A solid-on-solid (SOS) model in a field h conjugate to the orientation of the surface is exactly solved with the aid of Pfaffians. The free energy (h) directly gives the equilibrium shape of a finite crystal. The phase diagram exhibits rough and smooth phases, corresponding to rounded and flat portions of the crystal surface. The solid-on-solid model undergoes transitions of the Pokrovsky-Talapov type (1979) characterised by a specific heat exponent alpha =1/2. One special point of the phase diagram corresponds to the appearance of a facet via an alpha =0 transition. Height-height correlations are derived along a special line in the phase diagram. With the aid of the known equivalence of this SOS model with an Ising model, several exponents can be translated from one model to the other. This enables one to derive the topology of the phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic triangular Ising model with first- and second-neighbour couplings in a field.


The intersubband transitions were calculated in three different shaped triple‐graded quantum wells. The investigation involved changing the depth of the central well potential under an electric field applied parallel to the growth direction. By changing the depth of the central well potential, one can tune the resonance photon energy. This tunability gives a possibility for the realization of near‐infrared electro‐absorption modulators and detectors. In addition, the absorption coefficient as a function of the incident photon energy was obtained for the 1–2 transition in a triple square quantum well structure having the same physical parameters as the triple‐graded quantum well structure. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


This correspondence develops tools for comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of unitary transformations in signal processing applications. Performance measures for the tasks of optimal filters and optimal coding are exemplified, and measures of similarity among representations are proposed.


The decline of student interest and participation in computing degrees at university is affecting the stability of computing as a stand-alone discipline in universities. Research indicates that the decline begins in secondary schools. This paper describes an outreach program that was funded by an Australian Council of Deans of ICT grant. The researchers, acknowledging the time-poor nature of teachers' work and that some of them are not trained in the computing discipline, developed curricula and provided resources and student helpers to enable secondary school teachers to deliver a student centred unit of work. This unit focused on a four week program with students developing applications for android phones. The program was delivered in three schools by four teachers and produced mixed evaluation results. In one school the number of students taking ICT the following year increased significantly, this was not reported in the other two schools. Our findings show that even when teachers are provided with resources and artefacts, not all are prepared to deliver a fully student-led classroom experience. We ask "are the teachers ready?" to embrace transformational pedagogies using ICT in the classroom. In this case study we can say some are, but some are not. We also note that the technical issues within school networks hamper the ability of teachers to provide compelling computing experiences to students. Our recommendation for future implementations of the program is to provide teachers with more background on the benefits of a student-centred classroom approach before beginning this four-week unit of work.


CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Magdalena Maleszka-Kurpiel, MD, Department of Optometry, Chair of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 5D Rokietnicka St., 60-806 Poznan, Poland, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com INTRODUCTION Keratoconus (KC) is defined as a chronic, bilateral, noninflammatory corneal disorder characterized by progressive steepening, thinning and scarring of the cornea [1]. The application of novel technologies extends this definition to abnormalities in posterior corneal elevation, corneal thickness distribution and corneal epithelium thickness profile [2, 3]. Keratoconus usually starts at puberty and progresses until the third or fourth decade of life [1]. The prevalence of KC varies widely between published studies. The lowest (0.0003%) was reported in Russia [4]. In other studies values from 0.086% in Denmark and 0.249% in Iran up to 2.3% in India were reported [5-7]. The highest prevalence, reported by Torres et al. in a pediatric population in Saudi Arabia, is 4.79% [8]. There are no current data available concerning the KC prevalence in Poland. Despite numerous genetic and environmental factors which were identified as causing KC, the etiology and mechanism of progression of this ectasia remain unclear and are still under study. In 2018 in the review publication by Loukovitis et al. 24 genes were described as involved in KC etiology [9]. Further investigations include examination of DNA methylation changes in keratoconic eyes [10]. Environmental factors include intensive eye rubbing. It has to be emphasized that eye rubbing is a cause of significant increase of levels of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-13, interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in tears of healthy volunteers [11]. It is well correlated with other studies in which levels of IL-6, TNF-α, and MMP-9 are increased in tears of patients with KC [12]. Patients with keratoconus reported more frequent and intense eye rubbing during contact lens use compared to non-keratoconic contact lens (CL) users [13]. Moreover, rigid gas permeable contact lenses (RGP) use increases levels of proinflammatory cytokines and cell adhesion molecules in eyes with KC [14]. Contact lenses play an important role in visual rehabilitation but do not inhibit KC progression [2]. The most important KC-preventive measures include: instructing the patient about the harmful effects of rubbing the ABSTRACT Aim of the study: To assess the impact of corneal cross-linking (CXL) in keratoconic eyes on uncorrected (UCVA) and best corrected (BCVA) distance visual acuity, selected corneal parameters measured with a Scheimpflug imaging system, intraocular pressure (IOP) and endothelial cell density (ECD). Material and methods: 71 eyes of 61 patients treated with CXL were included in the study. Each patient underwent optometric and ophthalmological examination with corneal tomography. Data from the qualifying visit and 1-year post-surgery examination were analyzed. Results: Comparative analysis of the pre-operative and 1-year post-operative evaluation showed improvement in median UCVA of –0.1 (logMAR) and median BCVA of –0.06 (logMAR). Manifest spherical equivalent showed a median change of almost 0.4 D and the power of the manifest cylinder did not change. The regression in the anterior keratometry steep meridian was greater than in the flat meridian, –0.9 D and –0.6 D respectively. The median Kmax change value was –1.2 D. Topometric indices analysis showed improvement in corneal symmetry. We did not observe changes in IOP and ECD. Conclusions: CXL is a safe procedure, improving visual acuity, both uncorrected and corrected, and normalizing corneal parameters.


'Interpretation' is a general and interesting pattern recognition framework in which a system is considered to input object representations, and output the corresponding interpretations in terms of 'semantic messages' specifying the actions to be carried out as system's responses. From the syntactic pattern recognition viewpoint, interpretation reduces to formal transduction. The authors propose an efficient and effective algorithm to automatically infer a finite state transducer from a training set of input-output examples of the interpretation problem considered. The proposed algorithm has been shown to identify an important class of transductions known as 'subsequential transductions.' Experimental results are presented showing the performance and capabilities of the proposed method.<<ETX>>


Abstract A design of the load-bearing capacity and settlement of a pilot base is usually based on the assumption that all of the load from the top of the building is transferred only by pilots. The influence of the adjacent connecting structures, which are in contact with the ground (pile cap, slab, block, belt, etc.), is usually ignored. The necessary data from the experimental measurement of the impact of these structures, concerning the overall bearing capacity of the foundations, was obtained on the testload device (Stand), in the area of Faculty of Civil Engineering, VŠB-TU of Ostrava. The progress of the experiment and the results of the load tests are listed in this paper


Introduction. The role of change agent in occupational therapy is increasingly being called upon. However, occupational therapists often feel uncomfortable and ill-equipped for this role. Painting a picture of the essential internal factors could guide their reflective practice and thus increase their confidence and expertise in occupying it.
Objective. The objective of the study was to determine the internal factors essential for an occupational therapist to effectively carry out his actions as an change agent in order to support his reflective practice.
Methods. The scientific literature reviewed in this study was taken from two databases (CINAHL & Medline) until January 29th 2020. The review strategy was validated by a librarian. The entire research team participated in the data extraction, which was carried out in a cascading style, as well as in the qualitative analysis of themes and their synthesis.
Results. From the 664 documents initially identified, we selected 25 for analysis. We have identified three major internal factors essential to the change agent (personal determinants, interpersonal skills and leadership skills). The personal determinants serve as a basis for the occupational therapist to develop as a change agent. They are in constant interaction with the interpersonal skills that affect relationships with others and the leadership skills needed to act for change.
Conclusions. By its synthesis of essential internal factors, this study will serve as a springboard for a tool to support reflexive practice of occupational therapists and thus contribute to the success of their actions as change agents.


Objective To evaluate the effect of incision type on skin healing in breast cancer with radical mastectomy.Method A retrospective study was performed in 680 breast cancer patients from 1986 to 2001 to compare the skin flap necrosis and healing in different incision type groups. Result There hundreds and twelve patients with longtitude dirrection incision showed a higher rate of skin flap necrosis (34.0%) than those with transection dirrection incision(5.2% ) . Conclusion Transection dirrection incision is advisable for radical mastectomy for its advantage in relieving skin tension and improving ischemia of insion compared with traditional longtitude dirrection incision.


In this article the growing dissent and tension with regard to the relationship between political factors, public policy-formation and the consequences (in terms of economic performance) will be investigated. Our point of departure is to find out to what extent political variables matter and which other factors may account for the above relationship. The main result is that, apart from the impact of 'politics', the existence of a corporatist mode of interest-mediation and conflict-regulation consistently strengthens the explanation of policy-formation and policy-performance. In addition, it appears that, especially after 1974, political factors gain influence, albeit more often than not in circumstances of political consensus and where right-wing parties are relatively weak. If the interdependence between 'politics' and 'economics' is managed in a consensual fashion, it will lead to a better economic performance and may be an adequate response to the ongoing crisis.


The dynamic resource block structure (D-RBS) allows for flexible allocation of radio resources. This flexibility (potentially) enables efficient utilization of available resources and adaptability to changing network conditions. In this context, managing resource contention and optimizing allocation decisions become increasingly challenging. In this research paper, we introduce a new approach for D-RBS for re-allocation of enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) resource blocs (RBs) to URLLC users. Our scheme leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to support the three main services of 5th generation networks. To efficiently allocate resources for eMBB/mMTC and URLLC services, we propose an intelligent puncturing scheme. Additionally, we formulate an optimization problem that aims to minimize resource and transmit power usage while meeting the requirements of all three services. Since this problem is non-convex and involves multiple optimization variables, we utilize deep reinforcement learning as a solution algorithm. We then compare our proposed intelligent allocation (IA) scheme with two other schemes: random allocation (RaA) and overallocation (OA), which have lower complexity and overhead. Performance and complexity analyses are conducted in a multi-cell scenario with interference. Our results demonstrate that the IA scheme outperforms RaA and OA, achieving an energy efficiency gain of 40% and 15% respectively. However, it is worth noting that IA has a 36.3% higher complexity in terms of action selection compared to RaA and OA.


The Benes network is a rearrangeable nonblocking network which can realize any arbitrary permutation. Overlall, the r-dimensional Benes network connects 2r inputs to 2r outputs through 2r - 1 levels of 2 × 2 switches. Each level of switches consists of 2r - 1 switches, and hence the size of the network has to be a power of two. In this paper, we extend Benes networks to arbitrary sizes. We also show that the looping routing algorithm used in Benes networks can be slightly modified and applied to arbitrary size Benes networks.


Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a group of pai nful disorders that affect muscles, tendons, nerves, joints, cartilage, and ligaments. They are a serious problem among the workforce in the United States. In the construction industry, high physically demanding tasks expose construction workers to a number of well rec ognized MSDs risk factors such as repetitive motion, high force exertion, and awkward body postu re. Finding ways to effectively identify and evaluate risks of MSDs can significantly alleviate this problem. To this end, this paper reviews state of practice and research in the assessment of risks of MSDs among construction workers, in which a number of biomechanical models have been de veloped to evaluate joint and tissue loading with the aid of state-of-the-art remote sen sing technologies. Findings from the review reveal that despite the advances in tracking human otion and muscle activities, current remote sensing approaches still involve sophisticated inst rumentation and expensive experiment setup. These factors greatly limited the applicability of such approaches in real construction settings. How can we detect and evaluate the construction wor ker's MSDs risk in real work environments? In this paper, strategies by utilizing video survei llance systems are presented, to set the stage for addressing the above question and discussing future research in real-time, marker-less, and costeffective MSDs risk assessment.


2d, The manner in which polygamy may have originated. 3d, The origin and effect of excessive pugnacity. 4th, The origin and advantage of great sexual disparity. 5th, The origin and advantage of the ability to endure longprotracted fasts. The sexual disparity, excessive pugnacity, and ability to endure protracted fasts are all intimately related to polygamy, either as cause or effect. Up to a certain point pugnacity and disparity seem to have acted as causes of polygamy. Beyond that point they seem to be effects of polygamy, or at least are accelerated or intensified by it. The ability to endure long fasts would seem to be purely an effect of polygamy.


To investigate changes in the level of protein in serum and uncover the underlying pathogenesis of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) associated with copper intrauterine devices (Cu IUD).


A transcleral inoculation of 15×106 melanocytes of the B16-F10 and G-361 cell lines was carried out in the anterior chamber of one eye in New Zealand white rabbits. Tumor growth occurred in 24 eyes (77%) of the B16-F10 group and in 22 (73%) of the G-361 group. The tumors of the latter group were mostly amelanic and showed local aggression with ocular perforation and extrascleral growth one month post-implant, while the tumors of the B16-F10 group were intensely pigmented and grew over the iris although they did not perforate the eyeball. Microscopically, the tumors of both groups were of the mixed type, made up of epithelioid and fusiform melanocytes. S-100 protein and Nki C3 monoclonal immunohistochemical techniques showed a positive immunoreaction in all cases of tumor growth. Ultrastructurally, the G-361 melanocytes showed a few melanosomes corresponding to maturity state II and, occasionally, state III, while totally melanized state IV cells predominated in the B16-F10 group. Aberrant melanosomes were common in both groups. The inoculation of 15×106 melanocytes of either cell line was useful to produce ocular melanomas.


Restriction endonuclease Bce83I has been purified by chromatography on blue-sepharose and hydroxyapatite. It recognizes 4, 6, 5, 13 and more than 20 sites on pUC 18, pBR322, M13mpl8, X and T7 DNA, respectively. Double digestion of pUC18 with Bce83I and PvuII, HindIII, Cfr1OI and Bme216I (isoschizomer AvaII) showed that the Bce83I sites localized to the position 912, 1179, 1451, 2319, where the same sequence CTTGAG or the complementary to it are located. The numbers of cleavage sites and lengths of the DNA fragments after treatment of the Ml3mpl8, pBR322 and XDNA are consistent with this recognition site. To identify the points of cleavages the recombinant phase M13tgl30 with the XHindIII fragment with coordinates 37459-37584 was constructed. The cleavage points were determined by cleavage of a primer-synthesis reaction (1). The cleaved product resulted in a predominant band comigrated with G at a distance of 14 nucleotides from the recognition site. At addition of DNA polymerase the band appeared two nucleotides lower (Figure 1). These results indicate that Bce83I recognizes the site 5'-CTTGAG-16N I N-3' and cleaves DNA 3'-GAACTC-14NIN-5' as indicated by


Some recent studies have highlighted the difference between the Igbo impersonal pronoun and the other pronouns found in the language on the basis of distributional evidence. This has led to proposals either for the rejection of the category of impersonal pronoun in Igbo (Nwaozuzu, 2007), or a re-analysis of the Igbo impersonal pronoun as a clitic (Anyanwu, 2005; 2012). This paper provides further evidence of the distributional differences between the impersonal pronouns and the other pronouns, but relates the restriction of the impersonal pronoun to the subject position to its use as an agent defocusing strategy, in a construction that is functionally equivalent to the English agentless passive. Furthermore, the features that differentiate the impersonal pronoun from the other pronouns in Igbo are shown to characterize elements used for similar functions in other languages. It is argued that, from a functional perspective, the Igbo impersonal pronoun exhibits the typical syntactic and semantic features of impersonal pronouns observed crosslinguistically, which a purely syntactic approach fails to capture.


Since the Ti-2015 World Conference on Titanium held in San Diego, USA, research, development and applications of commercially pure titanium, titanium alloys and titanium aluminides have advanced considerably. In this plenary paper, information is provided on important achievements in the German titanium industry, governmental and non-governmental research organisations and universities from the last four years.


We consider the problem of implementing scalable threedimensional fast Fourier transforms with an eye toward future exascale systems comprised of graphics co-processor (GPUs) or other similarly high-density compute units. We describe a new software implementation; derive and calibrate a suitable analytical performance model; and use this model to make predictions about potential outcomes at exascale, based on current and likely technology trends. We evaluate the scalability of our software and instantiate models on real systems, including 64 nodes (192 NVIDIA"Fermi" GPUs) of the Keeneland system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We use our analytical model to quantify the impact of both interand intra-node communication that impede further scalability. Among various observations, a key prediction is that although inter-node all-to-all communication is expected to be the bottleneck of distributed FFTs, it is actually intra-node communication that may play an even more critical role.


WiMAX is a broadband wireless access technology supports fixed and mobility services. WiMAX physical layer is based on OFDM/OFDMA technologies. This paper analyzes the Rayleigh fade distribution with various modulating frequencies (fm) by varying number of frequency samples. Least square (LS) and Linear Minimum Mean Square Error (LMMSE) channel estimators are compared in terms of BER, SNR and MSE (Mean Square Error) by varying channel length. Blind Channel equalization is analyzed with CMA (Constant Modulus Algorithm) and LMS (Least Minimum Square) algorithms in terms of convergence rate by varying the smoothening length of the channel. The results proved that without channel estimation BER is almost constant for all modulation schemes.


Object . The process of the botnets detection in the corporate area networks based on network traffic analysis and on the of computer systems software's behavior. Subject . Methods for botnets detection in computer systems. Goal . Increasing of the botnet detection efficiency by developing new methods for its detection in the corporate networks. Results . A new approach for the botnet detection in the corporate area networks based on the analysis of the bots' behavior is proposed. The detection of botnets is accomplished by applying the developed two methods: by means of network-level and host-level analysis. The first method allows you to analyze the behavior of the software on the host, which may indicate the possible presence of the bot directly on the host and the detection of malicious software, while the second method involves monitoring and analysis of DNS traffic, which also allows to make a conclusion about infection of network hosts with botnets. Based on the proposed methods, an effective tool for botnet detection - BotGRABBER - was developed. It is capable of detecting bots that use such evasion methods as IP mapping, fast flux, domain flux, and DNS tunneling. Conclusions . The usage of the developed system allows to detect the hosts infected with botnet and localize malware with high efficiency - up to 96%, and also shows low rate of false positives 3-5%. A feature of the proposed approach is that the detection of botnets is "invisible" to botnet owners.


The following thesis describes unmanned aerial vehicle control solution developement based on mobile connection. It solves range limitation, price availability and use complexity. Major steps include requirement analysis, software modules and system planning, tools and developement process research, software implementation, hardware integration, programming languages, tools and developement kits learning, implementation and modular testing of a system. The solution combines communication, software and hardware part. The first part is based on WebRTC technology and Linux servers`s solution. The second part is performed by Android based application with a Raspberry Pi running Python software, whiile the third part contains a Raspberry Pi based hardware and associate components in a wooden case. Everything is tested on a flying wing in a safe environment.


The core content of implementing two level management is to reduce management center,decentralize management power and give full play to the functions of departments.There exist many problems in the process of concrete implementation,such as decentralization,power monitoring,managers' quality,equity and efficiency.Solutions are:follow the principle of graduality and cautiousness and establish two level management mechanism gradually;define responsibilities and rights reasonably and streamline the relationship among all levels;optimize the supervision and restriction mechanism and play the role of evaluation orientation;strengthen capacity-building and improve management level.


Mutation in Odontogenesis‐associated phosphoprotein (ODAPH) has been reported to cause recessive hypomineralized amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) in human. However, the exact role of ODAPH in amelogenesis is still unknown.


This chapter reviews the studies that applied the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to assess the Big Five personality traits, focusing on issues related to measurement and validity. After a brief introduction on the implicit self-concept of personality, the following five issues are critically reviewed: (1) the experimental procedure of both classical and questionnaire-based Big Five IATs, (2) the factorial structure and reliability of the implicit traits and the degree of dissociation between implicit and explicit measures, (3) the state and trait components of implicit scores, (4) the predictive validity of the Big-Five IATs with respect to relevant behavioural criteria, and (5) the robustness to faking of the Big Five IATs. Future research directions for the implicit measures of the Big Five were discussed.


Aiming at differentiating the rotor and tail-rotor noise from the whole helicopter noise sources,a method based upon the two-dimensional analysis was developed by considering the random signal theory and the characteristics of helicopter noise signal.Then the noise signals of scissors rotor helicopter were identified by the present method.Firstly,the theoretical model and solving method were established.Secondly,the method was used to distinguish the helicopter simulated and measured noise signals,as a result,the rotor and tail-rotor noises were clearly extracted.At last,the present method was extended to identify the noise signals of scissors rotor helicopter,and the mechanism of the scissors rotor on the noise reduction was concluded.


Results are presented from a survey of the use of radioactive isotopes in hospitals in the United States in 1967. Adimistrative problems encountered in a radioisotope program are discussed. (C.H.)


We designed and experimentally demonstrated an angled multimode interferometer (MMI) for simultaneous wavelength demultiplexing of multiple mode-division multiplexed channels. Wavelength demultiplexing of four-mode channels was experimentally measured.


Compact Heat Exchangers were developed to have very high efficiency in transfer of heat within a very small space or volume and are being used in the automotive, aircraft and space applications. In order to obtain much higher heat transfer, these Heat Exchangers uses closely packed fins, narrow or small diameter passages and turbulators or turbulence promoters. Though these arrangements result in much higher pressure drop for the fluids, this disadvantage is expected to be off-set with a larger increase in heat transfer capability. Generally it is known that turbulence enables better mixing of the fluid and results in enhancing the heat being transferred. However in practice it has been observed that there is a limit to this enhancement and the heat transfer does not improve beyond certain turbulence levels. The higher turbulence level probably results in carrying the heat away along with the fluid without transferring all the heat to the cooling medium. The presence of turbulence promoters was found to be beneficial at a lower fluid velocity level, where they conduct the heat away more by surface conduction than by convection in the fluid. Detailed experimental investigation and findings of this phenomenon using a compact heat exchanger for a military vehicle is described in this paper.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


A railgun simulator has been constructed at UTA that is capable of producing a high current, moving plasma armature. The railgun simulator may be fired tens of times per day in order to provide large amounts of data on plasma armature parameters. The high repetition rate allows for the development of diagnostic techniques that may be applied to railguns. The device at UTA has been used to test and develop techniques for acquiring and interpreting optical data, to measure the amount of optical laser transmission through the plasma, and to measure the plasma velocity. A new experimental chamber has been constructed that will greatly enhance the flexibility of the device, and allow for further plasma studies and diagnostics development.


This paper studies the inverse power flow problem which is to infer line and transformer parameters, and the operational structure of a power system from time-synchronized measurements of voltage and current phasors at various locations. We show that the nodal admittance matrix can be uniquely identified from a sequence of steady-state measurements when the system is fully observable, and a reduced admittance matrix, from Kron reduction, can be determined when the system contains some hidden nodes. Furthermore, we discuss conditions for identifying the full admittance matrix of a power system with hidden nodes and propose efficient algorithms based on graph theory and convex relaxation to determine the admittance matrix of both radial and mesh systems when these conditions are satisfied. Simulations performed on a standard test system where all nodes are monitored confirm that the proposed algorithms can provide an accurate estimate of the admittance matrix from noisy synchrophasor data.


The paper discusses the limitations on the high-frequency performance of superconducting tunnel diodes. The noise performance should be comparable to the best low-noise amplifiers available, and, with the present technology, a maximum operating frequency in the microwave region is predicted.


This study aimed to analyze the stress levels of nurses working in different sectors of the morning, afternoon and night; characterize the stressors of different sectors and compare the level of stress variables. This study was quantitative, descriptive, transversal and comparative study conducted in a hospital in the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. We used to collect data an identification form and scale of stress modified Bianchi (EBEM). The study population consisted of 203 subjects of the various shifts, and 59.6% of the day, 65% open areas, 88.2% female, mean age of 39.6 years. The stress score was 2.60 (average level of stress). Among the nurses were supervisors incidence of 79% with medium level of stress and 10.5% with early and high level of stress. Among the nurses, 48.3% had medium level of stress and 40.0% with early and high level of stress. We concluded that stress was present, regardless of sector of work, but the lack of human resources to cover the shift, the lack of material and / or equipment to assist and work with technically disqualified were the stressors with higher scores of stress.


Solemnity and lightheartedness,an important dimension of Chinese literature,has been subjected to an undeserved negligence.Under the magnitude of modern Chinese solemn literature,the overwhelming mainstream,pursuit of light-hearted writing and fun reading possess unique aesthetic meaning and literary historical value.Yu Si modern,the origin of modern genre of lightheartedness,manifested itself explicitly in the perspectives of theoretical system and practice.The research in this regard provides not only Yu Si a new observation,but also modern light-hearted writing a proper interpretation.


A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) consists of a group of mobile nodes that can move abruptly in and out the network. MANET has several special specifications including, non-fixed infrastructure, the absence of a central administration, limited bandwidth, and limited energy. Merging two MANETs is a situation that can occur frequently because of mobility. Due to the nature of MANET, it is vulnerable to attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS). In this paper a proposed method called Merging Using MrDR (MUMrDR) is used to merge two MANETs based on the Monitoring, Detection, and Rehabilitation (MrDR) method to mitigate such attacks. By adopting this method, it will be possible to detect DoS attacks when merging two MANETs, thereby maintaining network operations.


High-end applications designed for the MORPHEUS computing platform require a massive amount of memory and memory throughput to fully demonstrate MORPHEUS's potential as a high-performance reconfigurable architecture. For example, a proposed film grain noise reduction application for high definition video, which is composed of multiple image processing tasks, requires enormous data rates due to its large input image size and real-time processing constraints. To meet these requirements and to eliminate external memory bottlenecks, a bandwidth- optimized DDR-SDRAM memory controller has been designed for use with the MORPHEUS platform and its Network On Chip interconnect. This paper describes the controller's design requirements and architecture, including the interface to the Network On Chip and the two-stage memory access scheduler, and presents relevant experiments and performance figures.


Marina Cavazzana, MD, PhD Paris Descartes University Adrian J. Thrasher, MD, PhD UCL Institute of Child Health Ronald G. Crystal, MD Weill Cornell Medical College Cornell University Nominated for: Adenoviral vectors/role in translation of gene therapy to clinic Frederic D. Bushman, PhD Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Christof von Kalle, MD, PhD National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg Nominated for: Gene therapy for eye disorders


This paper presents the new Write-Back scheme, which solve the half-select operation problem and faster than conventional Write-Back technique for memory array with seven-transistor (7T) single-ended static random access memory (SE-SRAM) bit cell. Data in the cells are sensitive and flipping can happen, so proposed scheme improves the stability issue for half-selected cells without performance degradation.


Background: The cephalic vein approach is a preferred route for endocardial lead implantation; however, it is associated with a significant failure rate. Anatomic abnormalities likely play an important role, but specific features have not been well characterized.


Multiple injury patients need fast and adequate help because of the high mortality, especially in the first 24 hours. Initial evaluation and management of the trauma victim, from hospital admission to stabilization is very important. It has been emphasized that in multiple injuries the life can be saved and best possible function recovered only by a correct algorithm of differe nt surgical procedures in therapeutic care focused first on saving the patient's life and subse quently on restoration of all important functions and application of the maximum of contemporary therapeutic possibilities'. Mortality rate in railway accident is very high2). Survivors of train-pedestrian accidents are likely to suffer isolated musculoskeletal injuries, the majority of which are amputations of the lower extremity. Morbidity and mortality following multiple trauma are high in elderly patients. However intensive care may improve the survival rate and the quality of life in survivors, allowing those to return home. In this study we experienced a suicidal attemptand hit by a running train and suffered from multiple injuries. This article deals with the initial evaluation and management of the trauma victim, from hospital admission to stabilization.


The article briefly introduces CLIL method and its use. The
paper explains the terms hard CLIL and soft CLIL Next, it deals
with the CLIL specifics, possible advantages and disadvantages.
Competence and educational requirements of teachers are
mentioned here. The paper also gives materials for Recruitment
(which can be used in Management, Building Management).


In the interim of the restructure of the power market in China,the grid company should guarantee the security of the operating network and balance the profit of each generation company,thus the electricity purchasing cost related to the practical generation schedule sometimes exceeds the optimal purchasing cost.Based on the re-classification of the constraints set,the above-norm payment was defined and a practical above-norm payment calculating method was proposed.The proposed method took into account two different combinations of the constraints to develop the generation schedule and to calculate the above-norm payment.At last,an example was presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of this quantitative analysis of the above-norm payment.The above-norm payment can help the grid company to monitor the purchasing cost overruns,and to promote measures to improve economic operations.


The principle and features of typical feed drive structures of CNC machine tools are demonstrated.In this paper,the anti-backlash structures are studied and the relative error models are established.Moreover,the applications of these anti-backlash structures in CNC machine tools are analyzed to make reference for the structure design of feed drive systems.


This article considers the role of reader characteristics in processing and learning from informational text, as revealed in think-aloud research. A theoretical framework for relevant aspects of readers' processing and products was developed. These relevant aspects included three attentional foci for processing (comprehension, monitoring, and evaluation) and five types of processing behaviors (use of strategies, metacognition, monitoring, goal setting and pursuit, and use of prior knowledge). Relevant aspects of products included mental representations of text (textbase, situation model of text, situation model of phenomenon, and author model) and the quality of those representations. A body of 45 studies was identified, considering reader characteristics of ability, experience, knowledge, and interest. Overall, low levels of all these were associated with an emphasis on local-level processing and effortful construction of a textbase, whereas higher levels were associated with more globally directed, more effective, more flexible engagement, leading to better quality mental representations and greater learning.


This paper analyases geological conditions, and load requirement of one wharf at Taicang port area of Suzhou port, conprehensively considers the natural conditions, operating requirements, construction capacity, construction cost and other factors, and combined with existing construction resources, experience, etc, through design optimization of pile foundation, superstructure and so on, reduce the difficulty of construction, shorten the construction period, save the project investment.


A machine tool (1), in particular in the form of a hand-held jigsaw (2) is provided aligned with the working area (9) of its working tool observation device (33) whose in particular by a camera formed (26) sensor with the housing side provided for outlet of the observation means (33) via a transmission device (36) is connected.


Clinical Question: In rugby players, does using a mouthguard reduce the risk of concussion? Clinical Bottom Line: After examining the three studies included in this critical appraisal, results are ...


Let $d>r\ge0$ be integers. For positive integers $a,b,c$, if any term of the arithmetic progression $\{r+dn:\ n=0,1,2,\ldots\}$ can be written as $ax^2+by^2+cz^2$ with $x,y,z\in\mathbb Z$, then the form $ax^2+by^2+cz^2$ is called $(d,r)$-universal. In this paper, via the theory of ternary quadratic forms we study the $(d,r)$-universality of some diagonal ternary quadratic forms conjectured by L. Pehlivan and K. S. Williams, and Z.-W. Sun. For example, we prove that $2x^2+3y^2+10z^2$ is $(8,5)$-universal, $x^2+3y^2+8z^2$ and $x^2+2y^2+12z^2$ are $(10,1)$-universal and $(10,9)$-universal, and $3x^2+5y^2+15z^2$ is $(15,8)$-universal.


This paper presents a case study of closure surface water management for mined pits located adjacent to two large creeks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The mining footprint presented some significant closure challenges, with pits, waste dumps and land bridges located adjacent to creeks. Hydrological flood modelling of rare and extreme floods affecting both pre-mining and proposed end-of-mining topography was used to guide landform design. A risk-based design approach was adopted based on the likelihood and consequence of closure landform failure. For relatively minor failure consequences (e.g. scour of the toe of a rehabilitated waste dump) more frequent events were used as the design event. Rarer events were used to design controls aimed at avoiding major consequences, such as creek capture, where a natural watercourse scours a path into a mine void effectively terminating downstream flow. These designs informed a closure strategy involving partial pit backfill and scour management controls on landforms, which has been developed to leave a suitable post-mining landform.


Sketch created by "Cross Country News" publisher Tony Page depicting Delphine Bohn moving to Houston with Business Aircraft, Inc. Sketch is signed by several former WASP. Image displayed (72 dpi JPEG), Master image (600 dpi TIFF).


Objective: The purpose of the present investigation is to analyze outcomes of intraoral and extra oral approaches and to provide an evidence for the effectiveness of superior border fixation to mandibular angle fractures. Material and Methods: This study was conducted in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Khyber College of Dentistry Peshawar, Pakistan. A total of 60 patients with displaced mandibular angle fracture were included in this study, where 30 patients were treated with intraoral while 30 were approached extraorally. Post-operative complications as well as total time spent in surgery and cost involved was analyzed using SPSS version 17. Results: Out of 60 patients, 37(61.67%) were male while 23(38.33%) were female in their second and third decades of life (31.67% and 26.67% respectively). Among the intra-oral group, majority of the procedures (80%) were completed within 30 minutes while among the extra-oral group most of the procedure (93.34%) were completed in 30-60 minutes time. Fifteen cases were recorded among the extra-oral group while the remaining 3 cases (16.66% of the total complications) were recorded in Intra-oral group. Conclusions: Intra-oral approach in the management of mandibular angle fracture is more desirable in terms of cost especially if intra-osseous wire is used instead of mini-plates. Other advantages are less operative time, fewer chances of infections and nerve damage as compared to extra-oral approach.


Distributed administration and processing techniques are discussed,which are related to the building of a distributed application.In the point of enhancing transparence of data communication under the structure of client/server model,emphasis is put on techniques of name space propagation,consistent resources maintenance, construction of multidrop duplex transmission net, etc ..It effectively adds the system properties of distribution,survivability and fault tolerance, etc ..


The latest world Bank Global Monitoring Report boasted that only 9.6% of the world's population - 702 million people - are forecast to be living in extreme poverty in 2015, 200 million fewer than in 2012. And this even with the World Bank now raising its official poverty line from the 2008 US$1.25 a day level to US$1.90.


The purpose of this study was to determine whether young children's socialized speech (their speech addressed to an auditor) is more syntactically complex than their egocentric (private) speech. 150 utterances produced by 10 4-yr.-old boys in their nursery school classroom and in an interview situation were randomly selected for analysis. 52 judges rated each utterance on a 7-point equal-appearing-interval scale of "intricacy of language usage." No difference in intricacy was observed between the children's egocentric and socialized utterances.


The Solongo boron-magnetite skarn deposit (Western Transbaikalia, Russia) features industrial reserves of rare kurchatovite-sakhaite ores. The purpose of the work is to study the oxygen isotopic composition of boron-bearing minerals from the kurchatovite-sakhaite ores of the deposit. The samples were studied using modern methods of electron microscopy, mass spectrometry. The original photographs of transparent thin sections and images of the samples in backscattered electrons show mineral associations of sakhaite and kurchatovite icluding polymineral szaibeliite-sibirskite-calcite aggregate, roweite, fedorovskite, ludwigite, forsterite, serpentine, titanite, sphalerite, magnetite, jacobsite, apatite, turneaureite. The evolution of the Solongo deposit boron minerals is described. The following indicators of the oxygen isotopic composition δ18О v-SMOW in minerals have been obtained: sakhaite – +1 ‰, roweite – +2.7 ‰, kurchatovite – +1.9 ‰, magnetite – -0.3 ‰. The comparison of isotopic data on sakhaite with the available literature data has shown that the sakhaite of Solongo boron ores has a relatively light oxygen composition. The indicators obtained are attributed to the participation of meteoric waters including melt waters of firn basins and permafrost, in the formation process of the deposit, as well as reduced index of the oxygen isotope composition δ18O of the dolomites of the Ozerninsky ore cluster, whose transformation is associated with the sakhaite formation.


The planning of integrated energy system is a very complex multi-objective, multi-constraint, nonlinear, random uncertain hybrid combination optimization problem, its planning and design process should consider not only the system capacity, energy exchange, energy storage, energy and other links between the interdependence, but also the interaction and mixing of cold, hot, electricity and other multi-energy flow, which is essentially a non-deterministic polynomial problem. Based on load prediction technology, combined with scene generation, multi-interconnected energy system modeling and other technologies, around the integrated energy system planning and design, consider the comprehensive evaluation of the whole life cycle, an optimal configuration of the integrated energy system is formed.


Grebe SO, Kuhlmann U, Fogl D, Luyckx VA, Mueller TF. Macrophage activation is associated with poorer long‐term outcomes in renal transplant patients.
Clin Transplant 2011: 25: 744–754. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S.


The Swedish "Welfare State" of the 1950s was described as a rational, well-organized society by leading Swedish philosopher, Professor Ingemar Hedenius. His biopolitical vision emphasized the scientific basis for social reforms, and he was an active opponent to any kind of religious thinking. Hedenius also worked as a literary critic, and he would use that role to confront literary representations of contemporary society that did not fit in with his promulgation of rationality. Hedenius furiously attacked Swedish writer Birgitta Trotzig's A Landscape (1959). In her book, she challenges any harmonizing vision of society. She does it through representations of the body, and the gaze that does not shy away from the anguished and pained body, the body opening up and giving birth. The body in Trotzig's work is also the tortured body of Christ. With the Swedish welfare state as a point of reference, this article explores the collision between what can be called a "rational modernism" and aesthetic modernism: Hedenius called Trotzig's book "evil," and Trotzig, when she commented upon this almost three decades later, saw Hedenius's review as an authoritarian assault.


Objectives: Mast cells play an important role in the pathogenesis of allergic and inflammatory diseases. This study aims to quantify mast cells in the gingival specimens of patients with desquamative gingivitis (DG) and chronic periodontitis (CP), and to compare it with clinically healthy gingiva (CHG). Materials and methods: 15 DG, and 15 CP and 15 CHG were included in the study. Histopathologic examination was done with toluidine blue staining method to assess mast cell counts in DG subjects and also in CP and CHG. Results: Mast cells were significantly increased in DG as compared to CP and CHG. DG showed a nine fold increase in the mast cell count as compared to clinically healthy gingiva and a fourfold increase as compared to chronic periodontitis. CP showed a two fold increase in mast cell count when compared to CHG. Conclusion: Mast cells counts were elevated in DG and CP when compared to CHG. Mast cells may have a role in the pathogenesis of DG and CP. The difference in the mast cell count in DG and CP observed in the present study may be due to the difference in the stimulus for activation of immuno inflammatory pathway. Further studies are essential to clarify the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms in these diseases.


St. Maximos the Confessor, a 7th-century monk, wrote several ascetical treatises that addressed the monastic life. This article explores the role of unwanted intrusive thoughts, the logismoi, outlined in two of his earlier works, the Centuries on Love and the Questions and Doubts. The author encourages the reader to pay particular attention to one's thoughts, take the time to familiarize oneself with the thoughts that enter one's mind, and offers advice on how to eliminate the causes of unwanted intrusive thoughts. He concludes that the mind or nous is considered neutral ground and one is able to control, but not completely eradicate, the unwanted thoughts by utilizing specific spiritual techniques.


The main purpose of this article is to provide a detailed and concise explanation of the most common pathologies of the digestive system. This is composed of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas and gallbladder. Its main function is to carry out the digestion of food, to transform it into nutrients that the body uses as energy for its integral functioning, growth and cellular repair. The digestive system may present some diseases and disorders, both acute (short term) and chronic (long term). Among the latter, stomach and colorectal cancer represent a major public health problem.


The autobiography of Mary Benson, a white South African writer known for her work against apartheid, whose life illustrates a public and personal drama. She describes her early years spent in Hollywood and her life as a dedicated worker againest apartheid.


The objective of Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems is to return the most similar images given an image query. In this scenario, accurately ranking collection images is of great relevance. In general, CBIR systems consider only pairwise image analysis, that is, compute similarity measures considering only pair of images, ignoring the rich information encoded in the relations among several images. This paper presents a novel re-ranking approach based on contextual spaces aiming to improve the effectiveness of CBIR tasks, by exploring relations among images. In our approach, information encoded in both distances among images and ranked lists computed by CBIR systems are used for analyzing contextual information. The re-ranking method can also be applied to other tasks, such as: (i) for combining ranked lists obtained by using different image descriptors (rank aggregation); and (ii) for combining post-processing methods. We conducted several experiments involving shape, color, and texture descriptors and comparisons to other post-processing methods. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.


In this research a relational study was conducted to examine the link between phonological working memory (PWM) and specific aspects of linguistic proficiency in adult speakers of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). PWM was measured with a nonword repetition test based on the Chilean variant of Spanish. Proficiency levels were determined with a test that evaluated six specific aspects of language use from the Program of Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad de Concepcion (ELE-UdeC). A statistically significant correlation was found between aspects of proficiency and measures of PWM in the group of the longest and final-stress-patterned stimuli. A significant linear association was also observed when the aspect of similarity to real language words was added to the analysis; all aspects of proficiency, except for reading comprehension, correlated statistically with the performance of PWM in the group of the longest, final-stress-patterned and low similarity to real words stimuli. These findings provide new evidence supporting the relationship between PWM and SFL performance, in line with some of the findings recently published for other languages.


anastrozole for 10 weeks; after 4 weeks they received quinapril for 28 days; blood samples were taken at the same time as group A. Blood pressure was measured at the time of entry, before starting quinapril and twice a day during the 4 weeks of treatment with ACE inhibitor. Primary assessment was the steady-state plasma anastrozole concentrations following once-daily anastrozole alone or anastrozole plus quinapril. The evaluation of plasma anastrozole concentrations started after 21 days of drug administration, to ensure the steady-state had been obtained. Blood samples were taken from each patient 12 h after each dose of anastrozole: at days 21 and 28 for baseline measurements; days 42 and 56 for on-treatment measurements; and day 70 for post-treatment evaluation. Anastrozole analysis in plasma was carried out according to the Bock et al. validated method of solvent extraction, capillary gas chromatography separation and electron capture detection [4]. The plasma levels of quinapril and of its active metabolite, quinaprilat, were determined according to the method of Hengy and Most [5]. Plasma levels of anastrozole and quinapril were analysed using validated methods. The sensitivity limit was ∼3 ng/ml. Comparisons of the plasma anastrozole levels between the two groups were obtained through the non-parametric Mann–Whitney test. The mean plasma anastrozole concentration in group A was 59.2 ng/ml on day 21 and 62.6 ng/ml on day 56. For group B, the mean concentration was 49.43 ng/ml on day 21 and 49.80 ng/ml on day 56. None of the mean values were significant at a 5% confidence level (Table 1). In both groups of patients, the steady-state anastrozole concentrations remained similar during treatment with anastrozole 1 mg once daily, alone or in combination with quinapril; there were no statistically significant differences in plasma levels between patients who received anastrozole alone or in association with quinapril. Hypertension, monitored during the study period, was well controlled in all patients (Table 2). In conclusion, these data show that the combination of quinapril and anastrozole can be safely and effectively administered to older patients with breast cancer and moderate hypertension. Also, the administration of quinapril to patients treated with anastrozole does not modify the plasma concentration of anastrozole and a dose modification is not required.


Transonic pressure tunnel tests to determine effects of sting-support interference on longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of transport aircraft models with upswept aft ends


Hyperspectral imaging is an active research area in food and environment analysis. Hyperspectral images allow obtaining accurate and reliable knowledge about the chemical composition and distribution of the chemical components on the investigated sample surface. Results of hyperspectral image analysis can be used to acquire fundamental understanding of complex chemical systems for research and development, for commercial testing and adulteration studies, in particular in food and environment analysis and in industrial process analysis and control. Hyperspectral imaging datasets are challenging because of their very large size and complexity. Chemometric methods are proposed to reveal the information contained in the analyzed images as much as possible. This Thesis deals with the resolution of hyperspectral imaging data by using chemometric methods, in particular by using appropriate data pretreatment methods and by using Multivariate Curve Resolution (MCR) methods. The main contribution of the present Thesis is the study and implementation of the MCR-ALS (Multivariate Curve Resolution Alternating Least Squares) method for the resolution of hyperspectral images, collected by remote sensing (airborne or space borne Earth observation instrument) and by micro-spectroscopy imaging. Specifically, in this Thesis work, we explore the combination of chemometric and hyperspectral imaging methods for the resolution of spectra (signatures) and spatial distribution maps of the chemical constituents of a sample. The ultimate goal of this study is to improve the analysis and interpretation of hyperspectral imaging data by taking advantage of different chemometric powerful tools. Local rank/selectivity properties describing the spatial information of spectroscopic images can be used as a constraint to increase the performance of MCR methods significantly, decreasing rotation ambiguity uncertainties. Different multivariate resolution methods were compared, such as MCR-ALS, Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Minimum Volume Simplex Analysis (MVSA), Multivariate Curve Resolution-Function Minimization (MCR-FMIN), MCR-BANDS and FAC-PACK. All these approaches have been used for the evaluation of the extension of rotation ambiguities remaining in the results after their application. Several hyperspectral images provided by standard and widely used instruments such as NASA?s Airborne Visible Infra-Red Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), Raman hyperspectral imaging Spectrometer, and Infrared hyperspectral imaging Spectrometer have been used as example of data sets to test the different methods, in particular to test the MCR-ALS method. The effectiveness of MCR-ALS is illustrated by providing exhaustive comparisons with state-of-the-art methods for spectral unmixing using both simulated and real hyperspectral data sets.


The essay deliver a function structure which can currently satisfy management requirement of distribution center of chain supermarket in our country. It based on the research of standard operation processes of distribution center and real business practice in a distribution center of chain supermarket, aiming at providing a resolvent to the construction of logistics information system of distribution center.


Objective: Available literature reveals that usage of Maternal Health Care Services (MHCSs), including antenatal care (ANC), has been decreased significantly in the developing countries due to Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the COVID-19 related factors on the MHCSs utilization in Bangladeshi women are yet to be examined. Therefore, this study examines the effect of COVID-19 on the use of ANC services among rural communities in Bangladesh.Method: A community-based qualitative study was conducted from May 01, 2021, to July 20, 2021, among selected pregnant women residing in eight villages of the Kushtia District, Bangladesh. A total of ten focus group discussions (FGDs) was conducted. Open Code 4.0 software was used to transcribe, translate, and analyze the data thematically.
Results: Findings suggest that the measures taken by the government against the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly decreased the optimum usage of ANC services. The need to shift the role of the health workforces a vital factor that has a negative effect on women's attitude towards seeking MHCSs. Anxiety, dirty and poor environment of the health facilities, low quality of care, stigma, and risk minimization strategy are among other factors that refrained the pregnant women from seeking ANC services.
Conclusion: Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 related factors have decreased the possible usage of ANC services among rural communities in Bangladesh. Additional necessary health workforces are needed to recruit urgently. A special wing for pregnant women in each health facility may be opened as a one-stop service center for the COVID-19 period. The policymakers should take necessary actions to reduce anxiety among pregnant women and motivate them to use MHCSs for safe motherhood.


A novel slotted helix slow-wave structure(SWS) is proposed to develop a high power,wide-bandwidth,and high reliability millimeter-wave traveling-wave tube(TWT).This novel structure,which has higher heat capacity than a conventional helix SWS,evolves from conventional helix SWS with three parallel rows of rectangular slots made in the outside of the helix tape.In this paper,the electromagnetic characteristics and the beam-wave interaction of this novel structure operating in the Ka-band are investigated.From our calculations,when the designed beam voltage and beam current are set to be 18.45 kV and 0.2 A,respectively,this novel circuit can produce over 700-W average output power in a frequency range from 27.5 GHz to 32.5 GHz,and the corresponding conversion efficiency values vary from 19% to 21.3%,and the maximum output power is 787 W at 30 GHz.


We investigated whether an aqueous extract of Polygala tenuifolia root (PTAE) inhibits secretion of inflammatory cytokines from primary cultures of mouse astrocytes. PTAE dose-dependently inhibited the Tumor necrosis secretion by astrocytes stimulated with substance P (SP) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Interleukin-1 (IL-1) has been shown to elevate secretion from LPS-stimulated astrocytes while having no effect on astrocytes in the absence of LPS. We therefore also investigated whether IL-1 mediated inhibition of secretion from primary astrocytes by PTAE. Treatment of PTAE to astrocytes stimulated with both LPS and SP decreased IL-1 secretion to the level observed with LPS alone. Moreover, incubation of astrocytes with IL-1 antibody abolished the synergistic cooperative effect of LPS and SP. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis demonstrated the significantly reduced level of the mRNA was expressed in astrocytes treated with PTAE. These results suggest that PTAE has an antiinflammatory activity on the central nervous system curing some pathological disease states.


Bacteria that colonize d plant roots can be identif y , characteri fy and tested for their ability to stimulate plant growth. The purpose of this research is to know the ability of Bacillus spp bacteria as active ingredient of biostimulant formulation which aims to stimulate the growth of plants. Bacillus spp bacteria derived from rooting potato plants tested its ability to dissolve phosphate, N fixation, producing IAA, GA, siderophore and HCN. The results showed different abilities in producing growth-promoting compounds from each tested strain. Bacillus niabensis Strain PT-32-1, Bacillus subtilis Strain SWI16b, Bacillus mojavensis Strain JCEN3, Bacillus subtilis Strain HPC21, Bacillus cereus Strain HY, and Bacillus moyavensis UCMB 5075 can be utilized as an active ingredient formulation biostimulan t plant growth promoting non pathogenic.


Abstract An idealized prototype for the location of the margins of tropical land region convection zones is extended to incorporate the effects of soil moisture and associated evaporation. The effect of evaporation, integrated over the inflow trajectory into the convection zone, is realized nonlocally where the atmosphere becomes favorable to deep convection. This integrated effect produces "hot spots" of land surface–atmosphere coupling downstream of soil moisture conditions. Overall, soil moisture increases the variability of the convective margin, although how it does so is nontrivial. In particular, there is an asymmetry in displacements of the convective margin between anomalous inflow and outflow conditions that is absent when soil moisture is not included. Furthermore, the simple cases presented here illustrate how margin sensitivity depends strongly on the interplay of factors, including net top-of-the-atmosphere radiative heating, the statistics of inflow wind, and the convective parameterization.


New butyrolactones aspernolides C and D, along with two known butyrolactones (A and B) were isolated from the culture of the endophytic fungus Aspergillus versicolor. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analysis, including 1D and 2D nuclear magnetic ressonance techniques, and electronic circular dichroism. The butyrolactones aspernolides C and D were tested for their anti-tobacco mosaic virus activity. The results showed that butyrolactones aspernolides C and D exhibited moderate anti-tobacco mosaic virus activity with IC50 values of 64.2 and 88.6 μM, respectively.


[Introduction]:
'Studless' Lego Technic Liftarms have been in use since the early 2000s while 'Studded' Lego Technic Bricks have been in use since the late 1970s. This report is to further investigate the strength of these Liftarms and Brick Beams to clarify what the theoretical maximum weight limit is. It is often said that you can do almost anything with Lego but limits have been reached. The goal is to quantify those limits for the AFOL (Adult Fans Of Lego) community in a similar way to Philo and his work on Lego Motors. My previous report back in July 2011 was quite well received even though there were some criticisms.

With the help of David Luders, I am privileged to be able to repeat this experiment. While similar in its goals, this report will hopefully address some of the criticism and further the knowledge in this area.

For the purposes of this report Liftarms will refer to the 'Studless' Lego Technic Liftarms; Brick Beams will refer to 'Studded' Lego Technic Bricks; Beams will refer to either Liftarms or Brick Beams; Pins will refer to Lego Technic Pins.


Objective To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a modified transvaginal total pelvic floor reconstruction with self-trimmed mesh in female pelvic organ prolapse (POP). MethodsTotally 58 women with identified POP and underging the reconstruction in our department from June 2007 to July 2008 were analyzed retrospectively. These patients, at the age ranging from 42 to 82, had gravidity of 1 to 9 times, parity of 1 to 8 time, and time of prolapse of 1 to 360 months. According to the POP quantitation (POP-Q). there were 22 cases of stage Ⅳ, 20 of stage Ⅲ; 10 of stage Ⅱ; and 6 of stage Ⅰin anterior vaginal wall prolapse; 26 of stage Ⅳ, 12 of stage Ⅲ, 13 of stage Ⅱ and 7 of stage Ⅰin uterine prolapse; 18 of stage Ⅳ, 15 of stage Ⅲ, 11 of stage Ⅱ, 8 of stage Ⅰ and 6 of stage 0 in posterior vaginal wall prolapse. Five patients complicated with stress urinary incontinence. All patients undertook the total pelvic floor reconstruction using trimmed mesh to substitute Prolift. ResultsThe mean operation time was 114±40 min (59 to 200), and the mean blood loss was 138±90 ml (50 to 400). After the surgery, the mean time of indwelling urethral catheter was 2.5±0.6 d (2 to 4), and the mean post-operative hospital stay was 3.5±1.4 d (4 to 8). No complication was observed during and after the surgery. No bladder, rectum and urethra was injured. During the follow-up of 6 to 12 months, all patients except 2 (3.5%) reported satisfaction with the therapeutic results. The average scores of the pelvic floor impact questionnaire (PFIQ) was dropped dramatically from preoperatively 81.2±28.9 to postoperatively 15.3±8.3, and the average scores of the sexual function questionnaire (PISQ) had no significant difference (66.6±9.1 preoperatively, 68.0±8.4 postoperatively). During follow-up, 2 patients were found to have asymptomatic erosion (3.4%). With regard to the simultaneous correction of the urine incontinence, all the patients was successful. No case of urine incontinence was observed after the procedure. ConclusionOur modified transvaginal total pelvic floor reconstruction is safe, cheaper and easy to perform with a low rate of postoperative relapse and complications, and it is an effective approach for POP repair. However, long-term efficiency still need further follow-up and observation.


The following study evaluated the knowledge, experience and attitudes, that faculty at a private four-year institution have towards students with disabilities. The 208 participants responded to a survey questionnaire. The findings of the study indicated that many of the faculty had little or no contact with this particular student population. Many had no experience working with these students and were less willing to accommodate them. Yet, others indicated a high willingness to accommodate in specific areas (i.e., extended exam time, etc.) In addition, a number of the faculty were unaware of the DSS office's existence and had little knowledge of their services. As a result of this study, the DSS office is implementing a faculty education component to its website and additional dissemination of information as indicated in the results. Introduction Postsecondary educational entities, private and public alike, are experiencing tremendous growth in their numbers of students with documented disabilities. It is estimated that approximately one and a half million students in higher education have a documented disability. Unfortunately, many of these students face negative attitudes and resistance to classroom accommodations from faculty and staff. This negativity often stems from the lack of disability related information. Providing classroom accommodations to students with disabilities at the college level, and receiving acceptance of accommodations by faculty, are imperative issues when discussing the academic success of these students (Norton, 1997). "The goal of accommodations is to minimize the impact of the disability so that students can demonstrate mastery of information" (Norton, 1997). Laws have been implemented to protect students with disabilities by requiring that reasonable accommodations be made. Yet, a gap still remains between the law and current practices. Since the inception of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a number of changes have emerged in the disability area, one of which is faculty education. Faculty education was one of the first areas "identified as essential in promoting access for students with disabilities" (Scott, 2000). The importance of knowing what disability information faculty need is crucial for a successful disability support program, where both the students and faculty are supported. "It has been noted that there are only 3 things that faculty need to know in working with students with disabilities: 1) that they must accommodate 2) that they are capable of developing appropriate accommodations; and 3) that the DSS office will help faculty as much as possible" (Scott, 2000). Disabled Student Services (DSS) have found through their constant contact and interaction with students, that many faculty are unfamiliar with most aspects of disability services. This is becoming more evident as the population of these students increases. Many faculty are not knowledgeable about their legal responsibilities, the students' responsibilities, basic knowledge of disabilities, and what is considered a reasonable accommodation. Many faculty members are hesitant, or refuse to provide accommodations believing that such treatment would be "unfair to other students." Other research of various institutions has shown that the overall faculty attitude was, that there is a willingness to provide accommodations in the classroom, but it was primarily dependent on the type of accommodation being requested. So in order to ensure a quality post-secondary educational experience for these students, many DSS offices at public and private institutions are addressing these issues and are surveying the knowledge and needs of their specific faculty in order to educate the faculty (Leyser, 1998). Based on this trend of research and need for campus specific information, the DSS office at a private 4-year institution determined that in order to provide support for their growing and diverse student population, as well as their faculty, that they should survey their campus' faculty to determine their attitudes and knowledge of disabilities. …


Metallic nanoparticles are of growing interest owing to their great potential in applications and therefore, have been extensively investigated during the last two decades. Among others, they are especially useful for catalytic processes, where the total active surface is crucial [1]. Besides the importance of the application of the clusters, such small nanoparticles consisting of only a few atoms up to a several hundreds of atoms represent the crossover between isolated atoms and bulk, and are consequently interesting for fundamental research.


International conference on Quantum Fluid Clusters, QFC2015, June 7th to June 11th, 2015 at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France; http://qfc2015.sciencesconf.org/


I am writing this introduction in October 2019. From time to time, I rest my eyes on a picture that is pinned to the wall by my desk. It is a photo depicting the twentieth-century photographer Gunnar Lundh. He is standing in a garden, touching a blue flower, a lupine. The wide cuffs of his grey jacket, the hat model and something about the colour palette tell me that it is a photograph shot in the 1940s. The sun is shining, he directs his gaze straight into the camera. When I look at him, he looks back and, despite the time span, our eyes meet. The photograph makes it possible for me to encounter the past.


It has been suggested that the three‐dimensional quantitative characterization of ultrasonic fields be determined utilizing a miniature optical fiber pressure probe [F. W. Cuomo, 12th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), Toronto, Canada, paper G7‐3 (1986)]. This approach has been found useful in extending experimentally the two‐dimensional quantitative information now available with Schlieren imaging methods. In this paper, the experimental results of the ultrasonic optical fiber sensor related to pressure sensitivity, frequency response, and directionality are presented. The active area of this probe is less than 1 mm and the frequency range of interest lies between 500 kHz and 2 MHz.


2023Background: Medicare's Oncology Care Model alternative payment program participation requires 24-hr patient access to clinician phone advice. Many participating practices have established oncol...


This thesis deals with the question of figurative language as well as with the techniques and strategies for its translation from English to Czech. It is based on the first inaugural address of G. W. Bush and its interpreting by students from Palacký University. Ten figurative expressions were selected from the inaugural address and the techniques and strategies used for their translation were subsequently analyzed. Afterwards the translations were compared with the translation proposed by me. The last part of the thesis concentrates on the evaluation of the techniques and strategies used by students.


The utility model provides a tooling device used for welding a circuit board and a heat sink substrate and relates to the field of broadcast television transmitter manufacture technology. The tooling device comprises a clamping plate lamination formed by horizontal arrangement of a base plate, a middle plate and a top late, and a clamping rod being disposed in the center of the clamping plate lamination and running through the three layers of clamping plates; the top of the clamping rod is provided with a clamp handle enables the three layers of the clamping plates to be clamped or loosened; four corners of the clamping plate lamination are provided with bolts used for fixing the three layers of the clamping plates; a welding part formed by the power amplifier module circuit and the heat sink substrate are disposed on the base plate; the lower portion of the middle plate is fixedly connected with a plurality of pressure welding pillars, which are disposed vertically downward and provided with pressure spring devices; and the pressure welding pillars are corresponding to pressure welding holes in the power amplifier module circuit and the heat sink substrate in a one-to-one manner. Compared with a conventional connecting mode, the tooling device guarantees long-term reliable connection between the power amplifier module circuit and the heat sink substrate, enables the power amplifier module circuit and the heat sink substrate to have commendable electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity, and improves working stability and reliability of an amplifier.


Folliculotoropic mycosis fungoides (MF) is a variant of MF, that clinically shows acneiform or follicular keratosis-pilaris-like lesions on the head and neck, which histologically shows selective infiltration of atypical lymphocytes in the follicular epithelium. Folliculotropic MF shows a more aggressive clinical course in comparison to classic MF [1]. In a recent study, folliculotropic MF was classified into two distinct patterns: an early variant and an advanced tumour variant. The prognostic implications differ, with the early variant following a more indolent course [2]. In an excimer laser, the dissociation of xenon and chloride gases creates a 308-nm monochromatic light, which suppresses T lymphocyte proliferation via the induction of apoptosis [3]. The effectiveness of excimer laser for classic MF has been reported [4]. We herein report a patient with advanced stage folliculotropic MF, who was successfully treated with a combination of bexarotene and excimer laser therapy. A 58-year-old Japanese man presented to our hospital with a skin lesion that had persisted for three months. A physical examination revealed several tumours on his head and face (figure 1A) and erythema with follicular accentuation on his back, abdomen and upper extremities (figure 1B) . A histological examination of a tissue specimen obtained from a head nodule revealed infiltration of atypical small cells around the hair follicles (figure 1C) and prominent folloculotropism. (figure 1 D). Immunohistochemically, the atypical cells were positive for CD3 and CD4 (figure 1E). Clonal rearrangement of the T-cell receptor gene of lymphocytes that had infiltrated into the skin was detected. Blood test findings were almost within normal limits. No atypical lymphocytes were detected. Soluble interleukin-2 receptor level was not elevated (378 U/mL). HTLV-I antibodies were not detected. No lymph node or internal organ abnormalities were detected on positron emission tomography-computed tomography. No bone marrow involvement was observed. Accordingly, the patient was diagnosed with folliculotropic MF (T3N0M0, Stage-b). The patient was initially treated with topical steroids and bexarotene (300 mg/m2). Two weeks later, the skin lesions on the trunk showed slight improvement; however, the tumours showed no change. Therefore, irradiation using an excimer laser (XTRAC® velocity7; STRATA Skin Sciences, Inc., PA) was performed for the remaining erythema and tumours on the face, head and trunk (200 mJ/cm2, three times/week). Thereafter, the skin lesions gradually improved, and completely disappeared at 10 weeks (figure 1F, G). No side effects, except for slight erythema, were observed. The bexaroten and excimer A B


Summary A lot of real world problems can be modeled as traversals on graph, and mining from such traversals has been found useful in several applications. However, previous works considered only traversals on unweighted graph. This paper generalizes this to the case where vertices of graph are given weights to reflect their importance. Under such weight settings, traditional mining algorithms can not be adopted directly any more. To cope with the problem, this paper proposes new algorithms to discover weighted frequent patterns from the traversals. Specifically, we devise support bound paradigms for candidate generation and pruning during the mining process.


The links between defect occurrence and process parameters have been identified on the basis of the recorded defect position and severity level. The results of detailed analysis reveal the competition between oxidation and reduction phenomena and the effect of strip surface after pickling on strip oxidation. Industrial trials have validated the effect of the effective process parameters on the coating quality.


Based on the idea and pattern for running Yuanpei College and with the principle of individual difference,this study probed into career/major identity development of college freshmen from the perspective of personality and decision-making.218 college freshmen completed the career/major identity development questionnaire and Myers Briggs Type Indicator G(Chinese Version).The results showed that college freshmen in different career/major identity status can take different action of exploration,decision-making,and planning,and college freshmen with different personality types can perfect their personality through improved problem-solving process in the decision-making practice of career/major.It suggests that personality development,decision-making,and career/major identity development are a unified process.


First, fatigue tests were performed on butt-welded joints made of novel direct quenched ultra high strength steel with high quality welds. Two different welding processes were used: MAG and Pulsed MAG. The weld profiles, misalignments and residual stresses were measured, and the material properties of the heat-affected zone were determined. Fatigue tests were carried out with constant amplitude tensile loading both for joints in as-welded condition and for joints after ultrasonic peening treatment. Finally, in fatigue strength predictions, the crack initiation phase was estimated using the procedures described by Lawrence et al. [Lawrence F V, Ho N J and Mazumdar P K (1981) Predicting the fatigue resistance of welds. Annu. Rev. Mater. Sci, 11, 401–425]. The propagation phase was simply estimated using S–N curves for normal quality butt welds, which may contain pre-existing cracks or crack-like defects eliminating the crack initiation stage.


A BID to replace community health councils (CHCs) with similar bodies that cover more than one NHS trust is to be launched by an influential Labour MP.


Selective estrogen receptor modulators have an agonistic and antagonistic effect on estrogen receptors and reduce the risk of vertebral fracture and invasive breast cancer. Estrogen with or without progestin reduces the risk of vertebral, nonvertebral and hip fracture, and colorectal cancer. Tibolone is a synthetic steroid with estrogenic properties, and it reduces the risk of vertebral and non-vertebral fracture and postmenopausal symptoms. Isoflavone derivative ipriflavone does not reduce fracture risk. Intranasal calcitonin reduces the risk of vertebral fracture and pain in acute vertebral fracture. The purely anabolic teriparatide is available for extremely severe osteoporotic patients and for those who do not respond to other types of therapy. It reduces the risk of vertebral and non-vertebral fracture, and is effective in the treatment of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis. Strontium ranelate reduces the risk of vertebral and non-vertebral fracture, and may be effective for the management of osteoarthritis. The fully human monoclonal antibody denosumab neutralizes the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand, and reduces the risk of vertebral, non-vertebral and hip fracture. These agents have variable extra-skeletal side effects.


A fast and effective handover method at a link layer of a wireless LAN(Local Area Network) and a device therefor are provided to selectively scan channels usable by an MS(Mobile Station) on the basis of information on an AP(Access Point) estimated to be positioned within a communication area of the MS, thereby minimizing handover latency. An MS(1) transmits a probe request frame, and an AP 1(21) and an AP 2(22) receive the probe request frame(71). The AP 1(21) measures the number of frames that the AP 1(21) transceives(72). The AP 1(21) transmits an extended probe response frame to the MS(1) as a response for the request frame(73), and the AP 2(22) transmits an extended probe response frame to the MS(1) as a response for the request frame(75). The MS(1) measures strength of signals received from the APs(21,22), and calculates network load values at an AP estimated to be positioned within a communication area of the MS(1)(77). The MS(1) conducts handover to one of the APs(21,22).


An investigation was carried out to select the potential strain of Aspergillus niger for the production of citric acid from oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) through solid state bioconversion (SSB). This study evaluated the potentiality of twenty six wild strains of Aspergillus niger which were isolated from sewage treatment plant sludge, rotten lemon and orange. Factors considered in the evaluation process were citric acid production, sugar consumption and protein content as growth indicator. Two strains of Aspergillus niger (O-103A) and (O-114A) isolated from orange were found to have great potential with citric acid production 128.436.3 and 140.501 g/kg of dry EFB; sugar consumption 63.433.4% and 57.290.9% of initial sugar (50 g/kg of EFB); protein content as growth indicator 26.053.7 and 32.931.7 g/kg of treated EFB; pH evolution of 2.720 and 2.640 and bioconversion time 4 and 8 days, respectively. Therefore, the strains O-103A and O-114A can be used as the potential strains for the production of citric acid from EFB by solid state bioconversion.


The independent isomeric yield ratios of the fission product Sb have been determined radiochemical^ in the thermal neutron induced fission of 2 4 Pu, as well as alpha induced fission of 2 3 8 U at 31 and 38 MeV. The corresponding fragment angular momenta deduced from the independent isomeric yield ratios using a statistical model analysis, show a slight increase in the medium energy fission as compared to the low energy fission. The observed data indicate the persistence of shell effects even at an excitation energy of 20 MeV.


(98.7% vs 99.7%; P50.624), 500 mL water vs 1000 mL water (98.7% vs 99.6%; P50.27). Conclusion: Our study shows that a high-pressure water jet-based system effectively decreases bioburden in the duodenoscope's elevator mechanism. Compared to manual cleaning, the cleaning system provides low variability and improved precision in lowering the load of bioburden, although the requirement of , 200 RLU was not reached. Further improvement in the novel system and studies are needed.


Reading the Values of electric components and parameters is quite a tedious and strenuous task sometimes. Other factors such as the growing popularity and use of very small packaged components and managing inventories of components having unreadable markings worsen the situation. On the extreme end, all these struggles transform into a gigantic hurdle for visually impaired students and electrical/electronic enthusiasts to carry forward their interest in the field. This paper discusses the design of one of the plausible solutions by building and designing one of its kind talking Multimeter and LCR meter that can measure and speak out the value of measured value as and when required.


For the last two decades, the Australian Federal Government has taken responsibility for funding disability employment services, and the states and territories are responsible for accommodation, respite, and community access services (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2004 – 2011). Replacing the existing Commonwealth State Territory Disability Agreement in 2009, the National Disability Agreement (NDA) offers a framework for providing government funding support to people with a disability in Australia (Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, 2011a). Notionally, the NDA commits all state and territory jurisdictions to enhancing independence and participation of people with a disability, along with support for their families and carers. A range of accountability measures, which address mostly service procedure rather than individual outcome, are embedded in the NDA (Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, 2011b, 2011c). In 2009 – 2010, 295,024 people used NDA-funded services (1.3% of the Australian population in 2010; Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011), which accounted for AUD $ 5.8 billion of federal and state government expenditure (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2004 – 2011). This paper reports changes in the proportion of selected disability groups using Australian disability services in the period 2003 – 2010. Australian disability services and their users


The effects of two monomeric insulin analogues of differing receptor affinities (human insulin = 100 %) B9Asp‐B27Glu‐insulin (18 %) and B10Asp‐insulin (327 %) were each compared with human insulin in two groups of 10 normal men when infused at equimolar low doses (1.0 and 2.0 pmol kg−1 min−1). The metabolic clearance rate under steady state conditions was highest for the analogue with the highest receptor affinity, 26.8 ± 0.8 (±SE) vs 19.8 ± 0.7 ml kg−1 min−1 for insulin (p< 0.001), and lowest for the analogue with the lowest receptor affinity, 13.3 ± 0.8 vs 25.1 ± 2.0 ml kg−1 min−1 for insulin (p < 0.001). The apparent plasma half‐life was prolonged for the low affinity analogue compared with human insulin (12.6 ± 0.6 vs 1.9 ± 0.2 min, p < 0.001), and significantly shorter for the higher affinity analogue (1.6 ± 0.1 vs 3.1 ± 0.4 min, p < 0.05). The three insulins gave similar falls in blood glucose, non‐esterified fatty acids, glycerol, and total ketone bodies over the infusion period. Thirty minutes after the end of the infusion, the rise in blood glucose for the low affinity analogue was significantly less than for human insulin (0.5 ± 0.2 vs 0.9 ± 0.1 mmol I−1, p < 0.05). Despite different receptor affinities, these analogues have similar in vivo effects in normal men, but the time‐course of their actions may differ when they are infused intravenously.


The mid-Holocene behaviour of five glaciers in the British Columbia Coast Mountains was reconstructed from radiocarbon ages and stratigraphic analysis. Subfossil wood evidence at Canoe, Fyles, Jacobsen, Tchaikazan and Icemaker glaciers suggests these glaciers were expanding into standing forests prior to 6630, 4900 and 4200 cal. yr BP. Stratigraphically constrained woody detritus at Fyles Glacier records the progradational history of a Gilbert-type delta forming in response to glacial expansion between 7020 and 5470 cal. yr BP. This research provides the first evidence for mid-Holocene glacial expansion in the central and northern British Columbia Coast Mountains. Proxy records describing mid-Holocene climates in the British Columbia Coast Mountains indicate a trend towards slightly cooler and possibly wetter conditions than present. Glacial expansion occurring between 7500 and 4000 cal. yr BP has regional correlatives, suggesting coherent broad-scale climate forcing mechanisms influenced glacial mass balance at this time.


This study describes a few observations pertaining to the effects produced through the addition of silicon on the tensile and compressive properties and sliding wear response of a zinc-aluminium alloy. The influence of test temperature on the tensile (strength and elongation) properties and sliding speed and pressure on the sliding wear behaviour of the alloys has also been examined. The nature of different microconstituents of the alloys has been taken as a base to explain the characteristics of the specimens. The study shows that addition of silicon to the alloy system becomes beneficial under test conditions involving higher operating temperatures while the trend reverses at low temperatures. The former has been attributed to the thermal stability attributed by the element at elevated temperatures. On the contrary, the predominating microcracking tendency introduced in the alloy system by the element (silicon) leads to inferior properties under low temperature conditions. Moreover, the lubricating and load bearing capabilities of phases like α and η become effective towards improving the response of the silicon-free alloy under low temperature conditions only and their positive effects cannot be realized at high temperatures in view of (their) low melting points. Thus, addition of silicon becomes helpful under specific conditions only.


The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is an upper –middle income country with very low participation of women in the formal economy. Through the promotion of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), there is an opportunity to promote greater gender equality in an important sector of the economy. Unfortunately, national policies are rarely developed with a systematic gender analysis. Using Jordan's National Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategy 2015-2017 (the SME Strategy) as a case study, this article assesses the extent to which entrepreneurship policy in Jordan is inclusive of gender. Overall, the assessment concludes that the SME Strategy does not adequately address gender inequalities or the needs of women in business. It lacks a gender analysis and consequently gender is not integrated into the Strategy's objectives, activities, budgeting or indicators. The assessment provides recommendations for greater gender sensitivity in national policies. They include ensuring stakeholder engagement to support women entrepreneurs, conducting a systematic gender analysis and implementing further actions based on the analysis.


The aim of the research is to propose, design and evaluate a new wireless communication, local area network (LAN). Such a LAN will be able to extend the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) wireline technology into indoor optical wireless networks.


In laboratory engine tests, a combination of platinum and cerium fuel additives with a platinum activated wall flow monolithic filter has been shown to be especially effective in the control of diesel particulate. Continuous regeneration of a filter can be achieved at temperatures of 600 K using 5 ppm of cerium and 0.5 ppm of platinum in EN590 fuel containing 500 ppm (wt) of sulfur.


 This paper proposes the building of a new type of versatile, multi-purpose, world-class radio facility space, environmental, and communications research.  Located in northern Kenya, on the geomagnetic equator, the Kenya International Radio Observatory, KIRO will be a world-class, multi-purpose radio facility designed foremost for the study of the terrestrial magnetosphere, ionosphere and neutral atmosphere using traditional as well as newly developed diagnostic techniques.  With its flexible modular design, KIRO will be ideally suited for studies of the fundamental physical and chemical processes in the upper atmosphere, the ionosphere and the magnetosphere which have a decisive influence on life on Earth.  With KIRO it will also be possible to make unprecedented studies of the Sun, Moon, the planets, the interplanetary plasma and galactic and extragalactic radio sources.  Finally, KIRO will be an excellent facility for application of modern electronics and communications technologies.


This comment analyzes the Fourth Circuit's opinion in C.F. Trust, Inc. v. First Flight Limited Partnership. In particular, the author discusses whether the Virginia Supreme Court will recognize the doctrine of outsider reverse veil-piercing in the commercial context and apply it to a limited partnership. The author reviews and evaluates the characteristics of traditional veil-piercing and outsider reverse veil-piercing, as well as Virginia common law and the Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act. Noting that Virginia law recognizes the doctrine of outsider reverse veil-piercing and will apply the doctrine under exceptional circumstances, the author concludes that the specific facts involved in C.F. Trust, Inc. call for the equitable remedy to be utilized by the Virginia Supreme Court.


The invention relates to the field of alternative energy and can be used in wind power plants. The electrical machine comprises a rotor with permanent magnets arranged on the rotor in the form of a series of concentric arrangement with opposing like poles, and a stator with inductor cores placed thereon U-shaped and the windings, each of which comprises two identical sections disposed in side portions n- shaped cores and interconnected in series and in accordance with. The diversity in space magnetic fluxes of the permanent magnets on the symmetrical branches of the closed magnetic circuit is achieved by lowering the degree of influence of the armature reaction and improving the efficiency of utility model


Trainee translators and their use of lexicographical and terminographical resources when translating specialised texts can shed light on the close relation between Terminology, Lexicography, Translation and Knowledge Acquisition. Although the definition of users' profiles and their needs has been an habitual concern in Lexicography and Terminology research, there are not many studies dealing with methodological aspects in the design of empirical studies to evaluate lexicographic and terminographical resources. In this context, we designed a questionnaire to evaluate and validate for translation a terminological knowledge base on the environment, called EcoLexicon. The questionnaire was completed on-line by 3rd year students of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada (Spain). With this research, we aim at shedding some light on methodological aspects in the design of empirical studies to evaluate general and specialised resources for translating, as well as using the results obtained in the questionnaire to make some improvements to EcoLexicon for translators.