Pharmacokinetics and distribution of minocycline in different biological fluids were carried out after a single iv dose @ 5 mg/kg. Peak concentrations of 3.51±0.27, 5.00±0.39 and 85.69±3.67µg/kg. mg/ml were obtained at 1 hr in interstitial fluid (I S F), milk and urine, respectively. Distribution half life (t½α) of 1.24 ± 0.13 hr and elimination half life (t½β) of 7.27 ± 0.30 hr were observed in goat in the present study. Vd area of 3.11 ± 0.34 L/kg obtained for minocycline in goat denotes its wide distribution in the body. The calculated loading dose (D*) and maintenance dose (D) for maintaining MIC of 0.5µg/ml at the dosage interval (γ) of 12 hr were 6.9 ± 0.6 and 4.7 ± 0.4 mg/kg.


Objective:To analyze the nursing methods of postoperative early enteral nutrition for gastric cancer patients. Method:Choosing120 postoperative gastric cancer patients casually,which were divided into two groups by early enteral nutrition as 60 cases in research group(enteral nutrition)and 60 cases in comparative group(parenteral nutrition),nutrition agents and physiological saline were infused into the research group within48 hours after surgery,while only intravenous nutrition was used in compare group within the 7 days post-surgery. To compare the differences of recovering time of gastrointestinal function,days in hospital and the incidence rate of complicating disease between the two groups. Result:Comparing with the comparative group,the recovering time of gastrointestinal function and the days in hospital had shortened,and the incidence rate of complicating disease had decreased in the research group,which had variability(P0.05). Conclusion:The scientific early enteral nutrition method can improve early recovering,shorten days in hospital and decrease incidence rate of postoperative gastric cancer patients.


Many tools are in use for representing and analyzing business processes, but little information is available on how these tools are used in practice by process design teams. This paper analyzes one process mapping workshop in detail. Over three days, two facilitators and five representatives of the organization and business functions redesigned the core auto insurance business at a mid‐size Swiss insurance company. The mapping tool used during the session was IDEF0. The purpose of this paper is to share our experiences in using IDEF0 in the workshop setting. In addition to a narrative description of the workshop, we offer our observations on how such workshops can be conducted effectively and on the strengths and weaknesses of IDEF0 in this context. The final business process map did not emerge from a logical, linear development process. Rather, the workshop was characterized by constant refinement and development of an existing structure, punctuated by an occasional radical idea that forced the group to throw out the current process and start over. The hierarchical approach of IDEF0 proved critical in keeping the group focused on its task of abstracting the essence of the process itself from the details of current practice. The mapping tool proved to be less convenient for representing a sequence of events in time, multiple cases, and conditional flows of work.


The most common congenital heart disease found in dogs is the shunting patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), representing 25 to 30% of cases, mainly affecting purebred breeds and is more frequent in females. The ductus arteriosus (DA) is a structure present in fetal life, derived from the sixth aortic arch, connecting the pulmonary artery to the aorta. It helps in fetal circulation since lack of lung expansion offers great resistance to blood flow. At birth, the expansion of the lungs along with the alveolar and arterial PO2 increase stimulates the DA smooth muscle constriction, promoting its closure. PDA occurs when duct closure does not occur. It may be in the classic form, with the left-to-right shift, or the reverse form with the right-to-left shift. The diagnosis is made from clinical signs along with radiography, electrocardiography, echocardiography, and angiocardiography. Treatment is surgical, but as the patient may develop congestive heart failure (CHF), prior clinical treatment is required for possible arrhythmias and pulmonary edema. This paper aims to report a case of patent ductus arteriosus in a female Maltese canine, one-year-old. It had an audible machinery murmur on the left base of the heart, a palpable thrill, and complementary exams indicated severe cardiomegaly and CHF. After clinical treatment,


As cruise ships call at many ports and passengers come from all over the world, it is very easy to carry viruses on cruise ships. Under the control of the epidemic situation on board, the solid waste generated by them should be scientifically treated to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 pneumonia. Therefore, Reasonable selection of waste disposal ports and formulation of unloading plans are directly related to the resumption of cruise operations. This study considers the cost and risk of waste disposal, uses robust optimization to deal with waste volume, increases the scenarios of port service interruption due to epidemics and other reasons, and proposes a variety of emergency strategies. Finally, the relevant strategies are selected according to the decision-maker's preference for cost and risk; by solving the relevant examples, the optimal choice of the cruise ship waste disposal port under the epidemic situation is given, which verifies the validity and feasibility of the model. The research helps to improve the management of cruise waste during the post-epidemic period and has practical value and guiding significance for the normal operation and development of the global cruise market.


In the present paper the author attempts to re-examine the notion of "the single individual" suggested by Kierkegaard. As is well known, Kierkegaard's existential thought is a search for the heroic mind and the moral soul of a single individual. Any conception of the public which does not account for the plurality of men and women as single individuals is an abstraction. In that respect Kierkegaard's conception of man as the single individual serves as pharmakon for the present age as well as for the nineteenth century. His formulation of deep subjectivity or inwardness as the depth of subjectivity, however, should not be confused with any form of subjectivism-moral or otherwise: the subjective thinker is never a subjectivist. On the contrary, according to him, the discovery of the "heroic mind" of the single individual acknowledges the recovery of the radical alterity of the other as a single individual. The cultivation of deep subjectivity is no denial of sociality, but is rather the affirmation of sociality as civil. Here the dialectical interplay of equality (identity) and distinction (difference) of the single individuals is the only antidote to one-dimensional tendencies in the age of "calculative thinking" whose "banality" or "vulgarity" threatens the end of history.


In the context of debates on place, space, and identity in a period of globalisation, this article asks whether collaborative arts projects are a means to identity formation for participants. This is of interest, not least, because such projects are outside consumption, the latter more often discussed in work on identity in sociology. Situated perhaps between the arts and the development work of NGOs, such projects also imply a viable, democratic public sphere distinct from a public realm constituted conventionally by urban public spaces or marked by public art. From two contrasting projects within the programme Capital do Nada in Marvila, a social housing district of Lisbon, in 2001, the article argues that as well as contributing to identity formation they have a capacity to evoke the imagination of new social formations. It contextualises the projects, describes them, and argues that they challenge received notions of identity formation based in consumption. Then, referencing Habermas and Fraser's critique of Habermas, and the performative in Arendt and Sennett, the article ends with broader speculation on the relevance of such art work for social theory.


In the current study of learning process that show learners will take a different way and use different types of learning resources in order to learning better. Any many researchers also agree that learning materials must be able to meet the various learning styles of learners. Therefore, let learners can effective to improve their learning, for different learning styles of learners should be given different types of learning materials. In this paper the authors propose a learner's learning style-based adaptive learning system architecture that is designed to help learners advance their on-line learning along an adaptive learning path. The investigation emphasizes the relationship of learning content to the learning style of each participant in adaptive learning. An adaptive learning rule was developed to identify how learners of different learning styles may associate those contents which have the higher probability of being useful to form an optimal learning path. In this adaptive learning system architecture, it will according to different learning styles given different types of learning materials and will according to learner's profile to adjust learner's learning style for providing suitable learning materials.


If the purpose of language learning is communication, then improving students' reading comprehension competence becomes an overall goal in language teaching. This paper examines the online resources of reading comprehension tests with non-English major college students, and tackles the problem with the teaching method of integrating web-based study into class teaching. This paper investigates what Chinese EFL college students think about their study feedback in regard to their online reading comprehension test in order to find proper and effective ways to implement reading comprehension competence through Web-based environment.


The conflict between substantive rules and conflicts of laws in corporate matters raising issues of conflicts of laws depends upon the results achieved through the conflictual method, where it is used to designate the law that most appropriately governs the corporation ; a. K. A. Lex societatis. In france, a further complication arises in the appreciation of the results obtained through the conflictual method : the definition of adequate contacts has been subject to the influence of considerations not directly related to the methodology used, including the discussion with respect to the corporation's nationality. Simultaneously, because choice of laws plays limited role in the definition of the relevant contact, the law of corporations is not usually considered as an area that facilities the development of substantive rules. Recently, however, corporation law has witnessed and increasingly "subjective" (i>e>< contractual) approach, both in domestic and in e. U. Laws. This is not inconsistant with the contact point (registred office) provided in article 3 of the law of july 24 1966. This modern approach is more adapted to an analysus if structures that combine contractual and coporate


The invention, of 4,6,6-trimethyl-1,3-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate or 4,6,6-trimethyl-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate lower alkyl esters, as perfuming ingredients on use. It said compound is capable of imparting odor notes of spicy / saffron-type.


Historically, transatlantic relations have been formulated under specific systemic circumstances with the aim of dealing with a distinctive military threat. Through a Realist perspective, this paper looks into the structural limits of equal partnership of a strategic partnership between a hard and a soft power. By conceptualizing actual, material and cognitive, elements of power through a differentiated descriptive and prescriptive spectrum and their relative effectiveness in a state-centric, anarchic and antagonistic international system, the paper, overtly or covertly, makes the distinction between instrumental and elemental power, as well as their importance in forming and successfully advancing images of world order within a strategic partnership and their respective persuasive credibility.


The ALICE detector presently being built at CERN consists of a central barrel covering the pseudorapidity range of (cid:0) 0 : 9 < (cid:17) < 0 : 9 and a muon spectrometer in the pseudorapidity range (cid:0) 4 : 0 < (cid:17) < (cid:0) 2 : 5 . Additional detectors used for trigger purposes and for event classi(cid:2)ca-tion cover adjacent pseudorapidity intervals of approximately 3 and 4 units on the two sides of the central barrel. Such a geometry is suited for de(cid:2)ning a double gap trigger by requiring no activity in the event classi(cid:2)cation detectors. The centrally produced diffractive state is measured by the detectors in the ALICE central barrel. A few se-lected physics channels are discussed in order to illustrate the variety of physics topics which becomes accessible by implementing such a rapidity gap trigger.


Most of Jack London's critics dismiss his slew of short stories as "meal tickets"; London himself once conceded, 'I loathe the stuff when I have done it. I do it because I want money and it is an easy way to get it.' Yet, James McClintock, in White Logic. conducts a chronological, thematic analysis of Jack London's short stories. He charts London's stories as a progression of man's relation to the world around him: "themes of mastery, to themes of accommodation, to themes of failure." McClintock's analysis culminates in a psychoanalytical reading of these themes where he reveals several Oedipal archetypes. While McClintock examines the psychological level of the symbolism in London's style, there exists another level of symbolic interpretation. As an active socialist, London, in his major works and essays, often assailed capitalism for its effects on society. The bulk of his short stories, though, centers on man's struggle against nature. A Marxist interpretation of these "naturalistic" tales, however, unfolds a complex allegorical pattern. London employs allegory as a rhetorical component to present a derisive view of the readers' capitalistic culture. The basic precept of Marxist literary criticism considers all literature a social product which reflects the society's superstructure. The author, as producer, is susceptible to the pressures inherent in his


DC Josephson current through a metallic carbon nanotube with N conducting channels is studied at temperature T when the potential range of scatterers is larger than the lattice constant. With increasing length of the carbon nanotube, its conductance approaches the quantized value G 0 =4 e 2 / h irrespective of  N . Our attention is focused on the T -dependence of the Josephson critical current I c in this conductance-quantization regime. The thermal length ξ T , which characterizes I c ( T ), is calculated by combining the Matsubara technique and the random-matrix approach. It is shown that \(\xi_{T} = \hbar v_{\text{F}}/(2\pi N k_{\text{B}}T)\) ( v F : the Fermi velocity). This indicates that I c ( T ) depends on N , in contrast to the conductance which is given by G 0 irrespective of  N .


After a short review of the current status of three-neutrino mixing, the implications for the values of neutrino masses are discussed. The bounds on the absolute scale of neutrino masses from Tritium β-decay and cosmological data are reviewed. Finally, we discuss the implications of three-neutrino mixing for neutrinoless double-β decay. Double Beta Decay and the Absolute Neutrino Mass Scale Carlo Giunti The marvelous recent results of neutrino oscillation experiments have given us important information on neutrino mixing. The data of solar neutrino experiments and of the KamLAND long-baseline ν̄e disappearance experiment show νe → νμ, ντ transitions generated by the squared-mass difference ∆mSUN in one of the two ranges [1] 5.1× 10−5 < ∆mSUN < 9.7× 10−5(LMA-I) , 1.2× 10−4 < ∆mSUN < 1.9× 10−4(LMA-II) , (1) at 99.73% C.L., with best-fit value ∆m bf SUN ' 6.9×10−5 (we measure squaredmass differences in units of eV). The effective solar mixing angle θSUN is constrained at 99.73% C.L. in the interval [1] 0.29 < tan θSUN < 0.86 , (2) with best-fit value tan θ SUN ' 0.46. The results of atmospheric neutrino experiments and of the K2K long-baseline νμ disappearance experiment indicate νμ → ντ transitions generated by the squared-mass difference ∆mATM in the 99.73% C.L. range [2] 1.4× 10−3 < ∆mATM < 5.1× 10−3 , (3) with best-fit value ∆m bf ATM ' 2.6 × 10−3. The best-fit effective atmospheric mixing angle θATM is maximal, sin 2 2θ ATM ' 1, with the 99.73% C.L. lower bound [2] sin 2θATM > 0.86 . (4) These evidences of neutrino mixing are nicely accommodated in the minimal framework of three-neutrino mixing, in which the three flavor neutrinos νe, νμ, ντ are unitary linear combinations of three neutrinos ν1, ν2, ν3 with masses m1, m2, m3, respectively (see Ref. [3]). Figure 1 shows the two three-neutrino schemes allowed by the observed hierarchy ∆mSUN ∆mATM, with the massive neutrinos labeled in order to have ∆mSUN = ∆m 2 21 , ∆m 2 ATM ' |∆m31| ' |∆m32| . (5) The two schemes in Fig. 1 are usually called "normal" and "inverted", because in the normal scheme the smallest squared-mass difference is generated by the two lightest neutrinos and a natural neutrino mass hierarchy can be realized if m1 m2, whereas in the inverted scheme the smallest squared-mass difference is generated by the two heaviest neutrinos, which are almost degenerate for any value of the lightest neutrino mass m3. Solar neutrino oscillations depend only *[bb=181 466 428 775, width=0.49]fig/3nun.eps*[bb=183 466 432 775, width=0.49]fig/3nui.eps normal inverted 0ptFIGURE 1. The two three-neutrino schemes allowed by the observed hierarchy ∆mSUN ∆mATM. on the first row Ue1, Ue2, Ue3 of the mixing matrix, and the hierarchy ∆mSUN ∆mATM implies that neutrino oscillations generated by ∆mATM depend only on the last column Ue3, Uμ3, Uτ3 of the mixing matrix. Hence, the only connection between solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations is due to the element Ue3. The negative result of the CHOOZ longbaseline ν̄e disappearance experiment implies that electron neutrinos do not oscillate at the atmospheric scale and |Ue3| is small: |Ue3| < 5 × 10−2 at 99.73% C.L. [4]. Therefore, solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations are practically decoupled [5] and the effective mixing angles in solar, atmospheric and CHOOZ experiments can be related to the elements of the threeneutrino mixing matrix by (see also Ref. [6]) sin θSUN = |Ue2| 1− |Ue3|2 sin 2 θATM = |Uμ3| sin θCHOOZ = |Ue3| . (6) Taking into account all the above experimental constraints, we have reconstructed the best-fit and allowed ranges for the elements of the mixing matrix 1) Talk presennted at NuFact 03, 5 International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams, 5–11 June 2003, Columbia University, New York. *[bb=118 377 465 702, width=0.99]fig/3man.eps *[bb=118 427 465 753, width=0.99]fig/3mai.eps FIGURE 2. Allowed ranges for the neutrino masses as functions of the lightest mass m1 and m3 in the normal and inverted three-neutrino scheme, respectively. *[bb=121 376 465 702, width=0.99]fig/mbn.eps *[bb=121 376 465 702, width=0.99]fig/mbi.eps FIGURE 3. Effective neutrino mass mβ in Tritium β-decay experiments as a function of the lightest mass m1 and m3 in the normal and inverted three-neutrino scheme, respectively. (see Ref. [7] for a reconstruction taking into account the correlations among the mixing parameters): Ubf ' ( −0.83 0.56 0.00 0.40 0.59 0.71 0.40 0.59 −0.71 ) , |U | ' ( 0.71−0.88 0.46−0.68 0.00−0.22 0.08−0.66 0.26−0.79 0.55−0.85 0.10−0.66 0.28−0.80 0.51−0.83 ) . (7) Such mixing matrix, with all elements large except Ue3, is called "bilarge". It is very different from the quark mixing matrix. The absolute scale of neutrino masses is not determined by the observation of neutrino oscillations, which depend only on the differences of the squares of neutrino masses. Figure 2 shows the allowed ranges (between the dashed and dotted curves) for the neutrino masses obtained from the allowed values of the oscillation parameters in Eqs. (1)–(4), as functions of the lightest mass in the normal and inverted three-neutrino schemes. The solid lines correspond to the best fit values of the oscillation parameters. One can see that at least two neutrinos have masses larger than about 7× 10−3 eV. The most sensitive known ways to probe the absolute values of neutrino masses are the observation of the end-point part of the electron spectrum in Tritium β-decay, the observation of large-scale structures in the early universe and the search for neutrinoless double-β decay, if neutrinos are Majorana particles (see Ref. [8]; we do not consider here the interesting possibility to determine neutrino masses through the observation of supernova neutrinos). Up to now, no indication of a neutrino mass has been found in Tritium β-decay experiments, leading to an upper limit on the effective mass


PURPOSE: Provided are compositions that are suitable for use as conductive or resistive materials in microelectronic devices or semiconductor packages to provide electrically stable interconnections. CONSTITUTION: A composition with improved electrical stability for use in microelectronic applications comprises a polymeric resin, a conductive filler, optionally either a reactive or a nonreactive diluent, optionally an inert filler, and an oxygen scavenger or corrosion inhibitor or both to provide the electrical stability. Wherein: (a) the polymeric resin is present in an amount of 10 to 90 weight percent and is are selected from the group consisting of vinyl-, acrylic-, phenol-, epoxy-, maleimide-, polyimide-, or silicon-containing resins; (b) the conductive filler is present in an amount of 1 to 90 weight percent and is selected from the group consisting of silver, copper, gold, palladium, platinum, carbon black, carbon fiber, graphite, aluminum, and antimony doped tin oxide; (c) the diluent is present in an amount of 0 to 50 weight percent and is selected from the group consisting of 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether and butyl carbitol; (d) the inert fillers are present in an amount of 0 to 80 weight percent and is selected from the group consisting of talc, silica, silicate, aluminum nitride, mica, ceramic, barium titanate, and titantium dioxide; (e) the oxygen scavengers or corrosion inhibitors are present in an amount up to 10 weight percent (but not 0%), and (f) the adhesion promoters are present in an amount of 0 to 10 weight percent, for a total of 100 weight percent.


According to the economic development and energy consumption data of Shandong Province in 1998-2009,this paper analyzed the evolution characteristics of carbon emissions in Shandong Province,and explored empirically the factors of carbon emissions based on Kaya formula.Dynamic relationship among Per capita GDP,energy intensity,carbon intensity,tertiary industries and carbon emissions were studied by using SPSS13.0.And this paper found that Shandong Province has emitted more and more carbon in recently twelve years.And there was a high linear correlation between economic growth and carbon emissions.Furthermore,the industrial structure,energy consumption structure and carbon intensity had a significant impact on carbon emissions.The empirical results showed that with the protection of economic growth stability,Shandong Province should establish a low-carbon industrialization strategy,build low-carbon industrial system,optimize energy consumption structure,strengthen low-carbon technology innovation,promote low-carbon consumption concept,and promote industrial low-carbon transition.


The study involved literature review of history and current state of surgical treatment in extrahepatic portal hypertension in children and adults. The author analyzed Russian and foreign publications on surgical repair of hepatopetal blood flow in extrahepatic portal hypertension. The issue is a high priority in Russia, which is confirmed by the fact that the author found out the pioneer studies of Russian authors, which were published earlier than the works of foreign researchers. It was found that the role of hepatopetal blood flow restoration in extrahepatic portal hypertension in adults had been much less studied than in children. More clinical material is to be gathered to determine the feasibility of such interventions in adults.


The combined modulation methods as well as various encoding methods adopted in Joint Tactical Information Distribution System(JTIDS) guaranteed the message transmission reliability.The anti-jamming performance of JTIDS on rice fading channel is analyzed;the symbol error rate and the message discarded rate of the system in partial band noise interference are derived by simulation.The simulation result shows that various anti-jamming technology such as RS encoding,and Interleaving and DS/FFH MSK modulation combined in JTIDS can improve the performance of data link communication so much that a lower symbol error rate and message discarded rate can be obtained in complex channel environment and the requirement of message transmission reliability is satisfied.


This article presents the results of the implementation of a forecasting model, to predict the relief materials needed for assisting in decisions prior to natural disasters, thus filling a gap in the exploration of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) in a humanitarian context. Demand information from the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil was used to develop the Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Multilevel (ZINBM) model, which gets to handle the excess of zeros in the count data and considers the nested structure of the data set. Strategies for selecting predictor variables were based on the understanding of the needs for relief supplies; consequently, they were derived from vulnerability indicators, demographic factors, and occurrences of climatic anomalies. The model presents coefficients that are statistically significant, and the results show the importance of considering the nested structure of the data and the zero-inflated nature of the outcome variable. To validate the fitness of the ZINBM model, it was compared against the Poisson, Negative Binomial (NB), Zero Inflated Poisson (ZIP), and Zero Inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) models.


As extensively discussed in Fox and Pesetsky (2005), cyclic Spell-out results in the linearization of syntactic structures, and this linear ordering cannot be altered after Spell-out, in order to be properly pronounceable at PF. In this paper, I discuss how this monotonicity of Cyclic Linearization (CL) interacts with anti-locality, which blocks local movement of a complement to its own specifier (Abels 2003, Boeckx 2007, Boskovic 2005, Doggett 2004, Grohmann 2003, Saito and Murasugi 1999 inter alia). I argue that otherwise unexpected variations in predicate fronting out of complementation structures in Korean can be explained by the interaction of CL and anti-locality. By doing so, I provide further evidence for the proposal that predicational structures in general undergo cyclic Spell-out (Ko 2011; cf. Den Dikken 2006). The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, I introduce initial puzzles concerning two types of small clauses in Korean, which show radically different distribution in syntax. In Section 3, I present a solution to the puzzles. I argue that the two types of small clauses in Korean are projected from different underlying structures (ECM vs. Control type), and that variations in predicate fronting out of small clauses can be explained by independently motived principles in the grammar interactions of CL and anti-locality, in particular. In Section 4, I extend the current proposal to predicate fronting out of Raising constructions in Korean. It is shown that predicate fronting is crucially affected by Case-marking on the subject of the complement clause. I argue that variations in predicate fronting out of Raising constructions naturally follow from the conspiracy of CL and anti-locality as well. Section 5 concludes the paper.


Using case study methods as well as empirical quantitative-based simulation methods are becoming increasingly common in the logistics discipline. However, rare signs of efforts of combining these are to be found in the logistics literature. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the further development of case study and simulation methods in logistics research and practice by presenting and discussing the concept of combining case study and simulation methods. Combining case study and simulation into a multimethod study allows the researcher to harmonise the weaknesses and assess the relative strengths of the various methods. It is concluded in this paper that combining case study and simulation makes it possible to elucidate underlying processes and illustrate a greater depth to the investigation by using the case study method, and at the same time defining and predicting the behaviour and performance of the process or system using simulation. Another valuable benefit is the opportunity for triangulation between the methods and between the different data sets collected in the studies. (Less)


Abstract The graphene oxide (GO) is fabricated by chemical oxidation or chemical oxidation combined with ultrasonic irradiation (COUI) from graphite. Ag3PO4 particles are anchored on GO by facile ion-exchange method. The as prepared GO and Ag3PO4/GO composites are systematically characterized. The addition of ultrasonic irradiation to the chemical oxidation promotes the oxidation of graphite. Besides epoxide and hydroxyl groups, which are generated in GO during chemical oxidation, epoxide and hydroxyl groups are also formed in GO oxidized by COUI. The valence band (VB) and conduction band (CB) potentials of GO are correspondingly changed. The Ag3PO4 particles are decreased to be smaller size by the stabilization effect of GO and are enwrapped by GO. The photocatalytic ability of prepared samples is evaluated by phenol degradation under visible light irradiation. The removal rates of phenol with Ag3PO4/GO composites are higher than that with Ag3PO4. And the photocatalytic ability of Ag3PO4/GO composite is further enhanced by the modification with GO prepared by the addition of ultrasonic irradiation to the chemical oxidation. This increase can be attributed to collection effects of elevated light absorption ability and increased separation efficiency of the photogenerated charge carriers.


Elements of high-frequency circuits are often subject to high temperatures caused by power losses. If properties of materials comprising these elements depend on temperature, this heating may modify the spectral characteristics of these elements considerably.


Recently I was invited to write a short paper for Context magazine, a magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK. It is a themed edition, due to be published in the summer of 2023, edited by Joanne Hipplewith who generated the theme of "Failing, to do better" (Context, 187). For me the title speaks to the idea that there is a tension to explore within failure; the tension of present pain and future opportunity that the inclusion of the comma brings into view.
I wrote about experiencing the theme as a writing prompt and used the opportunity to reflect on times I have experienced failure in academic contexts and to reflect on the process of writing for publication. For many this can invite anxiety around failure and provoke fear of "getting it wrong". I explored also the tension between the pain of failure and the hope of learning something useful from the experience (Salter, 2023).
A sub-theme emerged in my writing linked to current health status and the recent loss of my father who died from cancer in September 2022. I suppose I was reminded of the invitation to see ill health and end of life as a failure of some kind, that I had been failing in terms of my own health and that my father ultimately had failed to survive cancer. But there were opportunities, even here. My father and I found a way to live with (and for me, live through and beyond) the health challenges we faced and we were able to create space in our relationship to honour each other's challenges. This was new territory. A new tension.


PurposeSimulating the behavior of clothing has always been of interest in the apparel, fashion and computer game industries. With the development of these industries, there is a need to increase the accuracy of clothing simulation techniques. A garment contains many seams whose behavior affects its final appearance. In this study, a numerical model is presented to simulate seam puckers in single- and double-layer fabrics.Design/methodology/approachA yarn-level simulation technique has been used for this purpose. Based on this technique, the individual threads in the fabric structure and the sewing threads are modeled separately. Then, their behavior and interaction with each other are considered in the seam pucker model.FindingsThe model is used to simulate the real samples. The results show that the proposed model is able to simulate the degree of seam puckering for a single-layer fabric with an average error of 7.9% and for a double-layer fabric with an average error of 8.5%.Originality/valueThe behavior of the seam is affected by the properties, behavior and interaction of the sewing threads and yarns in the fabric structure. In previous studies, the parameters related to seams and fabrics were not fully considered. In this study, a new yarn-level model is presented to simulate seam puckering in woven fabrics. The most important advantage of this type of simulation is the ability to examine the interaction of fabric threads as well as the interaction of sewing threads with each other and with the threads of the fabric structure.


A PUBLICATION OF THE HASTINGS CENTER uman genetic engineering was one of the earliest bioethics topics to attract widespread attention. During the 1960's, scientists and scholars began examining the possible benefits and harms that could come from attempts at human genetic alteration.' Germline genetic alterations attracted the most controversy. Genetic alterations made in earlystage human embryos would be present in the cells of children developing from such embryos, including the germ (sperm or egg) cells. As a result, this form of genetic alteration could affect not only children developing from genetically modified embryos, but their descendants, too. The long-running debate over the ethics of germline genetic alteration has focused on the technology's broad social implications, such as potential effects on parent-child relations, social inequalities, and the human gene pool.z These broad implications are only part of the story, however. Extensive human subjects research would be required to bring germline genetic alterations to the clinic. Yet the ethics of conducting such research has received comparatively little attention.


The Gibbs free energies as very important thermodynamic property were evaluated for Pb(NO3)2 in mixed Acetone-H2O solvents at different temperature from the experimental solubility measurements. The ratio of the ionic between lead and nitrate ions was used to divide the total Gibbs free energy of the salt into its individual contribution in the mixtures used. The conventional Gibbs free energies for the cation (Pb2+) and anion (NO- 3) were estimated theoretically and also the Gibbs free energy of NO- 3 gas was evaluated and their values were discussed.


The work is devoted to improvement of mechanical properties of iron castings via adjusting of the cooling rate without introduction of alloying additives. The new technological solution is suggested; it can be easily adapted to a casting technology. This solution is based on variation of the cooling rate of iron castings within structurally sensitive solidification intervals. For this purpose, the casting mould was initially cooled after pouring, then heated and cooled again. Cooling of the mould during the period of primary austenite crystal forming led to increase of dendrite crystallization rate and was executed using compressed air. Retarding of the cooling rate during the period of eutectic transformation was provided by the mould heating via burning of exothermic carbon-containing additives introduced in a facing layer of sand-clay moulding mix. Burning reaction is accompanied by heat extraction, what steeply retarded the cooling rate within the interval of eutectic transformation. Consequent acceleration of castings cooling within the interval of eutectoid transformation was achieved via repeated air blowing through a worked reaction layer. Adjusted cooling of iron castings allowed to provide the most favourable solidification conditions, taking into account strictly individual requirements for each structurally sensitive temperature intervals. It led to increase of a volumetric part of primary austenite dendrite crystals, to decrease of eutectic transformation overcooling degree, to forming of graphite eutectics and enlargement of dispersity of pearlite component in iron. Consequently, lowering of widespread iron castings rejects takes place, among them chilling, with simultaneous improvement of metal mechanical properties. As a result, the primary and real structures were varied, what had a positive effect on mechanical properties of casting metal. It is shown that use of solidification rate adjustment led to essential increase of metal tensile strength for the experimental casting.


What is the breast? What is breast cancer? Am I at risk for breast cancer? Male Breast Cancer How can I prevent breast cancer? What screening tests are available? What are the signs of breast cancer? How is breast cancer diagnosed and staged? What are the treatments for breast cancer? Early/Moderate Stage Breast Cancer Advanced Breast Cancer Follow-up care and survivorship Resources for more information Appendix: Complete Breast Cancer Staging


In this article, the authors comprehensively investigate the reforming activities of Maria Theresa and Joseph II on the basis of current legal acts in Austria during the 18th century, historical sources, as well as scientific literature and other written sources. In particular, the authors substantiate the essence of the rural reform of the above-mentioned rulers, highlighted its main reasons, prerequisites and political, social and public consequences. Through the prism of the modernization of the Austrian state, which primarily aimed at the centralization of an effective administrative apparatus, as well as strengthening the power of the emperor and reducing the political weight of individual regions of the state, the consequences of the application of the rural reform of Maria Theresa and Joseph II for the inhabitants of Galicia are determined. Particular attention is focused on the place and significance of the rural reform in an inextricable relationship with other reforms of these rulers, in particular: administrative (primarily, in the context of the establishment of regional administration), tax, military, educational, religious, legal and tax. The author confirmed that the aforementioned reforms as a whole were aimed at laying the foundations of the rule of law and forming the internal unity of the power apparatus and state sovereignty in the Habsburg Empire. In addition, the article highlights the role of the Austrian supporters of the Enlightenment, in the context of the fact that both Maria Theresa and Joseph II followed the general principle of the Enlightenment in their activities: "everything that is useful for the state is good for society". In view of this, the authors come to the conclusion that all reforms, including rural reforms, in the 18th century were carried out in the spirit of "educated absolutism", since the role of the church was significantly reduced, although its representatives were not completely removed from the management of state affairs. In general, thanks to the reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II in the Habsburg Empire, it was possible to form one of the most perfect empires in Europe, from the point of view of its construction as a legal state, with increased authority of the ruler, not law. The central government has become more aware and broader, and various aspects of public life have been improved and regulated.


There is always a definite point in the life path of every person when he starts asking a number of questions about his being, skills and desires. Very often just then the desire for cardinal changes appears, for escaping from the familiar and routine. It is this moment of truth when we give a clear account of who we are, where we are, what we have achieved and want to continue in the same way. Starting an entrepreneurial activity then is a serious bet for its success. The prerequisites for such success are the existence of a clearly conscious purpose and willingness, unrelenting and accurate assessment of opportunities and capabilities, and most of all determination and will to break the status quo.The perception of the vast majority of people for a successful entrepreneurial activity is related to the receipt of big profits. For the entrepreneur, however, things can be quite different. Here we intervene and the desire to prove ourselves, to increase the social status, to address new challenges, etc., which we usually summarized call success. The vast majority of society perceives the entrepreneurial success rather negatively. The main importance of the gains achieved and the external characteristics of a higher standard of living. Much more background and very rarely noticeable are the enormous efforts made by entrepreneurs in realising their ideas, their great responsibility not only for those working in their own enterprises, but also in terms of their families and Society as a whole.Success and failure go hand in hand. Failure, failure and fear of them are part of the daily life of the entrepreneur. Successful entrepreneur is not the one who tries to avoid in one way or another the failures, and the one who is taught by his faults and failures, is able to accept them with dignity, to learn from them, not to allow them again, and has the power to stand up and move on.Every new business is a new beginning, hiding a multitude of uncertainties and pitfalls, placing many questions and trials. The important thing is to possess the courage and courage to try despite the fears and dangers, as long as the risk of this attempt is judged correctly. Not in vain in the past have seen entrepreneurs such as gambling personalities, adventurers, etc., and today they are the ones who carry the new, create the unknown and discover opportunities where for others they are lacking.


Intercultural competence (IC) as an essential part of conceptualization of the cultural dimension in FLT has been promoted by educationalists as the most preferred type of competence. One of the ch ...


Glutathione, proteinase inhibitors, steroids and hyperbaric oxygen are significantly effective to improve the survival of rats and to inhibit the liberation of plasma kinin in endotoxin shock. The combination of those anti-shock agents resulted in a decrease of kinin release in endotoxin shock in contrast with the treatment with each agent alone.


Individual-based computer models show that different mechanisms, proximity-based or emotional bookkeeping, can lead to reciprocation. By comparing social networks from different computer models with those of empirical data, we show that the models' social networks bear limited resemblance with some features of the observed social networks. This indicates that additional social processes (third-party awareness) may be needed in these models to represent more accurately the social behavior and interaction patterns observed in group-living animals.


Single-trapped-ion frequency standards based on a 282 nm transition in 199Hg+ and on a 267 nm transition in 27Al+ have been developed at NIST over the past several years. Their frequencies are measured relative to each other and to the NIST primary frequency standard, the NIST-F1 cesium fountain, by means of a self-referenced femtosecond laser frequency comb. Both ion standards have demonstrated instabilities and inaccuracies of less than 1 × 10-16.


Review of: Marino, Stefano, Terzi, Pietro (edited by),  Kant's "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment" in the 20 th  Century. A Companion to Its Main Interpretations , Berlin/Boston, Walter De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 361, ISBN 978-3-11-059613-7.


India has a rich and ancient history, characterized by the advent of successive kingdoms and urban civilizations and the political and territorial decomposition and recomposition during the 20th century. From the point of view of the dynamics of city systems, Indian territory raises the question of the degree of integration of a set of cities. This article shows that there is a unity to the Indian city characterized by a homogeneously distributed growth process for more than a century, as well as regional diversity, revealed by the heterogeneity from one region to another of the degree of inequality with respect to the size of the cities and their growth rates.


Abstract The concept of metamaterials has led to extraordinary schemes of wave propagation, which has been verified using various meta-atoms, constituent units of metamaterials, as well as applied to a number of categories in physics. Although its definition clarifies the maximum size of meta-atoms as a fraction of one wavelength, the size may vary by several orders, like from millimeters ('macroscopic level') to atomic scales ('microscopic level') for microwaves. This review surveys several patterns of parameter combinations, like permittivity and permeability in electromagnetic metamaterials, which have been achieved at either macroscopic or microscopic levels, with the similar analogy under the concept of metamaterials. Various experimental and theoretical efforts reported so far and shown here verify that the parameter identification of these values (permittivity, permeability, and refractive index) is independent of meta-atom sizes, with importance of spatial integration procedure on the order of a wavelength.


The objective of this study was to test the effects of N rates and tillage radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) cover crop (TRCC) on soil water and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) yield. In three years of the investigation, the treatments were N rates at 84 kg ha−1 and 140 kg ha−1 with and without TRCC. Soil water contents were measured using soil water sensors. Results showed that cotton yield was not significantly (p > 0.05) influenced by TRCC. Compared to N rate at 84 kg ha−1, 140 kg N ha−1 increased lint yield by 2.0%, 7.4%, 18.4% in 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively, but the increase was significant only in 2019 (p < 0.02). Interactions between TRCC and nitrogen rate on yield were significant (p < 0.03) only in 2017. TRCC increased soil water infiltration capacity, resulting in higher soil water content. Use of TRCC did not affect the cotton yield, which could be due to the high inputs of water and high rates of N neutralizing the positive contributions to the cotton growth expected from the TRCC. Sub-optimum winter temperatures hampered the establishment and subsequent growth of TRCC, which also possibly contributed to its minimum impacts on cotton crop performance in the following season.


Aspects of the morphology of II species of Triviidae are described, including the living animal, shell, radula, mantle complex, central nervous system and reproductive system. Interspecific differences in radular morphology are important in distinguishing closely allied species. Trivia aperta, T. costata and T. verhoeft are protandric hermaphrodites while T. caluariola, T. neglccta, T. pellucidula, T. rubra, T. solandri and T. suavis are gonochoric. The elaboration of the receptaculum seminis varies between species. In T. aperta, T. calvariola, T. neglecta and T. who& the receptaculum is undivided while in T. costafa, T. pellucidula, T. solandri and T. suavis there are two or more lobes of the receptaculum.


This study aims to determine the influence of Job-Leisure Conflict on Turnover Intention with Job Satisfaction as Mediator at PT Hanindo Express Utama. The population of the study is 58 employees with 51 employee's sample. The analytical method used is The Simple Mediation Model. From this research Job Satisfaction mediate the influence of Job Leisure Conflict on Turnover Intention. Job-Leisure Conflict cannot directly influence Turnover Intention.


where A is the area of the horizon. Statistical mechanics then suggests that there should be e states of the black hole, but the geometry of the black hole is completely determined by its mass, charge and angular momentum : so called 'Black holes have no hair'. This statement implies that the entropy of the black hole is S = ln 1 = 0. This is the 'black hole entropy puzzle', which is closely related to the 'black hole information problems'. String theory has a rich structure and admits black-hole solutions in higher dimensions [2–4]. Then, the black holes in string theory may give an understanding of these puzzles. Black holes in string theory are widely studied by using a chiral null model [5–11]. This model provides a class of exact solutions of oscillating strings in various cases. From these solutions, Mathur proposed the 'fuzzy ball' conjecture for the black hole [12,13]. He constructed a geometry of the two-charge black hole by performing a chain of duality transformations from the metric of the oscillating fundamental string. The result gives a family of geometries for the D1-D5 system characterized by a single function ~ F , the vibration profile of the fundamental string. Moreover these geometries have no horizons and no singularity which corresponds to the so-called 'black hole microstate geometries'. By quantizing the single function ~ F , we can obtain the number of geometries for the black hole [14]. This result agrees with the one from the calculation in the CFT side.


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When using antenna structures in a wafer-level reliability production monitoring program, we must take into account some restrictive conditions with regard to the available space for the required test structures and the time allowed for testing them. The purpose of this investigations was to find arguments for efficient selection of test structures and an appropriate choice of evaluation tests.


A man, aged 73, complaining of obstinate hoarseness of voice, was found to have - duplicity of different kinds of tumors in both vocal cords. The tumors were removed by laryngofissure. Histological examination revealed that the tumor from the left vocal cord was fibrosarcoma and that the one in the right was carcinoma in situ. Postoperative course has been uneventful for seven months without local recurrence. Such a duplicity is extremely rare, our case being the first reported in Japan according to our survey of Japanese literature. Japanese literatures on sarcoma of larynx were also presented.


A 27-year-old man with untreated human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome presented with 5 days of diffuse abdominal pain, watery, nonbloody diarrhea, vomiting, and a CD4 count of 93 cells/mm. He endorsed 4–5 episodes of diarrhea per day along with nocturnal episodes. He had a recent diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis and was undergoing treatment with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and high-dose dexamethasone for 4 weeks. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated normal bowel appearance. Stool studies were negative for acid-fast bacilli, Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, Vibrio, and Clostridium difficile infection. Colonoscopy was performed to evaluate for Cytomegalovirus infection. He was found to have linear and coiled white thread-like worms on the mucosa of the terminal ileum and cecum (Figure 1). Biopsy of the terminal ileum revealed multiple parasitic organisms (Figure 2). The diagnosis was confirmed with stool examination that revealed ova consistent of Hymenolepis nana (H. nana) (Figure 3). The patient likely had a latent H. nana infection that was reactivated by high-dose steroid therapy. He received treatment with praziquantel, and his symptoms rapidly improved.


Macready & Dayton (1980) showed that state mas tery models are handled optimally within the general latent class framework for data from a single time point. An extension of this idea is presented here for longitudinal data obtained from repeated measure ments across time. The static approach is extended using multiple-indicator Markov chain models. The approach presented here emphasizes the dynamic as pects of the process of change, such as growth, decay, and stability. The general approach is presented, and models with purely categorical and ordered categorical states and several extensions of these models are dis cussed. Problems of estimation, identification, assess ment of model fit, and hypothesis testing associated with these models also are discussed. The applicability of these models is demonstrated using data from a lon gitudinal study on solving arithmetic word problems. The advantages and disadvantages of using the ap proach presented here are discussed. Index terms: arithmetic word problems, dynamic latent class mod els, latent class models, longitudinal categorical data, Markov models, state mastery models.


Aquifer water abundance evaluation is a highly relevant issue that has been researched for many years. Despite prior research, problems with the conventional evaluation method remain. This paper establishes an aquifer water abundance evaluation method that combines fuzzy evaluation with a comprehensive weighting method to overcome both the subjectivity and lack of conformity in determining weight by pure data analysis alone. First, this paper introduces the principle of a fuzzy-comprehensive weighting method. Second, the example of well field no. 3 (of a coalfield) is used to illustrate the method's process. The evaluation results show that this method is can more suitably meet the real requirements of aquifer water abundance assessment, leading to more precise and accurate evaluations. Ultimately, this paper provides a new method for aquifer water abundance evaluation.


Crustal thickness plays a key role in many geological processes. However, it remains challenging to quantify crustal thickness in the geological past. Here we propose an Extremely Randomized Trees algorithm‐based machine learning model to recover crustal thickness of old geological regions. The model is trained using major oxide and trace element compositions of 1,480 young intermediate to felsic rocks from global arcs and collisional orogens and geophysical measurements of crustal thickness. The model provides better estimations of crustal thickness than the commonly used methods based on Sr/Y and (La/Yb)N when applied to the testing data. The validity of this model is further demonstrated by its applications to the Kohistan–Ladakh, Gangdese and Talkeetna arcs, where paleocrustal thicknesses have been well constrained. We then use this model to construct the Mesozoic crustal thickness evolution of the Erguna Block in the southeast of the Mongol–Okhotsk suture belt. The closure time of the suture zone is still debated. Our results suggest that the crustal thickness of the Erguna Block increased from 43 ± 9 km at 210 Ma to 62 ± 7 km at 180 Ma, remained constant between 180 and 150 Ma, and then thinned to 36 ± 4 km at 120 Ma. These results suggest that the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean closed in the Early–Middle Jurassic and the thickened crust was stretched during the Cretaceous. We show that the thick crust and compression‐extension transition seem to be favorable for the formation of porphyry copper deposits in the Erguna Block during the Late Jurassic.


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The purpose of this study was to examine the abstraction thinking or the vertical reorganization activity of mathematical concepts of high school students while taking account of the abstraction that was constructed earlier, and the socio-cultural background. This study was qualitative in nature with task-based interviews as the method of collecting the data. It involved 62 high school students, and conducted for one year. The study focused on activities related to how the subjects grouped plane figures, recognized the attributes of each two plane figure, recognized the relation among them based on their attributes, defined plane figures, connected their attributes, as well as constructed the relations among plane figures. The results indicates that the abstraction level of high school students in constructing the relations among quadrilaterals consists of concrete visual level, semi-concrete visual level, semi-abstract visual level, and abstract visual level, together with indicators of each level. Therefore, the researchers suggest that it is necessary to design a learning activity that facilitates the four levels of abstraction, so that a student might increase his/her level of abstraction.


The invention discloses a middle layer assembly and method for connecting Si3N4 ceramic and belongs to the field of ceramic welding materials. The middle layer assembly for connecting the Si3N4 ceramic comprises copper-based amorphous solder foil and a middle layer. The copper-based amorphous solder foil comprises the components of, by weight, 20%-25% of Ti, 14%-16% of Zr, 12%-14% of Hf, 5%-6% of Ta, 1.5-1.8% of Mo, 0.6%-0.8% of Nb, 0.2%-0.4% of V, and the balance of Cu. The middle layer assembly is formed by sequentially and tightly attaching the copper-based amorphous solder foil, the middle layer and the copper-based amorphous solder foil, and the middle layer is Ta foil or Nb foil. According to the middle layer assembly and method, the components of the copper-based amorphous solder foil are adjusted, the Ta foil or Nb foil middle layer is further arranged, so that the generation of residual stress in a connector area is greatly reduced, and the mechanical property of a connector is further greatly improved.


A video rate operation (30 Hz) with more than 80% diffraction efficiency and net gain of 89 cm–1 was reported in a photorefractive (PR) composite based on poly((4-diphenylamino)benzyl acrylate) (PD...


genetic diversity level from high to low of the 5 regions was: African introduced (AF)>Asia natural (AN)>Oceania natural (OP)>Central American introduced (CI)>Asia introduced (AI);the order of genetic diversity level of the 29 populations was given. The serious inbreeding between populations was occurred during the whole distribution. The 70.12% of total variance was from the individuals within populations. The order of variance was: AN (81.15%) > AI (74.58%)>CI (72.29%)>AF (68.43%)>OP (61.45%). Though variation from populations accounted for only 25.42 % to 38.49% of the total variation, given


Grasping the field distribution rule of oxygen, gas and other gases in gob of coalmine is the basis to study the oxidation spontaneous combustion, gas combustion and explosion of gob, having important significance in coal fire prevention and gas control of gob. Due to the destructiveness and concealment of gob, conducting systematic actual measurement for multi-species gas of gob tends to be of greater difficulty, and even harder to achieve. Therefore, the numerical technique has increasingly become the main mean to study the issue. Many scholars at home and abroad had carried out a number of fruitful research work to solve this problem by using the numerical simulation technique: combined with the laboratory test result of rock strength and the relationship of stress permeability coefficient, P established CFD three-dimensional simulation, conducting the analytical investigation on gas migration rule and gas distribution rule under extraction conditions for gob of longwall face; established a CFD three-dimensional model, R and other scholars particularly studied the distribution rule of gas in gob under different ventilation and extraction conditions ; by using the developed CFD three-dimensional model, Hu, Li and other scholars simulated the flowing ruleof gas in gob [4] and the rhythm rule of gas under the drainage of surface drilling condition; developed the CFD model of oxygen distribution in gob, Shi and other scholars studied the distribution rule of oxidation zone in gob and its relation with the amount of air distribution. Numerical simulation technique based on CFD has been widely applied in researching the gas control, coal fire prevention and other issues of gob.


The main reasons why people live longer according to the medical profession, in order of importance, are things like genetics, medical history and medical care, and perhaps one's lifestyle and living conditions. People in poor nations, for example, often die of accidents, freezing temperatures and simple infections that could be prevented with simple medical care. In this regard, these measures are correct.


Summary N -(β-Chloroethyl)- N -nitrosourethan given intragastrically to rats in one or two doses not exceeding 15 mg/kg body weight induced tumors among 12 rats that survived longer than 1 year, one of the esophagus, one of the forestomach, and three of the glandular stomach. When a single dose of N -(β-chloroethyl)- N -nitrosourethan was given i.p. (about 5 mg/kg body weight), there were many early deaths from exudative and proliferative alveolar changes in the lungs, and none of the rats survived longer than 6 months. The possible reasons for the high efficacy of N -(β-chloroethyl)- N -nitrosourethan as a carcinogen are discussed.


The article discusses the necessity,direction,and object of secondary management in higher vocational schools.By analyzing the frames and implementation of secondary management in Huzhou Vocational and Techniological College,it puts forward several principles,which should be abided by and some relationships of departments concerned,which should be dealt with.


The remarkable turnover of friction on a vanadium dioxide (VO2) surface driven by the metal–insulator transition is revealed using temperature‐variable atomic force microscopy in ultrahigh vacuum. Phononic and electronic contributions are known as two major components in mediating friction energy dissipation. Here, a VO2 thin film is prepared on a silicon wafer with preferential orientations of (100) and (120) in the monoclinic phase using pulsed laser deposition. Corresponding friction and conductivity images show that friction decreases below the critical temperature, above which two trends are seen as the temperature increases: less friction on the insulating domains and higher friction on the metallic domains. This distinct temperature dependence of friction is attributed to the combined effects of thermal lubricity and electronic contributions. This study indicates the promising potential for vanadium oxide to tune friction in the electric regime as well as with temperature.


The present paper aimed to overcome the Viral Pathology in the emerging Dengue Virus Epidemic. Since 2010 it is a second epidemic of dengue Fever (DF) and dengue Hemorrhagic fever (DHF) that has claimed over 300 lives in the Punjab area. There has been no set treatment protocol other than the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines to treat this viral infection. Many physicians tried to follow the same and achieved some degree of success but unfortunately mismanagement of Dengue inflicted patients led to a high mortality. Malaysian physicians reported to have modified the WHO protocol to fit the needs of the local epidemic in 2009. However; the mainstay of the treatment was the balance of fluid dynamics of the patient's body. Unfortunately, the depleting platelets counts have been a media promoted scare of the dengue fever and dengue hemorrhage fever. The depleting Platelets count is not the only indication of the DF and DHF. However, its drastic reduction below 150,000 is the leading cause of bleeding (Internal & External) and eventual death. To date, the Pathophysiology that causes the symptoms of DF & DHF and the neurological deficits have been very poorly understood. Therefore, the treatment protocol presented by the WHO and the local medical practioners has been deemed partial or insufficient. Great number of patients has been seen with the recurrence of the dengue fever or incomplete treatment or the extensive dengue infection leading to bleeding, neurological deficit or directly comatose and death. Ever changing patient admission guidelines also led to the high risk of patient mortality. Therefore, the treatment protocol designed by us has successfully addressed the DF & DHF challenged patient population most effectively, resulting into no platelets transfusion and zero patient mortality. This unique project entertained 1298 patients from the greater community of city of Lahore. Majority of patients were seen as a direct visit to the UCH Dengue clinic, and many were received as a referral from other hospitals.


This paper proposes a novel fiber angle optimization method for composite, termed bipartite interpolation optimization (BIO), to address high‐dimensional design variables and inefficient fiber orientation optimization. The weighting functions of BIO are constructed with the help of multiphase material topology optimization approach. Various permutations and combinations of n design variables are utilized to represent 2n discrete candidate angles. Since the weighting functions of the way automatically satisfy the sum constraint, it is unnecessary to address the sum constraints during the optimization process. Compared with the traditional discrete material optimization strategy and solid isotropic material with penalization scheme, the BIO method reduces the dimension of the mathematical model for optimizing fiber angles. Compared to the shape functions with penalization scheme, the BIO method can be extended to the optimization problem of 2n candidates. Numerical examples of different types demonstrate that the proposed method has higher solution efficiency in the optimization problem of fiber orientation selection and is suitable for three‐dimensional shell optimization problems. It provides a new technical means for the structural optimization design of composite laminates.


We prove a general Borg‐type result for reflectionless unitary CMV operators U associated with orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. The spectrum of U is assumed to be a connected arc on the unit circle. This extends a recent result of Simon in connection with a periodic CMV operator with spectrum the whole unit circle.


! Background: Our aimwas to investigate the outcomes of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) for the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in a prospective clinical study. Patients and Methods: In 90 eyes suffering from POAG, treatment was carried out with a frequen-cy-doubled, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (532 nm). The intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured before the treatment and 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66 and 72 months after. A failure was defined as an IOP reduction of less than 20% of the pretreatment IOP, or a progression of visual field or optic disc damage requiring filtering surgery. The hypotensive medication during the study period remained unchanged. Results: The mean follow-up time was 41.2 months (SD 20.0). The mean pretreatment IOP was 22.4 mmHg (SD 2.3). At one month of follow-up, the mean IOP reduction was 5.0 mmHg (SD 2.3) or 22.3% and at 6 months 5.2 mmHg (SD 2.4) or 23.2%. At 12 months of follow-up, the mean IOP reduction was 5.4 mmHg (SD 2.4) or 24.0% and at 24 months 5.8 mmHg (SD 2.3) or 25.5%. At 36 months of follow-up,


Background The number of children with life limiting conditions surviving through childhood and requiring access to Adult SPC services has dramatically increased over the last decade. Previous research has identified that Adult services are willing but concerned about looking after these young adults, many of whom have non-malignant diagnoses and have needs unfamiliar to adult services. This paper describes the development of a programme to address this issue, to improve the experience of the young people accessing adult SPC services, and support the staff delivering the care. Aims To develop an innovative programme of training to up-skill the multidisciplinary SPC teams. To involve young adults in the development and delivery of the programme. To ensure the content of the training is relevant and covers physical, psychological and social areas. To improve the experience of young adults accessing adult SPC services To create a programme that is potentially transferable and deliverable to other adult SPC teams across the UK. Methods The project is being taken forward through joint working between a Children's hospice and an Adult Hospice. The content of the programme is being developed through the use of focus groups including young people with SPC needs, their families, staff from a local residential school caring for young adults with complex disability, staff from Hospices for young adults, and from the local Children's and Adult Hospices involved in the project. The delivery of the programme will include formal and informal learning, guided reflection, shadowing placements and a'service change' project relevant to the attendees. Young people will be involved throughout, from development to delivery and evaluation. This study describes the process by which the programme was designed, and reports back on delivery of the first part of the pilot.


The authors document and contrast changes (or lack thereof) in job stability over the past 25 years between Japan and the United States. Prime-age male workers with at least five years of tenure in Japan continued to enjoy much higher job stability than did their U.S. counterparts. Most remarkably, Japan's "Lost Decade" had little discernible adverse effect on the job stability of this group of Japanese employees. By contrast, job stability for mid-career hires and youth workers deteriorated in Japan. The authors' cross-national regression analysis of job loss confirms the consistently more important role that seniority plays in protecting workers from job loss in Japan than in the United States and reveals that this gap in seniority's influence on job stability between the two countries widened. Overall, it is the U.S. economy with the longest economic expansion, not the Japanese economy with the longest economic stagnation, that experienced deteriorating job stability, pointing to the absence of convergence of the Japanese and U.S. systems.


A complete temperature dependent line shape analysis of 2,2′-bistetrahydro-1,2-oxazinylmethane and coalescence temperature measurements on 2,2′-bis-3,6-dihydro-1,2-oxazinylmethane, 2,2′-bis-1,2-oxazolidinyimethane and 3,3′-bistetrahydro-1,3-oxazinylmethane are reported. Joining the nitrogen atoms in the two heterocyclic rings via a methylene bridge has a negligible effect upon the ring inversion barrier, but substantially lowers the nitrogen inversion barrier. The relevance of these results to the current controversy over the barrier to nitrogen inversion in six-membered rings is discussed.


Carbon molecular sieve with high methane/nitrogen separation performance is the premise for low concentration coalbed methane separation by swing pressure adsorption.Coconut shell carbonized materials was used as raw material in this paper.The raw material was activated to prepare carbon precursor,and then deposited by CH4 to prepare carbon molecular sieve(CMS).The effects of deposition time,deposition temperature,CH4 concentration and velocity in CH4/N2 mixture on the separation performance of CMS in methane/nitrogen separation process using pressure swing adsorption(PSA) were studied.N2 adsorption method was used to analyze the specific surface area and pore size distribution of carbon precursor.The results show that carbon precursor prepared under carbonization time 40 min,activation temperature 850 ℃,activation time 120 min,and steam flowing 1.71 g/min has higher micropores than that under other preparation conditions.The concentration of separated methane and nitrogen increases with the increase of the deposition temperature significantly,deposition time,sedimentary agent concentration and sedimentary dosage have little influence on the concentration of separated methane and nitrogen.The optimal sedimentary conditions are: deposition temperature 850 ℃,CH4 concentration 20.6%,CH4 gas mixture flow rate 1 200 mL/min,deposition time 120 min.


PURPOSE: A process for preparing an environment-friendly (oxy) nitride phosphor is provided to prepare an (oxy) nitride red phosphor with excellent efficiency. CONSTITUTION: A process for preparing an environment-friendly (oxy) nitride phosphor represented by {M_(1-x)Eu_x}_aSi_bO_cN_d comprises the steps of: forming a mixture of an alkaline earth metal precursor, an europium precursor, acid, Si3N4 powder and chelate compound in a gel state; drying and plasticizing the mixture, and pulverizing the resultant; mixing 20-200 parts by weight of carbon based on 100.0 parts by weight of the plasticized powder; and plasticizing the mixture of the powder and carbon.


The theme of problems experienced by children and young people with the education system has been frequently adressed in literature. Lying Down to Die by Adalet Ağaoğlu and Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse are two novels that question the educational system of their respective times. Lying Down to Die is a text that deals with the educational policy of the Republican period on the basis of women's identity; Beneath the Wheel is a critique of the educational approach shaped by the German ideal of national identity, which gained importance during the Second Reich. The aim of the study is to examine comparatively how Hermann Hesse and Adalet Ağaoğlu address in these novels the effects of the school and educational processes on children and adolescents' lives, worldviews and amotional states around the axis of the suicide motif.


Pathologic causes of fractures compromised bone include neoplasms, infections, and certain inherited bone disorders. We described a 33-year-old man who complained of a painful mass over left lower limb for two months without any history of trauma. He had also suffered from nephrolithiasis several times over ten more years. This was a manifestation of parathyroid gland hyperplasia with multiple brown tumors and pathologic fracture. He underwent the operation of total parathyroidectomy plus open reduction and internal fixation with an interlocking nail for pathologic fracture of the tibial shaft. After six months, tibial fracture union was found from clinical and radiological evaluation. Besides, his blood sugar level returned to normal with oral medication, and multiple brown tumors over the whole body were resolved partially. This case illustrates the importance of finding out the primary lesion through some examinations and relevant investigations, with an emphasis on adequate management.


Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease with a steady and rapid progression, manifested, in addition to the loss of strength of the muscles of the limbs and trunk, the development of fatal bulbar and respiratory disorders. Due to the need for early detection of this pathology, a large number of diagnostic tests have been proposed, which make it possible to suspect a motor neuron disease in a patient with a high probability. However, due to the polymorphic clinical picture of the disease, currently there are diagnostic situations in which existing methods do not allow to establish a reliable diagnosis or it becomes possible only at the later stages of the disease. This review examines the modern possibilities of ultrasound examination of peripheral nerves and muscles in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.


Objective To investigate the effect of 3 types of composite scaffold material [bacterial cellulose(BC),BC/gelatin(GEL),and BC/GEL/hydroxyapatite(HAP) on adherence and growth of osteoblasts cultured in vitro.Methods To culture mouse embryonic osteoblasts(cell line MC3T3-E1) in vitro on the 3 types of scaffold materials BC,BC/GEL,and BC/GEL/HAP,and to observe the MC3T3-E1 cell morphology under inverted microscope.After culturing the mouse embryonic osteoblasts(MC3T3-E1)in vitro on the 3 types of scaffold materials for 3,6 and 9 days,respectively,alkaline phosphatase activity was detected to assess the cell adherence to the scaffold material.At the same time,the cell growth was examined by scanning electron microscopy.Results After the embryonic osteoblasts cultured in vitro on the scaffold materials for 3,6,and 9 days,respectively,both the comparison of experimental group with the control group and comparison between each 2 groups showed statistically significant differences(P 0.05).Conclusion All the 3 types of composite scaffold materials BC,BC/GEL and BC/GEL/HAP are good vehicles for adherence and growth of osteoblasts cultured in vitro.Among them,the BC/GEL/HAP composite scaffold material show the best result of osteoblast growth.


The author discussed about the AI cars that faces clash of culture. This also discussed on how people use their cars before they can removed from the driver's seat and, importantly, communicate with others on the road.


This paper presents an islanded operation of wind turbine driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), photovoltaic (PV) array and battery based microgrid. Here local grid (LG) is formed by a PV-battery-based grid forming converter. Depending upon the wind availability the doubly fed wind turbine driven induction generator (DFIG) is synchronized with LG. The maximum PV power is extracted through the incremental conductance (INC) algorithm. The battery is connected across the DC-link of the grid forming converter. The LG terminal voltage is maintained by grid forming converter. The field-oriented control (FOC) is used to control the rotor side converter (RSC). Moreover, it is used to extract the maximum wind power and provides reactive power to the DFIG. A Discrete Fourth-Order Generalized Integrator-Frequency Locked (DFOGI-FLL) control is used to maintain the DC-link of the grid side converter (GSC). Moreover, it mitigates the reactive power to the LG and calculates the stator angle (Ɵstator), After matching the vstator, fstator and Ɵstator of the DFIG, it synchronizes to LG. Simulated results show performance of the PV-wind-battery based grid forming converter with DFIG synchronization in different conditions.


Introduction: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by deficits in social-emotional reciprocity and associated behavioral symptoms. The goal of this study was to examine perinatal risk factors for ASD and their correlates in a tertiary care hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Methods: We conducted a case-control study of 87 children diagnosed with ASD using the DSM-5 criteria, who were born between 1999 and 2014, and diagnosed between 2014 and 2016, and 134 age- and gender-matched control subjects. Data were collected from hospital medical records. Associations between ASD and maternal, birth, and neonatal risk factors were examined using logistic regression analysis. Results: Maternal fever was associated with ASD (p = 0.018), with 0% in the control group and 5% in the cases. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed a trend for an association between high birthweight (>4,000 g) and ASD (95% CI: 0.76–59.93, p = 0.086). Conclusion: The data affirmed the established gender difference of approximately four males to one female and supported previous findings associating ASD with prematurity. Larger representative studies are further required to explore risk factors for ASD in the UAE.


This study explored the impact of calisthenics on the brain cognitive function of elders from psycho-physiological viewpoint. The subjects of study were 20 middle-aged and elderly adults whose mean age was 65.4 years old. The results of analysis were as follow. First, the probability of response mistakes by the brain cognitive function of subjects against two tasks significantly decreased after-calisthenics compared to before-calisthenics. Second, the brain response time of subjects dependent on task-kind was different by the difficulty degree of task. The cognitive response time of brain decreased more after calisthenics when the task was simple and easy. Third, when two tasks were performed, there was no momentary change in P300 between before-calisthenics and after-calisthenics. Fourth, when two tasks were performed, the amplitude of P300 increased after calisthenics compared to before calisthenics. Therefore, it is believed that the probability of response-mistake by the cognitive function of brain decreases when middle-aged and elderly adults conduct calisthenics compared to before-calisthenics. The response time in performing certain task also decreased after calisthenics. The fact that P300 amplitude increased after calisthenics means that calisthenics has valid positive impact on the cognitive function system of brain.


Fluor albus is a problem that is often experienced by women of various ages. Most women in the world must experience vaginal discharge and 90% of women in Indonesia have the potential to experience vaginal discharge. Fluor albus in adolescents can actually be prevented. One way to reproductive health education that uses media that is interesting and easily understood by adolescents, one of which is with multimedia video learning media accompanied by education. The purpose of this study was to look at the effect of multimedia video learning along with education about reproductive health to increase knowledge and attitudes to prevent albus fluorine in young women. The research method uses a quasi-experimental design with pre-test post-test control group design. The study sample was 44 young women. Paired t-test and Anova test were applied to analyze data. The analysis showed that there were significant differences in the increase in the average value of knowledge (p = 0,000), attitudes (p = 0.001), and behavior (p = 0,000) after receiving multimedia and educational video learning. It can be concluded that multimedia video learning accompanied by education is appropriate to be applied in reproductive health learning activities, especially health care for reproductive organs because Multimedia Learning Video makes it easy for young women to understand and absorb information well so that it can provide a stimulus to act in preventing the occurrence of fluorine albus. Intervention through health learning models using multimedia can change the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of preventing albus fluorine in young women.


Effects of Text Types and Working Memory on Children's Comprehension Kyung Soo Do (firstname.lastname@example.com) Eun-Ju Lee (email@example.com) Department of Psychology & Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Sungkyunkwan University Seoul 110-745, KOREA It has been well known that working memory is important in comprehending written texts. More specifically, of the three components of the working memory, the central executive and the phonological loop are important in comprehending written texts, not only in adults but also in children (Swanson, 1998). In this paper, we report two experiments that showed that reading deficient children suffered more with expository texts than narrative texts, and that visual working memory seemed to be involved in children's comprehension of narrative texts. Methods Twenty normal and twenty reading deficient 3rd grade children in a Korean elementary school, located at a suburban area near Seoul, participated in the two experiments. In Experiment 1, the children read two narrative stories and two expository texts, and were asked to answer four comprehension questions for each story. They were tested after they finished reading each story. In Experiment 2, the dual task paradigm (e.g., Robinson & Molina, 2002) was used to test the possible involvement of visual working memory in comprehending narrative texts. After the children finished reading a story, they were asked to perform one of the two memory tests, an auditory memory test and a visual memory test, prior to the comprehension test. Each participant had done the four combinations of text types and the intervening memory tests: narrative-auditory memory, narrative-visual memory, expository-auditory memory, and expository-visual memory. All experimental procedures were controlled by a PC. The texts and the visual memory test items were presented on the monitor screen. Auditory memory test items were presented through earphones. Results and discussion The number of correct answers for the comprehension questions was analyzed. In Experiment 1, the average number of correct answers for the normal children were 6.40 (sd=.99) and 6.85 (sd=.88) for the expository and the narrative texts, respectively, and did not differ each other. For the reading deficient children, the averages were 4.05 (sd=1.43) and 5.25 (sd=1.62) for the expository and the narrative texts, respectively. Unlike the normal children, the reading deficient children suffered more with expository texts than narrative texts (F(1,19)=6.43, p<.02). The results of Experiment 1 suggested that the reading deficient children might use visual working memory when they read narrative texts. The possibility of involvement of visual working memory on comprehension was tested in Experiment 2. In comprehending expository texts, both normal children and reading deficient children suffered when they had to do auditory memory test. The interference effect of the auditory memory test was in good agreement with the idea that the verbal working memory as well as the central executive was involved in comprehension. However, the pattern of interference of memory test was quite different in the narrative text conditions (F(1,38)=4.21, p<.05). Only the reading deficient children suffered comprehending narrative texts when they had to answer visual memory test. The results of two experiments suggested that (1) normal children did not use visual working memory when they read texts, and that (2) the reading deficient children, on the other hand, seemed to use the visual working memory when they read narrative texts which usually had visuospatial aspects more than the expository texts. Table 1. Average number of correct answers: Experiment 2. Expository Visual Auditory Narrative Visual Auditory normal deficient Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2004-041-H00016). References Robinson, D. H., & Molina, E. (2002). The relative involvement of visual and auditory working memory when studying adjunct displays. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 27, 118-131. Swanson, H. L. (1998). Reading comprehension and working memory in learning disabled readers: Is the phonological loop more important than the executive system? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 72,


Shorter Lifetime, loose coupling, dynamicall y changing partners, better scalability become new trends of Virtual enterprise. I n this kind of environment it is necessary to study methods for implementing dyn amic virtual enterprise which has these new characters. In this paper we present our vision of the Web-service-based dynamic virtual enterprise: a highly inte roperable, dynamical, service-oriented enterprise infrastructure for small busi nesses and large corporations. In this enterprise infrastructure, UDDI(Universal Description Discovery Integration) become the enterprise register center. Any s ervice provider can enable its business to be programmatically accessible on the Internet (it becomes a Web service) and registers their service to UDDI. Distri buted, heterogeneous partner can search dynamically accessible service by UDDI a nd interoperate with other partner using standard data exchange format XML(eXten sible Markup Language) and message interchange protocol SOAP(Simple Object Acces s Protocol ). We studied the life cycle of Web-service-based dynamic virtual e nterprise and point out three key technologies for its implementation: (1) dynam ic search service provider by UDDI; (2) Web service-based workflow; (3) Virtual enterprise portal.


Systematic development" is a systematic project made up of many aspects in a particular nation or region. Generally speaking, it consists of three subsystems:in development stage, development factor and development mode. "Systematic development theory" provides a new angle for analyzing existent obstacle of individual and private economy in the western region and for speed up its systematic,fast and health development.It is very important for us to analyze and promote multi-dimensional development of individual and private economy.


The article covers the peculiarities and consequences of application of Hi-Hume technologies, those being high socio-humanitarian technologies which aim to influence consciousness of individuals or groups for the purpose of achieving certain controlling and manipulative influence. Hi-Hume technologies are based on convergence of social and information technologies, and latest achievements in psychology, neurophysiology, ethology and other sciences. The consequences of Hi-Hume technologies application are ambivalent. On the one hand they allow to control social processes effectively and reorganize mass and individuals consciousness considerably or arbitrarily, what allows to get essential profit in the economic sphere, and control masses of people in political sphere more effective. On the other hand Hi-Hume technologies may cause destructive influence on an individual and society, destruct its self-regulation mechanisms.


The Svayambhūpurāṇa [Paris, dev. 78] is probably a literary recast of the Svayambhūpurāṇa named by copyists Vṛhat˚ and Mahāsvayambhūpurāṇa, and existing in many copies in the Paris, Cambridge, and London (A. S.) Libraries, and also in India. The topics of this work are identical, but the language is, to some extent, different, and the treatment of the matter fairly independent. The same can be said, so far as I am acquainted with the facts, about the Madhyama recension of the S. P. [London A. S. Library and Cambridge]. The number of chapters differs in the S. P. [Paris, dev. 78], and other redactions (being respectively 12, 20, and 8); prose and verse of very varied rhythm occur intermingled throughout the book, whilst, on the contrary, the Vṛhat˚ and the Mahāsvayambhūpurāṇa are both, from beginning to end, written in classic çlokas. The Mahā˚, as noticed in Bendall's Buddhist MSS. Catalogue, is only a second recension of the Vṛhat˚: all the verses of the Mahā˚, together with the prologue itself, are faithfully reproduced in the Vṛhat˚ edition, the distinctive mark of the two redactions being the separation between the first and the second chapters.


Taking 8 Chinese cabbage cultivar as test material,through the investigation on the biological traits and yield,the cultivar comparative test were studied.The results showed that 'Chunxiaqiusheng','Tanchun' and 'Superiority' of the biological characteristics,yield and marketability were superior to other cultivar,3 species were suitable for planting in spring alpine region in Xining.


Power is a contested term with multiple definitions, but the dictionary suggests that its core is the capacity to achieve one's purposes or goals. More specifically, it is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes one wants. There are three main ways to produce such behavior — coercion, payment, and attraction. In an influential behavioral definition, Dahl (1961) defined power as the ability to get others to do what they otherwise would not do, but this captures only part of power behavior. One can also obtain preferred outcomes through co-opting others through agenda setting, attraction, and persuasion. Hard power rests primarily on coercion and payment. Soft power (Nye, 2004) is the ability to obtain preferred outcomes through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion or payments.

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power;
military;
economic;
attraction;
soft power;
smart power;
attraction;
agenda setting;
war


This article provides the introduction to a symposium on contemporary public values research. It is argued that the contribution to this symposium represent a Public Values Perspective, distinct from other specific lines of research that also use public value as a core concept. Public administration is approached in terms of processes guided or restricted by public values and as public value creating: public management and public policy-making are both concerned with establishing, following and realizing public values. To study public values a broad perspective is needed. The article suggest a research agenda for this encompasing kind of public values research. Finally the contributions to the symposium are introduced.


Urban storrnwater runoff is recognised as a major source of a wide variety of pollutants to water bodies. This increased awareness has led to an increased requirement for offline pollution control devices (PCD's). From a hydraulic point of view, one of the more complex issues associated with the installation of PCD's is the diversion of flows into the device. In this regard, few, if any, innovations have been put forward for flow diversion in storrnwater. Generally, fixed weirs are placed in channels as diversion structures, which could lead to a dramatic change in flood profiles during different runoff events and the capacity of the channel could be significantly reduced as a result. The increase in flood levels have somewhat been reduced by simply widening the channel at the location of the weir. This may at times be suitable in a flow regime that is sub critical, that is, Froude number less than I. However when the flow regime is supercritical (Froude greater than I), this approach will almost certainly result in a hydraulic jump, and a rise in the water surface level caused by the backwater impact, likely causing flooding. This situation is to be avoided at all costs. This paper puts forward a concept that has been implemented to deal with this situation.


Undoubtedly, no country as America is the host and influenced of pressure groups, and because of the existence of the interests and valuation system in America, this issue has made decision making in foreign policy of this country difficult. Among pressure groups in America, Zionist lobbies seem to have the most influence in America's foreign policy. Based on this, it can be approximately said that America and Israel have had special ties after the World War II and AIPAC Group has always guaranteed the continuation of this relationship. A set of factors play role in forming foreign policy of each country internally, nationally and internationally that the outcome of these factors' action and reactions will is presented as the outcome and "foreign policy". The United Sates of America's foreign policy is also the same process, based on this according to the international relationships ideas which of the important levels in analyzing foreign policy of the United States of America is internal level whose one of its components is investigating the role of pressure groups in forming the foreign policy of this country, practically the activity of any groups isn't as prominent and highlighted as Zionist lobby in this subject. Therefore the author of this research is sought to investigate the effect of different shapes of Zionist lobby and the position and performance of this regime in America's foreign policy towards Iran, hence the arrow of lobbying activities in the area of Iran is also evaluated; consequently in the process of the research, stating that influential element in the system of decision making in The United States of America about the role of stakeholder groups with a focus on Zionist lobby and the unwavering support of the United States from this lobby is undeniable.


Footage analysis procedures require manual examination which can be time consuming. As an alternative to the above procedure, we propose a system capable of automating footage analysis by fingerprinting all identified faces and classifying them into unique faces, regardless of the angle the face was found in the footage. This system also has the ability to expand the number of faces it can recognize during runtime opposed to detecting a fixed number of faces.


Among the poets in Jian′an period,Cao Zhi was the most talented.His poems had both higher art standard and higher aesthetic value.In his poems,the images and mood,which were powerful and magnificent,were both grand and graceful.The ideal was noble.The feeling was full.The languages were flowery and antithetical.The sounds were harmonious.