How to determine the spatial position of structural components and their internal force is the key issue in structural analysis for self-anchored cable-stayed suspension bridge.Based on the concept of the initial force and unstrained length of cable,unstrained length of cable principle of how to keep the internal force of the cable remains unchanged is deduced.According to this principle,the calculating method for the reasonable initial cable force of the self-anchored cable-stayed suspension bridge is proposed on the basis of some available methods.Dalian Gulf Bridge is taken for calculation with this method as an example.According to the calculation results under this method,the cable forces of stayed cables and hangers are more uniform and the alignment of the main cable is smooth in the finished bridge state.Also the moment of stiffening gird is more uniform and reasonable.The maximum moment of stiffening gird is 14 716 kN·m.The moment of tower is relatively small and the horizontal displacement of tower top is close to zero.The results show that the method presented in this paper can be used in determining and analyzing the reasonable initial cable force of the self-anchored cable-stayed bridge as required.The results of unstrained length of cable can be directly used in analyzing construction phases of self-anchored cable-stayed bridge.


Abstract— The Xe contents in 25 individual stratospheric interplanetary dust particles were measured in two different laboratories using focused laser micro‐gas extraction and (1) a conventional low‐blank magnetic sector mass spectrometer (Washington University), and (2) a resonance ionization time of flight mass spectrometer (RELAX‐University of Manchester). Data from both laboratories yielded a remarkably similar upper‐limit 132Xe concentration in the IDPs (>2.7, 6.8 and 2.2 × 10−8ccSTP/g for Washington University Run 1, Washington University Run 2 and University of Manchester analyses, respectively), which is up to a factor of five smaller than previous estimates. The upper‐limit 132Xe/36Ar ratio in the IDPs (132Xe/36Ar > ˜8 × 10−4for Run 1 and 132Xe/36Ar > ˜19 × 10−4for Run 2), computed using 36Ar concentration data reported elsewhere is consistent with a mixture between implanted solar wind, primordial, and atmospheric noble gases. Most significantly, there is no evidence that IDPs are particularly enriched in primordial noble gases compared to chondritic meteorites, as implied by previous work.


As an information management system, YouTube transforms marketing into structured content that serves as an archive and database to build social media marketing consistently for brands. In order to increase the greatest traffic through audience engagement, YouTube channels are used as a place to promote itself as a brand. There is even a tendency to present employees on YouTube as a business strategy. In the goal of building a brand through a YouTube channel, video content will certainly show an identity both as an independent video talent and as an organization. As the external face of the company, the company employees are seen by consumers and define the "who" a corporation is by showing personality traits that have been defined by the company, which are known as corporate brand personality. This qualitative study aimed to determine the marketing of beauty products constructed in beauty YouTube channel, to know the corporate brand personality constructed in beauty YouTube channel, and to find out the corporate brand personality constructed in the marketing of beauty products on the YouTube channel. The results show that the videos are displayed according to the personality of YouTubers and how they represent themselves through their video contents. On the other hand, corporate brand personality strengthens the personal branding of individuals in the company. Personality created by employees needs to be implemented from inside to outside the organization. Meanwhile, the construction of corporate brand personality in marketing beauty products on the YouTube channel can be seen in how video talents communicate verbally as a self-presentation of a part of the company, but also capable of nonverbal self-impression management. Although the implementation of the corporate brand personality dimension on YouTube channels is not free from risks, this step is worth to be taken.


The present invention is applicable to lighting apparatus production technical field, provides a kind of multifunctional lamp support and the Down lamp comprising this multifunctional lamp support; Described multifunctional lamp support comprises two stands top panel, a reflector fixed panel, two support and connection plates, two lamp socket support panels, the two lamp socket fixed panels that one is connected; Described light fixture comprises multifunctional lamp support described above.Multifunctional lamp support provided by the invention, structure is simple, installs very convenient, with low cost, of many uses; Down lamp provided by the invention adopts this integrated multiple bay, and make the installation of each parts of Down lamp simple and convenient, handling of goods and materials cost is low, and stabilized structure after lamp assembled, mechanical property are good.


The evaluation of inhibitive action of crude Gmelina arborea fruit extract (GAFE) on armor steel plate ASP) in 0.1M HCl solutions has been investigated using different methods viz; weight loss method at temperature 303K-313K, Electrochemical technique (Linear Polarization Resistance) and Surface morphologic examination, using Phenom Prox Scanning Electron Microscope. The inhibitive action is observed to increase with increase in concentration of the extract, but decreases with increase in temperature. The Extract gave highest inhibition efficiency (IE) of 87.50% at 303K and 78.87% at 313K at maximum extract concentration of 0.5g/L. Inhibition efficiency (IE) of extract decreased with increasing temperature for both acids. Thermodynamic parameters evaluated gave heat of adsorption (Qads) range between -24.4904 kJ/mol -16.4337 kJ/mol with an average of 6.1547kJ/mol. The Activation energy parameter (Ea) is between 4.11 to 14.76 kJ/mol, which indicates physisorption. Free energy of adsorption process (∆G°ads) showed negatives values, which explained the spontaneous adsorption activity. Adsorption process of GAFE on armor steel plate best fitted and obeyed the El-Awady isotherm. The El-Awady 1/y parameter is <1 at all test conditions. Electrochemical investigations (LPRcurve), reveals that GAFE acts as a mixed inhibitor by retarding the cathodic and anodic reaction. Micrographs from SEM, shows evidence of plant material adsorption on ASP under similar test conditions with near smooth surface. In contrast, Micrographs of ASP after immersion in acids without GAFE shows evidence of general and localized corrosion (pitting). Keyword: Gmelina arborea, Armour steel Plate, ductility, Corrosion, Inhibition and toughness 1.0 INTRODUCTION Armor steels are versatile materials alloys of iron used in Military and defense related field in manufacture of combat air craft, Tanks, ships and submarines. They are largely low-carbon, mediumalloy steels of special compositions used for protection from projectiles and ballistics dues to it toughness, weldability, and ductility (Laible, 1980; Prifti et al., 1997). Armour Steels like every other material corrodes and poses a major challenge to defence industries fleets against optimum performance and combat readiness. The effect of corrosion can best be appreciated by the annual cost of its prevention, the direct and indirect value of which, survey on the costs of corrosion showed that the direct cost of corrosion was estimated at $276 billion in the United States for 2002, which is approximately 4% of their Gross National Product (Koch et al., 2002). The Wall Street Journal (1981) estimates it to be over hundreds of millions of US dollars all over the world. In view of the foregoing, corrosion no doubt has proven to be an undesirable phenomenon that must be arrested or controlled (Buchweishaija , 2010). In order to reduce the metal loss as a result of corrosion, tests and use of suitable inhibiting agents as corrosion inhibitors in different environment is necessary. (NACE, 1984; 2002) defines inhibitor as a chemical substance that, when added in a small concentration to an environment, effectively decreases the corrosion rate of the material. Most of these inhibiting compounds are not only expensive; they are toxic and not environmental friendly. Due to the toxicity of some corrosion inhibitors, there has been increasing search for green or organic corrosion inhibitors (Muthukrishnan et al, 2013). These natural organic inhibitors has been tested and found to be effective in various media and and at same time environmentally friendly, non-toxic, biodegradable, inexpensive, and readily available in nature (El-Etre, 2007; Okafor et al., 2008). These anti corrosion effect has been suggested to be due to the presence of hetero atoms (N, O, and S) as well as IJSER International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 6, Issue 9, September-2015 702 ISSN 2229-5518


The invention relates to a method for changing the locked state of a motor vehicle by handling a data transfer between a master system (encoder / key) and a slave system (receiver / vehicle-side circuit component) in which the part of the master system, a signal event is discharged into a receiving area of the slave system in, and be the receiving containment characteristics of the slave system defined modulated and detected by the master system and evaluated. The invention is based on the approach to handling a data transfer between a master system and a slave system in a way that makes it possible to obtain the same information about the slave system based on the signal recording characteristics in the area of the master system. In particular, the invention shows a solution in which a data transfer between the master system and the slave system takes place capacitively, wherein the input impedance of the slave system is modulated according to a defined data pattern and this pattern data is detected in the area of the master system during the signal transmission.


The linguistic turn of the western philosophy at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century has influenced and is still influencing many fields. This turn helps people realize the ontological, performative and social aspect of language and the intersubjectivity of meaning as well. On another hand, language has been parsimonized in many international relations theories and the linguistic turn in IR field is rather slow and late. The relevant research is mainly done by those constructivists and post structuralists. This paper aims to take language games as an example and analyze the influence of linguistic turn on constructivism from establishing, obeying and changing of the rules. Language constructs the rules, the rules shape the context, the context decides the meaning and meaning constraints the behavior. Language plays an important role in this process.


A dual-band 90° unit module with harmonic suppression (HS) is proposed. This unit module consists of a pair of back-to-back stepped impedance sections and an open stub. The unit module is realised by synthetic transmission lines, and it is successfully implemented into a novel miniature dual-band (2.45/5.8-GHz) rat-race coupler with HS (suppression level ≥16 dB, 6.8–13 GHz). Compared with traditional 1.5λ microstrip ring hybrid, the proposed dual-band rat-race with HS only occupies 13.84% of its area.


The static shielding properties of Faraday wire cages are intuitive as for a small mesh size, the effect on the field can be expected to approach that of an ideal Faraday cage, i.e., a closed conductive surface. However, as it has been recently pointed out, the shielding efficiency is somewhat worse than one might expect and does not particularly conform to the simple approximation of an exponentially decaying field, as it is, e.g., described in The Feynman Lectures on Physics. In the present contribution, we use the case of a circular 2D wire cage to illustrate how the residual field inside such a cage can be visualized in terms of a spatial spectral consideration of the induced charge. It is shown how the residual field in the cage's center is related to a single Fourier coefficient of this spectral expansion, and that the approximation of the induced charge as a sampled version of the induced charge of a corresponding ideal Faraday cage yields useful approximations for the residual fields close to the cage boundary. The latter also turn out to justify the exponential decay approximation, at least in this region.


Types and characteristics of sound that produced by fish is a reoresentation to its behavior. Single click in certain characteristics is produced when terapon jorbua was rested, while multiple click that emitted when individual fish was interacted with others. Single frog which had a spectral intensity, frequency and duration that was greater than a single click was a representation to territorial behavior. Multiple frog that produced by individual fish was a representation to suffered attack from the other fish or as a defensive behavior


The single-freeze-out model of hadron production is used to describe the particle ratios and the transverse-momentum spectra from RHIC. The emphasis is put on the new measurements done at the highest beam energy of 200 GeV. An overall very good agreement is found between the data and the model predictions. The data for different centrality windows are analyzed separately. A simple scaling of the two expansion parameters of the model with the centrality is found. Interestingly, this scaling turns out to be equivalent to the scaling of hadron production with the number of wounded nucleons.


On the quest to bring function of prosthetic legs closer to their biological counterparts, the intuitive interplay of their control with the user's impedance modulation is key. We present two control features to enable more physiological and more user-adaptive control of prosthetic legs: a neuromusculoskeletal impedance model (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$NeurImp $ </tex-math></inline-formula>) including a reflexive component, and a human model reference adaptive controller (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$HuMRAC $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), which can be combined with the former. In stance-phase simulations, the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$NeurImp $ </tex-math></inline-formula> allowed to control a prosthetic leg with physiological knee joint angle and moment. When perturbations were applied, the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$HuMRAC $ </tex-math></inline-formula> reduced the resulting root mean square error (RMSE) between simulated and physiological reference angle by 96%. In a pilot experiment with two unimpaired and one amputee subject, gait with the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$NeurImp $ </tex-math></inline-formula> deviated more from a physiological reference than with a conventional visco-elastic impedance controller. Subjects, however, preferred the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$NeurImp $ </tex-math></inline-formula>. When adding the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$HuMRAC $ </tex-math></inline-formula> to either of the two impedance controllers, the RMSE between the actual and the physiological reference angle was reduced by up to 54%. Subjects confirmed this finding and reported an easier stance-to-swing transition. Simulation and pilot experiment suggest that a reflex-based impedance controller combined with an adaptive controller may improve user-cooperative behavior of active knee exoprostheses.


no and no acute infection isoen-or was present. Under immuno-zymes; suppressive therapy with cyclosporin A—Neoral (CsA, mg/kg), azathioprine (2 mg/kg) and prednisone (5 mg/48 h), a serum creatinine level around 0.6 mg/dl (GFR 96 ml/min/1.73 m 2 ) was found, a value normal Introduction at this age; the monoclonal CsA trough serum levels did not exceed 150 ng/ml. We present a further case, a boy with normal bone genase (GLDH, 1.0 U/l), aspartate aminotransferase metabolism, who after successful kidney transplanta-(ASAT, 15 U/l), alanine aminotransferase (ALAT, tion experienced a transient ALP increase at the age 9 U/l), cholinesterase (CHE, 7.4 KU/l), total bilirubin of 4 years. Since the boy was born with chronic renal (8.6 m mol/l ), the urine calcium/creatinine concentra- failure and subsequently underwent dialysis therapy, tion ratio (UCa/Cr, 0.16 mmol/l per mmol/l), tubular this report for the first time describes the long-term maximum rate of phosphate reabsorption in relation course of the respective laboratory parameters before to glomerular filtrate (TmPO 4 /GFR, 1.51 mmol/l ), transient hyperphosphatasaemia was present. 5-year-old boy U/l, 93 U/l) liver


This realisation led to the establishment in July 1956 of the Balai Pustaka, a language and literature department under the then Federal Department of Education, Federation of Malaya. In September 1965, the name Balai Pustaka was changed to its present one, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), (the Dewan). In 1957, a provision in the Federal Constitution stipulated the status of Malay as the nation's national and official language.


There has been recent interest within the networking research community to understand how mobility can improve the capacity of mobile ad hoc networks. Of particular interest is the achievable capacity under delay constraints. In this paper, we establish the following upper bound on the optimal capacity-delay tradeoff in mobile ad hoc networks for an i.i.d. mobility model. For a mobile ad hoc network with n nodes, if the per-bit-averaged mean delay is bounded by D̄, then the per-node capacity λ is upper bounded by λ ≤ O( D̄n log 3 n). By studying the condition under which the upper bound is tight, we are able to identify the optimal values of several key scheduling parameters. We then develop a new scheme that can achieve a capacity-delay tradeoff close to the upper bound up to a logarithmic factor. Our new scheme achieves a larger per-node capacity than the schemes reported in previous works. In particular, when the delay is bounded by a constant, our scheme achieves a per-node capacity of Θ(n/ logn). This indicates that, for the i.i.d. mobility model, mobility results in a larger capacity than that of static networks even with constant delays. Finally, the insight drawn from the upper bound allows us to identify limiting factors in existing schemes. These results present a relatively complete picture of the achievable capacity-delay tradeoffs under different settings.


A peculiar trait unites Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag's famous accounts of photography: both emphasize the anti-Proustian character of the medium. Two versions of the same assertion are presented in Camera Lucida and On Photography, namely that the nature of photography prevents it from being able to provide the experience needed to regain what was lost in time. Curiously enough, in Raoul Ruiz's film adaptation, Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999), photographs are used by the director to set the world of the novel into motion. Does the opening scene, which shows the writer browsing through photographs of the people he used to know, merely present Proust's documented habit of collecting photographs of the real-life models for his characters, or did Ruiz try to reproduce the mechanism of reminiscence by looking at photographs? The ambiguous relation of Proust and his novel to photography is well documented and commented upon.1 Rebecca Comay writes that, by the end of the novel, "the whole world has turned into a kind of photograph" ("Proust's" 13). Approaching from the other side, Kaja Silverman recently used the phrase "miracle of analogy," Proust's description of reminiscence, as a title of her book on redefining the ontological implications of photography. Proust and photography can thus be used as a positive or a negative reference to explain each other. In what follows, I will outline the aesthetical and ontological conceptual problems that underlie the discussions on Proust and photography, which seem as productive for the theory of photography as they are for contemporary readings of Proust. In aesthetical terms, the problem can be linked to the dialectic between the sensory event and the narrative in literature or, in photography, between the photographic image and the world it was taken in. As I will try to show, there is a fascinating yet disturbing worldlessness to the photographic image, which stands in an ambivalent relationship to the world it alludes to but is at the same time subtracted from. This coincides with the problem of the architecture of Proust's novel, which develops a narrative from brief epiphanies of reminiscence. The dialectic at work here can even be transposed to the


Contemporary views on etiology, pathogenesis, clinical course, diagnotics, surgical and preventive recurrence treatment of respiratory papillomatosis in childen are analyzed in this article . Key words: recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, childhood, larynx.


Surface structures of a TiO2(001) surface are examined in atomic scale by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Among two ordered phases which depend on annealing temperature as reported from a low energy electron diffraction (LEED) study, an atomic-scale image of the higher temperature phase, which shows a unique surface reactivity, was successfully visualized. The surface consisted of crossed rows along the [110] direction and the [110] direction. Each row had a bleacher-like structure which formed stairs at both sides with an average slope identical to the {114} face. An atom-resolved STM image showed that each narrow terrace of the stairs is covered with a unit of three bright spots which are ordered in line perpendicular to the step and arranged with a constant separation of 0.65 nm. It was revealed that the STM image is not consistent with the previously proposed {114}-faceted model.


This post is part of the ESIL Interest Group on International Human Rights Law blog symposium on 'The Place of International Human Rights Law in Times of Crisis'.


Background:  Helicobacter pylori is recognized as a major risk factor for recurrent gastroduodenal inflammatory diseases and gastric adenocarcinoma. The high prevalence of H. pylori infection worldwide, the risks of side‐effects from antibiotic therapy, and increasing resistance to antibiotics are the main primers for the development of improved H. pylori vaccines. The antigenic potential of its urease enzyme, a critical virulence factor required for colonization of the gastric mucosa, has been demonstrated in animal and human studies. An important but controversial issue in H. pylori vaccine studies is the type of immune response required to control infection. A new approach in H. pylori vaccinology is the administration of DNA vaccines, which has included heat‐shock protein and catalase DNA vaccines.


Cell mechanical characterization has recently approached the throughput of conventional flow cytometers. However, this very sensitive, label-free approach still lacks the specificity of molecular markers. Here we combine real-time 1D-imaging fluorescence and deformability cytometry (RT-FDC) to merge the two worlds in one instrument — opening many new research avenues. We demonstrate its utility using sub-cellular fluorescence localization to identify mitotic cells and test for their mechanical changes in an RNAi screen.


Spent fuel from Russian nuclear powered submarines has been stored at shore based facilities for more than 20 years, notably at Andreeva Bay and Gremikha in the Kola Peninsula of northwest Russia. The storage facilities were for some years poorly maintained and a significant fraction of the fuel is damaged. Over the last ten years or so, much work has been done to improve the infrastructure, prepare for recovery of the spent fuel and associated radioactive waste from temporary stores, and make arrangements for their further management. A similar situation has arisen concerning fuel from nuclear powered icebreakers, notably damaged fuel from the icebreaker Lenin, which is currently stored in the Lepse storage vessel. Preparatory work has been done with international and bi-lateral support. As a part of that support, the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority has a substantial and long-standing regulatory cooperation program with Russian Federation counterpart authorities, particularly the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia. This paper describes projects organized within that program, with a focus on work at the Andreeva Bay site. The projects are designed to support an updated and improved regulatory basis for the management of the legacies mentioned above. The output covers a full range of radiation protection issues, including emergency preparedness and response, worker, public and environmental protection, site remediation, spent fuel and related radioactive waste handling, and overall optimization. Significant success has been achieved with the development of special procedures to address the abnormal conditions and circumstances of these legacies, and major spent fuel recovery is planned to begin in 2016.


Facing serious challenges, the industry is looking for ways to shorten the drug discovery cycle without taking additional risks. Techniques such as high throughput screening, genomics, and proteomics generate enormous amounts of data. However, they impose an even bigger challenge to process that flood of information without delaying the drug development process. If both context-based models and data-driven methods are used for the knowledge discovery process then these new scientific techniques could be utilized in a much more structured way. By definition, these technologies require close cooperation between information technology experts and research scientists, enabling more creative project management. This will lead directly to a scenario in which leads, targets, and drug candidates are selected with much higher quality.


cover our common experiences as women. She has pointed to several glaring examples of western white cultural stereotyping. I assume we would uncover many more layers of cultural "demonic" mythology if we subjected our analysis to those women who experience fewer options and different role expectations due to their level of poverty or racial identity. The power of institutional sexism isgreat. If women are to be given encouragement to determine the content of our lives, we must also understand the powers and principalities we face. Furthermore, individual initiative does not take into account our intimate interrelatedness. One person cannot be whole while others are in pain. In some concrete, but mysterious way, "I am we." Many questions and implications for clergy and the church are raised by the book. Do we have rituals which acknowledge critical times in women's lives? Do these rituals offset some of the demonic cultural rituals? Is it harmful to have Mother's Day Services? What are the consequences of using imagery which assumes the nuclear family as normative? If women are just beginning to reclaim an unacknowledged sense of self-worth, do clergy "men" have many resources to counsel them at these critical times? Penelope Wash bourn begins to raise questions about our cultural myths about women. She takes our bodily existence seriously. I would add to her concern that we take our community existence seriously in its graceful and demonic forms as it informs its concepts of women through ritual, imagery and activity.


Coding expert Bill Dacey answers your latest coding questions, including an inquiry on why Medicare denied an initial visit claim.


Pesantren is an educational institution in Indonesia that uses the classical book as a reference for learning. The classical book contains the contents of various sciences that guide Muslims in their live. Islamic boarding schools are currently facing the modernization of Islamic education. One of the pesantren that follows the development of science and the progress of the times is the An-Nur 3 Islamic Boarding School. This Islamic boarding school provides primary, secondary, and high school education and has an advanced level of learning, a special program, namely the College of Classical Book (STIKK). This study aims to describe how the learning management of the classical book in STIKK An-Nur 3, from Lesson planning, Learning implementation, and Learning evaluation. This study uses a qualitative approach. The research data were taken by interview, observation, and documentation techniques. The results showed that this STIKK is the program of AN-Nur 3, which aims to teach the essence of the classical book more deeply than the previous madrasah levels. In learning the Classical book at STIKK, there is a planning, implementation, and evaluation process that supports learning activities to run effectively and efficiently. What distinguishes it from other educational programs is that students at STIKK, besides studying the yellow book, also study in a university that has an agreement with STIKK.


Background and Purpose—There is still conflicting evidence regarding a link between alcohol drinking and the risk of stroke. In most prospective studies, the assessment of the alcohol drinking has been based on self-reporting, which may be unreliable. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between stroke and both the self-reported alcohol drinking and the serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) concentration, which was regarded as a biological marker of alcohol drinking. Methods—A prospective cohort study of 14 874 Finnish men and women aged 25 to 64 years who participated in a cardiovascular risk-factor survey in 1982 or 1987. The following risk factors, determined at baseline, were included in data analyses: self-reported alcohol drinking, GGT, smoking, blood pressure, serum cholesterol, and body mass index. The cohorts were followed until the end of 1994. Stroke events were identified through the national death registry and hospital discharge registry by computerized record linkage...


Abstract To allow more accurate prediction of hospital length of stay (LOS) after serious injury or illness, a multi-state model is proposed, in which transitions from the hospitalized state to three possible outcome states (home, long-term care, or death) are assumed to follow constant rates for each of a limited number of time periods. This results in a piecewise exponential (PWE) model for each outcome. Transition rates may be affected by time-varying covariates, which can be estimated from a reference database using standard statistical software and Poisson regression. A PWE model combining the three outcomes allows prediction of LOS. Records of 259,941 injured patients from the US Nationwide Inpatient Sample were used to create such a multi-state PWE model with four time periods. Hospital mortality and LOS for patient subgroups were calculated from this model, and time-varying covariate effects were estimated. Early mortality was increased by anatomic injury severity or penetrating mechanism, but these effects diminished with time; age and male sex remained strong predictors of mortality in all time periods. Rates of discharge home decreased steadily with time, while rates of transfer to long-term care peaked at five days. Predicted and observed LOS and mortality were similar for multiple subgroups. Conceptual background and methods of calculation are discussed and demonstrated. Multi-state PWE models may be useful to describe hospital outcomes, especially when many patients are not discharged home.


This article details what Canadian Pacific's chief executive officer calls a "reinvention" of the railway in preparation for the end of the recession when transportation patterns are expected to shift. Those expected shifts, including fewer Chinese imports and raw material exports flowing in and out of Canadian West Coast ports, are requiring railroads to reposition capacity and redesign transportation patterns. As part of that repositioning, Canadian Pacific (CP) is depending heavily on the integration of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroad to provide Class I access to key markets in the U.S. Midwest. CP plans to use fewer assets to move longer trains, and to apply a "pull-push" model to its international intermodal business. The company is also implementing a train accident prevention program.


A Fuzzy Logic-based algorithm has been developed for processing a series of speech metrics with the ultimate goal of estimating train conductor alertness. The output is a single metric, which directly quantifies the alertness level of the conductor. The metrics were selected based on their correlation to alertness through processed speech, but without any interpretation of the spoken words or phrases. Metrics that are used include: speech duration, silence duration, word production rate and word intensity. The assessment of these metrics is an experience and human knowledge based task, which generates the need for a mathematical model to accommodate this special circumstance. The algorithm developed here uses Fuzzy Logic to cast the human knowledge base into a mathematical framework for the alertness estimation analysis. The core of this fuzzy system is a rule base consisting of fuzzy IF-THEN rules, which are derived from the existing knowledge about the effects of sleep deprivation on alertness such as Furthermore, the rules were inferred from actual voice recordings that were taken on board a train. This data was then used to create a classification scheme to determine which pattern in the speech indicates different levels of alertness from anxiety to fatigue. The simplicity of the underlying mathematical model in this approach enables this system to compute and output an alertness metric in real-time. The nature of this algorithm allows for the use of an arbitrary number of rules to classify the alertness level and therefore provides the ability to continuously develop and extend the rule base as new knowledge emerges. The resulting algorithm is a fast, multi-input, single-output system that is able to quantify the train conductor's alertness level anytime speech is produced.Copyright © 2009 by ASME


Automatic grouping of voluminous data into meaningful structures is a challenging task frequently encountered in broad areas of science, engineering and information processing. These data clustering tasks are frequently performed in Euclidean space or a subspace chosen from principal component analysis (PCA). Here we describe a space obtained by a nonlinear scaling of PCA in which data objects self-aggregate automatically into clusters. Projection into this space gives sharp distinctions among clusters. Gene expression profiles of cancer tissue subtypes, Web hyperlink structure and Internet newsgroups are analyzed to illustrate interesting properties of the space.


Background: Preoperative histologic confirmation of malignant ovarian tumors before chemotherapy is mandatory. There are few reports about combined use of tru cut and FNAC as methods of preoperative sampling of ovarian tumors.
Patients and methods: This is a prospective study conducted on 50 female patients presented with advanced ovarian tumors, during the period between 1/6/2011 and 31/10/2013. Trans-abdominal ultrasound guided tru cut biopsy and FNAC were performed for the patients at the same setting. The results were compared with the postoperative histopathology reports which considered as the gold standard.
Results: Of the 50 tru cut procedures; 46 cases (92%) revealed diagnostic tissue and 4 specimens were rendered non representative. The diagnostic accuracy of tru cut biopsy is 95.7% with sensitivity is 94.7% and specificity 100%. The diagnostic accuracy of FNAC is 95% with sensitivity is 94.3% and specificity 100%. The Positive predictive value is 100% for both techniques. The negative predictive value for tru cut and FNAC is 80% and 71.4% respectively. When tru cut was combined with FNAC the rate of inadequate samples have fallen to 0. The diagnostic accuracy of combined tru cut and FNAC was 95.5% with sensitivity is 94.9% and specificity 100%. The positive predictive value was 100% and the negative predictive value was 71.4%.
Conclusion: Both tru cut and FNAC are complementary to each other in achieving adequate samples for preoperative histologic diagnosis of ovarian tumors. Even if the diagnostic accuracy wasn't changed markedly, obtaining adequate samples can justify the beneficial combination of both techniques that will reduce the hazards and costs when a single technique has to be repeated to obtain sufficient tissues for diagnosis.


We construct $p$-adic $L$-functions for Rankin--Selberg products of automorphic forms of hermitian type in the anticyclotomic direction for both root numbers. When the root number is $+1$, the construction relies on global Bessel periods on definite unitary groups which, due to the recent advances on the global Gan--Gross--Prasad conjecture, interpolate classical central $L$-values. When the root number is $-1$, we construct an element in the Iwasawa Selmer group using the diagonal cycle on the product of unitary Shimura varieties, and conjecture that its $p$-adic height interpolates derivatives of cyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-functions. We also propose the nonvanishing conjecture and the main conjecture in both cases.


Traditional labor productivity is always used to calculate the efficiency of service firms.But service industry is totally different from manufacture,and service firms have great difference in contents of service products,quality and demand.It would be worthy of further research whether the traditional labor productivity could be used in service firms.This article discusses the application of traditional labor productivity in service firm,and quantity label and financial label of input and output.It would be a useful exploration on the effective measurement of labor productivity in service firms.


A research report submitted to the college of higher degrees and research in partial fulfilment for the award of a Post graduate Diploma in Computer Sciences of Kampala International University


About two years ago, Hench and Aldrich 1 described their method for determining blood urea. The procedure, which in principle is the same as their earlier method for the determination of urea in saliva 2 (salivary index to blood urea), is as follows: Five cubic centimeters of whole blood is mixed with 5 cc. of 10 per cent trichloracetic acid, and the protein precipitate is removed by filtration or, preferably, by centrifugation. Five cubic centimeters of the filtrate is titrated with a 5 per cent solution of mercuric chloride, which combines with the nonprotein nitrogenous constituents present. The end-point is reached when a drop of the mixture gives within three seconds a definite brownish coloration with saturated sodium carbonate solution on a spot plate. The number of cubic centimeters of mercuric chloride solution required is multiplied by 40 (giving the amount that would be required by 100 cc. of whole


Mangrove forest dynamics are undergoing constant changes because of both natural and anthropogenic factors. However, the rates and causes of loss and restoration remain largely unknown. This study aims to respond to this concern by analyzing the dynamics of mangrove forests and surrounding land covers in Guangxi Province, China. We analyzed Landsat images on a decadal scale between 1973 and 2010 using an object-oriented classification method. Temporal analysis results indicated that the areal extent of mangrove forests showed the following changes: a sharp decrease from 5305 ha in 1973 to 2306 ha in 1981; a remarkable increase from 2306 ha in 1981 to 5937 ha in 2000; and a slight degradation from 5937 ha in 2000 to 5759 ha in 2010. Reclamation and natural factors resulted in the loss of mangrove forests. By comparison, protection and reforestation efforts contributed to mangrove forest restoration. During the past 40 years, mangrove forests in Guangxi were fragmented. In contrast to the movement of other mangrove forests in the world, mangroves in the coasts of Guangxi were moved seaward because the rates of change in relative sea level were exceeded by the rates of change in the elevation of sedimentation in mangrove mudflats. Simultaneously, man-made land cover prevented landward migration. These results provide valuable information for better understanding mangrove forest dynamics in developing countries. These results can also be used as guidelines in the creation and implementation of reasonable mangrove forest management policies.


Existing research portrays elite places as prone to exclusion, welcoming of upscaling, and focused on protecting their economic self-interests. This paper provides nuance to this research by exploring how stakeholders understand and respond to supergentrification. During the fall of 2016, a group of citizen activists in the exclusive community of Aspen, Colorado, initiated an ordinance seeking to limit the expansion of luxury chain stores. Drawing on qualitative data related to this case, we show that how communities respond to supergentrification depends on locally specific understandings of place and social class, and how class interests have been institutionalized in local policies. In Aspen, residents opposed luxury chain stores by marshaling narratives that foreground the community's history of class mixing and the significance of working locals. Elected officials responded by taking account of the political power of local residents as well as the city's dependence on tax revenues from affluent visitors and second homeowners. Our findings extend and complicate understandings of how power works in elite places, highlighting both the potential for, and limitations of, efforts to thwart supergentrification and associated dislocation.


Ultraviolet photoemission spectra have been measured for Ce 2 Sb, CeBi 0.9 Te 0.1 and CeSe by use of synchrotron radiation to study their electronic structures especially to study the origin of the double peak structures. We have observed the same double peak structure in CeBi 0.9 Te 0.1 as in CeBi. A remarkable triple peak structure is observed in CeSe attributed to the p , f and d bands respectively. Ce 2 Sb is more complicated but it was shown that the band structure is rather similar to CeSb except for a pseudo-gap between the p and d bands and that the f level is at the pseudo-gap causing no double peak structure.


Within different drug treatment strategies in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) namely selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) (e.g. Fluoxetine max. 60 mg/ die as well as Clomipramin 200 mg/die) have conveyed consistent benefit. In the case of non-response after an adequate treatment of 10 -12 weeks it should be switched on alternative serotonergic antidepressants. If a persistant non-response results a so-called "augmentation treatment" is recommended. The principle of augmentation consists in an increase of activity resulting from combination of serotonin agonists (e. g. Buspiron) with SSRIs.


In this work, we propose a cluster-based multihop relaying with partial relay selection (PRS) scheme for an energy harvesting (EH) relaying network. We analyze the performance in the framework of the decode-and-forward (DF) relaying with adaptive power splitting (APS) protocol over symmetric and asymmetric fading channel models. Through extensive numerical analysis, we show that the proposed scheme can substantially outperform the conventional multihop relaying approach without clustering. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme can compensate for the performance loss due to poor RF-to-DC conversion efficiency by exploiting the spatial diversity provided by the broadcast-oriented nature of the RF signal. It is also shown that the conventional belief that the multihop relaying networks over asymmetric fading channel achieve maximum throughput in Rician/Rayleigh fading environment (for source-relay link/the rest of the links) does not necessarily apply in the case of the proposed system.


Applications involving voluminous data but needing low-latency computation and local feedback require that the computing be performed as close to the data source as possible — often at the interface to the physical world. Communication constraints and the need for privacy-preserving approaches also dictate the need for computing at the edge. Given the growth in such application scenarios and the recent advances in algorithms and techniques, machine learning and inference at the edge are unfolding and growing at a rapid pace. In support of these applications, a wide range of hardware (CPUs, GPUs, ASICs) is venturing farther away from the center, closer to the physical world. The resulting diversity in edgecomputing hardware in terms of capabilities, architectures, and programming models poses several new challenges.


Abstract: A dendroecological and dendroclimatic analysis was carried out in silver fir stand of Fonte Abeti, in the Apennines of central Italy. This small forest is the only one present in the northern side of the Marche region and it is currently included as a priority habitat in the Site of Community Interest " Luna-Bocca Trabaria". The study aimed to assess the sensitivity of silver fir to the current climate variability and was carried out on 40 dominant trees, for which we reconstructed radial growth dynamics, pointer years and climate-growth relationships. These were computed for the period 1892-2003, using monthly mean temperatures and precipitation drawn from the ALP-IMP climate dataset using simple and moving correlations in order to verify response stationarity through time.


Patient welfare is the concern of the healthcare provider like an OB-Gyne medical establishment. This study aimed to develop state-of-the-art information dissemination and queuing system for the patients in an OB-Gyne clinic using SMS notification. In this manner, the assessment of the system significantly provides insights for innovation. The researchers applied the basic text mining approach to the gathered data to perform the performance analysis of the existing system. The researchers created the developed system through the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and My SQL Server 2005. The developed system aimed to improve the patient's experience using the most common digital hand-held device. Based on the given patient's comments and queries, their concern is the traditional means of facilitating business to the patients. However, the management has a strong determination of transforming to digital technology. Results showed that the new system gives a significant improvement in patient experience (3.32) and usability (3.15). The developed system has positive feedback from the patients leading to successful innovation. Thus, the implementation of effective information dissemination and the queuing system is highly acceptable.


Am J Med Genet Part A 167A:1957–1961. What is it about us mere humans to be so deluded about our evanescence as to allot a tot of extra life to those most meritorious in the service of humanity, hanging others "at Tyburn" and betting the rest of us will attain a "normal" span of life? And then again, suddenly, reality kicks us hard in the gut, unbelieving, hurting until pain is relieved by grief. What, Mary Lyon no more? As inconceivable as that seems involvingMary as a person, it comes as an enormous relief to realize that the conceptual revolution wrought by Dr. Mary Frances Lyon, the scientist (Fig. 1), is not only imperishable but will continue to flourish exuberantly like one of those centuries-old floribunda hedge roses glorious in June-time color and fragrance, home to nesting thrushes and to a thoughtful mother hedgehog with her six children. In her half-century of work at Harwell Mary Lyon


Output sequences of the cryptographic pseudo-random number generator, known as the generalized self-shrinking generator, are obtained self-decimating Pseudo-Noise (PN)-sequences with shifted versions of themselves. In this paper, we present three different representations of this family of sequences. Two of them, the p and G-representations, are based on the parameters p and G corresponding to shifts and binary vectors, respectively, used to compute the shifted versions of the original PN-sequence. In addition, such sequences can be also computed as the binary sum of diagonals of the Sierpinski's triangle. This is called the B-representation. Characteristics and generalities of the three representations are analyzed in detail. Under such representations, we determine some properties of these cryptographic sequences. Furthermore, these sequences form a family that has a group structure with the bit-wise XOR operation.


The principle of Digital Twin (DT) is to create a connection between a physical asset and its corresponding virtual twin established by generating real-time data using sensors. DT can be used for real-time condition monitoring, fault detection, optimization, prognosis, and lifetime prediction. This paper proposes the application of a DT service unit for an electric vehicle (EV) induction motor (IM) fault detection. IM stator inter-turn short circuit fault is used as a study case to highlight the DT service unit function. Such a fault is considered one of the most prevalent possible IM failures. Based on real-time measurements, Linux Robot Operation System (ROS) simulates IM's specific behavior in case of unbalanced stator currents and notifies about possible fault appearance and propagation. The obtained results from DT allow adding additional services that consider another failure, and as a result, improve physical entity reliability.


Sol−gel one-step processing of the Fe(II) alkoxide [Fe(OBut)2(THF)]2 and tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) at various ratios afforded new silica−iron oxide magnetic nanocomposite materials, ranging in shape from nanocrystals to nanorods depending on the percentage of TEOS added. The nanocomposites have been investigated by Fourier transform infrared and Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy, magnetization measurements, transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray analysis. These silica-coated magnetic materials might have a range of potential applications in biotechnology, medicine (e.g., as magnetic fluids for MRI), catalysis, and magnetic storage.


A novel magnetic anticancer drug carrier based on cellulose, guar gum, and Fe3O4 hydrogel microspheres was synthesized by chemical crosslinking. These microspheres were crosslinked with epoxy chloropropane and loaded with 5-fluorouracil (5-fu). The effect of the ratio of cellulose to guar gum on bead size, drug loading, and in vitro release behaviors were investigated. The influence of the magnetic content on drug loading and in vitro release behaviors were also evaluated. The magnetic hydrogel microspheres were characterized via an optical microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, swelling behavior analysis, vibrating sample magnetometer, and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy. The results showed that as the ratio of cellulose to guar gum increased from 3:1 to 5:1, the particle size increased from 395 to 459 um. Moreover, the drug loading capacity, encapsulation efficiency, and in vitro release behavior were influenced by the ratio of cellulose/guar gum and Fe3O4 content. Finally, the Fe3O4 particle had an adsorption effect on the drug, thereby reducing the maximum cumulative release.


The composition and diversity of plankton of culturing pond of Litopenaeus vannamei were analysed for knowing the succession of plankton community.Results indicated that the dominant species of phytoplankton are Phormidium sp、Oocystis borgei、Cyclostella sp、N.closterium sp、C.mueeleri sp、Merismopedia sp and Chlorella sp in pond.Range of diversity index is 0.08~1.89,average value is 1.36±0.25;range of dominance index is 0.20~0.98,average value is 0.51±0.26.Dominant species of zooplankton are Schmackeria Sp and Brachionus.sp.The amounts of nauplius of Schmackeria Sp fluctuate regularly and the period of changing is 15 days.


This article hopes to raise some aspects related to the practice of the Halliwick method as a method to teach survival in water, and from there going to conventional swimming. This study is an accumulation of experiences in trying to teach the method, while our teacher of Physical Education  and leader of the group, in the Program of Motor Activities for Deficient people (PROAMDE) are utilizing the methodology and philosophy in its total, and in these are included. "Happiness for being in the water" or "Felicidade por estar na agua" .The individual accompaniment of an instructor for each swimmer, with no use of flotation objects, emphasis on abilities and not on the deficiencies , all are taught in a way to so they will learn the properties of the water and their affects on the body.  All are encouraged to improve but not pressured, and all are called by their first names, reinforcing the equality of each  one.  All this is a part of a program, based on the theoretical references of the creator of the method.  James McMillan.


The recently finished PhD research by the author engaged in a discussion of agency and taskscapes based on a GIS analysis of economic landscapes in southern Calabria (Italy). In the context of current postdoctoral research the methodology used was critically evaluated giving rise to a number of discussion points concerning modelling the effects of agency and qualifying physical environments in terms of environmental type, yield, human presence, cost and human activity. These are briefly discussed in relation to a summarised presentation of the project and its GIS models.


Background: Most author advocates the need for early postoperative clinical and radiographic follow-up in operative treatment of completely displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children but in central India specially rural population is there, for whom it is difficult to get weekly X-rays done.Therefore we decided to determine the necessity of postoperative x rays after k-wire fixation for the operative treatment of completely displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children. Methods: 103 patients who underwent operative management of Gartland type III fractures at our institution from November 2012 to January 2016 were reviewed. Intraoperative C-arm images were compared with postoperative radiographs to identify changes in fracture alignment and k-wire placement. Results: A total of 103 patients (48 females, 55 males) with a mean age of 7.1 years (range, 3.1 to 12.0) were reviewed which were classified as type III. Fracture displacement or k-wire back out was seen in three patients (2.9%) at the first postoperative visit. None of these patients required further operative management. On statistical evaluation, no significant difference was seen in terms of time to first postoperative visit, days to k-wire removal, or average follow-up time. The overall complication rate was 7.76% (9/103) Conclusions: Fracture displacement and k-wire migration observed in postoperative radiographs after k-wire fixation of supracondylar humerus fractures have little effect on clinical management or long-term complication. Radiographs can therefore be delayed until the time of k-wire removal provided sufficient intraoperative stability was obtained.


This paper tries to evaluate the productive performance of transit systems in major European cities. It makes intermodal and intercity comparisons, and identifies economies of density, vehicle capacity and higher vehicle speed as essential factors in performance. It finds that costs and subsidies have an effect on performance. The results of intermodal comparisons suggest that streetcars do not fill a significant gap between buses and underground rail. Some transport systems are offered as good models.


Abstract : Twenty years after the Iranian Revolution there is a growing discourse in Iran concerning the nature of society and government within the Islamic Republic. Dissatisfied with the status quo, Iranians are calling for accountability of the government to the people, respect for individual freedoms and the mie of law, and economic reforms. In view of these trends in Iranian society, Iranian religious intellectuals are engaged in a debate concerning the role of religion in politics, the compatibility of Islam with democracy, relations with the West, and the role of the clergy. Increasingly, the debate is challenging Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of velayat-efaqih (The Mandate of the Jurist), as codified in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic. This paper seeks to address the question of the importance of Khomeini's concept of velayat-e faqih to the Islamic Republic of Iran. I have divided the subject-matter into three chapters. In chapter one, I argue that the notion of velayat-e faqih, as interpreted by Khomeini, traces its roots to the late 18th century. As such, his notion represents the adaptation of an existing Shi'ite legal doctrine to the historical context of Iran in the 1960s and 1970s. While his definition of velayat (authority), and the source from which it devolves to the foqaha (Islamic jurists) seem to promote an autocratic government, there is some ambiguity in his argument concerning the role of the people. Finally, I argue that although Khomeini's is not the only interpretation of velayat-e efizqih, it is unique in that it became the ideology for the Isalmic Republic and was extensively codified in the Constitution.


kept the Mozambique topic off British screens? Or different perceived cultural orientations? Fewer available programme minutes due to more advertisements in the UK? Or what? The differences between the UK and Norwegian versions of Discovery are presented as fascinating facts (as indeed they are) rather than as the basis for analytical distinctions. We learn that there are differences but we do not know why. Some other data, unfortunately, read as if thrown in to bulk up the quantity of goodies in a scholarly bran tub (snippets on different countries, e.g. one and a half pages on 'Asia and China' and less than a page on 'India', do not help focus and carry forward an identifiable argument). Mjos presents a potentially interesting and important account of corporate media 'localization' strategies (if segmenting the global market into units as large as 'Africa, Middle East and Turkey', see p. 104, or MEATI – Middle East, Africa, Turkey, Israel, see p. 106, can be said to be localization) and rightly identifies the significance of trade-offs between economies of scale in joint provision vs growth of consumption through tailoring products to markets segmented by language and culture. But it is surprising not to find Hoskins and Mirus's (1988) notion of 'cultural discount' mentioned in this context – their deservedly well-known article provides a good conceptual handle on the issue Mjos identifies. It is not that the reader wants yet another scholarly authority to be invoked but rather that Hoskins and Mirus's coining exemplifies how a concept of general applicability can be generated through analysis, going beyond description, of a specific instance. This would be useful to Mjos both to make sense of the phenomena which he describes and as an example of how empirical scholarship can provide a basis for the generation of powerful analytical concepts of general applicability. Finally, though it is good to see a scholarly monograph hit the shelves, Mjos has not been well served by his copy editor. The book has too many vexatious typos: some are amusing like 'scare resource' (not scarce resource) on p. 40 but others are just irritating: among them are Tehri not Terhi (unpaginated acknowledgements); Morgas Spa instead of Moragas Spa (p. 16); Geschicte not Geschichte (p. 28); CBeeBies rather than CBeebies (p. 42); KiKa rather than KI.KA or, possibly, kika (p. 42); Sidney not Sydney (p. 65); marked not market (p. 101) and so on.


Human resource management: challenges and future directions is a book of invited chapters about aspects of HRM, a book that poses particular challenges and offers advice to managers and in particular HR managers of contemporary organisations. First, it provides valuable insights into managing people. Second, it addresses contemporary challenges that HR managers and managers in general face every day. Third, it outlines the practical implications of issues for organisations. Forth, it identifies future directions for managers and particularly HR managers to consider in their quest to develop high performance workplaces.

Overall, we feel the book fulfils, a real need for HR managers and students of Human Resource Managers alike. It supports current texts on Human Resource Management with alternative views and perspectives. It is unique in that it provides up-to-date commentary from a group of noted authors on significant issues relating to HRM.

The chapters have been grouped in four parts: The changing Context of HRM, Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations, Contemporary Issues in Managing Performance and Development, and Managing for the New Millennium.


The present invention, magnesium is composed of titanium, a halogen and an electron donor, the titanium is not eliminated by washing with hexane at room temperature, when washed with o- dichlorobenzene at 90 ℃ reduction ratio less than or equal to 15% by weight of the titanium content of the solid titanium catalyst component It provides. The solid titanium catalyst component is brought into contact with the solid titanium (i) with the polar solvent default moment of 0.50 to 4.00 does not tally with titanium by washing with hexane at room temperature, the titanium content is reduced by at least 25% by weight, and the electron donor to titanium and the weight ratio of production by the method for producing a 7 or more solid titanium catalyst component. The solid titanium catalyst component using the olefin polymerization catalyst containing the polymerization can be that the stereoregularity of an olefin with an active and a less amount of the polyolefin and the stereoregularity of the polyolefin (co).


Considering the data acquisition system demand for high capacity and fast transfer rate,a SD card-based data storage system was designed,in which,the basic file manipulation function of Fat32 file system had been embedded into the master chip.The test results prove its stability and reliability in data transfer and storage.


In the absence of agricultural policy, the behavior of the agricultural sector is dictated by market forces. Any agricultural policy, other than one of "hands off—let the market forces rule," is dependent upon programmatic tools which in one way or another attempt to interfere or modify behavior of the sector. If it is government's objective to design and implement a set of programs which will distort market behavior so as to achieve policy goals with minimum negative side effects, it is essential that policymakers understand the kind of market environment within which the U.S. farm sector exists and how this market is likely to behave, given alternative interferences.


Museum Pustaka Lontar in Karangasem, Bali, has preserved and promoted lontars, the manuscripts that carried the ancient texts of Balinese tradition. This research and development study constructed an English module for the local guides at the lontar museum. The needs analysis derived from the observation of the museum, and interviews with the guides, investigated the guides' necessities, lacks, and wants in learning English. The result showed that the local guides needed modules where the materials correspond to the guiding sequences of the museum. The materials had to also accommodate the translation of museum lontar-specific terms into English. Conversation-based materials were the most requested, as it resembled their daily interaction with visitors. These findings served as the base for the material development of the English module. Guides, language learners, and teachers in the tourism field might source their learning from the module.


The article presents an observation on the various traditional forms of cross-border seasonal labour mobility on the Balkans, both as agricultural works away from the home place, and as large-scale temporary craftsmen's migrations of builders, bakers, dairy workers, confectioners and so on. In countries like Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, traditional cultural models of trans-border labour mobility that encom-passes the majority of the male population of entire regions have existed for centuries. These migrant groups created the specific subculture of gurbet , which the men carried with them in the big city, at the same time altering the entire model of traditional culture in their home regions. The annual journeys of men from the various mountain parts of the Balkans "at work" and "for gain" ( pe č alba ) in the course of the years developed specific features of the feast-ritual system and folklore in the villages of these regions. At the same time, the traditional Balkan gurbet is an important condition for mutual penetra-tion between various cultures and peoples and for creating new cultural patterns and various multidimentional identities.


In response to the Francis Inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS trust, Health Education England has said that it will require universities to assess medical school applicants on the basis of their values and behaviours.

Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England (HEE), the health authority with responsibility for medical education, said: "HEE will be talking to universities to ensure that every student we directly or indirectly fund to study nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, or any other health related course should be interviewed prior to being offered a place and they should also be subject to an assessment of their values and behaviours. If potential students cannot demonstrate the right values and behaviours to work in healthcare, why should tax payers spend tens or hundreds of thousands …


We present a self-stabilizing passive replication mechanism for Internet service platforms. The proposed system based on this mechanism aims to provide services despite simultaneous failure of the majority of nodes. To achieve this objective, we use the self- stabilizing consensus algorithm introduced by Dolev et al., instead of a majority-based consensus algorithm such as Paxos. Although our system allows temporary illegal behavior, it eventually converges on the desired state without interruption of services. Thus, the proposed system is useful for providing services that require high availability, but not strict consistency, a prime example of which is an Internet bulletin board for communication during large-scale natural disasters. We implemented a prototype and evaluated it with experiments to demonstrate availability through various patterns of failures.


In an alkaline solution,Ag+ can be reduced by formaldehyde to form silver nanoparticles,leading to the resonance light scattering(RLS) intensities of the system to be enhanced.Based on these phenomena,a new RLS method for trace formaldehyde determination in environment water samples was established.Under the optimized reaction conditions,the enhanced RLS intensities of the system has a good relationship with the concentration of formaldehyde in a range of 1.0×10-6~2.0×10-5 mol/L with the detection limit of 1.0×10-7 mol/L.The standard addition recovery ratio is in a range of 96.26% to 103.32% for formaldehyde detection in environmental water samples and in the indoor air.According to the phenomenon that the resultant from the reaction of Ag+ and formaldehyde has different colors in the presence of formaldehyde with different concentrations,a visual semi-quantificational method for detection of formaldehyde could be achieved.


Objective To investigate the antithrombotic effective and safe of adjusted dose warfarin senile patients with atrial fibrillation.Methods Seventy five patients older than 75 years with atrial fibrillation in our hospital from January 2005 to December 2009 were randomly divided into warfarin group(35 cases) and aspilin group(40 cases);the warfarin group was administrated with warfarin,while the aspilin group with aspilin.The original dose of warfarin was 2.5 mg/d,to adjusted dose according with the international normalized ratio(INR) controlled in 2.0 to 2.5;the dose of aspilin was 100 mg/d.All patients were followed up for 1 year.The chemic stroke and bleeding complication were recorded and compared.Results The incidence rate of ischemic stroke were 5.7% and 22.5% in warfarin group and aspilin group,respectively(P0.05);there was no serious bleeding occurred in both groups,the rates of minor bleeding were 8.6% and 7.5%(P0.05).Conclusion Under the intensive monitoring INR(2.0 to 2.5),the adjusted dose warfarin can safely and remarkably reduce the incidence of thrombo embolism in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation.


The paper presents the fault isolation method for linear systems taking into account the residual dynamics. The method is based on the analysis of the sequence of observed symptoms assuming the residual models. Additionally, the method of designing the secondary residuals that allows to achieve particular symptom sequence for particular fault is proposed. Described methods are illustrated with a simple example.


We formulate general conditions on 3 × 3 neutrino mass matrices under which a degenerate pair of neutrinos at a high scale would split at low scale by radiative corrections involving only the standard model fields. This generalizes the original observations of Wolfenstein on pseudo Dirac neutrinos to three generations. A specific model involving partially broken discrete symmetry and solving the solar and atmospheric anomalies is proposed. The symmetry pattern of the model naturally generates two large angles one of which can account for the large angle MSW solution to the solar neutrino problem.


The lack of land promotes the application of electro-osmosis reinforcement in soft clay foundations,but insufficient attention is given to its design method.Electro-osmotic process and electrodes electrolytic reaction are studied based on the electro-osmotic mechanism.The influences of four different kinds of factors on the electro-osmosis are analyzed,including soil properties,electrode,power output and power modes.An electro-osmotic design method for soft clay foundations is proposed based on the existing cases and illustrated by an example.The proposed method can be applied in the electro-osmotic treatment of common metal electrodes arrayed in rectangle and in other conditions after simple modifications.It has the abilities to evaluate electro-osmotic treatment suitability of sites,to consider the influence of site geological conditions and to improve the efficiency of electro-osmosis by controlling the parametric values.


But the ancient debate on emergence, whether indeed wholes may have properties not intrinsic to the parts, is besides the point. The fact is, that parts have properties that are characteristic of them only as they are parts of wholes; the properties come into existence in the interaction that makes the whole. To this point, we have introduced the machinery of the differential approach, the methods for its realization, and the structure of a general purpose implementation. In this chapter, we consider how the approach can be encapsulated to support the construction of graphical editing applications. Graphical applications typically share a wide variety of functionality, so their construction is often facilitated by the creation of toolkits that encapsulate the common needs. This chapter discusses such a toolkit built on top of the differential approach. Bramble is an object-oriented graphics toolkit, built on the infrastructure of the previous chapters. Bramble has much in common with other object-oriented graphics toolkits designed to support direct manipulation graphical editors, such as Garnet [MGD + 90], Inventor [SC92], GROOP [KW93], and Alice [PT94]. Bramble's primary distinction is that it is designed on top of the differential approach. The major consequences of this are: The differential approach is used to create almost all graphical manipulations. Graphical objects have connectors that compute their various attributes, and often provide these standardized connectors in lieu of specific interaction code. Snap-Together Mathematics is used to connect objects together and to connect interactive controls to objects. Bramble provides support for application features such as geometric constraints that are easy to create with the differential approach, but difficult to implement in standard toolkits. Bramble's control flow is dictated by the differential approach. The model of an ODE solver with events interleaved between steps, as described in Section 6.2, 111


Schoenflies (X) motion is a 4D displacement Lie group including a spatial translation and any rotation whose axis is parallel to a given direction. Delassus parallelogram has four parallel screw (H) pairs with related pitches and the isosceles triangle is a special HHHP. After merging these two chains, an HHH-//-HHH generator of 2-DoF translation along a right helicoid is derived. It produces a 2-DoF motion mathematically modeled by a 2D submanifold of a 4D group of X-motion. Because of the product closure in an X-group, the 4-DoF generator with HHH-//-HHH loop serving as a subchain is revealed by adding two H pairs with axes parallel to fixed H axes. Parallel arrangement of two generators of the same X motion results in a new Schoenflies-motion manipulator with hybrid topology for 4-DoF pick-and-place operations. Four fixed H pairs (two double Hs) can actuate this manipulator and the two coaxial Hs must have distinct pitches. In addition, the possible design choices of special architectures are introduced for practical applications. Computer simulations of the new parallel manipulator with Schoenflies motion verify the effectiveness.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


This study proposes an improved immune algorithm (IIA) with multiplier updating (MU) for power economic dispatch (PED) considering units with both of prohibited operating zones (POZ) and spinning reserve. The IIA equipped with an accelerated operation and a migration operation can efficiently search and actively explore solutions. The MU is introduced to handle the equality and inequality constraints of the power system. To show the advantages of the proposed algorithm, three realistic examples are investigated, and computational results of the proposed method are compared with that of previous methods. The proposed approach (IIA-MU) integrates the IIA and the MU, revealing that the proposed approach has the following merits - ease of implementation; applicability to non-convex fuel cost functions; better effectiveness than previous methods; better efficiency than immune algorithm with the MU (IA-MU), and the requirement for only a small population in applying the optimal PED problem of generators with POZ and spinning reserve.


Anhui mineral resource compensation fee remission application,verification and censoring regulation is the first technical requirement in the mineral resource compensation fee application and censoring in China.In the regulation framework,this paper analyzed the role in the regulation application practice,and pointed out the controversial aspect on the qualitative and quantitative division in the remission project and term.The conclusion is that the regulation on the mineral resource compensation fee remission should consider the mineral resource asset,combined with the mineral resource reserve dynamic monitoring,mine supervision management and mineral resources compensation levy.Above all,the mineral resource compensation fee levy and remission should be revised from the national level in time,as mineral species to provide a format,operational and promotional norm.


With the roaring development of China's higher education, there are existing some problems and contradictions to resolve. First is the "prostration" between law, policy and reality, resulting in establishment of compensation system for the weak and balance system to adjust the educational sources among areas; second is the contradiction rising up from defection of rules and increasing distance between colleges, resulting in establishment of the mechanism of competition and condition equally to promote the healthy and sustainable development of popularization of higher education; third is the confusion and the unfairness of carrying out the law and policy in private colleges, resulting in the admission of the co - existence of beneficial and unbeneficial higher education bodies upon the law clearly, and setting up the relevant condition and policy to treat differently.


A single-mode bismuth-doped tellurite glass fiber using a multi-stage fiber fabrication method was fabricated. It features low propagation loss of 0.86 dB/m and high effective nonlinear parameter γ of 417 W–1•km–1 at 1550 nm.


In the cutthroat energy market, onerous demands are being made on for power utility companies to survive. Tactics and techniques to reduce costs and minimize downtime are ever more essential.


The paper presents interpretation of a Caucasian part of the recently published seismic tomography model of Asia. Key features of the model are low Pand S-velocity anomalies in the crust and upper mantle below the highest mountains and volcanic centers. Based on this model authors suggest that mantle lithosphere and mafic lower crust beneath mountain ranges was delaminated, what in turn caused magmatic activity and heating of the crust. I'll attempt answering two major questions related to this paper. (1) How robust is seismological model? (2) How robust and innovative is its geodynamic interpretation?


Image held by Fitzroy Library.
Number 532, Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy with kids. This house classified as 'repairable'.
Also visible is the wall of No. 530, part of row with 528. Note the high-rise buildings reflected in the front window.

As of 2009: 530 AND 532 all apparently suvive.


This work presents an approach to predicting loss-of-control with the goal of providing the pilot a decision aid focused on maintaining the pilot's control action within predicted loss-of-control boundaries. The predictive architecture combines quantitative lossof-control boundaries, a data-based predictive control boundary estimation algorithm and an adaptive prediction method to estimate Markov model parameters in real-time. The data-based loss-of-control boundary estimation algorithm estimates the boundary of a safe set of control inputs that will keep the aircraft within the loss-of-control boundaries for a specied time horizon. The adaptive prediction model generates estimates of the system Markov Parameters, which are used by the data-based loss-of-control boundary estimation algorithm. The combined algorithm is applied to a nonlinear generic transport aircraft to illustrate the features of the architecture.


The invention relates to agents for cleaning tarnished silver surfaces containing alkaline electrolytes and reducing agents which have a solubility of more than 20 g per liter of water at 20 DEG C.


The rich public outdoor sculpture practice of the Southwest of Nigeria still lacks scientific and empirical experimentation of non-conventional material for the production of outdoor sculpture, particularly pottery images. Although scholarship on public outdoor sculpture in the Southwest of Nigeria is becoming steady in growth, yet a reconnaissance study of the pottery sculpture in art practice and historical perspective has not been made. A study of this type of art, erected in the garden of Ife art school is exigent and paramount now that many of the works are not being maintained. The study underscores the inherent values in the genre of the art; and examined pottery sculpture types, its uses in public sphere and its development in morphology, iconic thematic and stylistic expressions. The study observed that outdoor pottery sculptures are impressive, apparent in sculpture multiplicity of type and dynamics; it is rare in occurrence in Southwestern Nigeria. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3p219


A machine (100) includes a main drive motor (102), which is connected to an implement pump (204), which operates an actuator, and a drive pump that drives a motor (106). An electronic control device (218) is provided for receiving at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of a pressure fluid to the at least one motor (106), a pressure of fluid in the at least one Arbeitsgerataktuator, a rotational speed of the main drive motor (102) a rotational speed of at least one motor (106) and a torque output of the main drive motor (102) is selected. The electronic controller (218) monitors the at least one parameter for a predetermined period, and determines an operation mode of the machine (100). The electronic controller (218) then adjusts a lower speed setting for the main drive motor (102) based on the operating mode.


To develop an innovatory type of radiator, this paper presents a design method for a printed-on-display (POD) antenna, which is intended to replace the traditional ones, for example, monopole antennas, helical antennas, etc., installed on diverse wireless mobile terminals. These terminals may function as a GSM wireless telephone handset or a GPS (Global Positioning System) handset, etc. The key feature is that they have both an antenna and an electronic display. Further, for those terminals, such a new antenna design removes the drawback of being easily damaged mechanically, and is more integrated electronically. The POD antenna is composed of printed radiators which are made of a material being both electrically conductive and optically transparent, for example, ITO (indium oxide doped with tin oxide). The printed strip will be the fundamental elements for this application.


The article is devoted to the questions of the territory investment potential valuation. It is the valuation system ofdistinctions in territories characteristics and their comparisons that are especially actual and necessary forinvestors as territories differ in labour, financial, natural and other resources, and various conditions created forinvestors by governing bodies. The article suggests the solution of this problem by calculating a total evaluativeindicator, that is, territory investment potential. The authors of article present the analysis results of a number ofvarious valuation techniques of investment potential, and mark the main advantages and disadvantages ofexisting approaches and valuation techniques. In the article the author's technique of valuation of territoryinvestment potential is suggested. It is based on the analysis of factors influencing investment potential. Thetechnique takes into account inflationary, political and social risks because stable political, economic and socialsituation is important for an investor. On the basis of the technique developed by the authors investmentpotential of a separate territory was calculated and forecasted.


BACKGROUND
Health coaching has emerged as an intervention for improving health behaviors. Given the recent increased integration of health coaching into physical therapist practice, there has been a subsequent rise in research examining the effects of health coaching provided by physical therapists. However, there is a lack of literature summarizing the effectiveness of health coaching delivered by physical therapists in changing patient health behaviors.

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to systematically review the effects of health coaching delivered by physical therapists on promoting participant health behaviors.

DATA SOURCES
Cochrane, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PEDro, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases were searched from inception to May 26, 2018, to identify randomized controlled trials examining the effects of health coaching delivered by physical therapists.

STUDY SELECTION
Two reviewers independently screened titles, abstracts, and full texts according to inclusion and exclusion criteria to determine study eligibility.

DATA EXTRACTION
Methodological quality was assessed using Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scores. Risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration risk-of-bias assessment tool. Data were extracted using a standardized data extraction form describing study methods, design, and outcomes.

DATA SYNTHESIS
Eleven trials met the inclusion criteria for this study. Health coaching produced positive effects on physical activity (6 studies) as well as physiological and psychological secondary outcomes.

LIMITATIONS
The fact that only 11 randomized controlled trials were included in this review may limit the generalizability of the findings. The heterogeneity of the findings precluded the performance of a meta-analysis.

CONCLUSIONS
Research on the effectiveness of health coaching delivered by physical therapists on health behavior outcomes is mixed. Data indicate statistically significant changes in some health behavior, physiological, and psychological outcomes.


In the last decade, illumination problem has been the bottleneck of robust face recognition system. Extracting illumination invariant features becomes more and more significant to solve this issue. However, existing works in this field only consider the variations caused by lighting direction or magnitude (denoted as homogeneous lighting), while the spectral wavelength is always ignored in most of the developed illumination invariant descriptors. In this paper, we claim that the spectral wavelength is important, and we propose a novel gradient based descriptor, namely Logarithm Gradient Histogram (LGH), which takes the illumination direction, magnitude and even the spectral wavelength together into consideration (denoted as heterogeneous lighting). Our proposal contributes in the following three-folds: (1) we incorporate homogeneous filtering to alleviate the illumination effect for each image and extract two illumination invariant components, namely logarithm gradient orientation (LGO) and logarithm gradient magnitude (LGM); (2) we propose an effective postprocessing strategy to guarantee the fault-tolerant ability and generate a histogram representation to integrate both LGO and LGM; (3) we present thorough theoretical analysis on the illumination invariant properties for our proposed method. Experimental results on CMU-PIE, Extended YaleB and HFB databases are reported to verify the effectiveness of our proposed method.


Non-radiative wireless power transfer (WPT) system using strong magnetic resonant coupling has been recently proposed
and has shown more prospects in mid-range wireless power
transmission due to its operating range and efficiency. The
efficiency of such WPT system changes with the coupling distance between the coils changes, which is a critical issue for high efficient power transmission. In this paper, we demonstrate an impedance matching approach based on coupling tuning to enhance and maximize the efficiency of the system. The matching conditions are derived by analysing an equivalent circuit model of the system using reflected load theory (RLT) along with the derivation of maximum transmission efficiency. The matching condition is achieved by tuning coupling coefficients between the loop-coil and
the internal coil, and verified against theoretical data by simulation in an electric automatic tool. Applying this technique results, efficiency of over 90% at the small coupling distance at a fixed operating frequency. The results show improvement of efficiency are about 16.1 % and 9.8 % at 90 cm and 1.15 m, respectively, compared to the traditional WPT system without matching, and thereby increase the operating range of the system.


Background: Deletion of 17p in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is associated with resistance to conventional therapy and a poor clinical outcome. Though TP53 mutations have been described in some of these cases, the extent to which they occur in CLL patients and their clinical implications remain unclear. We investigated the prognostic value of TP53 mutations in the clinical course of CLL patients. Methods: We analysed 529 CLL samples from the UK LRF CLL4 clinical trial (Chlorambucil vs Fludarabine±Cyclophosphamide) for the presence of TP53 mutations and their association with response to treatment, progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). We also investigated the correlation between TP53 mutations and other well-known prognostic indicators in CLL including stage, chromosomal aberrations, VH mutational status and CD38 and ZAP-70 expression. Results: Mutations of TP53 were found in 44 of 529 patients overall (8.3%). TP53 mutations were present in 26 out of 32 (81%) patients with 17p deletion in >20% of cells (p 20% of 17p deletion- define a subgroup with intermediate prognosis (3 year OS: 52% [95% CI 32–73]) compared to those with neither (80% [95% CI 76–83]) or both (23% [95% CI 7–39]) (p(trend) Conclusions: Our data shows that TP53 mutations are associated with a poor outcome in CLL patients regardless of the deletion of 17p. Furthermore, the clinical significance of 17p deletion seems to be tightly linked to the presence of mutations in the remaining TP53 allele, and these patients with no wild-type TP53 genes have the lowest OS and PFS rates. Finally, the group of CLL patients with TP53 haploinsufficiency (either by mutation or deletion in >20% of the cells) presents an intermediate prognosis and will be further investigated.


Some inherent shortcomings of the global positioning systems (GPSs), such as limited accuracy and availability, limit the positioning performance of a vehicular location system in urban harsh environments. This motivates the development of cooperative positioning (CP) methods based on emerging vehicle-to-anything communications. In this paper, we present a framework of vehicular positioning enhancement based on dedicated short range communications (DSRC). An interactive multiple model is first used to track the distributed manners of both the vehicle acceleration variations and the switching of the covariances of DSRC physical measurements such as the Doppler frequency shift and the received signal strength indicator, with which a novel CP enhancement method is presented to improve the distributed estimation performance by sharing the motion states and the physical measurements among local vehicles through vehicular DSRC. We have also presented an analysis on the positioning performance, and a closed-formed lower bound, named the modified square position error bound (mSPEB), is derived for bounding the positioning estimation performance of CP systems. Simulation results have been supplemented to compare our proposed method with the stand-alone GPS implementation in terms of the root-mean-square error (RMSE), showing that the obtained positioning enhancement can improve comprehensive positioning performance by the percentage varying between about 35% and about 72% under different traffic intensities and the connected vehicle penetrations. More importantly, the RMSE achieved by our method is shown remarkably closed to the root of the theoretical mSPEB.


Fairly recently, two announcements concerning astrophysical observations appeared. The first from NASA mentioned the fact that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had detected a 100-fold increase in the intensity of high-energy electrons from elsewhere in the galaxy diffusing into our solar system from outside; the other revealed that a new all-sky map showed the magnetic fields of the Milky Way with the highest precision and proceeded to point out that the origin of galactic magnetic fields remains unknown despite intensive research, although it seemingly assumed that they are constructed via dynamo processes, such as are said to occur in the interiors of the Earth and the Sun. Here it is pointed out that plasma cosmology/electric universe theory can, and does, offer viable solutions to these and other supposed problems faced by orthodox cosmology.


We construct a orbital angular momentum (OAM) Poincar´e sphere in which we can represent 2-D superposition states of arbitrary OAM. In addition, we represent the mixed states of OAM as non separable states inside the sphere. We also give an experimental set up to generate all points on this sphere.


This paper presents the monitoring of tool wear during turning process by on-line detecting and analyzing the cutting force signals. In the study the main factor to be considered is the cutting tool failure in terms of flank wear land (VB). Program codes were developed for monitoring the cutting tool using C++ and VB languages, because C++ is similar to machine language. The turning tests were carried out at two different of cutting speed (180 m /min and 280 m /min), and various feed rate and depth of cut when turning work material Titanium 64 with CBN cutting tool. The cutting force signals were analysed using the developed software (C++ and VB) and I-kaz 3D. The I-kaz 3D coefficient was found decreases with increasing in VB value in all cases studied. Therefore the method developed is suitable for monitoring the progress of wear in the range of study for that particular combination of work material and cutting tool.


Nutrition has long been recognized as important for maintaining health, but recent research has more clearly established the link between dietary energy, protein, mineral, and vitamin concentrations and immune function, health, and ultimately production and performance. The focus of this session will be to review some of the most common nutritional challenges that practitioners will face when serving beef clients, and identify potential interventions with the goal of enhancing overall herd health and individual well-being and performance.


En Traditionally multiple correspondence analysis involves transforming a contingency table to its indicator or Burt matrix form then performing the classical two-way approach. Alternatively, one may also consider techniques that are more model based such as the partitions associated with the PARAFAC/CANDECOMP models or the Tucker3 model. Traditionally these procedures have proven to be of benefit in studies where the variables are nominally structured. This paper will demonstrate how they can be adapted for ordinal variables by incorporating orthogonal polynomials into the partitions and a graphical description of the association can be obtained by considering correspondence analysis. This paper will also consider the case where the variables of a three-way contingency table are asymmetrically associated.


Table of Contents Editors'Introduction M.M. Richter, C.H. Smith, R. Wiehagen, and T. Zeugmann Inductive Logic Programming and Data Mining Scalability Issues in Inductive Logic Programming (Invited Lecture) S. Wrobel Inductive Inference Learning to Win Process-Control Games Watching Game-Masters J. Case, M. Ott, A. Sharma, and F. Stephan Closedness Properties in EX-identification of Recursive Functions K. Apsitis, R. Freivalds, R. Simanovskis, and J. Smotrovs Learning via Queries Lower Bounds for the Complexity of Learning Half-Spaces with Membership Queries V.N. Shevchenko, and N.Yu. Zolotykh Cryptographic Limitations on Parallelizing Membership and Equivalence Queries with Applications to Random Self-Reductions M. Fischlin Learning Unary Output Two-Tape Automata from Multiplicity and Equivalence Queries G. Melideo, and S. Varricchio Computational Aspects of Parallel Attribute-Efficient Learning P. Damaschke PAC Learning from Positive Statistical Queries F. Denis Prediction Algorithms Structured Weight-Based Prediction Algorithms (Invited Lecture) A. Maruoka, and E. Takimoto Inductive Logic Programming Learning from Entailment of Logic Programs with Local Variables M.K.R. Krishna Rao, and A. Sattar Logical Aspects of Several Bottom-Up Fittings A. Yamamoto Learnability of Translations from Positive Examples N. Sugimoto Analysis of Case-Based Representability of Boolean Functions by Monotone Theory K. Satoh Learning Formal Languages Locality, Reversibility, and Beyond: Learning Languages from Positive Data T. Head, S. Kobayashi, and T. Yokomori Synthesizing Learners Tolerating Computable Noisy Data J. Case, and S. Jain Characteristic Sets for Unions of Regular Pattern Languages and Compactness M. Sato, Y. Mukouchi, and D. Zheng Finding a One-Variable Pattern from Incomplete Data H. Sakamoto A Fast Algorithm for Discovering Optimal String Patterns in Large Text Databases H. Arimura, A. Wataki, R. Fujino, and S. Arikawa Inductive Inference A Comparison of IdentificationCriteria for Inductive Inference of Recursive Real-Valued Functions E. Hirowatari, and S. Arikawa Predictive Learning Models for Concept Drift J. Case, S. Jain, S. Kaufmann, A. Sharma, and F. Stephan Learning with Refutation S. Jain Comparing the Power of Probabilistic Learning and Oracle Identification under Monotonicity Constraints L. Meyer Learning Algebraic Structures from Text Using Semantical Knowledge F. Stephan and Y. Ventsov Inductive Logic Programming Lime: A System for Learning Relations (Invited Lecture) E. McCreath, and A. Sharma Miscellaneous On the Sample Complexity for Neural Trees M. Schmitt Learning Sub-Classes of Monotone DNF on the Uniform Distribution K. Verbeurgt Using Attribute Grammars for Description of Inductive Inference Search Space U. Sarkans, and J. Barzdins Towards the Validation of Inductive Learning Systems G. Grieser, K.P. Jantke, and S. Lange Consistent Polynomial Identification in the Limit W. Stein Author Index


We study the application of a counterdiabatic driving (CD) technique to enhance the thermodynamic efficiency and power of a quantum Otto refrigerator based on a superconducting qubit coupled to two resonant circuits. Although the CD technique is originally designed to counteract nonadiabatic coherent excitations in isolated systems, we find that it also works effectively in the open system dynamics, improving the coherence-induced losses of efficiency and power. We compare the CD dynamics with its classical counterpart, and find a deviation that arises because the CD is designed to follow the energy eigenbasis of the original Hamiltonian, but the heat baths thermalize the system in a different basis. We also discuss possible experimental realizations of our model.