This article provides a general introduction to the dual-career family and considers factors important to the understanding of the rewards and stresses that characterize personal, marital, and family life. Key issues in the psychosocial development of women and men that are important to understanding dual-career marriages are identified. Life as a dual-career family is then described, and sources of stress and factors that promote effective coping are both considered. Crucial to these considerations are two "meta issues "—concepts of equity and the nature of society. Finally, recommendations are made about what the counseling psychologist can do in the areas of preventive and psychotherapeutic intervention and ongoing research.


The invention relates to a remote control system for an electromagnetic speed-regulating coal mining machine, and aims to solve the problems of high power consumption, low reliability, waste of system resources and the like of existing remote control systems. The remote control system comprises a main wireless remote control unit and an auxiliary wireless remote control unit. An ultralow-power-consumption CPU-STM8L152C6T6 serves as a core processor of the main wireless remote control unit to realize design of various circuits such as a power source circuit, a wireless transceiving circuit, a keying circuit and the like. The auxiliary wireless remote control unit takes STM8L15C6T6 as a control core and takes a Modbus interface circuit as a hardware platform. The wireless transceiving circuit is realized by the aid of a Si4432 based wireless radio frequency chip, the auxiliary wireless remote control unit is connected with a master control system of the coal mining machine through a RS485 bus, and data transmission between the auxiliary wireless remote control unit and the master control system of the coal mining machine is realized according to a Modbus protocol. The remote control system for the electromagnetic speed-regulating coal mining machine has the advantages that keys on a panel of the main unit are remotely controlled to send related control instructions which are transmitted wirelessly, and the auxiliary wireless remote control unit receives and analyzes data, stores related data into corresponding registers and transmits the data to an electric control system of the coal mining machine so as to control operations of the coal mining machine.


A central component of governance is the ―formal arrangements (rules) that exist to structure decision-making‖ (Chhotray & Stoker, 2009). Community-based research is becoming an important means of conducting social and health-related research, and often governed collaboratively by community and university members. However, descriptions of arrangements for decision-making are scant. What arrangements are used for governing community-based research collaborations, and what are collaborators' experiences of them? To answer these questions, qualitative description was used to draw evidence from 54 interviews conducted with members of community-based research collaborations in Canada. Three forms of arrangements were determined. These were organizing structures such as committees and membership; documentation which included required documentation for research applications and documents that collaborations generated for their own use; and meetings which were locations and spaces for decision-making. Respondents' assessments of success and failures of collaborations pointed to important roles for governance. When arrangements of governance were clear, collaboration members had useful structures, tools and processes for decision-making, helping them to realize the value of collaboration. Where discussions and utilization of governance arrangements in community-based research collaborations were perfunctory or absent, collaborations were built on soft ground and experienced collaboration failure. Suggestions for future directions of inquiry and theoretical development of collaboration governance in community-based research on the basis of the findings are proposed. Attention to governance in the context of community-based research can help to turn the benefits of research into benefits for the community.


The reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) heat shield components on the Space Shuttle's wings must withstand harsh atmospheric re-entry environments where the wing leading edge can reach temperatures of 3000°F (about 1650°C). Potential damage includes impact damage, micro cracks, oxidation in the silicon carbide-to-carbon-carbon layers, and interlaminar disbands. The thick, carbon-carbon and silicon-carbide layers in the heat shield panels are difficult to inspect and existing techniques were deemed to be inadequate. Since accumulated damage in these structures can lead to catastrophic failure of the Shuttle's heat protection system, it became imperative for NASA to develop quickly an acceptable health monitoring programme. NASA selected a multi-method approach for inspecting the wing leading edge which includes eddy current, thermography, and ultrasonics. Sandia Labs produced the in-situ ultrasonic pitch-catch inspection method. Optimum combinations of custom ultrasonic probes and data analysis were merged into the overall inspection method needed to properly survey the heat shield panels. Comprehensive validation tests revealed that the ultrasonic pitch-catch inspection system is capable of reliably finding flaws of 0.25" diameter or less in the heat shields. The inspection system is now in use at NASA to complete 'Return-to-Flight' certification inspections prior to each Shuttle launch.


In order to investigate the effect of biological aerated filter (BAF) with zeolite filler and combined packing, a contrastive experimental study was carried out on zeolite BAF and zeolite-haydite combined packing BAF with the operation parameters such as hydraulic retention time (HRT), temperature and DO keeping constantly throughout the experimental process and the removal efficiency of CODcr, NH4+-N and SS were analysed during the start-up stage and the steady stage. The results showed that on condition that the average temperature was 27°C and DO 6mg/L and HRT 8h, BAF with zeolite filler formed film completely in 30 days, with the removal rate of CODcr, NH4+-N and SS 59.6%, 94.6% and 87%, while zeolite-haydite BAF formed film completely in 25 days, with the removal rate of CODcr, NH4+-N and SS 63.7%, 95.9%, 88.5% respectively, which was better than the former. In summary, BAF with combined zeolite and haydite is superior to BAF with single zeolite for rural wastewater treatment.


ABSTRACT Strains belonging to the genus Aerococcus are causative agents of human and animal infections, including urogenital infections, bacteremia/septicemia, and infective endocarditis. This study reports the first fully closed and complete genome sequences of six type strains belonging to the genus Aerococcus using a combination of Illumina HiSeq and PacBio sequencing technologies.


The scope of this study is to increase our knowledge of the internal structure of the dwarf elephant tusks from the Charkadio Cave on the island of Tilos. The skeletal parts of the species first appear in the sediments of the cave about 45 ka BP and become extinct almost 4-3.5 ka BP (Symeonides 1972, Bachmayer et al. 1976, 1984, Theodorou 1983, 1988). The material had originally been designated to Palaeoloxodon antiquus falconeri Busk (Symeonidis 1972). However, this name refers to the dwarf elephants from the island of Malta. As a result, since no migration route between the two islands can be proved, this name should not be used when referring to the elephant remnants from Tilos. Theodorou (1983) has accepted the temporal use of this name, until further material can be examined (Theodorou & Symeonidis 2001, this volume). The samples were selected according to the degree of completeness and preservation of the tusk. Two tusks were selected, one from a juvenile individual (T.00/144), and one from an adult one (T.00/53). Both tusks are lacking tip and base and appear extremely fragmented and brittle. However the relative position of the fragments can still be indicated. The tusk sample T.00/144 has a length of 20.55 cm from proximal to distal end (arch), while the same measurement for the tusk sample T.00/53 is 47.00 cm. The maximum and minimum diameters at the middle of the tusk are 4.05 cm and 3.65 cm respectively, for the tusk sample T.00/144. The same diameters for the tusk sample T.00/53 measure at 9.50 cm and 7.50 cm respectively. The mean width of the cementum layer is 3 mm for T.00/144 and 4 mm for T.00/53. The sample T.00/144 was studied by optical analysis of the Schreger angles (OASA). In the preparation of the sections two aspects had to be considered: the fragility of the tusk and the consequent examination under the SEM. In order to avoid embedding, the tusk was encased in plaster. Ten transverse sections were made, recording the distance of each section from the proximal end of the tusk. The surfaces created were sufficiently flat, so that no polishing would be required. Afterwards, the sections were scanned, with a resolution of 1000 dpi, and the images were processed with a photoprocessing program. The Schreger angles were then measured at high magnification. The dentinal tubule density can be measured on microphotographs of fractured surfaces (Forssell-Ahlberg et al. 1975), chosen parallel to the periphery of the tusk. Observations on the microstructure of fossil tusks from the Charkadio cave (Tilos, Dodekanese, Greece)


Probabilistic risk assessment techniques are the important tools which can considerably improve the safety performance of the studied system and reduce the risk to an acceptable level. Typically, decision‐making process is an important part of risk assessment methods that accordingly bring the ambiguity inside. Decision makers as experts commonly express their subjective opinions about the occurrence of the root events in order to obtain the probability of the undesired event. Subsequently, the critical root events are identified, and possible intervention is performed to reduce the probability of the critical events. However, the serious point is the viability of the obtained probabilities and priority ranking of the critical events. In this study, a heuristic optimization model of linear mathematical programming using triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TrIFN) is proposed to obtain the feasible, optimum, and reliable results compared with available methods. The Spearman correlation is performed to examine the reliability and behavior of the proposed model. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, it is applied on a real case study. The application of the model confirms its robustness to prioritize critical root events over the conventional one.


Abstract This paper assesses the relationship between community education and internal political efficacy. In particular it examines the association between voter/civic programmes run in advance of the 2009 local elections in Ireland and internal political efficacy amongst the asylum seeking community in Cork. A survey is used to test this relationship. The paper outlines the methodological issues faced in conducting research within this community and presents the results of the sample groups' involvement in community education, levels of political efficacy and participation in the 2009 local elections.


The paper deals with lexical blends functioning in Y. Pashkovskyi's work Щоденний жезл [Everyday warder]. It is said that a striking picture of Ukraine being on the way of economic, political, and social collapse can be seen through neologisms in Ukrainian postmodern literature. The study provides the characteristics of Ukrainian blends, discusses their structures, and examines the development of their constituent parts (the so-called splinters) into new morphemes. The different kinds of contexts in which blends tend to occur characterizing the current political and social situation in Ukraine are analyzed. The comparative analysis of Ukrainian blends as single words and in contexts has also been made in this research.


Diabetes is associated with stiff large arteries, which plays an important role in the pathogenesis of vascular disease (1) and is the primary cause of mortality and morbidity with type 2 diabetes. Similarly, after menopause, women experience a dramatic increase in large artery stiffness and the rate of cardiovascular disease (2). Thiazolidinediones modulate glucose homeostasis (3) and exhibit a number of potential antiatherogenic actions (3), the collective effects of which remain to be fully elucidated in humans.

We therefore investigated whether rosiglitazone, the second member of the thaizolidinediones group, would improve blood pressure and arterial compliance, …


to reject a null hypothesis, on the basis of an F-test, with a post hoc analysis of specific linear contrasts, using one of the various multiple comparison procedures (e.g., Scheffe, 1953, 1959; Tukey, 1953). Recently, Nemenyi (1963), Dunn (1964), and Rosenthal and Ferguson (1965) discussed similar procedures which may be employed following the rejection of the null hypothesis by a given nonparametric test, i.e., the Kruskal-Wallis (1952) one-way analysis of vari-


Abstract The characteristics of winter monthly mean extratropical circulation associated with El Nino, including precipitation and surface temperature over the United States, are examined for nine El Nino events during 1950–94. Precipitation and surface temperature over the United States, also the 500-mb geopotential height and sea level pressure over the North Pacific and North America, are significantly different between early winter (November and December) and late winter (January to March). The typical El Nino-related U.S. precipitation and surface temperatures identified in many previous studies, as well as the Pacific–North American (PNA) circulation pattern, emerge in January and persist through February and March. The PNA patterns during these late winter months are coupled both with the tropical El Nino sea surface temperature (SST) variation and with the North Pacific SST variation. In contrast, the PNA patterns in the early winter months correlate only with the North Pacific SST. The tendency f...


Correlations between the Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities (WJTCA) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were evaluated on a sample of 55 behavior disordered males, 28 of whom were also diagnosed as learning disabled. Concurrent validity for this sample was demonstrated by only a 2.33 point difference between the mean WJTCA Broad Cognitive score and the mean WISC-R Full Scale IQ score. Analysis of Pearson product-moment correlations between each WISC-R subtest and each Woodcock-Johnson cluster score substantiated previous assertions that the WJTCA is unduly weighted with Product-Dominant factors. Construct validity of some of the WJTCA clusters also was questioned. Implications of these results for behavior disordered populations were discussed.


own priorities. ► Meta- analysis of the quantitative studies was un-feasible as there was a large variation in the tools used to ascertain priorities, and we have attempted to mitigate this by using a well- described and transparent method of narrative synthesis. ► A number of our included quantitative studies did not use prevalidated tools to ascertain priorities, leading to a risk of measurement bias. AbStrACt Objectives To identify studies that have investigated the health outcome and treatment priorities of patients with multimorbidity, clinicians or both, in order to assess whether the priorities of the two groups are in alignment, or whether a disparity exists between the priorities of patients with multimorbidity and clinicians. sources reference any relevant articles, per Systematic Reviews and Meta- and Cochrane guidelines. Eligibility criteria We included studies reporting health and There was no by study and studies using quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies included. Data synthesis We used a narrative synthesis approach to synthesise the quantitative findings, and a meta-ethnography approach to synthesise the qualitative findings. results Our search identified 24 studies for inclusion, which comprised 12 quantitative studies, 10 qualitative studies and 2 mixed- methods studies. Twelve studies reported the priorities of both patients and clinicians, 10 studies reported the priorities of patients and 2 studies reported the priorities of clinicians alone. Our findings have shown a mostly low level of agreement between the priorities of patients with multimorbidity and clinicians. We found that prioritisation by patients was mainly driven by their illness experiences, while clinicians focused on longer- term risks. Preserving functional ability emerged as a key priority for patients from across our quantitative and qualitative analyses. might occur, can facilitate clinicians in accurately eliciting the priorities that are most important to their patients and delivering patient- centred care.


The sewage tunnels of the Blominmäki Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) consist of approximately 20 kilometers of inlet and discharge tunnels, access tunnels and shafts. The most challenging and technically critical part of this project was the connection of the operating offshore tunnel of the old treatment plant with the Blominmäki discharge route, through a vertical shaft. Lack of information regarding the exact location, the shape and the geological conditions of the existing tunnel called for an accurate excavation design to avoid a potential tunnel collapse and rock blocking or massive waterflow during breakthrough. An additional complexity related to the continuous operation of the tunnel in question, as both non-stop flow of treated wastewater and cooling water of the nearby heat and powerplant, had a huge impact to the ways that all work phases were carried out. All parts involved, including the clients, the contractor and a variety of consultants cooperated in order that one of the most demanding shaft excavations in Finland be carried out successfully. This paper aims to present an overview of the related challenges, along with the detailed design, risk assessment and respective mitigation measures, information about problem solving and lessons learned during the execution.


Typically, the Time-Delay Neural Network (TDNN) and Transformer can serve as a backbone for Speaker Verification (SV). Both of them have advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of global and local feature modeling. How to effectively integrate these two style features is still an open issue. In this paper, we explore a Parallel-coupled TDNN/Transformer Network (p-vectors) to replace the serial hybrid networks. The p-vectors allows TDNN and Transformer to learn the complementary information from each other through Soft Feature Alignment Interaction (SFAI) under the premise of preserving local and global features. Also, p-vectors uses the Spatial Frequency-channel Attention (SFA) to enhance the spatial interdependence modeling for input features. Finally, the outputs of dual branches of p-vectors are combined by Embedding Aggregation Layer (EAL). Experiments show that p-vectors outperforms MACCIF-TDNN and MFA-Conformer with relative improvements of 11.5% and 13.9% in EER on VoxCeleb1-O.


obstruction. The intranasal irritation is frequently associated with irritation of the conjunctiva. The sneezing attacks frequently occur on the subject's rising from bed, and thereafter may be absent for the remainder of the day. They may occur, however, at any time and may be so severe as to prostrate the patient. The rhinorrhrea usually follows the first few sneezes and may come on with disconcerting and embarrassing suddenness, there being a gush of thin, watery fluid from the nose before the patient can apply his handkerchief. It may be so profuse as to saturate several handkerchiefs in the course of a very short interval of time. In attacks of longer duration, although the discharge is not so profuse, the patient complains of a constantly wet nose. The nasal obstruction may vary from an intermittent, alternating, unilateral blockage of short duration to a complete bilateral obstruction, the patient not being able to force any air through the nasal passages at all. This, of course, is a most distressing condition which may persist for several days on end; .it causes the patient the most acute discomfort, producing a feeling of fullness in the head and ears and affecting his mentality. This state of affairs can be caused by an acute swelling of the whole nasal mucosa, quite apart from the development of polypi. The latter are a manifestation of chronic or long-standing nasal allergy; they cause obstruction of varying degree from a ball and valve type to complete and constant blockage, according to the number and size of the polypi. When infection occurs, there may be the headache that is usually associated with sinusitis and a post-nasal and nasal discharge of mucopus. The sensations of smell and taste are, naturally, interfered with.


Introduction China's National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) covers medicines that are included in national health insurance schemes. NRDL updates take into account evidence and recommendations of experts from the fields of medicine, health economics, pharmacy and health policy. A negotiation mechanism between the government and manufacturers was introduced in 2017 to include a more detailed evaluation and negotiation for high cost drugs. However, the values that are considered in NRDL decision making are not well-understood. This study aims to investigate the influence of available evidence and other factors on coverage decisions. Methods Outcomes of the 2017 and 2018 NRDL negotiations were analyzed. Logistic regression was used to investigate factors associated with listing decisions. Ordinary least squares and Tobit regression were used to investigate factors associated with negotiated price discounts. Independent variables were published cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), disease area, burden of disease (disability-adjusted life years), company ownership (domestic or foreign) and regulatory approval year. Results Twenty-eight out of sixty-two negotiated drugs had one or more published CEA studies in the English or Chinese language, although neither the presence of a study nor the central ICER estimates were predictive of price discount or listing. A longer time since regulatory approval was a significant predictor of listing (p < 0.05). Disease area (oncology) and ownership (foreign) were significant predictors of a higher price discount (p < 0.01). Conclusions The NRDL plays a key role in providing access to healthcare for the 95 percent of China's population that is covered by public insurance. We found several factors that were associated with reimbursement decisions. Many of the medicines in the NRDL negotiation have CEA evidence, although the role of CEA in reimbursement decision making in China remains inconclusive.


Both the UK and the US have experienced massive political earthquakes withe the former's vote to leave the EU and the election of Donald Trump. But what should the UK expect from the Trump administration? Adam Quinn argues that despite some optimists' views that the nativism which has seemingly swept both countries may bode well for the 'special relationship', Trump may try to drive a hard bargain in any new US-UK trade deal, and the UK's attempt to jettison Europe may see its role and relevance as an Atlantic bridge begin to slip away.


My aim in this dissertation is to contribute to the existing literature on the epistemology of peer disagreement. Toward that end, I do the following. In Chapter 1, I consider and reject a number of proposed characterizations of the concept of disagreement. I then present and defend the following analysis: For any two individuals S1 and S2, any proposition p, and any time t, S1 and S2 disagree over p at t if and only if S1 and S2 take different doxastic attitudes toward p at t. In Chapter 2, I analyze the concept of epistemic peers in part by appealing to the notion of epistemic credentials. I then note the various epistemic credentials relevant to determining epistemic peers (allowing that there may be more): justification peers, truth peers, knowledge peers, responsible inquiry peers, and information peers. I then argue (contrary to the dominant stream in the literature) that the epistemology of peer disagreement literature is best served by invoking the epistemic credential found in the concept of truth peers: For any two individuals S1 and S2, any time t, and any proposition p, S1 and S2 are truth peers at t about p if and only if S1 and S2 are equally fit at t for attaining a true belief about p. I then argue that, from among the popular competitors found in the current literature, it alone is the epistemic credential relevant to epistemic peers sufficient to raise, in a particularly compelling way, the interesting epistemological question about justification found in the literature. In Chapter 3, I do two things. First, I present and clarify one particular position advanced in the current epistemology of peer disagreement literature,


The media create and shape everyday reality, influence people's perceptions and behaviours by constantly using and re-using stereotyped imagery. They 'constitute a decisive universe of discourses that create values, attitudes and judgements with respect to our social, cultural and political environment' (Nash, 2004:57). They are also implicated in the politics of representation of migrants by constructing the dominant discourses and narratives of migrant communities. This paper explores how the identities of female migrant hospitality workers from Central and Eastern European (CEE) nations are constructed in the Channel 4 docusoap 'The Hotel' (Series 1).


THE AGES OF REVOLUTION AND CAPITAL wrought some critical and lasting changes in the way people perceived and used time. The eighteenth century animated a latent, originally medieval concern about time with its rationalization, saving, and ordering. This appreciation of time, wrapped in the swaddling of the Protestant work ethic, proved an ideal inheritance for nineteenth-century capitalists, who reconstituted it by equating time with labor.1 These agents of a modern, capitalist time consciousness were also successful in transmitting their valuation of time when venturing abroad. From Australia to Natal to the American North, eighteenth and nineteenth-century urban industrial workers found their assumptions about the nature of time challenged and ultimately displaced by a Protestant-inspired and capital-consolidated consciousness of the clock. By the turn of the twentieth century, few workers and still fewer managers could be found operating exclusively on naturally defined or task-oriented time. In a very real sense, then, the spread of a rationalized and commodified time consciousness had witnessed and simultaneously helped promote the modernization of Western capitalism and the proletarianization of its workers.2 For a variety of reasons, but mainly because they have seldom considered the question of time consciousness, historians of the American slave South have suggested that antebellum masters and bondpeople, caught as they were in the webs of seasonal agriculture and non-wage economic and social relations, were necessarily peripheral to the emergence of clock time.3 But viewed and evaluated in


In nursery production there are very few verified rootstocks for production of sweet cherry maiden trees. They do not always guarantee good growth results as well. GiSelA 5 and PHL-A seem to be very interesting ones, however, so far not well examined in a nursery. For a better adaptation of plants and improvement of condition for their growth, mycorrhizal fungus are used more and more often. In the experiment carried out in years 2007-2010 usefulness of four rootstocks and also of mycorrhization treatment for nursery production of maiden trees of two cultivars of sweet cherry trees was checked. The studies covered the following rootstocks: Prunus avium, Colt, GiSelA 5, PHL-A, and sweet cherry trees cultivars: 'Sumit' and 'Vanda', as well as mycorrhizal inoculum pro- duced by companies: 'Mycoflor'(inoculum 1) and 'Suplo' (inoculum 2). Prunus avium rootstock grew the strongest in the nursery, the weakest one was PHL-A. Mycorrhization process, together with the application of inoculum 1 significantly influenced on the growth of rootstocks, but application of inoculum 2 did not significantly change results of growth compared to control group without mycorrhization. The most intensive growth of sweet cherry maiden trees was obtained on 'Colt' rootstock and the least on PHL-A. The best productivity of maiden trees was obtained on 'Colt' and PHL-A rootstocks and the worst on Prunus avium. Application of mycorrhization process positively influenced the diameter of maiden trees and their fresh mass.


Aim:To synthesize the derivatives of apomorphine with potent activity and stability.Methods and Results:Using L-apomorphine hydrochloride as a starting material and chloride as acylating reagent to synthesize the derivatives of apomorphine ester;using L-apomorphine hydrochloride as a starting material and chloride as alkylating reagent to synthesizes the derivatives of apomorphine ethers.The structures of the synthesized compounds were confirmed with 1H NMR and IR.Six derivatives of apomorphine were synthesized and the FGF-2 activities of O,O′-diacetyl apomorphine,O,O′-dipropionyl apomorphine and O,O′-dimethyl apomorphine were tested.Conclusion:The reported process for the synthesis of apomorphine derivatives has the advantages such as readily available starting materials,mild reaction conditions and the apomorphine derivatives have obviously biological activities.


Tool wear has been a potential problem that costs high for the manufacturing industry. In the past there has been application of signal processing techniques to cutting operation and monitor the tool wear. This paper relates the suitability of application of wavelet transform to tool wear prediction. The suitability of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to process the signals from machining was investigated. To accomplish this objective, experiments were carried out to collect signals from machining experiments and thereafter signals were processed using FFT and wavelet transform. It is observed that at higher cutting speeds, wavelet transform is a more effective signal processing technique compared to FFT as signal gets corrupted by high frequency noise at higher speeds. Effect of wavelet packet decomposition for de-noising and filtering was also studied to remove high frequency noise from the accelerometer signals.


Excerpt To the editor: The recent article by Kiang and Kennedy (Ann Intern Med87:687-690, 1977) adds to the growing literature on the effectiveness and relative lack of toxicity from tamoxifen (1-3...


If a user had a choice of watching the latest television news on the mobile phone, or listening to the news on the radio, or reading text news with the mobile, what would he choose? The project conducted three trials, in which mobile terminals were used in such a variety of situations that no single media type and no delivery method was able to fulfill all needs. Unlike previous studies, the results indicate that mobile television does not involve low commitment: The users did not usually do anything else while watching. Furthermore, just surfing around or viewing an arbitrary program flow seems not to be enough. Even though one of key motives of mobile television use is to kill time, people may want to kill time with content which is appropriate for that particular moment. Entertainment in mobile broadcast content was found problematic, because mobile viewing is typically short-term and fragmentary; thus the users often missed the beginnings of episodes.


We describe the further development of the recently emerged Near Field Magneto-Optical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (NFMO-STM) to make it into a versatile tool for studies of magnetic systems of importance for fundamental science and technology. This microscope combines the following combination of capabilities:


The present invention relates to a method for controlling a taking place in the current harvesting operation, by a control device (23) controlled overloading process between a plurality of working members (20) comprising self-propelled harvesting machine (1, 2) and a transport vehicle (34), during which (of a transfer device 28) of the harvester (1, is passed 2) crop to the transport vehicle (34), (during the overcharging process by the controller 23) to monitor the operating situation of the harvesting machine (1, 2) is performed and that upon detection of a critical operating situation by the control device (23) is initiated a shutdown of the transfer device (28) automatically.


Results of reconstruction of food consumption patterns are presented for the residents of Ozyorsk for the period of 1948-1966. The reconstruction was performed on the basis analysis of the archive data. The given period of time is characterized by maximum releases into the atmosphere from the Mayak PA sources, and, therefore, it is considered to be the most significant period for calculating peroral component contribution to effective exposure doses to the population. The paper describes main foodstuff suppliers (regions) and their economic indices, as well as delivery rates and consumption rates for most important foodstuffs (primarily whole milk).


It feels like the '90s all over again. No, I don't mean the IPO of LinkedIn for a ridiculous figure (16 times earnings). Rather, it's the rash of highly publicized security incidents, with Sony being the most recent—and the most frequent. LulzSec has bragged online that their " hack " was embarrassingly easy: a simple SQL injection [1]. The attacks on Sony's networks worldwide have led to a flood of released data, including info on registered users and source code. The Sony attacks, and those on HBGary Federal and PBS .org, seem to have been done for political reasons. After a decade where computer attacks have been primarily focused on financial gain, this marks a rare turn toward vigilantism. What these attacks also reveal is the very porousness of network security. When the only way we would learn of attacks was after the California law on disclosure of personally identifying information forced an announcement, it wasn't obvious just how often organizations were being broken into. Now it seems as if we are back in the era of unpatched Linux systems being taken over by automated attacks. But this time around, things are different. Much has changed between 1999 and 2011. The publication of exploits has largely gone underground, as exploits are now sold on the black market both to governments and to criminals. Attackers are no longer motivated by becoming famous (or infamous), with the recent exceptions of Anonymous and LulzSec. Instead, criminal organizations use exploits to take over Windows PCs for use in botnets, or steal databases loaded with credit card information. The monetization of exploits has long been under way. But some things have not changed at all .In 1999, only a fool would claim that their Internet-connected system was totally secure, and proof against all attacks. And that is just as true today. Only we behave as if it isn't so. And instead of attacking Internet-facing *nix servers, today's attackers can rely on a different technique, one that totally trashes any concept of having a " network perimeter. " They can gain a foothold inside any network through the use of email and Windows PCs. The Google attack, announced over a year ago (January 2010 [2]), has just been repeated. I believe that similar attacks are behind the exploita-tions of RockYou (32 million passwords stolen), Gawker (300,000), and certainly of HBGary Federal .


In this chapter the author builds upon the insight that the final form of Isa 4055 can be understood as a reading drama. It is well-known that Isa 4055 is filled with multiple charactersJacob, Israel, Jerusalem, (Daughter) Zion, the islands, Cyrus, the Servant etc that speak, that are being spoken to and that are being spoken of, and its perspective constantly shifts between these different characters. The chapter investigates the possibility that these characters within the drama also represent groups of people outside the text. It explores whether or not the literary presentations of these dramatic personae can shed light upon the geographical whereabouts of the groups of people that they represent. Finally, the chapter examines the divine voice in order to determine what it can tell us about the geographical setting of Isa 4055.Keywords: Isa 4055; Jacob-Israel; Jerusalem; reading drama


Given a partial action α of a group G on the group algebra FH, where H is a finite group and F is an arbitrary field whose characteristic p divides the order of H, we investigate the associativity question of the partial crossed product FH ∗α G. If FH ∗α G is associative for any G and any α, then FH is called strongly associative. We characterize the strongly associative modular group algebras FH. Mathematics Subject Classification: 22E46, 53C35, 57S20


Photograph of the interior of Club Caravan, a club with Moorish/Arabian motifs, located at 2360 North Interstate 35. A server in harem pants can be seen waiting on four patrons sitting at a table booth with a circular, tent-like, decorative piece hanging above for decoration. The patrons at the table are three men in suits and a woman in light colored blouse.


MEMS vibratory gyroscopes are increasingly used in applications ranging from consumer electronics to aerospace and are now one of the most common MEMS products after accelerometers. Despite their widespread use, the performance of MEMS gyroscopes in harsh environments is still under question. While some studies have been conducted to understand the temperature dependent performance of MEMS gyroscopes, the effects of sustained exposure to temperature combined with other harsh environment stresses have not been well researched. Thus, it is necessary to quantify MEMS vibratory gyroscope performance under such conditions. This paper will focus on the combined effects of temperature and humidity only. Performance of the MEMS vibratory gyroscope will be evaluated over time at high temperature and high humidity conditions by conducting an aging test on a COTS (commercial of the shelf) single axis MEMS vibratory gyroscope having an operating temperature range from −40°C to 80°C. The gyroscope sensor will be expos...


Optical thin-film-forming methods are disclosed that form optical thin film on a base plate arranged in a vacuum chamber. An exemplary method includes the steps of retaining the base plates on a plurality of retaining frames of a base-plate retainer, heating the base plate, and emitting a deposition material from a deposition source. The retaining frames are configured to make the entire base plate uniformly heated.


The value of several flagellate algal species, shelled oyster larvae (Crassostrea virginica) and annelid larvae (Arenicola marina post-trochophores) as food for larvae of Pagurus longicarpus was determined. The flagellate algae were ingested by Pagurus larvae but did not allow development to the second instar. Shelled oyster larvae were an inadequate diet because Pagurus larvae could not break the shell. Arenicola post-trochophores allowed complete larval development with survival to the fourth zoeal stage comparable to Artemia-fed controls. Survival of Arenicola-fed larvae through the megalopal stage was superior to Artemia-fed controls. Pagurus larvae were shown to be capable of ingesting several micro-crustaceans and polychaete larvae, but culture tests of suitability for complete development were not performed.


Chlorella kessleri was grown in batch mode in nutrient saturated cultures; nutrients were replenished daily. Mean productivities of the alga during bath growth cycles in three outdoor open thin-layer cultivation units (224 m 2 each), were evaluated by means of a simple mathematical model. Measured data comprised: daily solar energy input per 1 m 2 of growth area, culture temperature and dry matter content (d. m.) of alga in the culture. Productivity P 24 per day [g (d.m.)m -2 .24 h -1 ] was expressed in the model as P L (productivity during the light period) and a loss term for night respiration. The mean relative discrepancy between measured and calculates P 24 valus was 9.4% for the total number of 25 evaluated batch growth cycles from the two cultivation seasons. The model may be used for prediction of algal productivity under other climatic conditions for the culture system and algal strain employed.


In developing as in advanced economies, the pace of urbanization has continued to accelerate with the result that many less developed countries are experiencing problems in their urbanized areas which are quite similar to the advanced economies. In Iran, increased oil revenues which have aided in overall economic expansion have created differential growth rates in industries with different impacts on urban, as against rural growth, bringing along specific urban problems which require special consideration.


This paper will examine how an athlete's identity changed after a life changing accident, and how she moved from being an elite athlete, to being classified as a disabled athlete and her journey to be an adaptive athlete.

The paper is a case study over 7 years through an autobiographical lens using techniques suggested by Abrahao (2012) of reflections, narratives, visual methodologies of photographs and videos. These are all used to help understand the impact of the change of athletic identity (Brewer, 1993). Photography in particular was used as it can capture feelings, emotions and moments throughout the years, as Anthamatten et al. (2013) proposed photography can inform research on behaviour from different perspectives.

Symes (2010) made us think about the question "Who am I?" within her discussion on athletic identity and this paper shows the conflict and the change in understanding the 'who am I' post-accident. The results from this paper suggests that changes in athletic identity are similar to the 5 stages of grief and loss, (denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance) identified by Kubler-Ross and Kessler(2014).

As a teacher and coach, changes in behaviour linked to identity due to disability, injury, or long term illness are relatively under researched, but are important to know how to help support the road to recovery and understand their role. Therefore, it is proposed that this paper will inform learning and teaching in physical education and sports pedagogy in the ways that an athlete needs to be supported. It will analyse each of the stages experienced over the 7 years and offers a unique narrative of an athlete's learner identity and how physical activity, and sport and the teachers and coaches within the physical activity and sport, can be used to help rebuild and redefine the athlete in a positive way.


A finite element program has been developed that used a compaction model for agricultural soils developed at the National Soil Dynamics Laboratory (NSDL) end Auburn University to predict linear elastic parameters for each element in the model. Incremental leading was used by the finite element model to gradually load the soil so that these linear parameters could be varied many times ever the loading period. The finite element model was compared with data obtained from soil bin research. Results showed that a flat disc load was modeled well but a spherical disc load was not.


According to the theory of stochastic processes, the presence of uncorrelated subdomains on the liquid film surface is demonstrated. The spectral density of the spatial correlation function of the surface wave amplitudes on a thin liquid film together with the corresponding root-mean-square amplitude A and number of uncorrelated subdomains N are obtained. It is shown that the presence of uncorrelated subdomains increases the film critical thickness of rupture hcr. Some numerical calculations for A, N and hcr at different film radii R are obtained, taking into account only van der Waals and capillary forces.


At present, there is a drive to establish some form of on-board signal processing in satellite communication systems. Further, spread spectrum techniques can, in some cases, be an attractive contender for the multiple access scheme. The paper discusses a novel implementation of the spread spectrum correlator, using high temperature superconducting technology, which is well-suited to space payloads. In addition the various design constraints and benefits are examined. It then reports on the experimental results obtained using a copper-based prototype device operating in the C-band region with a spreading code rate of up to 500 Mbit/s.


Lhasa: No other land has been transformed so completely as that of Tibet, particularly after the Dalai Lama went into exile in 1959.


Energy storage is becoming increasingly important, both to mitigate intermittency in renewable generation and to reduce peak demand. However, storage remains expensive and so must be managed optimally. This paper considers the optimal management of storage that is subject to inefficiency in charging/discharging and to self-discharge, with the objective of minimizing energy costs. Notably, it shows that the less efficient the storage is, the less capacity is required to achieve the maximum peak-shaving benefit.


The physical properties of thermal transfer materials arc reviewed. Thermal conductivities and thermal contact resistances were measured for commercial Ink Donor Films (IDF's) with base films of condenser paper or polyethylene terephthalate, and for experimental base materials such as regenerated cellulose, polypropylene, and polyimide. Theoretical models of heat transport in IDF's are presented to demonstrate how the intrinsic thermal properties affect the IDF's performance in thermal transfer printing. To a first order approximation, the sensitivity of an IDF can be characterized by the time taken for heat to diffuse across it. Thermal transfer test patterns for commercial and experimental IDF's were evaluated for sensitivity, and the experimental results were compared to the theoretical predictions.


Previous research had already established that sustainable destination outcomes can be realized when stakeholders engage in tourism destination management, yet the state of the needed engagement is still seen as problematic. It is evident that some change is required to enable behavioral change that will awaken a progress. Thus, new knowledge is needed to help advance this important destination management field. The aim of this exploratory case study was to present a new perspective which is underpinned by theories in the leadership and leadership development fields. The case study findings show that tourism-based leadership programs have the capacity to foster development of collective leadership capacity, which is needed to build the effective stakeholder networks that drive change at workplace, tourism destination, and community levels. The study suggests that sustainable development goals and sustained competitive advantage are developed through the bundle of collective leadership capacity and stakeholder causal scope.


Long-term NCEP-NCAR reanalysis condensation heating data were used to investigate its geographic pattern in the northern Pacific,especially its longterm variation in the region of the Aleutian Low.Feedback effects of the condensation heating in this region on interdecadal variability of the North Pacific ocean-atmosphere system are explored.The results show that there is strong condensation heating in the region of the Aleutian Low only in winter,and there is a significantly positive correlation between this condensation heating and the intensity of the Aleutian Low;The vertical structure of heating in this region will lead to the atmospheric adaptation to diabatic heating,which may be in favor of the intensification of the Aleutian Low;There was an obvious regime shift to stronger condensation heating in this region in the late 1970s,which may be in favor of the intensification of the Aleutian Low in the same period.We further discussed possible cause of the regime shift of condensation heating and its propagation mechanism.


With the advent of the sulfonamide drugs and, later, penicillin the prognosis in actinomycosis took a brighter turn. Several reports appeared in various journals on the success of treatment with the aforementioned agents. Dobson and Cutting1reported their results in 12 cases, and they concluded that both penicillin and the sulfonamide compounds are highly effective in the treatment of actinomycosis. Hendrickson and Lehman2in 1945 reported on the successful treatment by penicillin of cervicofacial actinomycosis without surgical drainage. In 1948, Nichols and Herrell3gave their results in the treatment of this disease. Glover, Herrell, Hillman and Pfuetze4gave a good review of the literature in addition to their results, and Campbell and Bradford5noted the excellent prognosis in their cases by treatment with sulfonamide drugs and penicillin. More recently, Weed and Baggenstoss6reported on the pathologic and bacterial studies of 21 fatal cases and


Administrators at a large, public university launched a mandatory success course for freshmen placed on academic probation at the end of their first semester. We compared the rates of course participant and nonparticipant return to good academic standing; persistence to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years; and graduation (within 4 to 5 years). The chi-square test for independence revealed significant differences across all measures of persistence and graduation between the control and treatment groups. We call for an increase in credit-bearing success courses using applied retention theories in the curriculum for students on academic probation.


Dear Editor, Most parts of Nigeria have been experiencing conflicts for close to 8 years and it has accounted for the massive internal displacement or migration of people to neighboring nations, shortage of food, and defects in the delivery of essential health care to the general population.[1,2] It is an alarming fact that almost 7 million people across the nation are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, of which more than half need health assistance.[1] In India, with almost 70% of the population residing in rural settings, the prevalence of malnutrition among children is extremely high, which is again due to the health system and sociodemographic factors.[2]


Starting from 2-hydrazino-3-(1-pyrrolyl)pyridine 3 a series of 2, 3-dihydro-8-(1-pyrrolyl-1, 2, 4-triazolo[4, 3-a]-pyridines 49-50 and 5, 6-dihydro-4H-pyrido[2, 3-c]pyrrolo[1, 2-e]-1, 2, 5-triazepines 32-42 were synthesized and tested p.o. in rats for salidiuretic and renal vasodilator activity.


This paper investigates STRAIGHT image schema and its metaphorical extensions in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. Our central goal is to highlight the important role of embodied and cultural elements on the meaning formation. By observing the corpus data, we find three common variations both in Chinese and English, namely, STRAIGHT-PATH, STRAIGHT-LINK, STRAIGHT-OBJECT, and one characterized variation in Chinese, STRAIGHT-SCALE. The ratio of metaphorical usage of zhi in Chinese is higher than that of straight in English while straight enjoys a wider metaphorical extension than zhi . The findings suggest that although bodily experience serves as the general cognitive basis for the formation of image schema and its metaphorical extensions, cultural elements contribute to the language-specific preference.


Two immigrant humor styles of stand-up comedy: word-play and performing are discussed in this study with reference to related linguistic theories. By a comparative analysis of two immigrant comedians' stand-ups, we conclude that figurative language is a distinctive feature in Joe's jokes to make people laugh and the paralinguistic features are preferred by Russell. According to the global popularity of the two comedians, we tentatively conclude that a stand-up with active vocal and physical strategies is more easily identified with by audience of diversified social backgrounds, and can often get immediate feedback. Whereas, although a word-play style often leaves with deeper impression and makes one laugh longer, it's hard to be taken in by all people with different cultural backgrounds. Keywords—Immigrant humor style; Stand-up Comedy; Rhetorical Device; paralinguistic features


INTRODUCTION The electronic arthrometer KT1000TM consists of an instrumented system for measuring the tibial anteroposterior dislocation compared to femur. This instrument has a wide acceptance in the scientific field, because it has been proven as a very useful tool for evaluation and documentation of knee anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Among the advantages of using the electronic arthrometer KT1000TM, we can highlight the potential to repeat tests (allowing a comparison with subsequent tests) and also the ability to numerically measure the knee anteroposterior laxity, which does not happen with manual tests, since they fully depend on evaluator's sensitiveness. This study aims to analyze the data found on the arthrometric evaluation (KT1000TM) and by magnetic resonance (MR) of 36 patients with clinical signs of ACL rupture, randomly selected at the Sports Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Center of the Hospital do Coração (CORE), comparing those data to surgical findings obtained from arthroscopic procedures performed thereafter.


The shortening of the myocardial fibers is the microstructural engine that produces the contraction of the cardiac muscle. The complex interplay between fibers shortening and elastic macroscopic strain is functional to the ejection of blood into the pulmonary and arterial networks. Here, we address the contraction of the left ventricle in a finite elasticity framework, adopting the 'prolate ellipsoid' geometry and the invariants‐based strain energy proposed by Holzapfel and Ogden, where the mechanical role of fibers and sheets is accounted for. We show that a microstructurally motivated mathematical model of active strain type reproduces the main indicators of normal cardiac function along the whole PV‐loop without introduction of any further ad hoc law. The bare‐bones mathematical model depends on one measurable parameter only, that is, the shortening ratio of the sarcomere units, which we assume to be nearly independent on the prestretch. Strict enforcement of incompressibility and novel treatment of boundary conditions are shown to be crucial to simulate the correct muscle torsion. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Barla C., Guéguen, N., Vigouroux, L., Rao, G., Chavet, P., Berton, E., and Baly, L. 2007. Experimental investigations on shock wave impact propagation through the human lower limb. VIIIth Footwear Biomechanics Symposium Congress Proceedings. Even-Tzur, N., Weisz, E., Hirsch-Falk, Y., and Gefen, A., 2006. Role of EVA viscoelastic properties in protective performance of a sport shoe: computational studies. Biomed. Mater. Eng., 16, 289–299. Nigg, B.M., Stefanyshyn, D., Cole, G., Stergiou, P., and Miller, J., 2003. The effect of material characteristics of shoe soles on muscle activation and energy aspects during running. J Biomech., 36, 569–575. Schwanitz, S. and Odenwald, S., 2008. Long-term cushioning properties of running shoe (152). The Engineering of Sport, 7 (2), 95–100. Verdejo, R. and Mills, N.J., 2004. Heel-shoe interactions and the durability of EVA foam running-shoe midsole. J. Biomech., 37, 1379–1386.


We characterize the computing capacity of a two-transmitter two-receiver linear deterministic network where both receivers wish to compute a modulo-2 sum of two Bernoulli sources generated at the two transmitters. We develop a new achievable scheme that we call function alignment, inspired by the concept of interference alignment, and derive a new upper bound to establish the computing capacity. As a consequence, we find that unlike the single-receiver function-unicasting case, the cutset-based bound is not tight in general when multicasting a linear function. Moreover we develop a network decomposition theorem to find elementary subnetworks that can constitute an original network without loss of optimality. This serves to provide a conceptually-simpler achievability proof as well as generalize to L-transmitter L-receiver networks.


Robot writing has been concerned due to the development of industry technique. Previous studies focused on the writing by inputting the predefined motion or characters to the robot, and few work has been done on the real time writing due to the challenges. In this paper we control the robot to write in real time with a 3D camera Kinect. During the implementation, we design an algorithm to accurately track the movement of hand. As the real time requirement, the gap exists between the tracked motion and the writing trajectory. To combat it, we propose a real time interpolation algorithm to trade off the real time and accuracy. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of this system.


Introduction ................................................................................. 764 I. Background ........................................................................ 767 A. The Modern Establishment Clause and Lemon .......... 767 B. The Evolution of Lemon and O'Connor's Endorsement Test........................................................ 770 C. The Supreme Court Moves toward Formal Neutrality in Aid Cases ............................................... 774 D. Formal Neutrality Embraced in Zelman ..................... 778 II. Statement of the Case ........................................................ 780 A. The Factual History of Wirtz v. City of South Bend .... 780 B. The Opinion of the District Court for the Northern District of Indiana ....................................................... 782 III. Analysis ............................................................................. 785 A. Lower Court Precedent Supports the Constitutionality of Public Land Transfers to Religious Institutions .................................................. 785 B. The Endorsement Test Fails to Provide an Adequate Standard to Determine the Constitutionality of Economic Development Land Transfers to Religious Institutions .............................. 788 C. Cases Concerning the Constitutionality of Economic Development Transfers to Religious Institutions Should Be Guided by Reliance upon Formal Neutrality ........................................................ 792 D. A Recommended Standard and Wirtz Analysis .......... 795 IV. Conclusion ......................................................................... 796


Runoff and soil loss were measured from simulated rainfall applied to a Catlin silt loam soil at two crop stages during four growing seasons in a corn soybean rotation implemented on the contour and up-and-down slope. Runoff depth, runoff rate, soil loss/ha, and soil loss/ha-mm of runoff varied significantly by crop stage and by year. Runoff depth and runoff rate were correlated with variations in antecedent rainfall, soil moisture, residue, and canopy. Soil loss/ha from soybeans and soil loss/ha-mm of runoff from corn varied by as much as a factor of four from one year to another. Much of the variation in soil loss appeared to be related to variations in runoff, slope steepness, and antecedent rainfall. Soil loss/ha-mm of runoff 30 to 40 days after planting corn was significantly different across years for both row directions. In six of eight comparisons for soybeans, soil loss/ha-mm of runoff from simulated rainfall was not statistically different than from an eight-year study under natural rainfall. Nevertheless, this study indicates that results from one-time rainfall simulation may not represent the long term average for a soil.


A new image acquisition scheme is presented that is optimized for applications that require channel-limited transducers such as IVUS. During image acquisition, both the transmit and receive apertures are dynamically phase-encoded with a set of orthogonal (Hadamard) codes. The transducer's excitation and data collection are handled on a single RF channel. Simulations using the Field II software package showed an 18 dB improvement in SNR when compared to a synthetic aperture technique which multiplexes elements into a single RF channel. A 30 MHz transducer with an endoscopic form-factor was fabricated and used to demonstrate data collection and image reconstruction based on this Hadamard-encoding scheme. Experimentally-reconstructed images of a wire-target showed 50 dB of dynamic range.


Congenital heart defects that present earlier in life and involving a hypoplastic ventricle are sometimes channeled towards single-ventricle repair because of anatomical or logistic challenges (1). With the single-ventricular repair, the final result is the shunting of venous return directly into the pulmonary artery and the utilization of the functioning ventricle for systemic circulation (2). Though singleventricular repair has remarkable short-term results, long-term survivors experience declines in exercise tolerance, heart failure, arrhythmias, and thromboembolic complications (3). Given long-term functional and survival advantages of a two-ventricle circulation, exploring feasibility of biventricular repair is essential for improving prognosis. However, a successful biventricular repair requires sufficiently functioning ventricles to sustain a balanced flow through the pulmonary and systemic circuit. To evaluate the functional adequacy of the ventricle with hypoplasia, echocardiogram is conventionally used.


Kenneth Burke's performance at the First American Writers' Congress in 1935 has been already considered by American scholars; for this reason the paper aims to complement the existing research with some facts and details that have to do with the Soviet reception of Kenneth Burke's speech "Revolutionary Symbolism in America" presented on April 27 1935 (the second day of the Congress). The paper is based on the archival material stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) – a manuscript of the American Writers' Congress proceedings, translated into Russian, edited and fully prepared for the press that nevertheless remained unpublished. The volume was based on the American record of the Congress edited by Henry Hart (International Publishers, 1935), but two papers were removed – Moissaye J. Olgin's report about the Soviet Writers' Congress and Kenneth Burke's speech. The preface to the Russian edition written by the editor Sergei Dinamov throws light on the reasons for excluding Burke's paper. In his introduction Dinamov dwelt at some length on Burke's text and criticized his "errors". Dinamov's criticism makes it clear that the main problem was the fact that the American "fellow traveler" used the concepts "people" (narod) and "national spirit" (narodnost') which at the moment were on the agenda in the USSR due to the Popular Front policy. Kenneth Burke's speech "Revolutionary Symbolism in America" at the First American Writers' Congress, translated into Russian by Tatiana A. Pirusskaia, is published herewith as an addendum to the essay.


Pinpointing major objectives as a vision for transportation and society provides a cost-effective framework for numerous detailed solutions along the road network. Three major objectives, with road ecology a central player, are highlighted: (1) improve the natural environment close to the entire road network; (2) integrate roads with a sustainable emerald network across the landscape; and (3) integrate roads with near-natural water conditions across the land¬scape. These are briefly described along with examples of possible key steps ahead. In effect, this big picture or vision is a cost-effective route to achievement and benefit for transportation, the environment, and society.


In this work, the object of study is an epoxy nanocomposite based on TiO2 nanoparticles and epoxy resin, and the subject is the preparation and physical and mechanical properties of TiO2/epoxy nanocomposites. The characteristics of the properties and methods of synthesis of the initial components for the synthesis of epoxy nanocomposites - epoxy resins and nanoparticles of titanium dioxide are given, and data on epoxy nanocomposites based on nanoparticles of titanium dioxide are presented. It was found that the addition of TiO2 to the epoxy matrix reduces the coefficient of friction and significantly increases the wear resistance of such nanocomposites.


Tissue microdissection is an important method for the study of disease states. However, it is difficult to perform high-throughput molecular analysis with current techniques. We describe here a prototype version of a novel technique (expression microdissection) that allows for the procurement of desired cells via molecular targeting. Expression microdissection (xMD) offers significant advantages over available methods, including an increase in dissection speed of several orders of magnitude. xMD may become a valuable tool for investigators studying cancer or other disease states in patient specimens and animal models.


Quiescent cell populations in both root and shoot apical meristems of Helianthus annuus are compared. Histoautoradiographs prepared after 12-h provision of [3H]thymidine in the growth medium demonstrate the presence of a quiescent center located subterminally in the apical meristem of cultured and attached Helianthus roots. Similar techniques (using [3H]-thymidine in the medium for 24–48 h) show that while cells of the shoot meristem undergo DNA synthesis, a central zone that does not incorporate the precursor exists at the summit of the cultured vegetative shoot apex. Central zone cells contain larger nuclei than do surrounding cells in the shoot apex, while quiescent-center nuclei are smaller than those in the surrounding meristem of the root apex.Growth of excised roots in medium without carbohydrates causes temporary arrest of proliferative activity in most of the meristem. When sucrose is provided after this treatment, cells of the meristem as well as most cells of the root quiescent center are stimu...


This article aims to examine the selection of words and pronunciations that have a very subtle difference between the words that are similar and that correspond to the meaning in the holy book Al-Quran Al-Karim and to explore the secrets of the selection of these pronunciations in terms of the study of I'jaz lughowi and I'jaz Bayani. Every word used in the Quran carries a certain meaning that cannot be fulfilled by other words and has special features from the point of view of the science of bayan and the science of meaning. With this study, we can study the Quran so that we can experience the greatness of the Quran and the pleasure of interacting with the verses of Allah. This study compares two figures of different eras who were famous in the debate on the science of balaghah, namely, Khattabi and A'isyah Abdulrahman. Khattabi and A'isyah Abdulrahman think that eloquence and language style are miracles of the Quran. Balaghah is the appropriateness of eloquent and clear words to a person's situation and condition and being able to express it with a beautiful arrangement as well as giving the influence of the soul to it. The researcher used a descriptive-analytical methodology in examining the selection of words and phrases such as those that have very subtle differences in the Quran from the side of khatabbi and A'isyah Abdul Rahman.


Objective To evaluate the effects of selective mesenteric angiography with continuous papaverine perfusion for the diagnosis and treatment of non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia(NOMI).Methods Eighteen patients with NOMI underwent selective superior mesenteric arteriography and papaverine perfusion via the SMA simultaneously were analized retrospectively.Results Fifteen out of the 18 cases recovered;2 cases underwent laparotomy;1 case died within 10 days.Conclusion Selective superior mesenteric arteriography with continuous papaverine perfusion is an effective diagnostic and therapeutic method for non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia.(J Intervent Radiol,2006,15:209-212)


There are several methods of inhibiting endogenous gonadotropin secretion and the aim of this investigation was to determine the effect of these on gonadotropin assay. Epinephrine (30 μg), serotonin (1 mg) and nialamide (1 mg) inhibited the activity of 0.5 IU of HCG in the mouse uterus assay. These compounds did not significantly affect the response to PMS (0.5 and 10.0 IU), FSH (400 μg), estrone (0.5 μg) or to a larger dose of HCG (5.0 IU). FSH (50 μg) prevented the inhibition of 0.5 IU of HCG. The effect of a single intraperitoneal injection (0.1 ml) of a carbon tetrachloiideolive oil mixture (1:5) was tested, and in a further study food was withheld from gonadotropin- treated animals for the final 48 hr of the experiment. Both these procedures diminished the responses to 0.5 IU of HCG and 0.5 IU of PMS but not those to 5.0 IU of HCG, 10.0 IU of PMS, 400 μg of FSH or 0.5 μg of estrone. These results are similar to the reports of gonadotropin inhibition produced by urinary extracts. It is postulated that...


The pairing phase transition is investigated in hot even–even and even–odd Pd isotopes such as 106 ≤ A ≤ 108 in a framework of a microscopic approach that takes into account the statistical fluctuations. In this aim, one considers the Modified BCS method (MBCS). The latter is extended to the odd system case, where the blocking effect is included. The model was applied to the evaluation of the thermal properties such as the excitation energy, entropy and heat capacity. The obtained results are compared on one hand to the usual finite temperature BCS (FTBCS) method and on the other hand to the experimental data. The obtained results allow to show that the thermal fluctuations smooth out the superfluid-normal (SN) phase transition observed in the usual FTBCS results. Moreover, in the region where the pairing phase transition occurs, the experimental data of thermal properties are better reproduced when statistical fluctuations are considered in MBCS method instead of the FTBCS approach.


Droplet-based microfluidics became a powerful tool for quantitative high-throughput analysis of molecular and biological interactions. Gradient dosing can be applied for the generation of large sample collections with systematic variation in the concentration of the ingredients and effectors. Droplets can be incubated in capillary systems preserving their order. In this serial regime the concentration pattern in each droplet can be recalculated from its number, it's creation time and the gradient dosing program, used for the generation of the doplet collection. Up to now, saw-fish-tooth like concentration gradients are widely used for this purpose. In our work we investigate the potential of periodic sinusoidal gradients for this type of screening applications. Due to their periodicity and continuity it is expected, that these types of gradients improve reliability in the gradient generation process due to the lack of discontinuities in the flow rates. On the other hand the key features of these gradients in terms of continuity and periodicity allow improvements in data analysis and error detection to gain more accurate analytical results. This initial hypothesis is proved in droplet-based experiments for the measurement of the minimum inhibitory concentration of the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin to bacterial strain E. coli RV308.


Abstract Public procurement is one of the key points of contact between public administration and the economy, while the amount of public resources is a possible source of conflict of interest and corruption. The article aims to contribute to improvements in public procurement legislation and practice. The article examines the practice of supervisory bodies and assesses the frequency of violations of the principle of transparency. The main findings of the article are that over the years of application of the Public Procurement Act in versions ZJN-2 and ZJN-3, the number of violations of the basic principle of transparency increased – the most frequent violations concerning discriminatory criteria set by the contracting authorities and their implementation in the selection phase – and that local municipal bodies violated the principle of transparency more often than state bodies.


The standard model of technology diffusion argues that changing teachers' perceptions and epistemological beliefs about the value of an innovation is conducive to successful implementation. It is believed that teachers' receptiveness to technology and a re-conceptualization of its role in teaching and learning can drive the development of new pedagogies and curricula and eventually, bring about a new learning experience. In this paper, we argued that changing teachers' conceptions does not necessarily effect change in their practices and student learning. The results of our case study indicated that the impetus for change comes from the social capital and informal social forces in the school, and that parental support, permeation of technology in student learning and teacher empowerment are pivotal to the success of the implementation.


Objective To explore the characteristics of nosocomial infections and related factors,so providing evidence for effective prevention and control of hospital infection.Methods Using retrospective study,clinical data of 37,003 inpatients were analyzed.Results Hospital infection rate was 2.35%.The highest infection rate was observed in patients in ICU as 11.6%.Respiratory tract infection ranked first as 55.4%.Gram-negative cocci was major pathogen,accounting for 59.45% of all infective cases;infection rate for unconscious and conscious inpatients was 44.5% and 1.48% respectively,the difference was statistically significant(P 0.01).Conclusion In order to strengthen the management of nosocomial infections,measures such as Aseptic technique,hand hygiene,hospital isolation technology standards should be strictly implemented.In additon,practices including reducing the invasive procedures,basic nursing care in patients with coma,rational antibiotics prescription are also effective measures to prevent hospital infections.


Abstract This paper describes social software and its potential and current use in libraries and by librarians. Technologies discussed are social bookmarking tools, social reference managers, social media applications, and collaboration tools such as wikis and group word processing as well as RSS, browser tool bars, and blogs.


The need for force feedback and spatial awareness of contact in harsh environment applications, such as space servicing, has been unsatisfied due to the inability of current sensor technology to resist environmental effects. In this work, capacitive sensors based on a thick film 0:3 connectivity ceramic:polymer composite structure were evaluated for potential use in future operations within robotic end effectors, withstanding temperatures ranging from −80 ° C to 120 ° C and forces up to 350 kPa. A thick film design is utilized to allow for ease of embedding, allowing sensors to be implemented into exciting robotic hardware with minimal intrusion, and protecting sensors from electron bombardment, radiation, and point concentrations from metal-on-metal contact. Taguchi design of experiments allows composition variables including sensor thickness, ceramic composition, ceramic particle size, ceramic volume loading, polymer character, modifier character, and the polymer:modifier ratio to be evaluated simultaneously. Dynamic thermal and mechanical loading techniques were implemented to characterize the composite sensors with in situ electrical acquisition. Individual composition variables were linked to the sensor magnitude, sensitivity, drift, and hysteresis, showing that the sensor response is optimized with a thickness of single microns, 10 vol% loading of nano-particle ceramics, and high molecular weight polymers with a low content of simple architecture modifiers lacking glass or melting temperatures in the working range.


It may perhaps be assumed that at all times in the world's history individual men have been troubled with the production of excessive fat, and it is consequently probable that even from the begiuuing more or less intelligent efforts have been made to deal with it. It would be interesting if it were possible to trace the disorder and its therapeutics to this primitive state, and I am tempted to suppose that the research would be fruitful, not merely of all decisive results, but in a high degree also by throwing a bright light on many interesting problems connected with nutrition and metabolism. In his savage state man can have had little tendency to grow fat. His constitution, unimpaired by vicious habits, must have sufficed for the supply only of his natural healthy wants, while the circumstances of his position precluded at once the possibility of self-indulgence, and enforced a life-long system of bodily asceticism. In the earlier civilisations of the East and of Eastern Europe we can describe a remnant of the primitive necessity in the self-imposed restraint of more opulent peoples. The athletic exercises of the Homeric heroes are the corollary of their simple if generous notions of the occasional feast. The abstemiousness of the Spartans was an institution jealously guarded amongst that brave people as the essential condition of their national


For the past ten years, courts have grappled with deciding what deference to give prison officials when prison regulations, though intended to "maintain good order, security, and discipline,"1 also substantially burden a prisoner's religious exercise.2 In 2000, Congress enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA")3 "to provide very broad protection for religious liberty" of prisoners and others.4 Pursuant to RLUIPA, if a prison's policy substantially burdens a prisoner's religious exercise, the prison must demonstrate that the policy is necessary to achieve a compelling government interest.5 But in the 2005 case of Cutter v. Wilkinson, the Supreme Court held that RLUIPA analysis is context-sensitive,6 and the Court recognized that prison officials are due deference under RLUIPA.7 Since 2005, lower courts have struggled to inject deference into their "compelling interest" RLUIPA analyses.8 The Supreme Court addressed this confusion in 2015 with Holt v. Hobbs,9 clarifying where


We consider a one-dimensional diffusion process (Xt) with drift b{θ&, u) depending on an unknown parameter # and small known diffusion coefficient , s. The sample path is observed at times k△A, =0, 1,…,.N up to T=NA, for fixed T. We study maximum contrast estimators (m.c.e.) of θ based on this observation with asymptotic results as e and ^ go to 0 simultaneously. We specify conditions on △A under which the ni.e.e. are asymptotically normal and asymptotically equivalent to the maximum Hkelihood estimator of $


The increasing scale and complexity of networked systems has necessitated a new control approach. Since the network topology has a direct impact on performance such as resilience and robustness, a mechanism of self-control is an important and immediate requirement. The network topology is the most fundamental network property on which self-control is deployed, and the control over the topology has a direct impact on system performances. The wisdom of crowds refers to the phenomenon in which the collective knowledge of a community is greater than the knowledge of any individual. Consensus and synchronization problems are closely related to the variety of issues such as collective behavior in nature, the interaction among agents as a matter of the robot control, and building efficient wireless sensor networks. In this paper I propose a synchronized control of networked systems that build on concepts of graph theory. The synchronized control of networked systems is performed in a decentralized manner where the self-control is employed at each node. Using prototype simulations, it is demonstrated that which nodes should be put on high priority so that the network performance is mostly improved.


Based on a large amount of measured data and meteorological data,the variation of tropical cyclone and the maximum wind velocity in coastal areas,the surface boundary layer strong wind or typhoon profile,as well as interval average wind field characteristics at different time were analyzed.The results show that the tropical cyclones appearing in Western Pacific Ocean roughly show a decreasing trend over the years,but the landfall of tropical storm in China has an opposite trend to the West Pacific Ocean.The annual maximum wind speed in coastal areas is heavily influenced by the typhoon appearance.The annual maximum wind speed measured by weather station has a decreasing trend caused by its surrounding environment changes.As the height increases,the changes of wind field are synchronous,and the turbulence intensity shows a decreasing tendency.As the average time interval decreases,the maximum mean wind speed of typhoon increases substantially,and the mean turbulence intensity of along-wind decreases faster than the value of across-wind.Shorter time interval data reveals a good fluctuating of wind field characteristics.


The invention provides a mobile terminal and a method for safe warning thereby. The method comprises the steps of detecting the state of a mobile terminal screen; acquiring the induction data of a gravity sensor in the mobile terminal if the mobile terminal screen is in an active state; according to the induction data, acquiring a walking step number and/or walking time of a user using the mobile terminal; and safely warning the user through the mobile terminal if the walking step number and/or walking time reaches a preset step threshold and/or a preset time threshold. The method for safe warning by the mobile terminal can give out a timely, efficient, safe warning when the user uses the mobile terminal while walking, thereby improving the safety awareness of the user and user experience.


This study aims to determine the level of understanding of teachers in physical education, sports, and health in Line 20 Muara Padang District about K13 Learning. The research method used in this research is descriptive quantitative. The sample in this study were junior high schools in Line 20, Muara Padang district, Banyuasin district with a total of 20 teachers. This study uses 3 indicators, namely understanding the PJOK learning syllabus in the 2013 curriculum, understanding the principles of RPP preparation in learning PJOK in the 2013 curriculum, and understanding the methods of learning PJOK in the 2013 curriculum. The results showed that at the junior high school level understanding the PJOK learning syllabus in the curriculum 2013 got an average value of 54.2 of 55.% and was included in the high category.


Portfolio flows are an important source of funding for both private and public agents in emerging market economies. In this paper, we study the influence of changes in domestic and US monetary policy rates on portfolio inflows in an emerging market economy and discriminate among fixed income instruments (government securities and other corporate bonds) and variable income instruments (shares). We employ monthly data on portfolio inflows of non-residents in Colombia during the period 2011-2020 and identify the monetary policy shocks using a SVAR model with long-run restrictions. We find a positive and statistically significant response of portfolio inflows in government securities and corporate bonds to changes in both domestic and US monetary policy rates. Portfolio inflows in the stock market react more to changes in the inflation rate and do not react to changes in monetary policy rates. Our findings are consistent with the predictions of the interest rate channel and reestablish the predominant role of inflation rate in driving portfolio inflows. The results suggest that domestic and US monetary policy actions have an important effect on the behavior of portfolio inflows in emerging economies.


Corresponding the rare opportunity of great development of traffic,this paper analyzed the relationship between geotechnical-tunnel engineering courses group construction and the status and features of their professional direction,introduced the content and key of construction,proposed building program focusing on revising training plan,comprehensively reforming of professional courses,strengthening practice-teaching and building boutique courses,in order to train characteristic talents.


ABSTRACT The cordons of grapevines were located and followed with an image processing algorithm. Images of vines and background recorded on videotape were the source of the digitized black and white images. The algorithm separated the cordon from the background as well as from the canes and branches within the vine. The top edge of the cordon was located and followed successfully in 27 of the 30 images examined. Application of this procedure to automated pruning of grapevines is discussed.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on "Developing and Refining a Process to Improve Teacher Engagement with the Performance Management System in a School Setting" and to extend the conversation around the use of organisational behavioural management in services.

Design/methodology/approach
This commentary focuses on the work conducted by Hawkins et al. (2022) in a school for autistic students who are also diagnosed with a learning disability.

Findings
The strengths and limitations of this research study are highlighted, and some suggestions are provided for future research.

Originality/value
This paper offers a valuable account of how organisational behavioural management can be used to help educational services produce better outcomes for the students while also empowering teachers.


Interest in the development of ultrasensitive magnetometers is driven by applications in a variety of areas, including magnetoencephalography (MEG), magnetic anomaly detection (MAD), dynamic measurements of geomagnetic fields, and MRI signal detection. While numerous architectures are being pursued in the development of high sensitivity magnetometers, optical atomic magnetometers are of substantial interest due to their small size and promising performance characteristics. In particular, spin exchange relaxation free (SERF) magnetometers have demonstrated ultimate flux density measurement sensitivities of 10-" Tesla/Hz"', with projected fundamental sensitivity limits orders of magnitude lower. In this thesis, I describe the development and characterization of an integrated control and signal processing system for an array of SERF magnetometers. In particular, I address the integration and control of optical, magnetic, and electronic subsystems required for operation of an array of 64 independent SERF magnetometers. Additionally, I detail a testing regimen to verify proper operation of each subsystem and characterize the performance of a single SERF magnetometer operated by our integrated control and signal processing system. Technical Supervisor: Joe Kinast Title: Technical Staff, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Thesis Advisor: David L. Trumper Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering [THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]


PurposeThe purpose of the current study is to assess Omani teachers' performance on tasks related to the stages of engineering design. To achieve this, data from an engineering design test was used, and demographic variables that are correlated with this performance were identified.Design/methodology/approachThis descriptive study employed a cross-sectional design and the collection of quantitative data. A sample of preservice science teachers from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) (n = 70) participated in this study.FindingsFindings showed low and moderate levels of proficiency related to the stages of engineering design. Differences between males and females in terms of performance on engineering design tasks were found, with females scoring higher overall on the assessment. Biology preservice teachers scored higher than teachers from the other two majors (physics and chemistry) in two subscales. There were also differences between teachers studying in the Bachelor of Science (BSc) program and the teacher qualification diploma (TQD) program.Originality/valueThis study provides an overview, in an Arab setting, of preservice science teachers' proficiency with engineering design process (EDP) tasks. It is hoped that the results may lead to improved instruction in science teacher training programs in similar contexts. Additionally, this research demonstrates how EDP competency relates to preservice teacher gender, major and preparation program. Findings from this study will contribute to the growing body of research investigating the strengths and shortcomings of teacher education programs in relation to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.


The polymethylsiloxane terminated with hydrogen was analyzed by Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer(GC-MS)and electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry(ESI-Q-TOF).Through the interpretation of the mass spectrogram,the 4 series of homologues contained 2 types of catenarian polydimethylsiloxane oligomer and 2 types of ringed polydimethylsiloxane oligomer were identified.And the 4 series of homologues contained 100 components from molecular weight 134 to 3908.


PURPOSE
Dictionary learning based method has attracted more and more attentions in low-dose CT due to the superior performance on suppressing noise and preserving structural details. Considering the structures and noise vary from region to region in one imaging object, we propose a region-specific dictionary learning method to improve the low-dose CT reconstruction.

METHODS
A set of normal-dose images was used for dictionary learning. Segmentations were performed on these images, so that the training patch sets corresponding to different regions can be extracted out. After that, region-specific dictionaries were learned from these training sets. For the low-dose CT reconstruction, a conventional reconstruction, such as filtered back-projection (FBP), was performed firstly, and then segmentation was followed to segment the image into different regions. Sparsity constraints of each region based on its dictionary were used as regularization terms. The regularization parameters were selected adaptively according to different regions. A low-dose human thorax dataset was used to evaluate the proposed method. The single dictionary based method was performed for comparison.

RESULTS
Since the lung region is very different from the other part of thorax, two dictionaries corresponding to lung region and the rest part of thorax respectively were learned to better express the structural details and avoid artifacts. With only one dictionary some artifact appeared in the body region caused by the spot atoms corresponding to the structures in the lung region. And also some structure in the lung regions cannot be recovered well by only one dictionary. The quantitative indices of the result by the proposed method were also improved a little compared to the single dictionary based method.

CONCLUSION
Region-specific dictionary can make the dictionary more adaptive to different region characteristics, which is much desirable for enhancing the performance of dictionary learning based method.


Objective Using digital technology to revolve difficult problems of plastic surgery and to the managementand the working efficiency. Methods Computer image analysis technology, database management technology, motioncommunication technology and computer programming technology. Results Established the surgical department digitaldata management system management system, the facial features diagnosis and analysis system, the skin color diseaseevaluation system, psychological measurement system and the communication information system. Conclusions Usingdigital information technology, we can enhance the management and the working efficiency, and improve scientificresearch and the academic level, and it will bring the remarkable society and the economic efficiency, and it is worththoroughly studying.


ABSTRACT. This paper reports the results of a comparative study of the mandibular, hyoid, and pectoral musculature of South American Doradidae. Sixty-one species of Doradidae were examined including representatives of all the genera. Twenty muscles are described including their ontogenetic origin, function, area of origin and insertion, and parts. Seven muscles from the cranial region: adductor mandibulae, extensor tentaculi, levator arcus palatini, dilatator operculi, levator operculi, adductor operculi, and adductor arcus palatini; six muscles from the ventral region: intermandibularis, protractor hyoidei, hyohyoides inferioris, hyohyoidei abductores, hyohyoidei adductores, and sternohyoideus; and seven muscles from the pectoral fin: adductor superficialis, adductor profundus, abductor superficialis, abductor profundus, arrector ventralis, arrector dorsalis, and abductor rotator. Comparisons between Doradidae and other catfish families (e.g. Auchenipteridae, Aspredinidae) were made in order to understan...


By a deed of separation between husband and wife, the husband covenanted inter alia to pay £600 a year to the wife during her life. Throughout the deed the words ' husband' and ' wife' were used to describe the parties. Subsequently the marriage was dissolved on account of the husband's adultery. Payment of the annual sum fell into arrears and this was an action by the wife to recover them. Horridge J. gave judgment for the plaintiff. The Court of Appeal affirmed his judgment. For the defendant it was contended that there was an implied condition in the separation deed that it should operate only so long as the parties remained husband and wife, and that though Charlesworth v. Holt (1873) L. R. 9 Ex. 38 was the other way, it would be decided otherwise if it came before the Courts now for the first time, owing to subsequent developments of the ' doctrine of frustration.' In support of this the cases Krell v. Henry [1903] 2 K. B. 740 and Tamplin S.S. Co. v. Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Products Co. [1916] 2 A. C. 397 were cited. In the latter case the principle adopted was that the Court must' ascertain whether the contract is made on the footing that a particular state of things would continue to exist, and that, if such were the fact, then a condition to that effect must be implied, even if none were expressed. It was urged that such a condition should be implied in this case. The argument was further supported by dicta in Hyman v. Hyman [1929] A. C. 601, which expressed doubt as to the present validity of Charlesworth v. Holt. This view, however, did not find favour with the Court. Scrutton L. J. said at p. 394: ' Considering the number of years during which Charlesworth v. Holt has stood for law, the number of separation deeds in existence, and the number of persons living under the provisions contained in them, I do not feel able to give effect to the doubt which I expressed in Hyman v. Hyman, and which I still entertain.' Greer and Russell L.JJ. both held themselves bound to follow Charletworth v. Holt. The question at issue in this case was clearly one of considerable practical importance. The success of the appellant's argument, as Russell L.J. pointed out, at p. 396, would have involved the conclusion ' that every separation deed contains by implication a clause bringing to an end the operation of the deed in the event Of a divorce.' It is evident that on many occasions the parties to a separation deed do not contemplate the possibility of a divorce. The Court apparently did not think that so important a departure from what had been the law for over half a century was justified by any advantages which might accrue from a change in the law.


Fast-field cycling (FFC) nuclear magnetic
resonance applications require compensation of the ambient
magnetic field. This compensation may be stated in terms of a
multi-objective optimization problem involving the spherical
harmonics decomposition of the field generated by a set of
compensation coils. In this article, this optimization-based
approach is detailed and applied to the particular case of a
FFC relaxometer.


This paper describes current progress on developing an ethical architecture for robots that are designed to follow human ethical decision-making processes. We surveyed both regular adults (folks) and ethics experts (experts) on what they consider to be ethical behavior in two specific scenarios: pill-sorting with an older adult and game playing with a child. A key goal of the surveys is to better understand human ethical decision-making. In the first survey, folk responses were based on the subject's ethical choices ("folk morality"); in the second survey, expert responses were based on the expert's application of different formal ethical frameworks to each scenario. We observed that most of the formal ethical frameworks we included in the survey (Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Ethics of Care and Virtue Ethics) and "folk morality" were conservative toward deception in the high-risk task with an older adult when both the adult and the child had significant performance deficiencies.


In this paper the influence of carbon nanotubes(CNTs) on the apparent viscidity, the energy of viscidity, the non-Newtonian index and the structural viscidity index of Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene were studied. It was found when the content of carbon nanotubes(CNTs) is lower than 3 w, the viscidity and the energy of viscidity of the UHMWPE/CNTs gel are all lower than that of pure UHMWPE gel. CNTs has very little influence on the non-Newtonian index and the structural viscidity index of the UHMWPE/CNTs gel, that is to say it has little influence on the gel-spining of UHMWPE/carbon nanotubes composite fiber.