The Ieaction between hydroxide ion and 2, 4 dinitrochlorobenzene in water wascatalyzed by cationic micelles of cetylpyridine bromide (CPB ). The rate constant first increased sharply. then remained relatively constant as the concentration of CPB increased.The kinetic form can be interpreted quantatively in terms of incorporation of substrate andhydroxide ion into the eationic micelles. Increasing the hydroxide ion concentration decreasedthe second-order rate constant of the micellar-catalyzed hydrolysis. The rate enhancement ismore pronounced in CPB than in cetyltrinlethylammonium1 bromide system. The difference ofthe effects of the two cationic micelles has also been discussed.


Ameloblastoma is a benign but locally aggressive tumour which is derived from the odontogenic epithelium and some patients present with recurrence. Pattern of recurrence of ameloblastoma depends on various factors including histological type, age and treatment modality. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is a nuclear protein synthesised in the late Gland S phase of the cell cycle and immunohistocherriical detection of this protein represents a useful marker for the proliferating activity of tissues.


Our aim was to ascertain the opinion of Orthopaedic Consultants, General Practitioners, and Patients on the proposed primary care based follow up of joint replacements. An email questionnaire was sent Orthopaedic Consultants registered with the BOA. Responders had to answer simple questions regarding follow up practices after hip and knee arthroplasty and safe alternatives to the existing system. General practitioners in London were sent a different questionnaire to assess their familiarity with follow up of arthroplasty patients and their competence in identifying complications. Finally, arthroplasty patients were directly questioned on their preference for follow up. Eigthy-one Orthopaedic Consultants who undertake lower limb arthroplasty responded, 89.06% advocated follow up and review of radiographs by the surgeon. The Arthroplasty Practitioner, the Radiologist and the Physiotherapist were deemed suitable for follow up of patients by 50%, 14.06% and 4.69 % respectively. All responders unanimously disagreed with initial follow up by General Practitioners (0%). However, after a 12 month review, 30.15% thought primary arthroplasty patients could be discharged to the care of their General Practitioner and 11.11% were happy to discharge revision arthroplasty patients. Of the 52 General Practitioners who returned our questionnaire, only 37% were confident of interpreting symptoms related to prosthetic loosening or infection and 98% did not feel competent identifying radiological changes after arthroplasty. 94% of the General Practitioners did not think that they would be happy to follow up arthroplasty patients even if they were offered further training. The reasons for this were lack of specialty skills, work-load concerns, funding issues and surgeons' duty of care towards the patient. All of the 104 patients who were questioned preferred to be followed up by the arthroplasty team. In conclusion, Orthopaedic Surgeons, General Practitioners and patients prefer a hospital based dedicated Orthopaedic team for the post operative follow-up of arthroplasty patients.


This paper presents the learning process, oriented to undergraduate students in Naval Architecture, of some procedures for the conceptual design of ships based on first principles. Firstly, considering the points of view of the different stakeholders, the design requirements are identifie d and analyzed, taking into account the relevant physical , economic, technological and social aspects. Based o n this information, merits and constraints are established in order to follow a decision making process on the de sign alternatives. An application example of this learni ng process in a ship design undergraduate course is described, in which cost and risk are taken as desi gn merits. Certain relations among dimensions and inertias are taken as descriptive parameters of a solution. The bridge between merits and parameters is framed on the following functionalities: cargo capacity, stabilit y, resistance and propulsion, maneuverability, seakeep ing, strength. Genetic algorithms are used as a searchin g process. The scenario of the problem was chosen in accordance with the expectations of the students, b eing the renewal of the fleet of an oil transportation c ompany. As result, a form of product model is obtained, specifically oriented to conceptual design, which materializes the learning acquired by the students.


Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic, clinical and therapeutic profile of patients in the postoperative period of feeding-related stomas in a teaching hospital. Specific: To characterize patients according to sociodemographic data; to identify the main indications, operative technique used, types of probes used and diets in patients in the postoperative period of feeding-related stomas; to recognize postoperative complications and the outcome of patients undergoing feeding-related stomas. Methods: Documentary-descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, conducted in a teaching hospital. The data were analyzed using the statistical package SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), version 21.0. Absolute distributions and percentiles were obtained, as well as the average statistical measures and standard deviation of descriptive statistics techniques. Results: The sample population was composed mostly of men, retirees and growers, living in the urban area, with low per capita income, ex-alcoholics and ex-smokers, with indication of gastro/jejunostomy for nutritional support. Postoperative complications were both local and systemic; with prolonged hospital stay, but with outcome for hospital discharge. Conclusion: The patients had numerous postoperative complications, of multifactorial origin.


In Tunisia, runoff waters mobilisation constitutes a key element for economic activity. Consequently to the recent economic progress and demographic growth, three dams were constructed and three others are projected in the Ichkeul catchment. lchkeul Lake, located at this zone, forms the natural outlet of numerous wadis in the region. With its three international classifications, this lake is found to be faced to a perturbation which may irreversibly affect is biotope equilibrium. The Ichkeul catchment covers a surface of 2080 km 2 of which 90 to 100 km 2 are occupied by the lake. It presents a well developed hydrographic system. The continental waters are yielded to the lake by eight main wadis: Morra, Douimis, Sejnane, Ghezala, Melah, Joumine, Mellah and Metrif. The Tinja wadi ensures the marine water supply from Bizerte Lake during the dry period. In the wet season the flow is reversed and waters circulate from Ichkeul lake to Bizerte Lake. The dams controlled area of the catchment is 833 km 2 . It represents 40% of the total catchment surface. The water supply of the three constructed dams is estimated at 250 million m 3 representing approximately 70% of the total lake water supply. The second problem which may affect the lake water quality is related to domestic and industrial waste waters that reach the lake through the numerous wadis or by direct discharge. These waters are containing a lot of organic compounds at high concentrations. The cities neighbouring the lake (Menzel Bourguiba, Tinja and Mateur) have a total of 77 000 inhabitants. The waste water generated from these cities is estimated at 24 000 m 3 /day. These waters are discharged into Bizerte Lake from Menzel Bourguiba city and into Ichkeul Lake from Tinja and Mateur. Up to the end of 1997 no domestic or industrial waste water plant existed in the region.


Data treatment and determination of the standard heterogeneous rate constant of simple ET process (simple electron transfer) & number of electrons consumed in electrode reaction were carried out via convolution-deconvolution voltammetry and digital simulation methods. The working curves required for determination of the standard heterogeneous rate constant, k s , were constructed and discussed. The number of electrons, n, consumed in electrode reaction was calculated via simple method. The electro-reduction of Pb2+ was carried out at hanging mercury drop electrode while the redox behaviour of Fe3+ /Fe2+ couple was performed at glassy carbon electrode to confirm the validity of the reported method in calculation of k s and n in case of simple ET.


Sentiment analysis refers to automatically extracting the sentiment present in a given natural language text. We present our participation to the SemEval2013 competition, in the sentiment analysis of Twitter and SMS messages. Our approach for this task is the combination of two sentiment analysis subsystems which are combined together to build the final system. Both subsystems use supervised learning using features based on various polarity lexicons.


The effect of flexible spacer length on the rheology of side-chain liquid-crystalline polymers (SCLCPs) was investigated. For the study, a liquid-crystalline monomer, [n-[(4-cyanobiphenyl)oxy]alkyl]carboxylic acid (nCN-COOH) with varying methylene groups (n = 5, 7, and 11), was grafted onto a nearly monodisperse hydroxylated polyisoprene, yielding SCLCPs, poly{[n-[(4-cyanobiphenyl)oxy]alkyl]carbonyl}oxyisoprenes (PI-nCN). Differential scanning calorimetry has shown that the clearing temperature (Tcl) of PI-nCN increases with increasing n. Polarizing optical microscopy has shown that PI-5CN has a nematic mesophase, while both PI-7CN and PI-11CN have a smectic mesophase. The linear dynamic viscoelasticity, steady shear flow, and transient/intermittent shear flows of PI-nCN were investigated. It was found that flexible spacer length has a profound influence on the rheological responses of PI-nCN. The following observations have been made. (i) At temperatures below Tcl the complex viscosity (|η*|) of PI-5CN e...


Three Dimensional (3D) Finite Element (FE) model analyses is a useful tool in bridge condition evaluation. One of the key points during this calibration process is to select parameters that are critical to the response of a bridge and calibrate them to match the actual situation. The first part of this thesis will address how to select the proper parameters in the calibration process and outline sensitivity study of the selected parameters that can be used during the FE model calibration. A zero skew, three span continuous steel girder bridge was selected as an example for this study. Different mode shapes will play different roles in the dynamic behavior of a structure. It is critical to identify the most important mode shapes in the calibration process of Finite Element (FE) models. The aim of the second part is to develop contribution coefficients for different modes based on the flexibility of the bridge. The modal flexibility of the structure can be directly calculated from the modal vectors. If unit load vectors are applied, the deflection of the structure can be obtained and will reflect the contribution of each mode. As for the steel stringer bridges, the Bridge Girder Condition Indicator (BGCI) will be introduced and used as an index for the condition of the bridges. The contribution coefficient of different modes can be calculated based on the BGCI of the bridge. For slab-on-steel-girder type bridges, link elements are used to simulate the composite action between the concrete slab and the steel girder. Studies show that the link elements play a critical role in the responses of bridges, especially in the tuning of the deformation of the girders. Research has also demonstrated that the coefficients of the link element between the steel girders and the concrete slab vary with locations. This paper addresses a matrix updating method between the coefficients of link elements and the deformations of the steel girders based on sensitivity analyses. The beauty of this method is that the updating process incorporates the interactions of link elements in an iterative process that can be very efficient.


A study of the reproductive cycle was made on Galaxias fasciatus Gray from streams on Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand. There was no spawning migration; adults remained in the usual adult habitat to breed. The course of gonad maturation showed that spawning occurred in the autumn, from the end of April to mid‐June. Most males matured at 2 years of age and most females at 4 years old. Egg numbers in the females varied from 3800 to 23 600. Males were predominant in age groups 1–4, females in the older age groups. Amongst fish of potential breeding age there was an excess of males. Circumstantial evidence suggested that eggs were laid among piles of water‐logged debris lodged in pools and backwaters. The larvae, which are briefly described, probably hatch during floods to be swept quickly downstream to the sea.


In health‐pollution cohort studies, accurate predictions of pollutant concentrations at new locations are needed, since the locations of fixed monitoring sites and study participants are often spatially misaligned. For multi‐pollution data, principal component analysis (PCA) is often incorporated to obtain low‐rank (LR) structure of the data prior to spatial prediction. Recently developed predictive PCA modifies the traditional algorithm to improve the overall predictive performance by leveraging both LR and spatial structures within the data. However, predictive PCA requires complete data or an initial imputation step. Nonparametric imputation techniques without accounting for spatial information may distort the underlying structure of the data, and thus further reduce the predictive performance. We propose a convex optimization problem inspired by the LR matrix completion framework and develop a proximal algorithm to solve it. Missing data are imputed and handled concurrently within the algorithm, which eliminates the necessity of a separate imputation step. We review the connections among those existing methods developed for spatially misaligned multivariate data, and show that our algorithm has lower computational burden and leads to reliable predictive performance as the severity of missing data increases.


The behavior of cells in a tissue is regulated by chemical as well as physical signals arising from their microenvironment. While gel‐based substrates have been widely used for mimicking a range of substrate rigidities, there is a need for the development of low rigidity substrates for mimicking the physical properties of soft tissues. In this study, the authors report the development of a supported lipid bilayer (SLB)‐based low rigidity substrate for cell adhesion studies. SLBs are functionalized with either collagen I or fibronectin via covalent, amine coupling to a carboxyl group‐modified lipid molecule. While the lipid molecules in the bilayer show long‐range lateral mobility, the covalently functionalized extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins are immobile on the bilayer surface. Specific adhesion of cells results in an enrichment of the protein on the bilayer and the appearance of a zone of depletion around the cells. Further, the lateral reorganization of the ECM proteins is controlled by altering the fluidity of lipid molecules in the substrate. Thus, the experimental platform developed in this study can be utilized for addressing basic questions related to cell adhesion on low rigidity substrates as well as biomedical applications requiring adhesion of cells to low rigidity substrates.


PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing white rice wine containing sap is provided to enhance alcohol degree, preference, and sugar content without additional process. CONSTITUTION: A method for manufacturing white rice liquor containing sap comprises: a step of steaming ingredient to prepare ferment; a step of preparing brewing water containing sap; a step of dipping ferment in brewing water and fermenting; and a step of making rice wine. The total brewing water contains 5-15 weight% of sap. The sap is selected from Acer mono sap, Acer okamotoanum sap, Acer truncatum sap, Acer pseudo-sieboldianum var. koreanum sap, Acer palmatum sap, Betula schmidtii sap, Betula daveurica sap, Betula costata sap, and Phyllostachys bambusoides sap.


A continuous process for preparing a product of Sun continuous process for preparing a silica product, comprising: (a) feeding contiilice form comprising: (a) continuously feeding one agenteacidulante and metal silicate alcnua one agenteacidulante and one alkali metal silicate in a reaction zone in a loop comprenalino reaction zone comprising a loop current medioliquido; wherein at menode a stream of medioliquido; wherein at least a portion of acidifying agent and silicate s a portion of the acidifying agent and the alkali silicate reacts to form unproductde alkali metal react to form unproducto silica in the liquid medium zone reaco silica medium fluid loop reaction zone; (B) recirculating loop of contcion way; (B) recirculating continuously through the medioliquido area reacciinua the medioliquido through the loop reaction zone; and (c) continuously discharging the zon loop; and (c) continuously discharging the reaction zone in the loop unaporcion liquona loop reaction medium unaporcion liquid medium comprising the silica product. gone comprising the silica product.


The disputal in South China Sea between China and Philippines force U.S to get involved since Philippine is one of the most important Allies U.S had in Asia. The dispute has been around for decade since Japan imperium ended in China and China started to use it's historical guidelines areas as before Japan took it from them. The areas known as nine-dash line, and those line covered up other states areas and begin to causing disputes since China stubbornly ignore all of the other countries territory and start building military islands around.
U.S act as the world's police and as the Philippine allies plays an important role in the dispute since China also begin to thrive more power and threaten U.S hegemony in Asia. The writer will illustrating and pointing out U.S role in the dispute and why U.S doing so in this thesis.


Abstract A review is given of the new techniques of separation and determination of radioactive elements developed in recent years. Great progress has been achieved in obtaining and stabilizing actinides in unusual oxidation states, both high and low. On this basis a highly efficient extraction and sorption technique for the separation of elements is proposed. Application of bidentate phosphoro-organic reagents open up new prospects in the separation of elements in the trivalent state. Achievements in the development and application of luminescent and coulometric methods of actinide element determinations are considered. The techniques of determination of some radioactive elements in natural samples are discussed.


An experimental bridge deck heating system has been constructed and monitored that uses field-assembled heat pipes to transfer energy from 100-ft vertical evaporators in the ground. Measurements indicate that the heated surface was from 2ous to 14ousC warmer than the unheated portion of the bridge during heating events. This heating was sufficient to prevent the preferential freezing of the bridge deck surface relative to the adjacent road and provided some snow melting. A computer model that simulates the performance of ground heat pipe systems has been developed and verified by using data from two experimental facilities. This model is being used in conjunction with experimental results to prepare a general design procedure for these types of systems.


Abstract In this paper, the high frequency induction heating apparatus developed by the authors to analyze thermal stresses by means of photoelastic experiment is described, and the accuracy of the apparatus is examined. The photoelastic experiment for the hollow disk with a concentric circular hole in steady-state temperature distribution under heating conditions in a vacuum of 50°and 0° on the inner and outer edges, respectively, is performed to confirm the reliability of the apparatus. For the purpose of the realization of the heating conditions, the cooling system that circulates the cooling medium is incorporated into the high frequency induction heating apparatus. The experimental and theoretical values are compared.


The developmental process, research methods and contents of environmental geophysics are outlined in this paper. We have summarized 5 trends in current research of environmental geophysics:(1)the technique of mining and data processing are improving;(2)the research of NAPL is the important aspect;(3)the forecast of geological disasters and monitoring and harnessing environmental pollution are still the main research field;(4)the techniques for special circumstances need to improve;(5)in the future the research of ecological environment is the new focus of environmental geophysics.Based on the analysis of the current situation of environmental geophysics in China, we proposed several proposals and countermeasures to promote environmental geophysics in our country.


In this paper, we introduce and analyze both experimentally and theoretically multiple-band frequency locking, which becomes possible in an acousto-optic (AO) system with optoelectronic feedback. This effect is observed in a system combining a collinear AO cell and positive electronic feedback. The feedback signal is formed with the optical heterodyning effect, which occurs at the AO cell output and takes place in the special regime of collinear AO diffraction. It is shown for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that frequency locking is possible in this system when connecting an external RF generator not only in one band near the self-oscillation frequency, but in several bands. The existence of as many as nine frequency-locking bands is predicted. The number of frequency-locking bands and their widths depend on the feedback gain and RF generator signal magnitude.


Not selectively reclaimable PU components can be converted to a filler-containing polyol by means of a special glycolysis method and subsequent modifications. This polyol then can be used like comparable virgin material in system formulations.


Malaria is a chronic and life-threatening disease. The currently used antimalarials suffer from drug resistance which is hindering the management of malaria world wide. There are also other factors that contribute to drug resistance of antimalarials such as poor quality of the drug, reduced uptake of the drug into the parasite, incorrect and inconvenient dosage schedules which usually result in patients non-compliance. The application of polymer-based drug delivery systems have been reported by several researchers to overcome drug resistance, toxicity and control the release mechanism of antimalarials. Some developed polymer based delivery systems used for the delivery of antimalarials with improved therapeutic effects include micelles, dendrimers, hydrogels, polymer-drug conjugates, liposomes and cyclodexrins etc. This chapter will evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of the presently developed polymer-based delivery systems used for encapsulation of antimalarials.


Quality improvement measures must be inherent in the management of all cytopathology laboratories. They are essential for quality patient care, are mandated by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, are of particular focus in the updated College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program, section on Cytopathology, and are indispensable for risk management. Special areas of challenge include workload, Papanicolaou smear rescreening and review, and maintenance and use of laboratory statistics.


Introduction: Dispute Settlement in the Area of Space Communication Mahulena Hofmann Dispute Settlement in Satellite Communication and the ITU ITU and its Dispute settlement Mechanism Srinivasan Venkatasubramanian The Role of Consensus in the ITU Francis Lyall Dispute Resolution before the ITU: The Operator's Experience Gerry Oberst Orbits and Frequencies: The Legal Context Tanja Masson-Zwaan From Negotiations to Dispute Settlement: The Role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in relation to Satellite Communications Peter Malanczuk About the New PCA Rules and their Application to Satellite Communication Disputes Frans G. von der Dunk Dispute Settlement in Space: The Perspective of the European Space Agency Ioanna Thoma


The invention discloses a kind of method by optimizing Fixture Layout control hole group complex position degree error, it the described method comprises the following steps:Set up the relational model of geometric error, setting element position and the location of workpiece error of fixture setting element;Set up the relational model of Milling Force, clamping force, setting element position and location of workpiece error;With the minimum object function of complex position degree error of hole group feature, fixture setting element position is optimized variable, and optimal setting element position is found by optimized algorithm so that hole group complex position degree error is minimum.The fixture design approach highly versatile, design method is simple.


Combined with work practice,from the managers,doctors,blood transfusion(blood bank) technicians,and nurses' point of view,the clinical transfusion process management is described.The clinical transfusion process management is an important prerequisite to ensure the safety of blood transfusion.


Choosing the optimal plan from 16 initial plans using different methods, in order to overcome unilateralism of each single evaluation method and to mine sufficiently the evaluation information of each single evaluation method, a real coding accelerating genetic (RAGA) based compatibility degree maximum model (RAGA-CDMM) is presented to combine each single evaluation plan, then a optimal evaluation plan is get. The result shows that the optimal plan get by using RAGA is more rational and reliable, provide scientific basis for makers to choose the best one from many results. RAGA makes the determine weights of evaluation methods in objective function and avoid the shortcoming of subjective weighting method. RAGA-CDMM simple, feasible, and general, so it can be applied to different multiple attribute decision making problems.


Matrix converter(MC) is a novel AC/AC power converter,which directly transfers electric energy from the input to the output.Because of the absence of the middle direct tache,the distortion and the unbalance of the input voltages directly affects the output of the MC.This paper presents current control of the MC,which is the result of space vector modulation combined with current control.This method forces the amplitude of output current space vector to be a constant,adjusts the acting time of input voltage space vector by modifying the modulation index.It can compensate the influence of the distortion and the unbalance of the input voltages,then maintain the output voltages to be sinusoidal and have a simple hardware structure.The simulation results show the correctness of this method.


Fornebu, Norway, Dept Biomed Phys, Univ Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom. Excitation-contraction coupling in the heart crucially depends on the function of ryanodine receptors (RyRs). Recent advances in single-molecule localization microscopy have enabled nanoscale visualization of RyR organization, yet the precise geometric arrangement of RyRs in both health and disease has yet to be characterized. Here, we employed our recently developed 3D dSTORM method to quantify the subcellular, nanoscale organization of RyRs in normal and failing (post-infarction) rat cardiomyocytes, proposing that disassembly of RyR clusters promotes impaired Ca2þ homeostasis in this condition. We specifically investigated the nanoscale organization of interior RyRs which are associated with the transverse tubule network; a subpopulation of RyRs that can only be quantitatively characterized in 3D. We observed a significant reduction in RyR cluster size in failing cardiomyocytes when compared to sham-operated controls (5.050.3 vs. 7.850.4 RyRs/ cluster, p<0.05). RyR cluster groupings localized within 100 nm of their neighbours comprise Ca2þ release units (CRUs), which are thought to cooperatively generate Ca2þ sparks. 3D imaging revealed an average of 2150.9 RyRs/CRU in sham cells, but only 15.151.3 RyRs/CRU in failing cells (p<0.05). Failing cardiomyocytes also contained more RyR clusters / CRU than sham cells (2.750.1 vs 2.950.1, p<0.05), associated with slower Ca2þ spark kinetics (time to peak = 7.750.5 vs 10.550.4, p<0.05). When failing cardiomyocytes were treated with a CaMKII blocker (Autocamtide1-related Inhibitory Peptide, AIP), Ca2þ spark characteristics were restored to sham levels. AIP administration also reversed the RyR dispersal observed at both the cluster and CRU level. Importantly, stimulation of CaMKII by the EPAC activator 8-CPT reproduced RyR dispersion in healthy cardiomyocytes. Together, our results suggest that RyR cluster disassembly in failing cardiomyocytes is driven by CaMKII phosphorylation, and promotes impaired cardiomyocyte Ca2þ homeostasis in this disease.


Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become integral part of every aspect of modern life. ICT has penetrated into the field of Science, Politics, Economics, Humanities, Education and so on. One cannot do away with ICT and its tools in his/her field of choice. So also is its relevance to EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching and learning. Moodle elearning is one of the ICT driven interactive Learning Management Systems (LMS) that is being used widely across Colleges and Universities in creating academic courses and delivering them to learners in general. Moodle e-learning specifically is installed and used in all colleges of Technology in Oman. It's applicability to EFL lesson delivery along with the traditional face-toface lesson is being tried these days. The researcher therefore attempts to shed some light on the concept and possibilities of Moodle eLearning in terms of ICT based EFL/ESL teaching and learning practices in Oman as the selected field of his study. Relevant literature review and the researcher's own exposure to the Moodle eLearning system in Oman have contributed to the content of this paper. Volume III Issue I March 2015ISSN 2321-7065 http://www.ijellh.com 15


that he could not see the calibration tube in esophagus. Then the calibration tube was removed from the oral cavity planning for reinsertion. Blood stain was noticed at the tip of the calibration tube. There was no crepitus in the neck. Immediately, the surgeon was informed. Endoscopy by the gastroenterologist showed a linear tear in the left side of the posterior pharyngeal wall involving the mucosa and submucosa as shown in left half of Figure 1. After Sir,


Among women with breast cancer (BC), greater BC knowledge has been associated with greater participation in treatment decision‐making, patient satisfaction, and survival. The objective of this study was to identify modifiable determinants associated with BC knowledge.


Based on the automatic continuous PM10concentration observation data from December 15,2011 to December 30,2012 at Korla City, the pollution and variation characteristics of PM10 concentration were analyzed. The results showed as follows.(1)Affected by weather conditions and human activities, the daily variation of PM10mass concentration was characterized by obvious double peaks.(2)The PM10concentrations varied greatly during a week. The highest PM10concentrations was 274.8 μg·m-3on Monday, and the lowest was 196.7 μg·m-3on Wednesday.(3)The highest monthly average concentration was 562.1 μg·m-3in April, and the lowest was 107.4 μg·m-3in July, and the second highest concentration was 219.9 μg·m-3in December.(4)PM10mass concentration was the highest in spring and the lowest in summer. The general characteristic was that it was higher in autumn than that in winter. Every seasonal average concentration was higher than the second grade of the national standard.(5)Snowfall had obvious cleaning effect to PM10,and dust weather could make PM10concentrations increase rapidly.


Abstract Purpose To quantify the differences in dosimetry as a function of ipsilateral lung density and treatment delivery parameters for stereotactic, single dose of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) delivered with 6X flattening filter free (6X‐FFF) beams compared to traditional flattened 6X (6X‐FF) beams. Materials/methods Thirteen consecutive early stage I–II non‐small‐cell‐lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with highly conformal noncoplanar VMAT SBRT plans (3–6 partial arcs) using 6X‐FFF beam and advanced Acuros‐based dose calculations to a prescription dose of 30 Gy in one fraction to the tumor margin. These clinical cases included relatively smaller tumor (island tumors) sizes (2.0–4.2 cm diameters) and varying average ipsilateral lung densities between 0.14 g/cc and 0.34 g/cc. Treatment plans were reoptimized with 6X‐FF beams for identical beam/arc geometries and planning objectives. For same target coverage, the organs‐at‐risk (OAR) dose metrics as a function of ipsilateral lung density were compared between 6X‐FFF and 6X‐FF plans. Moreover, monitor units (MU), beam modulation factor (MF) and beam‐on time (BOT) were evaluated. Results Both plans met the RTOG‐0915 protocol compliance. The ipsilateral lung density and the tumor location heavily influenced the treatment plans with 6X‐FFF and 6X‐FF beams, showing differences up to 12% for the gradient indices. For similar target coverage, 6X‐FFF beams showed better target conformity, lower intermediate dose‐spillage, and lower dose to the OAR. Additionally, BOT was reduced by a factor of 2.3 with 6X‐FFF beams compared to 6X‐FF beams. Conclusion While prescribing dose to the tumor periphery, 6X‐FFF VMAT plans for stereotactic single‐dose lung SBRT provided similar target coverage with better dose conformity, superior intermediate dose‐spillage (improved dose coverage at tumor interface), and improved OAR sparing compared to traditional 6X‐FF beams and significantly reduced treatment time. The ipsilateral lung density and tumor location considerably affected dose distributions requiring special attention for clinical SBRT plan optimization on a per‐patient basis. Clinical follow up of these patients for tumor local‐control rate and treatment‐related toxicities is in progress.


We show that the presence of a bump, in the profile of spreading films driven by forces such as surface tension gradients, can be explained by a simple analysis of the steady-state velocity, without taking into account contact line effects.


With a view toward developing techniques for studying water flow in spatially varying soils, field data for soil water characteristic relationships and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity are scaled by using the concept of similar media. Data observed by different investigators at three geographic areas are used. The soil water characteristic data consisted of 840, 900, and 512 observations, while those for the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (available from only one of the three sources) consisted of 2640 observations. In the process of scaling the data a best fit for the scaled data is defined in terms of a sum of squares about an 'average' curve using one value for the scaling parameter for each sampling location. Comparisons made between curves fitting the data and those fitting the scaled data show that scaling reduces the sums of squares by amounts varying from 34 to over 90%. For similar media the scaling parameter determined at a given sampling location for the soil water characteristic relationship (α from h(S)) should be identical to that for the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (αr from K(S)). Although these parameters were highly correlated (r = 0.91 ) for the only set of data available, α r from h(S) values are shown to be more effective in scaling the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity data than are αr from K(S) values in scaling soil water characteristic data.


PURPOSE
We define reference data concerning the development of the ureterovesical junction in fetuses and newborns by measuring the diameters of the distal mesenchymal and muscular ureteral walls as well as intravesical ureteral length.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
A total of 90 normal fetal and newborn ureters were investigated. Our histological studies were based on "plastinated" sections of whole pelves which allow study of the sectional anatomy of the distal and intravesical ureter. The development of the mesenchymal and smooth muscle growth of the distal and intravesical ureter was examined. The ureteral measurements were correlated with age of gestation.

RESULTS
The length of the intravesical ureter and mesenchymal as well as smooth muscle walls increased in a linear mode. Significant correlations (p <0.0001) were found between gestational age and the growth of the mesenchymal as well as smooth muscle walls in the distal intravesical ureter as well as the length of the intravesical ureter.

CONCLUSIONS
Significant positive linear relationships exist between gestational week, and distal and intravesical ureteral wall thickness of the mesenchymal and smooth muscle growth to the length of the intravesical ureter in fetuses and newborns. The ratio of the intravesical ureteral length-to-ureteral diameter is obviously lower than assumed previously. Data from this study can be used for a more accurate assessment of cases with abnormal lower urinary tract development.


Life-Long Learning can be interpreted as a response to of contemporary challenges. Today almost everyone commonly understands what Life-Long Learning is but when we look about it closer that meanings of LLL can be so different. Learning is can be presented for example as a unique phenomenon described as a way of life or as something that takes place in our daily interactions with " the world" around us or maybe be explained like great idea of education.This paper will show how LLL and human knowledge about Life-Long Learning are conceptualized in perspective of career and political-economic and social discourse. This paper will present the most relevant information based on results of studies (autobiographical narrative texts of life-F.Schutze) that was carried out under PHD project on 2015-2006 in Gdynia (Poland).


3,3',4,4',5‐pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB 126) was photolyzed with UV light in hexane. All major photoproducts were identified, and the pathways of photodegradation were suggested. Photodechlorination occurred on the more substituted ring preferentially. The para chlorine atoms were shown to be more photolabile than meta ones on irradiation. Large amounts of highly toxic congener, 3,3',4,4' — tetrachlorobiphenyl, were observed among the products during the photodegradation of the title compound.


Using a randomized field experiment in Costa Rica, we estimate the effect of providing parents of preschool students with a text message intervention containing information and activities to engage them with their children's learning process at home. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents were assigned to the program was 0.11-0.12 standard deviations higher than the control group. We find suggestive evidence that the effect was driven by an increase in parent involvement through the proposed activities from the text message campaign.


VioLit summary: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study by Shaw was to evaluate a community policing program aimed at reducing illegal gun-carrying. METHODOLOGY: The research design in this study was a non-experimental evaluation of a program implemented in Kansas City, Missouri, that was funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance in 1991. In particular, this program was supposed to "weed out" gun crime through community policing using door-to-door policing and gun tips and busts. Gun crime was defined as illegally carried handguns. The program was implemented in an 80 block area of Kansas City from March through May of 1992. The Door-to-Door (DTD) portion of the program involved pairs of police officers visiting every home in the designated 80 block target area. The DTD teams informed adult residents of each home about the "Weed and Seed" program ("weeding out" criminal activity through community policing and "seeding" these sites with crime prevention programs) as well as providing a flyer about an anonymous gun tip hotline. The phone number provided to citizens for the gun tip hotline was provided by a local citizen group called The Ad Hoc Group Against Crime; police officers felt that this would help ensure the callers feeling of anonymity because the number was not a direct hotline to law enforcement officers. The Ad Hoc Group gave police daily compilations of the gun tips. In addition to the evaluation of the program implementation and the tips received by the hotline, the author also conducted a survey of a random sample of 100 residents in the target area three months after the last DTD visit was made. Respondents were asked in-depth questions about their knowledge and opinion of the program. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. FINDINGS/DISCUSSION: The officers contacted 858 of the 1,085 occupied residences in their target area (79.1%) and found someone willing to talk to them in 91.6% of these homes. Eighty-eight percent of the people they spoke to said they would be willing to help with the gun tips program. As time went on, the author noticed that the length of the officers' visits decreased from 4.6 minutes in the first two weeks of the program to 2.6 minutes in the third month. The author pointed out that only 2 tips were called in during the three months of the program, and these ironically were outside the target area of the program. The author concluded that implementation of the program was successful, but the end result was a failure. Findings from the survey suggested that community members were well aware of the violence in their neighborhoods, and as a result, many were afraid to step out of their homes. Only 79% of those visited by police officers recalled anything about the gun tips program, and a mere 49% recalled the flyer. The author pointed out that this proportion of citizens, when extrapolated to the entire community, should have resulted in more gun tips called in. Indeed, he found that eighty-eight percent of the people he surveyed said they would be willing to call a hotline with information about illegal gun-carrying. While a handful of respondents reported fear of retaliation as a reason for not calling the gun tip hotline, many more stated that they would be willing to call if only they could tell whether or not people were carrying weapons. As one respondent argued, since they never display their gun, there is no way to know who is carrying" (p 372). The author concluded that the program's failure could be attributed more to a lack of information on the part of the public than to a fear of involvement with the police. AUTHOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS: The author suggested that the program might be improved with better publicity. In particular, he discussed the potential of schools and churches as places to publicize the program and solicit gun tips. (CSPV Abstract - Copyright © 1992-2007 by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, Regents of the University of Colorado) Missouri Adult Firearms Carrying Juvenile Firearms Carrying Firearms Carrying Prevention Law Enforcement Intervention Law Enforcement Program Police Intervention Police Program Firearms Control Community Policing Community Based Intervention Program Prevention Program Program Evaluation Program Effectiveness 03-05


Paige, M., & Painho, M. (2015). Detection of exogenous floating marine debris: An overview of techniques associated with remote sensing. In Water Resources Management VIII (Vol. 196, pp. 537 - 548). (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment). DOI: 10.2495/WRM150461


of any conclusion from the noninferiority study depends on the choice of margin.* I do not think—statistically formulated but from a clinical perspective—that an intervention is noninferior if less than 50% more narcotics are used. From a statistical perspective, the margin was chosen based on a small study with the risk of overestimation of a treatment effect.2 Further, as discussed in the same article, there are conflicting results of the narcotic-sparing effect of a femoral nerve block.2 A conservative adjustment would have been necessary—choosing a smaller margin to accommodate this uncertainty.* The upper limit of the CI is 1.3–1.4 depending on the time interval examined.1 This means a more conservative margin of 30% (30% increase in narcotic consumption) would have failed to show noninferiority at all time intervals. Another factor deserves illustration: the constancy assumption.* In a noninferiority study, you are trying to compare the treatment group indirectly to a historical placebo group. But there are substantial differences in both studies, namely, epidural analgesia and small-dose acetaminophen, that make comparison difficult. These confounding interventions can reduce differences between study (adductor canal block) and control (femoral nerve block), making it "easier" to show noninferiority. Also influencing the interpretation of the results is the substantial loss or simply the variability of treatment effect of the femoral nerve block. In the study by Allen et al.,2 approximately 18 mg morphine equivalent dose was used (only a figure provided) compared to 36 mg in the current study. This could lead to the incorrect result of "proving" noninferiority when in fact there could be inferiority or potentially no effect at all. Additionally, in a noninferiority study, the power analysis becomes crucial—the smaller the margin, the greater n has to be. In a superiority trial, you bias toward a type 2 error if you "under power" a study; in a noninferiority trial, a type 1 error is introduced. As discussed above, there are strong clinical and statistical arguments to choose a more conservative margin. This would have required a greater number of patients for adequate power. I agree with the authors that the superiority conclusion is very sound (muscle strength), but a noninferiority conclusion cannot be drawn from the data at hand—so it remains to be determined if an adductor canal block is noninferior to a femoral nerve block with regard to analgesia. Here, the margin needs to be reevaluated using more than one small study, adjusted and clinically evaluated, answering the question: How much more narcotics are you willing to give to provide greater muscle strength and call it noninferior knowing now that there is at present no evidence for an increased fall risk with regional anesthesia after total knee arthroplasty?3 Competing Interests


There is growing interest in using recycled materials in highway construction nationwide. The objectives of this research study were to: (i) document the state of the practice for the use of selected recycled materials; (ii) review their known performance for applications pertinent to Maryland conditions, based on past experience; (iii) identify potential constraints and performance concerns reported from past studies; and (iv) identify potential specification revisions needed for their safe use in alternative applications in Maryland. The following four recycled materials were identified by the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (SHA) and included in this synthesis study:


This paper presents a robust approach to non-rigid object tracking in video sequences. The object to track is described by a 2-dimensional point distribution model whose landmarks correspond to interest points that are automatically extracted from the object and described by their geometrical position and their local appearance. The approach is novel in that we describe the appearance locally instead of using the raw texture information. This provides a natural way to robustly handle partial occlusions. A second contribution is that we present a method that allows to learn the model automatically. Our algorithms have been successfully tested on several video streams taken from soccer games and video surveillance footage. They have been implemented with the aim of achieving near real-time performance.


Consensus democracies like Switzerland are generally known to have a low innovation capacity (Lijphart 1999). This is due to the high number of veto points such as perfect bicameralism or the popular referendum. These institutions provide actors opposing a policy with several opportunities to block potential policy change (Immergut 1990; Tsebelis 2002). In order to avoid a failure of a process because opposing actors activate veto points, decision-making processes in Switzerland tend to integrate a large number of actors with different – and often diverging – preferences (Kriesi and Trechsel 2008). Including a variety of actors in a decision-making process and taking into account their preferences implies important trade-offs. Integrating a large number of actors and accommodating their preferences takes time and carries the risk of resulting in lowest common denominator solutions. On the contrary, major innovative reforms usually fail or come only as a result of strong external pressures from either the international environment, economic turmoil or the public (Kriesi 1980: 635f.; Kriesi and Trechsel 2008; Sciarini 1994). Standard decision-making processes are therefore characterized as reactive, slow and capable of only marginal adjustments (Kriesi 1980; Kriesi and Trechsel 2008; Linder 2009; Sciarini 2006). This, in turn, may be at odds with the rapid developments of international politics, the flexibility of the private sector, or the speed of technological development. The purpose of the present chapter is to offer an up-to-date view of the innovation capacity of political decision-making in Switzerland.


Theoretical background: Employees' behavior plays a crucial role in the organizational environmental performance. There are many factors which influence pro-ecological behavior among employees, however, this paper focuses on the practices related to green human resources management (HRM) and – in particular – to the HR function. Purpose of the article: The purpose of this paper is to answer the following research questions: 1) What is the scope of using the practices related to the green HR function? 2) Which elements of the green HR function require further improvement? Research methods: For the purpose of the article, literature studies and empirical research based on a survey method have been used. In her analyses, the author has included additional variables such as the origin of capital and company size. Main findings: The organizations under study are in the preliminary stages as far as the implementation of green HRM practices is concerned. Both variables (the company size and the origin of capital) play a role in the implementation of the analyzed practices.


The purpose of the article is to analyze the results of current theoretical and empirical studies of the socio-institutional environment of Russian and Chinese direct investments in Kazakhstan. One of the features of foreign direct investment is the fact that foreign investor companies are always forced to adapt as effectively as possible to the socio-institutional environment of the country where they invest funds. Foreign direct investment is an important factor in the modernization of production and economic development, can contribute to the growth of employment and income of the population. In fact, they show how much foreign investors trust the economy of a particular country, and for Kazakhstan it is also an important indicator of the role of Russia and China in its modern economic development. The results of modern investment research allow us to conclude that there is increasing competition between Russia and China in the promotion and implementation of investment projects in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. However, the success of these projects depends not only on the effectiveness of the efforts of governments and corporations aimed at promoting them in the region as a whole, but also on how these investments are perceived by the Kazakh society. The article analyzes the different points of view of modern Kazakh, Russian, Chinese and Western researchers analyzing the specifics of the relationship between society and business with the state in the globalizing economy of Kazakhstan, economic and historical factors, socio-institutional aspects of reducing compliance risks and features of labor organization that determine the stability and sustainability of economic development


Abstract : Asymptotic procedures are given for testing certain hypotheses concerning eigenvectors and for constructing confidence regions for eigenvectors. These asymptotic procedures are derived under fairly general conditions on the estimates of the matrix whose eigenvectors are of interest. Applications of the general results to principal components analysis and canonical variate analysis are given. (Author)


We present a brief review of recent experimental and theoretical progress on the dynamics of Rydberg atoms using short half cycle pulses. We discuss new possibilities in coherent control and non-linear dynamics of atoms which have lately become possible using various superpositions of such pulses.


tert-Butyl, cyclohexyl, n-propyl, and n-dodecyl vinyl ethers have been used as comonomers with styrene and methyl methacrylate using 13 C-enriched samples of azobis(isobutyronitrile) and benzoyl peroxide as initiators at 60°C. Examination by 13 C-NMR spectroscopy of either ( 13 CH 3 ) 2 C(CN)- or Ph 13 COO- end-groups in the products has shown that the vinyl ethers have low reactivities toward the 2-cyano-2-propyl radical but high reactivities toward the benzoyloxy radical.


There has been increasing recognition of the fact that analysis of the language to which young children are exposed, especially maternal language, is an essential factor to consider when dealing with theories of language acquisition. Several basic empirical studies have recently been carried out which investigate patterns of maternal speech to children. While these studies have dealt with monolingual situations, the present study is an attempt to analyze some features of maternal language input in a bilingual setting. This paper reports the findings of a study conducted within the MexicanAmerican community of Tucson, a city in southern Arizona located sixty miles north of the Mexican border. Because of the traditional existence of close ties with the mother country and a regular influx of new immigrants, the Mexican-American community has succeeded in maintaining its heritage, culturally and linguistically, for almost four centuries (Christian and Christian 1966). Yet, in order to compete effectively in an English-dominated economic structure, bilingualism became a virtual necessity for the MexicanAmerican community. As more parents became bilingual, a greater number of children were growing up learning both languages in the home. Today early bilingual language acquisition is the rule instead of the exception. The purpose of the present study was to gain further insight into the linguistic environment of bilingual Mexican-American homes by investigating how, when and why the respective languages are spoken by mothers to children in the home.


In conjugated polymer based photovoltaic devices, efficient charge transfer and photostability of the fluorescence polymer are two essential properties, which could be responsible for better performance and longer lifetime of the device. Hence, it is of great importance to explore strategies that can enhance the exciton separation and improve the photostability of polymers. In this work, composites of poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) participated by appropriate amounts of reduced graphene oxide (r-GO), which leads to a significant photoluminescence quenching as well as superior photostability of MEH-PPV, have been investigated. The photoluminescence quenching and photostability of MEH-PPV/r-GO composites have been observed by UV–visible and fluorescence spectroscopy. From transient fluorescence spectrum, the mechanism of photoluminescence quenching has been confirmed to be static quenching, which is caused by electron transfer at the interface of the composite. Furthermo...


Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude makes the magical and strange feel familiar, and short stories from Fiction @ The Sociological Review inversely make the familiar feel strange. I consider this ability to make the familiar strange as a key part of having a sociological sense of the world: as an ability to disturb what seems fixed and settled in society, and unmake any given set of social relations as the only and natural way of life. I conceptualise the crafting of this sense in fiction as a process of distillation. When writing sociological fiction, we distil our disciplinary attunement – strip down, concentrate and refine the many concepts and findings of our work – to craft scenes which unsettle 'common sense'.


The notion of fuzzy set was introduced by Zadeh A.Rosenfeld (1971) defined fuzzy groups theory results have been extended to fuzzy groups. The idea of level subgroups of a fuzzy group was initiated by Sivaramakrishna Das (1981). Prabir Bhattacharya analyzed the level subgroups of a fuzzy group in more detail and investigated whether the family of level subgroups of a fuzzy subgroup determine the fuzzy subgroup uniquely or not. Vasantha Kandasamy (2003) studied about Smarandache fuzzy semigroups. Sharma (2013) introduced the notion of α set, α-fuzzy group, α-fuzzy coset and properties. Gowri and Rajeswari (2015) concept of S-α fuzzy semigroups, S-α fuzzy left, right cosets and S-α fuzzy normal subsemigroups and derived their characterizations. They have also introduced the concept of S α level subgroup of an S-α fuzzy semigroup Rajeswari, 2016). In this paper, S-α fuzzy semigroups having an identical family of S-α level subgroups are investigated. It is also derived a necessary and sufficient condition for two S fuzzy semigroups with an identical family of S subgroups to be equal. Throughout this paper, α will always denote a member of [0,1].


IT has been generally assumed that Mendel's law of heredity affords a complete explanation of the facts of inheritance. But the characters which conform with Mendel's law, as Mendel understood it, involving dominance and segregation in 3: 1 ratios, are comparatively few. They also relate to the more superficial, less important and most recently evolved characters of organisms. Very frequently they consist in the loss of some characteristic of the normal individual and so may be regarded as monstrous or defect variations. The English geneticists have been inclined to regard all Mendelian characters as due to loss variations, but this extreme position is scarcely tenable. Nevertheless, very few Mendelizing variations have a survival value equal or superior to that of the forms from which they have sprung. It is, therefore, probably the fate of most Mendelizing mutations to perish under natural conditions without contributing to racial evolution. But under domestication they are frequently preserved and incorporated in domestic races, if they happen to please man 's fancy, which they sometimes do, just because they are distinctive. The Mendelizing characters of domestic mammals consist very largely of color mutations, such as albinism (an all-white condition), or spotting, or a change from a complex gray and protectively colored coat to a simple black, brown or yellow coat. Other Mendelian mutations involve a change in the length of the hair or the hair slope. The hair may even practically disappear, as in the Mexican hairless dog, due to a Mendelizing dominant character. Aside from their utility as breed trade-marks, color variations have little value in animal husbandry. The really valuable characters are those affecting size, proportions, rapidity of growth, milk yield, butter-fat content of the milk, wool production in sheep and fecundity, especially in swine and poultry. So far as differences exist between breeds in these important characters, they are not typically Mendelian in inheritance but blending. There is neither dominance nor segregation in recognizable Men-


Hypoxia and sleep disorders may result in an impairment of immune system in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Therefore we studied mitogenic stimulation of peripheral blood lymphocytes by PHA (1 microgram/ml) by measurement of 3H-thymidine incorporation, metabolic activity of neutrophils measured by chemiluminescence (CL), immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA and IgM) concentration in serum (radial immunodiffusion) and TNF-alpha concentration in serum (ELISA), and E-rosette tests (with theophylline) in 57 obese patients with severe OSA. In OSA patients severe impairment of f-MLP-induced granulocyte chemiluminescent activity was observed.


The present invention relates to a method for amplifying a nucleic acid within the material pores macroporous support is designed in two dimensions, where the support member pores is provided with a pre-defined portion of the reaction mixture necessary for nucleic acid amplification. The present invention also relates to a device comprising a macroporous support, designed as a two-dimensional having a plurality of pores are pre-defined portion of the reaction mixture for carrying out the nucleic acid amplification provided.


Abstract —The monodisperse magnetite nanoclusters 13–15 nm in size were synthesized and studied. Thenanoclusters were stabilized in colloid solution by means of surface–active–substance (SAS)—oleic acid inthe presence, paraffin—docosane and separated from each other by paraffin layers at the distance approximately ~3 nm. The first order magnetic phase transition was observed in magnetite, when magnetization of acluster disappears by jump at some critical temperature similar to that of the Curie or Neel temperatures typical of the bulk material. The observed effect is explained by the influence of surfaceinduced defects in thenanomagnetite. The developed surface of a cluster generates defects and causes surface tension. The modelis proposed, and transition from a paramagnetic to magnetic ordered (superparamagnetic) state of a clusteris found experimentally by applying an external magnetic field which is more than some critical one. Nanomagnetite itself exists in a special "oxidized condition" , which elementary cell is the same as in normal magnetite, but it contains only trivalent cations in a Bsublattice.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: composite is obtained by laminating copper foil and a polymer layer. A thin layer with thickness of 0.2-0.3 mcm is formed on the surface of the copper foil. Parameters of the composite material are determined using mathematical expressions. EFFECT: producing a composite with copper foil, having excellent mouldability, which prevents peeling of the copper foil even during ultimate deformation, has excellent processability, corrosion resistance and stable electrical contact characteristics for a long period of time. 7 cl, 2 dwg, 2 tbl, 1 ex


Based on the discussion of 206 species of Lecithoceridae inspects through the insect fauna analysis.In this fauna there are 62 abroad distributing species,about 30.1% of all,55 Oriental species,about 26.7% of all.According to the analysis of the animal geographical fauna of China,it showed that the Lecithoceridae inspects from China in southern,central and south west China are closely,about 60.4% of all.3tabs.,6refs.


People with dementia have impairment to execute daily life activities by presenting as a deterioration of mental processes, such as memory, thinking, reasoning, and judgment. Many participants in dementia research may lack the capacity to provide informed consent. Additional safeguards are needed for dementia research participants' protection because of their vulnerability. Only after carefully weighing the risks and possible benefits for the participants in the research may it be decided to use vulnerable participants. The intention to prevent harm pushes against the removal of autonomy. This dilemma is the driving force behind this article's narrative review of the capacity to consent problems in dementia research. For this critical narrative review, we conducted a thorough search of Scopus, PubMed, and Wiley Open Library for literature addressing the ethical and legal issues on the capacity to consent of people with dementia. We outline the dilemmas and difficulties that surround them including the related ethical principles, the informed consent process, capacity to consent, and safeguards for the participant in research involving people with dementia.


Administrative Complaint Disposition – Complaint Settled in Mediation David Weiner GRC Complaint No. 2020-224 Complainant v. County of Essex Custodial Agency Custodian of Record: Olivia Schumann, Esq. Request Received by Custodian: October 13, 2020 GRC Complaint Received: November 5, 2020 Complaint Disposition: This complaint was settled in mediation on April 23, 2021. Thus, this complaint shall be dismissed. Applicable OPRA Provision: None.


The summary data reported in the following tables represent information reported to the 1989-90 Annual Survey of Hearing Impaired Children and Youth, conducted by the Center for Assessment and Demographic Studies (CADS) at Gallaudet University's Research Institute. In Table 1, these 1989-90 data are compared with data from the 1984-85 Annual Survey to indicate possible trends within the recent educational environment of hearing impaired children and youth. In Tables 2 through 6, the data are for 1989-90 only.


Abstract. Human pose estimation is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have achieved significant improvement, they are still insufficient for the fusion of feature maps at different stages, such as the stacked hourglass network (SHNet). The SHNet is a classic human pose estimation network that extracts multiscale features through stacked multistage downsampling and upsampling operations. We propose a multistage attention mechanism to fuse the multistage feature maps. Furthermore, we apply it in the SHNet to propose a multistage attention network (MANet). In the experiments, we demonstrated the effectiveness of MANet in human pose estimation on the common objects in context dataset and the MPII human pose dataset.


An uncommon complication of any surgery is iatrogenic retained foreign body. This condition is gossypibomas. In this case report, we present cases of middle-aged females who had undergone total abdominal hysterectomy and came to us with feature of intestinal obstruction. She was diagnosed radiologically, and later a review surgery was performed. A prompt diagnosis and treatment is necessary to reduce morbidity and mortality of this condition. It is to emphasize that any post-operative patient who present to us with complaints of pain or obstruction, the differential diagnosis must include retained foreign body (gossypibomas).


High efficiency photocatalysis in metal-organic framework (MOF) and MOF nanosheets (NSs) are often limited by their short-lived charge separation as well as self-quenching. Here, we propose to use the energy transfer process (EnT) to elongate the charge separation, thus enhancing the catalytic performance of a series of MOF NSs. With the use of NS, the photocatalyst can also be well isolated to reduce the self-quenching. Tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin (H 4 TCPP) and 1,3,6,8-tetrakis(p-benzoic acid)pyrene (H 4 TBAPy) linkers were chosen as the acceptor and donor moieties respectively. Accounting for the precise spatial design afforded by the MOF NSs, these donor and acceptor moieties could be closely positioned on the NSs, allowing for an efficient EnT process, as well as high degree of site isolation. Two templates, the donor-on-acceptor-NS, and the acceptor-on-donor-NS catalysts were successfully synthesized, and the results show that the second one has much enhanced catalytic performances over the first one due to their site-isolated active photocatalysts. This research provides a potential direction to guide future photocatalyst designs.


We outline the approach of our group to derive intramolecular kinetic primary processes from high resolution spectroscopy. We then review recent results on intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) and on tunneling processes. Examples are the quantum dynamics of the C–H‐chromophore in organic molecules, hydrogen bond dynamics in (HF)2 and stereomutation dynamics in H2O2 and related chiral molecules. We finally discuss the time scales for these and further processes which range from 10 fs to more than seconds in terms of successive symmetry breakings, leading to the question of nuclear spin symmetry and parity violation as well as the question of CPT symmetry.


Objective To study the mechanism of multicellular drug resistance of pulmonary adenocarcinoma cell line A549 mediated by cell-cell adhesion. Methods We compared the sensitivity of monolayer cells (MCs) to adriamycin (ADM) with that of multicellular spheroids (MCSs) which was employed as a three dimensional cell culture model. Transmission electron microscopy was applied to observe the cellular ultrastructure. Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, and Bax expression levels were detected by flow cytometry and indirect immunofluorescent staining. Results Compared with MCs, MCSs had more than two layers of cells, more extensive and compact cell adhesion, and inlay junctions were found within them. MCSs were more resistant to ADM. At the same time, Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL expressions in MCSs were much higher. After treatment with ADM, expressions Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL increased markedly in MCSs. Conclusion MCSs could simulate the solid tumors in vivo and has multicellular drug resistance mediated by cell-cell adhesion. The possible mechanisms may be associated with the upregulation of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL.


Non-coplanar triple-hydrogen-bond arrays are connected as telechelic groups to alkyl chains and their properties as AA/BB type supramolecular polymers are examined. Viscosity studies at three temperatures are used to study the ring-chain equilibrium and determine the critical concentrations where polymer chains are formed. It is observed that neither the temperature range studied nor the alkyl chain length of one component significantly affect the polymerization properties in this system.


In this chapter, we describe testing techniques to deal with complex interactions beyond one-step links in FSMs. Two primary types of such complex interactions are: 1) Interactions along an execution path, where later executions are affected by all that went on before them. 2) More specific interactions among data items in execution, with some of the later ones depending on the definitions and values of earlier ones for their definitions and values. In this chapter. we describe control flow testing (CFT) and data flow testing (DFT) to test the above interactions.


Offshore investigations at the Ao Phai Power Station Site in Thailand have indicated a layer of very loose silt overlying very dense/stiff sediments overlying bedrock. The paper describes the investigation work, determination of preliminary pile design parameters and philosophy of reclamation of a 50 hectare coal stockpile yard in the area underlain by the very loose silt.


A dicopper(I)-complexed [3]-rotaxane was prepared in 34% yield by a transition-metal-templated strategy involving a bis-chelating molecular thread, macrocycles incorporating the complementary chelating unit, and porphyrin stoppers as key components. A tetracopper(I)-complexed [5]-rotaxane was obtained as a byproduct in 8% yield. Coordination chemistry was performed either at the 2,9-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (dpp) chelates or at the porphyrin stoppers. The latter were metalated by either Zn(II), Au(III), or Zn(II) and Au(III). Both Cu(I) template cations could be removed by competitive complexation with CN- when at least one porphyrin stopper was complexed with Au(III), the other one being metalated with either Au(III) or Zn(II). This provided two strictly defined [3]-rotaxanes, in which the macrocycle and the molecular thread are not held together by metal coordination. Rather, dethreading is prevented by the bulky metalloporphyrin stoppers. Unexpectedly, when both stoppers were complexed with Zn(II),...


This article puts emphasis on a series of benignb reast lesions which can easily be misdiagnosed in dailyc linical and pathological work.Including breast inflammatorya nd reactive lesions,benign breast epithelial lesions,benigna denomyoepithelial lesions,benign mesenchymal tumors,b enign fibroepithelial neoplasms and florid papillomatosis oft he nipple.Benign breast diseases have a variety of histologyv ariation.The diagnosis sometimes is difficult,at this time wes hould carefully observe them under a light microscope,c ombined with clinical and general and,if necessary,makef urther clear diagnosis by immunohistochemical method.


Unsupervising learning control systems based on neural networks are discussed. The tasks are carried out by two neural networks which act as the plant identifier and system controller, respectively. A novel learning algorithm that can adapt the controller's control action by using information stores in the identifying network has been developed. This learning control system can learn without supervising to perform the dynamic control of a difficult-learning control problem such as the inverted pendulum. Robustness can be seen from its ability to adapt large parameter changes and from its high fault tolerance. Simulation results are encouraging


In this paper I describe experiments in the application of dynamic restarts used in heuristic satisfiability algorithms. By modifying a state-of-the-art SAT solver, zchaff, I test three proposed modifications to typical restart policies: exponentially increasing restart thresholds, restricting restarts to occur only at certain critical points, and the addition of transient randomness after a restart. By comparing runtimes on several benchmarks, I evaluate many of the tradeoffs involved in choosing an appropriate restart policy and also attempt to tackle the question of whether or not to use restarts at all. Section 1 introduces Chaff and the basic ideas of restarts, section 2 gives background on research on dynamic restarts, sections 3-5 described our proposed experiment, sections 6-8 describe the procedure, section 9 tabulates the results, and sections 10-11 give my conclusions.


Article history: Received September 29, 2012 Received in revised format 19 November 2012 Accepted 29 November 2012 Available online December 1 2012 Software Architecture (SA) is one of the most important artifacts for life cycle of a software system because it incorporates some important decisions and principles for the system development. On the other hand, developing the systems based on uncertain and ambiguous requirement has been increased, significantly. Therefore, there have been significant attentions on SA requirements. In this paper, we present a new method for evaluation of performance characteristics based on a use case, response time, and queue length of SA. Since there are some ambiguities associated with considered systems, we use the idea of Fuzzy UML (F-UML) diagrams. In addition, these diagrams have been enriched with performance annotations using proposed Fuzzy-SPT sub profile, the extended version of SPT profile proposed by OMG. Then, these diagrams are mapped into an executable model based on Fuzzy Colored Petri Nets (FCPN) and finally the performance metrics are calculated using the proposed algorithms. We have implemented CPN-Tools for creating and evaluating the FCPN model. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


Synopsis: Superconductively jointed silver-sheathed Bi-2212 tapes have been newly fabricated. Two types of methods, which are a side joint and a center joint, were employed for the fabrication of superconducting joint. Side joint and the center joint refer to the techniques by which two separate tapes were connected to each other at both terminal sides and the center of an additional intermediate tape, respectively. The center jointing technique is more promising than the side jointing one. However, reduction of the distance between the two tapes is required to realize a high critical current through the jointed part even in the case of the center joint. The resulting jointed tapes proved that the critical current through the jointed part is higher than in the joint less part.


Feature selection has been one of the most important topics in pattern recognition. Although many authors have studied feature selection for parametric classifiers, few algorithms are available for feature selection for nonparametric classifiers. In this paper we propose a new feature selection algorithm based on decision boundaries for nonparametric classifiers. We first note that feature selection for pattern recognition is equivalent to retaining 'discriminantly informative features', and a discriminantly informative feature is related to the decision boundary. A procedure to extract discriminantly informative features based on a decision boundary for nonparametric classification is proposed. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm finds effective features for the nonparametric classifier with Parzen density estimation.


Industrial and production parks in entities of the Russian Federation, on the one hand, act in research and managerial practices as the institution of sustainable development of the territory and as a mechanism of regional state industrial policy. On the other hand, they function as a project, which devises the institute of state and supports it on different stages of establishment and operation. In Russian regions industrial and production parks are integrated into the process of pursuing regional industrial policy by affecting through available samples and practices the federal policy in the industrial complex. Two-level state policy (federal and regional) itself obtains systematic and complex character, which fosters an increase in GDP, creation of highly-paid jobs and attaining competitiveness of manufactured goods of Russia on foreign markets. The article shows that the institute of industrial and production parks possesses both qualitative and quantitative estimation. In early July 2021 there were 179 industrial and production parks in regions of the Russian Federation and 99 parks were being established. In the process of institualization and development they became a key mechanism of productive changes in the industrial complex. Apart from that they were shaped as a mass phenomenon in pursuing state industrial policy. The authors proved that parks in view of regional state industrial policy can resolve three tasks: 1. Overcome negative consequence of de-industrialization; 2. Provide re-industrialization of the territory; 3. Pursue policy of new industrialization.


This paper quantifies the ability of the emission and dispersion modelling system to reproduce observed pollutant concentrations in the vicinity of a European airport. For the validation, one receptor point was selected at Liszt Ferenc International Airport, terminal building 2, where an air quality monitoring station operates. Modelling results superimposed upon background concentrations generated from a suburban monitoring station in the vicinity were compared with hourly measured concentrations using statistical indicators for three compounds (CO, NOX and PM10). Acceptable correlation coefficients (0.53-0.76) were obtained, although in the case of PM10 modelled values show slight but significant underestimation for the entire studied period. Also, an obvious overestimate of NOX concentration was found for certain days. Pollution roses were generated that highlighted the spatial distribution of the pollution sources that affect the air quality at the receptor point. Sensitivity of model to input data, especially to the emission inventory is discussed. The contribution of aircraft ground movement and apron area emission was found to be well characterised, but in the case of CO and NOX a small (15 ± 5%) deficiency was found for ground vehicles emission of parking area, and a much higher (65 ± 5%) difference was obtained for PM10.


Incorporated with the requirements of regional development,profession tendency and employers,this paper emphasizes on school management objectives to serve regional economy,strengthens the cultivation of specialty core competence,highlights posts' pertinence and adaptability,and strives to explore how to construct optoelectronic technology major.


The requirements of IP/DWDM optical Internet routing are analyzed. Guaranteeing QoS, survivability and fast routing, and supporting multicast and making full use of the resources of network are the basic requirements for it. Point out that QoS and survivability are the most important two keys to optical Internet routing. Summarize the common implementations which are used to satisfy these requirements. At last, point out the further steps that should be taken.


This special issue of The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies highlights work being done in cultural studies today by scholars located in Canadian universities. There is now a long tradition of work in cultural studies in Canada, whether such work has been done (as it now increasingly is) in departments and programs of study explicitly named ''Cultural Studies'' or within more traditional academic disciplines. The work brought together here highlights the range of issues, concerns, theories, and approaches that constitute cultural studies in Canada at the present time. What connects these topics and approaches is in part the reference in many of the articles to thinkers who might be said to have created an ''indigenous'' form of cultural studies in Canada avant la lettre, such as Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, and George Grant. But there are other important points of connection as well, not least the ways in which they address themselves to the links between sites of knowledge production and social and political power. In their own way, each article examines critically the institutions of knowledge production and legitimation in Canada—at sites as various as universities, journals, museums, government agencies, advertising, and so on—with an eye toward assessing their role in manufacturing and maintaining social consent, and in understanding better the opportunities for contesting and challenging the injustices produced by existing configurations of power. Even though cultural studies has become an internationalized form of critical inquiry, and national and cultural spaces have themselves become increasingly permeable to influences and ideas from elsewhere, there remains a specificity to national formations of cultural studies that continue to be worth addressing. In an issue


Interleukin (IL)‐11 is a multifunctional cytokine that stimulates hematopoietic progenitor cells and exerts a series of important immunomodulatory effects. It was believed to be restricted to mammals, but here we report the first nonmammalian IL‐11gene, in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). A trout IL‐11 cDNA clone was isolated that contains a 5′‐untranslated region (UTR) of 400 bp, an open reading frame of 612 bp and a large 3′‐UTR of 1924 bp. Analysis of a genomic DNA clone from a trout lambda library revealed that the trout IL‐11 gene has the same five exon/four intron gene organization, as well as the same intron phase, as mammalian IL‐11 genes. The 204 amino acid trout IL‐11 translation has a predicted signal peptide of 26 amino acids and mature peptide of 178 amino acids, with a calculated molecular mass of 20.5 kDa and a theoretical pI of 9.83. The mature peptide contains a cysteine residue and a potential N‐linked glycosylation site that are not present in mammals. Phylogenetic analysis clearly grouped trout IL‐11 with IL‐11 molecules from other species and separated from other members of the IL‐6 family. The IL‐11 gene is highly expressed in intestine and gills in healthy fish and its expression can also be detected in spleen, head kidney, brain, skin and muscle. Bacterial infection of rainbow trout markedly up‐regulates IL‐11 expression in liver, head kidney and spleen. IL‐11 expression is also up‐regulated in RTS‐11 cells (a trout macrophage cell line), which constitutively expressed the lowest level of IL‐11 of the four trout cell lines examined, after stimulation with bacteria, lipopolysaccharide, poly(I:C) and recombinant trout IL‐1β. Only a single transcript of 3.2 kb could be detected in lipopolysaccharide or recombinant IL‐1β‐stimulated RNA samples by northern blotting. The expression results, showing that IL‐11 is widely distributed and modulated by infection and other cytokines, suggest that fish IL‐11 is an active player in the cytokine network and the host immune response to infection.


Developers of open source projects are distributed across the world. They rely on email, mailing lists, instant messaging and more recently IRC channels to communicate. Most of the studies thus far focus on the use of mailing lists by OSS developers, however, an increasing number of open source projects are using IRC channels to hold developer meetings. In many cases, these IRC meetings supplement mailing lists discussions and serve as a place where developers can settle discrepancies and get quick feedback. In this paper, we mine the #gtk-devel IRC channel and study the usage of the IRC channel by the GNOME GTK+ core maintainers. We look at three different dimensions: the length of the meetings, the number of participants attending the meetings and the activity of these participants. Our findings show that IRC channels are gaining popularity among open source developers and maintainers: IRC meetings are increasing in length, have increasing attendance levels, and the participants actively contribute to the meetings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on the use of IRC channels by OSS developers.


Summary The Ward Development Planning (WDP) model is a participatory planning approach currently implemented in five counties in Kenya's arid and semi-arid areas. The WDP model provides the opportunity for local knowledge and development priorities to be integrated and funded through Ward Development Plans. These plans are multi-sectoral and include a comprehensive range of public goods investments that build resilience to climate change and other shocks. This brief summarises key learning on the WDP approach and gives recommendations for scaling up participatory planning for contextually appropriate and locally legitimate resilience-oriented development.


The temperature dependence of ultrasonic velocities is determined by a laser-ultrasound technique in a non-contact manner for several kinds of materials. A pulsed Nd:YAG laser is used to generate ultrasound on the surface of a specimen while a He-Ne laser interferometer detects the subsequent displacement on the directly opposite surface. The results are favorably compared with those obtained with a conventional contact ultrasonic technique. The longitudinal velocities of both methods agreed within 0.4% or less in the range from room temperature to 800°C.


An exceptional ozone increase in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere region has been recorded by an ozone sounding performed over the high Canadian Arctic at the beginning of August 2003. Simultaneously observed low humidity and low tropopause height suggest that this anomalous ozone enhancement is attributed to a downward transport from the stratosphere. This latter transport is investigated by using the Ertel potential vorticity field calculated from the ECMWF analyses. The occurrence of such high ozone concentrations is shown to be due to stratospheric ozone‐rich air intrusions. These latter mesoscale phenomena are successfully captured using the assimilation of Envisat/MIPAS ozone profiles into the global three‐dimensional chemistry transport model of Météo‐France (MOCAGE). This study shows that Envisat/MIPAS ozone profiles assimilation adds value in the sense that the analyses capture the whole stratospheric intrusion episode, whereas the raw model simulation does not. Copyright © 2007 Royal Meteorological Society


ABSTRACT This article compares two recent expositions held in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1990 and 2006. Both expositions responded to structural economic changes related to deindustrialization that prompted reidentifications with the city's history as a maritime trade hub in early modern Japan. To compare two temporally laced identities that emerged from this turning point, I distinguish each exposition's dominant chronotope. The 1990 Journey Exposition is characterized by Tabi (Journey)-time, which departs from a distant past to transit through a disappearing present towards a utopian future where Nagasaki has once again become an international port. The 2006 Saruku Expo is characterized by Saruku (Strolling)-time, which introspectively rediscovers Nagasaki's local heritage within the present while imagining a changeless future, erasing the temporal divisions formative of Tabi-time. If Tabi-time is national time derived from national expositions, Saruku-time is local time derived from heritage and memory. These chronotopes are characterized by different arrangements of exposition grounds and different mobilities that visitors were expected to perform on their fairgrounds. The Journey Exposition spatially delineated Nagasaki into future and past zones, whereas the Saruku Expo featured a series of wandering strolls that drew no clear temporal boundaries. Visitors in Tabi-time engaged in epic, romantic voyages across national borders, whereas visitors in Saruku-time displaced themselves locally in an inquisitive, slow-paced manner. The article draws from exposition documents like guides and official records as well as a local town magazine to argue that the formal organization of time can be practically utilized for economic and identity-building purposes as well as politically contested between different parties. It also develops recent scholarship in Theory of History such as Hayden White's concept of the 'practical past' and recent theorizations on the disorder of postmodern time.


Available evidence presented here supports the approach by MUSSA (1978) that Vertebraria ROYLE really comprises a complex of forms. Schopficaulia n. g. is a distinct new unit which presents external morphological characters similar to Vertebraria, but whose anatomical plan clearly represents aerial vascular organs, such as branching woody axes showing adventitious rootlet traces and undifferentiated branch or foliar traces. The pith is unquestionably indicative of plants of the runner, climbing or shrub type adapted to a swampy environment. The fact that vertebrarian-type axes are restricted to Gondwanic coal fields is consistent with the environmental interpretation inferred from the pith plan. All indications substantiate the viewpoint that the plants lived at the very site where they were later fossilized.


Although many studies have focused on explaining the presence and the quality of environmental disclosures, this paper by Pondeville and colleagues is one of the first studies that tries to identif...


The present investigation was conducted to evaluate the nutrient composition of developed value added egg muffins incorporating full fat rice bran and flax seed. Value added Type I and Type II egg muffins contained full fat rice bran at the levels of 10 and 20 per cent, respectively but both contained 10 per cent flax seeds. The control had 10 per cent flax seeds but did not contain rice bran. The control egg muffins having flax seeds but no rice bran had 3 per cent moisture, 8.10 per cent crude protein, 21.20 per cent crude fat, 1.10 per cent crude fibre, 0.94 per cent ash and 68.60 per cent total carbohydrates. After addition of 10 and 20 per cent full fat rice bran in Type I and II egg muffins, the moisture, crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber, ash and total carbohydrate contents were changed to 3.40, 3.80; 8.30, 8.40; 24.90, 27.40; 2.20, 3.10;1.76, 2.52; and 62.73, 58.57 per cent, respectively. It was found that moisture, protein, crude fat, crude fiber and ash contents increased but total carbohydrates decreased significantly over the control upon supplementation of 20 per cent level of full fat rice bran and flax seeds in the egg muffins. Protein digestibility (in vitro) of control, value added Type I and Type II egg muffins were 78.76, 76.6 and 74.20 per cent, respectively and the difference were significantly (P≤0.05). Value addition also resulted in improvement in mineral profile of the products. Such developed products can be very useful in combating the micronutrients deficiency problem in population of all age groups.


We describe a mathematical model of double-diffusive (thermosolutal) convection in a saturated porous layer, when the solubility of the solute depends on the temperature, and the porosity and permeability of the porous medium evolve through dissolution and precipitation. We present the results of linear and weakly nonlinear stability analyses and explore the longer-term development of the system numerically. When the solutal concentration gradient is destabilising, the dynamics are somewhat similar to those previously found for single-species convection (Ritchie & Pritchard, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 673, 2011, pp. 286–317), including the occurrence of subcritical instabilities driven by a reaction–diffusion mechanism. However, when the solutal concentration gradient is stabilising and the thermal gradient is destabilising, novel dynamics emerge. These include a vertical segregation of circulation cells and porosity perturbations near the onset of convection, and over longer time scales the formation of a low-permeability region in the middle of the layer, pierced by occasional high-permeability channels. Under these conditions, convection may die away to nearly zero for extended periods before resuming vigorously in localised regions at later times.


In this paper, stochastic effects in the collisional growth of cloud droplets are studied in a small volume. Solutions of master equation are shown for a system of up to 40 droplets. The results differ from the deterministic Smoluchowski equation, particularly after the sol-gel transition. This effect was studied by other authors for simplified coalescence kernels (Bayewitz et al 1974, Lushnikov 2004 from manuscript's references list).


The construction of new buildings and structures on the territory of major cities is limited by the tightness and lack of available building space. However, within these cities there are often huge areas that are practically not used. This is the territory of industrial enterprises, the production activity of which is placed on the outskirts of the city or suspended in connection with environmental requirements. Renovation of industrial zones has a huge potential and can contribute to improving the living standards of the population and the development of the city's economy. The development of these territories will create new residential areas, social infrastructure facilities, green park areas. The process of renovation of the territory is connected with the dismantling and demolition of existing buildings and structures, engineering communications, road coverings, improvement elements, etc. This can lead to the formation of a significant amount of construction waste. To increase the efficiency of the operation of the construction and demolition waste management system, it is proposed to use a logistics toolkit that allows the management of material, financial and information flows to be integrated into a single system. Logistic management of waste streams will allow to expand the raw material base of the economy, increase the output of secondary products while reducing its cost, prevent pollution of the environment. It is proposed to create logistics centers that perform specific functions of coordination of material and information resources. This will allow tracking and coordinating the entire life cycle of the waste from the source of education to the burial or processing site. The article considers the organizational structure and functional composition of the territorial and branch logistics centers operating in the sphere of construction waste management, as well as the principles of their interaction with other participants in construction.


Welcome to the first issue of the fifth volume of the AI Matters Newsletter! This issue opens with some news on a new SIGAI Student Travel Scholarship where we aim to encourage students from traditionally underrepresented geographic locations to apply and attend SIGAI supported events. We also summarize the fourth AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job Fair, which continues to grow with the increasing popularity of AI. In our interview series, Marion Neumann interviews Tom Dietterich, an Emeritus Professor at Oregon State University and one of the pioneers in Machine Learning.


The script is the first step in filmmaking and guides the film crew. In filmmaking, screenplay writing plays a significant role as both a creative domain of artistic expression as well as a tool for establishing a common language of film production. Screenplay writing conventionally involves certain stages, and alternative methods have also emerged in addition to the conventional writing method. Directors such as Hong Sang-soo, Kidlat Tahimik, Lav Diaz, Lois Patiño, Pedro Costa, and Tsai Ming-Liang use different scriptwriting techniques. Alternative scriptwriting methods did not emerge just with these directors. Numerous examples are found throughout cinema history from people such as Luis Buñuel and Federico Fellini who made films without conventional screenplays or employed unique scriptwriting methods.