The invention produces an printing ink comprising a noble metal ion and a sensitization monomer with the molecular formula of MC is equivalent to C-C is equivalent to CN, wherein, M is a hydrophilic group, and N is a lipophilic group; a plurality of sensitization monomer moleculars form a capsule body, one part of the noble metal ions is covered in the capsule body, and the other part thereof is adsorbed to the outer wall of the capsule body. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing electric conduction lines and a circuit board therewith.


This chapter discusses Article 22 of Directive 2019/790, a European copyright directive in the Digital Single Market, which focuses on the right of revocation. It clarifies the right of the author or performer to revoke in whole or in part the licence or the transfer of rights where there is a lack of exploitation of that work or other protected subject matter. It also looks at specific provisions for the revocation mechanism in the national law that takes into account specificities of the different sectors and the different types of works and performances. The chapter cites the task of Member States to exclude works or other subject matter from the application of the revocation mechanism if such works or other subject matter usually contain contributions of a plurality of authors or performers. It explores the options of authors or performers to terminate the exclusivity of their contract instead of revoking the licence or transfer of the rights.


WALDEYER'S beautiful monograph on the ovary was published in 1870. In 1872, at the suggestion of Professor Turner, I undertook a series of observations with the object of inquirng into the accuracy of Waldeyer's views as to the tubular structure of the ovary, and also of ascertaining whether Graafian follicles were formed from these tubular structures in the way described by Waldeyer and his predecessors. The conclusions at which I arrived, as the result of my investigations, were communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, by Professor Turner, on the 21st December 1874, and were published in the Trarsacdions of the Society in vol. lxvxy, 1875, in a paper entitled, "The Development of the Ova, aind the Structure of the Ovary in Man and other Mammalia." My chief conclusions were as follows:-The ova are derived from the germ epithelium cells, but the cells of the follicular epithelium have a different origin, viz., from the cells of the stroma of the ovary; and with reference to the tubular structure of the ovary I stated that, although I had examined the ovary of the human fcetus and new-born child, and the ovaries of many animals in various stages of development, I was unable to find any real tub-lar structures, and consequently was obliged to deny their existence, and that Graafian follicles are formed from such structures in the way described by Valentin, Pfluiger, Speigelberg, and Waldeyer. As I shall have to refer frequently in the course of the following paper to the views of Waldeyer on the development of the follicular epithelium and the tubular structure of the ovary, it is necessary that I should state clearly what these views really are.


Flash memory is prevalent in embedded storage systems nowadays,but the RAM requirements for address mapping increases as the flash chip's volume increases. To design a space efficient management is a critical issue for the resource-limited embedded environment. In this paper a maximum segment based address mapping policy is introduced,according to the sequential programming characteristic of Flash,and the stress of RAM usage can be relieved while keeping the I/O efficiency. A simple but efficient algorithm is proposed which is evaluated under various workloads. Experiments show that the RAM reduction could reach 95%.


We address the problem of the segmentation of cerebral white matter structures from diffusion tensor images (DTI). DTI can be estimated from a set of diffusion weighted images and provides tensor-valued images where each voxel is assigned with a 3 times 3 symmetric, positive-definite matrix. As we will show in this paper, the definition of a dissimilarity measure and statistics between tensors is a non trivial task which must be carefully tackled. We claim that, by using the differential geometrical properties of the manifold of multivariate normal distributions, it is possible to improve the quality of the segmentation obtained with other dissimilarity measures such as the Euclidean distance or the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our goal is to prove that the choice of this probability metric has a deep impact on the tensor statistics and, hence, on the achieved results. We introduce a variational formulation to estimate the optimal segmentation of a diffusion tensor image. We show how to estimate diffusion tensors statistics for three different probability metrics and evaluate their respective performances. We validate and compare the results obtained on synthetic and real datasets


This paper presents an investigation of the periodic heat transfer through a double hollow concrete block, one face of which is exposed to solar radiation and atmospheric air while the other is in contact with room air at constant temperature. It is seen that maximum load levelling occurs when the thickness of the two air gaps is the same (5 cm); for typical parameters a time difference of 12 h between maximum/minimum of the thermal flux and solair temperature is also obtained.


How can technology help medical school candidates earn a scholarship while waiting for the bus? How can social media promote an after school educational program while also helping an electric car built by high school students reach Washington D.C? Questions like these were solved when creative thinkers and technologists worked together to bridge the gap between the digital and physical world. Rich Schmick will present two case studies that show how creative uses of technology, such as augmented reality and social listening platforms, can be used to market ideas, solve business problems, and win a few awards in the process.


Adler–Kostant–Symes scheme provides a geometrical method for constructing different integrable systems. We construct an AKS hierarchy and obtain the τ function solutions of this hierarchy. We also show that this AKS hierarchy is a reduction of self dual Yang–Mills (SDYM) equation hierarchy and discuss its twistor construction. Hence we re-establish once again that SDYM hierarchy is a universal integrable hierarchy, so that by appropriate reduction and suitable choice of gauge group this hierarchy produces all the well-known hierarchies of the soliton equations 1.


To ensure the information provision to consumers of corporation systems, information subsystems are created. In modern conditions, taking into account the rapid development of information technology, the requirements for the promptness of providing consumers of corporation systems with required information were increased. With growth of transmitted information volume and number of applications for its receipt, as well as an increasing of the probability of external influences on information systems, the fulfillment of these requirements becomes problematic. There is a need to use new functioning algorithms and creation of hardware and software systems that allow efficient functioning of the corporation information subsystem in different conditions. This work is devoted to the development of the model of the corporation information subsystem functioning, taking into account the possibility of external influences on its components.


Background— We tested the hypothesis that ischemia-induced ventricular fibrillation (VF) is facilitated by platelets, trapped regionally in the ischemic zone and activated to release arrhythmogenic secretome. Methods and Results— In a randomized study in blood-free, buffer-perfused isolated rat hearts, ischemic zone territory (34±1% of left ventricle) was selected so that ischemia evoked VF in only 42% of controls. VF incidence was increased to 91% (P<0.05) by coronary ligation–induced trapping of freshly prepared autologous platelets (infused before and during coronary ligation, with trapping confirmed by 111In-labeled platelet autoradiographic imaging). Trapping of platelet secretome prepared ex vivo, or platelet-sized fluorospheres, did not increase ischemia-induced VF incidence. Secretome alone did, however, evoke VF in 2 sham coronary-ligated hearts. Perfusion did not activate infused platelets in sham coronary-ligated hearts, whereas ligation activated trapped platelets (assessed by thromboxane release). In a separate study, trapping whole-heparinized blood mimicked the ability of trapped platelets to increase VF incidence. This effect was not prevented by >5 days oral pretreatment in vivo with clopidogrel (10 mg/kg per day) or indomethacin (2.4 mg/kg per day). Conclusions— Platelets facilitate VF during acute ischemia independently of their ability to participate in occlusive thrombosis. Moreover, the effect is unresponsive to antiplatelet drugs commonly used. Labile secretome constituents appear to be responsible. This opens a novel avenue for antiarrhythmic drug research.


Motor influences on the mental transformation of body parts have been observed in both children and adults. Previous findings indicated that these influences were more pronounced in children than in adults, suggesting a stronger link between motor processes and imagery in children. The present series of two experiments casts doubt on the general validity of such an interpretation. Kindergartners' (aged 5–6 years), first graders' (aged 7 years), and adults' performance in the mental rotation of pictures of body parts was monitored for influences of internal representations of motor constraints (motor effect). In both experiments, evidence for mental rotation was obtained for each group. Unexpectedly, kindergarten boys made significantly more errors than kindergarten girls. A motor effect was only found in the second experiment, where it was least pronounced in the youngest age group. Our results suggest that mental transformations of body parts do not necessarily involve motor processes and that embodiment may become stronger with development rather than weaker with certain tasks.


Instruments capable of measuring droplet concentrations at given supersaturations are called Kelvin spectrometers. They are important for reliably characterizing atmospheric particles (Holländer et.al., 2002). The rapid pressure drop in measuring chamber of cylindrical cross section is accompanied by an adiabatic temperature decrease, which may lead to sufficient supersaturation followed by droplet formation due to heterogeneous nucleation. The growing droplets move in the chamber, and part of them will deposit on the walls or evaporate with time. Heat conduction and natural convection flow due to the difference between the wall and volume gas temperatures will increase the interior temperature and reduce the supersaturation that in turn affects droplets growth and deposition. We developed a mathematical model describing the transient thermal convection flow and deposition of growing droplets in the expansion-type Kelvin spectrometer. The model includes the Navier-Stokes equations to describe the gasdynamic processes and droplet growth model with account for vapor depletion due to condensation and release of latent heat. Numerical calculations of gas flow by means of Fluent CFD software show that the evolution of processes inside the spectrometer chamber can be divided into two main stages. The first stage is the adiabatic gas expansion. During it the pressure in the chamber establishes very quickly. The gas temperature falls down practically uniformly in the entire volume of the chamber. The next stage is characterized by a slow temperature increase beginning from regions near the walls. The temperature gradient causes the development of a gas flow upwards near the wall in the course of time transforms into a global vortex flow inside the chamber. The values of the thermal convection flow velocity magnitude can achieve ~0.05m/s. To study the droplet dynamics we neglect the expansion stage in view of its small duration and calculate the temperature and convection flow development starting with the uniform temperature distribution inside the chamber and a constant wall temperature larger than the interior gas temperature. Using the gas flow velocity and temperature distribution from CFD calculation in the spectrometer chamber we calculate the droplets paths taking into account their growth resulting from the local super-saturation. The time dependencies of the droplet deposition rate were found from numerical calculations. The deposition rates with and without convection flow influence are compared. The relative droplet concentrations obtained taking into account the main processes in the measuring chamber (droplet growth by condensation, sedimentation, heat conduction, thermal convection, droplet evaporation) and without gravity influence (g=0) are shown in fig.1. Curves obtained without gravity allow estimating the concentration dynamics due to the evaporation only. For the smaller initial saturation the losses of droplets generated by nucleation is determined mainly by evaporation. But for larger initial saturation sedimentation becomes main mechanism of droplet losses in the measuring chamber. In last case the vortex flow formed by thermal convection will reduce the deposition rate.


This paper provides a method for obtaining a continuous-time model of a target system in closed-loop from input-output data alone, in the case where no knowledge of the controllers nor excitation signals is available and I/O data may suffer from unknown offsets. The proposed method is based on a fixed-pole observer model, which is a reasonable continuous-time version corresponding to the innovation model in discrete-time and allows the identification of unstable target systems. Furthermore, it is shown that the proposed method can be attributed to a convex optimization problem by fixing the observer poles. The method is within the framework of the stabilized output error method and shares usability advantages such as robustness to noise with complex dynamics and applicability to a wide class of models. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated through numerical examples.


The aim of this article is to give a short presentation of a project dealing with the complex relationship between a diasporic community and its homeland, in this case the 150,000 adopted Koreans a ...


Abstract : The development program addresses the problem of effectively protecting military personnel from bacterial, viral or toxic incapacitation arising either from natural sources of from enemy action. Often the potential threat may be anticipated and personnel may be offered protection in the form of vaccination regimens, but even when the danger is identified and the prophylaxis is readily available, logistical problems in carrying out a protective program remain formidable. Immunization is presently conferred through a vaccination program which involves multiple encounters with trained medical personnel for administration of injections, and careful medical record maintenance. For the Army this is not just a medical mission, it is a major logistical program. RA I; Inoculation; Hepatitis A Vaccine; SBIR; Controlled Release Vaccine.


"ELBA" Eco-Friendly Mobility Services for People and Goods in Small Islands is a pilot project part-funded by the European Commission under the LIFE+Program, the EC financial instrument for the environment. Launched in October 2010 and running until September 2013, ELBA has the main objective of planning, implementing and demonstrating a number of advanced, eco-sustainable, integrated mobility schemes and services for people and goods targeting, specifically, the "small islands" environment and application context. In particular, the territorial context of the ELBA project includes the island of Elba, the main island of the Tuscan Archipelago (Tuscany Region, Italy) and the connected mainland area, including the town of Piombino (Livorno Province) and the surrounding regional transport environment. Overall, ELBA investigates, implements and pilots a number of "intermediate" and "flexible" transport and logistics schemes, operated by ecofriendly vehicles, and promotes on the island of Elba the achievement of high standards of energy efficiency and environmental quality.


This paper develops a framework to evaluate HEVs, PHEVs and EVs on-road emissions impact, by integrating endogenous vehicle consumer choice model and MOVES-based regional emission transportation model. A case study based on Harris County, Texas data is implemented to examine the on-road emissions under different market penetrations (due to different future energy price) and government policies. The results show different on-road transportation emissions level for Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and Total Hydrocarbon (THC). In addition, cost effectiveness of reducing on-road emissions by extending tax credit for plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) is calculated and reported.


Five new aliphatic-aromatic thiodiols: 1,2-bis[4-(2′-hydroxyethylthio)phenyl]ethane (C18H22O2S2), 1,2-bis[4-(3′-hydroxypropylthio)phenyl]ethane (C20H26O2S2), 1,2-bis[4-(6′-hydroxyhexylthio)phenyl]ethane (C26H38O2S2), 1,2-bis[4-(10′-hydroxydecylthio)phenyl]ethane (C34H54O2S2), 1,2-bis[4-(11′-hydroxyundecylthio)phenyl]ethane (C36H58O2S2) have been characterized by X-ray powder diffraction. These thiodiols can be used for synthesis of thermoplastic nonsegmented polyurethanes. Experimental 2θ peaks positions, relative peak intensities, values of d and Miller indices as well as unit cell parameters are reported.


We aimed to study the immune response of maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients to Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) since it is not fully elucidated.

 In this prospective study, hospitalized HD patients with moderate-to-severe COVID-19 and matched non diseased HD comparators were analyzed for their absolute counts of lymphoid cells (flow cytometry) and circulating inflammatory mediators (ELISA). Blood samples were collected at the start and at of the end of the first in hospital HD session; dialysate samples at the end of the first half hour session.

 59 HD patients with acute COVID-19 HD and 20 comparators were enrolled. Circulating median (range) of interferon-gamma (IFNγ) at the start of HD was 125 (125-1777) pg/ml in comparators and 810 (125-4000) pg/ml in SARS-CoV-2 (p<0.00001) and 125 (125-1278) pg/ml and 738 (125-4000) pg/ml at the end of HD (p<0.0001). Respective concentrations of platelet derived growth factor-A were 8286 (4600-28150) and 27938 (8285-99256) pg/ml (p<0.0001) and 7779 (5055-28128) and 27410 (6836-87887) pg/ml respectively. Similar increases were found for tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) only at the start of the HD whereas no differences were found for interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10 and IL-38. Respective mean (SD) CD4-counts were 881.3 (407.6) and 461.6 (365.4) per microliter (p<0.0001) and 839.4 (509.7) and 483.6 (329.9) per microliter (p<0.0001). Respective mean (SD) CD19-counts were 199.0 (154.5) and 76.4 (78.6) per microliter (p<0.0001) and 144.9 (110.3) and 98.3 (70.8) per microliter (p<0.0001). The respective mean (SD) MFI expression of HLA-DR on CD14-monocytes was 97.2 (28.2) and 67.4 (44.7) (p: 0.013) and 87.3 (26.7) and 63.3 (36.3) (p: 0.009). MFI of HLA-DR on CD14-monocytes before the first HD session less than 44 was associated with 100% sensitivity for unfavorable outcome (defined as respiratory failure or death) after 28 days. An absolute CD19-count more than 40 per microliter before the first HD session was associated with 8.70 odds ratio for cure favorable outcome after 28 days.

 HD patients develop an inflammatory reaction to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 characterized by increase of the inflammatory mediators IFN-γ, PDGF-A and TNF-a and decrease of circulating T helper lymphocytes. Decreased expression of HLA-DR on CD14-monocytes is a hallmark of unfavorable prognosis.


This study aims to identify perceptions of attitudes of cement employees ofBUMN in carrying out work to achieve job success. The method for collecting data inthis study uses questionnaires and interviews and analysis techniques with structuralequation models (SEM). The results of this study indicate that the tendency of internallocus of control owned by most cement employees of BUMN plays an important role asan employee work stimulus to succeed in his job


Objective To characterize the expression of SOX4 in prostate cancer patients and investigate the effect of diallyl trisulfide(DATS) on proliferation and invasion of SOX4-positive prostate cancer cells and its role in regulation of SOX4.Methods The PV9000 two-step immunohistochemical method was utilized to examine the expression of SOX4 protein in 141 prostate cancer patients.Correlation of SOX4 expression with clinicopathological parameters and prognosis were also analyzed.Prostate cancer cell line Vcap,which demonstrated overexpression of SOX4,was treated with various concentrations of DATS(0,20,40,60 μmol/L),followed by MTS assay to determine its cellular proliferation;Matrigel invasion assay was used to assess the effect of 40 μmol/L DATS on the invasive capacity of Vcap cells.Real time-PCR was performed to detect mRNA expression level of SOX4 by 40 μmol/L DATS treatment.Results Overexpression of SOX4 protein was preset in 21%(28/135) of prostate cancer patients,and significantly correlated with high Gleason score and the presence of distant metastasis(P0.05).SOX4 was an independent prognostic factor for prostate cancer.In vitro experiments revealed that 20~60 μmol/L DATS significantly inhibited proliferation of Vcap cells in a dose-and time-dependent manner.The invasive capacity of Vcap cells was inhibited by 40 μmol/L DATS.Meanwhile,SOX4 expression was significantly decreased at mRNA level by 40 μmol/L DATS treatment.Conclusion Overexpression of SOX4 is associated with poor prognosis in prostate cancer patients.DATS significantly inhibites proliferation and invasion of Vcap cell line,and down-regulates SOX4 expression at mRNA level.


Simple Summary The mainstay of soft-tissue-sarcoma treatment remains ablative surgery with complete tumor resection. In this context, reconstructive plastic surgery has become an important aspect of multidisciplinary sarcoma therapy aiming at limb preservation as an alternative to amputations. In this present study, cross-sectional data collected prospectively at 39 study centers across Germany were analyzed, focusing on both the inhouse availability of plastic surgery and external accessibility to plastic surgery in 621 cases. In summary, unplanned and incomplete primary tumor resections carried out at centers with lower degrees of specialization were associated with a significantly increased need for subsequent flap-based defect coverage. In line with this, a readily available team of plastic surgeons was independently associated with successful defect reconstruction, which in turn was associated with significantly higher chances of limb preservation. We conclude that easily accessible plastic surgery and a high degree of expertise in the field of sarcoma treatment are indispensable for limb preservation following sarcoma resection. Plastic and reconstructive surgery therefore plays a vital role in achieving the best possible outcomes in the interdisciplinary treatment of soft-tissue sarcomas. Abstract Although the involvement of plastic surgery has been deemed important in the treatment of sarcoma patients to avoid oncological compromises and ameliorate patient outcomes, it is not ubiquitously available. The accessibility of defect reconstruction and its therapeutic impact on sarcoma care is the subject of this analysis. Cross-sectional data from 1309 sarcoma patients were collected electronically at 39 German study centers from 2017 to 2019. A total of 621 patients with surgical treatment for non-visceral soft-tissue sarcomas were included. The associated factors were analyzed exploratively using multifactorial logistic regression to identify independent predictors of successful defect reconstruction, as well Chi-squared and Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel tests to evaluate subgroups, including limb-salvage rates in extremity cases. A total of 76 patients received reconstructive surgery, including 52 local/pedicled versus 24 free flaps. Sarcomas with positive margins upon first resection (OR = 2.3, 95%CI = 1.2–4.4) that were excised at centers with lower degrees of specialization (OR = 2.2, 95%CI = 1.2–4.2) were independently associated with the need for post-oncological defect coverage. In this context, the inhouse availability of plastic surgery (OR = 3.0, 95%CI = 1.6–5.5) was the strongest independent predictor for successful flap-based reconstruction, which in turn was associated with significantly higher limb-salvage rates (OR = 1.4, 95%CI = 1.0–2.1) in cases of extremity sarcomas (n = 366, 59%). In conclusion, consistent referral to specialized interdisciplinary sarcoma centers significantly ameliorates patient outcomes by achieving higher rates of complete resections and offering unrestricted access to plastic surgery. The latter in particular proved indispensable for limb salvage through flap-based defect reconstruction after sarcoma resection. In fact, although there remains a scarcity of readily available reconstructive surgery services within the current sarcoma treatment system in Germany, plastic and reconstructive flap transfer was associated with significantly increased limb-salvage rates in our cohort.


The microstructure and precipitated phase of C194 alloy were investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy(TEM).There are two kinds of specimens named A and B.In specimen A comparatively low density of dislocation in matrix and two types of precipitate morphology were observed by TEM:(a) randomly distributed spherical particles with particle diameters of about 50 to 70 nm and(b) fine particles with diameter of about 10 nm,Electron diffraction analysis indicated that in both cases,the precipitated phases are tetragonal Fe3P;In specimen B,there are high density of dislocation in matrix and uniform distributed fine precipitates in the grain boundary and interior,The fine precipitates have been identified as coherent or semi-coherent tetragonal Fe3P.Specimen B has more uniform microstructure than that of specimen A,which is responsible for the good properties of specimen B.


Author(s): Soehl, Thomas Georg | Advisor(s): Waldinger, Roger | Abstract: This dissertation examines how home country language and religion are transmitted in migrant families. In a set of four essays I examine how these transmission processes are tied to processes of assimilation/acculturation, the maintenance of home-country ties and perceptions of discrimination of the children of immigrants in schools. The starting point of my analysis is that both language and religion, in important and similar ways, function as modes of connection in migrant families with family members and friends who remain in the place of origin. At the same time vis-i?½-vis in the destination country, language and religion are two key cultural practices that can categorically differentiate immigrants and their children from the national majority populations. Drawing on a recently collected nationally representative survey of immigrants and the children of immigrants in France, the Trajectories and Origins (TeO) project, the first two chapters of this dissertation focus on the processes of intergenerational transmission of language and religion. The third chapter, uses data about the schooling experiences of the second-generation in the TeO to develop and test a set of hypotheses about the incentive structures that migrant parents face when deciding to transmit different cultural practices to their destination-country-born children. A final essay examines how religion and language factor in the continuity of social attitudes in immigrants and their children by analyzing attitudes of immigrant and second-generation respondents from 83 countries around the world living in 23 European countries.


Abstract Calibrated heat balance stem flow gauges were used to study the daily water use by Geraldton wax (Chamelaucium uncinatum Schauer), a plant endemic to the coastal sand plains north of Perth, Western Australia. Sap flow was recorded for the trunk, primary and secondary branches, and partially shaded lower east and sun‐lit upper west branches in order to assess the influence of climatic variables, stem development, and exposure. Irradiance and leaf area strongly influenced diurnal sap flow. Sap flow in primary and secondary branches was comparable when expressed on a unit leaf area basis. Defoliation reduced water use of the secondary branch. Shedding of leaves under water stress, a common phenomenon in Geraldton wax, probably has similar effects. The level of internal shading influenced water use in the crown (1.2 and 1.5 kg/day per m2 leaf area for branches with east and west exposure respectively). The difference in water use was prominent during the afternoon when the east branch was shaded. The...


The aim of this study was to investigate in systematic examinations with the rumen simulation technique RUSITEC and in vivo with cows cannulated in the proximal duodenum whether and how the biotin turnover gets influenced by the roughage/concentrate ratio of the fed ration, by the quality of degradation kinetics of the used feed carbohydrates and by the protozoa population.For the in vitro investigations there were used three rations with different hay/concentrate ratios (1/1 hay; 2/3 hay + 1/3 concentrate; 1/3 hay + 2/3 concentrate) for substrate, the rations with concentrates were tested in variants with wheat or maize as carbohydrate carriers. Besides each feed variant was incubated in faunated and defaunated inoculum.For the in vivo examinations to determine the flooding of biotin at the duodenum with the digesta there were fed 4 different rations to the cows fitted with duodenum cannulae. They were thus chosen to make possible the comparison between the effect of roughages based on grass or maize on one hand and the effects of concentrates based on wheat or maize in combination to gras silage as roughage on the other hand.Beside differences in parameters of fermentation there were great differences relative to the amount of biotin synthesized from the microbes in the rumen simulation and flooding at the duodenum under in vivo conditions, originating from rumen metabolism. Relative to microbially fixed nitrogen the amounts of biotin were multiple higher in vivo.Altogether the results of both the simulation and in vivo investigations show that there is no direct relation between the biotin input by provided feed and biotin output from rumen respectively its duodenal flooding. Tendentiously high consumption of supplied feed biotin in microbial rumen metabolism occurring after high roughage feeding leads to a lower flooding of biotin at the duodenum. The results from the in vivo investigations show that there can occur big ration- and grain-specific differences in duodenal biotin flooding that render the judgement of providing situation for dairy cows with biotin more difficult, but that should be payed attention for to meet the individual pretensions of the animals resulting from their performances.


The calling behavior of 3 closely related, interfertile species of cutworm moths, E. declarata (Walker), E. campestris (Grote), and E. rockburnei Hardwick, was studied in the laboratory. The temporal pattern of calling activity by virgin females differs for each species with a peak of calling in scotophase at 2.3 h for declarata, 7.7 h for campestris, and 10.3 h for rockburnei. The calling period of declarata is exclusive from that of rockburnei and nearly exclusive from that of campestris. There is overlap between the calling periods of campestris and rockburnei but the initial and peak phases, which under natural conditions with males present would be by far the most important, are separated by 2.5 h. Differences in calling rhythm are probably sufficient to account for the strong conspecific mating tendency exhibited by these species in laboratory tests, although such differences may not be the only isolating mechanism involved.


We used existing reading (n = 1,498) and math (n = 2,260) data to evaluate state test scores for screening middle school students. In Phase 1, state test data were used to create a research-derived cut score that was optimal for predicting state test performance the following year. In Phase 2, those cut scores were applied with future cohorts. Diagnostic accuracy of the research-derived cut scores was compared with the state's proficiency benchmark from the previous year. Across grades and content areas, research-derived cut scores yielded higher sensitivity and lower specificity values relative to state-defined cut scores. Marked decreases in sensitivity and specificity were not observed in subsequent years. Results provide evidence for procedures in which previous state test data are repurposed for screening decisions.


Five drums of mixed waste were accepted from LBL during FY 1994; they contain inorganic acids and compounds, as well as organic reagents and radioactive materials. This document defines the work plan for stabilization and characterization of the waste in three of these 5 drums.


To better respond to the unprecedented demand from the membership for financing and crisis support in response to the covid-19 pandemic, there is a temporary postponement of staff's work on Article IV consultations and mandatory Financial Stability Assessments. To ensure the postponement has no adverse impact of members' compliance with their obligations, the deadlines for upcoming Article IV consultations and for discussions with currency unions have been extended by 6 months. This paper provides additional background on these temporary arrangements.


We wished, in our study, to find the dose of anesthetic agent required, when given subdurally, to produce permanent paralysis of the hind legs and permanent changes in the spinal cord. Since procaine hydrochloride is the safest and most universally employed drug for spinal anesthesia, our experiments were confined to its use. The data here reported deal chiefly with results following subdural injection of huge doses of procaine in the dog. It was found necessary to give very large doses of procaine, in definite concentration, to produce permanent ill effects, as judged by the behavior of the dog and the microscopic examination of the spinal cord. Davis, Haven, Givens and Emmett 1 have reported that a dose of procaine suitable for man, when given subdurally to a dog, has resulted in changes in the membranes of the spinal cord and in the spinal cord itself; these changes, however, were not


Abstract In a period of renewed efforts to encourage language study in Australia, with a particular view to increasing the number of students completing secondary school and studying a language, consideration of the reasons behind retention and attrition of students becomes paramount. In this preliminary study, which surveyed nearly 200 students entering first-year university in a large metropolitan university, I explore the factors which facilitated or hindered continued language study during their high school years. The results of this survey are compared with the relatively small number of previous studies of motivation in languages education in Australian contexts. Key Words motivation, retention, attrition, language study, high school ********** [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pete Seeger's well-known song, cited in the title of this paper, evokes a nostalgic tone about by-gone days when things were better, sometimes referred to as the ubi sunt tradition. Reflecting on the current state of languages in education in Australia this is an apt metaphor. It has been repeatedly discussed in recent years that participation in languages in the final year of secondary schooling in Australia is unsatisfactory and ranges from 4.5-12% (depending on how students are counted), compared with historically much higher rates (for general discussion see Clyne, 2006; Go8, 2007; RUMACCC, 2007; Lo Bianco & Slaughter, 2009. For individual language perspectives see Orton, 2008; de Kretser & Spence-Brown, 2010; Kohler & Mahnken, 2010; Shin, 2010). We know that the loss of languages as an entry prerequisite to university in the late 1960s is partially responsible for this drastic decline as illustrated in the following quote. The year 1968 is often invoked as a key date in language education policy. It refers not to students ripping up pavement stones and rioting in Paris, but to the date, actually spread out over several years, in which universities removed the requirement for school language study as a criterion for entry to certain tertiary programs. While in 1986 the total number of matriculants taking a second languages [sic] was 44 per cent ... in 1964, 75 per cent of secondary language students were studying French. Also present were German and Latin ... The effect of this removal was immediate: language candidates in Year 12 dropped precipitously, to about 10 per cent. (Lo Bianco & Slaughter, 2009, p. 20) Over subsequent decades enrolment numbers continued to fall as the focus on language study was further eroded. Recent studies confirm that 90-95% of first year university students in Australia do not study a language. Of those who do, more than half are enrolled in ab initio courses (Nettelbeck, Byron, Clyne, Hajek, Lo Bianco & McLaren, 2007). It seems clear, then, that a good percentage of those students completing a language in secondary school do not continue languages study into university and that those who do study languages at university predominantly commence as beginners, or take up a different language than the one/s studied in school. In considering language offerings in universities in Australia we find that in 2007 two of Australia's 39 universities provided no language programs. Across the tertiary sector, 24 languages were offered with most universities offering four languages (Nettelbeck et al., 2007). The top six languages in rank order in Australian universities in 2007 can be seen in Table 1. In the latter part of the 20th century we also witnessed a squeezing of language programs in universities with a drop from 66 languages to the 24 languages offered in 2007 (Go8, 2007; Nettelbeck et al., 2007). While there are obvious systemic reasons behind the offering of languages in tertiary education (e.g. Government funding and strategic priorities, individual institutional choices, etc.), we need to consider why from an entry level participation rate of 90+% in languages at the beginning of secondary education (Liddicoat, Scarino, Curnow, Kohler, Scrimgeour & Morgan, 2007) we end up with such parlous numbers of those continuing through to secondary school graduation. …


Dictionaries distinguish the following senses of 'punishment': (1a) the act of punishing, or the fact of being punished - where 'punish' is defined as: an act of public authority causing an offender to suffer for an offense. As In: 'the respectable not only obey the law, but punish those who refuse to do so'. (1b) that which is inflicted as a penalty for an offense. As in: 'all punishments are to be carried out in the Barrack Yard', 'fit the punishment to the crime'. (2) severe handling or treatment causing heavy damage, injury or loss. As in: 'the fighter had been subjected to heavy punishment in his losing bout', 'the ships received considerable punishment from the batteries'.


Abstract An efficient protocol for obtaining fused quinazolinones through an oxidative free-radical cyclization under metal- and tin-free conditions is described. The oxidative cyclization of various N-3-ω-iodoalkyl derivatives to provide tricyclic systems using dicumyl peroxide as the sole reagent is studied. The method then is employed for the syntheses of 5-, 6-, and 7-membered fused quinazolinone analogues, including the natural products deoxyvasicinone and mackinazolinone. A xanthate-based oxidative radical cascade addition/cyclization process that allows the production of new menthol- and testosterone-quinazolinone conjugates, as well as the first total synthesis of leucomidine C, are also reported.


A quantitatively kinetic model has been established to address the quantum rings (QRs) self-assembly upon the droplet epitaxy. Taking the GaAs system as an example, we found that the diffusion of Ga atoms away from the droplet and the trapping of As atoms play crucial roles in the final shape formation of GaAs nanostructures. By calculating the amounts of the produced GaAs in each point, we performed the shape evolution of GaAs nanostructures during the crystallization process. The proposed kinetic theory nicely elucidates the physical mechanisms of the self-assembly of GaAs nanostructures including the single and double QRs and the holed nanostructure upon the droplet epitaxy.


Based on the 2D simulation experiment, the influences of fault property and the change of dip angle on petroleum migration and accumulation in Jiyang Depression are discussed. The results show that:① The capillary pre-ssure difference between sands and faults changes with the variational fault property, so fault property affects the petroleum migration. When the fault property is poor, the capillary pressure difference is favorable for the petroleum migration. When the property is better, the capillary pressure difference is unfavorable for the migration;② The change of dip angle causes the buoyancy in sands to change, so it takes a significant part in the petroleum migration. When there is a small dip angle, the buoyancy is favorable for the oil filling in sands, however, when the dip angle is large, the buoyancy is favorable for the oil migrating upward along the fault;③ There is a complementarity of the fault property and dip angle for the oil migration and accumulation. The better the property is and the larger the dip angle is,the more favorable they are for the petroleum migrating in the upper sands; while the poor property and small dip angle are favorable for the petroleum migrating in all the sands.


Bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumors can be divided into typical and atypical carcinoids according to their histologic and clinical features. Atypical carcinoids tend to have less predictable biologic behavior and are associated with a worse prognosis than typical carcinoids. The authors examined apoptosis and the expression of apoptosis regulating proteins Bcl‐2, Bax, Bak, and Mcl‐1 in 21 typical and 10 atypical bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumors. To find features distinguishing the growth of these types of tumors, the expression of p53 protein and the proliferation marker Ki‐67 were also investigated. Finally, the parameters were compared with clinical follow‐up data.


The space charge distributions in silicone rubber under different DC stress and its change after short circuit are measured using Pulsed Electro-acoustic (PEA) method. The experiment results reveal that the charge distributions near electrodes are hetero-charge under low (5kV/mm) and high electrical field (60kV/mm, 70kV/mm), but their formation mechanism is different. And the homo-charge will appear under middle electrical field (10kV/mm, 30kV/mm). Al and Cu electrodes can eject electrons and holes according to their polarity, respectively. The change of space charge with time under different voltage and the remnant charge distributions in sample after short circuit are analyzed. The space charge formation mechanism is also discussed.


This study explores the perspectives of Black men on terminology often used in college access and success recruitment and programmatic materials. The authors suggest that deficit models often result in student enculturation and arise from linguistic complexity and misunderstandings. The findings provide avenues for student affairs professionals to avoid deficit terminology usage and outline methods to include student voices in college access and success program recruitment and program materials.


Finite element computational model was developed to simulate impact behaviour and predict the failure response of carbon fibrous composite panels subjected to low velocity drop-weight impact on the partitioned area where an impactor of flat-nosed tip hits the target. Critical damage regions under impactors' tips are very complicated phenomenon to study since internal load re-distributes after impact and damage accumulates in through-the-thickness plies. Transformation of mathematical formulations into numerical model and writing modular code also need extensive efforts and time. However, efficient way of solving the problems using commercial software generated simulations. For this work, commercially available software ABAQUS TM was selected, which incorporates shell elements and stacks of plies. The user Table option of the software provides an extended amount of input data without having to re-link the code that could be utilised for various load cases. Model developing and simulation techniques associated with the software usage are presented herein. The developed models are capable to simulate impact phenomena of various drop weights for parametric studies. The methodology applied consists of computing in-plane stresses from the model and using Trapezium rule to calculate transverse shear stresses from the standard equilibrium equations. The method is simple and efficient to predict equivalent 3-D transverse shear stresses from a 2-D model. These predicted and calculated stresses were used in failure theories to predict possible failure modes. Some of the results from failure threshold loads were selected and included in the form of tables, contour plots and graphs.


The removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) presents a challenge for drinking water providers. Guidelines for PFAS concentrations in final drinking water are regularly updated to eve...


The concentration of the lowest excited state of molecular oxygen, O2(1Δg), generated by gas-phase photosensitization with octafluoronaphthalene has been determined by electron paramagnetic resonan...


This work aims at to characterize the mechanical behavior of the mango fruits in function of the problems found during the stages of production and commercialization. Problems like physical damages are caused by the inadequate handing of the fruits during harvest, storage, processing or transport. These problems are caused by information deficit about the mechanical behavior of the fruits and the maximum strength necessary o start internal degradation or external damages, that it harms yours commercialization. Compression tests were carried out in the specimens of the mangos (Mangifera Indica) the variety "Keitt" and "Tommy Atkins", in repose position, to determination of the elasticity modulus and maximum strength up to rupture as a function the maturation phases 1, 2 and 3. The elasticity modulus decreases with advancement of the maturation stage, reaching values for the "Keitt" variety of 2,065 MPa, 1,734 MPa and 1,381 MPa for the maturation stage 1,2 and 3 respectively. The "Tommy Atkins" variety reached an elasticity modulus of 1,698 MPa, 1,657 MPa e 1,518 MPa for the maturation stage 1,2 and 3, respectively. The maximum compressive strength, that causes rupture in the fruits, for the variety "Tommy Atkins" were higher than those for "Keitt". This fact is associated with the different structural composition of the fruits, because the "Tommy Atkins" variety has a fiber content greater than the "Keitt" variety.


Janus Kinase (JAK), a nonreceptor protein tyrosine kinase, has emerged as an excellent target through research and development since its discovery in the 1990s. As novel small-molecule targeted drugs, JAK inhibitor drugs have been successfully used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), myofibrosis (MF) and ulcerative colitis (UC). With the gradual development of JAK targets in the market, JAK inhibitors have also received very considerable feedback in the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as atopic dermatitis (AD), Crohn's disease (CD) and graft-versus host disease (GVHD). This article reviews the research progress of JAK inhibitor drugs: introducing the existing JAK inhibitors on the market and some JAK inhibitors in clinical trials currently. In addition, the synthesis of various types of JAK inhibitors were summarized, and the effects of different drug structures on drug inhibition and selectivity.


Gannan is Chinese largest navel orange producing area.Proper irrigation is directly related to the yield and quality of navel orange.In order to improve the efficiency of irrigation and crop production,a wireless soil humidity monitoring and control system was designed to Gannan hilly landform features based on ZigBee and internet technology in this paper.Through the system,the soil humidity of navel orange zone could be viewed remotely in real-time,and the order used to open or close the irrigation could also be given to control the soil humidity.According to the test in the navel orange zone the system could achieve the intended function,with good stability,which provided an effective tool for navel orange intelligent irrigation.


Software safety assurance philosophy and practices at the NASA Ames Research center are discussed. It is shown that, to be safe, software must, for all practical purposes, be error-free. Case histories cover software developments on two digital flight control systems and two ground facility systems. For each case history, the overall system and software organization and function are described and the software-safety issues and their resolution are presented. The effectiveness of safety assurance methods is discussed. Methods include conventional life-cycle practices, verification and validation testing, software safety analysis, and formal design methods for realizing safe software. Three conclusions are drawn: a practical technology for assuring that software is safe does not yet exist, it is unlikely that a set of general-purpose analytical techniques can be developed for proving that software is safe, and successful software safety-assurance practices will have to take into account the detailed design processes employed in the software development and show that the software will execute correctly under all possible conditions.<<ETX>>


The aim of the present paper is to discuss the Cauchy problem for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic equations of the form ut+(um)x=tqupwith σ-finite Borel measures as initial conditions,where m1,0p≤1,q≥0 are some given real numbers,the existence of BV solutions for the above problem is obtained.


Special field surveys were conducted aiming at typical historical buildings at Nanjing of Jiangsu Province like Jiming Temple,Jingjue Temple,Dacheng Gate and Yuejianglou.The application means,current existing status,protecting measures of general construction/composition material were summarized,and the fire hazard were analyzed in points of fire loads.Several technical fire-proof principles and countermeasures were proposed,including:registration account and monitor of mobile fire loads,emergency plan and decision support management system based on fire hazard identification,combination techniques of vegetable flame retardant working solution/intumescent fire-proof coating/rapid curing and molding,and nanosized hybrid coating.


Social networking sites are playing very significant role in today time; it has a direct impact on all age group people. Though it has many cons but still these are like an effective tool in communicating millions of people and spreading our expressions and view worldwide. We all need a change in the pattern of use, in order to prevent miss- happenings on these sites. If we will be active and aware these sites will serve us their batter and will bring some more revolution in the world of cyber technology. Social network analysis (SNA) is the methodical analysis of social networks. Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of network theory, consisting of nodes (representing individual actors within the network) and ties (which represent relationships between the individuals, such as friendship, kinship, organizational position etc.). These networks are often depicted in a social network diagram, where nodes are represented as points and ties are represented as lines.


Sustainability development is a popular attention matter, and which is a question on the subsistence and development of people. How to measure the ecological capacity, and to explore the way of regional sustainability development. During seeking the strategic decision-making of sustainability development, study and open out a lot of system info. The theory of Foodprint has been a quantificational model of account for making decision-making of sustainability development, and inaugurated a new way of the study on sustainability development from the angle of antinomy between human and earth.


The fishery resources in the Taizhou section of Yangtze River were investigated from June 2010 to November 2011.Analyses of species composition,dominant species and species diversity were carried out.48 species of fishes belonging to 11 orders,18 families were collected and identified.Cypriniformes accounted for 62.5% of the total species.In addition,the data indicated that Hypophthalmichthys molitrix,Carassius auratus,and Hemiculter leucisculus were dominant species.The Margalef's index was 3.999,Shannon-Wiener diversity index H' and H″ were respectively 1.965 and 1.980,Pielou's index J' and J″ were respectively 0.680 and 0.663.Shannon-Wiener diversity index H' and H″ in the Taizhou section were higher than those in the Nanjing section(P0.05).The differences of Margalef's index and Pielou's index between the Taizhou section and the Nanjing section were not significant(P0.05).Margalef's index and Pielou's index in the Jiangyin section were significantly higher than those in other two sections(P0.05).The species number of fish captures in summer was the largest.Moreover,the species compositions in spring and in summer were similar.


A vivid portrait of Rubens's enormous life against a background of the turbulent history of his times. Without neglecting his paintings, Ms. Lescourret also gives the reader a fascinating picture of Rubens's career as an accomplished diplomat.


This article examines 158 inmate mothers released from a maximum security prison to determine the influence of minor children's visitation on their mothers' disciplinary adjustment in prison. Logistic regression analysis was used to predict the mothers' involvement in disciplinary behaviour. Although up to 80% of female inmates have minor children, the findings indicate that the majority of the mothers do not receive visits from them. The inmates who do receive visits from their minor children are more likely to engage in both serious and violent infractions while in prison. It appears that mothers who receive visits from their children have more difficulty adjusting to institutionalisation, perhaps because of the emotional factors surrounding visitation and separation from children. However, it is possible that the visitation with their children while imprisoned may help prepare mothers for life upon parole and reunification with their families and children.


Recently, brain storming optimisation (BSO) is proposed to solve some of the optimisation problems. The original version of BSO ignores the concept of sharing the same idea among different groups. In addition, since BSO focuses on the cluster centres and gives them the highest priority, it might fall into local optima. Therefore, this paper proposes a modified BSO algorithm entitled fuzzy brain storing optimisation (FBSO) that tries to solve these two problems by: 1) sharing the same idea with different groups using fuzzy C-mean instead of K-mean; 2) the paper uses a predator-prey approach when generating new ideas to deviate the search from the local optima; 3) testing the BSO and FBSO on one of the important problems in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which is the energy topology control (ETC) problem. The results of FBSO seem promising and outperform the BSO in many cases.


In this work, organic concerted companion (CC) dyes CCOD-1 and CCOD-2 have been constructed by covalently linking two organic dye units with complementary absorption spectra. Both CC dyes exhibit intense absorption from 300 to 650 nm with the band edges extended to 700 nm. These CC dyes have been used to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), and the photovoltaic performance has been investigated using different light sources. CCOD-2 possesses bulkier outer shelter than CCOD-1 owing to the longer carbon chains (C12) at the donor moiety, and thus it has stronger anti-aggregation and anti-charge-recombination ability. Under simulated sunlight (AM1.5G), CCOD-2 exhibits enhanced photovoltaic behavior with the V OC , J SC , and the PCE of 759 mV, 19.23 mA·cm -2 , and 10.4%, respectively. Notably, under the illumination of the indoor T5 fluorescent lamp (2500 lux), CCOD-2 affords an enhanced PCE of 28.0% with remarkable V OC and J SC of 692 mV and 0.424 mA·cm -2 , respectively. Notably, the PCE achieved for CCOD-2 outperforms those of the reference sensitizer N719 and our previously reported CC dyes XW61 and XW70-C8 under the same indoor lamp conditions. In summary, the novel organic CC dyes developed in this work have been demonstrated to be promising for fabricating DSSCs to efficiently harvest the energy of indoor lamps.


There is an increasing need to make management knowledge more consistent with the OmessinessO and complexity of actual organizational phenomena and contexts in todayOs world, calling for a refoundation of mainstream management theories. The paper focuses on the contribution of design thinking approaches in this sense, particularly addressing the question of how the predisposition for a design thinking approach can be shaped in management education. Following a qualitative inductive research design, it will report the experience of the introduction of new teaching practices inspired by design thinking in a class of students from a Master program on Innovation and Marketing in an Italian University. Based on the empirical findings, the challenges and opportunities of innovating business school teaching towards the construction of a design thinking mentality will be discussed.


Thank you very much for reading multi antenna transceiver techniques for 3g and beyond. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their favorite books like this multi antenna transceiver techniques for 3g and beyond, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some infectious virus inside their desktop computer.


Nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) injections of saporin (SAP) conjugates that kill neurokinin‐1 receptor (NK1R) or tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)/dopamine‐β‐hydroxylase (DBH) neurons attenuate baroreflexes, lead to loss of NTS astrocytes with glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and lead to increased microglial staining with OX42. We sought to determine if SAP alone altered cardiovascular reflexes due to loss of astrocytes, loss of neurons or proliferation of microglia. NTS injection of SAP led to loss of GFAP as well as connexin 43 (CX43) immunofluorescent labeling but did not affect neuronal markers NMDAR1 (NMDA receptor subunit 1), GluR2 (AMPA receptor subunit 2), neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS), TH, DBH, vesicular glutamate transporter 2 (VGluT2), NK1R, and protein gene product 9.5 (PGP 9.5). In contrast, SAP led to increased OX42. Bilateral NTS injections of SAP decreased baroreflex, chemoreflex, and von Bezold Jarisch reflex responses. Decreases in baroreflex responses seen in rats treated with SAP were comparable to responses when SAP conjugates targeted TH/DBH neurons or NK1R neurons. Baroreflexes were unaffected by 6‐hydroxydopamine (6‐OHDA), which did not reduce GFAP staining, but did increase OX42. Thus, full cardiovascular reflex expression relies on intact NTS astrocytes. Reflex changes after SAP are independent of microglial proliferation. Support: NIH R01 HL088090 and VA Merit Review.


The IL-17 family members, IL-17A and IL-17F, are signature Th17 cytokines. Although they were both originally found to be produced as disulfide-linked homodimers, recent studies have confirmed the production of IL-17AF heterodimers in in vitro-differentiated and polarized Th17 cells. While ELISA-based assays have become available for the study of these heterodimers, flow antibodies have been generated only to the monomeric subunits, making discrimination between the homo- and heterodimer complexes difficult. Here, for the first time, we use a novel monoclonal antibody to identify producers of the IL-17AF heterodimer by flow cytometry. Under our polarization conditions, the majority of human lymphocytes that stain for both IL-17A and IL-17F also stain for the IL-17AF heterodimer. These results suggest that this population produces mostly IL-17AF heterodimers and not the IL-17A and IL-17F homodimers alone. This novel reagent will help expand our knowledge of the IL-17/Th17 axis and contribute to the elucidation of its role in the immune response.


Summary 1. Cisplatin Analogue Development 1.1 Structure-Activity Relationships 1.2 Structure-Resistance Relationships 1.3 Structure-Oral Availability Relationships 2. Analogues Currently in Clinical Trial 2.1 Ormaplatin 2.2 Oxaliplatin 2.3 DWA2114R 2.4 Zeniplatin and Enloplatin 2.5 Lobaplatin 2.6 CI-973 2.7254-S 2.8 JM-216 2.9 Liposome-Entrapped Analogues 3. Place of Current Analogues in Cancer Therapy


Corrosion can cause serious problems to amine treating plants as it can lead to unexpected downtime, production loss, and even personnel injury. This work utilizes electrochemical method to study the corrosion behavior of C1018 mild steel in aqueous solutions of monoethanolamine (MEA) upon addition of carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as nitric acid at temperatures of 25 °C to 80 °C. Solvent pH decreased upon temperature increase and CO2 loading, while the corrosion rates were most influenced by solvent temperature as both anodic and cathodic reaction rates increased. Addition of nitric acid gave a similar pH and corrosion rate as the addition of CO2 on a molar basis. Solvent rich in CO2 was found to have similar corrosivity as lean MEA despite the lower pH of solvent.


The reports on the emotional reactions and adjustment of patients to chronic haemodialysis are often contradictory; nevertheless, all agree that this treatment is stressful.


New technology platforms continue to be introduced inside organizations in this digital age. Technology and generational diversity will have sustained impact on how business organizations consider and adapt to meet a number of technology and people challenges. The case discusses why it is to promote and sustain crucial conversations dialogue among team members to both enhance and strengthen team and teamwork practices. In the case, the change management process was essential to being able to go deeper through matrixed crucial conversations to achieve a desired organization goal. This case study chapter offers insight and outcomes that were achieved by building a dialogic approach and model, so a vital unit of the organization could begin taking advantage of future technology enhancements.


Bacteria have been reported to inhabit the leaf galls of some paleotropical genera of Rubiaceae. Cultivation of these bacteria has not been succesful to date. The use of contemporary macromolecular methods permitted the identification of these bacterial symbionts. The rather low similarity levels towards Burkholderia glathei (Proteobacteria f3), the closest validly named neighbour, indicated that these symbiotic bacteria represent novel taxa within the genus Burkholderia. This paper reports on phylogenetic analysis of the bacterial 16S rDNA as a tool for classification of bacterio- philous plants.


Previous research on goal setting and feedback is placed in the context of an organizational control system model. Using a sample of 100 managers, the independent impacts of three components of a control system (goal setting, measurement, and corrective actions) on managerial satisfaction and performance are examined. Results show that aspects of each of the three model components are independently related to performance but not to satisfaction. Respondents' perceptions of top management's support for the performance-appraisal system, a factor not considered in most research on feedback and goal setting, emerges as an important correlate of high performance.


Purpose: Pancreatic cancer continues to pose an enormous challenge to clinicians and cancer scientists. Clinical studies show that tumor necrosis factor–related apoptosis- inducing ligand (TRAIL) exerts a potent and tumor-specific proapoptotic activity. However, most pancreatic cancer cells are resistant to TRAIL therapy. Human somatostatin receptor gene 2 (hSSTr2) is lost in 90% of pancreatic carcinoma. Oncolytic viruses are able to selectively lyse cancer cells and represent a promising novel anticancer therapy. Here, we investigated whether oncolytic adenovirus–mediated reexpression of hSSTr2 would enhance TRAIL-induced antitumor efficacy against pancreatic cancer. Experimental Design: The antitumor efficacies of combined or single treatment of hSSTr2 and TRAIL mediated by oncolytic adenovirus were compared in pancreatic cancer cell culture and xenografts. The mechanisms involved in hSSTr2-induced sensitization to TRAIL were studied. Results: Oncolytic adenovirus–mediated reexpression of hSSTr2 potentiated TRAIL-induced tumor growth inhibition in vitro and in vivo. Reexpression of hSSTr2 augmented TRAIL-induced apoptosis against pancreatic cancer cells via up-regulation of death receptor 4 and down-regulation of Bcl-2. Conclusions: hSSTr2 restoration mediated by oncolytic adenovirus enhances TRAIL-induced antitumor efficacy against pancreatic cancer. Combined treatment with oncolytic adenovirus–mediated hSSTr2 and TRAIL gene provides the rationale for a clinical trial in pancreatic cancer. (Clin Cancer Res 2009;15(16):5154–60)


Aluminum alloy is the main material of automotive container. Pre- painting technology of aluminum alloy is studied in this paper. It is showed that chromium phosphate is a good conversion film of pre- painting of aluminum material. According to the requirement of coatings, yellow zine epoxy primer and two- pack high solid acrylate polyurethane coating are chosen to be containers paints.


Philosophical theorizing about moral responsibility has clearly been influenced by religious thought. The primary purpose of this chapter is to explore some central elements of this influence, particularly as this influence has emerged from theistic sources. It identifies and explains five common features of theistic religious commitment that can be seen to have imposed philosophical pressures on contemporary accounts of moral responsibility. These features are (1) an emphasis on human likeness to God (Imago Dei), (2) a disposition to see human agency as having divine purposes, (3) an assumption of eternal expectations (Heaven and Hell) for human agents, (4) the need to respond to internal philosophical tensions like the problem of divine foreknowledge, and (5) the need to respond to external philosophical challenges like the problem of evil and the problem of divine hiddenness. Special but not exclusive attention is paid to the implications of these pressures for the debate among skeptics, compatibilists, and libertarians in the literature on moral responsiblity.


Credit is a core elective for the integration of new teaching management system.Institute of classes under the new system,student mobility and uncertainty is more obvious and this has brought about a new student management difficulties.As a flexible management tool, Class culture has a strong administrative capability.Class cultural construction can make students be effectively collective spirit,to enhance students'self-management capabilities.In this paper,it provides a useful way of thinking in order to address this difficulty,discussed Values, bedroom's cultural construction,class activities and emotional education aspects of the class culture-building are.


The Cogstate Brief Battery (CBB) is a computerized cognitive assessment validated for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and unsupervised use. The CBB assesses processing speed, attention, visual learning, and working memory and is offered to cognitively normal (CN) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) participants in ADNI‐3. In‐clinic visits are completed annually for MCI and every other year for CN, with both groups also able to complete unsupervised assessments at‐home within 14 days of the first in‐clinic visit and at up to 3 monthly intervals.


The distributions of γ′ phase of FGH95 P/M superalloy under different hot extrusions and heat treatments were investigated,the microstructure after heat treatments and γ′ phase's dark field images after aging treatments were studied, tensile properties at room temperature(20 ℃) and high temperature(650 ℃) were tested,the microstructure of instant fracture appearances at high temperature was also analysed.The results show that under the same heat treatments,the hot isostatic pressing temperature is higher,the size of γ′ phase during aging treatment is larger.Heat treatments processing can change the distributions of γ′ phase,and salt cooling can increase the total number of middle γ′ phase,and improve the high temperature plastic property obviously.


We prove a central limit theorem under diffusive scaling for the displacement of a random walk on ZdZd in stationary and ergodic doubly stochastic random environment, under the H−1H−1-condition imposed on the drift field. The condition is equivalent to assuming that the stream tensor of the drift field be stationary and square integrable. This improves the best existing result [Fluctuations in Markov Processes—Time Symmetry and Martingale Approximation (2012) Springer], where it is assumed that the stream tensor is in Lmax{2+δ,d}Lmax{2+δ,d}, with δ>0δ>0. Our proof relies on an extension of the relaxed sector condition of [Bull. Inst. Math. Acad. Sin. (N.S.) 7 (2012) 463–476], and is technically rather simpler than existing earlier proofs of similar results by Oelschlager [Ann. Probab. 16 (1988) 1084–1126] and Komorowski, Landim and Olla [Fluctuations in Markov Processes—Time Symmetry and Martingale Approximation (2012) Springer].


A remarkably simple method for the synthesis of di- and trisubstituted functionalised oxazoles under metal- and catalyst-free conditions is described. An iterative bromination and debromination of N-acylated amino acid derivatives with NBS as the sole reagent cleanly led to various substituted oxazoles.


This paper provides a generalized approach for investigating the reactive effects of the gigahertz transversal electromagnetic cell using the method of moments. This method is based on a framework recently developed. Thin dipoles are used as canonical equipment under test (EUT) to provide a basic understanding of the effects of the interaction between the cell and EUT. Emphasis is put on the impedance variation and on the overall current distribution on the EUT, which are a measure par excellence of this coupling. The impact of the phenomenon of illumination and re-illumination along with the role of evanescent modes on the EUT has been demonstrated. It is shown that even for small EUTs the contribution of the fields excited by induced currents on the EUT and scattered back from cell walls cannot be, in general, neglected, as they contribute to the total field. The appeal of the approach resides in its simplicity and in imparting deep insights into the physics behind the mutual influence between the cell and the EUT.


Virtual sensor array (VSA) has been developed for selective detection of VOCs. Currently the most reported VSAs only detect the change of a single property of the sensing film, thus a serious waste of valuable information. Herein, we propose a VSA with a high data dimensionality based on QCM and a sensing layer of MXene. Mechanical and electrical properties of the MXene film are detected simultaneously by the QCM with appropriate sizes of sensing film and electrodes. We take changes of the extracted parameters from Butterworth-van-Dyke (BvD) equivalent circuit obtained at multiple harmonics as the response of the QCM-based VSA after exposure to various VOCs. By performing the principal component analysis (PCA) for the response of the VSA, we demonstrate the data dimensionality over 4-D of the VSA is achieved. And the proposed VSA has a potential to distinguish between different VOCs and quantify concentrations of target VOCs.


Tissue immunology is a main theme of this year's featured articles celebrating SJI 50 years. In the April issue, the turn has come to an indepth discussion of innate lymphoid cells (ILC), a family of innate immune cells known to scientists for less than 15 years.1 Studies of ILC have revealed secrets on how cells communicate to maintain tissue homeostasis and the variety that was revealed has deepened our understanding of the complexity and heterogeneity of the immune system. Immunotherapy of cancer, its history and future progress has been the focus of many reflections, not the least involving one wellknown member of innate lymphocytes: the natural killer (NK) cell.2 In their review in this issue, Marchalot and Mjösberg turns to the role of ILC in colorectal cancer, a perspective that extends the role of ILC from tissue homeostasis into disease. Like many discussions on inflammation and cancer, opposing effects on cancer by ILC are reported. As reviewed by Marchalot and Mjösberg, ILC has been shown both to promote tumour growth and prevent it. Dissecting the mechanisms at play in different situations will lead the way forward towards novel cancer immunotherapy protocols involving ILC. Along with the review on ILC and colorectal cancer, I hope you will find many additional interesting articles on various immunological topics to enjoy and take strengths from in these turbulent times.


China's urban low-income population problem is becoming increasingly prominent,has become a serious social problem.Combined with the literature of research on low-income population,the Low-income population in city is discussed from four aspects including the size,living condition,evolvement trend and countermeasures.Theoretical analysis of literature review will give it a clear summary and interpretation and serve as the foundation for the implementation of ant i-poverty policy.


Educational technology, new materials and methods, and a growing realization that each person learns in an individually unique way has opened up new potentials in correctional education. The delivery of education and training services is very difficult in a prison setting. However, the creative procram manager can devnlop and implement an appropriate delivery system to meet the special needs of the population in a particular institution. Management by specific and measurable objectives, marshalling of intirna2 and external resources, and highly individualized, learner centered, and flexible programming are the essential characteristics of an up-to-date correctional education model. Early and continuing linkages with the real world and intensive assistance during the critical post-release period can reduce the degenerative impact of incarceration. Top level support and commitment to education and training are necessary in order that correctional education may serve the overall mission of any correctional system. (Six appendixes include an inmate data profile, a correctional education model, testing standards, learning center diagram, and Bureau of Prisons educational standards and checklists.) (Author)


The relationship between autonomy, as a job resource, and work engagement of faculty members at Jordanian private universities was examined. This relationship was found of interest to assist in identifying the reason behind the low level of job satisfaction among Jordanian faculty members. A quantitative correlational survey design research method was used to collect data from 112 faculty members who are currently employed at Jordanian private universities. Correlational statistics were used to answer the research question related to the relationship between autonomy and work engagement. The P-value was found at a significant level of .000 for autonomy on the level of work engagement of faculty members. It was found that by providing autonomy to faculty member of Jordanian private universities might increase their work engagement and performance. Future research recommendations made to encourage researchers to explore the appropriate level of autonomy that might be sufficient to improve faculty members' work engagement.


I am using uf2 to add microformats, so I thought it could be the case that that is causing a parsing issue (potentially with Jetpack's


Caption: "A Snake Charmer. The snake is coiled in the sand just below his tambourine--doing nothing, as usual. The audience is a little distrait. In the background are the ramparts of the Citadel."


We report on the biased transverse electric field sensitive transport of Dirac fermions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator modulated by magnetic superlattices. By using a scattering matrix method, we find that the transmission spectrum for both parallel and antiparallel configurations exhibits asymmetrical features. In addition, the analysis of conductances in different magnetic configurations allows us to obtain controlled magnetoresistence depending on the amplitude of the external electric field. These might make topological insulators good candidates for future spintronics.


A possible risk factor of drug-induced hepatotoxicity is the metabolism of drug enzyme activity. Some drugs when used for prolonged or by overdose may induce hepatotoxicity. Chronic alcohol consumption, exposure of zinc oxide nanoparticles widely used in industry & cosmetics, reveals high potency risks of hepatotoxicity. Now, herbal medicines and formulations are developing to overcome liver injuries. Hepatoprotective effect of the goat milk, Momordica dioica Roxb., Berberis aristata. The aim of the present review is to compiling data on promising hepatotoxic as well as hepatoprotective agents.


analytical.' The term 'Piccinnisme' is also liable to misunderstanding. Terry, for example, setting the scene for J. C. Bach's French opera, refers to Gluck's 'heresies' against Lully and Rameau, and states that his opponents summoned Piccinni as a champion of orthodoxy.2 Although the previous alternatives to Gluck, in the critics' eyes, were those representatives of a style since decayed, Piccinni was certainly not their champion and his supporters must be numbered among those who would gladly have buried the traditional French opera once for all. To us it may seem that Gluck had buried it, despite the occasional revival of Lully and Rameau (much mutilated) at least until 1781, two years after Gluck had left Paris in disgust at the failure of Echo et Narcisse. But it probably did not escape the attention of those who disliked his music that Gluck's work was, as Alfred Einstein said, 'at once a blow to French opera and a renewal of it'.3 Unfortunately we cannot simply reverse Terry's formulation to speak of Piccinni's heresies and the orthodoxy -of Gluck; nor is it relevant of Einstein to suggest that the controversy would only have been resolved if Piccinni could have shown that 'opera seria had not been dethroned by Gluck's reforms'.4 The theatre of their rivalry was not Vienna or Italy but Paris, where opera seria had never reigned and where Gluck himself, particularly in the use of long arias often adapted from Italian texts (in Alceste and Iphige'nie en Tauride) had in fact done much


The readability of fuzzy models is related to their organizational structure and the corresponding rule base. On this basis, a new methodology for organizing the information, the Separation of Linguistic Information Methodology (SLIM), is developed. Based on its results, different algorithms are presented for different structures: the Parallel Collaborative Structure (PCS) SLIM-PCS algorithm and the Hierarchical Prioritized Structure (HPS), SLIM-HPS algorithm. Finally, it is proposed a Fuzzy Clustering of Fuzzy Rules Algorithm (FCFRA) that allows the automatic organisation of the sets of fuzzy IF ... THEN rules of one fuzzy system in a Parallel Collaborative Structure, the probabilistic Fuzzy Clustering, and in a Hierarchical Prioritized Structure, the Possibilistic Fuzzy Clustering.


—Daily lives contain many of the menus and signboards which carry important information, but sometimes it may cause problems when we cannot understand it. This paper aimed to develop a new system that translates Arabic texts of the signboards into English text by using mobile phone camera. In spite of the diversity of translation products of text embedded in images for many languages, Arabic texts seem to be not yet well solved to address this problem. The system will automatically translate the Arabic text embedded in images into English language. Four subsystems used in the algorithm: preprocessing, segmentation (text detection), character recognition and translation. Dealing with Arabic language was the most important problem faced by the proposed system because it has a set of characteristics makes the identification very difficult, such as words interrelated. The system automatically detects the text and works well with different backgrounds, rotated images, skewed, font sizes and blurred images. The system was assessed using recall measurement to evaluate the performance of the developed system and the experimental results of character recognition show a rate of 81.82%, the word recognition subsystem gave a rate of (94.44%) and the word translation was about (83.33%).


Based on the bathymetric data colleted in 1992 and 1993, the two prominent valley-like submarine features off the northeastern coast of Taiwan which were named by Yu (1992) "Chilung Canyon" and "Huapinghsu Canyon" should be renamed as "Chilung Valley" and "Mien-Hua Canyon", respectively. INTRODUCTION Yu (1992) have named two submarine canyons off northeastern Taiwan the Chilung Canyon and the Huapinghsu Canyon. His criteria for naming these two distinct linear depressions on the shelf and slope were based on published bathymetry not including new findings. After a scrutiny of the bathymetric data collected in recent years (Song, 1992, 1993), a revision of some of the names proposed by Yu (1992) is necessary. For instance, the naming of "Chilung Canyon" by Yu is not suitable; we suggest that the name "Chilung Valley" seems more proper. We follow the guidelines for naming or defining submarine features (Bouma, 1990). The "submarine canyon" is "a relative narrow, deep depression with steep sides, the bottom of which generally has a continuous slope, developed characteristically on some continental slopes". In other words, submarine canyon usually commences on the continental shelf, commonly at the mouth of large rivers, cutting to the base of continental slope and serving as a major conduit of detritus sediment from the continents to the deep basins (Kennett, 1982). Acta Oceanographica Taiwanica No. 30, PP. 77-84, 6Figs., March, 1993 DATA AND RESULTS The bathymetry off the northeastern coast of Taiwan from 121°40'E, 24°55'N to 122° 35'E, 25° 40'N has been charted by using the EK-500 and ELAC-4700 echosounders since early 1991 on board the R/V Ocean Researcher 1. To date, as much as 90,000 bathymetric data points (employing the DGPS with positioning accuracy within 5 meters) were obtained during nine cruises totally about 2,500 nautical miles long (Fig.1). These data were examined, edited, and compiled; after that, bathymetrical contour chart annotated by the GRS-67 coordinate in the area was produced numerically (Fig.2). Until now, only the quality of the chart around the Pengchiahsu Island remains comparatively poor owing to the scarcity of bathymetrical data. Fig.1. Surveying region map. White lines represent the ship tracks collecting bathymetrical data that uses in constructing water depth contour map; thin solid lines denote the profiles demonstrated in Fig.3, Fig.5 and Fig.6. In the surveying area, the water depths increase in a southeast direction with a maximum depth of 1,530 m below sea level at the SE corner of the area. This area covers two major physiographic units as follows. Acta Oceanographica Taiwanica No. 30, PP. 77-84, 6Figs., March, 1993 (1) East China Sea continental shelf: To the north of 25°30'N (northern shelf), the shelf surface is generally smooth and the shelf edge is at a depth near 130m (Fig.3), Nevertheless, the southern part of the this surface is no longer smooth and is featured with many ridges and valleys; and the shelf edge is lowered to a depth near 230 m. The relief in southern part of the shelf is tens meters on average, but may be as large as over 100m in the places where undersea ridges or islands are present (Fig.2 & Fig.4). Hence, it is reasonable to believe that the southern shelf has been affected by certain tectonic disturbance and, consequently, the near-edge part of this shelf has been subsiding to some extent in relation to the stable northern shelf. It is also believed that the present shelf break was formed about 18,000 years ago when sea level stood at about 130m (Kennett, 1982). This means that northern shelf has been quite stable, while southern shelf subsides at a rate of 6mm/year which is comparable to the Early Pleistocene uplift rate of the Taiwan Island (Peng et al., 1977; Barrier & AngeIier, 1986). The sea floor off the northern Taiwan coast slopes with a gradient of 1° to 2° (or 1/25 to 1/50, see Fig.2) that is steeper than the average gradient (about 0.05° or 1/1000) of typical continental shelves. This implies that the southern shelf is also tectonically lowered in relation to the northeastern part of the Taiwan Island. (2) East China Sea continental slope: Off the outer margin of the stable northern shelf, the continental slope descends at about 2° to the floor of the Southern Okinawa Trough; however, south of a submarine canyon off southern shelf, the slope becomes narrower and steeper (becomes at 4° downslope; see Fig.3). This may be due also to the tectonic disturbance. There are two submarine canyons and one submarine valley shown in the region:


A two-dimensional hydrodynamic and numerical model for overland flow is developed in this paper. The model allows spatial variations in hillslope physical characteristics, including surface roughness, infiltration, and microtopography. The accuracy of the model is tested by comparison with characteristic-based solutions and experimental data. The results of these tests indicate that the model is accurate and has good stability and convergence properties. The application of the model to two-dimensional overland flow on hillslopes is demonstrated by applying it to surfaces with spatially variable roughness, infiltration, and microtopography. These simulations show that microtopography is the dominant factor causing spatial variation in overland flow depth, velocity, and direction.


The invention relates to lightweight air-entrained aggregate concrete and a preparation method thereof. The lightweight air-entrained aggregate concrete is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 20-35% of composite cementing material, 7-15.75% of water, 40-65% of natural medium sand, 5-15% of lightweight aggregate, 0.3-0.7% of water reducing agent and 0.01-0.35% of air entraining agent. The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding a composite cementing material, water, natural medium sand, a water reducing agent and an air entraining agent into an agitator for agitating to prepare mortar; and adding lightweight aggregate, and uniformly mixing lightweight aggregate and mortar. The lightweight air-entrained aggregate concrete has the beneficial effects of workability meeting different construction requirements, high air content, lightweight, favorable frost resistance, compressive strength meeting the LC7.5 strength grade requirement, simple, convenient and easily-controlled preparation method, high construction speed due to the adoption of mechanical construction and wide application range in the construction industry.


A power supply circuit of a wire electric discharge machining system comprising an auxiliary power supply (3) for generating sub-discharge by applying a voltage to a work piece (2) and a wire electrode (1), and main power supplies (4, 5) connected, respectively, with an upper terminal block (9) for connection with an upper feeding point (6) and a lower terminal block (11) for connection with a lower feeding point (7) in order to supply a main discharge current after generating sub-discharge, and machining the work piece (2) by controlling the auxiliary power supply (3) and the main power supplies (4, 5). In the power supply circuit, the auxiliary power supply (3) has one end connected with the upper terminal block (9) and the other end connected with the lower terminal block (11).


oppositionists and the "cleansing" of the party's ranks in 1933-36; the functioning of the NKVD in 1937-38, and finally the confused end of the terror toward the end of the decade, signaled by Nikolai Ezhov's fall and Lavrentii Beria's "spring of liberalism." But this is more than a book about Kremlin politics and the functioning of the repressive apparatus. Thurston investigates the way the population received, and to some extent negotiated with, the terror. Specialists will be familiar with chapter 5, "Fear and Belief in the Terror: Response to Arrest," previously published in a slightly different form in Slavic Review (45, no. 2 [Summer 1986]: 213-34), but the analysis is extended to include life in the factories and popular responses to Stalinism in the early years of World War II. It is here that Thurston gives the reader pause for thought. Doubdess many Soviet citizens led fulfilling lives, and perhaps contented and happy ones—even in the cities and even during the worst period of the Ezhovshchina—but fear and insecurity are difficult concepts to deal with (where are our histories of emotions?), and we can never be sure that things as fleeting and slippery as moods are accurately remembered after the event. Even under the sclerotic post-Stalinism of the Brezhnev years, when the regime had long lost its desire (and perhaps also its ability) to engage in mass repression, fear remained like patchy fog, souring relations between individuals and warping personalities. A final point: when does revisionism become a new orthodoxy? Virtually all those now working on the Soviet Union in the 1930s accept, at the very least, that the phenomenon of purging was complex, and that the general secretary's role in the process was deeply problematic. Not so outside the profession. As Thurston notes in his conclusion, the mass media persist in dealing with Stalinism by presenting "images of unlimited horror" that "serve to vindicate history and politics in the west, itself a construct of virtue in contrast to Soviet malice." I could not agree more. But unfortunately this book is unlikely to be read by those who would most benefit from it. Practicing historians and university students will find Thurston's interpretation of the 1930s lively, informative, thought-provoking—and sometimes exasperating. But the wider public, in the west and in the former USSR, will doubtless continue to view post-1917 Russian history as a crude morality play, with Stalin as the chief villain.


Most UIMS(User Interface Management System) adopt dialogue model of user interface Implementation of UIMS influenced by adopted dialogue model of user interface strongly. While the Model-View-Controller framework has contributed to many aspects of user interface development in Smalltalk environment- user interfaces generated with MVC have highly coupled model, view, and controller classes. Such coupling impedes the reuse of software component. So In this paper, we suggest MVCD model to resolve a decline of reuse with MVC have highly coupled. User messages are not changed by Controller immediately, but sent to Dialogue object which maintains the syntatic structure of the interaction. Dialogue object invokes Model object to updates is value. Since Model objects have active values, the value change propagates to the linked Controllers. Finally, Controller object convert the new value and update the View object. User interface builder is implemented on X-window with OSF/Motif that is base on this user dialogue model.


The red-clawed mangrove-tree crab, Goniopsis cruentata, constitutes an important economic resource in Northeastern Brazil. Male specimens were collected and submitted to histological routine tests. Four types of sperm cell were observed in the anterior region of the testis: spermatogonia, spermatocytes, spermatids and spermatozoa. The general development of sperm cells in G. cruentata follows the basic pattern described for decapods. To our knowledge, no description of sperm cell development in G. cruentata has been published previously.


The author holds the position that social benefits are fundamental to university journals. Unlike other periodicals, university journals shouldn't take the industrial road. While being supported financially, university journals must try every means to exploit latent potentialties and improve economic effects.


In the Kunming regions of altitude of 1 870 meters,by an experiment of X195 diesel engine,to properly change the diameter of inlet pipe,improve combustibility,increase output power,save fuel reduce harmful emissions.It is very important in the environmental protection in plateau area.At last,the best diameter of inlet pipe will be found out.


Abstract This article seeks to explore the way in which the notions of 'systemic' and 'functional' can better serve for the application of a translation quality assessment (TQA) model to the studies on the translation of museum texts. Grounded in the theoretical integration of translation studies and museum studies, the present research has shown through the redesign of the assessment procedure for the model that the judgment of the translation quality requires empirical analyses based upon both interlingual and intertextual comparison. Our objective is twofold. First, through investigating the notions such as 'quality', 'assessment' and 'systemic' in their own right, we are able to observe the weaknesses that previous models have. Second, we intend the model proposed here to be taken as a part of the effort to rethink the relationship between bilingual texts displayed in a museum environment, or in an online museum.


In view of power transmission from Jinshajiang to Central China a fractional frequency power transmission system is planned and designed. Digital simulation of fractional frequency transmission system is performed. The technical economical comparison through the above mentioned simulation of the proposed method with that of traditional ac and dc transmission system shows that using fractional frequency transmission system the transmitted power can be remarkably increased. This method is not only of economical superiority, but also feasible.


A selection of significant reports published during the last eighty years, which have be come identified with personal names. "These reports have become known by the name of a person prominently concerned with them. The 'Warren Report' on the assassination of President Kennedy and the 'Moynihan Re port' on the Negro family are examples. The names of the individuals connected with the laws or reports appear in no way on the offi cial texts." (Note that the United States Code now has as a reference feature an "Index of Acts Cited by Popular Name.")


Purpose – When acquiring advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT), the greatest caution should be taken regarding the performance measurement system to be used: the decision regarding new investments should not be conditioned by the excessive use of financial indicators to the detriment of the strategic objectives that motivated the investments. It is intended to analyze the aeronautical sector, for which the purchase of AMT is qualifying criteria, with two intentions: first, to identify the performance measurement systems that are used, and second, to test their correspondence with the objectives that motivated the investments. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of the 20 plants in the population was conducted via a postal questionnaire plus a structured interview. The unit of analysis has been maintained through the triangulation of data sources. Findings – The findings suggest that both financial and non-financial indicators are used, with the latter gaining predominance over the former on some occasions, even though there is no clear correspondence between strategy and the measurement of performance. In the light of the findings, the question of what inspires a company's performance measurement system is still open, especially in those cases where there is no explicit strategy. With regard to practical implications, what seems to be indispensable is an improvement in the determination of the critical variables that should be used to measure performance. Research limitations/implications – Being valuable for academics and practitioners, this contribution relies, rather, on the possibility of a logical extrapolation to circumstances where the findings might apply, and researchers can judge whether the particular findings would be valid. Originality/value – Provides new evidence on the adaptation of the make-up and combination of the type of performance measures currently used by plants in the aeronautical industry, one of the sectors in which technological innovation is of the utmost importance.