Brands are built on the concept of recognition and differentiation in the marketplace. Today's branding is made to evoke a 'je ne sais quoi," sometimes aspirational, sometimes comforting, sometimes outright outlandish, but nonetheless recognizable and relatable. Product categories and
 trends come and go just like brands. However, some endure for decades with very simple common products or corner the market with complex signature ones. Others quickly become a distant memory in the minds eye of the consumer.


In this paper we propose a power efficient technique called Sleepy- Gate Diffusion Input (S-GDI) that can be used for efficient digital design at nano scale foundries. For area and power comparison, ten prior techniques are taken in to consideration and applied on XOR gate, 1-bit adder, 1-bit comparator and 4- bit up-down counter. All techniques are parametrically analyzed on 65nm technology. The proposed S-GDI technique has been observed power efficient as compared to Complementary CMOS technique (CCT), Complementary Pass Transistor Logic (CPTL), DCMOS (Differential CMOS), Differential Cascode Voltage Switch with Pass Gate Logic (DCVSPG), Energy Economized Pass Transistor Logic (EEPL), Lean Integration with Pass Transistors (LEAP), Push-Pull Pass Transistor Logic (PPL), Pass Transistor Logic (PTL), CMOS with Transmission Gate (TG) and Gate diffusion Input (GDI). As compared to GDI technique S-GDI is showing 96.20%, 93.65%, 97.88% and 98.22% power efficiency for XOR, 1-bit adder, 1-bit comparator and 4-bit up-down counter respectively. S-GDI is showing area efficiency of 17.16% and 28.1% for XOR, 41.26% and 53.89% for 1-bit adder, 7.6% and 21.76% for 1-bit comparator and 6.7% and 28% for up-down counter over EEPL and DCMOS technique respectively. Although other techniques except EEPL and DCMOS techniques are area efficient as compared to proposed technique but this is on the expense of higher total power dissipation. So, PDP (power delay products) of all considered techniques are also calculated on 65nm technology for both SUM and CARRY outputs of 1-bit adder. In both cases power delay product for S-GDI technique is very less as compared to all other considered technique. Due to efficiency of S-GDI in terms of considered parameters, this technique can be efficiently used for low power applications


Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are important for capturing patients' perspectives on quality of life and aiding in provision of whole-person patient care; yet, PROs are not routinely used in athletic training practice. We investigated the athletic trainers' perceptions of using PROs after they had completed a required PRO implementation program. Athletic trainers had positive perceptions after integrating PROs into clinical practice. Barriers associated with PRO use may be improved with a support structure that requires accountability and provides resources such as reminders and professional development to recognize ways that PROs can be used to improve patient care.


Abstract Background: In adult women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) 17-OHP responses to human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) stimulation are highly variable and inversely correlated with serum anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels. The objective of this study was to determine whether adolescents with PCOS exhibit similar variable 17-OHP responsiveness to hCG and whether these responses are correlated to AMH levels. Methods: In a prospective study, adolescent PCOS (n=14) and normal controls (n=10) received 25 μg of hCG, intravenously. Blood samples were obtained before and 24 h afterwards for measurement of 17-OHP and basal AMH. Results: Variable 17-OHP responses to hCG were observed among PCOS girls similar to that observed in adults. There was no correlation between AMH and 17-OHP responses to hCG. Conclusions: Among adult and adolescent individuals with PCOS variable 17-OHP production appears to be characteristic of the disorder. In adolescent PCOS, 17-OHP responsiveness to hCG is not correlated to AMH.


Curved-wave multiple scattering cluster calculations using the FEFF6 code were successfully used to interpret experimental Al K edge NEXAFS spectra of various minerals and Y zeolites, starting about 5 eV above threshold. The Al octahedral, tetrahedral and square planar geometries can be easily distinguished from each other utilizing the NEXAFS data. Semi-empirical molecular orbital calculations were used to interpret the whitelines below 5 eV in the data. A new assignment is given to the NEXAFS peaks found for Al atoms having a distorted octahedral coordination. Use of NEXAFS for determining the geometrical conformations of a Y zeolite involving Al atoms with mixed conformational geometry is emphasized. In H + Y zeolite, separate contributions to the NEXAFS spectra from tetrahedrally and octahedrally coordinated Al atoms are identified. There are also strong indications for the presence of penta-coordinated Al atoms accompanying the non-framework octahedrally coordinated Al atoms in the H + Y zeolite. We have found that detailed interpretations of the NEXAFS data complement the EXAFS and NMR results by providing unique geometrical information on the Al coordination.


In the wafer chuck design that the support pin or the "mesa" form a surface, characterized in that it is manufactured to include a pin so as to have an annular shape or a hole or grooves to minimize the sticking of the wafer, thereby improving the wafer-fixing. In another aspect of the invention, the wafer chuck support surface and the tool and a method for flatness and grant or restore the surface roughness for the same. The tool is in contact with the surface that is being treated has a shape which is circular or annular. Treatment method can be performed on-site at a dedicated device or a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The tool can be smaller than the wafer chuck pin diameter, close to the spatial frequency of the high spot is wrapped. Movement of the tool on the support surface can all the areas of the support surface to be machined by the tool, or made so as to require correction, only that region.


Separating conducted EMI noise into different modes, common mode (CM) and differential mode (DM), is important to the appropriate application of emission reduction techniques. While the CM/DM separation is well defined and understood for the single-phase or DC system, the same cannot be said for three-phase converter systems, common for general-purpose adjustable speed drives (ASD). Based on the study of CM and DM propagation characteristics of a three-phase diode-front converter, this paper identify different noise modes for different front-diode conducting patterns. The impact on EMI filter components by these noise modes is summarized. Finally, a time-domain based method is proposed to separate and acquire CM and DM noise components for the diode-front three-phase systems. Simulation and experimental verifications are presented.


In this paper, we study the magnetotransport properties of the ferropnictide crystals BaFe2As2 and BaFe1.985Co0.015As2. These materials exhibit a high field linear magnetoresistance that has been attributed to the quantum linear magnetoresistance model. In this model, the linear magnetoresistance is dependent on the concentration of scattering centers in the material. By using proton-beam irradiation to change the defect scattering density, we find that the dependence of the magnitude of the linear magnetoresistance on scattering quite clearly contravenes this prediction. Finally, a number of other scaling trends in the magnetoresistance and high field Hall data are observed and discussed.


The invention discloses a gas-dust separation device with a double-layer whirlwind track. The gas-dust separation device with the double-layer whirlwind track comprises a filtering bucket and a dust absorption bucket, wherein filtering holes are arranged on the surface of the filtering bucket; a double-layer filtering structure is arranged inside the filtering bucket; an ash baffle is arranged at the bottom of the filtering bucket; an electric motor is arranged at the bottom of the dust absorption bucket; and the wall of the filtering bucket is tangent to an air inlet of a dust collector. When the gas-dust separation device with the double-layer whirlwind track is used, the tangent relationship of the air inlet and a dust collecting bucket is utilized to enable airflow to generate a first layer of rotation in the dust collecting bucket; under the action of a centripetal force and a force of gravity, the dust slides downwards in a manner of keeping close to the bucket wall, and dust with big size drops outside the filtering bucket, and dust with small size and gas enter into the filtering bucket for the second filtration; and under the action of a double-layer filtering structure, the dust with small size keeps close to the filtering structure and enters into the dust collection bucket; and the gas is separated under the action of the motor, so that the air is separated from the dust. The gas-dust separation device with a double-layer whirlwind track has the beneficial effects of having a simple and rational structure, effectively separating dust with both big size and small size from gas as the gas and the dust are separated rotationally in the filtering bucket, and improving work efficiency.


The negotiation of the international climate regimes is a highly complicated process. Nevertheless, the determinants for beyond 2012 commitments rely on the political will, economic interest and scientific knowledge of the global powers. The vehicles for post-Kyoto negotiations will be not only confined to the UNFCCC process, but bilateral, multilateral and even unilateral commitments outside the UNFCCC are also likely to take place. Furthermore, the contents of agreements will cover mitigation, adaptation, technologies, and low carbon development. In the end, it is possible that a basket of agreements will be concluded under the overall framework of sustainable development. In the next 20 years or so, China will be in the process of large-scale and rapid industrialization and urbanization. The choice by China for climate agreements will have to consider the reduction of possible risks, avoidance of inflexible restrictions, and active participation in the negotiation and making of international regimes, so as to safeguard and promote sustainable development in China.


There are some harmful factors influencing the quality of the work of purchasing literature in the aspects of the literature publication and distribution,the reader's demand,the notion and technology of the worker of purchasing literature,the quality of literature buyer.University library should establish the quality standard of the work of purchasing literature,improve the quality of literature buyer,formulate the scientific tactics based on the work research and regularly evaluate the quality of the work of purchasing literature.


The paper discusses the further development of some ideas of V.N. Antsiferov and the scholar school created by him in obtaining structural powder materials and products. The prospects for obtaining concentration-inhomogeneous steels and trip-steels are noted. The great potential lies in the control of the thickness and volume of the zone of deformation martensitic transformation occurring during fracture. It is advisable to continue the preparation of fullerene- and nitrogen-containing powder compositions and to study the structural heredity of powder steels. The possibility of the synthesis of fullerene-containing phases during the liquidphase sintering of the iron–cast iron and iron–graphite compositions and their subsequent redistribution in the bulk of the material during dynamic hot pressing is worth noticing. Producing nitrogen-containing steels by mechanical activation of powders followed by sintering in dissociated ammonia is advisable to use for obtaining not only wear-and corrosion-resistant materials, but also heat-resistant ones. The studies on the decomposition of supercooled austenite in powder steels of various doping systems with different technological backgroung (sintered, hot-deformed, infiltrated, etc.) are promising. The potential for development is the research of hot-deformed concentration-inhomogeneous materials, obtained, in particular, on the basis of powders of the Distaloy type. The techniques developed by the Antsiferov's school are significant. The most important one is the method for determining the concentration variation coefficient, as well as a magnetometric complex and a mathematical model, which makes it possible to predict the decomposition of supercooled austenite. Antsiferov's works can be used for obtaining lean powder steels with the lower bainite structure, which provides the optimal combination of strength and toughness.


The net circular polarization, N , is used as a measure for the asymmetry of Stokes- V profiles: $N\equiv\int V(\lambda)\,{\rm d} \lambda$, integrated over an absorption line. Exemplary for Fe I 630.2 nm and Fe I 1564.8 nm, we synthesize penumbral V -profiles that stem from a model atmosphere in which the Evershed flow is confined to horizontal flux tubes which are embedded in a magnetic field that has the same magnetic field strength as the flow channel, but is less inclined w.r.t. the surface normal. At the two points where a line-of-sight enters and leaves the flow channel, discontinuities in the inclination, γ , the velocity v , and the azimuth, ϕ , of the magnetic field vector w.r.t. the plane perpendicular to the line-of-sight produce V -asymmetries. Assuming an axially symmetric penumbra, we investigate the azimuthal dependence $N(\psi)$ for a mid-penumbral radius. We find: (1) Without including anomalous dispersion, $N(\psi)$ is symmetric w.r.t. the line that connects disk center to the center of the spot. (2) Including anomalous dispersion, this symmetry is broken. We demonstrate that this is due to the difference in azimuth, $\triangle\phi(\psi)$, between the flow channel and the background that varies along the penumbral circle. For Fe I 630.2 nm this effect is found to be of minor relevance leading to essentially symmetric N -maps, whereas strong asymmetries are predicted for Fe I 1564.8 nm. Our results provide an explanation for recent observational findings.


The vitronectin receptor is a member of the integrin family of adhesion protein receptors and binds a broad spectrum of ligands, including fibronectin and fibrinogen in addition to vitronectin. We have generated four mAbs that recognize the murine αvβ3 vitronectin receptor. Biochemical and expression analyses showed that two of the mAbs are specific for the αv chain, and two are specific for the β3 chain. The mAbs are effective blocking reagents and inhibited cell adhesion to vitronectin, fibrinogen, and fibronectin. Staining analysis revealed expression of αv and β3 on certain populations of murine thymocytes, splenocytes, and bone marrow cells. The expression of αv and β3 appeared to be modulated at specific stages of thymocyte development, suggesting a possible function for the αvβ3 vitronectin receptor in T cell development.


Multicast service, which is one of the multi-point communication methods, should be applied to adjust it to evolving mobile network environment. In this paper, we propose a fast multicast management scheme for mobile terminals in HMIPv6-based mobile networks. In HMIPv6-based mobile network environment, multicast management scheme provides multicast service during mobile handover depending on the change of multicast transmission routing. Changed impact of the multicast routing is determined by handovers processed intra AR, inter AR, or MAP. Our multicast supporting scheme, which is proposed in this paper, uses tunneling scheme for intra AR handovers, and advance registration scheme for intra AR handovers to support multicast service management scheme depending on the changed impact of the multicast routing.


The short cytoplasmic tail of mouse CD1d (mCD1d) is required for its endosomal localization, for the presentation of some glycolipid Ags, and for the development of Vα14i NKT cells. This tail has a four-amino acid Tyr-containing motif, Tyr-Gln-Asp-Ile (YQDI), similar to those sequences known to be important for the interaction with adaptor protein complexes (AP) that mediate the endosomal localization of many different proteins. In fact, mCD1d has been shown previously to interact with the AP-3 adaptor complex. In the present study, we mutated each amino acid in the YQDI motif to determine the importance of the entire motif sequence in influencing mCD1d trafficking, its interaction with adaptors, and its intracellular localization. The results indicate that the Y, D, and I amino acids are significant functionally because mutations at each of these positions altered the intracellular distribution of mCD1d and reduced its ability to present glycosphingolipids to NKT cells. However, the three amino acids are not all acting in the same way because they differ with regard to how they influence the intracellular distribution of CD1d, its rate of internalization, and its ability to interact with the μ subunit of AP-3. Our results emphasize that multiple steps, including interactions with the adaptors AP-2 and AP-3, are required for normal trafficking of mCD1d and that these different steps are mediated by only a few cytoplasmic amino acids.


A bi-optical, dual window, point-of-transaction workstation images indicia associated with multi-sided products by splitting the field of view of each imager into a plurality of subfields that simultaneously extend through each window over regions of the product. A plurality of energizable illuminators, one for each subfield, illuminates each subfield with illumination light over an adjustable illumination time. The illumination light returned from the indicia in each subfield is captured along respective optical paths from each window to each imager. A plurality of exposure sensors, one for each subfield, and located externally of each imager, senses the returned illumination light in each subfield. A controller energizes each illuminator to illuminate each subfield, deenergizes each illuminator when the returned illumination light sensed by the respective exposure sensors exceeds a threshold, and processes the captured illumination light in at least one of the subfields.


PURPOSE The aim of our research is to establish the degrees and directions of dependence between the main forms of manifestation of the basic and specialized speed. The subject was 20 boys born in 2005 and 2006.
METHODS Through tests and variance analysis (VA) we determine the level of the main forms of the basic and specialized speed, and through correlation analysis (CA) and intercriteria analysis (ICrA) we establish the existence of possible connections and degrees of dependence between them.
RESULTS: By using VA we were able to characterize the average level, the level of dispersion and the distribution of the values of the studied indicators.
Correlations and dependencies have been established by using CA, traditionally applied by sports science. We have also applied the innovative ICrA in order to confirm or reject the established correlations, directions and degrees of dependence.
CONCLUSIONS: The conducted CA and ICrA have shown that the means for the development of the basic linear speed (BLS) and specialized linear speed (SLS) do not have a significant impact on the development of the special complex speed. ICrA also indicates a lack of correlations and dependencies between BLS and SLS, which, however, is not confirmed by CA.


The given article deals with sociological facts of the masters of sports of Nikolaev region during Ukraine independence period (1991 2007). The structure of the sport achievements in different kinds of sport is defined. The research materials are developed into social groups, age and sex. State-of-the-art sports of the higher reachings demand search of the most gifted children and teenagers among a significant amount of pupils of schools. Reaching of tall results in sports requires a long time of trainings under suitable conditions of security by the conforming sports buildings, equipment and the prepared trainers on different aspects of sports.


Observations of the distribution in space and velocity of gas clouds, together with considerations of dynamical astronomy, suggest that the total mass density near the galactic plane is appreciably higher than the observed density of visible stars and atomic hydrogen gas. The distribution of K giant stars is compatible also with a high density of invisible mass, and it is suggested here that this is contributed by molecular hydrogen gas. Radii of Stromgren spheres for O and B stars are evaluated, and the average rates of dissociation and ionization of molecular hydrogen, due to random encounters of gas clouds with bright stars, are calculated. Using the rates for the association of hydrogen molecules on the surfaces of dust grains, calculated previously, the mean equilibrium abundance ratio of molecular to ntomic hydrogen is calculated. This ratio is found to be almost independent of the height above the galactic plane and to lie in the range 0.1 to 10. The effect of molecular hydrogen on the harmonic mean temperature of gas clouds is discussed. (auth) The problem of the formation of an H /sub II/ region, which was formulated in an earlier paper, is investigated by means of the method of characteristics.more » The characteristic equations governing the motion of the ionized gas are solved by an iterative method based on the circumstance that intervals of time in the problem are small compared with the interval of time required for a sound wave to cross the H ii region. (auth)« less


We have made high precision polarimetric observations of the polluted white dwarf G29-38 with the HIgh Precision Polarimetric Instrument 2. The observations were made at two different observatories -- using the 8.1-m Gemini North Telescope and the 3.9-m Anglo AustralianTelescope -- and are consistent with each other. After allowing for a small amount of interstellar polarization, the intrinsic linear polarization of the system is found to be 275.3 +/- 31.9 parts-per-million at a position angle of 90.8 +/- 3.8 degrees in the SDSS g' band. We compare the observed polarization with the predictions of circumstellar disc models. The measured polarization is small in the context of the models we develop which only allows us to place limits on disc inclination and Bond albedo for optically thin disc geometries. In this case either the inclination is near face-on or the albedo is small -- likely in the range 0.05 to 0.15 -- which is in line with other debris disc measurements. A preliminary search for the effects of G29-38's pulsations in the polarization signal produced inconsistent results. This may be caused by beating effects, indicate a clumpy dust distribution, or be a consequence of measurement systematics.


In recent years, many innovative solutions for recording and viewing sounds from a stethoscope have become available. However, to fully utilize such devices, there is a need for an automated approach for detecting abnormal lung sounds, which is better than the existing methods that typically have been developed and evaluated using a small and non-diverse dataset.
We propose a machine learning based approach for detecting crackles in lung sounds recorded using a stethoscope in a large health survey. Our method is trained and evaluated using 209 files with crackles classified by expert listeners. Our analysis pipeline is based on features extracted from small windows in audio files. We evaluated several feature extraction methods and classifiers. We evaluated the pipeline using a training set of 175 crackle windows and 208 normal windows. We did 100 cycles of cross validation where we shuffled training sets between cycles. For all the division between training and evaluation was 70%-30%.
We found and evaluated a 5-dimenstional vector with four features from the time domain and one from the spectrum domain. We evaluated several classifiers and found SVM with a Radial Basis Function Kernel to perform best. Our approach had a precision of 86% and recall of 84% for classifying a crackle in a window, which is more accurate than found in studies of health personnel. The low-dimensional feature vector makes the SVM very fast. The model can be trained on a regular computer in 1.44 seconds, and 319 crackles can be classified in 1.08 seconds.
Our approach detects and visualizes individual crackles in recorded audio files. It is accurate, fast, and has low resource requirements. It can be used to train health personnel or as part of a smartphone application for Bluetooth stethoscopes.


A SPEX 1401 double spectrometer was adapted for a liquid nitrogen cooled CCD detector to permit both spectral and spatial analysis of ceramic specimens in a laser Raman microprobe system. The exit image of the spectrometer suffers from astigmatism due to off-axis spherical mirrors. A cylindrical lens was added before the CCD to correct for the astigmatism. The spectrometer and several lenses were modeled using an optical ray tracing program to characterize the astigmatism and to optimize the locations of the lens and the detector. The astigmatism and the spot pattern sizes determined by the model were in good agreement with he observed performance of the modified spectrometer-detector system. Typical spot patterns fell within the 23 {mu}m square pixel size.


Abstract 2691 Over the last two decades, idiotypic vaccination has shown evidence of biological efficacy, clinical efficacy and clinical benefit in some subsets of patients with follicular lymphoma. Despite this, no idiotype vaccine has yet obtained regulatory approval. A phase-I clinical trial is currently being conducted to assess safety and immunogenicity of therapy with bendamustine and prednisone (BP) followed by administration of a novel, recombinant idiotype vaccine in which the idiotype protein is produced in tobacco plants. Patients eligible for the study are those with relapsed follicular lymphoma whose prior treatment has included rituximab. Use of rituximab is prohibited in this trial due to its potentially negative interference with vaccination as a consequence of the prolonged B-cell depletion that characteristically follows its administration. Subjects enrolled in the study who achieve and maintain either a complete (CR) or partial (PR) response for at least 4 months following BP therapy undergo idiotype vaccination. The response to initial BP therapy prior to vaccine administration is the subject of this report. At the time of abstract submission, fourteen patients have completed four monthly cycles of bendamustine (120 mg/m2 IV on day 1 and 2) and prednisone (100 mg PO on day 1 through 5). Of the thirteen patients evaluable for clinical response, eleven (85%) have achieved a CR and two (15%) a PR. Six patients maintained their response for at least 4 months and went on to receive idiotypic vaccine. The other six patients are currently in the 4-month protocol specified off-therapy period between chemotherapy and vaccination. One patient, who achieved a CR, relapsed during this period and was not vaccinated. With this exception, and with an overall median follow-up of 5 months (range: 2–12 months), all other responses described above have been maintained. Currently, toxicity data are available for 54 cycles of BP. There was no grade 4–5 non-hematologic toxicity. Grade 3 non-hematologic toxicity was recorded in 5/14 (36%) patients and in 9/54 (17%) cycles, respectively, and included hyperglycemia, diarrhea, nausea, dehydration and hypotension. Grade 1–2 non-hematologic toxicities were relatively common and in line with those previously reported for the BP regimen. Only 1/54 BP cycles was delayed due to grade neutropenia. In this case, the planned cycle was administered two weeks later. Overall grade 4 hematologic toxicity was recorded in 4/14 (14%) patients and in 7/54 (13%) cycles, respectively, and included neutropenia and lymphopenia. Grade 3 hematologic toxicity was recorded in 9/14 (64%) patients and after 21/54 (39%) cycles, respectively, and included leukopenia, neutropenia, lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia. Overall, lymphopenia was the most common grade 3–4 hematologic toxicity. Grade 1–2 hematologic toxicities were common, expected, and included anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, lymphopenia and, occasionally, thrombocytopenia. Data are available for four patients to analyze post-chemotherapy B- and T- cell recovery. These preliminary data indicate that BP is a very effective and well tolerated chemotherapy regimen in patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma who have been previously received rituximab therapy. Our data also suggest that, in some patients, BP can cause a lymphopenia of variable intensity that may not fully recover four months after the last chemotherapy cycle. Studies of idiotype vaccine-induced humoral and cellular immune responses and their correlation with the presence of lymphopenia are ongoing. Updated results will be available at the time of the meeting. The authors wish to acknowledge Drs. Ralph Heaven, Larry Barker, Jairo Olivares, Thomas Anderson, Carl Chakmakjian, Barry Cooper, Amir Faridi, Vinay Jain, Pankaj Khandelwal, Janice Marshall, Anton Melnyk, Robert Mennel, James Turner Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


A shift control device of an automatic transmission causes the transmission to be forcedly shifted to a parking range or a neutral range when the shift ranges indicated by a shift instruction signal produced by a range selector and a current shift range signal produced by a detector are not coincident with each other. After such a forced shift, the shift control device tries to shift the transmission once again as formerly instructed by the range selector, and it is detected once again whether the shift ranges indicated by the current shift range signal and the shift instruction signal coincide with each other.


The aim of this paper is to design the heliostat field layout of solar thermal generation for a CSP plant, based on the central power tower technology. In this design, the radial staggered pattern is proposed to reduce the shadowing and blocking losses. Its solar field consists of 1150 heliostats around a 95m tall tower and each heliostat has a 121m reflecting area. The power plant is designed to produce an output of 56MWth thermal power with molten salt storage system. The coordinates of the chose location for this plant are 19.7633 ̊ (Latitude) and 96.0785 ̊ (Longitude), which is a city called Naypyitaw, Myanmar. To evaluate the available solar thermal power received at the central receiver, the optical efficiency which is the product of the mirror reflectivity, the atmospheric attenuation efficiency, the shadowing and blocking efficiency and the cosine efficiency is proposed as well. Results show that the annual optical efficiency increases and the minimum value of thermal power received on the tower receiver is greater than required power. Keywords56 MWth, Atmospheric attenuation efficiency, Central power tower technology, Cosine efficiency, Heliostat field layout, Molten salt storage system, Optical efficiency, Shadowing and blocking, Solar thermal power.


Through theoretical analysis on the structure and working principle of pavement milling machine,some maintenance measures are presented to solve the wear problems during operation process,which are significant for enhancing construction quality and efficiency as well as reducing construction cost.


It is important to measure corona onset voltage.We put forward a new measurement method of AC corona onset voltage,namely,installing a non-contact voltage sensor by the wire.When corona discharge occurs on the surface of the wire,ionosphere of line surface changes the sensor ratio,and changes of the sensor ratio can be used to measure corona discharge and corona onset voltage,thus a sensor model is established.The results of power frequency voltage tests indicate that the sensor has good precision.According to corona layer model theory,AC onset corona experiment is designed,and comparison with the photons tangent method indicates that the method can accurately measure the comprehensive corona onset voltage value.Analysis of AC experimental data shows that changes of sensor ratio can describe frequency corona characteristics.The method is simple and convenient,easy to realize,suitable for the engineering application and corona experimental studies.


The visually impaired community often finds the built environment difficult to navigate. Elements of street design such as street furniture, bollards and shared space are some of the problems that contribute to a hostile built environment. This article aims to investigate how the built environment affects people with a visual impairment through questionnaires, focus groups and interviews conducted with visually impaired people and built-environment professionals. A majority of visually impaired respondents stated the built environment was difficult to navigate, with several issues identified. These issues need to be addressed to create more inclusive spaces and places for all.


The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is a numerical method that is able to simulate the mechanical behavior of bulk solids flow using spheres or polyhedral elements, offering a powerful tool for equipment design and optimization through modeling and simulation. The present work uses a Particle Replacement Model (PRM) embedded in the software EDEM® to model and simulate operation of a laboratory-scale jaw crusher. The PRM was calibrated using data from single particle slow compression tests, whereas simulations of the jaw crusher were validated on the basis of experiments, with very good agreement. DEM simulations described the performance of the crusher in terms of throughput, product size distribution, compressive force on the jaws surface, reduction ratio, and energy consumption as a function of closed side setting and frequency.


In most of the cases the decision to invest in a new large transport infrastructure project t is not simple, mainly, because the complications in planning process, the amount of capital need to invest before the business establishment and the high number of stakeholders involved in decision process. The decision process is more complicated in restricted economic conditions and financing assumptions, where the project business plan performance is strongly related to regional development prospects and business sectors enlargement. This paper provides an attribute methodology approach to support decisions in large transport infrastructure projects based on the effects diversification to ecosystem affected by the new projects. The proposed methodology provides an evaluation framework based on a combination of an ex-ante assessment analysis taking into consideration the large transport infrastructure projects economic impact and its contribution to enlargement of the sectors of the ecosystem.


Phosphors activated only by silver and only by samarium and phosphors containing up to 10/sup -4/ g/g of Ag and 10/sup -7/ to 10/sup -3/ g/g of Sm were studied. (R.V.J.)


In order to improve the working process in dynamic performance of the hybrid power bi-directional DC/DC converter, R-S-T control strategy is put forward for three-channel staggered parallel bi-directional Buck/Boost converter. The working process of converter in Buck/Boost mode is analyzed by magnetic integration theory, AC small signal model is established and the transfer function from control variables to the state variables is obtained, based on which the R-S-T control system of bi-directional DC/DC converter is designed. Compared to traditional PI control method, R-S-T control strategy has better dynamic and steady-state response characteristics in controling three-channel staggered parallel bidirectional converter. Finally, the converter system is simulated by using Matlat/Simulink software. The simulation results show that the hybrid power bi-directional DC/DC converter based on R-S-T control has faster response speed, smaller overshoot volume, and stronger robustness.


Phospholipase C- γ 1 (PLC- γ 1) mediates cell adhesion and migration through an undefined mechanism. Here, we examine the role of PLC- γ 1 in cell-matrix adhesion in a hanging drop assay of cell aggregation. Plcg1 Null ( − / − ) mouse embryonic fibroblasts formed aggregates that were larger and significantly more resistant to dissociation than cells in which PLC- γ 1 is re-expressed (Null + cells). Aggregate formation could be disrupted by inhibition of fibronectin interaction with integrins, indicating that fibronectin assembly may mediate aggregate formation. Fibronectin assembly was mediated by integrin α 5 β 1 in both cell lines, while assays measuring fibronectin assembly revealed increased assembly in the Null cells. Null and Null + cells exhibited equivalent fibronectin mRNA levels and equivalent levels of fibronectin protein in pulse-labeling experiments. However, levels of secreted fibronectin in the conditioned medium were increased in Null cells. The data implicates a negative regulatory role for PLC- γ 1 in cell aggregation by controlling the secretion of fibronectin into the media and its assembly into fibrils.


In Feature Based Motion estimation, the most time consuming process is the key point extraction (features) and their similarity measurement. In our paper, we use SIFT based feature extraction in adjacent frames. Based on similarity measurement, few features are selected. The selected features are used to calculate the motion vectors or Global motion between two frames. The computation complexity is higher if we use the whole image to extract points. The complexity of key point extraction is proportional to the area of the images (frames) and the complexity of similarity measurement is proportional to the square of the area. In our paper, we propose block based feature extraction. Using blocks for feature matching, the number of key points is reduced and hence accuracy might be decreased. We use four blocks in the four corners of the frame and use SIFT to extract key points and measure similarity. Now we have several reliable matches from each block, yet interference of moving objects may cause error in global motion estimation. This error can be removed by applying inter block feature matching. Randomly select three points (each from different block) and calculate the area formed by the triangle in both the images. This matching will give us features which are not part of local motion caused by moving objects. Now we have the best matched features obtained from SIFT. Feature matching is very important and crucial step in motion estimation. Mismatch is always inevitable in motion estimation for feature based methods no matter how powerful the feature point locator is. To solve this problem, we propose a novel idea of forming a triangle based on three best features. The pixel values of the triangle formed in two images is accumulated and matched. This matching ensures the removal of faulty features. Though theoretically this may sound good, practically this might not work well if the images are blurred. To avoid this motion de-blurring of frames can be done. Now we have best matched features, using that we calculate the global motion vectors. These global motion vectors are smoothed by using filter. The smoothened motion vectors are used to stabilize the video.


The last 25 years have seen significant advances in analytical chemistry that have allowed more rapid, precise and accurate analysis of substances such as pesticides in environmental matrices. This increased capacity has generated fate and concentration data sets in the spatial and temporal dimensions. In this same time period, the science of environmental toxicology has grown prodigiously and our knowledge of the effects of many substances in a range of environmentally important species has multiplied. Traditional approaches to environmental risk assessment have not used these large data sets well and fail to recognize important differences between human health and environmental risk assessment. The recognition in several jurisdictions of the usefulness of distributional or probabilistic methods to characterize exposure and effects information has resulted in new approaches to ecological risk assessment that will increasingly be applied to pesticides in the environment. These approaches also provide useful planning and priority setting tools for analytical chemists seeking to maximize the utility of their data for risk assessment purposes and to focus their sampling on regions or use patterns where more data will better characterize high putative risks.


Stock originally recognized two groups of boron hydrides, the B/sub n/H/ sub a = 4 and B/sub n/H/sub n + series. This classification has been extended and used as a basis for the systematic arrangement of the boron hydrides. Four types of chemical reactions of the boron hydrides are recognized. These are: (1) symmetrical cleavage of the double bridge bond, (2) non-symmetrical cleavage of the double bridge bond, (3) loss of a proton from a hydrogen bridge bond, and (4) loss of molecular hydrogen from the molecule. The type of reaction expected from a given molecule is related to the position of the molecule in the systematic arrangement and to the geometry of the original boron hydride.


It is well known to rock engineering experts in coal mining and production operators that the coal from different areas and coal seams in South Africa have different strengths, even if the differences cannot always be quantified. For instance, in certain areas of the country, rock engineers use lower strength constants than the average value of 7.17 MPa in the Salamon and Munro (1967) pillar strength formula, like at Sigma Colliery in the Vaal Basin—Van der Merwe (1993). In other areas, like some mines on the western flanks of the Witbank coal field, higher constants are used. In the case of the Vaal Basin, the lower strength could be determined statistically by using a data base of failed pillar cases. In the case of the stronger coal areas, this could not be done quantitatively as there are no pillar failures to form a data base. The magnitude of the higher constant was thus based on engineering judgement. In the absence of a data base of failed pillars, there have been attempts to derive the strength of full scale pillars using laboratory testing. These attempts have been unsuccessful. The principal reasons for this lack of success are the variability of coal strength and the complex influence of size and shape on the strength of pillars. During the period 1993 to 1994, more than 900 Uniaxial Compressive Strength (UCS) tests were performed on coal specimens from 11 different mines and areas of South Africa, as part of the requirements for the SIMRAC project COL 021A. The specimens were circular, of different sizes—nominally 25 to 300 mm diameter—and the diameter-to-length (d/l) ratios ranged from 0.5 to more than 7.0. At the time, one of the overall conclusions was that these tests could not be used to differentiate between coals from different areas as the differences between the groups of tests were not statistically significant. Recently, the data were re-analysed with a different approach and it was found that it was indeed possible to distinguish coals of different strength. This paper describes the method that was used to analyse the data and shows the results of the analysis. While these laboratory results should not yet be extrapolated to determine A laboratory investigation into the effect of specimen size on the strength of coal samples from different areas


Simple Summary In this study, we aimed to investigate the use of deep learning for classifying whole-slide images of urine liquid-based cytology specimens into neoplastic and non-neoplastic (negative). To do so, we used a total of 786 whole-slide images to train models using four different approaches, and we evaluated them on 750 whole-slide images. The best model achieved good classification performance, demonstrating the promising potential of use of such models for aiding the screening process for urothelial carcinoma in routine clinical practices. Abstract Urinary cytology is a useful, essential diagnostic method in routine urological clinical practice. Liquid-based cytology (LBC) for urothelial carcinoma screening is commonly used in the routine clinical cytodiagnosis because of its high cellular yields. Since conventional screening processes by cytoscreeners and cytopathologists using microscopes is limited in terms of human resources, it is important to integrate new deep learning methods that can automatically and rapidly diagnose a large amount of specimens without delay. The goal of this study was to investigate the use of deep learning models for the classification of urine LBC whole-slide images (WSIs) into neoplastic and non-neoplastic (negative). We trained deep learning models using 786 WSIs by transfer learning, fully supervised, and weakly supervised learning approaches. We evaluated the trained models on two test sets, one of which was representative of the clinical distribution of neoplastic cases, with a combined total of 750 WSIs, achieving an area under the curve for diagnosis in the range of 0.984–0.990 by the best model, demonstrating the promising potential use of our model for aiding urine cytodiagnostic processes.


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Maintaining the patient's airway in the post anaesthetic stage of the patient's care is a skilful endeavour and all practitioners working in a recovery unit must be familiar with all types of obstruction, the causes and how to treat them. Awareness must also be demonstrated of the airway adjuncts available to maintain a patient's airway.


Film 'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' selected for the 2nd Australian International Experimental Film Festival, shown in programme: 'Documenting the World, Life and Death'.


by high productivity. In such a setting and with surplus labor usually available, it is not surprising that the organizational efforts of unions have been unsuccessful. There is a good chapter on the attempts to organize which will be of interest to labor students. This geographic area is a good case study of what can happen in situations where employers are able to decide what is best for their employees and make it stick. The book includes an extensive bibliography which will be useful to students of labor relations in the lumber industry, particularly with respect to die earlier government studies listed. In light of the fact that the author makes occasional comparative references to die lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest, I was surprised to see no reference to Margaret S. dock's monograph on Collective Bargaining in the Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry (University of California Press, 1955), nor to the several theses on various aspects of labor relations in the lumber industry which are on deposit at universities in the Pacific Northwest. RALPH I. THAYER, Washington State University


The paper presents a method for assessing the utilization of arable land based on measurements of the NDVI vegetation index, calculated from images of a MODIS spectroradiometer from the Terra satellite. The work involves the development of a software module that performs the automatic classification of agricultural land into utilization classes.An algorithm and programmatic block are worked out for classification of degree of used of agricultural lands. Educating of classifier is conducted by means of algorithms of computer-aided instruction.
For an analysis data of measuring of vegetation index of NDVI were used for every week 2017 year, got in the system Vega the vehicle of MODIS. For testing of algorithms a selection was used from 1026 vectors of signs (agricultural lands) equipartition on different areas. Breaking up on teaching and test selections was produced with maintenance of balance between areas. A job of the program performance is a mark of class for every entrance vector, characterizing the use of agricultural lands. The use of measuring of vegetation index allowed to automatize classification of used of the fields. For the fields, vector of values of NDVI that is had admissions of measuring, the algorithm of filling of admissions is applied, that allowed to use these the vector for classification. The features of development of vegetation were taken into account depending on a geographical location. The use of algorithms of computer-aided instruction gave next results: kNN is exactness of classification of 82%; SVC is exactness of classification of 78%; Random Forest is exactness of classification of 85%; GBT is exactness of classification of 86.307%. The most high results are got with the use of algorithm of GBT - 86% of the correctly classified fields. Programmatic block realized as a module ready for integration in the system Vega.


Introduction: This study aims to explore the applicability of a needs-based resource allocation method in Iran and to compare healthcare resources current ly allocated to Iranian provinces using this method . Methods: MEDLINE and Google Scholar were searched and expert s were contacted to identify methods of resource allocation based on needs; in addition, experts were interviewed to explore which methods are more appropriate in Iran according to the level and ccuracy of data available. A combination of indic ators was used to estimate the relative amount of resourc es each province should receive and compare it with the exact amount each province received. Results: The main indicators were population, mortality rat e, socio-economic indicators, costs of prevalent diseases, extra costs for rural areas, pr evious budget, costs of family physician services, hospital services and drugs. In Iran reliable data about pop ulation, mortality and the level of deprivation is available for each province. Comparing the two methods, 12 pr ovinces have received a relatively high budget, 14 a relatively low budget and in 4 provinces the budget was relatively balanced. Conclusion: Using a good combination of indicators has the pot ential to improve allocation of Iran's healthcare resources based on needs. There are curr ently significant differences between the amount of budget allocated to each Iranian province and the a mount should have been allocated according to the n eedsbased method used in this study. This method has th e potential to be further developed for allocating resources, although any change should be implemente d gradually and over time.


Absolute grip strength (aGS) measures are not only used to detect dynapenia, but can also provide a robust indicator of functional impairments such as mobility limitations. Mobility limitations can impact community mobility. The main objective of this study was to investigate whether dynapenia status measured with aGS can be used as a predictor of the level of community mobility measured by Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Life‐Space Assessment questionnaire (LSA) in healthy older adults. It has been shown that body weight related grip strength (GS/BW) is also a clinical predictor of functional limitation. The secondary objective of the study was to assess the relationship between the community mobility and the GS/BW.


This research was conducted to find out the procedures for implementing cognitive behavioral counseling models to improve the attitude of responsibility of high school students and to determine the validity of the contents of the cognitive behavioral counseling guide. Research conducted is research and development or research and development (R&D), the research model used is Four-D (4D). The 4D model consists of four stages of research namely define, design, develop, and disseminate. Data analysis to test the validity of the manual book product content using the Lawshe CVR and CVI formulas. Testing for products is carried out by 5 experts or experts who are competent in the field of Counseling Guidance. The results of the study based on content validity are CVR values per item +1 to 0 (CVR> 0). Thus, the results of the Lawshe CVI analysis obtained 0.79 greater than 0 (0.79> 0). Based on the analysis of these data the validity value of the contents of this guide product is high.


This paper presents the main simulation and experimental results from studies of the robustness of a proposed new control strategy for the under-actuated robot RABBIT. The disturbances studied include modifications of the characteristics of the foot/ground interaction and the application of external forces to the trunk of the robot. These two kinds of disturbance correspond to those most frequently encountered by biped robots during walking in an unknown environment.


1. Bioturbation, by definition, changes the structure and properties of sediments, thereby altering the environment of the bioturbator and other benthic species. In addition to the indirect effects of sediment reworking (e.g. changes in water quality), bioturbating species may also directly interfere with other species via competition. This study aims, therefore, to examine both the direct and indirect effects of sediment reworking by an opportunistic detritivore on survival and growth of a specialised mayfly species. 2. Bioturbation was imposed by adding different densities of the midge Chironomus riparius to clean and polluted sediments. Changes in water quality and sediment properties, and survival and growth of the mayfly Ephoron virgo were assessed. 3. Chironomid density had a strong negative effect on the concentrations of metals, nutrients and particles in the overlying water, but increased the penetration of oxygen into the sediment. Survival and growth of E. virgo were strongly reduced in the presence of chironomids. In the polluted sediment, the activity of chironomids enhanced the negative effects of pollution on E. virgo. In the clean sediment, inhibition of the mayfly was even more pronounced. 4. This suggests that direct disturbance by C. riparius was more important than indirect changes in water quality, and over-ruled the potential positive effects of improved oxygen penetration. The results indicated that the distribution of small insects, such as E. virgo, can be limited by bioturbating benthic invertebrates.


The fundamental statement which Steinert [senior pastor for Southern Africa of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission ] is underlining in his book, is that music is an integral part of life in Africa [chapter 1, pp ix; chapter 2, pp 7-18], but also in the worshipping life of the Church as a whole [chapter 1, pp 1-6]. Hence the very interesting - and according to the author important question - How could the Church utilize music's precious qualities in its missionary outreach in contemporary South Africa?


Abstract This study aims to describe the production of English monophthongs by nonnative Saudi speakers. It acoustically examined the production of English monophthongal vowels by Saudi second language (L2) speakers. Sixteen L2 participants produced twelve English monophthongs in carrier words. Comparable data were obtained in native Saudi Arabic and native Southern Standard British English to aid interpreting the L2 results. Formant frequencies and durations were measured for all vowels. Similar to Saudi Arabic, the English vowels produced by the Saudi L2 speakers occupied a smaller vowel space than the vowels produced by the native English speakers. There was overlap between many of the English vowel categories produced by the L2 speakers. However, the L2 speakers were found to employ similar durational characteristics to those employed by the native English speakers. L1 influence seems to play a major role in the L2 learners' production of English vowels. The limited vowel space of the L2 speakers' L1 appears to have limited their ability to produce the more acoustically peripheral English vowels.


In this paper, based on a single hop proxy re-signature in the standard model, we introduce a traceable privacy-preserving communication protocol for VANETs. The proposed protocol has some appealing features: The Trusted Authority (TA) designates the Roadside Units (RSUs) translating signatures computed by the On-Board Units (OBUs) into one that is valid as for TA's public key. As a result, the potential danger that vehicles could be traced by the signatures on messages can be well deleted, and attacks are thwarted by using an endorsement mechanism based on signatures. The security analysis shows that the protocol can achieve good conditional privacy target of VANETs.


Since the World Health Organization listed clinical handover as a top five priority area for patient safety, the evidence-base and resources generated to improve handover communication has increased. But literature specific to the intensive care unit (ICU) handover, particularly handover from shift-to-shift by the ICU nurse Team Leader (TL) remains limited.
The aims of this three-phase interventional study focused on understanding current TL handover practices and implementing a handover strategy to improve this practice. The aim of Phase 1 was to determine the content of ICU nursing TL handover. The aim of Phase 2, was to identify the key components for inclusion in a handover minimum dataset (MDS) and, the aim of Phase 3 was to implement and evaluate an electronic minimum dataset (eMDS) for nursing TL handover. A modified version of the Knowledge-to-Action framework guided each phase of this research. The study was conducted in a 21-bed ICU, at a tertiary referral hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Senior nurses working in TL roles were sampled for this study.
Phase 1 involved audiotaping TL handovers to identify the content discussed during handovers. Audio recordings were transcribed and content analysis was used to analyse the data. A quantitative approach was used to identify the frequency of a priori categories and subcategories. Phase 2 consisted of focus groups with TLs to determine the content to include in an MDS for handover. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse responses from focus groups. In Phase 3, TLs were given surveys to complete to determine the barriers and facilitators to eMDS use prior to implementation. Survey results were analysed using descriptive statistics and the frequency of recurring responses to dichotomous and open-ended questions were summarised. Three months post eMDS implementation, TLs' use of the eMDS was assessed by auditing and evaluating nurses' perceptions through the distribution of surveys to TLs. Descriptive statistics were used to summarise audit and survey data.
Phase 1 findings revealed that TL handovers contained variable content, and that aspects of handover did not meet the Australian National Standards (e.g. handovers were conducted at the desk rather than bedside).
In Phase 2, TLs identified the content to include in an MDS for handover. The content of the MDS was structured using the ISBAR (Identify-Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendations) schema and included additional items specific to ICU nursing TL handover.
In Phase 3, the barriers and facilitators to eMDS use were identified prior to implementation. These focused on usability, content and efficiency of the eMDS, and informed implementation strategies adopted to implement the eMDS. Implementation strategies included education, champions, reminders and ad hoc audit and feedback. Three months post implementation, audit results revealed TLs had relocated handovers to the bedside, and TLs were using the eMDS. Some key content items were discussed frequently while others showed no improvement or were absent from handovers. Results also highlighted that additional documentation was required alongside the eMDS to conduct handovers. Surveys of TLs' perceptions identified benefits and disadvantages to eMDS use. Benefits were: improved patient content and time saved updating the tool. Disadvantages were: irrelevant patient content included, with pertinent content missing from handovers, and difficulties navigating the tool. Shortcomings of the eMDS were a result of limitations within the clinical information system (CIS) to filter and draw relevant data required into the tool. Nurses suggested eMDS modifications were needed to increase usability.
This is the first study to examine nursing TL handover, and to implement and evaluate an evidence-based eMDS for nursing TL shift-to-shift handover in the ICU. While the eMDS requires further testing and modifications, it is the first evidence-based handover tool developed for the MetaVision CIS that can be utilised and adapted by other ICUs. Continual iterations of the eMDS should occur in collaboration with vendors, information technology teams, and in alignment with national guidelines, to increase patient safety. The use of simulation in education and training, is the next step to informing relevant changes to the eMDS and optimising ICU nursing TL handover practices. Organisations need to recognise the value of practice improvements by investing funds to successfully implement and sustain the use of evidence-based practices. Evidence-based practices that are embedded in healthcare settings will ensure patients receive quality care and will improve patient outcomes.


The talk focuses on syntactic and semantico-syntactic properties of imperative forms in Russian, used as a main predicate in the complex clause. The main question is whether the special discourse and semantic properties interact with their syntax. Another problem, related to the first one, is whether the nonstandard imperative properties are inherited not only by the whole clause headed by the imperative, but also by the embedded clause. The answer proposed in the article is positive, but the relations between imperative and the properties of the embedded clause are not uniform and not always direct.


Franck-Condon factors which determine IHI− photodetachment spectra have been calculated using a three-dimensional coupled-channel reactive scattering program. These Franck-Condon factors show peaks as a function of energy that are in reasonable agreement with measured spectra due to Neumark and co-workers. Some of these peaks are due to IHI transition state resonances and others are due to direct scattering reactive threshold effects. An analysis of the rotational distributions associated with the Franck-Condon factors indicates that when direct scattering is dominant, the distributions peak at the rotational state which is nearest to its effective reaction threshold. At energies where IHI transition state resonances are important, the rotational distribution changes, thus providing a characteristic signature of resonance formation. The I + HI bimolecular rotational distributions are also considered, and they also show important differences between direct and resonant energies.


The paper aims to underlie an optimal maintenance policy by solving a "case study". The technical system that serves as "case study" consists of three electrical driven pumps having the operational logical majority regime of "2 out of 3" In order to underlie the optimal solution, the following methods are used: the entropy method, ELECTRE- Boldur method and the method of aggregation function.


There are many kinds of urban geological hazards in the southwest area of China,including the land-slide,collapse,debris flow,karst collapse,and so on.The landslide and collapse mainly occur in the middle area of Southwest of China and high mountain area;the debris flow is mainly scattered in the areas where the geo-logical structures are very complex,the ruptures are developed and the rock is easy to crack and weather,in themiddle rainstorm area and the deep-cut high-mountain and medium-mountain area;the karst collapse is mainly in the Guizhou Province,Yunnan Province,Sichuan Province and Chongqin city,with the distribution area of32.7×104km2.There are102cities,counties and districts(towns)in southwest of China which suffers from the land-slides and collapses;with the acceleration of the construction of the west development and the urbanization,the occurrence of the landslide and collapses increases markedly and the hazard becomes more severe.The control countermeasures include:carrying out the investigation of urban geological hazard,establishing the geological haz-ard control plan,setting up the spatial database of urban geological hazard,implementing the dynamic forecasting and monitoring of geological hazard,carrying out the prewarning demonstration investigation study of urban geolog-ical hazard,improving and completing the geological hazard warning system,stengthening the propaganda work of urban geological hazard control,improving the hazard-prevention and hazard-relief consciousness of all the people.


The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of storytelling in improving English vocabulary learning among children in kindergarten. Twenty Iranian children (9 boys and 11 girls) in a private kindergarten in Kerman, Iran, were the participants of the study. All of the children were five years old and were taught English with the same teacher in a class in a kindergarten. The design of the study was one group pre-test post-test quasi experimental design. Both pre and post-tests included 20 vocabulary picture items taken from a story book teaching in the kindergarten. The statistical analysis revealed that storytelling was effective in increasing vocabulary learning among kindergarten children.


While various codes exist to systematically and robustly find haloes and subhaloes in cosmological simulations, this is the first work to introduce and rigorously test codes that find tidal debris (streams and other unbound substructure) in fully cosmological simulations of structure formation. We use one tracking and three non-tracking codes to identify substructure (bound and unbound) in a Milky Way type simulation from the Aquarius suite and post-process their output with a common pipeline to determine the properties of these substructures in a uniform way. By using output from a fully cosmological simulation, we also take a step beyond previous studies of tidal debris that have used simple toy models. We find that both tracking and non-tracking codes agree well on the identification of subhaloes and more importantly, the unbound tidal features associated with them. The distributions of basic properties of the total substructure distribution (mass, velocity dispersion, position) are recovered with a scatter of similar to 20 per cent. Using the tracking code as our reference, we show that the non-tracking codes identify complex tidal debris with purities of similar to 40 per cent. Analysing the results of the substructure finders, we find that the general distribution of substructures differ significantly from the distribution of bound subhaloes. Most importantly, both bound and unbound substructures together constitute similar to 18 per cent of the host halo mass, which is a factor of similar to 2 higher than the fraction in self-bound subhaloes. However, this result is restricted by the remaining challenge to cleanly define when an unbound structure has become part of the host halo. Nevertheless, the more general substructure distribution provides a more complete picture of a halo's accretion history.


Purpose: To evaluate the clinical features, surgical outcome and factors influencing the surgical outcome of infantile esotropia according to the age at surgery. Methods: Seventy patients with infantile esotropia followed for at least 6 months after surgery, were enrolled in a retrospective study. Patients were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 included 25 patients who underwent surgery before the age of 24 months and group 2 included 45 patients who underwent surgery after 24 months of age. The clinical characteristics including age at the initial visit, refractive error, angle of deviation, associated strabismus, success rate and reoperation rate were analyzed according to the age at surgery. Results: The mean angle of esodeviation before surgery was 41.71PD and refractive error was +1.26D. Patients underwent bimedial rectus recessions at the mean age of 67.33 months. The age at the initial visit was significantly older in group 2. Surgical success is defined as the ocular alignment within ±10PD in primary position at the last visit. Fourteen patients (56%) from group 1 and 29 (64.4%) from group 2 obtained surgical success. Reoperation was performed in 8 patients (32%) from group 1 and 8 (17.8%) from group 2, which was not statistically significantly different. Stereopsis better than 3,000 seconds of arc was obtained in 3 patients (50%) from group 1 and 16 (76.2%) from group 2. Conclusions: In group 2, the late-surgery group, the success rate was 64.4% and stereopsis was obtained in 76.2%. Surgical results were not different between the two groups.


In this study, the effect of measurement tem- perature and uniaxial drawing on the real (dielectric con- stant, e 0 ) and imaginary (loss index, e 00 ) parts of the complex dielectric constant of a-crystalline phase poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) was investigated. The samples having dif- ferent draw ratios (k) were obtained by drawing the PVDF film at constant speed and temperature. The dielectric measurements were performed in the frequency range of 100 Hz-1 MHz and in the temperature range of 80-400 K. Although e 0 and e 00 were not affected by the orientation pro- cess during the b-relaxation transition, it was observed that there were systematical variations for the a-relaxation tran- sition. e 0 and e 00 showed different behaviors depending on the draw ratio at different temperatures. Especially, e 00 was more affected by the orientation process at 380 K. V C 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 112: 2482-2485, 2009


Background and Aim:  Small‐caliber endoscopy has lower resolution than normal‐caliber endoscopy, limiting its use in routine outpatient practice. Flexible spectral imaging color enhancement (FICE) strengthens the color contrast of depressed‐type early gastric cancer without magnification. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the detection of depressed‐type early gastric cancer using small‐caliber endoscopy with the FICE system.


Nodes in a cognitive radio mesh network may select from a set of available channels to use provided they do not interfere with primary users. This ability can improve overall network performance but introduces the question of how best to use these channels. This paper addresses the following specific problem: given a routing path P, choose which channels each link in P should use and their transmission schedule so as to maximize the end-to-end data flow rate (throughput) supported by the entire path. This problem is relevant to applications such as streaming video or data where a connection may be long lasting and require a high constant throughput. The problem is hard to due the presence of both intraflow and inter-flow interference. We have developed a new constant-factor approximation algorithm for this problem. If certain natural conditions on the path are met, the performance guarantee is 1/4 of optimal. It has been shown by simulation results that the end-to-end throughput given by the proposed algorithm is often within 90% or better of optimal.


On the basis of 299 tests on plate girders, reported in the literature, some very simple formulas are given for the prediction of the ultimate static strength under pure shear, pure bending, and combined shear and bending, and of the web crippling load in case of very thin webs. The agreement between calculation and measurement is sufficient for average design purposes. All formulas can be evaluated using only a slide rule.


We have proposed and demonstrated a nondestructive and non-contact inspection method for electrical faults using laser-Terahertz (THz) emission microscopy (LTEM). By measuring the position dependence of the amplitude of the THz emission from integrated circuits (IC) excited with femtosecond (fs) laser pulses, it is possible to investigate the electrical faults in IC. By improving the spatial resolution of the system, we successfully observed the THz emission image of a microprocessor on standby mode. The LTEM system has a spatial resolution about 3µm and it can localize electrically defective sites in the chip to within a ten square microns.


Even while demanding improvements in science education because of a deplorable lack of scientific literacy, advocates do not agree about what they mean. "Scientific literacy" has become a buzz phrase to capture different things, a confusion that is useful at times because it allows people to think they agree when they really do not. Yet, hiding disagreements also keeps us from understanding how we might make things better. This commentary explores the most common meanings and distinguishes scientific literacy—or the democratic having of creative, scientific "habits of mind" by everybody—from science literacy—or the having of particular scientific knowledge by trained experts. Both are important, and we must not lose track of the more difficult and long-term goal of achieving scientific literacy for everybody in the urgency of producing short-term results in the form of scientific knowledge by the few.


Abstract This article investigates how Gabriele D'Annunzio's The Triumph of Death brings together Nietzsche's ideas and Wagner's music and interweaves them with the motifs of literary Decadence and the author's own particular sexual politics. The novel is an experimental text striving to be a Gesemtkunstswerk, an integrated work that incorporates music, painting, poetry, regional folklore, and private thoughts about personal and national power. I discuss the novel's themes of violent sexuality and the anxiety of powerlessness and explore their implications for the fascist political aesthetics in which D'Annunzio played a pioneering role.


Research of the Church of Sigurata yielded new facts about its development. Obtained were new facts about its pre-Romanesque phase of construction and subsequent reconstructions as well as additional constructions. However, research showed that the building had been erected at this site much earlier than it was thought. Two earlier development phases were discovered of which the first occurred at the turn of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, while the second occured in the early Middle Ages, before the pre-Romanesque phase of the 11th c. This completed the picture of the cultural situation in Dubrovnik, about the constuction of a small cult worshipping site at a promontory in the immediate vicinity of the city nucleus. A whole series of Early Christian fragments were found in Dubrovnik, none of them being closely related to a certain building. The Church of Christ s Transfiguration is one of the few moments in Dubrovnik that the two very important Early Christian fragments used in the later phases as pseudolirics can be attributed to. This book does not bring issues of conservation and presentation, that were very interesting and complex. The church was restored by a "soft" technique, by using traditional materials and techniques, by keeping and presenting as many original elements from its various phases of construction as possible. The church was consecrated on October 14, 1995 when religious services were resumed in it.


As a result of the critical examination of ifa and Evuzok medical system, this dissertation shows the stakes and challenge of a confrontation between african knowledge and modern science. Increasing the value of the African knowledge and practices undeniably requires an audacious counter-appraisal which modern science can validly serve a reference mark for. But it also requires an attention as audacious as well for representations and techniques that science can yet not validate, but which can provide alternatives or complementary ways of interpretation, comprehension and mastery of real. Anthropology of knowlegde could also free itself from the narrow perspective consisting in choosing betwween the two usual major positions, each as mutilating as the other, that are on one hand the research and valuation of the exoyic, and on the other, the identification and the aithentification of the same. It could also serve as a starting point for a crossed epistemology of endogenous knowledge and modern science, able to sow the limits and gaps, as well as the potentialities of the two systems and increase, by the way, the aptitude of human to decode and dominate the real.


If $X$ is a smooth projective variety over ${\mathbb R}$, the Hodge ${\mathcal D}$-conjecture of Beilinson asserts the surjectivity of the regulator map to Deligne cohomology with real coefficients. It is known to be false in general but is true in some special cases like Abelian surfaces and $K3$-surfaces - and still expected to be true when the variety is defined over a number field. We prove an analogue of this for Abelian surfaces at a non-Archimedean place where the surface has bad reduction. Here the Deligne cohomology is replaced by a certain Chow group of the special fibre. The case of good reduction is harder and was first studied by Spiess in the case of products of elliptic curve and by me in general.


Continuous and dynamic progress in all segments of transfusion medicine has significantly improved the quality, safety and efficacy of transfusion therapy. In addition to the scientific and technological innovations, implementation of the quality system and haemovigilance in blood establishments significantly contributed to this progress. Despite the fact that most of the activities in transfusion chain take place without problems, some risks are still present and even the best organized and managed systems are sometimes faced with quality problems and complaints. In transfusion medicine, their causes are mostly related to the biological origin of blood products, while the complexity of the process and a large number of participants in transfusion chain facilitates the occurrence of errors. Some quality problems are caused by materials and equipment used in product realization, inadequate education or skills of the staff, suboptimal planning and organization of work. The best approach to managing quality problems is preventative approach, including comprehensive risk management, education, defining critical control points, permanent quality monitoring and audits. Quality problems and complaints should be resolved in a timely manner, following the standardized protocol with clearly defined responsibilities. All procedures and decisions should be documented and traceable. The root cause analysis of the problem should be carried out and followed by appropriate corrective actions. The ultimate goal is to increase quality, safety, productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction, while reducing defects and costs.


In his article "Achebe's Work, Postcoloniality, and Human Rights" Eric Sipyinyu Njeng argues that Chinua Achebe exposes failings in the fabric of African society and engages with violations of human rights. Achebe is careful not to hurt the pride of Africans who in the Zeitgeist of the nationalist ferment of the 1950s were wary of European powers. Achebe does not "write back" to the empire: he writes the empire in and he lays bare the weaknesses in African culture grounded in the father-son-grandson trajectory he narrates. Achebe presents what may be termed a cultural dialectics: the thesis (flawed African customs represented in violations of human rights) collides with its antithesis (colonialism and Christianity) leading to a synthesis (a recognition of colonial agency and appropriation of values). Eric Sipyinyu Njeng, "Achebe's Work, Postcoloniality, and Human Rights" page 2 of 8 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.1 (2013):  Thematic Cluster Black African Literatures and Cultures


An increased focus on biopharmaceutical product differentiation has altered the business environment, placing the industry under immense pressure to reengineer a flawed business model that relied principally on inefficient internal research and development (R&D) programs. Companies are working to deliver safer and more effective treatments for disease targets that are increasingly complex, all the while having to contend with the considerable challenges of declining R&D productivity, increasing development costs, diminishing returns on sales, and lower earnings. Regulatory and reimbursement demands present yet another challenge. According to an Outlook 2009 report on pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical trends from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, it still takes, on average, 8 years to bring a new drug to market. The industry's survival depends in large part on its ability to select compounds with a high probability of clinical success and develop them very efficiently. Regulatory authorization of a product is only the first hurdle for biopharmaceutical sponsors to clear. The second hurdle, which should be taken into consideration further upstream in clinical development programs, is the ability to substantiate the product's value on launch and to optimize the reimbursement status with real-world research. Proof of a medicine's safety and efficacy will also be demanded as never before in this new environment, with the performance of new products being assessed against alternative treatments and their market viability determined by multiple stakeholders able to evaluate those treatments in ways never before possible.


In Jin Ping Mei, the relations between government officials and business people are persecutor and the persecuted dependant and the independent. But more offen it's a mercenary realtionship. The officials take advantages of their political power to win money and beauties, and business people in turn buy off the officials for colossal profits and other social privileges. In Jin Ping Mei the mercenary relationship between government officials and business people shows the collaboration of the two and the deal of money and power in the traditional chinese society, and reveals the social political economic and cultural causes.


ABSTRACT The aim of this work is to study the effects of laser additive manufacturing on microstructure and mechanical properties of foam Al–12 wt-%Si aluminium alloy with/without TiH2 foaming agent. The results showed that low porosity closed foam Al–12Si was successfully obtained. The effect of processing parameters on the porosity is discussed. The porosity was changed from initial 20.9% without foaming agent to 32.3 and 45.9% with 5 and 10% addition of foaming agent, respectively. Average micro-hardness values of the obtain foam Al–Si alloy is varied from 100 to 130 HV and the shape of compressive stress–strain curve is as the same as foam aluminium made by powder metallurgy and casting methods.


Increasing the rotational speed of the internal gear pump entails addressing topics such as cavitation, overheating and filling problems of the tooth spaces. Besides the development of a tooth geometry and flow optimization, using CFD simulation is necessary. This paper discusses the design of the newly developed high speed internal gear pump. This includes a detailed description of the different parts as well as the dimensioning of the pump by using CFD simulations. The geometry of the pressure build-up groove has a significant effect of pressure build up inside the pump. Therefore, three different geometries are investigated. The calculation of the journal bearings for the internal gear as well as for the driving shaft is shown. To avoid cavitation problems, the suction pressure of the pump will be increased up to 25 bar. This paper will show the technical arrangements to reach this high suction pressure level whilst still using a radial shaft seal ring. In order to determine the efficiency of the newly developed high speed pump, a test rig was built up. The test rig allows the measurement of the volumetric efficiency as well as the hydraulic-mechanical efficiency at different operation points up to 10 000 rpm and 250 bar.


In this discussion, we will discuss the influence of Toraja culture on Christianity. Many things can be known in it, because it will discuss some of the problems that often occur in Toraja culture that often affect Christianity. culture will conflict with Christianity, but from that it can also be an opportunity to be used as a tool to preach the gospel or the Word of God with culture without changing the values that exist in culture. So from this we can know the meaning of the title, and can add knowledge for all of us.Keywords:kebudayaan, kekristenan dan AllahPENDAHULUA


A universal calibration method for four-terminal-pair (4TP) admittance standards, developed for frequencies up to around 10 MHz, is presented. The method is applicable to calibration of conversion adapters that convert a system from a 4TP to either a three-terminal system or a one-port system. Implementation of the method requires only a set of driving-point-impedance measurements, using proven one-port technology, and calculations of 4TP transfer admittance and output impedances using an impedance matrix.<<ETX>>


Spark-generated bubbles are strong candidates for laboratory-scale models of underwater explosion (UNDEX) bubble dynamics and are, therefore, excellent sources of data for validation of simulation tools. Their relative safety, cleanliness and compactness enable high quality observations of bubble dynamics at relatively low cost compared to experiments involving explosives. This document addresses the relevant advantages of spark-generated bubbles, focusing on re-entrant jet visualization. It also addresses scaling issues and concerns about the deposition of energy into the bubble as a result of the electric discharge process. In conclusion, a procedure is specified for using spark-generated bubbles as laboratory-scale models of UNDEX bubble dynamics and as data for validation of simulation tools.


Analyzed the study on the robust,importance,relativity and diversity of nodes nowadays,which focus on the situation of poor network robust caused by the weak ability of anti-vulnerable attacks of nodes;4 kinds of benchmark network that usually using are also used for contrastive analyze.The examples show that the network's link robust,recover robust and anti-attack of nodes are increased markedly which considered the node diversity and relativity.Such network can enhance the nodes ability of anti-vulnerable attacks,interdicting the exploit and propagation of various possible vulnerable attacks between nodes,such network has stronger robustness.


Abstract. Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is an atmospheric trace gas of interest for
C cycle research because COS uptake by continental vegetation is strongly
related to terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), the largest and
most uncertain flux in atmospheric CO2 budgets. However, to use
atmospheric COS as an additional tracer of GPP, an accurate quantification
of COS exchange by soils is also needed. At present, the atmospheric COS
budget is unbalanced globally, with total COS flux estimates from oxic and
anoxic soils that vary between −409 and −89 GgS yr−1. This uncertainty
hampers the use of atmospheric COS concentrations to constrain GPP estimates
through atmospheric transport inversions. In this study we implemented a
mechanistic soil COS model in the ORCHIDEE (Organising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems) land surface model to simulate
COS fluxes in oxic and anoxic soils. Evaluation of the model against flux
measurements at seven sites yields a mean root mean square deviation of 1.6 pmol m−2 s−1, instead of 2 pmol m−2 s−1 when using a previous
empirical approach that links soil COS uptake to soil heterotrophic
respiration. However, soil COS model evaluation is still limited by the
scarcity of observation sites and long-term measurement periods, with all
sites located in a latitudinal band between 39 and
62∘ N and no observations during wintertime in this study. The new
model predicts that, globally and over the 2009–2016 period, oxic soils act
as a net uptake of −126 GgS yr−1 and anoxic soils are a source of
+96 GgS yr−1, leading to a global net soil sink of only −30 GgS yr−1, i.e. much smaller than previous estimates. The small magnitude
of the soil fluxes suggests that the error in the COS budget is dominated by
the much larger fluxes from plants, oceans, and industrial activities. The
predicted spatial distribution of soil COS fluxes, with large emissions from
oxic (up to 68.2 pmol COS m−2 s−1) and anoxic (up to 36.8 pmol COS m−2 s−1) soils in the tropics, especially in India and in the
Sahel region, marginally improves the latitudinal gradient of atmospheric
COS concentrations, after transport by the LMDZ (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique) atmospheric transport model.
The impact of different soil COS flux representations on the latitudinal
gradient of the atmospheric COS concentrations is strongest in the Northern
Hemisphere. We also implemented spatiotemporal variations in near-ground
atmospheric COS concentrations in the modelling of biospheric COS fluxes,
which helped reduce the imbalance of the atmospheric COS budget by lowering
soil COS uptake by 10 % and plant COS uptake by 8 % globally (with a
revised mean vegetation budget of −576 GgS yr−1 over 2009–2016).
Sensitivity analyses highlighted the different parameters to which each soil
COS flux model is the most responsive, selected in a parameter optimization
framework. Having both vegetation and soil COS fluxes modelled within
ORCHIDEE opens the way for using observed ecosystem COS fluxes and larger-scale atmospheric COS mixing ratios to improve the simulated GPP, through
data assimilation techniques.


The term "privacy broker" describes a concept developed in 2004 to address important privacy issues in public health research. The privacy broker provides a combination of an information "firewall" between the research team and the study participants' personal data, to protect the identity of study participants. It also provides a "masquerading" feature so that participants can be indirectly tracked or contacted, which allows for the collection of scientifically useful information over time.


Publish/Subscribe mechanism is one of key technologies for handling real-time data stream in decentralized environments. While recent studies have showed that publish/subscribe systems should support not only data filtering but also in-network data processing, scalability issue is addressed due to data concentrations on specific nodes. To solve the scalability issue, we propose a Publish/Subscribe system consisting of two-tier overlay network: one overlay network is designed as a geographic overlay network, which is used to maintain fundamental information, on the other hand, data transfer networks are constructed to perform in-network data processing and dynamic load balancing. By using these two networks, we could implement geographic based dynamic subscription reallocation mechanism. This mechanism enables to achieve scalability and avoid data/load concentrations on large-scale Publish/Subscribe systems. We present an evaluation of the our approach through simulation. We compare our approach to another DHT based Publish/Subscribe system, focusing on data transfer during subscription. Our results show that our dynamic subscription reallocation approach avoids data concentration to specific node.


The invention relates to a manufacturing process of a concave block arranged on the inner side wall of a LZC oil sump, comprising the following steps: a sloping-roof knockout core is adopted for shortening the contact area of a sloping-roof sliding pair; the four sides of a slider are all provided with slopes; perform a plurality of nitrogen treatments on the sloping-roof surface during die producing process and die casting process; the service temperature of the die is estimated between 150 to 250 degrees centigrade; figure out the clearance of the sloping-roof sliding pair and use the minimum clearance calculation result to produce the sloping-roof sliding pair; adjust and dress the die gradually to obtain a reasonable trimmed value and control the optimal clearance; control the temperature of the sloping-roof sliding pair between 150 to 250 degrees centigrade; control the specific die casting pressure in the die cavity under 850 kilograms per square centimeter; and control the injecting velocity of the ingate under 3.5 meters per second. The method has the advantages that the process of die casting, forming and demoulding is performed automatically; the labor intensity of the operator is reduced; the production safety is good, the product quality is stable and reliable and the productivity is greatly increased.


SUMMARY The present invention is a method of screening a mixture containing medicament, an additive in order to confirm the characteristics of the combination of inhibiting pharmaceutical / additives in a solid state nucleation. The present invention further by mixing with enhancer recrystallisation / precipitation inhibitor and optionally a drug, in gastric fluid conditions, the solubility of low solubility of the drug, relates to increasing the solubility and bioavailability.


By analysing the uplift pressures of dam foundation,water quality,and pH values before and after the construction of the Chencun Dam,the changes of seepage characteristics are discussed.The tendency of permeability coefficient is forecasted by use of ARIMA model.The movement of seepage and change of water quality will influence the dam security.The observed data after the power station operation show that the seepage field is changed obvioussly,groundwater level is degraded,and the uplift pressures are widespreadly reduced,but the pressure exerted by reservoir water on the curtain and soft rock is raised.The alkalinity in water is beneficial to protect the concrete of the dam from corrosion.It is seen from comparison the forecasted values given by the model are in good agreement with the monitored data.


Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems are typically constructed of stainless steel and nickel alloy materials In order to achieve the maximum corrosion resistance from these costly alloy materials, it is necessary to remove iron contamination, heat tint, etc. prior to placing the materials into operation. Various methods have been utilized for final surface cleanup including grinding, abrasive blasting, and acid cleaning. This paper will focus on the use of acid cleaning to prepare alloy materials for FGD installations. Alloy materials are cleaned most effectively by the use of nitric-hydrofluoric acid solutions. These acid solutions can be applied to localized areas using a pickle paste, whereas shop fabrications can be dipped in an acid tank. For field erected vessels, a nitric-hydrofluoric acid solution can be applied by spraying. This paper will address the advantages of acid cleaning, how to perform acid cleaning, and which companies can supply the solutions and perform the acid cleaning. Also, several case studies from recent FGD projects will be presented.


Baisha well as first-level national protection cultural relic must be protected when constructing Changsha City Subway Line 1.Evaluation of the effects of Subway Line 1 on Baisha well will make the road route and construction method of Subway Line 1 be adopted.By integrating multiple information,this article preliminary analyzes Baisha well's supply boundary,supply medium and springs type.Combined with the first phase of planning and design for Changsha city subway Line 1,the effects of Chengnanlu station,Houjiatang station,Nanhulu station and its interval on water source,water quality are analyzed,and can cut Baisha well's aquifer recharge,which should be performed in specialized evaluation.According to the existing groundwater tracer test results and other relevant drilling,geophysical exploration and underground water level test results,using Waterloo Canadian university three-dimensional groundwater flow numerical simulation software,Visual Modflow,analog Baisha well natural runoff field is considered.The influence of Houjiatang station on Baisha well to be constructed is further analyzed influence of Baisha well,and how the design and construction of well protected Baisha well is recommendations to the greatest extent.


Abstract Boxwood liners, Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa', were container-grown for two years in a pine bark/peat moss medium amended with various particle sizes of dolomitic limestone. Adjustment...