The present study investigated the difference in Personality traits of adolescent from single parent and intact family.50-50 adolescent from single parent and intact family were selected purposively. Differential personality inventory (DPI) by Dr. Mahesh Bhargava was administered on sample, which measures six personality factors in two dimension, positive and negative trait. All six personality factors were measured in this study. Mean (M), standard deviation (SD), Critical ratio (CR) test were applied for statistical analysis of data. Result shows that there is a significant difference in activity v/s passivity, Assertive v/s Submissive, Trusting v/s Suspicious, Non-depressive v/s Depressive, Emotional stability v/s Emotional instability personality traits of adolescent from single parent and intact family because calculated Critical -Values are respectively 2.37, 2.14, 2.52, 3.37 & 4.42 which are significant at degree of freedom 98 and level of significant 0.05 and there is no significant difference in Enthusiastic v/s Non-Enthusiastic personality trait of adolescent from single parent and intact family because calculated t-value is not significant at degree of freedom 98 and level of significant 0.05 .Results indicates that there is a significant effect on personality ,it meant that family plays an important role on development of personality of a child. Key wordsPersonality, Trait, Single parent family, purposively, adolescent


Objective To study the efficacy of consecutive drugs in the treatment of chronic prostatitis.Methods 328 cases of moderate serious chronic prostatitis were treated with consecutive drugs with sensitive antibiotics,α1-blocker,inhibitor of cox-2 and traditional Chinese herb,36 cases being chronic bacterial and 292 nonbacterial.They were classified and evaluated according to the CPSI EPS examinations as analyzed by T test.Results All cases were followed up for an average of 11.8 months(8~18months).The average CPSI score was 33.6(32.7±5.3) before treatment and 15.4(12.8±7.3) after treatment(P0.05).Based on the study of CPSI,the curative rate was 16.7%,the remarkable effective rate 50.4%,and the improving rate was 19.8%,the total effective rate being 86.9%,whereas the no effective rate was 14%.The average WBC count in EPS after treatment was 11.6(11.6±10.9)and 32.4(32.4±29.7) before treatment(P0.05).36 cases of chronic bacterial prostatitis had posiaive bacterial culture of EPS,26 of which turned negative after treatment and the negative rate being 72.2%.Conclusion PPMT is a reliable method to diagnose prostatitis,and easy to carry out.NIH-CPSI is a reliable method to evaluate the drug therapy.The consecutive drugs treatment,including the proper antibiotics,α1-blocker,the inhibitor of COX-2 and traditional Chinese herb can be an effective therapy for chronic prostatitis.


The manufacturing process causes silicon wafer curvature because of the thermomechanical mismatch between each layers and the substrate. This curvature depends on many factors such as the properties of the used materials (Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, coefficient of thermal expansion), the process temperatures and the deposition route (intrinsic stress of each film). Wafer curvature has become critical, because the induced deflections lead to wafer handling issues or substrate breaking.The aim of this paper is to present a new analytical homogenization methodology to predict at production time scale the wafer curvature at any step of the process. The methodology takes into account the manufacturing process with the thermomechanical flow and the intrinsic stress. This will allow R&D engineers to estimate the curvature of new technology wafers before prototyping. Moreover, the results obtained with this methodology are validated with a comparison with a 2D axisymmetric model using the Finite Element Analysis (FEA).


A new frequency synchronization algorithm for the FMT is proposed and analysed.Simulation results show that this algorithm with auxiliary data is more robust in the fast-fading channel and is especially applicable in burst data transfer environment ex.WLAN.


Bamboo fiber is a new type of regenerated cellulose fibers and features excellent hygroscopicity, moisture transportation and microbial resistance. Based on practical trials, pretreatment, dyeing and after finishing of bamboo fiber knitgoods are determined, natural characteristics of bamboo fiber are maintained while quality and added value are raised.


In Sweden there are 1894 small-scale hydropower plants in operation, which together generate 4.3 TWh of electricity per year according to Swedish hydropower compound (SVKF, 2011). This corresponds ...


As editors, all of us tend to be extremely busy, so we may sometimes be lost in details and forget about crucial things. Thus it seems useful to draft a list of golden rules to keep in mind what is essential in our work. Editors can stick it on their notice board and learn the rules by heart. Our initial draft, composed of 7 rules, was discussed on the EASE Forum in May 2014. Consequently, 3 new rules were added (#2, #9, and #10), while 5 rules were specified more clearly (#3, #4, #5, #6, and #7), and we supplemented them with references to further reading. The resultant amended draft was Golden rules for scholarly journal editors


Abstract Despite the widespread use of Sherman (H. B. Sherman Inc., Tallahassee, Flor.) and Longworth (Penlon Ltd., Oxford, U.K.) live traps in small-mammal-community assessment, few studies have directly compared the effectiveness of these 2 popular models. This study compared the relative efficacy of both trap types in capturing small mammals in southern Wisconsin grasslands. As trap size may cause capture bias, we compared Longworth traps with equal numbers of small and large, folding Sherman traps. We also deployed a small number of pitfalls. We carried out trapping at 12 sites over a 2-year period (1996–1997). We observed a significant year effect, so we analyzed differences in capture success, species diversity indices, and percent community similarity between trap types separately for each year. Two-way contingency table analyses indicated that all 3 trap types exhibited species-specific differences in capture rates. We assessed standardized deviates for each cell within this two-way design, and we considered departures greater than 2 standard deviations (SE±1.96) from the mean to show an either significantly positive (≥ + 1.96) or significantly negative (≤−1.96) association. In the first year, Longworth traps captured greater numbers of long-tailed shrews (Sorex spp.) whereas small Sherman traps captured more western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis) and white-footed or prairie deer mice (Peromyscus spp.). In the second year, small Sherman captures were greater for long-tailed shrews and western harvest mice while large Sherman traps captured more meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) and jumping mice (Zapus hudsonius). Although estimates of community diversity were similar between trap types, percent community similarity estimates were lowest for Longworth-Sherman trap comparisons. Mortality rates were highest for Longworth traps and small Sherman traps and lowest for large Sherman traps. Pitfalls caught proportionally more long-tailed shrews than conventional live traps in the first but not the second year of study. In general, body mass of the animal had little effect on trap capture rates. However, in the first year of this study, small Sherman traps caught lighter (P =0.028) long-tailed shrews than the large Sherman traps. Similarly, Longworth traps caught significantly lighter white-footed/prairie deer mice than either small (P=0.022) or large (P= 0.035) Shermans. When used in combination, both Longworth and Sherman traps can diminish overall sampling error and yield less biased estimates of species composition than either trap type alone. The use of new as opposed to used Sherman traps in the second year of this study might account for the greater capture efficacy of these traps and contribute to differences in relative trap type success between years.


The mouthpiece on a brass instrument is generally removable but constitutes an important part of the whole instrument. In the frequency domain, it can be considered to provide a frequency dependent equivalent length that increases with frequency up to the Helmholtz resonance frequency fpop of the mouthpiece itself. Geometrical changes that affect the total volume or the fpop of the mouthpiece will affect the harmonicity of the nearly harmonic normal modes of the instrument. Using heterodyne filter analysis, the development of the frequency components and their amplitudes were measured for low trumpet notes, both for repeated attacks of short notes and for sustained note crescendos from pianissimo to fortissimo. The measurements were repeated after the mouthpiece was modified to improve the harmonicity of the normal modes. During both attack and crescendo tests, the modified mouthpiece was associated generally with more stable frequencies of the partials and more even development of the amplitudes of the p...


This paper gives a brief introduction to the background, current situation and development trend of STATCOM. The control strategy of STATCOM is summarized, the strategy and method of hysteresis comparison control are analyzed, and the selection of parameters in STATCOM is provided. In this paper, a hysteresis comparative control method which can quickly respond to the variation of reactive current is used to simulate the reactive power compensation. The simulation model of STATCOM circuit is established by using MATLAB. The results are analyzed in detail and the conclusion is drawn. The phase of voltage and current waveform is basically consistent after STATCOM reactive power compensation. The simulation results show that the compensation method is feasible and effective.


The article analyzes the issue of an object of information security law. The object being information itself has an impact on legal framework of information security. Such concepts as "information security", "protection of information", "safety information", "dangerous information", "prohibited content" are compared and analyzed for the purposes of better understanding of information legal framework.


The tunnel leakage through the insulator layer of metal–insulator–semiconductor tunnel diodes and its small-signal admittance is investigated by means of a theoretical model of the metal–oxide–semiconductor tunnel diode based on a steady-state algorithm and the minority carrier relaxation time. The conclusions are reviewed using an experimental Al-SiO2-Si structure with an ultrathin oxide layer.


In this work the kinetics of macroparticle charging in the rarified part of the arc plasma jet are studied. The sheath in the vicinity of the macroparticle is collisionless and the problem with different Debye length to macroparticle radius ratio is analyzed. Maxwellian velocity distribution functions with different temperatures for the electrons and ions in an arbitrary ratio are allowed in the model. The influence of the plasma drift velocity on the macroparticle charging is discussed.


Van den Broeck, Parrondo, and Toral Reply: We have performed extensive simulations on larger system sizes of ttp to 128 X 128 in d = 2 [1]. They confirm that the critical exponents belong to the TDGL universality class. The observation of mean field exponents [2] for smaller system sizes is probably due to the fact that the regime of nonclassical behavior is located in a rather narrow neighborhood. R. Toral Departament de Fisica Universitat de les Ilies Balears 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain


ABSTRACT To assist the warfighter in visually identifying potentially dangerous roadside objects, the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) has developed an elevated video sensor system testbed for data collection. This system provides color and mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imagery. Signal Innovations Group (SIG) has developed an automated processing capability th at detects the road within the sensor field of view and identifies potentially threatening buried objects within the detected road. The road detection algorithm leverages system metadata to project the collected imager y onto a flat ground plane, allowing for more accurate detection of the road as well as the direct specification of realistic physical constraints in the shape of the detected road. Once the road has been detected in an image frame, a buried obj ect detection algorithm is applied to search for threatening objects within the detected road space. The buried object detection algorithm leverages textural and pi xel intensity-based features to detect potential anomalies and then classifies th em as threatening or non- threatening objects. Both the road detection and the buried object detection algorithms have been developed to facilitate their implementation in real-time in the NVESD system. Keywords: EO, IR, camera calibration, road detection, buried object detection


We describe the motion of two freely moving porous spherical particles located along the axis of a cylindrical tube with background Poiseuille flow at low Reynolds number. The stream function and a framework based on cylindrical harmonics are adopted to solve the flow field around the particles and the flow within the tube, respectively. The two solutions are employed in an iterated framework using the method of reflections. We first consider the case of two identical particles, followed by two particles with different dimensions. In both cases, the drag force coefficients of the particles are solved as functions of the separation distance between the particles and the permeability of the particles. The detailed flow field in the vicinity of the two particles is investigated by plotting the streamlines and velocity contours. We find that the particle–particle interaction is dependent on the separation distance, particle sizes and permeability of the particles. Our analysis reveals that when the permeability of the particles is large, the streamlines are more parallel and the particle–particle interaction has less effect on the particle motion. We further show that a smaller permeability and bigger particle size generally tend to squeeze the streamlines and velocity contour towards the wall.


This case report describes a complex radical 3D-Conformal Radiotherapy treatment planning, dosimetric issues and outcome of definitive treatment of un-resectable carcinoma of the vulvar in a 42-year old lady. The patient presented with large fungating mass of the vulva which was biopsy confirmed as Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Further staging investigation revealed locally advanced disease (T4), with bilateral inguinal lymph nodes involvement. There is no systemic metastasis or intra-pelvic nodes. The patient was seen by Gynae-Oncology team and the disease was deemed un-resectable without significant morbidity. She was treated to a total dose of 64.8Gy in 36 fractions over 7 weeks with concurrent weekly Cisplatinum in 2 phases. 3D-Conformal radiotherapy technique using the modified segmental boost technique (MSBT, large PA and small AP photon fields with inguinal electron matching) was used. TLD chips were used for in-vivo dose verification in phase 1 and 2 of the treatment. At completion of planned radiotherapy, patient had a complete clinical response, grade 2-3 skin toxicity, grade 2 rectal toxicity, and grade 2 dysuria Vulval Squamous Cell Carcinomas are very radiosensitive tumours and the skills of the treating Radiation Oncologist, Dosimetrists, Physicist, Radiation Therapist and also nurses is of foremost importance is ensuring good clinical outcomes.


Itch is one of the most prevalent and familiar nociceptions in humans and can result in impaired quality of life. The central processing of itch is known to be important in perceptions of itch and strategies for coping with it, and various triggers have been reported to be associated with patterns of brain activation in pruritus. Stress is known to be an important aggravating factor in itch, but the precise mechanism by which brain activation results in stress‐induced pruritus remains elusive.


Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in massive health and economic burden. There has been substantial morbidities and mortalities owing to its high transmission rate. Therefore, effective strategies for treatment and prevention are crucial. Vaccines offer a ray of hope for the prevention and controlling the spread. Various new technological platforms have been utilised for vaccine production. The current review provides a brief description of these platforms for vaccine production and an update on the available and upcoming COVID-19 vaccines, discussing their results and outcomes from different trial phases. We have also focused on COVID-19 vaccination drive in India, emergency use authorisation, other candidate vaccines in Indian landscape, and issues involved with their clinical use and current recommendations.


These subject-area bibliographies extend in a small way those presented in the /967 Supple""nt which were, for the most part, curriculum related. For example, the lists covered: "Family," "Simple Physics," "Electricity," "Magnets," "Machines," "The Arts," "Mathematics," and "Space." The lists presented in this Supplement are also school related; however, they are organized around broad topics: "Birds," "Animals," "Biographies," "Sports," and "Social Problems."


In the transmitting apparatus, phase modulation means phase-modulates a signal light from a signal source based on data. Polarization modulation means polarization-modulates the signal light which is phase-modulated by the phase modulation means so that the polarization directions of temporally adjacent unit data are orthogonal to each other. In the receiving apparatus, interference means causes the signal light transmitted from the transmitting apparatus to interfere with a signal light such that the signal light is delayed by an even number of unit data. Intensity detecting means detects the intensity of the signal light obtained by interference by the interference means to detect data.


In this paper, we examine the bequest motive and savings using a Dutch Center panel. We found that the bequest motive does not influence whether individuals save, but does affects the amount of savings for people who have positive savings. The opposite holds for precautionary savings. Therefore, our research contradicts the work of Dynan et al. (2002), who argues that both motives cannot be distinguished. Furthermore, inter vivos transfers, children and risk avoidance seem to influence whether a bequest motive is present.


Online tests are becoming increasingly common as online learning gains popularity. Online assessments are more prone to academic dishonesty than traditional exams. Ad hoc online proctoring techniques have been used by institutions to prevent academic misconduct during online tests. In contexts with unreliable infrastructure, such as slow internet connections and a lack of compatible equipment, it is challenging to figure out how to employ technology to proctor online tests swiftly and efficiently. The goal of this study was to gain a better understanding of the context and requirements for scaling up online exams in Sri Lanka as well as to investigate what options for improving the subsequent deployment of online proctoring systems in low-resource settings exist in order to maintain the caliber of academic programs. In this work, an in-class assignment for a Software Engineering course at a higher education institution in Sri Lanka was manually proctored using video conferencing software in a completely remote context. A post-exam feedback survey was used to collect information about participants' experiences with online proctoring. The survey was supposed to reveal the experiences about the devices used, internet connectivity, the factors that led to stress and perceptions about cheating during the exam. The data obtained from both the assignment and the survey was analyzed in order to make well-informed decisions about the future deployment of online proctoring technologies. This paper presents evidence of the experiment that strongly recommends that online exam proctoring solutions be developed after a careful examination of the constraints such as internet connection speed, stability, and affordability, as well as sudden power outages of the environment in which they will be utilised, in order to unlock the true potential of e-learning technologies.


States of thermal equilibrium of an infinite system of interacting particles in ℝd are studied. The particles bear "unbounded" spins with a given symmetric a priori distribution. The interaction between the particles is pairwise and splits into position-position and spin-spin parts. The position-position part is described by a superstable potential, and the spin-spin part is attractive and of finite range. Thermodynamic states of the system are defined as tempered Gibbs measures on the space of marked configurations. It is proved that the set of such measures contains at least two elements if the activity is big enough.


[1] Tobetterunderstandthevariationsovertimeofprecipitationwaterisotopesmeasuredin polaricecores,wehavedevelopedanintermediatecomplexitymodel(ICM)ofatmospheric water vapor transport and associated isotopic distillation. The model builds directly from earlier work by D. Fisher and M. Hendricks and is calibrated against the measured modern spatial distribution of dD and deuterium excess (d). Model improvements include a correction to the equation governing advective transport, which solves a major puzzle arising from the earlier work. The new model shows isotopic data to be consistent with dominance of eddy diffusive transport at high latitudes. Model experiments are used to show that a wide variety of climate changes in subtropical source regions can affect Antarctic d and that such d changes are consistently anticorrelated with changes of dD. Magnitudes of DdD/Dd are �� 1t o� 5 and are much higher at the ice sheet margin than in the interior of the continent. Changes in the relative dominance of diffusive and advective transport are also shown to cause anticorrelated changes of similar magnitude. Isotopic sensitivities to temperature change (DdD/DT) are shown to also vary spatially, with low valuesinmarginalzonesandhighervaluesinland.Effectsofoceansurfacerelativehumidity on Antarctic d are shown to be nearly uniform across the continent (in contrast to earlier results given by Petit et al. [1991]) but quantitatively small. The method used by Vimeux et al. [2001] for folding humidity effects into source temperature effects is supported. We draw attention to a pervasive misapplication of marine composition corrections to Antarctic dDrecords. Arguments are made insupport of simple interpretations of calibrated ice core isotopic time series in terms of temperature changes despite the potential complexities in the system. INDEX TERMS: 1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 3344 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 4870 Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Stable isotopes; KEYWORDS: Antarctica, Vostok, deuterium excess


Modern telecommunication networks are very complex and they should be able to deal with rapid and unpredictable changes in traffic flows. Virtual Network Topology is used to carry IP traffic over Wavelength-division multiplexing optical network. To use network resources in the most optimal way, there is a need for an algorithm, which will dynamically re-share resources among all devices in the particular network segment, based on links utilization between routers. Attractor selection mechanism could be used to dynamically control such Virtual Network Topology. The advantage of this algorithm is that it can adopt to very rapid, unknown and unpredictable changes in traffic flows. This mechanism was adopted from biology - gene regulatory networks in cells use it to adopt to unknown changes in the environment. The dynamical system modeling the gene regulatory network is considered. The relations between genes are described by the regulatory matrix W with the entries from the set {−1, 0, 1} meaning inhibition, no relation and activation respectively. The structure of the attracting set in some specific case is studied. It is remarkable that the attracting set contains a focus-type critical point.


In this study, dioctyl sulfosuccinate-chitosan complex was prepared by a mechanical mixing of aqueous chitosan with sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate. As a result, hydrophobic chitosan was achieved. Characterizations of the complex were carried out including XRD, TGA, and FT-IR in order to follow changes in the chitosan structure. Thus produced chitosan complex was hydrophobic and anticipated to be compatible with PLA. Solution blending of PLA and hydrophobic chitosan was then conducted. Characterization techniques including XRD and FT-IR were employed to investigate the structure of the polymer blend. FTIR spectra showed that changes in the fingerprint of the chitosan amide band in the blend were observed, indicating compatibility between hydrophobic chitosan and PLA. In a similar manner, hydrophobic chitosan exhibited broader degradation profile when compared to virgin chitosan, arising from the interaction between hydrophobic chitosan and PLA.


Background: The validity of children's self-reports on medicine use has not been reported. Objective: To determine the agreement between parents' and children's reports of medicine use for 5 common complaints and to analyze predictors for disagreement. Methods: We used the child–parent validation survey from the research project Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children. Three hundred ninety-three 11- and 13-year-old Danish children and their parents responded to identical questionnaires. The main outcome measures were self-reported medicine use during the previous month for headache, stomachache, difficulties in falling asleep, nervousness, and asthma. Results: The percent agreement was lowest with medicine use for headache (64.6%), but was very high for the other 4 complaints (85.3–91.8%). The simple κ coefficients were moderate to good for medicine use for headaches, stomachache, and asthma (0.31–0.58) but poor for difficulties in falling asleep and nervousness. Children who had the specific complaint during the previous month were more likely than their parents to report more frequent medicine use. Conclusions: We have some confidence in young adolescents' self-reports of medicine use, as the results of this study are in keeping with other studies on the validity of children's reports of health-related behaviors. Furthermore, the findings suggest that such data can be used in epidemiologic studies that aim to categorize children into groups with and without medicine use.


The Myanmar-China Oil and Gas Pipeline is the most challenging project in China now, its routing is severely restricted by the local geographic and social environments. Along the pipeline, there are adverse topography characteristics which is called "three highs and four actives" being its high earthquake frequency, high earthquake intensity and undulate terrain. It is also the fi rst project in China that nature gas, crude oil and refi ned oil long-distance pipelines are laid in parallel. The pipeline is often constructed crossing the mountains via tunnels and rivers via bridging. Against the problems in pipeline construction, a number of technical improvements and innovations are incorporated into the design of parallel pipeline arrangement, bridging, tunnel, station/terminal combination, geological disaster prevention, anti-seismic and etc., which triggered the pipeline design to a higher level in China.


Central to the pathogenesis of atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS) is over-activation of the alternative pathway of complement. Inherited defects in complement genes and autoantibodies against complement regulatory proteins have been described. The use of plasma exchange to replace nonvailable online 28 June 2013


Individual African immigrants' experiences with the police in Finland often seem to be characterised by tension and suspicion. This article examines how Finnish respondents' perceptions of the police are affected by their previous encounters. In an effort to explain this phenomenon, the article examines why these past experiences have sometimes impacted on African immigrants' attitudes toward the police. Also, the article attempts to understand the role that 'race' played in the respondents' attitudes, a variable which is shown to be responsible for their perspective. In addition, it is argued that the respondents' personal experiences are affected by their previous encounters (or an encounter of a close friend) with the police in Finland. In analysing the social role played by these encounters, the study draws attention to their analytical significance to the respondents. Furthermore, in investigating these experiences with the police, this article attempts to describe the way individual African immigrants use their experiences to draw conclusions about the police. Finally, this study also draws on the importance of these previous experiences in view of the fact that African immigrants are often in the marginalised sector of the economy, for the aim is to improve our understanding of their everyday experiences.


The corporate culture is the concentrated expression of the core values and entrepreneurial spirit,fighting spirit pillar enterprises in the fierce market competition,awareness of business cooperation and forging team spirit weapon.This article from the scientific connotation of the corporate culture and structure,analyzes the current situation and existing problems of the corporate culture construction,and finally to propose relevant measures to strengthen and improve the building of enterprise culture.


Aims: The study aims to comprehensively explores Mobile Banking Revolution in Odisha by utilizing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model to analyze the behavioral matrix of individuals' adoption and usage patterns. It also aims to provide insights on what motivates people to use mobile banking services and what keeps them using it.
Sample: Data on individuals' demographic, including gender, age, and education, were recorded using descriptive parameters. 200 from 220 questions that were handed out were returned in complete form. But 192 surveys were reliable enough to use in the statistical analysis.
Study Design: The study employs a quantitative research approach to investigate the adoption of mobile banking services in the context of India's financial sector.
Place and Duration of the Study: Sample: Residents of Odisha. Between February 2023 to June 2023.
Methodology: The study sampled 192 Odisha residents who used m-banking services as respondents using a questionnaire survey. SmartPLS software was used to analyse the primary data that had been gathered.
Results: All the factors have significant relation with intention in adoption. The application of the UTAUT2 model was demonstrated within the framework of the investigation.
Conclusion: This study focused on the state of Odisha and explored the rapidly changing environment of mobile banking usage in the context of India's financial industry. The study investigated the complex web of factors that influence consumers' behavioural intents and actions in accepting mobile banking services via the perspective of the expanded Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model.
Recommendation: Through the UTAUT2 model, this study greatly advances our knowledge of the behavioural aspects of India's mobile banking boom. Its recommendations can help researchers, financial institutions, and policymakers maximise mobile banking's potential for widespread adoption and greater financial inclusion.


We show explicitly that a free Lagrangian expressed in terms of scalar, spinor, vector and Rarita-Schwinger (RS) fields is invariant under linear supersymmetry transfor- mations generated by a global spinor-vector parameter. A (generalized) gauge invariance of the Lagrangian for the RS field is also discussed.


Lithiation of stereodefined chloroalkyl sulfones (I) and (IX), treatment with carbonyl compounds, and subsequent base promoted ring closure gives cis/trans-mixtures of epoxides.


Objective: To assess changes in the use of antihypertensive drug classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, data of all patients who filled a prescription for an antihypertensive drug in Poland were analyzed. Design and method: Patients who filled at least one prescription from ATC groups C02-03, C07-10, C10BX in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 were extracted from the obligatory prescription database of the National Health Service in Poland. We have excluded patients with a diagnosis of heart failure. The frequencies of use of antihypertensive drug classes – beta-blockers (BB), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi), angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARB), calcium channel blockers (CCB), thiazide diuretics (TD), thiazide-like diuretics (TLD), loop diuretics (LD), mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) and alpha-blockers (AB) - and their combinations were analyzed for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively. Results: In the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 – 10,328,341, 9,478,949 and 9,637,595 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Among the main groups of antihypertensive drugs, the most used drug groups were BB (62.0, 62.8 and 63.7%), ACEi (52.9, 52.7 and 46.8%) and CCB (34.5, 35.2 and 35.9%). ARB were used by 26.8, 27.3 and 28.2% of patients. Diuretics were used by: TD 14.2, 13.9 and 14.1%; TLD 23.3, 22.8 and 22.6%, LD 13.0, 12.8 and 12.9%, AA 8.5%, 8.3%, 8.5%. AB were rarely used (4.5, 4.5, and 4.5%). Among patients taking two anithypertenisve drugs, the most common combination was BB+ACEi 23.5, 19.7 and 18.7%. BB+other anithypertensive drugs was used by 48.6, 46.9 and 45.7% of patients. ACEi/ARB+TD/TLD and ACEi/ARB+CCB combinations were used by 24.3, 23.4 and 23.6% and 17.4, 17.6 and 18.4% of patients, respectively. Among patients taking three drugs, BB+ACEi/ARB+TD/TLD combination was used by 29.8, 26.4, 25.7% of patients, followed by combinations: BB+ACEi/ARB+CCB 21.3, 19.8 and 19.9% and ACEi/ARB+CCB+TD/TLD 15.2, 17.2 and 18.5% of patients. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic had little impact on changes in the frequency of use of individual antihypertensive drug groups. A slight increase in the use of the two and three drugs' combinations recommended by the ESC/ESH 2018 guidelines was observed in 2021 compared to 2019.


The plant-parasitic nematodes have this in common with their relatives parasitic in animals, that they are unusually resistant to chemical control. It is not merely that substances lethal to the nematode are harmful to the animal or plant, for in both cases there are usually in the nematode's life cycle free-living stages, and these are also highly resistant. Apparently the nematode cuticle, egg shell, and vitelline membrane are effective barriers to the penetration of many substances which might be expected to be good contact poisons. Several of the best modern insecticides have given disappointing results against plant eelworms (Ellis and Clayton, 1948). On the other hand some of the simpler halogenated hydrocarbons have been fairly effective, against both animal nematodes (CCl4, C2C14) and plant eelworms in the soil (C2H4Br2, C3H4Cl2).


We present a method to simulate ocean surfaces away from the coast, with correct statistical wave height and direction distributions. By using classical oceanographic parametric wave spectra, our results fit real world measurements, without depending on them. Since wave spectra are independent of the ocean model, Gerstner parametric equations and Fourier transform method can be used with them. Moreover, since they are simple to use and need very few parameters, they allow easy production of ocean surface animations usable in movies and games. We explain how to accurately sample them, to achieve oceanic waves in deep water according to given wind parameters, in a realistic way. 1


As email has become a popular tool for business and organizations to use to reduce costs and increase productivity, there have been unseen consequences of employee also using the email. Privacy of employee email is affected by various factors, ranging from organizational policy to user interface design. The main issue with email privacy is not privacy itself but how employees perceive their emails to be private. When organizations implement email policies the perceived privacy for employee's decreases and this may affect their performance in the workplace. Though having no email policy or not disclosing the policy may result in court action to solve the dispute, this is not only expensive but timely process. Many of the current email clients which employees use for their email messages give the employee a false sense of privacy due to the way the application is designed. Many of the user interfaces which are used can be deceiving to the employee. User interface design is also affected by the technology itself and therefore may provide to be a larger issue to be solved. Author


Digital images have a rich potential as learning and teaching resources and are currently under-utilised in the support of pedagogical activities. The FILTER (Focusing Images for Learning and Teaching – an Enriched Resource) project is addressing this under-use and encouraging uptake of visual resources by mapping different types of images and defining the ways in which those images can be used to enhance the learning and teaching process. These categorisations form the basis of the main project deliverables: a generic image dataset, a set of subject-specific image datasets and supporting documentation such as "how-to" guides and case studies. This paper describes the aims, objectives and methodologies of the FILTER project. The project is based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, the University of Bristol, and started in May 2001.


Review. The article concerns exclusive regimes as a special type of legal regimes existing in the Russian law, the author provides their definition, discusses their nature, differentiates them from similar terms, such as legal regime, preferential and limiting legal regime and exclusion regime, using material and formal legal criteria. The author supports the position that an exclusive legal regime is an independent legal category, which is not substituted with the above-mentioned related terms. The author pays special attention to the issues of purposes of exclusive regimes, which is related to their functions. The author uses general scientific cognition methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, deduction and induction), as well as the special methods (comparative legal, systemic, formal legal, structural functional, analysis and generalization of legal norms). The author establishes the following functions of the exclusive regimes: cognitive, regulating, stimulating, compensating, communicative functions and the function of development of the social connections. The author also discusses distinguishing features of the two main types of exclusive regimes: stimulating and limiting regimes, them being dual legal categories. The author also studies the issue of efficient use of exclusive regulation for improving value and importance of the legal institution of an exclusive regime.


FIELD: physics. SUBSTANCE: when determining collection efficiency and/or checking air-tightness of a filter device for collecting dust and aerosols from volume flow of a gas, a test aerosol is fed into the stream of the dirty gas and the number or concentration of particles in the stream of dirty gas after the filter element is determined. The aerosol is fed using the distribution device of a feeder, where multiple fractional volumetric streams containing the test aerosol are fed from the distribution device into the stream of dirty gas with uniform distribution on the cross-section of the stream through at least one shaft, the longitudinal direction of which passes perpendicular to the direction of flow of the stream of dirty gas. EFFECT: high accuracy of testing. 9 cl, 5 dwg


tor's journey by car from his place of retirement to the city of Lund. There, in the an cient cathedral, Dr. Isak Borg is to receive the highest honor of his profession, a Jubilee Doctorate marking fifty years of meritorious service. But this journey by car on marked roads through familiar territory also becomes a symbolic pilgrimage back into his childhood and deep into his unknown self. For the doctor has been dreaming strangely of late. "It is as if I'm trying to say something to myself which I don't want to hear when I'm awake"?so he says during the course of the day to his companion on the ride, his daughter-in-law Marianne, who (for reasons of her own) does her best to con front him in their conversations with a number of disturbing, but at the end liberating, truths both about himself and about the Borgs generally. At the end of the day, the cer emonial honor bestowed on him seems almost unreal or, at any rate, transcended by a certain simple depth of wisdom that he has gained?and by a decision through which he and his immediate family find themselves firmly and subtly united. I shall use Bergman's screenplay in order to present a conception of the life cycle and of the generational cycle which I find admirably illuminated in it and illuminated, for once, in a memoir which begins with the end?that is, it demonstrates how a signif icant moment in old age reaches back through a man's unresolved adulthood to the dim beginnings of his awareness as a child. To use the screenplay, however, means to retell it in my own words, which is already a first step in interpretation. But it also allows me to select quotations from Bergman's text and to describe his imagery, both of which are apt to get lost in the somewhat cumbersome experience of most non-Swedish audiences who must read the captions and ignore the foreign dialogue, as they attempt to view the picture in all its detail. The prologue of the screenplay begins with a scene depicting the old doctor noting down the events and the reflections ofthat memorable day. Sitting at his massive desk, on which we see family pictures and writing utensils in faultless array, the white haired, slightly stooped but solid old man with a square, handsomely aged face introduces himself as Dr. Isak Borg, age seventy-six, a Swede, and, of course, a 1


filter study, especially internet-related information. Internet filter research aims at identifying the factors affecting the decision of a particular country's filtering of information, and the impact of this filtering on the whole field of internet censorship. This section also provides a detailed introduction of methods, which they call 'fusion methodology', combining field research with more technically based ones, such as data mining. Among the numerous works on internet control, this edited volume brings in scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, reflecting collaboration across disciplines and between academic and policy research. As a continuation of the past two edited volumes, this book shows great diversity of scholarship and timely concern of the emerging issues of cyberspace in Asia. It provides a comprehensive overview of a new phase of control over cyberspace, identifying the complexity of the control–resistance relation. The focus of Asia provides an approach to understanding internet filtering that is different from the Euro-American based understandings. The chapters cover countries that are usually neglected or underrepresented in the literature of internet control and resistance, which was dominated by studies about areas such as China and the Middle East. It goes beyond the 'epicenter' of active internet contestation – China – and looks at a wider range of countries with more diverse social conditions. Although internet control seems most likely to be associated with authoritarian countries, this book does not use simple dichotomies, or attribute internet control to authoritarian states, and in this way it broadens the concept of internet control and complicates the picture of contestation. Although one chapter mentions gender issues, more identity indices could be taken into consideration in future research, such as racial, ethnic and class differences, and inequality. In addition, it is also important to employ a transnational approach, positioning each country within global forces that shape the dynamics in cyberspace. Finally, due to the changing political atmosphere in Asia, for example, like Burma and other Asian countries under political transition, new trends in the relationship between control and resistance in cyberspace will emerge and invite closer observation and intensive research. This volume makes a good start at this, helping us understand what the next stage of internet control may look like.


In this paper, the results of the field observation of precipitation by the present authors are shown and the results of altitude or direction of the slopes in a mountainous area on rainfall are discussed. In order to investigate the characteristics of precipitation processes, numerical simulation of rainfall by using Kessler's and Hobbs' parameterization are carried out. Finally comprehensive comparison with the numerical solutions obtained from the two models and the field data are performed.


Biofuels are an important means of progress to reduce greenhouse gases and local pollution and to diversify energy. For diesel engines, FAME (Fatty Acid Methyl Ester), coming from trans esterification of vegetable oils, have already shown their potential as fuel substitutes. Nevertheless, this trans esterification induces glycerol production as a co - product. At the same time, oxygenated compounds have been shown to have great potential for reducing diesel particulate emissions. So using glycerol as a basis to synthesize new oxygenated compounds, for diesel fuel formulation could be promising. This paper deals with the synthesis of oxygenated compounds coming from glycerol, such as acetals, ethers, or carbonates, and their evaluation as blending components in diesel fuel. The objective of this work is to evaluate their potential, in terms of pollutant emissions, with different engine technologies. Their impact on particulate emissions depends on the engine technology and the chemical structure of the glycerol derivatives. For the Euro II vehicle, the decrease in particulate emissions is up to 20% on NEDC cycle. Although the Euro III vehicle is less sensitive than the Euro II, with only 5% in volume of glycerol derivatives, up to12% of particulate reduction is possible. The impact on NOx emissions is rather low especially for the Euro III vehicle. Tests with an HCCI engine have shown that some glycerol compounds could improve the running of HCCI engine.


A simple mechanims for the generation of elec- tromagnetic Zebra pattern emission is proposed. The mecha- nism is based on the generation of an ion-ring distribution in a magnetic mirror geometry in the presence of a prop- erly directed field-aligned electric potential field. The ion- cyclotron maser then generates a number of electromagnetic ion-cyclotron harmonics which modulate the electron maser emission. The mechanism is capable of switching the emis- sion on and off or amplifying it quasi-periodically which is a main feature of the observations.


Dry film photoresist, an essential imaging component in the manufacturing of printed circuit boards, is widely used to create patterns on metallic substrates that will be etched or selectively plated with other metals. When a circuit layout design is transformed into a printed circuit board, the coating operation of dry film photoresist plays a vital role in determining the product quality. Controlling the coating thickness is very challenging because of the extremely thin (20~60 μm) and soft properties of the photoresist, which turns concave when contact instruments are used to measure its thickness. To reduce the variability of coating thicknesses in a mass and continuous production process, it is important to quickly and non-contactly measure the dry film thickness and timely adjust the coating operation to keep the process output close to the desired target. A computer-aided visual measurement system combining with an ANN-SPC-EPC (Artificial Neural Network-Statistical Process Control-Engineering Process Control) process control model is proposed to solve the above problem in the coating operation. We first capture the side view image of the dry film on a high-resolution CCD and apply computer vision techniques to measure the thickness of the film. Second, we apply the CG BP neural network model to analyze the thickness data and predict their process trends. Third, after combining SPC-EPC techniques and a finite integral control scheme, the proposed model makes EPC feedback adjustments to the coating operation based on SPC monitoring and EWMA disturbance model. Finally, sensitivity analysis and design of experiments (DOE) are conducted to find the best parameter settings of the ANN-SPC-EPC model that provide predictable, monitoring, and feedback control for the coating operation. This research implements the proposed model of combining CG BP and MCEWMA-EPC techniques. As experimental results indicate, when compared with the traditional EWMA-EPC method, the proposed model can reduce the adjustment times by more than 50%, accurately forecast the process trends, and decrease almost 20% of the process variability. Obviously, the CG-MCEWMA-EPC model offers competent forecasting process trend function and process improvement scheme.


A 16-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with subacute pelvic pain, painful micturition and polyuria for 3 days. She had a past history of dysmenorrhea and chronic constipation for many years without any relevant surgical history. Patient had no fever or vomiting. On examination the patient had a soft abdomen with non-tender pelvic mass.


Abstract Of 135 women beyond fifty years of age who were evaluated for levels of bone density, those with a normal or only a minimally decreased bone density had the highest number of normal bone-marrow mast-cell counts. In contrast, increased numbers of mast cells occurred in patients with a moderate to marked decrease in bone density. It is possible that bone-marrow mast cells and heparin, which is synthesized by mast cells, play an important part in the pathogenesis of age-related osteoporosis.


We consider the problem important for the condensed matter physics, superconductivity physics, and electrodynamics of continuous media - the problem of the matter dielectric permittivity possible values spectrum definition. Two ways of the dielectric permittivity values spectrum identification are analyzed. The proposed technique allows the author to complete the universal criterion of stability identified by D. A. Kirzhnits for a system of charged particles by the criterion of stability for a superconducting system of charged particles.


Photovoltaic systems technological development is driven by the request for higher efficiency and safety. These concerns influence also the choice of the power converter stage. Several topologies have been proposed and many of them are available commercially. Among them, the neutral point clamped (NPC) and derived topologies offers high efficiency, low leakage current, and low EMI. However, one main disadvantage of the NPC inverter is given by an unequal distribution of the losses in the semiconductor devices, which leads to an unequal distribution of temperature that can affect lifetime. By using the active NPC (ANPC) topology, where the clamping diodes are replaced by bidirectional switches, the power losses distribution problem is alleviated. The modulation strategy is a key issue for losses distribution in this topology. In this paper, two known strategies are discussed and a new PWM strategy, namely the adjustable losses distribution is proposed for better losses distribution in the ANPC topology. Simulations and experimental results help in evaluating the modulation strategies.


The Non Formal Business Sector plays an important role in the development of certain area especially in the city, however the government has to take a serious attention in developing this Non Formal Sector's in order to curb the environmental cleanliness problem and health of the public. The existing of this non formal sector may assist the government to generate the economic of the city resources besides will benefit the development of the local economic. However, the development of the Non Formal Business Sector which is not plan and beyond control may contribute to the problem of environmental cleanliness phenomenon to the city, traffic congestion and threatened the trader's security and abraded the quality of city area's view. Therefore, as a local authority, Alor Gajah Municipal Council (MPAG) shall not ignore the situation in the city area. MPAG shall plan, arrange, control and develop the Non Formal Business Sector to determine the cleanliness, security and comfort in the city area. Hence, this research will identify the role and importance of the Non Formal Business Sector to the public and the problems face by the traders and also the visitors. The traders and the visitor's perception towards the physical facilities necessities for this non formal sector is determine through the questionnaires form which are circulated at five chosen locations in Bandar Baru Masjid Tanah, then it will be analysed using the quantitative method that is frequency method, likert scala method and cross schedule method. The result of the research shows that face by the traders and the public among others is the size of the business is too narrow and insufficient of physical facilities in the existing business stalls. A few suggestion are proposed to MPAG in order to assist improving the Non Formal Business Sector activities and to actualize its own business identity environment, that is clean and suitable besides fulfilled the planning requirement and the needs of the local society. However, it is difficult to carry out the development planning for the public utilities and in most of the local authorities without the involvement from the agency such as the Developer, Mara and UDA. Finally, the conclusion is based on the result of the analysis to equilibrate the existing development.


This review raises such questions as: How do the differences between the sexes (biological or social) affect the health of women? Are these effects changing over time? Is all equality beneficial? In developing countries complications of pregnancy and childbirth are still a major cause of death among women (e.g. more than 1/5 of all deaths of women 15-44 in Egypt and Indonesia). In contrast even when deaths from side effects of contraception are included women in industrialized countries can celebrate the virtual disappearance of mortality related to reproduction (e. g. less than 2% of deaths among women 15-44 in the US. There is little doubt that social inequalities between the sexes are still prominent in most developing countries and that this affects health. For example in Matlab Bangladesh where free health services were provided ill female children were less likely to be brought for care than were ill males. In industrialized countries a "masculine" lifestyle has long been associated with homicide suicide accidents and abuse of alcohol and drugs. Over the past decade for some of these behaviors the gap between men and women has been closing as discrimination recedes. The most dramatic example of this is cigarette smoking. In addition while at age 65 and over the life expectancy of women is greater than that for men the expected number of active years is very similar.


To examine the involvement of transforming growth factor‐beta (TGF‐β) in the pathogenesis of prion diseases, immunohistochemical studies on both TGF‐β isoforms (β1, β2 and β3) and TGF‐β receptor type II (TGF‐βRII) were performed on the cerebral neocortices of 20 cases with human prion diseases, three cases with Alzheimer's disease, and five control cases. TGF‐β2 immunoreactivity was thus detected in most neurons and astrocytes in all observed cases of prion disease. TGF‐β3 immunoreactivity in the astrocytes and TGF‐βRII in the neurons were also detected in 17 of 20 cases with prion diseases. These immunoreactivities had increased markedly regarding the intensity and the number of positive cells in comparison to the control cases, but they were indistinguishable from those observed in Alzheimer's disease cases. In contrast, the TGF‐β1 immunostaining did not show any apparent difference. Among the cases with prion diseases, however, no significant correlation was revealed between the immunohistochemical results and the clinical and pathological features. The results showed that TGF‐β isoforms thus appear to be differentially involved in the pathogenesis of prion diseases in a similar manner to that of Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, two cases of prion disease in which pathological findings were free from astrogliosis and neuronal cell degeneration in the cerebral cortices also showed an increased immunoreactivity for TGF‐β2. Thus, this result suggests that TGF‐β2 may be involved in the early stages of neuronal cell degeneration in prion diseases.


This paper addresses the question of whether ordinary people express a reasonable understanding of the meaning of democracy, and what are the contents of their definitions? Do people focus on the procedural aspects of democracy—elections, democratic institutions, and processes—which are the main focus of democratization efforts. Alternatively, do they see democracy in terms of rights and liberties, or economic or social welfare terms? We draw on a wide range of recent public opinion surveys from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Our research yields three generalizations about popular conceptions of democracy. First, even in new democracies, most people can define democracy in their own words. Second, and most important, most people think of democracy in terms of the freedoms, liberties and rights that it conveys, rather than procedural conceptions of liberal democracy. Third, equating democracy with social benefits emerges as a minor theme, even in the poorest of nations. Our findings thus suggest that democratic aspirations are shaped by perceptions of the liberties and freedom that democracy can produce, and that are seen as lacking in other political systems.


A possible decline in prevalence rates of HIV in Nigeria has been reported recently over the last few years (5.8% in 2001 to 5% in 2003 and 4.4% in 2005) FMOH (2006). Several factors may explain the observed decline including the effect of the ongoing intervention efforts, the increase in the number of rural survey sites, and death of those previously infected. The present study is aimed at evaluating the prevalence and incidence rates of HIV at map location indicating high and low risk areas in the North-Eastern States of Nigeria. A review was conducted of published reports and literature, raw and modeled. Two different data sets were used to get the invectives'. The prevalence rates from sentinel surveys were multiplied by the respective years of census figures. After the transformation the data was then tested for normality using MINITAB version 13 and STATGRAPHIC version 5.0. A generalized statistical model was also developed using R version 2.8.1 Statistical software. Where, years have been considered as time and locations as space. The risk maps were generated using ArcView GIS version 3.2a software. Observation was restricted to adult population among pregnant women aged 15-49years. Result show that there are significant changes in general. This was shown in figure 3, where Yobe is leading the increase followed by Bauchi, Taraba and Gombe States. However, Adamawa observed no changes in the prevalence rates of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. However, the model was able to explain about 76% of the variability indicating a better fit and location (states) contributes significantly to the spread of HIV than time. Large number of mathematical models has been developed to simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS and the likely effect of prevention and treatment programmes. These models can be classified into three broad groups: individual-based stochastic simulation models, which randomly generate events such as infection and death for each individual in the population; and deterministic models, which typically divide the population into cohorts of individuals, and compute average numbers of events in each cohort on the assumption that all individuals in a cohort share the same characteristics. As well as the cartographic modeling that offers a procedural approach to the integration of map layers which allows the design of analysis of schema for spatial data. However, the ultimate aim of any modeling is to provide policy makers with an elicit decision to effectively and efficiently plan. The study is therefore aimed at using map location to identify high low risk areas, hence the choice of cartographic modeling. This is a generic way of expressing and organizing the methods by which spatial variables, and spatial operations, are selected and used to develop a GIS model and which is the focus of this study.


In this paper,a novel biosensor for detecting organophosphorus has been prepared.First,zirconium dioxide was electrodeposited onto the cleaned surface of gold electrode.Second,acetylcholinesterase was immobilized on these zirconium nanoparticles by adsorption.Then,the concentration of organophosphorus solution could be determined after putting the electrode into organophosphorus solution at different concentrations.Taking paraoxon as an example,the response character of the biosensor has been investigated.The proposed biosensor in optimal conditions has a linear range of 5.0×10-7~5.5×10-4 g/L for paraoxon detection,and its detection limit is 1.0×10-7 g/L.The process for preparation of the biosensor is simple and convenient.Moreover,the proposed biosensor has advantages in high sensitivity,low non-specific absorption and regenerability.


Rosane Almeida is a 'reveller', to use the term adopted by popular artists to define their playfulness when producing art. The book hence invites the reader to play with Cumarim, a naughty and very curious little girl, by evoking popular children's games of Brazilian culture. The author co-founded the Instituto Brincante with Antônio Nóbrega, an organisation which aims to foster knowledge, assimilation, and recreation of various Brazilian forms of artistic expression, with a view to celebrating the rich national culture and the importance of its diversity.


Tea garden are evergreen and close,in which the temperature and humidity vary little between day and night,and the microclimate is stable These are the basic factors resulting in the stability of insect community in tea garden The rich resource of tea plant variety raises the species diversity of insect on tea plant A number of tea garden ecosystems including various community tea garden and pure tea fields,and a lot of cultivating models such as single row planting,two or several rows close planting and intercropping richen the diversity of insect species,and therefore strengthen the stability of insect community The diversity of insect species cause complicated food web and food chain,which are the main components building into stability of insect community in tea garden


Every year, the SIGMOD Conference includes an exciting symposium addressing various aspects of a career in the data management community. These symposia are geared towards graduate students and junior researchers, but they attract a very broad audience because they are both informative and entertaining. This year, the symposium consists of two panels: "Dos and Don'ts for a Successful Job Search", and "Good Papers and Good Research". Each panel has four panelists and each panelist gives a 10-minute presentation based on their personal experiences and perspectives gained over the years. After the presentations, an informal discussion ensues, where questions are welcomed from the audience.


In the state of Hidalgo, in Mexico, there is a small town called El Alberto that offers several options for people interested in "alternative and adventure ecotourism". A family package might include, for example, a spa entrance, a camping site, boat rides, and a torchlight show. For those interested in something a little more intense, the attractions include abseiling, kayaking, zip-lining and an activity called "night walk". It is, as the caption already indicates, a three-hour walk that simulates the illegal crossing of the border between Mexico and the United States.


Although sexual assault that occurs during university is known to have numerous significant consequences, many are believed to remain "hidden." This dissertation research employed an occupational perspective to provide a more fulsome examination of the aftermath of sexual assault that occurs during university. Three distinct studies, yielding four manuscripts, were conducted. First, a review of the sexual assault literature was carried out. Findings suggested a clear but narrowly examined occupational aftermath of sexual assault. Next, women's experiences of everyday living in the aftermath of sexual assault were explored through different forms of narrative: (a) memoirs written by women who had experienced sexual assault during university, and (b) interviews with women who had experienced sexual assault during university. These studies suggested an extensive occupational aftermath of sexual assault. Together, the findings of this dissertation research make five unique contributions to the sexual assault and occupational science literature. First, the findings suggest that an occupational perspective may be used to uncover some of the hidden consequences of sexual assault, specifically those related to human occupation. Second, the findings suggest that sexual assault that occurs during university is occupational life-altering. Sexual assault was


Anaplastic astrocytoma (AA, WHO grade III) and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM, WHO grade IV) are malignant tumors of the brain. The average survival time of patients with GMB is approximately one year and two years in the case of anaplastic astrocytoma with standard therapy based on surgical tumor resection followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy. High invasiveness of gliomas, the ability of rapid division and so-called diffusive infiltration of tumor cells into normal brain tissue, which prevents complete surgical removal, are hallmarks of theses tumors. Therefore, new specific therapies for eliminating cancer cells are needed to treat this tumors. Recently, it has been demonstrated that alternating electric field, also known as tumor treating fields (TTFields) has a unique mechanism of destroying glioma cells. TTFields applies electromagnetic energy frequency-dependent and intensitydependent and disrupts cancer cell replication as they undergo mitosis. Futhermore, TTFields turn out to act comparably to conventional chemotherapeutics, lacking numerous side adverse associated with chemotherapy. The authors provide an up-todate review of the mechanism of action as well as preclinical and clinical data on TTFields.


There has been much interest of late regarding the current commodity "super cycle". However, even sizing the current boom implies knowledge of long-run trends that are notoriously difficult to estimate. This paper uses new techniques to identify breaks in commodity prices and estimate trends and cointegrating relationships and argues that the weight of evidence is against a stable declining commodity terms of trade. The results are used to characterize the current boom and, assuming no new break, how commodity prices would be expected to return to the estimated "equilibrium". The paper also discusses implications for commodity-dependent developing countries.


Wind tunnel studies of the wake behind model wind turbines with one, two and three blades have been made in order to get a better understanding of wake development as well as the possibility to pre ...


The United States, along with the rest of the world, is struggling to keep pace with the growing demand for a knowledgeable and skilled workforce. The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), put forth by the United States Department of Education, calls for a reinvention of the nation's education system to address shortcomings preparing students for tertiary education and the workforce. Realization of this sweeping goal requires leveraging the power of technology, big data, and embracing a customer relationship management (CRM) perspective, where in this context, the "customers" are students and customer "loyalty" equates to their engagement in the learning process. Coordinated data collection will improve results for individual schools and enable evidence-based educational practices to be shared among schools. Big data provides the means to identify customers' needs, abilities and wants - as well as the means to implement reward and incentive programs that recognize student successes and loyalty to educational attainment. Lessons gleaned from CRM initiatives in industry are used to conceptualize a systems architecture to support customer relationship management in educational environments. Case studies - based on the Best We Can Be (BWCB) online college and career readiness program, and the Global Travel and Tourism Partnership (GTTP), a multi-country educational program to introduce students to career opportunities in Travel and Tourism - are presented to demonstrate practical implementation of CRM principles in an educational setting.


The Zn-1.6Mg alloy was chosen because mechanical properties of this alloy are similar to human bones. It is necessary to describe corrosion behaviour of the Zn-1.6Mg alloy before using it for application as a biodegradable material. In this work, two types of corrosion rate measurements were used. One of them was an exposure test in model physiological solution marked as SBF (the simulated body fluid) and NaCl solution. The second method was measurement of potentiodynamic curves in the SBF and NaCl solutions. The aim of this work was to compare both methods and confirm similar trend of corrosion behaviour in model physiological solution (SBF and NaCl).


This present work focused on investigating the thermal behavior and emission level of sapodilla oil mixed with diesel to an internal combustion (IC) engine. The behavior of the engine is measured via brake thermal efficiency (BTE), brake-specific energy consumption (BSEC), heat release rate (HRR), cylinder pressure, and cumulative heat release rate (CHRR). The test results were evaluated with diesel fuel. Carbon deposits were low in sapodilla seed oil with slight variation of calorific value than standard diesel fuel. BTE value for case B20 is found to equal diesel fuel. For lower and higher blends, the cylinder pressures are lower than the diesel fuel. HRR decreased as increased of the blend ratio. Inferior blends of sapodilla are emitted lower HC and CO. The BTE of B100 works 88.13% efficiently, similar to diesel for low load conditions. When compared to diesel, a maximum NOx reduction of up to 30% was achieved while using the sapodilla blend. It is found that the oil derived from the sapodilla seed kernels will be the promising additive for fossil fuels for a greener environment.


The utility model relates to a glue applicator for wall paper. The utility model comprises a machine body, a machine cover, a support frame for wall paper, a main drum, etc., wherein, T-shaped grooves are respectively arranged on main body boards which are arranged at both sides of the machine body, and the main drum is arranged on the machine body through adjustment heads arranged at both ends of the main drum. The two adjustment heads are respectively positioned at the points of the T-shaped grooves of the left and the right main body boards. As a result, a gap adjusting mechanism for the main drum and a main body containing face plate is formed so that the thickness of a glue applying layer can be controlled. An upper drum and a lower drum are arranged between both upper side boards of a cover board. When the machine cover is closed, wall paper is butted by the machine cover so that the machine cover is always attached to the main drum; meanwhile, the wall paper is pressed by the upper drum at a fixed position of the main body containing face plate so that the thickness of the glue applying layer is more even. When the glue applicator is used for pasting the wallpaper, the utility model has the advantages of quickness, smoothness, lightness and handiness. The utility model is an ideal decorating tool.


There is increased deployment of portable IP-enabled devices and group content distribution
applications on Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). This surge is facilitated by its relative low cost
of installation and as such is an attractive option in environments lacking existing communication
infrastructure and/or in times of natural emergencies. The WMNs is equally capable of providing high
bandwidth "multihop" access to the web. The capability of the WMNs can be enhanced by reinforcing
the system with multicasting and mobility features. However, there are challenges of seamless
integration when such existing multicasting and mobility features of MANET and fixed networks are
migrated to the WMNs domain. Thus, a wide range of efforts have been directed at finding solutions
to these challenges in order to increase the widespread deployment of the WMNs based
communication infrastructure. This paper provides an exploratory review of reported studies in the
sphere of multicast routing, mobility management and their integration in WMNs. It also highlights
emerging issues in WMNs performance that deserves research attention or focus particularly in the
area of integrated mobile multicasting. This is done with a view to producing a one volume
comprehensive account of incorporating multicasting with mobility support deployable via Wireless
Mesh Networks. In addition, this work is aimed at propelling research directions in the area of
integrated mobile multicasting on Wireless Mesh Networks.


Sepsis is a complex syndrome in which as a consequence of an abnormal response of the host against an infection, a series of cellular and molecular pathophysiological mechanisms are triggered, resulting in the multiorgan damage of the patient and their respective clinical manifestations. Gram-negative bacteria, due to the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the main constituent of its outer membrane, are recognized by molecules such as lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP) and complexes of cell membrane receptors in the host that recognize its structure Antigenic as are the TLR4, CD14 and MD2, giving rise, through different pathways of signaling dependent myeloid (MyD88) and independent myeloid or TRIF, to the activation of a series of kinases that fi nally through intracellular signaling pathways Such as NF - kB, will generate transcriptional changes that will induce the production of pro - infl ammatory cytokines, which explain the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and the anti - inflammatory drugs that explain the compensatory anti infl ammatory response syndrome (CARS) of the sepsis through which the septic patient passes in different moments of the process or. All these molecular pathophysiological processes of sepsis are those that will result in changes in the endothelium, the microvasculature, the complement system, the coagulation and fi nally in each one of the organs of the patient the different clinical manifestations that from scores of the patient's evaluation, such as the SOFA, identify the patient in sepsis, their prognosis and treatment guidelines. Thus, the understanding of the molecular pathophysiological bases of gram-negative sepsis is nowadays the basis for its defi nition, the understanding of the clinic and the starting point for therapeutic improvements in the management of sepsis, translated into survival of the patient.


Much of western, central, and northeastern Kansas is covered with loess deposits from Bignell, Peoria, and Loveland formations along with Sangamon soils above Loveland unit. In this paper their significant geological and engineering properties are defined, and design guidelines are presented. Montmorillonite is the chief cementing agent in Kansas loess. The Sangamon soil and the Lovelenad loess contain more clay than the Bignell loess and the Peoria loess and have higher in situ density and less permeability. The in situ density of Bignell loess and Peoria loess is less than 85 pcf, and consolidation tests and field experience indicate that they are highly susceptible to hydroconsolidation. A key factor in the collapse potential of Kansas loessial soils appears to be the mineralogy of the soils, specifically the presence of montmorillonite as the chief cementing agent; montmorillonite has the ability to absorb more hydrogen cations than kaolinite and thus is able to adsorb more water. Total stress parameters must be used to design loess slopes approaching the vertical, and effective stress methods are particularly applicable in dealing with saturated loess and with seepage stress where flattened slopes are required. Saturated loess may liquefy due to the cyclic nature of earthquake loading. Stabilization and compaction of loess represent not only an antisubsidence but also an antiliquefaction measure. Proper consideration should be given to zoning of areas of collapsible loessial soils. (Author)


After their generation, cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves propagate nearly freely but for the expansion of the Universe and the anisotropic stress of free-streaming particles. Primordial signals — both that from inflation and the infrared spectrum associated to subhorizon production mechanisms — would carry clean information about the cosmological history of these effects. We study the modulation of the standard damping of gravitational waves by free-streaming radiation due to the decoupling (or recoupling) of interactions. We focus on nonstandard neutrino interactions in effect after the decoupling of weak interactions as well as more general scenarios in the early Universe involving other light relics. We develop semianalytic results in fully free-streaming scenarios to provide intuition for numerical results that incorporate interaction rates with a variety of temperature dependencies. Finally, we compute the imprint of neutrino interactions on the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background, and we comment on other means to infer the presence of such effects at higher frequencies.


This paper analyzed the corrosion environment of Missan oilfields and investigated the oilfield country tubular goods used in other similar oilfields. Summarized the effect of partial pressure ratio of H2S/CO2 and Cl-to the corrosion behavior of OCTG. This paper concluded the service condition, test results and anti-corrosion mechanism of carbon steel, low-chrome steel, modified martensitic stainless steel and nickel alloy. Finally arrived at conclusion that the nickel alloy can meet the requirement of Missan oilfields, some literature reported that the modified martensitic stainless steel can apply in H2S/CO2 environment. In the condition that be easy to replace the tubular, carbon steel and low-chrome steel tubular can meet the requirement with corrosion inhibitor.


We have developed a low-temperature oxidation method for SiC by the use of perchloric acid (HClO4). The immersion of 6H-SiC(0001) wafers in concentrated HClO4 at the boiling temperature of 203°C for 20 h forms 75-nm-thick silicon oxide (SiO2) layers. The oxidation kinetics follows a linear law, indicating that the reaction is a rate-determining step for the oxidation. It is concluded that O- ions formed by the decomposition of HClO4 are the oxidizing species. The leakage current density for the  metal-oxide-semiconductor diodes with the SiO2 layer formed in HClO4 is high without post-oxidation heat treatment, but with post-oxidation heat treatment at 950°C in nitrogen, it decreases to less than 10-9 Acm-2 in the gate bias region between -5 and 5 V. When post-oxidation heat treatment is performed at 950°C in nitrogen, the interface state density becomes considerably low (e.g., 1×1011 cm-2 eV-1 at 0.5 eV below the conduction band minimum). The low interface state density is attributable to the absence of an interfacial graphitic carbon layer due to the low processing temperature.


Parastomal hernias are relatively common sequelae of stoma creation. They can lead to life-threatening complications and are difficult to repair. The best treatment is through prevention at the primary operation. Technique used at the initial surgery is important, but the technical details of optimal stoma creation have not been clearly delineated. There is a growing body of literature that supports the safety and efficacy of placing prophylactic mesh at the original operation, including several prospective randomized trials. The literature and the various techniques of creation will be reviewed in this article.


Among the toughest challenges in an introductory computer science course is the need to motivate non-programmers to learn how to program. The United States Military Academy includes as part of its core curriculum an introductory course to Information Technology which is required for all first year students. This course provides the foundation for students to learn about problem solving through computing. Motivating students to learn and comprehend these concepts, especially those with no intrinsic desire to program can certainly present a series of challenges.

We have recently employed three techniques to help motivate the learner: the use of a visual design tool, incorporating graphics into programming exercises and a system to provide immediate testing feedback for a completed program solution. Our initial results indicate that the use of visual tools and exercises enhances students' learning and drives them to better achieve a solution to an assigned problem. Furthermore, we have discovered that students feel a better sense of accomplishment when they can execute an automated test plan and receive instant confirmation of whether or not their solution is correct.


A distributed computation can be modeled as a partially ordered set (poset) of relevant events (the relevant events are the subset of the primitive events that are meaningful for an observer). This short note presents a general protocol that, when superimposed on a distributed computation, provides each relevant event with a timestamp that identifies exactly its immediate predecessors in the poset. This determination is done on the fly and without using additional control messages. So, the proposed protocol provides an on the fly computation of the Hasse diagram (transitive reduction) of the event graph produced by a distributed computation. The protocol is particularly simple and efficient. It is based on a general condition that allows application messages to piggyback control information whose size can be smaller than n (the number of processes). Interestingly, when one is not interested in tracking the immediate predecessors, the proposed protocol can be simplified to get an efficient vector clock protocol that does not require particular channel assumptions.


The author considered budgeting as the means of rise of profitability of the industrial enterprises and their competitive strategy under the actual economical conditions in the market.


In this study, SPME-GC-MS was used to detect the volatile compounds, organic acids, amino acids and organic alcohols of sauerkraut qualitatively and quantitatively by HPLC, amino acid analysis apparatus and GC. Upon these conditions, the flavor components of natural fermentation and inoculating fermentation sauerkraut were analysed comparatively.


A photoconductive antenna with tip-to-tip rectangular electrodes has been numerically investigated in the terahertz (THz) frequency band. Through a hybrid simulation employing an optoelectronic software, Silvaco, and a full-wave electromagnetic solver, CST, we will show that for analysis of photoconductive antennas in high power applications, energy balance transport model compared to the drift-diffusion model become more accurate due to the consideration of diffusion associated with the carriers temperature.


The main purpose of this paper is to study L∞-uniqueness of Schrödinger operators and generalized Schrödinger operators on a complete Riemannian manifold. Also, we prove the L(E, dμ)-uniqueness of weak solutions for the Fokker-Planck equation associated with this pregenerators. M.S.C. 2000: 47D03, 47F05; 60J60.


The thermotolerance of Lactobacillus acidophilus cultivated in different stage by MRS liquid medium was studied,and Lactobacillus aci-dophilus was heat shocked with different temperatures to determinate the effect of heat shock treatment.The result indicated that Lactobacillus acidophilus has good heat resistance capacity and the heat resistance capacity particularly prominent when it had been cultivated 11h.Optimum hot shock temperature was 45 ℃ in the range of 40 ℃ to 60 ℃,and the optimum time of treatment was 30 min between 10 and 120 min.Lactobacillus acidophilus after heat shock treatment viable count can up to 1.56 ×10 5 though the 5min water bath heat treatment in 80℃ which was almost one order of magnitude higher than original,and the fermentation capacity was significantly superior to the bacterium di-rectly to death treatment.


Objective: To study the Viburnum fordiae Hance about the morphological characteristics, the powder characteristics, and the UV absorption characteristics. Methods: Microscopic observation of character characteristics, morphological characteristics, and the powder characteristics were used on Viburnum fordiae Hance.And then we used UV absorption spectrometry to detect the extracting solution. Conclusion: There are obvious microscopic characteristics about the morphology and the powder on Viburnum fordiae Hance. And the absorption maximum is observed in the UV spectrum by the chloroform extract.Conclusion:The results provide scientific basis for its indentification.


This paper presents an implementation of incremental tumor diagnosis algorithm (ITDA) on microarray data for improving diagnostic accuracy of tumor. A classifier (BP or KNN) was used in the algorithm to estimate confidences of a new unlabeled sample in different classes. When one confidence is higher than the threshold, the sample will be labeled; otherwise, the sample will be diagnosed by medical expert with other approaches. With more and more new labeled samples adding in the labeled samples list, the classifier will be better and will provide more accurate diagnosis for new sample. Strictly speaking, it is a particular active learning algorithm. By applying this algorithm on Colon tumor dataset, we demonstrated that our incremental tumor diagnosis algorithm can be used to successfully improve diagnostic accuracy of tumor. The performance of different parameters was tested in our experiments to verify the applicability of the method.


The European Union (EU) stands at a crossroads regarding its biofuel policies. For more than a decade, the EU sought to create a market for and govern sustainable biofuels for the transport sector, even as debates over sustainability escalated. It did so by devising novel hybrid (public and private) governance arrangements. We took stock of the nature and outcomes of this experiment in hybrid biofuel governance. We relied on qualitative methods of analysis, whereby we reviewed and synthesized the evolution of EU biofuel governance arrangements over time, through detailed document analysis of secondary and primary literature, including EU and related policy documents and private certification scheme websites. Our analysis reveals that, instead of yielding an increasingly stringent sustainability framework, the hybrid EU governance arrangements resulted in a proliferation of relatively lax, industry-driven, sustainability standards, even as the notion of "sustainable biofuels" remained contested in public and political debate. These findings contribute to an ongoing debate about the merits of hybrid (public–private) governance arrangements, and whether a hybrid approach helps strengthen or weaken sustainability objectives. We conclude that a more stringent EU meta-standard on sustainability needs to be developed, to underpin future governance arrangements.


Background: The increasing children (under-five years) morbidity and mortality rates in Nigeria is worrisome. Paediatric discharge against medical advice (P-DAMA) poses a particular challenge because under-age children lack autonomous power in their health decision-making, which may complicate their health problems. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of under-five P-DAMA and also to document its associated factors in Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital, Okada, Nigeria, with a view to curbing it. Methodology: This retrospective study reviewed all the admissions- and discharge- registers, and case-notes of all the under-five admissions between 2017-2019 in the private-owned Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital, Ok ada, Nigeria. Information extracted included their socio-demographics, clinical diagnoses, hospitalization duration and rationale for DAMA. Retrieved data were analyzed using the SPSS, Version 23.0. Results: There were 99 cases of under-five P-DAMA with complete information out of a total admissions of 3816 giving an overall prevalence of 2.6%.The incidence of P-DAMA (4.0%) was highest among preschoolersaged 31-60 months who constituted 57.6% of them; and girls predominated boys at a ratio of 7:4.Majority (53.5%) were from lower socio-economic class residing mainly in rural villages (53.5%). Infectious diseases, including malaria (26.8%), diarrhea (20.1%), neonatal sepsis(13.4%) and bronchopneumonia(13.4%) were common diagnoses of these children. The mean duration of children hospitalization before DAMA was 5.2 days. Parental/guardian fear of accumulation of hospital bills (25.3%) and perceived improvement in child's clinical condition(s)(21.2%) were the most frequent reasons adduced for DAMA. However, in 29.3% of cases, the reasons for DAMA were neither reported nor documented in the childrens' medical records. Conclusion: Parental poverty and ignorance are major factors fuelling P-DAMA in the studied hospital. Government should adopt universal health insurance coverage policies to protect the under-five child-patients from the consequences of such irregular discharges.


Background: Insulin resistance is associated with unfavorable cardiovascular (CV) phenotype, but it is unclear whether this association is already recognizable in adolescents and young adults independently of significant confounders. Methods: We analyzed clinical characteristics, hemodynamic parameters, echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) geometry and function in 1688, 14 to 39 year-old non-diabetic participants in the 4th Strong Heart Study exam (mean age 26 ± 7.6, 57% female), without prevalent valvular or CV disease, divided into tertiles of insulin resistance, estimated by Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA). Comparison among the groups was obtained by ANCOVA, adjusting for major covariates. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed to evaluate factors associated with log HOMA. Results: Age, BMI, waist girth, waist-hip ratio (WHR), and systolic and diastolic BP progressively increased with tertiles of HOMA (all p < 0.0001). Compared to participants in the 2 lower HOMA tertiles, those in the 3rd tertile were more often obese (85% vs. 57% in the 2nd and 19% in the 1st tertile), more commonly had hypertension (21% vs. 12% and 12%), dyslipidemia (80% vs. 70% and 45%) and albuminuria (20% vs. 14% and 10, all p < 0.0001). After adjustment for age, gender, WHR, systolic BP and presence of hypertension, participants with higher level of HOMA index showed, compared to lower tertiles, progressively higher left atrial dimension, LV mass index (LVMi) and stroke volume (all p for trend < 0.05). In multiple linear regression logHOMA was independently related to age (β = 0.13), female gender (β = 0.28), WHR (β = 0.30), triglycerides (β = 0.18), HDL cholesterol (β = −0.18), systolic BP (β = 0.11) and LVMi (β = 0.17, all p < 0.0001) without significant relation to albumin/creatinine ratio. Compared to the 1st HOMA tertile, LV hypertrophy was associated with the higher HOMA tertiles (OR=3.15, CI:1.15–6,51 for the 2nd tertile; OR = 4.24, CI:2.04–8.81 for the 3rd tertile), independent of age, sex, WHR, systolic BP, hypertension and dyslipidemia. Conclusions: Despite the young age of participants, in a population with high prevalence of obesity, insulin resistance is associated with early metabolic abnormalities and preclinical CV disease.


Static biometric patterns such as fingerprint, iris and face are difficult to keep secret. Since the open pattern has a little potential replacement options stealing a strange open biometrics provides great opportunities for compromising systems. Authentication on the basis of electroencephalogram pattern (EEG) is the most secure kind of biometric security. The present study aims to develop a method of biometric authentication by the EEG data with high accuracy. Several neural network EEG pattern verification algorithms have been tested. A method for verification of the human EEG pattern based on a modified Bayes hypothesis formula has been developed. The following error indicators FAR <10-4 with FRR = 0.062 were achieved. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Government of the Omsk Region (grant 18-41-550002).


This article describes artificial neural networks which structure based on the adaptive-resonance theory. The usage of this type of artificial neural networks for the solving problems of the classification is presented. The example of this problem which is the simulation of the medical object is discussed.


According to the principles of real tactile sensors,researches on virtual robot tactile sensor simulation model were illustrated in this paper,in order to rev eal the instantaneous characteristics of tactile information correlated with the materials in picking operation. The model of virtual tactile sensor could descr ibe the dynamic performance of touched force related to the materials, therefore could supply a user-friendly research desktop for the robot flexible and preci se assembly operation in the virtual environment.


ABSTRACT The relationships in ocean depth and heat flow with crustal age place valuable constraints on the thermal evolution of the oceanic lithosphere. This work aims to establish the relationships for the V-shaped Southwest Subbasin, the southwestern end of the South China Sea formed during 23.6–16 Ma. Using high-resolution multichannel seismic profiles and heat flow measurements, we calculate sediment-corrected topography and heat flow, which are then plotted against crustal age to establish their relationships. The results show that the post-spreading volcanism in the South China Sea influences less on the present-day heat flow than topography. In addition, the topography data are evidently deeper and heat flow data are much lower in the Southeast Asian marginal seas than other oceans. Previous explanation suggested that the abnormal features resulted from lateral heat loss, which would predict a deeper lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary and a high slope in topography and heat flow with age, contrary to the observations. Possible explanations for the abnormal features of the Southeast Asian marginal seas include (1) lack of long-time upwelling magma at the onset of spreading, and (2) reduced magma supply during the seafloor spreading.


The present study attempts to examine existence of spatio temporal cointegration of major tomato markets in Karnataka state. Based on the arrivals, Mysore, Bangalore, Kolar and Chintamani markets were selected. The weekly wholesale modal prices were collected for the period of two years (2014 to 2016) from Agmarknet. Error correction and Johansen cointegration analysis was performed to examine the presence of cointegration between markets. The result indicated that Mysore, Kolar and Chintamani markets are cointegrated. The coefficient of error correction term signaling the speed of adjustment of disequilibrium between spatially separated markets was higher in case of Kolar and Chintamani market (52%) and was lower in case of Kolar and Mysore market (40%). The reason for faster rate of adjustment in case of Kolar and Chintamani is due to proximity (33 kms), availability of grading facility, and scientific storage facility in case of Kolar market.


Tourism in Yugoslavia has a long and rich tradition. Domestic tourism in Yugoslavia has several basic characteristics. The analysis has shown that some of them are identical with foreign tourism. This means that both kinds make a unique whole.


We investigated the tribochemical and wear properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) based polymer matrix composites with nanoceramic (NC) -sialon, and particles for the mechanical seal applications at low temperature. SEM showed that NC particles were homogeneously distributed in the polymer matrix and initiated the formation of the supramolecular spherulites around NC. From the temperature stimulated depolarization (TSD) current results, it was analyzed that the surface charge on nanoceramic affected the formation of the spherulites structure. 2 wt % NC did not degrade the mechanical properties of PTFE so that composites showed the similar values of tensile strength, elongation at the rupture and friction coefficient as those of neat PTFE. However, the composite with 2 wt % NC revealed the improved wear resistance, wear rate of 0.4-1.2 mg/h at room temperature and 0.28 mg/h at , respectively, while the neat PTFE the 70-75 mg/h at room temperature and 70.3 mg/h at .