Image theory is developed for the canonical direct current problem involving a point current source in a conducting half-space bounded by a planar perfect anisotropic surface (PAS). The anisotropy of the surface is perfect in the sense that it has infinite conductivity in one direction and zero conductivity in the perpendicular direction. A PAS plane can be realized by a layer of perfectly conducting parallel wires isolated from one another. It is seen that the image of a current point source is a quadrupole transverse-magnetic current extending along a half-infinite line. >


General Introduction Frames of Reference: Skill, Gender and New Technology in the Hosiery Industry The Creation of a Gendered Division of Labour in the Danish Textile Industry Foreign Technology and the Gender Division of Labour in a Dutch Cotton Spinning Mill "The Mysteries of the Typewriter": Technology and Gender in the British Civil Service, 1870-1914 "A Revolution in the Workplace?": Women's Work in Munitions Factories and Technological Change 1914-1918 Gender and Technological Change in the North Staffordshire Pottery Industry Periodisation and the Engendering of Technology: the Pottery of Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1880-1980 Creating Gender: Technology and Feminity in the Swedish Dairy Industry Cooking up Women's Work: Women Workers in the Dutch Food Industries 1889-1960.


A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Management Pre-Start Review (MPR) Team was formed to independently verify the operational readiness of Building 368 (B368) Biosafety Level III (BSL-3) Facility to conduct research with biological pathogens and toxins including those considered Select Agents. Review objectives and criteria were developed from the DOE/NNSA and LLNL requirements. These were provided in the Implementation Plan for the Biosafety Level III (BSL-3) Facility Management Pre-Start Review (BSL-3 MPR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that was reviewed and approved by DOE/NNSA-LSO. The formal part of the LLNL MPR for the BSL-3 Facility was begun in August of 2005 but work on the MPR was stopped in October of 2005 due to the need for LLNL to reassess organizational and operational controls and respond to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inquiries related to a shipping incident involving select agents. The MPR was restarted in mid-June of 2006. Preliminary facility tours and familiarization with project documents took place in June of 2005. The Independent Management Review Team consists of seven members led by a Team Leader with expertise in management, operations, and safety basis experience with biosafety laboratories. Other team members have expertise in electrical engineering, security, environmental/wastemore » management/regulatory compliance, biosafety/industrial hygiene/medical, structural engineering, and mechanical engineering. The MPR Team reviewed various documents, including authorization basis, safety, emergency preparedness, and various operations, configuration, and management plans. They also reviewed building plans, equipment repair/maintenance documents, training records, and many standard operating procedures. The MPR resulted in three Pre-Start Findings, one Post-Start/Critical Finding, and four observations which are shown on Tables 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Based upon this review the Team feels that the B368 Facility can be operated safely provided the Pre-Start Findings are satisfactorily closed. The Team therefore seen no reason not to expeditiously proceed towards the startup of this facility in accordance with the processes defined in DOE Order 425.1C, and the LLNL ES&H Manual. Details of the MPR Team evaluations of the various Subject (functional) Areas of the review are contained in the completed MPR Assessment Forms in Appendix A. Findings are described in completed MPR Deficiency Forms in Appendix B. The format of these forms is consistent with DOE-STD-3006.« less


ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine if postoperative monitoring of β-hCG is able to identify persistence of trophoblastic tissue promptly in patients treated conservatively for tubal pr...


Testicular metastases are rare, accounting for about 1% of testicular cancers. Among the metastatic localizations of lung malignant tumors, the testis are seldomly encountered. In this work, we report a case of testicular metastasis of a lung adenocarcinoma in a 45-year-old patient. Our observation underlines the interest of a meticulous and complete clinical examination of the patients, in order to diagnose even rare secondary localizations.


ABSTRACT The stock market is viewed as an unpredictable, volatile, and competitive market. The prediction of stock prices has been a challenging task for many years. In fact, many analysts are highly interested in the research area of stock price prediction. Various forecasting methods can be categorized into linear and non-linear algorithms. In this paper, we offer an overview of the use of deep learning networks for the Indian National Stock Exchange time series analysis and prediction. The networks used are Recurrent Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory Network, and Convolutional Neural Network to predict future trends of NIFTY 50 stock prices. Comparative analysis is done using different evaluation metrics. These analysis led us to identify the impact of feature selection process and hyper-parameter optimization on prediction quality and metrics used in the prediction of stock market performance and prices. The performance of the models was quantified using MSE metric. These errors in the LSTM model are found to be lower compared to RNN and CNN models.


In India, movements and parties representing the lowest ranking dalit caste groups have followed different strategies in their struggle against social, economic and cultural discrimination. In this article, a new dalit movement making use of a 'transnational advocacy network strategy' will be compared to a more 'classical'dalit political party. The main policy target for the new movement is an extension of existing affirmative action policies, while the dalit BSP party focuses more on emancipatory issues. Based on an analysis of the impacts of the BSP and of the new movement at the grassroots level, it is argued that the achievements of the new movement are tempered by the fact that in order to make use of international discourses and political pressure, the movement has had to develop a strategy and policy proposals compatible with existing mainstream neoliberal discourses. This depoliticizes the policies, and hence makes them of less importance strategically. It is argued that this is likely to be a difficulty for transnational advocacy networks in general.


Cases, concerns and complaints in public about refill drinking water,  low businessmen DAMIU are checked routinely product processed as well as the mandate of the Consumer Protection Act, Kepmerindag RI and Permenkes RI on monitoring refill drinking water background for the author to conduct research. Purpose to describe the bacteriological quality of refill drinking water in terms of disinfection method used in District Ngawi. This method is descriptive study and cluster sampling to 49 samples DAMIU in District Ngawi with the results of the method used, namely ultraviolet disinfection, ozonation and reverse  osmosis. The results bacteriological quality (total coliforms) of any disinfection method shows a different picture, which shows the method of disinfection reverse osmosis bacteriological quality with the percentage of 50.00%, followed by ozonation method of 46.15% and the latter by the ultraviolet method percentage value 44.12 %. The ability of any reduction in total coliform disinfection method shows a different picture, in which the reverse osmosis method of disinfection showed total coliform reduction percentage of 94.08%, followed by ozonation method of 91.46% and the latter by the ultraviolet method percentage value 86.09%. The conclusion willingness, support and cooperation of all stakeholders is needed to improve the supervision, guidance and inspection of the quality of refill drinking water in Ngawi. Key word : water, disinfection, coliform


Book Under Review Cassidy, Tanya M., and Florence Pasche Guignard, eds. 2015. What's Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2015.


The topology optimization technique is applied to improve rib designs of a machining centre. The ribs of the original design are eliminated and new ribs are generated by topology optimization in the same 3D design space containing the original ribs. Two-dimensional plate elements are used to replace the optimum rib topologies formed by 3D rectangular elements. After topology optimization, sizing optimization is used to determine the optimum thicknesses of the ribs. When forming the optimum design problem, multiple configurations of the structure are considered simultaneously. The objective is to minimize rib weight. Static constraints confine displacements of the cutting tool and the workpiece due to cutting forces and the heat generated by spindle bearings. The dynamic constraint requires the fundamental natural frequency of the structure to be greater than a given value in order to reduce dynamic deflection. Compared with the original design, the improvement resulting from this approach is significant.


The paper, an edited and shortened version of the original, discusses a new approach to the display of collision threat parameter areas, obtained as a result of theoretical considerations. It can be applied to radar-computer anti-collision systems as well as manual radar plots. With the development of digital techniques, and electronic digital computers in particular, radar-computer anti-collision systems are now aboard ships. Digital processing of signals and data in such systems can be divided into three stages as follows: (a) Primary processing, which includes an analysis of radar signals within one rotation of the radar antenna. A result of this processing would be the position coordinates of detected objects. For relatively simple algorithms and high speed of analysis, special devices are usually employed. (b) A secondary processing, which includes a correlation of the information obtained in the primary processing stage; the objects' position coordinates in consecutive antenna rotations; and an estimate of position, motion and approach parameters. For secondary processing devices general-purpose mini- and microcomputers are usually applied. (c) A graphical display of the calculation.


Every surgeon is occasionally confronted with a situation where his skill and resources are taxed to the utmost. For the most part his efforts in the face of a losing fight against a systemic infection and distressingly acute local manifestations are futile. The case which I shall here outline is therefore the more interesting, because in the face of a hopeless prognosis by all the consultants on the case, in the presence of total bilateral blindness, repeated chills, septic temperature, accompanied with ~ts usual blood picture, the patient nevertheless made a complete recovery and regained her sight.


given the capital investment inherent in oil exploitation, such activity signals, wittingly or not, a determination not to yield this area in exchange for Arab normalization of relations with Israel. If pressed to answer this charge, Israel would presumably justify its stance as constituting a lure rather than a hindrance to negotiation by making more valuable the prize of reacquisition of Israeli-held territory. International law is, however, of little utility in determining whether the American or Israeli position on this issue is the more appropriate one. Whether a state's action induces or discourages the making of peace by its opponent is simply not a legal issue. It is a political question the answer to which depends on the exigencies of the moment, not on enduring principles of conduct. Viewed in legal rather than political perspective, Israel's activities in the Gulf of Suez are therefore not properly subject to condemnation. As a usufructuary in the territorial sea, Israel was required to take steps to conserve the corpus of the ousted power's territory temporarily in its possession. To the extent the search for new oil fields created a "wasting" of the land, it is proscribed. In the Gulf of Suez, oil drilling only represented an enhancement in value. Viewed in political terms, Israel's actions are subject to serious question. It is regrettable that these political considerations affecting the American posture were not fully aired in public but were instead masked by strained interpretations of international law.


Qualitative corpus analysis is a methodology for pursuing in-depth investigations of linguistic phenomena, as grounded in the context of authentic, communicative situations that are digitally stored as language corpora and made available for access, retrieval, and analysis via computer. Researchers using qualitative corpus analysis as the methodological basis for their investigations adopt an exploratory, inductive approach to empirically based study of how the meanings and functions of linguistic forms found in the corpus interact with diverse ecological characteristics of language used for communication (speaker age, gender, level of education, and socioeconomic background; place and time of a communicative event; relationship between interlocutors; speech modality; etc.). A common belief shared by all corpus linguists is that it is important to base linguistic investigations on "real data," that is, actual instances of oral or written communication as opposed to contrived or "made-up" data. Unique goals of qualitative corpus analysis include facilitating computer-aided retrieval of authentic examples of the language phenomena under investigation, interpreting these empirical data in depth, and applying the ensuing insights to a broad range of intellectual explorations in language studies. This entry summarizes the evolution of the field, outlines the methodological foundations and principles of qualitative corpus analysis, and enumerates major areas of application of the methodology.

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The invention The present invention relates to a method and terminal for performing a random access procedure. The present invention, RACH (random access channel) in the terminal to perform a process, the UE scheduling information, (e.g., C-RNTI or Temporary C-RNTI) when monitoring a downlink channel in order to receive, RACH preamble network determining whether a direct instruction from, and by driving the contention resolution timer is effective to reduce the power consumption by the channel downlink monitoring of the terminal. Mobile communication, wireless communication, a random access


This work is a report about the first record of alcid species, Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia) in Korea. Four individuals of Thick-billed Murre captured by crab net were obtained in Deajin Port and near the Munam Port. three individuals of Thick-billed Murre searching food were observed at an area two miles away from Munam-Port. We describe characters of Thick-billed Murre with illustrations.


The mean spherical approximation is applied to the description of molten alkali halide mixtures. The model is solved for a set of parameters representative of (Na, K)Cl and (Li, K)Cl mixtures. The usefulness of a description of the mixture in terms of charge, density and concentration fluctuations is underlined. Comparison is made with the available experimental data.


Antiquarianism, which had its roots in Renaissance thought, was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and political implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history.


In the models of regeneration of diesel particulate filters the reaction rate of soot oxidation is assumed to be of Arrhenius type temperature dependence. In that form reaction rate has two characteristic coefficients: an activation energy and pre-exponential coefficient. The activation energy determines the increase of the rate of reaction with temperature in the reaction region. The pre-exponential factor depends on model and gives the unit of reaction rate. In the literature, there are many different values of the activation energy, which were determined at different test conditions. Our experimental studies were focused on creating test conditions very close to the real diesel particulate filter. The test bed consists of the ceramic plate covered with soot, which was put in the hot gas flow. The hot gas setups almost adiabatic condition for the reaction region. The flowing gas was the mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. During the experiments, the temperature above the plate and weight of the plate with soot were measured. For different temperatures of gas, we received various rates of soot depletion. The mass fraction of oxygen was changed too. Based on the collected data, the activation energy was calculated.


A three-dimensional, multifluid simulation of a giant planet's magnetospheric interaction with steady-state stellar wind from a Sun-like star was performed for four different orbital semimajor axes—10, 5, 1, and 0.2 au. We simulate the effect of the increasing, steady-state stellar wind pressure related to the planetary orbital semimajor axis on the global magnetospheric dynamics for a Saturn-like planet, including an Enceladus-like plasma torus. Mass-loss processes are shown to vary with orbital distance, with the centrifugal interchange instability displayed only in the 10 and 5 au cases, which reach a state of mass-loss equilibrium more slowly than the 1 or 0.2 au cases. The compression of the magnetosphere in the 1 and 0.2 au cases contributes to the quenching of the interchange process by increasing the ratio of total plasma thermal energy to corotational energy. The strength of field-aligned currents, associated with auroral radio emissions, is shown to increase in magnitude and latitudinal coverage with a corresponding shift equatorward from increased dynamic ram pressure experienced in the hotter orbits. Similar to observed hot Jovian planets, the warm exo-Saturn simulated in the current work shows enhanced ion density in the magnetosheath and magnetopause regions, as well as the plasma torus, which could contribute to altered transit signals, suggesting that for planets in warmer (>0.1 au) orbits, planetary magnetic field strengths and possibly exomoons—via the plasma torus—could be observable with future missions.


The aim of these notes is to provide a single reference source for basic definitions and results concerning classes of semigroups (and, indeed, of semigroupoids) related to those we refer to as left restriction or weakly left E-ample. We give the 'York' perspective on these classes of semigroups. We present a comprehensive account of the relations R∗ and R̃E and show how many classes of interest to us, including that of left restriction semigroups, arise as natural generalisations of inverse semigroups. Little of this material is new, but some parts of it lie in the realms of folklore, hence one reason for this article. We give a list of original sources, but with no claim to comprehensiveness more references will be added. The author is grateful to the many colleagues who have provided references and background, in particular, to Boris Schein.


Abstract : The security environment, issues, and challenges facing the United States today in the Western Pacific are growing more complex. There is no direct single threat as there was during the Cold War in the form of Soviet-backed communism. The Cold War increasingly divided the region into two camps. However, there was a key, variable, shifting element in this situation: China, which turned against the Soviet Union, played off Moscow and Washington, and then shifted decisively into the U.S.-led coalition in the 1980s. China remains a key variable in today's security environment, but there are other elements in Western Pacific security that have joined it: North Korea as an emerging nuclear weapons state, Japan's enlarging security role, Islamic terrorism in Southeast Asia, and volatile political attitudes toward the United States in countries once thought to be reliable allies.


Vehicle depreciation is a key factor in determining the total cost of vehicle ownership and consumer purchase behavior. This report examines how light-duty-vehicle residual values have evolved over time for conventional and advanced vehicle technologies, accounting for important factors such as market segment, size class, and country of assembly. Advancements in electric vehicle technology have led to plug-in vehicles exhibiting depreciation curves similar to those of conventional vehicles. This report compares two methods for determining depreciation trends (snapshot method and time-series method) in order to identify potential impacts on calculating vehicle total cost of ownership given differing data availability.


Book Title:  Natural pest and disease control Book Authors:  Henry Elwell & Anita Maas Natural Farming Network with assistance from the Plant Protection Porgramme (1995), 128pp. Illustrated by Rose Elwell. ISBN: 0-7974-1429-0


Diesel engines are highly preferred for transportation since they are highly efficient and durable in the long run. However, because of lack of crude oil reserves, fuel cost and emission norms, alternative fuels are of high interest to replace the diesel fuel in diesel engines. Many alternative liquid fuels for diesel engines such as bio-diesel, alcohol have been introduced in the recent past.
These are obtained from biomass. Gaseous fuels are better than liquid fuels. Therefore, in this project a gasifier was designed and fabricated to get producer gas. The design of the entire gasifier along with the details of every part is provided. The method of fabricating each part is
also detailed. The feedstock or raw material used for gasification in this project is chips of wood which is a biomass available in large quantity. The diesel engine was run with diesel as the main fuel and the producer gas obtained from biomass was sent along with air. The performance and combustion characteristics of the engine were studied. A reduction in the consumption of diesel
fuel was observed as the brake specific energy consumption was found to decrease when both diesel and producer gas were used. Also, a marginal increase in thermal efficiency was noted with the use of producer gas along with diesel as the fuel.


In this paper, a new fast algorithm for information retrieval is presented. Such algorithm relies on performing cross correlation in the frequency domain between input data and the input weights of fast neural networks (FNNs). It is proved mathematically and practically that the number of computation steps required for the presented FNNs is less than that needed by conventional neural networks (CNNs). The main objective of Internet users is to find the required information with high efficiency and effectiveness. Finding information on an object's visual features is useful when specific keywords for the object are not known. Since intelligent mobile agent technology is expected to be a promising technology for information retrieval, there is a number of intelligent mobile agent based-information retrieval approaches have been proposed in recent years. Here, the work presented in [25] for image-based information retrieval using mobile agents is greatly enhanced. Multiple information agents continuously traverse the Internet and collect images that are subsequently indexed based on image information such as the URL location, size, type and the date of indexation. In the search phase, the intelligent mobile agent receives the image of object as a query and searches the set of web pages that contain information about the object. This is done by matching the query to images on web pages faster than the work presented in [25]. Furthermore, by applying cross correlation, object detection becomes position independent. Moreover, by using neural networks, the object can be detected even with rotation, scaling, noise, distortion or deformation in shape.


Excited states in the proton-unbound 173,175,177 Au nuclei were identified for the first time. Level structures associated with three different shapes were observed in 175 Au. While the yrast lines of 175 Au and 177 Au consist of a prolate band built upon the intruder 1 / 2 + [ 660 ] (i 13 / 2 ) proton orbital, no sign of collectivity was observed in the lighter 173 Au


The citizenship approach opens a gender-sensitive perspective on the transition process in Eastern and Central Europe. On the basis of citizenship rights, social citizenship provisions would be encompassing and gender-sensitive ; they would be grounded in a universal notion of citizenship, rather than in ascribed roles and different functions of women and men, a perspective which is no longer considered to be legitimate in the light of social justice and gender equity today.


Defect extraction techniques are studied regarding the characteristic of X-ray images of spare parts,and threshold-construction method based on iteration and edge-extraction algorithm based on mathematicalmorphology are advanced.Aim at is work the spot collect to shoot line to explore wound film to carry on numeral be like,combine the transformation of picture,in the value filter the examination,characteristic of the partition,edge of the wave,Yu value to withdraw,the mode identify etc.calculate way,pass appropriate processing and analysis,weld blemish to carry on an automatic examination and identify to the pressure container,feature extraction and pattern recognition and so forth.The experiments have shown thathis system is fast and practical.


Abstract
Purpose
To conduct an exploratory mixed-methods study of attitudes toward extramarital relationships in the context of spousal Alzheimer's disease.

Design
We present descriptive analyses of quantitative data from the National Social, Health, and Aging Project and of qualitative comments posted online by readers of newspaper articles that focus on extramarital relationships in the context of caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease.

Findings
Analyses of the quantitative data indicate the Alzheimer's caregivers report more negative attitudes toward extramarital sex in the context of spousal Alzheimer's disease. However, this difference is driven by non-spousal caregivers' attitudes; spousal caregivers have substantially less negative attitudes. Analyses of public comments suggest that those who are most negative are focused on traditional religious and family values. Those who express less negative attitudes espouse a compassionate pragmatism that makes allowances for caregiver needs in the context of managing the difficulties of the spouse-caregiver role.

Research limitations
Quantitative data are limited by the small number of Alzheimer's caregivers; qualitative analyses are based on a convenience sample of online comments.

Practical implications
Findings can inform future research, educational initiatives for professionals, the media, and people living with Alzheimer's disease and their family members.

Social implications
The number of individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and spousal caregivers will increase as the Baby Boomer generation ages. Norms regarding extramarital relationships in the context of caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease are evolving.

Originality
Little social scientific research examines attitudes toward extramarital relationships in the context of spousal Alzheimer's disease.


This study aims to analyze the meaning of several dictions in a text that deals with it. The source of the data used in this study in the text of a poem entiled Sukma Pujangga by J.E Tatengkeng. The aspect that must be investigated is analyzing the meaning of the 6 dictions in the poetry text of Sukma Pujangga. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The results showed that from several dictions that have been analyzed, it can be seen from the meaning of the poem that it describes someone who has a very high artistic spirit and is willing to make any effort to maintain his desires and stance. He doesn't want to live for other people and just wants to be free to do whatever he wants and achieve his dreams even though he has to go through various obstacles. There are several meanings contained in the poem, including: connotative meaning, contextual meaning, abstract words, and special words.


The research analyzed the application status of Pu aluminum composite panels, summarizes research status of thermal insulation material in the domestic and foreign, especially the related properties of materials, such as combustion, heat insulation, weather resistance; related development and external wall insulation decorative integration materials present has done some introduction. The paper use aluminum alloy decorative board with thermal insulation and integrated decoration produced by the factory, combined with a keel and anchor bolt connection, is directly fixed on the outer wall of a building, can realize the building exterior wall thermal insulation decorative function, the system also has a good waterproof, fireproof performance, construction process comprehensively can use dry homework.


This review of typical advances in various fields and industries made possible by the practical application of research demonstrates the vital role played by measurements


This contribution presents a novel, deterministic design technique of two-stage low-noise amplifiers amenable to EDA implementation. The proposed method, which is based on the concept of noise measure and on the theoretical bounds to input/output matching of active devices, adopts inductive source degeneration to automatically produce a set of two-stage designs featured at nominal frequency by a given gain, perfect matching at both sections and almost optimum noise figure. Then, based on overall performance over frequency, the designer can choose the best performing solution from the set, avoiding the tedious, time-consuming trial-and-error of traditional approaches. The technique is demonstrated by designing a Ka-band two-stage LNA on a commercial GaAs HEMT technology provided by OMMIC. Simulated performance comprises a gain of 17 dB and a 1-dB noise figure. A measurement campaign is going to start soon on the fabricated LNAs, which have only recently become available to the Authors.


Township roads again received the attention of the Huron County Farm Bureau at its annual meeting Mon day when the organization voted tc ask that the measure providing that one-third of the gas tax be used for township roads be made effective. The bureau again elected Jamep Davidson president, Donald Gordon, vice president and Sam Conkey, secretary-treasurer. Alfred Priemer (v-as named director. The other directors, who hold over, are J. G. vfeuber, Elkton; Alex Lawitzke, Hurm township; J. C. Gremel, Jr., Sebiwaing and WHliam Isler, Bloomield. Senator Philip O'Connell addressid the meeting. He explained whj he township road bill was not passid. The measure interferred with mmediate plans made by the govirnor and the administrative board ie said. The senator also explainid the tile drainage law. It cosU >ut 75 cents an acre to start he aid. Applications must be filed vith the county drain commission r for the semi-annual meetings. Clark L. Brody, secretary-manger of the state Farm Bureau gave brief summary of the work of the itate Farm Bureau. A report of he extension work heing carried ut in the county was given by Emsett L. Raven, county agricultural gent. Newell Gale, district manager of he Farm Bureau, discussed the fork of organization and memberhip drives in Huron, Sanilac and uscola counties. The tariff situation in reference farm products was discussed by 1. L. Noon, president of the state 'arm Bureau. He declared that the results obained have not been satisfactory, he organization is still working on he problem to bring about more avorable tariff legislation. The resolutions passed by the lembers are as follows: Whereas most of the farmers are ocated on township roads, impasable for motor vehicles for weeks t a time, lacking postal service at imes, having some distance to go or mail, and roads are public proprty under state jurisdiction, and it unjust to compel local residents o pay the whole tax. We urge as oon as possible a portion of the gas ax be applied to improving these oads, especially, rural routes and eaffirm our support to the bill suplorted by Michigan State Farm Bueau providing for return of onehird of gas tax to counties for improving township roads. Resolved that we favor the Truth n Fabrics bill. Resolved that cooking fats imitatng butter be taxed as oleo. Resolved that cigarettes be placed mder the Food and Drug act. Resolved that we express our appreciation of support of Huron ounty supervisors in extension vork. Resolved that we favor Towen's iystem of land transfer. We recommend a 6urvey of the 'retent tax problems by Michigan Hate Farm Bureau. Resolved that we favor measures ndorsed by State and National ^arm Bureau organizations. The ninth annual banquet of the Michigan Elevator Exchange is to he held at Hotel Olds, in Lansing, on Tuesday, July 16. A stockholders' meeting will precede the banquet, the meeting being scheduled for 10 o'clock in the forenoon and in the afternoon. The banquet will the banquet program at one o'clock in the afternon. The banquet will be for members and guests. This is one of the biggest gatherings of farmers in the state, outside of Farmers ' Week at the College in the winter. Last year's annual banquet of the Exchange was attended by about 575 persons and the attendance is expected to exceed fhat this year through the natural growth from one year to the next. Sam H. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, is slated as a speaker for the occasion and Dr. John L. Davis, lecturer, known as the "breezy westerner, " is scheduled to entertain with a humorous address. Dr. Davis, now of New York City, was formerly an Oklahoman, receiving his education in the west and carrying on, since entering the held as a lecturer and entertainer, as an adopted son of the East. SAM THOMPSON SLATED AS SPEAKER AT NINTH BANQUET OF EXCHANGE Bureau Returns Farmer $17.60


A core idea beyond ensemble perception is that the visual system is capable of representing features of multiple objects as abstract statistical entities - distributions characterized by the mean, deviation, numerosity, etc (Alvarez, 2011). This approach gives insights into some more complex processes, such as categorization - perceiving some items as representing the same or different types of objects. Even in highly heterogeneous displays (e.g., cars in traffic or berries among leaves), ensemble summary statistics can provide massive categorization, probably via distribution comparisons which are akin to statistical tests. In first-order categorization, the visual system decides whether multiple features along a single dimension represent same or different categories. A plausible way of doing that is testing the distribution for normality. If all pooled features can be collected under the same Gaussian, then they probably represent the same category; but if the test fails showing normality then the distribution is decomposed into several Gaussians, each representing a separate category. Behavioral and neural data show that the results of normality test may depend on feature separation in an ensemble (Treue et al., 2000; Yurevich & Utochkin, 2014). In second-order categorization, the visual system operates over separate distributions (as the result of the first-order processing). Second-order statistics can be analyzed in-depth, when one of first-order distributions (e.g., by color) is attended and a new dimension (e.g., size) is analyzed within it. On the other hand, second-order processing can be in-extent, when few selected distributions are compared with each other (say, if blue objects are larger on average than yellow). The latter type of processing behaves like standard statistical tests, such as compare means or proportion comparisons (Fouriezos et al., 2008; Utochkin, 2013). Anyway, it appears that second-order processing is severely limited by attentional and working-memory capacities (Attarha et al., 2014; Halberda et al., 2006). Meeting abstract presented at VSS 2015.


Combining several away-from-home activities into one single trip, or trip chaining, may reduce the daily travel time of individuals and help curtain ever-increasing total vehicle miles and hours traveled. This research uses a Personal Transportation Survey data set in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Louisiana, to examine the impacts of land use and individual attributes on trip-chaining behavior. Land uses are grouped into agricultural, commercial, and office; and three residential types (high-, medium-, and low density). In addition, a localized job–housing balance ratio is computed to capture the degree of mixed land uses around each residential location. Individual attributes include a traveler's work status (i.e., worker vs. nonworker), gender and household child presence. Multilevel logistic regression is used to examine the combined effects of land use and individual attributes on trip-chaining propensity. Research results indicate that land use plays an important role in a traveler's decision on trip chaining, and the behavior varies between workers and nonworkers and between men and women.


The solvation effect component of the phenomenological model of solvent effects is applied to ET(30), the molar transition energy of the Dimroth–Reichardt betaine, in binary aqueous–organic solvents. The dependence of ET(30) on x2, the mole fraction of organic cosolvent, can be quantitatively described for all 17 systems studied. New data are given for 9 of these systems. It is found that a 1-parameter model suffices to describe the composition dependence of the highly polar cosolvents, whereas a 2-parameter model is needed to account for other cosolvents, which yield a nonhyperbolic composition dependence. The solvation parameters, which are exchange equilibrium constants, yield correlations suggesting their positive dependence on cosolvent hydrophobicity and electron-pair donor ability.


Department of Psychiatric-Neuro-Imaging-Genetics Laboratory (PNG-Lab), Wenzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China; Department of Psychiatry, Linyi Mental Health Centre, Linyi, Shandong 271000, China; Department of Psychiatry, Sixth Hospital of Changchun City, Changchun, Jilin 134000, China; Department of Psychiatry, Jining Medical University, Jining, Shandong 272191, China; Department of Psychiatric Neuroimaging, Genetic and Comorbidity Laboratory, Tianjin Mental Health Centre, Tianjin Anding Hospital, Tianjin 300222, China; Department of Neurology, Zoucheng People's Hospital, Jining Medical University Affiliated Zoucheng People's Hospital, Zoucheng, Shandong 273500, China; Department of Pharmacy, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, China.


We study in this paper the resolution of a drift chamber, through the calculation of the drift time dependence on the ionizing particle position. In order to do so we calculate the electric field inside the chamber and we integrate the movement equation for the ionization -
produced electrons.
We conclude that the chamber response is non-linear for certain incident particle trajectories and that software corrections should be made in the off-line analysis.


For further improvement of osseo-integration of bone crystal with a dental implant, a design optimization study is carried out for various holes inside its body to deliver bioactive materials and the effect of bioactive material injection on the bone crystal growing. When bioactive material is absorbed, the bone crystal can grow into holes, which would increase the strength of implant bonding as well as a surface integration. The stress concentrations near the uppermost outlet holes were reduced with increasing the number of outlet holes. A design improvement in the uppermost outlet was shown to be effective in reducing the stress concentration. For design parameters under consideration in this study, total area of outlet of 6.38 mm 2 and maximum stress of 1.114 MPa, which corresponds to type 6-C. It is due to the minimization of maximum stress and total area of outlet. The design of the outlet facing down was more effective in reducing the maximum stress value compared with a horizontal symmetry.


The DCM scheme is exploited as the modulation Scheme for high-data rate transmission in the MB-OFDM system. However, since the DCM modulated symbols are repeatedly fed into the IFFT block, the MB-OFDM system has a high PAPR problem. In this paper, improved DCM is proposed for PAPR reduction in the MB-OFDM systems. The proposed scheme uses a circular shifting operation of the gray coded 16-QAM constellation to reduce the PAPR. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme has a better PAPR performance than DCM.


ABSTRACT Visual working memory (VWM) relies on a distributed cortical network. Yet, the extent to which individual cortical areas, like early visual cortex and intraparietal sulcus, are essential to VWM storage remains debated. Here, we reanalyze key datasets from two independent labs to address three topics at the forefront of current-day VWM research: Resiliency of mnemonic representations against visual distraction, the role of attentional priority in memory, and brain–behavior relationships. By utilizing different analysis approaches, each designed to test different aspects of mnemonic coding, our results provide a comprehensive perspective on the role of early visual and intraparietal areas. We emphasize the importance of analysis choices, and how a thorough understanding of the principles they test is crucial for unraveling the distributed mechanisms of VWM. Consequently, we caution against the idea of a singular essential storage area, which could limit our comprehension of the VWM system.


The invention discloses a combined hydrogenation method. Reaction effluent of a medium and high pressure hydrogenation device is separated in a high pressure separator of the medium and high pressure hydrogenation device, high fraction oil enters a low pressure separator, one part of the separated high fraction gas enters a recycle hydrogen compressor to serve as recycle hydrogen to return to a reactor of the medium and high pressure hydrogenation device, and the other part of the separated high fraction gas is dissolved in a liquid-solid two-phase hydrogenation material, so that a liquid-solid two-phase hydrogenation device is not provided with a new hydrogen compressor, and investment is saved.


This paper proposes a new RTL power estimation method based on power contour model. This model realizes an accurate and efficient power estimation. The experimental results show that the max error is reduced by 56.19%, and RMS error is also reduced by 3.41% from the conventional table-based RTL power estimation.


Theoretical modeling in any engineering design is of paramount importance as it provides the interrelationship between variables being analyzed in a given condition. With regards to the design of an electromagnetic spherical actuator, torque modeling is crucial as it correlates the input parameters such as current to the output mechanical torque. In this paper, a new approach in torque formulation for this class of spherical actuator employing the magnetic dipole moment principle is being discussed. Derivation from first principle and the extension of this novel method in the acquisition of the resultant torque induced on the rotor is presented. The proposed approach circumvents the need for electromagnetic energy analysis within the air-gap between the rotor and stator poles and henceforth providing a direct computation of the resultant torque. The validity and soundness of this unique approach was verified against numerical results from the 3-D finite element model and empirical data.


Many university engineering courses require students to work in small groups to complete a class project. This experience is often valuable for students going into an industrial setting where group projects are the norm. Learning to function in a group environment can be challenging itself, but the addition of technology as a medium of communication can often create as many obstacles as solutions. At Wichita State University, an Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering class (Lean Manufacturing) implemented a group project using two methods of group communication face-to-face (F2F) and computer-mediated communication (CMC). Students were randomly assigned to complete a semester-long project in either a F2F or CMC group. Those in the F2F groups were instructed to meet in person to complete the project. Participants in CMC groups were instructed to communicate with each other only through electronic means, such as e-mail, electronic bulletin board, or virtual chat.


Objective To observe the nervous system pathological characteristics and electrophysiological changes in hyperthyroidism patients and to explore the clinical applicable value of electrophysiology in patients with nerve myopathy related to hyperthyroidism.Methods Sixty patients with hyperthyroidism were carried out with intimate inquest for nervous system case history and physical check-up.Nerve conduction(NC)and electromyography(EMG)were done in all patients.Part of the patients were given nerve replicate stimulation detection.Results Sixty patients appeared various nervous system pathological manifestation.EMG of part of the patients was abnormal,which manifested as follows:shortened duration of motor unit action potential(MUAPs),increased multi-phase wave,short amplitude of wave,interfered phase,pathologic interference phase etc.The shortened duration of MUAPs was especially obvious.The occurrence rate of shortened MUAPs duration in males was higher significantly than that in females when lightly shrinking.But it did't have a matter with course of disease length.Small part of the patients that had a very long course of the disease appeared peripheral nervous damage,which manifestation was mostly abnormal feeling conduction.Conclusion Patients with hyperthyroidism may appear nerve-muscle damage,and the use of electrophysiology can assist to diagnose.Meanwhile,electrophysiology can also detect subclinical hyperthyroidism myopathy and neuropathy.Changes in duration of MUAPs might be a more sensitive and objective index of muscle damage.


Oxidation of polyarsenides with elemental Te or reduction of As2Te3 with potassium both yield large arsenic telluride anions, one of which, As10Te32–, has been structurally characterized.


The project is implementing a new principle of non-invasive diagnostics and biomedical research using an artificial, multi-sensory, trained analytical system to monitor the professional fitness of military personnel in terms of exhaled air condensate, in which significant metabolic products are present. The results of the studies show that the subjects are divided into groups of different adaptability and sensitivity to extreme conditions. The proposed method based on the multi-sensory trained diagnostic system allows non-invasive instrumental control and selection of spe- cialists for their functioning in extreme conditions of high mountains.


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Silvia Lisa, Beatriz Domingo, Javier Martínez, Sabine Gilch, Juan F. Llopis, Hermann M. Schätzl, and María Gasset This article has been withdrawn by the authors. We have become aware of errors in the preparation of the following figures. There were several duplications in Fig. 2A. Lanes 2–5 of the MoPrP immunoblot from HpL cells were reused in lanes 2–5 of the HaPrP immunoblot from GpL cells. The M205S MoPrP mutant expressed in HpL cells was reused as the M212S MoPrP mutant in HpL cells. The actin immunoblot from HpL cells expressing HaPrP was reused as the actin immunoblot from GpL cells expressing MoPrP. The mock transfected lanes from GpL cells were duplicated. Finally, lanes 4 and 5 and lanes 6 and 7 of the actin immunoblot from GpL cells expressing HaPrP were duplicated. Lane 1 of Fig. 2B was duplicated in lane 2 of the same figure and lane 1 of Fig. 2C. In Fig. 2G, lanes 2 and 5 are duplicates. In Fig. 3, panels P and O were duplicated. Fig. 4A contained undeclared gel splices. However, the original data from replicated experiments performed by other lab members support the overall findings and conclusions of the study. Given the severity of figure manipulations, the authors have decided to withdraw the article. The authors sincerely apologize to the scientific community for the errors in the published article. The paper with the corrected figures can be obtained by contacting the corresponding author. WITHDRAWALS/RETRACTIONS


Many methods have been proposed for the reduction of single-variable and multi-variable systems having ordinary denominators and those having delays in their numerators and denominators. In this paper, an algorithm for this purpose is proposed that can be easily used by anybody with not too advanced knowledge of mathematics yielding optimal reduced models. This algorithm makes use of the symbolic capabilities of Computer Algebraic Systems (CAS) like Mathematica, MATLAB and Maple to carry out the model reduction. An advantage of the algorithm is that it can be easily automated and used for rational, irrational, retarded SISO and MIMO systems.


Electron temperature and number density are investigated employing hollow cathode dc discharge in <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">${\rm O}_{2}$</tex></formula>. Electron temperature is found to decrease from 3 to 1.85 eV as the pressure increases from 75 to 375 mTorr. Positive and negative ion densities are determined as a function of plasma gas pressure. <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$I{-}V$</tex></formula> curves are evaluated employing the Allen–Boyd–Reynolds (ABR), current balance, orbital motion limited, and the floating potential (FP) methods. The ABR method is found to yield the highest positive ion number density, whereas the FP method results for <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$n_{+}$</tex></formula> are extremely small for any meaningful data. Present results are compared to those obtained employing global simulation method as well as with other experimental groups. <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">${\rm O}_{2}$</tex></formula> electronegativity results are compared with other experimental and theoretical groups. Optical emission spectroscopy is employed and intensity ratio for the 777 and 845-nm lines is obtained for comparison with other groups concluding that <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">${\rm O}^{-}$</tex></formula> is the dominant species.


Since 1983, 38 sets of GEC chopper control EMU have been operated on Seoul subway Line 2. But, part failure & maintenance cost of EMU's electric control device that was operated for long-term have increased. Because of part sterilization & difficulty of part supply, many problems for Electric control device of EMU maintenance have been occurred. In this study, We developed new electric control device that was improved performance for maintenance & safety operation.


The article is devoted to the study of the characteristics of oncology patients' psychoemotional status. This topic is relevant, since the number of detected cases of cancer is growing annually in Russia and around the world, the annual mortality from which in Russia alone is more than 160,000 people per year. It is outlined that the treatment of oncology patients is a complex and long process involving a wide variety of medical specialties. It is emphasized that the therapy for any malignant tumor is discussed and agreed upon by a special council, which usually includes a surgeon, oncologist, radiologist, chemotherapist, immunologist. However, many researchers acknowledge that often patients also need the help of a psychologist as a positive attitude can significantly help in the fight against a formidable disease. The study of psychoemotional aspects of oncology patients has already been carried out earlier. However, in 2020, the world is faced with a new threat – a new coronavirus infection, as a result of which the entire way of providing medical care has changed. The authors pay special attention to the fact that due to quarantine measures, even cancer centers were closed on a periodic basis, leaving, temporarily, patients in need without qualified assistance. It is the fact that determines the purpose of the work – the analysis of various aspects of oncology patients' psychoemotional status. The objects of the study were 300 oncology patients, men and women, who were divided into 3 groups of 100 people, depending on their age: 18–40, 41–60, 60+. Then there was a further division into subgroups, depending on whether the oncology was newly diagnosed. The authors believe that the study is interesting since it was carried out in 2 stages – before the period of coronavirus infection and with its spread. The levels of situational and personal anxiety in patients were determined, various depressive states were identified, and patients' main fears were indicated. The authors come to the conclusion that during a period of unfavorable epidemiological situation, the psychoemotional state of the patients worsened: the level of anxiety increased, various depressive states developed, and patients' fears changed. The data obtained are of certain interest, both for practicing oncologists and psychologists, and for health professionals.


The principal aim of this edited collection is to offer fresh perspectives on children's creative narratives and to explore what these reveal about their imagination, their thought processes and how they understand the world. Accordingly, the contributors to the collection draw on detailed ethnographic case studies, naturalistic observations, conversations and playful interactions with children ranging in age from two to eleven years to develop theoretical insights that challenge traditional accounts of creativity and narrative. Our contributors include social scientists and postdoctoral researchers, educators and creative artists who are also academics and educators. A leitmotiv of the collection is that a proper understanding of creative narratives has to be an interdisciplinary endeavour if it is to do justice to the rich, complex, multi-modal and embodied nature of the children's thought processes as revealed through their drawing and story-telling, music making, dance, drama and imaginative play. A second theme that unites many of the chapters is that the narratives that emerge during the course of imaginary play episodes and classroom dialogue come about through collaborative, improvisational processes. Interpretation and analyses of these processes draws on socio-cultural accounts of creativity and creative development. These challenge more traditional accounts of creativity as an attribute or talent that belongs only to certain gifted individuals and that leads to exceptional, innovatory performance in domains such as the creative arts, science, mathematics and literature. As Iram and John Siraj-Blatchford mention in the Foreword to this collection, it is customary for contemporary accounts to refer to the distinction between everyday creativity, or creativity with a little 'c', and big 'C' creativity. The latter represents those grand endeavours that give rise to historically significant scientific and artistic innovation, or to cultural and theoretical paradigm shifts. This collection is about creativity with a little 'c', although for the children themselves, the narratives, creative acts and artistic outputs described in various chapters may well have had much more personal and emotional significance than seems warranted by this notion. Contributors to the collection comprehensively deconstruct historical accounts based on decontextual analyses of children's creative outputs. In the past, this approach gave rise to theories that described creative development as progressing through a sequence of age-related stages. A third, overarching theme that runs through the collection, therefore, is the argument that if we are to understand the situated nature of children's creative activity it is important to examine the social, affective and cognitive processes that take place when they are immersed in such activity. Many of the contributors to the collection use a case study approach to support this argument, and offer detailed and careful interpretive, phenomenological and/or conversational analyses of these processes that draw on observations of individual children, or pairs and groups of children. The case studies draw on recordings of the running narratives and self-talk of children engaged in self-directed, creative activity. These demonstrate that for the children concerned, the meanings and interpretation of their creative outputs changed and evolved from moment to moment, such that the end product of the activity underwent many transformations. Again, as Iram and John SirajBlatchford point out, van Oers's claim (1998) that the nature of children's creative activity can be described as progressive continuous re-contextualisation seems to capture the essence of many of these case studies. This also means that any 'after the event' interpretation or judgement of the end product itself is bound to be inaccurate as it will fail to take into account the sophisticated, transformational nature of the thought processes that contributed to its generation. A final theme that many contributors comment on is the challenge to conventional educational practices implied by these re-conceptualisations of children's creativity, and the recognition of the role and influence of popular culture and the mass media on their imagination. These contributors argue that formal Deleted: principle


Since 1981 when we marketed world's first MOS color video camera1), we have been continuously improving the performance of this line of video cameras in order to match the market needs year by year2). We recognize, however, the performance we have achieved is not satisfactory enough.


: Simulation of ground-water flow and fate of contaminants in the subsurface environment constitutes a major phase of most environmental assessment and site remediation studies. These simulation studies yield information on spatial and temporal distributions of contaminants in the subsurface media. An important use of this information is to conduct exposure assessment studies. Spatial and temporal distributions of both chemical concentrations and exposed populations render this integrated exposure analysis task rather difficult. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), on the other hand, provide a platform in which layered, spatially distributed databases can be manipulated with ease, thereby simplifying exposure analysis tasks significantly. In this paper, we describe procedures that combine the simulation models and demographic databases under a GIS platform to automate the exposure assessment phase of a typical health assessment study. Procedures developed herein significantly simplify the post-processing phase of the analysis, and render the overall task more 'user friendly.' A site-specific application is included as a demonstration of the proposed process.


Chronic lymphedema is a devastating problem for the patient and major financial and social burden. There are various medical and surgical management options available. One of the methods of treatment of chronic lymphedema is liposuction. We have used a novel modification of liposuction adhering to the principles to help in better aspiration of fat and fluid.


disease, depressive symptoms, and sleep quality. MT may have the potential for improving other diseases, but there is not enough evidence at present. Most importantly, no specific adverse effect or harmful phenomenon occurred in any of the studies, and MT was well tolerated by almost all patients. investigate the effects of music during cesarean section under regional anesthesia on both maternal and infant outcomes, in various ethnic pregnant women, and with adequate sample sizes. has and on global state, general symptoms, negative symptoms, depression, anxiety, functioning, and musical engagement. Significant dose–effect relationships were identified for general, negative, and depressive symptoms, as well as functioning, with explained variance ranging from 73% to 78%. Small effect sizes for these outcomes are achieved after 3–10, large effects after 16–51 sessions. The findings suggest that music therapy is an effective treatment which helps people with psychotic and non-psychotic severe mental disorders to improve global state, symptoms, and functioning. Slight improvements can be seen with a few therapy sessions, but longer courses or more frequent sessions are needed to achieve more substantial benefits.


We consider protocols where users communicate with multiple servers to perform a computation on the users' data. An adversary exerts semi-honest control over many of the parties but its view is differentially private with respect to honest users. Prior work described protocols that required multiple rounds of interaction or offered privacy against a computationally bounded adversary. Our work presents limitations of non-interactive protocols that offer privacy against unbounded adversaries. We show these protocols demand exponentially more samples for some learning and estimation tasks than centrally private counterparts. This means performing as well as the central model requires interactivity or computational differential privacy, or both.


Purpose: To determine the recommended starting doses and pharmacokinetics of irinotecan in cancer patients with impaired liver function treated on a weekly schedule. Experimental Design: Patients with solid tumors who had impaired liver function were enrolled into four groups based on baseline serum total bilirubin and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT): Group 1 (n = 19): total bilirubin 1.5 to 3.0 × institutional upper limit of normal (IULN) and ALT/AST ≤5.0 × IULN; Group 2 (n = 7): total bilirubin 3.1 to 5.0 × IULN and ALT/AST ≤5.0 × IULN; Group 3 (n = 6): total bilirubin ≤1.5 × IULN and ALT/AST 5.1 to 20.0 × IULN; Group 4 (n = 10): total bilirubin 1.5 to 3.0 × IULN and ALT/AST 5.1 to 20.0 × IULN. Irinotecan was given as a 90-minute i.v. infusion weekly for the first 4 weeks in each 6-week cycle at starting doses which escalated from 40 to as much as 75 mg/m2. After the first treatment, doses were adjusted based on individual patient toxicities. Starting doses for patients with hepatic dysfunction were derived from the maximum tolerated doses noted in the four hepatic dysfunction groups. Results: Forty-two patients were treated. Among the most frequent adverse events were neutropenia (41%, grades 3/4), diarrhea (15%, grades 3/4), nausea (10%, grade 3), and vomiting (5%, grades 3/4). Two patients died from drug-induced neutropenic sepsis. Two patients had objective tumor responses (complete response, liver metastases from unknown primary; partial response, colon cancer). Hepatic dysfunction reduced irinotecan clearance while increasing relative exposure to the active metabolite, 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38). SN-38 exposures in patients receiving doses of 40 to 75 mg/m2 were comparable to exposures in patients with normal liver function treated with a starting dose of 125 mg/m2. Conclusions: Irinotecan starting doses that seem to be safe for hepatically impaired patients treated with the weekly schedule are 60, 50, 60, and 40 mg/m2 for groups 1 to 4, respectively. At these starting doses, exposure to SN-38 and the adverse event profile are similar to that observed in patients with normal liver function and antitumor activity can be observed.


We perform a power spectral analysis of magnetic field fluctuations measured by the Rosetta spacecraft's magnetometer at comet 67P/Churyumov‐Gerasimenko. We interpret the power spectral signatures in terms of plasma turbulent processes and discover that different turbulent processes are prominent during different active phases of the comet. During the weakly active phase of the comet, dominant injection is prominent at low frequencies near 10−2 Hz, while partial energy cascade or dispersion is prominent at high frequencies near 10−1 Hz. During the intermediately active phase, uniform injection is prominent at low frequencies, while partial energy cascade or dispersion is prominent at high frequencies. During the strongly active phase of the comet, we find that partial energy cascade or dissipation is dominant at low frequencies, while partial energy cascade, dissipation, or dispersion is dominant at high frequencies. We infer that the temporal variations of the turbulent processes occur due to the evolution of the plasma environment of the comet as it orbits the Sun.


The utilization of S-wave velocity has become an essential task in seismic reflection surveys for lithological properties of subsurface materials. In this research, we applied horizontal component of a common scatter point (CSP) gather produced in the application of the Equivalent Offset Migration (EOM) method to obtain S-wave wavefields. As an AVO analysis of both vertical and horizontal components of the CSP gathers estimates physical properties of subsurface reflectors, we use the full waveform inversion (FWI) technique to estimate the physical properties directly with observed waveforms. Our simple numerical experiments have shown high accuracy, the applicability, and the validity of our method. We would like to propose the processing of CSP gathers with FWI as a method of lithological interpretation of subsurface materials.


This paper deals with the control of a moving mass actuated missile in the presence of state and control constraints. Quadratic programming which is a convex optimization formulation is employed for control computation. Planar equations of motion of a moving mass actuated missile are obtained in closed form using Lagrangian approach. These equations are analytically linearized and used for control purposes. Control is computed at each instant of time using the time-to-go information. Results obtained from closed loop nonlinear simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the controller.


STUDIES OF the necessary ingredients in nutrient solutions for the growth of excised plant embryos in artificial culture have been carried on for at least 40 years (Brink and Cooper, 1947; La Rue, 1936; White, 1931). Among other essential components has been an unknown "embryo factor" which has promoted the growth of immature embryos of Datura in vitro. Non-autoclaved coconut milk was the original source of this "embryo factor" (van Overbeek et al., 1942). Later Blakeslee and Satina (1944) reported a powdered malt extract solution, sterilized by Seitz filtration rather than by heat, as being an effective substitute for coconut milk. When the malt extract was sterilized by autoclaving, however, an inhibition of the growth of immature embryos was observed. In addition, Sanders (1947) observed that Seitz filtered malt interfered with the germination of Datura embryos, decreased root formation, and inhibited plumule growth. Heaton (1929) reported a substance obtained from malt which inhibited the multiplication of animal tissue cultured in vitro. Medawar, Robinson, and Robinson (1943) further described this inhibitory substance. The study reported in this paper is an attempt to throw still further light on the inhibiting effect of autoclaved malt extract. MATERIALS AND METHODS.-With the exception of the first experiment in which five species of Datura were used, the plant embryos were obtained from capsules resulting from the self-pollination of a single species of Datura, D. stramonium. The basic medium contained mineral salts and sucrose mixed according to a slightly modified form of the Randolph and Cox (1943) formula. The culture vials (12 X 50 mm.) containing 1.5 ml. of the basic medium were sterilized by autoclaving. With the exception of the autoclaved malt solution, all the test solutions were sterilized by Seitz filtration and subsequently added aseptically to the 1.5 ml. of the basic medium. The dissection technique involved removal of the seeds from the capsule, excision of the embryos from the seed, and immersion of the embryos into the sterile nutrient medium.


Cryparin is a cell wall hydrophobin abundantly expressed in Cryphonectria parasitica, the ascomycete fungus causing chestnut blight. In this study we compare the cryparin-minus phenotype of a previously characterized knockout strain to that of silenced strains obtained by the transformation of the fungus with a strong elicitor of post-transcriptional gene silencing. We show that cryparin expression can be silenced very efficiently and that the knockout phenotype is similar to the phenotypes obtained through gene silencing. Silenced strains were also experimentally infected with Chryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV-1) with no obvious effect on cryparin expression. We also tested the possibility that p29, a protease expressed by the CHV-1 genome, might act as a suppressor of gene silencing in plants.


Herein, we report the first use of gluthathione (GSH)-responsive nanogel-based carriers for mitochondria-targeted delivery of functional proteins and antibodies. We further demonstrated the successful co-encapsulation of a protein and small molecule (RNase A/Doxorubicin) in dual-cargo nanocapsules for mitochondria-targeted combination therapy.


The integration of humanity and digital technology has been becoming a new approach for social science research or even gradually forming a new discipline in academy. To understand currently developed knowledge structure of "Digital Humanity", this study utilized keyword analysis and social network analysis on investigating scientific papers published in the field of "Digital Humanity". The methodology used in this study is capable of creating three-dimensional "Research focus parallelship network" and "Keyword Co-occurrence Network", together with two-dimensional knowledge map. The networks and knowledge maps can be depicted differently by choosing different information as network actor, i.e. country, institute, paper and keyword, to reflect knowledge structures form macro, meso, to micro-levels. The quantitative exploration provides a way to visualize and assess the development of "Digital Humanity" to encourage the formation of this emerging research field.


ABSTRACT Thermal desorption gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TDGC/MS) was used in the field to rapidly screen and identify PCB and PAH soil samples at three hazardous waste sites. Field TDGC/M...


This SpL ELISA can be used to detect specific antibodies in various animal species including human, mouse, rat, dog, rabbit, chicken, monkey, pig and hamster [1]. On the interaction between protein L and immunoglobulins of various species.


Primary Source: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation [8] Primary Source: A Virginian Responds to Dunmore's Proclamation [9] The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge [10] Mary Slocumb at Moores Creek Bridge: The Birth of a Legend [11] A Call for Independence [12] Primary Source: Minutes on The Halifax Resolves [13] Primary Source: The Declaration of Independence [14] North Carolina's Signers of the Declaration of Independence [15]


In this paper, some considerations on the effects of the complex phenomenon of soil-structure interaction on the design and analysis of vibration control systems for structures subjected to earthquake excitation are presented.


* Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat. Michael Awkward. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 207 pp. $24.95 hbk. Michael Awkward's insightful Burying Don Imus makes a succinct and invaluable contribution in the venerable scholarly tradition of challenging simplistic but widely accepted notions - in this case, the conventional wisdom fostered through one of our age's recent media obsessions of the moment. Awkward's concern here is the question, "How much does it serve black Americans, who have been assaulted far too many times by language much more offensive than Imus's, to have positioned him as 'what evil look[s] like'?" The language in question is radio talk jock Imus' reference to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy headed ho's" in 2007 on his then-highly rated radio and cable-simulcast show. The backlash led to the veteran broadcaster's firing by both his radio network (CBS) and his cabletelevision network (MSNBC). Although his show returned on other broadcast and cable outlets less than a year later, his prominence has yet to approach what it was before the controversy. Back then, he was, in Awkward's estimation, "the phenomenally influential Imus, an originator of what came to be known as the 'shock jock' formula, who in his more socially responsible late-life manifestations . . . swayed public opinion about presidential elections, autism research, and the medical treatment by disabled soldiers returning to the United States from Iraq." In Burying Don Imus, Awkward examines "why so many . . . felt that Imus's symbolic burial was utterly necessary." He concludes that the talk-show host's "exile, while it served as a racial rallying point in the short term, will aid our pursuit of psychic healing very little, if at all." That is, in part, because Imus' demonization "allowed representatives of powerful newspapers, newsmagazines, and multimedia corporations yet again to avoid reckoning with the soul-deep, centuries-old suffering that troubles our interactions with members of other races and with one another and haunts our dreams," he writes. Awkward, who is the Gayl A. Jones Collegiate Professor of Afro-American Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan, happened to be teaching a graduate course on contemporary black American novels at the time the controversy that culminated with Imus' banishment erupted. He draws upon one of the novels most central to that course - Corregidora, Jones' 1975 novel dealing with slavery's impact on generations of its descendants - to characterize the way Imus' craggy visage became the face of evil for the nation in 2007. "Put simply," Awkward writes, "Imus was made to stand in for millions of well-known and faceless whites whom blacks (and liberal and progressive whites) want desperately to identify, put on trial, and excoriate because of . . . centuries of racially motivated sins." Awkward, whose previous books include Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality, says that he was a regular viewer of the cable-TV simulcast of the weekday "Imus in the Morning" radio show for years before the controversy of 2007. …


This thesis examines time and cost consumption under two different planning processes. One project located in Sweden and the other in Germany. The main reason why the comparison was done in relation to Germany is because of an article on paragraph 34.This paragraph has recently been in Swedish media and construction companies in Sweden are requesting a change in the planning process to make it easier and faster to build houses.The population is growing, especially in the larger cities and the buildings fail to meet the demands required by the city. The main reason being that they build far too few homes because of an inefficient planning process.The planning process for these two projects has been carried out through analysis of their planning documents. In addition, interviews were conducted with the Swedish Construction Organization, Sweden's municipalities and NCC to obtain their view on how the Swedish planning process works.The results showed that the planning process was 1.9 years longer in Sweden. The program period took the longest time in Sweden and in Germany the program period and the consultation period took equal time. The investigation revealed that the final price to the customer is about 51% less in Germany. Furthermore, the construction price index is lower in Germany and they have a more efficient product development. With a shorter planning process the cost of capital can be reduced and from the customer's perspective, this means that the final price can be lowered.There are many reasons as to why the buildings aren't meeting the demands despite the housing shortage. One of them is that it takes too long in the handling of documentations in the different stages of the planning process. In addition, the process of appeal takes a very long a time and one suggestion is that a fewer instances would hurry up the planning process. Further recommendations would be that the guidelines in the regulations should be clearer and easier to follow and not to plan in detail more than necessarily.The Swedish planning process needs to change to accelerate the housing construction. Fewer instances during the appeal process, better guidelines in PBL and clearer management in municipalities, create a more uniform set of rules across Sweden and no detailed plan if it is not necessary. These recommendations would improve the Swedish planning process.


The telescopic joint type robot for superhigh voltage live cleaning is used in cleaning. The robot has hand claw connected to small arm via the first joint, hand claw rotating oil cylinder with piston rod hinged to hand claw and cylinder hinged to small arm, small arm connected to the large arm via the second joint, small arm rotating oil cylinder with piston rod hinged to small arm and cylinder hinged to large arm, large arm fixed onto the rotary platform, rotary platform fixed onto movable carrier, automatic hydraulic leveling system and cradle head on the movable carrier and remotely controlled operating terminal for data exchange with central control system via radio communication. The present invention has less joints, simple structure, light weight and easy working and assembling, and may position ceramic insulator accurately.


BACKGROUND
The major fraction of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) depends on blood glucose concentration and erythrocyte lifespan, and consequently, erythrocyte indices may affect HbA1c; our objective was to study this effect in dogs.

METHODS
Blood samples from two (healthy and anaemic) age- and sex-matched, normoglycaemic populations were prospectively included. Advia 120 and Capillarys 2 flex-piercing were used for the haematological and HbA1c analyses, respectively.

RESULTS
Lower mean HbA1c was found in dogs with regenerative (n = 8, 0.88 ± 0.58%) and non-regenerative anaemia (n = 12, 1.36 ± 0.56%) compared to healthy ones (n = 40, 1.68 ± 0.48%); the difference was significant (p < 0.001) between the healthy dogs and those with regenerative anaemia. HbA1c was significantly correlated (p < 0.05) with red blood cell count (r = 0.506), haemoglobin (r = 0.474), haematocrit (r = 0.467), mean corpuscular volume (r = -0.289), mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (r = 0.284), red cell distribution width (r = -0.286) and reticulocytes (rs  = -0.542).

CONCLUSION
Anaemia, particularly if regenerative, can lower HbA1c. The significant correlation between HbA1c and erythrocyte indices likely reflects the effect of erythrocyte turnover on HbA1c.


Eleven species of variously sympatric species of skinks were studied in southern Luzon, Philippines. In snout-vent length these species varied from 27 to 117 mm. Species diversity was found to be positively correlated with vegetation density. The food analyses were based on a total of 2481 adult specimens collected in monthly samples of about 30 individuals of each species for a period of one year. Excised stomachs contained 10,739 food items. Food size, volume, and seasonal representation were stressed in the analyses of each species. Additionally, seasonal insect abundance data were obtained for all of the major microhabitats of the lizard species. Annual abdominal fat accumulation and degradation cycles were investigated in all species. We found almost no evidence of food niche partitioning in most species investigated; exceptions were species that lived in unusual environments (arboreal, semiaquatic, marine Iittoral) inhabited by single species. However, food selection may be playing a role in the distribution of some terrestrial species living in close contact on the floor of local moist evergreen forests. There is no clear basis for suggesting that prey were selected on the basis of nutritional value. Nor was there a significant correlation between predator and prey size or volume-partly because several species frequently fed on inordinately large prey. Seasonal switching of prey types was common among almost all the species. The only exceptions were those that lived in very stable environments, such as the marine littoral. In all instances, such switching could be shown to be directly related to local insect abundances. *Walter Auffenberg is Curator of Herpetology, Florida State Museum,University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611; his son Troy is an undergraduate student at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611. AUFFENBERG, W., and T. AUFFENBERG. 1988. Resource partitioning in a community of sympatric Philippine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae). Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci. 32(2):151-


By applying the methods of testing,documentary data and mathematical statistics,a research was conducted about the physical fitness of the high level intellectuals in colleges and universities of Sanming.The results show that: the physical fitness level of the females is far better than that of the males,with the acceptance rate of 75.3% for the women against 54.6% for the men.More cases of overweight,obesity and hypertension are found among the males.


With the model of exponential growth of cancers, it is possible to calculate the doubling time (DT) of a tumor from the recurrent nodule in the operation site. It is reasonable to suppose that the recurrence has its origin in a contemporaneous uni‐ or paucicellular hematogenic metastasis of the reparative granuloma. The average DT value of 78 cutaneous recurrences of operated mammary cancers is 40 days, with extremes of 3 to 211 days. The distribution of the DT values is bimodal, corresponding to two varieties of mammary cancer, one of quick growth with a DT of 25 days, the other of slow growth with an average DT of 93 days. In the rapid‐growth group encephaloid cancers have a lower DT than scirrhous cancers.


Availability, flexibility, and productivity are the m ajor reasons luring m anufacturers to opt for Flexible M anufacturing Systems (FMSs). Experience has shown that the equipment and hardware alone does no t get the production facility to this goal. Scheduling and production planning, especially loading, plays an im portant role in determining the efficiency o f the production facility. This research deals with loading a FM S, with reliability considerations. It is desirable to run a production plant at 100% reliability. However, the costs involved in increasing the reliability varies in a non-linear trend. Realising the importance o f the reliability factor in production planning, three mathematical models were developed. Two o f the models were full loading problems, while the third is a partial loading problem. W ith the objective o f minimizing the tooling costs, the larger models partition the demand into batches, assign batches to machines, assign tools to machines, and determine the location o f the spare tools. The smaller model assumes that the batches are assigned to machines, by other means, and so this model assigns tools to machines and determines optimal spares. Although newer and true FM S have tool sharing capability, the older systems do not. M athematical models were developed for both these cases. F o r the first time, the reliability factor has been coupled directly with the mathematical loading model. Hypothetical, but realistic problems have been solved using the model.


This executive order by Governor Mark Sanford orders that a new primary election be held for Lee County Council District 4 race in Bishopville.


Iterative learning control (ILC) enables a perfect compensation for systems that perform the same task over and over again. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate practical applicability of two various state-of-the-art ILC algorithms to point-to-point positioning systems. A simple Frequency domain ILC approach is exploited focusing on systems with exactly repeating motion tasks. Furthermore, flexible ILC is employed to enable learning also for non-repeating tasks. Particular steps providing a seamless transfer from theory and algorithms to practical implementation in a real-time environment by means of industrial-grade SW and HW are given. They may serve as a practical example of a workflow suitable for a wide range of motion control applications. Potential benefits of the learning-type control in comparison with conventional feedback and feedforward control are discussed as well.


Ketamine is an injectable anesthetic that inhibits n-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. At doses smaller than the anesthetic dose, it has recently been shown to decrease neuropathic pain, such as postherpetic neuralgia, which does not respond to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or opioid analgesics. Furthermore, its main metabolite, norketamine, has also been reported to contribute to the analgesic effect. However, since ketamine is available only in an injectable form, the development of new formulations for outpatient use has been eagerly awaited. With this in mind, we developed non-injectable ketamine preparations for neuropathic pain relief, determined their theoretical dosage regimen, and prepared information on their proper use.The non-injectable preparations we made were oral tablets (wet-granulation, Formulation 1 ; direct compression, Formulation 2), sublingual tablets, a suppository, and nasal drops (spray). Upon performing various pharmaceutical property tests on the two types of oral tablets, we found that Formulation 1 was superior to Formulation 2 in this respect. We also measured the plasma concentrations of ketamine and norketamine for each ketamine preparation after administering them to three healthy volunteers, finding that the bioavailability of the oral tablets was the lowest at approximately 20%. The bioavailability of both the sublingual tablets and the suppository was approximately 30%, and that of the nasal drops approximately 45%. Next, after administering 50 mg of each of the preparations, their analgesic effects were predicted by NMDA receptor occupancy with the results suggesting that their analgesic effects were almost equal. Therapy with oral tablets 50 mg tid was predicted to produce a 10% or greater decrease in pain score and when they were administered according to a predetermined regimen to 7 patients with neuropathic pain who gave prior consent, the pain score decreased by 58±12%. Since this value was near the maximum decrease of 72%, a value estimated from simulated plasma concentrations, this dosage regimen seemed to be adequate. A study on the metabolic properties of ketamine suggested that in its n-demethylation (the major metabolic pathway for ketamine), CYP 2 B 6 may represent high-affinity activity, whereas CYP 2 C 9 and CYP 3 A 4 may represent low affinity.Hospitals make their own preparations in cases where the problem cannot be resolved by commercially available drugs but such in-hospital preparations have not been sufficiently studied for safety and effectiveness. In this study, in addition to developing various ketamine preparations for home treatment, we measured changes in plasma concentrations, estimated the analgesic effects, and prepared information on the proper use of ketamine as an analgesic. Our study significantly contributed to the enhancement of QOL in patients with neuropathic pain.


The article provides readers with а dеsсriрtiоn of оnе of the most ancient, imроrtаnt аnd rich Dаgеstаni mаnusсriрt соllесtiоns that belonged to Hajji-Ibrahim from the Ауаr village of Urada, the rеnоwnеd local Muslim scholar, madrasa teacher аnd роlitiсiаn of the еightееnth century who took part in rереlling the аggrеssiоn of Nadir-Shah. This collection inсludеs mоrе thаn 150 mаnusсriрts dаting from the twelfth to the еightееnth сеnturiеs and rеlаting to а wide range of trаditiоnаl scholarly disсiрlinеs such as Islamic law of the Shafi'i school dogmatics, Аrаbiс grammar, logics, Qur'аn exegesis (tafsir). The author is рrераring а detailed catalogue of this unique library.


1. Employment status 2. Employment of foreign workers 3. Express terms 4. Implied terms and duties 5. Terminations and dismissals 6. Unfair dismissal 7. Wrongful dismissal and breach of contract 8. Interaction between unfair dismissal and common law claims 9. Effecting the termination/dismissal 10. Employee claims 11. Employer's counterclaim 12. Negotiating settlements in and out of courts and tribunals Appendices.


This paper presents an algorithm for a distributed constrained optimization problem. The studied problem has a strictly convex objective function, affine constraints, and an undirected and connected communication topology. The algorithm is based on singular perturbation theory, dynamic average consensus, and saddle point dynamics methods to tackle the problem in a fully distributed manner. An analysis of the global optimal solution is presented. Additionally, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it is applied to a simulated energy network by a demonstration of two simulations of the economic dispatch problem.


A novel structure called deep trench structure (DTS) for static induction devices (SIDs) is designed. The use of this structure successfully resolved the parasitic effects and improved the gate-source bias (VGS) of SIDs. A model of parasitic effects is proposed and the process sequence of etching mesa and etching trench is analyzed, which strikingly influence VGS. It has been experimentally indicated that the DTS can cut off the parasitic paths effectively and optimize the device performances.


The murder of David Beaton lies like a great shadow over the Scottish Reformation. But who was this man who inspired such awe and hatred amongst his contemporaries? This is an account of this prince of the Church. Politician, diplomat, landed magnate, and dynast, Beaton was every inch the exemplar of the great Renaissance lord. His powerful personality and driving energy easily dominated the irresolute Arran during the minority of Mary, Queen of Scots. As the ferment of Reformation grew, Beaton came to be seen as the main obstacle to change, a view confirmed with his execution of George Wishart. His murder represents the inexorable culmination not simply of the movement for reform but of two irreconcilable views of Scotland's role.


A series of CexPr1-xO2-δ mixed oxides were synthesized by sol-gel method and characterized by Raman and XRD techniques. When x value was changed from 1.0 to 0.5, only a cubic phase CeO2 was observed. The samples were very well crystallized on decreasing x from 0.50 to 0.99. For CexPr1-xO2-δ samples 465 cm^-1 and 1 150 cm^-1 Raman peaks are attributed to the Raman active F2g mode of CeO2. The broad peak at about 570 cm^-1 in theregion of 0.3≤ x ≤ 0.99 can be linked to lattice defects resulting in oxygen vacancies. The new band at about 195 cm^-1 may be attributed to the asymmetric vibration caused by the formation of oxygen vacancies. Calcina tiontemperatures had great effect on the peak intensity for CeO2 but less effect on Ce0.8Pr0.2O2-δ in Raman spectra. It might be due to the transformation of the colors for the mixed oxides, the insertion of Pr atom into the ceria lattice could enhance the sintering resistance and thermal stability of the mixed oxides.


This study analyses the role of the instructor in the e-learning process fostered by a business game. To achieve this objective, a comparative analysis was conducted with two groups of students regarding their perceptions of the instructor's role in a business game. The first group was composed of 33 participants and facilitated by an instructor in a face-to-face process. The second group was composed of 23 participants and facilitated by the same instructor online. Our results indicate that the students' assessment of the role of the instructor is clearly different in both cases: the face-to-face group valued the relevance of the instructor's role in the learning process more highly than the online group. Our findings also highlight the importance of the instructor's role in improving the students' learning experience and suggest that extra efforts by online instructors are needed to maximize the e-learning process through business games in management training.


Cerium oxide, -COOH, -COOM The method of forming a trench syael isometric illustration (Shallow Trench Isolation) with the abrasive composition.


Selectively doped GexSi1−x/Si strained layer heterostructures have been grown in a single quantum well configuration on 〈001〉‐Si substrate using molecular beam epitaxy. The modulation doping effect has been observed in p‐type structures only; although both n‐ and p‐type double heterostructures were grown. We have investigated the effects of: (i) alloy layer thickness (well width), (ii) doping setback, and (iii) cladding layer dopant concentration, on the hole mobilities. At present, optimum structures show peak hole mobilities in excess of 3300 cm2V−1s−1 at 4.2 K, sheet charge densities of 3.0–14×1011 cm−2, and hole effective mass m*h =0.32±0.03 m0. It is found that the low temperature (T∼10 K) hole mobility, in structure having x=0.2 is relatively insensitive to alloy layer (well) thickness in the range 100 A≲Lw≲Lc; where Lc is the critical thickness marking the transition from strained layer to relaxed, misfit accommodated, alloy growth. For Lw>Lc, misfit dislocation scattering dramatically decreases μh...


In the future, cars will integrate the advantages of intelligent network technology on the basis of car networking applications formed by car bus technology, communication technology, and Internet technology, and be equipped with safer, smarter and more comfortable car control systems. Based on the Internet of Vehicles technology, this paper proposes a car sharing speed safety system, analyzes its structure, composition and working principle, and expounds the advantages of the application of the system in the Internet of Vehicles technology. The application of the shared speed safety system will play a good supporting role in the unmanned driving, peer optimization and safe driving of future cars.


Traditional recombination technology of bacteria chromosome and its limitation were introduced. The definition of Red recombination technology is put forward: a method of homologous recombination between foreign linear DNA and the target gene in chromosomes mediated by λ phage Red system. The linear DNA referred here is general PCR product or oligonucleotide, which has a 36~50bp homologous sequence with the target gene in chromosome at both flanking. Red recombination technology leaves out the in vitro DNA restriction enzyme digestion and link process, which makes the knockout and alternation of target gene in bacteria chromosome relatively easier, and becomes an effective method to exploring genes and constructing new strains gradually. The gene inactivation and alternation method aiming at bacteria chromosome applied to Red recombination system was summarized by the structure element, action mechanism, and strategy of recombination, advantage and developing prospect. The Red system includes three genes: bet (akaβ), exo and gam (aka γ). Exo is a 5′→3′ exonuclease, which degrades the 5′ ends of linear DNA molecules. Bet is a single-stranded DNA binding protein that binds to the single stranded 3′ ends generated by Exo and promotes annealing to complementary DNA. Gam binds to the host RecBCD complex and inhibits its exonuclease activity. Red recombination system may be constructed in such plasmids as pKD20 and pKD46 or in chromosome of bacteria. Most bacteria are not readily transformable with linear DNA because of the presence of intracellular exonucleases that degrade linear DNA. But when bacteria cells are transformed with pKD20 or pKD46 plasmid, or integrated with a detective λ prophage, Red recombination enzymes may be expressed in host cells, which make linear DNA with 36~50bp extensions that are homologous to both flanking of target genes transform E.coli readily and knock-out or alternate target gene. The Red recombination method is not only useful in chromosomal gene inactivation in E.coli, but also in other bacteria or virus, such as Salmonella, Shigella flexneri and virus HaSNPV. With the proceeding research, Red system will be applied for more and more purposes, and contribute a lot for gene improvement and gene function investigation in the coming Postgenome Era.


Synopsis--Thin layer chromatography has been applied to the analysis of essential oils and their constituents. Rf-data are given for terpene alcohols, esters and ketones. Vanillinsulfuric acid (5% w./v.) is used as spray reagent and sensitivity limits are reported for the compounds examined. Characteristic colorations observed are also recorded. Typical thin layer chromatograms are shown to illustrate the detection of sophistication of a commercial bois de rose oil, the distinction between genuine palmarosa and gingergrass oils, and the recognition of botanical and/or geographical origins o[ authenticated spearmint and citronella oils.