This essay seeks to develop a new theory of intellectual virtue. It rejects the popular reliabilist account as a fundamental misunderstanding of the metaphysical nature of virtue. Namely, reliabilism reduces virtues to something akin to mere habits or tendencies when they are in fact normative, fallible capacities. Further work is needed to explain this, however, as the disjunctivist account of capacities suggests that capacities are only relevant when successfully exercised. This leads to the key insight of this new theory of intellectual virtue: the notion of ethical justification for belief as separate from epistemic justification. This notion is essential for explaining why we sometimes praise knowers for their false beliefs and why we can rightfully call these people intellectually virtuous. These knowers are achieving success of a sort which cannot be captured by reliabilist virtue epistemological theories. Armed with this new theory of intellectual virtue as directed at ethically justified beliefs, we are able to answer several problems which have vexed virtue epistemologists, and to which reliabilists have given particularly unsatisfying answers. We are able to explain how historical scientists such as Aristotle who were unreliable in their scientific theories can rightly be called intellectually virtuous, as they certainly seem to be. We are also able to answer Gettier and Gettier-type problems by clarifying that knowledge must be epistemically justified true belief and demonstrating that these cases always involve ethically justified true belief.


"Flexible learning has been associated with e-learning, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Flexible learning gives the students large degrees of freedom to learn what, when, how and where they want. The aim of this study was to evaluate students' preferences in e-learning and traditional classroom teaching, and was conducted from October 2019 to January 2020. Students from four courses were assigned randomly to two groups, an online and a classroom group. The study included two phases: three lectures by the lecturer (podcasts vs. classroom) and seven classroom units with student presentations and discussions. Performance and different personal characteristics and attitudes of 93 students were examined. Knowledge on the course topic was measured before the first lecture took place (t1), after the three lectures (t2) and after the following seven units (t3). Statistical analyses found no performance differences between the two groups (online/classroom); this held true for all three points in time. All students appreciated the opportunity of an intermediate exam at t2 (a change in comparison to former courses on the topic). Qualitative data showed that students felt a need for interaction with their colleagues and the lecturer, which they decided could be better fulfilled in the classroom, whereas the flexible learning setting had advantages for the exam preparation (e.g. repeating listening to the podcasts, taking breaks and learning tempo). Students' arguments fit well to previous literature. Altogether, the study gives valuable insights into the didactic design of flexible learning."


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The pure rule-of-law advocates are rare in China because we always take a pragmatic position both to religion and to the rule-of-law notion,wherein the rule-of-law notion or theory has the salient property of contradiction in China.It can be accounted for by both the long-term battle between autocracy and rule of law and the fact that right has been submitted to power.Deep in the Chinese thinking mode,politics always suppresses law.Postmodernist law keeps deconstructing the rule of law under the banner of ambiguity and uncertainty of law.People seem to have lost confidence in the rule of law.Particularly with the reversal of radicalism and conservatism in Chinese ideology,the rule-of-law advocates can do nothing but struggle in bitter reflections.We need some apologists to defend the rule-of-law theory.


The frequency of testing pressure threshold, the time consumed for testing, and the slippage rate using the original Semmes Weinstein monofilaments and the enhanced monofilaments (west) in the hand clinic are studied. A modified technique of using the west device is also described. It is concluded that west has several advantages and will likely encourage hand surgeons to perform pressure threshold testing more frequently in the clinic.


College students' social anxiety in recent years has become the focus of attention of society from all walks of life.In this study,interaction anxiety scale of 1100 in North Jiangsu College students is used to investigate the social anxiety status and the specific distribution of the situation.By measuring,we find that in north Jiangsu colleges students' social anxiety level is higher than the national norm of youth and the social anxiety is more serious.North Jiangsu college students with undergraduate course and junior college course,or with different gender,family relationships have different social anxiety status.Differences also exist between the students who are class student leaders or have fallen in love and those who are not.Social anxiety of undergraduate is more serious than that of junior college students,female students serious than male students,students with distant family relationship are much more serious than students with close or common family relationship;students who are student leaders obviously have lower anxiety than the student who never served as leaders;college students who have fallen into love or are falling into love are much better than the students who never fall into love.


Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Biological Sciences Branch Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R SK6. Canada Movement, Spatial Distribution, and Mortality of Male and Female Dungeness Crab Cancer magister near Tofino, British Columbia Abstract. We studied movement of Dungeness crab Cancer magister near Tofino, British Columbia using four methodologies. By the first two methods, beam trawling and trap sampling at specific locations, we inferred that males retreated to deeper water in winter and returned to shallower water in spring. Maturing females tended to move from coastal inlets to the more exposed coast. By the third method, a simultaneous analysis of crab movement and mortality using mark-recovery and fishingeffort data, we showed that dispersal was not extensive. Although insensitive to seasonal movement patterns, results of this analysis suggested a pattern of female movement consistent with that inferred from the beam trawl and trap data. By the fourth method, acoustic tagging, we learned that crab movement rates are inconsistent, having observed both large daily displacements (up to 925 mlday) and days of no discernible movement. The latter two analyses suggested that females tended to move about more than males, with the acoustic tagging results indicating less movement by both sexes during winter. Annual instantaneous total mortality, which is composed predominantly of natural mortality, for tagged sublegal-sized males was estimated at 2.5 (95% CI of 2.3-2.8). This is moderately less than our original natural mortality estimate of 2.9-4.5 and confirms that this original estimate was not grossly aberrant due to the confounding of movement with mortality. We estimated annual instantaneous total female mortality, which is also composed predominantly of natural mortality, to be considerably lower than that of males at 1.3 (95% CI of 0.8-1.8).


This paper examines the formation of Islamist hegemony by shedding light on alliances constructed with specific segments of the Sudanese society. More specifically, it discusses alliances formed with members of the Zaghawa-Darfurian ethnic community, with a special focus on economic matters. I argue that changes in the alliance—produced by the Islamists' rise to power—explain why different groups within the Zaghawa ethnic community now support the rebellion in Darfur.


In this paper we study time evolution of configuration space in terms of information entropy flux and entropy production for colored cross-correlated noise-driven open systems. The effect of interference in additive and multiplicative white noises on entropy flux and entropy production is calculated based on the Fokker–Planck description of the stochastic process and information entropy balance equation. The variation of entropy production with the damping constant or strength of multiplicative noise reveals nonmonotonic behavior as a result of the interplay of deterministic and random forces.


Abstract Prior analyses have repeatedly documented the association between individual health behaviours and health outcomes. Nonetheless, few studies have taken a health lifestyle theory approach to examine how health lifestyle behaviours have shaped Chinese older adults' health status. Using the most recent 2011–2012 data released by the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), latent class analysis was applied to identify predominant health lifestyles among Chinese older adults aged 65–105. Four distinct classes representing health lifestyles emerged. Furthermore, the research found the way in which the four classes representing older adults' health lifestyles can be predicted by the respondent's demographic and socio-economic characteristics. In addition, health lifestyles were found to be strongly associated with Chinese older adults' health outcomes which were measured by self-rated health, functional independence, cognitive function and chronic diseases, even after controlling for demographic features as well as individual and parental socio-economic disadvantage. Findings supported the cumulative disadvantage theory in health. The research highlighted the importance of promoting health lifestyles to improve older adults' health outcomes.


This study covers farms growing widely fruits in central district of Tokat province. The data which was obtained from 83 farms in 8 villages by survey were used, in the research. The profitability of some important fruits having the highest ratio in the production pattern were examined. These fruit are peach, apple and sour cherry. The highest profit/capital ratio was calculated in the sour cherry (2.55). It is followed by peach (1.40) and apple (1.06). Sour cherry has maximum net income which is 108 922 345 TL/da and the others are peach (33 290 399 TL/da) and apple (5 942 743 TL/da).


A new method for non-intrusive estimation of the depth of buried radioactive waste have been developed. The method is based on an approximate three-dimensional relative attenuation model that exploits the variation in the intensities of the radiation image obtained on the surface of the material in which the radioactive source is buried. Experimental results using an organic liquid scintillator detector showed that the method is able to estimate the depth of a 329 kBq Cs-137 radioactive point source buried up to 12 cm in sand.


Summary . Dimensionality reduction through parametrisation of the system motion along a low dimensional invariant-based span of the phase space represents the most efficient technique for deriving reduced order models (ROM) of structures vibrating with large amplitudes. In this work we present the first release of an efficient software for deriving reduced models of structures based on the Direct Parametrisation of Invariant Manifolds (DPIM). The package exploits an algorithmic implementation of the method tailored for mechanical systems, hence achieving low memory consumption and unprecedented speed. Examples of large scale systems of industrial interest are shown and comparisons with experimental data and full order numerical simulations are reported.


3) To evaluate how each geophysical method (EC, ER, or GPR) can contribute the most accurate results in clay dominated terraces. 1) The GPR survey was conducted with a pulseEKKO 100 radar unit manufactured by Sensors & Software Inc. provided by Northern Illinois University (Figure 3). Two walk-away GPR surveys with 50-MHz and 100-MHz antennae were conducted along a 20 m transect oriented north and south along the terrace (Figure 1). The CMP pro�iles were conducted along the same transect with 2 m spacing between 50-MHz and 1 m spacing between 100-MHz antennae.


The objective of the work was to study the behavior of the base saturation method, related to the amount of lime and its effect on chemical attributes of an Ultisol and yield and of orange crop calcium and magnesium contents in leaf. The experiment was designed in a completely randomized block with four treatments, six replications and four plants per plot. Treatments were: 1. Soil under natural condition; 2. 40%; 3. 60%; and 4. 80% base saturation, corresponding to final lime levels of 2.1; 5.5 and 9.5 Mg ha-1. The amount of lime calculated by the base saturation method was not sufficient to increase base saturation to treatments levels in 0 - 0.2 m depth and additional applications were necessary. The liming effect was more pronounced in the 0-0.1m layer. Liming increased pH, base saturation, Ca2+, Mg2+ and decreased Al3+ and (H+Al). Cation exchange capacity (CEC) at pH7, obtained by base summation plus (H+Al) decreased with lime levels. Lime increased Mg leaf content but had no influence on yield.


The article is a report on the excavations at Kom el-Hisn and deals with the foundation deposits which were found at the tomb of Khesu. All construction of religious buildings in Ancient Egypt began with ceremonies of very ancient origin. They are called foundation rituals. The rituals involved leaving a foundation deposit buried not only under the corners of, for example, a temple, but sometimes at the apex and even at the corners of individual halls, courtyards and shrines as well as under neath pylons, columns and obelisks. They have been a valuable source of information for architectural and art history. They are also useful in efforts to reconstruct Egyptian religion and the history of the Egyptian State. The earliest depiction of a foundation ceremony comes from a fragment of a granite door of king Khasekhemuy (second dynasty, 2686 B.C.). These ceremonies perhaps belonged to the earliest dynastic period.1 The erection of a temple is also found in the sun temple of kingNewoserre (fifth dynasty, 2445-2421 B.C.) The ?stretching of the cord" was followed by the digging of earth for the foundation pit, the ?pouring of sand", the ritual separation of the temple from the underground, the scraping of the bricks and the laying of the bricks, thus sealing the foundation pit. This concluded the foundation and was followed (in the case of Newoserre) by a visit by the king. Particularly in temples from the Greco-Roman period, the dedication of the temple that follows its building is depicted as an offering of a representation of the temple to its main deity.2 However, the foundation ceremony included: - ?Stretching the cord", thereby fixing the plan of the building - Purifying the area to be built upon by sprinkling gypsum - Digging the first foundation trench - Filling the foundation trench with sand - Moulding the first brick or bricks - Burning the foundation deposits - Initiation of the building work - Purification of the completed temple - Presenting the temple to the deities to whom it is dedicated - Offering of sacrifices.


Stable BNS is applied for the reaction to provide tetrahydroquinolines (III) and (IV) or their protected derivatives (V) and (VI) depending on the amount of cyclic enol ether.


Several independent studies have been made recently to determine the economies of a large, uniform power system. The two studies of more general interest were those conducted by the Department of the Interior, under the direction of W. S. Murray, for the Superpower Zone, and by F. G. Baum for the United States. Both of these investigations are available in published form. During the progress of the Superpower Survey, one of the longest transmission lines proposed was that extending 350 miles from the Niagara Falls Development to New York City. Under emergency conditions on this line, the power limit for the maximum amount of power was approached by two twin-circuit tower lines with three circuits carrying the emergency load. The maximum power limit would have been exceeded if two single-circuit tower lines had been employed, even though the transmission voltages and the total copper cross-section were the same as with the two twin-circuit tower lines. Similarly, several long, high-voltage lines will be required in a nation-wide system, especially through the middle western region as shown by Mr. Baum's report. The tendency to extensive transmission systems has emphasized the necessity of considering the factors which will limit the amount of power that can be transmitted any distance with the highest practical transmission voltage.


The current study aimed to identify the relationship between brain domain and professional tendencies in high school students in Taif governorate, if there are differences between individuals in professional tendencies based on brain domain and is there a difference in the order of professional tendencies of students with left- handed sovereignty of the brain and students with right- handed sovereignty for the brain and if there are differences in the professional tendencies of the study sample due to the specialization and differences in the dominant side of the brain in the sample of the study depending on the variable of specialization. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive curriculum was followed and the sample consisted of 97 high school students. The researcher used the brain range (Torrance, 1988: rationing Murad, 1994) and the Professional tendencies Scale (Preparation of Ayad, 2011). The results of the study showed no correlation between brain domain and professional tendencies in high school students, as well as no statistically significant differences in the professional tendencies based on brain domain. There are also no statistically significant differences in the professional tendencies due to the variable specialization, and the left pattern is prevalent among students of scientific disciplines, while the integrated pattern is the dominant pattern among students of literary disciplines, and the descending order of the students with left- handed sovereignty differs from the brain and students with right- handed sovereignty of the brain. And In light of the results, the researcher recommends giving students a variety of tasks that help them use both sides of the brain more. And support the curriculum with activities that address the two hemispheres of the brain. And the use of the integrative learning model or the integrated educational model in the educational environment to achieve integration between the two hemispheres of the brain. And training teachers to employ different strategies to develop both sides of the brain, in proportion to the different learning and thinking styles of students.


Product development occurs in multiproject environments where preemption is often allowed so that critical projects can be addressed immediately. Because product development is characterized by time-based competition, there is pressure to make decisions quickly using heuristics methods that yield fast project completion. Preemption heuristics are needed both to choose activities for preemption and then to determine which resources to use to restart preempted activities. Past research involving preemption has ignored any completion time penalty due to the forgetting experienced by project personnel during preemption and the resulting relearning time required to regain lost proficiency. The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of learning, forgetting, and relearning (LFR) on project completion time when preemption is allowed. We present a model for the LFR cycle in multiproject development environments. We test a number of priority rules for activity scheduling, activity preemption, and resource assignment subsequent to preemption, subject to the existence of the LFR cycle, for which a single type of knowledge worker resource is assigned among multiple projects. The results of the simulation experiments clearly demonstrate that LFR effects are significant. The tests of different scheduling, preemption, and resource reassignment rules show that the choice of rule is crucial in mitigating the completion time penalty effects of the LFR cycle, while maintaining high levels of resource utilization. Specifically, the worst performing rules tested for each performance measure are those that attempt to maintain high resource utilization. The best performing rules are based on activity criticality and resource learning.


The objective of this study is to examine acoustic cues in spoken French for the assessment of pronunciation which is necessary to realization of the multimedia system. The corpus is composed of simple expressions which consist of the French phonological system include all phonemes. This experiment was made on 4 male and female French native speakers and on 20 Korean speakers, university students who had learned the French language more than two years. We analyzed the recorded data by using spectrograph and measured comparative features by the numerical values. First of all, we found the mean and the deviation of all phonemes, and then chose features which had high error frequency and great differences between French and Korean pronunciations. The selected data were simplified and compared among them. After we judged whether the problems of pronunciation in each Korean speaker were either the utterance mistake or the interference of mother tongue, in terms of articulatory and auditory aspects, we tried to find acoustic features as simplified as possible. From this experiment, we could extract acoustic cues for the construction of the French pronunciation training system.


The main purpose of the study carried out since January 1976 is to define and realize an operational device allowing to study and optimize the thawing process of large pieces of beef by microwave energy.


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Aggregates of oxygen vacancies ~F centers! represent a particular form of point defects in ionic crystals. In this study we have considered the combination of two oxygen vacancies, the M center, in the bulk and on the surface of MgO by means of cluster model calculations. Both neutral and charged forms of the defect M and M 1 have been taken into account. The ground state of the M center is characterized by the presence of two doubly occupied impurity levels in the gap of the material; in M 1 centers the highest level is singly occupied. For the ground-state properties we used a gradient corrected density functional theory approach. The dipoleallowed singlet-to-singlet and doublet-to-doublet electronic transitions have been determined by means of explicitly correlated multireference second-order perturbation theory calculations. These have been compared with optical transitions determined with the time-dependent density functional theory formalism. The results show that bulk M and M 1 centers give rise to intense absorptions at about 4.4 and 4.0 eV, respectively. Another less intense transition at 1.3 eV has also been found for the M 1 center. On the surface the transitions occur at 1.6 eV (M 1 ) and 2e V~M!. The results are compared with recently reported electron energy loss spectroscopy spectra on MgO thin films.


Foreign nationals may be restricted from participating in certain research activities, whether they are abroad or in the U.S. They might need a license from the export organizations in the U.S. Department of State or the Department of Commerce (or possibly, some other government agency) in order to participate in the desired research. As part of the application process for certain immigration benefits, including H-1B status, FSIS will provide the hiring department with a questionnaire that addresses export control issues.


Particle suspensions exist widely in nature and engineering applications, and their viscous characteristics have an important influence on their flow behavior. Based on the Darcy-Stokes coupling model, the analytical formulas of effective viscosity of dilute suspensions containing porous particles are derived in this paper. Firstly, an auxiliary problem is solved, that is, the disturbance caused by porous media spheres in the flow field with linear distribution under the condition of low Reynolds number. The fluid flows in the free-flow domain and porous medium are governed by the Stokes equation and Darcy' law, respectively. The mass conservation law, the balance of normal forces, and the Beavers-Joseph(-Saffman) interface condition are used at the fluid–porous interface. An analytical solution for the present coupled free-flow and porous-medium system is derived by using the undetermined coefficient method. Then the additional heat dissipation rate caused by the porous media particle is calculated. Intrinsic viscosity of the porous media suspension under the condition of low concentration is determined as a function of the Darcy number and the Beavers-Joseph coefficient, which is based on the additional heat dissipation rate under the condition of low concentration. It is found that the intrinsic viscosity increases with increasing the Beavers–Joseph coefficient, and the larger the Beavers–Joseph coefficient is, the slower the increase of the intrinsic viscosity. When Darcy number is in the range of \begin{document}${10^{ - 6}}$\end{document} to \begin{document}${10^{ - 4}}$\end{document} , the intrinsic viscosity is close to 2.5, which was consistent with the classical Einstein viscosity formula. When Darcy number is in the range of \begin{document}${10^{ - 4}}$\end{document} to \begin{document}${10^{ - 1}}$\end{document} , the intrinsic viscosity decreases rapidly, so the effective viscosity coefficient of porous media suspension is closer to the viscosity of the based fluid. At last, the present effective viscosity formula is compared with that obtained by the Darcy-Brinkman equation coupling with the shear stress jump condition. It can be found that the effective viscosities obtained two different models agree well with each other in the low Darcy number regime when the sum of the Beavers-Joseph coefficient and the shear stress jump coefficient is unity.


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The research highlights some explanations on the status of Arabic grammar and its origin with the statement that Abu al-Aswad al-Duali was not the author of it. To develop the research presentation, the research discussion focuses on orientalists' views toward Arabic language as well as the modern views among the Arabs also will be accounted. Therefore, based on consistent narratives and logical arguments by scholars indicated that there was no connection between Aristotle and Sibawayh. The statement had referred to the different concepts and terminologies usage in the both languages Arabic and Greek. The analysis which base on critical study as a method approach discovered the unbalance statements are still unable to defect the authenticity of great narrations and logical arguments of the clarity of Arabic grammar as a result of culture preservation as well as Quran understanding defense.


THE CONSOLIDATION of risks is one of the main functions of banks and other financial institutions. Insofar as different depositors and debtors of a bank are independent of each other, a larger number of customers implies relatively smaller risks of reserve and capital losses, and enables the bank to maintain relatively smaller inventories of cash assets and capital accounts. The role and significance of scale economies accountable to uncertainty, and related topics, are discussed in [2] . Most of the existing literature on economies of scale in banking (see [1], [4], [5], [6], [ 10], [ 1 1 ], [ 12], [ 13] and [ 19] ), on the other hand, neglects 'financial' aspects and risk almost completely and restricts itself to an analysis of 'operating expenses' (labor, real resource costs) as a function of some measure of bank output. This paper is an attempt to demonstrate that there are important links between a bank's expenses of resource costs (operating expenses) and its financial (risk) characteristics, so that these two aspects should not be looked at separately, but in conjunction. Uncertainty means that the future cannot always be anticipated correctly, and thus implies the possible occurrence of emergency situations. A firm may end up a period with a deficit, or a dangerously low amount of cash and/or capital account. To remedy such a situation, the firm has to rearrange its portfolio within a short period of time, which causes costs and requires the use of resources. The greater the uncertainty, the more resources will be used in this way. (Of course, the probability


Sub-picosecond electron pulses are desirable for generating femtosecond X-ray pulses. By numerical simulation, it has become clear that the racetrack microtron (RTM) has unique features to produce very short electron bunches by itself. In addition, it has proved experimentally that RTM has beneficial characteristics to accelerate only an excellent quality beam in both emittance and energy spread. The measured and calculated results of such distinctives are shown in this paper.


Support structures for highway signs and barricades include collapsible assemblies which cause the structure, upon impact by a vehicle, to rotate away from the impact without flying apart. The collapsible assemblies utilize a connector fixture to couple a first member to a second member. The connector fixture includes a pivot pin which provides an axis of rotation for the second member and shear pins which hold the second member in a fixed orientation until the application to the second member of an impact. The impact fractures one of the shear pins and the second member rotates about the pivot pin away from the impact. Single post and multiple post support structures are disclosed. A support structure having two vertical members collapses to a flattened position when struck from any direction. The vehicle passes over the flattened support structure. In an alternate embodiment, the support structure rotates upward upon impact and passes over the vehicle.


Ohio's banking structure is dominated by multibank holding companies. Paul R. Watro examines the terms of bank acquisitions by multibank holding companies in Ohio since 1970 and identifies factors that explain the premiums paid for these banks.


The plasmon loss region of x‐ray photoelectron spectra has been analyzed for chemically vapor deposition diamond in order to assess the nondiamond carbon (NDC) levels present. A semiquantitative method for expressing the quality of the diamond, based upon the ratio of the diamond bulk plasmon to the main carbon 1s line is presented and a figure of merit defined. A comparison with Raman spectroscopy shows that this technique compares well in terms of range and sensitivity to NDC levels.


There are three historic buildings: Ⅰ-the Ming Dynasty Wall,Ⅱ-the Old Railway Station,Ⅲ-the Zhengyangmen and Jianlou,which are in close proximity to the existing metro lines and the new Diameter line in Beijing.The vibration prediction and assessment of the three historic buildings induced by trains are presented in this paper,since it is very necessary for the preservation of these ancient architectures.Numerical methods are used to simulate the dynamic response in the structures.The excitation of trains onto the tunnel structure is obtained by using the vehicle-track interaction model,which is applied on the dynamic finite element models.The results include: the dynamic response of velocity in historic structures vary regularly along with the horizontal and vertical distance;The vertical dynamic response is a major factor in underground structures,while the horizontal is a major one in structure on the ground;Train-induced vibration in historic buildings is within but close to the criteria,so vibration mitigation measures should be taken to reduce the impacts in order to make allowance to the preservation of cultural heritages.


Reversible metallization of band and Mott insulators by ionic-liquid gating is accompanied by significant structural changes. A change in conductivity of seven orders of magnitude at room temperature is found in epitaxial films of WO3 with an associated monoclinic-to-cubic structural reorganization. The migration of oxygen ions along open volume channels is the underlying mechanism.


Book synopsis: The term 'class' has been, and still is, a powerful historical concept. Its exact meaning, however, has remained elusive. In this illuminating study, P.M.Pilbeam compares the middle classes in four of the major states in continental Europe - France, Russia, Germany and Italy - from the French Revolution to the first world war, and reveals how complex any useful definition of class must be.


The production of growth-inhibiting agents by suitably modifying the structures of growth-promoting substances has been shown to be feasible by previous investigations (Mcllwain [1940; 1941a]: considered -as parts 1 and 2 of the present series). In these cases evidence was obtained which showed that the inhibitory analogues produced their effects by limiting the organism's use of the corresponding essential substances. Pantothenic acid was chosen as subject for extending these investigations as it is essential for the growth of many disease-causing organisms: for Streptococcus haemolyticus, for Diplococcus pneumoniae [Rane & Subbarow, 1940]; for initial growth of Staphylococcus aureus; for Clostridium tetani [Mueller & Miller, 1941] and Clostridium welchii [Tamura, Tytell, Boyd & Logan, 1941]; for certain strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae [Evans; Handley & Happold, 1939], some members of the Pasteurella [Berkman, Saunders & Koser, 1940] and Brucella [Koser, Breslove & Dorfman, 1941] groups and for Proteus morgani [Pelczar & Porter, 1940]. The analogues tested are related to pantothenic acid (I) in the folowing ways. (a) Homologues. The belief that compounds so related might be inhibitory was based on the report of Robinson [1940] that a ,B-tri-substituted propionic acid was inhibitory to growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis of which phthioic acid, a trisubstituted acetic acid, is a normal constituent. Inhibition of succinic dehydrogenase by malonate affords a further example, and more recently ethionine, C2H5 .S . CH2. CH2. CH(NH2JCOOH, has been found to limit bacterial growth by competition with methionine [Harris & Kohn, 1941]. y-Hydroxy-n-butyrylf--alanine, (II), a bisnordesoxypantothenate; y-hydroxyn-valeryl-/3alanine (III), an isonordesoxypantothenate; homopantothenate, (IV) and a desoxypantothenate (V) were accoidingly tested. (b) Related olefin. Fildes [1941] showed that indoleacrylate inhibited bacterial growth by virtue of its relation to tryptophan. The structure of pantothenate precludes the production of an olefin by simpleelimination of H20 or NH3, but dehydrohomopantothenate (VI), which is so related to homopantothenate, was tested. (c) Sulphonic acids and sulphonamide. Several models are available: Woods [1940] showed sulphanilamide inhibition to be related to p-aminobenzoic acid; some aliphatic oc-aminosulphonic acids inhibit by virtue of their relation to oc-aminocarboxylic acids [Mcllwain, 1941a], and pyridine-3-sulphonic acid and its amide by their relation to nicotinic acid and derivatives [Mcllwain, 1940]. The latter instance served as model for Snell's [1941] production of an inhibitory analogue of pantothenic acid, which was published while these investigations were in progress. Analogue VII, which it is proposed to call pantoyltaurine (pantoic acid=oc:y-dihydroxy-3:f-dimethylbutyric acid) is the analogue investigated by Snell. Detailed results of its effects on pathogenic organisms have been reported elsewhere [Mcllwain, 1942b] and are referred to here for comparison only. In addition, the corresponding sulphonamide (pantoyltauramide, IX) and a homologue (homopantoyltaurine, VIII) have now been tested. Taurine and taurine amide, which are the sulphonic acid and sulphonamide corresponding to f-alanine, a component


The domain in the (U, V) plane of old-disk-population stars is defined by a sample of F- and G4ype stars brighter than visual magnitude 6.5 for which luminosities are available from intermediate-band photometry. The majority of these old-disk stars avoid the domain of the young-disk population in the (U, V) plane except for (1) several objects with V near - 17 km sec-1 and (2) a half dozen possible members of a solar group. The sample of stars used to define the old-disk population is confined to distances less than 100 parsecs from the sun and those with V near - 17 km sec-1 may represent several generations of the objects formed in what is now the solar neighborhood and which keep returning to this neighborhood because they are isoperiodic (V near - 17 km sec-1) with the local standard of rest. The half dozen possible members of a solar group indicate an evolutionary age of some 5 X 10 years. In addition to some of the previously recognized stellar groups in the old-disk population (e.g. Wolf 630 and Her), a new group with U = + 40 to + 50 km sec-1 and V = - 36 km sec-1 is also discussed. The sample of red giants: (VE and (R- I)o > + 0"'42) contains eight probable members of the halo population of which five are members of the Arcturus group. Possible structure in the old-disk-population giant sequence is discussed on the basis of published narrow-band indices, and the luminosity functions of the old-and the youngdisk-population red giants are compared. Key words: old-disk population - space motions - red-giant stars


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Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between general coping strategies and specific communication strategies, adopted by males with noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in order to deal with stressful events and demanding auditory situations. The sample included 72 males with NIHL; 22 without tinnitus, 26 with mild tinnitus, and 24 with severe tinnitus. The following variables were measured: "active coping" "escape coping" and "passive acceptance" (general coping strategies), and "maladaptive behaviours", "verbal strategies" and "nonverbal strategies" (specific communication strategies). The results showed that males without tinnitus or with mild tinnitus combined "active coping" and "passive acceptance", whereas males with severe tinnitus supplemented these strategies with "escape coping". The relationship between general coping and specific communication strategies was weak, although giving a significant correlation between "escape coping" and "maladaptive behaviours". The results...


Chronic serous Otitis Media is not the same as Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media. The former may be defined as a middle ear effusion, without perforation, persisting for more than 1-3 months (Charles, 2006). Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media is characterized by drainage from the middle ear for at least two weeks and is associated International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 5 Number 10 (2016) pp. 282-288 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


Advanced Institute for Medical Sciences, Dalian Medical University and Department of Psychiatry, Dalian Seventh People's Hospital, Dalian, People's Republic of China Correspondence to Zhilin Luan, PhD, Advanced Institute for Medical Sciences, Dalian Medical University, 9 W., S. Lvshun Blvd., Dalian 116044, People's Republic of China Tel: + 86 188 042 86359; fax: + 86 411 861 18981; e-mail: email@example.com


Objective To analyze the clinical effect of artificial hip joint replacement for patients with senile osteoporotic intertrochanteric fractures. Methods Fifty eight patients with senile osteoporotic intertrochanteric fractures admitted to our hospital from October 2009 to October 2010 were selected as study objects,and their clinical treatment methods were retrospectively analyzed.The clinical experiences were summarized. Results The follow-up showed 16cases(27.6%) with excellent effect,27 cases(46.6%) with well effect,10 cases(27.6%) with fair effect,and 5 cases(8.6%) with poor effect among 58 patients after artificial hip joint replacement, the rate of excellent effect was 74.1%.Conclusion For patients with senile osteoporotic intertrochanteric fractures,the artificial hip joint replacement has less postoperative complications,can effectively promote the recover of limb function as soon as possible,worthy of clinical promotion and application.


Acknowledgments/ 1. The book, the research and key concepts/ 2. Historical perspectives on the law, rights, and religion or belief discrimination/ 3. Contemporary context of religion and belief, state and society/ 4. The law: a decade of continuity and change/ 5. Religion or belief discrimination: evidence and methods/ 6. Experience of unfair treatment in education, employment and media/ 7. Experience of unfair treatment in criminal justice and immigration housing health care social services, planning and other services and funding/ 8. Experience of unfair treatment from, between and within 'religious groups' and from political, community and other pressure groups/ 9. An analytical spectrum for understanding the evidence/ 10. Evidence-based signposts for future policy, law and practice/ Appendix: Selected list of relevant legal cases in England and Wales/ Bibliography/ Index


Abstract. We discuss the effects due to the rotational defor-mation and the optically-thin line force on the con nement ofone-armed oscillations in the inner part of Be-star discs. Theperiod of these oscillations is identi ed with the observed V/Rvariations in Balmer emission lines. We take into account theeffect of rotation by including the quadrupole contribution tothe potential around the rotationally-distorted central star. Forthe radiative force due to an ensemble of optically thin lines,we adopt the parametric form proposed by Chen & Marlbor-ough (1994). The disc is assumed to be isothermal. Based onthese assumptions, we examine the linear, one-armed eigen-modescon nedtotheinnerpartofthedisc.Ourstudystronglysuggeststhatthemechanismthatcausesthecon nementofone-armedoscillationsinearly-typeBestarsisdifferentfromthatinlate-type Be stars. In late-type Be stars, the con nement occursbecause of the deviation from the point-mass potential aroundtherotationallydeformedstar.Onthispoint,wecon rmthecon-clusions obtained by Papaloizou et al. (1992). In early-type Bestars, however, it is the weak-line force that mainly contributesto the con nement. The rotational effect plays a much smallerroleforthesestars.Theperiodoftheeigenmodecon nedtothedisc depends sensitively on the effect by rotation or radiation.This sensitiveness, together with the range of the period of ob-served V/R variations, places rather narrow constraints on theparameterscharacterizingtheseeffects.Wecompareourresultswith observed V/R properties, for which a list of 53 stars hasbeen compiled.Keywords:globaldiscoscillation{hydrodynamics{radiativetransfer { stars: circumstellar matter { stars: emission line, Be1. IntroductionBe stars are non-supergiant B-type stars with Balmer emissionlines. The emission lines arise from a cool envelope surround-ing the star. Interferometric observations have con rmed thatthe cool envelope has a disc-like geometry with a rotational


SUMMARY Surveys of behaviour often question respondents about events in the recent past, with a view to making inferences about underlying parameters describing longer-term temporal aspects of the phenomena under investigation, or estimating behaviour over past or future time periods of varying lengths. To address these issues in a particular context, this paper develops the class of binomial mixtures arising from transformation of the binomial parameter p as 1 - exp(-A) where A is treated as a random variable. It is shown that this formulation provides closed forms for the marginal probabilities in the compound distribution if the Laplace transform of the mixing distribution may be written in closed form. Although illustrated by examples arising from particular consumption processes, the class is of general application in empirical modelling of binomial mixtures of unknown genesis.


Rapid urbanization in Ethiopia is resulting in the need for alternative sustainable service models for urban water supply. Contractual arrangements to improve the functionality of urban water services in Ethiopia have included build, operate and transfer (BOT), design, build and operate (DBO), performance-based contracts (PBC) and utility development. UNICEF undertook a review of these modalities and concluded that a modified version of the BOT modality was required to both incentivize private sector engagement in urban water supply and to enhance public sector utilities. This paper describes the contractual modality developed to achieve this aim, namely an Ethiopian build, capacity build and transfer (B-CB-T) modality. This paper tests the applicability of the B-CB-T model using fuzzy logic statistical analysis and concludes that of the four tested variables (internal accountability, external accountability, operation and maintenance and financial management), the most statistically significant was the clear mandate to address complaints and maintain a positive relationship with the clients (users). This paper concludes that the B-CB-T is an effective contracting modality that should be accompanied by appropriate behavior change and social mobilization outreach to maximize tariff, billing, extension and performance of the infrastructure that is administered within the B-CB-T arrangement.


A pharmaceutical composition is disclosed which comprises a solution of an HIV protease inhibiting compound in a pharmaceutically acceptable organic solvent comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable alcohol. The composition can optionally comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or a combination of pharmaceutically acceptable acids. The solution can optionally be encapsulated in hard gelatin capsules or soft elastic gelatin capsules. The solution can optionally be granulated with a pharmaceutically acceptable granulating agent.


The method of manufacturing a self-light-emitting panel. The present invention is simplified by the use of a solid sealing material caused by the step and prevent bubbles from occurring between the sealing material and the sealing substrate. The method of manufacturing a self-light-emitting panel according to the present invention comprises: a first bonding step, the support from the light emitting element (103) of the supporting substrate (104) and a sheet-like sealing material (106) bonded to the self-luminous element (103) seal the light emitting element (103) having a light emitting layer sandwiched (102) between the opposing pair of electrodes (101); a second step of bonding, under reduced pressure adhesive sealant (106) the supporting substrate (104) and a sealing substrate (105) bonded by a sealing material (106); and the integration step, the supporting substrate (104) and a sealing substrate (105) is bonded by the sealing material (106) integration.


The present invention relates to a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid includes carbon nanotubes, a self assembly material having -NR2 in one terminal thereof and -Si(OR)3 or -SH in the other terminal thereof, and a solvent, as well as its usage.


MOST text-books of histology provide detailed diagrams illustrating the intricacies of the vascular pattern in the kidney, and, indeed, the classical work of Bowman, Virchow, Huber, Mac-Callum and others would appear to have exhausted the purely anatomical aspect of this system. But it seems that this provides yet another example of those 'Comprehensive' studies the completeness of which is only apparent. For evidence has now been adduced demonstrating that a fundamental point in the renal circulation has hitherto been entirely overlooked—the fact that it comprises a dual system. The kidney, it appears, has two potential circulations, a greater, which traverses the cortex and involves the cortical glomeruli, and a lesser, which is confined to the medulla and the juxta-cortical glomeruli. While in normal circumstances the circulating blood passes through the cortex, under certain conditions it may by-pass it entirely through the lesser circulation.Studies of the Renal CirculationBy Dr. Josep Trueta Dr. Alfred E. Barclay Dr. Kenneth J. Franklin Peter M. Daniel Marjorie M. L. Prichard. Pp. xix + 187. (Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, Ltd., 1947.) 25s. net.


Declining budgets and shortened schedules leave engineers little room for error in choosing a successful and profitable design concept. A redesign at any point in the program will destroy the product schedule, budget, and design cost goals. One tool for choosing a cost effective, fully compliant design is the Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) Workshop. Although DFMA Workshops are most frequently applied to existing products, the process is most effective when applied during the initial design phase eliminating the need for costly redesigns. The DFMA Workshop involves a team that includes all the stakeholders in the success of the design, including customers and suppliers. During the Workshop, the team applies the 11 DFMA Principles and brainstorms ideas to meet the product requirements. The team then evaluates the ideas for technical risk and feasibility and then choosing the most promising ideas to be implemented into the design.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


Aim .  Assessment of earthquake activity in the border areas of the south of the European part of Russia (excepting Crimea) over the past decade. Material and Methods .  The main materials used are literary sources, as well as data from regional divisions of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies and the southern regional centre of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, Hydrospetsgeology, published in the open press. Results .  The general picture of the distribution of earthquakes that occurred in 2009 ‐ 2018 in the south of the European part of Russia (excepting Crimea) is given. In the territory of this region and in the 30 ‐ kilometre adjacent border zone of the neighboring states of Azerbaijan and Georgia (including Abkhazia and South Ossetia) 1768 earthquakes with an energy class of KR =2.5 ‐ 14.2 occurred annually on average. A significant variation in the number of earthquakes in the region (from 1146 to 2214) was revealed. The largest number of seismic events was observed in 2009 and 2017 and the lowest in 2010. The greatest activity of earthquake manifestations was observed in Russian territory (62.1%), a significant share of seismic events (38.9%) occurring in the 30 ‐ kilometre adjacent border zone of the neighboring territories of the states of Azerbaijan and Georgia (including Abkhazia and South Ossetia). The largest number of earthquakes was observed in the eastern part of the North Caucasus (Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia). Conclusion .  The analysis conducted made it possible to assess the seismic hazard and activity of earthquakes from 2009 to 2018 in the territories of the border regions of the Russian Federation within the south of the European part of Russia (excepting Crimea).


Mitochondrial phylogeography uses the relationship between matrilineal genealogy and geography to explain speciation, phylogeny and population structure. Several hypotheses on what maintains the parapatric matrilines have been proposed: philopatry, incomplete lineage sorting, vicariance and natural selection on female-linked traits. The small lizard Urosaurus nigricaudus of the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico and southern California, USA has six parapatric matrilines that differ by substantial mtDNA divergence. In this study, I investigate what drives and maintains the deep mtDNA discontinuities in this species. I precisely locate the mtDNA lineage breaks and investigate the presence of physical barriers in those areas. I sequence the entire mtDNA genome and then test the following hypotheses: unrestricted nDNA gene flow occurs across the species; mtDNA divergences correspond to the geological events; and that functional diversifying selection is involved in the maintenance of mtDNA discordances. I use thousands of nDNA SNP loci to test the first and last hypotheses. The time-calibrated genealogy cannot reject the


Nirmatrelvir is an antiviral drug with a novel mechanism of action, targeting the 3‐CL protease, and is used in the treatment of COVID‐19. However, the potential side effects have not yet been fully studied. The aim of this study was to identify potential safety signals of nirmatrelvir by analysing post‐marketing safety data based on the largest publicly available worldwide pharmacovigilance database.


B. microti is known as the main etiological agent of human babesiosis and there are some case
studies for that disease, highlighting the fact that this is an important "emerging tick-borne disease".
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The aim of the present study was the phenotypical analysis of early stages in macrophage (Mϕ) differentiation. For this purpose, we produced a panel of syngeneic rat hybridomas, which secreted antibodies (mAb) against Mϕ precursor antigens. As immunogens we used immortalized Mϕ precursors (P. J. M. Leenen et al., Eur. J. Immunol. 1990. 20: 15). We screened the obtained mAb in the following in vitro models of Mϕ differentiation: (a) a panel of Mϕ cell lines ordered in a linear differentiated sequence; (b) immature and mature mononuclear phagocytes obtained from bone marrow (BM) culture; (c) a panel of Mϕ precursor hybrids, and (d) differentiated and control Mϕ precursor hybrid cells.


India had undertaken several logistics development agendas.Initiatives were aligned to improve the logistics infrastructure in India. Advancement in technology had also benefited the logistics sector. Logistics Performance Index (LPI) has been a multi-dimensional evaluation criterion developed by the World Bank to assess logistics capabilities of countries. The LPI score of India had been low. Regarding this, present research study aimed to analyse the poor performance of India in LPI and how the deployment of emerging technologies could help improve it. The findings were based on a questionnaire shared with five experts. Delphi technique was applied for this study. The prioritization was identified through Analytical Hierarchy Process. The key findings in this study were prioritization of application of emerging technologies for various sub-dimensions of infrastructure like roadways, railways, ports, airports, warehouse, and institution. Emerging technologies like cloud computing, blockchain, internet of things were emphasized by experts to improve the infrastructure of India.


A general Monte Carlo renormalisation group transformation for the static as well as the kinetic properties of aggregates is formulated and applied to different growth models: particle aggregation (DLA), cluster aggregation (CICI) and invasion percolation(ip). The leading critical exponent is determined numerically. For DLA, the first correction to scaling exponent has been estimated as well.


Includes an article from the newspaper "The Times" of Tuesday 11 December 1984 which is discussing an event to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Movement of United Teachers (M.U.T.).


Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) is increasingly used as an alternative source of stem cells since the first successful transplantation into a patient with a Fanconi's Anemia [1]. These cells are able to reconstitute stem cell disorders in vivo, and are the firstly considered for allogeneic transplantation and banking [2]. Several thousand of clinical applications using UCB have been conducted despite of the low blood volume collected and the non eligibility of collected units. Indeed, developing practical and efficient methods have showed that only 29% of collected UCB units remained suitable for banking [3]. To ensure their quality, different variables such as donor choice, collection process, collected volume, Total Nucleated Cells (TNC), Mononuclear Cells (MNC), total CD34+ cell counts were assessed [2]. However, there is still controversy regarding evaluation of UCB unit's safety and potency. Using standardized protocols and conditioning regimens, outcome and engraftment in UCB transplantation were primarily dependent on HLA disparity [4]. But, infused TNC or MNC dose have been repeatedly associated with engraftment success [5, 6]. At this fact, collected volume is strongly considered as the first indicators for stem cell abundance [4, 6, 7], allowing thus decision to proceed and bank. Interestingly, other variables such as maternal age, weight, parity, type of delivery, gestational age, newborn weight, height, sex [5, 8-10] and also pre-birth characteristics [11] might influence differently CD34+ and TNC or MNC counts. These aspects were analysed in many UCB banks to develop standard common procedures and quality control tools for banking.


This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency QUINESS program through US Army Research Office Award No. W31P4Q-12-1-0015 and by the NSF under Grant No. ECCS-1309209. (W31P4Q-12-1-0015 - Defense Advanced Research Project Agency QUINESS program through US Army Research Office; ECCS-1309209 - NSF)


In recent years, research on connecting embedded system with Internet has become one of the focuses in applications of embedded system.This paper design a light TCP/IP protocol stack suitable for embedded system with ARM7 series MCU ,Embedded system is close to production and life of human being.Analyzed the Network Layer protocol and presented embedded encapsulation, demultiplexing, recomposement and the Echo Relply function of affiliated ICMP.


manner that they maintain the same angle as the arms are turned on their axle, so that one desk after the other can be brought to the front in an easy position to read from or view. It is claimed for this stand that it can be used with equal advantage either sitting, standing, or reclining in an easy chair, and can be arranged for an invalid to use either on a sofa or in bed; it can also be made, if required, with a writing-desk attachment to facilitate the taking of notes, etc, The stand can, when not otherwise required, be used for exhibiting photos, drawings, etc. It is an exceedingly simple and ingenious invention of great convenience. The manufacturers are Alessrs. Williams and Jacoby, 99, Dean Street, Soho, London, WV.


Quantitative analysis is very essential for identifying the compounds present in the medicinal plants.In the present study laboratory evaluations were made to quantitatively assess primary metabolites and secondary metabolites in aqueous hot extract of Eugenia uniflora leaves.Primary metabolites like total soluble carbohydrates,proteins and secondary metabolites like tannins,alkaloids and flavanoids were estimated using standard procedures.The results obtained from the study provides evidence that aqueous hot extract of Eugenia uniflora leaves contains medically important bioactive compounds and this justifies the use of this plant species as traditional medicine for treatment of various diseases. Key Words:Phytochemicals,Primary metabolites,Secondary metabolites,Aqueous extract, Eugenia uniflora .


The goal of this paper is to assert the historical validity of a consistent tradition of practice which exploits emerging electronic and mechanical technologies for cultural purposes. Due to its inherently interdisciplinary nature, this tradition can be fully understood neither within the terms of conventional art historical discourse nor within the terms of discourses of technological research and development. ii


The expansion of the public sector in advanced industrial democracies is one of the most important political developments of the last hundred years. Government bureaus throughout the world now provide trillions of dollars annually in services that were previously supplied either privately or not at all -- from parking ramps to pollution control, health care to housing, and rockets to rock concerts. At the beginning of this long period of growth in the public sector, many observers welcomed it as the happy consequence of increasing affluence and the desire for social progress (Wagner 1958). It appeared to them that government, in response to popular demand, was simply shouldering its responsibility for the welfare of the citizenry from cradle to grave. By the 1970s, however, the public sector in many Western democracies accounted for over half of the GNP. By this time, the growth of government had provoked a great deal of alarm -- especially among public choice theorists (Buchanan 1977). After regressing government growth rates on a battery of income, wealth, and population variables, Borcherding (1977) concludes that only about half of the growth in the public sector can be accounted for by increases in public demand.


Abstract A method of direct aqueous injection analysis of volatile trace sulfur compounds in waste or contaminated water is reported. The detection limits of H2S, COS, and several mercaptans range from several ng/mL to several tens of ng/mL. The method precision is approximately 10%. Contamination problems, standard curve preparation, injection volume and several problems related to the method development and sample analysis are also addressed in this paper.


The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) is the largest professional organisation for surveyors worldwide. The different technical and professional competencies are represented by the ten FIG commissions. They range from 'Spatial Information Management' to 'Valuation and Management of the Real Estate', to name just two of them. Usually the delegates as well as practitioners, academics and scientists meet yearly at the FIG Working Weeks and quadrennially at the FIG Congresses. Peerreviewed and non-reviewed contributions are presented at these conferences. Some of the contributions presented at the FIG events are on topics relevant for the Journal of Applied Geodesy, especially those organised by Commission 5 'Positioning and Measurement' and Commission 6 'Engineering surveys'. Commission 5 consists of several Working Groups such as 'Standards, Quality Assurance andCalibration', '3DReferenceFrames', 'Vertical Reference Frames', 'GNSS', 'Multi-Sensor-Systems' and 'Cost Effective Positioning'. Commission 6 comprises of Working Groups such as 'Deformation Monitoring and Analysis', 'Engineering surveys for design, constructive works and exploitation of buildings and transportation infrastructure', 'Sensor fusion, data acquisition and processing techniques for moving measuring complexes' and 'Wide Area Engineering Surveys for Monitoring, Features Determination and Environmental Management'. This Special Issue of the JAG presents four especially selected contributions of the FIG Working Week 2016, held in Christchurch, New Zealand, and have followed the peer-review process of this journal. The first contribution of Zheng et al. deals with 'Consequence of 2012 Mw8.6 Northern Sumatra earthquakes towards Sundaland plate' and is obviously focussed on


eise et al 1 have defined violence against women as any act of verbal or physical force, coercion, or life-threatening deprivation that causes physical or psychological harm, humiliation, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, or that perpetuates female subordination. Examples of this include partner abuse, sexual assault (including marital rape), forced prostitution, forced noncompliance with contraception, female genital mutilation, and sexual slavery. This article will primarily focus on partner abuse and sexual assault of US women. Other forms of individual violence against women as well as international violence against women are mentioned briefly in this paper; these and societal/structural forms of violence against women (eg, political and legal marginalization, biased divorce laws, impaired access to education) have been reviewed elsewhere. 1‐3 Partner abuse and sexual assault occur frequently and are present in all races and social classes, yet remain underrecognized by physicians. Domestic violence and rape lead to myriad harmful physical and psychological sequelae, both short- and long-term. This paper discusses the epidemiology of partner abuse and sexual assault, common characteristics of abusers and their victims, and the reasons clinicians fail to recognize and properly care for those afflicted. Tips on recognizing and managing domestic violence and rape are described. The purpose of this paper is to aid health care providers in assisting victims of domestic violence and rape.


Abstract Background and Aims : Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease and one of the most important endemic diseases in Iran. It is considered as the second most alarming parasitic disease next to malaria transmitted by arthropods. This disease is a health problem in more than 15 provinces of the country. Given that cutaneous leishmaniasis is the endemic disease in Hawizeh, the present study was aimed to investigate its epidemiology in this city. Materials and Methods : This descriptive-analytical survey was performed on all confirmed leishmaniasis cases (totally 137 person) following up in Hawizeh district health care centers during 2014-15. Patients, general information such as age, sex, habitat, number and site of ulcer, as well as the month of incidence were registered and analyzed by Excel software. All ethical issues were also addressed. Results : The results of the present survey indicate that the outbreak of the disease was 343 in 100,000. Furthermore, 65 cases out of the total study group (47.4%) were men and the remaining 72 people (52.6%) were women. About 70.8% of patients resided in urban areas, while 29.2% lived in rural areas. The most frequent age group was 1-10 years old (54%). Hands and feet and face were the most common lesion (83.9%) and about 51.8% of the patients had one ulcer. Highest disease prevalence was observed in winter. Conclusion : According to these results and the adverse effects of this disease, the implementation of proper planning to educate people and environment sanitation are thereby highly advocated. Keywords : Cutaneouses leishmaniasis, Epidedmiological, Hawizhe. For downloading the full text please click here


A new feedback control system concerning load error, zone control error and unit generation error is built through gathering area control error in Hubei grid and generation error in Hubei province in real time, combining ultra short term load forecast. This system guides real time dispatch and improves the whole performance indicators with control feature in Hebei province. In this paper, on the foundation of real time feedback system, feedback control step based on area control error ACE indicator and generation error indicator is added. Then, feedback control system based on grid ACE indicator gathering is built, associate real time dispatch target and assessment criteria to better satisfy the demand for grid assessment. Generation error gathering and feedback control system based on real time generation assessment is built to analyze and deal with the generation hysteresis quality caused by technique and human factor, so real time dispatch effect is improved.


Thriving in the lower for longer oil price environment requires achieving operation excellence and pruning portfolio. Using actual oil and gas production data, we develop: 1) hybrid portfolio - highly scalable across Shale plays as well as within a field at the asset level; and 2) intrinsic value-at-risk (VaR) - free from the pitfalls of normality assumption and limitations of theoretical distributions. Benchmark operator performance, simulate what-if scenarios and assess portfolio risks versus returns. We transform oil and gas production data into actionable prescriptive analytics, close the loop in seeking alpha and connect strategy to execution.


We present a method for imposing joint time-frequency moment constraints in the minimum cross-entropy (MCE) construction of positive time-frequency distributions. This method makes it possible to impose all joint moment constraints simultaneously. Necessary conditions on normalized joint moment constraints for an MCE solution to exist are provided. An example illustrating the performance of the algorithm is also given.


This thesis advocates to set the course of"Mathematic Experiment"in Mathematics major(undergraduate course) of open distance education through analyzing the present condition of course arrangement in mathematic experiment major and mathematic modeling, the method of counting the method of statistics, the method of optimization, the practice of computer, etc. And the thesis expounds the course implementation in of"Mathematic Experiment"and other problems that are worth paying attention to.


The purpose of this paper is to show how probability prediction can be incorporated with price prediction to enhance the usefulness of' forecast information and provide greater intuitive appeal in its use. Empirical application encompasses forecasting in the watermelon industry to demonstrate the power and appeal of the approach.


C. J. KENSL~R (195O)lS reported that T. E. A., besides its anticurare activity, opposes to a certain extent the neuromuscular block produced by decamethonium in the cat. This ability of T.E.A. to antagonize both d-tubocurarine and decamethonium, the modes of action of which on the myoneural junction are so different, seems anomalous as pointed out by L. S. GOODMAN and A. GILMAN ( 1955)12. To the author's knowledge no explanation has so far been offered for this action of T. E. A. Decamethonium has to a great extent been replaced by succinyldicholine as a synthetic depolarizing muscle relaxant, and this drug is today widely used clinically. I t has been classified with decamethonium in its mode of action on the motor end-plate (D. BOVET et al. (1951)2, G. F. SOMERS (1953)25, P. A. JEWELL and E. J. ZAIMIS ( 1954)14). No reports on the effect of T. E.A. on neuromuscular block produced by succinyldicholine in various species have appeared. In previous investigations, indications were found that the action of T. E. A. on the neuromuscular junction was to increase the output of acetylcholine from the presynaptic nerve terminals in response to nerve stimuli (J. STOVNER (1957)~326*2s, (1958)2'). In the present investigation the effect of T.E.A. on the block produced by succinyldicholine has been investigated in various nervemuscle preparations. The object has been to see whether the results thus obtained are consistent with a presynaptic action of T. E. A. During cdntinuous infusion of succinyldicholine, its first split product, succinylmonocholine, may accumulate in the body (F. F. FOLDES (1953)'). As the monoester retains some neuromuscular blocking action, the effect of T. E. A. on this block has been tested as well.


Methods of primary grades vocabulary assessment are inadequate for classroom teachers and researchers because they require one-on-one testing and much time. This study validates a new method of vocabulary assessment for use with a whole classroom at one time. With an individually-administered vocabulary test and a group-administered test created with the same words, we assessed 257 students in K-2 using both methods. Results showed that the group method yielded reasonable correlations with the one-on-one method (r=.69 to .75). This group method can now be used by primary grades teachers and researchers to quickly assess general vocabulary and instructed word meanings. This study describes an effort to validate a new and more practical method for assessing primary-grade vocabulary knowledge, which can be used with groups of students or with whole classes. The authors sought evidence that the method is reasonably accurate when compared with results obtained with a widely used individually administered vocabulary test for primarygrade children. If the new group method, called the "Two-Questions" method, could be shown to yield reasonably valid estimates of word meaning knowledge, it could be used to assess both general vocabulary knowledge and gains in vocabulary taught within the classroom. For this study, we selected word meaning items from the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III, Form A (PPVT-III) (Dunn & Dunn, 1997) for use in the whole class assessment with the Two-Questions method. In each classroom our Two-Questions Vocabulary Measure (TQVM) was first administered to the whole class. The PPVT was then administered individually to those children for whom parental permission had been obtained. Group test results were not known prior to administering the PPVT-III. We assessed 259 students from 24 Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 classrooms in three New England elementary schools with both measures to provide validation for the new group assessment method. The students and the schools are described, as are the two measures and their use. The need for the new method of assessing vocabulary for students in grades K–2 and the process used to create the measure are explained. The results of the scores on the group test and their correlation with the scores on the individually administered test are presented. We also discuss how the new Two-Questions method may be used to assess general vocabulary on an occasional basis and vocabulary taught in the classroom on an ongoing basis. Suggestions are provided for improving the method and for using this new assessment method to increase student achievement in reading beyond the primary grades.


This paper examines the use of financial analysis as a strategic tool in SMEs. Empirical data are collected from 303 SMEs in the Republic of Kosova, operating in production, trade and service sectors. The aim of this study is to assess the extent to which the business financial analysis is employed in the sampled enterprises and to determine whether there are differences in the usage of it, within small and medium-sized enterprises and sectors. The results show that Kosovan SMEs greatly use financial analysis as a strategic tool. Moreover, significant differences are found between small and medium-sized enterprises regarding its usage and no significant differences among production, trade and service sectors. This paper contributes to the existing scientific literature, especially in the strategic management field. Additionally, this paper will likely contribute to decision makers' increased use of business financial analysis as a strategic tool in their enterprises.


We present a modulation domain technique for segmenting textured images modeled as 2D multicomponent AM-FM functions. A Gabor filter bank is used to derive estimates of the dominant modulations at each image point and statistical clustering is then performed with respect to a similarity measure-based modulation domain entropy. Post processing is applied in the image domain to regularize the solution and enforce spatial correspondence. Several synthetic and natural examples are presented.


Our objective in this paper is to explore in detail the second of the three essential functions of universities as elements of a system of innovation (Schartinger et al. 2002, Smith, 1995): the generation of a type of knowledge that is directly applicable to industrial production processes; we will use patents as indicator for this process. Several research studies have demonstrated that the analysis of patents is a sufficiently valid and objective method for determining technology transfer (Archibugi, 1992, Basberg, 1987, Boitani and Ciciotti, 1990, and Trajtenberg, 1990). For Meyer- Krahmer and Schmoch (1998). patents show the interest in commercial exploitation of a new technology (...) A high share of patents on the part of scientific institutions can be considered a good indicator for a close relationship of science and industrial laboratories in the technology field". Also the accessibility of patents allows a more comprehensive treatment than surveys or case studies (Henderson et al., 1998). Unlike the previous studies on university patents that have utilised the university (Henderson et al. 1998; Coupe 2003) or university teachers (Agrawal and Henderson, 2002) as the unit of analysis in the output of patents, in this study we utilise the research group, as an intermediate unit between the university and the academic inventor. This is a realistic option considering that the majority of researchers are integrated into groups following common lines of research, which are also the basic unit for regional financing. With a sample of 1155 Research Groups from AndalucAa (Spain), the questions to investigate are the following: What is the influence of the human resources (doctors, graduates and support personnel) on the generation of university patents? What influence does the scientific capacity of the research group have on the generation of university patents? What influence does external financing -public and private- have on the output of patents? To test for the factors that influence the output of patents by public research institutions, we follow the empirical tradition of the formulation of a "knowledge production function" begun with the work of Griliches (1979): Pati=f(Hi, If, Fi, Oi), Where Pat is the production of patents by the research group i, H is the human resources of the group, S is its scientific capacity, F is the financial resources and O represents other characteristics of the group. The empirical specification of this function, given the nature of patent data, suggests the formulation and calculation of two types of model: the first, utilising models of binary choice, will enable us to determine what characteristics are possessed by groups that obtain patents; the second, by means of a count model, will pick up the determinants of the production of patents by each research group (poisson/negative binomial o zero inflated posson/negative binomial models). Our working proposal is as follows. First we carry out a review of the literature on the production of technological knowledge in the universities, as measured by patents, and then we put forward the initial working hypotheses, the methodology and the data utilised. Next we present the results of testing our hypotheses. Finally we draw the principal conclusions and policy implications.


Abstract Five groups of nine to ten Holstein bulls, over the age range from one and a half to six years, and a sixth group of 15 aged Holstein bulls were ejaculated four times per week for four weeks following an initial adjustment period. Sperm output in the aged bulls (72 to 150 months old) was considerably lower than in the groups ranging in age from 34 to 69 months. The percentage of morphologically normal sperm in semen at the time of collection and of motile sperm after freezing in pellets and ampules was lowest in the aged bulls. Nonreturn data available for this group indicated that the per cent unstained before freezing and the per cent normal and per cent motile sperm after freezing were significantly correlated with fertility (P


(57) Abstract: The plasma doping apparatus plasma doping chamber and the platen and the ionizable gas source coupled to the chamber to be placed in a plasma doping Cheng bar for supporting a workpiece and an anode spaced from the platen and comprising a pulse source for applying a voltage pulse between the platen and the anode. Voltage pulse generates a plasma having a plasma sheath in the vicinity of the workpiece. Voltage pulse across the plasma sheath positive ions for injection into the workpiece accelerates to the platen. The plasma doping apparatus includes at least one Faraday cup for collecting a sample of positive ions across the plasma sheath. Samples showing the dose of positive ions implanted into the workpiece. Faraday cup is shaped to produce a transverse electric field in the interior chamber to inhibit electrons flow out, thereby the measurement accuracy is improved.


: [Purpose] To understand hemodynamics in the Supine Position during dynamic exercise to investigate changes that occurred in the body's hemodynamics during dynamic exercise with two varying loads. [Subjects] The participants were 11 sedentary healthy men with a mean age of 26.0 years, mean body mass of 67.3 kg, mean height of 172.8 cm and a body mass index of 22.4 kg/m 2 . [Methods] The body's hemodynamics was measured in the supine position during 20-min bicycle ergometry at 20% and 40% of the maximum load reached for the target heart rate. [Results] The stroke volume increased significantly with the 40% load compared with pre-exercise during 1 to 5 minutes of a 20-min exercise period and at 2-minute post-exercise. However, compared with the 20% load a significant decrease was noted during the 8- to 20-min exercise period. Compared with pre-exercise the total peripheral resistance decreased significantly with the 40% load during 1 to 5 minutes of a 20-min exercise period. However, compared with the 20% load a significant increase was noted during the 10- to 20-min exercise period. Compared with pre-exercise the baroreflex sensitivity decreased significantly during 2- to 20-min of dynamic exercise with the 40% load. Compared with the 20% load the baroreflex sensitivity also decreased significantly during 15- to 17- and 20-min of exercise and at 2-min post-exercise. [Conclusion] It was suggested the stroke volume increased and the total peripheral resistance decreased in the Supine Position during dynamic exercise at 40% of the maximum load reached for the target heart rate.


The invention relates to a footwear with a double-density midsole, which is composed of a midsole and a sole, wherein the midsole is provided with a first layer for being contacted with the sole of the foot of a user, a second layer connected below the first layer and multiple ribs extending upwards from a bottom part, and the first layer is provided with the bottom part; the hardness of the first layer is larger than that of the second layer; and the sole is connected below the midsole for being contacted with the ground. When the user wears the footwear, the midsole can generate compression deformation and the ribs can buckle and deform in an elastic mode so as to effectively cushion the pressure of the sole of the foot of the user and enable the footwear to have good use conformableness.


The proximal femur is an interesting area of the whole femur bone owing to its vitality to posture, weight bearing and gait. The aim of this study is to radiologically determine the neck-shaft angle and some linear dimensions of the proximal femur of Nigerians.600 radiographs of adult femur (Anterior-Posterior view) of patients with no deformation were obtained from some selected hospitals in Nigeria.The linear and angular morphometry of the proximal femur (right and left sides) were measured from anteroposterior (AP) radiographs of the pelvis. The radiographs were placed on the X-ray viewing box. The linear parameters were measured using a plastic transparent meter rule in centimeter (cm) and the angular morphometry was determined using the goniometer in degrees (°). All lines drawn on the radiographs were drawn with an HB pencil.Details of the subjects like age and sex were noted as gotten from the medical records in the film jacket.Femoral neck axis length (FNAL), femoral neck width (FNW) and femoral Neckshaft angle (FNA) were all measured and recorded. Statistical analysis was carried out. Sexual dimorphism was observed in FNAL (Female mean10.04±0.77 and Male mean – 10.61±1.07), FNW (Female mean 3.45±0.45 and Male mean3.82±0.42). There was no significant difference observed in between right and right side of the FNA. Variations which were statistically significant were observed between the sexes for all the parameters except for Neck Shaft Angle. Femoral Neck Axis length which is a major component of Hip Axis Length is longer in men than in women, which probably explains why Nigerian men are generally taller than women. Independent characteristics like: a longer HAL, valgus femoral neck and larger FNW makes the proximal femur vulnerable to fracture. This study is therefore a useful tool in the hands of physiotherapist and Orthopaedic Surgeons.


To the Editor:The Joint Bank/Fund Health Services Department (HSD) in Washington, DC, was recently contacted with several requests regarding water temperature in the Bank's restrooms. Because of the approaching cold/flu season, the staff was concerned that lukewarm water did not provide efficient ha


Organizational effectiveness is related to the concept of how effective an organization is in achieving the outcomesan organization intends to achieve.The positive impact of research on Organization Effectiveness isopen for discussion.The paper attempts to determine the dominant sector and the particular Organization effectiveness approach used. It identifies the dominant sector as the Indian Manufacturing Industry sectorof a high success value of organizational effectiveness.It explains that the Goal attainment approach to organization effectiveness is followed by global firms. It also explains that the Strategic constituencies approach to organizational effectiveness is followed by Indian firms. Also, itstudies, how the goal attainment approach exhibits value to managers, in global firms, by ensuring inputs from all stakeholders and their goal anticipations, the inclusion of actual goals, the recognition of short& longterm goals, the inclusion of tangible, verifiable, measurable goals and the viewing of goals as dynamic entities. Next, itstudies,in Indian firms, how the strategic constituenciesapproach exhibits value to managers by checking that if survival is important then it is essential to managers to understand upon whom survival is contingent. Also, managers decrease the chance that they might severely ignore or upset a group whose power could significantly hinder the organizations operations. Similarly, modification of preference goals can be done.


The utility model relates to a closed type phlegm suction catheter. The closed type phlegm suction catheter comprises a phlegm suction catheter body. A three-way connector and an adapter connector are arranged at the two ends of the phlegm suction catheter body. The phlegm suction catheter body is sleeved with a sealing sleeve. The two ends of the sealing sleeve are fixedly connected with the three-way connector and the adapter connector respectively. According to the closed type phlegm suction catheter, due to the fact that the phlegm suction catheter body is sleeved with the sealing sleeve, the phenomenon that foamy phlegm generated in the phlegm suction process and phlegm adhesively attached to the phlegm suction catheter pollute medical workers is avoided, health of the medical workers is protected, the medical workers do not need to wear gloves or masks during operation, no retaining paper needs to be laid on the chest of a patient, the medical workers can directly operate under the protection of the sealing sleeve, the operation processes are simplified, and operation difficulty is lowered; meanwhile, soft materials are arranged on the outer side of the adapter connector, so that the sealing performance between the adapter connector and a tracheal connector on a human body is better, it is ensured that gas in a breathing circuit is not leaked in the phlegm suction process, and the probability that the patient is choked is reduced.


An approach for considering environmental factors in the evaluation process for both supply-side and alternative demand-side options for solar photovoltaic systems is outlined. This approach considers the air emissions from the entire energy cycle including fuel extraction, construction, and operation. It may not be appropriate to only consider the displacement of emissions of future-generation alternatives when evaluating the PV systems. In certain regions of the country, there may be a reason to take a look at both existing, and future, supply-side environmental effects.<<ETX>>


Uncontrolled hypothyroidism has been associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of increasing levothyroxine (LT4) dose on reducing the risk of adverse outcomes for pregnant women with TSH level greater than the recommended 1st trimester limit.


We demonstrate the first backside-processed hybrid silicon discrete mode laser. It operates in the O-band with a total waveguide-coupled output power >43 mW, 850 kHz linewidth, and a side mode suppression ratio of 60 dB. © 2019 The Author(s)


The invention relates to a device for selecting a weft thread in a loom without shuttle, or otherwise expressed, in a loom which is supplied by lateral spools external to it, the device comprising a plate configured to define an opening on one side of a passageway and having a recess on the other side; a movable latch disposed within the plate, adapted to open and close the passageway as a function of the position of the batten of the loom; and a slide piece adapted to carry selected weft threads through the recess and passageway to and from the opening defined by the plate. For multi-color looms a rack bar is included to hold weft threads of different colors and natures.


The paper focuses on the requirement towards further education of the primary school teachers by taking samples from primary schools in Foshan.Questionnaires are designed on five aspects: the contents and methods of the training,ways of evaluation,management and condition guarantee.Based on the statistics analysis,the research shows that significant difference exists among teachers of different titles.And then,causes and suggestions are put forward.


PURPOSE: A system for providing the software package related information and supporting a test is provided to improve the efficiency and security of the software package development and the source version management and to rapidly search the information for the software package. CONSTITUTION: The system comprises a client(100) and a server(102). The applications are constructed to the server by the CGI(Common Gateway Interface) or Java and each application combines the information by accessing to a database(108). The client having a web client tool transmits the information inputted by the user through a user interface to the server and provides the information received from the server through the user interface to the user. The database classifies into two areas managing the package producing history and an MR(Modification Request) list and history, and storing the software block configuration. A test data storage(110) stores the component registered according to the MKPM(Make PLD and MMSDATA) and the IROF(Initial Relational Object File) by a Java applet(106) and a produced file.


Hemodynamic complications frequently affect vascular access and are important causes of morbidity and mortality. We present a review of acute complications affecting vascular accesses, focusing on classical and new treatments. Acute complications in hemodialysis vascular access are often underestimated and undertreated, and can present a challenge for both vascular surgeons and anesthesiologists. Accordingly, we considered different anesthesiologic approaches to both hemorrhagic and nonhemorrhagic patients. A strict collaboration among nephrologists, surgeons, and anesthesiologists can potentially improve prevention and management of acute complications and quality of life.


Abstract A lineshape analysis of the NMR and NQR powder nutation spectra of integer and half-integer quadrupolar nuclei is presented. Simulated NMR nutation spectra of spin I = 1 and 3 nuclei are reported. For I = 1 the formulas for the singularities of the NMR nutation powder patterns as a functions of η, e2Qq and 7B x are given. The NQR nutation powder patterns for spin I = 3/2, 5/2, 7/2, and 9/2 for different induced transitions are calculated, and some experimental aspects of the method are discussed. A universal empirical formula to facilitate the determination of the asymmetry parameter from the NQR nutation frequency singularities for any arbitrary spin or transition is found. The NQR nutation spectra for half-integer and integer spins are compared. For integer spins the two-frequency excitation of the nutation spectrum is analysed. Application of the 2D-nutation lineshape analysis for the determination of the quadrupole interaction parameters is emphasised.


Granulomatous dermatitis (GD) is the most common among a variety of skin reactions that may occur in the varicella‐zoster virus (VZV) reactivation area. It is thought that the formation of granulomas may be the result of a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to viral envelope glycoproteins. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), such as nivolumab stimulate T cells and promote hypersensitivity reactions, leading to the formation of granulomas in VZV wrapping proteins, thus triggering VZV‐GD. Few cases of the use of ICIs in patients diagnosed with VZV‐GD have been reported in the literature. Here, we report the clinical case of a patient with metastatic lung cancer which was treated with nivolumab who subsequently developed VZV‐GD. Accurate clinical diagnosis and prompt treatment with antiviral agents have resulted in a complete resolution of the clinical picture.


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Mafaza, Ida. 2017. "Main Characters Politeness in Anime Kamisama Hajimemashita." Thesis, department of Japanese Studies Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University. First Advisor: Drs. Suharyo, M.Hum. Second Advisor: Reny Wiyatasari, S.S M.Hum.

This research is about main characters politeness in Anime Kamisama Hajimemashita. The core problems in this research are: 1. How is the realization of the directive, commissive and expressive speech of the main character in the anime of Kamisama Hajimemashita? 2. How is the politeness of directive, commissive and expressive speech of the main character in the anime of Kamisama Hajimemashita?

This research has two purposes: 1. Describing the realization of the directive, commissive and expressive speech of the main character in the anime of Kamisama Hajimemashita 2. Describe the politeness of the directive, commissive and expressive of the main character in the anime of Kamisama Hajimemashita. Data obtained from Anime Kamisama Hajimemashita. Data in the analysis are 64 data, in the form of 35 data of directive speech, 10 data of commissive speech and 19 data of expressive speech. From 64 datas above, 55 data was polite a speech, and 9 data was not a polite speech. Data collection technique was done by recording, listening and taking note. Data analysis method was padan extralingual method. The speech acts were analyzed using Harnish and Bach theory and the politeness were analyzed using Leech theory.

Based on the speech research in Anime Kamisama Hajimemashita, the result obtained was that all commissive speech was a polite speech. This happened because the speaker gives advantage to the listener. While the less polite speech was found in the directive and expressive speech.

Keywords: directive, commissive, expressive, speech act, politeness.


Sarcosine (Src) is investigated as a potentially valuable
molecule in diagnostics of prostate cancer. This potential
induced an extensive research of its properties, biological
functions and connections to certain diseases. In this work,
capillary electrophoresis is used for determination of
sarcosine as a complex with copper ions present in background
electrolyte. Subsequently, the method was used for
determination of sarcosine in lysates of prostate cancer cells
treated with various concentrations of Zn ions.