CuO/γ-Al2O3 granular catalysts were synthesized by the sol-gel method.Performance of CuO/γ-Al2O3 catalysts for selective catalytic reduction(SCR) was explored in a fixed bed adsorption system.The optimum temperature range for SCR of NO over fresh CuO/γ-Al2O3 is 250—400 ℃.The maximum efficiency reaches near 99% at 350 ℃.The operating temperature range increases on sulfated catalysts.Preliminary tests were carried out to study the behavior of NH3 over fresh and sulfated catalysts in the presence of oxygen.The sulfated catalysts in this experiment show relatively weak oxidation of NH3,which reduces denitrification efficiency at low temperature.The NH3 and NO desorption experiments show that NH3 and NO can be adsorbed on CuO/γ-Al2O3.Sulfation on catalysts improve adsorption capacity of NH3 and reduces adsorption capacity of NO.The transient behaviors of NH3 and NO were also studied.It is found that SCR reaction is zero order with respect to NH3 and first order with respect to NO.The adsorption of NO is not important in the SCR process.The activation energies of fresh and sulfated catalysts in the present study are lower than those by the wet-impregnation method.


Heart-rate, blood pressure, and rate pressure product during resistive exercises: a review of the literature The purpose of this study was to review the literature about chronic and acute responses of heart rate, blood pressure, and rate pressure product associated with resistive exercises. The higher heart rate acute responses seem to be directly related to the number of repetitions performed. The effect of regular training over heart rate chronic responses is higher in aerobic programs, but long-term strength training can also elicit rest heart rate reductions. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure values are more related to the exercise intensity than to its overall nature (strength training or aerobic). However, blood pressure acute responses to strength training seem not to increase rest blood pressure values. Some findings suggest that strength training can reduce blood pressure at rest and during sub-maximal exercises. The rate pressure product seems to be lower during strength training than in aerobic exercises, which can be explained by the duration of both activities, since resistive exercises are associated with a less execution time. Finally, some studies indicate that variables different from the workload-number of repetition relationship can influence the acute cardiovascular responses during strength training. This fact should be taken into account in the exercise prescription, particularly for subjects with high risk for cardiovascular morbid occurrences.


Contrast-enhanced vaginosonography constitutes a new way of imaging the uterine cavity. Real time transcervical injection of sterile saline in the uterine cavity (saline infusion sonography, SIS) allows to precisely visualize numerous intrauterine pathologies such as endometrial polyps, myomas, intrauterine adhesions and various anatomical malformations. We introduced the technique of saline infusion sonography in October 1996 for the evaluation of endouterine pathologies. In this review article, we will describe the technique of contrast sonography, its indications, contraindications and semiology, the practical problems to be solved and its performances.


Developers of surface-wave acoustooptic (AO) and acoustoelectric (AE) devices are currently competing with one another by conducting feasibility demonstrations which suggest substantial analog signal-processing capabilities. The development of one AE surface-acoustic-wave device, a wideband convolver, is currently in a more advanced state in terms of system-worthiness than are AO and other AE devices. However, in terms of future potential in most systems applications, it has not been apparent whether either class of devices has had a clear advantage. In this paper, figures of merit as well as design tradeoffs in the two technologies are compared. These comparisons focus on those areas of the competing technologies which will be most stressed as the devices become system-worthy components in the near future. Projections are made for the realization of practical devices capable of providing, with adequate dynamic range, the signal-processing gains suggested by the feasibility demonstrations. It is concluded that each system application must be considered individually to determine whether AE or AO devices are the most advantageous.


The new genovariation here described was discovered in the Normal Florida line in February, 1930, simultaneously a t the Moscow and the GENETICS Narcomzem (Department of Agriculture). At the CENTRAL GENETICS the gene-variation was named cubitus interruptus (ci) and it was called cubitus incompletus in the genetics laboratory of the INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY.~


The natural polymer chitosan is a basic polyose.It is able to chelate with metal ions.The complex can be used as catalytic initiator,such as for hydrogenation,oxidation-coupling and ring-opening polymerization,olefin monomer polymerization,esterification and etherification.This paper reviewed the recent advances of chitosan metal complex catalysts.


PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF TANNERY EFFLUENTS FROM CHALLAWA INDUSTRIAL AREA IN KANO AND EVALUATION OF BIOREMEDIATION POTENTIALS OF Spirogyra porticalis AND Chlorella vulgaris ON THE EFFLUENTS Nabila, T. I. and Ibrahim, S. Department of Biological Sciences, Bayero University, Kano Corresponding Author: email@example.com+2348034537614 ABSTRACT Discharge of industrial effluent in aquatic environment is a serious threat to life due to toxic heavy metals. Algae can be used as cheap bioremediation agents in comparison to conventional technologies. The present study was conducted to evaluate the bioremediation potential of two algal species (Spirogyra porticalis and Chlorella vulgaris) for the removal of Lead from two tannery industries (M Tannery and G Tannery), located in Challawa Industrial Area. Temperature, EC, TDS, DO and BOD were measured. In G Tannery, Spirogyra porticalis had the highest affinity for Lead which was 51%, 55% and 51% at 3, 6 and 9 weeks interval respectively while Chlorella vulgaris affinity for Lead was 40% 45% and 45%. In M tannery, Chlorella vulgaris had the highest potential to remove Lead from the effluent, which was 90%, 86% an 90% while Spirogyra porticalis affinity for Lead was 10%, 41% and 10%. Temperature ranged from 30-31 ̊C which might be as a result of ambient temperature. The pH of both tannery effluents did not differ significantly (p=<0.5) and it was not within the maximum permissible limit of 6.58.5. EC of M Tannery was a little higher than that of G Tannery (8.417±0.26, 6.920±0.050) which were below the permissible limit. TDS of M tannery was higher than that of G Tannery 1919.0±68.46mg/L, 1916.0±61.94mg/l which were not within the permissible limit. DO content were within the permissible limits of 6.4mg/L. BOD of both effluent samples were below the permissible limit of 4mg/L. This research shows that both species are suitable for bioremediation and are also tannery specific.


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 Contemporary options to treat severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) include transcatheter and surgical approaches (TAVI and SAVR). Evidence continues to accumulate for minimally invasive TAVI to be used to treat AS for expanding patient groups, however patients experiences are seldom investigated.

 The aim of this study was to explore patients and carers perspectives of the acceptability of TAVI as a treatment option for AS, in the context of their values, attitudes, and the burden and effectiveness of intervention, to better guide expectations and management of recovery.

 Older patients (n=18) and their carers (n= 8) were interviewed 4-6 months post TAVI. Data was themed deductively by applying the theoretical framework of acceptability (1) as an analytic lens, followed by inductive analysis to identify any further emergent themes.

 The mean age of patient participants was 85 ± 5 years and 33% were women. Patients experiences of severe AS symptoms (e.g., breathlessness and fatigue) resulted in growing emotions of 'struggling and pushing to keep to going' in their daily lives, a few thought they were 'nearly gone' and expressed feelings of being scared. Debilitating AS symptoms, and a challenge to the values of this older patient group were the major influencing factors informing high prospective acceptability of the TAVI. Patients and their carers perceived the TAVI procedure to be a 'good operation' because of a short hospital stay and minimal disruption to their lives. Low burden resulted in high levels of concurrent acceptability of TAVI. Most patients experienced gradual symptom relief and being able to 'get back to normal', be independent and reconnect with valued pastimes, leading to high retrospective acceptability of the intervention for both patients and carers.

 Patients and carers perceive TAVI to have high prospective, concurrent, and retrospective acceptability as improved symptoms restored mental wellbeing, the procedure was uncomplicated and operative burden was low, and most patients regained functional capacity and a return to their normal lives. The need to assess acceptability of interventions, such as TAVI, from the perspectives of patients and carers is increasingly becoming important in health care, not only better support patients and carers but to inform effective implementation and sustainability of treatment modalities.


GiWoungJung,IkHwanJo,SoonHwangbo * andSungHoonLee **ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to determine the feed value of total mixed rations(TMR) containing differentwinter forage crop silages on feed intakes, daily gain, nutrient digestibility, and nitrogen retention inKorean black goats. A total of 12 male goats were used in this study and each goat was housed inindividual metabolism crates. The treatments were four diets, consisting of whole crop barley silage(T1),rape silage(T2), rye silage(T3), and Italian ryegrass silage(T4). The experiment was designed as a 4×4Latin square arrangement in three replicates. Daily intakes for dietary dry matter(DM), organic matter(OM), crude protein(CP) per head were highest in rape silage treatment, and lowest in whole barley silage(p<0.05). Digestible intakes for CP and acid detergent fiber were highest in rape silage treatment. Thedaily gain of rape, rye, and Italian ryegrass silages were significantly(p<0.05) higher than that of wholecrop barley silage. Digestibility of DM. CP, fiber were highest in whole crop barley silage, and lowest inrape silage(p<0.05). Nitrogen(N) intake and N retention were significantly highest in rape silage andlowest in whole crop barley silage(p<0.05). The results showed that, among different winter forage cropsilages, rape silage incorporation into TMR had the best performances indicating increases of feed intakesand N retention in Korean black goats.(Key words :Winter forage crop silage, Total mixed rations, Nutrient digestibility, Nitrogen retention,Korean black goats)


The symptoms of overactive bladder – urinary frequency, urgency, and urge incontinence – affect an estimated 1 in 11 adults of all ages in the United States.


Polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal (PDLC) cells are prepared using a UV-curable methacrylate prepolymer and nematic liquid crystals with a positive or a negative dielectric anisotropy. Memory effects, created by the phase transitions from an isotropic to a nematic phase with application of a magnetic field, of light transmission properties of the PDLC cells are described and their angular dependence is measured and discussed. A new type of optical filter which transmits the incident light only in directions oblique to the normal of the cell in an off-state is demonstrated using both positive-type and the negative-type PDLC cells. A broad transparent on-state and an opaque on-state can be attained by applying voltage across the positive-type and negative-type PDLC cells, respectively.


The purpose of the study was to identify and determine the sectoral planning of the leading sectors to be developed to support the economic growth of each district in the district Magelang and develop strategies in each district development planning in Magelang districts to spur economic growth. The method used in this study, namely Location Quotient, Shift Share and Klassen Typology sectoral approach. The result showed that the service sector, agriculture and trade in the district Magelang dominate key sectors that exist in each district in the district Magelang. The subdistrict that be recommended as development in service sector area they are Windusari subdistrict, Dukun subdistrict, Ngluwur subdistrict, Salaman subdistrict, Muntilan subdistrict, Secang subdistrict, Tegalrejo subdistrict, Ngablak subdistrict and pakis subdistrict. Subdistrict that be recommended as development sector areas in agliculture they are kajoran subdistrict, Bandongan subdistric, Borobudur subdistric, Tegalrejo subdistric, Sawangan subdistric, Pakis subdistric, Srumbung subdistric, and Ngablak subdistric. . The subdistrict that can be recommended as development commerce, hotel and restaurant sector area they are Borobudur subdistrict, Mungkid subdistrict, Candimulyo subdistrict, mertoyudan subdistrict, Sawangan subdistrict and Secang subdistrict.


Annually a large number of tourists are arriving to Sri Lanka from different places in the world, to visit so many places in Sri Lanka. Therefor the tourism industry is becoming a great portion of national economy and it opens vast number of occupations for the Sri Lankan community throughout the various tourism companies. So the tourism companies should be more effective and enrich with enough facilities to keep all the customers which coming for them and serve the customers as they expect. But still the tourism industry couldn't overcome this challenge due to the many tourism companies have not a real understanding about who are the most frequent customers? From where, when and how they come, what are their preferences and expectations? If the tourism companies could gather this information, they could be mange and utilize their services and resources in a very efficient and effective way in order to serve all the customers perfectly. So this research is focusing to developing a web based solution to find out most frequent and potential customers who arrive to the tourism companies and important details about them. The data mining techniques will be applied to find out this information using the data which collected from tourism companies. And discovered knowledge will be presented in graphs and send this information Tourism Company management. So this information is more valuable to change their businesses into effective ways.


Current scientific management objectives for ICES roundfish stocks are to ensure conservation of the biological resource and do not explicitly consider economic or social objectives. For example, there are currently no objectives to maximize the sustainable yield or to reduce variability in total allowable catches (TACs). This is despite the fact that the current system can result in wide annual fluctuations in TAC, limiting the ability of the fishing industry to plan for the future. Therefore, this study evaluated management strategies that stabilized catches by setting bounds on the interannual variability in TACs. An integrated modelling framework was used, which simulated both the real and observed systems and the interactions between system components. This allowed the evaluation of candidate management strategies with respect to the intrinsic properties of the systems, as well as our ability to observe, monitor, assess, and control them. Strategies were evaluated in terms of risk (measured as the probability of spawning-stock biomass falling below a biomass threshold for the stock) and cumulative yield. In general, bounds on interannual TAC change of 10% and 20% affected the ability to achieve management targets, although the outcome of applying TAC bounds could not have been pre-judged because results were highly dependent on the specific biology of the stock, current status, and the interaction with assessment and management. For example, for North Sea haddock, management became less responsive to fluctuations resulting from large recruitment events. Simulated target fishing mortality levels were rarely achieved, regardless of the TAC bound applied, and actual fishing mortality rates oscillated around the target. In the longer term, more restrictive bounds resulted in oscillations of greater amplitude and wavelength in yield and SSB. Bounds had less effect when a stock was close to the biomass corresponding to the target F. Risk for stocks that are declining or currently at low abundance may be greater, because if bounds restrict the extent to which TACs can be reduced each year, they could lead to collapse of the stock and the loss of all


A dramatic morphological change of embryos occurs at peri-implantation. Maternal and embryonic cross-talk during this period, initiated by signals from embryo(s), provides signals for maternal recognition of pregnancy and establishing and maintaining the pregnancy. However, the cellular, biochemical and genetic processes that direct embryo remodeling in mammalian species are not well studied or understood. In order to identify potential genes responsible for morphological change and cross-talk between embryo and uterus, an initial EST analysis was performed. A catalog of expressed genes (Transcriptome) from the d12 peri-implanting porcine embryos was constructed. Six clones were chosen from the initial ESTs for elucidation of their expression patterns during embryogenesis in early pregnancy. A number of these genes demonstrated unique expression profiles in a tissue, cell-type, and temporal fashion, indicating dynamic regulation of embryonic and endometrial gene expressions at different stages of pregnancy. Cross-talk between the embryo and endometrium of the pregnant uterus has provided a suitable micro-environment for the embryo's rapid and dramatic morphological changing process at the peri-implantation stage.


A 53-year-old woman presented to her primary care physician in February 1995 complaining of painful, red papules on her right foot. A working diagnosis of herpes zoster was considered, and treatment with oral acyclovir (800 mg 5 times daily) was prescribed. The eruption resolved over the next several weeks, without further treatment, although the patient continued to complain of acral pain that was thought to represent postherpetic neuralgia. Approximately 2 months later, she experienced a recurrence of the rash on both feet. She was again seen by her primary care physician, who, at this point, referred her for dermatologic evaluation. The patient's medical history was otherwise unremarkable. She had been previously healthy. She denied fevers, chills, recent invasive vascular procedures, trauma, arthralgias, cardiac murmurs, or intravenous drug abuse. She was not taking any form of systemic medication at the time of presentation. Physical examination revealed a generally healthyappearing woman. She was afebrile and her other vital signs were normal. She had some erythematous to purpuric, slightly tender papules on both feet and mild hyperemia of her toes (Figure 1). Her peripheral pulses were normal. The findings of the remainder of her physical examination were normal. A 3.5-mm punch skin biopsy specimen was obtained from a lesion on her right foot, and oral colchicine therapy (0.6 mg twice daily) was initiated for a presumed diagnosis of small vessel vasculitis. At the 1-week follow-up visit, her lesions were observed to have cleared despite noncompliance with her colchicine therapy because of diarrhea and abdominal pain. Her biopsy specimen was nondiagnostic, specifically failing to reveal either inflammation or plugging of her small or medium-sized cutaneous vessels. She continued to complain of intermittent digital pain in her hands and feet and subsequently began taking a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication, with mild improvement. No further rash was noted. Three months later, she was hospitalized because of the sudden onset of dizziness and a persistent headache that was unresponsive to analgesics. The results of her physical examination were within normal limits; specifically, there were no skin lesions. Laboratory tests revealed the following values: Westergren erythrocyte sedimentation rate, 76 mm/h (normal, ,20 mm/h); lactic dehydrogenase, 593 U/L (normal, #240 U/L); and aspartate aminotransferase, 74 U/L (normal, #40 U/L). A complete blood cell count was normal, and the antinuclear antibody titer was negative. A chest x-ray film and a carotid angiogram revealed no abnormalities. An electrocardiogram revealed nonspecific ST-segment and T-wave changes. A Holter monitor examination revealed an occasional premature atrial and ventricular contraction. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed an acute to subacute infarct of the left cerebellum (Figure 2). Further cardiac evaluation demonstrated a large left atrial mass originating from the atrial septum that was thought to be compatible with an atrial myxoma. The patient underwent anticoagulation with intravenous heparin sodium and several weeks later underwent excision of the atrial myxoma. She recovered completely, without sequelae. Figure 1. Slightly palpable, nonblanchable, purpuric papules on the lateral aspect of the foot. CRITICAL SITUATIONS


2526Background: Oraxol is an oral formulation of paclitaxel (PTX) co-administered with the potent, selective, poorly absorbed, P-glycoprotein inhibitor HM30181A (HM) that enhances the absorption of...


In this paper it is argued that work on transformative learning has been predicated on assumptions about agency on the part of both teacher and student and suggests an idealised learning environment. While recognising the significance of transformational learning the paper explores what it describes as the shadow side of transformational work, utilising feedback from students in a postgraduate course. The paper begins with a brief overview of transformational education. The changing context of transfonnational learning is then outlined. The paper considers issues of power, resistance and pain in transformational experiences, before suggesting one possible response to these issues.


3 Bedrooms Bedrooms With 1 Bathroom Bathrooms Residential For Sale NATIVE DANCER In 23 NATIVE DANCER COURT, NORTH POTOMAC, Maryland 20878


In explaining why party leaders may alter social security policy, the globalization literature highlights the limits governments face in implementing programmes supportive of social protection. This article calls for greater attention to the role of agency and political leadership in manufacturing social policy changes. Although international competition may set new and complex parameters within which party leaders interact, agency choice is crucial for explaining policy changes. The aim in this article is to introduce the strategic element to analysis of the redistributive impact of ruling parties. To this end, Australia is focused on as a case study and two factors are explored. First, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) is analysed as a multidimensional variable, particularly in terms of ideological coherence, the structure of competition and party organization. The argument rests on the assumption that party leaders enjoy a degree of freedom to act according to their own criteria. Second, the evolution of the bargaining power of trade union leaders and party leaders is examined. The article indicates that discretionary changes to social policy may also be the outcome of strategic considerations.


In accordance with the Regulation of the State Audit Board (BPK) of the Republic
of Indonesia No.. 01, 2007 on State Auditing Standards, in article 1 explained that
the management of state finances is the entire financial management activities of
state officials in accordance with the position and authority include the planning,
implementation, monitoring and accountability.
This study is quantitative, because the study sought to reveal the facts in depth
about the independence, experience, due professional care, accountability, quality
audits. Data collection methods used were sent questionnaires directly to the
auditor who worked on the BPK Representative Yogyakarta, that is to be able to
explore the influence of anything that could affect the quality of audits produced
by the auditor during the audit process.
This study successfully demonstrated that the results of testing the independence
and experience had no effect on audit quality, because that count less than 5% t
table. While due professional care and accountability effect on audit quality
because t count is greater than t table 5%


In this paper, a robust state estimation method based on a filtered high-gain observer is developed for the alternating activated sludge process (AASP) considered as a nonlinear hybrid system. Indeed, we assume that the biodegradable substrate and the ammonia concentrations in the AASP model are unmeasured due to the high cost of their sensors whose maintenance is also very expensive. The observer design is based on the association of the classical high-gain observer and the idea of the application of linear filters on the observation error to deal with measurement noise. It is shown through a Lyapunov analysis that the designed observer ensures the estimation of the unmeasured states (the biodegradable substrate and the ammonia concentrations) based on the measured dissolved oxygen and nitrate concentrations subject to noise. A comparison with the classical high-gain observer is performed via numerical simulations in order to show the robustness of the suggested estimation approach against Gaussian measurement noise.


Pitch frequency trajectories can more truly reflect the tone characteristics of Mandarin.It is a better way to identify tone by identifying different pitch trajectories.According to the theory of biomimetic pattern recognition,an improved tone recognition algorithm was proposed.It used Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis Techniques Algorithm (ISODATA) to find centers of coverage areas,and multi-weight neural network to achieve coverage for each cluster center.The experimental results show that in the case of a small sample,the proposed algorithm can get a higher recognition rate than that of Hidden Markov model (HMM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM).


Turn silence,being the most characteristic of natural language,is an important communicative means.As an indirect language form,turn silence has rich implicature.Being different from other indirect language forms,turn silence,with its form and literal meaning hidden,achieves its conversational implicature only through specific context.The contextual substantiation of the meaning of turn silence can be achieved on two levels: micro context and macro one.


Numerous studies have shown that migratory bats are undergoing
large fatalities due to wind turbines. Far more bats die due to
wind turbines than birds, though they generally receive less
attention. Recent studies indicate that at some wind-energy
installations worldwide, bats are being killed by an
atmospheric-pressure drop or directly by moving wind turbine
blades. While the wind energy industry quickly grows, so too
does the urgency with which we need to understand causes,
patterns, and potential mitigation strategies for bat
fatalities at wind developments. Collection and submission of
carcass counts, echolocation data for research purposes, will
further the crucial goals of understanding correlations between
pre-construction monitoring and postconstruction fatalities, in
addition to mapping out migration routes for migratory bat
species. Therefore we provide different methods applied on
several proposed wind-sites in Czech Republic to assess the
relationship between bat abundance and fatality risks at local
and regional scales as bat-detectoring in different heights
during pre-construction or using of trained dogs to recover bat
fatalities for post-construction evaluations.


The article explores the experiences of a brown-skinned master mason named Francisco Jose Gomes de Santa Rosa, who lived from 1810 to 1861. By means of specialized craftsmen associations' books and his inventory, among other documents, which were scrutinized in the various files in Recife, we observed that he was a free man from the state of Pernambuco, married, owner of a few pieces of real estate and gained prominence in two organizations dedicated to the professionals of his craft. On account of his network of customers, of his prominence with the artistic class and the public acknowledgement of his skill, Francisco Jose Gomes de Santa Rosa achieved a certain level of education, accumulated assets, and put together a good network of relations. At the end of his life, however, on account of a chronic disease and the maintenance of his living standards (at the cost of depleting his resources), the dark-skinned craftsman left his family materially deprived.


The objective of this study is to analyze partial and simultaneous effects of service quality and product quality on consumers' loyalty. Kebunku Nursery was chosen as object of the study. Primary data were collected from 100 respondents who were randomly selected. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. Itisconcluded that both variables such as service quality and product quality simultaneously affect consumers' loyalty. However, product quality was the only variable that has partial effect on consumers' loyalty.Key words: service quality; product quality; consumers' loyalty.


Known and quasipermanent infrasonic sources are needed to evaluate and improve upper‐wind models. Infrasounds generated by active volcanoes offer a unique opportunity for atmospheric studies. The Yasur volcano in the Vanuatu archipelago is an outstanding source of infrasonic waves due to its regular activity. This volcano is permanently monitored by the IS22 infrasound station located in New Caledonia and by one microbarometer installed close to its crater. A five‐year monitoring period of Yasur at short and large propagation range provides new insights on quantitative relationships between infrasonic observables and atmospheric specifications. This experimental setting is proposed to validate consistently the Naval Research Laboratory Ground to Space (NRL‐G2S) semi‐empirical atmospheric model up to the stratosphere. The propagation modeling results accurately explain seasonal changes as well as small short‐timescale variations of the infrasonic observables. This study demonstrates that the use of appropr...


Packet classification is one of the essential functionalities of Internet routers in providing quality of service. Since the arrival rate of input packets can be tens-of-millions per second, wirespeed packet classification has become one of the most challenging tasks. While traditional packet classification only reports a single matching result, new network applications require multiple matching results. Ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) has been adopted to solve the multi-match classification problem due to its ability to perform fast parallel matching. However, TCAM has a fundamental issue: high power dissipation. Since TCAM is designed for a single match, the applicability of TCAM to multi-match classification is limited. In this paper, we propose a cost- and energy-efficient multi-match classification architecture that combines TCAM with a tuple space search algorithm. The proposed solution uses two small TCAM modules and requires a single-cycle TCAM lookup, two SRAM accesses, and several Bloom filter query cycles for multimatch classifications.


Geopolymeric cement based on aluminosilicate fly ashes of class F, which, contrary to the prior art, are harmless to use and harden at ambient temperature, favoring their use in common applications in the construction and civil engineer ing fields. This harmlessness is achieved thanks to a mixture containing: 10 to 15 parts by weight of a non corrosive alkali metal silicate solution in which the MO:SiO, molar ratio is less than 0.78, preferably less than 0.69 and the SiO:MO ratio greater than 1.28, preferably greater than 1.45, M denot ing Na or K; added to this are 10 to 20 parts by weight of water and 5 to 15 parts by weight of blast furnace slag having a specific surface area less than 400 m/kg preferably less than 380 m/kg and 50 to 100 parts by weight of class F alumino silicate fly ash.


Describes the role of logistical barcode,and analyzes the actuality of logistical barcode and the existing obstacles,through the combining method of theoretical analysis and practical analysis,problem-a few suggestions to improve our logistical barcode:logistical barcode coverage to improve,good logistical barcode standardization,strengthening the promotion and make up for deficiencies logistical barcode,improve logistics and information systems combined with barcode.We must raise awareness of the logistical barcode applications,supply chain partners to strengthen the close cooperation to jointly promote the application of logistical barcode to improve supply chain competitiveness.


This study examines the principal's strategy in fostering teachers' professionalism at UPT SD Negeri 089 Masamba and finds supporting factors and inhibiting factors as well as solutions in overcoming the problem of techer professionalism development. This research as a descriptive research. The subject in this study were principal, teachers, and students while the object was the principal's strategy in fostering teacher professionalism at UPT SD Negeri 089 Masamba. Data were collected through observation, interviews and documentation. The data is processed through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The result of the study shows that the leadership strategy of principal in conducting coaching greatly influenced the professionalism of teachers with the strategy implemented by the the principal. Teachers who teaches can be controlled properly so that with the implementation of strategies for teachers, they make teachers professional in the learninf process in the classroom. The obstacles faceb by the principal in carrying out the coaching is the managerial task of the principal making it difficult to carry out maximum guidance. The principal overcame the obstacles by agrreing on a coaching schedule both in groups and individually without being limited bt time so that it can be done whenever the teacher needs it and the principal also forms assistance consisting of senior teachers to assist the principal in coaching process.


On the fatigue-critical amplitude of random-amplitude stress Uniaxial non-zero mean stress of constant circular frequency in the high-cycle fatigue regime is considered. It is assumed that equation of the S-N curve and modified Soderberg equation are applicable. For constant-amplitude stress, the fatigue-critical stress amplitude is defined as that which leads to failure during the required design life. For random-amplitude stress, expected values of the fatigue-critical stress amplitude and total fatigue damage accumulated during the required design life are estimated. It is found that the probability of fatigue failure is equal to the probability of exceedance of the fatigue-critical stress amplitude. As an example, for stationary random stress the equivalent random-amplitude stress and probability of fatigue failure are determined.


During automated process execution semantic activity failures may frequently occur, e.g., when a vehicle transporting a container has a breakdown. So far there are no applicable solutions to overcome such exceptional situations. Often the only possibility is to cancel and roll back respective process instances what is not always possible and more often not desired. In this paper we contribute towards the system–assisted support of finding forward recovery solutions. Our framework is based on the facility to (automatically) perform dynamic changes of single process instances in order to deal with the exceptional situation. We identify and formalize factors which influence the kind of applicable recovery solutions. Then we show how to derive possible recovery solutions and how to evaluate their quality with respect to different constraints. All statements are illustrated by well–studied cases from different domains.


Workplace stress is a worldwide problem. Aside from teaching, university instructors have numerous other responsibilities and are always stressed. The study's goal was to investigate the effects of stress on staff performance at Tamale Technical University. To analyze the issue, a qualitative case study methodology was used. Purposive sampling was used to conduct semi-structured interviews with 20 university lecturers. Thematic analysis was used to examine the acquired data. Workplace stress has a detrimental influence on employee performance, according to the findings. This study was done on tertiary education level employees at Tamale Technical University, which is located in the Northern Regional Capital Tamale. As a result, the research might be limited to a single place. However, this study is crucial in order to retain highly valued university staff.  An attempt was made to identify job stress mitigation measures that individuals and employers may use to overcome job stress and increase performance. Management can take the required actions to control workers' workplace stress levels in order to improve their job performance. They may offer counseling, a meditation program, incentives, and other benefits that increase employee performance over time.


For many decades, international arbitrators have gone beyond deciding traditional legal disputes and have been involved in the adaptation of long-term contracts. These contracts are particularly vulnerable to extreme and unforeseen changes of economic circumstances such as those caused by the consequences of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, doubts have always been raised as to whether, how, and to what extent international arbitrators may interfere with the parties' contractual bargain. In dealing with these concerns, this article explores three essential issues. They relate to the procedural authority for and the substantive legitimacy of the tribunal's adaptation decision, as well as to the search for adaptation standards, which ensure outcomes of contract adaptations by international arbitral tribunals that make business sense.
Covid-19 pandemic, contract adaptation, gap filling, long-term contracts, hardship, force majeure, notion of 'dispute', good faith, ex aequo et bono.


Eno and Balint‐Kurti recently presented an adiabatic distorted‐wave formulation of the infinite‐order sudden approximation (ADWIOSA) that has a number of appealing qualities for calculating vibrot excitations and de‐excitations in atom–diatom collisions. The numerical values they determined for a limited number of He+H2 (nj)→He+H2 (n′j′) cross sections compared favorably to close‐coupled results. However, they employed spectroscopic diatomic eigenenergies while the exact calculations were based on harmonic eigenenergies. This paper reports extended ADWIOSA cross sections for (0j)→(1j′), (1j)→(2j′), and (0j)→(2j′) transitions using harmonic eigenenergies, and also gives corrected versions of ADWIOSA formulas. The small change in eigenenergy lowers cross sections to 1/2–1/4 their previous values. The comparison to exact results is then not quite as favorable, which is generally due to limitations in the basic sudden approximation rather than the distorted‐wave technique. The extended analysis also reveals c...


Electronic waste has been the fastest increasing waste generated globally and predicted to surpass 111 million tons per year by the end of 2050. The amount of e-waste is a concern not just due to its volume, but also due to its high composition of heavy metal elements, which has leads to increased development of urban mining in terms of heavy metal extraction. One common method of extraction, i.e., acid leaching, is known for its harmful residual leachate, in which can have a high impact on the environment. This focuses on the alternative leaching techniques known as bioleaching, which take advantages of microbial activity in mobilization of metal into a more soluble form. Strains from sanitary landfill soil were isolated in acidic media and identified as Bacillus sp. strain SE, Lysinibacillus sp. strain SE2, Bacillus sp. strain S1A, and Oryzobacter sp. strain SC. Among the isolated stains, the identified strain Oryzobacter sp. strain SC was able to extract up to 23.36 ppm copper from waste printed circuit boards using a two-step bioleaching process, confirming the ability of the strain to perform bioleaching of copper from e-waste.


For the reader practicing in a country with a relative abundance of health care providers and timely diagnosis and referral, the excellent outcomes reported in this issue of World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery by Patwary and Sharma and associates prompt a sense of humility and respect. With personal experience in the developing world limited to humanitarian cardiac surgical mission work, I preface my comments with full recognition of a limited capability to critique their methods for managing such patients. Sharma et al practice in an advanced program in a developing environment where late presentation of advanced disease is relatively common. They present a cohort of 84 patients with either transposition of the great arteries and unrestrictive ventricular septal defect (TGAs/VSD, 54 patients) or TaussigBing anomaly (30 patients). The mean age at surgery was 7.9 months, and 36% of patients presented with pulmonary infection, with 8% requiring positive pressure ventilation prior to surgery and 94% presented with poor nutritional status. They provide a logical rationale for their management algorithm and demonstrate excellent results overall, particularly for those patients not presenting with pulmonary infection with a resultant need for positive pressure ventilation prior to surgery. The majority of deaths occurred early (discharge mortality of 14%), and most were associated with pulmonary hypertension with or without pulmonary hemorrhage. Their methods of reconstructing the arch and right ventricular outflow tract and neopulmonary valve have yielded excellent results in the survivors with no need for early or intermediate term re-intervention. In my opinion, they have demonstrated a remarkable level of care for a challenging group of patients. As a preface to further comments, I will provide a brief recap of a study from a different country with a somewhat similar cohort of patients. Liu et al from Beijing in 2010 reported a cohort of 28 patients with Taussig-Bing anomaly and 58 patients with TGA and unrestrictive VSD undergoing complete repair. Notably, they excluded patients less than six months of age. The mean age of their cohort was two years (range 0.6-19 years), with 26 patients greater than four years. Earlier in their experience they relied upon catheterization data and response to oxygen challenge. In the more recent 50 patients, they have utilized a ''diagnostic treatment and repair strategy'' consisting of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) at 10 to 20 ppm, sildenafil, and bosentan for an average of 13 days. Response (nonfixed pulmonary vascular resistance) was defined as an increase in systemic oxygen saturation of 5 percentage points. Four patients were deemed nonresponders and did not undergo repair. There was no comment on preoperative pulmonary infection in this cohort. Postoperative management utilized mechanical ventilation with iNO and sildenafil, with selective use of bosentan. Oral pulmonary vasodilators were continued for an extended period after hospital discharge. Most deaths occurred early, and discharge mortality was 7%. On multivariate analysis, postoperative pulmonary hypertension was associated with death, and use of iNO was associated with survival. Regarding the report by Sharma et al, I will highlight only a couple of issues, not as criticism, but simply to offer other perspectives that may be considered when managing such patients. These include the determination of surgical candidacy, alternative surgical approaches for the high-risk patient, and postoperative management.


The article is devoted to the decoration of Baroque churches of the Russian province of XVIII century. He called platband withcurls. The author considers its origin in the heart of Russia. The Platband gained Ustyug, Vyatka, Ural, Eastern Siberia. Theauthor pays attention to the window's decoration.


Nineteen hospitals make up the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). The program began in 1995 "to develop a comprehensive set of diagnostic, treatment, and supportive care guidelines." The guidelines are designed to guide medical decision making in cancer care. Forty-five panels cover 95% of "tumors encountered in oncology practices." More than 600 clinicians and researchers have compiled "the best evidence" in drawing up the recommendations. Users must read a disclaimer and agree (by clicking a button) to the intended use of the guidelines before being allowed to view them. Health care professionals can request the guidelines on CD. A CD is currently available from a symposium on multiple myeloma.

Each guideline, in portable document format (PDF), is accompanied by a list of the panel members who composed it, a detailed index of its content, recommendations for clinical trials, and the Categories of Consensus, which explain the levels of evidence and types of studies included in the references that also accompany the guideline. The guidelines are divided into treatment of cancer by site; detection, prevention, and risk reduction; and supportive care. Extensive bibliographies accompany the guidelines, attesting to the meta-analysis that the panels have performed. Navigation through the longer documents is facilitated by live links in the table of contents. The guidelines are continually updated and augmented, and the dates of each version are noted. The emphasis is on evidence derived from analyses of published studies, preferably randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trials.

There are also guidelines for patients, in English and Spanish. Printed copies may be ordered in addition to the PDF guidelines provided on the Website. Links to clinical trial information and a physician directory, searchable by geographical area as well as by type of cancer, are available. The physician directory includes links for patients for referral and assistance (at NCCN) in locating a suitable physician. The patient material is drawn up in conjunction with the American Cancer Society and is much more in-depth and useful than the cursory treatment of health subjects found on many consumer-level Websites. The site has detailed descriptions of diagnosis, treatment, side effects of therapies, and recommendations for finding appropriate care. A Spanish-speaking colleague of the reviewer confirmed the readability and usefulness of the information.

Besides the guidelines that are the main purpose of the network, NCCN holds an annual meeting for oncologists and, since 1977, has maintained an Outcomes Database that collects and synthesizes data for improvement in cancer care.

The NCCN Website provides a comprehensive guide to cancer for clinicians and patients. The alphabetical list of linked organizations goes from the Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education (ALCASE) to the World Health Organization and includes every kind of cancer organization, from formal clinical discussions to advocacy groups, often with telephone numbers embedded in the entry. Except for a few international groups, all are from the Untied States.

The nineteen NCCN Network Hospitals are identified on a map showing locations and linking to further information. Each facility is described in detail, especially the adult and/or pediatric oncology services and availability of genetic screening or testing. As in other places on the NCCN Website, patients are encouraged to explore clinical trials. Complete referral information is provided for each hospital.

Current news stories and media links are provided, and an archive is provided with news back to the year 2000 and newsletters back to 1998. A further page lists industry and biotech advisory roundtables, with links to company Websites.

With the emphasis on evidence-based care that is increasingly being recognized as essential to medical decision making, the NCCN's compilations are a vital tool for oncologists. This reviewer's institution was a founding member of NCCN, but this review is from the librarian's point of view. If a library provides full text from the Cochrane Library or other bibliographic and full-text databases on evidence-based medicine, a link to the NCCN belongs on the list. Librarians who teach or demonstrate evidence-based medicine resources to clinicians can use the Categories of Consensus and descriptions of NCCN's research process as further examples of how meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials is performed and how the value of original sources is analyzed.


A one-day workshop was held on July 21st, 1998 to consider upgrade paths to the existing LCLS design with a view to making a facility with multiple FEL and spontaneous synchrotron radiation beamlines. The agenda, working groups and participants in this workshop are listed in Appendix 1. This technical note summarizes the ideas generated by this workshop.


The present paper is devoted to sorption concentration of copper (II) from different solutions on a number of complexing ion exchangers and subsequent determination of Cu (II) in a phase of amphoteric ion exchanger AMF-2T of macroreticular structure by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The sorption properties of the sorbents were investigated. The apparent stability constants for copper complexes in ion exchanger phase were calculated. The sorption-spectroscopic method is proposed for Cu (II) determination in aqueous solutions. The calibration curve is linear at concentration range 0.05 – 3.0 mg/L (sample volume is 25.0 mL) and the detection limit is 0.03 μg/mL. The presence of Ni (II), Co (II), Cr (III), Fe (II,III), Zn (II) as well as C2O4 and PO4 (100-fold excesses) does not hinder the determination of Cu (II).


The embodiment of the invention provides an illegal driver information acquisition method, illegal driver information acquisition equipment and an illegal driver information acquisition system. The illegal driver information acquisition method comprises the following steps: a server receives the car illegal information of an illegal car, wherein the car illegal information comprises the identification mark and the crime time of the illegal car; and the server acquires the information of an illegal driver in the driving time within the crime time from a target vehicle-mounted terminal corresponding to the identification mark of the illegal car. Therefore, the information of the illegal driver is acquired without needing to manually arrange barriers and guard points to intercept the illegal car through manual, thus effectively improve the acquisition efficiency.


A method utilizes sputter transport techniques to produce arrays or layers of self-forming, self-oriented columnar structures characterized as discrete, single-crystal Group III nitride posts or columns on various substrates. The columnar structure is formed in a single growth step, and therefore does not require processing steps for depositing, patterning, and etching growth masks. A Group III metal source vapor is produced by sputtering a target, for combination with nitrogen supplied from a nitrogen-containing source gas. The III/V ratio is adjusted or controlled to create a Group III metal-rich environment within the reaction chamber conducive to preferential column growth. The reactant vapor species are deposited on the growth surface to produce single-crystal M N columns thereon. The columns can be employed as a strain-relieving platform for the growth of continuous, low defect-density, bulk materials. Additionally, the growth conditions can be readjusted to effect columnar epitaxial overgrowth, wherein coalescence of the Group III nitride material occurs at the tops of the columns, thereby forming a substantially continuous layer upon which additional layers can be deposited. The intervening presence of the column structure mitigates thermal mismatch stress between substrates, films, or other layers above and below the columns. A high deposition rate sputter method utilizing a non-thermionic electron/plasma injector assembly is provided to carrying out one or more of the growth steps.


The axial ion energy spread near a plasma meniscus for multielement focused ion beams is investigated experimentally in atomic and molecular gaseous plasmas of krypton, argon, and hydrogen by tailoring the magnetic field in the region. In the case of magnetic end plugging, the ion energy spread reduces by ∼50% near the meniscus as compared to the bulk plasma, thereby facilitating beam focusing. A quadrupole filter can be used to control the mean energy of the ions. Comparison with standard Maxwellian and Druyvesteyn distributions with the same mean energy indicates that the ion energy distribution in the meniscus is deficient in the population of low and high energy tail ions, resulting in a Gaussian-like profile with a spread of ∼4 and ∼5 eV for krypton and argon ions, respectively. By carefully tuning the wave power, plasma collisionality, and the magnetic field in the meniscus, the spread can be made lower than that of liquid metal ion sources, for extracting focused ion beams of other elements with ad...


. Woody vegetation was studied in 44 sites in Senegal. Species composition and density were analysed with TWINSPAN and Canonical Correspondence Analysis; 16 vegetation types were defined. A supervised, multispectral and multitemporal classification of day and night, dry season NOAA-AVHRR imagery was used to identify their distribution with a classification accuracy ranging from 60–100%.


There are diversities for different grade features of students' psychology.It will lead to positive and important effect on study,live and even all life to recognize the developed features of psychology for students in different grades,deeply analyze the main possible psychological manifestation and its possible cause,and directionally carry out the positive and effective dredging and the orientation guidance.


The present invention is particularly in the absence of the user, receiving a user products you ordered, and / or a device for to be able to pick up an item from a user. The apparatus includes an input device, including at least a controller having a memory element, comprising a lockable container for containing a product. The invention further relates to methods of using the receiving / delivery device. Handling is easy, it is attached by a slight construction unit residential or office of the user, receiving user to the ordered item, and / or apparatus for use in a method to be able to pick up an item from a user, an input device and (6), a controller (7), having at least control device and a memory element (8) to (18) with the container (2), be placed in front of the user's residence or workplace for delivery / take-up It is preferred. In this method, after the completion of order processing, and input to the memory element (8) users receiving / supplying device order information (9) (1), and receiving / supplying device (1) in the standby state, variable般受 preparative / supply device (1) in front of the user's residence or work, it is preferable to arrange for delivery or take-off of the product (11). .FIELD 1


Whether readers are tackling the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time or are already well acquainted with the works of Homer, they will uncover the connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics 'the marvel of the ages' in this scholarly and encouraging resource. The inexhaustible pleasures of Homer are highlighted by focusing on a number of 'Homeric moments' -- crucial scenes from the epics that cast a vivid or hilarious or poignant light on the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face in private over the hearth for the first time in 20 years; young Telemachus, with his father Odysseus at his side, boldly faces the angry suitors; Achilles kills Hector, his mirror image, on the battlefield. Whatever the 'clues to delight', these leads take the reader behind the story to reveal hidden treasures in the poetry.


Purpose: To determine the variables associated with additional concussion clinic visits before discharge to athletic trainer (AT). Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed at a multi-disciplinary sports concussion center. Patients were eligible if they were ages 12–23, sustained a SRC and were seen by a clinic provider between 11/01/2017 and 10/01/2020 for concussion (n = 1504), presented to clinic within 3 months of sustaining a concussion, and had negative acute head imaging. Of 524 patients, 236 were discharged to AT after the initial clinic visit, while 288 patients required additional clinic visits. The following independent variables were assessed: age, sex, initial visit symptom score, history of prior concussions, psychiatric disorders, migraines, ADHD, and learning disorders, head imaging following concussion, family history of psychiatric disorders and migraines, and ED/Urgent Care visit. The primary disposition was patients being discharged to an AT following the initial clinic visit vs. having additional clinic visits prior to discharge to an AT. Results: The additional visit group had higher initial visit symptom scores (p = 0.002), head imaging performed more frequently (p < 0.02), a family history of psychiatric disorders and/or migraines (p < 0.001), more often reported a prior concussion (p = 0.02), and was younger (p = 0.014) compared to athletes with only one clinic visit. In a multiple variable model, family history of psychiatric disorders (OR = 3.12 [95%CI 1.53–6.34], p = 0.002), prior concussions (OR = 1.39 [95%CI 1.02–1.89], p = 0.037), greater initial symptom score (OR = 1.05 [95%CI 1.03–1.06], p < 0.001), and younger age (OR = 0.87 [95%CI 0.77–0.98], p = 0.021) were strongly associated with additional visits. Conclusions: Among athletes treated at a regional sports concussion center, we determined that family history of psychiatric disorders, increased symptom score at initial visit, prior concussions, and younger age were each uniquely associated with needing additional clinic visits. Understanding these variables may guide treatment protocols to optimize efficiency.


Objective : To compare two surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, of the food and nutrition environment in New Zealand primary schools.


The effect of NaCl and weak organic acids (WOAs) in "no-clean" wave solder flux residues was studied on electrochemical migration (ECM), leakage current, and corrosion on surface mount chip capacitors using a test printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) substrate having known chip components. The investigations were performed under environmental conditions varying from non-condensation with 60% RH at 25°C to near to condensation with 98% RH at 25°C, and full condensation conditions. Near to condensation and full condensation conditions have been established by (i) lowering the temperature of PCBA while keeping the temperature and relative humidity constant inside the climatic chamber and (ii) applying single micro-droplets of water on the surface mount chip capacitors. Water layer formation on the PCBA was observed in-situ by introducing a video camera inside the climatic chamber. The ECM probability testing under droplet condition showed dependency on the type and amount of ionic contamination. Climatic testing of the test PCBAs pre-contaminated with NaCl and solder flux residues showed the importance of hygroscopic nature of ionic contamination to corrosion and leakage current due to water adsorption on the surface.


The choice of applicants for teacher training is the"first sieve"of choosing future teachers. So,teacher training agencies must take corresponding measures in choosing the applicants'professional interest,special and potential characteristics,and different genders,thereby establish a foundation of finishing the choice of applicants for teacher training.


The New Capital Accord, Basel II, was published in 2004. It features updated capital requirements and new ways to measure bank risk; however, the validity of these new standards was called into question during the financial crisis that began in 2008. The measures that intend to stabilize our banking system did not appear sufficient. Doubt was cast upon capital requirements, and the advantages of another system, such as contingent liability, can be seen. This thesis aims to test the effectiveness of Basel II, specifically its capital requirements, in reducing bank risk. After running a fixed effects model, one can clearly see that Basel II is insignificant in reducing bank risk, as measured by the percentage of non-performing loans to total gross loans.


Schottky junctions at the metal/semiconductor interface is a promising and effective method for achieving efficient solar-driven H2O2 evolution in a green and sustainable reaction solution. Bearing the merits of non-precious...


Through the simplified theoretical model, the hydraulic balance condition which should be met in the density lock is obtained, when reactor operates normally and density lock is closed. The main parameters influencing this condition are analyzed, and the results show that the hydraulic balance in the density lock is characterized with self-stability in a certain range. Meantime, a simulating experimental loop is built and experimental verification on the self-stability characteristic is done. Moreover, experimental study is done on the conditions of flow change of work fluids in the primary circuit in the process of stable operations. The experimental results show that the hydraulic balance in the density lock can recovered quickly, depending on the self-stability characteristic without influences on the sealing performance of density lock and normal operation of reactor, after the change of operation parameters breaks the hydraulic balance.


188.8.131.52); PMP (PNP) oxidase*1] has been highly purified from dried baker's yeast.1>2) The purified preparation can catalyze the formation of PLP from PMPand PNP, the ratio of activity with PNP and PMPhas been to be nearly 0.25. However, the observed ratio of activity with these substrates seemed to vary significantly from sample to sample1* and with the treatment.1>3) Wedecided to re-investigate the purification process precisely with both substrates, since only PMP oxidase activity had been routinely assayed to draw the elution profiles on column chromatography in the previous work.1} Two distinct enzyme species could be separated on a calcium-phosphate gel column in the present study. Chemicals and purification methods used were essentially the same as described previously,1>2) except that PNP was prepared according to the method of Tschopp and Kirschner.4) PMP (PNP) oxidase was incubated for 30 min at 37°C under dark conditions, the assay medium consisted of 285fiu substrate (either PMP or PNP), 50jUg of bovine serum albumin, an excess amount of FMN, a


According to the design requirement of the 3MeV/40mA high frequency, high voltage electron accelerator, the structure of its scanning magnet has been improved: A thermistor was installed on the wall of core tube and an air-colling machine was added. The measured beam characteristics from the Ti-window stopping plate showed that the design requirement has been fulfilled. The scanning frequency is 50 -200 cycles and the uniformity is better than 7%.


ABSTRACT Purpose This article examines the reach, the amount, the content and the quality of agricultural extension in County Laois in Ireland as reported by farmers. It seeks to better understand extension interaction in an Irish county case. Design/Methodology/Approach A structured questionnaire on personal, farm and farming practices was administered to 270 farmers in three farm districts in Laois with registered farm holding being the farmer identification determinant. A systematic approach to finding all farmers in the selected districts was adopted. Findings Almost one-third of farmers were not using extension services. A little more than one third had contracts with private sector advisors and a similar proportion contracted with public sector advisors. There were no significant differences between public and private services in both the frequency and type of extension services received. Regarding quality (merit) of services as perceived by farmers, defined as independence, reliability, usefulness and value for money, farmers rated the private extension service higher than the public service. Practical Implications Highlights the differences in both usage of and farmers perceptions of public and private farm advisory services and can guide the promotion of these services. Theoretical Implications Comparison of farmers' perspectives on pluralised advisory services and how farmers rate these services has received little attention in academic research. In the context of services associated with the AKIS, the implication points to the need for greater appreciation of how farmer clients view services. Originality/Value Pluralised extension provision has been subject to little in-depth scrutiny to date. This article advances new information in the area.


More aggressive reductions are needed to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C, and hopes for a 1.5° maximum increase are rapidly fading. More aggressive reductions are needed to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C, and hopes for a 1.5° maximum increase are rapidly fading.


Raised in the "always on" world of interactive media, the Internet, and digital messaging technologies, today's student has different expectations and learning styles than previous generations. This net-centric generation values their ability to use the Web to create a self-paced, customized, on-demand learning path that includes multiple forms of interactive, social, and self-publishing media tools. First, we investigate the formation of a burgeoning digital pedagogy that roots itself in current adult and social learning theories, while integrating social networking, user experience design strategies, and other emerging technologies into the curriculum to support student learning. Next, we explore how current and emerging social networking media (such as Weblogs, iPod, RSS/XML, podcasting/audioblogs, wiki, Flickr, and other self-publishing media) can support neomillennial learning styles, facilitate the formation of learning communities, foster student engagement and reflection, and enhance the overall user experience for students in synchronous and asynchronous learning environments. The data included in this article are intended as directional means to help instructors and course designers identify social networking resources and other emerging technologies that will enhance the delivery of instruction while meeting the needs of today's neomillennial learning styles.


Composite metamaterials containing metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) are now as considered a basis for designing new photonic media for optoelectronics and nonlinear optics (Sarychev & Shalaev, 2007). Simultaneously with the search for and development of modern technologies intended for nanoparticle synthesis, substantial practical attention has been devoted to designing techniques for controlling the MNP size. This is caused by the fact that the properties of MNPs, such as the quantum size effect, single-electron conduction, etc., which are required for various applications, take place up to a certain MNP size. An example of their application in optoelectronics is a prototype of integrated electronic circuit chip that combines metallic wires as conductors of electric signals with fibers as guides of optical signals. In practice, light guides are frequently made of synthetic sapphire or silicon oxide, which are deposited on or buried in semiconductor substrates. In this case, electrooptic emitters and that accomplish electric-to-optic signal conversion are fabricated inside the dielectric layer. This light signal from a microlaser is focused in a light guide and then transmitted through the optoelectronic chip to a high-speed photodetector, which converts the photon flux to the flux of electrons. It is expected that light guides used instead of metallic conductors will improve the data rate by at least two orders of magnitude. Moreover, there is good reason to believe that optical guide elements will reduce the energy consumption and heat dissipation, since metallic or semiconductor components of the circuits may be replaced by dielectric ones in this case. Prototype optoelectronic chips currently available are capable of handling data streams with a rate of 1 Gbit/s, with improvement until 10 Gbit/s in future. Key elements of dielectric waveguides used for light propagation are nonlinear optical switches, which must provide conversion of laser signal for pulse duration as short as picoor femtoseconds. The nonlinear optical properties of MNP-containing dielectrics stem from the dependence of their refractive index and nonlinear absorption on incident light intensity 5


The Knowledge Management (KM) process is presented through the three components of the Nonaka-Takeuchi theory, using the methodology of intertwined multiple case studies on a sample of 10 Colombian companies: Five Large Businesses (LBs) and Five Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). The objective was to determine the level of KM and compare both sample groups, based on the three components of the theory: the four modes (4MDs), five conditions (5CDs), and five phases (5PSs). The main findings show that, in the 4MDs of converting knowledge from tacit to explicit, the five SMBs scored higher than the five LBs. Likewise, the results show that the 10 businesses carry out the necessary KM actions to prevent created knowledge from easily disappearing over time. Finally, the study found, based on the analysis of the knowledge spiral, that the five SMBs manage knowledge more in line with the theory than the five LBs.


patients with negative or low level of anti-AChR antibody in sera. TH 1-like cell clones, which expressed IL-2 and IFN-ymRNA, but not IL-40r IL-5 mRNA, were established from peripheral blood lymphocytes(PBLs)of those patients. TH 2-like cell clones, expressing IL -4and IL-5 mRNA , but not IL-20r IFN-y mRNA, were not established from PBLs of the same patients. Neither TH 1-like cell nor TH 2-like cell clone was found from PBLs of the healthy control children. Most of the established TH cell clones from healthy children expressed both IL-2 and IL-4 mRNA, There was the correlation between the number of TH 1-like cell clones from PBLs of childhood MG patients and the recurrence or the excerabation of clinical signs. As TH l cells were involved in the cellular immune responses in vivo, it is presumed that the cellular immune responses play the important role for the recurrence or the excerabation of the clinical signs of childhood MG patients.


Studies that rely on genetic and molecular information to answer evolutionary questions fall roughly into two categories: (1) the reconstruction of evolutionary relationship (including the timing of lineage divergence); and (2) the emergence of a novel structure. The former endeavor is referred to as "molecular systematics," and as "molecular anthropology" when applied to humans and other primates. The assumption that differences accrue within lineages after they diverge from a common ancestor leads to the assumption that the degree of molecular similarity is reflected in the degree of evolutionary relatedness. Whether or not such change occurs in a clock-like manner remains a matter of debate. The reliability of molecular, rather than morphological, studies to inform about evolutionary relatedness also relies on the appeal of a "law of large numbers": it is possible to analyze thousands, or even millions, of molecules compared to a pitifully small number of morphological features.

The concern of developmental evolutionary biology ("evo-devo") is the identification of molecular elements – for example, transcription factors or other types or classes of proteins and "genes," as well as epigenetic and non-Mendelian factors – that provide insight about the processes of development of structure and form. Rather than imparting significance to a particular RNA, DNA, or amino acid sequence, the focus is on signal transduction pathways and the regulation of development, namely, the origination of structure.

In this chapter, an attempt will be made to summarize the main aspects of these fields of inquiry, including their assumptions, and to suggest avenues of future inquiry that might bring these disciplines together to provide some better information about evolution.

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African apes;
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Derived feature;
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Homology;
Large-bodied hominoids;
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Phylogeny reconstruction;
Primitive feature;
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Sister taxon;
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Taxon (plural: taxa)


This study was conducted to suggest strategic orientations that can analyze which types of corporate culture and strategic orientation contribute to enhanced financial performance, based on the theory that, to acquire a competitive edge in the fierce competitive environment and maximize performance, the combination of corporate internal competitiveness and an appropriate action plan is crucial. The study shows that corporate culture does directly affect financial performance. However, for this group of Korean hotels, not all cultures performed equally. The transaction-oriented Market Culture did not promote financial performance, as compared to the family-oriented Clan culture or the innovative Adhocracy culture. The tradition-bound Hierarchical culture actually cost hotels in terms of financial performance. Certain strategic orientations moderated and improved financial results for some of the cultures, but not all. The opportunity-seeking approach of a leading orientation drove favorable financial results for the Clan and Adhocracy cultures but did not help the Market or Hierarchy cultures. Other strategic orientations also drove positive financial results, including future analytic and defensive. On the other hand, the discounting-oriented aggressive orientation returned negative financial results to all hotels in this sample.


This paper describes a model of local distribution of liquid water (or steam) saturation in a fractured layer. The model, based on the Bernoulli trials as a probability density function of saturation, gives the following relation between the average value of the relative permeability for the water phase, k{sub rwa}, and the arithmetical mean of saturation, S{sub wa}: k{sub rwa}=S{sub wa}{sup m} where m is an index representing the non-uniformity of saturation (1<=m<=4). When m=4, the saturation is distributed uniformly. The proposed model also gives the average value for the relative permeability of the steam phase, k{sub rga}, as follows: k{sub rga}=1-S{sub wa}{sup m}-2S{sub wa}+2S{sub wa}{sup (2m+1)/3} These relations are applied to analysis of some experimental data already reported by the authors. Also, this presentation shows the validity of the Bernoulli trials as a density probability function of saturation in comparison with other kinds of such functions: the normal distribution, the triangle distribution and the beta distribution.


Objectives—Bone mineral density decreases with antiretroviral therapy (ART)-initiation, although the pathogenesis, including the role of tenofovir (TDF), is unclear. This study assessed changes in bone-turnover markers, osteoprotegerin (OPG), soluble receptor activator for nuclear factor kappa β ligand (sRANKL), and inflammation in subjects initiating TDFvs. non-TDFcontaining regimens, and determined the relationship between bone turnover, OPG/sRANKL, and inflammation. Methods—This was a longitudinal, observational study comparing levels of bone-turnover markers (C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen, CTX; osteocalcin (OC)), OPG, sRANKL, and inflammatory cytokines (soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptor-I, -II (sTNFR-I,-II), interleukin-6) prior to ART and 6–12 months after ART-initiation with a TDFvs. non-TDFcontaining regimen in HIV-infected subjects 18–50 years old. Results—87 subjects were enrolled (TDF=44; non-TDF=43). Groups were similar except subjects on TDF had a lower CD4 nadir (P<0.01) and were more likely to receive a protease inhibitor (PI) (P=0.03). At pre-ART, 35% and 1% of subjects had CTX and OC above normal range, respectively. Both increased with ART initiation, whereas OPG, sRANKL, and inflammatory markers significantly decreased. In multivariate models, increases in OC were associated with TDF-use, PI-use, and pre-ART levels of sTNFR-I, while increases in CTX were associated with CD4 nadir <50 cell/mm3. Increases in bone markers were unrelated to pre-ART levels of OPG/sRANKL and changes in OPG/sRANKL after ART-initiation. Correspondence and reprints: Giovanni Guaraldi, MD, Dept of Medicine and Medical Specialities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via del pozzo 71, 41100 Modena, Italy, Tel + 39 059 422 5318, Fax + 39 059 4223710, email@example.com.


Background: Congenital hypothyroidism is well known cause of prolonged unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and appears to be associated with the delayed maturation of hepatic uridine diphosphate glucoronyl transferase enzyme activity.
Methods: This is a prospective, longitudinal and randomized study 100 babies are taken consisting of all newborn, age less than 28 days, admitted to hospital with exaggerated physiological jaundice.
Results: One case of congenital hypothyroidism in exaggerated jaundice based on raised TSH levels. Rest of the cases (99%) having normal TSH levels. One case (1%) having TSH level of 48µu/ml on D7 of life indicating congenital hypothyroidism. TSB of this baby is 21.3 mg%.  One baby is having TSH level of 30.4µu/ml on D3 of life which subsequently decreased to normal physiological limits on D7 of life.
Conclusion: Though the present study is unable to make significant correlation between cause and effect relationship of neonatal exaggerated jaundice and congenital hypothyroidism, but as one case has diagnosed to be suffering from congenital hypothyroidism, TSH should be considered as a screening test for all babies suffering from exaggerated physiological jaundice besides the other predisposing factors responsible for causation of hypothyroidism.
Keywords: Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, Preterm, Congenital hypothyroidism


Liaison psychiatry is sometimes known as consultation-liaison psychiatry and increasingly as psychological medicine. It's a young and rapidly growing psychiatric sub-specialty. Liaison psychiatrists work with physically ill people and with the staff who care for them. This poses special challenges and requires expertise in managing multi-morbidity [2] and in working with clinical staff in other specialties. Most liaison psychiatrists treat ?working age adults? (aged 18 to 65) although there are also old age liaison posts. Increasingly however services are providing an ?ageless service? that sees all adults whatever their age. There are also a small but increasing number of specialist child and adolescent posts. A significant part of the work of a liaison psychiatry service will be to provide teaching and training, both formal and informal, to general hospital colleagues on the recognition and basic management of mental health problems that arise in the hospital setting. If you specialise in liaison psychiatry, you are likely to be based in a general or acute hospital, rather than in a psychiatric hospital. If you like to use you hard earned medical knowledge and skills and also like working in a general hospital setting, then liaison psychiatry may be a career for you.


Here we report an aerobic Pd(0) catalyzed C2-H functionalization of indoles and pyrroles with tethered N-methoxylamide as the directing group. A Pd(0)-initiated mechanism overcomes the directing or poisoning effect from a wide range of heterocycles including pyridine, pyrimidine, and thiazole. The imidazo[1,5-a]indole products are transformed to bioactive analogs after one-step manipulations, demonstrating the potential utility of this reaction in drug discovery.


Abstract: Taking into account the repeal of the impunity laws (2001-2005), we are here interested in reconstructing the reopening of the trials of human rights violations in Argentina. First, the "Simon Case", which had its first ruling in 2001 and was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2005; then, law 25.779, of 2003, passed in the National Congress, that explicitly annulled the amnesty laws; and finally, the judicial approach that assembles repression circuits of State terrorism (1976-1983) in "megacausas" within the framework of the notion of "genocide". Our focus is to understand the judicial complexity of the Argentine case of transitional justice.
Keywords: Argentine civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). Transitional justice. Genocide.


This study investigated the effect of silent information regulator 3 (sirtuin 3, SIRT3) on the apoptosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, and the molecular mechanism of SIRT3 regulating HCC cells apoptosis. The influence of SIRT3 overexpression on the apoptosis of HCC cells (SMMC-7721 and SK-Hep-1) was measured by flow cytometry (FCM). SIRT3 expression was downregulated by siRNA targeting SIRT3, then the apoptosis induced by siSIRT3 was detected by FCM. The effect of SIRT3 on the mRNA level of Bcl-2 family members was assayed by Real-time PCR. The protein level of targeting Bcl-2 family member was further tested by Western blot after SIRT3 overexpressed and knockdown. The role of Bcl-2 family members in the HCC cells apoptosis induced by SIRT3 was analyzed by FCM. Our results showed that SIRT3 overexpression promoted HCC cells apoptosis. SIRT3 silent inhibited HCC cells apoptosis. SIRT3 increased the mRNA and protein level of Bax. SIRT3 knockdown inhibited the expression of Bax protein. Bax knockdown significantly decreased the apoptosis ration in cells overexpressed SIRT3. Together, these data indicated that SIRT3 induced HCC cells apoptosis through apoptosis-regulatory gene Bax.


This paper deals with the identification problem of the inertial and frictional parameters of a para llel manipulator. Two important issue are considered; th e physical feasibility of the identified inertial parameters and the use of linear and nonlinear friction models. The dynamic m odel, analyzed and reduced to a set of base parameters th rough the Singular Value Decomposition, is derived starting f rom the Gibbs-Appell equations of motion along with the Gaus s principle of Least Action. The identification process is solv ed by using nonlinear constrained optimization techniques and i t is verified, using exciting periodic trajectories, through a sim ulated parallel manipulator and applied over an actual 3-DOF RPS pa rallel manipulator. A comparison is made between the Least Square Method and the proposed optimization process in the case of linear friction models, and between the linear and n onlinear friction models in the optimization process.


The main focus of this paper is to provide an appropriate mathematical model to predict the natural gas demand for the next six months in the household sector using technical method regardless of influential variables. For this purpose, the most important and most widely used modeling methods of natural gas demands were used as modeling options and four different candidate families were analyzed based on 234 months of historical data of actual consumption and model parameters were estimated using appropriate methods. Then, by using the precision indicators such as average absolute error, average absolute percentage error, waste diffraction model and inequality coefficient of Thiel time series, predicted for a period SARIMA (1,1,2) (1,1,0)12 accepted as the most appropriate fitness function were Identified and of the next 6 months. The results showed that the proposed method has minimum residual in terms of MAE, MAPE, TIC and error variance.


Built upon existing electric thruster pulse emission research capabilities, time-domain techniques were employed to capture the electromagnetic interference (EMI) emission in simulated spacecraft electrostatic discharges. The test setup included custom-built four-channel data acquisition instrumentation anchored by a 15-GHz digital oscilloscope, and a dedicated fiberglass vacuum chamber inside a semianechoic shielded room. The test article was designed to simulate a solar cell array and was irradiated with an electron gun. Emission pulse waveforms and frequency spectra of EMI emission pulses obtained via Fourier transform are presented for both conducted and radiated emissions. Statistical analyses were made of the radiated emission of 100 discharge events each for eight experimental modes that varied electron gun potential from 10 to 20 kV and substrate bias conditions of 0 V, 5 kV, and floating for a normal gradient configuration. The peak of the amplitudes distributions were near 70, 60, and 50 dBìV/m/MHz for the L-, S-, and C-band, respectively, with maximum peak amplitudes of 80, 75, and 65 dBμV/m/MHz for these three bands.


Abstract Coventry, as a town, dates from the foundation of the Benedictine monastery in c. 1043. Its first charter (from the Earl of Chester) was probably given in 1153. A royal charter in 1345 allowed the burgesses to have a commonalty among themselves (communitatem inter se), and this is accepted as the first example of municipal incorporation in Britain. In 1399 Coventry received a separate commission of the peace, and in 1451 with a number of adjoining hamlets became a county in itself. The city had then reached the height of its independence.


The direct-reading spectrometer, previously described by Saunderson, Caldecourt, and Peterson of the Dow Chemical Company, has been adapted for ferrous analysis. Data is given on reproducibility of analytical results obtained for Ni, Cr, Si, Mn, Cu, Mo, Al, and Sn in steel. The inherent accuracy of the instrument is discussed with respect to both the electronic and photometric systems employed. Errors introduced are shown to be small compared with spectrochemical uncertainties inherent in the source.


The article deals with the issues of scientific validity of the state Antimonopoly policy from the standpoint of philosophy and economic theory of competition. The necessity of harmonious use in the formation and implementation of such a policy of values and philosophy of "living" life, fundamental economic doctrines, new trends and ideas of state regulation of the economy, including the use of legal mechanisms.The author proceeds from the fact that the division of labor is the essence of society. Awareness of this fact makes it possible to overcome contradictions in the interests of the individual and society. It is noted that in the modern industrial world digital transformation blurs the boundaries between international, wholesale and retail markets, online and offline trade. Building a business on the basis of digital platforms, intellectual property rights pools, targeted marketing technologies on the one hand, and the transformation of consumer psychology on the other, create fundamentally new conditions for balancing supply and demand. The digital economy creates qualitatively new opportunities for economic development, but should not turn into a "digital hand of the market". States and companies are able to move beyond "data processing" to "reality processing", which poses a potential threat to the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens.In this regard, the role of scientific validity of the state Antimonopoly policy in the formation and implementation of errors, which can be too expensive for society, is significantly increasing.


The kinetics of the reaction of [Pt(digly)(H 2 O)] (where H 2 digly=glycylglycine) with imidazole, pyrazole and triazole were studied at 25°C in aqueous medium by UV-Vis. spectroscopy at I =0.1 mol dm m 3 in the range of pH=5.05-9.00. The entry of the azole bases by the substitution of aqua ligand was revealed. All the products have been characterized through CHN analysis, IR and 1 H NMR spectra. The pH variation data were fitted by a computer fit program and the reactivity of the different azole base species towards the Pt(II) substrate ascertained.


This paper presents an efficient method for deriving exact s-expanded symbolic expressions for behavioral modeling of analog circuits. The key idea is to introduce a graph-based representation called multi-root Determinant Decision Diagram (DDD), where each root represents the symbolic coefficient of a particular power of s. By exploiting sharing and sparsity, a huge number of symbolic product terms can be compactly represented and efficiently manipulated. Experimental results have demonstrated that this method can produce the exact s-expanded-symbolic transfer function for /spl mu/A741 op amps in several CPU seconds on an UltraSparc-I workstation, and the use of generated symbolic expression for frequency-domain simulation achieved a speedup of about 50 over SPICE3F5.


This article considers the introduction of bilingual dictionaries into examinations in modern foreign languages in England and Wales for the General Certificate of Secondary Education and the implications for both teachers and learners. It discusses the context and describes in detail teachers' perceptions of this development through the analysis of data obtained through two small scale questionnaire surveys.


In order to promote the reform of fiscal system under provincial level, the writer analyzes the impact of subjects to the reform and the systems helping each other to fiscal system change under provincial level with the theory about Institutional Economics .The conclusion is that: first, the reform′s extent and efficiency of fiscal system under province is determined by the attitudes of subjects to the reform and the result of haggling; second, during the reform of fiscal system under province, the reform such as governmental function,governmental behavior and keeping lookout fiscal risk must be carried out.


technical drawing convention to hint at the uncertainty surrounding the use and form of organics in burials. In any case, a different version of the jointing is illustrated on the back cover. Ultimately, the purpose of any cemetery monograph is twofold: to present the information accurately and accessibly and to contextualize the community within their wider landscape. This publication scores well on both counts, with the added bonus that each individual specialist contributes unique insights derived from deep understandings of their material.


A load transfer mechanism is essential for every UPS system whether it is on-line or off-line. In the present transfer system, a small, fast, 6-Ampere relay is used as a transfer switch. To achieve faster operation, a 6 V-relay coil has been chosen as a low voltage relay coil has a lesser number of turns, implying less inductance. Here the duration of the peak current of the relay coil has been assumed to be the duration for transfer of the load from main to auxiliary source. Only one change over relay contact is enough for the low power transfer switch. The faster relay has minimum physical gap between the contacts. It is not as fast as a static switch, implying relatively larger interruption time, especially at the time of load transfer between mains source to auxiliary. Using suitable speedup circuit, a 6-millisecond transfer time is achieved. This timing tallies with the simulated transfer time.


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Although recent studies indicate that childhood obesity and severe obesity may be declining, few have reported on prevalence trends in early childhood or differences in trends across sociodemographic groups. The primary aim of this study was to report on early childhood obesity and severe obesity prevalence trends from 2007–2014 in a diverse, metropolitan school district in the Southwest and determine whether these trends vary by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and disability status.


. In this note, we characterize the equality case of the sharp L 2 -Euclidean logarithmic Sobolev inequality with monomial weights, exploiting the idea by Bobkov and Ledoux [4]. Our approach is new even in the unweighted case. Also, we show that the same strategy yields the equality case of the sharp L p -Euclidean logarithmic Sobolev inequality for 1 < p < ∞ with arbitrary norm on R n , if the inequality is unweighted.


This folder contains an invoice for campaign stickers, and accounting of campaign expenses, list of committee and sub-committee members of the Dan K. Inouye Campaign Committee, a list of committee members and addresses throughout the state, biographies of Daniel K. Inouye written by fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives that appeared in the "Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 86th Congress, Second Session," the guest list for the inaugaration, talking points for why Daniel K. Inouye should be returned to Congress, minutes from sub-committee meetings, and descriptions of some of the committee offices.


This article proposes one realization method of bar code recognition system based on NIOSⅡEmbedded soft processor.This system realized on altera' s cycloneⅡchip,useing sopc builder's module to generate the system to control,simultaneously,the sys-tem can transmit the information through the GPRS.


Nitrogen doping can be achieved by heating TiO2-based photocatalyst powders under dopant-generating atmospheres such as NH3. In the present work, metatitanic acid (MTA) powder was used as a raw material to obtain nitrogen-doped titania using heat treatment in NH3 flow. MTA is an industrially available intermediate product in sulfate process for TiO2 production, which is mesoporous material with high specific surface area. The MTA powder was heat-treated in flowing NH3 at 400–550°C. For comparison, commercial P25 TiO2 powder was heat-treated under the same conditions. The results show that nitrogen dopant can be successfully incorporated into the MTA by heating in NH3 atmosphere. This obviously results in the enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity, especially in MTA sample heated at 400°C. Due to the fascinating properties of MTA powder such as high specific surface area, the N-doping effect on MTA powder is much higher than the P25 TiO2 powder.


Multimedia applications such as Video-on-Demand (VoD), Live streaming, Internet stock quotes, Internet radio, audio/music delivery, video surveillance are of growing interest among general public. Existing systems that support these kinds of applications such as centralized server, independent server nodes, and proxy incur significant delay and serve only less number of videos. In this research, a multi-server system that utilizes a split and merge scheme is proposed to reduce the waiting time. This system helps us to achieve load balancing, while increasing the number of videos being served. Our simulation model consists of a single main multimedia server and a set of streaming servers. The performance of the proposed system for various K values is evaluated in the VoD scenario. The results show that the proposed multi-server scheme performs better in terms of initial latency and number of videos being served, compared to the other existing schemes. Index Terms—Component, formatting, style, styling, insert.


Ultramarine blue was synthesized by using reservoir silts as a major raw material to replace traditional kaolin clay. The reservoir silts were pretreated to collect the fines, in which the main mineral composition is illite clay. The fine part was mixed with sodium carbonate, sulfur, and activated carbon, and calcined at 800°C for 8 h. The products were examined by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to identify the mineral phases and particle morphology. The color characteristics were measured according to the CIELab system. Brilliant blue ultramarine powders were successfully synthesized with a chroma of 52.4, which is competitive with the commercial ultramarine.


Abstract We report a numerical study of the asymptotic regime of spinodal decomposition. Specifically, we find (a) that the characteristic pattern size shows a power-law growth with exponent 0.33; and (b) that the effect of noise is asymptotically irrelevant.


The sixth hurdle clearance of the first six hurdlers who took part in the preliminary contest of the Eighth National Games was filmed with a "CHUN FENG" camera (China) with a frequency of 96Hz. The film was then digitized using JTK—1 film analysis system. The results showed that the essence of hurdle race is the transition between run and hurdle clearance. The speed rhythm shown in the stride before the clearance of the hurdle and the first stride after the hurdle is a crucial factor that determines whether or not the hurdle clearance technique is satisfactory.