The first fermion family might play a special role in understanding the physics of flavour. This possibility is suggested by the observation that the up-down splitting within quark families increases with the family number: mu ∼ md, mc > ms, mt ≫ mb. We construct a model that realizes this feature of the spectrum in a natural way. The inter-family hierarchy is first generated by radiative phenomena in a sector of heavy isosinglet fermions and then transferred to quarks by means of a universal seesaw. A crucial role is played by left-right parity and up-down isotopic symmetry. No family symmetry is introduced. The model implies mu/md > 0.5 and the Cabibbo angle is forced to be ∼ p md/ms. The top quark is naturally in the 100 GeV range, but not too heavy: mt < 150 GeV. Inspired by the mass matrices obtained in the model for quarks, we suggest an ansatz also including charged leptons. The differences between u-, d- and e-type fermions are simply parametrized by three complex coefficients ǫu, ǫd and ǫe. Additional consistent predictions are obtained: ms=100-150 MeV and mu/md < 0.75.


This gene plays a role in the translation of mRNA encoded by genes involved in cell proliferation and malignant transformation.


As test samples, mild steel plates with thicknesses of 0.5 mm, 0.6 mm, 0.7 mm, 0.8 mm, 0.9 mm, and 1.0 mm were made. After welding these test samples underwent Tensile Stress and strain tests with the Built Welding Robot and Manual Electric Arc Welding Machine. Both data collected from tensile stress and tensile stress were analyzed and the data produced from Electric Arc welding operations, the Robot welding operations and un-welded plates (control) were compared with one another. The analyses of the data obtained from the developed welding robot, manual electric arc welding and un-welded (control) mild steel plates of different thicknesses were carried out for tensile stress and strain. The descriptive statistics, ANOVA analysis, test of homogeneity of Variances and Post Hoc test (Least Significant Differences) were the statistical tools deployed using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS version 2016). The results showed that the robot welding sample produced gave the lowest tensile stress while the un-welded samples (CONTROL) gave the highest. The un-welded (CONTROL) samples gave the highest tensile strain values while the lowest was given by the developed robot welding samples. Finally, it was evident from the analyses results that the welding processes have significant impact on the tensile stress and strain properties of the welded mild steel plates and that good welding quality can be achieved more with the developed welding robot.


We report on a new design for a passively mode-locked dumbbell-shaped fiber laser employing all normal dispersion fibers at 1 µm. The laser produced pulses of 18.8 nJ and 42.4 nJ from two output ports, at a repetition rate of 7.19 MHz. A narrow bandpass filter is inserted into the laser cavity to achieve the dissipative soliton resonance pulse generation.


A collection of original essays examining the Goddess Movement in its many facets, Daughters of the Goddess explores the ways women have abandoned Western patriarchal religions and have embraced a spirituality based in a celebration of the Goddess and the female body as sacred text. An innovative volume, Daughters of the Goddess serves as an invaluable guide for anyone wishing to gain a thorough introduction to this rapidly growing religious and cultural movement.


Wadler and Thiemann unified type-and-effect systems with monadic semantics via a syntactic correspondence and soundness results with respect to an operational semantics. They conjecture t hat a general, "coherent" denotational semantics can be given to unify effect systems with a monadic-style semantics. We provide s uch a semantics based on the novel structure of an indexed monad, which we introduce. We redefine the semantics of Moggi's computati on l λ-calculus in terms of (strong) indexed monads which gives a o neto-one correspondence between indices of the denotations a nd the effect annotations of traditional effect systems. Dually, this approach yieldsindexed comonads which gives a unified semantics and effect system to contextual notions of effect (calledcoeffects), which we have previously described [9]. Previously, Wadler and Thiemann established a syntactic co rrespondence between type-and-effect systems and themonadic semantics approach by annotating monadic type constructors with the effect sets of the type-and-effect system [10]. They est abli hed soundness results between the effect system and an operatio nal semantics, and conjectured a "coherent semantics" of effec ts and monads in a denotational style. One suggestion was to associ te to each effect set σ a different monadT . We take a different approach to a coherent semantics, unifyi ng effect systems with a monadic-style semantics in terms of th e novel notion of indexed monads, which generalises monads. 1 Indexed monads Indexed monads comprise a functor


Despite long-standing knowledge about child welfare clients' poor educational outcomes, we know less about these vulnerable young people's situation in school. This article addresses school satisfaction among upper secondary students who have been in contact with the child welfare services. These child welfare clients' school satisfaction is compared with their peers' satisfaction. The results from a survey indicated that the majority of child welfare clients were satisfied with school but that they were less satisfied with school than were their peers. The results showed that the association between school satisfaction and positive school experiences explains a large part of this difference. Among students who reported they were doing well in school, had supportive teachers and friends at school, the difference in school satisfaction between child welfare clients and others was small. Among students who did not report similar positive experiences in school, difference in school satisfaction between child...


In 2014 the LANSCE accelerator facility returned to 120 Hz pulse rate operation after a long period of operation at a 60 Hz pulse rate. Increased capabilities required careful tuning of all components of the linear accelerator. Transformation to the double pulse rate resulted in re-evaluation of tuning procedures in order to meet new challenges in beam operation. This paper summarizes experimental activity on sustaining high productivity of the accelerator facility while keeping beam losses along accelerator low. LANSCE ACCELERATOR FACILITY The LANSCE Accelerator facility has been in operation for more than 40 years. Currently it operates with four 800 MeV H beams and one 100 MeV proton beam (see Table 1). The accelerator facility is equipped with two independent injectors for H and H beams, merging at the entrance of a 201.25 MHz Drift Tube Linac (DTL). The DTL performs acceleration up to the energy of 100 MeV. After the DTL, the Transition Region (TR) beamline directs 100 MeV proton beam to the Isotope Production Facility (IPF), while H beam is accelerated up to the final energy of 800 MeV in an 805 MHz Coupled Cavity Linac (CCL). The H beams, created by different time structure of a low-energy chopper, are distributed in the Switch Yard to four experimental areas. The most powerful H beam, average current 100 μA, is accumulated in the Proton Storage Ring (PSR) and is extracted to the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center facility for production of moderated neutrons with meV-keV energy. Another H beam, as a sequence of short pulses, is delivered to the Weapon Neutron Research (WNR) facility to create un-moderated neutrons in the keVMeV energy range. The third H beam is shared between the Proton Radiography Facility (pRad) and the Ultra-Cold Neutron (UCN) facility. Between 2006 – 2014, the LANSCE accelerator was in operation at 60 Hz pulse rate to prevent excessive cathode emission and ceramic cracking in 201.25 MHz amplifiers feeding the DTL. The LANSCE Risk Mitigation Project [1] was initiated to replace three out of four 201.25 MHz amplifiers with newly developed RF power systems based on TH628L Diacrodes [2]. The first RF power system was replaced in 2014 enabling restoration of 120 Hz operation. The replacement of 201.25 MHz RF system will be completed in 2016. In addition, a new low-level RF control system was installed, and end-of-life CCL klystrons were replaced to insure further stable beam operation. ________________________ *Work supported by US DOE under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396 #email@example.com Table 1: Beam Parameters at 120 Hz LANSCE Accelerator (number in brackets are given for previous 60 Hz operation) Area Rep. Rate (Hz) Pulse Length (μs) Current / bunch (mA) Average current


The object of this paper is to introduce one of the most interesting aspects of the Bort brothers who where intimately connected with Murcia. Jaime Bol-t. the builder of the wester facade of the Cathedral in Murcia. was called to the Court in 1749 because of his experience in hidraulics, in order to entrust him with the consrtuction of the Puente Verde (Green Bridge) over the river Manzanares and the Trofa Bridge over one of the tributaries that flow omto this river. This fact (Bort's work at the Court) is part of a known chapter of his biography. but the greatest accuaracy, confirm the prestige that the master designer of the facade of rhe Cathedral in Murcia enjoyed at his time. Bort's work of a remarkable importance for the European baroque (if centered only in his work in Murcia) was that extended and confirms once more the Valencian master's exceptional activity as regards hydraulic works at the Court. where he had been introduced by powerful protectors. The presence of his brother Vicente and the possible connections between the St. Ferdinand sculpture at the Green Bridge and that of his namesake on the Murcian imafronte allow as may be to observe the beginning of a process of assigning the, ornamental constructions of the Murcian imafornte .


These schools are the infrastructure of the Right. They set up shop, teach their narrow and dangerous ideology, use modest amounts of money to build support through social services and then…


Background/Aims: Constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) with short stature is one of the most common problems in pediatrics. We compared the effects of letrozole with that of oxandrolone on predicted adult height (PAH), puberty, bone mineral density, serum insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and blood lipoproteins. Methods: In a prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 91 CDGP boys (12.6–14.6 years old) with predicted short stature were treated with letrozole (2.5 mg/day), oxandrolone (2.5 mg/day), or placebo, at the outpatient pediatric endocrine clinic of Mofid Children's Hospital in Tehran for 2 years. Results: Letrozole differed from oxandrolone and placebo in significantly increasing PAH (p < 0.05), and slightly but significantly decreasing HDL-cholesterol. Oxandrolone, and to a lesser degree letrozole, significantly increased the height standard deviation score and bone age compared to placebo. Conclusion: This first randomized controlled clinical trial in CDGD teenage boys with predicted short stature shows that letrozole increases PAH more than oxandrolone and advances pubertal stage and bone mineralization less.


We conjecture that the set of all Hilbert functions of (artinian) level algebras enjoys a very natural form of continuity, expressed in the following way: If, for some positive integer α, (1, h1, ..., hi, ..., he) and (1, h1, ..., hi +α, ..., he) are both level h-vectors, then (1, h1, ..., hi +β, ..., he) is also level for each integer β = 0, 1, ..., α. This conjecture is motivated both by the significant amount of research performed in this area over the last few years, which has apparently never suggested a strong reason why such a continuity property should not hold, and by a series of recent results, which seem to indicate that it will be nearly impossible to characterize explicitly the set of all level Hilbert functions. Therefore, our conjecture would at least provide the existence of a very strong and natural form of order in the structure of such an important and complicated set. We are still far from proving the conjecture in full generality at this point. However, we will already solve a few interesting cases in this paper. Among them, that of Gorenstein h-vectors of socle degree 4, that of level h-vectors of socle degree 2, and that of non-unimodal level h-vectors of socle degree 3 and any given codimension. We will also begin investigating our conjecture for level h-vectors of any socle degree.


The Key to improve the gray predictive accuracy lies in increasing smoothness of raw data series and the predictive value leading in the feedback mechanism model.By the study to the modeling mechanism of the gray theory forecast method and its improving method,the paper proposes to synthesise the processing data of logarithmic function—power series transformation and new method of equal dimension.By twice independent gray medeling operations,taking the first predictive value,that is time order as feedback informance to build the gray feedback predictive model,getting the second the predictive value as a final result.Apply the model to the medium-term and long-term load forecast,the calculation shows that the forecast accuracy is of remarkable improvement comparing with the former result,with stroger practical applicability.


The present study focused on finding a mechanism to achieve good weldability in three sheets spot welding. Two combinations of three sheets (Al-HPF combinations with mild steel / HPF steel / DP steel stacking) and (TRIP combination with mild steel / TRIP780 steel / DP590 steel stacking) were used. Weld quality was evaluated by measuring the button diameter after peel test, and peak load measurement using a tensile shear test. A high speed camera and simulation (SORPAS) were used to investigate the nugget growth mechanism. The Al-HPF combinations showed higher nugget growth rate in the sheet thickness direction, however the TRIP combination showed higher nugget growth rate in the sheet rolling direction. Also, the TRIP combination produced a larger nugget diameter (or higher penetration) in the thin sheet of interface "A" than the Al-HPF combination. The main reason for the larger nugget diameter in the TRIP combination was the higher current density and wider current path resulting from the high indentation on interface "A". The selection of a middle sheet with optimum electro-mechanical properties for the three sheet stack can improve the weldability of three sheets spot welding for car body construction.


Threshold voltage fluctuation due to SOI thickness variation is one of the most serious problems in fully-depleted (FD) SOI MOSFETs. In order to suppress this threshold voltage (V/sub th/) fluctuation in FD SOI-MOSFETs, we propose a new back gate engineering scenario in which the back gate is biased in order to make the back interface of SOI films weakly accumulated, under very thin buried oxides allowing strong coupling between back gate and Si films. It is shown theoretically and experimentally that this back gate engineering significantly reduces the V/sub th/ fluctuation, because of the balance between the amount of space charge in SOI films and the electric field at the front surface of the SOI films.


1. In anaesthetized cats under artificial ventilation, a few milligrams of pentobarbitone sodium injected into the cerebral ventricles produced a pronounced fall in arterial blood pressure, which was central in origin and resulted from inhibition of vasomotor tone.


Science programs, such as the ones described in this publication, advance the goals of public library service to children. Throughout the programs, boys and girls are introduced to an array of literature exploring science topics. Librarians present subjects of great interest to children creatively using local experts, realia, child-conducted experiments, and craft activities. This document presents the "Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How" of 25 science programs for children. A checklist of guidelines for planning and presenting science programs, recommendations for children's science education, and safety considerations for science programming are provided. Contains a 22-item annotated bibliography of Science Book Awards and review journals, a 14-item list of professional reading and reference books, and a 94-item bibliography of children's literature used during a library-tested science program and described in this publication. (AEF) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. From Loraxes to Thoraxes: Science Programs for Children in Libraries Maryland Library Association October 22, 1993


The purpose of this research is to study the effects of the hypermarkets on retailers and in particular to Bumiputra Retailers under the PROSPER program. Even though several studies has been done concerning this matter but none of them have put up a distinct emphasis on the Bumiputra retailers and especially study on their ability and skills in order to remain competitive in the new concepts of retailing business.


The dielectric measurements of binary mixture of pyridine in non polar solvents, benzene, carbontetrachloride have been reported. The short ranges inter molecular interactions, dipole-dipole interactions were studied through the dipole moment (μ) of polar molecules in liquid state by using dielectric virial coefficients. The first and second dielectric virial coefficients provide the dipole moment of monomer molecules and dimer formation. The deviation is much large in carbon tetrachloride due to the large deviation between the dielectric constant of the solvent and the square of the refractive index The different B, B L, B S values can be attributed to the non idealistic behavior of the solvent.


The article deals with the theoretical problem of axiological concrete definition of law that is not actually investigated in the current juridical science, its significance in legislation and law practices. The author analyzes the value balance in the sphere of the private-law and public-law interests, socially important interest.


Objectives We aim to evaluate the association between anticholinergic drug (ACH) use and cognitive impairment and the effect of disparity parameters (sex, race, income, education, and rural or urban areas) on this relationship. Methods The analyses included 13,623 adults aged ≥65 years from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study (recruited 2003–2007). The ACH use was defined by the 2015 Beers Criteria, and cognitive impairment was measured by the Six-Item Cognitive Screener. Multivariable logistic regression models assessed disparities in cognitive impairment with ACH use, iteratively adjusting for disparity parameters and other covariates. The full models included interaction terms between ACH use and other covariates. A similar approach was used for class-specific ACH exposure and cognitive impairment analyses. Results Approximately 14% of the participants used at least 1 ACH listed in the Beers Criteria. Antidepressants were the most frequently prescribed ACH class. A significant sex-race interaction illustrated that females compared with males (in Blacks: odds ratio [OR] = 1.28, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.10–1.49 and in Whites: OR = 1.96, 95% CI 1.74–2.20), especially White females (Black vs White: OR = 0.71, 95% CI 0.64–0.80), were more likely to receive ACHs. Higher odds of cognitive impairment were observed among ACH users compared with the nonusers (OR = 1.26, 95% CI 1.01–1.58). In our class-level analyses, only antidepressant users (OR = 1.60, 95% CI 1.14–2.25) showed a significant association with cognitive impairment in the fully adjusted model. Conclusions We observed demographic and socioeconomic differences in ACH use and in cognitive impairment, individually.


Psychology and Business Administration have been studying maturity for a long time. On Software Engineering field, most of work has been focusing on maturity of technical practices and processes. Teams with high levels of maturity are associated to more positive relations between the quality of intra-team relationships and the quality and quantity of team outcomes. Aiming to understand how Software Engineers understand the concept of Team Maturity, we performed a qualitative research, collecting data from 32 team members from 6 different companies in Brazil, in the cities of Brasilia, Recife and Rio de Janeiro. So far, we identified some characteristics that are described as making part of a mature team, which also leaded us to some hypothesis to be confirmed in future studies.


: The study aimed to determine the psychological aspects of captivity in the War in the East of Ukraine: the purposes and motives of the capture of Ukrainian Forces (UF); the types of captivity and their specifics; the stages and phases of captivity. The measures included a questionnaire and interview method. 694 former prisoners of war (POWs) (servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and soldiers of volunteer battalions) participated in the study. The research results revealed the purposes of capturing UF: to stop UF advance; obtaining intelligence; demoralization of UF; demonstration of military superiority; capturing prisoners for exchange; unwillingness to kill; receiving a ransom. The UF invaders were military units, professional mercenaries' units, and gang formation units. The stages of captivity (capture and transportation to a place of permanent detention; first interrogation; being held captive; exchange of POWs and homecoming) were characterized by intimidation, aggression, physical, psychological and sexual violence against POWs, the purposeful creation of an environment of mass psychosis among POWs. Captivity kept the POWs in constant tension and fear. The altered mental status of POWs took place in successive phases: life reactions, shock, psychological demobilization, denouement, recovery, and


Sections 14(2) and (3) of the Sale of Goods Act (SGA) provide for the implied conditions of satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose respectively. These are core terms in a sale contract that ensure that the goods supplied under the contract are of satisfactory quality and are fit for their purpose. However, it is important to note that under the SGA, these conditions do not apply to every sale but only to a sale by a seller who sells goods in the course of a business. A person who buys from a seller who does not sell in the course of a business does not get the protection of section 14(2) and (3).


Comparisons of pectinase-treated raw juices and 60Brix concentrates with untreated controls indicated little or no changes in standard citrus juice quality tests, i.e., °Brix, acid, ratio, pH, pulp, color, pectinesterase activity, % oil, vitamin C, cloud and hesperidin. A significant decrease in concentrate viscosity resulted from a 1 hr/25°C treatment of raw juice With 500 ppm of the soluble solids as pectinase. The enzyme treated-concentrate contained 33% more free galacturonic acid than the control; however, this acid was only 1.2% of the total acid in the juice. Concentrations of fructose, glucose and sucrose in the concentrates and raw juices were similar, regardless of treatment. Pasteurized juice, subsequently treated with enzyme had lower Viscosity and a very slight loss of cloud with increasing enzyme re action time. Enzyme treatment improved juice pulp settling characteristics as measured by 20% less sediment in juice allowed to stand undisturbed for 72 hr. Modifying the nature of food products by enzymatic re actions has exciting potential. Besides traditional uses of enzymes (cheese production, fruit juice clarification, alcohol production, meat tenderization, etc.), newer uses such as corn syrup processing, vegetable protein hydrolysis, flavor modi fication and fruit juice processing are finding wide applica tion (6). Pectinases are useful during juice recovery from berries and fruits, hydrolyzing pectin to lower molecular weight (MW) fractions. This results in viscosity reduction and less gel formation via a mechanism which has been described in detail (9). The obvious advantage of viscosity reduction is that it allows a high degree of concentration for juices con taining significant quantities of pectin. Pectinase treatment of citrus juice liquids such as pulp wash is common, and concentrates over 70°Brix (°B) have been produced (3). Most quality changes resulting from pectinase treatment of pulp wash liquids are minimal, the large decreases in viscosity excepted (4). Besides viscosity reduction in pulp wash liquids, use of pectinases has been shown to improve cloud stability of orange juice (2). Although pectinase use for pulp wash liquid is well es tablished (5), there are concerns that such treatment of raw juice to facilitate concentration and handling at high °B might result in quality deterioration. This study was de signed to compare standard citrus industry quality factors in untreated and pectinase treated orange juice and 60 °B


Real estate investment trusts or REITs are "companies that own or finance income-producing real estate across a range of property sectors (including offices, apartment buildings, warehouses, retail centers, medical facilities, data centers, cell towers, infrastructure and hotels). These real estate companies have to meet a number of requirements to qualify as REITs. Most REITs trade in major stock exchanges, and they offer a number of benefits to investors." (REIT, 2019). REITs operate worldwide from the USA to Hungary. The article focuses on the REIT-regulation in some European countries, mainly in the United Kingdom and in Hungary. As REITs are listed on stock exchanges, they have to prepare their financial statements based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The paper looks at the presentation and specificities of the REIT status in the IFRS financial statements.


In recent years, 15% of the working population have suffered from mental disorders. Such conditions cause low productivity, absence of diseases, and unemployment. In addition, the treatment of mental disorders takes a long time, so routine precautions are essential. One of the ways to prevent mental disorders is to achieve healing through interaction with animals. However, this method has not been widely accepted because of the difficulties in handling animals. To solve these problem, we introduced a virtual pet through a virtual reality technology for three-dimensional stereoscopic visualization as an alternative to animals. We named the system that prevents mental disorders by interacting with the virtual pet as virtual pet-assisted activity (VAA) and verified that this system gained short-term psychological and physiological benefits. However, it was unclear what causes the system to have positive effects on users. This study investigated whether space factors affect the psychological and physiological aspects of the user and whether the scenery factor affected the psychological and physiological aspects of the user and its interactions with the virtual pet. The experiment was divided into two experiments for the space factor and scenery factor. As a result, it was not affected by the space factor but was affected by the scenery factor. The findings reveal that the open scenery is more effective than the closed scenery in the VAA system.


There are many folktales of obtaining treasure spread all over the world.Almost each of the various treasures can bring happiness for its owner.For the tales of treasure in different regions with the plot of "You name it,you get it",the author gives a thorough analysis on it,mainly makes a study on the treasure and its owner to disclose the significance of the ample myth prototype theory implied in it.


The first wave of digital library research and implementation had to do with advancing the infrastructure for organizing and accessing the vast stores of archival and emerging information abundant in all media (text, image and video). Current research ambitions relate to the application of cognitive technologies for extracting the information content from within the linear media (e.g., the quotation from a book, the crescendos of a symphony, the underwater scenes within a movie, the clip from last night's TV news) and indexing it for subsequent fullcontent search and retrieval. Information accessibility is increasing through interoperability of resources and information content is growing through contemporaneous indexing and incorporation of content as it is created. Automated subject identification and classification techniques for the sub-documents will evolve to improve browsing by subject over searching by keyword. Natural language technology will be applied to comparison of retrieved documents so that duplication of content is eliminated or minimized in the resultant set, when desired.


We present an assessment of the spectral efficiency of spatial division multiple access systems. Our analysis attempts to incorporate the effects of co-channel interference (CCI) for users sharing the same channel within a cell (intra-cell interference) as well as the CCI from other cells (inter-cell interference). To determine the outage probability we utilize exact results for combined Rayleigh and log-normal shadowing in conjunction with a generic antenna pattern. Results are provided for the outage probability and spectral efficiency for various traffic loads and reuse distances.


: Ontology is a widely used knowledge representation formalism in artificial intelligence area in recent years. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based automated penetration testing approach. We use protege to create the ontology, which is constructed based on attack taxonomy. SWRL rules are used to create penetration testing knowledge base and reasoning. We use agent-based(BDI) framework to achieve the process of automated penetration testing.


This study aimed to identify the role of the auditor's judgment in dealing with the risks of the IT environment, so I studied the process of IT risk planning , and study how the auditor to reduce the risk of information technology. The study on designing a questionnaire covering the variables and hypotheses of the study , the questionnaire consists of 14 paragraphs, were used methods of statistics such as averages and standard deviations, and percentages and frequencies , and the study sample consisted of auditors (52) (external Auditors )for commercial banks in Jordan , most results are: Auditor determine the output of the likelihood of recurrence of the threat event (incidence of threat), and is expressed in a year ,Auditor Identify risks that cause weakness and imbalance core activities of the company, and monetary loss resulting from it , and Auditor prepare Prioritize risks according to their importance. Study recommendations are: its important to care that  the members of the team in charge of identifying risks with a statement of clarification and details in favor of it, based on the knowledge that they own about those risks. And Auditor evaluate on an ongoing basis and on a periodic basis, and this determines the important information should be focused information security on them.


This paper deals with the design and study of parameters of square shaped microstrip patch antenna suitable for 5G communication systems. It is designed on Rogers RT Duroid 5880, which has a dielectric constant of 2.2. In this study, a micro-strip line fed patch antenna array, operating at a resonant frequency of 10.21GHz which is preferred for 5G applications, is implemented using the Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software. The designed antenna attained a fractional bandwidth of 1.62%, a wide bandwidth of 165 MHz and a reflection coefficient of -14.341dB. The transmission line used for the antenna is an inset feed. In order to design a microstrip patch antenna, the substrate material and its thickness are initially selected. The selection of a proper dielectric material and its thickness is very crucial in designing microstrip patch antenna. This paper also explains how antenna performance changes with the thickness variation of the substrate. The modified antennas can operate around 28 GHz and 10 GHz, the frequency bands recently proposed for 5G applications. The radiation pattern, return loss, 3D gain and VSWR curves are simulated for all designed antennas.


The existence of Muhammadiyah as a modern Islamic organization and carrying out Islamic da'wah rahmatan lil alamin and carrying out progressive Islam, as well as the amar ma'ruf and nahi munkar movements. Muhammadiyah also carries out its Islamic vision with inclusive moderate Islam. Indonesia, with a diverse population that has unique personal characteristics, makes Muhammadiyah a moderate form of Islam that can mingle with various other religions in Indonesia. This research is a library research and the nature of this research is descriptive-analytical related to the religious concept of Muhammadiyah. The step method used in collecting data is to find and collect reference sources through books, journals and websites related to the author's research title. Muhammadiyah uses two strategies to spread progressive Islam: namely the enlightenment strategy and the transformational strategy. Enlightenment strategies try to reach people with advanced Islamic ideas through education and transformation strategies try to change people's way of thinking through preaching and activism. Tajdid has two meanings, namely: 1) In the field of faith and worship, 2) Tajdid muamalatduniayah. The position of Tarjih is at a low level of Ijtihad, based on the level of Ijtihad which includes 4 types, namely: a) absolute ijtihad in clauses and branches; b) ijtihad at the branch; c) ijtihad on sects; d) Ijtihad in Tarjih. the concept of progressive education is a reflection of holistic Islamic education that enlightens.


Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) with nonequilibrium νe ↔ νs oscillations, in the more general case of non-zero population of νs before oscillations δNs ≠ 0, is discussed. 4He primordial production Yp(δNs) in the presence of νe ↔ νs oscillations for different initial populations of the sterile neutrino state 0 ≤ δ Ns ≤ 1 and the full range of oscillation parameters is calculated. Non-zero δNs has a two-fold effect on 4He: (i) it enhances the energy density and hence increases the cosmic expansion rate, leading to Ypoverproduction, and (ii) it suppresses the kinetic effects of oscillations on BBN, namely, the effects on pre-BBN nucleon kinetics, caused by the νe energy spectrum distortion and the $\nu_e - \bar{\nu}_e$ asymmetry generation by oscillations, leading to decreased Yp production. Depending on oscillation parameters one or the other effect may dominate, causing, correspondingly, either a relaxation of the cosmological constraints or their strengthening with the increase of δNs. More general BBN con...


In the process of education from Television Broadcasting University,we should firstly make sure the value orientation of personnel quality standard.After this paper defines the value orientation,it puts forward the following points from macro aspect to meso aspect to micro aspect,which are focusing on personnel,besides on social value;focusing on knowledge and capability,besides on the value of harmonious development;focusing on the value of humanities and science..


Objective In order to further understand the pharmacological action of the ginkgo foliage preparation, the dogs made to take orally the great doses of ginkgo foliage preparation and antioxidation indexes of the dog plasma were measured. Methods Six dogs were selected and took orally once ginkgo foliage capsule at a dose of 100 mg/kg body weight. The 5.0mL blood was collected through the hypodermic vein of the forelimbs on selective time. By using conventional kit, antioxidation indexes were measured. Results The activation of SOD in the dog plasma reduced after giving the medicine, and especially significantly reduced between 7 hours and 24 hours. The content of MDA went down in 5 hours after giving the medicine, and then increased between 7 hours and 24 hours. Conolusion It is suggested, if the doses of ginkgo foliage preparation are beyond the normal limit, the capability of antioxidation abates, because ·O 2- produces in the body cumulates.


Dimensional reduction may be effective in order to compress data without loss of essential information. Also, it may be useful in order to smooth data and reduce random noise. The model presented in this paper was motivated by the structure of the msweb web-traffic dataset from the UCI archive. It is proposed to reduce dimension (number of the used web-areas or vroots) as a result of the unsupervised learning process maximizing specially defined average log-likelihood divergence. Two different web-areas will be merged in the case if these areas appear together frequently during the same sessions. Essentially, roles of the web-areas are not symmetrical in the merging process. The web-area or cluster with bigger weight will act as an attractor and will stimulate merging. In difference, the smaller cluster will try to keep independence. In both cases the powers of attraction or resistance will depend on the weights of the corresponding clusters. Above strategy will prevent creation of one super-big cluster, and will help to reduce number of non-significant clusters. The proposed method was illustrated using two synthetic examples. The first example is based on an ideal vlink matrix which characterizes weights of the vroots and relations between them. The vlink matrix for the second example was generated using specially designed web-traffic simulator.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Nearpod interactive media on discovering a learning model on learning outcomes of class XI MIA students of MAN 4 Bone. The research method used was a quasi-experimental with a quantitative approach and using a posttestonly control group design. The research population were all from class XI MIA with a total of 2 classes. The research samples were class XI MIA 1 as the experimental class and class XI MIA 2 as the control class. The data collection technique used multiple choice tests to obtain data of learning outcomes. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of statistical analysis showed that the experimental class' average learning outcomes were 75.53, higher than the control class, which was 71.28. The results of statistical analysis of learning outcomes showed that the experimental and control class data came from a homogeneous population but not normally distributed, so that the test used was the Mann-Whitney test. From data analysis, it showed Zcount (3.88) > Ztable. (1.64). Based on data analysis, it could be concluded that there was an effect of Nearpod interactive media on the discovery learning model on learning outcomes of XI MIA Students of MAN 4 Bone on acid base subject matter.


The invention discloses an aluminum cast roller sleeve with thermal fatigue resistance performance. Chemical constituents of the roller sleeve comprise, by weight, 0.25 percent to 0.35 percent of C, 0.20 percent to 0.80 percent of Si, 0.30 percent to 0.70 percent of Mn, 2.80 percent to 3.80 percent of Cr, 1.20 percent to 2.00 percent of Mo, 0.10 percent to 0.30 percent of V, 0.05 percent to 0.50 percent of Ni, 0.05 percent to 0.50 percent of Nb, not larger than 0.015 percent of S, not larger than 0.015 percent of P, and the balanced Fe and inevitable impurities. The invention further discloses a manufacturing method of the roller sleeve. The method comprises the technological steps of steel smelting, roller sleeve workblank forging, performance heat treatment and tempered treatment of a workblank and the like. The roller sleeve has the good heat conduction, higher high-temperature strength and higher thermal fatigue resistance performance, therefore, on-machine rolling time of the roller sleeve is prolonged, and the cast rolling cost is reduced.


The first stable stannanetriol and germanetriol bearing sterically congested aryl groups were synthesized by hydrolysis of the corresponding trichloro-stannane and -germane. The stannanetriol is monomeric in solution as well as in the crystalline state, as evidenced by X-ray diffraction analysis and CP-MAS NMR spectroscopy. The stannanetriol reacted with silicone grease to afford a cagelike compound having three Sn–O–Si–O–Sn linkages in the molecule. All the group 14 triols can be converted to the corresponding trihalo compounds in good yields.


We proposed SMALL (Seamless Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Support System) seeking for seamless language learning in our previous study. In this paper, we describe how far we have developed the system for the realization of seamless learning. As our first step, we aim to support English vocabulary learning, since vocabulary learning is one of the fundamental aspects of language learning. The initial evaluation of this system showed that the experimental group showed a larger improvement for the two kinds of tests than the control group. The experimental group uploaded less words, but learned more words than the control group. The system added some fun factor in vocabulary learning. The entwining function showed statistically significant effectiveness only when excluding two exceptional cases.


While the services-based model of cloud computing makes more and more IT resources available to a wider range of customers, the massive amount of data in cloud platforms is becoming a target for malicious users. Previous studies show that attackers can co-locate their virtual machines (VMs) with target VMs on the same server, and obtain sensitive information from the victims using side channels. This paper investigates VM allocation policies and practical countermeasures against this novel kind of co-resident attack by developing a set of security metrics and a quantitative model. A security analysis of three VM allocation policies commonly used in existing cloud computing platforms reveals that the server's configuration, oversubscription and background traffic have a large impact on the ability to prevent attackers from co-locating with the targets. If the servers are properly configured, and oversubscription is enabled, the best policy is to allocate new VMs to the server with the most VMs. Based on these results, a new strategy is introduced that effectively decreases the probability of attackers achieving co-residence. The proposed solution only requires minor changes to current allocation policies, and hence can be easily integrated into existing cloud platforms to mitigate the threat of co-resident attacks.


Abstract A simple and efficient procedure for the synthesis of alkylcarbamate hydroxymethylenebisphosphonic acids is described. Hydroxylated compounds are activated with carbonyldiimidazole and coupled to naked amino hydroxymethylenebisphosphonic acids.


Informatization education can be regarded as a process of pursuing informatization education. There are lots of differences between executive strategies of informatization education in under development regions and in developed regions. All these differences show educative idea, government decision, investing funds, technology guarantee, making software, teachers training, the system of management ect.


Hydrothermal convection at mid‐ocean ridges links the ocean's long‐term chemical evolution to solid earth processes, forms hydrothermal ore deposits, and sustains the unique chemosynthetic vent fauna. Yet the depth extent of hydrothermal cooling and the inseparably connected question of how the lower crust accretes remain poorly constrained. Here based on coupled models of crustal accretion and hydrothermal circulation, we provide new insights into which modes of lower crust formation and hydrothermal cooling are thermally viable and most consistent with observations at fast‐spreading ridges. We integrate numerical models with observations of melt lens depth, thermal structure, and melt fraction. Models matching all these observations always require a deep crustal‐scale hydrothermal flow component and less than 50% of the lower crust crystallizing in situ.


This article examines the relationship between police-public communication and public confidence in policing. It draws on several years of research within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), including two qualitative studies that explored public information needs, and a collaborative effort between MPS and the London School of Economics to conduct a 'real world' experiment that tested the impact of newsletters on public perceptions and confidence. A good practice model of information provision is put forward, and evidence for its positive impact on public confidence and perceptions of policing, specifically on perceived police community engagement, is presented. The implications of these findings for the police are discussed with reference to the concepts of police legitimacy, trust and confidence.


Recent production studies have shown that the linear order of NPs is affected by animacy in a way that an animate NP tends to be produced earlier than an inanimate NP. However, since this was only examined in a limited number of languages, it is not clear whether this tendency can be observed universally or constrained by typological differences. In this study we conducted a picture description task by manipulating patient animacy and examined how animacy affects word order in a verb-initial language (VOS) such as Kaqchikel. Our results demonstrate that, in contrast to previous findings, VOS sentences are more likely to be produced when patient NPs are inanimate than when they are animate. Keyword Word order, Animacy, VOS language, Ambiguity


Significance Strontium and oxygen isotopes were measured for adults who lived in southwest Asia during the foraging-to-farming transition. Data spanning seven millennia show limited mobility during the early Holocene and local partner exchange within small hunter-gatherer communities in the late Pleistocene. Conversely, later megasites show more mixed patterns of mobility and kinship, with greater genetic diversity and more nonlocals immigrating to these sites. We argue that these data show that the key agents in local kinship practices prior to the emergence of farming were derived more from shared ideologies and associations involving fictive kin (e.g., neither consanguineous [blood] nor affinial [marriage-like] ties). Continuity and diversity in kinship practices suggest that the world's first villages included unique social and biological kinship identities.


An apparatus and a method for mirroring a firmware and data of an embedded system are provided to take a measure promptly for an abnormal state of a memory by checking over a memory state. A main flash memory(2) is a non-volatile memory, and includes a boot roader, a kernel image, a RAM disc image and a storage region of data. The main flash memory stores the boot roader received a boot ROM. An auxiliary flash memory(3) is a non-volatile memory, and has the same capacity with the main flash memory. The auxiliary flash memory includes a boot roader, kernel image, a RAM disc image and the storage region of data. An SDRAM(4) is a non-volatile memory, and copies the keener image and the RAM disc image to a kernel region and a RAM disc region and compresses and decompresses the images.


Asialoglycoprotein lb and asialoglycocalicin have been isolated from the membranes and from the supernatant, respectively, after sonication of neuraminidase-treated platelets, by lectin affinity chromatography on peanut agglutinin. The isolated asialoglycoprotein lb had an apparent molecular weight of 160,000 when not reduced and 150,000 when reduced, whereas the asialoglycocalicin had an apparent molecular weight of 150,000, both reduced and unreduced, on sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Both preparations contained only trace amounts of impurities. The asialoglycoprotein lb and asialoglycocalicin in both the unreduced and reduced states were separated by gel electrophoresis, radioiodinated in gel slices, and digested with trypsin, and the digests were analyzed by two-dimensional high-voltage electrophoresis and thin-layer chromatography followed by autoradiography. The tryptic peptide maps showed great similarities between glycocalicin and glycoprotein lb, with the latter (both unreduced and reduced) containing additional peptides, supporting the idea that glycocalicin is derived from glycoprotein lb. The unreduced glycoprotein Ib contained additional peptides compared to the reduced due to the disulfide-bond-linked (3component. There were also slight differences between unreduced and reduced glycocalicin, indicating that at least one intramolecular disulfide bond is present. Considerable evidence indicates that the platelet receptor involved in platelet aggregation induced by ristocetin and dependent on human Factor VIII-related von Willebrand factor (FVIIIR:WF) or by bovine von Willebrand factor is a membrane glycoprotein. Glycocalicin, an easily solubilized glycoprotein, has been proposed as the platelet receptor for both ristocetininduced and thrombin-induced platelet aggregation (1) and indeed platelets that have lost glycocalicin no longer respond to bovine von Willebrand factor (2), or to ristocetin and FVIIIR:WF (3). However, platelet membranes also contain an integral glycoprotein, GPIb, known to consist of two glycoprotein chains linked by an intermolecular disulfide bridge (4), which disappears from the platelet surface under the same conditions that glycocalicin appears in the supernatant (5, 6). We have recently presented evidence that the platelet receptor for bovine von Willebrand factor is an integral membrane glycoprotein (7) that differs from glycocalicin in binding strongly to phenyl-Sepharose, indicating that it contains a hydrophobic moiety while glycocalicin does not (8). Glycocalicin has lectin-binding properties similar to those of GPIb and has a molecular weight similar to that of reduced GPIb on NaDodSOJpolyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (9). Recently, crossed immunoelectrophoresis studies have shown that platelets contain two components reacting with an anti-glycocalicin antiserum (3, 6, 10), glycocalicin itself and a slowermigrating component. The slower-migrating component binds to phenyl-Sepharose, whereas glycocalicin does not (10). Antisera both against glycocalicin and against a glycoprotein fraction containing a mixture of GPIa and GPIb inhibit ristocetin/ FVIIIR:WF-induced platelet aggregation (3). All this evidence points strongly to a close relationship between glycocalicin and GPIb. It was therefore unexpected that the tryptic peptide maps of glycocalicin and the GPI complex [both isolated by lectin affinity chromatography on wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)] were totally different, indicating that there can barely be any relationship between these glycoproteins (11). This induced us to repeat these experiments under carefully controlled conditions with defined starting materials. Studies on the binding of l"I-labeled lectins to platelet membrane glycoproteins separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (12) have indicated that peanut agglutinin (PNA) binds only GPIb (from neuraminidase-treated platelets), whereas WGA binds to more glycoproteins (from untreated platelets). Treatment with neuraminidase is necessary in order to expose the PNA-binding site. In order to establish what the relationship is between glycocalicin and GPIb we have isolated the asialoforms of these glycoproteins by PNA affinity chromatography and, after radiolabeling, we have compared their tryptic peptide maps. MATERIAIS AND METHODS Isolation of Human Blood Platelets. Platelets were isolated from citrate-treated blood collected for the Central Laboratory ofthe Blood Transfusion Service of the Swiss Red Cross, within 20 hr after collection (13). The buffy coats were siphoned into a buffered glucose solution to give platelet-rich plasma containing about 20 mM glucose, 12 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 6.8), and about 4 X 109 platelets per ml (14). The platelet-rich plasma was washed three times in 0.01 M Tris HCl/0. 15 M NaCl/10 mM EDTA, pH 7.4; the platelets were resuspended to 8-9 X 109 per ml in neuraminidase buffer [0.1 M sodium acetate (pH 5.6)/0.34 M NaCV9 mM CaCl2; neuraminidase [Vibrio cholerae, 1 unit per 2 X 1012 platelets (Behringswerke) (1 international unit of neuraminidase will split off 1 ,umol ofNacetylneuraminic acid from human a,-acid glycoprotein in 1 min at 37°C and pH 5.5)] was added; and the platelet suspension was incubated at 37°C for about 45 min. The neuraminidase was certified by the manufacturers as containing less than 0.1 milliunit/ml of protease activity (1 international unit of protease activity will split 1 ,umol of benzoyl-DL-arginine p-nitroanilide HCl per min at 37°C). The efficiency of removal of sialic acid was checked by measuring the agglutination response of aliquots of platelets to PNA. For isolation of glycocalicin, the Abbreviations: GP, glycoprotein; FVIIIR:WF, Factor VIII-related von Willebrand factor; WGA, wheat germ agglutinin; PNA, peanut agglutinin. The publication costs ofthis article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U. S. C. § 1734 solely to indicate this fact.


The aims of this investigation were to: (1) determine whether there is enhanced biodegradability of terbufos in soils of banana plantations infested with Radopholus similis; (2) whether nematicide use history affects the degree of biodegradation; and (3) establish whether terbufos has phytotoxic side-effects on banana root growth. A greenhouse bioassay, using soils collected from different banana fields in Costa Rica, revealed that terbufos underwent enhanced biodegradation in the soil of a plantation having a long history of terbufos use. In the soils of two other plantations, where terbufos had never been used, and in another where the most recent terbufos application had occurred over a year before soil collection, high nematicide activity against R. similis was obtained even 60 days after application. Our study demonstrated that terbufos efficacy lasted longer in soils with no or low history of terbufos than in soils that had been treated several times. Terbufos did not reduce root fresh weight of in vitro-propagated bananas, and its positive effect was related to a control of R. similis.


In healthy subjects, electromyography (EMG) reveals that well-coordinated walking can be produced by exciting four co-activation modules: Module 1 (hip and knee extensors) in early stance, Module 2 (ankle plantarflexors) in late stance, Module 3 (tibialis anterior and rectus femoris) during swing, and Module 4 (hamstrings) in late swing and early stance [1]. These modules, comprised of timing and composition matrices that define muscle activity (Fig. 1), may reflect a neural strategy of co-activation through a reduced set of patterns.


Professors Musson and Robinson have, over the past ten years, been considerably engaged with the study of technology in Great Britain during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Both have published extensively the results of their researches, in books and articles on James Watt and steam engine development; on various facets of the chemical industry; and on the social institutions which linked science and technology in eighteenth-century Britain. This book attempts to fuse those several interests into a new interpretation of the Industrial Revolution.


For every infinite cardinal a we let Ca, be the set of all real-valued continuous functions on a product of a closed unit intervals with the supmetric. It is shown that Ca has separability degree a. Further, the classical theorem of Banach and Mazur is generalized by showing that every metric space of separability degree a is isometric to a subspace of ca


Santa Fe Institute Bulletin SPRING 2008 13 The poet and novelist Thomas Bailey Aldrich died in 1907, just before the birth of modern sleep research. Since then, researchers have advanced the study of sleep with instruments such as electroencephalograms (EEGs), computerized axial tomography (CAT scans), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Some have even begun to identify the molecular signals that accompany sleep and wakefulness. But Aldrich's words still ring true, and the basic question of why we sleep remains a mystery. !ere are many hypotheses that offer explanations for the purpose of sleep, but in the absence of a convincing way to test and compare them, no consensus has emerged. SFI researchers Van Savage and Geoffrey West have narrowed down the quest for a sleep theory by extending their gaze beyond human beings or any single species. In a study published in the January 2007 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, the researchers examined sleep times across 96 different mammals. !ey were able to test various hypotheses that connected sleep to functions in the body and/or brain, ruling out several with a thoughtful examination of sleep times, animal size, and metabolic rates. Having honed in on a quantitative connection between sleep times and the brain's metabolic rate, the pair put forth a theory that suggests sleep's primary function is to repair and reorganize the brain. !e theory explains why a mouse sleeps 14 hours a day, an elephant sleeps less than four, and a human being falls in the middle with eight. It also provides a basis for further research into the nature of REM sleep, sleep and aging, and sleep times during development. research report


In recent years, the concept of company efficiency and its measurement using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has received a great deal of attention in the professional literature. Keeping this in mind and taking into account that, to our knowledge, there is no comprehensive study on the efficiency of trade companies in Serbia using the DEA model, the paper seeks to explore this topic. The results of the research into the efficiency of the top 14 retailers in Serbia, suggest that, considering the existing macroeconomic environment, the overall efficiency of the commercial sector in Serbia is satisfactory. To promote the efficiency of trade companies in Serbia in the future, it is necessary to take full advantage of new business models, contemporary concepts of cost management, information and communication technologies, and the concept of sustainable development, by following the example of global retail chains. Developing a private label is another useful tool for increasing corporate efficiency. Companies would also benefit greatly from developing a private label and increasing organic food sales.


The surveillance component of most national AIDS control plans included surveillance for the disease AIDS and for HIV infection. Several methods are available and more than one will need to be applied in national programs. For monitoring HIV infection trends many national programs are pursuing a direction based on regular sampling at predetermined sites of predetermined population groups. Some of the key advantages from such sentinel surveillance systems include obtaining information from several selected sites and from different selected groups simultaneously and in a manner in which the groups sites and procedures become established and regular. This document describes a specific type of serosurveillance for monitoring HIV infection trends in population groups. The HIV sentinel serosurveillance is a method that many national AIDS control programs and the WHO are actively exploring. Its main purpose is to detect changes--to monitor trends and to provide a basis for evaluating preventive strategies and activities. Examples of the first steps in the development of a sentinel surveillance system (the selection of sites and groups for testing) are cited.


This paper discussed the connotation of sport value of the senior middle school students and compares the difference between the statistic elements of different samples and sport value.It showed that 1) the connotation of the sport value of the senior middle school students consisted of 7 elements,such as sport skill,emotional expression,entertainment function,sport spirit,social relationship,recognitive study and sport habit;2) the sport value did not vary with the ages;3) the sport value varieds with different grades and different sport frequency.


Literature reports the huge work of IP traffic recognition using machine learning (ML) Algorithms. Data is divided into groups of similar objects or Clustering process groups the data instances that have similar characteristics without any previous supervision or guidance. Clustering analysis can be used for identification of IP traffic protocols effectively by measuring the external statistical attributes like packet length and inter arrival time. Our research work shows the analysis using K-means and DBSCAN clustering algorithm. Our approach is evaluated using accuracy and execution time for clustering model.


This work is dedicated to researching of the interrelation of functional state of students with stressful factors of learning and life activity. The most systematic and characteristic signs of stress factor influence on the functional state of human being were defined. It was shown that the degree of learning factor influence is correlated with the degree of the negative factor influence on life activity. It was detected that common action of negative factors that are connected with live style and stressful factors can cause the human distress state.


In this computational study, we explore a viable route to access the Kitaev-Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) state in recently synthesized monolayer of a so-called spin-orbit assisted Mott insulator OsCl$_3$. In addition to other magnetic ground states in different regions, the small $J_\text{H}$/$U$ region of our Hubbard $U$--Hund's $J_\text{H}$ quantum phase diagram, obtained by combining second-order perturbation and pseudo-Fermion renormalization group calculations, hosts Kitaev-QSL phase. Only Kitaev interaction of a smaller magnitude is obtained in this region. Negligibly small farther neighbor interactions appear as a distinct feature of monolayer \os, suggesting this material to be a better candidate for the exploration of possible Kitaev-QSL state than earlier proposed materials. Insights from our study might be useful to probe magnetic phase transitions by purportedly manipulating $U$ and $J_\text{H}$ with epitaxial strain in advanced crystal growth techniques.


Until the excavations of the huge tomb complex at Baiyinwulasumu,1 our narratives of the group of people usually thought of as the Han 韓 lineage of Jizhou were governed by the view taken of them by their contemporaries in Song and the historians employed by Yuan to write the Liao history. Today our knowledge of the group is not only larger by several orders of magnitude, but profoundly different in character. The tomb complex at Baiyinwulasumu allows us better to see this group as they saw themselves, and as their own Kitan contemporaries placed them in the Kitan/Liao hierarchy. Baiyinwulasumu is not merely a tomb city but a space circumscribed by Kitan aristocratic status, where inclusion and exclusion are verdicts on identity. Han Derang 韓德讓 (940–1011), known at the end of his life and ever after ward in Liao sources as Yelü Longyun 耶律隆運, is the single bestknown individual of the Kitan/Liao2 period, and his life may be outstanding among tenthcentury lives worldwide. Anecdotes illustrating his honor and sagacity pepper the biographies of other Liao luminaries. His intriguing but elusive relationship with Chengtian 承天皇太后, the empress of Emperor Jingzong 景宗, caught the fancy not only of the Liao historians and their Yuan editors,


The subjects covered in this research paper include the manner in which one's behaviour can be influenced by money. It examines the falseness and deception of those who are wealthy, illustrating their true nature through real situations. The plot of the novel "House of Cards" written by prolific writer Sudha Murthy, revolves around Mridula, a village girl who marries a doctor, Sanjay. It explores the meaning of marriage and delves into the depths of corruption while also illustrating the differences in lifestyles between the two parties involved. After they're married, their financial situation doesn't improve much, as they go through ups and downs. Mrs. Mridula is based in Bangalore while her husband is pursuing his post-graduate degree. Their marriage appears to be quite stable at this point, as Sanjay starts a nursing home with his friend Alex. It quickly gains popularity and profits. Money brings with it the ability to exert power and possess greed, as seen in this family's transition to a luxurious home with numerous cars and maids for assistance. "House of Cards" explores topics such as wealth, inequality, poverty, and corruption in India through its storyline. It sheds light on how those who deserve seats the most are not getting them and on how fake and superficial the lives of the rich are. The paper illustrates the necessity of trust, honesty and compassion for a relationship to thrive, as well as how money can break a family and a marriage apart.


An analysis that focuses on the metapsychological dimension of queer theorizations will demonstrate why, in spite of how bold and emancipatory key queer formulations might initially seem, the field maintains an uninterrogated reliance on erotophobic psychological conventions that ultimately reproduces an erotophobic relationship to sexuality. Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of analysis that zeroes in on the underlying psychological assumptions that determine contemporary critical thought. Such an intervention deepens current debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the field's systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory's radical and ethical project. Homo Psyche therefore introduces a break with the current configuration of traditional psychoanalysis as the presumptive and undisputed foundation for radical psycho-sexual theorizations. In order to elaborate a critical alternative, the French theoretician Jean Laplanche (1924–2012) will be introduced. In order to rigorously articulate and defend the centrality of sexuality to psychic life, Laplanche insisted on "new foundations for psychoanalysis" that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models of the mind. This study conducts a purposive survey of six major theoretical concepts, through the lens of six eminent individual critics who represent exemplary, influential, and authoritative developments of them: Eve Sedgwick on "hermeneutics," Leo Bersani on "sex," Jane Gallop on "violation," Lee Edelman on "radicalism," Judith Butler on "gender," and Lauren Berlant on "relationality."


Tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a serious pest of tomato Solanum lycopersicum L. (Solanaceae) originating from South America. Due to previous outbreaks in neighbouring West African countries, surveillance was ongoing since 2014 in Benin. Tomato plants were regularly inspected and pheromone traps placed in tomato-producing localities in northern, southern and central Benin, including fields close to the border with Niger and Nigeria. In late 2017 and beginning of 2018 Gelechiidae moths were obtained from both the traps and the reared plant material. Morphological examination and molecular analysis of the gained specimens allowed to confirm the presence of the pest in the northern and central regions of Benin. We hence confirm the presence of T. absoluta in yet another West African country.


Based on actual commercial bank's financial risks, this paper constructs a set of practical index system on commercial bank's financial risks and sets up a model for the evaluation by means of BP neural networks. This paper can help commercial banks advance their ability of decision-making and managing, and can help them take more effective measures to defending and controll financial risks.


When banks load up on their government?s bonds, lending to firms and households can get crowded out. But when the sovereign debt market is in turmoil, such concentrations may play a surprising role.


Guanyl nucleotides affected the binding of radio‐labeled cholecystokinin (CCK) octapeptide to rodent cortical binding sites. Micromolar quantities of a stable GTP analogue, guanylyl‐imidodiphosphate (GppNp), resulted in a plateau where binding was decreased by 30%. In the presence of 25 μM GppNp, binding analysis revealed a decrease in affinity (increase in KD), without an apparent effect on the maximal number of binding sites. Ki values for CCK‐related peptides shifted up to 1.6‐fold. The rate of peptide association decreased by threefold, and the rapid component of peptide dissociation increased. The collective data suggest that a class of central CCK binding sites is linked to nucleotide regulatory proteins. The evidence is discussed with regard to multiple receptor populations and to possible interconversions between receptor types.


An abstract of the dissertation of Robert Thomas Swan for the Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration and Policy presented October 10, 2008. Title: Challenging the New Penology: A Case-Study Analysis of Correctional Management, Interstate Inmate Transfers, and Administrative Intent The purpose of this study is to explore the use of interstate inmate transfers (IITs) by prison wardens and the administrative intent that guide their use. This study assesses the explanatory power of the new penology in three cases and asks three broad questions of two prison wardens and the DOC: What correctional goals do you hope to accomplish with interstate inmate transfers? Why? And what contextual factors (if any) are felt to inhibit or facilitate these goals? IITs are controversial. Supporters of IITs argue that in addition to serving the needs of correctional managers, IITs may also serve to help inmates reenter society, remain physically safe while incarcerated, remain close to family and friends, and have access to appropriate correctional programming and treatment. On the other hand, critics of IITs argue that they are much more than a correctional management tool. Rather, IITs are evidence of an informally emerging "new penology" in American corrections that—due to the increasingly problematic conditions of confinement encountered by correctional managers (e.g., overcrowding)—emphasize 2 a shift in focus away from what is good for the individual inmate to what is good for managing the correctional system as a whole. The case data collected in this research contradict, to a large degree, new penological assumptions. The findings point to high levels of ideological and behavioral autonomy among prison wardens as well as high levels of individualized and moralistic thinking with regard to inmate management, and a general feeling that correctional management at the institutional level is only situationally (rather than perpetually) stressful. Thus, the new penological assumption that criminal justice actors lack human agency or that inmates are thought of only in actuarial terms, may be an incorrect or incomplete assumption in relation to prison wardens and the intent of IITs in these cases. This study concludes that in order to better understand and possibly predict the administrative intent of IITs, an alternative theoretical framework should be utilized—one that better captures the dynamism and variability of influence that unique situational and dispositional factors (and their interaction) may have on administrative intent.


The paper presented development includes hardware which provides the necessary currents and voltages, and application software for processing and graphic displaying the results. Generalized nets are proper tool for the modelling the dynamic structures. Here we design a generalized net that we can use for model this type structures.


For the past 30 years evolutionary biologists have used a fictional tale about engineer and businessman Henry Ford to help illustrate the undesirability of over-design. Thus, on discovering that kingpins were rarely damaged in scrapped Model T automobiles, Henry Ford is alleged to have concluded that the kingpins were unnecessarily durable and asked that they be built to a cheaper specification. The general lesson that has been drawn from this tale is that natural selection will act to equalize the mortality risks accruing from damage to each part of the organism's body. Yet it is well known, at least as far as humans are concerned, that death is more likely to be attributed to a failure of some organs compared to others. To understand why this might be so, we use some graphical and mathematical models to show that even if all body organs were equally important to survivorship, then the optimal investment solution that maximizes whole-organism longevity will typically not be the solution that equalizes the fail-times of the individual organs. As with natural organisms, the key to any optimal investment policy in multi-component systems is understanding what 'bang you can get for your buck'. Moreover, we use a specific model to show that, even following selection to ameliorate the effects of damage, those body parts that receive more damage are still more likely to be the ultimate cause of death – that is, there is 'under-compensation'. Therefore, the decision to make the kingpins more cheaply should not have been based only on the fact they rarely cause car failure compared to other car components. Such arguments wrongly assume that if one car part (or body part) is less durable than the others, then it will always be the reason for any future breakdown (or death).


In this paper, the sensitivity of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model to the nudging parameters in simulating July–August (JJA) precipitation was assessed with 16 experiments over the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment East Asia II (CORDEX-EA-II) domain. The effects of various nudging parameters in spectral nudging (referred to as SN) and grid nudging (referred to as AN) experiments are examined, including wavenumbers, relaxation time, nudging levels, and nudging variables for SN and relaxation time and nudging variables for AN. Results showed that the applications of spectral nudging and grid nudging methods in WRF simulations can improve the model's ability to reproduce the JJA extreme precipitation event and accompanying large-scale fields in 2003. The major findings include 1) spectral nudging is superior to grid nudging in simulating heavy rainfall and low-level circulation, 2) nudging both kinematic and thermodynamic variables is efficient to better simulate the JJA precipitation for both SN and AN simulations, 3) in SN simulations, the options of wavenumbers display stronger impact on JJA precipitation if nudging solely the kinematic variables instead of both kinematic and thermodynamic variables over wet subregions, and 4) the free developed large-scale processes associated with small nudging wavenumbers can diminish the improvement from nudging both kinematic and thermodynamic variables in simulating subseasonal variations of precipitation. Overall, the experiment that adopts spectral nudging of both kinematic and thermodynamic variables, 1-h relaxation time, and four or eight nudging wavenumbers captures the characteristics of summer climate more reasonably.


Review of Guilt Rules All: Mysteries, Detectives, and Crime in Irish Fiction, edited by Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion (Syracuse: Syracuse U.P., 2020), 304pp. ISBN 9780815636830, $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 9780815636731, $75.00 (hardback).


In this paper, we propose a near-field waveguide probe loaded with one novel small resonator, which is composed of vias and strips using printed circuit board (PCB) technique and named via-split-ring resonator (VSRR). Measurements are accomplished using one dimension automatic platform and vector network analyzer. Experimental results verify the probe has high sensitivity and good resolution in detecting closely spaced narrow cracks.


BACKGROUND
In progressive glaucoma there is increasing loss of retinal nerve fibers and therefore decreasing nerve fiber layer thickness. As measurements of capillary blood flow have been reported to depend on nerve fiber layer thickness, this could result in incorrectly high blood flow measurements in patients with advanced glaucoma.

METHODS
In 33 healthy controls and 59 glaucoma patients we measured retinal nerve fiber layer thickness by laser polarimetry and relative capillary blood flow by scanning laser doppler flowmetry three times on the nasal and temporal peripapillary retina. For statistical analysis a regression analysis was used.

RESULTS
The correlation coefficients for volume, velocity, and flow with nerve fiber layer thickness at the same location were 0.02/-0.03/-0.02 in the temporal retina and -0.22/-0.07/-0.19 in the nasal retina (all correlations nonsignificant).

CONCLUSION
No correlation was found between nerve fiber layer thickness and capillary blood flow. Measurement of capillary blood flow in glaucoma patients thus does not appear to be affected by decreasing nerve fiber layer thickness.


This study is aimed to investigate the aspect systems of Torajan language. The study used qualitative method by analyzing Torajan discourses. It describes the aspect systems of Torajan language. The results show that there are two main aspects of Toraja, a perfective and an imperfective aspect. The perfective aspect is marked with the suffix -mi, -mo, and negation taeq, whereas the imperfective aspect conveys progressive and iterative meaning. Those features are distinguished by affixes. Prefixes me(N)-, sipaq-, si-, to-, maq-, and sufixes -kanni, -pa convey the imperfective-progressive meaning which indicates that the action is still ongoing. Whereas, the prefix maqthat merges in reduplication verbs convey the iterative meaning. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan menginvestigasi sistem aspek dalam bahasa Toraja. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan objek kajian wacana yang berbahasa Toraja. Wacana tersebut menggambarkan sistem aspek dalam bahasa Toraja. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada dua sistem aspek dalan bahasa Toraja yakni aspek perfektif dan imperfektif. Aspek perfektif ditandai dengan penggunaan klitik -mi, -mo, dan negasi taeq. Selanjutnya, aspek imperfektif menyatakan makna progresif dan iteratif. Makna-makna tersebut diindikasikan melalui proses afiksasi. Prefiks me(N)-, sipaq-, si-, to-,maq-, dan sufiks -kanni,-pamenyatakan makna imperfektif progresif yang mengindikasikan kejadian yang masih berlangsung, sedangkan prefiks maq- yang bergabung pada kata kerja ulangan menyatakan makna iteratif.


In this paper, we prove that a weak form of the Akizuki-Nakano vanishing theorem holds on globally $F$-split 3-folds. Making use of this vanishing theorem, we study deformations of globally $F$-split Fano 3-folds and the Kodaira vanishing theorem for thickenings of locally complete intersection globally $F$-regular 3-folds.


Objectives: The goal of coronary artery surgery (CABG) is complete revascularization at lowest risk and morbidity. This study compares MinBP versus cECC with respect to completeness of revascularization. Methods: A total of a 120 patients were randomized and treated with CABG using either Maquet, Sorin or Medtronic MinBP or cECC systems of the same company. Patient characteristics, x-clamp time, total bypass time, number of distal anastomoses and priming volumes were evaluated. Results: There was no operative mortality or conversion of MinBP to cECC. Groups matched with respect to patient characteristics (age, gender) and operation times. The priming volume was significantly lower with MinBP. In all instances a still heart could be achieved. Conclusions: MinBP like cECC provides a still heart allowing complete revascularization without increase of bypass and x-clamp time.


A novel QSPR topographic parameter (Vc3) is used for independent variables reduction number to one. Vc3 consisted in Euclidian distances relations. This procedure was applied to a model of 19 benzene sulfonamide derivatives substances using benzene sulfonamide like referent substance characterized by physicochemicals properties used like independent variables, this variables are: refraction index, surface tension and an extra dummy variable that indicated the presence or absence chlorine atoms in the study molecule, pKa was used like dependent variable. The linear regression proposed is of the form. pKa = m* Vc3 + n that is more coherent than its counterpart multivariable regression. The used of this variable reduction eliminated problems of orthogonal procedure or the used Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to obtain consistent models.


Eight scale characters of known hatchery and wild coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, were com pared, and a linear discriminant function wasused to determine whether hatchery and wild adult coho salmon could be reliably separated on the basis of scale characteristics. Attempted separation was based upon known differences in rearing environmentsofhatchery and wildjuvenile coho salmon and upon hatchery smolts being larger than wild smolts. Identifications were correct for 82% of the hatchery fish and 89% ofthe wild fish. Based on analysis ofscales from adult coho salmon of unknown origin (hatchery or wild) and the estimated catch ofmarked,hatchery-reared coho salmon taken by the Oregon sport fishery, we concluded that 75% ofthe fish caught in the ocean along the Oregon coast from mid-Juneto mid-September 1977 had been released as smoltsfrom hatcheries. Percentages ofhatchery fish in the catch ranged from 85 near the mouth of the Columbia River to 61 at Winchester Bay on the central Oregon coast. Fisheries along the south and central Oregon coast mayhave had access to higher percentages of wild coho salmon after mid-August than prior to this time, probably because wild fish from coastal streams remained near these ports, whereas most fish destined for Columbia River hatcheries had already migrated northward.


Matching and behavioral contrast were explored in an investment simulation with young adults who made repeated investments in two different markets that provided intermittent, non‐predictable returns. In the first phase in which the markets provided equivalent returns, participants matched. In a second phase in which one market ceased to provide returns while the other market remained unchanged, participants showed behavioral contrast by decreasing investment in the non‐producing market and dramatically increasing investing in the unchanged market. A third phase restored the original return rates and matching was observed. In a fourth phase, one market ceased to provide returns while the other market remained unchanged, and less robust evidence of behavioral contrast was found. These results replicate and extend previous research are one of the few demonstrations of behavioral contrast in adults, are consistent with matching theory and show that options are valued relatively, not absolutely. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Branch duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (BD-IPMNs) are characterized by cystic dilation of secondary ducts clearly communicating with a normalsized main pancreatic duct and seem to have a less aggressive clinical course than those arising from the main duct. BD-IPMNs are related to pancreatitis but the causal relationship is unclear. We report a case of a 62-year-old woman initially thought to have pseudocysts complicated by idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis but was finally diagnosed with BD-IPMN leading to recurrent acute pancreatitis attacks. The patient had six episodes of acute pancreatitis over 5 years. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed two cystic lesions of 2.0 and 1.5 cm in the pancreatic body, which appeared at the second episode of acute pancreatitis. Each pancreatitis episode improved with conservative treatment, but the cystic lesions increased in size to 2.5 and 3.5 cm during the late follow-up period. A distal pancreatectomy was performed under the diagnosis of recurrent pancreatitis caused by BD-IPMN. The pathological findings revealed BD-IPMN with moderate dysplasia. We herein present a case of BDIPMN mimicking pancreatic pseudocysts with a review of the literature.


The new approach for measuring the complex permittivity of ferroelectrics in the microwave range is proposed. The double ridged waveguide is used as a measuring cell, which allows increasing the sensitivity and frequency range of measurements. The electrodynamic problem is solved for a waveguide with complex cross section and piecewise-layered dielectric filling. The installation and the measurement results of complex permittivity of BST ferroelectric ceramics with the addition of MgO in the range 7.5 - 18 GHz are presented.


The article investigates the phenomenon of fascination in the context of modern approach to interpersonal communication in cooperative and nonviolent way. Effectiveness of communication process mainly depends on the quality of interpersonal relations, the degree and quality of emotions, the willingness of communication partners to adjust to verbal contact. We shall undertake linguistic analysis of fascination as one of discursive strategies. Fascination is defined as the person's quality to be liked via peculiar semiotic way of self-presentation, aimed at minimizing unpleasant emotional tone in communication and maximizing positive communication climate. According to fascination's nature to enchant, charm, express sympathy, elicit negative emotions and make positive impression, it can be stated that positive communication climate is created by special fascinating way of communication. Such kind of communication is made up of a system of verbal and nonverbal components and connections between the fascinator and the object of fascination. As fascination is able to change emotional state and create positive tone in interpersonal relations, we consider fascination as supportive strategy of positive communication climate. The purpose of our study is to explore fascination as supportive strategy in relation to making positive communication climate.


This article deals with the description and verifying energy model building in BSim software. Results of energy demands simulation for the internal microclimate formation in a real dwelling house carried out on the basis of actual hourly interval climatic data during a whole year are presented. The results are subsequently confronted with other calculation programs, possibly simplified methods, and particularly real measuring during a whole year. The aim is to verify reliability of BSim software and accuracy of various approaches to the calculation of building's energy demands for the internal climate formation.


The Salmonella species is an extremely rare cause of infective endocarditis. This case report is for Salmonella spp. group B proven by positive multiple blood cultures, and positive intraoperative culture from the vegetation of the mitral valve prosthesis.


Drug-drug interaction related adverse events (DIAE) signals are a major public health issue. Drug safety analysts must sift through thousands of adverse event reports submitted daily to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discover unexpected DIAE signals, which if addressed can lead to life-saving actions. To facilitate the DIAE discovery from these massive data sets, we design several technological innovations that together are integrated into an interactive visual analytics system called DEVES 1. First, our state- of-the-art DIAE mining algorithm efficiently infers potential DIAE signals from these reports, and then ranks them based on their significance score. For interpretability of these inferred DIAE signals, domain knowledge of adverse events and already known drug interactions is extracted from external authoritative data sources and then seamlessly integrated with the inferred signal set. Guided by this augmented signal model, DEVES supports advanced signal analytics - empowering the analyst to interact with linked visualizations offering complementary perspectives into the signal set and its supporting evidence in the form of reports. Our demonstration showcases the technological innovations of DEVES using real-world FDA datasets, demonstrating that DEVES effectively supports the core regulatory tasks from signal screening, signal prioritization to signal validation.


This paper describes simulation-based electronic teaching materials for an Introductory Communication Engineering Course.They include computer graphics animation and audio navigation and explanations. The CG-based interactive simulation content was produced for items difficult for students to understand. Investigation into its usability suggest that (1) virtual experiences through interactive CG on a PC would promote the learning by students, and (2) in addition to visual information, audio navigations, and explanations through synthesized voice would make the electronic teaching materials more effective.


In spite of major advances in medical care, infections caused by Streptococcus pneurnorziae continue to be frequent all over the world and are associated with significant morbidity or mortality [l-51. Thus, S. pneurnoniae has remained a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia, acute otitis media and sinusitis, exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, and acute bacterial meningitis [1,3]. The mortality rate in adult patients suffering from severe pneumococcal pneumonia or meningitis may be as high as 30% [1,6]. Over recent years we have seen significant changes in the epidemiology of pneumococcal infections, such as: first, the emergence of S. pneurnoniae strains resistant to penicillin and other antimicrobials [7-131, which has complicated the treatment of such infections; second, the increasing prevalence of pneumococcal infections in specific groups of patients such as those with HIV infection and other immunosuppressive conditions [ 14-1 61; and third, the advanced age of the population, since elderly people are at higher risk for pneumococcal infections [l]. Several options appear to be available to respond to this situation. First, a more appropriate and rational use of antibiotics may significantly reduce the resistance rates [17,18]. Second, the availability of the new antimicrobial agents (e.g. new quinolones) may improve the treatment options for pneumococcal infections [19-22]. Third, future vaccine developments may help in prevention strategies [23,24].


Nutrition science occupies a central place for understanding the etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular diseases. Accordingly, nutrition knowledge was central to the background, design, and conduct of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). As a consequence, the trial generated one of the largest sets of high-quality longitudinal nutrition data ever assembled. This data set is potentially of great value, both for elucidating issues addressed directly by the MRFIT objectives and design and for exploring other nutrition questions of current interest in cardiovascular epidemiology. This monograph is organized as follows: Chapter 2 is a brief summary of the MRFIT background, rationale, design, implementation, and main results. Of the two detailed chapters on nutritional and related methods, Chapter 3 describes the data collection instruments and intervention program. Chapter 4 examines four methods issues related to analyses of MRFIT dietary and other data, with a focus on underestimation of the strength of relations between dietary and other variables. Chapters 5-8 report findings related to the major objectives of the trial itself: baseline characteristics of the cohort, changes in food and nutrient intakes attributable to the special intervention (SI) program, relations of these changes as well as of weight change to blood lipid change, and factors involved in the degree of adherence to dietary goals. Chapter 9 addresses an issue that must always be considered in the context of dietary change: nutritional adequacy. Finally, Chapters 10-14 explore other relations: those of dietary carbohydrates, including fiber, to blood lipids; multiple dietary variables to blood pressure; dietary and other factors to body weight; and smoking status to patterns of dietary intake and weight. Am J Clin Nutr 1997;65(suppl): 184S-90S.


Experiments were performed to test the effect of xenogeneic (fetal calf) serum (FCS), as compared to syngeneic mouse serum (SMS) on the generation in culture of specific cytotoxic lymphocytes (CL) against syngeneic tumors. Sensitization in FCS against 3LL tumor cells resulted in CL cross‐reacting with B‐16 tumor cells and vice versa. Anti‐syngeneic fibroblast CL also cross‐reacted with 3LL. Such cross‐reactivities were shown to be derived from CL directed against FCS determinants. In contrast, sensitization in the presence of SMS resulted in CL directed against tumor‐specific antigens. Anti‐3LL generated in SMS lysed 3LL targets but not B‐16, and anti‐B‐16 lysed B‐16 but not 3LL. The two types of CL had two distinct reactivities in vivo. Anti‐3LL CL generated in FCS enhanced tumor growth in vivo, whereas anti‐3LL CL generated in SMS had an inhibiting effect on the growth of tumor cells. These results indicate that the application of syngeneic serum during in vitro sensitization against syngeneic tumors may open up new possibilities for the analysis of tumor‐specific antigens and for eliciting specific immune reactions against such antigens.


The low-carbon economy is an economic model which bases on low consumption,low pollution and low low output.Moreover,it is another important development after the agricultural and industrial civilization.It is necessary to learn scientific outlook on development in order to develop low-carbon economy.The low carbon value is a new concept which needs deep low carbon cultural base in a certain social environment.


The article presents the positive results of the works performed at the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw, associated with modernization of a highly manoeuvrable training jet aircraft to make it reach the standards of increased manoeuvrability. It is shown how the maximum increase of a standard training aircraft manoeuvrability was achieved, which was the result of a small modification of the structure, along with the minimal costs of modernization and qualification tests. The paper also presents the basic process of modernization related to the development of iterative methodology, which includes numerical selection of mechanization elements, that is, strakes, slots and flaps. The parameters of the performed aerodynamic model are demonstrated as well as the results of the tests of its properties with the selected types of strakes conducted in a low-cost aerodynamic tunnel of 1.5 m diameter with the use of a sixelement aerodynamic weight. Parameters of the selected type of strake model with Fowler flap and slots are shown, as well as the results of the tests performed on it in the aerodynamic tunnel of 5 m diameter, and also the results of the buffeting resistance tests conducted in a transonic tunnel. The paper also presents the parameters of the designed optimized strakes, flaps and slots in 1:1 scale, which were mounted onto the aircraft prototype. Finally, the article presents the results of the full cycle of in-flight tests, which confirmed the anticipated project objectives and obtaining of a significant increase in the aircraft manoeuvrability by 48%.


Large numbers of cracks consist in concrete structures,which make erosive ions like Cl-come into concrete easily.Chloride ion is one of the main factors which induce the steel corrosion in concrete.On concrete surface waterproofing treatment can make a seclusion layer which resist the erosive ions like Cl-effectively,further can reduce the rate of steel corrosion to a certain extent.The influence of sequencing of cracks and surface waterproof treatment on corrosion of steel in concrete is also studied in this paper.


The purpose of this work is to demonstrate and analyse the influences of Semantics in the construction of entries in the lexicographical work. In the polysemy and synonym it is possible to detect bigger or samaller differences of semantics which will influence in the determination of the senses intrinsic of each expression or wordentry of the lexicographical work. These influences reveal interdisciplinary dialogues - Lexicology, Lexicography, Semantics - present in the elaboration of the entries of the lexicographical Work.


In order to perform "time-resolved" photography of long sparks on a strip of film placed inside a flywheel rim, an optical system has been devised based on a nearly concentric mirror-pair similar to that used in a conventional reflecting microscope. A field-flattening lens is used together with two lenses to correct the chromatic defects introduced by the field-flattener. The nominal aperture is f/1.85 with a focal length of 72 mm. Simultaneous photographs of the same discharge are shown taken by a f/4.5 quartz-rocksalt achromat and the system described above. These show the advantage to be gained by using the above system.