During the past summer the writer in the course of an examination of a part of the ceded lands of the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, for the United States Geological Survey, discovered a small overthrust fault in nearly flat strata. The following brief description has been written, not only because of this peculiar occurrence of the fault, but because of the extraordinarily clear and almost diagrammatic condition of its outcrop, giving the photograph a possible value for the purposes of textbook or other illustration. The fault is located in the N.E. S.W. i sec. 3, T. 2 N., R. 35 E., P.M., Montana, a point about io miles east of the Bighorn River and about 15 miles south of its junction with the Yellowstone. The district is on the remote edge of the Bighorn uplift, the Bighorn Mountains lying about 70 miles away, somewhat to the west of south. About I5 miles southwest of the fault in T. i N., Rs. 33 and 34 E., the strata dip in a general northeasterly direction at angles ranging up to 35 degrees. This dip, however, decreases in a short distance, and within a radius of about o10 miles around the fault the rocks commonly lie at angles less than one degree, except for 500 feet immediately around it where the dips locally reach five or six degrees. About 20 miles to the north the strata dip uniformly from three to five degrees in a southerly direction so that the greater part of the area examined occupies the hollow of a broad, flat asymmetrical syncline, the fault being located nearer the southern and more steeply dipping limb. Faults are not uncommon in this area, but all of the other faults appear to be normal and none was observed within 4 miles of the small overthrust in question. The general relations of the fault, which outcrops in the north bank of the coulee, are shown in Fig. i. The heavy black stratum is a coal bed, the dislocation of which furnishes the key to the amount of displacement and the position of the fault zone. This


ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL EFFECTIVENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ADVERTISING: THE INFLUENCE OF ECOLOGICAL CONCERN AND AD TYPE ON SYSTEMATIC INFORMATION PROCESSING Jingyu Bao, B.A. Marquette University, 2011 Following the postulation of motivation propelled message processing brought up by Chaiken, Giner-Sorolla and Chen (1996) within the framework of the heuristicsystematic model (HSM) (Chaiken, 1980; 1987; Chaiken, Liberman, & Eagly, 1989), this study attempts to explore the extent to which individuals' environmental concern can affect persuasion via systematic information processing. The study examines the comparative effectiveness of a product-based informational approach versus a social norm-based transformational approach regarding individuals with varied levels of environmental concern. A mixed model design is conducted to test the relationship between environmental concern, ad type, systematic processing of information and advertising effectiveness. The regression analysis performed on the results of 167 students' responses to the study shows no interaction effects between environmental concern and ad type. Nevertheless, students' environmental concern is found to be an important predictor of systematic processing of ad information, their perception of advertising message featuring ecological benefits, their evaluation of the brand performance and their propensity to purchase green.


A method for manufacturing a throttle body, a throttle body (1) and a relative thereto movable throttle valve (2) comprising, with the following method steps: (A) injection molding of the throttle body (1, 19) in a first cavity of a first plastic material (B) the introduction of bearing bushes (5) containing a metallic material, in the throttle body (1, 19) to form a hard / hard friction pairing between the bearing bushes (5) and the throttle body (1, 19), (C) the transfer of the process according to step a), b) the obtained throttle body (1, 19) in a spatially separated from the first cavity and second cavity (D) the injection molding of the moveable throttle valve (2) with Klap- penwelle (3) made of a second plastic material inside the throttle body (1, 19) in the second cavity, wherein (in the preform of the throttle body according to method step c) 1) have a radially (inwardly or radially outwardly extending thrust shoulder 6) introduced bushings (5), characterized, in that at the start-up shoulder (6) has a radius of ≥ 0.1 mm by stamping, swaging or machining of the bearing bush (5) is generated.


and technical discourse. Expanding of the professional vocabulary is entirely based on the systematization and classification of the term system. The article provides information about lexical and semantic features of the term system of modern English scientific and technical discourse; clarifies the specifics of the functioning of the terminological system by detect-ing its lexical, semantic and structural features, which is also the purpose of this work. It is emphasized that a detailed study of the regularities (patterns) of terminological vocabulary formation, its structure and semantic, making focus on the English terminological system, are important and necessary and this will definitely allow to enrich English scientific and technical discourse. The structural, lexical and semantic features of the terms are defined in the work. Their classifica-tions have been specified and the characteristics, according to which they are classified, have been analyzed as well. A pro-found definition of the word 'term', its main characteristics and features are introduced.


This research aims to determine the influence of addition of probiotic lactic acid bacteria Lactobasillus casei which derived from Yakult toward the performance of broiler chicken. This research used complete randomized design with four treatments and two replications. This research used 60 DOC CP 707 from Charoen Pokhpand Indonesia, Yakult as the source of baceria Lactobasillus casei, commercial feed 511 and 311, and drinking water. If the F count treatment is higher than F table of 5 % meal, so it would continued with Duncan test. This research was carried out with direct observation and weighing in the experimental field. Based on the result of the research it can be seen that the addition of lactic acid bacteria Lactobasillus casei had a very significant effect (P <0.01) on body weight gain and feed conversion and had no significant effect (P> 0.05) on the consumption of broiler chicken feed. Based on the results of the research it can be concluded that the addition of lactic acid bacteria Lactobasillus caseihas an effect on body weight gain and feed conversion. Where the lactobasillus casei lactic acid bacteria doses 1.5 ml helps digestion and absorption of fed so it can increase the body weight gain with the best feed conversion.


Dynamic allele specific hybridization (DASH), a new method for rapid, economical, accurate, repeatable and high throughput genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), has been used successfully for genotyping 2 SNPs in 96 samples. Experimentation technology has been optimized. Primer design criteria, assay validation and its advantage have also been discussed.


Following the wide use of IT(Information Technology ) in the field of enterprises, many new network products and technologies appear rapidly. The modern enterprise network is facing the needs of developing transactions process capacity and the pressure of solving the problem of growing network users. According to the time-relative new environment and new requirements of enterprise network, enterprises must adopt some new policies to build the network communication platfonn for business needs of future enterprises.


Summary Previous studies have shown that spatiotemporal regulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) by proteinases is implicated in the initial step of regeneration. In amphibian regeneration, the up-regulation of proteinases such as metalloproteinases (MMPs) and cathepsin D, and proteinase-related proteins such as proteinase tissue inhibitors and activators has been demonstrated. Since the earthworm could provide a unique and valuable model to investigate the mechanism of regeneration, we studied the developmental change in proteinase expression during earthworm tail regeneration. Zymographic analysis revealed that proteinase activities began to increase within 1 h after amputation and reached a maximum at 7 days post-amputation. This peak in activity was approximately 22-fold greater than the unamputated controls. Thereafter, the proteinase activities tended to decrease followed by another peak at 30 days before returning to control levels. At least four types of proteinase were distinguishable at 7 and 30 days post-amputation, with molecular weights of 25, 28, 38, and 44 kDa, respectively. All proteinase activities were strongly inhibited by addition of phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) and aprotinin, specific inhibitors for serine proteinase. Pepstatin A, E-64, iodoacetamide and a metal ion-free medium were not effective inhibitors, indicating that proteinases expressed during earthworm tail regeneration would be serine proteinases. In addition, we were able to detect two types of plasminogen activator (PA) with molecular weights of 40 and 47 kDa, respectively. PA activities were predominantly expressed at 1, 5, and 25 days post-amputation, which preceded two peaks of serine proteinase activities appearing at approximately 7 and 30 days after amputation, respectively. This fact supports the view that serine proteinases expressed in respond to tail amputation may be plasmin-like proteinases activated by PA.


The article describes volunteer activity as a sociocultural phenomenon of modern society; gives a brief description of the Soviet experience of volunteer activity; characterizes the main features of volunteerism, directions of volunteer activity and motives of people participating in it. On the basis of the data of a pilot research the authors describe the main personality traits of the young volunteer and the motives of youth participating in volunteer activities.


SummaryProtection of spermatogonia from dominant lethal mutations induced by acute whole-body X-irradiation (300 R) was studied in C57BL mice given a simultaneous injection of AET, ATP and serotonin. Evidence was obtained that simultaneous administration of these radioprotectors significantly reduced dominant lethality. Expected and observed rates of post-implantation loss were found to be of the same order of magnitude.


The author describes his initial hesitancy in working with violent men and his efforts to change and engage these men in therapy. (non- author abstract)


This research analyzed a contemporary independent Indonesian film entitled The Day the Sky Roared (2015) that was directed by Jason Iskandar. This 10-minute silent film talked about the anxiety of Chinese-Indonesians through the eyes of a mother and her daughter regarding the historical trauma of the May 1998 tragedy. The fact that the film was produced about 17 years after the tragedy suggested the director's awareness that the trauma remained due to the absence of reconciliation and closure. This research would show how the short film frames the incident and trauma of the Chinese-Indonesians. The research was a combination of trauma studies and film studies that focuses on the visual analysis of the film's cinematography and mise-en-scene to show the cinematic representation of Chinese-Indonesians' trauma. The findings show that the portrayal of Chinese-Indonesians still strongly suggests unrelieved psychological discomfort, albeit, at different levels, that is closely related to the traumatic past and the pervasive stereotyping of Chinese-Indonesians.


Aims/Hypothesis Several studies have shown that adiponectin can lower blood glucose in diabetic mice. The aim of this study was to establish an effective adiponectin production process and to evaluate the anti-diabetic potential of the different adiponectin forms in diabetic mice and sand rats. Methods Human high molecular weight, mouse low molecular weight and mouse plus human globular adiponectin forms were expressed and purified from mammalian cells or yeast. The purified protein was administered at 10–30 mg/kg i.p. b.i.d. to diabetic db/db mice for 2 weeks. Furthermore, high molecular weight human and globular mouse adiponectin batches were administered at 5–15 mg/kg i.p. b.i.d. to diabetic sand rats for 12 days. Results Surprisingly, none of our batches had any effect on blood glucose, HbA1c, plasma lipids or body weight in diabetic db/db mice or sand rats. In vitro biological, biochemical and biophysical data suggest that the protein was correctly folded and biologically active. Conclusions/Interpretation Recombinant adiponectin is ineffective at lowering blood glucose in diabetic db/db mice or sand rats.


Taking paper tearing resistance apparatus as an example, study on the transport packaging of small test equipments has been conducted. It has analyzed the existing problems in the current packaging and improved in three aspects, namely rustproof packaging, buffering and ant-vibration packaging and external packaging container. It has also illustrated the selection in materials, dimensional calculation and check, approaches and procedures for structural design, which not only offers a set of economical and environmental protective transport packaging plans with simple structure, but also provides cases and references for other small test equipment.


After the third wave of democratization, many countries in democratic transition or consolidation carry out "transitional justice" by establishing "Truth Commission." However, they also face political and moral problems. By investigating three case studies on Chile, Peru, and Argentina, this thesis focuses on the execution of transitional justice and the solution of authoritarian legacies. First of all, the study emphasizes on the succeeding democratic governments' investigation and trial of governors' violation of human rights and abuse of power during dictatorship. The contents include literature review on transitional justice, the comparison of truth commissions, and the proceedings of authoritarian legacies. Moreover, the impacts of domestic political development in Chile, Argentina, Peru, and the changing international circumstances at the time on the beginning, change and termination of authoritarianism, and the emergence of democratic transition are all discussed. This research compares the similarities and the difference among Chilean, Argentine and Peruvian cases and pursues the different fates of those dominators. The three cases not only have great influence on Latin America's democracy, also contribute to Taiwan's pursuit of transitional justice. It is expected that this study on Latin America will lead the future researchers to more academic, objective and complete studies on transitional justice.


We demonstrate the relevance of an algorithm called generalized iterative scaling (GIS) or simultaneous multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (SMART) and its rescaled block-iterative version (RBI-SMART) in the field of optimal transport (OT). Many OT problems can be tackled through the use of entropic regularization by solving the Schr\"odinger problem, which is an information projection problem, that is, with respect to the Kullback--Leibler divergence. Here we consider problems that have several affine constraints. It is well-known that cyclic information projections onto the individual affine sets converge to the solution. In practice, however, even these individual projections are not explicitly available in general. In this paper, we exchange them for one GIS iteration. If this is done for every affine set, we obtain RBI-SMART. We provide a convergence proof using an interpretation of these iterations as two-step affine projections in an equivalent problem. This is done in a slightly more general setting than RBI-SMART, since we use a mix of explicitly known information projections and GIS iterations. We proceed to specialize this algorithm to several OT applications. First, we find the measure that minimizes the regularized OT divergence to a given measure under moment constraints. Second and third, the proposed framework yields an algorithm for solving a regularized martingale OT problem, as well as a relaxed version of the barycentric weak OT problem. Finally, we show an approach from the literature for unbalanced OT problems.


Abstract The document defines the terms most commonly encountered in the field of polymer blends and composites. The scope has been limited to mixtures in which the components differ in chemical composition or molar mass and in which the continuous phase is polymeric. Incidental thermodynamic descriptions are mainly limited to binary mixtures although, in principle, they could be generalized to multicomponent mixtures. The document is organized into three sections. The first defines terms basic to the description of polymer mixtures. The second defines terms commonly encountered in descriptions of phase domain behavior of polymer mixtures. The third defines terms commonly encountered in the descriptions of the morphologies of phase-separated polymer mixtures.


GM (Genetically modified) crops have been known as one of the solution of global problems like as scarcity of food, environmental change, energy shortage, and disease, and the development is accelerated because of the benefit.In 2010, the total food self-sufficiency rate in Korea was only 26.8% and ...


When banks act as delegated monitors of borrowing firms in a finite economy, two factors help banks dominate direct lending: portfolio diversification, which increases with bank size, and bank capitalization, which diminishes with size. With free entry into banking, intermediated equilibria are possible even when direct lending cannot overcome autarky. There are usually multiple intermediated equilibria; these may not be Pareto-ranked by bank size, since smaller banks are better capitalized and may Pareto-dominate larger banks. Even when one large bank would be most efficient, assigning a monopoly bank charter to coordinate beliefs on the single bank equilibrium may be unattractive: in some cases, a monopoly bank cannot overcome autarky even though free-entry banking can, and in other cases, the monopoly bank reduces production from the direct lending level.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of complex training on stress hormone responses, such as cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine, in ice-hockey players. Twenty male ice-hockey players were randomly split into an experimental group(C group, n=10) with completed 12 weeks of complex training, a control group(C group, n=10) which trained as normal. The complex training addressed both strength and plyometric components. Subjects were pre-, mid-, and post-tested for hormone responses(cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine). The results through the statistical analysis were as follow: The cortisol and epinephrine for T group were significantly decreased compared with C group after training. However, norepinephrine for T group were significantly increased compared with C group after training. In conclusion, we have shown that a 12 weeks complex training program led to improvements in stress hormone responses. These results indicate that complex training has positive effects on athletic performances in ice-hockey players. Therefore, more leaders who train athletes, especially ice-hockey players, need to organize various systematic training programs, based on the scientific basis as well, for improving athletes's performances.


Due to the artifact of classical image reconstruction algorithms in texture regions, this paper proposes an adaptive region demosaicking using Multi-Gradients. It first recovers green components according to the operators and the texture regions. Then the chrominance channels are reconstructed based on the interpolated green components and constant-hue rule. Experiments prove that this algorithm can improve the effectiveness from the subjective and objective.


In this paper multi-class classification system of handwritten Arabic digits using Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) is proposed, in which technical details are presented in terms of three stages, i.e. pre-processing, feature extraction and classification. Firstly, digits are pre-processed and normalized in size. Then, features are extracted from each normalized digit, where a set of new features for handwritten digit is proposed based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients approach. Finally, these features are then utilized to train a DBN for classification. The proposed system has been successfully tested on Arabic handwritten digit database (ADBase) which is composed of 70,000 digits written by 700 different writers, and the results were promising and very encouraging.


Interfacial atomic configuration plays a vital role in the structural stability and functionality of nanocomposites composed of metal nanoparticles (NPs) and two−dimensional semiconductors. In situ transmission electron microscope (TEM) provides a real−time technique to observe the interface structure at atomic resolution. Herein, we loaded bimetallic NiPt truncated octahedral NPs (TONPs) on MoS2 nanosheets and constructed a NiPt TONPs/MoS2 heterostructure. The interfacial structure evolution of NiPt TONPs on MoS2 was in situ investigated using aberration−corrected TEM. It was observed that some NiPt TONPs exhibited lattice matching with MoS2 and displayed remarkable stability under electron beam irradiation. Intriguingly, the rotation of an individual NiPt TONP can be triggered by the electron beam to match the MoS2 lattice underneath. Furthermore, the coalescence kinetics of NiPt TONPs can be quantitatively described by the relationship between neck radius (r) and time (t), expressed as rn = Kt. Our work offers a detailed analysis of the lattice alignment relationship of NiPt TONPs on MoS2, which may enlighten the design and preparation of stable bimetallic metal NPs/MoS2 heterostructures.


In this thesis, we consider different aspects of the functional compression problem. In functional compression, the computation of a function (or, some functions) of sources is desired at the receiver(s). The rate region of this problem has been considered in the literature under certain restrictive assumptions. In Chapter 2 of this Thesis, we consider this problem for an arbitrary tree network and asymptotically lossless computations. In particular, for one-stage tree networks, we compute a rate-region and for an arbitrary tree network, we derive a rate lower bound based on the graph entropy. We introduce a new condition on colorings of source random variables' characteristic graphs called the coloring connectivity condition (C.C.C.). We show that unlike the condition mentioned in Doshi et al., this condition is necessary and sufficient for any achievable coding scheme based on colorings. We also show that, unlike entropy, graph entropy does not satisfy the chain rule. For one stage trees with correlated sources, and general trees with independent sources, we propose a modularized coding scheme based on graph colorings to perform arbitrarily closely to the derived rate lower bound. We show that in a general tree network case with independent sources, to achieve the rate lower bound, intermediate nodes should perform some computations. However, for a family of functions and random variables called chain rule proper sets, it is sufficient to have intermediate nodes act like relays to perform arbitrarily closely to the rate lower bound. In Chapter 3 of this Thesis, we consider a multi-functional version of this problem with side information, where the receiver wants to compute several functions with different side information random variables and zero distortion. Our results are applicable to the case with several receivers computing different desired functions. We define a new concept named multi-functional graph entropy which is an extension of graph entropy defined by K6rner. We show that the minimum achievable rate for this problem is equal to conditional multi-functional graph entropy of the source random variable given the side information. We also propose a coding scheme based on graph colorings to achieve this rate. In these proposed coding schemes, one needs to compute the minimum entropy coloring (a coloring random variable which minimizes the entropy) of a characteristic graph. In general, finding this coloring is an NP-hard problem. However, in Chapter 4, we show that depending on the characteristic graph's structure, there are some interesting cases where finding the minimum entropy coloring is not NP-hard, but tractable and practical. In one of these cases, we show that, by having a non-zero joint probability condition on random variables' distributions, for any desired function, finding the minimum entropy coloring can be solved in polynomial time. In another case, we show that if the desired function is a quantization function, this problem is also tractable. We also consider this problem in a general case. By using Huffman or Lempel-Ziv coding notions, we show that finding the minimum entropy coloring is heuristically equivalent to finding the maximum independent set of a graph. While the minimum-entropy coloring problem is a recently studied problem, there are some heuristic algorithms to approximately solve the maximum independent set problem. Next, in Chapter 5, we consider the effect of having feedback on the rate-region of the functional compression problem . If the function at the receiver is the identity function, this problem reduces to the Slepian-Wolf compression with feedback. For this case, having feedback does not make any benefits in terms of the rate. However, it is not the case when we have a general function at the receiver. By having feedback, one may outperform rate bounds of the case without feedback. We finally consider the problem of distributed functional compression with distortion. The objective is to compress correlated discrete sources such that an arbitrary deterministic function of those sources can be computed up to a distortion level at the receiver. In this case, we compute a rate-distortion region and then, propose a simple coding scheme with a non-trivial performance guarantee. Thesis Supervisor: Muriel Medard Title: Professor


A method called CCPC has been put forward for the first time to characterize and determine on-line the anion of corrosive acid radical in boiler water containing phosphate by using CCDP.Through analysing the dissociative model of main acids in effluent water from cation exchange colum,a calculation method of phosphate's contribution share in hydrogen conductivity of boiler water has been proposed,after deducting the said effect,the anion content of corrosive acid radical can be obtained.Practice shows that the said method is simple,reliable,economical,and practicable,can timely and correctly guide the blowdown of drum boiler,and determine the end point of mixed bed for condensate polishing treatment,having significance for energy-saving and corrossion-preventing.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Earning Per Share (EPS), Return On Assets (ROA), Return On Equity (ROE), and Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) on stock prices in companies listed on the LQ-45 index in Indonesia stock exchange. This type of research is classified as quantitative research. The source of data in this study is secondary data. The data analysis method used is a multiple linear regression analysis method conducted with IBM SPSS 20 with a significant level of 0.5. Before testing multiple linear regression analysis the classical assumption test was carried out first so that the regression equation produced is BLUE (Best, Linear, Unbiased, Estimator). Based on the results of data analysis, it can be concluded that EPS has a positive and significant influence on the company's stock price registered at LQ-45, ROA has a negative influence and is not significant, ROE has a positive and insignificant influence on the company's stock price listed on LQ-45 and DER has a significant negative effect on the LQ-45 company stock price. Taken together (simultaneous) EPS, ROA, ROE and DER on the stock prices listed in the LQ-45.

Keywords: Earning Per Share (EPS), Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Return On Assets (ROA), Return On Equity (ROE), Stock Prices.


While the concerns for ethical issues relating to consumers have dramatically increased over the last decade, research investigating predictors of these behaviors has been sparse. This paper addresses the attitudinal, personal and cultural factors that predict a large majority of unethical behavioral practices of consumers. An empirical survey was conducted of consumers. The results show that consumer beliefs/values concerning the specific behaviors and their own past behaviors large predict the future behaviors. Consumers' personal factors such as age, sex, nationality, individualism, etc. did not influence their ethical judgments and behaviors at all in this study of working adults.


Liberia was the worst affected country in the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. The outbreak exposed the systemic weaknesses in the healthcare system in the country. One of the urgent gaps that needed to be quickly addressed was building a competent national epidemiologic workforce. The country needed a corps of well-trained healthcare workers who could promptly detect disease threats and respond in a timely manner. Therefore, in 2015, the US CDC in collaboration with Emory University and the African Field Epidemiology Network, established the Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) to build sub-national level capacity for surveillance and response by training healthcare workers in the counties and districts. The graduates of the frontline FETP programme became the major targets of the intermediate programme when it was established in 2018. Liberia now has two of the three tiers of the FETP pyramid.


In this paper, we consider the problem of joint sensor calibration and target signature estimation using distributed measurements from a large-scale wireless sensor network with random link variations. Specifically, we propose a new Distributed Space- Alternating Generalized Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm, DSAGE, which can estimate the (constrained) parameters of interest, using measurements from the sensor nodes, in a distributed manner. Unlike a centralized algorithm that relies on pooling measurement vectors from the network, DSAGE operates at the parameter space reducing the communication bandwidth. We model the sensor network as a connected graph and show that the gossip-based distributed consensus can be used to update the estimates at each iteration of the DSAGE algorithm. As a result the proposed algorithm is robust to link and node failures, unlike previously suggested distributed sub-gradient methods that rely on formation and maintenance of a stable network infrastructure to perform iterations in parameter space. We prove the guaranteed convergence of the algorithm to the centralized data pooling solution and compare its performance with the derived Cramer- Rao bound, using simulations. Abstract We consider the problem of weighted sum-rate maximization (WSRMax) for an arbitrary set of interfering links. This problem is known to be NP-hard; therefore, it is extremely difficult to solve even for a relative small number of links. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a solution method, based on the branch and bound technique, which


Islamophobic events lead to those stereotypes  occured within the society through seperation of "We" and "They", the weakening of social relations and the increase of mutual distance. The Western world has the idea that Muslim women cannot express themselves, are crushed, oppressed so must be liberated. Unfortunately, hijab has become the reason for the increasing violence against Muslim women in the regions where Islamophobia is concentrated. In this study, the problems of Muslims, especially Muslim women, in the context of Islamophobia will be evaluated. In the study, the conceptual and historical origins of Islamophobia will be emphasized. Our aim in this study is to find answers to the questions such as what is the image of Islam and Muslim women according to the West, what has been done in the fight against Islamophobia and what are the responsibilities of the people, and to try to offer suggestions about the subject.


As long as technological capabilities increase, the requirement of an integrated machinery health management (MHM) becomes an essential task in the operational life cycle of the industrial machines. The MHM can be investigated for anomaly detection, fault diagnosis and fault prediction, using up to-date data. The induction motor (IM) represents a critical part in the industrial processes. The overwhelming majority of IM faults are bearing faults. Therefore, the diagnosis of bearing faults has received high attentions, in order to minimize maintenance cost and unscheduled breakdowns. Since the bearing passes through different stages from healthy state to failure state, modern MHM should provide means of detecting the bearing fault, as well as identifying its severity. This paper uses a novel wavelet-based technique called Optimized Stationary Wavelet Packet Transform (Op-SWPT) in order to detect the IM bearing fault at an early stage and to provide identification of its severity. The usefulness of the proposed approach is tested on the well-known database of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) for different levels of severity of the bearing fault. The results issued by the experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


This template explains and demonstrates how to prepare your camera-ready paper for Trans Tech Publications. Iodine adsorption method is used as a valuation means, the study was carried out on the co-carbonization of coal and biomass by the analysis of Iodine adsorption value. The research results show that the straw and cow dung has important effects on carbonization process; According to change rule of the Ignition loss rate and the iodine adsorption value, the iodine adsorption value of straw-coal co-carbonization product is higher than cow dung; Dashing treatment has significant effects on the iodine adsorption value carbonized product; the catalytic carbonization Biomass is the result of KOH effecting.


Time-delay dynamical systems are used to model many real-world engineering systems, where the future evolution of a system depends not only on current states but also on the history of states. For ...


OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) with the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI) questionnaire. INTRODUCTION: The assessment of quality of life in patients with lung cancer has become an important evaluative endpoint in current clinical trials. For lung cancer patients, one of the most common quality of life tools available is the FACT‐L. Despite the amount of data available regarding this questionnaire, there are no data on its performance in Brazilian lung cancer patients. METHODS: The FACT‐L with the FLSI questionnaire was prospectively administered to 30 consecutive, stable, lung cancer outpatients at baseline and at 2 weeks. RESULTS: The intraclass correlation coefficient between test and retest for the FACT‐L ranged from 0.79 to 0.96 and for the FLSI was 0.87. There was no correlation between these questionnaire dimensions and clinical or functional parameters. CONCLUSIONS: The Brazilian version of the FACT‐L with FLSI questionnaire is reliable and is quick and simple to apply. This instrument can now be used to properly evaluate the quality of life of Brazilian lung cancer patients.


Like an organism, ecosystems have the capacity for continual renewal but often require some intervention to assist the process. The primary aim of ecological restoration is to restore the land's capacity for renewal. Before we can determine proper treatments we must understand the land, how it looked and functioned before its health was impaired. We also need to understand how the health of the land is continuing to be negatively impacted. In this step, we walk you through the techniques and potential sources of information that provide insights into how your land once looked and functioned.


Iron hydroxides widely exist in the Earth's environment, and their formation processes, adsorption properties, and transport behavior have been attracting great attention. Dissolved Fe 3+ reacts with water and transforms to ferric hydroxide (Fe(OH) 3 ) as time passes. We focused on the early process of ferric hydroxides formation and evaluated the reaction rate constants and activation energies under a wide range of solution conditions (pH 2–4, initial Fe concentration 5–300 ppm, temperature 5–55 °C, and dissolved anion species Cl − , NO 3− , SO 42− ). Aqueous solutions containing ferric ions were prepared by dissolving one of the following FeCl 3 , Fe(NO 3 ) 3 ·9H 2 O, and Fe 2 (SO 4 ) 3 ·nH 2 O in pure water. As dissolved ferric ions change to ferric hydroxide, the pH of the solution gradually decreases. The time variation of pH was monitored under the constant temperature, and the rate constant k was determined by converting the pH change to the change in the concentration of dissolved ferric species (assumed to be a 1st order reaction as with Grundl and Delwiche, 1993) using a geochemical code PHREEQC (Parkhurst and Appelo, 1999). Comparison of the k values of ferric hydroxide formation at pH 2–3 under the presence of the different anion species revealed that the k values for Cl − and NO 3− were almost the same and that for SO 42− was approximately one half to one fourth of the values for Cl − and NO 3− . Despite the dependence of the rate constants on the anion species, activation energies were almost the same between Cl − , NO 3− , and SO 42− (~120 kJ/mol). In the experiment using FeCl 3 solution, the k value increased as the initial pH increased from 2 to 4. On the basis of the pH dependence of k at 25 °C, an equation to predict k for various pH was obtained.


Deicing and anti-icing salts and seawater are the main sources of chloride ions that cause the corrosion of steel reinforcement embedded in reinforced concrete (RC) bridge and marine structures. This article reports on a study undertaken to evaluate the influence of the steel reinforcement surface condition on the corrosion performance. In the study, the critical chloride threshold values of five uncoated steel reinforcement types (ASTM A 706, ASTM A 615, microcomposite, stainless steel 304, and stainless steel [SS] 316LN) with as-received and polished surface conditions were quantitatively determined using the accelerated chloride threshold (ACT) test procedure. Micrographs of the surfaces (characterizing the mill scale and surface topography) for all steel reinforcement types were obtained using both optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Results showed that the mean critical chloride threshold values increased with the complete removal of the as-received surface and with surface polishing for the ASTM A 706, microcomposite, and stainless steel 304 reinforcements. In addition the mean critical chloride threshold values decreased with the complete removal of the as-received surface and with surface polishing of the ASTM A 615 and SS316LN steels. The authors conclude that removal of the mill scale on the microcomposite steel reinforcement showed a significant improvement in the critical chloride threshold and removal of this mill scale may be economically justified.


Religion as a transcendental institution has historically secured a place in socio-philosophical writings in all ages and societies. With the initial contributions of Maimonades who professes that there is no truth other than God, to Durkhiem, one of the founding fathers of sociology, who professes that there is no falsification to the claims of religions and to a more contemporary reflection of Derrida who argues that there is nothing outside the scripture, the pervasiveness of religion remains uncontestable [1-3]. Every single human population that we know has or has had some form of religion or the other [4]. Research reveals that 87 percent of world's population adheres to some religion and with 13 percent nonreligious or atheist [5]. Consequently, without prejudice to the ubiquity of religion, one outstanding fact about its pervasiveness is that the understanding of this institution in modern society often poses daunting challenges to varied observers. This is more so as interdisciplinary scholarly efforts often culminate into unending diversity of appreciation. Depending on the angle of vision upon which a beholder examines the phenomenon therefore, religion presents a double edged implication for human society. It operates as an instrument of enforcing virtue and it equally serves as a potent mechanism for legitimizing gamut of vices. Basically, sociological interest in religion is directed at knowing the content of religious beliefs, commitments and the effects it has on health, the family, politics, public morality and other matters [6].


In day to day life, continuous monitoring of medical data is essential for many individuals including patients with severe health risks and elderly people. In this paper, one such system is developed for continuous monitoring of Atrial Fibrillation abnormality. Electrocardiographic (ECG) signal monitoring plays a vital role in the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a type of abnormality in heart, it causes during the AF electrical discharges in the atrium are rapid and results in an abnormal heartbeat. In this paper, ECG signals taken from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. After the signal is acquired, the hybrid filtering technique is used to remove the artifacts. Naturally, the ECG signal gets distorted by different types of artifacts which must be removed from the signal otherwise it will convey incorrect information regarding the patient's heart condition. Efficient LMS and Normalized LMS adaptive filters are computationally used for cancellation of noise. Analyzing functions of the filtered signal is Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Square Normalized Error Performance (MSE), Maximum Square Error (MAXERR), the ratio of Squared Norms (L2RAT). The continuous health statistics will be given to individuals and caretaker in the remote location so that they can take necessary action to prevent from health issues. The paper will provide primitive solutions in the field of telemedicine using continuous health monitoring and medical data analysis of a particular individual.In future work, the ECG sensor will acquire the ECG signal and the acquired signal processed through the classification algorithm for classifying the signal into different categories. The biosensor is a combination of the biological element with the physiochemical transducer to produce an electronic signal which can be further converted, processed and transmitted for data analytics, processing, validation, visualization, interpretation, and data logging. Keywords— MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, Atrial Fibrillation, Health Monitoring, Telemedicine, Data analysis.


: India is the most natural disaster prone country in the world. Many studies are carried out on the basis of design of structures to avoid the effect of earthquake. But to predict the severity of earthquake at any particular location is not possible. In this paper the effect of seismic analysis of regular and irregular type of  building in different zones of India are studied. As per IS 1893:2002 CODE the study and analysis of building is carried out. Various methods for seismic analysis are available as per IS CODES but in this study Response Spectrum Analysis is done. To carried out this analysis STAADPRO software is used for modeling and analysis. From the analysis and study the building under most vulnerable to earthquake under specific zone is found.


A database management system architecture is described that facilitates the implementation of data management extensions for relational database systems. The architecture defines two classes of data management extensions alternative ways of storing relations called relation "storage methods", and access paths, integrity constraints, or triggers which are "attachments" to relations. Generic sets of operations are defined for storage methods and attachments, and these operations must be provided in order to add a new storage method or attachment type to the system. The data management extension architecture also provides common services for coordination of storage method and attachment execution. This article describes the data management extension architecture along with some implementation issues and techniques.


The problem with early-nineteenth-century automobiles was that they were large, heavy and difficult to stop. So, in Britain, by the 1860s, Locomotive Acts or Red Flag Acts were introduced to deal with the danger they posed. Because of these Acts, self-propelled vehicles on British public roads were only allowed to travel if preceded by a man waving a red flag and blowing a horn. The result of these Acts, in addition to any saved lives, was that many British inventors turned their attention away from automobiles and worked instead on the development of railroads and trains. These Red Flag Laws were not repealed until 1896. In 1912, the American Lionel Corporation, an electrical novelties company founded in New York City some 12 years earlier, introduced the first 'slot cars' into its widely distributed catalogue. Using a rail not unlike that seen in toy train sets, Lionel's slot car toy production continued for a few years, and other companies similarly experimented with these toys; however, almost 40 years went by before slot cars were manufactured with continuity. In 1957, the British Minimodels company, founded by Bertram Fred Francis, a tool maker and inventor, in 1947, converted its clockwork toy cars marketed in its 'Scalex' toy line, to run on electricity. With this, the now world-famous 'Scalextric' slot car range was launched. Many other companies followed suit and the motor vehicle capital of the world, the U.S.A., became the leading market for these toys – which found appeal worldwide with both children and adults. The 1960s and early 1970s saw the peak of slot car enthusiasm. Autonomous vehicles to many minds are a thing of the twenty-first century. But car manufacturers and inventors haddeveloped self-driving vehicle conceptswell beforeWorldWar Two. By the 1980s, autonomous vehicles of a kind we'd recognise today had come into being. In the U.S.A. legislation was introduced to encourage development of automated vehicles that could be integrated into existing road systems, and development of updated road systems that if introduced would support these vehicles even further. By the second decade of the twentyfirst century, self-driving vehicles were a global phenomenon and the majority of major auto manufacturers were exploring both the design and manufacturing of these vehicles and the systems of guidance, safety and control that could support them. Now, in 2023, along with the growing number of electric vehicles on our roads, it is possible to purchase a vehicle with some degree of driving autonomy. Countries such as Germany have introduced vehicles that don't require driver supervision on motorways, and vehicle producers in other countries, and an increasing range of manufacturers, are offering vehicles for sale that can park themselves, steer themselves and decide on when they should brake to avoid a collision. Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used to write poetry and fiction. Some creative writers have naturally felt not only that the results of this kind of machine writing can be detected – and that these results are inferior to those produced by humans – but also that the challenge of such machine autonomy is a challenge to creative writing in a much bigger way. Other creative writers have imagined that AI might be incorporated into creative writing practice to produce new techniques, perhaps new genre, and have seen less a vision of impending calamity than one of impending change.


This paper discusses the characteristics of the electric field inside and outside an electronically excited quantum dot. It shows that the electric potential behaves differently during strong and weak confinement of an electron–hole pair. Based on a specially created theoretical model, the luminescence spectra and the nonradiative energy-transfer rates from an exciton-activated quantum dot to a layered nanoparticle in an external magnetic field, as well as the magnetic induction, are calculated as a function of the geometric and polarization parameters of the system. Two different cases of the combination of the composite nanoparticle's core and casing materials—metal/dielectric and dielectric/metal—are considered. It is shown that the magnetization of the electron plasma of the metallic part of the nanocomposite in an external magnetic field causes the luminescence spectra of the quantum-dot–layered-nanoparticle complex to vary, expressed as splitting of the plasmon-resonance bands.


Division of Nephrology, S. Carlo Hospital, Milano, ItalyCryoglobulinaemia is a pathological condition in whichthe blood contains immunoglobulins that have theproperty of reversible precipitation in the cold.According to the classification based on the chemistryof the cryoglobulins involved there are three types ofcryoglobulinaemia. In type I the cryoprecipitatedimmunoglobulin, which can be found in patients withmultiple myeloma, Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia,or idiopathic monoclonal gammopathy, is a singlemonoclonal immunoglobulin. Type II and III cryoglo-bulinaemias are both mixed types with at least twoimmunoglobulins; in both a polyclonal IgG is boundto another immunoglobulin, which is an antiglobulin,i.e. it acts as an anti-IgG rheumatoid factor. Theimportant difference between these two types of mixedcryoglobulinemias is that in type II the antiglobulincomponent, which is usually of the IgM class, ismonoclonal, while in type III it is polyclonal.A large percentage of the mixed cryoglobulinaemias,which constitute 60-75% of all types, are found inpatients with connective-tissue disease, infectious orlymphoproliferative disorders, hepatobiliary diseases,or immunologically mediated glomerular diseases, andcan therefore be considered 'secondary mixed cryoglob-ulinaemias'. However, in approximately 30% of allmixed cryoglobulinaemias, no underlying or associateddisease is found and the disease is referred to as'essential'.The clinical syndrome of essential mixed cryoglobuli-naemia (EMC) is characterized by purpura, weakness,arthralgia, and in some of the patients by glomerularlesions. Many subsequent reports have characterizedthis syndrome better. They have confirmed that thesyndrome can be associated with both type II andtype III cryoglobulins. In the rheumatological surveys,patients with type IN outnumbered those with type IIEMC. On the contrary, the surveys based on thedescription of the renal involvement documented alarge prevalence of type II EMC, the monoclonal IgMcomponent being nearly always an IgMk. While in thefew cases of type III EMC with renal involvement theglomerular lesions were variable and non-specific, intype II EMC, in which IgMk was the monoclonalcomponent, a specific well-characterized pattern ofimmune-complex-like glomerular disease has beendescribed in recent years, called 'cryoglobulinaemicglomerulonephritis' [1].It has always been suspected that in essential mixedcryoglobulinaemia the polyclonal IgG, to which poly-clonal IgM (type III EMC) or monoclonal IgM (type IIEMC) binds, is already bound to an antigen to formimmune complexes, so that IgM acts as an anti-immune complex antibody [1]. However, up to the endof the 80s, no single antigen that might have anaetiological role could be detected in the serum and/orcryoprecipitate of patients with this disease. Exposureto hepatitis B virus (HBV) had been documented bysome investigators many years ago [2], but this findinghas not been confirmed in large series in the same [3]as well as in other geographical areas [4], More recentlywe have suspected an ongoing Epstein-Barr virus(EBV) infection in patients with type II EMC becauseof the presence of IgM antibodies against the viralcapsid, and in some cases of the EBV genome in thepatients' lymphocytes [5].In the last 2 years many groups of investigatorsfrom Europe and USA [6-11], using an enzyme-linkedimmunoabsorbent assay and an even more sensitiverecombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA), have demon-strated a very high rate of positivity of anti-hepatitisC virus (HCV) antibodies in the serum of patients withall types of mixed cryoglobulinaemia (essential andsecondary), but not type I cryoglobulinaemia.(Table 1). In Type II EMC, three groups of investig-ators [9-11], using reverse transcription and DNAamplification, have documented an even greater preval-ence of HCV RNA, suggesting a consistent rate offalse-negative serological tests with the two assays usedto detect HCV antibodies, and demonstrating activeviral replication. Finally, a study of the cryoprecipitate[7,10,11] showed a lower prevalence of HCV antibodiesin cryoglobulins than in serum. However, quantitativeanalysis of these antibodies in serum and in dissociatedIgG isolated from the cryoprecipitate showed anincreased concentration in the cryoprecipitate [11].Elimination of IgM rheumatoid factor from the cryop-recipitate with dithiothreitol increased the prevalencerate of HCV antibodies from 41% to 94% in the studyof Misiani et al. [10], suggesting that HCV antibodies,albeit concentrated, remain hidden in the cryoprecipit-ate. Agnello et al. [11] demonstrated that more than99% of HCV RNA in serum from their patients withtype II EMC was cryoprecipitated, and that this cryop-


Objective
To explore the predictive value of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging for the pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

Methods
The prospective study was conducted. The clinicopathological data of 33 patients with locally advanced ESCC who were admitted to Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from September 2015 to October 2017 were collected. Patients received magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and IVIM imaging examination before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Two radiologists read the imaging together, manually delineated the region of interest in the diffusion-weighted imaging, and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), diffusion coefficient (D), perfusion coefficient (D*), and perfusion score of the tumor (f) were automatically measured. Patients underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel plus cisplatin, and underwent radical surgery for esophageal cancer after 2 cycles of chemotherapy. Observation indicators: (1) comparison of IVIM imaging parameters before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with ESCC; (2) comparison of change value and change rate of IVIM imaging parameters before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with different tumor regression grade (TRG); (3) predictive efficacy of change value and change rate of IVIM imaging parameters before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for TRG. Measurement data with normal distribution were presented as Mean±SD, and comparison before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy was done using the paired t test, and comparison between different TRG patients was done using the t test. Measurement data with skewed distribution were presented as M(P25, P75), and comparison before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and between different TRG patients were done using the Wilcoxon rank sum test. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate predictive value of IVIM imaging parameters.

Results
Thirty-three patients were screened for eligibility, including 26 males and 7 females, aged from 44 to 74 years, with an average age of 60 years. All the 33 patients were diagnosed as ESCC by pathological examination. (1) Comparison of IVIM parameters before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with ESCC: 33 patients with ESCC showed a significant difference in the ADC, D, and f value after neoadjuvant chemotherapy [ADC: (1.95±0.56)×10-3 mm2/s vs. (2.54±0.50)×10-3 mm2/s, t=-6.98; D: (1.26×10-3 mm2/s (0.81×10-3 mm2/s, 2.44×10-3 mm2/s) vs. 1.68×10-3 mm2/s (0.83×10-3 mm2/s, 2.27×10-3 mm2/s), Z=-3.96; f: 0.33%±0.14% vs. 0.42%±0.15%, t=-3.13, P<0.05]. (2) Comparison of change value and change rate of IVIM imaging parameters before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in different TRG patients: of 33 patients, 15 were in TRG 2 and 18 were in TRG 3. The ADC change value, ADC change rate, D change value, D change rate were (0.85±0.52)×10-3 mm2/s, 52.91%±32.51%, 0.64×10-3 mm2/s (0.05×10-3 mm2/s, 1.41×10-3 mm2/s) , 48.20%(3.03%, 16.95%) of TRG 2 patients, and (0.38±0.35)×10-3 mm2/s, 21.94%±19.08%, 0.26×10-3 mm2/s (-1.43×10-3 mm2/s, 0.81×10-3 mm2/s), 20.18%(-58.61%, 77.14%) of TRG 3 patients, respectively, with significant differences between two groups (t=3.09, 3.41, Z=-3.04, -2.93, P<0.05). (3) Predictive efficacy of change value and change rate of IVIM imaging parameters before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for TRG: ROC curve analysis showed that ADC change value exhibited an area under curve (AUC) of 0.798, a sensitivity of 66.7% and a specificity of 94.4% in predicting TRG, when 0.86×10-3 mm2/s was used as the cut-off value. With 43.3% as the cut-off value, ADC change rate had an AUC of 0.793, a sensitivity of 66.7% and a specificity of 88.9% in predicting TRG. With 0.35×10-3 mm2/s as the cut-off value, D change value had an AUC of 0.809, a sensitivity of 73.3% and a specificity of 77.8% in predicting TRG. With 25.9% as the cut-off value, D change rate had an AUC of 0.800, a sensitivity of 80.0% and a specificity of 72.2% in predicting TRG.

Conclusions
The change value and change rate of ADC and D values before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy are potential predictors of pathologic response in ESCC. The significantly increased ADC and D values after neoadjuvant chemotherapy are prone to good pathologic response. The change value and change rate of D values show a better predictive value for pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in ESCC compared with those of ADC values.

Key words:
Esophageal neoplasms; Esophageal cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Intravoxel incoherent motion; Diffusion weighted imaging; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy


In the night with clear sky, the beautiful star patterns attract lots of star gazers and photographers. Constellation is a convention that people used to partition the stars with myth and stories behind each constellation, making the starry sky more compelling. However, the constellation detection requires complicated knowledge and experience. Our team's goal is to automatically detect the constellations appeared in an image based on the 88 constellations division by International Astronomical Union (IAU)[1]. The name and constellation pattern is plotted onto the original image to directly show the detection results. The project is made of three phases – image preprocessing, template machine learning and constellation pattern detection. Our algorithm shows a good accuracy of 92.8% and fast speed of 85s/image with our 15 test images. Keywords— constellation; constellation detection; star pattern; image processing; template matching


Wittgenstein's Tractatus contains a mysterious aphorism to the effect that «ethics and aesthetics are the same». The existence of an underlying connivance between ethics and aesthetics has been acknowledged ever since ancient times. Here we try to look into this hard and interesting issue from the open horizon of boundary-philosophy, as put forward in my latest publications. The task will be carried out at three stages. The first one is given over to an elucidation of one core concept of ethics, freedom, in an interactive connection with our fore-understanding of our human condition . Then we raise the (Kantian) question about how the ethical «symbolically resounds» through art. The third and last stage brings up the subject of the link between ethics and aesthetics on the ground of several examples, both ancient and modern (from the great tragedies and some artistic manifestations of our modernity).


In the rst Christian works of art, Mary is shown enthroned holding the child Jesus on her lap. However, there are a number of Mary's representations in Christian art that associate her with evil and the devil. This work will discuss the development of Mary's image as an armed Virgin from its origins in Italy –under the advocation of Out Lady of Help– until its diffusion in Spain. At the same time, it will point out the important role that this image played during the Counterre-Reformation period.


A capacitive force sensing touch panel is disclosed. The capacitive force sensing touch panel includes a plurality of pixels. A laminated structure of each pixel includes a first plane, a second plane, at least a first electrode and at least a second electrode. The second plane is disposed above the first plane and parallel to the first plane. The at least one first electrode is disposed on the first plane. The at least one second electrode is disposed on the second plane. The at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode are selectively driven as touch sensing electrodes or force sensing electrodes respectively.


The paper discusses the suitability of the Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) radio interface for use in a wireless local loop (WLL) application. The relevance of this standard for WLL applications is highlighted, particularly with respect to the likely service requirements and attributes of these local access networks. The paper concludes with an example of a potential DECT WLL architecture. >


This article intervenes in readings of Cuarón's Children of Men that privilege the psychic and political trajectory of the film's anti-hero, Theo Faron. Inspired by comments about the importance of the cinematic background and the biopolitical order it represents, I engage the material, corporeal dimensions of in/fertility in the film and take the 'race/reproduction bind' (Weinbaum) as central to biopolitical analysis. I interpret the miraculously pregnant illegal immigrant, Kee, in relation to two intersecting strands of fiction and theory: a lineage of dystopian speculative fiction on the one hand, and transatlantic studies on the other. Through a sustained consideration of 'grounds' and 'backgrounds' as they appear in both strands of work, I generate a more elastic conception of 'background'. Such an analysis opens up new angles of approach for biopolitical theorising by foregrounding two figures - the reproductive female and the child - that embody generativity in excess of the now familiar biopolitical category of Homo sacer, or bare life (Agamben). I conclude by showing how the film resonates with Hannah Arendt's enigmatic principle of natality as a possible point of departure for biopolitical analysis.


The aims of this research were to establish the prototypical love acts and the similarities in assessment of typical love acts between men and women, and to find out whether there was a correlation between mate value and own/partner`s love acts. Participants were students (N = 169 in frst part of research and N = 124 in second part) and mean result of their years was 22 in first part of research and 20 in second part. We used 40 love acts from David Buss research on American sample (1988; according to Sternberg, 1988) and Mate value inventory, Kirsner, Figueredo & Jacobs, 2003 (Tokic, 2006; Tadinac, Kamenov, Jelic, Hromatko, 2005). The relationship was found between ranking of 40 love acts on Croatian and American sample and between men and women in ranking love acts. We found no statisticaly significant correlation between difference in mate value and love acts. It would be valuable for other researchers to establish the expectance of love acts from a real partner and to find out its effects on the results.


The way Lanning painted it, or Rivera—bright panels on which the laborers huddle, shirtless, their flexed arms bearing the full weight of the rail. Representative men, without names but for Paddy, Dago, Gook, so the foreman calls them, shotgun slung behind his back as he rides towards the Iron Horse somewhere deep in the continent: Death Valley and Donner Pass, rock-faces sheer, indifferent— or patient, as if to say This rabble won't last long.


A piezoelectric film combined with a high velocity substrate such as diamond seems very promising for SAW devices operating at high frequencies. In this work, we investigate the optimisation of growth parameters to produce AlN films with required properties for SAW devices: high resistivity, low roughness and good piezoelectricity coupling. AlN films are deposited by reactive DC magnetron sputtering on [100] silicon substrates under various deposition conditions including N/sub 2/ concentration in Ar-N/sub 2/ gas mixture, sputtering pressure (3/spl times/10/sup -3/ to 9/spl times/10/sup -3/ mbar), DC power (100-400 W) and substrate temperature (100 to 600/spl deg/C). The growth duration was modulated to obtain a constant film thickness (2 /spl mu/m) to permit better comparison. X-ray diffraction shows that the AlN films deposited in the range of 60-80% N/sub 2/, 400/spl deg/C, and 6/spl times/10/sup -3/ mbar, exhibit columnar structure textured in [002] orientation corresponding to wurtzite structure with the c-axis oriented perpendicular to the surface. AlN films elaborated in optimum conditions exhibit low surface roughness (<5 nm) and high electrical resistivity (>10/sup 14/ /spl Omega/.cm). The stoichiometric composition determined by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) reveals a weak presence of oxygen in the Al/sub 1/N/sub 1/ films. The best compromise is obtained for the sample grown with 75% N/sub 2/. A SAW filter is formed by development of IDT of 32 /spl mu/m wavelength on AlN/Si and AlN/sapphire structures. For AlN film grown with 75% N/sub 2/, frequency responses measured by network analyser show a central frequency of 156.4 MHz and 176 MHz corresponding to phase velocities of 5004.8 and 5632 m/s respectively for silicon and sapphire substrates. Also, we have formed a layered structure AlN/diamond SAW device which does not exhibit an operating frequency due to high surface roughness of the diamond film.


Impact bending tests were carried out on specimens of Spruce and Plywood between the range of temperatures from +66°C to -60°C. The testing machine used was an Amsler's 4 ton universal machine for testing wood. When this machine is used for impact bending, it is possible to measure the maximum pressure on the supports besides the energy required to break the test pieces, so that the equivalent modulus of rupture can also be computed.Results show that both Spruce and Plywood change in their mechanical properties with variation of temperatures. Thus the absorbed energy shows a minimum between 6°C and -10°C, and the equivalent modulus of rupture increases almost linearly with decrease in temperature.Moreover prolonged cooling produced no difference in the results as compared with those cooled for a short time. And it was observed that test pieces which were first cooled and then brought back to the normal temperature regained their initial properties.


This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.


The possibility of micropropagation for the endangered Thermopsis turcica was investigated through an fruit ovuleembryo culture. This technique prevents embryo degradation at the early development stage, shortens breeding time, and enables efficient propagation of many plants from a single embryo, thus avoiding for breaking seed dormancy. Although a number of efficient propagation protocols of T. turcica has been reported for multiple shoot induction and plantlet regeneration from the seeds of T. turcica, to date no publication exists on any protocol on embryo culture of T. turcica. This paper reports on the optimisation of protocols for culturing of T. turcica fruit embryos. The protocol for embryo culture used in this research consisted of cracking the fruit, pitting it to remove the seed, excising the ovule -embryo from the seed, placing it on the medium modified from established Fabaceae embryo tissue culture media, extracting embryos from ovular integuments, and culturing. In the present study, extracted ovule-embryos were cultured on a Murashige and Skoog's medium supplemented with Zeatin (0.5 mg L -1 ), Giberellic acid (0.5 mg L -1 ), and Indole-3-acetic acid (0.2 mg L -1 ). Excised embryos from the ovular integuments were maintained on Giberellic acid-free MS medium. During culturing, cotyledons began to arise and grow plantlets. Regenerated plantles were rooted on a MS medium with Indole3-butyric acid (2.0 mg L -1 ). These results show that embryo culture technique can be an alternat ive ex-situ conservation technique for in vitro propagation of the threatened rare plant species T. turcica.


Abstract : For about the past decade the development of microwave acoustic delay lines has seen few innovations. It is primarily for this reason that opportunities in the production of these lines leading to lower cost and improved performance was not realized. Such innovations include monolithic matching, mosaic transducers and an intensive investigation of processing steps and systems operation. All aspects of delay line design have been reexamined including media loss and anisotropy, transduction efficiency, diffraction and transducer film analysis. The net result of this effort is an essentially new approach to delay line design. This design lends itself well to batch fabrication processes with resulting cost reductions and performance improvement. (Author)


Organic acids produced in the anaerobic digestion of waste-water sludges tend continuously to depress pH below a point where the acids can be converted to methane. As a result, a large buffering capacity is required to maintain pH between 6.7 and 7.4, which allows efficient operation. Present tests to measure this buffer capacity are inadequate. The present research proposes a simple but adequate test that will provide plant operators with accurate information on anaerobic digester efficiency, as well as considerable long-range insight into digester operation - it would seem that an alkalimetric titration to pH 5.75 can be used routinely to monitor laboratory and actual anaerobic digester performance with a high degree of confidence. The simplicity of the test should encourage many operators to pay more attention to digester performance and, therefore, result in improved waste water treatment efficiency. (Refs. 7).


This paper is an epitome of the comprehensive report on the earlier-stage study on the forestry in 2000. This study aiming at seeking different ways for forestry construction to serve the overall development of the society discusses and proves the assigned subject that cultivation of forest resources is a major programme of fundamental importance in forestry construction, and expounds the basic viewpoints in the study such as to study the development of forest resources from the viewpoints of entirety, interrelation and development, and to study the construction of forest resourccs from the viewpoint of broadening sources of income and reducing expenditure. Starting from these viewpoints, we carried out a quantitative calculation on the developing tendency of the forest resources in our country and drew an outline of long-term forestry development in our country with concentrated efforts on exploring various constructive plans to put an end to the decline of the resources for selective discussions and for final selection by policymakers. We also put forward some opinions on the later-stage work—the guideline for the study on the strategy of forestry development.


Epicene, or The Silent Woman, which Jonson's own century admired perhaps more than any other of his plays, has suffered the fate of becoming more instead of less enigmatic as time passes. Recent critics, more bothered than Jonson's contemporaries over the question of what, finally, the play is all about, have drifted into debates over whether it is a comedy or a farce, whether it is moral or immoral (or amoral), whether its prevailing tone is one of gaiety or harshness. One can lump many of these questions together and rephrase them in terms of Jonson's own dramatic development by asking to what extent Epicene preserves the stern morality of the earlier plays and to what extent it shares the geniality and relaxed moral temper of the later plays as typified by Bartholomew Fair. Probably the answer is that as a transitional play it combines both, and not always in the happiest fashion. The gaiety skates uncomfortably close to sadism; the judicial sternness, rejected in the person of Morose, is rejected with such supererogatory fierceness that it attracts a strong countercurrent of sympathy to it. The victory of Truewit over Morose represents Jonson's attempt to assert the values of the world and the flesh over the consolations of philosophy. But Jonson is still too committed to the philosopher's study to abandon it casually, and still too repelled by the vanity of courts to embrace it without a shudder. The result is that what he attempts to affirm on one level he denies on another. The effort to substitute an indulgent, "realistic" account of the world in place of his more habitual and more deeply felt satirical view produces ambiguities of tone which trouble the whole structure of the play.


The purpose of this research was to examine current attitudes toward women and managerial abilities of graduating business school students and compare these findings with those of a former study by Tomkiewicz and Brenner, (1988). Both studies employed the Attitude Toward Women Scale (Spence, Helmreich, and Stapp, 1973) and the Self Description Inventory (Ghiselli 1971). In contrast to the earlier study, no differences were found between females and males on any of the managerial attributes. There were significant differences between females' and males' attitude toward women. Males in the 2001 study were significantly more profeminist than the earlier sample of males. Groups of individuals who scored above the median on the Attitude Toward Women Scale were compared with the group of subjects who scored below the median. Significant differences were found among the groups on three of the six Self Description Inventory items. If companies continue to treat aspiring female managers as Inferior, they may be relinquishing their organizations' futures to a male dominant mediocrity (Tomkiewicz and Brenner, 1988). This was the authors' conclusion after examining graduating business students in 1986 using two instruments: the Attitudes Toward Women Scale (Spence, Helmreich, and Stapp, 1973) and the Self Description Inventory (Ghiselli, 1971). The study revealed that while male and female graduates possessed virtually identical managerial qualities as measured by the Self Description Inventory, significant differences in managerial qualities existed between those who were either profeminist or traditional in their views toward the role of women as measured by the Attitudes Toward Women Scale. Those individuals who held more liberal attitudes toward the role of women, a majority of who were women, had a greater degree of managerial qualities than those who were Identified as having a traditional view of women. Since a majority of those with the traditional view were men. the fear of mediocrity in business organizations stemmed from the fact that, whereas there was a preponderance of men occupying managerial positions in organizations, they might not possess the highest levels of qualities that Ghiselli showed to be indicative of managerial success. Tomkiewicz and Brenner (1988) cited research showing that women, although representing almost half the work force in the mid 1980s, held a relatively small percentage of managerial jobs. Furthermore, those women who had moved into management positions were reported in the Monthly Labor Review (1986) as earning only 64.4% as men in the same job category. Of the top 1000 corporations in the United States as compiled by Business Week (October 21, 1988), only four chief executive officers were women; in the 1989 Business Week directory (October 20, 1989) that number had decreased to one! Research by Dubno (1985) summarized the position of women in business by reporting that negative attitudes toward women as managers had not improved from 1975 to 1983, significantly slowing the advancement and salary progression of women as compared to men. The calendar swiftly shifts to 2001, not only a 15 year separation from the original study, but perhaps more significantly, a shift to a new millennium. Has the passage of time had a significant effect on the status of women in business organizations? One might think that with the greatest expansion in the economic history of the United States, which resulted in a condition of "full employment", that women might not only have made tremendous advancements in business hierarchies, but that such advancement might have been accompanied by a change in attitudes about the role of women in society. The expansion in economic activity was concomitant with a rise in consciousness about the importance of diversity in the work place. The labor force demographics of the United States was rapidly becoming the most gender and racio-ethnically diverse in the world. …


Despite considerable work on the epigenetic control of tumor suppressor genes, little is known about the potential role of promoter CpG demethylation in the activation of oncogenes in lymphoid tumors. The HOX11 proto‐oncogene is frequently activated in T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T‐ALL). HOX11 activation can occur in the absence of translocation of the gene to the T‐cell receptor locus (Salvati et al., 1995 ), implying that activation mechanisms must be involved other than the juxtaposition of the gene to adjacent enhancing sequences. We tested whether the methylation status of the proximal promoter was correlated with expression status in T‐ALL and found that, in all cases, expression of HOX11 in T‐ALL was associated with extensive demethylation of the proximal HOX11 promoter, regardless of whether or not translocation was involved. In contrast, cells that did not express HOX11 showed a more methylated pattern of CpG residues in the proximal promoter. Methylation of this sequence in vitro was sufficient to silence the proximal promoter. We propose a model in which the selection of leukemia clones via a pathway involving HOX11 expression requires the demethylation of its promoter as a prerequisite for additional gene activation mechanisms. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Identification of tire tread type characteristics needs to be taken into consideration when choosing a tire. The accuracy of choosing a tire will help ensure the safety of the rider. The identification procedure is by comparing symmetrical and asymmetrical 1-way direction tires. The parameter is the braking time needed for the vehicle to stop. The braking time required by asymmetric type 1-way direction tires is shorter than symmetrical type. So, motorists are advised to choose asymmetric type 1-way direction tires to get a shorter braking time.


The rheology of a partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) solution plays an important role in its oil recovery during polymer flooding. However, multiple factors in brine, such as sulfide ions, cause a dramatic loss in the viscosity and oil recovery. To better understand the sulfide-induced viscosity loss and the consequent flow mechanisms in pore networks, the morphology of polymer solutions with and without sulfide ion was observed by scanning electron microscopy; and the variations of the pore scale flow fields were demonstrated by a microscopic visualization seepage experiment combined with Micro-PIV (Microscale Particle Image Velocimetry). The results showed that, with the presence of sulfide ion, the microstructure of the polymer changed from a uniform three-dimensional network structure to loose and uneven floccules, which resulted in viscosity loss (over 70% with 5-mg/L sulfide ion). Moreover, higher concentrations of sulfide ions (5 mg/L and 10 mg/L) resulted in earlier shear thinning characteristics than those with lower sulfide concentrations. Due to viscosity loss, the average flow velocity in the main stream of the microscopic seepage experiment increased more significantly than that without sulfide. However, the viscosity loss alone cannot independently explain the severe viscous fingering during the subsequent post-water flooding, which was about five times greater than that of the primary water flooding in terms of the velocity ratio between the mainstream and margin. A further pore-scale flow field analysis exhibited an eccentric and a bimodal velocity distribution in the throat along the radial and axial directions, respectively. The former distribution indicated that the adsorbed polymer on the pore wall was broken through by hydraulic shear due to the collapsed structure caused by sulfide ion. The latter suggested that another sulfide-induced impact was an earlier-occurring non-Newtonian characteristic with a low shear rate. Therefore, instead of viscosity loss, elastic loss is the dominant mechanism affecting the characteristics of the aggregate flow field under the action of sulfide. Microscopic flooding combined with Micro-PIV is a feasible and essential method to reveal pore scale flow mechanisms.


The parametric Rao test for multichannel signal detection by the adaptive generalized detector (GD) constructed based on the generalized approach to signal processing in noise is derived by modeling the disturbance signal as a multichannel autoregressive process. The parametric Rao test takes a form identical to that of parametric GD for space-time adaptive processing in airborne surveillance radar systems and other similar applications. The equivalence offers new in-sights into the performance and implementation of the GD. Specifically, the Rao/GD is an asymptotically (in the case of large samples) parametric generalized likelihood ratio test generalized detector (GLRT GD) due to an asymptotic equivalence between the Rao test and the GLRT/ GD. The asymptotic distribution of the Rao/GD test statistic is obtained in the closed form, which follows an exponential distribution under the null hypothesis (the target return signal is absent) and, respectively, a non-central Chi-squared distribution with two degrees of freedom under the alternative hypothesis (the target return signal is present). The noncentrality parameter of noncentral Chi-squared distribution is determined by the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of a temporal whitening filter. Since the asymptotic distribution at the null hypothesis is independent of the unknown parameters, the Rao/GD asymptotically achieves constant false alarm rate (CFAR) GD. Numerical results show that these results are superior in predicting the performance of the parametric adaptive matched filter even with moderate data support. Key-Words: Generalized detector, space-time adaptive processing, multichannel generalized detector, adaptive matched filter, adaptive coherence estimator detector, clutter, jamming.


Social networks are becoming an integral part of our lives. Students are spending much time on social media and are considered the largest category that uses such application. This study tries to explore the influence of social media use, and especially Facebook, on high school students' performance. A proposed framework that guides research in this area and reflects on the issues related to such phenomenon. A proposed survey is also depicted to be used in future research. Conclusions and future work are stated at the end.


If you have been privileged to be a part of Chinese society,you cannot think about it without considering the incredible strength of the family.I have visited or lived in over 70 countries and I have not seen another society that is bound together so tightly by familial ties.My nine years here have shown me this through many windows:that of students and their parents;colleagues and their children;friends and their family networks.But most of all it has come from my experience with my own extended


The objective of this research is to perform the first geophysical survey at an active archaeological region on the Akrotiri Peninsula in Cyprus to identify evidence of a Roman naval base thought to have been used between the 4 th and 7 th centuries AD. Two study sites were identified by an on-site archaeologist: Dreamer"s Bay and St. Mark"s. A total of fifty-two, 10m by 10m grids were surveyed using ground penetrating radar and magnetic gradiometry. Data from each site were processed using to create maps of the subsurface to aid in the development of future excavation plans. Results from the survey revealed the remains of numerous buried and previously undocumented structures. Features detected at Dreamer"s Bay have similar dimensions to the documented warehouses at the surface. Those identified at St. Mark"s likely had some ecclesiastical function as surface remains indicate the site likely had some religious


The development and formulation of English language learning materials, meticulously tailored to encompass the cognitive processes of both the left and right brain hemispheres, emerge as a matter of profound import in the realm of promoting efficacious language acquisition among Junior High School students. In light of this imperative, the present research endeavors to construct and design English instructional materials with a distinct focus on seventh-grade learners within the Junior High School milieu, with an overarching objective of optimizing left- and right-brain accommodation. The research methodology employed is Research and Development (R&D). The procedural trajectory encompassed writing a syllabus, designing the materials, doing material evaluation, and revising the material draft. In the context of data collection, a twofold approach was undertaken, featuring targeted questionnaires designed to elicit data pertaining to both the students' instructional requisites and their perceived learning needs. This validation is derived from a tripartite evaluation, encompassing data analysis, expert assessment, and student feedback. Expert judgment, indicative of the materials' categorization as falling within the "good" bracket, substantiates the meticulous development process, with an average score of 3.8. Likewise, the evaluation, reflected in an average score of 3.13, corroborates the materials' efficacy in cultivating a conducive learning environment. In summation, this study epitomizes a deliberate and comprehensive endeavor to forge English instructional materials that transcend conventional paradigms by cognizantly accommodating the cognitive dimensions of learners' brains. The harmonious fusion of pedagogical design and cognitive insight, as evinced in the development and evaluation process, advocates for a dynamic shift in instructional material construction to better align with the multifaceted cognitive attributes of students in Junior High Schools.


The direct collisional energy transfer process Li*(3p) + H2 → Li*(3s) + H2 is investigated under gas cell conditions. In particular, we measured the nonreactive far-wing absorption profile of LiH2 complexes by monitoring the Li(3s) → Li(2p) fluorescence at 812.6 nm. Strong satellite structures are observed at around 700 cm-1 in the blue wing and 162 cm-1 in the red wing of the LiH2 profile. The experimental results are in agreement with ab initio theoretical predictions, which showed a strong probability of a diabatic transition making the 3p−3s quenching easy.


Skin microrelief alters progressively with age. Wrinkles do not result from these changes but are superimposed upon them. Wrinkles result from structural changes in the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis. Four types of wrinkles can be recognized.


We have developed mesa-structure avalanche photodiodes (MS-APDs) for Gb/s application. These MS-APDs combine high-speed peformance with the potential for low-cost productivity. Additionally, we realized high reliability of the mesa-structure APDs for the first time.


In color reproduction research, a linear model designed to minimize the error between original surface reflectance spectra and reproduced spectra is useful in the process of producing an accurate color match between the original image and reproduction under a variety of illuminants, but it is inappropriate in efficiency. We propose an efficient linear model based on surface reflectance spectra and a unified wavelength function of CIE 1931 standard observer representing human perceptual property. The surface spectra weighted with the unified wavelength function were introduced to minimize the human perceptual error between original reflectance spectra and reproduced spectra and to reduce the number of the spectral basis functions. The performance of reflectance spectra-to-CIELAB transformation on our proposed linear model is tested and compared with a conventional model based on reflectance spectra under a variety of illuminants. The results of our linear model is superior to that of the conventional model. With Munsell 400 color patches, D65 illuminant and 4-dimensional linear model, the mean color difference of our model is 1.28 CIELAB unit. And an algorithm for color scanner characterization using our model is made and tested, and the results are shown.


The heavy rain on July 7-8,2009 in Shizuishan of Ningxia was synthetically analyzed in circulation trend,radar echo and physical variable field.The results showed that the mainly influencing systems of rainstorm included westerly trough,vortex,shear line and mesoscale system.It was pointed out that the characteristic of dynamic condition,thermodynamics mechanism and forecast essential of regional rainstorm.


One of the basic reasons for equipment failures at fossil power plants is presence of corrosive impurities in water and steam. Presently copper-based alloys are widely used at fossil power plants for manufacture of condensers and low-pressure heaters. Brass corrosion products (copper and zinc oxides) go to water. This intensifies corrosion of carbon steel. Corrosion of copper-based alloys is influenced by different factors: temperature, oxygen concentration, chloride, sulfate, organics etc. Recently a lot of attention in utility industry has been attributed to the effect of organic impurities (acetic, formic, and lactic acids, in particular) on corrosion of construction materials. Of abovementioned acids, concentration of acetic acid in the power plant cycle is significantly higher. Therefore, it is important to study the effect of acetic acid on brass corrosion rate and release of copper corrosion products from metal surface. This paper presents results of experimental study aimed to investigate effect of acetic acid on contamination of water with corrosion products of copper-based alloys at two chemistries


In a time series analysis it is sometimes necessary to assume that the effect of a regressor does not have only immediate impact on the mean response, but that its effects somehow propagate to future times. We adopt, in this work, transfer functions to model such impacts, represented by structural blocks present in dynamic generalized linear models. All the inference is carried under the Bayesian paradigm. Two sources of difficulties emerge for the analytical derivation of posterior distributions: non-Gaussian nature of the response, associated to non-conjugate priors and also non-linearity of the predictor on auto regressive parameters present in transfer functions. The purpose of this work is to produce full Bayesian inference on dynamic generalized linear models with transfer functions, using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to build samples of the posterior joint distribution of the parameters involved in such models. Several transfer structures are specified, associated to Poisson, Binomial, Gamma and inverse Gaussian responses. Simulated data are analyzed under the resulting models in order to assess their performance. Finally, two applications to real data concerning environmental sciences are made under different model formulations.


Is trend that treatment that use isotope of radioactive substance increases from 1964 to now steadily. Bursting tube state solidified accordingly. But, do not establish treatment ward in presence at a sickbed by means that present regulation and system escape this as well as possession that exert negative impact in treatment action preferably is and is treating by radioactivity of small quantity, treatment air by that do not detain many sickers without equaling the institution although there is treatment ward keeps fair death anniversary and is in reservation stand-by status. To possess about 10 therapy rooms including existing sickroom in the institute of nuclear energy recently is looked but is waiting for an opportunity for treatment during suitableness time yet indeed even as that operate 57 radiation isotope therapy rooms all in about 28 hospitals in present domestic state is solveded. Therefore, radiation safety supervision by medical treatment action that treat as radioactive substance may need more active effort. Make mandatory to equipment that hospital which correspond to present the third medical examination and treatment must equip, or effort about more active system improvement may have to be about equipment that enforce this.


The music of everyday speech (hereafter MES) is a book for discourse analysts interested in incorporating a theoretically grounded account of sound production, or, prosody, into their research. Readers of Language in Society will find MES to be the first book of its kind. It includes an overview of phonological, discourse analytical, and interactional approaches to the analysis of prosody, as well as model prosodic analyses of the major research areas in discourse analysis. MES is a thorough presentation of how prosodic analysis can inform discourse analysis, unique in its coverage of material, excellence of presentation, and theoretical and analytical depth.


Some problems that commonly stated by students who learn geography are too much information and definitions to be memorized, not interesting or enjoyable, difficult and so on. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) media hopefully can help to solve this problem. Currently, most students have been familiar using mobile devices. Therefore, it is a potency to develop a geography learning application especially for mobile devices. This paper exhibits the development of geographic mobile learning application. The employment of Linked Data as information sources, i.e. DBpedia and LinkedGeoData, can help us to provide rich information with minimum efforts. The evaluation showed that the application got more than 85% positive responses in terms of ease of use, ease of learning, usefulness, pleasant and intention to use the application.


Abstract : The article considers a change in the frequency of natural vibrations of a part with the appearance of a macrocrack. It is shown that the change can serve as source material only when estimating the dimensions of the crack, or for experimental determination of the coefficient of stress intensity. (Author)


A novel vertex-degree-based topological invariant, called Nirmala index, was recently put forward, defined as the sum of the terms \(\sqrt{d(u)+d(v)}\) over all edges \(uv\) of the underlying graph, where \(d(u)\) is the degree of the vertex \(u\). Based on this index, we now introduce the respective ``Nirmala matrix'', and consider its spectrum and energy. An interesting finding is that some spectral properties of the Nirmala matrix, including its energy, are related to the first Zagreb index.


rage (20–50 C below the Tg) can postpone the complete recrystallization of the amorphous form for up to 2 weeks (studies ongoing). The recrystallization behaviour of the amorphous paracetamol prepared by different methods (in the temperature ranges of 50–70 C, 80–90 C and 90–140 C) were studied using HSM (polarised light mode). Differing nucleation, crystal growth and fusion habits were observed corresponding to the transitions between the amorphous and metastable polymorphs of paracetamol. These transitions can also be presented in terms of light density plotted against temperature from the microscopy images. The study has demonstrated that different thermal histories may have a profound effect on the polymorphic form generated from the amorphous state. The investigation has also demonstrated the utility of using HSM and thermal scanning methods in conjunction to study this issue.


UNIVERSITY O F CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO The Genetic Basis of Streptolysin S (Beta-Hemolysin) Production in Group A Streptococcus and its Role as Virulence Factor in Invasive Infection A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor o f Philosophy in Molecular Pathology by Vivekanand Datta Committee in charge: Professor Professor Professor Professor Professor Victor Nizet, Chair Lynette Corbeil Joshua Fierer Partho Ghosh Frances Gillin