thorough removal of the glands checks the progress of the disease, although it will certainly recur. Some of the later cases also demonstrate with what safety and facility enormous quantities of glands may be removed from the neck owing to the existence of the mobility which has been insisted upon. CASE i.-J. G., aged 41, was admitted to the London Hospital in April, s888. Two years ago he noticed a lump in the middle of the posterior triangle of the neck on the right side. After an interval of twelve months this was followed by others. A month ago a similar lump appeared in the anterior triangle on the left side. Condition in 1888.-There are five or six considerably enlarged glands in the posterior triangles on both sides of the neck and one in the anterior triangle on the left side. The glands are all firm, distinct from each other, and freely movable beneath the skin and on the deeper structures. The spleen is not enlarged. Treatment.-No improvement followed the administration of arsenic during a period of two months. At two successive operations all the enlarged glands were removed. With two exceptions all the glands shelled out quite easily and were entirely without adhesions. Their surfaces were smooth and the section pale and homogeneous, without trace of softening or caseation. The patient had all the appearance of robust health and there was no pyrexia. Condition in June, I894.-He has now a fresh crop of glands on both *sides of the neck. They are situated chiefly in the parotid and submaxillary regions and behind the ears; one is observed above the right clavicle and one in the right axilla. The glands were removed at two successive operations, and they all shielled out quite readily. Condition in 1895.-This patient was again admitted in November, I895, with very many considerably enlarged glands extending down both sides of the neck, chiefly along the course of the large vessels. There was one in the right axilla. The glands still continued movable. No appreciable enlargement of the liver or spleen. His general health and appearance remained good. He was treated with injections of Coley's fluid, which had then recently come into tise, fifteen injections being given, extending over a period of three months. At first a slight reaction tcok place, but latterly the reaction vas very violent, the temperature in some instances reaching 1o50 to o06. The enlargement certainly subsided somewhat, but the treatment could not be considered in any respect curative. On some occasions injections were made into the enlarged glands, and this resulted in a softening and suppuration of one of them. An examination of the blood just before his discharge from the hospital showed per cubic mm.: Red corpuscles ... ... 3,86o,ooo White corpuscles ... ... 15,ooo Hoemoglobin ... ... ... 75 p. C. The red corpuscles were therefore nearly normal, and the white slightly increased, a condition by no means surprising considering the constitutional disturbances and pyrexia to which he had been subjected. CASE I.-H. L., aged 8, was admitted to the London Hospital, December i6th, z89g. This patient had a mass of enlarged glands on the right side of the neck, of a precisely similar character to the foregoing. "They were removed. On November i4th, I892, he was readmitted with a recurrence on the subelavian triangle on the right side; and the glands were all again removed, being still non-adherent. Another group of enlarged glands was removed in January, 1893 They occupied the posterior and sub-maxillary triangles on the right side. In May, I894, he again returned with enlarged glands on the right side, situated behind the ramus -of the lower jaw, in front of the sterno-mastoid, and just above the clavicle in the posterior triangle. All the enlarged glands were removed, and shelled out readily. His general lhealth remained good. Since tisat date I have lost sight of him.2 CASE iii.-G. R., aged 13 was admitted to the London Hospital in January, I890, with a large mass of enlarged glands on the right side of the neck, extending from the lower jaw to the clavicle. They were all non-adherent and freely movable. The enlargement had commenced four years previously. A few small glands were felt in the axillae but none elsewhere were enlarged. He appeared healthy, not anaemic, and his spleen was not enlarged. A great quantity of glands, twenty to thirty in number, were removed at one sitting from the neck, the sternomastoid muscle being divided transversely, and turned upwards and downwards. All the glands shelled out withi great facility. They were smooth, firm, homogeneous on section, andwithout appearance of softening or caseation. To exclude tuberculosis two guinea-pigs were inoculated in the groin with portions of gland, and, when killed two montlhs later, they were found to be quite healthy. CASE IV. J. NV., aged 7, was admitted in May, I890. The mother stated that ain enlarged gland appeared below the angle of the jaw on the left -side two years ago. The enlargement now affects the glands over the 'Whole of the left side of the neck, those on the right side being only shotty. The patient is fairly nourished, and appears in good health. Tlhirty-two glands were removed from the left side of the neck, the largest attaining the size of a bantam's egg; all were easily shelled out. In this case, again, guinea-pigs were inoculated without result.


October 2010 progress update of the Recovery Act at work at the Savannah River Site. The demolition of nuclear reactor stacks and filling the reactors with grout to reduce the site footprint.


The 1994 Cairo meeting of the International Conference on Population and Development devised a wide-ranging programme of action for infant and reproductive health and for family planning. This interesting volume of papers from the 1995 BSPS-sponsored Population Festival conference provides an up-to-date overview of recent research on various dimensions of this broad theme. There is much concern for demographic transition theory. Robins uses data on changing child/women ratios in Western Kenya from the 1920s to 1960s to argue that falling mortality was not a necessary condition for rising fertility: rather, under colonialism, changes wrought by Christian evangelism, labour migration, and cash-cropping provided incentives for high fertility. This may have been the case in the past. However, following the theory of Frank and Bongaarts, Brown examines trends in the correlation between contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) and total fertility rates (TFR). Where TFRs exceed those expected from the global regression of TFR on CPR, then 'excess fertility' may be inferred: declining excess fertility in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Botswana since the late 1970s suggests convergence towards the global norm and fertility suppression or contraceptive efficacy which is consistent with the theory of transition. Transition theory depends on the premise that declining early mortality will reduce incentives to high fertility, and several papers concentrate on proximate determinants of under-5 death rates. Santos uses logistic regression to identify the role of child's age and socioeconomic indices in risk of diarrhoeal and respiratory infections in NE Brazil, while breast-feeding showed no protective effect. However, determining morbidity—particularly diarrhoeal—status by recall alone weakens this claim. In an interesting paper on familial clustering of childhood death in Malawi, Madise shows that the impact of clustering on mortality risk is greatest where households are weak in terms of maternal education and socioeconomic status. A theoretical perspective from Root's paper lends weight to the importance of spatial scales in analysis of infectious disease transmission, which has been central since Snow's study of cholera around the Broad Street pump in the Soho of 1854; but neither Santos nor Madise considers this dimension of analysis with the requisite complexity. Family planning has been speculated to reduce mortality through wider effects on reproductive behaviour. Mturi and Curtis examine Bongaarts' contrary argument that family planning does not reduce the infant mortality rate, as other changes intervene. These authors show persuasively that potential gains in infant survival in Tanzania from family planning programmes are about 1%. A theoretical maximum of 7·8% would follow complete elimination of all teenage births and under-24-month birth intervals. Family formation patterns appear favourable in Tanzania, and contrast with Biosocial Science Article 272 Revise 1st proof 24.2.98


In this paper a linear optimization model is presented that can be used to determine optimal intervention strategies for critical civil structures located in regions, where there is a high probability of occurrence natural hazard events. The model allows the consideration of both manifest and latent deterioration processes. The manifest deterioration process is modeled using discrete jumps between condition states as a Markov chain. The latent deterioration process is modeled by estimating the probability of failure when an object is in each manifest condition state. The probability of failure is estimated using fragility curves. Two advantages of the deterioration model compared to conventional ones are that 1) it allows the determination of optimal intervention strategies taking into consideration multiple types of objects simultaneously and 2) the probability of being condition states due to multiple types of deterioration processes. The model is illustrated by determining the optimal intervention strategy for a road link composed of one road section and one bridge where both are affected by a manifest and a latent deterioration process.


A novel printed monopole antenna for ultra-wideband applications with a frequency band-notch characteristic is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a stepped rectangular radiating patch and a modified ground plane that provides a wide usable fractional bandwidth of more than 120% (2.75–12.8 GHz). By cutting two rectangular slots with variable dimensions on the radiating patch, frequency band-stop performance is generated and we can control its characteristics such as band-notch frequency and bandwidth. The designed antenna has a small size of 12×20 mm2 while showing band rejection performance in the frequency band of 5.05–5.98 GHz.


The phase transitions from isotropic into ordered state in the 2D polymer systems consisting of chains with fixed mean-square length of segments and those of chains of rigid elements are considered. Short and long-range orientational order in these systems are compared both by the self-consistent field approach and the multichain models.


This paper utilize Minitab 17, a statistical analysis software, to study the significance of some factors relating to enrolment and retention decisions of engineering students, ThaiNichi institute of technology. The student data from 2008 to 2015 are analysed. While the number of new students and number of study programs increase together with time, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) shows that the number of study programs has no significant effect on the number of new students. Regarding the retention rate, analysis of the data shows that if the base is chosen to be the second year students, there is no significant variation between batches of students in each


Thin whitetopping, also known as thin bonded concrete overlay on asphalt (BCOA), is a rehabilitation alternative consisting of a portland cement concrete (PCC) overlay of an existing flexible or composite pavement. This literature review is part of a project to develop recommendations and guidance on the use of thin BCOA as a rehabilitation alternative in California. Different state-of-practice documents as well as specific technical papers and reports have been analyzed. Analysis shows that even though thin BCOA is a mature technology, some critical elements do not seem to have been adequately explored to date. Performance of the interface between PCC and asphalt is one of these elements.


In this study, hydroxyapatite-alginate (HAp-SA) composite spheres were synthesized and characterized and then the methylene blue dyestuff (MB) removal was investigated by using the synthesized HAp-SA composite spheres as adsorbent. The effects of environmental conditions for MB adsorption onto HAp-SA composite spheres were investigated and the optimum environmental conditions were obtained as follows: initial pH of 9.0, initial dye concentration of 300 mg L -1 , temperature of 25 o C, and adsorbent concentration of 1.0 g L -1 . At the optimum conditions; the MB adsorption capacities of HAp-SA spheres, HAp-SA films, alginate spheres and HAp were compared to interpret the effectiveness of the synthesized composite materials. Besides, the multistage adsorption system was also investigated for the adsorption of MB onto the synthesized HAp-SA composite spheres. Moreover, the adsorption equilibrium and thermodynamic parameters were also determined.


This paper derives the equation that the optimal ratio of investment for twodepartment model must satisfy based on the Solow's growth model. It discusses the value of the optimal ratio of investment when the production function belongs to the class of CobbDouglas production function.


The MnO–SiO2-type inclusions changed into MnO–Cr2O3 type inclusions in an Fe–Cr alloy deoxidised by Mn and Si with a low Si concentration by heat treatment at 1473 K. At high Si content, the MnO–SiO2-type inclusion remained stable even after heat treatment. The change in the chemical composition of the oxide inclusions by heat treatment depended on the concentrations of Si and Cr in the Fe–Cr alloys. The mechanism of the change in the chemical composition of the oxide inclusions was investigated by using two experimental methods. The solubility of Cr2O3 in MnO–SiO2 was measured from 1473 to 1673 K. The solubility of Cr2O3 decreased with temperature. The other experiment was performed using a diffusion couple method between the Fe–Cr alloy and MnO–SiO2 at 1473 K to investigate a reaction between them. The formation of MnO–Cr2O3 was observed at the interface. It is found that both the decrease in solubility of Cr2O3 and diffusion of Mn, Cr, and Si at the interface between the Fe–Cr alloy and oxide inclusions are important for controlling the change in the chemical composition of the oxide inclusions in the Fe–Cr alloy by heat treatment at 1473 K.


In recent decades with increasing of global economic competition, small and medium scale industrials (SMEs) have known as an economic growth engine and a tool for employment. Therefore, they have important role in growth and development of countries. In order that these firms can compete in the world and they use the advantages of information technology requires infrastructures which provides electronic in various areas such as reducing transaction costs, develop marketing areas and access to markets, participate with suppliers and other partners. This paper is investigating effective organizational factor on implementing E-Commerce in SMEs. Primary data collected from questionnaire and has been analyzed through using SPSS software. The results of this study indicate that among technical, Social-Cultural, Managerial, human resource and logical factors, Managerial factors has important effect on Implementing E-Commerce.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between the building maintenance market and GDP in Hong Kong.Design/methodology/approach – The Granger causality test is used to investigate the lead‐lag relationships between the maintenance and repair work and GDP in Hong Kong. With regression analysis, the future trend of the maintenance market is forecasted.Findings – The results show that the growth of the economy will lead to the growth of the maintenance market, not vice‐versa. And the building maintenance market in Hong Kong will keep increasing with the economy growth.Originality/value – This paper shows that the growth of the economy in Hong Kong Granger‐causes the growth of the maintenance market. Plus there are other factors affecting the maintenance market, including the increasing number of ageing buildings, obsolescence and adaptive reuse, legislation, sustainability and social responsibility. The results of this paper provide a valuable reference for the Hong Kong Go...


Incheon was continuously growing as a port since its opening. Sino- Japanese war and Russo Japanese war caused that numerous Japanese came into Incheon area, which leaded Incheon' economical prosperity. Incheon was a small port at first, old facilities couldn' maneuver the flow of new comers from Japan and other regions from Korea. New towns were built mostly around foreign settlements and modern facilities such as observatory, quarantine were built in Incheon. The population didn' grow as fast as expected, so modern hygienic systems such as waterworks, drainage, hospitals with western medicine were one of the important parts of developing Incheon. The modern facilities showed Incheon' modernity which leaded people easily to come to see them from all around Korea and even Japan. Moreover, developing Wolmido in early 1920s called lots of visitors to come to enjoy pool, spa, hotel and landscape of Wolmido. In the process of building modern facilities and amusing places, Incheon makes its own image connected to modernity and sightseeing which helps its economical profit. Nevertheless, the problem which the grain exchange might move to Kyungseong was a heavy blow of Incheon' economy in mid 1920s. The influential people in Incheon' administrative, economy, education and other fields wrote articles pointing out the questions of the moment and giving new plans for solving them. They gave ideas for respective problems including developing Wolmido as a villa for Kyungseong residents. But it seems that the most important issue was to make prefecture' schemes to point out which industry they should focus on. It' regarded that they focused on commerce, imports and exports, tourism as Inchoen' possibility to go forward. To develop Incheon as a sightseeing city became one of main projects of Incheon prefecture in 1930s' The stream that building early modern city was connected to sightseeing and modern tourism made the image of Inchoen strongly influenced by tourism. In this process, the image of Incheon as a sightseeing city represented Incheon' local identity in 1920s to 1930s.


 Rewilding aims to restore natural processes that are self-regulating, reducing the need for human management of land.  Few rewilding projects are underway, and there is limited evidence on their impacts.  Rewilding may provide ecosystem services such as flood prevention, carbon storage and recreation. It often has low input costs, but can still benefit biodiversity.  Some valued and protected priority habitats such as chalk grassland currently depend on agricultural practices like grazing. Rewilding may not result in such habitats.  No government policy refers explicitly to rewilding, but it has the potential to complement existing approaches to meet commitments on habitat restoration.


27 We have studied eye-head coordination in non-human primates with acoustic targets 28 after finding that they are unable to make accurate saccadic eye movements to targets 29 of this type with the head-restrained. Three male macaque monkeys with experience in 30 localizing sounds for rewards by pointing their gaze to the perceived location of sources 31 served as subjects. Visual targets were used as controls. The experimental sessions 32 were configured to minimize the chances that the subject would be able to predict the 33 modality of the target as well as its location and time of presentation. The data show 34 that eye and head movements are coordinated differently to generate gaze shifts to 35 acoustic targets. Chiefly, the head invariably started to move before the eye and 36 contributed more to the gaze shift. These differences were more striking for gaze shifts 37 of less then 20-25 deg in amplitude, to which the head contributes very little or not at all 38 when the target is visual. Thus, acoustic and visual targets trigger gaze shifts with 39 different eye-head coordination. This, coupled to the fact that anatomical evidence 40 involves the superior colliculus as the link between auditory spatial processing and the 41 motor system, suggests that separate signals are likely generated within this midbrain 42 structure. 43


Fall detection is an active research topic due to the need to prevent accidents from occurring among increasingly aged population in the world. Fall accident is not only harmful to elderly physical health but also will leave side effects, such as emotional trauma, to their daily life because of fear of falling again. Most fall-related research only focused on proposing methodologies to identify whether fall accidents occurred. This study approaches from analyzing elderly daily activities that may cause fall accidents. Interval type-2 fuzzy models are proposed to automatically detect elderly activity patterns. A multilayer detection system is devised to further identify elderly activity types. Signal Vector Magnitude (SVM) and Signal Magnitude Area (SMA) methods are used to discriminate fall activities from moderate and jog ones so that detection effort can be further simplified. Experimental results reveal that the proposed system can correctly identify fall activities. As for normal walking and jog activities the accuracy rates are higher than 80%.


A resistor is connected to first and second terminals included in a vehicle inlet. To the first terminal, a control pilot line used for transmitting a pilot signal is connected. In the case where the vehicle inlet is not connected to a connector, a switch is turned off. A voltage generation circuit sets the potential of the second terminal to a potential higher than a vehicle earth potential. In the case where the vehicle inlet is not connected to the connector and the control pilot line is broken, the potential generated on the control pilot line is substantially equal to the earth potential level. Based on the potential of the control pilot line, a control unit detects a break.


Study of a mature petroleum play in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) indicates that the spatial distribution of petroleum accumulations exhibits a self-affinity characteristic. This characteristic motivated the examination of a fractal model for a quantitative description of petroleum resource spatial distribution. The proposed approach transforms the spatial information with respect to discovered petroleum accumulations into a frequency domain, represented by an amplitude map and a phase spectrum. The amplitude map is then calibrated using a fractal model, inferred from exploration data, to account for the sampling bias in exploration procedure. The information in the obtained phase spectrum provides no clue with respect to the locations of undiscovered accumulations, and cannot be enhanced by the established fractal model either. If the calibrated amplitude map and a random phase map are transformed back to the spatial domain and conditioned on the discovered petroleum accumulations, the resulting map is equivalent to one of equal-probable realisations from a conditional simulation. Improvement can be made by extracting information with respect to locations of undiscovered petroleum deposits from geological factors controlling the formation of petroleum accumulations in a petroleum system. Using additional quantitative models, such as a geological favorability map or a map of probability of petroleum occurrence, allows an improved characterisation of spatial distribution of petroleum accumulations by the fractal model. An example from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin illustrates the application of the method.


Consider the diffraction problem for perturbed acoustic propagators with perturbations decreasing slowly at infinity. The propagation speed is discontinuous at the interface of two unbounded media, and the interface may be an arbitrary and smooth surface locally. A Sommerfeld radiation condition is introduced for the acoustic propagator, and is then used to establish the limiting absorption principle and the resolvent estimate at low frequencies for such an operator. Furthermore, we prove the existence of a unique solution to the diffraction problem and the validity of the limiting amplitude principles for the acoustic propagator.


This month, the Chemical Manufacturers Association is getting its first look at a proposed program that may help to give additional credibility to the chemical industry group's Responsible Care initiative. CMA's public advisory group has long held that external verification is crucial for the credibility of Responsible Care. Seeking to improve the six-year-old initiative, a board-level committee backed third-party visits—as well as performance measurements and timetables for implementation—in June 1993. Now, a CM A work group is presenting its first draft of a proposed verification program and a guidebook for companies to help them get ready for sample evaluations scheduled over the next few months. "Self-evaluations just aren't going to cut it," says Dan Roczniak, CMA associate director for Responsible Care. "We say we are doing great things; we have to show we are doing them." The work group began developing the verification program last year, with an eye on flexibility. Upon approval from ...


IN the lower lumbar sympathetic of the cat, Langley [1896, 1900] and Ranson and Billingsley [1918] showed that the sympathetic trunk above a ganglion contained all the fibres which end either terminally or collaterally in synaptic relationship with its ganglion cells. Most of the axons of these ganglion cells pass to the periphery by the grey ramus of that ganglion, but some descend in the sympathetic trunk and pass out usually by the next lower grey ramus. The object of this investigation is to study the physiological conditions of transmission through the fifth lumbar ganglion, employing the method of electrical recording that has been used to the superior cervical ganglion [Eccles, 1934a, b and 1935]. METHOD.


Objective:To identify the nutritional and immunological correlates of memory and neurocognitive development as measured by the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) and by the Color Object Association Test (COAT) among children in Uganda. Design:This analysis uses baseline data collected between 2008 and 2010 from 119 HIV-infected children aged 1–6 years, participating in a randomized controlled trial of an interventional parenting program in Kayunga, Uganda. Methods:Peripheral blood draws were performed to determine immunological biomarkers. Unadjusted and adjusted linear regression models were used to relate MSEL and COAT scores to sociodemographic characteristics, weight-for-age Z scores (WAZs), antiretroviral therapy status, and immunological biomarkers. Results:In the final analysis, 111 children were included. Lower levels of CD4+ CD38+ T cells (P = 0.04) were associated to higher immediate and total recall scores (P = 0.04). Higher levels of CD8+ HLA-DR+ T cells were associated with higher total recall score (P = 0.04) of the COAT. Higher CD4+ CD38+ HLA-DR+ T cells levels were associated with higher gross motor scores of the MSEL (P = 0.02). WAZ was positively correlated to visual reception, fine motor, expressive language, and composite score of the MSEL. Conclusions:Overall, WAZ was a stronger predictor of neurocognitive outcomes assessed by the MSEL. CD4+ CD38+ T cells were more specifically associated with memory-related outcomes. Future research should include immunological markers and standardized neurocognitive tests to further understand this relationship.


Background & Aims: Preterm infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are under repeated stress, and they are suffering from sleep deprivation. In this respect, one of recommended strategies is clustered care. On the other hand, direct observation of infant behaviors has been emphasized at time of nursing care. The aim of this study was to compare the behavioral responses in preterm infants in clustered care with three and four noninvasive procedures. Materials & Methods: This study was a randomized crossover clinical trial performed in NICU of Al-Zahra teaching hospital, Tabriz, Iran in 2013. Thirty one preterm infants were studied at 32 weeks age by clustered care with three and four procedures, and observable behavioral symptoms were assessed. The analysis of data was done with the use of STATA 10 software at 0.05 significant level. Results: The findings showed that mean of behavioral symptoms indicated stability in before, during and after of clustered care with three procedures, and it was 1.48, 2.03, 2.45 respectively, and four procedures 2.68, 4.23, 2.87 and behavioral symptoms indicative stress of three procedures were 2.06, 2.52, 1.97 and four procedures 2.97, 4.03, 3.03. Significant differences were not found in before and after phases between two interventions but it was significant during phase (P=0.035). Conclusion: Although clustered care with three procedures can be assumed more acceptable, clustered care with four procedures is shown acceptable too, both of them could be recommended for preterm infants.


Suggestions for research inspired by Grinnell in 2002 on the relation of sex stereotypes and those of leaders, as well as evaluations of and behaviors of leaders are offered.


The article discusses topical issues for the forest industry of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the field of construction of automobile forest roads in difficult soil and hydrological conditions with low bearing capacity of soils and lack of road-building materials. To solve this problem, the authors of the article proposed road structures with the use of geotextile fabric, which could save up to 30% of road-building materials without reducing the strength characteristics of the structure. Recommendations have been developed for the construction of roads using geotectile fabric based on the results of pilot testing in industrial conditions.


This study assesses the bioenergy generation potential of crop residues in Ukraine for the year 2030. Projections of agricultural development are made based on the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM) and verified against available Agricultural Member State Modeling (AGMEMOD) results in regard to the six main crops cultivated in Ukraine (wheat, barley, corn, sunflower, rape and soya). Two agricultural development scenarios are assessed (traditional and innovative), facilitating the projection of future crop production volumes and yields for the selected crops. To improve precision in defining agro-environmental limitations (the share of crop residues necessary to be kept on the fields to maintain soil fertility for the continuous cultivation of crops), yield-dependent residue-to-product ratios (RPRs) were applied and the levels of available soil nutrients for regions of Ukraine (in regard to nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and humus) were estimated. The results reveal the economically feasible future bioenergy generation potential of crop residues in Ukraine, equaling 3.6 Mtoe in the traditional agricultural development scenario and 10.7 Mtoe in the innovative development scenario. The projections show that, within the latter scenario, wheat, corn and barley combined are expected to provide up to 81.3% of the bioenergy generation potential of crop residues.


The study was carried out on Cox's Bazar sea beach area, the world longest sea beach and the tourist capital of Bangladesh. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the tourists' perception towards various facilities and services at Cox's Bazar sea beach as a tourists' destination. The study was based on primary as well as secondary data; applied quantitative method and 308 questionnaires were used. The factor analysis was conducted to create correlated variable composites from the original attributes. The results of the study stated that tourists' perception is favorable on  Factor 1, Natural Beauty and Restful Atmosphere, Factor 3, Accommodation and security, Factor 4, Hospitality and information and Factor 6, Shopping and activities and tourists' perception is unfavorable on Factor 2, Hygiene and Sanitation  and Factor 5, emergency and caring services. The findings of the current research suggest that there are statistically significant differences in tourists' perception with respects of respondents' demographic characteristics such as respondents' gender, age, occupation and education in some services and facilities at Cox's Bazar. The findings suggest that the tourism market players, managers and policy makers should ensure up to the mark services with unfavorable factors and differentiated marketing strategies should be stressed and executed by the relevant parties. Therefore, the findings of the study also provided theoretical and practical implications for the planners, marketers and tourism authorities of Cox's Bazaar in formulating strategies to maintain or enhance their competitiveness.


Waste newsprint paper was chemically modified with p-aminobenzoic acid to prepare a sorption active gel. This gel proved useful for the selective uptake of gold, palladium and platinum over other coexisting metal ions such as copper, nickel, zinc and iron. A remarkably high capacity for Au(III) was observed together with a moderate uptake of Pt(IV) and Pd(IV). Furthermore, Au(III) was reduced to elemental gold which formed aggregates. A high percentage recovery of the precious metal ions (85–95%) and regeneration of the gel was attained by using a mixture of 0.15 M thiourea and 1 M HCl. Repeated cycles of uptake and elution by using a column packed with this new sorbent indicated that the gel is suitable for industrial application in continuous mode.


complex[Ni(La) 2 ](NO 3 )2 (1)with bidentate racemic1,2,2-trimethylcyclopentane-1,3-diamine lig-and has been synthesized and characterized by IR,EA,ES-MS,and its X-ray diffracti on study reveals that the nickel (Ⅱ)abstract: center is tetra-coordinated by one D-and one L-diamine ligands,and a thre e-dimensional hydrogen-bond-sustained network is formed in the solid state by means of the eight-membered N-H...O hydrogen bond cy-cle.This compound also su pplies a good comparison to the chiral complex[Ni(L b )2 ]Cl 2 ·2H 2 O(2)(L b =D-(+)abstract:-1,2,2-trimethylcyclopentane-1,3-diamine)abstract:.CCDC:218122.


The present invention provides a tub filler faucet assembly and mounting method. The tub filler faucet assembly includes a nozzle, a mounting assembly and a drain assembly. The mounting assembly coupled to the nozzle assembly and the drain pipe. The drain assembly is positioned below the floor.


The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of meridian scraping therapy on body composition, lipid profiles and pulse wave velocity in female...


The utility model discloses a polyimide film coating device, which relates to the field of liquid crystal display panel manufacture and resolves the problem in the prior art that foreign bodies existing on a machine platform cause damage to a substrate and a liquid ultraviolet hardening resin relief printing plate in film coating operation in the process of coating a polyimide film. A hair brush device and a lifting support frame supporting the hair brush device are added to the existing polyimide film coating device to achieve the fact that the hair brush device can clean the foreign bodies on the surface of the machine platform when the substrate on the machine platform is disassembled and the machine platform runs under the hair brush device.


Container terminal is the transfer hinge of land-sea intermodal transportation. Container terminal logistics system (CTLS) is the central handling platform of container logistics in logistics network as the computer system is the core processing node to information flow in internet. Quay side is its "central processing unit (CPU)" of handling platform and storage yard is its "main memory." CTLS is a highly complex system which includes parallel, negotiation, and competition relations etc. in operation so that this paper introduces agent based computing (ABC) and knowledge discovery in database (KDD) to model CTLS. Logistics, information flow, and decision flow are the kernel of transaction and operation of container terminals which are developing into professional third party logistics (TPL) and seized of enormous business data which are accumulated by the inner information infrastructure and the public electronic commerce (EC) platform. Through the analysis to the handling operation and container logistics of CTLS, we refer to the design thinking of computer organization and architecture and introduce the resource scheduling thinking of the operation system, and draw an analogy between CTLS and parallel computer architecture based on Harvard architecture, map and carve up the production, and scheduling system of CTLS into fourteen kinds of agents: berth allocation agent, quay crane allocation agent, storage yard management agent, yard crane allocation agent, container truck dispatch agent, tugboat dispatch agent, gate house management agent, berth agent, quay crane agent, yard agent, yard crane agent, container truck agent, tugboat agent, and gate house agent according to the entities and their mutual relations. We bring forward the modeling framework of CTLS based on multi-agent and KDD which provides the engine to drive the model accordingly. This modeling thinking and framework, which serves the turn to the queuing theory inherently and possesses the top-ranking flexibility and robustness to the computational intelligence (CI), can help to set down the production scheduling plan and support the important decision-making of the port. A simulation to the quay side is implemented by the AnyLogic 6.2 and SQL Server 2005 and berth allocation based on practical data is given emphasis to discuss. The simulation result precedes the quondam research and actual data to 5.14% and 26.82% through the dynamic priority scheduling. In addition, a series of similar simulations are executed to support the decision on the proportion between berth and quay crane. All verify the feasibility and creditability of the above idea and the effective scheduling strategy in the framework will be further discussed and studied when the container terminal is provided with the multifarious characteristics in the future.


In this article I examine the connections running between F.T. Marinetti's Futurist manifestos and wireless communication media in the early part of the 20th century. I set forth how two literary inventions, words-in-freedom (parole in libertà) and a wireless imagination (immaginazione senza fili), inscribe the newness of the wireless in the medium of writing; becoming the indices of an altered media environment in which the components of writing are uncoupled via the installation of the wireless where outdated egos once resided. In the widening space that Marinetti grants his words-in-freedom, I show him moving decidedly away from a Romantic conception of imagination to one more properly resembling a 20th century wireless transmission. Detailing wirelessly transmitted sense perceptions and the poet who becomes a war correspondent capable of covering theaters of war, I offer a critical perspective onto wireless technology, speed, and data streams in the manifestos. In my reading Futurism will come to mark both the ascendancy of the wireless over aesthetics and its alliance with wartime commands.


Introduction 1. Regional and Global Security: Changing Threats and Institutional Responses Part 1: Europe 2. France: Between Exceptionalism and Orthodoxy 3. Germany: From a Reluctant Power to a Constructive Power? 4. Italy: New Ambitions and Old Deficiencies 5. United Kingdom: Punching above its Weight 6. European Union: The European Security Strategy versus National Preferences Part 2: North America 7. Canada: Taking Security Seriously after 11 September? 8. United States: The Unrelenting Search for an Existential Threat in the Twenty-First Century Part 3: Eurasia 9. China: Security Cooperation with Reservations 10. Japan: Recasting the Post-War Security Consensus 11. Russia: Struggling for Dignity Conclusion 12. Regional or Global Security Cooperation? The Vertices of Conflict and Interstices of Cooperation


Almost two decades have passed since Dutch employers, unions and the government, in their struggle against unemployment, agreed on a policy to increase labour market flexibility. Over the years the share of flexible jobs in the Netherlands has gradually increased to around ten percent. According to some parties the introduction of more labour market flexibility would lead to more inequality and a division in the labour market between workers with permanent employment and an underclass of women, immigrant workers and poorly educated workers with temporary contracts. The Dutch government has always claimed that a special set of legal rules regarding labour market flexibility would prevent the development of such an underclass. In this article three questions are addressed: Who has a flexible labour contract and who is in permanent employment? What is the pattern of transition to permanent contracts? What are the consequences for wage rates for those on permanent or flexible contracts respectively? The answers to these questions are provided using panel data for the period 1986-96. The results show that labour market flexibility has been introduced into the Dutch labour market without detrimental consequences for specific groups of workers.


Abstract We present a rotational analysis of the (0-0) bands of the visible d 3 Φ →, a 3 Δ and infrared b 3 Π → a 3 Δ systems of scandium monofluoride which appear in the thermal emission. The wavenumbers of 1240 lines observed in the ΔΣ = 0 subbands of the two systems are the subject of a global adjustment in which the electronic states involved are represented by adapted Hamiltonian matrices. Accurate rotational constants and energies at ν = 0 are obtained for the three states. Reliable values of the spin-orbit splittings could also be determined from the fits in spite of the nonobservation of satellite subbands with ΔΣ = ±1. The three substates of b 3 Π all show significant Λ-type doubling and the e / f parity of the components could be determined.


Neural networks can be quite sensitive to weight errors, thus requiring very precise implementation hardware in order to avoid errors in the input-output map of the network due to drift in the stored values of the weights. An alternative to precise analog hardware is to limit the number of values the weights are allowed to assume. This restriction on the weights affects the fundamental capabilities of the Adaline, yet allows for less precise hardware to be used. The ternary Adaline represents a limiting case in that it restricts the values of the weights to one of three values: +1, -1, and 0; it allows for an excitatory connection, an inhibitory connection, or no connection. The effects of this restriction on the number of logic functions implementable by a single Adaline and on the capacity of an Adaline are examined. Two algorithms which can be used to training a single ternary Adaline are also introduced.<<ETX>>


Objective: To determine the government and out‐of‐pocket community costs (out‐of‐hospital medical services and prescription medicines) associated with screen‐detected and community‐detected cancers (i.e. cancers detected outside of Australia's organised screening program [BreastScreen]).


A field experiment to establish the effect of the leaf fertilizers Amalgerol Essence, Nutribio N and Trafos A-Z was conducted. Wheat and sunflower yields in a conventional cultivation scheme have been reported. As a result of the study, it was found that the yields obtained from the leaf-treated variants with the fertilizers on both crops were proven to increase their yields compared to the control variant of the conventional scheme. The products used offset and lead to increasing the yield of wheat, despite a reduction in mineral nitrogen doses of up to 50%. The biostimulators have a positive effect on productivity and improve the overall phytosanitary status of the crops. Their use enhances the sustainability of crops and guarantees high yields in ecological and organic farming.


Handedness is one of the most obvious functional asymmetries, but its relation to anatomical asymmetry in the brain has not yet been clearly demonstrated. However, there is no significant evidence to prove or disprove this structure-function correlation, thus left-handed patients are often excluded from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies. MRI classification of left and right hemispheres is a difficult task on its own due to the complexity of the images and the structural similarities between the two halves. We demonstrate a deep artificial neural network approach in connection with a detailed preprocessing pipeline for the classification of lateralization in T1-weighted MR images of the human brain. Preprocessing includes bias field correction and registration on the MNI template. Our classifier is a convolutional neural network (CNN) that was trained on 287 images. Each image was duplicated and mirrored on the mid-sagittal plane. The best model reached an accuracy of 97.594% with a mean of 95.42% and standard deviation of 1.37%. Additionally, our model's performance was evaluated on an independent set of 118 images and reached a classification accuracy of 97%. In a larger study we tested the model on grey-matter images of 927 left and 927 right-handed patients from the UK Biobank. Here all right-handed images and all left-handed images were classified as belonging to one class. The results suggest that there is no structural difference in grey-matter between the two hemispheres that can be distinguished by the deep learning classifier.


There is a growing interest in new organisational forms and integrated managerial and technological approaches supporting companies in continuously innovating their products and processes to survive in a turbulent environment. Successful product innovation will more and more depend upon a company's ability to manage knowledge and integrate a growing number of competencies within and outside the organisational boundaries. These abilities require a complex set of interrelated managerial, technological and organisational conditions that must be designed according to the individual firm's characteristics. This paper aims to identify and analyse the relation between individual firms' contingent variables and managerial approaches to foster knowledge management in product innovation. Evidence is based on a survey of 70 companies, including European and Australian firms, developed within the Euro-Australian cooperation project entitled CIMA (Continuous Improvement for global innovation management).


Uniform hypergraphs have a natural one-to-one correspondence to tensors. In this paper, we investigate the Estrada index and subgraph centrality of an $m$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ via the adjacency tensor. We establish some bounds for the Estrada index and give expressions of the subgraph centrality in terms of graph parameters of the multi-digraphs associated with $\mathcal{H}$. When $\mathcal{H}$ is $2$-uniform, the above Estrada index and subgraph centrality are the Estrada index and subgraph centrality of a graph.


Non-variceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (NVUGIH) is a common reason for hospital admissions and carries 2-10% mortality. Mortality trends from NVUGIB over the last two decades were shown to be decreasing previously (1989-2009) [1]. However, there is limited literature addressing racial differences in longitudinal incidence and related mortality trends from NVUGIH [2]. We studied racial differences in incidence and mortality from NVUGIH in the USA between 2008-2018.


Absorption, photoluminescence and photoinduced absorption spectra of polycarbazolyldiacetylenes (polyCzDAs) carrying selected acyl (polyDPCHD) or alkyl (polyDCHD-HS) groups are reported. The absorption spectrum of polyDCHD-HS films, which is almost independent of the temperature, shows an excitonic absorption followed by an inhomogeneously broadened vibronic progression. Very different is instead the case of polyDPCHD whose thin films show a very sharp excitonic transition and a vibronic progression with a lower electron-phonon (el-ph) coupling with respect to that of polyDCHD-HS. Unlike other polydiacetylenes (PDAs), the polyCzDAs which exhibit narrow spectral features and reduced el-ph coupling, such as polyDPCHD films and polyDCHD-HS in benzene solutions, are luminescent thus suggesting a different ordering of the dipole forbidden and allowed states. This interpretation is confirmed by two-photon spectroscopic data. The ordering of the Ag and Bu excited states also affects the generation of triplet excitons, which are the main long-living excited states of PDAs. The rise and decay of the triplet signal for polyDCHD-HS are accounted for through a dynamical model, based on a monomolecular decay regime including saturation effects. A more complex kinetics is instead observed for polyDPCHD. From the study of the kinetics of the PIA spectra both the triplet generation efficiency and the density of traps are evaluated.


Fibroid growths in the walls of the womb produce such serious symptoms and cause so great an amount of suffering that I believe that any method of treatment which has afforded relief or produced a cure should be placed before the profession. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that fibroid tumors in the walls of the womb may be either checked in their growth, strangulated until local necrosis is produced, or forced out of the uterine walls by contractions produced by the free and long continued use of ergot. The methods by which the remedies have been administered are, by hypodermatic injections; by the mouth; or by suppositories per rectum or vaginum. The inoculation of a virus to prevent or modify threatened diseases, has been practiced for about two hundred years. The most familiar examples are those against small-pox, anthrax, hydrophobia, cholera, scarlet fever, and finally, tuberculosis. Hypodermatic medication has been


A Thesis submitted to the Postgraduate School,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in partial fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of
Master of Science M.Sc.) in Water Resources and
Environmental Engineering.
Department of Water Resources
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria - Nigeria
JULY, 1989


In this chapter, we discuss in detail the second-order description of a complex random vector x . We have seen in Chapter 2 that the second-order averages of x are completely described by the augmented covariance matrix R xx . We shall now be interested in those second-order properties of x that are invariant under two types of transformations: widely unitary and nonsingular strictly linear. The eigenvalues of the augmented covariance matrix R xx constitute a maximal invariant for R xx under widely unitary transformation. Hence, any function of R xx that is invariant under widely unitary transformation must be a function of these eigenvalues only. In Section 3.1, we consider the augmented eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) of R xx for a complex random vector x . Since we are working with an augmented matrix algebra, this EVD looks somewhat different from what one might expect. In fact, because all factors in the EVD must be augmented matrices, widely unitary diagonalization of R xx is generally not possible. As an application for the augmented EVD, we discuss rank reduction and transform coding. In Section 3.2, we introduce the canonical correlations between x and x * , which have been called the circularity coefficients . These constitute a maximal invariant for R xx under nonsingular strictly linear transformation. They are interesting and useful for a number of reasons. They determine the loss in entropy that an improper Gaussian random vector incurs compared with its proper version (see Section 3.2.1). […]


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Metabolic syndrome has received great attention because it poses a potential cardiovascular hazard, which increases the risk of lower extremity atherosclerosis. However, the relationship between the components of metabolic syndrome and the onset of chronic venous disorder of the lower extremities remains unexplained.


Such Enlightenment, the narrator tells us facetiously, is effected by an elastic religion known as the Simla Creed, alive at the edges of the British Empire where he, an unnamed Englishman, is stationed. An amalgam of occult practices, the creed stretched itself and embraced pieces of everything that the medicine-men of all ages have manufactured (63). So Rudyard Kipling mockingly observes in this satire of British Victorian forays into the marginal sciences of occultism, Spiritualism, and Mesmerism. An early Kipling tale, "The Sending of Dana Da" (1888) is one of Kiplings first engagements with the religions and philosophies of the East; it was published in the Civil and Military Gazette, a provincial newspaper for which Kipling regularly wrote. The infamous Dana Da – whose name, we are told, escapes every ethnological inscription, and who came from nowhere, with nothing in his hands (62) – dispatches a sending on the behalf of (and through) the Englishman. The recipient of this letter, (again) a Lone Sahib, is characteristically armed with scientific naturalism and Christian faith, and therefore refutes the possibilities of ectoplasmic infestation, unseen currents, and the fecund times of reincarnation. Kiplings eloquent exposition on a sending, despite his final rational explanation of this unseemly act, betrays his fascination with such forbidden epistemologies multiplying at the edges of Empire:


The current data recording technology is approaching its capacity limit approximately 1 Tbit/in2 (terabits per square inch) known as superparamagnetic limit. Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is one of the promising technologies that is being planned to be used as a new data recording technology to achieve the storage capacity beyond 1 Tbit/in2. In HAMR, the laser is applied to heat a magnetic medium during the writing process, which results in the unique transition characteristics if compared to a conventional system. This paper investigates the effects of thermal and cross-track variations to the transition characteristics (both transition center and transition parameter) of longitudinal HAMR systems. Experimental results indicate that the longitudinal HAMR system can withstand some amount of thermal and cross-track variations and still provides satisfactory system performance.


A combined model of the atmosphere hydrothermodynamics and the pollutant transport is described. The atmospheric pollution processes are considered having regard to the aerosol coagulation. The coagulation is allowed for by the Smolukhovsky equation. To transform the equation into the form solvable numerically, we divide the mass range of particles involved in coagulation into fractions on a logarithmic scale. This allows us to describe a wide range of masses by using a small number of equations without any loss in accuracy. The coagulation kernels are taken close to reality, which allows us to take into consideration the change-over from one collision regime to another (free molecular, transition and diffuse regimes). Implementation of the numerical model and discussion of numerical experiments are presented as well. The atmospheric aerosols (small particles suspended in the air) were known for more than a hundred years, but only in the last decade their role in global atmospheric processes stimulated their thorough investigation. By now the atmospheric aerosols are known to affect the weather and climate on our planet, the radiation and energy balances of the atmosphere, the precipitation and cloud formation processes. Though the natural aerosols account for about 90% of the total aerosol mass, the important role of the anthropogenic aerosols becomes more and more clear, since the remaining 10% of the anthropogenic aerosols possesses anomalous physical and chemical properties and can induce and transform many chemical processes in the atmosphere. On the one hand, these processes supply the atmosphere with contaminations causing smog, global geophysical phenomena, acid rains, elc., on the other hand, they can provide efficient mechanisms for removing the anthropogenic pollution from the atmosphere. As a rule, the atmospheric pollutants are polydispersive, hence to model their dynamics numerically one needs to consider two main mechanisms: (1) the transport and diffusion of pollutants and (2) the changes of the aerosol concentration and disperse composition due to such kinetic processes as condensation, coagulation, nucleation, precipitation, etc. As these processes take place in the turbulent atmosphere, the problem of the aerosol dynamics must be solved using the hydrodynamic models. This allows one to reproduce the space and temporal variations in the fields of meteoelements and in the turbulent characteristics of the atmosphere. Some physical mechanisms of the aerosol formation are being intensively investigated in recent years. A wide range of problems is discussed in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Atmospheric Aerosols [2]. However, these papers are practically devoid of complex models which simultaneously allow for the aerosol transfer, transformation, origin and destruction processes taking place in the conditions of the atmospheric circulation. It is obvious that nowadays the development of such models is of great importance, since they allow one to describe precisely the aerosol dynamics in the atmosphere.


Our aim is to distinguish different trajectories of cognitive change in Chinese geriatric population and identify risk factors for cognitive decline in each subpopulation.


Abstract. An open-top-chamber (OTC) CO 2 enrichment (~720 m mol mol -1 ) study was conducted in the Colorado shortgrass steppe from April 1997 through October 2001. Aboveground plant biomass increased under elevated CO 2 and soil moisture content was typically higher than under ambient CO 2 conditions. Fluxes of CH 4 , CO 2 , NO x and N 2 O, measured weekly year round were not significantly altered by CO 2 enrichment over the 55 month period of observation. During early summer of 2002, following the removal of the open-top-chambers from the CO 2 enrichment sites in October 2001, we conducted a short term study to determine if soil microbial processes were altered in soils that had been exposed to double ambient CO 2 concentrations during the growing season for the past five years. Microplots were established within each experimental site and 10 mm of water or 10 mm of water containing the equivalent of 10 g m -2 of ammonium nitrate-N was applied to the soil surface. Fluxes of CO 2 , CH 4 , NO x and N 2 O fluxes within control (unchambered), ambient CO 2 and elevated CO 2 OTC soils were measured at one to three day intervals for the next month. With water addition alone, CO 2 and NO emission did not differ between ambient and elevated CO 2 soils, while CH 4 uptake rates were higher and N 2 O fluxes lower in elevated CO 2 soils. Adding water and mineral N resulted in increased CO 2 emissions, increased CH 4 uptake and decreased NO emissions in elevated CO 2 soils. The N addition study confirmed previous observations that soil respiration is enhanced under elevated CO 2 and N immobilization is increased, thereby decreasing NO emission.


As the Museum of Holography enters its second decade the holographic environment it serves is different to that of its first decade. The Museum must adopt its policies and programmes to this environment so that it fulfill its responsiblities to the public and to holography as the world focal point for the collection of holograms and the dissemination of information about holography.


Recent advances have led to conjugated polymer‐based photovoltaic devices with efficiencies rivaling amorphous silicon. Nevertheless, these devices become less efficient over time due to changes in active layer morphology, thereby hindering their commercialization. Copolymer additives are a promising approach toward stabilizing blend morphologies; however, little is known about the impact of copolymer sequence, composition, and concentration. Herein, the impact of these parameters is determined by synthesizing random, block, and gradient copolymers with a poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) backbone and side‐chain fullerenes (phenyl‐C61‐butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM)). These copolymers are evaluated as compatibilizers in photovoltaic devices with P3HT:PC61BM as the active layer. The random copolymer with 20 mol% fullerene side chains and at 8 wt% concentration in the blend gives the most stable morphologies. Devices containing the random copolymer also exhibit higher and more stable power conversion efficiencies than the control device. Combined, these studies point to the random copolymer as a promising new scaffold for stabilizing bulk heterojunction photovoltaics.


In this paper, three-point boundary value problems for fourth order ordinary differential equations (φ(u(t))) = a(t)f(u(t)), 0 < t < 1 with one of the boundary conditions u(0) − λu(η) = u(1) = 0, α1φ(u (0)) − β1φ(u (0)) = γ1φ(u (1)) + δ1φ(u (1)) = 0, or u(1) + λu(η) = u(0) = 0, α1φ(u (0)) − β1φ(u (0)) = γ1φ(u (1)) + δ1φ(u (1)) = 0 are considered. Growth conditions on f which guarantee existence of at least two and three positive solutions for these problems are imposed, respectively, and examples illustrating the results are given.


The welfare effect of urban renewal policies depends on the size of the external effects and the quantity of the building stock that gets redeveloped. While evidence on the externalities is growing, credibly identified estimates of the responsiveness of redevelopment are completely lacking. I exploit a sharp reduction in the value-added tax (VAT) on construction services for redevelopment in a select group of 32 Belgian cities to fill this gap. The results show that the 15 percentage points reduction in the VAT rate lead to an increase in the amount of demolished and redeveloped floorspace of respectively 36% and 35%.


A four-hole AsSe2-As2S5 hybrid microstructured optical fiber (HMOF) with a large refractive index difference is fabricated by the rod-in-tube drawing technique. The core and the cladding are made from the AsSe2 glass and As2S5 glass, respectively. The propagation loss is ~1.2 dB/m and the nonlinear coefficient is ~4.937×104 km-1W-1 at ~3000 nm. Zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) of the HMOF is ~3380 nm. Supercontinuum (SC) generation in the HMOF is investigated by pumping a 2 cm-long AsSe2-As2S5 HMOF with the wavelengths of ~3062, 3241 and 3389 nm from a tunable optical parametric oscillator (OPO) system. Broadband mid-infrared SC generation with the spectrum from ~1256 to 6385 nm is obtained with the peak power of ~1337 kW at the wavelength of ~3389 nm.


Pompeius' commands against the Mediterranean pirates and Mithridates in the 60s BC have long been considered together. They are often seen as an important, possibly an 'extraordinary' moment in the decline of the Roman Republic, when one man's popularity gained him unrivalled power, a moment that was important in the ongoing destabilisation of the Republican political system. This article will discuss the way in which the statutes that established these commands - the lex Gabinia and lex Manilia - were part of a long-running process by which the constitution evolved over time and through which Rome changed from Republic to Principate. It will also argue that it is valid to think in terms of Rome as having a constitution, without having to refer to it in 'scare quotes'. An examination of the statutes shows that the Romans interpreted and argued about the nature of their constitution as they responded to the challenges facing their city. These laws were, fundamentally, an ad hoc solution to long-running problems; at the same time, the nature of the solution altered the Roman understanding of what was possible and permissible in their res publica.


This paper carried on an analysis to the essence of knowledge management and knowledge management system.Basing on the proposal of EKP(enterprise knowledge portal) and with the aid of the knowledge management theory and method,proposed a solution of knowledge management system based on management object,and produced the system frame model,the operation pattern as well as the characteristic and the superiority of this system.


The river Danube is the second longest river in Europe, with a total length of some 2680 km and a catchment area of 817 000 km2. The source of the river lies in the Black Forest in Germany, at the confluence of two smaller streams, the Brigach and the Breg, in Donaueschingen. Navigation is possible between Kelheim in Germany and Sulina in Romania, where the Danube flows into the Black Sea. In Romania, the Danube is 1075 km long, the last 175 km of which (as far as the city of Braila) is navigable for seagoing vessels. This stretch is called the Maritime or Lower Danube (in Romanian: Dunarea de Jos). The seaports of the Lower Danube lying within Romanian territory are Braila, Galati, Tulcea and Sulina. The ports of Reni, Izmail and Kilija are in the Ukraine. Near the city of Tulcea the Danube splits into three branches, known as Kilia, Sulina and Saint Georges. For navigation purposes the Sulina branch or, as it is called today, the Sulina Canal, forms the vital link between the Danube seaports and the Bla...


artists will be reasonably familiar to readers of African Arts. Along with Dumile there is Rakgoathe, Maqhubela, Shilakoe, Sithole, and Kumalo, the sculptor. All in all, it makes a most impressive recital, and one marvels that the damaging political circumstances of present-day South Africa should have inspired such an extraordinary growth of distinguished artists. One begins to speculate on the relationship between social tensions and creativity, remembering the famous comment of Harry Lime that in Switzerland centuries of democ-


Abstract Alkyliminotrialkylphosphoranes form stable complexes with BF3 which structures have not been studied earlier. It is possible that these complexes are formed at the first stage of imide-amide rearrangement under action of the BF3 etherate. As the adducts cannot be isolated, we decided to study the stable BF3 adducts with phenyliminotriphenylphosphorane (la), p-fluorophenyliminotriphenyl-phosphorane (lb) and benzyliminotriphenylphosphorane (Ic), all being crystalline compounds.


The article is devoted to the analysis of the legal consequences of incompetent actions of police officers in the use of firearms. The author assesses the circumstances and consequences of the use of firearms by law enforcement officers against offenders.


Alzheimer's disease(AD) is the most common type of Alzheimer 's,and its pathogenesis is complex.β-amyloid protein(Aβ) is considered to be the key factor of inducing AD.The neurotoxicity of Aβ mediates nerve cell mitochondrial dysfunction,which is an important event in AD pathogenesis.In the present paper,the neurotoxicity of Aβ and mitochondrial dysfunction are reviewed in recent years.


A propane-filled bubble chamber is described that has a volume of 1 liter. The operating pressure is 350 lb/in./sup 2/. An expansion of 3% within about 10 msec is produced by coupllng the piston to the flywheel of a small electric motor by a magnetic clutch. This operation requires a square-shaped current pulse of amplitude 4 amp lasting between 20 and 100 msec. When the clutch is energized, a synchronized flash illuminates tracks produced by the ionizing particles. (N.W.R.)


An RF receiver capable of canceling interference signal and a canceling method of the interference signal by using a plurality of signal process paths are provided to improve the performance by canceling undesired signal existed in the other channel which the frequency is not overlapped with desired signal. An RF(Radio Frequency) receiver comprises a first signal processing unit(100) and a second signal processing unit(200). The first signal processing unit detects undesired signal from the radio frequency signal received through a channel. The first signal processing unit converts phase. The second signal processing unit detects the desired signal by adding the signal outputted from the first signal processing unit to the received radio frequency signal. The second signal processing unit comprises a delay unit(230) and adder(240). An adder adds the signal outputted in the delay unit and the signal outputted in the first signal processing unit.


Abstract : The patent describes a device for controlling a beam of a two-dimensional antenna array, in which the memory function is accomplished on phase shifters or gating circuits which control the phase shifters, containing a computer control unit, unit of subtractive counters, and two coordinate multipliers. The outputs of the coordinate multipliers are connected to the inputs of summing counters of rows and reverse counters of columns, whose outputs are connected with the inputs of gating circuits via the coincidence circuits.


There was something bothering Maria. When Maria was younger, there was another man. It was all in the past, but she could never get herself to tell anyone. She did not see anything wrong. It was all in the past. Should she tell her friend now? She decided to write to Kant. Like a doctor diagnosing a patient's ailment ,Immanuel Kant gave an ethical diagnosis expected Maria to be grateful to hear this. If she followed that which he prescribed, she would be better off. But was she?


S: Thirty-nine of makerels in Sagami Bay were dissected. Parasitic helminths obtained from them are as follows: Kuhnia scombri as monogenetic trematode, Opechona orientalis, O. olsoni, Lecithocladium excisum, N ematobothrium fil iforme as digenetic trematodes, Echeneibothrium bifidum, unidentified larvae as cestodes. Anisakis-Iarvae (Type I & II of BERLAND, 1961) as nematodes, N ipporhynchus seriolae, Bolbosoma sp. as acanthocephalan (Table 1). Some taxonomic discussions for O. orientalis and N. seriolae were given.


Through analysis the contents,forming process and infection factor of the individual de-fending consciousness of the basketball consciousness,combining developing law and trend of basketball and these experiences in the basketball training and teaching,supply a method which is about how to cultivate the individual defending consciousness from the eight aspects.


This research aims to analyze the opinions of classroom teachers on the social skills of refugee students. The qualitative method linked to case study design was used in the research. Within the scope of the research, interviews were conducted with 22 classroom teachers who have knowledge about the concept of social skills; who work in Sivas which was selected with regard to the method of convenience sampling; and who have refugee students in their classes which were selected with regard to the method of criteria sampling. Data were collected by using semi-structured interview and observation forms. Descriptive analysis method was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was observed that refugee students have language problems, and they are shy and introvert. It was determined that communication and social skills of the students are weak; yet, they obey school and classroom rules. The number of teachers who stated that refugee students' ability to solve the problems they face is sufficient and the number of teachers who stated that refugee students' ability to solve the problems they face is not sufficient are very close to each other. While the teachers state that they do not do any extra exercise in the classes to increase social skills of refugee students and they do not find themselves competent as they do not have knowledge on this subject, they also suggest that students should learn Turkish before they attend school. A variety of suggestions were made in the light of the research findings.


I N considering the development of civil defense in relation to American regions this paper begins with three assumptions: First, it assumes that civil defense comprises a needed protection for communities during the nuclear age. This may be compared with simpler forms of protection (as forts) which were needed in earlier centuries in view of the type of warfare then prevailing or with "blackouts" and other measures established in Europe during World War II as protection against air attack when ordinary (nonnuclear) bombs were used. Given the present state of (1) inharmonious and somewhat threatening international relations, (2) warfare not brought under international control, (3) suddenly erupting conflicts (exemplified by the Pearl Harbor attack), and (4) highly destructive war weapons, civil defense protection is regarded as a needed element in present-day city and metropolitan life. This paper assumes that it is needed just as the police and fire departments are necessary institutions regardless of whether a crime wave is at hand or whether major fires have recently occurred. The methods of defense may vary from time to time, depending on circumstances and on possible actions. But the need itself is thought to be present unless and until modern destructive war is surely controlled, armaments have surely been reduced by agreement of world powers to the extent that a significant threat to communities no longer exists, or some other defense system is devised (such as the use of defensive guided missiles) that will surely provide for the defense of a nation. While some progress has been made regarding the latter two items (probably little with respect to the first), it seems clear that none of these developments have been achieved as yet. One should also keep in mind that while international relations ebb and flow with respect to their state of amicability, potential enemies do have nuclear bombs piled up which may be used at any time. A second assumption of this paper is that the regional approach to the study of civil defense is a valid, appropriate, and promising one to be used along with other approaches. It is apparent that the characteristics which make one area attractive as a target for military attack and another area unattractive vary over a nation, hence the nuclear threat simply is not the same in all parts of the United States. While, it is true, the attack would be directed against individual communities or metropolitan centers, nevertheless certain regions have large clusters of these urban-industrial concentrations, as will be shown, and other regions have a smaller number. It may be inferred that an enemy would subject the former type of region to heavier attack-granting that individual cities in any region might be attacked. Other regions, as agricultural ones, might be ignored in a nuclear strike but attacked with germs. Some regions, less attractive as targets, would probably be used from the defensive standpoint as relief and rehabilitation areas. In any event, it is assumed that civil defense may be appropriately studied using the approach of regional sociology just as housing, occupations, water resources, public health, and other subjects may be so studied-and for much the same reasons: Differences in geographical and cultural conditions and in characteristics of the population are often shown to have a significant effect on the nature and extent of social phenomena and problems. Thirdly, this paper makes a pair of specific assumptions for practical working purposes, one applying to civil defense, the other to regions. In citing the development of civil defense activities it relies exclusively on the official data of the Federal Civil Defense Administration as published in its annual reports. In relating these data to regions, it defines a sociological region as an area having major size, possessing relative homogeneity in geographical and cultural characteristics, functioning as a cultural gestalt, though viewed as part of a larger grouping-namely, the nation. Admitting that various regional schemes have validity and could be used for present purposes, * Based on a paper read before the twentieth annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April 12, 1957.


Objective To evaluate the efficacy, tolerance and safety of moxonidine on aged patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension. Methods Thirty-one patients over seventy with mild to moderate essential hypertension were given moxonidine orally, 0.2-0.4 mg, qd, for 8 weeks. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate and blood glucose of the patients before the treatment and at 1, 2, 4 and 8 wk were tested, and the serum level of K~(+), Na~(+), BUN, Cr, AST and ALT before and after the treatment were measured. Results The SBP, DBP and heart rate declined remarkably after 1, 2, 4 and 8 wk. The level of K~(+), Na~(+), BUN, Cr, AST, ALT and serum glucose have no significant difference before and after the treatment. The total efficacy rate of moxonidine was 91.7%. Moxonidine had long therapeutic effect with good tolerance. Only one patient had adverse reaction. Conclusion Moxonidine has certain antihypertive effect and good safety on aged patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension.


Owing to the openness, smart grid communication network (SGCN) is vulnerable to several security attacks during data transmission. Providing effective security measures to improve network availability is a significant issue in SGCN, since network unavailability result in the loss of real-time monitoring of power infrastructures. The highly interconnected SGCN network is susceptible to packet dropping attacks between data aggregation points. In this paper, a probability based trust calculation method is proposed to thwart the malicious packet dropping attack. Trust evaluation is done using one-hop, multi-hop, hybrid and total trust to thwart malicious attacks. At each stage, suitable equations are provided to eliminate misbehaving attack, on-off attack and bad-mouthing attack. Simulations are conducted to determine the significant performance of the trust based network by changing the number of fraudulent nodes. The simulation result shows that the proposed probability based trust calculation model provides secured communication and reduces data loss in the network.


ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical characteristics of upper extremity deep venous thrombosis(UEDVT).MethodsFrom January 2004 to October 2007,fourteen patie nts with UEDVT were treated and the clinic data were observed and analyzed.ResultsThere were 8 males and 6 females in the 14 cases and the median age was 55.1 years.Pain,swelling and dysfunction were the main clinical manifestations in the affected extremities.The courses of disease were from 8 hours to 28 days.All patients were examined by ultrasonography or phlebography and treated by thrombolysis,anticoagulation and Stretch Socks.The therapeutic measures were effective.ConclusionVenous injury,stasis of blood and abnormalities of blood were the three primary factors in the development of UEDVT.Systemic long-term therapy were effective in UEDVT.


Just as the range of Edward Said's literary, political, and theoretical writings was expanded through references to music, so too his reviews of performances and his essays on music were deeply influenced by his passion for both literature and politics. Ever the comparatist, he sought parallels and analogies between the arts but also between art and life. Indeed, it was his love for the music of Bach and the playing of Glenn Gould that inspired his theory of "contrapuntal" analysis as a way to move beyond insularity and provincialism in criticism.


Free-listing is a quick, semi-quantitative methodology commonly used by anthropologists to uncover information within a cultural domain. In this method note, we review how anthropologists have used free-listing in a variety of research settings. We then apply the social-ecological framework to describe how free-listing can be used for formative, process, outcome, and impact stages of program evaluation. Each type of evaluation includes a set of example free-list prompts to help researchers begin using this tool. We propose that free-listing is a beneficial data collection method in program evaluation. The free-listing method has identified barriers to treatment within our own work with clients recovering from either substance use disorder (SUD) or opioid use disorder (OUD) and has aided in providing flexible, individualized services. We conclude by providing recommendations for collecting free-list data and demonstrating the ease of computing free-list results by providing instructions and an example on how to analyze free-list responses.


For Bi-based cuprate superconductors, increasing its Cu content by heat-treatment is probably a beneficial way to its superconducting transition. In the paper, the corresponding methods and procedures of the experiment were proposed, and the theoretical analysis and explanation of the experimental results were conducted. The method of increasing Cu content by heat-treatment is innovative.


Nowadays, Mobile networks offer a lot of advantages in terms of usage flexibility. However, they suffer from several problems such as the rapid change of network topology caused by the high mobility of nodes. More research has been done to measure the mobility of nodes with the objective to increase network performance. The work done in this paper concerns the improvement of the formula used in the routing protocol Mob-OLSR for measuring mobility of nodes by automating the setting. Herein, the improved protocol is called Mob-2-OLSR protocol.


Understanding the inner workings of the cell constitutes the foremast fundamental problem of modern biology. The information contained in large protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks is being exploited for understanding the cell and developing new drugs. Currently available PPI networks of model organisms, containing thousands of nodes (proteins) and tens of thousands of edges (interactions), are noisy and largely incomplete. PPI networks of higher organisms will be much larger. As these data sets grow, it is important that our models keep representing the data well, since the models can be used for data cleaning and experimental planning.
The currently accepted scale-free model of PPI networks is based on global statistical properties of PPI networks. However, global measures are very weak, since qualitatively different graphs can have equal values in these measures. It is possible that the observed global proper ties of PPI networks are an artifact of noisy, high-throughput experimental techniques used to detect PPIs, as well as the incompleteness of the data. Fortunately, some parts of PPI networks have been extensively studied due to their importance for basic biological function and human disease. We expect the local structural properties of these highly studied portions of PPI networks to give a much better indication of the true structure of PPI networks. Therefore, we use a sensitive, local structure approach.
We measure local structural properties of a PPI network by finding and counting all instances of 3-, 4-, and 5-node connected induced subgraphs, called graphlets. We compare the graphlet frequency distributions of the PPI and various model networks with the same number of nodes and edges as the PPI network. Using this measure of local network structure, we show that PPI networks are better modeled by geometric random graphs than by previously proposed models, including scale-free networks. In a geometric random graph, nodes correspond to uniformly randomly distributed points in a metric space; two nodes are adjacent in the graph if they are close enough in the metric space. We use this new model to develop efficient and scalable heuristic algorithms for estimating graphlet frequency distribution patterns in PPI and geometric random networks.


This letter focuses on the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic wave in the plasma under high-power microwave (HPM) illumination. A multiphysical method coupling the electromagnetic field and plasma fluid field is proposed as the dynamic Drude model. The differences between the method based on dynamic Drude model and traditional static Drude model are discussed theoretically for the first time. Unlike the static Drude model, the dynamic Drude model fully considers the motion of electrons in plasma driven by electromagnetic field. Numerical examples demonstrate that both the dynamic Drude model-based and static Drude model-based method are consistent with each other under low power microwave illumination, where the plasma can be considered as a static media. While under HPM illumination, electrons gradually gather together to hinder the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Hence, the proposed dynamic Drude model is more logical to analyze the characteristics of electromagnetic wave in plasma than the traditional static Drude model under HPM illumination.


A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2009 at Zonal Agricultural Research Station, V. C. Farm, Mandya, Karnataka. The experiment consisted of 12 treatments laid out in randomized complete block design with three replications consisting of four pre-emergence herbicides integrated with one intercultivation at 40 days after sowing, hand weeding twice at 20 and 40 days after sowing, intercultivation thrice at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing compared with weed free and unweeded check. The predominant weed flora observed in the experimental field were Echinochloa colonum, Digitaria marginata, Ageratum conyzoides, Spilanthus acmella, Commelina benghalensis, Celosia argentia, Cyperus iria and Cyperus rotundus. The results revealed that pre-emergence application of bensulfuron methyl+pretilachlor (6.6 GR) @ 0.06+0.60 kg/ha+one intercultivation at 40 days after sowing recorded significantly higher grain and straw yield (4425 and 5020 kg/ha, respectively), lower weed population and their dry weight (17.0 g and 2.32 g 0.25/m2, respectively). Further the net returns and B: C ratio were also high with the pre-emergence application of bensulfuron methyl + pretilachlor (6.6 GR) @ 0.06 + 0.60 kg/ha+one intercultivation at 40 days after sowing.


The necessity of developing integrated reconnaissance architecture and key techniques to be researched are discussed on the field of electronic reconnaissance.


In nuclear power plants (NPPs), the aging of electrical cable insulation occurs due to elevated temperature, ionizing radiation, and other environmental factors. To ensure the safe and efficient operation of NPPs, determination of key indicators of cable aging is critical to predict the remaining useful lifetime of electrical cable insulation. In this work, the effects of simultaneous and sequential thermal and gamma radiation on the aging of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) electrical cable insulation are investigated. The chemical changes of the insulation were monitored non-destructively through the use of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The FTIR spectra were measured stepwise after predetermined exposure intervals, with a total irradiation dose up to 320 kGy at a dose rate of 300 Gy/hr in two exposure scenarios; simultaneously aged samples were heated at 150°C during irradiation, while sequentially aged samples were heated at 150°C for designated durations followed by corresponding times of irradiation at ambient temperature. A data-driven approach using principal component analysis (PCA) was developed to highlight changes in the carbonyl region of the infrared spectra of the aged samples due to oxidation and to differentiate oxidation rates under the simultaneous and sequential exposure conditions. Findings indicate that the sequential aging scenario in which irradiation follows thermal aging may be more conservative than the simultaneous aging scenario for XLPE electrical cable insulation.


vertebra on the other with little vertebral displacement and with minimal involvement of the spinal cord is commonest. The only fatality at the levels C1 to C3-4 was associated with a collapse of C3 on C4 with encroachment of fragments on the spinal canal and cord compression, an injury very reminiscent of those occurring at lower levels, and indeed caused in a similar fashion and not by a sack. Below the C3-4 level the commonest injuries are overriding of one or both articular facets in a fracturedislocation or compression fracture of a vertebra, both of which encroach on the space of the spinal canal and cause serious compression and permanent damage. Thus in the upper cervical regions there is not only less displacement of the bones one on the other but a larger canal round which dislocative movements can take place. Injury to the cervical spine occurring in porters carrying heavy loads on their heads is uncommon considering the enormous numbers of sacks that are transported in this fashion. None the less, such injuries do occur. They seem more likely to involve a higher level of the cervical region than do injuries due to other causes, and are more likely to be associated with a good rather than a poor prognosis for recovery.


There are exceptions to the use of listening or optical surveillance devices without a person's consent if the use is to protect a person's lawful interests [see


Objectives: To determine the prevalence of endometriosis detected at transvaginal ultrasound examination in different anatomical locations in women with dysmenorrhea and without previously known endometriosis. Methods: Women of fertile age with dysmenorrhea underwent transvaginal ultrasound examination by an experienced examiner in 2014-2017. All ultrasound examinations were performed at the Ultrasound Unit at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Skane University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden using GE E8 or E10 ultrasound equipment (Milwaukee, WI, USA) with vaginal transducer of 5-9 MHz according to standardised endometriosis protocol. All abnormal findings in the uterus, ovaries, bowel, urinary bladder, sacrouterine ligaments and remaining pelvis were noted, and their size, location, tenderness and mobility described. Results: Out of 513 women with dysmenorrhea, 140 were excluded out of which 105 women had previously known endometriosis. Out of 373 women included, 178 (48%) women had normal ultrasound findings, 114 (31%) women had endometriosis and 81 (22%) women had other pathological findings. Endometrioma and adenomyosis had a prevalence of 20% and 12%, respectively. The prevalence of deep endometriosis in the bowel, sacrouterine ligaments, rectovaginal septum and urinary bladder was 8%, 3%, 3% and 0.5%, respectively. Obliteration of pouch of Douglas was found in 12% women. Endometriosis was found in only one anatomical location in 21 %, in two locations in 8% and in three locations in 2% of the examined women. Conclusions: One of three women with dysmenorrhea and not previously known endometriosis seeking for medical care had endometriosis at ultrasound examination performed by an experienced ultrasonographer. Most women had one location of endometriosis and the most common finding was endometrioma.


Caffeine (CgHı0N4O2) is the common name for l,3,7-trimethylxanthine (3,7-dihydro1,3,7-trimethyl-1 H-purine-2,6-dione). ît is widely distributed in plant products and beverages such as tea, coffee bean, cocoa nuts, cola nuts, and coca-cola along with other N-methyl derivatives of xanthine [1]. Caffeine is one of the most widely used drugs in the world and has many important pharmacological effects such as the stimulant o f central nervous system, diuresis and positive effect on cardiovascular system [2]. Caffeine is also used therapeutically in combination with ergotamine in the treatment o f migraine or in combination with nonsteroidaî anti-inflammatory drugs in analgesic formulations. Sometimes it is included in analgesic preparations because of its diuretic action. On the other hand, codeine is usually used as phosphate form and is often administrated orally with aspirin or paracetamol. The molecular structure of codeine phosphate with general formula C18H24NO7P was given by Gulland et al. [3],


The concept of finite relative determination was introduced by Porto and Loibel [P-L in 1978 and it deals with subspaces of R n . In this paper we generalize this concept for algebraic sets, and relate it with finite determination on the right. We finish with an observation between Lojasiewicz ideals and finite relative determination


For the recent while there have been many opinions and analysis of the Brexit. As the voting date set by the UK's government nears, information emerges as to what the European Union's future could look like with and without the United Kingdom as well as what UK will be like with and without the EU. This article presents yet another authors opinion and analysis on the consequences of a Brexit for European Union and the British public. It analysis historical aspects of UK joining the EU in the first place, macroeconomic consequences and possible future perspectives. It has been proven that a vote for Brexit will have dire consequences for the UK's economy. The EU in this case will be less impacted since the migration of businesses from the British isles continental Europe will soften the blow.


The efficiency of many industrial processes is strongly governed by the 3D-flow conditions in the fluid domain. An important step in the production of special wires is the patenting in forced convection kilns. An unfavourable deviation in the distribution of key parameters (e.g. velocity and temperature) can be found in the material properties of the product later.The usage of CFD methods (Computational Fluid Dynamics) is an alternative capable approach to analyse the 3D-heat transfer process in the kiln in detail with less effort & costs. In the current improvement study a detailed CFD-modelling of two different forced convection kilns was done for a typical load case. Considering the detailed kiln geometries and important heat transport phenomena the initial situation in the heat transfer zone was analysed for each kiln.In a second step an improvement concept was developed by increasing the heat transfer into the wire as well as smoothing the flow distribution in the heating zone of the kiln. After revamping of the kilns a number of different improvements could be realized. Despite of the plant's higher flexibility at different load cases a significant improvement of the wire's product quality could be found. With respect to important key parameters the deviation of material properties could be reduced to >90%. In a next step a solid-fluid-coupling will be done in the CFD-approach which allows examining the developing temperature profile of each wire line in the kiln.


This document contains a tally of cold fusion papers from two sources: the list maintained by Dieter Britz at Aarhus U., and the EndNote database used to generate the indexes at LENR-CANR.org. Various tallies such as the number of peer-reviewed experimental papers are presented. Purpose This report presents some background and a breakdown of the items in two databases of cold fusion papers: the Britz collection, and the LENR-CANR database. The purpose is to give the reader a sense of the scale, variety, and sources of the material available about this subject. This is also intended to give some indication of how much has been published on cold fusion, where it was published, and approximately how many positive and negative papers have been published. This paper includes the following tallies: 1. Summary statistics for the LENR-CANR database 2. Positive, peer-reviewed excess heat papers culled from both databases. 3. Papers from Britz collection. 4. Famous failed neutron studies from 1989. These had a large influence on scientific opinion and the subsequent history of the field, but many cold fusion researchers believe they were flawed and should not be given weight today. Details from these four tallies are gathered in Appendix A. They include multipage lists of journal titles, authors and the individual titles of papers referenced in the four tallies.


The article is about aspects of corruption, generated by the structure and regulation of the activities of bureaucratic type management structures.


This study revises the taxonomy and species limits of Chondrina taxa living in the Cantabrian mountain region of N Spain, based mainly on molecular data but supplemented with morphological data. One new species C. cantabroccidentalis Somoza-Valdeolmillos & Vázquez-Sanz sp. nov. is here described as the species of the genus living in the western Cantabrian Mountains. In addition, we propose new subspecies divisions for C. kobelti, namely C. k. kobelti and C. k. ordunensis, living to the west and east of Picos de Europa, respectively. Both subspecies are well distinguished according to their DNA profiles and morphology, and several hybrid populations have been identified in the contact zone. Finally, the species limits of C. cliendentata and C. kobeltoides are redefined and phylogenetic relationships among all these taxa and their closest relatives analysed by multilocus DNA sequencing. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E2652FE-39C2-4A70-B8D5-5F9E1114AAED