The purpose of this work was twofold: first, to develop correlations for the entrainment of small fuel droplets into water in a stratified fuel/water shear flow; second, to implement the correlations in a CFD code and validate it with experimental effluent fuel concentration data. It is assumed that the droplets act as passive scalars and are advected far from their generation regions where they may cause fuel contamination problems far down-stream. This work relied upon extensive experimental data obtained from a stably stratified shear flow: droplet number, droplet PDF, fluid fraction and velocity field data. The droplet data was expressed as a nondimensional entrainment velocity (E) for the volume flux of fuel due to small droplets. The fluid fraction and velocity fields at the interface were expressed in terms of Richardson numbers (Ri). It was found that E = Ce Ri−n where n = 1 and Ce is a constant, gives a good fit for the two experimental velocity cases. The best correlation was implemented in a computational simulation of the stably stratified shear flow, and the results show that the simulation can predict the entrainment quite well. A second simulation was performed for a flow with energetic vertical buoyant jets ("buoyant flow events") and stably stratified shear flows with very large Richardson numbers. In this case, the simulations underpredicted effluent fuel concentrations by two orders of magnitude. Ad hoc corrections to the entrainment correlations show marked improvements.Copyright © 2002 by ASME


A stain removal device, capable of locally striking and cleaning a fabric product, automatically supplying a liquid and applying a striking force to a stained portion of the fabric product, preventing liquid leakage, and achieving miniaturization. The stain removal device (100) comprises: a box-shaped mechanism (1) having a head portion (11) formed with a striking surface (21a), a liquid supply bottle (12) accommodating a liquid, and liquid supply passages (10a, 12z) formed from the liquid supply bottle (12) to all over the head portion (11); and a device body (3), having a vibration unit (31) which can be mounted by pressing the box-shaped mechanism (1) and be taken down by pulling out, and exerts, in a direction approximately orthogonal to the striking surface (21a) of the head portion (11), vibration on the box-shaped mechanism (1) by being powered. The stain removal device (100) has a structure in which a liquid is supplied, along with the exerted vibration on the box-shaped mechanism (1) by the vibration unit (31), from the liquid supply bottle (12) to the striking surface (21a) of the head portion (11) through the liquid supply passages (10a, 12z). In addition, the liquid supply bottle (12) of the box-shaped mechanism (1) is composed of a bottle body (12x) and a cover (12y) screwed to the bottle body (12x) in a manner that the cover (12y) can be opened or closed, and the head portion (11) is integrally disposed on the cover (12y).


base used for the revision remained the original one compiled by Mountain, with the addition of a relatively small number of cases from the NCI Lung Cancer Study Group on whom there was only limited clinical staging information. Most delegates were surprised to find that the revisions had become finalised and immutable without any input from the IASLC. As a result, the IASLC as its World Conference in Dublin created an International Staging Committee under the joint chairmanship of myself and Bob Ginsberg, to prepare a submission from the IASLC for the next revision. I am delighted that your President has agreed to join this committee and that there will be major input from the Japan Lung Cancer Society. The subject of this talk will focus on the comments I have so far received, from the International Workshop and since, concerning perceived deficiencies in the latest revision, both the errors of commission and those of omission. I would ask that if there are any additional points that anyone would like to make to the committee that they write to me with their suggestions and their statistical support.


Off-road vehicle stability has been a serious problem for a long time. The stability problem is mostly caused by vehicle overturn. Every year many people are injured, die and have property damage because of vehicle overturns. In the past most of our effort has been put on the dynamic analysis of the vehicle motion and on the design of the driver protection system. Unfortunately the protection system only reduces the degree of injury and damage but such system does nothing to prevent the accidents.
Since vehicle motion can be simulated and predicted using mathematical models and computer programs with given initial conditions and ground characteristics, the overturn of the vehicle can be completely determined so that the overturning boundaries can be set up according to the conditions of operation, such as vehicle velocity, heading angle, slope angle, height of bumps on the ground surface, and the reactions of operator in the form of steering, braking, and throttle control. These overturning boundaries can consist of a group of curves that give the maximum travel speed, slope angle, degree of ground roughness, and turning rate for which there is stable vehicle operation. Based on the group of overturning boundary curves and the comparison between those curves and the states of the vehicle motion, it is possible to predict whether the vehicle is stable or not if it continues its present motion. It is also possible to decide whether braking, steering, and throttle control are necessary.
In applying this concept, an active off-road vehicle instability prevention system has been developed. A control map concept has been used to simplify the real time computation during the vehicle operation. The active overturn prevention system not only can prevent the accidents, save lives, and eliminate the equipment damage, but it can also increase the productivity of the vehicle. The system provides two operational modes. The first is the automatic control mode which regulates the vehicle speed below and close to the safe operation boundaries. The second is the manual mode which controls the vehicle speed only when the vehicle speed is close to the safe operation boundaries but the operator fails to slow it down. After the vehicle speed is low enough for safe operation, the control system hands back the speed control to the operator.
An information display has also been designed, constructed and tested in this study. The display may be used to train the operators and improve the operator's skill.


This article focuses on the reality of small- scale economic activities in Portugal. The latest political discussions put on discussion, with increasing insistence, the issue of small and medium enterprises. However, those approaches only focus on the general characteristics of the enterprises and the specificity of small-scale economic units does not emerge, and in this way they are made invisible in the level of thought and action. It is discussed about the difficulties faced by these small entrepreneurs that are forced to comply with regulatory frameworks and functional procedures established for international competitiveness, even if their field of action are the local markets. It is also made reflection of a country with "thirst" of internationalization, concerned with exports and foreign investment, but at the same time attacks small production units that provide employment and national production of wealth, driving the country into a dynamic of impoverishment.


Hot flashes associated with natural, surgical, or chemotherapy-induced menopause can substantially disrupt sleep and quality of life (QOL) for women


The autolytic activity of bovine lens extracts at 55° C. and pH 7.4 has been shown to be markedly influenced by the simultaneous presence of monoand divalent cations. Of the cations tested, Na+ at 2.5 to 5 mM. and Mg at 5 to 10 mM. produce the best activation. The stimulation is synergistic. On the basis of remits obtained here and in other laboratories, the suggestion is made that this combination of cations may be required for activation of the neutral proteinase of the lens. In the presence of Mg and average physiologic lenticular levels of both Na and K+, autolysis is suppressed to the basal level obtainable in the presence of Mg alone.


High speed and low power consumption is one of the most important design objectives in integrated circuits. As multipliers are widely used in such circuits, the multipliers must be designed efficiently. In this paper, we propose the novel adaptive hold logic circuit, which is simple and efficient approach to reduce the power consumption and delay. The proposed architecture is applied to column bypassing multiplier. The result analysis shows that the reliable multiplier has better performance in power consumption and delay.


diet in protein, easily fermentable carbohydrates, by an extension of the habitat of the liquefying bacteria, and usually by an increase of the aerogenic bacilli (B. coli) while the growth of the acidophilic (aciduric) bacteria is restricted. In such instances there is usually a decided aug-mentation of the gas volume above that characteristic of a mixed diet; the sediments show increased numbers of subtiloid bacilli and aerogenic organisms, while the acidophils are relatively poorly represented. A carbohydrate rich diet, on the other hand (particularly if the carbo-hydrates are easily fermentable sugars rather than starches), results in a limitation of the liquefying bacteria, and a more or less marked restric-tion of the development of the aerogenic forms accompanied by a decided increase in the acidophiles. The gas volume is decreased and in the sediments are seen the acidophilic bacteria prominently represented, while the other types are suppressed to a considerable or lesser extent.


We evaluated the analytical performance of the Test-1 automated analyzer (Alifax S.p.A) for the assessment of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). In this analyzer, 150-μL samples are aspirated, rotated slowly for 2 min, and put into the system, which measures the erythrocyte concentration in a capillary through a photometer at a wavelength of 950 nm. For each sample, a sedimentation curve is obtained, which is transformed to comparable Westergren values. The first result is obtained in <3 min, and subsequent results are obtained every 30 s (1)(2).

The Test-1 method was compared with both the manual Westergren reference method and an automated Westergren method (Starrsed; Charles Goffin Medical Systems) (3). Sodium citrate-anticoagulated blood samples were used …


Prior treatments of the scattered x‐ray intensity from diffusion zones in two component crystalline systems lack a formal basis and tend to be intuitive in approach. Relatively simple and useful results can be obtained if the continuous composition changes are approximated by either a series of steps or by a system of linear segments. This paper develops equations for the coherent scattering from both approximations. Summing the scattering from all segments leads to the formation of intensity bands. Equations, containing an absorption correction, are given for planar diffusion zones in the micron and submicron range.


Drawing from my experiences as President of the Central States Communication Association, I examine how service allows for opportunities to create relationships, identity, and leadership in profound ways. I then consider how Communication scholars can unite to resolve ongoing economic issues that threaten both communication pedagogy and research. The academy as a whole faces serious economic challenges; this essay identifies some of these specific problems and potential action steps that academic associations can take in an advocacy role on this front. This is done in the hope that associations or even individuals begin (or continue) thinking about what they can do to help address the economic issues in higher education that so many face across the academy.


Deep learning has been successful in various domains including image recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing. However, the research on its application in graph mining is still in an early stage. Here we present Model R, a neural network model created to provide a deep learning approach to link weight prediction problem. This model extracts knowledge of nodes from known links' weights and uses this knowledge to predict unknown links' weights. We demonstrate the power of Model R through experiments and compare it with stochastic block model and its derivatives. Model R shows that deep learning can be successfully applied to link weight prediction and it outperforms stochastic block model and its derivatives by up to 73% in terms of prediction accuracy. We anticipate this new approach to provide effective solutions to more graph mining tasks.


Disclosed is a soar battery packaging structure. The solar battery packaging structure comprises a light incidence layer used for sunlight incidence, a photoelectric conversion material used for accepting sunlight irradiation to generate current carriers, a sealing material arranged between the light incidence layer and the photoelectric conversion material, an upper electrode arranged on the upper surface of the photoelectric conversion material, and a lower electrode arranged on the lower surface of the photoelectric conversion material, wherein the upper electrode comprises a first electrode group positioned at the upper end and a second electrode group positioned at the lower end; the first electrode group and the second electrode group are arranged oppositely to form an interval in the middle; a plurality of convex light condensation structures are arranged in the sealing material; the convex light condensation structures are arranged above the upper electrode, and the longest edge of a YZ vertical section of the convex light condensation structures is equal to the length of a Y axis of the photoelectric conversion material; and a height from the convex light condensation structures to the upper electrode is set, so that the focal point thereof can be positioned in the interval.


Introduction:
 Depressive symptoms are common and share many biopsychosocial mechanisms with hypertension, but cross-sectional studies on their association have produced inconsistent results. The emergence of digital home blood pressure (BP) measurements may provide additional insight into the relationship.

 Hypothesis:
 We hypothesized that depressive symptoms would be modestly associated with higher home BP and hypertension prevalence in participants of the electronic Framingham Heart Study (eFHS).

 Methods:
 FHS participants who attended research exam 3 (2016-2019) were invited to enroll in eFHS. They downloaded a smartphone app and were provided a digital BP cuff to measure their weekly BP for up to 1 year. Participants who had at least 3 home BPs were included. Depressive symptoms were measured at the exam using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) scored 0-60. We used linear mixed regression models to test the association of CES-D score (independent) with home SBP and DBP (dependent) and a logistic regression model to evaluate the association of depressive symptoms (defined as CES-D ≥16) with prevalent hypertension, adjusting for age, sex, cohort, lifestyle factors, diabetes, and CVD.

 Results:
 The study sample included 855 eFHS participants (mean age 53 years, 59% women, 9% multi-ethnic). The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 7% (CES-D score mean±SD, 5.7±6.6). The mean SBP and DBP were 119 and 76 mmHg; the prevalence of hypertension was 48%. CES-D score was modestly associated with home BP; a 1 SD higher CES-D corresponded with 0.9 and 0.6 mmHg higher mean SBP and DBP respectively (Table). Depressive symptoms were not significantly associated with home BP or hypertension prevalence (OR=3.16, 95% CI, 0.96-10.43). Antidepressant use attenuated the relationship.

 Conclusion:
 CES-D score had a small positive association with digital home BP, but it was not clinically substantive. The association of depression and hypertension risk warrants more data, which may be supported by mobile health.


A compact four-element multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) antenna is proposed for medical applications operating at a 2.4 GHz ISM band. The proposed MIMO design occupies an overall volume of 26 mm × 26 mm × 0.8 mm. This antenna exhibits a good impedance matching at the operating frequency of the ISM band, whose performance attributes include: isolation around 25 dB, envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) less than 0.02, average channel capacity loss (CCL) less than 0.3 bits/s/Hz and diversity gain (DG) of around 10 dB. The average peak realized gain of the four-element MIMO antenna is 2.4 dBi with more than 77 % radiation efficiency at the frequency of interest (ISM 2.4 GHz). The compact volume and adequate bandwidth, as well as the good achieved gain, make this antenna a strong candidate for bio-medical wearable applications.


Acoustic wave microsensors are increasingly popular recently for their potential applications in wireless communication, defence, space and portable systems. The advantages of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices include smaller size, rugged, high sensitivity and quasi-digital frequency output [1]. The system design requires the electronic modules to measure changes in SAW velocity and insertion loss (IL). The phase-locked loops (PLL) appear to be the practical solution for SAW sensor electronics offering high frequency resolution, narrow bandwidth, the stability of the phase detection and better noise immunity.


The South Natuna Sea Block B field is located in the waters of the Riau Archipelago and is a large and fragmented PSC that covers a number of oil and gas fields in the Natuna Sea, of which a few are currently operated by Medco E&P Natuna Ltd. Coring Service is one of the processes that is required by Medco E&P Natuna Ltd. for unconsolidated formations as the target reservoir zone.
 Unconsolidated formation is very challenging to core, especially with the standard conventional system, as the core could slide and slip off from the inner barrel assembly of the Standard Conventional System while pulling out of the hole while the whole coring assembly is in progress. A Full-Closure System technology with a Double catcher assembly (Clam Shell Catcher and Spring Catcher as the main component) is necessary to address the problem.
 The full closure system technology, which was created specifically to catch any unconsolidated formations, has gained widespread acceptance for its effectiveness in a variety of fields, particularly in Indonesia. Even when the Full Closure system is assembled and run in the hole, anomalies like core jamming and milling the core are difficult to detect at the surface gage while coring is taking place at unconsolidated formations.
 The challenge is further increased by the 90-foot length of the core that must be retrieved in a single-run in order to save cost by reducing the number of trips. This plan goes against the best advice or rule of thumb given by the majority of coring services, which stated that when coring, especially in an unconsolidated formation, a shorter length of barrel is highly recommended, such as per joint or only 30 feet to be done in one run, for example, for a Total of 3 (three) × 30 feet to retrieve the entire target of 90 feet, in order to avoid any unforeseen anomalies.
 Since vibration always increases the likelihood of core jamming, a shorter core barrel could potentially cause less vibration while coring is taking place. If this happened, the core would then be milled. Therefore, a shorter barrel always presents a lower risk of losing precious data samples if core jamming and core milling anomalies ultimately occur undetected.
 This paper is made to inform, demonstrate, and discuss how Full-Closure System technology and certain key procedures that are strictly followed and monitored could mitigate the potential hazards or risks mentioned to Successfully Core the 90-foot core target in one run at an Unconsolidated formation and be the first to ever do it in that length, especially in Indonesia.


Members of the rabbitbrush genus - Chrysothamnus spp. - are among the best-known of western shrubs (Johnson 1987; McArthur and Welch 1986; McArthur and others 2004, 1979). The genus is endemic to western North America and is made up of 16 species (Anderson 1986; McArthur and Meyer 1987). It has recently been partially subsumed under the new genus Ericameria, formerly an infraspecific taxon within the related genus Haplopappus (Anderson 1995; USDA NRCS 2001). Because the durability of this nomenclatural change has yet to be demonstrated, the decision here is to follow the traditional nomenclature.


* The author gratefully acknowledges the critical comments of Arthur Getis and Carolyn J. Ryan. 1 For accounts of the model's normative version see Dunn [15], Losch [36], Isard [28], Beckmann [3], and Hoover [25]. Discussions of the present relevance of Thiinian analysis can be found in Peet [48], Horvath [26], Sinclair [57], Chisholm [121, and Muller [44]. 2The revised edition of Chisholm [11] presents the widest range of empirical results through the late 1960s, although much attention is focused on European research. For an array of recent American and other non-European findings at various scales and under diverse cultural conditions, see Melamid [41]; Schlebecker [55]; Blyn [5]; Sinclair [561; Rutherford, et al. [54]; Horvath [27]; and Peet [50]. undertaken at the macro-scale.3 For the


(57) ABSTRACT A repowering Steam plant through the addition of a gas turbine, and a method for remodeling the plant facilities. This repowering Steam plant is constructed by, to existing Steam turbine facilities, additionally installing: gas turbine facilities, a high-temperature and high-pressure water line that is provided so as to branch off from a feedwater line in the Steam turbine facilities and to pass through a boiler; a branch fuel line branched off from a fuel line in the steam turbine facilities; a reformer that reforms boiler fuel from the branch fuel line by high-temperature and high-pressure water from the high-temperature and high-pressure water line; and a reformed fuel line that supplies the fuel reformed by the reformer, as gas turbine fuel, to a combustor in the gas turbine facilities.


In the iron-based superconductors (FeSCs), orbital differentiation is an important phenomenon, whereby correlations stronger on the dxy orbital than on the dxz/yz orbital yield quasi-particles with dxy} orbital character having larger mass renormalization and abnormal temperature evolution. However, the physical origin of this orbital differentiation is debated between the Hund's coupling induced unbinding of spin and orbital degrees of freedom and the Hubbard interaction instigated orbital selective Mott transition. Here we use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to identify an orbital-dependent correlation-induced quasi-particle (QP) anomaly in LiFeAs. The excellent agreement between our photoemission measurements and first-principles many-body theory calculations shows that the orbital-differentiated QP lifetime anomalies in LiFeAs are controlled by the Hund's coupling.


The field of macrophage biology has made enormous progress over recent years. This was triggered by the advent of several new techniques such as the establishment of Cre/loxP-based transgenic mouse models that allowed for the first time to delineate the ontogeny and function of specific macrophage populations across many tissues. In addition, the introduction of new high-throughput technologies like bulk RNA-sequencing and later single-cell RNA-sequencing as well as advances in epigenetic analysis have helped to establish gene expression profiles, enhancer-landscapes and local signaling cues that define and shape the identity of diverse macrophage populations. Nonetheless, some macrophage populations, like the ones residing in the peripheral nervous system (PNS), have not been studied in such detail yet. Here, we discuss recent studies that shed new light on the ontogeny, heterogeneity and gene expression profiles of resident macrophages in peripheral nerves and described differential activation of macrophage subsets during and after acute sciatic nerve injury.


The composition of water-soluble polysaccharide preparations obtained from 17 species of Rhodotorula by extraction with glycerol and partial hydrolysis with 0·1 N HCl were investigated. The distinction of those isolated from the same yeast species by different methods was shown and the main components of structural-metabolic polysaccharides from organisms of the subgenera Rubrotorula and Flavotorula were determined.


1. Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 2. Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus. Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan 3. M.Phil. Scholar, Institute of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan PAPER INFO ABSTRACT Received: October 11, 2020 Accepted: December 05, 2020 Online: December 31, 2020 This study turns to predict the consequences of perceived organizational politics (POPs) on work related outcomes using the mediating framework of work engagement (WE) and organizational commitment (OC). Data was collected from employees working in banking sector of Pakistan. The study employed the confirmatory factor analysis for model fitness where mediation is tested using Baron and Kennytypology. Results of structural equation model revealed that all the suggested hypotheses are supported except normative commitment (NC) is not significantly associated with intention to quit. Analysis of mediation results revealed that affective and normative commitment partially mediates the relation between POPs and WE. This study provides novel setting in the theoretical premise of study between POPs and affective and normative commitment which has not received significant intention before.


Companies listed in Nairobi Securities Exchange are faced with difficulties in adopting flexible and effective organizational structures that are capable of realigning the business processes/operations in change management processes for a more efficient, effective response to the turbulent and changing business environment. This study sought to determine the extent to which organizational structure in the context of change management affects performance of companies listed in NSE in Kenya. This study anchored on pragmatism philosophy, adopted a cross sectional survey and correlational research designs. A quantitative research approach to collecting and analyzing data was used. The target population was 64 companies listed in NSE and met the condition of having traded for five years from 2013 to June 2017.The study used Mugenda and Mugenda (2003) sample determination proposition that a sample size of 10% to 30% was a good representation of the target population. Multistage sampling techniques was used, at the first stage stratified random sampling technique was used since the population was subdivided into groups, six were in agricultural sector, two were in automobiles and accessories, ten were in banking sector, thirteen were in commercial and services, five were in construction and allied, five were in energy and petroleum, six were in insurance, three were in investment, one was in investment services, nine were in manufacturing and allied, one was in telecommunications and technology and lastly, one was in real estate investment trust (NSE Handbook, 2015).At the second stage, purposive sampling was used and was confined to specific types of people who can provide the desired information namely; chief executive officers, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences Vol. 9 , No. 5, May, 2019, E-ISSN: 2222-6990 © 2019 HRMARS 253 heads of human resources, finance and marketing since they deal much with policy formulations. The number of companies sampled was 38 4 senior managers = 152 senior managers. The study used semi-structured questionnaire to collect data. The split-half reliability test showed a Cronbach's Alpha of r=0.704, this was above 0.7, hence the tool was reliable. Data analysis was done through descriptive and inferential statistics such as correlation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression model. The findings showed that all the elements were effective in contributing to adaptive organizational structures with the most effective to the least effective in this order: centralization of decision making, formalization of change process, Specialization of managers and configuration of change Process. The study revealed that there was a significant strong positive correlation between organizational structure and performance of companies listed in NSE, r= 0.723**,p<0.001,CL=95%. The ANOVA F-statistic p-value being < 0.001 which is less than 0.05 hence, the study rejected the null hypothesis that organizational structure does not significantly affect performance of companies listed in Nairobi Securities Exchange. It was recommended that companies listed in NSE should seek to strengthen specialization of managers and configuration of change process which are the elements of organizational structure that contributed the least to more flexible and effective organizational structures, this will ensure better performance outcomes. The study showed that organizational structure positively affects performance of firms listed in NSE, therefore managers of these firms should adopt an organizational structure that is efficient, flexible and innovative in order to be able to achieve better performance.


A comprehensive description of the crystal and magnetic structures of Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys is important to understand the physical origins of their magnetoelastic properties. These structural details for an off-stoichiometric Ni2Mn1.14Ga0.86 alloy have been obtained from refinement of high-resolution single crystal neutron diffraction data following a (3+1)-dimensional superspace formalism. In particular, the structure adopts a P2/m( 0 )00 (3+1)-D superspace symmetry with the following fundamental lattice parameters: a=4.255(4) , b=5.613(4) , c=4.216(3) , a commensurate periodicity of 5M and a modulation wave vector of . The magnetic moments are aligned along the b-axis. The modulations for atomic site displacements, site occupancies and magnetic moments are elucidated from a (3+1)-D refinement of the neutron diffraction data. In addition to atomic displacements corresponding to shear waves along , distortions of Ni-centric tetrahedra are also evident. Physical interpretations for the different structural distortions and their relationship with magnetic properties are discussed.


This paper studies the debt cost effect caused by the payment order when liquidating its liabilities in case of corporate bankruptcy established by the current Bankruptcy Legislation. The new Bankruptcy Legislation under discussion at the Brazilian Congress, Law project 4.376, defines the liability ranking order in case of Bankruptcy in article 86. The current Brazilian bankruptcy regulation defines that employee, social security and fiscal liabilities must be settled before other liabilities such as asset backed debt securities, suppliers and loans. Therefore, there is a subordination of financial liabilities - loans and financing contracted with banks and investors compared to those liabilities with liquidation priority. This research estimates the cost of subordination of financial liabilities. First, we applied the binomial model to estimate the present value of corporate liabilities and its components such as call option, put option and subordination and, finally, we estimated an average of 0.30% p.a. of subordination cost of financial liabilities in relation to liabilities with settlement priority.


Accounting information has an important role to achieve business success, including for small businesses. Accounting information can be a reliable basis for decision-making in managing small businesses, including market development decisions, pricing and others. The purpose of this study was to determine the perspectives of MSMEs owners about the accounting and financial management of their businesses. Based on the research results, perspective accounting MSMEs owners in the Mataram city is limited by income record and expenditure only or simple bookkkeeping. Financial management is done simply by knowing the initial capital has returned and the remaining results of operations are profit
Keywords: accounting, financial management


Light scattering data was gathered during experiments conducted in an ANSI/UL 217 test room constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to assess the performance of currently available smoke alarms. Smoldering and flaming fires along with cooking experiments were conducted. The light scattering device was configured to measure polarized light scattering characteristics of the fire smokes and cooking aerosols. Results are presented for forward scattering, polarization and asymmetry ratios. The results show a high degree of discrimination by a 90° polarization ratio between flaming soot and other smoldering smokes and cooking aerosols, and to a lesser degree discrimination by forward scattering and asymmetry ratios at the chosen angles.


Fiber‐optic bronchoscopy (FOB) of the lower airways is a routine examination performed for investigating varying respiratory complaints in children. A common side effect is a transient high fever on the day of the FOB. Such episodes are usually unrelated to an infectious process but may cause clinical uncertainty and parental anxiety. We have previously shown that a single dose of systemic dexamethasone significantly reduces the rate of fever postbronchoscopy (FPB).


Newly created 27th Indian state Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand) represents a high rate of out-migration 29.7 per cent (Census 1991) and majority of the population migrate to various urban areas for better economic opportunities (Mehta 1991). The reasons of that out migration from hill areas to cities is closely related to regional backwardness (Mehta 1996) small landholding size unemployment under-employment and high natural growth of rural population (Singh and Aggrawal 1998). Earlier the pattern of migration was from plain to hilly areas but now the direction of migration has changed. Now migration takes place from hill to plains wherefrom 40 per cent of the total and 67 per cent of the male population migrated to various places of the countries (Rawat 1984). There is hardly any family in the villages of Garhwal which has not sent any migrant (Rawat and Rawat 1986). Out-migration of people especially able-bodied labour force from Uttarakhand has been a regular feature (Tewari 2001). As migration has its impact on various aspects of rural areas of Uttarakhand this paper makes an attempt to draw attention on out migration from rural areas of Uttarakhand. The paper was pursued with the following objectives: to study several dimension of hill out-migration from rural areas of Uttarakhand; to examine the reasons of out-migration; to investigate the impact of out-migration on place of origin. (excerpt)


The article focused on the ideological and value impact of the Republic of Turkey on interethnic processes in the information space of the Republic of Crimea in the period 2021-2022. As part of the study, there were analyzed statements by official Turkish representatives, materials of Telegram channels, media, funds and agencies in Turkish and Russian dedicated to discrediting Russia's policy on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, as well as updating issues of historical memory and distorting the facts of the common past of the peoples living on the territory of the modern Republic of Crimea. The methodological basis of the study was a systematic (complex) approach, event analysis, content analysis, analysis of data arrays, as well as an ideological and value approach. The considered cases of information impact demonstrate the focus of the Republic of Turkey and its current leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on promoting the ideologemes of «Pan-Turkism» within the ideological and value space of the Republic of Crimea, which is one of the Turkic-speaking regions of the Russian Federation. At the same time, both the applied ideologeme and its active support from the official authorities testify to the unrelenting ambitions of the current authorities in Turkey to secure the position of a supra-regional leader for the Republic of Turkey, including in the information space of a third state (the Russian Federation), which has no physical borders, in conditions of transformation of the modern system of international relations. Such a policy of Ankara poses a serious threat to official Moscow in the field of national security and can have a negative impact on the state of interethnic relations in Russia.


This study investigated the relationship between the socialization tactics employed by organizations and a series of role and personal outcomes. It also examined the effects of self-efficacy on role orientation. Consistent with predictions, results suggest that different patterns of socialization lead to different forms of newcomer adjustment to organizations. Specifically, institutionalized tactics lead to custodial role orientations, and individualized tactics to innovative role orientations. The results also suggest that self-efficacy moderates this learning process-specifically that socialization tactics produce a stronger custodial role orientation when newcomers possess low levels of self-efficacy.


Growth rate of Alcaligenes eutrophus under non-explosive gas mixture of low oxygen partial pressure, where oxygen transfer was rate determining process, was enhanced by adding perfluarocarbon as an oxygen carrier. The trend of enhancement with increase of PFC addition was different across the phase inversion region where continuous phase changes from aqueous medium to PFC. The enhancement was analyzed quantitatively using a mass transfer model, which took into account two cases where either the medium or the PFC was continuous phase. An enhancement factor for the oxygen transfer rate, defined as the ratio of oxygen transfer rate in a medium mixed with PFC to that in a PFC-free medium, was used in evaluating the effect of PFC addition. The factor was a function of the oxygen transfer coefficient and the interfacial area between gas bubble and the medium, and the volume fraction of PFC when the medium was in continuous phase. Also the factor varied with the interfacial area and the oxygen transfer coefficient between the PFC and the medium, the volume fraction of PFC and the dissolved oxygen concentration when the PFC phase became continuous. The model revealed the factors affecting on the observed cell growth rate of A. eutrophus, such that the primary factor contributing to the enhancement of the cell growth in the latter case was the increase of the interfacial area between the PFC and the medium.


By the use of the modified edge representation (MER) concept, originally proposed as expression of the physical optics (PO) diffraction component, authors have found new formulations for the geometrical optics (GO) reflected rays in terms of the MER line integrals. The results are valid for the planar and also the smooth scattering surfaces. In this article a new geometrical optic criterion is proposed, which guaranties the good accuracy of the MER line integrals to the GO reflected field when the scattering surface is smooth. (5 pages)


A mixing apparatus for automatically adjusting salinity comprises a first pipe for collecting seawater from the sea and supplying the collected seawater, a first flow control valve and a first salinity sensor which are formed on one side of the first pipe, a central processing unit (CPU) for receiving a value measured by the first salinity sensor and controlling the opening and shutting of the first flow control valve, a second pipe for supplying fresh water, a second flow control valve formed on one side of the second pipe, and a supply pipe for connecting to the first flow control valve with the second flow control valve, in order to use, as breeding water of a farming water tank, seawater which changes depending on seasonal precipitation and coastal water that flows from land. The mixing apparatus measures the salinity of seawater that flows into the farming water tank, and drives the seawater and fresh water pipes and the first and second flow control valves, based on the measured salinity of seawater, to mix fresh water with breeding water with an amount of sodium chloride of constant concentration, even when the salinity of seawater changes depending on the time and season of the year, thereby easily adjusting the salinity of the breeding water. As a result, the mixing apparatus can reduce human resources and costs required to supply the breeding water, and enables intensive high-density farming by stably supplying seawater of constant concentration.


More and more, technical experts are teaming up to produce technical documents. Dividing the workload horizontally, with each team member handling a separate chapter or section, doesn't work very well. Stratifying the project vertically, with a project team leader, a data gatherer, a writer, an editor, and a graphics person, is a more efficient and more effective method of collaborative writing. The process is quicker and the product is better because team members get to do what they are best at. MORE AND MORE often in business, industry, and government agencies, technical experts are teaming up to write reports, proposals, articles, and other technical documents. This is not at all surprising when we consider the widespread application of the project team approach to research, development, and engineering design. Recently, Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede surveyed 1200 working professionals in management, engineering, behavioral science, chemistry, and communications to seek data on collaborative writing in on-the-job contexts. Of their 530 respondents, "87 percent reported that they sometimes wrote as part of a team or group." [1] I began writing professionally in 1960 and joined the Society for Technical Communication (then the Society for Technical Writers and Publishers) in 1962. At that time, the collaborative or project team approach to writing, editing, and producing technical documents was well established, so well established, in fact, that it wasn't even a topic for discussion. Corporate authorship was the overwhelming norm. The days of the single person handling all aspects of product development are long gone, and the days of the solitary author for technical documents are long gone, as well. Perhaps the model of the solitary writer never had any validity in business, industry, and government agencies. This article is an outgrowth of my experiences with multiple-author documents over the past 34 years and offers some suggestions for efficient and effective collaborative writing in the workplace. THE HORIZONTAL DIVISION MODEL My first experience with collaborative writing was as a college student. Professor Jones would assign three or four Charles R. Stratton is a Professor of Technical Communications at the University of Idaho. ASSIGNMENT


An inline fiber-optic micro-Fabry-Perot (MFP) cavity and a short fiber Bragg grating (SFBG) is overlapped to form an integrated MFP/SFBG sensor for simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain under high temperature (300 °C). The FP cavity is fabricated on a GeO2-doped photon sensitive fiber using the 157-nm laser micromachining technique and the SFBG is written at the same position of the MFP cavity using the standard 248-nm laser method. As the MFP cavity and SFBG have different sensitivity coefficients to temperature and strain, they can be utilized for realization of simultaneous measurement of dual parameters.


Introduction: Premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is the spontaneous breach of the chorioamnion with the release of amniotic fluid before the onset of labour. PROM occurs in approximately 10% (Gunn et all) of all pregnancies and 60-80% occur in term pregnancy. About a third of these occur prior to 37 weeks and approximately 81% of patients went into labour within 24 hrs and 90% within 72 hrs. Preterm PROM is rupture of membranes before 37 completed weeks. PROM is often associated with significant maternal and perinatal infections. Prolonged PROM: A case premature rupture of membranes in which more than 24 hours has passed between the rupture and onset of labour Aims and Objectives: To compare the safety & efficacy or oral misoprostol with oxytocin infusion in induction of labour in PROM regarding the following:  Latency period(induction –onset of contractions)  Induction –delivery interval  Mode of delivery  Maternal and perinatal outcome Methodology: This study was conducted in the Dept of OBG, Guntur Government Hospital, from april 2017 to may 2018. 100 patients with PROM, who were not in labour were enrolled in the study & were randomized to one of the 2 management protocols. All recruited patients were counselled & informed consent was obtained. Patients randomized to misoprostol group were given 50μg orally at four hourly intervals as required for a maximum of 6 doses till they got adequate uterine contractions. Patients randomized to oxytocin group were started with 2mIU/min infusion and increased every 15-20 min by 2mIU until there were 3 uterine contractions each lasting 40-45 seconds in 10 min. Patients who satisfied the following criteria were recruited into the study. Singleton uncomplicated pregnancy with cephalic presentation, Spontaneous rupture of membranes, Bishop's score 0-5, Primi or multi gravid, Clear liquor per vaginum, No detectable uterine contractions. Main outcome measures that were studied were: Induction to delivery interval, Mode of delivery, Maternal complications, Perinatal outcome, Safety and efficacy of misoprostol compared to oxytocin. Student 't' test & Mann – Whitney test were used for data analysis & P value of<0.05 was considered significant. www.jmscr.igmpublication.org Index Copernicus Value: 79.54 ISSN (e)-2347-176x ISSN (p) 2455-0450 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i3.178


8027 Background: Nearly 30% of pts with lung cancer are 70 years or older at the time of diagnosis. Surgery is an option for fit elderly pts with early stage NSCLC. We studied the outcomes of 280 p...


Kendalisodo's area has geological structures which formed by volcanic Ungaran there are hot springs manifestations has been do secondary geomagnetic data processing obtained in the measurement in Kendalisodo Semarang District. The study aims to interpret the subsurface conditions around the hot springs area Kendalisodo caused the emergence of the hot springs in the area. A total of 63 data points that have been corrected International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) and daily variation correction is used to make the contours of the total magnetic field anomalies. Contour anomaly magnetic field is then processed using a upward continuation filter, reduction to the pole filter, pseudogravity transformation filter, horizontal and second vertical gradient derivative filter. The results of data processing in the form of total magnetic field anomalies that indicate closure pair of positive and negative closure indicating the fault zone below the surface. This interpretation is supported by the contour anomalyand pseudogravity contour, horizontal gradient which shows that there is a fairly strong density contrast and vertical gradient analysis of the order of two indicates that the fault is a reverse fault type. The interpretation is reinforced also by modeling results that indicate a fault that appears on the rock Gajahmungkur and kaligetas formations in the area Kendalisodo trending northwest-southeast. This fault zone is a media outlet fluid to the surface that appears as the source of the hot springs


In this environmental history of the Pacific world, Cushman demonstrates the fundamental role played by guano. In this environmental history of the Pacific world, Cushman demonstrates the fundamental role played by guano.


The signal attenuation caused by fiber dispersion in ROF(radio over fiber) system under the traditional bilateral modulation and fiber grating single sideband modulation is analysed.The performance of two systems is simulated by software under different conditions.The result shows that the system performance can be significantly improved by using the single sideband modulation technology with narrow-band fiber grating.The method of optical fiber selection is proposed according to simulation result,which provides method for further study the limit problem of transmission bandwide and transmission distance in ROF system.


Dronpa is a photoswitchable protein from the family of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs). Photoswitching involves forward and backward proton transfer between a bright deprotonated form (B) and a dark protonated form (A2). We have used femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy to determine the kinetics of the first step of the photoconversion from the dark to the bright form, which we have measured as 4 ps. The 2-fold isotope effect on the kinetics of this process shows that excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) is involved in this step. It was also demonstrated that the acid-induced protonated form A1 and the photoconverted protonated form A2 are two distinct spectroscopic species.


During the Early Byzantine period, ceramic vessels evolved from Roman pottery; red-slip tableware produced by Asia Minor and North African workshops dominated the market. Christian motifs enriched the decorative repertoire. From the seventh century onward, glazing signaled a major change in the appearance of vessels during the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. Glazed White Ware from Constantinople monopolized the tableware market until the eleventh century. From this time onward a light-colored slip layer on red fabric ensured a surface suitable for decoration and allowed for the development of sgraffito decoration, the Byzantine pottery decorative technique par excellence. It also made the production of glazed decorated ceramics possible in parts of the empire without white clay. During the Late Byzantine period, decentralization of pottery workshops allowed the development of local characteristics.


Background and aim: South Africa has an unacceptably high child mortality rate. Preventable causes such as malnutrition account for the majority of these deaths. Breastfeeding as infant feeding practice is recognised for the potential to radically reduce child mortality and is therefore promoted globally. Yet, SA presents with the lowest breastfeeding rates worldwide. Breastfeeding is a child rearing co-occupation, and occupational therapists (OTs) are well positioned to become role players on a transdisciplinary level to address the infant child mortality rate through promoting and supporting breastfeeding. Although not well described in the literature and traditionally not considered as a role, this study aimed to determine the role of the OT in addressing breastfeeding among mothers in the public health sector (PHS). Method: A purposive sample of 9 OTs from Bloemfontein working in the PHS participated in this study. An e-Delphi technique was used to set up four rounds of sequential questionnaires developed from and structured according to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) Domain and Process. Results: From the 128 initial statements, 95 statements reached consensus determined at 80%. Statements were clustered according to OT roles identified, which included clinician, consultant, educator, trainer, advocate and facilitator. Conclusion: OTs have a role to play in addressing breastfeeding among mothers in the PHS, within a transdisciplinary team. If OTs aligned their practice with global and national initiatives and policies, the population-based health issue of infant child mortality could be addressed collectively.


ABSTRACT Laboratory and greenhouse studies were conducted to determine the absorption, translocation, dose response, efficacy, and effects on biomass of the herbicide diclosulam on bristly starbur ...


In an experiment relevant to the fast ignitor fusion concept, a preformed plasma simulating the corona of a fusion target has been probed with laser intensities exceeding 1018 W/cm2. It is seen that the f number of the probe beam is increased as it propagates through the target plasma—a channeling of the power. The transmission and backscatter of the probe beam have been examined, and the analysis suggests anomalous absorption of laser light in shorter scale length plasmas.


George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany 12 September 2008–3 May 2009

Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, A Coruna, Spain 15 June–29 November 2009

Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma 2 February–1 May 2011

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas 6 June–29 September 2011

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington 29 October 2011–12 February 2012

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 16 June–14 October 2012

Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 8 November 2012–26 January 2013

In 1946 D. J. De Pree, director of the furniture company Herman Miller, hired George Nelson (1908–1986) as a furniture designer, and a year later he created the position of design director especially for Nelson. Later on, Nelson liked to remark that he took on his first assignment as a complete beginner, having never actually designed furniture before. Yet, by the end of the 1940s, Nelson was a leading American designer, shaping products for home and office and accepting commissions for architecture, graphic design, corporate communications, exhibitions, and interiors.

To mark the one hundredth anniversary of Nelson's birth, the Vitra Design Museum, which acquired the archives of Nelson's office from his estate, created the traveling exhibition George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher . The exhibit presented Nelson, whose life and career have received relatively little attention in comparison with other postwar designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, as a prolific and influential designer whose product designs shaped the experience of the home, the workspace, and the other new environments created by postwar modern architects.

Nelson was educated at Yale, receiving a BA in architecture in 1928 and a BFA three years later. While in Europe from 1932 to 1934 as winner of the Rome Prize, he visited leaders of the emerging modern movement, including Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. These visits resulted in a series of essays in Pencil Points , beginning in January 1935, that profiled leading European architects and launched Nelson's career as a writer. That same year he joined Architectural Forum and soon became an associate editor there and at Fortune . In 1936 he opened an architectural practice in New York with William Hamby, but it was primarily as a writer that Nelson achieved early recognition.

In 1944, Nelson and …


QUAY, LORENE C. Language Dialect, Age, and Intelligence-Test Performance in Disadvantaged Black Children. CmLD DEVELOPMENT, 1974, 45, 463-468. The effects of administering the Binet in Negro nonstandard dialect and standard English were compared. Subjects were 104 thirdand sixth-grade disadvantaged black children. 52 children from each grade were randomly placed by sex into 1 of 2 conditions of test administration: nonstandard dialect or standard English. A 2 (dialect condition) X 2 (sex of S) x 2 (age level) analysis of variance of IQ scores yielded no significant effect of dialect condition or sex. There was a significant age effect, with third-grade children making higher IQ scores than sixth-grade children. There were no significant interactions. Comparisons of item difficulty yielded no consistent differences between nonstandard-dialect and standard-English test administrations.


Extended high-energy (≳100 MeV) gamma-ray emission that lasts much longer than the prompt sub-MeV emission has been detected from quite a few gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by Fermi–Large Area Telescope (LAT) recently. A plausible scenario is that this emission is the afterglow synchrotron emission produced by electrons accelerated in the forward shocks. In this scenario, the electrons that produce synchrotron high-energy emission also undergo inverse Compton (IC) loss and the IC scattering with the synchrotron photons should be in the Klein–Nishina (KN) regime. Here we study effects of the KN scattering on the high-energy synchrotron afterglow emission. We find that at early times the KN suppression effect on those electrons that produce the high-energy emission is usually strong and therefore their IC loss is small with a Compton parameter Y ≲ a few for a wide range of parameter space. This leads to a relatively bright synchrotron afterglow at high energies that can be detected by Fermi–LAT. As the KN suppression effect weakens with time, the IC loss increases and could dominate over the synchrotron loss in some parameter spaces. This will lead to a faster temporal decay of the high-energy synchrotron emission than is predicted by the standard synchrotron model, which may explain the observed rapid decay of the early high-energy gamma-ray emission in GRB090510 and GRB090902B.


We compare and contrast the traditional manual interpretation of AEM data of digitizing features with an automatic stochastic based method utilizing a trans-dimensional Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. The target of interest is the base of an unconfined alluvial aquifer in western Nebraska composed of electrically resistive sand and gravels sitting upon a conductive silt and clay. The objective is to provide a 3-D surface of the base of aquifer for inclusion in groundwater models. The automatic stochastic interpretations provide a robust 3-D surface that compares well with the manually digitized surface. In some areas the stochastic methods provide a more certain interpretation than the single smooth model inversion that were used for the manual interpretation. We feel that the use of the automatic stochastic approach prior to manually inspecting the AEM sections provides substantial timesaving and confidence in the final interpreted results. . The stochastic approch provides an automatic interpretation of the layers within a section and can expedite the interpretation process. We recommend that the use of the automatic stochastic approach prior to integrating complementary data and manually inspecting AEM sections provide substantial timesaving and increased confidence in the final interpreted results. With the continued use of the AEM technique in hydrogeological framework studies a fast and efficient way of providing confident interpretations needs to be implemented.


where Kt ≡ (FPt−1|t−1F ′+Q)H[H (FPt−1|t−1F ′+Q)H +R]−1 is the Kalman gain. The steady-state value of the precision matrix Pt|t is obtained by iterating on (A.4) starting from P0|0 = Q, thus also obtaining the steady-state value of the Kalman gain, which, being time-invariant, in what follows will simply be referred to as K. Based on the steady-state Kalman gain, and defining K̃ ≡ (I3 −KH ′)F , ∗Department of Economics, University of Bern, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, CH-3001, Bern, Switzerland. Email: email@example.com †Department of Economics, 100 Grant St, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. Email: email@example.com ‡School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia. Email: email@example.com §Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, 199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0QU, United Kingdom. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


Surface sediment samples were collected in Quanzhou Bay,Fujian Province in July 2004 to analyze concentration and distribution of 8 heavy metals.Heavy metals in surface sediments showed generally the decrease current from entrance of river into sea to the bay.According to potential ecological risk assessment,heavy metals in surface sediments have light ecological risk.


The Criollo Lechero Tropical (CLT) bovines are considered a racial group native to America, with good potential for milk production based on pasture. These breeds have a lower production volume, but higher milk quality (total solids) and resistance to stress in tropical climates, compared with other specialized breeds (Holstein and Jersey) which have replaced progressively these native breeds for productive purposes. The inventory of CLT Reyna o Tropical Dairy is estimated between 900-1000 individuals, and although there are no reports of its contribution to milk production, it its considered that their conservation and development is of vital important as alternative production process in cattle herds in the tropics. The aim of this study was to develop a profile of CLT cattle in three latinoamerican countries.


The utility model relates to a multifunctional ophthalmic operation towel, which is used in single layer and has the functions of preventing infection, clear operating field, without wetting the head and face of a patient and convenience of breath of a patient. The utility model is made by that an operation window is opened on a waterproofing macromolecular material operation towel, the point and the perimeter zone of the window are tightly covered by self-adhesive medical operation adhesive films, the edges of the operation adhesive films are directly connected with a liquid collecting bag, a liquid draining bar is arranged in the liquid collecting bag, and an opening of the liquid collecting bag is provided with a soft spreading line used for spreading the opening of the bag. Metal bars are attached on the operation towel positioned at the lower part of the nose of the patient. The utility model has the advantages that nothing remains but single layer aseptic towels are covered the head of the patient to perform the operation by using the utility model, the operation of the utility model is easy; use is safe; surface liquid of eyeball can be drained by the liquid bar; a clear operating field can be ensured; the head and face of the patient can keep clear and dry, and the bending metal bars make a raised space at the lower part of the nose to be convenient for the breath of the patient. Cross infection in the operation can be avoided.


To improve performance on the inbound (mobile-to-base-station) channel of a packet radio system consisting of a base station and a number of mobile users, the area around the base station is divided into M sectors. Signals originating from users in different sectors are received by different directional antennas at the base station. It is shown that, if the number of receivers at the base station is less than M, the selection of the antennas to be connected to the receivers becomes an issue. A number of antenna selection schemes are compared for three different channel models, assuming an ideal antenna pattern. It is found that the scheme that selects the antennas with the largest received signal powers is nearly optimum. The effects of a more practical nonideal antenna pattern are discussed. >


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Abstract Attempts to backcross F1 male bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) x green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) hybrids with females of each parental species were unsuccessful both in ponds and in the laboratory. In laboratory experiments, fertilization was accomplished but embryos failed to survive longer than 36 h. In ponds, nesting and courting activity were observed but successful reproduction did not occur. Additionally, 1,874 of 1,983 F1 hybrids examined (94.5%) were males.


How the manufacturer designs the contract to share information with the supplier under asymmetric demand information is studied.Based on signaling game theory,a profit-sharing contract of separating equilibrium is designed,where the profit-sharing parameter works as a signal to convey information.The analysis shows that the contract can not only achieve information sharing,but also overcome the lack in the disclosure literature and optimize the chain-wide performance.Finally,an example shows the validity of the proposed contract mechanism.


ABSTRACT:Several recent analyses have suggested that the old model of neighborhood transition no longer holds true in large metropolitan areas in the late 20th century. The argument follows that there are increasing instances of neighborhood ethnic stability. A test of this hypothesis in the Los Angeles metropolitan area with 1990 census data at both the tract and block level suggests considerable caution in accepting the notion of stable racially mixed neighborhoods. The rate of succession seems to be related to overall levels of demographic change and the level of multiethnic integration, by at least one measure, is quite low.


A self-calibrating shear failure model for non-seismically detailed reinforced concrete columns has been developed and implemented analytically. The proposed model is capable of detecting shear failure in columns and simulating inelastic shear deformations and strength loss to residual shear capacity. Shear failure is identified when the rotations across the plastic hinge of the column reach a critical value defined by an experimentally calibrated rotation based limit curve. Upon shear failure initiation, a zero-length shear spring connected in series with the column elements changes its constitutive properties to include pinching, strength degradation, and stiffness degradation. Shear spring constitutive properties are related to column material and geometric properties through least squares regressions. Preliminary comparisons show the model fits well with experimental data.


The need for adopting Personal Health Record (PHR) in the healthcare sector is crucial especially in today's Information Age. PHR is used to manage medical history of patients electronically. This study aimed to investigate the perspectives of potential PHR use among staff and students of public higher education institution. Various types of PHR as well as the importance and benefits of PHR were also analysed. 200 respondents participated in this study. A factor analysis was used to analyse the data. The result indicated that respondents were positive in using PHR for their personal healthcare and able to manage it with minimal training and data security concern.


The magnitude and duration of protective immunity among COVID-19 convalescents is debated. In a population-wide study using data from the SARS-CoV-2


9027 Background: ET-743 (Yondelis) is a marine-derived minor-groove binder which interferes with gene activation and nucleotide excision repair, modulates drug-resistance, induces DNA strand breaks, affects the microtubules and blocks the cell cycle in S and G2. The drug is active in a variety of tumors in vitro and in vivo and responses were observed in sarcoma pts in early studies. We performed a retrospective single-center analysis of treatment outcome with ET-743, mainly involving individuals treated in a named-patient compassionate use program. Written informed consent was obtained from all pts. Methods: ET-743 was administered at dosages of 900-1500 μg/m2 as a 24 h iv. infusion q3w. Treatment was continued until progression or excessive toxicity. Results: 89 patients (median age 49 yrs, performance status 0–2) were analyzed. All of them had documented progressive sarcoma at start of treatment. The most common tumor types were leiomyo- (29), lipo- (16) and osteosarcoma (14). Pts had received a median...


Disposed materials and their buried conditions vary considerably in some landfills. Geophysical prospecting methods can be used to investigate the internal conditions of such landfills without excavating. Rainwater permeates through landfills and various components dissolve as ions in pore water from fills. Resistivity of landfill relates so closely to the electrochemical properties of fills and their pore water that the electrical resistivity prospecting is supposed one of the most effective methods for the landfill investigations.In order to examine the above effectiveness, five landfill sites were selected on basis of the reclamation area and the classification of waste. Resistivity measurements were carried out there. The concrete subjects are; (1) Effects on disposed material and leachate to resistivity profiles; (2) Use of resistivity tomography for obtaining more precise profiles; (3) Use of resistivity monitoring for interpreting the properties of the landfill.Resistivity profiles are related closely to conditions of fills. In addition, the profiles of resistivity tomography are better than those of another resistivity methods in the respects of their resolution and temporal stability. Resistivity monitoring is extremely useful for interpreting temporal changes in landfill properties.The next targets are to study the possibilities of the resistivity measurements for a quantitative analysis of landfill stability and the identification of buried waste materials.


We have studied the role of murine eosinophils as antigen‐presenting cells (APC). Eosinophils have several characteristics that support the hypothesis of its function as potential APC: they have phagocytic capacity, express adhesion molecules and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II antigens and can produce and release interleukin‐1 (IL‐1).


ABSTRACT A genetic linkage between W, (Cu, Mo)-mineralization and chlorite minerals, and the discrimination of different mineralization events in the magmatic-hydrothermal system of Borralha, northern Portugal, is discussed on the basis of textural relationships, crystal chemistry and stable isotopic data obtained from chlorite. Chlorite minerals were identified in assemblages with quartz, feldspars, tungstates and sulfides. X-ray diffraction studies of selected chlorite minerals shows a trioctahedral structural type. Electron probe micro-analyses identified four different compositions and associations: (1) Fe,Mn-chlorite with scheelite I; (2) Fe-chlorite with wolframite + scheelite II ± sulfide; (3) Fe,Mg-chlorite with molybdenite + bismuthinite; and (4) Mg,Fe-chlorite with chalcopyrite. The composition of Fe-chlorite (Al3.01Fe3+0.25Fe2+7.95Mn0.26Mg0.19)11.66(Si5.44Al2.56)8O20(OH)8 corresponds to daphnite and Fe,Mn-chlorite (Al2.69Fe3+0.02 Fe2+7.54Mn1.08Mg0.62)11.89(Si5.31Al2.68)4O20(OH)8 to a mixed composition between daphnite and amesite. The Fe,Mg-chlorite (Al2.89Fe3+0.24Fe2+6.42Mn0.21Mg2.08)11.84 (Si5.31Al2.79)8F0.31O20(OH)8 corresponds to ripidolite and Mg,Fe-chlorite (Al2.63Fe3+0.37Fe2+1.72Mn0.01Mg6.40Ca0.26)11.39(Si6.02Al1.98)8O20(OH)8 to pychnochlorite. Chlorite geothermometry estimates a temperature for Fe,Mn-chlorite (scheelite I) from 400°C to 500°C, for Fe-chlorite (Mn-rich wolframite + scheelite II ± sulfide) from 250 to 350°C, for Fe,Mg-chlorite (Mo-mineralization) from 200°C to 250°C and for Mg,Fe-chlorite at ~150°C. Oxygen isotopes (V-SMOW) yielded values of +3.8 (1σ) (Fe-chlorite), +6.91 (1σ) (Fe,Mn-chlorite) and +1.5 (1σ) (Fe,Mg-chlorite). The calculated δ18OF of Fe- and Fe,Mg-chlorite is ~+3.75 (1σ) and +1.45 (1σ) for the mineralizing fluid, whereas for Fe,Mn-chlorite it is +8.17 (1σ). The δ18O data obtained from quartz in W- and Mo-mineralization yielded values of +12.6 and +11.4 (1σ), whereas for adularia δ18O is about +10 (1σ). These estimates allow us to conclude that the Fe,Mn-chlorite crystallized from a magmatic-hydrothermal fluid, whereas the Fe- and Fe,Mg-chlorite quartz and adularia resulted from a mixed contribution between meteoric and magmatic-hydrothermal fluid.


A galaxy model with a satellite companion is used to study the character of motion for stars moving in the x -y plane. It is observed that a large part of the phase plane is covered by chaotic orbits. The percentage of chaotic orbits increases when the galaxy has a dense nucleus of massMn. The presence of the dense nucleus also increases the stellar velocities near the center of the galaxy. For small values of the distance R between the two bodies, low energy stars display a chaotic region near the centre of the galaxy, when the dense nucleus is present, while for larger values of R the motion in active galaxies is regular for low energy stars. Our results suggest that in galaxies with a satellite companion, the chaotic character of motion is not only a result of galactic interaction but also a result caused by the dense nucleus. Theoretical arguments are used to support the numerical outcomes. We follow the evolution of the galaxy, as mass is transported adiabatically from the disk to the nucleus. Our numerical results are in satisfactory agreement with observational data from M51-type binary galaxies (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


This paper constructed a fixed effect model of panel data, taking the full factor productivity as a measure of enterprise productivity. This paper empirically studies the effect of multi-dimensional innovation on enterprise productivity, examining the relationship between multi-dimensional innovation level and enterprise productivity of different ownership enterprises. This paper finds that the multidimensional innovation of almost all types of enterprises take a notable promotion role on their productivity on the whole, while the specific dimensions have different effects. In the end, this paper analyzes the causes of this situation, which also proposes the corresponding suggestions.


It was reported in Supplementum No. 237 (55) to this journal that highly significant qualitative and quantitative differences are observable in the pharmacodynamic response of benign and of malignant (cancerous) epidermal hyperplasia to topical exposure(s) of the test area to threshold dosages of a cytostaticum, colchicine, in the skin-tumor-resistant RA mice. The benign condition and the normal homologous tissue of origin, the epidermis, were highly responsive, reacting in a related manner: the cytostaticum-dependent derangements in the kinetics of cell division were those considered characteristic of the colchicine effect upon normally-dividing cells; there was a distinct blockage at metaphase the pattern being indicative of the prophase-type poisoning syndrome. Further, a great number of monster cells developed, with peculiar patterns within the cell periphery and cell surface-to-cell surface contact, at cytoplasmic interfaces in general and in certain biocolloidal aspects. On the other hand, the malignant condition appeared almost non-responsive, or indolent, under related experimental circumstances: the cytostaticum-dependent alterations of the cell-division processes were either non-existent or infinitesimal, and when evident, developed significantly later than in non-malignant cells or only after a greater number of exposures to, and quantities of, the drug the types of the karyokinetic derangements were not indicative of a prophase-poisoning syndrome. As well as colchicine, sodium pentobarbital (61) and an alkaloid vincaleukoblastine (56) exert related effects differing qualitatively as well. Thus, in the malignant condition the response fails to manifest itself in any specific manner and accordingly does not grant admittance of the effect either of colchicine, sodium pentobarbital, or of vincaleukoblastine. In the normal epidermis and in the benign epidermal hyperplasia, the situation is qualitatively incompatible in that the response to these drugs declares itself in a distinct and specific manner. It was therefore concluded that the receptors within the malignant and non-malignant cells have qualitatively deviating susceptibility and mode of pharmacodynamic response, nor do malignant and non-malignant cells obey biosynthetic and regulatory mechanisms in common (e.g. 53-56).


This study was carried out in 2004 at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta South west main campus on an experimental plot established in 2003. Factors in the experimental were nutrient amendments, (0, 1Ot ha- poultry manure and 60kg ha- NPK + Urea) and topsoil removal (O, 15 and 25 cm topsoil removal). The experiment was sited on two-slop positions. Clay dispersion ratio, pH and organic carbon of surface (O-10cm) soil were measured. Clay dispersion ratio at the lower slope ranged from 27 – 38% whereas it ranged from 18 – 40.5% for the interaction of nutrient amendment and topsoil removal. Poultry manure application reduced clay dispersion significantly. However, soil organic carbon did not explain the variation in clay dispersion significantly implying that some other soil properties were more responsible for lowering of clay dispersion.


Credit rating agencies do not only disclose simple ratings but announce watchlists (rating reviews) and outlooks as well. This paper questions whether and, if so, how the review procedure has affected the agencies' information provision. Using Moody's rating data between 1982 and 2004, we find that the information content of rating changes has indeed increased after the introduction of the watchlist instrument. Rating reviews do not appear to "buy time" for an eventual rating action. Rather, they seem to establish implicit contracts between agencies and borrowers similar to Boot, Milbourn, and Schmeits (2006) and as such allow the transmission of a higher quality of information.


Efficienza tecnica e produzione ospedaliera (di Daniele Fabbri) - ABSTRACT: The recent reform of hospital financing increased the power of incentives producers respond to. In the meanwhile it made even more necessary to develop tools for productive efficiency analysis in the hospital sector. In this paper we measure technical efficiency of public hospital in Emilia-Romagna, between 1994 and 1995, with DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). In particular, we investigate how sensitive results are with respect to the definition of output. Moreover we show how to test for significance in efficiency changes, as measured with DEA, by using both parametric and non parametric tests. Results are diffusely discussed and interpreted. The proposed approach, as far as it could lead to useful policy implications, seems definitely relevant.


Background RET fusions are found in 1-2% of patients (pts) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). RET inhibitors are highly effective, but resistance eventually occurs. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) are promising treatments in NSCLC, that could be employed at time of resistance. Data on the membranous expression of ADC targets, such as EGFR/HER2/HER3 and the possible impact of novel therapeutic agents in RET+ NSCLC are lacking.
 Methods We conducted a single-center observational study, collecting tissue specimens from 19 patients (pts) affected by RET+ NSCLC. The expression of EGFR/HER2/HER3 proteins on the cellular membrane was evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC). EGFR expression was assessed by using the DAKO EGFR pharmDx kit (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark); HER2 staining (4B5 clone by Roche clone) was evaluated using ASCO/CAP guidelines in scale from 0 to 3+; HER3 staining (D22C5 clone by Cell Signaling) was categorized by intensity as 0, 1+, 2+, and 3+, according to the same criteria used for HER2 evaluation. All IHC analyses were performed at Gustave Roussy.
 Results Out of 19 pts, 18 were evaluable for EGFR expression, 18 for HER2, 17 for HER3. All analyses were conducted on archival tissue samples from tumor biopsies performed predominantly in treatment-naïve pts (17/19). Pts had adenocarcinoma in 5/19 cases, KIF5B fusion partner in 13/19 cases. Median PD-L1 expression in evaluable pts was 15% (IQR 1- 60.00). EGFR expression was high, moderate, and low in 4 (22%), 2 (11%) and 5 (27%) cases, respectively. HER3 expression was 2+ in 4 (24%) cases, 1+ in 5 (29%) pts and 0 in the other 47%. None had HER2 membranous expression. EGFR expression was more frequently found in pts with uncommon fusion partners (6/11 vs 0/7, p=0.038) and non-adenocarcinoma histology (5/11 vs 0/7, p=0.10). HER3 expression evaluated at 2+ were identified in 3 cases with KIF5B-RET fusion and adenocarcinoma and 1 case with ANKRD26-RET fusion and undifferentiated histology. PD-L1 expression did not show significant difference between pts with positive vs negative EGFR or HER3 staining (p=1).
 Conclusions EGFR and HER3 had variable expression in RET+ NSCLC, deserving further exploration for novel treatment strategies. HER2 expression was not found in our RET cohort.
 Citation Format: Arianna Marinello, Maria Rosa Ghigna, Anas Gazzah, Karine Godefroy, Ludovic Lacroix, Damien Vasseur, Jordi Remon-Masip, Fabrice Barlesi, David Planchard, Jean-Yves Scoazec, Benjamin Besse, Mihaela Aldea. Expression of molecular targets for antibody-drug conjugates in patients with NSCLC and RET fusions [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 559.


Thromboembolic events (TEE) underwrite key causes of death in developed countries. While advanced imaging technologies such as computed tomography scans serve to diagnose blood clots during acute cardiovascular events, no such technology is available in routine primary care for TEE risk assessment. Here, we describe an imaging platform technology based on bioengineered fluorescent nanodiamond particles (F-NDPs) functionalized with bitistatin (Bit), a disintegrin that specifically binds to the αIIbβ3 integrin, platelet fibrinogen receptor (PFR) on activated platelets. Covalent linkage of purified Bit to F-NDP was concentration-dependent and saturable, as validated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using specific anti-Bit antibodies. F-NDP–Bit interacted with purified PFR, either in immobilized or soluble form. Lotrafiban, a nonpeptide, αIIbβ3 receptor antagonist, specifically blocked F-NDP–Bit–PFR complex formation. Moreover, F-NDP–Bit specifically binds to activated platelets incorporated into a clot generated by thrombin-activated rat platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Our results suggest that engineered F-NDP–Bit particles could serve as noninvasive, "real-time" optical diagnostics for clots present in blood vessels.


This paper studies the effects of horizontal dispensers and A-frame dispensers' combination on sorting cost and time consume in complex sorting system,which typically used in cigarette distribution center.An optimization model is developed to minimize unit sorting cost,and it's simplified based on the characters of dispensers.The results show that the fixed cost increases,mini-variable cost and mini-sorting time decreases,unit sorting cost decreases first and then increases as the horizontal dispensers' quantity increases.An application example with actual data proves that the method is practical and effective.


Variability in blood pressure (BP) and variability in antihypertensive drug response is a multifaceted phenomenon. Physicians and researchers face the challenge to recognize this variation for correct initiation and evaluation of antihypertensive therapy. In this thesis pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling was used with the aim to evaluate and quantify the variability in BP and BP response between patients. Furthermore, suggestions are provided for new strategies to individualize the drug treatment of hypertension. Data used in this thesis are derived from the SUNSET (Surinamese in the Netherlands: study on health and ethnicity) and ROTATE studies. In the ROTATE study (open-label, crossover) patients were rotated for antihypertensive treatment with a single drug from 5 drug classes. Application of the population approach, using nonlinear mixed effects modeling (NONMEM), showed that this methodology is suitable to quantify the average parameters that describe the 24-hour SBP profile as well as the amount of variability between patients in these parameters. Ethnicity was found to explain a significant part of differences between patients. Also, it was possible to identify a concentration-effect relationship for the antihypertensive drug eprosartan in hypertensive patients including quantification of the between-patient variability in this relationship. Creole Surinamese exhibit no drug response in contrast to white Dutch and Hindustani Surinamese. Genetic factors did not explain enough variation in BP and in the effect of BP lowering drugs to be clinically useful so far. For future research, the developed pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models may be used to reduce the measurement frequency for assessment of the diurnal SBP profile and to individualize antihypertensive drug therapy.


The study aimed to identify the floristic composition of spontaneous plant communities in the municipality of Cruz das Almas (BA), in two areas of family farmers. The spontaneous vegetation is very important in agro-ecosystems because, besides contributing with chemical, physical and biological improvements in the soil, it serves as shelter for natural enemies of crop insects, contributing to the natural balance and recommendation of the most appropriate management strategies in agricultural systems. For the determination of main weeds, a phytosociological study was carried out using the square inventory method, identifying species with the aid of specific manuals. To determine the relative importance (RI %) of species, the following indices were calculated: density, frequency, dominance and importance value index. 37 species were identified, belonging to 12 families, including the family Asteraceae. Key-words: spontaneous plants; phytosociology; agroforest backyards.


No matter how it is viewed, as a plausible version of anti-utilitarianism or of nonconsequentialist, or even as a plausible version of deontology, the theory of prima facie duties certainly makes W. D. Ross one of the most important moral philosopher of the twentieth-century. By outlining his pluralistic deontology, this paper attempts to argue for a positive answer to the question of whether Ross's theory can offer a solution to the issue of conflicting duties. If such a solution is convincing, as I believe it is, it would indicate the possibility to justify within the deontological framework, i.e., without committing to the principle of good-maximizing, those "hard cases" where people should break a promise or other (prima facie) duty in order to prevent a disastrous outcome. The theory of prima facie duties might then suggest that deontology and utilitarianism would likely be reconcilable.


Tim McClimon, president of the American Express Foundation, spoke about the notion of "community." He argued that, more than money, preservationists of the future will need to gain new and much-needed exposure to community members—hopefully turning them into future donors and ensuring the future of their historic treasures. He argued that strong corporate partnerships will play a larger role as springboards for public engagement, sustainable tourism, and urban revitalization.


Background The traditional neurotransmitter catecholamine and the neuropeptide tyrosine in sympathetic airway nerves have been proposed to be involved in the pathogenesis of airway diseases.


Indian history shows that, there are no proper practices of cost accounting policies in coal industry.Under PSU's coal industries are working 'increasing production' at any cost basis instead of implementing cost accounting polices for cost consciousness and cost control.At this moment to meet growing competitiveness and to achieve the cost-effectiveness in production and for high profitability and productivity,this book helps and suggests the people about the importance of cost accounting in coal industries.This book can be useful to students of Commerce and Business Management in understanding the cost accounting policies and its practices in coal industries under PSU's


A pesantren (Islamic boarding school) as an Islamic educational institution basedon self-financing system has implemented waqf as a pillar of its development andbecome a potential waqf asset development. The productive waqf is considered asa key instrument for providing funds to actualizing its educational program. Sinceboth productive waqf and pesantren emphasize sustainability, and since productivewaqf can assist to support the process of education in pesantren, the study aims toinvestigate an integrated Islamic social and commercial economy model applicable inpesantren. This will ensure utilization of the combined resources of productive waqfand pesantren in promoting pesantren welfare. The study focuses on 263 operationalchief, assatidz or teacher, musyrif, musyrifah or santri companion and santri or studentsin Pesantren in Java and Sumatra using. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) adoptedto examine the relationship among the five constructs i.e., productive waqf, businessunit, project financing, human resource and pesantren welfare. While the reliabilityand validity are established, the structural relationship between the constructs revealsthat the integrated model has a strong relationship with the pesantren welfare inmany ways. In relation with business unit and profitable commercial activities, humanresources have its significant role to assist pesantren tries its level best to realizedeveloped productive waqf. Specifically, the result shows all five constructs havesignificant impact in promoting pesantren welfare, which suggests that the model aswell as the instrument should be further implemented in pesantren.


In simple terms, nonverbal communication is the communication by using our bodies, gestures, and tones of voice, i.e. everything except the actual works we use. It is very common in daily life, but in different cultures, the same action can have different meanings. The purpose of this paper is to help the readers understand and appreciate some of the differences between Chinese and Americans when they spend time together in every-day situations.