In this note, we give a simple proof of the combinatorial conjecture proposed by Tang, Carlet and Tang, based on which they constructed two classes of Boolean functions with many good cryptographic properties. We also give more general properties about the generalisation of the conjecture they propose.


The paper outlines that a huge diversity of components and different control modes are necessary to satisfy patients' needs. Therefore, satisfaction is the critical factor whether a patient will wear his prosthesis or not. Consequently, technological effort is directed towards research and development departments to supply a product that can handle the amount of different configuration possibilities. PAULA will assist certified prosthetists with all steps involved in manufacturing arm prostheses such as patient management and documentation, muscle signals evaluation, component selection and ordering service. In addition PAULA will provide beneficial features for users that will enhance both the quality of orthopedic fittings and the individual patient care. The complexity and opportunities of the product is a milestone in the field of arm prosthetics.


The characteristics and cytocomptibility of genipin-fixed porcine aorta were investigated in vitro to provide the proper biomaterials for the fabrication of esophageal prosthesis.The porcine aortas were treated by genipin for 7 min to 7 day.The biological materials fixed with genipin were then examined with naked-eye and light microscope.Subsequently,the fixation index determination,the biomechanics test,in vitro enzymatic degradation and denaturation temperature measurement were also carried out.The cytocomptibility of the genipin-fixed materials was evaluated in vitro by MTT assay using human esophageal epithelial cells as test cells.The experimental results indicated that the antigenicity of porcine aorta tissues could be diminished by genipin through getting rid of cell in the porcine aorta tissues or reducing the level of free amino groups in the porcine aorta tissues.The structural integrity of porcine aorta tissues can be preserved after treating with genipin.It was also found that the genipin-fixed porcine aorta tissues appeared more toughness and visco-elasticity,and should be a promising material for fabricating esophageal prosthesis.The genipin-fixed porcine aorta tissues were provided with a high ability to resistance against enzymatic degradation that made this material suitable to be an implant material.The genipin-fixed porcine aorta tissues showed a good cytocomptibility that the human esophageal epithelial cells could proliferate well on it.Among the porcine aorta tissues fixed with genipin,the tissues that were fixed at pH 4.0,0.625 g/100 ml initial fixative concentrations for 7 day showed a more favorable characteristic.In conclusion,the Genipin-fixed porcine aorta should be a promising material for fabricating esophageal prosthesis or fabricating scaffold of tissue-engineered esophagus.


Five new bis-heterocyclic derivatives of 6-Isopropyl-3-formyl-chromone were synthesized via the reactions of 3-formylchromone(1) with amines, 3acetylcoumarin and N-acetylglycine in 46%~73% yields.The structures of the title compounds were characterized by elemental analysis,IR,1H NMR and MS methods.The crystal structure of 2(2-ethoxy-6-isopropyl-3-(morpholinomethylene)chroman-4-one) was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis.The result shows the crystal of 2 belongs to the monoclinic system,space group P21/n,cell parameters: a=1.338 5(3) nm,b=0.868 38(17) nm,c=1.668 4(3) nm,β=108.59(3)°,V=1.8380(6) nm3,Z=4,Dx=1.190 Mg/m3,μ=0.079 mm-1,F(000)=712,R=0.069 2,wR=0.138 7.


Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease characterized by circulating autoantibodies against the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) ~ present on the neuromuscular endplate. It is generally believed that these antibodies are responsible for an accelerated rate of AChR degradation, leading to muscular weakness and fatiguability (1). To date, treatment has involved either the administration of anticholinesterases or nonspecific immunosuppressive measures. Ideally, one would like to specifically eliminate the anti-AChR autoimmune response while not affecting the host's general immune status. Attempts to specifically suppress the anti-AChR immune response by nonmyasthenic derivatives of AChR (2) and by induction of antiidiotype (3) have been reported. Moreover, a recent report indicates that anti-AChR antibody levels in mice can be suppressed if anti-Ia monoclonal antibodies are administered (4). It has been suggested that the underlying defect in myasthenia gravis (as well as other autoimmune diseases) is a deficiency of suppressor T cells (5).Therefore, specific treatment of myasthenia gravis might be achieved if a suitable source of antigen (AChR)-specific suppressor T cells and their secreted factors could be developed. To date, however, no model system has yet been developed demonstrating a means for induction of AChR-specific suppressor T cells. In light of its potential importance to the human disease, we have established the conditions to induce AChR-specific suppressor T cells capable of suppressing the in vitro anti-AChR response. Moreover, we demonstrate that this suppressive effect can be mediated by a secreted factor found in the cell-free supernatant. A key aspect of this work involved the development of an appropriate in vitro anti-AChR assay. The AChR-induced lymphoproliferative assay (6) was found unsuitable for the work described here. Therefore, we applied the assay described by Mishell and Dutton (7) to the AChR antigenic system. This assay is relatively well-characterized in other systems and permits analysis of immunoregulatory T


Equipment, process, and system prognostic techniques can be classified as belonging to one of three major classes of methods: (1) conventional reliability-based using failure times (Weibull), (2) population based with environmental considerations (e.g. proportional hazards modeling), and (3) individual based (e.g. general path model). This paper describes a new individual based, nonparametric life consumption model (LCM) that builds on the previously described path classification and estimation model (PACE). In the original implementation of the PACE, the general path model (GPM), which is the foundation of the majority of the modern individual based prognosis algorithms, is recast as a classification problem, where a current device's cumulative stress path is classified according to a series of exemplar paths and the results of the classification are used to estimate the remaining useful life (RUL) of the device. While the PACE was shown to produce accurate estimates of the RUL, its use in ?real world? applications was found to be limited since it was founded on the premise of estimating the RUL, given an observed cumulative stress at a given point in time. In other words, to estimate the RUL, the complete stress history up to that point in time must be constructible, which is rarely the case for large scale, worldwide device deployments. This short coming was overcome by redefining the prognostic question from, ?what is the RUL of the device?? To, ?how much life has been consumed in the latest deployment?? By making this simple modification, the problem can be approached from a different angle. Rather than attempting to classify the cumulative device stress at an instant in time, the ?character? of the stress accumulation over a period of time can be classified. To do this, regression analysis is used on a device's cumulative stress path for a deployment to generate a set of parameters that define the ?shape? of the stress accumulation over a particular deployment. The calculated parameters are then classified according to the regressed parameters of example failure paths. The results of the classification are then combined with the life consumptions of the exemplar paths to generate an estimate of the individual's life consumed for the deployment. These life consumption estimates can then be easily aggregated over deployments to accurately assess the individual device's remaining life. The newly proposed method will be applied to data collected from the hydraulic steering tool of a high end drilling system used for deep oil exploration, with the objective of estimating and accumulating the life consumption of example steering tools over different deployments. This paper builds on previous work in this area by developing a new life consumption estimation model that has been specifically designed to ensure that it can be viable in the ?real world?. The developed model was shown to be able to estimate the life consumed of an individual drilling tool to within 4-12% with uncertainties of ? 15-35%.


Despite the intensive nature of the NWI mapping effort, it is still not a 100% accurate inventory of wetlands on the landscape. This is because some types of wetlands are extremely difficult to detect from aerial photographs. In general, small forested nontidal wetlands are most difficult to detect, and therefore, NWI maps are typically a conservative estimate of the number and extent of these wetlands in an area (National Wetlands Inventory, Stolt and Barker 1995, Bernert et al. 1999). special report


This chapter explains how the European Union (EU) became involved in migration regulation. It begins by sketching the reasons that made the engagement of the EU in migration issues inevitable. The chapter divides the historical analysis into four different periods. The first one covers the years 1957-1999. During that period, there was little activity by the Community on migration issues and everything was dealt with by the Member States acting independently or at an intergovernmental level. The years 1999-2004 constitute the second period of analysis. By the end of 2004, the Hague Programme, which replaced the Tampere Programme, was adopted, introducing new priorities and a legislative timetable for the period 2005-2009. The chapter concludes by highlighting the innovations enshrined in the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme, which replaced the Hague Programme, and which marked the beginning of a new period for the years 2010-2014.Keywords: European Union (EU); Lisbon; migration regulation; Stockholm; Tampere


A new type of broad-wall directional coupler is developed.By eigenvalue approach and odd-and even-mode approach the relationship of the coupling value and the dimension of the coupling section and the phase relationship of the output ports are presented.Mode-matching theory is applied and any additional tuning elements are not needed.The experimental data demonstrate the good performance.


PURPOSE: To provide a thermoplastic integral molding foam reinforced with a fiber mat, by press-molding the fiber mat together with a foaming agent- containing thermoplastic polymer melt while foaming is being inhibited, foaming at a temperature higher than the softening point of the polymer, then solidifying the circumferential part at a high temperature. CONSTITUTION: A fiber mat is press-molded together wit a foaming agent- containing thermoplastic polymer melt under pressure, while the foaming of the melt is being inhibited, and continuously, fiber reinforced foaming agent- containing polymer is foamed at a temperature higher than the melting point, and after curing the foam, the circumferential part is solidified at a temperature higher than the melting point, and a fiber reinforced thermoplastic integral foam is manufactured. The foam obtained contains 2-60 wt.% mat-shaped reinforcing fibers having an average length of at least 50 mm, has a solidified circumferential part whose thickness is 0.05-1.5 mm, and a density of 50-500 kg/m 3 . COPYRIGHT: (C)1990,JPO


This disease takes its name from the similarity it shows with a frog's underbelly. It is a mucous cyst that forms on the floor of the mouth, involving the major salivary glands in most cases. This paper presents a case of a cystic lesion, compatible with ranula in a 29 years old female that recurred in a period of 40 days with marsupialization technique.


Whereas some authors have proposed that sexual dimorphism in the immune response is fixed, others pose that it is dynamic and depends on diet. The aim of the present study was to explore the second hypothesis. Immunocompetence differences between females and males can be linked to resource availability. We tested this idea by providing a low or high quality diet to two groups of Gryllodes sigilatus during their developmental period. Then, at the adult phase half of each group was challenged with LPS from Serratia marcescens. The size, phenol oxidase (PO), and lytic activity were compared between groups according to diet, sex, and immune challenge. Results show that diet quality favor size in both sexes. However, the overall immune response did not seem to be significantly different based on diet, but instead on sex. Females showed greater phenol oxidase levels than males, but the opposite was found with lytic activity. Perhaps in G. sigillatus the differences in the pathogens commonly confronted by each sex in the distinct habitat of each could explain the differences on PO and lytic activity.


Based on HP filter,we decomposed growth trend and fluctuation of the investment of the ten main Chinese industries and analyzed the features of each industrial investment growth fluctuation.Based on cointegration equation and error correction models of industrial investment which we set up,the paper discussed the long-term causal factors and the short-term market dynamic adjustment effect of the investment of the ten main Chinese industries.The paper came to the conclusions that market-oriented investment mechanisms gradually come into being in the ten main Chinese industries and the tax policy and monetary policy in macro-control have different effect on the each industrial investment growth.


Abstract : This study investigates the validity of an assumption used by the military services in their operational and logistical planning efforts. The assumption is that bomb impacts around a target follow a bivariate normal distribution. The authors formulated a FORTRAN based computer simulation model capable of accurately predicting bomb impacts around a target. The model is also capable of accepting various types of error distributions, or any combination thereof, in bomb release altitude, true airspeed, pitch, and heading. The model then predicts the bomb impact points and their resultant distribution around a target. The adaptability of the model thus enables it to be used in comparing theoretical distributions against actual impact distributions.


During the past five decades, the US Navy has successfully operated a number of nuclear thermal propulsion systems with the characteristics similar to those required for long duration, nuclear powered, space missions. If nuclear reactor's are to be utilized for space propulsion, they will embody many characteristics such, as size, mobility, environmental security, crew safety, and long-duration independent-operation capabilities which have already been demonstrated by their Navy counterparts. The authors present a brief overview of both Project ROVER, NASA's most extensive nuclear propulsion program to date, which resulted in a total firing tine of 1,020 minutes at power levels above 1.0 megawatt, This is contrasted with Navy operational nuclear reactor experience for significantly • longer periods of time at high average power levels, Technical issues central to the operation of Navy nuclear reactors which arc directly applicable to nuclear powered , manned, space missions are explored. The Navy ' s nearly perfect safety record, enviable environmental record, as well as significant design, and operational experience achieved during approximately 3 , 800 reactor-years of operation make its experience and, corporate opinion both authoritative and convincing in nuclear matters while providing a data base of extreme value which should not be ignored in the development of future space nuclear systems.


Edna Bonacich's (1972) theoretical formulation of Split labor market dynamics as underlying the content and process of ethnic antagonism is expanded and applied to an historical analysis of the development of antidrug laws in the United States. The campaigns and resultant legislation against opium, cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana are subjected to a split labor market analysis that incorporates the notion of moral panics and an understanding of the ways in which law may be used as a "weapon" in the furtherance of class interests. The article concludes that each of these campaigns came about as the result of an underlying split labor market dynamic and adds to Bonacich's original formulation the response of criminalization of the threatening labor group by the higher-paid labor group.


Describes the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) standards, specifically the application programming interface (API) standards for fault management for use in a real-time environment. This work is being performed by the Services for Reliable, Available and Serviceable Systems (SRASS) Working Group. This work is a POSIX standards effort in the P1003.1 System Services group project P1003.1h. This standard is intended to be used to provide fault management and serviceability application programs with a common C language binding interface to operating system services. This standard is being developed using common and/or existing practices within industry and academia to provide a useful set of fault management and serviceability APIs to benefit all. The working group is comprised of a balanced participation of users, vendors and those with a general interest. All APIs are developed by using the consensus process, and this work is intended to receive a through review in an open ballot process to insure that implementations can be built to conform to the standard.


A new species of psychodid moth fly of the genus Arisemus from Mexico is described based on male and female characteristics. Arisemus imeldae sp. nov . is the first species of this genus reported in Mexico. Specimens were collected near Xalapa city, in the center of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The male presents a nearly symmetrical long aedeagus and short parameres, gonostylus simple with cluster of few sensilla; female hypovalvae with lobes scarcely separated and posterior portion of genital chamber with wide curved rods, characters that distinguish the species from all other previously described.


Background It is well known that a low ratio of serum eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) to arachidonic acid (AA) is closely related to cardiovascular events. Other studies report that intake of fish oil ...


This paper presents the development of embedded network educational system. This is an educational equipment which enables user to have training over Network Configuration and Embedded network programming practice on Internet environment. The network education system is developed on embedded environment. based on using ethernet interface. On the development environment. PAX255 VLSI chip is used for the processor, the ADSv1.2 for debugging, uC/OS276 for RTOS. The system software was developed using C language. The ping program provided an educational environment for the student to compile and load it to run after doing practice of demonstration behavior. Afterwards programming procedure starts the step-by-step training just like the demonstration function. In other words, programming method how to design the procedure of ARP operation and ICMP operation is explained.


Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers and the conveniences if using a web browser as a client to update and maintain web applications. Every day a variety of newly web applications are raised on the internet of public use and it needs high security. Vega is a tool that can make an observation of the web that can help the developer to find vulnerabilities in web and fix the holes before developer online the website. Application testing is very important for success and quality of the web application. In this project we developed a web application and explain about testing the website using the scanner and the result will be analyzed towards the relevance results on each scanner. Now a day's workshops, conference, paper presentations are very important. Event organizing in different colleges is big task to let everyone know. Students are facing difficulties in finding the resources to learn practical knowledge. Developing an application which will allow students to find the right resources for their needs. On using this application anyone can share knowledge and at the same time they can learn new things.


Introduction: Traditional bullying (face to face bullying, that occurs within or around the school premises) among secondary school students is a persistent global public health problem; with varying long lasting mental, physical and academic consequences, not only on the victims but also the bullies and bystanders. It is a common phenomenon that is not limited to physical harm and manifests in many forms such as, verbal, or relational aggression, social exclusion and cyber victims of bullying. Bullying is commonly embedded in power imbalances and can be a call for help from the bullies. Development of an efficient prevention and intervention strategy requires understanding of the causes (family issues, low self esteem or lack of positive role models) of traditional bullying. This study therefore, aimed to determine the prevalence and pattern oftraditional bullying among secondaryschool students in Yenagoa Local Government, Bayelsa State Nigeria, which would aid development and implementation of appropriate antibullying policies.
Methods: Adescriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2021to December 2021. Selection of the 1,108 students aged between 10-21years was done by a two-stage sampling technique. The 46-item Bully Survey questionnaire adapted in 2003 by Swearer et al was utilized for data collection. Quantitative data was summarised using descriptive statistics.Test of association was done using Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests andbinomial logistic regression analysis was also done to examine associations between variables, withp-value of <0.05  considered significant.
Results: Prevalence rates of 40.3%, 81.3%, and 86.3% were foundfor bullying perpetration, victimization and bystander respectively. Verbal bullying such as hauling of insults was the most common form of bullying behaviourperpetrated (64.8%); with sexual bullying being the least type observed (20%). Both bullying perpetration (46.9%) and victimization (88.3%) were significantly more common among female participants, while being a bullying bystander (99.4%) was commoner among male participants.Participants from junior classes were twice as more likely to perpetrate bullying(odds ratio[OR]:2.053, confidence interval[CI]:0.896-4.705). Also, those in schools with no anti-bullying policies were 1.26times more likely to be perpetrators of bullying ([OR] 1.269; CI: 0.229-7.031). School Class (p = 0.030) and absence of anti-bullying policy (p = 0.004) were significantly associated with bullying perpetration in the studied schools.
Conclusion: The prevalence of traditional bullying among secondary school students in Yenagoa was very high. Wetherefore recommended that school authorities and the government should formulate appropriate school anti-bullying policies and implement same in order to curb the menace while shielding the weak groups from being victims of bullying in school.


We present a multi-modulus frequency divider based upon novel dual-modulus 4/5 and 2/3 true single-phase clocked (TSPC) prescalers. High-speed and low-power operation was achieved by merging the combinatorial counter logic with the flip-flop stages and removing circuit nodes at the expense of allowing a small short-circuit current during a short fraction of the operation cycle, thus minimizing the amount of nodes in the circuit. The divider is designed for operation in wireline or fibre-optic serial link transceivers with programmable divider ratios of 64, 80, 96, 100, 112, 120 and 140. The divider is implemented as part of a phase-locked loop around a quadrature voltage controlled oscillator in a 65nm CMOS technology. The maximum operating frequency is measured to be 17GHz with 2mW power consumption from a 1.0V supply voltage, and occupies 25×50μm2.


Structural Phase Transition in Liquid Crystal Doped with Gold Nanoparticles P. Kopcanský, N. Tomasovicova, M. Koneracka, M. Timko, Z. Mitroova, V. Zavisova, N. Eber, K. Fodor-Csorba, T. Toth-Katona, A. Vajda, J. Jadzyn, E. Beaugnon and X. Chaud Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Science, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznan, Poland High Magnetic Field Laboratory, CNRS, 25 Av. des Martyrs, Grenoble, France The influence of the inclusion of the dodecanethiol functionalized gold particles (with diameter 3–5 nm) on the structural transitions was investigated. The studied samples were based on the nematic liquid crystal 4-(trans-4′-n-hexylcyclohexyl)-isothiocyanatobenzene (6CHBT). The volume concentration of the gold particles was φ1 = 2 × 10−4 and φ2 = 10−3. The obtained results showed that the inclusion of the gold particles in the 6CHBT liquid crystal increases the sensitivity of such system on the external magnetic field.


The effect of constraint on the development of the cold-rolling texture of pure aluminum single-crystal specimens having cube orientation was investigated. Some specimens were embedded in polycrystalline aluminum frames to apply constraint in the transverse direction. These were unidirectionally cold-rolled to obtain rolling thickness reductions between 30% and 95%. Rolling textures were compared with those of specimens rolled without constraint. The constraint pro-vided by the frame influenced texture development in the mid-thickness region more strongly than that on the surface. In specimens rolled without constraint, both clockwise and counterclockwise crystal rotation with respect to the transverse direction occurred in the mid-thickness region, resulting in the change in the main component to {102 (cid:2)(cid:3) 201 (cid:4) after 70% reduction in thickness. Upon further cold rolling, crystal rotation occurred about both the rolling and the normal directions, such that after 90% cold rolling (cid:5) 112 (cid:2)(cid:3) 312 (cid:4) became the main orientations. In the specimens rolled with constraint, such rotation was suppressed and only crystal rotation toward (cid:5) 102 (cid:2)(cid:3) 201 (cid:4) was observed. In both cases, the orientation density of (cid:5) 100 (cid:2)(cid:3) 001 (cid:4) decreased dramatically with increasing rolling thickness reduction and the density became very low after 95% cold rolling.


Effect of coil temperature on the texture and microstructure evolution during cold rolling and annealing were investigated by OM, ODF and EBSD. The results indicate that the {223}<110> and {114}<110> textures appeared after cold rolling are inherited followed by annealing, whose intensities would be higher as the coil temperature decreased. Lower coil temperature could improve the uniformity of grain size and increase the fraction of low-angel grain boundaries as well as coincidence site lattice boundaries. And the {111}//ND texture is improved in the lower coil temperature cold and annealing steel sheet, which is beneficial for the deep-drawability.


Habitual dislocation of the hips occurred in a 3-year-old girl with Down's syndrome. Dislocations were bilateral and recurrent. This condition seems not to have been reported previously. No treatment was permitted by the family. Capsular plication, femoral or pelvic osteotomy could become necessary in the future.


OBJECTIVE: To prospectively investigate the association between various domains of physical activity (leisure-time, occupational, and household activities) and risk of comorbid depression with Parkinson disease (PD).
BACKGROUND: Depression is a common non-motor symptom in PD, it is difficult to treat and can significantly impairs quality of life. Physical activity has been linked to lower risk of depression in the general population and to lower PD risk. However, the potential benefits of physical activity among individuals at risk of comorbid depression with PD remain unclear.
DESIGN/METHODS: Participants comprised 934 PD cases and 264,533 individuals without PD. Physical activity was assessed via questionnaires in 1995-1996 and in 1996-1997. Physician-diagnosed depression and PD after 2000 were reported in 2004-2006. Multivariate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated from logistic regression models.
RESULTS: There were a total of 136 depression diagnoses among PD cases and 11,159 among those without PD. Increasing frequency of physical activity at baseline was associated with lower risk of depression in both future PD cases (蠅5 times/week vs. never/rarely, OR 0.53; 95%CI= 0.27-1.04; p-trend 0.02) and those without PD (0.65; 0.61-0.69; p-trend <0.0001). Light to heavy lifting/carrying vs. mostly sitting was associated with lower risk of depression among those with future PD (0.35; 0.15-0.81) and those without (0.74; 0.68-0.80). Both "light" and "moderate to vigorous activities" in the past 10 years before baseline predicted lower risk of comorbid depression with future diagnosis of PD.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that active participation in several domains of physical activity may contribute to lower risk of comorbid depression with PD. Since depression is common and often persistent in PD, further research is warranted into modifiable factors that may prevent its occurrence.
Study Supported by: This study was supported by the intramural research program of the NIH, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Z01-ES-101986) and the National Cancer Institute (Z01 CP010196-02). Disclosure: Dr. Liu has nothing to disclose. Dr. Umbach has nothing to disclose. Dr. Park has nothing to disclose. Dr. Huang has nothing to disclose. Dr. Hollenbeck has nothing to disclose. Dr. Blair has nothing to disclose. Dr. Chen has nothing to disclose.


The medium energy (about 3 to 20 MeV) part of the new generation of high power, cw proton linacs offers a wide range of choice between different type of machines (separated tank DTL, CCDTL or standard Alvarez). For the IPHI project a 5 to 10 MeV DTL following a 5 MeV RFQ has been chosen. This is a ramped-gradient machine designed to incorporate an intrinsic field ramped without the need of the post-couplers, which are used only for stabilisation purpose. The cell geometry has been optimised to house realistic quadrupole electromagnets, and then to maximise the effective shunt impedance. An error study using the multiparticle code PARTRAN allowed to choose an aperture for the drift tubes and to define the alignment tolerances of the quadrupole magnets. This paper describes the conceptual design of this DTL and its perspectives of evolution. The mechanical and QP magnet aspects of a 3-cells hot model in construction are also described.


The aim of this paper is to show the model of "revision and increase" of the 10th edition of the DRAE published in 1852. To carry out this purpose, this research focuses on the macrostructure of the DRAE 1852 from the analysis of the words that were added and deleted in this edition. Additionally this exam is complemented by a contrast with the previous dictionaries of RAE. The research has shed more light on the contribution of the DRAE 1852 in the history of dictionaries of the Real Academia Espanola and in the description of the lexicon of 19th century.


A study of clarification of pineapple wastes syrup by a combined process of membrane ultrafiltration (UF), ion exchange and adsorption techniques using partially deacetylated chitin (PDC) as adsorbent material was conducted. Chitin from Black Tiger shrimp shell was used after undergoing deproteination, demineralisation and deacetylation with different concentrations of sodium hydroxide (NaOH). The performance of cation resin (Dowex 88), anion resin (Dowex 66) and PDC as adsorbent material were evaluated. Effects of flow rate ranging from 10 to 50 ml min -1 on operation and regeneration of the resins were also investigated. Chitin yield was about 31.2% of the shrimp shells, corresponding to about 89% recovery of the total chitin content of the shells. When treated with 5%, 10%, 20% and 30% NaOH, the degree of deacetylation increased with increasing concentration of sodium hydroxide. In ion exchange process, cation resin removed more than 90% of K + , Mg 2+ and Ca 2+ from UF mill juice at a flow rate of 30 ml min -1 . In adsorption process, anion resin (Dowex 66) had more colorant removed (94% T) from UF mill juice than PDC treated with 30% NaOH (84.4% T). The optimum flow rate for cation resin was 10 ml min -1 for both operation and regeneration while for PDC, 30 ml min -1 was optimum for operation and 10 ml min -1 for regeneration. The concentrated pineapple syrup was clear with a colour value of 70.2% and pH value of 4.96. The main reducing sugars after concentration were glucose, fructose and sucrose at 29.05, 15.72 and 18.62% (w/v), respectively.


Waterflooding reservoir interwell connectivity characterization is the fundamental work in oil development, aiming to inverse the vital connecting channels between injectors and producers. In this paper, we endow an artificial neural network (ANN) with strong interpretability through the ordinary differential equation (ODE) of the material balance equation, proposing a physical knowledge fusion neural network (PKFNN). In addition, the proposed model could inherit the knowledge learned from different injector–producer pairs, fully improving the training efficiency. In this way, PKFNN combines the merits of both physical and machine learning approaches. Firstly, based on the physical control law and the ODE of the material balance equation, we endow the model with highly transparent modular architectures in the framework of feedforward neural network. In this way, our work has both high interpretability and excellent approximation ability, combining the merits of the physical and machine learning approaches. The proposed model shows great performance on productivity forecast and interwell connectivity reflection in several reservoir experiments. PKFNN provides a novel way to enhance the interpretability and robustness of the data-driven-based interwell connectivity-analyzing models by integrating the physical knowledge of waterflooding reservoirs.


A constructive algorithm to implement convex recursive deletion regions via two-layer perceptrons has been presented in a recent study. In the algorithm, the absolute values of the weights become larger and larger when the number of nested layers of a convex recursive deletion region increases. In addition, the absolute values of the weights are determined according to the complexity of the structure of the convex recursive deletion region. More complicated convex recursive deletion regions result in larger values of weights. Besides, the constructive procedure is needed to get the parameters (weights and thresholds) for the neural networks. In this paper, we propose a simple three-layer network structure to implement the convex recursive deletion regions in which all weights of the second and third layers are all 1's and the thresholds for the nodes in the second layer are pre-determined according to the structures of the convex recursive deletion regions. This paper also provides the activation function for the output node. In brief, all of parameters (weights and activation functions) in the proposed structure are pre-determined and no constructive algorithm is needed for solving the convex recursive deletion region problems. We prove the feasibility of the proposed structure and give an illustrative example to demonstrate how the proposed structure implements the convex recursive deletion regions. Finally, we provide the conceptual diagram of the hardware implementation of the proposed network structure.


Summary: This study explored the interplay between acculturation, acculturative stress, and resilience, and their collective impact on physical and mental health self-evaluation among older Filipino Americans.


In this article I propose to explore the pictorialism of the twenty– fifth poem of the Theocritean corpus, uncertainly ascribed to Theocritus and entitled Heracles Leontophonos by Callierges.1 In the course of my discussion I wish to address a contention by A. S. F. Gow2 that "The three parts of the poem . . . can be fitted into the story [of the cleaning of the stables of Augeas] told by Apollodorus [2.5.5], and the reader can, if he chooses, reconstruct a context for them. Except in the most general way, however, he is neither obliged nor invited to do so: the poet's themes are the landscape and the conversation, and insofar as he is concerned with the Labours at all his subject is the Nemean lion, whose death is narrated in Part iii, rather than the stables of Augeas." I shall suggest that the landscape and other detail is in fact so insistent that it plays no such superficial and passive role, but does indeed invite the reader to reconstruct the myth. In particular I shall attempt to demonstrate how the author uses pictorial detail, in a manner strikingly analogous to procedures observable in contemporary Hellenistic fine art or at least discernible in later copies, to enable the reader to construct the narrative of the formal setting of the poem, i.e., Heracles' cleaning of the stables of Augeas, even though the episode is not related directly in the poem. In Realism in Alexandrian Poetry3 I briefly examined the remarkable pictorialism of Idyll 25. I concentrated on the author's care to impose pictorial coherence on Heracles' narrative of his defeat of the Nemean lion, with Heracles in the final assault standing and astride the back of the beast, his thighs squeezing its flanks, his heels holding its back paws down, and throttling it from behind with his arms around its neck (266–71).4 I also tried to bring out the author's deployment of pic-


The research aim was to develop cooking workshops using five health foods least accepted by elementary school children and assess their sensory acceptability and physicochemical composition. Three hundred and thirty two elementary school children aged between 7 and 10 years participated in the research. Food acceptability was evaluated in order to verify the nutritious foods less accepted by children, for use in preparations prepared in cooking workshops. Five products were prepared in cooking workshops: eggplant cookie, chard muffin, cress bread, radish pancake and chayote esfiha. All preparations showed high Acceptability Indexes (> 85%). Higher lipid, calorie and fiber contents and lower ash and moisture contents were found in eggplant cookie. Lower contents of carbohydrate and calories were found in radish pancake, while higher contents of protein and ash were observed in chayote esfiha and chard muffin, respectively. The products with the highest carbohydrate contents were eggplant cookie and cress bread, while chard muffin had the lowest fiber content. It is concluded that cooking workshop is an effective educational strategy to improve the acceptability of vegetables with low acceptability for elementary school children.


The invention relates to a method for processing a light organic substrate on the basis of taking eucalyptus bark as a raw material. The method comprises the following steps of: primarily crushing the eucalyptus bark peeled by a peeling machine in a wood factory; stacking the crushed eucalyptus bark into a big pile; spraying water on the pile, so that the water content reaches about 60 percent; adding nitrogen source chicken manure and urea, so that the C/N ratio is adjusted to 40-45:1; adding microbial inoculum EM bacteria and BYM with the pile volume ratio of 0.2 percent; stacking into piles, wherein the volume of each pile is 10 to 12 m ; punching and ventilating each pile; covering a sunshade net to perform composting fermentation; maintaining the temperature for one week when the temperature is increased to 50 DEG C; mechanically turning the piles for 3 to 4 times and adding urea water for one time in the pile-turning process, wherein the whole composting period is about 50 days; after composting, unfolding and airing the eucalyptus bark; after the eucalyptus bark is dried, crushing the eucalyptus bark again; and classifying the eucalyptus bark according to the granular size, placing the classified eucalyptus bark into bags and storing the bags. By the method, the eucalyptus bark light organic substrate can be industrially produced; a large number of eucalyptus bark resources in Leizhou Peninsula are reasonably utilized; and a new seedling-raising light substrate raw material is developed for replacing a nonrenewable resource peat soil.


For Pt. I, see ibid., vol.4, 658 (1971). A modified close coupling method is proposed using an expansion of the total wavefunction in the polarized target orbitals in order to take fully into account the polarizabilities of all the states which are retained in the expansion, and consequently of the long range electron interaction. This multichannel polarized orbital theory is a way to improve the results for elastic and inelastic scattering at low energies and is particularly appropriate to the study of excited states near threshold.


Abstract Nine male veterans suffering from multiple sclerosis were given ACTH by slow intravenous drip during a ten-day period. The permeability of the "blood-CSF barrier" before, during, and after the ACTH administration was studied by means of bromide determinations in serum and spinal fluid. There were no significant objective clinical changes noted during or after ACTH administration, although the drop in circulating eosinophils showed that the patients were reacting to the hormone. The changes in serum-CSF bromide ratios were variable and not marked during or after ACTH administration. There was some decrease in the amount of spinal fluid protein during ACTH administration in eight of the nine cases studied.


Fine silicon powder mainly containing SiO2 is the dust produced during silicon-iron production。The superfine powder has amorphous structure and is metastable. It crystallizes at high temperature so that can be used as bonder, activator or mineralizer of refractory and kiln furniture. It is beneficial to the reaction and sintering of refractory, the crystal conversion and high temperature properties. The process of crystallization at a temperature range of 1200~1300 ℃ is a-quartz firstly converting into a-cristobalite and then to a- tridymite. The quartz variant (ASTM No.290085) converts to a-cristobalite at the temperature range of 1400~1450 ℃. The suitable curve of temperature rise is determined on the basis of crystal structure inves- tigation at different temperature.


Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy (APPES) is a method well-suited for measuring the change ∆φ in electrostatic potential difference φ over an interphase between an electronic conductor and an insulator. APPES had previously been used to compare ∆φ over an interphase between an electrode and an electrolyte with the change in electrochemical potential difference ∆UWE-RE
 between the working and the reference electrode UWE-RE
 .[1] The relationship between ∆φ and ∆UWE-RE
 at low current-transient had been shown to follow two distinct trends depending on whether charge transfer of Li+ ions between an electrode and an electrolyte occurs or not.[1,2] In this work, APPES was used to investigate the time dependence of ∆φ after changing UWE-RE
 . The studied electrochemical system consisted of Au (working electrode), Li4Ti5O12 (reference electrode) and a second Li4Ti5O12 (counter electrode) with 0.008 M LiClO4 in propylene carbonate (PC) as the electrolyte. Pressure in the sample compartment was equal to the saturated PC pressure. APPES experiments were performed at HIPPIE beamline at MAX IV in Lund and were conducted as follows. After applying a potential step ∆UWE-RE
 , a C 1s spectrum was measured every 7 s. Incident photon energy was 1800 eV. Each spectrum was fitted using a Python code written especially for the obtained C 1s spectra. Time dependence of ∆φ was extracted from the shift in the kinetic energy ∆KE of the C=O peak (∆φ = ∆KE). Experiments were performed in both regimes, i.e. when the working electrode behaves as an ideal polarizable electrode and when it behaves as an ideal non-polarizable electrode, and have shown the time dependence of ∆φ to differ for the two regimes. Behaviour of ∆φ(t) as well as the experimental setup and spectral fitting using the Python code will be discussed.
 Figure 1: a) Schematic depiction of the electronic electrostatic potential φ between a working (WE) and a reference electrode (RE). Electrostatic potential profile is not to scale. b) An example of the experimentally obtained time dependence of the C=O peak kinetic energy KE(t). KE(t) is related to φ(t) as ∆φ(t) = ∆KE(t).
 References:
 [1] Källquist, I. et al. Probing Electrochemical Potential Differences over the Solid/Liquid Interface in Li-Ion Battery Model Systems. ACS applied materials & interfaces
 13, 32989–32996 (2021).
 [2] Källquist, I. et al. Potentials in Li-Ion Batteries Probed by Operando Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
 14, 6465-6475 (2021).

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Flashover is referred to in the paper. When a vehicle, be it a small car or a larger vehicle such as a bus or commercial truck, ignites peak heat release rates are well in excess of those required for flashover. A passenger car will have a peak heat release rate of typically 8 MW, whereas flashover requires about 1 MW. If however the vehicle is out of doors there is nothing to flash over to, so flashover is expected only if the vehicle is in a garage or workshop. The matter of flashover in double decker buses was addressed a couple of years ago in an examination of the circumstances of a fire at a London bus garage [2] in which several buses were destroyed.


In recent years, technical development in robotics has been enhanced by leaps forward in artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML). Today's robots learn and optimize their motion, are remotely connected and ready for deployment, and can transfer learned models and behaviors between industries or applications. This paradigm shift and step change in available autonomy necessitates rethinking how robotics may impact the AEC industry. Until now, contractors and fabricators have mainly used robots to replace humans in the narrow opportunity presented by "Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous" tasks (the 3Ds)—repeated millions of times with little variability. However, AEC professionals are starting to explore robots' ability to perform tasks that are "Specific, Sustainable, and Scalable" (the 3Ss). Robots complete specific tasks by producing one-off designs and sustainable tasks as they render viable reuse as well as material and waste reduction. Yet they maintain scalability by being able to effortlessly multiply into the hundreds or even millions. They are "smart" enough to work alongside humans, rather than replace them.


Plasma Transferred Wire Arc (PTWA) is a well-established thermal spray process that is used in high-volume production by multiple automotive OEMs. Benefits of these PTWA thermal spray coatings include closer bore spacing, improved thermal transfer, lower bore distortion, increased resistance to corrosion and abrasion, reductions in weight and friction, enhanced durability, and product cost savings. For automobiles, this leads to increased fuel economy and lower emissions. Millions of engine cylinder bores per year are coated using the PTWA thermal spray process. To ensure optimal surface coatings, it is vital to monitor the process variables. Although some process monitoring already exists in current production, new technological advancements allow for additional variables to be monitored. Arc voltage is of particular importance as it can be viewed real-time in situ to the PTWA process to determine the curvature of the feedstock wire. Straight wire is ideal for achieving peak system performance. If the wire has excessive curvature, it can lead to out-of-tolerance conditions that detrimentally affect the quality of the surface coating. Therefore, in-situ monitoring of wire curvature is both desirable and necessary for producing the highest quality PTWA thermal spray coatings possible.


Chamaecyparis lawsoniana is often attacked by other pathogens (from genera: Phytophthora, Pythium, Fusarium, Rhizoctonia) both when the quicksets are taken root and later, when the young plants are planted. The aim of the study was to determine an effect of saprobiotic fungi isolated from soil with quicksets Chamaecyparis lawsoniana on the growth of Phytophthora cinnamomi and Rhizoctonia solani. In our experiment, method series biotic was used (MAŃKA 1974). This method allowed to determine index of impendence for plants by Phytophthora cinnamomi and Rhizoctonia solani with the help of summary biotic effect. The results of observation on the biotic interaction of saprobiotic fungi isolated from soil with quicksets Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, analysed as biotic series and Phytophthora cinnamomi and Rhizoctonia solani showed, that this of fungal community did not limited growth of these pathogens. Summary biotic effects were negative. Environment of saprobiotic fungi more promoted growth of Rhizoctonia solani than Phytophthora cinnamomi. It means, that in the soil under Chamaecyparis lawsoniana crop, Rhizoctonia solani could have a better of conditions for growth than Phytophthora cinnamomi.


The ability of Trypanosoma brucei brucei to inhibit trypsin or trypsin-like enzymes in crude midgut homogenates of Glossina morsitans morsitans was stud- ied in vitro. The isolated parasites caused a concentra- tion-dependent decrease in midgut trypsin activity. Fur- thermore, trypanosomes lysed by repeated freeze-thaw- ing had a similar effect on trypsin activity. In both cases, the inhibition by either intact or lysed parasites was par- tial as revealed by Dixon plots. Similarly, trypanosome membrane proteins stoichiometrically inhibited trypsin activity, suggesting that the enzyme interacts specifically with a moiety on the parasite surface. The Kn, and Ki values obtained in this case were 35 gg and 0.18 mg/ml, respectively. These results suggest that one of the ways in which trypanosomes overcome the hostile tsetse-fly midgut barrier involves the inhibition of enzyme activity. An important part of the life cycle of African trypano- somes occurs within the tsetse fly vector. The blood- stream forms of the parasite differentiate into procyclic forms within the tsetse fly midgut before migrating to the salivary glands, from which they are transmitted into a new host with the next bloodmeal (Hoare 1972). In the fly midgut, the parasites encounter a physiologically hostile environment that includes various digestive en- zymes (Cheeseman and Gooding 1985), lectins (Welburn et al. 1989), agglutinins (Ingram and Molyneux 1988; Stiles et al. 1990), trypanolytic proteins (Stiles et al. 1989), and possibly other yet unknown factors. Most parasites that enter the midgut are killed by one or more of these factors, and those that manage to survive trans- form into procyclics (Maudlin and Welburn 1987; Stiles


The passive electromagnetic damper has the same configuration as that of the electromagnetic bearing, but no sensors and no closed loop control are needed. Its robustness and no-contact structure are its great advantages. When the rotor vibrates, the electromagnetic field intensity in the air gap is altered, then fluctuating currents in the damper coils and eddy currents inside the surface layer of rotor are created. Damping force is caused by the fluctuating currents, while retardation torque is generated by eddy currents. The characteristics of a damper may be improved by adding an additional electrical circuit. Numerical studies showed that damping coefficient increases with increasing static current, but decreases with increasing frequency. And the damping coefficient of the improved damper at higher frequency is more evident than that of the original damper. Experimental results showed that the resonant vibration around the first critical speed was obviously suppressed by both types of passive electromagnetic damper.


Nanoparticles as fillers for epoxy composites sometimes result in unexpected dielectric properties. This paper presents a study on the dielectric properties of E-51 epoxy resin incorporated with surface modified 20 and 100 nm silica particles, respectively. The nanoparticles and composites were examined under infrared spectroscopy and it was found that the surface modification of the nanoparticles lead to a good hydrophobic property and made particles easier to form bonds with the resin. Extensive experiments were performed on the dielectric properties of the composites and the results and analysed. It was found that by adding low dielectric constant nanosilica particles, the dielectric constants of the composite were notably increased as opposed to a drop as one might expect, while the dielectric losses were lowered. The increase in dielectric constant phenomenon is explained in terms of long chemical chains created in forming the composites. It was also found that the high dielectric constant phenomenon is relevant to higher surface area of the nanofillers.


In this paper two scheduling models are addressed. First is the standard model (unicast) where requests (or jobs) are independent. The other is the broadcast model where broadcasting a page can satisfy multiple outstanding requests for that page. We consider online scheduling of requests when they have deadlines. Unlike previous models, which mainly consider the objective of maximizing throughput while respecting deadlines, here we focus on scheduling all the given requests with the goal of minimizing the maximum delay factor. The delay factor of a schedule is defined to be the minimum α ≥ 1 such that each request i is completed by time ai + α(di - ai) where ai is the arrival time of request i and di is its deadline. Delay factor generalizes the previously defined measure of maximum stretch which is based only the processing times of requests [9, 11].

We prove strong lower bounds on the achievable competitive ratios for delay factor scheduling even with unit-time requests. Motivated by this, we consider resource augmentation analysis [24] and prove the following positive results. For the unicast model we give algorithms that are (1 + e)-speed O(1/e)-competitive in both the single machine and multiple machine settings. In the broadcast model we give an algorithm for same-sized pages that is (2 + e)-speed O(1/e2)-competitive. For arbitrary page sizes we give an algorithm that is (4 + e)-speed O(1/e2)-competitive.


After learning study was introduced in Sweden 2003, several schools have been conducting learning studies. During 2009-2011 a boom was visible due to possibilities for financial support from the go ...


A series of highly substituted biphenyls and m‐quaterphenyls have been synthesized and carbon and proton NMR spectra have been assigned by a combination of 1D and 2D techniques. The XCORFE variation of the long range heteronuclear correlation experiment was found to be particularly valuable in making assignments via H‐C‐C‐13C correlations.


* Introduction Diana Tietjens Meyers. * Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity Susan J. Brison. * Autonomy and Social Relationships: Rethinking the Feminist Critique Marilyn Friedman. * Picking Up Pieces: Lives, Stories, and Integrity Margaret Urban Walker. * Ownership and the Body Jennifer Church. * Forgetting Yourself Anita L. Allen. * Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews Naomi Scheman. * Good Grief, Its Plato! Elizabeth V. Spelman. * Sympathy and Solidarity: On a Tightrope with Scheler Sandra Lee Bartky. * Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology D. T. Meyers. * Human Dependency and Rawlsian Equality Eva Feder Kittay.


sIR-Gantt and Lincoln (1988;45:503) of the Philip Morris Management Corporation have wrongly inferred from our study of Western Australian gold miners (1987;44:810-8) that ". . . lung damaging conditions in mineral operations can cause individuals to be exceptionally likely to find satisfaction in smoking...." What they have ignored is the fact that in table 4 of our paper current smokers were shown to have more than a fourfold increase in obstructive chronic bronchitis after adjustment for mining experience. Thus the adverse effect ofsmoking cigarettes on lung function was not explained by smokers having worked in a more hazardous environment. Moreoever, the prevalence of smoking in the mineral industry should not be compared with the total male population of Australia without adjustment for differences in age structure and socioeconomic status. Gantt and Lincoln have also ignored one of the essential conditions necessary to substantiate a causal relation, which is the temporal sequence whereby the cause must precede the effect. There is ample evidence to indicate that people smoke first and develop respiratory problems later'; not the other way around as the tobacco industry would like us to believe.


A reactor concept is proposed to improve economical competitiveness of the tokamak fusion reactor with aggressive physics and engineering assumptions. Key elements are high field magnets with B{sub max}=21T with high normalized beta {beta}{sub N}=4.2 with 80% bootstrap current fraction and the radiative divertor. The power plant should have large net electric power (approx. 3.4GWe) with twin tokamak reactors. Significant simplication of tokamak auxiliary system is also required. 6 refs., 6 figs., 5 tabs.


The entity model of the triangular tower structure of dragline is established by ANSYS software,under the different installation angles of the boom,finite element analysis of the triangular structure have been conducted,further stress and strain distribution have been obtained.The stability of a tripod have been checked based on the above information,meanwhile has provided improvement recommendations for larger parts of the stress.


Femtocells, as known as home base stations, are destined to be an effective approach that mobile operators build their cellular networks and grow their coverage and capacity. They are small and inexpensive, and transmit at such low power, that they are meant to be placed in individual homes and backhauled in order to deliver a high-quality service to the users at home and at work. However, the transmissions in the existing schemes for the femtocell are easy to be interfered by the ambient noise. In this paper, we propose a new model with virtual multiple input and multiple output (VMIMO) technology that introduces cooperative communication between the different users in a femtocell network. In this model, the legal users in the femtocell network not only can effectively reduce interference via the cooperation, but also they can maximize the data throughput by multi-path effects. The analytical results match very well with the simulation results. Simulation results also indicate that the proposed scheme has the better outage and capacity performance, compared with traditional femtocell models.


Coal-pulverizing system with ball mill is multivariable with strong coupling and non-linearity, and its operating conditions vary violently. Establishing its simulation model is the foundation for the deeper research of advanced control strategies. In conventional principle models, the outlet temperature has been substituted by the average temperature of the mill resulting large dynamic errors. To deal with this problem novel model architecture for ball mill outlet temperature was developed. The delay character of thermal conduction in the mill was introduced into the principle mode through time-delay compensation element. The delay consistent was determined using correlation analysis. Such a model was established using actual process data. Experiment results show the accuracy of outlet temperature has been improved significantly.


Authors designed a kind of video and temperature monitoring system on line based on wireless transmitting and receiving module and MSP. It can monitor and analyze the movement of video and temperature of monitored objects. When the temperature changed, it can control the ventilation by self-motion and send out the alert call. MSP realized the function of gathering, processing and transmitting of signals of video and temperature sensors. By means of wireless data transmission module PTR2000, man-machine alteration control and location control have been realized. There is a detailed design of hard ware and software of the system in the paper.


C onsidered an ecological area like few in the world because of its bio-diversity, El Cielo is one of Mexico's main ecological reserves due to its extraordinary abundance of life and its still relatively undisturbed ecosystems. Its conservation is a priority for national and in ter national bodies: the United Nations' "Man and the Biosphere" program has classified it as a World Heritage Treasure. In Mexico, El Cielo is classified as a protected natural area, under the heading of biosphere reserve. BRIEF HISTORY


The present invention relates to an automatic identification and tracking moving objects like Movies dissipation clarity obtaining method, which uses a motion vector in a moving object in a digital image generated as a control parameter, with motor drive mechanism drives the image pickup device, it is possible for moved in the object field of view or FOV CKS tracking moving objects, the real object into the center of the field of view, and with the auto-focus, magnify the view, and record and alerts and other functions, provide a clearer detection search information.


Provided are: an interposer capable of achieving low cost and high-density mounting, and reducing transmission noise, even in the case of a package/substrate incorporating a plurality of LSI circuits such as SiPs; a printed circuit board; and a semiconductor device. An interposer inserted between a plurality of semiconductor LSI circuits is characterized by having: a terminal structure incorporating a capacitor and comprising a power-source terminal, a GND terminal, and a signal terminal; and a noise filter structure for suppressing noise transmission between the plurality of semiconductor LSI circuits.


In 2011, members of the forensic social work community welcomed the first publication of the Journal of Forensic Social Work. Long before the inaugural issue, however, work on the journal creation had begun. From the leadership of our dear friend and founding editor, Dr. Ira Neighbors, the journal commenced its inception well in advance of the first articles. Since then, many steps have been taken, and challenges addressed. Largely due to economic pressures and restrictions of traditional scholarly publication, the Journal of Forensic Social Work became dormant after the release of its fifth volume in 2015. At that time, the board members of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work (NOFSW) made the choice to invest in the publishing rights of back issues as work was done behind the scenes to find a new outlet for these important contributions to the field.

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Nozzle assembly for directing a flow of fluid over one or more cutting blades of the semiconductor device, one configured to protrude toward a cutting blade for cutting a semiconductor device, or more includes a nozzle, and a passage formed in each nozzle, in order to direct simultaneously on both sides of the cutting blade as well the flow of fluid over the cutting edge of the cutting blade, the passage surrounds the cutting blade at least partially as constructed.


Playing is an activity that promotes the development of children, because on the basis of playing they will experience the world and communicate with it. Consequently, this study aimed to understand how children with street life experience face playing. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out, using the method of Drawing-Stories. The collection of data was conducted in a residential childcare institution. In the research, three children who have and/or had street life experience, from both sexes and that lived there, participated. The data were analyzed using the thematic content analysis. On the basis of the findings, it can be considered that playing can occur even in the risk and vulnerability of the street, although it displays some particularities. In addition, it was identified that, for the participants, playing prevails overdanger, since the latter showed less prominence when compared to the former. Therefore, the research has made possible a greater understanding of the studied phenomenon; besides it has promoted meetings in which the children could talk about their experiences and express their feelings.


China primarily utilizes the member state reporting system and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to showcase its success in poverty alleviation. However, there is still room for improvement, such as incomplete statistical data and information, a lack of transparency and explanation regarding domestic policies, and the use of Chinese-style language in reports that can be challenging for foreign audiences to comprehend. Therefore, China should fully acknowledge and earnestly work towards improvement. Solutions include consolidating achievements in poverty alleviation, refining and enriching experiences in poverty reduction, enhancing understanding of the significance of both international human rights monitoring mechanisms, establishing a unified and efficient poverty reduction information and statistics system, and promoting a consensus to further advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the creation of a community with a shared future for all mankind.


Aims:  To investigate methods for the recovery of airborne bacteria within pig sheds and to then use the appropriate methods to determine the levels of heterotrophs and Escherichia coli in the air within sheds.


The invention provides a moving object generating device which is composed of an elastic potential energy storing unit, an energy storage and release actuating mechanism, a device supporting disk, a cushioning device and a protection device, wherein the elastic potential energy storing unit is a compression spring; a magnetic control circuit and an electromagnet are connected in the energy storage and release actuating mechanism; the compression spring, the electromagnet, the moving object and a linear bearing penetrate the optical axis from left to right; the electromagnet and the electromagnet support rack are mounted on a slide block of a linear guide rail as a whole; the moving object is on the left side of the linear guide rail; two ends of the optical axis are respectively fixed on left and right supports; a fixed pulley is mounted on the left support; two cables are parallel with the optical axis, one end of each cable is connected with the electromagnet support rack, and the other end thereof is wound around a drum; a stepping motor is connected with a reducer, and the reducer is connected with the drum through a coupling; the left support, the right support, the double linear guide rails and the combined support of the device supporting disk are mounted on the worktable surface; the cushioning device is mounted on the right support; and the protection device is combined with the worktable by mounting.


JULY / AUGUST 2005 64 march2005 In mid-March, a scenario began to play out across the Northwest, where precipitation aided drought-stressed vegetation and cooler weather slowed the melting of meager mountain snow packs. Farther south, midto latemonth storminess maintained large, high-elevation snow packs across much of the Southwest. In fact, the Southwest's phenomenal 2004–2005 winter wet season largely eradicated the effects of a multi-year drought, except in large reservoirs such as those in the Colorado River system. Meanwhile, conditions across the nation's mid-section headed in opposite directions. Heavy snow blanketed the drought affected northern High Plains, providing short-term relief, while a drying trend reduced previously abundant moisture reserves across the southern Plains and much of the Midwest. Elsewhere, early to mid-March snowstorms maintained wintry conditions in the Northeast, followed by late month downpours and flooding. In the Southeast, initially beneficial rains became locally heavy toward month's end. Cold weather prevailed across the eastern half of the nation during the first three weeks of March, followed by a late month warming trend. Monthly temperatures generally ranged from 2 to 6oF below normal in the Great Lakes and Northeastern states. In contrast, early month warmth in the West yielded to stormy, cooler weather. Nevertheless, March readings averaged as much as 5oF above normal across the northern Plains and the Northwest. Sudden Spring More than 300 daily-record highs were set or tied during the first half of March, mostly across the West. Dallesport Airport, Washington, collected seven consecutive daily-record highs (66, 72, 72, 75, 76, 73, and 74oF) from the 5th–11th. In Oregon, high temperatures climbed to 76oF on the 11th in Redmond, Troutdale, and Hillsboro. For all three locations, it was the earliest spring observance of a high temperature greater than 75oF (previously, March 15, 1959, in Redmond; March 27, 1994, in Troutdale; and March 28, 1994, in Hillsboro). Farther south, monthly record warmth graced northern California on the 11th, when highs soared to 89oF in Salinas (previously, 88oF on March 26, 1969), 88oF in downtown Oakland (previously, 85oF on March 10, 2004), and 87oF in downtown San Francisco (previously, 86oF on March 18, 1914). During the second half of the month, weatherwatch by Brad Rippey


In statistics, experimental designs are methods for making efficient experiments. E-optimal designs are the multisets of experimental conditions which minimize the maximum axis of the confidence ellipsoid of estimators. The aim of this thesis is to propose a new algorithm for constructing E-optimal designs approximately for weighted polynomial regression with a nonnegative weight function.
First, an algorithm to calculate E-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression of particular weight functions is discussed. Next a new algorithm for constructing E-optimal designs approximately is proposed. Notions of the Tchebycheff systems and orthogonal polynomials are used in the proposed algorithm. Finally in this thesis, the results of numerical examples are shown in order to verify the accuracy of the E-optimal designs computed by the proposed algorithm.


The study of medical discourse, which we define here as face-to-face interaction between patients and practitioners in medical settings, has attracted researchers for a variety of reasons, and has been examined from a number of perspectives. As part of an investigation of goal-oriented, institutionally situated interaction, medical discourse provides an ideal case-study, in that professional and institutional goals are fairly explicit and accessible, facilitating the study of how participants in the encounter interactionally accomplish the negotiation of meanings and goals. For those engaged in the study of professional action and professional socialization, the observation of medical discourse offers a means of recovering what practitioners and student-practitioners actually do, rather than what they report they do. From a more practical point of view, medical discourse has been examined by those engaged in training physicians and other providers, as a means of gaining insight into the ways in which particular styles and strategies enhance or inhibit the effective exchange of information. In fact, whether or not a particular study sets out explicitly to generate applications, practical issues necessarily inhere in all work carried out in this domain: medical interaction is, by its nature, non-trivial, since communicative lapses and failures may result in potentially serious outcomes. Sociologists have examined the doctor-patient dyad in the course of a broader interest in the professions and professional socialization (Freidson, 1970; Becker et al.9 1961), and as one locus of the maintenance of social control (Parsons, 1970). Anthropology and social psychology have provided important insights via ethnographic studies of healer and patient roles, and have examined meanings brought by each to the medical encounter (Kleinman, 1980; DiMatteo and Friedman, 1982). More recently, sociologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and others


(Abstract )The existing Tibetan syntax system is complex, which is not conducive to the application of Tibetan natural language processing. So this paper describes an approach based on discriminant for analysis of Tibetan text dependency structure, where perceptron training method is used to training parsing model. And it also proposes a maximum spanning tree with CYK from the bottomup algorithm for decoding. Experimental resu lts show that, the method obtains acceptable score of 81.2 % on manual test set. And it is applicable to Tibetan dependency library and other natural language processing. (Key words )Tibetan dependency syntax; syntax tagging specification; maximumspanning tree; feature template; depe ndency syntax; perceptron


Commences with a review of the differences between consumer and business markets, and then proceeds to review the characteristics of the on‐line search services that have changed in order to facilitate the transition to end‐user services. Products have been significantly re‐designed to meet the needs of the end‐users. Interfaces have been improved, a range of different distribution channels are available, and products and services have been clustered. However, pricing strategies remain reminiscent of business markets. Online search services can not be regarded as retailers, but in offering products that are attractive to the end‐user are engaged in tactics that will push their products through the distribution chain.


Satellites are a valuable means for monitoring the radiation budget that drives the Earth's climate. They can be used to measure top-of-atmosphere (TOA) broadband (BB) shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) fluxes over large portions of the Earth. The VISST (Visible Infrared Solar Split-Window Technique) satellite retrieval algorithm facilitates derivation of these parameters from various satellites, including the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and Multifunctional Transport Satellites (MTSAT). However, only narrowband (NB) fluxes are available from these satellites, so deriving BB fluxes requires use of narrowband-to-broadband (NB-BB) conversion coefficients. In a recent study, NB-BB conversion fits were derived using the NB fluxes from VISST/GOES data along with BB fluxes observed by the CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy Budget; Wielicki et al, 1998) instrument aboard Terra, a sun-synchronous polar-orbiting satellite that crosses the equator at 10:30 local time (Khaiyer et al., 2009). That effort focused on the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program's Southern Great Plains (SGP) covering 32°-42°N, 91°-105°W. This study expands on that focus by deriving NB-BB coefficients for the ARM Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) Darwin region. Previous NB-BB fits typically employed in the derivation of TWP BB fluxes were based on data from other satellites and regions and may not be representative of the TWP. Thus, this study represents a significant step forward in deriving more accurate TWP BB fluxes. To ensure accuracy in the derived BB fluxes, LW and SW NB-BB fits are separated by ocean and land, as well as by season. In the TWP region, the dry season runs from May to October, and the wet season from November through April. Validation of the BB fluxes derived from these improved NB-BB fits is performed using BB fluxes from CERES Aqua, as well as BB fluxes derived using the Fu and Liou (1993) radiation code.


The theoretical nuclear physics predictions and experimental results on antiprotonic atoms lead to different proton and neutron spatial distributions. At CERN SPS energies production of positive and negative pions differs for pp , pn , np and nn scattering. These two facts lead to an impact parameter dependence of the π + to π − ratio in 208 P b + 208 P b collisions. A recent experiment at CERN seems to confirm qualitatively these predictions. The results for two models considered are almost identical. It may open a new possibility for determination of neutron density distribution in nuclei.


To study a new framework for building detection from optical remote sensing image(RSI) that based on rectangle approximation and region growing. According to the geometric structures of buildings, a right angle detection method based on voting strategy is investigated to get building candidates. In order to accurately estimate the shape of buildings with non-convex properties, an algorithm is employed to reduce false positives by extracting outer corners of buildings from the detected right angles. Combining with similar spectral features of surfaces, a segmentation algorithm based on region growing is proposed to get the complete top surfaces of buildings. Using several RSIs of Florida and Nebraska areas in WorldView-3 image data, experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the precision ratio of 89.44% and recall ratio of 90.36%.


A new method for the detection of the ac electrical threshold for space charge injection in polymeric materials is presented in this paper. The ac charge injection-extraction dynamic in discussed, and experimental procedures are proposed to establish the electrical field for charge injection. These procedures are based on the observation of the space charge profiles obtained by the Pulsed Electroacoustic technique. The ac threshold data provided by the two tested materials i.e. LDPE and XLPE, are compared with dc threshold results, showing that the r.m.s. ac injection threshold values are very close to, but slightly smaller than, the dc ones.


As an important part of environmental sustainability and global value chain, green supply chain management is of great significance to enterprises and global economic development. By making full use of emerging technologies, optimizing resource utilization, and strengthening industry cooperation and shared value, companies can find a win-win path between environmental protection and economic development, contributing to the realization of global green and sustainable development. This paper explores the links between environmental sustainability and global value chains, as well as the challenges and opportunities of green supply chain management.


One alternative to minimize the effects of highly destructive diseases on sweet oranges used for industrial processing is the establishment of new plantings in regions of less incidence, such as the Southwestern Sao Paulo State, Brazil.


The study was conducted to evaluate the influence of the rearing system on the muscle fibre characteristics of two meat chicken breeds such as the Ross and the Livorno characterized by extremely fast and extremely slow growth speed respectively. No differences between the breeds were found in the conventional rearing system except for muscle fibre area. On the other hand, in the free range rearing system, differences in muscle fibre composition were evidenced between the breeds especially in the Ileotibialis lateralis muscle with the Livorno having a greater percentage of αR fibres (57,71 vs 36,65). A higher percentage of αR fibres (57,71 vs 46,90) was found in the Ileotibialis lateralis of the free range reared Livorno chickens compared to the conventionally reared ones.


The proportional pressure control of centrifugal pumps may significantly increase the efficiency of water supply systems in terms of both electrical energy consumption and water leakage. The goal of this research is the derivation of the approximation concept for evaluation of the efficiency improvement potential applying the proportional pressure control for variable speed pumps in water supply. The proportional pressure control has been compared with the constant pressure control. For this reason, the energy calculation analyses have been made for certain pumps. The concept for evaluation of the efficiency improvement potential has been derived and experimentally tested. The interaction among the energy consumption, water leakage, and declination of the pump proportional pressure control curve has been found at the specific load profile. Based on the average possible linear declination of the pump proportional pressure control curve (15%) and the average water leakage in network (24%) in Latvia, the conclusions are as follows: 1) 12.2% of annually consumed electrical energy may be saved up in water supply systems applying the proportional pressure control is used instead of the constant pressure control; 2) The annual reduction of the existing water leakage rate may reach 3.7% in water supply networks.


The paper is devoted to the numerical investigation of inelastic deformation and fracture of porous alumina ceramics. A structural model of the mesovolume is developed with the use of an experimental scanning electron microscopic image. The mechanical behavior of the matrix is described by two constitutive models from plasticity theory and continuum damage mechanics. Uniaxial tension and compression of the mesovolume are numerically simulated in a two-dimensional formulation. The features of fracture patterns in the cases of the two constitutive models adopted are analysed. Effective mechanical characteristics of the studied ceramics are determined from the performed calculations. The results obtained can be used to specify the characteristics of the Drucker–Prager material for macroscopic modeling.


This letter presents a design of a novel ultrawideband (UWB) circular fractal monopole antenna with a six‐petaled flower pattern. The coplanar‐waveguide‐fed technique and fractal concept have been used to achieve UWB characteristics. The size of the proposed antenna is 43 × 51 mm2 with a flower‐shaped circular patch radius of 15 mm. The proposed antenna exhibits UWB characteristics from 2.46 to 13.46 GHz, which corresponds to a fractional bandwidth of 138%. The measured radiation pattern of the proposed antenna is nearly omnidirectional. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 55:1792–1795, 2013


Considering specific engineering application,the damping capacity of Fe-12Cr-2Al-3Mo alloy was studied.The internal friction of the alloy was measured by reversal torsion pendulum.Besides,the vibration reduction capacity of barrel component was studied by vibration tester.The results show that the damping capacity of the alloy is higher than that of 0Cr18Ni9Ti stainless alloy.Meanwhile,the vibration acceleration peak value of barrel component of the alloy is one fifth of 0Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel.The high damping performance of the alloy could be explained by magnetic domain structure.


Mixed dyslipidemia (MD; elevated triglycerides [TG], apolipoprotein B [ApoB], and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [non-HDL-C], and decreased HDL-C) is often observed in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and may contribute to increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. Non-HDL-C rather than TG has been proposed as a more useful lipid predictor of CV risk and an important therapeutic target in those with MD. This post hoc subgroup analysis of the open label ODYSSEY DM-DYSLIPIDEMIA trial investigated effects of the PCSK9 inhibitor alirocumab (ALI; 75 mg every 2 weeks [Q2W] with possible increase to 150 mg Q2W at Week 12) vs. usual care (UC; ezetimibe [EZE], fenofibrate [FENO], or no additional lipid lowering therapy [LLT]) on non-HDL-C and other lipids in people with T2D and baseline non-HDL-C ≥100 mg/dL, TG ≥200 mg/dL, and HDL-C Compared with UC, ALI significantly reduced non-HDL-C, ApoB, Lp(a) and LDL particle number from baseline to Week 24 (Table 1); TG reductions were greater with FENO vs. ALI but were not significantly different for any comparison. Adverse events frequency was similar in ALI and UC groups (67.2% vs. 70.7%). ALI was generally well tolerated and effective at further reducing atherogenic lipids in this subgroup of people with T2D and high TG and low HDL-C levels already on maximally tolerated statin dose. Disclosure H.M. Colhoun: Advisory Panel; Self; Eli Lilly and Company, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Sanofi-Aventis. Research Support; Self; AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk A/S, Pfizer Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Roche Pharma, Sanofi-Aventis. Speaker9s Bureau; Self; Eli Lilly and Company, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi. Stock/Shareholder; Self; Bayer AG, Roche Pharma. L.A. Leiter: Advisory Panel; Self; AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Novo Nordisk Inc., Sanofi, Servier. Research Support; Self; AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline plc., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Novo Nordisk Inc., Sanofi. Speaker9s Bureau; Self; AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Novo Nordisk Inc., Sanofi. D. Muller-Wieland: Advisory Panel; Self; Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca, Bayer AG, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Novo Nordisk Inc., Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH. Speaker9s Bureau; Self; Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca, Bayer AG, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Novo Nordisk Inc., Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH. B. Cariou: Board Member; Self; Novo Nordisk A/S, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Consultant; Self; GENFIT, Sanofi-Aventis. Research Support; Self; Amgen Inc., Pfizer Inc. Speaker9s Bureau; Self; Abbott, Akcea Therapeutics, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. K.K. Ray: Research Support; Self; Amgen Inc., MSD Pharma, Pfizer Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Other Relationship; Self; AbbVie Inc., Akcea Therapeutics, Algorithm, Amgen Inc., Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cerenis, Cipla, Eli Lilly and Company, Esperion, Kowa Pharmaceutical Europe Co. Ltd., Medco, Pfizer Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Resverlogix Corp., Sanofi, Sanofi, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. F. Tinahones: Advisory Panel; Self; Lilly Diabetes, Novo Nordisk A/S, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi-Aventis. Consultant; Self; AstraZeneca. Research Support; Self; AstraZeneca. Speaker9s Bureau; Self; Danone Nutricia Research, Lilly Diabetes, Novo Nordisk A/S, Regenerative Medical Solutions, Sanofi-Aventis. C. Domenger: Employee; Self; Sanofi. A. Letierce: Employee; Self; Sanofi Research & Development. M. Israel: Employee; Self; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Stock/Shareholder; Self; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. S. Del Prato: Advisory Panel; Self; AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline plc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Novo Nordisk A/S, Sanofi, Servier, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. Board Member; Self; AstraZeneca. Research Support; Self; AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Speaker9s Bureau; Self; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. Funding Sanofi; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


We study the properties of charmonium states at finite temperature inquenched QCD on large and fine isotropic lattices. We perform a detailedanalysis of charmonium correlation and spectral functions both below and above$T_c$. Our analysis suggests that both S wave states ($J/\psi$ and $\eta_c$)and P wave states ($\chi_{c0}$ and $\chi_{c1}$) disappear already at about $1.5T_c$. The charm diffusion coefficient is estimated through the Kubo formula andfound to be compatible with zero below $T_c$ and approximately $1/\pi T$ at$1.5 T_c\lesssim T\lesssim 3 T_c$.


A combination of temperature and microstructure prediction models for the laser quenching process of GCr15 bearing steel was established. The thermo-physical parameters and austenitizaiton kinetics of GCr15 bearing steel were obtained with the laser flash and dilatometer experiments, respectively, to improve the prediction accuracy of the model. The dilatometric experiment results for the austenitization kinetics for high heating rates were fitted with the isochronal JMA relationship. Basing on the experimental results, the temperature and microstructure evolutions of GCr15 bearing steel during the laser quenching processes were simulated. According to the simulation results, optimized technological parameters for the laser quenching process were proposed.


This book is devoted to study the microscopic origin in terms of electronic structure description of many exciting and intriguing electrical and magnetic properties of different complex oxides and novel materials, employing primarily first principles density functional theory based (DFT) techniques. In particular, in this book discussed three different categories of complex oxides, namely i) perovskite structured 3d (Co based) and 4d (Ru based) transition metal oxides, second, the low dimensional quantum spin systems pristine and doped form, and third, the metalorganic hybrid compounds, Mn-succinate hybrid and Fe-Nb coordination polymer. This book started with an introduction of the complex oxides, structure-property relationship and detail review of the topic. Next the detail methodology of density functional theory for three different basis set and pseudopotentials are described along with the ab-initio molecular dynamics and dynamical mean field theory. Next the emerging electronic and magnetic properties of different class of oxides are discussed in the subsequent chapters followed by summary and outlook.


When floods hit populated areas, quick detection of flooded areas is crucial for initial response by local government, residents, and volunteers. Space-borne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) is an authoritative data sources for flood mapping since it can be acquired immediately after a disaster even at night time or cloudy weather. Conventionally, a lot of domain-specific heuristic knowledge has been applied for PolSAR flood mapping, but their performance still suffers from confusing pixels caused by irregular reflections of radar waves. Optical images are another data source that can be used to detect flooded areas due to their high spectral correlation with the open water surface. However, they are often affected by day, night, or severe weather conditions (i.e., cloud). This paper presents a convolution neural network (CNN) based multi-modal approach utilizing the advantages of both PolSAR and optical images for flood mapping. First, reference training data is retrieved from optical images by manual annotation. Since clouds may appear in the optical image, only areas with a clear view of flooded or non-flooded are annotated. Then, a semi-supervised polarimetric-features-aided CNN is utilized for flood mapping using PolSAR data. The proposed model not only can handle the issue of learning with incomplete ground truth but also can leverage a large portion of unlabelled pixels for learning. Moreover, our model takes the advantages of expert knowledge on scattering interpretation to incorporate polarimetric-features as the input. Experiments results are given for the flood event that occurred in Sendai, Japan, on 12th March 2011. The experiments show that our framework can map flooded area with high accuracy (F1 = 96.12) and outperform conventional flood mapping methods.


In order to explore the phenomenon of negative transfer of dialects to college students'English pronunciation learning in Sichuan-Chongqing area, this paper first analyses the characteristics of dialects in Sichuan-Chongqing area, then expounds the specific manifestations and causes of this phenomenon, including negative transfer of vowels and consonants, and finally puts forward some teaching suggestions.


Background: Pesticides application for controlling pests, has been a matter of debate for long time. In order to guarantee sustainable human health, this application should be monitored continuously. Materials and Methods: 65 samples of cattle milk were collected from different Khartoum state's municipals; to assess the OCP residue, samples were extracted with petroleum ether and cleaned up using silica gel, then read out by GC equipped with FID. Result: Two pesticides belong to OCP were detected, Endosulfan (69.8%) and Heptachlor (92%); the detected concentration of the second one was outstanding, as all positive samples were above the MRL.


Professor Elaine Hightower Gagliardi of the University of Montana, discusses the Seventh Circuit's decision in the Hackl case, which provides guidance on how to obtain the federal gift tax annual exclusion for gifts of closely held entity interests.


The aim of the study was to review the literature, of the last twenty years, on the effects of orthognathic surgery on the temporomandibular function. The bibliography extracted from the PubMed database was analyzed. The inclu− sion criteria were key words: orthognathic surgery, temporomandibular disorders, temporomandibular dysfunc− tions. Definitely, the analysis was performed on 23 of 146 publications. The analysis of the last 20 years showed ambiguous reports about whether and how the orthognathic procedures can alter the temporomandibular function. Currently it is widely accepted that the orthognathic surgery can decrease or increase the signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorders depending on the preexisting dysfunction as well as on the amount of movement and rotation of segments during orthognathic procedure. To maintain the stability of the stomatognathic system, it is necessary to perform pre− and postoperative orthodontic treatment (Dent. Med. Probl. 2009, 46, 3, 333–336).


Abstract The theory of the motion of the surface of a semi-infinite elastic solid due to an impulsive internal point source is developed, both for P-wave and S-wave point sources. The resulting motions have been computed numerically for the case λ = μ and are presented both in tabular form and graphically.


This chapter discusses the paradoxical positioning of the family and civil society. This paradox arises from the ways in which civil society is variously defined through a series of binary oppositions — in relation to each of which the family sits uneasily. The chapter begins by outlining how the 'family' has traditionally been conceptualised in relation to civil society. These representations are not only contradictory, but also based on value-laden representations of both the family and civil society that are ideologically rather than empirically underpinned. In general, within much of the academic literature, there has been a tendency to uphold the virtues of the 'public sphere' against the self-interestedness of the 'private sphere.' The chapter concludes by arguing for the importance of empirical rather than just theoretical research on the interface between the 'public' and the 'private'.


In a paper by Mr. R.S.J. Spilsbury and the present author, ? apparatus for providing a voltage-drop of about 2 volts propotional to and in time phase with an alternating current is described. The 2 volts is obtained from a ?non-inductive? resistance connected either in the main-current circuit or in the secondary circuit of a high-precision current transformer, the primary winding of which is connected in the maincurrent circuit. The problem is to measure this 2 volts to a high degree of accuracy. Voltages of the order of 100 volts may be measured to an accuracy of about 1 part in 10 000 by means of a suitable electrostatic voltmeter, and this paper describes the performance of a transformer for transforming 2 volts up to 100 volts. The core is of mumetal, and the ratio of transformation is shown to be constant to 1 part in 10 000 over a wide range of frequency and applied voltage. The phase displacement between secondary and primary voltage is less than 2 minutes at rated voltage. The testing of the transformer necessitated the development of a special bridge and apparatus, which is described.