages by familiarity and excellence. Second, they would diagnose weaknesses in each candidate: from this diagnosis a living language could be simplified towards the ideal regularity of an artificial language, while preserving more of familiarity to the world's population than an artificial language possesses. Finally, they would indicate any progress that the world may be makin...


Recently, the conceptual definition and the meaning of publicness have been the focus of brisk discussion in the academia of public administration....


The new RODS algorithm based on optimizing the orientation of the dividing suface at each point along the reaction path in order to maximize the free energy of the generalized transition state containing that point has been used to carry out variational transition state calculations and tunneling calculations for two reactions with high-frequency vibrations strongly coupled to the reaction coordinate, (Cl-)(CH3NH3+) → ClCH3(NH3) and ClCH3 + NH3, and CH3Cl(H2O) + NH3(H2O) → (CH3NH3+)(Cl-)(H2O)2. These reactions, both of which involve the transfer of a methyl cation between Cl- and NH3, show much larger variational-transition-state and tunneling effects than were observed in previous studies of the transfer of methyl cations between anionic centers. However, they are hard to study because the adiabatic potential energy curves of both reactions and, as a consequence, the corresponding free energy of activation profiles show big dips when the minimum energy path (MEP) is followed using standard methods, even ...


The aim of this paper is to propose a theory of derivations for quandles. Given a quandle $A$ admitting an action by a quandle $Q$, derivations from $Q$ to $A$ are introduced as twisted analogues of quandle homomorphisms. It is shown that for each quandle $Q$ there exists a unique $Q$-quandle $\mathcal{A}_Q$ (the derived quandle of $Q$) such that derivations from $Q$ to any $Q$-quandle $A$ are in bijective correspondence with $Q$-quandle homomorphisms from $\mathcal{A}_Q$ to $A$. Further, it is proved that the set of all derivations to an abelian $Q$-quandle $A$ has the structure of an abelian quandle, and inherits many other properties from $A$. In the end, the ideas are extended to the setting of virtual quandles.


these texts, especially in the areas of sermon structure and function, the meaning ofamplification and allégory, and specifically used terminology, this study extends the parameters of continuity by allowing the earlier allusive material to enrich one 's understanding of the great Renaissance sermon manual. Thus, Erasmus ' achievement can be viewed, not as a miraculous aberration, but as part ofa long and variegated preaching tradition.


This collection is a preliminary exploration of a new subject of historical inquiry: the phenomenon of denunciation in modem European history. It is based on a conference on practices of denunciation, focused particularly on the Soviet Union under Stalin and on Nazi Germany, which was organized by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately at the University of Chicago in April 1994. More than half of the papers published here were originally presented at that conference. 1 We must begin with the question of definition. This is tricky, because the accusatory acts by citizens that we are interested in are not clearly distinguished as a category of everyday behavior in contemporary English. The word "denunciation" comes closest but has the disadvantage of exoticism: an English speaker is more likely to use it in connection with, say, Nazi Germany than in describing the mores of an English village. We should say at the outset that we assume that practices of denunciation may be found close to home as well as far away. For the purposes of the present project, denunciations may be defined as spontaneous communications from individual citizens to the state (or to another authority such as the church) containing accusations of wrongdoing by other citizens or officials and implicitly or explicitly calling for punishment. Typically, denunciations are written and delivered privately to an addressee rather than published. They are likely to invoke state (or church) values and to disclaim any personal interest on the part of the writer, citing duty to the state (or the public good) as the reason for offering information to the authorities. Denouncing and informing are closely related but not synonymous acts. The term "informer" generally implies a regular, often paid, relationship to the police.


Medicine-bottle classification algorithm to avoid medicine accidents must be robust to a geometric change such as rotation, size variation, location movement of the medicine bottles. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to classify the medicine bottles exactly in real-time by using SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) which is robust to the geometric change. In first, we classify medicine bottles by size using minimum boundary rectangle(MBR) of medicine bottles as a striking feature in order to classify the medicine bottles. We extract label region in the MBR and the region of interest(ROI) considering rotation. Then, we classify medicine bottles using SIFT for the extracted ROI. We also simplify the number of octave of SIFT in order to improve a process speed of SIFT. We confirm to classify all the medicine bottles exactly as a result of performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm about images of 250 medicine bottles. We also confirm to improve the process time more than twice the processing time by simplifying the number of octave of SIFT.


Western classical republicanism holds that,the foundation and preservation of a republic must take positive civic virtues as its basis,which demands a priority of public interests over private interests.Based on this concept,classical republicanism claims that business and business-induced luxury is a destructive force because it lures people's pursuit of private interests and corrodes civic virtues.Hume criticized this view,claiming that commercial development is not destructive in itself.Quite on the contrary,in the long run,it prompts the formation of new civic virtues like diligence,wisdom,humanity,moderateness and independence.Compared to those classical civic virtues,these new virtues are more natural,more helpful to enhance private happiness,and more conducive to promote national strength and civil liberties.


A heat transfer computer simulation for predicting the temperature response in the interior and within the insulated structure of a residential room space has been developed. The model is a major expansion of an earlier model and includes improved radiation exchange processes and convection influences present in trapped air spaces within the wall structure. Analytical development and simulation results are presented and compared to experimental data showing the high degree of accuracy the model achieves. Specific sensitivities are shown with comments on the relative importance of parameters involved. The simulation is applied to a residential space configured with reflective insulation of new technology and reflective exterior coatings and highlights the beneficial qualities of these technologies. Such modeling is useful in previewing the effects of innovative products and coatings, singly or in combination, and can provide information about a single structure that can be replicated and used in large-scale predictions for city or regional energy studies.


SUMMARY This paper presents the results of the first Canadian Consensus Meeting focused on the structure and content of a comprehensive driving evaluation (CDE) for older individuals. The clientele of interest were individuals over 65 referred for a driving assessment primarily for cognitive reasons. The goals were: to develop recommendations on appropriate elderly clientele for referral; to identify important components of the pre- and on-road assessment; and, to delineate critical behaviors to be assessed on-road. Moderate-to-strong agreement was evident on a wide range of recommendations. These are presented along with assessment tools that have demonstrated psychometric value for driving evaluation.


The acoustic near field characteristics of the acousto-optic modulator (AOMs) with different electrode shapes are designed, simulated, and experimentally demonstrated. The experiment results show that electrode shapes directly affect the acoustic field distribution and the light spot's modulation. Under the same experimental conditions, the gradual hexagon electrode has the homogeneous sound field distribution and can get a modulation light spot with good performance. It is expected to further improve the acoustic field distribution and performance of the AOMs by optimizing the aspect ratio of gradual hexagon shapes. Furthermore, we can control the output spot mode by designing different electrode shapes.


The Activity Vector Analysis was administered to 31 Ss matched for age and sex to a prior sample under the instructions to select those words which they felt described the kind of person the President of the United States should be. Comparing the significant resulting cluster with one discovered 9 yr. previously showed that there has been slight change in the stereotyped perception of the Ideal President in that the new ideal is generally less opinionated and decisive as well as more receptive and appreciative of another person's point of view than was previously found.


A HYPOTHESIS IS ADVANCED INDICATING WHY THE LATERAL STRESSES IN SOIL MEDIA INCREASE AS A RESULT OF OVERCONSOLIDATION. SOME OF THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE STRESS METER AND EQUIPMENT DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE COEFFICIENTS OF EARTH PRESSURES FOR SOILS UNDER VARIOUS AXIAL STRESS LEVELS ARE DISCUSSED. A WORKING EQUATION RELATING THE COEFFICIENTS OF EARTH PRESSURES TO THE OVERCONSOLIDATION RATIO AND THE LIQUID LIMITS OF THE SOILS IS PROPOSED. THE DEPENDENCY OF THE COEFFICIENT OF EARTH PRESSURES ON THE DEPTH OF THE SOIL BELOW THE ORIGINAL GROUND SURFACE IS INDICATED. THIS IS LOGICAL IN VIEW OF THE SOIL ELEMENT THAT IS BURIED AT VERY GREAT DEPTHS BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE WILL NOT BE AS AFFECTED BY RELATIVELY SMALL STRESS VARIATIONS ON THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND AND A SOIL AT SUCH GREAT DEPTHS CAN BE ASSUMED AS BEING NORMALLY CONSOLIDATED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT ERROR.


Accidental inhalation of vapors from paint stripper products containing methylene chloride has resulted in injuries and deaths. Warnings on paint stripper products may play a role in reducing the number and severity of injuries resulting from using them. Warning labels consistent with Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z535.4 formatting were evaluated by 159 university students and by 173 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers. Results indicated that both groups rated the ANSI-formatted warnings as more effective (more likely to be noticed, read, understood, and followed) than the FHSA-formatted warnings, providing support for both use of crowdsourcing as a reliable and valid source for study participants to evaluate warnings, as well as for updating FHSA labeling requirements to include evidence-based guidelines on warning effectiveness. Implications for future research are discussed.


We consider a generalization of edge coloring bipartite graphs in which every edge has a weight in [0,1] and the coloring of the edges must satisfy that the sum of the weights of the edges incident to a vertex v of any color must be at most 1. For unit weights, König's theorem says that the number of colors needed is exactly the maximum degree. For this generalization, we show that 2. 557 n + o(n) colors are sufficient where n is the maximum total weight adjacent to any vertex, improving the previously best bound of 2. 833n+O(1) due to Du et al. This question is motivated by the question of the rearrangeability of 3-stage Clos networks. In that context, the corresponding parameter n of interest in the edge coloring problem is the maximum over all vertices of the number of unit-sized bins needed to pack the weights of the incident edges. In that setting, we are able to improve the bound to 2. 5480 n + o(n), also improving a bound of 2. 5625n+O(1) of Du et al. Our analysis is interesting in its own and involves a novel decomposition result for bipartite graphs and the introduction of an associated continuous one-dimensional bin packing instance which we can prove allows perfect packing.


This paper describes the application of the specific Time Series Analysis techniques (TSA), Autocorrelation analysis (AC), Crosscorrelation analysis (CC) and Power Spectral Density (PSD) to elaborate a large set of oceanographic data, such as marine pressure, flow and current. The data were collected by ad hoc oceanographic instrumentations in two different sites of the Italian seas as digitised data. The application of AC, CC and PSD performed by means of Matlab software programs, allowed to verify the real-time trend and cyclical events present in the data with higher accuracy than the accuracy obtained by conventional data-time plots. So, this paper underlines and encourages the correct use and application of TSA techniques to analyse a large dataset like oceanographic monitoring data. The lists of Matlab routines used in this paper are also given.


The household was one of the fundamental structures for late medieval social and cultural organisation. This thesis uses the concept of 'transgression' to explore the part the household plays in articulating ideologies of gender in late medieval England. Transgression designates both movement across the boundaries of the house and the breaking of rules that govern behaviour. I focus on a body of texts that are rarely studied but which were very popular in their own time. These include a group of lyrics known as 'the betrayed maidens' laments', comic tales descended from the fabliaux, anti-feminist entertainment printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and popular romance. My approach pays close attention to the specific production and reception contexts of each text I discuss, in order to probe how they may have been understood by medieval audiences in light of the prevailing norms of gender. I examine how tropes that were in many cases already old, staples of the fabliau genre, manifest themselves in particular fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century texts and manuscripts and how they interact with prevailing social and historical conditions.

Chapters 1 and 2 explore the trope of the clerical seducer, through the linked figures of the young clerk and the more established priest. Chapters 3 and 4 turn to the counterpart of the cleric in the fabliaux-like narrative - the weak or duped layman. These figures are used to give voice to anxieties about household governance and control of women's sexuality. By focusing on how tropes circulate between different kinds of sources, and how narratives are constructed, I provide valuable insight into the resonances of the household in late medieval culture. The late medieval English household was a potent imaginative space that was used to articulate anxiety about gendered behaviour and the dangerous potential for boundaries to be crossed.


The aim of this study is to answer the following question: what do children tell about their well-being in Finnish day care centres? The theoretical and methodological framework of this study is based on a narrative approach. The research material was collected by participating in the everyday life of three groups of children and listening to their narratives. The research material, consisting of observations and tape-recorded conversations, is reflected in a model of well-being developed by a Finnish sociologist, Erik Allardt. This model consists of three dimensions: having, loving, and being. With the intention of understanding children's well-being, the meanings of having, loving, and being are explored. Instead of arguing for one objective truth, this study offers diverse narratives, conveying both positive and negative experiences of children's well-being. The most positive experiences deal with inspiring and enabling material environment, responsive adults, good friends, and opportunities for meaningful activities. Darker shades permeate the narratives characterised by unyielding institutional structures, children's separateness from adults, the exclusion from peer relationships, and not being respected as a subject. This study demonstrates both potentials and limitations involved in narrative methodology when exploring young children's experienced well-being.


ABC E-mail email@example.com Fax + 41 61 306 12 34 http://www.karger.com © 1997 S. Karger AG, Basel 0301–0171/99/0862–0140$17.50/0 Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger The last decade has seen many great successes in isolating genes involved in inherited disease, a process which is now scaled up by the Human Genome Project. Paradigm changes in medical genetics have brought major progress in unraveling the etiology of most of the major genetic diseases (e.g., Duchenne's dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, Huntington disease, myotonic dystrophy, and X-linked mental retardation) and hereditary cancer syndromes (e.g., retinoblastoma, neurofibromatosis, and colon, skin, and breast cancer). The first, highly valuable spinoff has been the development of specific and reliable diagnostics, thus relieving insecurity and long and burdening diagnostic odysseys — a welcome development, first and foremost for patients and their relatives, but also for their physicians. While often reviled as boring routine by the classical cell and molecular biologists who favor detailed functional studies, in reality, the tale of the isolation of major disease genes has been one of original strategies, resourceful tinkering, and largescale collaboration and competition, rewarded by the finding of entirely novel disease mechanisms and inheritance modes. Spectacular examples are the unstable, expanding triplet repeat diseases, germ-line mosaicism, mutation hot spots, multi-hit pathways in cancer, uniparental chromosomal disomy, and genomic imprinting. As a second major spin-off, the Human Genome Project has generated unprecedented activity in molecular and cell biology research toward understanding gene function and searching for correlates between genetic lesions and clinical pathophysiology. In this field, the development of specific mouse model systems by the targeted introduction of desired mutations is rapidly becoming a primary and invaluable research tool. The largescale sequencing of expressed genes, ongoing in universities and the biotech industry, has fueled intense debate over the patentability of our genes. Opponents point to the universality and common evolutionary ancestry of our genetic code, and the ethical and philosophical incongruence of "ownership" of our genetic heritage, whereas proponents point to the major financial investments required to turn our discoveries, or intellectual property, into practical health care. In addition, development might be jeopardized when underlying intellectual property cannot be protected. The next step after furthering insights and improving diagnostics, both in genetic disease and cancer, should be the development and improvement of therapy. As it concerns defective genes, it is only logical that much attention is paid to gene therapy. However, due to the enormous rate of discovery of unknown genes in the Human Genome Project, countless new pathways will be unraveled, opening up novel points of pharmacological interference in both genetic and nongenetic diseases. Conversely, environmental or life-style diseases may sometimes find their best cure in somatic gene therapy. While still far away from routine clinical application, the first experimental attempts at gene therapy are underway. This field will benefit profoundly from the establishment of animal model systems, and active stimulation of this area will be one of the prime tasks of the ministries and governmental departments of health and education, other funding agencies, and also industry in the years to come.


Secondary containment barriers for aboveground storage tanks are commonly used for new tank construction. One type of barrier is the dielectric plastic liner. Another type, which uses conductive material, allows the use of traditional methods and materials for applying cathodic protection (CP) and has retrofit capabilities. Initial performance results of several tank applications have indicated that external CP systems can be successfully used with conductive barriers


1Clem. 1 Clement AB Anchor (Yale) Bible ABD Freedman, David Noel, ed. Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992. acc. accusative AcT Acta Theologica Anab. Xenophon, Anabasis Ant. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities Ars. Eudoxus Astronomus, Ars astronomica AST Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory BAGL Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics BDAG Danker, Frederick W., Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. GreekEnglish Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament Bel. Hero Mechanicus, Belopoeica BibInt Biblical Interpretation Series BLG Biblical Languages: Greek BNTC Black's New Testament Commentary BT The Bible Translator BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ca. circa CEB Common English Bible Chaer. Chariton, Chaereas and Callirhoe CLR Cognitive Linguistics Research Comp. Arist. Cat. Plutarch, Comparatio Aristidis et Catonis CSB Christian Standard Bible CSL Cambridge Studies in Linguistics CTL Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics dat. dative DGENT Delgado Jara, Inmaculada. Diccionario Griego-Español Del Nuevo Testamento. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2006. Dial. Justin, Dialogue with Trypho Diogn. Diognetus DNTB Dictionary of New Testament Background. Edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000. EGLL The Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Edited by Georgios K. Giannakis. 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Ench. Epictetus, Enchiridion ESV English Standard Version ÉtB Études bibliques GELS Muraoka, Takamitsu. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. gen. genitive


The invention discloses a microscopic imaging system which comprises a pulse source, a modulator, an amplifier module and an optical link module, wherein the pulse source is an active mode-locking optical pulse source and is used for emitting an optical pulse; the modulator is used for modulating the optical pulse; the amplifier module is used for amplifying the modulated optical pulse signal; the optical link module is used for focusing the amplified pulse signal on a target sample so that the amplified pulse signal can be imaged on the target sample. According to the microscopic imaging system, the pulse source emits the optical pulse, the modulator modulates the optical pulse, the amplifier amplifies the modulated optical pulse signal, and the optical link module focuses the amplified pulse signal on the target sample so that the amplified pulse signal can be imaged on the target sample. In this way, the frame rate can be increased.


Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) pixels produce an asynchronous variable-rate address-event output that represents brightness changes at the pixel. Since these sensors produce frame-free output, they are ideal for real-time dynamic vision applications with real-time latency and power system constraints. Event-based filtering algorithms have been proposed to post-process the asynchronous event output to reduce sensor noise, extract low level features, and track objects, among others. These postprocessing algorithms help to increase the performance and accuracy of further processing for tasks such as classification using spike-based learning (ie. ConvNets), stereo vision, and visually-servoed robots, etc. This paper presents an FPGA-based library of these postprocessing event-based algorithms with implementation details; specifically background activity (noise) filtering, pixel masking, object motion detection and object tracking. The latencies of these filters on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform are below 300ns with an average latency reduction of 188% (maximum of 570%) over the software versions running on a desktop PC CPU. This open-source event-based filter IP library for FPGA has been tested on two different platforms and scenarios using different synthesis and implementation tools for Lattice and Xilinx vendors.


PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing an antenna patch for a portable terminal and a method for manufacturing an antenna for the portable terminal using the same are provided to reduce a defective rate by automatically winding a wire type antenna on a ferrite sheet. CONSTITUTION: A movable jig is mounted on a main jig pedestal (S11). A ferrite sheet is mounted on the movable jig (S12). A wire is wound on a first adhesion layer of the ferrite sheet (S13). The movable jig is separated from the main jig pedestal (S14). A second adhesion layer is formed on the upper surface of the first adhesion layer with the wire (S15). [Reference numerals] (AA) Move; (S11) Movable jig is mounted on a main jig pedestal; (S12) Ferrite sheet is mounted; (S13) Wire is wound; (S14) Movable jig is separated; (S15) Second adhesion layer is formed; (S16) Reusable paper is mounted; (S21) Reusable paper is separated; (S22) Antenna patch is attached to a mobile phone case; (S23) Electrode on the case and an electrode or the end of the wire on the antenna patch are spot-welded


ABSTRACT Rainfall-runoff modeling is very important in the planning and management of available water resources in a watershed. In this paper, a finite element method (FEM) based two dimensional overland flow model for runoff simulation using kinematic wave equation and its application to a hypothetical watershed has been presented. The model has been simulated using rectangular and triangular elements for two dimensional overland flow problem and verified with the results of analytical solution. Further a one dimensional channel flow model based on FEM has been developed and it is coupled with the two dimensional overland flow model. The coupled model also has been applied to a hypothetical watershed. In this study, though the model developed has been applied to a hypothetical watershed, it can be extended to natural watershed.


Atomization is a phenomenon of high importance for many prac tic l devices involving turbulent mixing of compressible flows having significant density and velocity grad ients. This study focuses on the modeling of liquid jets in the aim of improving the Diesel spray simulations. Here a c ompressible two-phase flow model is used which relies on an Eulerian-Eulerian (E-E) diffused interface appr oach [1] implemented in the three dimensional CFD code IFP-C3D [2]. The current trend to track the liquid-gas inter face is done by defining surface density ( Σ) equations. This quantity represents the area of gas-liquid interface a nd will allow the calculation of the interfacial exchange terms like heat transfer and phase changes. The first model of this kind in two-phase flows has been done by Vallet et al. [3]. Compared to previous Σ models [3, 4], the significance of the present model lies in th e fact that, near to the nozzle, during the time of primary breakup there happe ns a transfer of liquid from the liquid core (separate phase) to the dispersed phase. The initial developments of t his model is summarized in the work of Mandumpala Devassyet al. [5]. While modeling the atomization of liquid jet using Σ equation the need of separating the liquid phase into the separate and dispersed phase thus focuses att ention. This idea is then formulated and thereby a new atomization model is developed by defining separate equatio ns ofΣ for liquid core and droplets (dispersed phase) coupled with their corresponding volume fraction equation s. This new atomization model based on two surface density equations thus proposed made it possible to disting uish between the liquid core and droplets (Figure (1)) more precisely. Figure 1. Liquid jet atomization by the proposed atomization and brea kup model at 20 μs after start of injection References [1] Saurel, R. and Lemetayer, O., Journal of Fluid Mechanics 431:239-271 (2001). [2] Bohbot, J., Gillet, N., Benkenida, A., Oil and Gas Science and TechnologyIFPEN 64:309-335 (2009). [3] Vallet, A., Burluka, A., Borghi, R.,Atomization and Sprays 11:619-642 (2001). [4] Lebas, R., Ménard, G., Beau, P.A., Demoulin F.X., Int. J. Multiphase Flow 35:247-260 (2009). [5] Mandumpala Devassy, B., Habchi, C., Daniel, E., Proc. 24th Ann. Conf. ILASS Europe (2011). Corresponding author: email@example.com


Objective: Identify mechanisms of positive influence of religiosity and spirituality on the life and treatment of alcoholics, from their perspective. Methods: A qualitative exploratory study was conducted at a Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and Drugs, located in the interior of São Paulo. A semi-structured interview was conducted with eight alcoholics. Data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. Results: From the perception of the interviewees, religiosity and spirituality have a positive influence, bringing comfort to people in alcohol withdrawal, promoting inner power to take care of their health and change their habits, routine and behaviors, acting as complementary support to treatment and strengthening daily prayers. Conclusion: Alcoholics recognize the positive influence of religiosity and spirituality, helping them face daily life and treatment challenges. Health professionals have to be prepared to use such themes in the care routine as motivation resources.


The emergence of big data processing platforms that can work globally in an integrated manner and process the huge datasets efficiently has become very significant. A critical analysis of two big data processing platforms, Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark, has been done in this paper. Earlier Hadoop MapReduce was one of the most popular platforms for batch-processing of huge size datasets but variation in the nature of data from static to dynamic, Apache Spark proves to be better for iterative jobs and live data streams. This paper aims to critically compare and analyze Hadoop-l.x, 2. x and 3. x, Spark-l.x, 2. x and 3. x on well-known key parameters like components, storage system, resource management, fault tolerance, data processing, scalability and performance etc.


This article uses Foucault's (1977/1995) concept of normalization to analyze contemporary opposition to bilingual education in the United States. These contemporary movements have 'normalized' English language learner (ELL) students by appropriating the technology of language in order to become 'Americanized.' This has become urgent and emergent in educational research, in part, because of the growing number of ELL students in United States' public schools. English‐language proficiency is an essential element for academic success in the US's current English‐only, high‐stakes testing environment. This analysis questions the notion of an ideal American as the standard for how educators implement English‐only curriculum and pedagogy for ELL students. The article concludes with a critique of the impact and implications of 'normalizing' ELL students with an English‐only education.


WAve Synthesis of Permissible mutation functions, WASP, is a heuristic with an objective to minimize the nodes and the levels of an acyclic multiple level boolean network of 2-input nodes. WASP transforms a multi-input, multi-output perturbation region of wires Pj into a single-level mutation subcircuit Mj and a remainder subcircuit Rj . The transformations include the concept of minimum cost permissible mutation subcircuit Mj , formed by replacing each pair of wires that are perturbable by a set of 255 mutation functions. Since we can precompute and store all possible 2-1 perturbation indices that map into 255 mutation indices (ranked into 8 equivalent cost classes), we can determine the minimum cost mutation by a simple table look-up, given the 4-tuple of permissible perturbation indices. Unlike methods that rely on truth tables or ROBDDs, the methods proposed here can exploit e cient ATPG techniques and can thus more rapidly scale to circuits with the larger number of inputs.


Abstract This paper proposes an asset liability management strategy to hedge the aggregate risk of annuity providers under the assumption that both the interest rate and mortality rate are stochastic. We assume that annuity providers can invest in longevity bonds, long-term coupon bonds, and shortterm zero-coupon bonds to immunize themselves from the risks of the annuity for the equity holders subject to a required profit. We demonstrate that the optimal allocation strategy can lead to the lowest risk under different yield curves and mortality rate assumptions. The longevity bond can also be regarded as an effective hedging vehicle that significantly reduces the aggregate risk of the annuity providers.


Objective To discuss the correlationship between subset of T lymphocyte and D-dimer in peripheral blood,and the clinical stage,pathological degree in lung cancer patients.Methods Based on flow cytometry(FCM) and immunonephelometry the proportion of subset of T lymphocyte and the level of D-dimer were separately analyzed in 80 patients of lung cancer.Results The proportion of CD4+ lymphocyte in the advanced clinical stage(Ⅲ-Ⅳ) was higher than the early clinical stage(Ⅰ-Ⅱ),and the proportion of CD8+ lymphocyte in the advanced clinical stage(Ⅲ-Ⅳ) was lower than the early clinical stage(Ⅰ-Ⅱ)(P 0.01),the proportion of CD4+/CD8+ lymphocyte in the advanced clinical stage(Ⅲ-Ⅳ) was lower than the early clinical stage(Ⅰ-Ⅱ)(P 0.01),and the level of D-dimer in the advanced clinical stage(Ⅲ-Ⅳ) was higher than early clinical stage(Ⅰ-Ⅱ)(P 0.01).The proportion of subset of T lymphocyte and the content of D-dimer had no relationship with pathological degree,there was no significantly statis tical differences(P 0.05).Conclusion The proportion of subset of T lymphocyte and the level of D-dimer in periph eral blood of lung cancer patients are closely related to the clinical stage of lung cancer which can be used as markers for clinical stages for lung cancer patients.


This paper contains a review of studies of the supply of primary energy resources in the United States. Studies of oil, natural gas, and coal supply receive particular emphasis. Methodology used in both technical and econometric studies is described and critiqued, and quantitative results are summarized. The intent of the paper is to provide an assessment of the potential usefulness of various methods of forecasting future energy supplies. 28 references.


Using piezoelectric ceramic stacks(PZT) as micro driving elements,a omni-directional precise miniature mobile robot based on the inch-worm driving principle was designed.It could be used as a loading platform for micro components' carry,manipulation,precise position,and so on during the procedure of precise manipulation.After introduced the inch-worm driving principle was introduced,kinematical characteristics of the miniature robot were analyzed,and then omni-directional mobile model set up.Characteristics such as resolution,positioning precision,omni-directional motion and so on of the robot were all tested.Experimental results proved that the robot maximum load was about 750 g,the maximum working frequency was about 40 Hz,the maximum velocity was about,the resolution was about 50 nm.In the open loop straight-line test,the deviating rate was about 5%. In order to reduce the positioning error,successive approximation approach method and closed loop based on microscope vision were adopted,which can enhance the positioning precision to 100 nm.The miniature robot can be used as a common miniature platform with characteristic of high precise mobile capability.When different kinds of micro manipulators are integrated on the robot,it can accomplish many types of micro operation tasks.


The origin and culture of the Celts the Celts in Italy the thrust to the East Celtiberia and Cisalpine Gaul widespread tumult and disaster clashes with Romans, Germans, Dacians the destruction of Gaul twilight of the Celts survival in the West dawning of the Middle Ages.


FIELD: transport. SUBSTANCE: structural element comprises half-girder 1 for thrust reverser half-cowl to be secured thereto and including some hinges 9c to mount half-girder at pylon supporting the nacelle and turning thereabout. Half-girder is made of, at least partially, composite material. Half-girder is made integral with top part 15 of panel 17 of internal fixed structure. EFFECT: lower weight. 9 cl, 19 dwg


Problem of particles storage in nanolayered structure is considered. Local deformations of the nanolayers leads to appearance of eigenvalues of the corresponding one-particle Hamiltonian. The cardinality of the discrete spectrum is used to estimate the maximal number of non-interacting fermions stored in the nanolayers. The discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian of two interacting particles is considered. Relation between the system parameters (interaction intensity - waveguide deformation) ensuring the existence of non-empty discrete spectrum is studied. Hartree method and FEM are used.


In this paper, a novel framework is introduced for analyzing information quality within information processes of complex organizational networks on the basis of qualitative data. Networking and virtualization are trends that call for new ways of looking into information quality. Also public organizations, cooperatives and non-governmental organizations are forming networks, or entering into networks of companies. Tools for analyzing information quality in such environments have been lacking. The newly developed framework is operationalized within multiactor service networks offering safety telephone services for ageing people. These services utilize well-being technology. The analysis is based on data from interviews with professionals working in several service networks of different types and sizes in Finland. The information quality analysis framework helps in identifying information quality dimensions that are weak in a network. This analysis is usefully combined with an investigation of network collaboration that identifies weaknesses and strengths in network collaboration affecting management of information quality.


There is much relevance in the concept of critical realism, but it tends to become exclusive: too often
realism appears as the only acceptable form of art, and the only one having a critical edge towards the
existing social reality. Are there not many non-realist works of art which are valuable and contain a
powerfull critique of the social order? In other words: does it not exist a category of artistic creations
that could be defined as critical irrealism? is term obviously does not exist in any dictionary, but it
is helpful in describing a vast area of the literary landscape which has been neglected.


E-learners typically check their understanding by taking self-check quizzes, usually as often as they like. However, the benefits of doing this are not well understood. In this research, an index was defined that represents the consistency between a series of answers from the repeated taking of a quiz and used to classify the learners into groups. ANOVA analysis of the scores for each group revealed significant differences between the groups. Moreover the difference in the structure of the acquired knowledge for each group was clarified using Bayesian networks. Learners who required additional individual counseling could then be objectively identified. Use of this method enables learners to receive timely feedback at the end of each study unit. The teacher can guide learners appropriately and individually by checking the knowledge acquired by each learner, as represented on an ideal Bayesian network. In addition, because this method does not use subjective information about the learners, its use does not increase the workload of the learners or teacher.


Sept. 25th, 1909 at 3 A.M.; Latitude 51°16′ N., longitude 134°40′ West of Greenwich.

A whitish sheet of light appeared in the northwest horizon, extending from the star Vega (setting) through Ursae Majoris. This was followed by shafts of light about 2° or 3° in width, appearing simultaneously in the eastern and western horizon, finally creeping up and meeting an the south, passing sometimes through the constellation of Orion, covering the planet Saturn and passing north of Mars, at other times passing through Sirius and covering or extending south of Mars, imparting a marked brilliancy to said and neighboring stars. After 4:00 A.M. Northern Lights appeared from north to east of a reddish and green hue, assuming rainbow colors at times. Barometer was 30.04 inches; air 50°, wet bulb 47°, water 50° Fahrenheit.


The article describes the basic forms and principles of the psychological process of human recourses management that allows to increase efficiency and quality of staff in the modern company. The article presents the main stages of psychological support: professional orientation, professional psychological selection, social adaptation, psychological preparation for professional activity, certification and selection of staff for the chiefs positions, psychological support and employees correction.