Capacitance relaxation in Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 thin film structures has been investigated. Slow decrease of the capacitance after a bias voltage switching on is explained by suppressing the film dielectric permittivity by the field of a p-n junction originated as a result of the oxygen vacancy migration in the bias field. After the bias switching off, the p-n junction gradually disappears due to the vacancy diffusion, and the capacitance increases. The relation determining capacitance increase after the bias switching off has been obtained in agreement with experimental data. The proposed relaxation mechanism is considered as a certain type of the size effect when the p-n junction depleted region spreads over the film thickness.


To the Editor .—I would like to make several comments on the article by Dobie and Fisch 1 entitled "Primary and Revision Surgery (Selective Neurectomy) for Facial Hyperkinesia," which was published in the February 1986 issue of theArchives. The authors' method is essentially the same as that described by Reynolds et al 2 in 1967, who published their experiences using differential sectioning of the facial nerve for the treatment of blepharospasm. Since that time, the ophthalmic literature has been absorbing numerous articles by many surgeons describing their success and complication rates using the seventhnerve avulsion technique for the treatment of blepharospasm. 3,4 Frueh et al 2 reported treating 100 consecutive patients with intractable blepharospasm using differential sectioning of the seventh nerve. Their results differed from those of Dobie and Fisch in several respects. In Frueh's patients, the marker of success of surgery was the reduction of spasm to the


Increasing recognition is being given to the manifestations of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood. Prospective studies have indicated that many children diagnosed with ADHD continue to have symptoms of the disorder. These often are associated with antisocial behaviors, suggesting that ADHD may be an undetected and untreated root cause of these behaviors. In the present study, indicators of ADHD were examined in a population of probationers in a court-referred drug abuse treatment setting. The results showed that 31% had symptoms indicative of ADHD and that these symptoms were associated with self-reported measures of arrest history, aggressive behavior, drug use, family atmosphere, and family mental health.


The invention discloses an LED backlight driving circuit. The LED backlight driving circuit comprises a boosting circuit, a current control module, a driving chip, a current detection module, a control signal module and a frequency adjusting module, wherein the boosting circuit is used for converting an input voltage into a required output voltage and providing the output voltage for an LED string light, the current control module is connected to the negative end of the LED string light and used for adjusting the working current of the LED string light, the driving chip is used for providing a first square-wave signal for the boosting circuit and providing a second square-wave signal for the current control module, the current detection module is used for detecting the working current of the LED string light and generating a detection signal, the control signal module receives the detection signal generated by the current detection module and generates a control signal, the frequency adjusting module receives the control signal generated by the control signal module and generates a resistance value according to the control signal, the frequency adjusting module is further connected to the driving chip, and the driving chip adjusts the driving frequency of the backlight driving circuit according to the resistance value. The invention further discloses a liquid crystal display with the backlight driving circuit.


Physiological response of selected marine diatoms in phosphorus limited conditions was investigated. In laboratory experiments, we used six species of diatoms that are regularly present in the phytoplankton community of the northern Adriatic: Pleurosigma elongatum, Thalassiosira rotula, Paralia sulcata, Pseudosolenia calcaravis, Chaetoceros peruvianus and Chaetoceros contortus. All tested diatoms where identified to the species level by light microscopy and phylogenetic analysis. Physiological response of diatoms during the experiments was determined by growth rate, alkaline phosphatase activity, phosphate concentration and lipid composition. In phosphorus depleted conditions all diatoms species reduced their growth rates and have shown changes in lipid composition, and have activated the extracellular enzyme alkaline phosphatase. The results suggest that the diatoms develop species-specific adaptive strategies to phosphorus stress. Such investigations elucidate the diatom species specific response to the ecosystem functioning in the phosphorus limited conditions.


This paper proposes a new method for identifying parallel planes in a scene from three or more uncalibrated images. By using the fact that parallel planes intersect at infinity, we were able to devise a linear relationship between the inter-image homographies of the parallel planes and the plane at infinity. This relationship is combined with the so-called modulus constraint for identifying pairs of parallel planes solely from point correspondences. Experiments with both synthetic and real images have validated our method.


Objective To observe the clinical effects of patients with advanced gastric cancer treated with docetaxel combined with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil.Methods 48 patients with gastric cancer in the author's hospital were randomly divided into two groups,and each had 24 patients.The clinical effects were analyzed.Results The total effective rate of the observation group was 54.17%,and obviously more than that of control group(P 0.05).Conclusion Docetaxel combined with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil which were used in treating gastric cancer has a good clinical effect and the treatment is worthy of promotion.


This essay illustrates the fundamental content and development route of reverse engineering.And it also introduces the application,the corresponding tactics and the prospect of reverst engineering technology at home and abroad .


Do the superior education institutions present incongruities among what becomes trained and what shows up as innovations toward the focus of the abilities and competitions, the professor should select their own teaching methodologies breaking the paradigms characteristic of the system with the purpose of strengthening the student to face the labor market, this evidence the necessity to impel the critical and reflexive thought; however we can argue and to ask if the educational one is the sufficiently prepared thing to make it? For it the methodology is important in the development of the actors in the classroom, developing abilities and the competitions like a new horizon like sociable practice will contribute in that the discentes faces from a better way to the labor market.


In this paper a new neurad analogue-to-digital converter (AD9 design is presenteg which is bmed on the idea of replacing all functional components needed in the ADC block scheme by a simple connection of neurons. Transformation of the ADC functional scheme into a full analogue neural structure and its computer simulation, is one of the main themes of this paper. Furthermore, a dkcrete component prototype of the proposed ADC is dkcussed and experimental results are also givett


Rotator cuff (RC) tears can cause acromion sclerosis associated with quantitative correlation between the severity of tear and severity of acromial sclerosis. The object of this study was to determine the effectiveness of X-ray image processing by machine learning (ML) techniques in the assessment of the severity of rotator cuff (RC) tear. The accuracy of ML diagnosis was compared with the accuracy of physician diagnosis. 145 patients including 72 patients with full-thickness rotator cuff tears, 50 patients with partial rotator cuff tears, and 23 patients with Bankart lesions, who underwent arthroscopic repair were recruited in this retrospective study. Before surgery, X-ray radiography was performed to diagnose the RC tear type. Image processing software Tensorflow and Keras (Image-Data-Generator) (Sequential) with convolutional neural network (CNN) structure were used to differentially diagnose partial tear and full-thickness rotator cuff tears. 80% of images were used for model training and 20% of images for model validation. The results demonstrated that the accuracy of physician diagnosis-based X-ray was 72.6% for full tears and 60.3% for partial tears, respectively. The accuracy of CNN diagnosis-based X-ray was 79.6% for full tear and 87.5% for partial tear, respectively. CNN discriminated partial tear from no-tear with a higher accuracy than human vision (Chi Square, Pearson test, p<0.001). This study presents a novel approach for the diagnosis of RCT using X-ray images and ML techniques that can assist the orthopaedic surgeon using plain X-rays to determine future treatment plans.


By the means of rapid development of micro-electronics and information technology, the construction of modern ship power station becomes more modular. Therefore it is easier for Chinese producers of marine automation equipments to develop a Ship power management system with high performance themselves, using a purchasable generator control module. The basic skills,such as the functions and application methods of the Generator Protect and Synchronizing Unit, an example of electric connction are introduced on this paper too.


We present a novel control strategy for dynamic legged locomotion in complex scenarios that considers information about the morphology of the terrain in contexts when only on-board mapping and computation are available. The strategy is built on top of two main elements: first a contact sequence task that provides safe foothold locations based on a convolutional neural network to perform fast and continuous evaluation of the terrain in search of safe foothold locations; then a model predictive controller that considers the foothold locations given by the contact sequence task to optimize target ground reaction forces. We assess the performance of our strategy through simulations of the hydraulically actuated quadruped robot HyQReal traversing rough terrain under realistic on-board sensing and computing conditions.


This paper presents an approach for analyzing changes in the real exchange rate. It cites three views of the real exchange rate and outlines the complex forces that cause the rate to change. Using data from the International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics, the analysis then focuses on selected countries, each chosen because its experience reflects the operation of a principal force affecting the exchange rate. A summary of the experience of several countries during the 1970-1983 period illustrates the importance of the real exchange rate in the wake of inflationary episodes, oil crises, massive capital movements, and debt crises during that period. The analysis directs particular attention toward the central role that real exchange rate movements have played in the international debt crisis. Copyright 1989 Western Economic Association International.


FIQROTUL ULYA. Credit Card Debtor Classification Based On K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Imbalanced Data. Supervised by AZIZ KUSTIYO. Data is said to suffer the class imbalanced problem when the class distribution are highly imbalance. In this case, minority class is more difficult to predict then the majority class. Though the minority class sometime has important information. In this paper, classification analysis of credit card debtors is conducted by using k-nearest neighbor that can classify debtors into two categories, good or bad. Analysis of a prospective debtor is essential to minimize credit risk. One approach taken to overcome imbalanced data problems is to modify instance distribution using oversampling and undersampling method. The evaluation is conducted by comparing the value of parameter k, accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure. The evaluation results show that oversampling technique gives the best result of 96.24% with k = 3, 99.23% recall with k = 2, 95.21% precision with k = 1, and 96.30% F-measure with k = 3.


I came to this book as a sociolinguist with an interest in semantics and some undergraduate background in mathematics. I was drawn in first by the title – the mathematical nature of formal semantics has always intrigued me, as have the parallels between structural linguistics more generally and mathematical approaches to formalizing abstract relationships. The second draw for me was the promo blurb on the back cover: 'Mathematical Structures in Language introduces a number of mathematical concepts that are of interest to the working linguist. The areas covered include basic set theory and logic, formal languages and automata, trees, partial orders, lattices, Boolean structure, generalized quantifier theory, and linguistic invariants' that is '[i]deal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics'. I anticipated a book that would introduce these concepts in an accessible way, aimed at linguists who are intelligent but not necessarily up to speed with the mechanics and argumentation of mathematics. Unfortunately, that is not exactly what this book does. It does cover the subject areas listed on the back, and in considerable detail, but the style and structure of the book as a whole are overwhelmingly those of a mathematics book that addresses language topics, rather than a linguistics book that addresses mathematical topics. The first two chapters do aim to introduce technical aspects of mathematical concepts (including argumentation, proofs, and the basics of formal logic) but these seem pitched much more as a refresher than as an introduction. The exercises throughout the book in principle could compensate for the lack of detailed explanation of core concepts, and indeed this approach is very evocative of most of the mathematics books I have encountered in my life. However, with no model answers provided (neither in the book nor, as far as I can tell, anywhere online), even keen and motivated linguists who lack sufficient training in mathematics will struggle to use this book for self-directed learning. Becoming adept at producing formal (or even informal) proofs in mathematics is a process that requires feedback, however minimal; with no opportunity to have mistakes pointed out and to develop argumentation skills, the naïve reader is likely to find a lot of this book hard going.


Regarding the recent switch from the fixed base price index to the chained-type price index in many countries, we examine important issues including the selection of the weight to produce more accurate chained-type price indices and to maintain statistical consistency in the time series of a price index in this study. We determine that the actual weight from year t-3 data better produces a more correct chained-type producer price index at t between two available methods of selecting the weights. This weighting method also provides generally better statistical consistency and stability for the chained-type producer price index. We also compare the MAE and RMSE of the price equations of the fixed base and chain indices. Both the unit root test and comparison of the model performance evaluation reveal no critical difference, thus confirming a stability over the two indices. In particular, the substitutability of the chain index for the fixed base index is highly obtained, regardless of the time horizon. Overall, we can confidently assert that the chain index provides a statistical consistency and stability over a fixed base index.


An attractive, highly corrosion resistant paint finish on automobile body components such as hoods, doors and deck lids is an extremely important feature for customer approval. Automobile manufacturers therefore use a wide variety of laboratory corrosion test procedures in an attempt to predict the service life of painted body panels. It has long been recognized however that the correlation of lab test results with in-service corrosion performance is often poor and cannot be used for predictive purposes. In response to this problem, the SAE J-2334 test was developed for steel and galvanized steel substrates. In more recent years, the necessity to lower the weight and hence improve the fuel economy of automobiles has led to the rapidly expanding use of aluminum closures in place of steel. Although aluminum closures have been used on a limited number of vehicles for many years, there is not currently an industry-wide laboratory corrosion test for painted aluminum closures, which is accepted as providing a good correlation with service life. One approach to developing this correlation is to examine coupons that have been exposed to lab tests and service environments to determine the extent and mode of corrosive attack as well as the type of corrosion products formed under simulated and real life conditions. In this paper, the chemistry of corrosion products formed on AA6111 automotive closure sheet material exposed to selected lab tests and automotive proving ground environments is compared to those formed on panels exposed in-service for periods ranging up to ten years. The data was obtained using a variety of electron optical techniques including EDX and XPS. Examination of the underlying substrate condition was also carried out by scanning electron microscopy. An analysis of the results with respect to service life prediction is included.


Cloud computing has been massively adopted in healthcare, where it attracts economic, operational, and functional advantages beneficial to insurance providers. However, according to Identity Theft Resource Centre, over twenty-five percent of data breaches in the US targeted healthcare. The HIPAA Journal reported an increase in healthcare data breaches in the US in 2016, exposing over 16 million health records. The growing incidents of cyberattacks in healthcare are compelling insurance providers to implement mitigating controls. Addressing data security and privacy issues before cloud adoption protects from monetary and reputation losses. This article provides an assessment tool for health insurance providers when adopting cloud vendor solutions. The final deliverable is a proposed framework derived from prominent cloud computing and governance sources, such as the Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Control Matrix (CSA, CCM) v 3.0.1 and COBIT 5 Cloud Assurance.


Variations in branching pattern of arteries are common. These variations are usually due to the changes occurring during the development of vessels. Knowledge about the variations of the arteries is very important since the arteries are used in many diagnostic techniques, operative procedures and in angiographic examinations. The arterial pattern of abdominal vessels present many variations and they are documented already in many studies. But this report presents a very rare variation of superior mesenteric artery and not yet reported anywhere.


Although wireless sensors show extensive promise across a wide range of applications, one requirement necessary for widespread deployment is a suitable long-life power source. Self sustainable powering techniques allow for efficient use of these sensors, whose potential life is usually longer than that of the power sources. Vibration energy harvesting techniques offer to have the potential to be employed in powering these devices. The most important requirement of vibration energy harvesting devices is that they be in resonance to harvest energy efficiently. Most of the vibration energy harvesting devices built, irrespective of the mechanism involved, are based on a single resonance frequency, with the efficiency of these devices is very much limited to that specific frequency. In this paper, a frequency tunable mechanism is presented which allows the energy harvesting device to generate power over a wide range of frequencies. External magnetic forces have been used to induce additional stiffness which is variable depending on the distance between the magnets. This technique allowed us to tune the resonance frequencies to have +/− 20% of the original (untuned) resonant frequency. Further, the device can be tuned to higher and lower frequency with respect to the untuned resonance frequency by using attractive and repulsive magnetic forces, respectively. As a proof-of-concept, a piezoelectric cantilever-based energy harvesting device with a natural frequency of 26 Hz was fabricated whose resonance frequency was successfully tuned over a frequency range of 22 Hz to 32 Hz, enabling a continuous power output of 240 μW to 280 μW over the entire frequency range. The tuning mechanism can be employed to any vibrating structure.Copyright © 2007 by ASME


With reproductive freedom comes opportunities for women to participate in the affairs of family and society that are otherwise closed off to them. The major breakthrough in fertility control came with the development of oral contraceptives in 1960 and modern intrauterine devices shortly thereafter. These discoveries were international cooperative scientific achievements in which developing countries scientists played a major role. Mexicos scientists began bulk steroid synthesis in the 1st steps needed to manufacture both norethynodrel and norethisterone - the 1st 2 synthetic progestins used for contraception. The impetus for research on IUDs came from clinical research reports emanating from Japan and Israel in the late 1950s. It was also in Mexico that continuous low-dose progestin contraception was 1st demonstrated. Scientists in Bahia Brazil contributed the 1st publication of the contraceptive effectiveness of the injectable progestin medroxy-progesterone acetate (Depo Provera) and the 1st clinical report of the effectiveness of norethisterone acetate as an injectable contraceptive came from Lima Peru. The importance of copper in IUDs was discovered 1st in Santiago by a Chilean scientist; the manufacturing knowledge was primarily that of metalurgists in Finland. The 1st clinical studies on the new long-acting contraceptive implant systems were done by physicians in Chile Brazil and India. The rhythm method was 1st described by physicians from Japan and Austria the 1st birth control procedure to be based on a scientific understanding of the cyclical monthly changes that a woman normally experiences. Vacuum aspiration of the uterus was developed in China. By the early 1960s Indian surgeons had shifted from conventional laparotomy with general anesthesia to mini-laparotomy with local anesthesia. It was in India also that scientists developed the 1st contraceptive vaccine brought to clinical trials. Improving the safety of contraceptive methods remains an issue and should continue to receive high priority. Glimpses of the future show that a 5-year contraceptive implant is now a reality and promises to be the most effective reversible contraceptive the world has known. A pill for men is being tested in China. Indian scientists are studying contraceptive vaccine to be used by either men or women. A totally new concept for womens fertility regulation is being developed under the leadership of French scientists.


Copper micro rod materials with the coating thickness of 200 nm and the grain size of 20 nm on Nocadia (0.4-0.6μm in diameter) surface were prepared by microbiological method and electroless deposition technology. It was found that the dispersion state of Nocadia in C18H29NaO3S aqueous is better than that in Na4P2O7 aqueous under the same other conditions. Nocadia dispersed in pre-processes solutions and electroless plating solutions on the synergistic action of C18H29NaO3S and agitation. Nocadia remained their original rod shape during the electroless plating process. Copper micro rod material with nano-grain was obtained.


Empathy is an important component of social cognition that contributes to the ability to adaptively understand and respond to the emotions of others, succeed in emotional communication, and promote pro-social behavior. However, there are not enough studies on empathy in relation to psychic experiences; As a matter of fact, many psychic claimants appear to act more empathetic than telepathic. Here two specific hypotheses are tested: People who have telepathic experiences, aura vision experiences, a sense of presence, experience as healers and apparitional experiences have a greater capacity for cognitive empathy (perspective taking and emotional understanding) and 2) Empathy emotional (Empathic concern and positive empathy) than non-experimenters. The results show that the experienced group obtained higher empathy scores than the inexperienced ones. Scores on the four empathy subscales were also significantly higher for the non-experienced. Thus, people who affirm that such psychic experiences seem to have a great capacity to recognize the emotions of another, related to their imitative capacities. The ability to use cognitive and emotional empathy in an integrated way seems important in many circumstances, such as healing practitioners' experiences or aura vision experiences.


A standard demand-deposit contract in which individuals are entitled to their full deposit at any time provided the bank is solvent is analyzed in a context in which there are no exogenous events on which agents condition their behavior and a unique equilibrium involving a bank run with positive probability is shown to exist. Copyright 1987 by University of Chicago Press.


1. Islamophobia in the West: An Introduction / Marc Helbling Part 1: How to Measure Islamophobia 2. Prejudice Against Muslims: Associations with Personality Traits and Political Attitudes / Donald Ernst and Brian H. Bornstein Part 2: The Scope of Islamophobia: Public Debates, Attitudes and Reactions 3. Assessing Islamophobia in Britain: Where Do Muslims Really Stand? / Erik Bleich and Rahsaan Maxwell 4. Attitudes toward Muslims in Norway / Zan Strabac and Marko Valenta 5. Islamophobia in Sweden: Politics, Representations, Attitudes and Experiences / Pieter Bevelander and Jonas Otterbeck 6. Islamophobia in Spain? Political Rhetoric Rather Than a Social Fact / Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Juan Diez-Nicolas Part 3: How To Explain Islamophobia 7. An Ecological Analysis of the 2009 Swiss Referendum on the Building of Minarets / Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper 8. Islamophobia and Its Explanation / Henk Dekker and Jolanda van der Noll 9. The Aftermath of 9/11: Tolerance towards Muslims, Islamophobia and Value Orientations / Jolanda van der Noll 10. Political Tolerance for Muslim Practices: An Intergroup Perspective / Maykel Verkuyten and Edwin Poppe 11. Revisiting Islamophobia in Contemporary Britain, 2007-10 / Clive D. Field Part 4: Are Muslims Different From Other Outgroups? Ethnocentrism and Terrorism 12. Islamophobia and the Band of Others / Kerem Ozan Kalkan and Eric M. Uslaner 13. Think 'Terrorist', Think 'Muslim'? Social-Psychological Mechanisms Explaining Anti-Islamic Prejudice / Marco Cinnirella


Ideally that every Christian teacher should follow certain fundamental principles so that the aim of Christian education can be met. And this idea is not just a current modern issue or mere utopian thought but a profound time-tested element. And the basis of those principles should be on Biblical truth. Through ages and centuries, these principles or in other word laws have been conducted by what we know now as classical education. No matter what the subject is, the tools or the strategies that are used in these principles will become the foundation of the teaching to face any challenges within the context of the ever-changing setting. In this essay, the classic work of John Milton Gregory written in the nineteenth century, titled The Seven Law of Teaching will be analyzed by examining its philosophy and biblical theology. From the research that has been done, conclude principles that Gregory brought up as The Seven Laws of Teaching is linear with biblical truth and Christian teachers can rely on this principles as the foundation for shaping and molding their Christian teaching in today world that keep building and reconstructing without a firm foundation.


reactions after local administration of rifamycin, probably provoked by systemic absorption of the drug through the conjunctivae and the surgical wound. In both cases, previous local instillation had occurred, favoring sensitization to rifamycin. The clinical data and positive skin prick testing suggested an IgE-mediated immunologic mechanism. Allergy to rifamycin is rare. A few cases of contact dermatitis have been reported (1±5). Topical rifamycin is also an uncommon but well-known cause of anaphylactic reactions (6±10); all those immediate reactions were caused by cleaning wounds with this drug. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the ®rst report of systemic reaction after application of rifamycin in eye-drops. We also demonstrated cross-sensitivity between rifamycin and rifampicin by skin testing.


This work studies a problem of scheduling non-preemptive independent jobs on dedicated machines while considering an energy consumption limit. The problem is motivated by energy-demanding production processes, such as glass tempering and steel hardening, in which a material is heated to high temperature in furnaces. The production companies have contracts with electric utilities that specify a maximum energy consumption limit. If the heating in the furnaces is not planned carefully, the energy spikes overshoot the energy consumption limit, and the companies must pay large penalty fees. In this paper, we propose two exact methods that find schedules with the minimum makespan such that the energy limit is satisfied. The first proposed method is a Constraint Programming model and the second one finds the optimal solution by iteratively re-solving a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model with a decreasing scheduling horizon. The iterative algorithm exploits the fact that the start times do not need to be modeled explicitly, which leads to an efficient method for solving instances with a higher number of shorter jobs. The experimental results show that our methods outperform an adapted approach from the literature for a related problem.


Audio visual media using the power point program is a learning resource that can be used as a learning medium in schools, especially in science subjects, the subject of grouping living things. Based on the results of observations made by developers at SMP Negeri 20 Malang, it turns out that the teacher only uses textbooks as the only learning medium. For this reason, developers make alternative problem solvers by developing power point media as a learning medium. The purpose of developing this power point media is to assist teachers in the teaching and learning process in order to achieve predetermined learning objectives. Also as a medium that can attract students' attention in learning activities so that students can be motivated. From the validation results show; 1) validation of media experts shows results of 80%, 2) validation of material experts shows results of 93.75%, 3) while in class validation shows results of 80.15% based on the above research shows that the power point which is developed has high validity.


Between September 1997 and March 2006, 43,423 environmental impact assessment (EIA) applications were submitted in South Africa. This exceptionally high number reflects a particular weakness in the ability of the EIA system to effectively screen EIA applications. The 2006 EIA Regulations intended to reduce the number of EIA applications by 20%. This paper presents a comparative analysis of screening performance before and following the 2006 EIA Regulations in order to determine the improvement of screening effectiveness (and hence the EIA process) since the interventions introduced in the 2006 EIA Regulations. Changes in the number of EIA applications as well as the types of activities requiring EIA are analysed. The results show that the average number of EIA applications submitted per month reduced by 27% nationally from 1997 to 2006. Although the 20% reduction target has been achieved, the number of EIA applications remains high compared with international trends and considered against the available administrative capacity. Analysis of the Free State Province also shows that, for both periods, very similar types of activities triggered the majority of EIA applications, with transformation of land, construction of masts and storage of fuel being the most common. To improve EIA screening, it is recommended that the reduction target be reconsidered and that additional screening methods such as environmental management frameworks and norms and standards be implemented.


PICO (Integrated Portal of Italian Online Culture) has been set up to offer an integrated access to contents produced by MiBAC into a unified system. PICO is an application profile of Qualified Dublin Core.


This thesis examines the celebrity of governesses i n British culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Victorian g overness-mania was as pervasive as it was inexplicable, governesses comprising only a tin y fraction of the population and having little or no ostensible effect on the social , political, or economic landscape. Nevertheless, governesses were omnipresent in Victo rian media, from novels and etiquette manuals to paintings, cartoons and pornog raphy. Historians and literary critics have long conjectured about the root cause of popul ar fixation on the governess, and many have theorized that their cultural resonance o w d to the host of contradictions and social conundrums they embodied, from being a 'lady ' who worked, to being comparable to that bugbear of Victorian society, the prostitut e. However, while previous scholarship has maintained that governess-mania was produced by their peculiarity as social or economic actors, I intend to demonstrate that this nonconformity was extrapolated in visual and l iterary depictions to signify a more prurient deviance, specifically a fixation on human suffering. This analysis reveals that whether depicted in mainstream press or in nefariou s erotica, popular interest in governesses was contoured by a fixation on their pe rceived relationship to corporal violence. Over the course of the nineteenth centur y governesses were increasingly portrayed as the victims of a huge range of interna l a d external threats, such as disease, sterility, assault, murder, rape, and even urban ac cidents like train crashes or gas leaks. Cast as flagellant birching madams in pornographic fantasy, governesses were also construed as deriving erotic authority through the infliction of pain on others. From imagining the governess as a pitiful victim of brut ality or conversely eroticizing her as the stewardess of sadomasochism, all of these const ructs rely on the dynamics of violation, on bodies that experience misfortune and bo ies that mete that it out. Utilizing a wide array of sources and methodological approach es, I will demonstrate that the Victorian governess was not only popularly correlat d with social or sexual irregularity, but that these themes were ultimately circumscribed by a larger preoccupation with the governess as an icon of violence and pain.


One of the main challenges of hurricane research is to better understand the processes that influence hurricane intensity change, which could ultimately lead to improved intensity forecasts. Among the various parameters believed to impact hurricane intensity change are air-sea interaction and turbulent energy transport within the hurricane boundary layer (HBL) (Malkus and Reihl 1960; Emanuel 1986, 1995). An accurate estimate of hurricane turbulent energy is crucial to identify the role of turbulent processes in the energy transport within a storm in general and in the hurricane boundary layer (HBL), in particular. A better characterization of hurricane turbulence, especially in high wind regimes where observational data are sorely lacking, could provide tremendous insights on the mechanisms involved in hurricane intensity change. More and more hurricane modeling studies are including TKE schemes based on the formulation of Mellor and Yamada (1982), where TKE and dissipation rate are prognostic variables, increasing the necessity of an accurate estimation of these turbulent parameters. To remedy the BL parameterization problem and better understand the turbulent processes at play, observations are needed. Doppler radar measurements have been increasingly used to study hurricane structure as they generally provide data over large portion of the storms. For over 25 years airborne radars have collected valuable data in the outskirts as well as inner-core of tropical storms (e.g. Jorgensen et al. 1983; Marks 2003). The implementations of the fore and aft scanning (FAST) strategy (Gamache et al. 1995, Jorgensen et al. 1996) and new variational (Gamache 1997; Reasor et al. 2009) and automatic retrieval methods have enabled the retrieval of very accurate high-resolution wind data throughout hurricanes. Extending the use of airborne Doppler measurements to estimate hurricane turbulent parameters could provide a unique opportunity to map turbulence throughout tropical cyclones. The present study will describe a method of estimation of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) in a hurricane using NOAA tail Doppler radar data and mapping of the TKE distribution will be provided. Moreover, the measured spectral width data will be used to estimate dissipation in the HBL.


ABSTRACT This research deals with a variation of the Traveling Salesman Problem in which the cost of a tour, during which a kinematically constrained vehicle visits a set of targets, has to be minimized. We are motivated by situations that include motion planning for unmanned aerial, marine, and ground vehicles, just to name a few possible application outlets. We discretize the original continuous problem and explicitly formulate it as an integer optimization problem. Then we develop a performance bound as a function of the discretization level and the number of targets. The inclusion of a discretization level provides an opportunity to achieve tighter bounds, compared to what has been reported in the literature. We perform a numerical study that quantifies the performance of the suggested approach. The suggested linkage between discretization level, number of targets, and performance may guide discretization-level choices for the solution of motion planning problems. Specifically, theoretical and numerical results indicate that, in many instances, discretization may be set at a low level to strike a balance between computational time and the length of a tour.


Abstract Let G be a connected graph with V(G) and E(G) be the vertex set and edge set. For a vertex u ∈ V(G) and a subset W ⊂ V(G), the distance between u and W is (u, W)=min {d(u, x): x ∈ W}. Let ∏ ={ W 1, W 2, W 3, … , Wt } be an ordered t-partition of V(G), the representation of v with respect to ∏ is the t-vector . If the representations of the all vertices of G with respect to ∏ are distinct, then t-partition ∏ is a resolving partition. The minimum t for which there is a resolving t-partition of V(G) is the partition dimension pd(G) of G. In this paper, we determined the upper bound of partition dimension for convex polytopes.


Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Comer Children's Hospital, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 Question: A 10-year-old girl with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with a 10-day history of hematochezia, emesis, and abdominal pain. Initial labs revealed leukocytosis (white blood cell count of 15.9 10/mL [normal range, 3.5-12.3 10/mL]), anemia (hemoglobin, 8.7 g/dL [normal range, 11.3-15.2]), erythrocyte sedimentation rate, 35 mm/h [normal range, 0-20], C-reactive protein, 22 mg/L [normal, <5], and fecal calprotectin >2500 mg/g feces [normal, <50]). Stool studies were negative for culture, ova and parasites, Clostridium difficile, and adenovirus. Her physical examination was remarkable for epigastric and lower quadrant abdominal pain, without signs of guarding or rebound, with normoactive bowel sounds. There was no evidence of abdominal distension or hepatosplenomegaly, and she had a normal perianal examination. She became febrile on day 1 of admission and was started on ampicillin, gentamicin, and metronidazole with negative cultures. She was admitted with the concern for new-onset inflammatory bowel disease. On day 3 of admission she underwent an ileocolonoscopy consistent with moderately severe ulcerative colitis and an upper endoscopy consistent with chronic mildly active antral gastritis without evidence of Helicobacter pylori infection. She was started on intravenous methylprednisolone for treatment. The following day, she developed worsening abdominal pain, emesis and fever requiring computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen/pelvis, which showed colonic wall thickening without evidence of free air or an intra-abdominal abscess. Over the following 10 days, she developed hematemesis, severe abdominal pain, and hypotension requiring ionotropic support and proton pump inhibitor drip. Laboratory results showed worsening leukocytosis 36.6 10/mL, anemia 7.3 g/dL, mild coagulopathy (International Normalized Ratio of 1.5), and C-reactive protein 40 mg/L. Repeat CT of the abdomen was completed owing to ongoing fever and abdominal pain and showed severe, diffuse gastric wall thickening with a few hypoechogenic fluid collections within the gastric wall (Figure A, arrow). She underwent repeat upper endoscopy on day 15 that showed severe gastritis with diffuse mucosal exudates, ulcerations, spontaneous hemorrhage, and clots of


Diaminopyridine-functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsequioxanes (POSS-DAP) self-assemble with complementary thymine-functionalized Au nanoparticles (Thy-Au) into well-defined spherical aggregates, providing highly structured nanocomposites.


Soil erosion is a worldwide problem. Issues related to soil erosion in many countries, including Uzbekistan, are resolved at the government level. The article provides a brief summary of soil erosion and its varieties, and methods of combating it, analyzes the results obtained from the study of soil selected for the creation of mulberry plantations according to agricultural technology of the Uzbek Research Institute of Natural Fibers (UzRINF). The conclusion is made on the possibility of using mulberry plantations as a protective barrier against water and wind erosion in erosion-hazardous areas and to improve the reclamation conditions of soil. Recommendations are also given on the need to continue research on the creation of protective mulberry plantations in saline, degraded, low-fertile regions of the Aral Sea region to improve the ecological and reclamation state of soils and to prevent desertification of the soil cover of the region.


This paper presents a new method to improve the performance of an adaptive controller under the time-varying environment. In general, under the time-varying environment the adaptive controller will not perform satisfactorily because the estimated parameters cannot track the real parameters exactly. Consequently, the resulting closed-loop system will differ from the one we expected. In order to obtain a satisfatory performance specified in the design criteria, the command sigal should be compensated to accommodate the deviation. In the new method, the resulting closed-loop system is treated as another time-varying plant to be controlled. We then design a higher order adaptive controller according to the original design criteria to control this inner closed-loop system. The simulation results show a significant performance improvement by using the new method.


The disfavored 5-endo-trig cyclizations have been accomplished for 1,1-difluoro-1-alkenes with nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and carbon nucleophiles by taking advantage of the properties of fluorine. β,β-Difluorostyrenes bearing tosylamido, hydroxy, or methylsulfinyl group at the o-position undergo intramolecular nucleophilic substitution with a loss of the vinylic fluorine, leading to 2-fluorinated indole, benzo[b]furan, and benzo[b]thiophene in high yields. 1,1-Difluoro-1-butenes bearing homoallylic tosylamido, hydroxy, mercapto, or iodomethyl group also successfully cyclize via a 5-endo-trig process with the in situ generated intramolecular nucleophiles to afford 2-fluoro-2-pyrroline, 5-fluoro-2,3-dihydrofuran, 5-fluoro-2,3-dihydrothiophene, and 1-fluorocyclopentene. The two vinylic fluorines proved to be essential and play a critical role in these 'anti-Baldwin' cyclizations.


With the rapid development of e-commerce, the volume of express goods in China has been increasing explosively. In 2018, China's express delivery business will reach 50.5 billion units. With the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence technology, many modern logistics enterprises try to use artificial intelligence technology to optimize the logistics link and improve the logistics efficiency. This paper will discuss the application status and prospect of artificial intelligence in logistics and express industry.


BioBriefs Apart from speech, the most remarkable vocalizations in the animal kingdom come from songbirds, and it turns out that speech shows evolutionary convergence with bird songs. The ancestors of both songbirds and human speakers made the standard emotional noises common to many species with lungs and a throat, forcing air through the windpipe like a bellows pushing air through an organ. But both speech and songs require more precise control than lungpower allows by itself. In humans, the key vocal organ is the larynx, or voice box. It is part of the standard mammalian throat, but humans have many more muscles and nerves that enable precise shaping and timing of the sounds we make. Song-birds have an analogous organ called the syrinx, which is controlled by precise timing in the brain and delicate muscles that alter the pitch and loud-ness of the sound emerging from the bird (see the June 2010 issue of PLoS ONE for the article by Riede, Fisher, and Goller). Like the sounds of a particular human language, birdsongs are learned. Most songbirds raised apart from their fellows will make songs, but they do not sound like other songs. Young birds must learn and practice their songs. Learning implies there are cultural influences along with genetic ones, leaving us to wonder if the lark that Juliet mentions to Romeo sounded the same as a modern-day lark. A bird of the American Northeast, the Chestnut sided warbler (Dendroica pensyl-vanica), was studied in the wild for 19 years and found to show some change over time. The male warblers sing a variety of songs (median six) that can be sorted into two types: Those that end with a loud burst are used to attract mates, whereas songs that appear in male-male conflict have no such burst. Songs used in mate attraction were virtually unchanged during 19 years, but the conflict songs changed steadily and rapidly (see the August 2010 issue of American Naturalist for the article by Byers, Belinsky, and Bentley). The difference seems to be that mate-attraction songs do best when they allow for no ambiguity or uncertainty as to species and readiness to mate, whereas conflict songs are not so critical to survival and seem to drift without much governance. However, they do not drift so far that they change song category, suggesting there are constraints that keep song functions distinct. It is always clear whether …


The invention discloses a novel mechanical arm which comprises a feed drive mechanism, a linkage drive mechanism and an executing mechanism. The feed drive mechanism comprises a horizontal bracket, a feed sliding block arranged on the horizontal bracket, and a first drive device for driving the feed sliding block to move along the bracket, wherein the first drive device is arranged on the bracket. The linkage drive mechanism comprises two second drive devices, two sets of vertically arranged arm levers and a mobile platform. The second drive devices are fixed to the feed sliding block, one ends of the two sets of the arm levers are movably connected to the feed sliding block and are connected to the corresponding second drive devices, and the other ends of the two sets of the arm levers are movably connected to the mobile platform. The executing mechanism comprises a vertically arranged fixed plate, a pair of claw fingers and a third drive device for driving the pair of claw fingers to move, and both the third drive device and the fixed plate are fixed to the mobile platform. The mechanical arm can finish the carrying process stably and rapidly and thus carrying efficiency is improved.


Density functional theory calculations in different cluster models, the largest one K38(C60)23 with 1,418 atoms, combined with the resonating valence-bond theory show that superconductivity in K3C60 involves interaction of C60 with K+, K0, and K− in octahedral interstices as well as immobilization of negative charges on positive tetrahedral K atoms. We found that the orbitals involved in the highest occupied molecular orbital–lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gap are mainly from C60 and octahedral potassium atoms. We suggest that a K3C60 superconductor improvement can be achieved through potassium atom vacancy in octahedral sites. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2010


There are many methods used to predict the rippability of a site, most of which involve using a particular system to rate the rock mass. A preliminary rippability evaluation of a site may be performed by determining the seismic velocity variation within the rock mass. Seismic velocities are used as an estimate of rippability because they are influenced by geological and physical properties of the rock mass. However, a complete rippability evaluation requires rock mass and rock material characterisation as well as data on possible ripping machinery to be used. If the rock mass is rated as being very good rock, then ripping may be difficult. Likewise, if the bulldozer is underpowered, its productivity may be too low and the ripping rate will be slow. Six seismic refraction traverse lines were surveyed at the proposed open pit gold mine at Globe- Progress, near Reefton using a single channel seismograph, then interpreted using the Generalised Reciprocal Method. Combining the seismic velocities found and data on Komatsu's D575A-2 bulldozer, it is estimated that 85% of the pit is rippable, and a further 7.5% is marginal. This means that 7.5% of the open pit area is unlikely to be rippable. However, further seismic refraction surveys, as well as a complete rock mass classification, need to be done to provide a three-dimensional site model and to clearly identify the rippable, marginal and non-rippable zones.


Bis(2-chloroethyl) amine was synthesized by the Vilsmeier reaction of diethanolamine(DEA) with thionyl chloride(DCSO) and dimethyl formamide(DMF),meanwhile,the DMF was used as solvent.The conversion rate of DEA was determined by acetylation catalyzed by pyridine.The effects of some reaction conditions on the conversion rate of DEA were researched,and then the melting point of bis(2-chloroethyl) amine was determined,the molecular structure of bis(2-chloroethyl) amine was characterized by FT-IR,1H-NMR.The results showed that when the mass ratio of DMF to DEA is 0.15,the molar ratio of DCSO to DEA is 2.6,after reacting 3 h at 70 ℃,the conversion rate of DEA is 96.1%,the yield of bis(2-chloroethyl) amine is 91.7%.


A non-rigid image registration device of the ultrasound image and the CT image is provided. Non-rigid image registration device in accordance with the present invention, by transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals ultrasound image forming unit for forming a 3D ultrasound image of the target object; CT image forming unit for forming a three-dimensional CT image of the target object; And 3-D on the basis of the ultrasound image and the 3-dimensional CT intensity values and the gradient information corresponding to the diaphragm region and the vessel regions from the images, respectively forming the first and the second objective function in the diaphragm region and the vessel regions, and first and second on the basis of the objective function it includes parts of matching for matching the three-dimensional ultrasound images and three-dimensional CT image. Ultrasound, CT, image matching, gradient, gray level, the objective function


Given a Knowledge Base that records millions of relations of the form Barack Obama is the president of USA, how can we automatically learn new synonyms and enhance the Knowledge Base? Imagine now measuring the brain activity of a person while reading words that appear in this Knowledge Base; how can we relate information processing in the brain, and information found on the World Wide Web? Can we use both pieces of data in order to enhance knowledge extraction in both scenarios? On a third, seemingly unrelated, application, consider having different views of a social network, e.g. observing who is calling whom, who sends e-mails to whom, and who texts whom; can we use this rich information towards community and anomaly detection? What if we also have demographic information about the people of the network? Can we further enhance our analysis? The key underlying theme behind all the above applications is the multi-aspect nature of the data, with the ultimate question being: how can we take advantage of all different aspects? And if so, can we analyze sets of multi-aspect data jointly? Finally, can we automatically, and in a mostly unsupervised setting, filter out aspects of the data which are redundant or not beneficial for the task at hand? In this thesis, we develop fast, scalable, and interpretable algorithms (with specific emphasis on Tensor Analysis), and we apply them to a wide variety of multi-aspect data problems.


Renal vascular tone is regulated by a variety of endothelium-derived substances. NO is an important mediator of renal blow flow [1] while lipid-derived mediators also seem to have an outstanding role [2]. Arachidonic acid is metabolized via the cyclooxygenase, lipooxygenase and cytochrome P-450 pathways to a large array of vasoactive metabolites. It is now widely accepted that the renal vascular bed participates in the vasodilatory response to pregnancy. In this way, renal blood flow increases (40-80%) during the late first or early the second trimester of human pregnancy [1]. Endothelium-derived relaxing factors have been proposed as mediators of the systemic and renal vasodilatory responses of pregnancy. The urinary excretion of NO [3] and of several prostaglandins and their major metabolites [4] increases during gestation, suggesting enhanced endogenous biosynthesis and a possible role for these factors in the vasodilatory responses. Also, an increased participation of endothelium derived-hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) has been proposed during pregnancy [5]. In addition, these relaxing factors may interact amongst themselves, stimulating or inhibiting their production. Indeed, NO can either stimulate [6] or inhibit [7] eicosanoid production by various types of cells in culture. Also, NO can inhibit EDHF-induced coronary arteriolar dilatation in vivo [8]. It is conceivable that, if one of these vasodilatory pathways is inhibited, yet another vasodilatory substance could be recruited, particularly during pregnancy. The aim of this study was to determine if the relative participation of endothelium-derived relaxing factors in modulating the pressor response to phenylephrine is modified by pregnancy.


The objective of this study was to evaluate the thermal stability of isocyanate as particleboard adhesives by means of TGA (thermogravimetric analysis). In this study, thermal properties particularly thermal stability of isocyanate-water/wood system was studied up to a temperature of 500 ºC using thermal analyzer (Mettler Toledo). When isocyanate was used as the binder in particleboard system; the reactive –NCO group reacted with water (because wood is a hygroscopic material and contains free and bound water) and also with the –OH group from wood. The isocyanate was H3M purchased from PT. Polichemie Asia Pacific and the wood particle was Eucalyptus sp. taken from PT. Toba Pulp Lestari. About 10 mg of the mixture either isocyanate with water or wood in various weight ratios were scanned at two different heating rates (slow and fast; 2.5 and 20 °C/min, respectively) with a temperature range from 25 to 500 °C. Results of this study indicate there were more resistant segments to heat in the mixture of isocyanate and water shown from the residual weights about 61-71% compared to in the mixture of isocyanate and wood particle (only 54-62%). Furthermore, there were fewer steps to degrade in the mixture of isocyanate and water shown from the number of peak temperatures about 1-2 peaks than that in the mixture of isocyanate and wood particle (2-4 peaks). New evidence also emerges that isocyanate reacted with water first shown from the weight loss from the low temperature in the mixture of isocyanate and wood particle.


While we welcome Bower et al.'s (2022) exploration of how teaching need not rely on parametric methods alone, we wish to raise some issues with their presentation. First, "nonparametric"—meaning methods that do not rely on an assumed form of frequency distribution—is not synonymous with "rank-based." When, as in Bower et al.'s (2022) examples, interest lies in differences in mean or median between groups, we could nonparametrically use permutation tests with test statistics that—straightforwardly—describe differences in sample mean or median between groups. These exact approaches use no assumptions other than independence of the outcomes (Berry, Johnston, and Mielke 2019, sec. 3.3) and that the test statistic being used captures deviations from the null that are of some scientific interest. So there is no need to switch to less-relevant rank-based methods, much less present them as the natural alternative to being parametric. We do agree with Bower et al. (2022) that user-friendly implementations are important, but permutation tests are available via simple R commands (e.g., the coin package's oneway_test() function (Hothorn et al. 2008)) and shiny applications that are built on them. Second, the Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests are not tests for population mean rank in the same sense that ANOVA and the t-test are tests for the mean, or Mood's test is a test for the median. The issue is that the population mean and median for a subgroup are defined by the distribution of the response in just that subgroup. The mean rank, in contrast, depends on the distribution of responses in all subgroups and their sample sizes, so whether group 1 has higher mean rank than group 2 can depend on which other groups are also in the dataset. When the groups are not stochastically ordered, this leads to surprisingly complicated behavior of the Kruskal-Wallis test (Brown and Hettmansperger 2002). Finally, with regard to pedagogy we recommend the Data Problem-Solving Cycle (Wild and Pfannkuch 1999) in which the first step, "Problem," identifies the question to address. This


The paper analyzes the disadvantage of BLP model in the application of multi-level secure network,on the basis of which a network enclave boundary BLP model is put forward for adapting to multi-level network.It imposes protection domain relational restriction to control the connection of multi-level network enclave boundary.It uses the trust degree of network subject to solve access control between subject and object on special situation,and strengthens flexibility and adaptability of access control based on secure label.At the same time,the relation of objects is studied deeply to analyze the problem about loss of secret for the association of independent objects and aggregation of similar objects and an access control with objects relational restriction is put forward to strengthen restriction of confidentiality in multi-level network.


Power flow computations are essential for many types of power system analyses. In order to reduce computation time and reflect actual power market operation, network aggregation principles are often used. In this work we discuss network aggregation based on power transfer distribution factors (PTDF), by testing three different aggregation schemes. We analyze the performance of the three schemes comparing their solutions with the results obtained from a DC optimal power flow (DCOPF) performed on the non-aggregated system. The performance is evaluated on the IEEE 30-bus test system using three indicators; power generation, inter-zonal flows, and total system costs. To account for wind and load forecast uncertainty, we consider a modified IEEE 30-bus system proposed to address massive wind integration. The case study results show that the choice of weighting scheme significantly impacts the results. In particular, the PTDF aggregation schemes based on nodal injections (production minus demand) and production outperform the pro-rata aggregation scheme.


Russia is to ban the sale of spirits in Moscow's shops after 10 pm as part of the toughest anti-alcohol campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The move, part of a government strategy to more than halve the nationwide consumption of alcohol in the next decade, will take effect on 1 September.

The law will make it illegal for the Russian capital's supermarkets, shops, and kiosks to sell vodka and other spirits containing 15% or more of alcohol from 10 pm to 10 am. Current rules in Moscow ban the sale of vodka from 11 …


The purpose of regulating the Credit Community industry is to standardise moneylenders' business compliance so that consumers may freely choose where to pursue their moneylending transactions. Media reported an increasing trend on breaching of consumers' sovereignty by the moneylenders in Malaysia. Thus, the primary role of regulation effectiveness comes into the limelight. It raises the question of whether regulation enhancement supports or deter consumers' sovereignty. The study was undertaken in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, where most of the consumers' issues were handled by non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The phenomenology approach was used to extract the three NGO leaders' experiences and four regulator officers' when dealing with the consumers and the licensed moneylenders' issues. Data from semi-structured interviews and moneylending literature were uploaded into Nvivo 12 for thematic analysis. Findings revealed three themes: the non-governmental organisations' role as the "watchdog", the regulator's educational role, and the regulator's role in uplifting consumers' sovereignty. The findings reveal a tendency for consumers with moneylending issues to seek NGOs, which affect the effort of seeking redress. The implication is for the regulator to take the lead in strengthening a three-way working relationship involving the moneylenders' associations and the NGOs to resolve consumers sovereignty issues.

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The genetic analysis for yield and its components was attempted using 4x4 diallel. The diallel analysis showed the importance of both additive as well as non-additive gene action for all the traits studied. Except for ear bearing tillers, SCA variances were higher than GCA variances for all the traits suggesting the predominance of non-additive gene action. In the case of ear bearing tillers, the GCA variance was greater than SCA variance indicating more of additive gene action. Parents with high combining ability have been identified


One of the securities that has a current use in the market is the check, which, because of the technologies in the use of cash in bank current account, in a certain way, leaves it in disuse, however, and as One way to give renewed force to this instrument is to allow it a credit function that in Colombian law does not have, that is to say, that it can validly agree a date later or postdate to the one of the release, however, our country, Would imply a change of approach from the legislative one, since the check in Colombia is a means of payment and the post date is proscribed, as such, deserves to make a study of the figure in comparative law, in order to establish if there are experiences In this regard, the document presents interesting experiences from South American countries that can serve as inspiration for the academy and the legislature, in order to provide a tool to facilitate the Commercial transactions in the country and update the Colombian commercial legislation


The basis for the existence of all living organisms is homeostasis. Any living organism is an open dynamic self-regulating system and self-regulation is based on the feedback principle. The use of biologically active substances, for example, plant meal, opens up great possibilities for modulation of physiological processes in the body. Walnut fruit meal also has a rich composition, contains almost all microelements, large amounts of protein as well as carotene, quinones, lecithin, water-soluble vitamins and flavonoids. The aim of the work was to study the adaptive changes in the morphological composition of rat blood to intragastric loading with walnut meal in the form of suspension on distilled water. The experiment was carried out on 60 white laboratory rats. Conclusion: intragastric loading with distilled water suspension of walnut meal in a concentration of 15 mg/100 g body weight of clinically healthy rats was accompanied by an increase in erythrocyte count, hemoglobin concentration and leukocyte count by 6.8%, 7.0% and 9.6%, respectively, compared with the control group animals.


© 2006 The Authors Journal compilation © 2006 SES and economic migrants, who have been cast as 'swamping' Europe. Racism today has fluidity; its immediate focus can shift quickly. Globalisation and the collapse of the former Soviet Union have changed the nature of international migration, in essence the poor migrants are not, as they were in the colonial past, exclusively defined by the colour of their skin. Knowles clearly addresses, however, that when racism finds a new road it does not turn away from its original victims. The question of 'colour' is still paramount; however, it is now connected to 'cultural racism' which uses cultural difference to vilify or marginalise or demand cultural assimilation. As Said (1994, p. 15) reminds us: 'cultures consume more "foreign" elements, alterities, differences, than they consciously exclude ... All cultures are involved in one another; none is single pure, all are hybrid, heterogeneous, extraordinarily differentiated, and unmonolithic'. Juxtaposed with 'racism of colour' and 'cultural racism' is the 'omnipresent' nationalism. It could be argued that the last decade has been characterised by a widespread unease, and a search for a more elemental sense of identity. This, against a backdrop of failing empires, disintegrating nationstates, and new regional and ethnic claims to loyalty. Undoubtedly, after reading this text, readers will gain a greater and more profound understanding of the complexities of 'race' issues. Knowles's work deals coherently and articulately with complex subject matters and gives rationality and meaning to social theory, whether it is Marxism or functionalism, or mass society theory, to acknowledge difference as a live social force.


Building sector has been one of major contributors to global warming due to the excessive energy consumption during its lifecycle. In this context utilization of alternate energy resources such as solar, wind and biomass; as a replacement for conventional energy resources could be beneficially applied for achieving potential savings in power consumption. Adaptation of non- conventional energy resources combined with use of energy saving fixtures offer a sustainable solution for the increasing energy needs and environmental issues with conventional energy sources. In the present work feasibility studies were carried out for upgrading the existing building i.e. Annapurna bhawan in Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology (JUET), Madhya Pradesh, India; into an energy efficient building. Annapurna bhawan encompasses kitchen and four dining halls, being used for cooking and serving food to the students in the university. Study examines the potential benefits of using biomass energy through continuous anaerobic digestion and solar photovoltaic modules as a replacement to conventional energy sources. Results suggest potential energy savings and economic benefits could be achieved through the installation of these systems.


An overcurrent protection circuit applied in low dropout linear voltage regulator is designed. The circuit is characterized by simple structure, low consumption and being easily adjusted. The circuit prototype can be fabricated using the 0.5μm CMOS process. The simulation results show that it can limit the maximum output current and the output short current of the voltage regulator within 300mA and 40mA, respectively, and achieves the purpose of overcurrent protection.


Abstract : This report summarizes the work performed in designing, fabricating, and testing small-scale storable propellant tanks. The design incorporates full-scale missile tank features and typical weld stresses. Fabrication and test procedures are based on simulated production tooling and on actual procedures used in the manufacture of production tankage. The tank designs are based on four different alloys. Five tanks were produced from each alloy. The alloys were: 7039 aluminum alloy; 2021 aluminum alloy; Inconel 718 corrosion resistant alloy; and A-286 corrosion resistant alloy. The tanks will be filled with CLF5 at the Rocket Propulsion Laboratory and stored in the RPL Storability Test facility.


The amorphous Indium-Tin-Zinc Oxide (a-ITZO) was fabricated by using direct-current (DC) sputtering method. Electrical and chemical properties of a-ITZO thin film transistors (TFTs) fabricated on the polyimide (PI) substrate were investigated. The a-ITZO TFTs on the PI substrate exhibited the saturation field effect mobility of 8.93 cm2/Vs, subthreshold swing of 0.38 V/decade and high on/off current ratio of ∼ 108. Stability under the negative bias stress (NBS), negative bias illumination stress (NBIS) and positive bias stress (PBS) was evaluated.


can be induced by the external electromagnetic fi eld via the dimerization reaction between the six-memberedringsoftheuracil – benzenepairattheelectronicexcited-state level of the complex. This can shed light on important biological photo-reactions, indicating that during the photo-process induced by a UV light pulse both scenarios can take place: a biologically positive internal conversion,servingasaprotectionmechanismagainsttheUVradiation,andbiologicallynegativedimerizationleadingtoDNAdamage.


Current interest in the clinical evaluation of hearing at high frequencies (greater than 8000 Hz), and scarcity of low cost commercial units prompted us to investigate the feasibility of assembling an extended range audiometer. A search of the electronic components and earphones available in the market indicated that an extended range audiometer could be assembled with considerable savings on the cost. The audiometer under consideration is designed for measuring pure tone thresholds at standard 13 octave intervals in the frequency range of 100 through 25 000 Hz. Preliminary results on the audiometer performance will be presented.


The purpose of this paper is to investigate the method and process of using 3S technology on a landscape engineering project. Through a case study on the Bailin landscape construction project in Tsukuba, Japan, this paper argues that strengthening the drafting capabilities of 3S technology (e.g., comprehensive database management, mapping, landscape simulation, and data updating) will create the type of integrated platform for engineering design and management needed to increase the efficiency of landscape engineering projects.


In the growth flourishing period(before or after two lines seedlings grew very near)of virus-free sweetpotato,three plant growth regulators(paclobutrazol,mepiquat-chloride and zhuang feng an)were used to overground parts of virus-free sweetpotato.Results suggested that all of the three plant growth regulators were effective to regulate overground parts growth of virus-free sweetpotato,such as reducing the tendril length,increasing the stem thickness,increasing the branch quantities of individual plant.Paclobutrazol was best in control the growth of tendrils and it made the average tendril length reduce 11.2% compared with the control,mepiquat-chloride was effective distinctly in increasing the stem thickness and made it increased 14.5%;The three plant growth regulators had improved the earthnut weight of individual plant and the rates of large and middle sweetpotatoes,and the yield of fresh sweetpotato was improved observably;zhuang feng an was best in improving the yield of fresh sweetpotato and made it improved 13.1%,the second was paclobutrazol and made it improved 8.2%,the third was mepiquat-chloride and made it improved 4.9%.


Objective: To assess paternal education, parental occupation, family income, level of knowledge and to determine the attitude and awareness of cases and controls in relation to dental caries and its risk factors in 6-18 years old respondents.  Material and Methods: A case-control study was carried out in the outpatient Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry. A total of 800 subjects, 400 each in case and control group were enrolled. The cases were subjects in designated age group with dental caries while controls were subjects without dental caries but matched with the cases on three confounding factors – age, sex, and religion. Multivariate logistic regression was used, with a significance level set at 5%.  Results: Paternal education [illiterate (p=0.002), high school (p=0.005), intermediate (p=0.001), graduate (p=0.002)], family income per month [2000 INR (30 USD) (p=0.016); 5000-10,000 INR (75USD -145 USD) (p=0.035)], attitude of short visit duration to dentist (p<0.001), knowledge about sweets causing dental caries (p<0.001), awareness about symptoms of dental caries (p<0.001) and need of lifestyle change (p<0.001) were significantly associated with dental caries.  Conclusion: The present research showed that in cases, knowledge was higher as compared to controls whereas contrasting results were observed with attitude and awareness. These results necessitate an urgent need of national programme integrated with primary health care under school health and community outreach programmes, so as to encourage the population to adopt and as well as sustain dental health promoting lifestyles and practices and help in reducing the disease burden.


The purpose of this work is to summarize the rst results in order to get a more realistic and practical ionospheric mapping function. It is deduced exclusively from ground GPS data worldwide distributed (from IGS network) where the mean electron density in ionospheric voxels is estimated without using any background model. We demonstrate in this way that it is possible to get realistic and persistent estimates of the ionospheric effective height from ground GPS data which are in good agreement with the corresponding values deduced from independent GPS occultation data. Such validation is performed during 2002 coinciding with available GPS occultation receiver data of the Low Earth Orbiter (LEO) SAC-C. Such characterization of the effective height deduced from ground worldwide GPS data can be extended to representative datasets of the last Solar cycle, and the potential improvement in terms of ionospheric determination and corrections will be also discussed.


International students are missing out on an immersive campus experience because they have few meaningful interactions with American students. This article describes three class projects with different instructors across different areas of study that sought to more successfully integrate international students while building a more global mindset in American students. Both groups of students in each of the three projects expressed positive experiences and a new outlook on the possibilities for relationships between international and domestic students on campus.


INTRODUCTION: Mental health among students represents an important and growing public health concern. College is a place where student learns new experiences which play a vital role in physical as well as psychological growth for the identity consolidation. Engineering students experience frequent psychological distress as of various underlying reasons leading to psychiatric disorders including anxiety, depression, substance use etc. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The final sample consisted of 196 students (1 st year 50, 2 nd year 51, 3 rd year 48 and final year 47) from the Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, the premier engineering college of Rajasthan, India. Study was conducted in two phases. In first phase, engineering students were administered socio-demographic data sheet and GHQ-60 (General Health Questionnaire) hindi version to ascertain the extent of psychiatric illnesses. False positive cases were dropped and in second phase the diagnosed students with psychiatric problems and control group were individually administered a battery of tests to determine the role of various possible causative factors. Scores obtained on different measures were arranged as per the requirement of research design and statistical procedure. RESULTS : Out of all the subjects, 24.49% had some psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorder was highest i.e. 32% in 1 st year students and overall in 36.60% of female students. Statistically significant differences were noted on various applied tools. CONCLUSION: Students who had higher scores on GHQ-60 scale had more neurotic problems, poor coping skills and abnormal personality traits and had high psychiatric morbidity than the vice versa group. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jucms.v2i2.11167 Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (2014) Vol.2(2): 6-10


Natural enemies resistant to insecticides are expected to help control the remaining arthropod pests after insecticide application and, hence, prevent crop damage, pest resurgence, and resistance selection. Field‐evolved resistance to lambda‐cyhalothrin and to other pyrethroids exhibited by the neotropical ladybird beetle Eriopis connexa (Germar) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) has been characterized and enhanced under laboratory selection. In this study, we investigated the stability of the resistance and its relationship with detoxification enzyme activity and biological performance, which are important for a biocontrol agent. One subgroup of the resistant population of E. connexa was established without selection pressure (R‐UNSEL) during eight generations, and compared to either a susceptible (SUS) or its parental resistant (R‐SEL) population. The resistance ratio in R‐UNSEL was reduced by 50% compared to R‐SEL between the first and fourth generation without selection pressure, but stayed stable afterwards, from the fifth to the eighth generation. Despite eight generations without selection pressure and reduction in the resistance level, the resistance ratio in R‐UNSEL was still 39× greater than in the SUS population. The reduced resistance in R‐UNSEL correlated to reduction in esterase activity, but the R‐UNSEL maintained greater activity than the SUS group. The absence of selection pressure and reduction in enzyme activity in R‐UNSEL did not mitigate the adaptive costs, with 2.7× lower egg production compared to SUS females. These findings indicate that resistance to lambda‐cyhalothrin in R‐UNSEL has already stabilized in the population. Although the resistance ratio and detoxifying enzymes were reduced in R‐UNSEL, the impact on fecundity was maintained. Furthermore, the absence of crossing with wild SUS individuals will allow the R‐UNSEL offspring to retain the resistance allowing survival to lambda‐cyhalothrin even when used at the highest recommended field rate.


The spacing of the dendrite arm and the lamellar of nonequilibrium eutectics in the different size semicontinuous casting ingot of the super-high strength aluminum alloy of Al-6.5Zn-2.3Mg-2.3Cu have been studied by laser scanning confocal nonequilibrium eutectics nonequilibrium eutectics microscopy.The results show that when the sizes of semicontinuous casting ingot the alloy change from Φ110 mm,Φ200 mm to the thickness of 440 mm,the spacing of the dendrite arm in the ingot from 27 μm,85 μm to 141 μm and the lamellar spacing in the nonequilibrium eutectics from 0.25 μm,0.27 μm to 0.48 μm.


The closure (1) for a container (2), particularly for a filled with a flowable, surfactant-containing product container, comprising a closure base (3), a locking head (11), fixing means (5) for fixing the closure base (3) on the container (2) in such a way that the shutter (1) relative to the container (2) is sealed, at least one product dispensing opening (4, 4a, 4b), which is communicatively connected to the product-filled containers in such a way that product from the container into the environment can be emitted, at least one stabilizing element (6) is movably arranged on the closure that is not stood stably positionable over head from a first position in which the closure (1) on a substantially horizontal surface (7), in a is second position in movable such that in this second position of the stabilizing element (6) of the closure (1) on a substantially horizontal surface n (7) is positioned over head in such a way was stable, that in the overhead position of the container (2) at least a portion of the closure (1), particularly the closure head (11), and at least part of the in the second position form located stabilization element (6), the base of the closure (1).


A study has been carried out to determine the affect of grassland fire on the distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in roadside soils of Marang district. 15 surfacial soil samples were collected from Kuala Tengah in Pulau Kerengga to Kg. Baharu in Merchang, a stretch of area bordering to the national trunk road, which frequently suffered from grassland fires. Soil samples (< 500 µm) were ultrasonicated using dichloromethane as solvent and the extracts fractionated on silica-alumina column. Detection and quantification of 16 priority PAHs compounds were carried out using GC-MS. Results indicated that concentration of PAHs in soils ranged from 30 to 450 µg kg -1 (dry weight) with almost all stations showing the presence of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), a signature PAH compound associated with biomass burning. Benzo(g,h,i) perylene (BgP), a compound generally associated with vehicular emission was also observed in some of the soil samples. These results indicate that both biomass burning and vehicular emission contributed to the presence of PAHs in these soils, however, a higher correlation observed for BaP and total PAHs compared to between BgP and total PAHs suggest that recent grassland fires in the area has an impact on the distribution of PAHs in the soils studied.


Between institutional degradations and structural sources of breakdown, on the one hand, and actions that emerge within times of uncertainty, on the other, lies an essential but undertheorized dimension of political crisis: the struggle over interpretation. This article provides some conceptual tools to think about such struggle and its implications for understanding political crisis. The article examines the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) with reference to the Salem Witch Trials (1692) and, in particular, struggles between interpretations of the events that emerged as they unfolded. A crisis comes to have focus and meaning when interpretations construe the boundaries of a crisis, select certain key elements of social struggle, and develop specific speech genres that actors use to talk about a crisis. These findings suggest a distinction between interpretations of crisis that thematize central structural tensions and interpretations that displace anxieties created by those tensions on to a fetishized interpretation of crisis.


The invention discloses a glass denitrification system based on SNCR technology. The glass denitrification system is composed of a glass melting furnace, and a liquid ammonia storage tank, a liquid ammonia evaporator, an ammonia gas buffering tank, an ammonia/air mixer, an ammonia gas distribution and regulation system and an ammonia ejection system, which are connected in sequence, wherein the core component of the ammonia ejection system is an ammonia gas ejector, the temperature at the middle upper part of a heat storage chamber of the glass melting furnace is 850-1050 DEG C, a plurality of ammonia gas ejectors are arranged in a high temperature area without flame, the plurality of ammonia gas ejectors are arranged on multiple layers, and each ammonia gas ejector forms multipoint planar radiation to enable the ammonia gas to retain in a reflection area for at least 0.5 seconds. According to the invention, the heat storage chamber of the glass melting furnace is used as a reactor, thus no additional reactor needs to be arranged; the SNCR technology is used for performing glass denitrification, and no catalyst is used in the denitrification process, thus such defects caused by other flue gas denitrification technology as air pre-heater blockage, pressure loss and the like are generated; the denitrification efficiency can be higher than 90% and can be comparable with that of the SCR technology.


traditional definititon of the concept has limitations.with the Object-oriented method,we can make clear the static characteristics of concept,that is,essence of the concept;we can also understand the dynamic characteristics of concept,that is,the operations,methods or activities about concept.this paper establishes a new cognitive structure for concept,and provides a new theory for concept expression and knowledge construction in learning processing.


Objective Ferredoxin gene of Trichomonas vaginalis was induced to express in E.coli. Methods To construct an eukaryotic cell expression recombinant plasmid containing ferredoxin gene of T. vaginalis. The recombinant prokaryotic plasmid pUC19-Fd was transferred into E.coli JM109. The ferredoxin was induced to express by IPTG. Results The expressed protein in E.coli was identified by SDS-PAGE and Western blot. Conclusion The ferredoxin was successfully expressed in E.coli.


Article is devoted to the distinct issues of constitutional theory and practice relating to imperative mandate concept in contemporary conditions. The aim of the article is to highlight the general theoretical ideas of imperative mandate concept in Ukraine and particular foreign states by analyzing the constitutional and legal thought and generalization of the experience of parliamentary activities. In the article the question of choosing the optimal model of parliamentary mandate in Ukraine is raised. The problem is studied through the prism of the primary problems of democracy, regarding to the nature of parliamentarians and voters relations and communications. The process of creating and developing of imperative mandate concept is clarified in this article, as well as the concept's fundamental elements are explored. The influence of imperative mandate doctrine on contemporary constitutional practice in Ukraine and foreign states is analyzed.


With the rapid development of our country electric power industry and the increasing of international cooperation, translation of electric power English is increasing. But, the translation of long sentence for Electric Specialty English has many problems. Electric Specialty English as a branch of English of science and technology has the features of formal in mode, plain in questions, strong logicality and professional. Electric Specialty English always use long sentences to describe the fact and state the reason in order to make the article rigorous, the information compact; reflect the complex logical relationship between things and phenomena accurately and objectively. This article explores the features of long sentence for Electric Specialty English, translation principles and translation methods.


OBJECTIVES
To underscore the importance of psychological evaluation in erectile dysfunction.

METHODS
Different methods of psychological evaluation (questionnaires, tests, directive interview, etc.) are utilized in erectile dysfunction. We use a flexible approach since different patients require different treatments.

RESULTS
The curative process is directly related with the psychotherapist's interpretation of the information given by the patient and the analysis of the resistance to the resolution of the underlying conflict that may arise.

CONCLUSIONS
Erectile dysfunction may be organic or psychogenic. Although it may arise from organic causes, the physical symptoms cannot be separated from the psychological components. The membrane that separates the conscious from the subconscious becomes permeable through psychotherapy. The success of treatment largely depends on the patient's desire to be cured. Correct diagnosis is essential to treatment by behavioural, psychoanalytical or combined and adaptable therapy. The importance of strict observation of the protocol and a multidisciplinary approach, which includes the intervention of a psychotherapist, is emphasized.


In the last few years the European Parliament has witnessed a significant increase in translation demand. Although Translation Memory (TM) tools, terminology databases and bilingual concordancers have provided significant leverage in terms of quality and productivity the European Parliament is in need for advanced language technology to keep facing successfully the challenge of multilingualism. This paper describes an ongoing large-scale machine translation post-editing evaluation campaign the purpose of which is to estimate the business benefits from the use of machine translation for the European Parliament. This paper focuses mainly on the design, the methodology and the tools used by the evaluators but it also presents some preliminary results for the following language pairs: Polish-English, Danish-English, Lithuanian-English, English-German and English-French.


We propose a Relational Calculus based on the concept of unary relation. In this Relational Calculus different axiomatic systems converge to a model called Dynamic Generative System with Symmetry (DGSS). In DGSS we define the concepts of relational set and function and prove that extensionality and the substitution property of equality are theorems of DGSS. As a first exemplification of DGSS, we construct a model of natural numbers without relying on Peano's Axioms. Eventually, some new clarifications regarding the nature of the number zero are given.


An endothermic reaction is semi-adiabatically conducted semi-isothermally by means of a catalytic reactor. The reactor has a first and a second flow path (10, 20) communicating with each other in the heat exchange. In the first flow path (10), the endothermic reaction takes place over a catalyst and in the second flow path (20) alternately takes a oxidation and reduction of a metal instead, to provide the necessary temperature for the endothermic reaction.


Tomography refers to the cross-sectional imaging of an object from either transmission or reflection data collected by illuminating the object from many different directions. The impact of tomography in diagnostic medicine has been revolutionary, since it has enabled doctors to view internal organs with unprecedented precision and safety to the patient. There are also numerous nonmedical imaging applications which lend themselves to methods of computerized tomography, such as mapping of underground resources...cross-sectional imaging of for nondestructive testing...the determination of the brightness distribution over a celestial sphere...three-dimensional imaging with electron microscopy. Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging provides a tutorial overview of topics in tomographic imaging covering mathematical principles and theory...how to apply the theory to problems in medical imaging and other fields...several variations of tomography that are currently being researched.


Seventy-six Counselor Education doctoral students rated the degree to which text-based computer mediated communication (CMC) counseling exchanges had therapeutic relationship qualities. The participants read either a treatment or alternate treatment counseling scenario posted on the World Wide Web and then rated the scenarios on the strength of a working alliance and relational communications of intimacy. There was a significant difference found between the groups indicating that it was not the medium itself that defined the quality of the counseling relationship, but rather the counseling scenario that study participants read. Participants' perceptions about e-mail technology were a significant covariate. Implications of this study for counseling online and counselor education along with future research directions are discussed.


1976. in To facilitate tield use of the rate of tire spread equation used in Arizona oak chaparral, step-by-step instructions are presented in work book form. Input data can be either measured or estimated from the tables and figures included; a sample computation form may be dupli cated for field use. Solving the equation gives the land manager the guidelines for planning tire control efforts, or for using prescribed fire in the brush type. safely without bulldozing, brush smashing, or other special measures heretofore employed in intentional burning, at considerable cost both in dollars and site disturbance. Forming fnelbreaks by nonspreading fire is feasible, economical, and effective, although additional research is needed to work out operational details. When designed to dissect large areas of chaparral, these breaks can substantially lessen the probability of large, catastrophic wildfires. 1976. To facilitate field use of the rate of fire spread equation used in Arizona oak chaparral, step-by-step instructions are presented in work book form. Input data can be either measured or estimated from the tables and figures included; a sample computation form may be dupli cated for field use. Solving the equation gives the land manager the guidelines for planning fire control efforts, or for using prescribed fire in the brush type. To facilitate field use of the rate of fire spread equation used in Arizona oak chaparral, step-by-step instructions are presented in work book form. Input data can be either measured or estimated from the tables and figures included; a sample computation form may be dupli cated for field use. Solving the equation gives the land manager the guidelines for planning fire control efforts, or for using prescribed fire in the brush type.


It is not unlikely that the earliest trace of the Kurds is to be found on a Sumerian clay-tablet, of the third millennium B.C., on which " the land of Kar-da " or " Qar-da " is mentioned. This " land of Karda " adjoined that of the people of Su, who dwelt on the south of Lake Wân, and seems in all probability to have been connected with the Qur-ṭi-e, who lived in the mountains to the west of the same lake, and with whom Tiglath-Pileser I fought; the philological identity of these two names is, however, uncertain, owing to the doubt about the precise value of the palatals and dentals in Sumerian.


Investigate the capability of spermatogonial stem cells(SSCs) differentiating to osteoblasts under different experimental conditions in vitro.In this study,the osteoblasts were induced from SSCs by desamethason,glycerol 2-phosphate disodium salt hydrate and vitamin C and were examined with Von Kossa's stain,cytochemistry stain and immunohistochemistry stain(Collagen Ⅰ).The results indicated that the osteoblasts formed Von Kossa stain positive nodules,dark granules were found in the cell,suggesting the deposition of mineralized materials;the osteoblasts showed brown or deep dark by alkaline phosphatasepositive stain and showed CollagenⅠpositive with immunohistochemistry stain.And so,we may know that the Spermatogonial stem cells(SSCs) have the capability to be differentiated to osteoblasts in vitro.


3 Vul is found to be a single-lined spectroscopic binary with a period of 367 days, very nearly equal to one year. Velocity observations over two decades, in combination with archival data, have produced sufficiently good phase coverage to yield a well-defined orbit. Nonetheless, residuals from a Keplerian velocity curve are large than expected for the sharp-lined B6 III primary: Night-to-night and possibly more rapid non-Keplerian radial-velocity variations occur. High-resolution observations of Si II lines reveal marked line-profile changes during single and successive nights. Preliminary evidence suggests that low-amplitude photometric variations may be present also. It is suggested that the primary is a member of the nonradially pulsating '53 Persei' class of variable stars.


[Objective]To study the effect of comprehensive intervention measures on girl students with simple obesity and overweight,and to explore the effective antiobesity project.[Methods]Simple obesity and overweight students were accept the comprehensive intervention measures composed of health eduction,aerobicexercise,reasonable diet for 10 months.And their indexes of behavior,morphology,physiology and biochemistry were measured before,during and after intervention respectively.[Results]The results indicated that their indexes(including dietary behavior,weight,BMI,blood lipid and so on)improved significanly after intervention.There were obvious differences compared with pre-intervention indexes(P﹤0.05).[Conclusion]The comprehensive intervention measures in the study are of rational,safe,effective and valid,which are suitable for applying to national fitness.