ENDOCRINE therapy already forms a valuable contribution to the medical armamentarium and has undoubtedly come to stay, yet two facts must have struck all those who are interested in the subject. One is the amazing and brilliant advances which have been made, and are still being made, in the chemistry and physiology of endocrines : the other, the disappointment which must be experienced by many at the results of therapy in the more important functional disorders that women are heir to. Especially is this so when it is considered that such therapy is not empirical but based on the results of scientific investigations. It is a truth that endocrine therapy, apart from a few conditions in which it is specific, is still in its experimental phase and it is important, both from the patient's point of view and the reputation of endocrine therapy, that this fact should be appreciated. I feel that, outside endocrine clinics, which perforce must be experimental, little discrimination is being employed in its use. Patients' hopes are buoyed up and their pockets lightened to no purpose. The cause of this is threefold. Firstly, the encouragement that the clinician gleans from reading the many commercial brochures on the subject. Secondly, the fact that little harm results from the use of endocrines in general, and, thirdly, the tendency of functional uterine disturbances to recover spontaneously.


While uprising and revolt in the Arab African states have begun to gain attention among scholars of social and political revolts, and in the western world itself, there has been remains almost no scholarly analysis of it, not least of all in political and sociology sciences. It discounts the pathology explanation for political and social revolt, a view that is often driven by scholars of the region's political culture, and instead investigates the political outcomes of the national revolts, mainly the political structure and dynamics that have shaped the phenomenon by the protests in the Arab African states. The region still searches for political, social and economic development and a fair place within the globalization process have all not helped to create an environment of a finished revolt. Social and political revolt can often be helped to create an environment for economic prosperity, standard health and educational system. The book argues that four years later, the Arab African revolts, one of the longest sitting uprisings in the region had not arrived to a stable change. How are these changes making sense?


Numerous and diverse changes in employment and labour relations assistant the process of deepening and expanding the space for innovative development, the study of which is becoming more limited within the traditional methodological frameworks. Despite the relevance of interdisciplinary synthesis it has not been widespread yet in the research of problems of labor. The article discusses the current state of the research field and limits of application of different approaches to the analysis of new trends in labor and employment relations. The possibilities and limitations of interdisciplinary synthesis in the study of labour world, taking in account the processes of innovation.


In ears in which there are major pathological defects in the mastoid as well as in the middle ear, the use of a system of skin grafting to re-establish a middle ear air space involves major difficulties. The primary aim in skin grafting must always be the preservation of the graft. This problem becomes a great deal more difficult when the center of the graft must bridge an air space which affords no blood supply. If drum remnants and ossicles, which may harbor infection, are retained in an effort to provide blood supply and support to the periphery of the graft, there is. always the danger of burying sepsis or epithelium. If these structures are removed to allow for thorough exenteration of diseased tissue, an adequate blood supply for the graft is jeopardized; thus, the need to remove disease is always at odds with the need to preserve an adequate blood supply to the graft. This dilemma cannot be resolved so long as an uncertain system of skin grafting is used-that is, one which may fail because of immediate sloughing or delayed perforation of the graft as a result of poor blood supply, or return of disease due to inadequate removal of pathology.


The average photovisual magnitude at maximum is 15.20. The average color index is +0.05, corresponding to spectral type Al, which is practically identical with the average spectral type at maximum of the Cepheids with periods less than a day. If we assume that, in keeping with other Cepheids, the average absolute brightness of these variables in Messier 3 is not fainter than zero magnitude at maximum, then we derive at once that the parallax of the cluster is less than 0".0001.


A strategic surety roadmap for high consequence software systems under the High Integrity Software (HIS) Program at Sandia National Laboratories guides research in identifying methodologies to improve software surety. Selected research tracks within this roadmap are identified and described detailing current technology and outlining advancements to be pursued over the coming decade to reach HIS goals. The tracks discussed herein focus on Correctness by Design, and System Immunology{trademark}. Specific projects are discussed with greater detail given on projects involving Correct Specification via Visualization, Synthesis, & Analysis; Visualization of Abstract Objects; and Correct Implementation of Components.


Objective: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal disease among gynecologic malignancies. Although many efforts have been made to explore the mechanisms involved in its development, the genetic events in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer are still unclear. We characterized a cell line (designated OHK) established from a malignant Brenner tumor cell. Methods: The cells were obtained during the operation of a 43-year-old Korean woman with ovarian cancer. The OHK cells continuously propagated in vitro over a period of about 36 months and, to date, have undergone over 200 passages, without being infected by either Mycoplasma or any bacteria. We measured the doubling time of OHK cells. To investigate the tumorigenecity of OHK, cells were inoculated subcutaneously into the back of nude mice. Several tumor markers were analyzed using culture media and lysates of cytosol. Morphology and ultrastructure were analyzed by phase-contrast microscopy and electron microscopy. OHK was also analyzed for gene mutation, the typing of human leukocyte antigen and Flow cytometric cell cycle analysis and DNA index. Results: They proliferated in a monolayered sheet showing a pavement-like arrangement without suppression by intercellular contacts. They also formed epithelial cell lining in shapes of polymorphism and polygons. Doubling time was 38.4 hour which was relatively slow compared to other cancer cells. Microscopic view revealed intranuclear infoldings which are typical in malignant Brenner tumors. The OHK cells secreted significantly high level of CA 125 into the culture medium. A 215th codon at exon 4 of p53 was mutated to C/C in OHK. BRCA 1 was a wild type and polymorphisms were detected in exons 2, 10, 11, 14 and 17 of BRCA 2. The cells showed aneuploidy with DNA index of 1.589 measured by flow cytometry. When transplanted into nude mice, OHK cells successfully induced tumor which was histopathologically resembled malignant Brenner tumor. Conclusion: These results strongly suggest that OHK is a typical cell line of malignant Brenner tumor. This may provide a useful cellular resource for studying the pathogenesis of malignant Brenner tumor.


In nanometer-scale VLSI physical design, clock network becomes a major concern on determining the total performance of digital circuit. Clock skew and PVT (Process, Voltage and Temperature) variations contribute a lot to its behavior. Previous works mainly focused on skew and wirelength minimization. It may lead to negative influence towards these process variation factors. In this paper, a novel clock network synthesizer is proposed and several algorithms are introduced for performance improvement. A dual-MST (DMST) geometric matching approach is proposed for topology construction. It can help balancing the tree structure to reduce the variation effect. A recursive buffer insertion technique and a blockage handling method are also presented, and they are developed for proper distribution of buffers and saving of capacitance. Experimental results show that our matching approach is better than the traditional methods, and in particular our synthesizer has better performance compared to the results of the winner in the ISPD 2009 contest.


In recent decades, the belief that vocational education and training is a key factor for sustainable socio-economic development in Europe is growing. There is a need of new approaches in the field of continuing vocational training for the preparation of human resources whose qualifications match with the needs of the National economy. These approaches should be compatible with the specific socio-economic challenges facing Bulgaria. Especially important in this regard is that it must be taken into account the current situation on labor market and the need for skilled human resources in various sectors of the economy. The aim of the present study is to justify the importance of continuing vocational training and to analyze the state and trends in its development in Bulgaria.


Summary We investigate price level convergence on the base of regional data for 439 German districts. Prices refer to the overall consumer price index as well as to the index without housing prices. To increase the efficiency of the testing framework, the analysis is based on panel unit root tests. First and second generation tests are applied. They indicate a lack of regional price convergence, as the null hypothesis of a unit root is usually not rejected. The second generation tests reveal that the source of the unit root is likely common for all regions. The results are very similar for the overall regional price level and the measure without housing prices, and for the Western and Eastern part of the German economy. The elimination of housing prices is not sufficient to obtain a price index where tradables dominate. One rationale of our findings is the persistent west-east divide in consumer prices. A second argument is related to the persistence of the price gradient between urban and rural regions.


The index of refraction n and the extinction coefficient k of liquid sulfur in the 0.4–2.0-μm wavelength region were measured at several temperatures between 121 and 183°C. From these data the reflectance R was calculated. These parameters show a change in behavior with increasing temperature. The n vs temperature curves for λ = 0.4 and 0.45 μm show an earlier rise with temperature compared with those for longer wavelengths. Results for cooling the liquid from around 180°C reveal an overall difference relative to heating the liquid from 121°C. Values of n for the supercooled liquid down to 85°C are given. A discussion of the results is presented.


INTRODUCTION Shimming a magnetic field usually requires an additional set of complex coils which act independently from the linear gradient system used for MRI. Therefor a unique coil has to be developed for each field order, which is very extensive. In this study a novel matrix gradient design is presented, which is capable of generating both linear gradient fields for imaging and at the same time high order shim fields. The simultaneous generation of several orders can be achieved by using a set of individually driven coils. The complete gradient field results from the superposition of all these individual magnetic fields. This provides the possibility of creating a large variety of field profiles by driving each coil with a different current. This matrix gradient can not only provide strong linear gradients used for imaging but at the same time allows generating shim fields in order to compensate inhomogeneities in the main field. Driving the coils separately grants the advantage of switching shim and gradient fields very fast due to low inductivity of each single coil. With this new design it is possible to provide fast switchable imaging and shim gradients.


Abstract It is thought that workers under capitalism enjoy the freedom of changing employment at will, but studies show that unfree labor has historically existed alongside capitalist development. One explanation for the use of unfree labor under capitalism highlights the functional needs of production. However, the baoshengong, a form of bonded labor that was used in cotton mills in Shanghai from 1927 to 1937, problematizes this approach. Though the baoshengong system was not an efficient mode of labor control, it was put in place. Rejecting the functionalist account, I show that capitalist unfree labor is not necessarily spurred by production requirements. As the Shanghai case will demonstrate, unfree labor was used when the power dynamics in the larger socio-political context outside the immediate abode of production—namely, the conflict and collaboration between different forms of domination such as gang, patriarchal, capitalist, and state powers—superseded the functional considerations of the capitalists.


GRAMMAR I11 Room 1, 9.00-11.30 Formal Specification of Natural Language Syntax Using Two Level Grammart B. Bryant, D. Johnson, B. Edupuganty (U.S.A.) On Formalizations of Marcus' Parser R.N. Farshi (Canada) A Grammar Used for Parsing and Generation J.M. Lancel, F. Rousselot, N. Simonin (France) A Declarative Formulation of DRS Theoryt M. Johnson, E. Klein (U.S.A.) GRAMMAR IV Room 1, 15.00-16.40 Bulldrs: An Implementation of DR Theory and LFGt H. Wada, N. Asher (U.S.A.) A PROLOG Implementation of Government-Binding Theoryt R.J. Kuhns (U.S.A.) A Lexical Functional Grammar System in Prolog A. Eisele (FR Germany) GENERATION I Room 7, 9.00-11.30 Knowledge Structures for Natural Language Generationt P.S. Jacobs (U.S.A.) Semantic Based Generation of Japanese German Translation System K. Hanakata, A. Lesniewski, S. Yokoyama (FR Germany) Synthesizing Weather Forecasts from Formatted Data R. Kittredge, A. Polguere, E. Goldberg (Canada) From Structure to Process, Computer-assisted Teaching of Various Strategies for Generating Pronoun Constructions in Frencht M. Zock, G. Sabah, C. Alviset (France) GENERATION II Room 7, 15.00-16.40 Generating a Coherent Text Describing Traffic Scenet H.J. Novak (FR Germany) Generating Natural Language Text in a Dialog System M. Koit, M. Saluveer (U.S.S.R.) A Paraphraser for Relational Query Languages A.N. De Roeck, B.G.T. Lowden (Great Britain) The Computational Complexity of Sentence Generation Using Functional Unification Grammar G. Ritchie (Great Britain) SPEECH I Room 8, 9.00-11.00 Parsing Spoken Language: A Semantic Caseframe Approacht P. Hayes, A. Hauptmann, J. Carbonell, M. Tomita (U.S.A.) Divided and Valency-Oriented Parsing in Speech Understanding G. Niedermair (FR Germany) The Role of Semantic Processing in an Automatic Speech Understanding System A. Brietzmann, U. Ehrlich (FR Germany) Synthesis of Spoken Messages from Semantic Representationst L. Danlos, F. Emerard, E. Laporte (France) SPEECH II 15.00-16.40 The Procedures to Construct a Word Predictor in a Speech Understanding System from a Task-specific Grammar Defined in a CFG or a DCG Y. Niimi, S. Uzuhara, Y. Kobayashi (Japan) The Role of Phonology in Speech Processing R. Wiese (FR Germany) Computational Phonology: Merged, not Mixed S. Langeweg, H. van Leeuwen, E. Berendsen (The Netherlands) Phonological Pivot Parsing G. Dogil (FR Germany) A Description of the VESPRA Speech Understanding System R. Haberbeck (FR Germany) MACHINE TRANSLATION IV Room 9, 9.00-11.30 Translation by Understanding: A Machine Translation System LUTEt H. Nomura, S. Naito, Y. Katagiri, A. Shimazu (Japan) On Knowledge-Based Machine Translationt S. Nirenburg, V. Raskin, A. Tucker (U.S.A.) Another Stride Towards Knowledge-Based Machine Translation: A Unification Based Entity-Oriented Approacht M. Tomita, J. Carbonell (U.S.A.) MACHINE TRANSLATION V Room 9, 15.00-16.40 English-Malay Translation System: a Laboratory Prototype T.L. Cheong (Malaysia) A Prototype Translation Based on Extracts from Data Processing Manuals E. Luetkens (Belgium) A Prototype English-Japanese Machine Translation System for Translating IBM Computer Manuals T. Tsutsumi (Japan) Construction of a Modular and Portable Translation System F. Nishida, Y. Fujita, S. Takamatsu (Japan) When Mariko Talks to Siegfried Experience from a Japanese/German Machine Translation Project D. Roesner, K. Hanakata (FR Germany)


According to the characteristic of huge building used for entertainment and from engineeing cases,the paper mainly introduces a designing idea and creating technique of developing perspective and space in an isolated room so as to build a "humanized space".


One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Darwin reported to the Geological Society of London his observations made during the Beagle voyage concerning uplift along the coast of South America. Later in the same year of 1837 in a second paper read to the Society, he cited this evidence of the vertical mobility of the crust in support of his theory of coral reef formation, which rested upon the existence of regional subsidence of the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The link between uplift and subsidence in Darwin's eyes derived from his conception of an earth in some kind of global equilibrium in which uplift in one area would be balanced by subsidence in another, an idea highly derivative, and acknowledged as such, from elements of Lyell's multifaceted notion of uniformitarianism. It is a remarkable aspect of the history of science that it took a further 130 years for a generally accepted mechanism causally relating these two phenomena to emerge. We can only imagine what Darwin, the great theoriser, would have thought of plate tectonics, that all-embracing framework which has left virtually no corner of the (newly fashionable) earth science federation untouched. As a pedagogic device, plate tectonics has been unsurpassed in the way that it has brought unity and order to the problems addressed by the earth sciences, but its superficial simplicity is deceptive. Whilst all geologists, and even some geomorphologists, have at least an arm-waving appreciation of the basic tenets of the creed at a qualitative level, the real power (and complexity) of the model is only revealed when it is applied quantitatively. It is all the more surprising, then, that it is only now that we have the first comprehensive, quantitative text on the principles of plate tectonics. Based on a course developed over several years at Stanford, this book presents, with clarity and elegance, the geometric principles and mechanisms of plate motion and their relationship to seismic and palaeomagnetic data. It was, of course, in the field of palaeomagnetism that Allan Cox, whose untimely death was reported recently, was preeminent. In American parlance, this is a hands-on book where 'doing', with scissors and paper, pocket calculator or micro is emphasized in preference to 'reading about'. It is


A method is developed to improve quantitation in single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging by using an attenuation compensation method that includes the correct nonuniform attenuation spatial distribution (i.e. map). The method is based on the technique of weighted back projection, previously developed for uniform attenuation. It is tested by imaging a nonuniform phantom, reconstructing it with the known attenuation map, and quantitatively comparing the resultant image with the known activity distribution. Reconstructed image profiles are dramatically improved in comparison to reconstructions without compensation or with an assumed uniform attenuation map. Contrast measurements further quantify the improvement. Line-spread-function distortions seen previously in nonuniform geometries are essentially eliminated by the method, making it appropriate for these geometries if the nonuniform map can be determined. Some additional image distortions introduced by the compensation method are noted that will require further study. >


The author reviews recent advances in the understanding of rare decays of particles in the (s,d,u) sector, with emphasis on the radiative decays of kaons and hyperons. From among the K-decays he concentrates on KL0 to gamma l+l-, KL0 to mu + mu -, KL0 to pi 0e+e- and K+ to pi +l+l-, each of these having some particularly characteristic feature. After a general overview of radiative hyperon decays, they discuss the transitions Omega - to identical to - gamma and identical to - to Sigma - gamma which are singled out for their potential in the verification of the flavour-changing s to d gamma transition of the standard model.


Although education is a right, it still remains a distant dream for many of India's children (Where knowledge is poor). It is clear that it is not enough to make laws; they need to be augmented by more efforts. Education should be accessible to all if democracy is to succeed. Many communities and groups like disadvantaged castes and women have been historically excluded from education. Devolution of powers is extremely important to make education accessible to children. The article rightly draws attention to the effects of poverty on children's education. As a teacher, one is continuously made aware of the educational disadvantages and disruptions poor students suffer due to lack of economic stability and social security. Unless we have a strong and universally available state welfare apparatus, the education of the working class children will continue to be sacrificed. In all this, cultural values and pressures also take a particularly severe toll. The wilful complicity of the ruling castes and classes is amply evident as their domination is derived from maintaining economic and cultural status quo. So the implications of all these studies for formulation of effective anti-poverty policies and proper education system in India are also emphasised in this paper. IndexTerms Democracy, Devolution, Economic Stability, Poverty, Social Security. I. OBJECTIVES The present study, therefore, is an attempt to fulfil the following objectives: 1. To know about Education and Poverty. 2. To highlight about impact of poverty on children in India. 3. To understand how education is effected by poverty. 4. To find out some cause of poverty in India. 5. To determine India"s education is effected by poverty. 6. To highlight the education is the way out of poverty. 7. To suggest some point-of-view for solution the poverty.


The aim of the present research work was to optimise biogas production from cheese whey as an energetically rich product that can contain more than 50 g lactose was investigated. A laboratory scale batch anaerobic digester was used to investigate suitability of cheese whey for biogas production. Technological parameters for anaerobic digestion process were generated. The methane yield of local cheese whey has been determined and fluctuated 50 ln·kgSV-1. Conclusion – anaerobic digestion of local cheese whey in a batch digester is acceptable, but some improvements of the equipment are necessary.


This study explores girls' secondary school participation in rural Bangladesh. Specifically, I seek to lend insight into the factors that inhibit girls' retention through to completion of secondary school. This question is particularly relevant in light of the Female Stipend Programme (FSP), which provides financial school incentives to eligible girls. T o uncover the main determinants of girls' participation, I utilize data from interviews with teachers, parents, girl students and out-of-school girls from four schools and villages in rural Bangladesh. Interviews reveal the importance of socio-economic condition and private tutoring to understanding why some girls remain in school and others do not. I use interview responses and educational data to analyse four policy options based on their impacts on access, learning achievements, school improvements, financial sustainability and stakeholders' response. I conclude by recommending that the FSP be modified to target disadvantaged girls and to provide instructional support to stipend recipients.


The ATP‐sensitive K+ channels opener (KATPCO), P1075 [N‐cyano‐N′‐(1,1‐dimethylpropyl)‐N″‐3‐pyridylguanidine], has been shown to cause relaxation of various isolated animal and human blood vessels by opening of vascular smooth muscle ATP‐sensitive K+ (KATP) channels. In addition to the well‐known effect on the opening of KATP channels, it has been reported that vasorelaxation induced by some of the KATPCOs includes some other K+ channel subtypes. Given that there is still no information on other types of K+ channels possibly involved in the mechanism of relaxation induced by P1075, this study was designed to examine the effects of P1075 on the rat renal artery with endothelium and with denuded endothelium and to define the contribution of different K+ channel subtypes in the P1075 action on this blood vessel. Our results show that P1075 induced a concentration‐dependent relaxation of rat renal artery rings pre‐contracted by phenylephrine. Glibenclamide, a selective KATP channels inhibitor, partly antagonized the relaxation of rat renal artery induced by P1075. Tetraethylammonium (TEA), a non‐selective inhibitor of Ca2+‐activated K+ channels, as well as iberiotoxin, a most selective blocker of large‐conductance Ca2+‐activated K+ (BKCa) channels, did not abolish the effect of P1075 on rat renal artery. In contrast, a non‐selective blocker of voltage‐gated K+ (KV) channels, 4‐aminopyridine (4‐AP), as well as margatoxin, a potent inhibitor of KV1.3 channels, caused partial inhibition of the P1075‐induced relaxation of rat renal artery. In addition, in this study, P1075 relaxed contractions induced by 20 mM K+, but had no effect on contractions induced by 80 mM K+. Our results showed that P1075 induced strong endothelium‐independent relaxation of rat renal artery. It seems that KATP, 4‐AP‐ and margatoxin‐sensitive K+ channels located in vascular smooth muscle mediated the relaxation of rat renal artery induced by P1075.


Abstract Aggressive behaviours of female Drosophila melanogaster (Meigen) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) were studied in the laboratory. These behaviours included 'approach', a seemingly intentional movement of a fly to another fly, 'lunge', a dash at another fly, and 'wings erect', a brief erection of wings toward another fly. These behaviours were influenced by social experience and food resources. First, event frequencies of aggressive behaviours were higher in flies that had been held in isolation than in those that had been held in crowded conditions. This difference was the result of the social experience of attacking flies and not that of attacked flies. Second, flies showed aggressive behaviours more frequently when they were on food containing yeast colonies than when they were on food without yeast colonies. Third, flies conditioned to a food solution containing live yeast prior to observation showed lower frequency of aggressive behaviours than flies conditioned to a boiled food solution. Development of aggressive behaviours became apparent one day after eclosion.


Critical reflection can be an important component of metacognition in learning, but teaching the techniques of critical reflection is a difficult challenge. This proposal describes how computational metaphor extraction could be used to encourage critical reflection in learners. Metaphorical relationships between different concepts may be one way of describing the epistemological approach, "mode of thinking," or framing adopted by a learner. Furthermore, asking students to explain these relationships may present a novel method for fostering critical reflection in learners. This proposal outlines the project's theoretical and pedagogical underpinnings, describes the implementation of a computational method of extracting metaphorical relationships from textual corpora, lays out a plan for deployment in a variety of educational settings, and presents methods for evaluating the project's efficacy in fostering critical reflection.


The temperature field has great influence on the temperature stress and deflection of the box-girder,temperature stress is the main factor that leads concrete box-girder to crack.Based on the internal temperature field data of the construction of a large span concrete continuous box-girder bridge measured on site,the thesis brings forward the characters of the temperature field and the fitted bertical temperature distribution function of the box-girder.The deflection and stress effected on temperature loads are also simulated by the finite element software ANSYS,adopting the railway bridge standards,the road bridge standards and the data of the temperature field measured on site.By comparing the results,we give an overall evaluation to the temperature effects of this bridge.


Permissioned blockchains can be applied for sharing data among permitted users to authorise the data access requests in a permissioned blockchain. A consensus network constructed using pre-selected nodes should verify a data requester's credentials to determine if he or she have the correct permissions to access the queried data. However, current studies do not consider how to protect users' privacy for data authorisation if the pre-selected nodes become untrusted, e.g., the pre-selected nodes are manipulated by attackers. When a user's credentials are exposed to pre-selected nodes in the consensus network during authorisation, the untrusted (or even malicious) pre-selected nodes may collect a user's credentials and other private information without the user's right to know. Therefore, the private data exposed to the consensus network should be tightly restricted. In this paper, we propose a challenge-response based authorisation scheme for permissioned blockchain networks named Challenge-Response Assisted Access Authorisation (CRA3) to protect users' credentials during authorisation. In CRA3, the pre-selected nodes in the consensus network do not require users' credentials to authorise data access requests to prevent privacy leakage when these nodes are compromised or manipulated by attackers. Furthermore, the computational burden on the consensus network for authorisation is reduced because the major computing work of the authorisation is executed by the data requester and provider in CRA3.


Given Claude Cahun's near invisibility before 1992, there has been a remarkable amount of attention paid to her life and work over the past twenty-odd years, including numerous scholarly articles, exhibition catalogues in French, German, Spanish and English, several book-length studies, and even a historical novel by Libby Cone of the resistance activities Cahun and her life-partner Suzanne Malherbe undertook on Jersey during the German occupation of the island. There have been important analyses by Elza Adamowicz, Corinne Andersen, Jennifer Blessing, Jean-Michel Devésa, Katy Kline, Tirza True Latimer, Andrea Oberhuber and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, among other scholars – including previous contributions by Jennifer Shaw, the author of the book under consideration here – not to mention the most extensive and significant body of scholarship on Cahun, that by François Leperlier, whose most recent book Claude Cahun: L'Exotisme intérieur (Fayard, 2006) is indispensable to an understanding of her work. There has been considerably more attention paid to Cahun's photographs in this reception than to her writing, although it was her writing for which she was best known in her lifetime; with a handful of exceptions, Cahun's photographs only began to come to light in 1980, long after her death in 1954. The scholarship on Cahun has tended to go in two ways (without these being mutually exclusive), in keeping with a focus on the writing or on the photography: towards an attention to Cahun's intersection and interaction with the symbolist and surrealist movements (symbolism in the 1910s and 1920s, surrealism in the 1930s); and towards a focus on the play with identity evident in Cahun's photographs, and on her lesbian sexual orientation, at a time when the performativity of gender and identity politics were each becoming prominent issues in contemporary scholarship. Although her written and photographic work are focused on the self, Cahun tended to undo identifications such as masculine, feminine and lesbian, in keeping with the more recent deconstructive turn of queer theory. In this sense she is always 'herself and other than herself, in the same movement', as Leperlier has written in Claude Cahun: L'Exotisme intérieur. There has been a pronounced tendency in the last dozen years to insist on Cahun's work in visual media as collaborative in nature, in partnership with Malherbe (who adopted the masculine name Marcel Moore in her professional practice) – that is, to see it as the work of Cahun/ Moore, rather than of Cahun alone – although not all scholars agree with this point of view. Cahun published two books, a pamphlet, and numerous articles between 1913 and 1936. The largest and most ambitious of these writings is her 1930 book Aveux non avenus, of which Shaw's Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals is the first monographic study. A fine translation of the book by Susan de Muth was published in 2007, which makes it available to those unable to appreciate Cahun's sophisticated wordplay in the original language (Claude Cahun, Disavowals or, Cancelled Confessions, trans. Susan de Muth, Tate Publishing/MIT Press, 2007). Aveux non avenus remains an astonishing reading experience even today. In addition to the text written in various modes – meditations, poetry, dialogues, aphorisms – it includes ten photomontages: one as the frontispiece, and one at the beginning of each of the nine chapters. The text, like the photomontages, is fragmentary, allusive and playful, both self-involved and various, in keeping with a subtitle in one of the chapters of the book: 'SINGULAR PLURAL'. Like photomontage – which is presumably why the imagery in this medium accompanies the text – Aveux non avenus dismantles existing categories such as gender, yet it also insists on the need for the play of opposites kept in tension. This is the reason, I think, for the references to God, Satan, Jesus and the Garden of Eden that run throughout the book, for while it is clear from her parodic treatment of them that she is a non-believer, they are figures for the kind of tension she seeks to keep in play: 'Heaven has its roots in hell. Blue roots the image of flames. The most dangerous enemies of good are those who seek to suppress Evil and the evil-doer, in the literal, in the figurative sense, who would root it out of the world'. Jennifer Shaw has been publishing on Claude Cahun since 2003, most prominently in the 2006 catalogue for the Tate and the Jersey Heritage Trust, Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Her explicit task in Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals is to make a difficult text available to readers by untangling its complexities and clarifying its argument. In addition to an introduction and a brief conclusion, there are five chapters in Shaw's book: the first three focus on one chapter each; the fourth discusses the fourth and Reviews


Solar Salt is the best hot transfer medium molten salt of solar thermal power generation.In order to study the hot corrosion behavior of four graphite is in the molten Solar Salt.The graphite immersed equipped with molten salt crucible placed in a muffle furnace,each period of time remove the sample and weight the weight gain until the sample is completely destroyed.The destruction forming of graphite is analyzed by XRD, SEM and OP.The study found that the order of hot resistant corrosion of molten Solar Salt of four graphite materials are the fine structuregraphite,isostatic graphite,9# graphite and cold pressing graphite.The principal factors can affect hot corrosion resistant of graphite is the graphitization degree. The hot corrosion resistance of the graphite can be enhanced with the increase of graphitization degree.


The invention relates to a hot press plate which comprises a body. A hollow cavity is formed in the body. A layer of aluminum zinc alloy plate is arranged on the lower surface of the body. The thickness of the aluminum zinc alloy plate is 1-3mm. A viscose glue layer is further arranged between the aluminum zinc alloy plate and the body. The hot press plate can have good corrosion resistance under the severe environmental condition and resists scrape and abrasion, and the service life of the hot press plate is prolonged.


1 Introduction.- 3 Basic Principles and Gyrotron Cavities.- 4 Calculation of RF Behaviour.- 5 Practical Considerations for Gyrotron Design.- 6 Electron Optical and Guiding System.- 7 Output Taper and Quasi-optical Launcher.- 8 RF Window.- 9 Examples.- 10 Applications.- References.


Anaerobic co-digestion is well established process for treating many types of organic wastes, both solid and liquid and evaluated for biogas (methane) production. The biogas production and some biochemical parameters of anaerobic digestion at 30°C for 40 days were studied for two sets of fermentation media, as affected by two factors: (1) the type of the animal waste pigeon waste, P and rabbit waste, R, and (2) the ratio of animal waste to olive cake which constitute four levels (100:0 for R1 and P1; 80:20 for R2 and P2; 60:40 for R3 and P3 and 40:60 for R4 and P4). The results indicated that there was a decrease in total gas production in the digesters of pigeons and highest production in the first week of the experiment for all digesters, but in experimental groups of rabbit wastes R1 (100:0) the highest production between 29-40 day and the others in the first week only. It is concluded that co-digestion of olive wastes, together with local agricultural residues, such as manure, is a sustainable and environmentally-attractive method to treat wastes and thus convert them from a burden to society to a useful resource. The biogas produced can be used for the generation of heat and/or electricity.


Abstract : Derivates of resonance stabilized heterocyclic systems, such as s-triazines, appear to be, due to their structure, a suitable basis for lubricants with high thermal and oxidation stability. Starting from 2,4,6-trichloro-s-triazine and secondary amines, symmetric and asymmetric substituted 2,4,6-(di-alkylamino)-s-triazine derivates were synthesized and investigated as to their thermal stability and thermo-oxidation stability. The viscosity, viscosity temperature relationship and the low temperature properties were determined. The values found were compared to those of known synthetic oils based on ester or polyphenyl ether. (Author)


The construction of the new socialist countryside is a strategic and arduous task that needs in-depth reflection in the process of China's socialist modernization.In the new countryside,the construction of an advanced culture is a comprehensive strategic mission,because it provides spiritual motivation,intellectual support and ideological guarantee for the construction of the new socialist countryside and creates the internal and external conditions and stable environment for the realization of a new countryside with"developed production,well-to-do life,civilized ethos of townships,neat appearance of villages and democrat- ic management".


The idea that moral imperatives are categorical is commonly used to support internalist claims about moral judgment. I argue that the categorical quality of moral requirements shows at most that moral motivation need not flow from a background desire to be moral. It does not show that moral judgments can motivate by themselves, or that amoralism is impossible.


In this work, relationships between chemical and physical properties of fluorine doped tin oxide films prepared by the chemical spray pyrolysis technique have been studied. Changes in the structural, optical and electrical properties of these films in relation to their doping concentrations determined by the resonant nuclear reaction analysis and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) techniques have been correlated. By XPS measurements, it was found that the fluorine content in the tin oxide films does not induce any chemical shift of the Sn and O core levels. At the same time, XPS measurements are carried out at low binding energy, shown that the valence band of heavy doped tin oxide changes with respect to that determined in SnO2 powder, due to the influence of the fluorine doping. In addition, it was shown that the formation of F–Sn complexes provides a decrease in both the concentration and mobility of the carriers.


We report the case of a 78-year-old man presenting with pain in right hemithorax that occurred suddenly after coughing. A palpable chest wall mass, soft in consistency, was noted on physical examination, and chest X-ray and CT allowed to make diagnosis of spontaneous lung hernia.


Contemporary practice of project management is evolving towards accumulation of all projects in one organizational unit. This tendency manifests itself in creating a project management offices (PMO Project Management Office). Their tasks include planning implementation and control of all projects within the organization. As stressed in the PMBoK, one of the key properties of the PMO is to share and coordinate resources across all projects administered by the office (PMBOK 2004, p. 18). Updating the portfolio by adding new projects, they must make schedules, that all resources are best used. On the other hand, each project must have access to needed resources. This task can be reduced to the problem of scheduling with limited resources. The problem of scheduling the project portfolio can be seen as a single project scheduling, in which there are many activities related to inconsistent graphs activities. However, they are linked to the need to use common limited resources. In this light, the problem becomes the selection of new projects in the portfolio, and thus the modification of existing schedules. The existing schedules should be forced into a new job using the available free resources. Work attempts to formalize the principles of the Theory of Constraints for use in the project portfolio scheduling with limited resources. In particular, it will propose a identification of strategic resource, and then simplified process of scheduling by proposed heuristic.


Acoustic emission (AE) measurement at the bearings of rotating machinery has become a useful tool for diagnosing incipient fault conditions. In particular, AE can be used to detect unwanted intermittent or partial rubbing between a rotating central shaft and surrounding stationary components. This is a particular problem encountered in gas turbines used for power generation. For successful fault diagnosis, it is important to adopt AE signal analysis techniques capable of distinguishing between various types of rub mechanisms. It is also useful to develop techniques for inferring information such as the severity of rubbing or the type of seal material making contact on the shaft. It is proposed that modelling the cumulative distribution function of rub-induced AE signals with respect to appropriate theoretical distributions, and quantifying the goodness of fit with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) statistic, offer a suitable signal feature for diagnosis. This paper demonstrates the successful use of the KS feature for discriminating different classes of shaft-seal rubbing. A hierarchical cluster algorithm was employed for grouping extracted KS values. AE rub signals were simulated with various metallic seals and measured at the journal bearings of a test rig rotating at approximately 1500 rev/min. Also, the KS classification results were directly compared with more established AE feature vectors.


The emic perspective of criminal desistance (ex-offenders' personal explanations of how they gave up crime) is largely ignored by criminology. This thesis attempts to address this absence of the storyteller's perspective by inviting desisters to participate in the exploration and interpretation of their individual desistance journeys. Significant attention is drawn to the importance of philosophical self-enquiry to personal change. This detailed journey through the desistance stories of five ex-offenders has produced an emphatic re-statement of the need for the non-judgemental listener as the beginning point of cathartic healing in damaged lives.


The review discusses Kelly McGonigal's book The Willpower Instinct and gives a brief description of its layout and key points. The reviewer finds parallels between the new brain research and practices that have been in longstanding use in Jungian analysis.


Alternative proofs of some of KSHIRSAGAR's (1971) results on testing discriminant functions or canonical variables in the vector space of fixed variates are given. These results are derived in terms of the original variates unlike KSHIRSAGAR (1971) who derives the results by using random orthogonal transformations and triangular decompositions of the original matrix variates.


Feature extraction is one the most important subjects in the classification of hyperspectral images. It is necessary before classification and analysis of hyperspectral images. Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most conventional unsupervised feature extraction methods which extracts features with the largest power. PCA discards the components of data with small variance while components with small variance may have useful information for discrimination between classes in classification process. We propose to apply the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to those components of PCA which have small power. So we extract the informative components for classification instead of discarding them. The proposed method that is called principal component discriminant analysis (PCDA) improves the classification accuracy and works better than both PCA and LDA. The experimental results obtained by using two hyperspectral data (an urban image and an agriculture image) are show the good efficiency of proposed method.


Objective
To investigate possible pathogenesis characteristics of pulmonary infection in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD2-4) and to find risk factors for poor prognosis.

Methods
A total of 177 patients with chronic renal disease who were hospitalized from May 2015 to February 2017 in our hospital were selected.All patients were divided into two groups, 88 patients without pulmonary infection (non-infection group) and 89 patients with chronic kidney disease with pulmonary infection (pulmonary infection group). Pathogen, age, sex, basic diseases and other clinical data of 89 patients with pneumonia were analyzed.Multi-factor unconditioned logistic analysis were apply to define the affecting prognosis risk factors for pneumonia.

Results
Of 177 patients with chronic renal disease were included in this study and 89(50.2%)patients with pneumonia were diagnosed.The mean age was (58.54±15.95) years. There was no statistically significant difference between age, gender, history of smoking, and basic disease.Statistical significance was found in patients who take hormones and immunosuppressants were more likely to get pneumonia.The sputum specimen that were obtained from 89 patients with pulmonary infection were cultured, and 39 patients were cultured positive, with the positive rate 43.8%.Totally 39 strains of pathogens were isolated, include 31(79.4%)strains of gram-negative bacteria. The escherichia coli and klebsiella pneumoniae were 22.5% of gram-negative bacteria, and the pseudomonas aeruginosa and the narrow-eating monocytosis were 16.1% of gram-negative bacteria. Seventy-five cases of pulmonary infection were cured, the cure rate was 84.2% and 14 cases died, accounting for 11.87%.The risk factors of death for patients with chronic nephropathy combined with pulmonary infection showed that there was statistical significant in diabetes, hormone and immunosuppressive agents, absolute decreased lymphocytes, and increased distribution of red blood cells by multi-factor unconditioned logistic analysis.

Conclusions
Such as patients with diabetic or received glucocorticoid and immunosuppressive drugs, decreased lymphocyte absolute value, and increased RBC distribution width are associated with poor prognosis for pulmonary infection in chronic renal disease.

Key words:
Kidney Diseases; Pneumonia


Modern methods of producing African catfish ( Clarias gariepinus ) fingerlings require that the male brooder is sacrificed to obtain milt for artificial fertilization of the eggs stripped from the female under hormonal induction. This study assessed the semi-artificial technique of producing catfish larvae with different broodstock ratios using Ovaprim®, a synthetic spawning inducing hormone. The treatments with 3 replicate each were: T1 (artificial spawning with 1:1 female: male ratio), T2 (semi-artificial spawning with 1:1 female: male ratio), and T3 (semi-artificial spawning with 2:1 female: male ratio). The relative fecundity of brooders in T1, T2, and T3 was 68 ± 6.31, 78 ± 12.29, and 65 ± 8.18, respectively with no significant difference ( P ≥ 0.05). Percent fertilization for T1 (81±1.52%), T2 (75 ± 2.51%) and T3 (62 ± 2.50%) was significantly different ( P ≤ 0.05). The observed percent hatchability (85 ± 2.51, 83 ± 3.21, and 82 ± 2.50%) in respect of T1, T2, and T3 was not statistically different ( P ≥ 0.05). Differences in total egg weight (96 ± 3.30, 72 ± 10.53, and 59 ± 0.50 g; p=0.099), and total larval production (57,700 ± 3672; 42,423 ± 6972 and 34,078 ± 762; p=0.002) for T1, T2 and T3, respectively, were statistically significant between artificial spawning and semi-artificial spawning. Larval survival was significant ( P ≤ 0.05) between T1 (84 ± 2.31) and T3 (92 ± 2.50) but both did not differ significantly ( P ≥ 0.05) from T2 (87 ± 2.51). In conclusion, the semi-artificial spawning of C. gariepinus with Ovaprim® could be beneficial to fish farmers if done at a broodstock sex pairing ratio of 1:1.


An elevator apparatus, the use of non-persistent write mark is provided on the guide rail (0102) of the elevator car writing means (1201) on a (0105). By reading means on the elevator car (0105) provided (1202-a, 1202-b) detecting the label, and reading means (1202-a, 1202-b) at this time is detected based on an output signal of the elevator car car speed or acceleration, or position. Since there is no need to use the detection member move along the entire channel set speed of the elevator car in the elevator shaft and the guide rails, so the purchase price does not occur and the speed detection means with the installation cost, maintenance costs can be reduced. Provided is an elevator apparatus that does not require in the hoistway or on the mounting rail speed detection means, or the position can be detected velocity or acceleration of the elevator car.


The personal health record system is crucial in the deployment of electronic health records (Electronic Health Record). The usage of EHR is encouraged by PHR because it reduces the need for the doctor to start from scratch when establishing a record, which saves time. A patient's basic information such as demographics, known allergies, medical history, family medical history, test results, and so on may be collected via the use of a personal health record (PHR). In contrast, previously unavailable personal health records (PHRs) have suddenly become public, enabling people to approach hospitals they have never attended before without fear of interoperability. The main objectives of this project are: To store Patient Health records and to manage PHR by using Amazon Cloud and generate hospital recommendations to the patient by using Item-based Collaborative Filtering. The proposed research study has designed and developed a web application for the Patient Health Record [PHR] management system for the patients and used PHP as the backend language and Amazon MySql database to store the data in the cloud. Based on the data obtained from the user, the hospitals will be recommended to the user based on the ratings given by the user through an item-based collaborative filtering algorithm.


This is one of a series of papers describing an analysis of the occurrence, size and type of defects in the welds of the lower hull of the Hutton tension leg platform found during a detailed survey of the structure in the late stages of fabrication. This paper gives the results of an analysis of the dimensions of embedded defects detected and sized by ultrasonic testing and involving the examination of approximately 27 km of weld by the method. Analysis has been undertaken of characteristics such as defect width, defect length and aspect ratio. Sufficient data were available to investigate the influence of parameters such as the type of welded joint, welding process, welding procedure and defect type on the defect dimensions. Results are given in terms of the statistical distributions of the sizes of embedded defects for different types of welded joint and types of defect and are based on a sample of approximately 8300 defects.


This communication provides the experimental validation of an effective probe-compensated near-field to far-field (NF-FF) transformation with a nonconventional plane-rectangular scan suitable for flat antennas under test (AUTs). It is based on the nonredundant sampling representations of the electromagnetic fields, on the use of optimal sampling interpolation expansions, and assumes a flat AUT as enclosed in a dish having diameter equal to its maximum dimension. This source modeling results to be very effective from the NF data reduction viewpoint, since, by fitting very well the geometry of such a kind of AUT, it is able to reduce as much as possible the residual volumetric redundancy related to the use of the other modelings suitable for quasi-planar AUTs (an oblate spheroid or a double bowl). Experimental results, assessing the practical feasibility of the proposed NF-FF transformation technique, are shown.


The computational efforts required for the stepping-stone algorithm to solve the transportation problem can be reduced by carrying out the transformation of the reduced costs throughout basis changes in the following way. Given a set H as a system of basic cells, let us consider the numbers δij and let be their new values after a cell (i o, j o) ∈ H leaves and another cell (i 1, j 1)∉H enters the basis. We state that where the definitions of the sets C and D are described in both direct and algorithmic way.


Discussions of punishment and its role in modern societies often proceed as if punishment is co-extensive with the criminal justice system. Instead, I want to begin with the observation that a large part of punishment as a social institution is outside the criminal law — indeed much of it lies outside the legal system. To understand the working of punishment in our societies and what the law can do with it and about it requires that we examine the entire span of punishment, not just that part which epitomizes it in legal theory. What is punishment? I hesitate to get into a definitional struggle on what must be well-worn turf. It seems to me that we can identify a core idea of "bad for bad" — i.e., the imposition of a harm, injury, deprivation or other bad thing on someone on the ground of the commission of some offence. The infliction of harm on the offender may be viewed as a goal (or as proximate to a goal of justice) or it may be viewed instrumentally as a means to social betterment, through rehabilitation, incapacitation, deterrence, reassurance, and so forth. Thus, the harm may be thought to redound to the offender's ultimate benefit or that of the society.


The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Managerial overconfidence and Basic metals firm value of the listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE).The population includes 25 firms selected through systematic sampling. The data is collected from the audited financial statements of the firms provided by TSE's website from 2010 to 2015. In this study the variables, Overconfidence based on earning per share (OEPS), Overconfidence based on capital cost (OCC) has been used to investigate Managerial overconfidence. The results of multiple linear regression analysis show that there is a significant relationship between Overconfidence based on earning per share (OEPS) and firm value. In addition, there is a significant relationship between Overconfidence based on capital cost (OCC) and firm value. The present research examined the relationship between Managerial overconfidence and Basic metals firm's value of the Basic metals firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. The results of multivariate regression accepted two the hypotheses of the research. There is a significant relationship between Managerial overconfidence and Basic metals firm value.


The experimental research of the carbon composite material sample of payload fairing half structural element was carried out under different types of loading. Mathematical and physical modeling of the sample loading using aerodynamic flow was conducted. Heat loading was researched by the method of a thermal analysis during which typical heat dots corresponding to the changes in the sample structure were determined. Ultrasonic influence on the sample characteristics was considered. As a result, the value of heat leak to the structure surface while moving in the atmospheric phase of the descent was determined.


To provide an image recognition apparatus and an image recognition method, it is possible to suppress the processing load of image recognition processing, while effectively processing image recognition of the feature. Comprising: a host vehicle position information acquisition unit that acquires host vehicle position information; road attribute information of the road attribute information acquiring unit, acquires the host vehicle travel road based on the vehicle position information; an image information acquisition unit acquires image information around the vehicle itself; object type determining means determines, as for the image information into a subject image recognition processing of a feature or two or more classes; image recognition unit, the target feature type determining means determines the class of the object as a target feature, image information of the target feature in the image recognition process. Object type determining means based on the identification information of the attribute and the road attribute information about the image recognition processing of each feature type predetermined object class is determined.


Document retrieval will become challenging when it deals with the unique capability of natural languages to present content in different forms using synonyms, usages, and their complex combinations. Most of the existing information retrieval systems are struggling to retrieve documents with a similar meaning, and they are helpful only to get documents based on matching keywords. The query expansion is a logically simple and straightforward technique to improve the effectiveness of information retrieval in this background. The existing statistical approach depends mainly on the term frequency to generate candidate documents for the expanded or normal query. Most of the existing works do not consider the ways in which the content in a particular document can be represented differently by keeping the same context. This paper proposes a novel Synonym Weighted - Vector Space Model and query expansion technique for an effective synonym-incorporated method for document retrieval. The combination of modified Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF) and synonym extended VSM has given a promising outcome for the experiments throughout the study. The proposed method is validated with two English-written publicly available datasets - CACM and CISI. The quantitative measures, like mean average precision, precision, recall, and F-measure obtained in the experiments are found to be better for the proposed method compared with the classical VSM and other baseline methods in the problem domain. We could obtain the highest precision of 0.83 and 0.65 for the CACM and CISI datasets respectively.


Objective: To discuss the application of the long-range demonstration of interventional procedures on the clinical teaching. Methods: The multi-video cameras and multi-monitors were used to demonstrate interventional procedures in national continuous education work-shop. Results: The satisfaction of students on the remote broadcast intervention operation was 100%, and the most satisfactory was the interaction link. There was no related complications in the ten remote interventional surgeries with the satisfaction of patients for treatment and privacy. Follow-up showed that teaching efficacy was achieved by this way. Conclusions: It is indicated that the remote interventional live case presentation has become one of the indispensable methods for the development of digital radiology.


Objective To study the expression of CD4+ CD25high Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) in peripheral blood monouclear cell(PBMC) of patients with cancer,and explore the significance of Tregs in pathogenesis of cancer.Methods The proportions of CD4+ CD25+/ CD4+,CD4+ CD25high / CD4+T cells in PBMC were examined with flow cytometry in 61 patients with cancer at different stages,and the expression levels of Foxp3+ in CD4+ CD25+ and CD4+ CD25high T cells were analyzed,and compared with 32 normal control samples.Results Compared with normal controls,the proportions of CD4+ CD25+/ CD4+,CD4+ CD25high / CD4+T cells in PBMC of patients with cancer at stageⅠand stage Ⅱ had no significant difference(P0.05);but in those patients at stage Ⅲ and stage Ⅳ,they were higher than those in normal controls,the difference was significant(P0.05).The proportions of CD4+CD25+/ CD4+,CD4+ CD25high / CD4+T cells were higher in PBMC of patients with cancer with higher histophathological grade.The expression levels of Foxp3+ in CD4+ CD25+ and CD4+ CD25high T cells in patients with cancer were also higher than those in normal controls(P0.01),the differences were significant(P0.01).Conclusion The increase of Tregs in patients with cancer may be related to tumor progression and it shows immunological abnormality in patients with cancer.The regular detection of CD4+ CD25+,CD4+ CD25high and CD4+ CD25high Foxp3+ in PBMC will contribute to understanding the patient's condition and judging prognosis.


The Concept "design" is one of the most popular and demanded in modern social and humanitarian Sciences. It is used to explain the controlled processes in the economic, political, social and spiritual spheres of public life. As a result, in each of the designated areas, their own types of design and project activities are formed, which have a unique specificity that requires detailed analysis. One of these types of design is ethnocultural design. The aim of the article is to interpret the concept of «ethno-cultural projection» as an organic part of the project theory of explaining social changes. The realization of this goal is possible by solving the following tasks. First, the classification of the main types of design, which are presented in the system of social and humanitarian knowledge. Secondly, the definition of the features and functionality of "ethno-cultural design". The methods of the article are based on the combination of the provisions of the civilizational theory with the principles of the project approach to the interpretation of socio-political reality. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that the concept of "ethno-cultural design" is an integral part of the project methodology of interpretation of modern socio-political reality. At the same time, being a part of modern project methodology, this concept acts as an independent ideological and instrumental construction. Thus, it is formed around its own industry features and characteristics. The article concludes that ethno-cultural design is able to claim the status of an independent direction within the project methodology. The achievement of such a position is possible through the formulation of its own conceptual and categorical apparatus, the conditions for the implementation of project work, the mechanisms of project activity.


This paper presents an estimate of income distribution in the rural sector of the Buenos Aires province during the central decades of the 19th century, a period featured by important economic growth framed by the incorporation to the Atlantic economy. After presenting the results of previous attempts to measure wealth inequality and relative factor prices, the results of an estimate of total and functional income distribution based on the construction of social tables are presented. The results improve previous achievements and open the way for methodological discussions on how to approach inequality in pre-statistical societies. The main result is challenging: while, on the one hand, income distribution as measured by relative price movements deteriorate and wealth is increasingly concentrated, total inequality diminishes and the wage share increases, due to the important expansion of agrarian employment.


Thirty children, aged between 1 to 10 years, with recurring upper respiratory tract infections, were put on Septilin. Fifty percent (15) of the patients showed excellent results. Thirty percent (9) reported good results with no recurrent attacks. The dosages given were 1 tablet b.i.d. for younger patients and 1 tablet t.i.d. for older ones. Therapy lasted for a full 12 weeks. Patients were followed up for six months. No side-effects were noted in any patient. Septilin is a safe and economic remedy for upper respiratory tract infections.


The study of the silica-lipid hybrid (SLH) microparticles is to enhance bioavailability and efficacy of poorly water-soluble drugs after oral administration. Lipid-based delivery systems recognized as a potential strategy for improving the oral absorption. Clinical applications of any lipid-based formulations are limited by the lack of clear guidelines of incomplete understanding of absorption mechanism and invitro, invivo formulation performance. Withstanding these problems, the availability of 2-4% oral lipid based products in the pharmaceutical market worldwide has supported in addressing low bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. A novel silica-lipid hybrid microparticulate system is used for enhancing the oral absorption of low solubility and low permeability of (BCS Class IV) drugs, that has been developed for the drug, furosemide. It describes the systematic invitro characterization of dissolution and lipolysis properties. Silica-lipid hybrid microparticles include the drug solubilizing effect of dispersed lipids and stabilizing effect of hydrophilic silica particles to increase drug solubilization, which leads to enhanced oral bioavailability. Furosemide is mainly used in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure. The role of lipids and hydrophilic silica based carrier highlighted in enhancing solubility and permeability, and hence the oral bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. The formulation composed of poorly soluble drug (furosemide) and dispersion of oil phase (Soya bean oil) in lecithin (Phospholipoid 90H), surfactant and vortexed until no crystals of drug is observed and are subsequently adsorbed by Aerosol 380 (hydrophilic fumed silica) and stabilized after being transformed to powder state. Saturation solubility studies were performed in different oils and surfactants with increased concentration of drug revealed increased solubility of furosemide. In vitro dissolution studies conducted under stimulated gastric medium revealed 2-4 fold increase in dissolution efficiencies for furosemide formulated as SLH microparticles, when compared to that of pure drug (furosemide) and a marketed formulation. Ex vivo studies showed enhanced lipid digestibility, which improved drug permeability. Solid-state characterization of SLH microparticles by XRPD (X-ray powder diffraction) and FTIR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy) analysis confirmed non-crystalline nature and less compatibility of furosemide in silica-lipid hybrid microparticles. Some clinical studies conducted by have demonstrated an enhanced bioavailability effect for a poorly water-soluble antibiotic, amoxicillin trihydrate, resulting from a tablet formulation containing fat-silica matrix; enhancement effect was found to increase with higher silica content in the tablet formulation. 28 The synergistic role of lipid and silica excipients enhanced the oral absorption of poorly water-soluble drugs.


Interim Positron-Emission Tomography (int-PET) and the peripheral blood absolute lymphocyte/monocyte ratio at di- agnosis (ALC/AMC-DX) have been shown to be predictors for progression-free survival (PFS) and time to progression (TTP) in classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). Therefore, we studied if the combination of ALC/AMC-DX and the (int-PET) can further stratified PFS and TTP in cHL patients. Patients were required to be diagnosed, treated, and followed with int-PET at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. From 2000 until 2008, 111 cHL patients qualified for the study. The median follow-up was 2.8 years (range: 0.3 - 10.4 years). Patients with a negative int-PET (N = 98) pre- sented with a higher ALC/AMC-DX (median of 2.32, range: 0.26 - 37.5) compared with patients with a positive int-PET (N = 13) (median of 0.9, range: 0.29 - 3.10), p 1.1. Group 1 experienced superior PFS and TTP in comparison with the other groups. In conclusion, the combination of ALC/AMC-DX and the int-PET provides a simple model to assess clinical outcomes in cHL.


I show that simultaneous uniformization of a family of Riemann surfaces corresponds to a sheaf of graded Lie algebras defined on the family. This sheaf is equivalent to the family of super Riemann surfaces defined in [4]. Since the Teichmuller deformations of these two constructions are the same, the present approach to super Riemann surfaces seems to be economical enough to obtain an explicit modular equivariant construction, and hence the global space of moduli of super Riemann surfaces


Trinexapac-ethyl (TE) is a widely used growth regulator in the turfgrass industry. Poor summer effi cacy has been related to more rapid metabo- lism in the plant. The purpose of this study was to determine if a growing degree day (GDD) model could be used to identify the optimum TE reappli- cation interval for putting greens. This objective was accomplished through model development and validation. Model development was con- ducted on a creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolon- ifera L.) golf putting green in Madison, WI, during 2008. The treatments consisted of fi ve TE reap- plication intervals (100, 200, 400, 800 GDD, and 4 wk) and a control. Growing degree days were calculated in degrees C with a base temperature of 0°C. Trinexapac-ethyl was applied at the rate of 0.05 kg a.i. ha -1 . Clippings were collected daily. The 100- and 200-GDD reapplication intervals provided consistent 20 and 12% yield suppres- sion, respectively. Other reapplication intervals had alternating periods of yield reduction fol- lowed by yield enhancement. Model valida- tion occurred on a different creeping bentgrass green in 2009 and 2010. The experiment was a 3 × 2 factorial CRD with three TE rates (0.00, 0.05, and 0.10 kg a.i. ha -1 ) and two reapplication frequencies (200 GDD and 4 wk). The 200-GDD interval consistently suppressed clipping yield. Application rate had no effect on the duration of suppression. Reapplying TE every 200 GDD pro- vides more consistent growth regulation than a calendar-based application schedule.


We investigate theoretically electron dynamics under a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) attosecond pulse train, which has a controlled phase delay with respect to an additional strong infrared laser field. Using the strong field approximation and the fact that the attosecond pulse is short compared to the excited electron dynamics, we arrive at a minimal analytical model for the kinetic energy distribution of the electron as well as the photon absorption probability as a function of the phase delay between the fields. We analyze the dynamics in terms of electron wave packet replicas created by the attosecond pulses. The absorption probability shows strong modulations as a function of the phase delay for VUV photons of energy comparable to the binding energy of the electron, while for higher photon energies the absorption probability does not depend on the delay, in line with the experimental observations for helium and argon, respectively.


We examine exciton diffusion in a triplet-sensitized organic photovoltaic cell, where transport occurs via the long-lived triplet state of a fluorescent electron donor. While the triplet state is optically dark, it is populated via sensitization by a guest species capable of intersystem crossing. Here, the host material is metal-free phthalocyanine (H2Pc), and the triplet-sensitizing guest is copper phthalocyanine (CuPc). Optical excitation of H2Pc leads to the generation of singlet excitons which rapidly undergo energy transfer to CuPc. Excitons on CuPc undergo intersystem crossing to the triplet state followed by energy transfer back to the H2Pc triplet state. The exciton diffusion length (LD) is extracted using an internal quantum efficiency ratio methodology that permits accurate device-based measurements of exciton transport even in the presence of geminate recombination losses. The donor layer LD varies with composition with a maximum LD of (13.4 ± 1.6 nm) observed at 20 vol % CuPc, an almost 60% in...


In February of 2014 a Mw=7.0 slow slip event (SSE) took place beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. This event occurred 17 months after the 5 September 2012, Mw=7.6, earthquake and along the same subduction zone segment, during a period when significant postseismic deformation was ongoing. A second SSE occurred in the middle of 2015, 21 months after the 2014 SSE. SSEs prior to the earthquake were also well-recorded, allowing analysis of SSE behavior during both the late and early stages of the earthquake cycle. The recurrence interval for Nicoya SSEs was unchanged by the earthquake. However, the spatial distribution of slip for the 2014 event differed significantly from previous events, only having deep (∼40 km) slip. Previous events showed both deep and shallow slip. The 2015 SSE marked a return to earlier pattern. However, slip magnitude in 2015 was nearly twice as large (Mw=7.2) as pre-earthquake SSEs. The large amount of shallow slip in the 2015 SSE maybe a result of slip missed during the 2014 SSE. These observations highlight the variability of aseismic strain release throughout the earthquake cycle generating considerable uncertainty when considering long term strain accumulation rates.


This invention relates to a sound output device with compensation characters including a sound output device and a memory, among which, said sound output device converts audio electric power signals in a preset sphere into sounds with enough acoustic pressure levels having an actual property parameter, said memory is used to store the compensated property parameter of said sound output device for compensating said device to improve its tone quality.


We study the field isomorphism problem of cubic generic polynomial $X^3+sX+s$ over the field of rational numbers with the specialization of the parameter $s$ to nonzero rational integers $m$ via primitive solutions to the family of cubic Thue equations $x^3-2mx^2y-9mxy^2-m(2m+27)y^3=\lambda$ where $\lambda^2$ is a divisor of $m^3(4m+27)^5$.


Summary form only given. Spin-coated Ag nanoparticles on a plasma-treated p-GaN layer applied for the light extraction of near-ultraviolet light-emitting diode (NUV-LED) have been demonstrated. The ITO/nano-Ag window can form a plasmonic window, where the Ar plasma treatment can improve the uniformity of the Ag nanoparticle distribution. By applying this technique for surface-plasmon-enhanced NUV-LED, the output power (@350 mA) of the device was improved by 37.1% as compared with that of conventional NUV-LED. This improvement can be attributed to the formation of localized surface plasmon (LSP) in Ag nanoparticles embedded in roughened p-GaN, resulting from the coupling between the excitons in multiple quantum wells and Ag nanoparticles.


The principle of critical energy (PCE) and the concept of specific energy participation introduced by this principle, a dimensionless power dependent variable, allows the superposition of effects via algebraic summation, in the case of loads of the same nature but of different types, as well as in the case of loads of different nature (mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, chemical etc.). There are three consequences of the principle: the law of the equivalence of processes and phenomena; the law of the coexistence and complementarity of order and disorder; the method of Energonics for strength and rigidity calculation. There are presented the numerous applications of this principle: the superposition of effects in materials with nonlinear behaviour in the calculation of rigidity (structure buckling, mechanical vibrations), of strength in crack free structures and cracked structures, in electromechanical loads, electromagnetic loads, in overconductivity etc.


Guide to the 3D Makerspace at the McGoogan Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Steps to print on U of M 3D Printers


The IEEE Std. 1149.1 (JTAG),which supports Boundary;Scan design of a chip,provides a standard Test;Access Port (TAP). And now,JTAG is almost an essential overhead for every chip in boards. The paper proposes a JTAG customizing approach to managing all the DFT logic,for flexibility and less DFT overhead.


Presently accumulating problems of democratic governance among diverse cultures and complex technological advances have become paramount in today's global village. Democracy is everywhere lauded as an ideal and nowhere practiced as such. It even appears in a beleaguered state and defensive position. So, our question now is what do we mean by democracy and then how close can we attain it under the present demanding circumstances of rapid historical change and social instability.

It is our primary hypothesis that democracy, as originally defined in Greece and practiced in Athens, fell very short of its promises, even if not failing completely to succeed in its policies. Perhaps for that reason, democracy never attained a long historical viability and it was really two thousand years later that it was somewhat resurrected in the modern western world.

The travails of democracy in the last couple of centuries have shown by now that this revamped ideal left a lot to be desired. From that experience, our secondary hypothesis is that democracy has reached a stage of demo-sclerosis and needs a substantial overhaul if it is to survive in the post-industrial world.

 In a constantly changing world, any proposals for change are themselves subject to change. Our tertiary hypothesis therefore is that whatever options exist presently for a sustainable democracy are temporal and regional. In a world in flux, we should never think of a permanent preferable global ideal political system.

Based on these three hypotheses, we proceed in a discussion of their merits, pro and cons, without necessarily coming to a definitive conclusion. Following the classical dialectic, we could even propose a possible and desirable synthesis of opposing points of view, a Golden Mean that could at least sustain a feasible democracy here and now.

In that quest, we start by introducing and defining democracy etymologically and historically, from its classical origins to the present reality. Then, consider the various problems and issues arising in the post-modern global world era. Finally, concluding with some theoretical and practical options in sustaining, updating, and adapting democracy to the exigencies of our reality.


The formation of educational book publishing market is one of the main goals of Russian education. Creating information system of educational book publishing contributed to the availability of obtaining information on various books, brought up a new type of a consumer of educational literature who attempts to compare and understand what the difference between educational books is.Educational publishing is considered to be a fundamental base for the formation of the intellectual potency of the Russian nation.


Purpose – This study aims to investigate interrelationships among perceived service fairness, emotions and behavioral intentions in a restaurant context.Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from two casual dining restaurants in the USA. The data were analyzed following Anderson and Gerbing's two‐step approach, utilizing both a measurement model and a subsequent structural model.Findings – This study shows different roles for each fairness perception in relation to emotions and behavioral intentions based on the Mehrabian‐Russell model. Setting reasonable prices and providing efficient services in a timely manner were found to be the key to negate negative emotion. At the same time, the findings suggest that providing high‐quality tangible outcomes and intangible services are critical to evoke positive emotions and eventually to generate future favorable behaviors.Research limitations/implications – The data were collected from only casual dining restaurants. Therefore, generalizing the result...


We establish two new Easton theorems for the least supercompact cardinal that are consistent with the level by level equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness. These theorems generalize [1, Theorem 1]. In both our ground model and the model witnessing the conclusions of our theorem, there are no restrictions on the structure of the class of supercompact cardinals.


The financial industry has witnessed an exceptionally fast progress of incorporating information processing techniques in designing knowledge-based automated systems for high-frequency trading (HFT). This paper proposes a sparse coding-inspired optimal trading (SCOT) system for real-time high-frequency financial signal representation and trading. Mathematically, SCOT simultaneously learns the dictionary, sparse features, and the trading strategy in a joint optimization, yielding optimal feature representations for the specific trading objective. The learning process is modeled as a bilevel optimization and solved by the online gradient descend method with fast convergence. In this dynamic context, the system is tested on the real financial market to trade the index futures in the Shanghai exchange center.


By the statistical date of Temperature and Precipitation nearly 10 years(2000-2009) and over(1959-2009) and during the main crops growth(form May to september),The variation Temperature and Precipitation of different months and years was analyzed.So that we could understand the characteristics of climatic variation and cause of disaster weather,and put forward the corresponding countermeasure of prevention.


BORROWING on life insurance policies constitute an important means of obtaining funds with which to finance consumption. It is probable that such borrowing takes place, as a rule, only in times of emergency. It may take place when policyholders have to meet the costs of a serious illness, when they find themselves hard pressed to pay urgent debts, or when they must borrow in order to provide for themselves and their families in times of difficulty. It is during hard times especially that such borrowing becomes very important.


: A non-linear hysteresis relation is observed between the input currents and output displacements of giant magnetostrictive actuator (GMA). To accurately control the stability of GMA output displacement, non-linear hysteresis dynamic differential equation of GMA system is established according to hysteresis non-linear equation, Jiles-Atherton hysteresis non-linear model, quadratic domain rotation model and GMA structural dynamics principle by analyzing the working principle of GMA. The primary resonance of GMA non-linear hysteresis dynamic system is analyzed by multiple scales method and system amplitude-frequency response curve equation is obtained. Matlab numerical simulation is used to evaluate the mapping between different values of damping coefficient, magnetic field strength, prestress, nonlinear stiffness and output response amplitude of GMA system. Time domain waveform, phase portrait, Poincar é mapping diagrams and amplitude spectrum of GMA system are drawn by changing the magnitudes of exciting force parameters. Four-order Runge-Kutta method is used to solve and draw the response of GMA system for different exciting forces. The obtained results showed that for parameter values assumed here, GMA system showed "jump" and hysteresis phenomena under the action of non-linear disc spring and magnetic field intensity. Under certain parameter values, chaos is observed in GMA system.


For the planning and configuration of escalator at metro station,the characteristics and the process of passengers who use escalator are surveyed;the passing behavior of passengers under different congestion and the factors that influence the capacity of escalators are analyzed.A computation model of the capacity of escalators is built based on the physical and operational characteristics of escalator,and two kinds of passing behavior are assumed: one is all the passengers standing still on the escalator,the other is half passengers standing and half passengers walking,and the passenger distribution coefficients on escalator under the two conditions are also assumed.The passenger flow on escalators of Shanghai me-tro stations during the rush hour is surveyed,and the observed capacity of passenger flow is got by using statistical method,and then the observed data is compared with the data that are provided by the manufacturers.The result shows that the capacity of escalator provided by the manufacturer and the metro desgin code are greater than the observed data.Thus the recommended capacity of escalator with width of 1 m and the operating speed of 0.5 m/s is 5 200 persons/(h·m).


Sub-optimal conditions in terms of maintenance ration and/or low temperature resulted in otolith bands, with distinct microstructural features, in response to each particular condition. Check(s) were not only produced corresponding to the transition from optimal to the sub-optimal conditions but also from sub-optimal to the optimal ones. Daily increment deposition, although faint and narrow, persisted in the otoliths of fish when they were kept at low temperatures and fed on maximum food rations. Observable increments were produced only in the first few days of the period when fish were fed on maintenance rations at the optimal temperature. There were only a few checks formed in the otoliths of fish under the conditions of low temperature and maintenance rations. Restraining fish growth in each of the above sub-optimal conditions boosted the growth of the fish and their otoliths when optimal conditions resumed.


As part of a larger examination of teaching and learning within the social context of high school biology classrooms, a case study examined the enactment of literacy events az social processes in two high school biology classrooms. Two veteran high school biology teachers in an urban high school used identical first-year biology textbooks and basic curricula. The teachers differed drastically in their beliefs and behaviors concerning science instruction. Students of the first teacher were 10th to 12th graders taking their first science course, while students of the other teacher were all 9th graders and likely to continue with other science classes in high school. Data collection occurred over a 7-week period and included field notes of observations of teacher behavior, audiotapes of classroom talk, students' verbal and nonverbal behaviors, and formal and informal interviews with students. Results indicated that: (1) teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning science were the driving force in the classrooms, not the textbook; (2) reading was enacted differently in the classrooms; (3) teachers' beliefs about the relationship between learning and writing affected the types of writing tasks students engaged in; (4) the nature of the interactions as well aa the types of tasks in each classroom defined the nature of learning; and (5) the culture of each classroom demonstrated the influence and beliefs of the participants. Findings suggest that students in the two classroom contexts were gaining access to very different types of literacies. (Sixteen references are attached.) (RS) *******************f*************************************************** * Reproductions supplied Ilv EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** Carol V. Lloyd University of Nebraska at Omaha Kayser Hall 514 Omaha, NE 68182 (402) 554-3471 The Enactment of Literacy in High School Biology Classrooms: Two Case Studies "PERMISSION TO REPRorsUCE THIS MATERIAL NAB BEEN GRANTED BY Ott t 'I CC i TO THE ECILICATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." U S DEPARTMENT Of EDUCATKIN °force & Eck/cohorts/ Research end Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER te RIC NeTh.s ClOcumerit hat betn refOroducerd as roceorad from fh perlIOn Or oectsmraf.on origrnotrn9 4 Mnor changes nave bean made to InprOv rwoduCtrOer 04/Orrilr Poore, ett gnaw or Opmcons stated trt Mrs [Wu Merit 00 nOf flittellSardp repreeent offictat OEMMarttortOrpoucy Running Head: THE ENACTMENT OF LITERACY Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami Beach. December 1990.


Background While journalists claim social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been central to the growth of the opt-out movement, there is a lack of empirical research that examines its use by participants. We address this gap by highlighting findings related to the usage of social media by opt-out participants in Ohio. Purpose This study examines how the ideologically diverse participants in the Ohio opt-out movement utilized social media to support their activism. Subjects 183 Ohioans who opted their child(ren) out during the 2014–15 academic year completed a survey about their reasons for opting out. Fifteen of the survey respondents were also interviewed. Research Design This mixed methods study uses both survey data and qualitative interviews as sources of evidence. Results The findings show participants utilized social media for networking, knowledge acquisition, knowledge mobilization, and support. Social media was a valuable tool for coordinating the efforts of participants. Conclusions This study demonstrates how social media supported the development of a discourse coalition by enabling connections among actors with diverse political and philosophical beliefs and extending valuable networking opportunities across district and state lines.


The objective of this paper is to study the utilization of a mixture of marble waste and kaolin in the hot metal desulphurisation. In this work, marble waste, kaolin, fluorite and pig iron were used. First it was done marble waste and kaolin characterization through their chemical analysis and particle size. Then it was elaborated four different mixtures which were added in a bath of pig iron at 1,450oC with known composition, besides the utilization of pure lime in an experiment and pure calcium carbonate in other one. Samples were collected by vacuum sampling and analysis to check the variation of sulfur in the bath was made. By analyzing the results of the additions, it can be seen that the best result was obtained when using the marble waste mixed with fluorite, surpassing the materials commonly used in steel


The aim of this study was to determine the effect of sperm and seminal plasma (SP) on the freezability of porcine semen. Semen of eight commercial males from two farms in the central-western region of Colombia (four boars in each farm) was frozen and tested to select two males with high freezability (MHF) and two with low freezability (MLF), according to the percentage of functionally competent sperm (FCS). Immediately after the collection was completed, the SP and sperm from the males selected were separated by centrifugation to combine the two types of plasma with the two types of sperm, incubate them for three hours and then freeze them. The variables evaluated were: sperm morphology, structural and functional integrity of plasmatic membrane, progressive and total motility, DNA fragmentation, acrosome integrity, capacitated sperm and FCS. The combination of sperm and plasma of MHF recorded the highest value (P<0.01) of acrosome integrity (24.3 ± 0.082 vs 6.076 ± 0.16) when compared to MLF plasma and cells. Membrane structural integrity was higher (P<0.01) with MHF (53.56 ± 0.0395) than with MLF plasma (47.49 ± 0.0419). The differences in porcine semen freezability depend on interactions between seminal plasma and sperm.


The colors are widely used in website projects. Besides their aesthetic purpose, they are meant to influence the user, highlighting information and guiding navigation. Depending on how they are used, their correct identification and interpretation are determinant factors in the user's experience. Considering that approximately 10% of the world's population have some color vision deficiency, those people may find various hurdles using the internet. This research investigates the use of Windows 10's color filter to circumvent accessibility issues for color blind users. Color blind participants evaluated a few scenarios using an online form to interpret elements distinguishable by color. Each scenario represented a situation found on websites and contained two images, an original one and another modified by the color filter. Results showed an improvement in most scenarios but in different ways for different types of color blindness. The benefit was the most evident on the protan type color blind group, especially in situations where the service offered by the website depends on user action, like online checkouts, filling forms or browsing through links. The scenario that stood out the most was online checkouts, giving room for deeper research on the subject. The group with deutan color blindness, on the other hand, showed the least expressive results but rated the experience the highest. The study raised points of attention for future research: situations where the filter hindered the participant's experience and the cases where they did not perceive any difference.


Because of the statewide success by researchers in consistently increasing bell pepper yield by increasing transplant depth, the next logical step was to see if this phenomenon occurred in tomatoes. With the help of Phyllis Gilreath, Manatee County Extension and Steve Olson, North Florida Research and Education Center, the hypothesis was tested statewide. The studies were set out with Agriset in Immokalee and Manatee under seepage irrigation, and Colonial and Sunny in Quincy under drip irrigation. All crops were on polyethylene mulch in the spring of 1994.


With the scale of interconnected power systems becoming larger and larger, asynchronous oscillation occurs increasingly frequently. Under this circumstance, the identification of out-of-step oscillation along with corresponding separation strategy plays a vital role in preventing catastrophic black outage caused by spreading accidents. During out-of-step oscillation process, electric quantities vary so rapidly and dramatically that traditional methods of oscillation analysis, like small signal analysis, are no longer appropriate in this scenario. In this paper, direct method is used to study the dynamic characteristics of out- of-step oscillation. Based on Dirac structure and port Hamilton, energy structure is constructed and extended to electric power system. Then oscillation energy flow is derived and used in further research on the electrical characteristics' variation rules during out-of-step oscillation process. With analytic functions in the equivalent two- generator system, the problem of out-of-step oscillation is expounded in terms of oscillation energy flow on the tie line. Keywords-out-of-step oscillation; direct method; Energy structure; oscillation energy flow.


Steam temperatures up to 605°C on the reheater side are planned for the new generation of fossil fuel-fired power stations. The creep rate of the material X 10 CrMoVNb 9 1 which is the best currently available for this extremely high temperature offers only small stress reserves. It is essential, therfore, to consider the loads, which have hitherto been limited by lump sum contract requirements, but have not been assessed in relation to stress in the system analysis, from transverse tension and bearing and hanger friction in respect of their mode of operation (primary or secondary) and the level of stresses produced.


A U.S.-Japan Seminar on Mathematical Logic: Model Theory and Set Theory, sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, was held in Tokyo, from October 16 through October 21, 1969. Invited addresses were given by Professors J. Barwise, C. C Chang, J. Keisler, K. Namba, G. Sacks, M. Takahashi, G. Takeuti, H. Tanaka, and R. Vaught. Abstracts of some of these follow. positive interpolation theorems of most of the preservation theorems as well as most of the definability theorems restated interpolation theorems. Thus whenever a new interpolation theorem appears it is immediately to ascertain the status of the and definability theorems. In this two recent interpolation theorems of the author were mentioned in the One appeared in (see Chang, of Amer. Math. Soc., (1968), p. 934). The second is a generalization of a result of Lopez-Escobar (Fund. Math., 58 (1965),'pp. 254-272) and


We sought to investigate the effects, if any, that the presence of a tracheotomy tube has on aspiration status in early, postsurgical head and neck cancer patients.